Our mandate is to preserve habitats in two counties — Frontenac County and Lennox and Addington County. The region stretches from the islands in Lake Ontario through the limestone plains to the boreal forests in Canadian Shield country to the north.
The south part of Frontenac County is cottage country and many lakes and marshes dot the landscape. Further north, the land becomes more rugged with granite outcrops and a more rocky terrain. Given the lack of good, deep soil in most places, farming was never easy here. Much of the land was logged but otherwise undeveloped.
Lennox and Addington County has a gentler topography with fewer lakes and more rivers, notably the Napanee, Salmon, and Skootamatta. The central Napanee Plain is a large area of limestone, alvar, grasslands, and wetlands that provides habitat to at least 19 species at risk. The northern most part of the County is Crown land and mostly dense coniferous forest.
The transition zone between the limestone plain and the granite of the Shield is species-rich. This zone, now referred to as The Land Between, is the northern limit for some species — for example, White Oak, Yellow-throated Vireo, Chorus Frog, and Common Crow — and the southern limit for others — for example, Grey Wolf, Moose, American Raven, and Jack Pine. High species diversity characterizes the overlapping of these two geologically different areas and makes this part of Southeastern Ontario ecologically significant.
Our region includes part of the UNESCO-designated Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve and the Algonquin to Adirondack conservation focus area.
Habitat protection is crucial to the preservation all species. There are many species at risk, which live in our two counties for some or all of the year. For example, birds such as the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, the only predatory song bird, and the Cerulean Warbler, a song bird that eats mostly insects and winters in South America, require specific habitats for feeding and breeding in the spring and summer. Unless their habitats are preserved, these birds will continue their decline and soon disappear.
Description: Males have a glossy steel-blue back and upper wings, a rusty-red forehead and throat, a short bill and a broad blue breast band above its tawny underbelly, with long tail feathers that form a distinctive, deep fork. These birds nest almost exclusively on built structures such as open barns, bridges, and in culverts.
Description: A medium-sized, grassland bird. Breeding males are black, with white on their backs and a yellow patch on the back of the neck, while females and non-breeding birds are brownish and stripey. In Ontario, Bobolinks are highly dependent on cultural hayfields and pastures.
Description: A medium-sized bird, with cryptic plumage, long wings, a wide mouth and a short bill. They are ground-nesting birds, found in open or semi-open areas such as farmland, open woodlands or even urban rooftops.
Description: A medium-sized, grassland bird. A brown and yellow bird with a bright yellow throat and belly, a black "V" on its breast and white flanks with black streaks, and with a strong beak and a relatively short tail. In Ontario, Eastern Meadowlarks are highly dependent on cultural fields and pastures.
Description: A small songbird in the wood-warbler family, they are gray, with pale undersides, yellow wing patches and crown. Males have a black throat and mask, where females have pale gray.
Description: A medium-sized, ground-nesting bird, with mottled gray and brown feathers. A species that is active at dusk and in the dark, it is more often heard than seen.
Description: A medium-sized songbird, they are rusty-brown, and have white below with dark spots on breast and sides. They are a species of mature deciduous and mixed woodlands.
Description: A small lizard with dark black or gray color, and five white to yellow stripes the length of its body. Adult males have broad heads with reddish-orange jaws and chin, and juvenile animals have bright blue tails.
Description: This snake is grey or tan, with alternating red or reddish brown blotches that are distinctly outlined in black along its back and sides. They use a variety of habitats, but tend to use open habitats such as rocky outcrops, fields and forest edge, and can be common around barns.
Description: A slim snake, with three bright yellow stripes running the length of its body, in sharp contrast to a dark background color. These snakes are slimmer, have longer tails, and narrower heads than the similar Garter Snake, and are typically found near wetlands or water.
Description: A medium-sized turtle, with a smooth, domed shell. This turtle has a bright yellow throat and jaw.
Description: A turtle with shell markings that resemble contour lines on a map. The shell is typically olive green and has a distinct centre keel, while both the head and legs have yellow lines on a dark background.
Description: Canada's largest turtle, with large dark shells (black, olive or brown), often covered in algal growth. Their shell is keeled, and their tails have triangular crests along their length.
Description: A small, aquatic fresh-water turtle. The turtle exudes a musky odor from glands located at the margins of its shell.
Description: Large and bright orange, with black lines and white spots, this is one of our most easily recognized butterflies. Larvae feed exclusively on milkweed, and adults migrate to Mexico to overwinter, their offspring returning to Ontario to continue the cycle.
Description: A medium-sized, deciduous tree that is in the Walnut family. The tree has compound leaves and produces edible nuts in the fall.
In 2010, five Land Conservancy members installed four wooden nesting boxes atop long poles in the ponds at Meyer Woods. The boxes were provided by Ducks Unlimited and we report our annual findings to them. The hope is that Wood Ducks will eventually use these boxes for nesting.
out of the water, little Gothic windowsflashing and sinking back into rings of ripples.
How did they get here? — How did any of us?
poetic beginnings, romantic but scientific.
Until she said they'd be there I never saw them.
creeping like happiness across the landscape.
Follow the river upstream away from the gurgling riffle that fills the Otter Pool. Across the exposed bedrock – gneiss and mica schist. Climb up the gentle slippery slope of the tiny batholith to the moss and lichen gardens in the open veins of the rock. To where the moose cow and calf spent one night three winters ago.
And move on to where the beavers cut the gummy pines & dragged them down to their sticky lodge by the shore. Mouths full of pine pitch.
Upstream the silty shore slopes easily into the buttonbush, sweet gale and dogwoods. Shrubby lacework edging the river's shore below the white pines and oaks.
Turning inland at the colony of fringed polygala on Beaver Point, I come to where the paper birch used to grow before the beavers felled them all to harvest the branches. All the pruned trunks towed home behind the canoe fed winter fires.
Steeply past the oak sculpted by the pileated woodpeckers. A natural art piece rising from a graying bed of sculpted chips. Not waste. Step one on the journey of nutrient molecules into the return flow to new oak sprouts. Without the flow from decomposition, the flow of juvenile nutrients from bedrock would be too slow. So would the flow from oaks into acorns. And the growth of sprouting acorns.
The slope angles up steeply and the footing is unsure. The landscape of riverside marshes spreading along the base of the slope refreshes senses above the feet.
Next springtime all the little lagoons in those riverine marshes will become frog factories. But the bitterns and the herons will see them as snack bars.
On top of the ridge I hit the "middle trail" and head farther upstream just below the crest of the ridge. White pines with massive trunks force my gaze upward. A few have fallen from old age or under attack by fierce winds.
Healthy neighbour trees tried to catch one giant on the way down.
The fallen matriarch snapped but still could not find rest on the ground. So it became a silent escalator for grouse and turkeys going to roost. Underneath is no place to linger.
A sudden snort and careless crashing tells of a disturbed doe and fawn as they charge upstream along the trail. Healed bark skinned on a blue beech sapling marks the fawn's male parentage.
Following the deer down a cut through the lower ridge puts me in a seasonally flooded basin. Connected by high water to the river in spring but dry enough for slippers now. A pulsed habitat.
Turning north sees me scrabbling on a slope steep enough for cardiac testing. My hiking poles bite in and my arms help me climb. Up to the "high trail". The winter ski trail along the very crest of the high ridge.
Heading away from the setting sun the ski trail tunnels under the tree canopy. Sky-high vistas reach from under marvelous white pines, matriarchal sugar maples and fast-grown ashes. The Salmon River to the south and Kennebec Lake to the north.
Red oak tops still bear the marks of the highest density of gypsy moth infestation in Ontario. Recovery has taken since the 70's and 80's. Some have struggled back, some have lost their tops and some remain only as skeletal snags in the canopy and clearings. Ashes and blue beech have filled many of the gaps.
Openings left in the canopy from the gypsy moths have encouraged white pine seedling, rather like the effects of fire. Pines arrayed from tiny seedlings to polewood search with their roots for nutrients from the Precambrian granite and the decomposers.
Among the white pines are many with branches all the way down to eye level. They grew in openings without crowding neighbours to force them upward. Pasture pines. This entire peninsula was unimproved grazing land until 1970. The remarkably beautiful forest that I now enjoy has restored itself in about 44 years.
The entire surrounding township was clear-cut in the late 1800's. A political contribution to the fortunes of a lumber baron. In paintings from 1932, the hills north of Kennebec (then Cross) Lake were shown bald. Grass without trees. Now fully reforested by natural processes.
It is autumn and scattered across the forest floor little raised domes of fallen leaves hide this year's mushrooms. Fungus sprouting up out of the soil to produce and distribute spores. Spore immigrants for new fungal colonies. Most fungal work is done below the litter. The decomposer factory is the mat of interconnected, hair-like cells, spread over huge areas. Wrapping and connecting into roots, the fungal web feeds the trees and many other plants.
My home place is wondrous with questions uncountable. Enough curious splendor for mylifetime and more.


The difficulties that those who suffer from dementia and their relatives and friends have to confront stipulate our responsibility that we as a society have to join our forces and do more in order to: diagnose the illness better and faster, to offer those who are affected by dementia fulfilling, decent and safe living and to enable relatives and friends a proper expert help and support in their care of their beloved. We must not forget that the activity is the one that extends life and maintains its quality to people with dementia. This can be achieved only with the systemic solution of the problem.
We have to focus more on public awareness on this issue and to encourage those who suffer from dementia to speak up about their illness, obstacles and fears they have to overcome. I have already urged on the Slovene government to adopt a national strategy on dementia as soon as possible, as its member I've suggested the EP's Intergroup on of active ageing, intergenerational solidarity & family friendly policies to put dementia on its agenda, I plan to organize a public debate in Slovenia, so the NGOs get the possibility to share with us their valuable experience and views. Namely, we should take into account that the empowerment of ALL vulnerable social groups contributes to the improvement of situation of people with dementia. There is a lot of work to be done!


Here's what I think is going on with digital assets and security tokens and why it's the most exciting thing going on in finance right now.
There are two parallel streams of innovation: A new technology, and increased automation.
Who legally owns all the shares? Not you.
In this post I explore how legal title to publicly listed shares works in Hong Kong, the USA, and Singapore. Then I relate this to tokens recorded on blockchains.
But a popular pattern in the crypto/token/blockchain world is that someone will come along and be like "finally, through tokenization, we have invented a way to slice _________ into bits and let people trade the bits." I always find this a bit confusing. Whatever _________ is, it is safe to say that before the invention of tokenization there was already a way to slice it into bits and let people trade the bits. Slicing things into tradeable bits has been a very hot area of finance for a very long time, and people got pretty good at it. Real estate is a popular target for tokenization, for instance, and I am confused because real estate securitization—not so much mortgage-backed securities but real estate investment trusts—is a thing that has existed for a long time.
I agree with this! We've had securitisation before blockchains and tokens. You can chop up the title to a painting and sell it to investors in 1% slices already without blockchains or tokens.
Bitcoin's payments are not peer-to-peer!
This post is adapted from an article first published on R3's Medium.
In this post I articulate what a peer-to-peer transaction is, why Bitcoin transactions are not peer-to-peer, and why it is important to understand the differences clearly. I describe the benefits of peer-to-peer transactions and discuss that Corda is the closest architecture to take advantage of those benefits.
Yesterday I did an recording where the interviewer asked me a simple question – what is blockchain? This got me thinking – I had no go-to answer for this. People use this word to cover a wide range of networks and platforms, and some platforms such as R3's Corda (Note: I work at R3) are categorised as "blockchain" platforms, when they don't even bundle transactions into blocks!
Blockchain is a word used to describe a bundle of technologies that allow digital assets to be created and passed from party to party with guarantees that the assets are authentic and haven't been copied or counterfeited all without needing to trust a third party to open and maintain accounts for customers.
In this post I describe why freeing financial assets from the books of custodians and returning control of them to their owners as tokens could create significant benefits to an economy. This brings together concepts from traditional finance, cryptocurrencies, and enterprise blockchains.
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains is an essential guide for anyone who needs to learn about cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and business blockchains. Written in plain English, it provides a balanced and hype-free grounding in the essential concepts behind the revolutionary technology.
I've been at a few events recently where people talk about the "market cap(italisation)" of utility tokens issued in ICOs, and comparing them to the market cap of cryptocurrencies or (even worse) listed companies. This is truly dreadful and misleading, perhaps sometimes intentionally so. In this post I introduce two useful metrics for comparing across ICOs: the Reserve ratio, and the Commitment ratio.
For a non-hypey introduction to ICOs please see A gentle introduction to ICOs.
Every few days I hear the argument "If x% of the money in gold (or other asset class) moved into bitcoin, a single bitcoin should be worth $y". This article explains why this argument is utter nonsense.
The (flawed) reasoning is as follows: the total value of gold in circulation is estimated at US$8 trillion. If some small fraction of the people holding gold (say, 5%) sold their gold for US Dollars (releasing $400 bn), and the USD proceeds were used to buy bitcoins, the total value of bitcoins (commonly referred to as "market capitalisation") would increase by that amount of dollars ($400bn), and because we know the total number of bitcoins in circulation, we can derive a price per bitcoin.


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Should the U.S. pull out of Iraq immediately?
By cbacon, July 4, 2005 in Current Events
Jingus 0
Universal Solder
I say screw international law, screw civilian casualties (they're collateral damage and in WW2 we didn't care we when bombed the crap out of Drezden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.)
I think this takes the cake as the most ignorant comment i've seen on these boards, and thats saying something.
You should see the massive screaming fight me and Mike had over at my board over some very similar comments he made.
Art Sandusky 0
close to touch like michelangelo
The Spanish pulled out of Iraq as a calculated loss, if that makes any sense at all. They didn't have nearly as much manpower or resources committed to the conflict as Britain or the US. Pulling out their forces, especially when the majority of the population wanted an immediate withdrawl, was really their only option. The Madrid incident simply made it much more urgent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5070800923.html
The Italians are planning a partial pull-out, as the Italian Prime Minister is being threatened. Do we call them cowards as we have Spain?
Big Ol' Smitty 0
Emily Fucking Post.
Interests:ghost ridin da whip
I don't really see the problem of having the terrorists come to fight us in Iraq.
Another problem with this theory:
Is the point of our whole counter-insurgency effort to bring peace and stability or to turn Iraq into a huge battleground?
Edit: nocalmike already made this point--but it was a good one
I've heard a lot about how supposedly an unofficial army of Muslim foreigners has infiltrated Iraq; what I haven't heard is someone suggesting how to stop it. Iraq's combined lengths of its borders is a helluva lot longer than the US/Mexico line, and we've never managed to even keep that one shut.
Rob E Dangerously 0
shows up from time to time
You dumbfuck, why didn't you include a poll?
UK memo says US, UK readying Iraqi withdrawal-report
09 Jul 2005 23:20:28 GMT
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - A leaked document from Britain's Defence Ministry says the British and U.S. governments are planning to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by mid-2006, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.
The memo, reportedly written by Defence Minister John Reid, said Britain would reduce its troop numbers to 3,000 from 8,500 by the middle of next year.
"We have a commitment to hand over to Iraqi control in Al Muthanna and Maysan provinces (two of the four provinces under British control in southern Iraq) in October 2005 and in the other two, Dhi Qar and Basra, in April 2006," the memo was reported to have said.
The memo said Washington planned to cut its forces to 66,000 from about 140,000 by early 2006.
"Emerging U.S. plans assume 14 out of 18 provinces could be handed over to Iraqi control by early 2006," the memo said.
The United States is training Iraqi forces to take over the country's defence in the face of an insurgency involving allies of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and foreign militants allied to al Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
But critics say Iraqi troops are not ready to take charge of security in their country.
"There is, however, a debate between the Pentagon/Centcom, who favour a relatively bold reduction in force numbers and the multi-national force in Iraq, whose approach is more cautious," read the memo.
Reid said in a statement in response the article:
"We have made it absolutely plain we will stay in Iraq for as long as is needed. No decision on the future force posture of UK forces has been taken.
"We have always said it is our intention to hand over the lead in fighting terrorists to Iraqi security forces as their capability increases.
"We therefore continually produce papers outlining possible options and contingencies. This is but one of a number of such papers produced over recent months covering various scenarios. This is prudent planning."
The United States and Britain have the two largest contingents of foreign forces in Iraq and the memo described the impact a reduction of U.S. and British forces might have on other allied troops.
"The Japanese will be reluctant to stay if protection is solely provided by the Iraqis. The Australian position may also be uncertain."
The memo said reducing British troop levels in Iraq would save about 1 billion pounds ($1.74 billion) per year.
Stephen Joseph 0
Resident Arrogant Economist
I figured the British could leave since SOuthern Iraq is insurgent free.
SuperJerk 0
Nice play, Shakespeare.
Location:Kansas City
I'm curious to know what it is the insurgents think they're accomplishing.
Hey, we're arguing about all this, aren't we? THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON!
CanadianGuitarist 0
Okay. Blue Jays. Let's. Play. Ball.
Location:The Hammer
Agreed. Sorry if this sounds shitty, but how many of us are afraid of our own shadows now?
I'm certainly not. I'd say my overall waryness of my surroundings hasn't changed a bit, but I attribute that more to always imagining any time I'm in public or on a plane something catastrophic is going to happen.
Yeah. If it took recent terrorist actions to make you realize that some people do things that hurt people and that have an infinitesimal chance of ever actually harming you, you had a long way to go anyway. If you let that shocking discovery change your livelihood or your approach to life then you never had one that was terribly worthwhile in the first place.
Lord of The Curry 0
I roll with groups and ghetto bastards with biscuits
I'd be curious to know how all the Canucks on this board feel after the shit w/ London. It's now down to us and Italy on Al-Queda's shit list.
It's not something I sweat a lot but I feel more prepared in the sense that when something like this does happen (and it will) it won't be so much of a surprise. A shock when it goes down, yes, but not a surprise.
I should probably have just put "Ontarians" because I can't see the attacks hitting anywhere else but that'd be rude.
cbacon 0
Oh, and responded yet to my UN thing? Because it's useless to try and substitute a working police force for one that has basically failed in every one of it's missions.
You know, just to remind you.
You could say the same thing about nearly all non-UN "security" missions or whatever you want to call them too.
You may be right about the UN in this case, but I threw that option in as a possible alternative given the nature of the situation. The consequences are going to be bad with or without a pullout, it's just a matter of how much worse they will get. Overall, i'm pretty much in agreeance with you on the US withdrawl issue....for now.
We are a target, but not a huge priority for terrorist organizations. What seperates us from the other countries is Iraq. It bought us some time, but we did send troops to Afghanistan and in the past we have acted in the interest to the detriment of people in the Middle East by follwing the US in such avenues as supporting corrupt and dictatorial regimes. Hopefully we've taken all the necessary measures to deter such attacks, or at least minimize them as much as possible. It is probable that an attack may occur sometime in the future, but its not something we should be losing sleep over, nor should we be entering any state of panic.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Uh, right now we haven't been surrounded and asked to surrender by the Iraqi Army, so I'd say we are doing primo good. This is worlds above anything the UN has ever done as a group.
Yeah. There's really nothing we can do. The US and Britain are the best choices for security forces bar none at moment, and we really can't pull out until we are sure things are stable and can remain so for an indefinite period of time.
Guest Brian
I'm not. Fuck my shadow. Fuck the ground. Fuck the terrorists. Fuck the president. Fuck the people.
I live in Seattle. New Yorkers are getting soft.
Prime Time Andrew Doyle 0
A most effective raconteur
Sorry if this sounds shitty, but how many of us are afraid of our own shadows now?
Not afraid of my own shadow, but certainly a bit weary when ever I am in a heavily populated place or on the train. I catch it to Uni every morning and you just can't help being somewhat suspicious of some people, or even innocent looking things. For example, today after Uni I saw a packed sports bag sitting by itself in a railway underpass and I went to the police station (luckily it was in walking distance) just to let them know. I'm assuming it turned out to be nothing, but after last week, you don't feel like taking any chances when you see something like that
It's now down to us and Italy on Al-Queda's shit list.
Don't forget us Australians, we are probably higher on their shit list.
Plenty of people are scared shitless by the terrorists, whether it's for good reason or not. On a recent plane ride I was on, one of the passengers was a Middle Eastern man wearing a turban, and I was the only other passenger who had the balls to sit anywhere near him.
During yesterday's daily White House briefing, Scott McClellan was asked if the British memo to partially pull out affected American plans at all. Like with any Karl Rove questions (although not nearly as stonewalling), he just verbally flopped around and said the usual "we're committed to promoting freedom" jazz that doesn't solve any problems or inform anyone.

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Megan Prescott
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O Condado de Chaffee é um dos 64 condados do estado americano do Colorado. A sede do condado é Salida, e sua maior cidade é Salida. O condado possui uma área de 2 629 km² (dos quais 4 km² estão cobertos por água), uma população de 16 242 habitantes, e uma densidade populacional de 6 hab/km² (segundo o censo nacional de 2000). O condado foi fundado em 10 de fevereiro de 1879.

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Starbox — a music box with real stars in it.
Starbox is little app I originaly made to lull kids while parents can learn about stars and constellations. Actually, the exact opposite is happening and parents get asleep in no time. Even better with a beamer.
Actual star distance and brightness taken from the great Stellarium app.
Source are available on GitHub.


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Thomas Joseph is a resident composer of Virginia Beach, VA and a graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory (MM: Music Composition) and Old Dominion University (BM: Music Composition). Joseph is also a faculty adjunct with ODU's Community Music Division for composition, theory, and other music subjects.
As a high school freshman, Joseph appeared as a week-long featured composer for the Tidewater Winds of Norfolk. He also received national and state awards in music contests. In the academic realm, Joseph has composed original music for high school bands, jazz bands, marching bands, and local ensembles; served as a guest conductor for local ensembles, a clinician for student ensembles, and served as a judge for solo festivals.
As a professional composer, Joseph composes in a wide variety of musical mediums and levels, ranging from early academic to highly advanced contemporary "new" art music. He has many works for piano, voice, solo instruments, traditional small ensembles, mixed ensembles, string orchestras, wind ensembles, as well as full orchestras.
During study under Jonathan Newman at Shenandoah Conservatory, he has experienced sessions with Pulitzer Prize Winners David Lang, John Corigliano; composers David Little and Eric Whitacre; and performance ensembles such as the American Modern Ensemble, Newspeak, and Eighth Blackbird.


Today I'm drinking Alpine Glacier Lager brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The label depicts an adventurer using ice picks to climb a steep ice wall while a pissed off ram on the other side is just begging for the opportunity to knock him back down to the bottom. There's a story on the back that I'll let you read in the photo below. Notched date of March, 2011. A 2 and 4 are also notched on the other edge, but I don't know what they are for.
Lemon forward, grainy and hoppy aroma. A bit sweeter than I expected initially with lots of bread and grain flavors. Some citrus along with high carbonation do keep that sweetness toned down. Lightly grassy and herbal with a little metallic middle. Not a watery beer at all, rather thicker with a dish detergent feel in the mouth. Not particularly refreshing, though the bitter ending was a plus. No bad flavors but still just an OK average-ish beer.


Jenifer Browne Lawrence's Grayling, winner of the 2015 Perugia Press Prize, is so entrenched in the Northwest coastal landscape that the author is both natural feature and observer. A master of presence and immediacy, Lawrence transforms the particulars of landscape into a deeply personal language in which people and place merge. The titular grayling acts as fish and symbol: of the author, the wash of sea into every surface of life, and all the routines that require a mass of small, individual lives for sustenance.
The collection unfolds an intimate conversation between these elements until the landscape is as much a force as much as the people, each influencing the other in inextricable ways.
so far away we needed wings to get there.
In Lawrence's hands, detailed observation is honed and heightened until it drives the narrative. Through Lawrence's own clear sight, we see these children too, and we see them as they are, not as we wish them to be. In their world, the snow is already marked, their defenses against the elements thin, the sky a home. Every detail indicates a second place, a substitution, a subtle lack. In a world where we're so often warned surface is separate from substance—think books and covers, beauty and skin—there's surprise in both the intensity of Lawrence's gaze and poems that allow surfaces to speak deep truths.
but dogs get up, dogs always get up. Get up, dog.
Quieter emotions emerge loudly in this and other poems as Lawrence shifts voice to evoke yearning, wistfulness, and grief.
how to climb that tree.
Yet, readers also know the same tree fell with surprising ease at the beginning of the poem. The tree's connection to the sick father suggests both disaster and the unthinking ease with which we adapt to it are all part of our essential relationship to the world.
Like Sedna, whose fingers are cut off and transformed into all the animals of the sea, the world of this book is so much an extension of the author's voice she is almost invisible inside it, a person existing through the landscape she's evoked. Grayling is Sedna's finger to the seal, both ghost limb and transformation. In this collection, Lawrence owns her connections and insists through close observation and intimate revelation her formative landscape is in her, of her. The poems are unselfconscious, effortless, the line between self and surroundings undivided.


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European Union Threatens to Surpass The United States in Regulation of Internet Commerce
Vito A. Costanzo
The United Nations is not the only forum where Europeans have sought to challenge the United States. With its recent expansion that added 10 new member states, the European Union (EU) threatens to rival the United States in economic power and influence. The EU is attempting to exert its new found power in various ways, including through increased regulation of Internet commerce. These new regulations may have a profound impact on the way that U.S. companies will do business over the Internet. This article examines the scope of EU regulations of technology and the Internet as well as the impact that such regulations are likely to have on U.S. companies doing business overseas and on the Internet.
Description of the EU
The idea of a common European organization was first proposed on May 9, 1950 by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who wished to integrate the coal and steel industries of Western European nations. May 9 is now celebrated as "Europe Day" in EU countries. The six member countries, which consisted of Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, then expanded their cooperation in 1957 with the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community. The EU was formally created by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992. With the addition of ten new countries this year, membership in the EU has swelled to 25 countries.
Although the EU is not intended to replace the governments of its member states, there are five key EU bodies that govern its affairs:
The European Parliament, the membership of which is elected by votes in the member states, a Council of the European Union
The Council of the European Union
The European Commission
The Court of Justices
The Court of Auditors
As the EU becomes more organized, its market power and influence over world economics becomes more pronounced. The concept of a common European market became more real in the 1990s with the elimination of passport and customs check points between member countries, the adoption of a single currency in 2002 and the addition of ten new member states in 2004.
EU Internet Regulations
Among the many areas where the EU seeks to assert its influence, regulation of commerce over the Internet is arguably one of the most important. This is because the EU has placed a great deal of emphasis on non-economic values, such as privacy. The result has been that the EU often diverges from the United States in matters related to Internet commerce.
The EU may ultimately play a larger role than the United States in the prohibition of "cookies" and unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, on the Web. Cookies are small data files that are saved on the hard drives of Internet users who access Web sites. The cookies are used to store useful information, such as user names, passwords and preferences, making it easier to access and utilize the Web site in the future. Cookies are commonly used to collect information that many Internet users consider to be private, such as names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, telephone numbers and other Internet sites visited.
Last year, the European Parliament approved its Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications which requires the recipient's explicit consent to receive commercial e-mail, i.e., spam. This "opt in" replaces the former "opt out" policy in use in most EU countries and is more restrictive than U.S. law. The "opt in" requirement does not apply to existing customers whose contact information was obtained during the sale or negotiations for the sale of a product or service or where the sender is advertising products or services similar to those already purchased.
The directive also prohibits the use of cookies unless Internet users opt in by providing explicit consent. Otherwise, the use of cookies is banned due to privacy considerations.
The EU's new policies arise out of the view that Internet users' privacy rights are of paramount importance. See, EU Directive No. 95/46/EC (October 24, 1995), which describes privacy as a "fundamental right."
In February of this year, the European Commissioner for Information Services, Erkii Liikanen, announced a system of fines designed to discourage the use of spam and cookies within the EU. He is encouraging member states to enact national enforcement measures imposing fines against violators and specific avenues to lodge complaints. For example, France and Belgium have established experimental "spam boxes," to which Internet users may forward spam e-mail. Mr. Liikanen is also looking into the establishment of international dispute resolution forums within the EU.
However, many EU countries have yet to enact specific enforcement procedures with regard to junk e-mail. Member states were given until October 2003 to enact legislation allowing spam to be sent only to those who opt in. However, the majority of the EU member countries have yet to enact their own national legislation.
The EU Commissioner is critical of U.S. law, which allows spammers to send e-mail to an Internet user at least once, provided that a means to opt out is provided within the e-mail. In Liikanen's words, "the opt out solution just doesn't work."
The EU's new policies have major implications for senders of spam, many of whom are in the U.S. The conflict between U.S. and EU law means that senders of spam from the U.S. will have to comply with EU laws if any of the recipients of their e-mails are located in the EU.
U.S. Criticism of the EU Database Directive
Another area of divergence between the United States and the EU involves protection of digital databases. The EU database directive, first passed in 1996, has been criticized by U.S. scientists on the ground that it is overly protective, and thus prohibits the free dissemination of scientific information.
The basis of criticism of the EU directive is that its fair use exception is not mandatory. Consequently, the EU member states may chose to delete the provision that allows use of extracts of databases for purposes of illustration, teaching or scientific research. In fact, both France and Italy have chosen not to enact the fair use aspect of the directive. The directive has also been criticized on the ground that its protections may run indefinitely, which would also run counter to U.S. law.
The EU's database directive is especially important because the EU will not grant protection to databases owned by non-EU individuals or entities unless their home countries adopt similar laws.[1] This strategy has caused a great deal of criticism from the U.S.
However, the EU's effort to offer greater protection to databases may provide a more workable alternative to U.S. law in this era of easy access to and copying of information over the Internet. The ease with which one may access and duplicate databases over the Internet arguably justifies the greater protections to databases provided by EU countries.
As with the use of spam and cookies, the EU's database directive provides another example of how the EU is on the leading edge of using legislation to balance competing interests over the Internet. It is likely that, as EU regulations repeatedly collide with U.S. laws involving the Internet, the EU will continue to be viewed as an important influence over electronic commerce.
1. The leading U.S. case involving database protection is Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).
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Retired Military Leaders Write to President Trump on Keeping America Safe, Trade Fair
April 10, 2018 National Security, News, President Trump No comments
Former military leaders have written to President Trump expressing their concern over the threat Gulf aviation trade cheating poses to our national defense. They are asking the president to complete the mission he started when he took on Qatari trade cheating by taking similar action to combat the illegal aviation trade practices of the UAE. Read their letter here:
With increasing global instability, our nation's ability to respond and adapt to evolving scenarios is more critical than ever. The ability to effectively and efficiently meet our regional Combatant Commander's requirements to deploy troops and supplies without interruption is fundamental component of our nation's national security, military readiness, and ability to project both humanitarian assistance and power.
A unique and significant part of our nation's air mobility resources, especially when rapidly deploying troops and supplies, is the Department of Defense's partnership with U.S. commercial airlines through the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program, better known as CRAF.
U.S. civil air carriers contract with the CRAF program to provide select aircraft for the deployment of personnel and resources when emergency airlift requirements exceed the capability of military aircraft. These carriers volunteer their aircraft to the CRAF program, which today is comprised of more than 450 aircraft that are ready for deployment less than 48 hours after they are called into service. Participating U.S. commercial airlines maintain a minimum commitment of 30 percent of their CRAF capable passenger fleet and 15 percent of their CRAF capable cargo fleet in support of CRAF related activity. These planes are maintained by the airline and flown by airline employees when called into service.
From the Berlin Airlift to Operation Desert Shield and Operation Iraqi Freedom, U.S. commercial airlines have deployed their airplanes and resources on CRAF missions for decades. The CRAF program represents a remarkable public-private partnership that has helped to advance American values, protect American national security interests, and support American aid and military efforts across the globe.
However, this crucial partnership is threatened by subsidies undermining U.S. aviation transport trade agreements with the United Arab Emirates and State of Qatar. These subsidies are not only an exploitation of American trade policy that threatens an industry vital to the American economy, but present a threat to U.S. national security and military readiness.
These subsidies are being used to finance rapid global expansion by the state-owned airlines of Qatar and the UAE with the aim of driving competitors, including U.S. airlines, out of international markets and off global long-haul routes. It is these routes requiring long haul aircraft that allow for the support of our military readiness through the CRAF program. We cannot allow unfair trade practices by foreign governments to weaken our military readiness.
We must keep America safe and our trade fair.
The negative impact of these foreign carrier subsidies and their impact on our national security is compounded with the reality that approximately 1,500 aviation jobs are lost for every route ceded or surrendered due to this subsidized competition. These lost jobs represent not only the aircrew that fly these aircraft in times of crisis with CRAF, but also the maintenance workers and technicians, and the ramp supervisors and dispatchers who ensure safe global operations.
Sir, you have stated that free and fair reciprocal trade is priority for your Administration, as is ensuring our national security and military readiness. Our Department of State's recent announcement that the State of Qatar has agreed to match American levels of financial transparency demonstrates your personal commitment to these priorities. You brought Qatar to the table and reached a deal that, if adhered to, would put an end to Qatar's trade cheating and level the playing field for American air carriers and their workers. This would ensure the American companies can compete in the international marketplace fairly, and therefore protects the integrity of the CRAF program. By enforcing our trade agreements, you are working to reestablish America's economic power and to improve our military readiness.
The agreement with Qatar is an important first step in the right direction, but the full implications of this development will be more fully realized once the U.S. takes action in regard to the stateowned and state-subsidized airlines of the United Arab Emirates, which continue to be less transparent and exhibit the same unfair trade practices. We must complete the mission. The UAE has two massive state-subsidized airlines that, like Qatar Airways, undercut U.S. airlines in the international marketplace and threaten our military readiness. Mr. President, by leveraging the initial success with Qatar to bring about a negotiated deal during the ongoing talks with UAE, you can ensure that we continue to keep America safe and to keep our trade fair.
VADM John G. Cotton, USN (Ret)
Captain Charles T. Nash, USN (Ret)
RADM John C. Sadler, USN (Ret)
RADM Bryan P. Cutchen, USN (Ret)
RADM John A. "AJ" Jackson, USN (Ret)
ADM Mark P. Fitzgerald, USN (Ret)
VADM Robin R. Braun, USN (Ret)
RDML Michael R. Groothousen, USN (Ret)
RADM Jon W. Bayless, Jr, USN (Ret)
Maj Gen Hugh H. Forsythe, USAF (Ret)
RADM Michael R. Scott, USN (Ret)
RADM Stephen S. Oswald, USN (Ret)
Captain Richard G. Dodson, USN (Ret)
Senior Chief Special Operator SEAL, Thomas Shea USN (Ret)
Robert Mitchell, Former US Navy SEAL/CIA Paramiltary Operations Officer
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MIND THE GAP: FUNDING FOR UK'S FLOOD DEFENCES
Atula Abeysekera
This is our second paper on flood defences in the UK. The first paper published on 2nd of May 2016 focused on risk management and this paper discusses methods of funding for flood defences.
The 2015/16 winter flooding cost the UK £2bn, of which £1.4bn was paid by insurers. The Government has committed to spending £2.3bn over next six years to increase flood resilience. In the 2016 budget, the Chancellor allocated a further £700m for flood defences. These are big numbers and are unfunded. A fresher bold look is necessary and the outlook in the UK is looking good.
1.	Insurance Industry
The launch of Flood Re reinsurance (www.floodre.co.uk) in 2016 is timely. Although it is not a panacea for managing flood risks, it is an important part of the solution that includes further flood defence investment and construction, implementing greater resilience in the upkeep of flood damaged property and most importantly cessation of construction on flood plains.
Flood Re enables insurance companies to insure themselves against losses because of flooding. Unlike other reinsurance companies, it is a not-for-profit fund, owned and managed by the insurance industry and designed to last 25 years. It is also publicly accountable. Flood Re's aim is to promote availability and affordability of flood insurance to those who own and live in properties in flood risk areas. Establishing it requires Government legislation and it is the first scheme of its kind anywhere in the world.
Forty insurance companies have signed up for an annual protection of £2.1bn. The scheme caps the excess insurance paid to householders and expects to cover 350,000 homes. The insurers pay a levy and then pass the excess risk to Flood Re. It is hoped that a competitive market will slowly evolve when the insurance industry better analyses flood risk. The scheme excludes commercial properties and those built since 2009.
Flood Re and other insurers need to have assets that are correlated to flood risk liabilities, in addition to investing in assets that deliver returns. We believe now is the time to create an asset class which will help the industry to partially hedge flood risk liabilities arising from:
•	Highly-populated areas and high-value housing stock exposed to flooding
•	Repair costs to withstand repeated flooding
•	Houses built on high-risk flood plains.
2.	House Builders
The Environment Agency estimates that 10,000 houses are built on flood plains. Moreover, there are no known incentives to stop building on flood plains. House builders' assets and liability trade-off is different to the insurance industry, but they may have similar needs to hedge their assets (current and future housing stock) against flooding.
3.	Local Business exposed to Flooding
Commercial property is excluded from the Flood Re scheme. Where there are small businesses that face difficulty in getting property insurance because of flood risk, the insurance industry estimates nature of this problem is on a much smaller scale nationally and is of a different nature to those faced by domestic properties. These properties need specialist flood protection through one-off or Government schemes such as partnership funding and incentives on business rates and corporation tax.
Funding Proposal
Flood Defence Infrastructure Bond
The Government should issue a Flood Defence Infrastructure Senior Bond, which pays a variable coupon and with a 25-year maturity. The Bond should help to hedge the flood liabilities of the insurance industry, especially the ultimate reinsurer, Flood Re. The coupon of the bond will be variable and calculated using flood risk analysis to broadly reflect the incidence of extreme floods. The infrastructure debt should be priced so that yield should be attractive to investors and match liability profile of the insurers including Flood Re. The 25-year maturity was chosen to match the duration of the Flood Re scheme, but longer duration may be required to attract investors. The proceeds of the bond should invest in flood risk areas most at risk as categorised by the Environment Agency. They are:
Project 1: Thames Valley Flood Defence Mater Plan
Project 2: North Kent Flood Defence Master Plan
Project 3: River Ouse Flood Defence Master Plan
Project 4: River Arun Flood Defence Master Plan
Revenues via a Levy on House Builders
The annual coupon for the bond will be financed by a levy on the House Builders. This could be calculated as follows:
a)	Fixed levy house builders based on the market value of the housing stock;
b)	Variable levy on housing stock built on flood plains by the house builder in the catchment areas covered by flood defences.
We propose the Government gauge the demand for the Bond by consulting Flood Re and the other participating insurance companies. There could also demand from infrastructure funds, house builders and global companies operating from impacted areas (e.g., Pfizer Inc. contribution to Sandwich tidal defence).
Commitment by the Government
In return for funding from the infrastructure bond and the house builder levy, the Government should:
•	Change building regulations so that the material used for repairs at flood-damaged properties can withstand future flooding. In this way, the UK will be able to a build housing stock, which is better resilient to future flooding.
•	Improve risk management capability by creating a national risk framework. Improve crisis management similar to Netherlands where flooding is treated as a national security issue. Improve resilience planning and testing at least every 8 to 10 years.
•	Improve flood risk education in schools to improve risk awareness culture, especially difference between flood protection and flood defence and sustainable solutions.
Government policy has brought flood risk strategy to a high standard. The current Flood Resilience Review is a good opportunity to revisit these structures and use innovative methods to fund flood defences. Failure implement these measures will result in a missed opportunity for the country as a whole.
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Author Interview with Lisa Regan
I'm interviewing Lisa Regan today, author of mystery / suspense novel "Hold Still". Welcome to my blog, Lisa, and thanks for answering my questions.
When did you know you wanted to become an author?
Ever since I was able to put words on the page. By the time I was eleven years old, I was writing full-length novels. They were awful!
Where did you get the inspiration for Hold Still?
I started out with the dream sequence—the nightmare that the main character, Jocelyn, has repeatedly. As a teenager she witnessed a horrible crime, but has no memory of it. I wanted to explore how that would affect someone, how it would haunt them and inform their choices in life. I knew that this would be a crime novel so I needed a crime. I had seen a television special years ago on prostitutes in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. I remember being struck by how matter-of-fact these women were about all the crimes that were committed against them on a daily basis. So many of the crimes went unreported simply because these women knew that no one would care or even try to get them justice. If you think about that, you realize that someone with very sadistic tendencies could be committing crimes against prostitutes who are not reporting them and get away with it for years. Forever, even. That's kind of a scary proposition. So I combined the two what ifs into a single plot: What if you had a character that had witnessed a crime but had no memory of it? What if a sadistic criminal could get away with his crimes for years because he was doing it to people who wouldn't report it?
What is your editing process like?
I write everything first in long hand. Then as I'm typing it up, I'm filling in holes and tweaking things. Then my friend, Michael Infinito reads everything I write before anyone else. He usually gives me a general feel for what's working and what's not. Then once I finish, I send it off to critique partners. I don't read it at all while I'm waiting to get it back. I take a couple of months away from it. Then once the critiques are back, I make revisions. Then it's off to a bunch of beta readers. As their input comes in, I'll make more changes. For Hold Still, I hired an editor and a proofreader for the final stages of the book. But in the process I probably read it 200 times.
What was the most challenging part about writing Hold Still?
It was definitely how much to foreshadow. If you give away too much, readers figure out who the bad guy really is immediately and are disappointed. But then if you don't give away enough, they feel blindsided. Some readers figure it out immediately no matter what you do but I try to hold back what I reasonably can. It's really difficult to know which choices are the best though especially because at the end of the day, I know I will never please every reader.
What are your writing goals for 2014?
To finish a first draft of one of the books I am working on.
Are you working on something? If so, can you tell us more about it?
I've already started the second Jocelyn Rush novel which centers around a cold case brought to her by a former Philadelphia Homicide Detective who only has a few months left to live. I'm also working on a sequel to Finding Claire Fletcher titled Over the Edge as well as a book called Harm which is about a teenage boy who stops a school shooting using only his mind and then goes on the run with his dad to avoid being captured by a bunch of shadow organizations that want to use his powers for dubious purposes.
Title: Hold Still
Author: Lisa Regan
Genre: Mystery / Suspense
After saving her three-year-old daughter from a car-jacking, off-duty police detective Jocelyn Rush ends up in the ER. The last person she expects to run into is Anita Grant, former prostitute and an old acquaintance from Jocelyn's days on patrol. In spite of her obvious injuries—mutilated hands and feet—Anita refuses to talk about what happened. Reluctantly, Jocelyn backs off, and Anita's case goes to Philadelphia's Special Victims Unit.
Before long, Jocelyn is pulled into the SVU's investigation. Anita is finally ready to talk, but only to Jocelyn. Her story is harrowing, even to a seasoned veteran like Jocelyn. Working with SVU, Jocelyn's investigation unearths a series of similar crimes going back four years. Three men are preying on local prostitutes, viciously assaulting and mutilating them.
The police apprehend two of the suspects, but the third eludes capture. As the hunt for the most sadistic of the three intensifies, and his crimes escalate, Jocelyn and her colleagues have precious few leads. Then a monster from Jocelyn's past resurfaces. She doesn't want to be reminded of the terrible secret that destroyed her family nearly twenty years earlier, but the man offers her a lead that could crack Anita's case.
To solve it, Jocelyn must connect her past with her present—before a sadistic attacker sets his sights on her.
Lisa Regan is a suspense novelist. She has a Bachelor's Degree in English and Master of Education Degree from Bloomsburg University. She is a member of Sisters In Crime. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter. Her debut novel, Finding Claire Fletcher won Best Heroine and was runner up in Best Novel in the eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards for 2013.
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Norell showed the world that American design could climb to great heights by producing collection after collection that was both elegant and practical. He singlehandedly shaped the character of the ready-to-wear industry and served as a role model to younger generations of American designers. Early jobs included creating costumes for film and stage and outfits for the stars themselves, as well as working for fashion entrepreneur Hattie Carnegie. Norell brought to the world a lean sophistication and American glamour in his daytime suits, jersey separates, swing coats, and his shimmering sequined ?mermaid? dresses. Clients included Lauren Bacall, Babe Paley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Marilyn Monroe, and Lady Bird Johnson. Norell was the first thoroughly modern American designer?and his dresses are still prized by stylish women today.


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So far, Google has raised $2 million—you can contribute here, and your funds will go to the American Red Cross.
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Peloton is going to make you push extra hard at your Labor Day–weekend workout: For every mile members ride during Denis Morton's 60-minute class at 12:45 p.m. EST on Saturday, September 2, the company will donate $1 to the American Red Cross. Cycle in person in New York City, or ride live online with your Peloton bike.
Here's why women are building communities to work (and practice wellness) together. Speaking of having each other's backs, get your girls together and form a meal prep squad.


Today, there are almost unlimited sources offering to teach you Feng Shui. So, we hope you'll gain insights and perspective, here, to help guide you to the best Feng Shui program(s) to suit your personal level of interest.
When I began my Feng Shui studies, back in the early eighties, there were very few sources for learning Feng Shui. In fact my teacher, Prof. Lin Yun, was the first Chinese Master to openly teach Feng Shui, including esoteric Feng Shui, to Westerners. Interior Design With Feng Shui, written by Sarah Rosbach, published in 1984, was based on notes from his classes. That was the first practical, accessible, book on the subject.
Because Sarah's book was so successful, other Chinese Teachers from other schools, soon started writing books, and then their students started writing, and consulting. Suddenly, new Feng Shui experts, authors and consultants were popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain.
Today, you can get Feng Shui training online, in classrooms, from hundreds of books, CD's, DVD's and, of course, on Youtube.
To help you discover the best way for you to learn Feng Shui depends on how deeply you want to explore this vast subject. If you've already looked at other pages on this website, you know that Feng Shui is about much more than just moving furniture.
Moving furniture is the most basic, and easy to teach, aspect of Feng Shui. So that is where many classes begin… and end. But, the actual scope of Feng Shui is immense. It's psychological, metaphysical, shamanic, scientific, practical and profound. It also encompasses a powerful environmental psychology which extends into therapeutic enhancements for your health, wealth, relationships, success and happiness.
Twenty years ago, the late, great, Feng Shui Grand Master, Professor Lin Yun, asked his three most senior students, Steven Post, Edgar Sung, and myself, to start teaching a certification program for Feng Shui consultants. Together, we founded the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training, which is a Three-Year Certification Program, still thriving, today, at the New York Open Center.
This is the only State Approved (NY) Professional Feng Shui Training, in the USA. So, if I sound a bit prejudiced, it's only because we sincerely believe this is the very best and most comprehensive, Feng Shui School in the nation.
Our "BTB Comprehensive One-Day Introduction To Feng Shui" is presented four times a year, in NYC, and will soon be available, online. We'll also be offering Free One-Hour Webinars, online. If you'd like to be notified when the comprehensive one day training is available online or about our free offerings, just leave your Contact information by clicking here.
There are unlimited opportunities to learn Feng Shui at the beginner levels. However, beware, many people set themselves up as teachers after having simply read a few books on the subject. And there are many books out there which have been written based only on what the author has read in some other books on the subject. So, the end-result can be watered down, or worse, promote misunderstanding.
Another issue is that there are several different schools-of-thought regarding the fundamental principals of Feng Shui, some of which have contradictory teachings. To the beginner, it can seem very confusing.
So, before starting any class, it is prudent to ask the Teacher about their Feng Shui orientation, i.e., what type of school were they trained in, what is their Feng Shui life-experience, and what is their lineage?
That being said, you may find beginner classes at your local High School Extension, Junior College Extension, and in various organizations which are New Age oriented. There are also many Feng Shui classes online, which may be just a few minutes, like on You Tube, to a few hours long.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely, if not impossible, to learn much more than the most superficial aspects of Feng Shui, via most Beginner Classes. But, even the most rudimentary classes may serve to whet your appetite to study further. Many people catch the Feng Shui bug, after taking a beginner's class, or two, and then go on to delve much deeper into this fascinating, complex and very deep subject.
Professor Lin Yun taught that every School of Feng Shui, and every Feng Shui Practitioner, has the possibility of success. So, just jump in, experience a class, or a few classes, and you'll soon discover what resonates for you.
The BTB Feng Shui Masters Training, is a three year training that welcomes beginners who may want to advance through higher levels. Our school welcomes Beginning, students, even if you have been affiliated with other teachers, or other style schools.
Our "BTB Comprehensive One-Day Introduction To Feng Shui",which we recently presented four times a year in New York City, will soon be available, online. We also offer Free One-Hour Webinars, online. If you'd like to be notified about these comprehensive, free offerings, just leave your Contact information here.
If you want to apply Feng Shui to your own life, you'll need to read more than a few books and take several classes. Then, you'll have to sort through all the different approaches, to decide which works best for you. It will be necessary to advance to at least to an Intermediate level in order to effectively apply Feng Shui to your own life for favorable results.
--Although, sometimes, something as simple as just turning your desk around can actually turn your life around. And you can certainly learn how to do that, in most any Beginner's class.
If you already have a good sense of design and a strong sense of intuition, and your goal is to simply create more beauty, harmony, and balance in your environment via the principals of Feng Shui, your beginner studies can inspire you along the self-help path.
Some people, like me, get so fascinated in their first class, that they find themselves wanting to make a career of Feng Shui. From my very first encounter with Professer Lin Yun, I was hooked. As a Biophysicist, I understood energy, as in E=McSq, but, Qi Energy was even more fascinating than Quantum Physics, and the Professor was a true Master of it! I had to learn more!
Feng Shui can be a wonderful career path, if you love helping other people, while helping yourself. You'll soon be amazed by how Feng Shui can, seemingly magically, fix a myriad of serious problems, as can Space Clearing, and creating harmony, balance, success and overall happiness in people's lives. It's thrilling and very emotionally rewarding.
There are a number of Feng Shui Certification Programs catering to more advanced students. I've seen some that are as short as one weekend, up to a few weekends, or a few weeks.
Some years ago, my wife, Gayla, who has been practicing Feng Shui since 1973 (eleven years longer than I have) was asked to teach a Feng Shui Class, for a few nights a week, for three-weeks, at a Chiropractic clinic that would give her students a Certification. Even though they were offering to pay her a substantial sum, she refused, saying, "Would you give a certificate for someone to be a certified DC, after a three week Training?" Of course they wouldn't, but nevertheless, they found another teacher and went ahead with the class. That "certification" would not be worth the paper it was printed on. So, beginners beware!.
The BTB Feng Shui Masters Training, is a three year training that welcomes Intermediate students, even if you have been affiliated with other teachers, other style schools or completed a shorter certification program. We are the only state (NY) accredited certification training. Please click here to email me for more information.
• Is the teacher familiar with and open minded about the many different schools & styles of Feng Shui?
• Does the teacher discern and have a perspective regarding what is cultural vs. what is universal in Feng Shui?
• Is the teacher flexible and intuitive, or dogmatic about technicalities?
• Is the teacher kind, compassionate, knowledgeable, and wise?
• Does the teacher have an extensive background in multi-cultural approaches, metaphysics, spirituality, psychology, and coaching?
• Does the teacher have Feng Shui lineage and if so, from whom, &/ or where?
We developed the "BTB Comprehensive One-Day Introduction To Feng Shui" so that people could become familiar with us Teachers, and see if they want to study further with us. Even in this One-day Intro, attendees gain a uncommonly deep perspective of Traditional and Shamanic Feng Shui. We've heard many reports from people who made significant improvements to their homes and noticed their lives shifting for the better, just from taking just this introductory class.
"BTB Comprehensive One-Day Introduction To Feng Shui"
If you can not get to New York to attend, please click here to be notified when we make the class available online.
Becoming a Feng Shui Consultant is a journey of Self-development. The Chinese say you must cultivate your own Qi, before you can help others cultivate their Qi.
As an Advanced Student, I'm sure you're well aware that Feng shui is about much more than moving furniture, interior design, Bagua placement, Chinese Astrology, or hanging crystals to adjust Qi. In traditional Chinese culture, Feng Shui has expanded out of shamanic, metaphysical and superstitious beliefs, into individual and family state of the art healing therapies.
You cannot become a Feng Shui Master through classroom study alone.
Developing coaching skills is equally as important as learning Feng Shui technology, because a Feng Shui practitioner will be coaching clients to change the problematic ways that they respond to life and helping them to develop new [Feng Shui] ways that will make them more successful.
The BTB Feng Shui Masters Training welcomes Advanced students who want to advance to even higher levels, even if you have been affiliated with other teachers, other style schools, or already have a certificate from another school. Please email me for more information.
• You'll also be invited to observe the In-home consultations of other student's.
• Each year the students will go on six Feng Shui Field Trips, during class sessions.
• Thus, you'll quickly gain in-the-field, hands-on experiences, as well as, the ability to earn while you learn.
• You'll gain personal growth and counseling skills, including the most advanced techniques in current Western Self Help methods.
• You'll have ongoing personal mentoring throughout the Three-Year Program, and even after graduation.
• You'll learn multi-cultural perspectives and how to use Feng Shui without imposing Chinese culture upon non-Chinese clients.
• You'll learn from Teachers who have extensive Feng Shui knowledge, Shamanic skills, Mentoring & Coaching experience, and genuine Feng Shui lineage.
Please visit our website www.BTBfengshuiMasters.com, or email your questions to me, directly. To talk to me personally, just email your phone number, or Skype contact information, and tell me your time zone and whether morning, afternoon, or evening is best time to reach you.
"BTB Comprehensive One-Day Introduction To Feng Shui"is a prerequisite to attend the masters training.


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Long way to go to meet 18-week wait, says BMA
Commenting on figures published today (Thursday 7 June 2007) by the Department of Health on the number of patients who have met the 18-week referral-to-treatment target for England, the Chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA) consultants' committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said:
"The fact that almost half of all patients are being treated in 18 weeks is encouraging and is a testament to how hard NHS doctors and other health professionals have been working.
"There is still a long way to go though to ensure that patients are treated as soon as clinically needed and for these improvements to be sustained. Consultants have demonstrated that they can lead change and innovate new and efficient ways of caring for patients but many are still hampered from making further progress. Doctors were told earlier this year to 'slow down' and operations were cancelled so that hospitals could balance their books. The government should free clinicians, both GPs and consultants, to deliver the best value they can rather than fetter them with central targets.
"The government has to now develop long-term solutions that allow doctors to work with all healthcare professionals and patients to enable the highest quality of care and patient experience to be achieved."


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Un chien andalou è un cortometraggio del 1929 scritto, prodotto ed interpretato da Luis Buñuel e Salvador Dalí, e diretto dal solo Buñuel. È considerato il film più significativo del periodo del cinema surrealista.

Prodotto in Francia nel 1928, ha le sue radici nel movimento cinematografico francese dell'avanguardia surrealista dell'epoca e si pone al contempo come critica verso movimenti precedenti, come il dadaismo, contro il quale contrappone la presenza di un contenuto, oltre al solo uso delle immagini originali e sorprendenti.

Nel 1960, sotto la direzione di Buñuel, è stata aggiunta una colonna sonora al film. Buñuel ha usato la stessa musica che eseguì (usando registrazioni fonografiche) alla proiezione del 1929: il Liebestod dal Tristano e Isotta di Richard Wagner e due tango argentini.

Analisi delle scene
Il film è un susseguirsi di scene senza apparente connessione, che causa nello spettatore l'impressione di assistere alla messa in scena di un delirio onirico. In realtà vi sono contenuti significati molto profondi, leggibili alla luce della psicoanalisi, che sono stati oggetto di numerosi studi.

La primissima scena è una delle più terrificanti dell'intera storia del cinema: il regista stesso, dopo aver guardato la luna, affila un rasoio e si avvicina a una donna seduta alla quale tiene ben aperto l'occhio sinistro; nella inquadratura successiva taglia l'occhio in due (in realtà un trucco di montaggio, col taglio dell'occhio di un vitello morto). La scena è emblematica della rivoluzione visiva surrealista, che intende squarciare l'occhio dello spettatore per fargli vedere, anche a costo di grandi sofferenze, tutto quello che non ha mai visto e forse non ha mai voluto vedere. Buñuel compie comunque due operazioni - tagliare e osservare - interpretabili anche come azioni fondamentali per qualsiasi regista nella fase di montaggio di un film.

Le didascalie sono cinque e completamente fuorvianti. Indicano momenti (c'era una volta, otto anni dopo, alle tre del mattino, sedici anni prima, in primavera) completamente slegati da quello che viene mostrato: sembrano suggerire un andamento ciclico della storia o comunque al di fuori del tempo, secondo uno schema che mira a costruire una situazione eterna e universale.

Il tema del film è quello di un uomo e una donna attratti reciprocamente da una pulsione erotica intensa e violenta (tra le prime rappresentazioni cinematografiche di una sensualità così esplicita), ma una serie di situazioni e figure si interpongono fra i due. Le visioni sembrano scaturire dall'inconscio più profondo dell'uomo (ricordi di scuola, il doppio, la scatola con gli oggetti cari), mentre la donna è quella che guarda, attende e cerca l'uomo, ma quando viene toccata lo respinge con orrore.

All'inizio l'uomo va in bicicletta, mentre una donna sta leggendo un libro in una casa, per poi buttarlo via: l'inquadratura mostra una pagina con La merlettaia di Vermeer, un simbolo della femminilità casalinga e tradizionale. La donna si affaccia alla finestra e vede l'uomo in bicicletta che passa e cade proprio davanti alla sua porta. Allora scende e, trovandolo ancora immobile, con una misteriosa scatola a righe al collo, lo soccorre e lo bacia. Tornata in casa apre la scatola a righe e vi trova una cravatta a righe, avvolta in carta anch'essa a righe, che ella mette in un colletto di cartone, ricreando sul letto la forma dell'uomo con i suoi abiti distesi. Si siede poi ad aspettare guardando il letto finché non si accorge dell'uomo nella stanza. Lui si sta guardando la mano, al centro della quale si trova un foro dal quale escono formiche (un'immagine che Dalí disse di aver sognato). Anche la donna si avvicina, allora sovvengono immagini sessuali (peluria di ascella, paragonata a un riccio di mare).

La scena successiva mostra un personaggio androgino, vestito da uomo ma dai tratti femminili, che per strada, in mezzo a una folla curiosa allontanata a stento da un poliziotto, tocca con un bastone una mano mozza. L'uomo e la donna guardano dalla finestra. L'androgino tiene in mano la stessa scatola a righe dell'uomo, per cui rappresenta forse una sua proiezione di femminilità. L'androgino resta solo con la scatola in mezzo alla strada e macchine gli passano vicino, finché una non lo investe, sorprendendo l'uomo. A quel punto lui è preso da un raptus sessuale e si dirige verso la donna, immobilizzandola contro un muro e toccandole con insistenza i seni, che lui immagina nudi, facendo un'espressione di intensa libido animalesca (arriva anche a sbavare). I seni diventano poi natiche nude e poi ancora seni, finché lei non lo respinge scappando per la stanza. Lui la insegue finché lei non resta in un angolo, minacciandolo con una racchetta. Allora lui inizia ad avvicinarsi malizioso, ma nell'incedere deve raccogliere due corde e trainare un misterioso fardello, che si scopre essere composto da due tavole che sembrano quelle dei Dieci Comandamenti, due pianoforti con sopra una carcassa putrefatta d'asino ciascuno, ai quali sono legati anche alcuni preti distesi (simbolo dei freni alla sessualità posti dalla Chiesa e dalla società). Uno dei due preti era interpretato da Dalí, ma poi nella scena montata fu sostituito da un altro attore; per un errore, però, è possibile vedere Dalí per pochi fotogrammi la prima volta che vengono inquadrati i due preti.

La donna allora fugge e blocca nella porta la mano dell'uomo, dalla quale escono ancora le formiche. Poco dopo lei lo rivede nel letto malato, con la scatola a righe al collo. Un altro uomo viene a fare visita e suona un campanello (che ha il rumore di uno shaker, mostrato nell'inquadratura successiva). Entra e si avventa contro l'uomo malato e poco dopo si scopre che è la stessa persona. Crudelmente l'uomo strappa all'alter ego malato la scatola e tutti gli accessori della sua vita precedente, scaraventandoli fuori dalla finestra. Poi l'alter-ego mette l'uomo in castigo e lo fa tornare sui banchi di scuola, commiserandolo. Mentre fa per andare via, l'uomo blocca l'alter ego e lo elimina sparandogli. Esso muore allora all'aperto, aggrappandosi alla schiena di una donna.

L'uomo liberato passeggia allora all'aperto con un amico e viene invitato a vedere l'uomo ucciso, che viene poi portato via in una sorta di corteo funebre.

La donna torna a casa e vede sul muro il simbolo macabro della farfalla Sfinge testa di morto, con il teschio sul corpo. Si trova davanti l'uomo e lo sgrida, ma lui ha perso la bocca: al suo posto ha i peli d'ascella, che lei non ha più. Lei se ne va offesa, facendo la linguaccia e i due si ritrovano sul mare. Adesso è lei a cercare l'uomo, ma lui sembra distaccato, le mostra solo l'orologio. Lei allora lo bacia e lui si riscalda, abbracciandola. Iniziano allora a passeggiare finché l'uomo non nota sulla riva i resti della scatola a righe e gli oggetti della sua vita passata, che scansa ridendoci su. I due s'incamminano allora abbracciati e felici, ma l'ultima scena (Au printemps) è demoralizzante: i due sono sepolti fino ai gomiti nella sabbia e sono vicini ma immobili, impossibilitati a toccarsi.

Critica
Il film ha l'obiettivo di provocare un impatto morale sullo spettatore attraverso l'aggressività delle immagini, offensive per l'epoca.
È una temperie di assurdità, oniricità, stranezze, creatività che i surrealisti utilizzano per evidenziare l'inafferrabilità dell'esistenza e quindi la sua intrinseca meravigliosità.

I critici hanno suggerito che Un chien andalou può essere compreso come un tipico pezzo buñueliano antiborghese e anticlericale. L'uomo che trascina il piano, gli asini e i preti è stato interpretato come un'allegoria del progresso dell'uomo verso il suo obiettivo che viene ostacolato dal peso delle convenzioni della società che è costretto a sopportare.

Influenza nella cultura di massa
Il film è stato citato in numerosissime opere.

Durante il suo tour del 1976 David Bowie usò questo film come atto di apertura.

Un'immagine tratta dalla scena dell'occhio tagliato è presente nella locandina del quarantesimo Torino Film Festival assieme ad altri soggetti cinematografici di culto.

Note

Bibliografia
 Sandro Bernardi, L'avventura del cinematografo, Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2007. ISBN 978-88-317-9297-4
Mario Lariccia, Bianco e nero quaderni mensili del Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, Napoli 1938, pp. 116–117.

Voci correlate
 Cinema surrealista

Collegamenti esterni

Film diretti da Luis Buñuel
Film sperimentali e d'avanguardia


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By Nnamdi Onyeagwara
1st Jul, 2022 | 2:49pm
England take on Israel in UEFA Under-19 Champions League final tonight in Slovakia
England's Under-19s will play against Israel in the finals of the UEFA under-19 Championships on Friday night with the Young Lions targeting international glory.
The game will kick-off at 7pm on 1 July and will be free to watch in the UK, with Ian Foster's team trying to emulate the famous 2017 winners, in a team that featured Mason Mount, Aaron Ramsdale and Ryan Sessegnon.
The game will take place at the Trnava Stadium, with England aiming to win their second under-19 title while Israel are featuring their first final.
Chance to make history
The Young Lions have had a mightily impressive tournament so far going unbeaten in all their group games and only conceding one goal, a penalty in the semi-final against Italy.
Aston Villa's dynamic midfielder, Carney Chukwuemeka, has been the standout for this England team and has increased his profile with his impressive showings in this years competition.
A lot of the players will be aware of what a good under-19 tournament with some famous player previously featuring in this competition and going on to have successful careers at club and international level.
Mount, now 23, was star of the final against Portugal in Georgia five years ago and has gone onto become one of Chelsea and England's most important players.
Also, with players likers the exciting Jude Bellingham, who is the same age as the members of this under-19 team, becoming mainstays in Gareth Southgate mens team, it is clear that the England manager is not against using youth players in his team.
The young lions will fancy themselves tonight after already beating Israel in the group stage, with a Liam Delap goal giving them a 1-0 win on (26 June.)
Journalist: England shouldn't be worried by recent allegiance changes, they're not a big blow
Dortmund superstar Bellingham greets screaming fans in Birmingham


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UK and Europe push for customer 'right to repair'
Top companies criticised for "dodging their environmental responsibilities"
The UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee has published a report on Electronic Waste and the Circular Economy. It says the UK is "lagging behind other nations in embedding a circular economy of use, reuse and recycle for small electronics".
New products from Microsoft, Samsung and Huawei... plus the rest of the week's news
Podcast - 5th November 2014
The new Microsoft Band, the Samsung Galaxy A smartphones and the Huawei Honor 6 are all discussed in this week's podcast.
We also look at some of the mobile industry's other big stories, including Amazon UK's mobile phone deals, the Lenovo purchase of Motorola Mobility, LG's quarterly results and the anticipated increase in WiFi hotspots.
Amazon.co.uk starts selling 'pay monthly' deals with O2 connections
Amazon.co.uk has started selling 'pay monthly' mobile phones online.
More than 90 different handsets are being offered, including the Amazon Fire smartphone, thanks to an agreement with O2 UK.
Seven days of mobile industry news: new products, an acquisition, a break-up and a security update
Podcast - 24th September 2014
This week's podcast begins with the latest news from Phones 4u, where hundreds of jobs have been saved but there are a large number of redundancies as well.
Iain, James and Mark then talk about new products from Amazon, BlackBerry and Panasonic, mobile payment innovation from Indonesia and the UK, the acquisition of IoT specialist Neul and Apple's updated privacy policy.
Amazon announces new Fire tablets and Kindle ebook readers
Online retailer Amazon has announced new Kindle ebook readers and new Fire tablets coming to the UK.
The entry-level Kindle now has a touch-sensitive screen, a faster processor and double the storage of its predecessor. It's priced from £59 and will be available next month.