What comes to your mind when you think of Ireland? For me it is not Guinness Beer, or the crowded "most famous" shopping area of Grafton Street. It is sheep and green pastures. Sheep in green pastures is what makes Ireland awesome to drive through. Sheep show up everywhere and they are not impressed with your advances or your camera. I learned that there are a million and a half more sheep than people in Ireland. Is there a sheep census taker? There is also the mystery of the pink and blue markings on the seemingly free roaming sheep. It is a mark of identification, something like a brand, to tell which sheep belongs to what farmer. The mystery is that all the sheep have the same pink and blue markings. We asked a local farmer about this and his answer was vague, something like well each farmer knows his sheep and the sheep knows his farmer. Actually I think that is Biblical. The sheep know the voice of the shepherd and follow him.
Sometimes you can see that the blue paint is a number, but it is often washed to just a blue or pink swash.
Often sheep are seen grazing on rocky hillsides instead of green pastures.
Here they found a green spot in the middle of weeds and rocks.
These were also fairly close to the road, so we stop and tried to get a closer shot, but as soon as we got within good shooting distance, they took off bleating and baa baa "ing" as they went, in a full run heading toward the barn on the other side of the road. We apologized and got back into the car.
There is something peaceful and tranquil about sheep grazing in a green pasture.
Which is why, perhaps, they put out their "do not disturb" sign by hanging out near fences not easily reached by camera toting passers by.
Driving by offers many tranquil scenes of just green pastures and stone fences. I think of the hard labor it took to erect those fences, first digging them out of the rock infested ground and stacking them in such a way that, with repair, they stay for long periods of time.
Sometimes we all have to hang up our "do not disturb" signs to get away from the things, wanted and unwanted, that crowd into our busy lives. We need to soak in the quiet green pastures that life has to offer. That's what my trip to Ireland did for me.


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Boulder County / News / Boulder County releases new request for proposals for agricultural research
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Vivienne Jannatpour, (303) 678-6277
Boulder County releases new request for proposals for agricultural research
Deadline for submittals is August 22
Boulder County, Colo. - Boulder County Parks & Open Space staff has issued a new request for proposals (RFP) for the Sustainable Agricultural Research and Innovation Initiative (SARII). Detailed information and applications instructions are available at www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/sarii. Deadline for submittals to be sent to purchasing@bouldercounty.org is Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 2 p.m. (see below for more deadline information).
The new RFP includes refinements and added specificity to the proposed project, including a cap on annual cost of $250,000, and an expressed understanding that the project will start small and grow into the available acreage.
Requirements from the vendor include:
Staff the center with a farm manager and lead research coordinator.
Provide office management and necessary staffing.
Provide farm and maintenance equipment for land management and research experiments.
Boulder County will provide:
A staff person to coordinate with vendor, steering, and research committee.
Economic analysis in conjunction with vendor's research.
The RFP is open to all bidders that meet its listed requirements. Both previous bidders are also welcome to submit proposals in response to the new request.
Written Inquiries
All inquiries regarding the RFP shall be submitted via email to the Boulder County Purchasing Office at purchasing@bouldercounty.org on or before 2 p.m. on Mon., July 31. A response from the county to all inquiries will be posted and sent via email no later than 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 8.
For more information about SARII and the Cropland Policy, please visit www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/croplandpolicy, or contact Jeff Moline, Agricultural Resources Manager, at jmoline@bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6270.

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The Ship That Never Came (Kenneth Peacock)
See also: My Daddy's Ship (MacEdward Leach)
AKA (Why Don't Father's Ship Come In?)
(The Gentle Boy) (The Widow's Lament)
As I roved out one evening
I sat down to take rest,
I saw a boy scarce four years old
close to his mother's breast,
Saying, "Once I had a father dear
who did me kind embrace,
If he was here he would wipe the tears
roll down my mother's face.
"Oh mother, oh mother, come tell to me,
oh mother come tell me why,
Why don't my father's ship come home,
why do you sob and cry?
All other ships are coming home
leaving the white waves foam,
But my father's ship is not come yet,
what makes her tarry long?"
"Your father's ship, my darling child,
his face you never shall see,
For the hurricane of the ocean
sweeps his body in the sea;
The fish that's in the water
swims over young father's breast,
And his body lies in motion,
and I hope his soul's at rest."
"Right well I do remember
when he took me on his knee,
Saying, 'Here's a bird and fruit
I've brought from deep o'er India's sea,'
Right well I do remember
when he wove his hat in hand,
These words he spoke: 'God bless you both,'
as he sailed from the land."
"The ocean is wide and fathoms deep,
as the earth is from the sky,
There's a heaven above, my darling child,
there's a home for you and I;
You're the only one that's leaved to me
and I press you to my side,"
Where they both lay down together
and the son and mother died.
####.... Author unknown. Traditional Newfoundland ballad ....####
Collected by Kenneth Peacock in 1958 from Mrs Charlotte Decker [1884-1967] of Parson's Pond, NL, and published in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Vol 3, pp.795-796, by the National Museum of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.
Kenneth Peacock noted that this late, sentimental ballad was found previously by Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield and included as #113, The Gentle Boy, in their Ballads And Sea Songs Of Newfoundland (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1933; Folklore Associates, Hatboro, PA, 1968.) Peacock also commented that he had not seen it in other collections.
A variant was collected in 1951 from John James [1903-?] of Trepassey, NL, and published as My Daddy's Ship in MacEdward Leach And The Songs Of Atlantic Canada © 2004 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA).
A variant was also collected in 1977 from Annie J Green [1919-?] of Francois, NL, by Genevieve Lehr and Anita Best and published as #120, Why Don't Father's Ship Come In? in Come And I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook, p.203, edited by Genevieve Lehr (University of Toronto Press © 1985/2003).
Genevieve Lehr noted that this was one of Annie Green's favourite songs, and that there is a large body of such songs which are sung with great emotion and are evidently very meaningful to the men and women who often call for them.
See more songs by Lehr and Best .
A variant was recorded as The Widow's Lament by Tommy Nemec singing acapella the songs he heard sung by his grandfather, John P Myrick [1900-1984] with Thomas (Tom) Finlay [1885-?] at house parties in St Shotts and on Cape Pine, NL (Songs From The Cape, trk#2, 2003, Backcove Music, St John's, NL, recorded at the Cape Pine Lightstation).


Thirteen-year-old Sam Shelton is the only person in Avalon who can't use the magical power of aether. He's also the only person in Avalon with a bag of high-tech spy gear, a solar-powered cell phone with intermittent signal back to Earth, a YouTube account, and a murderous wizard-emperor on his tail… so he's got a lot going for him.
When an earthquake hits his hometown of Bozeman, Montana, Sam gets inexplicably transported to Avalon, a strange world in which aether defines all aspects of life: the rich, the poor, the weak, the powerful, the oppressed, and the oppressors. Sam soon discovers that not only is he immune to aether's magical effects, but that he possesses the rare ability to destroy the stuff on contact. This phenomenon poses something of a major concern for the Emperor of Avalon, a tyrant who has dedicated his life to amassing more aether than all his subjects combined.
While trying to find a way back home, Sam learns that his best hope lies with meeting the emperor head on, and draining the tyrant of his power. To do that, Sam will need to band together with a medieval cowboy, a young aether prodigy, and a curious dryad, all while using his whole bag of technological tricks… and posting about it on social media, of course.


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Business & Entrepreneurship: Learning for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
New and Notable in the Catalog
Crazy Is a Compliment by Linda Rottenberg
Rottenberg brings to life iconic entrepreneurs like Walt Disney and Estée Lauder and reveals how companies like MTV, GE, and Burberry found their best successes by breaking the corporate mold and embracing the entrepreneur mind-set. She also introduces us to some of the one thousand entrepreneurs she's advised, like Leila Velez, who started a hair-care company in her kitchen sink in Rio that now earns $80 million a year.
The economy of you : discover your inner entrepreneur and recession-proof your life by Palmer, Kimberly
The Economy of You recounts story after story of people who—like Kimberly—are liberating themselves from financial strain. A deli employee who makes custom cakes at night. An instrument repairman who sells voice-overs on his website. A videographer who started a profitable publishing house on the side. Interwoven in the profiles are concrete guidelines for readers looking to launch rewarding businesses of their own
Smart people should build things : how to restore our culture of achievement, build a path for entrepreneurs, and create new jobs in America by Yang, Andrew
This self-described "recovering lawyer" and entrepreneur has woven together a compelling narrative of success stories (including his own), offering observations about the flow of talent in the United States, and explaining why current trends are leading to economic distress and cultural decline. He also presents recommendations for both policy makers and job seekers that will make entrepreneurship more realistic and attainable. The country needs teams of committed builders to create value and restore the culture, and Smart People Should Build Things is about how we can get there.
Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead by Sandberg, Sheryl
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that womens voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In "Lean In, " Sheryl Sandberg examines why womens progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
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Delivers a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business—without the need for an MBA or millions of dollars in funding. As an inventor and successful business owner, Key brings a unique and fully rounded perspective to the subject, teaching you how to:
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Demystifies the process of starting a business by presenting difficult economic, financial and business concepts in a manner easily understood by beginning business students. This edition is based on a proven curriculum from the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and includes new case studies, a new Honest Tea Business Plan, and more on topics such as cash flow and e-marketing.
Makers : the new industrial revolution by Anderson, Chris
Takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of "Makers" using the Web's innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent -- creating "the long tail of things".
The e-myth enterprise : how to turn a great idea into a thriving business by Gerber, Michael E.
Explores the requirements that any new business must meet: the satisfaction of its four primary influencers'its employees, customers, suppliers, and investors'through four fundamental categories'visual, emotional, functional, and financial.
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Who owns the ice house? : eight life lessons from an unlikely entrepreneur by Taulbert, Clifton L.
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After a short transit at Heathrow airport, I arrived at Barajas airport, Madrid, and was greeted by the award winning design (2006 Stirling Prize) terminal, which offered me a hassle and stress-free arrival. Shortly after collecting my oversized luggage, I managed to hop onto a cab without much effort. The driver drove with the aid of a GPS navigation system. Having lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for many years, I could not help but compared Barajas airport to Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Changi Airport, Singapore. I was impressed.
As the cab made its way to the IE campus in the centric Salamanca district of Madrid, technology and sophisticated images were quickly replaced by picturesque streets and buildings, bringing to mind a sense of tranquillity with its rich heritage. By the way, do not confuse it with Salamanca city, around 200km northwest of Madrid, which is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Cities in the world. Coincidentally, Salamanca is known as the city of thought and knowledge. This is a perfect match for IE, a place where great learning and discovery is about to take place for me.
It didnâ??t take me long to assimilate into life in Madrid. Metros (similar to Singaporeâ??s Mass Rapid Transit) run throughout the city. This service operates from 6:00 am right into the night at wee the hour of 1:30am everyday. Major s
hopping malls operate up to 10:00 pm everyday. If you miss Singaporeâ??s
24 hours â??kopitiamâ?, you will love it in Madrid where many tapas bars and restaurants close only at midnight. For those who love to work hard and party even harder, try the dance clubs which only close at 6:00 am!
To help us settle in faster, IE arranges Spanish Language classes for those who are foreign to the 3rd most widely used language in the world. Besides the original intention, it allows students like me to find out more about the campus and more importantly, to meet students congregating here for a wide variety of masters programmes. I would say one of the biggest draw of IE for me to is the great diversity of the studentsâ?? population, providing possibilities to meet people of different nationalities and from different backgrounds. In the IMBA program, studentsâ?? nationalities totalled up to 60 countries! Take for instance, in one Spanish class of 25 students, I counted 16 different nationalities! Picking up Spanish language is truly useful for â??Guirisâ?? like us, a term used on people who are new to this land and canâ??t speak Spanish.
As the main program has not started, my classmates and I would take the opportunity to organise social events after our Spanish classes. For e.g. we organised a trip to see the traditional bullfight at Las Ventas on Columbus Day, and are now in the midst of planning to watch Real Madrid play live in Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. Besides these, there are more than 53 social, academic and sports clubs established at IE, offering bountiful platforms for networking such as Salsa Dance Club and Asian Family Club.
This is just my 2nd week in IE and I continue to progress further with more discoveries of the city, IE and myself. Although I wish to write more but words alone cannot fully contain and describe my experiences. This is when I realised how true these words ring, â??You have to live and experience IE and Madrid for yourself!â?
This post is a contribution from Tsu-Leong TAN, IMBA 2008 – with his first impressions on IE and Madrid
October 17, 2007 By Dirk HopflLive IE1 Comment
Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation: IE Venture LabIE Asian Families Club celebrates 2nd anniversary


Denis Shapovalov defeated Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) with a stunning display before an overflow crowd of delirious Montreal tennis fans at the Rogers Cup on Thursday night.
So maybe it was that youthful fearlessness that enabled him to play a spectacular match to upset the world No. 2 and 15-time Grand Slam champion.
Or maybe it was just that Shapovalov is a player good enough that he will be able to continue to play the same free-swinging, aggressive tennis to beat the best in the world over the next weeks, months and years.
Or maybe they're mutually inclusive.
Over the two hours and 45 minutes of the third-round match Shapovalov could hardly have been more impressive – especially after losing the first set. Playing Roger Federer is like having a whirling dervish on the other side of the net coming at you from every angle. Playing Nadal is more akin to being bludgeoned with heavy topspin shots that are intended to grind you down and break your spirit.
That Shapovalov was able to keep the belief and have the physical endurance to come back against a titan like Nadal is remarkable.
He did so many things well – the forehand was dynamite and any time he got short ball it was almost automatic that he would hit it somewhere Nadal wasn't – putting it away for a winner.
His stylish one-handed backhand was solid and stood up well against his fellow lefthander's two-handed backhand. He picked his spots smartly when attacking, returned aggressively and volleyed well.
His serving was great and, though MPH isn't that important – his fastest serve was 216 km/hr (134 mph) while Roger Federer's fastest earlier in the day in a win over David Ferrer was only 201 km/hr (125 mph).
"It's a lot to take in, obviously," Shapovalov said reacting to the win over a living legend like Nadal.
Nadal was disappointed in himself for not playing more aggressively, for not capitalizing on six break points in the final set and for not being able to win the final-set tiebreak after taking a 3-0 lead. He claimed it was his worst match of the year although it is difficult to imagine anything quite as bad as his performance in a 6-2, 6-3 loss to Federer in Indian Wells in March.
Fortune favours the brave and the stats tell the story of who was the bolder player – and it was not the 31-year-old veteran but the frisky youngster who is still eligible to play the juniors. Shapovalov had 49 winners (33 on the forehand side) and 41 unforced errors compared with 18 winners and 29 unforced errors for Nadal.
The crowd at STADE IGA was whole-heartedly behind Shapovalov, erupting into great explosions of sound whenever he did something special.
In the afternoon on Thursday, Frenchman Thierry Champion, who currently coaches Adrian Mannarino, who Shapovalov will face in a Friday evening quarter-final at 6:30 p.m. ET, talked about the precocious Canadian. "I've been watching him for three years because I generally watch all the young players," said the former No. 44-ranked (1991) Champion, who has coached a variety of French players from Paul-Henri Mathieu to Gael Monfils, from Julien Benneteau to Richard Gasquet. "I'd been hearing about Félix (Auger-Aliassime) and Denis.
"What I like about Denis is that he's fiery. He was on court with Benoit Paire a couple of days before the tournament started. For a player who's still a junior, I thought that the way he uses his serve is exceptional. He has a good first serve but he also has a very good second serve and on top of that he's left-handed – so it's hard to return.
"With a lot of players that are destined to be really good often it's said that they have to be strong technically, tactically and physically etc. but there's something else that's important component – it's playing well on the big courts, the big stage. Not everyone has that, being able to play their best tennis there. Even if he's very young – he's got that. I didn't see his first match but to win it like he did (saving four match points), that shows he's not intimidated. He won that match with guts.
Expanding on how he works on that aspect with Shapovalov, Laurendeau said, "you make him realize the importance of the competitive skills. You're training to compete so we work on those skills in practice. If you don't have that in practice you can't just whip it out of the hat on gameday. He's honed his skills on the practice courts and he's worked on that as much as he's worked on his returns, volleys and the rest of his game.
That mental strength came in handy in crucial moments against Nadal and he will likely need it against the unheralded but crafty Mannarino, who reached the round-of-16 at Wimbledon last month before losing 6-2, 7-6(5), 6-4 to Novak Djokovic. Mannarino is a totally different type of lefthander than Nadal – he's all about placement, spin and angle and he will put Shapovalov in some awkward spots he wasn't in against Nadal. But the 29-year-old Frenchman can be over-powered and that's a vulnerability Shapovalov's must exploit to earn the victory and a spot in the semi-finals against either Sascha Zverev or Kevin Anderson.
His win over Nadal means his ranking will be roughly No. 100 next Monday – and could go inside the top-70 if he gets past Mannarino.
There was speculation about how Shapovalov's victory – which makes him the youngest (18 years and three months) quarter-finalist in ATP Masters 1000 history (since 1990) – on Thursday night compares with Daniel Nestor's upset of world No. 1 Stefan Edberg on the opening night of the 1992 Canada – Sweden Davis Cup tie in Vancouver.
It's a valid comparison. Nestor, 19 at the time, was more of an unknown bolt out of the blue then while Shapovalov, the 2016 Wimbledon junior champion, defeated world No. 47 Kyle Edmund at Queen's Club before Wimbledon two months ago and has been widely recognized as a top prospect.
He's much more combative and outgoing than the reserved teenaged Nestor – qualities that fire him up and endear him to spectators, especially partisans, of which there should be more than the 11,715 capacity at centre court for Friday's evening match with Mannarino.
It seems as if Roger Federer sets a new record every time he steps on the tennis court.
On Thursday in third round action at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, he didn't set a record but he did tie one.
By defeating David Ferrer 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 he extended his unblemished record against the plucky Spaniard to 17-0. That's the same head-to-head perfection that Ivan Lendl achieved against a hapless Tim Mayotte of the U.S. back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Being 0-17 with the great Swiss, Ferrer is the leader of a more-than-10-losses pack of respectable pros that includes Mikhail Youzhny (0-16), Jarkko Nieminen (0-15), Feliciano Lopez (0-12) and Philipp Kohlschreiber (0-11).
It's hard to believe that No. 116 Evgeny Donskoy (Dubai in February) and No. 302 Tommy Haas (in Stuttgart in June) have beaten Federer in this glorious year of his rejuvenation, but someone of Ferrer's calibre – a career high ranking of No. 3, seven years in the top-10 and a runner-up at the 2014 French Open – could not at least slip in one victory over the Swiss. Their first encounter was in Vienna indoors in 2003 and has now gone on for almost 14 years through to their hard-court meeting Thursday in Montreal.
When told what Federer said, the 35-year-old Spaniard (nine months younger than Federer) replied, "it's nice that he said nice words and he has respect for me and, of course I have respect for him. He's the best of the history.
As part of Montreal's 375th anniversary celebrations, an urban pathway has been created running all the way from the St. Lawrence River up to Mount Royal, the city's centrepiece landmark. Above is the last section up to Mount Royal on McTavish Street, a main artery on the campus of McGill University.


We focus on the discovery of new knowledge of the mechanisms that underlie tumour development and application of this knowledge to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Our goal is to identify the genetic causes of tumour development and translate that research into medical practice.
We provide new knowledge of the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis, using genetic strategies to elucidate the mechanisms through which inherited and somatic genetic variants lead to tumour development.
We identify the genes and epigenetic changes involved in these diseases, establish their functions and develop DNA diagnostics and undertake pre-clinical and clinical trials of new targeted therapies.
We investigate genes and pathways in cancers including those that affect the kidneys and bowel. Our research includes in vitro studies with cultures cells, in vivo pre-clinical investigations using animal cancer models and clinical trials in patients with inherited tumour syndromes. We examine tumour samples and normal counterparts from patients to determine molecular mechanisms of tumourigenesis and treatment response. We focus on the mTOR pathway that is involved in many cancers such as renal carcinoma. We dissect this oncogenic pathway by conditional knockout of genes in mTOR associated tumours or pharmacological inhibition of mTOR signalling in model systems. We screen for and test inhibitors of mTOR and other related oncogenic signalling pathways for prevention and therapy of cancer in model systems that can be translated into clinical practice.
Genetic tests for cancer predisposing genes have been transferred to the NHS, and commercialised in North America. Our pre-clinical research and clinical trials paved the way for approval of drugs called mTOR inhibitors for kidney and brain tumours in patients with the genetic disorder Tuberous Sclerosis.
Combination of Everolimus with Sorafenib for Solid Renal Tumors in Tsc2+/- Mice Is Superior to Everolimus Alone. Neoplasia. 2017 Feb;19(2):112-120. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2016.12.008.
Cardiff University have invested approximately £5M in a state-of-the-art research building dedicated to Cancer Genetics on the Heath Park campus. The building was completed early in 2010 and provides superb facilities for much of the cancer-related work of the Wales Gene Park.
For further details contact the Package Lead, Dr Ming Shen at ShenMH@Cardiff.ac.uk.


A barred owl is the second largest owl in Pennsylvania, surpassed only by the great horned owl in size. It is easily recognized by its stocky body, large dark brown eyes, and the puffy round head with no ear tufts. The horizontal bars on the throat and upper breast, and the vertical streaks on the belly give this owl its name. One of our most vocal owls, it cackles, caws, gurgles, trills and shrieks. Often called a hoot owl, a barred owl can be identified by its characteristic hoo-hoo-to-hoo, hoo-hoo-to-hoo-aww, in the rhythm of who cooks for you, who cooks for you all. The barred owl is an opportunistic hunter that preys upon a variety of small animals, including rodents, birds, frogs and crayfish. Keen vision and an excellent sense of hearing are used to locate prey. Like many owls, a barred owl has asymmetrical ears. Not only is one ear bigger than the other, they are also at different positions on the birds head. This adaptation enables an owl to pinpoint the exact location of prey by the minute differences in sound that the brain receives from each ear. A barred owl prefers wooded swamps and deep forests. Although it usually chooses a natural tree cavity for nesting, a barred owl will also use an abandoned nest of a red-shouldered hawk, crow or squirrel, as well as a manmade nest box. They are found all over the eastern United States, north into Canada and south into Florida and Texas. During the past several decades, barred owls have been slowly expanding their range into the Pacific Northwest, often overlapping with spotted owl habitat. The larger, more aggressive barred owl may displace the threatened spotted owl in its native old growth forest. Where territories overlap, barred owls out-compete the spotted owls for food and nest sites. Sometimes barred and spotted owls interbreed, producing hybrids of the two.
Our barred owl arrived from a zoo in West Virginia in 2003. The owl had injured its right wing out in the wild and was considered to be nonreleaseable by a wildlife rehabilitator.
Barred owls inhabit large, mature forests often near heavily wooded river bottoms and swamps. They are found all over the eastern United States, north into Canada and south into Florida and Texas.
Barred owls hunt mostly small mammals, including mice and other small rodents, rabbits, opossums, and shrews. A variety of birds, frogs, salamanders, snakes, lizards, and large insects are also eaten. They sometimes take crayfish, crabs, and fish.
Look up, as this beautiful owl spends much of its time in the high branches at the top of the exhibit.


Florida U.S. Senator Bill Nelson recognizes the outstanding work of Free & Charitable Clinics in the nation, highlighting Grace Medical Home in Orlando, Florida. To read the Congressional Record, please CLICK HERE.


After Janine Benyus wrote Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, she tried to find it in a big-box bookstore. The bookseller asked what it was about, and she tried to explain that it was "about looking to nature for inspiration for new inventions"...."It's not really technology or biology; it's the technology of biology."
Then he lifted his palms as if weighing two packages and said something I will never forget. "Look lady, you've got Nature and you've got Technology; you've got to choose one." He was referring to the category scheme in the store, but I realized that the deep, deep separation between those two ideas in our culture was why biomimicry was squirming to be born.
But you don't have to choose one. We're seeing more examples of biomimicry every day. Over the years, we at TreeHugger have been watching the merging of those two ideas in our culture, as we learn from nature. You see it in titles like Moth eyes inspire more efficient thin-film solar cells and Squid beak inspires more comfortable medical implants or Remora fish, those suckers of the sea, are inspiring new adhesives.
That's why we are so excited to be media partners in the Education Summit and First Global Conference in Boston, June 21 to 23. It promises to be "A global conversation on how biomimicry will shape innovation and education in the years to come."
The conference covers subjects dear to our hearts at TreeHugger; Day 1 is about Resilient Cities.
In the face of climate change many cities face the challenge of how to be more resilient especially after record storm events like Sandy. How would nature serve as a model to make our dwellings safer while restoring "the commons" of air, water, and habitat. Join Janine Benyus as she talks to creative architects, cities planners and other leading thinkers engaged in designing generous cities that give back and bounce back.
Day 2 looks at the future of 3D printing.
You won't unpack your next TV…you'll print it. The "Story of Stuff" is being rewritten by 3D printers that can make anything, anywhere. Right now these printers use a toxic soup to achieve astonishing forms that used to be the domain of big factories overseas. But what if we followed nature's blueprints about how to make materials, like resins, from locally abundant and benign feed stocks like carbon? We could usher in a new era of self-reliance with manufacturing that is safe enough to be brought back home, to our neighborhoods.
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Today, Behold Studios announced that it will release its multiplayer co-op title Out of Space later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC, with a playable build available during this year's PAX East. The game will task up to four players to work together in order to clean up a spaceship, which is easier said than done.
Out of Space challenges players to work together with their roommates to clean and maintain a dream home in space. Cleaning the dishes, taking out the trash, dusting the furniture and struggling for your life are just some of the tasks players can take on.
Out of Space supports up to 4 players locally or online. The game is expected to launch this fall on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch, as well as Mac and Linux, with language support in English, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese.
After a successful take off earlier this month, Behold Studios has begun its descent towards the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Once touchdown is confirmed, all PAX East attendees who visit the Indie MEGABOOTH (booth #14084) this weekend can get their hands on its upcoming co-op multiplayer sim, Out of Space.


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"Even thinking about the future will cause it to change." Thomas Frey, futurist
As readers of our book and followers of our blog can attest, the LOA! team is not reluctant to apply sports analogies, metaphors, and lessons to the business world. So a short feature in the Wall Street Journal caught our eye. This piece, one in a series that profiles twenty-somethings who have managed to land their "dream jobs," featured a young man — "Sergio" — who works in the front office of an NBA team, and reveals what landed him that highly coveted position. There are a few major takeaways from the Journal piece, but today we are going to focus on this one: the importance of reading where your industry is headed and crafting your skillset to ensure that you are valuable in your industry for years to come.
We must admit, Sergio sounds like an exceptionally reflective young professional, and the lessons he has taken from his still-young career resonate with us. Those insights range from effective networking and being a likable person, to more subtle hints such as drawing value from the position you have, even if not at your dream job (or even within your dream industry). But Sergio's greatest insight as to how he landed his dream job, and how he did so at such an early stage in his career, is that he was able to predict where his industry was headed and work backward to ensure that he had the skills needed to prosper in that industry when the time came for him to begin his desired career.
Sergio had always been a sports fanatic and knew from an early age that he wanted a career working for a professional sports team. So he researched where professional sports — in his case, the National Basketball Association ("NBA") — were headed and determined that "the NBA was shifting more and more toward analytics and technology, and I knew having those skills would serve me really well as a candidate for a job." To that end, Sergio pursued technology-based courses in college — typically working alongside software engineers, coders, etc. who had no interest in sports careers — and matched those skills with internships in the sports industry. Now, Sergio holds a position in the analytics department of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, where he "works with the team's scouting, coaching, strategy and analytics departments analyzing data and building tools that allow the team to craft its strategies." It is his dream job, and as a personal LOA! aside, one that sounds pretty, pretty cool (as LD would say).
Sergio better be good at his job, as this year the Pistons have the Number #1 draft pick (can anyone say Cade Cunningham?)! As you know, having read our book, we emphasize soft skills – contributing, writing, presenting, pitching your ideas, leading, advocating – which are said to account for 85% of success in business. And Sergio — a terrific example of a talented young professional — would seem to agree that soft skills are important! He also cites the importance of networking and having a positive attitude as critical factors in his rapid ascendence.
Sergio was prescient — and very fortunate — in that he identified not just the industry in which he wanted to work, but the problems facing that industry, while he was still in college. But regardless of where you are in your career, it's never too late to consider the future of your industry. This is a consideration we should all be making, all the time!
How to "see the future," then, when it comes to your industry? There are multiple ways. Read everything you can about your industry, whether it be in online forums, via subscriptions to industry publications, or in industry newsletters. Talk to people in the industry. Perhaps you are fortunate enough to already be in your "dream industry," even if you've only just got a foot in the door. Talk to those who have been in the industry and find out where they think things are headed. Consider what problems need to be fixed in the industry, as those solutions are likely to dominate your industry in the years to come. Make yourself an indispensable part of those solutions, and you'll have an important place in your industry.
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Mica Levi's Jackie Soundtrack Is Streaming Online
The Oscar contender's score is available ahead of its release.
By David Renshaw
Upcoming biopic Jackie sees Natalie Portman take on the role of Jackie Kennedy during her time as First Lady and in the period immediately after husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The film's score is provided by British artist Mica Levi, who previously worked on the ground-breaking music on 2013 movie Under The Skin. The Jackie score is released officially alongside the movie on December 2 but is streaming now via Fox Searchlight's website.
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Here you will find links to short articles from various sources, particularly those sent out to members via the GSIA mailing list. At present they are listed chronologically as there are too few to separate into meaningful categories.
Similar articles relating to Gloucestershire's Industrial Heritage are warmly invited. Please send them (or suggestions for articles) to notes-and-queries@gsia.org.uk.
Leckhampton Hill: Scrub Clearance on Industrial Archaeology Sites by Ray Wilson
The article describes the essential scrub clearance required on key IA sites on the hill to to ensure they remain visible to the public. This was carried out during 2002 to 2005 by GSIA working parties but is now carried out by other organisations. [November 2021]
The mystery of the cast iron wheels found at Thrupp – solved! by Stephen Mills
A pair of large cast iron wheels were found in 2021 on waste ground at Thrupp. Their unusual features meant that initilly their function was a mystery. Various theories were put forward but as described in this article it has now been determined that they were tappet wheels as used to raise the hammers in a set of fulling stocks and that the wheels had come from Cam Mills in about 1970. [August 2021]
Berkeley Station – The Bricks by Derek Hore and Andrew Perrin
The co-authors of this article are volunteer members of the Vale of Berkeley Railway (VoBR) based at Sharpness Docks. It is an account of research into the various types of brick found when the site of the former Berkeley Station was excavated.
The station is on the former railway line between Sharpness and Berkeley Road which the VoBR are working towards reopening as a Hertage Railway. [August 2021]
Lovedays Mill – the Old House? by Jeremy Tyson
An account by the owner of some excellent detective work which shows that what is referred to as the old house at the mill is in fact a rebuild from between 1829 and 1856 of an earlier house on the same site. [July 2021]
A Lister engine in North Wales by Stephen Mills
An account of a small diesel engine made by R A Lister & Co of Dursley which powered a locomotive that operated in various slate quarries in North Wales from 1936 and then latterly at two heritage railways. It arrived at National Slate Museum at Llanberis in North Wales in 1993 where it can be seen today. [June 2021]
Redevelopment at Dudbridge Stroud by Stephen Mills
Dudbridge, Stroud was an area that was once rich in industrial history. Much of this changed in the 1990 when teh Lweis and Hole foundary closed as the site redeveloped as a Sainsburys supermarket. Now much of the remaining industrial area is being developed for a Lidl supermarket and housing as outlined in this article. [May 2021]
The Stroudwater Canal Swing Bridge at Saul Junction Restored by Ray Wilson
The small swing bridge across the start of the Stroudwater Canal to RW Davis & Son Ltd's boatyard has been locked open for several years. However aided by a grant from the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA) the bridge has undergone a full restoration and is operational again. This article includes an image from the GSIA Archives of the bridge in 1964. [March 2021]
The Castle Meads Fireless Loco by Stephen Mills
This article traces the history of the so-called fireless loco that was built by Andrew Barclay and used at Cartle Meads Power Station, Gloucester from its opening in 1942. Following the closure of the power station in 1973 it has been in the hands of various railway preservation societies. It is currently with the Vale of Berkeley Railway based at Sharpness Docks. [March 2021]
Comments on Fireless Locos including one at Heysham Nuclear Power Station, Lancashire by Neil Howarth [March 2021]
Can You Identify This Piece of Specialist Equipment Please? by Robin Townsend
The exact use of this tool remains a mystery despite a number of suggestions by members. [March 2021]
Castle Meads Power Station by Stephen Mills
This was a small Second World War coal-fired power station situated on Alney Island in the River Severn at Gloucester. Opened in 1942 it closed in 1973. [February 2021]
Suspension water wheels and rim gearing by Stephen Mills
This article discusses two very important technical advances, developed during the 19th century relating to water power, namely the suspension design, and rim gearing. Suspension wheels were usually stronger, lighter
and able to handle greater amounts of torque than their predesessors while rim gearing reduced stresses in the axle which could thus be lighter. [January 2021]
Query About Rock Mill House, Stroud by Stephen Mills
Information, especially photographs would be welcomed by the owner. [October 2020]
Waller & Son gas exhausters, a long way from home by Stephen Mills
George Waller & Sons Ltd of the Phoenix Ironworks, Thrupp for many years, produced a range of engines, pumps, and hydraulic equipment. They also came to specialise in the manufacture of machinery for gas works which was supplied both in the UK and overseas. This article describes Waller equipment that survives in the gasworks at Dunedin on South Island, New Zealand, which is now a gasworks museum. [October 2020]
The Pin Mill at Bodnant Garden by Stephen Mills
In 1938 a fine former gazebo or summer house referred to as the Pin Mill was removed from Frogmarsh Mill, Woodchester and re-ercted in the garden at Bodnant, the home of Lord Aberconway, in North Wales. This article gives a brief history of Frogmarsh Mill and the story behind the transfer of the Pin Mill to Bodnant which is now owned by the National Trust and the garden is open to the public. [September 2020]
GSIA and Newent Glassworks by Stephen Mills
This is an account of assistence provided by GSIA in finding a secure home for artefacts discovered several years ago on the site by field walking. [September 2020]
Cotswold Canals Restoration video: New Bridge at A38 Whitminster Roundabout by Ray WilsonIn 2020 two new bridges were constructed to carry the A38 main road over the Stroudwater Canal at Whitminster, Gloucestershire, UK. This item shows an image of one of the massive concrete sections that will form the new western bridge being craned into position and has a link to a video of the operation. [September 2020]
Pine End Works, Lydney Docks by Stephen Mills
The works were built as a shadow factory during the Second World War to produce specialist grades of plywood for military and other uses. The 14 acre site operated for more than 60 years until it finally closed around 15 years ago and the whole site has been recently cleared. [July 2020]
Workman & Sons, Engineers of Slimbridge, Gloucestershire by Stephen Mills
This small engineering company was set up around 1861 and like many other similar enterprises would undertake a wide range of related work. However, they were most famous for their cider mills and presses, winning awards at a number of major agricultural shows. [June 2020]
Gloucestershire's Industrial Heritage Picture Quiz by Ray Wilson
Members were asked to identify six sites from deliberately very obscure images. In most cases the best anyone could do was identify one! As intended this increased the interest answers which were subseqently published in the form of a short articles on each one.
Item 1: Nailsworth Railway Station [August 2020]
Item 2: Llanthony Swing Bridge [September 2020]
Item 3: Detail of Upper Siddington bridge over the Thames and Severn Canal [October 2020]
A Lister Engine in Guatemala by Stephen Mills
A posting on social media from a former Stroud resident now living in Guatemala included a photograph of a small Lister diesel engine driving a coffee mill on a smallholding at Verapaz, Guatemala. The image is reproduced in this article by kind permission and there is also a brief review of the work carried out by GSIA on the documents, including minute books, rescued from the factory when it closed in May 2014 [May 2020]
Some curious industrial remains [Coal Tippler at Stroud Gasworks] by Ray Wilson
After 1924 coal for Stroud Gasworks was delivered in railway wagons to the siding on the Stroud branch of the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway. Wagons were up-ended and the coal sent down to the works below using a facility called a coal tippler. Some remnants of the siding have survived which prompted a query from a member of the public which in turn led to this file note about the coal tippler. [April 2020]
More on Sroud Gas Works – I by a Non-member [April 2020]
More on Sroud Gas Works – II by Lionel Jones
(includes a photograph of Dursley gas works) [April 2020]
Query: Who supplied the Coal Handling Plant at Stroud Gas works? by Ray Wilson
An image from te Compamy's history refers to the supplier as "West" [June 2020]


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Zero-deforestation pledges and palm oil: a conversation
Restoring deforested landscapes means more than planting trees
Promises to keep: Can private sector ensure success of zero-deforestation pledges?
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BOGOR, Indonesia—The 2014 New York Declaration on Forests has ambitious goals: halve deforestation by 2020 and eliminate it altogether by 2030.
But how feasible in practice is the declaration? Who will shoulder the heaviest burden for ensuring its effectiveness—and who will suffer the most if it doesn't work?
Ahead of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, where many of the signatories of the declaration will be present, two experts from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) spoke about implementation of the declaration, particularly with respect to the oil palm industry in Indonesia.
Question: The New York Declaration on Forests seems to be a very ambitious plan to stop deforestation. What do you think are the realistic aspects of that declaration?
Steven Lawry, CIFOR Director of Forests and Governance Research: Well, of course, the declaration was signed by governments, private companies, NGOs. And a lot of the burden or responsibility for its implementation falls on the private sector because these are large companies that produce key, global economies—like oil palm, sugar, beef, and so on. And they are the ones who are having a directly significant impact on the forest landscape. And so the implementation questions that arise really fall largely to the private sector. So, what's significant about the declaration is that a very large number of the principle commodity-producing companies in the world signed on.
These are hugely ambitious kind of goals and so lots of implementation issues arise. Now, there's been some experience over the last 10 or 15 years on the part of the companies to reduce the impact on forests of their agricultural production practices. One thing I might mention is the Soy Memorandum, a zero-deforestation pledge in Brazil that a number of companies signed in 2006 that has eliminated added loss of forests due to soy production among the companies that signed that pledge. And, of course, the incentive here for the companies is that, in signing the pledge, they get access to global soy markets. If they don't sign the pledge, then they lose access.
We can expect that there's going to be a lot of pressure on the government to make sure that there's no excessive adverse effect on smallholders
Krystof Obidzinski
Krystof Obidzinski, CIFOR senior scientist: We are talking about pledges which are not coming into effect immediately, giving us some time to kind of implement and put measures in place. Another important aspect is that the companies making these pledges, if you put them all together, represent around 60 to 70 percent of the global supply chain of trade of oil palm. So we are talking about a significant chunk of oil palm being traded globally. So, these companies are pledging zero deforestation over, let's say, the next 15 years.
… [But] what are the implications for other players beyond this immediate, limited number of large, global players making these commitments? And this is the area … that we feel hasn't been really looked into or examined sufficiently. Companies are making these pledges; NGOs like it [but] governments are kind of still trying to find their position on it. The question is [on] implications for other players—for small and medium-sized players, smaller companies, smallholders.
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Both praise and concern
We have some preliminary concerns that implementing these pledges in practice may mean excluding or sidelining some of these small and medium-scale actors in the oil palm sector. And that has to do with cleaning up the supply chains, ensuring deforestation-free supply chains of oil palm. And drawing on the experience that we've had in the forestry sector, looking at how it played out in the timber sector, we see a lot of parallels with sidelining and excluding small and medium-size players. So, I think, our concern is how to ensure that is minimal, that it doesn't happen.
Question: Given that it's a voluntary declaration, is there a role for governments that have signed up to the declaration to be part of the process of checks and control?
Lawry: Most definitely in the kind of social economic questions arising. For instance, if a large number of small producers—whether growers of oil palm or marketing companies—if they're excluded from these markets, then questions of where they market their product, what kind of price disadvantage they might face, what would be the consequences to their livelihoods and incomes, could be quite significant. And so here questions arise around safeguards, if you will, to ensure that smallholders and others who have secured livelihoods from forestry, the forest landscape or agriculture are not disadvantaged in participating in these markets.
This is a form of certification, really. It's a process that's been unfolding over the last 30 years where producers of commodities have met certain requirements with respect to sustainability, land use and resource use, but also social sustainability and values. Those have been introduced in later stages of the certification development. Here's where considerations of social impact would come into the mix. … Consumers would be concerned about it because drivers of these sorts of pledges have been in markets.
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Obidzinski: Consumers made this happen. But, of course, they don't want to hear that, Oh, as a result of our pressure and the pledges, now smallholders or rural people, whoever, are going to suffer because of the exclusion. So almost certainly the social groups and NGOs will be pushing the governments, like in Indonesia I'm sure, to make sure there are safeguards to assist smallholders to speed up the adoption of certification measures among smallholders.
It remains to be seen how this is going to play out in the context of oil palm. We can expect that there's going to be a lot of pressure on the government to make sure that there's no excessive adverse effect on smallholders.
Question: What kind of research is needed to be done to make sure that the aspects of the declaration that involve deforestation actually work?
Obidzinski: In my opinion, one of the major basic pieces of research that needs to be done—a piece of research that we will be enthusiastically pursuing—is a better understanding of the small-scale sector. … We are talking about enterprises anywhere from two hectares to 150 hectares. There has been a virtual explosion of those kinds of enterprises in Indonesia over the last five years.
I mean, no matter how you look at it, oil palm is a major driver of deforestation
When we talk about oil palm, people imagine large-scale monoculture plantations, thousands of hectares, but recently there has been tremendous growth in what we call the small-scale sector. There are various estimates as to how big or how large it is, how many people it involves—some official statistics indicate that somewhere between 3 million to 4 million people are involved in this sector [in Indonesia]. It may be double that.
There are some basic pieces of information that we don't have about this. … How is it distributed spatially? What are the working dynamics of this sector? The financing behind it? The political economy of it? Management practices and the links to the value chain, the supply chains … all these things need to be better understood in order to understand how we can safeguard these smallholders and growers of oil palm so they're not adversely affected by zero deforestation.
Question: From a government perspective, the protection of those smallholders is vitally important?
Lawry: Any government would be concerned. But the government has other interests in these pledges. What are the consequences for instance for economic growth, if the adoption of the pledges means that there's less overall production of oil palm in the country for export? Less government revenue associated with the sector, less maybe net employment as a result.
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Can private sector ensure success of zero-deforestation pledges?
Obidzinski: There are some serious contradictions. … My sense is that the government of Indonesia is sort of caught in the middle. On one hand, yes, they would like to support the sustainability agenda of zero deforestation. On the other hand, of course, they are the leading producer and grower of oil palm.
And then there's also these, indeed, contradictions in the sense that if we look at the Indonesian law, indeed, as it stands now, presumably zero deforestation is impossible in fact. Because companies legally are supposed to develop their full concession area into plantation areas. And they're not supposed to be setting any sort of areas aside. That's according to the letter of the law. So some parts of the legal framework would have to be changed as well if zero deforestation was to be implemented fully, effectively.
Question: We started the conversation discussing how realistic you thought the declaration was or is, and what aspects of it were more realistic than others. How would the declaration be judged a success?
Obidzinski: Well, I think one of the simpler measures of success would be precisely what Steve mentioned earlier—to keep an eye on the rates of deforestation in Indonesia. I mean, no matter how you look at it, oil palm is a major driver of deforestation. There are other drivers, other commodities, but oil palm by far is the leading one. So, if there is any progress being made in that area, you should see a drop in the overall rate.
Lawry: I want to say how potentially important these pledges are: They represent what we're sort of characterizing as sort of a new element in the global forest governance architecture. Traditionally, forest governance has been the responsibility of the state. But in the last 20 or 25 years—and zero deforestation is the latest expression of this—we've seen consumers voting, if you will, in ways that have implications for how forests are used and how forest producers are treated in many, many settings.
For more information about CIFOR's research on zero-deforestation pledges, please contact Steven Lawry at s.lawry@cgiar.org or Krystof Obidzinski at k.obidzinski@cgiar.org.
CIFOR's research on deforestation forms part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry.
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20 Books of Summer, #7–10: Auster, Darlington, Durrell, Jansma
Owls and leopards and dogs – oh my! My animal-themed reading project continues. I'm more than halfway through in that I'm in the middle of quite a few more books, but finishing and reviewing them all before the 3rd of September may still prove to be a challenge.
Timbuktu by Paul Auster (1999)
My first from Auster – and not, I take it, representative of his work in general. Never mind, though; I enjoyed it, and it was a good follow-up to Fifteen Dogs. Like the Alexis novel, this gives an intimately imagined dog's perspective, taking seriously the creature's whole life story. The canine protagonist is Mr. Bones, who's accompanied his mentally unstable writer owner, Willy G. Christmas, from New York City down to Baltimore, where, one August Sunday, Willy wants to find his old high school English teacher before he dies.
What took me by surprise is that Auster doesn't stick with Willy, but has Mr. Bones move on to two more living situations: first he's the secret friend of 10-year-old Henry Chow, whose parents run a Chinese restaurant, then he's a family pet in suburban Virginia. Although his English comprehension is advanced, he isn't able to reproduce its sounds like some of the dogs in Fifteen Dogs can, so he can't tell these new owners his real name and has to accept being called first "Cal" and then "Sparky." In dreams he still hears Willy's voice. He assumes Willy is now in the afterlife ("Timbuktu"), and longs to rejoin him.
The novel is tender as well as playful and funny – I loved the passage where Mr. Bones wakes up to pain but doesn't realize he's been castrated:
How was he to know that those missing parts had been responsible for turning him into a father many times over? Except for his ten-day affair with Greta, the malamute from Iowa City, his romances had always been brief—impetuous couplings, impromptu flings, frantic rolls in the hay—and he had never seen any of the pups he had sired. And even if he had, how would he have been able to make the connection? Dick Jones had turned him into a eunuch, but in his own eyes he was still the prince of love, the lord of the canine Romeos, and he would go on courting the ladies until his last, dying breath. For once, the tragic dimension of his own life eluded him.
Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington (2018)
Initially the idea was to see all of Britain's resident owls, but as often happens, the project expanded until Darlington was also taking trips to Serbia to find a Long-Eared Owl, Finland for a Eurasian Eagle Owl, and France for a Pygmy Owl; and going on a fruitless twitch to see a vagrant Snowy Owl in Cornwall. Each chapter considers a different species and includes information on its anatomy, geographical distribution, conservation status, and any associated myths and anecdotes (The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel does much the same thing, but with less richness). She has closer encounters with some than with others: when volunteering with the Barn Owl Trust, she gets to ring chicks and collects pellets for dissection. But even the most fleeting sightings can be magical.
The book also subtly weaves in what was happening in Darlington's life at the time, especially her son Benji's struggles. On the autistic spectrum, he suddenly started having physical problems that were eventually explained by non-epileptic seizures. I would have welcomed more personal material, but that just speaks to my love of memoir. This feels slightly hurried and not quite as editorially polished as her master work, Otter Country, but it's still well worth reading if you have any interest in birds or nature conservation. (I've only seen two owls in the wild: Barn and Tawny.)
Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell (1971)
This is a pleasant miscellany of leftover essays that didn't make it into any of Durrell's other books. The best is "The Birthday Party," about an incident from the Corfu years: Larry insisted on taking the fridge along on Mother's birthday outing to an island, and their boat ran out of petrol. In "A Transport of Terrapins," teenage Gerry works as a lowly pet shop assistant in London even though he knows twice as much as his boss; and meets other eccentric fellows, such as a bird collector and a retired colonel who has a house full of model figures for war gaming.
"A Question of Promotion" is set on one of the animal-collecting expeditions to Cameroon and turned me off a little with its colonial attitude: Durrell talks to the natives in condescending pidgin as he helps prepare a feast for the District Commissioner's visit. In "A Question of Degrees" he visits two hospitals for a cataclysmic nosebleed, while "Ursula" is about a girlfriend who couldn't open her mouth without uttering a malapropism. Entertaining scraps for diehard fans; if you're new to Durrell, though, start with My Family and Other Animals and Menagerie Manor.
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma (2013)
I'd meant to read Jansma's debut ever since Why We Came to the City, his terrific novel about five university friends negotiating life in New York City during the recession, came out in 2016. I assumed the leopards of the title would be purely metaphorical – a reference to people not being able to change their inborn nature – and they are, but they're also surprisingly literal in the one chapter set in Africa.
Jansma's deliciously unreliable narrator, never named but taking on various aliases in these linked short stories, is a trickster, constantly reworking his life into fiction. He longs to be a successful novelist, but keeps losing his works in progress. We think we know the basics of his identity – he's the son of a single mother who worked as a flight attendant; he grew up in North Carolina emulating the country club and debutante class; at Berkshire College he met his best friend and rival Julian McGann in creative writing class and fell for Julian's friend Evelyn, the great unrequited love of his life – but Part II introduces doubt by calling the characters different names. Are these the 'real' people, or the narrator's fictionalized versions?
The characters go on a bizarre odyssey that moves the setting from New York City to Nevada to Dubai to Sri Lanka to Ghana to Iceland to Luxembourg, finally ending up back in the very airport terminal where it started. As I remembered from Why We Came to the City, Jansma interleaves Greek mythology and allusions to other writers, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald. The coy way in which he layers fiction on fiction reminded me of work by John Boyne and Tom Rachman; other recommended readalikes are The Goldfinch and Orchid & the Wasp.
André Alexis
animal books
Caoilinn Hughes
John Lewis-Stempel
Kristopher Jansma
Tom Rachman
unreliable narrators
#5–6 Short Fiction: Animal Crackers and Barnacle Love
I may have fallen behind on my 20 Books of Summer reading – August is going to have to be jam-packed! – but I have been enjoying the all-animals challenge. One of these two collections of short fiction sustains an animal theme for most of its length, while the other draws on metaphors from a fishing community but isn't specifically about nature.
Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti (2004)
A zoo, a circus, a turkey farm, a natural history museum, an African hunting expedition: several of the 11 stories are set in locales where human–animal interactions are formalized and exploitative, but all mention an animal at least once. In two cases the animal reference seems incidental and the stories really belong elsewhere – "Home Sweet Home," which opens with the excellent line "Pat and Clyde were murdered on pot roast night," appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2003; "Hit Man of the Year" feels like a trial run for The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – and in others there are gratuitous animal deaths at the hands of disturbed boys or angry men, which is always a strike against a book for me.
I only found four stand-outs here. "Reasonable Terms" is a playful piece of magic realism in which a zoo's giraffes get the gorilla to write out a list of demands for their keepers and, when agreement isn't forthcoming, stage a mass mock suicide. In "How to Revitalize the Snake in Your Life," a woman takes revenge on her boa constrictor-keeping boyfriend. In "Miss Waldron's Red Colobus," which reminded me of Ned Beauman's madcap style, a boarding school teenager eludes the private detectives her parents have hired to keep tabs on her and makes it all the way to Ghana, where a new species of monkey is named after her. My favorite of all was "Preservation," in which Mary saves wildlife paintings through her work as an art conservator but can't save her father from terminal illness.
Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa (2008)
When I plucked this Giller Prize finalist from a secondhand bookshop's clearance shelf, I assumed it was a novel. The 10 titled chapters are in chronological order and recount the Rebelos' experiences in Canada between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s, but in that each focuses on a discrete incident from the family's history, they are more like linked short stories. Manuel, a fisherman from the Azores, is shipwrecked on the coast of Newfoundland and begins a new life in Canada. He's deliberately gone far from his home village, far from his controlling mother and the priest who abused him: "I knew that if I stayed in our town, on our stifling island, I'd be consumed by what it was you [his mother] hoped and dreamed for me." He moves from St. John's to Toronto, brings over a Portuguese wife, and raises two children while hopping from one unsuccessful money-making scheme to another.
The first half of the book reports Manuel's life in the third person, while the second is in the first person, narrated by his son, Antonio. Through that shift in perspective we come to see Manuel as both a comic and a tragic figure: he insists on speaking English, but his grammar and accent are atrocious; he cultivates proud Canadian traditions, like playing the anthem on repeat on Canada Day and spending Christmas Eve at Niagara Falls, but he's also a drunk the neighborhood children laugh at. Although the two chapters set back in Portugal were my favorites, Manuel is a compelling, sympathetic character throughout, and I appreciated De Sa's picture of the immigrant's contrasting feelings of home and community. Particularly recommended if you've enjoyed That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung.
Representative passages:
Manuel's mother: "My husband used to say that men are all barnacles. A barnacle starts out life swimming freely in the ocean. But, when it matures, it must settle down and choose a home. My dear husband used to say that it chooses to live with other barnacles of the same kind so that they can mate."
Manuel: "I leave Portugal on fishing boat and I know I not going to come back. I give everything away to follow something new. I no understand what but something inside push me here—to make something of myself in this land. I come to be someone in this world."
Anthony De Sa
Carrianne Leung
Giller Prize
Hannah Tinti
linked short stories
20 Books of Summer, #1–4: Alexis, Haupt, Rutt, Tovey
I was slow to launch into my 20 Books of Summer reading, but have now finally managed to get through my first four books. These include two substitutes: a review copy I hadn't realized fit in perfectly with my all-animals challenge, and a book I'd started earlier in the year but set aside and wanted to get back into. Three of the four were extremely rewarding; the last was somewhat insubstantial, though I always enjoy reading about cat antics. All have been illuminating about animal intelligence and behavior, and useful for thinking about our place in and duty towards the more-than-human world. Not all of my 20 Books of Summer will have such an explicit focus on nature – some just happen to have an animal in the title or pictured on the cover – but this first batch had a strong linking theme so was a great start.
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (2015)
In this modern folk tale with elements of the Book of Job, the gods Apollo and Hermes, drinking in a Toronto tavern, discuss the nature of human intelligence and ponder whether it's inevitably bound up with suffering. They decide to try an experiment, and make a wager on it. They'll bestow human intelligence on a set of animals and find out whether the creatures die unhappy. Apollo is willing to bet two years' personal servitude that they will be even unhappier than humans. Their experimental subjects are the 15 dogs being boarded overnight at a nearby veterinary clinic.
The setup means we're in for an And Then There Were None type of picking-off of the 15, and some of the deaths are distressing. But strangely – and this is what the gods couldn't foresee – knowledge of their approaching mortality gives the dogs added dignity. It gives their lives and deaths the weight of Shakespearean tragedy. Although they still do doggy things like establishing dominance structures and eating poop, they also know the joys of language and love. A mutt called Prince composes poetry and jokes. Benjy the beagle learns English well enough to recite the first paragraph of Vanity Fair. A poodle named Majnoun forms a connection with his owner that lasts beyond the grave. The dogs work out who they can trust; they form and dissolve bonds; they have memories and a hope that lives on.
It's a fascinating and inventive novella, and a fond treatment of the relationship between dogs and humans. When I read in the Author's Note that the poems all included dogs' names, I went right back to the beginning to scout them out. I'm intrigued by the fact that this Giller Prize winner is a middle book in a series, and keen to explore the rest of the Trinidanian-Canadian author's oeuvre.
These next two have a lot in common. For both authors, paying close attention to the natural world – birds, in particular – is a way of coping with environmental and mental health crises.
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (2009)
Lyanda Lynn Haupt has worked in bird research and rehabilitation for the Audubon Society and other nature organizations. (I read her first book, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, quite a few years ago.) During a bout of depression, she decided to start paying more attention to the natural world right outside her suburban Seattle window. Crows were a natural place to start. From then on she took binoculars everywhere she went, even on walks to Target. She spent time watching crows' behavior from a distance or examining them up close – devoting hours to studying a prepared crow skin. She even temporarily took in a broken-legged fledgling she named Charlotte and kept a close eye on the injured bird's progress in the months after she released it.
Were this simply a charming and keenly observed record of bird behavior and one woman's gradual reawakening to the joys of nature, I would still have loved it. Haupt is a forthright and gently witty writer. But what takes it well beyond your average nature memoir is the bold statement of human responsibility to the environment. I've sat through whole conference sessions that try to define what nature is, what the purpose of nature writing is, and so on. Haupt can do it in just a sentence, concisely and effortlessly explaining how to be a naturalist in a time of loss and how to hope even when in possession of all the facts.
A few favorite passages:
"an intimate awareness of the continuity between our lives and the rest of life is the only thing that will truly conserve the earth … When we allow ourselves to think of nature as something out there, we become prey to complacency. If nature is somewhere else, then what we do here doesn't really matter."
"I believe strongly that the modern naturalist's calling includes an element of activism. Naturalists are witnesses to the wild, and necessary bridges between ecological and political ways of knowing. … We join the 'cloud of witnesses' who refuse to let the more-than-human world pass unnoticed."
"here we are, intricate human animals capable of feeling despair over the state of the earth and, simultaneously, joy in its unfolding wildness, no matter how hampered. What are we to do with such a confounding vision? The choices appear to be few. We can deny it, ignore it, go insane with its weight, structure it into a stony ethos with which we beat our friends and ourselves to death—or we can live well in its light."
The Seafarers: A Journey among Birds by Stephen Rutt (2019)
In 2016 Rutt left his anxiety-inducing life in London in a search for space and silence. He found plenty of both on the Orkney Islands, where he volunteered at the North Ronaldsay bird observatory for seven months. In the few years that followed, the young naturalist travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles – from Skomer to Shetland – courting encounters with seabirds. He's surrounded by storm petrels one magical night at Mousa Broch; he runs from menacing skuas; he watches eider and terns and kittiwakes along the northeast coast; he returns to Orkney to marvel at gannets and fulmars. Whether it's their beauty, majesty, resilience, or associations with freedom, such species are for him a particularly life-enhancing segment of nature to spend time around.
Discussion of the environmental threats that hit seabirds hardest, such as plastic pollution, makes for a timely tie-in to wider conservation issues. Rutt also sees himself as part of a long line of bird-loving travellers, including James Fisher and especially R.M. Lockley, whose stories he weaves in. This is one of the best nature/travel books I've read in a long time, especially enjoyable because I've been to a lot of the island locations and the elegantly evocative writing, making particularly effective use of varied sentence lengths, brought back to me just what it's like to be in the far north of Scotland in the midst of an endless summer twilight, a humbled observer as a whole whirlwind of bird life carries on above you.
A favorite passage:
"Gannets nest on the honeycombs of the cliff, in their thousands. They sit in pairs, pointing to the sky, swaying heads. They stir. The scent of the boat's herring fills the air. They take off, tessellating in a sky that is suddenly as much bird as light. The great skuas lurk."
My husband also reviewed this, from a birder's perspective.
With thanks to Elliott & Thompson for the proof copy for review.
The Coming of Saska by Doreen Tovey (1977)
I've read four of Tovey's quaint Siamese cat books now; this was the least worthwhile. It's partially a matter of false advertising: Saska only turns up for the last 15 pages, as a replacement of sorts for Seeley, who disappeared one morning a year earlier and was never seen again. Over half of the book, in fact, is about a trip Tovey and her husband Charles took to Edmonton, Canada. The Canadian government sponsored them to come over for the Klondike Days festivities, and they also rented a camper and went looking for bears and moose. Mildly amusing mishaps, close shaves, etc. ensue. They then come back and settle into everyday life with their pair of Siamese half-siblings; Saska had the same father as Shebalu. Entertaining enough, but slight, and with far too many ellipses.
Doreen Tovey
Elliott & Thompson
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
North Ronaldsay
R.M. Lockley
Stephen Rutt
William Makepeace Thackeray
Plans for 20 Books of Summer
This is my second time taking part in Cathy's 20 Books of Summer project. Once again I plan to focus solely on books that I own to try to get through a respectable number of them. For 2019 I've decided to read books that are about animals or have an animal in the title. I've set aside a few back-ups (the ones standing upright in the photos), and if I'm struggling I can cheat a bit by including books that happen to have an animal on the cover.
In the interest of statistics … last year I read eight nonfiction titles and 12 fiction – so that's exactly what I've pulled out for this year. (For the record, I only intend to read the first of Updike's Rabbit novels at this stage.) I have two re-reads set aside this time (Julian Barnes and Abigail Thomas) versus one last year. Last year I read one doorstopper; this year I don't have any on the docket. In 2018 I was particularly proud of getting through two short story collections, so this year I've chosen one animal-themed one to read. Randomly, three of last year's books were review copies from publishers or the author, and three were signed copies. This time I have none of either, unless I do some substituting.
Also interesting to note is that this year three of the books I've picked are by Canadian authors (André Alexis, Michael Crummey and Mary Lawson), and another has a Canadian setting (The Tenderness of Wolves). Canadian readers, rejoice!
Another project I might join in with this summer is the Robertson Davies reading week – I own his Deptford trilogy, and would at least read one of the books, if not attempt all three.
What are your summer reading plans?
Mary Lawson
Michael Crummey


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Q: How to write Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application object on asp.net output stream I was using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel in C# to create a custom .xlsx file.
In doing so I created a Workbook object.  Due to the nature of complex SQL queries to grab the data, process it, and apply via Interop the custom styles and formatting the code is very lengthy.  Not to mention the very careful process of avoiding memory leaks from the Interop itself, and ensuring that Excel actually closes properly after running.
I originally was testing it out as a console application, and got it working to my satisfaction.  What it does is save the end result to the filesystem using the SaveAs member.
However, my next goal was to instead redirect the output as an output stream to asp.net similar to this question here.  I've done some rudimentary research and I cannot seem to find an approach that does not involve first saving the Workbook to the server's file system.  This may cause conflicts if several users are accessing at the same time, etc.
So my question is, is there an easy way to set the asp.net ContentType for .xlsx and stream out the Workbook object without saving it to the file system?  If not, is there a way asp.net can save temporary files automatically without conflicts, serve the temp file, and then delete the temp file after it's been served?

A: I agree with the comments that you should avoid using Excel Interop server-side, and the third party libraries I've used (EPPlus, Aspose) all support streaming the output.  However, if you want to save temporary files without conflict you can use Path.GetTempFileName.
If your ASP.NET app is running under an account without a profile, you may need to give it write access to %WINDIR%\Temp or whatever temporary directory it uses.

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