Native American photographer Camille Seaman devotes years to her subjects, revealing the unfolding of reality over time. For the last decade, she has traveled repeatedly to the Arctic and Antarctic to take portraits of polar ice, witnessing the beauty and loss of a part of Earth most of us will never see.
How do your projects evolve? Do you get commissioned to go out and take pictures, or do you simply start producing photographs?
For example, Tibet. For many years, I saw bumper stickers on cars here in Berkeley: "Free Tibet." But I didn't really know what that meant. So one day I was just like, "That's it, I'm fed up. I don't understand what these stickers are about and I want to know." I arranged to go to Tibet and get a sense of what was going on. And why "Free Tibet"? What does that mean? What are the issues? I ended up falling in love with the place. But, pursuing curiosity this way, I have pictures that go nowhere. Nothing has happened with the Tibet work yet, and I went every year for four years. That's the other thing that I decided: I like long-term projects. I don't like to just go in and do something for a couple of days or a week or so. I like things that take years.
One of my mentors photographically is Steve McCurry, who's a National Geographic photographer. He's famous for the Afghan girl with the green eyes. I traveled with him in Tibet in 2004, and we became good friends, and I consider him my photographic father. He really took the time to remind me that photography really is all about being incredibly sensitive to quality of light. You can have the best composition, best subject, but if you want to have an image that is going to resonate for a long time, you have to have this sensitivity to light.
But one of the other things he said to me, which I find is true, is, "You can't fake time," in reference to people who do go in and make a couple of images and say, "Okay, that was the Iraq War," in three days. You put that person's work next to someone who has been in and out of Iraq for a decade or two or even three, and you'll see just how many holes there are in the work that was done in just a few days or weeks. When you dedicate that much time to a project, things reveal themselves. You might go one time, and think, "Oh, this is the truth and this is reality and this is how I feel." And that's all you get. If you go back again, it may be the same, or you may realize, "Wow, I am experiencing something completely different." So I think it's really important to put time into something and not just do hit-and-run photography.
So did the polar work come about out of a sense of curiosity, too?
The polar work was really where I was called to do something unique. At the age of 32, this little switch came on inside me and I knew I wanted to be a photographer. That was what I was going to use to make a statement about life on this Earth and the importance of appreciating what we have here. With that intention, a lot of opportunities opened themselves to me. I lived in the jungle with some people in Panama, just documenting. I was really interested in cultures and people that were on the verge of a massive shift in their lives and their way of living. I really thought I was going to be a people photographer.
I showed that work to magazines. They said, "Oh, it's too pretty. You should show this to art galleries." So I showed it to galleries. And they said, "Oh, it's too photojournalistic. You should go show this to magazines." Feeling stuck in this place where my work was pretty but informative was at first a little frustrating, because people were trying to fit me into a box, and I was sad that they couldn't see that there was more to what I did. But I wasn't about to change to squeeze myself into one box or another.
At the same time, I was also showing some work that I took in the Arctic and Antarctic. I had gone as a tourist with my family, on a small icebreaker. I didn't know what I was going to do with that work, but in 2006, I took it to a jury portfolio review, Review Santa Fe, and was accepted. A woman saw pictures of my icebergs. She said, "Wow, this is amazing. Do you have more of these?" I said, "I have about a thousand of those." She said, "Make that into one body of work." And that one piece of advice was brilliant.
So I packaged up a group of icebergs, and that was my first portfolio, called "The Last Iceberg." Then, I entered the images in a book competition run by Photolucida, only hoping for exposure, not hoping to win. I ended up winning. From there, museums started calling me, magazines started calling me. It became this little snowball. I started getting exhibitions in museums. It just gained momentum, in part because in 2007, the UN announced that global warming was happening.
Why do you think your photos of icebergs resonate with people?
Of course, I knew I wasn't the first person to photograph icebergs. But I think that the difference is, when I was standing in front of these icebergs, I wasn't seeing them as just chunks of ice. To me, because of the way that I was raised as a Shinnecock, I was looking at life – not water frozen as ice. I wouldn't go so far as to say I see icebergs as sentient beings, but each one was arranged in such a unique, individual way. I couldn't help but see that each iceberg has its own personality, and each one reacts differently to its circumstances. When I photographed them, I had the intention and perspective of photographing them as though I were making a portrait. I think somehow that sense of aliveness is communicated through the images.
How worried were you at the time about global warming and the fact that they were melting? Did you feel that you were documenting something that was disappearing?
When I first went to the Arctic it was 1999. When I first went on a ship and saw sea ice was 2003. And the first time I was in Antarctica and saw an iceberg was 2004. During this time, there had been rumblings and rumors of "This is all melting. It's not going to be here," but because I had only had a couple of years' exposure, I only knew that I wanted to document what was.
I wasn't necessarily thinking about "This is all going to be gone." It was much more serendipitous and intuitive and instinctual. It was just, "Here I am, and I'm going to make images that reflect how I feel being here. " So I did that. The polar regions are a place that you either love or you hate, there's no in-between. And for me it was instant love. It's a place of extreme solitude, and at the same time there is also this profound sense that I could really feel my connection to it all when I was there. It's a very powerful experience to be so isolated, so vulnerable, so exposed and at the same time feel so absolutely interconnected. I was hoping that the images I was making were going to communicate that.
It wasn't until 2007 did I start to hear the words climate change and global warming and then think, Hmmm, how does that fit with my work?
So what was the turning point for you?
In 2006, I was given a National Geographic Award — a small amount of money and their stamp of approval. This got me passage on a Russian icebreaker on the far side of Antarctica for over a month-long expedition. What was cool was this was a proper working icebreaker, so it has two helicopters, which meant we could fly to places you can't get to by ship. We flew to the Dry Valleys and we flew to Shackleton's hut and Scott's hut. And to be inside those places — you could smell history. It was just that beautiful old smell of leather. And this was almost 100 years to the day that they had been there.
It was so moving for me, because who would think that just a hundred years after all of this incredible explorative history of mostly white men, that a woman, a Native woman, a black American — I've ticked every checkbox of minority there is, almost — could be standing in that place? Mount Erebus, which is this big volcano, is always steaming. It looks identical to the images that Ponting and Hurley made a hundred years ago. It was just so incredible to be in there and see their sleeping bags. They left everything — all their science equipment is there, newspapers, food they didn't eat, a lot of Hershey's chocolate. I was deeply moved.
How did this expedition change your perspective?
When those people traveled over a hundred years ago, they felt very small as humans. And perception-wise, the Earth happened to us and we could only bear it. And within a hundred years, just a hundred years, we've spun that on its side. Now humans, who seemed so insignificant, are affecting the whole planet with our activities. I really started to feel that difference of how much had changed in a hundred years and what a slippery slope we were on.
When I speak publicly, I try to avoid using the terms climate change and global warming, primarily because maybe now after 10 years my work is a record of a period of time that was quite critical — sort of the tipping point. But as I was doing it, my message and purpose were more about showing people places that we were taking for granted. Now they've become these images of what we're losing, or what we've already lost. I suspect in 10, 20, 50 years from now, people will look at those images and say, "Wow, the Earth was like that once?" So what the images mean while I made them has already started to change now that I feel like I'm finished with that project.
Do feel like you're done with the icebergs, then?
Actually, I'm currently writing a grant to join a small group that sends around a dozen artists on a little ship to Svalbard, in the Arctic. The first time I went to Svalbard was in 2003. It was there, really, that I fell in love with the sea ice and that environment. I decided, how cool would it be to end where I began a decade later, because it'll be 2013? I want to call it "Full Circle," and I want to revisit the images that I made in 2003 and rephotograph them: this is what it looked like 10 years ago, this is what it looks like now.
I think it would be a really great way for me personally to finish. When I left the Arctic in 2011 in August, I knew — I could feel it, I could see it — that that tipping point that we'd all been talking about, the threshold, was breached, and it is no longer about whether we can avoid this. It is now a new paradigm. And honestly, I was heartbroken, crying a lot, because it was so dramatic. There was no snow. It was, most days, 60 degrees. We were less than 500 miles from the North Pole. There were polar bears everywhere on land because there was no ice. I observed polar bears destroying bird colonies because they were so hungry, they were just going from nest to nest eating the eggs. These birds had traveled thousands of miles to lay their eggs and raise their chicks. So this one bear, in a couple of hours, absolutely devastated a whole generation of eggs. Glaucous gulls, kitty wakes, eider ducks, king eider ducks. It was a devastating scene.
And Svalbard is also the place where the Global Seed Vault is, where world crop biodiversity is being stored. It's really interesting that you're going up there to document the fact that we've breached the tipping point, and exactly at that spot is the ark.
How did your experiences as a young person growing up between cultures influence your life path as a passionate and intrepid photographer?
A lot of people would say that the things that have happened to me in life were bad. For example, I grew up as part of a mixed marriage. My father's American Indian and my mother is black and Italian. That in itself is a conflict, because my mother was Roman Catholic and my father really worshipped the Earth as this living, breathing thing. I was told to hold a tree and feel it moving very slowly, but that it had a life force moving in it, and it just moved at a different pace, but it had life.
When my parents divorced, my mother got custody of us, and being Roman Catholic, she decided it was time to, and I quote, "Christianize her heathen halfbreed children." It became a very different experience. And I did not gel well with the hypocrisy that was so entrenched in practicing what I saw in Christianity.
So probably starting at the age of 10, I spent more time alone in my room drawing and making art than playing outside. I knew how to be alone with myself and how to create things. By the time I was 15, things were terrible with my mother. I couldn't take it anymore, and I left. At the time, I was going to the High School of Music and the Arts, the Fame high school. That was in Manhattan and I went to stay with my grandmother, who lived on Long Island. I had to get up at 4:30am to make it to school on time. It was a ridiculous commute. I was falling behind. I started to spend the nights sleeping on different friends' couches. I got odd jobs, including working at a one-hour photo lab, so I was looking at images every day.
Because the school recognized that I was at risk — I was essentially homeless, although I've never, until this moment, actually called myself that — they gave me a Nikkormat camera and taught me how to bulk load film and develop it. But they didn't teach me how to use a camera. They said, "You have to figure that out on your own. Go and photograph your experience." And I did. It became my outlet emotionally to record everything that was going on in my life, my friends, the things we were doing. We were a bunch of punk rockers, so lots of adventures and misadventures. I have all those pictures. I didn't realize it, of course, at the time, but that probably saved my life, to give me that camera and give me a way to vent my anger, frustration and emotions in a creative way.
These little things may not seem like much, but they were the seeds.
You pursued your career while your daughter was very small, sometimes taking her with you and sometimes leaving her behind for months. Is it difficult?
Whenever I speak about my work, there's always one woman in the audience who criticizes me for leaving my daughter for months at a time. But I say, what kind of mother would I be NOT to do what I do? How can I say to her, "Live your dreams, be what you want to be, but I can't, because I have to put my needs behind everyone else's"? I feel that it would really be hypocritical. We've been quite lucky. She's traveled with me since she was two-weeks-old, and we've been to probably a hundred countries. She'd been on all seven continents before she was 7, and saw her first polar bear in the Arctic when she was 3. And it shows in her personality — she's really comfortable with who she is.
I was raised to be a questioner and an explorer, and that's the example I want to set. Serendipitously, everything in my life has aligned in such a way to build me to be how I am so that I can do what I do and I see the world the way I do. In leaving home, I was able to learn that there's always another way, that anything's possible. I've become a master of the possible. If I want to go to Siberia, I'd get there, and I have. If I want to go anywhere, I know I can go. It's not a matter of how, it's just a matter of do I want to do it right now and why.
My grandfather, a Shinnecock Indian, raised me to know that you cannot be a whole person without touching — we call it touching, but it means experience — the four directions. And the four directions represent your innocence, they represent your wisdom, they represent growth, they represent the sacred. And you must, if you want to grow into a full — or what we call beautiful — human being, you have to visit these directions. Whether you take that literally, like I have, to travel, or in some more local way, one must experience. And so I honor that by doing what I do — by being open to experience and possibility.


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The Mini Roos Kick off sessions occur every Saturday morning at the club during the regular Mini Roos season. The start at 9:00am and go for approx 45 minutes.
2 week break June/July holidays.
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One of Kansas City's most recognizable contributions to American culture appears as part of a new documentary titled "Jazz." Creator Ken Burns appeared at Kansas City's Gem Theater this week to promote the project and says it energized him as he continues a nationwide tour. He says Kansas City's influence on jazz began with musicians in the 1930's. He says they flocked to Kansas City, even in the midst of the depression, and helped re-invigorate swing. The series is being shown on PBS television stations throughout the country.

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Biology for Majors I
Module 10: DNA Transcription and Translation
Introduction to Transcription
Outline the process of eukaryotic transcription
DNA is copied into RNA in a process called genetic transcription. To transcribe means to "put down something in writing." The information in DNA is transcribed—or rewritten—into a smaller version (RNA) that can be used by the cell.
What You'll Learn to Do
Understand the basic steps in the transcription of DNA into RNA
Describe the role of RNA polymerase
Understand the difference between pre-RNA and mRNA
Describe RNA post-translational modification and its purpose
The learning activities for this section include the following:
Steps of Genetic Transcription
RNA Polymerase
pre-RNA and mRNA
RNA Post-Translational Modification
Self Check: Transcription
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Soul Evolution will help you to weave together ancient wisdom and new frontiers in science – awakening your DNA, so you can 'think, feel, see, be' outside of the current paradigm of Earth. When you choose to stand outside of the 'box', you are empowered to create solutions to problems within our individual lives and the world at large, from a higher level of consciousness.
As Einstein said 'You can't solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created'…. thus this course provides you with scientifically validated tools for expanding consciousness beyond the limitations of the 'box', such that you can be an active participant in engineering the Evolution of your Soul.
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The Blue Coat School is the Lead School for the Manchester Nexus School Centred Initial Teacher Training Provider (SCITT).
Manchester Nexus SCITT exists for children and young people: improving their life chances, instilling the joy of learning, and nurturing their development and achievement. An unequivocal focus on excellence characterises our work, ensuring that everything we do is firmly rooted in the values that drive us – hope for the future, personalised learning and social justice.
Our mission is to train teachers who will inspire, challenge and support all their pupils, both now and in the future. Nexus teachers are committed. They are skilful, creative specialists in their subjects and age ranges who continuously develop their practice and help others to do the same. Our training fosters resilience with a balanced approach that recognises the importance of personal wellbeing amid the demands of this great profession.
At the taster day you will observe lessons, meet our pupils, and spend time in classrooms. Meet previous trainees and early career teachers and get to ask them the questions you would like answering. Learn more about our school-led route and how it is different to a university-led route. Find out about how to apply and what makes a strong application. Discover more about the interview process and pick up useful hints and tips. Find out more about the profession of teaching and how you will be developed once you complete your training year.
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Garrya fremontii is a species of flowering shrub known by several common names, including California fever bush, bearbrush, and Frémont's silktassel. Both the latter name, and the plant's specific epithet are derived from John C. Frémont.

Distribution
The plant is native to the West coast of the United States, from Washington to California. It can be found in a number of habitats, from mountain forest to woodlands and chaparral canyons and slopes.

Description
Garrya fremontii is a shrub reaching a maximum height of three to four meters. The leaves are oval-shaped, 2 to 12 centimeters long and about half as wide, and smooth green, rarely with hairs on the undersides.

The plant is dioecious, with male and female plants producing long, hanging clusters of yellowish to pinkish flowers.

The fruit is a spherical berry, starting green and turning pink and then purple. The fruit is eaten by birds and mammals, who disperse the seeds.

The plant can also sprout from its root crown. Like many other chaparral species, it is quick to recover from wildfire.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment of Garrya fremontii
USDA Plants Profile for Garrya fremontii
FS.fed.us: Ecology
Garrya fremontii — U.C. Photo gallery

Garryales
Flora of California
Flora of Oregon
Flora of Washington (state)
Flora of the Cascade Range
Flora of the Klamath Mountains
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
John C. Frémont
Taxa named by John Torrey
Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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Some Ivy League universities have announced their stances in relation to the "campus sanctuary" movements across many college campuses across the nation.
These announcements come after President-elect Donald Trump's statement in favor of repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. This executive action, implemented in 2012, protects undocumented students from deportation.
University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 announced that the University will not serve as a "campus sanctuary," but that the University will neither actively cooperate with the enforcement of this policy nor prevent the federal government from its enforcement.
Harvard University president Drew Faust issued her stance over the "campus sanctuary" movements occurring on various college campuses.
"Our responsibility to each other requires us to demonstrate that we are enriched by difference and respectful disagreement, and to support any individuals in our community who feel vulnerable or unsafe," Faust said in an email to the Harvard community last week.
Columbia University announced last Monday that the university would serve as a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, and in an email to University members, announced that the university would prevent investigation from immigration officials lacking subpoena and a justifiable warrant.
Dartmouth University president Phil Hanlon joined more than 90 other university presidents and chancellors, including Eisgruber, in signing a document in support of DACA, explaining that the college will continue its efforts in protecting undocumented students.
Brown University is located in Providence, R.I., which has no sanctuary laws of its own, and while students and members of the faculty have expressed desire to make the university a sanctuary, Brown University's president Christina Paxson stated that Brown cannot "offer legal sanctuary from members of law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement" in an op-ed in The Brown Daily Herald.
Yale University administrators have not announced the university's stance to the changes in DACA, but New Haven Mayor Toni Harp announced Friday that the city will remain a sanctuary city, in which the city is committed to protecting undocumented residents.
The University of Pennsylvania, also the alma mater for president-elect Trump, will not allow immigration authorities on campus without warrant, according to university president Amy Gutmann.
"The University of Pennsylvania will not allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) / Customs and Border Protection (CBP) / U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on our campus unless required by warrant," Gutmann's statement said. "Further, the university will not share any information about any undocumented student with these agencies unless presented with valid legal process."


The Perfect Storm is based on a real life event where two storms of immense proportions clashed and a boat was destroyed along with its crew. I don't remember hearing about this event before so I suppose that it was before my time. (After all, I hear about all the big news….sorta) There are a few big sideplots to try and pad out the time, but I'm afraid that they certainly don't contribute anything to the narrative.
One of the subplots is about a little boat that also got caught in the storm. The Captain reminded his passengers that he's never needed a map before and he doesn't need one now. As a result, they're tossed around in the waves for a while. I like the Captain's gusto, although he is endangering everyone else just to prove his gusto. That's certainly not the wisest course of action and he's pretty much just there for comedy. He was a well done character though so I'll give him some props there. Another subplot is that the Captain of the main ship is warned by the Captain of another one that he is in a dangerous zone. He barely listens to her though and while she almost saves him in time by calling in a chopper, it was too late.
Naturally, the main plot is where the meat of the story is, but unfortunately the characters do drag it down. The beginning is pretty sad and reminded me of Cloverfield to an extent. Especially considering that these guys are based on real individuals, you'd think that they would try to make the characters look better. One guy's a flirt who only really cares about one night stands and never develops into a likable person. Another one doesn't listen to his wife's warnings about going to see and decides that the adventure is worth the money. The Captain yells at his crew quite a bit to remind them who's in charge and to stop any betrayals before they can occur.
Without any likable characters, any film would have an issue being good. The characters constantly getting into fights with each other just makes you wait for the inevitable storm so that something can advance the plot. I also think that the film put too much emphasis on random fish scenes to pad out the time. We saw so many fish get chopped up that I was starting to feel in the mood for a good Salmon. We don't need excessive animal violence in any film. The excuse of fishing being a sport just won't cut it here. We don't need that to be featured in the movie.
I'd also argue that the situation made the characters look a little bad, but naturally there may have been different circumstances in the real life event. The characters have to choose between their fish going bad and heading into the super storm that's directly in front of them. Their boat's good, but it's not exactly military grade so the mission is effectively suicide as soon as it is mentioned. If you ask me, they should just let the fish spoil. A really inconvenient moment was definitely the fact that the characters ran out of ice, which meant that they couldn't get any more fish. Returning home empty handed would have been humiliating and some of them would have probably been fired, but at least they'd be alive. It's a tough personal choice to make, but when you have friends and family back home waiting for you, it's time to make the tough calls.
If anything, it's very impressive to see the military get involved and ride into the storm. I'm sure that it was the last thing any of them wanted to do since it was a dangerous situation. They're probably wondering why everyone was out in the middle of the storm when it had been predicted for a while, but that's how it goes. I feel like they could have been able to refuel in the film. They kept missing the shot, but why not try and try again until you literally can't? I didn't agree with the decision to just give up.
Overall, The Perfect Storm could have been a much better adaption. Based on the Wikipedia section of possible errors, it could have been more accurate as well. Although I'm sure that people would have been tackling them with denials and such no matter what so I can't really comment on the accuracy. A lot of the padding could have been removed and the characters should have looked a lot better. Just as it's said "Don't speak ill of the dead" they should be portrayed as fairly good characters. They don't have to be perfect, but I doubt the families would be thrilled about how some of these guys looked. Well, getting caught in a double storm would certainly be dicey so I advise you to stay ashore and if you have to choose between fish and your life…I trust that you'll really think about the options before making a move. I don't believe in going outside to find adventure or anything like that so when the next storm hits, I'll be in bed with a chocolate chip cookie playing a nice round of Super Smash Bros.
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In this paper, we present a new scheme referred to as K(III) scheme which would be effective for improving a certain class of PKC's. Using K(III) scheme, we propose a new method for constructing the public-key cryptosystems based on error-correcting codes. The constructed PKC is referred to as K(V)SE(1)PKC. We also present more secure version of K(V)SE(1)PKC, referred to as K*(V)SE(1)PKC, using K(I) scheme previously proposed by the present author, as well as K(III) scheme.


When I was much younger, I loved walking downtown to our local sweet shoppe with my little brother in hand and ordering a milk shake for the two of us to share for a sweet treat made with local fresh milk and ice cream. It just didn't get any better than that.
That fresh taste is sitll around today using only the tastiest of ingredients found in your local grocery store. Reading labels is becoming more and more important not only to hubby and I, but also in the meals and treats I make for the grandkids.
Today I am sharing with you a really tasty milk shake made with TruMoo Orange Scream milk. If you love the flavor of orange cream, you are going to love this and the kids will ask or should I say, beg for this milk. But you don't have to tell them its made with 8 essential vitamins and is low in fat. I never did tell hubby that the milk was low in fat.
What a perfect milk shake for Halloween parties coming up and only 3 ingredients needed.
Put all ingrediants in a mixer and blend. Depending on how much orange flavor you want depends on the frozen orange juice concenrate you use. Too much and it will make the drink a bit bitter.
Don't you love the orange color and the taste so reminds me of those orange cream frozen bars we use to eat as kids.
We grilled burgers, enjoyed our shakes and watched our favorite college football teams battle it out. Let me just say, it wasn't a good day for my Tigers.
Wanting to give your kids a great tasting milk full of nutrients? Try TruMoo milk and it also comes in a chocolate flavor too. Be sure to visit their website for more delicious TruMoo Halloween recipes.
You can also fine the TruMoo community on Facebook and Pinterest for new and tasty ideas.
Thanks Louida. It was really good.
I have never seen that kind of milk before – I will have to look next time I go to the store. I am sure my kids would love the shake. Stopping by from Creative Style link up.
Oh, that orange scream milk sounds yum! My mom used to do this for me when I was sick with regular milk. It is one of my favorites!
Oooh, dreamsicles! One of my favorite childhood treats in a milkshake.
I know my whole family would love this! Thanks for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest party. Your post has been pinned!
Thanks for sharing on PIntastic Pinteresting Party. I will be sharing and can't wait to try!


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When scientists talk about a surface temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius, conventionally adopted as the threshold to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, they refer to a global average. This means that while certain areas of the world may become just slightly warmer in the future, arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Sahel are very likely to get much hotter than the rest of the planet, at worst becoming uninhabitable.
Africa is particularly vulnerable as more than 75 percent of the workforce is involved in agriculture, much of it rain-fed. Poor irrigation infrastructure and increasingly erratic rains spell trouble. "When drought occurs they have no means of adaptation nor alternative sources of livelihood," says Marshall.
At the Paris climate talks, UN member states will aim to agree on a global, legally binding strategy for emissions reduction and financial support to vulnerable countries.
BUT AMONG THE MANY PROBLEMS with climate financing is that projects chosen for funding are more likely to reveal the priorities of the donors rather than the needs of the recipients.
So-called climate-smart agricultural programmes, for example, encourage smallholders to adopt practices that sequester carbon. But "African countries don't understand why they should take responsibility for global emission reduction when the world's big emitters are countries such as China or India," says Marshall.
He believes that "a disproportionate amount of money" has been spent on carbon credits – which can actually undercut climate change action ¬– and says "you would get much more value by investing in something like water systems, given the huge irrigation problem in the region".
In 2014, 93 percent of traceable global climate investments, totalling $391 billion, was spent on mitigation programmes, and 80 percent of that was on renewable technologies. Mitigation refers to efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases – the vast bulk of which are produced by wealthy or industrialising countries.
Tracking climate financing is not easy. There are still significant gaps in the data, including private sector contributions, and the boundary between adaptation – reducing vulnerability and building resilience to the impact of climate change – and development can be fuzzy, according to Barbara Buchner, lead author of the Global Landscape of Climate Finance.
The fact that countries with the money to spend on climate change action are generally developed countries with emission issues helps explain why mitigation remains at the top of the agenda. Risk-averse private companies also tend to invest domestically rather than internationally.
But Buchner believes that building a clear, transparent framework for international climate finance is an important step towards creating a business model that works.
She suggests there are positive signs that countries are slowly taking action towards a fairer distribution of climate finance. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) draft agreement released ahead of the Paris talks aims to add to that impetus.
The document recommends improving "monitoring, reporting, evaluating, and learning from adaptation plans…" It also stresses the importance of a "country-driven" approach, which should involve local communities as well as be guided by the best available science.
The lack of solutions that work at a local level is one of the main criticisms directed at the UNFCCC through the years. Proposals are put on the table but often go nowhere because they don't fit the needs of the recipient countries.
THAT'S WHERE THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND (GCF) comes in. Set up in 2011, it aims to boost climate resilient development by mobilising funds from private and public donors.
Ben-Jaafar is adamant that there isn't a single financial instrument that can uniformly work for all countries. What makes the GCF unique is a culture of country ownership: "We want countries to accept only what makes sense to them, what sits comfortably with their vision," he says.
The fund has recently disbursed $168 million for eight projects in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America. It aims at striking a 50-50 balance between adaptation and mitigation finance.
Advocating for an integrated approach to mitigation and adaptation means looking at climate change through a more sophisticated lens, that of ecosystem dynamics. "Everything is connected. Issues such as water, food security, and energy have to be tackled together," says Ben-Jaafar.
He believes that an international entity shouldn't be prescriptive; countries should adhere voluntarily because they see the benefits of taking action. $10 billion for climate aid is already pledged, a slow start towards the target of $100 billion per year by 2020, but an asset to build upon in Paris.
HOWEVER, SCEPTICISM REMAINS among those who look for bottom-up approaches based on local knowledge. "In order for us to combat climate change, we need widespread grassroots community level actions. I am not optimistic about [Paris]," says Marshall.
He points to the Maasai people of Kenya as an example. Traditionally cattle-rearing pastoralists, as a result of drought and reduced grazing, they are turning to camels, which are more adaptable to heat.
"There are opportunities here and things are happening without external help," he adds.
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Killing The Dream - In Place Apart CD
California''s KILLING THE DREAM are a truly inspiring and passionate contemporary hardcore band. Embodying the same positive raw emotion found in contemporaries Comeback Kid and Bane, while also paying tribute to the rage of legends Unbroken and Chain Of Strength. Their collective energy and heart is the definition of hardcore power. Making even the most jaded of listeners appreciate, respect, and praise them as their new hardcore heroes in the making. "In Place, Apart" from KILLING THE DREAM picks up where their highly praised "I Rewrote It" 7"EP (Deathwish 2005) left off. "In Place, Apart" was recorded by Kurt Ballou @ Godcity Studios (Converge, Modern Life Is War) and features visuals and design by J. Bannon (Converge, As I Lay Dying). Emoting with an awe inspiring intensity, "In Place, Apart" is a 12 song journey into the shattered heart and soul of its creators. Serving as an open letter, a calling out, and a line in the sand to all of the lost love in their lives. "In Place, Apart" is destined to be an empowering hardcore classic. A lesson in survival in the face of desperation, and a shoulder to lean on in a time of need... For fans of: BANE, COMEBACK KID, and RISE AGAINST.
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George William Outram Addleshaw (1 December 1906–14 June 1982) was Dean of Chester in the third quarter of the 20th century. He was born on 1 December 1906 and educated at Bromsgrove and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1931, he was initially a Curate at Highfield Parish Church, Southampton. Following this he became Vice Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, then a Canon Residentiary at York Minster before his elevation to the Deanery of Chester. A man with extensive knowledge of church architecture,  he died on 14 June 1982.

In the 1950s, Addleshaw was living at 10 Precentor's Court, adjacent to York Minster.

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External links
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1906 births
1982 deaths
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Q: When I run ./gradlew, why does the last line always state "> Building 87% > :bootRun"? I'm on a mac running commands from the terminal.  When I run ./gradlew on a newly generated app, the start up messages display as well as all the logging.  Then the last line of output is always > Building 87% > :bootRun.  Even when more logging displays, that's always the last line.
The newly generated app appears to run fine.  However, the "Building 87%" suggests that something isn't finished.
What does > Building 87% > :bootRun mean and is it an issue?
dking@dking-mbp ~/Projects/test/myapp (master)$ ./gradlew
Starting the Unit and Integration test
:generateMainMapperClasses
:bower
:processResources
:compileJava
:compileScala UP-TO-DATE
:classes
:findMainClass
:bootRun

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[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.Application - Starting Application on dking-mbp.home with PID 31568 (/Users/dking/Projects/test/myapp/build/classes/main started by dking in /Users/dking/Projects/test/myapp)
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.Application - Running with Spring Boot v1.3.0.RELEASE, Spring v4.2.3.RELEASE
[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.Application - The following profiles are active: dev
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.AsyncConfiguration - Creating Async Task Executor
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.MetricsConfiguration - Registering JVM gauges
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.MetricsConfiguration - Initializing Metrics JMX reporting
[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Web application configuration, using profiles: [dev]
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Initializing Metrics registries
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Registering Metrics Filter
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Registering Metrics Servlet
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Initialize H2 console
[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.config.WebConfigurer - Web application fully configured
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.DatabaseConfiguration - Configuring Datasource
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.DatabaseConfiguration - Configuring Liquibase
[WARN] com.test.myapp.admin.config.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase - Starting Liquibase asynchronously, your database might not be ready at startup!
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.CacheConfiguration - No cache
[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.Application - Running with Spring profile(s) : [dev]
[INFO] com.test.myapp.admin.config.ThymeleafConfiguration - loading non-reloadable mail messages resources
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[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.apidoc.SwaggerConfiguration - Started Swagger in 12 ms
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.aop.logging.LoggingAspect - Enter: com.test.myapp.admin.repository.CustomAuditEventRepository.auditEventRepository() with argument[s] = []
[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.aop.logging.LoggingAspect - Exit: com.test.myapp.admin.repository.CustomAuditEventRepository.auditEventRepository() with result = com.test.myapp.admin.repository.CustomAuditEventRepository$1@6a073c63
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[DEBUG] com.test.myapp.admin.config.liquibase.AsyncSpringLiquibase - Started Liquibase in 5800 ms
> Building 87% > :bootRun

A: I asked the Gradle folks about this last night. They said it's because Gradle calculates the percentage of tasks that have been run as part of the build. When "bootrun" executes, 87% of the tasks in the build have run.

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LiteSpeed Web Server version 5.0 introduces virtual host-level bandwidth throttling. This can be thought of as an extension of LSWS's Per Client Throttling settings, which allow you to control the amount of stress a single IP can put on your server. Virtual host-level bandwidth throttling allows you to customize bandwidth throttling, in Apache configs, for particular virtual hosts. You can now set up stricter settings for sites that you know are targets or more lenient settings for sites that might require a lot of bandwidth going to one IP. (This has been available for some time in vhosts with LSWS-native configs.) It also allows for throttling bandwidth by file type and size.
LSWS's implementation of this bandwidth throttling follows syntax similar to that used by Apache's mod_bw. Bandwidth throttling directives can only be placed in virtual host configuration file, not an .htaccess file.
Note: LSWS simply lowers bandwidth as users get close to limits. It does not return error pages.
Origin is the origin of the connections. It can be a single IP address, a set of IP addresses, a network mask, or all.
Speed indicates the total speed available to the Origin. If Speed is 0, there is no limit.
LSWS only supports one use of MinBandWidth: MinBandWidth all -1. When used in conjunction with the BandWidth directive (as above), this specifies the top speed for all clients.
Type is the suffix of files to be throttled. * can be used to designate all files.
Minimum Size tells the server the size of files to be throttled.
Speed indicates the maximum speed at which these files can be served.
The MaxConnPerClient directive allows you to configure the maximum concurrent connections from one IP.
limit_for_connections set the connection limit.
The above settings limit each client to 50KB/s with no maximum total bandwidth. .avi files of 500KB or greater, though, are limited to 10KB/s.


Ruslan Burmistrov, Executive Chef at the Renaissance St. Petersburg Baltic Hotel, has an idea for a project that has never been done before. The idea is to create a book titled Cooking in Art and Art in Cooking.
There is no end of work on the project. The chef says, «It's as if I'm standing at the foot of mountain that has never been climbed and I can't wait to be the first. Here I am daring to compare my culinary art with the paintings of the world's greatest masters. How can I? Will it work? Only time will tell. But I accept this challenge of the new without reservations.» Science In May 2006 the hotel — and, of course, the hotel's kitchen — will be two years old. In that time the executive chef has accomplished so much that it seems he must have been working in overdrive. In record time he has managed to create an effective operation staffed by young professionals. Great strides have been taken in developing modern Russian cuisine. The chef has masterminded an overhaul of the technical processes inside the kitchen. The hotel's guests may never see these achievements, but they directly influence the level of service and will determine whether guests come down to the hotel's restaurant in the evening for dinner, or go to the terrace for a snack, attend a culinary festival or order catering for a banquet.
Every restaurant in any country of the world is faced with the task of creating the right high-tech production process where a wide variety of dishes are rapidly prepared using essential equipment that is effectively placed. A poorly designed kitchen leads to high staff turnover. Our chef is certain that «Professionals could but won't work in a poorly designed kitchen. I wouldn't work in one.» When people find it difficult to work they are between a rock and a hard place; they find themselves unable to quickly, neatly and properly perform the job they are required to do. But the science of correctly arranging equipment studied by our chef both in theory and in practice has already brought its rewards: the hotel's kitchen is a very convenient place to work.
What do sports have to do with cooking? First of all, you need a truly Olympic constitution to work in the kitchen of a leading hotel. Working here means taking on considerable physical and emotional stress due to the high speed and volume of work required. Only people with stamina, tough nerves and an iron will can withstand the workload for long. Working in the kitchen is not only a sport, it is a team sport. Being a star player is all well and good, but teamwork comes first. The kitchen, like a hockey team, needs continuity. How could any team reach the major leagues if the lineup changes every month?
The executive chef and his assistants are the trainers. They don't stay in the box. Their task is to form a team, train the players, manage the game and be responsible for the results.
Decency in the kitchen can be seen everywhere, even in how the prepped food is left for the next shift. Preparations always have to be made for the next shift. You can do your best for your colleagues («make a good pass»), or you can do the minimum and knock off work. But just going through the motions isn't enough. When oarsmen row with equal effort the load is evenly distributed. But if you have one or two in the boat who aren't pulling their weight, the rest of the team has to take up the slack. Such athletes row to the shore on their own. They have no future and no professional prospects.
Cooking is an art and, like the visual arts, it is beautiful and timeless. Cooking is also a science that requires a long and difficult apprenticeship. We start out at 16 or 17 but only get to the top of the profession at 30 or 35. Cooking is a sport requiring risk, speed, stamina and teamwork. Now, two years since the hotel's founding, we have a strong team that is training high-class Russian chefs!


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import org.junit.Test;
import org.mapdb.*;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

public class Issue308Test {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        if(TT.scale()==0)
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        DB db = DBMaker.tempFileDB()
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                .checksumEnable()
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        Iterator<Fun.Pair<Long, String>> newIterator = new Iterator<Fun.Pair<Long, String>>() {
            private AtomicLong value = new AtomicLong(10000000);

            @Override
            public boolean hasNext() {
                return value.get() > 0;
            }

            @Override
            public Fun.Pair<Long, String> next() {
                Long v = value.decrementAndGet();
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            @Override
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            }
        };
        BTreeMap<Long, String> cubeData = db.treeMapCreate("data").pumpSource(newIterator).make();
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After our city tour and the Bratwurst sandwich, we came back on the ship around 1:00 to relax. The ship was docked right by the city, and it was no more than 15-20 minutes walk from the City Center. Around 4:00 we decided to go back out to explore some more of the city. Fellow tweeter and blogger @travellersoul76 went on the same trip a few months prior, and I was fascinated on the church she visited. So we found the location of the church, and made out that way.
We took our time to check out the old city wall, made our way to the Dachauplatz, an outdoor shopping mall of sorts, that had big name stores like Hilfigger, Kors, L'Occitane and such. We were here on a Sunday, when the shops were closed. I could only imagine the pedestrian streets filled with shoppers, just like back home, except their store fronts are much older than my neighborhood.
As we were walking, I spotted something on the floor. On one street corner, we came across a plaque on the ground, and realized it was a WWII memorial for some of the local Jews who lived and worked on that street, the date this person was deported, and the date the person died. These were people who were a part of this community, and taken away because of their ethnicity, not their nationality.
As we walked the mall, we stumbled on an unassuming looking church, located across from Galleria Kaufhof (a department store). Yes, in the middle of a shopping area was this Kassian church, and inside was magnificent! Although it wasn't the church that @travelingsoul76 stopped at, it was still a nice surprise. The inside was simply gorgeous! White washed walls with fresco paintings on the ceiling and altars dripping in gold. What a contrast from the drab exterior.
The Kassian church wasn't too far from the St. Stephen's Cathedral, so we went inside. Unfortunately they were just closing for the night, but the guy did let us take one photo inside. However, take a look at how different these 2 churches are. The Kassian church is so humble on the outside, and magnificent inside. The Cathedral is foreboding on the outside, so…Gothic inside. I did not feel as welcome in the Cathedral as I did at the Kassian.. and yet these churches were just about 1 or 2 blocks away.
It was 6:00 and the sun was going down. As we headed back toward the ship, we did find the church @travelsoul76 discovered, but inside was dark. They only light it when they have a service, and its only once a day. Getting late, we returned to the ship at 6:45, just in time for dinner. It was a long day, again. Tomorrow our stop is Passau, Germany.


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U.S., China Send Navies Into Contested Sea After Taiwan Show of Force
By David Brennan On 12/22/20 at 5:23 AM EST
World Taiwan China South China Sea
The American and Chinese navies are once again posturing in the South China Sea after Beijing deployed its newest aircraft carrier to the sensitive area, skirting Taiwan and ratcheting up regional tensions as President Donald Trump plays out his final weeks in the White House.
China's Shandong carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, prompting Taipei to deploy naval and air assets, Reuters reported.
The carrier—commissioned last year—sailed from the Dalian shipyard in northern China accompanied by four other warships and passed south towards the South China Sea.
Taiwan, which has repeatedly warned of intensified Chinese military activity around the island, deployed six warships and eight aircraft to "stand guard" and track the Chinese ships, the island's defense ministry said.
"With the support of the people, the national armed forces have the confidence and ability to guard the homeland, and ensure national security and safeguard regional peace and stability," the ministry said, according to Reuters.
The U.S. responded with a "freedom of navigation" operation in the South China Sea, a busy shipping region home to lucrative natural resources where China's territorial claims overlap with those of several of its neighbors. Beijing has enforced its claims using militarized man-made islands in the sea, angering the U.S. and other nations.
The U.S. regularly conducts naval and aerial freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea to protest Beijing's claim. Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam also have competing claims in the region.
The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet released a statement on Tuesday noting that the USS John S. McCain conducted the operation and "asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the Spratly Islands," one of the disputed archipelagos in the southern part of the South China Sea.
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"This freedom of navigation operation...upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea recognized in international law by challenging restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan," the statement said.
All interactions with foreign military forces were consistent with international norms and did not impact the operation," it added.
"Unlawful and sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas, including the freedoms of navigation and overflight, free trade and unimpeded commerce, and freedom of economic opportunity for South China Sea littoral nations."
"U.S. forces operate in the South China Sea on a daily basis, as they have for more than a century. They routinely operate in close coordination with like-minded allies and partners who share our commitment to uphold a free and open international order that promotes security and prosperity."
"All of our operations are designed to be conducted in accordance with international law and demonstrate that the United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows —regardless of the location of excessive maritime claims and regardless of current events."
Although the statement referred to all claimants, such missions are seen as a public rebuke of Beijing's efforts to establish control of the South China Sea. Four years of tense relations between the Trump administration and China have left ties at what foreign minister Wang Yi last week called "the lowest level since the establishment of diplomatic ties 41 years ago."
Tensions are also rising around Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province. China has always vowed to bring Taipei under its control as part of its "One China" policy, whether by diplomacy or by force. The U.S. has long supported Taiwan with weapons sales, though it does not officially recognize the country.
Beijing is waiting to see what tack President-elect Joe Biden takes when he comes to office next month. Biden—accused by Trump of being soft on China—has vowed to push back on Beijing's human rights and trade abuses, plus its territorial expansionism.
Beijing has urged Biden to cooperate with China and Wang warned last week that conflict between the world's two largest economies would be a "disaster."
The U.S. destroyer John S. McCain sails through the South China Sea in this image provided on December 22. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda/U.S. Navy


Carmel Senior Living is a memory care provider in Carmel, IN. The staff at Carmel Senior Living provide supervision and are able to remind residents to attend to activities of daily living such as grooming and toileting. Staff are on service 24 hours a day. There are activities appropriate for seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia that help keep residents active and engaged. Carmel Senior Living was designed specifically to provide memory care. It is a secured property. Residents who are prone to wandering can be accepted. Carmel Senior Living may allow residents to keep a dog or cat. A nurse is on staff at Carmel Senior Living.
If Carmel Senior Living isn't quite what you're looking for, take a look at a few other nearby communities that might be a better match.
As we have yet to place our mother-in-law at Carmel Senior Living, my review comes from my several visits to the facility. CSL also allows our home association to use one of the meeting rooms... Read the full review.
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The decorations in the facility are bright cheery and uplifting. The staff is very welcoming and interested in all the people. The people that have moved here are welcoming, interested in each... Read the full review.
This community is at the top of our list. We hope that the model we selected will become available at some point soon. We will be getting on a wait list.
CSL is a very well organized and capable facility for varying Senior requirements. Great facility and amenities for Seniors and their support group.
It was a very nice place. The rooms were beautiful and roomy. A nice touch in the independent living rooms was a button you push in the morning to let them know you were up. We didn't eat there.... Read the full review.


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A Steam Carriage
by Edward Graf
Short Sketches on Passaic County History, 1935
In England from 1830 to 1841 several attempts to establish steam carriages were made, but they were all unsuccessful. Later several types of steam carriages to operate on the common roads and some especially built for crossing the plains of the west were the product of our Paterson machine shops. One of the first of these carriages was built for J. K. Fisher, the inventor and the preserving advocate of steam locomotion on common roads. In April 1859, after four months of work, Danforth, Cooke & Co., were about finished with Mr. Fisher's carriage.
It was not till the night of May 23, 1859, that the carriage was moved out of the shop and went as far as Congress Hall where it ran foul of an awning post with out damage. Arrangements for the test were not quite complete but Mr. Fisher wanted the change to observe how it worked on the road. It was turned around and pushed back to the shop.
After being provided with a new boiler, on Saturday, August 20, 1859, a short trip was made through some of the streets of Paterson. Along Market street it attained a speed of ten miles an hour and climbed moderate grades without difficulty and its performance declared satisfactory. It was again moved from the shop on September 6, 1859, steamed up and went to Acquackannock on the common road. Twelve passengers were aboard and traveled on a level fifteen miles an hour. One mile was run in three minutes. Returning they came through Straight street over Sandy Hill and down Broadway and went up Main street, just as the Continentals were returning. A large crowd was astonished at the performance of the steam carriage, which, Mr. Fisher said, although proving highly satisfactory, was not quite finished.


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Transcribed Papers of Jeremy Bentham
Newly transcribed manuscripts from the vast collection written and composed by the philosopher and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham.
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Transcribe Bentham is a participatory project which recruits volunteers to transcribe the thousands of previously unpublished Bentham papers which are held by University College London Library's Special Collections; this collection runs to some 60,000 manuscript folios, or an estimated 30 million words. The British Library holds a further 12,500 folios, or an estimated 6.5 million words.
Currently, over 4,700 manuscripts have been transcribed and are included in Connected Histories. Transcribe Bentham forms a part of UCL's long-running Bentham Project (founded in 1959), which is producing the new critical edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham . Transcripts produced by volunteers will form the basis for future volumes of the edition.
Bentham was a major figure in legal philosophy, the founder of modern doctrine of utilitarianism, a theorist of representative democracy, and the originator of contemporary notions of surveillance through his proposed 'panopticon' prison. Bentham is also well-known for requesting that his mortal remains be preserved and put on display; his auto-icon ('self image') now sits in a wooden box and dressed in his clothes, in UCL's South Cloisters.
Bentham's manuscript papers consist of drafts and notes for both published and several substantial unpublished works, correspondence, and other ephemera. Major topics addressed include crime and punishment, convict transportation, law, moral philosophy, political economy, and religion. The subject matter relates primarily to Britain, but Bentham corresponded with, and wrote about, people and governments all over the world, including Australia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Libya, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and the United States.
The majority of the collection is in English, though there are substantial parts of the collection written in French. Bentham also occasionally wrote in Latin and Ancient Greek.
The transcripts provided constitute only a fraction of the surviving Bentham papers (ultimately, the full manuscript collection will be available from UCL Library's digital Bentham Papers repository). The manuscripts transcribed don't focus on any particular subject, and they are not currently grouped according to the content of his published works. For a deeper understanding of Bentham's ideas, the papers should be consulted alongside the existing published editions of his papers.
The transcriptions may not be particularly accurate, both because they are carried out by volunteers (though they have been checked by editors) and because Bentham's handwriting became very difficult to read in his later years.
The text has been manually transcribed and linked to original page images to facilitate checking, and encoded in Text-Encoding Initiative compliant XML. Structural (paragraphs, line-breaks, page-breaks) and compositional (deletions, interlineal additions, marginal notes) features of the manuscripts have been encoded.
Transcribe Bentham is hosted by the Bentham Project, and produced in collaboration with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Library Services, UCL Creative Media Services, and the University of London Computer Centre. Transcribe Bentham was established under a twelve month AHRC grant (April 2010 to May 2011).
For two years from 1 October 2012, Transcribe Bentham is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 'Scholarly Communications' programme, and the British Library has also joined the project consortium. This phase of the project will see almost all of the UCL Bentham Papers digitised, as well as all of the Bentham manuscripts held by the British Library; all of the images will be stored in a single digital repository, uniting the collection for the first time since Bentham's death. Significant improvements will also be made to the transcription interface.
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On behalf of Michael J. Thompson, Attorney at Law posted in Criminal Defense on Thursday, August 31, 2017.
There are many steps to the criminal justice process that people might look over when they are thinking about their case. The discovery process is one of these; however, it is a very important part of the case since it is a chance to gather and share information.
One of the ways that the discovery process is handled is through depositions. The deposition is a question and answer session that is conducted under oath. This means that you must tell the truth during the questioning. A big difference between a deposition and a trial is that things are a bit more informal during the deposition and everything is a lot less structured.
Another way that the information sharing process can occur is through interrogatories. These are written requests for information. The questions are written out and they are answered in a written format. In a way, these are just like depositions but without the spoken word.
Some cases might involve requests to produce documents. They might also include a list of statements that you will be asked to either admit or deny. If this is part of the discovery process, you don't explain anything. You simply admit that the statement is true or you deny the statement.
Just remember that everything about the discovery process is an opportunity for you to take a look into what the prosecution is working on. This can prove very valuable in your case, so make sure you think of the discovery process as a learning opportunity instead of as a hassle that you can't be bothered with.


Betty J. Borry Breast Cancer Retreats is the umbrella nonprofit organization-- home of the BJB Retreats and Adventure Weekend. BJBBCR was established in 2002 as a 501(c)(3).
Adventure Weekend in Betty's eyes was the "beginning of the journey" for women of all ages and stages of breast cancer. In 2002, Cynthia Cote with the founding Board members envisioned the "continuation of the journey." Cynthia, still in treatment for breast cancer, had found overwhelming understanding, support and strength when she attended the very first Adventure Weekend in 1995.
Cynthia expanded upon Betty's vision so women could meet throughout the year and maintain and nuture the powerful relationships formed at Adventure Weekend.
Since 1995, Cynthia has returned each year to welcome and support the hundreds of women who have attended Adventure Weekend and the Betty J. Borry Breast Cancer Retreats she created so her sisters could stay connected.
While BJB Retreats welcome Adventure Weekend alumnae, we also encourage any woman, living after breast cancer to attend. Like Adventure Weekend, BJB Retreats uses adventure based activities to bring together women to prevail and thrive.


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Super Bowl LVIII: Las Vegas will host game at Allegiant Stadium
A general view of the exterior of Allegiant Stadium before the game between the Washington Football Team and the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium on Dec. 5, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas will host its first Super Bowl in 2024.
Super Bowl LVIII will be played in Allegiant Stadium on Feb 11, 2024. The two-year-old stadium is the shiny new home of the Las Vegas Raiders, who were particularly thrilled to be named the host team.
"The Raiders are thrilled the National Football League has selected Las Vegas to host Super Bowl (58) LVIII in February 2024," Raiders owner Mark Davis said. He touted the 2022 Pro Bowl and 2022 NFL Draft also being hosted in Las Vegas.
Steve Hill, CEO and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), said being named a Super Bowl host city is a defining moment in the history of Las Vegas.
FOX debuts trailer for 'All Madden' documentary
FOX has produced a documentary about the life and career of legendary NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden.
"Our entire city is committed to making Super Bowl LVIII the most electrifying sports spectacle ever," Hill said. "The NFL has been an incredible partner, and we look forward to working with their team, the Host Committee and our partners across our destination to showcase Las Vegas as 'The Greatest Arena on Earth.'"
Las Vegas is replacing New Orleans as the host city after a scheduling conflict was created by the league's new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
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In 2018, the NFL named New Orleans the host of 2024's Super Bowl. But the NFL agreed to adding an additional game to the regular season during the last CBA negotiations. That pushed the Super Bowl back a week, which would interfere with New Orleans' massive Mardi Gras celebrations.
The NFL later awarded New Orleans with Super Bowl LIX. Mardi Gras is not until March of that year.
This story was reported from Atlanta.


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All of us here in WNY should have serious concerns about this fracked gas pipeline. This page is provided as a resource as we move forward to protect our waterways, environment, landowners and communities from this fracked gas project.
We will add more resources here if they come in so check back. Please Email us at niagarasierra@gmail.com if you have more ideas or questions.
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) denied the 401 Water Certification for National Fuel's proposed Northern Access Pipeline on April 7, 2017. In August 2018 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) overturned NYSDEC's decision by falsely claiming that NYSDEC did not act in time with their denial. NYSDEC and the Sierra Club are fighting this FERC ruling.
New Gas Pipelines Could Face EU Test (we should not be creating new markets for heat trapping methane and the foreign market even want this gas as they make the needed transition to renewable energy. Everyone in the world understands the seriousness of climate change except the U.S.
METHANE: NY's Dirty Addiction to Shale Gas– Cornell Professors Howarth, Ingraffea and Schue with recent report showing the extremely dangerous situation and trend NY is on with increasing it's consumption of shale gas since the fracking ban has been put in place.


Helicopter tour is one of the best available option who have limited time to get so close to the glistering mountains, almost with in touching distance to view the spellbound wonders of these parade of towering peaks that are simply ecstatic when you get to see them on tip of your nose.
Helicopter day tour in Nepal starts at Kathmandu airport and it is one of the most pleasurable and thrilling space journeys to explore the vastness of Himalayas. The Helicopter flight journey on sky will reward you with a breathtaking portraits of the Himalayas, tranquil green valleys, glittering snow peaks. We also land on the view points to explore the region and get the real photograph done before we take flight back to Kathmandu to end the exhilarating Helicopter day trip.
Taking a helicopter tour over the Himalayas is a truly magnificent and awesome adventure filled with awe-inspiring scenery and glistering peaks. Helicopter tour in Nepal is best suit to those who wish to witness the vastness of Himalayan wonder with in a short time duration without any physical challenges. Mountain Monarch customize the day helicopter tour as per the requirements of individual or group of friends or family. We have been running the Himalayan heli trip covering the visit of all 8000 meter peaks base camp in Nepal, which meals you can leave your footprint to all the high Himalayan peak base camps in less than a week time in Nepal – a very special heli trip in the Himalayas.
Everest helicopter tour is one of the most popular heli tour is Himalayas with the dream come true trip having Breakfast on Top of the World's top mountain. The flight takes off from Kathmandu early in the morning at about 7 am in morning. The helicopter will fly parallel to the Himalayan range giving you a wonderful feeling of being close to the mountains as you cruise along towards the hotel Everest View.
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The Reserve Bank has permitted companies creating cold storage facilities to raise funds abroad, thus giving the infrastructure status. This decision to grant infrastructure status to cold storage and cold room facilities follows the Budget announcement to this effect. However, it has been decided to develop the definition of infrastructure sector in order to avail external commercial borrowings (ECBs). Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that ECBs will be available for cold storage or cold room facility, including for farm level pre-cooling. This is for preservation or storage of agricultural and allied produce, marine products and meat. On the other hand, the decision to encourage cold storage sector forms part of the strategy of the Government to encourage more food production and prevent wastage. Earlier, Finance Minister Prananb Mukherjee had acknowledged the trend is disturbing, anxious by the high inflation numbers released on Monday.


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Dear men: Stop naming your cars like they're females
By Jamie Barton
We've all heard these before;
"She's a beauty," the car salesman says as you sit in what could potentially be your new Corvette. Then, as you show it off to your friends and family, you'll hear, "When are you going to let me take her for a spin?" Cars are notoriously referred to as female; why?
Origin Theories
There's no definitive reason or origin of this expression. However, there are a few theories circling about where the expression has come from.
Theory 1:
Let's start with the most common theory. For a lot of car owners, their car is extremely important to them; similar to a second home. Many male car owners see their car as having its' own personality, believing it to be sentient. This phenomenon elicits a domineering response in men which prompts them to force a persona and a gender onto the car.
Cis males are expected to be obsessed with their cars, due to the societal pressures to be "masculine", "tough", and "rugged" (more toxic stereotypes that I could argue at length, but I digress). For that reason, logically, a straight male's companion would be a female.
The second theory is one that dates back to the days of ships carrying cargo and passengers across the ocean. These cargo ships were often referred to with "she/her" pronouns too.
Many now believe that referring to ships in such a way was a metaphor – the ships being "containers" that carried freight and cargo to be delivered at a later date, can be compared to that of a woman bearing children. This particular theory leads me into the next topic: women being seen as objects.
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Women Aren't Your Property
It is well-known in modern society that women are unfortunately seen as objects. This portrayal is shown through the objectification of women on magazine covers, advertisements, in film, television, video games, music, and anywhere else that will reach the masses. Referring to cars as females supports this notion. This points to a problem in our society in which women are seen as objects that get men from Point A to Point B.
This notion is evident in the ship analogy – women are simply viewed as "containers" used to bear children. Decades ago, when water was the most common form of intercontinental transportation, the ship was not a person; it was an object. The cargo, or the male passengers, were seen as people. This is problematic for a number of reasons…
When you associate females to the objects and males to the people, it paints a subconscious picture in the heads of the public. Any picture in which the woman is portrayed as lesser than, will have a negative impact on our fight for equal rights. If a person has the subconscious bias that women are not as equal as men, they will treat them as such.
First, the obvious: stop referring to your car as "she/her."
Another thing you can do is simply spread the word. Educate yourself and others on the issues of gender equality and the ways inequality can creep into our daily lives. Speak up when someone misuses pronouns when referring to an inanimate object as if it were a female. This applies to all objects, especially cars, boats, airplanes, etc.
While We're At It-
Can we stop posing models on cars at auto shows?
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NASA Makes Blue Origin Eligible to Launch Future Missions Without Crews
The space transportation company run by Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos reached another important...
The space transportation company run by Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos reached another important steppingstone in its effort to become an established launcher of U.S. civilian and national-security payloads.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Wednesday named Blue Origin Federation LLC's New Glenn rocket—a 310-foot reusable booster that isn't expected to make its first flight until 2021—as one of its potential launch providers for scientific missions later in the decade.
The agency said no specific contracts had been awarded to Blue Origin, but the announcement for the first time makes the closely held company eligible for such NASA business. Under the arrangement, the company Mr. Bezos founded nearly two decades ago will be allowed to use New Glenn, roughly six stories taller than rival rockets, to compete for awards. Various NASA centers will be able to design spacecraft to take advantage of New Glenn's power and other features, including its capability to transport larger payload volumes than other rockets.
In a statement, Blue Origin said: "We are proud to be in NASA's launch services catalog and look forward to providing reliable launches" for NASA for years to come.
Other heavy-lift rockets already cleared to compete for NASA's scientific launches include those operated by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.
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