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Fulbright Scholar Award
All Disciplines at the Universidad de Murcia
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Award Activity
A) Teaching undergraduate-level courses:
One or two courses already established at the Uiversidad de Murcia. The Lecturer can also agree to teach parts of Bachelor degree courses worth 4,5 or 6 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits within one of the Universidad de Murcia's Departments.
B) Teaching graduate-level courses
The Lecturer will have the opportunity to teach courses or parts of courses, and deliver guest lectures for courses pertaining to the Master's degrees in his/her area of expertise and/or seminars for Ph.D. students. The final work plan will be discusses and agreed with the host department.
Mandatory teaching will not exceed 60 hours in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Scholars selected for this award will be required to:
Advise and/or mentor students
Assist in faculty, curriculum, and/or program development
Conduct a professional and/or artistic project
Conduct a research project of the applicant's choosing
Participate in a two-week group seminar
Teach graduate and/or undergraduate courses designated by the host institution
Award Length and Period
Mid-September to mid-December 2022/February to May 2023
Locations Text
https://www.um.es/en/
Flex Option
Discipline Type
Projects are sought in all disciplines
Disciplines within the following departments at the Universidad de Murcia:
Faculties:
Faculty of Sport Science
Faculty of Labor Science
Faculty of Communication and Documentation Sciences
Faculty of Economics and Company Administration
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Faculty of Social Health Sciences
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences
Audiovisual Communication
Business Administration and Direction
Classical Philology
Geography and Land Management
Human Nutrition and Dietetics
Infant Education - Location: Cartagena
Infant Education - Location: Murcia (Bilingual English/Spanish)
Labour Relations and Human Resources - Location: Murcia
Nursing - Location: Murcia
Optics and Optometry
Physical Activity and Sports Sciences
Political Sciences and Public Management
Primary Education - Location: Murcia
Social Education
Spanish Language and Literature Spanish
Tourism Studies
The UM sponsors this award and, in addition to financial benefits, offers advice to find housing and if necessary, a school for dependent children. A contact will be available to help the professor adapt to the university.
The scholar will enjoy all the benefits and rights of a regular faculty member of the UM, including access to all digital resources.
Award Requirements
Invitation Requirement
A letter of invitation is preferred.
Invitation Requirement Additional Information
The host institution welcomes scholars to seek more detailed information.
Roberto de Gea Cánovas
Office of International Relations-U.S. Partnerships, Exchange&Study Abroad Programs
University of Murcia.
e-mail: rdegea@um.es Phone: (+34) 868 88 83 50
Language Proficiency Requirements
None, English is sufficient.
Additional Language Requirement
Classes will be taught in English, and the Lecturer may expect students to complete the written and oral assignments in that language.
Some proficiency in Spanish is recommended for a better interaction with students and for daily life. The city of Mucia, where the university is located, is in the southeast part of Spain. The number of foreign visitors is increasing each year but English is not widely spoken, especially among middle-aged and older people.
Applicant Profile
Additional Qualification Information
Rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor with substantial teaching experience.
Please note that candidates with dual U.S./Spanish citizenship, or candidates who are residing in Spain at the time of application or anytime thereafter, are not eligible for the Fulbright program in Spain.
In addition to being a prestigious academic exchange program, the Fulbright Program is designed to expand and strengthen relationships between the people of the United States and citizens of other nations and to promote international understanding and cooperation. To support this mission, Fulbright Scholars may be asked to give public talks, mentor students, and otherwise engage with the host community, in addition to their primary activities.
Contacts and Helpful Links
Universidad de Murcia (International Version)
Academic Departments Website
UMU in figures&rankings
Contact addresses for orientation, and other logistic information:
incoming@um.es
international@um.es
Housing: vimur@um.es
Stipend & Benefits
Award Allowances
Direct grant benefits (stipend, travel and relocation allowances) are provided by the host institution, the Universidad de Murcia (UM).
€3,200 (approximately $3,850) per month. This amount covers the monthly stipend, housing and living allowances. Scholars accompanied by dependents for at least 80 percent of the grant period will receive a monthly dependent allowance of €150 (approximately $180) for one dependent or €300 (approximately $360) for two or more dependents.
Estimated Travel and Relocation Allowance for Grantee
Travel and relocation allowance for scholars: $1,400 (approximately €1,165). Authorized dependents' travel allowance: $800(approximately €665 per person for up to two dependents).
Additional Dependent Benefits
No tuition allowance will be provided. Both public and private schools in Spain have bilingual or English language instruction available. The UM offers logistical assistance in finding housing and school(s) for dependent children, if necessary.
Special Award Benefits
The Universidad de Murcia (UM) sponsors this award and, in addition to financial benefits, offers advice to find housing and, if necessary, a school for dependent children. A contact will be available to help the professor adapt to the university. The scholar will enjoy all the benefits and rights of a regular faculty member of the UM, including access to all digital resources.
Final grant amounts will be determined prior to the start of the academic year and are subject to the availability of funds. The United States Department of State and the Fulbright Commission in the host country reserve the right to alter, without notice, participating countries, number of awards and allowances.
Country/Area Overview
Contingent upon availability of funds, the Fulbright Program in Spain offers up to 36 grants for senior lecturers and researchers and two grants for postdoctoral researchers in a variety of fields. A Flex grant (two short-term visits of two to three months over a maximum period of two years) is possible through the All Disciplines award for Senior Research, Teaching or Teaching/Research. The co-sponsored awards have unique scopes and features. Detailed information can be found in the individual award description.
The U.S.-Spain Fulbright Commission provides extensive support to selected candidates regarding administrative issues, such as the visa process, and ample pre-departure and arrival information. However, it cannot assist in establishing contacts at prospective host institutions.
What is life like for Fulbrighters in your country?
The Commission responds to the demand in Spain for visiting professionals by sponsoring U.S. senior lecturers and researchers at host institutions that largely benefit from their experience, different perspectives, training, and educational culture, and has the goal of establishing long-lasting partnerships.
Spain's universities are increasingly focused on internationalization. By offering degree programs taught partially or entirely in English, they are attracting students from a wide variety of other countries, providing viewpoints in studies and discussions that are often unique and enriching for U.S. Scholars. Scholars will be afforded the opportunity to both teach (undergraduate and/or graduate students, depending on award) and research at their host institutions, and are often invited to work with faculty on curriculum development. Research groups are usually multicultural and English is predominantly the working language. Research/teaching proposals will be evaluated not only for their excellence, but also for their potential to increase mutual understanding and future collaboration between Spain and the United States.
The academic year in Spain broadly runs from September to June, with breaks during the Winter and Spring holidays (approximately December 22-January 8 and coinciding with the weeks surrounding and including the Catholic Holy Week). Research activity continues in July, whereas August is a very quiet month and most institutions are closed.
Language proficiency should be commensurate with the project's scope. Please discuss this point with your host institution in advance, and ask specifically whether a language other than Spanish is widely used in the area (Basque, Catalan, or Galician). Researchers are usually fluent in English, while there may be wide differences in the students' English proficiency. For day-to-day life, a working knowledge of Spanish is useful, especially in smaller cities and towns.
Prospective applicants may contact the Spanish Fulbright Commission for further information at informacion@fulbright.es or www.fulbright.es.
For more detailed information about Spain, please see the OECD's Spain profile.
Teaching/Research
Ph.D. (or other terminal degree) required
Career Profile
Awards are open to individuals who have more than seven years of experience in an artistic profession.
Mid-Career Academics
Awards are open to those who have been working in the capacity of a teacher or scholar for more than seven, and less than 13, years.
Senior Academics
Awards are open to those who have been working in the capacity of a teacher or scholar for more than 13 years.
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In today's CyclingTips Daily News Digest: Kirsten Wild's powerful sprint captures stage 2 of the Santos Women's Tour; Caleb Ewan sprints to People's Choice Classic victory at the Tour Down Under; Amanda Spratt carves out formidable lead in first stage of 2017 Santos Women's Tour; Vos wins another World Cup, de Boer solidifies overall; Van Aert wins Italian World Cup round, overall; French government turns down request to make mechanical doping illegal; Toon Aerts likely out for season with shoulder injury from crash, riders question race course safety; American coach calls on Cycling Ireland to send team to world cyclocross championships; Owain Doull skips People's Choice Classic with stomach bug; Di Rocco reelected president of Italian Cycling Federation; Money raised for 105-year-old world record breaker; Video: Meet Tiffany Cromwell; Video: Season prep with Wanty Groupe-Gobert.
The battle between Caleb Ewan (Orica-Scott) and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) looms as one of the most fascinating of this year's Santos Tour Down Under. Ewan, the young Australian speedster, so often billed as one of the world's most promising sprinters. Sagan, at the height of his powers, the two-time reigning world champion and five-time Tour de France green jersey winner. This evening, on the streets of East Adelaide, it was Caleb Ewan that drew first blood at the 2017 Tour Down Under. But it wasn't exactly the head-to-head with Sagan that many were expecting.
Twenty-two-year-old Ewan, in the green and gold of Australian criterium champion, dashed to a convincing win at the People's Choice Classic, the curtain-raiser criterium that precedes the Tour Down Under by two days. Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) was a distant second while Sagan, on lead-out duties for his Irish teammate, claimed third.
Ewan rode the criterium to perfection, repeating the victory he claimed a year ago in the same event. He cruised around the 2.3km circuit near the back of the peloton for all but four of the race's 22 laps. Only when the pace increased in the closing kilometres did Ewan move up the bunch. He slotted in towards the back of the Orica-Scott train, his teammates having done most of the work at the front of the peloton to catch lone leader Ben O'Connor (Dimension Data) with two laps to go.
Ewan's new lead-out man, Roger Kluge, delivered his young teammate into a perfect position (see video below) in what was the pair's first race together.


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Today's topics include a Netflix hack that led to the leak of 10 new "Orange Is the New Black" episodes, a flaw leaving hundreds of Android applications open to attack, Microsoft's latest cloud updates for developers and the Hajime botnet's infiltration of over 300,000 internet-of-things devices.
A hacker group called "The Dark Overlord" leaked 10 unreleased episodes of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black" it obtained after allegedly breaching a third-party partner.
The group claimed Netflix refused to pay a ransom before leaking the episodes on April 29, warning that other media outlets will be next. Netflix released a statement on the same day explaining it was aware of the situation.
Larson Studios, a full-service audio post-production company, is being reported as the third-party partner hacked by "The Dark Overlord." The attack is a high profile example of the risk inherent in the distributed online development model.
Hackers will continue to look for weak links in supply chains, making security a shared responsibility among vendors, partners, end users and law enforcement, eWEEK claims.
Researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor found hundreds of applications on the Google Play store that have a security flaw. That flaw lets attackers take control of the devices the applications are installed on to steal data or introduce malware.
Some of the applications have been downloaded up to 50 million times, and at least one comes pre-installed on Android smartphones. The weakness comes via open ports.
These are communication interfaces that are typically used by server applications to receive requests from remote clients. Unsecured ports have long presented risks for IT organizations responsible for protecting networks and mobile devices because they offer attackers a path to devices and data.
One way Microsoft is growing its cloud business is by catering to the needs of enterprise developers. The company's latest move, the release of new Azure management libraries for .NET and Java, will allow developers to integrate common cloud management functions into their applications.
Included in the new libraries are open-source components that cover a variety of compute, networking, storage and SQL database management functions. Other services on the way include support for Azure Container Registry, storage encryption and DocumentDB.
A botnet known as Hajime has successfully infected more than 300,000 internet of things devices in the last six months, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The security firm's findings indicate manufacturers are still failing to secure their network-connected devices. Hajime's two primary methods of attack are password guessing or exploiting the use of default passwords, Igor Soumenkov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, explained.


India's 172-million-odd Muslims are biting their nails as its highest court has started examining the legal validity of polygamy and other marital practices in the minority community.
The Supreme Court's recent decision to ask the federal government for declaring its stand on banning these customs for being violative of constitutional provisions, and refer the case to a constitution bench has raised many eyebrows and even sparked protests from several clerics, scholars and Muslim organizations.
Coming just seven months after the apex court banned instant verbal divorce or triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat), the move has stirred up a hornet's nest with Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind and the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) raising a banner of revolt against the top court's decision to hear four petitions questioning the legality of polygamy as well as nikah halala, nikah mutah and nikah misyar which enjoy socio-religious sanction under the Muslim Personal Law (shariah).
The four petitioners – a leader of pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Telangana lawyer as well as Sameera Begum and Nafeesa Begum (who claimed to be the 'victims' of polygamy) – have told the court that polygamy and nikah halala were unconstitutional and should be declared illegal, and that nikah mutah and nikah misyar did not respect women's dignity.
In India, a Muslim man is allowed to have four wives at the same time, though the practice of polygamy is not widespread in the country which is home to the world's third largest Muslim population.
In nikah halala, a Muslim woman who wishes to restore her marriage after divorce is required to marry someone else and consummate the marriage before divorcing him to remarry her previous husband.
Nikah mutah is a temporary marriage contract in which the duration of the marriage and the mahr (money or possessions promised to be paid to the bride by the groom or his father at the time of marriage) must be specified and agreed upon in advance. It is a private contract made in verbal or written format and does not confer any right on the woman.
Under nikah misyar, the husband and wife renounce several marital rights like living together, the wife's rights to housing and maintenance money, and the husband's right to home-keeping and access.
The petitions against polygamy and other forms of marriage come amid Muslim women's constant protests against the Bill pending in Parliament to make triple talaq a crime with provision for three years' jail term for husband.
Supporting the petitioners, Zakia Soman from the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (Indian Muslim Women's Movement) said that the case was a ray of hope for Muslim women who have been victims of polygamy, and slammed the BJP-led Narendra Modi government for not bringing in a balanced and comprehensive law to ensure rights to Muslim women.
According to her, while the rest of the Muslim world has reformed laws and ensured legal rights of women, Indian Muslim clerics haven't followed the example.
While Firoze Mithiborwala, convener of the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy, described nikah halala as the "most cruel of all the malpractices" inflicted on community women, Sabiha Yaseen, a women's activist in New Delhi, said rackets were run in the name of nikah halala.
However, several Muslim groups have dubbed Supreme Court's move as interference in the religious affairs of Muslims. Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi, a member of the AIMPLB, said it was unfortunate that polygamy was being considered unlawful when live-in relationships were becoming a trend in India.
"The constitution guarantees minority communities, including Muslims, the freedom to follow their own personal laws, but the internal matters of Muslims are now being questioned. This has caused anxiety among Muslims as Islamic laws are presented in completely the wrong manner in the court," said the cleric.
Abdul Hafiz Lakhani, editor of Gujarat Siyasat, a popular fortnightly, told Al Arabiya English that the way in which the personal laws of Muslims are being targeted one by one was fishy, and suspected that the Modi regime was trying to erode all Islamic principles and practices and present them in a way that they look anti-human and anti-women.
He said the government could not ban what Islam had permitted as it would cause a lot of anxiety among Muslims, adding that the government should have asked Muslim religious organizations to reach a consensus over whether practices like polygamy should be restrained.
Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind and Imam Council of India have come out strongly in support of the controversial practices by arguing that the constitution does not touch upon the personal laws and, therefore, the apex court cannot examine the question of constitutional validity of the practices.
They opined that even the apex court and various High Courts have on earlier occasions refused to interfere with practices sanctioned by personal law, an argument they advanced even in the triple talaq challenge matter.
Mufti Shees, a Muslim scholar based in central India, has termed the exercise as interference in the religious issues of Muslims, and accused the ruling BJP of hatching a conspiracy against Muslims ahead of the general elections scheduled for next year.
Again: why are they talking only about Muslims when in India non-Muslims are practicing polygamy too?
Progressive Muslim reject Polygsmy— muttah marriege— because thse laws are not fit to Modren Society snymore— that laws were at ancient time and fit for primitive society.
Yessss Some Muslim men want to have many wives is possible— that is the nature of male.
So the educated womdn have to reject that kind of law— that law is favor to men/- not good for women at all as well for kids.
Laws are one thing and action another.
Yes Rafiq is a man like to have many wives if he can afford it—not only Rafiq, but most men like it.
I like too , but I feel sorry to my wife and my kids— I do not want to hurt their feeling— so Id better have one wife and some kids. I am happy now and thankful to God so much.


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Last week, I talked about factors to consider BEFORE chemically highlighting your natural hair. Please read that post before delving into to this one.
This week, I'll discuss some precautions one should take when highlighting natural hair at home. If you choose to have the process done professionally, be sure that your colorist knows how to color natural hair and not just hair in general. I had a friend walk into an Aveda salon and walk out with beautiful color but loosened texture and dry hair. Don't let that be you.
1. Use a commercial kit. Commercial highlighting kits are designed to yield minimal mistakes. I have used (in the past) and recommend African Pride HiLites. L'Oreal Colour Rays (used this time) is also good but TOO strong for relaxed tresses. Though a few people have had success with hydrogen perioxide as a highlighting technique, I do NOT recommend it (from my own past experience); by the time it lifts the color to a desirable shade, damage is done to the strands.
2. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS provided in the kit. This is the number one precaution one must take above all others. Many highlight jobs go wrong when instructions are not followed properly. I've had the experience of my whole hair break off when I left a dye on for 5 minutes longer than stated in the directions.
3. Pre-treat with coconut oil for 20 minutes before highlighting. I don't know whether this method is effective against chemical damage or merely psychological, but I felt better knowing that my hair was strengthened going into the dye job. The oil did not interfere with the intensity of the color in my experience.
4. Don't leave the dye on your head longer than instructed. Actually, it is ideal to leave it on for less time. If the kit says 25 minutes, leave it on for 20 minutes. If you want optimal color, leave it on for the full 25 minutes but no longer than that.
5. Rinse and wash your hair and scalp thoroughly after the process.
6. After using the conditioner/conditioning shampoo from the kit, follow up with your usual deep conditioner. This step will ensure that moisture and strength is restored to your strands. In my recent highlighting experience, I immediately followed up with a 20-minute deep treatment using Lekair Cholesterol mixed with olive oil.
7. Wait about 4-6 months to highlight after a henna treatment. (See this link.) After highlighting, wait another 4-6 months before hennaing again. Some individuals may highlight/henna sooner, but this precaution is just to be on the safe side.


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Lassa fever or Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF) is a fever caused by the Lassa virus. It is common in West Africa. One in 80 people who get Lassa fever will die. Some cases are severe and require going to a hospital. These cases have a death rate of 1 in 5. Lassa Fever was discovered in 1969 after two nurses died from the disease. It was named for the town in Borno State, Nigeria where it was first diagnosed.
Lassa fever is transmitted from rodents to humans. It is caused by direct contact with rodent droppings. It can also be transmitted by humans to other humans by their blood. Lassa fever is common in West and Central Africa (around the equator).
Lassa fever cannot be transmitted by breathing. It is not very contagious between humans. However it is much more contagious among seriously ill patients. Lassa fever is transmitted by humans through skin lesions, mucous that is exposed to the virus, or by a patient's blood. This means healthcare workers (such as doctors and nurses) need to be especially careful in treating patients, or they risk getting the virus themselves.
In 80% of cases, the disease does not have any symptoms and does not make people ill. In the other 20% of cases it shows symptoms and becomes much more severe. About 5,000 people die from it each year.
In laboratories, there are many ways to test if a patient has Lassa fever. However, in many of the affected regions, there is no equipment to do the tests. This means sometimes people may not be correctly tested and identified with having Lassa fever.
If a patient is diagnosed with Lassa fever, then the patient will be kept away from other people, to prevent the spread of the virus. If found early, it is possible to treat Lassa fever with the medicine Ribavirin. Despite the fact the drug is relatively cheap, the medicine is still considered expensive for many people in affected regions. Patients may also require blood transfusions and rehydration.
Pregnant women in their 3rd trimester may need their baby's birth to be induced to allow them to stand a chance of survival.
Due to the use of Ribavirin, fewer people are dying from Lassa fever.
There is a vaccine which has shown promise in primates. It has not yet been proved effective in humans.
↑ Ogbu O, Ajuluchukwu E, Uneke CJ (2007). "Lassa fever in West African sub-region: an overview". Journal of vector borne diseases 44 (1): 1–11. PMID 17378212.
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Dr Jennifer Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel who served in three Pentagon tours and commanded in the field multiple times. Her last assignment was Vice Commander at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, where she led installation security, force support, and the 1st Helicopter Squadron. She also regularly escorted the President and other heads of state on the airfield. She was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service medal with five oak leaf clusters and the Global War on Terrorism medal.
Dr Hesterman is presently Vice President at Watermark Risk Management International and advises the Homeland Security Training Institute at the College of DuPage. She is a renowned counterterrorism and soft target hardening expert, and designs and instructs graduate level security courses for the Defense Counter-intelligence and Security Agency.
She holds a doctoral degree from Benedictine University, Master of Science degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Air University, and a Bachelor of Science from Penn State University. She was a National Defense Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; is an alumnus of the Harvard Senior Executive Fellows program and was a fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University.
An academic author her book Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from Attack was the ASIS Security Industry Book of the Year for 2015. The second edition received the same honours in 2019 and was also the Social Sciences Book of the Year for publishers, Taylor & Francis. She also authored Soft Target Crisis Management (2016) and The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus (2013).
Dr Hesterman is a sought after public speaker and has supported over 70 events in the US and abroad for ASIS, FBI, DHS, DoD, state and local law enforcement, Fortune 100s, Major League Baseball, and various associations.


Last week our Policy Director Olivia Darby presented on the work of our Philippines, the FPTI schools, at the UKFIET conference, "Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development: Curriculum, Cognition and Context". This annual conference at Oxford University was attended by academics, practitioners and advocates from around the world, and showcased both ideas and practice in international development and education.
The official outline of Olivia's presentation was: "Case Studies: Vocational, Education and Training in the Philippines – the benefits of mentoring in increasing employability, entrepreneurship and active citizenship".
Her talk shared the case study of post-secondary young women from the Philippines shares the experience of a group of five hospitality and catering schools and their industry partners. She examined how a structured mentoring and personal development programme alongside theoretical studies and industry placements not only shapes students to be better employees, with more initiative, but also gives them the tools to make decisions about their own futures, both in and outside of their professional work. Wonder interviewed students, graduates, mentors and employers to understand how and whether mentoring improved their lives. Testimonies of current and past students, employers, teachers and mentors helped Olivia to make the case that mentoring serves all stakeholders well, as the student is given the opportunity to grow as a citizen, empowered to serve society, conserve resources, take responsibility for her own wellbeing as well as to overcome poverty.
Wonder will be publishing a paper on this topic later in the year. If you would like to know more about our research please contact Olivia@wonderfoundation.org.uk.


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WATCH: Colourful city paint party kicks of Lord Mayor's Celebrations
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Children enjoyed the colourful event. Picture: Victoria Pertusa
A weekend of festivities exploded into life amid clouds of brilliant colours which fell on crowds at Norwich's Chapelfield Gardens.
Hundreds of people participated in the Lord Mayor's Paint Party at Chapelfield Gardens in Norwich. Picture: Victoria Pertusa
Fireworks from Norwich Castle will provide the colourful spectacle after the Lord Mayor's Procession , but on Friday night crowds of people - young and old - gathered at the bandstand to take part in a paint party.
Against the backdrop of the funfair, excited groups of people, mostly dressed all in white, fired powdered paints high into the sky.
Andy Garrett, 60, from the Magdalen Road area of Norwich, attended the event with his wife Ros, also 60, daughter Natasha Love, 35, and granddaughter Sophie, three.
He said: "It's something we wanted to do for Sophie. It's just something we wanted to do, it's a bit of fun! We've all enjoyed it."
Amy Tyrell, 46, from Norwich, said: "I think it was quite fun and very colourful."


Drosera or Sundews can be one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow, but are a huge group of varied plants. There are several groups: hardy, tropical, Cape/ warm temperate, pygmy and tuberous sundews. They all love the sun, but some will tolerate light shade. A warm or cold greenhouse or conservatory is ideal for the majority.
The Cape sundews are ideal plants for the beginner, but some of the tropical and tuberous require more care.
They are best grown in pots, but can be added to an arrangement with Sarracenias and Venus Flytrap. Most are not too big and are fine on a sunny windowsill, but some, like the fork leaved sundews, need a lot more space.
Hardy sundews can be in a bog garden or mini-bog outside.
Use a water tray or saucer, and stand in 2-3cm of water. Use rainwater or soft water.
Feeding is not usually necessary as they catch their own food quite well. If they are kept in fly free conditions , try using ants or encouraging fruit flies.
Most sundews (apart from the hardy ones) do not require a dormant period, and if kept warm enough, will keep growing all winter. However some such as the fork-leaved, and Cape sundews (D. capensis, D. aliciae) will die back if kept in a cold greenhouse. They will withstand a light frost. Keep just damp rather than waterlogged. It is best to chop the tops right off and they will rejuvenate next spring. Hardy Sundews are best grown outside or in a cool greenhouse or cold frame. The plant will die back to a winter resting bud. Make sure there is plenty of ventilation to prevent botrytis. Tropical species obviously need to be kept warm over winter, or in a terrarium. Tuberous sundews die back to a tuber and some need to be kept totally dry. Others will need a little damping.
We use 3:1 peat :sand.
Drosera capensis is very easy to grow from seed, and will seed into all your other plants. many Drosera are easy from seed, but others, such as the fork leaved sundews and Drosera regia, grow well from root cuttings, taken early in the season. Pygmy sundews produce gemmae -little buds that can be taken off and pressed into compost to grow.
Greenfly can over winter in the plants and cause problems in the early spring, so watch for signs of damage. Never use soap based insecticide on these. Good ventilation and hygiene will prevent botrytis -sometimes a problem on the hardy sundews.


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DARIO MESSINA:
the tailor of the sea
Early 2000s: just in his twenties, having a very dynamic personality, Dario moves from where he was born, in Trapani, on the island of Sicily, to reach the Marche region where some friends introduce him to the yachting business.
In 2003 he starts working for the most respectable shipyards in the area (Dominator, Cayman, Pershing-Ferretti Group); he works very hard for a few years and, day by day, he gains a remarkable experience in all the different boatbuilding techniques and processes (carpentry, plumbing, painting…).
At the beginning of 2008, on the basis of the strong know-how he's gained and willing to achieve his full potential, he decides to start running his own business and to offer his expertise to Pershing as a main supplier. He gets his very first contract for the assembly of a yacht line and immediately earns the confidence of the company's management. Soon his contracts increase in number and importance. He becomes a real entrepreneur.
In the meantime, Besenzoni Spa, the leader company specialized in the design and construction of technological components for pleasure yachts, assigns some important service works to Dario who continues to gain the trust of all the people concerned.The economic crisis that begins in 2008 – exactly when Dario starts his own business, now Argomarine – hits heavily the yachting industry. Despite the difficulties, Dario doesn't give up and focuses all his efforts on service and refitting works mainly for the Ferretti Group and Besenzoni's clients.
A slow and gradual economic recovery starts in 2010, as a direct consequence the yachting production increases again. Dario obtains new contracts from the Ferretti Group, in particular for very important works on the Custom Line ships which are built in La Spezia.
2010 is a very important year also for Dario family wise, in fact, he marries his wife Giulia and soon after they have three wonderful daughters: Chiara, Mia and Mariasole.
Thanks to Dario's marked skills and initiative, the company grows and obtains more and more credibility to become one of the Ferretti Group's strategic partners, involved in the assembly and production of yacht models for different brands – Custom Line, Pershing, Riva – both on the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian Coasts.
The latest ten years of experience as entrepreneur represent a fundamental step for Dario who, despite his young age, is extremely determined to carry on ambitious projects, making great effort in everything he does. Now, Dario feels ready to fulfill his dream and build his own "tailor-made" boat: he wants to create something that arises emotions, reflecting his own personality, a very fascinating, technological and innovative object of superior quality. Under the new NEREA YACHT brand, the NY24 day cruiser takes shape.
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Q: The GMM estimator is reliable under the given conditions Consider the linear model
$$y_t= x_t'\beta +\epsilon_t$$ for $t=1,...,T$.
where $x_t= ( x_{1t} \ \ x_{2t} \ \ ... \ \ x_{kt}) $ and $\beta$ is $(k\times 1)$ vector of unknown coefficients.
Given $z_t= ( z_{1t} \ \ z_{2t} \ \ ... \ \ z_{ht})' $ with $E(z_t) \not= 0$ for $h>k$ is a white noise disturbance term
with $E(z_t\epsilon_t)=0 \ \ \forall t$.
Also, a symmetric and positive definite weight matrix $S_n$ is defined.
Firstly, we need to find the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator of $\beta$.
Secondly, we need to show that $\hat{\beta}_{GMM}$ is a consistent estimator of $\beta$ for $plim(\frac{1}{T} \sum z_t x_t')= R$  and $plim(S_n)=S$ for constant and finite matrices $R$ and $S$.

Thirdly, we need to show the reliability of this estimator $\hat{\beta}_{GMM}$ (with mathematical expressions and calculations) when the linear model is misspecified with $\epsilon_t = \gamma T^{-1/2} + e_t$ where $e_t$ is iid disturbance with $E(e_t)=0$

What I did is that...
I did the first and second parts.
I find the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator of $\beta$ as
$$\hat{\beta}_{GMM} = (X'ZS_nZ'X)^{-1}X'ZS_nZ'y$$
As for the second part,
$$\hat{\beta}_{GMM} = (X'ZS_nZ'X)^{-1}X'ZS_nZ'(X\beta +\epsilon)$$
$$\hat{\beta}_{GMM} = \beta +(X'ZS_nZ'X)^{-1}X'ZS_nZ'\epsilon$$
$$plim(\hat{\beta}_{GMM}) = \beta +(plim(\frac{X'Z}{T})plim(S_n)plim(\frac{Z'X}{T}))^{-1}plim(\frac{X'Z}{T})plim(S_n)plim(\frac{Z'\epsilon}{T})$$
$$plim(\hat{\beta}_{GMM}) = \beta + (R'SR)^{-1}R'S plim(\frac{Z'\epsilon}{T})$$
since $plim(\frac{Z'\epsilon}{T})=0$ by law of large numbers, $plim(\hat{\beta}_{GMM}) = \beta$

Mu actual question is the third part in the gray box. I could not show whether $\hat{\beta}_{GMM} $ is reliable or not under the given conditions.
I think that the GMM estimator is reliable if the estimator is consistent and efficient. But I could not proceed this. And I could not show this third part.
what I did for the part 3
Population moment condition requires $E(z_t\epsilon_t)=0$
If this requirement holds, then the estimator $\hat{\beta}_{GMM} $ will be reliable.
We know that $E(z_t)=\mu_z\not= 0$
$$E(z_t \epsilon_t)=E(z_t(\gamma T^{-1/2}z_t z_te_t))$$
$$= \gamma T^{-1/2}E(z_t)+E( z_te_t)= \gamma T^{-1/2}\mu_z + E( E(z_te_t|z_t))= \gamma T^{-1/2}\mu_z + E(z_t E(e_t|z_t))=  \gamma T^{-1/2}\mu_z +0 $$
where $E(e_t|z_t)=0$ since $e_t$ is i.i.d and $E(e_t)=0$
So, $$E(z_t \epsilon_t)=  \gamma T^{-1/2}\mu_z\not=0$$ for $\gamma\not=0$. In this case, the GMM estimation is not reliable. On the other hand, if $\gamma=0$, then the GMM estimator becomes reliable.
What do you think about this solution? Or what is your idea on how to show this question?
I will be glad if you help me. Thank you.

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goin' RV Boondocking: The Song Has New Meaning ~ "Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt..."
The Song Has New Meaning ~ "Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt..."
That's how the old coal miners did it according to the song. I'm startin' to feel like a modern gypsy version. Since Peter had nothin' left to rob this time, we just hung the thing on Hope and got ready to head on down the road.
The system that's supposed to diagnose things and tell ya what to fix didn't do its job. That left 'em having to do it the old fashioned way, figure it out. The way I understand it was they go in and look for parts that are reading too low a voltage. That took us to the TPS (throttle position sensor) ... which from the way the thing was acting, was what we all suspected in the first place.
Now... if you're an ingenious mechanic who can diagnose those things the code readers fail to find, you can save a bundle buying your parts at Autozone and doin' the labor yourself. and that's where I get left out in the cold. I could look under there all day and still not have any idea what I was looking at. Too many wires, too much plumbing and too much computerized whizbang ee-lek-trawnic wizardry.
Nope, this is one place they got me. Grab him by the tender parts and Ska-WHEEZE! is the technique they use.
So, got the truck back so late today that it made no sense to try and move, so we spend our fourth nite, courtesy of Walmart. But she's hitched up now and we'll be hauling out early tomorrow morning.
Now, ya know? On occasion, I'm a lil' self conscious 'bout this worn old rig. The delaminating fiberglass here and there, the cracks and dings... The bits and pieces strapped on and bolted on here and there to make a rig that works. She's worn but still serviceable.
The tentative direction we'll be moving, come the dawn, has changed a bit. Rather than running east up the Columbia I've chosen to make a short run north, before cutting east at Hwy 12 and making for a night camp somewhere along the southern or eastern shoulders of Mt. Rainier.
The next few days will be spent slowly making our crossing of eastern Washington; moving across Idaho and on to the country somewhere around Missoula Montana.
With most of two months before we have to be in Sydney, there's no great rush. Only to get back to the mountains after our long slow visit from the California Desert to the Oregon Coast.
I want that bus! That is what I'm looking for when I mange to break free.
Brian....you mentioned Sydney....I'm assuming Sydney, MT.....are ya'll going to work the sugar beet harvest there? If so, that is exactly where we will be too.
I'm still in Northeastern Washington.... going to be heading out to Northern Idaho then on to Montana within the next 10 days. Maybe our paths will pass. If not, we can definitely learn good spots.
Whatsnewell; Yup! Beet Harvestor in the flesh! See ya'll in Sydney!
Why your rig looks positively boring next to that bus. Maybe you need to buy some paint and decals before you leave Walmart!!


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What is dead may never die
By James Vincent Aug 19, 2020, 9:12am EDT
Share All sharing options for: A new 5G BlackBerry phone with Android and a physical keyboard will arrive in 2021
A close-up of the keyboard of 2015's BlackBerry Priv.
The once-respected BlackBerry brand has been licensed yet again by a company hoping to use a familiar name to make a dent in the competitive Android phone market. This time, it's a new Texas startup named OnwardMobility that's taking the reins, promising to release a 5G BlackBerry device with Android and a physical QWERTY keyboard in 2021.
Little else is known about the device, including screen size or internal specs, but OnwardMobility told The Register it would come with a completely new keyboard design that will "reflect the brand values from a keyboard typing experience and input experience." Which, yeah, sure! I love to reflect brand values. Do it all the time.
The handset will be marketed to enterprise customers
It seems OnwardMobility will be angling the device to enterprise customers, emphasizing the phone's ability to get work done on the go (surely less of a draw in a pandemic?) and its security features. This all makes sense, considering these were the attributes that attracted so many customers to BlackBerry devices in the past.
It also seems the device won't be flagship standard, but probably a healthy midrange. As OnwardMobility CEO Peter Franklin told The Register: "Top of mind for us is not just making the most secure and productive device, but also being an everyday device. That means things like a top-notch camera, and the other specs you'd expect from your day-to-day phone. Simultaneously, we know that we must be competitive, and so is our pricing."
In fairness, "be invincible" is a good strapline for an apparently unkillable brand like BlackBerry.
Image: OnwardMobility
It's worth remembering just how weird BlackBerry's journey has been as a brand. BlackBerry devices were monarchs of the mobile world in the late aughts, but then Android and iOS took off and sales took a nosedive.
There was a reboot of sorts from 2013 onward, when a number of devices running BlackBerry 10 were released (including the fantastically square-shaped BlackBerry Passport). Then, in 2015, the company finally switched to Android with the BlackBerry Priv and its slide-out keyboard. In 2016, it stopped making its own phones altogether and licensed the brand to Chinese manufacturer TCL. TCL will lose rights to that brand as of August 31st this year, which apparently cleared the way for OnwardMobility to move in. (A side note: Indian telecoms firm Optiemus Infracom has also made its own BlackBerry-branded Android devices, but they are only available in the Indian market.)
That makes this either the fourth or fifth iteration of BlackBerry devices, depending on how you like to count them. And call us silly, stupid, or just plain morbid, but we're still very curious to see exactly what OnwardMobility comes up with.
The new phone will be manufactured by FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of manufacturing giant Foxconn. It'll be available in North America and Europe "in the first half of 2021."


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Q: set codeigniter output cache for individual users $this->output->cache(MINUTES);
Is it possible for setting cache for individual users? There's a tourist spot listing page and showing it using cache. when one customer changes the location filter from  one computer, the next user results the other users list.
cache one users results on cache and showing it individually?

A: No, Caching For Individual User is not applicable till now in code igniter.You can check and learn for  caching : https://codeigniter.com/userguide3/general/caching.html


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The Devil's Rain (1975)
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The Devil's Rain is a 1975 American horror film directed by Robert Fuest. It was one of several B-films in which William Shatner starred between the original Star Trek television series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Other cast members included Tom Skerritt, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Keenan Wynn and John Travolta in his film debut in a minor role. SatanistAnton LaVey is credited as the film's technical advisor and appeared in the film playing a minor role.
A curse affects the Preston family, caused by their betrayal of the Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Corbis has harassed the Preston family for generations to obtain a Satanic book of great power. Corbis captures patriarch Steve Preston, who is allowed to escape to warn his wife and younger son about Corbis's wrath. He tells them to give the book to Corbis, but during a rainstorm he melts into a waxy substance.
Mark Preston (Shatner) takes the book, hoping to meet with Corbis and defeat him. In a ghost town in the desert, Corbis gives Preston a drink of water from an old hand-pumped well. Preston drinks but then spits out the bitter water. He challenges Corbis to a battle of faith, then draws a pistol and aims it at him. Corbis belittles this threat and Preston tries to escape, but he is surrounded by Corbis' followers. He produces a cross, but Corbis transforms it into a snake and Preston discards it. Corbis' followers capture Preston, and Corbis uses a ritual to erase Preston's memory in preparation for a ceremony later that evening.
Mark's older brother, Tom (Tom Skerritt), and his wife, Julie, search for Mark. They are accompanied by Dr. Sam Richards (Albert), a psychic researcher. Their search leads them to Corbis' church, where Corbis is performing a ceremony to convert Mark into one of his soulless minions; during the proceedings Corbis transforms into a Satanic goat-like being. Tom witnesses all of this; he is discovered by the Satanists but eludes capture. Later he and Richards meet at the Satanic church, where they discover that the source of Corbis's power is an ornate glass bottle known as "The Devil's Rain", which contains the souls of Corbis's disciples.
Corbis and the Satanists converge on the church. Richards threatens to destroy The Devil's Rain, but he is overpowered by the acolytes. He appeals to Mark's lost humanity and convinces him to destroy the bottle, which he does in defiance of Corbis' entreaties. A storm rages outside, and the Satanists melt in the rain. Tom and his wife make a hasty exit. As Tom holds his wife, it is revealed that he is actually embracing Corbis, and his wife's soul has become trapped within a new Devil's Rain.
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Portages in South Scandinavia - the example of Spangereid
Apart from the two main sea routes along the Norwegian coast – the inner and the outer ones – written sources and oral tradition both give testimony that a third, innermost route once existed. This innermost route, probably ancient in its origins, was in many cases still used for local transports in the 19th century, sometimes even later. This route exploits the inner fjord systems where these exist, and they often incoporates portages – stretches of land, that is, where cargo or even vessels were carried or hauled over land. In special cases parts of this innermost route were used by people who otherwise went by the inner or outer sea route, either to circumvent particularly dangerous sea stretches, or to avoid waiting for the right wind.
There are a substantial number of portages known from various sources in South Norway. Each of these portages obviously have their own, specific history. And while portages as a phenomenon is by no means uncommon in European history, and while it rings true that they were more important in South Scandinavia in the Iron Age and the Medieval period than later on, one would be hard pressed to find any evidence in written or archaeological sources for the innermost sea route at any time being the most important one, not to say the only one in existence. This might have been the case in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, but in the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval period, neither written sources nor archaeology indicate that the innermost sea route along the coast was used on a regular basis by long-distance travellers. Local, small-scale transports we know less about.
However, different kinds of sources, not least the Norse sagas, shows us that portages were used, but probably not as systematically as suggested by some authors. Furthermore, it could be argued that the amphibious petty seafaring ('allmogeseglation') responsible for most of the references to portages in written sources from the early modern period, is in fact a rather new phenomenon, resulting from the break-down of medieval social systems and medieval systems of trade and seafaring. The entrepreneuring, small-holder slash fisherman slash sailor celebrated in a number of cultural historical works in the Scandinavian countries might, together with the portages used by him, thus be a rather modern phenomenon.
Nonetheless, some portage localities still stand out. In South Scandinavia, this is the case first and foremost with the portage between the North Sea and the Baltic by way of the river Treene and the Schlei fjord in South Jutland. On the Norwegian coast, the isthmus of Spangereid seems to have played a similar role as a gateway between the North Sea coast of SW Norway and the Skagerack coast of SE Norway.
Lindesnes – the gate of the Skagerrack
"The awful sublimity of the coast fills the imagination with ideas of desolation and horror; the rocks dreadfully shattered by the impetous billows of the great Northern Ocean, which here rolls its vast watery mountains on the craggy shores, dashing and foaming over the sheers and desolate rocky islands, until it meets a proud defiance from the majestic frowning bulwarks of granite which form the barrier of the country…"
This rather grim view of Cape Lindesnes, or the Naze, captured by a travelling Briton in 1812, is due not only to the romanticism of the era. The Naze was really a feared and terrible landmark on a coast that to the outsider looked as a very inhospitable place indeed. Cape Lindesnes was considered the most dangerous point of passage on the Norwegian coast. On old sea maps The Naze is often shown way out of proportions, like on Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina (1539).
Christer Westerdahl points to the importance of the Lindesnes area as a transitional zone. According to him, the Naze was the transit point between two different zones of transportation – the West Norwegian North Sea coast and the East Norwegian Skagerrack coast. As such, Cape Lindesnes also functioned as a border zone between two different cultural regions. Many of the cultural traits believed to be particular to Western Norway have a pattern of distribution ending in the Lindesnes area. The same goes for many East Norwegian cultural traditions. For the topographical authors of the 18th and 19th centuries these differences were noteworthy. One source from the 1790s states that there were diverging traditions of boat building on either side of the Naze, with the vessels in the eastern area being shorter and wider than the ones in the West. The traditional border zone between the use of iron and wood for nails in shipbuilding is here, as well. Similar distribution patterns are known from fields as varied as agricultural methods, house types, and language. As for the archaeological source material, the Viking Age morturary customs seem to have been rather different on either side of Cape Lindesnes, and the distribution of East Norwegian artefact types from this period stops rather abruptly at Lindesnes.
The pivotal role of Lindesnes for the traffic between the Vik area and the Baltic on the one hand, and the North Sea on the other, was pointed out by the scholar Peder Claussøn Friis more than 400 years ago. He wrote:
"That Naze is known by all seafarers in the Western Ocean, because there they make landfall in this land, and from there they set course on other lands."
This was hardly a new phenomenon at this time. The German Seebuch, in a chapter which probably dates back to the 14th century, two direct routes from Walcheren to the South Norwegian coast are described – one goes to Lindesnes (Nese), the other one to Skudenes (Schutenessen). Norse sagas also testifies to the importance the Naze for seafarers.
In some periods the role of Lindesnes as a transitional zone seems to have had a political aspect, as well. In 1170 the Danish king Valdemar demanded overlordship in SE Norway, 'all the land that lies between Lindesnes and Denmark'. His demand was but an echo of the Danish rule in the Vik area in the 10th and 11th centuries. There are a number of saga references indicating that the Danish rule in Skagerrack at times reached all the way to Lindesnes, and indeed that the Vik name itself was used for this extensive coastal area.
We know from written sources that it was not uncommon in recent centuries for travellers to use the portage of Spangereid when sailing one of the routes along the South Norwegian coast. Cape Lindesnes was difficult to cross. 'It is well known', writes a keen observer back in 1810, 'how difficult it is for those vessels that have to sail close to the coast to pass Cape Lindesnes! Even when the winds are good for sailing, one often has to make halt at the Naze. Ships and boats stay for weeks and months in the harbours in the Lindesnes area, waiting for a chance to cross this point. Cargos go bad and travels fail because of the long stay at either side of the Naze.'
These difficult conditions for sailing ships is caused by the combined forces in this area of the reigning winds and a strong current running along the Norwegian coast in a westward direction. The potential advantages of circumventing the Naze thus seem obvious.
The Spangereid canal
The importance of the Spangereid isthmus in the late Prehistoric period is related to its position at the Naze. This goes for the major harbour site in Seleyjar immediately to the west of Cape Lindesnes, too. However, Seleyjar will not be dealt with here.
Many important archaeological monuments and finds are known from the area around Spangereid. The archaeologist O. Rygh excavated more than 40 burial mounds in Spangereid itself in 1879. In the 1970s a number of Viking period boatgraves were excavated. Several of the monuments in the area – including a court site, many rich graves, eight huge boathouses and a number of less substantial ones, and an early Romanesque stone church – indicate that Spangereid was a place of some importance in southernmost Norway, with indicators of centrality spanning the Iron Age, the Viking period and the Early Middle Ages. The clustering of big boat houses in Spangereid is surpassed only by the Hafrsfjord area further west.
According to late 16th century sources, a shallow depression in the shape of a trough was visible across the isthmus of Spangereid. In 1591 some of the oldest men in Spangereid – one of them aged 110! – testified that this through, called "Groben", had been dug a long time ago, "so that ships could go through here". This they had been told by their parents and grandparents. Pictorial sources from the late 18th century clearly shows that Groben covered a distance of c. 250 m from the Northern side of the isthmus and southwards.
<>In 2001 Vest-Agder county municipality carried out a trial excavation in the part of Groben that is still preserved in Spangereid. The shallow depression that characterizes the Groben of today was found to be the remains of a much more substantial trough, a later in-filled structure that originally was 12 m wide and 1,5 m deep. Furthermore, the results of this small-scale excavation indicates that Groben was in fact built as a canal, effectively leading from a sheltered harbour immediately to the South of the isthmus and northwards to the fjord system on the inner side of the Lindesnes peninsula. At the bottom level, the structure may have been as wide as 7 m, but the side walls of the structure were not clearly distinguishable during the investigation. The bottom level of the canal seems to have been c. 0,90 m above the present sea level.
So far, two radiocarbon-datings are available, one from a later infilling in the canal (cal. AD 1040-1260), and another from a horizontal turf layer that seems to have built up in a freshwater environment after the canal had gone out of use (cal. AD 1010-1190). Judging from the stratigraphical situation, the canal predates the phases characterised by these datings. For topographical reasons (the bottom level of the canal relative to the land rising over the previous 2000 years) it was probably established in the late Roman and Migration period or somewhat later. At a sea level 2,5 m above today's, not only the canal but also seven substantial Iron Age boathouses would be positioned at the sheltered harbour in Kjerkevågen.
The Spangereid canal has only two parallels in Middle and Northern Europe: the Kanhave Kanal in Samsø, Denmark, dendro-dated to AD726, and Fossa Carolina, Southern Germany, dated to AD 793.
The Kanhave Kanal on Samsø is considered to have been a royal naval base for controlling sea traffic in the Cattegat. As for the canal in Spangereid, it may have served a similar function for controlling the "highway" along the southern Norwegian coast. This hypothesis is further strengthened by the substantial number of big boathouses positioned at the coast in the immediate vicinity of the canal – in fact the second biggest cluster of such buildings in Scandinavia. Boathouses like these were used to shelter war ships of the Nydam type.
It is likely that whoever was responsible for establishing a naval base at Spangereid, seeked to control this "gate" in the border zone between the Western and the Eastern Oceans. He might have been a SE Norwegian chieftain based in the Vik area, or he might have been a Danish (proto) king.
Spangereid – the post-canal period
Oral tradition in Spangereid tells that 'the Vikings' used to haul their ships across Spangereid. No other sources tell us if this is indeed the case. However, in this specific case we do know that a canal once existed, and that the rising land level made it useless around AD 1100 at the latest. It can't be ruled out that the partly dried up canal was used for hauling ships into the medieval period. At least when dealing with ships of Nordic type, this would perhaps be a rather easily accomplished task for yet some generations after 1100.
Be that as it may, the mentioned testimony given by the local inhabitants in 1591 is the oldest documentary source dealing with traffic across the isthmus. It is perhaps noteworthy that although a couple of the local inhabitants at that time argued that 'Groben' was in fact dug as a canal in the old days, none of them mentioned any portage activity being carried out in their own time. Neither does Peder Claussøn Friis, who lived in this very area, refer to such activities in his writings – although portages as a phenomenon were in no way unknown to him, since he does mention that smaller vessels were being transported across Listeid, further to the west. We do know from other sources, however, that cargos were transported over land in Spangereid at this time.
The 1591 testimony was used in a legal dispute four years later. This dispute, involving the owners of two neighbouring farms in Spangereid, did not end until 1784 – almost 200 years later! – when the matter was finally settled by the High court of justice. At stake was, among other things, the income stemming from the transportation of cargos across the isthmus. These cargos were transported by the farmers, using carts. This we learn from a settlement in 1694, when the Stokka farmers demanded fifty percent of the cart transports carried out by the farmers themselves, and half the tolls payed by all those who came with textiles or other goods over Spangereid. The route used by the carts went from Båly to Høllen.
However, we have no certain evidence for the transportation of vessels over land in Spangereid until the beginning of the 19th century. During the Napoleonic wars, a naval officer was stationed in the outport of Svinør, near Spangereid, and he wrote a voluminous report to the Admiralty in Copenhagen, arguing for a canal to be built across the isthmus. In his report, it is stated that smaller and relatively light boats were being transported on carts across Spangereid – but from Njervesfjord to Høllen, thus indicating a slightly different route than the one contested by the Stokka farmers in 1694 and later. This practice might have been something out of the ordinary, and caused by the difficult war time circumstances, with English man-of-wars guarding the waters on the South Norwegian coast, as the first real road in these parts was built in 1809 to facilitate the transportation of privateers across Spangereid. It is, however, likely that small vessels were transported over land well before this time.
Besides the cargo transports, special individuals could also be transported across Spangereid as part of a sea voyage. This, for instance, was the case with the Danish prime minister in 1811. He travelled by ship along the Norwegian coast that summer, but he did not wish to stay onboard while passing Cape Lindesnes. Therefore he was transported by a light boat to Spangereid, to a so-called 'King's pier' at the Njervesfjord, on the southern end of the isthmus. There, he either walked or was driven by horse-and-carriage across the isthmus, to another 'King's pier' on the north side, in Høllen, where another light boat was waiting to take him by the safe inner route to Farsund.
General observations
To some extent one can, on a very general level, distinguish between three different, and only partially overlapping, phases in the history of Spangereid and other major portages in South Norway. These are:
1. The non-systematic hauling of large ships over a lesser or larger strip of land. This phase seems to belong to the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval period, i.e. the centuries until new ship technology makes it unpractical or impossible to transport large vessels on land. This 'phase' is the one we know less about, but neither saga sources nor oral tradition indicate that this was a very widespread practice. It is likely that only a proportionally small number of the portages known from the post-medieval period were ever used in this way.
2. With the new types of ships in the Later Medieval period, the transporting of vessels over land came to a halt. People and cargo, however, could in some instances still be carried. The ships themselves went by sea to the other side, or one changed vessel on the other side of the portage. When this phase is recorded in written sources, it is to a large extent high ranking government officials or other prominent people that use the portage to avoid particularly dangerous sea stretches – 'to avoid risking one's soul', as one source tells about Lindesnes in the 1790s. In the well-studied region of Agder the inner sea route along the coast, as it is known from 17th and 18th century sources, might in more special circumstances involve the use of portages of this kind, but only a limited number of the localities were used in this way in a systematic fashion. In the Western part of Agder the portages in question seem to be distinguished by having so-called 'King's piers', one on each side of the isthmus. In Vest-Agder 'King's piers' are known from three sites – Spangereid, Lyngdal, and Framvaren/Listeid.
3. The third phase involves local transport of small vessels and cargo in the post-medieval period. The majority of the portages were probably never used on a regular basis until this final phase. In the case of Spangereid we have evidence that the systems described here as phases 2 and 3 existed simultaneously in the 17th and 18th centuries.
In one case, and one case only, we know of a phase pre-dating 'phase 1'. But the canal in Spangereid was most likely established, whether this was in the Late Roman/Migration period or in the Late Iron Age, as a means to facilitate the use of Spangereid as a naval base. The canal can hardly have been established to accomodate civil traffic; in this early period, large scale building projects were probably initiated by royal powers for military, not 'civil', purposes. Whether the Spangereid canal was used for ordinary transports in the Iron Age, we do not know. If it was, however, this was probably a purely secondary use. To the extent that this did happen, and in so far as the practice of hauling ships then continued into the Medieval period, phases 2 and 3 can – in this particular case, that is – be interpreted as resulting from later reorganizations of the transport system specific to phase 1.
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Interview with Tony Towle [by Jess Matuozzi]
[Guest Author Note: Thank you to Jess and Tony for this fascinating interview and to Hanging Loose Press for permission to reproduce the poems discussed in it!]
JM: Your poetry taps out a wry tango with history; you've looked at it, through it, over it, beyond it, within it, and around it, describing the historical perspective of the backward-glancing present as "the cartoon with the one perennial frame." And so we're here to speak of poetry's intersection with history, personal and collective.
Let's start with the former. How has your writing process changed with age? I'm not referring to changes in style, like your shift from pop collage to a more conversational mode, but rather, to changes in the way you experience the writing process.
TT: My first thought is: how can aging not have changed my writing process (along with everything else!)? But when I try to figure out what those changes have actually been, I draw a blank. If the "writing process" is the manner in which the poems are made, regardless of individual content or style, I think I have to say that there hasn't been perceptible (perceptible to me, anyway) change since I got going in the early '60s. Perhaps I mistake what you are getting at. Feel free to steer me onto the right track!
JM: I'm afraid I only have directions to the wrong track. It's located at the intersection of poetry and history in the broadest sense: that is, at the site where poetry catalyzes cultural shifts that can, ultimately, be historical in their import. I've always seen your poems as being quietly countercultural — "The City in the Throes of Despair," for example, crashes the ethos of "accomplishment" against the sort of openness that allows for "beauty to interrupt constantly." Do you see your poems as countercultural?
TT: The poem you refer to was written in 1967, when the "real" counterculture (politics and sociology more than poetry) was well on its way to being a force in national life; but my work had nothing to do with that, nor was I personally very much a part of it, although I knew many poets who were. I'm not so much countercultural as a classic outsider, whose work is perhaps quietly subversive. Part of the subversion can be a free-wheeling parody of conventional thinking, with an insistence on being gratuitous, stubbornly irrelevant to "normal" society and daily reality. The poem in question is surreal and absurdist, with satiric reference to Robert Moses, real estate developer Samuel Lefrak, and the Borough of Queens (where I grew up). I write different kinds of poems, so one could find examples that are other than what I have just described. But I would maintain that I'm a subversive outsider rather than a counterculturalist, which usually implies an agenda beyond poetry itself.
JM: This differentiation you've made between the countercultural and the subversive is very useful; it offers a clearer vocabulary for discussing poetry's role(s) in the public sphere. Now you've got me thinking about the value of anchoring subversion in a rich array of historical references, as you do in recent poems like "Misprision" and "Five Days in June." When you find yourself animated by the mischievous impulse to pen something "gratuitous" or "stubbornly irrelevant" to conventional society, what historical period do you find most compelling to engage with, and why?
TT: It's really whatever comes across my radar and suddenly seems right for inclusion in a particular poem. I've read enough history — starting in earnest at the age of eight — so that the material exists in my head as a kind of repertory. But the historical aspect may not be the primary motivation for the poem. "Misprision" — an archaic word for misunderstanding (among other meanings) — is about double entendres, a couple of them rather pornographic (Sappho's original tongue, indeed!); the whole is made ambiguous by a naïve narrator going through a series of misprisions. Ambiguity is a prime feature of the subversive, at least my version of it. I'm very comfortable with ambiguity in poetry, and with art in general, but the average person is not. (The meaning should be clear, damn it!) Irony is another feature, and irony is often ambiguous. "Five Days in June" starts out as a lampoon of the clichéd and ubiquitous "Today," used as an introductory phrase carrying bogus authority for a point that is not in the least proven: Today, Americans are less inclined . . . Today, women prefer . . . This has annoyed me enough over time so that a couple of years ago I found myself composing this short poem that I think ridicules the device but is entertaining beyond that. So I don't know if this poem is really "historical" — though it does reference the Ottoman Empire — since what could be less historical than Today?
In any event, in both these poems it is aspects of language that drive the car, with historical references, among other items, along for the ride. In general, I'm pretty eclectic. In my book Winter Journey, there are mentions and scenarios that include the storm god Teshub, medieval Baghdad, the Mongols, Plutarch, the Battle of Kursk, Catherine the Great, John Calvin, Samuel Barber, John Clare, Val Lewton, Hedy Lamarr, George Antheil, Genghis Khan, Ogodei Khan, En-Hedu-Ana, Sargon of Akkad, the Sumerians, Phoenicia, Elijah, Ahab, Jezebel, Genghis Khan again, Parthia, Sappho, Charles VIII of France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Sassanians.
JM: I remain curious about what drives your propensity for more distant historical allusions. So I'll conclude by asking you this: if you were to embark upon a sustained poetic foray into the life of some figure from the more distant past, who would you choose?
I don't think my sensibility is suited to do a long-poem biographical treatment of one individual, à la Robert Browning, or Byron — or my late friend and colleague Paul Violi, who was wonderfully adept at creating extended studies of historical figures (or invented ones, for that matter!). I wouldn't be able to sustain it, and it would end up as something else. As to a propensity for distant historical allusions, that began long before I started writing poetry. I think it had to do with escape. I often found (find) the present limited and unsatisfying. History has always given me somewhere else to go.
The City in the Throes of Despair
The great worm of the north, in whose footsteps we tread,
eludes us with a thousand lightnings.
However the bus, the nourishment of the city, pulls in,
and nothing has been accomplished though beauty
interrupts constantly, interpolating a row of moments
like a pink balustrade basking in the sun.
The buses and planes go forward in clouds of yeast and salt,
lurching over the pipes and turbines of the city
as Wyoming would slide down the coast of Norway
and I look from the plane as from the vantage point of a roof
to see the Lefrak Building shielding my eyes from Manhattan.
Lefrak, whose first name has escaped me — like Catherine
the Great's last — into the wild blue,
but who with Moses, whose first name is an anticlimax,
has left us the Queens of today and tomorrow.
We surprise the great worm in the frozen waste of his sleep.
Our magic ax and feather do their work
and the monster lies helpless in scattered and giggling pieces.
The five boroughs are safe and rainbows arch over the brick,
bright birds with their pinions are free to range once more,
but in whose colorful wake our hurtling plane seems spiritless,
planning to touch only Chicago and perhaps Detroit,
with a landing in the meantime however subtle meaning an emergency,
with no one congenial until reaching the ground, parachutes billowing,
and relaxing on the train back to New York, the parachute as a souvenir.
Tony Towle, 1967
from The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963-2000
(Hanging Loose Press, 2001)
Misprision
someone said Sappho could be understood
only through her original tongue
and I said I didn't think so
as educational as that would probably be
someone wrote that Charles VIII
entered France in the 1490's
and I said to myself: I don't think so
he was born many years before that
but he did penetrate Italy in 1494
as far as Naples, and didn't withdraw
for an entire year, which seems extraordinary
by today's standards
but he finally lost virility and everything else
by hitting his head on a doorway in 1498
someone wrote that gardening was a literature
in which scholars nibbled at the edges
of what appeared to be an insurmountable edifice
and I thought: that makes perfect sense,
nibbling is an authentic scholarly pursuit
and eventually the edifice will get lower
and can be surmounted
somebody said that cretins painted murals
and got out of labyrinths but that seems unlikely
and someone wrote to say it's time for a poetry museum
but I don't understand how anyone could possibly know that
and isn't that what our books are already
glassless vitrines
where you're allowed to run your fingers over the art
or nibble on the implications
or loiter in the white passageways between the lines
hoping to meet the lenders to the exhibition
from Winter Journey, Hanging Loose Press, 2008
Five Days in June
Today, the most overused introductory is Today,.
Today, nobody knows what the hell they're talking about.
Today will be yesterday tomorrow, and it will be clear
that nobody knew what the hell they were talking about.
Today, I will put ten dollars on Pigs in Moonlight, take my winnings
and disappear into the Ottoman Empire.
Today, the Ottoman Empire is a furniture store on Queens Boulevard.
from Noir: Poems 2008-2017, Hanging Loose Press, 2017
[Tony Towle, a quintessential poet of the New York School and the city of New York itself, is the author of thirteen poetry collections, including The History of the Invitation: New and Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Hanging Loose Press, 2001). His most recent collection is Noir: Poems 2008-2017 (Hanging Loose Press, 2017).]
[Jess Matuozzi received her PhD in English and African American Studies from Yale University in 2016. She is currently a fire dancer, primate conservation activist, and English teacher at Trinity School in Manhattan.]
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Colorado hit a new low for hospital beds this week, with an average of about 800 general beds and fewer than 100 intensive-care beds available across the state, health officials said Friday.
This latest surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations prompted the state to issue a public health advisory urging Coloradans to get vaccinated and wear masks in crowded indoor spaces.
Even at the worst point of the fall 2020 wave, Colorado had about 1,800 general beds available, but now hospitals are coping with an increase in the virus at the same time that overall patient volumes are up, said Scott Bookman, the state's COVID-19 incident commander.
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Five of the state's 11 emergency medical services regions listed fewer than 10 available intensive-care beds as of Thursday afternoon, and two — the West and San Luis Valley regions — had none. The Mile High region, encompassing the Denver area, had 54 of 778 ICU beds available, or 7%.
Cases also have continued to trend up, Bookman said. Hospitalizations tend to follow cases by roughly a week, so the continued upward trajectory of new infections suggests hospitals won't get any relief in the coming days.
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Later Friday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a joint statement with five health departments covering the Denver area and Boulder County. It asked unvaccinated people and those at a high risk for severe disease to avoid public indoor spaces until cases start to decline and requested that everyone wear masks, but didn't set any new requirements.
On the Front Range, only Boulder and Larimer counties currently have indoor mask mandates.
"Hospitals serving the metro Denver are full or nearing capacity due to both COVID-19, non-COVID-19 emergencies and other routine visits, with less than 10% of staffed beds available — a trend not seen at any other point in the pandemic," the statement, billed as a public health advisory, said.
About 80% of those who are hospitalized are unvaccinated, so getting the shot is the most important way to keep hospitals from being overrun, Bookman said. Everyone should wear masks in public indoor places, move gatherings outdoors, stay home and get tested if they don't feel well, and get a booster shot if they're eligible, he said.
He rejected the possibility of reinstating a mask mandate, though.
State health officials also announced the first large-scale vaccination clinics for children younger than 12 will begin taking patients Friday evening. Those clinics are at Children's Hospital Colorado's Aurora and Colorado Springs locations, though children can also receive the shot from their pediatricians, county health departments and some retail pharmacies.
Pop-up clinics at child-friendly locations, like the Denver Zoo, will start this weekend, said Heather Roth, immunization branch chief for the state health department. Some of the locations will host a follow-up clinic three weeks later for kids to get their second shots, but in some cases, parents may need to find another provider, she said.
The state has received about 128,000 doses of the child-sized vaccination, which is enough to immunize about one-quarter of Colorado's 5- to 11-year-old population, Roth said. A list of locations providing the smaller doses authorized for children is available on the state health department's website.
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