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Flash Fiction: A Flash Contest!
April 15, 2015 April 15, 2015 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ Leave a comment
And so, it's on. Write a story, no more than 1,000 words, about this picture. It can be anything — science fiction, crime drama, fairy tale. It can be first person, or not. Set in the past, the present, or the future. What is the story you can tell about this image? Your story may or may not be set in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Remember, no more than 1K words. Send it to me at edg@longridgeeditors.com by May 1, 2015.
Please paste the text of your narrative in the email, no attachments. Winner receives a gift personally selected by me from Danforth Pewter.
All writers agree that submissions may or may not be published online on Esse Diem. All rights return to author upon publication, with a request for citation upon future re-publications.
River Town Holiday #buzznuggets!
December 9, 2014 December 9, 2014 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ Leave a comment
Following are some of my favorite moments from the 6 stories that make up the book in which I have some short fiction, River Town. It's getting some nice word of mouth and social media energy. Any part readers of Esse Diem would like to play in that energy is more than welcome!
Oh. and there's this. River Town makes a nice holiday gift . . . You can buy it here. And if money is tight, you can follow the authors on Twitter. That's like gold to us some days, too!
Hayden Lowe may or may not have killed a man out west. No one seems to know why he's back in River Town, though his friend, Lillian Conley, is keeping a private journal full of clues. Will Captain JD Dawson lose his beloved sternwheeler, the Miss Jayne Marie, in a winner-takes-all bet? Julia Hubbard has a secret project, Andrew Wilson is plotting on the dusty streets of River Town, and what about that strange Dame Roxalana? There is more to Roxie than anyone is willing to say. The men in the coal mines around River Town seem to be developing a mysterious condition that no one can explain, yet everyone is whispering about it. Before all is said and done, each of these characters will intersect in unexpected ways. The resolutions are as suspenseful as they are satisfying. River Town is a collection of short stories set in 1890s West Virginia. The combined work of six different authors, the tales range from adventure to romance, from intrigue to fantasy. Each story stands alone, yet together they take readers to a time along the Kanawha River just after the Civil War when families were still struggling to recover and before the railroad came through the mountains. The river was the center of everything.
Every storyteller has his own style, her own approach, and a unique way of operating a character. To see the same characters driven by different people was like seeing the same person from other perspectives. The characters' personalities were fuller and better developed. I got to know them better than I could have if they were all written by one author. I was hooked.
— editor/Author Eric Douglas
Rufus had a lot to say, but he'd only say it if he trusted you. That was the way of River Town in general.
— Author Eric Douglas
From "Hayden's Return" by Katharine Armstrong Herndon (@kaherndon)
Hide in the woods?
For a minute he wondered if the Captain could get him off the boat without being seen. But then he remembered Jack had seen him, and the old woman, and probably someone else he hadn't even recognized.
It was too late for hiding.
From "They Hold Down the Dead" by Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher (@ElizGaucher)
The two adventurers walked in silence for a few minutes. Then Hayden said, "You're brave. I thought you were. I really came up here to find out if you want to see something I found, but it's not for cowards. Do you want to see it?"
Lillian realized that, no, she really did not want to see something like that, but it was too late now.
"I'm not a coward, she said. "What is it?"
From "Racing Miss Jayne Marie" by Eric Douglas (@BooksbyEric)
Glancing up from his log book, JD saw Winthrop, the owner of the Miss Jayne Marie, standing on the dock with his personal secretary, Phiillips . . . "Phillips" was all JD ever heard Winthrop call the man. JD had never heard Phillips speak.
From "Being True in River Town" by Jane Siers Wright (@JaneSiersWright)
Dawson nodded. He was in Julia's debt and it was clear to him she was about to call in the favor.
"I have another such student who needs to reach Parkersburg in order to catch the B&O train to Harper's Ferry."
"Why Parkersburg and the B&O? She could go south to Beckley over land to catch a train from there."
"A southern route would not be the most convenient for this passenger, Captain."
From "Hearing the Past" by Shawna Christos (@ywrite) of James River Writers, "Hearing the Past"
His hands shook as he hunted for the latch. Andrew tried to remember if it had made any sound when he entered ahead of his captor.
He couldn't remember but it didn't matter. He had realized there would be no turning back. None for the man his father had hired, and none for Andrew on his present course.
From "Wail" by Geoffrey Cameron Fuller (@GeoCamFuller)
At his oak desk in Mr. Winthrop's house — for the last time, in all likelihood — Francis Treet Phllips swings the ledger closed and runs his palm across the aged leather. A full accounting. The pieces are all arrayed in their places, each and every one. To Mr. Winthrop, the game begins tonight, after the race, but Phillips knows it is already finished.)
Enjoy these snippets? Read more here: https://essediemblog.com/2013/08/14/river-town-buzznuggets/
Writing My Way Home: Silas, Swago, and The Farm Dogs
October 31, 2014 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ 4 Comments
1950s, Swago Farm, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Standing, Dennie and Hunter McClintic. Seated far right, Betty McClintic.
I have very specific memories of the first time I ever saw certain people. It's an odd phenomenon in that I don't know any reason when I first lay eyes on these folks why the memory instantly becomes fixed. In each case, however, such people become important to my life. My husband is one of these "fixed memory" people. I can still see him, opening a glass door and striding across a lobby with a scowl on his face.
Silas House is a fixed memory person for me, too, but it a different way. It was not Mr. House in the flesh, but his written words that fascinated me, became fixed. His environmental column in the New York Times, "My Polluted Kentucky Home," reads like a creative nonfiction essay to me, more so than a national column of an environmental activist. And yet I can't fully defend that perception. It is clearly an activist's narrative. But it's edgy, tight with a barely contained rage. When I read it, I can feel Mr. House holding it together as it tries to bolt out his control. The emotions and the realities behind "My Polluted Kentucky Home" are so muscled and dangerous, only a master of the written word could begin to manage it.
Silas House is such a master.
I referenced the column in 2011 as an inspiration for essayists writing about place. Going back to the column, I am reminded that every section is a gut-punch. Still, the paragraph that knocked me out 3 years ago remains the one that gets me now:
As a child I once stood on a cedar-pocked ridge with my father, looking down on a strip mine near the place that had been our family cemetery. My great-aunt's grave had been "accidentally" buried under about 50 feet of unwanted topsoil and low-grade coal; "overburden," the industry calls it. My father took a long, deep breath. I feel that I've been holding it ever since.
This physical experience of prolonged generational grief with no end in sight resonated in my heart. It took up residence there and made sense out of something, or at least started to make sense of something, that haunts me. I am a native West Virginian. My family has lived in Appalachia for generations, and I have struggled to find words for the experience of a rupture with the land that feels like a problem in my body. And it is exactly as Mr. House says it is. It's a kind of inheritance. It was passed to me. And as in his narrative, it was not passed with intention so much as without choice. Some people call this Appalachian fatalism. I am still trying to understand what I will call it.
When someone puts words to your problem, he often shines a light on the way out. At the very least he allows you to see your problem in a new way. I wanted to know more about Silas House, and discovered his online literary publication, Still: The Journal. In this space, I found more expression of the more complex elements of Appalachia. I found images and words and ideas that reflected some of the layers that I know from growing up there. Much material on Appalachia traffics in stereotypes and simplicities. Still explicitly is not interested in stereotypes or cliches. It has a mission to illuminate what is real, and truly human, and intricate about this mysterious and hard place some of us call our native home. So I recommend Still to you without reservation, both for seeing something you may never have seen about this part of the world, and for some lovely art.
My essay, "Farm Dogs", recently received a Judge's Choice honor in the Still 2014 Contest for Creative Nonfiction. A narrative with early drafts about literal farm dogs, this essay became something more human and more reflective of my own life's unanswered questions. I remember sharing a draft in my MFA workshop, and someone saying, "This is great and all, but I still don't understand why you went to this farm. Why did your family go there? What is this all really about?"
I was amazed to realize I had no answer. Back to the drawing board.
After interviewing my parents who are in their late seventies and mid-eighties, I discovered a huge hole in this story, one I'd never truly known about or understood. The interviews filled that hole, in part. Perhaps there are always spaces left open in our life stories.
And perhaps that is as it should be.
Thank you to my professors Eric Waggoner, Richard Schmitt, Carter Sickels, and Jessie van Eerden for your constructive feedback on Farm Dogs. Thank you to my MFA workshop colleagues Lara Lillibridge, Christine Roth, and Benjamin Bolger for reading and critiquing early wonky drafts of the essay. Thanks to Jeremy Jones for teaching a wonderful seminar on how to interview relatives about family history. Thanks to Karen McElmurrary for falling in love with "Farm Dogs" at first sight, even when it was just a wonky draft and full of holes. And thank you, mom and dad, for being brave enough to fill in the empty spaces in this narrative about a part of our lives. I love you.
The Legend of Paint Creek: A River Town Halloween Treat
October 27, 2014 October 27, 2014 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ 5 Comments
Lillian let Hayden walk ahead of her. She liked to fall back sometimes, pretending she was looking at the autumn leaves or tracking the rustling of a squirrel behind a fallen tree. In truth, she wanted to look at him, watch the way he walked in the woods. It was different from the way he moved in River Town. In town he was tall, his shoulders squared, his hands hovering at his hips with open fingers. She knew about the knife he carried. Sometimes it made her feel safer, other times less so.
But in the woods, Hayden had a different energy and gait. His shoulders loosened. His hands seemed less poised to act. His long body was more at ease than Lillian ever saw it in town. She liked to see him in this different state of mind and body. It felt like a privilege, and she wondered if anyone else ever saw him like this.
In an instant, her calm shattered. There was a scream, a sound she had never heard before, like the devil himself had opened a gate in hell. The scream made the air vibrate, and Lillian felt the inside of her ears throb with pain.
"Hayden! What is that?!" She was running to catch up to him but there was no need. He'd already spun back to her and was at her side before the echoes stilled and the woods were void of sound. It was a chilling silence. No little creatures skittering, no leaves moving, no birds speaking. The quiet was thick and unsettling.
Hayden's hand was on her arm now. "Lill, stay at my side. It's going to be all right, but don't leave me." Lillian had no intention of leaving him. The scream had almost stopped her heart. Whatever else was with them in the woods wasn't going to get her alone, she knew that much.
"Hayden, oh . . . Hayden, what was that?" her voice was a whisper.
"I know what it should be, but . . . ."
"But WHAT?" Lillian was moving from fear to annoyance. Her sharp mind didn't tolerate not getting information quickly. She could tell Hayden knew something about the scream. Why was he waiting so long to tell her?
"It's a paint. But she shouldn't be out now. It's the middle of the day."
Lillian furrowed her brow so hard Hayden laughed in her face. "Your face looks like a plowed field."
"What on earth is a 'paint'?" asked Lillian, ignoring his mockery.
"Oh, right. You're so society. You wouldn't know that word. Paint, you know, like a panther. A mountain lion. There are plenty in these parts. If I'd known you didn't know that I'd never have let you walk around in the woods with me."
"Oh, hush," said Lillian. I know about mountain lions. My father killed one once."
Hayden stood back and looked at Lillian with what appeared to be new respect. "Not too shabby. I didn't think the old man had it in him. I don't know many bankers who can kill a paint."
The sounds of the woods had returned to normal. Whatever it was had passed.
"Should we get home?" Lillian asked nervously.
"Not a bad idea," said Hayden. "Still, that was really strange. Paints hunt and mate at night. It's only after lunch." Lillian's face went hot. She felt embarrassed by talk of wild animals screaming and mating, but Hayden didn't seem to notice. They walked on without speaking. Finally, Hayden said, "You know Paint Creek, right? It's not that far from River Town."
"I've heard of it," said Lillian. "I never thought of where it got its name. From lions?"
"Well, yes and no," said Hayden. "There's a legend about it. It's not something you probably should hear . . ." His voice trailed off and she saw him try to hide a smirk. They both knew the best way to get to her was to suggest she wasn't smart enough or strong enough for a story.
"I most certainly should hear it!" she insisted, taking the bait. She had to know.
Hayden stopped smiling and looked at Lillian. "All right," he said, "I'll tell you. But if you can't sleep later, don't blame me.
Paint Creek in Ash Branch Park, Kanawha County WV
They say it was a long time ago, maybe fifty years or more. There weren't that many white people living around here. Houses were really far apart. There was a man, he was called Anselm. Lived up on Paint Creek alone. Or so most people thought."
Hayden paused. Lillian's eyes were fixed on him. "What do you mean, so people thought? Did he or didn't he live alone?"
"He said he did. But the story is that he would show up in town every few weeks, trying to get things that seemed odd. Like he wanted to barter for bolts of calico cloth and lavender water. That's not what stinky old men are known to like, you know?"
"No, that's what a woman would want." Lillian couldn't take her eyes off Hayden. "What else?"
"One time he came into town near frantic, or so they say, crazy to find a doctor. Except he wasn't hurt. He wasn't ill. He wouldn't say why he needed a doctor so bad. He never found the doc and went home wild eyed. Rumors started that old Anselm had a woman up there. Maybe more than one." Hayden looked at Lillian. "Do you want to hear the rest?"
She said simply, "Yes. Yes I do."
"Some of the women in town started bothering their husbands to go up to Anselm's property to see what was going on. The men didn't want to go, they figured they didn't want anyone bothering them, why would Anselm want anybody bothering him. Live and let live. Then the screaming started."
Lillian couldn't breathe. She just nodded to Hayden to go on.
"In the middle of the day for three days in a row, people in town could hear paints screaming over by the creek. It was an awful sound, just like today. And no one had ever heard it before when the sun was up. The town women insisted something was not right up at Anselm's. The men finally formed a group and went to see what was what.
When they got up to the house and banged on the door, no one answered. They decided to break down the door."
Lillian, normally so composed, could not control herself. "What? What? What did they find?"
"They claimed to find several pieces of a woman's clothing and a wooden cradle. But there was no one in the house. A door out the back of the house was ripped clean off, what looked like claw marks all over it. There was blood on the ground but not in the house, like something or someone had been dragged away. The men followed the trail until it disappeared into the creek.
No one ever knew what happened. Some people said the three days of screams must have been the three people in the house being attacked by paints, one after the other. Others claimed they saw human footprints near the drag marks, like it had to be a person who took the bodies. Others started a rumor that Anselm was a paint, changed at night and didn't take too kindly to his woman locking him out, and ripped the door off with his claws."
"That's enough," said Lillian, shuddering. "I don't want to hear any more. That is horrible. The baby . . . " She couldn't continue and looked away.
"It's not good, that's for sure," said Hayden. "Though some tell the story that the dragged off body was Anselm's and the woman was the paint, come to claim her baby and she finished the old man off and left his body to sink into the creek. The daytime screams are her victory cries. When you hear her during the day, she is reminding every man around who really owns these woods."
Lillian smiled. "I like that version better. Let's go with that."
"I've always liked it best myself, too. I know better than to try to mess with a strong woman."
The two friends walked on, their hands not touching but close together.
This tale is entirely fictional and inspired by the characters Lillian Conley and Hayden Lowe from the collection of short stories that make up River Town. Want to know more about Lillian, Hayden, and the many other characters who live in River Town? Cool! Check out this link as well as the links below: https://essediemblog.com/2013/08/14/river-town-buzznuggets/
You can hear some cougar screams and calls here. Many people believe that some of the more blood-curdling cries sound like a woman screaming.
Read about the real Paint Creek, West Virginia, here.
Buy and read River Town here. You can join Facebook fans of the book, too: River Town on Facebook
West Virginia in Sunlight and Shadow: Writing an American Vignette
June 1, 2014 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ 4 Comments
vignette (vɪˈnjɛt) – n.
1. a small illustration placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter
2. a short graceful literary essay or sketch
I'm in good company having been rejected by Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (see "Wooing Brevity"); nonetheless, I dream of joining that other, smaller party — the one with writers who have wooed and won some DInty W. Moore love. Brevity is where a lot of CNF types like me hang out and admire fine writing. The journal publishes writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form.
My 750 words were bounced back about two years ago, and I can say with confidence that my work has improved since then. I have a long way to go, but when I look back at what I sent to Brevity, I see one of my most egregious writing flaws glaring back at me, the tendency to stay in my own head and talk to myself on paper. I struggle with setting, with scene, with grounding events and people in a tangible world. I am learning how to create a place that a reader can enter and experience.
In Andrea Badgley's call for submissions on the Brevity blog, I saw an opportunity.
Andrea Reads America: A Literary Tour of the USA is Badgley's effort to read literature by authors in all 50 states. She writes, "I want to see the state from different points of view. Whenever possible, I would like to read authors who are native to or are longtime residents of the state they set their fiction in, for whom the land is a part of their psyche." American Vignette is the creative nonfiction component of her journey.
My vignette is about some of my experience growing up as a West Virginian. My family spans generations of Appalachian people. I have a loyalty to the state and an affection for it despite its many flaws that is difficult to explain. I've blogged about my feelings and their complexities on Esse Diem before, but with American Vignette I captured some of my favorite elements from a longer work. I also tried to make the narrative more reader-inclusive — to "teach the reader something" as one of my professors said — and not be satisfied with an internal monologue that just happens to be written. The original essay had ragged emotional edges. I was in a lot of pain when I first started writing about West Virginia, and it shows in my the early drafts. Revising those drafts and consolidating them into a sharper piece helped give me closure in some ways. My experience is still there and unchanged, but it has been tempered with time. I am becoming able to reflect and engage outside of my own distress.
For me, my essay is about losing my grip on an important place. It's about hard questions and unknowable answers. I anticipate some people might be unhappy with this vignette and think that it is unfair or unkind to West Virginia. This is about my observations, experiences, and decisions. It is in no way intended to be the final word on anything, or even the only word. I hope my essay will generate online discussion. West Virginia is complex and contradictory. At times it is an unbearable series of shouts off a mountainside, the caller waiting for a response that seems never to come.
But we linger a little longer.
(You can read my American Vignette on Andrea's blog project here.)
Our life has beautiful moments, and they are often good enough to disguise the oppression. Maybe we are good enough to ignore it in favor of what we love. We are tied to the land, to the creeks, to the sky and hills. We are bound by a birthright and burdened by a collective pain.
Create WV and The Water –
March 24, 2014 / Elizabeth Gaucher	/ 2 Comments
Watch my friends and Create WV founding members Sarah Halstead and Rebecca Kimmons, explain three key points about the water crisis:
1) Why we haven't been protecting our water;
2) Why there isn't more outcry over the water crisis;
3) How WV can overcome these troubles and be all those of us who love it know it can be!
Please consider helping me meet my goal of raising $500 in support of Create WV and Aurora Lights. It's so simple to donate and even $5 makes a world of difference! You can donate as much or little as you want. Check it out: http://fundly.com/8ijmdsyq
The fundraising event will be June 7, 2014, in Charleston. Find out more on http://wvwildwonderfulwaterrun.com.


Here you'll find travel reports about Bunyonyi. Discover travel destinations in Uganda of travelers writing a travel blog on FindPenguins.
Nous logeons sur une des îles de ce grand lac entouré de collines aux cultures en terrasses. Tout est très vert et paisible, le temps semble s'y être arrêté. Pas un bruit de voiture ou de moto, seuls règnent les chants des oiseaux, quelques appels lointains de vaches ou de chèvres et le bateau école qui transporte les écoliers d'une île voisine.
Pour apprécier de plus près les paysages et explorer les îles inhabitées, on passe au niveau 2 de pagayage. Après s'être fait les bras en kayak à Jinja, on teste la pirogue locale ! Pas simple de manœuvrer ce long tronc d'arbre creusé, mais Tom assure !
It was with some sadness that we left Rwanda and headed into Uganda. Visiting Rwanda has been a bit like visiting Singapore as a break from SE Asia's chaos. It's safe, clean, orderly, and seems to work. It has also been educational, emotional, and inspiring given how resilient, hopeful and hard working the people here are.
The border crossing into Uganda was reasonably straightforward, but not as well organized as it was coming into Rwanda. Fortunately, we are now experienced enough that we can usually make sense of the disorganized group of unconnected sheds and find our way through with minimum stress. As soon as we crossed into Uganda, the road instantly turned to potholed dirt and was crammed with trucks. We also noticed trash/rubbish on the side of the road, which is non-existent in Rwanda.
We only drove a few hours to Lake Bunyoni, a very picturesque lake, dotted with multiple islands. While here, we took a boat trip and learned about one of the most interesting islands - Punishment Island, where unwed, pregnant girls were sent as 'punishment'. We gather that many died here, as it's a tiny island with no shelter, no fresh water and no food. This practice apparently continued up until the 1950s.
We have definitely hit rainy season. We were hoping we would miss it, but apparently it has come early this year. This means we are likely to experience torrential rain most days – not fun when camping. This also means we will be adjusting our plans in Uganda and Kenya (basically we're planning to stay in an airbnb for a week or so). A friend of John's texted him saying she had just spent a month in Japan on a food tour. As we were sitting in our tent in the middle of the afternoon, with deafening rain lashing the tent for hours on end, imagining and looking for leaks, we had to ask ourselves, "what the hell are we doing sitting in the tent in the middle of Africa during rainy season when we could be sitting in some Onsen in the Japanese mountains eating great food and sleeping on dry tatami??!!" Oh well, it's all part of the adventure!
Kigali, being their capital , is huge and developed with tons of high buildings and offices and everything you would need with its own bunch of subburbs. They say it's the country of a thousand hills and I believe it! Even the capital is spread between hills and valleys. Most of the other towns consist of one, maybe 2 main roads, never much more then 1-2 kilometres long.
They have no street food. No street stalls at all. Apparently it's illegal to sell things on the street, you must have a shop. Which makes sense, because we once bought fruit from the first gang of women we saw sitting on the street, and yet 20 minutes later they were all packed up and gone, with a military man roaming around... I guess that's how they stay clean, no one there to dirty the streets.
Their national park (at least the one we did) was gorgeous and again - clean. Seems silly to say but in Ethiopia, all along our hikes and street sides there were water bottles on the ground. Even our guides would throw their water bottle to the ground during our hikes in national parks. In Rwanda - not a single piece of anything on our hike... I even had a banana peel which I asked if I could throw in the nature (animals will eat it, no?) and I was told to hold onto it until the end for a garbage.
The people try to be very helpful. Unfortunately language is very limited, be it French or English. They like to give directions when they have no clue where something is, but they try! They ask where do we want to go when we barely hesitate in our step.
Many people blame the French and the Belgians for their genocide, basically saying they brought in the thoughts of racism when imposing the Hutu and Tutsi identity cards and then chosing one group as the educated leaders... They are now rebelling against those roots and learning English in school instead of French. The older generation we could communicate with in French, and the younger in English.
The general feel of Rwandans are, as mentions, very restrained, a certain somber feel for the people... A lack of liveliness. Not as willing to chat or not as many smiles. Serious people.
That's Rwanda in a nutshell!
One of the largest, deepest lakes in Uganda, formed behind a lava dam. Various view of the lake taken on a boat ride to a pygmy village (see next post). The first pic is anohther boat on its way to the marret in the village The last picture is of the Crowned Crane, the national bird of Uganda.
Nach zwei Nächten in Musanze, wurden wir früh am Morgen abgeholt und überquerten die Grenze nach Uganda. Hier beginnt auch die eigentliche Safari durch Westuganda, die Gershom für uns (unter Berücksichtigung konkreter Station, die ich im vorab nannte) organisiert hat. Er ist erfahrener Safari Guide und hat uns drei ganz tolle Unterkünfte rausgesucht, die wir unter normalen Buchungsbedingungen nie so im Programm hätten aufnehmen können. Zudem war durch ihn in den National Parks alles schnell organisiert, da er mit den örtlichen Gepflogenheiten und Auflagen gut vertraut war, sowie oft schon ein persönliche Kontakt zu den jeweilig zuständigen hatte, was vieles vereinfachte und vor allem vor Ort beschleunigte. Wie wichtig das ist, hatten wir (nach vorerst großer Verwirrung) beim selbstorganisierten Trip im Volcanoes National Park selbst erlebt und waren froh, uns ab sofort nicht weiter darum zu sorgen. So erkannte auch ich, dass es schon Sinn ergibt einen eigenen Guide mit dabeizuhaben, auch wenn ich den Aufwand und vor allem den Safaribus für lediglich zwei Personen bis zuletzt als etwas zu großkotzig empfand. Doch aufgefallen sind wir damit gar nicht mal groß, da es diese Konstellation öfters gab, bzw. sogar Einzelpersonen auf diese Weise unterwegs waren, was natürlich immer noch nicht bedeutet, dass es gut und richtig ist.


Bringing 24mm to PF30, Chris King style.
Making the decision to run a Chris King bottom bracket on your road bike is an easy one. Actually making your crankset, BB, and frameset all play nice together can be a bit more challenging. The Chris King Bottom Bracket Conversion Kit #1 is here to help if your frameset has a 68mm Press Fit 30 BB interface. With Conversion Kit #1, you can install your 24mm road crank (such as those from Shimano, FSA, or Rotor) to your PF30 frameset. Install your Chris King Press Fit 30 BB into your frame, then the Kit, in order to install your 24mm crankset.
The Chris King Bottom Bracket Conversion Kit #1 is designed for use with 68mm PF30 bottom brackets and is intended for road cranks specifically. The Chris King PF30 Bottom Bracket is sold separately.


Strategy for handling variable time queries?
Home SQL Strategy for handling variable time queries?
I have a typical scenario that I'm struggling with from a performance standpoint. The user selects a value from a dropdown and clicks a button. A stored procedure takes that value as an input parameter, executes, and returns the results to a grid. For just one of the values ('All'), the query runs for roughly 2.5 minutes. For the rest of the values the query runs less than 1ms.
Obviously, having the user wait for 2.5 minutes just isn't going to fly. So, what are some typical strategies to handle this?
sp returns two result sets. The first is a group by rollup summary and the second is the first result set, disaggregated (roughly 80,000 rows).
Caching data is a good thing, but…. if the SP is inherently flawed, then you might want to actually fix it instead of trying to bandage it with caching.
You might also want to (since you didn't mention here) look at the number of rows "All" returns compared to the other selections and think about your indexes.
Also in your SP does the "All" cause it to run a different sets of tsql as in maybe a case or an if… or is it running the same code just with a different "WHERE"?
These are all options… if the number of records really isnt that different between ALL and the others… then it probably has something to do with the query/index/program flow.
I would first look at if your have the proper indexes in place. Using the Query Analyzer and the Database Tuning Assistant is a simple and often effective way of seeing what indexes might help.
If you still have performance problems after creating the appropriate indexes you might then look at adding tables/views to speed things up. If your query does a lot of joins you might consider creating an indexed view that allows you to do a select with no joins on the denormalized data. Since indexed views are persisted you can see big gains from their use.
For more info: Strategy for handling variable time queries?


Our circadian rhythm is our internal body clock.
It's roughly a 24-hour physiological cycle, regulated by hormones made by our bodies. It can also be influenced by external cues such as sunlight and temperature.
The hormones regulating our circadian rhythm include cortisol, which helps us wake up and feel energetic during the day, and melatonin, which helps us fall asleep at night.
In breastmilk there are several components that also show a circadian rhythm.
More research is needed but it's likely the circadian rhythm of at least some of these components enhances the wellbeing of breastfed babies.
Here are 3 facts about the circadian variation of breastmilk components.
It's well known the fat content of breastmilk displays a circadian rhythm; the average fat content of breastmilk is significantly related to the time of day.
The fat content of breastmilk is typically higher during the day and the evening, and lower during the morning and at night.
Breastmilk contains tryptophan, an amino acid used by the body to make the hormone melatonin. Melatonin helps induce and regulate sleep.
Levels of tryptophan in breastmilk increase and decrease according to maternal circadian rhythms. This suggests breastfeeding might help develop babies' circadian rhythm and help them settle to sleep better at night.
Some studies have shown a circadian rhythm in the level of certain minerals (e.g. calcium, phosphorus and magnesium) in breastmilk. However, other studies found no significant variations in the amounts of these minerals.
Research shows several other micronutrients (e.g. some vitamins and iron) and hormones (e.g. cortisol and melatonin) also have circadian variability.
So why might it be important for these various components of breastmilk to show circadian variability?
It's not currently known what function (if any) circadian variation of the components in breastmilk might have. Neither is it clear whether there would be any inherent problem if these components didn't show circadian variation, but were delivered at constant levels over the course of a day.
Researchers have speculated the circadian rhythm of various components of breastmilk might be of particular importance for babies born prematurely.
From birth, exposure to daylight and maternal signals (including those in breastmilk) provide circadian stimuli to babies. Babies in the NICU are significantly less exposed to such daylight and maternal signals.
Therefore, it's possible premature babies in the NICU could benefit the most if they were given expressed breastmilk matching the circadian phase in which it was expressed.


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npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "-g" "webpack" "webpack-dev-server"
npm ERR! node v6.11.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "-g" "webpack" "webpack-dev-server"
npm ERR! node v6.11.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! path npm-debug.log.1837435588
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'npm-debug.log.1837435588'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'npm-debug.log.1837435588'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'open',
npm ERR!   path: 'npm-debug.log.1837435588' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/npm-debug.log
lnkimac:Users fernando$

A: When you install something gloabally (-g), you have to launch npm with administrator rights (in most cases).
You can do this by starting a Commandline with administrator rights (Search CMD in Windows, right click it -> start as administrator).
There you can execute the command again. This should work.

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Book Review: Lazy Stereotypes of an Uninspired Mind
Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Che in Paona Bazaar, Macmillan, 2013, Rs 399, pp. 241
By Soibam Haripriya
Paona Bazaar lies in the heart of Imphal, Manipur. One can describe this place by its proximity to Bir Tikendrajit Road which had seen the infamous fake encounter case in July 2009. In fact many of the landmarks of the town would tell a story of it being part of a constellation of political violence. Che, I would presume, needs no introduction here. The attempt here is to understand this curious juxtaposition of 'Che' and 'Paona Bazaar' as seen through the lens of a media practitioner. The book 'Che in Paona Bazaar' largely discusses (but not exclusively) two states –Manipur and Nagaland – of what is unproblematically called the North-east. These two states are not only connected by a common border but also bsy it falling in the category of 'disturbed area'. The infamous Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 has been in place in these states, it is often argued that the enactment of this act is partly related to the peculiar and coerced manner in which these states become a part of the Indian Union. One would therefore expect some amount of nuanced understanding which captures the complexities from a book that claims to deal with the region.
This work of non-fiction with a fictional protagonist whom the writer claims as 'not representative of any community or culture' is named Eshei (Meiteilon word for Song) which is a dead giveaway. She is a typical native informant in the book that reminds the reader of dated anthropological writings. The book is to a large extent a narrative mediated through Eshei. The writer does not shy away from beginning the book with racial stereotypes that abounds in the mainstream Indian imagination of the so-called Northeast. The oldest armed group in Manipur – UNLF – mentioned in the initial pages of the book is referred to as 'working towards a unification of Mongoloid armed groups', is just one of many such unabashed stereotypes. Comparing cultures on the basis of exotic curiosities –for example, comparing Manipuri and Korean culture based on the practice of putting family name before given name; comparing Sanamahism to Shamanism. Perhaps meant to be amusing, but rather than being funny it ends up carelessly taking down a language especially as in one sentence the protagonist's fetish for Moreh bras is strangely morphed into its seeming importance among a whole community. Unbelievable as it might sound; the author states that bra (brassiere) is an important word among the Meiteis due to the interrogative pronoun 'bra' suffixed at the end of a query.
Moreh, the border town, described as a Manipuri Malgudi in the book of course is a terribly wrong metaphor. Using the metaphor of Moreh being a Manipuri Malgudi, the writer was not even romanticising the town but describing the dirt, grit, 'prostitution' and smuggling of drugs which is typical of many border towns in conflict zones across the globe. The book is splattered with pomposity that the author showers upon himself, if the name of the book 'Che in Paona Bazaar' itself is not enough indication of that, sample these sentences – 'my 'motorcycle diaries' brought me to Paona Bazaar'; 'I was the Pirate of Paona Bazaar'! In the start of the book itself the writer expresses his disdain for one of his native informant as he had to do his own research, he seem to want everything on a platter and does not shy away from expressing this. This is one of the kinder expressions he uses; he describes people scathingly leaving enough hints to identify the people populating his book. Even a superficial analysis of the choice of qualifiers used in the book reveals much. For instance, Manorama Devi (though her name is not given it is impossible to miss out on the clues) is described as an explosives expert but she was allegedly raped. Allegedly raped? What about her real murder? The protests that ensued after the rape and murder of Manorama Devi have been offhandedly described as creating 'another stereotype of naked protests'. One is at a loss as to what the statement is supposed to mean. Did it lead to a chain of naked protests throughout the country? No. Does the country recognise rape of men and women in peripheral states by the armed forces? No. Or did he mean that yet another stereotype has been added to those currently proliferating on the northeast? A second or a third reading does not make this clear either.
What is worst than this racial stereotype interspersed in the writing is the lack of any nuanced political understanding of the region from someone who was at the helm of news from the 'North-east' as a Resident Editor for a national news channel. In a rather bizarre juxtaposition he narrates two incidents together – the protest by women who stripped themselves outside the headquarters of Assam Rifles; and another incident six months later where a 'Meitei girl' 'made love to a young army officer' inside the headquarters of the Assam Rifles. The former was a protest by women, now known as 'nude protest', against the rape and murder of Manorama Devi by the Assam Rifles: a protest which also demanded the repeal of AFSPA (though mentioned nowhere in the book). It is unsettling to see the two incidents being described in the same paragraph –protest against a rape where the woman was killed and had gun-shot wounds in her vagina and a woman making love to an army officer.
The lack of respect for his subject is clear from statements like –'Meitei homes have a confusing front and back yard' or referring to avoidance of eye-contact as a gesture 'typical of people in Manipur' or proffering his idea that a dinner shared with two Tangkhul cousins in Ukhrul which consisted of hot pickle is somehow the cause of 'their violent streak'. Sample this statement 'In fact, there is a possibility that every detail in this account will be challenged. That is also quintessentially Meitei.' What this statement attempts to do is refute any possibility of disagreement. Prior to the disagreement being made he already stereotypes it as a trait of a community. The style of writing is reminiscent of dated writings on the lost innocence of the native, the only difference being that according to the writer the natives are to be blamed for the current state of affairs. It is rather strange that a work of non-fiction that discusses so much on the conflict attributes the loss of personal liberty only on civil society and 'armed nationalist' and does not extend the same to the police or the army presence.
What one would have wanted was honesty with the times the book dealt with. The book covered a series of politically charged events and people involved. But the intention of the narrative produced about these events seems to be ridicule rather than looking at the everyday travails of the people. For instance, while trying to take a critical stand on the Assam Agitation, the writer could not come up with anything better than dismissing the leadership as an 'uninspired bunch' and describing the years spanning this movement as being a time for young couples to have sex in closed-down schools. The gaze of the writer is definitely voyeuristic. Without explaining much, he also gets away with statements like 'Insurgency is complex, at the same time boring to elaborate'; calls the NSCN-IM as armed Naga guerrillas and later qualifies his statement and calls them organised dacoits which is a notch lower that the colonial misrepresentation of 'Naga hostiles'. The writer describes human rights organisations as frontal organisations of armed groups who pick 'up cases of army and police excesses and drumming up public outcry against the state'. This is quite a painful erasure of the fact that police and army excesses still continue with an alarming regularity.
The problem with the book is not just that he sees the community as a collective without individual thought, trait or agency: a narrative which builds upon easily into the many stereotypes he offers on people as a whole, but also the seamless traversing from one state to the other almost playing with the idea of the 'Northeast' as a chunk of landmass conjoined like Siamese twins. It is clear whose side he is on especially as he mentions all the players in the field of conflict and yet conveniently refrains from referring to the State as one of the main beneficiaries of the conflict. The reproduction of existing clichés is however not as damaging as the superficial narration of various events that have had far reaching consequences in the politics of the region in the guise of some sort of social narrative.
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iTech is opening an official PlayStation store at SM North EDSA this Wednesday!
Playstation fans! Mark your calendars and ready your wallets this Wednesday, June 27, as iTech is opening the first-ever official PlayStation store in the Philippines!
Named "iTech's PlayStation Specialized Store," it will open on Wednesday at Cyberzone, The Annex, SM City North EDSA — specifically at the location of the previous iTech store.
iTech's PlayStation store will feature the latest PlayStation game titles, along with accessories for the PS4, PS4 Pro, and PSVR.
If you've ever dropped by Cyberzone at SM North EDSA recently, you may have noticed a storefront at the fourth floor which had a tease of the upcoming PlayStation Store. Well, it's finally confirmed! And you better drop by this Wednesday, as there will be exciting promos and giveaways on the opening week!
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Interested in a Cybersecurity Career? This College Is Offering Free Degrees
By StoryStudio November 11, 2021 10:23 am
As the times rapidly change, so does our system of higher education. Long gone are the days of only choosing a generic major like biology or history. Now, one of the hottest career paths in the world lies in cybersecurity or a variety of fields in computer and information technology (CIT).
Fortunately for Houstonians, San Jacinto College is equipping students with the credentials they need to kickstart a promising career in the industry. Even better, with the popular Fast Track Program, tuition for their CIT or IT cybersecurity certificate of technology currently has a 100% tuition discount.
Determining Which Program Is Right for You
Dr. Roger Watkins has been with San Jacinto Community College for a total of 8 years now, spending the last 7 as the department chair. While he does teach one class in the summer and holds a qualified resume as a professor of business, his primary tasks these days are 99% on the administrative side. He mostly manages the college's curriculum and faculty, including various programs in business, computer information technology, and engineering, plus economics and accounting.
When speaking with Dr. Watkins, you'll quickly realize he carries himself with an aura of sage wisdom, making him the perfect guide for students who need direction in life.
"Some people are just exploring IT as a possible career path," says Dr. Watkins. "I always start by asking them, 'What is it that you think you want to do?' From my perspective, if you're going to spend 8-10 hours a day doing something, do something you love or are at least interested in doing."
When narrowing down a student's choice to a particular program, it really does come down to the individual's own interest. Currently, San Jac offers associate degrees and technology certificates such as applications programming, desktop support and networking administration, and web application design and implementation, among others. With COVID having accelerated an already-high demand for cloud-based solutions, cloud programming was introduced at San Jac this semester as well. However, for those who are more on the artistic side, web design makes a lot more sense than the IT/coding aspect.
Another growing area of study is simulation, which prompted San Jacinto College to offer a game and simulation program. "More and more companies are looking for virtual solutions," Dr. Watkins states. "During COVID times, people are even looking to train their staff virtually." With the rise of virtual reality and augmented reality, companies are replicating environments. For example, many first responders in fire departments now use augmented reality to train for dangerous scenarios. San Jac has also worked with one large company recently to implement this for petrochemical plants too.
Why Cybersecurity Is One of the Highest Paying Career Paths
The more technology that exists, the more digital criminals find ways to wreak havoc. Considering the constant news headlines surrounding cyber-attacks, ransomware, and other horrors, cloud and cybersecurity are the most in-demand fields to be in right now. Company secrets and private servers desperately need protection, but Dr. Watkins always warns students about how the job's above-average pay does come with a significant amount of pressure. If you work for a Fortune 500 company that gets hacked, you're going to be held accountable, putting in long hours and running forensics to track down the perpetrators.
"Cybersecurity is a good field and a skill set that's very much needed, but it comes with a particular price," Dr. Watkins says. "It's a stressful job, and that's why they get paid well."
Another thing important to note is the interconnectivity that cybersecurity has with CIT specifically. If you get an associate degree in cybersecurity, you will likely begin your career at a company that's going to start you in a different department for the first year. Out of the gate, you might be doing desktop support or solving problems in the call center. This is why it's important to get a well-versed education at somewhere like San Jac where you can learn numerous CIT skills beyond strictly cybersecurity.
"Having worked at major engineering firms before, I know how that works," Dr. Watkins says. "That's an expectation I try to manage with students. However, if you exhibit the right skills and are serious about protecting their data, you can move up pretty quickly because there is such demand."
Many cybersecurity or cloud graduates at San Jacinto College are well into the six figures within a couple of years. This is not a promise or a guarantee, but an incredibly realistic possibility. Even so, the fact remains that salary isn't everything.
"Obviously people want to make money. That's typically why we work," Dr. Watkins laughs. "But even though some fields pay well if you're miserable doing that kind of work, there's not enough money that can satisfy you. That's why we always start with what you're interested in."
Why Choose San Jacinto College
San Jacinto College's leadership always asks students and alumni how they learned about their programs. The most common answer is they knew someone who recommended the great faculty.
"We pride ourselves on making sure we do everything in our power to ensure our students are successful," Dr. Watkins says. "Of course, they have to put in the work, but we're going to move any barriers we can to make sure they are successful."
Some of these barriers include classes during business hours. Always looking for new ideas to meet students' work-life balance, Dr. Watkins and his team are currently devising ways that adults – who can't make traditional classroom times – can complete their programs. San Jac does offer online courses as much as possible to provide maximum flexibility in getting a degree or certification.
Sign Up Quickly Before Open Spots Are Gone
Registration for San Jacinto College's FastTrack Program is currently underway for the spring semester and is at a 100% tuition discount for eligible programs. A limited number of openings are available.
Potential students intrigued by the possibility should visit the college's official Fast Track Tuition Discount Program page to learn more about the program.
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"And is this all the reward," said he, "for my ardor? He's quite well…" Vronsky had not even tried to sleep all that night. He sat in his armchair, looking straight before him or scanning the people who got in and out. If he had indeed on previous occasions struck and impressed people who did not know him by his air of unhesitating composure, he seemed now more haughty and self-possessed than ever. He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man, a clerk in a law court, sitting opposite him, hated him for that look. The young man asked him for a light, and entered into conversation with him, and even pushed against him, to make him feel that he was not a thing, but a person. But Vronsky gazed at him exactly as he did at the lamp, and the young man made a wry face, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the oppression of this refusal to recognize him as a person.
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It is also part of the Coral Triangle, the area with the highest biodiversity of marine species. In this area alone, over 500 reef-building coral species can be found. A home of the Subak irrigation system, Bali's UNESCO World Heritage Site.


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Q: Why do we not use cold neutrons in nuclear reactors?
Typical nuclear reactors use neutrons in the $10^{-2}$ eV range (thermal neutrons) which corresponds to a fission cross section of a few hundred barns. What stops us from using a super-cold moderator, resulting in $10^{-5}-10^{-3} eV$ neutrons and dramatically increasing the cross section to a few thousand barns (as this would generate more power)? We have experience with handling extremely cold materials (liquid H2 in rockets), so is the intuition wrong or is there simply no reason to do this?

A: First problem is you want to use a reactor to create heat (and then use the heat to generate electricity). Using a cool moderator is directly detrimental to this aim. Also burning the fuel as fast as anybody wants is easy with current moderators, the trick is you don't want to burn it too fast, otherwise the plant and the neighboring city might get damaged.

A: In a reactor, the neutrons are slowed down because they get a thermal equilibrium with the coolant. This is why are they called thermal.
There is no way to create neutrons colder than the coolant on this way, it is probably even impossible without serious changes in the current reactor constructions.


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Point (), also known as the Eye Peninsula, is a peninsula some 11 km long in the Outer Hebrides (or Western Isles), Scotland. The majority of Point is connected to the rest of the Isle of Lewis by a narrow isthmus, one mile in length and at one point barely 100 metres wide. The peninsula is just 6 km east of the regional capital of Stornoway, however the district of Point actually starts at the Parkend estate on Stornoway's outskirts. Point is home to around 2,600 people and is one of the few districts of the Western Isles where the population is increasing.
There are about 17 villages and hamlets in Point: (listed west to east) Melbost (Mealabost) (Including Stornoway Airport), Branahuie (Bràigh na h-Aoidhe), Aignish (Aiginis), Knock (An Cnoc), Swordale (Suardail), Garrabost, Lower Bayble (Pabail Iarach), Eagleton (Baile na h-Iolaire), Upper Bayble (Pabail Uarach), Shulishader (Sulaisiader, usually referred to as Shader), Sheshader (Seisiader), Flesherin (Fleisirin), Cnoc Amhlaigh, Portnaguran (Port nan Giuran), Aird, Broker (Brocair), and Portvoller (Port Mholair).

Education
Point is served by Sgoil an Rubha (Point School), a primary school which opened in 2011 in Bayble, built on the site of Bayble primary and junior secondary school. There was a long debate about the new school, leading to a gap of over 10 years between the first plans and the building of the school. The school took a year to build, and was the first of a number of new schools built in the Western Isles. There were three primary schools in Point: Bayble, Knock and Aird. These fed into Bayble junior secondary school, which closed when the new school opened, reflecting the decline in the school-age population. There is now no junior secondary school in Point; Sgoil an Rubha feeds into the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway for secondary education.

Heritage Sites

At the eastern end of the isthmus (Am Bràighe in Gaelic) are the ruins of the Eye Church, which are all that remain of a building dedicated to St Columba. This was among the largest pre-Reformation Churches in the Western Isles. Although the present buildings are probably medieval, the Church is reputedly on the site of the cell of St Catan, a contemporary of St Columba. This is the burial ground of 19 of the Chiefs of the MacLeods of Lewis. There are two old carved commemorative slabs, one depicts a warrior, believed to be Roderick, 7th Chief; while the other is Margaret, daughter of Roderick MacLeod of Lewis, who died in 1503.

In recent years, the land reform struggle of the 19th century in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland is being recognised, and the Aignish Riots of 1888 are commemorated by a memorial adjacent to the Eye Church.

On the north-west side of the peninsula and 30m offshore is Stac Mor Garrabost. Investigated by archaeologists in 1990s as part of the Coastal Erosion Assessment project and then again in the 2000s for The Severe Terrain Archaeological Campaign (STAC) little is known about the site except that there are the remains of structures on the sea stack.

Notable people from Point

Iain Crichton Smith: Poet and author from Bayble
Ishbel MacAskill: Scottish Gaelic singer from Broker
Stuart Braithwaite: Lead singer of the band Mogwai, mother is from Flesherin.
Calum MacDonald: Retired MP for the Western Isles
Anne MacKenzie: Journalist from Point
Ronnie McKinnon: Rangers FC football player, Capped for Scotland 28 times, Lives in Flesherin. His connection with the island lies in Carloway, on the other side of the island, where his mother came from.
Donald Morrison: Footballer for Dumbarton, and formerly for Point F.C. and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

References

External links
Photo of the Aignish memorial
Community website
Urras Eaglais na h-Aoidhe (The Ui Church Trust)

Peninsulas of Scotland
Isle of Lewis
Landforms of the Outer Hebrides

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Prediction: Croatia vs Morocco – Soccer News
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Prediction: Croatia win
Best Odds: 27/20
Bookmaker: 888sport
We've arrived at the final stretch of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and while the game we're focusing on today isn't the big one, it's still important to praise the two nations involved. Croatia and Morocco have fought incredibly hard throughout the course of the tournament and this weekend, they'll collide with the honour of being named the third best team in the FWC on the line.
Croatia were believed to have peaked back in 2018 when they shocked the world to reach the World Cup final. They fell at the last hurdle to France and given their ageing squad, the popular opinion was that they'd struggle this time around. Alas, that didn't prove to be the case whatsoever, as they were able to dig deep and make an astonishing run to the semis before being knocked out by Argentina.
Stanisic and Juranovic are expected to miss out here but aside from that, Croatia should have a fully fit squad.
The Atlas Lions of Morocco have done the continent of Africa and the Arab world incredibly proud. Some saw them as underdogs throughout but the way they performed indicated that they should, in many cases, have been the favourites in their games after all. A clash with reigning world champions France proved to be a step too far, but they have absolutely nothing to be ashamed about after the last few weeks.
Aguerd is unlikely to feature after picking up an injury prior to the France game whereas Saiss was also forced off in the semi-final.
In their group stage meeting, Morocco and Croatia drew 0-0.
Croatia have won one, drawn four and lost one of their six World Cup games.
Morocco have won three, drawn two and lost one of their six World Cup games.
Croatia have scored six goals and conceded six at the World Cup.
Morocco have scored five goals and conceded three and the World Cup.
While we'd love to go down the predictable route of assuming this will play out all the way through to penalties, we simply don't think that'll be the case. Both sides will be tired and probably won't be all too invested in this game, but we still picture one team emerging with a bit of a spark – and that's Croatia. With this being Modric's swansong, he'll want to bow out with a bronze medal.
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New York Public Library Releases Trove of Public Domain Images
The New York Public Library announced that it's released a trove of public domain images for high resolution download.
The release covers 187 thousand images that date back to the 11th century and includes material that ranges from maps to manuscripts to photographs to much much more.
Via The NYPL:
The release of more than 180,000 digitized items represents both a simplification and an enhancement of digital access to a trove of unique and rare materials: a removal of administration fees and processes from public domain content, and also improvements to interfaces — popular and technical — to the digital assets themselves. Online users of the NYPL Digital Collections website will find more prominent download links and filters highlighting restriction-free content; while more technically inclined users will also benefit from updates to the Digital Collections API enabling bulk use and analysis, as well as data exports and utilities posted to NYPL's GitHub account. These changes are intended to facilitate sharing, research and reuse by scholars, artists, educators, technologists, publishers, and Internet users of all kinds. All subsequently digitized public domain collections will be made available in the same way, joining a growing repository of open materials.
Remix & Prosper
The Digital Collections API is exciting. The library is hoping that people will take and remix the public domain images they've released. They even announced a "Remix Residency" which includes a $2,000 stipend and the opportunity to work with NYPL curators and staff.
The NYPL Labs has a visualization example and released the source code created to initially browse the 187,000 image release.
Data and utilities for the project is located here. The entire digital collection is here.
New York Public Library Releases Trove of Public Domain Images originally appeared on The Future Journalism Project.
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The Department of Transportation and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines inaugurated on Friday the newly-repaired passenger terminal building of the Virac Airport in Virac, Catanduanes.
Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade, DOTr Undersecretary for Aviation and Airports Manuel Antonio Tamayo, CAAP Director General Jim Sydiongco, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Catanduanes Rep. Cesar Sarmiento, Philippine Airforce Commanding General Lt. Gen. Galileo Gerard Kintanar, Catanduanes Gov. Joseph Cua, and Virac Mayor Samuel Laynes, led the inauguration rites.
The terminal rehabilitation project began in January 2016, and involved turning the old design of the passenger terminal building into a modernized structure.
The P39-million project, whose initial completion date was on July 20, 2016, was suspended on May 23, 2016 after additional retrofitting works were considered necessary to provide stability for the old building originally built in 1963. It was suspended once again in December 2016 due to damages brought by Typhoon "Nina," resulting in added P4.5 million in cost to repair the passenger terminal building.
"When President Duterte appointed us in his Cabinet, he gave us one important directive— ensure that we make the Filipino comfortable. That is why we continue to build, build, and build. We build to enhance mobility and connectivity, not just to improve movement of transportation of people and goods, nor just to improve travel. We do this to enhance the Filipino's way of life," Tugade said.
Gigmoto Mayor Ding Guerrero, Baras Mayor Chito Chi, Bagamanoc Mayor Remigio Villaluna, Caramoran Mayor Agnes Popa, and San Andres Mayor Peter Cua, DOTr Asec for Maritime Andoy Perez, and PPA General Manager Jay Santiago were also present at the inauguration.


Okay, I need to vent a bit.
I started having this crazy reaction to some medicine my doctor switched me two about 4 weeks ago. We are talking brain zaps, hallucinations, flu-like symptoms… the whole nine yards.
I call the doctor's office and (of course) she is out of town for a conference and won't be in until next week. So, I pick the lesser of the two evils and choose another doctor in the practice. This was a crazy situation. Unfortunately, my doctor's nurse that we knew really well– who would have called the doctor for me– recently took another job in the ER at the hospital.
I drive my crazy self to the doctor.
Of course, there is a room full of sick people.
I go in and the doctor comes in and asks me what is going on.
I explain to her I am getting these brain zaps.
She told me there was no way I was feeling that.
She asked why I didn't just stop taking the pills.
Uh… cause the label says to not stop taking them without talking to the doctor because of serious side effects.
Yeah, not going to stop taking them without seeing the doctor.
She finally agrees to change me to a different medicine.
So, I leave with my zappy self and go home. The next day, I do some research on the drug I WAS on and it has been compared to coming off of a heroin addiction. Doctors have said that it should be banned and labeled a category 2 drug and that they refuse to prescribe it to their patients.
Thank God I only took it for 4 weeks.
So, I was still having the brain zaps and the withdrawal of the old drug. I did some more research and found that the "cure" for this is Omega 3 fish oil and Benadryl.
Anyways, I am two days into the new medicine and I cannot tell you how great I feel. People keep commenting that the "old Julia" is back and ask what has been wrong the last few weeks.
I guess the vent of this post is… if you are a doctor and I tell you something is wrong, if I explain or describe something to you… don't discount it. You can look at my chart and see I am not one of those pill seekers or anything like that. There is truly something wrong. I am there for an emergency reason, don't disregard my concerns or tell me that isn't how I feel. Where is your bedside manner? Don't tell me I need to get exercise or perhaps therapy would help… (which, I swear to you she said to me…).
Don't get me wrong… I love my regular doctor. She has been seeing the kids since they were babies and we switched over to her after our doctor retired (whom I loved as well.) She knows me and knows my background and knows that if I say I feel like my brain is being electrocuted… its the truth.
I just don't understand how I am in there for a serious reason– I seriously thought I was going to be committed, it was that bad– and she has the audacity to lecture me about exercise. Really. Just because you are a flipping size 0, doesn't mean I have to be.
I hope that doctor gets brain zaps for a couple of days in a row… then I can ask her if she has exercised.
(((HUGS))) oh no…that is beyond scary. I hate when doctors are just so clueless or just nasty to us. Glad you got them to go away, but that is not something to mes around with.


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Dr G. Satheesh Reddy
Secretary Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO
Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), spearheads indigenous development of defence systems and technologies. As the top defence scientist in the country, Dr Reddy guides the development of major programs on missiles and strategic systems, fighter aircrafts and unmanned aerial defence systems, underwater systems, radar systems, strategic materials, armaments, and futuristic technologies. A visionary and institution builder, his technology leadership has deeply impacted the development of 'best in class' systems for the Indian Armed Forces.
Acclaimed as one of the leading aerospace scientists of the nation, Dr Reddy is also the Director General of the Aeronautical Development Agency that has developed the 4th Generation Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, which is being inducted into active service.
Navigation technologies and systems, which form the core of defence assets have been designed and developed by Dr Satheesh Reddy for multiple platforms, enabling self-reliance in these critical areas. Working on the electronic designs and system engineering from a very young age, Dr Reddy facilitated the realization of various major defence systems in short periods of time.
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As Director, RCI, he led the development of critical technologies for IIR seekers, RF seekers, integrated avionics modules and many other systems for onboard applications. As Director General of Missiles and Strategic Systems he spearheaded the development of various kind of missiles for Ballistic Missile Defence, Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, Surface to Air Missiles, Air to Ground Missiles, Air to Air Missiles and Long Range Guided Bomb.
India's maiden successful test of Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile Mission Shakti was successfully executed under his watch. His tenacious leadership has enabled the development of Air defence systems BVRAM Astra, Akash, MRSAM, LRSAM, QRSAM. The world's longest-range gun ATAGS, anti-radiation missile, smart air field weapons, smart bombs, and missile assisted torpedo release systems owe their success to Dr Reddy's vision. Dr Reddy diligently drives innovation and cutting edge research in many areas that include hypersonic and quantum technologies.
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Dr Reddy also pioneered in quickly diversifying DRDO's talent to effectively develop required technologies in the ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Under his guidance, nearly 50 technologies for combating COVID have been developed and about 75 products have been transferred to 100 industries. He demonstrated exemplary courage and leadership during the pandemic and his non-stop work bears testimony to his 'never-say-die' spirit, and effectively mirrors the outstanding humanitarian facet of a scientist.
Dr Reddy's significant contributions in the field of technology development and promotion of scientific pursuit have resulted in his being conferred with Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Science by many leading Universities in the country. His vast scientific and technological contributions have been acknowledged by leading international institutes in the form of honours and awards. He is the first Indian in over 100 years to be conferred with the prestigious Honorary Fellowship and Silver Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society, London. The Royal Aeronautical Society recognised contributions of Dr Reddy towards indigenous design, development and deployment of diversified missile systems, aerospace vehicles, guided weapons and avionics technologies in India.
He has received numerous other awards including American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Missile Systems Award. He is the first scientist outside USA to be awarded in nearly four decades. Other awards conferred on Dr Satheesh Reddy include the National Systems Gold Medal, National Design Award, IEI-IEEE (USA) Award for Engineering Excellence and the Homi J Bhabha Gold Medal.