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Valerie Sherrard's ambition to become a writer was kindled when she was in grade six and living with her family in Lahr, West Germany, where her father was stationed. Her homeroom teacher praised her efforts and instilled in her a lifelong belief in her ability to write. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she has since become an award-winning Canadian author of both picture books for children, and novels for young adults.
Valerie has written a number of award-winning books for young readers, including Tumbleweed Skies, Out of the Ashes, Kate, Sam's Light, and The Glory Wind, winner of the 2011 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction as well as the Ann Conner Brimer Award. Out of the Ashes was a Red Maple Award Honour Book and a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award. Kate was a White Pine Award Honour Book and an IODE National Chapter Violet Downey Award Recommended Title. Sam's Light was nominated for both the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and the Snow Willow Award, as well as a Resource Links Best Book.
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Don't think this has been mentioned before, but there's an interesting workshop from the British Council Arts about literary translation, including a section written by Anthea Bell devoted to the Asterix translations.
The article raises a few interesting points such as a suggested revision of the translations and alterations made to the artwork (only one), and an extensive section on translating the puns and accents.
As a translator and Asterix aficionado, I thank you for bringing this to my attention! I haven't read the whole article yet, but I look forward to it. Asterix poses a clear translation problem not only through its puns, but also the visual gags that appear, often in the mock-hyeroglyphic dialogue of the Egyptian characters. I have often thought that if I were to translate the name of the Egyptian Courdetenis, who appears in Asterix Legionnaire, I would make it Anyonefortennis.
I were to translate the name of the Egyptian Courdetenis, who appears in Asterix Legionnaire, I would make it Anyonefortennis.
They called him Ptenisnet - he was a great character.
Back on topic again, I wonder when the proposed revisions were to occur - perhaps before the recent reprints with the new colouring, inking and lettering? From what the article suggests, the main issue of contention was Getafix's name.
Thanks, Richard; I quite like Ptenisnet!
Meanwhile, back at the article, I note an error in AB's assertion that the English translations started with their first book in 1969 - we had already had the Beric the Briton incarnation in the Ranger.
Actually, I'm quite surprised she's not been recognised before as she's often cited as one of the great translators (even outside of Asterix).
Just found an interesting commendation for the translations in a recent British edition of The Reader's Digest, June 2009 (available in doctors' and dentists' waiting rooms the length and breadth of the U.K. by now…).
There is a profile of the favourite books of Peter Florence, director of the Hay Festival, a large annual literary festival, attracting 75,000 visitors, and just one of several he runs in seven countries around the globe, so he's quite a knowledgeable and distinguished figure.
He chooses Asterix in Britain as one of them, and says that the Asterix series is actually "much funnier in English than in French". So there is agreement for your position, George!
Ptenisnet is the only one that actually seems Egyptian to me. With the additional bonus that it is reminiscent of the well-known supplier of quills, Pen Island.
I note an error in AB's assertion that the English translations started with their first book in 1969 - we had already had the Beric the Briton incarnation in the Ranger.
This is old, but I've been today to the Astérix in Britain: The Life and Work of René Goscinny exhibition, running at the Jewish Museum in Camden, London (and closing next week).
Exactly the same assertion was made, even with copies of both Valiant and Ranger on display in English.
The wording wasn't consistent between the information panels, but the point that seems to be the important one is that the 1969 translations were "official", and the earlier ones "unofficial".
I'm not sure how true this actually is, as I think there may be more to it than that; both Valiant and Ranger are titles from reputable publishers, so the suggestion that they just ripped off the work, and slapped their own translations on, willy-nilly, isn't exactly credible.
However, reading between the lines, I think I may have an idea for what lies behind this.
We know from the information supplied by Amilah here that the original German translation was problematic for Goscinny and Uderzo, when they discovered that it was being used in a Far Right publication from a neo-Nazi group. This apparently happened because the French publisher was granting foreign rights to the stories through intermediaries, without watching what they were doing.
My guess is that that is what happened in English too - and may have been why the strips were "localized" from their Gaulish setting. In making sure that the German publisher was stopped, G&U may have either shown that the publisher didn't actually have the authority to sell foreign rights, or insisted on having approval for future translations. Hence why the "official", "authorized" translations start in 1969.


This statistic shows the total public sector expenditure in Scotland from 2010/11 to 2017/18. Government spending increased constantly until a decrease occurred from 2012/13 to 2013/14. In 2017/18, the total expenditure experienced an increase to 73 billion British pounds.


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1 What does enforcement mean in civil and commercial matters?
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6 Are there any limitations on enforcement, in particular related to debtor protection or time limits?
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In Scotland the term diligence is used to describe a number of legal processes which can be executed against debtors in order to enforce payment of debts due to creditors. Diligence can only competently proceed on a lawful warrant such as a court decree or document of debt for payment of money or, more widely, an order of the civil courts generally including for performance or prevention of an act.
Types of diligence include arrestment of earnings, arrestment of goods or funds in the hands of a third party, attachment of goods or funds, inhibition and adjudication for debt.
Adjudication for debt
Adjudication for debt is a very old diligence against heritable property, the effect of which is judicial heritable security in favour of the creditor. This rarely used diligence is exclusively a Court of Session process. After decree of adjudication is granted, the extract decree is recorded or registered in the appropriate Scottish land register (Register of Sasines or the Land Register). The adjudicating creditor then obtains, in general, the same rights as other heritable creditors, but excluding a power of sale. It allows the creditor to raise an action to remove the debtor if he is in possession, or raise an action to receive rent money from tenants if the property is leased. It is only after a period of ten years that the creditor can apply to the court to become the owner and sell the property.
Arrestment of goods or funds in the hands of a third party
Arrestment is a diligence against moveable property belonging to the debtor which is in the hands of a third party. It operates by preventing the third party from releasing the arrested property. Subjects which can be arrested include debts, funds held in a bank account, shares, trusts estate, insurance policies, and corporeal moveable property. Corporeal moveable property in the hands of the debtor cannot be arrested, as the appropriate diligence for that is attachment.
Attachment of goods
Corporeal moveable property in possession of a debtor may be attached by a creditor and sold at auction as a means of recovering outstanding debts. However attachment cannot be used to seize certain items such as tools of trade or books required by the debtor for their profession, or vehicles which are reasonably required by the debtor and which do not exceed a specified value. Attachment also cannot be used to take possession of goods in the debtor's dwelling house, unless an order for exceptional attachment has been granted by the Sheriff at court. Attachment allows a creditor to attach money (cash including coins and banknotes in a foreign currency, postal orders, banking instruments, etc) which is held on a debtor's premises, although money in a dwelling house or on the debtor's person cannot be attached.
Earnings Arrestment
Diligence against a debtor's earnings can be executed in the form of an earnings arrestment (for enforcement of a single debt), a current maintenance arrestment (for enforcement of ailment or a periodical allowance on divorce), or a conjoined arrestment order (an order granted by the court to enforce payment of two or more of the same type of debts, at the same time).. A deduction from earnings order can also be made in terms of the Child Support Act 1991 for anyone liable to pay child support under a maintenance arrestment. On being served with an arrestment schedule, the employer must deduct an amount from the debtor's earnings calculated in accordance with statutory tables each payday and pay it over to the creditor until such time as the debt is settled or the debtor leaves the employment.
Ejection or Removing from property
Ejection may be undertaken on the authority of decrees for recovery of possession of heritable property, removing or ejection. Removing is the term used where a landlord seeks to recover possession of property from a tenant. Ejection is the remedy for removal of an occupier who does not hold title to occupy the heritable property.
Inhibition
Inhibition is a personal diligence which prohibits a debtor from selling or otherwise disposing of or granting any security over their heritable property, to the detriment of the inhibiting creditor. This is achieved by registering an inhibition in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications. An inhibition offers comfort to the inhibitor in that the debtor will have difficulty in disposing of their heritable property, but it does not give the inhibitor any real right over the property. An Inhibition is a negative or prohibitory diligence which remains effective for a period of five years, but will terminate earlier if the inhibiting creditor agrees to discharge; usually upon satisfaction of the debt.
Sheriff Officers and Messengers-at-Arms are the competent authorities for enforcement in Scotland. They will be instructed by creditors to enforce court orders or warrants against debtors which are issued by Sheriff Courts or the Court of Session, as well as documents of debt registered at the Books of Council and Session for enforcement.
3.1 The procedure
Court orders or decrees issued by a Sheriff Court in any Sheriffdom in Scotland, or by the Court of Session, and equivalent authorities (such as a document of debt registered for enforcement), are enforceable. An extract of the decree generally bears warrant for all lawful enforcement.
Enforcement by diligence generally falls to Sheriff Officers and Messengers-at-Arms. These are independent fee paid contractors who hold a Commission from the Sheriff Principal of the Sheriffdom in which they are authorised to act. These officers are subject to the control and supervision of the court, although they are not directly employed by the court. The Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 sets out a statutory framework for control of their admission, training and conduct in the exercise of their official functions, while the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 further regulate their functions and conduct. Additionally, all officers of court are required to execute their duties in accordance with the Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers.
Only in some enforcement processes is it necessary to use a lawyer.
Fees charged by Sheriff Officers and Messengers-at-Arms for executing diligence are currently prescribed by the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Sheriff Officers) 2013 (SSI 2013/345) and the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Messengers-at-Arms) 2013 (SSI 2013/346). These fee tables are changed regularly.
3.2 The main conditions
The granting of a decree in the pursuer's (the person raising the action) favour is normally sufficient for executing enforcement. However most diligences also require the service of a charge for payment and the issue of a Debt Advice and Information Package before the debt can be recovered . A charge for payment is a formal demand for payment served on a debtor for the amount owed to a creditor, including any associated interest and costs. It provides the debtor with a period of fourteen days (if the debtor is within the UK) in which to make payment. If the debt is not satisfied within the period specified, the creditor may then use diligence to recover the sums due. A Debt Advice and Information Package advises debtors to obtain money advice.
In the case of an exceptional attachment order, the creditor must return to court to seek specific authorisation to attach non-essential articles kept in the debtor's dwelling house. In considering whether to make such an order the Sheriff has regard to various matters. These are
the nature of the debt (and in particular whether the debt relates to any tax or duty or to any trade or business carried on by the debtor);
whether the debtor resides in the dwelling house specified;
whether the debtor carries on a trade or business from that dwelling house;
whether money advice has been given to the debtor;
whether any extension of time to pay orders or directions have lapsed; and
any agreement between the debtor and creditor for the settlement of the debt.
In particular, the Sheriff must be satisfied that the creditor has taken reasonable steps to negotiate a settlement of the debt and that the creditor has already taken steps to enforce the debt by way of an arrestment and an earnings arrestment and that there is a reasonable prospect that the sum recovered from auction of the debtor's non-essential assets would be at least equal to the aggregate of a reasonable estimate of chargeable expenses and £100.
Arrestment operates to attach property (funds and moveable goods) in the hands of a third party and secures a measure of preference for the arresting creditor. Where funds are arrested they are subject to automatic release after a period of fourteen weeks, provided that no objection has been lodged. Any objection should be lodged with the Sheriff at court, and be on the grounds that the arrestment is unduly harsh, that the Sheriff Officer has not carried out the arrestment properly, or that the arrested funds belong to a third party (or are owned by a third party in common with a debtor). For the release of arrested goods the creditor must raise an action of furthcoming which, if granted by the court, will instruct the arrestee to release the arrested goods.
In the case of adjudication, if the debt remains unpaid after ten years ("the legal"), the adjudger may convert his right into a right of absolute property. This is done by a Court of Session action known as an action of declarator of expiry of the legal. A debtor may defend an action of declarator of expiry of the legal on the grounds that the debt is paid.
An inhibition takes effect from the date on which the schedule of inhibition and the certificate of execution of the inhibition are registered in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications. However, where a notice of inhibition is registered in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudication and the schedule of inhibition and certificate of execution are registered within 21 days of this notice, the inhibition will take effect from the date that notice is registered.
4.1 What types of assets can be subject to enforcement?
There is a diligence available for every type of asset, except cash in the hands of the debtor.
4.2 What are the effects of enforcement measures?
Adjudication has the effect of a judicial heritable security in favour of the creditor. A decree of adjudication does not give the adjudger an immediate power of sale: only a power to secure the rents if the heritable property is leased, or remove the debtor if they are in possession.
The effect of an arrestment is to freeze funds and/or moveable property belonging to the debtor in the hands of a third party. The third party is prevented from using or disposing of the goods or funds or releasing them to the debtor without the creditor's consent. In order to have arrested goods released to a creditor, the creditor must raise an action of furthcoming. Arrested funds in the hands of a financial institution are subject to automatic release after a period of 14 weeks if there has been no objection. If an arrestee parts with the subjects arrested, they are liable to the arresting creditor for its value. They will also theoretically be in contempt of court by acting in breach of an arrestment. There is a legal obligation on arrestees to disclose to an arresting creditor the existence or extent of assets attached by an arrestment. Failure to comply with this obligation may result in the Sheriff making an order requiring the arrestee to pay a sum of money to the arresting creditor.
Earnings Arrestment or Current Maintenance Order
Where an employer has been served with an earnings arrestment schedule or current maintenance order, he must deduct the calculated amount and pay it over to the creditor. If the employer does not comply with the terms, they are liable to the creditor for the amount of money that should have been paid over.
A decree of ejection or removing has the effect of requiring a person to remove himself from the property specified in the extract decree. If the subject of an ejection or removal order does not voluntarily comply and remove by the date specified, Sheriff Officers may remove them and secure the property, requesting the assistance of police if necessary. A 'Charge of Removing from Heritable Property' must be served on the person to be removed, and the period of charge contained therein must have expired before a removal or ejection can take place, unless the Sheriff has dispensed with this requirement.
The registering of an inhibition in the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications has the effect of preventing the debtor from selling, or otherwise disposing of, or granting a security over his heritable property to the detriment of the inhibitor. Any disposition or standard security or other deed granted by the debtor contrary to an inhibition is reducible at the instance of the inhibitor.
A decree ad factum praestandum is a decree to enforce the performance by the debtor of an act other than a payment of money and requires compliance. The terms of the decree must specify precisely what is to be done, and when applied for at court it is desirable that an alternative request be added for damages less compliance. Failure to comply cannot result in imprisonment unless the person who originally sought decree ("the applicant")makes an application to the court where decree was initially granted. It is then for the applicant to satisfy the court that the debtor is willfully refusing to comply with the decree. If so satisfied, the court may grant warrant for imprisonment of the respondent for any period not exceeding 6 months. Imprisonment does not operate to extinguish the obligation imposed by the decree.
Money attachment
This allows a creditor to attach and remove money (cash including coins and banknotes in a foreign currency, postal orders, banking instruments etc) which is held on a debtor's premises although money in a dwelling house and in the hands of the debtor cannot be attached.
4.3 What is the validity of such measures?
After granting the decree, the extract is recorded in the appropriate Scottish land register. The decree is then valid and only after a period of 10 years is the creditor then able to apply to the court to become the owner and sell the property.
An arrestment in execution is either successful or not. For example, an arrestment can be served on a bank but if the debtor does not have an account with that bank or has insufficient funds in any accounts, then the arrestment will not catch any funds.
An attachment only has effect until the earlier of the date which is six months after the date on which an article is attached and the date which is 20 days after the date on which the attached article was removed from the place at which it was attached. An exceptional attachment order specifies the period in which it must be executed.
The service of an earnings arrestment schedule, or a current maintenance arrestment, is either successful or not. If the debtor is not in the employment of the person on whom the schedule is served, it falls. If the debtor is in employment, it remains in force until such time as the debt is satisfied or the debtor leaves that employment
Execution of diligence following a decree of removing or ejection must be carried out without undue delay. There is no definition as to what might constitute undue delay. This is dependent on the particular circumstances of each case.
An inhibition prescribes after 5 years. It may be renewed on application to the court by inhibitor. A decree ad factum praestandum must specify exactly what has to be done and the time within which it must be done.
Money attachment will either be successful or not. For example if the Sheriff Officer finds no funds on the debtor's premises then the money attachment will have failed. If the Money Attachment is successful then the officer of the court (Sheriff Officers or Messengers at Arms) must before the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the money attachment is executed make a report to the Sheriff. The officer of the court must copy the report to the debtor and creditor. The attachment will cease to have effect if the Sheriff refuses to receive the report.
An employer or the debtor can apply to the Sheriff to make an order declaring a current maintenance order invalid or that it has ceased to have effect. Also, if the debtor can satisfy the Sheriff that he is unlikely to default on payment again, the Sheriff can make an order recalling it.
The debtor, the arrestee or a third party may, by notice of objection, apply to the Sheriff for an order recalling or restricting the arrestment. This notice must be given within 4 weeks of the execution of the arrestment.
An appeal can be made against any decision of a Sheriff made in relation to an attachment or exceptional attachment. The appeal can be made, only with the leave of the Sheriff, to the Sheriff Principal and on a point of law. The decision of the Sheriff Principal on such an appeal is final.
The grounds for discharge or recall of an inhibition are where the inhibition has been procedurally inept and where the decree for payment has been reduced.
There is no appeal against removing or ejection once the decree is executed.
Debtor Entering Into a Debt Solution
Should a debtor be sequestrated or enter into a trust deed, a protected trust deed, or a debt payment programme under the debt arrangement scheme, then creditors cannot take any further diligence against the debtor, subject to certain conditions. Instead the creditor would generally have to look at placing a claim for the sums due with the debtor's trustee, or adding the debt to any debt payment programme.
Moratorium on Diligence
A moratorium on diligence is to be introduced across all statutory debt solutions in Scotland through changes to the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 which come into force on 1 April 2015 by virtue of the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act 2014. This will mean that if an individual gives notice that they want to apply for a statutory debt solution, they will be given a 6 week period of protection from any diligence action against them by their creditors. This is the same 6 week period as there presently is under the Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007 which introduced a moratorium on diligence for a debtor who intends to apply for or has applied for a debt payment programme, or a 6 week period from the date they intimate to the debt arrangement scheme administrator that it is their intention to apply for a debt payment programme. These 6 week moratorium periods can however be reduced or extended in certain circumstances. [As part of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 the period of moratorium protection has been extended to 6 months - this amendment will remain in force until 30 September 2020 and may be extended further by regulations].
Time to Pay
In granting decree against a debtor for payment of certain types of debt, the court may make a time to pay direction to the effect that the sum payable can be paid in instalments over time. Also once diligence has commenced the court may make a time to pay order. While a time to pay direction or order is in force, it is not competent to serve a charge for payment or carry out any diligence in order to enforce payment of the debt.
Enforcement Time Limits
If after the date when an obligation has become enforceable it has subsisted for a continuous period of twenty years without a relevant claim having been made and without the subsistence of the obligation having been relevantly acknowledged, then the obligation shall extinguish. Therefore if no diligence is taken on a court decree or document of debt for a continuous period of 20 years without it also having been unequivocally admitted in writing by or on behalf of the debtor, the obligation will prescribe. However where a creditor executes diligence to enforce a decree or document of debt and the debtor clearly acknowledges to the creditor that the debt still subsists, the creditor will be given another 20 years in which to seek full satisfaction of the claim against the debtor.
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posted on May. 31, 2021 at 5:06 pm
The Power of Positivity, by VMLY&R COMMERCE Katie Streten
By Katie Streten, experiential strategy director, VMLY&R COMMERCE.
Throughout the last year, while much of the world was locked down and at home, the UAE has continued to maintain a subdued, but effective, live event program that delivered highly innovative physical and virtual engagement. However, as many markets drive the vaccine rollout and hope for some sort of return to 'normality', we look at what this means for a return to the more extensive live event programmes that so many people crave. Indeed, there is a recognition that the Middle East may be the first post-Covid economy.
So, what immediate futures can marketers learn from the region's front-foot approach to keeping us connected? How can they ensure that they deliver strong commercial value now, and throughout 2021?
We have identified 3 key trends for the immediate future of 2021 that will help marketers when thinking about their own programmes.
B2B – Back to Business
Businesses typically reduce costs of in-person sales meetings by 46% simply by attending tradeshows. You meet more new clients face-to-face more efficiently and strengthen existing customer ties. Combine that with the ability to raise brand awareness, and it is easy to see why tradeshows are essential in driving the end-to-end commerce journey.
Smart thinking and new technologies have taught the established medium of television some new tricks. Find out how to grab viewers' attention at our Campaign Online Briefing – TV 2021: Changing Channels
Around the world, the pandemic has halted all kinds of live shows as the global community seeks methods to reduce the risks posed by Covid. This has resulted in a loss of opportunity that shouldn't be underestimated. For example, Dubai Expo 2020 was originally projected to contribute Dh122.6 billion in value to the UAE's economy by 2031. The value hasn't gone away, but it has been shifted out by a year as we prepare for the event to take place in October 2021.
We saw IDEX take place in Abu Dhabi and Gulfoods in Dubai, which was held at the same venue as Gitex, in November 2020 and in May 2021 we have seen Arabian Travel Market return. These are major trade events, still going ahead even in these unusual times. What's making the region stand apart? In short, clear safety regulations.
The UAE has been proactive in releasing guidelines for exhibition organisers and event agencies that layout spacing, timings, F&B distribution, sanitisation, seating – everything event organisers need to consider for hosting events. That has meant that events, big and small, have been able to plan and deliver all-important moments during this pandemic.
Reduced attendance and safer behaviours at events in the GCC will demonstrate the possibilities of large-scale events re-opening. This will be watched by other markets so that as we move towards Q4 of 2021 we will be heading towards a solid increase in all kinds of B2B conferences and events globally.
Action: Think of events as possible – then work out how you will make them happen.
While tradeshows represent the large end of the scale, we have also seen announcements and launches taking place in physical spaces across the past year, such as the Hope Probe event for media and decision-makers and last year's opening of the Expo tram station.
Smaller attendee lists have 3 key advantages. The first is practical – manageability. While we still have regulations managing smaller crowds is easier than managing larger crowds.
The second is exclusivity. For high end, luxury products and important societal moments, smaller is better. Such moments help the public to understand the importance of the moment, if it's hard to attend then only the most important people are there. This then leads to desirable online content, a FOMO moment.
The third is ease of delivery. With smaller footprints and fewer guests, the logistics and costs around smaller events are easier to manage. If you are going to go this route it is essential to ensure that you connect the end-to-end journey from the physical through your social and digital channels so that you achieve your objectives in sales or brand uplift. And with the world watching online, small will punch above their weight in the coming year. Take Hermès' installation, Hermès Carré at Concrete. It was impeccably laid out with beautifully distanced seating, stages and installations. Registration was required and the full effect was desirability and exclusivity.
Action: Think smaller but more interesting. And remember the importance of connecting your event with your digital commerce.
Online excitement
While the region is forging ahead in physical space, it's not forgetting the new value in the digital and hybrid space that we have all learned from our 2020 experience. And there are moments when a fully digital experience is the best solution. But marketers have learned that simply hosting a webinar is no longer enough to attract and hold the attention of delegates.
We have worked with companies such as Twitter to effectively pivot their events into a fully digital space, incorporating innovative greenscreen technologies, remote video and virtual environments that allow for individual learning journeys through interaction. Engagement and retention have been high, often at 100%, and for the end of year event, Twitter reached 5m+ viewers in 2 days, which has meant that key commercial conversations have been enabled by continuing these events.
Engagement in live events isn't only via more established platforms and methods. In KSA, there has been an upswing in live shopping behaviours. Think of these as less pure-play retail moments and more performance retail. Innovation grabs the attention, convenience drives engagement, but the creative approach and creating lively content is what will ensure that your customers take commercial steps. If you bombard them with boring formats or make your engagements too long you will lose them and lose critical opportunities.
Action: Ensure your events are more than talking head webinars. Marketers should take as much interest in the creative expression of their brand as the digital platform it's expressed on. Looking at events in the region will certainly provide inspiration.
The region has displayed optimism throughout the pandemic, way beyond that of other continents and territories. Marketers can move into a leading position globally if they make the most of the GCC's emergence from the pandemic ahead of other countries and regions.
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Mani's and Pedi's for all!
Went back to Alta Loma's Homecoming Game for their 50th Celebration. They invited past queens to join on the field and flank the current court as they crowned the queen. Cathy and I picked up Grandma Furnare to watch the game at Chaffey High. Great to see Brandon and his beautiful family and the Shomber/Her family as well. Melodie was their representing Stephanie. Missy and Michelle came with their cute kids and were running around cheering in the stands. It was a fun blast from the past and I was glad to share it with family and friends!
Great visit with Aunt Christy and Uncle Mark as they were here for the week to travel to Petaluma with Ginny and Gene for Ginny's "Halloween and Vine" Show. They shared stories of their travel through Sonoma and stopping for dinner at Nepenthe in Big Sur. Would love to see those sights some day! Loved our time together dining and catching up and look forward to our next visit!
It was Jessie's turn for a date night and she picked me to go to Asaka. I just love this girl! She's very interesting, sweet and funny. She loves teriyaki chicken and shrimp tempura, and I just love watching her eat with chopsticks. Being able to spend this special one on one with each other is a cherished time for us both. Love you Jessie Joy!
Ever seen the show where participants pitch their great ideas and inventions to investors? Well we played a version of this game at Aunt Cathy's. The kids came up with some great ideas and presented them to Cathy and I (The Sharks). Definitely a good way for them to use their imagination and work together. Josette and Gigi ended up spending the weekend at Aunt Cathy's and as always, had a great time!


Today was one of those days when I wanted to skip "preschool." I didn't have anything planned and was in a bit of a slump. Little Brother kept bugging me though, "Mom, When are we going to do preschool?!?" I guess I must be doing something right if he loves it so much, huh?
Anyway, I pulled A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni off the shelf, just to read it to the kids. It's about how a chameleon is sad he doesn't have his own color like other animals. He decides to hide on a leaf the rest of his life so he'll finally have a set color...but then fall comes and the leaf changes from green to yellow, and then to red before falling off the tree. (Perfect story for this time of year! I would have known that sooner if I'd actually picked up the book!) Then he finds a friend chameleon and they decide to stay together so even if they don't have a set color, at least they'll match each other.
I'm ready to be "over" our color unit, so we can move onto other things, and I figured if I read this to the kids, we could take it back to the library. It wasn't until I'd finished reading the book that an idea came for our activity, and it turned out awesome and was so easy!
I grabbed some wax paper from the drawer, and traced the chameleon on the cover for each of the kids with a permanent marker.
I thought about cutting it out, but then realized the tail and legs would last about 30 seconds if they were cut out, so I just roughly cut around the main shape. Then I handed the chameleons to them and we ran around the house helping the chameleons change color. Little Brother LOVED it, and it now ranks among my favorite preschool activities to date.
And green (this dresser is a prime candidate for a re-paint).
And "woody" colored as Little Brother called it.
Perhaps my personal favorite "road" colored...black and yellow striped.
And of course because there's still so much Halloween candy around, we have candy colored.
And he even found his way onto one of our window leaves like in the story.
And of course there were many more we didn't take pictures of.
Sweet Pea was a little disturbed that hers didn't have a color of his own, so she tried to color him with a marker...but I wasn't going to hand over the permanent markers so she could make it stick.
Now this brings me to the real point of this post if you've read this far...if you ever don't feel like doing activities with your kids or you think doing preschool types activities with your kids is too hard...just do it! Even though I didn't have anything planned this turned a blah morning into a great one for me and the kids. They love the activities and don't care if they're last minute or silly. The more you start to do these kinds of activities with your kids, the more the ideas will come, and the better the relationship with your kids will be. There are days when my kids drive me crazy (at moments today even), but it's pay-back in a small way when they beg for "preschool time" because it lets me know that they really appreciate the time and attention they get with it, and I've been amazed at how much they learn.
I love it! I've been using most of your felt food patterns and ideas for a gift for a friend's 2.5 year old, and thought I'd check out the rest of your blog....I am a nanny who occaisionally runs out of ideas to entertain a 3.5 year old (not my favorite age, but hey!). Love it, love it, love it!!
Love it! Great activity and perfect to go along with that book!
I've read that book a jillion times and never thought of a waxed-paper chameleon. Brilliant, and what a fun activity for the kids. Thanks for sharing.
The candy colored one is my favorite! Not just because I love skittles, but because it's so silly and creative!
Great idea! My son loves chameleons, we'll have to try this.
I love the way the chameleon can change color. What a great discovery idea for little ones!


You might think of the land as your land, but it's still part of the natural cycle. Harnessing the benefits of the natural order of things will help solve an entire range of problems.
Saskatchewan's approach to appeasing cranky farmers is simplistic and fundamentally flawed. Putting a bounty on coyotes, declaring gophers as pests and financially supporting their extermination betrays their misunderstanding of the systems at work.
Gophers eat your crops? Maybe clearing all the land for crops isn't the best way to make the most food or the most money.
Natural methods are more subtle and more effective. They're also much harder to explain to people and governments who would much rather shoot, poison or explode whatever pest is irritating them at the moment.
Leave some habitat for the animals like the owls, falcons and coyotes that eat the gophers. Use them. Let them do your pest control for you. They'll work for free.
Produce less food. Accept limited crop and livestock losses as part of the cost of doing business in a world that isn't just about us. The world is good to you. Return the favour. Reducing the food supply will reduce obesity related diseases and level out human overpopulation and help our civilization continue to exist here.
Charge more for it. You're in business for the money anyway. We paid 14% of our disposable income for food back in 1970. Now we're down to about 10%. We'll pay more again, and the reduced food supply will help raise the prices.
Sell the food locally and directly. Selling food to people you know has a social benefit and increases local resilience, in addition to the economic and environmental benefit of not having to transport the food long distances.
The biodiversity that exists in nature needs to be maintained in order to preserve the resiliency of the ecosystem. If we wipe out the web of ecological systems in favour of large monocrop plantations, we put ourselves at the same kind of risk that caused the Irish potato famine.
Embrace the gophers and the coyotes. Go watch The Lion King again. Understand the circle of life and your place in it. Take a step back from the myopic world of agribusiness, get rid of the farm subsidies and charge what you're worth.
You won't earn the money and the respect you deserve until your customers pay you what you're worth. They need to eat. They'll pay it, but they need you to take care of the ecology that provides the food in the first place.
Take care of your land and the complex ecosystems on it and it will take care of you.


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Lecturer challenges Constitutional Court Law at Constitutional Court
Jakarta Post - October 15, 2020
Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – A university lecturer has challenged the revised Constitutional Court Law that increases the maximum term and minimum age for the court's justices, arguing that the provisions as well as the deliberation process of the law violate the 1945 Constitution.
The plaintiff, Allan Fatchan Gani, a lecturer at Indonesia Islamic University's (UII) Law School, filed the judicial review petition at the court on Tuesday, challenging both the legislation process and the revised content of the law.
In his petition, Allan argued that the deliberation for the revision violated lawmaking procedures stipulated in Article 22A of the 1945 Constitution because of a lack of transparency and little public participation.
"The academic script of the revision lacks fundamental reasons. That is apparent from the errors in the research methodology, which is not supported by accurate data," the plaintiff wrote in the petition.
He further challenged Article 15 of the revised law that increases the minimum age for justices to 55 years, arguing that the court's own ruling made under Constitutional Court No. 7/2013 stipulated a minimum age of 47 years for justices in the nine-head panel.
This provision is also deemed to close the opportunity for those who are not yet 55 years old to become judges.
Allan demanded that the court repeal the provisions that increase the judicial term to 15 years and allow justices to serve in office until the age of 70, noting that a longer judicial term opened the potential of abuse of power.
Based on the previous version of the law, justices could only serve for five years, after which they could be reelected for a second five-year term.
"The removal of this provision has eliminated the monitoring and evaluation function for the justices, because we no longer have fit and proper test procedures when they are to be reelected for a second term," the plaintiff said.
The House of Representatives passed the revision to the 2003 Constitutional Court law on Sept. 1, following only eight days of deliberation that started on Aug. 24, making the revision one of the fastest ever in the House's history.
Legal experts have criticized the revision, particularly questioning the absence of urgency for amending the law as well as the lack of transparency and public involvement in the process.
Some civil rights groups have also raised fears that the revision would undermine the court's impartiality and that it was a "political swap" to influence the court's future decisions on petitions challenging numerous controversial bills and laws, including the contentious Job Creation Law.
The Constitutional Court in 2017 rejected a petition for judicial review of the Constitutional Court Law to challenge a plan to introduce a lifetime tenure for the court's justices, citing the lack of a legal basis.
Source: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/10/14/lecturer-challenges-constitutional-court-law-at-constitutional-court.html
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Another landmark ruling
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Indonesia: New Criminal Code assaults rights
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Man faces death sentence for alleged possession of 42 kgs of meth
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Jokowi faces lawsuit over Constitutional Court chief justice replacement
Tempo - January 6, 2023
Indonesia's new penal code: A setback for Indonesian democracy
Fulcrum - January 4, 2023
How Indonesia's adultery ban is enforced, as illustrated by prosecutor and lawyer's alleged affair
Coconuts Jakarta - January 3, 2023
Sex outside marriage ban tests Indonesia's relationship with democracy
CNN - December 30, 2022
Law and Human Rights Ministry grants 14,057 inmates Christmas remission
Under Indonesia's new criminal code, rights groups fear more women will be forced to marry their rapists to escape prosecution
ABC News - December 23, 2022
Indonesia's bid to woo investors complicated by 'sex ban' code
Al Jazeera - December 23, 2022
Indonesia's new Criminal Code leads to conflict with US
Hundson.org - December 21, 2022
Student rally in Jakarta depicts Jokowi as horse drawn buggy driven by oligarchy
Suara.com - December 20, 2022
Politics and Islam bring Indonesian compromise on criminal code: Analysis
Channel News Asia - December 20, 2022
Criminalising sin? Indonesian society not as conservative as elites imagine
Fulcrum - December 19, 2022
Interview: This Criminal Code damages Indonesia's reputation
Govt asserts no overlapping rules between new Criminal Code and other laws
Workers rally in Central Jakarta against new Criminal code, Omnibus Law
Kompas.com - December 15, 2022
Indonesia's new penal code revisions don't just threaten sexual freedoms
Global Voices - December 15, 2022
Indonesia introduces article on cohabitation in new Criminal Code to foreign press
Suddenly, with its new criminal code, Indonesia is a democracy in crisis
Crikey.com - December 14, 2022
UN letter on Criminal Code too Late: Deputy Minister
Lemhanas on new Criminal Code: Indonesia needs to assert its autonomy
Indonesia summons UN official after criticism of new laws
Reuters - December 12, 2022
'Bali as usual': Officials race to contain panic over new criminal code
Sydney Morning Herald - December 12, 2022
EU looks into Indonesia's controversial Criminal Code
Jakarta Globe - December 12, 2022


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GNF 5
Bcr-Abl inhibitor
GNF-5 is an analogue of GNF-2 and a selective non-ATP competitive inhibitor of Bcr-Abl with an IC50 value of 0.1 to >10 µM in various cancer cell lines.
Bcr-Abl is a fusion gene that results from the head-to-tail fusion of the Bcr and Abl genes[1]. Bcr-Abl upregulates production of tyrosine kinase and plays a central role in the pathogenesis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) [1].
GNF-5 has the same chemical structure as its parent molecule (GNF-2) with the exception of N-hydroxyethyl carboxamide at its 4-position and such modification provided GNF-5 a longer half-life from (2.30 hrs)[2]. Similar with GNF-2, GNF-5 allosterically inhibits the proliferation of Bcr-Abl positive cell by binding to the myristate-binding site of Abl and induces cell apoptosis[3]. In steady-state kinetic analyses, GNF-5 was able to inhibit wild type Abl with an IC50 value of 0.22 µM[2]. In addition, GNF-5 also has a similar effectiveness against various imatinib® resistance cell lines: In E255V and T315I mutant Ba/F3 cells, a 12-day incubation of GNF-5 2 was able to inhibit the proliferation of cells with a IC50 value of 0.38 and 5 µM, respectively[2].
In mice injected with wild-type Bcr-Abl and luciferase expressing Ba/F3 cells, continuous injection of GNF-5 for 7 days (50 mg/kg, twice per day) normalized peripheral blood cell counts, as well as spleen size[2]. When treating mice that injected with imatinib® resistance T315I Bcr–Abl-transduced bone marrow, daily injection of GNF-5 (75 mg/ kg, twice per day) significantly extended the survival day of mice from 24 days to 22 days[2].
[1]. Rumpold, H. & Webersinke, G. 2011. Molecular pathogenesis of Philadelphia-positive chronic myeloid leukemia - is it all BCR-ABL? Curr Cancer Drug Targets, 11, 3-19.
[2]. Zhang, J., Adrian, F. J., Jahnke, W., et al. 2010. Targeting Bcr-Abl by combining allosteric with ATP-binding-site inhibitors. Nature, 463, 501-506.
[3]. Karunakaran, U., Park, S. J., Jun, D. Y., et al. Non-receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors enhances β-cell survival by suppressing the PKCδ signal transduction pathway in streptozotocin – induced β-cell apoptosis. Cellular Signalling.
Storage Store at -20°C
Formula C20H17F3N4O3
Solubility ≥20.9mg/mL in DMSO
Chemical Name N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-[6-[4-(trifluoromethoxy)anilino]pyrimidin-4-yl]benzamide
Canonical SMILES C1=CC(=CC(=C1)C(=O)NCCO)C2=CC(=NC=N2)NC3=CC=C(C=C3)OC(F)(F)F
Cell experiment:[1]
Wild-type or Bcr-Abl transformed Ba/F3 cells
The solubility of this compound in DMSO is >10 mM. General tips for obtaining a higher concentration: Please warm the tube at 37 °C for 10 minutes and/or shake it in the ultrasonic bath for a while.Stock solution can be stored below -20°C for several months.
Reaction Conditions
0-3 μM
Inhibition of wild-type Abl was observed for both inhibitors with GNF-5 exhibiting an IC50 value of 0.22 mM, dasatinib using an ATP concentration of 20 mM with an IC50 value of 0.12 mM. The myristate site mutant E505K was inhibited by dasatinib with an IC50 value of 0.02 mM, but not by GNF-5 (IC50>10 mM).
Animal experiment:[2]
Abl-lox and SM22cre mice on C57BL/6 background
Animals were intranasally instilled with 10 mg/kg GNF-5 or PBS 1 h before OVA instillation and 5 h after OVA instillation for last three weeks.
In conditional knockout of Abl mice, the levels of IL-13 and CCL2 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid treated with ovalbumin has not been affected, but it works after treatment with imatinib and GNF-5 as well as airway resistance and smooth muscle growth in animals. Treatment with imatinib or GNF-5 inhibited the ACh-induced contraction in isolated mouse tracheal rings of OVA-sensitized and challenged mice. Treatment with imatinib or GNF-5 diminished the fluorescent intensity of PCNA in BALB/c mice treated with OVA.
Please test the solubility of all compounds indoor, and the actual solubility may slightly differ with the theoretical value. This is caused by an experimental system error and it is normal.
[1]. Iacob RE, Zhang J, Gray NS et al. Allosteric interactions between the myristate- and ATP-site of the Abl kinase. PLoS One. 2011 Jan 10;6(1):e15929.
[2]. Cleary RA, Wang R, Wang T et al. Role of Abl in airway hyperresponsiveness and airway remodeling. Respir Res. 2013 Oct 11;14:105.
Description GNF-5 is a selective and allosteric inhibitor of Bcr-Abl with an IC50 value of 220 nM.
Targets Bcr-Abl
IC50 220 nM
View current batch: 2 1
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)
A8603 GNF 2
A8303 GNF-5837


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Tokyo Governor Seeks Better Ties With Seoul
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Jul 23, 2014 7:02 pm JST
Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe, seen here visiting Beijing in April, is currently in Seoul as he seeks to improve ties between Japan and its closest neighbors through "city-to-city diplomacy."
Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe arrived in Seoul on Wednesday for a three-day trip aimed at thawing frosty ties between Japan and South Korea through "city-to-city diplomacy."
Since assuming office in February, Mr. Masuzoe has promised to strengthen Tokyo's links with the cities of Beijing and Seoul to help improve relations between Japan and its two closest neighbors. Those relations have been in a deep freeze over territorial disputes and differing views of wartime history, with continued tension preventing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from holding formal bilateral summits with the leaders of China and South Korea.
"As with Japan-China relations, Japan-South Korea relations are strained. I hope this interaction will help improve ties, even if only slightly," Mr. Masuzoe told reporters prior to his departure from the Japanese capital. Mr. Masuzoe said he would like to meet with high-ranking officials of the South Korean government and convey Mr. Abe's desire to improve bilateral relations, though he gave no details of any confirmed meetings.
While Tokyo is a sister "friendship" city of Seoul, Mr. Masuzoe's official invitation to visit the South Korean capital is the first for a Tokyo governor since 1996, a Tokyo government official said. Mr. Masuzoe's earlier trip to Beijing in April was also the first official visit by a Tokyo governor in about 18 years. For most of those 18 years the governor of Tokyo was Shintaro Ishihara, whose nationalistic views and provocative style often angered Japan's close neighbors. Mr. Ishihara returned to national politics in 2012.
Mr. Masuzoe's visit to South Korea comes on the same day that diplomats from the two nations held talks on the so-called comfort women issue. South Korea has been infuriated by the decision of Mr. Abe's administration to publish an account of diplomatic exchanges leading up to Tokyo's historic 1993 apology for forcing the women, many Korean, to work in wartime military brothels. Discussions between the two sides on the issue have yet to make any visible progress, though the staging of the talks itself is a sign of some mutual desire to reach closure on the matter.
Still, a recent survey conducted in Japan and South Korea showed that sentiment among members of the public toward each other's country deteriorated sharply over the past year, suggesting that much work still needs to be done to turn the tide in relations.
On Wednesday, the 65-year-old former health minister met with his counterpart, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, after offering flowers at a memorial altar in Seoul for the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster that claimed the lives of nearly 300 people.
During the governor's stay he is also scheduled to visit Ansan, a satellite city of Seoul that is home to Danwon high school. The school sent most of its second-year class of 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds on a trip on the ill-fated ferry.
Mr. Masuzoe will also give a speech at Seoul National University, as well as visit sites of the 1988 Seoul Olympics as he seeks to learn from South Korea's staging of the event. Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Games.
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Plasticity is what happens when stress is applied to a material beyond the yield point, σY (sigma, subscript Y). Plasticity includes all of the behaviors beyond elasticity, including (generally in order) yielding, strain hardening, and necking, and ends in the failure of the material. If the stress load is removed from a material after it has gone beyond the yield point, it will recover the strain achieved through the stress loads during the elastic phase of deformation, but it will not recover from the stress loads during the plastic deformation. The elastic phase of deformation always occurs prior to the plastic phase of deformation.
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hi I'm Jamie with Chegg tutors today I want to talk to you about plasticity irreversible deformation over material this is a really common thing in everyday life for example you stretch the rubber bands you let it go the stress is removed but there's still a little bit of stretch in the material it's not exactly the same as it was before you see this in clay where you can actually mold that mold the clay and it will remember the stress that was that you applied do it or we see this in a bad way in say structural steel or something where the material can actually fail or not perform its intended purpose because of plastic deformation let's take a look at what plasticity it looks like on a stress strain curve so over here here we see the elastic region in this region the response of the strain the material to the stress the force applied over an area is linear a stress is applied the strain response and crucially when you remove the stress the material goes back exactly to what it was before now this is an idealized version of a stress strain curve normally you will see a little bit of deformation even if the material is perfectly in the linear elastic region when he when you are here though in the plot at the beginning of the plastic region this is the region where elastic yield happens beyond this region the material won't return to its original state it's in the plastic region as we can see the stress-strain curve is a lot has a lot lower slope in this region so as we get higher and higher especially in this flat region no matter how if you barely apply any more stress the strain is happening the strain is still happening very quickly so you apply a little tiny bit more stress and the strain responds by flattening out quite a bit you might see this in clay molding or if you warm up a thing of silly putty or any kind of material that you're using the sculpt now this can be a good thing or a bad thing if you're sculpting and you want to break apart of material into two blobs it's great that there's fracture over here so it's not that plasticity or irreversible deformation is a bad thing it just depends on the application for example one thing that happens when you have a very ductile material or something that can be drawn out like a medal for a wire is that there's residual stress or what we call work hardening or strain hardening so over here we have a metal material say that has a crack in it and normally if there's a crack the way the crack is going to propagate and really make the material fail is that there's going to be tensile stress outward facing arrows here on the crack that's going to cause the crack to propagate through the material now if there's residual stress and that residual stress is compressive meaning that it's pushing in on the crack then that residual stress is a good thing it's going to prevent that crack from being propagated it can be a bad thing though or especially if it's uncontrolled if you don't intend for there to be plastic plastic deformation or residual stress you don't want you don't want the results here you might see something in a band saw where it got too hot the blade got too hot and there's plastic deformation such that a little part of it peeled off the main structure of the metal now like we said even ductile materials will undergo plastic deformation even though we think of them as things that can be drawn out sort of indefinitely again this can be good or bad and the reason for it is strain hardening once again which is basically when the crystal structure of the metal is has dislocations in it sometimes this forms a new lattice where the meadow is still in a large that the metal is still in a crystal shape but it's a new crystal shape and there are little holes in that crystal shape that tends to make a material more brittle which again can be a good thing or a bad thing it depends on your perspective this has been a little bit about plasticity and how we measure it in terms of you know the costs and benefits in machine design more later and thanks for watching
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Hump-backed and slow, chameleons sway like leaves as they creep along branches. Their coned, protruding eyes scan their environment, searching for prey. They can move and focus each eye independently, looking two ways at once, or locking both eyes onto an insect before they strike with a sticky, missile-like tongue. The world must look very different to a chameleon.
Chameleon lives are oriented around their excellent vision, which they use not only to target prey and avoid predators, but to read covert signals written on the bodies of other chameleons. We're still learning exactly how the chameleon has such an impressive command of color, but have long observed chameleons changing the color and skin patterns to respond to their environment and to express their moods in sophisticated displays.
In 2014, researchers at the University of Geneva reported that in addition to mobile pigments, chameleons also had shards of guanine nanocrystals embedded below their skin. When excited, chameleons change the spacing of these crystals, which affects how light moves through them, and in turn adjusts the color produced by the pigments. It's like each chameleon has a prism under its skin.
These masters of disguise have been keeping another secret from us: they glow. Late last year, David Prötzel, a PhD student and lead author of a paper with colleagues at a slew of German and Dutch institutions, described how chameleons are on a very exclusive list of land-dwelling vertebrates – including some frogs, marine turtles, and parrots – that have natural fluorescence abilities. But true to form, chameleons found a way to glow that is unique: they are the first known animals that use their bones to glow.
For chameleons, beauty is more than skin deep.
To reveal their glowing patterns, Prötzel and his colleagues photographed living lizards in their habitats and recently preserved specimens in museums under UV light. Chameleons are flamboyant even in the dark, illuminated by pinpricks of deep blue and purple light, which traces the complex architecture of their skull – the ridges and sharp edges, crests, bumps, and peaks. The sheer intricacy of the patterns puzzled the scientists, until they peeled back the layers of the chameleon's anatomy with micro-computed tomography, a technique that create 3D X-ray images of the skeleton on the microscopic level.
A chameleon's body is ornamented with bumps, called tubercules, that are actually projections of their skeleton. They look impressive, and are generally more extravagant in rowdy males than in females. By matching these bumps with the glowing pattern, the team concluded that the bony tubercles were responsible.
Bone has been known to naturally fluoresce under UV light since the 1960s, and forensic researchers have used this phenomenon for decades. But the reason chameleons glow under blacklight and we do not is that the tubercules push aside all but the topmost layer of skin, including the dermis that contains the color-producing chromatophores and melanophores. This leaves a kind of "window" of skin over the bone, nearly transparent and thin enough to see its natural glow. This layer of skin also gives the glow its color, acting as a filter that nudges the fluorescence toward the blue end of the color spectrum. Chameleons are the first animals known to co-opt this natural property of bone as part of their coloration.
Looming over the finding is another question: why do they glow?
Asking why animals look, work, and act the way that they do is perhaps the central question in evolutionary biology. To approach it, scientists often take a few minutes to take the lay of the land and try to identify common patterns across many species. One unusual phenomenon – say, a glowing lizard – in one or two species is a curiosity. Seeing it appear in multiple species and across families suggests that the trait means something evolutionarily interesting to it.
Natural history collections like those at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München (in Munich, Germany), the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Torino, Italy), and the Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt, Germany), are ideal for these sort of broad, evolutionary questions, because they have hundreds of specimens, often including rare or extinct species, waiting to be poked and prodded by researchers.
Digging deep into the reptiles collections, Prötzel and his team surveyed the fluorescent ability of over 50 species of chameleons native to Madagascar and parts of Africa, a total of more than 300 individual specimens. They discovered that eight of 12 groups of closely-related species, called genera, displayed at least some bone-based fluorescence. Two out of three ain't bad, especially for evolutionary biology.
So bone-based fluorescence is widespread among chameleon lineages. The tricky part was rationalizing why chameleons, already so good at silently expressing their feelings through colour, needed to add some glitter and shine to the conversation. Perhaps, the researcher suggested, this bone-based fluorescence is a clandestine extension of the chameleon's visual communication system, already highly developed.
Having a secondary signaling system actually makes a lot of sense – it would mean that chameleon visual communication doesn't go silent after dark, and that they can continue to communicate with each other far into the night. The bone glow has another advantage, too: many animals, including humans, can't see UV light as chameleons can. They are effectively blowing dogwhistles at each other, sending messages only other chameleons can hear.
Interestingly, the glow is typically more prominent in chameleons that live in shady, humid, forest habitats than those in open, dry grasslands. The physics of UV light work in favor of forest-dwelling chameleons: light with a short wavelength, like UV, scatters more in humid environments. This means that there is proportionally more UV light under the trees compared to open environments, and therefore chameleons under a canopy will shine brighter than those in a field. Perhaps the supercharged glow caused by the humid forest canopy has shaped the evolution of forest chameleons, giving them more intricate displays because they get more bang for their buck.
What exactly the chameleons are saying to each other is still a mystery. One hypothesis is that it's all about impressing the girls, since male chameleons typically have more intricate tubercules, and the brightness of the glow may help male chameleons attract interested ladies. Even if we can't see with a chameleon's eyes, the scenario is fun to imagine. Pretend you're a beautiful lady chameleon, and a suitor shuffles onto your branch – and promptly lights up the forest. Like, he literally glows. Who could resist?
Fluorescence is common in the marine environment – think of deep sea anglerfish or jellyfish– and we are quickly learning it's much more common than we thought on land. It brings into question what else we may be missing because we weren't looking hard enough, or under the right conditions. Who know's what other secrets Mother Nature has written out in invisible ink, waiting for just the right lighting?