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National Geographic May 2013, Part 2
Breaking the Silence, by Alexandra Fuller, photographs by Robin Hammond
When I saw the previous article on Wrangel Island, my first thought was that this was going to be an article on global climate change. To my pleasant surprise it wasn't. Then I turned the page and found an article on the other recurring theme of these issues, unrest in Africa.
The unrest, this time, surrounds the then-34-year-old reign (all things considered, I hesitate to use the term "administration") of Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe. In, apparently, the interest of full disclosure, Fuller tells us that she lived for a time in what was then Rhodesia and that her parents were active in keeping the white minority in power. She introduces Mugabe with these two sentences: Robert Gabriel Mugabe exuded an air of conciliatory magnanimity. My mother wasn't buying it.
This sentence bothered me. I spent the rest of the article looking for bias. Granted, Fuller describes her parents' efforts as "a questionable cause," but still, I am not sure what purpose the sentence about her mother serves.
The rest of the article is largely a chronology of the reign of Mugabe and a look into the things that the people of Zimbabwe are doing to rebel against Mugabe.
Our Fertilized World, by Dan Charles, photographs by Peter Essick
I spend too much time surrounded by faux science pro-"organic" propaganda. The opening sentence of the blurb: If we don't watch out, agriculture could destroy our planet, had me prepared for more of that sort of thing. The little voice that asks whom the writer would let starve to get the organic utopia he wants was just getting warmed up when Charles outright admits that our culture depends on the existence of artificial fertilizer.
Our Fertilized World is not so much pro-organic as anti-overfertilization. We see some of the studies being done to find better ways to fertilize it without overfertilizing.
Next up in National Geographic articles (to be posted on or around July 31, I think?), the little voice in my head is really, really bothered by nitrogen being given an atomic number of 123. And 127.
Author OliviaPosted on July 27, 2016 July 27, 2016 Categories National GeographicTags china, kenya, malawi, tanzania, united_states, zimbabweLeave a comment on National Geographic May 2013, Part 2
National Geographic March 2016, Part 1
I don't know when I'm going to get the reading done for this post, but I'm going to get started writing it up anyhow. Hopefully I'll get the reading done on June 28 or 29 and get this knocked out by the end of the month. I may also get a start on the July 13 post, which will probably be another San Antonio city park, between now and then, as well.
The day after this goes live, by the way, Alex and I are leaving for our Salt Lake City/Yellowstone trip. Assuming that the flight is uneventful, we'll be landing pretty early in the day, getting our luggage and our rental car, and heading off to Pando, the most massive single organism in the world.
July 6 – I was sort of close. I got part of the reading done in very early July but then stalled. I intended to finish up the second article while waiting for a doctor for some jaw pain I've been having lately. I got right in to see the doctor and got right back out again. It's now July 6 and I'm just now starting on the writing.
Waste Not, Want Not, by Elizabeth Royte, photographs by Brian Finke
First, the meaning of the term "want" had moved from "the lack of" to "a desire for" by such an extent by my own childhood, that it took me a very long time to figure out that "waste not, want not" didn't mean "if you don't waste it, you won't want it."
Second, this article returns us to the Future of Food series for the first time since I'm-not-sure-when. It's been so long that the "future of food" tag doesn't even show up on my widget.
Now, onward.
A shocking amount of food is wasted in the world. Some of it is food that was purchased in grocery stores or restaurants and went uneaten, but a lot of it is actually disposed of at the site where it is grown. Sometimes it comes out malformed and the buyers, either the shoppers themselves or the buyers who work for the retail industry. Sometimes there is actually something wrong with the produce, such as a fungal infection or an infestation by parasites.
We follow Tristram Stuart as he puts together meals from discarded food. We see him buying crookneck squash that took their name just a little too seriously, for example. These squash become part of a squash tempura, turnip dumpling, and zucchini noodle meal.
In this article, we go on to France, Kenya, Peru, and back to the United States (Las Vegas, this time) to see what Stuart, and others, are doing to use unsalable food.
The Cold Rush, by Joel K. Bourne, Jr., photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva
With the increasing warming of the Arctic region, several countries, including Canada, Norway, and Russia are attempting to harvest the natural resources that are coming closer to (and sometimes actually reaching) the surface. Norway is drilling for oil in the Arctic Circle, and Canada is mining gold and iron. Additionally, some ships (including a cruise ship) are taking advantage of the melting ice to take the proverbial "Northwest Passage" from Europe to Asia through northern Canada.
It's not all rosy, though. The Arctic Circle is so remote that workers need to be brought in in groups, the workers then live in those groups for weeks or months, and then they get shipped home. Also, ecological damage is being done. There are no oil pipelines that far north, so the oil has to be dumped into tankers, which leads to the risk of an oil spill. And, of course, mining always leads to damage.
The Azolla Event, which is the proliferation of azolla fern that led our carbon-rich atmosphere to go into an ice age, locked up more carbon than just the carbon in the fern. Some carbon dioxide was dissolved in the water and once the water froze, the carbon that was dissolved in it was trapped. Cold Rush points out that the melting ice is releasing further carbon into the atmosphere.
Author OliviaPosted on July 11, 2016 July 8, 2016 Categories 2016 Vacation, National GeographicTags alaska, canada, france, future of food, kenya, nevada, new_york_city, norway, peru, russia, united_statesLeave a comment on National Geographic March 2016, Part 1
National Geographic January 2016, Part 2
This is ridiculous. I'm having the worst time ever getting to the online version of this issue. I've had to log in twice now. My browser used to keep me logged in and I used to be able to just get to it by searching Google for the issue number. Now all I can get while logged in is a photograph of the pages. When I try to get to the text version, it keeps telling me "This National Geographic content is only available to subscribing members" and gives me a link to a login screen. And I can see that I'm still logged in behind it. I've actually sworn at this thing. Twice.
Well, I guess I'll have to make the best of this bullshit. I'm not happy, though. Having to zoom in to read the text is a pain in my left buttock.
In other news, I did make it to an average of 8,200 steps per day for May, finally. I couldn't remember if the number I got on the final day of the month was the final count, or if it would drop at midnight, so I put in a couple thousand extra steps so that I had one day of wiggle room. I ended up with 8,467 steps on average for the month.
Bloody Good, by Elizabeth Royte, photographs by Charlie Hamilton Jones
I got a kick out of the title that the website gives this article, Vultures are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them. The mental image of vulture revolutionaries amuses me.
Bloody Good focuses on the life and current plight of vultures in Africa and Asia. Some of the vultures in these areas are critically endangered. Vultures reduce the number of animal carcasses rotting in the sun, which means that they also reduce the chances that people and livestock will be made ill by the kinds of illnesses that develop from rotting meat. I know that vultures have a bad reputation, but there's one photograph of cape vultures in South Africa that is truly beautiful.
We have traditionally had a lot of black and turkey vultures here in Texas. I made sure that Alex grew up appreciating the good they do for the environment. We once actually found the remains of a raccoon at Guadalupe River State Park and we had seen vultures in the park earlier that day. Now I didn't get cozy enough with the bones and fur that remained to see if there were beak marks on them, but the corpse was just to the side of the walking path, so I suspect that if the poor thing had been left to rot, someone would have removed it, or alerted a park ranger so that it could be removed.
By the way, it looked like the poor thing had become tangled in fishing line, so please be careful when you go fishing to always account for all of your fishing line before you go home.
Into Thin Ice, by Andy Isaacson, photographs by Nick Cobbing
I'm somewhat nonplussed by the title here. I think that the usual saying is "on thin ice," and the focus of this article (aside from — what else? — global warming) is on boats that examine the Arctic by attaching themselves to ice floes, so the word "on" would seem to apply there. But it's the editors' choice what to name the articles, even if it is somewhat cumbersome.
And, of course, the ice is melting more rapidly than is traditional and scientists are very concerned. The warming oceans are releasing carbon dioxide into the air, which will hasten global climate change.
Stay tuned for my next National Geographic recap in which the rubber plantations of Asia are about to precipitate an ecological catastrophe. Unless I can knock out the rest of July 1889 by then, in which case my next National Geographic writeup will be about the rivers and valleys of Pennsylvania in great detail.
Author OliviaPosted on June 1, 2016 Categories National GeographicTags bangladesh, india, kenya, nepal, pakistan, south_africaLeave a comment on National Geographic January 2016, Part 2
National Geographic August 2013, Part 2
Apparently that sugar story, and my dad's reaction to it, created a real antipathy in me towards this issue. I'm just having the hardest time ever reading it. I may break down and go forward to January 2016 soon and just read this one whenever I can bring myself to do so.
Additionally, I'm sort of experiencing a reading detour at the moment. For several years during my childhood, my dad bought me one Nancy Drew mystery book a month. I've been planning to read them for the last, oh, ten years or so, and in this last week or so, I've begun that project. I'm now up to #14, The Whispering Statue. They're pretty dated, of course. Nancy wastes a lot of gas driving to places where she can make phone calls and things of that nature. One detail that I didn't remember from my childhood stuck out at me — several of these books make an attempt at multiculturalism. For example, we meet a Native American woman in The Secret of Shadow Ranch and The Mystery of the Ivory Charm features several characters from India. The child character, Rishi, has trouble with the first person singular pronoun that's kind of distressing for me. It's established that Rishi speaks Hindi, and Hindi does, in fact, have a first person singular pronoun.
Anyway, on to the lions of the August 2013 issue of National Geographic:
The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion, by David Quammen, photographs by Michael Nichols
I'm somewhat confounded by this title. The article is about the social structure of lion prides and their assorted coalitions of males. We follow one two-member coalition of males, C-Boy and Hildur, as they mate with the females in their prides and fight off invaders, most notably a four-male coalition that are referred to as the Killers.
Lion prides are only females, generally grandmothers, mothers, sisters, and aunts. Males work in small groups that affiliate with the prides and father their children. When a new coalition of males moves in, they kill off or drive away the cubs, which causes the females of cub-bearing age to go back into estrus and then the new males father new cubs on the females.
In this article, we find that the biggest cause of death for lions is other lions. Males will, of course, kill the offspring of other males, and males will kill other adult males. Males will occasionally kill females (and it is from this that The Killers got their names — they are the prime suspects in the deaths of several females that were being studied).
Overall, this does not sound like a happy life to me. But then again, I'm not a lion (at least, I would expect that someone would have told me if I were . . . ) so maybe that is happiness for a lion.
Living with Lions, by David Quammen, photographs by Brent Stirton
Living with Lions leads off with a picture of a man with no arms being bathed by another man. This led me to believe that this was going to be another article like the one on leopards moving into cities from December 2015. It isn't. The meat of this article is about lion conservation.
The home range of the lion has shrunk over the past millennia. According to Quammen, at one point, lions spread at least as far north as France, as evidenced by the lions in the cave drawings in Chauvet Cave. And now the lion is confined to Africa and even that habitat is shrinking. Lions do come into conflict with humans, but things like the human population expanding into the territory of the lions and trophy hunting are causing a lot of the drop in population.
We also meet a group called the Lion Guardians. They are members of the Maasai tribe, who traditionally have hunted lions, to protect the lions instead. They are paid a salary and trained in how to track lions with radio collars and they track the lions and prevent lions from killing livestock. As of 2013, the program appeared to be working, and lion killings were on the downswing.
Author OliviaPosted on May 9, 2016 May 8, 2016 Categories National GeographicTags kenya, tanzaniaLeave a comment on National Geographic August 2013, Part 2
Last Rites for the Jade Sea? by Neil Shea, photographs by Randy Olson
Last Rites for the Jade Sea? is about Lake Turkana, which sits on the border between Kenya and Ethiopia, and the Daasanach people, who depend on the lake for their livelihoods. Lake Turkana sits not terribly far from the Great Rift Valley, where humanity began, and the ancestors of modern humans lived on its shorelines.
And, as with so many smaller bodies of water, Lake Turkana is threatened. The lake has been shrinking for 7,000 years. The trend has increased in recent years, and may be threatened further by a proposed dam and planned sugar plantations on the Omo River. The Omo River is the main river that feeds Lake Turkana. Sugarcane uses a lot of water and the dam will certainly not help the flow of water to the lake.
The Daasanach are underrepresented in Kenya's government and so it is likely that their concerns, and their very homes, may never be taken into account as the governments of Ethiopia and Kenya make plans for the Omo River and the region around the lake.
Still Life, by Bryan Christy, photographs by Robert Clark
Christy takes us to the World Taxidermy Championships in St. Charles, Missouri, and then further into the history of taxidermy. My interest in taxidermy is superficial at best. I have many fond memories of the taxidermied animals at the Field Museum of Natural History (likely to come to a Northern Illinois Destination post near you sometime in November). The Field Museum has the skins of the lions that were the subject of the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness." One lion is kind of standing up and the other is lying on some rocks. If you've been through that room, you have probably seen them. They now have a big sign and everything, though I don't think they had that sign when I was younger.The lions are smaller than they were in life because they were used as rugs for 25 years in the home of the man who killed them (and who was played by Val Kilmer in the movie), and they were in the kind of shape that you'd expect a 25-year-old fur rug to be. As a result, the taxidermists had to trim them down to make it work.
Then there's Jenny Lawson. Her blog, The Bloggess, is about Lawson's life and mental illness and the weird and wonderful things that happen in her life. Lawson also collects taxidermied animals. Her rules for her collection are that the taxidermy has to be older than she is, or that the animal has to have died of natural causes. And despite this, she has amassed a really amazing collection of taxidermy animals.
So, overall, this was a pretty interesting read. Though sharing my home with the skin of dead animals which has been wrapped around a plastic form so that it looks like the animal might have looked in life isn't really a goal of mine.
Laos Finds New Life After the Bombs, by T.D. Allman, photographs by Stephen Wilkes
I'm going to level with you. I'm a pacifist. I don't know if I'm gung-ho enough to join the Quakers or Mennonites (there's a part of me that goes, "well, maybe, I guess . . " about the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II*), but in general, I'm anti-war.
And I cut my teeth on this anti-war stance at a surprisingly young age. I can't remember a time when I thought that the Vietnam War was a good idea. Now as a sort of side comment, by the time I was born, the war was about halfway done. I also became aware of the wider world outside as it became more clear that the Vietnam War had been a colossal waste of time, money, and, most importantly, of lives.
One of the worst-hit victims of the Vietnam War was Laos. As the tagline for the article says, "the U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos . . . . That's equal to a planeload every 8 minutes for 9 years." I was on the low end of the single digits for most of that time (and wasn't even there for some of it), but that statistic makes me feel kind of ill.
In 2015, it has been over 40 years since the bombs stopped falling and the Laotians are still feeling the effects of the war. Their ground is still full of holes from where the bombs landed and they still find live bombs. In the nine years from 1999 through 2008, 1,350 people were injured and 834 were killed when old bombs exploded. Taking those numbers as an average (rather than, as I suspect, a low end), that's about 3,800 deaths from when the bombing ended to today, and that's 3,800 too many.
Allman's words and Wilkes's photographs do a wonderful job of not only showing the damage done but also showing how Laos has grown, and will continue to grow, over the intervening years.
*There are probably other wars in other countries that I would say the same about, but as I'm not very interested in war, finding those wars is not a priority for me.
Author OliviaPosted on October 30, 2015 October 27, 2015 Categories National GeographicTags ethiopia, kenya, laosLeave a comment on National Geographic August 2015, Part 2
National Geographic July 2014
The Hunt for Life Beyond Earth, by Michael D. Lemonick, photographs by Mark Thiessen
The Hunt for Life Beyond Earth is pretty much just like it says: it's about scientists' attempts to find life on other planets. Needless to say, Mars is one of the planets they are considering as home for this extraterrestrial life, but Mars is too close. Rocks travel back and forth between Earth and Mars periodically. As a result, the discovery of life on Mars would not prove that said life developed there. It could be terrestrial life that made the trip between the two planets.
Based on the premise that life should be develop in places with liquid water, we are also looking at two of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, as possible sites of life. Saturn's moon Titan also has liquid, but that liquid is methane and not water. As a result, scientists who are looking for life haven't ruled Titan out, but they are uncertain what kind of life would develop in liquid methane.
Then there is the possibility of life beyond our solar system. In 1961, an astronomer named Frank Drake created what is now known as the Drake Equation, which is an equation to calculate how many extrasolar civilizations we should be able to contact. The equation included the number of sunlike stars in our galaxy, the number of those stars that had planetary systems, the number of planetary systems that have planets capable of sustaining life, the number of planets that actually do develop life, the number of those whose residents develop intelligence, and the number of those who develop radio signals that we could detect. We are just now starting to be able to apply numbers to these variables.
As someone who has read and watched entirely too much science fiction for her own good, I think that the Drake Equation may understate the number of planets that we might be able to communicate with. What if a society jumped right to television? Or used some other form of radiation that we cannot yet detect to communicate? Or evolved while orbiting a sun completely different from ours? The Drake Equation might be a good estimate, but there are no guarantees that it is the only way for life to develop. It's just the way that our life developed.
The Next Breadbasket, by Joel K. Bourne, Jr., photographs by Robin Hammond
The Next Breadbasket is another installment in the Future of Food series. For this installment, we travel to Africa to watch the various ways that the fertile land, and those who work it, are being both used and exploited by agribusiness. In too many African countries, the government allows the agribusiness entities to run people, some of whom have been farming this land for generations, off of their land. Bourne names names, both of the companies that have treated the indigenous people well and those who have treated the people poorly.
So far, two of the ones that Bourne seems to support are a company called African Century Agriculture which uses an "outgrower" model, in which African Century provides soybeans, weeding, and training in conservation agriculture to small farmers. The farmers then sell the soybeans that they grow back to African Century, which deducts the costs of their services from the payment. This way, the small farmers get to keep their land and also get education in the latest agricultural techniques.
Another company that Bourne seems to me to think well of is Bananalandia, the largest banana farm in Mozambique. The owner of Bananalandia, Dries Gouws, pays his workers at least 110% of the Mozambican minimum wage and he also has done things to improve the lives of the people in the surrounding villages, including paving roads, providing electricity, building a school, and making improvements to the sewage system. I know well that 110% of minimum wage is in no way going to raise these people out of poverty, but I feel that the other improvements in the quality of life that Gouws has made are not insignificant either.
The Wells of Memory, by Paul Salopek, photographs by John Stanmeyer
In The Wells of Memory, the second installment of Salopek's Out of Eden Walk series, Salopek is walking up the western coast of Saudi Arabia, through an area known as the Hejaz. The Hejaz was added to what is now Saudi Arabia in 1925. Both Mecca and Medina are in the Hejaz, so until the era of airplane flight, most of the pilgrims coming from around the world had to pass through the Hejaz. Jeddah, also in the Hejaz is the burial place of Eve, according to legends.
Salopek focuses in part on the wells that are spread, a day's walk apart, through the Hejaz. The wells date back to the Caliphate of Caliph Umar in 638. There were also guesthouses, forts, and hospitals along the route, courtesy fo the Caliph. Today, in addition to the ancient wells, there are asbila, outdoor electric water coolers along the route these days.
Salopek is one of the first, if not the first, Westerner to travel this route in close to a century, but this is the route taken by other Westerners in the past, including Lawrence of Arabia.
As with nearly all National Geographic stories, The Wells of Memory is punctuated by photographs. However, some of the photographs in this story were taken with a smartphone and then edited to look like vintage, sepia-toned photographs with an app called Hipstamatic. Stanmeyer chose this approach to reflect his feeling that he "had one foot in the present, and the other had stepped back a hundred years."
Big Fish, by Jennifer S. Holland, photographs by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes
For the past 25 years, the Altantic goliath grouper has been a protected species. Once sport fishermen would catch them by the dozen, but goliath groupers are long-lived and reproduce slowly. This meant that the fish were not able to replace their numbers as quickly as they were being harvested. This resulted in the species being granted legal protection as an endangered species.
Now, some fishermen believe that their numbers have rebounded enough that it should be safe to start catching them again. In part they want the trophies, but these fishermen also believe that the goliath grouper is eating fish that the fishermen should legally be able to catch, thus reducing the numbers of legal fish even farther.
Holland seems unswayed by these fisherman's arguments. She has spoken with scientists who are studying goliath grouper and who believe that the population is still too low. Goliath groupers tend to stick to one area, and until they start to overpopulate that area, they will not spread elsewhere in their range. Additionally, according to Holland, there are a number of studies (she doesn't tell us which ones) that show that there is not much overlap between the targets of the fishermen and those of the goliath grouper. If the fishermen are finding it difficult to find fish to catch, it is not the fault of the goliath grouper.
Additionally, just because their numbers are rebounding now does not mean that this will continue indefinitely. Goliath grouper juveniles live in mangrove swamps, and the mangroves in their home range are being decimated. To make matters worse, due to mercury levels, goliath grouper are coming down with lesions in their livers. This may also have an impact on their population numbers in the long term. It also makes goliath grouper unsafe to eat, so fishermen who catch them would need to throw them back, or use them only for trophy purposes, which would be wasteful.
Empire of Rock, by McKenzie Funk, photographs by Carsten Peter
Alas, Empire of Rock has nothing to do with popular music. It is, in fact, about the karst caves underneath Guizhou, China. This part of China was once covered by a sea. Over the centuries, the mollusks left their shells behind, which compressed into a limestone formation known as karst. Karst is limestone which is punctured by holes. Water seeps down into the holes, which wears the holes away until they join together and eventually form caves. This area is relatively unique in that this process has taken place over so many centuries that there are entire mountains of karst on the surface. Have you ever seen photographs or Chinese paintings of large, steep stone mountains, usually surrounded by mist? Those are karst mountains.
Funk accompanied a group of scientists and cavers who were attempting to measure the volume of one of the largest cave chambers in the world, the Hong Meigui chamber. Though Funk's eyes we watch them descend into the chamber and see their laser scanners, which Funk tells us is about the same size as a human head, measure the volume of the cave. Funk and her hosts also visit other caves and karst formations in the area.
"Hong Meigui," by the way, is the word that inspired me make my last post, on my experiences with foreign language. "Hong Meigui," depending on the tones, can mean "red rose." And I suspect that may be the meaning here, since there is a caving organization called the Hong Meigui Cave Exploration Society and the characters for the name of that group are the "hong," "mei," and "gui" of "red rose." Another chamber mentioned is the Miao Room, and my first instinct was that the "miao" in question is "temple," but, when looking at a list of other "miao"s, it could also be the "miao" that means "infinity," or any of a number of other Mandarin words that can be transliterated as "miao." I just don't know. To make things more frustrating, Funk does imply one translation when he tells us that the Yanzi cave is named for the swallows that live in the walls.
Two months after the cover date on this magazine, in September 2014, the title of the largest cave in the world was granted to the Miao Room.
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I use the chalkboard I made from scrap wood to decorate every function we have on my farm. I made this one for her special day with her favorite colors...she loved it!
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Q: Sum up over np.array or np.float We have a numpy-based algorithm that is supposed to handle data of different type.
def my_fancy_algo(a):
    b = np.sum(a, axis=1)
    # Do something b
    return b

If we pass a=np.array[1.0, 2.0, 3.0] then b evaluates to [6.0].
If we pass a=6.0 then we get
*** ValueError: 'axis' entry is out of bounds

The desired behavior would be that we get same return value 6.0 not ([6.0])  for both inputs.
What is the correct pythonic and safe way to handle this? type? shape?

A: Your example array actually gives the same problem as a scalar:
>>> a = np.array([1.0,2.0,3.0])
>>> np.sum(a, axis=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py", line 1724, in sum
    out=out, keepdims=keepdims)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/numpy/core/_methods.py", line 32, in _sum
    return umr_sum(a, axis, dtype, out, keepdims)
ValueError: 'axis' entry is out of bounds

The good news is that there's a numpy function exactly for ensuring making numpy calls with axis=1 will work - it's called np.atleast_2d:
>>> np.sum(np.atleast_2d(a), axis=1)
array([ 6.])
>>> np.sum(np.atleast_2d(6.0), axis=1)
array([ 6.])

But since you apparently want a scalar answer, you could instead just drop the axis argument entirely:
>>> np.sum(a)
6.0
>>> np.sum(6.0)
6.0

A: np.sum(np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]), axis=1) produces ValueError: 'axis' entry is out of bounds for me.
Did you mean to put axis=0 in line 2? Then it works for arrays as well as scalars:
>>> np.sum(np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]), axis=0)
6
>>> np.sum(3, axis=0)
3

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It's always a fun exercise: to go get the words most used by our guests when they describe their holidays here in Quinta da Bouça.
There are dozens of people very different from each other, of varying ages, from many countries. Still, there are terms that stand out in almost every comment or message they send us.


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Colorado Rockies 1976 5,564
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11 minutes ago, Toasterleavins said:
Fine with people hating the new jersey. I like the old style better myself. Whats starting to get to me is the complaining about them spreading to and ruining every thread.
We finally get to see our first No1 overall pick since 1979 on the ice for the firs time ever, and the training camp thread devolves into "OMG LOOKAT THE JERSEYSSO UGLY, I WISH IT WAS 1989 AGAIN!!"
I. Dont. Give. A. sh!t. Leave the uniform bitching in the uniform bitching thread.
I want to read about Hischier and the other exciting prospects we have.
Wasn't really like this, just one poster complaining, followed by others simply wondering when the Adidas jerseys would make their debut, since it was mildly surprising to see the old ones.
There will be more to talk about in that thread after all of the scrimmages. I envy those who will be there; looks like it will be a lot of fun. Just the kind of thing to get the hockey anticipation juices flowin'...
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2 hours ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
I'm not a fan of using designs from outside the franchise, but if they wanted to use that logo on a third jersey, I would be all for it. That crest is badass.
12 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:
That could be pretty cool...maybe a bit gimmicky, but definitely interesting. I wonder if that red and black ever figured into the NJ Devils' red and black...if our Devils were even aware of those Devils.
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13 hours ago, mikepeluso8 said:
I'm no uniform guru (I have a life) but, what's the gripe with the new jerseys? Doesn't seem to strike me as "oh fvck no!"...pretty basic, pretty standard, pretty Devils to me...
From NJDfan1711 (quoted from the Development thread as to keep the uniform chat in this thread):
They [Devils] made their bed, now they have to sleep in it. I'm not even convinced that the Devils marketing/creative team will admit or accept that they're not so great or at the very least haven't been well received, but even if they did, they're still not going to abandon them and stop marketing them. It is what it is. We're going to be stuck with these for probably two years at least, so they have to try and sell them.
It's funny, because if I'm on the Devils marketing/creative team, I'm probably thinking the same way that they do. Sure, there's been some complaining, but they have no real quantitative proof as to exactly HOW many fans hate or strongly dislike these things. Even if a lot of us despise the final result, there were still likely several brainstorming sessions, meetings, approval processes, designs that were tweaked and mocked up and tweaked and mocked up and tweaked some more...several hundred man-hours and resources invested in these, as no process like this is ever fast or as simple as it may seem (saving the logo likely shaved some significant time off the design process, though we don't know if alternate logos were considered or how much time was spent on potential new logo concepts...sounds like some man-hours might have been burned up there too).
And of course, with all of that time and money spent, no one is going to admit within less than a month that these might indeed turn out to be a sales failure, especially when in the creative team's eyes it's only pure speculation right now that they will fail. Sure, you'll get your share of incompetent out-of-touch buffoon-ridden "think tanks", but even those guys plan for contingencies. Even if the volume of unhappy fans was more than they expected, they still likely expected a significant amount of them. Things that seem damned near sacred to many often get fvcked with at some point, much like the Coca-Cola/New Coke disaster back in the day (several of you are probably too young to remember this, but in 1985 Coca-Cola decided to dump their formula for a new one, complete with a new can and logo to go with the new flavor...it was a complete disaster, so much so that Coca-Cola brought back their old formula within a few months...but of course, in not wanting to admit total failure, they still offered the new formula for another seven years as an alternate consumer option). And like that case and many others show, you'll almost never get that instant reversal of a initially iffy-looking decision with these guys...they will be very patient, they will give it time, they will wait for numbers and data and long-term feedback that show conclusively that yes, this was a fvck-up, and THEN they might act. I still think there's a better chance of some tweaks to the new jersey than an outright return to something very close to the old one though. Lots of people out there who don't ever want to admit outright failure, no matter what.
Edited July 12, 2017 by Colorado Rockies 1976
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Not completely related but saw a poster on HF Boards say they also attended a tour of the arena today and that they are installing a brand new scoreboard.
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Location:SW FL
First off, sorry to all if I was the one who kept-going the uniform talk in the other thread. Someone else brought it up, and I was merely responding to it (I tend to follow the conversation and flow in threads, without actually paying too much attention to which actual forum we're in, I just assumed it was on topic, but if it wasn't, my bad ). Appreciate CR76 taking the time to bring this over here and save me!
Secondly, that's a great point and comparison to Coke, and what they did with "New Coke", aka "syruppy piss water" lol. That was largely a one-off example (I can't think of many more where a true and rather immediate reversal happened), and it came from a billion dollar company whose product is consumed daily, in millions of quantities, and only costs a few bucks. They had to do something and had to react to the pulse of the people. That's not the case here. This product is a jersey, that costs substantially more, and will be worn for months/years, until the owner needs to purchase a replacement, or, hopefully, they re-brand again, and go back to what we all liked.
mikepeluso8 203
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10 hours ago, Martyisth3b3st said:
"Won't" <> "Can't". We're talking about a guy here with a third grade reading level and the attention span of a squirrel.
I think everyone has already articulated a billion times what you've said; and even though I don't disagree with it completely I think it's fair to say "let's wait to see what they look like on the players".
At the end of the day, for me at least, there was one thing sacred; the Devils crest. They didn't touch that, so I can't be too terribly upset. I prefer the old look to the new look, but when we see a full team in pads skating out there with these uniforms I'm not so sure it'll be the worst thing ever.
Third grade reading level eh? Haha. Let's just say I didn't attend one of the state schools in NJ that y'all attended. I will leave it at that. I am all for banter but when you want to talk about education, you better be prepared chief...
11 hours ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
I know your schtick is to be an abrasive douche, but I'll sum it all up for you, re: those of us who have a gripe with the new jerseys, since apparently you won't read through the thread.
Though many of us would've been very happy to see the new Adidas Devils jerseys remain as close to the outgoing design as possible, a number of fans were at least open to the idea of a new concept, as long as it didn't represent an overall downgrade from the previous design...I was one of them.
Well, suffice it to say that the Adidas version, in the eyes of many, represents a MASSIVE downgrade, to say the least. The logo fortunately survived unmolested, but the shoulder yoke was truncated and now looks off, the "equal width" sleeve stripes were blown up to the point where they look like a child's swimmies (they look especially bad on the red jerseys), and the lower stripes were eliminated and replaced with a relatively thin black stripe at the bottom of the jersey. These are pretty significant changes in the grand scheme, and to many fans, the new jerseys look like anything from pajama tops to cheap overseas knockoffs of what we consider "the real thing". Even worse, apparently the main reason that these changes were made was to pay homage to the Kansas City Scouts (red collar stripe), the Colorado Rockies (the three equal-sized stripes), and some team from the fvcking Prohibition Era (the Newark Bulldogs) that maybe 1% of the Devils fanbase knows ever existed...hell, as far as that black stripe goes that has nothing to do with the Bulldogs as far as anyone can see, they would have been better off telling us that that stripe was paying tribute to the Jersey Devils of the EHL (they played in the mid-60s to early-70s...see photo)...at least that might have made some kind of sense. But the fact is that a very small percentage care about this franchise's history prior to 1982, let alone some completely unrelated team from the 1920s. It's a design that's not only very out-of-step with the majority of the fanbase's desires, but doesn't improve on the prior template in any way.
Now sure, some fans do like the new jerseys, which is 100% fine...to each their own...hell, I wish I could embrace these things, but they don't look right to me and no matter how many times I look at them and hope that they'll somehow grow on me, they still don't. I think that they'll look a little better with equipment underneath them on actual players, but not nearly as good as the old ones. Of course, some fans who do indeed like the Adidas jerseys strongly imply that those who don't agree are somehow opposed to change, stuck in the past, complaining just because, etc. Not the case...with some tweaks, I could definitely live with a modified version of the Adidas jerseys. But as they're currently designed, I think that they're pretty awful. Seeing Hischier in the "old" getup only added to that feeling.
Appreciate your diligence and willingness to at least explain where you are coming from...respect to that.
With that being said, it's a fvcking uniform. No one gives a sh!t and I certainly don't. Waste of time and energy complaining about a damn team's uniforms all day...honestly. The logo is the same. Big deal, the stripes are different and the colors are changed here and there...tweaks...minor tweaks. To someone who is half retarded and barely able to type on a computer, take my word for it, CAN'T SEE A fvckING THING!
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18 minutes ago, mikepeluso8 said:
Step off the high horse son, don't be disrespecting Rutgers now
Ok, that was funny.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha oh my god you are ridiculous
1 minute ago, Martyisth3b3st said:
I mean it's possible he!s highly educated. I am and I mostly just make fart jokes all day long.
3 hours ago, mfitz804 said:
Word. Ya just never know who is on the other side of the keyboard over here. "Fire Hynes" Man might be an astronaut...
7 hours ago, mikepeluso8 said:
I'm certain that's at least one third correct.
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31 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
DAMNNNNN GOOD ONE FITZ!
If we are not gonna have fun, we just shouldn't show up. Just like Mr. Durant. He and Westbrook both looked like they were gonna beat Peyton up in the parking lot.
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Obviously saw the pic of Hischier's #13 old school jersey that was shown just after he signed his entry-level deal...while it's one thing to not see the new ones on the ice in developmental camp, I'm a little surprised not to see it for Nico signing...Devils had him wear one for draft night, so I gotta think they could have gotten one here easily enough (they could have even modded the #17 from Nico's draft jersey)...not like it's any big secret what the new ones look like.
Not really inferring anything from this of course...doubt any dramatic design reversal is coming. Just seems like it could've been a subtle yet purposeful "For the foreseeable future, this is what you can expect to see on the ice, there is no way that we're not giving these a chance" statement if they had held up an Adidas jersey instead. I guess it's kind of weird to see the old jerseys continuing to linger (regardless of the circumstances as to why).
As said previously, I don't think they're being allowed to by Adidas. I believe Adidas's deal lets them control the launch, which is why they were at the draft and why you won't see them until opening night.
But I do agree, presenting him with the "wrong" jersey makes not a bit of sense.
thecoffeecake 390
Location:Toms River,NJ/Philadelphia
On 07/12/2017 at 7:42 PM, mikepeluso8 said:
Wow, you went out of your way to insult a very good chunk of people on this board and Devils fans at large because of one single person you were bickering with. Here's my experience: the smartest people I know, the most insightful and creative thinkers I grew up with, tons of people successful in STEM careers, politics, art, just about all went to NJ state schools. I've also found people who try to drop their educational background when someone so much as intentionally makes a petty,immature joke at their expense tend to be shallow inbusiles who backed into an Ivy league degree based on those schools' policies on legacy admissions. And I didn't go to school in the state, so if you think I'm trying to defend my own alma mater, nope.
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Location:Highland Park, NJ (via Iselin)
On 7/7/2017 at 10:38 AM, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
This really is the safest way to go these days, unless you fall back on Brodeur/Elias/Stevens/Daneyko types (obviously you can pull off Zajac/Greene/Brylin and several others in the "been here a long time" category as well)...I came close to picking up both Kovy AND Parise jerseys a couple of times...glad I didn't.
I have considered not even personalizing my new Reeboks, but in the end I almost definitely will.
You can get the names and numbers stripped and have a new one put on by sending it to Exclusive Pro. I've done this a few times, in fact on one of those pre-Edge team-issued uncustomized authentics I got after the switch to the Edge jerseys, I originally got it customized as a Parise, but have since sent it back to get it switched to Elias. Even if you look very closely, you can't tell that there was ever a different name/number on it.
On 7/7/2017 at 10:56 AM, DevsMan84 said:
A little surprised that there is still a decent amount of dislike for the Reebok Edge jerseys. I can kind of understand the feelings towards the 1.0's (with the stretchy, pillow-y material and goofy long arms) but the 2.0 basically fixed a lot of those issues. All the Edge 1.0 bubble mesh and xtrafil panels were replaced by airknit (which is what the Devils wore from 96-06), the arms were shortened slightly (and made wider) and the body was also made a little looser. I actually prefer the 2.0's a little bit in terms of pure comfort as I feel they fit a little better and the construction are pretty nice (example are the stripes on the Edge 2.0's are separate panels of material while the pre-Edges had the stripes painted/printed on).
When it comes to getting players on jerseys I always advise people to avoid flavor of the weeks. If you get a Farnham, Tootoo, Wood, Blandisi, etc jersey then you reap what you sow. I always advise to stick to forever Devils like Marty, Elias, Stevens, etc.
My beef with the Edge jerseys wasn't so much with the construction of them with the exception of the rounded bottom, but more because of how they basically forced almost every team in the league to change their jerseys (and forced some weird, new age design elements like the vertical piping, unusual patterns on the sleeves, etc.), as well as jacking up the price and reducing the quality compared to the pre-Edge jerseys, especially the replicas. As much as I hate the new Devils jerseys, I am happy that Adidas didn't force everyone to make changes. Only a handful did, and in my opinion all of them are good except for the Devils. I am glad they got rid of the vertical piping that Reebok introduced.
Edited July 16, 2017 by devilsfan26
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R.P. BenDedek (Pseudonym) lived and worked in China from 2003 to 2017 and is seen here freezing his butt off on the Great Wall.
WELCOME TO THE NEW FACE OF KINGSCALENDAR.COM
Full List of Various Contributor's Articles 2019
KingsCalendar is Closing Down!
Kingscalendar.com which has been publishing many different types of articles since 2004 is about to disappear from the Web.
I would like to thank all of those writers who contributed to the site and thank the many of you who wrote me emails over the years.
KingsCalendar.com is currently useless thanks to an executive decision made by the hosting service and this NEW FACE of Kingscalendar is redundant.
It is expected that by September Kingscalendar will disappear.
R.P. BenDedek
Email rpbendedek@hotmail.com
The boring background history:
KingsCalendar.com was originally created to showcase R.P. BenDedek's published research into the chronology of Ancient Israel. By 2011 it had already become a Writer's Journal. At the top of the page in the column on the right (underneath the covers of my two books which you are welcome to buy) are listed the latest five articles to have been published and further down you can see the archive section containing all articles published since the creation of this new site.
Underneath the section containing the latest published articles you can see the various article categories contained within the New Writers Journal Kingscalendar and these include sections containing topics related to American Politics, Israel & Middle East, Social Issues, Racism, PC, Abuse as well as others – and – still maintaining the site's original purpose, The Secret of Qumran Academic Articles.
In 2004 R.P. BenDedek became a columnist at Magic City Morning Star in Maine USA, and then from 2009 to 2016 was the Editor. In 2016 he become a contributor at iPatriot.com. In late 2016 he made his Facebook page public.
One of the first feature sections created at KingsCalendar was the Stories from China section which now contains about two hundred photographic articles, most of which were written by R.P. BenDedek who moved to China in 2003 to teach conversational English (Feb 2003 to August 2017)
In August of 2016 he published his second book titled 'Finding Myself in China: A Politically Incorrect Story.' It is only available in a PDF Download because as a non-fiction story it has been impossible to get it independently published. Excerpts are available.
The Original KingsCalendar Website
The original purpose of KingsCalendar.com was to showcase the results of R.P. BenDedek's chronological research into the history of ancient Israel. Those results were titled 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran.' You can click this link to go to the Chapter Precis page to gain a better understanding of that research.
In 2004 BenDedek began writing articles about his research and created a variety of sections in which to house them. These sections were named "Academic Articles"; "Rules of Evidence in Archaeology"; "Seder Olam Rabbah"; "Extra Free Glimpses"; "Josephus" and "Wikipedia."
'The Kings Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' Research
For a very long time now, Academics have claimed that the chronological data contained in Biblical Books is confused, misleading or just plain wrong. Many people who subscribe to the erroneous notion that Bible Chronology is 'infallible' need to go to great and sometimes convoluted lengths to prove their ideas.
BenDedek's Research demonstrates that the chronological data provided in the Bible is correct, but that Academics have failed to understand the 'artificial' nature of the data. (This is explained in the 'PROBLEM' section further down).
The Research Results are demonstrated via a computer generated mathematical synchronous chronological reconstruction of the Divided Kingdom Period in the History of Ancient Israel (Appendix 5). Chapters One to Four and various appendices freely provide readers with all the necessary information and tools to scientifically test the results of this research for themselves before purchasing the 'download' book. The King's Calendar operates on three fundamental premises.
The chronological records contained in the Bible are Artificial. (What is the King's Calendar?)
That the Old Testament records are a reliable and trustworthy History of Israel. (Biblical Infallibility)
That the Mosaic Exodus was a 15th Century BCE / 18th Egyptian Dynasty event. (Ancient Egypt)
Assumptions and Limitations.
Methodology for the Computerised Generation of the King's Calendar
King's Calendar Assumptions and Limitations
Bible Skepticism
The Septuagint and Masoretic Texts
Introduction to King's Calendar Research Results:
It is the stated aim of this work to demonstrate that the chronological History of Israel and Judah, as is set forth principally in the books of Kings and Chronicles, is a true, accurate and legitimate history.
The most perplexing problem, not only for the lay person, but for historians as well, in understanding that history, is the matter of the "chronological synchronisms" found there.
When one attempts to reconstruct Jewish history, the Biblical data appears not only to be excessive of what is believed to be 'true history,' but as well, seems at times to be self conflicting. For this reason, the biblical chronological data has never been 'treated seriously' by academics. Their conclusion is that it is painfully obvious that the Biblical data has been communicated to us in a contaminated form, and that it therefore can be manipulated whenever and wherever in history that one wishes.
But yet, from what we know of the historical process of the transmission of biblical documents, serious contamination of the data ought not to be a possibility, for to all intents and purposes, the Biblical records have been painstakingly reproduced time and again, with the utmost care and accuracy. Why then are we unable to synchronise the biblical chronological history, with the 'facts and evidence' of archaeological history?
The answer is simple, yet polemical. To some it will be a blasphemy, to others an absurdity. The contents of this book however will nonetheless demonstrate it to be true. The reason we have failed, is that biblical chronological history was not recorded using a standard recording methodology.
Logic tell us that if the Bible ought to be correct and the details as presented appear not to be correct, then obviously we have failed to understand 'how it was recorded.' That 'simple' recording process remained a closely guarded secret. The technique was very simple and originated in an ancient Sectarian Jewish belief that the solar year was comprised of 364 days. These years were then artificially divided into periods of seven (7) day weeks, four (4) week months, and twelve (12) month years. Each year created then totaled only 336 days, effectively creating a thirteenth spare year for every Twelve solar year period.
The purpose of this book is to reconstruct an accurate solar history of the Jews by presenting the biblical chronological synchronisms in the fashion in which they were created. The 'King's Calendar' aim is to rationally examine Jewish Chronological History from the perspective that the details in the Bible are basically correct.
In today's 'modern' world, we all far too readily 'follow the experts.' Investigating evidence ourselves and questioning whether or not the 'experts' deserve to be followed, or are even correct, is something we rarely do, but to quote Rabbi Moshe Ben-Chaim:
"The Rishonim hold that merely accepting what the Rabbis say without striving to understand with our minds is the furthest thing from the truth. Judaism is based on knowledge. An honest approach which demands conviction – an attitude which can only be reached by clear, rational arguments as exemplified by the Tanaim and Amoraim, the doctors of the Talmud." [MESORA]
The 'King's Calendar,' which represents 10 years of research into Biblical Synchronous Chronology, aims to do just what the Rabbi says; to clearly and rationally examine the matter in an attempt to understand for 'ourselves' the truth of the matter which so many 'experts' deny; that the Biblical Chronological Details are correct.
Whilst Bible Chronology for the Divided Kingdom of Israel presents itself to be synchronous, it often does not appear not to be so and exceeds the time frame which is historically available. It is the hypothesis of this research that the Jubilee Calendar of the Essenes which measures 364 days per year, was artificially divided into thirteen months (13) of four (4) weeks of seven (7) days, with the thirteenth month being 'carried over' so to speak, so that every twelve (12) solar years, an extra year (13th) is created. By this process real Jewish history was extended.
Biblical Synchronisms from this perspective, do actually synchronise, and this will be demonstrated.
Two academic complaints laid against the 'King's Calendar' at this point in time maintain that no proof has been offered to demonstrate that it was in fact the Dead Sea Sect (Essenes, Proto-Essenes, Hasidim, or whatever name you attach) that created this calendar or that they inserted it into their history. That however is not the purpose of this book.
This book demonstrates the effectiveness of using a 336 day period for each 'YEAR' mentioned in Scripture and that the Synchronous Chronology of the Divided Kingdom as presented in the Bible is correct. We simply have never been able to see it before. Note also that in the process, the Chronology of Josephus, which up till now has also been considered to be completely unreliable, has been demonstrated to be both understandable and reliable.
This Book opens with a brief discussion of the Dead Sea Sect, Qumran, Scriptural Transmission, The Essenes and the Teacher of Righteousness ONIAS III as an introduction to Chapters Two and Three, The Biblical Apologetics for this work.
Religious and Secular Academics have been chasing their tails for over a century without getting any closer to 'solving' anything about Biblical Chronology. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the problem has been solved. Here it is! It is Mathematical, it is demonstrable, it aligns with history, it answers lots of niggling questions, and finally, it gives the average person some reliable understanding of the historicity of the Bible.
There is nothing in the research which contradicts any proven fact that currently appears in the history books. Note however that Chapters Two and Three are very difficult chapters since they are apologetic in nature.
Regular readers should first read Chapters One and Four before attempting the others. They should also look at Appendices 5 and 13, where they might see both the results of this work and the Scriptural references used.
To proceed to 'Research Proposal' Appendix Two.
To proceed to Chapter One, "The Dead Sea Scrolls."
To proceed to Appendix Five, Synchronous Chronological Reconstruction Chart 936 BCE – 586 BCE.
'Secret of Qumran' Prologue


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S otrokářskými loděmi byl kočkodan mona v 18. století zavlečen na karibský ostrov Grenada, tamní populace se však snižuje v důsledku odchytu mláďat, která jsou žádanými domácími mazlíčky.

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Interpret "Schola Sanctae Sunnivae & Anne Kleivset"
Schola Sanctae Sunnivae & Anne Kleivset
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FINGERGULL - In festo susceptionis sanguinis Domini
Biographie Schola Sanctae Sunnivae & Anne Kleivset
Schola Sanctae Sunnivae
The Gregorian chant choir Schola Sanctae Sunnivae was established in 1992 and consists of 12–14 female singers led by founder and conductor Anne Kleivset. The schola chose Norway's first female saint, the Irish princess Sunniva, as their patron. The ensemble is connected to the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. Schola Sanctae Sunnivae has spearheaded the restoration and performance of Gregorian chant material from Norwegian and European medieval sources and earned praise for their work from many leading institutions. The choir has recorded four CD's: De Susceptione Sanguinis Christi (1997), Rex Olavus (2000), Officium et Missae In Nativitate Sancti Ioannis Baptistae (2006) and In Nativitate Beatae MARIAE Virginis (2010). Currently the choir is widely regarded as one of Europe's leading Gregorian chant ensembles.
Anne Kleivset (*1960) has been the artistic director of the Schola Sanctae Sunnivae since the ensemble was founded in 1992. She holds degrees in Sacred music and pedagogics from the Conservatory of Trøndelag, Norway, and has studied plainchant at the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes, France, at the Conservatory of Paris, with Rev. Kees Pouderoijen in Vienna, Austria and Eugeen Liven d'Abelardo in Amsterdam, Holland. Apart from masterminding the four CDs already released with the Schola, she has also been instrumental in the production of numerous performances where Gregorian chant meets other means of artistic expressions. For a great many years she has also been working with different folkloristic textures, through concert performances, tuition, choral work, theatre and folklore performances.


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Jun. 15, 2017 | 12:08 AM
Ramadan comes with bitter taste for Mosul families
Iraqis stand in line to receive food aid in western Mosul's Zanjili neighbourhood on June 7, 2017, during ongoing battles as Iraqi forces try to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters. AFP / KARIM SAHIB
Layal Abou Rahal| Agence France Presse
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on June 15, 2017, on page 9.
Storytelling, games make comeback in Iraq
Umm Mohammad
Umm Youssef
Mohammad Dilan
Seif Al-Badr
For Umm Mohammad and other residents of areas of war-battered west Mosul recaptured from Daesh (ISIS) militants, this year's Muslim holy month of Ramadan carries a bitter taste.
Daesh seized the northern city of Mosul in June 2014 and imposed a brutal form of Islamist rule and a regime of terror on its inhabitants.
East Mosul and a large part of the west is now back in government hands.
Young volunteers last week handed out 2,000 modest aid packages to inhabitants of areas of west Mosul recaptured by Iraqi forces.
For those displaced from Mosul and forced to take refuge in overcrowded camps outside the city, life can be even more treacherous.


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Big sales, but also traditions and friendships live on for Orlando-area's Black Friday shoppers
Nov 23, 2018 | 1:20 PM
Instead of the shotgun start to the holiday shopping season that Thanksgiving weekend has given stores in past years, sales are starting earlier and doorbuster deals once available only for the most diligent will be offered online.
Forget online shopping. Few traditions can live up to the early mornings, long lines and hunt for deals that come with Black Friday for many Central Florida shoppers.
Despite the growing move to internet retailers — and the increase there was huge according to early estimates — thousands of shoppers packed Orlando-area malls, department stores and other shops for Black Friday as they looked for blockbuster discounts and the perfect gifts to top off their lists.
Shoppers said the crowds were lighter than past years. But for many, the tradition won't stop just because others are buying gifts online.
For six members of the Hancock clan, wearing matching shirts and bouncy candy cane headbands, the shopping starts on Thanksgiving and won't stop until the night on Black Friday.
"We started at 6 p.m. [Thanksgiving] night at Walmart, Kohl's and Target," said Robin Watson, next to mom Pamala Hancock at the J.C. Penney store at Orlando Fashion Square mall. "We didn't stop until about 4 a.m. and then got up at 8 [a.m.] and did it again."
The family was loading up on toys and clothes for their boys, particularly Nerf guns and DC Comics superhero action figures. There were also some purchases for themselves, they said.
"I didn't do much online shopping because I try to do everything in stores," said Watson, who drove from the Lake Nona neighborhood to shop with her family. "It's more fun in person."
They still had a long day ahead of them. Tina Blair, one of the members of their group, said they will probably be out until at least 10 p.m. shopping for deals and loading up on presents.
"We just love to do this," Blair said. "It's our tradition."
At Best Buy in Altamonte Springs, customers loaded up on deeply discounted flat-screen televisions, laptops, tablets, video-game consoles and software.
Cindy Lopez, Pamala Hancock and Tina Blair buy toys and clothes at J.C. Penney at Orlando Fashion Square. (Kyle Arnold / Orlando Sentinel)
At Lowe's in Fern Park, the hottest selling items were 50 cent poinsettias and tools.
Macy's customers at Orlando Fashion Square were buying pajamas and holiday shirts.
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Watson noticed that stores had strengthened toy offerings after Toys R Us went bankrupt and liquidated earlier this year.
More retailers matched their in-store deals with sales through websites.
Online sales on Thanksgiving alone hit $3.7 billion on Thursday, according to sales figures tracked by Adobe Digital Insights. It was a 28 percent increase over online sales in 2017, figures that would surely cut into in-store revenues.
Friday sales were also on track to break records, while internet retailers were gearing up for four more days of heavy traffic through Cyber Monday, when people return to work and tend to shop at the same time.
"Shoppers are already capitalizing on Black Friday discounts online in the early hours of the morning, gearing up for a record Black Friday we expect to match last year's Cyber Monday," said Adobe Digital Insights director Taylor Schreiner.
Still, brick-and-mortar sales aren't going anywhere as shoppers continue to look drive to malls and big-box stores in search of holiday deals.
Apopka's Brittany Green did most of her shopping online before Thanksgiving even arrived, but still found herself at the Kohl's store in Altamonte Springs.
"I had a coupon for $10, so here I am," she said.
Black Friday shoppers look for deals during the kick-off of the holiday shopping season at The Mall of MIllenia in Orlando on November 24, 2018. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel) (Rich Pope / Orlando Sentinel)
Green has four children — the youngest is a newborn, the oldest is 6. She hunted for the best deals in the weeks leading up to Black Friday, and said she found she could usually find matching or better prices. She also only shopped on websites that would offer free shipping.
Altamonte Springs' Julie Boness started at Home Depot at 5 a.m. to buy poinsettias and Christmas wreaths, then met up with friend Elaine Huffman at Kohl's.
"I don't do anything online because of love the social aspect of shopping," Boness said. "And it gives you a reason to spend time with your best friend."
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More than 300,000 HDB households to get e-vouchers to buy energy- and water-efficient appliances
A view of HDB flats at night. (File photo: Xabryna Kek)
28 Nov 2020 08:08PM (Updated: 28 Nov 2020 08:10PM )
SINGAPORE: More than 300,000 HDB households in one-, two- and three-room flats will receive vouchers to help them switch to energy- and water-efficient appliances, under a programme launched on Saturday (Nov 28) by the National Environment Agency (NEA) and water agency PUB.
Eligible households will get three types of e-vouchers amounting to S$225.
This consists of S$150 to buy a climate-friendly refrigerator, S$50 for water-efficient shower fittings and S$25 for LED lights.
The S$25 million Climate-Friendly Households Programme was first announced in March and was rolled out on Saturday as part of the launch of this year's Clean and Green Singapore campaign.
SAVING ENERGY, WATER AND MONEY
In a media release, NEA highlighted the impact that the programme could have on reducing energy and water consumption in Singapore.
"Refrigerators are one of the most energy-intensive household appliances, accounting for about 17 per cent of the total electricity consumption in Singapore households," the agency said.
"If each of the more than 300,000 eligible one-, two- and three-room HDB households switched to a more energy-efficient refrigerator, the potential combined electricity cost savings of these households would be about S$160 million over the typical lifespan of the refrigerator."
NEA added that the reduction in carbon emissions would be equivalent to the annual emissions from 110,000 cars.
If each eligible households replaced one shower fitting with a water-efficient model, they would save up to 1.1 million gallons of water per day, with each home's annual water bill dropping by about S$10 to S$20.
As for LED lights, all eligible households who make the switch can collectively save S$3.7 million in annual energy costs, said NEA.
"This would be equivalent to saving enough energy to power about 5,000 three-room HDB flats," the agency added.
It noted that 64 per cent of the eligible households currently do not use LED lights.
READ: MSE in process of working on and revising sustainability guidelines for public sector, says Grace Fu
READ: Commentary: Singapore could be a model for cooler cities in a world heating up
There are currently eight merchants participating in the programme: Bathroom Warehouse, Best Denki, Courts, Gain City, Harvey Norman, Mega Discount Store, NTUC FairPrice and Sheng Siong.
"More merchants are expected to come on board during the programme," NEA said.
Eligible households can apply for the vouchers here. Vouchers are valid until Dec 31, 2023.
A CITY IN NATURE
Speaking at the launch of Clean and Green Singapore 2020 at ITE College East, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said this year's campaign has taken on greater significance against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the record number of dengue cases in the country.
"Keeping Singapore clean helps to keep us safe from COVID-19, dengue and other infectious diseases," he said. "However, beyond addressing these immediate public health threats, Singapore is also redoubling our efforts to build a greener and more sustainable future."
Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat (right, foreground) planting a Magnolia champaca tree, also known as the orange champaca, at the Clean and Green Singapore 2020 launch ceremony on Saturday, Nov 28, 2020. (Photo: National Environment Agency)
As part of a Clean and Green Singapore tradition, Mr Heng planted three Magnolia champaca trees, together with Minister for National Development Desmond Lee, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu and North East District Mayor Desmond Choo.
"Every year, as part of Clean and Green Singapore, we plant trees together. This is a valuable tradition started by Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who planted a mempat tree at Farrer Circus in June 1963," Mr Heng said.
"This year, we continue this tradition, with some safe management measures in place.
"I have planted a tree in ITE College East as part of the One Million Trees movement. We target to plant a million trees over the next decade across Singapore in our streetscapes, green spaces and even industrial estates."
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Clean and Green Singapore campaign, which was launched in 1990 by then Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
A weekend of free physical walks and virtual activities have been planned as part of the campaign, with more information available on the Clean and Green Singapore website.
Source: CNA/kg(gs)
National Environment Agency
Clean and Green Singapore


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Unknown to the general public but fascinating to followers of Stanley Kubrick, the name Leon Vitali takes center stage in Tony Zierra's "Filmworker." Vitali, who moved from the onscreen role of Lord Bullingdon in "Barry Lyndon" to the offscreen one as Kubrick's general factotum for a quarter of a century, may have been credited as the famous director's "personal assistant," but Zierra reveals the astonishing extent of Vitali's loyalty. Drawing from a deep trove of Kubrick-related media, including extensive clips from the master's films, it goes without saying that "Filmworker" will be sought by Kubrick completists, but the movie also appeals to anyone who has been seduced by the process of motion picture making.
Zierra's own filmmaking style is a far cry from the meticulous aesthetics brought to the screen by Kubrick. Mostly static talking-head interviews with Vitali -- unremarkable in framing and locations -- form the central narration, but Zierra invites a couple dozen others to speak on camera, including Kubrick performers Ryan O'Neal, Danny Lloyd, Matthew Modine, Tim Colceri, R. Lee Ermey, and Marie Richardson. Just as valuable are the appearances of Vitali's fellow below-the-line filmworkers, many of whom attest to the devotion and self-sacrifice of their friend and colleague.
"Filmworker" retells a few anecdotes well-known to Kubrick fans: the physical beating Vitali took from O'Neal in take after painful take; Vitali's careful handling and mentoring of Lloyd; the replacement of Colceri with Ermey as Sgt. Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket." Vitali, candid and open about his reverence for Kubrick if not the full extent of the personal costs it exacted on him, speaks with pride of his wide-ranging career accomplishments. Zierra builds several excellent sequences detailing Vitali's sponge-like thirst for film production knowledge and the benefits it yielded (and continues to yield), including a virtually perfect and encyclopedic recall regarding Kubrick's exacting color timing specifications.
Alongside Harlan's own "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" and other authorized content, Zierra's documentary joins Kubrickiana like Jon Ronson's "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes," Rodney Ascher's "Room 237," and Alex Infascelli's "S Is for Stanley" in a growing media library that accompanies the massive print collection of material dissecting various aspects of Kubrick's life and work. In this particular case, Vitali's own allegiance won't dispel any of the mythology surrounding Kubrick's often contradictory sides (gentle/ferocious; warm/distant; esoteric/down-to-earth, etc.), but Zierra does manage to achieve something tangible: a well-articulated and wholly compelling argument that no matter how one feels about the auteur, moviemaking is a collaborative art.