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Deep Depression ARB 02 was a weak tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage and loss of life in Yemen in October 2008. The sixth tropical cyclone and third deep depression of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, ARB 02 formed on October 19 off the west coast of India from the same broader system that spawned a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean at the same time. Moving generally westward, the depression failed to intensify much, reaching maximum sustained winds of only . It was no longer classifiable as a tropical depression by October 23, and later that day, its remnants made landfall near Ash Shihr in eastern Yemen.

The storm sent a plume of moisture throughout the Arabian Peninsula, contributing to dust storms as far north as Iraq. However, the effects were most severe in Yemen, becoming the second-worst natural disaster in the country after deadly floods in 1996. The storm dropped heavy rainfall in a normally arid region, reaching around , which caused flash flooding in valleys after waterways were unable to contain the approximately 2 billion km3 (528 billion gallons) of water that fell. Poor drainage practices and an invasive species of weed contributed to the floods, which damaged or destroyed 6,505 houses, leaving about 25,000 people homeless. The floods killed 180 people and severely disrupted the livelihoods of about 700,000 residents of Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates, mostly farmers whose fields were washed away. Some of the buildings at the Shibam UNESCO World Heritage Site collapsed due to the floods. Overall damage was estimated at US$874.8 million, although residual losses from damaged infrastructure were estimated to cost an additional US$726.9 million. The overall economic impact of the storm was therefore estimated at US$1.638 billion, equating to roughly 6% of the country's gross domestic product.

After the scale of the damage became clear, the government of Yemen requested for assistance from the international community. The hardest hit areas had poor infrastructure, which caused difficulties in communications as relief goods were distributed. Nations in the region, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, sent money and supplies to help rebuild the damaged infrastructure and houses. Agencies under the United Nations provided food and logistical support. Relief efforts continued to make progress until 2011 due to a political uprising in Yemen.

Meteorological history

On October 11, an active phase of the Madden–Julian oscillation, in conjunction with an equatorial wind burst, produced twin areas of convection in the central Indian Ocean on both sides of the equator. The system in the southern hemisphere would become Tropical Storm Asma in the south-west Indian Ocean, and the system in the northern hemisphere would ultimately strike Yemen. The northern hemisphere system originated in the Bay of Bengal, and moved westward for much of its duration, steered by a ridge to the north along 15º N. On October 16, a low-pressure area developed over southern India near Kanyakumari. With low wind shear and warm waters of , the system slowly organized. On October 19, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) classified the low as a depression about 725 km (450 mi) southeast of the Yemeni island of Socotra. By that time, the convection had organized more, although it was displaced slightly from the center due to stronger wind shear.

The convection persisted along the western periphery of an elongated center, organizing enough for the American-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) to issue warnings on the depression on October 20, designating it Tropical Cyclone 03A. With marginally favorable conditions, the depression intensified slightly, and the IMD upgraded it to a  deep depression on October 21, the same peak as the JTWC. That day, the system moved over Socotra as it reached an area of cooler water temperatures. Land interaction and dry air weakened the convection around the system as it approached the Gulf of Aden. The IMD downgraded the cyclone to depression status on October 22. On the next day, the JTWC discontinued advisories, and the IMD downgraded the system further to a remnant low to the northeast of Cape Guardafui, Somalia. The JTWC continued tracking the system as it moved northwestward, and the circulation made landfall near Ash Shihr in southeastern Yemen late on October 23, losing its identity shortly thereafter.

Impact

Moving ashore southeastern Yemen, the storm dropped heavy rainfall in the typically arid region, reaching  in some areas, and possibly as high as , over a 20,000  km2 (7,700 mi2) area. This equated to about 2 billion m3 (528 billion gallons) of water, more than twice the capacity of most waterways. The thunderstorms and rainfall occurred over a 30‑hour period, severely disrupting life in eastern Yemen. The precipitation coalesced into valleys, resulting in flash flooding that swelled water levels to . Hundreds of residents became trapped in their homes, while businesses and schools were shut down. The storm sent a plume of moisture that spread into Saudi Arabia, reaching  in Najran, and was drawn northward into Iraq by a trough over Syria, triggering dust storms.

A representative of UNICEF estimated that the magnitude of the flooding was the worst in 600 years, attributing the scope to climate change. The areas effected – primarily Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates – are usually dry and unsuited for such flooding. This resulted in the second worst natural disaster on record in Yemen, following deadly floods in 1996. Overall, the floods killed around 180 people in Yemen, with many corpses carried away by the deluge. Illegal alterations in canal and drainage systems caused the floods to impact many houses and buildings, and the governor of Hadhramaut credited the invasive Prosopis juliflora weed as exasperating floods after blocking waterways. Throughout the country, the floods destroyed 2,826 houses and damaged another 3,679, leaving about 25,000 people homeless; many of these houses were made of mud, washed away by the floodwaters. The displaced utilized temporary shelters in mosques and schools, or stayed with family and friends. Damage to housing, hospitals, and education was estimated at $200 million. The UNESCO World Heritage Site at Shibam – dating back to the 3rd century and housing tall mud buildings from the 17th century – was surrounded by floodwaters, causing some of the dwellings to collapse. Businesses and other infrastructure projects were also destroyed.

Infrastructure damage was estimated at $113 million (2008 USD), most of which related to damaged roads, after thoroughfares were washed away. At the Sayun Airport, floods damaged runways and other facilities. 359 dams were damaged, alongside 65 reservoirs. Widespread irrigation systems were also damaged, including  of pipelines, 1,241 wells, and 1,229 water pumps. Electricity and telephone lines were disrupted in the region. The floods damaged 170 schools, as well as many health facilities. Along the coast, the storm damaged many fishing boats and equipment. In Al Mahrah Governorate, the storm washed a cargo ship ashore, although the 17 person crew was rescued.

Agriculture impacts were significant, estimated at $550 million, which affected 75% of the farmers in Hadhramaut. Soil erosion from the floods damaged  of farmlands, as well as  of uncultivated lands. This mostly affected cereals, vegetables, and forage crops. Floods killed about 58,500 livestock and wrecked 309,103 beehives. The storm also knocked down 547,185 palm trees, 16,587 citrus trees, and another 161,449 fruit trees. Despite the heavy agriculture damage, the floods did not disrupt the national food supply.

The effects of the flooding disrupted the livelihoods of about 700,000 residents; most of the storm's damage affected people's jobs, including farming, industry, and commerce, totaling $557.3 million in damages. About 76% of the overall effects of the flooding were the result of disruption of people's jobs. Overall damage was estimated at $874.8 million, although residual losses from damaged infrastructure were estimated to cost an additional $726.9 million. The overall economic impact of the storm was therefore estimated at $1.638 billion, equating to roughly 6% of the country's gross domestic product. Damage was heaviest in Hadhramaut Governorate, accounting for 67.5% of the material damages, and occurred mostly along the coast; 16 of the 19 districts in the governorate reported damage. Also in Hadramaut, there were 57 people injured due to the storm. The government sent search and rescue teams into the flooded areas to help stranded residents, although strong winds in the region disrupted these efforts in the immediate aftermath. In Seiyun, six soldiers died while attempting to rescue trapped residents. Lightning strikes killed six people.

Aftermath

On October 27, the Yemen government requested assistance from the international community, unable to provide disaster assessments or cope with the rebuilding. The storm affected areas of Yemen that already had poor infrastructure and lack of food, and were generally under a state of political unrest, which made recovery difficult. In some areas, relief distribution was duplicated due to lack of coordination while some areas did not receive help. Yemen's Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs coordinated the relief efforts, in conjunction with the governors of the most affected areas. The government focused on streamlining disaster activities and toward future mitigation. However, there was no coordinated disaster plan as of September 2009, and the scale of the disaster proved too great for ministries to handle. The Ministry of Public Works helped reopen roads, which allowed for the transport of relief goods, and the damaged Sayun Airport was repaired to withstand future floods. By December 2008, most roads, power systems, hospitals, and communication services were restored. The government also enacted the Fund for Hadramout and Al-Mahara Reconstruction, which failed to promptly distribute aid assistance.

In addition to requesting international aid, the Yemen government declared Hadhramaut and Al Mahrah governorates as disaster areas, after then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh surveyed the affected areas. The president also utilized the nation's military to assist storm victims, and sent aircraft with tents, food, and medicine to the worst hit areas. To raise money for the disaster recovery, the Yemeni government cut one day of salary for all workers, equating to $4.25 million, and the government provided another $100 million from its annual budget. Local charities and residents collectively raised $8.5 million. Yemen's Red Cross provided meals and water to about 21,000 people. The agency also provided school kits for 4,500 students whose facilities were damaged. Ultimately, the Red Cross assisted over 70,000 storm victims through health programs, and also helped residents cope with stress, hygiene promotion, and other ongoing vulnerabilities to their livelihoods.

Various agencies under the United Nations assisted in the recovery; the World Health Organization provided medical kits to the worst hit areas, capable of helping 10,000 residents each for three months. The United Nations Development Programme helped house displaced storm victims, and many of the mud-built houses were repaired with the same construction materials as before. The World Bank led the assessment efforts, estimating the cost of recovery at $1.046 billion, mostly toward rebuilding houses, regrowing crops, and restoring social services. The World Bank also provided $41 million toward the Yemen Flood Protection and Emergency Reconstruction, which rebuilt vital infrastructure and ensured they were flood-proof. The World Food Programme assisted 43,000 people with food and other emergency supplies. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference declared the situation a "national catastrophe" and started a drive to collect funds for the relief of flood victims. At an international donor conference, various individuals and countries pledged $301 million to help with the reconstruction in the country. Arab nations in the region also donated cash and supplies to Yemen; Saudi Arabia pledged $100 million in assistance. The United Arab Emirates Red Crescent assisted in the reconstruction work, sending $27.3 million to rebuild 1,000 houses; 750 of these were completed by December 2009. The Arab Fund sent $135 million, including $35 million for road reconstruction. The Japanese government provided funding toward building shelter for 700 displaced Al-Akhdam people, designed to be away from the flood plain. Access to clean drinking water and proper shelter for the displaced helped mitigate the spread of disease. For many families, the effects of the disaster lasted several years due to insufficient assistance or disrupted jobs. By 2010, about 40% of the overall recovery cost was met by international donations, although funding was halted after political uprising in 2011.

Over the long term, residents lost significant amounts of income in the storm-affected areas, particularly farms in the year after the storm. Higher food prices also resulted in less income for other residents. The area's economy largely recovered to pre-flood levels by 2010.

See also

List of Arabian Peninsula tropical cyclones
1996 Oman cyclone – deadly tropical storm that became the costliest disaster on record in Yemen
2002 Oman cyclone – another storm that struck the Arabian Peninsula originating alongside a storm in the southern hemisphere
Cyclone Keila – slow-moving storm in 2011 that caused flooding in Oman and Yemen
Cyclone Chapala – Another powerful storm that made landfall in Yemen in 2015
Cyclone Megh – A storm that impacted Yemen soon after Cyclone Chapala

References

Floods
Yemen floods
Yemen Cyclone, 2008
Natural disasters in Yemen
Deep depressions
Tropical cyclones in Yemen
2008 Yemen cyclone


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Interested in investing in automation software and joining the ranks of organizations like Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, who saw an annual saving of $100,000 through business process automation? Dig a little deeper, and see what automation can do for you!


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Religious life is family centred, and when your family no longer fits the typical structure, you're left to forge ahead, largely on your own, left to create a new life for you and your children. A life that was once rich with customs and community now seems like a shoe a size too small. Divorce is a loss, and there is mourning but no structure to the pain. There is no shivah like in death, and in fear of saying the wrong thing, people often avoid communication altogether.
After years of hosting Shabbat meals and opening your home to the community for the holidays, you're relegated to the social equivalent of the singles tables at the back of the room at your second cousin's wedding. Left on your own for 25 hours of Shabbat or a two-day yom tov or, Lord help everyone, those three-day chagim, it's impressive restraint not to pick up your phone, not to turn on Netflix, not to seek companionship wherever it can be found.
Simply put, religious life becomes a constant reminder that you are alone. There are only so many times you can sit at your friends' or family's Shabbat or holiday table as the single person – the one who comes on their "off weekends" – before it becomes a little tiresome. Like a child learning to talk, it's fun and engaging at first, but then just gets annoying really fast.
While people today are generally marrying later in life, young nuptials still dominate the religious world. Many go straight from their parents' home to their matrimonial home. The newfound independence that divorce brings is the first chance for many to re-evaluate their lives as adults.
Religious life presents almost as a formula: be a good Jew plus learn Torah plus marry a good person from a good family plus build a home of Torah and mitzvot in which to raise children equals happiness. However, many couples find that they followed the steps, played by the rules and the equation still equals zero.
They are left disillusioned and disappointed and questioning a deity in which they put all their hope and faith. It is only natural that, having played such a huge part in lives and marriages, religion would be among the first things to be questioned. People might ask, "Is this the life I really want for myself or is it just what I know." The answer is never simple and rarely comes wrapped in a box on your desk. It involves trial and, unfortunately or not, lots of error.
Religion is about give and take, understanding, commitment and dedication. It's centred on a relationship with God, and many aspects of that relationship are analogous to that of a husband and wife. So when a couple's marriage dissolves and their relationship status changes, understandably, their relationship with God and religion may change as well.
For some, the absence of a spouse has them cleaving closer to God than ever. For others, the new single status has them wanting to explore religion in a way they couldn't before. They break free from the restraints previously felt, the strongest of which are often social and cultural, and forge their own path. This may not be the religious path they walk forever. Rather it may just be a pit stop on their way to their final destination, much in the same way divorce is a transition to a new life, a new future.
Divorce is like a disease – we may all have the same diagnosis, but our symptoms manifest individually. Each person's experience is different and each of us has an individual relationship with God and religion. Nobody should be judged for questioning their way in life, nobody should be looked at as inferior for not having the answers and nobody should be cast aside for their struggles.
While our relationship with religion may be on trial, the way we treat each other and the way others treat us need not be. You don't need to be religious to be a good person, and not all the good people we encounter will choose to keep and accept religion. And that is OK. The unconditional love we lacked in our marriages must be the love we give one another and inspire others to give as well.
Daniella English, author of The Not So Single Life blog, is a single mother of four and a communications student at York University. She can be reached at [email protected] or through her The Not So Single Life Facebook page.


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Q: How to use OneDrive File Picker On Browser I have same problem in this topic with AngularJS: How to use one drive file picker in browser?
I have add <script type="text/javascript" src="//js.live.net/v5.0/wl.js"></script>into my index.html page. But it can't work? Any idea?
Update 1: My Source Code like this:
WL.init({ client_id: clientId, redirect_uri: redirectUri });

WL.login({ "scope": "wl.skydrive wl.signin" }).then(
    function(response) {
        openFromSkyDrive();
    },
    function(response) {
        log("Failed to authenticate.");
    }
);

function openFromSkyDrive() {
    WL.fileDialog({
        mode: 'open',
        select: 'single'
    }).then(
        function(response) {
            log("The following file is being downloaded:");
            log("");

            var files = response.data.files;
            for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                var file = files[i];
                log(file.name);
                WL.download({ "path": file.id + "/content" });
            }
        },
        function(errorResponse) {
            log("WL.fileDialog errorResponse = " + JSON.stringify(errorResponse));
        }
    );
}

function log(message) {
    var child = document.createTextNode(message);
    var parent = document.getElementById('JsOutputDiv') || document.body;
    parent.appendChild(child);
    parent.appendChild(document.createElement("br"));
}

And i click on the button, it show me a popup to login Onedrive. I fill username and password, then popup still show in redirectURI. The file picker not show.
Sorry about my first question.

A: What do you see in the popup window after you try to sign in?   Can you confirm that your redirect URI defined when registering your application is the same as the index.html page hosting the picker?

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We usually suggest calling a specialist to repair heating equipment for safety and comfort. However there are some obvious solutions you can do on your own before you call us that might turn your heat back on.
Begin by checking your thermostat. The thermostat ought to be toggled to "heat" and "on". If it is a battery-powered thermostat, switch out the batteries if you have not replaced them in the past 12 months. If you have a programmable thermostat, inspect the date and time is programmed to be "on" currently.
Have you inspected the circuit breaker for your boiler/heating equipment to see to it that it hasn't tripped off? You can shut off the breaker and examine the fuse if the breaker was "on". You can also turn the switch on and off to make certain the switch remains in the ON position. If it doesn't stay on, you have an electric problem with the circuit.
If you have a gas or oil furnace, you have a fuel supply line that is running to your unit. This supply line has a shut off valve nearby. You can check to see if in some way over the summer season the fuel supply line to your furnace was accidentally shut off. The simple fix for this is to open the fuel supply line.
No or limited air flow bring about no heat might be the result of a blocked air filter. To examine your Lodi filter, hold it up to the light. If you can't see light coming through, the filter is clogged and you need to change the filter. It is a great idea to get two filters and switch out your filter twice a year, once in the spring and once in autumn. Remember that these air filters are engineered for one-way air flow. Ensure the filter is inserted the correct air flow direction.
Your heating equipment's heaters can get stopped up or obstructed and because of this, your heater is contaminated with debris and this ought to be taken care of right now. A sure indicator of burner contamination is if the flames are yellow, not continually blue and even. Over the summer, dust and soot can build up on the heaters and an annual maintenance cleaning is all it requires to keep your burners functioning effectively.
Many heaters have electronic ignitions and these can malfunction. A quick fix is to switch the unit's power off and on to reset the ignition. If this does not fix it, it could be an indication that there is something else causing the pilot to not work properly. This might be a cracked burner, and if so, you should have a competent service technician go over the heating element to inspect if it is split or otherwise rendered unusable.
What happens if you find your heater isn't blowing air at all? This might be an issue with the thermostat, blower electric motor, transformer, control board or capacitor. At first look, see to it that the blower isn't blocked at all. Then, if you have inspected the thermostat and it is set properly, a specialist should take a look at the other causes noted previously for problems and maybe replacement of that component.
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Did you know that your heater's door has a safety switch? The access panel is wired to ensure that when the door is open, the burners can not light and the blower fan can not switch on. Check your access panel to make sure that it is fully closed if your furnace is not activating.
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A twice annual appointment of your heating equipment and central air system will certainly make sure that the very first cold snap will not leave you stuck inside a cold house come Autumn or a blistering home on the very first 90 plus degree day in the springtime. Normal maintenance is the answer to getting your furnace in good working order so that when you need it, it prepared to deliver the efficiency you require.
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New Man Utd Ace Ighalo Funded £1m Orphanage In Nigeria For Poverty-stricken Kids
Football news / By Oha
NEW Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo was just 17 years old when he left Nigeria, but the striker never forgot his roots.
Former Watford star Ighalo – who is joining the Red Devils on a six-month loan deal from Shanghai Shenhua – used his whopping £300k-a-week Chinese wages for good by funding an orphanage in his home town.
In December 2017, the Ighalo Orphanage Home was opened in Ijegun, a poverty-stricken suburb in northern Lagos.
Super Eagles star Ighalo grew up 50km up the road in Agejunle.
"Life was tough growing up in Ajegunle and I vowed that if I eventually had a breakthrough, I'll give back to the society that made me," the 29-year-old said on the Foundation's website.
"Life's challenges were hard enough even with both parents at my side.
"It goes without saying that orphans have it even worse and it gladdens my heart that life has offered me this rare privilege to be guiding light in their life."
Ighalo reportedly spent 500 million Nigerian naira – around £1m – to build the home.
It houses between 30 to 40 children and has separate apartments for boys and girls.
They take babies and pledge to look after them until they reach 18, teaching academic studies and sports.
Ighalo was joined at the opening by former Nigeria internationals Peter Rufai, Samson Siasia, Austin Eguavoen and ex-Super Falcons keeper Ann Chiejine.
Spotted on the outside of the orange walls is the orphanage's logo.
It depicts Ighalo sliding on his knees and raising his arms to the sky as he celebrates a goal, with the inscription 'God is able'.
"I dream of affecting lives and this is one step in the right direction," he said.
"I hope lives will be positively changes, the aims and goals of the orphanage fully met and the children who are the leaders of tomorrow preserved."
Before opening the orphanage, Ighalo found other ways to help.
The devout Christian would send a chunk of his wages back to Nigeria in order to help children, schools and widows living below the poverty line.
In 2015, he told the Daily Mirror: "My family are No1. Every month I send money back home to them, but I also send donations to the less privileged because I come from poverty.
"I send money to kids, to schools, and I'm taking care of around 45 widows, women who have no husbands, and I'm trying to start a charity organisation to give something back.
"I know what it's like to have nothing."
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The olive harvest is an important economic, social and cultural event for Palestinians, with nearly half of all cultivated land in the occupied Palestinian territories planted with olive trees.
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The Biddu enclave is one area where farmers are impacted by the Barrier. We joined the Biddu famers as they began their harvest this week.
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A 60-year Las Vegas resident, Haupt was born June 3, 1922, in Alliance, Ohio. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a B-17 and AT10 bomber pilot and flight instructor staying in the active reserve until 1950. He served at Las Vegas Army Airfield (now Nellis Air Force Base), then under the command of General Howard Cannon, former long-time U.S. Senator. On his honeymoon, he flew in his own plane into Las Vegas at George Crockett's Alamo Airways - landing on a dirt runway. After the honeymoon, the couple returned to Ohio. In the spring of 1948 they returned to Las Vegas, beginning a 60-year commitment to Las Vegas. Haupt owned and operated Mayfair X-ray and Laboratories for more than 35 years.
Following his retirement from the medical profession, he became very involved with the United States Golf Association, rating golf courses all over the United States and officiating at golf tournaments. He served as a Golf Rules Official for more than 30 years. Up until his death he served on the Las Vegas Parks and Recreation Board (a park will be named in his honor at a later date). For many years he served on the YMCA Board of Directors and sat as President of the Board for two terms and was a past president of the Las Vegas Exchange Club and was a member for over 53 years. He helped organize the first Senior Golf Association and served four terms as president of the association and state president.


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Isolation Journal + The Before Times
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Duplex Paintings + Drawings
Drawing albums
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Paintings 2007–2016
The Blue City
An Assortment
Deconstructing a Painting
Everything is changed.
In The Before Times of 2019, Barbara participated in four month-long residencies making paintings and drawings in very different places: a lakeside town in Maine's central highlands; the East End of Long Island; pastoral Upstate New York; and a sprawling industrial park in Barreiro, Portugal, across the bay from Lisbon.
For the last year, the island in her kitchen has been the center of Barbara's universe. She's been knitting, felting, weaving, writing, sewing, taking snapshots, and drawing rather obsessively in accordion-fold albums. Isolation Journal comprises 52 volumes of drawings, documenting her time and the minutiae of daily life in COVID isolation, living alone, in coastal Connecticut.
A short walk-through of The Before Times, at The Painting Center through April 22, 2021.
A short walk-through of Isolation Journal, at The Painting Center through April 22, 2021.
Isolation Journal (13 February 2020–Present) and The Before Times (2019).
Drawings, Paintings, and Sundries
Two contrasting side-by-side exhibitions of recent work by Barbara Marks
March 31–April 22, 2021
The Painting Center, 547 West 27th St., Suite 500, New York, NY 10001
Exhibition-Catalogue_IsolationJournal_TheBeforeTimes_2021.pdf
All images and written content ©2021 by Barbara M Marks.


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I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I'm pretty sure that my daughter's dog just set a world's record in the pee department. I'm contacting the Guinness Book of World Records to verify it. I don't know if Guinness has a category dedicated to dog urination, but if they don't, they need to set one up – PRONTO!
My daughter hasn't had Milo very long, but breaking the news that he died saying "howdy" to a rattlesnake wouldn't have gone over too smoothly. My concern about rattlesnake danger, however, quickly disappeared. Here's why.
It's possible Milo missed a sapling or two, but let's call it a 97% "P-rate." I grew up with dogs. I know dogs. They pee – A LOT. But Milo is the Lebron James of canine urinaters.
I know he doesn't look capable of holding the record. He's not a lab, or some other aircraft carrier sized dog with a bladder the size of a municipal water tank. So I'm expected the team that comes out from Guinness to verify my claim to be suspicious. Not to worry. I'll tell them to meet me at the trail head of Spencer Butte.


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At Shine United, we believe in good karma. So when our friends at the Oregon Sportsman's Club needed a new website, we were more than happy to step up and donate the time, resources and energy needed to design an online presence that rang true to the club's rich 44-year history.
Founded in 2001, Shine United is a 36-person full-service advertising, design and digital agency based in Madison, Wisconsin. We are just as passionate about building great brands and marketing campaigns as we are about the celebrating the outdoors. From hunters, campers, and fisherman, to hikers, bikers, skiers and marathon runners, Shine has a very diverse outdoor culture. In fact, we have been named one of the top places to work by Outside magazine for the past two years.
For some employees, that love of the outdoors leads right to the Oregon Sportsman's Club. Currently, four Shine employees are members of the club: Mike Kriefski, John Krull, Alex Schmalz, and Jeff Szpak. These four ad men, along with Madison-based photographer Shawn Harper, make up the club's reigning Class AA championship trapshooting team, the United Clay Busters of America – Local 505. Shine co-founder Mike Kriefski established the hard-hitting clay busters in 2005 and the team just celebrated its 10th year competing at the club. Shine's other co-founder, Curt Hanke, is a former trap team and club member.
Working with the Oregon Sportsman's Club was a natural fit for Shine. Many of our clients have deep roots in the outdoors. Sitka® Gear, GORE-TEX® Fabrics, LaCrosse Footwear, Mizuno, and Winston Fly Rods are just a handful of the passion-driven brands we work with. "The Oregon Sportsman's Club is a truly special place," said Mike Kriefski. "It has given us so much over the years, we are very honored to be able to give back by donating this website."
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Our Congratulations to SEATCA Director Bungon Ritthiphakdee: RD 2010 ASIAN of the Year
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Bungon Rithiphakdee: Fighting the Endless War Against Tobacco
Nuchanad Netprasertsri
It has been more than 20 years since Bungon Rithiphakdee stood on the frontlines of the unspoken war between influential tobacco conglomerates and the tobacco control network. The crisis started in 1986, when the United States forced Thailand to open up its cigarette market. As a result, the then Anti-Smoking Campaign Project (now Action on Smoking and Health Foundation Thailand) had to accelerate its multiple projects. Bungon, who was the project manager, dedicated herself to this job; she conducted research, created strong networks, cooperated with the media and created domestic as well as international alliances. Her dedication paid off and many other agencies started to play a more active role in the war against tobacco. Bungon then started to look at neighbouring countries that were still facing similar problems, believing that working together would strengthen tobacco control in the region. She established the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) and assumed the post of coordinator in 2001. Her main responsibility in the organization was to facilitate sharing of expertise and best practices as well as to look for funds. SEATCA has four areas of responsibility: public policy development, capa-city building for local partners, best practices sharing and generating local evidence. A graduate from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bungon does not have a degree in public health. What she does have is a strong interest in working for the good of society. She believes that in order to promote health, you have to look into the social aspects of the problem. The number of smokers worldwide now number 1.2 billion, half of whom live in Asia. India alone has about 120 million smokers and smoking may soon account for 20 percent of all male deaths and five percent of female deaths among Indians age between 30 and 69. Statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that at present, as many as five million people die of tobacco-related diseases every year, or around 14,000 daily. (Tobacco is estimated to kill 900,000 Indians annually.) "[Tobacco companies] are only concerned with expanding their market for the sake of profit although they are well aware of its deadly dangers," Bungon says. Bungon received a prestigious award from the WHO in 2001 and the Luther Terry Award from the American Cancer Society in 2006. Despite the recognition, Bungon, who is now the director of SEATCA, says she remains at the frontline of an endless war. Cigarette producers are always active and they are now employing new methods in order to expand their market, including interfering in public policy and tobacco control legislation. Their latest attempt is to make use of social networking, which proves to be a legal loophole in many countries. Despite all the problems, "I always enjoy my work, backed up by a strong belief that I am doing the right thing for society," says Bungon.
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Electroretinography and Retinitis Pigmentosa: No Discrimination Between Genetic Subtypes
David S. Rothberg, MD; George W. Weinstein, MD; Robert R. Hobson; et al T. Michael Nork, MD
From the Departments of Ophthalmology, University of Kansas, Kansas City (Dr Rothberg); West Virginia University Medical Center, Morgantown (Dr Weinstein and Mr Hobson); and Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock (Dr Nork).
Arch Ophthalmol. 1982;100(9):1422-1426. doi:10.1001/archopht.1982.01030040400004
• Electroretinography (ERG) has been utilized to claim that the various hereditary subtypes of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) could be distinguished according to the temporal characteristics of the b wave. This study compares two different ERG techniques, one utilizing constant amplitude response and the other balanced photopic and scotopic stimuli, for the early diagnosis of RP. Both methods were found to be reliable objective tests for diagnosing RP. Neither test could differentiate between dominant, autosomal recessive, or X-linked RP.
Rothberg DS, Weinstein GW, Hobson RR, Nork TM. Electroretinography and Retinitis Pigmentosa: No Discrimination Between Genetic Subtypes. Arch Ophthalmol. 1982;100(9):1422–1426. doi:10.1001/archopht.1982.01030040400004


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Due to the efforts of Benjamin D. Meritt, the first Professor in the Institute's School of Humanistic Studies (a precursor to the current School of Historical Studies), the Institute houses one of the world's largest collections of squeezes––impressions of inscriptions that allow scholars to more easily study them. This image shows a portion of a squeeze made from lettering inscribed on the base of a statue by the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles in about 375 B.C.
We do not know who made the first paper squeeze of an inscription. The practice is quite old; large numbers of them were made by Richard Lepsius on an expedition to Egypt (1842–45) and by Philippe Le Bas in Greece (1843). The invention of the squeeze must stem from the desire to acquire an accurate copy of the text of an inscription. Rubbings constitute a simpler, more rudimentary way of doing this. Photographs more recently provide an easy means of recording inscriptions, but each photograph is taken in a certain light. That lighting may not do justice to the inscription, or it may actually be misleading at places where the stone is difficult to decipher. A well-made squeeze provides the best and most accurate record of the state of the inscribed surface of an inscription. In the future, digital images may come to match them.
Inscribed stones naturally are often large and extremely heavy and thus quite awkward to handle and study. By contrast, squeezes, even of very large inscriptions, are light and easy to handle. Moreover, to read an inscription one usually needs to maneuver it around in the available light to show the letters to best advantage; this is not an easy proposition with many stones. In contrast, squeezes can be easily moved about to catch the lighting from various angles. Although no one would want to publish an inscription without being able to work from the stone, a good squeeze can allow one to do an all but final text of the inscription.
The Institute collection, located in Building B to the right of Fuld Hall, is one of the largest in the world and has been a valuable resource for scholars from all over who come here to consult it. The squeezes are easily accessible and allow visitors to study them in comfortable conditions with all the library resources close at hand. M. B. Hatzopoulos, for example, the Director of the Research Center for Greek and Roman Antiquity (National Hellenic Research Foundation), studied at the Institute in 1984 and 1987 the Edson squeezes from Macedonia and has made constant use of them in numerous publications ever since.
Large collections of squeezes have another very important advantage. They allow the possibility to browse through large numbers of inscribed texts quickly and easily. One can see more inscriptions in a day of browsing in a squeeze collection than one could see in a month trying to consult the stones that are often scattered in different museums and in different cities and countries. As an example, to pursue my study of the inscribers of Athenian decrees, I needed to examine all of the inscriptions of Athens and Attica. It is not, in fact, physically possible to do this in Athens. The squeeze collection at the Institute, particularly rich in squeezes of Athenian inscriptions, enabled the work to go forward. The results to date have been three books on Athenian inscribers covering the years 340 to 86 B.C. I am currently working on Athenian cutters of the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.
Stephen V. Tracy, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 2002–07, is a current Visitor and former Member (1987–88, 1996–97) in the School of Historical Studies. He is involved in preparing for the Berlin Academy a new edition of the decrees of Athens and Attica that date to the years 229 to 168 B.C.


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The order or the 3P matches has changed to Kneeling, Prone, Standing as per the ISSF rules.
The team selection criteria and SAARA ranking method has changed to reflect the decisions taken at the 2018 SAARA summit.
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The International Shooting Sport Federation has launched the ISSF Athlete's Handbook, a useful guide for shooting sport athletes on various aspects related to their career and life.
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Please note that there has been a significant change to the ISSF rules that will come into effect on 1 January 2018 in order to promote gender equality in the shooting sport.
For Air Rifle this means that the women's 10m Air Rifle event will increase for 40 shots to 60 shots.
There has been some amendments to clarify the rifle dimensions.
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Congratulations to the following SAARA athletes selected to represent South Africa at the 2019 ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany, that will be held from 12 to 20 July 2019.
From left to right: Manager - Daleen van Staden. Junior Proteas - Tristan Swanepoel, HJ van Staden, Shellaine de Villiers, Caitlin Oeleofse (withdrawn), Martelize Pretorius (withdrawn). Development Athletes - Nadine Nel, Hanja Pretorius. Coach - Johan Oelofse.
We wish you all of the best with your preparation and trust that you will do us proud at this 25th anniversary of the Suhl match.
Congratulations to Pierre Basson, Tanya Snyders and Barto Pienaar (in the back row) who were selected to represent South Africa at the ISSF World Cup in Munich at the end of May 2019.
Pierre Basson (Sr) will be tha team manager and Johan Pienaar the Coach.
All of the best with your preparations. Make us proud.
The 2018 SAARA National champions from left to right Arabella Barco (10m Sporter Women), Barto Pienaar (10m Olympic Men), Tanya Snyders (10m Olympic Women) and James Snell (10m Sporter Men). Congratulations to you and all the other athletes who took part and won trophies, medals, performance badges and earned their SAARA Association colours at this event.
We had a very successful 2018 SAARA National Championships that was hosted by KZN and shot in Durban. This was the first time that we shot the precision events on electronic targets at Nationals and although it is still a learning experience everything went smoothly. Although we did not have as many entries as in the past, particularly in the sporter disciplines, the performance levels was very high with two new South African National records for Barto Pienaar (with a score of 620.8 in the 10m Olympic men's event) and Desirie du Toit (with a score of 547 in the 10m Sporter women's event). It was also hart warming to see some young rising stars performing very well.
Thank to Piet du Plooy and his team who organised the event and to my management team and other people who helped on the range to set up equipment, act as officials, help in the stats room with scoring and supported the athletes throughout the event.
Congratulations to Barto Pienaar for setting a new SAARA National senior Men's record in the 10M Olympic discipline at the 2018 SAARA National Championships on 6 October 2018.
Barto scored a 620.8 in the decimal scoring system, the non decimal (ring) score was 594 which also improved on the previous no-decimal record of 593. An excellent performance making SAARA and South Africa proud.


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Q: Publishing an App to the google play store I am getting ready to push my first android app to the market but there are a two questions I have before I sign up as a developer.
I did some reading and found this link on alpha/beta testing:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
1) Can you have an app in alpha/beta testing without having one in production? So I want to first publish my application to a few people just to make sure the layouts and everything works out good.
2) I know some apps are phone only or tablet only, is this done in the play store or in the app (such as the AndroidManifest)?

A: 1) Yes you don't need to have a production apk in the app, you can upload your apk in alpha for some testing then you can select the apk and move it to beta and then make it public on market. It also supports Staged rollouts.
Follow this guide to manage your app testing groups. (Beta-testing and staged rollouts)
2) No this can't be done in Google play developer console. This has to be done in the manifest using this:
<supports-screens
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    android:normalScreens="true"
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more information here. (support-screens) and here (uses-feature)
You can also add more required features. And when you upload the apk to google play , you can check how many devices are valid for your app, or excluded. Then only devices that meat your requirements can see the application in the store.

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What Is So Feminist About The JNU Protests? #FeesMustFall
Himalika Mohanty
On 18th November, more than three thousand students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) set out on a long march to the locus of the political activities in India—the Parliament—in New Delhi. The walk spanned a distance of almost fourteen kilometers, which the students aimed to undertake on foot. Permission for this walk was not granted to students; in fact, while the walk was scheduled to commence at ten in the morning, it eventually started after half past eleven because there was a rumour doing the rounds that the Ministry of Human Resource Development had permitted the students for the walk, but that the notice for the same would only come at 11:30 am.
What actually arrived in place of the notice was the information that a three-member high power committee had been instated to look into the issues being faced by the students of the university. However, this tactic did not fit in with the students, and we set out on the march. After a long and exhausting walk, which also involved being chased by the Delhi police at different stages, the students camped at Jor Bagh, beyond which the police would not let us go (they were probably "scared" that unarmed students would "vandalise" the residence of the Home Minister, who lives close by).
After a long day, just when traffic had slowly started flowing around the area, the police switched off the street lamps and proceeded to lathi charge the students. The students started running in the dark, amidst cars which had now stopped, creating a stampede like situation. Several students were grievously injured, during the ordeal that was the entire day.
With a total of 2088 women students staying in hostels, it provides a sense of independence for them. Such a high number of female students in women hostels which are higher in number than hostels for men give a sense of the ideals this university aimed to run by.
Why Were Several Thousand Students Out On The Streets In Protest?
About three weeks ago, the JNU administration proposed changes in the hostel manual for students living on campus, asking them to now pay fees increased by 300% of the older fees (the rooms which were available for INR 10 a month, are going to become INR 600 a month, for instance). Along with this, the hostel manual also suggested a dress code for hostellers, and introduced curfew timings for the hostels. JNU, which was ranked second on the list of best universities in India by the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019 would, after the fee hike become the most expensive among the 49 central universities in India.
Up until now, JNU has made education accessible for a large demographic of students from varied backgrounds and locations – 40% of its student body comprise of students who belong to households with a annual income of 1.44 lacs and 26% with a annual income of 70k.
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After two weeks of agitation, at the Executive Committee meeting of JNU last week, the proposed hostel manual was passed with a decrease in the fee hike: there will now be a separate category introduced in the manual under the subheading of BPL or Below Poverty Line. This category provided a 50% exemption to students included here. For some reference, the qualification for the BPL category in India is an annual income of 27k, which amounts to INR 2.3k per month.
But this is a bare-minimum category in a sense, because families which earn 70k per annum have a monthly income of 5.8k INR. With the increase in fee hike, they will now have to pay close to 6k per month – how will these students afford it? The scholarships provided by the University Grants Commission for non NET scholars are 5k and 8k for MPhil and PhD students respectively, and these haven't increased in years, not to mention that they often do not come in on time.
The Feminist Perspective Of The Protests
In a country where discrimination has historically existed against women, sexual minorities and Persons with Disabilities, JNU has remained a space which not only provides accessible and inexpensive education but also a space of mobility and freedom of expression. Out of the approximately 7000 students enrolled in JNU, almost 5000 live in hostels. With a total of 2088 women students staying in hostels, it provides a sense of independence for them. Such a high number of female students in women hostels which are higher in number than hostels for men give a sense of the ideals this university aimed to run by.
With this increase in fee hike, there will be a dilution of those ideals, to now only include students from the upper echelons of the society. Now hostels will be used by only certain creamy sections of the population, which will translate into lesser education opportunities for students, as they might stop applying to this university. Who then will be the producers of knowledge is a question we must ask. Education is one of the most lucrative investments of the state, with varied returns in different forms; privatizing this education will benefit very few.
Now families who could afford to send both sons and daughters to study, will only be able to send one, or want to spend such money on only the men. The ratio of female to male students in the university will decrease. If this translates into a tussle between men and women for education, no prizes for guessing who will win that tussle. If under such circumstances students cannot even peacefully protest against the injustice meted out under the current political regime, if they cannot turn to the law for the help, then who is the law benefiting?
Now families who could afford to send both sons and daughters to study, will only be able to send one, or want to spend such money on only the men. The ratio of female to male students in the university will decrease.
An Appeal For Solidarity
This year JNU also introduced digitally conducted examinations for students. In one such digitally conducted examination that I have previously sat for, I struck up a conversation with a fellow examinee, who told me she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to remember which key to press on the computer for her answers, because she had only ever used computers for the examinations. She didn't own a computer to practice upon.
The aim of all this seems to be the inaccessibility of education – filtering out aspiring students at the most basic levels of access. Students, teachers and the non-teaching staff are together in this fight against privatization. The media, which one media-person reminded us at the march very righteously, is the fourth pillar of democracy. Yet, when it comes to reporting on this protest, they paint a picture of chaos and unfounded violence on the part of students.
Solidarity, instead, comes from the extended student and teacher community, as also the #feesmustfall activists of South Africa. When positioned in such trying times, I can't help but wonder what the ultimate motive of this state is. What are the state's priorities, apart from filing FIRs against protesting students? And what about the police-persons who beat students, when is an FIR going to be filed against them, and all those who are abetting this?
Also read: Discrimination Faced By Muslim JNU Professor Hints Rising Islamophobia
The revisions in the hostel manual are being deemed as eyewash because it seems like that administration's intent all along was the revised fees. They increased it even beyond the 300% increase initially, so that they could settle on the eventual 300%. No deprivation points have been made for students belonging to the categories of SC, ST or OBC. This seems like a drive to make education accessible to a select section of the Indian population.
The fact that the university could provide such inexpensive education to such a varied population of students should have been a matter of pride for our country, yet the picture that has been painted now is of a body of unruly students who are fighting for no real reason. These unruly students have to be brought to the books, which is why tear gases and lathi charges are acceptable to the government in controlling them. The long march was to be a peaceful protest, with students demonstrating against this revoking of their access to education.
Also read: JNU Fee Hike: Why Does The Right-Wing Twitterati Want To #ShutDownJNU ?
Our Constitution provides us this right – to dissent, and to demonstrate – but, the government used force and weapons to curb this right. If the JNU administration truly believes in the changes made in the hostel manual, why are they so reluctant to meet the students and initiate a conversation with them? It has been three weeks since the students have been agitating against this, and trying to get the attention of the Vice Chancellor, but he has not spoken to the students directly even once (his Twitter account is very active, though). Remind anyone of the zero press conferences held by the Prime Minister of India during his long reign in that position? There seems to be a pattern to this.
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