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Sponsorship dollars will help launch a national education initiative. Picture Earth will work with GoodPlanet to produce and distribute an Earth From Above poster kit adapted for the American market, already in use across 50,000 schools in France. Displayed in classrooms, the workplace and community destinations, this free set of posters explains the need for sustainable development from the perspectives of beauty, awe and connectedness to inspire individual responsibility for our global environmental, social and economic challenges. Poster kits will be available at earthfromaboveusa.com and key partner outlets. Let us know if you would like to participate.
GoodPlanet has worked in collaboration with the French Ministry for Education and Research and the Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development to set up the exhibition "Sustainable Development, What For?". This educational project aimed to distribute a kit of 22 posters to all French schools across the country, regardless of size or level (primary, secondary or high school). The exhibition illustrates current environmental and social issues to pave the way for tomorrow's world. The posters focus on the need to respect human diversity and our natural resources' wealth, and feature select photographs from "Earth From Above" (La Terre Vue du Ciel). The photographs come with educational comments that provide teaching support for creative workshops on sustainable development. Teachers can use these posters to design their own events as a means to school students in the concept of sustainable development. Posters are displayed on a permanent basis in participating schools.


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Why Public Sector Companies Have Made Losses of More Than Rs 1 Lakh Crore
Buried in the inside pages of the Economic Survey of 2015-2016 released on February 26, 2016, is a very interesting data point.
The accumulated losses of sick public sector enterprises as of March 31, 2014, stood at Rs 1.04 lakh crore. This essentially means that the government of India has pumped a lot of money into these companies over the years to keep them going.
The Survey does not point out whether the accumulated loss number of Rs 1.04 lakh crore takes the time value of money into account. What is the time value of money? Let's say 10 years back the public sector enterprises made a loss of Rs 2,000 crore. The government took on this loss and compensated them for it. The value of the Rs 2000 crore the government handed over to these loss making enterprises, ten years later, would be much greater than Rs 2,000 crore. (This example is for illustrative purpose only).
My guess is that the loss number of Rs 1.04 lakh crore does not take the time value of money into account. If it had, the loss number would have been much higher. The question is why have the public sector enterprises lost so much money over the years?
Charles Wheelan has the answer in Naked Economics—Undressing the Dismal Science. He gives the example of Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation. As he writes: "By 1991, the Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation had been up and running for twelve years. Every day, twelve hundred employees reported to work with the avowed goal of producing fertilizer. There was just one small complication. The plant had never actually produced any saleable fertilizer. None. Government bureaucrats ran the plant using public funds; the machinery that was installed never worked properly."
Further, the workers came in every day and the government kept paying their salaries. As Wheelan writes: "The entire enterprise was an industrial charade. It limped along because there was no mechanism to force it to shut down. When the government is bankrolling the business, there is no need to produce something and then sell it for more than what it cost to make."
If the government keeps making up for the losses of any company, what incentive do the management and the employees have to turn it around? None. A good comparison here are the public sector banks, in which the government has infused Rs 1.02 lakh crore of capital between 2009 and September 2015.
There is another point that needs to be made here. Up until the 1990s when the government ran most businesses in the country, the smartest lot either left the country or worked for the government.
As the economy opened up 1991 onwards, people started looking at other options as the number of jobs offered by the private sector in sectors as diverse as banking to telecom, exploded. The private sector also offered extra incentives to their best performers. The government meanwhile continued follow a uniform pay scale.
As Wheelan writes: "This uniform pay scale creates a set of incentives the economists refer to as adverse selection." What does the term mean in this context? The most talented professionals who earlier worked for the government now had the option for working for the private sector where there pay was closely linked to their productivity unlike the government.
On the flip side, as Wheelan puts it "for the least talented, the incentives are just the opposite." They know that working for the government would mean a fixed salary and regular increments over the years, which will not 'really' depend on their performance. Hence, those who have ended up working for the government over the last couple of decades where definitely not the best of the lot.
The fact that the government has been ready to bailout the loss making public sector enterprises and the best people don't work for it anymore, has led to a situation where the losses have just kept piling up.
In sectors where the private sector has been allowed entry it has flourished and the government companies have had to take a backseat. As the Economic Survey points out: "The Indian aviation and telecommunication sectors of today are unrecognizably different from what they were 20 years ago, with enormous benefits for the citizens. Public sector companies now account for a small share of the overall size of these sectors."
Despite, the public sector enterprises being a small insignificant part of many sectors and with many of these companies making losses, the government continues to operate them and take on their losses. A major reason remains the fear of taking on the trade unions.
In fact, many of these loss making companies own large tracts of land and can be a huge revenue spinner for the government. As the Economic Survey points out: "Most public sector firms occupy relatively large tracts of land in desirable locations. Parts of this land can be converted into land banks and made into vehicles for promoting the 'Make in India' and Smart City campaigns. If the land is in dense urban areas, it could be used to develop eco-systems to nurture start-ups and if located in smaller towns and cities, it could be used to develop sites for industrial clusters."
I hope the government shuts down these loss making companies and starts selling the large tracts of land that they own.
Postscript: In a major embarrassment to the Modi government, the opposition parties got an amendment passed to the President's most recent address to the Parliament. How is this significant? In yesterday's column I had discussed how the Modi government continues to be precariously placed in the Rajya Sabha. And given this I don't see it getting the Goods and Services Tax Bill passed through the Rajya Sabha.
Morgan Stanley in a recent research note had claimed otherwise. They had said by July 2016, the BJP led NDA government should be in a position to get the GST Bill passed. Nevertheless, the point is that if the government cannot get even the President's address passed through the Rajya Sabha without an amendment, where is the question of it getting the GST Bill passed? Maybe Morgan Stanley can possibly explain that to us.
The column originally appeared in the Vivek Kaul Diary on March 10, 2016
Categories Equitymaster, Vivek Kaul's Diary Tags Adverse Selection, Charles Wheelan, Losses, Naked Economics, Public Sector Enterprises
Of fiscal deficit, Manmohan Singh and a prayer to god
India is country that lives on hope, gods and pipedreams. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is no different when it comes to this. In a recent interview after taking over as the finance minister of the country he said he was focusing on controlling the fiscal deficit through a series of measures that the officials were working on.
He did not explain what these measures were. But with things as they stand now, it is next to impossible for the government to control the fiscal deficit and the PM can just hope for the best.
Fiscal deficit is the difference between what the government earns and spends. For the financial year 2012-2013 (from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013) this number is expected to be at Rs 5,13,590 crore. The government finances the deficit by borrowing money or taking on debt as it is technically referred to as.
There are several reasons why the fiscal deficit is likely to turn out to be higher than the projected number. Let's start with oil subsidies. Oil subsidies for the year have been budgeted at Rs 43,580crore. The government has more or less run out of this money. It has paid Rs 38,500 crore to oil marketing companies (OMCs) like Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum for selling diesel, kerosene and LPG, at a loss during the last financial year. This payment was made only in the current financial year and hence has had to be adjusted against the oil subsidies budgeted for the current financial year.
This leaves only around Rs 5080 crore (Rs 43,580 crore – Rs 38,500crore) with the government for compensating the OMCs for the losses for the remaining part of the year.
International oil prices have come down since the beginning of April. Back then the OMCs were losing around Rs 563crore per day. A recent estimate made at the beginning of July by ICICI Securities puts this loss at Rs 355crore a day. Oil prices have fallen further by around 8% since this estimate was made. Adjusting for that the oil companies continue to lose around Rs 325crore per day or around Rs 10,000 crore per month. Hence the Rs 5080 crore that the government has remaining in its oil subsidy account would be over in a period of 15 days, at the current rate of losses.
Oil prices have fallen by 32% to $85 per barrel since the beginning of April. It's is unlikely that the price will continue to fall given that at some stage the oil cartel, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), will intervene and start cutting production to push up prices. Also, the threat of confrontation between Iran and the United States has been on for a while. Even a whiff of a crisis can push up oil prices. Iran is the second largest producer of oil in OPEC after Saudi Arabia. It has been trying to sell oil in currencies other than the US dollar for the past few years, much to the annoyance of the US.
So if the OMCs continue to lose money at the current rate, the projected losses for the year will be over Rs 120,000 crore. In 2011-2012 the government compensated around 60% of the losses. It got oil producing companies like ONGC and Oil India Ltd to pay the OMCs for the remaining losses. If the same ratio is followed in this financial year as well, it would mean an extra burden of around Rs 72,000 crore for the government (60% of Rs 1,20,000 crore). The fiscal deficit would go up by a similar amount.
Oil subsidies are the not the government's only problem. On June 14, 2012, the government had approved the minimum support price (MSP) of rice to be increased by 16% from Rs 1250 per quintal from Rs 1080 per quintal. The Food Corporation of India buys rice from the farmers at the MSP. The food subsidy for the current financial year has been set at Rs 75,000 crore. Experts believe that this number is terribly under-provisioned given the various programmes of the government. Also with a significant increase in the MSP of rice the food subsidy is expected to cost the government around Rs 40,000 crore more from its current estimates. Even this number is likely to be beaten because after increasing the MSP of rice significantly, a similar price increase would have to be made for wheat during the coming months.
What does not help is that interest payments on all the money that the government has previously borrowed, comes to Rs 3,19,759 crore. Other than paying interest the government also needs to repay the past debt that is maturing. This amount comes to Rs 1,24,302 crore. Hence the cost of total debt servicing comes to Rs 4,44,061 crore or around 87% of the projected fiscal deficit of Rs 5,13,590 crore for the year. There is nothing that Manmohan Singh and the government can do to control this.
If all these problems were not enough the monsoon till now has been 23% deficient. This impacts the purchasing power of "rural" India and means lower sales of cars, bikes, white goods and fast moving consumer products in rural India, leading to a lower collection of indirect tax for the government. Lower taxes can drive up the fiscal deficit further.
So what is the way out? The subsidy on various oil products needs to be brought down. That's the only solution that Manmohan Singh led government has to this problem. But the question is will they bite the bullet and make some tough decisions? From the past record it can be safely said, the answer is no. Given these reasons hoping to control the fiscal deficit remains a distant pipe dream.
Hence it's time for Manmohan Singh to do what most Indians do when they are stretched and stressed. Pray to god. And hope for the best.
(The article originally appeared in the Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle on July 16,2012. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/dc-comment/fiscal-deficit-and-prayer-god-905)
Categories Analysis, Politics Tags Bharat Petroleum, diesel, Fiscal Deficit, Hindustan Petroleum, Indian Oil Corporation, kerosene, Losses, LPG, Manmohan Singh, Oil, Oil India Ltd, Oil Marketing Companies, OMCs, ONGC

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Discover Opinel story in 23 dates
Blacksmiths from father to son
Victor-Amédée Opinel, who was a peddler, learnt how to forge nails during his travels around the country. He set up his first forge workshop in Gevoudaz, a hamlet in Albiez-le-Vieux, near Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. His son Daniel later worked by his side and took over the workshop when his father died. He was to become a renowned edge-tool maker who was very much appreciated by the peasants who came to buy billhooks or sickles from him... *edge-tool maker: manufacturer of tools that have a cutting edge
Birth of Joseph Opinel
Joseph Opinel was the eldest son of Daniel Opinel. He was born in 1872 in Gevoudaz, a hamlet in Albiez-le-Vieux. Joseph had two brothers, Jean (1877-1943) and Albert (1885-1905), and three sisters, Marie (1875-1968), Alphonsine (1879-1959) and Sylvie (1881-1886).
In 1890, Joseph Opinel turned 18 and worked in the family edgetool making workshop. With a passion for new machines and innovative technologies, he built his own camera and soon became the photographer for weddings and special events in his area. Led by his passion for machinery and manufacturing processes, he decided to invent an object which he could manufacture using modern techniques. Against his father's wishes, who preferred hand-made tools and traditional craftsmanship and who was weary of machines, he spent his free time refining the shape and manufactured of a small pocket knife: the Opinel was born!
Series no. 1 to no. 12
Joseph Opinel had the idea of making his knife into different sizes which would be suitable to different hand sizes or used for various tasks. So, in 1897, he developed 12 different sizes numbered from 1 to 12. The smallest knife, named No. 1, included a ring so that it could be attached to the chain of a pocket watch. Its manufacture as well as No. 11's was stopped in 1935. Nowadays, the smallest Opinel, No. 2, has a 3.5-cm blade and the largest knife, No. 12, a 12-cm blade. In the 70s, a giant knife was produced in small volumes as a promotional item to be used in shop windows. The retailers were rapidly asking Opinel to produce larger quantities due to requests from private individuals! The blade of the giant No. 13 is 22 cm long making the knife 50 cm long when fully open.
The Pont de Gevoudaz factory
As the commercial success continued, Joseph needed to manufacture large quantities. He left his father's blacksmith workshop and built his new factory at the Pont de Gevoudaz near the family workshop. In this new building, he streamlined production and developed machines which could manufacture handles at greater speed. With his hydraulic turbine, he was the first in his village to have electricity! After having installed electricity in his workshop and his home, he decided to add a few lights along the lane he used to go to his factory. An old lady in the village, visibly impressed by his system, asked him how he "managed to get oil running through the cables..."
The Crowned Hand
In 1565 the King Charles IX of France ordered that each master cutler affix an emblem on their manufactured items to attest to their origin and quality. To follow in this tradition, Joseph Opinel chose the Crowned Hand as his emblem in 1909. The blessing hand is that of Saint John the Baptist, taken from the coat of arms of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, the nearest town in Albiez-le-Vieux, birthplace of the Opinel family. Joseph Opinel added a crown as a reminder that Savoie was a duchy. All the blades on Opinel knives and tools have been stamped with The Crowned Hand ever since.
1911: The Turin International Alpine Exhibition
In 1911 Joseph Opinel took part in the International Alpine Exhibition at Turin. For the occasion, he had a magnificent display case made with a carved wooden frame in which he presented his famous pocket knife, the Opinel Savoie, available in twelve sizes, but also his collection of kitchen knives, table knives, razors, scissors, cheese borers, pruning knives and corkscrews that had quickly arrived to swell the collection... Bowled over and visibly impressed, the jury gave him the gold medal! The 1911 display case is now on show at the Opinel company and the certificate has been carefully preserved in our archives...
Joseph soon realised that he would never be able to grow his business if he stayed in this remote hamlet. In the middle of the war, he decided to travel around the area to find the perfect place. That happened to be on the outskirts of Chambéry, in Cognin, where he bought an old tannery with its own waterfall on the Hyères canal. The premises were old but close to Chambéry railway station. Being at the heart of a large railway and road network was an important asset. Mules and oxen were used to move the factory from Gevoudaz to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and then the move continued by train to Chambéry. A few months were needed to renovate the premises and from 1917, Joseph, assisted by his two sons, Marcel and Léon, began the industrial and commercial development of the Opinel brand.
The wood chips produced during shaping of the knife hafts have always been used to heat the workshops. Nowadays, these are still used in a combination boiler to heat the factory, which saves approximately 200,000 litres of fuel every year. In January 1926, a wood-burning stove which hadn't properly been extinguished started a fire which destroyed the whole building. The Opinel family handled this disaster and decided to build new modern premises better suited for their production on the same site.
The new factory
Within a few months, a modern factory was built and inaugurated in 1927, on the same day as Maurice, Marcel's first son, was baptised. Today, this factory is closed. In 2014, the "ferrule" workshop, the last workshop in the Cognin factory to be still in active use, was moved to the Chambéry site.
Maurice Opinel
In 1950, Marcel's son also joined the company. He was 23 and spent his first few years assisting his uncle, Léon, who was in charge of marketing and administration. Marcel, who absolutely loved machinery, just like his father before him, took charge of the workshops and production. At that time, the factory employed over fifty people. Maurice Opinel passed away on the 18th of August, 2016. At present, his two sons run the company; François is the president and Denis is the managing director.
Invention of the Virobloc
Originally, the Opinel knife had four components: the blade, the fixed ferrule, the rivet and the haft. The fixed ferrule was needed to firmly rivet the blade to the haft. In 1955, Marcel Opinel, who had been working on improving the safety of the knife, invented the Virobloc® system. He added a rotating ferrule which slid onto the fixed ferrule, closing the groove and thus locking the blade in the open position. The idea was simple enough but hard to achieve. In the 90s the Virobloc® system was modified to lock the blade in the closed position. At first. it was only used on a few models, but then was included on all models in 2000.
Joseph Opinel passes away
The 29th of January is cursed for the Opinel family. It was on that day in 1926 that fire devastated the first Cognin factory. On the same day in 1960, Joseph Opinel died aged 88, after having spent his whole life dedicated to his company. And thirty years to the day after his father, Marcel Opinel died on the 29th of January 1990.
The new Chambery site
Thirty years of prosperity increased demand and at the beginning of the 70s, the factory in the small town of Cognin, on the outskirts of Chambéry, became too cramped. The decision was then taken to build a new, larger modern production site a few kilometres away on an industrial estate in Chambéry, at a place called La Revériaz. At first it was intended for woodworking, assembly and packaging, but since 2003 it has been the main site and headquarters for the whole company.
Opinel, a design icon
The Opinel knife is a popular everyday item whose aesthetics and functionality have won over generations of users. It has remained unchanged for over a century, with a design that is one of the most successful of all time. For this reason, Opinel was recognised by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1985 as one of the 100 best designed items in the world, right alongside the Porsche 911 and the Rolex watch.
Opinel enters the dictionary
Opinel is part of French cultural heritage and is cited by name in many publications. In 1989, it received an entry in the Larousse dictionary, alongside the brands Bic, Frigidaire or Solex as a registered trade name with the following current definition: folding knife featuring a wooden haft with a groove in which the blade is inserted when the knife is closed.
The family saga continues
In 1998, Denis Opinel who started working in the business in 1973, took over from his father Maurice Opinel.
Construction of the new head office
To facilitate production flow and the growth of the company, the decision was made to gradually coalesce all of the business activities into one site. So in 2003 the head office was moved from Cognin to Revériaz. A new building was constructed alongside the existing workshops. The Opinel buildings at 508 boulevard Henry Bordeaux in Chambéry now covered a 5,000-m² area.
In the beautiful three-volume "Phaidon Design Classics" collection, the Opinel pocket knife is recognised as one of the 999 most successful designs of all time by a jury of international designers.
Cooking with Opinel
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Savoie's integration into France, Opinel published the "La cuisine à l'Opinel" (Cooking with Opinel) cookery book It's a real fine dining voyage into the Opinel region, containing portraits and recipes by 25 Michelin-starred chefs from Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Piedmont and the Nice region, including fascinating anecdotes about the history of Savoie's gastronomy written by Annie Victor and illustrated by the photographs of Anthony Cottarel. The book received first prize in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009, in the Best Corporate Book in France category (published by Lagon Rouge publishing, out of print).
The Opinel museum
In 1989, with the permission of the Opinel Company, Jacques Opinel turned the workshop of his grandfather Jean (Joseph's brother), who was also a blacksmith/edge-tool maker, into a museum. The Opinel museum is located in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and rapidly became one of the top visitor destinations in Savoie. This free, private museum exploring Opinel®'s history was successfully renovated and enlarged in 2013 and then again in 2018 by the Opinel company, Jacques Opinel and his son Maxime. There, you will discover the Opinel family's origins and Savoie roots, as well as the changes to the manufacturing processes and the technical and commercial development of the brand. The visit concludes with a film that was shot inside the workshops, demonstrating the current manufacturing processes. more info
The Opinel story
It took until 2014 for Opinel to finally decide to tell the story of a family with an extraordinary destiny. A 160-page book was written by the author and journalist Jean-François Mesplède, former director of the French Michelin Guide. With a foreword by Paul Bocuse and Michel Desjoyeaux, the tale unfolds through revelations by Maurice and Denis Opinel and interviews with company employees. The book is beautifully illustrated with magnificent archive documents and photographs by Thierry Vallier. (Page d'Ecriture publishing, €25).
The French knife settles in the US
In spring 2016, the company opened its first branch abroad. Based in Chicago, OPINEL USA heads up the marketing and development of the Savoie knife brand in the United States.


Part 2 of this Loft Makeover was the living area.
CHALLENGE: I knew I wanted a space to relax in as well as gather with friends. Something comfortable that felt personal and inviting. Also, it need to feel like a centered living room that was it's own area. Once again, painting was not an option in the rental but finding a way to add color was!
2) Behind the plaid sofa I placed a red Chinese cabinet (it holds Christmas ornaments) and used it as a way to add height with an inexpensive ($99) wood mirror from Costco, that I white washed with left over paint from my house. The pale blue ceramic vase with artificial peonies, are always there to add a dash of color all year round.
Adding two of the SILLA Chairs (one in the plaid and one in the midnight charcoal) helped round out the seating situation.
3) I followed the "pairs" theme by pushing two reclaimed wood and metal GREENWICH geo Coffee Tables together to create one big table. As you probably already know, I'm a sucker for a large coffee table.
4) Underfoot, I added the largest rug I could find. The loft has concrete flooring throughout and as much as I love the look of it, it's not always the most practical when you're walking around barefoot. Plus, in a larger open space adding a rug can really help in defining a room.
5) To the right of the main seating area is a wall of windows that run from the living area into the dining room. It's a pretty long stretch, about 22ft before you enter the dining area…I added a couple of CARISSA Arm Chairs for a separate seating area. Behind them I placed the CAFE Bistro table as a spot for morning coffee AND a place to add some height. With tall ceiling, if your don't go up (especially in the corners of a room) your space can have a tendency to look a bit off scale.
The vintage alter table was a great place to add some more height and some personal touches that help to warm up the concrete loft.
6) The only real wall, is the one to the right of the living room seating area. This was my big opportunity to be able to hang any artwork, which was a good thing since the art became one of the primary ways for me to add some color to the space. Also, it was a great way to camouflage the TV. Within a wall of art, it gets a little lost when it's not on. Also, I was able to add more height with an old Indian door leaned up against one end of the art wall. Once again, if you can organize all your resources and have a plan– a makeover without any painting or construction can be completed in a single day!
Go Forth and Design Well.


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Home News The Nordex Group supplies 51 MW with its 5MW+ rated power turbines...
The Nordex Group supplies 51 MW with its 5MW+ rated power turbines in Norway
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The Nordex Group has received another order for its
new Delta4000 turbines, with their 5MW+ rated power, in Norway. The
manufacturer will supply nine N149/5.X turbines for the "Lutelandet" wind
farm. The project was developed by Vestavind Kraft and is owned by Lutelandet
Energipark AS, a daughter of the Norwegian municipal utility, SFE Produksjon
AS; with its main business area in power generation. The order also includes a
Premium Service contract with a production-based availability warranty. The
term of the Service contract is five years, with the option to extend the
agreement on the same terms and conditions for up to four additional periods
of five years.
The 51 MW wind farm will be built on the Island of Lutelandet, approximately
100 km north of the city of Bergen, in South-west Norway. With a hub height of
105 meters, the turbines will take advantage of the local steady medium wind
speeds, which hail from the west coast and tend to average around 7.4 m/s.
Installation of the first turbines is scheduled for mid-2021, and after
completion at the end of that year, Lutelandet will generate 150 GWh clean
electricity per year.
"We are pleased to have SFE Produksjon AS as a new customer. This highlights
the fact that the Nordex Group once again is the first choice among many
energy suppliers and municipal utilities," says Patxi Landa CSO of the Nordex
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That faith is about to be put to the test. With the Senate debating and voting on proposals to preserve protections for young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers" this week, McCarthy and other Republican leaders in the House are facing a decision on whether to move forward with an immigration bill of their own. Conservative lawmakers have been demanding a vote on a restrictive bill from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bill Goodlatte that is problematic for many GOP moderates, not to mention McCarthy's home state.
President Trump outlined his immigration plan during his first State of the Union in 2018,
The Goodlatte legislation would hit California especially hard in two ways. It would step up enforcement of agricultural workers' status via E-verify and mandate a sweeping overhaul of the guest workers program that's been condemned by the farm industry. And it would punish local jurisdictions that enact sanctuary policies like the ones California and many of its cities have embraced, threatening violators with cuts to federal law enforcement funds. Both proposals go well beyond the parameters the president has set out for the immigration negotiations.
McCarthy's spokesman, Matt Sparks, told The Bee that the House majority leader believes the Goodlatte bill "is a good bill," though he did not go as far as endorsing it. "With the ongoing member-listening sessions to address concerns he is confident it can become an even stronger bill for the floor," he said. On Tuesday evening, Goodlatte introduced amendments aimed at addressing some of the complaints from the agriculture industry.
McCarthy represents some powerful forces in that industry. His district encompasses most of Kern County – the heart of California farming and the fourth largest agricultural producing county in the country, according to the Bakersfield Convention and Visitors Bureau. He also is working hard to protect fellow Republicans in California's Central Valley, Reps. Jeff Denham and David Valadao, whom Democrats are targeting in the mid-term elections this fall. As it stands, the Goodlatte bill would be tough to sell in those districts.
The right, however, is not interested in making too many more concessions. "It will kill the bill," warned Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson, a member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus. Cutting out the punishments for sanctuary policies, for example, would be a deal-breaker, conservative lawmakers said.
And the Freedom Caucus and its allies are growing impatient with House leaders, who they are accusing of dragging their feet. "The Senate is actually beating us to the critical issue of the day on immigration. That shouldn't have happened," Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina said. Meadows called the debate over legal status for so-called "Dreamers" and other immigration provisions "the defining moment" for Ryan and the party.
As McCarthy well knows, the past two decades are littered with failed bipartisan efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration system, despite broad agreement that it is "broken." The Republican base has been particularly unforgiving of members who, in their eyes, go too far in their bid at compromise.
As Republicans' second in command in the House, McCarthy would be the the obvious choice to succeed Ryan when the latter steps down, which some reports suggest could be later this year. He can ill-afford to dent his credentials with the right, as some are not-so-subtly reminding him.
McCarthy "has a future that he needs to think about," Freedom Caucus member and Goodlatte bill co-sponsor Raul Labrador told Breitbart News last month. "He needs to decide whether he will stand with the American people or not" on immigration.
It's quite a political hot potato that Ryan tossed his deputy when he tasked McCarthy with negotiating a deal on immigration at the beginning of this year.
He's serving as the voice of House Republicans in negotiations with leaders of both parties from the House and Senate. According to Sparks, those meetings continue on a weekly basis. The "conversations have been productive and will continue as we drive toward a solution on several aspects of our broken immigration system," he said.
Democrats, however, have dismissed them as little more than show, an attempt by Republican leaders to avoid making decisions while waiting for action from the White House. And rank-and-file lawmakers have pushed ahead with their own talks and proposals, which seem to be making far more headway.
If nothing else, however, those talks have thrust McCarthy into the center of the national immigration debate. And while the ambitious lawmaker is not known for being a policy wonk or a behind the scenes dealmaker, he has proven an effective pitchman for Trump's policies. Even, it turns out, when the person he's pitching to is the president himself.
For the immigration hardliners, McCarthy's stand-out moment came during a nationally televised January 9 meeting on immigration at the White House. It was a highly unusual spectacle – a fraught policy negotiation playing out in real time – and McCarthy was involved in what was probably its most pivotal moment. California Senator Dianne Feinstein lobbied Trump to support legislation authorizing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the program the White House plans to end on March 5.
The president started to agree with her, before McCarthy interjected. "Mr. President, you need to be clear though," he warned. "When we talk about just DACA, we don't want to be back here two years later. We have to have security." He also reminded Feinstein and other Democrats that they'd supported border security measures and other immigration restrictions in the past.
"McCarthy intervened and reminded [viewers] that people like Feinstein and Schumer voted on a border wall," said Hausman. "It was really impressive to see him take a stand in the room at the White House with some of these Democratic leaders."
But some of the voices who were cheering McCarthy in January are now notably silent. Officials for Numbers USA and Center for Immigration Studies, two groups advocating for tough immigration enforcement, told Breitbart last month they were impressed with McCarthy. Both declined to comment for this piece.
Republican strategists believe McCarthy and fellow GOP leaders have one major asset in the immigration debate their predecessors did not: a president that has unquestionable credibility with the right. Immigration is "a big issue for [Trump], which really helps shield the Speaker and the leadership," said John Feehery, an aide to former House GOP leaders Tom DeLay and Dennis Hastert. If the president gets behind specific DACA legislation, it's likely a majority of Republicans will follow.
For McCarthy, though, that's only part of the political test. While he is secure in his congressional seat, Republicans can't afford to lose seats like Denham and Valadao's if they hope to preserve their majority in the House. Winning favor with the right won't mean nearly as much for McCarthy if the GOP loses its grasp on Congress in 2018.
Emily Cadei: 202-383-6153, @emilycadei
McClatchy's Washington bureau reporters talk about the decision by Kevin McCarthy, D-Bakersfield, to not seek the role of House speaker, and what that says about the politics and governance in Washington, D.C. Video by Natalie Fertig.


"Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him." Job 13:15, NKJV.
Job was going through a lot that he didn't quite understand. He had experienced losing his children, his livestock, and on top of all of that, he was stricken with boils all over his body. All of this happening back to back in his life. Yet in spite of all, he said that he will praise the Lord.
Whether it works out, or it doesn't, whether you land the new position or you don't, whether He heals you or He doesn't, will you yet praise Him? If you don't ever get married, or become a millionaire, continue to praise the Lord. Sometimes things happen outside of our control, but know it is never outside of His. He is always in control and sovereign, and whatever God is allowing to happen in your life, it will ultimately be for a greater purpose than at the moment, we don't comprehend. However, make a decision to still hope in your God, come what may in your life, come whatever obstacle, come whatever tribulation or trial.
If you'll praise Him, you'll serve Him. When your praise doesn't leave, your servitude won't leave either. Job did just that and the Bible says his his latter was greater. His awesome end was double than all that he lost, and like Job, your latter will be greater.
Prayer: Father, I will yet praise You. Whether You do it or You don't, I will yet praise You. My praise is going no where. I may not understand, but You are in control. Help me to stand strong in the midst of it all and trust You. In Jesus' name, Amen!


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Synclitodes decoripennis is een vlinder uit de familie van de grasmotten (Crambidae), uit de onderfamilie van de Acentropinae. De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1974 door Eugene Gordon Munroe.

De soort komt voor in Bolivia.

Grasmotten

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Krista Byers-Heinlein, Guofang Li, Adriel John Orena et Kyle Levesque | 10 février 2021
Accueil / Voix de la SRC / Benefits of Being Raised Bilingually
Krista Byers-Heinlein, Guofang Li, Adriel John Orena and Kyle Levesque | February 10, 2021
Krista Byers-Heinlein is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University.
Guofang Li is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Adriel John Orena is an FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Kyle Levesque is a Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University and affiliated with the Canadian Children's Literacy Foundation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the interconnectedness of communities and the importance of being able to communicate in multiple languages to solve the world's most pressing problems. In Canada, as elsewhere, raising bilingual children is not an easy task as it requires persistent effort and continued time and familial investment, sometimes from infancy. Many children grow up in homes where multiple languages are spoken, but some parents may hesitate to expose their babies to two languages out of concern that it will be too confusing for them. Certainly, if kids are not able to separate their two languages, it's reasonable to worry that this will slow their language development.
Layered upon these concerns are decisions for parents that can involve tradeoffs between their children's bilingualism and other important aspects of their development and well-being, an issue that has become particularly salient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is there evidence to support the notion that it is worthwhile to invest time, energy (and often money) in raising a child bilingually? The short answer is yes, the evidence points to the continuing return on investment for children who are exposed to two languages as part of their development.
Amazingly, children are quite adept at distinguishing between multiple languages from a very early age, using both visual and auditory information. For instance, even without sound, infants can tell languages apart by observing mouth movements and facial expressions, as these look quite different across languages. Likewise, languages vary in their sound and rhythm, and they have different rules about how words go together. Babies are sensitive to these differences, enabling them to tell different languages apart soon after. Preschool-aged children adapt their speech to the language of monolingual strangers, further showing that kids can distinguish between two or more languages from early on.
Studies on language acquisition overwhelmingly suggest that hearing two languages simultaneously is as natural as hearing one. For instance, the developmental timing of changes in speech perception is strikingly similar across monolingual and bilingual infants. They can identify the sounds, rhythm, and rules of their native languages at similar time points as monolinguals with their single language. Hearing two languages does not confuse babies; rather, it prepares them to learn and use these languages later in life.
At the same time, there are some unique features in the process of acquiring more than one language. For example, because their vocabularies are split across two languages, bilingual children will sometimes know fewer words in each language than a monolingual child will know in their single language. Importantly, the total number of words bilinguals know across both languages is the same if not more, suggesting that monolinguals and bilinguals are learning at the same rate, and differences arise bilinguals simply have more to learn.
Bilingual children also have unique behaviours, like mixing their languages when speaking. Rather than being a sign of confusion, this usually means that bilingual children are using all of the language resources they have available to communicate, a process some linguists refer to as "translanguaging". Language mixing or translanguaging is therefore not cause for concern, but a cognitive strength that demonstrates bilingual children's ability to flexibly integrate all of their linguistic repertoire to communicate.
The benefits of bilingualism
Since learning two or more languages may require additional effort, many parents worry that bilingualism will delay or impair children's normal social, cognitive, or academic development. In fact, bilingualism does not cause impairment or delays. On the contrary, being able to communicate in multiple languages has many advantages across personal, social, and professional contexts. Some of these benefits can be found even in childhood.
First, ample evidence has shown positive transfer between the two languages, be it between similar languages (e.g., English and German) or languages of different scripts (e.g., Chinese and English). That is, children's knowledge of one language (such as grammar, vocabulary, and meaning) often helps when they learn a second language, and vice versa.
Second, bilingualism can make children's brain muscles more cognitively flexible in that it helps their brain to better respond to changes, develop stronger memory skills, and better control focus and attention span. For example, a study that compared bilingual and monolingual children's development since infancy found that bilingual children can accumulate greater cognitive advantages than their monolingual peers beginning at the age of nine months and these advantages carried over in their math and literacy development at the age of 4.
Third, bilingualism enables children to develop better socioemotional skills. In a study that included a national sample of young Latino children in the U.S., fluent bilinguals and those with higher proficiency in Spanish surpassed every other group with the highest levels of socioemotional well-being including aspects such as approaches-to-learning, self-control, and interpersonal skills and had the lowest levels of behavior problems.
While there is no evidence to indicate that one particular strategy is the most effective way of raising a bilingual child, there is solid evidence that you can take several steps to raise a bilingual child (even during a pandemic!), such as:
Start as early as you can. Exposing young children to multiple languages early on is an effective way to start the bilingual learning process, and parents who are bilingual themselves can speak to their child in multiple languages from birth. At the same time, children (and adults for that matter) can learn a new language at any age.
Focus on high-quantity, high-quality interactions. In terms of quantity, perfectly balanced "50%/50%" exposure to each language is very rare amongst bilinguals, but research suggests that exposure of 30% per day or per week to a second language is likely sufficient to support active bilingualism. In terms of quality, children learn best from real individuals who interact contingently with them, rather than TV or other media such as apps. Children's language learning benefits from opportunities to interact with fluent speakers – whether adults or their peers – especially when they use rich vocabulary and varied, complex sentences.
Make a plan. One of the most commonly cited plans for raising a bilingual child is the one-parent-one-language approach where each parent uses a different language.This can certainly be an effective strategy for many families, but it is not the only way. Another popular strategy is to speak one language at home and another language outside the home, which can be particularly beneficial when children have few other opportunities for exposure to the home language. There are many other creative strategies that will be effective, but a good plan will ensure that the children receive plenty of exposure to each language throughout childhood.
On this last one, it is clear that pandemic-related restrictions have affected some families' language plans for their children. For instance, bilingual children whose exposure to one of their languages was primarily at school may be affected by the shift to online learning. In some cases, this shift has decreased their overall exposure to that language, given the added challenge of learning or maintaining a language primarily through online interactions. On the other hand, the same restrictions may present other opportunities, for example in relation to heritage languages that are not spoken in the wider community, which will often need extra effort to achieve high-quality bilingual experiences. In some cases, pandemic-related restrictions increased the time that families spend together, giving additional opportunities for children to interact in the heritage language. Being able to plan for and adopt different family language strategies is helpful both during the pandemic and beyond.
To maintain languages that need extra support, families can seek out activities that promote high-quality, high-quantity talk. In particular, children's storybooks provide exposure to richer and more diverse words than everyday conversations, which boost vocabulary skills. Free online resources such as Storybooks Canada (https://storybookscanada.ca) offer storybooks in more than 30 different languages. Language experiences outside the home, although more limited during the pandemic, can also enhance children's language experience, for example visiting family members who speak the heritage language or participating in community events such as free library programs or cultural festivals. When activities outside the home are less feasible, research indicates that online interactions such as videoconferencing with grandparents and extended family can also benefit children's language learning.
Ultimately, parents will need to balance their bilingualism goals within their current context with other family priorities. Educators and policymakers have a role to play in reducing the need to make these difficult choices, for example by increasing the availability of second language and heritage language programs in public schools, and by promoting positive attitudes towards bilingualism.
This article initially appeared in the Globe and Mail on February 10, 2021


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Q: Forced to edit link instead of going to link in editable table cell I have the following code which allows me to edit a cell, but the problem is that when I want to click on the link, it forces me to edit instead. I want to be able to edit only when I click on the pen icon, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it.
HTML
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.1.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

     Sample

Jquery
//--->make div editable > start
$(document).on('click', '.row_data', function(event)
{
  //Remove pencil icon.
  $(this).find('i.fa-pencil').remove();

  //Remove link
  $("#dm").removeAttr('href');

  event.preventDefault();
  if($(this).attr('edit_type') == 'button')
  {
    return false;
  }

  //make div editable
  $(this).closest('div').attr('contenteditable', 'true');

  //add bg css
  $(this).addClass('bg-warning').css('padding','5px');
  $(this).focus();
  $(this).attr('original_entry', $(this).html());
})
//--->make div editable > end

// --> save single field data > start
$(document).on('focusout', '.row_data', function(event)
{
  event.preventDefault();

  if ($(this).attr('edit_type') == 'button')
  {
    return false;
  }

  //Add pencil icon back
  $(this).append('');

  //Add link back
  $("#dm").attr('href','https://www.google.com/');
})

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/89zgd1ry/

A: Wrap the anchor tag in another div and set contentEditable="false".
Try to read this

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when I want to click on the link, it forces me to edit instead.

This is because you click handler is on the parent row_data div

I want to be able to edit only when I click on the pen icon

Change
$(document).on('click', '.row_data',

to
$(document).on('click', '.row_data>i.fa-pencil',

this will then refer to the icon so you'll have to make appropriate changes, eg:
$(this).find(".fa-pencil").remove();

becomes
var row = $(this).closest(".row_data");
$(this).remove();

A: add
$('#dm').click(function( e ){ e.preventDefault(); });

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$(document).on('click', '.fa-pencil',...

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This page displays sold house prices for Association Way in Norwich.
Association Way in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich has of a mix of detached houses, semi-detached houses and terraced houses. Properties on Association Way typically have values around £150,000 - £200,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £200,000.
Map showing Association Way in Norwich.


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Q: Nested If Statement Not Updating Variable I am trying to create a simple program which calculates and shows the income tax of the user's entered income. I declared a variable called tax which is not updating in the nested If statement. For example if I enter the income as $8000 then it should give me the tax as $710 but it proceeds to give me $230. Any idea on why this is happening and how to resolve this?
import java.util.*;
public class IncomeTax{
public static void main(String [] args){

    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("Enter the Amount of Payable Taxable Income: $");
    double income = scan.nextDouble();
    double tax = 0.0;

    if(income < 750){

        tax = income * (1/100);
    }
    else if(income >= 750 & income < 2250){

        if(income > 750){

            tax = 7.50 + (income * (2/100));
        }
        else{

            tax = 7.50;
        }
    }
    else if(income >= 2250 & income < 3750){

        if(income > 2250){

            tax = 37.50 + (income * (3/100));
        }
        else{

            tax = 37.50;
        }
    }
    else if(income >= 3750 & income < 5250){

        if(income > 3750){

            tax = 82.50 + (income * (4/100));
        }
        else{

            tax = 82.50;
        }
    }
    else if(income >= 5250 & income < 7000){

        if(income > 5250){

            tax = 142.50 + (income * (5/100));
        }
        else{

            tax = 142.50;
        }
    }
    else if(income >= 7000){

        if(income > 7000){

            tax = 230 + (income * (6/100));
        }
        else{

            tax = 230.0;
        }
    }

    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("The Tax Payable on This Income Is : $"+tax);
}

}


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Frank B/ Mayer Sketches - Eastern Dakota Canoe Paddles, 1851
The historic sketchbooks of Frank Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899) utilised on his 1851 trip to Minnesota Territory have been posted on Archive.org (link here). Mayer was a Baltimore artist who journeyed to Traverse de Sioux and Mendota on the Minnesota frontier to record meetings between United States officials and Indian tribes who were ceding title to much of Southern Minnesota and portions of Iowa and Dakota.
His first booklet (#40) contain sketches of the Missouri frontier, the Mississippi, St. Paul, and Kaposia. The next four books (#41-44) contain sketches made at Fort Snelling, Traverse des Sioux, and Mendota. They provide a visual record of Native American life of the era, particularly among the Eastern Dakota (Sioux). There are also sketches of voyageurs and the usage of both dugout and bark canoes.
Page 17 of sketchbook #41 features an image simply labelled "Canoe Paddle"which features slightly recurved shoulders, thick shaft, distinct spine running the full length of the blade and ending in a slightly pointed tip....
Page 30 of the same sketchbook features another example of a Dakota warrior holding onto a paddle with recurved shoulders and pointed tip. The caption states, "Drawn near Fort Snelling".
Mid-19th century Penobscot paddle (Poplar)
Archived on Worthpoint.com is an interesting paddle originally from Cowan's American Indian and Western Art: Live Salesroom Auction (4/8/2017). What makes this one different from other 19th century Penobscot designs is the claim it is made of Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). While utilised today to make inexpensive paddles and oars, it was not a common wood in the Northeastern paddle making tradition as evident by lack of documentation and surviving paddles made from this wood. Poplar is also a relatively weak wood compared to more commonly used ash and maple, yet this huge 75" paddle has a hefty 7.5" wide blade. To survive the stain of use, the shaft would benefit from being much thicker.
Penobscot Wood Paddle (mid-19th century)
poplar; length 75 in.
The beveled, triangular grip gracefully transitions to a round shaft and teardrop-shaped blade; surface with warm patina
Grip Closeup
Odanak Abenaki Postcard Paddle
Found two postcards online featuring a Abenaki style paddle. Both feature the same unknown person listed as being taken at Odanak, Québec, and published by the Peco Ottawa Photogelatine Engraving, Co between 1930-1940.
Royal Trust circa 1860 Mi'kmaq Paddle Reproduction
The British Royal Family has recently consolidated all of their acquired artworks and historic gifts into a new collection called the Royal Collection Trust. Included in this monumental global collection of artefacts are First Nations items gifted to various royal members during their visits to Canada.
A fascinating set is a Mi'kmaq sourvenir bark canoe that came with two dolls, two pair of paddles, a fishing spear and miniature basket. The set was presented then 18 year old Prince Albert Edward (the future King Edward VII) during his first visit to Canada in the summer of 1860.
Mi'kmaq Model canoe and dolls 1860
RCIN 84332
© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016
The paddle set showcases two similar designs which look like two larger stern paddles and two smaller paddles with pole grips used by the bow paddler. Both feature a pointed spear-like tip
Mi'kmaq model paddles 1860
While the model canoe is obviously not a true replica, being decorated with dyed porcupine quills and lacking an accurate number of ribs, the paddles do match some existing artworks from the era.
Paddle Detail from Wigwams at Pointe de Levy, Lower Canada
Artist: Whitmore, George St. Vincent, 1798-1851.
Credit: W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana
I decided to reproduce the larger stern paddles with the flattened grip section adjusting to my preferred paddle length and scaling the grip width down to more realistic dimensions. The spear tipped blade is very quiet in the water compared to wider blade tips creating much less splash during each paddle stroke. As the originals were left un-decorated, I simply burned the paddle details into the face of the blade.
Antique Oar & Paddle Set
Unfortunately, no details on this set of antique paddles / oars found on a stock photo site...
Image Source Link
Musee de Quai Branly Cree Replica
Back in the summer I was working on three more historic replicas. One of the paddles was a reproduction of a pole-grip, Cree paddle dated to circa 1930-1935. The original with a black painted blade is in the Musee de Quai Branly in Paris, France.
Géographie : Amérique – Amérique du Nord – Canada
Culture : Amérique – Cree
Dimensions et poids : 158.5cm x 12.5cm, 647 g
Donateur : Paul Coze
Précédente collection : Musée de l'Homme (Amérique)
Numéro d'inventaire : 71.1931.44.155
My version was made from a nearly flawless piece of spruce, hewn down with an axe and finished with a crooked knife. It turned out ok except for a cumbersome knot at the top of the pole grip which created a slight bulge in an otherwise straight shaft. Since coming back in the city, the blade has been painted to match the original. In a bit of new twist, I left a portion of the blade fast natural where the paddle details were burned.
The plan is to include this interesting design in a future display of more historic paddle designs, similar to the one made in 2018 for the WCHA Assembly
1837 "Indian" Canoe paddle - Michigan
Found on a past listing on LiveAuctioneers:
A 19th Century Native American Michigan Canoe Paddle. Old hand written note attached that reads "Indian Canoe Paddle 1837 Found in Grand River near mouth of Bellamy Creek, by T.B. North…of 1837-16 Years old at that time". Very worn with some separation and losses. 57 1/2" long.
c.1914 Smithsonian Chippewa Knotty Spruce Paddle Replica
It's been over 10 years since I built a small birchbark canoe and the spruce board building bed has been sitting idle in the cottage garage since then. With space running out, a decision was made to cut up and use some of of the wood and see if more paddles could be carved. Back then, the boards were simply selected for to be free of warping. Plenty of knots didn't matter. As such, there really wasn't any clear sections with grain ideally suited to an attractive looking paddle.
However, I recall posting about a paddle described as a "Chippewa Woman's Paddle" listed in a dated publication from the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology.
Bureau of American Ethnology
BULLETIN 86 - Chippewa Customs
The original caption from the bulletin also included the following description:
The specimen illustrated is a woman's canoe paddle (pl. 53, a) and is 4 feet 10 inches long, with blade 22 inches long and 4 1/4 inches wide. A man's paddle is usually heavier, longer, and of a somewhat different shape...
The Smithsonian also has the original black & white photo used in the publication. While the bulletin and article was published in 1929, the archival record mentions the photo is dated to 1914.
Negative 596 D 79, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Creator: ANONYMOUS
Title: Canoe paddle (left) and snow shovel (right)
Provenance: Submitted by Frances Densmore.
Culture: Chippewa, Ojibwa Indians
Local Number: NAA INV 9277300
OPPS NEG 596 D 79
This 100+ year old knotty paddle was the inspiration needed to use some of the plank boards. I started with a 60inch piece of the board and used a saw to cut various stop cuts along the shaft and blade. Then hacking away with the axe, the basic paddle shape emerged...
The blade was also thinned down with an axe and then the rest worked down with my home-made crooked knife that has served well over the years. The knots certainly dulled the blade and made carving a bit tricky, but in a leisurely afternoon a functional paddle emerged from the wood stock.
In keeping with the rough nature of the original inspiration, I smooth the carving as best as I could but left all the knife marks on the paddle. It won't be sealed so it the surface can develop a weathered patina, but a description of the paddle has been burned onto the blade face...
Noel Jerome Bark Canoe
Happened to swing by Algonquin Outfitters at Oxtongue Lake a while back and immediately noticed the well preserved bark canoe suspended over the cash register.
Manager Gord Baker was kind enough to supply some notes about the interesting history of the boat. Apparently it was acquired by original owner, Bill Swift Sr. as payment after someone couldn't pay back their debt with cash. Local bark canoe historian and restorer Rick Nash believes the construction style is consistent with Noel Jerome, a famed Algonquin builder from Rapid Lake, Quebec.
Ebay 77 inch Green Softwood Paddle
Another vintage Maine paddle recently found in a former lodge. Detail's provided by the eBay ad cite dimensions of 77-1/2" long with a 6-3/4" wide blade. Covered in faded green paint, the paddle has a crack at the neck which was strengthened by wrapping some old, cloth backed tape. The underlying grain pattern looks like it could have been carved from a softwood to reduce the weight of this hefty, long paddle. Thankfully, the seller has provided plenty of photos to show the paddle front as well as the grip sides.
Chesnut Keel Garden Decoration
Back when re-canvassing my 14 foot Chestnut canoe this spring, I made the conscious decision to not re-install the long shoe keel. Consulting with a few experts at the 2018 Wooden Canoe Assembly in Peterborough, the consensus was that with the relatively thick ribs and decent original planking job on the canoe, the hull would not need additional strengthening with the re-attachment of the keel. I don't like keels much anyway.
Many folks keep their removed keels in case the canoe is sold at a later date and the new buyer would like original parts. Don't think I'll be departing with my Playmate in the future, but decided to put the keel to use in the garden wall. The reverse side was sealed with some oil and then the keel mounted on to some lattice fencing. Nothing special, but our little garden corner with red lanterns and flags now has another symbol of Canadiana to enjoy
J.B. Charleson Ottawa River Paddle
A fascinating collection of Canadian folk art is up for auction. Pridham's Auction House is running the Burney Collection of Canadiana and Americana on October 5, 2019. The private collection of Joan and Derek Burney was recently outlined as a project for Canada's 150th Anniversary back in 2017. The resulting book, Celebrating Canada: Decorating with History in a Contemporary Home, showcased their extensive collection of historically significant items adorning their modern home.
One of the pieces is a circa 1890 canoe paddle used on an exploratory trip by Jean-Baptiste Charleson. A forest ranger for the province of Quebec, Charleson was charged with scouting the headwaters of the Ottawa River for tracts of white pine to be leased to lumber companies. Charleson completed the trip at the hearty age of 54 with a route covering nearly 3200 square kilometers of wilderness. The trip was deemed a commercial success with his identification of accessible sources of timber valued at over whopping million dollars at the time. It would prove to be a financial windfall for the province.
After his journey, Charleson's personal 57 inch paddle was carefully painted with a map and details of the route. Lake Témiscamingue takes up most of the blade with the smaller up-river streams and lakes forming the serpentine shape up the shaft.
Circa 1890 paddle
Celebrating Canada, page 140
Closeup of blade decoration
c1890 Tyendinaga Mohawk Canoe and Paddles
An expired Kijiji ad from earlier in the summer featured a birchbark canoe and two paddles being offered for sale. Seller claimed the canoe was from 1890 and built at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, part of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation. I had inquired if the paddles were for sale separately and if any more details could be provided. The seller simply responded that they were sold with the boat unfortunately ignored my request for more details.
The advertisement photos show well aged paddles (likely maple) carved in a manner consistent with the Iroquoian tradition of a reverse-spatulate blade with tiny, flattened grips.
c1890 bark canoe and paddles
As a comparison, here are some known Iroquois (Mohawk) paddles in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum:
ROM Paddles - Iroquois
late 19th - early 20th century
Area of Origin: Northeast; Ontario; Canada; North America; Six Nations of the Grand
Another set of Iroquois paddles were posted on Here is a shot of decorated Iroquois paddles from LiveAuctioneer that I posted on before.
Pair of Painted Iroquois Canoe Paddles,
red and white painted blade, unpainted shaft; each 65.5" long.
Ex Howard K. Echenstern Collection.
Quaver gripped antique paddle
Here's a very interesting paddle appearing in an Ebay Ad posted from Sainte-Martine, Quebec. This undated paddle has coat of faded red paint and a curve shouldered blade with notches at the neck.
58 1/4" long x 5 3/4"wide
Most interesting is the grip end, which features an asymmetrical roll. The seller refers to the grip as having a "quaver" shape, referring to the shape of an 1/8th note in music. One side of it is rotten but red paint on the surface clearly shows this was the original shape and not simply a broken grip end.
These hook like asymm grips have been seen before in model canoe paddles sent over to Europe as part of the tourist trade. Most notably they are found in the paddles that accompanied the model canoe sent as a votive offering to the Cathedral de Chartres around 1760. See this post here.
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http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/nllefce/fr/mu_28000/11405_83.htm
The paddle grip is also discussed and illustrated briefly in Graham Warren's 100 Canoe Paddle Designs book.
100 Canoe Paddle Designs
by Graham Warren
March 2014. Raven Rock Books.
200 pages. A5. Spiral bound.
ISBN 0 9530352 2 0
WCHA - Northern Lakes Chapter - Cherry Beach Paddle
In an effort to meet local members of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, I offered to lead a group paddle to Toronto Islands for the Northern Lakes Chapter. It was scheduled for August 27th, but after weeks of beautiful weather, that day happened to coincide with heavy rainfall and extremely gusty southerly winds. The event was bumped a few days to Thursday. Joining me on the outing was Chapter Head, Alex G and local Toronto resident, Bernadette F along with her cute dog, Pookie. Bernadette was able to use public transit to arrive at the location as a shuttle bus leaves from Union station and stops right at the foot of Cherry Beach, our access point.
Conditions were much more favourable than two days prior, but a brisk Westerly wind (the prevailing direction) created some chop for the initial departure. Luckily, Alex brought his 16ft North Bay Canoe prospector which handled the conditions well and I bobbed around in my re-canvassed Chestnut Playmate. Once in the main canal however, all was calm for a enjoyable tour.
We were greeted by a picturesque family of Mute swans, with mother and father book-ending their two cygnets in a postcard formation. This will be my wife and I walking our kids to school in a few days...
Summer canoe camps run on the island and a group had recently landed on the shore of one of the undeveloped islands to sing some camp songs while we silently paddle by...
Water levels on Lake Ontario were down from their all time high earlier this year, but they were still much higher than anything I've seen before. The shoreline which used to be sandy beach was flooded and getting under one particular bridge meant ducking under or getting your forehead smacked with concrete.
Large fibreglass voyageur canoes took tourists around, yet the local wildlife seemed undisturbed by the grunts and competing splashes of the paddles.
The group spotted two herons in the marshy areas which impressed us with their noble poise...
Due to the flooding, the island train that skirts the waterfront was non-operational and many of the farm animals at Far Away farm were inland away from their waterside pens. However, we were later gifted with seeing a mink swim across are bows.
The wind conditions in the inner harbour were too intense to check out the old Hanlan's point where the old baseball stadium once stood and where Babe Ruth hit his first home run into Lake Ontario waters as a pro-baseball player. Instead, we stayed in the protected channels until we reached the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Great Lakes. At one point it was just 25 feet from the exposed lakeshore, but sand deposits and fill have now left it marooned 100 yards inland. The tree line to the south has also grown so that the lighthouse is no longer visible from the lake as originally intended.
On the way, we got some interesting comments from people riding the Gondola above one of the canals. Mostly, it was how cute Pookie the puppy was while riding in the canoe. The white and brown building in the background is the island church, St.Andrews-By-The-Lake (1884) where the every summer in July, the lagoon fills with all sorts of watercraft for the annual Blessing of the Boats, a neat local tradition.
My re-canvassed stayed completely dry which was nice. I may need to tweak the seat a little bit, but on the whole I'm absolutely delighted with this narrow 14 footer as a solo boat. Plans are to perhaps attempt another group paddle to the Islands in spring. Perhaps we'll have more people turn out after a long difficult winter.
In the meantime, the WCHA Northern Lakes Chapter may run another in another paddling hot-spot in the city - The Humber River Marshes - sometime in late September, early October to coincide with peak fall colours.
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Royal Trust circa 1860 Mi'kmaq Paddle Reproduction...
c.1914 Smithsonian Chippewa Knotty Spruce Paddle R...
WCHA - Northern Lakes Chapter - Cherry Beach Paddl...


you have learned about basic RDD transformations.
I'm sure that was easy for you.
In this video, we will continue our journey.
You will learn about keys transformation for keyed RDDs.
key transformation that groups all the values with the same key into the array.
holds all the values in the same key using the provided reduce function.
These separations should be familiar to you after the MapReduce lesson.
obvious in the MapReduce paradigm is the cogroup transformation.
cogroup operates on two keyed inputs.
the given key from the first and the second input.
you to compute any kind of a join between two data sets.
to think a bit on how to perform an inner join or two data sets.
the flat map transformation on top of the result of the cogroup transformation.
The map function has to compute the Cartesian product between the two arrays.
However, joins are so common that Spark implement them as yet another transformation.
The join transformation produces the inner join of two data sets.
Besides that, there is the full outer join transformation.
the full outer join is how to treat single-sided keys.
if the key is present only in the one side of the join that is in one data set.
Then it is omitted from the result.
one-sided keys are added to the result with appropriate null values.
Now let's step back a bit and briefly sketch the implementation of the groupby transform.
First, recall you need to somehow partition the key space.
select only the pairs that belong to the output partition.
This behavior is different from what you have seen in the flat map like transformations.
Here, a single output partition depends on all the input partitions.
This is inevitable as you have to redistribute all the values between all the partitions.
This separation is called a shuffle.
the partition dependency graph you will find it rather similar to the MapReduce shuffle.
the same performance issues as in the MapReduce Spark.
It is in [inaudible] in network [inaudible] and in memory consumption depending on the data distribution.
the shuffle implementation is shared among different data sets.
affects scheduling of the computation and its resiliency.
Therefore, Spark differentiates between narrow dependencies and wide dependencies.
Narrow are those with at most one child partition for every parent partition.
Wide dependencies have more than one child partition for every parent partition.
Concluding, there are a plenty of transformations available in Spark.
Some of them are purely of technical purposes.
re-partitioned transformations just change the number of partitions in the RDD.
While the others, like distinct or sortbyKey are rather powerful.
followed by one more flat map.
follow pretty much the same scheme as in the MapReduce.
Mappers would be spawned close to the input data.
The map output would be shuffled and distributed among reducers.
Let's go for a short quiz before the summary.
Key points for you to remember.
a stable storage or by applying transformations to the existing RDDs.
a description of what needs to be done to obtain the result in data set.
That means that transformations are lazy.
triggered by an action which is a subject of the next video.
It is important to distinguish transformations with narrow and wide dependencies.
Narrow dependencies are, loosely speaking, local.
And wide dependencies require data shuffling.
Any MapReduce computation can be expressed with a couple of Spark transformations.
Cogroups are implemented in the framework in the generic way.
Now, we have covered a complicated subject.
So, please, take a break.
and whenever you feel ready jump to the next video. See you.


Great news Stanley Looking Horse will be teaching men how to use the drum and learn the songs.
Drum teaching cancelled for April 3rd, at the DuPuis House because of weather. We will reschedule.
Update: Cancelled we will reschedule! Stanley Looking Horse will be teaching men how to use the drum and learn the songs. Class will start Tuesday from 6:30 – 8:30 April 3rd, 2018 at the DuPuis House in Mendota class is every two weeks.
Lisa will teach the woman the songs.
If you are interested please email me asap to see how many men are wanting to drum.
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Some of my fondest memories from childhood was when I'd bust out my Moonwalker VHS and practice all of Michael Jackson's greatest moves. Needless to say, as I sit here typing this post, that my dancing career failed before it began. I have a few decent moves on the dance floor now, but don't expect to see me trying anything special unless tequila is involved.
Recently, I stumbled upon the following video of a couple kids sparring on the breakdance floor and truly realized that dancing must be ingrained in the bones. You've either got it or you don't, though, there's still hope for those with two left feet, only success is much harder to achieve when there's child prodigies like this one out there.
Back when I was 6, I could do a few things really well—run from the scary dog down the street and eat a bag of Skittles in under two seconds—but six-year old Dachiya Atkinson, aka B-girl Terra, has officially become the coolest and cutest kid I've ever seen.
B-girl Terra uses her skills, combined with her tiny appearance, to surprise her opponents and wow the crowd. I know I couldn't do any of the things she's doing without breaking my neck or wrists, but it inspires me to finally learn some breakdancing moves—and hopefully you, too.


What is an extra customer or client worth to your business? Allot of businesses spend endless time advertising services in search for that next sale, but what about the impression that is left when those very same customers call your business?
With a Music on Hold solution this simply creates the professional outlook without having to say the words yourself. The average caller is on-hold for 45 seconds, so during that time let music on hold do the talking and advertise your business services, specials and promotional offers or insight into your bussiness history. Just listen to some of our music on hold productions below and hear the difference.
Listen to some of our productions!


Thanks for your interest and support for these events - very much appreciated! Just one correction I'd like to make to your comment on Tansy Davies's 'Between Worlds': it's not a concert performance, but a presentation using video - much of it unavailable for public viewing. Tansy will be introducing the extracts, and will take part in a Q & A afterwards.
All good wishes, Mick Gowar (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge).


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Becoming Mum
Heartstream by Tom Pollock July Book of the Month
As a Walker YA blogger I get to read and review some fantastic new releases and I was so happy to receive a copy of Tom Pollock's latest novel Heartstream, so much so that I couldn't help but make it my July book of the month, a decision that my eldest daughter highly agreed with!
I just wanted to see you. Before the end.
A taut psychological thriller about obsession, fame and betrayal, for fans of Black Mirror. Cat is in love. Always the sensible one, she can't believe that she's actually dating, not to mention dating a star. But the fandom can't know. They would eat her alive. And first at the buffet would definitely be her best friend, Evie.
Amy uses Heartstream, a social media app that allows others to feel your emotions. She broadcasted every moment of her mother's degenerative illness, and her grief following her death. It's the realest, rawest reality TV imaginable. But on the day of Amy's mother's funeral, Amy finds a strange woman in her kitchen. She's rigged herself and the house with explosives - and she's been waiting to talk to Amy for a long time.
Who is she? A crazed fan? What does she want? Amy and Cat are about to discover how far true obsession can go.
This book is cleverly written.
Told from two points of view. We are introduced to the characters of Amy and Cat. Two different people who at the beginning appear to have nothing to do with one other so what is the connection, why are both their stories being told?
It took me a fair amount of time to figure out and when I had that moment of clarity I want to applaud the author on what they had managed to create.
Described as a good book for fans of Black Mirror, I have to say I agree entirely because I am a fan of said programme and this story definitely gives off those vibes.
Amy is a struggling young adult who uses an app called Heartstream to share her life, her emotions. It gives a raw insight to how she feels and what is going on in her life. When activated, the stream essentially broadcasts your emotions to those who want to hear them and apparently thousands do because now she's a celebrity in her own right.
Cat on the other hand doesn't appear to be so open. She is secretly dating an extremely super famous lead singer of a legendary boy band but she's not willing to let others know fearing the wrath of fans who think the singer is actually in a gay relationship with his band mate.
The common factor is the online factor. And I think we all know just how much social media and the internet have been taking over our lives in recent years.
Now the only way I can describe honestly this novel is intense!
We know from the blurb that Amy finds a stranger in her house, who she later discovers to have a bomb attached to her, but the biggest question in my opinion isn't will she survive, it's why is this woman in my house?
But it isn't just Amy in an unpredictable situation because Cat finds herself in an impossible place in life (I won't spoil that part for you.)
Things just don't seem to be going right for either of them but what is it that brings them together and can it ever lead to a happy ending?
This book was truly terrifying at times purely because of the idea that what was happening could easily become a reality, utterly chilling when you think about it.
Tom Pollock is an extraordinary writer , what he puts onto paper is unique, interesting and manages to keep the reader engaged from start to finish. A testament to this is the fact that my eldest daughter read the book in a few hours all in one day and this is something that she has never done before.
Having never read anything from this author before I now feel compelled to read his previous book White Rabbit, Red Wolf.
Heartsteam is a story that will have you hooked from start to finish, with a storyline that will spark an adequate amount of curiosity and almost an obsession with needing to know the answers to questions you didn't even know you needed answers to.
A must read for this generation.
Posted by MamaMummyMum at 06:00:00
Labels: book of the month, books, read, read with me, Review
mumjd 3 September 2019 at 19:48
I normally avoid YA but this sounds really compelling
SarahMummy 5 September 2019 at 06:32
This sounds intriguing, but I don't ever read YA books (apart from when I read them for work!).
I love hearing from my readers so please feel free to leave comment.
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The Chip Shop awards is the place where a brain packed with ideas can dream up the most outrageous ads for any client on any product with any spend you can conjure up and enter. All those idea darlings that were too smart, too lewd, too clever by half are ripe for appreciation at the Chip Shop awards. Nothing fazes this jury - they even have a "best knob gag" category!
This year the Chip Shop awards are taking the forgotten and far too daring ad-ideas out of the industry and are showing them off as an official entry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The entries will be on public view from the 23 to the 25 of August at the Elmwood Design premises in Thistle Street - right in the middle of the Fringe programme and the Festival action. On Friday, the exhibition will be exclusive for the entrants and other industry professionals only.
Experience tells us your entries will range from pretty bloody clever, through bad taste to totally barf making. And this coming together of Creative Cringe is a great fit for The Fringe.
So this year, for the first time, we're letting you loose on a viewing public. And it's more than usually savvy. Fringe fans have been there, seen it all and are probably wearing the wet t-shirt. Will your work have what it takes to rock and shock 'em?


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Macro-Panoan is a hypothetical proposal linking four language families of Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina that Kaufman (1994) says "seems promising". The Pano–Takanan connection is widely but not unanimously accepted. Kaufman (1990) also finds the Moseten–Chon connection fairly convincing. However, the deeper connection between these two groups is more tentative.

Pano–Takanan (?)
Mosetén–Chon (?)
Mosetenan
Chonan †

References

Pano-Tacanan languages
Proposed language families


Low-cost retailer The 123 Mart Limited has been found guilty by the Commerce Commission for failing to have mandatory safety warnings on children's toys and clothing.
Frozen yoghurt chain Yoghurt Story has been fined by the Commerce Commission for making misleading claims about their products' health benefits. One of these claims included selling ice cream advertised as a probiotic frozen yoghurt. The chain first opened during the frozen yoghurt boom that swept New Zealand, but has since gone into liquidation.
Strengthened Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (CCCFA) laws have been enforced on a number of mobile traders for the first time since they were passed in June 2015. Goodring Company Limited and Betterlife Corporation Limited have been fined $98,000 and $73,500 respectively.
Baby products chain Baby City has had nine charges laid against it under the Fair Trading Act by the Commerce Commission over potentially unsafe cots. If it is found to be guilty of breaching the Act, it can be fined up to $600,000 for each breach.
The owner of fro-yo chain Yoghurt Story has been in court over charges alleging they promoted frozen yoghurt products which didn't contain yoghurt and made false health claims. This follows the rise and fall in popularity of fro-yo stores across New Zealand, with Yoghurt Story going into receivership earlier this year.