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Chole Pozole
Hello and Happy Holidays, Masalitos!
Have you ever had pozole? It's a delicious spicy soup, traditionally served around the holidays. When I think of pozole, I think of fun holiday parties with family and friends. I don't really remember most of the Christmas gifts I got as a kid, but I can surely remember all the delicious food served on my grandma's table, and isn't that what really matters?
As a side note, it is widely believed that a good pozole can cure the worst of hangovers... or at least make you happy enough to forget about it. Well, I have no scientific evidence to back this up but I can attest to the fact that there is a statistically significant improvement in the amount of tummy happiness after eating pozole.
Pozole is traditionally made with hominy, but hominy can be hard to find depending on where you live, so for this recipe, we're using chickpeas (aka garbanzo, chole, chana). This recipe is basically the mouth-watering offspring of pozole and chana masala.
As promised, today's recipe uses our previous recipe as its star ingredient: red salsa with tomatillo. You can find the recipe here. Adding garam masala to this salsa, really brings out the flavors of all the spices which complement each other to perfection. Before tasting this soup, take a moment to close your eyes and inhale all the smells, let the layers of spices carry you to Mexico and India. Then dig in and ask for seconds!
I've included instructions for making this recipe from scratch, as well as making it with canned garbanzos and rotisserie chicken.
We hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. Buen provecho!
The Masala Mexicana team wishes you a safe and happy holiday season and a prosperous 2015. We'll see you next year with a drink recipe to warm you up on a cold January day.
- 1 lb raw chicken drumsticks
- 1 cup uncooked chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- 2 cups red salsa with tomatillo (recipe here)
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed (you can use less, if desired)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions (with uncooked ingredients)
1. Soak the uncooked chickpeas in water for at least 2 hours (overnight is fine).
2. Boil chicken in water until fully cooked. Once cooked, remove skin and bones and shred the chicken. Do not discard the broth.
3.While the chicken is cooking, rinse the soaked chickpeas and cook them in a pressure cooker with 2 cups of water until soft. Time depends on your pressure cooker, mine took about 15 minutes on high heat.
4. Add the cooked chickpeas and chicken to the broth. Also add the salsa, garam masala, cumin powder, turmeric powder, oregano, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and allow the pozole to simmer for at least 15 minutes.
5. Garnish with lime, cilantro, and sour cream. Enjoy!
Instructions (with pre-cooked ingredients)
1. Changes to the ingredient list:
- Substitute drumsticks with a rotisserie chicken (or leftover turkey), shredded
- Substitute uncooked chickpeas with a can of cooked chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- Add 4 cups of chicken broth
2. In a large pot, combine all ingredients and bring to a boil.
3. Lower the heat and allow the pozole to simmer for at least 15 minutes.
5. Garnish with lime, cilantro, and sour cream. Enjoy!


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* After there were seven upsets Thursday, including four by teams seeded 11th or lower, there were just three upsets yesterday: a No. 12 seed (Cornell) and two No. 10 seeds (Missouri and Georgia Tech). There weren't even many close games — just three were decided by five points or less.
* The Big 12 has the most teams remaining in the tournament with five (Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor, Texas A&M and Missouri). The ACC, Big East and Big Ten are tied for second with four, and the SEC, Mountain West, Pac-10 and West Coast Conference each have two.
* Despite getting easy wins from Syracuse, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, the first round put a big dent in any argument for the Big East as the nation's best conference. The league went 4-4 over the first two days, and had three teams lose to lower seeds.
Three Stars of the Day
Louis Dale, Cornell
The 5-foot-11 senior point guard led the Big Red to the Ivy League's first tournament win since 1998 with game-highs of 21 points and seven assists in Cornell's 78-65 win over Temple.
Jordan Crawford, Xavier
Crawford did it all against Minnesota, finishing with 28 points, six rebounds, five assists, two steals and a block in the Musketeers' 65-54 win.
JaJuan Johnson, Purdue
After many people predicted No. 13 seed Siena would beat Purdue without Robbie Hummel, Johnson exploded for 23 points, 15 rebounds, two assists and three blocks in the Boilermakers' 72-64 win.


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For years, when I wrote my stories, I had no plan. I'd just have an idea stuck in my head, usually a character in a scene and I'd write that scene down with pen on paper. And sometime while I was writing that scene, I'd figure out what happened next. I'd continue that way until I ran out of ideas. Sometimes, my ideas would continue until I had 30-40,000 words. Often, the ideas would stop around 15,000 words. I was fine with that. I was only writing for my own entertainment then. I've gone back to three of those "pantsed" novels now and I'm in the revision process. My editors have said the same thing about them. "You should outline these and make sure all the subplots are taken care of. Then you can start editing and revising."
Well, hell. If I have to outline it anyway, I might as well try doing it before I write it. Maybe that way I'll have a better chance of it all making sense. Maybe I won't have to spend so darn much time editing and revising for big plot holes. Maybe it'd be easier to get the rough draft done. All of those maybes culminate with Maybe if I outlined, I'd get more of my stories out of my head and onto paper quicker, leaving me more time to dream up new stories.
I've tried various outlining methods.
- First Draft in 30 Days - Too in depth, I get bored when I know that much about my characters, setting and story.
- Save the Cat - Too many examples I don't understand.
- Beat sheets - I liked these because it was a worksheet that I could fill in. But they had too many technical terms that weren't really explained.
- Spreadsheet plotting
- Mindmapping
- The Snowflake Method
None of them really clicked for me. I've even done it my own way. Take a pile of little square sticky notes and write down all the ideas I have for stuff that happens in the story. (They're not necessarily whole scenes, more like things that happen, beats of action.) Then I play around with those sticky notes until the order makes sense. This worked well for planning Alaskan Healing and Alaskan Hope.
Anyway, today I decided to make use of one of my tiny Moleskine notebooks. I'd been discussing ideas for a couple different books with my friend and wanted to get my ideas down before I forgot them. So, I filled out a simple beat sheet (found on the beat sheet link above) with an inciting incident, turning point, climax, denouement, etc. Then I took my little book and counted the pages (80 if I use both sides of each page) which works out great because my books run about 40 scenes.
So I took my beat sheet, adjusted the "word count goal" to 11,000 to get 40 pages. That told me what number each of the main scenes fell on in my 40 pages of the notebook. (The two books go together, so I'm outlining them together in the same Moleskine.)
Then I went through the Moleskine and added those main scenes on the correct pages. After that, I decided which scenes would be from what perspective (I'm doing alternate perspectives throughout both of these books. Male main character and female main character.) That way I knew that all of the left facing pages would be Character A and all the right facing pages would be Character B. I added scenes to the Moleskine as I thought of them, and as of right now I have a book completely outlined.
The second book has a few important scenes sorted out already, but not all of them. As they come to me, I'll add them to the Moleskine.
As I get ideas for each scene that's already listed, I can add that to the tiny notebook which I intend to have with me everywhere. (It's really similar to how people plot with notecards, I guess) but it's easier for me to keep track of one notebook instead of 40 cards. :)


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Trump vs. the NFL: Did anyone win? Was anything accomplished?
Diehard Dallas Cowboys fan Shawn Simerson seemed to speak for a segment of fans at the end of an utterly insane and volatile week for the NFL and America in a video he posted to his Cowboys Facebook page, which is followed by more than 172,000 fans.
In the 2-minute, 41-second commentary, Simerson concluded he "couldn't be more happy" with how owner Jerry Jones and his Cowboys handled a tense and emotional situation as the nation, and clearly President Donald Trump, waited to see what America's Team would do on "Monday Night Football."
Jones took a knee with his players in apparent unified support of the political protest, but they did so before the national anthem. They then rose as one and stood locked arm-in-arm for its playing. The plan pleased Simerson because this way no one disrespected the anthem. Simerson seems to fall in line with a poll conducted for ESPN this week: A majority of the black community supports kneeling during the anthem to bring to the forefront issues of racial injustice and police brutality; white America, more and more, is saying it does not.
And now what will the Cowboys do Sunday when the Los Angeles Rams visit AT&T Stadium? Will they stand with hands over their hearts, as receiver Dez Bryant said on Friday? Will Jones join them?
What about the Rams? They have not played since Trump unloaded on the league and its players who took a knee. On Saturday evening, Trump made it clear what he expects to see Sunday, issuing this directive via Twitter: "Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!"
Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017
And what about Trump? Why jump into this cage match with the NFL in the first place?
Some political experts suggest that with a spiraling humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, escalating tensions with North Korea and controversial tax reform, his targeting of the player protests started last year by Colin Kaepernick is seen in the black community as the latest trigger in Trump's culture war — and another diversion from his legislative shortcomings.
Trump angered NFL owners, too, imploring them to fire the "son of a b----" who protests and urging fans to leave stadiums when players do.
"I know what [Trump's] doing," said foremost sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
"My more immediate concern is what are the responses that we're seeing? How authentic is it that Jerry Jones would be taking a knee and then quote, locking arms, with his players?" Edwards asked. "Exactly and precisely what is he locking arms about?"
Trump, who has encouraged police to be rough with suspects and favors the militirazation of police departments, didn't view it as a protest against him, as Bryant said it was.
The president has tweeted that "standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable," and he was clearly pleased with the Cowboys' Monday night response, interpreting it as Jones getting his players to stand at attention, honoring the flag and anthem. He said so in a tweet, regaling Jones as a "winner" and asserting that "Players will stand for Country!"
"If what Jerry Jones did was not in-point-of-fact in support of those protest efforts as opposed to simply being a response to being sucker-punched and thrown under the bus by the sucker-puncher-in-chief, then I'm not sure that this is worth anything," Edwards said.
.@Packers and @ChicagoBears players and coaches link arms during the National Anthem prior to TNF at Lambeau Field. #CHIvsGB pic.twitter.com/A5QfQGHnjk— NFL (@NFL) September 29, 2017
By Thursday night, hours after Trump took another shot at NFL owners, saying they are afraid of their players and that it's "disgraceful," sold-out Lambeau Field chanted "USA! USA!" During the singing of the anthem, not a single player from the Green Bay Packers or Chicago Bears took a knee. They also stood arm-in-arm, linked in unity, they say. Several teams announced Friday they will also stand in unity during the anthem prior to Sunday's games.
But stand in unity for what exactly? Racial justice? The flag? Against Trump?
"I do think much of the noise in the last few days has lost sight of the original issues Kaepernick was trying to raise, and that is of the systemic racism of the nation," said Max Krochmal, associate professor and director of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at TCU.
'Change the narrative'
Trump, who said his attack on the league is not race-driven, has managed not only to seemingly cloud the true meaning of Kaepernick's protest, but to flip it against the players as a kind of litmus test of loyalty and respect to flag, anthem and those in the military.
"Trump is a master manipulator and I can't emphasize that enough," said Kevin Cokley, professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas.
"He is very calculating, he is very cunning, and he knows exactly what he is doing. We have already heard reports that he's had conversations that he was very pleased with the outcome in terms of the amount of attention it has drawn. It allows him to sort of change the narrative ... to focus on these cultural war issues."
The flag, and the soldiers who fight and defend the Constitution are not the target here, and to even bring that up is a way of deflecting the conversation from something that nobody wants to discuss, that we haven't been able to have an honest discussion of in over 350 years, and that's the issue of white supremacy and race in American society.
Harry Edwards, civil rights activist
San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid, who became the first player to join Kaepernick in protest during last year's NFL season, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times this week. He said it "baffles" him that kneeling during the anthem continues to be misconstrued as being disrespectful to the country, flag and military personnel.
"We chose it because it's exactly the opposite," Reid wrote. "It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest."
The great divide between white and black NFL fans on this issue seems to be stuck on the issue of the flag. The ESPN poll, conducted Tuesday through Thursday revealed that Americans are paying close attention to this issue, and attitudes are greatly split according to race. Of the 1,055 adults surveyed, both sports fans and non-sports fans, male and female and of various races, 51 percent said they either somewhat or strongly disapprove of the player protests.
However, 72 percent of African-American respondents either somewhat or strongly approved of the protests during the anthem. For whites, 62 percent voiced disapproval.
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS, an independent research firm, shows that 60 percent of those surveyed said Trump did the wrong thing by criticizing the NFL players. The same poll shows said that 49 percent think the athletes are doing the wrong thing by kneeling during the national anthem.
Some NFL fans are demonstrating their disgust by burning their team gear, setting fire to their season tickets and DirecTV has resorted to refunding Sunday Ticket packages for fans tuning out because of the protests.
"These athletes are intelligent. They're not going to be distracted by red herrings such as "you're protesting against soldiers," "you're dishonoring our flag." No. that's not even a conversation that they're interested in having," Edwards said. "The flag, and the soldiers who fight and defend the Constitution are not the target here, and to even bring that up is a way of deflecting the conversation from something that nobody wants to discuss, that we haven't been able to have an honest discussion of in over 350 years, and that's the issue of white supremacy and race in American society. We need to have that discussion."
'Fueled and inflamed'
The growing intrigue is where this goes from here. The NFL season, not even a quarter complete, offers opportunity for protests and flare-ups through the Super Bowl in February.
Edwards said he would like to see NFL players and owners come together and "turn protest into progress" with programs like one he developed with the 49ers that bring together athletes, community activists and law enforcement to hold open and frank discussions.
But such endeavors will take time and effort, and at the moment, racial tensions surrounding the league and within society are becoming more volatile and unpredictable.
Edwards said Trump's S-O-B comment "fueled and inflamed a situation that many of the players were already sympathetic to even though they had not gotten to the place where they were ready to join the protest."
Kaepernick, out of the league this season almost assuredly because of his political stance, holds considerable clout among players. Last year he was the recipient of the 49ers' Len Eshmont Award, given to the player who best displays inspiration and courage. The NFL Players' Association named Kaepernick their Week 1 MVP of this season for his charity work.
Meanwhile, scrutiny of this former Super Bowl QB has intensified tenfold since the president declared war on the player protest.
"For years, cultural warriors have gone after Hollywood liberals. In some ways this is a rehashing of that with a new target and more vulnerable target, the black professional athlete," Krochmal said. "Lots of people think they're overpaid, that they sort of inherited this natural talent because of their biology and didn't work hard to get there, which is the opposite of the truth. So there is a lot of resentment among white Americans for the success of the black athlete.
"When someone like Kaepernick stands up, they say, 'why are you whining?' "
And how will owners who locked arms with their players proceed — like Jones, like Daniel Snyder of the Washington Redskins and like Shahid Khan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, men who donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee? Will they continue to stand with their players on these issues, or were they simply there to counter-punch Trump?
"These are people that gave him a million dollars, who staunchly supported Mr. Trump ... and all of a sudden they're going to take a knee?" Edwards said. "And so I have to be very much concerned about the authenticity of what happened, and whether we're looking at an authentic support of the athletes in protesting around these issues, or whether we're looking at one of the most craven and degenerate instances of hypocrisy in sports history."
This article contains information from Star-Telegram archives.
Jeff Caplan is a projects and enterprise reporter for the Star-Telegram. Reach him at 817-390-7705, @Jeff_Caplan.


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Jason Reitman's re-imagined readings of cherished scripts – can we call them The Reitman Readings? – are so clever, I'm amazed no one thought to do this before … at least, on this scale. To date, he has recruited all-star ensembles for celebrity line-readings of The Breakfast Club, The Apartment, The Princess Bride (with a few original cast members in different roles), and Shampoo. His next, according to EW.com, will be Quentin Tarantino's brilliant Reservoir Dogs -- with a distinct twist.
"We're changing the race of the race of the entire cast," the Young Adult director told the magazine about his upcoming (sold-out) reading, which will be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Thursday, Feb. 16. "This is kind of the first attempt at really looking at a screenplay through a different lens, and we'll see what happens when we do that. Maybe nothing changes, or maybe the story becomes completely different."
Makes sense, when you think about it. Tarantino's gangsters go by color-coded nicknames, so the color of Reitman's performances should be a determining factor. So, who does he have in mind? According to EW, Reitman has cast: Terrence Howard as Mr. Blonde, the sadistic bastard originally played by Michael Madsen; Anthony Mackie as Mr. Pink, Steve Buscemi's original gangster; Cuba Gooding Jr. as Mr. Orange, the undercover cop Tim Roth played; and Anthony Anderson as Nice Guy Eddie, originally played by doughy Chris Penn.
Reitman has a week left to fill out the remaining roles. The hardest to cast, in my opinion, is Mr. White. Harvey Keitel is so freaking outstanding in Dogs, I wouldn't want to try and change his reading. But Reitman also has to find actors for: Mr. Brown (Reitman should take that, as Tarantino played him in the original); officer Marvin Nash; and ringleader Joe Cabot.
It's going to be great. The unfortunate part is that most of us won't get to see it. Hopefully down the road, Reitman can package these into a DVD set, so we can enjoy how different these projects become in different hands. For now, though, what do you think of the casting … and the idea, in general?


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OlymBIC Games goes to Ateneo
It's the final leg of OlymBIC Games 2017! Last September 28, BIC Stationery Philippines hosted the third and last phase of the OlymBIC Games at the Ateneo Grade School.
In our biggest event yet, more than a hundred students were able to participate in the booths and games that OlymBIC had to offer.
Some crowd favorites were the Where's BIC Boy as well as the BIC All-You-Can stations.
Thank you to all the students for taking time out of their schedules to play in our booths and to the teachers and the administration who graciously allowed the students to participate in the OLYMBIC Games!
We hope that the OlymBIC Games fulfilled its promise in inspiring the students to think about their future. We hope that they will continue to study hard in order to achieve their goals towards a brighter tomorrow.


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We all know the story. Whether by the blunt force of natural disaster or economic trauma, a major disturbance leaves a swath of the urban fabric untenable. People leave, plans disintegrate, buildings crumble, and the forces of ruination slowly creep in. An urban wasteland is born. For those of us habituated to the sheen and sparkle of urban promise, it's all too tempting to view these sites as spatial garbage, or "blight"—emblematic of entropy and decline. Averse to their unsightly appearances, liabilities, and connotations, many municipalities prefer to cloister them away with eight-foot barrier walls and garlands of heavy chains and padlocks until new programs can be proffered. Some of these sites are more obvious and stand out like missing teeth. Many of these territories seem to be owned by nobody, and everybody simultaneously. Still others are just far enough removed from the bustle of everyday life that they simply evade our notice altogether, like repressed memories.
Speculation about the meaning, aesthetics, and potentials of Ruderal Urban Territories (RUT's) is both timely and deeply rooted in history. As a prototypical city with a contemporary life, Rome offers a poignant lens through which to understand the processes and politics of ruination, as its territory has been subject to varied and continuous states urban occupation for over 2,700 years. Italian Cartographer Giovanni Battista Piranesi was particularly interested in the ruination of Rome he encountered in the 18th century, which he famously immortalized in his Vedute series ("The Views").
These etchings depict the Eternal City in a state of beautiful decay, and Piranesi seemed to take special care to impart a romantic tone of the picturesque to each scene he crafted. This mode of stylistic license and exaggeration, in which the boughs of trees, crumbling pediments, and pastoral landscapes beyond appear in an almost impossible state of harmony, are said to have both reflected and reinforced the renewed interest in the glory of the ancient world that was sweeping Europe at the time (1).
Two centuries later, young Italian filmmakers like Pier Paolo Pasolini would direct their own lenses toward the landscape of Rome through cinema, this time observing the transitions occurring at the periphery of the city. Looking into the backgrounds of films such as Pasolini's Accatone ("The Scroungers", 1961), one can see the simultaneous decay of the traditional Borgate (small Italian settlements) and the emergence of the post-war housing boom, which looms ominously in the immediate distance. The choice to situate the majority of the action of the film within this "no man's land" between old and new, between inside and outside can be seen as both an aesthetic conceit and an active political statement.
"[Pasolini] had become fascinated with a world which he saw as pre-industrial and almost primordial, a world still enveloped in an epic-mythical dimension, a world marginalized and left behind by history and progress but thus one of the few environments still resistant to the blandishments of the neo-capitalist consumer culture" (2).
The protagonists' aimless wanderings among these contested territories highlights the economically and geographically marginalized conditions of the urban poor, who always appear to be alienated from the centrifugal forces of mainstream life by a crusty mantle of heavily disturbed earth.
Wasted urban landscapes not only reflect but actively foreshadow states of change and transition in the socio-economic and political structure of cities. In the rapidly de-industrializing context of the 1980's and 90's the landscapes of ruination and various "elsewheres" at the fringes of cities play a central role in the visual lexicon of punk rock.
Amid the tumult of crumbling walls, mangled cars, splintered wood, and the protruding rebar of rubble heaps is the vague but essential quality roughness, danger and permissiveness that ruins always seem to conjure. Many punk rock music videos and record covers are set amid these anonymous landscapes of waste, seeming to signal the temporary suspension of decidedly oppressive norms. The critical tension of these settings mirror the aims of the genre itself—ripe with the possibility of leaving one social order in the dust and rebuilding the world on new and radically different terms.
What's important to note about these examples is the almost morbid fascination and magnetism these territories of ruination continue to exert on us. They seem to reflect latent desires to seek out that which is expressly off limits—to find the sacred in the profane. Yet even more richness exists there, and to reduce the sacralization of wastelands within the popular imagination to fleeting aesthetic curiosities would be to overlook the many socio-ecological implications.
The larger transitional meaning and latent potentials of RUT's is expressed beautifully in Rebecca Solnit's recent meditation, "Field Guide to Getting Lost", in which she observes:
"With ruins, a city springs free of its plans into something as intricate as life, something that can be explored but perhaps not mapped. This is the same transmutation spoken of in fairy tales, when statues and toys and animals become human, though they come to life and with ruin a city comes to death, but a generative death like the corpse that feeds flowers." (3)
Evoking ruins through this biological metaphor reminds us to resist imagining these places as somehow devoid of life, or as blank slates for new officially sanctioned uses, but to acknowledge that they are often already teeming with activity and transitional vitality of all kinds. It's precisely this unlikely vibrancy which demands new modes of understanding and exploration by creatives, scientists, and policymakers alike.
Migration, Occupation and Resistance
The first dimension implied by RUT's is directly related to human patterns of settlement and spatial appropriation. Ruderal urban and peri-urban sites have likely always provided transitional shelter to the cities' most vulnerable inhabitants. In a contemporary context marked by the growing challenges of urban population growth and mass migration, this patterns is likely to become increasingly pronounced and urgent. Growing levels of regional famine, natural disaster events, and geopolitical conflicts brought about by a changing global climate is projected to accelerate migration globally, with current estimates of climate change refugees expected to reach 200 million by 2050 (4). Although not always a first resort, the occupation and settlement by these vulnerable communities within RUT's in the form squats and informal settlements is also likely to increase in turn if local and national institutions exceed their capacity to effectively accommodate these unprecedented levels of migration and resettlement.
The intensification of this phenomena is already underway, and is not confined to the storied slums of the global south. Mass migration across the mediterranean sea in has already made global headlines in recent years, with particular urgency in mediterranean countries like Italy, which act as the the first gateways to safety for desperate refugees seeking shelter in the European Union. Those lucky enough to make landfall alive must then navigate the turbulent waters of localized bureaucracy and marginalization. As they seek asylum with few resources and options, many have no choice but to wait in limbo in cities like Lampedusa, Sicily, and Rome for many months or years (5).
To visit the periphery of Rome in 2016 is to encounter a geography of appropriation and resistance arising in response to the complex contemporary challenges of migration and political disenfranchisement. Not far away from the city's bustling historic core and gelato shops is a landscape few tourists ever see—where fragments of ancient aqueducts meander through still fertile farmland, punctuated crumbling remains of the Italian economic miracle. Factories, military outposts, and other abandoned infrastructure teems with illicit forms of life and occupation, much of which remains hidden in plain sight.
Take for example, a vulnerable colony of local seasonal workers and migrant families occupying a former salami factory site in the eastern periphery of Rome since 2009. Known locally as the Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove di Metropoliz (the Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere) this site provides much needed shelter, protection and belonging to hundreds of temporary residents from around the world including Peruvian, Moroccan, Egyptian, and Roma families. MAAM is just one of many occupied post-industrial urban sites in the city, and is part of a longer and more established tradition of transforming abandoned industrial and military outposts in the periphery of the city into "Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestiti" ("Self Managed Social Centers") (6).
Due to the illicit nature of their formation, these sites often exist in a state of legal purgatory. The early years of their existence is especially tenuous, as they risk destruction or eviction by local authorities at any moment. Sites like MAAM are typically established and administered by a nucleus of like-minded, politically organized individuals who work to give political purchase to local inhabitants while building good faith with local communities through artistic interventions and public events. Yet even if these occupied RUT's can evade forcible eviction and destruction by municipal bulldozers, the long-term public health implications of these informal settlements remains complex and unclear.
Due to the lack of functioning infrastructure and the many material remnants of their former use, RUT's like MAAM often contain myriad environmental contaminants that range from lead and other heavy metals, to asbestos-laden construction rubble, to other less visible organic and inorganic pollutants that pose serious threats to human health. Yet without the political will or resources to engage in conventional large-scale methods of soil remediation, alternative approaches must be employed in ways that respect and acknowledge MAAM's human inhabitants. For these communities, many of whom struggle to meet their basic daily needs, the prospect of long-term ecological health is largely an abstraction. This underscores the need to reconcile environmental health concerns with immediate daily realities.
Self-willed Urban Nature and the Emergence of Novel Ecosystem Services
Many RUT's also nourish unprecedented new forms of self-willed nature in the city which are only beginning to be understood. Aided by disturbed ground conditions, wind and animal seed dispersal, and seasonal hydrological processes over time, RUT's offer the ideal conditions for what are often referred to as "cosmopolitan urban meadows." (7). Growing amid crumbling infrastructure and urban waste, these landscapes often contain a variety of spontaneously occurring vegetation which seems not only to subsist but thrive despite human intentions, human impacts, and aggressive urban maintenance regimes. These include remnant native species, heat-loving, disturbance-adapted trees and shrubs such as Common Plantain (Plantago Major) and Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus Altissima), salt and drought tolerant species such as Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), and even ornamental domestic garden escapees.
These eclectic botanical assemblages are just one example of a "Novel Ecosystem" at work, and are widely understood as "the result of deliberate or inadvertent human action." (7). What remains contentious about these landscapes are assessments of their ecological value. Are these plant communities comprised merely of ecologically useless alien invaders hellbent on running amok and wreaking havoc? Or are they the hardy handmaidens of a futuristic native ecology in the early stages of becoming? Although not universally embraced by professional ecologists and conservation biologists today, there is an fascinating body of research and landscape strategy which seek to understand and incorporate the latent value and function of these ecosystems at both local and city-wide scales (8).
The Novel Ecosystems Services (NES) approach to these landscapes recognizes that despite their scrappy or unsightly appearance, the spontaneous plant communities that we observe along our roadsides, within vacant lots and alleyways are already actively involved in a number of beneficial urban metabolic functions, including the absorption of particulate pollution from vehicular sources (9), the active remediation of contaminated soils (10), increasing localized biodiversity (11), benefits to local pollinators (12), and the reduction of urban heat-islands, (13). Novel Ecosystem Services may be of particular and urgent relevance in the context of informally occupied RUT's where environmental contaminants and inhospitable conditions pose imminent risks to human health and quality of life. If Novel Ecosystems are to be embraced, curated, and in some cases accelerated as a feature of long term resilience planning in cities, it's important to first recognize which among these species, including those we commonly malign as "weeds" may already be acting as the unlikely pro-bono footsoldiers of urban health.
As they have for millennia in Rome, the inevitable conditions of urban expansion and contraction will continue present challenges and opportunities within our cities. Accelerated by climate change, migration and disinvestment, spontaneously colonized ruderal sites will become an increasingly urgent urban challenge. Despite a long-established cultural and aesthetic fascination with urban wastelands, formal research and engagement with the deeper implications of these sites is still in its infancy. Rather than viewing these territories as problems to be fixed, many urban ecologists and practitioners are starting to pay closer attention to the complex socio-ecological processes occurring within them. Moving beyond this exciting but nascent stage of theory and academic research, will require a leap from academic understanding to creative strategies and future-focused policies that actively informs how these conditions are regarded and managed.
Implied in this growing body of research and action are exciting new horizons for creative and civic engagement that reframe these marginalized territories as assets rather than liabilities in the fight for more just, more vibrant, and more resilient cities. Those within the urban landscape practice are particularly well-positioned to conceive of new modes of co-evolutionary bargaining which respect the existing ecologies and informal cultural heritage produced within RUT's. Under new paradigms of understanding and collective action, territories and plant communities regarded as functionally and ecologically useless today may ultimately be recognized and utilized as key contributors to the health of the urban ecosystem in the near future. It's time we develop more coherent ways to work with and alongside these conditions, however messy they may be.
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2. Accattone [Internet]. Cinémathèque Annotations on Film. 2004 [cited 2004 Apr 16]. Available from: http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/accattone/
3. Solnit R. A field guide to getting lost [Internet]. Canongate Books; 2006 [cited 2006]. Available from: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q7D-ZJfVHO4C&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&dq=Solnit 2006&ots=9TcaUSnzvc&sig=WlPtexuEWRql7YM_v1lIDwz3NQM
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6. Mudu P. Resisting and challenging neoliberalism: The development of Italian social centers. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00461.x/abstract
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[May 31] Beijing officials stand firm on 2017 poll and say strict framework for Hong Kong's democratic reform will stay even if lawmakers reject plan
Hong Kong government sticks to rigid Beijing framework in 2017 election proposal
Our more comprehensive and systematic analyses in one place: Journal of Democracy April 2015, Volume 26, Issue 2
Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement: Beijing's Broken Promises
China has gone back on its well-documented vow (and solemn treaty obligation) to allow Hong Kong genuine universal suffrage. Abrogated commitments and fake democracy are not the path to a thriving Hong Kong that feels at home within the People's Republic of China. (HK JoD Davis Beijing's Broken Promises)
Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement: The Protests and Beyond
The demonstrations of late 2014 captured the world's attention with their scale, passion, and resourcefulness, but in the end were unable to move dug-in local and national authorities. Yet time is still on the side of the demonstrators. (HK JoD Hui The Protest and Beyond)
Why HK should not "pocket" the fake "one person, one vote" proposal
Prodemocracy members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council are vowing to veto the August 31 decision (which requires a two-thirds majority), and they have just enough votes to do so. The authorities want to convince Hong Kong people that they should "pocket" a less than ideal form of suffrage as a "gradual and orderly step" on the way to genuine universal suffrage in the future. The flaw in the government's line is that some steps create insurmountable hurdles rather than take people closer to the finish line. Once created, any undemocratic arrangement will become increasingly entrenched. If the Election Committee is not reformed now, it will become increasingly resistant to change later. The narrowly based "functional constituencies" that still control half the Legislative Council's seventy seats furnish a hard and object lesson. They have proven resistant to all attempts to phase them out, and legislators who hold these seats are unlikely to back any reform that would force them to face direct elections.
In Chinese 從政府主導理論 看雨傘運動
Andrew Nathan's analysis also in the J. of Democracy: "China's Challenge," January 2015, pp. 156-170
[Beijing has been] Seeking to roll back existing democratic institutions or to stifle sprouts of democratic change in territories where it enjoys special influence. These are Hong Kong and Macau—two Special Administrative Regions that came under PRC control in 1997 and 1999, respectively, when they were returned to Chinese sovereignty by their former colonial rulers—and Taiwan, a territory over which China claims sovereignty and over which it has growing economic influence. In none of these places has China denounced democracy in principle, but in all three it has undermined it in practice.
See also updates on other posts, esp. why the freedom without democracy model is broken; polarization after occupy; the fallacy that nonviolence has not worked; and targeted boycott. Existing posts are regularly updated to reflect the latest developments.


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The pioneers of the Honda tuning movement were a tight-lipped bunch. Nobody was taking to the forums to share things like the ins and outs of dialing in a pair of Mikunis on a non-VTEC Integra engine, and nobody was about to spend an afternoon producing YouTube videos that'd demonstrate how to do the very things that'd make whoever'd watch those videos faster than them. There were street races to be won, there was money to be made and, well, there was no Internet to do any of that anyway.
Things might've been different back then if more guys thought like Daniel Stoicescus. And if there was an Internet. "Teaching young guys who are just learning, supporting friends who are pros, and being surrounded by great people who come together as a community for fun as well as for support in times of crisis." Those are the sort of things Daniel says drive him. That and the culmination of a K-swapped and turbocharged Civic hatchback he built on his own.
Daniel's used to building Civics like this on his own. He's owned nearly 30 of them, has been doing it for 20 years, and learned what he has through trial and error. And the Internet. "I picked friends' brains [and used] YouTube and Google to learn what I could until I got to where I could build a Civic [from the] bottom up," he says. It's what's motivated Daniel to go so far as to start his own YouTube channel — Vasile Garage — where he helps others learn from his successes, and even his mistakes. It's all a stark contrast to the Honda-tuning pioneer ethos, and that's OK.
When Daniel says he built this Civic on his own, he means it. Every bit of the magic happened right at his Arkansas home where he's done everything from paint Civics to rebuild a 450hp LS-VTEC engine, neither of which he wishes local law enforcement knew anything about, though. "I'd gotten ticketed by the city several times for painting in my garage and running a shop out of the house," he says, which meant the bones of his latest buildup had to be solid to begin with. And for that, he was willing to make a 2,000-mile round trip. "I wanted an EG for weight, and an Si was one of the few Civics I hadn't had," Daniel says.
"It was important to me that the body be nearly perfect," he goes on to say. "It let me start clean so from there I could enjoy customizing it and doing the fun stuff instead of tediously sandpapering and spraying and, more importantly, avoid code enforcement."
Avoiding code enforcement doesn't mean Daniel didn't have his way with the 24-year-old Honda, though. Every area's been touched. There's a K20A2 swap underneath the hood that's been turbocharged by way of Comp Turbo. The underside's got help from Spoon Sports and K-Tuned. There's a pair of Sparco seats inside, the right amount of carbon fiber outside, and TE37s all around. And there's never anything wrong with TE37s. It's a recipe that, for Daniel, has been two decades in the making and dates back to a $900 CRX that put him through his paces. "I was a broke kid working two jobs while I was still in high school to help my parents make the bills, so all I could afford at the time was an '88 CRX DX with a blown head gasket," Daniel says, whose family left Romania for the U.S. when he was 16. "I drove that car for two years, adding water to it after every race because I didn't know how to fix it and didn't have the money to do so." It's called character building, kids, and it's what helped teach Daniel all he knows.
It's also, in part, what's motivated Daniel to give back by way of uploading the sort of videos he wishes he had as he'd watch that CRX's water-temp needle edge toward the dangerous side of hot. It's a maxim he lives by and one he makes known right smack-dab on the front of his valve cover. "It's a reference to [the Bible verse]," Daniel says, "an analogy, not just about winning races, but about winning at life, helping others, returning the blessings I've been given, and pointing others to the one to whom I owe it all."
And Another One...
This isn't the first time you've met Daniel. His white K-swapped EJ hatch was featured in January '15. Will there be a third feature in the coming years? We think so!


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"For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." (James 3:2)
How's that? It goes without saying that "in many things we offend all". Seriously, we don't know how we come across. Who knows how many people I've offended today? And I've been offended too—most of which were slights to slight to even notice much less mention. And then the question of motive comes into play. But stay with me here. Imagine, if you will, a complex math problem, something that takes up the whole of the white board (I'm pontificating) and that includes dozens, if not hundreds of characters and symbols that are so much Greek. Or, better yet, an intricate and beautiful machine whose moving parts can only be glimpsed as they function deep in the body of the thing, surrounded by a metal lattice of hardware and scaffolding. Layers and levels of important pieces that move independent of one another (and us). And before we go any further, I appreciate James' ("the Lord's brother" Galatians 1:19) brief mention of the facts. Namely that we are full of mistakes and blind spots. He then puts his finger on the one thing that—once locked in place where it belongs—will keep the whole thing running smoothly.
Now take one piece out and look at it. The machinery will stop (and the equation will break down), but don't worry.
"Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body." (James 3:3)
Whenever we relate to others, the interaction can be like two planets in one another's orbits. The thing about this analogy, however, is that I have no way to relate it to what James is saying. Nothing about one planet coming into contact with another (disastrous) includes any small "off switch" that would keep the inevitable from being just that: a widescale wreck of epic proportions. Come to think of it, it sounds a lot like what James says regarding the numerous offenses each and every one of us is guilty of, every day. Best then, to stick with an analogy that includes that aforementioned "off switch". He continues:
"Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned out with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" (James 3:4)
One spark, one piece, one word is all it takes to do something, to start something huge. A high-powered rifle will not fire without the simple firing pin. The weapon may be loaded, but it's not going to go off. Older cars (not so much in the later models) require a spark plug in order to turn the engine. The machinery in each case is useless without that small part. And while James obviously talks about keeping one's mouth shut so as to stave off the "strife of tongues" (see Psalm 31:20), the same could also be said for an elaborate scheme of forgiveness, faith, joy and love.
"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." (James 3:16-18)
Don't forget to put that piece back in. You never know what a kind word, a personable gesture, a thoughtful glance, might do.


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American Library Association honors Kentucky advocate Louis 'Buzz' Carmichael
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Louis "Buzz" Carmichael recognized in Washington for support of libraries
Washington, D.C. — Library advocate Louis "Buzz" Carmichael, of Lexington, Ky., was recognized today with the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce (WHCLIST) Award for his commitment to supporting the nation's libraries. ALA President Molly Raphael acknowledged Carmichael at the American Library Association's 2012 National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C.
WHCLIST bestows upon a non-librarian advocate for libraries who participates in National Library Legislative Day, the annual federal library advocacy event, a stipend to travel to the D.C. event.
As a strong and tireless advocate for libraries, Carmichael has been a trustee of the Lexington Public Library in Kentucky for four years. He was appointed by Governor Steve Beshar to serve as the chair of the State Advisory Council on Libraries as a result of his strong work as a Trustee. As a dedicated advocate for library issues, Carmichael is a regular at library conferences and Kentucky's Library Legislative Day.
"I enjoy all aspects of my library work and feel I can be a better advocate with [National Library Legislative Day] experience," Carmichael said.
More information about the award is available on the ALA website.
About the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce
WHCLIST was an effective force in library advocacy nationally following the White House Conferences on Libraries and Information Services Taskforce, which were held in 1979 and 1991. WHCLIST recently turned its remaining assets over to the American Library Association to fund the WHCLIST Award and spread the spirit of committed, passionate library support to a new generation of advocates.
About the American Library Association
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world,with approximately 60,000 members in academic, public, school, government, and special libraries. The mission of the American Library Association is to provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.


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A Small Price of Games Journalism: Why Kotaku May Be Wrong/
This week, it came to light that game publishers are refusing to give press access or prerelease review copies to prominent gaming news sites. Kotaku's Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo writes in an editorial that his site is blacklisted and ostracized by Bethesda and Ubisoft for reporting leaks and other unauthorized stories about their games. He claims that his site's media requests have been ignored by both companies' representatives ever since their December 2013 report of the then-secret Fallout 4, and Kotaku's December 2014 report of the then-unannounced Assassin's Creed Victory, which we now know as Syndicate.
For two years, Kotaku has been blacklisted by Bethesda. Ostracized by Ubi for a year. A price of games journalism: https://t.co/DpVrtgQfOl— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) November 19, 2015
It's not fair and they may get criticized for it, but Bethesda and Ubisoft can blacklist whomever they choose. As game companies, it is their right to withhold information from whomever they like. After all, this action won't affect their bottom dollar.
It is no secret that video game news sites feed off of press releases by game makers. These press releases are carefully crafted messages by public relations and marketing professionals, and driven by planned marketing schedules and strategies. In turn, staffers from sites like Destructoid, Polygon, and Kotaku use press releases daily as direct sources on frontpage articles. There's a mutual benefit to this process, and entertainment journalism thrives on it.
However, you could argue that a working relationship between gaming journalists and publishers' marketing representatives should not be symbiotic...and respectfully so. Biases and conflicts of interest will arise when reporters become too friendly with their sources. In Patrick Klepek's own words, "journalism and marketing are not supposed to 'work together.'" Herein lies the problem: there are too many examples where the two serve each other's interests.
Take for instance, Bethesda's E3 2015 booth, in which a prop Mister Handy robot mocks Internet criticism of Fallout 4:
This was an obvious jab by Bethesda towards critics (Totilo tweeted a link to it to add context to his editorial) that Bethesda pays attention to the coverage it receives even if it is negative. Still, this video may be a counter argument to Totilo's own thesis. Bethesda's promotional robot was installed at E3, well known as an industry showcase funded by game developers and publishers. It's important to point out that the video was posted to Kotaku's official YouTube channel, with more than 25,000 views at the time of this writing. At what point can we say that Kotaku's video was presenting newsworthy material without commentary, and not regurgitating a marketing stunt instead? It's hard to draw the line between free advertising and factual, unbiased reporting. This is a tremendous grey area that deserves more discussion.
Kotaku is a gaming blog owned by its parent company Gawker Media. Kotaku doesn't employ traditional journalists; it employs bloggers. The site is not a proven independent news outlet that holds the same prestige or legitimacy as, say The New York Times. In fact, as Totilo points out in his piece, it was a Times' contributor who reviewed Assassin's Creed and Fallout for Kotaku as a freelancer. What makes a Times' contributor a deserving recipient of a review copy of a game over Kotaku's Editor-in-Chief? Simply, a blog does not have the same reputation as the 164-year-old institution of the Times. There's also a strong chance that both Bethesda and Ubisoft were hoping for mainstream coverage in the Times over Kotaku, but ultimately, their games are reported on in the gaming press extensively anyway.
I won't argue that we're a more legitimate source for news than Kotaku: we're on the outside looking in on this issue. We are not in direct contact with publishers. This meta-commentary on Totilo's commentary may not have any effect on this issue, but it is fair to say that Kotaku does not always follow guidelines for good journalism (and no, we are not pro-GamerGate; GamerGate misunderstands and misappropriates ethics to hurt people). A well-known book on the topic, the Elements of Journalism, outlines key elements that many academics believe are common ethics in journalism and explains the idea that journalists must maintain an independence from those they cover to establish reliability. On one hand, this means not becoming seduced by sources, intimidated by power, or compromised by self-interest. On the other hand, Totilo's argument establishes that Kotaku strives to be independent, while at the same time demands that credible sources stop isolating them with these blacklists. You can't always have it both ways in this industry.
Even then, sites like Kotaku may be struggling for relevance. According to an ESA report, product reviews in magazines or video game websites account for only 3% of all factors that influence purchasing video games.
Totilo argues that both Bethesda's and Ubisoft's actions "hamper independent reporting in pursuit of a status quo in which video game journalists are little more than malleable, servile arms of a corporate sales apparatus." You could argue that most people who call themselves games journalists or critics were or are still fans of playing video games; it is difficult to maintain neutrality when separating your role as a reporter from the role of a fan. This is why news outlets like ESPN get accused of bias all the time; its reporters are sports fans who must cover the teams and sports they are interested in.
Fans of anything follow journalistic shortcuts. On the Internet, a fan will discover some information, decide whether it's believable or not, consider its value to others, then settles what to ignore and what to share. In a nutshell, this process is blogging and social media commentary. For journalists to stay relevant, they must must do more than that. Their job should be to verify information fans already have or likely to find on their own, then help them make sense of that that information means and how they might use it.
So, if Kotaku's policy is to reject rumors, propoganda, unconfirmed leaks, and gossip about game makers, then we can call its staffers true journalists. However, their mission statement and practice doesn't reflect that. Instead, the site's About Us page reads like an infotainment ad:
In a crowded market where video game coverage is available any time everywhere on the Internet, blacklisting Kotaku does not seem like it will affect either publishers' sales. In fact, publishers like Nintendo realize that it may not need the gaming press to reach its core audience. In 2012, Nintendo started producing Nintendo Directs, which include new game announcements, videos, and other multimedia marketing tools. It is obvious corporate cheerleading, but seems to be working; through the first 6 months of 2015, Nintendo has an operating profit of $73 million, up from an operating loss of $1.75 million through the first 6 months of 2014.
With all that said, I won't argue that brown-nosing publishers, underreporting leaks, or schewing game reviews for fear of being blacklisted is the ultimate answer. Let's just not pretend that sites like Kotaku are presenting serious news, analysis, and investigative journalism only. Kotaku is one of many influential gaming blogs that is profit-driven and on a quest for high site traffic, but is not necessarily one with an audience receptive to their critiques. Don't blame Bethesda and Ubisoft when they're on a similar quest.


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The Creuse is a French department located in the region of Limousin situated south of the centre of France. It's named after the river Creuse. Over the past two generations Creuse has experienced the greatest population decline of any French department. From 164,000 inhabitants in 1960 down to 124.000 now; that's a fall of 24%. That fact can be recognized in the landscape. The rural villages lost their inhabitants; old neglected houses remain. Pastures overgrown by weed. Aged farmers busy to cultivate them back in order again. Most of all we experienced nature and silence.
We stayed at the nature camping of Rob en Carla. Two Dutch adventurers who rebuilt an old cow-shed to a nice and excellent residence between overwhelming nature. Rob's speciality is the distribution of Yellow-bellied toad in the Limousin and Carla is a transcendental meditation master and an excellent cook. For us, Nico, Sabine, Eva, Astrid, Arjan, Senna, Lara and Kosta a good reason to enjoy and explore the silence and beauty of the Creuse with the comfort of the camping as our base camp.
The campsite is close to the village of St. Agnant pres Crocq, situated in the southeast part of the Creuse. It's the highlands of Millevaches with an altitude of about 800 meters. It has a wild and sparsely populated landscape with few villages scattered across the region. Hills with natural woodlands – beech, birch and chestnut – interspersed with small lakes and covered pastures surrounded by ferns and rocky walls.
CFrom a climate viewpoint. This area's climate is like the northern regions. Millevaches plateau has a very wet and cold oceanic climate. These conditions affected the distribution of herpspecies. Typical "northern" species like Adder, Smooth snake, Viviparous lizard and Sand lizard are really common here. And heat lovers as Yellow-bellied toad, Western green lizard, Common wall lizard, Viperine snake, Easculapian snake and Asp viper occur in the lower parts around the Millevaches plateau. One summer week, with some good herp-tips of Rob, resulted in 20 species (table 1).
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Marbled newt
Triturus marmoratus
Northern crested newt
Triturus cristatus
Palmate newt
Lissotriton helveticus
Yellow-bellied toad
Bombina variegata
Common midwife toad
Alytes obstetricans
Common toad
Bufo bufo
Common frog
Rana temporaria
Agile frog
Rana dalmatina
Edible frog
Pelophylax kl. esculenta
Pool frog
Pelophylax lessonae
Sand lizard
Lacerta agilis
Viviparous lizard
Zootoca vivipara
Common wall lizard
Podarcis muralis
Slow worm
Angius fragilis
Aesculapian snake
Zamenis longissimus
Grass snake
Natrix natrix
Viperine snake
Natrix maura
Smooth snake
Coronella austriaca
Vipera berus
Asp viper
Vipera aspis
Other highlights
Large gold grasshopper
Chrysochraon dispar
Large marsh grasshopper
Stethophyma grossum
Stag beetle
Lucanus cervus
1. Plateau de Millevaches (Creuse), 2. Regional Park Lorraine, 3. Ardennes and Argonne, 4. French Jura, 5. Beaujolais region.
Landscape of the Creuse; pastures covered with an overwhelming growth of tangled weeds.
These rural houses are willing objects for Dutch and English restseekers.
No room for more tents now according to the owner Rob. This campsite is full.
One of the nice surprises during our stay. An excellent beetroot soup prepared by Carla.
Typical landscape, typical village.
Basking female common vipers, not far from Tigouleix. Vipers are still common at the Plateau de Millevaches.
The Plateau de Millevaches has a wet and cool Atlantic climate. It is home to northern species like adder, viviparous lizard, sand lizard and smooth snake.
Pine marten (Martes martes) as road victim. Pine marten is more common here than beech marten (Martes foina).
Asp viper occurs only in the lower parts. We found this juvenile in a meadow near Crocq.
Asp viper habitat. We found 7 vipers in this small part along a road close near Evaux-les-Bains.
A female Asp viper
Herping sometimes includes visiting waste grounds. Between the trash we found an Aesculapian snake, an asp viper, a handful of slowworms and lots of common wall lizards.
A reddish specimen of the large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum).
Nico, Rob and Kosta after supper.
Yellow bellied toad is the study object of Rob Veen. He discovered some small populations in the Cher valley. By digging out old tranches and, after a year of reproduction, filling up these tranches again the populations became more vital. Yellow bellied toads need waters without predators that are kept in an early successive stage. Rob's digging out en filling up theory seems essential for sustaining this species.
One of the Tigouleix camping pool frogs.
the tadpoles of the Midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) are visible inside the eggs.
Something between a tadpole and a juvenile agile frog (Rana dalmatina).
The last wild wolf of the Creuse. Shot by some freaky French aristocrats.
Exploring the landscape of the Creuse. From left to right: Antoinette, Inez, Sabine, Arjan, Kosta and Cees
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Lifelong Learning" is the slogan, the motto of Berkeley Adult School, which starts up anew with enrollment on Sept. 8. Its teachers can bring an astonishing wealth of life experience to their courses, and not always what their academic or professional background might indicate. Perhaps this is something fundamental to a program aimed at students looking to renew old interests, refresh longtime preoccupations—or discover new pursuits—during or after their own vocational commitments.
I've met a few of these remarkable people in the course of reviewing theater, covering performing arts activities—finding out about their teaching, and something of their own lifetime pursuits.
I met playwright James Keller, who's taught at the North Berkeley Senior Center for Berkeley Adult School about a dozen years, when an actress I'd reviewed contacted me about a very short run of an original play at the Berkeley City Club, too short to get a review in print before the show closed. Would I consider sitting in on a tech or dress rehearsal and writing about it?
I was amused by the little company's name—Poor Players—and impressed by what I saw: a four-person cast, ranging over two or more generations, playing yet another version of that old chestnut of a theme, the Middle American dysfunctional family. I didn't grasp, until more than midway through the rehearsal, the ironic significance of the play's title: Leave of Absence.
It was the story of parents and a son, of the dislocation of relationship. How the wife and mother—and later, the son's wife—try to patch together the frayed wires of communication. And how the aging mother starts, quite literally, to wander, gripped by dementia.
"I wouldn't have been able to embark on my cycle of 12 plays about old age, of which Leave of Absence is one, except for the time I've spent with seniors," Keller said. "I couldn't have done it without knowing them. It's a wonderful dividend I didn't anticipate."
So lifelong learning works both ways—and in more ways than one. "I'm a student, too, just a little ways further down the road," Keller said.
Keller is the author of about 50 plays and adaptations, just under half of them produced—not a bad average for an independent playwright. In the Bay Area, he's best-known for his association with the late stage director, Albert Takazakis during the 1980s and '90s, primarily at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, but often traveling for productions. "I lived out of a suitcase, visited 33 states ... but I was being paid to work with Mozart and Chekhov!"
At The Magic, he read plays under consideration as well, recommending Sharon & Billy, by Alan Bowne, which outran the Sam Shepard plays the theater had become famous for. He also "bluepenciled" Shepard's Lie of the Mind for staging. "Albert didn't care for Shepard. But I insisted, and he directed it very successfully." Later, he got a call from the famed Arena Theatre in Washington, DC. "They called it a totally different experience than the New York production and asked, 'Can we use your version?'" But there was no compensation budgeted for it. "To this day, I really don't know if they did, in fact, use it or not!"
Keller's adaptations of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Heinrich von Kleist's great comedy The Broken Jug were staged at Marin Theatre Company; his adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo's Saturday Sunday Monday was put on by ACT. He adapted a play of his as a children's opera for San Francisco Opera; it toured successfully for years.
He recalls a moment during preproduction for his play, Mozart's Journey to Prague, directed by Takazakis at The Magic: "We hadn't been able to cast for Mozart! Then a young actress came in to read for one of the female roles. When she started to speak, Albert and I looked at each other—and cast her as Mozart.
She was wonderful. And the love scene with Costanza was particularly good!"
Keller was born in Sydney, Australia, "but taken as an armbaby" out to the country, to the Murray River, the border between Victoria and New South Wales. "I'm totally a border person—and a river person; drenched in the river!" Mark Twain had once been through there by train, awakened in the middle of the night to cross the platform in his nightshirt to change to another train. "There was a rivalry between the two states; the rail gauges didn't match!"
At 15, he went to live with his grandmother in Sydney, who wanted him to work for the attorney general's office, as his late uncle had, after whom he was named. "I was no longer around anyone my own age." After a couple of years, he decided he didn't want to be a civil servant—"though I'd met some wonderful people, who said, 'Read Samuel Beckett! Listen to Billie Holiday!'"—and embarked for Europe by ship on his 18th birthday. Due to the Suez Crisis, his ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope, entered the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, "and I saw Africa and Europe in the same moment."
In London, he studied acting, "but I never got off on applause; I learned a lot about theater, though." With a job in the British Museum, he spent lunch hours there—"and my passionate obsession with Egypt and Greece came to life there." At 23, he began to focus on writing plays, with the famous Peggy Ramsay as literary agent. He became friends with well-known British and American theater folk, including critic John Lahr and actress Betsy Blair, with her husband, film director Karel Reisz. But two options at the Royal Shakespeare Company were dropped; other opportunities never quite panned out.
Urged to go to America, he visited in 1981—and returned, permanently, in 1984, because "I fell in love." After 14 years in the UK, he eventually got a Green Card, became a citizen, even began to write plays in idiomatic American—"It took 10 years; I went through three separate Englishes!"
On a return trip to Britain, a play of his won an Arts Council prize. "Every time I win a prize, the play's never performed!"
Keller had taught at the International Film School in London's Covent Garden ("talking to students from 25 countries about film—a fun way to pay the rent"), and would teach poetry occasionally in the Bay Area. His introduction to Berkeley Adult School he calls "an accident." But it took: "At peak, I taught four, five classes a week. On Shakespeare, I covered every possible aspect—on stage, film, in the Sonnets ... I've always been fascinated with the interconnection of the arts, so brought in visual material." Eventually, he wrote a book as syllabus, Call the Muses Home, "from cave painting to I Love Lucy; I finally laid out my personal vision as autodidact, what I've done through the years. I'm not a teacher, I just articulate my enthusiasm. If I don't feel it, I don't touch it. And I'm not a scholar, but a thieving magpie. I take what I need, leave the rest. That's how I've always been."
For the fall semester at Berkeley Adult School, Keller's offering a Tuesday-Thursday afternoon course in film noir, 19 films from 1939 to the mid-'60s that "show the triumph of shadows, both literally and metaphorically"—and a Tuesday morning class, "Exploring Don Quixote," Cervantes' novel plus five adaptations, including Orson Welles' film, Grigory Kozintsev's Russian movie and Graham Green's Monsieur Quixote with Alec Guinness.
Keller said the real rewards of teaching can be subtle. Like hearing that two of his students were complimented at Anghor Wat by a guide for knowing the Hindu gods—and they replied, "It's because of our teacher!" Another student, hearing of Keller's disappointment at missing a Renaissance chapel under restoration during an Italian vacation, made a model of it, "with photos of the frescos inside in scale, and a sign, 'Open for Keller'!"
"I'm humbled by these people," Keller said, "by their little acts of kindness. I do feel what I teach has made a difference in their lives. My friend told me, 'It gives them the possibility of closure.'"


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DTU will promote promising fields of research within the technical and the natural sciences, especially based on usefulness to society, relevance to business and sustainability.
International collaboration is an integrated part of DTUs activities and a prerequisite for DTUs status as an international elite university.
Learn more about President Anders O. Bjarklev ...
This year the AEG Elektronfonden hands out the Elektron award for the 30th time.
The award is handed out once every year to promote the development of technical sciences within electrical engineering at DTU and to contribute to enhance the further education of present and future employees in Danish industry.
2017: Lektor Arnold Knott, DTU Elektro
2016: Lektor Ole Schultz, DTU Diplom
2015: Lektor Helge Bjarup Dissing Sørensen, DTU Elektro
2014: Professor Peter Udh Jepsen, DTU Fotonik
2013: Lektor Bogi Bech Jensen, DTU Elektro
2012: Lektor Rafael Taboryski, DTU Nanotech
2011: Seniorforsker Jakob Birkedal Wagner, DTU Cen
2010: Lektor Jörg Matthias Buchholz, DTU Elektro
2009: Lektor Peter Bøggild, DTU Nanotech
This year, the award AEG Elektronfonden's Elektronpris is given to Senior Researcher Dirch Hjorth Petersen from DTU Nanotech, who is considered as a leading researcher within electrical characterisation of ultra thin metals and semiconductors used for the production of transistors and memory cells.
At the ceremony Dirch Hjorth Petersen received the award as well as a cheque for 50,000 DKK. Here DTU's President Anders Bjarklev emphasised DTU's ambition to develop and utilise technical science for the benefit of society. To the recipient of the award, DTU's President added: "Therefore, it is a great pleasure for me to see that you are able to transform your research results into innovation and new technology in close collaboration with industry alongside your very strong scientific production within the field of electrical engineering."
Anders Bjarklev is among other things referring to the fact that Dirch Hjorth Petersen is co-inventor of several patents and has been able to develop remarkable technologies into business successes, within a short period of time. To mention an example, his patents play an important role for the fully automated measuring tools which the DTU spin-out company Capres A/S develops for leading producers of microelectronics.
Exact measurement of electron transport is of fundamental significance for the development of electronic components. With Dirch Hjorth Petersen's microelectrodes, it is possible on the micrometer scale to measure electronic resistance, leakage currents as well as electron spin transport in materials used in mass production of electronic components.
Improvement of present measuring principles
Rolf Henrik Berg, Head of Department at Micro and Nanotechnology, held the motivation speech and emphasised Dirch Hjorth Petersen's role in the development of vibration tolerant microelectrodes which make it possible to make fully automated electrical measurements with high precision on ultra thin materials in production environments with high acoustic background noise.
"Dirch Hjorth Petersen has developed entirely new measuring principles such as the Micro Hall effect method and significantly improved the precision of electrical measuring principles, over 100 years old.
As a researcher, Dirch Hjorth Petersen has also been the driving force in the development of measuring principles for the characterisation of 2D materials (consisting of only 1 layer of atoms), amongst other things with numeric methods of analysis for the description of resistance measurements in percolation network and correlation studies of terahertz spectroscopy and van der Pauw measurements.
Dirch Hjorth Petersen is also a former recipient of PhD thesis of the year (2010) and the Danish Society of Engineers' Elektro award 2010.
On the photo from left: Acting head of department, DTU Nanotech, Rolf Henrik Berg, President Anders Bjarklev, award winner Dirch Hjorth Petersen, chairman of AEG Elektronfonden Hans Peter Jensen and boardmember Jens Christian Hesse Rasmussen.
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