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I'm probably the biggest "America's Next Top Model" fan out there, but even I admit the show was feeling stale. Creator Tyra Banks tried shaking things up in the past with "themed" seasons. Some were interesting (short models) and others were a stretch (USA vs. UK).
For Cycle 20, male models will also be in the mix. Introducing guys is a smart move and will (hopefully) change the dynamic of the show. Will the guys be just as catty? Will romances develop? And how will the infamous nude shoots go?
Update: Here's the brand new trailer for Cycle 20:
Here's the first look at the seven guys and seven girls vying for the title of "America's Next Top Model." With 5,000+ Facebook likes, it looks like Don (above left) is already a favorite (the viewers votes factor heavily into the eliminations). As for the girls, Jourdan is in the lead with nearly 3,000 likes.
There's definitely some untraditional-looking models too, including wide-eyed, European-looking Nina (above center), who's a little reminiscent of fan favorite and all-star Allison Harvard.
What do you think of the new crop of "ANTM" hopefuls? Tell us in the comments below.
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The next installment in the Disney Food for Families Column by Erin Foster:
I had the good fortune to be able to spend the week leading up to and including Christmas Day at Walt Disney World. Because I knew this was a high-traffic time of year, I was diligent about making my Advance Dining Reservations the full 180+ days in advance of our trip.
I booked family favorites like the character breakfast at the Crystal Palace and special treats like a holiday dinner at the posh Victoria & Albert's. Disney geek-and-a-half that I am, I even typed up all our confirmation numbers on a wallet-sized card and laminated it. I had planned for us to eat well. And we did.
We were scheduled to return home the day after Christmas, just as a blizzard was descending upon the East Coast. Needless to say, our flight was canceled. We were stuck at Walt Disney World. You're feeling sorry for me, I know.
Once we got our accommodation situation settled, my kids started asking me, "Where should we eat?" Since this was now the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, notoriously the busiest week of the year, I assumed that we would be eating only counter service meals. I told the kids that last minute dining at table service restaurants would be laughably impossible. My daughter Josie handed me our trusty iPad and urged me to "just check" to make sure I was wrong. Her instinct was spot-on.
So, What's Available at the Last Minute During Christmas Week…?
During what became four extra days at WDW (flight after flight was canceled), some of our dining experiences are depicted below. All these meals, and several more, happened with dining reservations made less than 12 hours in advance:
How to Book a Last Minute Meal
Not bad for stranded travelers on a holiday week, right? So how did we do it? It turns out that if you're flexible about where you eat, Disney's online reservation system makes it quite easy to find your best dining option, even at the last minute. If you're ever in a similar bind (or even just a bit behind in your planning), here's what to do:
- Start at the main Disney Dining reservations webpage at http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/dining/. There's also an app for this!
When you're in last-minute mode, the key part of this page is the little box near the top that says "Location." The default here is "No preference," and that's what you should make as your selection — you want to see what ALL your choices are.
- After that, choose the date and your party size as well as the meal time you're interested in booking. To maximize your options, choose the broader "Dinner" (for example) rather than choosing a specific time (such as 6:00).
- After you've input your date/time/party size information, click "Search for a Table." The first time I did this during Christmas week, I have to admit that I held my breath for a second, really not expecting the system to come up with anything. I was pleasantly surprised that the first time out I was offered for my party of five nearly 30 different dinner choices at restaurants both in the Disney parks and in the resorts.Some of them were not ideal for us (e.g. Boatwrights when we had no car and were not staying at Port Orleans) and some were at off times (dinner at 4:00?). But many of the options were wonderful, including meals at 6:00 p.m. in our resort and even a character meal (Garden Grill) at the very reasonable 7:15 p.m.
Below are some screen shots of some of the 26 options offered to us for dinner on December 29. I ran this search at approximately 10:00 a.m. that morning, about eight hours in advance of when we wanted to eat.
When I changed the party size from five to four (my hubby had to attend to some work issues and might not be able to dine with us), ten more options opened up.
Running Some Experiments
I then became curious and started to experiment. What would happen if I wanted to eat table service with a large party on New Year's Eve? Even then, there were a couple of options.
Again, if I changed to a smaller party size, the options expanded.
Trying to put the system to the test once more, I searched for a character breakfast on New Year's Day and did come up with one option.
One particularly instructive thing about this experience was that we definitively learned which restaurants you absolutely DO need to book early. You'll notice that popular spots like Chef Mickey's, Cinderella's Royal Table, and Le Cellier were nowhere to be found on my last minute searching.
For further education, I ran a similar search (dinner, 5 people, search run at 10:00 a.m. on the day of dining) on a low-crowd day during the first week of January. Instead of the 28 restaurants offered on December 29, the choices expanded to 55 different dining experiences.
The 18 restaurants listed with no availability 10 hours in advance on a low-crowd day were: 1900 Park Fare, California Grill, Chef Mickey's Cinderella's Royal Table, Crystal Palace, Diamond Horseshoe (seasonal) , Fresh Mediterranean Market (Dolphin), Garden Grill, Hollywood & Vine, Brown Derby, Le Cellier, 'Ohana, Planet Hollywood, Sci-Fi Dine-In, Teppan Edo, Tomorrowland Terrace Cafe, and Tutto Italia, and Yak & Yeti. Interestingly, several of these (Garden Grill, Ohana, Yak & Yeti) were ones that had decent availability during a much busier week.
What We Learned
The moral of the story is, if there are very specific meals you absolutely must-do, make your reservations as far in advance as possible. However, if you're not in planner mode or are making a last-minute trip, you need not worry. For a hyper-planner like me, it was a true insight to learn that my family would not starve without meal reservations at Walt Disney World. In the future, I'll continue to be vigilant about making prompt reservations for my family's most favorite dining experiences. But for everything else, I may be waiting until much closer to travel time to see what we happen to be in the mood for.


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Unhatched eggs have been found in his "bachelor" pen in the Galapagos Islands, his keepers have said.
For decades, the last known Pinta island tortoise had shown little interest in reproducing. But at age 90, George is said to be in his sexual prime.
Galapagos tortoises were among the species Charles Darwin observed to formulate his theory of evolution in the 19th century.
Scientist have been trying to get George to mate since 1993, when they introduced two female tortoises of a different subspecies into his pen.
The Galapagos National Park said the five eggs found on Monday were "in perfect condition" and have been placed in an incubator.
"Now we have to wait for the incubation period of 120 days to find out whether they are fertile," it said in a statement.
The 198-pound George stunned conservationists last year by mating for the first time in the 36 years he has been in captivity. But the eggs laid by one of his female companions turned out to be infertile.
Tortoises were hunted for their meat by sailors and fishermen to the point of extinction, while their habitat has been eaten away by goats introduced from the mainland.
Some 20,000 giant tortoises still live on the Galapagos.


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When did blood purity replace cultural purity?
Posted May 08, 2013 in Indian Country Today
Anthropology has from the beginning been influenced and dominated by European males. They set the criteria of hierarchically ordered level descriptions, giving themselves the power to dictate the boundaries of group membership by defining race in terms of biology. As a consequence, the last Indian dies not by blunt force, expulsion or disease, but by the social construction of race imposed upon us— terminating our existence by blood.
Recently, my son Brian and his new wife, Emily, came to visit me in beautiful Montefalco, Italy. It gave me an opportunity to spend time with her and attempt cordial conversations about her background. Emily was born in the Dominican Republic (historically inhabited by the Taino), a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. It is also the site were Columbus landed in 1492, becoming the first permanent European settlement in the Americas. Emily, who has a master's degree in communications, will tell you she is descended from the island's first people, "Many people will say our society was made extinct by Columbus; or blood mixing." She continues, "America has no special technique for handling mixed races, perceptions of self and by others is less than human." The rest of history she says, "Is swept under the rug, and does not allow for discourse by those who believe Tiano blood still courses through our veins."
As the history of the world proves, false constructs give life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, a reason to define the power between individuals and groups of people, instead of intellectual understanding. During the Age of Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to reform society by using reason, faith and the science available during that time, drawing lines and boundaries to discriminate against people who appeared and acted different then themselves (left-over from theories of the earlier Catholic interpretation of Biblical continental positions and the knowledge that then existed of the peoples of their known world).
Their conclusions however, are still with us hundreds of years later.
Starting with the predominant colonial theory of race, The Great Chain of Being was the idea that human races could be lined up from most superior to most inferior. The Chain originates with God at the pinnacle, and progresses downward through angels, demons, stars, moon, kings (the summit of humanity's social order), princes, nobles, men, animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, metals, minerals, and then an arrangement of non-white people, with blacks at the bottom. There is no mention of Indians in the Chain because New World explorers had not yet encountered them; but upon meeting, Europeans considered them proto-human and not descendant from the original Biblical pair (Adam and Eve).
Swedish Botanist Carolus Linnaeus, "The Father of Taxonomy," in 1735 published Systemae Naturae, which formalized the distinctions among human populations based on race. Within Homo sapiens, Linnaeus proposed five taxa or categories first based on place of origin and later skin color. Linnaeus believed each race had certain endemic characteristics. His work is the first to mention Native Americans as choleric, or red, straightforward, eager, and combative as opposed to Europeans depicted as sanguine, pale, muscular, swift, clever and inventive. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, (1752-1840), a German anatomist, also classified humans into five categories or races, but added Malaysian/brown racial type to Linnaeus' original taxa.
Samuel George Morton, provided "scientific evidence" of Indian inferiority. In his 1839 study, Crania Americana, and concluded from collected statistical data that the brain size of Europeans was far greater than that of Native people and thus reflected a correspondingly greater intellectual capacity. Even anti-racist Franz Boaz, is now believed by many as having promoted Jewish interests. According to Herbert S. Lewis' The Passion of Franz Boas, published in "American Anthropologist" journal Volume 103, Issue 2, pages 447–467, June 2001, "Boas did great service at the start of this progression. His hand-waving and smoke-blowing was, as usual for Jews, used to obscure the Who/Whom – who was served by whom and at whose expense – behind a pretense that everyone benefited."
The article continues, "Anthropology, though a cryptically Eurocentric culture of critique, has pathologized and demonized and prevailed (at least in intellectual/academic circles) not only over "racist" Nordic champions such as Madison Grant, who was responsible for one of the most famous works of scientific racism (a.k.a. eugenics) and played an active role in crafting strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States, but of "Whites in general." Further, " These men, along with others, shifted the understanding of race from real, to insignificant, to imaginary, to the self-contradictory anti-White/anti-"racism" of today. Race is a construct of the evil White race, who used (and still uses) it to exploit and oppress all the other, innocent 'people of color.'"
"Mixed-raced" Indian populations, in particular, suffered the greatest racial assaults because there are no "full bloods" among them; providing the notion there are no more "real" Indians, especially groups living along the east coast, the Narragansett, Wampanoag, Pequot and others. They have all paid in blood; and were the first to suffer the brunt of European invasions so other Indian nations could stand. When did blood purity replace cultural purity?
Peter Burke, author of History and Social Theory, states, "Historians, like sociologists and anthropologists, used to assume that they dealt in facts, and that their texts reflected historical reality. However, this assumption has crumbled under the assaults of modern-day philosophers, whether or not they may be said to 'mirror' a broader, deeper change in mentality." Burke continues with, "Hence, it is necessary to consider the claim that historians and ethnographers are as much in the business of fiction as are novelists and poets; in other words, they too are producers of 'literary artifacts' according to rules of genre and style, whether they are conscious of the rules or not." Specifically, the ways in which, imperialism is embedded in the disciplines of knowledge and tradition as governments of truth.
In his work on The Location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha provides an alternative view, "What is theoretically innovative, and politically crucial, is the need to think beyond the narratives of originary and initial subjectivities to focus on those moments or processes that are produced in the articulation of cultural differences. These 'in-between' spaces provide the terrain for elaborating strategies of selfhood – singular or communal – that initiate new signs of identity, and innovative sights of collaboration, and contestation, in the act of defining the idea of society itself."
As people and places change so radically, and before any more vestiges of the past are gone, re-examination of archival materials, oral traditions, and ethnohistoric sources prove promising when looking at our subject from an "in-between" reality. History and social theory now converge, reappraising the relationship between the two and expanding discussions of topics in new directions. By no means should the voices of the people be silenced any longer; they demand a history written in their image. The combination of these sources, I believe, allows the best understanding of the nuances and complexities of Native life among mixed-raced Indians, and gives indigenous voice its greatest power, and best informs theoretical debates about cultural construction, maintenance and change.
Jalil Sued Badillo, an ethnohistorian at the University of Puerto Rico asserts, "The official Spanish historical record speak of the disappearance of the Taínos. Certainly there are no full-blood Taíno people alive today, but survivors had descendants and intermarried with other ethnic groups. Recent research notes a high percentage of mestizo ancestry among people in Puerto Rico and Dominica."
Frank Moya Pons, a Dominican historian, documented that Spanish colonists intermarried with Taíno women. Over time, some of their mestizo descendants intermarried with Africans, creating a tri-racial Creole culture. 1514 census records reveal that 40% of Spanish men in the Dominican Republic had Taíno wives. Ethnohistorian Lynne Guitar writes that Taíno were declared extinct in Spanish documents as early as the 16th century; however, individual Taíno Indians kept appearing in wills and legal records in the ensuing years (wikipedia.org).
Anthropologist and archaeologist Dr. Pedro J. Ferbel Azacarate writes that Taíno and Africans lived in isolated Maroon communities, evolving into a rural population with predominantly Taíno cultural influences, as they had the advantage of knowing the native habitat. Ferbel documents that even contemporary rural Dominicans retain Taíno linguistic features, agricultural practices, foodways, medicine, fishing practices, technology, architecture, oral history, and religious views. However, these cultural traits are often looked down upon by urbanites as being backwards. "It's surprising just how many Taino traditions, customs, and practices have been continued," says David Cintron, who wrote his graduate thesis on the Taíno revitalization movement. "We simply take for granted that these are Puerto Rican or Cuban practices and never realize that they are Taino" (Ferbel, Dr. P. J. "Not Everyone Who Speaks Spanish is from Spain: Taíno Survival in the 21st Century Dominican Republic." Kacike: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology. Retrieved on September 24, 2009.
So, when does the last Indian die? As traditions change over time, so do its people, from one generation to the next. A culture and its people must remain dynamic, honoring the sacred hoop, serving as an archetype in foundation myths, customs, language and culture, but rewriting history in our changing image for self-renewal/affirmation and perseverance, to insure that the last Indian never dies.
Sued-Badillo, in previous interviews and lectures resounds on the ideologically vibrant connection of this past with the present when talking about Tiano people, including its application to all mixed race Indians, "We do this as the Greeks of today and the Romans of today, hark back to the ancestral strengths of the Greeks and Romans of antiquity. … They may be completely different people, but ideological constructions are always built on the past. All peoples do this; it should not surprise us from among our own people" (TainoLegacies.com).
Julianne Jennings (Nottoway) is an anthropologist.


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A Saucy Millionaire Role Model for Serial Entrepreneurs Marcia Kilgore, creator of lifestyle and beauty brands, shares her fearless approach to business and life.
By Teri Evans
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
At first blush, Marcia Kilgore exudes the whimsy of a doe-eyed waif. Beneath the surface is a buckled-down businesswoman with a demanding yet optimistic nature. It would lead her to a trifecta as a serial entrepreneur, notably selling a majority stake of Bliss Spa to conglomerate LVMH for $30 million just three years after starting up.
Kilgore grew up in a working-class, suburban town of Outlook in Saskatchewan, Canada, and was "just like every other kid on the block" until her father died. She was 11. "It was so early, I think it brought on a greater sense of responsibility for myself," says Kilgore, now 43. By her teens, she was already exhibiting the tendencies of a serial entrepreneur, juggling three part-time jobs in high school. She ultimately moved to New York and worked as a personal trainer, but was embarrassed by her acne-prone skin. In her quest to fix her own problem, she launched Bliss Spa in New York in 1996, which grew into a chain of spas and a wildly popular product line.
After selling Bliss to LVMH in 1999, entrepreneurial restlessness would kick in. She moved to the U.K. and started a cosmetics company, Soap & Glory, in 2006. The following year, she launched FitFlop footwear. As if running multiple companies weren't enough, Kilgore also writes the marketing copy and dreams up product names for both brands, often with a precocious twist like Soap & Glory's 'Sexy Mother Pucker' lip gloss.
As Kilgore sits down for this interview with 'Trep Talk, her tone is both whimsical and wise. She shares views on why it's crucial to nip problems in the bud, get everything in writing and think twice before saying you're too busy. Edited interview excerpts follow.
Early signs of creativity: I remember making up a slogan for nail polish when I was about 9, while flipping through women's glossy magazine. I was hearing the phrase 'tickling the ivories,' and thinking of being tickled pink, and then thinking how you could call a nail polish 'tickled.'
Marketing influence: Dr. Seuss was the greatest and he had no boundaries, really. He was ahead of his time and so simple in a fun, unbridled way. He has affected me in the tales that he tells and the way I write [marketing] copy.
On tackling problems early: If you have an issue with a product and you manufacture it anyway, the problem will only become bigger. You may think that it'll be easier to just launch it, but remember you have to sell that product and if you know there's something wrong or slightly off, so does everybody else. If you don't have 100 percent confidence in your product, it's better to miss a deadline than to own 20,000 of something that isn't quite right.
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On dealing with rejection: You can't think of it as a rejection of yourself or self-worth, it could just be that your presentation is not right for that person at that time. Instead of hearing 'no,' listen to 'why not,' so you can hone your offer.
Startup tip: Get everything in writing, especially with business partners. When you're starting out, things can be quite friendly and exciting, but people's memory can change due to money. You can say, 'Hey, so we don't forget what the original deal was, and I have a bad memory, let's just write it down together.' Obviously, better to have a lawyer do it, but at least have some written recollection that you are partners, who's responsible for what, and how much money each of you put in. It seems basic, but people still don't put things in writing.
Favorite book: The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck. One of the book's lessons is when you go down one path, you are consciously forfeiting the other path -- and to be okay with that is really profound. I had an 'aha' moment when I realized that. I was always too busy, but it was really what I chose to do that made me not have time for other things. When most people complain that they couldn't do something, it's not that that they couldn't, they just decided to do something else instead.
I'm inspired by… musicians. There's something so incredibly passionate about being able to make great music. A handful of my favorites are the Beatles, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Ray La Montagne, Paolo Conte and Sam Cooke.
Go-to attitude adjuster: Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come.' You can hear the pain and the passion -- and also the hope. The tone is so pure.
On outwitting counterfeiters: After filing design and trademark patents, look at your pricing. Don't leave a gaping hole in your price structure that allows people to come in and drive a truck through that hole and take the market underneath you. If you have a competitive product, and counterfeiters can't bring the price down that much, they're less likely to go for it.
Three people I'd like to take a walk with: Winston Churchill, who was brilliant, funny, charismatic, and full of amazing one liners; the late French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre; and I.M. Pei, the architect who designed a controversial glass-and-steel pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris. He was able to take futuristic and modern [concepts] and integrate them into iconic ancient structures in a beautiful way -- and without fear of his critics.


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Data set contains daily records of precipitation on 10 raingauges at 10 sites on Konza Prairie. Two sites (020A and 002C; SE) have 7-day clocks (one revolution per week), 7 have 24-hour clocks (one revolution per day), and the Headquarters raingauge generates daily data and 15 minute data. The Headquarters raingauge generates data year round. The remaining rain gauges are operated from April 1 to October 31. Precipitation amounts are recorded in mm.


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OverviewLathes come in three different sizes. Small benchtop lathes excel at detail work below 1ft in length. Medium lathes are commonly used to turn spindles for chairs or railings. They operate best with workpieces of ~3ft in length. Large lathes go beyond the 3ft limit. The machines are industrial in nature. FeaturesRotating HeadstockA rotating headstock supports outboard turning. The head and motor turn away from the body of the lathe to allow the work piece to turn free of any obstructions. Index stopsIndex stops lock the spindle in place. They are primarily used to hold the workpiece steady while carving. Adding flutes to table legs is an example. Variable SpeedThe ability to change speeds is more important on a lathe than it is on most ofther woodworking machines. Lathes can spin a lot of mass. The rotation speed must be set lower for large work pieces. As the work piece gets smaller as it is being worked on, the lathe's rpms can can be increased to speed up the work. Most lathes use a fixed speed motor in combination with a pulley system to create different spindle speeds. The user has to move the drive belt from one pulley to another to change the speed of the lathe. Models with a variable speed motor can change speeds at the touch of a button. Shopping Guide1) Choose a sizeThe swing and distance between centers limits the size of the workpiece that can be mounted on the lathe. Choose model that supports the work you want to do. 2) Choose a motor sizeNext pick a motor that can rotate the workpiece at the speed your require. It takes very little power to rotate 2" chair spindle. A block of wood for a 12" bowl is a different matter. 3) Match the mass of the lathe to your workLathes are inheriently unstable due to the rotating mass that is the workpiece. If the workpiece is unbalanced, it will cause the lathe itself to vibrate. The weight of the lathe will dampen the vibration. If the lathe is not heavy eough and the unbalance severe, the lathe will start to walk across the room and posssibly tip. For large turnings, large lathes are a necessity. Smaller, benchtop lathes have a maxium workpiece size. If you exceed this size, the operation of the lathe becomes a safety risk. Smaller lathes can be made more stable by bolting them to the floor or by adding dead weight (sandbags, lead, ...). For bowl turning a lathe that supports outboard turning is recommended. This feature allows turning without being encumbered by the frame of the lathe. |


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When referring to Honduras you must make the reader understand that Honduras is the original Banana Republic, no exceptions. The country is now more so known for its crime, so the title must accordingly make a reference in some way to cocaine, gangs, violence or bananas. An ideal title would be: "Cocaine Gang Violence in the Banana Republic."
In order to attract ax-grinders and readers alike, you must mention the United States in your opening sentence, reference Venezuela without any context at least three times and devote one paragraph to the Cold War and the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. It would be wise to remind the audience that Central America is located South of the Border and forms part of what is collectively known as America's Backyard; a region which is a member of the Third World, a subsidiary of the First World. As far as the reader is concerned Honduras has only had one president: The plucky anti-hero of Mel Zelaya. Do not investigate or paint an authentic portrait of the man; the reader already expects either Che Guevara or Mussolini. Any historical perspective that examines events prior to his election must be ignored with contempt. Give the people what they want: do not in any way attempt to present a nuanced or alternative point of view.
Even though it's 2013 make sure to write about the cold war that is being waged between Capitalism and Communism with the Castros Bros. and Chavez's corpses in one corner, and the doe eyed Cinderella story of Honduran democracy in the other. Any internal narrative should be deliberately glossed over in order to leave the reader unchallenged and ignorant. Insensitive pop culture references should be used sparsely for greater impact. Another quick title suggestion would be: "Back to the Future and Back from the Dead: Banana Republic's Battle against Bolshevik Chavez from Hell."
Regarding the violence, mold its causes to whoever your audience is and what they expect. For critics of the United States blame the entire population for their drug thirst. For the economic crusaders blame poor people for their dogged desire to ruin the country. For cultural supremacists blame Latin American culture as a singular depraved self-destructive block. For class warriors blame the cabal of foreign and domestic business tyrants that rule over the oppressed fiefdom.
Limit your pictures to those of blood strewn over derelict pockmarked streets, or of black smoke and flaming wrecks. If covering a dynamic situation use instead interesting compositions such as small men with large guns, or sweaty human beings screaming. Otherwise a Caribbean sunset with a diagonally dipping palm tree and a silhouette of a gun will suffice. Coyly make passing references to long lost ruined cities in the deep, unforgiving jungle, and hint that if the course is left uncorrected Honduran civilization will go the way of the Mayan. Assume the role of a tropical Virgil walking the reader through the nine poorly designated circles of Honduras. Employ the voice of a defeated observer who empathizes with the victims, but only so far as to extend pity and doom. Leave the readers wanting more (Xanax).
Regarding immigration never ask why they left, only ask displaced individuals how much they enjoy their new host country. Regarding gangs make sure they are demonized to the point of being Nike wearing, glyph covered demons not worth bringing up except when discussing their forthcoming extrajudicial executions. Regarding foreigners they are benign miracle working expats, never immigrants so as to not offend their income bracket. The Organization of American States can simultaneously be a socialist tentacle, and an American apparatus for control. Another suggestion for a title would be "Venezuela Honduras Obama Violence Poverty: #bananarepublic"
If you are to include speaking parts for Hondurans in your piece make sure they are one dimensional husks, that although savory are also easy to digest. Some examples: The crooked cop, the poor farmer, the battered woman, the malnourished footballer and of course, the overwhelmed priest. The more salt of the earth these selected broken people come across as the better. Also make sure to include unflattering photographs that accentuate their desperation. On the off chance you meet Hondurans who want to change their country for the better be sure to heavily imply that at best they are Sisyphus and at worse they will die trying (and failing).
Try not to write on subjects that could potentially derail prejudice. These include success stories, anything that is not pertaining to Manuel Zelaya or violence, the regular everyday people who have good lives, the thousands of Hondurans trying to make their country a better place, the burgeoning cultural movement or anything that in anyway could be construed as positive. Words and references that should be blacklisted from the start include: dignity, happiness, and hope.
And finally describe the countryside as 'beautiful,' and preferably in allusions to the garden of Eden; the beaches as pure, virginal and untouched, merely waiting for muscular and forceful development. Describe the few urban centers as dirty, failed and apocalyptic, with insular pockets of porcelain towers filled with callous fatcats smoking 100$ bills. In general terms however, make sure to underline how primitive and hopeless the country and its people are. Another fine title would be: "DEATH DEATH DEATH."


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Debunked claims about COVID-19 vaccinations will be swiftly removed from Twitter starting next week, the company announced on Wednesday.
And moving into 2021, officials said, the company may start placing labels or warnings on messages containing "unsubstantiated rumors, disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out-of-context information about vaccines."
The forthcoming crackdowns come as countries around the world have begun delivering vaccine injections to health care workers and those most vulnerable to the disease. The new rules broaden Twitter's existing practices requiring the removal of tweets that it says "advance harmful false or misleading narratives about COVID-19 vaccinations," Twitter wrote in a blog post.
Among the posts that will be flagged are those making false conspiracy claims suggesting immunizations and vaccines are used as tools to control or harm the population at large. Others alleging that the global coronavirus pandemic is made up and those that are dismissive of the gravity of the virus will also be taken down.
Officials said Twitter will use a combination of technology and people who will be consulting with health experts around the world to enforce the changes on such posts.
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Collection and storage of personal data
We only collect personal data needed for lawful reasons in order for us to be able to deliver the hotel stay in a safe and legal way for both us and the guest.
As we only use personal data for the purposes mentioned in the point above we assume the guest gives consent by a clear affirmative action (entering their own personal data by themselves and confirming the reservation by pressing a button in the system).
For the reason above we never accept reservations by walk-in or by phone. We require all reservations to be made either directly in our reservation system on our website or through third-party booking channels (eg booking.com or Expedia).
We collect the following personal data: name, address, phone number, e-mail address, ID number/passport number and credit card data. We never collect personal data for accompanying children under 16.
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<p style='text-align: justify;'> Wooler's British Gazette, Manchester Observer, Saturday, November 17, 1821, new series 13. A newspaper initially formed by a group of radicals that included Joseph Johnson, John Knight, John Saxton and James Wroe; published in Manchester. In June 1821 the Manchester Observer ceased publication. It was revived in August, the same year, with the help of T.J. Wooler and became associated with (but not merged into) his exsiting London paper Wooler's British Gazette. </p>
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President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser hosted white nationalist Peter Brimelow at his home last weekend, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Brimelow, who is known for espousing anti-immigrant ideals and for his role in the white nationalist website VDare, attended Larry Kudlow's birthday party in Connecticut, Kudlow told The Post.
Kudlow said he'd known Brimelow "forever" but that "we would never have invited him" had he known about Brimelow's white nationalist ties, according to the paper.
Kudlow also told The Post that Brimelow's immigration beliefs are "a side of Peter that I don't know." "I totally, utterly disagree with that point of view and have my whole life. I'm a civil rights Republican," he said, according to The Post.
The Post noted that Kudlow's party took place a day after reports surfaced that Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie had left the White House following questions surrounding his attendance of a conference frequented by white nationalists.
Beattie previously confirmed to CNN's KFile that he had spoken at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, a small annual gathering that started in 2008 and is regularly attended by well-known white nationalists such as Richard Spencer. Brimelow was also listed as a speaker at the conference. Other speakers included regular contributors to VDare.
Brimelow told CNN on Tuesday that he has known Kudlow for "nearly 40 years."
"I regard him as a personal friend. They knew my first wife, who died, and were most kind to Lydia when I remarried. We agreed to disagree on immigration long ago," Brimelow said.
The Post reports that Brimelow does not call himself a white nationalist but had told the Harvard Crimson about the website VDare: "So I don't regard us as a 'white nationalist' site although we certainly publish a few writers I would regard as 'white nationalist' in that they stand up for whites just as Zionists, Black Nationalists do for Jews, Blacks etc."
Kudlow was asked by The Washington Post how he would explain the situation to Trump, to which he replied: "Just the way I explained it now, hiding nothing."


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Enjoy an evening of free presentations about recent discoveries in Ohio archaeology on Thursday, October 7 in Classroom 1 at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus. 7:00pm: Dr. Robert Riordan, Wright State University: The Moorehead Circle at Fort Ancient: preliminary results of the 2010 Wright State University Field School Excavations. What are the latest discoveries at the highly complex Moorehead Circle, a Hopewell ceremonial feature at the Fort Ancient Earthworks? Could these discoveries change the way we look at prehistoric architecture? 7:30pm Christine Keller, Ball State University: Glacial Kame Sandal Sole Shell Gorgets: An Exploration of Manufacture, Use, Distribution and Public Exhibition. The sandal sole shell gorget is one of the diagnostic artifacts of the Late Archaic Glacial Kame culture. This presentation focuses on recent research on sandal sole shell gorgets. What were the results of the research? Come and find out! 8:00pm Dr. Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc.: Excavations at the Rankin House State Memorial. In 2010 OVAI was contracted by OHS to conduct archaeological investigations in the lawn of this historic abolitionist residence. What they found was quite interesting indeed! 8:30pm Dr. Annette G. Ericksen, Hocking College: Results of the 2010 Fieldwork at Pickawillany, Miami County, Ohio. Pickawillany, a 1750's Miami Indian village and English trading post is the location of the first historically recorded conflict in what would become Ohio. What did the Hocking College students discover this year?
In addition to the talks, participants can try their hand at identifying artifacts from the Society collections at the "Whatzit?" table.
Come join us in the celebration! For additional information please contact Linda Pansing, Assistant Curator or Archaeology at [email protected] or 614-298-2061. Ohio Archaeology Month is an annual event coordinated by the Ohio Archaeological Council. The mission is to promote awareness of Ohios cultural heritage as revealed through nearly 200 years of archaeological research. A series of statewide educational events designed to highlight archaeological research throughout Ohio are planned. Detailed information on each event can be found on the Ohio Archaeological Councils website http://www.ohioarchaeology.org.
"Hide and Seek: Finding Young Ohioans in the Archives" is now on view at the Ohio History Center.


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An Evening of Music for Amelia
Saturday Apr 8 2017, 7:00 PM
@ St. Mary's Church, Towyn, North Wales, U.K
An Evening of Classical, Jazz and Hip-Hop to raise funds for Amelia - A little girl with spinabifida
Joey.G was born in London but moved to Nigeria at the age of two. He was raised by his grandma (Whom I pay tribute to in the track entitled "Testimony"). I got saved at the age of eleven, backslid for a while and re-dedicated my life to Christ just before I turned sixteen. In my backslidden days, I made music, dancing and partying a god. On going to church casually one day, I heard the preacher preach about the cross, talk about Jesus' suffering, how He was mocked, despised and rejected for my sake. The message hit my heart bulls-eye and challenged me about my backslidden state. I re-dedicated my life back to Christ and I haven't looked back since.
I came back to the U.K in 1992 to study. I did my 'A' Levels and went to University to study Banking, Insurance and Finance. During my time at university, I came across D.C.Talk and I got excited because the music was rap, the lyrics were clean and it was Christian. This inspired me to start listening to more Christian music and before long I was writing my own stuff. I have subsequently been influenced by Grits, Cross-Movement, T-Bone, Gospel Gangstaz, Tunnel Rats, k-J.52, John Reuben, Jahaziel, GreenJade and Pettidee.
Joey.G has 3 E.Ps and 2 albums under his belt and uses the gift of music to communicate the gospel in pubs, clubs, schools, universities, workshops, fun-days, festivals, evangelistic and mission outreaches, Newspapers, magazines, radio and T.V. Joey.G has performed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. His music is currently circling the globe and touching lives.
Joey.G currently lives in North Wales, United Kingdom, with his wife Sian, who features on two of the songs on the new album. They got married in 2010.


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Yamaha TRBX504 Electric Bass Guitar
Yamaha TRBX504 Electric Bass Guitar
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TRBX500 Series
Versatility, playability and serious tone.
TRBX Electronics
TRBX500 features controls for master volume, balance and 3-band EQ with active/passive switch for maximum flexibility.
YGD designed H5 pickups are defined by a clean, open tone that's perfectly matched with the flexibility of the active/passive preamp design. Their quad-polepiece design and alnico magnets give them the power to drive the active circuit and the sensitivity and subtlety to capture every nuance in passive mode.
Electronics (Active/Passive selecter, Battery Alert)
TRBX500 models feature an audiophile-grade active/passive circuit for fine tonal control and extreme flexibility. The advanced design offers a level-matched output whether in passive or active mode and tone-switching circuitry that seamlessly moves from treble control to master passive tone. High-quality gold plated parts are used for key signal chain contacts, providing increased conductivity and reliability and a battery alert LED installed on the back panel gives instant indication of low power to eliminate sudden power loss during performance.
TRBX features a sculpted solid mahogany body, with a mass-optimized 3D design for the optimum balance between tone and comfort coupled with perfect weight distribution.
TRBX's neck design combines a fast, ultra-comfortable profile with 5-pc maple/mahogany laminated construction for outstanding stability and excellent tone.
Neck Joint
TRBX uses a precision fitted bolt-on neck joint for maximum adjustability and clear, punchy tone. Developed through hundreds of hours of play-testing, the refined neck joint shape perfectly balances strength, vibration transfer and upper-fret access.
Straight string pull from nut to machine head eliminates lateral tension, providing superior tuning stability and reducing overtones.
38mm (4-string) or 43mm (5-string) nut widths give fast, comfortable playability for any style.
A high-mass die-cast bridge efficiently transfers string vibrations to the body for full, rich tone combined with excellent adjustability and road-tested durability. 18mm string spacing on the 5-string model offers outstanding playability for technical slap or finger styles.
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Yamaha's metal plate-mounted standard jack socket offers superior durability and easy maintenance.
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TRBX500 is all about tone. Premium mahogany construction and an ultra-music active/passive preamp design deliver the flexibility to sculpt the perfect sound for your music.
- Solid mahogany body construction
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Commander Jumpsuit
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Designs featured online are considered part of our current collection and are made-to-order in your choice of colors and sizes. These styles are manufactured with our large inventory of stock fabrics, allowing them to be produced quicker than custom costumes. Lead times vary through the year with demand. We will advise you of delivery time when quoting or ordering.
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Tuning for Multiple Values of Plant Parameters
This example shows how to use Control System Tuner to tune a control system when there are parameter variations in the plant. The control system used in this example is an active suspension of a quarter-car model. The example uses Control System Tuner to tune the system to meet performance objectives when parameters in the plant vary from their nominal values.
Quarter-Car Model and Active Suspension Control
A simple quarter-car model of an active suspension system is shown in Figure 1. The quarter-car model consists of two masses, a car chassis with mass and a wheel assembly of mass . There is a spring and damper between the masses, which models the passive spring and shock absorber. The tire between the wheel assembly and the road is modeled by the spring .
Active suspension introduces a force between the chassis and wheel assembly and allows the designer to balance driving objectives such as passenger comfort and road handling with the use of a feedback controller.
Figure 1: Quarter-car model of active suspension.
Control Architecture
The quarter-car model is implemented using Simscape. The following Simulink model contains the quarter-car model with active suspension, controller and actuator dynamics. Its inputs are road disturbance and the force for the active suspension. Its outputs are the suspension deflection and body acceleration. The controller uses these measurements to send a control signal to the actuator that creates the force for active suspension.
mdl = 'rct_suspension.slx';
Control Objectives
The example has the following three control objectives:
Good handling defined from road disturbance to suspension deflection.
User comfort defined from road disturbance to body acceleration.
Reasonable control bandwidth.
The nominal values of the spring constant and damper between the body and the wheel assembly are not exact and due to the imperfections in the materials, these values can be constant but different. Assess the impact on the system control using a variety of parameter values.
Model the road disturbance of magnitude seven centimeters and use a constant weight.
Wroad = ss(0.07);
Define the closed-loop target for handling from road disturbance to suspension deflection as
HandlingTarget = 0.044444 * tf([1/8 1],[1/80 1]);
Define the target for comfort from road disturbance to body acceleration.
ComfortTarget = 0.6667 * tf([1/0.45 1],[1/150 1]);
Limit the control bandwidth by the weight function from road disturbance to the control signal.
Wact = tf(0.1684*[1 500],[1 50]);
For more information on selecting the closed-loop targets and the weight function, see Robust Control of Active Suspension.
Controller Tuning
To open a Control System Tuner session for active suspension control, in the Simulink model, Double click to the orange block. Tuned block is set to the second order Controller and three tuning goals are defined to achieve the handling, comfort and control bandwidth as described above. In order to see the performance of the tuning, the step responses from road disturbance to suspension deflection, the body acceleration and the control force are plotted.
Handling, comfort, and control bandwidth goals are defined as gain limits, HandlingTarget/Wroad
, ComfortTarget/Wroad
and Wact/Wroad
. All gain functions are divided by Wroad
to incorporate the road disturbance.
The open-loop system with zero controller violates the handling goal and results in highly oscillatory behavior for both suspension deflection and body acceleration with long settling time.
Figure 2: Control System Tuner with Session File.
To tune the controller using Control System Tuner, on the Tuning tab, click Tune. As shown in Figure 3, this design satisfies the tuning goals and the responses are less oscillatory and converges quickly to zero.
Figure 3: Control System Tuner after tuning.
Controller Tuning for Multiple Parameter Values
Now, try to tune the controller for multiple parameter values. The default value for car chassis of mass is 300 kg. Vary the mass to 100 kg, 200 kg and 300 kg for different operation conditions.
In order to vary these parameters in Control System Tuner, on the Control System tab, under Parameter Variations, select Select parameters to Vary. Define the parameters in the dialog that opens.
Figure 4: Defining parameter variations.
On the Parameter Variations tab, click Manage Parameters. In the Select model variables dialog box, select Mb
Figure 5: Select a parameter to vary from the model.
Now, the parameter Mb
is added with default values in the parameter variations table.
Figure 6: Parameter variations table with default values.
To generate variations quickly, click Generate Values. In the Generate Parameter Values dialog box, define values 100, 200, 300 for Mb
, and click Overwrite
Figure 7: Generate values window.
All values are populated in the parameter variations table. To set the parameter variations to Control System Tuner, click Apply.
Figure 8: Parameter variations table with updated values.
Multiple lines appear in the tuning goal and response plots due to the varying parameters. The controller obtained for these nominal parameter values results in an unstable closed-loop system.
Figure 9: Control System Tuner with multiple parameter variations.
Tune the controller to satisfy the handling, comfort, and control bandwidth objectives by clicking Tune in Tuning tab. The tuning algorithm tries to satisfy these objectives for the nominal parameters and for all parameter variations. This is a challenging task in contrast to nominal design as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10: Control System Tuner with multiple parameter variations (Tuned).
Control System Tuner tunes the controller parameters for the linearized control system. To examine the performance of the tuned parameters on the Simulink model, update the controller in the Simulink model by clicking Update Blocks on the Control System tab.
Simulate the model for each of the parameter variations. Then, using the Simulation Data Inspector, examine the results for all simulations. The results are shown in Figure 11. For all three parameter variations, the controller tries to minimize the suspension deflection and body acceleration with minimal control effort.
Figure 11: Controller performance on the Simulink model.


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With all the emphasis on back to school, Shout wants to encourage families to play hard and get dirty as well! The "Go Play" initiative promotes the benefits of play and offers families ideas for having fun outdoors.
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The Year in Review
Another twelve months have whizzed by, and we are already on the threshold of a new year. As we look back at 2014, it was a year where ButterflyCircle members made more trips beyond the shores of our little Red Dot than in previous years. Exploring further afield in the past years also paid good dividends when Dr Laurence Kirton needed field shots of live butterflies from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand for his new book.
In this final blog article for 2014, we share some of the key events that ButterflyCircle members were part of, and news-worthy snippets of our winged jewels in Singapore (and also a few stories from the region). It was another eventful year for discoveries and re-discoveries on the Singapore butterfly scene as some new species made their appearance for the first time here. Undoubtedly, these may be seasonal or accidental migrants, but with clear evidence of the sightings of these species, we have included them in the Singapore checklist.
All in all, we posted a total of 132 entries on this blog, with articles ranging from new finds, butterfly attracting plants, events, and other butterfly news from Singapore. Though not as many articles as our bumper year in 2013, where we logged a total of 188 posts, 2014 was an awesome year nevertheless.
Our forums continued to remain active, as a platform for serious discussion as well as learning the finer points of butterfly identification from our resident guru, Dr TL Seow, who deserves more than a few kudos for his sharp eye for detail and also responsible for adding quite a number of 'lifers' to ButterflyCircle members' photographic tally.
With the FaceBook 'Butterflies of Singapore' (which should notably be known better as 'butterflies without borders') group very active, the reputation of Singapore's butterfly photographers has spread regionally and well beyond our little island in the sun. With a total membership of over 4,750, the FB group has a following of members from all around the world. Not bad for a group that specialises only in the sharing of photos and information about butterflies!
Our regular feature articles series, the Butterfly of the Month, is now into its seventh year and going strong, with a total of 86 butterfly species featured every month from Dec 2007 to Dec 2014. Each article features multiple butterfly photos from the excellent portfolio of ButterflyCircle members.
Horace Tan, our life history expert, continued with his peerless detailed documentation of the early stages of Singapore's butterfly species. In 2014, Horace's butterfly life histories series delivered a total of 22 full documentation from egg to adult with amazing detail - a testimony to his exceptional patience and determination to capture the early stages of butterflies.
ButterflyCircle member Mark Wong with HKLS members in Chiangmai, Thailand
We started the year with a short travelogue by ButterflyCircle member Mark Wong, who joined a team of Hong Kong butterfly shooters in Chiangmai, Thailand. Mark shared his adventures in Chiangmai and the surrounding areas that were rich in butterfly biodiversity. This sparked off several other 'expeditions' to Chiangmai by ButterflyCircle members in Apr/May, Oct and Nov/Dec this year to capture the awesome beauty and biodiversity of Thailand's butterfly fauna.
ButterflyCircle members in action - Thailand 2014. At Chiang Dao and Doi Pha Hom Pok
Our members' forays into Thailand yielded so many excellent butterfly photos from the northern Thailand region that would fill a good coffee table book! Amongst some of the notable species encountered are featured here - showing the diversity of species and subspecies just a couple of hours' flight time from Singapore!
Butterfly species from beyond the Red Dot
ButterflyCircle members also made trips up to Malaysia - Gopeng, Lata Kinjang, Kuala Woh, Gua Tempurung and Penang to get our fill of 'capturing' more species on our cameras' sensors and enjoying the beauty of butterflies in our Southeast Asian region. It is likely that in the coming years, we will be taking our hobby to more exotic locations, like our friends from Hong Kong.
In terms of new discoveries in Singapore, we recorded a total of nine species added to the Singapore Checklist. The record now stands at 317 species for Singapore, with the documentation and maintenance of the Singapore Checklist starting from 1990. The new additions to Singapore for 2014 are :
- Barred LineBlue (Prosotas aluta nanda)
- Striped Jay (Graphium bathycles bathycloides)
- Great Jay (Graphium euryplus mecisteus)
- Red Helen (Papilio helenus helenus)
- Lesser Albatross (Appias paulina distanti)
- Malaysian Albatross (Saletara panda distanti)
- Red Spot Sawtooth (Prioneris philonome themana)
- Grey Glassy Tiger (Ideopsis juventa sitah)
- Malayan Nawab (Polyura moori moori)
Two recent visitors in 2014 - Plain Lacewing (top) and Yellow Glassy Tiger (bottom)
A number of other Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae are under investigation and validation and will be added to the Singapore checklist in due course. During the year, we also recorded two species that are probably migratory but appears in Singapore once in a while. These were the Plain Lacewing (made an appearance in the Central Catchment area and several individuals were seen for a period of about a month) and the Yellow Glassy Tiger (which was photographed at Bay East of Gardens by the Bay)
ButterflyCircle members with author Dr Laurence Kirton at the launch of his book at Gardens by the Bay
April was an eventful month when Dr Laurence G Kirton launched his book, A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand on 24 Apr at Gardens by the Bay. It was the first attempt by any author in the region to write a book about butterflies covering three countries of Southeast Asia. Though the book featuring about 280 species is just an appetiser to the large number of species in these three countries, it is a good introduction to the rich biodiversity of the region. ButterflyCircle members contributed about 75% of the photographs in Dr Kirton's book.
ButterflyCircle members with CEO/NParks and MOS Desmond Lee at the Festival of Biodiversity 2014
Our youngest ButterflyCircle member, Brian Goh, sharing his knowledge about butterflies with a visitor to our booth at Festival of Biodiversity 2014.
ButterflyCircle participated in the 3rd Festival of Biodiversity at VivoCity. Having been involved in the first two festivals, the 3rd instalment of this annual event proved to be even bigger and ButterflyCircle had a dedicated booth to feature our members' work and to promote the group. Special thanks to all our regulars who contributed their time and effort to volunteer at the FOB 2014 and to the National Parks Board for inviting us to the FOB 2014.
Two butterflies whose English common names have been updated
In an effort to standardise the English Common Names of butterflies in Southeast Asia, we also wrote several articles on this blog to rationalise the adoption (or otherwise) of current common names and propose some new ones. In our hobbyist and amateur world of trying to appreciate butterflies, it is often easier to coin common names than to use the tongue-twisting scientific names. However, the use of common names often run into problems when different countries' butterfly enthusiasts come up with new names for similar species. This will be an ongoing attempt to try to at least standardise the common names across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
ButterflyCircle members with PM Lee at Butterfly Hill, Pulau Ubin
November was an exciting month for Pulau Ubin, a small offshore island of Singapore which is a hotbed of biodiversity, and where nature groups are working with the government to conserve as much of the island's natural heritage. ButterflyCircle was one of the groups featured and where our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made a special stop at Butterfly Hill to enjoy our fluttering beauties with us.
Favourite Nectaring Plants for Butterflies
We also continued with our series of Butterflies' Favourite Nectaring Plants with two new additions for 2014. We featured Bandicoot Berry (Leea indica) and Red Tree Shrub (Leea rubra), as ideal plants which should be cultivated to attract butterflies (and birds) to our parks and gardens.
Happier times at Ye Olde Smokehouse, Fraser's Hill. Irene and Sunny Chir on the extreme right
In ending this eventful year for ButterflyCircle and our very supportive members, I would like to pen a few words in memory of the late Irene Khoo, the wonderful wife of one of our senior members, Sunny Chir. We had many memorable outings with Irene, who was a great supporter of our group and was a excellent cook for us hungry butterfly photographers during our overseas trips. We miss Irene, and know that she is now in a much better place, watching over us and our butterflies...
A group of puddling Lamproptera (Dragontails) at Chiang Dao, Thailand
We look forward to 2015 and even more stories about our beloved flying jewels in the year ahead.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers, near and far, a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Text by Khew SK : Photos by Sunny Chir, Chng CK, Jerome Chua, Antonio Giudici, Federick Ho, Sebastian Ho, Khew SK, Loke PF, Clayton Low, Jonathan Soong, Tan Ben Jin, Horace Tan, Tea Yi Kai, Wong Chung Cheong and Mark Wong


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Game Design by George Haines' 4th Grade Class
By George Haines
A group of 4th grade students were asked to design and create a level for a video game with clear objectives, challenges, and strategies, then had game designers review their submissions. The VoiceThread served as a platform through which the students could describe their work and designers could give constructive feedback.
Students designed a level using several components:
- different types of blocks (as obstacles or design elements)
- coins
- "star blocks" for goals
- a time component
- enemy NPCs (non-player-characters) to defeat or avoid
Students took a screenshot of their design, which was uploaded to a VoiceThread slide, then recorded their description using the Doodler tool for annotation. The VoiceThread was shared with game designers, who provided thorough feedback and critique of each submitted level design.


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The Royal Family is currently reviewing the use of the term "royal" in connection with the "more progressive" and less visible role in the family Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, plan to take in the coming months, according to CNN and Reuters.
CNN reports that the couple will "likely" be unable to use the term as part of marketing.
"As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are stepping back as senior members of the royal family and will work towards financial independence, use of the word 'royal', in this context, needed to be reviewed," a royal source told Reuters.
In January, the couple announced they would be taking a step back as "senior" members of the British royal family and hoped to become more financially independent from the Crown. However, the couple filed for a trademark in the UK for the term "Sussex Royal." The trademark covered the term in instances printed matter, clothing, campaigning, charitable fundraising, education and social care services.
The couple also launched an Instagram page and website under the same name as part of their announcement.
According to CNN, the couple has already agreed to stop using the terms "His and Her royal highness" and has already agreed to forego some state funding.
Reuters reports that Harry will keep his title as "Prince," and that the couple will keep the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.


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"Lord, if you allowed this to happen, it's because you will give me something better." These were the words that Rosalva expressed when she saw her home torn apart by an earthquake that hit the town of San Lorenzo, in the department of Ahuachapan, about 100 km west of the capital city San Salvador, in El Salvador.
Earlier that day, at about 1 in the morning, the town had felt a tremor. Then, at 11 a.m. of the same day, a 4.6 earthquake hit the area; this is like detonating 1,000 tons of TNT.
Rosalva worked as a baby sitter on the other side of the town, and as soon as she could, she ran home, only to see a big hole in the roof, since most of the tiles had fallen off because of the magnitude of the quake. The walls, made of adobe (a mix of clay and straw), had cracks all over, and the danger of them falling apart was evident.
Thanks to God, her family was okay, but the damages to the house were irreversible. "All four corners of my house were completely separated" says Rosalva, trying to describe how her home, a small, one-room house, had cracks so big that the corners were not together anymore.
Civil Protection, the government agency designated to evaluate damages in these situations, reported that 90 percent of the houses in the area suffered damages, and about 70 of the 200 houses of the town were declared uninhabitable.
Rosalva lived with her parents, her husband, her two children and her niece. Suddenly, all her family had to sleep in the street because the earth kept shaking, and being inside the house was too dangerous.
According to the Seismology Investigation Department of El Salvador, what occurred in the town of San Lorenzo was labeled a seismic cluster, which indicates a series of quakes centralized on an area. This particular seismic cluster lasted from December 19, 2006, until the middle of January 2007.
According to El Diario de Hoy, one of the main newspapers in El Salvador, in just three days, there were over 800 earth movements reported, even though the magnitude and frequency of those kept descending.
"I asked my pastor if I could go to the temporary shelter at the local school, and he said it was okay," says Luz, Rosalva's mother and caregiver of Yaquelin, Rosalva's niece.
"So I took my children there [the shelter] and the earth kept moving, and so did they [the church staff]… my brothers and sisters did not stop, the Lord gave them the strength to keep moving" adds Luz, taking pride in being part of such a lovely church, where everybody takes care of each other in troubled times.
"The angel of the Lord stays close around those who fear Him, and He takes them out of trouble" says Luz, convinced that she trusts a powerful God.
In fact, she trusted God, as did her daughter Rosalva and her granddaughters, Yaquelin and Laura. God answered their needs, and the Church and Compassion were the tools to deliver His blessings.
"We contacted the director and told her to raise a census of all the families with children registered at the child development center who needed assistance" says Omar, Partnership Facilitator for Compassion El Salvador.
"Then, we proceeded to make a physical inspection of the damages, so we went to San Lorenzo and made home visits and took pictures to make a Complementary Intervention (CIV) request to help those families" he adds.
Complementary Interventions is a tool used to provide additional assistance to the families of the children registered in the Compassion programs, since the money received from sponsors are strictly designated to provide each child with the four main components of the program: spiritual development, health preventive and corrective measures, school reinforcement, and socio-emotional development.
Through CIV funding, the children and the church partners can receive additional help, such as construction of houses, which is the case for the Shaddai Student Center.
When the staff from Compassion went to San Lorenzo, they took a tour with Brother Omar, the pastor. Brother Omar did not have the usual look of a pastor, with a tie and suit. He had a sweaty T-shirt and a baseball cap, and his black shoes were not black anymore, they were a mix of mud brown and green. And it's because the pastor along with the rest of the church members were already helping.
A proposal for disaster relief was sent, and two months later, it was approved and the child development center received a total of $27,245, to benefit 29 children and their families affected by the earthquake.
The proposal included a local contribution of $3,100, which was the cost of labor. The families of the children committed to work in the construction of the houses to save the $3,000 needed. Brother Omar kept the muddy shoes on, as well as all the student center staff, and helped the families to reconstruct their homes.
"Some months before we had the blessing from God to get a little piece of land" says Rosalva. But they did not have enough money to build a house and move out of her mother's house. After the earthquake, Rosalva had the blessing of having her own house built on that land, and her mother Luz Maria also had her house rebuilt.
Since the local government promised to provide the affected families with aluminum sheets and plastic to build provisional shelters, the disaster relief from Compassion was used to build cement walls, and the materials provided by the government were used for roofs. The money was not enough to put in floors, so the houses had dust floors.
Laura and Yaquelin were two of the children who kept receiving blessings from the Lord, through their sponsors. Laura and Yaquelin received family gifts from their sponsors, which was enough to put tile floors to both houses. Laura also got a bed, and Yaquelin got a bike as well.
They are two of the 186 children assisted at the Shaddai Student Center.
Yaquelin and Laura have not forgotten the fear they felt, but now they are two happy cousins with big dreams in their hearts. Most likely, one of them runs to the other's house and they go to the child development center together.
Laura's mother, Rosalva, now works at the Compassion child development center, giving school reinforcement to the children, and helping them with their homework. A total a 31 children and their families were assisted. These families trusted God, stayed close to Him, and he took them out of trouble.