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Bangladesh's plastic goods export to the United States rose by 4% to US$3.82m in the first 10 months of the current financial year compared to $2.75m for the same period of 2012-13, despite suspension of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP).
After the suspension of the trade preference, the experts had feared that the export earnings from the plastic goods might see a downtrend as Bangladesh plastic goods used to get access to the US market under the GSP trade benefits.
Export earnings from the plastic sector would be much more, if we could have enjoyed the GSP facilities in the US markets, Md Jashim Uddin, president of Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA), told the Dhaka Tribune.
"American buyers are very keen to buy Bangladeshi plastic products but we've lost our competitiveness because of the imposed import duty on our products soon after we had lost the GSP facilities," said Jashim.
If the government can restore GSP through fulfillment of the conditions set by the US government, it would help us to grab the markets, he added.
Meanwhile, political unrest had cast negative impact on the export earnings as the buyers were unwilling to place their orders fearing delayed shipments from the country.
"Since the political turmoil caused financial losses, we have urged the government to offer us cash incentives along with reduction of advance income tax to 0.30% as like as the RMG sector," said Jashim.
To reduce dependency on certain markets, the sectoral people are now focusing on Asian countries, especially, on China and India because of its huge population.
In the current fiscal, Bangladesh plastic products stepped into the 22 new markets including Angola, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Hungary, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mongolia, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Yemen with its high quality products at a reasonable price.
The country's total export earnings from the plastic sector marked a 3.18% fall to $68m in July-April period of 2013-14 due to slow down in the economy of the European
Countries. In July-April of 2012-13, Bangladesh had earned $70m from plastic sector.
Jashim, also vice chairman of Bengal Group, a leading plastic manufacturer said: Total export value of the sector declined due to slowdown in the economy of European Union country as they are also the major buyers of Bangladeshi plastic products.
Among plastic products, PVC bag registered 16.6% rise to $31m, while plastic waste earnings declined by 29.6% to $23m and other products rose by 30% to $13m.
Report: Ibrahim Hossain Ovi
Source: Dhaka Tribune


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A Shot A Day – 2017 (06/11/2017)
"Running The Rocks"
Just before you reach Sol Duc Falls, in Olympic National Park, there is this quite lovely stream and these smaller falls, which I found quite picturesque.
BODY: Canon EOS 5DS R
LENS: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
NiSi 180mm Filter Holder (For Canon 11-24 Lens),
NiSi 82mm Adapter for Canon 24-70mm Lens 180mm, Filter Holder
NiSi Polarizing Filter 180x180mm
EXPO: ISO 100, 6′ @ f/16 – 27mm
I have a special place in my heart for long exposure images, especially those of waterfalls. I like how the movement becomes very ethereal in nature. This scene just begged for a long exposure approach.
Framing was really about working the water line across the diagonal as much as possible. Worked my way through some different times before I finally settled on an exposure time I was happy with.
A Shot A Day - 2017 - Countdown...

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How did you do with drawing an object last week?
I finished only one of my trees, but I'm working on two others.
Just like all the other doodles and drawings, they'll be in progress for awhile. I'll post some updates now and then.
My Cowboy bought me a new sketch book! It's 12″ x 18″. I'm planning to do my fourth tree drawing in this one.
This week — more color! This week we're going to:
You get to choose the size of your drawing, the colors you use, and your subject matter. The only rule is to use only crayons to make your drawing. It'll be fun!
This is a great one to do with your kids, too — I felt like a kid again — there's just something about the smell of crayons, isn't there?
Since I could hardly wait to use my new sketchbook, I just started right in with my drawing!
I'm basically doodling with the black crayon, then filling in with the colors. It goes fast, and I'm anxious to find time to add more to it!
Have fun with your crayons this week!
I really like your tree! I've got three of my object done, but mine are pretty small and simple. I was surprised at how difficult this was for me. And crayons! I have a whole brand new box just waiting for me. Yippee!!
Woohoo, crayons!! And to think, I nearly threw out all of ours.
I finished three of last week's illustrations and will get them up today. I am still stewing about my idea for the fourth. It won't really be hard but will take time to do…time I am not sure I have. My new tables are coming home today (11 feet of flat work space–can you imagine?), so i'll be trying to make room for those. Bins, mats, and lights are on their way too. 🙂
But crayons? I can do that.
p.s. Your Cowboy gets bonus stars for the big sketch book!
I've finally posted my crayon drawing. Even thought I'm not good a drawing. Have a great day!


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Low fat Banana Bread
Member recipe by caroline93
ServingsServes 1 - 1 Loave
Moist, low fat and delicious hope you love it as much as I do!!
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- 150g caster sugar
- 50g softened butter
- 2 eggs
- 4 tablespoons water
- 3 very ripe mashed bananas
- 200g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/4 of a teaspoon baking powder
- Preheat oven to 180 c/ gas mark 4 and line a loaf tin of baking paper
- In a medium bowl beat sugar and butter till smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs, water and bananas with the sugar mixture until well blended
- Mix in the flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder just until the mixture is moistened. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl to blend all ingredients
- Bake till the top is firm to the touch and golden brown in colour. When bread is removed from the oven, allow to cool on its side for 10 minutes, then remove from tin and let cool on wire rack
- Enjoy!!
Comments, questions and tips
19th Feb, 2018
I made this yesterday with my left over bananas and it is delicious. I added some vanilla essence and accidentally used Demerara sugar but it turned out lovely. Cooked it for 35 minutes. Also sprinkled some pecan nuts on the top too, yum. I definitely recommend this and I will certainly make it again, thank you soooo much!
10th Jan, 2016
I made this yesterday, very simple to make, was tempted to add raisins, but was trying to keep it low calorie as poss. Used a 2lb loaf tin. Perfectly baked after 55 mins. The smell as its cooking is wonderful. Tasted good and my 3yr old enjoyed it too. For a rough guide to the calorie conscious of you, the total weight of the loaf after baking was 800g, which worked out as 272cal per 100g, that was using 3 large bananas.
15th Aug, 2015
Just tried this recipe today. Carolz, you are seriously going to damage my new healthy diet! Absolutely delicious. Husband just back from the football match has just devoured two huge slices.....there goes his resolution! This all started with my two black bananas and time on my hands...did make a couple of tweaks. Used Dark Brown soft unrefined sugar, Self raising flour, and added a small handful of broken walnut pieces. In my oven cooked at 180 for 40 minutes and it came out PERFECT! Thanks a lot. Can't believe you just "slosh" it all in together and out it comes at the other end..magic. Makes a nice change from all that gentle folding etc.
6th Apr, 2015
I've been wanting to try and make a banana loaf for years but bananas never last in my house...until today that is. 4 about to be binned so I decided to look online for a recipe for a low calorie one due to being on Slimming World. It was soooo easy to make and it has turned out perfectly, so moist and tasty. I love it. Thank you! I don't suppose anyone knows how many Syns is in a slice?
30th Aug, 2014
I am not a gifted baker. In fact my baking almost never goes right. I have tried various recipes for banana bread before and this came out the best. Thanks for posting such a delicious and simple recipe. Ps i used self raising flour. Is there any difference between using this or using the plain flour + baking powder as suggested in the recipe?


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6 times higher risk of heart attack in the week after flu diagnosis
The risk of having an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is sixfold higher within the week after laboratory-confirmed influenza infection, reveals a study.
"Our findings are important because an association between influenza and AMI reinforces the importance of vaccination," said lead author Dr Jeffrey Kwong of the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Science in Toronto, Canada.
The self-controlled case-series study involved 332 patients (median age 77 years) hospitalized for AMI within the 1-year period before or after a positive laboratory test result for influenza. Hospitalization episodes were categorized into those occurring within the "risk interval" if they fell within the first 7 days after respiratory specimen collection, or within the "control interval" if they occurred within the 1 year before or after the risk interval. [N Engl J Med 2018;378:345-353]
A higher rate of AMI hospitalization occurred during the 7 days after laboratory-confirmed influenza infection compared with during the control interval (20 vs 3.3 admissions/week).
This corresponds to a six times greater incidence ratio of AMI hospitalization during the risk interval than the control interval (6.05, 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 3.86–9.50). The risk of AMI was particularly high in the period immediately after influenza diagnosis, with an incidence ratio of 6.30 (95 percent CI, 3.25–12.22) for days 1 through 3 and 5.78 (95 percent CI, 3.17–10.53) for days 4 through 7.
There was no increase in AMI incidence after day 7 of influenza detection (incidence ratios, 0.60 and 0.75 for days 8–14 and days 15–28, respectively).
"The risk of acute MI is greatest in the week after the detection of influenza … After that first week, [the risk] does seem to go back down to baseline," observed Kwong.
Subgroup analyses showed that AMI incidence increased after influenza infection among adults aged >65 years vs ≤65 years (incidence ratios, 7.31 vs 2.38; p-interaction=0.14) and among those with first hospitalization for AMI vs with prior AMI history (6.93 vs 3.53; p-interaction=0.29), although no significant differences were observed between subgroups.
Also, AMI incidence was higher within 7 days of detection of influenza B compared with influenza A (incidence ratios, 10.11 vs 5.17; p-interaction=0.19), but the difference was not significant. Alternative exposures to respiratory syncytial virus (incidence ratio, 3.51) and other respiratory viruses (incidence ratio, 2.77) were also associated with a higher AMI incidence although the incidence ratios were lower than for influenza infection.
"Our findings, combined with previous evidence that influenza vaccination reduces cardiovascular events and mortality, support international guidelines that advocate for influenza immunization in those at high risk of a heart attack … [such as] persons older than 65 years," said Kwong. "People at risk of heart disease should take precautions to prevent respiratory infections, and especially influenza, through measures including vaccinations and handwashing."
Other strategies to minimize the risk of cardiovascular events associated with respiratory infections include promoting infection prevention practices such as respiratory etiquette and social distancing, added Kwong and co-authors.
"In the context of chronic atherosclerotic vascular disease, an infectious illness may cause an acute coronary syndrome through acute inflammation, biomechanical stress, and vasoconstriction," proposed the researchers on the possible mechanisms underlying the association.
Meanwhile, as the results are based on laboratory-confirmed respiratory infections (indicative of sufficient severity to call for a laboratory testing), the researchers cautioned against generalizing the findings to milder infections which usually do not require testing for respiratory viruses.


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In all seventeen sites were identified, assessed and evaluated. All sites identified are outside a Settlement Boundary and in the countryside.
- Table of All Sites Identified and Assessed (amended Sep 2017)
- Table of All Site Identified and Assessed (2016)
- Site Options and Assessment – AECOM (15 Aug 2016)
- Opinion on Site Options and Assessment Report – Colin Smith Planning (05 Sep 2016)
- i1 – Land to the North of Little Springfield Farm, Plaistow Road, Ifold [N.B. For the avoidance of doubt: This site, identified as 'Land to the North of Little Springfield Farm', is not Little Springfield Farm itself, nor does it relate to the Little Springfield Farm Brownfield]
- i2: Brownfield – Little Springfield Farm, Plaistow Road, Ifold
- i3 – Strudgwick Farm, Plaistow Road, Ifold
- i4 – Land adjacent to Peacocks, Plaistow Road, Loxwood Parish
- i5 – Barn Wood (Ancient Woodland), Hogwood Road, Ifold
- P1a – Land opposite the Green, Common House Road, Plaistow [PROPOSED SITE]
- P1b – Land adjacent to Common House, Plaistow
- P2 – Old Barkfold Orchard, The Street, Plaistow
- P3 – Todhurst, The Street, Plaistow
- P4 – Infill between The Dairy and Edmund's Hill Cottage, The Street, Plaistow [N.B. This site is different to the site: P8 – Land adjacent to The Dairy.]
- P5 & P6 combined – P5. Bush House (formerly known as Clements) –and- P6. Land between Bush House and Oaklands Lodge, Rickmans Lane, Plaistow
- P7: Foxbridge Golf Course, Foxbridge Lane, Plaistow
- P8 – Land adjacent to The Dairy, The Street, Plaistow
- P9 – Land adjacent to Lyons Green, Dunsfold Road, Plaistow
- P10 – Sycamore Cottages, Rickmans Lane, Plaistow
- D1 – Shortlands, Shortlands Copse, Durfold Wood


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I thought I would celebrate Mother's Day with a beautiful tribute from the very talented Jay Brannan. Back in 2008, Jay uploaded this clip of "Good Mother", the amazing song written and first performed by Canadian singer/songwriter Jann Arden. The song has such a poignant and touching sound in Brannan's care. Of course, it is hard to imagine what song would not sound great when sung by Jay. But for now, and for all the mother's out there, this is Jay Brannan singing "Good Mother".
You can find "Good Mother" on Jay's 2010 release, 'In Living Cover'. You can purchase the album or the song from iTunes and Amazon. To learn more about Jay Brannan on his official website. You can also 'follow' him on Twitter, and 'like' him on Facebook. You can also visit Jay's online Store.


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The American Red Cross has set up two locations for those affected by Saturday's storm: one at the First Methodist Church Life Center in Canton and a second at the Emory City Center in Emory.
"This is a traumatic event, and being able to be here and hear their stories and to offer them a drink and a warm blanket…it means the world to somebody who just lost everything," said Clark Elerson, with the American Red Cross.
Patrick Watson was at the Canton shelter location on Sunday. He told NBC 5 that he has been without power since Saturday afternoon.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"We realize that our food that we do have is fixing to spoil, so we don't have any food," Watson said.
He was just one of the people seeking help at the shelter after the storm.
"It means a great deal to me, because it gives us somewhere to go and it gives us hope. It gives us an awful lot of hope…" he said.
Red Cross Shelter Locations
First Methodist Church Life Center
600 South Buffalo, Canton
Emory City Center
735 North Texas St., Emory
People can report a lost or found animal using the Facebook page of Nicholas Pet Haven. The shelter was set up at the Home Store located at 1190 S Trade Days Boulevard, in Canton.
Where to Drop Off Supplies
Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked for all donations of water and other supplies to be dropped off at the Canton Fire Department substation at 600 Industrial Boulevard.


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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Sept. 23, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq:BMRN) announced today that it has dosed the first patient in the Phase 1/2 trial for BMN 190, a recombinant human tripeptidyl peptidase 1 (rhTPP1) for the treatment of patients with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (NCL-2), a form of Batten disease. This is the first time that a patient with Batten Disease has been treated with an enzyme replacement therapy in a clinical trial setting.
"This program is representative of the company's core competency of developing life-altering enzyme replacement therapies for serious unmet medical needs," said Hank Fuchs, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of BioMarin. "We are inspired and motivated by the patient and physician community and encouraged by the pharmacological activity demonstrated in preclinical models. We hope to leverage our expertise in enzyme replacement therapy development to deliver a viable treatment option to patients with this form of Batten Disease."
"The completion of dosing of the first patient in the trial of BMN190 marks the beginning of an important journey. This neurodegenerative disease of childhood is devastating for patients and families. While we hope to make a large difference in their outcome, we are moved and grateful for the support of affected families worldwide," said Angela Schulz, M.D. Ph.D., Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. "Clinical trials are the only means to ascertain whether the promise of this new therapeutic approach will be fulfilled. Without the families' selfless dedication to the important principles of science, this would not be possible."
"We are encouraged by this important milestone, and support the clinical trial process as the best way to bring much needed therapies to underserved patient populations," said Tracy VanHoutan, founder of the Noah's Hope Batten Disease research fund, and 2nd Vice President of the Batten Disease Support and Research Association, the largest organization in the world dedicated to family support and medical research in Batten Disease.
The Phase 1/2 study is an open-label, dose-escalation study in patients with NCL-2. The primary objectives are to evaluate the safety and tolerability of BMN 190 and to evaluate effectiveness using an NCL-2-specific rating scale score in comparison with natural history data after 48 weeks of treatment. Secondary objectives are to evaluate the impact of treatment on brain atrophy in comparison with NCL-2 natural history after 48 weeks of treatment and to characterize pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity. The study will enroll approximately 22 subjects at up to ten clinical sites for a treatment duration of 48 weeks.
About BioMarin
BioMarin develops and commercializes innovative biopharmaceuticals for serious diseases and medical conditions. The company's product portfolio comprises four approved products and multiple clinical and pre-clinical product candidates. Approved products include Naglazyme® (galsulfase) for mucopolysaccharidosis VI (MPS VI), a product wholly developed and commercialized by BioMarin; Aldurazyme® (laronidase) for mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I), a product which BioMarin developed through a 50/50 joint venture with Genzyme Corporation; Kuvan® (sapropterin dihydrochloride) Tablets, for phenylketonuria (PKU), developed in partnership with Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany; and Firdapse™ (amifampridine), which has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS). Product candidates include BMN 110 (N-acetylgalactosamine 6-sulfatase), formally referred to as GALNS, which successfully completed Phase III clinical development for the treatment of MPS IVA, PEG-PAL (PEGylated recombinant phenylalanine ammonia lyase), which is currently in Phase III clinical development for the treatment of PKU, BMN 701, a novel fusion protein of insulin-like growth factor 2 and acid alpha glucosidase (IGF2-GAA), which is currently in Phase I/II clinical development for the treatment of Pompe disease, BMN 673, a poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, which is currently in Phase I/II clinical development for the treatment of genetically-defined cancers, BMN 111, a modified C-natriuretic peptide, which is currently in Phase I clinical development for the treatment of achondroplasia, and BMN 190, a recombinant human tripeptidyl peptidase 1 (rhTPP1), which is currently in Phase 1/2 development for the treatment of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis Type 2 disease. For additional information, please visit www.BMRN.com. Information on BioMarin's website is not incorporated by reference into this press release.
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the business prospects of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., including, without limitation, statements about: the development of BioMarin's BMN 190 program generally and the timing and results of the planned Phase 1/2 trial of BMN 190. These forward-looking statements are predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results may differ materially from these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: results and timing of current and planned preclinical studies and clinical trials of BMN 190; the content and timing of decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Commission and other regulatory authorities; and those factors detailed in BioMarin's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the factors contained under the caption "Risk Factors" in BioMarin's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Year ended December 31, 2012. Stockholders are urged not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BioMarin is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
BioMarin®, Naglazyme®, Kuvan® and Firdapse™ are registered trademarks of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
Aldurazyme® is a registered trademark of BioMarin/Genzyme LLC.
CONTACT: Investors: Traci McCarty BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (415) 455-7558 Media: Debra Charlesworth BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (415) 455-7451


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Larry Boyd, Peter C. Goudeau, Jr. and Peter C. Goudea, III are Registered Representatives of and collectively offer securities products & services through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, a Licensed Insurance Agency. In this regard, this communication is strictly intended for individuals residing in the states of AL, AR, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, KS, LA, MA, MI, NE, NY, OH, TX and VA. No offers may be made or accepted from any resident outside the specific states referenced.
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Constant quality. Constantly.
Blast freezing, storage, or conditioning – whatever your needs are, KOMA units are the optimal solution. Our units meet the most stringent quality and hygiene standards. Thanks to their sophisticated design, they also save you on energy costs.
Hygiene is one of the most important aspects in the sector, and rightly so. When it comes to design and production, KOMA makes sure that its units are easy to clean and contain virtually no areas where dust and dirt can accumulate.
By designing our units with stainless steel, underrun bars with closed ends, and special bottom sealing, vermin are unable to nest in them. This prevents corners from getting dirty, and the floor and walls can easily be cleaned.
KOMA's designers have paid close attention to the detail. This can be seen in the removable pressure walls, folding fans, folding drip trays, plug connections, built-in automated cleaning cycles for humidity channels, and measures promoting good hygiene.
Find out more about KOMA units that can freeze, store, or condition your products to the highest quality. Do you have any questions or want to find out what the right solution is for your needs? Please contact us and we can discuss your enquiry together.


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... and tickets are flying out the door!
A full view line up, with only 600 tickets per show, book now to avoid disappointment. This golden circle venue is like no other concert experience. Join us in a forest amphitheatre, eat scrumptious food, drink Paul Cluver Wines and listen to the best talent South Africa has to offer.
Not only are you guaranteed an unforgettable show under a starlit sky, accompanied by Paul Cluver wines, but 100% of the profits raised are donated to the Thembalitsha Foundation - meaning that you're giving back by joining in, too.
VIEW THE LINE-UP >> www.hope.org.za/hope-paul-cluver
For the festival programme information and bookings (click here)
The Hope @ Paul Cluver Amphitheatre is the most unique and awe inspiring setting for performances and it is only 45 minutes drive from Cape Town International. A towering Eucalyptus forest circles the intimate open-air arena which has been hewn from farm timber in its entirety. Performances are specifically chosen to match the natural acoustics of the venue.
How It All Began
Hope@PaulCluver was birthed in 2013 after Paul Cluver Wines witnessed the work of Thembalitsha Foundation in the local community surrounding Elgin. They wanted to do something further to support our work and saw the programming of the amphitheatre - which they had been successfully running for over a decade - as an ideal opportunity to help get the word out about Thembalitsha while helping us raise funds to transform lives in our community.
About the Amphitheatre
The Paul Cluver forest amphitheatre is the only venue of its kind in the Western Cape. Beautifully built into the natural landscape surrounded by towering eucalyptus trees, the intimate space provides one of the most unique experiences of a live performance you can have anywhere on earth. The amphitheatre has a maximum capacity of 600, ensuring the the entire audience has access to a golden circle ticket at general admission costs.
Things to note prior to your visit:
- Seating is general admission on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early if there is a big group of you to ensure you can find seats together. (Gates for all evening events in the 2015/16 Season will open at 5pm.)
- Be considerate of not taking up too much space to allow room for your fellow concert goers to enjoy the event in comfort. Event staff reserve the right to request that your party uses less space.
- You are welcome to bring you own food to our events, but there will also be a selection of food vendors!
- No own alcohol is permitted within the venue, but award-winning Paul Cluver Wine will be for sale as well as Cluver Jack cider and Triggerfish craft beer.
- Wine glasses are available (for keeps or return) at R25 a glass.
- Bring cushions, blankets and warm clothes as the theatre is outdoors and can get chilly in the evening.
- The event goes ahead come rain or shine so please plan accordingly.
- No pets allowed on site due to the venue being situated within a nature reserve.
- No folding chairs are allowed within the main arena as these can impair the view of other attendees.
- There are designated smoking areas outside of the main arena. Our events take place in peak fire season so please dispose of any cigarettes with utmost care.
- No members of the public are allowed on the stage area.
- Please switch off your cell phones during the performance.
- Bring a torch with you to help you find your car at the end of the evening!
- Ample parking is available just a few minutes from the amphitheatre - please bear in mind it is in a field and can be muddy at times.
- Children pay full ticket price unless otherwise advertised.
- There are ample toilets but no disabled facilities.
- Attending this event is at your own risk. Thembalitsha, De Rust Estate and Paul Cluver Wines will not be responsible for any loss or damages to your person or property.
Summer Programme:
The Hope@PaulCluver is an outdoor venue, therefore our Summer Programme runs from November through to February. The schedule for Summer 2017/2018 is available here.


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Fingers crossed street footy will be the tip of EA's iceberg this year...
EA Sports' E3 presentation included news that FIFA 20 would come pre-packed with some old-school FIFA Street goodness this year. It's not called that though. No, 'Street' has become 'Volta', which literally translates to 'Return' in Portuguese. Think of this as 20's big new mode. A game within a game, if you like.
Will it be the only major feature EA have planned? Let's hope not.
The main problem with annually released sports games is that there's little time for developers to make sweeping improvements or live up to fan expectations over the summer months. After a few tweaks here and there, the next installment is burned to disc and shipped off ready for launch. This cycle has caused FIFA to become a yearly 'Groundhog Day' of pre-release excitement and post-release disappointment despite it hardly being a poor product.
Rumours are part and parcel of that pre-release excitement, and there are some tasty ones doing the rounds on social media, YouTube and FIFA-obsessed websites. We've brought together the best gossip and whispers here. If they're all true, FIFA 20 could be the best one in years...
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Published: February 14, 2010
Heads of State
Hair is a language; it announces our gender, class and even our politics. George Washington rejected wigs as too aristocratic for the new Republic. He tied his long powdered hair in a "queue," while his successors embraced unpowdered styles inspired by ancient Rome. Federalists like John Adams wore long hair, while Jefferson's Democrats countered with shortened cuts. By the mid-19th century, beards returned after a long absence. Virile-looking and practical on the battlefield, beards were suited to the Civil War; Grant kept his when he entered the White House. The safety razor's invention around 1900 marked the beginning of the end for presidential facial hair. For the last 100 years, there have been very few stylistic developments of note; the most significant change of late comes with our current commander in chief, whose hair has brought welcome diversity to the presidential scalp. Related: Strands of American History — Coiffures of First Ladies »
Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.


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A record ID object consists of a name string and a zone ID. The name string is an ASCII string not exceeding 255 characters in length. For automatically created records, the ID name string is based on a UUID and is therefore guaranteed to be unique. When creating your own record ID objects, you are free to use names that have more meaning to your app or to the user, as long as each name is unique within the specified zone. For example, you might use a document name for the name string.
Record IDs must be unique within a given database, but you can reuse record IDs in different databases. Each container has a public and private database, and the private database is different for each unique user. This configuration lets you reuse record IDs for each user's private data, but in the public database only one record may use a specific record ID.
Record ID objects are normally created automatically when you create a new record, but you might also create IDs in several specific situations. For example, you must create record ID objects when you want to save a record in a zone other than the default zone. You can also create record ID objects when you want to retrieve records whose IDs you know from a database.
This class is not intended to be subclassed.
Interacting with Record IDs
After you create a
CKRecord object, interactions with that object typically involve creating a new record or retrieving an existing record from a database.
You might also use record IDs when you cannot use a
CKRecord object to refer to a record. References are only valid within a single zone of a database. To refer to objects outside of the current zone or database, save the strings in the record's
CKRecord and
CKRecord objects. When you want to retrieve the record later, use those strings to recreate the record and zone ID objects so that you can fetch the record.
Creating Record IDs for New Records
To assign a custom record ID to a new record, you must create the
CKRecord object first. You need to know the intended name and zone information for that record, which might also require creating a
CKRecord object. After creating the record ID object, initialize your new record using its
init(_ method.
Using Record IDs to Fetch Records
Use a record ID to fetch the corresponding
CKRecord object from a database quickly. You perform the fetch operation using a
CKFetch object or the fetchRecordWithID:completion: method of the
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By Nabijan Tursun PhD
November 12, 2010, marked the 66th anniversary of one of the greatest events in twentieth century Uyghur history, the establishment of the Eastern Turkistan Republic (ETR). Members of the Uyghur diaspora in the United States, Canada, Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia commemorated this short-lived historic republic and celebrated this day as the independence day of the Uyghur people.
However, the Chinese government still considers this historic republic part of the "three-district revolution" and "one of the components of the Chinese people's democratic revolutionary movement."
The Uyghur nation is geographically and culturally part of Central Asia, but is currently within the political boundaries of the People's Republic of China. The Uyghur nation faced opportunities to establish a sovereign homeland in the 19th century and in the 1930s and 1940s. However, efforts to establish an independent state failed to have a lasting effect, and today the Uyghurs' very existence as a distinct ethnic group remains in question.
The political fate of the Uyghurs
In the second half of the 19th century, the political fate of the Uyghur nation was of the interest to the Great Powers.
The fate of the last independent state of the Uyghurs, the East Turkistan Republic (1944-1949), was intimately related to decisions at the Yalta Conference and developments during the early stages of the Cold War.
The political fate of this Central Asian people has been an element in the foreign policy of the former Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain and China for many years, though this historic reality has likely been forgotten by contemporary politicians.
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Uyghurs mainly reside in what the Chinese government calls the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where they number approximately 9.6 million based on the Chinese census in 2006, and 15-20 million according to Uyghur sources.
Uyghurs comprise 45% of the population based on official Chinese statistics. However, about 60 years ago, in 1949, Uyghurs constituted close to 80% of the population, and Han Chinese constituted a mere 5%. Uyghurs are becoming a minority in their own historic land.
Before the republic
Throughout history, Uyghurs established their own states.
Only in the second half of the 18th century was the land was colonized by Qing dynasty forces from China. However, in the subsequent hundred years, the land witnessed many uprisings by native populations against foreign rule, and in the middle of the 19th century, Uyghurs established an independent state, Kashgaria, under the leadership of Yaqub Beg. The new ruler established diplomatic relations with the Ottoman, British and Russian Empires.The struggle between the Russian and British Empires for influence in the region formed part of the Great Game.
The Qing dynasty re-conquered the land in 1878, and incorporated it into China under the name of Xinjiang province in 1884. After the collapse of the Qing in 1911, the region was ruled by Chinese warlords independent from the Chinese central government. During the years between 1931 and 1934, there were independent movements against the rule of the warlords all across the region.
A first republic
On November 12, 1933, the people of the region established the first Republic of East Turkistan with its capital as Kashgar. The new republic had all the trappings of a modern state, such as a constitution, flag, and government institutions, and its institutions were influenced by those of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk's Turkey.
The new republic tried to establish diplomatic relations with a range of countries such as the Soviet Union, Turkey, Great Britain, Japan, and Afghanistan, and obtain assistance from them.
However, the Soviet Union was deeply suspicious about this new republic and suspected that it could fall under the political, economic, military and cultural influence of Great Britain, Turkey, and Japan, thereby threatening the security of its Central Asian territories.
Therefore, the Soviet Union decided to destroy the republic using Hui Muslim troops and turn this territory into a buffer zone between itself and other Great Powers.
With the start of the Second World War, particularly the Soviet-German War, the Chinese central government established control over the territory, which had nominally been part of China, but independently run by warlords under heavy influence from the Soviet Union.
American and British recognition
In 1943, the Chinese government led by Chiang Kai-shek allowed the United States and Great Britain to open consulates in Urumqi and started attacking the Soviet Union's interests in the region.
Moscow became increasingly uneasy with the opening of the U.S. consulate in the territory, which it traditionally considered as its backyard, and was equally uneasy because of the frequent visits to the region by American diplomats and military officials, including U.S. vice president Henry Agard Wallace.
Historical records indicated that the U.S. administration paid attention to the situation in Xinjiang province and suggested that Chiang Kai-shek establish friendly ties with the Soviet Union.
Within this environment, the Soviet Union supported and re-energized the independence struggle of the Uyghurs and other native people in Xinjiang province in order to establish its own influence in the region and dislodge the influence of the United States and Great Britain from this corner of Central Asia.
The second republic
In September 1944, when the Second World War was still raging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Uyghurs and other non-Han Chinese ethnic groups of the Ili region armed themselves and fought against Chinese rule.
On November 12, 1944 they declared the establishment of the East Turkestan Republic.
This new republic received military, political, and financial support from the Soviet Union. On April 8, 1945, the East Turkestan Republic established a regular army and fought against the Chinese Kuomintang forces in three fronts and liberated 26 counties in the Ili, Altay and Tarbaghatay districts as well as in 6 counties in Kashgar and Aksu districts.
Soviet support
According to secret Soviet archives that were opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union, after the United States and Britain had opened consulates in Urumqi, Stalin's politburo decided to support the independence movement of East Turkistan.
Until July 1946, high- level Soviet political and military advisers came from Moscow and regularly stayed in Ghulja, providing aid to the ETR. More than 2000 soldiers and 500 officers from the Red Army served in the National Army of the ETR, which numbered 40,000 soldiers.
The Uyghur struggle for independence grew nationwide, and the Chinese Kuomintang government in Urumqi faced the possibility of defeat. At such a critical time, Stalin forced the East Turkestan leadership to compromise and negotiate with the Chinese Kuomintang government.
After nearly eight months of negotiation under intense pressure from Moscow, a coalition government was established under which the Uyghurs and Chinese would share political power. The coalition government collapsed within a year, and the East Turkestan army resumed fighting against Chinese forces.
Betrayal at Yalta
One of the main reasons Moscow stopped supporting the East Turkestan Republic and forced its leaders to negotiate with the Chinese Nationalist government was the agreement made at the Yalta Conference held on February 11, 1945, in which the Soviets signed a friendship treaty with the Chinese Nationalists.
The meeting among Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill in Yalta guaranteed Stalin's interests in Manchuria and Mongolia, but the newly established East Turkistan Republic become an obstacle in the realization of Stalin's geo-strategic plan in China.
In accordance with the Yalta Agreement, Soviet-Chinese negotiations started in June 1945 and ended in August after the Chinese Nationalist government guaranteed Russian interests in Mongolia and Manchuria. In these negotiations, Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek demanded from Stalin that Moscow not support East Turkestan independence or provide weapons to the ETR. Moscow assured Chang Kai-shek that the Soviets had no territorial interest in Eastern Turkistan.
Today, Russian, Western, and Uyghur historians believe that the East Turkestan Republic became a pawn in a strategic battle for powers and that the Uyghur people's struggle for freedom and independence was betrayed by the political intrigues of Soviets.
A secular state
The ETR government announced a 9-point declaration on January 5, 1945 establishing the ETR as an independent republic that would treat all religions and peoples equally by embracing democracy and rejecting totalitarianism.
The new republic called for developing education, technology, communications, industry, social welfare and a free health care system. The ETR established various social and education organizations such as a women's association, a veterans' foundation and schools for orphans. Women from Muslim and non-Muslim ethnic groups participated in military, government, education and work structures equally with men.
The goal of the state's battle was not to establish an independent Islamic religious state but to develop and learn from European states, as remembered in the ETR army song:
The people of Europe flying in the sky,
Through enjoyment of intellectual pursuits;
To develop like Europe we must to learn,
Enemies have no right to claim Uyghur land.
The short-lived East Turkistan Republic was a secular state, and the goal of the Uyghur people was a secular state system with modern democratic standards. Thus, Uyghurs have already experienced secularism and will continue to pursue secularism today and in the future.
A multi-ethnic state
Former high level government and military officials in the ETR have rejected the claims of some state-sponsored Chinese scholars that the ETR had pan-Turkist or Pan-Islamic aims.
The East Turkistan Republic's citizens—Muslim ethnic groups such as the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz , Uzbek, Tajik Tunggan (Hui) and non Muslim groups such as Christian Russians, Buddhist Mongols and Shamanist Shibo—participated in uprisings against Chinese rule and fought for an independent republic.
During its five years, the Ili government devoted the state budget to multi-language education and published 11 newspapers and five magazines in five languages.
Nuclear rivalry
On July, 1949, as the Cold War entered an important period after U.S. ally Chiang Kai-shek's defeat in the war against the communists, Stalin invited a Chinese Communist delegation to Moscow for discussions on establishing a communist government.
Stalin suggested to Mao's representative Liu Shaoqi that Mao establish the PRC before the end of 1949 and enter Xinjiang province as soon as possible to block the establishment of an independent state of local ethnic groups supported by the U.S. and Britain.
During this critical time, Uyghur leaders such as Dr. Mesud Sebiri, Isa Yusuf Aliptekin, Memet Imin Bughra, Kazakh leader Osman Batur, and others wanted U.S. assistance to establish an independent state in this region and to defend against invasion from the Chinese communist army.
But the same time, historical evidence shows, the Soviets planned to build an atomic bomb and searched for necessary materials such as uranium in the territory of ETR.
But after the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb in Semipalatinsk, near East Turkistan, on August 29, 1949, the U.S. consulate in Urumqi officially closed. American vice-consul Douglas McKiernan cooperated with Kazakh rebel leader Osman Batur and escaped to Tibet, but was tragically killed.
Plane crash
Stalin promised to help establish a communist regime in the region. With this support from Moscow, Chinese communist representative Deng Liqun secretly met with leaders of the Ili government and discussed the future of the region.
Both Soviet and Chinese sources indicate that Uyghur leader Ahmetjan Qasimi agreed to go to Beijing and participate in a conference of the political consultative committee of China.
In August 1949, however, the leaders of the government—including Ahmetjan Qasimi—died in a mysterious plane crash en route to Beijing.
Uyghur sources indicate that the ETR leaders were killed by the Soviet KGB in Moscow because they didn't agree to Stalin's demand to obey communist China unconditionally. Based on his promise to China, Stalin sent airplanes and transferred more than 12 thousand Chinese liberation army soldiers and officers, as well as weapons, to Xinjiang.
Chess pieces
In February, 1950, Mao and Stalin signed an agreement of Sino-Soviet friendship in Moscow, and Mao agreed to establish a company that would allow the Soviet Union to extract petroleum, uranium and other resources from Xinjiang province.
After signing the agreement and after the occupation of ETR territory by Chinese troops, the Soviets gave the corpses of the political and military leaders of the Ili government, including Ahmetjan Qasimi and general lieutenant Is'haqbeg Munonov, to the Chinese delegation. Mao ordered Sayfidin Azizi, former education minister of the ETR and member of the Chinese delegation to Moscow, to bring their bodies to Xinjiang and bury them in Ghulja with honors. At their burials, Mao Zedong called them "revolutionary martyrs" and called their government and revolution a "government of the three districts" which was part of the Chinese democracy revolution.
"Stalin only decided to play us like chess pieces and then sell us out when he didn't need us in the game," says one historian, former ETR national army major Mr. Zulpiqarov of Almaty.
PRC policy
In 1955, two years after Stalin's death, Mao Zedong passed over Stalin's ethnic autonomous republic policy for the Uyghurs, a system some Uyghurs had hoped he would follow, and decided instead to establish regional autonomy in the province, renaming the area the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The dream of some Uyghurs after 1949—those who believed the Chinese communists' earlier promises of self-determination for national minorities—was that the PRC would establish Soviet-style republics. In the end, however, Mao didn't recognize the right to self-determination of the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongols, and others. Chinese leaders justified their choice by explaining that China's situation was different from that in the Soviet Union.
After the Qingdao meeting in 1957 at which Chinese premier Zhou Enlai strongly criticized Uyghur nationalists, some Uyghur nationalists escaped to Soviet Central Asia. Others died during the Cultural Revolution.
Former Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping recognized that Uyghurs' political situation was still an issue in the 1980s, when he said, "Xinjiang's fundamental question is [whether it should be] a republic or an autonomous region."
After the Cold War
But many Uyghurs never lost their dream of having their own republic.
At the end of the Cold War, the breakup of the Soviet Union paved the way for Uyghur movements to move from former Soviet Union Republics to the West, especially the United States.
Previously, even though the U.S. consulate had existed in Urumqi during the 1940s, Uyghurs did not have a chance to understand the U.S. until the 1990s, because Uyghurs had always been caught between China and the Soviet Union.
But as Uyghur issues continued to be hijacked by the Soviet Union to serve its strategic issues in dealing with China, Uyghurs began leaning toward the western world including the U.S. to gain support and sympathy for Uyghur democracy.
But the Xinjiang/Uyghur issue continues to have importance for contemporary Sino-Russian strategic ties and has become an important part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
This year, on September 26-28, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited China and with Chinese president Hu Jintao signed a joint statement emphasizing mutual support for each other's core interests—Russian support for Beijing's sovereignty over Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang, and Chinese support for Moscow's "efforts to promote peace and stability throughout the Caucasian region and the Commonwealth of Independent States."
In addition to sitting at the center of Sino-Soviet relations, the issue of the political fate of the Uyghurs is now also connected to the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, China's human rights record, and international anti-terrorism measures. American president George W. Bush met twice in 2007 and 2008 with Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer, who was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. On July 5, 2009, decades of Chinese policies in Xinjiang resulted in violence when the unsettled situation in the region simmered over into bloody ethnic clashes in Urumqi.
Even 66 years after the establishment of a secular state in the Uyghur homeland, a republic that was erased off the map, the political fate of the Uyghurs still remains unresolved.


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How does one speak to a person who is no longer here? What words does one use? What does one say to be heard?
Carolina, my dearest Carolina, you wrote me a modest little poem, that is what you called it. This book is my modest little poem for you.
It is modest because I don't know what language to use to reach you where you are. It is small because it has no wings to penetrate mystery. It is the language that I know best, but I am aware that it is incomplete, inadequate. I need to tell you how important you are to me, to thank you for all the gifts you gave me.
Now after months of slow wandering around, of grieving, of looking at the persistent miracle of nature, I have realized that making a book about gardens is in truth yet another gift you are giving me. Your spirit, your memory, quickly led me to photographing what was smallest and simplest. It became an overwhelming, irresistible impetus.
These gardens are a gift you are giving me, that we are giving to others.
You had a deep love for trees. I remember the enormous, age-old Samaná, the raintree next to your house in Santo Domingo. I went to visit it, and it looked very sad now that you are no longer here. It was wrapped in fog and slightly bowed, with mossy whiskers that trailed to the ground.
You held that it is impossible to defend nature only by thinking about it, that conservation must first of all be an act of tenderness.
And your thesis was simple but absolute. "You see my Samaná, Palito, the tree I love so much? The years have turned it into an important and honorable tree. Imagine, it can't become any more worthy because it is home to so many mosses, so many bromeliads, so many ferns, of so many little birds and insects. That tree, despite being so large and having the wrinkles, is a thousand times more fragile than you or me! It can't defend itself! How can I look at it without feeling tender?"
You spoke to the trees with absolute naturalness. And it broke your heart when anyone attacked them. "Look, Palito," you would say to me. "Look at that handsome tree." For you, young trees, and gardens, and little animals, and the hummingbirds that flew outside your window were all "handsome."
You always said that every person has a right to the shade of a tree, to the song of birds, to the sound of water.
Oh how you loved nature. That's why you went to Harvard to specialize in landscape architecture. The city distressed you, the concrete, all the square lines and pigeonholes, the space in which trees and gardens were mere decoration. The city where the most humble people have no access to nature while those with the most resources close themselves within the sterile walls of blocks and blocks of buildings.
You were working on several municipal projects. You had the world by the tail. Your mind was bubbling, you were thinking that we must invite nature into the city, give it a fundamental presence in our lives.
No, it isn't merely a matter of building more and better parks, but of erasing the artificial frontiers between the wilds and what is urban. "The ravines in Quito are a miracle, they guard the last traces of native vegetation within the city," you often said. "Our nature does not in any way resemble the parks we construct. We want to make Italian or French parks in a land that is an explosion of trees, an overabundance of bromeliads and ferns and mosses." Our tropical vegetation is baroque, a jumble of greens and water. "On the Andean moors are the minute, the microscopic hiding from the cold, while in the tropics primordial, ancestral leaves burst out before your eyes."
And the parks, of course, should rid themselves of that European esthetic and fill themselves with the overflowing ethic of our mega-diversity. Those absurd oppositions between park and city, and between city and nature, would have to be demolished.
It horrified you how alien species were being planted in reforestration programs. Those forests of cypresses or pines, so false in the heart of the moors, pained you deeply. "We are complex. We like to look like Switzerland or Canada when there is no greater beauty than the humble underbrush of our wild country."
"Nature is honest, Palito. Nature teaches us to look within ourselves toward what is profound. It teaches us astonishment and gratitude."
A few weeks after your death, in the darkest moments, you came to me in a dream, small, thin, delicate, with your natural elegance and your sweet way of smiling. "Palito, you don't have the power to know what the future is going to bring you. Nor do you know when the persons you love most will be gone. You can't control everything that happens in your life. The one power you have is that of your tenderness, of your goodness."
The power of my goodness? And I had never seen tenderness as a power.
We frequently commit the error of thinking that tender people are fragile, defenseless. But you were powerful. Only a powerful person can transform those she has around her in such a profound and conclusive way.
You were tenderness. You used your words to comfort, to heal, to celebrate, to respect.
We Ecuadorians carry affectionate itos and itas on the end of our words. We have a warmth in our culture that the intolerant are robbing from us. We don't drink coffee, we have a cafecito. You used the diminutive with a pride I have never seen in others. You had an active, proud, assured sweetness. You focused your concerns on everything you saw that was fragile or helpless, especially children and the less fortunate. It was not a syrupy softness or self-complacency—you despised anything sugary or lacking in good taste–but an essential tenderness.
How is a garden made? Slowly, with care and with enormous tenderness. In the same way that affection grows, in the same way that a house is converted into a home. Just as people gradually put so much of themselves in our heart that one day they are there to stay.
There is nothing magical or automatic about it, making a garden requires perseverance. First its outlines are drawn; it is given an easily understood and human dimension. Then it is sown, it is watered, it is awaited, it is trimmed and then again awaited. Constructing a garden is an act of appropriation, a personal dialogue with nature and its cycles.
So if a garden is to be an actual garden, I must become its gardener. I must domesticate it. Make it mine. Mine in affection, mine in invested time, mine in my ability to evoke it when I am not there.
We human beings can love what is small, what we have shaped with tenderness, what we can hold in our memories. It is difficult to love an entire national park like a Cotopaxi or a YasunĂ. But that little rivulet born from their glaciers, or that ancient and so lordly tree clothed in mosses, those I can make mine.
You can see, my beautiful Carolina, that you have turned me into a gardener. I make gardens with my camera. I make them mine through patience, and waiting.
I have gone back to my origins. Inspired by you, I am again taking photographs of landscapes.
You were always so fond of that shot of me on Cotopaxi, the one when I was a thin, ungainly youth photographing nature. More than twenty years have
gone by since I traveled all over Ecuador with an unbounded sense of hope and my camera on my back. You were captivated by how happy and handsome I looked in that photo.
I am no longer the same, preciosa. Sometimes I don't recognize myself. I am more fragile, sometimes frightened, and I can be difficult. I do not have the same strength, or unconditional hope. And good-looking? Maybe, but only for those who know me well.
To do this book I went to the places you loved, and to others I was never able to share with you–places I knew when I was that ingenuous youth with the easy laughter. They are photos of our Ecuador, of the country that gave us an identity, a meaning.
I went often to Cotopaxi, an imposing volcano that occupies the nightmares and imagination of those of us who live near its shadow. Your accide


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ABSTRACT: The abundance and photosynthetic characteristics of non-geniculate coralline algae were determined at Cape Evans, McMurdo Sound (Ross Sea), Antarctica, during spring 2003. At the time, the site was covered by 2.5 m of sea-ice through which only 0.48% of incident irradiance was able to penetrate. Coralline algae covered 4 to 60% of the seafloor from water depths of 13 to 26 m. Coralline algal crusts showed light-saturated rates of photosynthesis from 9.4 to 20 mmol O2 m2 thallus d1 and dark respiration rates from 0.15 to 0.96 mmol O2 m2 thallus d1. The average irradiance at which the onset of light saturated photosynthesis occurred (Ek) was 3.2 µmol photons m2 s1, measured using oxygen micro-electrodes, and 2.9 µmol photons m2 s1, measured using pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) fluorometry techniques. Irradiance at depths of 15 to 20 m did not exceed 2 µmol photons m2 s1 during the study, but frequently exceeded the light compensation point for photosynthesis (Ec), estimated as 0.10 µmol photons m2 s1. The effective quantum yield (ΔF/Fm) of Photosystem II, measured in situ over diel periods at depths of 16, 18 and 20 m, averaged 0.691 (SD = 0.003), 0.639 (SD = 0.005) and 0.632 (SD = 0.007), respectively. These values were indicative of minimal down-regulation of photosynthesis, and were consistent with the observation that irradiance never exceeded Ek. Laboratory investigations, showed that on transfer from ambient irradiance to 23.5 µmol photons m2 s1, a change of 2 orders of magnitude, the algae showed minimal photoinhibition and a small, but statistically significant increase in Ek and maximum electron transport rate. Coralline algae at Cape Evans are able to persist with net carbon accrual under ice, while being able to tolerate periods of higher irradiance during ice-free conditions. This contrasts to Phyllophora antarctica which is dependent on ice-free periods to achieve net production.
KEY WORDS: Photosynthesis · Oxygen electrodes · Macroalgae · Phyllophora antarctica · Photoacclimation · Mesophyllum engelhartii · Synarthrophyton patena
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So, I started something new with my Sunday School group.
I teach Grade Six girls and last month, I brought my stamps/card making supplies
along to make cards with my girls on Valentine's Day.
They enjoyed it so much, that we decided to do this once a month.
Last Sunday, we made Easter cards.
(Aren't they sweet?
There are seven girls in my group, but only three were there this past Sunday.)
I decided to introduce a new technique each month.
This month was heat embossing.
Here's the card that Sage made:
She heat embossed the PTI eggs in white and coloured them with Zigs.
Then she heat embossed the Reverse Confetti More Than Jellybeans bunny in Zing! butter.
I love how she traced the sentiment with a black marker.
And here's the card that I started, using the PTI Etched Egg stamp set
where I masked them and heat embossed them in white.
I coloured them in with some Zig markers that I coloured onto an acrylic block,
to which I added water with a paintbrush.
I stamped the sentiment (also from PTI Etched Eggs.)
Thanks for looking!


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Source: KPRF.info
Things "neo-Trotskyists" have been talking about for so long proves to be true more obviously: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation tears every communications not only with any creative inside of a party, with own pary-members creatively developing Marxism but also with own communistic predecessors, with communistic ideals, with Lenin's Bolshevist historical basis of Communist Party. For the sake of "electoral equivalent", for the sake of additional voices of voters Zyuganov's followers are ready publicly Brezhnev-like kiss nationalist Baburin. For the sake of placing their pants accustomed to the Duma's seats to the dear cabinets on the ninth floor of the old building of Sovnarkom.
If only zyuganoids would simply let their comrades know that Baburin has brought ready-made not very numerous "voices" - well, they give him a tribune. You are welcome, Your ...nessĎ, scold Bolshevism on KPRF.ru - for radicalism, for "administrative dictatorship" and whatever you wish!
Whether it's not ideological treachery?! And you will go to vote for these "crushers"?
Cretinism of iron-assed patricians sat down a heavy cargo on a pyramid of the Communist movement obviously has passed any limits. Tomorrow they will already without Baburin's help start to abuse not Bolshevism but Lenin, will run to take him away from the Mausoleum and in an orthodox Zyuganov's way commit to earth. May be he really is the German spy? Why not to agree with nationalists if they come with "peace"?
In this occasion Bolshevik Lenin said: "There are compromises and compromises".
Frank, consecutive Nationalism-Menshevism became today ideology of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Whether such party can be called communist?
"Neo-Trotskiysts" leave the Communist Party of the Russian Federation but they are changed by "neo-Kornilovests". These pro-Putin "statesmen" have nothing in general with communists, with Bolsheviks-revolutionaries. Zyuganov praises Lenin exclusively for NEP. As to Stalin - everything have been distorted in the spirit of Baburin's followers. A pier, Stalin is - not a Bolshevik, he is the statesman, the Russian patriot and hidden monarchist at all.
If Stalin would agree with such treatment? No, he would send these vulpine "followers" to the known address.
The ideology of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is near to death in direct and figurative meaning. Zyuganov gets rid from the left in the party inviting hospitably the right to fraternize. There is no way back. Here you are - dirty policy.
Ideological unsteadiness in case of publication of Baburin's contra shows unequivocally a parity of aims and means of Zyuganov's followers. All that they need today is - "to build a house and to settle in kiddies", to seat one more term in the Duma to the end and then to sell a brand and devil-may-care...


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Manchester United have announced that rumours circulating on the internet relating to the health of owner Malcolm Glazer are false.
It was claimed on various Twitter accounts that Glazer had been reported as dead by a reputable media source in the United States.
However, club sources have verified this is not true and the actual source of the story was also incorrect.
Glazer has not been a particularly popular figure among United fans since his takeover of the club in 2005, which lodged a huge amount of debt next to the Red Devils.
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If we didn't experience outrage
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These times, these difficult times,
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We are the leaders we have been searching for.
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9 thoughts on "Reading and Reading Goals?"
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comment. I've heard good things about the Hitchens book. I'm hoping to read Ridderbos's book on Paul before to long. One helpful summary of whats been said on Paul is David G. Horrell's An Introduction to the Study of Paul. He works through various current debates and covers who is on what side. I enjoyed it.
Hi Matt,
I don't set a reading goal, since I'm never short of books I want to read. If I were doing an advanced degree I guess I'd have to, as well as focus more tightly on a particular subject, which is maybe why I haven't gone in that direction.
Anyway, today I picked up Peter Hitchens' The Rage Against God, which looks intriguing. It's what I would regard as light reading because it's a personal reflection rather than theology proper. More heavy at the moment is Schnelle's NT Theology. I'm contemplating F F Bruce's magnum opus on Paul, as well as Ridderbos's Paul An Outline of His Theology and Dunne's book on the same. I'm trying to get across the past and present of Pauline research.
Nothing out of the ordinary there, I guess; I just follow my interests, which are mainly related to pastoral ministry.
If, underlying your question was the question "Why those particular books?" Those particular books point to the Bible, by helping to amplify, explain, or augment some Biblical question of interest (which Paul would describe as a mystery)
For example, consider Wolfram's A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE; In the Genesis vs. natural selection debate, people of all sorts want to explain the complexity found in nature. The prevalent humanistic explanation, since Darwin, is natural selection, which points to biological systems as a supreme example of higher order complexity without God as its source. Natural selection comes with the assumption higher order complexity is a consequence of a unique process of adaptation and natural selection in the system (leaving no room for God)
Stephen Wolfram, an atheist, has come along and discovered rule 110, the simplest Turing complete finite automata with the most unusual properties. This discovery seems little to most, but what it means to the believer is that higher order complexity does not require or likely result from any adaptive or selective process since complexity arises naturally in any system so designed, even simple systems.
Wolfram's rule 110 is such a system WITHOUT natural selection, but WITH simple initial conditions, and simple rules (having only 8). It is Turing complete and exhibits the property of being neither completely repetitive nor completely random and produces local properties whose emergence are in-decidable in a computational sense. The appearance of all of this higher order complexity isn't even apparent in the initial conditions or its governing rules but falls out of the structure of the designer's creation rather than a process of adaptation or selection.
In Genesis God lays out the initial conditions for creation, and He sets creation in motion with His ordained laws and rules. Creation is Turing Complete, yet the no believer I know believes the emergence of higher order complexity in creation requires a Natural Selective process without God. However, few believers can show Natural Selection is wrong or point to such a system.
Stephen Wolfram's Rule 110 gives us a simple human example of a Turing Complete system which is neither quite random, nor quite repetitive and which is capable of higher order complexity as a consequence of the design of the system and without natural selection. This example contradicts every assumption necessary for belief in Natural Selection and proves it wrong; and Wolfram doesn't even believe in God. Oh what humour God has!
Samual Clemens once wrote that "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example ".
All of the other books in that list, are similar in value for understanding some mystery of the Bible including prophetic fulfilment (since prophecy is really nothing by history pre-written).
Alas, I thought I had you pegged.
Unfortunately, no graduate degrees are in my future.
Ekklesia, Wow. Impressive reading list. From the looks of it, you either teach in the area of OT/ANE or are a doctoral student in that area. Am I right?
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In no particular order:
a. A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE, Stephen Wolfram, ISBN-13 978-1579550080
b. THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE: Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, Arthur Koestler, ISBN-13 978-0330250696 and 978-0445042421
c. THE GRID 2, Second Edition: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Edited by Ian foster, Carl Kesselman, ISBN-13 978-1558609334
d. THE ANTIQUITES OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH, Rev. John Lingard, ISBN-13 978-1402173639
e. Vol VI: LEGAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL COURT OF NINEVEH, PART I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon, Edited by Theodore Kwasman and Simo Parpola, ISBN 951-570-093-0
f. LETTER PERFECT: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z, David SAcks, ISBN-13 978-0767911733
g. Vol V: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SARGON II, PART II: Letters from the Northern and Northeastern Provinces, Edited by Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Simo Parpola, ISBN 951-570-079-5
h. THE MEANING OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity, James Vanderkam, Peter Flint, ISBN-13 978-0060684655
i. ANCIENT ISRAEL: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND HOW DO WE KNOW IT?, Lester L. Grabbe, ISBN-13 978-0567032546
j. ANCIENT RECORDS OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLON – Vol II, Daniel David Luckenbill, ISBN-13 978-1854170491


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Younis Khan carried on from where he left off in the first Test as he played another solid innings for Pakistan on the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club today.
Younis followed up a match-winning double century in the first Test with an unbeaten 52 as Pakistan reached 163 for three at the close of play in reply to Zimbabwe's first innings total of 294.
When he reached 50 for the 49th time in Test cricket Younis became the fourth Pakistan batsman to reach 7000 runs in Tests.
Batsmen of both sides played cautiously on a slow pitch. Only five wickets fell in the day, while 222 runs were scored.
As in the first Test, Younis batted patiently against steady bowling. With several prominent cracks in the pitch he stretched well forward to most deliveries, with bat and pad close together to combat any unpredictable bounce.
Younis and fellow veteran Misbah-ul-Haq will resume on Thursday, after putting on 67 for the fourth wicket. They came together soon after tea when opening batsman Khurram Manzoor was run out for 51.
Younis faced 127 balls and hit six fours, while Misbah made 27 not out off 88 deliveries.
Manzoor, who was recalled for the Zimbabwe series after more than three years out of the Test team, survived confident appeals for a catch behind and leg before wicket early in his innings.
He showed good timing as he hit nine fours in reaching his fourth Test half-century off 119 balls, but his innings came to an end when he played the ball to leg and set off for a run. He was sent back by Younis and could not beat Elton Chigumbura's throw to wicketkeeper Richmond Mutumbami.
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"Congress has given Amtrak a critical national mission to provide intercity passenger rail service, and with an appropriate level of federal funding support, we can secure a stronger future for our country and reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil," Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman said in a statement earlier this month.
Romney also talked about America's energy security.
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I have a number of spoons and forks to tovel. Can I tovel them all at once using a crate with holes? Whats the best way of doing this? Is… Read more »
Category: Kashering utensils
Tevillat Keilim for Restaurant / Hotel
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Disassembling Sandwich Maker
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Tevillah for Polycarbonate Utensils
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Tevilah for Saucer
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Kashering Diamonds
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Kashering Pots from Meaty to Dairy
Question: If one has several used pots but does not know if they are dairy or meat, but knows that treif has never been cooked in any of them. Plus… Read more »
Drying Counter before Iruy
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Tevillah of China Dishes
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Kashering Glass Stove Top
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Tevillah for Baking with Paper
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Tevillah for Table
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Tevilah for Ceramic Mug
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Using Vase for Fruit
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Gemach of Glass Vessels
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Libun and Milui Ve-Irui before Pesach
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