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Phthalates, Parabens, Petrolatum, Sulfates and Mineral Oil
Water (Aqua/Eau), Glycerin, Dimethicone, Butylene Glycol, PEG-240/HDI/Copolymer Bis-Decyltetradeceth-20 Ether, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Phenoxyethanol, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Polyglyceryl-3 Methylglucose Distearate, Dimethiconol, Chlorphenesin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Polyacrylate, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Disodium EDTA, Parfum (Fragrance), Algae Extract, Citric Acid, Trideceth-6, Potassium Laurate, Artemisia Absinthium Extract, Artemisia Vulgaris Extract, BHT, CI 16035 (Red 40), Opuntia Ficus-Indica Stem Extract, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Leaf Extract, Benzyl Alcohol.
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A true breakthrough in beauty sleep, its NASA-inspired memory gel texture melts into your complexion replenishing the moisture skin can lose overnight (up to 25% of its levels) Wake up hydrated, restored and refreshed thanks to a repairing mix of our 24-hour Smart Hydrators
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How to use it
- Immediately after cleansing, smooth over face and neck, avoiding the eyes.
- Great alone or over your favorite night serum. Use 2-4x a week as part of your night ritual.
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Having a consistent ritual is the key to healthy, glowing skin. Here are a few more products you'll love!
Rated 5 out of 5 by Magnolia from What I call the Sleeping Beauty Mask! Let me start by saying I love Erno Laszlo products. Everything I have tried has made my skin feel so healthy and amazing. I am loving the Hydra Therapy Memory Sleep Mask I received compliments via Erno Laszlo and Influenster. First off, I do my cleansing ritual and usually apply Active Phetyl before bed, but I substitute that twice a week now with this mask and my skin wakes up so refreshed and moisturized. The texture is unlike any product I have applied on my skin before. It's similar to a gel but has a spring to it and feels so refreshing gliding onto my skin. It's definitely a new favorite that I wouldn't have considered before. My skin loves it.
Date published: 2018-02-01
Rated 4 out of 5 by Kathleen L from Hydra-Perfect I tried the Erno Laszlo Hydra-Therapy Memory Sleep Mask without having much knowledge on the product and if it worth all of the hype that I had heard. WOW was I happily surprised. First the scent is amazing light and calming scent. I used the product once the first week because I was nervous about my sensitive skin and at 50 have a new skin issue called vitiligo, well that was not a problem at all! I was able to follow it up with using it twice a week and the results were soft skin lighter dark spots and an all around brightness. I would've given it 5 stars but I need to see the long term effects. I did recieve this product for free to review #influenster
Date published: 2018-02-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by neonKP from My skin's new best friend! This was my first time trying an overnight mask and now that I know how incredible they are, I will never go back! The Sleep Mask is lush and goes on easily, soaking into my skin. It doesn't feel oily or leave any residue. It nourishes and moisturizes my face while I sleep. When I wake up my face feels soft and ultra-moisturized. The Sleep Masj has completely transformed my skin in the three weeks I've been using it. I have no more breakouts and my skin looks and feels more firm. This product is incredible. I look forward to using it for years to come! Please note that the Erno Laszlo Sleep Mask was kindly provided to me for free but the review is entirely my own opinion.
Date published: 2018-02-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by MacyB from Love this Mask!!! I had no idea there was a product like this available. I have normal to dry skin and this product is a miracle. I received compliments from my friends the day after using it at how "glowing" my skin looked! I feel it would be good for all skin types as it is very gentle and light but at the same time is very moisturizing without clogging pores. I am used to night creams being thick and causing breakouts but this texture is fabulous goes on smooth and delicately without clogging pores. Thank you Erno Laszlo and Influenster for sending me this complimentary product to test and give my honest review.
Date published: 2018-02-08
Rated 4 out of 5 by Strynite19 from Baby Skin Achieved! It's winter in Wisconsin and my skin is miserable. Enter the Erno Laszlo Hydra Therapy Memory Sleep Mask. The directions state to use it 2x per week. It comes with a cute little spatula. So you stick the spatula in the weird jelly and then smooth it onto your face and go to sleep. I rubbed the excess into the backs of my hands. I woke up with baby soft skin that didn't hurt or feel like it was stretched over my bones. I've used it twice and have had great results both times. It's light, it's got a very mild fragrance and it really delivers all day moisture. I received a free sample of this product, but the opinions are entirely my own.
Date published: 2018-01-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kellkell from Customer for Life! I receved the hydrating & nourishing mask product free for testing. I was super excited because I love all the Erno Laszlo I've ever used. I cleaned my skin with the Erno Laszlo white bar of soap before applying the mask. I applyed it on my face and neck area. My skin is semi sensitive. It has a nice light scent. After waking up after the first use my skin was so soft. The texture was softer to the touch. Reddness is normal for my skin but it had calmed it down. My skin looked more luminous. I'm going to continue to use this mask! If your skin is feeling dry, tight, dull, and just needs some TLC try this mask. I can't wait to try some more products.
Date published: 2018-02-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by ALexa87 from How good it feels! First off, this product smells so good! It has a relaxing scent to it. I am the type of person that gets put off by things that dont smell good. But this product smells so good. When you apply it doesnt feel sticky or make your face feel tight or dirty. I washed it off this morning according to the directions but before i applied my regular facial cream I felt my face and it was so smooth. It felt brand new. I cant wait to continue to use this product. I received this product as part of the Influenster campaign in order to test and review. This product was great. My opinions are strictly my own.
Date published: 2018-01-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by Souza from Goodbye dry skin! So, I will begin with the texture since it feels exactly how it looks which is similar to a strawberry yogurt. The fragrance is light and in my opinion smells like roses. Now, the product is amazing after applying my cleanser, I usually use this mask 2-3 times a week, and it instantly smooths my skin without the oily feeling. I would say the product could last up to about three months easily since it requires a minimal amount to apply. I am very satisfied with how well it refreshes and hydrates my skin, especially since it penetrates deep into the skin and lasts until waking up the next day. Plus, it is super convienent since you don't have to wash it off which allows time to soak up every bit of this pure goodness. I highly recommend it, especially if you have dry skin like mine.
Date published: 2020-07-28
Why do you need to avoid the eye area & brows when using the sleep mask? What happens if you use it in these areas?
While it is not harmful to use in the eye area or apply to brows, we recommend using only products specifically formulated for the eye around the area. The area around your eyes is very delicate and eye formulas tend to be created with a gentleness in mind to reduce pulling on the skin. We also do not recommend applying masks to any facial hair (including brows and beards) as it can be difficult to wash out.
Date published: 2018-11-08
I am close to 68 and have used EL when I was younger...now with La\Mer...would love to transition back to EL...My budget is limited so what do you recommend for mature skin? Will this product be enough?
I highly recommend this product. I started using EL over 40 years ago when I was in my early twenties and have used other high-end products like Revive and Amore Pacific since then However, I've recently reunited my skin with EL, not because of price, but because of their many advancements in skin care that put them at the head of the pack.
Date published: 2019-03-13
How would you recommend I use the night mask. It was given to me so can I use my facial oils and creams or is it clean face then the mask then bed?
You will want to do your normal cleansing and toning, and then apply the mask. If you are still feeling dry, you can apply a moisturizer over the mask as well.
Date published: 2019-01-24
I just purchased FIRMARINE NIGHT CREAM ... could I use this as well? Before or after I've put the night cream on?
You can use the Hydra-Therapy Memory Sleep Mask on its own, or as a layer before moisturizing, if you need more hydration.
Date published: 2019-01-24
How many nights a week do you use this product?
I use it a couple nights a week AND if I am not using makeup I use it in the day usually once a week. I love it. Feels great.
Date published: 2019-01-24
Is Hydraphel day cream SPF 15 still available? If not, what is the replacement for it to go with the Hydraphel Night cream?
The Hydra-Therapy Memory Sleep Mask is something I will never do without again in my life. It can be used at night after cleansing or any time during the day for a supercharge of moisture to your skin. It looks like a beautiful light pink gel in the jar, but when you apply it, it instantly turns to the smoothest liquid which absorbs almost immediately!!! Provides almost an immediate in the look and feel of your skin. Amazing!!
Date published: 2019-01-24
I assume you apply this after you toner. Then do you eliminate your serum and night cream after applying?
I love this stuff. I use it after my hydraphel toner. I sleep in it and then wash my face in the morning ... but even though this isn't how it is supposed to be used if I don't wear make up during the day, I use the same regimen in the day and I find it makes my face feel clean, fresh and plumped up.
Date published: 2018-01-30
Hydra-Therapy Memory Sleep Mask
Am I supposed to put this mask on every night or just a few times a week at night?
Hi Judy, Use immediately after cleansing. Smooth mask over the face and neck, avoiding eye area and brows. Blot off excess product. In the morning rinse off any mask residue with warm water and follow with the Erno Laszlo treatments and moisturizer prescribed specifically for your morning ritual. For optimal benefits, the mask should be used twice a week in conjunction with your regular Erno Laszlo products.
Date published: 2018-11-27


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The Global Social Network
"Desh ka bahut nuksaan hua hai", acknowledged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his military's recent failures against Pakistan in Balakot and Kashmir. This marked a major shift in Modi's belligerent tone that has been characterized by his boasts of "chhappan inch ki chhati" (56 inch chest) and talk of "munh tor jawab" (jaw-breaking response) and "boli nahin goli" (bullets, not talks) to intimidate Pakistan in the last few years. The recent events are forcing India's western backers to reassess their strategy of boosting India as a counterweight to China.
Balakot and Kashmir:
Indian government and media have made a series of false claims about Balakot "militant casualties" and "shooting down Pakistani F16". These claims have been scrutinized and debunked by independent journalists, experts and fact checkers. There is no dispute about the fact that Squadron Leader Hasan Siddiqui of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), flying a Pakistan-made JF-17 fighter, shot down Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman of Indian Air Force (IAF) flying a Russia made MiG 21. Abhinandan was captured by Pakistan and then released to India.
|Beautiful Balakot, Kaghan Valley, Pakistan
Western Narrative:
The widely accepted western narrative about India and Pakistan goes like this: "India is rapidly rising while Pakistan is collapsing". In a 2015 report from South Asia, Roger Cohen of New York Times summed it up as follows: "India is a democracy and a great power rising. Pakistan is a Muslim homeland that lost half its territory in 1971, bounced back and forth between military and nominally democratic rule, never quite clear of annihilation angst despite its nuclear weapons".
India-Pakistan Military Spending: Infographic Courtesy The Economist
India: A Paper Elephant?
In an article titled "Paper Elephant", the Economist magazine talked about how India has ramped up its military spending and emerged as the world's largest arms importer. "Its military doctrine envisages fighting simultaneous land wars against Pakistan and China while retaining dominance in the Indian Ocean", the article said. It summed up the situation as follows: "India spends a fortune on defense and gets poor value for money".
After the India-Pakistan aerial combat over Kashmir, New York Times published a story from its South Asia correspondent headlined: "After India Loses Dogfight to Pakistan, Questions Arise About Its Military". Here are some excerpts of the report:
"Its (India's) loss of a plane last week to a country (Pakistan) whose military is about half the size and receives a quarter (a sixth according to SIPRI) of the funding is telling. ...India's armed forces are in alarming shape....It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check".
Ineffective Indian Military:
Academics who have studied Indian military have found that it is ineffective by design. In "Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy Since Independence", the author Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale, has argued that the civil-military constraints that have helped prevent a coup have hurt Indian military effectiveness and preparedness in at least three important ways:
(1) the weakening of the army before the 1962 China war;
(2) the problems caused for defense coordination and preparation by unwieldy defense bureaucracy, duplication of functions among different branches and lack of sharing of information across branches and
(3) the general downgrading of pay and perks since independence which has left the army with huge shortage of officers that affected the force's discipline capabilities.
India's international perception as a "great power rising" has suffered a serious setback as a result of its recent military failures against Pakistan which spends only a sixth of India's military budget and ranks 17th in the world, far below India ranking 4th by globalfirepower.com. "Desh ka bahut nuksaan hua hai", acknowledged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his military's recent failures in Balakot and Kashmir. This marked a major shift in Modi's belligerent tone that has been characterized by his boasts of "chhappan inch ki chhati" (56 inch chest) and talk of "munh tor jawab" (jaw-breaking response) and "boli nahin goli" (bullets, not talks) to intimidate Pakistan in the last few years. The recent events are forcing India's western backers to reassess their strategy of boosting India as a counterweight to China.
Here's a discussion on the subject:
Here's Indian Prime Minister Modi making excuses for his military's failures:
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#NYTimes editorial board: "As long as #India and #Pakistan refuse to deal with their core dispute — the future of #Kashmir, India's only #Muslim-majority state — they face unpredictable, possibly terrifying, consequences." #Balakot #PakistanStrikesBack https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/opinion/kashmir-india-pakistan-n...
The current focus on North Korea's growing arsenal obscures the fact that the most likely trigger for a nuclear exchange could be the conflict between India and Pakistan.
Long among the world's most antagonistic neighbors, the two nations clashed again last week before, fortunately, finding the good sense to de-escalate. The latest confrontation, the most serious between the two nations in more than a decade, gave way to more normal pursuits like trade at a border crossing and sporadic cross-border shelling.
But this relative calm is not a solution. As long as India and Pakistan refuse to deal with their core dispute — the future of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state — they face unpredictable, possibly terrifying, consequences.
The current crisis dates to Feb. 14, when a Kashmiri suicide bomber killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary officers in the deadliest attack in three decades in Kashmir, a region that Pakistan has claimed since partition in 1947. The militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad, which seeks independence for Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan, took responsibility. While it is on America's list of terrorist organizations and is formally banned in Pakistan, the group has been protected and armed by the Pakistani intelligence service.
Last week, India sent warplanes into Pakistan for the first time in five decades. Indian officials said they had struck the group's "biggest training camp" and killed a "very large number" of militants, although those claims have been called into doubt. Pakistan counterattacked, leading to a dogfight in which at least one Indian jet was shot down and a pilot was captured by the Pakistanis.
The situation could have easily escalated, given that the two countries have fought three wars over 70 years, maintain a near constant state of military readiness along their border and have little formal government-to-government dialogue.
Adding to the volatility, India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, is waging a tough re-election campaign in which he has used anti-Pakistan talk to fuel Hindu nationalism.
With Pakistan's army most likely shaken by the Indian raid and unwilling to slide into protracted conflict, Prime Minister Imran Khan returned the pilot to India, in what was seen as a good-will gesture, called for talks and promised an investigation into the bombing. Mr. Modi took the opportunity to back off further escalation.
The next confrontation might not end so calmly.
Alison Redford: For too long, #Pakistan's actions have been unreasonably characterized as aggressive. #India's tactics have been increasingly violent, leading to more international criticism of its conduct and occupation of #Kashmir. #Modi #Hindutva https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-this-not-the-same-o...
First, in media reports, India refers to 40 years of terrorist attacks against India by Pakistan without equal mention of terror attacks perpetrated by India on Pakistani soil, as recently as three months ago in Karachi, or India's support for independence insurgents operating in the Northwest of Pakistan over the past 10 years.
Second, although in the past there have been allegations that Jaish-e-Mohammed has been supported by Pakistan, the organization has been banned in Pakistan since 2002 and support for its operations and training activity was withdrawn. Yet, India continues to assert this position, without providing evidence to support it.
Third, it is against the fundamental principles of international law to launch a military attack on civilian targets, which can be considered an act of war. In those circumstances, one can argue that Pakistan had the right to defend itself and that its response was both measured and reasonable.
On the Kashmiri question, Pakistan has called for United Nations mediation, but India has refused, saying that it is an internal issue, while violently suppressing a growing, and younger, local insurgent movement. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticized India for using excessive force in 2017. More than 500 people, including 100 civilians, have been killed in 2018.
In recent months, India's tactics have been increasingly violent, leading to more international criticism of its conduct and occupation of Kashmir, including most recently by British parliamentarians, and two resolutions at the OIC this past weekend condemning its violent actions in Indian-occupied Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also faces criticism domestically from Indian opposition leaders such as Rahul Gandhi, for manipulating these events to bolster Mr. Modi's political support in an election year.
There have been times when both countries have been accused of being involved in unwarranted actions against the other and the international community is quick to ignore the complicated dynamics in the region and rely on history. Instead, each incident should be assessed on its own merits to avoid dangerous rivalries from being perpetuated. With a real nuclear risk, we cannot afford to be complacent.
Ex #Indian Official's advice to #Modi:"Sub-conventional war with #Pakistan is the only option.The recent events, post-#Pulwamaattack, have amply demonstrated the limited utility of launching a conventional war with Pakistan." #BalakotAirStrike #Kashmir https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/et-commentary/sub-conven...
Covert operations by an intelligence agency are unlike the acts of terror groups, i.e., acts of mindless violence meant to terrorise the peopleand render the governments helpless against such asymmetrical acts of warfare. They are designed to create and promote disaffection against the governments and generally play up the existing fault lines and have long term devastating effects.
First and foremost, we should revive our support to the groups in Baluchistan fighting for their independence. Secondly, we should extendsupport to the Shia minority groups in Gilgit- Baltistan that have been ruthlessly suppressed by the Pakistan Army for the last 4 decades. Significantly Prime Minister Modi made a dramatic reference to their long-standing struggles in his speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2016 and much hope was raised in both quarters. That however proved to be illusory as there was no follow up action.
Thirdly, we should support other disaffected groups such as the Mohajirs in Sindh, the Saraikinationalist movement in Punjab, and the non-Taliban Pakthuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that have suffered untold misery in the hands of the majoritarian Punjabi army and the ISI who haveruthlessly murdered or caused disappearances of its leaders.
It is noteworthy that we don't even have to waste time in creating well -trained and highly motivated terror groups or 'fidayeens'. They are all there in Pakistan and in plenty. A cursory count indicates that there are over 65 terrorist organizations in Pakistan that have been banned from August 2001 to mid -2017 and are in diverse states of disarray and at least over 50 must be totally starved for funds. All we need is to pick up a handful of them, province wise and start funding. They will certainly work for anyone if the money is right and if channeled through the right sources, say a Saudi billionaire. Tehrik e- Taliban comes right on top of the list because of its excellent track record in targeting Pakistan's military and air-force installations and security agencies including the ISI.
And surely, this entire effort will cost less than one Rafale aircraft and the damage it will do, could equal the efforts of a squadron.
Cyber operations
The most effective low–cost, high- impact tool of modern warfare is offensive cyber warfare and this is one area that needs immediate and utmost attention. The fact that a handful of computers in the hands of highly skilled hackers could cause untold havoc to the critical infrastructure of the target country is, by now well understood by our policy makers. Unfortunately, the existing set-up the NTRO created for this task is woefully inadequate for the challenges. It is therefore urgent that we involve the huge IT and IT enabled services of the private sector, on a selective basis, to outsource the jobs that the NTRO is unable to do.
In most countries in the West, not every security related job is done by government agencies but by private firms that have core competence in the required field. Outsourcing jobs to them after vetting their security clearances and embedding them with government agencies is the utmost need of the hour. Since we are already handing over defence contracts to private entrepreneurs, there should be no problem in involving them in Cyber operations, as long as the choice of targets, nature of attacks and the timing and location of it are cleared at the highest levels of government so that the responsibility for the impact and possible retaliation rests with them.
Praveen Sawhney: Little Cause to Cheer the Balakot Airstrike and its Aftermath
The Modi government might still win the war of perception within India, but India's conventional deterrence has been compromised. Its war-fighting capabilities – pivoted on air power – have been blunted without a fight. This will have implications for the on-going proxy war by Pakistan. Meanwhile, Pakistan maintained credibility of both its first combined civil-military government and its air power.
" It was evident that the operation was meant for publicity. A case in point, unsubstantiated media reports claimed that 300 to 350 Jaish terrorists in Balakot were eliminated by IAF strikes, a claim that has since been questioned by the international media, which was allowed by Pakistan to visit the target site. Subsequently, other media reports have emerged claiming that the IAF fighters did not actually cross the Line of Control. Instead, Balakot was attacked using stand-off weapons. Hence, deliberate confusion continues."
"Since the war was neither on, nor imminent, it would have taken any professional air force (PAF is no exception) minimum 10 minutes from detection to reaction and interception. Moreover, the PAF did not have its airborne early warning aircraft in the air (AWACS cannot stay more than 24 hours in air), and the time was such that observers manning the Ground Based Air Defence System (GBADS) could not have been vigilant (it is not possible to remain on high alert 24×7 in peacetime)."
" Pakistan was faced with the dilemma of how to avenge India's unprecedented action: to use or not to use the PAF. It was decided that the PAF too would breach Indian airspace while calling it a non-military strike. Unlike the IAF, the PAF strike would be done with menacing force in broad daylight ensuring that Indian military installations close to the Line of Control were not damaged enough to compel India to raise the ante."
Nadir in the valley: #India's #Modi government is intensifying a failed strategy in #Kashmir. The conflict has claimed 50,000 lives since the 1980s. https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/03/09/indias-government-is-inte... via @TheEconomist
Guns have slipped back into holsters and diplomats behind their desks; the Samjhauta or "Concord" Express has resumed its reassuring bi-weekly chug connecting Lahore Junction and Old Delhi Station. Relations between India and Pakistan are returning to the normal huffy disdain after a week of military brinkmanship. For the divided and disputed border region of Kashmir, there is relief. Yet in the Kashmir Valley, a fertile and densely populated part of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir, this comes tempered with weariness. For its 7m inhabitants, most of them Muslim, a return to normal means a large and growing pile of frustrations. Some, such as bad government services and a deepening shortage of jobs, are familiar to all Indians. Others are unique to the valley.
Pakistan views the valley's Muslims as sundered citizens; its constitution prescribes what should happen not if, but "when", Kashmiris vote to join Pakistan. And since independence in 1947, Pakistan has never ceased trying to hasten this moment by sending guerrillas over the border to stir up jihad—although this week it claimed to rounding up such militants. India, for its part, says that Kashmir was lucky to fall to a secular, democratic country at partition and not to its violent, narrow-minded neighbour. But Indian governments turn deaf the moment people in the valley speak of greater autonomy, let alone azadi (independence). Their efforts at counter-insurgency have been disturbingly bloody. The conflict has claimed 50,000 lives since the 1980s.
Globalization of #Pakistan Army. It has global diplomatic footprint including defense diplomacy, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, international education and last by no means lest – #military sales and #defense cooperation. #pakistanarmedforces @TRTWorld https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/the-internationalisation-of-the-pa...
The Pakistan Army is making a concerted effort to relieve itself of its dependency on the US, and it might be working.
As the recent National Day military parade shows, the Pakistan Army now has a global diplomatic footprint that is turning into a multi-faceted force that includes defence diplomacy, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, international education and last by no means lest – military sales and defence cooperation.
It is a sharp contrast to September 11, 2001 – when under pressure and isolation threats, the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Musharraf buckled under American pressure. Almost two decades on, the Pakistan Army has become one of the most international armies in the world – more than three dozen militaries from around the world from Latin America to Australia are undergoing training in Pakistan's various service staff colleges, and defence cooperation with emerging BRICS powers is at an all-time high.
The diversification also underpins the new geopolitical realities of the army – unlike 2001 – it has nothing to fear as its allies and strategic outreach diversifies beyond an old dependence on American equipment and financial aid.
The legacy of American dependency
After September 11, 2001, one could hardly blame Musharraf as he realised the limitations of the army's fighting position – after a decade of US sanctions following the Pressler Amendment, Pakistan's military was in bad shape and could not challenge any American threats.
The Pakistan Air Force and the two dozen F-16s were hardly in a serviceable condition - its force was almost wholly just trained to fight on its eastern border rather than a counter-insurgency on the Afghan border as the Americans were demanding.
The US has been blackmailing Pakistan for almost three decades on the sale of F-16s, even the ones that Pakistan paid for were not delivered – and only after Pakistan agreed to take part in the global war on terror did F16s start arriving after two decades.
Even then Pakistan had to go to Turkey and Jordan for the delivery as a more reliable partner albeit with American permission. Pakistan is also yet to take delivery of Bell AH-1Z helicopter – the first batch was meant for delivery in 2017.
As of last autumn, it was reported that these latest sales are being blocked and kept in storage after Trump's cancellation of military aid. It is here where American foreign military sales—while still in demand—are no more a considerable nuisance for Pakistan. Over the last decade, Pakistan has firmly moved away from dependency on American military equipment and towards new international partnerships and self-reliance through an indigenous weapons program.
Pakistan's international training program
Just as the US announced last year it would cut Pakistani military participation in its elite training institution, the Russians signed a historic first welcoming Pakistani officers at their top military academies and colleges. Not only is this a complete reversal of Pakistan's Russia policy but also a new era of Pakistan's defence diplomacy. Similarly, the two have now set up regular training exercises, and Pakistan has bought attack helicopters.
Beyond just being at the receiving end of training, Pakistan had become the first non-Western army to have a platoon commander at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst, when Major Uqbah Hadeed Malik became the first Pakistani instructor at the world's premier defence academy. Under Uqbah's command the finest British officers and international cadets went on to graduate – subsequently Uqbah's successor, Major Umar Farooq won the prestigious Sovereign Platoon, the best-trained unit at Sandhurst.
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India thought — and many experts agreed — that there was a band in which India could act militarily and punitively. That, if India were to play within that band, it would make it extremely difficult for Pakistan to escalate to the nuclear level because such escalation would be considered highly disproportionate and would draw international opprobrium and consequences. The argument was that the certainty of international diplomatic and economic isolation would force Pakistan to stay its hand and not escalate to the nuclear level.
The banal equivalent of such a situation would be someone punching another person in a crowded bazaar and the victim, instead of keeping the fight to fisticuffs, chooses to draw and fire a pistol. Not only would such a person lose the sympathy of the crowd, he would also invite the full coercive and normative weight of the law.
The interesting assumption in all this, and one that should not be missed is this: the first-round result. Every subsequent assumption flows from what India could achieve militarily in the opening hand.
It is precisely for this reason that the opening round is so crucial for the aggressor, in this case India. To recap, as noted above in the list of assumptions, every subsequent assumption flows from the success of the opening round.
what is important is not whether Indian planes came into Pakistan (original claim), whether they struck in a stand-off mode (i.e. when aerial platforms are used from a safe distance, away from defensive weapons, and use precision munitions such as glide bombs to attack a distant target without actually coming upon the target and swooping down for a bombing run) or even whether they could or could not make a hit. The important and crucial point was that India had challenged Pakistan and Pakistan needed to put an end to the "new normal" talk. Pakistan chose its targets, struck to show resolve and capability and then also won the dogfight.
Later, we are told that India had thought of using missiles to hit nine targets in Pakistan. But Pakistan readied its missiles and informed India that it will hit back. That forced India to back off. If this is true — and it comes to us from a briefing by Prime Minister Imran Khan — then it seems that Modi had nursed the idea of playing a very dangerous hand, which he couldn't because that would have meant exchange of missiles between a nuclear dyad — a development which has remarkable escalation potential. Missilery between nuclear powers is a big no. There's no known technology in the world that can determine whether the incoming missile has a tactical or a strategic (nuclear) warhead and that can lead to response miscalculation.
The two sides are back to the 'old normal' — artillery and small-arms duelling across the LoC. The attempt by an Indian submarine to enter Pakistan's territorial waters was also deftly picked up by Pakistan Navy, with the sub forced to return. It could have been sunk but Pakistan, in keeping with its policy of not escalating, chose not to make a hit.
From here on, there's nothing more for India but to understand the imperative of positive engagement through a sustained dialogue. The framework for such engagement is already in place. There is no alternative to talking and walking that talk. But that will not happen until we see the electoral contest in India and its results.
At the same time, Pakistan must not underestimate India based on these limited rounds. While India could not coerce Pakistan militarily at this moment, if the growth differential between Pakistan and India continues to grow, the technological asymmetry will increase to the point where strategies of coercion could kick into play. That scenario could see very different results on the ground. For instance, India will possess the anti-access, area-denial (A2/AD) S-400 system by 2020.
#Indian defense analyst Pravin Sawhney: Fighting tactical battles for one-upmanship. #Rafale and #S400 would certainly help Indian Air Force, but would not tilt the operational level balance in #India's favor in conflict with #Pakistan https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/fighting-tactical-battles... via @thetribunechd
The issue, thus, is about tactics and operational level of war. The Pakistan military, learning from the Soviet Union, has always given importance to the operational level. This is why in the 1965 and 1971 wars, despite being more in bean-counting of assets, India never won in the western sector. Proof of this are the ceasefire line and the Line of Control, which otherwise would have been converted into international borders.
The situation, regrettably, remains the same today. Separate doctrines of the Army and the Air Force, and with each service doing its own training is evidence that no amount of modernisation would help if the focus of service chiefs remains on tactics. For example, after the Balakot operation, a senior Air Force officer told me that the PAF would not last more than six days. He believed in tactical linear success. What about the other kinetic and non-kinetic forces which impact at the operational level?
This is not all. Retired senior Air Force officers started chest-thumping about the Balakot airstrike having set the new normal. Some argued that air power need not be escalatory, while others made the case for the use of air power in counter-terror operations like the Army. Clearly, they all were talking tactics, not war. Had India retaliated to the PAF's counter-strike, what it called an act of war, an escalation was assured. It is another matter that PM Narendra Modi had only bargained for the use of the IAF for electoral gains.
Talking of tactics, Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa spoke about relative technological superiority. Perhaps, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman would not have strayed into Pakistani airspace if his MiG-21 Bison had Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Operational Data Link (ODL). The SDR operates in the VHF, UHF, Ku and L bandwidths and is meant to remove voice clutter. The ODL provides the pilot with data or text, in this case from the ground controller. The officer, separated from his wing-man, and without necessary voice and data instructions, unwittingly breached the airspace and was captured by the Pakistan army. There are known critical shortages of force multipliers in addition to force levels in the IAF. Surely, the IAF Chief can't do much except keep asking the government to fill the operational voids. But, he could avoid making exaggerated claims since his words would only feed the ultra-nationalists, and support the Modi government's spurious argument of having paid special attention to national security.
The same is the case with Rafale and S-400. These would certainly help, but would not tilt the operational level balance in India's favour. For example, the IAF intends to use S-400 in the 'offensive air defence' role rather than its designed role of protecting high-value targets like Delhi, for which it was originally proposed. For the protection of high-value targets, the Air Headquarters has made a strong case to purchase the United States' National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS). This is ironic, because while S-400 can destroy hostile ballistic missiles, NASAMS can't do so. It can only kill cruise missiles and other aerial platforms. The thinking at the Air Headquarters is that since there is no understanding on the use of ballistic missiles — especially with Pakistan — both sides are likely to avoid the use of ballistic missiles with conventional warheads lest they are misread and lead to a nuclear accident. So, NASAMS may probably never be called upon to take on ballistic missiles.
Given the direction of the relationship between the India and Pakistan, this assumption may not be the best to make when procuring prohibitively expensive high-value assets.
#Modi threatens #Pakistan: We have not kept our nuclear arsenal for Diwali: PM Narendra Modi warns Pakistan. #India #BJP #nukes https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/we-have-not-kept-ou...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today issued a stern warning to Pakistan and said that India no longer fears Pakistan's nuclear threats. PM Modi further said that India's nuclear arsenal are not saved for Diwali. The BJP leader's comment came during a rally at Rajasthan's Barmer. PM Narendra Modi said, "India has stopped the policy of getting scared of Pakistan's threats ... Every other day, they would say 'we have nuclear button'. Our media used to write that Pakistan too has nuclear weapons ... What do we have then? Have we kept ours (nuclear arsenal) for Diwali?"
Ex CM of #India Occupied #Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti hits back at PM #Modi , says #Pakistan #nuclear bombs not kept for Eid either
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister's statement came after the prime minister had bragged about India's nuclear capability.
Peoples Democratic Party chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bragging about India's nuclear capability. She accused Modi of "stooping low" and lowering the country's political discourse.
On Sunday, Modi had said that his government had refused to be intimidated by Pakistan's nuclear threats and that with the Balakot air strike, India had given Pakistan a "fitting reply". "What do we have then? Have we kept our nuclear bomb for Diwali?" Modi had said at a rally in Barmer district of Rajasthan. Modi had said that his government had made the terrorists afraid from across the border and the results of it were visible as there were no blasts anywhere in the country in the last five years.
On Monday, Mufti said, "If India hasn't kept nuclear bomb for Diwali, it's obvious Pakistan's not kept theirs for Eid either. Don't know why PM Modi must stoop so low & reduce political discourse to this."
Addressing reporters in Kulgam, Mufti once again criticised Modi for his remark. "What Pakistan [nuclear bombs] possesses would not be saved for Eid either. We are evenly placed in this matter," she said.


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I was exposed to programming a couple of times in my life before I decided to dive in headfirst. The first was in high school at a summertime Code Clinic in C++ at UCLA. I remember the students who were helping to run it telling my parents that I would be good at it, but didn't really learn anything exciting so that was that. The next time was in my CS5 class at Harvey Mudd College where my final project was to build a Connect Four Game in Java. I stayed up super late finishing this one, and I really enjoyed it, but didn't really catch the bug.
The moment that I realized that I could really do it for a living was much later. Let me back up a little bit before that so you have some context. In the late summer of 2013, I began working at a company called AcoustaGrip that manufactures accessories for the string family of instruments. When I got there, the website was in need of quite a few updates and we were about to come out with a new line of products for which we needed to add pricing and information to add them to our online store.
The site was built in WordPress, so I picked up every tutorial I could find about how to work with the WordPress CMS. After a while, it became apparent that there were quite a few limitations to what you were able to do in the WordPress visual editor in terms of configuring things as simple as the spacing between elements. To get around those limitations, I began teaching myself some HTML. I remember I found a pretty outdated tutorial that was really exciting to me. I showed it to a friend of mine and he recommended I check out Codecademy. I signed up right away and got totally addicted to watching those progress bars advance, slowly but surely, as I leveled up my skills.
I remember having quite a bit of trouble getting the knowledge to apply to the WordPress site. Some things would work, some things wouldn't. The CSS was challenging at the beginning, learning about the box model and how specificity of CSS selectors in our WordPress theme's stylesheet would cause certain declarations on my CSS selectors to be overridden, but the real snag was trying to use Javascript within WordPress. At that point, I wasn't working much with PHP because I hadn't discovered Child themes yet (or version control for that matter) and I was wary of breaking anything.
The moment I discovered the CSS and JavaScript Toolkit plugin was pivotal in my progress as a developer. I was able to actually apply my knowledge of HTML, CSS & Javascript to influence behavior within a live website. It allowed me to experiment with using different files to hold the CSS & JS for different purposes, I experimented with modals, making my own popups and general tinkering. Still, A lot of the time I really felt like I was spinning my wheels.
Codecademy Labs
I got an email from the Codecademy newsletter about their Beta of the Codecademy labs program. A 12-week part time program where students would work through a curriculum consisting of 20 hours of work per week along with 6 hours of in person work with a Tutor and 1 or two weekly 2 hr study groups. The topics to be covered were: HTML & CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails & AngularJS. I applied right away and I was ecstatic when I was selected to be part of the program.
Being part of Codecademy Labs in the beginning of 2015 was what really turned me onto the path I'm on today. Knowing that there was a wealth of information out there for beginners available for free was very exciting to me. When I got into that 12 week course, I was still working full time and playing in 3 bands, needless to say I was overwhelmed. I spent most of my time coding and working on side projects to apply what I'd learned. But all of that is the long way of getting to the moment that I knew that I could be a programmer: I asked a lot of questions and my tutors didn't always know the answers. No, they didn't know all of the answers, but they knew where to look and they were confident in their ability to figure it out.
When I realized that these people were, in fact, humans that happened to have a lot of patience and a very well honed practice of Google-fu, I knew that I could be a programmer. If I know anything about myself for certain, it's that I have the ability to grow over time through the application of disciplined practice towards developing a long term skill. Personal growth has always been an obsession of mine and I've been an avid reader for the past 15 years. I think the combination of patience and a voracious desire for consuming written words is a good one for a programmer to have.
Developing a Programming Mindset
Programming is Hard. This country has a huge demand for programmers and not enough qualified people to meet it. It's a big problem. The Booming Coding Boot-camp industry is an obvious attempt to solve this problem by filling the gap in terms of preparing people with the basic knowledge they need to become software developers. The other aspect of the gap is the emotional journey that one needs to take to become a programmer. There are so many different ways to solve the problems that software developers face on a daily basis that the idea of reading a book and learning the right way to do software development just doesn't work.
One of the biggest barriers to entry into Programming is all of the popular culture stereotypes about hackers. You know, the socially awkward genius who sits down at a keyboard, types 100 words a minute, hacks into giant systems, steals information, does massive damage and leaves no trace — all without breaking a sweat. In fact, software development as it is currently practiced is an intensely collaborative endeavor, one where the constant iteration on ideas within one company has lead to some truly astounding innovations that have been immensely valuable to the larger community of software developers. Thanks to Facebook, we have React. Thanks to Google, we have AngularJS. Thanks to Twitter, we have Bootstrap.
Programmers spend 90% reading and consuming code, whether they wrote it or somebody else did, a programmers job has much more to do with understanding code and learning how to reuse it than it does writing new code. In fact, the best programmers are often the lazy ones. Now let me clarify this, because I sometimes have to remind myself of this: being someone who wants to dig in and solve every problem that comes up can sometimes be much less efficient (especially if it's a habit) than being someone who has learned to interject the thought: "I wonder if somebody else has already had this problem and come up with a really awesome solution to it." Then the problem becomes "How would I describe this problem and reason about it? And what does Google have to say?" rather than "How do I solve this problem?".
Simply put, programming is creative problem solving. It's not easy, it involves a lot of technical skills and forces you to develop a method of coping with frustration and really examining your own thought process. Becoming a Programmer is a truly transformative experience–not one to be taken lightly. If you happen to be someone who loves a challenge, loves to make connections between ideas and actions, and is insanely obsessed with learning everything about the thing that you love, becoming a programmer might just be the most rewarding thing you ever decide to do. If you think that the way that technology is developing so quickly and changing the way the world works is really exciting, becoming a programmer is one of the best ways to get a front row seat.


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High profile awards ceremonies, product launches and annual conferences on the rise
South Kensington based venue the Science Museum reveals a 160% increase in major event bookings following last year's £1.7m investment in its corporate events spaces.
Since transforming the Museum's IMAX cinema and the Level 1 space for corporate hire, the venue has seen a significant increase in demand for large scale events such as annual conferences, awards ceremonies and product launches. Events of this kind comprised 36% of the venue's delivered events last year, equating to an overall growth of over 160% from 2011 to 2012.
Last year, the Science Museum invested circa £1.7 million in the refurbishment of its facilities, including the installation of new equipment for the IMAX cinema, renovations of the exterior and main concourse, as well as the installment of façade lighting, new reception desks and additional digital signage throughout the venue to enhance the corporate events offering.
Source: http://www.incentivetravel.co.uk


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LONDON, April 21 (UPI) -- The International Maritime Bureau said Tuesday that the first quarter of 2009 has seen a sharp spike in pirate incidents off the volatile coast of Somalia.
The bureau's Piracy Reporting Center released a report that documented 102 incidents with pirates off the Somali coast in the first quarter compared with 53 during the same period in 2008. The near doubling suggests a growing seriousness of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, reported the IMB, which is part of the International Chamber of Commerce.
The Piracy Reporting Center also found that in the first three months of 2009, actual pirate attacks have increased by 20 percent -- including nine hijacked vessels.
The increase in violence in the Gulf of Aden has put an international spotlight on the Horn of Africa region. While organizations like the International Crisis Group have called for increased measures to address the root problems of piracy stemming from Somalia's failed state, the international community has responded with new deployments of naval forces to the region.
"The navies have played a key role in controlling piracy in the Gulf of Aden," Pottengal Mukundan, IMB director, said in statement.
"It is vital that these naval operations continue."


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Clifton Hodge and the Challenges of Urban Nature Study
After several leading members of his faculty were lured to the University of Chicago by Clark University's new president, William Rainey Harper, Hall invited Clifton Hodge, a recent Ph.D. graduate of Johns Hopkins and former fellow at Clark in biology and psychology, to return as assistant professor in 1892. Hall encouraged Hodge to emphasize science teaching and to contribute to Hall's new journal, Pedagogical Seminary, which was published at Clark. Hodge wrote a series of essays entitled "Foundations of Nature Study" and regularly reviewed nature study literature for the educational publication. Hodge was explicitly critical of some textbooks being produced, but he also argued that the topic should be offered because elementary-aged children were at a crucial stage for learning from nature. Putting his research and experience to use, in 1903 he published the textbook Nature Study and Life, which would reportedly sell a million copies. The volume had numerous pictures and line drawings and specific ideas about appropriate projects for the classroom, as well as for neighborhoods. Following Hall's lead, Hodge concentrated on the challenges facing teachers in heavily industrial cities like Worcester. He believed that urban industrial society could come to terms with the organic world in which it was actually situated through a carefully conceived approach to nature study. One project, for example, had children become familiar with just one city block in Worcester. Pupils mapped the block, filled in houses and outbuildings, then identified trees and shrubs, and completed the project by noting nests of birds. They also observed and recorded information about which shrubs attracted particular birds by providing shelter and edible fruits. In another class, they built bird houses and feeders and watched the changing density of the bird population over subsequent years. Hodge, who had evident conservationist leanings, pointed out the importance of counting for the bird census and the growth of knowledge about valuable wildlife. He argued that the personal engagement meant the children would "hardly be induced to molest a bird's nest" in the future.
Hodge did not have the advantage of a campus practice school like his colleagues at Chicago and Columbia, but he worked closely with Mary C. Henry, principal of Upsala Street School in Worcester, to test his ideas in her teachers' classrooms. From the outset, his definition of nature study had a frequently quoted theme of human practicality, or, as he put it, "Learning those things in nature that are most worth knowing to the end of doing those things that make life worth living." Undoubtedly it was the engaging yet simple suggestions that made his text popular; it was typically placed high on summer institute reading lists on nature study. Community leaders took notice, too. The president of the Worcester Natural History Society encouraged his members to support the programs in nature study, noting that this new curriculum "created an opportunity to be helpful" to teachers by providing specimens and information.
Hodge, as we shall later see, brought a different and sometimes contentious point of view on nature study and never seemed to enjoy the collegiality of most nature study advocates. Perhaps because he was in a struggling industrial town with a significant immigrant population, he embraced the urban, even industrial possibilities offered by nature study alongside the agricultural. He certainly thought that much teaching would be more effective if the lessons were practical. He anticipated that his "confrères" in the movement might call him "farmer" or "granger"' or "degraded utilitarian" but nonetheless argued that the purpose of nature study was to learn how to control the forces of nature for the highest human happiness and the best human good.
One of his most publicized projects involved Worcester school children working to solve the problem of mosquitoes, recently shown to carry the endemic disease of malaria. Under the guidance of teacher Edna Thayer, elementary and grammar school students reviewed the life history of the mosquito, collected larvae from local stagnant water and then watched the life cycle unfold in their classroom. They also learned by experiment that oil on the surface of the water, whether in glass containers or in the stagnant pools along nearby Beaver Creek, would destroy the potential pests. As Hodge pointed out, as the children learned, so did their parents, with the result that the community subsequently sponsored a drainage project to eliminate the swamps with their mosquito larvae and thus resolved the disease problem at its source. Hodge argued that the wider public attention was important:
I am inclined to think that the main reason why for the past year we have not heard one word about nature study being a "fad" or a "waste of time" is to be found in these simple mosquito lessons. And why should not the children of every community grapple with such problems? Why should they not be encouraged to utilize every possible condition which may instill the sense of mutual cooperation and brotherhood and thus grow strong in the principles of intelligent citizenship?
Hodge's rhetorical questions made clear that for many advocates nature study was as much about civic and individual enhancement as it was about the natural sciences; but knowing how to do systematic scientific inquiry was essential.
Anna Comstock: Author, Illustrator, Educator
John Comstock's wife, Anna Botsford Comstock, often traveled with him on lecture tours in the countryside in the late 1880s, speaking to farm women and families. The chestnut-haired former school teacher spoke with polished confidence as she used familiar examples to discuss the importance of both schools and country life. She also worked closely with her husband as a highly skilled illustrator, editor, and coauthor of A Manual for the Study of Insects, a book that quickly became the standard reference. Although beyond the capacities of elementary teachers, the college text enhanced the reputation of John Comstock as its senior author. The partners collaborated on any number of projects and Anna typically wrote about "our" laboratory and "our" books. The couple shared an enthusiasm for education, and in 1891 Anna Comstock ran a successful summer school field laboratory where students studied "Nature under the most favorable opportunities, when we can see her face to face, not merely books and preserved specimens." She herself had experienced the isolation of teaching in a small rural school, and she was eager to help others who had a more limited education. A contemporary noted that a casual acquaintance with botany, geology, natural philosophy and chemistry merely allowed teachers to introduce such subjects "incidentally, as a means of culture and for the purpose of keeping up interest, enthusiasm, assisting in governing, and with the hope that some good seeds may be sown which will find proper soil and [stimulate] a future Agassiz or Linnaeus." For Comstock and her colleagues, science was too important to be left to happenstance.
As the depression of the 1890s deepened into the Panic of 1893 in upstate New York and throughout the country, the state legislature appointed a Committee for the Promotion of Agriculture. Anna Comstock was made a member of that committee, which was instructed to address the "abandoned farm" problem as entire families left to look for work in larger cities. Comstock, who had a bachelor's degree in zoology and was familiar with work at Oswego Normal School, thought the nature study curriculum could be adapted to rural schools. In 1894 the legislature appropriated additional funds for farm extension work at Cornell that specifically mentioned the phrase "nature study," and by 1896 it had allotted $18,000 a year for the work. The Cornell team had a mandate to create a program specifically for the small and often isolated country schools of New York, led by Anna Comstock and her colleague, Liberty Hyde Bailey.
In 1894 Anna Comstock developed a course of nature study for the Westchester County school district. Because, as a woman, she was not at first a regular member of the Cornell faculty, she partnered initially with James Rice and later with Isaac P. Roberts in the School of Agriculture. When Liberty Hyde Bailey became administrator for the nature study program, Anna Comstock received a full-time appointment as instructor. This was a bittersweet event because Comstock was initially appointed as an assistant professor but the Board of Regents overturned her appointment. She remained an instructor until finally promoted to full professor in 1913. Their balance of leadership skills would prove extraordinarily productive, each bringing strengths of oratory, authorship, and administration as they coordinated a rapidly growing curriculum and became visible advocates for nature study throughout the state and beyond.
Anna Comstock was born an only child in a cabin in Cattaraugus County and thus empathized with the circumstances of rural families. She conversed easily with local teachers and was familiar with the object-lesson approach that had made Oswego Normal School nationally known. A student colleague of John Comstock, Henry Straight, had taught at Oswego briefly before taking his position at Cook County Normal School. Later the Comstocks became acquainted with Charles B. Scott, who in 1895 left the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota, for Oswego Normal School, where he transformed its object-lesson orientation toward nature study. Scott, who taught nature study to about fifty teachers each year and oversaw the public school program for nearly five hundred pupils in Oswego, became chair of a committee of the state teachers association that sought to introduce "real" nature study and offset the "tendency to be satisfied with mere book work and cramming for examination."
For Anna Comstock, an emphasis on using natural specimens as a basis of study was an appropriate pedagogical strategy for children, and her approach reflected the popular field excursions that John Comstock took with his college and summer school students. Anna's technique was a pragmatic variant on the child-centered philosophy of the progressive educators at the University of Chicago, since both started with the practical intention of using the presumed innate curiosity of children. Nature study in both theory and practice emphasized visual and other sense experiences, and Anna Comstock made those connections quite explicit. For her, the poetic and aesthetic qualities of the environment complemented the practical and familiar outlook toward nature that she and the teachers would promote.
From her base at Cornell, she encouraged teachers and parents using the pamphlet series, Home Nature-Study Course, which guided individual correspondence students through various topics by soliciting their outdoor observations. Assignments were intense for both students and teacher, and those who completed ten lessons earned a certificate. Comstock's goal was to train teachers to be observant in a systematic way and then pass their techniques along to their students. The assignments in "Bird Study" not only required physical descriptions of birds but also pointed readers to their behavior, asking readers to note, for example, that the hen and rooster express "at least ten different mental conditions or emotions with perfect distinctiveness" by voice. She further argued that these were behaviors learned from adult fowl, commenting tartly that there should be "a society for the prevention of incubation, or the establishment of asylums for idiot ducklings hatched in them."
Comstock's work had an aesthetic sensibility not much visible in the earlier nature study textbooks by Jackman, Lange, and others. She had studied wood engraving for six months at Cooper Union and became a member of the Society of American Wood Engravers to help illustrate her husband's manual of insects, Introduction to Entomology. Anna made many of its over six hundred illustrations. As nature study became a more established curriculum, John published his less-technical Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature Study in 1897; also illustrated by Anna, it sold well and demonstrated the market for such specialized books. Anna's own insect book, Ways of the Six-Footed, did especially well with elementary nature study teachers. With chapters organized by habitat, such as ponds, meadows, and forests, this book also typifies the observant instructor's familiar writing style. Highly productive, she wrote well-illustrated school leaflets, but there she often used photographs rather than the more time-consuming woodcuts her husband preferred for his scientific publications. Her friends in biology also contributed to the pamphlet series, among them Susanna Phelps Gage, wife of another Cornell professor, Simon Gage. Phelps Gage's leaflet, "The True Story of the Little Red-spot," concerned a vermillion-spotted newt. Nature study became quite literally a cottage industry in Ithaca, engaging others with artistic talent, including bird illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes. An undergraduate, Effie, recalled that the classes by John and Anna Comstock "changed my life completely." Having studied art for two years, she developed a technique to hand-color lantern slides, an incredibly complex task in terms of precision and projected color. She worked with a watercolor company to find the right translucence, and the product allowed lecturers across the country to show colored slides. Themes of nature's aesthetic, knowledge acquisition, and practical advice were seamlessly interwoven into the leaflets, study guides, and textbooks alongside ideas about democracy and civic life.
Expanding on the instructional materials she had written in the previous decade, in 1911 Anna Comstock produced her Handbook of Nature Study. When the New York State Department of Agriculture declined to publish the eight-hundred-page manuscript, Anna turned to the Comstock Publishing Company, which her husband and his colleague Simon Gage had started in 1893 to control the quality of their own publications and to reissue updated versions regularly. The publishing enterprise grew to fill a neighboring cottage along the Fall Creek Gorge. Although John Comstock was skeptical about the costs involved in producing Anna's large manuscript, the book proved instantly successful, eventually going through more than twenty editions and translation into eight languages; it remains in print today.
Her essays typically started with something familiar and close at hand—a dandelion, a grasshopper, or a smooth stone—and she then encouraged her reader to think about its relationship to others of its own kind and to the complex environment in which it had been found. Her straightforward commentary, which reflected on both the elegant simplicity and yet the diversity of nature, combined with an acute artistic sensibility made her distinctive among the nature study theorists. Accolades for her teaching qualities started early and persisted as students responded to Comstock's humor and humaneness while acknowledging her high intellectual expectations of them. When Anna was recognized as one of twelve outstanding women in the United States in the 1920s, a former student reflected on her teacher's approach:
It's because she never selected some special line and stuck just with that. She stands back of it all—the study of animal, plant, insect life. She could be a specialist in any one of those branches, but she's taught us and inspired us with the subject as a whole—kept it all related . . . She has made the subject human as no other real scientist has done. I guess it's that and the genius she has for helping others to understand and find out things for themselves.
This exceptional teacher took her growing national reputation in stride and never lost sight of the pupils and teachers who relied on her efforts. Thus she recommended to Bailey that they send postcards to five thousand rural teachers with the hope of getting perhaps five hundred of them into correspondence with her, using the Cornell materials.
Cornell agricultural faculty members concentrated on increasing farm production, but the Cornell nature study program emphasized the wider countryside, including meadows, streams, and forests. Comstock encouraged children to bring small animals, such as turtles from a local creek, to their classes, but urged students to return the specimens to their same habitat rather than letting them "loose to scatter bewildered and helpless over a strong earth." The ecological sensibility in her writing meshed well with the conservation movement gaining strength at the turn of the century. It also attested to her personal environmental perspective, far from what she and others labeled the "specie hunter" outlook.
(Excerpted from Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, © 2009 by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. You can pre-order this book from the University of Chicago Press.)


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I intentionally don't spend too much time talking about people here at The Box, but just picked up from NewTeeVee that Jm Louderback will be leaving PC Magazine and Ziff Davis to rejoin former TechTV colleague Kevin Rose at Revision3. I'm sure Jim will be happy to be more fully back in the video space.
Jim brought me to Ziff Davis in a freelance role in 2003 to launch and run Ziff Davis's Wireless Supersite (eventually folded into eWEEK) and is a one-of-a-kind fusion of consumer technology expertise and marketing savvy. This is a great loss for Ziff Davis. That said, I congratulate Lance Ulanoff, who is taking over the helm at the venerable PC publication, and wish him well in his new role.
Finally, congratulations to Veronica Belmont, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at CTIA, on her new host post at Mahalo. She's going to bring a great level of excitement and value to the human-powered search site.


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If you're watching TV tonight, you almost have no choice but to watch Stand Up to Cancer.
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Muziek uit het Noorden
Episode 45: Music from the North of the NetherlandsFirst aired: Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17.40 hours
Tangarine, D-Devotion vs. Denyse, Vanderlinde, Mundo Park and Swinder.
In Muziek uit het Noorden are music clips broadcast from artists who come from the north. Known and lesser known artists come by. Weekly with a healthy dose of video clips, something for everyone! In this episode of Muziek uit het Noorden:
Swinder - Vief veur elf (from Groningen)
Born and raised in the shadow of Groningen city and with a limited vocabulary to Groninger ' moi' singer-songwriter Bass Schröder ( 1983) knows nothing of the dialect spoken in the village for years.
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Mundo Park - City on fire (from Friesland)
Catchy melodies, compact structures and recognizable themes, which are the pillars of Mundo Park the band. The result is refreshing Indy pop, often bursts with energy, sometimes subdued and sensitive. Their music sounds like The Kooks, The Wombats and Go Back To The Zoo, but with a clear own signature.
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Vanderlinde - Embrace the rain (from Groningen)
The music of Vander Linde is characterized by purity, openness, recognition, but is also surprising. According to insiders, the music is best described as pop / rock-like, in the style of Crowded House / Jason Mraz.
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D-Devotion vs. Denyse - The right time (from Friesland)
D-Devotion is a music project of Karel Post and the British top producer Pete Hammond , he is known for numerous hits including the last number 1 billboard songs of Kylie Minogue ; Put You Hands Up . The song The right time was written , produced and mixed by Karel Post and the singer is Denise Rivera.
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Tangarine - Move on, John (from Drenthe)
As their twelfth year, the brothers Sander and Arnout Brinks makes music together. They were heavily influenced at that time by the folk tradition of the sixties . In the years that followed , they released four albums independently. For years they organized handedly across the country tickets, homes to community centers.
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"Oops! I forgot", is a common refrain and a very embarrassing one too – especially when you forget a loved one's birthday or when a seemingly important task simply skips your mind. Maybe it is our stressful lifestyles or maybe we are just not attentive and alert enough to make a mental to-do list, but forgetfulness is something that most of us experience more often than we'd like. If you have been wondering what you can do to help yourself out of this annoying tendency, here's something that will pique your interest. Shakespeare said it, we said it and now even scientists have agreed to the "memory-enhancing" properties of Rosemary essential oil. A recent article published by the Daily Mail states that exposure to Rosemary essential oil can improve memory by a whopping 60-75%!
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This might seem an odd topic for a summer post, but since deciding a few weeks ago to reduce my intake of bread and other gluten-heavy substances, I have been starting each day with a bowl of delicious (and gluten-free) porridge–or as we like to call it here, a big bowl of health.
Now, writing about porridge may seem an unnecessary venture as folks like Mark Bittman (for one, with his vegan-until-six strategy for optimal health and greater sustainability), and his faithful followers, have long preached the benefits of eating one's daily gruel, expounding on the plethora of available grains, both glutinous and gluten-free, and the manifold approaches one might take toward their preparation.
Before Bittman, there were mothers and grandmothers who served up oatmeal and Cream of Wheat and Red River with milk and, at least when mom was looking the other way, copious amounts of brown sugar. And later, in university, a host of instant hot cereals that could be easily made with a spoon and a mug of hot water. Though I found these cereals for the most part revolting, they did make excellent companions on hiking and camping trips, and could satisfy the appetite and its cravings when there was little money in the bank and seemingly nothing in the pantry.
For me, however, what has made this last month of porridge consumption feel like something worth writing about is the discovery of what might be called a summer porridge, and the abundant pleasures associated with its preparation. In fact, there is something quite meditative about the process, and this is perhaps one of the things I like most about it. Instead of shoving some toast into my mouth while sitting at the computer or walking to the metro, or not eating anything at all–my heretofore range of possible breakfast activities–I am required to wait patiently near the stove for 10-15 minutes, gently stirring.
Sure, the same kind of attention can be given to the folding of an omelette or the boiling of an egg, but as I prefer to eat this most perfect of foods for lunch or supper, my morning meal has long been of the toast with cheese and jam variety. And because in all aspects of my life I am striving for a greater sense of calm, this two-minute breakfast leaves me feeling both spiritually and physically wanting.
It may sound hokey, but its true.
And so to porridge. When I moved out of the house at 19, I stopped eating porridge altogether, thinking it too old-fashioned and uncool. In fact, for most of my 20s and 30s, I did not eat breakfast at all, save the occasional tub of yoghurt, which a fellow student told me was scientifically-proven to increase memory and therefore aid in the writing of exams. Eating breakfast just made me hungry, and because I was rarely organized enough to make myself lunch and could not be bothered to go out and hunt something down, hunger was something I wanted to avoid. When my husband got wind of this a few years ago–I was often off to work before he rose–he took it upon himself to improve my habits. That this agenda coincided with a shift to working later in the day made it easier for him to put his plan into effect, yet though I have long enjoyed the pleasures of a leisurely weekend brunch, the eating of breakfast remained something of an obligation.
But things have changed.
My favorite breakfast treat, both to eat and prepare, is a bastardized version of a recipe I found in Mangoes and Curry Leaves by Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford.
The pleasures begin at the market, especially now, with the abundance of peaches, plums and fresh berries available (in the winter, mangoes and frozen berries will suffice). In addition to fruit, I also pick up as many different kinds of nuts as I can afford and find that pecans and cashews are especially good.
Duguid and Alford make a semolina porridge, which can be eaten with both sweet and savory accompaniments, but since my goal is to eat less gluten, I have been using a mix of corn meal, sorghum and buckwheat called Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal.
Then you need some plain yoghurt, a sweetener of some kind, a stash of limes, some sesame oil, and a few spices: ground ginger, red chillies and mustard seed.
The preparation is a breeze.
Heat a little sesame or vegetable oil in a pan with a lid. Warm gently and add your three spices–about a 1/2 teaspoon of each if you are making breakfast for two. Let them sizzle a bit and become fragrant and then dump in a cup of water and bring it to a boil. When the water boils, add a pinch of salt and 1/3 cup of the cereal, and stir to break down the lumps.
Put the lid on, lower the heat, and let it simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. If you want to add dried fruit such as raisins or apricots, do so around minute 8. And if it becomes too dry at any point, simply add a little more water and stir it in.
When the porridge is done, ladle into bowls and top with the fresh fruit and nuts that you have chosen to eat. Place a dollop or two of yoghurt on top, drizzle with honey or maple syrup, and if desired and in stock, a little coconut. To finish, squeeze a wedge of lime over top.
Though I have yet to get tired of this, I have also been eating an array of other grains: oatmeal with cardamom, raisins and soy milk; millet cooked in home-made almond milk with nuts and fruit, and just a few hours ago, quinoa with yoghurt, mango-peach salsa, and fresh berries. Even on the hottest day of last week's heat wave, we had porridge. Because what you want more that anything on a day like that is to feel good inside, and I can think of no better food to bring about that goal than summer porridge.


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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – City of Clarksville offices will close Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29 to observe Thanksgiving.
City Public Safety departments will be on duty as usual and all essential City services will continue.
Clarksville Transit System will be closed Thanksgiving Day, but buses will resume regular service on Friday, and rides will be free to all passengers.
Clarksville Gas and Water administration and engineering offices, including the north and south customer service centers, also will be closed Thursday and Friday. In the event of a gas, water or sewer emergency, customers should call (931) 645-7400, or the emergency after-hours line, (931) 645-0116. The Utility Billing Line, (931) 645-7400, automated pay by phone, and WebConnect, www.clarksvillegw.com, online bill payment feature, will be operational.
CDE Lightband offices will be closed Thursday and Friday. In the event of a service outage, customers should call (931) 648-8151. Customers can go online at https://cdelightband.com/customer-service/ for service and bill paying information.
All City of Clarksville offices will reopen on Monday, Dec. 2 for regularly scheduled hours.


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About Pendennis Mount
Pendennis Mount is an upscale water privileged community located across the Naval Academy Bridge from the Historic District. There are two parts of the community, one located East of Ritchie Highway and the other located West of Ritchie Highway. Homes in this community vary is shape, size, and price and some of the homes are original while others have been fully renovated.
Gorgeous views of the Severn River and the United States Naval Academy can be seen from some of the homes in this community.
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The Nate Berkus Show~
I filmed the segment the second week in January, so I was on pins and needles to see the segment when it finally aired on May 7th. I have been wanting to share all about it here on the blog for the last 5 months!
The reason it's taken so long to post about it is because for some reason, the video of my segment is still not up on the Nate Show website. But, as I'm sure most of you have heard, sadly, the Nate Show is no longer in production. And, as a result, I don't know if my segment will ever join all the other house proud videos on the site. So if you didn't happen to see the show when it aired on May 7th, you might never get to see it. Sad, I know. ;-) Ah well, that's show biz.
Edited to add: I guess I'm not very good at explaining because I've had a few readers who thought that the segment never aired on TV. It did air on the May 7th episode, the segment just hasn't been added to the videos on the Nate Show website, so I have nothing to link to for those who didn't catch it on TV. Hope that is a little more clear. :-)
So I just decided that I'd go ahead and share the few photos I have from my visit to the show. I really enjoyed getting to film the show! It was a lot of fun, but, in all my excitement, I forgot to take a camera with me, so I only have cell phone pictures. I KNOW! What kind of blogger am I? I mean really.
|Here I am with my dressing room name plate. :-)
One of the highlights of my time on the show, for me (aside from the OBVIOUS excitement of getting to meet Nate) was meeting the Newsoms who are the owners of Wisteria. You might recall that I posted an interview with them a while back. If you didn't get a chance to read it, you can find it here. I have loved Wisteria for a long time, and have recommended their products many times to my clients, so meeting the Newsoms had me a little star struck. Lol!
|Here I am just before going on to film my segment. Just had to get a picture with "Nate". Lol!
|Here I am watching my segment with my family when it aired on May 7th (both of my faces in this photo are a bit on the goofy side. Ha!)
I had such a great time and am truly grateful to the good folks at The Nate Show for making my experience something I will always remember.


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Living in Rodeo
Archived Q&A and Reviews
May 2008
We are looking to buy a house and have been currently looking in the Berkeley area, consistently feeling disappointed with the prices and sizes of houses. I just discovered a town north of Richmond called Rodeo. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this area? Would this be a good area to raise kids? Anyone know about the type of community that lives there? The availability of organic groceries, restaurants and about the school system? It looks like a hidden gem although I am having trouble getting any info! Any insights would be appreciated! **Dreaming of small town life in Bay Area...
Rodeo is right next to the refineries, so air quality is often poor and unsafe. If you're interested in organic food, I'm guessing you're concerned about health. In general, the area is more blue collar/working class.
But, you might want to check out Pinole. Old town is cute and Trader Joe's is coming in and a Kaiser is being built. Pinole has a sense of community and well thought out community development/planning. I could even recommend a good realtor who specializes in this area if you'd like. Deena
Do not move to Rodeo! I cannot believe that you have not been warned about this area. It is ranked the dirtiest/worst in the US for toxic environmental releases. You would be in very close range of over 20 Shell Oil, Tesoro, Chevron and several Concoc plants,factories and other industrial properties that release TOXIC CHEMICALS.
You would have to be trained in how to respond to a chemical emergency and listen for sirens to go off. As you stated in your post that you want organic produce and restaurants, that would be the least of your worries if you moved to this area. Many newspaper reports have been done exposing the MAJOR health risks of living in this area. concerned for your health
We don't live in Rodeo, but near there, Vallejo. I struggle with the joy of having an affordable home (for Northern, CA), and convenient location but no good restaurants, lack of good schools, and no organic grocery stores, etc (not even a Trader Joes!). So you are smart to look beyond the cost of housing. That being said, we have a good friend who was raised in Rodeo and still lives there. He does not have children, but is becoming increasingly more worried about crime in his neighborhood, and he goes to Berkeley for his ''organic'' food. I have visited our friend's home several times, and found the neighborhood look and feel depressing, but maybe there are nicer areas of Rodeo I am not aware of?? If you are looking for small town feel, I would recommend you take a look at Pinole or Benicia. Even Vallejo has some really lovely areas that seem ''safe'' (but just plan on sending your kids to private school as we are). Happy to own a home, just miss Trader Joe's
I have to reply to your message, even though I haven't even been to Rodeo in 20 years, it may have changed radically ... and I apologize in advance to current fans of that town.
I moved there when I was 13, after growing up in Berkeley and Oakland, and it was probably the most traumatic thing to ever happen to me. I went to a school, now closed, with children of KKK members. I was beat up, told that I should dress like ''a white girl'' and had many run ins with the local racist hicks. Apparently it's the crystal meth capital of the bay area, which I believe, since I have a meth addict relative that moved there recently.
On top of that, the Shell Oil Refinery is RIGHT THERE. I was talking on the phone to a friend and I could hear the fire coming from the refinery (one of the stacks blows flames day and night) over the phone. GROSS.
When it came time for high school, I told my mom that if I had to go to John Swett HS in Crockett, I would get a blue mohawk and drop out. So we got a fake address and she drove me to Berkeley High everyday for 4 years. My relief was HUGE. I hated Rodeo. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
That being said, perhaps it's changed, or perhaps it could be changed. Except the oil refinery, which is reason enough not to move there. Lived in Rodeo and Loathed It