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A new month, a new self-experiment.
As I really want to stick to my 2015 sporty plan, I decided to give rowing a try. I see people rowing everyday, Amsterdam is the perfect city for it due to its many canals and especially the river Amstel.
Thanks to self-experiment #2 I passed a local rowing center on one of my runs and noticed they have an open day coming up and I signed up for it right away. I can tell you, it was fun! We had a quick intro in their training pool about how to board the boat ( NOT easy as there are only a few tiny spots you're allowed to step on) and the different positions of the oar.
After 10 minutes the 4 of us got the real experience on the river Amstel, it was quite chaotic in the beginning but we managed to row a few meters straight and felt like Olympic winners 😉 I guess everyone on board liked it a lot as we all signed up for their 8 weeks beginners course. It's a rather large rowing center and I was surprised to find out that they had 900 (!) participants in their last beginners course, unbelievable! But it also shows how popular rowing is, it's a sport for all ages and has both aerobic and anaerobic benefits. You basically train your condition and get a full workout at the same time as rowing uses lots of different muscles.
I really felt it in my right thigh, almost got a cramp but I wonder if it was from the rowing itself or from my attempt not to slip off of that sliding seat. Running tights and that slippery sliding seat don't go together, will try other pants today during my first class 😉
It didn't feel very exhausting but it must have been as the 10-15 min of rowing knocked me out for the rest of the day in a really, really bad way. That's my only concern, that it might be too much and I don't seem to feel it while doing it. It's a new kind of exercise to me and I need to find out how many "energy points" I need by trial and error. Then there's peer pressure as it's a 4 person boat and I'm still so damn competitive and wouldn't give up or tell the instructor that it's too much for me. I also don't get muscle aches anymore which is so weird. When I started running again I expected to get muscle aches the first days or at least feel a bit uncomfortable – but nothing at all, no matter what I do.
That worries me a bit but I guess that's just another MS advantage in sports 😉
Need to get ready now – watch this post, I will update it later on how my first class went. Fingers crossed!
It went well! Didn't go overboard and we even rowed more than 4km during the first class. Loved it and am sharing the boat with 3 other nice ladies and an instructor that looks just like SATC Samantha's Smith 😉 What else could you ask for!
Still no muscle aches though, not the slightest bit which worries me at times…but well, I don't want to complain about that. Looking forward to next Monday!


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This is book number 8 in the Under Jurisdiction series.
NOVELLAS, SHORT STORIES, AND MORE IN THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED UNDER JURISTICTION SERIES from John W. Campbell Award finalist Susan R. Matthews. Together for the first time, here are the novellas, novelettes, and short stories that complete Matthews' epic science fiction series. Plus, supplemental materials that flesh out Matthews' characters and detailed worldbuilding.
Collected for the first time, here is the complete Under Jurisdiction body of work falling outside of Matthews' celebrated novels: long out-of-print short stories fleshing out details of the personal histories of favorite characters, including Joslire Curran and Security Chief Stildyne; substantial novellas—two published here for the first time ever—covering critical events in the life of the series, such as the devil's bargain between Andrej Koscuisko and Captain Lowden on the Ragnarok; and many more novelettes, stories, and vignettes from The Life and Hard Times of "Uncle" Andrej Koscuisko, who is Not a Nice Man.
Praise for Susan R. Matthews:
"A very satisfying entry in a very scary series!"—Janis Ian on Blood Enemies
"Starting with An Exchange of Hostages, I devoured Susan R. Matthews 'Koscuisko' novels—all six of them—when they first appeared. Books with this much courage, clarity, and empathy are rare. The Under Jurisdiction series is a remarkable and unprecedented accomplishment."—Stephen R. Donaldson, New York Times best-selling author of the Thomas Covenant series.
"[Matthews] brilliantly uses science fiction's freedom of creation to make a world in which she can explore deep moral conflicts."—Denver Post
". . . has a dark energy . . . an extremely compelling read."—New York Review of Science Fiction
"A chilling and engaging novel of false accusation and the power of personal responsibility."—Booklist on Angel of Drestruction
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Susan R. Matthews was raised in a military family and spent her younger years living around the globe in a myriad of places including Germany, both coasts of the U.S., and India. Often cut off from television and other media, she read voraciously. Her first encounters with science fiction came via classics such as I, Robot and Stranger in a Strange Land. Matthews' debut novel, An Exchange of Hostages, the first entry in her critically acclaimed Under Jurisdiction series, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Matthews was also a finalist for the John W. Campbell award for best new writer. There are now seven novels in the Under Jurisdiction series. The first six are collected in two omnibus editions Fleet Inquisitor and Fleet Renegade. The newest entry in the series is Blood Enemies, published by Baen Books. Matthews lives in Seattle with her wife, Maggie, and two delightful dogs. She is a veteran of the U.S. Army, where she served as operations and security officer of a combat support hospital. She is also an avid HAM radio operator.


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Communication strategies used to promote Human Wildlife Coexistence in different geographical and social contexts.
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In 2019, PAMS Foundation launched a new project dedicated to the use of communication to promote human wildlife coexistence.
'Coexistence.life' is a collaborative project which aims to enhance and promote the experiences of those who work in the field of human wildlife interaction and want to share their knowledge to help the work of others in order to carry out more effective communication actions and help local communities and wildlife to coexist.
Although communication is considered an important tool to promote coexistence, often the resources or staff available for the development of these actions are not adequate and communication fails its objectives.
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How many times have you wanted to develop a communication action for your project but didn't know where to start? How many times have you tried to look for examples without finding the right one and wasting a lot of time – which means a lot of resources – in doing so?
'Coexistence.life' aims to collect different communication techniques used by various stakeholders and classify them according to mode of intervention, species, and geographical, demographic, social and cultural contexts to share different experiences contributing to making communication an effective tool for coexistence.
The project aims to build a space where stakeholders can share their successes and failures, and give their communication advice or ask for it. It will also be a forum where you can tell stories of human wildlife interactions that can serve as examples for others, for education or simply to create awareness.
To create reference
The project aim is to set up an archive of experiences and examples of communication actions to develop useful tools for all those working in the field of human wildlife interaction. Different communication materials, scientific papers and grey literature will be collected and organized in an open access archive aimed to facilitate the development of new, more efficient communication actions in order to facilitate coexistence.
To share knowledge
The outputs of the project are designed to provide a basis for sharing knowledge, but also a platform to promote interaction and discussion between citizens and experts.
To create awareness
This project will develop its own communication strategy aimed at sensitizing local communities, NGOs, and governmental institutions on the issue of human wildlife coexistence in order to raise awareness and promote more conscious choices both by local communities and governments.
The creation of an open database of scientific works and grey literature will be useful to all those involved in conflict mitigation, in particular regarding the aspect of communication. The activities will be classified according to social and geographical context, species subject to conflict, type of technique (technology, participatory projects, videos, guidelines, etc.). The open database aims to become a useful tool for developing new, more efficient communication activities. The archive will be hosted in a website dedicated to 'communication interaction' a space to share stories about human wildlife interaction.
How do you build an effective message? What should be the focus? Which audience should you target? And what's the best medium to deliver your message? We'll create a set of best practice guidelines based on PAMS Foundation's extensive experience in the field of communication and community relations, as well as examples from other experts around the world. These guidelines will help other organizations structure effective messaging aimed at overcoming barriers in promoting human wildlife coexistence.
Human wildlife conflict is an emerging problem at global level. It is a consequence of human population growth, expansion of urban centres into wildlife habitats, and even the success of conservation projects. As we move in this direction, coexistence will increasingly become a keyword, crucial to both human societies and natural environments and wildlife on the periphery of urbanized areas, rural communities and around protected and connectivity areas. Coexistence will soon become a necessary condition for wildlife conservation, so it is necessary to identify the best practices that make it possible. There are different conflict mitigation techniques that vary according to geographical, social and species contexts. Communication is certainly one of the most important techniques for identifying conflict, understanding it, getting people involved in it, managing it, making it part of everyday life and changing behaviors to promote coexistence and to ensure the safety and social wellbeing of all.
In recent years, PAMS has therefore undertaken a series of actions aimed at resolving or mitigating human wildlife conflict. We've accumulated a considerable experience and recognizing the importance of avoiding direct conflict, in addition to techniques aimed at creating behavior changes within communities that are the bases for long term coexistence between humans and wildlife. The accumulated experience and the need for effective and shared actions between NGOs and authorities working in the field of conflict mitigation now deserves to be organized and shared as effectively as possible, so as to form a basis for concerted discussion.


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These workshops will gather small groups of graduate students after lunch on Thursday, May 31. You may apply for a workshop if you are not already speaking on a panel. (We will let you know before the deadline.) You may submit a paper on any topic that fits the general conference theme, "Novel Theory."
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Bloomberg: Weak ruble lets Russia export cars it doesn't make
The oil crash gave enough of a jolt to the ruble to send a steady stream of luxury cars from Russia to Germany, China and the U.S., with sales of just Land Rovers quintupling, according to Bloomberg.
Seizing on currency disparities, Russians made quick money by re-exporting the vehicles, which got so cheap in ruble terms that selling them back – sometimes to the same country that manufactured them in the first place – became a way to turn a profit, Bloomberg wrote.
"Thanks to the ruble's depreciation, prices of cars sold in Russia turned out to be cheaper than on foreign markets," said Andrey Tomyshev, head of the automotive group in the Commonwealth of Independent States at Ernst & Young in Moscow. "The price difference in Russia and abroad made the re-export of cars from Russia lucrative."
Read alsoStratfor's predictions in Business Insider: collapse of Russia, 4 Europes, 16 mini-Chinas next decadeAt half the value it had three years ago, a more flexible ruble has helped deflect the shock of the worst oil collapse in a generation by shielding the budget and propping up industries from agriculture to chemicals. What it hasn't done is to light the spark of a manufacturing revival and offset the steepest drop in domestic demand under President Vladimir Putin. Russia last quarter showed no sign of snapping out of a recession, already on track to be the longest in two decades.
Currency management this month has emerged as a point of contention between the central bank and some government officials. Putin's economic aide, Andrey Belousov, said last Thursday that the Russian currency's strength relative to oil prices endangers the budget and the competitiveness of local companies. The Bank of Russia respondedby saying it won't influence the exchange rate and remains committed to its free-float policy adopted in late 2014.
The debate around the ruble intensified after it shrugged off a decline of more than 7% in Brent oil this month, losing only 1% in the same period. The ruble has appreciated almost 14% against the dollar this year after a 20% loss in 2015.
Most Russian companies favor a strong and stable exchange rate because that would help reduce output costs, become more competitive abroad and pave the way for modernizing production with imported equipment, according to results of a survey published by the central bank's research department in May. The leather and footwear industry was the only one among the respondents to express preference for weakening the ruble, it said.
The auto industry, which has seen car sales plunge every month since the start of 2015, has been one of the biggest recipients of state aid during a recession that's into its second year. The government has allocated about 50 billion rubles ($764 million) this year after 43 billion rubles in assistance in 2015.
While automakers like Volkswagen AG and Hyundai Motor Co., which have assembly lines in Russia, have been able to raise exports as well, shipments abroad in the first four months of the year have included cars including Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz and Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus, according to market researcher Avtostat. None of them is manufactured in Russia.
The top destinations for Russian car exports between January and May were Germany, China, and the U.S., according to customs data. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP estimates that about 8% of all cars sold in Russia in 2015 were bought for re-export by foreign nationals, mostly by the citizens of Kazakhstan and Belarus, which are among the ex-Soviet members of a customs union with Russia.
Read alsoSales of new cars in Ukraine decline by almost 10% in JulyOf the Land Rovers sold inside the country in the first four months, almost a third, or more than 1,000, were re-exported to countries like the U.S., Avtostat estimates. Two of them were even resold to the U.K., where they were first built. The Russian unit of Jaguar Land Rover, owned by Tata Motors Ltd. of India, said it isn't involved in the re-export.


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black hole dark moist sweaty drawings ancient
man lived in them. i wouldnt mind living in one. would be too dark though maybe. na i would live outside one and use it for shade. would have to be fully furnished though. i would have a pet.is the time up now?????
i did not see caves before , i want to get into one at at once and give my love some kisses in it
caves seem to be such a dark place for people to hide their feelings and hide their fears.
caves never seem to be the place that people take the time to discover and dig out the feelings that they have buried from long ago…
we need to return to become cavemen once again.
A small compressed room where anything can be hidden. Jewels, bodies, and even secrets. Dripping with wet saltwater. Small creatures will comfort you in there when lost. Sometimes dark, or sometimes bright.
cave in with waterworks and hard to reach places where submarines implode on people and seeds for the trees that kept them fresh and that people who didn't. fresh air isn't what they're look for, as long as it's breathable, who cares if we're alive as we were 20 years ago.
We dove into the underwater caves together, laughing in our snorkels as luminescent fish fled at our approach. Here, in this aqueous world far away from anything and everyone else we knew, we were truly alone for the first time.
The cave opened up into a crazy treasure trove, just like in a movie starring Donald Duck and his nephews or INdiana jones, or huey and dewey and company dressed like indiana jones.
When in a cave you could experience fear due the dark, dank conditions. Maybe, you'll hear bats and imagine monsters. Maybe there really are monsters.
I wondered through the cavernous caves wondering what kind of beast or person could have made their home on this island. Rough craggy rocks loomed eighteen feet high on all sides and the ground bit into my feet as stumbled along.
In a dark cave I found my self, for the first time. Sharp-tongued and dripping with sweat; a stalagmite, planted to the ground, afraid to move. I was afraid that I might be stuck there forever. I decided, right then, to make a change. Through the cave mouth, into the light.
In the heart of the planet, a cool dark place to hide and rest my mind. The geological womb, from which I can be reborn; all my faults replaced with potential for self-improvement. I am new, and I can become someone that I can be proud of.
a cave. a dark, cold place. light passing through the tiny spaces between my own thoughts and the entrance…………….a space for expression….intensity, coldness…..hidden. thought.
I finally have emerged from the cave of darkness, which had been my life for two long years.
Someone finally went adventuring and stumbled across me. At the time he wasn't even sure what he had discovered, but as time goes by he begins to learn about my dark past.
even darkness cannot hide the feeling of fear that encloses over my body as i search for a light, any light to give me a feeling of security within this endless abyss. where am i and why can't i see?
The cave was filled with dragons, and they were muttering amongst themselves about the dismal state of their economy. Unfortunately, the dragon dictators weren't interested in economic reform, and would rather remain in a communist government. Alas, it didn't end well for the cave dragons, and it turned into a civil war as the dragons were involved in a massive conflict against all odds.
Cave in. Do it. The smoke wants you as much as you want it. The weed hides in a tiny cave in the pipe, waiting for the flame. Waiting for you to light it, waiting to enter the cave of your mouth.
I entered a cave of bright white sheets and met you there. There were stalactite pillows. Or stalagmites. I can never get those straightened out. But that's where we met. In a pure white cave.
cave it was dark and cold
i felt alone and scared
but i saw you
and the light you brought with you
and i was warm and cozy
and i felt like i could escape that cave
or at least bear it
because you were then
but then a gust of wind came
and you disappeared
your flame went out
your spark gone
and i was left all alone in the cave
the cold dark cave
im scared.
There he goes. Back into his cave. And I'm not allowed to go in, or to wait at the opening. This is what I get for reading that book about Men being from Mars and Women being from Venus. So now I know. And what do I do with it?
His heart was a cave. It was so dark and empty that I could hardly move forward without having my arms stretched in front of me, hesitantly gliding my foot over the smooth, cold stone. I wonder what secrets he had hidden at the end of it.
I already wrote about this. It was credited to someone named Scarlet or something. Whatever. Kinda fun though. I don't want to be in a cave. I want to be in a meadow. With a couch, though.
Oh bloody hell. How did he get himself into these situations? Dean grimaced as he felt around in the darkness, searching for the cave entrance. It had been there a moment ago, he was sure of it. Fucking flashlight with its generic-brand batteries. That was it. Next time he was going with the Energizer batteries, creepy-ass bunny or no…
deep beanath a surface, hidden creatures, dark, scary, bats, diamonds, lost, confusin, quiet, lonely, secluded, peaceful, hidden, secret, gloomy, wet
Bob wandered into the cave. He was warned to stay away from the cave. He refused to stay away from the cave. inside the cave he found a giant stone head. the head was round, with only large eyes and a mouth. The mouth moved. The stone head told Bob to leave the cave
In the absence of light,
A path has been set
In a cacophony of subtle labyrinths,
and unaltered allure;
the essence of life flows,
Following harrowing absence,
And frail stories and prints
Buried but ever pure.
There was a cave on the outskirts of town that had once held significant importance to the townsfolk. Somehow, that significance died down, and the people lost interest in it. It still lingers there to this day.
A cave in a castle in a country in a continent in a …planet? I don't know, honestly. Caves are so trivial. Although, the can hide some nasty secrets. This isn't very poetic at all, is it?


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Today, I bring you yet another of next year's South Carolina Children's Book Award nominees. My latest read, The Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech, isn't a very long book, but it packs quite an emotional punch. It is sweet, heartwarming, suspenseful at times, and it leaves the reader with a feeling of contentment. If I'm being totally honest, though, I think adult readers will appreciate it more than children will.
One day, John and Marta step outside, and they find a boy asleep on their porch. They don't know why he is there or who left him. The boy, Jacob, doesn't speak, so John and Marta don't know where he's from, who his family is, why they were chosen to care for him, or when someone will return for the boy. So they care for him as best they can.
John and Marta grow rather attached to Jacob. They love him as if he were their own…and Jacob seems happy with them. He still doesn't speak, but he makes music, he paints, he enjoys time with the couple's animals, and he communicates in his own way. He thrives in this young couple's care.
But John and Marta are always waiting for someone to return for this boy they've grown to love…and one day, it happens. This young couple doesn't want to say good-bye to Jacob, but they seem to have no choice. Even when Jacob leaves, they let him know that he is welcome to return at any time.
As days go by, John and Marta miss Jacob, and they look for ways to help other children who need special care. They open their home and their hearts to kids who need a little extra love, and they always remember the boy who started them on this journey. And they hope that one day, their beloved Jacob, the boy on the porch, will return to them once again.
I can't help but think that The Boy on the Porch is a must-read (and a great gift) for foster parents. This book shines a light on the sacrifices many of these people make to care for children in need. They often provide a safe, loving home for kids who've only known the opposite. Many, like John and Marta in this story, give children a voice in a world that doesn't really understand them. This poignant book honors that and shows that the love that foster parents get in return is more valuable than diamonds.
Now, having said all that, I will admit that I don't think this book will be a huge hit with my students. It doesn't read like a "kid's book." Yes, it's heartwarming, sweet, and all that other mushy stuff, but, in my opinion, it comes across as a short book for adults. The story is told from the adults' perspectives. It's not Jacob's story. I doubt most young readers will be able to relate to the struggles of a couple tasked with caring for a young boy. Maybe I'm wrong, but this may be one book I market to the parents of my students rather than the students themselves.
So, while I enjoyed this book and think some of my students will pick it up solely because of its length, I sincerely doubt that most 2nd-5th grade readers will be able to pick up on the subtle–and even the more obvious–messages in this book. Feel free to let me know in the comments if you disagree.
If you'd like to learn more about The Boy on the Porch and other books by Sharon Creech, click here.


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I watched Star Wars for the first time this weekend. Episodes IV and V. They weren't bad, I'll give you that. But it's not like they instantly became my favorite movies. I still have to watch Return of the Jedi to fulfill my obligation to Fr. Greg/Paul. But I think I can handle it. 🙂
In other news, we've FINALLY figured out our honeymoon plans. We still have to book the hotel, but we've at least found a place. I'm really excited about it, too. There are a ton of yummy looking restaurants in the area, as well as a winery, fun shops, etc. It's definitely more our pace than a spa or a beach or somewhere downtown Chicago. I'm holding out on publishing the details until we have everything set in stone, but I think it'll work out just fine. Super excited for the prospect of the restaurants and winery, though…of course. 😉


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Celia King grew up on a farm and hates the idea of food scraps going to waste.
"I just can't bear the idea of throwing out perfectly good food scraps into the bin, into landfill, when we can use those," said Ms King, who lives in a small apartment block in Melbourne.
Food waste makes up a big chunk of general household rubbish that finds its way to landfill.
Not only does sending food waste to landfill cost the economy an estimated $20 billion a year, it produces methane — a potent greenhouse gas — when it rots.
Up to 80 per cent of people living in apartments don't like food waste and would like to do something about it, said Jenni Downes of the Institute of Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney.
"The numbers of people who manage to set up a system that works, and then maintain that, drops quite dramatically. It depends on what services are available to them," Dr Downes said.
"They don't often own spaces where they can put the composted material so they have to negotiate, whether that's with their building manager or their local areas or gifting it to friends and family."
But there were a number of food scrap recycling options that can work at individual resident, whole apartment block, or local council levels, she said.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach — it will depend upon the location of the apartment, what's around and what residents want to do, said Belinda Christie, who ran composting trials in conjunction with two Melbourne-based councils.
"You need to work out first why you want to compost."
"Trying to work out the answer to that question will lead you to the correct technology and what you want to do with it," Dr Christie said.
Going solo: Bokashi and mini worm farms
The two main options for dealing with food scraps in small apartments with limited or no balcony space are bokashi — which uses bacteria to ferment food scraps — and worm farms.
"You can get worm farms that are designed to be in kitchens, they're designed to look okay and to be fairly well contained so your little guests don't come out and visit the rest of your house," Dr Downes said.
While you can put most things in a bokashi bucket, you should avoid putting items such as garlic, citrus, meat and dairy in a worm farm.
When Ms King moved into her flat in the block of 20 apartments she started with a worm farm on her balcony — but she made a fatal mistake.
"My balcony is north-facing and they cooked," she said.
Ms King and her flatmate now use a two-bucket bokashi system.
"But you probably want some sort of dirt nearby to dig it into," she said.
Unlike worm castings, which can be spread on top of pot plants and gardens, the bokashi waste needs to be dug in to the ground.
"We've actually got a little garden bed out the front of the apartment block so we dig it into that."
One of her neighbours has also put a worm farm in a shaded area on a disused area on the south side of the block.
"Sometimes, if we're full and the buckets aren't finishing the process we'll put the scraps into her worm bin," Ms King said.
If you don't have a patch of ground for your bokashi waste, worm castings or food scraps, you could also look into donating these to a community garden or someone who does have a compost bin.
Communal composting in apartment blocks
Running a worm farm in a common area, as Ms King's neighbour found out, can be tricky.
"She found at one point in time [other residents] were putting things in that didn't break down or would hurt the worms like garlic or citrus, and they were putting meat products in and she didn't like the maggots and smell," Ms King said.
But Dr Christie said communal worm farm trials run in conjunction with two Melbourne councils had proven to be very successful when everybody was onboard from the very beginning.
"Often we assume we need to have really motivated group of people to take this on board and to make it work, but if you give them a compost bin they'll use it.
"There's always issues around making sure it's taken care of properly and there's a manager to take care of it, but largely if you build it, they will come."
The trials evaluated communal composting using either a closed loop system — a machine that effectively dehydrates food scraps — or worm farms.
Apartment blocks chosen for the trials ranged from low to high rise and involved owners and well as renters, students, and short-term accommodation.
"We actually found renters were just as engaged as non-renters were.
"And they were really craving that kind of not just way to dispose of their food waste, but that sort of community engagement that came along with the project."
In effect, the worm farms acted as water coolers.
"We'd have these worm farm workshops and they'd shake their neighbour's hand for the first time, introduce themselves and start talking to each other."
Although the trials finished last year, all the apartment blocks in the trial continue to use worm farms, which have been paid for by the owners' corporations. The worm castings and 'tea' are used on pot plants and communal gardens or donated to local community gardens.
Some councils provide subsidies for worm farms and compost bins. Others also offer workshops or know of community organisations that can help.
"It's also useful to get support ready to go as soon as you need it," Dr Christie advised.
"People are always worried about vermin or flies. A well-managed compost bin or worm farm won't have any of those problems, but if it's not managed properly, and you do have a bit of a problem, you know who to contact, you know where to go."
Council food scrap collections
If wrangling a worm farm or compost sounds too hard then the next option is to see if your council has a food scrap collection program.
Some councils provide free buckets to put food scraps in for you to take to community garden compost bins. Others allow you to put food scraps in your green waste bin.
A third option is providing a dedicated on-site food scrap bin that is collected as part of the council's general waste program and taken to either community gardens or commercial composting sites.
"The council provides the building with a food waste bin and residents are given little kitchen bench caddies, which they empty down into the bin like they do all their other waste.
"That's fairly few and far between, but there are plenty of examples of it working. If there are enough residents saying 'We want this' then council will consider it," Dr Downes said.
"Councils actually pay for landfill based on weight, so anything councils can do to get food out of their red bins benefits them greatly," she said.
Some councils have selected apartments to participate, others also allow apartment blocks to join the scheme if their body corporate has agreed to participate.
The councils supply compostable bin liners to put the scraps in — some councils will also take food scraps wrapped in newspaper — and provide the pick-up for free.
Five years ago, Penny Stolp moved into a rented apartment in a medium-sized block in Sydney's inner west that has a dedicated food scrap collection bin service.
"I was really thrilled the council was offering this service because you just don't have the same options when you are in an apartment," Ms Stolp said.
"It's very, very easy.
And everyone in the block appeared to be using it correctly, she said.
"Paper and plastics get mixed up a bit more [in the other bins] but food waste seems to be the one thing people can keep straight in their minds about what should be there."
Connecting to composting hubs
What if you have nowhere to put your bokashi or worm farm and your council doesn't offer a food scrap collection service?
Raylyn Gonsalvez lives in an inner-city house in Melbourne. Although she does have a tiny backyard it is not suitable for worm farming or composting.
She has looked at a number of ways of disposing her food waste such as signing up to a food waste app to people in the local area who can use the scraps in their compost, worm farm or chicken run; taking her waste to put in the worm farm at work; and taking it to a community garden compost bin within walking distance of where she lives.
The community garden option turned out to be the easiest option for her.
"I contacted them and signed up to the program. Now we collect our scraps in a plastic container and go drop it off whenever we need to."
Some councils run programs that provide residents with free caddies to take food scraps to their local community compost bins.
"People often don't think of going to their local council to ask what's around," Dr Christie said.
"They always know where all the local community gardens are, or where the kindergartens are that might want some compost."
A final word on food waste
Whether or not you have a backyard, there are a few easy tips that anyone can use to help reduce food waste right from the get go, Dr Downes said. They include:
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I asked one of our most persistent set-watchers, the Hutt Hobbit, and got this report from his friend Salome. Shows that there's a lot of patience, persistence, and immunity to cold required, as well as a lot of hoping and dreaming! [More]Posted in Old Main News on May 24, 2000 by Tehanu


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Profile: Wonder Girl 2
Cassie Sandsmark, Wonder Girl 2
First appearance: Wonder Woman #105 Vol. 2, January 1996.
Current status: a leading member of the Teen Titans.
Was subjected to the followings acts of discrimination: when John Byrne introduced her years ago, it was a rather peculiar way to begin: he didn't want for her to be a team player, despite that she can and does work well with one, and succeeding writers did make good use of her. Well, until more recently, that is. She also joined Supergirl, during Amazons Attack, in an assault on the president's plane in the DCU that turns the US public against her.
What's wrong with how this was done? The story in Amazons Attack was already bad enough in how it featured a ludicrous story that may have been intended as an swipe at the US administration for its policies on Iraq, depicting the Amazons out-of-character and depicting Cassie doing something as irresponsible as attacking the US president's plane in order to bring him to the would-be Hyppolyta, who actually turned out to be Granny Goodness, was not helping matters one bit.
Even before this, she agreed with Ares during Infinite Crisis to accept special extra powers he'd give her to compensate for a loss she'd suffered when Zeus distanced himself from earth along with the rest of the Amazons, which raises some questions as to how kosher such an agreement really is. Lately, another big problem is that she seems to be defined only by her brief affair with Connor Kent, the newer Superboy, who was killed off during Infinite Crisis because of a copyright dispute with the Siegel estate. How can she stand out as her own character if that's all she's really known for, and laments about it too often?
And these are just some of the things that have led to the deterioration of the recent volume of Teen Titans. It could also explain why a recent miniseries written by J. Torres sold so abysmally – because, as something tied to the pointless crossovers DC Comics has been producing lately, it's not really able to stand on its own.


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So it's the return of the Premier League and we've all booked our TV's for the weekend so no one can complain about your lack of movement when sat around with a beer in your hand watching the beginning of the worlds best league. Here is my predicted results for the opening fixtures.
Arsenal 2 – 0 Leicester
The last time Leicester beat Arsenal in a league match Rob Holding was yet to be born. I can't see there being any surprises come the end of this Premier League opening fixture. Lacazette will get a double making it an easy 2-0 win over The Foxes.
Watford 1 – 3 Liverpool
Another game with a pretty obvious outcome. Liverpool are going to have a cracking season this time around and will start off at Vicarage Road. Saying that, Watford have made some good signings this transfer window and will give Liverpool a tough time, unfortunately for The Hornets I can just see Liverpool being too powerful.
Chelsea 4 – 0 Burnley
Antonio Conte's men will dominate physically and will simply play better football than Burnley. Alvaro Morata has a lot to prove coming in to the Premier League and will look to start his career in England strongly. The Clarets have also just lost their key man in defence, Michael Keane. The last time Burnley beat Chelsea in the league it was 1983, this is the same year it was made mandatory to wear a seatbelt if you were a passenger or the driver in a car!
Crystal Palace 1 – 1 Huddersfield
I can guarantee this will be played last out of all the fixtures on Match Of The Day come Saturday night. Neither side seem to stand out on any day so when they come across each other it looks a very standard, bland match. This could easily be a Championship match in the coming years.
Everton 3 – 1 Stoke
This is one where I could be completely wrong. Everton are a risky team to be put in your accumulator until we all know if the gamble of selling Lukaku will work or not. Saying that, Everton outclass Stoke and not having to play at The Bet365 stadium on a cold rainy night might help.
Southampton 2 – 0 Swansea
Southampton have won 6 out of the last 8 when it comes down to The Swans. Relatively new saints man Manolo Gabbiadini will prove too strong for Swansea's defence, he will break the line and score at least 1.
West Brom 1 – 2 Bournemouth
Bournemouth have made some great signings this season so I can see them winning this 2-1 at The Hawthorns. Eddie Howe's men look keen to start the season positively, new men Defoe and Begovic will be a major link to the team. I'd put my money on a Jermaine Defoe goal.
Brighton 0 – 5 Manchester City
Yep, I can see this one leaving Brighton fans red faced for more reasons than one. Man City look a great team this season and are going to blow more than one team away this way in the next nine months.
Newcastle 1 – 4 Spurs
Rafa Benitez himself has said he is preparing for a relegation battle, whether this was to get a reaction from the club or the players and it was just a mind game or he was being serious, he's not wrong. The club haven't done enough in the transfer window and will struggle big time. Spurs, on the other hand, have a fully fit Harry Kane and Dele Alli to bag plenty of goals and they'll start on their first game of the season.
Man United 3 – 2 West Ham
The final game of the opening games of the season. West Ham have made some great signings but will not be able to stop the new Red Devil Romelu Lukaku. This is going to be one cracking game and I would keep my eyes on this one if I was you. Chicharito will score on his debut for The Hammers against his former club.
Thank you for reading. I am thinking of making this a weekly thing so let's hope I haven't got it too wrong this week! Let me know what you think.


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Oops again! It seems that yet another leak on Resident Evil 2 Remake has come out, this time courtesy of Metro.co.uk. One of their writers over at Gamecentral recently spent some time hands-on with the game and is happy to report that it is as excellent as expected. Unfortunately, they were a little too happy to report it, and the article has been taken down for the time being. It's easy to guess that it probably wasn't supposed to go live yet; hopefully, it will publish again soon. When it does, you can check it out here.
Before Metro could take the article down, a few eagle-eyed fans downloaded the included images, one of which features the lovely miss Ada Wong as a playable character. Snazzy red dress and razor-sharp bob aside, Ada doesn't seem to be having much fun. Neither do any of her cohorts in the other leaked screenshots. Leon appears to have ripped his sleeve off to use as a bandage after being shot by Annette, and Mr. X is missing his hat. Maybe that's why he's so pissed off?
According to a post by Jawmuncher over at ResetEra, the article lays out some fun new details about the game. Leon faces a new enemy in the sewers reminiscent of a smaller William Birkin, complete with his mutated eye. It is possible this is the 'G Creature', a result of Birkin impregnating a human with the G parasite, which then hatches like a xenomorph. Happy nightmares, kids. Ada is armed for the events of Resident Evil 2 almost as well as she dressed for them, wielding only a pea shooter that merely staggers approaching enemies. Mr. X, of course, responds to anything as though it were a pea shooter, soaking up bullets until he staggers momentarily. Once he recovers, he gets right back into his slow march through the halls, ever stalking his prey. Sherry, too, is playable. Her story takes place in a new area called the Orphanage, but returning players already know what enemy she will face. Speaking of returning enemies, the hands-on player reconfirms the giant alligator for Remake.
That's all we have until the article reposts, but I am sure Rourke will have an absolute field day breaking everything down once that happens. Stay tuned, and enjoy these screens until then.


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Project Gotham Racing 4
Does Bizarre still shine or is it a rainy day in Gotham?
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By Adam Doree
If Forza Motorsport 2 offered ultimate substance with all its realism and tuning, then Project Gotham Racing 4 undoubtedly adds unprecedented style. This is possibly the most polished and complete arcade style racing game ever made - but is it significantly better than what you already got with Gotham 3? Bizarre Creations and Microsoft knew it would have to be, so let's take a detailed look at whether or not they've pulled it off.
Gotham is the series that introduced the Kudos scoring system, rewarding players with skilful and stylish driving, not just the fastest lap time. As you powerslide, handbrake turn, grab air, overtake, reach top speed or any other number of cool tricks, a nice clicky-sounding Kudos gage increases, and if you can keep earning it continuously you can reach massive scores. And Kudos points let you buy new stuff - like better cars - to progress.
This system has been tweaked to perfection in PGR4, but there's a lot of other new stuff. Cars and for the first time, bikes, now race together; there are some great new dynamic weather effects which affect the look and strategy of races significantly; and there are a bunch of new cities on top of the set from PGR3.
As with previous Gotham titles, there's a great feeling of loose but realistic driving physics, whether it's the force of a passing supercar on your measly jalopy and its momentary effect on your control, the weighty feel as you ease out of an ambitiously taken corner, or as your wheels land after catching air at top-speed. It always feels fun and edgy.
The game's arcade mode is the familiar singleplayer area where you might spend most time initially, although it's joined by a more expansive, properly structured career mode too. Arcade mode is sort of the classic mode though, and in Gotham 4 it still shines. Race events spread across ten chapters challenge you at a variety of race types - traditional street race, one-on-one, Kudos challenges, attaining a speed target, or driving through cone gates within the time limit. Events are finely balanced and tiered in difficulty across five 'medals' which you can select on a per-event basis. Silver and Gold will mostly feel like a doddle to any sort of experienced racing game players, while Platinum - particularly on Kudos challenge tracks - is for serious aficionados only, and Steel or Bronze, the easiest settings, should allow beginners to enjoy the experience as much as anyone else. The arcade mode is best enjoyed on a difficulty setting that you feel pushes your ability. I breezed through on Silver, but it was most fun when I went for Gold or Platinum medals.
It would have been nice to have some sort of dynamic Kudos difficulty, so that even if you choose Silver (where you're usually only expected to come third) you get a little extra reward if you do in fact come first, even though you didn't race on Platinum which requires first place. Granted, the AI difficulty is harder in the first place if you do go for Platinum, but some sort of point scaling could have worked nicely.
Half way through arcade mode is where the challenge level in your comfort zone will start to actually push you a bit. However, the Ultimate Challenge finale chapter is extremely rewarding, providing a much tougher series of events. There's a tricky cone event, in which scripted weather conditions get worse and reduce both your visibility and your grip, making it harder to avoid three-second penalties when you hit a cone gate, and thus more difficult to get to the finish in time. The 'Time Versus Kudos' event is also excellent, meaningfully linking the Kudos scoring to gameplay; you have to earn continuous Kudos to freeze the timer to stand a chance of completing the race.
Similarly, the speed challenge (now based on multiple speed points around a track with a combined target speed required) in this chapter places all the speed gates right after tricky corners. Meanwhile, the new Kudos challenge, Superstar, now requires you to rack up a number of stars, with a star rewarded for every 100 Kudos, however in principle this is no different to before since a continuous Kudos streak will simply rack up multiple stars ready for you to bank.
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1. Gingrich & The Rick Perry Factor
2. Federal Judge Strikes a Blow Against Regulatory Fascism
3. We are Losing the Tax Debate Even Though We're Right
4. David Waldman of Daily Kos: Know-Nothing Bigot
5. VA Governor Bob McDonnell Hangs VA GOP Out To Dry
1. Gingrich & The Rick Perry Factor
It was the last debate. Newt Gingrich won it.
He was the only candidate who repeatedly steered the questions toward Barack Obama. He was the only candidate who dared point out that the media barely touched Obama's infanticide support as an Illinois State Senator. He returned to the role of elder statesman.
The crowd leaned to Mitt Romney. It was probably inevitable. Mesa, AZ is the second largest concentration of Mormons in America and the State Republican Party handled getting the seats filled. It threw Rick Santorum off his game. The crowd booed Santorum taking on Romneycare's individual mandate.
Santorum did not shine. He came in, it seemed, prepared to be beaten up. He was off his game. In the second half of the debate he did better. But the beginning was stumbling, bumbling, angry, and in the weeds. One thing he did very, very well is steer the contraception issue to families.
If Santorum can consistently steer this issue back to stable families, he has an issue that will win over independent voters. Note to the Santorum campaign: you will actually win the debate even in the general election if you focus your social values critique on the integrity of the American nuclear family.
Romney out performed Santorum, but he had two flaws. First, Romney claimed to be a long time proponent of school choice, but he opposed school vouchers as Governor of Massachusetts and the Boston Hereald noted Romney refused to ever meet with the head of the Massachusetts Charter School Association while in the Governor's Mansion.
The big problem for Romney was his concluding moment in the debate. John King asked him what was the biggest misconception about him. It was a legitimate question and a chance for Romney to help himself. Instead, he got bossy and arrogant and told John King he wouldn't answer the question. That question of all questions was the one he chose to get arrogant about?!
Newt Gingrich won. He kept the focus on Obama. He sounded like the adult in the room. He was both diplomat and scholar.
I would caution the media on one thing the Rick Perry Factor.
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2. Federal Judge Strikes a Blow Against Regulatory Fascism
Via the Becket Fund (.pdf) we are informed that a Federal Judge (the same judge who ruled in 2010 that DADT was unconstitutional and ordered an openly gay service member reinstated to the military) has struck down Washington state pharmacy regulations that can only accurately be described as fascistic. The regulations in question declared that no pharmacy in the State of Washington was permitted to refuse to dispense Plan B on conscience grounds. That's it; no requirement that the pharmacy be state funded (pharmacies, unlike hospitals, generally manage just fine without nurturing from the government teat), just a blanket law that you cannot refuse to dispense Plan B on conscience grounds. Keep in mind, you can refuse to dispense it because of business reasons (it's not profitable, no reliable source of supply), just not for conscience ones.
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3. We are Losing the Tax Debate Even Though We're Right
Let me get something out of the way first: I get it. I understand. I know that 47% of the country pays no income tax and I am fully aware that that is unfair. I'm part of that 53% of taxpayers and I find it infuriating as well. We exist in a system that allows half of the country to vote against the other half's best interests. Half of the country can vote in ways to ensure that the other half pays bills that they don't have to pay. It's completely and utterly imbalanced and so far from what a free and just society would do as to be laughable.
That said, I propose a simple hypothesis that I think most people would agree with: We only change this disparity by getting more people to agree with us than disagree with us.
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4. David Waldman of Daily Kos: Know-Nothing Bigot
It's time for Democratic politicians like Elizabeth Warren who are courting Catholic voters, or who like Senator Bob Casey profess the Catholic faith themselves, to distance themselves from Daily Kos over the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing bigotry of Contributing Editor David Waldman.
Waldman, @KagroX on Twitter, is one of the leading figures at Daily Kos, the largest left-wing blog; a former Hotline staffer, he's a contributing editor and front-page writer, runs the affiliated site Congress Matters, and his tweets are frequently quoted and retweeted by Markos Moulitsas. In an angry, profanity-laden tirade last night on Twitter over a flap between a local Virginia church and the Girl Scouts, Waldman unloaded his hatred of the Church, grasping for every anti-Catholic trope he could reach (examples: "Catholic Church: the ones we don't rape, we'll alienate by calling them communist b****es" or "Catholics are the next Shakers. No one under 35 will ever stay in this church") and complaining that there are too many Catholics on the Supreme Court ("Oh that's right. Six Catholics. Fantastic.") Waldman's vicious rant would have been right at home with the anti-popery screeds of the Klan in its heyday, the Know-Nothings of the 1840s or the "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" trope that cost James G. Blaine the 1884 presidential election.
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Romney supporter and leading contender for the VP spot on a Romney-headed ticket, demonstrated his complete philosophical alignment with Romney yesterday by flipflopping on a bill he has championed and in the process hanging VA GOP delegates out to dry.
For those who haven't been paying attention, Virginia's legislature has been going after the abortion industry root and branch. Last year they passed a law requiring aborttoirs to be regulated as if they did what they do: perform a surgical procedure which can be life threatening. This year a bill is being finalized that requires a woman seeking an abortion to see ultrasound pictures of the baby. Somehow this bill, which does not require any medical procedure the woman was not going to receive in the first place, has the pro-abortion lobby in a tizzy. Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has predictably styled this as rape.
Up until yesterday, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell had unconditionally supported the bill.
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In the wake of such TV series as "The Walking Dead," Zombies are not only taking over our televisions but our gardens as well. No longer are the cutsey, red-capped garden gnomes of the past, like the british-accented Travelocity gnome enough to satisfy gnome lovers everywhere, there is a dark force taking over the gnome world. Call it Zombie Apocalypse, Lawn of the Dead or Gnombies, these ugly suckers have invaded our gardens and are thirsting for blood.
"Something bad has happened in the garden. The once happy garden gnomes have been infected by a strange virus which has turned them into flesh-eating monsters. There are only a few survivors left who are desperately trying to stay alive."
California artists, Chris Server and Jane DeRosa have cashed in on the zombie mania by selling hand-painted and hand-casted zombie garden gnomes along with other zombie trinkets like key chains and car ornaments. The figures range from Patient Zero with his half-melted face to Doomsday Dan, a survivor who believes this plague is the wrath of god.
The gory, blood soaked gnomes can be used to chase away vermin and other unwanted visitors to your garden or just be a unique, decoration to bring dread or pleasure to onlookers.
As Chris and Jane's sales pitch explains, "You won't know the true meaning of terror until you feel that nip at your ankle and see your once-quaint garden gnome now thirsting for your blood."
The gnomes range from $21 for a single gnome up to $55 for a collection of characters. The masterpiece of the bunch is "Bye Bye Birdie," a ghastly scene of three zombie gnomes chowing down on the guts of a pink lawn flamingo. E.W. Baker II from Colorado Springs, CO is another merchant on Etsy selling zombie gnomes under the company name of Darkside Creations.
But perhaps the mascot of all the zombie gnomes is the "Gnombies," created by The Dark Garden, another seller of zombie themed gnomes. The Gnombie is 20 inches tall by 14 inches wide and goes and sells for hefty price of $126.00. The Gnombies are garden variety Gnomes that have been infected with the Zombie virus.
"Gnombie Pandemic Continues to Spread BOSTON MA: The Gnombie Pandemic continues to reach an all time high with multiple sightings all over the Eastern seaboard of the United States which are now estimated to reach over 100 cases in just a mere week…it is the advice of Bay State National Guard to follow the following instructions: Gardens should be avoided at all costs, weeding is not that important. Bring your animals inside and do not let them out until this situation has been stabilized. Look for little footprints in your garden, lawn, driveway, as well as, claw marks on your other lawn ornaments, front/side/garage doors and if you find any of these contact your local authorities immediately. Be careful who you pickup hitchhiking as they blend into society quite well SEND IN PICTURES IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED ONE! Stay tuned for a weekly update as this crisis continues…"
NOTE: Literary attempts to inform the public of the nightmare of Garden Gnomes gone bad, can be found in "Goosebumps Most Wanted #1: Planet of the Lawn Gnomes" by R.L. Stine published by Scholastic, Inc.
The story follows Jay Gardner, a mischievous kid who can't stay out of trouble. Luckily, Jay's move to a new neighborhood gives him Jay a chance at a fresh start. But there's something odd about Jay's new town. Why does everyone have lawn gnomes in front of their homes? And why is everyone afraid to go outside at night? The lawn gnomes don't come to life at night—do they? Jay is about to learn that mischief can quickly turn to horror.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux)
Los Caprichos
the complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-98, on laid paper without watermark, a very good set from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, fine impressions printed in warm sepia with strong contrasts and retaining the burnished highlights, the aquatint with none or very little wear, with the scratch on plate 45, with very wide margins, many sheets with deckle edges, in very good condition, bound in an early 19th century Spanish half-calf binding, blind-tooled, with the title in gilt on the spine, with marbled boards and end-leaves
Sheets: 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (318 x 216 mm.)
Overall: 12 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (328 x 247 mm.)
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Tomás Harris, Goya – Engravings and Lithographs – Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, nos. 36 – 115.
Werner Hofmann (ed.), Goya – Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1980.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez & Eleanor A. Sayre (eds.), Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment, Museo del Prado, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989.
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez & Julián Gállego, Goya – The Complete Etchings and Lithographs, Munich and New York, 1995.
Mark P. McDonald, Renaissance to Goya - Prints and Drawings from Spain, The British Museum, London, 2012, p. 234-273.
Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, Frederick Ilchmann, Janis A. Tomlinson (eds.), Goya - Order & Disorder, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014.
Although Francisco de Goya, born in 1746, grew up and reached maturity in a period of relative peace and stability, the crucial decades of his life as an artist coincide with the greatest social and political upheaval the western world had experienced for centuries, including the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Peninsular War and the Restoration thereafter. His life and work bridged two ages, as the art historian Theodor Hetzer put it so graphically by describing Goya's early and late works: 'One makes you think of Tiepolo, the other of Manet.' (cited in: Hofmann, p. 18)
During the first half of Goya's life, Spain was under the stern but dutiful rule of Carlos III, an absolute yet enlightened monarch, comparable in his ambitions and style of government to his Northern European contemporaries Frederick II of Prussia, Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine II of Russia. A benevolent despot, Carlos III was determined to modernize his country by fostering educational and economic reforms and supporting the sciences and the arts. He promoted a host of infrastructural projects such as the building of canals and the settlement of previously unpopulated regions, and allowed a certain amount of religious tolerance and freedom of speech and press. Under his rule, the power of the Church and the Holy Inquisition diminished and the Jesuits were expelled. His death and the coronation of his son in 1788 did not change things overnight, but Carlos IV was a weak king and under his rule – or rather that of Queen Maria Luisa and the mercurial minister Manuel Godoy - Spain could ultimately not withstand the repercussions of the French Revolution.
Goya, with increasing success as a court painter in Madrid, moved in progressive circles and his friends and patrons included the most prominent intellectuals and politicians of the Spanish Enlightenment. From this elevated viewpoint, Spain must have seemed a rather schizophrenic place, under strain but not yet torn between an idealistic and cosmopolitan elite on one side and a people mired in ancient traditions of privilege and servitude, faith and superstition, corruption and violence on the other.
Although there is an ominous element already present in his earlier works, it was not until he was well over forty years old that Goya clearly expressed the urge to depict a more personal – and darker – view of the world. Perhaps due to his illness in 1792, which left him deaf, Goya 'turned in on himself' (Pérez Sánchez, Complete Etchings, p. 32) and began to explore his own fantasies. In a letter of 1794 he wrote to his friend, the poet Bernardo de Iriarte, that in some recent works he had 'succeeded in making observations that commissioned works customarily do not allow, in which capricho and invención have no scope.' (cited in: Pérez Sánchez, Enlightenment, p. xxi)
On 6 February 1799, Goya placed an advertisement on the front page of the Diario de Madrid, to announce the publication of Los Caprichos: 'A collection of prints of fantasy subjects, invented and etched by Don Francisco Goya. The author, persuaded that the correction of human vices and errors (although seemingly the province of eloquence and poetry) can also be the goal of painting; has chosen as subjects appropriate for his work, from among the innumerable eccentricities and errors common to all civil society, and from the concerns and vulgar deceptions allowed by custom, ignorance or personal gain, those that he believed most apt to furnish material for ridicule and at the same time, stimulate the fantasy of the artist.' (translated by J. A. Tomlinson in: Order and Disorder, p. 347)
With Los Caprichos, Goya for the first time made his visions of the more sinister side of Spanish society - and the human soul in general - accessible to wider audience, beyond his small group of friends and patrons. It was an enormous undertaking, prepared over several years and based on hundreds of drawings: eighty etchings with aquatint, printed in an edition of three hundred. At the time, it was the largest series of prints ever conceived by a single artist. For sale at a small liquor and perfume store on the street where Goya lived, only some thirty sets of this first and only lifetime edition were sold. In 1803, the artist gave the plates and the remaining impressions to the King, presumably to escape the wrath of the Inquisition.
A crushing failure at the time, in hindsight Los Caprichos is the pivotal work of Goya's entire oeuvre. In one grandiose, dark symphony he unleashes his unsparing satirical sense and his wild imagination, plate after plate, tied loosely together by related motifs and laconic, often mysterious titles. The only plate without an engraved title is perhaps the most famous of all: the artist, overcome by sleep, with his head rested on a table, is surrounded by creatures of the night: owls, bats, a cat and a lynx. On the front of the table the following words appear vaguely out of the aquatint surface: El sueño de la razon produce monstruos. The phrase is ultimately untranslatable, as sueño can mean both 'sleep' and 'dream'. This ambiguity – does Reason dream up monsters or do monsters arise as Reason sleeps? – is characteristic of the entire series. Having first conceived it as the title page, Goya changed his mind and placed it as plate 43 right in the middle of the series, dividing the series roughly into two parts. The first part is largely devoted to satires of courtship and prostitution, mocking the vanities and pretensions of the young and old. It is in the nightmarish second part that the monsters arise, witches and demons fly, and goblins awake. Beyond the mere evocation and critique of superstition and witchcraft, the precise meaning of these later plates is even more cryptic. Concealed through visual puns, word play and allusions to proverbs, they often ridicule the idle and ruling classes, the clerics and the nobility.
Wickedly satirical and subversive as the Caprichos are in their imagery and content, they also represent a technical revolution. Having previously created a number of competent yet ultimately conventional etchings after Velazquez, Goya in this series suddenly and completely mastered the aquatint method. In particular through his use of blank paper for glowing highlights among dense shades of grey and black, he created images of dramatic and disturbing beauty.
What makes Los Caprichos however one of the greatest unified series of images ever produced, is not just his baffling draughtsmanship or his technical mastery, nor his sharp satirical wit, but the intensity of his imagination and the depth of his humanity.
Comparing Goya with the satirists of his time, Fred Licht wrote: 'Even his most patent exaggerations are never glib condemnations. […] Glancing through Goya's Caprichos, we find it extremely difficult to know on whose side we are or whether indeed there are always sides in the human drama. […] We are made to feel the tremendous burden of being on guard against ourselves as well as against possible contamination by mankind's general folly' (F. Licht, Enlightenment, p. lxxxi)
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- 14 ounce Tomato paste, no added salt
- 1 quart, ½ cup Water
- 1 28-ounce can Tomatoes, crushed in puree, canned, low sodium
- ¼ cup Chili powder
- ¼ cup Minced onion (dried)
- 2 tablespoons Garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon Salt
- 3 quart, ½ cup Pinto beans, low sodium, canned, drained and rinsed
Cowboy Beans And Cornbread Directions
- Combine tomato paste, water, crushed tomatoes and all seasonings for a smooth sauce.
- Add drained, rinsed pinto beans, and stir to combine. Heat to 135ºF and serve immediately.
Critical Control Point: Hot hold at 135°F or higher
Recipe notes
Other pulses may be used in this recipe. For example, lentils, red beans or kidney beans may be used in place of pinto beans.
Suggested Serving:
Serving Size: ¾ cup beans and sauce
Measure 25 2-ounce equal servings
Suggested Serving: Prepared cornbread, such as USDA Cornbread Recipe. Fresh diced onion for garnish, if desired.
For Each Serving: Place a serving of cornbread on tray and top with ¾ cup pinto beans in sauce. Garnish with fresh diced onion, if desired.
Meal Components per ¾ cup serving of prepared beans (does not include cornbread):
2 ounces equivalent Meat/Meat Alternate and ¼ cup Red/Orange vegetables OR ¾ cup Vegetables (½ cup Legumes, Beans and Peas and ¼ cup Red/Orange vegetable subgroups)
Approximate nutritional contribution per ¾ cup serving of prepared beans (does not include cornbread):
155 Calories, 1 gram Fat, 0 grams Saturated Fat, 0 grams Trans fat, 0 milligrams Cholesterol, 530 milligrams Sodium, 30 grams Carbohydrate, 9 grams Dietary Fiber, 4 grams Sugars, 9 grams Protein, 700 International Units Vitamin A, 7 milligrams Vitamin C, 60 milligrams Calcium, 3 milligrams Iron.
Critical Control Point: Cool to 70°F or lower within 2 hours and from 70°F to 40°F within 4 more hours. Place in shallow pans with a product depth of 2 inches or less and refrigerate or place shallow pans of product into ice bath, immerse pans into ice up to product level and stir frequently. Cover and label product.
Critical Control Point: Reheat to 165°F or higher for 15 seconds, within 2 hours.
Sanitation Instructions:
Wash hands and exposed parts of arms before handling food, after handling raw foods, and after any interruption that may contaminate hands. Wash, rinse and sanitize all equipment and utensils before and after use. Return all ingredients to refrigerator if preparation is interrupted. Measure all internal product temperatures with a cleaned and sanitized thermocouple or thermometer every 2 hours. Thaw frozen product properly using an FDA recommended method.


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Markus Fodstad is a Recruitment Specialist working primarily with our Norwegian soccer players, tennis players and golfers. He has been part of Team CSUSA since August 2016.
Markus Fodstad played college soccer for North Park University, located in Chicago Illinois. He had very successful career playing for the Vikings, which competes in NCAA D3. Off the pitch Markus had a steady GPA of 3.23 during his Bachelor's degree, and a 3.68 during his Master's Degree. Markus received his bachelor degree in Business Administration May of 2014, and his Master's Degree (MBA) in December of 2015.
At the age of 16, Markus signed a contract with Baerum SK in the Norwegian second division. He stayed there for two years, playing 6 senior games in the second division as well as gaining valuable 3rd Division experience with Baerum SK 2. He finished of his last year in Baerum SK`s U19-Team, while applying for schools in the U.S.
With help from CSUSA, Markus ended up at North Park University in 2011, playing soccer for The Vikings. In his four years playing for the Vikings, Markus scored 14 goals and had 12 assists. The Vikings participated in the NCAA-Tournament three out of the four years Markus was a player there. During his time at North Park University he got several awards including: "All-CCIW Second Team" and "CCIW Player of the Week".
"Going to College, and being a student-athlete is probably the best decision I have ever made. My first season was kind of tough, not playing the first 7 matches. With determination and hard work, I managed to get in to the team and produce goals and assists. Our conference, CCIW, was extremely tough and competitive. One of my opponents ended up being drafted to the MLS, which underlines the high level. This experience is something I will bring with me for the rest of my life. I will never regret going over to the States. The reason I started to work for CSUSA is to help others get the same college experience as me."
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According to report reaching us Google pull more than 200 Android apps that were stuffed with SimBad malware from the Google Play Store.
Meanwhile the app purging was triggered after boffins at cybersecurity firm Check Point alerted the search giant to the presence of an adware campaign running riot in the Play Store.
The adware campaign made use of malware dubbed SimBad, which sits within a malicious software development kit called 'RXDrioder' and can perform actions after an infected Android device is booted. SimBad then connects back to a control and command server where it receives instructions from the malicious actors controlling it.
"SimBad comes with a respected list of capabilities on the user's device, such as removing the icon from the launcher, thus making it harder for the user to uninstall, start to display background ads and open a browser with a given URL," said the Check Point researchers.
"SimBad acts now as an adware, but already has the infrastructure to evolve into a much larger threat."
Once installed and connected, SimBad can then perform actions that facilitate adware campaigns, phishing attacks, as well as conduct remote downloads or open apps in an app store.
SimBad got its name from how it lurks behind a lot of simulator games which it has managed to infect, likely because it tricked app developers into using the malicious SDK which posed as a legitimate advert serving platform. Check Point noted that given the volume of apps it infected, SimBad likely managed to get downloaded around 150 million times.
Given Google has been getting better at Android security and how it polices the Play Store, we're curious as to how SimBad got past its defences. We asked Google about this but have yet to hear back.
But it would appear that SimBad was well hidden and that there's still work to be done to catch the sneakiest malware and malicious activity that exploit the more open nature of Android app development.


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