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Ten years ago, Sabine traveled from her native home in Belgium to visit Peru; it was only meant to be a vacation, to see Machu Picchu and the jungle, but she fell in love with Roberto, an actor, poet, and native of Cuzco, and stayed. As a couple they traveled to Europe and also to the Philippines, where they lived for three years, before they eventually returned to settle down in the lush Urubamba valley, below and to the east of the abandoned Inca city Machu Picchu, to raise a family on Roberto's father's land. Sabine decided to live her life as a farmer, despite its difficulties. She loved to work with her hands and wanted to be an example of organic farming in the local community. She felt she could easily do without television and most modern conveniences in exchange for the opportunity to live off the land and farm in a way that works with the jungle instead of against it.
I first hear about Sabine and Roberto's farm online, on a website called wwoof.org that connects willing volunteers with family-run organic farms around the world and I agree to work for their farm, Sachahuares, between Christmas and New Year's Day. They explain I can help them grow tropical fruits in exchange for the opportunity to live, learn, and work with their family, share in their culture, and escape the normal tourist route. For my labor, Sabine and Roberto agree to provide me with a place to stay and something to eat. When I ask if there is anything I can bring, they just say, "Panetón," which I've never heard of, but I discover is a holiday bread filled with candied fruits. I pick one up before leaving town. With our loose verbal contract, their directions, and a loaf of Panetón, I navigate the Peruvian outback. If nothing else, I have friends to greet me when I arrive.
I find my way to the outpost town of Quillabamba and, through word of mouth, to the street corner that serves as an unmarked bus stop for people like me who are departing eastward into the jungle. My station wagon taxi driver disobeys all traffic rules and regard for human life as he swerves and accelerates up the dangerously narrow dirt road. The steep, winding drive climaxes when we stop to talk to a group of mourners assembled at the rim of a tall cliff. From our vantage point, high above the chocolate brown river, I see the hull of a bus straight below us, its windows broken out and its body filled with pulsing river water. This is the same vehicle I saw the day before on the evening news, though at the time I could barely understand the Spanish-speaking newscasters.
My driver manages to stay on the high, twisting road and out of that death trap of a river for the rest of the trip until we reach a seemingly random place along the way marked only with a green banner strung up high with just one word written on it: Sachahuares.
From there I march up a ten minute trail through thick green vegetation and small trees covered in brightly colored fruit, orange, yellow, and green. I easily recognize coffee plants with beans, growing in tight clusters along the stems. Only one in a hundred of the shiny berries are dark red; the rest are still leaf green and unripe. I pluck a red berry from the branch. The outer flesh of the ripe bean tastes fruity and sweet.
A lanky tree grows above the coffee bush. Heavy green and yellow fruits hang from that tree's branches and trunks; they look like spiraled Nerf footballs or harvest time gourds from North America. The tiny intricate flowers of the tree also hang directly from the tree's trunk. A yellow toucan flies overhead and I know that I've arrived in the jungle. The whole place smells of rotting fruit. Fallen mangos turn from yellow to black as they're eaten by fuzzy all-black bees and giant orange wasps.
After five hard days of traveling from Northern California to Sachahuares, I find Sabine and her two-year old son Mirko standing in the open courtyard of their organic farm. They wait at the base of a mango tree that bows toward the ground under the weight of its ripe fruit. After introductions, Sabine leads me on an enthusiastic tour of the property.
"We can show you your house first, so you can put down your things."
On the way to my hut, I ask Sabine, "What do you grow here?"
"The hill's mostly planted with cacao, but we've also got coffee, pineapple, banana, mango, avocado." She counts the fruits on her fingers as she talks. Mirko walks by her side, smiling widely as he stomps his rubber boots into the fertile soil. "We have a lot of trees to plant this week," she says as she looks down at her son's knee-high mop of curly hair and his two perpetual dimples. He seems anxious to help.
"What's the cacao look like?" I ask as we walked the narrow path.
"This is cacao," she says, pointing at the mysterious tree full of football-shaped gourds and tiny flowers I noticed on my hike up. Her son shouts in his loudest two-year-old voice, "Cacao, cacao, cacao."
"Mirko really likes cacao," Sabine says as she breaks open a yellow pod. "It was his first word." She pulls the outer shell away, revealing segments of pure white fruit flesh, each surrounding a large, hard seed. The taste, almost like that of mango, surprises me, but not little Mirko, whose eyes widen with each slimy bite. I've been eating chocolate my whole life but never imagined it beginning as a seed pod with the smooth skin of an acorn squash, and I never could have predicted the refreshing melon-like fruit hidden between the pod and the seed.
Sabine shows me my thatch-roof hut up the hill from the main house. I take off my backpack and settle in. Skinny trees tied together with rope make up the skeleton of my dwelling and create a tall, vaulted ceiling that helps to push away the heat. A bed in the center of the room is covered in a blue mosquito net. After a quick break, I rejoin her to do some work around the farm.
Sabine grows Chunchu cacao beans, which are native to this region of Peru. Most people growing cacao in this valley today, however, grow hybrids that bear more fruit and are more resistant to disease. Sabine says the hybrid's beans have a blander taste and that they need to be mixed with small amounts of good chocolate to make them palatable. Besides that, Sabine tells me, they aren't natural here. Still most people grow them because they give more fruit. Growing the right tree is a tough choice to make, given the sacrifice in production, but Sabine thinks it's important. She's made a hard decision, but she wants to be a model for the community and run her farm the natural way.
"Are there a lot of big cacao farms here?" I ask.
"Well, not really." Sabine says. "Cacao grows best under the shade of the taller trees, so it doesn't do well on big plantations. Most cacao farms are about this size."
Like many tropical plants, cacao flowers throughout the year. The pods ripen according to their own personal time schedules and they don't drop to the ground after ripening. Sabine has to search the canopies every week or two for those hard to reach seed pods. Otherwise they rot and become insect houses instead of bars of chocolate.
We walk through a layer of long dead cacao leaves and overripe, slippery mangos, scaring off tiny black honey bees and wasps as long as my pinky finger as we harvest cacao pods using thin metal hooks attached to ten-foot-long sticks. The tool we're carrying hasn't changed in centuries. "Be careful, though," Sabine warns. "There have been lots of accidents."
We reach overhead with our sticks and set a sharp blade between the pod and its nearest branch, trying not to hit each other in the process. Sabine places hers and with a quick jerk and a tug, sends the fruit into free fall. Mirko won't be doing this part of the harvest for a few more years. In the mean-time, he can twist off the pods that sprout from the tree's trunk and low branches. We carry the yellow cacao fruits in satchels on our backs to the stone courtyard and pile them under Sabine's mango tree.
At the end of the work day I sit at the edge of my thatch roof hut to take off my boots and notice leaf cutter ants marching in formation just below the adobe steps. All I need is a light sheet for warmth through the night. The windows have no screen or glass; they're just open holes looking out into the dark. The net over the bed keeps away night creepers, not just mosquitoes, Sabine tells me: bats and giant brown moths the size of dinner plates-like to fly through those windows. An iridescent blue mosquito buzzes by my doorway.
For breakfast Sabine, Roberto, their three boys, and I eat Panetón, the traditional holiday sweetbread stuffed with candied fruit that I brought with me to the farm. We drink hot chocolate. After the meal, Sabine begins triangulating her plot of jungle with a three-meter stick to prepare the hillside for planting. She makes sure each cacao tree will have enough space to thrive in the shade of its neighbors. The baby trees look ready to grow; they bulge from within restricting bags. They extend handfuls of long oval leaves toward the sky and roots out drainage holes in the bottom of their tiny bags. Sabine places them according to the dimensions of the stick, careful to not step on the uncucha (a native tuber like a potato) she's already planted in between.
Mirko picks up digging tools and machetes; he's slowly becoming a farmer. I follow behind with him. We grind our knees into the moist soil and start the holes with a wooden-handled mattock, then extend the hole deeper with an iron rod, digging away the dirt by hand until we've created a shaft just deep enough to hold one thin cacao root ball. Sabine's determined to plant 150 baby trees this rainy season, each during the waning moon. "The way people have always done it."
Sabine will have to wait five or six years before her new trees begin to produce seed pods. It's a long time to wait, but once they mature, this group of trees can fruit for decades, just like an apple orchard. Each one will eventually produce a few pounds of dried, fermented cacao beans annually, enough to create a few bars of dark chocolate and make Sabine less than a dollar.
The sun shines brightly all day. The heat and humidity combine with the toucans and black flies to make this place really feel like the tropics. Farming here, like in most places, means hard work for little pay. There is no holiday vacation.
On Christmas Eve the family stays up late and builds a nativity scene depicting a whole town. Patches of moss represent farms. Tiny plastic figurines of animals and people are spread across the family's open-air living space under a thatch roof. We shoot bottle rockets into the air and listen to Christmas carols until midnight when we eat a whipped casserole of chicken, peppers, celery, onion, and potatoes called causa. Kyram, the oldest son, takes me outside by headlamp to pick limes from a small tree to make limeade. The peel of the limes smell intensely floral and almost as good as the limeade tastes.
The work at Sachuahuares changes from day to day, depending on what needs to be done. Today we're preparing our harvest of cacao to be fermented. "Mirko. Bring me that machete," Sabine says. Maybe it's just how they raise children in Peru but I'm surprised to see a two-year-old carrying around a sharp machete. Sabine takes the knife and goes to work, swinging her two-foot blade.
"If you chop straight around the pod, you can break it easier."
"Oh. Am I too slow?" I ask, though I already know the answer.
Sabine laughs before showing me what she means. She rotates a cacao pod with one graceful hand and hits it three times with the machete, moving her free hand aside between swings. She tosses aside the empty half and tears apart the cone of gelatinous beans with her first two fingers, dumping them into a tall rice bag. "And watch out for splinters, cause they can get under your fingernail from the shell." She grabs another pod from her perch atop a tiny wooden seat and cuts it open before I have a chance to grab for one for myself. "Just cut the skin; don't cut into any of the beans." Just as with apples; one bad bean can spoil the whole batch.
As I watch Sabine sit close to the ground, hunched over, swinging a machete, I realize the chocolate I've been eating my whole life comes at a laborious price. I had no idea harvesting chocolate could be so complicated or time-consuming. We talk as we load rice bags with slimy beans, heavy as almonds. Strong smelling acidic juices already seep through the porous bottom of the bag. Fermenting beans properly requires patience and knowledge; it allows cacao to retain more of its natural antioxidants and minerals. Poor fermentation or none at all can destroy those healthy benefits. We follow tradition by allowing the beans to sit in the well-used rice bag for a few days. Only a farmer's instinct can tell exactly how many days the process takes. Sabine, Mirko, and I use bacteria and yeast to transform our crop and harness the power of chocolate.
At dark we watch fireflies light up green and relax with a game of Sorry. We eat more causa and drink more freshly squeezed limeade. The family cooks their meal over an open fire in an adobe stove. The food they make tastes wonderful and smoky. The potatoes are wild. The shower is gravity fed cold water from a channeled stream, which is just perfect after a hard day's work in a place this hot and humid.
Roberto is always excited to tell me about his native country. While Sabine speaks English, along with Flemish, French, and Spanish, her husband only speaks very fast Spanish. It proves difficult to understand his warnings about the thieves in Cusco, the water in Puno, and the front seats on the double-decker bus (a very scenic yet dangerous way to travel, as a thin plate of glass is the only thing separating those seats from the road six feet down). He tells me there are a minimum of two accidents each day between Cusco and Puno, on the shore of Lake Titicaca.
Roberto says that when I leave the farm, I have to go to Santa Maria, then take a bus to Santa Teresa. From there I go to Aguas Calientes–known today as Maccu Picchu Pueblo. I plan to be there for New Years' Eve. I understand about half of all his quickly spoken Spanish instructions.
In the morning we lay out a thin layer of beans to dry in the heat. From now on, each afternoon, we scoop up our crop and put it in the house to shield it from the nightly downpours. This process is already imprinted on little Mirko. He mimics everything we do. Sabine explains to me that slowly drying the beans helps to retain cacao's nutritious properties and allows them to last longer, and that drying them too quickly can leave fermentation incomplete and invite mold, which can kill the beans. As with the other steps in the harvesting of cacao, this one is nearly impossible to do with machines; it needs time and it needs to be watched by a knowledgeable eye and attended to by hand.
It's the hottest day in the jungle yet. The sun shines so strongly I feel like I'm about to pass out. I've already adapted to the idea of an afternoon siesta; it's essential to rest in the heat of the day this close to the equator. An afternoon nap sets me straight and gives me energy to push through the second half of the day, even if that extends well beyond a traditional northern workday's end of five pm. This is the true work advantage to the siesta system. The people actually return to work with vigor in the evening and it is not unusual to see even state workers getting things done well into twilight. On the farm, we dig holes long after the sun has set behind the hill.
The choice to grow cacao is a difficult one; it commits that farmer (and potentially her entire family) to constant labor for little pay. The vast majority of the world's chocolate is grown in struggling economies where per capita incomes are one tenth of those in Europe or the US. To me, it means we should always savor the chocolate we eat. After all, that candy bar has been through a lot. The beans it came from led a hard life. They were harvested by hand and tediously worked through time-consuming steps with attention and care.
Worldwide chocolate sales total nearly fifty billion dollars annually. Overwhelmingly the flow begins in the jungles of Africa and Indonesia (the plant only grows between twenty degrees north and twenty degrees south of the Equator) and ends in Europe and North America. Europe alone consumes forty percent of all chocolate, coincidentally the exact same 1.4 million tons that is the average yearly export for the African nation of Ivory Coast.
Though the price of a good chocolate bar is about three dollars, Sabine says she makes just one hundred soles, or thirty-five dollars, for one hundred kilograms of fermented Chunchu beans, enough to make hundreds of chocolate bars. With the two of us harvesting for six hours, splitting pods for six hours, and laying out the beans to dry, I figure it takes thirty-six hours of labor for a reward of thirty-five dollars. The average yearly cacao harvest brings $175 dollars to a farm with about 800 trees, or more than double what Sabine has. But she also grows a variety of other crops on her land and offers jungle stays to tourists who aren't interested in working through their vacation.
Cacao farms commonly sell their refined product to middlemen who combine the community's beans until they have enough to sell to local cooperatives. In turn, those cacao cooperatives sell massive amounts of beans to the international organizations that make most of our candy. Sabine's chocolate greases the money machine but very little of that money ever trickles back down to the farm where it started. With each step toward the consumer and away from the farmer, the value of cacao multiplies, but the beneficiaries are corporations and business people who've never knelt in the dirt to dig a hole. They've never waited five years for a tree to outgrow its pests and bear fruit. Before cacao beans leave the farm, hundreds of hours have gone into their harvest. If cacao was able to grow in North America, the production costs would make chocolate as expensive as gold.
"Could you sell your beans as organic? Fair Trade?" I ask.
"To be Fair Trade or Organic–never mind both–a farm needs to buy their yearly certification. It's something like a thousand dollars a year to be organic. Fair Trade is even more. We just can't do it. For some people, a thousand dollars isn't much, I know, but spending that money would cancel my profits from everything we make here at the farm."
Today is the rainiest day of the week. The storm starts around midnight, like normal, but this time it continues straight until noon, so I huddle inside with Sabine, Mirko, Roberto, Kyram, and the baby. We roast cacao beans in a ceramic pot over the fire. The beans need the perfect amount of heat, so as to release as much moisture as possible, too much of a scorching, and they can burn. We stir the roasting beans constantly. The earthy smell of shell and wood smoke fill the room. "Enough?" I ask
"Nope." Sabine picks up a pod tries to separate the shell. "The shells need to peel off easier." She tosses the bean back in the pot and continues stirring, carefully watching each one. Amazing how she maintains enough patience to deal with such a high-maintenance bean; fascinating that so many people have done this for so many generations. I guess humans have collectively decided that whatever the cost in labor, we must have our chocolate. Like all other steps in the cacao process, this one proves mildly difficult to do right, and it is another step I would not want to trust to young Mirko.
We shell our roasted seeds over the kitchen table, hurrying to get it done before they cool. Warmth makes the husk easier to get off. The almond-like seeds reveal an inner core like a shriveled pistachio made of chocolate. Industrially, this step is done by huge winnowing machines that rough up the roasted beans and suck off their tattered coverings.
Sabine and I grind the beans through a small hand-crank coffee grinder, pouring only a few dozen capsules of flavor into the funnel at a time. Out of the bottom of that grinding machine oozes shiny brown chocolate liquor, greasy and coarse–a far cry from the yellow fruit we picked a few days ago, yet still several processes away from a chocolate bar. Finally, that undeniable, rich odor of pure chocolate hits my nose. Sabine gifts me a bar of the pure cacao liquor, pressed into a solid square. No sugar or milk here, just cacao. For the rest of my trip, my backpack emits the thick smell of cacao beans–fermented, dried, roasted, and ground.
Saying goodbye to my new family proves difficult and returning to the heavily trafficked Peruvian tourist route from remote Sachahuares ends up being as interesting and complicated as getting there had been. As I wait at the bottom of Sabine's narrow footpath along a dirt road in the jungle, rain starts to fall. A van pulls over to pick me up; apparently, they pick everyone up. Over the next few hours we grow into a group of twenty-three people compacted into a fifteen passenger van.
I'm excited to be back on the road and I'm ready for another grand adventure, but I'm sitting unevenly over the wheel well and my hip hurts with every rock and rut that sends the van's tires bouncing. After two more hour-long drives in over-stuffed cars and vans, I miss the day's final train to Machu Picchu Pueblo, and so I have to walk three hours with all of my gear on my back. Lots of fortunate tourists walk the Inca Trail leading to Machu Picchu, but that is not the path I'm walking. I'm walking in the tracks of the train I missed, so I'm at least afforded the same view I would have had from my seat on the train and there's no traffic. Regardless, I'll be at Machu Picchu tomorrow for the first day of the year. The hike is beautiful, surrounded by avocado trees and towering green peaks dotted with ruined Inca terraces. As I explore Peru over the next three weeks, the musky aroma of chocolate emanates from my backpack.
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Matt Berman has written short stories about travel, work, and the world for the last ten years, bringing far-away readers into engaging natural world settings and real-life drama. Since earning his bachelor's degree studying Media Communications at the University of New Hampshire, he has worked seasonally on trail crews in America's National Parks, from the Grand Canyon to the Grand Tetons. His experience working outdoors in these natural cathedrals drives him to write. He writes about the physical interactions people make with the planet and how those bonds create meaning. Matt is currently enrolled in Spalding University's MFA in Creative Non-Fiction in Louisville, Kentucky.


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Blizzard tweeted about Video Games Live, which is running this summer on PBS. It's a live symphony orchestra, plus a rock band, playing versions of classic video game themes, with video screens showing clips from the games as well. Reminded me of the old/awesome Metallica S&M project.
Starcraft and Warcraft are both featured in the promo trailer, but no Diablo. The Tristram town theme is one of the best known/loved video game themes ever, and it can be performed by more than a guitarist, but not on this show, apparently. Here's the official quote, with the video below.
Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the biggest video games of all time. Filmed in New Orleans with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and choir, watch as top musicians from around the world perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, guitarists, percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. To see when it airs near you, go to: http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules (scheduling information for this program may not be available until mid-July)
The PBS special—consisting of never before televised live musical performances from the Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Castlevania, God of War, Civilization, Chrono Cross, StarCraft and Guitar Hero franchises, and a musical journey through classic gaming—premieres July 31, 2010 and airs throughout August on PBS stations.).


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Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith
Series: Stillhouse Lake #1
Publisher: Brillance Audio
Publication Date: July 1, 2017
Date Read: January 25, 2018
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Source: Purchased - Audible
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.
With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband's crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.
But just when she's starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed—or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she's learned how to fight evil. And she'll never stop.
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This was so good! This is only the second book by Rachel Caine that I have read so while I had heard it was good, I didn't really know what to expect. This book ended up being fantastic listen. I was hooked by the story from the very beginning. When I wasn't listening to this book, I was thinking about it. Could this really happen? How well do we really know those people around us? My husband and I had a couple of conversations about it. In other words, this book really stayed with me throughout my day. I listened to it pretty quickly and really enjoyed the story it told.
At the beginning of the book, we meet Gina. Gina is just a mom picking up her kids on a completely normal day. The day doesn't stay normal. When she returns home with her kids, she finds that a driver has crashed into her garage and police are all over the place. Gina doesn't understand why she is being treated like a criminal since she is obviously the victim in this situation. Gina had no idea what kind of secrets her husband was keeping inside of that garage.
Fast forward a few years, Gina is now Gwen and her ex-husband is in jail. She is no longer the same person. She is a fighter and has learned to take care of herself and her kids. Gwen and her kids have had to move around a lot in order to stay safe and avoid being recognized. They have a little house at Stillhouse Lake and hope to stay put for at least a little while. They start making connections and things seem different here until a body is discovered in the lake.
I liked Gwen a lot. She has had to overcome a whole lot to get to the point she is at. She is smart, tough, and willing to do whatever needs to be done to keep her kids safe. She is no longer the clueless woman that was married to Melvin Royal. She no longer trusts easily and has had to learn the hard way that innocent people sometimes are blamed for things they didn't do. I liked both of her kids as well. They have been through so much and really do seem to be good kids despite a few more normal acts of teenage rebellion.
This was quite the page turner. I was hooked by the story as soon as that car hit the Royal family's garage. I wasn't sure what was going to happen at Stillhouse Lake but I quickly became invested in the characters and couldn't wait to find out. I had a hard time trusting some of the characters Gwen and her kids came in contact with even when I wanted to trust them. As the book progressed, I found that the story became even more intense.
This was my first experience with Emily Sutton-Smith as a narrator. When I first started the book, I honestly wasn't sure what I thought of her narration but she quickly won me over. I think she did a great job of bringing this story to life. I think she did a great job of bringing Gwen to life with a wide range of emotions. She had a very nice reading voice that was easy to listen to for hours at a time.
I would highly recommend this book to thriller fans. I liked that this was a different kind of serial killer story with the focus on the murderer's family. I plan to listen to the next book in this series very soon.
Book #1 - Stillhouse Lake
Book #2 - Killman Creek
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Rachel Caine is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of more than forty novels, including Prince of Shadows, the Weather Warden series, the Outcast Season series, the Revivalist series, and the Morganville Vampires series.


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Google had earlier clearly revealed its intention to bring Google Lens to multiple devices of various OEMs soon rather than later. Among them included devices from Nokia, Xiaomi, LG, Motorola, OnePlus and so on. As a part of this venture, Google is now extending the Google Lens capability to the default camera app of Sony Xperia XZ2 line-up.
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This store bought costume for families entered our 2016 Halloween Costume Contest.
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I was obsessed with bacon in 2014. I was able to find the costume online. Well as obsessed as I was I even made a joke back then that when I have a baby... he will be bacon too. Thankfully I googled that and found the same manufacturer, but sized for a baby for only $18! Blake's smile completes the entire costume. Im gonna eat him up!


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@article {31393, title = {Intertwined Impacts of Water, Energy Development, and Carbon Emissions in China}, journal = {Applied Energy}, volume = {238}, year = {2019}, month = {03/2019}, pages = {78 - 91}, abstract = {
China is rapidly expanding its alternative and non-conventional energy production capabilities. Although renewable electricity remains the focus, considerable investment has supported construction of coal liquefaction and coal gasification facilities in the desert steppes of north-central China, new coal mines in arid Inner Mongolia, and tight oil and gas extraction in the Ordos to supplement limited domestic supplies of oil and gas. At the same time, China is also facing severe drought and water scarcity in these same regions and in response has expanded various water supply technologies such as desalination and wastewater treatment. Recent government goals and measures for reducing energy and water consumption and increasing efficiency introduced in national policies, however, are poorly or not coordinated, resulting in contradictory objectives for which physical interlinkages are not well understood. This research intends to provide insights for future energy-water nexus management decisions in China, through systematic, comprehensive modeling of the water-energy nexus in China based on comprehensive, bottom-up technology characterizations. Existing studies fail to adequately characterize the details on specific technologies, nor do they comprehensively cover all energy sectors, including energy conversion for non-energy products. We developed integrated assessment (IA) capabilities to allow stakeholders to observe the tradeoffs between various technology options and policy decisions and to test hypotheses/premises in a scenario-driven environment. The results of our analysis underscore the growing interconnection between water and energy in China, the mixed trade-offs from developing low-carbon technologies such as renewable energy and inland nuclear, and the importance of water-energy nexus issues at the regional and local scales. This study lays the groundwork for an integrated resource policy planning process in China and provides an assessment methodology and research directions for future studies of the water-energy nexus. Finally, this study contributes to the water-energy nexus literature by providing systematic data and policy implications for China, where data are typically less accessible, as well as providing references for other regions in the world that are facing similar water and energy use and planning challenges.}, keywords = {CERC-WET, energy, model, Nexus, Policy China, water}, issn = {03062619}, doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.12.085}, author = {Nan Zhou and Jingjing Zhang and Nina Khanna and David Fridley and Shan Jiang and Xu Liu} } @article {31962, title = {Water-Energy Nexus in China A study on a national scale}, year = {2018}, month = {04/2018}, abstract = {
Executive Summary
Mind the Nexus\
Almost all forms of energy development require water{\textemdash}to clean coal, cool thermal power plants, move hydropower turbines, frack gas, and grow biofuel crops. China{\textquoteright}s water availability is far below global average, yet the country continues to expand energy development rapidly from new coal mines and power plants the arid north, shale gas operations in the dry west to the world{\textquoteright}s most extensive hydropower boom in the southwest and more nuclear power inland. This intensifying energy development adds more pressure to China{\textquoteright}s water ecosystem that must also provide water to growing urban centers, agriculture, and industry. Chinese policymakers need more systemic understanding and reliable data on the interlinked water-energy trends at both the micro and macro levels so they can better protect the country{\textquoteright}s constrained water and manage the ambitious energy agenda.
In response to these challenges, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) and China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) recently completed one of the most comprehensive national-level water-energy nexus model. This modeling work was not an academic exercise, rather an attempt to help Chinese policymakers understand more precisely how energy development at the national and regional level is using the country{\textquoteright}s limited water resources, and examining how much electricity the country is using to move, pump, clean, heat, and desalinate water.\
This modeling work is part of the bilateral Clean Energy Research Center on Water-Energy Technologies (CERC-WET), co-led by UC Berkeley and China{\textquoteright}s Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration \& Development (RIPED).
Data and governance Gaps\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
Managing water and energy together represents a major governance challenge in many countries. China{\textquoteright}s fragmented authoritarianism presents particular difficulties for water and energy policy coordination. Besides the inconsistent and often competing policy priorities among sectors, at the most basic level both bureaucratic spheres lack the data and insights into the big impacts water-energy confrontations are causing. The current dominant design for water-energy information gathering and regulation in China has focused on the facility-level. For example, how much water used to clean coal at one mine or cool one coal-fired power plant provides insights into how local water resources are impacted. Correspondingly, the CERC-WET project provides a system-level mapping of water and energy development and how they interact at the macro level. The model highlights the water energy integrated model methodology, the state-of-the-art data review, and governance and policy frameworks, enabling us to create regional water-energy research in the future, which will help China{\textquoteright}s central and local governments more accurately invest in technologies and create policies to mitigate water-energy challenges.
China{\textquoteright}s Thirsty Energy and Increasingly Energy Intense Water Sector
So how thirsty is China{\textquoteright}s energy sector? Most thermal energy plants need to use significant quantities of water for cooling. Case in point, in 2014, Chinese energy production and energy conversion sector withdrew three times more water for cooling/processing (79km3) than they actually consumed (17.7 km3), which is about 56\% of the industrial total water consumption in 2014.\ If the current trend continues, the water consumption for energy could peak between 2033-2034, an increase of 30\% from the current level, while the water withdrawal for energy peak at 127.5 km3 in 2036. By comparison, the water withdrawal for agriculture is 387 km3 in 2014. Although the Ministry of Water Resources regulates how much water energy projects can consume, there are not yet specific regulations to limit the impact of water withdrawal, which can be severe. Moreover, available water limit standards focus on coal mining and washing, thermal coal power, and coking, but they do not address the macro-level impacts the energy development on water resources.
The CERC-WET modeling also dug into data around the energy footprint of water in China. Historically between 2005 and 2014, China{\textquoteright}s water supplied for agriculture, industry, residential and ecological use has increased 8\%, but the corresponding energy demand to move, pump, clean and heat water has grown 25\% due mainly to increases in groundwater pumping and inter-basin water transfer. The modelling results showed the energy use in the water sector will likely increase dramatically from its current level of 210.7 TWh (about 2\% of China{\textquoteright}s electricity consumption). As urbanization continues, by 2050 the nation{\textquoteright}s water demand will require 23\% more energy, and the wastewater treatment sector will need 29\% more energy than today. Despite this trend, water{\textquoteright}s energy use does not garner much attention from government agencies, NGOs or researchers except for indicating the economic concerns at the project or city level.
Low carbon doesn{\textquoteright}t always save water
Increasing the renewable and alternative energy supply can not only mitigate climate change, but also save water resources depending on the type of renewable energy that is developed. The CERC-WET team ran a clean/alternative energy scenario[1] that indicated a shift to 68\%\ renewable energy sources by 2050 would lead the energy sector to consume 33\% less water, and withdraw 61\% less from rivers and groundwater. However, while shifting towards using inland nuclear power plants offers climate benefits, it could potentially increase water consumption by 44\% (1.9 km3) by 2050. As an already controversial alternative energy to coal, this significant water footprint poses further challenges for inland nuclear development. Current proposals often seek to use reclaimed water as an alternative source to freshwater, but this is an area where more research is needed to evaluate the sustainability of these projects. Overall, this proves further disincentives to increasing primary coal production and coal thermal power generation in China, pointing towards renewable energy that also integrates a water perspective into its planning.
Keeping a local perspective
CERC WET showed the water-energy-nexus picture at the aggregated national level, but it is important to note that water-energy conflicts can be exacerbated at the regional level. Arid western provinces are fossil fuel rich, meaning that they are both abundant and lacking in the necessary resources for energy production{\textemdash}in order to utilize their fossil fuel resources, they have to further over tap their already diminishing water resources. Even eastern regions are facing challenges in supplying sufficient water and clean energy to their growing urban populations{\textemdash}the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region provides such an example. In addition to these technical challenges, local communities often perceive these issues differently than policy makers, further complicating the research design to address nexus problems.
Each region faces its own unique set of problems such that a {\textquotedblleft}one size fits all{\textquotedblright} solution will not work in addressing the diversity of water-energy nexus issues at the local level. It would be useful to develop a research approach to take specific local issues into account and ask research/policy questions in an inclusive and adaptive process. For instance, Endo etc (2015) laid out some groundwork as an effort to applying different research approaches and methodologies in response to the varying local policy and technical contexts.
The challenge of policy coherence
In addition to the modeling work mentioned above, this report also laid out the groundwork for understanding necessary characteristics of governance structure for this nexus, as there is currently very little social science research on water-energy nexus issues. We unveiled the governance differences revolve around issues such as policy priorities, scale, regulatory and market structure, and actors involved. In order to address the policy coherence/coordination issues, for the short term it is imperative to develop a common dialogue and vision between two sectors that have very different policy goals. Future research needs to continue to work to develop knowledge on bridging the institutional, organizational and behavioral gaps between these two sectors.
Finally, nexus issues require interdisciplinary efforts{\textemdash}before formulating research questions, it is necessary to engage with a diverse set of actors, including scientists from varying disciplines, policy makers, and community members. Through an inclusive and adaptive process, nexus research can hopefully avoid {\textquotedblleft}a hammer looking for a nail{\textquotedblright} situation.
[1] The clean/alternative energy scenario assumes the renewable energy share to be increased to 36\% in 2030 and 68\% in 2050, while share gas production is projected to grow from 1.2 Mtoe/year in 2014 to 180 Mtoe/year by 2050. The coal conversion processes are assumed to be the same as the reference scenario.


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Demei's View - Wine Communication from a Chinese Winemaker
Alcoholic beverages have an important role in peoples' live, because they can affect the drinkers' mental states and behaviours. Authorities always tend to control the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, thus there are rules like the Prohibition and the Sales and Consumption Control. However, peoples' attitudes to the consumption of such drinks tend to change regularly in line with the development of economy and social cultural level; statistical data shows that people living in well-developed areas consume less spirits that those living in developing areas.
This should be the same case in China. As a large consuming country of alcoholic beverages, China is expected by the wine industry to have more people drinking wines, in the hope that this may be able to relieve the situation of overproduction. According to the figures from China's National Bureau of Statistics, in 2013, the consumption of baiju was 12.26m ton, yellow wine 1.96m ton, beer 50.61m ton, and wine 1.17m ton. Clearly the amount of wine consumed was relatively small comparing to other alcoholic beverages.
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Although China has a long history of winemaking, large scale wine production and consumption only started from the end of the last century. The promotion of the idea that drinking wine is good for health attracted some Chinese wine drinkers, especially those in the elder generation. However, this concept couldn't boost the consumption of wine in line with the pace of the growth of Chinese economy. This is because consumers are aware that wine is not a health care product. And more importantly, the promotion was limited in terms of attracting different consumer groups – it only works on the elder people, whose consuming habits are rather fixed and difficult to change. And the younger generation whose spending habits have better plasticity are not very interested in the idea of 'drinking wine for better health'.
Attracting the new generation of consumers to drink wine is the task wine industry practitioners should concentrate on. Over the past year, people have been paying more attention to this question because of the downturn in the Chinese wine scene.
Youngsters normally have strong interest in new things. University students are a typical group, and generally speaking they have already reached the legal age for drinking. I have run an elective course of Wine Tasting every term at my university since 2003, and it is very popular among our students, although I have to limit the number of students in the course as there are some restrictions when organising wine tastings.
On 27 October, after giving a lecture on basic wine knowledge, I invited New Zealander David Desmond to give the students an experience of New Zealand wines.
David used to work at the New Zealand embassy in China for food and wine promotion. After finishing his term, he stayed in China as the representative of Yealands Estate. Spending a long time in China, he has a good understanding of Chinese culture, and played this advantage fully in the class. Although he began with not very fluent Chinese, he still received applause from the students. The atmosphere became alive, and students were no longer reserved. It's fair to say that he engineered a very successful start.
The theme of the course was to promote wine culture, but David used a lot of beautiful New Zealand scenery pictures in his presentation, with an introduction to New Zealand fruits and seafood. Wine was at first an unfamiliar thing to the students, but with the appearance of these familiar elements, the course wasn't boring anymore. After tasting the first wine, the classroom climate was more active; some students even raised their hands with questions (Chinese students are normally very shy to ask questions in the class, they would ask the teacher individually after class). Eventually we tasted one white and two reds in the class, all very typical to me with high quality. However, the in-class survey showed that over three quarters of the students prefer the elegant, fine and fruity Sauvignon Blanc, while the oaked Merlot with the same remarkable quality was least popular.
It seems the market reports claiming that Chinese people like RED wines and Chinese consumers prefer oak barrel aging wines need to be updated.
The development of long-term potential consumers is the job for wine associations in each country and wine region. Individual brands – especially small-scale wineries – rarely want to carry out the work because of the uncertainty of the returns and the pressure from the winery's short-term sales goals.
The most popular wine in the class
Crossroads, Milestone Series Sauvignon Blanc, Hawks bay 2013
Pale straw yellow with a hint of green, clear and bright; the aroma is fresh with a clear fruit nose like lemon and pineapple; the palate is lively and refreshing, well-balanced; sweet and smooth finish has a pleasant aftertaste.
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cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know
that I am a black man in a white world.
— Jackie Robinson in his 1972 autobiography, I Never Had It Made.
know essentially nothing about baseball, football, or any other kind
of ball; to say I'm illiterate in sports is like saying water's
wet. So I barely registered last week's headlines about
Not-My-President yelling abuse at football players who refused to
stand for the National Anthem. I knew, of course, that the anthem was
called The Star-Spangled Banner and that a lawyer named
Francis Scott Key had written it after witnessing the bombardment of
Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. (If for no other reason, because
this was part of the U.S. Citizenship Test when I took it about 20
years ago.) I think I can sing it, even—the first verse, that is.
Nice tune, so much better than the dirge-sounding "God Save the
King/Queen" anthem of my home country.
"Read the rest of the song," I was advised when I asked someone about the whole "taking the knee" controversy. "It's racist." Sorry if you, dear reader, know all this. It was news to me. Key's original third verse ends:
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Which I take to mean, I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, that Key was taking great pleasure in imagining the impending fate of black slaves who had signed up to the British side. A more racist sentiment would be hard to find, even back then.
Britain at the time of the Revolutionary War was kinda-sorta anti-slavery. Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807, outlawing the trade, but not slavery itself. That didn't happen until 1833 with the Slavery Abolition Act. But the British forces, led by Admiral Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy, had every reason to accept blacks into their ranks—who better to fight the colonialists than escaped slaves? Indeed Cockburn's orders read, "Let the landings you make be more for the protection of the desertion of the Black Population than with a view to any other advantage…The great point to be attained is the cordial Support of the Black population." And so it was. During the two-year campaign, he rescued some 6,000 slaves, many of whom swapped their rags for red coats.
any case, Francis Scott Key, a rich slave-holding lawyer who once
wrote that blacks were "a distinct and inferior race of people,
which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a
community" is an unlikely hero of the republic. According to an
article in the September 2014 Harper's
by Andrew Cockburn (who claims the good admiral as a relative), Key
"went on to a long career as a powerful crony of President Andrew
Jackson, a mentor to Chief Justice Roger Taney of Dred Scott fame,
and, as district attorney for the capital, an energetic prosecutor of
So yeah, even knowing nothing about sports, I can see why black players would have trouble standing for our National Anthem. Maybe we all should.
Barry Evans gave the best years of his life to civil engineering, and what thanks did he get? In his dotage, he travels, kayaks, meditates and writes for the Journal and the Humboldt Historian. He sucks at 8 Ball. Buy his Field Notes anthologies at any local bookstore. Please.


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Gupta joined Uber in 2015 as the senior director of the maps and marketplace product team. He was promoted to the position of chief product officer in November 2018. Previously, he worked with Google.
After Gupta steps down from his position on Dec 13, the company's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take charge, while looking for his replacement.
Though Gupta, who resigned to "take a break" is "very bullish on Uber's future", the timing of his withdrawal from the organization can't be ignored. The company has successively incurred huge losses in each of the three quarters of 2019, ever since it went public on May 10, 2019, thanks to cost pressure. Significant expenses on sales and marketing are weighing on the company's bottom line. Evidently, shares of the company have declined 35% since May 10.
Amid such setback, Kalanick has been continually dumping his shares. After three rounds of sales, he sold 33 million shares so far this month, worth $882 million.
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"This crab's shell is particularly hard. When cooked into dish, its fat and meat bolster the body to increase your defense."
The Ironshell Crab (064 in the Hyrule Compendium) is a type of crab and common material found in Breath of the Wild. They can typically be found on beaches near bodies of water around Hyrule such as the Necluda Sea or East Necluda. They can be sold to shop-vendors all over Hyrule for 8 Rupees each.
The Ironshell Crab will restore one heart when eaten. If cooked on an open flame, Link will obtain a Blackened Crab, which restores 1½ hearts and can be sold for 12 rupees. If dropped on the ground in extremely snowy climates, Link will obtain a Frozen Crab, which restores two hearts and provides a temporary boost to heat resistance for one minute. It can be sold for 14 rupees. Ironshell Crabs can be used in a variety of recipes, and the resultant meal will provide a defense boost effect.


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Institute of Neuroscience Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Postdoc, Fred Hutchinscon Cancer Research Center
Research Interests
Neural circuit wiring, synapse formation, and electrical synaptogenesis in zebrafish.
The human brain contains more connections between neurons than the Milky Way has stars! The brain is wired at a gross level into stereotyped neural circuits that underlie sensation, information processing, motor output, and ultimately, consciousness. Disrupted neural circuitry has been linked to many neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia. How do the neurons of the brain connect and wire up into circuits? The goal of the research in the lab is to integrate genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, circuit function, and behavior, to understand how the brain creates functioning neural networks.
Neural circuits are defined by the connections made between neurons, and connections, termed synapses, come in two flavors: chemical, where transmission is mediated by neurotransmitters and receptors, and electrical, where neurons directly communicate with one another through gap junction channels. While the last decade has provided much insight into the developmental genetic mechanisms of building chemical synapses, electrical synapse formation is still not understood. However, it is known that electrical synapses are used by all animals both during development and in adulthood, and are found in sensory, central, and motor circuits. The goal of this project is to unlock the molecular mechanisms underlying electrical synaptogenesis.
Using zebrafish as a model system we have performed a forward genetic screen to identify mutations that cause defects in electrical synapse formation. Mapping mutations from forward genetic screens is challenging, particularly in large vertebrate genomes, but we have developed methods using on next generation sequencing which facilitate the identification of mutated genes (Genome Research). One of the mutations identified in the screen disrupted the autism-associated gene neurobeachin and we found that it was required for both electrical and chemical synapse formation, placing this gene as a critical lynchpin in all of synapse formation (Current Biology). We have also developed a novel CRISPR-based reverse genetic screening method to identify genes required for development – this was the first example that such an approach could be taken in a vertebrate (Nature Methods). The screen identified structural proteins that create the gap junction channel between the neurons and scaffolding that stabilize the synaptic structure. Ongoing work has revealed that electrical synapses can be asymmetric, with unique proteins on each side of the junction. This molecular asymmetry may underlie functional asymmetry and provide differential substrates for altering electrical synapse function.
Current projects focus on several diverse, but related, areas of electrical synaptogenesis:
1) Electrical synapse asymmetry – biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics
How do the proteins of the synapse function at the molecular level to form the connection? What proteins interact and how do those interactions build the synapse? What other proteins are present at the synapse?
2) Electrical synapse formation – cell biology, development, and genetics
How are proteins trafficked to the synapse? How are they captured and stabilized once present? What are the cytoskeletal structures and motor proteins that facilitate movement? How long do proteins remain at the synapse and are they responsive to neuronal activity?
3) Electrical synapse function – behavior and physiology
Does the composition of the electrical synapse change based on circuit activity? Do molecular asymmetries produce effects on synapse function? How are molecular asymmetries integrated into circuit level function and behavioral output?
4) Electrical and chemical synapse interactions – physiology, development, and genetics
Are early-forming electrical synapses required for subsequent chemical synapse formation? What gap junction channels and scaffolds mediate early circuit activity? How are some early-forming electrical synapses removed as neural circuits mature? How are others retained?
• Shah AN, Davey CF, Whitebirch AC, Moens CB^, Miller, AC^ (2015). Reverse genetic screening using CRISPRs in zebrafish. Nature Methods doi:10.1038/nmeth.3360.
• Finley JK, Miller AC, Herman TG (2015). Polycomb group genes are required to maintain a binary fate choice in the Drosophila eye. Neural Development 10(1):2.
• Miller AC, Voelker L, Shah AN, Moens CB (2015). Neurobeachin is required autonomously by the postsynaptic for electrical and chemical synapse formation. Current Biology 2015 25(1):16-28. o Featured in Dispatch by Pereda A. Current Biology 25(1):R38-41.
• Miller AC, Obholzer ND, Shah AN, Megason SG, Moens CB (2013). RNA-seq based mapping and candidate identification of mutations from forward genetic screens. Genome Research 23(4):679-86. o Highlighted by Burgess D. Nature Reviews Genetics 14(3), 154-155.
• Miller AC, Lyons E, Herman TG (2009). cis-inhibition of Notch by endogenous Delta biases the outcome of lateral inhibition. Current Biology 19(16), 1378-83. o Featured in Dispatch by del Alamo D and Schwisguth F. Current Biology 19(16):F683-4.
• Miller AC, Seymour H, King C, Herman TG (2008). Loss of seven-up from Drosophila R1/R6 photoreceptors reveals a stochastic fate choice that is normally biased by Notch. Development 135(4), 707-15
• Faumont S, Miller AC, and Lockery SR (2005). Chemosensory behavior of semi-restrained Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Neurobiology 65(2), 171-8.
• Miller AC*, Thiele TR*, Faumont S*, and Lockery SR (2005). Step-response analysis of chemotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Neuroscience 25(13), 3369-78.
• Zariwala HA*, Miller AC*, Faumont S*, and Lockery SR (2003). Step response analysis of thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Neuroscience 23(10), 4369-4377.
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1 - India-Pakistan war hero, Captain M.N. Samant died aged 89 years
Captain Mohan Narayan Rao Samant of the Indian Navy, a 1971 India-Pakistan war hero, who was honoured by Bangladesh as a 'Friend of Liberation War', passed away at the age of 89.
The Maha Vir Chakra awardee was instrumental in India waging a covert maritime war against shipping in the then East Pakistan. He had trained over 400 Bengali college students as maritime commandos for carrying out mass raids and inflicting damages to Pakistani shipping vessels in the run up to the 1971 war.
2 - Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away aged 63
Parrikar had first become the Chief Minister of Goa in 2000 and had also served as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017.
Mr. Parrikar was the first Indian Institute of Technology alumnus (of IIT, Bombay) to serve as Chief Minister of Goa in 2000. He became Chief Minister for four terms, but, ironically, could not complete a single full term in office.
He was born into a middle-class family on December 13. Parrikar began his political career as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak (worker).
He breathed his last on March 17.
About Goa
Capital: Panaji
Governor: Mridula Sinha
3 - Lingayat Pontiff Maate Mahadevi died aged 74 years
Prominent Lingayat pontiff and Basava Dharma Peetha President Maate Mahadevi passed away aged 74 years at the Manipal hospital in Bengaluru.
She was born on 13th March 1946 in Sasalahatti, Chitradurga in Karnataka.
She was an influential leader from the Lingayat community, took part in the protests held for separate religion and grant of minority status for Lingayats in Karnataka.
In 1966, she received her Jangama initiation as an ascetic in the Lingayat order of wandering mendicants.
Maate Mahadevi breathed her last on March 14.
4 - Sitting Judge of Delhi HC Justice Valmiki J Mehta passed away
Valmiki J Mehta, who was 59 years old, had assumed office as an Additional Judge of Delhi high court on April 15, 2009.
Mehta got enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1982 and began his career in law by practising in the Delhi High Court, district courts and various tribunals in civil matters.
He was appointed a Senior Advocate at the age of 42, on September 22, 2001.


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Camp at Lake Somerville: Nail's Creek
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Enjoy some solitude while camping on the lake! Located in-between Austin and Houston.
Lake Somerville State Park has two portions you can visit, Nails Creek on the South side of the lake, and Birch Creek located on the North side of the lake. Both offer a variety of activities including camping, swimming, fishing, hiking, and horseback riding.
Within the Nails Creek Unit you can select from a number of campsites with views of the lake. Several trails lead from the campground that will take you further into the South side of the park. If you are camping here, take the Lake Shore Trail to the Overlook Trail and Rocky Point to get a glimpse of wildflowers, and a scenic view of the lake. Check out the trail map here:http://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/park_maps/pwd_mp_p4505_0056k.pdf
If you prefer a more quiet stay, the park also offers primitive camping at Flag Pond.
And since you are so close to the town of Brenham, TX, make sure to stop for some Blue Bell Ice Cream at their headquarters!
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