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Report on Archnetwork Romania 2019
Roo Campbell, Scottish Wildcat Action
October 2019
All images © Roo Campbell 2019
I signed up for the Archnetwork trip to Romania because of its focus on traditional farming. As someone working on the conservation of the wildcat, Felis silvestris, aka (as the Latin implies) the 'Forest cat', this interest seems odd. But over the course of my work on the species, it has become more and more apparent to me that the agricultural landscape is important to the wildcat. Just before I set off for Romania, two things happened that helped me realise this trip was the right thing to do. First, I read mention in a book by Robin Noble about how historical accounts indicated our landscapes teemed with wildlife including plenty of small carnivores and, presumably, the prey base that could sustain them. Why is this not the case today? Secondly, I had a conversation with a colleague about the low number of cats living in the wild in Morvern. During our discussion, we hypothesised that the low numbers were because too little of the land was being tilled now; productivity had dropped, the prey base had declined and the cat numbers had plummeted. Over thousands of years of cultivating the land, our ancestors created Eden and wildlife flourished. This is an Eden we have since lost.
So my intention in visiting Romania was to see what this Eden might have looked like and learn how we might make farming more beneficial to wildlife such as the wildcat.
Biodiversity and agriculture
Orchard hay meadow in Girbovita. Note the diverse meadow with many herbs and the earthen ant mounds. Note also in the background the more open common grazing which is the only place in the village we saw agricultural machinery.
Our first day was spent in the village of Garbovita, where we gathered hay. The hay meadow was underneath an apple orchard showed a remarkably high proportion of herbs including knapweed Centaurea spp. (an important nectar providing plant), chicory Chicorium spp., and yarrow Achillea millefolium. Hay is cut and gathered by hand, in part because mechanical harvesting would be difficult around the apple trees and perhaps for many because the purchase of machinery for gathering hay is prohibitive for subsistence farmers. A by-product of this is that the earthen mounds created by Myrmica ants are not damaged during hay making. At both Garbovita and the mountain village of Rimet we could see that a form of strip-farming is employed, with residents owning many small strips (usually under 0.5 acres) with a variety of crops dotted around the villages. This appears similar to the traditional rig farming in Scotland. Aside from the methods of multiple land-use within strips (for example orchard and hay meadow as mentioned above), this form of strip-farming results in a greater diversity of crops over a small area and provides plenty of interfaces between crops. For example we saw strips of maize interspersed between hay meadow. This structural diversity probably lends itself to greater biodiversity and such interface habitats are used by a number of rare species such as corncrake and wildcat (more on that below).
Strip farming on the road to the wood pasture
Myrmica ant mound in hay meadown. This one has been damaged by trampling, showing the internal structure, but most were intact.
Impressively large and old black poplar trees at the wood pasture.
Day six of the trip saw us visit a wood pasture. This is where cattle are grazed under the shade of mature trees, in this case black poplar Populus nigra. These poplars were very big and possibly over 400 years old. The largest example was hollow (potentially suitable for roosting bats) and measured over 10m and possibly 15m in circumference. Incomplete pollarding is practiced on these trees, where branches are removed when wood is needed for creating poles to support haystacks or other specific purposes. This process creates boles on the trunk which, because the wood is repeatedly removed, have complex surface with lots of nooks and crannies for insects such as mites and arachnids as well as mosses and lichens in the otherwise relatively dry environment. Burrowing mammals live on the pasture too and we saw several mounds and burrows dotted around though we were unable to identify what species were responsible for these. Because the ground is grazed, natural regeneration is supressed. However, where blackthorn Prunus spinosa and hawthorn Crataegus spp. shrubs have established and not been removed, this provides natural protection for seedlings and we saw field maple Acer campestre growing under the protection of these thorns. The consequence of a lack of regeneration would be a loss of shade as old trees die off, but replacement of the trees can be supported either by allowing patches of thorn to establish or by protecting seedlings with man-made structures.
Highly crinkled bole resulting from the regular cutting of timber from the lower parts of the poplar trees in the wood pasture.
Field maple seedling, with a Cepaea snail, growing under the protection of a thorn bush.
Protection of crops and livestock
Alexandru and his dog and goats
Romania hosts a number of mammalian carnivores and herbivores that are extinct or rare in Britain, most notably bear Ursus arctos, wolf Canis lupus, lynx Lynx lynx, and boar Sus scrofa. Like Britain, Romania has numerous smaller predators including fox Vulpes vulpes, badger Meles meles, pine marten Martes martes and of course wildcat, all of which can predate smaller livestock such as chickens. On our visit to Rimet, we were shown camera trap images, taken at one location, showing bear, fox, badger, wildcat and wild boar. Throughout the trip we saw examples of how Romanian farmers coexist with these animals. One morning outside our hotel we met Alexandru. He's not a farmer but was formerly employed with the neighbouring winery. Like many rural Romanian, he does however keep livestock and he herds his goats every morning to allow them to forage around his house. At other times they are kept secure at his property. His dog, though not a pure bred livestock guarding dog, is very similar to the Bucovina shepherd dog, which is a breed of Romanian livestock guarding dog. As the name suggests, such dogs are used to protect livestock from predators and will display great courage when faced with potential predators, while being completely nonaggressive to the owner, family and their livestock. Some breeds have even lost the instinctive hunting behaviours typical of other dog breeds.
At Girbovita, many livestock are kept within the farmyards and locked-up at night to protect against predation. Indeed, our visit to the open air museum of Romanian architecture on day five revealed many traditional houses designed so that the farmyards are completely enclosed, protecting livestock, at least from the larger less agile predators. We also saw a sheep fold that was roofed, possibly to protect the sheep from both predators and weather. In Girbovita, some of the residents have one or two cows and these are kept in byres overnight but taken out to the common grazing during the day.
Left, one example of the enclosed farmyard seen in many traditional houses (here at an open-air museum) and, right, chickens in the enclosed farm in Girbovita.
Protection is provided to crops, particularly if these are near forest where wild boar and roe deer Capreolus capreolus live. We found boar (or possibly bear) dung in the orchards at the edge of Garbovita. In the village itself, strong high metal fences had been erected around vulnerable land. Above the village we were shown a metal-free fence based on a traditional design of upright wooden poles of false acacia Robinia pseudoacacia with horizontal woven stems made from any available species. This was topped with a hay coping layer to protect the fence from rotting. Over several years the fence had not been breached by wild boar. Incidentally, the false acacia as an invasive species but is apparently encouraged by farmers because it is useful as a source of timber and of leafy forage for livestock.
Left metal boar-proof fencing and, right, a traditional design woven fence from natural material.
Thoughts on wildcats and the Romania landscape
Forest and farmland near Rimet. The wildcat detected on the hunter's camera trap was found in forest in the back-ground of this scene near the bare hill.
Wildcats are thought to exist throughout much of Romania, though there is little information on the population status. Hybridisation is a major issue in Scotland, and possibly in Hungary to Romania's north. The genetic data on this from Hungary may be confounded by historic natural hybridisation with the African wildcat Felis lybica, which is the ancestor of the domestic cat and once existed naturally up into Bulgaria to Romania's south. i.e. hybridisation may be over-estimated in Hungary. Wildcats certainly exist in the area of Romania visited in this trip, as seen on the hunter's camera trap mentioned earlier. That single individual showed no obvious signs of hybridisation. This wildcat was detected in a forest dominated by beech trees.
Our experience in Scotland and recent research with GPS-collared wildcats in Germany and France shows that wildcats also use farmland and the mixed forest and meadow environment visible in the image above is typical of the habitat wildcat inhabit elsewhere. Possibly the plentiful forest cover within this mixed landscape, which is much higher than that of Scotland, provides better habitat for wildcats. The species rich hay meadows further from the villages may also be an important habitat for hunting wildcats and these generally offer cover of either taller vegetation on a canopy of fruit trees.
On the road to Rimet we also saw extensive areas of juniper Juniperus communis scrub which we regards as good wildcat habitat in Scotland. We didn't find evidence for a high density of prey for wildcats in the areas we visited (e.g. on the Littlewood small-mammal camera box, or obvious signs of small mammal activity) but we didn't invest a lot of effort in searching for these. In agricultural land, the field structure was complex with many small fields and with some being managed following an agroforestry model, e.g. orchards with hay meadow beneath. Wildcats reply on a mix of cover and prey habitat which this type of landscape can provide in profusion. So this structurally diverse landscape could be very good for wildcats and other smaller carnivores and it would be interesting to investigate this further.
At every farm we visited, we met several farm cats, none of which were neutered and there were plenty of kittens. These provide an important function as pest controllers on farms. We invest in farm cat neutering in Scotland to reduce the risk of further hybridisation with wildcat but it appears that there are circumstances where unneutered domestic cats and wildcats can coexist without hybridisation. This has also been found in other European countries. We suspect other factors play a role in encouraging interbreeding such as low numbers of wildcats, the amount of good habitat far enough away from settlements for wildcats and possibly the lack of other larger predators that would discourage domestic cats from wandering freely. The landscape of Romania, with its higher woodland cover, clumped settlement pattern and plentiful large predators may discourage hybridisation. In addition I noticed that many dogs roam more freely in the landscape than in Britain, which may also inhibit domestic cats from ranging far from the farmyards.
Farm cats including kittens at the farm in Garbovita and, inset, a sleeping kitten at the farm.
Above Garbovita, we set a Reconyx camera trap baited with valerian root (a lure for cats specifically) at the edge of a managed orchard next to abandoned scrub. The location was chosen because there were multiple animal trails and the layout of woodland and meadow provide a natural funnel for animals past the camera. The camera was placed at about 20cm height and set to take three images in succession whenever it was triggered, with no gap between successive triggers. We also set a Littlewood small mammal camera box baited with grain (bird seed mix) and meal worms. We used a Cuddeback camera and set it to take 10 sec of video with 30 sec between triggers. Both cameras were left for three nights.
Captured on the main camera trap were roe deer, badger, fox, a green woodpecker Picus viridus (a first on camera for me) foraging on the ground and a dawn ground-foraging blackbird Turdus merula. Overall this is a good result for just three days, especially where no food bait was used. Surprisingly, given three days is usually enough time to detect small mammals, no small mammals visited the Littlewood small mammal box. Possibly at this time of year there are plenty of seeds and grains on the ground for foraging mice and voles, but it could also that the trap was set too close to a busy animal trail. Overall, I would have liked to have had more time and cameras for both types of camera trapping as we normally set the usual baited camera traps for at least 2 weeks (usually 60 days or more) while we'd set many more (e.g. 20) of the Littlewood boxes at a variety of locations. These cameras are very useful tools for informing visitors and the wider public about the wildlife that exists in these areas. If we made more use of these cameras we could also learn a lot about how this traditionally farmed landscape is used by mammals and some birds.
Left, fox and, right, badger on the camera trap. Recorded about two hours apart.
Roe deer, jay and green woodpecker (not captured at same time)
Key lessons
The farms and surrounding landscape were rich in terms of structure and species. It is difficult to compare this directly with the Scottish landscape because the more southerly location within Europe lends itself to higher biodiversity (and vines – including 39 varieties at the Girbovita farm), but the traditionally farmed landscapes were highly diverse in terms of structure as well as species. This is something we can promote in Scotland through encouraging small-scale farming that improves landscape diversity, both in terms of species and structure. This could be is through agri-envronment schemes or other agricultural payment schemes. As others have mentioned in their reports, the current payment schemes focus on large-scale productivity is already changing farming in Romania and we risk losing this unique landscape. Traditional farming like this is harder work however, with lower food productivity per unit effort, so we should explore where this type of farming needs to be encouraged and what elements of these practices we want to retain.
In Scotland, we have lost many of the attitudes to livestock husbandry that allow coexistence with predators. The exception to this is with smaller livestock such as chickens, were the concept of protection is well understood. If we ever bring back any of the larger predators, we can learn from the practices employed in countries like Romania.
Finally, if we are going to be able to support a viable wildcat population in perpetuity in Scotland (i.e. without risk of hybridisation), we may need to look at the environment in Romania and see what we can take from it that helps both wildcats and biodiversity more generally. Can we reduce the risk of wildcats breeding with any unneutered domestic cats that will surely remain, despite our best efforts with neutering programmes? Do we need predators, or a change in the distribution of certain landscape features? Do we need more forest cover or better-connected forest patches?


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Videotaping began this week on the polio educational video being created as a joint effort by the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club, CASDA, District 7190, and the UAbany School of Public Heath.
The aim is to have the video, which is being underwritten by CASDA, completed in time for a debut showing at the District Conference in Lake George in May.
It is expected that the final product will be available in three different lengths to accommodate different needs.
District Governor John Mucha is narrating the video, which includes Jim Leyhane interviewing Dr. Martha Lepow, an early pioneer in polio research and the Director of Excellence In Pediatric and Adolescent Care at Albany Medical Center. In addition to CASDA providing the technical crew at no cost to the club, members of SRC, the District and the School of Public Heath are volunteering their time.

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A few years ago advertising powerhouse Ogilvy & Mather was charged with creating a video to help bring awareness to the illegal poaching and killing of rare African rhinos. Knowing that most people are too busy (or think they're too busy) to take time to watch a PSA, but aren't too busy to watch stupid YouTube videos, they did something both clever and controversial. Today's Saturday Matinee says it all. What do you think about their solution?
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I think it is a genius idea! Well done Ogilvy. The results are proof that it worked. Thank you for posting this Ron.
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Honda Accord Hybrid gets more power but uses less fuel
Having just announced a hybrid version of its Clarity model, Honda has reworked the hybrid version of its Accord. Even though it's got more power than its predecessor, the new Accord Hybrid uses less fuel, and has been treated to a modest refresh in the looks department, too.
Rated at 212 hp (158 kW), the new Accord's powertrain has gained 16 hp (12 kW) over its predecessor thanks to a new 2.0-liter Atkinson Cycle petrol engine. In spite of the power boost, Honda also says the new hybrid setup is 1 mpg more efficent than the outgoing model, with a combined fuel economy figure of 48 mpg (4.9 l/100 km), or 49 mpg (4.8 l/100 km) in the city and 47 mpg (5 l/100 km) on the highway.
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Today, two pages from the 1877 Henry and Elizabeth Trisel Bible, pages that were included in Elizabeth (Feldman) Bahn Trisel's Widow's Pension Application.
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1877 Trisel Bible Pages
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Two More 1896 Chatt-area Affidavits
I recently wrote about young John F. Bahn, the ward of Henry Trisel, who lived near Chattanooga, Ohio, in the late 1800s. Young John Bahn (1865-1876) was the son of Henry's wife Elizabeth (Feldman) Trisel and her first husband Johann Bahn.
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Jasper Byer Affidavit, 1896
Last week I identified the last name of Henry Trisel's young ward, John F. Bahn, the son of Henry's wife Elizabeth (Feldman) Trisel and her first husband Johann Bahn. Johann Bahn served in the Civil War and perished in the Sultana explosion on his way home from the war in April 1865.
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Who Was Henry Trisel's Adopted Son?
A few years ago I wrote a Tombstone Tuesday blog post about John F, the adopted son of Henry Trisel. The young boy's grave marker is located in the center section of Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Chattanooga, Ohio, in the children's section of the cemetery. I wondered who the boy John really was.
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Tombstone Tuesday–John H. & Elizabeth (Feldman) Trisel
This is the tombstone of Henry and Elizabeth (Feldman) Trisel, located in row 8 of East Bethel Cemetery, Blackcreek Township, Mercer County, Ohio. The marker is inscribed: On the north side: John H Trisel Geboren 19 July 1834 Gestorben 15 Feb 1896 Alter 61 J 6 M 26 T On the south side: Elizabeth Trisel …


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Thousands of fish die in Columbia creek
Thousands of fish from several different species were found dead in Flat Branch Creek on Monday. Rebecca O'Hearn, a scientist with the Conservation Department says roughly 14,000 fish were killed by runoff from a fire that happened at Business Loop 70 Plaza on April 1.
"It's really unfortunate that all of them died and the department of conservation, we plan to continue to go out and check to see how fish are rebounding from this event," O'Hearn said.
O'Hearn says that even though the fire caused the fish kill, the department is unsure whether the fish were killed from the chemicals coming off of the fire or from the water used to extinguish the fire. She says they'll continue working on restoring aquatic life in the creek.


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Perry scores twice as Ducks beat Jokerit in final pre-season warmup match
HELSINKI - Corey Perry scored two goals in the first period and provided the assist on Ryan Getzlaf's overtime winner as the Anaheim Ducks beat Finnish league leader Jokerit 4-3 in their final pre-season warmup Tuesday.
Swiss goalie Jonas Hiller shone in the second period and defenceman Cam Fowler put Anaheim up 3-1 in the closing seconds.
Jokerit rallied in the third with goals from Riku Hahl and American Ben Eaves to send the game into overtime.
Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle was satisfied with Perry, Getzlaf and Bobby Ryan in the top line, but still felt there was room for improvement before the team faces the Buffalo Sabres in Helsinki when the season gets under way on Friday.
"They were on the ice for the two goals in the third period, where there were a couple of overzealous rushes, too many odd-man rushes and we turned over pucks in the neutral zone," Carlyle said.
"But on Friday we'd like our big guys to score three goals again, that would be the first thing. And we'd like our goaltender to play as strong as he did tonight and give us a chance to win the hockey game."
On Saturday, Buffalo plays Los Angeles in Berlin, while Anaheim meets the New York Rangers in Stockholm.


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Data privacy lawyers received the ultimate Christmas present in 2015, the emergence of the GDPR from the trilogue negotiations. With the start of a new year it is a good time to look at what the key features of the GDPR will be.
However, before we start we need to take a moment to reflect on how the GDPR will work: it will have effect in all 28 Member States meaning that there will be no need for EU governments to implement the GDPR locally and existing national data privacy laws and the EU Directive will fall away.
With that moment of reflection out of the way, what are the key features of the GDPR? As is to be expected with any new legislation there is quite a lot to digest so this blog post deals primarily with those features that HireRight feels are of key relevance for screening services[1].
What changes?
- The GDPR has a much wider scope than the current regime and now has extra-territorial effect in certain circumstances.
- More information is caught by the definition of personal data i.e. location data, online identifiers, factors specific to an individual's physical, mental, physiological, genetic, economic, social and cultural identity.
- The issue of consent is addressed and requirements are tighter than ever. Under the GDPR consent has to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous and it must be given by a "clear affirmative action". Also consent has to be as easy to revoke as to provide and has to be presented in a way that is "clearly distinguishable" from any other information. The threshold for sensitive personal data has not changed and any consent has to be "explicit" but the information contained within the definition has been extended to include genetic and biometric data. Consent of minors will be 16 if using online services and in all other instances parental consent will be needed.
- The GDPR now takes a prescriptive approach to data protection notices i.e. what the data subject is told at the time of data collection. Needed are specifics about the identity and contact details of the data controller, purposes or processing, who will receive data, how long will the data be stored and how can the data subject ask for rectification or deletion.
- Data controllers will be required to take technical and organisational measures to ensure that, by default, only personal data necessary for the specific purpose of the processing is processed "privacy by design".
- The GDPR includes a focus on the rights of data subjects with transparent information, communication and methods of exercising those rights being emphasised.
- Regulators will be able to fine data controllers and data processors for breach of the GDPR. Those fines have much more "bite" under the GDPR: the maximum fine is the greater of €20,000,000 (USD$21,808,000) or 4% of the annual turnover for a company/undertaking for significant breach (such as breach involving sensitive personal data). Smaller fines of up to the greater of €10,000,000 (USD$10,903,000) or 2% of annual turnover may be levied for lesser breaches (such as failure to maintain proper records). That is some increase: in context the current fines the UK's Information Commissioner can impose are currently £500,000.
What stays the same?
- There are no changes to data security: data controllers and data processors are still required to use appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security. That being said the GDPR now expressly mentions both pseudonymisation and encryption as methods to consider.
- The mechanism for data transfers outside of the EEA remains pretty much the same with the "white list" countries and model clauses remaining valid. However the GDPR does recognise that the Commission should monitor these methods on an ongoing basis. Binding Corporate Rules are also officially recognised but the GDPR does not deal with the issue of Safe Harbor.
The GDPR will not be in force for another two years but it is worth starting to plan ahead in order to future proof systems and processes.
Please be advised that this is being provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be comprehensive and should not be construed or relied upon as legal advice. As with all legal issues, we recommend you consult your legal counsel.
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[1] Other items of note not covered in this blog (i) "Pseudonymisation" (ii) The one stop shop for enforcement (iii) Data Privacy Impact Assessments (iv) Record Keeping (v) Breach Notification (vi) Mandatory Data Protection Officers


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Ruth Harris
Body and spirit in the secular age
Book review by Anthony Campbell. Copyright © Anthony Campbell (2004).
There have been many books about Lourdes. Ruth Harris's approach is historical, with a bias towards social anthropology. It covers the period from 1858 to 1914. Harris is not a Catholic but she writes sympathetically; indeed, she participated in a pilgrimage herself as a helper and says that she was touched by the experience but not converted.
The story starts in 1858, when a young French shepherdess, Bernadette Soubirous, had the first of eighteen visions that were to make her and the small Pyrenean town of Lourdes famous throughout the world. On the first occasion she was alone, but when she told her sister what had happened the news spread and on the next occasion she was accompanied by a number of other girls, although none apart from Bernadette saw the vision. Before long the Church became involved and soon there were large crowds in attendance.
The apparition seen by Bernadette had the form of a young girl. Bernadette referred to her as "Aquéro", a patois word meaning simply a paranormal being of some kind, but towards the end of the cycle of manifestations the vision announced herself, somewhat unexpectedly, as the Immaculate Conception—a term that Bernadette had apparently never heard of. After the appearances were over Bernadette entered a convent hundreds of miles away at Nevers. She had always been in poor health and she died of tuberculosis in 1879. By that time Lourdes had already become one of the greatest centres of pilgrimage in Christendom.
The apparition seen by Bernadette did not correspond exactly with usual Marian conventions. For one thing, she was younger than would be expected—a child, in fact. For another, she had features in common with mythical creatures of Pyrenean folklore, such as fairies. These were often seen as enchanting little women, only a little bigger than dwarfs, and linked with cosmic forces. They were dressed in white and had yellow roses on their feet, as did Aquéro, although she differed from a fairy in having a blue belt and carrying a rosary. Still, the resemblances are evident and not only in appearance. Like the fairies, Aquéro could be harsh and demanding if her requests were not complied with.
In spite of these features linking the vision with folklore, others were not slow to identify what Bernadette had seen with the Virgin Mary. Even so, the success of Lourdes as a centre of pilgrimage was not assured at the outset; even the Church was wary at first. But the fame of Lourdes spread quickly, and it is a major part of Harris's aim to explain why this happened. She sees it as part of the story of France and of the struggle of French Catholics to resist secularisation in the aftermath of the Revolution.
To secularists Lourdes is anachronistic, a manifestation of superstition. Harris thinks that to understand its appeal we need to take "a more sympathetic approach to the sustained appeal of the miraculous in religion." This is what she has done here, and the book is an important contribution to the psychology of religion as well as to the history of religion in France. Here she includes many other matters, including anti-clericalism, anti-Semitism, and Emile Zola's hostility to Lourdes, which he expressed in a novel.
For many people it is the claimed miraculous cures that they mainly think of in connection with Lourdes. In fact, these only began to occur some time after the establishment of Lourdes as a centre of pilgrimage. Harris does have a chapter on the subject, but it is not her main focus of interest; indeed, she says that she was not allowed to inspect the medical records because she is not medically qualified. Even so, she includes the account of a startling early cure.
A Flemish labourer called Pierre de Rudder apparently experienced the instantaneous healing of a year-old ununited and infected fracture of the tibia and fibula. A section of bone was entirely missing, yet a photograph shows the leg not only whole but equal in length to the opposite leg. The odd thing about this story is that the cure took place, not at Lourdes, but at a local replica of the Grotto in Belgium. It was certified by physicians and, when de Rudder died, post mortem examination confirmed that the bones had united and were of normal length. As Harris remarks, this case is different in kind from reports of recovery from cancer, tuberculosis, or paralysis, and it "dismays and perplexes".*
This book is an important contribution, from a neutral but sympathetic viewpoint, to the history of Catholicism in the nineteenth century.
11 January 2005
*For more light on de Rudder and his apparent cure, please see my blog entry on this.
%T Lourdes
%S Body and spirit in the secular age
%A Harris, Ruth
%I Allen Lane: The Penguin Press
%C London
%P xxi + 474 pp
%K history, religion
%O hardback
%O illustrated
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Nurses and technicians at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London went on strike in the pouring rain Wednesday after their unions and the hospital failed to reach an agreement.
About 800 nurses and technicians walked off the job Wednesday after weeks of contentious negotiations. It was the first strike in 100 years. The strike is expected to last until Saturday, but hospital officials said they plan to lock out striking workers until a new contract is reached.
On Tuesday, the unions notified the hospital that workers would begin to strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to officials at Lawrence and Memorial. And strike they did, heading into the pouring rain to protest the transferring of their jobs.
Union officials said the hospital has been laying off union workers and shifting work from Lawrence and Memorial to shell corporations that operate clinic outside of the hospital setting.
"It's scary," said Barbara Sadowski, a nurse at Lawrence and Memorial. "I don't even have the words for how bad this is."
"The issue we're fighting for is not wages or benefits," said Lisa D'Abrosca, president of the local union chapter. "It's not economic in nature whatsoever. It has to do with our patient care."
Hospital officials, on the other hand, said the disagreement stems from the union's "unyielding demand for 100 percent assured job security," alleging that the union is refusing to have a productive dialogue.
"Our proposal that was on the table guaranteed job security to more than 90 percent of the nurses and more than 50 percent of the techs for the length of the proposed contract, which was three years," said hospital spokesman Michael O'Farrell.
O'Farrell added on Wednesday, "Not one of the proposals that has made it to the union has been brought to the membership."
Bruce Cummings, hospital president and CEO, also said the union has been unreasonable.
"Negotiators for the hospital have worked as hard as possible and have been as flexible as possible in the hopes of avoiding a strike," said Cummings, on Tuesday. "As negotiations continued in recent days, it became increasingly apparent that union representatives were not prepared to negotiate in good faith."
"Good faith" is a term used more than once in reference to the failed negotiations.
According to New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio, "The hospital is not negotiating in good faith with the union. They walked away from the table and I think this could be expected considering they approached the city months ago to try to rent space for strike replacement workers."
Connecticut Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey released a statement Wednesday in support of stirking workers. The statement reads as follows:
"Good faith negotiations between labor and management are the foundation of reaching a fair contract, but when one side – Lawrence & Memorial in this case – shuts down talks well before the understood deadline and threatens a lockout, the entire process has been compromised and patient health is threatened. These bully-like tactics by the management of Lawrence & Memorial Hospital expose a lack of commitment to both of their missions: to serve their patients as well as to provide a fair labor contract for their employees. It is time for them to come back to the bargaining table."
Union representatives said they did not want to strike and attempted to reach a resolution.
Despite the strike, Lawrence and Memorial has continued to operate with minor glitches and the temporary cancellation of procedures such as elective surgeries.
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So much has happened this year and I find that most of what has taken place has not been photographed.
Relationships have grown and deepened while others have gone with the wind.
I got an out of college job, right out of college and it is more than I could have hoped for.
I have adventured and traveled more but probably spent one too many nights on my couch drinking wine.
Every moment I lived, I loved. Good or bad they were my moments, my teachings and I am just beyond with gratitude and love for the past year and a hope for 2014 – how can things possibly get better than this?!
2013 was truly, truly W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L
A few of my favorite moments this past year-
I was fortunate enough to see my Favorite basketball team LIVE a few times in 2013. GO OKC THUNDER! Paddle boarding became a regular weekend activity. Sailing, watching the America's Cup races, COLLEGE GRADUATION!!!, Ice Skating, White water rafting, floating down the Russian River (also a re-occurring weekend activity), Mud Run, Nike Women's Half Marathon, SKY Diving, Acro-yoga, Hiking Half Dome, 30 mile back country backpacking trip in Yosemite, wine tasting, beer sampling, napa valley. I traveled to Nicaragua and El Salvador and loved them both! The day to day things are also fantastic! Getting a full time job, walking to get groceries and BOBA, cinnamon roles and breakfast sandwiches from Devils Teeth and bagel sandwiches from Uncle Bennys. Picking up a free dresser and painting it – a DIY project that spanned months. Making dinner and learning how to cook as a 23 year old.
I am thankful to be on this journey, what a cool path it is.


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The Yoox Net-A-Porter deal
The last time I saw Federico Marchetti – whose Yoox online company fused with Net-a-Porter this week – was in Milan during the February collections.
Federico Marchetti, Founder and CEO of YOOX Group, will be CEO of the combined entity
We were both looking at the 12 fledgling designers from across the world grouped by Italian Vogue, the event underwritten by thecorner.com, part of Marchetti's Italian-based, but worldwide, online empire.
Federico was, as ever, enthusiastic about finding fresh talent, cheering the imagination and the workmanship of these inventive designers who might be based in Manila, Milan or Mumbai. Regardless of where they come from, he planned to make a special offering of their current summer collection on The Corner website.
Fledgling designers across the world have reason to be hopeful. This week's news has focused on the merger between Yoox and Net-a-Porter, owned by luxury group Compagnie Financière Richemont, as an on-line luxury fashion behemoth with combined net revenues of 1.3 billion euros. But the tech powerhouse that is the Yoox Group does not sell only the remainder and end-of-season clothes of famous designers and manage their on-line businesses.
Federico Marchetti of Yoox and Jonathan Newhouse, chairman and chief executive of Condé Nast International
Ms Natalie Massenet, Founder and Executive Chairman of The Net-A-Porter Group, will serve as Executive Chairman
It also owns hot-designer site thecorner.com, where, on another occasion, Federico showed me how much work the company puts into supporting and, even more important, selling, the work of small, or even start-up, designers.
The combination of Federico and Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-A-Porter – who will become executive chairman of the new Yoox Net-A-Porter – will arguably do more to help small fashion talents than any bricks-and-mortar store alone could possibly imagine. Yoox currently ships to 100 countries and Net-A-Porter to 172.
I contacted Federico – who was chuffed because I called him "King of Lux Online" – and he told me that the answer was "yes" to my question about reaching out and even building small businesses and supporting fledgling designers as potential luxury brands.
Twelve designers with Jonathan Newhouse and Franca Sozzani at The Vogue Talents Corner.com presentation during Milan Fashion week in February
Designer Mary Katrantzou,winner of this year's BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, flanked by Alexandra Shulman OBE, left, and Natalie Massenet MBE, right, who also serves as Chairman of the British Fashion Council
Mary Katrantzou a/w '15 catwalk
"Yoox philosophy has always been about nurturing and vouching for new, small, emerging businesses and designers," he said. "With thecorner.com we have been a hub of new talents."
I must admit to finding the A-Z list of designers on the mighty yoox.com overwhelming. Even on thecorner.com listing, for every newbie, there were many more famous names – and others that I had never heard of.
But I do believe that on-line sales have overall been a blessing for small companies – and after contacting some of those designers, I was even more convinced that the merger between Richemont's Net-A-Porter and Yoox, will be good for varied and imaginative fashion.
The Greek-born, British-based designer Mary Katrantzou, who made her name with digital printing, has just been awarded the 2015 Designer Fashion Fund from /Vogue/ and the British Fashion Council, where Natalie Massenet is chairman. I asked her about on-line versus in store sales.
"Net-A-Porter is our biggest client world wide – they have the reach," said Mary, who explained that it enabled her clothes to be sold in countries such as Australia and the Middle East and to make and nurture clients in Europe. For example, the sales site arranges dinners where Mary meets and dines with the women who have previously bought the products – the most recent being in Luxembourg.
"This (the merger) will make them into a super power," the designer continued. "Our product does well on line because it is quite visual. A lot of our other accounts do not have that big reach."
Simon Porte, the 24-year-old French designer behind the edgy label Jacquemus is equally enthusiastic about cyber-space sales.
"I am 100 per cent for on-line – it is 'actual' and it is beautiful to have a direct link with the person," said the designer, whose flat cutting and off-beat proportions might discourage traditional boutique retailers.
Like Jacquemus, Arthur Arbesser is in the final to win the 2015 LVMH young designer prize, to be revealed next month. But the Austrian designer, who works out of Italy, is not 100 per cent enthusiastic about sales on the web.
"I am more like a Viennese old-school person – not a classic online shopper," says Arbesser. But Youx, The Corner, is half my business and especially for menswear there is a good selection.
"The visibility and the fact that you can reach out is an advantage," he continues. "If there is an editorial article written about me in a Brazilian magazine, there is an on-line reference for my tiny business."
Designer Arthur Arbesser (left) Arthur Arbesser's a/w '15 presentation (right)
The variety of online shopping has already made things tough for multi-brand bricks-and-mortar shops. Many of those who gave an early opportunity to as yet unknown names have now closed down, so it is just as well that online stores might replace them.
I have no doubt that the world wide web has ushered in a new era for these emerging designers – and I hope that this latest merger between two mighty on-line sites will create what Natalie Massenet calls "the greatest interactive window to the world".
Perhaps the best summary of the potential of twenty-first-century shopping is in Natalie's rallying cry: " The best way to predict the future of fashion is to create it."
Designer Simon Porte of Jacquemus and his a/w '15 show
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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are both being used in a variety of industries, including education, sports, tourism, and even healthcare. The video game industry is projected to earn the highest revenue at $11.6 billion, but the healthcare industry is right behind them with $5.1 billion. VR and AR can be used for a variety of medical purposes including: diagnostics and planning, training through simulation, rehabilitation, and can also be used as treatment for depression, autism, phobias, pain management, and addiction. The benefits of implementing VR and AR into the healthcare field are widespread and include innovations like: allowing for more effective practices, medical help in remote locations, safety and security for doctors and patients, real time feedback, and is cost efficient. VR and AR are in the early stages of implementation in the healthcare field, and progress is still needed to make these technologies more refined and mainstream. Needless to say it probably will not be long before VR and AR are commonplace in healthcare settings across the globe.
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Neue Galerie
Neue Galerie New York is a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors. The second-floor galleries are dedicated to art from Vienna circa 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed then between the fine arts and the decorative arts. Two of the principal goals of the Neue Galerie New York are to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic culture of this period, and to make the best of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry.
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Some students don't have a college where they live. Others do, but can't quit their full-time jobs or leave their family to study at a university. Sound familiar?
In the United States, online education has become a popular way to earn a college degree while balancing family and professional duties. From 2002 to 2010, the number of U.S. students enrolled in at least one online (also called distance learning) class more than tripled, with nearly 20 million logging on from home, the library or the local coffee shop.
While online, these distance learners join in virtual lectures, chat with fellow students, pose questions to professors, take virtual exams, conduct research and much, much more. But why has online learning grown so much so fast? Any why is it spreading beyond the United States to places like India?
This is the most appealing bene�?t of online education for students with many duties to balance. Since everything is available online, accessing class materials and submitting work is very convenient. Exactly when and where this takes place is up to student, as long as assignment due dates are met.
It's easy for minds to wander during a lecture. University of California psychologist Jonathan Schooler found that students lose focus about 5 times in a 45-minute class session. In many online programs, however, students can review words from professors instantly, either by rewinding the audio or video or by reading the transcript that accompanies the lecture.
Many students in classroom environments aren't comfortable speaking in public. In an online environment, it can be much easier to share thoughts with others. With 74 percent of people suffering from speech anxiety, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, online education tends to foster better class participation.
Online schooling still has a discussion element to it, often in a forum or discussion board. On-campus students have to choose a stance or formulate a thought in class quickly, and sometimes speak before they've fully examined everything. In an online environment, students can spend as much time as they want thinking about and honing their own ideas. This can lead to greater con�?dence and more elegant discussions.
With an estimated 93 percent of communication being non-verbal, online students don't have to worry about body language interfering with their message. While body language can be effective sometimes, academics are more about ideas, and online education eliminates physical judgments that can cloud rational discussion.
Many degree programs today incorporate some sort of group project or teamwork. Working with others on-campus or locally means coordinating speci�?c days and times so everyone can attend. Distance learning programs, however, foster virtual communication and allow students to work with team members via email, chat rooms and other easy-to-use methods.
On-campus students may have to endure in-person lectures that last hours. While not all online programs are built the same, many use PowerPoint presentations and other media that students can digest in pieces. In other words, a student can experience the �?rst half of a lesson one day, and the second half the next day. This can be especially helpful for those who don't enjoy sitting in one place for too long.
Although the cost of an online course can be as much or more than a traditional course, students can save money by avoiding many fees typical of campus-based education, including lab fees, commuting costs, parking, hostels, etc. Imagine living in Dhule but going to college in Mumbai.
Traditional students are often limited to courses and teachers close to home. The online student can take a French course from a teacher in France and a travel-writing course from a writer who's actually out travelling, without having to leave home.
At traditional colleges and universities, talking to a professor after class can be challenging. Yes, instructors have of�?ce hours, but it's often only an hour or two each week, with too many students waiting for attention. While professors who teach online may also have set hours for student interaction, web-based technologies make conversing with multiple students at once much easier. Professors can also hop online at night or during intermissions to address questions, leave comments and more.
In recent years this form of education has evolved and is widely accepted. You monitor your study environment with an online class, which allows you to gain a more profound understanding of your course. New learning models are constantly emerging on the market and give students various ways to fashion their education into something that suits them, not the rest. This also gives individuals a chance to complete a degree that they may have started and have not been able to continue for whatever reason. The future of online learning is exciting and opens education for a significant number of people.
While traditional education will never go away, neither will distance learning. With online enrollment increasing every year, it looks like online schooling is making its mark, causing students to ask, "How important is flexibility and effective learning to me?"


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600W Low Pass filter with easy connect DIGIAMP system, built for our MAX PRO 3000+ and 4000+ series exciters. The DIGIAMP interconnect system enables easy integration into a FM transmitter.
All it takes is one flat cable (DIGIAMP). This connection enables measurement of SWR and Power, amplifier supply voltage and current and amplifier temperature. It also provides SWR protection and automatic output level limiting. Of course it also includes low pass filter as RF amplifiers produce harmonics at even multiples of fundamental frequency.
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