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We have had the NBN connected now for more than 1 year, we signed up for the fastest speed offered 100mb/sec. We are approx. 100metres from the node, yet even with speed boost,,,, whatever that is, we are at BEST 33mb/sec. and upload 15mb/sec. I have heard many excuses as to why it is so slow, but no definitive answer has been given. My question is, if someone waived a magic wand and did the unthinkable and replaced the last 100metres of old copper wiring with fibre optic cable as I expected that it would have been, to our internal connection point, would we get 100mb/sec or very close? If not, why not?
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Are you sure you're just 100m from the node? Copper travels in mysterious ways...
Can you post your modem stats?
Yes barring network faults you woul get 100/40 but that 100 Meters of optical fibre would have cost the taxpayers a lot more to provide and you might still be waiting for the NBN to become available in your area.
If you want fiber you can apply to NBN for a fiber connection.
Ok, now I understand what speed I should be getting, the next thing is what should I do to achieve it? We have had 2 different techs here to check things, one said wiring was poor and needs replacing. The second said it was acceptable and nothing needed to be done.
Does the map show your street cabling going directly to the Node if not is the total distance from your house to the connection pillar and then to the Node less than 600M then there might be some benefit in rewiring the house, but the low speed could also be due to a fault in the street cabling.
If your house used have a back to base alarm system or there are several phone wall sockets rewiring house could increase the speed.
Thank you for the responses, it helps a lot. This is what is showing.....
Technology: FTTN
Distance Premise-Pillar: 351m
Distance Node-Pillar: 181m
Estimated Download Rate: 58-99 Mbps
Estimated Upload Rate: 23-40 Mbps
# of Premise: 1
On this line we have only the one socket, it runs a fax phone and the internet, nothing else.
We have a completely separate line for the house with 3 points off of the first one.
Is it only the Telstra Gateway that is plugged into the phone socket?
Ok, now I understand things a little better. Telstra has already signed off on the house cable as being fine, so would my next step be to contact Telstra, my provider, and get them to contact NBN to look at the street wiring?
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Ok, so if I'm getting 1/3 to possibly 1/2 the speed I should, and I am paying for the highest speed, is that not a fault?
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Thank you for that, but I can see where this is going, we may be able to get someone out to check things, but they will find no fault, and nothing will be done. The way I see it, if we are not getting anywhere the speed we should be, there must be a fault in the line, it's simple.
Well I guess the fact that I was offered 100MB/sec, I pay for that, and I receive MUCH less, not to mention that my modem stats say 49.9, and the Very best I have ever noted was 39Mb/sec....generally in the 20's. I am as I mentioned, and have been told by an attending tech that I am a little over 100metres from the node, as mentioned earlier. Looking at the estimated "unofficial" speed, I should be getting between 59-99 Mb/sec, I understand that this is a guide only, but it would have to be a complete waste of time compiling it if you think it could be SO far removed from the real speed. If it is that far out, is there a better one? As I mentioned previously, I have had it with the never ending run around, lies etc, what I was hoping for, and til now I thought I was finally getting some truth to all of this BS. On another topic how can users trust anything, I have very little faith in the Telstra speed test, it is generally higher than any other, to make them look better I suspect?
Just for interest, if you went to your shop and bought a 2 litre milk and returned home, opened it and you only had 1/2 litre, would you be happy with that or return it for a refund?
Now getting back to my original question, if the copper was replaced with fibre optic to my outlet here, could I in fact expect to be receiving close to the 100Mb/sec? If not could someone please explain why not?
Thank you.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Thank you for that confirmation, it helps a lot, and I appreciate it. Clarity is a rare thing these days it seems. I would have to conclude then that there are issues with the underground copper wiring, and the house wiring as the first tech we had concluded nearly a year ago. We have always had issues with the ADSL constantly going out, we would get guys here in our street at the pit going nuts at the state of it all and when I mentioned this to the guys connecting us to the NBN, they assured us that that would be the thing of the past with this "new technology", a false promise I'm afraid, we are still running on it, or trying to. I was told by the first tech that NBN now own the cabling to the first point in the house, and at worst from the eave line to that first point would be replaced by them, since he measured a large speed difference between these 2 points, and he booked in for the following day. When no-one showed the next day, we called to see what was happening, and were told nothing needed to be done, our speed was fine. Telstra sent another guy a few weeks later, he confirmed that all was ok, and nothing was going to be replaced. Noting all of this, where do I go from here, any ideas? Am I "allowed" to replace the house cable since I do not own it?
Thank you for your time again.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Thank you again for the information DrQ, very helpful. As you have possibly noted I have the speed at the modem as 49/22, I believed that this was constant, but looking at it just then it is now 40/22, I have not noted it that low before, interesting. I am unsure how all of this works, is there a reason why I am not getting this on a speed test, if this is the speed at the modem? Since I built the house and understand where things are, I will run new cable to the eave line junction I think, then have it connected as you mentioned, at least then there should be no doubt where the issue lies, and it will be interesting if anything changes. At least no one can say that I haven't tried to do my bit.
Thanks again for your input.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
Previously worked with a Telstra Partner however I am not a Telstra Employee, just a fellow customer helping when I can.
The best thing to do zseries would be to contact our NBN Assurance Team directly via 1800 834 273. I appreciate you are not wanting to be stuck on the phone for a length of time however, our NBN Assurance Team are the best and only one able to assist with this for you.
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Thank you for your help, but I believe I have already tried this number before and I was told nothing needed to be done, I don't hold out much hope that will be different this time.
Thank you.
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Manchester United's troubles away from home in Europe continued in a 2-1 defeat at Fenerbahce in the Europa League on Thursday as Paul Pogba limped off injured.
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > Speeches > Remarks to Canadian Business Leader Award Dinner
Gordon M. Nixon
President & Chief Executive Officer
Royal Bank of Canada
March 16, 2010
Edmonton, Alberta
Thank you and good evening.
Mr. Premier, Mayor Mandel, President Samarasekera, Dean Percy, honoured guests, friends and students.
This is a great honour to be here to receive the University of Alberta's Canadian Business Leader Award and I would like to thank the University, the School of Business and members of the selection committee.
The list of this award's past recipients is a who's who of business heavyweights who helped build this province and shape the country's economy.
It includes pioneers like Poole, Southern, Ward, Shaw, Beaudoin and Pattison reflecting contributions to our society that frankly leave me quite humbled.
These are people who built companies and created industries.
Those who start and build successful, global companies are rare and of an extraordinary breed, and, frankly Canada needs more of them.
While I am honoured to be in their company, as CEO of a 140-year old bank, my perspective is somewhat different. My responsibility is to build on the foundation of my predecessors and leave for the next generation a company that is well-positioned for its next phase of growth.
The role of a CEO of a large public company is neither to totally re-invent nor to simply maintain one's inherited legacy - but rather to ensure ongoing transformation and act as a catalyst for growth. Over the past 10 years, I have tried to build on the great foundation of RBC while recognizing the dynamic and innovative nature of an industry that has gone through remarkable change.
There are many ways to build on a foundation - aggressive expansion, acquisitions, restructuring, disruptive technology and none is right or wrong but it is finding the right balance that ultimately determines the long term success. When organizations lose that balance - trouble is often around the corner.
I learned very early on in my career that the best leaders are never alone - and for that reason, I share this award with my management team and our roughly 80,000 employees in over 50 countries.
The heartbeat of our company is not in a gold tower in Toronto - it rests with our most valuable assets who ride our elevators and enter our buildings every day and the people who represent RBC in our communities. I'm pleased that a number of my fellow colleagues are here today and one of our board members - John Ferguson - who has many distinctions but none greater than, of course, being a resident of Edmonton.
As a leader, you quickly understand that it is your job to harness and harmonize the skills and brainpower of your team. Managing through the financial crisis reinforced three things for me:
The challenge with receiving an award like this is that one is expected to provide words of wisdom on business success or leadership. In my judgement, one should avoid dispensing advice, particularly publicly, until they are well past retirement; however, I would like to provide my perspective on some of the challenges and paradigm shifts for our public companies as they manage through a world that has dramatically increased in complexity.
To say that the world has changed over the past two years is an understatement. Whether the banking industry, shifts in global economic power or the reputation of business and its role in our society -- it has changed significantly and, in my view, permanently.
While it started with Sarbanes Oxley, new accounting standards and new governance rules, the developments over the past two years have resulted in a wholesale reconstruction of the marketplace, redefining what shareholders, customers and broader stakeholders expect from public companies.
The concept that "greed and avarice is good" sounds fine in the movies but expectations of companies is more than just shareholder returns and the relationship between a corporation and society is changing - and those that manage this balance will generate the best returns.
This change is being brought on through a number of dynamics - changing culture, transparency, mobility, instantaneous information flow, partisan media, and the ability of individuals to organize and force change. Part of it is evolution, however, part is a reaction to the excesses of the last decade and the fall out from the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007.
Following years of strong and rising markets the world was shocked by a financial and economic downturn that exposed a lot of mistakes, weaknesses and imbalances. As Warren Buffet said; "when the tide goes out you see who's been swimming naked". The fallout has been dramatic and as a result there is a public demand for significant change.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there has been a lot of talk about the "new normal" and what that means for businesses.
For banks the result will be less leverage, increased regulation and greater consumer protection but it is also reflective of a different and more dynamic relationship between business, their customers and a wide range of stakeholders.
We are all - to some degree - picking up the pieces from the turmoil of the past two years and trying to fill a gulf that was created between the expectations of society and the performance of markets and businesses.
The public's distrust of our system grew when individuals saw the value of their retirement savings plummet, and peaked when it became clear that many corporations, regulators, politicians, and other participants were reckless in their pursuit of short-term gain and failed to live up to a set of core values. Political trust collapsed globally along side many industries from banking to automotive and pharma to energy.
Headlines in many respected journals even question the survival of capitalism.
As our markets are restructured, as our companies are rebuilt and as confidence and trust are restored, there is understandably a great need from customers, regulators and stakeholders for more accountability, more responsibility and more transparency.
There is, in short, a demand for leadership and while some believe and hope that this is a blip that will pass, I believe there will be a permanent impact on corporate behaviour and the business community will have to adjust.
While we at RBC managed through the crisis relatively unscathed, as CEO, I have become much more personally engaged in discussions with stakeholders and regulators about a wide variety of issues - from lending practices, to risk management, from our community activities to governance.
Two industries that will be significantly impacted by the "new normal" are two of the biggest industries in our country and they are extremely important to this audience - financial services, particularly important to me - and energy which is critical to our country but, in particular, the Province of Alberta.
I would like to touch briefly on the financial services industry and, the role and impact that regulation and government will play going forward and also comment on the energy industry which also must better address regulation and increased societal intrusion as a result, particularly, of environmental issues.
The overarching themes that I would suggest are critical to both financial and energy regulation are pro-activeness and balance - as without them the economic and social impact on our country could be quite damaging.
Regulatory reforms
Perhaps more than ever before, my time is spent understanding the new regulatory pressures facing our industry and helping to shape the outcome.
As banks, in addition to declining client trust and weak consumer confidence, we face an environment of more regulation across multiple jurisdictions as well as unprecedented political intervention.
Regulatory reforms now being considered will play a material role in setting the stage for the future prospects of our industry.
With this backdrop, there is no choice but to work actively with regulators and government to ensure clarity of rules and regulations that will allow resources to be allocated efficiently and risks and returns to be calculated accurately.
I understand that - particularly in the U.S. and U.K. there is popular outrage about bank bail-outs, compounded by the recent profit levels and bonuses at banks that were bailed out.
While in Canada the respect for and perception of the banking industry has actually strengthened - in the U.S. and Europe it has collapsed.
Fortunately, as I said, perceptions among Canadians are much better but having said that, we are not immune from the fallout of global regulation and the expectations of our stakeholders are increasing.
And while we share at least one objective of restoring trust and confidence in the financial markets, all stakeholders in this debate are not aligned, which makes reaching agreement a tricky balance.
Regulators are accountable for safety and soundness, central bankers must balance regulation and economic growth, banks have responsibilities to shareholders as well as depositors, and elected officials have to focus on consumer protection, public discourse and political fallout.
I won't go into specifics relating to possible reforms -- but I will repeat what I have said for the past two years - that any prudent reforms must balance the need and urgency for change with their impact on economic growth.
The stakes are high and they are critical in the context of the economic recovery. A recent report found that the cumulative impact of currently proposed global regulations would increase the cost of financial products across the system by close to 40 per cent.
Moreover, regulatory reforms are emerging from several sources and authorities, without coordination of content or timing. This lack of coordination is dangerous and potentially destabilizing.
In some instances, the temptation is to punish for political gain rather than deal with the root causes or find solutions that balance safety with the role that banks play in capital formation and economic growth.
As CEO of a global bank, I am actively engaged in ensuring that we find the right balance by working together with governments and regulators to improve the system.
While new regulation in response to recent events is inevitable, it is an important part of my job to help policymakers understand that new standards will work only if they don't impede the ability of the market from operating efficiently. But we too must accept that the public expects a higher standard from it's financial system and the industry must adjust accordingly.
For the record, I have confidence in the Canadian model of regulation. While Canada was not immune from problems and some institutions suffered substantial losses, we should all be proud of how our system managed through the recent crisis.
However, we are part of a global system and Canadian banks and Canadian businesses and consumers will be greatly impacted by the global fallout. Our discussions with regulators and policymakers must find the right balance and form the basis for a stronger industry with reduced risk of future crises but not by stifling innovation and economic growth. We have to get these discussions back to balance.
While financial institutions may be in the spotlight, in my view, all industries will be faced with a higher expectation of accountability and as governments seek to curb perceived weakness in the system. The public demands better and successful leaders of major companies must engage and respond.
The changing relationships between business and stakeholders are just as clear when it comes to the area of corporate social responsibility, including the environment.
While the environment is an issue that one might naturally feel is not within the scope of the banking industry, many of our stakeholders have expectations around our policies because of our role as a capital provider.
A decade ago, such an issue may not have generated a single question beyond our internal risk meetings, but at our recent annual meeting, it became a central point of lengthy discussion and questions. The issue - our role in financing the Oil Sands.
Because of our role as a leader to industry, over the past year, we have had to defend ourselves against erroneous allegations, smear tactics and even vandalism from various stakeholders. We do not have any direct investments in the Oil Sands and we are not the largest lender to energy companies that operate in the Oil Sands.
But non-engagement is never a serious option.
So in the past year, leadership has meant investing time and resources. We have had hours of visits and discussion with numerous stakeholders, including environmental groups, government officials, energy sector clients, and First Nations' leaders.
As was said by Jim Prentice "The development of the Oil Sands and the environmental footprint have become an international issue and, as such, they now transcend the interest of any single corporation".
We understand that if we don't take a long-term view, we are making a mistake. But we fully believe any solution must be balanced.
As I told shareholders last week, the Oil Sands are a critical natural resource for Canada, and integral to our energy security and our economic strength.
But, we also must ensure there is responsible development that takes into account environmental considerations. The industry, in my view, must become even more proactive, transparent and work with stakeholders to find balance.
To be sure, government and industry must work together around environmental investment and towards, greater transparency and communication -- and banks must support and fuel best practices and innovation. We know this is not an issue that will go away and while we will never satisfy the extremes, most Canadians and Albertans are expecting balance.
For our part, we have a responsibility to our shareholders and our economy to provide financial solutions to all types of businesses that behave in a manner consistent with the laws and regulations of the jurisdictions where they operate.
But we have standards and policies that commit us to ensuring we are dealing with companies, organizations and projects that meet specific criteria regarding social, ethical and environmental standards.
We are extremely proud of the relationships and quality of customers that we do deal with across all spectrums of the energy sector including those active in Oil Sands development - clients that invest billions of dollars to create jobs and create technologies that will ensure responsible development. But it is critical that the industry be more proactive in telling their story, separating fact from fiction and supported by a willingness to invest and take bold action. The industry must put responsible development at the top of the agenda and cannot put profit ahead of social responsibility, because in the long run they are linked.
There is no question that my personal time and energy has been more devoted to this issue. I used to think I could say "we are a bank - go talk to the oil companies" but we don't have that luxury and the public expects more.
All participants in this issue - energy companies, environmental groups, governments and banks - must step up. No one can be bullied but no one can be complacent.
There is no question that the last two years have brought on significant change to all industries and the financial and energy sectors will have to continue to adapt to the new paradigm in our society. Leadership cannot be about ignoring and fighting but accepting the reality that a balanced approach will ultimately generate value and that innovation and change can be a driver of success.
Canada has proven that it is a global leader - and I want to end by emphasizing my belief that amongst this turmoil lies unparalleled opportunities for our organization and for our country.
Journalists and commentators commonly attribute Canada's dullness, conservative culture and less competitive financial markets for our relative success. We are successful, but these commentators are dead wrong in their analysis.
Canada's banking market is far more competitive than virtually any developed country in the world, particularly, if you measure competitiveness by the level and cost of services.
Our banks are also more international and diversified than most U.S. banks, particularly those that went under or were bailed out.
And there were no restrictions that prevented us from making the kinds of investments and loans that brought many global institutions to their knees.
It wasn't dullness that caused Canada to outperform, but rather a combination of:
Two years ago, RBC was a very successful institution but we were, admittedly, not seen as top-tier outside of Canada. As events unfolded, we not only rose in the ranks of global banks, but our reputation for integrity and sound business management became a beacon for customers of all sizes and needs.
As a result, throughout the crisis we invested where others have retreated and have gained market share in virtually all of our businesses both inside and outside Canada.
In response to the crisis, many of our competitors have been forced to change their business mix and strategies but our priorities remain consistent and, in my view, there has never been a better time to grow and invest.
And I also believe that, notwithstanding, the many challenges that we face as a country, it is a time of unmatched opportunity for Canada to shine and take advantage of our competitive position.
We enjoy one of the strongest economies in the developed world, we are blessed with resources, and we enjoy the best debt level of any G8 country as a result of fiscal discipline and sacrifices that Canadians accepted going back 20 years.
Canada's open immigration policies and our ability to attract talent and innovation is a great competitive strength. And we are viewed and respected as a tolerant society in a world that is becoming increasingly polarized.
As the CEO of a Canadian leader, I am tremendously proud to represent our company and our country on the global stage.
As was mentioned in the video, at the beginning of the recession, every analysis and spreadsheet said we either didn't need or couldn't afford to spend on a marketing expense like the Olympic Torch Relay.
Our instincts said our people, our communities and our country would respond as the Torch made its way through more than a thousand cities, towns and villages across Canada.
You won't hear me boast very often, but let me tell you proudly … our instincts were right.
Having seen the Torch Relay captivate the country and having spent the last week of the Olympics in Whistler, and Vancouver, I saw how the pride and confidence in our country, once bubbling under the surface, has erupted.
It is cool to be Canadian and as was emphasized in a piece for NBC by Tom Brokow- To know Canada is to respect Canada.
When I looked around that arena after Sydney Crosby's goal I could see a sense of pride that went well beyond hockey. I passionately believe this can be Canada's decade but it is up to all of us collectively to execute.
Once again, I can't thank the University of Alberta and its School of Business enough for this honour. It is a great institution with outstanding leadership that continues to grow and invest. It's reputation across Canada and internationally should be a great source of pride and to be associated with it in this way is a wonderful honour.
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I'm fighting my way through the Java courses at U of P and struggling with Java. I hope I can get some tips and pointers to get me through my coursework. I want to learn what I'm doing wrong, not have someone do my work for me.
I'm hoping to learn a lot browsing the forums and posting when I get "stuck". I got here looking for an answer to a problem on a homework assignment (already turned in, and my instructor seems LESS than helpful with feedback.)
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Having lived in the hurricane zone for most of the last decade, I have developed a bit of an addiction to The Weather Channel this time of year. Until recently, the general feeling around hurricane coverage and anticipation of hurricane season in the United States has been a fear of "the big one." Now, and especially this summer, I am surprised to find I am hoping for a hurricane. Not a big one, of course. But as far as the health of coral reefs is concerned, a few minor ones would do the trick.
It may surprise you to know that, given the warming trends in the ocean and the fact that El Niño seems to be setting up for this winter, a hurricane is just what coral reefs need to avoid a mass bleaching event.
Don't get me wrong: Big hurricanes can cause serious damage to coral reefs. But generally, storms are something they have adapted to and as long as they are in good health, will be able to recover from.
But why are hurricanes good for coral reefs?
The combination of still hot water and radiation stress from cloud-free summer days is a deadly duo for corals. But with hurricanes, you get lots and lots of wind, and the ocean gets all stirred up. The clouds come in and darken the sky and cool things off with lots of rainfall. This is just what a reef needs to keep from bleaching when they have been cooking in the sun, getting stressed from the heat.
Here's why: When corals are stressed, they expel the tiny algae cells that live in their tissues, turning the corals white. This bleaching (the appearance of "whitened" coral where there was once-colorful coral) is a symptom of stress in corals and other reef animals with symbiotic algae. These tiny algae are known as zooxanthellae and are present in most healthy reef-building corals. Zooxanthellae provide nutrients and oxygen to the coral through photosynthetic activities, allowing their host to direct more energy toward growth and constructing its calcium carbonate skeleton.
The host coral polyp in return provides zooxanthellae with a protected environment and a constant supply of carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis. When sea temperatures become too warm (above 28 C), the photosythetic system of the zooxanthellae can not effectively process incoming light. This results in production of "superoxides," such as hydrogen peroxide, toxic byproducts of this process. These toxins contribute to coral stress reactions, which lead to bleaching. In extreme cases of bleaching, corals die.
I tend to think about the hurricane season in terms of the alphabet — if we are in August and have gotten past the letter "G," it usually means a pretty active year. Remember the hurricane season of 2005, when we used up all the letters and started using Greek letters?
Now, here at the height of this year's hurricane season, we've barely reached "E," with only one hurricane in the bunch. With Hurricane Bill avoiding the Caribbean pretty much, we can only hope to see a few small storms this month that would cool things off in the Lesser Antilles and Northern Caribbean. That's good news, because NOAA's Coral Reef Watch Program has predicted these areas will be hit the hardest by mass bleaching, based on the current sea surface temperature models derived from satellite data.
Right now, Florida reefs are under watch for bleaching due to persistent warm water that doesn't seem to be going away. This isn't good news — but unfortunately, it gets worse. Because it is the beginning of an El Niño year that is typically characterized by warming seas, we can expect to see even more extreme conditions for Caribbean reefs next year.
Scientists have identified a trend that usually goes something like this: The first part of the El Niño cycle brings some bleaching to the Caribbean, and then in the later part of the El Niño cycle the sustained sea warming trend makes Caribbean reefs even more likely to experience mass bleaching. So, we may get a teaser now that will hopefully prepare coral reef managers for what is to come next summer.
One of the tools The Nature Conservancy and partners such as NOAA are encouraging reef managers to develop and use is a bleaching response plan. These plans help managers to be prepared for the impending event by:
Making decisions about bleaching monitoring protocols;
Coordinating monitoring teams among many different agencies;
Communicating about the event;
Discussing how to implement management interventions.
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put (one's) hat in(to) the ring
To announce or make known one's intention to compete with others, especially in a political election. I'm thinking about putting my hat in the ring for class president! As has been widely predicted, the governor put his hat into the ring yesterday for the upcoming presidential election.


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I, along with couple of others I think, have been looking for this for quite some time. What I wanted is that when I right click on the desktop with GNome, I should see my entries in the default menu. I did quite some search on this but no luck. Finally today, I did it and that too in two ways.
Lets do it the Gnome way first:
Install nautilus-actions using the command
sudo yum install nautilus-actions
Now run the command
you will get the box looking like this:
Now click on New or Edit and you have the window like this:
Enter the label, tooltip and select a icon from drop down or select your own icon.
Select main in profiles and then click on edit.
Enter the path and parameters for the program to execute. Now, time to make it appear on the Desktop right click menu:
Go to advanced tab and add a new schema called x-nautilus-desktop and select it:
Now send a HUP signal to nautilus or log out and login to Gnome and see your menu in the right click on desktop 🙂
For the second solution, install openbox.
sudo yum install openbox
open gconf-editor and go to the key /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop and unset it.
Login to Gnome/openbox and see the openbox menu instead. You can install obmenu to configure the openbox menu to your taste.


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Today was undergraduate open house day at TCAUP which meant the halls, classrooms and studios were flooded with prospective students. Among those roaming around was a high school architecture teacher...they teach architecture in high school? Awesome. Anyways, he came up to my studio area and asked a question to myself and a few other students which sparked quite a debate.
"What should I be teaching my students in order to better prepare them for a future studying and practicing architecture?" a simple question with a not so simple answer.
My classmates were quick to list off a wide range of software programs and applications in response. Knowldge of AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, and all the Adobe applications were tossed out as essential to the study and practice of architecture. The rolling out of all these programs by my classmates really stunned me. I immediately threw my hat in the ring and yelled out...
"Drawing! Drawing! Drawing!"
"Which type of drawing do you mean?" asked the high school teacher. I responded that it didn't matter, whether it was drafting with triangles and all the toys or freehand sketching, just get them thinking with their hands. There are about 297 programs out there that architects use and learning the right ones will definitely help any prospective student. However, these programs are production tools which should only be utilized once an idea is formed through sketches and drawings. Learning to think and explore an idea through a drawing in a sketchbook will make the lives and the work of any student better and should be the backbone of any education in architecture.
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"is this a sketch or an illustration?" that was something that my professor and director of the TCAUP grad program, Craig Borum, used to ask me all the time last year. Asking myself that before I start drawing really helps me to define the detail, time and thought the drawing needs.
I agree with this, except on one point.
"However, these programs are production tools which should only be utilized once an idea is formed through sketches and drawings."
Though I draw a lot, and believe it is one of the most effective and fluid means of messaging an idea, I don't believe that other mediums can't be used at the early stages of a design project.
For me, SketchUp, is particularly useful at this stage. In general I don't think that it makes a great final product generator (except when routed through various other programs). I do find it useful to produce 100 iterations on an idea. Granted, in that case I will print them out and then go to work on them with my Sharpies.
My answer to the inquisitive educator would have been about the same as your's, and I would have added study model building. I would also encourage movement between the mediums through out the project.
Draw it , physical model it, digital model it, re draw it , re digital model it, physical model it, draw it.
That is an exercise that I think can benefit any project at any level.
I like the "sketch v. Illustration" conversation. I am going to keep that in mind.
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Dancing with concrete
Oscar Niemeyer's buildings may have shaped the face of modern Brazil but the successors of the legendary architect also reveal themselves to be masters of concrete. A tour of Brazil's architectural beauties
Mention Brazil and architecture and most people will probably immediately think of Oscar Niemeyer's futuristic concrete swoops and curves. When the great master died in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 104, he had completed around 600 buildings: museums whose ethereal beauty detracts from the art inside. A brand new city with government buildings that seem to have stepped straight out of a science fiction film. Houses that fuse nature and structure.
Niemeyer's unique gift lay in his startling combination of the cool aesthetics of the machine age and the sensuality of flowing forms. "I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man," he wrote in 1996. "I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein." Niemeyer made concrete dance and created shapes that became the expression of a national consciousness: forward-looking, progressive and optimistic – without being elitist.
The universe is made of curves
One of the most productive moments in Brazilian history was when Niemeyer built Brasília, the federal capital and seat of government, in the 1950s. The country had gone from being an agricultural society to an industrial nation at breakneck speed and was now in the mood to celebrate its own success. Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto had invented the Bossa Nova, Brazil won two soccer World Cups and the first "Volkswagen do Brasil" cars hurtled along the freshly tarmacked roads. Niemeyer's architecture was the expression of this moment and it voiced the identity of a country that was leaving behind its colonial past, turning its gaze inwards and finding its own, progressive formal language.
The optimism of the 50s was followed by the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and the economic crisis of the 70s. In São Paulo, Vilanova Artigas, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Lina Bo Bardi broke away from the optimistic curves and countered them with their "Beton Brut", a style based on technical sophistication and rationality, and which spoke a new, brutalist design language that relied heavily on concrete. Lina Bo Bardi suspended the art museum MASP (opened in 1968) from broad, red steel beams and pillars and created underneath a space that provided uninhibited views of the surrounding mountains, an exceptional feature in a city as densely built-up as São Paulo.
And the present? Last year, the DAM Architecture Museum in Frankfurt hosted the exhibition "Nove Novos" (Nine New Names) and showed that the present generation of architects has left behind the exuberant concrete curves of Oscar Niemeyer and the "Brutalismo Paulista" to reveal their own, distinctive vision of the architectural future. Brazilian architecture still has plenty of grand gestures to offer, for example the Hotel Unique, which floats in São Paulo's sea of buildings like a ocean-going giant. Again, an economically buoyant period in the nation's history has brought forth a new form of architecture. Today, unlike in the 50s, the museums, sports arenas and spacious residences of wood, glass and concrete are being commissioned by private clients. The work of this new generation of architects is not limited to Rio and São Paulo: innovative designs can be found across the country. In Inhotim, an art center near Belo Horizonte, the Brazilian multi-millionaire Bernardo Paz commissioned young architects to design spaces and rooms for installations by international artists. They also dance with concrete, give it folds and edges, but their buildings do not shout for attention with exalted shapes; instead, they blend into their surroundings, they take a backseat and let nature and art communicate.
Oscar Niemeyer: Brasília
In 1956, the newly elected president, Juscelino Kubitschek, decided to celebrate the economic and cultural renaissance of his county with a clearly visible signal: The government was to move from Rio de Janeiro, the city founded by the Portuguese colonial rulers, to the new capital, Brasília, which was located on a dry, dusty plateau in the heart of the country. With a cruciform master plan by Lucío Costa and a cluster of elegantly curved concrete buildings by Oscar Niemeyer. The 'perfect city', this vision for the future was built in only four years. The government officials very reluctantly accepted their new domicile – and the poor rural population and workers, for whom no houses had been planned in the new city, were forced to settle in satellite dormitory towns. Brasília became the symbol of a nation deeply divided in rich and poor, but Niemeyer's buildings – from the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida, with its boomerang-shaped ribs, the National Congress to the Presidential Palace – are now considered icons of tropical Modernism.
Lina Bo Bardi: Casa de Vidro
The Italian designer was one of only very few women of her generation who studied architecture. She worked in the studio of Gio Ponti, wrote and illustrated for the journal Domus. In 1946, she met Pietro Bardi; they married and left war-scarred Italy for a new life in Brazil. In São Paulo Bo Bardi soon became one of the most seminal, idiosyncratic architects: she embellished cool glass and concrete aesthetics by adding traditional local elements, for example by decorating concrete facades with pebbles. She built herself a glass house on a hill in the jungle overlooking São Paulo with glass walls and a central atrium that allows the lush tropical vegetation to grow up into the heart of the building. Lina Bo Bardi lived here until her death in 1992, in this perfect symbiosis of tree house and transparent Modernism. On time for the centenary of the architect's birthday her "Bowl Chair" – which she designed for the Casa de Vidro – has gone back into production.
Ruy Ohtake: Hotel Unique
In Jardin, a wealthy, leafy residential district in São Paulo, between 1999 and 2002, the architect Ruy Ohtake built the city's most spectacular hotel. A large inverted arch covered with pre-oxidized copper sheets hangs suspended between two narrow plates. Its round porthole-like windows give it the appearance of a gigantic ocean liner in a dry dock. Some of the 80 standard bedrooms are fairly small, and the rooms at either end of the hotel incorporate the curved lines, giving the interior a space-age look. The main attraction of the building is the roof terrace. Reserve a table in the Skye Bar and you have a view across the red pool over the ocean of skyscrapers, almost giving the impression of having landed in the dusty desert of São Paulo in a very deluxe spaceship. Fancy a night on board the copper ship?
Metro Arquitetos: Nestlé Schokoladenmuseum
The red glass towers of the museum are visible even from as far away as the Présidente Dutra Highway. The chocolate factory of Caçapava is 115 km from São Paulo; the industrial complex was built in the 1960s, and in 2011 a museum was added to the chocolate factory, designed by the young team of architects at Metro Arquitetos. The architecture practice in São Paulo was founded in 2000, which specializes in building schools, exhibition spaces and houses, became famous through their close collaboration with the Pritzker award winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha. In Caçapava, elevated walkways follow the roads through the complex, offering visitors an educational tour and allowing them to see how chocolate is made. The tour covers ten production phases, from the storage of the raw materials to packaging the finished chocolate. On the tour, the individual phases are distinguished with different colors, sounds and backdrops. Viewpoints with telescopes allow visitors to see exactly what the workers are doing. Almost the only thing you can't do from this vantage point above the factory is sample the products.
Arquitetos Associados: Burle Marx Education Center in Inhotim
One of the most magical centers of contemporary art and culture is Inhotim, an art park near Belo Horizonte, conceived and funded by the Brazilian steel magnate Bernardo Paz. For over ten years, Paz has been adding to the 300,000 square meter park and inviting international artists to create works that reference the surrounding landscape and architecture. Matthew Barney built a forest-destroying machine here, Olafur Eliasson a viewing machine that divides the green jungle into kaleidoscopic geometry. Paz invited the young architecture practice Arquitetos Associados to build an education center for Inhotim. Alexandre Brasil and Paula Zasnicoff designed a single-storey, U-shaped building with a library, studios and a lecture hall. On the roof hundreds of steel balls float and move in the wind – an installation by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Rizoma: Lygia Pape Galerie
Like a folded and twisted box, the Galerie Lygia Pape bends into the lush vegetation of Inhotim. Thomaz Regatos and Maria Paz von Rizoma Arquitetos designed the concrete cube for a special installation in tribute to the artist Lygia Pape, who died in 2004. Visitors step from the dazzling daylight into the hermetic building, which has a narrow slit in the entrance area as its only aperture. Once their eyes have become accustomed to the dark, they continue into the center of the gallery to find "Ttéia1C", an installation made of illuminated gold threads that extend diagonally through the room and which seem to hover in the air like light falling through the treetops in a forest.


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A church unified in the truth and in love is one of the most powerful displays of God's glory to all of creation. We should therefore strive to bear with one another's failings and endeavor to study the Word together ...Read More
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Our great God has united us to Christ by His Spirit and has given us fellowship with every believer throughout the world. Praying regularly for the church in other places is a great way to evidence this fellowship and help ...Read More
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Plainview Day planned at Wayland soccer match
PLAINVIEW – A special day celebrating Plainview school children and their families will be held on Saturday, Oct. 20, in conjunction with the Wayland Baptist University Pioneer Soccer team's matchup against St. Gregory's University.
Slated for 3 p.m. that day at Hilliard Field, the soccer game will not only feature the Wayland ladies in a conference matchup, but it will also include special activities, giveaways and other events planned for local students.
Wayland bike bottles will be given to each visitor to the game, and students 12 and under will have the chance to put their name in a drawing for special prizes and the chance to compete in crazy games during the halftime break.
"We really hope our local kids will come out, bring their parents and cheer on the Pioneers and enjoy some fun games and prizes," said Teresa Young, director of communications at Wayland, whose department is sponsoring the event. "It'll be a great day to have some family fun without spending any money."
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Meh, I missed the "not too far behind Du Preez IMO" bit. You're thinking of Ruan Pienaar.
Meh, I missed the "not too far behind Du Preez IMO" bit. You're thinking of Ruan Pienaar.
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Yeah, lovely running halfback in a similar mould to Joost van der Westhuyzen, but still has a few chinks in his all-round game.
From The Guardian. Link.
Backs: Jean de Villiers, Fourie du Preez, Jaque Fourie, Bryan Habana, Butch James, Ricky Januarie, Percy Montgomery, Akona Ndungane, Wynand Olivier, Ruan Pienaar, JP Pietersen, Andre Pretorius, Francois Steyn, Ashwin Willemse.
Forwards: Bakkies Botha, BJ Botha, Gary Botha, Schalk Burger, Os du Randt, Victor Matfield, Johann Muller, Danie Rossouw, Bob Skinstad, John Smit (capt), Juan Smith, Pierre Spies, Gurthro Steenkamp, Albert van den Berg, CJ van der Linde, Wikus van Heerden.
No Paulse & surprisingly few "formerly disadvantaged" players altogether really. From the point of view of winning Rugby matches selecting your best squad, reagrdless of hue, can only be a good thing, but it is something of a volte face from what seemed to be very definite government edicts.
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Massive miss for the Boks. The boy looks an absolute beast & is quick with it too.
Clots in his lungs sounds fairly serious tho, wish him a speedy recovery, obv.
Disappointing for Spies, gun player.
Indeed, huge blow for the Bok and Spies, who looked a top top player. It has been reported that he may never play again for the clotting is possibly hereditary- Spies father, a former Transvaal wing back died of heart attack at a relatively young age.
From SuperSport
"According to Springbok coach Jake White, the medical team have explained that blood clotting means that Spiess blood is abnormally thick, and this leads to clotting. If it clots goes into his brain while training or playing he will have a stroke, and he would have a heart attack if it goes into his heart.
Spies became aware of the problem when he started coughing up blood after a training session in Cape Town. Scans later revealed that he had clots on both lungs."
Incidentally hooker Bismarck du Plessis replaces Spies.
On this point I was just watching the Currie Cup recently and was surprised to see how many of the sides were not featuring the recommended number of quota's they should be. The quota directives seem far more stressing in cricket than in rugby currently.
TBF they were probably a hooker short, with only Botha and Smith as hookers in their squad of 30 if I read that properly. Most teams nowadays seem to opt for 3 hookers.
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Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote Control, Dead at 96
It's a day of mourning for every couch potato in America. The single greatest television companion (before the DVR) is the wireless remote control. Sadly its inventor, Eugene Polley, died this past Sunday at age 96 of natural causes.
The visionary inventor who foresaw the laziness in humans who refuse to get off their chairs to walk to the TV set in order to change channels, devised the remote control when working at Zenith Electronics back in 1955. But the contraption it was back then was far from the designs we are used to these days. Back when Polley introduced the wireless remote, Zenith sold the device as the 'Flash-Matic' – - and it was shaped like a ray gun.
Although there were minor flaws (the light from the remote mixed with daylight would cause inadvertent channel changes), infra-red technology evolved none the less. Polley's other creations include the push-button radio and the video disc, the predecessor of the DVD. Polley was honored with an Emmy Award in 1997 for his contributions to television technology. As for the rest of us, we honor Polley with our remotes held high… wait, just need to find it first.
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Doug Aitken's Underwater Pavilions (#art)
Doug Aitken is an American contemporary artist who defies easy categorization. He works in a wide variety of media from architecture to video. In December 2016, in partnership with environmental nonprofit Parley for the Oceans and MOCA LA, he created an installation off the Catalina Coast called Underwater Pavilions. Unfortunately, the installation is no longer in place but keep on the lookout for it to appear in another ocean sometime in the future.
Doug Aitken Plans Underwater Art Installation – NY Times – Sept. 7, 2016
Move Over, Neptune. Doug Aitken Has Another Big Idea – NY Times – Nov. 19, 2016
Explore a Giant Underwater Installation Off the California Coast – Wired – Dec. 7, 2016
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Moby Monday: Moby-Dick Thug Notes
-When KellyAnne Conway's KliffNotes just aren't enough!
Why is there a sailboat attached to the outside of one of America's top contemporary art museums?
Lisa Phillips, Director of The New Museum explains why there is a 30′ sailboat attached to the outside of their building in this video.
Here's a video of Ghost Ship sailing.
Here's some background on this artwork and the artist:
Chris Burden at the juncture of art and architecture: Collaboration and Risk – New Museum – Six Degrees, February 28, 2015
Chris Burden – Extreme Measures – New Museum October 2, 2013 – January 12, 2014
Daily What?! The Sailboat and Skyscrapers On the New Museum NYC – Untapped Cities – August 17, 2015
One Year After Chris Burden's Death, You Can Still See "Ghost Ship" Docked at the New Museum – ArtFCity – May 10, 2016
Chris Burden: Wikipedia | Gagosian Gallery | The Art Story
Moby Monday: Novel rejection letter (video)
Editing advice includes:
- shortening its "vision-impairing length"
- adding more "voluptuous maidens"
- "changing certain of the story's elements might not buoy its purchases at the shop, as it were? First, we must ask, does it have to be a whale?"
Flag dip: The Telegraph – Culture | Books – Famous Rejection Letters – "Amusing Moby Dick rejection letter asks "does it have to be a whale?" December 1, 2016
Marine Science Sunday: Octopus DNA: Different Than You And Me (And Every Other Life Form On The Planet)
Admittedly science is not my strong suit, but I found this article by Ed Yong for The Atlantic about octopus DNA very interesting. The sea is home to so many amazing secrets, mysteries and opportunities for discovery.
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Taste of Chicago
Tempt your Taste buds 10 reasons that you should check out this year's food fest
By Matt Pais
We know how you feel: Taste of Chicago is a blast, but after years of tossing back turkey legs and mingling with the masses, it can start to seem like an event better left to the tourists. Another year, another Taste: Yawn.
But let's dial back that cynicism a second. For those of you not quite ready to give up on gorging, we've rounded up the top 10 reasons to give Taste a chance.
10. Yan can cook; we can watch
Need a few culinary catch-up lessons? Like to refer to yourself in the third-person? Learn the sure way to whip up something yummy when celebrated chef Martin Yan brings "Yan Can Cook" to Taste. Noon. July 2. Dominick's Cooking Corner
9. What? No Fridge?!
You don't mean to cause no trouble, and you're at Taste to do the Super Bowl Shuffle. Well, at least that's what the 1985 Super Bowl champ Bears will be doing, and you can meet 'em. No promises of a performance of that legendary championship anthem, but we can always hope, right? 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: Shaun Gayle, Dennis Rivera, Calvin Thomas; 1-3 p.m.: Dan Hampton, Jim Morrissey, Thomas Sanders; 3-5 p.m.: Brian Baschnagel, Jim Covert, Jay Hilgenberg, Emery Moorehead; 4:30-6:30 p.m.: Otis Wilson. June 29. Buckingham Fountain.
8. The "Speed of Sound"–almost
So you're feeling the new Coldplay album but don't want to shell out the cash to see 'em live? Spend Independence Day at Taste listening to the easygoing rock of Blue Merle, whose singer, Luke Reynolds, sounds like Coldplay crooner Chris Martin's long-lost twin. Close your eyes and everything will seem "Yellow." 3 p.m. July 4. Petrillo Music Shell.
7. Fringe finds
It's a common problem: You love Taste's treats but hate fighting the feeding frenzy. Good news for claustrophobes: Three new-this-year booths–Maxine's Jamaican Cuisine (booth No. 16), Pars Cove Persian Cuisine (No. 2) and Zam Zam Restaurant (No. 58)–have staked out territory along Taste's perimeter. It's like a trip around the world for your mouth; the rest of you doesn't have to go very far. Daily.
6. Hurts so good
With all the culinary hustle and bustle, Taste can be a pretty tense place to be. Relieve your stress with a massage from the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, whose specialists will help ease your anxiety–and won't even mind if you're a little sweaty. Noon. Friday-Saturday and June 30; 1 p.m. June 29. Free. Baird & Warner Chicago Living Pavilion.
5. Om-azing sanity
If your mind needs as much calming as your body, participate in a daily yoga class led by the Peace School. It'll help you find clarity–at least long enough to decide what to eat next. 11 a.m. Daily. Baird & Warner Chicago Living Pavilion.
4. The best mess
Anything they can rib, we can rib better. See if Chicago can meet a Southern challenge in the Memphis BBQ Showdown; taste samples from each city and decide who makes the superior 'cue. Our decision's already made, but we may be a little biased. Noon-1 p.m. June 30. Buckingham Fountain.
3. Hey, waiter
Think you deserve a more distinguished dining experience? Audition to be a guest on WTTW's "Check, Please!," and you might get your wish. After all, strolling Taste is fun, but we've heard sitting in a restaurant and eating food not served on a stick can be nice, too. Auditions at noon, 1, 3 and 4 p.m. Monday. Baird & Warner Chicago Living Pavilion.
2. The big cheese
There's no better way to cap off the day than a giant slice of cheesecake celebrating Taste's 25th birthday. Actually, a big ol' slice might give you a big ol' gut so, instead, partake of one of the sensibly sized free samples from Eli's Cheesecake, guaranteed to fill your tummy without busting your belt. 1 p.m. Saturday. Buckingham Fountain.
1. Snap, crackle, pop!
And, of course, it wouldn't be Taste without a grand display of fireworks. Sure, it's here every year, but you can't possibly be sick of fireworks. That's un-American! Enjoy! 9:30 p.m. July 3. Petrillo Music Shell.
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In addition to taking a poke at Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and TV show Parks and Recreation, the usual gang of idiots at MAD take on the bird slinging sensation, immortalizing Alfred E. Neuman in pig, brick and wood. Plus, there's a giant Spy Vs. Spy pull-out poster! Sweet.
MAD Magazine issue 511 is expected within the next week or so.
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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - May 2008
May has been a month of great excitement with the implementation of our first initiative at the Ese'eja community of Palma Real, a visit from an old friend of Taricaya, Mauricio Ugarte, the commencement of our first in depth botanical investigation and some breathtaking wildlife sightings around the reserve.
The project with the Palma Real community was very rewarding for us as we were finally able to break the ice and gain the confidence of the natives who have been so wary of outside help after some bad experiences in the past. Other NGO's have offered the people of the community several projects designed to improve their standard of living over the years but not one has ever seen the initiative through to its completion. After several meetings over the last few weeks it was time to take our donkey and specially designed cart down river where the locals and volunteers had already prepared an enclosure and hut for the donkey's accommodation. After the successful installation of the donkey and the cart it was time for a demonstration and so some of the kids from the school jumped in the back and the donkey pulled its first load around the settlement's football pitch! The following week the work began in earnest as all the volunteers took the hour trip down to the community and along with the children and some other community members a huge chain was formed and the first area of the community was swept for rubbish. It was quite astonishing the amount of rubbish we collected and the locals themselves realised that they had a lot of potential health hazards just lying around their homes. The work now passes to them to maintain their community clean but the dedication of the volunteers in scorching conditions impressed further on them that we are serious about our work and that when we come to implement other programs in the future that we will not back out and leave them stranded. I have mentioned this project a lot over the last few months but I cannot over emphasise the importance of opening the door to working with the largest native settlement in the area and we can now seriously consider working with them on projects on a greater scale in the future. Such ideas include working with the community members responsible for the illegal gathering of the freshwater turtle eggs (Podocnemis unifilis) and a successful plan for agro-forestry in the community's allotted lands.
Back at Taricaya it was a busy month also with 18 volunteers arriving this month and as usual there was plenty to do around the reserve. After the interested reception of our first publication last year, Mauricio and I have been working on further data analysis from our bird monitoring project and he came to visit and report on his recent travels in the US and also northern Peru. The initial paper has now been published in several different journals in the States and was well-received at the Peruvian Ornithological Conference in Piura last month. So it was with many ideas that Mauricio came to visit and whilst he was here we took advantage of his knowledge to concentrate on our bird list for Taricaya. I am very pleased to report that we were able to add 25 new species to our list bringing the current total to 386 species. Some of the additions include the Yellow-backed tanager (Hemithraupis flavicollis), Grey-breasted martin (Progne chalybea), Guira tanager (Hemithraupis guira), Chestnut-vented conebill (Coniorostrum speciosum) and Lemon-chested greenlet (Hylophilus thoracicus). As our list continues to grow we draw ever closer to a world record for an area of 500 hectares or less. Obviously as you draw nearer to the total it becomes harder to find new species but whether we reach that figure or not over the coming years Taricaya has already caused a stir in the relevant field of ornithology and our next mist netting locations will target some of the zones of the reserve where we have yet to dedicate much time or energy. The next challenge will then be to design a system whereby we can get our nets up into the mid-canopy and start to sample the birds that we have trouble seeing through the tree cover whilst walking the trails.
In conjunction with the bird monitoring study we were happy to welcome Daniel Medina, also from Arequipa, who has started our first plant inventory for the reserve. This is a long term project that requires the specialist knowledge of a trained botanist and Daniel was with us for over two weeks and his first zones of study were the transects that Mauricio and I used for the initial phase of our bird research. A complete study of the forest's structure will help us analyse our current data further by trying to correlate local bird communities with specific forest types. This data will help us discover the reasons for local migrations within the reserve and will give us a good idea of where to put the nets to capture species from different micro-habitats. In addition to this useful information Daniel is hoping to draw up an extensive list of the different plant species in the reserve. It will be a long project but after his initial visit Daniel is very excited about the potential diversity of the reserve. With over 20,000 plant species in the Peruvian Amazon he certainly has his work cut out and he is confident that Taricaya will throw up some surprises of its own. In just his first visit we were surprised to encounter three of the four known species of cactus found in the rainforests of Peru. Daniel was surprised also by the abundance of plants not normally found at this altitude and this further reinforces the theory that the Taricaya reserve is a transition zone between the open pampas grasslands on the Peru-Bolivia border and the Cordillera (foothills) of the Andes. We initially suspected this to be the case after the bird study with the presence of species not usually found in tropical forests at this height above sea-level. The presence of these different plants would explain how such species are able to survive and piques the interest further into what other secrets we have yet to find in the reserve. Daniel will return later in the year with a preliminary list of the plant species he has already found and eager to find more with an idea to publishing the findings of his initial research next year.
Elsewhere we had some truly fantastic sightings around the reserve. On the mammal front we had sightings of two indicator species- a Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) and a jaguar (Pantera onca). The tapir was seen coming down the river bank before striking out across the river. It was just two hundred metres from the lodge and a great sign of how the confidence of the wildlife has returned as we strive to protect their habitats. The jaguar sighting was a little tenser as we all split into groups one evening for a frog hunt and in good spirits Richard led his group up Quebrada trail. After about 20 minutes there was a thud and a large set of green eyes appeared on the trail in front of them. The situation was handled excellently and the volunteers slowly retreated down the trail whilst Richard kept his light shining on the cat. A wild jaguar will never attack people if not provoked and the calmness Richard showed was exactly the reaction necessary as I had explained to all staff should such situations arise. The cat waited a few seconds before getting bored and then wandered off back into the jungle. Obviously there were a few startled volunteers after the encounter but after the adrenalin wore off they realised just how lucky they had been to see such a majestic creature in its natural environment. There was never any danger to the group if they behaved accordingly and I am just jealous that I was not there to see it myself!! A great moment for Taricaya as we have not seen a wild jaguar for several years now (just racks previously) and the presence of this top predator reinforces that the ecosystem is healthy and thriving.
There was also some excitement after the sightings of two of the most poisonous snakes in the Amazon within a couple of days of each other. The first one was one afternoon as I was working in the creek near the dam. A volunteer shouted "Wow, look at that pretty snake!".... as soon as I heard this I thought it might well be one of the coral snake species found in the area and I dashed up the bank to where it had last been seen. Now whilst the coral snake has fatal venom it is not an aggressive species and so I started to search in the long reeds. I caught a glance of its tail and quickly grabbed it before it disappeared into the undergrowth. Whilst these snakes are unlikely to attack I was keen to remove it from the camp area and release it back in the reserve. After what must have appeared a comical dance avoiding the snake's head I managed to immobilise it and capture it. This is something that requires experience and I would not have been so keen should the snake have been one of the more aggressive species but it was truly beautiful and large for this particular species and I was unwilling to kill it as a potential threat. After capture we were able to identify it as Micrurus spix and then it was released far away from the lodge. Volunteers are told never to get close to any of the snakes they might come across and so it was great for them to see such a magnificent species up close. The second sighting was on one of our daily observation walks and the lucky group came across a huge bushmaster (Corallus sp.) on one of the trials. Retreat was the order of the day and the snake then moved on as the group chose another route! Such encounters are rare and such snakes found around the lodge are quickly eliminated or captured as they tend to be more aggressive. Nonetheless the size of the individual suggest good feeding and yet another indicator of the wellbeing of the forest in the reserve.
As you can gather May has been full of excitement, hard work and a bit of relaxation as the volunteers took an overnight trip to Lake Sandoval where they saw giant otters, monkeys and large caiman in addition to the abundance of herons and other water-edge dwelling bird species. June promises more of the same including the building of the artificial beach for the turtle project. So until then....
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
29th May, 2008


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Plus One Lap used to be all about cyclocross, now it's my dumping grounds for anything cycling.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Cross Crusade #1: Alpenrose
My first singlespeed race PacNW race happened yesterday at the Alpenrose Dairy. The word is that there were like almost 800 racers throughout the day. 72 folks were in my SS race, of which I finished 56th, but I had fun and actually caught some dudes in the latter laps. The next goal is to not get caught by the Mens B's whom had a 3 minute lead on us.
My Forerunner took data of the race, which is kinda cool. Some nice heart rate functions and the above graphics can be made as well from software from gpsvisualizer.com.
It was definetly a day for tubulars as the course was super bumpy in a lot of sections. Unfortunately, I didnt get mine glued up in time.
Race report: Well, I had no goal accept to not get last or die. So mission accomplished, its tough to be competitive I think when you seat yourself on the back row. I'll move a little closer to the front next time. The race went off without a hitch, Sacha White, Erik Tonkin and some other notable guys were on their SS, some, including Tonkin on a fixed gear. Basically, after the start, the race was just me on my bike going around the course 5 times over 2 sets of two barriers, one hill runup and one stair runup. My hands are bruised from the bumpy-ness (and Im not running cork tape but plastic Benotto-like tape)
After the race, I talked with some guys that I "know" through the internet, so it was cool to put the name or screenname to the face.
Thats pretty much it, the next Crusade race is 2 weeks from now, but there is another Portland race this coming weekend.
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- Daniel said...
I like the image - especially your line that appears you flew over the top of the building.
That was a bumpy course wasn't it? I'm still feeling pain in my hands and lower back. I feel that I rode a good race, but was hoping to have been a bit more competitive than I ended up being (I got 22nd). Apparently, The Bs got tough over the summer.
Anyway, if you see my Kelly at Barlow or Hillsboro, say Hi.
- Jeremy Burlingame said...
Yeah very bumpy, I think I saw you Dan on the line in front of me as we were awaiting the start of the B's/SS.
with the all the turns in the course, and my GPS unit talking with the satellites every 6 seconds or so, the map comes out a little weird. Kinda pointless for a cyclocross course, but its pretty cool when I go kayaking. Although, the heart rate data is pretty interesting to look at.
- Brooke Hoyer said...
My back was a bit sore on Monday but that's about it. I even managed to get in a pretty good tempo ride yesterday -- which left me a bit weak today. I think I did a very good job of staying loose through my shoulders, arms, and hands. This helped handling and rolling over the bumps. My hands felt fine even immediately after the race. My legs were another matter ...


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"Afghanistan: The New Iraq?" was the provocative topic of a panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco yesterday that included Sharad Joshi, adjunct faculty member of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute. Joshi also serves as a research associate at the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program.
The panel also included Sophie Delaunay, Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders United States; Kori Schake, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; and Fariba Nawa, a freelance journalist. Deborah Saunders, a columnist for San Francisco Chronicle, served as moderator of the panel hosted by the Commonwealth Club. The Club, founded in 1903, describes itself as "the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy."
Joshi's participation on the panel was especially timely in view of the fact that his spring semester IPS seminar course is titled "Terrorism in South Asia," and included least two sessions on Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.
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