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Illustrated by Mark Teague
The idea for this book came from the Scholastic booksellers, and boy! were they right. I wrote it remembering my son Adam going to school, and my grandson (Adam’s son), and all the trouble they got into being boisterous, and mouthy, and smart. No one should break boisterous little boys of their loud enthusiasms, but the need to channel it into positive ways informs the book. There is a difference between boisterous and bullying, after all.
The book was well received and the MerryMakers stuffed dino with backpack that accompanies the book is adorable.
What reviewers have said:
- “A new cast of brightly colored dinosaurs appears in this charming back-to-school story. The text’s easy rhyme and rhythm will be familiar to those who have read other books in this series, and Teague’s charismatic and naughty dinosaurs will continue to delight readers with their antics and exuberance. Stygimoloch using one arm to prop up his raised hand as he blurts out is also likely to draw a smile from veteran teachers. A fun read-aloud for the first day of school.”—School Library Journal
- “This eighth entry (counting the two board books) in the Yolen/Teague How Do Dinosaurs series features a cast of 10 brightly colored dinosaurs that manage to dominate the double-page spreads without overwhelming them. Questions arise when the dinos are put in common school-day situations. Would dinosaurs walk to school or carpool? Would they stomp and make a fuss on the bus? Would they roughhouse and punch and disrupt the class by yelling or fidgeting with their tails in the air? Of course not. Before they leap out the door at the end of the school day, readers will realize that these dinosaurs are helpful, tidy, and protective, “growling at the bullies till the bullying ends.” Yolen’s short, rhyming text and Teague’s irresistible, cavorting dinosaurs perfectly convey how dinosaurs could behave in school, large and powerful though they may be.”–Booklist
- “Jane Yolen and Mark Teague have done another wonderful job at creating a funny book that gets small children to think about their own behavior at school. This is a fun book for the classroom, library story time, and at home.”–Suite101.com
- “Jane Yolen’s pitch-perfect rhyme flows very well; the book lends itself nicely to reading aloud and to groups without sounding fake or forced. Paired with Mark Teague’s expressive children and dinosaurs that play and learn together, the combination is a light and yet effective look at how you really should behave at school, a gentle reminder that’s likely to be remembered by children because they’ll readily recollect the over-the-top dinosaur antics. What’s especially nice about the dinosaur series is that the name of the featured dinosaur is included in small font near the animal, unobtrusive yet there, which means you’ll be prepared when your child asks, “What’s that dinosaur called?” The book’s endpapers are thoughtfully illustrated with miniatures of the dinosaurs along with their names as well, very handy for quick reference and even an impromptu game of hide and seek (“Can you find the dinosaur in the book that looks like this?”) In a long-running series like the How Do Dinosaurs? books, it’s nice to see the storytelling and artwork remain consistent in tone, style, and humor, each new book like a visit from an old friend with new adventures.”—www.imperfectparent.com


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Comics – How not to lose the water in a flow of words
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- The handbook "How not to lose the water in a flow of words" contains information and details about the complex world of river environments, from geological, ecological and also managerial point of view. In this publication, Studio Kairos has edited the text content and created the graphic layout. To semplify the technical and scientific contents of the manual, short and funny comic strips have been included. The protagonists of these stories are some characters that are "typical" of the river environment, that is the farmer, the fishes and the river itself, in a theater that stages some conflicts related to environmental issues.

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Middle Ages – Notebook Pages on England and France (800-1200)
Last week all we did for history was continue reading The Adventures of Robin Hood. (affiliate link). The kids are really loving the book (and so am I!). Each chapter is a complete adventure unto itself.
This week we’ll be going into a lot of detail about feudalism (and I created a simulation that I think the kids will really love!), but before we do that, I really wanted to review all we learned so far. To do that, the kids really need to understand the ever changing boundaries and borders of Europe. I made some fairly simple notebook pages and included a *lot* of maps! These cover the period from Charlemagne and the demise of his empire to William the Conqueror and the complicated relationship England with French lands… through to the period we’re up to now with King John and the Magna Carta.
We’ll be going over these maps and talking about the rulers we’ve studied so far. I thought I’d share these here for anyone else who can use them. My kids are in 4th and 6th grade, so the notes I’ve included are not incredibly in depth. (Just wanted to make that clear, for those of you with older students.) But, it gives you a starting point!
By the way, you might also be interested in the (free) notebook pages I made about Charlemagne as well.
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Our other posts in our Middle Ages Unit (Some of these posts also include some free notebook pages):
- Vikings, Norse Myths and a Woodburning Craft
- Middle Ages: King Arthur, Charlemagne
- Middle Ages Unit: The Medieval Church and Monasteries Worksheets
- Middle Ages Projects and Books
- Middle Ages – Notebook Pages on England and France (800-1200)
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AR toy train is a project exploring tracking and dynamic occlusion of the ZED device from stereolabs. We were willing to enhance our virtual camera by adding a mobile solution, giving artists the possibility to use it wherever they want without having to visit on our lab space. Although the device is impressive, it was suffering from tracking drifts and the presence of moving objects or humans were emphasizing the inaccuracy. I developed all of the application but the 3D model of the train. I procedurally generated the rail to dynamically adjust the space between doors. I also developed a system to capture lights from a GoPro and apply it with shadows inside Unity (the feature was dropped because it didn't adapt well to any environment). A 360 camera was also used to apply real-world reflection to materials.


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If you think Filipino Catholic priests are good only at delivering homily and saying holy Mass, you’re mistaken. They are also good at some mundane things like singing, and several are really good singers.
This was the impression we had after watching “Paring Bukidnon,” a choral group of 14 priests from Bukidnon, Philippines, who staged “a concert of faith and prayers” in the evening of last Sept. 14 in the Saint Regis church on Lincoln Road, Bloomfield.
The group’s performance drew applause many times from the audience of some 300 people, proof that the priests are blessed with fine voices, the
blending of which is superb.
In some numbers, the priests sang and danced, making the concert doubly entertaining. And the realization that the performers are simple parish priests in predominantly rural Bukidnon enhanced the spectators’ feeling of awe. At one instance, they even looked like professional Broadway performers.
Dubbed “Because I Believe,” the well produced concert consisted of four parts. Part I’s first number, called “Abakada,” is a popular children’s song. As they sang, the priests were acting as if they were children, and this amused the concert goers. This was followed by “Batang Bata Ka Pa.”
The first part was capped by an excellent rendition of Freddie Aguilar’s popular ballad “Anak,” which is a story about a wayward son. The ending was dramatic, as the group emoted very well the sadness felt by the son as he regretted his mistake of disregarding his parents’ advice. Some spectators vicariously felt the son’s sad fate, causing them to shed tears.
Part II consisted of four songs, the last of which was “I believe.” Again, the priests proved that they could really sing well as they crooned the high operatic notes with comparative ease.
Part III was noted for its political tone as the performers sang a song entitled “Father Neri Satur,” an environmentalist-priest in Bukidnon who was
murdered due to his campaign against the degradation of the environment.
Another Part III number that was well applauded was the rendition of the song, “Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo,” which was about the peaceful EDSA I People Power revolution. The songand-dance act evoked nationalistic pride as one of the performers waved a big Philippine flag on stage.
Part IV, which was the last part, was about the life of a priest, capped by the singing of “Gloria.”
The group was led by Bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan, D.D., who delivered a short remark after the concert. The bishop surprised everyone when
he, too, sang a religious song.
The members of the Paring Bukidnon are Fathers Diomedes Brigoli, Arbel Cabasaga, Lito Canoy, Conrado Casas Jr., John Mark Colipano, Virgilio Delfin, Rodolfo Isada, Elric Jorquia, Joe-Ann Lamasan, Flordelito Nazareno, Rene Regalado, Arsenio Rubio, Victoriano Salem and Joel Tuquib.
The intermission was likewise entertaining as the KKPM Youth Choir belted some numbers under the baton of Aris Macandog. Father Felix Alsola starred in the intermission together with Miss Little Ang Bisaya Antonette Joseph, singing favorite classics such as “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Wind Beneath My Wings.”
Top pianist Roy Coloma provided piano accompaniment for some of the intermission songs. The Exit 50 Band led by Paul Villavicencio also performed some scintillating numbers.
Interviewed after the show, Father Colipano said that Paring Bukidnon has been on a tour and had already staged concerts in Vancouver and Toronto, both in Canada. The group’s next stop after Michigan is New York. Its final concert in the US will be in Seattle, Washington.
The Michigan concert was coordinated by the Kapulongan ng mga Katolikong Pilipino sa Michigan (KKPM) headed by President Billie Go Belen.
Father Colipano said that the concert tour is a project to raise funds for the construction of a P32-million building for the diocesan and pastoral
center in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. He added that the building is already 90 percent complete, but the diocese still owes the contractor some P10 million. (Tony Antonio)


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Despite getting severely outplayed by Nashoba – whom outshot the Blackhawks 44-12 – it was Lahue who kept them in it making 41 saves in a 3-0 loss to the Chieftains in the 41st annual Bellingham Hockey Tournament Final, Thursday night.
FRANKLIN — Even in a losing effort, Bellingham junior goaltender Cameron Lahue turned some heads.
Despite getting dominated in puck possession by Nashoba – whom out-shot the Blackhawks 44-12 – it was Lahue who kept Bellingham in the finale of the 41st annual Bellingham Hockey Tournamet at Pirelli Veterans Arena.
Lahue made 41 saves but the Blackhawks couldn't score as they lost 3-0 to the Chieftains on Thursday.
"It was definitely a well-battled game, they definitely out-shot us," Bellingham coach Joe Robidoux said. "We worked hard, I'm proud of my boys. They never gave up."
Part of that was due in large part to Lahue, who weathered the storm after getting peppered by 20 shots – all of which he stopped – in the first period.
.@BhamAthletics junior goaltender Cameron Lahue talks about the importance of having a goaltender that can help keep your team in the game.@MetroWestSportspic.twitter.com/SXU9Tlnc0o— Ethan Winter (@EWints)December 27, 2019
"It's very key, because it can make or break the game," Lahue said. "Depending on the shots and stuff, but obviously, we would like to come out with a win."
"Whenever you have Cam on the backside, that's solid and that was his best game this year by far," Robidoux said.
After a scoreless first period, Nashoba (2-2-1) was able to capitalize on their first shot of the second period.
The Chieftains won a faceoff on the other end of the ice and Will Mair connected with Billy Johns, who roofed it past Lahue on a breakaway to give Nashoba a 1-0 lead just 16 seconds into the second frame.
Billy Johns roofs it past Lahue to get@NashobaHockey on the board 1-0, 16 seconds into the 2nd period.@MetroWestSportspic.twitter.com/6SL9Sz8JMA— Ethan Winter (@EWints)December 27, 2019
"They just caught us with their own play," Lahue said. "They caught us a bit off guard. It was a good shot and just put it behind me."
A little over six minutes later, the Chieftains extended their lead to 2-0 off of a power-play goal from junior Dan Lemanski, who jammed the puck past Lahue for a score with 8:21 left in the period.
FINAL:@NashobaHockey ,@BhamAthletics . Bobby Carter scores the dagger with under 2 minutes left to play in the game. Nashoba wins the Bellingham Tournament. 3rd Billy Johns (NASH) 2nd Cameron Lahue (BHAM) 41 saves 1st Bobby Carter (NASH)@MetroWestSportspic.twitter.com/GaYr4P9yug— Ethan Winter (@EWints)December 27, 2019
With Bellingham unable to pull Lahue in the third period due to poor puck possession, Nashoba was able to capitalize on a defensive zone turnover as senior captain Bobby Carter took the puck and wristed it past Lahue for the dagger and a 3-0 lead with less than two minutes left to play.
"Just treat it like any other game," said Lahue on what was key to his performance between the pipes. "Just calmed myself down before the game, making sure that I'm ready and just focus in on every puck."
"Cameron Lahue was our MVP tonight. (He faced) over 40 shots and he stopped (almost) all of them," Robidoux said. "Having him (in net), he is going to keep us in a lot of games and give us a chance to win, which is all that you can ask for from your goaltender."
Lahue earned second star honors and was named Most Outstanding Player for Bellingham (1-3-1) for his performance while Carter was named tournament MVP for scoring a goal with an assist in the championship game for Nashoba.
The Blackhawks will now take a week-and-a-half off before they head to Rodman Arena in Walpole to take on Norwood on Jan. 4.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived here Sunday for a patch-up session at the Bush family compound as antiwar protesters filled this resort town to demand the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Putin, the first world leader invited by Bush to stay with him at the oceanfront estate built by Bush’s great-grandfather, headed to Walker’s Point for a 24-hour visit intended to cool recent tensions in U.S.-Russian relations over issues such as missile defense and Kosovo independence. Although aides predicted no breakthroughs, there was hope for disagreeing more agreeably.
Neither president made public comments after Putin’s afternoon arrival, but Putin said before leaving Moscow that he maintains “good and even friendly relations” with Bush. “Politics, like sport, is an arena of competition,” he said Sunday, according to the Interfax news agency. “But it’s important that these competitions abide by the set rules and are based on respect (for) each other’s interests.”
Hosting was former President George H.W. Bush, who hoped the relaxed environment would foster accommodation. “We want it to be like it was when I had Francois Mitterand, the president of France, here,” he said. “You sit down, no neckties, sit in a beautiful house looking over the sea and talk frankly without a lot of straphangers and note takers and people that have separate agendas handing you notes.”
Hundreds of protesters marched for the second summer to the security checkpoint guarding Walker’s Point.
“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Bush and Cheney have got to go,” they chanted. Many carried signs advocating impeachment and some rolled a casket with a mock Statue of Liberty inside. Others had handmade signs with slogans such as, “Drop Bush Not Bombs” and “GWB is a WMD.” A few carried Russian-language signs calling for peace in Chechnya. A small black dog wore a sign saying, “I Pee on Bushes.”
“I’m angry about what’s happening,” said Donna Polhamus, 62, a librarian from New Hampshire. “I’m mad there are so many people dying, Americans and Iraqis.”
. . . It’s not a good war. We don’t belong there. I feel it’s a war for oil.”
The antiwar protesters passed about 20 counterdemonstrators holding U.S. flags and signs saying, “Support Our Troops.” One shouted: “Go to Cuba! Go to North Korea! But don’t bother our troops, they’re doing God’s work.”
Some anti-Bush protesters responded by chanting, “Support our troops, bring them home.”


In a measure of the respect for Mandela's legacy, traditional adversaries such as Cuba and the United States are setting aside their differences
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg Monday, where he called Nelson Mandela a ‘giant for justice’ whose ‘mighty life’ touched millions.
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama depart Joint Base Andrews in Washington en route to Johannesburg December 9, 2013. Already on board: Former president George W. Bush and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, centre, with former Brazilian presidents, from left, José Sarney (1985-1990), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Fernando Collor de Mello (1990-1992). Brazil has decreed seven days of mourning in honour of Mr. Mandela.
Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao hosts a welcoming ceremony for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, December 4, 2013.
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba delivers his speech during an inauguration ceremony in Windhoek, Monday March 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Alwyn van Zyl)
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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, left, who is leading an Indian delegation that includes Sonia Gandhi, called Mr. Mandela the ‘last of the giants who led the world’s struggles against colonialism.’
Cuba’s President Raul Castro, earlier this year. Cuban authorities decreed three days of national mourning in tribute to Mr. Mandela, a ‘close friend’ of Cuba, where he paid one of his first foreign visits after he was released from 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities.
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Bears draft 24-year-old Tennessee WR Velus Jones in third round
After choosing CB Kyler Gordon and S Jaquan Brisker in the second round, they went with Jones in the third at No. 71.
Barring a surprise trade, Bears general manager Ryan Poles wrapped up Friday night by drafting Tennessee wide receiver Velus Jones in the third round at No. 71 overall.
It was Poles’ third selection of draft after taking Washington cornerback Kyler Gordon and Penn State safety Jaquan Brisker in the second round at Nos. 39 and 48, respectively.
Jones had 62 catches for 807 yards and seven touchdowns last season, as well as an SEC-best 628 kick return yards and a touchdown and 272 punt return yards.
Jones is 6-foot, 200 pounds and will turn 25 in two weeks. He is actually five months older than Bears third-year receiver Darnell Mooney.
Jones began playing at Southern Cal in 2016 and transferred to Tennessee in 2020. Before last season, his career best was 280 yards.
The Bears likely will wait until the fifth round Saturday to make their next pick. They have two fifth-rounders at Nos. 148 and 150, then a sixth-rounder at No. 186.
The extra fifth-round pick (No. 150) is from trading wide receiver Anthony Miller and a seventh-rounder to the Texans last year. The Bears are missing their fourth-round pick from the trade to get quarterback Justin Fields a year ago.


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"Why couldn't Ron Paul speak at Paul Fest? I was told that Ron Paul manager doesn't like people who set up the event, even though they did it for Liberty!"
That to me is a huge questions. Why were they not liked? Ron Paul says Liberty is an unbrella for us all to meet under, so who set up the even? Why are they not liked? Is there a rational answer?

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The audience will see silhouettes of a band onstage, video will roll in the background with singers narrating trivia about the upcoming artists prior to each song without mentioning the names. There will be a pause. The audience is encouraged to shout out their guess of what song is coming up. The song starts, the crowd cheers with “oohs” and “ahhs” as some got it right and some got it wrong and others go “Wow, I didn’t know that”. A very interactive show. Be ready to go onstage to join the dancers at times.
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Rome, February 29th, 2016 Today saw the completion of the sale of Enel Produzione S.p.A. (Enel Produzione)s entire 49% stake in Hydro Dolomiti Enel S.r.l. (HDE) to Fedaia Holdings S.à r.l. (Fedaia), a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4 (MEIF4). The consideration of the transaction was finalised at 335.4 million euros, as per the agreement signed on November 13th, 2015 between Enels subsidiary Enel Produzione and Fedaia.
Enel Produziones stake in HDE was sold to the Italian company Fedaia Investments S.r.l., which was designated as the purchaser by Fedaia and is also controlled by MEIF4. The completion of the transaction follows clearance from the EU antitrust authority which was the final outstanding condition precedent provided for in the sale agreement. The transaction enables the Enel Group to reduce its consolidated net financial debt by approximately the total consideration noted above.
With the closing of the sale of HDE, the total value of disposals already completed rises to 1.9 billion euros, out of a total of 3.7 billion euros of sale agreements reached to date as part of Enels programme to actively manage its asset portfolio. Proceeds from the programme, which was expanded to 6 billion euros as announced during the presentation of Enels strategic plan in November 2015, are intended to finance the Groups further growth.
HDE operates hydropower plants, mainly located in the Province of Trento, with a total installed capacity of about 1,280 MW. More specifically, the assets comprise 26 large hydro plants, for a total of 1,277.3 MW, and two small hydro facilities, totalling 2.4 MW.
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They knew. They knew the German bombers were coming and did nothing.
This was the accusation thrown at military leaders after the night of November 14, 1940, which saw Coventry destroyed by wave after wave of Nazi air strikes.
But did Winston Churchill and army generals really stand by while the Luftwaffe flattened the city and left 1,400 dead or seriously injured?
It has long been rumoured that Churchill knew about the incoming attack on the city, but did nothing as the German bombers destroyed much of the city centre, including Coventry Cathedral.
The conspiracy theory, that lives on to this day, is that Churchill knew the city was to be targeted but didn’t want to alert Adolf Hilter that the Allies had cracked the Nazi’s top-secret Enigma code.
It is suggested Coventry was sacrificed for the “greater good” and the benefits of the long-term outweighed the short-term costs of leaving the city to its fate.
But there is plenty of scepticism about the conspiracy among historians who suggest the Prime Minister, who died in 1965, could not have known about the fate that awaited Coventry.
Thoughts at the time had London being the target and there was little the authorities could have done to protect the people of the city even if they had been forewarned.
The rumour is one of many tackled by prominent historian Frederick Taylor in his latest book: Coventry - Thursday 14 November 1940.
The former Oxford student and acclaimed author researched the true repercussions of the bombing of Coventry and delved into the persistent rumours and conspiracy theories that have been aired over the years.
And he firmly came down on one side of the Churchill argument.
Frederick said: “Some people claim that they knew days beforehand, but I think it was just a few hours.
“And also what do you do if you know?
“Do you evacuate the whole city in a couple of hours, especially when children are just coming out of school and block all the exit roads?
“Also the anti-aircraft defence that the city had wasn’t great and the fighters had no on-board radar which they would have needed at that time to find the Nazi bombers.
“So was the city sacrificed? When people are killed in their hundreds or even thousands as they were here, it is understandable that people get paranoid and as there is not a lot of news getting around, it’s understandable that people make up their own stories.
“I do not think there’s anything in the rumour and it would have been an enormous sacrifice with everything that was made in Coventry towards the war effort.”


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804 Nano has been doing numbers and repping Petersburg all while doing it. His catalogue stretches back to 2018 on streaming services, between then and now, he has stacked an impressive output of music that would make Gucci Mane proud, consistently dropping EPs, singles, and albums every year since then. Now we have a reflective project, in his latest album, Real As They Kome. RATK is fiery, full, and flourishing with melodies. The passion put forth in each song is unrivaled. I tend to notice rappers losing potency after several albums, after receiving buzz. 804 Nano doesn't take his foot off the gas, he keeps his energy on 100 from start to finish, there are no half-assed attempts anywhere on this project. Where some artists load the middle of their projects with the best tracks, 804 Nano starts off strong with Redi Rock, which we've even been blessed with a visual for.
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Ciena and TELUS set new worldwide transmission record
The first 800G single wavelength was deployed to Canada across TELUS’ network recently by Ciena, the American telecommunications service supplier and TELUS, the Canadian telecommunications company.
The wavelength covered a record breaking 970km between Toronto and Quebec City. Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme has been the only available 800G product in the market since April 2020, highlighting how early in the adoption phase of 800G deployments the optical network industry is.
Ciena’s technology is offering higher capacities per wavelength than any previous technologies via line rate transponders which can support rates up to 800gb/s. Their state-of-the-art technology provides high quality and high speed connectivity to consumers while also reducing the cost, energy consumption and space per bit.
TELUS are currently in the process of augmenting their network with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technologies to provide better connectivity to their customers. Their 6,000 km network spanning from Victoria, British Columbia to Halifax, Nova Scotia will soon be standardising the WaveLogic 5 Extreme as it was designed with the future of connectivity in mind. It already consists of high-spec flexible grid ROADM architecture which has been designed to support reliable bandwidth across the network.
Toronto to Quebec City - the highest bandwidth corridor
Before Ciena stretched the bandwidth from Toronto to Quebec City, the longest previous bandwidth corridor was between Toronto and Montreal. It connected the two biggest cities in Canada with 700km of network. However, with Ciena’s new record breaking achievement, that corridor has now been extended another 270km, connecting it to Quebec City.
Testing will continue at TELUS with the hopes of deploying Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme in the near future and the deployment of 800G by Ciena will continue where permitted and where necessary.


The early topics at The Villages’ newest avenue for improving health care are all focused on innovation — from carving out a role for genetics in routine care to finding drugs that can help COVID-19 long-haulers.
A key question is, what do people actually want?
The UF Health Precision Health Research Center - The Villages is listening to seniors here, not just university leaders and faculty, as it sets up its first year of research. It hosted its first focus groups Tuesday morning.
“It’s about making sure that they are able to guide the ship and that’s in a wide range of areas that are of interest to them,” director Carla VandeWeerd said of the first groups of Villagers who toured the facility and voiced their priorities.
Topics that came up include centralized access to electronic medical records, genetic profiles, even fundamentals such as physical therapy.
“Exercises that I can do at my age, because it’s more and more limited what I can do, so I would like to understand more about what’s available,” said Preston Davis, of the Village of Poinciana.
Eyes on Helping Others
At 83 and coping with arthritis, golfing or walking can become more of a strain than they used to be, Davis said. But like many, he wants to remain active. “Just learning about things that are available to me, that’s important.”
The opportunity for residents to share their own ideas about what’s needed here, or studies happening elsewhere that could be brought here, was welcomed by Rick Gray. His family’s medical history was on his mind, including its possible impact on younger generations.
“Cognitive is more of an issue for me, I have a family history of Alzheimer’s,” said the Village of Fernandina resident. “So, I’m obviously interested in the direction that’s headed and what potential improvements there are that I can do for myself, through participating in studies — not only for helping me, but for my children and my grandchildren as well.”
The tendency to think of others stood out to VandeWeerd, even on the first day of hearing from residents.
“There’s a real sense of altruism from the people in the room, benefiting people who don’t have the opportunity to live in a community like The Villages,” she said. “Getting engaged in research and being able to have these things, but also that they’re sharing it, being able to help other people or their children.”
Setting The Right Path
With plans to speak to as many as 10 groups of residents, VandeWeerd said the input can be helpful as far as five years out when it comes to program planning.
The Villages’ track record of participation in studies has long drawn research centers to the area. More than 670 recruiting clinical trials are taking place within 50 miles of The Villages, according to clinicaltrials.gov. More than 20 of those, including several about Alzheimer’s disease, are taking place at Charter Research in Lady Lake.
“No study can move forward without participants in a clinical trial,” Charter CEO Jeff Pohlig said. “Being located in The Villages provides an advantage compared to other large metropolitan areas … and it’s not just that the demographics are right, but it’s the smart, educated people who are residents. They not only are willing to participate, they’re compliant with instructions, they show up for their appointments, and that really aids the research significantly.”
Many studies are the result of partnerships between health care companies, universities and clinics, Pohlig said, pointing to an Alzheimer’s study at Charter that’s a joint research effort with Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai and the University of Southern California.
“There are a lot of collaborative products in our industry. People who are not familiar sometimes find it shocking to see that what they think of as competitors are working together,” he said.
Partnerships in Place
VandeWeerd said partnership efforts are familiar to UF Health as well. The studies on COVID patients with long-lasting after effects is part of Operation Warp Speed, for instance. And another planned study to look at taking vital signs through toilet seats that can send data directly to providers will work with a private company.
“We’re very open to collaborating with state and federal agencies, with people from other institutions, really with people who have the right sentiment and are really willing to put the community first, we’re very happy to engage in that kind of dialog and partnership as we move forward,” she said.
Location is important to residents who prefer not to drive to Gainesville regularly, VandeWeerd said. And Dr. Colleen G. Koch, dean of the UF College of Medicine, said the location of the new research center will help.
“Being able to offer precision health research in The Villages, America’s Healthiest Hometown, represents an unprecedented opportunity for us to truly reshape medicine, including preventive care, so that our friends and neighbors can live longer, healthier lives.”
Specialty Editor Bill Zimmerman can be reached at 352-753-1119, ext. 5284, or firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Sunday 15 April 1928US date format: 4/15/1928, UK date format: 15/4/1928
It was Sunday, under the sign of Aries (see planets position on April 15, 1928). The US president was Calvin Coolidge (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Norma Merrick Sklarek and Richard Evans.
Across to Singapore, directed by William Nigh, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1928
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- Major League Baseball celebrates "Jackie Robinson Day" each April 15 in all MLB ballparks.
- Saint Paternus
- Saint Petrus Gonzalez
- In the United States, April 15 is the official deadline for filing tax returns: all forms mailed to the IRS must be postmarked no later than this day, so many post offices across the country stay open until midnight to accommodate procrastinators (or those who owe tax and want to wait as late as possible to pay). (If this day falls on the weekend, as in 2006, the following Monday becomes the deadline. Additionally in 2006, Patriot's Day moved the tax deadline to Tuesday, April 18, for those in
- Father Damien Day ? celebrated annually in Hawai'i.
- Arirang Festival is held in North Korea to commemorate Kim Il-sung's birth.
- Saint Hunna.
- Saint Basilissa
- Blessed Waltman of Antwerp
- Ancient Latvia ? Tipsa Diena was observed.
- Roman Empire ? the Fordicia was celebrated in honor of Terra.
- Norma Merrick Sklarek: 1st black woman architect in New York and California.
- Richard Evans: British diplomat.
- Jean-Louis Mandinaud: French freemason, who served as grand master of the 'Grande Loge de France' (1993-1995).
- Auguste Ambert: France sport Champion.


Eyewitnesses to September's deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya told a congressional committee Wednesday that State Department officials had blocked efforts to aid Americans under fire and later tried to conceal al Qaeda's involvement.
Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism at the State Department, told the politically charged hearing that on the night of the attack he was stopped from mobilizing a foreign emergency support team that was specially equipped and trained to deal with emergencies like the one in Benghazi.
Thompson said White House officials told him directly that the emergency team would not be deployed because "it was not the right time and it was not the team that needed to go right then."
Thompson was among three State Department whistleblowers testifying before the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of lawmakers' ongoing effort to determine whether the U.S. government could have done more to save the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans killed during the Sept. 11 attack.
Republicans insist that the Obama administration misled the public about the nature of the Benghazi attack and then tried to cover up the deceit. They place particular blame on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 diplomat in Libya who served directly under Stevens, said a second effort to send Special Forces to Benghazi that evening also was blocked. Those troops were told to stand down, he said.
Despite U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice's repeated claims immediately after the attack that it was a spontaneous response to an anti-Muslim Internet video, Hicks said it was clear from the beginning that the assault was coordinated and deliberate. He recalled receiving a phone call from the ambassador when Stevens told him, "We're under attack."
"The YouTube video was a nonevent in Libya," Hicks said.
Moreover, Hicks said, Rice's comments angered the Libyan government and made it harder to bring the FBI to Benghazi to secure the crime scene.
Hicks said he was told on Sept. 11 that fighter jets could arrive within three hours, contradicting the administration's claim that air support was eight hours away.
Republicans have refused to end their inquiry into Benghazi, much to the irritation of Democrats who claim the GOP is politicizing the attacks.
Committee Democrats, including Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, questioned the accuracy of the witnesses' testimony and defended the administration and Clinton.
Clinton has been under fire for approving a reduction in security in Benghazi before the attack. But she has testified that she did not personally see the cables from Stevens requesting additional forces.
Eric Nordstrom, the top security officer in Libya at the time, said the security in Benghazi was insufficient, with much of it left to Libyan forces that he believes were complicit in the attack.
"I think, to put it succinctly, it was the best bad plan," Nordstrom said. "It was the only thing we had."
Hicks said he was demoted after questioning Rice's claims about the attack in a series of Sunday talk shows, which he said left him "stunned" and "embarrassed."


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Swinging Live Music for Parties & Events
What makes live music more than just a band showing up and playing some tunes?
One of the key elements of live music — as opposed to bands that play to “tracks” and DJ’s pushing buttons — is an undertanding of the words and melody that the composers wrote.
It’s one thing to memorize a song –and far yet another thing to understand the “shape” of the music and how it should be expressed.
With a great band — and not one that is reading from some BOOKS onstage — the music is going to swing like mad, making everything that is played REALLY danceable. But “meter” and “time feel” are words many bands today have never even heard about.
Melody. Words. Vintage Jazz and Swing. Live Event Music. Dance Music.
These words don’t always go together. Which is why people sometimes think they have to hire a DJ to get a party happening on the dance floor. But it doesn’t have to be that way. And there is nothing –absolutely NOTHING — that’s as much fun as having a professional, experienced, musical, talented, GREAT live band entertain at your wedding or event.
Music you can DANCE to doesn’t mean cardboard-rigid phrasing, which is what we hear with a lot of today’s big bands. Oh, the bands are playing nicely enough. But Count Basie and Duke Ellington they ain’t. Most of them just don’t swing.
Swinging is an art.
Singing with meaningful, engaging phrasing while the band is swinging is also an art.
Sinatra did it. Ella Fitzgerald did it. Billie Holiday, even when stoned out of her mind, did it. Ellington, Basie, Bing Crosby — these people all swung like mad.
It’s what you hire a live band for, especially a live band playing music for dancers at a wedding or other important event. To have anything less is inconceivable. But that is what you often get, even with — especially with — some of the VERY high-priced “wedding band options” that are out there in the marketplace. Why? Because they don’t know the history of the music, or of the composer – or even the right words or melody to the song. Maybe they’ve never even played it before and are reading it from a book.
Perhaps they are actors trying to play the part of musicians and singers, and simply do not know the music well enough to interpret it with style and meaning.
But it is so important to respect and revere what the composer wrote. To accurately present the words, to the melody. We don’t take liberties with something that’s already perfect. It’s not cool to “re-harmonize” Cole Porter.
A great band may sometimes fool around with tempos. Bands of yesteryear used to do that al the time. It’s why a lot of this music is called “standards.” Anyone can play standards, interpreting styles and tempos to make the songs unique and interesting.
A great band will also be able to set perfect tempos for dancing!
Not everyone can do that these days, so don’t settle for a group of “jazzers” playing for themselves…or reading from “fake books.”
Louis Armstrong would roll over in his grave!
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Forget aliens, the real culprits behind mysterious crop circles in Tasmania are far weirder: stoned wallabies!
"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.
"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."
Who has got new state of mind can celebrate the 250-year-old anniversary in 2129
I just didn't know that they also had to be stoned to qualify as Aliens...


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Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. – Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), American Journalist and Author
In a democracy, the politician must favorably influence the majority of their voting constituents. In all political decisions, the politician calculates how many votes are gained by appeasing an interest group versus how many votes are lost.Obama Seeks the Hispanic Vote
Politicians incessantly count votes. Before every decision, a politician calculates how many votes are gained and lost. The Hispanic community believes Obama promised to curb deportations and promote legalization. Increasingly, the Hispanics are very disappointed with Obama’s inaction. Last week, Hispanic activists stepped up the pressure on the President and had multiple demonstrations shouting “Legalizacion Si – Deportacion No.”
With polls showing increasing Hispanic dissatisfaction, Obama’s political gurus knew that they must mollify Hispanic voters and the easiest route was to tinker with the deportation process. Hence, the easiest solution was to mandate priorities i.e., violent criminals first, etc. Next, the gurus decided to announce the decision when Obama and many Americans are vacationing, and, thus, hoping the decision will receive as little attention as possible. To further defuse the attention, Obama did not announce the decision and will not be available to respond to press inquiries.
Thus, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano informed Congress of her decision on setting priorities for deporting illegal aliens. So far the political strategy is going according to plan.
“After more than two years of struggle, demonstrations, direct actions and other activities, the administration has signaled that they are capable of delivering direct relief for immigrant families,” said Casa de Maryland, a pro-immigrant group, to the Washington Times.
“Today’s announcement shows that this president is willing to put muscle behind his words and to use his power to intervene when the lives of good people are being ruined by bad laws,” said Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, as quoted in the Washington Times.
The ultimate test will be November 2012. This appeal to Hispanic voters does little or nothing to change immigration laws. However, It will slow the number of deportations – over 1 million since 2007. Will that be enough to appease Hispanics? Conversely, will this scheme infuriate many law- biding voters.?
Without a doubt, Obama’s political gurus would have preferred not to make the decision. They tinkered with the least significant rule-change they could find, and definitely hope the Hispanic community is mollified and most voters take no notice.
Alas, politicians have not changed since Walter Lippmann said, “They (politicians) advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.


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Community participation in small city water supply schemes in Sri Lanka
conference contributionposted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Ananda Dissanayake, Sunidha Senarathne
Community participation is a new approach adopted to address many fundamental issues prevailing in implementation and O&M in small city water supplies. Lack of funds to improve the WS systems, high percentage of non-revenue water resulted in imbalance between expenditure and revenue, schemes expansions without proper technical assessment, water rights and competition in water use, consumer unawareness towards the safety of WS schemes and water sources were resulted to unsatisfactory performance in technical, financial and management of the majority of small city WS systems. Mobilizing of communities in small city WS is not easy due to its magnitude and heterogeneous society. This is more difficult in schemes where augmentation and expansion are taking place, as commitments are completely different between existing and new consumers. However, with all these constraints, pilot level Kegalle small city scheme in Sri Lanka has made remarkable achievements in solving these issues and emphasized the adaptability of community participation approaches in small city WS schemes.
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CitationDISSANAYAKE, A. and SENARATHNE, S., 2004. Community participation in small city water supply schemes in Sri Lanka. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 260-263.
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Amboy-LaMoille defenders Chris Jones (No. 22) and Drake Barlow (No. 12) tackle St. Bede’s Baylee Hopps during the Clippers’ 15-14 victory Friday in Peru. A-L was penalized on the play for a hit to the head. NewsTribune photo/Chris Yucus
Despite holding a one-point lead with less than three minutes remaining Friday, momentum was not on the Amboy-LaMoille football team’s side.
St. Bede had just completed a 41-yard pass on fourth-and-23 — even after a Clipper defender tipped the ball — and the Bruins drove down to the A-L 15-yard line.
However, the Clippers responded.
After an 8-yard loss on a fumble, A-L’s Chris Jones intercepted a pass to seal a 15-14 victory for the Clippers in their season opener in Peru.
“The big thing was that fourth down where they got the pass, and we didn’t give up there at the end,” said A-L coach Gary Jones, who is not related to Chris. “Maybe some teams would have let down and quit and died right there, but we hunt right there and got the interception.”
St. Bede quarterback Jack Brady 6-of-10 passes for 90 yards on the drive before Jones stepped up for the Clippers.
“We were in cover 2 and he was back there. We told him to read the quarterback’s eyes and he stepped right up,” Gary Jones said. “We had man-to-man coverage with him floating in the middle. We kept the middle linebacker (Jones) because they kept running somebody off in the middle. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”
Brady finished 13-of-26 for 192 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
“Jack pulled some great plays out of his hat,” SBA coach John Bellino said. “It’s just too bad at the end the ball was a little wet, he didn’t have a good grip and he threw a duck up there in the middle. When it’s not thrown hard up the middle, it’s going to get picked off.”
The Clippers took the lead for good with 7:14 left in the third quarter when Drake Barlow broke through the left side and scampered 68 yards for a touchdown. Alexis Gutierrez booted the extra point for the 15-14 lead.
Barlow only had eight carries but made the most of his opportunities as he finished with 109 yards as the speedy complement to bruising fullback Dallas Appleman.
The 5-foor-11, 205-pound senior finished with 102 yards on 20 carries and scored on a 1-yard run with 6:47 left in the first half.
“We ran the ball pretty well,” said Gary Jones, whose team ran the ball 51 times for 275 yards. “We caught them on the backside when they were running some slants, and we hit them in there in the third and fourth quarters. Then they made some adjustments to that and we had a pretty difficult time. We still have a ton of work to do yet, but I thought our running game looked pretty good.
“Barlow is more of a speed back and Appleman is a power back. He’s going to run you over, so we kind of worked those two in there together.”
The Bruins, meanwhile, had trouble getting their offense going, especially on the ground.
St. Bede finished with just 65 rushing yards on 21 carries — and had a running play stopped in the end zone for a safety with 10.6 seconds left in the first quarter — and only managed 102 passing yards before the final drive.
“In the first half especially, we had very poor field position and our offensive line didn’t do as well as we thought they would,” Bellino said. “Even some of our runs were more the talent of our running backs and not our offensive line. We have a lot of work to do.”
Gary Jones said it was an important win for the Clippers after last year’s 2-7 season.
“This was a big win for us,” Jones said. “Any time you win your opening game it’s a huge win for you to get that confidence going. Last year we had a ton of injuries. What coulda, woulda, shoulda wasn’t. We needed this one. We have to get back rolling on the right track again. Notes: St. Bede won the sophomore game 12-0. … The fourth quarter of the sophomore game was delayed half an hour due to lightning. Kevin Chlum can be reached at 220-6939, or at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter@NT_SportsEditor.
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Defining Our Desired Future
Issue Twenty-Nine: The Understory
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Is a new future emerging in the journey from sustainability to regeneration?
With a keen eye to publishing the most replete dictionary in the English language, Samuel Johnson wrote in The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747) his intention to “fix the English language.” Johnson foresaw the need to bring discipline to a language that was “copious without order, and energtick [sic] without rules.” Eight years later after compiling the Dictionary of English Language, Johnson wrote in the Preface on first publication:
“Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition. With this consequence I will confess that I flattered myself for a while; but now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify.”
Wiser in years and practice, Johnson realizes that the idea of “fixing language” is an impossibility. The nature of language, much like complex living systems, is to adapt over time. The task of a definer is to record the language of the day rather than to fix its position to a stationary state. Nearly three centuries ago Johnson learned the lesson in language that we are just awakening to in our economies—our systems must remain adaptive to support the conditions of life. The definitions we use are culturally adaptive responses to our changing conditions. Is it not altogether fitting that we continually adapt our words as the emerging future unfolds?
Issue Twenty-Nine looks at the (in)significance of the very definitions that colonise our language and imaginations in the pursuit of social and planetary flourishing for all life. Language and its offspring—words—are intricately connnected with systems of power and control. On the one hand, our dominant economies are based on deeply rooted systems of resource extraction, accumulation, and enclosure with mythologies that justify their perpetuation. On the other hand, we are recognizing the externalities of business as usual is a threat to individual, societal, and planetary well-being. In this transitory moment between systems, many of us are awakening to the biospheric imperative to change our direction of travel. We are grasping for an emergent future that has let go of one system to make way for the next one.
Our approach to language, in particular the desire to keep it in stasis, affects our perceptions of the desirable future and our pathways to reach it. As global leaders gather in the Glasgow halls of power to commit to that future, I wonder whether any working definitions will be worthy of their conceptual magnitude?
The “net positive” shift (Paul Polman & Andrew Winston, 2021) of regeneration is seemingly so basic in principle that it is often difficult to comprehend why it is so difficult to execute, nor why it needed a new definition. We are learning to move with and within natural systems rather than creating our own closed loops whose externalities surface the Sisyphean task we now find ourselves in—to radically alter our trajectories while simultaneously removing the social and planetary harms liberalism endowed for over two centuries. Regeneration is the journey to learn how we ascend to the mountain summit to gently place the boulder on level ground. The rolling of the boulder back down the mountain one last time is now more than a frustrating inconvenience. It is an existential threat.
Much like the attempted fix in language by Johnson, Sisphyus tries to fix his mortality by entrapping death in the heavy chains Zeus sent for him. Death (Thanatos) remains imprisoned in Sisyphus’ home during which time nothing could die. The wounded and bloodied wander the Earth in a “sustainable” state of undying, begging for release from the pain. This is the entrapment of sustainability that Josie McLean writes about in the misnomer of “sustainable change.” While immortality is a sustainable state of undying, it is contrary to the adaptive cycles necessary to support all life. Ares, the god of war, becomes so frustrated that battles being waged suffered not a single casualty, he eventually frees death and thus returns regenerative cycles.
In “Market-led Sustainability is a ‘Fix that Fails’ (October 2021),” Duncan Austin writes that now decades in, we are recognizing that regardless of the specific terminology we use to describe sustainability, voluntary market-led strategies are a “fix that fails”—offering us yet another mythological archetype to parallel the mighty struggle of Sisyphus. We are caught in a self-designed system in which our first “sustainability” fixes trigger delay or externalized second-degree consequences. Systems loops of fixes result in further consequences that perpetuate a new set of problem framings and ensuing fixes for them too. This is the futility of Sisyphus’ ascent up the mountain enacted at a planetary scale.
The very concept of voluntary market-led sustainability strategies—regardless of which label we ascribe to them—are interwoven with systems of power and control. As Paul Kingsnorth writes in “The Language of the Master” (2019), words become a “crude weapon of warfare” rather than our most glorious tool to inspire symbolic thought. Language often ensnares concepts of social and planetary well-being in political and cultural battles. These battles distance us from the very origins of words and the intended purpose when they came into being. Kingsnorth writes,
“Define the terms that others must use, and you already have the upper hand...Now, people are not arguing about issues—about ideas, proposals, feelings, approaches—they are trading in which insult is most likely to stick….Language is used dishonestly across shifting political and cultural spectrums to disguise intentions and to make excuses for tyranny of both mind and body.”
Tyson Yunkaporta offers an insightful distinction to the problems of language Kingsnorth identifies by differentiating between wrong and right stories. In “All our landscapes are broken” (2021), Yunkaporta suggests that right story is always interwoven with land, and therefore is determined by the laws of the land rather than dictates of human fabrication which he calls wrong story. Land imposes natural limits in right story, which “regenerates every entity of the landscape in perpetuity, including our own species, the custodial species of the Earth.” Yunkaporta, like Austin, uses the metaphor of a stack to describe the tectonic layers of which cultural wisdom is built. The inalienable law of the land is the foundational level of our evolutionary stacks.
In 1995 Donella Meadows finally sat down to put pen to paper for what many had been asking of her for decades—the “Definition of Sustainability”. She begins by making clear that the true definition of sustainability is felt, not spoken: “We sometimes say that it’s like jazz, or quality, or democracy—you don’t know it by defining it, you know it by experiencing it, by grooving with it, by living it—or perhaps by mourning its absence.”
A definition was a reasonable request to ask of Meadows given that in the 1972 Introduction to the seminal work, The Limits to Growth, she concludes that it is indeed possible to reach sustainable ecological and economic stability far into the future while meeting everyone’s basic needs. As Meadows later points out in her essay, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)’s report, Our Common Future (1987), already offers a “perfectly good official definition” of sustainability: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
From the Brundtland definition, Meadows isolates two component parts whose relationship still defines the field of sustainability today: 1) “meeting needs and 2) doing so in a way that preserves the natural, human, and societal resources from which needs are met.” She laments that sustainability has already become commoditized—bifurcating into camps of those who chose part one or part two, but seldom finding those who insist on both. Self-described “sustainability folks” unify the two parts. They live by “Herman Daly’s Three Rules” written by Daly when he was Senior Economist at the World Bank to clarify what he felt was an unclear definition by the Brundtland Commission. In an interview, Daly describes how “development” conflicts with “sustainability” and he wants to ensure that “sustainable development” does not mean that “development is sustainable.” He suggests three principles of a sustainable human society:
Renewable resources shall not be used faster than they can regenerate.
Pollution and wastes shall not be put into the environment faster than the environment can recycle them or render them harmless.
Nonrenewable resources shall not be used faster than renewable substitutes (used sustainably) can be developed.
Meadows is quick to point out that groups in all forms—nations, companies, cities, farms, households—violate each of these rules and typically all of them (which would still hold true today). However, Meadows interprets the Brundtland language as “preservation” and “protection,” both of which imply maintaining an original state of being. Daly on the other hand wrote of regeneration, which is an adaptive living systems approach to considering natural capital decisions and utilization.
It would be absurd to suggest that Meadows did not understand and revere complex adaptive living systems, as she was one of the great systems thinkers of the 20th century. So is the semantic distinction between “preservation” and “regeneration” important? Does the definition of sustainability matter? Is there a distinction between “sustainability” and “regeneration” in describing our ambitions and work?
Rather than distinguish one market-based sustainability response from another and parse their respective definitions, Austin aggregates corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investment, ESG, impact investing, divestment campaigns, and disclosure frameworks under the singular banner of “VML (Voluntary Market-Led) strategies”. Austin writes, "For all the apparent differentiation, these strategies share the view that voluntary behaviour within existing market frameworks will be sufficient for human culture to become ‘sustainable enough before it is too late.’" This chart shows the adaptive response to language in which little changes in actual sustainability while new words and definitions come in and out of fashion.
Vandana Shiva insists that we need to distinguish between sustainability of nature and that of the market (“Recovering the real meaning of sustainability,” 1992):
“Sustainability in nature involves the regeneration of nature’s processes and a subservience to nature’s laws of return. Sustainability in the market-place involves ensuring the supplies of raw material, the flow of commodities, the accumulation of capital and returns on investment.”
These two different meanings of sustainability seemingly co-exist, and further confound our understanding of which definition someone is referring to when using the word. Shiva insists that one definition of sustainability must become primary. Her vote (of course) is for sustainability to be of nature’s economy, not of the market/money economy. “Sustainability therefore demands that markets and production processes be reshaped on the logic of nature’s returns,” writes Shiva. “In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
As sustainability and regeneration practitioners, we are learning what it means to develop knowledge, strategies, and ways of being that are in keeping with adaptive living systems rather than fixed to a system at a point in time. “Unextraction” of fossil fuels is a perfect case in point. To limit warming to 1.5 °C, the authors of this Nature article project that we will need to leave 58% of the world’s oil reserves, 59% of all gas, and 89% of all coal in the ground. By doing so, we not only limit warming and fix natural capital stocks, but also create the conditions for the Earth to regenerate natural capital faster as Daly’s law requires.
The next system, regeneration, embodies the diversity of complex living systems. This is what some have called the pluriverse—spaces where diversity thrives by creating the conditions for both independence and interdependence. It is an unwinding of what Ian McGilchrist describes in The Master and His Emissary (2009) as our neurological “emissary” of the left hemisphere overtaking the “master” right hemisphere which favours the fragments rather than the whole. We’ve learned to dismiss intuition of “belief without knowing” in favour of “reason that knows but does not believe.” Regeneration is a turning backwards while looking forward. We retrieve that which we’ve deleted from the logs of history or trampled underfoot because they were threats to a colonial way of being and knowing.
Even though regeneration is one less syllable than sustainability and perhaps a better encompassing concept of how we need individuals, companies, and governments to operate in this moment, I wholeheartedly agree with Meadows that any single word is inadequate to the task. As she wrote about sustainability:
“Any word of six syllables is way too long to organize a popular movement around and at the same time way too short to encompass a whole vision. And too many people hear it as “sustaining” the world we have now, whereas I really mean fomenting a revolution.”
Indeed, what we are looking for is that cultural revolution. Just like jazz, we know it when we hear it, and can indeed groove to it. Regeneration demands a shift in how we come to know. What patterns we are able to see and which ones we perpetuate as we go about our work to contribute to the social and ecological field. In order to see different patterns, we have to open ourselves to new ways of knowing. Those steeped in innovation circles know that creativity requires the ability to see different connections and possibilities at the edges, which is where new spaces open. Regeneration requires radical innovation.
“On our long journey into the age of ecocide, we forgot how to speak, or even what we should be saying. We certainly forgot how to listen, and what to listen to. Silence beckons, now. Attention must be paid. The Master must be returned from his long exile. Come. Begin.” (Paul Kingsnorth)
There is no single definition of sustainability any more than there is one of regeneration or capitalism. Defying the precision of these definitions is an important act of resistance. Attempts to pin down language are unavoidably riven within structures of power and enclosure. Not only do definitions endow tyranny through their singular precision, but they simultaneously displace the symbolic holism that we need in order to repair our social and ecological crises. By living in right story whereby the pluriverse in our languages represents diversity and locality, we build a richness that is worthy of the complex adaptive living systems of which we depend.
Perhaps the next time someone asks you to define sustainability and regeneration, you might ask “how much time do you have?” Because definitions of complex ideas should unfold over generations. And in that span of time, language will have adapted alongside the movement of the land.
Go forth and make a difference in the week ahead.
PS If you’d like to spend more time considering the construct of language and its relationship to our planetary consciousness, please see The Understory Issue 19: Terrain of Language
PPS Starting in November, Solvable is hosting bi-weekly conversations on eight dimension of Regeneration: Futures, Reporting, Cultures, Finance, Cities, Agriculture, Design, and Leadership. All conversations are free and open to subscribers of The Understory. You can register conversations in the series at https://www.solvable.ca/new-works.
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