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A sweep through my Instapaper for May 2012

Here are some of the presentations/blog posts/articles I read this month, as saved in my Instapaper account. Maybe you'll find something useful in there too.
I also want to give a shout-out here to Gareth Rushgrove, who publishes an email newsletter called 'Devops Weekly'. If you are working in this field, I highly recommend you subscribe to it, as it is always full of interesting links and summaries to articles and tools.

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The correct way of using DynamoDB BatchWriteItem with boto

In my previous post I wrote about the advantages of using the BatchWriteItem functionality in DynamoDB. As it turns out, I was overly optimistic when I wrote my initial code: I only called the batch_write_item method of the layer2 module in boto once.

The problem with this approach is that many of the batched inserts can fail, and in practice this happens quite frequently, probably because of transient network errors. The correct approach is to inspect the response object returned by batch_write_item -- here is an example of such an object:

{'Responses': {'mytable': {'ConsumedCapacityUnits': 5.0}},
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{'PutRequest': {'Item': {'mykey': 'key1', 'myvalue': 'value1'}}},
{'PutRequest': {'Item': {'mykey': 'key2', 'myvalue': 'value2'}}},
{'PutRequest': {'Item': {'mykey': 'key3', 'myvalue': 'value3'}}}]}}

You need to look for the value corresponding to the 'UnprocessedItems' key. This value is a dictionary keyed by the name of the table you're inserting items in. The value corresponding to that key gives you a list of other dictionaries with keys corresponding to the operations you applied to the table ('PutRequest' in my case). Going one level deeper allows you to finally obtain the attributes (keys + values) of the items that failed, which you can then try to re-insert.

So basically you need to stay in a loop and keep calling batch_write_items until UnprocessedItems corresponds to an empty list. Here is a gist containing code that reads a log file in lzop format, looks for lines containing a key + white space + a value, then inserts items based on those key/value pairs into a DynamoDB table. I've been pretty happy with this approach.

Before I finish, I'd like to reiterate the gripe I have about the static nature of determining your Read and Write Throughput when dealing with DynamoDB. I understand that it makes life easier for AWS in terms of the capacity planning they have to do on their end to scale the table across multiple instances, but it's a black art when it comes to capacity planning you need to do as a user. You almost always end up overcommitting as a DynamoDB user, and it's hard to make sense sometimes of the capacity units you're consuming, especially when doing inserts of large volumes of data.

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Last Thursday my sister and I went to the Sugarland/Little Big Town concert! We had seen both Sugarland and Little Big Town before! I randomly bought tickets one day at work for my sis and I and we got GA PIT. I was super excited and made sure that we were there as soon as the doors open. I was aiming for the first row. Sadly, I was not the only one that had planned to be there early either. We got in right as the doors were opening and ended up in the third row not the first I was aiming for, but third row was just as great! The only negative thing I can say about our seats was that it was general admission so people kept trying to get in front of us or push us around. Some people were just flat out MEAN!

All in all, the concert was amazing! Casey James was on American Idol last season and even though I wasn't familiar with him, he was great! Then there was Sugarland and Little Big Town who both sound awesome live! I will definitely see them both in concert again!

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Swami Vivekananda as we all know is the greatest Hindu monk who has brought a massive change during the 19th century. He was born in 1863 in Kolkata and continued his studies there. Swami Vivekananda is his renowned name due to his contribution to the Hindi Monasticism. His real name was Narendra Nath Datta known by a very few. He lived in an atmosphere where there was a debate about whether God had a form or was just in one’s belief. It was through his friend he met his Guru Sri Ramakrishna a devotee of Lord Vishnu in Dakineshwar. Naren expected that Ramakrishna was like any other man who is just another priest, but to his surprise he came across the most unique person on earth that he had ever seen. Despite the fact that initially Swami found that this man was truly mad but soon he was attracted and moved by his charismatic personality. He became the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. So long from then Swami used to visit his guru’s lectures and spend almost the entire time only with him.

Due to Ramakrishna’s wise teachings not only Naren but also a few young men used to visit his home until his death in 1886 due to cancer. Swami spent around 5 years in learning the whole concept of realization between soul and God. His teacher had initiated Swami and others to sannyasa with orange robes. As per the orders given by Ramakrishna, the young monks began living together and the community that was formed came to be known as Belur Mutt to the south of Dakineshwar. There was a time when Naren set off wandering for around 3 years leaving Kolkata, to the different parts of India was then being called as Swami Vivekananda his monastic name. He had continued his journey all the way visiting various cities and sometimes meditating in Himalayas.

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In 1892 when he finally reached the southern tip of India, meditating on a rock he had a vision of the future India. Interestingly that rock bears his name even today. Due to a local Hindu ruler, Swami resolved to undertake the trip to the Chicago World’s Parliament of religions in 1893 being one of the Hindu representatives. “Sisters and Brothers of America,” began Swami Vivekananda’s renowned first address to the World’s Parliament of Religions, held at what is now the Art Institute of Chicago. India remained under the heel of British imperial rule, and most Americans of European descent still did not regard people of other ethnic groups as equals. Placing the word “sisters” before “brothers” was also significant. This was twenty-seven years before women in America were granted the right to vote.

The major theme of Vivekananda’s address would be a central one of his teaching: the idea of “toleration and universal acceptance.” Speaking of Hindus generally, he says, “We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.” There was of course a huge uproar in the parliament and later on after that speech he was being followed immensely where a large population even though outside India was totally fascinated by him. His speech was reported in both US and India. His theme i.e. the opposites of toleration and acceptance he said “I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.”

According to The New York Herald memorably stating, “He is undoubtedly the greatest figure in the Parliament of Religions. After hearing him, we feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation.” To capture the attention and make a person realize, he began with a story of a frog which lives in well. This frog had lived there for so many years and was born and brought up in the surroundings of the well. It was very happy with its home and used to regularly cleanse all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with the energy that we could credit the bacteriologists. Soon enough the little frog had become sleek and fat. One day another frog from the sea had fallen into the well. The frog in the well asked the sea frog, Where are you from?

The sea frog had told him that I have come from the sea. The frog in the well asked how big is the sea and whether the sea was bigger than the well. The sea frog found it weird but still said that how can you even compare the sea with this well it is much bigger than this well. But the frog in the well revoked that nothing can be bigger than his well and nothing in this world that is bigger than this, this fellow is a liar so turn him out. By this story Swami compared to a human that each one would say that my religion is the only one and nothing is better than this, how ironic it is to the story of a frog. We must be ready and willing to accept and tolerate the differences around us although our religion is different. We are ultimately the sons and daughters of this world. In 1900, Vivekananda explained the nature of Hindu monasticism at the Shakespeare Club of Padasena in California: “The sannyasins do not possess property, and they do not marry. Beyond that there is no organization. The only bond that is there is the bond between the teacher and the taught and that is peculiar to India.

The teacher is not a man, who comes just to teach me, and I pay him so much, and there it ends. In India it is really like an adoption. The teacher is more than my own father, and I am truly his child, his son in every respect. I owe him obedience and reverence first, before my own father even; because, they say, the father gave me this body, but he showed me the way to salvation, he is greater than father. And we carry this love, this respect for our teacher all our lives.” Vivekananda was not the first Hindu teacher to visit North America. A Brahmo Samaj representative, Pratap Majumdar, had been in America prior to Vivekananda, and also attended and spoke at the 1893 Parliament the groundwork for the reception of Swami Vivekananda’s ideas had also been laid by the intense interest in Hindu thought of such major intellectual figures of nineteenth century America as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Vivekananda was not the first, but he was the best received, becoming a celebrity figure whose travels and teachings were followed by all of the major newspapers of the day. United States was a deeply Christian nation and thus there were those who sought to counter his influence but nevertheless he had won the hearts of many and was successful in his attempt. In 1894 he started the first Vedanta Society in New York. This organization then grew, becoming nationwide in its scope soon after Vivekananda returned to India and began dispatching his brother monks to lead the centers that sprouted up from Boston on the East Coast to San Francisco in the West. During the Independence movement Swami Vivekananda though did not participate directly, but his teachings and his words were followed by the freedom fighters all over the country. It has been said that Vivekananda’s influence on the Indian movement was no less than the influence of Rousseau on the French revolution, or of Marx on the Russian and Chinese revolutions.

From all the contemporary sources it was evident that Vivekananda played a major role in bringing the national spirit. To quote Sister Nivedita, “He was a worker at foundations. Just as Ramakrishna, in fact, without knowing any books, had been a living epitome of the Vedanta, so was Vivekananda of the national life.” We shall go briefly into what happened in the national field before Vivekananda’s advent. English education, vernacular literature, the Indian press, various reform movements and political associations, including the Congress, had come and spread their influence before him. In spite of all these, a pervading national consciousness was absent.

Otherwise, how could The Hindu of Madras write in early 1893 about the religion of the major community, the Hindus, that “it is dead” and “its course is run”? But the same paper, along with others, including Anglo-Indian and missionary papers, wrote in less than one year’s time (and also afterwards) that “the present time may be described as the renaissance period in the history of Hindus” (Madras Christian College Magazine, March 1897). It was called a “national uprising” (Madras Times, 2 March 1895). How did this miracle happen? The only answer that we derive from contemporary accounts is that Vivekananda appeared at the Parliament of Religions, proclaimed there the glory of Indian religion and civilization, won recognition for his country’s ancient heritage, and thereby gave back to his countrymen their long-lost self-esteem and self-confidence. In his own words about future of India,

“Why is it?, to take a case in point, that forty millions of Englishmen rule three hundred millions of people here? What is the psychological explanation? These forty millions put their wills together and that means infinite power, and you are three hundred millions who have a will each separate from the other. Therefore to make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, coordination of wills. Already before my mind rises one of the marvellous verses of the Rig-Veda Samhita which says, “Be thou all of one mind, be thou all of one thought, for in the days of yore, the Gods being of one mind were enabled to receive oblations.” That the Gods can be worshipped by men is because they are of one mind. Being of one mind is the secret of society. And the more you go on fighting and quarrelling about all trivialities such as “Dravidian” and “Aryan,” and the question of Brahmins and non-Brahmins and all that, the further you are off from that accumulation of energy and power which is going to make the future India. Young men of Madras, my hope is in you.

Will you respond to the call of your nation? Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was a child, and which I am working out now. Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself—that eternal power is lodged in every soul—and you will revive the whole of India. We will then go to every country under the sun, and our ideas will before long be a component of the many forces that are working to make up every nation in the world. We must enter into the life of every race in India and abroad; we shall have to work to bring this about. Now for that, I want young men. “It is the young, the strong, and healthy, of sharp intellect that will reach the Lord,” say the Vedas. This is the time to decide your future—while you possess the energy of youth, not when you are worn out and jaded, but in the freshness and vigour of youth.Work—this is the time; for the freshest, the untouched and unsmelled flowers alone are to be laid at the feet of the Lord, and such He receives. Rouse yourselves, therefore, for life is short.

There are greater works to be done than aspiring to become lawyers and picking quarrels and such things. A far greater work is this sacrifice of yourselves for the benefit of your race, for the welfare of humanity. What is in this life? You are Hindus, and there is the instinctive belief in you that life is eternal. Life is short, but the soul is immortal and eternal, and one thing being certain, death, let us therefore take up a great ideal and give up our whole life to it. Let this be our determination, and may He, the Lord, who “comes again and again for the salvation of His own people,” to quote from our scriptures — may the great Krishna, bless us and lead us all to the fulfilment of our aims! Past history shows that, in India, religious movement has always preceded national regeneration. Here in India, no national uprising was possible without revitalizing Hinduism, the religion of the majority.

Vivekananda did that, and at the same time made it clear that Hinduism and other religions could remain in harmony and feel themselves as belonging to one nation. His primary role as a religious leader made him the undisputed spiritual father of the Indian freedom movement. His contributions towards Indian nationalism, militant nationalism in particular, included renewed self-esteem and self-confidence, dynamic spirit, dedication, a call for strength and struggle, love for the country and its people, equal rights, harmony of religions and an emphasis on social uplift and character building through mobilization of the young. After returning to India, Vivekananda called upon the people to believe in their potential strength. He exhorted his countrymen to accept new ideas and scientific knowledge that the modern machine age could offer. He showed the way for nation-building on a sound foundation. He had implanted the value of education that was missing in our country.

According to him education is not the amount of information that is stored into our brain and kept there undisturbed or undigested, he says, “If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library—“The ass carrying its load of sandalwood knows only the weight and not the value of the sandalwood.” If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopaedias are the Rishis. The ideal, therefore, is that we must have the whole education of our country, spiritual and secular, in our own hands, and it must be on national lines, through national methods as far as practical. Swami Vivekananda was among the first Hindu spiritual teachers in the modern era to give “seva” a central place in the spiritual path.

Vivekananda and his fellow monks of the Ramakrishna Order were derisively referred to as “scavenger monks” for their work with the poor and the ill in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India. Before this time, the role of a sannyasin was understood by most Hindus to involve a complete withdrawal from the concerns of the world, their main focus being meditation, contemplation and teaching, rather than seva. Vivekananda, however, taught his fellow renouncers that they needed to do both. It is from the beginning that Swami had set off with a mission that would change the minds of people. His contribution is impossible to calculate.

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Culture can largely be defined by religion. Therefore, understanding of any geopolitical situations relies on understanding of religion.

This page aims to describe major religions of the Principia Moderni III universe, as well as elaborating notable trends and changes that differ from OTL.

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  • Roman Catholicism is yellow
  • Western Church is brown-yellow
  • Dutch Church is red
  • Eastern Orthodoxy is orange
  • Oriental Orthodox is brown
  • Sunni Islam is lime green
  • Ibadiyya Islam is darker green
  • Shia Islam is darkest green
  • Hinduism is blue
  • Buddhism is darker blue
  • Bon Religion is pale blue
  • Mongolian Buddhism is grey-blue
  • Confucianism is purple
  • Shintoism is violet.
  • Mastoravism is teal-blue.
  • Other "pagan" religions are shades of pink/red; the Mesoamerican pantheon is light pink, the South American pantheon is hot pink, the North American pantheon is fuchsia, and the African pantheons are all dark pink.

Christianity is a religion, dominant in Europe, that follows the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Son of God. Christians believe that Jesus was the Savior and resurrected after being crucified at the orders of Pontius Pilate and the Sanhedrin.

Since the resurrection of Christ, different religious leaders took different approaches in teaching the Scriptures, leading to a number of Schisms and splits in doctrine between localities.

Since the Document of the Unification of the Churches the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Western Catholic churches are de jure unified into the Holy Catholic Church. The reason for this church is to bridge some of the divides amongst the various branches of Christianity and to set them all on an equal footing. Despite this, each of the branches still maintains their own Patriarch and affairs separately unless by a joint agreement by the Council of Patriarchs.

Roman Catholicism

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Papal Seal

Roman Catholicism is a major Christian denomination. The Church is based out of the Vatican City, a vassal of the Kingdom of Italy located in the middle of Rome. The leader is called the Pope and is the Bishop of Rome.

Roman Catholicism is the main religion or the officially accepted religion in the following nations: Portugal, France, Austria (and all of the Holy Roman Empire except for Bavaria and Prussia), Italy, Hungary, and Poland.

Venetian Church

Venice has currently established a state church, which at the moment is largely a glorified Catholic sect. This was created in response to increased radicalism amongst common Christians to create a unified response to several attempts by several radicals to take over sections of the Venetian administration. At the moment the church has no differences in belief from standard Roman Catholicism.

Western Church

The Western Church currently is the main or official religion in the following nations: Spain, Albion, Bavaria, Prussia, and Scandinavia.

In Livonia, the Western Church dominates the religious spectrum. One of the most important figures in that nation, the Archbishop of Riga, is regularly consulted by the Duke. The importance of the Western Church is not only religious but also develops a communal atmosphere in smaller Livonian villages. The devout faith to the Western Church was passed down via the Kingdom of Prussia.

Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy is the majority religion in the Roman Empire, Dacia, Russia, and the Caucasus. Headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Eastern Orthodox church plays a decisive influence in the affairs of the Black Sea, Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Oriental Orthodoxy

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Oriental Orthodoxy is a branch of Christianity that refers to Christians who revere the Pope of Alexandria as the leader of the Christian Church. The Oriental (or Coptic) Orthodoxy was also the first church to split from the mainstream church, breaking off at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

The branch is Miaphysitic, believing that Jesus Christ is one person, both divine and human, in one nature. This

Reformed Church

A church founded at the pinnacle of the reformation movement started by a Dutch priest during the 1410s. Currently the state religion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while there exists a small minority through Western Europe. The reformed church is based on the ideals of Father Johann, and those of other critics of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church. Due to its lack of recognition in the Holy See and a series of other beliefs it is considered heretical by a large number of Catholics, though relations have been amiable as of late.

Islam is a religion that originated in the 600s AD in Arabia. It holds that there is one god, Allah, and Allah spoke to the people through a series of prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and ultimately Mohammed.

Bosnian Muslim Flag

Flag of Islam

Sunni Islam is  the largest form of Islam as far as followers, recognition, and political power goes. The major Muslim state in the Near East (the Ottomans) embrace Sunni Islam as their official state religion. Additionally, the Mamluk Sultanate and the Timurids also followed Sunni Islam.

Sunni Islam was based around recognition of Abu Bakr as the First Caliph and the heir to Mohammed.

Assafi Islam is a new form of Islam, based out of traditional Sunni Islam, but embracing a more westernized and liberalized form of practice. It has its origins in Yemen, where Saadiq Assaf, the Holy Caliph of Revelation, was born. Assaf fled to Alexandria to teach his ideas, which caught on and inspired republicanism in the Mamluk Sultanate.

Assafi Islam was practiced as the state religion of the Grand Sultanate of the Mashriq, and has an impact in many of the successor states, notably in Yemen which was Assaf's homeland.

Shia Islam is the second largest sect of Islam by followers. Currently only one major nation follows Shia Islam (Safavids), and Shias are a minority around the fertile crescent.

The Ibadi sect of Islam is the largest of a variety of minority sects. The Ibadis do not currently control a Muslim state, however a plurality of the citizens of Oman currently practice Ibadi Islam.

Paganistic Islam

Paganistic Islam is a sect of Islam that was developed as a result of the so-called "Satanic Verses" which created tension in Muslim communities with their discovery in Mecca in 1456. Paganistic Islam takes various forms in various nations depending upon the traditions of that area. The two main regions in which paganistic Islam had caught on were the Swahili Coast and Madagasikaran states, as well as Medina and Mecca.

The role of Paganistic Islam near Madagasikara was quite valuable as it provided an initial transition from disorganized religion towards more organized religions which would arrive with Spain.

Hindu Swastika

Hindu Symbol

Big in India

Shinto is a religion found mainly in East Asia which centres around the worship of kami, or, in essence, nature spirits, which reside in all things. Its teachings are enshrined in the Kojiki, while rites happen mainly at shrines. Shinto is most popular in Japan, where it is the religion of most of the population, and in Kamchatka and the Alyeskan Khaganate. Many Shintoists are simultaneously Buddhists or Tengriists, since the religion does not rule out a multiplicity of beliefs.

Imperial Shinto

Imperial Shinto emerged as a noteworthy sect in 1463 in the North East of the Date Province, worshiping the Emperor as a semi-divine being. With the Ashikaga civil war (1464-72), the sect quickly grew to greater prominence, exploiting tensions and dissent among the peasantry towards the Shogun's repressive policies and the introduction of tithes. This culminated with the invitation to the Emperor to take control of the situation, ending the civil war and leading to the establishment of the Fusahito Theocracy with Imperial Shinto as the main religion. Unlike regular Shinto beliefs and practices, Imperial Shinto places much emphasis on the role of the Emperor and is more of an all encompassing religion, ruling out a multiplicity of beliefs. As a theocracy, Imperial Japan places a high importance on religion in society, with a strict Shinto hierarchy with the Emperor the head of the religion. With the reforms of 1537, any person in public office, whether the military or bureaucracy, must be a member of the Imperial Shinto sect.

Tuktism is the syncretic religion of the Nehilaw, popularized after the Antler War and the defeat of the anti-syncretic elements in the Sachemate. Similar to OTL voodoo, it is the culmination of decades of mutation resulting from close contact between Nehilaw shamanism and Western Christianity, While in theory acknowledging the existence of an omniscient god, Tuktism holds that said God is disinterested in Earth and leaves the running of actual temporal affairs to a confusing array of spirits, who must be placated and sacrificed to. These spirits can also be used to curse one's enemies, advance one's goals, or find love if the proper rituals are used. Certain individuals, called mdawineo and a cross between shamans and priests, can communicate with these spirits and advise people on how to satisfy them. The use of hallucinogenic plants is popular to achieve this. These mdawineo practice both light and dark forms of magic. Many spirits correspond to Christian saints or archangels.

Shamanism is a broad term used for a variety of different paganistic religions. The common themes among all shamanistic religions are, however:

  • Belief in a spirit world,
  • Belief that spirits can be contacted by reaching a state of altered consciousness,
  • Role of religious elders, or shamans, in contacting spirits, and the
  • Belief that shamans can be possessed by various spirits.

Through these four basic tenets, the ideas of shamanism can be traced to various different time periods in almost all regions of the world. Shamanism was an important part of the following cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Siberian, Northern European, Kelutmiut, Native Borealian and Native Hesperian.

Kelutmiut Shamanism


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I am a plat lady, my family’s chef, gardener, foodie, activity seeker, hula hooper, and a nature lover among many other things. I find each day to be so very fleeting and I like to make the most of mine by absorbing every morsel of information and then passing it on to the next person so each one can do the same. I hope by the end of this life I have filled so many people with radiant happiness, health, and knowledge.

So, you may ask, how did this journey begin? All of these treasures came into being starting with one little bottle of tea tree essential oil I used to fight a nasty cold sore. I had no idea how important it was and great I’d feel trying new things and taking care of MYSELF! Of course, I researched this oil before I purchased it and found all of these wonderful benefits from using it in a safe way. I could replace my OTC fever blister “medicine” with this oil + coconut oil, replace my toxic household cleaners with it and a few other natural ingredients, and practice environmentally conscious consumerism by seeking out and purchasing this oil from companies that found responsible growers and distillers. This first bit of self-healing and self-helping lead me to question the way I had been living my life. I’ve grown immensely over the past few years and with that, this space will ultimately grow from post to post. Each day I expand, each day I learn something new.

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Celebrating at school

029Though it can be a bit hard to tell now (most days he hovers between being vaguely lukewarm and basically unenthusiastic about going to school), there were a lot of things Liam really looked forward to about starting school and getting to be just like Benjamin — field trips, Lanternenfest, playing in the garden.  But none was so eagerly anticipated as celebrating his birthday at school (and yes, I’m still writing about stuff that happened back in September — I’ll catch up eventually).

Last year, which was his first year at school, he had a great time at his school birthday party, but having a September birthday, and being one of the first to celebrate, I think it was a bit overwhelming for him.  I think he was a little uncomfortable with having the attention of his entire class focused on him.  This year, though, he was ready.  He knew it was coming, and he was really looking forward to it.

031The way things work at the school (with parent involvement being limited to a few particular events each year), I don’t get to be there.  (Since not every parent would be able to come to celebrate their child’s birthday, no parents are allowed to come.  “It wouldn’t be fair.”  Which is a bummer for me — getting to help out at the boys’ schools was one of the parts of being a stay at home mom that I most looked forward to).  But, based on his stories, and on the pictures, he really enjoyed himself.  He got to blow out the candles, have cake, be sung to by his whole class, and open up a few gifts.  One, a stuffed dolphin, was a gift from his teachers, while a few others, containing puzzles, were from us and destined to remain at school, rather than come home with him.  (So he didn’t get to KEEP those, just OPEN them, which he wasn’t 100% on board with.)

643Generally, though he was so happy.  He was so excited that morning that it was his big day to celebrate at school, and he was so pleased when I picked him up.  As with the key chain his teacher made for him last year, he absolutely treasures his new dolphin.  He spent days afterwards cuddling with it and singing to it.  He was a very happy birthday boy, and he loved getting to celebrate at school.  Nothing really says, “I’m so big” like celebrating a birthday at school.  My little guy is getting to be so grown up.

Celebrating Liam’s 4th birthday

223I love birthdays.  I love celebrating the fact that someone I love exists on this planet and that I get to know them.  My kids’ birthdays are my favorites — I get to reflect on how my little guys are growing, ponder the speed with which time passes, and spend a whole day celebrating their existence.  We’ve developed a great set of birthday traditions in our family — Dan stays home from work, both boys stay home from school (for as long as Liam prefers to be home instead of at school for his birthdays — B, with a summer birthday, doesn’t really have to choose), the birthday boy gets to choose any birthday activity that he likes and he gets to select the meals for the day (and, of course, the cake and ice cream).  I just love seeing how each of my guys chooses to celebrate their big day.

This year, Liam wanted to go to the pool.  He was absolutely sure that he wanted to go to the pool and that he didn’t want a party — just family, and a day at the pool.  Great!  (The day before, he changed his mind and said that he DID want a party, but then he changed it back.)  But, when he woke up on the morning of his birthday, after opening all his gifts, he suddenly changed his mind and decided he wanted to go to the zoo, instead.  The zoo is one of my favorite outings in Vienna, and it’s absolutely fantastic in the early fall, and even better (and less crowded) on the weekdays.  So, that was also great!

245And so, to celebrate Liam, we went to the zoo.  We saw pandas and polar bears and penguins.  We saw the big cats eating their dinners (yikes!). We stopped for hot chocolate and chocolate pretzels and ice cream.  The boys climbed and slid and spun all around the playground and we all rode on the zoo train.  We had a great day.  Most importantly, Liam had a great day.

And then, at the end, my very grown up 4 year old boy informed us all that it was time to go home, and we did, and when we arrived there, he very shortly passed out on the floor for an impromptu birthday nap.  We finished the day with strawberry dinosaur cupcakes (by request).  (I made, for the first time ever, strawberry frosting from scratch for the cupcakes.  It was GREAT.  The kids hated it.  But the cake and the toy dinosaurs were a hit.)

My little guy turned 4 years old.  We celebrated his birthday the whole day long, exactly the way that he wanted to.  A good time was had by all.  It was a very good birthday celebration.  Yay for Liam and for turning 4!

Oh, my wonderful baby.  You’re 4!  That is amazing and incredible and awesome to me.  How big you are now!  I am shocked at the speed with which time passes, but so overjoyed at seeing you grow.  You are an amazing kid.  I feel so lucky to get to watch you grow up, and to see you every day becoming more and more YOU.

You are so big and strong, clever and funny, sweet and thoughtful, and so, so loving.  You are also stubborn, and willful, and opinionated . . . and I love it all.  I love all of you.  I love every bit of my wonderful Liam.

I love your stories and your jokes.  I love the way you count on your fingers.  I love your animated expressions and your silly faces.  I am so proud of the way that you have completely taken over caring for your lip injury from earlier this year — you want to do it all yourself, so you do, and you do a careful and thorough job.  I love the way you stick up your index finger and say, “Remind me …” when you want us to particularly take note of something.  I love how you know EXACTLY what you want, and how you don’t change your opinion to suit anyone else.  I love it when you’re quiet and cuddly, and I love it when you’re wild, too.

I love to see you build things!  You have amazing vision and creativity, and you do a great job seeing your projects through.  I love to see you with your stuffed animals.  You make families and friends from them, and you love to care for them and nurture them.  You’ve recently started singing to them, as well.  You are so sweet.

This past summer, we went “summer sledding” for the first time.  You loved it, so did I.  But my favorite part was that you chose, each time, to ride with me, even though your dad was undoubtedly the more exciting option.  We rode together, each time down the mountain.  We had a blast, and I enjoyed your company so much.  You are such a great little guy.  I love you with my whole heart, my littlest one.

You often ask me to hold you like a baby, and recently, you’ve started asking me to wrap you up in a baby blanket sometimes, too.  I think that you are starting to feel that the days of truly being a baby are behind you.  I will miss that, too, but you will always be MY baby, I will always be your mommy, and I will always love you more than I could ever say.

Even when I’m feeling frustrated — when you hit your brother, when you aren’t listening, or when you’re getting Bailey to chase you (again!) —  I am still grateful for the more challenging parts of who you are.  I think those characteristics will serve you well in life.  I love that you stay true to what you want and to who you are, and I love that your desire to take care of yourself is stronger than your desire to please anyone else.  I love that you won’t let anyone push you around.  You are a tough cookie … but you are also sweet, kind and loving.  You care about everyone, and you want to help comfort and care for all of us.  Benjamin, in particular, is very important to you.  You love him so much, and always want to catch up to what he’s doing or learning.

I love you, my exuberant, enthusiastic, creative, sweet 4 year old guy.  You are a whirlwind and a force of nature.  You are so wonderful.  You are not always easy to parent, but you are so easy to love.  I love you so very much, my sweet baby.  Happy birthday.

B’s birthday party

I sat down today to start writing about our summer vacation, and in doing so, mentioned Benjamin’s birthday party (the one with his friends).  And then I realized I hadn’t yet written about THAT … and since that came before the vacation, that’s what I’m going to write about today.  (And yes, we do a lot for birthdays around here.  If you’re counting, B had one birthday party at school, one here with his friends in June — the one I’m about to write about, one day of illness hindered festivity on his actual birthday and one day at the pool with the family, which was supposed to happen ON his birthday but couldn’t due to the aforementioned illnesses.  That’s 4.  My plan is to start the vacation stories tomorrow.  We’ll see if that actually happens.)

214Last year, B really wanted to have a birthday party with his friends — his first.  He wanted to invite his whole class (20 kids) plus some other friends, which was very sweet but also very impractical.  This year, having a better sense of how birthday parties work here, I gave him license to invite 6 kids (one for each year of his age — stole that idea from a friend) … but he didn’t want to.  He decided that he only wanted to invite his best friend and his best friend’s little brother (conveniently, also Liam’s best buddy from school).  So, that’s what we did.

That changed the feeling of it from a party to more of a playdate with fun decorations and cake, which was actually great because it made the whole thing pretty laid back.  The kids played.  We parents talked.  I encouraged the boys to play a few games we had set up, but mostly they played together really well on their own. The cake turned out pretty well (it was my first time attempting to serve a fondant cake to anyone outside of the family, so I was a little nervous).  Good times were had.

259My favorite part of the day was during the water balloon game I had invented — which was basically just an excuse to get the boys out onto the terrace and playing in some water on a hot day.  There weren’t any rules, just some chalk drawings of pigs (it was an Angry Bird party) as targets for the boys’ water balloons.  The idea was to toss the balloons, splash each other and generally to be silly.  But it didn’t work that way.  As it turns out, I don’t really have any idea how to properly fill water balloons.  My first few attempts resulted in a soaked bathroom floor, so I took a conservative approach and didn’t fill them to capacity.  Turns out, though, that underfilled water balloons are nearly impossible to break.  So, the kids spent about half an hour attempting to break the same balloons over and over again.  Every so often they’d manage to get one, but generally, it took 6 or 7 tries per balloon.  I was worried they’d tear through them and be finished in 5 minutes, but that wasn’t a problem.  It was generally hilarious.  Luckily, they enjoyed the process (and the results) enough to not particularly mind.  They remained both determined and entertained throughout, everyone got sufficiently soaked, and a good time was had by all.

Pool party

065We finally managed to string enough healthy days together to go to the wave pool to celebrate B’s birthday — 16 days after the big day.  When you just turned 6, and you have to wait for 16 whole days to celebrate your birthday while your brother, dad and mom are getting better but you’re feeling fine, it’s pretty tough to be patient and reasonable about it, I think.  But B did great.  He did get frustrated and cry and say a few angry things to me the third time we had to reschedule, but I completely understand (and I’m honestly glad to see he’s not TOO grown for that up yet).

This past Saturday, though, we were all well, and we had all been well for about 5 days, so we finally went.  We finally got to splash and play in the pool.  We finally got to go down the water slides.  We finally got to float on the inner tube “river”.  We finally got to have lunch and ice cream at the pool.  We finally got to spend the day celebrating the way the birthday boy wanted to.

We had a wonderful time.  We celebrated with our big 6 year old guy.  We spent the whole day, all together.  I spent some time playing with Liam while Dan played with B, I spent some time playing with B while Dan played with Liam, and we spent some time all playing together.  It was a great day.  My big kid is 6, we finally got to celebrate, and I could not be happier about it.

Last week, during the seemingly unending time of stomach illnesses at our house, I had a birthday.  (It’s a busy time around here — Dan has a birthday next week, too.)  I turned 38.  I’ve reached an age where I honestly lose track of exactly how old I am (all year I’ve been thinking, “Am I 38 already or am I turning 38 this year?”).  Now it’s official.  Definitely 38.

And I’ve been so lucky to have had another great year.  We’ve travelled, and we are truly enjoying life here in Europe — and I recently learned that sommerrodelbahn is some of the most fun a person can have.  I absolutely adore spending my days with my wonderful boys who are growing up at an alarming rate and who are truly wonderful to be around.  A year ago, I expected that I would be home by now, but though I do miss home very much, I am also grateful for the opportunity to enjoy Austria for a little while longer.  (No matter how much I miss home, I know that one day, I will miss Austria, too.)

Most likely, this coming year will actually see us return home (though I’ve seriously given up trying to pinpoint anything), but, even more importantly, this year is going to see my boys continue to learn and grow, and I get to become an aunt, which I’m incredibly excited about!

Life is good.  I am so fortunate.  My days are filled with so much fun and happiness and adventure.  And I’m so excited to see what this next year will bring.  Happy birthday to me!  38 is going to be fantastic!

Benjamin’s birthday

Our first day back to “normal” after vacation was exhausting.  I really was totally beat by the end of the day — I’d forgotten how much it took out of me to spend the whole day with the kids while simultaneously trying to get some laundry done, unpack from our trip and get everyone fed.  Climbing into bed that night was so satisfying.  I was so ready for a good night’s sleep.

Alas, it was not to be.  B woke up, sick, after an hour.  We spent the next few hours bathing B, doing laundry and mopping floors.  There’s nothing quite like unscheduled, middle of the night housework!  After a rough night all around, we spent the next few days taking care of a sick B and wondering when the illness would strike next.

2380Benjamin’s birthday was that Friday, July 18.  By Thursday night, he was feeling pretty well, so we were hopeful that he would be able to fully enjoy his birthday.  I (optimistically) baked a cake, Dan took the day off of work, and we stayed up late wrapping gifts and decorating a bit.  We went to bed with our fingers crossed, excited for B’s big day.

But again, it was not to be.  Liam woke us up an hour after we’d gone to bed, having his turn at the stomach illness.  Again, we were up in the middle of the night, bathing Liam (5 baths in one night!), mopping the floor and laundering tons of bedding.  In his case, the illness stretched out until morning, so instead of B waking us up excited and a little too early on his birthday (as is customary), Dan and I were just shuffling back to bed, well after the sun had come up, with our excited newly 6 year old put back to bed, just so we could rest for 1 hour.

Though my enthusiasm for B’s birthday was not diminished in the least, I struggled to have it shine through the haze of exhaustion that hung over later me that morning.  My memory of him opening his presents is slightly befuddled by the fact that I hadn’t yet had coffee, but I remember how excited he was.  I remember how well he took it when we explained that our celebratory plans for the day (a trip to the wave pool) would have to be rescheduled.  He took it so well.  He had actually already come to that conclusion on his own.  There were no tears, no sad face.  Just a quiet, unemotional, matter of fact, “I understand” that was more heartbreaking for how grown up it was.

And the rough start to the day didn’t end there.  We bought the wrong squirt gun.  It was the gift he had most been looking forward to, and though we got him a nice one, it was not the one he wanted.  I got the wrong video game — it wouldn’t play on our console.  (I feel like such a “MOM” … I didn’t know “Wii U” was a thing.)  And through all of it, he was ok.  A bit disappointed, but surprisingly ok.

From there, though, the day got better.  He & Dan took a trip to the toy store to exchange the squirt gun (they were out of the one he really wanted, but at least he got to choose the replacement).  We got to Skype with some of our family and got a surprise video message from others.  He got messages and texts from (literally) around the world.  Everyone got a long nap, Liam got three more baths, and B got to pick the movie for movie night.  And, shockingly, everyone was well enough for a little bit of cake after dinner.

At the end of the night, Liam, who had not yet given B a gift (Mommy dropped the ball on that one because B had been sick all week), insisted on choosing a gift for B out of the things we already had in the house — which turned out to be one of the biggest hits of the day.

At the end of it all, B said, “I think this turned out to be a pretty good birthday after all.”  I think that a higher compliment could not have been given.

Unfortunately, we went on to take turns being quite ill over the next week or so — it’s about 10 days after B’s birthday now, and we haven’t been well enough yet to take that trip to the wave pool, but we will soon.  Regardless of how it was spent, B’s birthday was as important and as special as ever to me.  It was not at all the day we had planned, but, on balance, it was a good day.  I hope he felt celebrated.  I feel astonished at his maturity and understanding.  He is just so grown up.

For B, as he turns 6

2550First of all, how can you be 6?!?  I feel like it was just yesterday, or maybe last week, that you were 4, and I’m certain it was no more than a few months ago that you were just 2 or 3.  Time flies, as a mommy, and it’s astonishing to watch the speed with which you grow and become more and more a part of the world.

But it is WONDERFUL that you are 6!  I love you, turning 6, with my whole heart.  You are such an amazing little fellow.  Shockingly smart, startlingly observant, with a silly sense of humor and a quiet, kind, and sensitive heart.  As you grow, you become increasingly brave, and your energetic enthusiasm and intensely competitive spirit often leave me cringing in the face of whatever new challenge you’ve decided to attack and conquer, but also thrilled to see your spirit encourage you to take on new challenges.  You are an amazing brother to Liam, and seeing you enjoy each other’s company and seek each other out as playmates have been some of my favorite moments as a parent so far.  You feel things very deeply, my sweet boy, and though I see the difficulty of that at times, I also know how strongly you experience all of the good things that happen in your life, as well.

This has been a big year!  You finished your kindergarten year, and have now left preschool behind you.  A place that you were reluctant to enter 3 years ago has become a comfortable haven for you, and I am sad to say goodbye to it and to your teachers.  You learned a lot there — your German is excellent, and you’ve learned to write all of the letters!  You lost your first tooth this year, too, just recently, and you’re working on a second one.  You don’t even realize it yet, but you’ve started being able to read a little, which is fun to see, and you absolutely blow us away with your memory, your sense for space and numbers, your creativity, your compassion, and your ability to make connections between ideas.  You are a phenomenal boy, and you constantly amaze me.  You tell great stories, and you remember EVERYTHING.

And you are getting so tall, so big and strong.  You can wash your hands without a step-stool and so often your feet hang over the edge of your bed when you are sleeping.  You can run and jump and climb and ski and sled and swim.  You are an amazing guy.

I love you so much.  You’re growing up and getting bigger, but you will always be my little guy.  I love being with you, watching you try new things, listening to the stories that you tell, or just chatting about whatever is on your mind.  You are a great kid and a really cool person.  I am so glad to know you and incredibly grateful to be your mom.  I love you, my wonderful boy.  Happy birthday!

Before I moved to Austria, I had only ever lived in a single culture.  As such, I believed the rules of etiquette to be fairly ironclad.  Allowing for differences between generations, and different class and social backgrounds, there are certain customs and behaviors that I just believed to be GOOD, RIGHT, and POLITE, in an absolute sense, and those that were not.

It’s been an uncomfortable adjustment to realize that’s not true.

The issues that a society emphasizes as polite are pretty arbitrary.  Well, probably not entirely arbitrary, because I’m sure they have a history and come from something, but they are incredibly subjective.  Things that at home would be incredibly rude, like cutting in line or spitting on the sidewalk, are commonplace here, while things we take for granted in the US as acceptable, like running late for an appointment or wearing yoga pants to the grocery store, are gauche in Vienna.

The little things like that you adjust to quickly (I haven’t worn my yoga pants outside of the house in years — not even to walk the dog), but there are other things that are tremendously difficult to let go of, even though I know they make me weird.

For example, earlier this month, B was invited to a birthday party by a kid in his class.  Liam was not.  We RSVPed that B would be there (which is weird enough — Austrians don’t really RSVP, and if they do, they don’t feel bound by it, nor any obligation to inform you if their answer changes either way), but didn’t mention Liam, because he wasn’t invited.  The party was for the child who last year came to B’s birthday party … unexpectedly (to me) accompanied by his older brother who we had never met.  Part of me really wanted to assume that this probably meant that Liam was supposed to be invited to this party, too, but I just couldn’t.  Though by Austrian standards, it was probably a safe assumption, I just couldn’t let go of my deeply ingrained reverence for the intention of an invitation.  The issue became irrelevant when Liam busted his lip open the day before the party, because he certainly couldn’t attend a McDonald’s birthday party an open wound on his mouth.

But, as it turns out, he WAS “secretly” invited.  Well, secret from my perspective.  The hosts asked where he was and had a goody bag ready for him.  I’m quite certain that an Austrian mom would have read the situation correctly (and, if she hadn’t, no one would have really cared, because while bringing an uninvited child to a birthday party in the US would be a faux pas, it just isn’t a big deal here).

Another example came up this week.  It was B’s last week of school, and after 3 years in the same class, I wanted to do something special to thank the teachers.  I agonized over gifts (Dan finally helped me think of something good) and spent at least an hour composing heartfelt notes to each teacher in German.  But … I don’t think they really do that here.  B’s teachers have kind of gotten used to me with the Christmas gifts and the year-end thank you gifts, but I’ve definitely gotten the impression that, although the gesture is appreciated, the strangeness of it makes it a little uncomfortable for them.  I’ve checked, and it’s not forbidden or anything that they receive gifts from the parents . . . they just generally don’t.

I give the gifts anyway.  I know it’s odd the way I do things, and it’s certainly not my desire to be weird or to make anyone uncomfortable, but I can’t let it go — it’s all I have.  I know (reasonably well) how to be polite and gracious as an American.  I have very little idea of how to be a polite Austrian.  So if I were to stop doing my weird American things, I would JUST be a slightly rude person by Austrian standards.  This way, I’m STILL slightly rude by Austrian standards, but I at least get comfort by being reasonably polite by American standards, even if no one else here really gets it.

Celebrating Liam’s birthday

Happy birthday to Liam!  Just over a week ago, my little guy turned the big 3.  It is amazing and wonderful to watch him grow up.  (He’s getting so big!)

014The birthday celebration didn’t quite go as planned, though.  Our original intent had been for all of us to take the day off and to spend the day at the zoo (per Liam’s request).  In the days leading up to his birthday, though, he was quite sick with no indications of a miraculous, overnight recovery.  So, we changed the plan.  We certainly weren’t going to spend the day at the zoo, and since B was going to have to miss a field trip at school that day, we decided instead that B would go to school, Dan would work for the morning, Liam and I would stay home, and then we would all take the afternoon off to be together and celebrate.  It seemed like a good plan.

071But then, Liam woke up on his birthday, and our plans had to change.  He was happy and excited that it was his big day.  He was tired and still sick, but he was starting to feel better.  And though he seemed completely unbothered by rescheduling our zoo trip, he was very disappointed that we weren’t all spending the day together.  B was too.  All Liam wanted for his birthday was his brother to stay home with him.  They were both very sweet and very sad.  How could we say no to that?

So, we changed the plan again.  We agonized a bit over the decision, but ultimately, we called the school (and got lectured a bit by the principal who reminded us how important this year of school is for B), notified Dan’s work, and spent the day at home together.  If what Liam wanted for his birthday was the day spent together, then that’s what we’d do.  And if we had to seem a little flaky to work and school to make it happen, then so be it (it was a little tough for us to truly be ok with that, though).  Liam only gets one 3rd birthday, after all.

It was a lovely birthday.  We opened presents, the boys helped me finish the cake, and we got to Skype with Grandma.  We snuggled and watched tv and rested much more than is usual for our family on a birthday.  It could not have been better.  It was a great and happy birthday.  And, in retrospect, I’m so glad we decided as we did.  I would much rather feel a little sheepish at calling school and work at the last minute than regret not making ourselves a bit uncomfortable in order to give Liam what he wanted most for his birthday — the day with his family.  (And we’ll go to the zoo this weekend, assuming everyone is well.)

(And, as it turns out, all was well.  B didn’t miss anything earth-shattering that day at school, Dan didn’t miss anything important.  The next day, Liam was feeling well enough to go to school, and his teacher and classmates greeted him with their own birthday celebration, including pumpkin muffins baked by the class.  It was a pretty perfect birthday, after all.)


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History and Reasons for the Collapse of the Amur fisheries | Amur Information Center / Portal
Chum salmon cut for caviar and left to rot on Lower Amur tributary. Photo by WWF.

History and Reasons for the Collapse of the Amur fisheries

Over harvest of fish resources is an acute issue throughout the Amur-Heilong River basin. В Decline in fish resources was observed in the late 19th century and was attributed to uncontrolled international fishing in the Lower Amur and along the sea coast, leading to declines in numbers of sturgeon, salmon and other species.

In the late 1940s, the rapid decrease of freshwater fish harvest in the Amur-Heilong River was caused by increased fishing during WWII. These circumstances led the Soviet government to send an ichthyological expedition to Amur. В This expedition remains the most consistent and comprehensive analysis of fish and fisheries in the basin. В The main recommendations for fish stock restoration such as banning most barbaric harvest methods used by fishing collectives, designing less destructive fishing gear, artificial propagation of some valuable species, etc. were only partly implemented by authorities. Figure on total catch in Russia shows the steady decline in fish harvest, leading to collapse of most state-owned fishing enterprises.

With increasing industrialization of the Amur-Heilong River basin, particularly in China, a new threat has emerged: chemical contamination of river waters by the discharge of untreated industrial waste and runoff of agrichemicals from farmlands. Water in the Amur-Heilong River downstream of the Songhua River confluence are so severely polluted that river communities in Russia are advised against using river water for drinking or preparing food and people should avoid eating fish or other wildlife taken from the river.

Presently only the Lower Amur and the Middle Amur-Heilong, below Hinggan Gorge, retain commercial fisheries on the Russian side. Due to very different traditions of fishing and regulation, China retains a system of commercial fisheries with fishing plots leased to professional fishermen further upstream in the Amur-Heilong. Subsistence fishing by the local Chinese population includes a variety of gear types: fine mesh nets that capture three to five centimeter fish fry, as well as occasional use of explosives and poisons. Subsistence fishing among the Russian population has been constrained since the 1960s by a strict border protection regime. This unequal access to river resources is seen as a major injustice by locals and leads to laying the blame exclusively on the Chinese, despite the fact that the real mechanisms behind the decline in fish are much more complex. Indeed, the root cause of currently depressed fish stocks is the lack of an adequate international fishing regime throughout the transboundary basin. Existing international fishing rules are partly out of date and are poorly enforced by both sides. They do not relate to the Lower Amur which includes important fish reproduction habitats and migration routes for salmon and sturgeon. While China presumably is responsible for overfishing in the Middle Amur-Heilong, Russia has an extremely poor enforcement system in the Lower Amur where severe overfishing of salmon and sturgeon occurs. This combination of ineffective management precludes restoration of fish stocks throughout the basin.

One of the most noticeable impacts of poor fisheries management in recent years is the decrease in the spawning range of salmon, which, only 30 years ago, extended upstream to the Upper Amur-Heilong; now the range only reaches to the middle of Hinggan Gorge.

Several fish species are listed in Russia's Red Data Book (endangered species). Measures to protect them are poorly defined. For example, Chinese perch or 'auha' is listed as a species at the northernmost reach of its geographic range. However, it is a staple food throughout China and a species of choice for fish farming. Natural population numbers fluctuate widely from year to year and in abundant years this fish may account for up to one quarter of the daily catch in the Middle Amur-Heilong.

For a comprehensive review of fishing see the recent WWF-RFE publication: 'Amur Fish — Wealth and Crisis' in pdf format.

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Professionals – Getting Started & Next Steps

A Guide for Buying a Promise Ring

Giving your partner a promise ring is a loving and a creative way of showing your dedication towards them. If you have been courting your partner for long, and you are convinced that you want to spend the rest of your life with them, but you aren’t ready for a proposal, you could consider giving them a promise ring. In addition to being a symbol of your commitment to your partner; a promise ring will also act as a symbol of your willingness to propose, at a later date. Promise rings come in varying types. In this case, you might have a difficult time, trying to determine which ring is the most suitable. There are a number of factors you will need to consider, in order to purchase a suitable ring.Explained below, are useful tips that can help you to pick an ideal promise ring.

The Ring Size Matters

Choosing a promise ring that is either large or small will definitely ruin your promise ring ceremony. Having this in mind, you should never consider buying a promise ring, without finding out your partner’s ring size first.If you want the promise ring to be a surprise, it would not be a good idea to ask your loved one about their ring size directly. There are alternative ways of determining your partner’s ring size.For instance, you can ask their friends or family. You can also take one of their rings. After you have determined your loved one’s ring size, you should pick out a ring that will fit them perfectly.

Determine What You Can Afford

You should take cost into account, before going for shopping. This is because determining your budget will make shopping easy for you. Moreover, determining your budget will also ensure that you do not overspend.You should do a brief search online, to identify the average prices of the rings. It is always a good idea to save extra money. Nevertheless, it would not be recommendable to overlook quality, in an effort to save money. It is always best to buy a high-quality ring, even if it means spending extra money.

Take the Ring Design into Account

Promise rings are not all designed in the same way.For this reason, you should contemplate on design before going shopping. When it comes to choosing the design, you should have your partner’s preferences in mind.It would be best to purchase a promise ring, which matches your loved one’s design preferences. Additionally, you need to also consider the kind of metals used.

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