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March 23, 2008

The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson

Filed under: Uncategorized — Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 12:03 AM
Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade
Charge for the guns' he said
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
  Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die,
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
  Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
  All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
  Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them
  Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
  All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
  Noble six hundred!

March 5, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 10:45 AM

ASPLOS is going quite well so far. There were a few really interesting papers (see below). My talk went well, if I may say so myself… the slides are online.

Papers y’all should read:

Overshadow: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Retrofitting Protection in Commodity Operating Systems – Protecting an application from a malicious OS sounds counter-intuitive, but given a sufficiently smart hypervisor, it can be done. This is another step toward making the OS just another library.

Accelerating Two-Dimensional Page Walks for Virtualized Systems – How to get nested paging to perform.

The Design and Implementation of Microdrivers – Automatically split Linux kernel drivers into a performance critical part (which stays in the kernel) and a non-performance critical part which is moved to user-space.

March 3, 2008

notes from the ASPLOS 2008 poster session

Filed under: Uncategorized — Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 10:22 AM

Here’s a short list of posters from the ASPLOS ’08 combined opening reception and poster session that I found particularly interesting.

“MemCrawler: Discovering Structures in Memory” – Given a dump of physical memory, a list of interesting patterns and a list of object constraints, MemCrawler will identify kernel data structures and functions in the dump.

“Coevolution of Operating Systems and Asymmetric Single-ISA CMPs” – Not all cores and pieces of code are created equal – is it feasible to run specific pieces of operating system code (e.g., the TCP/IP stack) on smaller and less complex cores? Our ASPLOS paper explores a similar question.

“Multi-host I/O sharing by using I/O virtualization technology, ExpEther” – Extending the PCI-e bus through 10Gb ethernet. A host talks PCI-e to an FPGA which encapsulates PCI-e messages over ethernet and transmits them to a remote FPGA which decapsulates the PCI-e messages and passes them to a PCI-e endpoint. We explored similar issues with the IPOnly server. Being able to “remote” a device without needing a host (general purpose CPU) to be connected to it is pretty neat.

“Efficient Fault Tolerance in Multi-media Applications through Selective Instruction Replication” – Not all instructions are created equal. Some matter to successful completion of the program, some don’t. In media applications, Control flow is important, but manipulations on individual pixels less so. No point in replaying or replicating instructions which don’t matter.

March 2, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 8:35 AM

I’m in Seattle this week for ASPLOS and VEE. My hotel room has a balcony
with a view:

Yesterday I did the touristy thing and visited the space needle,
science fiction museum and other nearby attractions. The best part of
the day was the awesome Seattle Duck
. Unfortunately, my camera’s batteries decided enough is
enough just as we boarded the duck, so you get a picture of the space
needle instead.

The plan for today is to get some work done, visit the Seattle
Aquarium and otherwise have fun. ASPLOS begins tonight! For the curious, our ASPLOS paper is now online.

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How Spiritual Healing Completely Changes A Human Being

One of the central aspects of New Age philosophies and ideas is of course spiritual healing. Treated as a distinct and separate form of treatment than traditional medicine that aims to treat the physical body, the goal of spiritual healing is of course to treat the spirit and soul of a person who is experiencing some form of spiritual, physical, or mental pain. A spiritual healer in Toronto sees a person as a spirit and soul in essence and not just a part of the physical realm. The idea behind spiritual healing is that all disease, pain, and suffering experienced by a person stems from abnormalities in a person’s energy system that is driven by the seven chakras. The seven chakras of energy are also the source of a person’s aura, a personal rainbow that radiates light in different colors according to the changing mental and emotional health of the person. The spiritual healer tries to understand the source of the spiritual or soul pain and then use the transmission of energy to ensure complete healing.

The central aspect of energy healing or spiritual healing is the idea that the universal spiritual force or energy can be channelized through focused intention. The healer becomes a channel or a conduit for universal energy and when this is focused on a human’s body through the aura, the stream of energy helps to increase the spiritual vibratory frequency of the individual. Such energy transference can improve the physical, mental and emotional health of a person. It can also allow a person to get connected with his or her highest nature. Every person, whether a man or a woman, has got a divine spark in his/her soul, and through spiritual healing, it is possible to activate that spark. When a person is exposed to healing energy on multiple bases, it can eventually help the person to achieve a better connection with his or her higher energy levels which in turn can transform a person’s life for the better.
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By consulting with a Vedic astrologer in Toronto, you can learn about how spiritual healing can completely change a person for the better. When a healer enables a person to get connected with his or her higher spiritual self, then the person’s life is filled with inspiration, intuition, and illumination. Such a person is guided from within as to what he or she should do in life. This not only helps the person to perform the right action but it also leads to the quicker manifestation of desires. A person like that can deal with his or her emotions easily and find true satisfaction and happiness in life.

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Older And Wiser: Bra Tips

Our breasts change throughout our lives, especially as we get older.

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Another important thing to remember: just because you’re getting older, it doesn’t mean you have to opt for boring bras with no style. Your age should not restrict your lingerie choices. You simply want to ensure you’re shopping smart, and that’s where I come in. I have a few tips to keep in mind when shopping for bras that’ll ensure you’re supported for every occasion without sacrificing style.

If you love the ease of bralettes and lounge bras, you’ll be happy to know you don’t have to give those up as you get older. What you do want to keep in mind is that you want to shop for quality and support. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to spend a lot of money, but you don’t want to opt for something cheap that will fall apart on you. Look for either a band or some sturdy straps for example that you know will add to the support.

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It’s also extremely important to have a sports bra that is appropriate for your level of activity. Your breasts do become more tender and sensitive as you get older, and the last thing you want to do is let them get damaged by physical activity. Most sports bras indicate the level of activity they are appropriate for, from light to medium to high intensity.

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Feb 04 12

New Bird Blocks and a Wonderful Resource for Quilters

I had the chance to work on designing some new quilt blocks over the last couple of days and I’d forgotten how much I enjoy it. I could play with this stuff for days on end, but unfortunately, life kind of gets in the way. Here’s another one:

…and this next one is meant to have a mirror image block that will be to the left of it on “real quilt:”

…and this last one is for a different quilt entirely:

Can you tell that I’m having a love affair with these birds and all things “plumey?!” All of these will look so much better once machine embroidery has been added but I have so many projects going on right now that it’s gonna be awhile! I’ll post pictures once that part of the project is added.

On another note, I wanted to let folks know about a great resource for quilters interested in making quilts using fabric cutting dies. If you haven’t been to Ebony Love’s “Blocks to Die For” website, take some time to check it out! There’s a lot going on at that site. Ebony is a piecer who has spent loads of time cutting geometric shapes using Accuquilt products, both the Studio cutter and the Go cutters. She has very generously shared all kinds of tips and tricks that she’s learned along the way, and this is valuable information! She’s posted many, many, wonderful video tutorials. I haven’t watched them all, but my 2 favorite videos are the tutorial that shows how to lay out fabric on a strip die to use fabric most efficiently, and I also loved the tutorial that showed how to convert fabric scraps into useful strips. I don’t own any strip dies so as I watched these videos, all the info was new to me and I was struck by just how wonderful it is to have a site that is truly devoted to the fabric die-cutting community. While her site is loaded with lots of free information, she also has a digital magazine that’s available by subscription. This magazine is designed specifically for the die-cutting enthusiast, containing even more tips and tricks as well as patterns based on specific dies. If you’re reading this blog entry and have never played with a fabric die cutter, you honestly don’t know what you’re missing. I was very resistant to this form of fabric cutting myself and it has revolutionized my life! If there is any part of you thinking of taking the plunge, watch a few of Ebony’s videos and that may make your decision for you!cialis professional

  1. a1angiem Says:

    Beautiful blocks and that blog sounds very interesting! I could use a few more tips! I got some batiks last week and am mentally preparing myself to do some cutting and applique. I have the Big Shot and only 2 dies but I saw the Go Baby at our shopping channel as a bundle with the strip die and a bunch of others, hst & squares, etc. so I may consider it after looking at her vids. I’ll check ’em out. Thanks for the link…have a great w/end and hope you get more time to create and show us!

  2. Lynette Says:

    So pretty. 🙂 Those are going to make one very cool quilt! (or two)

  3. Debbie St. Germain Says:

    Really loving these blocks, birds are a wonderful subject to quilt and pick fabrics for.

  4. Pamela Says:

    I offered to make my daughter-in-law quilts when she married and when the grandchildren were born and each and every time she refused. I am not a traditional quilter by any means but she just never liked the idea of having a handmade/machined quilt in her house so I gave up on the idea of ever giving her a quilt. I fell in love with your birds with plumes so I made six placemats for her with the birds on them with a dark brown background (brown and beige is her house interior) but I added red,orange, yellow and blue as well and I must say they came out great. She loved them and I finally got a quilted item into her house yeah. I used your fabric dies etc, thanks for great designs Patsy. cheers Pamela

  5. Peggy Says:

    Youre an inspiration, Patsy. Thanks for all your wonderful tutorials. Now I’ll have to add a die cutter to my wish list.

  6. Kelly Jackson Says:

    The birds are back…it must be spring…or am I just thinking spring? Love the blocks…bright and cheerful.

    Thanks for the links to learn more and I also wanted to say I watched your videos on Alex and Rick’s site….they are great and I hope lots more folks will be tuning in to your lessons via your DVD’s….they are excellent.

  7. Linda McClain Says:

    Patsy, I’m so sorry you were robbed of items that cannot be replaced. That’s horrible.

    Your blocks here are absolutely stunning. As always, your work is such an inspiration.


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Log Buffer #85: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Posted in: Technical Track

Welcome the the 85th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Here we go!

We start with the obscure. Eddie Awad has started the Obfuscated SQL Code Contest on his Oracle Community site, thanks to an idea by Chen Shapira. If you’re familiar with this contest’s antecedents, like the obfuscated C or Perl contests, you’ll know how entertaining it is to see people turn their creativity to code that should never exist in the real world. Like Rob van Wijk’s interrogative submission, for example.

Chen herself (just a simple DBA on a complex production system) posts about the right way to handle Oracle on NFS and TCP throttling, reaching into relatively dark corners of Linux, like net.core.rmem and net.core.wmem.

Even the ordinary business of DBA can seem obscure. “Are any of you that run RAC in your production environments backing up your archive logs to an FRA that resides in an ASM disk group (and of course backing up the archive logs to tape from the FRA)?” That’s what Eric S. Emrick asks in his post, RMAN, RAC, ASM, FRA and Archive Logs, FYI.

On Halis way, Hampus Linden shows how to delete an object with a special character in Oracle. He writes, “There are some things in Oracle that are possible but shouldn’t be possible. One thing I love to hate is the fact that you can create tables with almost any name, just as long as you double quote it. . . . Horrible! And what’s even more horrible is that people actually do this.” Hampus attacks the horror with some PL/SQL.

On the Oracle Scratchpad, Jonathan Lewis links to a well regarded article on using Statspack, writing, “It’s been a few years since I last read this article from Connie Dialeris Green of Oracle about how to use Statspack – and I’d forgotten how good it was. . . . If you want to get the best out of Statspack . . . you need to create and validate a sensible hypothesis based on all the information available. This paper instructs you in the method.”

Jonathan also has an item on pushing predicates. “Some time ago I wrote a note . . . about the push_pred() and no_push_pred() hints. I’ve recently discovered a bug in the 9.2 optimizer that means you may find that Oracle will not use ‘join predicate pushing’ when it is obviously a good idea.”

Tim Hall has an article about 11g bits and bobs, ” . . . covering the Miscellaneous New Features section of the OCP upgrade exam.”

From Igor’s Oracle Lab comes an ecumenical piece by Gary Myers, who asserts that, while databases differ, problem-solving approaches don’t. He writes, “This entry is more SQL Server than Oracle, but it is generic in some ways, and its also got the closest I’ve found to v$sql in SQL Server 2005.”

SQL Server

In the SQL Server world, SSQA.net’s blog brings the news that the cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is now available.

Systems Engineering and RDBMS reports on some important bugfixes in this update.

Euan Garden reports the February Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008.

To go with that, Sean McCown of the Database Underground has some new Katmai install notes. He says, [For] those of you who don’t follow Microsoft that much, CTP is just a fancy way of saying beta. Actually, it’s not really all that fancy is it?”

Derek Comingore’s BI Blog offers two articles on migrating DTS to SSIS 2008.

On MaasSQL, an item offering an easy fix for poor performance. “I recently saw somewhere . . . a quote from Joe Celko, ‘You don’t have a table unless you have a key.’ . . . You have a poorly performing database. You can’t / don’t have time to re-write all of the stored procedures or many of them or whatever. Code can’t change right now. Run this script, find the tables without Clustered indexes and primary keys and start planning.”

Here’s a piece asking if an INT primary key truly need be an Identity on Jeff’s SQL Server Blog. “Ah, this is not an anti-identity rant, don’t worry! Though, in a round-a-bout sort of way, it is yet another argument against always blindly using them — but not in the way you might expect. There is a simple rule I’d like to propose, let me know what you think: “If your client code, SQL code, or configuration files reference the primary key column of a table to determine any ‘application logic, that primary key column should not be an identity.'”

Dan Guzman says, don’t bloat proc cache with parameters. “Most of us have long been aware that non-parameterized ad-hoc queries can pollute procedure cache with entries that will never be reused. . . . However, I was surprised to learn recently that even parameterized queries can bloat procedure cache if one isn’t careful.” Dan demonstrates the problem and its prevention.

On his Diamond Notes, Keith Murphy looks into the future of MySQL for Your Database Warehouse. “It isn’t common knowledge, but the predecessor to MySQL, TCX (founded by Monty Widenius) . . . was a data warehousing company. That being said, MySQL isn’t known for serving as the centerpiece of a data warehouse. OLTP . . . is the most common use for MySQL. . . . Several weeks ago Monty made a few waves by announcing the release of a new storage engine – Maria.” Keith suggests that Maria might be destined for the warehouse.

Giuseppe Maxia, the Data Charmer, does some spring cleaning in MySQL supported platforms — it’s the end of the line for MySQL on several platforms.

Jay Pipes paints the big picture of MySQL, Sun, Linux, Solaris, and innovation. “if [MySQL under Sun] are to reverse the current course of a community-in-flux, we must embrace the fear we have of opening up our development process. We must get out of the cathedral and put up shop in the bazaar. We won’t be jumping out of the cathedral’s top window; more likely we’ll rappel down Rapunzel’s hair slowly and carefully. I see very good prospects about opening up in the future and I am excited. It will be happening in the nick of time.”

On mysqlguy.net another Jay, Janssen, wraps up a series of posts wit hone on using events to manage table partitioning by date.

When pet projects bite back! offers an excellent overview of using business rules in MySQL. “This article tries to explain how you can save time and effort on the development process by moving some of that development to the database. It does this by recommending you apply business rules to the database.”

Here’s MySQL Pop Quiz #5 on Carsten’s Random Ramblings. Pencils poised . . .you may be begin.

The 451 CAOS Theory blog introduces Hypertable. “Hypertable is an open source (GPLv2) implementation of Google’s Bigtable, an internally-deployed database that serves the company’s web indexing, Google Earth and Google Finance services. According to Judd, the best way to think about Hypertable is as a traditional database, but one that trades advanced features like transactional capabilities for scalability: specifically thousands of commodity PCs.”

Brian “Krow” Aker’s idle thoughts on the matter — a couple more articles on Hypertable he picked up via Planet MySQL.

Ivan Zoratti offers his “webinar” on reducing the TCO with MySQL. “The main topic was the scale-out strategy with MySQL, based on Replication, MySQL Cluster, in combination with other HA solutions, such as DRBD.”

Not only can you reduce your TCO, you can also maximize your ROI at the MySQL Conference. So says George J. Trujillo Jr. on his MySQL DBA – An Oracle DBA’s Journey. He has seven points for getting the most out of this, or any other conference.

And while we’re on conferences, a final item from the Postgres scene. Dave Page’s PostgreSQL Blog reports that the first ever UK PostgreSQL Conference will be on April the 2nd, in Birmingham

And that is all. Don’t forget to get involved in LB! Read the Log Buffer homepage and get in touch. Till next time!

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Well, That Explains It

There's a post up at EUREKA unscripted that talks about where they get their nifty science ideas.
Well, first of all, we have our science advisor Kevin Grazier to help us out. Whenever we come up with another “out there” idea, we’ll ask Kevin to come up with actual science to help justify the concept. After a lot of hair pulling, the brilliant Kevin actually comes up with a way to make our silliness a practical, working sci-fi reality. Kevin also does a “fact check” of each script draft to make sure that we’re not violating too many laws of physics each week…

But Kevin’s not always around… and yes, we’re industrious little busy bodies. Which means, we do a lot of reading. And by “a lot” we mean… A LOT.

Yes, we’ll read any science book, magazine, or periodical we can get our hands on. For example, Supervising Producer Curtis Kheel is currently reading “Physics of the Impossible” by Michio Kaku as research for an upcoming episode. And Staff Writer Eric Wallace was recently seen digesting “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries” by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
So, they have NASA planetary physicist Kevin Grazier as an advisor, and read popular science books about astronomy and physics. That may just help explain why the biology on Eureka is so bad. Of course I'm biased, but I think that the life sciences can generate just as many entertaining plot lines as physics can, and those stories deserve the same kind of scientific input that's given to robots and time travel.

(Yes, the post also says that they read Discover and other popular science magazines, but clearly their interest and focus is on physics.)

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Sean Craven said...

Sorry about the above... Sign-in is confusing me.

I've got to say that I'm startled to find out that the folks writing Eureka do any research at all. While it's no doubt useful as a source of inspiration it just plain doesn't show up on the screen.

I watch the show, I enjoy the show, I really bug my wife by writhing and making pained animal noises whenever the characters start using scientific jargon. I'm not a scientist, just an interested layman, but they just plain never get anything close to right. Not even a little bit.

But I can believe that behind the scenes there is some real speculative thought going on. I've done some scriptwriting myself and I can tell you that the limitations of the format are extremely hostile to any kind of abstract thought.

The use of jargon in SF is something I've been thinking about lately. I've written very little SF and I have to say that one of the reasons for this is that there's only one person in my writer's group that can cope with the science references.

It's an interesting thing. If you explain everything you wind up with an essay rather than a story. And if you don't, your audience is limited to those who either know enough to be able to interpret your cryptic references or who are able to enjoy the word jazz aspects of jargon.

And this is something I find fascinating. One of the reasons why SF has become so much of a pop culture staple is that the language of SF has spread into the mainstream. Before Star Wars only geeks (and I'm self-identifying here) knew what words like blaster and hyperspace meant. Now if you say 'android' everyone has at least a loose idea of what your talking about.

I find it extremely displeasing when scientific jargon is used purely for effect without any any signs that the words are understood by the writers, let alone the actors. I don't mind wrong; I hate note even wrong.

(And to put my money where my mouth is, here's a biological/zoological reference from a story in progress.

The Magpies were dinosaurs from a timeline where the asteroids that caused the Cretaceous extinction had been nuked until they missed the Earth. They were descended from arboreal Maniraptorans who had left the forests for the savannahs. They had black-and-white feathers and the faces of toothy owls, along with the typical Maniraptoran sickle-claw. They weighed about thirty pounds each and were still capable of limited flight. Despite these exotic details their evolutionary history had given them social and personal characteristics that were as close to human as it got. In other words you couldn’t trust them for ****.

“Digital records for the purposes of lying, my friends. We use old analog tech of your noble people, photochemical emulsion on plastic film in sealed cannister. We develop ourselves and for sure you bring us the gizzard stones and not some river trash, you know? Any round rock it will not do.” Mr. Big Johnson opened his snub beak to show sharp little teeth and bobbed his head up and down. “Ha-ha-ha!”

Mr. Big Johnson’s assistance animal picked up the camera and held it out to Duke. It was another feathered dinosaur with a silvery Magpie control blob on the side of its head, feathers patterned in green and tan with a cream-colored underbelly. This one was a local, an Ornitholestes, and despite their similar size and body shape it was as closely related to Mr. Big Johnson as rat-headed Purgatorius was to Skinner and had an IQ slightly inferior to that of a chicken. It opened its long, narrow jaws and echoed its boss in a parrot-squawk imitation of Duke.

At least I'm making an effort. Eureka! Try harder!

Peggy K said...

Interesting point about scientific jargon becoming part of the common language. Certainly "cloning" and "genetic engineering" are terms that even people who don't follow science at all are familiar with, even if they don't fully understand the concepts. I do think that SF can be enjoyable, even if you don't know the jargon. At least it was for me when I was a young teenager, long before I had much formal science education. Sure, there are some stories that require an infodump about black holes or whatnot, but there are plenty that don't.

One of the things that irritates me is that Eureka (and other SF shows) could say pretty much anything when they go into technobabble mode, so why not say something that makes some scientific sense. Sure most people won't know the difference, but some of us would and appreciate the effort.

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Langtang: Summits of My Life 3

Kilian Jornet presents ‘Langtang‘, the third film in the Summits of My Life project. Directed by Sébastien Montaz-Rosset, the film is the story of a journey to the heart of Nepal.
In April 2015, ultra runner Kilian Jornet is preparing for an expedition to Everest as part of his project, `Summits of My Life’, together with alpinist Jordi Tosas and filmmaker Sébastien Montaz-Rosset.

Two days before departure, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal with devastating effect and Jordi’s beloved Langtang Valley is all but eradicated. Putting their original objective to one side, the team travel to Nepal with the hope of offering help in the place that they hold in their hearts.

As the rhododendron flowers of Langtang herald the arrival of spring, nothing can prepare them for the level of destruction they find as they make their precarious way up a valley ripped apart by the force of nature. Langtang is an ode to life, a tribute to hope and a search for new horizons.
It was a difficult experience for all of us. Jordi Tosas has been to Nepal 27 times and it’s a very important place for him. Langtang was where I had my first himalayan experience and it’s a special place for me also. The village of Langtang disappeared completely and to see everything we knew completely devastated was very sobering, and I think it comes across in the film” Kilian said.

A different film: Kilian Jornet doesn’t run

Langtang‘ is very different from the previous films in the Summits of My Life project.
Athletic objectives are put to one side as the film documents the days following the earthquake with the team being some of the first to enter the Langtang Valley. Their emotions are reflected in the film, as initial confusion gives way to optimism.  The Nepali people remain positive and optimistic as they gather their strength to rebuild their lives.
Langtang was a very particular experience for me, I have never filmed anything so emotional. It may seem like a tough story but it’s also very optimistic. Only the nepalese people can win this fight”, Sébastien Montaz-Rosset explained.

Langtang pre orders and premier in Barcelona.
The film is available now for pre order via the website Summits of My Life, with the film premier on 12th December. This year’s event will be on Saturday 12th December in the Aribau multiscreen cinema. Audiences will see the film together with the team, in the largest cinema in Barcelona seating 1174.

This year the project is taking part in a humanitarian initiative. Kilian Jornet and the Summits team will raise funds to help with the rebuilding of 116 houses in the Langtang Valley.

Details of the initiative will be announced at a press conference on 11th December.

Kilian Jornet: “I think it’s vital to do what we can to help Nepal at this time. We have always been shown amazing hospitality and friendship and now they are in huge difficulties. We have to do what we can to help

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Swiftype Crawler overview: Easily index your website content for search

Why use the Swiftype Web Crawler?

Easily index your website content for search

The Swiftype web crawler, Swiftbot, is a quick and easy way to index your website’s content for search. While you can also index your content using the Swiftype API, utilizing the web crawler requires less technical know-how and generally enables you to implement your site search faster. If you’re trying to decide whether to use the crawler or the API, check out this blog post written by Swiftype cofounder Quin Hoxie.

Swiftype’s crawler gathers and indexes data from your specific website in a similar manner to the way Google crawls data for its internet-wide search engine. To get started with the Swiftype crawler, you simply input your website’s URL and Swiftype will begin indexing your content. Once your website has been crawled, you can use the Swiftype dashboard to review your indexed content, customize your search results, and view analytics.

Getting started with the Swiftype Web Crawler

Here’s a quick overview of how to get started with the Swiftype web crawler. For additional information, check out our Crawler Quick Start Documentation.

Create your search engine

To use the Swiftype crawler, you will first need to create a new search engine in your Swiftype dashboard and then enter your site’s URL. Still need to create a Swiftype account? You can sign up here.

Preview your search engine before implementation

After your URL has been verified, Swiftype will begin indexing your website’s content. If you have a sitemap, Swiftype will use it as a starting point for crawling your site. When all of your content has been indexed and your search engine is ready, Swiftype will notify you with an email. If you would like to test out your search engine before implementing it on your site, you can preview your search experience directly from the Swiftype dashboard.

Installing a search box on your website

When you’re ready to install a search bar on your website, you can copy and paste the code given to you in the Swiftype dashboard.

Customizing the look and feel of your search

Since it’s likely that you’ll want your search UI to match the design of the rest of your website, Swiftype makes it easy to customize the appearance of your search bar and results container. To customize your search installation, simply click the “Edit Install Setup” or “Edit Appearance” cards under the “Customize Your Installation” portion of the Swiftype onboarding flow.

As you experiment with the look and feel of your search, you can preview your changes in the Swiftype dashboard (before pushing your changes live). For more information on configuring the look and feel of your search engine, check out this video tutorial.

Indexing new website content

After Swiftype has indexed your content and you’ve implemented your search engine on your website, Swiftype will continue reindexing your content according to your plan level. If you make changes to your website and would like to manually trigger a recrawl, you can do so from the Swiftype dashboard.

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Excluding/Including portions of your site:

  • Domain path exclusions – Use the Swiftype dashboard to whitelist and/or blacklist portions of your website
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This week, Health Ed will be collaborating with the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Women Students at Brown, and Eat, Play, Love for “Celebrate
Every Body Week.” These groups will be hosting different events “to raise awareness about eating disorders and promote positive body image on campus,” according to the event’s website.

Starting today at 9 am until 5 pm, the event’s organizers will be set up in J. Walter Wilson for two of their ongoing events. The first is Operation Beautiful, a cooperative event in which students are encouraged to write positive sticky notes anonymously and leave them around campus for someone else to find. The other, Great Jeans Giveaway, encourages you to donate a pair of jeans (or any other type of clothing) that you don’t feel comfortable in in exchange for a t-shirt. According to Morning Mail, the Operation Beautiful project will only be open today, but the Great Jeans Giveaway will be relocating to the Ratty on a different schedule on Tuesday and Thursday. (Just read Morning Mail, darnit!)

A full list of their events and resources can be found on their website, as well as more detailed descriptions of each event with their scheduled times and locations. If you can’t make any of these, you can just stop by their table in J. Walter Wilson today to find out about different resources available for students and grab some free buttons! Yay!


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Parenting Resolutions for 2017: Simplify and Be More Present

Parenting Resolutions for 2017: Simplify and Be More Present

Happy 2017! We hope that you had a fun New Year’s Eve and your 2017 is off to a great start! The beginning of a new year provides the perfect opportunity to begin anew and to prioritize the things that matter to us the most. As we kick off 2017, I asked our mom bloggers to answer this question: if you were to make a parenting resolution for the New Year what would it be?

Their answers had a common theme: to be more present with their families. Can you relate? Below are all of our team’s parenting resolutions for 2017 – be sure to share your own!

Parenting Resolutions for the New Year

Laura: “My 2017 parenting resolution is to heed my toddler’s advice. Just the other day, I was trying to get some work done on my laptop, and to my surprise, she started to close my laptop and said, “Mama, all done.” I am fortunate to have a good work/life balance, but it was clear in that moment that when it’s family time, I need to make sure I stay focused on my family rather than trying to multi-task.”

Emily: “I want to be more present for my kids in 2017. I spend lots of time with them, but I don’t feel like I spend enough time really giving them 100% of my attention because life has just been so crazy in 2016. I know that it our pace won’t be slowing down in 2017, so my goal is to make the time I am with them count more (for both of us). I also want to commit to getting back into the habit of reading every day with them. Life can be so busy, but we all enjoy it and it is a great way to see how they observe and interact with ideas.”

Aili: “I am not one for New Year’s resolutions, but I do like the idea of picking a “word” of the year. In the past my husband and I have selected words like, grateful and delegate. For 2017 our family has decided to embrace the word simplify. Focusing on the approach, “less is more” when it comes to those things in life that become clutter, like clothes, toys, etc. but also for those things that are simply a time-suck, like meal planning, grocery shopping and the like. Being purposeful and choosing to simplify when we can to gain family time in the long run to me is the best New Year’s resolution.”

Amy: “To be 100% present with my baby when I’m with him. So often there is a computer screen or phone nearby that catches my eye and I think to myself “I’ll just check one thing…” and then 20 minutes have passed. I want to be there, soaking up every minute of this little baby’s life whenever I can. It’s hard, particularly in this day and age, but I think cell phone time will be drastically cut in my household in 2017.”

All of us at The Family Room blog wish you and your family a happy, healthy, joyous 2017. We hope you’ll continue to join us as we share our stories about parenting, work, life, and everything in-between in the coming year.

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  1. Screen Sharing How to… appleTV

    March 11, 2016 by Robin Englebright

    Following on from the HEA event where Vikki showed how she improved visibility of the fine close up work she does on knitting machines, I’ve had several people ask me about how to set the appleTVs up.
    The answer is… it depends… but I thought it worth sharing my solution.

    In order to enable “conference room” screen sharing the devices have to be on the same network, which means getting an eduroam account for each of the devices.
    Policy demands we don’t use a common account for all, meaning each configuration of the device is different, and the profile has to be edited before pushing to the apple TV.
    To “build” an appleTV to the required configuration takes about 20 minutes plus testing, and final “lock down” where additional or superfluous items are removed from the home screen, and the device is set to default to conference room mode.
    Less time is required for additional configurations as the latest version of iOS doesn’t have to be pushed to the devices.
    Set up and installation of the devices has proved problematic for a number of reasons.
    Whilst much of the setup can be done through the “configurator” software the final step requires access to the individual device menus, which means connecting up an HDMI monitor.

    On a (newish) mac download configurator:

    Launch Configurator and in the “Supervise” section select “Create Profile”>
    (At this point we “Import Profile” and pick eduroam.mobileconfig which will then be listed in the Profiles pane.)

    First off you’ll need to get hold of whatever certificates you use on your network, once you have them, select the “Certificates options” in the left hand panel of the configurator and add them using the + button.

    Next select the Wi-Fi menu and set the SSID to eduroam, check the “Auto Join” box, and pick WPA/WPA2 Enterprise as the security type.
    check the PEAP box and and set the Username and Password for the device, this needs to be different for each device.

    Next select the “Trust” settings, and check all of the certificates you have installed and Save.

    Connect the appleTV with the USB cable and power up the apple TV.
    Configurator will launch a pop up “Apple TV Assistant”.

    Select “Don’t Enrol”>Next
    Select “Erase and install latest version”>Next
    Name the device – this is the name that will identify the device to folk who look for it using AirPlay,
    default naming convention is the eduroam account e.g.: abc123
    More useful especially in situations where many appleTVs may co-exist and be offered to folk, is to describe the location
    e.g.: GP321 appleTV – This can be changed once the device is located using the on screen menus on the appleTV.

    Set language to English, and uncheck “Send Diagnostics Data to Apple”>Next

    Pick the eduroam configuration profile Next

    Once configured you’ll need to follow the instructions, disconnect the usb, disconnect the power, reconnect the power, wait till the LED stops flashing, connect the usb again.

    With luck you then get a big green tick.

    The devices can then be further configured using the onscreen menus to enable conference mode with an onscreen password, to hide the unneeded icons, and to set a passcode on the device.

    Testing revealed that whilst the devices are pretty much uniform, some proved harder to get to the point where they accepted a profile. Some devices required 2 or 3 (in one case 4) attempts before the settings took, there is no clear reason why this should be the case.

    Deployment has proved complex due to the lack of capacity of the existing infrastructure control panels for auxiliary inputs, and the lack of HDMI inputs at all.
    This means the likely solution is to plumb the devices in to the PC laptop port using a VGA converter, OR to connect to the HDMI and then use the remote control to select the source.
    On my site there are no two installations that are completely the same, which means slightly different instructions are required for each installation, and awareness of this difference by those intending to use the devices.
    This is further complicated by the need for a power supply for the appleTV and more pressingly, a way to cycle the power if the device goes to standby, and needs to be restarted.

    – Complexity and inconsistency of connection may put people off using the devices
    – Reliability of the appleTV units once active (they often require multiple attempts to connect) may have a considerable technical support overhead.
    – Configuration of the devices takes a significant time.

    The biggest barrier to use is the varied connection to the screens. A common approach at least within a campus would be beneficial.
    What works well:
    Free roaming devices, with HDMI cable and VGA/HDMI adaptor for personal use.
    Connection by HDMI cable to modern Flat screen devices.

    Even better if:
    Identify requirement as part of the room refits and agree a common approach, common connections, capacity for future expansion.
    Review common software alternatives – use of reflector,(I’ll write up Reflector details shortly) or air parrot for laptop users and a solution for fixed desktop units.
    Look at design of the instructions to provide concise, clear common approach.
    Work with Learning Technology Advisors, site technicians and school technicians to ensure awareness, and support capacity and capability.

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3D Scanner

Announcing the newest edition to the Media Center: our new NextEngine 3D scanner! To complement the Makerbot 3D printer, we now have the capability to produce high definition 3D meshes of small objects within around two hours. The NextEngine software also allows us to export in the .stl format – a format that can be printed on the 3D printer – so in due time we should be able to scan an object and then immediately start turning out plastic copies. I like to think that it brings us just one step closer to having Star Trek replicators.

After running a few calibration and test runs, we decided that our first victim for scanning and subsequent replication would be this miniature Buddha figurine. The scanner uses the combination of a camera and an array of lasers to scan objects, meaning that the easiest objects to scan aren’t too dark, light or shiny, and of course finer details and textures are harder to pick up. Ignoring that advice completely, we went ahead and scanned the Buddha figure.

Scans take about an hour to two hours to complete depending on the detail of the scan – for the Buddha, I used two 360° scans, one at a 0° tilt and one a around a 20° positive tilt to get some of the details on top of Buddhas hands and arms. Each 360° scan family consists of six to sixteen rotations – for this one I used twelve.  Once the scans are complete, the software patches them together into a single 3D model, but sometimes it needs a little manual adjustment to get it just perfect.

After some toying with the scans on the NextEngine software we went ahead and printed a copy of Buddha on the Makerbot! Now I would draw your attention to the surprising level of detail on Buddha 2.0’s upper body, and not the fact that his lower half is slightly completely mutilated. Then again, we learned the importance of insuring that there are no holes in the 3D mesh or Makerbot kind of freaks out. Now, we think we’ve figured out a method for getting a 3D scan that is watertight and should produce printings that aren’t bisected.

Amp 2

We have an audio amplifier available to be checked out. This standard amp is fairly portable and great to use with a line in or a microphone.

Running Man profx

Audio Mixers

Running Man profx12

The Running Man ProFX12 is a complete audio mixer station that is still relatively portable for easy setup and fairly simple to use. In addition to the standard audio connections, it also comes with built in USB I/O, allowing for easy recording or streaming music from a laptop.

We also have the Zoom R24 available, which is smaller and more portable than the Running Man ProFX12. This model also comes complete with an SD card which can be recorded to.

Shoulder Rig

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We also have a shoulder rig available which is compatible with our DSLRs, camcorders, and digital cameras. This can be an easy solution to creating stable shots with more mobility than a tripod or tripod and dolly.

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Green Screen

We have green screens available which can be used to provide a green background for your video or photography shots in order to facilitate digital effects.

SBC Softbox

SBC36 Softbox

We have Soft boxes available for photography and filming which are useful when a diffused, even lighting is desired.

Logitech Orbit AF

Webcams which can be connected to computers via USB are available both for checkout and installed in the various workstations at the Media Center. These cameras are easily configurable and useful for video conferencing.

Logitech Orbit AF

LaCie Hard Drive TB

Hard Drives

We have external hard drives available for check out. There are both terabyte and 500 gigabyte drives available. These can be useful when moving large files or large groups of files around campus. LaCie Hard Drive 1TB

Turning Point System Response System

TurningPoint Response System

Turning Point System (Response System)

The TurningPoint response system is a wireless system used to collect responses from your audience during a class or a presentation. Once connected to a computer via USB, the system’s included software can be used to display a question or poll. Audience members then respond on their remotes and the answers are recorded and can be displayed in real time. We have a total of around two hundred remotes and the system can be checked out in with any number of remotes.

Veho muvi Micro DV Camcorder Camcorder

Micro Video Cameras

The Muvi Micro Camcorder is a uniquely small digital camcorder which captures high resolution video despite only being around an inch in size. It uses a micro SD card as storage or can be connected directly to a computer. The media center’s Muvi micros come with a clip mounting that can be used to attach the camera to a variety of objects for on-the-move filming.

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John Keats had as much sensitivity toward the natural world as any author of the period. From his earliest lyrical fragments and letters to the great odes of 1819, his writing consistently incorporates an astonishing number of natural images, as well as countless descriptions of animals and plants. Keats studied medicine–he had the complete training necessary to become a doctor–before he turned his attention to poetry. Partly as a result, his language often reflects keen scientific awareness and an almost clinical observational skill. His medical studies inform his poetry in complex and important ways. He manages to link scientific accuracy to the poetic imagination in a way that essentially characterizes a Romantic version of natural history. At the same time, his words and their arrangement reveal a sensitivity to rhythm, meter, and poetic tone that has not been equalled in the English tongue since Shakespeare. This was a time in history when early paleontologists, and laypeople alike, were uncovering the secrets of eons of geological history for the first time. Keats indicates his own awareness of these numerous naturalistic discoveries of his own era, as in his unsurprized description–in Endymion (1817)of gigantic fossils littering the seabed:

skeletons of man,
Of beast, behemoth, and leviathan,
And elephant, and eagle, and huge jaw
Of nameless monster. (III, 133-36)

Keats’s powers of observation are remarkable not only for their accuracy and intensity but for their ability to link human activity to a wider vision of the animate world:

I go among the Fields and catch a glimpse of a stoat or a fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass–the creature hath a purpose and its eyes are bright with it–I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along –to what? The creature hath a purpose and his eyes are bright with it.
(Letters 2:80)

In “On the Grasshopper and Cricket,” Keats’s grasshopper is as full of the pleasures of life as Goldsmith or Erasmus Darwin could have ever imagined: “He takes the lead / In summer luxury; he has never done / With his delights, for when tired out with fun / He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed” (ll. 5-8). Or, from “Sleep and Poetry”: “What is more soothing than the pretty hummer / That stays one moment in an open flower / And buzzes cheerily from bower to bower?” (ll. 2-5) and, “a myrtle, fairer than / E’er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds / Lifts its sweet head into the air” (ll. 248-50).

Modern readers can appreciate that these are not merely hyperbolic flights of imaginative fancy. This is Keats describing the natural world as he understands it from his own experience and observations. My suggestion is born out by an intertextual reference in Miriam Allott’s note to the “wailful choir” of “small gnats” mourning in “To Autumn.” The lines echo the 1817 entomology written by William Kirby and William Spence: “tribes of Tipulidae (usually, but improperly called gnats) assemble . . . and form themselves into choirs, that alternately rise and fall . . . These little creatures may be seen at all seasons, amusing themselves with their choral dances” (653).

The naturalistic rigor of Keats’s own approach is confirmed in the opening of his famous nightingale poem, when a pleasure so sweet as to be painful derives from another organic being (a bird) and somehow echoes a unity in life, past and present. The speaker’s heart aches. He is at once drowsy and numb. He is drunk on an emotion as powerful as that produced by a natural intoxicant (hemlock). We should think back at this point to Erasmus Darwin, who describes a chemical affinity between us and the opium poppy (“dull opiate” [l. 3]) that can transport us out of our ordinary pleasure into pleasures of a different, but no less powerful, kind (Botanic Garden, “Loves of the Plants,” II, 57 n.). How might these flowers produce such powerful emotional and narcotic affects unless there was some organic sympathy – Darwin says a chemical “affinity” – between us and these plants.

Keats is happy in an almost excruciating way (“too happy in thine happiness” [l.6]), but this intensity reveals a pleasure that is ordinary for this bird. The bird’s happy lot makes the poet’s lot in life seem somehow diminished. What would a human give, Keats implies, to sing with such “full-throated ease” [l. 10]. Having heard this bird singing, human mortality appears to be much less of a problem to the observant poet. My point is that there is nothing sentimental here, nothing overstated or hyperbolic. From such a naturalistic perspective, there is also no death wish in this poem (“Now more than ever seems it rich to die” [l. 55]). The poet’s final claim is simple. Having heard such a song, and having felt organically connected to such a fellow creature, physical death now seems like less of a curse. Death now feels like part of something greater, even if that greater something is organic and material, like a bird. The bird’s song dies away as the poet’s voice will soon die away: literally. Organic life expressed through song (a bird’s or a poet’s) is, we should add, the one thing that most clearly distinguishes both this bird and this poet from the “Cold pastoral” of the Grecian urn.

Keats’s human pleasure taken from this bird reminds us that science can also be linked to pleasure in a way that connects with the writing of poetry. John Herschel, the nineteenth-century astronomer, described the “great sources of delight” that might be derived from the study of “natural” sciences (Richardson, Emerson 123). Likewise, Oliver Goldsmith justified his “popularizing” version of natural history – first published in 1774 and running to over twenty editions during the nineteenth century – in terms of its ability to provide pleasure:

Natural History, considered in its utmost extent, comprehends two objects. First, that of discovering, ascertaining, and naming, all the various productions of Nature. Secondly, that of describing the properties, manners, and relations, which they bear to us, and to each other. The first, which is the most difficult part of this science, is systematical, dry, mechanical, and incomplete. The second is more amusing, exhibits new pictures to the imagination, and improves our relish for existence, by widening the prospect of nature around us. Both, however, are necessary to those who would understand this pleasing science in its utmost extent. . . From seeing and observing the thing itself, he is most naturally led to speculate on its uses, its delights, or its inconveniences (I, iii).

So science is pleasing to the observer or to the participant, nature possesses its own delights, and the elements of nature can provide delight to the natural scientist and to his readers.

Keats’s poems and letters reveal a constant attraction and attention to the details of his natural surroundings. From his earliest lyrics (“Imitation of Spenser,” 1814):

There the king-fisher saw his plumage bright
Vying with fish of brilliant dye below,
Whose silken fins and golden scalës’ light
Cast upward, through the waves, a ruby glow.

Through the Shakespearean cadences of “Ode to a Nightingale”:

The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild–
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves;
And mid-May’s eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunts of flies on summer eves.

To the stunning naturalistic richness of “To Autumn”:

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Keats seems almost preternaturally aware of the forces within nature, the otherness of the natural world, and the paradoxical links between human sensibility and naturalistic sensations in all animals, human and otherwise. He can sometimes treat plants with an almost Renaissance delicacy, criticized by those–like Byron–who sought more vigorous representations of the natural world; but Keats can then snap back with an image–“How beautiful the season is now–How fine the air. A temperate sharpness about it . . . I never lik’d the stubble fields so much as now–Aye better than the chilly green of the spring. Somehow a stubble plain looks warm–in the same way that some pictures look warm–this struck me so much in my [S]unday’s walk that I composed upon it” (letter to Reynolds, 21 September 1819), describing the genesis of “To Autumn”–that makes any critical comment seem almost superfluous.

Keats links:

Natural history in Keats’s letters (excerpts)

Keats on the natural world (poetry excerpts)

“On the Grasshopper and Cricket” (“The poetry of the earth is never dead”)

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Toko telo rewind: Can community-based ecotourism catalyse locally led marine protection?

Toko telo rewind: Can community-based ecotourism catalyse locally led marine protection?

The last edition of Toko Telo interactive online discussions facilitated by Blue Ventures welcomed experts from across the coastal tropics to discuss how community-based ecotourism can catalyse locally led marine protection. Laura Resti Kalsum of Stay Raja Ampat in Indonesia, Francesca Trotman of Love the Oceans in Mozambique, and Adrian Wells of Seventythree, shared their experiences of working in community-based ecotourism and in particular, the challenges facing the industry in 2020.

The event, which we hosted in collaboration with WWF’s Coastal Communities Initiative, consisted of two parts: a facilitated conversation and live questions with the expert panel, followed by group workshops in English and Bahasa Indonesia in order to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced and potential solutions to support community-based ecotourism and locally led marine conservation initiatives.

Love the Oceans: Our mission

Francesca Trotman, Founder  of Love the Oceans, kick started the event with a short presentation about the marine conservation expeditions programme that she runs in Jangamo Bay, Mozambique.

Francesca began by describing the mission of her small but impactful charity, which is to establish a marine protected area in Jangamo Bay and to engage the local communities in ocean conservation. The Love the Oceans team focus on three key approaches to achieving this goal: education (teaching fishers and local young people about the importance of protecting the ocean), research (collecting data to drive community action and legislation change) and sustainability (overcoming barriers and developing alternative income opportunities, including ecotourism).

The so-called ‘micro charity’ has achieved a great deal in the past five years, including teaching more than 1,150 children about the basics of the ocean, teaching 800 children to swim and raising money for a community pool, removing over one tonne of trash from the beaches and consistently collecting seasonal fisheries data for over six years.

Stay Raja Ampat: Community-led ecotourism in Raja Ampat: What are the benefits, what does it take and what is its future after COVID-19?

Laura Resti Kalsum introduced Stay Raja Ampat as a company which is owned by PERJAMPAT, The Association of Indigenous Community Entrepreneurship and Livelihood in Raja Ampat (also known as the Raja Ampat Homestay Association). The association is managed by communities and is dedicated to improving the wellbeing of Raja Ampat’s indigenous communities on their own land, while restoring and sustaining the island’s unique ecosystems for future generations.

This community-based model has had a major impact on the communities in Raja Ampat as members have shares in the company, with profits used to support programmes that improve their way of life and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Laura explained how the association’s hive of activity has drawn young people from the city of Waisai to the coastal villages for work, and how women in particular are developing a stronger position in society and experiencing increased financial independence.

Laura went on to describe the impact of COVID-19 on the homestay association here. Her team has seen an increasing dependence on natural resources, both marine and terrestrial, and more people have been considering selling their land to investors. However, the team also saw some positive changes – business owners took the time to repair their buildings and cultivate gardens to grow fruit and vegetables.

Stay Raja Ampat are hopeful that the area will quickly recover from COVID-19, once the Indonesian government reopens tourism. Laura believes that because the communities here have been able to build businesses with almost no support from the government or other institutions, they are unlikely to be broken by COVID-19.

“When local people start running a homestay business, they understand that land is a vital asset that must be protected. They start thinking ‘why do I need to sell this land when I could start my own business here and earn more money’?”

Seventythree: Key learnings around community-based ecotourism and homestays

The final expert speaker, Adrian Wells of Seventythree, summarised his learnings from his extensive experience working in community organising and ecotourism. Seventythree is a social enterprise with an interest in local control over land and natural resources, and recently supported the development of a homestay toolkit with Blue Ventures and WWF, detailing their experience working with Stay Raja Ampat.

In 2012, Adrian Wells and his team at Seventythree began working with the communities in Raja Ampat to develop sustainable fisheries and agriculture, however they soon discovered that the communities were most motivated to try homestays as an alternative livelihood, due to previous experience in hospitality. As Adrian explained however, it was important to develop other alternative livelihoods around homestays, such as sustainable fishing and farming, in order to engage the entire community.

In his talk, Adrian described how the most important aspect of developing ecotourism as a livelihood for communities is to dedicate time, effort and expertise to developing strong community institutions to manage ecotourism businesses, like the Raja Ampat Homestay Association. These can be strengthened through building leadership capacity, teaching the importance of transparency and accountability, establishing rules and standards, and most importantly, facilitating conversations around community values. As Adrian explains, NGOs can’t be there forever and it is important not to create dependencies that cannot be sustained; communities must be enabled to take complete ownership of their businesses so that they remain valuable, lucrative and sustainable for years to come.

Following their presentations, the panellists continued to share their expertise in a live Q&A, which was then followed by breakout sessions, offering the chance for participants to learn more about the ways in which these organisations are working to overcome the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis impacting community-led ecotourism and how these communities are continuing to lead conservation efforts.

WWF’s Coastal Communities Initiative will be hosting a follow up event focussing on innovative finance mechanisms for marine tourism in early 2021.

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Thank you to our expert panellists, Laura Resti Kalsum, Francesca Trotman, Adrian Wells, our partners at WWF for their support in facilitating and to all who attended this interactive online discussion.

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