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Beyond Walls Project: Saype in Istanbul
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Beyond Walls launched in June 2019, aiming to symbolically create the biggest human chain on the planet by the French-Swiss artist Saype. Gigantic paintings on grass feature hands to hands that interlace, shake on another, and unite in a common effort that goes beyond the walls that separate human beings and enclose them in mental or geographical spaces.
It’s a message of optimism, kindness, and togetherness that the artist wants to send to the world.
The “Beyond Walls” aims at creating the largest symbolic human chain around the world promoting values such as togetherness, kindness and openness to the world. Photo: Valentin Flauraud for Saype.
An ephemeral work that vanishes over time following the flows of nature. It helps us to see the world as a living being worthy of respect and as a part of ourselves: a New Humanity barriers and look to a future capable of spreading hope rather than fear. Saype’s performance has already crossed several borders and continues to travel carrying this universal message from country to country along an immense human chain that embraces the planet. The eighth destination was the city of Istanbul.
Beyond Walls Project Volunteer Görkem Kızılkayak answered SEVENTYFOUR‘s questions about the origins of the collaboration that brought the iconic public art series to three key locations in Istanbul.
For the latest large scale outdoor installation in Istanbul, Besiktas Municipality has collaborated with the renowned French-Swiss artist, Saype. What sparked this collaboration?
When I noticed Saype’s post of an amazing Bosphorus view on Instagram last year, I sent him a DM to offer support in case he is interested in a project in Istanbul. We were drinking tea with him just 2 hours after this first contact. Both parties’ enthusiasm about a potential project sparked this collaboration and we’ve quickly organized ourselves to pick the perfect spots, timing, and initiated the planning.
This is the eighth installment of Saype’s Beyond Walls series; why Istanbul was the perfect choice in the light of everything that is happening today?
The only location for Saype’s Beyond Walls series not in Europe was Africa and he was keen to extend the blueprint towards Asia for the sake of giving the message of Beyond Walls across geographical, political, and social borders. And Istanbul is significantly in line with what Beyond Walls speaks for.
One of the key locations for the installation was Boğaziçi University on the European Side of the city. Photo: Valentin Flauraud for Saype
How did you decide on the three locations for the installation? Was there a specific reason behind it?
In the beginning, Saype wanted to pick two locations, one of each being on the European and Asian side of Istanbul. With my friend and partner in this project Roxane, we created a shortlist. Boğaziçi University and Beykoz were on that list. The floating platform was the idea of Kültür A.Ş.’s General Manager Serdal Taşkın, who believed in this project from the beginning on and provided us the best spot which literally links the two continents.
The Municipality and Kültür A.Ş. helped Saype to find the best spots that links the two continents in the city. Photo: Valentin Flauraud for Saype
After the press conference, the aerial photos of the work have spread online much like a wind of hope and unity. What is the public role of installations such as Saype’s Beyond Walls?
Yes, the interest in Saype’s work online was beyond our expectations, more than 40 countries about 300 press publications, and 850 million people. Even on the first day, the aerial photos’ interaction was three times the Paris installation. Everyone who took part in this project is very happy to convey Saype’s message. We are at a point in history where the world is polarizing, and where a part of the people are more and more turning in on themselves. However, Saype believes that it is only together when we can respond to the biggest challenges of our times, where the artist wants to send a message of kindness and optimism by symbolically creating the largest human chain ever made.
Where will the installation be exhibited after?
Saype desires to have the largest impact on people without impacting nature, so the work disappears and dissolves due to weather conditions. The grass which covered the floating installation is distributed to various parks right after the installation and photo shoots. An exhibition that displayed photos from all three frescoes and other Beyond Walls locations took place in Taksim Sanat and currently part of the exhibition can be seen on the walls of the French Institute on Istiklal Street.
Besiktas Municipality, Culture Desk, Görkem Kızılkayak, Kültür AŞ, SAYPE
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A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
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SBIRS-GEO (Space Based Infra Red Sensor - Geostationary) is the geostationary component of the SBIRS-High program, which will replace the DSP system of early warning satellites in providing early warning for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches.
The SBIRS sensors are designed to provide greater flexibility and sensitivity than DSP and can detect short-wave and expanded mid-wave infrared signals allowing the system to perform a broader set of missions. These enhanced capabilities will result in improved prediction accuracy for global strategic and tactical warfighters.
The SBIRS-GEO spacecraft is a 3-axis stabilized A2100M platform with a Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) scanning sensor and a staring sensor. Sensor pointing is accomplished with pointing mirrors within the telescopes. The GEO scanning sensor will provide a shorter revisit time than DSP over its full field of view, while the staring sensor will be used for step-stare or dedicated stare operations over smaller areas.
On Oct. 3, 1996, the SBIRS High program received approval from the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, Dr Paul Kaminski. The SBIRS High Component element, featuring a mix of Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS-GEO) satellites, Highly Elliptical Earth Orbit (SBIRS-HEO) payloads on other satellites, and a new consolidated Ground Processing station, will incrementally replace the existing DSP infrastructure over the FY99 - FY03 time frame. This element is the first of two planned elements which will provide an enhanced follow-on capability to the current DSP system. The second element, commonly known as the Low Component, has been designated as a Major Defense Acquisition Program but is being developed as an integral part of the overall SBIRS “System of Systems” development concept.
The EMD contract for SBIRS High was awarded to Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space as the prime contractor on 8 Nov 1996. Lockheed's team-members include Aerojet and Lockheed Martin Federal Systems to provide satellite control, mission data processing and telemetry and tracking and operations, Northrop Grumman to provide primary infrared sensor payload and Honeywell for on-board data processing. This contract value is $1.8B for High Component work spanning the next 10 years.
In late 2005, the SBIRS-High program has been curtailed to no more than three satellites due to skyrocketing costs, but this decision was reversed later, as there was no viable alternative to SBIRS-GEO. In June 2009 the third satellite was ordered. In January 2011, GEO-4 was ordered along with long lead items for GEO-5.
In October 2012 Lockheed Martin was awarded an US$82 million contract to begin initial work on the fifth and sixth geosynchronous satellites. The US$1.86 billion award for the completition of the fifth and sixth satellite was awarded in June 2014. In June 2015, it was decided, that SBIRS-GEO 5 and 6 will be built using the modernized version of the A2100 bus.
The launch order of SBIRS-GEO SV3 and SV4 was switched to optimize the storage and transport costs. GEO SV3 was put into storage for a 2018 launch, while GEO SV4 was launched in 2017 directly after having been finished.
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Lockheed Martin: Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS)
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Football’s Economic Climate Has Taken A Hit From COVID-19
Reflect, a little less than 6 months earlier, as well as you’ll trip to apocalyptic forecasts concerning the future of football. This was a time when leagues had actually stopped and it had not been clear whether they ‘d be returning at all; a time when a KPMG study recommended that the Huge 5 leagues were most likely to shed approximately EUR4 billion in 2019-20 alone and that as much as EUR10 billion could be wiped off the value of gamers; a time when every person was going Chicken Little due to the fact that, yeah, the skies truly was falling.
It’s now September and we have a clearer picture. And also while it’s by no means good as well as there is still a ton of unpredictability, things are not as alarming as we had imagined. Yes, there will certainly be major ripple effects, yet things could have been much even worse, and also the reality that they’re not remains in component down to the initiatives made to return to football in a lot of residential leagues and also the Champions League and that they have actually been able to do it without negative effects so far (knock on wood).
A record by the European Club Organization (ECA) launched last month does anticipate EUR4 billion’s worth of lower profits, however that is across Europe’s leading 20 top-flight leagues, not simply the Large Five. More significantly, that’s over two seasons, absorbing 2019-20 and 2020-21.
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Four billion sounds like a large number as well as, to be sure, it is. But without context, it’s not that meaningful. So right here’s some context for you, utilizing ECA’s very own numbers: In 2019-20 as well as 2020-21 incomes were predicted to be, in a non COVID-19 globe, around EUR45.1 billion; now, they forecast to be EUR41.1 billion.
That’s a decrease of 8.9%, which is undoubtedly bad as well as will certainly have a negative result, however is not nearly as tragic as you could assume. ECA’s projected profits for 2020-21 is EUR20.7 billion, which is only partially less than it remained in 2017-18. So, successfully, we’re back to where we were a bit greater than two years earlier.
There’s more. ECA’s projections are based upon the presumption that stadium presence will certainly be around 50% on average across Europe in 2020-21. That assumption feels significantly “finger airborne,” yet it’s not their mistake: the pandemic– as well as the feedback from neighborhood authorities as well as governments– has been extremely unforeseeable. Still, as of now, you have actually obtained some organizations, like Switzerland, who intend to be at two-thirds ability in the very near future. In the Premier Organization, followers could be back on a restricted basis as early as October. And also, certainly, there is the opportunity of a vaccination at some time in the new year.
Followers in stadiums don’t just influence box-office invoices, though that’s undoubtedly a huge driver. They additionally impact arena sponsorship, hospitality as well as merchandise, all important earnings streams for clubs. The impact here is that the 50% number might be on the conventional side, which would certainly better drive down that EUR4 billion in lost revenue.
There are clearly other ways the pandemic hit the game. A lot of leagues needed to offer discounts on the TELEVISION agreements signed with broadcasters. The Premier League is repaying some EUR360 million, the Bundesliga EUR200m and UEFA around EUR575m.
” We have not remained in a position to deliver on our commitments to enrollers and broadcasters,” said ECA head of state as well as Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli.
And both in terms of enrollers as well as broadcasters, there’s a much deeper problem: As their core organizations obtain struck by the worldwide economic slump, they won’t just request discounts, they may offer smaller bargains moving forward.
After that there’s the liquidity issue. Having actual cash money on hand to pay bills as well as conduct company is totally different than having annual report that show profit or break-even. This Twitter thread by the exceptional @SwissRamble demonstrates exactly how, regardless of revealing audit revenues of almost EUR200m (₤ 178m) over the past 3 periods, functioning resources is restricted also at a large club like Liverpool who have been widely successful on the pitch. (In their situation, it’s a little bit of a double whammy, since the worldwide downturn indicates they won’t be able to completely capitalise in regards to growing brand name profits even after winning the Premier League and also Champions League.).
Not every club remains in the exact same watercraft. Some have proprietors that remain in a placement to straight inject money or tackle financial obligation to manage the concern, but the issue is very real as well as it’s really felt in the transfer market. It may look like not being extremely vital since ultimately when players are dealt most of the cash “stays in the system,” changing from one club to one more, but as a matter of fact, in audit terms, “gamer trading”– as well as the truth that with the magic of amortisation you can produce paper revenues apparently out of slim air– is hugely crucial to numerous clubs. So while that previous quote of “as much as EUR10 billion rubbed out the value of gamers” may be overemphasized– and also, as a matter of fact, it is– there is no question that less activity hits clubs difficult and also in more means than one.
till, you go back to the standard numbers. We’re talking about a reduction of 8.9% over 2 years which’s based on fairly negative, conventional assumptions. It could be more, it could, likely, be much less. And, in any case, it’s nowhere near as ruthless as the damages endured by other branches of the leisure and entertainment industry.
Football has been helped by the fact that it was able to return in the majority of European nations and they were able to complete European competitors in 2019-20. UEFA’s choice to loosen up Financial Fair game as a result of the pandemic also aids get rid of a few of the stress, encouraging even more investment. For all the criticism that FFP has actually had over the years, its existence implied that, considering that its execution in 2013, the European game has actually gone from losses of almost EUR2 billion to profits in each of the past 2 years. To put it simply, it has actually come to be an actual, investable service, with the type of strength to weather also pandemics similar to this one. However above all, the essential distinction is football itself and also the cravings of followers for the sport.
Agnelli spoke of exactly how the pandemic has left “deep scars” on European football which’s certainly real, yet marked as it may be, it’s still active and kicking. And it will recuperate, regardless of the end ofthe world situations.
The inquiry that stays is what it will look like long term, after 2024, when the contract on the global calendar expires. If there is to be a radical restructuring– whether it’s breakaway Super Leagues, an entirely revamped Champions League or local multi-country competitions– that’s when it will occur. And, due to the fact that this is an organization, just what will happen will certainly require to be negotiated by the spring of 2022, because, as Agnelli claims, that’s the current date that you can most likely to market to market whatever format you’re marketing to enrollers as well as advertisers.
That’s only 18 months away. And also the extra radical and divisive scenarios– like turning the Champions Organization into a real home-and-away organization, playing on weekends, creating some sort of global variation under FIFA’s auspices, a Super Organization run by and for the huge clubs with assured areas– will certainly take a lots of time to establish.
So while the sport, and the world, will most likely have recouped by that point, it’s never clear that the hunger for radical change– of the type that just enhances the gap in between the elite and everybody else– will still be there. Which could be one of minority positive side to the pandemic.
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Nick Compton: Duncan Fletcher deserves credit for shaping Indian pace attack
Indian pacers took 19 out of 20 wickets at Trent Bridge where India beat England by 203 runs to peg the series at 2-1.
Southampton 26 August, 2018 11:44 IST
Bumrah picked a five-fer in the second innings as India beat England by 203 runs in the third Test at Trent Bridge. - GETTY IMAGES
Duncan Fletcher handled the toughest transition phase in Indian cricket post the retirement of stalwarts and he should be given due credit for shaping the pace attack of the current team, former England opener Nick Compton said on Sunday.
Pace the key
Compton feels that just like James Anderson and Stuart Broad were guided by Fletcher in their formative years, the current lot (Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar) has benefitted from the inputs of the respected Zimbabwean coach.
“India’s pace attack hasn’t come together all of a sudden. It has taken time and it has happened one by one, as all of these bowlers took their time coming of age. India didn’t have so many pacers at once earlier, but now they do. And all (most) of them, at some point have played under Fletcher, so it is a credit to him. This process (of building a pace attack) started long ago and it has come together for India now,” Compton said.
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Asked how the current crop was different from its predecessors, Compton explained: “The difference from the past is that these bowlers do not compromise on pace. Like James Anderson and Stuart Broad, they retain the ability to move the ball at pace.
“Pace. That’s the keyword. You have to consider why the likes of Anderson and Stuart Broad have been so successful in their careers. They have a thousand wickets between them in Test cricket because they move the ball at pace. And it is no coincidence that both of them started their England careers under Duncan Fletcher,” Compton said.
Grandson of the legendary Dennis Compton, the former international believes that the Indian team management should allow other personalities to grow in the dressing room, especially the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane, who could provide a different mood or direction of thought.
“Now that Pujara and Rahane have scored runs, things will get easier for them. India won in Nottingham and hit upon a good team balance. There is no further reason for a change. It will be interesting to see if Virat (Kohli) make any changes (for the fourth Test),” Compton said.
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Backing the players
Compton felt that Kohli’s constant chopping and changing has created problems for the likes of Rahane and Pujara.
“But in terms of selection, Virat makes too many changes. For example, it was a baffling decision to leave Pujara out of the first Test and it showed poor insight from the team management to allow that decision.
“When Virat makes so many changes as captain, it cannot always be easy for other players, like Pujara or Rahane for that matter. They do not have alpha-male personalities and such players can sometimes struggle to cope with extreme methods.”
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However, winning the series
“I don’t think England are out of this series just yet and winning three Tests on the bounce here is very tough for any visiting side. There will be some good, competitive cricket in the remaining matches, but I do not see India winning the series,” Compton said.
Compton also felt that Joe Root isn’t a natural No 3 and that is creating issues.
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“The top order is a mess because they haven’t got their batting order right. Joe Root isn’t a number three batsman, and he isn’t batting at his best position. He should be batting at number four and controlling the innings. He didn’t handle Jasprit Bumrah very well.
“Bumrah bowls at pace and moves the ball into batsmen, working that angle. I think someone like Root should be able to work it out better on his off stump. But the fact that Bumrah is still able to cause problems to Root says a lot about his quality.”
Captaincy is also an added burden, said Compton, who played last of his 16 Tests for England in November 2016.
“At times, I think he (Root) should be left alone to be England’s best batsman because he certainly is. However, it isn’t like England have another option at the moment. They certainly do need to rethink their batting order, especially if they continue to not get good starts.”
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Va inmate gets wish: Death penalty for 2 slayings
A Virginia inmate who pleaded guilty to killing an inmate after threatening to kill again if he didn't get the death penalty for slaying another prisoner has gotten his wish.
WISE, Va. – A Virginia inmate who pleaded guilty to killing an inmate after threatening to kill again if he didn't get the death penalty for slaying another prisoner has gotten his wish.
The Bristol Herald Courier (http://bit.ly/nPCJ91 ) reports that Robert Gleason received not one, but two death sentences Tuesday during a hearing in Wise County Circuit Court. One sentence was for killing inmate Harvey Watson Jr. in 2009. The other was for killing inmate Aaron Cooper in July 2010.
Gleason had pleaded guilty previously to both slayings. He said in court and in an interview with The Associated Press last year that he would kill again if he wasn't given the death penalty for Watson's slaying.
Upon hearing the sentence Tuesday, Gleason grinned and jokingly wondered if he'd be executed twice.
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Temperature data is essential for predicting the weather. So, the U.S. National Weather Service, and every other weather service around the world, wants temperatures to be measured as accurately as possible.
To understand climate change we also need to be sure we can trust historical measurements. A group called the International Surface Temperature Initiative is dedicated to making global land temperature data available in a transparent manner.
Surface temperature measurements are collected from about 30,000 stations around the world (Rennie et al. 2014). About 7000 of these have long, consistent monthly records (Fig. 1). As technology gets better, stations are updated with newer equipment. When equipment is updated or stations are moved, the new data is compared to the old record to be sure measurements are consistent over time.
Figure 1. Station locations with at least 1 month of data in the monthly Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-M). This set of 7280 stations are used in the global land surface databank. (Rennie et al. 2014)
In 2009 some people worried that weather stations placed in poor locations could make the temperature record unreliable. Scientists at the National Climatic Data Center took those critics seriously and did a careful study of the possible problem. Their article "On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record" (Menne et al. 2010) had a surprising conclusion. The temperatures from stations that critics claimed were "poorly sited" actually showed slightly cooler maximum daily temperatures compared to the average.
In 2010 Dr. Richard Muller criticized the "hockey stick" graph and decided to do his own temperature analysis. He organized a group called Berkeley Earth to do an independent study of the temperature record. They specifically wanted to answer the question is "the temperature rise on land improperly affected by the four key biases (station quality, homogenization, urban heat island, and station selection)?" Their conclusion was NO. None of those factors bias the temperature record. The Berkeley conclusions about the urban heat effect were nicely explained by Andy Skuce in an SkS post in 2011. Figure 2 shows that the U.S. network does not show differences between rural and urban sites.
Figure 2. Comparison of spatially gridded minimum temperatures for U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) data adjusted for time-of-day (TOB) only, and selected for rural or urban neighborhoods after homogenization to remove biases. (Hausfather et al. 2013)
Temperatures measured on land are only one part of understanding the climate. We track many indicators of climate change to get the big picture. All indicators point to the same conclusion: the global temperature is increasing.
Understanding adjustments to temperature data, Zeke Hausfather
Explainer: How data adjustments affect global temperature records, Zeke Hausfather
Time-of-observation Bias, John Hartz
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study: “The effect of urban heating on the global trends is nearly negligible,” Andy Skuce
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All the Berkeley Earth data and analyses are available online at http://berkeleyearth.org/data/.
Plot your own temperature trends with Kevin's calculator.
Or plot the differences with rural, urban, or selected regions with another calculator by Kevin.
NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISSTEMP) describes how NASA handles the urban heat effect and links to current data.
NOAA Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) Daily. GHCN-Daily contains records from over 100,000 stations in 180 countries and territories.
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Tom Dayton at 06:21 AM on 18 January, 2010
Gavin Schmidt has a brief response to the Smith & Coleman bizarre claims that the "real" temperature stations' data have been replaced by averages of unrepresentative stations' data, and that data have been destroyed. Gavin's response is to Leanan's comment #9 on 17 January 2010 in the comments on the RealClimate post 2009 Temperatures by Jim Hansen.
Mizimi at 06:01 AM on 16 February, 2010
53# have a look at http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/nvst.html which graphs temp against station numbers, you can also access the University of Delware mpeg file which animates the global station numbers form 1950 - 1999. Watch China & the Soviet Union. If you reaslly want to spend the time, go to GISS and check out the temp graphs for stations in the SU...you will find 'most' of them stopped sending data after 1990.
Berényi Péter at 02:34 AM on 28 February, 2010
Re: #72 Jeff Freymueller at 17:00 PM on 27 February, 2010 (in: Senator Inhofe's attempt to distract us from the scientific realities of global warming) http://skepticalscience.com/news.php?p=2&t=76&&n=147#9477 "Anyone can download the original data and reanalyze it" Jeff, I am trying to do that, but the only source I know of is GHCN-Monthly Version 2 at the NCDC site: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/index.php Do you know a better source? If so, a pointer is welcome. For this particular dataset is a complete mess. It is dominated by USHCN, poorly documented, metadata are insufficient, the adjustment procedure is arbitrary, coverage AFTER 1990 is deteriorating rapidly. Look into it and you'll see. In a post deleted by John I have provided some details. Suffice to say the NCDC adjustment algorithm has at least four outstanding break points at 1905, 1920, 1990 & 2006. On average for the 1920-1990 period they have applied a 0.36°C/century warming adjustment to the entire dataset. It's essentially the same for sites flagged "rural" and the rest (urban & suburban), no statistically significant difference in adjustment slopes (based on counterfactual assumption of no urbanization in this period perhaps). The dataset does not meet any reasonable open source standard. Still, NCDC at its site says it was "employed" in IPCC AR4 20th century temperature reconstruction. http://ber.parawag.net/images/GHCN_adjustments.jpg Looks like it is high time for a transparent open source community project to recollect worldwide temperature histories along with site assessments and ample metadata.
Jeff Freymueller at 07:10 AM on 28 February, 2010
#57, Berényi Péter The details are outside my specialty so I can offer only very limited help here. I went to the ftp site and poked around for a minute or two and found this readme file: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt The ftp site looks like it is designed to make it simple for people to write automated scripts to grab all the data or updates, which is what I would be doing if I used this data. I do know from reading other blogs that the raw data is also available in addition to adjusted data, so you will have to poke around a bit, or send a question to the email address in the readme file if you can't find what you need after reading the documentation. GISS has the source code for its software online, so you can look into that for examples of reading the files and so on.
Berényi Péter at 01:48 AM on 1 March, 2010
Thanks, Jeff. It's GHCN-DAILY Version 2.1, I'll look into it. $ wget -r ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/
Jesús Rosino at 00:07 AM on 6 March, 2010
We can add to "other lines of evidence for rising temperatures" also indirect evidence you mentioned elsewhere: - Greenland and Antarctica show net ice loss - Acceleration of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, particularly within the last few years. - Sea-ice loss in the Arctic is dramatically accelerating - Accelerating decline of glaciers throughout the world. - Rapid expansion of thermokarst lakes throughout parts of Siberia, Canada and Alaska - Disintegration of permafrost coastlines in the arctic - Poleward migration of species - Poleward movement of the jet streams (Archer 2008, Seidel 2007, Fu 2006) - Widening of the tropical belt
johnd at 09:03 AM on 4 April, 2010
Some recent analysis of USA surface temperatures, 16th March 2010, by Dr. Roy Spencer (http://www.drroyspencer.com/category/blogarticle/) suggests that there is sufficient doubt and perhaps significant differences to be found when closely examining the published data that warrants closer examination to accurately quantify the UHI effect, and how it impacts on both the accepted trends and also on how it affects other data that was calibrated against accepted surface measurements.
Riccardo at 10:02 AM on 4 April, 2010
johnd, it's always a good thing when other scientists come out with different analysis. But it needs to be done at the same quality level. The dataset Spencer uses did not go through the same quality control as GHN; also, data are not homogenized. Spencer corrected the raw data just for altitude and check for water coverage. Given that similar and more comprehensive analysis on the link between population and UHI has already been performed and accounted for, I'd be more carefull before claiming that "there is sufficient doubt". There are other things that I think need to be clarified. For example, Spencer found large UHI warming-population density differences for different years, which I find hard to explain. Even larger differences are found between USA and the rest of the world. Also, there's a sharp increase in the warming bias already between population densities of 5 and 20 per Km2, which again I find hard to understand. And it's worth noticing that the whole claim is based on the data for population densities below 200 per Km2, above which Spencer's results agree with CRUTem3. Spencer should also explain how satellite based temperatures can be fooled by population density. One last remark, the ISH dataset is released by NOAA which uses the GHN dataset for its analysis of temperature trends, I'm sure for good reasons.
johnd at 14:23 PM on 4 April, 2010
Riccardo, Spencer wasn't presenting his analysis as complete, but believed what differences he found are sufficient to justify a more complete independent analysis. Given that there are few stations where one can be confident of the data being not being biased by the UHI effect perhaps it does warrant careful analysis. Aren't satellite based temperature measurement equipment calibrated against "known" conventional temperature measurements? If not what are they calibrated against? The accuracy of satellite measurements despite the sophisticated instrumentation, will only be as accurate as the standard used to calibrate them.
Riccardo at 18:15 PM on 4 April, 2010
johnd, I know what Spencer and you think. I was giving reasons to think differently.
Ned at 00:20 AM on 5 April, 2010
johnd writes: Aren't satellite based temperature measurement equipment calibrated against "known" conventional temperature measurements? If not what are they calibrated against? The accuracy of satellite measurements despite the sophisticated instrumentation, will only be as accurate as the standard used to calibrate them. The AMSU temperature measurements are calibrated against two targets. There's a "hot" target located on the satellite itself (whose temperature is directly monitored using high-precision platinum resistence thermometers). For a "cold" target the sensor turns to measure the cosmic background radiation in open space (a very cold 3K). Real earth temperatures will fall between these two targets. The close agreement between satellite and surface temperatures is a bit of a problem for those skeptics who believe that the surface record is hopelessly contaminated by UHI effects. I've seen many commenters on other sites try to reconcile this by assuming that the satellite record is somehow "tuned" to match the surface trend, or surface stations are used to "calibrate" the AMSU satellite temperatures. But no such adjustment is actually used, and the close agreement between satellite and surface temperatures is real.
Berényi Péter at 11:03 AM on 27 June, 2010
#61 Ned at 00:20 AM on 5 April, 2010 The close agreement between satellite and surface temperatures is a bit of a problem for those skeptics who believe that the surface record is hopelessly contaminated by UHI effect Ned, the problem with satellite "temperatures" is that satellites do not measure temperature, not even color temperature, but for a specific layer of atmosphere (e.g. lower troposphere) brightness temperature is measured in a single narrow IR band. This measurement may be accurate and precise, but it is insufficient in itself to recover proper atmospheric temperatures. In order to make that transition, you need an atmospheric model. With the model atmosphere you can calculate the brightness temperature backwards and tune parameters until a match is accomplished with satellite brightness temperature data. Then you can look at the lower troposphere temperature of the model and call it temperature. However, with no further assumptions, the relation is not reversible, i.e. many different atmospheric states lend the same brightness temperature as seen from above. The very assumptions in the model, that make reverse calculations possible are the hidden backlink to surface temperature data. For there is no other way to verify model reliability than compare it to actual in situ measurements. Therefore if the surface temperature record is unreliable, so are atmospheric models used to transform satellite measured brightness temperatures to atmospheric temperatures. That makes the whole satellite thing dependent on surface data, in spite of independent sensor calibration methods.
CBDunkerson at 20:40 PM on 27 June, 2010
BP #62, if what you say were true then would not the satellite and surface temperature results diverge more and more as time goes by? After all, your argument is essentially that the satellite temperature data was 'set' to conform to surface results (though in fact UAH originally came up with results significantly different from the surface results and only later came to line up after several errors were identified). However, now that those 'assumptions' needed to match the satellite record up are in place they are fixed. If the surface temperature continued to change, per the 'UHI error theory' for instance, then it should diverge from the satellite record which is still based on the assumptions needed to match up to the older temperatures. Yet we aren't seeing this sort of growing divergence. I believe that is because you are simply incorrect about the satellite record being deliberately 'set equal' to the surface record... as also demonstrated by the fact that they originally did not match and the primary adjustments made since then have had to do with correcting for sensor drift rather than baselining to the surface data.
Berényi Péter at 12:16 PM on 29 June, 2010
#63 CBDunkerson at 20:40 PM on 27 June, 2010 though in fact UAH originally came up with results significantly different from the surface results and only later came to line up after several errors were identified Yes. And the motivation for debugging was the discrepancy. But the thing about conversion of brightness temperatures to proper temperatures using an atmospheric model was just a guess, I have not looked into the issue deeply enough, yet. However, I am pretty sure the surface database is tampered with. I have downloaded both v2.mean.Z and v2.mean_adj.Z from the GHCN v2 ftp site. According to the readme file data in the latter one are "adjusted to account for various non-climatic inhomogeneities". Then selected pairs of temperature values where for a 12 character station ID (includes country code, nearest WMO station number, modifier and duplicate number), a specific year and month both files contained valid temperatures (4,864,014 pairs for 1835-2010). For each pair I have calculated the adjustment as the difference of the value found in v2.mean_adj and v2.mean. Having done that, I have taken the average of adjustments for each year. It looks like this: It is really hard to come up with an error model that would justify this particular pattern of adjustments. One is inclined to think it's impossible. Note that for the last ninety years adjustments for various non-climatic inhomogeneities alone add about 0.26°C to the warming trend. If we also take into account the UHI effect which is not adjusted for properly, not much warming is left. Without soot pollution on ice and snow, we probably would have severe cooling.
scaddenp at 12:27 PM on 29 June, 2010
BP - a script and post on this. do climatologists falsify data?. I believe the papers used for homogenization are listed here.USHCN Do you have a problem with the methodology used here?
"without soot pollution on ice & snow" - you mean you think that you can explain warming in ocean, satellite, and surface record away as "anomalies" as poor instrumental records, and then explain the loss of ice/snow around the world purely by black soot? And the sealevel rise as by soot-induced melting alone without thermal expansion? I guess similar strange measurement anomalies will explain upper stratospheric cooling and the IR spectrum changes at TOS and at surface. That is drawing one very long bow, BP. You could be right but I will stick with the simpler explanation - we ARE warming and our emissions are the major cause of it.
doug_bostrom at 12:44 PM on 29 June, 2010
BP, what act of contrition will you offer should your remark of "tampered with" prove faulty? Perhaps a more careful choice of words would be better? Also, this isn't some kind of fad thing you're bringing from elsewhere, is it? I'm not being nasty, just am bothered with words smacking of fraud and am really bored with impressionist fads. As I've said before, you make an effort but that makes it -more- disappointing when you succumb to the freshly-revealed-climate-science-conspiracy-of-the-week. Anyway how about explicitly publishing your (admittedly simple sounding but I'm a simpleton) arithmetic method you're using to produce your datapoints?
JMurphy at 18:11 PM on 29 June, 2010
I used to be impressed with the allowances you grant to BP and his wild (and long) meanderings laced with accusations (such as 'tampering') and insinuations, but it is starting to get very boring and frustrating. How many times can such accusations be allowed without proof, even if followed by apologies - although the apologies are never (as far as I can see) related to the accusations made, as can be seen for his 'apology' on the Ocean acidification thread, where he apologised for getting angry but not for the general accusations against 'climate science'.
Not to swerve completely off-topic JMurphy but I'm not sure I can think of a single other skeptic I've witnessed actually admitting an error other than BP, here, though I can't remember exactly what was about or where, just that it was striking in its very novelty. I'm bothered by the fraud thing, very much so because it's hard to talk with somebody who starts with an assumption that data is cooked and I have to wonder how virtually all of our instrumental records could be either hopelessly flawed or run by the Mafia but on the other hand we're also sometimes treated to interesting little essays like this. I've spent (wasted according to some people) a lot of time in the past 3 years hanging out on climate blogs and Berényi Péter is quite unlike any other doubter I've run across.
doug_bostrom wrote : "...but on the other hand we're also sometimes treated to interesting little essays like this". And to add one last comment on this diversion : that comment just proves my point. Anywhere else you care to research the subject of the Dialogo, you will find Simplicio described as a combination of two contemporary philosophers : Cesare Cremonini who famously refused to look through the telescope; and Ludovico delle Colombe, one of Galileo's main detractors. You will also find evidence of Galileo's good connections with Maffeo Barberini (later Urban VIII), who had written a poem in praise of Galileo's telescopic discoveries and actually agreed to the publication of the Dialogo. Why, then, would Simplicio be a parody of Urban ? It's all part of a pattern : BP finds the evidence he likes and agrees with and everything else (and everyone else) is wrong, fraudulent or part of the conspiracy.
#65 scaddenp at 12:39 PM on 29 June, 2010 I believe the papers used for homogenization are listed here.USHCN Do you have a problem with the methodology used here? According to the USHCN page you have linked they do adjustments in 6 steps. The first one "with the development at the NCDC of more sophisticated QC procedures [...] has been found to be unnecessary" Otherwise the procedure goes like this: RAW -> TOBS -> MMTS -> SHAP -> FILNET -> FINAL Proper process audit is impossible, because
unified documentation of the procedure, including scientific justification and specification of algorithms applied is not available
for step 2, 3, 4 & 6 at least references to papers are provided, for step 5 not even that
neither executables nor source code and program documentation is provided for programs TOBS, MMTS, SHAP & FILNET.
metadata used by the programs above to do their job is missing and/or unspecified
clear statement whether the same automatic procedure were applied to GHCN v2 which is hinted at the USHCN Version 1 site is missing (if the arcane wording "GHCN Global Gridded Data" in the HTML header of that page is dismissed)
Well, I have found something, not referenced in either USHCN or GHCN pages. It is ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/software/USHCN_v52d.20100217.tar.gz. There is software there (written in Fortran 77) and some rather messy documentation including an MS Word DOC file titled:
USHCN Version 2.0 Update v1.0 Processing System Documentation (another version number here?) Draft August 46, 2009 Claude Williams Matthew Menne
I do not know how authoritative it is. But I do know much better documentation is needed even on low budget projects, not to mention one multi thousand billion bucks policy decisions are supposed to be based on. The "Pairwise Homogeneity Algorithm (PHA)" promoted (but not specified) in this document is not referenced on any other USHCN or GHCN page. Google search "Pairwise Homogeneity Algorithm" site:gov returns empty. It would be a major job to do the usual software audit on this thing. One has to hire & pay people with the right expertise for it, then publish the report along with data. However, any scientist would run away screaming upon seeing a calibration curve like this, wouldn't she? It is V shaped with clear trends and multiple step-like changes. One would think with 6736 stations spread all over the world and 176 years in time providing 4,864,014 individual data points errors would be a little bit more independent allowing for the central limit theorem to kick in. At least some very detailed explanation is needed why are there unmistakable trends in adjustments commensurate with the effect to be uncovered and why this trend has a steep downward slope for the first half of epoch while just the opposite is true for the second half? BTW, the situation with USHCN is a little bit worse. Adjustment for 1934 is -0.465°C relative to those applied to 2007-2010 (like 0.6°C/century?). I'll post the USHCN graph later. #66 scaddenp at 12:39 PM on 29 June, 2010 you think that you can explain warming in ocean, satellite, and surface record away as "anomalies" as poor instrumental records, and then explain the loss of ice/snow around the world purely by black soot? And the sealevel rise as by soot-induced melting alone without thermal expansion? I guess similar strange measurement anomalies will explain upper stratospheric cooling and the IR spectrum changes at TOS and at surface. That is drawing one very long bow One thing at a time, please. Let's focus on the problem at hand first, the rest can wait.
kdkd at 21:44 PM on 29 June, 2010
BP #64 I suggest you have a look at what the Clear climate project has to say about the ghcn data you've examined. Scientific code is almost never pretty - the goals are very different to what commercial programmers would expect, and technical debt accumulates at far faster rates compared even to poorly managed commercial projects. This is caused by the two camps having distinctly different goals (technical incompetence on the side of the scientists, and scientific incompetence on the side of the programmers, to be uncharitable).
Ned at 21:52 PM on 29 June, 2010
How depressing. In post #62 BP makes a whole series of very specific claims about the satellite temperature record, all of which are stated as factual with no qualifiers or caveats. Then, two posts later in #64, he casually mentions that those earlier statements were actually "just a guess, I have not looked into the issue deeply enough, yet." Then, to compound this, BP proceeds to claim to have discovered evidence of "tampering" (his own word) with the GHCN data set, based on comparing the raw and adjusted GHCN data sets using a naive unspatial averaging of all station data. I have pointed out to BP previously that you cannot compare the results of a simple global average of all stations to the gridded global temperature data sets because the stations are not distributed uniformly. Given that many people have looked into this in vastly more detail than BP, and have done it right instead of doing it wrong, I cannot fathom why BP thinks his analysis adds any value, let alone why it would justify sweeping claims about "tampering". Here's a comparison of the gridded global land temperature trend, showing the negligible difference between GHCN raw and adjusted data: This is based on results from Zeke Hausfather, one of a large and growing number of people who have done independent, gridded analyses of global temperature using open-source data and software. BP claims that the GHCN adjustment added "0.26 C" to the warming trend over the last 90 years (is that 0.26 C per 90 years, or is it 0.26 C per century over the last 90 years? "0.26 C" is not a trend). Using a gridded analysis, the actual difference in the trends is 0.04 C/century over the last 90 years. Over the last 30 years, the difference in trend between the raw and adjusted data is 0.48 C/century ... with the adjusted trend being lower than the raw trend. In other words, the "tampering" that BP has detected is, over the past 30 years, reducing the magnitude of the warming trend. Then, of course, there's the issue that land is only about 30% of the earth's surface. Presumably the effect of any adjustment to the land data needs to be divided by 3.33 to compare its magnitude to the global temperature trend. Once again, BP has drawn extreme and completely unjustified conclusions ("tampering") based on a very weak analysis. Personally, I am getting really tired of seeing this here.
#67 doug_bostrom at 12:44 PM on 29 June, 2010 how about explicitly publishing your (admittedly simple sounding but I'm a simpleton) arithmetic method you're using to produce your datapoints? Listen, I think the description of the procedure followed is clear enough, anyone can replicate it. I am not into "publishing" either, it not my job. It is not science proper. That would require far more resources and time. I am just trying to show you the gaps where PhD candidates could find their treasure. The trails can be followed, and if anyone is concerned about it, things I write here are published under the GNU Free Documentation License. I have not written proper software either just used quick-and-dirty oneliners in a terminal window. Anyway, here you go. This is what I did for USHCN as recovered from the .bash_history file. [Oops. Pressed the wrong button first] $ wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2/v2.mean* $ grep '^425' v2.mean > ushcn.mean $ grep '^425' v2.mean_adj > ushcn.adj $ cat ushcn.mean|perl -e 'while (<>) {chomp; $id=substr($_,0,12); $y=substr($_,12,4); for ($m=1;$m<=12;$m++) {$t=substr($_,11+5*$m,5); printf "%s_%s_%02u %5d\n",$id,$y,$m,$t;} }'|grep -v ' [-]9999$' > ushcn.mean_monthly $ cat ushcn.adj|perl -e 'while (<>) {chomp; $id=substr($_,0,12); $y=substr($_,12,4); for ($m=1;$m<=12;$m++) {$t=substr($_,11+5*$m,5); printf "%s_%s_%02u %5d\n",$id,$y,$m,$t;} }'|grep -v ' [-]9999$' > ushcn.adj_monthly $ cut -c-20 ushcn.mean_monthly | sort > ushcn.mean_monthly_id $ cut -c-20 ushcn.adj_monthly | sort > ushcn.adj_monthly_id $ uniq -d ushcn.mean_monthly_id $ uniq -d ushcn.adj_monthly_id $ sort ushcn.mean_monthly_id ushcn.adj_monthly_id | uniq -d > ushcn.common_monthly_id $ (sed -e 's/^/0 /g' ushcn.mean_monthly; sed -e 's/^/1 /g' ushcn.adj_monthly; sed -e 's/^/2 /g' ushcn.common_monthly_id;)|sort +1 -2 +0 -1 > ushcn.composite_list $ sed -e 's/ */ /g' ushcn.composite_list|perl -e 'while (<>) {chomp; ($i,$id,$t)=split; if ($i==2 && $id eq $iid && $id eq $iiid) {$d=$tt-$ttt; printf "%s %d\n",$id,$d;} $iiid=$iid; $iid=$id; $ttt=$tt; $tt=$t;}' > ushcn.adjustments_monthly_by_station $ sed -e 's/^............_//g' -e 's/_.. / /g' ushcn.adjustments_monthly_by_station | sort > ushcn.adjustments_annual_list $ echo '#' >> ushcn.adjustments_annual_list $ cat ushcn.adjustments_annual_list | perl -e 'while (<>) {chomp; ($d,$t)=split; if ($d ne $dd && $dd ne "") {$x/=$n*10; printf "%s\t%.3f\n",$dd,$x; $n=0; $x=0;} $n++; $x+=$t; $dd=$d;}' > ushcn.adjustments_annual.txt $ openoffice -calc ushcn.adjustments_annual.txt
In my comment above, the link associated with the phrase "many people have looked into this in vastly more detail than BP" is sub-optimal. The link there is to a cached page at google, when it should be to Zeke Hausfather's comparison of GHCN analyses.
BP writes: I have not written proper software either just used quick-and-dirty oneliners in a terminal window. Maybe you should stop making allegations of fraud based on "quick and dirty oneliners"? Especially on a topic where many people have invested huge amounts of their own time on far more sophisticated analyses?
#73 Ned at 21:52 PM on 29 June, 2010 Here's a comparison of the gridded global land temperature trend, showing the negligible difference between GHCN raw and adjusted data What you call negligible is in fact a 0.35°C difference between adjustments for 1934 and 1994 in your graph. If it is based on Zeke Hausfather, then it's his assessment. Now, 0.35°C in sixty years makes a 0.58°C/century boost for that period. Hardly negligible. It is actually twice as much as the adjustment trend I have calculated above (0.26°C in ninety years, 0.29°C/century). About the same order of magnitude effect is seen for USHCN. It is 0.56°F (0.31°C) difference between 1934 and 1994, which makes a 0.52°C/century increase in trend for this period. Therefore, if anything, my calculation was rather conservative relative to more careful calculations. It should also be clear it has nothing to do with the grid, so stop repeating that, please. What is not shown by more complicated approaches is the curious temporal pattern of adjustments to primary data (because they tend to blur it). Finally dear Ned, would you be so kind as to understand first what is said, then you may post a reply.
Ned at 01:39 AM on 30 June, 2010
If anyone is uncertain about what to make of the conflicting claims from BP and me, please do the following: (1) Go here and download the spreadsheet that Zeke Hausfather compiled, showing annual global temperature reconstructions from many different analyses by many different people. The data are described in Zeke's post here. (2) Click on the tab labeled "Land Temp Reconstructions". If you want to see the effects of the GHCN adjustment, select columns A (year), E (v2.mean) and F (v2.mean_adj). (3) To see the effect of the adjustment, subtract column E from column F. To determine the trend in this adjustment over any period of time (like BP's weird choice of 1934-1994) select that range of years and fit a linear model to the differences, as a function of year (and multiply the slope by 100 to convert from degrees C/year to degrees C/century). For 1934-1994 the slope is 0.19 C/century. As stated above, over the past 30 years the adjustments have actually reduced the trend (slope -0.48 C/century). Contrary to what BP claims, it's really important to use some form of spatial weighting (e.g., gridding) when doing this, because the stations are not uniformly distributed. Taking a simple average would only be appropriate if there were no spatial autocorrelation in the adjustments. Given that stations in different countries have been administered differently, this seems like an extremely unlikely assumption. BP's claim that "more complicated" (that is, more correct) methods don't show the temporal evolution of adjustments is likewise inexplicable. All of the reconstructions produce annual temperature estimates.
#78 Ned at 01:39 AM on 30 June, 2010 Contrary to what BP claims, it's really important to use some form of spatial weighting (e.g., gridding) when doing this, because the stations are not uniformly distributed. OK, I have understood what's going on. In a sense you are right, but for a different reason what you think you are right for. You do not have to do any gridwork, just treat the US and the rest of the world separately. 1. Until about 2005 the USHCN used to be heavily overrepresented in GHCN (since then it is getting underrepresented, 4.16% in 2010). 2. Between about 1992 and 2005 up to 90% of GHCN readings came from USHCN, before that time it was 20-40%. 3. Since 2006 there is no adjustment in USHCN and since 1989 for the rest of the world. 4. Adjustments for USHCN are much bigger than for the rest of the world. They also follow a different pattern. It looks like two different adjustment procedures were applied to the US data and the rest of the world and the results were only put together after that. US land area is 9,158,960 km2, world is 148,940,000 km2, therefore the US has 6.1% of land. If the world is divided into two "regions": the US and the rest and area weighted average is calculated, trend in global adjustment is 0.1°C/century for 1900-2010 (the same figure is 0.39°C/century for USHCN). Unfortunately this peculiar feature of GHCN is undocumented.
Berényi Péter, you're part way there. Handling the US and the rest of the world separately is a good start, and for a simple order-of-magnitude guesstimate it might be enough. But as with everything in statistics you need to understand your assumptions. Treating the rest of the world as homogeneous will not yield an unbiased estimate of the global mean adjustment unless either (a) the stations are distributed approximately uniformly in space or time, or else (b) the expected value of the adjustment for station X in year Y is independent of that station's location. (For that matter, this also applies to treating the US as homogeneous). We know that (a) is untrue. So the question is whether (b) is true, or close enough to true that you can live with the resulting bias. (As an aside, the existence of nonstationarity in the expected value of the adjustment is not evidence of "tampering" ... there are many valid reasons why stations in country 1 or state 1 would require different types of adjustments than stations in country 2 or state 2). Again, you can just assume that the impact of any spatial heterogeneity will be small, and ignore the bias in your calculations. That's essentially what you did above. Alternatively, you can weight the data spatially, e.g. by gridding, and remove the problem. Does this help?
It seems to me that a lot of the questions people ask about the surface temperature data have been answered, at least in part, by the various "independent" (i.e., non-official) reconstruction tools that have been developed over the past six months. For example, all of the following questions have been addressed: (1) Can the "official" temperature records (GISSTEMP, HADCRU, NCDC) be replicated? [Yes] (2) Does the GHCN adjustment process have a large effect on the surface temperature trend? [Generally no] (3) Does the decrease in high latitude (or high altitude, or rural) stations have a large effect on the temperature trend? [No] (4) Does the location of stations at airports have a large effect on the the temperature trend? [No] (5) Does the overall decline in station numbers have an effect? Don't you need thousands or tens of thousands of stations to compute an accurate global temperature trend? [No, it can actually be done with fewer than 100 stations] There are probably other questions that I'm forgetting. Anyway, here are some handy links to tools that people have put together for do-it-yourself global temperature reconstruction. Many (but not all) of these are open-source, and many are very flexible, so that you can create reconstructions using different combinations of stations to test particular hypotheses. * Clear Climate Code (exact replication of GISSTEMP using Python). * Ron Broberg's blog "The Whiteboard" (replication of GISSTEMP and CRUTEMP) * Nick Stokes's GHCN processor * GHCN Processor by Joseph at Residual Analysis * Zeke Hausfather's temperature reconstructions (no single link, but see here and here) * Tamino * RomanM and Jeff Id * Chad at "Trees for the Forest" If there are others that I'm missing, maybe someone could add links in this thread.
Berényi Péter at 06:24 AM on 1 July, 2010
#80 Ned at 22:29 PM on 30 June, 2010 as with everything in statistics you need to understand your assumptions Exactly. But you still don't get is. Adjustment algorithm applied by GHCN v2 is not the same for the US as for the rest of the world. And this fact is not documented. Overall effect of adjustment on trend may be small (0.1 K/century), but the adjustment procedure itself can't be correct.
Tom Dayton at 06:39 AM on 1 July, 2010
BP, the adjustments are not the same anywhere, because the adjustments are peculiar to the individual circumstances of those cases. The adjustment algorithm is not just a formula, because it needs to accomodate events such as a station getting run over by a bulldozer and being repaired.
In other words, BP, if you take any two subsets of the stations, you will see the adjustments differ. Even though the same adjustment algorithm was applied.
#84 Tom Dayton at 06:58 AM on 1 July, 2010 if you take any two subsets of the stations, you will see the adjustments differ You must be kidding. It is not just any two subsets. What kind of algorithm can have this particular effect? I mean US data were adjusted upward by 0.27°C during the last 35 years while there was no adjustment at all for the rest of the world. Also, between 1870 and 1920 US trend was adjusted downward by 0.4°C while the rest of the world was adjusted slightly upwards. One should be able to tell what makes US weather stations so special. Anyway, I am just checking if there's any other pair of complementer subsets with such a weird behavior.
BP, an example is an adjustment for the time of day at which a temperature was measured at a station. At least in the U.S., temperatures at many stations originally were measured at the same time every morning. Then many of the stations (all?) changed to measure at the same time every afternoon. Those stations' temperatures from before the time-of-measurement change had to be adjusted to eliminate the difference that was due to the time-of-day change.
doug_bostrom at 07:51 AM on 1 July, 2010
BP, not to barge in again but perhaps you could simply ask the folks responsible for an explanation of what you think you see? They seem to invite this: For all climate questions, please contact the National Climatic Data Center's Climate Services Division: Climate Services and Monitoring Division NOAA/National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801-5001 fax: +1-828-271-4876 phone: +1-828-271-4800 e-mail: ncdc.info@noaa.gov To request climate data, please e-mail: ncdc.orders@noaa.gov
Ned at 08:44 AM on 1 July, 2010
BP writes: But you still don't get is. Adjustment algorithm applied by GHCN v2 is not the same for the US as for the rest of the world. And this fact is not documented. How can I say this politely? You seem not to have read even the most introductory literature about the GHCN data. You might want to start with: Peterson, T. and R. Vose. 1997. An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network Temperature Database. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78(12): 2837-2849. Section 6 describes the adjustment process and points out explicitly that one adjustment process is used for data from the USHCN network, and a different process for the rest of the world. It is frankly stunning that you would not have read even the single most basic paper about the GHCN data set before leaping to the conclusion that the data have been "tampered with". It's especially ironic that you are apparently under the impression that you've discovered something new and that I don't understand it. So. Yes, there is a difference between the US and the rest of the world. But as I said above, that's only the first step. You are still better off using a gridded analysis rather than naively assuming that the expected value of the adjustment is stationary across the whole rest of the world.
Gillespie at 04:10 AM on 6 July, 2010
There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record – which shows a warming of approximately 0.6°-0.8°C over the last century (depending on precisely how the warming trend is defined) – is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. These include that the land, borehole and marine records substantially agree; and the fact that there is little difference between the long-term (1880 to 1998) rural (0.70°C/century) and full set of station temperature trends (actually less at 0.65°C/century). This and other information lead the IPCC to conclude that the UHI effect makes at most a contribution of 0.05°C to the warming observed over the past century. http://www.globalwarmingsurvivalcenter.com
Ned at 22:24 PM on 12 July, 2010
Ron Broberg and Nick Stokes have created an entirely new gridded global surface temperature analysis that is independent of GHCN. It is based on the Global Summary of the Day (GSOD) records for a very large number of stations, available here. The main advantage of this is that it provides a semi-independent confirmation of the GHCN-based analysis that has been used for most of the surface temperature reconstructions up to this point. Other advantages include a larger number of stations, more stations in the Arctic and other remote locations, and no decrease in station numbers in recent years. Ron developed tools to acquire and reformat the GSOD data, and Nick then ran it through TempLS, his global temperature analysis program. The results are very similar to those from previous reconstructions using GHCN: Over the past three decades, both data sets (GHCN and GSOD) show similar trends (+2.5C/century) in Nick's analysis. If you find this all a bit confusing, the bottom line is that this is a radically new way of confirming the reliability of the existing surface station temperature analyses from GISSTEMP, HADCRU, etc.
Riccardo at 00:10 AM on 13 July, 2010
Ned, sometime I think that whatever the amount of data one can provide there's no way to convice some, hopefully just a few, guys. Nevertheless, it's always worth trying and keep all of us up to date with these new findings. Thanks.
Berényi Péter at 09:14 AM on 2 August, 2010
Moderator Response (to #50 Berényi Péter at 22:58 PM on 29 July, 2010 under 10 key climate indicators all point to the same finding: global warming is unmistakable): This level of detail and sheer space consumption does not belong on this thread. Put future such comments in the Temp Record Is Unreliable thread. But if you post too many individual station records, I will insist that you instead post summary statistics.
Understood. However, it is much more work to produce correct summary statistics and it is also harder for third parties to check them. I would like to make it as transparent as possible. At this time I am only at the beginning of this job and just trying to assess the approximate width and depth of the issue. So let me show you just one more station. It's Baker Lake, Canada, Nunavut. It is pretty interesting, because at this site GHCN v2 has common coverage with Weather Underground for two periods, from November, 1996 to March, 2004 and another one from December, 2005 to May, 2010 with very few breakpoints in each. The difference in adjustment to GHCN raw data relative to the Weather Underground archive before and after 2005 is 0.91°C. What is the problem with this site? As we can see, temperature is decreasing sharply, even if the +0.91°C correction after 2005 is added (yellow line). Therefore it was best to remove it from v2.mean_adj after 1991 altogether. The extreme cold snap of 2004/2005 is removed even from the raw dataset.
kdkd at 12:23 PM on 2 August, 2010
BP #92 You've set yourself a massive job there. Your best bet to make it manageable is to take a random sample of about 10% of the available weather stations, and then examine the appropriate data at each of them to see what proportion of the surface station record might be problematic. The random sampling is important (something you do not appear to have done yet), as is properly assessing the statistical significance of the difference between the records (for which you will have to correct for autocorrelation, thus reducing statistical power). On the other hand, you could be satisfied that the satellite record is an independent record of temperature that in does not show a statistically significantly different trend to the surface record over the same period.
KR at 12:48 PM on 2 August, 2010
Berényi - it's pretty obvious that you are searching for problems with the temperature records. However, in your search for problems of any kind, you are really ignoring the full data, the statistics. There are (as far as I can put it together) three completely independent data sets for surface temps: the GHCN stations, the GSOD data put together recently, and the satellite data streams (two major analyses of that). All three data streams, and all the numerous analysis techniques applied to them, agree on the trends. Multiple analyses of the GHCN data set alone by multiple investigators demonstrate that dropouts, station subsets, UHI adjustments or lack thereof - none of these affect the trend significantly. Analysis in detail of singular stations (which is what you have provided as far as I can see) fails to incorporate the statistical support of multiple data points, and the resulting reduction in error ranges. Are you selecting individual stations that have large corrections? Or what you see as large errors? If so then you are cherry-picking your data and invalidating your argument! If you can demonstrate a problem using a significant portion of the GHCN data set, randomly chosen and adjusted for area coverage, then you may have a point worth making. For that data set. And that data set only. But you have not done that. And you have certainly not invalidated either the satellite data or the (less adjusted) GSOD data indicating the same trends. Even if you prove some problem with the GHCN data (which I don't expect to happen), there are multiple independent reinforcing lines of evidence for the same trend data. That's data worth considering - robust and reliable.
A small meta-note on proof and disproof - take it for what you will. A common tactic used by people who don't agree with a particular theory is to try to point out errors in portions of the supporting data. Unfortunately, what that does (if that person is correct) is to disprove a particular line of data, but with little or no effect on the theory. Invalidating a particular line of data does just, and only, that. If there are multiple supporting lines of data for a theory, this only means that a particular data set has some issues, and should be reconsidered as to it's validity or provenance. On the other hand, if you have reproducible, reliable data that contradicts a theory, then you may have something. Data that is solid, reproducible by others, and not consistent with the prevailing theory, points out issues with that theory. An excellent example of this can be found in the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1881. Michelson had expected to find reinforcing data for the Aether theory, but his experiment failed to find any evidence for an Aether background to the universe. This was reproducible, consistent, and contrary to the Aether theory - and one of the nails in it's coffin as a theory of the universe. Pointing out an issue with a singular data set (of many) doesn't do much to the theory that it supports - there are lots of data streams that support AGW. But if there is a solid, reproducible, contradictory data set - I personally would love to see it, I personally would like this to not be a problem. But I haven't, yet. Summary: - Reproducible, solid, contradictory data sets provide counterexamples to a theory, and may indicate that the theory is flawed. - Problems with individual data sets indicate just that, not invalidation of larger, multiply supported, theories.
#93 KR at 12:48 PM on 2 August, 2010 it's pretty obvious that you are searching for problems with the temperature records. However, in your search for problems of any kind, you are really ignoring the full data, the statistics Yes, it is obvious, the more so because I've told you. And it's also pretty important to get acquainted with individual cases, otherwise you don't even know what to look for. BTW, you are perfectly right in stating the full dataset has to be taken into account and that's what I am trying to do. It just can't be done in a single step, not even Rome was built in a single day. Even so, I am happy to announce there is something I can already show you, related to the structure of the entire GHCN. I have downloaded v2.mean, and wherever there were multiple records for a year/month pair at a site identified by a 11 digit number in v2.temperature.inv, I took their average. Then I have computed monthly average temperatures for each site and got temperature anomalies relative to these values. A 5 year running average of these anomalies for all the sites in GHCN at any given time looks familiar: More than 0.8°C increase is seen in four decades. However, standard deviation is huge, it varies between 1.6°C and 1.9°C. That is, the trend is all but lost in noise, which fact is seldom mentioned. But it gets worse. Skewness of temperature anomaly distribution can also be computed. It is really surprising. I put the two measure into the same figure, because the similarity in trends is striking. Skewness is the lack of symmetry in distribution. In GHCN it has changed from strong negative to strong positive in four decades. In the the sixties temperature anomaly distribution used to have a long low temperature tail, while currently it is vanishing and changing into a long high temperature tail. Temperature anomaly and skewness does not always go together. The transient warming between 1934-39 did just the opposite. Now, changes in skewness of temperature anomaly distribution are either real or not. In the first case it begs for an explanation. As the warming in the thirties was certainly not caused by CO2, it can even turn out to be a unique fingerprint of this trace gas. However, it can also be a station selection bias and that's what I'd bet on. Kurtosis of GHCN temperature anomaly distribution is also interesting. If this distribution would be normal, kurtosis would be zero. But it is not, and changing wildly. The last thing I'd like to show you for today is a temperature-kurtosis phase graph. After 1993 it turned into an entirely new direction and walked out to uncharted territory. It's happened just after the dramatic decrease of GHCN station number. Obviously there was a selection procedure involved in determining which stations should be dropped and it's unlikely it was a random one.
BP #96 You can save a lot of bother first by computing the same set of statistics on the other temperature records, and seeing if the summary distribution statistics that you're observing are different for each dataset. In fact this would improve the rigour of your analysis because you could then demonstrate that you're not jumping in with the preconceived notion that the temperature record is dud. Your use of words like "its gets worse" also detracts from the quality of your reporting. "Another interesting feature of this data" is a perfectly good phrase that helps to de-emphasise your preconceived notion of what's happening with the dataset. Also, are you correcting for the different sample size at each point in time with your measurement. If you haven't this casts strong doubt on the validity of your analysis to date.
BP - an excellent and very interesting posting you present here. Kurtosis of the GHCN data set may be due to any number of things - I would put "weather" at the top of those. I'm not terribly surprised to see the temp kurtosis varying considerably over time, albeit with a rather constrained distribution (your figure 7); simple changes in year-to-year variability (tight means and lacks thereof) might account for that. If it were driven by station number reduction I would expect to see a trend in it, which I don't from your graphs. As to the temperature shift - that appears independent of kurtosis in your figure 7. Your standard deviation graph is much smaller than the rest - only 1967 to present. I would love to see it over the entire course of the data. As it is I would hesitate to draw any interpretations from it. The skewness, on the other hand, is extremely interesting. Smaller station counts should increase the variability of skewness - I'm not seeing that in the post-1993 data, but we may not have enough data yet. An upwards trend, a shift towards positive skewness, on the other hand, indicates more high temperature events than cold temperature events, which is exactly what I would expect (Figure 2) from an increasing temperature trend, matching the temperature anomalies. The skewness seems to me to be more related to warming trends than station bias, considering other analyses of station dropout which apparently bias temperature estimates slightly lower, not higher. The station dropout would therefore operate counter to the trend you see in skewness - it has to be stronger than the station dropout. Again, thanks for the analysis, BP. I do believe it supports the increasing temperature trends (which you might not like) - but a heck of a lot of work.
Ned at 21:31 PM on 4 August, 2010
As a reminder, BP's figures (like the first one in his comment above) are not particularly useful as long as he continues to use simple averages of the GHCN data set. That choice of method implicitly assumes that either (a) there is no spatial dependency in the climate statistics being examined, or (b) in every year the spatial distribution of stations is uniform. Since we know that both of these assumptions are invalid, one can't really draw any conclusions from his figures. In addition, BP writes: Obviously there was a selection procedure involved in determining which stations should be dropped and it's unlikely it was a random one. "Random" has a very specific meaning. It is unlikely that the probability of a given station dropping out of the GHCN record in a given year is random. That is not a problem, however. Statisticians and scientists work with data produced by systems with elements of non-randomness all the time. A more useful question is whether the change in numbers of stations has any impact on the derived global temperature trends. As has been emphasized many times here, it clearly does not have any meaningful impact.
Berényi Péter at 23:54 PM on 10 August, 2010
#99 Ned at 21:31 PM on 4 August, 2010 As a reminder, BP's figures (like the first one in his comment above) are not particularly useful as long as he continues to use simple averages of the GHCN data set. In a sense that's true. But it is good for getting an overview, the big picture if you like. Also, if adjustment procedures are supposed to be homogeneous over the entire GHCN, this approach tells us something about the algorithms applied, if not about the actual temperature trends themselves. However, with a closer look it turns out there are multiple, poorly documented adjustment strategies varying both over time and regions. Some adjustments are done to the raw dataset, some are only applied later, some only to US data, some exclusively outside the US, but even then different things are done to data in different regions and epochs. A gridded presentation is indeed an efficient way to smear out these features. On the other hand, it is still a good idea to have a closer look on intermediate regional and temporal scales if one is to attempt to identify some of the adjustment strategies applied. For example here is the history of temperature anomalies over Canada for a bit more than three decades according to three independent datasets (click on the image for a larger version). I have chosen Canada, because of data availability and also because this country has considerable expanses in the Arctic where most of the recent warming is supposed to happen. The three datasets used were
GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network)
The National Climate Data and Information Archive of Environment Canada
and Weather Underground, an independent weather portal company (a spinoff from the University of Michigan)
The three curves have some family resemblance, but beyond that their physical content is radically different. Weather Underground shows an almost steady decline since 1989 (that is, a 0.8°C cooling), GHCN a huge warming (more than a centigrade in three decades, almost 1.27°C in five years between 1994 and 1999) while Environment Canada something in between with practically no trend since 1985. Up to about 1995 the three curves go together nicely. With some offset correction (which has no effect on temperature anomaly trends) they could be brought even closer. The same is true after 1998. Therefore in this particular case most of the action happened in just four years between 1995 and 1998. In this period the divergence is very noticeable, so the next thing to do is to have a closer look at these years in Canadian datasets and to determine the exact cause(es) of discrepancy. Now I do have all the data necessary to do the analysis at my fingertips. Unfortunately I do not have too much time for this job, you may have to wait a bit. Neither was it always easy to collect the data. My IP has even got banned from Weather Underground for a while because they might have noticed the work the download script had been doing. Anyway, I have no intention to publish their dataset (as long as it stays put on their website), I just use it for statistical purposes. The spatio-temporal coverage patterns of the three datasets are different inside Canada. Weather Underground, understandably, has an excellent recent coverage, getting sparser as we go back in time. Fortunately for some sites their archive dataset goes back to January, 1973 (e.g Churchill Falls, Newfoundland). They also use WMO station numbers (at least in Canada), which is convenient (the connection between four letter airport identifiers and WMO numbers can get obscure in some cases). It is just the opposite with Environment Canada. Their coverage in early times is even better, than the previous dataset's (they go back to March, 1840), but it is getting sparser as we approach the present (unfortunately their station identifiers are different from those used by either GHCN or Weather Underground). This tendency of station death is even more pronounced in GHCN. It is not easy to understand why. GHCN has a particularly poor recent coverage in the Canadian Arctic, although this area is supposed to be very important for verification of computational climate models (Arctic Amplification and all). It is funny, that even the raw map used by GISS misses a fair number of the arctic islands that belong to Canada and shows sea in their place. At the same time Arctic coverage of Environment Canada is excellent. Their data are also said to be quality controlled and of course digitized. Why can't it be fed into GHCN? Looks like a mystery (I know there used to be a war between the two countries back in 1812 when seaborne British terrorists ate the President's dinner and set the White House aflame, but I thought it was over some time ago). Anyway, the very practice of making adjustments to a raw dataset prior to publication is a strange one, which would be considered questionable in any other branch of science. But should adjustments be done either way, if their overall magnitude is comparable to the long term trend, anything is measured but the trend itself. The double adjustment to raw Canadian data also makes understandable why USHCN have got a different treat than the rest of the world. It would be pretty venturesome to meddle with US raw data directly for the US, despite the recent legislative efforts of both major parties to put an end to this preposterous situation, is still an open society, more so than most other countries of the world. Therefore it was advisable to introduce US adjustments only in v2.mean_adj, which is a unique feature, not done for the rest. As the US is only a tiny fraction of the globe, at first sight it does not make much sense to go into such pains. But without the 0.52°C upward adjustment of the US trend, data from there would get inconsistent with neighboring Canadian ones. What is more, it would be somewhat inconvenient to explain why the US does not have this warming thing, but still needs cap & trade. It is also noticeable, that the strange divergence, if global, does not increase one's confidence in computational climate models parametrized on this very dataset.
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To support compounding of products that are both sterile and chemically stable, beyond use dating of sterile compounded admixtures must include a thorough evaluation of appropriate resources. Prior to admixing, literature should be evaluated to determine the chemical stability of each medication at a referenced concentration range, within a specified diluent, and stored at appropriate temperature within an appropriate container. The chemical stability must also be cross-referenced with current US Pharmacopeial Convention standards to ensure that sterility is maintained throughout the storage period.
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It shall also be stored and accounted for under conditions dictated by its composition and stability characteristics e.
Today’s compounding pharmacy practice includes sterile preparations and pH, beyond-use dates (BUD) based on stability studies, and assays (for most.
The most recent revisions implement new standards and revise existing ones based on recent scientific and technological developments. Significant changes include:. In light of the new standards, pharmacies should evaluate the physical capabilities of their compounding facilities to ensure they can meet the demands of the revised requirements. With states increasingly requiring that licensees adhere to the USP standards, state Boards of Pharmacy are likely to adopt these or similar changes in the near future.
In addition, providers may need to train employees to work within a controlled environment that conforms to the new USP standards. The revised chapter instead focuses on standards aimed at ensuring the integrity of CSPs. With this modified scope, the June 1 st revisions set forth stringent controls on the compounding environment in which compounding activities occur.
Category 1 CSPs generally have a shorter beyond-use date and can be prepared in an unclassified segregated compounding area. In contrast, Category 2 CSPs generally have a longer beyond-use date and must be prepared in a cleanroom suite. This important and constructive change will likely reclassify most hospitals from medium-risk compounders to category 2 compounders.
Compounding is an integral part of pharmacy practice and is essential to the provision of health care. The purpose of this chapter and applicable monographs on formulation is to help define what constitutes good compounding practices and to provide general information to enhance the compounder’s ability in the compounding facility to extemporaneously compound preparations that are of acceptable strength, quality, and purity.
The pharmacist’s responsibilities in compounding drug preparations are to dispense the finished preparation in accordance with a prescription or a prescriber’s order or intent and to dispense those preparations in compliance with the requirements established by the Boards of Pharmacy and other regulatory agencies. Compounders must be familiar with statutes and regulations that govern compounding because these requirements vary from state to state.
The compounder is responsible for compounding preparations of acceptable strength, quality, and purity with appropriate packaging and labeling in accordance with good compounding practices see Good Compounding Practices , official standards, and relevant scientific data and information. Compounders engaging in compounding should have to continually expand their compounding knowledge by participating in seminars, studying appropriate literature, and consulting colleagues.
Registered Pharmacist / Intern / Tech IMMEDIATE USE COMPOUNDING Beyond-use date does not exceed 28 days for multiple-dose containers after initial.
Occasionally I get asked why a compounded product does not have an expiration date as long as that of a manufactured product. Most expiration dates are expressed in years for commercial products. BUDs are generally days or month long and are determined after careful interpretation of appropriate information sources for the same or similar formulations. The BUDs, for products produced by those pharmacies that do not test drug strength or stability, are strictly limited to USP guidelines resulting in BUDs of as little as 24 hours to a maximum of 45 days.
When pharmacies send their products to a lab for strength and stability testing, like JCB does, BUDs as long as 6 months can be assigned. So, while a compounded product will have a BUD based on sound clinical information and testing, it will not have a BUD equal to that of a manufactured product. Ensure confidence with your staff and patients by performing the necessary due diligence to make sure that your sterile compounding pharmacy uses sound procedures to determine Beyond Use Dates.
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The compounding of medications is a fundamental part of pharmacy practice. All compounding personnel, mainly pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, are responsible for compounding and dispensing sterile products and preparations of correct ingredient identity, purity freedom from physical contaminants, such as precipitates, 1 and chemical contaminants , strength including stability 2 and compatibility , and sterility and for dispensing them in appropriate containers that are labeled accurately and appropriately for the end user.
In contemporary health care organizations, patients receive compounded sterile preparations CSPs that are stored for extended periods before use. It has long been recognized that extended storage of CSPs may allow for the growth of a pathological bioburden of microorganisms 3 and that patient morbidity and mortality can result from contaminated or incorrectly compounded sterile preparations.
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To meet the operational demands of a pharmacy, institutions employ a Keywords: beyond use dating, BUD, stability, sterile compounding, USP.
Patricia C. Kienle, B. Webb Lecture Award. With over invited presentations and 50 publications, she has special interests in medication safety, compounding sterile preparations, accreditation, and regulatory issues. Do you have a designated person assigned to oversee compounding? Is that person a pharmacist or a technician? Thank you!
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Q I have a patient with encephalopathy and a tracheotomy who is unable to swallow tablets. A Glycopyrrolate is soluble It is available as a shelf-stable aqueous injection. The drug is shelf-stable at pH below 6. This information supports the conclusion that an extemporaneously compounded oral solution could be shelf-stable. Beyond-use dating is a matter for professional judgment, based on guidance in USP 27 , Pharmaceutical Compounding: Nonsterile Preparations.
The pharmacist’s responsibilities in compounding drug preparations are to The beyond-use date is the date after which a compounded preparation is not to be.
Q: What is compounding? A: Simply put, compounding is any manipulation of a drug beyond that stipulated on the drug label. Veterinary drugs should only be compounded based on a licensed veterinarian’s prescription, and to meet the medical needs of a specific patient. Manipulation might include mixing, diluting, concentrating, flavoring, or changing a drug’s dosage form.
Some states allow veterinarians to prescribe compounds for administration to patients in the practice; but depending on state rules, it is typically not legal to dispense medications previously compounded by a pharmacy to leave the veterinary practice with clients, so state rules should be reviewed and followed.
Examples of compounding include:. A: It’s regulated by both the U. The FDA says it generally defers day-to-day regulation of compounding by veterinarians and pharmacists to state authorities. The state boards of pharmacy oversee pharmacy practices within the states, while the state veterinary medical boards oversee the practice of veterinary medicine, including prescribing. Generic drugs are approved by the FDA.
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Starrydawn Translations
Katahane no Riku
Lolibaba
Tower of Karma
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50.Cutting through the night wind
Karula flew, cutting through the night wind.
Karula was a messenger. Rabbit and panther demon messengers would be making use of their leg strength, but Karula would use her prided black wings, flapping them with full force in order to deliver messages. This evening as well, carrying the papers that had words written by Charlotte, the substitute Demon Lord, she was going straight to Sherr island.
Spreading open her own black wings, Karula pierced through the darkness of the night. She had earnestly continued to fly over the sea for three nights without sleeping. No matter how much of a veteran she was as a messenger, it still took a lot of effort to find landmarks when in the middle of the sea. Deciding the direction to go with the sun at the daytime and with the stars at the nighttime, she would fly.
That´s why, just like today, this night had been very exhausting, with a sky difficult to find the stars, since most of it was filled with snowflakes. However, if she was flying above the enemy encampment, then it would be another story. In this case, it would be the best weather conditions to be flying at. Karula´s black wings would disappear within the darkness of the night.
It was when she had been flying at a high height for some time. Distant in the horizon, she found a single light standing alone in the dark. There were tens of firelights. They were probably the ships that were anchored there. In curiosity, looking at the top of the mast of a ship, she saw the flag of the spiritualist fluttering there. Karula leaned her head to the side in wonder.
“…The numbers have increased.”
According to what she had heard from Charlotte, there were supposed to be about ten ships surrounding the island. Apparently, since they had received the information, the number of enemies had increased.
As to not be found by the spiritualists, Karula increased her height. Skillfully moving her wings, she increased her flying height, getting the impulse with the wind. After doing that, she could get a clear view of the island surrounded by the spiritualists. In that isolated island that had nothing of unusual, there was a temple that despite its modest design, was very big.
“Is it there?”
Eight or nine out of ten, that temple was her destination.
Having confirmed that, she glided towards the plaza that was at the center of the temple. In a way that wouldn´t attract attention, she calmly, but very fast, flew down. Karula ignored the few demon soldiers tasked as lookouts that were pointing at her while talking about something to each other. Landing her feet at the fountain located at the center of the plaza, a feeling of exhaustion suddenly filled her with how it had been a long time since she had put her feet on the ground. Because of the feeling of exhaustion, her legs started feeling like they would crumble down.
However, if she was to be tired out with only this much, she wouldn´t be qualified as a messenger. After trying to cheer herself up, she called for the soldiers that were nearby.
“From the fourth army of the Demon Lord army, affiliated to the messenger corps, I am the first lieutenant Karula Fezah. I came to deliver the orders from the provisional Demon Lord, Charlotte-sama. I would like to ask an audience with the lieutenant commander Riku Barusak urgently.”
“Y-yes. Certainly.”
The demon soldiers ran with so much vigor that looked as if they had their butts were lighted in fire. And then, shortly after, a girl full of the red color appeared.
In contrast to Karula, she was a girl that would stand out even in the darkness of the night. She had a red hair that looked as if it was burning and was wearing an armor red like blood. Guessing by the halberd she was carrying behind her back, she was probably the one that would be often called [the jumped-up human], lieutenant commander Riku Barusak.
With Karula politely lowering her head, Riku Barusak also lowered her head a little.
“Good work coming late at this night… Then, is it orders from that girl?”
With how, the provisional demon lord, Charlotte, having been called [that girl], Karula knitted her eyebrows puzzled at it. However, before anything, it was necessary to finish her mission first. Karula quietly took out the letter.
Riku Barusak brusquely tore open the letter she received from Karula. And then, with eyes that didn´t seem to be expecting much of anything, she started to follow the words that were written at the letter.
“Resuming, that girl… Is sending reinforcements to us?”
“Is there anything you are dissatisfied about?”
“No… Only, it is not written when, how, and on what scale the reinforcements coming are. What am I supposed to do about these lack of details?”
Riku showed Karula the letter. Apparently, it seems she didn´t completely believe on the information about the reinforcements at all.
Seeing the way she had read the letter and how without any hesitations she didn´t address Charlotte with any honorifics, Riku Barusak must hate Charlotte very much. Karula leaned her head to the side puzzled at the difference between what the rumors said about her. Karula had heard about how Riku had protected Charlotte despite all her injuries. Was this rumor only made up lies?
“So what is it now? Are going back to ask them about that?”
“No. I think that putting in consideration the possibility that the letter might fall in the hands of the enemy, the details weren´t written down. If everything goes well, after finishing all the preparations, the reinforcements should come after one week.”
“…One week.”
With Karula´s answer, Riku narrowed her eyes. Putting her thin finger at her chin, Riku was thinking about something. And then, while showing a treacherous smile as if she was plotting something, she started speaking like she had just remembered about something.
“Then, you… When are you planning on leaving?”
“What would you be talking about?”
“Is it fine for you not to go to where Charlotte…-sama is to tell her that you´ve delivered the message?”
“No, actually, the one leading the forces is lieutenant general Adlar-sama, so…”
“You should have said that sooner!”
The instant Karula had talked about Adlar, Riku Barusak´s expression in her face changed.
The face that seemed to be plotting something bad completely changed, becoming a serious and honest face. She still seemed to be thinking of something, but she was completely different from how she was a few moments ago. The glint on her eyes now were like a sharp blade. Because of that sudden change, Karula started to step back. However, Riku didn´t let Karula run away.
“In order words, it means that you´ve been tasked with being the bridge of communication between me and captain Leivein, right?”
“But there is no way I can be exchanging letters all the time, right… I can only use her for serious matters… For the time being, go rest for tonight. Second lieutenant Asty, go guide first lieutenant Fezah to an empty room.”
Saying only that, Riku Barusak left the place. With Karula distractedly following that small back with her eyes, the female demon called Asty waved her hand in front of her.
“Ah, it is because you looked to be daydreaming-de gozaru, thus I did that. Did you get surprised by lieutenant commander´s change in behavior-de gozaru?”
Asty was broadly smiling. With how Karula could only give a wry smile back without being able to say anything, Asty probably ended up misunderstanding something. She spoke in such good spirits that it looked like she would start humming anytime.
“Lieutenant commander is someone that clearly distinguishes between who she likes and hates-de gozaru. Most likely, just now, for if Charlotte-dono was coming, she had a strategy of having both the spiritualists and the reinforcements destroy each other going through her mind. she . Ah, it´s very fortunate it is lieutenant general Adlar; thank goodness.”
“…Is this what you are supposed to be happy about?”
Being asked that by Karula, Asty started to shook her head in panic, calling attention to her as to tell her not to disclose about what she had just said. Of course, it would have been fine if she were to tell Charlotte that. If Charlotte was to hear about this, it would be possible to have Riku receive punishment. However, Karula didn´t intend on reporting her about this.
In this single exchange, Karula had the feeling she had just seen a sliver of Riku Barusak´s rumored [insanity]. If she was to poorly provoke her, if she ended up being killed behind the scenes, it wouldn´t be a coincidence.
“I will only be carrying out what I was tasked to.”
Saying only that, she decided to forget that exchange of a few moments ago.
What was important now was to have herself covered in a warm blanket and sleep. While wishing for a short rest, the black winged messenger walked through the dark temple.
Rook Barusak started to get tired of the sea.
Even if he was to turn around, without any changes in the scenery, there would only be the blue sky and sea endlessly extending to the horizon. At first, he would let out words of admiration.
However, after being there for one week, he obviously would grow tired of the scenery. Lying sprawled at the deck that was wavering in accord to the waves, he let out a small sigh. Even though he wasn´t feeling seasick, he was starting to yearn for the land.
Lying at the deck of the ship, he quietly closed his heavy eyelids. Until there were any movements from the enemy, there wouldn´t be anything to do in particular. He didn´t feel like studying, but even then, he also wouldn´t feel like moving around to spend his energy in something. With the lullaby of the waves hitting the ship getting distant, Rook was nodding off, falling into the world of dreams.
“What´s the matter, Rook?”
The one to wake him up was his biological elder sister, Raku Barusak.
After waking up, the sky that was supposed to be blue had already become black. In the sky, an uncountable amount of stars started to appear.
“What… It is Raku-ane.”
Perhaps because he had been out in the sun for some time, what would have usually been his abnormally white skin had become light-brown. It was somewhat giving off a charming adult-like charm.
“By the way… Until when are we going to keep surrounding Sherr island?”
Rook and his army had captured Fert, and after that, immediately headed to Sherr island.
The one that had said they would be using Sherr island was Raku. In order to reduce some of the fighting force of Fert, she leaked false information. Rook didn´t know what kind of information she leaked. All he knew was that a situation which made the demon side send troops to Sherr at all costs had truly been made.
The soldiers sent to capture the Sherr island weren´t from Perikka, which was located in the same sea, but troops contained with strong sailors brought up on Fert. What´s more, it was unexpectedly easy to get to Sherr island from Fert. By doing that, a small gap on their defenses is made. Aiming for that gap, it became possible to do what they had done; to provoke the soldiers at Fert, and capture it in one go.
All that was left to be done to Rook was only one thing. …It was to recapture Sherr island, which had fallen in the hands of the demons.
“I know that right now, the ones at Sherr island are demons that are considered strong even among the ones of Fert. But you know, we also have fifteen warships. If we were to attack now…”
“Nonsense. It is important to lure out the weakened enemy.”
Raku rejected Rook´s murmurings. She was giving a gaze of scorn that was as if she was looking at some stupid thing. That gaze made Rook´s irritation get worse. Calmly standing up, he glared at Raku.
“Many spiritualists are being made hostages at the temple of Sherr island. Isn´t it for best to go save them as soon as possible?”
“There is no need to get emotional about defeated spiritualists, Rook. The demons aren´t used to naval battles. It is definitely impossible for them to launch an attack to the unexpected and passive enemy that had come right after their victory. Besides, they are limited by anything edible there is at that temple. After one month, it should be exhausted… In other words, the more time it passes, the more in disadvantage the demons are. After they become weakened, once the chance comes, we, who are in a flawless position, are to reap our reward. There is no way we can let the demons have an advantageous fight after carelessly trying to land at their shore.”
Raku shook her head.
Rook knew the theory behind what Raku wanted to say.
Spiritualists that were defeated by demons would be punished because of that. The way Rook was ordered to attack the impregnable city of Fert was the same as telling him to die, throwing into the battle only to wait his death. He was aware of that. However, it wasn´t the same as immediately being killed.
But once those spiritualists had become captives, they had lost their rights of life and death to the demons. It was unknown if the demons, who had killed Rebecca, who was still an child still developing her strength, without hesitations, would follow the formal way of treat the prisoners.
“Hey, calm down. You are getting too worked up.”
“It is Raku-ane that is too calm. …What?”
At that time, looking over Raku´s shoulder, Rook saw something moving.
From the Sherr island, there was a fleet approaching amidst the dim darkness. Their numbers were of four ships. Without straying from their goal, they were going straight to them. Before Rook could shout anything, Raku, who became aware of the fleet, raised her voice.
“The enemy has moved! Immediately have the archer units prepared!! Pour a shower of arrows upon them!!”
It was a voice that looked as if it had cut off the darkness of night. The half-sleeping soldiers woke up and gallantly went to their positions. Getting her own bow, Raku drew it, readying an arrow ready. Rook also ran next to Raku, and just like he had been taught by Selestinna, he held his bow. Aiming for the shadows of the demons standing on the ship at the center of the fleet, everyone waited for Raku´s signal.
“Now! Shoot your arrows!!”
Since the spiritualists had surrounded the Sherr island, today had been the fifteenth day. In the place of the moon, which wasn´t showing up, the whole sky was filled with stars.
Together with the sound of the arrows cutting through the wind, the curtains for the next act, the naval battle of Sherr island, were cut through and taken down.
21 thoughts on “50.Cutting through the night wind”
oKrBn · November 20, 2017 at 1:00 am ·
So when will she almost die or actually die. Also does she actually have a hidden power like her dad mentioned, well if she does I doubt it wouldn’t show up until something happens to leivein and she goes nuts
ihsanbi3 · August 31, 2016 at 8:14 am ·
Thank you for the chapter 😀
Lueyuhi · August 31, 2016 at 1:56 pm ·
You are welcome ^^
Fmvm · March 29, 2016 at 12:35 pm ·
King of the End · March 29, 2016 at 4:50 am ·
All things considered if Riku, which she probably was, planned to use any reinforcements sent to her by Charlotte as sacrifices to ensure her forces and her own escape, while reprehensible, was most likely the best plan with the highest chances of survival for her. Well played Raku, that was an ingenious plan that worked so well because she did not let the welfare of the island’s spiritualists blunt the effectiveness of her strategy. But if what I anticipate happens it might all be for naught if she dies and her forces are not only routed from the shores of the island but also from Fert depending on how badly the results of their upcoming naval fight is.
fatpanda · March 29, 2016 at 1:31 am ·
Just read your reply (forgot to tick the mailing, sorry), can I reply them here or in their respective posts (necro-ing it)?
starrydawntranslations · March 29, 2016 at 3:50 am ·
What reply? I don´t remember D:
Well, it is fine to reply here, or anywhere.
ricecal · March 28, 2016 at 3:42 pm ·
starrydawntranslations · March 29, 2016 at 12:57 am ·
lirg123 · March 28, 2016 at 3:07 pm ·
Then the Shu kingdom acquired 100,000 arrows to fight the Wei naion.
Melancholy · March 28, 2016 at 3:28 pm ·
Haha I suspect that is so as well. Constantly going over and retreating just to tire their nerves.
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Hitsugi Hime · March 28, 2016 at 2:56 pm ·
However, Riku didn´t Karula run away.
=> [Didn’t let]
Fixed ^^
Dark Jackel · March 28, 2016 at 1:12 pm ·
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Rinka · March 28, 2016 at 12:45 pm ·
goblinrou · March 28, 2016 at 12:36 pm ·
Time for Zughe Liang strats!
Hui · March 28, 2016 at 12:16 pm ·
I bet the demons sent humans on these ships
Sabru · March 28, 2016 at 4:18 pm ·
Yeah, i have that feeling as well. That and/or the ships are loaded with anything that goes bang or boom and sent towards the blockade as part of Riku’s grand plan.
Shiki Seiren (@ShikiAkaitsuki) · April 1, 2017 at 12:13 pm ·
Yeah, talk about psychological warfare…
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Old Sixth Ward
Another New Restaurant in an Old Old Sixth Ward Building?
by Allyn West
Restaurants, Washington Corridor
A reader frequently on the lookout for new TABC signs has noticed one in the window of this former lounge at 908 Henderson, just a block south of Liberty Station on Washington Ave. Says the sign-spotter: “I was always told [this] was going to be a pizza place but never really believed it.” Does that sound too good to be true? County records don’t show a change in ownership of the 1915 3,036-sq.-ft. structure since 2008, but the TABC sign the reader saw does appear to date to this June.
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jost August 27, 2013 at 5:20 pm
HCAD says the lot is 2,500sqft and a 3,000 sqft building. That leaves about 1,000 sqft for parking and other stuff. How they gonna get that past the COH?
JB3 August 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm
If this is the building I’m thinking of, I’ve seen some pretty crazy goings-on (and people) at this place watching from Liberty. Though it looks better since I last saw it.
jack August 27, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Yes, I have seen the owner naked on that balcony, playing guitar, while i was sipping on my beer at Liberty Station. He is a little on the weird side, and has been trying to fix it up for a couple of years now. There is a variance on the triangle shaped lot in front of it, so, maybe that will be parking.
Jason C. August 27, 2013 at 11:00 pm
Jack, no, that triangular lot has a variance request for parking. Tyler Flood, the DWI attorney, is planning to build a quite nice little two-story office and retail building on that triangular lot. Unfortunately, one person is complaining loudly to the City to ensure the entire design will not work. Too bad, the proposed structure really would be nicer on the east end of Washington than a demolished building site. :/
PYEWACKET2 August 28, 2013 at 12:26 am
Looks to me like that balcony would hide a lot of nakedness. Those slats are fairly wide.
Weird can be good. That’s what has help “make” Austin.
Hector Garcia August 28, 2013 at 9:06 am
A food establishment that close to Liberty would be awesome. They have a different food truck every night but some food variety that’s walking distance would be great. The weird guy on the balcony would add that extra touch.:)
Darby Mom August 28, 2013 at 9:18 am
Actually, a 2-story 2500 SF building would have about a 1250 SF footprint
Bama August 28, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Nice to see Tyler re-investing in the neighborhood that made him all his $$. DWI alley, baby!!
JCR August 28, 2013 at 4:16 pm
I ran into the proprietor last night at Big Star. She says it will be an American bistro opening around Oct 31st if the TABC permits come through on time. There were more details but BS was my second stop and I don’t remember too well. LOL.
Larissa Lindsay August 29, 2013 at 9:27 am
The issue with Tyler Flood’s building is not the building, but the parking. It would have head in parking, move the sidewalks on to private property, and take away about 7 on street parking spaces. The building pictured is grandfathered as a restaurant or bar, so the parking for that would be street parking, of which there is little of. Liberty Station is short on parking as it is, and Flood’s property would take parking from that, the former Alice’s (pictured) and the red building that a beer and brew place is rumored to be planned. ALL of these are in the same block. And BTW – it is more than one person complaining.
Anon August 29, 2013 at 9:34 am
Jason C, who is the one person making a lot of noise about the variance on the triangular lot? Bet I can guess.
james August 29, 2013 at 9:43 am
@JCR
Sounds great. I hope it works out.
Hi Larissa! :)
Interesting points. If parking became an issue, couldn’t people just park on Washington using those new meters?
They could park on Washington – whether there are meters or not, but the problem is simply not enough parking spaces.
BTW – there are more than one person opposed to this. The TIRZ board voted unanimously against it because of parking and sidewalk issues, and there has been a discussion on the neighborhood email list with concerns about parking, which already tests patience. Flood’s parking spaces will be on private property, and while he could lease them out to nearby businesses, he may not be comfortable with the liability that goes with doing that. Same thing with taking away the public sidewalk. There is liability in doing so – but then again you could keep people wanting to protest your “Do Not Blow” defense of a drunk driver who killed someone from protesting on the sidewalk outside your office.
Interesting points Larissa. So they have private parking and parking along Washington? Seems like that’s enough to me. I don’t know much about the other issues and opposition you are speaking of so I can’t speak into that…I’m just excited that something like this will be happening with the building. :)
I would much rather nice places like this move into the area before more places like “throne” take over them.
So personally, I really like the idea of it being a restaurant. Just sayin’.
Cool. Have a nice day.
Ross August 31, 2013 at 9:11 am
Since when does street parking take precedence over a property owners need for access to his property?
Protestors don’t get to go on to private property just because that’s where the sidewalk is. The real sidewalk will continue to be where it is now. That’s where the protestors get to stand. i do have to ask why anyone would protest the lawyer for an accused DUI suspect. That just seems pointless, given the protections our system affords defendants.
Larissa September 2, 2013 at 7:28 pm
Ross – the plans I saw took out the public sidewalk (it is where the head in parking would be, and moved it onto private property in front of the parking.
There’s Now a Baggy’s Grill Where Weslayan Cafe Used To Be
Victorian’s Barbecue Bails on the East End Building That Bears Its Name
by Dan Singer
Here’s What Next for the Wash Ave Roundabout Now That the Memorial Club Apartments Are Completely Gone
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David Williams1
#1031, (circa 1734 - 1800)
Relationship 3rd great-grandfather of Nelle Belle Bridges
Sarah Denton b. s 1739, d. 1831
Child� 1. William D Williams+8 (1760 - 1846)
Had 10 sons and 1 dau.2�
Birth* circa 1734 He was born circa 1734 at WalesG.3�
between 1755 and 1774 Ten sons and one daughter between 1755 and 1774.4�
Marriage* 27 November 1759 He married Sarah Denton, daughter of Robert Denton and Jane Moon, on 27 November 1759 at VirginiaG.4,1�
16 October 1777 In Robert Denton's will dated 16 October 1777 at Hampshire (now Hardy) Co., Virginia (now West Virginia)G, David Williams was named as an heir, 5s as an acknowlegement;
Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven 1777, I, Robert Denten [sic] of Hampshire County in the colony of Virginia, yoeman [sic], being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to god [sic], therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say: Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like, decent manner at the discretion of Executors and for any such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this life I give and devise, and depose of the same in the following manner and form:
Imprimis, It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my last debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Jane Denten, my dearly beloved wife, the use and benifit of the plantation, which I now lives on, during her natural life or she continues my widow and after her death or marriage to goe to my son-in-law, Joel Robinson, unto him, his heirs, and assigns forever, the said Joel Robinson to pay unto my son Jacob Denton['s] oldest son Robert Denten the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds good and lawful money of Virginia to be paid at my beloved wife's decease, if the said Robert should become of age of twenty one years, but not to be paid till he comes to that age [see note in typescript below-VWH].
Item, I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife one full third part of my moveable estate to her own proper use for ever.
Iem, I give and bequeath unto my oldest son Jacob Denten a certain track [sic] of land containing eighty [inserted "eight'] acres that lies joying [sic] his own plantation to him, his heirs, and assigns for ever.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my second son, John Denton, one negro boy two year old next May. The boys name is Gilburd, to him, his heirs, and assigns for ever.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my third son, Thomas Denten, the sum of five shilings as [inserted "an"] acknowledgement.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, John Crow, the sum of five shilings as an acknowledgement.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, David Williams, the sum of five shilings as an acknowledgement.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son acknowledgement.
Item, I give and bequ acknowledgement.
Item[sic] Jacob Denton and John Denton, and my son-in-law Joel Robinson all the remaining part of my moveable estate to be equally divided amongst them and theirs [sic] heirs, but to be continued on the place and not divided till after my beloved wife's decease.
Item, I do hereby constitute, make, and ordain my loveing sons Jacob Denten and Joel Robinson my only and sole Executors of this, my last will and testament and I do hereby verily disallow, revoke, and disanull all and every [inserted "other"] former testament, wills, legacies and Executors by me in any ways before this time named, willed, and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
[note in typescript] ["]but not to be paid till he comes to that age["] was interlined before sealing and delivery.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, and declared by Robert RD Denton (Seal)
the said Robert Denton as his last will and testament in
the presents of us the subscribers.
Stephen Ruddell
John McNeer
George Claypool
[Note on the editing in the second paragraph of "my son Jacob Denton['s].5 oldest son Robert Denten," adding the possessive. The will in the records is a typewritten copy and the original has not been viewed. This is the only reading that makes sense. Additionally, Robert is said to be a minor. Early Records of Hampshire County Virginia (Sage and Combs, privately published 1939), on p. 113, has an abstract of the will which also states that Robert was the son of Jacob - VWH]�
Probate 18 April 1789 He was listed as a beneficiary in Jane Moon's probate distribution on 18 April 1789 at Hardy Co., Virginia (now West Virginia)G; (distribution). "At a Court held for Hardy County the 18th day of April 1789. This Account Current of the Estate of Jane Denton Deceased was rended into court and the same being examined and Approved as Ordered to be Recorded By the Court."6�
Death* 1800 He died in 1800 at North CarolinaG.7�
Charts Ancestors of Nelle Belle Bridges
[S2077] Walter C Krumm, "Descendants of the Rev. Richard Denton", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vols. 120-122 (1989-1991): Vol. 122, pp. 217-219.
[S236] Brant and Fuller, History of Vanderburgh County Indiana from the earliest times to the present (Madison, WI: Brant and Fuller, 1889), p. 618.
[S236] Brant and Fuller, History of Vanderburgh County (BF).
[S236] Brant and Fuller, History of Vanderburgh County (BF), pp. 617-19, entry for Rachel H. Purdue: "Daniel Williams, a native of Wales, immigrated to the United States before the revolutionary war, and made his home in Virginia. Here he was married to a Miss Denton. They raised a family of eleven children, ten sons and one daughter."
[S2075] West Virginia, Hampshire Co. Wills 1756-1970, FHL 815334 - 815343, online FamilySearch.org, Vol. 1, pp. 14-15, Film 815334, img. 28/394. No. 11, typescript of Robert Denten's [corrected to Denton] Will.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Jane Denten, my dearly beloved wife, the use and benifit of the plantation, which I now lives on, during her natural life or she continues my widow and after her death or marriage to goe to my son-in-law, Joel Robinson, unto him, his heirs, and assigns forever, the said Joel Robinson to pay unto my son Jacob Denton oldest son Robert Denten the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds good and lawful money of Virginia to be paid at my beloved wife's decease, if the said Robert should become of age of twenty one years, but not to be paid till he comes to that age ], therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say: Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like, decent manner at the discretion of Executors and for any such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this life I give and devise, and depose of the same in the following manner and form:
Item, I give and bequeath unto Jane Denten, my dearly beloved wife, the use and benifit of the plantation, which I now lives on, during her natural life or she continues my widow and after her death or marriage to goe to my son-in-law, Joel Robinson, unto him, his heirs, and assigns forever, the said Joel Robinson to pay unto my son Jaco], therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say: Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like, decent manner at the discretion of Executors and for any such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this life I give and devise, and depose of the same in the following manner and form:
Item, I give and bequeath unto Jane Denten, my dearly beloved wife, the use and beni[see note in typescript below-VWH].
At a Court held for Hampshire County the 12th day of May, 1778, this last will and testament of Robert denten
the p
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day an[sic], deceased, was presented in Court by Jacob Denten and Joel Robinson the Executors therein named, proved by the oaths of witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executors, who made oath according to law, certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form, giving security, whereupon they together with Stephen Ruddell and John McNees their securities entered and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of two thousand pounds for their due and faithful administration of the said decedent's estate and performance of his will.
Test Gabriel Jones Cl. Cur.
[S2076] West Virginia, Hardy Co. Wills 1786-1970, online FamilySearch.org, Will Book No. 1, pp. 31-32, img. 22/242. Distributions to David Williams, Joel Robinson, John Crow, Thomas Denton and Jacob Denton (John Denton not mentioned); also for digging the grave, to the sheriff for taxes, paying the appraisers, to the Executor "for his troubles", tax on the executorship.
[S232] Wintz-Muller, Bitter-Relleke, Miller-Stanton, Davenport-Wathen, Sharon Miller Sheridan (SSheridan5638), owner, online Ancestry.com.
[S236] Brant and Fuller, History of Vanderburgh County (BF), pp. 617-19, entry for Rachel H. Purdue: "Daniel Williams, a native of Wales, immigrated to the United States before the revolutionary war, and made his home in Virginia. Here he was married to a Miss Denton. They raised a family of eleven children, ten sons and one daughter. One of these sons, William D., was born March 30, 1760."
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Restless Season 1
Restless - S01 E105
Wolves Underground Facility,
Nexus, Bethanna.
“Carl Winston is not only alive, he also has the custody of paralyzed Rex.”
Everyone turned their eyes to Hutton as his calm and resonating voice broke the silence. A total of ten men were in the meeting hall, all seated round the table replicating their usual pattern of sitting at the previous strategy house. Elvis Kahn broke the news of Carl Winston being alive and it had thrown everyone into surprise except for Hutton who already knew and the FOX ally among them who got the idea from the FOX executives meeting the day before.
“How long have you known this?” One of the men questioned Hutton after another minute of silence.
“Few days ago, but I always suspected that he was alive and I made that clear amongst us several times.” Hutton replied.
The man who asked the question took in a breath and looked down. There was another long silence. They all remembered when Hutton warned them months ago about how deadly it would be if Carl Winston was still alive.
“So, what’s the way forward?” We gotta move from here,” the Nigerian man asked.
“I’ll like to hear from all of you, what do you want us to do?” Kahn placed his elbows on the table and leaned forward as he spoke.
“Are we planning to pause operations or take a pause?” Daysman asked.
Hutton looked in his direction sharply and seemed to have remembered something.
“I think there’s something we need to do urgently,” Hutton put in before Kahn could reply. Everyone gave him attention and the place was totally silent. “We need to investigate ourselves.”
His statement got some of them raising their brows and looking at each other to know if the other person understood what he meant.
“Before we can make a decision on what to proceed with, we need to know first how Carl Winston visited the strategy house in Newland Estate and in Mr Daysman’s car.” Hutton explained.
The place was dead silent for minutes and even Daysman had nothing to say.
“The FOX is also in search for Mr Daysman here and with the calibre of Agents involved, it might be impossible for him to hide,” the FOX man among them spoke.
Everyone’s eyes turned to Daysman and they expected him to say something at that moment.
He finally cleared his throat and looked up.
“I’m still confused on how the car was used, but I think it only meant that Carl Winston has been watching me for a while without me being suspicious. I had to leave the house immediately I heard my car was used by the attackers.”
“Are we sure Carl Winston carried out that attack at the strategy house? Couldn’t it have been the Wolves?” A man questioned.
“It couldn’t have, nothing of such was mentioned at our meeting yesterday,” the FOX man replied.
“And who has been able to find out what happened with Aaron?” Kahn asked.
“Aaron is recovering, but he’s yet to tell us about his encounter.” the Ghanaian among them replied.
“We have to be careful not to be seen with Aaron at this time, it could cause other problems for us.” Hutton warned.
“We are careful, all contact with him has only ben done through junior members except someone else here has visited him without my knowledge.” Kahn answered Hutton. He looked around, one after the other at the faces of all the men except Hutton.
“Agent,” Hutton called and leaned forward, staring at the face of the FOX man. “What has been said about Carl Winston within the FOX executives?”
“Nothing,” the man replied. “The FOX is still unsure that he’s alive.”
“And what’s causing the speculations?”
“A video,” the FOX man stated. All the men stared at him, looking interested in getting details. “A video was sent in by an anonymous lady, telling us that Carl Winston would be at the Bexford Shopping Mall to plant a bomb. The FOX found the bomb at the exact location Carl but we did not find Carl Winston or whoever planted it, the same person sent in the locations for the two other explosions via mail.”
“Who is that lady?” one of the men asked.
“That would be Hannah Kelvin, the former Agent of the FOX.” Daysman said in a loud voice, his eyes widened in surprise.
“The woman in the video did not look like Hannah Kelvin,” the FOX Agent retorted.
“But it could have only been Hannah, she planted the bombs and knew all the locations. There could have been no other snitch part from her,” Daysman argued.
“Why should Hannah snitch on us? I don’t think she’s willing to lose her family,” another man put in.
“But no other woman knew the locations of the explosive devices…”
“I sent that video to the FOX,” Hutton said in a loud voice, shutting them all up.
They all stared at him in shock.
“Like Elvis Kahn made known to us, I made attempts to get Carl Winston yesterday and I also said that I found out he was alive few days ago,” Hutton continued his explanation. “Carl Winston somehow discovered our plans and all the locations for the explosions, I tried to trick him to get arrested by the FOX but it failed somehow.”
“We don’t get this, how could you have taken such step without everyone’s agreement?” the Nigerian man questioned.
“Well, ” Hutton cleared his throat and rested his back. “How could I have gotten everyone to agree yesterday?”
Everyone was silent. They knew it was impossible for Hutton to have informed all of them about his plans without a meeting.
“Gentlemen, we talked a lot but what we need is to come up with a solution.” Kahn broke the silence. “We have some major problems now. We only know of Mr Daysman but we do not know how many other persons here that has Carl Winston following them without their knowledge.”
Kahn’s last statement seemed to drive fear into the hearts of the men. The thought of Carl Winston following them was something they found difficult and couldn’t hide from their facial expressions.
“I have an idea,” Hutton said as he placed both hands on the table. All the men kept their gazes on him intently.
FOX Corporation,
Bexford, Bethanna.
“The information given from the anonymous was the only thing that bailed us out yesterday, the FOX in no way got to find out these locations on our own.” Agent Sylvanus said with a note of urgency.
A brief meeting was being held at the FOX chairman’s office with the FOX chairman himself and four other executives present. The chairman was sitting at the owner’s side of his office, Agent Sylvanus and Agent Mark were sitting at the left and right sides of the table while Agent Mensah and Michael were sitting opposite the chairman.
“That’s exactly why I’ve called for this urgent discussion,” Paul Edwards put in. “I watched the President speak on televisions praising our efforts on saving over four hundred lives yesterday but deep down I knew we didn’t save them, the anonymous whistle blower did. But it’s heartbreaking to me because it shows a weakness in the FOX. The FOX has never needed a whistle blower to be successful in this kind of operations until now and like Agent Sylvanus said, we can’t depend on the anonymous woman.”
“I agree that we can’t depend on this anonymous woman, but what if we find her and work with her or probably get to know all she knows. That might just be all we need to see the end of the Red Wolves.” Agent Mark suggested.
“I agree with you Mark, but it doesn’t look like we would find her anywhere.” Agent Sylvanus put in. “I personally checked all the anonymous messages yesterday and the calls, the encryptions were not ordinary, they’re as rigid as encryptions made by the FOX.”
“We have about ten of our topmost hackers working on them already and I got a report from them this morning saying that the encryption used to secure the email sender’s locations contained some FOX codes and other codes from an unknown source.” Paul Edwards explained.
“Have they searched all popular secured VPN providers to see which of them has source codes for the encryption?” Agent Michael asked.
“They’re gonna do that today,” Agent Paul replied. “But from what I see, I don’t think it’s gonna be from one of the VPNs we hacked before.”
“Well, let’s try first.”
Agent Sylvanus’ phone which was on the table beeped and he picked it up to check the notification.
“Yea, you’re right.” Paul cleared his throat. “We are in this meeting to come up with a strategy that will help us find the anonymous woman but we need to know what other information we’ve got to work with which has not been stated here already.”
“Sir,” Mensah called his attention. “Rad submitted an update few hours ago saying one of the guards on duty a night at the female hostel in the University of Bexford is nowhere to be found.”
Paul squinted at him. “Is that an update from the investigation of how the lady got into the hostel?”
“Yes,” Mensah replied. “All other guards have been assembled and questioned by our men, only that woman is left.”
“What efforts has made to find her?” Paul asked.
“No updates yet on that,” Mensah answered.
‘I’ve got an update here from the W1 team,” Agent Sylvanus called their attention to himself. “The encryption codes where the video was sent from is totally different from the email sender’s encryption.”
Paul squinted. “How did they know that?”
“The team just got the source codes and they made a comparison with the email encryption codes, they are totally different. While the email sender’s encryption contains some codes from the FOX, the video sender’s encryption contains nothing from the FOX.”
There was a long silence. The new update was setting in confusion again.
“So, does this mean we are dealing with two different people?” Mark broke the silence.
“But why are their messages consistent?” Mensah asked.
“Maybe the email sender is another whistle blower and the woman in the video is just an escapee from the terrorists who’s trying to seek our help,” Paul suggested. “Maybe,” he said again, stressing the word to make them understand he wasn’t sure.
“An escapee from Carl Winston you mean?” Agent Sylvanus questioned Paul, making it obvious that Paul had “terrorists” instead of specifying Carl Winston.
“We haven’t confirmed that yet Agent,” Paul replied. “Until we make full confirmation, we’re not going to just name any tall muscular man Carl Winston.”
“I agree with you sir,” Agent Mark joined. “I don’t think Carl Winston can be involved in such and even if he was he would have hidden his real identity.”
“Hmm,” Agent Sylvanus squinted. Mark had made a point. If indeed Carl Winston was a member of the terrorist group, he would have hidden his real identity. “Well,” he shrugged. “We still have to be conscious that there’s a tall muscular man somewhere.”
“We just made the discovery of the possibility of the woman in the video not being the same as the mail sender but the clear thing is that both sources of information helped us yesterday, but we can’t depend on them to help us stop the next attempt, we have to take quick action."
“What if let the pictures of the lady in the video out to the public and declare her wanted?” Mensah suggested.
There was silence for a minute.
“I’ve considered that but it seems complicated,” Paul replied. “She gave us useful information which helped us, we might need to get more information from her very soon and it would be difficult to get such if we declare her as a wanted criminal.”
“But what we’re trying to do is capture her,” Mensah retorted. “If we succeed at capturing her, we would get every information we need from her.”
“That’s if we succeed, which is very unlikely,” Paul stated in a firm voice.
The other four men stared at him wondering why he was so negative about it.
“This is a woman whose face has not been matched with anyone in our criminal records or the country’s citizens directory, there is a very low possibility that we would find her.” Paul explained himself. “Declaring her wanted might make her cut off communication totally with us, and if she does so when we can’t find her, it would be a total loss for.”
“I get your point sir,” Agent Michael supported.
“What if we make her an offer?” Agent Sylvanus suggested. They all looked at him. “What if we thank her publicly on the TV and radio and also on social media, for helping us fight terrorism. Then we also make a public offer for her to contact us for a handsome reward or to join us continue the fight against terrorism.”
“Well, that sounds better than making her wanted,” Michael put in.
“I think it’s a good idea too,” Paul joined in.
“Yeah, so after that we wait for her to contact us again even as we keep up with our investigations.”
“And if she doesn’t?” Mensah questioned.
“We continue our work without her, but the step would make her more comfortable to contact us again if need be.” Sylvanus answered him.
El Deols, Anthanna.
king Of Gods - S01 E752
My Husband, Warm The Bed - S01 E330
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Military Photo: D9 CAT Takes RPG Hit and Lives
Discussion Board on this Photo
In early 2003, the U.S. bought nine 62 ton D9 armored Caterpillar bulldozers into Kuwait for the Iraq campaign. The D9s, and their Israeli made armor kit, were purchased because of the Israeli success with the dozen in urban warfare against Palestinian terrorists. America had used the D9 during the 1960s in Vietnam, but after that only used the smaller (35 ton, with armor kit) D7. The D9 was not needed for urban fighting in Iraq during 2003, but was found very useful (much more so than the smaller D7) for combat engineering tasks. The D9 quickly cleared highways of debris and built temporary roads for combat vehicles. One D9 was thought to be as useful as four D7s, and there is a lot of enthusiasm among combat engineers to keep the D9s, and get more of them. In 2004, the D9s were used for combat operations in places like Fallujah.
Photos by LTC Norm Root
The following pictures show a D9 CAT like the one above that took a hit from an RPG.
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An R&D partnership could pave the way for a US-wide biometric database.
5 November 2018 | 10 Shares
AI security cameras using facial recognition technology. Source: NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP
For companies dealing with large volumes of sensitive internal and external data, security— and ensuring only a select handful of actors have appropriate access— is a major priority.
In a post-GDPR climate, and in the wake of a number of high-profile data scandals— Facebook for one, and more recently that which led to the sun-setting of Google Plus— the sentiment has never been truer. Companies are exploring more advanced ways to ensure secure access to information, swiftly and efficiently.
With employees often working remotely from one another, if not just across multiple devices, keeping tabs on who has access to which files, and how secure each of their systems are, is no easy task; in many cases, an encrypted, centralized password document and a healthy dose of trust can only go so far.
Does AI have an unspoken infrastructure problem?
One solution lies in biometrics and facial recognition.
Imagine, for example, if when a ‘non-authorized’ user was in the room, sensitive information could be automatically blocked on-screen, or if you could be given a list of everyone in on screen, including their job title, function, and security clearance, when you were having a conference call.
That could be achievable if your employees’ biometric data could be quickly cross-checked with a centralized database, and a partnership between US biometrics and fingerprinting firm SureID and Robbie.AI, an AI-based facial recognition authentication startup, means this kind of tech could soon be made a reality.
An authorized FBI ‘channeler’, which means it can attain US citizens’ government data for those looking to work or study abroad, SureID claims to be within a 30-minute commute of most Americans via more than 800 fingerprinting kiosks.
The research and development partnership with Robbie.AI seeks to combine that scale with facial recognition, in what could lay the groundwork for a US-wide database of biometric information able to be integrated across countless platforms where users require verification.
Why CIOs are sweating over their enterprise IoT
“As technology emerges and companies adopt more sophisticated forms of security, it will be crucial for safety and security to authenticate the real identity of technicians and consumers,” Ned Hayes, General Manager at SureID told ZDNet.
Up until now, much of Robbie.AI’s focus has been on predicting customer emotions in video conferencing or on retailers’ surveillance cameras, the goal being to predict purchase behavior and optimize selling or marketing techniques as a result.
As such, it’s developed advanced facial recognition technology and, perhaps most significantly, has rolled it out as cloud-based SaaS that’s quick and easy to plug in.
“Our combined biometrics database can provide a frame of reference for the development of future security solutions on the market,” added Hayes. “SureID and Robbie.AI are providing industry-transforming biometrics and identity offerings to make the security world safer, faster, and a better experience for everyone.”
While biometric databasing, in particular, is wont to get privacy advocates hot under the collar— and that’s not surprising, it’s about as personal as data gets— it’s not a stretch to see how a cross-platform integration of such technology could be a boon to convenient, easily-rolled-out verification technology.
Convincing users to submit both their fingerprints and facial ID to a database will have to come with assurances, but anyone who bought an iPhone in the last four years has probably used a fingerprint scanner— and those who bought the iPhone X may well already use Face ID to unlock their handset. It’s not new ground.
While it’s always going to be a toss-up between convenience and access on the one hand and privacy on the other, this kind of technology will be most effectively deployed on a strategic and sparing basis. Employers would be wiser, for example, to reserve this capability for security clearance relating to financial information and strategic planning rather than for sharing the social media rota.
Compliance Operations
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25% US jobs to be ‘severely disrupted’ by automation
The overall movement towards automation is taking a vast multitude of different forms across every industry.
25 January 2019 | 19 Shares
A self-service McDonalds. Source: Shutterstock
The impact of automation on US jobs could take hold in “a few years or two decades”, according to Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution.
Top 10 best paid IT job titles for SMEs
Ultimately, however, disruption by artificial intelligence (AI) is inevitable. A new report by the Washington think-tank estimates that a quarter of US jobs will be “severely disrupted” as AI accelerates the automation of existing work.
That would account for the work of roughly 36 million Americans whose jobs are deemed “high exposure” to automation, with at least 70 percent of these tasks able to be performed effectively by machines in the future.
Among those jobs, food services— including cooks and waiters— short-haul truck drivers, and clerical office workers were are considered to be some of those most at risk. Muro warned that workers in these positions would need to “upskill, reskill or change jobs fast”.
While the timeframe is vastly imprecise, the report suggested uptake of automation technology could quicken within the next economic downturn, when businesses are looking for ways cost-cut, and are willing to disrupt embedded processes to do so.
In other respects, the automation ‘takeover’ could happen more subtly over a gradual period.
While Amazon’s warehouse robots and the like are those that steal the headlines, it could be technology such as self-checkout kiosks and computerized hotel concierges play a big but less noticeable part.
The rise of machine taking over routine tasks will changes most jobs to a degree, says the report, but the majority of workers, and businesses alike, will be able to adapt to that shift.
The effect will, however, be more pronounced among certain demographics and geographies. Smaller cities, such as those in the US heartland and Rust Belt, could be hit hardest by the changes.
Meanwhile, it may be younger workers making up the bulk of manpower in high-risk industries, such as food services, that are affected most.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software could play a frontal role in disrupting the finance sector; FAA proposals could see commercial drone use for deliveries become an imminent reality; and Walmart recently tested a robot to replace its fry cooks.
Finance workers first to feel near-term AI blow
That’s just to name a several examples under the greater shadows of tech giants such as Amazon and Google, who— set on pursuing automation and AI technology to both improve products and reduce operating margins— are arguably leading the movement.
Speaking to CBS News, assistant professor at Toronto’s York University, Matias Cortes, noted that automation can have an overall positive effect on the jobs market, leading to economic growth, reduced prices and increased demand, while creating new jobs that counteract those it’s displaced.
However, he also said there were generally “clear winners and losers”.
It’s often easy to assume that it will be ‘blue-collar’ jobs and those with lower levels of formal education that will be affected first. As machines become more ‘intelligent’, however, a wider pool of educated workers could be impacted.
According to Cortes, the jobs that will likely go unscathed are those requiring advanced education, interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
“These high-paying jobs require a lot of creativity and problem-solving,” Cortes said. “That’s going to be difficult for new technologies to replace.”
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Tablao Flamenco Cordobes brings to Barcelona the essence of Granada, presenting Juan Andrés Maya and Alba Heredia, two leading figures in flamenco dance and excellent representatives of Granada’s flamenco school, characterized by their unruly power and charisma on the stage. They will be accompanied by a select cast of musicians that will keep up with their fierce pace.
Alba Heredia
Juan Andrés Maya
David Cerreduela
Guitarrist
Justo Fernández “El Tuto”
Israel Cerreduela
Juan Manzano El Coco
Antonio Campos “Bocaillo”
Manuel de la Nina
Juan Andrés Heredia Maya
Born in the heart of the gypsy neighborhood of Sacromonte (Granada), Juan Andrés descends from a family with a long tradition of flamenco: nephew of the famous dancers Mario Maya and Manolete, and the no less known guitarist Juan Maya Marote. He began to dance at the age of three in Cueva de la Rocío, and at the age of fourteen he traveled to Cairo with the company of Cachado and since then he continued to perform in different shows.
In 1992, during the celebration of the Universal Exhibition of Seville, he collaborated in a show with Miguel Bosé “Young Values of the XXI Century” that obtained a clamorous success. This same year he presented the work “Contrast” with which he toured different theatres throughout Spain. Three years later he participated with Carmen Linares on a tour of Jordan and Tunisia and in 1996 was claimed by SS. MM. the Kings of Spain to act in Carmen de los Chapiteles and also debuted in the theatre of La Alhambra with the show “Cautivo” alongside Manolete, La Hierbabuena and Beatriz Martín. He took part in “Amor Brujo”, in the starring role, performed in New York at the Lincoln Center and toured the Netherlands and Japan. In September of that same year he presented his new work “Roots” with the sponsorship of the Duchess of Alba.
Throughout his career he has participated in countless shows all over the planet, reaping hits from critics and audiences. He has been awarded as a flamenco revelation artist with Nacho Duato and has collaborated with artists such as Estrella Morente, Farruquito and Miguel Poveda at the Granada autumn festivals held in the city in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He is currently on tour with his shows and courses at the International School of Flamenco Manolete de Granada.
Alba Heredia was born in Sacromonte, specifically in the cave “La Rocío”, baptized by the Duchess of Alba, takes her first steps as a dancer with only 4 years. Alba Heredia has the privilege of belonging to one of the most important dynasties of the flamenco world as the Maya, therefore Alba is the niece of the great masters such as Manolete, Mario Maya, Juan Maya Marote and her cousin Iván Vargas.
She began her journey from a very young age in the cave of his grandmother “La Rocío” and whenever her studies allow her to work in the famous Zambras of the Caves of the Sacromonte, leaving astonished to all the public that passes by those caves so emblematic.
In the year 1999 arrives the great surprise, she was presented by his uncle Juan Maya Marote in his own homage with only 4 years, celebrated in the Palace of Sports of Granada sharing thus this young and promising figure poster with artists of the size of Niña Pastori, José Mercé, El Guito, Mario Maya, Eva la Yerbabuena, Manolete, Juan Andrés Maya, KETAMA, Aurora Vargas and Pansequito among others.
After her presentation in the homage of her uncle begins the professional career of this young bailaora making numerous representations of the hand of Curro Albayzín in several congresses and festivals promoted by the City of Granada.
From the year 2000 to 2004 Alba learned from great teachers like her uncle Juan Andrés Maya, Iván Vargas, Belén Maya, Rafaela Carrasco, etc.
Throughout her career she has acted in the main scenarios and tablaos of the world. Currently Alba is juggling a life between Granada and Seville taking classes and working in the most prestigious tablaos of the zones, with international projects, Madrid and Japan again for the festival that will be made in memory to Paco de Lucia
Amparo “La Repompilla”
Juan Manzano “Coco”
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GST on Tour Operator services to Main Tour Operator
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Case Law Details
Case Name : In re Crown Tours & Travelers (GST AAR Rajasthan)
Appeal Number : Advance Ruling No. RAJ/AAR/2020-21/06
Date of Judgement/Order : 23/07/2020
Related Assessment Year :
Courts : AAR Rajasthan (91) Advance Rulings (1652)
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In re Crown Tours & Travelers (GST AAR Rajasthan)
Whether the rate of 5% under heading 9985(i) is applicable on transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake wherein a single invoice is raised in respect of all the services i.e. local transportation services along-with services like sightseeing, tour guide, elephant ride etc., provided by the Applicant to The Main Tour Operator?
Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 defines Tour Operator as “any person engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport, and includes any person engaged in the business of operating tours.”.
Further, the above said Notification also delineates two conditions for a tour operator;
1. Provided that credit of input tax charged on goods and services used in supplying the service /, other than the input tax credit of input service in the same line of business (i.e. tour operator service procured from another tour operator)]48 has not been taken [Please refer to Explanation no.(IV)].
2. The bill issued for supply of this service indicates that it is inclusive of charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour and the amount charged in the bill is the gross amount charged for such a tour including the charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour.
We find that, the first condition is related to restriction of input tax credit whereas second condition is related to criteria for inclusion of charges of accommodation and transportation in the bill of a tour operator.
The second condition clearly emphasise that a bill issued by a tour operator for supply of its services should be inclusive of charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour. The conjunction ‘and’ clearly explains that accommodation and transportation, both are must elements for a tour whereas conjunction ‘or’ may have rendered option between accommodation and transportation. Whereas, the applicant is rendering only transportation with some ancillary services and not accommodation, as such does not satisfy the conditions as mentioned under Serial No. 23 (i) {Chapter heading 9985} of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017(as amended), therefore, rate of GST 5% is not applicable.
In view of the foregoing, we rule as that The services provided by the applicant do not fall under the purview of Serial No. 23(i) {Chapter heading 9985} of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended) and rate of GST 5% is not applicable.
FULL TEXT OF ORDER OF AUTHORITY OF ADVANCE RULING, RAJASTHAN
Note: Under Section 100 of the CGST/RGST Act, 2017, an appeal against this ruling lies before the Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling constituted under section 99 of CGST/RGST Act, 2017, within a period of 30 days from the date of service of this order.
At the outset, we would like to make it clear that the provisions of both the CGST Act and the RGST Act are the same except for certain provisions. Therefore, unless a mention is specifically made to such dissimilar provisions, a reference to the CGST Act would also mean a reference to the same provision under the RGST Act. Further to the earlier, henceforth for the purposes of this Advance Ruling, a reference to such a similar provision under the CGST Act / RGST Act would be mentioned as being under the “GST Act .
The issue raised by M/s Crown Tours and Travels, Opposite Rajputana Shereton Hotel, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302006 (hereinafter the applicant) is fit to pronounce advance ruling as it falls under the ambit of the Section 97(2) (a) given as under: –
a. Classification of goods and /or services or both
Further, the applicant being a registered person (GSTIN is 08AAJFC6249G1ZA as per the declaration given by him in Form ARA-01) the issue raised by the applicant is neither pending for proceedings nor proceedings were passed by any authority. Based on the above observations, the applicant is admitted to pronounce advance ruling.
A. SUBMISSION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE APPLICANT:
1. Crown Tours and Travels (hereinafter referred as ‘the Applicant) is engaged in business of providing tour services to the tourists identified by the Main Tour Operator. In transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake, the Applicant is going to provide local transportation services along-with services like elephant ride, lunch/dinner, local sightseeing, guide services etc. As a practice in the industry, there is a contractual understanding between the tourist and the main tour operator to provide a complete packaged tour. In turn the main tour operator engages sub- tour operator Such as the applicant to Provide locaI transportation services along with one or more the services like Providing guide services, sightseeing- and elephant ride. The said services together constitute an essential part of the packaged tour;
2. that in respect of the said transactions, the Applicant raises a single invoice wherein all the services are shown as separate line item (with its respective rate) for accounting purposes. However, the final amount charged by the Applicant from the Main Tour Operator is total amount of all the services together provided by the Applicant to the Tourist i.e. local transportation services along-with services like guide, elephant ride, local sightseeing. Thus, the amount charged from Main Tour Operator will be inclusive of charges in respect of all the services which are provided by the Applicant to the tourist. A sample copy of the service order in respect of the transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake and the copies of the invoice raised by the Applicant have been already submitted with the application;
3. that under Section 9 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (hereinafter referred as ‘CGST Act), the Central Government by way of Notification shall prescribe the rate of central tax which shall be applicable on supply of goods or services or both. Pursuant to Section 9 r/w Section 11,15 and 16 of the CGST Act, the Central Government vide Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (hereinafter referred as ‘Rate Notification’) notifies rate of 2.5% on supply of Tour Operator services under Heading 9985(i) subject to certain conditions. Similar rates have been prescribed under Rajasthan Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Hereinafter referred as ‘RGST Act). On a combined reading of notifications issued under CGST Act and RGST Act, the effective rate of tax comes to 5% on supply of tour operator service. The relevant entry from the Rate Notification is reproduced below:
SI.No. Chapter Section or Heading Description of Service Rate (per cent.) Condition
23 Heading 9985 (Support services) (i) Supply of tour operators services.
Explanation.- “tour operator” means any person engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport, and includes any person engaged in the business of operating tours 2.5 1. Provided that credit of input tax charged on goods and services used m supplying the service [, other than the input tax credit of input service in the same line of business (i.e. tour operator service procured from another tour operator)] 48 has not been taken [Please refer to Explanation no. (IV)].
[(ii) Services by way of housekeeping, such as plumbing, carpentering, etc. where the person supplying such service through electronic commerce operator is not liable for registration under sub-section (1) of section 22 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. 2.5 Provided that credit of input tax charged on goods and services has not been taken [Please refer to Explanation no. (iv)].] 49
[(iii) Support services other than (i) and (ii) above 9 –
4. that in the Rate Notification, as per the definition of Tour Operator the same will include the person who provides services in the nature of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport. Further, the rate of 5% under the Rate Notification is subject to fulfilment of the conditions mentioned in the said Rate Notification;
5. that invoices submitted by the Applicant relates to the past transactions. In the said transactions, the Applicant though raised a single invoice but charged rate of 5% on the local transportation services under heading 9964 and rate of 18% on sightseeing services, guide services, elephant ride services under heading 9985(iii). However, it was pointed out by the service recipient i.e. Main Tour operator that as per the market practice, when the local transportation services are provided along-with services like sightseeing, elephant ride, guide services, rate of 5% under heading 9985(i) is applicable. Accordingly, the current advance ruling has been sought to get clarity on the said matter;
6. that whether the rate of 5% under heading 9985(i) is applicable on transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake wherein a single invoice is raised in respect of all the services i.e. local transportation services along-with services like sightseeing, tour guide, elephant ride etc., provided by the Applicant to Main Tour Operator?;
7. that to determine whether the services provided by the Applicant are covered under heading 9985(i), it has to be first analysed that whether the transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake tails under the phase ‘supply of tour operator service’. For the same, it is relevant to examine the meaning of the terms ‘tour’ and ‘tour operator’and accordingly verify whether the Applicant falls within the ambit of such terms. The same has been discussed herein.
Meaning of term ‘Tour’
It is humbly submitted that the meaning of term Tour’ has not been defined in the Rate Notification, therefore, reference is made to the dictionary meaning of the term Tour’. As per dictionary, the term Tour’ is defined as:
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary pg. 3309 (5th Ed. Vol. 2002) Tour. A journey or period of travel from place to place esp. a holiday comprising visits to a number of places on a route through an area.
Hence, Tour’ means a travel from one place to another by any mode of transportation;
8. that reference can also be made to the meaning of the term Tour1 as understood in common parlance. In common parlance, Tour is understood as tourists, usually taken in groups by the tour operator by any mode of transport from one place to another and, en route or at the terminal place, local sight-seeing trips (including visits to zoo, museum, monuments and other historic spots etc.), visits to temples or other places of worship, boat cruising in lakes, trips to hill resorts, etc,. Thus, tours are organized or facilitated for the tourists by the tour operator. The definition of the Tour Operator as per Rate Notification also contains that the tours may include arrangements for accommodations, sightseeing and other similar services;
9. that in the transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake, the Applicant needs to provide local transportation service to the tourists along with services like local sightseeing, elephant or camel joy rides, lunch and dinner at local restaurant, boat ride. The whole day of the tourist is spent/utilized in the said activities. The services provided by the Applicant are covered under the phrase sightseeing and other similar services by any mode of transport. Thus, the Applicant provides the service of organizing and conducting a Tour’ for the tourists;
Meaning of term Tour Operator
10. that in the Rate Notification, the term Tour Operator has been defined as the person who is engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organising, arranging tours by any mode of transport. The relevant definition is reproduced below:
“Tour operator” means any person engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport, and includes any person engaged in the business of operating tours.
11. that as per the above definition, the Tour Operator must provide the transportation service. It is humbly submitted that in transaction at hand, the Main Tour Operator specifies the services which has to be provided to particular tourist or group of Tourist. Accordingly, the Applicant intents to organize and arrange the tour for the Tourist(s) which includes local transportation along-with sightseeing, elephant ride, guide services.Thus, It is submitted that as per the above definition, Applicant is a Tour Operator’;
12. that moreover, as per the Rate Notification, Tour Operator includes any person engaged in the business of operating Tours. The term business of operating tours’ is very exhaustive and it will include any activity which are in the nature of incidental and ancillary to the business of operating tours like elephant ride, guide services, local sightseeing etc. Also, the annexure to the said Rate Notification i.e. list of Services, provides for various activities under the head of Travel arrangement, tour operator and related services. All such activities which are mentioned under this head shall be construed as a part of business of operating tour and can be said to be supplying tour operator services;
13. that the Applicant in the transaction at hand is a sub-tour operator, who has been engaged by the Main Tour Operator to provide the services of local transportation of Tourist along-with services like elephant ride, guide services, sightseeing. The said activities are incidental and ancillary to the Tour’, hence, it is humbly submitted that the Applicant in present case shall be construed to be supplying tour operator services;
14. that in the light of above submission, it is humbly submitted that services of local transportation along-with sightseeing, guide services, elephant joy ride provided by the Applicant to the Tourist are covered under ‘Supply of tour operators service’;
15. that as per the Rate Notification, the rate of 5% is applicable on the supply of Tour Operator services under Heading 9985(i) can be availed in following cases: Input Tax Credit (hereinafter referred as ‘ITC) in respect of goods and services used in supplying the service has not been taken except in case where ITC is in respect of input services in same line of business i.e. Tour operator service procured from another tour operator;
16. that the bill issued by the supply for services indicates that it is inclusive of charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour and the amount charged in the bill is the gross amount charged for tour including the charges for accommodation and transportation required for such tour;
17. that in respect of the condition no. (i), the Input tax credit in respect of goods and services used in supplying the said services has not been taken except in case wherein ITC is in respect of input services received from another Tour operator. Thus, for the satisfaction of the said condition, the person who is supplying the tour operator services cannot avail the ITC of the input services which it has used in supplying the said services except in case such input services has been received from another tour operator. In present case, the Applicant intents to comply with the said condition and not avail the ITC in respect of input services it has used in supplying the said services to the tour operator. Thus, condition no. (i) is satisfied for the transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake;
18. that on Perusal of condition no. (ii), it can be construed that the bill which is issued by the Tour operator should be inclusive of all the Charges including charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour. The definition of the term ‘tour operator’ states that the person providing the tour operator’s services may or may not provide the service of accommodation. Thus,it is humbly submitted on the co-joint reading of the condition no. (ii) with the definition of Tour Operator’ and applying the rules of harmonious construction, it can be construed that the fulfilment of the condition of inclusion of accommodation charges in the bill of tour operator is required only when such services have actually been provided. However in thosecases where such accommodation services have not been provided by the ‘tour operator’ then in those cases he is only required to issue bill which will include the gross amount charged for all the services i.e. transportation services provided along-with local sightseeing, elephant or other joy ride;
19. that in the transaction which the Applicant intents to undertake, the Applicant is providing local transportation services along-with various services like Elephant ride, guide services, sightseeing and for all such services the Applicant intents to raise a single bill wherein the gross amount for providing all the services will be stated. Thus, no separate invoice will be issued in respect of the services provided by the Applicant to the Main Tour Operator;
20. that for accounting ease, the Applicant will show each service as separate line item with its rate (as shown in the past bill). However, the nature of the service will | De that of Tour Operator service1. Accordingly, it is submitted that since, the Applicant intents to raise a single invoice for all the services provided by it and also charge gross amount on the bill which will be inclusive of charges for all the services provided by the Applicant, the condition no. (ii) is also fulfilled;
21. that it is humbly submitted that in case the services provided are in the nature of ‘supply of service by tour operator’, then in that case, the services provided will not be covered under heading 9985(iii) of the Rate Notification. Reliance is placed on the Advance Ruling passed in case of TUI India (P.) Ltd. by Authority for Advance Ruling, Delhi ([2019] 28 GSTL 346 (AAR – New Delhi)). It is humbly submitted that, in present case the services provided by the Applicant are covered within the tour operator services. Thus, the same will fall under the heading 9985(i) and the rate applicable therein 5% will be applicable;
22. that in light of above submission, it is humbly submitted that as per the Rate Notification, the transaction which the Applicant propose to undertake is in nature of ‘supply of tour operator services’. Further, the condition no. (i) and (ii) are also fulfilled for the transaction under consideration. Thus, for said transaction, the rate of 5% is applicable.
B. QUESTIONS ON WHICH THE ADVANCE RULING IS SOUGHT
C. PERSONAL HEARING
In the matter personal hearing was granted to the applicant through video conference on 10.07.2020. Shri Rahul Lakhwani (Authorised Representative) of applicant appeared for personal hearing. During the personal hearing, he reiterated the submissions already made in the application. He further requested that the case may be decided at the earliest.
D. COMMENTS OF THE JURISDICTIONAL OFFICER;
The jurisdictional officer i.e. the Deputy Commissioner, State Tax, Circle-B, Jaipur Zone-Ill, Zonal Kar Bhawan, Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302004 has submitted his comments vide letter dated 19.05.2019 which can be summarized as under-:
The services supplied by the applicant to the Main Tour Operator falls under SAC heading 9985(H) [support services] other than heading 9985(i). So the tax rate applicable on single invoice raised by the applicant is 18% (CGST 9% + 9% SGST).
E. FINDINGS, ANALYSIS & CONCLUSION:
1. While going through the submissions made by the applicant, we find that the applicant is involved in supply of local transportation service and services like elephant ride, guide services and sightseeing to tourists engaged by various tour operators, also called in trade parlance as Main Tour Operators (hereinafter MTO). The tourists as discussed above are primarily engaged by MTO and thereafter delegated to the applicant and the likes.
2. The applicant has earlier also filed an advance ruling on similar subject matter wherein this authority pronounced that the applicant is not a tour operator as per definition and condition provided in Serial No. 23(i) of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017(as amended) vide its order number RAJ/AAR/2019-20/25 dated 26.11.2019 (hereinafter the RAAR Order).
3. The facts submitted by the applicant in its earlier application and in present application are similar except some submission. In the present application, the applicant has further from previous application submitted that it is also providing transport services to tourists besides service of elephant ride, guide services and sightseeing. Further, that the MTO treats the supply by the applicant a tour operator service as applicant is providing transportation besides other tourist services.
4. We find that only additional fact from previous application is service of transportation provided by the applicant. So, question before us to decide is whether applicant will fall under definition of Tour Operator or not as per definition and condition enumerated in Serial No. 23(i) Chapter head 9985 of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended).
5. The Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended) in Entry Number 23 (i) define Support Services under Chapter heading 9985. The relevant portion of the Notification is as under,-
SI No. Chapter, Section or Heading Description of Service Rate (per cent.) Condition
23 Heading 9985 (Support services) (i) Supply of tour operators services. Explanation.- “tour operator” means any person engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport, and includes any person engaged in the business of operating tours. 2.5 1. Provided that credit of input tax charged on goods and services used in supplying the service [, other than the input tax credit of input service in the same line of business (i.e. tour operator service procured from another tour operator)] 48 has not been taken [Please refer to Explanation no. (IV)].
2.The bill issued for supply of this service indicates that it is inclusive of charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour and the amount charged in the bill is the gross amount charged for such a tour including the charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour
The said entry defines Tour Operator as “any person engaged in the business of planning, scheduling, organizing, arranging tours (which may include arrangements for accommodation, sightseeing or other similar services) by any mode of transport, and includes any person engaged in the business of operating tours.”.
On examination of above definition, we find four elements in the definition; tour operator is a person, who;-
– plan, schedule, organize and arrange tours;
– might be providing accommodation, sightseeing and other similar services;
– engaging any mode of transport for above services;
– engaged in business of operating tours.
6. We find that, the first condition is related to restriction of input tax credit whereas second condition is related to criteria for inclusion of charges of accommodation and transportation in the bill of a tour operator.
The second condition clearly emphasise that a bill issued by a tour operator for supply of its services should be inclusive of charges of accommodation and transportation required for such a tour. The conjunction ‘and’ clearly explains that accommodation and transportation, both are must elements for a tour whereas conjunction ‘or’ may have rendered option between accommodation and transportation. Whereas, the applicant is rendering only transportation with some ancillary services and not accommodation, as such does not satisfy the conditions as mentioned under Serial No. 23 (i) {Chapter heading 9985} of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended), therefore, rate of GST 5% is not applicable.
F. In view of the foregoing, we rule as follows: –
The services provided by the applicant do not fall under the purview of Serial No. 23(i) {Chapter heading 9985} of Notification No. 11/2017-Central Tax (rate) dated 28.06.2017 (as amended) and rate of GST 5% is not applicable.
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Review: The Underground By Hamid Ismailov
Caveat lector. Let the reader beware. This book is deeply sad and does not have a happy ending. But for many readers a happy ending is not a necessary factor for a book to be considered successful The narrator of Ismailov’s novel is a child nicknamed Mbobo whose mother is from Siberia and whose father is an unknown African athlete that visited Moscow, and his mother, during the Olympics in 1980. The boy’s sad story of a tumultuous childhood fraught with domestic violence and racism is told posthumously: “My mother died when I was eight, and I died four years later.”
As a boy, Mbobo oftentimes finds himself being taken from one part of Moscow to another via the city’s subway. Each of the title chapters in the book is a station from the Moscow underground which is appropriate for the themes of darkness and death that are woven throughout the narrative. The chapter entitled “Kropotkinskaya Station” begins:
If I ever wanted a tomb for my dead body, I would have picked the Kropotkinskaya Station. That is my vault: elegant and airy, impractical and absurd, standing all by itself, in the middle of the road, like an arch from nowhere to nowhere. If you find yourself on Volkhonk Street and pass under this frilly gape of an arch, you should turn left, you’ll end up in my underground hell, the very station where I, the stoker-imp, am covered in soot. There fountains of flames spurt up toward the hot ceiling from the torch-like pillars, where the light of day is never seen.
Because Mbobo is black he suffers from horrible, daily episodes of racism throughout his young life. His nickname, Pushkin–the poet’s maternal great- grandfather came to Russia from Ethiopia with Peter the Great— is even a cruel reminder that he is not like everyone else. When he is at school he is pushed by a bully and he suffers a severe concussion. While recovering at the hospital, which should have been a safe resting place for him, two other boys tie him up and call him awful, racist names.
The only real solace in his life is the unconditional love shown to him by his mother, whose name is Moscow. He calls her “Mommy Moscow.” But she has her own issues with alcohol and promiscuity which also affect Mbobo’s life. Her husband, whom the child calls Uncle Gleb, is a struggling writer. On the rare occasions when he does get paid he spends his earnings on vodka and then beats his wife. Mbobo witnesses regular episodes of domestic violence and oftentimes tries to intervene to stop Uncle Gleb from killing his mother. When she finally gets tired of his drunken beatings, Mbobo’s mother takes up with a railway police officer named Uncle Nazar. Even though his second stepfather is kinder to his mother, he is stern and distant with the boy.
When Mbobo’s mother succumbs to her intemperate lifestyle, he is left orphaned. He bounces between his uncles who attempt to care for him but with the loss of the unconditional love of his mother he is drowned in his feelings of utter and complete loneliness. These tragedies happen to Mbobo with the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union as the backdrop. One of the final tragedies that the boy experiences is the renaming of his underground stations that had been one of the few constants in his short life.
The book is fused with literary allusions to the Russian greats: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov and Platonov all peak through Ismailov’s text. The greatest of greats, Tolstoy himself, makes his appearance at the end of the novel which has a conclusion similar to that of Anna Karenina. Despite the melancholy ending, Ismailov’s talented writing about identity, race, loneliness and the collapse of a government make it a highly successful literary novel.
Ben Winston, who has founded the site Vibrant Margins which is dedicated to bringing small press books to readers through a subscription service, has agreed to give a copy of The Underground as well as Country Life by Ken Edwards to one of my readers. Both of these books, which are great literary reads, are included in the first subscription season of Vibrant Margins. If you would like a copy of these books then just leave me a comment and I will randomly pick one US reader. So that my friends outside the US will also have a chance to read these books, I will also pick one International reader to win my own copies of these books.
Born in an ancient city in what is now Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and poet who was forced to leave his home in Tashkent when his writing brought him to the attention of government officials. Under threat of arrest, he moved to London and joined the BBC World Service, where he is now Head of the Central Asian Service. In addition to journalism, Ismailov is a prolific writer of poetry and prose, and his books have been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish, English and other languages. His work is still banned in Uzbekistan. He is the author of many novels, including Sobranie Utonchyonnyh, Le Vagabond Flamboyant, Two Lost to Life, The Railway, Hostage to Celestial Turks, Googling for Soul, The Underground, A Poet and Bin-Laden, and The Dead Lake; poetry collections including Sad (Garden) and Pustynya (Desert); and books of visual poetry including Post Faustum and Kniga Otsutstvi. He has translated Russian and Western classics into Uzbek, and Uzbek and Persian classics into Russian and several Western languages.
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21 responses to “Review: The Underground By Hamid Ismailov”
Oh, I loved The Dead Lake, so beautifully written. This sounds very sad, but I can imagine it is lifted by the prose. Count me in. 🙂
Fantastic! Thanks so much!
Rebecca Foster
I’m intrigued by the idea of a posthumous narrator. I think I could cope with the sadness; some of my favorite books are pretty depressing!
Some of mine are too. But there are readers who won’t touch a book unless it has a happy ending, so I thought I would give fair warning!
I also enjoyed (if that’s the right word) The Dead Lake. I have a copy of this on Kindle (I assume it’s the same translation) and this has made me eager to read it.
It seems that his books lean towards the melancholy! I will also have to try Dead Lake.
I have had this on my virtual wish list for some time, intrigued after reading Dead Lake. Good to know you liked it, I will have to look into getting it.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Dead Lake. I will have to read that one as well.
I heard about this a while back and thought it sounded interesting – I hadn’t quite picked up on the sadness, though. Sounds very powerful…
It has so many layers to it! He is a talented writer.
I think you’d like The Dead Lake very much, a poignant but beautifully written novella. This one sounds very powerful too…
Thanks for the recommendation, Jacqui. I didn’t realize it is a novella. I will definitely have to give it a try.
Peirene published over here and it fits their model perfectly.
Oh excellent! I didn’t realize it was a Peirene title. I love their books and it makes me more keen to read it!
I wasn’t familiar with this writer – sounds well worth exploring. Don’t think I’ve encountered an Uzbek writer before
I believe this is my first Uzbek author as well. His story is interesting as he was exiled from his own county because his writings were considered too democratic.
Poppy Peacock
Very intrigued by this one and the relationship between the stations and each part of the boy’s story, sounds an interesting structure.
Maybe it’s strange, but I love sad stories… 🙂
Even though I am normally spoiler-phobic, I actually do really appreciate knowing, from the outset, that a story is going to be heartfully draining; I’m more inclined to pick it up when prepared, than to take a chance on a story which seems like it’s going to be sad and difficult to read (mainly because I read too many bleak and sorrow-soaked stories and need to balance them out with some other kinds of reading too). Thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts on this one!
litgaz
Thanks for this review: Ismailov has been on my ‘could be interested in this one day when I have the time’ list for quite a while. You’ve convinced me the effort will be worth it, despite how sad the book sounds.
elisabethm
Beautiful piece! For me Tolstoy is the greatest of greats too, but I try to make time for modern Russian literature too, and this book is now on the tbr list:-)
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Time is running out and it’s in our favour
Date: 20th April 2011 at 12:34pm
As Manchester United dropped points against Newcastle last night there was a sense of dread as what could have been a 9 point gap became just 7, with that possibly cut to 4 if Arsenal manage to beat Spurs tonight.
Following Arsenal’s late capitulation against Liverpool on Sunday, there was an optimism in regards to the league, heightened by the fact we needed a ‘pick me up’ following our result against Man City the previous day. The hope had been that we would get the defeat out of our heads and get back to winning ways in the league as our dreams of a treble had gone but a double was still on the cards.
The reality was a little different.
Whilst United can feel that over the 90 minutes they did enough to win the game, the performance wasn’t a particularly memorable one and Newcastle could have made their fast start count and punished us. The ref for me got both penalty decisions wrong but even that wouldn’t have made a difference to what was a stale performance.
We lacked urgency and in honesty at this late stage of the season it appears fatigue has begun to creep in as the games have piled up. We played on Saturday whilst Newcastle hadn’t played since the 10th so it was obvious that they would be the fresher and it is something that Sir Alex will have thought of as he spoke of trying to freshen things up by bringing in new faces but we still looked devoid of ideas for large parts of the game. Following the game Sir Alex made an extremely poignant point about the title race. Time is running out.
When Sir Alex commented,
“I’m confident we’ll be fine now as that was a hard one to get over.
“At this stage of the season, we’re in a better position than we were on Saturday as there’s one less game and five games left.”
I can’t be the only person that saw it in a ‘catch us if you can’ way.
Sir Alex is right in that the clock is ticking for our opponents to get on par with us. As the game are ticked off and we maintain a lead at the top of the table, the likelihood that we are crowned champions in May grows and grows but this isn’t rocket science. If the team is tired as the games whittle away the less games there are the greater chance there is we can limp over the finishing line rather than being pipped at the post.
The title race is by no means a done deal, I personally think that tonight’s game with Spurs will throw up a surprise or two and Arsenal still have games away against the likes of Stoke and Bolton whilst United face tricky games against Everton, Arsenal and Chelsea. The fact we also have the Champions League to focus on may also work against us but like Sir Alex said the games are disappearing quickly and we still remain top with such a sizeable gap we are in pole position.
If we can keep our heads, stay the course and keep racking up points regardless of what Arsenal or Chelsea do we will come out on top.
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The Weeknd drops new music with a twist on classic pop and disco
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The Weeknd dropped new, noteworthy music which brings a new twist to 80s synthpop.
by Johann Derek Oribello, Senior Staff Writer
The Weeknd reemerges into the music scene with his reimagination of an ‘80s synth-pop sound through his fourth studio album “After Hours.”
In combination with his moody and dark R&B roots, the R&B superstar continues to explore themes of hedonism often associated with the fast lifestyle of his superstardom.
“After Hours” proves to be his best and most cohesive project yet with 14 songs utilizing heavy synthesizers as the main centerpiece of his production. The atmosphere and sounds of the project are heavily inspired by the glitz and glamor of the ‘80s imagery and aesthetic.
In his own words sent to Apple Music, he described the album’s numerous themes.
“You can find love, fear, friends, enemies, violence, dancing, sex, demons, angels, loneliness and togetherness all in the After Hours of the night,” the Toronto singer wrote.
Throughout the project, The Weeknd sings the same hedonistic topics that are commonly found in his discography, but the rehashing of a classic production style gives the tracks in this project a refreshing new appeal.
Take the second single of the album, “Blinding Lights,” as an example where he broods over the emptiness he feels without a romantic partner by his side at night. In the chorus he sings, “I said, ooh, I’m blinded by the lights / No, I can’t sleep until I feel your touch / I said, ooh, I’m drowning in the night.”
The rhythmic electronic drums and keyboards playing in the background keep an uptempo feel that juxtaposes the gloominess and despair The Weeknd expresses in his lyrics. With synthesizers beaming throughout the song, “Blinding Lights” exemplifies the album’s overall sound and direction.
“In Your Eyes” serves itself to be an outstanding highlight where The Weekend showcases his more vulnerable side which starkly contrasts his hedonistic lyricism. His falsetto vocals are driven by lively production reminiscent of disco dance music featuring groovy basslines, enthusiastic handclaps and a melodic saxophone outro.
The Toronto crooner grieves over his countless attempts to find true love as he sings, “I tried to find love / In someone else too many times / But I hope you know I mean it / When I tell you you’re the one that was on my mind, oh.”
This flashy reimagination of a heartbreak song provides listeners a homage to a classic time period with a modern appeal.
“After Hours” closes out with the euphoric, dreamlike outro “Until I Bleed Out.” His apologetic lyrics provoke a sense of regret over chasing dangerous highs with drugs when he sings, “Well, I don’t wanna touch the sky no more / I just wanna feel the ground when I’m coming down /It’s been way too long.”
The Weeknd’s vocals sound angelic as the beat explodes and breaks down into a euphoric sounding high with synths blasting at full volume. The instrumental reaches a climactic ending with keyboards frantically playing as the Toronto singer hauntingly ends the song singing, “I keep telling myself / I don’t need it / I keep telling myself I don’t need it anymore.”
With “After Hours” being his fourth studio album, The Weeknd brings a welcoming change to his sound as an artist with his dark, drug-induced take on classic ‘80s synthpop house music. His reimagination of the music period in “After Hours” sets him vastly apart from his contemporaries.
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The DisInsider > Disney Live-Action > Tickets For ‘The Lion King’ Are On Sale Now
Tickets For ‘The Lion King’ Are On Sale Now
Skyler Shuler on June 24, 2019
The wait is over, tickets for Disney’s The Lion King remake have gone on sale today. Donald Glover and JD McCrary, who voice old and young Simba made the announcement for AMC theaters on social media, which features a quick new look at the film.
Tickets are on sale NOW to see #TheLionKing at AMC Theatres July 19! Secure your seats today: https://t.co/rtV3Lzyt3R pic.twitter.com/vSFRXG3yj5
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Head over to Fandango to get your tickets today!
According to BoxOfficePro, the remake is long tracking to make $180-230 million which would surpass the openings of Disney’s other remakes Beauty and The Beast ($174.7 million) and Alice In Wonderland ($116.1 million), both films would go on to earn over a billion globally. With a prime Summer release, it is very likely The Lion King could receive the same financial success.
“The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy, and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his. Utilizing pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring treasured characters to life in a whole new way.”
Directed by Jon Favreau, the film stars Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Alfre Woodard as Sarabi, John Oliver as Zazu, John Kani as Rafiki, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa, Billy Eichner as Timon, Eric Andre as Azizi, Florence Kasumba as Shenzi, Keegan-Michael Key as Kamari, JD McCrary as Young Simba and Shahadi Wright Joseph as Young Nala. Hans Zimmer is on board composing the film as he did the 1994 animated classic. Elton John and Tim Rice will also be returning, as they are set to collaborate with Beyoncé on a new song.
The Lion King will roar into theaters on July 19, 2019.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park
Notice June 19: All trails north of Pilot Knob closed at Nathan Bedford Forrest
Public Notice June 19: All trails north of Pilot Knob at Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park are closed due to damage from a tornado. Thank you for your patience.
Alert: Timber Salvage Affects Hiking Trails
Tennessee State Parks will be conducting timber harvests and sales at Mousetail Landing State Park and Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park due to storm damage over the winter and spring. This action will necessitate the temporary closing of some trails.
Park officials plan to clear tracts of salvage timber damaged by storms in order to best establish uniform new growth in the affected areas and remove any hazards from the trail systems.
“These steps are designed with the long-term health of the parks in mind,” Jim Bryson, deputy commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, said. “We understand this will mean a temporary inconvenience for some of our visitors, and we ask for their understanding as we address the needs of our parks.”
At Mousetail Landing State Park, the work is expected to last from June through September. All hiking trails on the park will be closed. The backcountry shelters at the park will also be closed, as well as the primitive group camp.
At Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park, the work is expected to last from June through August. All trails north of Pilot Knob will be closed as well as the group campground.
The timber sale at each park will be overseen by the park manager and a consulting forester to ensure best practices are observed throughout the process. A detailed bid and selection process will be used, and the contractor will clear the trails system and affected surroundings of hazardous trees for the safety of park guests and the re-establishment of a healthy forest. Each park will implement a plan for growth of hardwood forest with early successional habitat established in the next few years.
December 2020: COVID-19 Updates for Overnight Guests
Tennessee State Parks are open for day-use visitors and overnight guests. We do provide travel tips and FAQs for those wishing to visit our parks. Availability of inventory for online booking may be lower than normal as the park pursues social distancing.
Certain parks or areas of parks may close if they reach capacity. Events may have limited capacity. Park hours may vary from normal operations in response to COVID-19.
Rates: $15 — $31 Taxes and fees are not included. Rates subject to change.
Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park has a total of 5 picnic shelters/pavilions that may be reserved for your next event or gathering. Depending on the shelter, the maximum capacity ranges from 20 to 60 people. The shelters are equipped with picnic tables, a grill and some have access to restrooms. Depending upon the shelter, access to a playground, a sand volleyball court, a ball field or a swimming area are nearby. Pavilions are for day use only, unless given prior permission from the Park Manager.
Full day shelter reservations may be made online or by calling the park. Picnic shelters or pavilions may be reserved online up to one year in advance with a paid reservation fee. There is a $5 cancellation fee for picnic shelter or pavilion reservations cancelled 8 days or more in advance of the reserved date. Reservations cancelled 7 days or less in advance of the reserved date forfeit all paid fees.
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Video: Chris Siebbez pulled out of the nail shopping cart, please go to the conclusion of her fight against Amanda Nunce.
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For more than a week till the fighting night, someone decided to leave the video of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Women's Fidelity Champion, Cristian Giustino, who stepped out of the shopping cart directly.
Hello, my name is Chris CyborgAnd you're looking at Jacques.
When a video was taken, there is no word on whether Brazil was injured in the face of Amanda Nunce's title in the scheduled UFC 232 on December 29, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada's T-Mobile Arena.
Hopefully this is nothing, because their pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event "Syborg" is for the cover of 145 pounds, which is to add to its Bantamweight trophy case when Nunce becomes the first female "champion" Hope. " -Champ "in the history of promotion
Gestin certainly does not take part in our concerns about this, tweeting today is not a painful face with emojias. It has been deleted since then but this internet is good, and nothing really goes away forever.
UFC 232 will fight the Light Heavyweight title, which will survive against Alexander Gustafson, John Jones, who will face 205-pound straps which will soon be disappointed by the reign of heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.
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An Introduction to GNU Privacy Guard
By David D. Scribner
"It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours." - Philip Zimmermann
GNU Privacy Guard, or GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org/), is the open-source equivalent of Philip Zimmermann's PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption/authentication software released under GPL. Philip Zimmermann and others developed PGP in 1990 using the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptosystem to answer the need for private and secure communications between individuals over digital medium. After its release to the public in 1991, it quickly grew to become the de facto standard worldwide for secure public-key encryption.
Even though the concept of public-key cryptography for encryption purposes was introduced close to three decades ago, and PGP has been around for over a third of that, you'll likely find that for some reason only a small number of PC users take full advantage of public-key security. I, myself, am guilty of this. When I first started using PGP 2.6 for DOS in the mid-nineties, it was used for little more than encrypting local documents and files for my own use. Few outside of technical circles had heard of it, and the majority of the people I talked to felt it was too cumbersome to use on a regular basis. That was then.
Today, I use GnuPG for a variety of tasks. Whether it's to sign and encrypt documents and contracts submitted to businesses, encrypt local files, or merely sign email and files to ensure others that no modifications have occurred to its content, I have found GnuPG to be a "must have" utility kept close at hand when using my PCs.
Why did I switch from PGP to GnuPG? A lot of personal reasons, really, but it all basically came down to trust, and the fact that I believe in GPL. GnuPG is also fully OpenPGP compliant, and was built from scratch from the ground up. It does not natively use any patented algorithms, supports a very wide array of current cipher technologies, is built to easily integrate future cipher technologies, and decrypts and verifies PGP versions 5.x, 6.x and 7.x messages. I still keep my early RSA keys around in case the need arises to decrypt a file from one of my old archives, but eventually even those files will be wiped, or re-encrypted with one of the newer, and perhaps stronger cipher algorithms available with GnuPG.
GnuPG is available for various flavors of Linux/UNIX, as well as Windows and Macintosh operating systems. As a GNU/Linux advocate, the focus of this article will be on using GnuPG with Linux, though the commands and procedures listed would apply across any of the supported platforms. As there is already very fine documentation for GnuPG, including the man page, The GNU Privacy Handbook, the GnuPG mini-HOWTO and the GnuPG FAQs, I won't go into great detail on all the many command-line operations or configuration settings. Instead, I'll try to explain in simple terms what GnuPG can do, the very basics in using it, and why it can be so important in becoming a valuable utility in your toolbox, both personally and professionally.
Privacy, do you need it?
When most people talk about privacy and strong encryption in the same sentence, they often think the only people needing such things must be doing something wrong, illegal, or involved with government espionage. Spies, smugglers, mobsters, and terrorists come to mind, so you, not fitting into any of these categories and being an honorable and upstanding citizen certainly don't need to be involved with this kind of stuff, right?
You may also think, with Linux's advanced security features such as a protected filesystem structure, memory and strong policies in place, along with a good firewall and IDS, your private data (that list of important account numbers for example) is safe. Perhaps... at least until your fortress gets cracked. By then however, your private data may have been compromised, leaving you wondering what additional steps could have been taken to protect it.
Perhaps you conduct a lot of your business via email, sending quotes, contracts, or financial reports over the Internet to your corporation, boss, or business partners. If you've used the Internet for any length of time, surely you know that the email containing your documents takes multiple paths, and makes multiple "pit stops" at various servers before it reaches its destination. Are you sure that when your document passes through these servers that your files and communications are not scanned, even forwarded on to a paying competitor?
Maybe your data isn't that confidential, but you would still like to ensure that the document or communication you're submitting reaches its final destination exactly as it was sent... no additions, no subtractions, no modifications at all. Can you be sure of this when sending it via standard email procedures?
Suppose you don't have any secrets, and there's not any real concern about someone modifying your email. Do you still want your ISP's service technician with nothing better to do snooping through your email on the server while it's sitting there waiting to be retrieved to know all about your life? If you're in a small or rural town, your ISP may be just a core crew that runs the show. Do you trust them fully with your account? If you sometimes email your family traveling itineraries, information about doctor visits or what stocks you've bought recently, do you really want your ISP to possibly know this information, too?
Even if you're using a large corporate ISP with established privacy policies, can you be sure that their policy is enforced all the way down, and at every level? Believe me, there's been more than one technician discovered snooping through user's mailboxes without their knowing. Some of these "technicians" consider such a practice as entertaining as others might consider soap operas! As Philip Zimmermann stated in the original PGP User's Guide, "It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours." If you send plain-text email over the Internet, it may be personal, and it may be private, but it can easily become anyone else's business, too!
When you start thinking about it, you will no doubt find many areas in your life needing increased privacy, encryption and digital signatures, which may include private files, documents and email. If the need arises to share those files, documents and email with others, you may want to seriously consider incorporating public-key security into your routines.
Public-Key Security
The concept behind public-key security is that there is no need to disclose what should be kept most private, your secret key. With conventional encryption techniques, you encrypt a file for example with a password or passphrase. However, should you need to deliver that file to someone else, you will also need to disclose that password or passphrase to him or her so they can decrypt the file.
How can this be accomplished, and securely? Well, you could personally hand-deliver the key to the other party, along with the file, however this may not always be possible due to distance or other restrictions. You could email the file, then snail-mail, phone or fax the key to them, but between the time it leaves your hand, mouth or fax machine and is received by the other party, you still can't be 100% sure that it wasn't intercepted.
You could also email the file, and in a separate email, disclose the key. However even this is not secure, and less so than one of the above methods at that! Short of hiring trusted "key couriers" to deliver your password or passphrase such as government agencies might do, there is one alternative and that is to use two keys. One key, kept private, is used to decrypt or sign information, and the other key is made "public" and is used to actually encrypt the data or verify the signature.
That is the basis behind GnuPG and PGP techniques. Using various cipher algorithms you create "key rings" to hold your secret (private) and public keys. Your secret keys are protected by passphrases known only to you and should be kept secure. But your public key, which can be dispersed freely, instructs the GnuPG/PGP application used by others on how to encrypt the data, after which only one key can then decrypt it... your secret key.
Before you create your first key pair, you should come up with a good passphrase to protect it. The word "passphrase" is used, as it should really be more than just a pass "word." There are utilities available to help you choose a passphrase if needed (Diceware is one such utility), but the general idea is to come up with a string of words or characters using mixed case, and one that includes numbers, punctuation marks and special characters that will provide strong resistance to cracking. The trick is to come up with a passphrase you're not likely to ever forget!
You could use a single password, but if you're protecting your data with strong encryption ciphers, why make the weakest link (the passphrase) even weaker with something that might make it easier for someone to crack? You could also use a sentence perhaps, just be careful. Most all of the common and well known "phrases" and quotes are already included in a cracker's toolkit, right along with all the dictionary words, and in multiple languages at that.
You can always change your passphrase after the secret key has been generated as well. Based on your use of GnuPG, with regards to privacy and surroundings, the passphrase should be changed regularly. Some suggest monthly, but if you ever find yourself doubting the security of your passphrase because someone was too near your shoulder when it was last entered, it should be changed the first chance you get. This feature is also handy if you find yourself wanting to experiment and work with GnuPG for a short session of learning... change your passphrase to something that can be quickly entered for the exercise, then change it back when your session is over.
More information on creating a strong passphrase can be found in the documentation or on the Internet, but the same common sense used in creating a strong password should be used in creating a stronger passphrase. Don't write it down. Don't tell it to anyone. And remember, if you forget your passphrase, you're sunk. There's truly no way to retrieve it.
So, with your freshly installed copy of GnuPG you can create a pair of these keys easily with:
$gpg --gen-key
By following the prompts, you will indicate what type of key you want to create (signing, encryption, or both) decide on a key size, expiration date, and enter your name, email address and an optional comment. You will also enter the good passphrase you decided to protect the pair with and the key generation will begin. After you've generated your first key pair, you can see that the keys are now in your keyring with the command:
$gpg --list-keys
This, as the command indicates, lists all keys currently in your public keyring. If you're just starting out with GnuPG the only key listed will be the one just created. In this example, the output's format will resemble (with your own identity of course):
pub 1024D/F357CB52 2002-07-09 GnuPG User <user@some-email.com>
sub 2048g/A9CB69B3 2002-07-09
In the example output above, you can see that the key listed has a key ID of F357CB52, and contains the name and email address of the key's owner. If your public keyring contains several keys for other users, you can specify which key you want to view by simply adding the "key specifier" of the key you want to view after the '--list-keys' directive. The "key specifier" could be the owner's name, the key's ID, or the user's email address.
Depending on how many keys are on your keyring, an owner's name could be as simple as their first name, or their last name. If there's only one Kathy in your keyring, you could use Kathy. If there are two keys belonging to Kathy, but the email addresses are different, the email address of the chosen key could be used. If both keys have the same name and email addresses, the key's ID can be used to differentiate them.
When using an email address to identify a key, it's not necessary to use the entire email address, only the part that's unique to that user's key. Whatever means you use to identify that key, all that's necessary is for it to be unique enough to identify the key you want. One note to make is that when using a key ID as a specifier, since the key ID is a hexadecimal number you can also prefix the ID with "0x". If you were specifying the key ID F357CB52, it could be entered as 0xF357CB52. This is not required for GnuPG, but as you start working more with key servers, you will find that when using a key ID to search their database, they need to be prefixed with "0x".
I highly suggest that the first thing you do after creating a key pair is generate a revocation certificate for that pair, then move it onto a diskette you can keep secured someplace safe (along with a printed hard copy of the certificate in case the medium becomes damaged). To create a revocation certificate for the key pair we just created (using the key ID as exampled above), issue the command:
$gpg --output revokedkey.asc --gen-revoke 0xF357CB52
This will generate a revocation certificate for the key ID F357CB52. The resulting file, "revokedkey.asc" is the revocation certificate.
What is a revocation certificate and why do you need one? In the beginning, if you're just experimenting with GnuPG and haven't dispersed your public key, there might not be a need for one. But, once you've started using GnuPG to encrypt files and your public key is out there for others to use, a revocation certificate adds another layer of protection to your key pair.
Should your secret key become compromised or lost, or if you forget your passphrase, a revocation certificate posted to a keyserver or sent to your contacts to update their keyring will not only inform them of your key's demise, but also prevent them from encrypting new files to that public key (and likewise prevent you from using that key to sign or encrypt files yourself). If your key has been compromised, you can still use the secret key to decrypt files previously encrypted to or by you, and others can still verify your signatures created before the revocation, but it's an added safeguard you should take now.
If you've forgotten your passphrase, there's nothing you can do short of a brute-force attack of trying every passphrase combination you can think of that may have been used. And, without that passphrase (and access to the secret key), generating a revocation certificate is not possible. Hence the importance of generating one before it's too late!
Encryption & Digital Signatures
Since GnuPG uses the dual-key concept for increased security, how can this be used in your personal or business life? Let's take a look at the various areas where strong encryption and authentication could apply.
Asymmetric Encryption - Asymmetric encryption is the standard with dual-key concepts. As previously explained, anyone can use your public key to encrypt information, but only you can decrypt it. You might be working on a project meant for "limited eyes only." Protecting the data generated in that project via encryption could keep competitors from uncovering, and possibly beating you to market, with your project's outcome. Say it's a programming project for a new "killer application" that will revolutionize the personal computer industry, a new product-packaging concept that will reduce costs for your company, or even a new and creative marketing scheme that will rake in big bucks. It would be a devastating blow to your project should your competitor catch wind of it before its time, so encrypting the files and communications relating to that project would definitely help keep them out of the loop.
Aside from other business data such as financial reports, projections, or statistics that might serve well being encrypted before being sent off over the Internet, as also mentioned it doesn't have to be "secret" data that should be kept from prying eyes. It could be common data that you or I wouldn't even consider the need to secure, but with today's problems with identity theft, burglaries and crime on the rise, perhaps we should take a second look at some of this "common" data we so easily send off without a second thought.
Phil Zimmermann likened sending plain-text email to a postcard. Actually, I think it's worse. I say this in consideration that at least those working for the US Postal Service are government-regulated employees. Surely those that consider government "big brother" might disagree, but, having a career in the computer industry and not having known too many postal workers personally, I have met far more network and ISP technicians that I wouldn't trust with a ten-foot pole. I would dread the thought of having them know I was taking my family on a vacation on a particular date and wouldn't be back for a week... I might arrive home and find it empty! If it's none of their business, encrypt it!
The general command to encrypt a file using another's public key is:
$gpg --recipient username --encrypt filename
As an added measure of security explained later in the article, when encrypting a file to be sent to another GnuPG/PGP user, most prefer to also sign the file. The command for this would be:
$gpg --recipient username --sign --encrypt filename
The result of either of these two commands will encrypt a file ("filename") to a particular user's ("username") public key, producing a binary encrypted file ("filename.gpg"). If the '--sign' command was given, the encrypted file would incorporate a signature produced with your private key as well.
Symmetric (conventional) Encryption - Symmetric, or conventional, encryption is where encrypted data needs only one key to decrypt it, the same key it was encrypted with. The cipher used to encrypt the document or file is generated at the time of encryption, and during the process you will be asked for a passphrase. The passphrase should be different from the one you normally use with your secret key, particularly if the file will be passed on to another. You will still be faced with finding a secure way of providing the passphrase to the recipient, but if that person does not yet utilize a public-key system such as that provided by GnuPG or PGP, all that's necessary to decrypt this file with either of those utilities is the password or phrase used to encrypt it with.
Another use for symmetric encryption might be sensitive documents or files kept on your own system. Although it's advised that any truly sensitive data should not even be kept on a system accessible to the Internet, no doubt there's still data on your system that would best be protected if encrypted.
Take for example all those Internet sites and web mail accounts you have passwords for. Some users opt for simple passwords; some just use one password for all. Neither of these is secure, so short of keeping a list handy, trying to remember all these passwords can be a daunting task. Many browsers nowadays have the ability to store passwords, but if you change browsers, wipe your cookies clean or suffer a hard drive crash without having a current backup, restoring more than a few of these passwords would be difficult for most anyone.
That's where having a document listing these passwords and account information can come to the rescue. You can still use strong passwords without the worry of forgetting them, yet at the same time you don't want this document sitting on your hard drive unprotected, or worse, printed and sitting next to your keyboard. Encrypt it! When you run into a situation where you need a password that you can't remember, it only takes a second to decrypt the file to the terminal screen, keeping it safe from prying eyes when not needed.
No doubt you will think of plenty of other data you might find on your hard drive that would be better left protected with strong encryption, and especially if that hard drive is on a laptop that travels... it's bad enough if the laptop gets stolen, but in many instances the loss of sensitive data kept on the laptop can be worth more than the hardware by far!
To encrypt a file named "filename" using symmetric encryption, issue the GnuPG command:
$gpg --symmetric filename
A copy of the original file in encrypted form, "filename.gpg", will be generated.
Digital Signatures - Although digital signatures accompanying data don't yet carry the weight they deserve in most states, they can be of extreme value in so many instances that I'm actually surprised their use hasn't caught on more than they have already.
Using your secret key, you can have documents, files and messages "signed" and time-stamped to authenticate that they actually did come from you. If the signature verifies, the receiver can be assured that the data was not modified in any way, and has arrived just as it was meant to be. This can be valuable for authors submitting stories or articles to publishers, programmers submitting files to the public, or businesses sending contracts, purchase orders or invoices to their partners. Literally just about any time you would normally send such a document signed with your own signature, a digitally signed document offers the same validity and authenticity in many cases, and prevents tampering to boot.
GnuPG's flexibility in signing permits signatures to be embedded in text messages as "clear-signed". Since the signature appears as ASCII text, this is useful for emails. The recipient can verify the signature to guarantee that the email has not been altered between the time it was sent or posted and the time it was received if they wish, but the message remains readable by all. To clear-sign a file named "message", issue the GnuPG command:
$gpg --clearsign message
The resulting file, "message.asc" can then be easily emailed as an attachment, or the contents included in the body of an email or posted to a newsgroup forum.
For an example of clear-signed messages you can visit one of the GnuPG newsgroup forums, such as gnupg-users, where you'll find most every message signed by the GnuPG user submitting the post. Clear-signed signatures are often referred to as ASCII-armored signatures. I'll be covering ASCII-armoring in the next section.
A digital signature can also be included along with the document as a single file; the file is compressed along with the included signature. Although the file's not actually encrypted, by using the GnuPG decrypt command and the sender's public key the file can be uncompressed, restored to its original format and the signature verified. The signature can also be verified without decompression in case you wish to keep the binary file intact as is.
Signatures can also be included as a detached file separate from the original file. This accommodates others that might not be using GnuPG or PGP utilities, allowing the original document or file to remain "untouched." Yet, because the signature hash was created from that file, it can still be verified as being unmodified and the time stamp checked. This is popular with many binary files found on the Internet (though in the Linux world MD5 hash signatures are sometimes more common for this), or with documents where an embedded signature is not desired. In order to verify a signature, all anyone needs is that person's public key.
To create a detached binary signature ("filename.sig") for the file "filename", the GnuPG command would be:
$gpg --detach-sign filename
Because signatures carry weight and can verify that the data hasn't changed, as previously mentioned it is strongly suggested that anytime you encrypt a file with another's public key, the file is also signed using your secret key prior to encryption. This adds protection to the file in that not only can that particular recipient be the only one to decrypt it, but during the process they are also assured that it came from you, and only you. The added authenticity helps thwart attempts by someone else trying to intercept and modify the file for nefarious means, as without your secret key there would not be a way to reapply the signature. To decrypt the file and make changes they would not only need the secret key and passphrase of the recipient, but to reapply the signature they would also need yours... very unlikely.
To verify a signature or a signed file, the GnuPG '--verify' command is used. If the file includes an embedded signature, it could be as simple as:
$gpg --verify signedfile
Or, if a detached signature accompanies a file, the command would include both the signature file, and the file signed, such as:
$gpg --verify sigfile.asc signedfile
ASCII Armor
Although many applications support MIME/PGP standards and work very well with public-key encrypted or signed files in binary format, there may be some instances where ASCII format files are needed. Many email clients such as Mutt, Sylpheed and KMail for example fully support MIME/PGP standards and work very well with GnuPG, but for those MUAs lacking full support, even though there's very likely a plug-in available, ASCII armor comes to the rescue.
A good example of situations where ASCII format files might be needed is email or newsgroup postings. You want your messages signed, permitting those using public-key utilities to authenticate your signature, yet still allow those that don't to easily view the message's content. Or, perhaps your company's policies prohibit binary attachments passing through their email servers to or from outside networks, requiring any binary files to first be converted to ASCII, similar to uuencoded files.
GnuPG takes into account these needs by allowing the user to specify that an ASCII armored file be produced for its output. The option for this is '--armor', which can be added to most any command where ASCII format is needed. Another command-line option you will often use in conjunction with '--armor' is '--output', which takes a filename as an argument.
You may have also seen public keys displayed as "blocks" of garbled ASCII text on web sites. This makes it convenient to display the user's public key so visitors to the site can easily import the key into their own keyring. As you would expect, just about any output GnuPG generates, whether it be keys, encrypted files or signatures, can be output as ASCII-armored text. A few examples of producing ASCII-armored output with GnuPG are included below.
To encrypt the file "filename" for recipient "username", creating an armored ASCII text file ("filename.asc"):
$gpg --armor --recipient username --encrypt filename
To encrypt the file "filename" for recipient "username", creating a signed armored ASCII text file ("filename.asc"):
$gpg --armor --recipient username --sign --encrypt filename
To encrypt the file "filename" using a symmetric cipher for encryption (does not include public key information), and creating an armored ASCII text file ("filename.asc"):
$gpg --armor --symmetric filename
To digitally sign the file "message", creating an ASCII-armored version ("message.asc") of the file that contains the attached signature:
$gpg --armor --sign message
To create an ASCII-armored text file named "sigfile.asc" as output for the detached signature, and is for the file "filename", you could use the command:
$gpg --armor --output filename.asc --detach-sign filename
Keyrings & Keyservers
As you've seen, the concept behind GnuPG and public-key security deals with keys, and keyrings. When you created your first pair of keys, you also created your first keyrings. If you take a look in your home directory, you'll find a hidden directory created for the GnuPG files (~/.gnupg). Within this directory there will be two keyring files, pubring.gpg and secring.gpg. The pubring.gpg file is your public keyring, and secring.gpg is your secret, or private, keyring.
Your secret keyring, containing only the one or two secret keys you create will remain small, however the public keyring will grow as you collect and add more public keys to it. Your secret keyring should be stringently protected at all costs, but your public keys, and keyrings if desired, can be shared.
As you continue working with GnuPG, you will note that many users publish their public keys on web sites or key servers. In the past, keys were exchanged via email, BBS or newsgroups postings. In recent years as the popularity of public-key security has gained ground, formal key servers have evolved to handle the need of dispersing these keys in a more convenient and centralized manner. After you've created the keys you'll be happy with and have worked with GnuPG to get to know your way around it a bit (and thoroughly memorized your passphrase!), you'll eventually want to start exchanging your public key(s) with others.
You'll also find various public keyrings dispersed on the Internet. Many of these keyrings hold the public keys of GnuPG/PGP users belonging to special interest groups. As you experiment with your secret and public keyrings, you may consider importing several keys from one of these keyrings to see what they're comprised of. You will likely find keys that have been signed by several other key holders, include additional email addresses, or even identifying photos. Since you may not actually know any of these people, you will probably limit your experiments to signing and encrypting files to your own key sets, but importing a few "popular" keys from one of these keyrings will give you an idea of what yours can become like down the road! When you're done, they can be easily deleted from your keyring if you choose.
Say for example you find a user's key available for download on the Internet that you want to import into your own public keyring, and the key is named "user-key.asc". After downloading the file, to import this public key into your keyring you would use the command:
$gpg --import user-key.asc
Likewise, to make an ASCII-armored copy of your public key that can be emailed, included as a download link, or whose contents can be displayed on a web page so others can import it into their own keyring, use the command:
$gpg --armor --export username > keyname.asc
This will export your key in ASCII armor format as previously explained, for the username or key ID specified, redirecting the output to the file "keyname.asc".
Key servers, or "keyservers" as they are sometimes referred to, have simplified the dispersing of public keys to the masses as it provides a somewhat centralized repository to post and retrieve public keys from. Although there are several key servers out there, most all are connected and synchronize their data. If you post or update your key to one of these servers, you'll find that the key will be broadcast and updated to the other key servers, sometimes rather quickly.
A couple of the more popular key servers are MIT's PGP Key Server and the OpenPGP Key Server. For other key servers closer to your geographic location, you might take a look at the OpenPGP Server Lookup web site. There, you'll find listed other key servers located around the world.
It's at these key servers that you can search for a public key belonging to someone by their name, email address or key ID. Keyservers are also good to use when verifying a key's fingerprint. If you were given a key by someone, or download one off the Internet from a web site, checking that key's fingerprint against the one listed on a keyserver to make sure they match is a good precaution to take as it will minimize the risk of receiving a bogus key. That's not to say that all keys on a keyserver are legitimate, but due to their circulation bogus keys can often be exposed for what they are.
Importing public keys from a key server into your keyring is as simple as specifying the key to import, and the key server to import it from. For example, the command:
$gpg --recv-keys --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net user@some-email.com
will import from the keyserver, "wwwkeys.pgp.net", the key for "user@some-email.com" into your keyring. Exporting a key is just as easy. The command:
$gpg --send-keys --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net user@some-email.com
will export the key for "user@some-email.com" currently residing in your public keyring to the keyserver "wwwkeys.pgp.net".
However, not everyone wishes to have his or her public key uploaded to a key server. So, if another user gives you their key for signing, always check with them prior to submitting it to one of the key servers. They may prefer that you email it back to them in a signed and encrypted message instead.
Web of Trust
Now that we've covered creating a key pair for your encryption and authentication needs, and have experimented a little with importing and exporting keys for yourself to use as a learning experience, you're probably eager to start exchanging keys with other users. One of the fundamental aspects of using public-key cryptology with GnuPG/PGP is the ability for users to "sign" other users keys, adding yet another layer of legitimacy to that key. This also allows you to detect any tampering with the key in the future. However, signing another's key(s) is something that should not be taken lightly as it will affect the level of trust others have established in your key.
By having others sign your key, they are helping you establish what has become known as a "web of trust." Having several signatures on your key helps assure others receiving your key of its authenticity, especially if the key receiver also knows one or more of the others that has signed your key.
Keep in mind that when someone signs your key, they are only vouching for you in that your key is authentic and that it indeed belongs to you, because they have personally verified the fact. They are not vouching for your personality, ethics or morals, only that you are who you say you are identity-wise, and the key they've signed is yours.
Before you go signing another's key, it's important that you first verify that the key you were emailed, downloaded from a key server or were given actually belongs to that person. If you were to do this over the phone, or even in person, checking each character of the person's ASCII-armored key block would not only be exhausting, but extremely error prone as well. As such, each key has a "fingerprint." These fingerprints are derived from a hash of the key block, and provide a relatively sure way of verifying the key to the owner without error.
To view a key's fingerprint, the GnuPG command 'gpg --fingerprint keyID' is used. The output displayed can then be used to communicate the received key's fingerprint to the owner, who can then verify that the fingerprint is correct, and matches the fingerprint of their key. An example of a key's fingerprint, as output by GnuPG, might look similar to:
Key fingerprint = 5172 708D CA58 C2D9 4082 BA0D 103D 1293 F357 CB52
Once you've confirmed that the fingerprints match, you can then sign that user's public key with your secret key to validate it. When you created your key pair and a public key was formed, it was automatically signed by your secret key when using GnuPG. To sign another's key however, you can use the command:
$gpg --sign-key keyID
Along with '--sign-key', one other command for signing keys is available that I want to bring to your attention, and that is '--lsign-key'. The '--lsign-key' command signs the public key for local use only (instead of flagging your signature as being exportable along with the key as the '--sign-key' command). As your signature is not exportable, you're not validating that user's key for others to rely on, but it will still be treated as a valid key on your local system.
Why would you sign a key for local use only? Perhaps one example would be that you imported a key used to verify the signature of a software package. You want to sign the key so that the risk of tampering with this key without your knowledge is minimized, and warnings issued by GnuPG about using a non-validated key won't be displayed. The command to locally sign a key is:
$gpg --lsign-key keyID
You will be prompted for your passphrase, after which your signature will then be attached to that key. To sign a key you could also edit that key. The GnuPG command to edit keys is:
$gpg --edit-key keyID
This invokes the interactive menu system that allows you to modify the properties of a particular key. To sign the key with your secret key, in turn allowing your signature to be exported, use the menu command 'sign'. Just as when using the '--sign' and '--lsign' commands from the shell's command prompt, you will be asked for your passphrase. When correctly supplied, it will attach your signature to the chosen public key when you then use the 'save' command, or 'quit' and respond that you want the changes saved.
The interactive menu system used when editing keys gives you a greater degree of flexibility when signing a key. For example, if you have a key that contains more than one user ID, you may want to sign only one or more IDs for that key, but not all of them. You might choose to do this if you weren't able to verify the email address associated with that ID, or want to keep the size of your keyring smaller than it would be if your signed keys had your signature attached to every ID (the key will still be considered valid, and as your keyring grows, signing only one ID on locally signed keys helps keep their size down). When you first display a key with '--edit-key', you will see something similar to:
pub 1024D/2B94CF89 created: 2001-01-01 expires: never trust: -/q
sub 1024g/12E688D4 created: 2001-01-01 expires: never
(1) Close Friend (GnuPG Gnut) <close.friend@some-email.com>
(2). Close Friend (Webmaster) <close.friend@someother-email.com>
Command>
The period after "(2)" indicates that this ID is the primary user ID. If you were to sign the key now, your signature would also be attached to that user ID as well. To mark a different ID, or several IDs for signing, the menu option 'uid' followed by the chosen number is used. Once marked, the ID number will have an asterisk placed after it. If you were to mark the first ID to attach your signature to, the resulting output would look like:
(1)* Close Friend (GnuPG Gnut) <close.friend@some-email.com>
Signing the key at this point with the 'sign' menu command attaches your signature to the chosen ID. The menu command 'save' will then save the signed key and exit, or you could use the menu command 'quit' to exit without saving any changes.
Other commands you'll find useful in the interactive menu for editing keys are 'fpr' to list a key's fingerprint (which you'll do when verifying the key with the owner), 'check' to list the signatures on a key, 'adduid' and 'deluid' to add or delete a user ID on a key (name, comment or email address, which comes in handy if your email address changes), and 'trust', which is used to assign a trust value to a key. For a list of commands that can be used with this interactive menu, simply type the word 'help'. After pressing the [Enter] key, a list of possible commands will be displayed.
When should you use the 'lsign' command in place of the 'sign' command? Anytime you cannot refutably verify that the key you're signing belongs to its owner! This is perhaps the most vitally important safeguard you can take in keeping your "web of trust" sound. Unless you have personally checked and verified the identity of the person against the key you were given with complete complete confidence, or one of your trusted fellows has (more on this below, in "Level of Trust"), don't sign it with an exportable signature! You may have found Werner Koch's (the main developer of GNU Privacy Guard) key on the Internet, but unless you can personally verify the key, don't sign it with an exportable signature. Doing so will only weaken the level of trust others have placed in you to vouch for another's key validity, in turn weakening your web of trust.
I would like to add that, while on the subject of building your web of trust, many "famous" people have their public keys posted on key servers and the Internet (Linus Torvalds, Philip Zimmermann, Richard Stallman, Wichert Akkerman, Theodore T'so, Eris S. Raymond, etc.). If not common sense, then at least politeness should dictate that unless you actually know this person or will be conducting business with them, don't disturb their peace by invading their personal life in an attempt to verify their key just so you can sign it with your exportable signature. I'm sure they're kept busy enough as it is.
How does your web of trust grow? By getting to know other GnuPG/PGP users, and spreading the value that public-key encryption and authentication can bring to a person's personal and business dealings. You could add your public key's fingerprint to your email signature line perhaps (which sometimes brings about questions as to what it is by unknowing recipients, giving you the chance to evangelize), or once you've created a key pair you're happy with, publish your public key to a key server, or post the key block on your web site.
Many computer user groups may also hold key signing events where their member's keys are checked for accuracy and the holder's identity verified with a photo ID or driver's license. The keys are then later downloaded or emailed to the participants, key fingerprints checked, signed and returned to the user or key server as requested. Check your local user groups to see if they're holding one in your area. Linux user groups in particular often hold key signing events, and even parties in some localities, where the participants are invited to mingle and get to know each other in a more informal setting after the verification process is over.
As well, the Internet has come to the aid of some as there are sites (Biglumber.com for example) that will post lists of users wanting to have their keys verified, as well as users willing to sign another's key. Checking the lists for your area might put you in touch with someone local so the verification process can be completed.
If GnuPG were to stop here however, your "web of trust" would really be no more than a "wagon wheel of trust", as the only trusted keys on your keyring would be those to which your signature is attached. As in real life, the concept of trust used with GnuPG extends beyond that. Say for example there was a local GNU/Linux convention that you attended with one of your good friends, Greg. At the convention the two of you run into a buddy of his, Tom, operating one of the booths and were introduced. You don't know Tom personally, but you do know Greg and trust that if he said this person was indeed Tom, you would have few doubts as to his identity.
GnuPG utilizes trust levels in much the same way. You may acquire keys for which you don't personally know the individual they belong to, yet due to the interaction with other keys on your keyring that are trusted, they may be "introduced" and therefore treated as valid to varying degrees. This is what establishes the "web" in the web of trust model. These keys may not be linked directly to your key, but by the interconnection with other keys on your keyring, they in fact become a part of your web.
Levels of Trust
Many new to public-key use are sometimes overwhelmed by the word "trust" when referring to the keys in their public keyring. In simpler terms, there are basically two types of trust available to you, "validity trust" and "owner trust".
Validity trust, also called calculated trust, is based on to what extent a key can be considered valid. When you sign a key it's considered fully valid. If you can't verify with absolute certainty that the key belongs to its owner, and the owner is who they say they are, you can either sign the key for local use only (so your signature is not exportable, but the key is still considered valid), or refuse to sign the key and allow the validity to be calculated. If you do verify the key as being authentic, you can sign the key with an exportable signature and the key is then not only considered valid by you, but can also be treated as valid by others that have placed trust in you.
This type of trust is referred to as owner trust, and as the name implies, has to do with a key's owner and is used to specify just how much trust you have in a person's key to validate, or introduce, other keys on your keyring. As mentioned, this is because although a person may not be able to personally verify the validity of another's key, GnuPG allows trusted keys to validate to various extents other keys containing that trusted key's signature. The validity of these introduced keys depends on the amount of owner trust placed on the introducing key. A greater amount of owner trust yields a greater amount of calculated validity trust.
The default configuration for GnuPG specifies that if you haven't personally signed a key yourself, it can still be considered valid as long as two conditions are met. The first condition specifies that either the key has been signed with another key on your keyring that has been granted full owner trust, or the key has been signed by at least three other keys on your keyring that have been granted marginal trust. The second condition requires that the path of signed keys leading back to your own key (and inclusive of) include no more than six keys, or five "hops". These conditions can be altered in the GnuPG options, however, and can be made as tight (or flexible) as you wish them to be, but for most users the defaults are adequate and have withheld the test of time.
How do these levels of "owner trust" work? Let's say you have personally validated and signed Greg's key and have assigned full owner trust to that key. You've since imported Sandra's key. Although you can't possibly validate her key personally since she lives in a distant city (and you've never met or spoken with her before), as Greg has signed her key it will be considered fully valid.
In a perfect world, the owner of every key on your keyring would be fully trusted, but that just isn't the case. It would be nice, and is why I try to stress the importance of keeping your web of trust sound, but there will be keys on your keyring whose owner you simply might not want to place trust in either due to their lack of knowledge in dealing with public-key security, or the seriousness they place in trust values. There might also be keys belonging to people that you just don't know enough to grant trust to, or people you simply don't know at all. They're all a part of your web of trust however, so GnuPG addresses this by allowing you to assign levels of owner trust to each of your keys.
Assigning owner trust to a key on your public keyring uses the same interactive menu system that can used to sign keys ('gpg --edit-key keyID'), and there can be one of five levels of trust placed on a key. If you recall, when you first chose to sign a key with the interactive editing menu, you were displayed with something similar to:
pub 1024D/2B94CF89 created: 2001-01-01 expires: never trust: -/f
(1). Close Friend (GnuPG Gnut) <close.friend@some-email.com>
The two types of trust are displayed on the right. The owner trust level is displayed first, and the validity, or calculated trust level is displayed second. In this example, a "-" appears for the owner trust level, and an "f" appears for the validity trust level, indicating the key has been signed, but no owner trust level has been established.
In dealing with owner trust, if the level is signified by a dash ("-"), it simply means that no level of trust has been assigned as yet. This is the default level placed on any new key imported into your keyring. If you don't know this person and have no level of trust to place on the key, simply leave this level of trust where it is. As there is no level of trust yet established, this key will never be used in validating another's key.
The second level is signified by an "n" and means no trust, or to not trust this person to correctly verify others signatures. Since these levels can be changed at any time you might assign this level to someone that is new to public-key use until they've grasped the hang of it. Then again, the key may belong to someone you know that is careless in the way they carry out key verifications and don't wish to have possible falsely validated keys pollute your web of trust. With a trust level of this grade, this key won't be used in validating another's key either.
The third level is signified by an "m" for marginal trust. Assigning marginal trust to a key indicates that you feel pretty confident that the key's owner understands the importance of proper key verification before placing their signature on a key. Bringing our example users back into the picture again, Greg mentioned to you that he has assigned full owner trust to Sandra's key on his keyring. You trust Greg's judgment of course, but since you don't personally know Sandra, her key might be a good candidate for marginal trust consideration until she's proved herself otherwise. With a trust level of marginal, if your public keyring contains a key, which in turn has been signed by at least three other keys on your keyring of marginal standing, that key will be considered valid. Quite often, the majority of the public keys on your keyring will likely be granted this level as your web of trust grows and your keyring expands.
The fourth level, signified by an "f" for full trust, is the level you would give to a key who's owner you have no doubts about their understanding of public-key use and verification checks, and is someone who's trust you would consider as good as your own. Our friend Greg would be a good example of someone worthy of full trust. He's been using GnuPG or PGP for quite a while, has established a good web of trust, and definitely takes every precaution in validating keys so as to not spoil that web of trust. With a full owner trust level, any key on your public keyring signed by this person's key will be considered fully valid.
The fifth level, signified by a "u" for ultimate trust, is used only for keys in which there is a corresponding secret key available. In other words, your personal public keys will have the status of ultimate trust when placed on your keyring. Needless to say, any key on your public keyring signed by you is considered a fully valid key, and is why it's important that you properly validate keys via proper methods before you sign them. Get carried away by signing anyone and everyone's key without properly verifying them first and you will quickly pollute your web of trust. I'm sure I've said that enough so I'll leave that topic alone now.
GUI Front Ends
Since GnuPG is command-line oriented (which actually adds flexibility to the utility) some users may be disappointed or miss a graphical user interface. This may especially hold true for newer Linux users transitioning from a graphical desktop OS like Windows. Although there are graphical front-ends to the application similar to those in earlier PGP days, they are still in the development stage and may lack the "polish" you expect, or have grown accustomed to. Although several GnuPG interfaces exist, I will only touch on a few of them here.
GPA - GPA, or GNU Privacy Assistant, is actually being developed by the GnuPG organization. Utilizing GTK (the GIMP Tool Kit) for its interface's widgets, GPA allows you to encrypt/decrypt files, view your keys, signatures, sign keys, edit trust levels, and import/export your keys to a public-key server among other things. Like many GUI front-ends, GPA is early work in progress, yet the version I'm currently using, 0.4.3, seems to be very stable. One area that GPA currently lacks is a system for the application's Help button (it's unresponsive). The interface is very intuitive however, so this certainly isn't a major drawback, but indicates there is still work to be done.
Seahorse - Seahorse provides a graphical interface much like GPA, with perhaps one of the nicest graphical front-ends to GnuPG that I've run across so far. Still very early in the development stage and currently at version 0.5.0, this GUI front-end provides much of the same functionality of GPA. Although the interface is very appealing to me, I did find that in its current state the application does suffer from a rare lockup now an then when used on my Debian 2.2 and Red Hat 7.1 systems. No data is corrupted, and killing the application is easy, but like most early projects this is to be expected. The author has recently announced a request to take over the Seahorse project, as development has stagnated for over a year now. Hopefully, someone will come to this worthwhile application's rescue.
TkPGP - Another nice GUI interface for GnuPG. TkPGP is written with Tcl/Tk, and also allows you to sign and encrypt documents in a text window, select files for encryption, decryption, signing and verification, but provides minimal key management functions. The application is capable of using a sizable number of GnuPG commands and configuration settings, providing a powerful interface to many of the GnuPG commands and options available, and includes the ability to remember your passphrase for a set time (handy when you're working with GnuPG for an extended period).
Other graphical front-ends exist for GnuPG and are worthy of consideration, so be sure to check into them before settling on one or two you like. There are also many character-based wrappers, written in Perl for example, that provide front-ends to this great utility. If you're operating at a character-based terminal and wanting a menu interface for GnuPG, be sure to check into these offerings as well. A rather comprehensive list of front-ends for GnuPG can be found at the GnuPG web site, or freshmeat.org.
When working with sensitive data, whether you're using GnuPG or not, certain "common sense" caveats should apply. In other words, you should be aware if your sensitive data is winding up in shared memory locations, temporary files, etc., and whether you are working with your documents over a network or on shared systems. The same concerns apply when using GnuPG or any other public-key encryption system.
Keep in mind that simply deleting a file does not actually remove the file's contents from the hard drive, and that it can often be recovered with a little work. Also, if the application you're using to create a sensitive document uses "timed" saves or writes buffers to an unsecured location on your system, even after thorough deletion of the file there may be enough of the original document left behind in these areas to thwart your security efforts. Various file-wiping utilities exist for most platforms (such as 'shred' or 'wipe' for Linux), so if such a scenario applies to your situation, you should seriously consider looking into using one of these.
If you're using a shared terminal or operating over a network, you may consider using removable media such as a floppy or zip disk for your document's creation and encryption location... just don't leave it behind! You may also want to look into the features GnuPG has for encrypting text and messages straight from the terminal's keyboard. No plain-text file is left behind to worry about, as it's saved straight to an encrypted file.
Don't forget that your GnuPG secret keyring should be kept protected at all times. This file, secring.gpg, is kept in the ~/.gnupg directory by default. If your terminal is shared or if your home directory is stored on a server somewhere, you'll definitely want to configure an alternate location for this file in your ~/.gnupg/options configuration file. It could be kept on a floppy diskette, or even renamed and moved to another directory location if needed, as long as that location is secure.
For those that utilize shared terminals at work, a web caf�or truck stop, there's even a small distribution of Linux, Tinfoil Hat, developed especially to operate in conjunction with GnuPG. A bootable floppy that for the really paranoid even utilizes a wrapper for GnuPG called gpggrid to circumvent keystroke loggers, Tinfoil Hat Linux not only provides a reasonably secure place to store your keys and encrypted documents (reasonable as it's not handcuffed to your wrist), but also provides secure encryption and decryption of your files in RAM.
Keystroke loggers, or key loggers, can be software, or even small devices or plugs that attach between the system and the keyboard, logging every keystroke entered by the user (thereby capturing any text, including any passwords and passphrases that may have been entered). The hardware loggers, being small and usually attached at the back of a system, are many times overlooked and can go unnoticed. Software key loggers may save the keystrokes to a file, or transmit them over a network to another system.
If your data is sensitive, and your system accessible by others, be aware of the security measures that need to be taken into consideration in protecting your passphrase. A weak passphrase, or one that can be discovered easily, nullifies the security available with public-key encryption. The point is that your passphrase, as mentioned, is the weakest link in your encryption. Guard your passphrase well, and use common sense in keeping it safe or your efforts will be futile.
Also, if you haven't done so already, copy your keyring files to the same diskette as your key's revocation certificate and place it in a safe or deposit box for security's sake. Since the revocation certificate generated when you first created your key pair probably only includes "generic" comments explaining your reasons for revoking the key, keeping a backup copy of the keys allows you to generate a new certificate with details should your secret key ever become compromised or lost.
We've now covered your introduction into using GnuPG. As you have seen, it's not difficult to use, and in fact most of it is rather intuitive. When its features are used from within many other applications such as email clients or supportive applications or plug-ins, much of what goes on in the background is transparent, simplifying matters even more. The steps to using GnuPG are just as simple... come up with a good passphrase, create a key pair and its revocation certificate, experiment with it, publish your public key to a key server when you're satisfied, establish and build your "web of trust," and last but certainly not least, always keep security in mind.
Although the use of public-key security has grown tremendously since those early PGP days, it still has a long way to go to gain popularity in many countries, perhaps due to the overall sense of freedom those countries enjoy within their boundaries. With the tremendous growth of the Internet, thefts of corporate data and the proliferation of crackers and script-kiddies, those boundaries have dissolved. Once you've started using GnuPG with regularity you'll perhaps wonder what you did without it. With the numerous worries about the need for increased security defenses in businesses, corporations and homes, you may even find that it brings a bit of stress relief to your life!
Copyright 2002 David D. Scribner. This document may be freely distributed and copied in whole or in part, as long as credit to the author is given.
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Chase knows what he wants.
The Original Series:
The opening scene where The Avengers start acting bizarrely out of character during a mission to stop the Incredible Hulk from destroying The White House. It turns out that it's just Alex playing an MMORPG with his online friends. Actually scratch that, all of the opening scenes introducing the main characters and their families are quite humorous as well.
When the group spies on their parents and sees them in their supervillain get-up for the first time.
Alex: Do you know what this means?
Chase: Yeah, our parents are totally gay.
Some funny innuendo in issue 4:
Karolina: Where am I going, anyway?
Nico: The hospital! I've got a... a giant rod stuck inside my body!
Chase: Heh.
During the team's first encounter with Old Lace, Chase thinks that she's just a hologram and tries to prove it by swatting her with a broom, convinced that the broom will go right through her. It... doesn't. His reaction is priceless.
During the Teenage Wasteland arc, some convenience store robbers (who turn out to be something else entirely) confuse the gang with Power Pack, a much earlier group of kid superheroes.
As the team reads through their copy of the Abstract, which tells the history of the Pride, they reach the part where the Pride first decided to have one heir each in order to avoid a fight over which six members of the Pride would get to live on after their plan for world destruction was completed. And why did they make this plan? Because Janet Stein, who, again, was planning on destroying the whole world in another decade, had gotten pregnant and was against getting an abortion.
The Second Series:
In the first issue, the Runaways take on the Wrecking Crew. Thunderball prepares to attack Gert, who has so far done nothing but go to lean against a tree.
Gert: I've got the power to make grown men lose control of their bowels.
Thunderball: Seriously?
*Old Lace drops down out of the tree.*
Gert: More or less.
And her musings after about how she wished Old Lace had been her Bat Mizvah present, if only to have made her school days more tolerable.
When Victor's powers suddenly emerge.
Victor: Whoa...did you see how high I just jumped?
Nico: Yeah. Did you see how high my stilettos are? Look closely.
*kicks Victor in the face*
There's something funny about Ultron predicting that there's a 99.99% likelihood that the Avengers will have a distinct lack in diversity in the coming years — enough to let a new super who'd only recently come into his powers join the team.
Apparently Xavin has an uncle who's name sounds similar to "you freak"
Karolina: Get away from me you freak!
Xavin: Ewe'fareek is my uncle, Karolina. My name is Xavin!
Molly Worfing Wolverine, from near the front of a church, all the way through the heavy doors and across the street into a snowbank.
Spider-man's appearance during the "East Coast/West Coast" arc.
Victor: Ho... Holy...
Gert: You're... You're...
Spider-man: Yes. I'm Batman.
In the Breather Episode before the New Pride arc begins, Molly has a Day in the Limelight story where she gets kidnapped by a different team of runaways who force her to help them rob a bank. The story itself isn't especially humorous, but the following issue reveals that she made her way back to the Hostel... and got grounded by Nico, who found her explanation of where she'd been to be absurd.
HELP! I'M BEING KIDNAPPED BY AN EVIL BLACK MAN FROM THE 1980's!"
"Dude, you don't have to bring race into this."
Issue 17 has Nico and Gert fighting and making up at the same time, leaving Victor confused as to what was happening.
Xavin, a former Child Soldier, is absolutely livid when Molly beats them at Stratego.
During the battle with the Gibborim, Victor tries to do a Fastball Special with Molly. Molly is the strongest member of the team. Guess who gets to be Wolverine.
The "Dead-End Kids" arc:
Issue 25. It... makes sense in context.
Nico: I told you like ten times to stay out of my stuff.
Molly: But we're heisting! Why couldn't you wear normal-person stockings anyway? I'm gonna have waffle-face.
Chase talking to himself while waiting for the others to carry out their part of the heist.
Chase: KKcht. Eagle One to German guys from Die Hard, what is your position? KKRrzt. This is German Guys, we are splitting up a bazillion dollars in diamonds and primo weed while you freeze your ass off up there pretending you have a walkie talkie, over. KHHHT.
"Why aren't you awesomed by me?!"
Nico's first encounter with the Difference Engine, a robot who is the height of technology... for 1907. He tries to scan her against his catalog of known villains. It takes several minutes, his teammates in the Upward Path look incredibly annoyed, and Nico has a "WTF?" expression on her face. Finally, a punch card comes out, informing him that she's not in the catalogs. Which everyone already knew.
In the middle of the arc, there's a rather serious moment when the Witchbreaker is torturing Nico, though Nico's retort to the Witchbreaker is pretty funny in its own way:
Witchbreaker: I am going to hurt you some more. Do you understand why?
Nico: Because you're evil, insane, have no friends and no life and nothing to do 'cause they haven't invented reruns of "Golden Girls" yet?
When Victor starts getting obvious about his thing with Lillie, which is shortly after he and Nico got together:
Molly: "Victor's been kind of a ho-bag lately."
Later, when Nico announces that Lillie will be coming back to the present with them, Victor tries to apologize, but she shuts him down.
"You're a toaster and she's a ho."
The Third Series:
Molly telling Chase that there's a team meeting while he's doing some work on his upgraded fistigons, when he stalls:
Molly: Don't make me pick you up and carry you.
Gilligan Cut
Chase: Put me down, you little gorilla!
At the opening of the "Rock Zombies" arc, we discover that not only has Klara learned how to use a Wiimote, she's also learned how to cheat at videogames.
The Runaways' first encounter with the Young X-Men is full of hilarity.
Nico: Okay, see? This is why we should never leave the house.
Klara: Lord save us... more demons!!
Victor: Thaaaaat's not helping, Klara.
After fighting a giant serpent-monster that sprang up during a game of Truth or Dare, Karolina (who by this point has come out as a lesbian) is asked if she ever has considered trying being with a guy. Karolina's pissed response is to point out how the incredibly phallic monster they just defeated made her even less inclined than usual to consider the idea, leaving the rest of the team scrambling for Brain Bleach. Or in Victor's case, outright erase the memory.
During that same game, Karolina asks Nico who's the best kisser out of her, Chase, Victor and Alex. Nico tries to get out of it, but eventually snaps and says Karolina. Chase is okay with this.
Klara, who just walked in, is appalled.
In the opening issue of the final arc, Nico is concerned that Klara is spending too much time watching TV, and asks Molly to talk to her, and maybe "explain about the dangers of vitamin D deficiency." Molly... doesn't quite deliver this message:
Molly: Hey, KLAAARAAAA! Hey Klara, Nico says you're deficient!
The Fourth Series:
In the first issue, Nico desperately seeks to save Gert's life, and thus uses magic to summon a doctor. Said doctor turns out to be a podiatrist who was brushing her teeth at that very moment.
After Gert has been saved, Nico wipes the podiatrist's memory and sends her back home, but forgets about the x-ray goggles that she gave her. When the podiatrist wakes up, the first thing she sees is her significant other's skull.
As sad as it is hearing Nico and Chase recount how the team fell apart, Gert's increasing incredulousness at Nico and Chase's incompetence is hilarious, particularly when they reach the part where the state took away Klara, who joined the team after Gert's death.
Gert: Klara? Good job, Nico. You guys lost kids I haven't even met.
A bit of Black Comedy when Gert wonders where did everybody else go:
Nico: Two years is a long time, Gert. A lot of things have changed.
Gert: Why are you suddenly talking to me as if I'm six years old and my potbellied pig just died?
Nico: Gert-
Gert: Oh my god, what happened? Did you drop Molly off at a "nice farm"?
How do Nico, Chase, and Gert get back to the Hostel? They call up a Lyft driver, who is apparently not the least bit perturbed about the fact that the three passengers are drenched in blood.
In Issue #3, as Chase, Gert, and Nico wait for Karolina to answer her door, her neighbor comes out, sees Old Lace, stares blankly at the large dinosaur in the hallway, and then elects to go right back inside.
Later Gert mentions if the team was an actual band, maybe they would have stayed together longer. Old Lace imagines them as one. The fact it looks like a reference to Jabberjaw only makes it better.
In Issue #4, Victor finally comes back to life... and finds himself at Molly's mercy, as she's always wanted one of those Barbie hairdresser heads and he has nice hair...
Issue #5: Victor's reason not to trust Molly's grandmother? She raised two supervillains who wore fishnet masks.
In the same issue, Chase's rallying cry while Victor is tied to his chest.
Chase: Get your shoes on girls. We've got a kind, accomplished elderly woman to clobber!
Chase shows up for Molly's parent-teacher conference wearing a t-shirt that reads "Problematic Daddy".
In Issue #8:
Karolina introduces her girlfriend, Julie Power, to the group. Reactions include:
Upon seeing how much they look like each other, Gert asks Karoline is she's dating her Evil Twin.
Molly immediately goes into her Fangirl Mode, and assults her with rapid-fire questions:
Molly:OMG, YOU'RE LIGHTSPEED! I watched "Power Pack: UNPACKED, A Six-Part Documentary" —and you were my favorite. I love your rainbow trail —can I see your rainbow trail? Will you sign my Power Pack poster? Did you really get your powers from an alien seahorse? I love seahorses! Did people really call you MOLECULA, MISTRESS OF DENSITY? I told people to call me Princess Powerful, but nobody ever does.
The team fights Doctor Doom. Molly tries to do her patented charge-and-punch attack... and Doom seizes her by the ankle and holds her upside-down with one hand. A few panels later, we see that he's still holding her upside-down. She looks incredibly annoyed.
Issue #9:
Chase and the Doombot fight over who gets to fix Victor:
Chase: Now wait a minute, spare parts, I'm the one who's fixing Victor.
Doombot: I found him wired to a Nintendo Wii.
Chase: We were taking a break!
Their arguments continue later on as well:
Doombot: Chase Stein, you make me long for Reed Richards.
Chase: You longing for Reed Richards explains a lot... wait, you are a Doombot, right?
Victor, who is still a disembodied head, gets taped to a roomba, and acts as if he was driving a sports car:
Victor: (Molly, I need you to lift up my sunglasses) You babes need a ride to the drive in? (Okay Molly, drop 'em) Just got some new wheels.
When the gang are talking about what movies to watch now that Molly is old enough for PG-13 movies Gert insists that they watch Jurassic Park... and Old Lace looks so happy at the suggestion.
As the team goes off to fight Abigail, Gert suggests that they try and demoralize her by telling her that One Direction broke up. Nico informs Gert that One Direction did break up.
During the fight itself, Get tries to rush Abigail... and gets tossed flat on her ass. It turns out that Abigail has learned several martial arts over the years.
When the team finally locates Klara, the look on her face is not exactly enthusiastic. It's more of an "Oh God, these idiots found me" look.
Klara's reason for not wanting to go back to the Runaways? She's afraid of dying in a fire, just like Alex... and the Pride... and Victor's mom... and Gert. She is remarkably Genre Savvy.
Issue #14 gives us "Interlude With Dinosaurs", a short story told entirely from Old Lace's perspective as she wanders the Hostel. Highlights include her accidentally breaking up a romantic moment between Gert and Victor, her getting in a fight with Rufus, and Karolina offering one of her vegan sandwiches to Gib, who sniffs it suspiciously and then throws it towards Old Lace.
In Issue #16, Nico casts a spell that generates a Christmas party, complete with gifts... which all turn out to be socks. Even Gib gets a pair, and they are enormous.
In Issue #20, it turns out that Gib's never actually eaten anything in his life, and thus doesn't even understand the mechanics of chewing. This is illustrated by the others handing him a donut; even when they put it directly in his mouth for him, he doesn't realize that he's supposed to close his mouth around it, and thus it just falls out. And then he puts Old Lace's arm in his mouth.
How does Nico recognize Karolina in her makeshift superhero costume? She recognizes her thighs.
In #24 Nico and Karolina decide to become superheroes, but in their first actual fight with criminals, Nico can't come up with any spells that she hasn't already used, and thus resorts to "DANCE!"... which backfires because the criminals want to dance with her and Karolina.
#25 starts off with Molly sacrificing a stuffed toy, with a huge knife, to try and feed Gib. Shortly after, Chase gets a phone call from an irate Nico, whose call-photo looks as grumpy as she sounds.
In issue #26, the team relocates to Doc Justice's mansion. As part of their new living arrangements, the girls have a dorm room, with a sign helpfully admonishing them that girls are to stay in their room, while the guys stay in their room. Apparently, Doc Justice is aware of the sort of things they got up to in the Hostel.
"THE REC ROOM IS FOR RECREATION."
The team gets outfitted for costumes. Chase and Karolina are happy with theirs, but Nico's initial costume is extremely stripperific, and her second one is an obvious 80's throwback. By the time they get to the third costume, a hideous cloak over a black bodysuit, she just shrugs and accepts it. Molly's first costume, meanwhile, is horrendously inappropriate for a thirteen-year-old.
While everyone else is either horrified or making snarky comments about Nico's skimpy costume, Karolina has a big, stupid grin on her face.
In issue #32, Doombot moves in to the Hostel, convinced that the Runaways need someone to keep an eye on them.
Doombot: Because apparently, the moment I look away, you will run off and join a suicide cult.
Victor: It wasn't a suicide cult. It was supposed to be a super hero team.
Doombot: Same difference.
Chase insists that Molly go back to school. He even wrote a note to her teacher to explain the time she was away.
Molly: "Please excuse Molly's absences. She accidentally got recruited by a murderer."
Chase: I said you had mono!
The "Problematic Daddy" t-shirt returns, this time worn by Gib.
During the Secret Invasion crossover with Young Avengers, Molly punches a Super Skrull clear through a skyscraper.
Molly taking on Eli Roston in Daken: Dark Wolverine. (Also a Moment of Awesome.)
Molly: You. Bad man. *Megaton Punch* Me. Bad ass!
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How the fuck is this band not from Chicago? If you played me this record, and I didn’t know otherwise, I’d assume they were from here. Alas, they are not. Sport hails from Lyon, France. If you’re anything like me, they should be your new favorite band.
Sport was impressive from the start. Their debut LP, 2012′s Colors, showed the raw potential the band had. Bon Voyage is a great expansion on that foundation. Coming through is a great punk/emo sound that is melodic and driving. Their sound is right there with CSTVT and Grown Ups. It’s fantastic.
My favorite part of the record, aside from basically everything, is how the lyrics are simple without being trite. The songs are what they are. They don’t rely on any esoteric bullshit. It’s easy to connect. There’s a recurring theme of wanting to leave and go somewhere new (which is pretty on the nose for a record called Bon Voyage). All the songs are sung and played with such heart and conviction. It’s hard for me to imagine any genre fan not being absolutely excited by this record.
Sport is a four piece band from Lyon, France who formed in 2010. Sport play a great style of music influenced by 90’s emo, punk, and indie rock. Sport cites Souvenirs and Breath Of An Epoch as influences, which definitely shows up in the band’s sound. The great thing about Sport is that their sound mixes equal parts 90’s-early 2000’s emo played by bands such Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, Small Brown Bike, and The Jazz June with more current emo bands such as Signals Midwest and Crash Of Rhinos. Since their inception in 2010, Sport have released a five song demo cassette in 2011 and a thirteen song LP entitled Colors in July of 2012. Bon Voyage is the band’s latest eleven song LP, which was via Pike records on February 28th, 2014. Overall, this is an amazing album and Sport will definitely appeal to fans of bands on Topshelf and Run For Cover records. Seriously, I can’t begin to describe how good this album is. Highly recommended! Enjoy! I also included the rest of Sport’s recorded output for you to check out as well. Don’t sleep on this band.
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Set Beant Singh’s killer free: Sukhbir Badal
Chandigarh, Jan 9 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Saturday urged the Union government to set free Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh, to put a decisive end to his unending incarceration.
“This humanitarian gesture would be in conformation with civilised values and justice as Bhai Rajoana had already served more than the effective equivalent of a life sentence,” he said in a statement.
Badal asked the Congress leaders to rise above political opportunism and back the release of Rajoana. “It is so unfortunate that Amarinder Singh has always run with the hares and hunted with the hounds when it comes to emotional Sikh issues. He tries to please his masters in Delhi by opposing the release of Rajoana while opportunistically maintaining that personally he is opposed to capital punishment.”
Badal called upon both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind to personally expedite this gesture as “a fulfilment of a national commitment made to Punjabis in general and the Sikhs in particular by the government of India.
The government of India is already on record having committed to commute Rajoana’s death sentence to life imprisonment. This commitment was made as a special gesture ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, he added.
A former Punjab Police constable, Rajoana was sentenced to death on August 1, 2007 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Chandigarh and his execution was scheduled for March 31, 2012.
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Posted on June 2, 2012 by Eeyore — 4 Comments ↓
Much of this material has fallen down the memory hole thanks to concerted efforts by CBC and others who have decided to white wash the Khadrs into a leftist, ’cause celebrate’. So I felt it was time to put some facts back into evidence.
I am still looking for the once ubiquitous, now extinct footage of the Khadr family calling all Canadians homoseuxal drug addicts and talking about how much they hated us all, but planned to force us to spend our health care budget on their wounded son, himself wounded in a battle with Canadian forces on behalf of Al Queda.
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Khadr’s son, wife, daughter admit family were terrorists, CBC-TV reports (THE CANADIAN PRESS) 2004-03-03
Khadr’s son, wife, daughter admit family were terrorists, CBC-TV reports
The Canadian Press [Toronto] 03 Mar 2004: n/a.
TORONTO (CP) – A Canadian family that has long denied ties to al-Qaida now admits that they are not only terrorists but believe it’s noble for them to die for the cause.
Abdurahman Khadr admitted to CBC-TV’s The National on Wednesday that some of his brothers and father fought as al-Qaida terrorists and that they even stayed with Osama bin Laden.
And his mother and sister, interviewed in Pakistan, said they were proud of their family’s connection to the terrorists behind the September 2001 attacks.
“Until now everybody says we are an al-Qaida connected family but when I say this, just by me saying it, I just admitted we are an al-Qaida family. We had connections to al-Qaida,” Abdurahman Khadr said in Toronto.
“My family in Pakistan will never admit this. . . they will deny it.”
But his mother and sister proudly admit to being adherents of the group, while admitting they were never really accepted by either the terrorists or western society.
The patriarch, 57-year-old Ahmed Said Khadr, who was born in Egypt but became a Canadian citizen, was killed fighting Pakistani forces in October.
One of his sons, 14-year-old Karim, was wounded in the battle and is in a military hospital in Rawalpindi,
paralysed from the waist down.
Another son, Omar, was captured by U.S. forces after an attack in Afghanistan and is being held at the American jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Abdurahman Khadr was he was released from the U.S. jail because he decided to co-operate with authorities. He returned to Toronto last year and says he wants to be a peaceful Muslim.
He said he was “raised to become an al-Qaida, was raised to become a suicide bomber, was raised to become a bad person . . . I decided on my own that I do not want to be that.
“I want to be a good, strong, civilized, peaceful Muslim.”
Ahmed Said Khadr’s wife, Maha, and 23-year-old daughter, Zaynab, say that the father was proud to die as a martyr, a soldier of Islam.
“We believe that death comes when God had planned it, before He created the humanity, it’s planned, so I just accept, – but it hurt,” Maha said.
“We believe dying by the hand of your enemy,” Zaynab told CBC. “My father had always wished that he would be killed . . . he would be killed for the sake of Allah. I remember when we were very young he would say, ‘if you guys love me, pray for me that I get jihaded, which is killed.’ “
Maha said she would be happy if her children died the same way. “You know we are promised that we go to heaven,” she says.
Zaynab added: “I’d love to die like that. I’d love my daughter to die, even if (it is) simple, very simple, naive.”
Abdullah, 22, escaped the fighting that killed his father and paralysed his brother because he was away from the house.
He says his father talked about becoming a martyr.
“Dying for Islam is. . .hopeful for every Muslim,” Abdullah said in Pakistan.
“Everybody loves to die for his religion. Every Muslim dreams of being a shaheed for Islam, like you die for your religion. Everybody dreams of this, even a Christian would like to die for their religion.”
Abdurahman Khadr said his family knew bin Laden and lived at the terrorist leader’s compound in Pakistan in the 1990s.
The al-Qaida leader later attended the wedding of the daughter in September 1999, said the family. “He never jokes, very quiet person, very polite,” Abdullah Khadr said of bin Laden.
“He can be a saint, something like a saint. I see him as a very peaceful man.”
Abdurahman Khadr’s reluctance to follow the stern Muslim strictures imposed in the bin Laden compound caused increasing tension with his father.
He said his father tried three times to persuade him to become a suicide bomber, sitting him down with a radical cleric in the bin Laden camp and telling him the sacrifice would make him the pride of the family.
“I was totally against it . . . I don’t believe in blowing myself up and killing innocent people,” Abdurahman said.
Copyright Canadian Press Mar 3, 2004
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4 Replies to “Khadr family admit they are terrorists March 3 2004”
Don Laird on June 2, 2012 at 4:26 pm said:
Vlad and Eyorre,
You magnificent bastards!!!
This is exactly what I have called for for several years. This is the nail in the coffin of that poisonous family’s desire to stay here in Canada.
A couple of years ago, on several occasions, I have written CTV, Global and CBC and asked for copies of video footage of Maha and Zaynab, clad in niqubs, screaming their desire to eradicate all Westerners. They did this virtually countless times but of course these bastards at MSM are burying everything they can. All I get is silence.
Certainly we must be able to dig this video footage out of their hands somehow, either through litigation or having it removed from within by employees who are sick to death of political correctness setting murderers loose amongst us.
Perhaps the folks at SUN TV can work with their contacts and drag this footage into the light of day………..exposure is the ointment that will cure this debilitating putrid fungus called Khadr-itis……..
Lets work on that shall we???
PS: The disappearance of these records are all the more reason why we must be very diligent in making dozens of copies of video footage of the muslims and their islamic excesses and archiving them on many web hosting sites so as not to loose them to the delicate sensibilities of websites like YouTube.
Sebbe on June 2, 2012 at 6:36 pm said:
hmm Khadr terrorists. The whole world has know n this for a very long time. It’s no secret.
Dearest Sebbe,
Yes “WE” have, those who are active in the fight against muslims and islam…..
However, many of our fellow citizens, gripped with purposeful ignorance and apathy hvae forgotten…or could care less…..therein lays the responsibility inherent in our fight, to once again, bring to their attention, the need to strip the Khadrs of the citizenship and deport them to the islamic country of their choice……and do this soon.
With respect to “Knowing”….we are in this fight because, whilst we “Know”…we seem to have forgotten the hundreds of lessons we were taught by muslims in the 1400 years since 632 AD………so much for “knowing”…..
Now, now that we “know”, let us busy ourselves in dealing, once and for all, with the islamic problem….all….repeat all, facets of the islamic problem….
Eeyore on June 2, 2012 at 7:04 pm said:
Sebbe:
If you try searching the internet for info on the Khadr’s you will find mostly sanitized CBC propaganda which utterly fabricates some information while ommiting key information in order to make Khadr a victim and the Canadian and American governments as the ‘real terrorists’. You would be quite surprised to know what lengths I had to go to, to get what I have posted so far.
This link below is much more typical of what the Canadian public is being spoon fed, or rather force-fed like an Islamic marriage:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/omarkadr/
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If You’re Filthy Rich, Are The Oppenheimers, You Can Do Anything – Even Capture A Country’s Borders
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The Oppenheimers are South Africa’s wealthiest family having made their ill-gotten money off the blood of Africans here and surrounding countries in diamond mines….But they want more…a porous international entry point into South Africa for the rich that puts this country at risk of illicit diamonds, human trafficking, armaments, drugs and much more…And guess what? They are operating on a National Key Point but they are Oppenheimers you see, they can capture a country’s borders and there’s no uproar from the media or any of our modern-day moralists and anti-state capture activists.
Last week, Judge Sulet Potteril gave the Oppenheimer-owned Fireblade Aviation (Pty) Ltd permission to operate an international port-of-entry from it’s luxury aircraft facility based at OR Tambo International Airport.
The service will allow passengers from around the world, who don’t want to go through the OR Tambo International Airport and its laborious checks to go straight through to Fireblade and into the country.
The ruling follows a court battle between Fireblade, Denel and the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), which at the time was under Minister Malusi Gigaba.
In papers placed before the Gauteng High Court early last year, Fireblade demanded that Denel, from whom it leases space for its 7-star operation, should withdraw its objection to an application it (Fireblade) had made to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) for a customs and immigration service at its facility.
At issue for Denel was Fireblade’s non compliance with security measures stipulated for a National Key Point. It objected to the application on the basis of “security concerns” which it said included the risk of drug and human trafficking and illicit smuggling of material such as money, precious metals and weaponry.
Denel is a strategic state asset that operates within the defence systems, weaponry and military related projects, both nationally and internationally and it argued that due to the nature of its business, the “security risk to personnel, material, information, secrets and espionage are real and serious”.
In addition to risks of espionage and illicit smuggling, Denel is situated in an area called Kempton Park Campus which is designated as a National Key Point. As such all companies operating in the area have to comply with security policies and procedures enforced by the National Key Points Act.
Fireblade argued that Gigaba had approved its application and should not be allowed to change his mind without good reason. The Judge agreed. Fireblade has argued that Gigaba changed his mind following pressure from the Guptas who were said to have been interested in the project.
In court documents filed by Fireball early last year however, the company does not mention the Guptas despite having allegedly earlier known about their interest according to a Sunday Times article.
#CountryCapture #StateCapture Denel Fireblade Guptas Malusi Gigaba oppenheimers
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Fish Monger says:
I really do not understand what the brouhaha is about. That is what money and power is supposed to do. It should buy you influence. The secret is to learn this very simple lesson. Money and wealth are supposed to be subtle. That is unfortunately what people like the Guptas of this world have not learnt from the Anglo Saxon world. Essentially there is no difference between the Guptas and the Oppenheimers. Its one and the same thing. The difference is the Guptas operate like street thugs.
They are about to find out what the power of old money means
The Brouhaha is the double standards essentially from loud noises from the anti-state capture people and moralists. Why does capturing a National Key Point by the Oppenheimers not an issue?
You’ve completely misdiagnosed what is happening. Nothing to do with operating like street thugs. You only have to follow some of the stories here from these white monopoly capitalists to see they operate like thugs themselves. Read the illicit Tobacco trade, FNB and its racist policy on low cost housing clients, FNB bribing the DA Councillor, Regime Change around the world, George Soros – it is crass and vile. It is all to do with owning the media that feeds you one side of the story to suit its masters and you are buying and worse, regurgitating the rubbish.
Hey Suster, some will just comment to seek attention nje…….dont worry about this guy but anyway Thanks for ukumubeka right where he/she belongs…..endaweni yakhe!!!!
I dont believe Fish Monger’s comment is based on simply “seeking attention”. His or anybody’s views need not be dismissed simply because they dont align with those of ours. He must be free to say what he wants as long as its not hateful and demeaning of others and we much challenge him – that is how we can all grow and empower each other in knowledge.
I already know where I belong. I think maybe if you addressed what I had written instead of labelling me maybe you would add more value to the discussion. I think there is a lot we still have to learn about the nexus between power and wealth. I still still say there is really no difference between them Guptas and the Oppenheimers. They are just 2 sides of the same coin. I don’t even understand what the issue with the Guptas is because that is how the world functions.
siya says:
its quite interesting to see the Oppenheimer’s getting their own VVIP section and the likes of DA and EFF are not saying anything. if it was the Gupta’s they would be making a lot of noise.by the way i am not vouching for Gupta’s but observing the hypocrisy of one race over another
Kobedi says:
Quite true
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The court presided over by Mrs. Justice Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, a High Court judge siting as an additional Circuit court judge, was expected to deliver its judgement today in the case in which Abrokwa was being held on two counts of domestic violence to wit emotional, verbal and psychological abuse, threat of harm, assault, publication of obscene material, carrying offensive weapon, causing unlawful damage and stealing.
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The accused had pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of GH¢20,000.00 bail with three sureties, who should be gainfully employed.
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The Prosecution said based on this information, Abrokwa armed himself with a kitchen knife and a bottle containing some liquid purported to be acid.
The prosecution said Abrokwa proceeded to the house of the complainant, scaled the wall and entered the compound.
He said the accused found a strange private car, which he believed belongs to the visitor parked on the compound and deflated two tyres of the said car, and entered the house through the back door, with the assistance of the house help.
He said the accused entered the bedroom with his mobile phone and forced the bedroom door opened and found Afia and her male visitor naked in bed.
The Prosecution said Abrokwa threatened them to stay put as he had found them for him to video them, or else he would pour acid on them to cause harm to their bodies.
Prosecution said the male visitor managed to escape during the confrontation, but Afia was prevented by Abrokwa, who ordered her to go on her knees, to declare herself as a prostitute, while he held the bottle of the alleged acid in his hand.
He said Afia obliged to his instructions, while Abrokwa continued his video filming of the complainant in her nudity amidst pleas from her to stop.
The Prosecution said in the process, Abrokwa assaulted Afia and chased her out of the house.
He said Afia escaped to a neighbour, who eventually clothed her.
The Prosecution said the accused then transmitted the nude videos of his wife to his second mobile phone before reporting the matter to the Police with all the items belonging to the visitor and the first phone used for the video.
He said when the complainant went to the house later, she alleged that her bedside drawer had been forced opened and 2,000 dollars and 500 pounds had been taken by the accused.
He said the complainant reported the matter to the Police and Abrokwa was arrested, cautioned and granted bail later.
According to Prosecution, whilst the case was being investigated, Abrokwa transmitted the video from his phone to Afia’s father on his phone on September 1, 2017.
He said the video, however, went viral on social media and the bottle containing the said acid was sent to the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) for examination.
He said on September 13, 2017, the Police received a report from the GSA that the content in the bottle was water and not acid.
Source: GNA
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Review of Hitting Trees With Sticks by Jane Rogers
Hitting Trees With Sticks
by Jane Rogers
Comma Press, 2012
Reviewed by Carys Bray
“The boy liked collecting. He liked the interrupted faces people had when they saw him, and the music and chat and smells of food leaking out their houses. He liked standing in the warm light that fell on him out of their doorways.”
Rogers’ debut collection contains twenty compassionate and beautifully written stories. She opens with Red Enters the Eye, a story about a young fashion designer who goes to Nigeria to teach a group of women in a refuge how to sew. On the way to the refuge Julie refuses to shut the car window and a child’s fingers squeeze into the gap: “pinky-brown with blunt, bitten nails, waving at her like the tentacles of an octopus.” Julie finds the rules at the refuge restrictive and she worries about patronizing the Nigerian women. She allows her sewing equipment to go missing: “It was worth losing a few bits and bobs, not to have to do that primary teacher thing of counting at the end of class.” Her refusal to adhere to the rules has a significant impact on the women she has come to help and the story marks a powerful opening to a collection full of interesting, flawed and sympathetic characters.
Rogers’ stories take place in Africa, France, England and the Caribbean. She is convincing in every location, from St. Thomas in The Disaster Equation to the kitchen sink in Conception, where a mother justifies the decision to lie to her daughter, concluding, “I wanted her to believe her conception was foursquare and planned for, the product of the sort of thing other people construct their lives on; commitment, vision, love.”
In Morphogenesis, Rogers examines a life committed to scientific discovery. She takes the reader inside the mind of Alan Turing in a series of snapshot glimpses of his existence. The science in this piece is beyond me but it doesn’t matter because Rogers’ language gives a strong sense of its symmetry and beauty:
Five petals equally spaced around the yellow centre; how does it know? How does it know to grow like that? And not dark and knobbly-secret like the heather? How does it know to grow its simple open face; how, when it is nothing but green mush in the stem, does it know to unfold in the same perfectly recognisable pattern, every time?
Turing ponders these things as a child and, later in the story, his theory is presented thus:
Morphogenesis. The budding and flowering of a shape from an indistinguishable mass of cells. Not by the hand of God, but by simple, mechanical reaction and diffusion of chemicals. Moving into the cells, flicking switches, as a man might enter his house and turn on lights.
Turing’s theory is gently held alongside his private life in an illuminating and sad moment when Rogers writes, “The law will not allow him to be the man his own cells tell him he is.”
Other characters are allowed the luxury of being themselves and some act with impunity. The Great Man in Kiss and Tell disrupts a writing retreat and boasts “simply and enthusiastically, like a child,” while the husband in The Tale of a Naked Man, pleads and cajoles his way through an elliptical, tall tale that, on ending, throws the reader right back to its beginning. In Lucky, Janine constructs a whole world around the few weeks she spent working in a doctors’ surgery, while in Saved Alice’s thoughts begin to unfurl as she dutifully unscrews an old bed.
My favourite story was the funny and sad Sports Leader, the tale of a dull, slow, boy who cleans windows. The boy enjoys collecting money in the evenings because he likes standing in the warm light of other people’s doorways. I felt like the boy as I read this collection; I liked the glimpses of other lives, the music of people’s words, the smells and sounds of places I’ve never visited, but most of all, I enjoyed basking in the warm light of these beautiful stories.
Listen to Jane Rogers reading a story from this collection in the Comma Press Storybank
About the reviewer: Carys Bray‘s first collection, Sweet Home, won the 2012 Scott Prize and is published by Salt. Carys teaches at Edge Hill University. She is working on a PhD and she is a co-editor at Paraxis.
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Ole Miss defensive back Otis Reese made his debut as a Rebel in the Egg Bowl win over State.
OXFORD, Miss. — “Otis, my man!”
That was one of the most famous lines from the 1978 classic, “Animal House.”
A few beered-up fraternity brothers go on a road trip and find a bar where the band is their favorite, “Otis Day and the Knights.” The boys find themselves in some unfriendly waters at the Dexter Lake Club as one of the members of the group greets the leader of their favorite frat band with that line.
Saturday, some Ole Miss fraternity members were probably chanting that line as Otis Reese, the newest Landshark, made his first swim into the friendly waters of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
Reese notched eight tackles, four of which were solo, and broke up a pass in his long-awaited debut for Ole Miss as the Rebels beat Mississippi State 31-24 in the Egg Bowl.
“I thought he brought some energy out there. You could feel that during the game. He did well, especially just knowing a week ago he was on service team. I think he’s going to get better every week, too.“
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin on Otis Reese
Reese’s energy seemed to be contagious as the Landsharks turned in perhaps their best performance of the season.
Hey @otisreese13 glad to see you on the field. @TheRebelWalk #OleMiss pic.twitter.com/9ZFKOpP2cu
— TJ (@TJOxley1) November 28, 2020
“I think we played better, but we’ve got to continue to improve,” Kiffin said. “It’s just a constant thing, and guys continue to get better. And hopefully Otis helps too, and we stay healthy.”
It is still unclear why Reese had to miss the first seven games of the year.
Early last week he was finally deemed eligible to play for the Rebels after transferring from Georgia nearly a year ago. Although other players leaving one school for another were deemed immediately able to play by the NCAA, Reese had to wait nearly the entire regular season before he could make his Ole Miss debut.
Since arriving on campus in January, Reese became an integral part of the Rebels.
“Even though he sat out, he still practices all the time,” senior Ryder Anderson said last week. “He’s in great shape. He’s a great practice player. He was always preparing like he was playing.”
Reese’s preparation certainly showed in his play against State.
“It felt great to go out there and be with the guys,” said Reese, who had been playing scout team wide receiver before being ruled eligible.
“God works in mysterious ways and you’ve just got to keep your faith and keep pushing. It was great. It was a great win.“
Ole Miss DB Otis Reese
“Once they said he (Otis) had lost (his waiver appeal) whatever it was, we couldn’t afford to use those (game preparation) reps,” Coach Kiffin remarked last week. “He’s been down on service team. He actually started this week playing receiver on service to help us there because we were down numbers, until we found out (he was cleared to play).”
Even Reese’s offensive teammates took note of his work in practice and his ability to fill many voids on defense while he awaited NCAA clearance.
“You see him around the ball every play,” running back Jerrion Ealy said last week after hearing Reese was cleared to play.
“I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I truly mean that he’s around the ball every single play. And if he hits you, he’s going to hit you hard. And if you run high, he’s going to hit you hard. And if you run low, he’s going to hit you hard. He’s just going to hit you. And that’s what he does. He flies around and gets to the football.”
RB Jerrion Ealy on Otis Reese
Once the Rebels were informed of Reese’s eligibility, he was ready to roll. His experience and talent made the Landsharks look like a different unit than has played this season.
“We….played a lot better obviously,” Kiffin said after the Egg Bowl victory. “…We got some big stops at big times in the game.”
For anyone wondering, with 8:22 left in the third quarter, Otis Reese is leading the #Landsharks with 7 total tackles, 4 solo. He also has one pass breakup.
— The Rebel Walk (@TheRebelWalk) November 28, 2020
Reese, who played in 25 games during his first two seasons for Georgia, said he wasn’t nervous playing in his first game wearing the red and blue.
“It really wasn’t any jitters. It was just me being a leader, getting the defense ready to go. Bring energy and me meshing with the guys in communication and the details of winning the game and in every aspect of winning the game. I was mainly just focusing on that, more than jitters,” Reese explained.
He was a big part of the defensive stops Saturday, and his constant smile illustrated how happy he was to be a part of the Rebels in an actual game.
Or as the “Animal House” fraternity brother Boon said, “Wait’ll Otis sees us, he loved us!”
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Carbondale man sentenced for role in March home invasion
Sep 9, 2020 Updated Oct 22, 2020
A Carbondale man has been sentenced in Jackson County Court for his role in a home invasion and the sale of meth earlier this year.
A news release from Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr’s office said Zachary O. Rennison, 29, of Carbondale, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison, to be followed by three years of mandatory supervised release, for the charge of home invasion, and four years for delivery of a controlled substance to be followed by two years of mandatory supervised release. The sentences are concurrent, meaning they are served simultaneously. The release said he had previously pleaded guilty to the charges.
The release said that Rennison and others on March 20 forced their way into a Carbondale home and restrained the homeowner after striking him with a bat. The incident occurred in the 1000 block of West Sycamore Street. They then stole from the home and fled. According to previous reporting by The Southern, the homeowner had minor injuries that did not require medical attention.
While Rennison has pleaded guilty, the three other suspects in the home invasion have jury trials scheduled for later this year. According to online court records database Judici, Jacob B. Mosely, 36, of Murphysboro, has a jury trial scheduled for Oct. 5. Jeremiah A. Akin, 30, of Benton, is also scheduled for an Oct. 5 jury trial. Valerie S. Stewart 29, of Carbondale, will go to trial Nov. 2 for her alleged role in the crime.
The Wednesday news release also said agents with the Southern Illinois Enforcement Group earlier this year opened an investigation into Rennison's activities selling meth. Between Feb. 3 and June 2, Rennison sold about four grams of meth to confidential sources, according to the release. After executing a search warrant on Rennison's home, officers found small quantities of meth and heroin.
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At the start of August, a major milestone was achieved as the Dragon Capsule used to take NASA astronauts to the ISS one month before splashing into the surface of the ocean without issues.
The event is quite important since it offers the ability to schedule flights to and from the International Space Station without the need to purchase seats on flights operated by Roscosmos and to negotiate convenient launch schedules that would work for both agencies.
Sight on the Moon
Since Vice President Mike Pence announced the plan to return to the Moon, James Bridenstine, who is the current NASA Administrator, has been working hard to coordinate NASA and its contractors with the aim to complete the lofty goal. After the splashdown took place, Bridenstine highlighted the main points of the Artemis initiate during a press conference.
The success of the Dragon capsule test run has encouraged some voices that lightweight and affordable spacecraft would be a better choice for the return to the Moon instead of the expensive alternatives, which have been favored by the Congress as the superior choice for the return to the Moon.
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A pair of scientists published an interesting take on the use of SpaceX spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon. According to them the Crew Dragon weights less than half the size of Orion spacecraft while a Falcon Heavy rocket can carry the Crew Dragon and a return stage into the lunar orbit.
While this may seem possible, there would be several technical and political challenges that have to be passed, and some members of Congress have underlined the fact that the astronauts have to be taken to the Moon by a spacecraft and launch system, which have been developed and created by NASA.
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Everybody knows the chemical compound carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere because of its global-warming effect. However, carbon dioxide can be a useful raw material for chemical reactions. Recent research by scientists at MIT are bordering on a discovery that could just be a good solution for chemistry problems in the atmosphere.
The scientists are currently on the intense study of an unusual application of carbon dioxide to produce graphene, which is a technologically promising material that will be used to enable devices to charge faster and store more energy.
Carbon dioxide comes from the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal and oil to produce energy for heat, mobility or electricity. This leads to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which clogs the ozone layer causing global warming. Scientists have been interested in cutting this casual chain so as to stop global warming. They have tried doing this by emphasizing on the use of alternative sources of energy but their efforts have not been fruitful.
The motor vehicle industry grows bigger every day with more and more people using carbon-based fuel-driven vehicles thus contributing negatively to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere through the carbon emissions from their vehicles. Third world countries are also over-dependent on carbon-based fuels for light energy and heat energy for cooking. This challenge left scientists with only one option, to find a way to feed carbon back to the re-usability cycle.
The tentative process involves a metal-based enzyme RuBisCo absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and combining it directly with Hydrogen gas at very high temperatures of up to 1000 degrees Celsius to convert it to Graphene.
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Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon allotrope that has amazing electrical properties. The research for the uses of Graphene started way back in 2004. Scientists discovered it as the strongest and lightest material with an incredible ability to conduct electricity, which means that it has a number of possible applications as discussed below.
1. Biological Engineering
Although it must still undergo numerous safety and clinical tests, due to its high electrical conductivity, thinness, and strength, it can be used to develop fast and efficient bioelectric sensors. These sensors can be used to monitor glucose levels, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, hemoglobin levels, and even for DNA sequencing.
2. Development of Optical Electronics
With the property of being light and having high electrical conductivity, Graphene will most probably be used to developed optoelectronics like LCD screens, touchscreens, and LEDs. One other property that makes Graphene a perfect candidate for the development of optoelectronics is that it is an almost transparent material
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Democrat Senator Reveals What the FBI Paid for San Bernardino iPhone Hack
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Among all the election and fake news drama, 2016 also brought us a battle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Apple. Following the San Bernardino shootings, FBI tried to yet again use the buzzword of "national security" to make everyone believe that tech companies have to create a backdoor in their devices. However, after a legal battle and consumer reaction, the agency hired a third-party company to break into the device. But despite releasing over 100 pages of documents following a Freedom of Information Act request, the bureau didn't share exactly how much it paid to get the iPhone broken.
Director James Comey had previously hinted that the government paid more than what he would earn in his remaining seven years on the job to break into the iPhone. The amount was estimated to be over $1.3 million. The bureau considers both the sum it paid and the vendor it hired as classified information and is facing lawsuits by several news organizations to reveal the details.
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"I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open," Feinstein said. "And as I subsequently learned of some of the reason for it, there were good reasons to get into that device."
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Just weeks ago, XRP was outperforming Bitcoin, and everything Ripple related was coming up roses. However, less than 10 days ago, all of that came crashing to an abrupt end.
It emerged that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was building a case against Ripple, and its two most senior executives, over securities fraud.
“The complaint alleges that Ripple raised funds, beginning in 2013, through the sale of digital assets known as XRP in an unregistered securities offering to investors in the U.S. and worldwide. Ripple also allegedly distributed billions of XRP in exchange for non-cash consideration, such as labor and market-making services.”
The news shocked the cryptocurrency world. More so, the timing of the announcement, in that the SEC leadership has just weeks left before leaving office, with the rest of the Trump administration.
The XRP price suffered tremendously. From its mid-November year to date high of just under $0.80, XRP has plummeted as low as $0.1686 at one point. This represents a 79% drop.
Today sees some semblance of a fightback, with the price up 2% in the last 24-hours to $0.2198 at the time of writing.
Source: XRPUSDT on TradingView.com
XRP Exchange Exodus Accelerates
Each passing day sees another crypto exchange either suspend or removed XRP trading altogether. Yesterday was the turn of Binance U.S., who elected to delist XRP with effect from January 13, 2021.
According to crypto researcher Larry Cermak, that leaves Kraken as the only big exchange serving U.S. users wishing to trade XRP. However, Cermak is of the view that Kraken will fall in line with the others soon.
Kraken is now officially the last major exchange serving U.S. customers that hasn’t yet delisted XRP. Coinbase, Bitstamp, Bittrex, Binance US, FTX US all delisted already. Announcement must be imminent.
— Larry Cermak 🟨 (@lawmaster) December 30, 2020
The latest development sees a pre-trial conference set for February 2021, in which all parties have the opportunity to discuss the path forward.
While Garlinghouse has been silent on the matter since Christmas Eve, it looks as though this case will go all the way to court.
What’s particularly worrying for XRP holders is that the SEC has rarely lost a court case. And never one involving cryptocurrency security tokens.
The SEC’s Has a Strong Track Record
To determine what could happen to Ripple requires looking at past cryptocurrency-related run-ins with the SEC.
YouTuber Ben Armstrong, also known as BitBoy Crypto, posted a video on just that. In it, he refers to cases involving Tezos, EOS, Telegram, and Kik.
In the case of Tezos and EOS, Armstrong pointed out that both companies caved in and paid their respective settlements. Meaning neither firm went as far as going to court.
Whereas Telegram and Kik opted to challenge the SEC.
The outcome for Telegram saw the court side with the SEC, resulting in a civil penalty of $18.5 million and the return of $1.2 billion to investors on the sale of unregistered Gram tokens.
In the case of Kik, the court also sided with the SEC over charges of illegally selling its unregistered Kin tokens. A $5 million penalty was levied against the firm.
As such, while Garlinghouse says, “we are not only on the right side of the law, but we will be on the right side of history,” the truth of the matter is that the SEC has a strong track record.
With that, the odds are stacked heavily against Ripple.
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Protactinium - 91Pa Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Audio element.
🇬🇧 Protactinium
🇨🇳 鏷
🇳🇱 Protactinium
🇫🇷 Protactinium
🇩🇪 Protactinium
🇮🇱 פרוטקטיניום
🇮🇹 Protoattinio
🇯🇵 プロトアクチニウム
🇵🇹 Protactínio
🇷🇺 Протактиний
🇪🇸 Protactinio
🇸🇪 Protaktinium
Protactinium: properties of compounds
91Pa
Available protactinium properties...
The bond energy in the gaseous diatomic species PaPa is (no data) kJ mol-1.
Protactinium: bond enthalpies in gaseous diatomic species
The following values refer to neutral heterodiatomic molecules in the gas phase. These numbers may well differ considerably from, say, single bond energies in a solid. All values are given in kJ mol-1.
Diatomic PaX bond enthalpies. All values are quoted in kJ mol-1. Each formula in the table (PaO, PaF, and so on) is a link - select these to see visual periodicity representations for bond enthalpies involving protactinium to elements of your choice.
PaH PaHe
PaLi PaBe PaB PaC PaN PaO PaF PaNe
788.3 ±17.2
PaNa PaMg PaAl PaSi PaP PaS PaCl PaAr
PaK PaCa PaGa PaGe PaAs PaSe PaBr PaKr
PaRb PaSr PaIn PaSn PaSb PaTe PaI PaXe
PaCs PaBa PaTl PaPb PaBi PaPo PaAt PaRn
PaFr PaRa
Image showing periodicity of element-element diatomic bond energies for the chemical elements as size-coded columns on a periodic table grid.
I am grateful to Professor J.A. Kerr (University of Birmingham, UK) for the provision of the bond strengths of diatomic molecules data.
The values given here are at 298 K. All values are quoted in kJ mol-1. Generally, these data were obtained by spectroscopic or mass spectrometric means. You should consult reference 1 for further details. A note of caution: the strength of, say, the C-H bond in the gaseous diatomic species CH (not an isolable species) is not necessarily, the same as the strength of a C-H bond in, say, methane.
The strongest bond for a diatomic species is that of carbon monoxide, CO (1076.5 ± 0.4 kJ mol-1). The strongest bond for a homonuclear diatomic species is that of dinitrogen, N2 (945.33 ± 0.59 kJ mol-1).
J.A. Kerr in CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 1999-2000 : A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, D.R. Lide, (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 81st edition, 2000.
Protactinium: lattice energies
All values of lattice energies are quoted in kJ mol-1.
Table. All values of lattice energies are quoted in kJ mol-1.
Thermochemical cycle / kJ mol-1
Calculated / kJ mol-1
No data for any fluorides of protactinium.
No data for any chlorides of protactinium.
No data for any bromides of protactinium.
No data for any iodides of protactinium.
No data for any hydrides of protactinium.
PaO2 (no value) 10573
H.D.B. Jenkins - personal communication. I am grateful to Prof Don Jenkins (University of Warwick, UK) who provided the lattice energy data, which are adapted from his contribution contained within reference 2.
H.D.B. Jenkins in CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 1999-2000 : A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, D.R. Lide, (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 79th edition, 1998.
Standard Reduction Potentials
Standard reduction potentials of protactinium
The standard reduction potentials given here for aqueous solutions are adapted from the IUPAC publication reference 1 with additional data and an occasional correction incorporated from many other sources, in particular, references 2-7.
A.J. Bard, R. Parsons, and J. Jordan, Standard Potentials in Aqueous Solutions, IUPAC (Marcel Dekker), New York, USA, 1985.
N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 1997.
F.A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1988.
B. Douglas, D.H. McDaniel, and J.J. Alexander, Concepts and models of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1983.
D.F. Shriver, P.W. Atkins, and C.H. Langford, Inorganic Chemstry, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999.
J.E. Huheey, E.A. Keiter, and R.L. Keiter in Inorganic Chemistry : Principles of Structure and Reactivity, 4th edition, HarperCollins, New York, USA, 1993.
G.T. Seaborg and W.D. Loveland in The elements beyond uranium, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1990.
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==[[Legacies Season Two Body Count|Body Count]]==
* [[Landon Kirby]] - Snapped neck; killed by the Qareen, but resurrected
==Continuity==
Season 2, Episode 10 (26)
0.72 million[1]
Adam Higgs & Josh Eiserike
America Young
I Couldn't Have Done This Without You What Cupid Problem?
This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies is the tenth episode of the second season of Template:Legacies and the twenty-sixth episode of the series overall.
3.1 Main Cast
3.2 Recurring Cast
3.3 Guest Cast
3.4 Co-Starring
5 Body Count
9 Cultural References
11 Multimedia
11.1 Soundtrack
11.2 Videos
11.3 Pictures
HAPPY COVEN DAY — As the witches of the Salvatore School come together to celebrate Coven Day, the latest monster to infiltrate the school targets Alyssa Chang and the other students by spreading discord and creating chaos among the covens. Elsewhere, Alaric, Lizzie and Josie search for a solution that keeps Josie protected from the dark magic brewing inside the mora miserium. Fed up with feeling powerless alongside Hope, Landon asks her to give him self-defense training. Finally, Alaric's past comes back to haunt him. MG and Kaleb also appear.[2]
Alaric talks with Young Alyssa, inviting her to the Salvatore School.
A flashback to eight years ago. Alaric and Dorian attend the scene of a horrific accident in which a house has been blown up. He talks with a little girl, Alyssa Chang, and tells her about the special school he runs for gifted children and asks if she would like to visit. Cautiously, Alyssa accepts. Dorian questions what to tell the locals about the accident, and Alaric sarcastically asks if they would believe a gas leak.
Four years later, Alyssa begins acting up at the school. She doesn’t take interactions with Lizzie and Josie very well, and seems jealous of the gifts they continuously receive from their mother. She begins casting stray spells on the twins in revenge — young vampires around the school begin remarking that Alyssa is on the “warpath”.
In the present, Hope interrupts Alyssa whilst she is making out with a boy. Alyssa is angry at this, but Hope remarks that she is going to crash at Landon’s to avoid conflicts with Alyssa. When Hope leaves, Alyssa begins looking through Hope’s closet for something to wear — she is manipulated indirectly by the qareen.
Alaric, Josie and Lizzie try to figure out the situation with the mora miserium.
In his office, Alaric, Josie and Lizzie are attempting to slow down the degradation of the mora miserium using magic. They fail, however, and Alaric remarks that magic is not the answer. Lizzie suggests sealing the mora miserium in a place magic cannot escape; the Prison World. Alaric is quick to dismiss the idea, however, and leaves shortly after to find a solution of his own. Josie and Lizzie realize that Alaric will not let them anywhere near their uncle, and the two suggest creating their own Prison World specifically for the purpose of containing the mora miserium.
Wade tells the witches he believes he is a fairy.
Alaric welcomes Emma Tig back to the school and the two talk about possible solutions for their problem, however Emma remarks that she doesn’t have much knowledge on the subject but will start some research. The two bump into Dorian, who is pleasantly surprised to see Emma back at the school, but welcomes her anyway. Dorian finds it hard to believe that Emma returned to the school just for Coven Day, however Emma remarks that this is the case. Emma introduces Coven Day to the witches of the school shortly after, and it is met by a presentation by Wade. In the presentation, he tells the students that he believes he has been mis-diagnosed and is actually a fairy, not a witch. The students laugh, especially when Alyssa suggests that Wade be eaten by Malivore. Wade notices the qareen in the room, however nobody else is able to see it, leading to Wade running in embarrassment. The qareen begins influencing Hope, and she retaliates against Alyssa when she makes a comment about the class being boring.
Following the catastrophe with Coven Day, Hope confronts a girl over her shoes, remarking that they would look better on her. She uses her magic to switch the two’s shoes. Landon arrives shortly after, asking how it went with Alyssa, however Hope — being influenced by the qareen — remarks that his advice was useless, as is he. Wade watches this from a difference and, when Landon leaves to do research, he follows him. Wade explains that he thinks he has found what they’re dealing with and presents the qareen. Landon dismisses him initially, however after Wade explains, Landon believes him.
Emma tries an experiment with the witches.
Meanwhile, Emma tries an exercise with the witches to strengthen their bond. Lizzie tries to borrow Emma for her knowledge, however ends up being dragged into the exercise. Emma conjures a sphere within the circle and tells the witches that their job is to pool their positive thoughts and keep it green. However, with manipulation from the qareen, the circle becomes polluted and the witches begin arguing. Emma stops the exercise and sends them to their rooms to cool off. With this, Hope notices something is wrong and alerts Lizzie.
At the Mystic Tap, Alaric talks with Sheriff Mac, questioning her about how to best detonate a “bomb”. She gives him advice, however it isn’t useful, as she suggests detonating the bomb. The two talk about Ethan, and Alaric remarks that he wishes Lizzie would date someone like him. Sheriff Mac asks about Sebastian, however Alaric dismisses the topic.
A flashback to four years ago reveals a conversation between Alaric and Emma. Alaric questions whether they needed to “expel” Alyssa given her behaviours, however Emma tells him that they promised not to do that anymore. Meanwhile, in the present, the qareen’s influence continues to grow. Hope continuously begins to offend Wade and Landon, and Wade leaves the library as a result. Landon tells Hope that the qareen only magnifies insecurities, so the comments are somewhat her feelings.
Wade shows his wings.
Wade kills the qareen.
In Alaric’s office, the qareen attacks Josie and steals the mora miserium, and whilst knocked out, she has a vision of herself and the future if the mora miserium breaks. When she awakes, it is revealed that Landon too is infected. They formulate a plan, and Landon tells Wade that fairies run on belief. He tries to convince Wade that everyone believes in him, and this leads to everyone chanting his name in the hall. The qareen arrives, but Wade still does not believe in himself and is unable to battle the qareen. Landon takes it upon himself to fight the qareen in order to convince Wade to believe in himself, which he eventually does, causing him to grow wings. He is able to battle the qareen with the wings, killing it.
In a flashback to two years prior, Alaric and Emma talk with Alyssa. Alaric tells Alyssa that she has to be removed from the school and “sent away” for her behaviour — which now includes binding objects and people and trying to destroy them. Emma, however, against this idea, tells Alaric that she isn’t like “the others” and should be given a choice. She tells Alyssa she can remove her memories and give her a fresh start, to which everyone agrees.
The witches create the ascendant and another Prison World.
Thinking about Sheriff Mac’s advice — and realizing that the sand clock breaking is one part of the prophecy — Alaric opts to allow Lizzie and Josie to send the clock away. They gather all of the witches, who work together to form a new ascendant. They then collectively work together to send the sand clock to a new Prison World, which is successful. Meanwhile, Alaric calls to thank Sheriff Mac and asks her out for dinner, to which she accepts. When he tries to turn off a lamp, he is transported to the Prison World.
Hope tells Landon that she doesn’t want him to be the hero anymore as the hero never survives. He, however, promises that he will continue to train, with or without her help. This saddens her, and she goes to Lizzie and Josie’s room to cry with them. As they lie together in bed, Josie and Lizzie disappear and are transported to the Prison World too.
In a flashback to two years prior, Alyssa and Emma talk. Emma tells Alyssa that she is satisfied with her progress and the two do not need to continue with their weekly meetings. This excites Alyssa. Meanwhile in the present, Alyssa confronts Emma, revealing that she knows Emma wiped her memory previously. Emma tells Alyssa that they will discuss the event with Alaric, however Alyssa reveals that she duplicated the ascendant/Prison World spell and has transported Alaric, Lizzie and Josie to the 2028 Prison World — she remarks that this is "poetic". She wipes Emma's memory of her confessing, and returns to her room. When she returns to her room, she is confronted by Hope, who found the ascendant.
Sebastian in the 2018 Prison World.
In the Prison World, Alaric realises where he is, and arms himself with a stake by breaking a chair. Lizzie and Josie enter and question where they are, with Alaric revealing they are in the 2028 Prison World. At that moment, Sebastian reveals himself, and it is revealed that he did not choose to leave the school, but was outed by Alaric.
Danielle Rose Russell as Hope Mikaelson
Aria Shahghasemi as Landon Kirby
Kaylee Bryant as Josie Saltzman
Jenny Boyd as Lizzie Saltzman
Quincy Fouse as MG
Peyton Alex Smith as Rafael Waithe (credit only)
Chris Lee as Kaleb
Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
Recurring Cast
Demetrius Bridges as Dorian Williams
Ben Levin as Jed
Bianca Kajlich as Sheriff Mac
Thomas Doherty as Sebastian
Elijah B. Moore as Wade
Olivia Liang as Alyssa Chang
J.J. Dunlap as Qareen
Karen David as Emma Tig
Co-Starring
Mei-Lin Hosang as Young Alyssa (flashback)
Alie Urquhart as Retro Witch (flashback)
Tierney Smith as Young Lizzie (flashback)
Lily Rose Smith as Young Josie (flashback)
Nyla Turner as Retro Witch 2 (flashback)
Allison Gobuzzi as Pre-Teen Lizzie (flashback)
Olivia Devlin as Pre-Teen Alyssa (flashback)
Bella Samman as Pre-Teen Josie (flashback)
Joshua Goodridge as Vampire 1
Katie Carpenter as Sewing Witch
Hannah Bliss Carlton as Flirty Witch
Antagonists: Alyssa Chang and unnamed qareen
Eight years prior to current events, Alaric and Dorian take Alyssa Chang to the Salvatore Boarding school. Her home is completely destroyed — covered up with a "gas leak" — and she's left orphaned.
Alyssa Chang had a problematic history at the boarding school. So much so that two year prior to current events, she sent Lizzie to the hospital with severe burns. Alaric was going to send her away, but Emma offered a second option; with her permission, they took away her memories to give her a "new start".
Unlike other students that weren't given a second option, problematic students were sent away to the 2018 prison world.
Wade is revealed to be a fairy — the second new species at the Salvatore School after Landon.
A new Prison World is created to house the mora miserium. Using a delayed linking spell, Alyssa sends Alaric, Lizzie and Josie to the 2018 prison world, where they find out Sebastian had previously been sent.
This episode contains the character trope"not quite dead". Whilst everyone assumes Sebastian has been killed by Alaric Saltzman in the previous episode, his death was never shown and he is revealed to be alive.
This episode contains a continuity error. Alyssa Chang mentions that Lizzie is the first girl Sebastian has been with since 1509, however he was in a relationship with Cassandra during the Roanoke period c. 1585-1590.
It is possible that Olivia Liang meant to say 1590 and nobody noticed the mistake during filming. This would line up with the current timeline without posing a continuity error.
Landon Kirby - Snapped neck; killed by the Qareen, but resurrected
Kaleb was last seen in This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent.
Wade was last seen in Screw Endgame.
Emma Tig was last seen in the first season episode I'll Tell You a Story.
Sheriff Mac was last seen in That's Nothing I Had to Remember.
Ethan was mentioned. He was last seen in That's Nothing I Had to Remember.
Maya was mentioned. She was last seen in Since When Do You Speak Japanese?.
Caroline was mentioned. She was last seen in I Was Feeling Epic on Template:The Vampire Diaries and When The Saints Go Marching In on Template:The Originals.
Kai was mentioned. He was last seen in It's Been a Hell of a Ride on The Vampire Diaries.
Bonnie was mentioned. She was last seen in I Was Feeling Epic on The Vampire Diaries.
Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted
Hope and Alyssa's dorm room
Josie and Lizzie's dorm room
Emma's office
Headmaster's office
Mystic Tap
2018 Prison World
This is the first episode to bill Chris Lee as a series regular.
This episode's title was a line used by Lizzie.
This is the first episode apart from the series premiere not to have the "Previously on Legacies" segment.
Lily Rose Smith and Tierney Smith played young Josie and Lizzie Saltzman respectively in Template:The Vampire Diaries. Their last appearance was in the series finale.
Bella Samman and Allison Gobuzzi played teenage Josie and Lizzie Saltzman respectively in Template:The Originals' Legacies backdoor pilot The Tale of Two Wolves.
Cultural References
"original me" – YUNGBLUD feat. Dan Reynolds
"Black Hole" – No Money Kids
"Don't Hold Your Breath" – Bombay Beach Revival
"Castles (Acoustic)" – Freya Ridings
Legacies 2x10 Promo "This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies" (HD) The Originals spinoff
Legacies 2x10 Sneak Peek Coven Day
Legacies Season 2 Episode 10 Landon Gives Hope Advice On A Bully Scene The CW
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Legacies Episodes
Season One (Ratings)
"This is the Part Where You Run" • "Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn" • "We're Being Punked, Pedro" • "Hope is Not the Goal" • "Malivore" • "Mombie Dearest" • "Death Keeps Knocking On My Door" • "Maybe I Should Start From The End" • "What Was Hope Doing In Your Dreams?" • "There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True" • "We're Gonna Need A Spotlight" • "There's a Mummy on Main Street" • "The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do" • "Let's Just Finish the Dance" • "I'll Tell You a Story" • "There's Always a Loophole"
Season Two (Ratings)
"I'll Never Give Up Hope" • "This Year Will Be Different" • "You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know" • "Since When Do You Speak Japanese?" • "Screw Endgame" • "That's Nothing I Had to Remember" • "It Will All Be Painfully Clear Soon Enough" • "This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent" • "I Couldn't Have Done This Without You" • "This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies" • "What Cupid Problem?" • "Kai Parker Screwed Us" • "You Can't Save Them All" • "There's A Place Where The Lost Things Go" • "Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself" • "Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing"
Season Three (Ratings)
"We're Not Worthy" • "Goodbyes Sure Do Suck" • "Salvatore: The Musical!" • "Hold on Tight" • "This is What It Takes"
Bloopers and continuity errors • Cast Crossovers • Crossovers • Character Appearances • Deceased • Episode Title Analysis • Last words • Outside references • Re#ash • Songs Used in Promos for Episodes • Timeline • Transcripts
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Previously... • Secrets from the Quarter • The Awakening • Quick Cut
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The threat of ongoing Persian settlement policies in Al-Ahwaz
Posted: 02/27/2015 by editormary in Ahwaz, Human Rights, Iran, Middle East Issues, People's Movements / Struggles, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance
WRITTEN BY Ahwazna website
Throughout human history, authoritarian regimes have exercised numerous policies to influence and pressure peoples whose homelands are under the grip of domination and occupation. Occupation policies include construction of settlements and relocation of settlers to change demographics to favor their colonial aspirations. This is one of many ways used gradually to control the indigenous population living under colonial occupation.
History is full of examples illustrating the process of colonialism and occupation, but none more clearly than the example of the brutal Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine. Through the establishment of extensive illegal settlements and introduction of hundreds of thousands of Zionist settlers the occupation has usurped the historical homeland of the Palestinian people.
Since the outset of Iran’s military occupation of Emirate of Al-Ahwaz, the occupying central governments have one after another, exposed the Ahwazi people to heinous crimes of violence, brutality, and everyday indignities. Through the colonial acquisition of lands throughout Al-Ahwaz, the goal was to cleanse the area of the indigenous Ahwazis.
The looting and plundering of Ahwazi lands were carried out through forcible displacement of Ahwazi citizens and the appropriation of their land by force of arms as well as using money to entice the most impoverished Ahwazis to sell their land. The facade of legitimacy and legality masked the occupier’s dishonest practices, and the plundered Ahwazi lands were handed over to Persian settlers.
After years of confiscating and appropriating vast amounts of territory, the Iranian colonizers and segregationist governments have built hundreds settlements, bringing in tens of thousands of Persian settlers into areas where the number of settlers was scarce or where there were fears of changing demographics in Persian settlers ‘favor, which would harm the future of the Al- Ahwaz in the case of right to self-determination.
The Ahwaz Arab people continue to resist the settlers by whatever means available to them, but the resistance has not been exhaustive. For the most part, it only involved those who suffered at the hands of the settlers. There is substantial documented evidence recorded by the Ahwazi human rights activists, showing the involvement of many Persian settlers in committing the most barbaric and inhuman crimes against the Ahwazi Arab citizens.
It is important to remind that the majority of settlers are also equipped with weapons and unlimited support by the Persian occupation authorities. Unfortunately there is a level of complacency of in segments of the Ahwazi people, partly due to ignorance, or fear of government repressive responses and, in some cases, a lack of interest in what is happening. However, these problems and areas of what may be perceived as weakness have never deterred Ahwazi citizens to resist the occupiers.
The building of settlements for housing non-Arab settlers did not suffice the Persian occupation authorities this means that in addition to the importation of Persian settlers to Al-Ahwaz, Persian occupying forces have extended their underhanded criminal activities by building thousands of housing units in Arab areas and populating them with Persian settlers which serves the purposes of Persian occupation in several ways.
They have brazenly gone too far in conducting their crimes over which enhancing their occupation malicious projects through the construction of thousands of housing units in the hearts of Arab areas and bringing settlers recruiting them for a number of things.
Firstly: The Persian settlers act as the eyes and ears of the occupation forces and provide the Persian occupation with anti-activists agents placed among the Arab population, who are able to immediately inform Persian intelligence and security forces of any intended anti-occupation activities. This provides Persian forces with preemptive capabilities to subdue and eliminate any resistance in the fastest manner possible.
Secondly: The Persian settler’s physical proximity to Arab Ahwazis, aims to destroy Arab culture by excluding it from everyday activities and through corrupting and replacing Arab culture with the Persian state-supported culture.
In work, education, intermarriage, every aspect of socio-economic activities imposed on the Arab Ahwazi culture puts it in a weak, threatened position. It is generally excluded and frowned down upon while Persian is endorsed and supported by the state. Conflicts arising from forcing Persian culture upon Ahwazi Arabs continues to have adverse and detrimental affects upon all aspects of Ahwazi life.
Thirdly: Persian settlements aim to monopolize trade in Persian settler hands through buying up all shops and outlets. This has resulted in grave economic changes which will be very difficult to reverse in the future. Through Persian news agencies and Persian government official communiques inform of proposed new settlements and housing units being completed and delivered to Persian settlers. In addition, one hears of the large numbers of companies, government agencies, banks and cooperatives supportive of Persian settlement activities.
It is clear that Persian occupation and settlement of Ahwaz, coupled with the criminal destruction of Arab society and culture in Ahwaz, is high on the agenda of the Iranian state and is ongoing with strong impetus.
Many researchers and observers hold that resisting Persian settlement activities should be among the foremost of priorities for the indigenous Ahwazi population. Unless the Ahwazis resist Persian colonial settlement at this time, it will be impossible to reverse the dangerous and ongoing demographic changes in the area.
Therefore, taking all of the above into consideration, all Ahwazi citizens, without exception, are obliged to engage in resisting all forms of Persian settlement undertaken by Persian authorities without differentiation between any particular form of settlement, or Persian Military personnel, agriculturalists or pastoralists, or government employees settled in Arab Ahwaz. All are collaborators in the crime of occupation and theft of Ahwazi Arab land, indigenous resources and job opportunities.
The resistance against occupation and settlers needs no debate, neither is it subject to debate; rather it is a national duty dictated by religion law and conscience.
Among the most important manners to resist settlement and settlers are:
Boycotting settlers socially and severing all contact with them.
Economically boycotting settlers and their businesses.
Military confrontations with settlers.
At this decisive stage it has become imperative for all members of the National Ahwazi Resistance to join ranks in order to deliver the most powerful blow possible to Persian occupation, which includes Persian settlers, who have ever since their arrival, acted and conspired against the Arab Ahwazi people.
Any wavering at this stage in resisting Persian settlers will end all future hopes for the Arab citizens of Al-Ahwaz. History shows that attempts towards the establishment of peaceful co-existence and good neighborly conduct have proven fruitless in deterring Persian settlers from aiding and collaborating with the Persian occupation of Ahwaz, the theft of our land and national resources, and the destruction of the culture of Arab Ahwaz.
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Zayn Malik to perform in Dubai
Laura Coughlin
Pop superstar Zayn Malik is performing live in Dubai at the Autism Rocks Arena this October.
Zayn fans you better sit down for this one: the former One Direction star has confirmed that he will perform in the emirates before the year is out.
The British superstar is set to perform at the new Autism Rocks Arena on October 7, that’s almost two years since he waved goodbye to his boy band image and took a chance as a solo artist.
A photo posted by Zayn Malik (@zayn) on May 17, 2016 at 8:33pm PDT
Zayn made history as the first male UK solo artist to debut at #1 with their first album when he released Mind Of Mine, which has a far moodier and more adult tone than anything One Direction ever produced.
His electronic, R&B slow jam hybrids have been received well, with Pillowtalk giving him the highest first time streams of any first-time solo artist.
Here’s one of the other catchiest tunes on his new album:
Zayn grew up in the UK, and was raised Muslim, with his father British-Pakistani. He was widely considered the strongest singer in One Direction when he was part of the mega boy band due to his incredibly wide vocal range.
You can hear the highs and lows of that range on this tune:
You can pre register for tickets now at 117live.com
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by Tamara Neely
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Yukoner Willow Gamberg, left, and Annastasia Fairbanks launched the online magazine Not Your Scene to promote the Vancouver underground heavy music scene.
We shouldn't judge bands such as The Almighty Excruciating Pain, Xenocide and 3 Inches of Blood by how they look and their creepy names.
If we do, we won't get past the macabre imagery to the tender side, which, according to Whitehorse resident Willow Gamberg, is their creativity and integrity, their musical talent and their storytelling.
"Heavy music is an art form, just like any other, and there are tons of people who are passionate about it, myself included," Gamberg says. "While lots of the names and themes in the heavier spectrum of this scene may be gory or brutal, the people in it are some of the nicest, coolest, most relaxed people I have ever met in my life."
Since high school Gamberg has developed an appreciation for — and ability to differentiate between — sludge metal, speed metal, dark metal, doom metal, death metal and blackened death metal.
"I love it for its aggressiveness, emotion, skill level, structures, messages and for the care and time put into it by the musicians," she says.
Gamberg followed her love of music to Vancouver to pursue the Music Business Administration certification program at Nimbus School of Recording Arts. While studying and writing articles for What's Up Yukon, Gamberg has also been developing an online magazine to promote the psychedelic and metal rock scene in Vancouver.
She and her business partner Annastasia Fairbanks, a music photographer, realized that Top 40 shows were getting lots of publicity, while the hometown Vancouver musicians were not.
And while the heavy music scene was thriving, it was so insular that it was tricky for anyone not totally dialed in to figure out when the shows were. A scattering of Facebook pages posted announcements for different shows and post-show photos, but they would get lost in the social media drivel.
Fairbanks and Gamberg, both newcomers to Vancouver, where pooh-poohed when they asked about local metal.
"The scene was also kind of elitist and people were like, 'Oh, it's not really your scene,'" Gamberg says.
But it is their scene, and in January they launched the magazine Not Your Scene, which welcomes anyone with an interest in the genre.
"Fans are people from all walks of life, from 20-year-old girls to 50-year-old Beard-os," Gamberg says.
The site, www.NotYourScene.ca, features a calendar of shows; photos and videos from past shows; interviews with bands; and the team's favourite songs.
They now have of nine contributors and 372 followers on their Facebook page.
Gamberg recognizes that some people are turned off by the imagery of spilled blood and demons, and can be spooked by tough-looking guys with showcase beards screaming into a microphone.
"This is another reason exactly why we wanted to start this magazine — to show that this scene is not a big, scary evil organization," She says. "It's a supportive and passionate community of people that love music with a message."
They're doing it for the Anciients, Astrakhan, Bison, Black Wizard; for Haggatha, Baptists, Wiser Fool, Nylithia; for all the other Vancouver heavy music bands and the people who love them.
Fairbanks says they have already been earning the love of fans, bands and promoters.
"Promoters, bands and the venues are really thankful for the free promotion," Fairbanks says. "And people going to the shows love (the magazine) because they can see quality photos and videos that we're putting out there for them."
And word is spreading. Visitors are coming to their website from around the world.
"We might be exposing people in Europe to the music scene in Vancouver and it's pretty cool to be able to do that," Fairbanks says.
Their hope is for everyone, everywhere, to support their local music scene.
"Support the people you grew up beside, who are making a solid effort to make their art," Fairbanks says.
Check out Not Your Scene online at www.NotYourScene.ca
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Did an ANC, EFF dispute result in the DA’s Williams elected as Tshwane mayor?
According to sources, the ANC and EFF couldn’t establish trust after the former proposed that the only way to coordinate strategies was for the ANC to back its mayoral candidate.
Tshwane council members vote for a new mayor on 30 October 2020. Picture: @DAGauteng/Twitter
JOHANNESBURG – The election of the DA’s Randall Williams as new Tshwane mayor may have resulted from disagreements between the EFF and the ANC.
Eyewitness News understands that despite the EFF and the ANC being in talks on what to do about the resumption of the DA takeover of the city, the two parties failed to reach an agreement.
This saw the ANC choosing to abandon its right to vote in the council, while the 25 EFF councillors went ahead and cast their ballots.
Williams, a veteran politician and attorney, rose to the turbulent post as mayor of the embattled City of Tshwane on Friday.
However, had the EFF and the ANC reached an agreement on how to handle their affairs in council, this may have not materialised.
According to sources, the ANC and EFF could not establish trust after the former proposed that the only way to coordinate strategies was for the ANC to back its mayoral candidate, following which it would appoint ANC councillors as the speaker and members of the mayoral council.
Despite interventions by both parties’ heads, this did not materialise because of the lack of trust.
The DA began governing the Tshwane metro with the backing of the EFF after the indecisive 2016 elections – following which the party abandoned the partnership and formed part of the opposition to the DA’s governance with the ANC – bringing the council to a deadlock.
DA's Williams, EFF's Mabogwane nominated for Tshwane mayoral position
Gauteng council, Cogta MEC fail in bid to appeal Tshwane administration ruling
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Financial literacy will pay off for city students, controller says
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Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz will help teach city kids how to handle their money — and their debts - as part of a financial literacy program. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia’s city controller will be spending some time this year to teach city kids how to handle their money — and their debts.
Controller Alan Butkovitz admitted that he had some issues with paying his debts as a young graduate.
“I came out during a recession in the late ’70s. It was hard to get a job, and some of my bills languished,” he said. “We always paid the rent on the first of the month, not necessarily the car payment.”
Skipping those payments can haunt you for a long time, Butkovitz said.
“It takes seven years for information on your credit report to expire, so it pays to tighten your belt and do something that might be tough this year,” he said. “If you are going to do something in the next seven years, like apply for a mortgage, they are going to be looking back seven years.”
Almost 90 city schools will receive a visit from the controller’s financial literacy program this year.
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October 18: Bag tax ban? | RICO, battery suit against Doughterty | New Urban Agenda
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Will Harrisburg ban a tax on plastic bags? WITF reports in the waning days of this legislative session Bucks county Republican Frank Farry has sponsored the bill, arguing that it could cost jobs to Pennsylvanians who manufacture plastic bags. Democratic Senator Daylin Leach, meanwhile, vows to reintroduce his bill to tax plastic bags to curb waste and litter.
GroJLart peels back layers of history at the Bonbright Building on the 1500 block of Locust, once a hub for architecture and contractor offices.
As the Electrician’s Union leader John Dougherty is being investigated by the FBI, a new federal lawsuit brought by electrician Joshua Keesee brings new ugliness to light. The Inquirer reports the suit alleges that before a January brawl with Dougherty and other Local 98 members, Keesee says he was called the N word (he is Native American) and ultimately intimidated off his job site for being non-union. The suit accuses the men of battery and violating the RICO Act.
Pittsburgh wants to replicate Philadelphia’s Housing Trust Fund, the Post-Gazette reports. Philly’s Housing Trust Fund was founded in 2005 and is funded through a mortgage recording fee on each new deed, bringing in about $14 million annually. The fund can be used for repair and rehabilitation, housing preservation, and building new affordable housing.
Meanwhile in Quito, Equador thousands of urban leaders are participating in the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, aka Habitat, which takes place every 20 years. Habitat III is focused on setting the New Urban Agenda, a non-binding agreement toward greater urban livability. CityLab has a handy beginner’s guide to Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda.
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October 25: Ride-hailing bill awaits Wolf signature | Rittenhouse Square safety | Viva Minerva
Rittenhouse Square | Jim Saksa
A bill legalizing ride-hailing operations in Philadelphia awaits Governor Tom Wolf’s signature. As the Business Journal’s Alison Burdo writes the bill doesn’t grant transportation network companies (TNC) the ability to operate at the airport, and it prohibits 30th Street Station from contracting with TNCs on dedicated facilities. The bill stipulates that transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft will need to pay 1.4 percent of gross receipts on fares that start in the city, with funds split between the school district and the parking authority.
After last week’s shooting in Rittenhouse Square during an attempted robbery the city is talking crackdowns in the name of safety. Julia Terruso reports from a public meeting to discuss park safety, quality of life, and homelessness. Police Commissioner Richard Ross stressed, “This is not about saying, this is Center City and therefore it deserves this over some other place.”
As Big Soda sues Philadelphia over its soda tax, is the contract to defend the city in court political backscratching? Claudia Vargas reports that Kenney administration awarded an $800,000 no-bid contract to Chamberlain Hrdlicka, the firm Ken Trujillo works for. Trujillo is a one-time mayoral candidate and subsequent supporter of Kenney’s campaign. Trujillo defend the city in court along with Mark Aronchick of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller. They “were selected because, as former City Solicitors, they are extremely familiar with the relevant state and local law, including Council’s authority to tax, which is the basis of the lawsuit,” Kenney spokeswoman Lauren Hitt told the Inquirer.
It’s Minerva Parker Nichols week on Hidden City! Don’t know Minerva? Molly Lester starts off the celebration with her biography: Nichols was the first woman to practice architecture in America independently and in her time she designed several high-profile women’s clubs and residences for female clients. Among these is Somerton’s Mill-Rae, now Cranaleith Spiritual Retreat Center, built for women’s rights activist Rachel Foster Avery.
Carole Williams-Green, founder of the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center, is being honored with the 2016 Meigs Award by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. West Philly Local writes, “Williams-Green has made a substantial contribution to environmental education in the Philadelphia region, reaching communities often excluded from traditional environmental education. She explains that ‘it bothered [her] that children from West Philadelphia had to travel so far to get these kinds of experiences [in nature], ones that really excited children.’”
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DatWombat May 20, 2020 June 20, 2020 Nudity, Rape, RPGMaker, Sexual Content, Straight, Visual Novel
Adventures of Tara is a story about a prestigious student who finds herself blackmailed at every twist and turn by her peers.
(Adult) Content?
(F, FxM) sexual content.
Censorship?
No. Woot! Woot!
Hours of Game-play?
Two or more hours.
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No, not necessary.
This article is pending review. It is either incomplete, out-of-date, or I feel the need to disclaim my shame for a something I’m not proud of.
. . . in a nutshell
Consult my article on visual novels.
out the shell. . .
Before starting the game, a brief tutorial shows up on-screen. It explains basic controls and options, such as the ability to skip (already watched) scenes and the “fetish book”. The fetish book allows you to disable any content that you might not be interested in, such as “futa, tentacles” and “pregnancy”. From your inventory, there are a variety of books which provide useful information when activated.
Though this game uses the RPGMaker engine, it plays-out more like a visual novel. You don’t go around slaying baddies and grinding for new equipment. Instead, you go from place to place, as consequences of your actions or in the name of exploration. This title is story heavy, and as such expect a lot of reading and visual content.
. . . and yes! This is a game you can play one-handed!
Tara is a student of Magicus University, and she’s a senior. She’s the first elf (from her hometown) to attend Magicus, so she’s got a bit of weight on her shoulders. She must graduate Magicus, at all costs. Another student reveals to her that one or more boys are conspiring to sabotage her, and that she should know. After attending a school-wide meeting, it is also revealed that beings called “Invigilators” have been called to straighten out the students’ flaws.
After the meeting, Tara encounters an invigilator. He disguised himself as an academically challenged goblin, and requests her help. She treats him like scum, and he reveals his true form. He casts a curse upon her. Anytime she treats another poorly, she will be overtaken with insatiable lust, which will grow stronger each time she mistreats another. This was his way to force Tara to overcome her problems with peaceful solutions.
A man she used and abused (as her magic guinea pig) hears everything, and he takes full advantage of the situation. He sneaks into the Tara’s room, and blackmails her. She must do anything he asks, or else he’ll tell everyone about the curse (thereby allowing them to use her as they see fit) and how she invoked an invigilator’s wrath. So, he does the logical thing and violates her.
But that’s not all! Through a series of schemes and sneaky spell casting, a pair of boys wind up as her masters. One of the boys becomes her “probation officer”, with the power to expel her with a signature. So he (and his partner in crime) do the logical thing, which is sexually exploit and demean her in front of her peers. She needs to figure out how to deal with all of the men abusing her, how to remove her curse, and on top of all that graduate Magicus!
The title screen is basic and unimpressive, lacking even an “option” selection. The game itself is a strange combination of 3D renders and pixel art. Scenes and character portraits are rendered in 3D, but the game-play uses pixel art. The 3D renders try to match with the pixel assets, but the lack of original pixel art makes the discrepancies clear. But credit where credit’s due, the developers tried.
Sexual content is rendered with 3D models as animations and stills. In static scenes, there are a lot of pictures to smash through, keeping visual content fresh. The models resemble those of Daz Studio or Poser, freeware 3D rendering software. The renders themselves are decent, but far from professional. The animations are well done, however. Scenes are accompanied by a series of dialogue boxes, which I found distracting. Scenes can be viewed in-game from a pentagram in the protagonist’s room.
. . . expect female and male-on-female sexual content.
I had mixed feelings going into this game, and the visuals remain a source of contention with me (in regards to style clashing). However, I’ve laughed out loud multiple times, and there’s plenty of lewd scenes to keep you pressing on. This titles a bit pricey, but it’s jacked with content. I’d wait for a sale, or if you’re too impatient to wait, consider picking it up straight away.
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The Friday Poem ‘Drowning the Shamrock’ by Frank Delaney
March 15, 2017 March 17, 2017 Eileen Kohan
“How many Nobel Laureate does Dublin have? Four!” is the question posed and answered by the late author and broadcaster Frank Delaney in his poem for St. Patrick’s Day. If you’re one of the many who have often wondered why it’s OK to employ every imaginable stereotype of the Irish each March 17; this one’s for you.
The Friday Poem was composed for NPR’s Weekend Edition in 2012.
Mr. Delaney died last month in Connecticut.
“He had wanted to be a novelist since childhood, he said in a 2014 interview timed to coincide with the Dublin Writers Festival. “I’ve always relished the power of the tale,” he said, “how it grabs us and then absorbs us, and casts a spell over us, and teaches us.”
He was a radio and television reporter in Ireland; created the “Bookshelf” and “Word of Mouth” programs on BBC Radio and “The Book Show” on Sky News; and wrote “The Celts” for the BBC, the screenplay for the 2002 adaptation of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” the novel “Ireland” and nearly two dozen other fiction and nonfiction books, both in Britain and after moving to the United States in 2002.”
“Drowning the Shamrock” is Delaney’s irreverent “James Joyce-ian” take on St. Patrick’s Day, filled with Irish pride.”
Drowning the Shamrock
“Hail glorious Saint Patrick dear saint of our isle
On us thy poor children look down with a smile -”
But I’m not singing hymns and I’m not saying prayers
No, I’m gritting my teeth as I walk down the stairs
And into the street with these louts fiercely drinking
And screeching and lurching, and here’s what I’m thinking –
They’re using a stereotype, a narrow example,
A fraction, not even a marketing sample
To imitate Ireland, from which they don’t come!
So unless that’s just stupid, unless it’s plain dumb,
All these kids from New Jersey and the five boroughs
And hundreds of cities, all drowning their sorrows,
With bottles and glasses and heads getting broken
(Believe me, just ask the mayor of Hoboken)
All that mindlessness, shouting and getting plain stocious –
That isn’t Irish, that’s simply atrocious.
I’ve another word too for it, this one’s more stinging
I call it “racism.” See, just ’cause you’re singing
Some drunken old ballad on Saint Patrick’s Day
Does that make you Irish? Oh, no – no way.
Nor does a tee-shirt that asks you to kiss them –
If they never come back I surely won’t miss them
Or their beer cans and badges and wild maudlin bawling
And hammered and out of it, bodies all sprawling.
They’re not of Joyce or of Yeats, Wilde, or Shaw.
How many Nobel Laureates does Dublin have? Four!
Think of this as you wince through Saint Patrick’s guano –
Not every Italian is Tony Soprano.
Frank Delaney NPR Weekend Edition – March 17, 2012
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Go ahead and make the crowd tear up with these heartfelt mother and son wedding songs. Let your ma know how much she means to you or let her choose the tune. Either way this will be a moment to cherish, so really put some thought into it. Check out the titles that we've compiled here for below.
Choose carefully, because you know how much these things mean to your dear old mother. From pop to country, we have it all, and all that's left is your keen ear and incomparable knowledge of the first woman in your life to have the perfect mother-son dance.
The dance mothers and sons share on such a special day is truly an unforgettable moment. You want to make sure you choose a tune that perfectly represents your love for one another. Plus, it's always a good idea to take Mom's tastes into account, because you want to choose a song you both enjoy. Especially since every time you hear the song after the wedding, you will think about dancing with your mom. If you're stumped when it comes to what type of song to choose, fear not!
We have done the legwork for you and compiled a list of the best mother son wedding songs based on several distinct genres. All you need to do is browse the list and find the perfect fit. While you're at it, why not make a DIY wedding craft that goes along with the theme of your special song?
Mom might shed a few tears during your big dance, but that's to be expected. After all, her baby is all grown up and getting married! Make an important and special moment of your big day even more special by choosing the perfect song. With our help, you're guaranteed to win.
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These mother-son wedding songs are popular for a good reason. For years they have reigned as the most iconic songs for this special moment. This music expresses the kind of unconditional love only a parent can have for her child, and does so in such a beautiful way that not many wedding receptions manage to go without playing at least one of these.
Don't worry about conforming to the masses; these mother-son wedding songs are special to a lot of people and that's a wonderful thing. We're sure they'll be just as special to your mother.
Rascal Flatts, "My Wish"
Boyz II Men, "A Song For Mama"
Phil Collins, "You'll Be In My Heart"
Stevie Wonder, "Sunshine of my Life"
Bette Midler, "Wind Beneath My Wings"
Rod Stewart, "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You"
Once you've chosen the perfect mother son wedding song, browse our extensive collection of Wedding Ceremony Songs
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Your mom always appreciated unique and out-of-the-ordinary things, and what better way to celebrate that than with your mother-son dance? Here is a list of mother-son wedding songs that you don't often hear for that special dance at weddings, but still show the person who was there for you since before you were born how much you care about her.
Remind your mom with these mother-son wedding songs that you're not going anywhere, and you will never love anyone quite the same way you love her. Even if you're not good at showing these things, these songs will do the work for you.
The Backstreet Boys, "The Perfect Fan"
T Carter Music, "A Mother's Song"
Wedding Music Central, "The Man You've Become"
Guns 'N Roses, "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Edwin McCain, "Letter To My Mother"
John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"
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Let's face the facts: your mom is pretty cool, and she's probably hip on the newer music. For your cool mom, you have to pick a cool, modern song. Lucky for you, we have here the five perfect mother-son wedding songs for your modern mother.
Good mother-son wedding songs are hard to come by these days, but these contemporary artists capture in a fresh way the love between a parent and her son. Even if you've never let her think she was cool growing up, now's your chance to make up for all of that.
Good Charlotte, "Thank You, Mom"
Josh Groban, "You Raise Me Up"
Carrie Underwood, "Mama's Song"
Savage Garden, "I Knew I Loved You"
Jessica Simpson, "You Don't Have To Let Go"
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Forget the traditional wedding customs and go your own way. After all, your wedding day is the perfect opportunity to express your personality through food, decor, song choices, etc. If you want your party to truly be a sign of the times, then you can't miss these contemporary DIY wedding crafts.
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Maybe your mom grew up in the sunny South, or maybe she just has a soft spot for country music. It's a fact that country mother-son wedding songs have a depth to them that other genres just don't capture quite the same way. Don't get ready to swing or square dance; these mother-son wedding songs are still for slow-dancing.
This collection of songs is perfect to take a look at for an outdoor or rustic wedding, but will fit splendidly in any theme. After all, this is for your mother; you can break the theme for three minutes for the woman who gave you life.
Billy Dean, "Let Them Be Little"
Kenny Chesney, "Don't Blink"
Jason Matthews, "That's What Mamas Do"
Steve Wariner and Glen Campbell, "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
Trace Adkins, "Then They Do"
Suzy Bogguss, "Letting Go"
Country grooms will truly appreciate the projects listed below. Since rustic weddings are incredibly popular these days, you can express your down-home roots in a unique and beautiful way.
With so many country and rustic wedding theme ideas to choose from, the hardest part will be deciding which elements to incorporate into your special day. The laid-back vibe of a country wedding is perfect for couples who want to skip all the fuss and frills and enjoy a more casual affair. The good news is you can't go wrong with any of these rustic wedding crafts highlighted below.
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How a Chatbot Helped This Vinyl Records Startup Make $1 Million in 8 Months
The Edit is part algorithm, part human touch
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Chatbots already have a little bit of a bad name. Early reviews for the ones on Facebook Messenger have been rough due to apparent malfunctions, and Microsoft's Tay has been an utter disaster, at least on a couple of occasions.
But a startup called ReplyYes, which offers a text-to-buy system for retailers, provides a glimpse into the potential of automated messaging. Interestingly, the company has a pair of e-commerce ventures. One sells vinyl records, the other graphic novels.
The vinyl store, called The Edit, has sold $1 million worth of records since it debuted eight months ago. David Cotter, CEO of ReplyYes and former Amazon.com general manager, attributes much of the site's success to his chatbot technology, which leans on an algorithm that recommends records based on purchase behavior and other interest-level signals. Yet, there's also a human element.
Here's how it works. People sign up to receive text messages and then get an album recommendation every day on their phone. Upon seeing such an offer, they can text back either "yes," "like" or "dislike" to inform the chatbot of their musical preferences—and the reply affects what 12-inch slabs of wax are pitched their way in the future. If they answer "yes," a link appears to let them buy the album in a couple of clicks. The Edit has sold some 50,000 records that way to tens of thousands of subscribers. What's more, if a subscriber asks a "human question"—such as, "What is currently playing in the office?"—a customer service rep quickly steps in and provides a contextual response to further engage the patron. If the consumer seems ready to buy something but hasn't pulled the trigger online, the chatbot—not the rep—sends that person a message to call a rep to complete the order.
"Sixty-eight percent of our [subscribers] have purchased," Cotter said. "Twenty-eight percent have purchased six or more albums in their first 180 days [on the mobile platform]."
Cotter described the digital back-and-forth as if it were a scene from High Fidelity.
"It's meant to feel like an experience in a neighborhood record store," he said. "And then it's about, 'How do we take our machine learning and chatbot and build that kind of experience?' We are already selling 300 albums a day because of that [style of thinking]."
ReplyYes' approach differs from what Facebook and Microsoft plan to do with chatbots, making them 100 percent automated. Cotter contended that the hybrid system—part chatbot, part customer rep—might be better than any purely digital approach for retailers.
"We've had customers who have invited us out on dates, asked us to parties—we've gotten Christmas cards," he said.
Those ideas actually do sound like traditional, record store conversations, don't they?
Meanwhile, Cotter's Seattle-based company last week scored a $2.5 million round of funding from Madrona Venture Labs, Lowercase Capital, MESA Ventures, Ore Ventures, FJ Labs, Bob Nelson, Francois Kress, and Lorne Michaels' investment arm, Broadway Video Ventures.
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Anambra is Expecting to Produce 300,000 Tonnes of Rice- Dep. Governor
The Deputy Governor of Anambra, Dr Nkem Okeke, has said that the state is expecting to produce 300, 000 tonnes of rice between now and early 2017.
Okeke made the disclosure when he received the World Bank/Federal Government joint supervision team in his office in Awka. According to him, the state is targeting 210, 000 tonnes of rice before the end of 2016. He said the state was competing with other rice producing states in the country due to its sustainable environment for the product. “Our land is good to grow rice and our priority in the state is on agriculture and that is why we are embarking on land development. “I once met the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development at an event in Abuja and I discussed with him on land development for agriculture throughout the nation. According to him, government of Anambra has earmarked large expanses of land in the state for agricultural purposes.
While commenting on the numerous projects embarked in the state by the World Bank/FG through FADAMA III Additional Financing, Okeke said they would go a long way to assist the state in achieving its target. On the security situation, Okeke assured the team of adequate security of any investment in the state. He added that there is no state or nation that could work creditably well, if there is no proper security of property and lives of its citizens and that of investors.
Earlier, Mr Patrick Chukwuka, Project Coordinator, Anambra State FADAMA III AF, said the team came to assess level of implementation of its projects in the state. “It might interest you to know that throughout this year alone, FADAMA III AF in partnership with Federal Government has embarked on a lot of rice projects in the state.” Chukwuka briefed the deputy governor that FADAMA III AF had carried out rice production in eight local government areas of Anambra East, West, Awka North, Ayamelum, Ihiala, Orumba North, Orumba South and Ogbaru.
He said its projects had also reflected in infrastructural development such as roads construction to assist the farmers to access their farms and bring out their produce to the market. “Presently, it is constructing 13 feeder roads of about 40km to 45km across the benefiting communities and the roads are in various states of completion,” he said.
On his own, Dr Ben Albert, who led the team expressed pleasure over the support given to the World Bank/Federal Government projects in the state. “It is our pleasure to be in your state to assess the level of development of the WB/FG projects in Anambra. ” I must say that I am proud of the state branch for its commitment over execution of our projects.
“We have done quit a number of projects and have recorded huge success,” Albert said. According to him, agricultural mechanization centre will soon be set up in the state and very soon tractors will be supplied in addition to what the state is doing. “Also, agro-business orientation will be introduced to make sure that farmers make a lot of income without being cheated,” he said.
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If Life On Mars-is God In Jeopardy?
RE: If Life On Mars-is God In Jeopardy?
"Careful now, no personal attacks.
"God created the world in seven days". That did not happen - even the most faithful Christian fundamentalist couldn't say that. All the proof is that did not happen. In that case, are we to take that part of the Bible as a metaphor?"
Show me the proof it didn't happen. Also I find it illogical that everything happened by chance. It's like a tornado hitting a scrap yard and building a 747 at random.
Where did God come from then, well logically if God is by definition eternal and the Creator, then he needn't be created as he created everything including the concept of a linear timeline where things have a beginning and an end. I think athiests need to broaden their thinking instaed of spouting off denial based "logic". Even Stephen Hawking has had the open mindedness to say that in all probablility there has to be a creator.
777236ER
Show me the proof it didn't happen.
All the evidence suggests the Earth was formed over millions of years with matter in the solar system condensing due to gravity to form the planets and the sun.
Your bone's got a little machine
You have to admit that Christian thinking HAS changed over the years, even if the fundamentals remain.
Actually most Christians follow the same Bible.
I'm not saying that I don't believe in science, but I have faith.
What happens if there's scientific evidence that challenges your faith
That's the thing it doesn't challenge our faith. You either can't see that or don't want to.
Proud to be an Assyrian!
Aloha717200
Isn't that a contradiction?
No, it's not, because even though there is a theory that another universe collapsed in on itself to form the singularity, there still is no explanation for where that other universe came from. And if it came from another Big bang, then what created the singularity in that big bang?
You see? The existence of space and time is not simply explained by a speck of matter that existed at the beginning of time. Because it still leaves the question of where that speck came from, and even if the question of where that speck came from were answered with a theory or even proven that another universe created that singularity, it still doesnt provide an answer as to how, whatever existed before it, came to be. But again, even if you explain it by saying God created it, that still leaves the question of where God came from, and where the creator of God came from, etc.
That's why no matter what they prove here, it'll never be proven or disproven. There are other worrisome questions about god and the afterlife....for example....if a human is cloned and the clone grows into an adult...that clone started out with a cell from the original person. If people have souls...would that cell contain part of that soul? And if so, does that mean two human beings would share the same soul? Or would one be soul-less?
But if that clone is aware of him/herself, fully thinking, with thoughts and emotions and hopes and dreams and goals, just like the rest of us, isnt it a shame that such a person would cease to exist rather than live on after death? It doesnt seem right....so they should have a soul shouldn't they? But where the heck does their soul come from if they were constructed inside a test tube using the cell from another person. That's a big question that will nwever be answered either. It's hard to believe in what you cant see, but what a waste life is if there is no afterlife. But the idea or people having souls that live on after death logically doesnt make sense. But emotionally, it does.
Nevertheless, the Church and practising Christians have changed over the years, no?
Not the practising Christians. We practise the same Christianity from the same Bible.
"Some theorist propose that the universe in which we currently exist is just one iteration of a cycle of Big Bangs and Big Crunches (the opposite of the big bang when the universe collapses back upon itself). If they are correct, there may have been countless numbers of universes that existed before us and countless that may exist after us, with no record to account for their existence."
N6376m...this is the nexus of the 'multiple universe' theory and one that I, for one, believe is on the right track! Because it follows a simple cycle (but on a far grander and cosmic scale) that is repeated here on earth. We birth, we recreate/rebirth and we die...but the process continuously expands while repeating itself. Animals and plant life do this as does bacteria and every other living thing..seen and unseen. Species are continuously replaced by other species ( we 'do know' dinosaurs did factually exist -- and the bible supposedly covers Earth's birth and it's demise and never mentions the reign of the creatures). As species are replaced by newer ones they are different...that to me explains why planets,moons, stars and galaxies are all so different. As different as they all are...they are all pretty much made up of the same stuff we are made of....the most common element in the universe....hydrogen.
"Home of the Brave, made by the Slaves..Land of the Free, if you look like me.." T. Jefferson
bobrayner
Even Stephen Hawking has had the open mindedness to say that in all probablility there has to be a creator.
Surely, he said that the existence of a creator couldn't be disproven?
The same bible has, nonetheless, inspired a very wide range of different beliefs; copt, catholic, quaker, lutheran, methodist, elbonian orthodox, and so on. Many of these differ as much in belief as they do in ceremony/practice. People reading the same book have alternately said that lightning is a manifestation of god's anger, or of charge separation in clouds; some baptise babies, some baptise adults, some baptise a regular basis, some baptise posthumously; some have been abstemious, others hedonistic; and so on.
Are these all christians? Did all but you misinterpret the bible, or are these variations irrelevant?
Cunning linguist
IMissPiedmont
"Maybe they find it troubling that you believe in the contrary... ever though of that???"
And why should anyone find troubling what I believe?
The day you stop learning is the day you should die.
westjet_8
Here in Calgary on Elbow drive reads a sign next to a curch "Big bang theory, are you serouis?" I find this to be a huge joke. Of course the scientists who thought this up were serouis and its much more belivable then that someone built the earth in seven days.
Also the bible already has some major flaws that don't even metion some of the life on earth (dinosaurs and the giant comet (most likey) killing them off). It seems sort of odd that when god was chatting to moses he forgot to metion the earth almost previosuly being wiped out. Of course the bible doesn't metion mars back when some HUMAN made the book of legens and miths we call the bible because they didn't know it exsisted. Why would god not share with the human rase if there was life somewhere other then our planet no matter how insignifigant.
Thats why I think the bible is increably flawed from more then just Mars and if people wake up and see now why the hell didn't he metion that? I do think there is some vaule in regilion, it helps people though tough times though their respective faiths but really, the modren studies of science and math have given the bible major flaws that society needs to relize.
Canadian. RIP 1999
David, you obviously haven't read it. The bible contains scientific knwoledge ahead of its time. It mentions a round Earth, it talks about dinosaurs (in Job for example)
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-where2.html
The Old Testament (especially the Jewish law) talks about germ prevention, good crop science etc. Also, you are assuming that scientist are correct when they age the Earth (carbon dating is very flawed).
As regards different types of baptism , that is really irrelevant, What matters is that Christians believe the fundamentals of the apostles creed (called orthodoxy), the style in which they worship and live is up to them.
I have a feeling that if God told the people whom He inspired to write the Bible about other planets, they would've written it down but neither they nor anyone else would've understood what it meant (save for some people in Hellas ... the ancient Greeks figured out that the world was round long before Galileo did).
The ahteist saying that Christians are nervous about Mars exploration is silly. No they're not. Surely life doesn't just exist here on earth. It may have once existed on Mars, and what is really exciting is that it may exist even now on Europa.
And since the Bible was translated into English in 1611, it has not changed and is as we know it now. I can't say the same for the NIV, NAS, NKJV, and others based upon the Alexandrian manuscripts (the King James was translated from scripts in Antioch).
Science is becoming more certain of how the universe came into being, but they still haven't figured out the who, yet. And I for one believe in the literal 7 days. Maybe not seven 24 hour days (the earth's rotation has been slowing down through the centuries, and the days are getting longer ... slowly).
The bible contains scientific knwoledge ahead of its time. It mentions a round Earth, it talks about dinosaurs (in Job for example)
In my opinion, Job is talking about elephants. Oh, is my interpretation wrong? Does that make me a Christian or not? Who's interpretation is right?!
By the way, that website is hilarious. What a biased load of crap. I wonder if any teachers actually do use it to teach kids, let's hope not.
I have a feeling that if God told the people whom He inspired to write the Bible about other planets, they would've written it down but neither they nor anyone else would've understood what it meant (save for some people in Hellas
Sounds like you're trying to justify life on other plants by assuming what God did. Maybe he just doesn't exist? Isn't that a valid explanation?
And I for one believe in the literal 7 days
All the scientific evidence suggests you're wrong.
POSITIVE RATE
I agree with 777236ER regarding the scientific evidence. The planet Earth took millions and millions of years to form into what we now know it as. In the beginning it was a molten ball of rock- that period alone lasted a few thousand years. After it cooled oceans developed thanks to comets striking the Earth and eventually an atmosphere formed. This entire process from a molten ball of rock to a breathable Earth with water and an atmosphere took millions of years and there is ample evidence to show that.
"What a biased load of crap"
What and your not!!
You blindly believe scientific THEORIES (note that word). More and more of the scientific community are pointing towards a creator!
kilavoud
Till now nobody has seen any flowers on Mars. But it's an acknowledged fact that there are a lot of craters on the Red Planet, big and smaller ones.
We usually do not find these craters on Earth. But many on other planets like Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn.....
First question: May the other planets turning round the sun have been placed in their respective orbits by divine providence as a protection for the inhabited Earth, that should not receive fragments of Comets, meteorites or others, fortunately attracted elsewhere in the solar system.
Second question : Would it be advisable to dwell on a planet attracting dangerous materials from the space ?
Cheers. Kilavoud.
"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..." Job 40:15-19
Nice try Gc,...but if he was describing as apatosaurus, the sheer size would have floored him and had him in shock and awe! Nothing was that tall in those days not even the biggest buildings of the day...what were they 1 or 2 stories tops...an apatosaurus would be about the size of a 4-5 story building. Plus the tail doesn't sway..it drags for balance. After being blown away by the size the next thing he'd notice would be the neck....as we do today with a giraffe. We don't note that a giraffe eats plants we notice and are mesmerized by it's elongated neck 1st then make note of it's other features. Sinews (sinewy) means defined muscular appearance -as in lithe- this would descibe the legs of a T-rex or a Velociraptor..if he noted fits of all there serrated teeth and powerful jaws and find out quite quickly they don't eat plants !
I'm nowhere near being an paleontologist..and I'm certain a real paleontologist would have a field day ripping that book apart! Again..nice try, but that site is loaded with crap!
http://www.answersingenesis.com
Okay Marco I did...
and except
"The Bible tells us that God created all of the land animals on the sixth day of creation. As dinosaurs were land animals, they must have been made on this day, alongside Adam and Eve, who were also created on Day Six (Genesis 1:24-31). If God designed and created dinosaurs, they would have been fully functional, designed to do what they were created for, and would have been 100% dinosaur. This fits exactly with the evidence from the fossil record."
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!
Just because this says this in the most elementary of terms...we are suppose so okay..that answers that! Let's examine this...
The Bible tells us that God created all of the land animals on the sixth day of creation. As dinosaurs were land animals, they must have been made on this day, alongside Adam and Eve, who were also created on Day Six (Genesis 1:24-31)
With that logic (or lack thereof), let's just say...since 'angels' have wings and fly....Seagulls are 'animal angels!' Did G. W. Bush write this stuff?
This is the kind of crap that sends kids down the path of becoming screwy! There's no biblical quotes of anykind to substantiate this..we are just left with 'so since dinos are land animals they, MUST have been made on the same day as you know who. If that's the best argument they can put forth....that website needs to become extinct..forthwith!
As long as you refer to excerpts from the Bible as crap, I won't reply. I don't discuss things with people who aren't civil. When you decide to respect my beliefs, maybe then I'll answer you. Until then, stick to your arrogant know-it-all attitude.
That wasn't and excerpt from the bible. That was rendered opinion from the author of the website. And the author of that website sounds liek Pat Robertson or nut job like him attempting to sway kids (who are intensly fascinated with dinosaurs) into believing his version of things it's maudlin and it's pandering! It's a dumbing down of kids in an age where kids have the ability to know more that generations preceding them. You are entitled to your beliefs and I respect that. But I don't have to agree with them. Nor you mine. But we are both free to comment on text outside of the bible (such as that website) (as on text in the bible) as we please. So take chill pill dood!
OK, so most religious people limit God by the statement posted on the sign. And from my observation, most is an appropriate word.
However, most secular people limit God by taking what is written in the bible to be precise. It's not, at least in the old testament. (Note, this is my belief)
Just a question. What is a day to God? To you , me and all humans, it's the time one small insignificant rock takes to rotate 360 fegrees. To God it might well be 6 billion years. If you were God would you try explaining that concept to man of 6000 years ago?
B2707SST
I was station-surfing quite a few years ago and heard a bit of the Dr. Laura Show that floored me. The caller complained about the teaching of evolution in public schools and how it undermined the Biblical account of creation. Dr. Laura responded (paraphrasing) that she was free to believe what she liked, but anyone who argues that the scientific creation story is in fundamental conflict with the Biblical story places limits on the creativity of God.
I think many people agree with this: Steven Hawking recounts in "A Brief History of Time" how the Vatican seized on the Big Bang account of the creation and pronounced it in accordance with Scripture. The description of the creation of life is consistent with our understanding of evolutionary history (beginning in the sea, then animals, then birds, then humans).
There are certain contradictions inherent in the Bible, so I think one needs to be cautious in reading it as a literal history. For example, in the listing of days in Genesis, fish and sea life are created on the fourth day, birds and land animals on the fifth day, and Adam and Eve are created together on the sixth day. In the very next passage, which is very different in tone and perspective, Adam is created, then the animals are created for him to name, and then Eve is created from his rib. The sequencing is inconsistent, and if one wants to take the Bible literally, some hoop-jumping is in order.
My understanding is that the modern Bible was created during the Nicene Council in 325 AD, when certain books and stories were judged canonical and included, and some (such as the Gnostic gospels) were rejected. Now one can argue that the Holy Spirit was at work in the process and our modern Bible was "meant" to be in its current form, but for skeptics like myself, viewing the Bible as a completely integrated, seamless, and internally coherent text is problematic.
--B2707SST
Keynes is dead and we are living in his long run.
Germ prevention and agricultural science would not be unusual subjects in an entirely human-written book, in such a culture, would they?
Carbon dating is very flawed?
There plenty more isotope pairs to choose from; all those with a long enough lifetime (a few are only practical for short spans) agree that the earth is Very Old. (IE more than a few thousanf years). Are they all flawed? Evidence for this...?
Once you've debunked carbon dating (and all the other isotope pairs), you can move on to loess, marine sediments, ice cores, tree rings, hundreds of metres of limestone, &c.
There's a great deal of compelling evidence. Did god put it all there to fool gullible geologists and astonomers? Maybe the mountain ranges at tectonic plate borders serve some other purpose? (I don't remember seeing an era of hectic mountain-building in the bible).
As regards different types of baptism , that is really irrelevant
Irrelevant? Lots of xtians seem to think it's pretty important to do it the right way. Are you saying they're wrong?
It mentions a round Earth, it talks about dinosaurs (in Job for example)
It describes a large herbivore.
I have a feeling that if God told the people whom He inspired to write the Bible about other planets, they would've written it down but neither they nor anyone else would've understood what it meant
We could extend it from astronomy to countless other issues; did God edit the bible so it wouldn't contain anything too far beyond the understanding of contemporary yokels? (not unreasonable; the bible seems to omit most aspects of modern life). If so, then what relevance does it have today?
More and more of the scientific community are pointing towards a creator!
We usually do not find these craters on Earth. But many on other planets like Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn....
Craters on jupiter and saturn?
You can find craters on rocky planets and planetisimals. Earth is rocky; it has craters too. The problem is, we have various geological processes that gradually wear them down and/or mask them in other forms; we also have volcanism which provides plenty of false leads in the form of craters; 2/3 of impact sites are covered with liquid; and so on.
There are a few hundred known (ie large) impact sites on Earth. Most of these are in places that are relatively well-explored; there's little reason to doubt that other parts of the world have similar numbers.
For reference, even just a few hundred is much more than you'd expect if the earth's history was only x thousand years. Maybe god created these, too, to fool the astronomers.
This fits exactly with the evidence from the fossil record
No, it doesn't.
To God it might well be 6 billion years. If you were God would you try explaining that concept to man of 6000 years ago?
If that were the case, maybe he should have dictated "It took a really long time to create the world" instead of handing down something so thoroughly misleading. No? I presume that God's proofwriting and editorial skills should be greater than ours.
http://www.answersingenesis.com also blames evolutionism for communism, nazism, and columbine.
CanadianNorth
The universe is a big place. There has to be something else out there. Maybe there smarter than us, maybe there a bunch of dumbfucks. Maybe there only a few planets away, maybe there trilliants of lightyears away. But there must be something.
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I rather think that the account in Job of the "thing" is a hippo, myself. Elephant almost fits but I think a hippo is more likely. The leviathan described later could almost be a whale but it's not, it's a crocodile.
Job does have some good stuff. Witness Job 38:4-12:
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?
"Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?
"Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
tokolosh
If God (whichever one it is!) were perfect, then why, as one of its creations, we humans are unable to live in harmony with ourselves and "our" planet?
Did the chicken or the egg get laid first?
"If God (whichever one it is!) were perfect, then why, as one of its creations, we humans are unable to live in harmony with ourselves and "our" planet?"
That's easy, years ago (and ever since) we told God to get lost and that we could look after ourselves. He's just giving us what we want.
I haven't seen many hippos or elephants with tales like cedar trees. Can anyone name me somehting other than a dinosaur with a tail of that description. Again, the non-creationist argument automatically assumes that science is correct. No one was around, it's all theory so it's all open for debate. Where is the evidence that dinsosaurs did NOT exist at the same time as man?
http://www.creationscience.com/
No one was around, it's all theory so it's all open for debate. Where is the evidence that dinsosaurs did NOT exist at the same time as man?
Because radioisotope dating (which you think is flawed but have yet to explain why) consistently shows that all the dinosaur remains - even the youngest - are much older than human remains - even the oldest.
On a more pragmatic note, they're also (generally speaking) in deeper strata. Perhaps God created ninja worms to pull the dinosaur remains down through the k/t boundary and vast quanities of assorted rock, just so they would seem to be in an older location. Or maybe a few hundred metres of rock were Created during the brief period time that dinosaurs and humans coexisted - and the dinosaurs were buried whilst the humans climbed on top - for a similar mischievous purpose.
Gc,
"That's easy, years ago (and ever since) we told God to get lost and that we could look after ourselves. He's just giving us what we want."
But, if we were created in God's image, why did we then tell him to get lost? What I asked in #76 still stands.
SSTjumbo
According to belief, God gave us the greatest gift he could give us, free will, and we chose to abuse it. You could argue that God exercises free will, but since he's perfect in every way, he can never use it wrongly. We, on the other hand, are not God and are therefore subject to misuse of free will. Of course, there's a lot of other arguments out there, but that's one way of answering it.
I don't know, so this is my signature.
"My understanding is that the modern Bible was created during the Nicene Council in 325 AD, when certain books and stories were judged canonical and included, and some (such as the Gnostic gospels) were rejected."
This is not a mystery to biblical scholars. The question is why some refuse to accept this as fact.
"If that were the case, maybe he should have dictated "It took a really long time to create the world" instead of handing down something so thoroughly misleading."
Do you presume to know what God told man? I hope not. As the bible was indeed written by man with no interference form God, one might consider that the bible is packed with metaphors, not explicit direction.
ctbarnes
Getting back the original question, humans may fret about God if Martians are discovered, but I seriously doubt God would. After all, who's to say God didn't make Martians too....?
Charles, SJ
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csavel
Don't think so, people who believe in God will find a reason to believe in her no matter what. Some peopl emay find this as proof of a sort of new agey quantum spiritus sancti.
The literalists will either have a hard time or interpret the Bible in a new way.
And yes, the Bible has been "interpreted" for millennia. The stories may be great moral allegories, indeed divinely inspired, but the are human works.
The Job dinosaur quote is an exaple of why this is true.
One of the problems with looking at a literal interpretation of the Bible is whose Bible are you going to literally interpret? It was Ancient Hebrew translated into Ancient Greek translated into Midieval English if you're talking King James version. So already the King James version (which is the one people are quoting from here) is three degrees separated from the original. Hebrew a Semitic language with a different grammar entirely from Greek. Greek and English - both Indo-European but also with different grammars. Not to mention that the original was probably copied from many sources and were retellings of ancient myths.
Since I know a bit of Hebrew I can tell you that Behemoth seems to me to be from the Hebrew Behema (plural is Behemot which would be Behemoth in Ancient Hebrew) What does Behema mean? Buffalo!!! A bit different from a dinosaur. Maybe it meant something else in ancient Hebrew, maybe it didn't. I have no idea how many buffaloes were roaming around in ancient Palestine. But ancient pastoralists from a semi-arid country who came into contact with a buffalo would've been awed. They are larger and meaner. Their tails do go round and round and poetically can be seen to sway like a cedar.
So that Job quote could really read
""Look at the water buffalo, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox.""
Interestingly, Behema is also a slang word for a big loud slob. The Peace Now people in Tel Aviv probably call Ariel Sharon "Behema" every day.
Next biblical linguistics lesson is the difference between Alma and Betulah (Hint one is a virgin and one doesn't necessarily have to be and how Leviathan derives from the Hebrew Lev'atan which is whale.
I may be ugly. I may be an American. But don't call me an ugly American.
Well, none of the bible is actually labeled with "This chapter is definite fact", "This chapter is just folk-poetry, don't worry about it too much", "This chapter is allegorical", and "This chapter uses a little poetic license".
If the bible says that it took x days to create the earth, then we have to assume that that's what God wanted to tell us, barring suggestions to the contrary, no?
According to belief, God gave us the greatest gift he could give us, free will, and we chose to abuse it.
How can we have free will with respect to an omniscient entity that not only created us and our surroundings, but also the physical laws which every part of us follows from moment to moment?
No Bobrayner, to this, "If the bible says that it took x days to create the earth, then we have to assume that that's what God wanted to tell us, barring suggestions to the contrary, no?"
You really do not choose to say that everything in the Bible, and I mean everything, is literal fact. Do you? Think about it as a christian before answering please. And when you disagree, read a bit more.
windshear
How can God be threatened if It created the entire universe?
According to the holy Kabbalah, the reason religious people worry about progress and science, is because they take the bible litterally, the old testement is pure poetry and symbols.
Abraham said that the universe and all that is to come from the universe is made and always will be, made of the same letters and matter, DNA and Atoms...
He said that 4000 years ago! So no God is not at threat, hopefully we will simply learn to understand what this "game" is about, how all things are driven by the same pattern. Actually there are astro physicics who say that there are similarities between our conciousness and the way and behavior of the universe...
Holy stories are just that, messengers of knowledge and tools of life, not laws or litteral obediance, otherwise they would not survive time and culture...
And thus God can never be at threat to any form of science, because the only thing science will reveal is that there IS a connection a source of all things living...Light...
Boaz...
"If you believe breaking is possible, believe in fixing also"-Rebbe Nachman
"Since I know a bit of Hebrew I can tell you that Behemoth seems to me to be from the Hebrew Behema (plural is Behemot which would be Behemoth in Ancient Hebrew) What does Behema mean? Buffalo!!! A bit different from a dinosaur. Maybe it meant something else in ancient Hebrew, maybe it didn't. I have no idea how many buffaloes were roaming around in ancient Palestine. But ancient pastoralists from a semi-arid country who came into contact with a buffalo would've been awed. They are larger and meaner. Their tails do go round and round and poetically can be seen to sway like a cedar."
I don't think you can equate a buffalo's tail to a cedar tree , that would be one strange looking buffalo!!
Also, what about the Leviathan mentioned in Job??
Job 41
1 "Can you pull in the leviathan [1] with a fishhook
or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he keep begging you for mercy?
Will he speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he make an agreement with you
for you to take him as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons
or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing him is false;
the mere sight of him is overpowering.
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse him.
Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 "I will not fail to speak of his limbs,
his strength and his graceful form.
13 Who can strip off his outer coat?
Who would approach him with a bridle?
14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth,
ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15 His back has [2] rows of shields
tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light;
his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck;
dismay goes before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24 His chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron he treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make him flee;
slingstones are like chaff to him.
29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw;
he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is his equal-
a creature without fear.
34 He looks down on all that are haughty;
he is king over all that are proud."
Don't tell me he's a large salmon!!!
Indeed; I wouldn't advise literal interpretation of everything.
However, a number of days is pretty unambiguous, isn't it?
Gc it was not acient Palestine, but Judea and Israel!
Also I am not sure about the word in Hebrew...
Surely there can not be anything to fear, if there is a creator he is the creator of the building blocks of life, DNA and atoms not us!
We are the product of evolution, and the driving force of life, originates from the tiny pilot light that we receive from the creator, this light makes life struggle to go on...
There for things evolve. The driving force is been so strong that we finally came to life through time and evolution, we have the ability to know and create, but also to ignore and destroy.
People still belive that there was nothing before Adam and Eve, that part is true...Or is it?
We only know that Adam and Eve are the first to be created, but Adam and Eve are not people, they were the two energies that existed receiving the positive light from God...
So when the world was created was the time that Adam and Eve said stop to God, and then there was the Big Bang...
We are here to strive for fulfilment, not given by God but created by our selves and shared with the Creator...
We are all connected, call it the will to survive, intuition, reflexes or power of the mind, but all matters living share similar driving forces, even stars and galaxies...
There for LIfe on other planets or evolution is NOT blasphemy its the natural strive for the fulfilment we so desperately crave...Ants, humans, whales, moons atoms all react and cause, but we as humans must strive to be proactive instead of just creations (cause and effect).
To anyone who might be interested...This wisdom is old, and it needs to get out of its hiding, transcending religion and culture, this tool for fulfilment is vital to our life and planet!
Kabbalah is the word, if any of you are thinking, what a crack head or what an interesting viewpoint...
It really appeals to your question mbj-11!
Hey GC
Good reply!
To me the tail sways like a cedar was allegorical, sort of conveying power and movement. Sort of like I would say on a windy day. "I was tossed around like a piece of paper." Also Leviathan derives from the Hebrew for whale, not salmon. So the Leviathan in Job is no salmon, farm-raised or wild.
My point was not to diss the Bible. Just to point out that since humans are fallable and imperfect as is human language as a communications system, it is, to me, difficult if not impossible, to claim that the Bible or anything else is the absolute inerrant word of God. Once you translate it, or once the language changes as languages do, it is errant. This doesn't mean that the stories don't contain important moral precepts or hidden allegorical or "cosmic truths." Look at the Lilies of the field passage. I don't take it literally, nor am I 100% convinced that there is a God, but to me, if that isn't a call to appreciate and cherish nature, then I don't know what is. Not a literal truth, but a deeper spritual "truth."
Given that, then I don't think life on Mars will affect most people's religions because the religions sacred texts can be taken in ways that will accept this. IT could be seen as more proof of God's handiwork.
"People still belive that there was nothing before Adam and Eve, that part is true...Or is it?
We only know that Adam and Eve are the first to be created, but Adam and Eve are not people, they were the two energies that existed receiving the positive light from God..."
Um...yeah, ok. That really doesn't sit right with me. But each to their own.
On a serious note, geneologists have started to point towards a common female ancestor from Africa or Mid-East as the "mother" of modern man. I found that interesting.
They also point to her living many thousands of years before conventional Biblical chronology. Maybe you didn't find that interesting.
"Holy stories are just that, messengers of knowledge and tools of life, not laws or litteral obediance, otherwise they would not survive time and culture...
Agreed...
.....He said that 4000 years ago! So no God is not at threat, hopefully we will simply learn to understand what this "game" is about, how all things are driven by the same pattern. Actually there are astro physicics who say that there are similarities between our conciousness and the way and behavior of the universe...
The astrophysicist have it right..because are nothing more than a by-product of the universe. Hubris and extreme arrogance tells us we are something special..and in our world, we are. And that is all precipitated by being atop of the food chain. Have we always been? No. Will we always be? No.
It won't take much to take us down, esp. with the possibility of us taking ourselves down 1st. Think about it...remember that last stomach or flu virus that brought you to your knees...and made you say 'kill me now and get it over with!' That's how vulnerable we are..something so miniscule so small we cannot even see...has the ability to bring us to our knees. This is no curse or plague from god, it is also a by-product of the universe. It isn't ailing you personally (meaning it's not a virus that came after you because you're Joe Smith)...it's biological sub-atomic creature just doing it's thing. And in the future there will be others. Some we create and some nature creates...that is the game. After we're gone..that's it! Something else will take our place and there very well may be nothing left to show we were even here at all.
deltaownsall
Just to point out that since humans are fallable and imperfect as is human language as a communications system, it is, to me, difficult if not impossible, to claim that the Bible or anything else is the absolute inerrant word of God. Once you translate it, or once the language changes as languages do, it is errant. This doesn't mean that the stories don't contain important moral precepts or hidden allegorical or "cosmic truths."
Very well said Exactly my opinion on this: the Bible doesn't necessarily have anything to do with God, so even if life is found on other planets, it would in no way disprove the existence of God.
"They also point to her living many thousands of years before conventional Biblical chronology. Maybe you didn't find that interesting."
Actually I do. Even though I'm a Christian, I'm open to debate and study. If the biblical chronology is proved wrong then so be it, but the "secular" chronology is also open to debate and scrutiny. There are some gaping holes in their theories which I'll be happyto expand on when I have more time.
Very true GC. That's what becoming your 'own' person is all about. It's not about being what someone else wants you to be, or what someone else think's you be. It's about seeking, finding as much as you can and concluding and deciding for yourself. And most importantly, even then, such deciding factors themselves are always subject to review and renewed positioning, rethinking and or disposal. There are many times I thought understood everything about an issue or situation..only to continuously find out that's not the case at all. But that's one of the greatest things about life..life's learning curve, it's ever changing shape is continuously on the move. What a bore if would be if it (and all it's answers) were nicely wrapped in a neat package on a shelf... for everyone's taking.
Adam and Eve are just codes to the masculine and feminine energies that were before The Big Bang...What you are thinking of, garden of Eden and so on are the later symbolic tellings of the Kabbalistic tellings...
That is what I was trying to say. Kabbalah actually is the old testament in symbolic form...
Kabbalah or the origin of the of the old testament, has more in common with modern day science than the conservative and often litteral interpretations of the old testament, this is words of the the Kabbalists...Knowledge that lead to the writting of the old testament, they explain what the theme is in the old testament, and also the fall from Eden...
There for BN747 you are right!
Nothing in Kabbalah speaks against evolution and progress of man...Man is at a higher spiritual awareness level than the ant, but the ant is also at a higher spiritual level than a rock, but we all are composed by the same formula...Letters...DNA or atoms...Same rules apply for stars as for us...
A rock contains many different molecules and materials that make up the rock, we have DNA...All is the aleph Beth...
The alpabet of life...
That is my point, if something else will rise after us so what? We are all connected and are all built from the same laws of letters...
Also the Kabbalah speaks not of time..."They also point to her living many thousands of years before conventional Biblical chronology. Maybe you didn't find that interesting."
God made the universe in 6 days??? How can the creator of all things create something in 6 days before time began???
Again the Kabbalah is written in symbolic language that is the old testament, 6 dimensions are created and compressed into one, as the modern day superstring theories also tell us, 10 in all but 6 are compressed into 1 dimension...
Again just to explain the symbolic language in which the old testament was written...
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Cartagena is one of the largest cities in Colombia. It's situated on a natural harbor on the country's northern (Caribbean Sea) coastline. Founded by the Spanish in 1533, it became the critical seaport through which the vast gold and silver resources of Spain's gigantic New World empire were shipped to the home country. Still Colombia's leading port by tonnage, its well-preserved colonial churches and public squares speak to its historical importance. In more recent years, with the development of its ultra-modern Bocagrande district, it's become one of the most modern-looking of the South American cities. Here is a collection of the best drone videos from this beautiful city, known in Colonial times as Cartagena de Indias. Aerial photo: "The Walled City of Cartagena, Colombia" by AirVuz contributor and pilot Unraveled Studios.
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Cartagena is located on the north (Caribbean) coast of Colombia. It's a major shipping port (the country's largest, measured by overall freight volume) and Colombia's fifth largest city. Cartagena was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century, and went on to become the largest seaport in the once-mighty Spanish Empire. In this video, contributor Alta Vista Epic Aerials used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create an amazing aerial view of this walled South American city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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AirVuz contributor OOO Photography used a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to create this marvelous aerial tour of the great Caribbean port city of Cartagena, Colombia. With its protected waters and natural defenses against piracy, Cartagena became the key seaport for the vast Spanish overseas empire which sprang up following the Columbus voyages of the late 15th century. The video features footage of key sites of the walled city such as the Cartagena Cathedral and the San Pedro Claver Church, as well as the ultramodern Bocagrande district.
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The city of Cartagena, Colombia has a storied history. During Colonial days, the city became the most important port in the Spanish Empire, serving as the hub through which the vast silver and gold deposits of the Western Hemisphere passed en route to the mother country. Key to the defense of Cartagena was the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas (San Felipe Castle), which sits in a highly strategic position on a hill overlooking the city. Seen here in this drone video by rkmaerial, the great fortification was built beginning in 1536.
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For a first upload to AirVuz, brand-new contributor The Solo Traveler ORD brings us this fantastic drone video from the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The video was shot in October, 2020, as the country began to ease some social distancing measures imposed to combat the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the video was shot over the Bocagrande area, which sits on a narrow strip of land just south of the central city. With its ultra-modern hotels and residential towers, it often draws comparisons to Miami Beach.
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Lucas Pinhel, who has over 200k followers on Instagram, has made a name for himself by combining drones, fashion models, and exotic locations. In this amazing video, he collaborated with a fashion model to create this unique aerial tour of Cartagena, the Colombian port city on the Caribbean. Cartagena is one of the great cultural centers of Colombia; during Colonial days it was the largest port in the Spanish Empire. You will be amazed by the blend of human, architectural, and natural beauty you will see in this work.
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Contributor and pilot WorldMoments created this stunning video of the great Colombian city of Cartagena on the Caribbean Sea. Founded in the 16th century, it was once the most important port in the mighty Spanish Empire. While it's still an important seaport city, it now also draws a large tourism business, attracting travelers with its Miami-like feel but with almost 500 years of history as well. The video features amazing views of Bocagrande, Castillo de San Felipe, Manga, the Centro Historico, and more.
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Check out this excellent drone video of Cartagena Colombia by la.drones. Cartagena is one of the oldest and historically significant cities in the Western Hemisphere. Founded by Spanish Conquistadoras in the 16th century, it became the most important port in the Spanish Empire. Its role as a cultural center continues; Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez spent his formative years as a journalist in Cartagena, and his modern classic 1985 novel Love in the Time of Cholera is believed to have been set in the great city on the Caribbean.
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Culture Warrior
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With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than 4 million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America’s heart and soul.Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior—and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a “secular-progressive” country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are even higher.In Culture Warrior, Bill O’Reilly defines this war and analyzes the competing philosophies of the traditionalist and secular-progressive camps. He examines why the nation’s motto “E Pluribus Unum” (“From Many, One”) might change to “What About Me?”; dissects the forces driving the secular-progressive agenda in the media and behind the scenes, including George Soros, George Lakoff, and the ACLU; and dives into matters of race, education, and the war on terror. He also shows how the culture war has played out in such high-profile instances as The Passion of the Christ, Fahrenheit 9/11, the abuse epidemic (child and otherwise), and the embattled place of religion in public life—with special emphasis on the war against Christmas. Whatever controversies are roiling the nation, he fearlessly confronts them—and no one will be in the dark about which side he’s on.Culture Warrior showcases Bill O’Reilly at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long.
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Delphi NAV200 comes in at $349
Sep 21st 2006 at 7:13PM
Aftermarket navigation systems are not cheap, though neither are the nav units that come bundled in your car. Aftermarket units can start in the $500 range but easily skyrocket up to $2,000 depending on how many features you demand. Delphi's consumer electronics division has just announced a new hand held nav system called the NAV200 that packs most of those popular features in a small form factor at an easily digestible price of $349.
The NAV200 is about the size of a PDA (who uses those anymore?) and can be controlled via a stylus or your own grubby fingers via a 3.5" touchscreen. Unlike many aftermarket nav systems, you aren't forced to load maps into it via a CD through your computer. Rather, Delphi includes complete maps of the US and Canada from NAVTEQ on a 1.5gb SD card that slots right in. You can also insert an SD card with MP3 files, photos and videos and use the NAV200 as a portable media player, however the battery only lasts 3 hours when not plugged into the cigarette lighter. Still, it could replace an iPod for some.
Other features that the modern nav user demands are also present, like the option for real-time traffic info that the unit can use to reroute your path (available with an adapter antenna and subscription fee). Bluetooth, however, is one missing feature we feel the NAV200 is missing, as pumping cell phone calls through such devices is becoming quite popular, especially in states where you're not allowed to hold a cell phone while driving anymore. But the NAV200 makes a compelling case for itself at $349.
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City of Arlington » News » MyArlingtonTX » News Stories » Tarrant County Partners with Albertsons, Tom Thumb and Kroger to Offer Free Flu Shots for Uninsured Families
By Tarrant County Communications
For those without health insurance, Tarrant County is making it as easy as possible to get a flu vaccination.
The CDC has stated that a flu vaccine is more important than ever during the 2020-2021 flu season. To protect Tarrant County citizens, as well as to help reduce the burden on our healthcare systems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tarrant County has partnered with Kroger and Albertsons/Tom Thumb pharmacies to administer free flu vaccinations to uninsured residents of Tarrant County through Dec. 30, 2020. Tarrant County will be billed $25 per vaccination under the program.
“With COVID-19 surging across North Texas, it is important we do everything possible to keep the flu season under control and maintain hospital capacity,” said Tarrant Public Health Director Vinny Taneja. “This public-private partnership provides broader access to free flu vaccine, making it easier for anyone in Tarrant County to get a flu shot this season.”
“The pandemic has made it even more critical this year to get a flu shot, not only to protect ourselves, but to protect those we love, our communities, and our resources,” said Julie Spier, R.Ph., director of Pharmacy Operations for Albertsons and Tom Thumb. “Tom Thumb and Albertsons are proud to partner with Tarrant County to care for and to help in protecting our community from the flu.”
“The health and safety of our patients and our communities is always top priority for Kroger Health and we are honored to partner with Tarrant County to protect residents and reduce their risk of flu illness and flu-associated complications,” said Jeff Loesch, director of pharmacy for Kroger Health Dallas Division. “Throughout the last several months, Tarrant County and our Kroger Health teams have worked closely together to deploy COVID-19 testing in addition to flu vaccinations. Though the flu vaccine will not protect against COVID-19, we are confident this effort will reduce hospitalizations and deaths, thereby conserving vital healthcare resources.”
Here is a list of participating stores in Tarrant County (with Arlington locations in bold):
Albertsons 4000 Glade Road, Colleyville, Tx. 76034 (817) 654-0505, (682)261-1297
Albertsons 1155 N Main St., Euless, Tx. 76039, (217) 354-9195, (682)261-1304
Albertsons 3563 Alton Road, Fort Worth, Tx. 76109 (817) 548-1415, (214)471-6160
Albertsons 1300 Airport Freeway, Bedford, Tx. 76022 (817) 354-0622, (682)218-7143
Tom Thumb 1000 Keller Parkway, Keller, Tx. 76248 (817) 337-8030, (817)716-9246
Tom Thumb 980 Hwy North 287 , Mansfield, Tx. 76063 (817) 453-6770, (817)863-6481
Tom Thumb 3100 S. Hulen St., Fort Worth, Tx, 76109 (817)570-2950, (817)716-9960
Tom Thumb 100 W. Southlake Blvd., Southlake, Tx. 76092 (817) 416-5464, (817)716-1815
Tom Thumb 612 Grapevine Highway, Hurst Tx. 76054 Phone: (817)428-0383, (817)901-7756
Albertsons 6220 U.S. Hwy 287, Arlington, Tx. 76017 (817) 478-8901, (682)218-6786
Tom Thumb 2400 W 7th St., Fort Worth Tx., 76107 (817) 302-1400, (682)347-8936
Tom Thumb 2611 West Park Row, Arlington, Tx. 76013 (817) 462-0151, (817)240-7545
Tom Thumb 6377 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, Tx. 76116 (817) 377-5980, (817)716-2190
Tom Thumb 302 South Park Blvd., Grapevine Tx. 76051 (817)481-5669, (817)716-2184
Tom Thumb 2755 N. Collins St., Arlington, Tx 76006 (817)276-5360, (817)716-5480
Tom Thumb 4000 William D. Tate, Grapevine, Tx. 76051 (817)785-1004, (682)540-1117
Albertsons 1201 N. Saginaw Blvd. Saginaw, Tx. 76179 (817)232-2777, (682)216-6566
Albertsons 7400 Oakmont Blvd., Fort Worth, Tx. 76132 (817)423-9556, (214)425-1283
Albertsons 6308 Lake Worth Blvd., Lake Worth Tx. 76135 (817)237-8124, (682)216-6149
Albertsons 301 SW Plaza Shopping Center, Arlington, Tx., 76016 (817) 478-4291, (682)216-5045
Albertsons 4400 Western Center Blvd., Fort Worth, Tx. 76137, (817)232-2180, (214)471-8153
Albertsons 5950 S. Cooper St., Arlington Tx. 76017 (817)557-0185, (682)216-5107
Albertsons 9300 Clifford St. Fort Worth, Tx. 76108 (817)246-3366, (214)471-8869
Albertsons 6249 Rufe Snow Dr., Watauga, Tx. 76148 (817)428-0541, (682)218-6026
Albertsons 850 E. Loop 820 Fort Worth, Tx. 76112 (817)451-0306, (214)471-8873
Albertsons 3525 Sycamore School Road, Fort Worth, Tx. 76133 (817) 346-6497, (214)471-0730
Albertsons 833 NE Alsbury Blvd., Burleson, Tx. 76028 (817)447-9106, (682)216-5266
Albertsons 6700 West Freeway Fort Worth, Tx. 76116 (817)377-8074, (214)471-4560
Albertsons 480 Northwest Parkway Azle,Tx., 76020 (817)270-1116, (682)216-5229
Kroger 3510 Alta Mesa Fort Worth, TX 76133 (817)292-3777
Kroger 2580 E. Arkansas Lane Arlington, TX 76014 (817)861-2779
Kroger 2475 Ascension Blvd. Arlington, TX 76011 (817)275-2901
Kroger 9114 Camp Bowie West Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76116 (817)560-4233
Kroger 5330 S. Cooper Arlington , TX 76017 (817)472-9576
Kroger 1060 N. Main Street Euless, TX 76039 (817)283-1152
Kroger 2110 E Southlake Blvd Southlake, TX 76092 (817)421-7487
Kroger 976 Keller Parkway Keller, TX 76248 (817)431-5178
Kroger 3120 South University Fort Worth, TX 76109 (817)566-7861
Kroger 2109 Harwood Road Bedford, TX 76021 (817)685-9628
Kroger 1653 Basswood Boulevard Fort Worth, TX 76131 (682)316-6387
Kroger 5241 North Tarrant Parkway Fort Worth, TX 76244 (817)380-6181
Kroger 9150 N. Tarrant Parkway N. Richland Hills, TX 76182 (817)918-3387
Kroger 6650 N. Beach Fort Worth, TX 76137 (817)788-1757
Kroger 2061 Rufe Snow Drive Keller, TX 76248 (817)605-8728
Kroger 2350 Southeast Green Oaks Arlington, TX 76018 (817)419-0312
Kroger 3300 Texas Sage Trail Fort Worth, TX 76177 (817)750-2041
Kroger 945 W. Lamar Blvd. Arlington, TX 76012 (817)277-2144
Kroger 12600 North Beach Street Fort Worth, TX 76244 (817)562-3901
Kroger 4750 W. Bailey Boswell Road Fort Worth, TX 76179 (682)316-7508
Kroger 9135 Boulevard 26 N. Richland Hills, TX 76180 (817)605-3937
Kroger 3001 Matlock Mansfield, TX 76063 (817)473-0081
Kroger 1004 S. Crowley Road Crowley, TX 76036 (817)297-0006
Kroger 1631 SW Wilshire Blvd. Burleson, TX 76028 (817)258-5952
Kroger 5101 W. Sublett Rd Arlington, TX 76017 (817)516-3763
Kroger 3300 E. Broad Street Mansfield, TX 76063 (817)435-5418
Kroger 301 S. Bowen Arlington, TX 76013 (817)277-0072
Kroger 5701 W. Pleasant Ridge Road Arlington, TX 76016 (817)483-0354
Kroger 708 E. Pipeline Hurst, TX 76053 (817)285-8851
Kroger 2210 S Fielder Arlington, TX 76013 (817)277-3533
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Medardo Rosso
By Ara H. Merjian
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While Tate Britain presented the rather bloated blockbuster “Impressionists in London,” a much smaller show across town at Thaddaeus Ropac examined the same theme in nuce, by way of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative modernist sculptors. If the medium of sculpture seems inimical to Impressionism’s atmospheric effects, Medardo Rosso brought the two inexorably together, exploring the theme of bodies bound up with their environment and subject to the vagaries of light and time. Co-curated by Sharon Hecker, one of the world’s authorities on Rosso (and author of a new monograph on his work), and Ropac’s Julia Peyton-Jones, the show was the first to focus on his relationship to London, fleshing it out through drawings, letters, photographs, and a representative assembly of his most important sculptures. The artist—who was born in Turin in 1858 and relocated to Paris in his early thirties—traveled to London in 1896 and again (when he had a retrospective at the Eugene Cremetti Gallery) twenty years later, earning both British patrons and the attention of various critics. Hecker convincingly argues in the catalogue that the city inspired some of his most celebrated pieces, as well as the innovative ways he staged his sculptures and disseminated them through photography.
While developing his work in Paris, Rosso not only influenced Rodin (which the French artist was loath to acknowledge) but also drew on contemporary notions of realism. “Fewer Madonnas and more women in art!” Rosso declares in a short text translated for the catalogue. His representations of poor, ill, and elderly individuals distanced his work from the idealizing imperatives that had historically informed sculpture. His interest in marginalized subjects was of a piece with the coarseness of his style: his figures come into focus yet always seem on the verge of dissipating again.
Many of the drawings Rosso made in London—from sketches of the Royal Docks, café life, and a tube station to a graphite rendering of Trafalgar Square in which Nelson’s Column is barely discernible amid a patchwork of shadows—lend context to his conception of sculpture as a suspension of a seemingly fleeting instant. That conception is epitomized in Impression de Boulevard: Femme à la voilette (Impression of a Boulevard: Woman with a Veil, 1895). The wax sculpture seems to show a fashionable bourgeoise raising a veil above her head, though, as she is depicted with only the most rudimentary of arms, we can only guess at this. The veil itself merges with the top of her head as well as the surrounding space. Indeed, it proves impossible to differentiate the figure from the boulevard along which she strolls—an “impression” of both time and place that, like the woman’s face, blurs into an anonymity profound in its ordinariness. The body’s frontal orientation betrays a certain painterly sensibility on Rosso’s behalf, as does the plaster support that props up the wax from behind, much like stretcher bars behind canvas. Ecce Puer (Behold the Child, 1906), made of plaster coated in sealant, reveals a young boy whose face appears as if seen from through a veil of light or haze. Among Rosso’s most noted works, it also proved to be his last original sculpture (he would subsequently only recast earlier ones), and he completed it in London.
While Rosso employed a range of materials and techniques in his work, his subject matter remained focused on the nexus between figures and their ambient space. The Futurist artist and theorist Umberto Boccioni lionized the sculptor for his pioneering evocations of urban themes and aesthetic unfinish. Rosso has had an impact on numerous contemporary artists as well, including British sculptor Tony Cragg, one of whose works punctuated the exhibition. In the catalogue, Cragg proclaims that Rosso, a master of transience, “open[ed] the door more than anybody else” in terms of expanding figural representation.
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RELATED:Phones through Time
RELATED:Photo gallery iPhone6 fans waiting over night
The estimated 300 fanatics lined up at the Biltmore were not alone. Another 300 lined up outside Arrowhead Towne Center in Glendale, and hundredsmore waited outside Apple stores at Scottsdale Quarter in Scottsdale and SanTan Village in Gilbert. Still others were spotted in front of AT&T stores.
This was a phenomenon that stretched across the country. Many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus fans said they couldn't wait to order online and have the phone shipped, which would mean waiting until at least October.
Others said they had problems with the online order process.
"The (Apple) website wouldn't come up for me," said Topher Matthews, 32, of Phoenix.
The new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sold at a record pace the first day it was offered last week, with more than 4 million pre-orders selling in the first 24 hours, Apple Inc. reported.
Demand outstripped supply, and many phones will be shipped in October instead of September, as initially stated.
Though some folks had a hard time sleeping, like Mike Williams from Dallas, most treated the waiting like a big camp-out, or as Troy Daniels of Tempe said, a tailgate.
"We had a tent. It was a tailgate," said Daniels, 24. "We had a pregame at the bar. We had ups and downs, as my partner fell asleep and left me unattended," he added, jokingly.
He and Justin Voegtle, 23, of Tempe, played eight games of chess and watched "Iron Man 3" and "Edge of Tomorrow."
Some came for the event, like Joseph Watt, 59, of Scottsdale. "Ironically, I've been 'on line' every year for six years," Watt said.
Others reminisced, not unlike concert fans and annual Black Friday shoppers, about lines of iPhone-releases past.
At the Apple Store at SanTan Village in Gilbert, a line of black umbrellas shielding iPhone 6 fans from the sun was wrapped around the building along Painted Sky Drive.
Among them was Nicolas Crespin of Waddell, on line since 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
"I know once I have the phone in my hand it will be worth it," said Crespin said, who like scores of others, was weathering a muggy heat.
By 9:30 a.m. Friday -- an hour and a half after the store opened -- Crespin was still behind a dozen people and the line was inching forward at a snail's pace.
Eric Barton, of Gilbert, was one of the lucky few who was able to preorder an iPhone6 online last week before high volume crashed the site.
Though waiting 30 minutes to pick up his prize, it still felt like a long wait in the pre-order line.
Barton, who has used iPhones since they first came out, is ready for the latest generation.
"My old phone, the battery is starting to go out and it's gotten beaten up over the last two years. So I decided it was time to upgrade," Barton said.
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Buying a used car makes sense during tough times
By Lucy Lazarony Lucy Lazarony's Twitter profile
Jun. 1, 2001 /
With new cars so expensive and lots of folks nervous about the economy, it makes more sense than ever to buy used.
Spending $21,000 plus on a new set of wheels is a big financial commitment in the best of times. It could be a budget-buster when times are tight.
After all, it takes 22.7 weeks of median family income before taxes to buy a new car in 2001, according to the Auto Affordability Index compiled by Detroit-based Comerica Bank.
Think about that for a minute. That’s five months of salary eaten up by car payments. Is that a wise use of your hard-earned money? Probably not. And can you afford to take a $21,000 chance now that the economy is slowing and job layoffs are making headlines?
Fortunately, you have other auto options, millions in fact. The used car market is overflowing. About 3.3 million cars will be coming off lease in 2001.
“There’s a really good selection of 2- to 4-year-old vehicles out in the marketplace right now,” says Lenny Simms, vice president at
N.A.D.A Appraisal Guides.
Buying a used vehicle can save you a bundle. It all has to do with a vehicle’s depreciation, or decline in value.
The steepest depreciation occurs in an auto’s first two years, when its wholesale value plummets to 60 to 70 percent of its original sticker price. So it’s not long before the value of a new $21,000 car drops by $6,000 to $8,000.
By buying used, you let a car’s first driver deal with that big depreciation nosedive.
“Whether you’re worried about your job or not, that’s a good idea,” says W. James Bragg, author of
Car Buyer’s and Leaser’s Negotiating Bible.
“Nobody needs a new car. It’s never a practical decision to buy a new car.”
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CEOs, CFOs Continue To Map Strategies For Dealing With Assessments
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-CU execs continue to map strategies for dealing with the ongoing special assessments from NCUA.
As reported July 12 by Credit Union Journal, CUNA is projecting that the latter-2010 assessment will be in the six to 10 basis point range. But most CEOs and CFOs are budgeting for more than that.
In the case of Xceed Financial FCU here, CEO Teresa Y. Freeborn said the credit union had anticipated a sizeable assessment from NCUA, but "we were surprised by the splitting of the assessment into its two components."
"It is too early to predict exactly how the second NCUA assessment in the fall may affect our numbers," said Freeborn, whose CU is well-capitalized at 9%. "The road ahead certainly looks bumpy, however, our solid capital level allows us to feel confident in handling whatever this economy and our industry throws at us. Unfortunately, our growth and expansion plans have been put on hold-right when our marketplace is ripe for the picking."
In San Jose, Calif., Victoria Earle, VP of finance and risk management with Technology CU, called the decision to assess natural-person CUs two assessments during 2010 "unfortunate. The industry is struggling with low levels of loan demand, high unemployment and increasing margin pressures caused by a very slow economic recovery," noted Earle.
Earle said Technology CU is fortunate to be highly capitalized. "But we sympathize with others in the industry that will be severely affected by these levies, which have the potential to cause dozens of credit union to fall below minimum net worth ratios."
Earle added she is hopeful NCUA will act with great prudence moving forward.
According to Laida Garcia, CEO of the $282-million Florida Central CU in Tampa, dividing the assessment is a good decision.
"It was smart of the NCUA to split the assessments into two, with the final assessment coming late in the year. This strategy gives the NCUA a better opportunity to evaluate the degree of improvement in the financial performance of credit unions and assess their levy accordingly," said Garcia. I would think that the last thing NCUA wants to do is to contribute to the demise of a struggling credit union by piling an added heavy burden on their shoulders."
'Those Were The Days'
Garcia acknowledged the industry-wide dissatisfaction with having to pay an assessment to shore up the corporates, but stated that allowing corporate credit unions to fail "is unacceptable."
In Harrisburg, Penn., Greg Smith, president of the $3.7-billion Pennsylvania State Employees CU, is among those who sees additional assessments ahead.
While the $3.7-billion PSECU had a record year and is able to afford a bill from NCUA in the $12-million to $13-million range, Smith said, "My expectation is that we're going to see another leg down in housing, which will put even more pressure on the mortgage backed securities that NCUA is holding for the corporates. And I was in Boston a year ago and heard NCUA's David Marquis describe problems at natural-person credit unions as a 'growing tsunami' in terms of threats to the share insurance fund."
For Smith, it's difficult not to reminisce about the time when credit unions used to try to estimate their share of the share insurance fund dividend.
"Those were the days," he noted.
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Still waiting for the 19 celebrities who promised to leave America if Trump was elected to get out
So far as I know, not a single celebrity, even from the D-list, has left the United States, as promised, if Donald Trump were elected. Fair is fair: Lena Dunham alone must have motivated thousands of voters to choose Trump, in order to be rid of her. Let the Canadians deal with her.
I am a hard-liner on getting them out of the country. Every time one of these people appears in public, he should be asked why he is still inhabiting the United States. Have they decided that Donald Trump is not so bad? Or have they decided that nobody should ever pay attention to their promises and threats?
Ilya Shapiro of The Federalist lists 18 celebrities who promised to leave but now are going back on their word:
Bryan Cranston said he’d move to Canada, the most popular destination—and also far above the United States in the latest economic-freedom rankings.
Raven-Symoné—whom I only knew as a Cosby kid but apparently now is some sort of impresario—said she’d move to Canada, indeed already had a ticket, “if any Republican gets nominated [did she mean elected?].”
Neve Campbell, who’s already Canadian, would return to her (and my) home province of Ontario.
Chloë Sevigny likewise had a particular Canadian province in mind, Nova Scotia.
Lena Dunham was even more specific, pointing to Vancouver as her choice. “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will.” I can’t confirm reports that Dunham is being sued for not doing so by the not-insignificant number of people who voted for Trump on this basis alone.
Barbra Streisand was picking between Canada and Australia (which is also freer than America).
Chelsea Handler has a house in Spain already, and threatened to move there permanently.
Amy Schumer also promised to move to Spain “or somewhere.”
George Lopez said he’d go back to Mexico.
Samuel L. Jackson had perhaps the most original choice: South Africa.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—a celebrity in my circles—joked about moving to New Zealand in a New York Times interview that may yet get her into more trouble.
Billy Crystal had the same Kiwi idea.
Miley Cyrus, Al Sharpton, and Whoopi Goldberg would exile themselves to some
unspecified country.
Spike Lee, perhaps misunderstanding the concept of leaving the country, said he’d move to the “Republic of Brooklyn.”
Cher, apparently feeling that the Earth was too small for her to share with a President Trump, promised to move to Jupiter—where she’d possibly be joined by
Jon Stewart, who “would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet, because clearly this planet’s gone bonkers.”
Ed Driscoll of Instapundit adds one more celeb to the list: Mrs. George Stephanopoulos, aka Ali Wentworth.
If we are ever going to make America great again, we need to get rid of all those who made an offer and now won’t deliver on their promises.
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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing to Exhibit GR Supra Super GT Concept at the Tokyo Auto Salon
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will exhibit at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2019, a customized car event to be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, Japan for three days from January 11 to 13*, 2019. *January 11: industry and press day; January 12 and 13: public days TOYOTA GAZOO Racing aims through its motorsports activities to develop its cars and people with the goal of "making ever-better cars." It participates in top category races including the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) and FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), as well as national rallies and races. The technologies and know-how it acquires through these activities are subsequently fed back into the development of new production vehicles. TOYOTA GAZOO Racing selected "from past to future" as the theme for Tokyo Auto Salon 2019 and will feature our challenges. Exhibition vehicles include the Yaris WRC, the TS050 Hybrid, and the 2019 Lexus LC Nürburgring-spec, all of which will compete in top-leve
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PLS055A
Global Markets and Technologies for Bioplastics -- Focus on Europe
Feb 2012| PLS055A| BCC Publishing
The global use of bioplastics was 0.64 million metric tons in 2010 and 0.85 million metric tons in 2011. BCC expects that the use of bioplastics will increase up to 3.7 million metric tons by 2016, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.3%.
The European market segment accounted for around 34% of the global market in 2010 and was nearly 0.21 million metric tons. This segment increased to 0.3 million metric tons in 2011 and will further grow to 1.2 million metric tons in 2016, a CAGR of 32.1%.
The German bioplastics market was 64,000 metric tons in 2010, and was nearly 83,000 metric tons by the end of 2011. BCC expects this market to reach 320,000 metric tons by 2016, a CAGR of 31%.
One of the fastest-growing materials’ sectors in the past four years has been the production of plastics from renewable resources referred to as bioplastics. The main driver is an interest in reducing use of petroleum as a feedstock because of its contribution to climate change, its pricing volatility and its occasional role as a political weapon.
This report explains the various types of bioplastics that are available, indicates key players and trends, and provides detailed forecasts on demand by global region and projected use by type of application, such as packaging, automotive, consumer goods and general industrial.
Goals and objectives of this study include:
Identifying trends that will affect use of bioplastics and their major end-use application markets.
Reviewing, analyzing and forecasting specific end markets for bioplastics by material types, with sections devoted to each type of renewably sourced plastic.
Analyzing and forecasting market developments regarding major applications for bioplastics, including packaging, automotive, electrical/electronic, medical, building and construction.
Profiling many of the most important suppliers of bioplastics, including resin producers and compounders.
REASONS FOR DOING THE STUDY
The rapid emergence of bioplastics is one of the major materials stories in recent years. Once billed as biodegradable plastics, the theme for renewably sourced plastics has shifted dramatically in recent years to sustainability. To maximize market impact, the growing trend is to compound biobased plastics with oil-based plastics to extend their reach into markets for durable products used in cars and cell phones, among other applications. The focus has shifted away from contribution to the solid waste stream and toward total carbon footprint.
TARGET AUDIENCE OF THE STUDY
Due to the growing concern about climate change and negative health impacts of many existing materials, this report will be of interest to anyone who sells, designs or manufactures products that are or could be made from polymeric materials. This report will also be of value to individuals who are helping to establish public policy concerning issues ranging from limits on use of plastics packaging to potential limits on use of vinyl compounds in medical applications.
This report will be of value to technical and business personnel in the following areas:
Personnel in end-user companies in a wide range of industries, from retail bags to auto manufacturing.
Marketing and management personnel in companies that produce, market and sell any type of plastics.
Companies involved in the design and construction of process plants that manufacture resins and products made from the resins.
Companies that supply or want to supply equipment and services to plastics companies.
Financial institutions that supply money for such facilities and systems, including banks, merchant bankers and venture capitalists.
Investors in both equity and fixed-income markets; the fate of the plastics weighs heavily on the values of the publicly traded stocks of companies such as Eastman, Bayer, DSM and DuPont.
Personnel in government at many levels, ranging from federal to state and local authorities, many of whom are involved in trying to ensure public health and safety; the report also will be of interest to military scientists studying new packaging and equipment.
SCOPE AND FORMAT
The focus of this report is on plastics made from renewable resources such as biomass or food crops. There is even some potential development of bioplastics from animal resources. Plastics that may be potentially made from waste carbon dioxide are reviewed because of their potential impact on bioplastics, but their data is not included in the forecasts presented here. Bioplastics are further defined here as polymer materials that are produced by synthesizing—chemically or biologically—materials that contain renewable organic materials. Natural organic materials that are not chemically modified (e.g., wood composites) are excluded. The report includes the use of renewable resources to create monomers that replace petroleum-based monomers, such as feedstocks made from sugarcane that are used to manufacture polyester and polyethylene. Ethanol, a major product in Brazil, is one small chemical step from ethylene.
The focal point is on the following resin chemistries:
Polylactic acid.
Thermoplastic starch.
Bio-polyamides (nylons).
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA).
Bio-polyols and polyurethane.
Cellulosics.
Bio-polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT).
Bio-polyethylene.
Bio-polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Biodegradable and photodegradable polymers made from petrochemical feedstocks are not included. Other renewable resin chemistries are also covered but in less detail, as their roles are not as well-developed. These include collagen and chitosan.
METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURCES
Both primary and secondary research methodologies were used in preparing this report. Extensive searches were made of literature and Internet resources, including many of the leading trade publications, as well as technical compendia, government publications and information from trade and other associations. Many background sources were used to develop chemical and property descriptions, but all forecasts are solely attributable to BCC Research.
AUTHOR’S CREDENTIALS
Douglas A. Smock was the Chief Editor of Plastics World Magazine from 1986 to 1994 at the Cahners Publishing Co. He also served as a Senior Editor of Modern Plastics at the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Associate Publisher and Editorial Director of Modern Mold and Tooling at the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Chief Editor of Purchasing Magazine at Reed Business Information (RBI) from 2000 to 2004. At RBI, Smock also served as Co-chairman of the Corporate Editorial Board. He is the coauthor of Straight to the Bottom Line and On-Demand Supply Management, two leading books in the field of supply management. He is the former editor of BCC Research’s newsletter High Tech Ceramic News. Smock received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Oh.
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Indian Government (ICCR) Scholarships 2021/2022 for Under/Postgraduate African Students
Government of India through the ICCR – Indian Council for Cultural Relations – is offering up to 900 scholarships for African students to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and higher courses programme at Institutions/Universities in India.
What You Need to Know About Indian Government (ICCR) Scholarships 2021/2022
At the inaugural plenary of the India – Africa Forum Summit held in New Delhi in April 2008, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India announced the Government of India’s initiative to enhance the academic opportunities for students of African countries in India by increasing the number of scholarships for them to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and higher courses.
The ICCR – Indian Council for Cultural Relations – implements this scheme on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Level/Fields of Study
The Indian Government (ICCR) Scholarships 2021/2022 is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students in any discipline.
Number of Scholarships: 900
Duration of Scholarship: For the period of study
The scholarship will be hosted in India.
However, there are numerous international scholarships for international students to study in any country of choice.
You can check this our heavily recommended post ”How to Study Abroad for Free in 2021-2022”.
Under this Scheme, the Council offers 900 scholarships to the following African countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Comoros, Congo (Republic of), Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea (concurrent from Nairobi), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan (Republic of), Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sao Tame & Principe, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Scholarship Benefits
(figure is in Indian currency)
Living allowance (Stipend) (Per Month)
Undergraduate -5,500 , Postgraduate-6,000 M.Phil / Ph.D 7,000, Post-doctoral Fellow-7,500
-House Rent Allowance (Per Month)
In Grade 1 cities-5,000 and In other cities-4,500
-Contingent Grant (per annum)
Undergraduate-5,000, Postgraduate-7,000, M/Phil / Ph.D and M.Tech./ME-12,500, Postdoctoral studies-15,500, Tuition Fee/Other Compulsory Fee-As per actual (excluding refundable amount) –Thesis and dissertation Expenses (Once in entire duration of course)
D Scholar-10,000 and for BBA/BCA/MBA/MCA/M.Tech and other course required submission of Project-7.000
-Medical Benefits
Under the scheme scholars are expected to seek treatment only at medical centre or dispensary attached to universities / Institutes where they enrolled or in the nearest Government hospital (Bill are settled as admissible according to AMA/CGHS norms)
Students applying for doctoral/ post doctoral courses should include a synopsis of the proposed area of research.
Students wishing to study performing arts should, if possible, enclose video/ audio cassettes of their recorded performances.
Candidates must have adequate knowledge of English.
ICCR will not entertain applications which are sent to ICCR directly by the students or which are sent by local Embassies/High Commissions in New Delhi.
Priority will be given to students who have never studied in India before.
No application will be accepted for admission to courses in MBBS/MD or Dentistry/Nursing.
Candidates may note that Indian universities/educational institution are autonomous and independent and hence have their own eligibility criteria which have to be fulfilled. Please also note that acceptance of application by the University is also not a guarantee of admission. A scholarship is awarded only when admission is confirmed by ICCR.
Student must carry a proper visa. Students should ensure that they get the correct visa from the Indian Embassy/High Commission. Government of India guideline stipulate that if a scholar arrives without proper visa and his/her actual admission at the University/Institute does not materialize, he/she will be deported to his/her country.
Before departing for India the scholars should seek a full briefing from the Indian Diplomatic Mission in their country about living conditions in India/the details of scholarship/the type and duration of the course to which he/she is admitted. Scholars should inform the Indian Embassy/High Commission of their travel schedule well in advance so that ICCR can make reception and other arrangements for them.
Scholars are advised to bring some money with them to meet incidental expenditures on arrival in India.
The scholars who are awarded scholarships should bring with them all documents relating to their qualification in original for verification by the respective college/university at the time of admission
How to Apply for Indian Government (ICCR) Scholarships 2021/2022
Please read the instructions before filling out the application form.
Please also read the financial terms and conditions.
Detailed guidelines on the process of applying for ICCR Scholarships online on the A2A Portal and procedure and norms governing the same is given on www.a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in
Students must read instructions and apply through the same website and no hard copy of the application form is required at the Mission.
Application Deadline: 28th February 2021
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Beyond Copenhagen: Reconciling International Fairness, Economic Development, and Climate Protection
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This paper proposes a new architecture for international climate policy that might usefully be considered by delegates at COP 17 in Durban. It highlights a top-down approach that is designed to produce a fair distribution of burdens across countries, while achieving objectives of: (a) economic development; (b) decreasing wealth inequality; and (c) emission reductions consistent with holding the expected increase in global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius. In addition, this discussion paper discusses several key design elements that will be important, especially from the perspective of developing countries, to the success of COP 17 and subsequent international climate negotiations. These design elements include agreements on burden sharing, choice of policy instruments, financial mechanisms and technology transfer, penalties for noncompliance, and linkages between trade and climate change.
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The finance of climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries represents a key challenge in the negotiations on a post-2012 international climate agreement. Finance mechanisms are important because stabilizing the climate will require significant emissions reductions in both the developed and the developing worlds, and therefore large-scale investments in energy infrastructure. The current state of climate finance has been criticized for its insufficient scale, relatively low share of private-sector investment, and insufficient institutional framework. This policy brief presents options for improving and expanding climate finance.
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Take the Great River Road to discover Minnesota’s 'scenic outdoor tapestry'
Minnesota National Guard to provide support in D.C. for inauguration
Officials look to prevent repeat of deadly riot that shook U.S. Capitol.
Written By: Matthew Guerry | Jan 11th 2021 - 5pm.
ST. PAUL — A contingent of Minnesota National Guard troops will deploy to Washington, D.C., to help defend the capital during President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
The state National Guard was asked for its support over the weekend amid growing concern that violence will again erupt there as it did last week, when a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters violently overtook the Capitol building.
"The Minnesota National Guard is a planning organization and is constantly preparing for contingency operations, ensuring we're ready to support when called upon," Minnesota National Guard Director of Operations Col. Scott Rohweder said in a statement Monday, Jan. 11.
Similar requests have been made of the National Guards in other states ahead of Inauguration Day. Groups of armed protesters like the ones responsible for last week's events are said to be planning a second demonstration in Washington in the runup to Jan. 20, Reuters reports, and may amass in all 50 state capitals as well.
Pro-Trump protest plans are being made even as the president faces calls from lawmakers and other public officials to resign or be impeached for whipping the crowd at a rally in D.C. into a frenzy on Jan. 6. Rioters stormed the Capitol building, and four people died. They had been gathered to protest Biden's victory in a presidential race Trump has baselessly condemned as fraudulent.
The FBI warns that state capitals could be targeted for additional protests Jan. 16 through Jan. 20, while protests in D.C. could begin in the three days leading up to Inauguration Day.
Up to 15,000 National Guard troops could be deployed to the nation's capital for the formal transition of power between the Trump and Biden administrations next week, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson told reporters last week. Approximately 10,000 troops were to take their place in D.C. by Saturday, Jan. 9, Hokanson said, and would focus on supporting security, logistics and communications.
In his statement, Rohweder, of the Minnesota National Guard, said he expects to receive additional mission details this week. It was unclear Monday how many troops from Minnesota will deploy to Washington, when they may do so or for how long.
The state National Guard had been asked to provide a company's worth of support, according to spokesperson Maj. Melanie Johnson, who said company-sized formations typically consist of about 100 troops.
Some 13,000 soldiers and airmen serve in the Minnesota National Guard, so sparing 100 for the mission in D.C. likely wouldn't impact its ability to assist public safety agencies in St. Paul should violence break out here. Guard members previously assisted local authorities in the Twin Cities area during the riots following George Floyd's death in police custody.
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Highest Number of U.S. Measles Cases Since 2000
June 4, 2014 By Monica Hughes
Since a full year without measles cases in America in 2000, the number of cases so far this year is the highest number yet at 288. The measles is no longer native to America, but cases rise as people bring the disease from abroad countries. The Philippines is the source of half the cases so far this year, where an outbreak of a reported 32,000 cases has occurred.
The CDC recommends that everyone get their measles vaccination like they would the flu shot to stop the spread of the disease. The vaccination should also be added to the list of travel vaccines to keep more outbreaks from occurring at such a fast rate.
See full story at cnn.com
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Cuba / Itineraries
Cuba By Bus
For clients who wish to travel the length of Cuba, while keeping an eye on cost, the tourist bus service is an excellent option. Starting in Havana and finishing in Santiago de Cuba before flying back to Havana, this itinerary takes in Vinales, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clara, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba. Please note that there is no included sightseeing as part of this suggested itinerary although there are a number of optional Trips we can pre-book.
Day 1 — Havana
On arrival at Havana’s Jose Marti airport, clients will be transferred to the hotel or casa of their choice in the city, a journey of some 30 minutes.
As most flights arrive from the late afternoon onwards, there will hopefully be time for an initial stroll before a drink, bite to eat and, with the time difference in mind, an earlyish night.
Suggested Accommodation: Havana Casa Particulars Meals Included: Breakfast
— Havana, Malecon sunset
— Mojito
Not every holiday starts in a country’s number one tourist destination but you could easily spend a week in Havana and not run out of things to see and do.
Located facing out across the Atlantic on Cuba’s north coast, Havana boasts an abundance of history, atmospheric neighbourhoods, quirky museums, vintage cars, fat cigars and buzzing bars.
Of its numerous neighbourhoods, none is better known than Old Havana, or Habana Vieja, the city’s original settlement which is home to the majority of its historic buildings as well as most of its best hotels and casa particulares.
We suggest starting your holiday with our private, walking tour of Old Havana. Lasting approximately three hours, your expert guide will explain all about the city’s origins and history while strolling along beautiful streets and from one stunning plaza to the next.
At the end of this tour, why not continue your exploration of the city by giving your feet a break and getting comfy in the back of a classic American car from the 1950s or 60s. Together with your guide, you will explore ‘New’ Havana, passing by more recent additions to the city such as Revolution Square, the University of Havana, the embassies and mansions of the Miramar neighbourhood and the iconic Hotel Nacional as well as cruising along the famous seafront Malecon.
— Havana, Partagas cigar factory
Today is at leisure for you to continue exploring this fascinating city, either independently or on one of our optional Trips.
Although many visitors to the city barely set foot out of Old Havana, just across the harbour mouth from the old city are a number of close-together sites that require a full morning at the very least. Chief amongst these are the Morro Castle & Lighthouse and the vast, adjacent La Cabana.
Also worth visiting are the statue of Christ and the attractive Casablanca neighbourhood from where you can catch the ferry back to Old Havana.
After a late lunch, there are a number of excellent museums in Havana such as the Museum of the Revolution while it is also possible to get backstage and behind the scenes on a tour of the beautiful Gran Teatro de la Habana.
— Havana, Plaza San Francisco
— Havana, Finca Vigia
— Havana, Morro Castle
Day 4 — Havana to Vinales
This morning, you will be collected from your accommodation and taken to the pickup point for the bus to Vinales.
Journey time from Havana to Vinales is approximately 4 ½ hours and departure time normally around 08.00 so you should arrive in good time for lunch.
Having settled in at your chosen accommodation and had a bite to eat, we would suggest heading for a stroll around the picturesque town of Vinales which is easily explored on foot.
In addition to its charming main square and small church, much of the town’s appeal lies in its low-rise, traditional homes complete with porches and rocking chairs.
Suggested Accommodation: Vinales Casa Particulars Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
— Vinales Valley
— Vinales, church
— Vinales, town
Day 5 — Vinales
As with Havana, one could easily spend several days in Vinales, so deciding what to do in a single, full day won’t be easy. You can stay longer of course.
The Vinales Valley is primarily popular for its beautiful, unspoiled countryside and there are several short walks, as well as more strenuous hikes, that can be enjoyed in the area, as well as the option to explore on horseback.
The region is also famous for its tobacco, the basis for Cuba’s world famous cigars, and a visit to a tobacco farm is a popular option. It’s not just tobacco that’s grown here either, with plenty of small-scale farms growing a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, most of it organic.
Less well known is the fact that Vinales lies above a vast network of caves, some of which have been developed for tourism. The most famous of these is undoubtedly the Cueva del Indio which involves a subterranean boat ride.
We offer a wide number and variety of pre-bookable Trips around Vinales although clients are free to make their own arrangements if they prefer.
Suggested Accommodation: Vinales Casa Particulars Meals Included: Breakfast
Day 6 — Vinales to Cienfuegos
This is the longest journey on your itinerary as well as probably the earliest start.
You will therefore be collected from your accommodation bright and early for the short hop to the bus pickup point, generally opposite the town square.
Departure time from Vinales is normally around 07.00 and journey time to your next destination, Cienfuegos, at least 7 hours. That journey time includes a 30 minute break en-route.
On arrival in Cienfuegos, and after having checked in at your chosen accommodation, you will probably want to get out and stretch your legs around this attractive, maritime city.
As a fun way to end a long day, why not book a sunset cruise on Cienfuegos Bay followed by dinner overlooking the water?
Suggested Accommodation: Cienfuegos Casas Meals Included: Breakfast
— Cienfuegos, Governor's Palace
— Cienguegos, Teatro Tomas Terry
— Cienfuegos
Day 7 — Cienfuegos
Often described as the Pearl of the South, Cienfuegos is an attractive city that benefits both from its lovely, waterfront setting as well as its broad streets and numerous beautiful buildings.
The city’s civic centre is focussed around Parque Jose Marti, surrounded on all sides by imposing government buildings as well as the slight but beautiful Teatro Tomas Terry.
A short taxi ride from the centre is Punta Gorda, once the city’s smartest residential neighbourhood, and still home to numerous elegant, re-purposed mansions, the city’s Marina & Club and probably the most photographed building in the city, the Moorish inspired Palacio de Valle.
Cienfuegos is easy enough to explore independently while we can also arrange a private, guided tour of the city.
For clients who have the time to extend their stay by another day, a popular local excursion from Cienfuegos is to nearby El Nicho.
— Cienfuegos, Palacio De Valle
— Cienfuegos, Jagua Fort
— Cienfuegos, El Nicho Waterfalls
Day 8 — Cienfuegos to Trinidad
While there is a tourist bus service that runs between Cienfuegos & Trinidad, the journey by car along the coast only takes an hour, so a private transfer has been included.
Amongst the smallest of Cuba’s original, Spanish settlements, Trinidad is one of Latin America’s best-preserved, colonial-era towns, so much so that it is often referred to as a museum town. Perhaps not surprisingly therefore, Trinidad was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988.
We suggest arriving in Trinidad in time to check-in at your accommodation and enjoy a spot of lunch before spending the afternoon exploring the town on foot. This can be done either with the services of a guide or on your own.
As well as its beautiful, cobbled streets, picturesque plazas and beautiful architecture, Trinidad also boasts a handful of interesting museums such as the Museo Histórico Municipal & Museo Romantico while the Museo Nacional de la Lucha Contra Bandidos will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Cuban Revolution.
At the end of your little tour, be sure to pop La Canchanchara bar to sample its signature sugar cane and rum based cocktail.
Suggested Accommodation: Trinidad Casa Particulars Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
— Trinidad, Iglesia De La Santisima
— Trinidad, museum
— Trinidad, street
Day 9 — Trinidad
Not only is Trinidad a beautiful and historic destination in its own right, it is also an excellent base from which to explore numerous, nearby attractions.
Chief amongst these, and just east of town, is the Valley of the Sugar Mills. As the name suggests, this region was once the heart of Cuba’s sugar growing industry and the wealth it created directly responsible for many of the beautiful buildings you will find in Trinidad.
The Valley too was once home to numerous, impressive haciendas although the majority have long since being abandoned to the tropical heat and rain. One of the few that has been partially restored is Manaca Iznaga, infamous for its haunting slave tower that today offers views over the beautiful, surrounding countryside.
Continuing just beyond the Valley of the Sugar Mills, the town of Sancti Spiritus is similar in age and size to Trinidad, with a beautiful, old square and historic bridge, but receives far fewer visitors.
As part of our selection of optional Trips, we can pre-book a combined visit to the Valley of the Sugar Mills and Sancti Spiritus.
Suggested Accommodation: Trinidad Casa Particulars Meals Included: Breakfast
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— Trinidad, Topes De Collantes
— Trinidad, National Park
Day 10 — Trinidad
The day is at leisure for you to relax, explore on your own or book another one of our optional Trips.
If you wish to stretch your legs, there are a number of wonderful treks that we can arrange into the nearby Escambray Mountains.
Or, if that sounds far too energetic, we can also pre-book tickets for the daily catamaran trips that offer full-day cruises to nearby islands within the inviting, warm waters of the Caribbean.
— Trinidad, Cayo Blanco
Day 11 — Trinidad to Santa Clara
This morning, you will be collected from your accommodation and transferred to the designated pick-up point in Trinidad for the bus to Santa Clara. Timings will be confirmed to you locally but the bus normally departs at around 07.30 and journey time is around 3 hours.
Although lacking the picture postcard appeal of Trinidad, Cienfuegos and Old Havana, Santa Clara has played an important part in Cuban history, no more so than during the Cuban Revolution.
It was here that forces under the command of Che Guevara won the last major battle of the war, culminating in the derailing of a government troop train sent to Santa Clara from Havana. Today, the well-preserved remnants of that troop train have been converted into a museum known as the Tren Blindado.
As a result of his leading part in this battle, when the remains of Che Guevara were returned to Cuba in the late 1990s, it was only natural that his mausoleum was located in Santa Clara, alongside the Monument that was previously built in 1988.
Having checked in at the accommodation of your choice, the rest of the day is free for you to book our private, half-day tour of the city or head out and explore on your own.
Suggested Accommodation: Santa Clara Casas Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
— Santa Clara, Che Guevara
— Santa Clara, Museum Tren Blindado
— Santa Clara, Museum
Day 12 — Santa Clara to Camaguey
This morning, you will need to make your own way to the designated pick-up point in Santa Clara which, together with timings (but normally around 10.00) will be advised to you by our local agents. The bus from Santa Clara to Camaguey takes around 5 ½ hours.
Another of Cuba’s original, Spanish settlements, and yet another UNESCO World Heritage site, Camaguey’s layout is the most chaotic and disorderly of any city on the island, but for good reason.
After being attacked and destroyed by pirates on numerous occasions, the city elders decided that enough was enough and set about altering the city’s layout to make it as confusing as possible. They succeeded.
On arrival in the city, clients will be met and transferred to the hotel of their choice. Once settled in, we suggest heading out for a pre-dinner wander and a test of your sense of direction.
Suggested Accommodation: Melia Gran Camaguey Meals Included: Breakfast
— Camaguey, Plaza San Juan
— Camaguey, Santa Cecilia
— Statue
Day 13 — Camaguey to Santiago
The day is at leisure for you to explore Camaguey at your leisure, perhaps utilising one of the cycle-rickshaws that the city is famous for.
After lunch, you will need to check-out of your accommodation and make your own way to the designated pick-up point in Camaguey which, together with timings (but normally around 15.30) will be advised to you by our local agents. The bus from Camaguey to Santiago de Cuba takes around 6 ½ hours.
Having made your own way to the accommodation of your choice, it will probably be time to get a lite bite to eat and then hit the hay.
(Alternative: En-route from Camaguey to Santiago, it is also possible to break up the journey with a night in the historic town of Bayamo and perhaps a day trip to La Plata).
Suggested Accommodation: Hotel San Basilio Meals Included: Breakfast
— Camaguey, Rickshaws
— Parque Cespedes, Santiago
Day 14 — Santiago
Cuba’s second largest city is also its most ethnically diverse, with a more Caribbean vibe than elsewhere on the island.
Partly as a result of this diversity, Santiago has developed a reputation for its rich musical and cultural diversity and is often described as the New Orleans of Cuba.
Historically too, Santiago de Cuba was frequently at odds with Havana and it is therefore no surprise that the city was at the forefront of the Cuban Revolution.
Anyone with an interest in this period of Cuba’s history will therefore wish to visit the Moncada Barracks (where the Revolution really began), the City Hall (where Fidel Castro proclaimed final victory) and Santa Ifigenia cemetery (where Fidel Castro was finally laid to rest).
Other worthy sites of interest in the city include Parque Cespedes, the first cathedral in Cuba, Padre Pico and the old Bacardi factory and museum. A short drive from the city, guarding the entrance to Santiago de Cuba Bay, is the mighty San Pedro de la Roca fort, a UNESCO World Heritage site with magnificent views along the coast.
All of the aforementioned sites are included in our full day tour of Santiago de Cuba (half day tours are also available) or can be visited independently.
— Santiago, Cathedral
— Santiago, Moncada Barracks
— Santiago, Fort
There is more than enough to see and do in Santiago de Cuba to merit another day.
Alternatively, rather than spending the day in the city itself, why not book another of our optional Trips, this time into the surrounding countryside, and visit either Cuba’s most important pilgrimage site at El Cobre or head into the cool hills to explore La Gran Piedra or even both.
— Santiago, Cayo Granma
— El Cobre
— La Gran Piedra
Day 16 — Santiago to Havana
Domestic flight schedules are somewhat variable in Cuba so your day today depends on timings for the domestic flight back to Havana.
On arrival back in the capital, and again depending on timings, why not spend your last night with a visit to one of Havana’s legendary cabaret shows such as the Tropicana or Legendarios del Guajirito?
— Havana, train station
— Havana, Capitol building
— Havana, Tropicana
Day 17 — Havana & Home
The final day of your holiday, back where you started, is free for you to do as you please; perhaps further exploration of the city, a bit of shopping or just relaxing at your accommodation.
Depending on your flight schedule, a private transfer will collect you from your hotel or casa and return you to the airport in good time for the overnight flight back home.
— Heading home
The quoted price does not include international flights which we are happy to arrange as part of an ATOL protected package.
Beach Extensions
For clients wishing to extend their holiday with time at one of Cuba’s numerous beach resorts there are numerous options.
From Santiago, clients can travel by road to the beautiful beaches of Guardalavaca before returning to Havana or they can fly back to Havana and then end their holiday at one of the nearby beaches before transferring straight back to Havana airport.
Itinerary Type:Travel By Bus
Departure Location:Havana
Havana Vinales Cienfuegos Trinidad Santa Clara Camaguey Santiago De Cuba 16 nights
Havana Casa Particulars
Uncategorised Havana, Cuba
Vinales Casa Particulars
Uncategorised Vinales, Cuba
Cienfuegos Casas
Uncategorised Cienfuegos, Cuba
Trinidad Casa Particulars
Uncategorised Trinidad, Cuba
Santa Clara Casas
Uncategorised Santa Clara, Cuba
Melia Gran Camaguey
Moderate Camaguey, Cuba
Hotel San Basilio
Simple Santiago De Cuba, Cuba
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This 14 Night Cuba Tour is a small group escorted tour that takes in almost all the key highlights of Cuba starting and ending in Havana and taking in the Vinales Valley, Las Terrazas, Santa Clara, Trinidad, Bayamo, Santiago, Baracoa, Holguin, Camaguey & Cienfuegos.
14 nights Escorted Tour
This 11 Night Cuba Tour is a small group escorted tour that takes in the key highlights of the island, starting in Havana and ending in Holguin before returning to the capital.
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This 14 night suggested itinerary around western Cuba includes the colonial highlights of Havana, Cienfuegos & Trinidad but primarily focuses on the island’s natural beauty with plenty of included forays into a variety of glorious, unspoiled countryside.
14 nights Transfers
For clients short of time, or who are simply happy to clip along at a good pace, this suggested week-long circuit of western Cuba starts and ends in Havana and incorporates both the island's towns and cities as well as its beautiful countryside.
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Western Cuba Fly Drive
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7 Night Cuba Tour
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Western Cuba By Bus
For clients who wish to explore the main highlights of western Cuba, while keeping an eye on cost, the tourist bus service is an excellent option. Starting and finishing in Havana, this itinerary also takes in the key destinations of Vinales, Cienfuegos & Trinidad. Please note that there is no in...
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The Black Horse Inn Rooms
Luxurious amenities with a style for everyone.
The Black Horse Inn offers ten unique rooms available for those with the most discriminating of tastes. Our rooms are furnished with both antiques and reproductions.
Hunt Box Suite
The Hunt Box Suite offers a private separate cottage, attached to our historic stables. Wake up to beautiful bay windows overlooking our horse pastures from the French Provencal living room. The room includes a wet bar, kitchen, a Mahogany four-poster bed, oversized whirlpool tub, and shower.
The Fox & The Grape
The Fox & The Grape is a beautifully appointed suite, decorated in a rich, masculine, fox-hunting motif. The room features original stone walls, hand-hewn beams, and a wrought iron queen size canopy bed. You won’t be lacking in this suite with a kitchen, gas fireplace, whirlpool bath, shower, as well as a private outside entrance.
Four sumptuously furnished rooms on the 1st floor make up the Great Expectations suite. This romantic, light, airy and opulent suite is a favorite among guests. Great Expectations comes with a working fireplace, a separate sun porch and dressing room, a large shell-whirlpool tub for two, and separate shower.
Our Room With a View, complete with gable ceilings, offers the best view in the house out of its palladium windows. Look out at the beautifully manicured gardens, gazebo, and green pasture. This room comes complete with a queen-sized bed, twin sofa bed, sitting area, a magnificent claw foot tub, shower, and bidet.
Hunters Haven
The Hunters Haven is a masculine corner of our second floor and is located in the oldest part of the Black Horse Inn. In the 1850s this space was a sleeping porch. This room features an exposed rock fireplace, heart-pine flooring, a four-power Chippendale canopy bed, hunting lodge decor, and a multi-head spa-style shower for two.
Reynard’s Retreat
Reynard’s Retreat is in a corner of the second floor, decorated in rich, opulent decor honoring “Reynard” (the fox). This is easily one of the Inn’s most luxurious as well as oldest accommodations. This room offers southern exposure, a fireplace, queen-sized four-poster canopy bed, whirlpool bath, and a shower.
This sunny second floor corner room is called the Rosemont, named after our former name, “Rosemont Farm.” Soak in the truly breath-taking, panoramic, views from each window. The room is furnished with an ornate queen-sized hand-carved, canopy bed with privacy curtains, a whirlpool bath, and a shower.
We named this second-floor corner room, after the author of the Declaration of Independence. This room is reminiscent of bedrooms at Monticello, Jefferson’s famed plantation home just down the road. In the Jeffersonian, you will find a hand-carved four-poster queen-sized bed, an oversized claw-foot tub, and shower.
Burgundy Room
The Burgundy Room is a second-floor room that is reminiscent of life in Olde England. This room features deep rich tones, a queen-sized, hand-carved mahogany cannonball bed, and a magnificent dressing table. Get freshened up in your bathroom complete with a claw-foot tub and shower.
Our Garden Room on the second-floor will give you a taste of life in Olde England. Take in the floral decor, a queen-sized, hand-carved mahogany cannonball bed, and a magnificent dressing table. Your bathroom comes complete with a claw-foot tub and shower.
What You Can Expect at the Black Horse Inn
We require one-week (7 days) notice for any changes/cancellations made to your reservation. If you cancel 7 days or more prior to your reservation, you will receive a full refund minus a $25 cancellation fee.
Reservations canceled within 7 days will be charged one night’s stay plus a $25 cancellation fee.
No-show reservations or early departures will be cancelled and charged one night’s stay plus a $25 cancellation fee.
Unfortunately, pets cannot be accommodated in the Manor House, but are welcome in The Fox & Grape and The Hunt Box for a service charge of $55 per animal per night.
The Black Horse Inn accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
Check in is from 3:00-7:00 p.m. (Late check-in can be arranged.)
Check out is by 11:00 a.m.
A $50 charge will be added for each additional guest per night.
Room rates subject to change without notice.
Black Horse Inn
8393 Meetze Road
Warrenton, VA 20187
Email: reservations@blackhorseinn.com
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Acts 15 :: King James Version (KJV)
The Council at Jerusalem ©
Act 15:1
Act 15:1 - And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Act 15:2 - When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Act 15:3 - And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
Act 15:4 - And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
Act 15:5 - But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
Act 15:6 - And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
Act 15:7 - And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Act 15:8 - And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Act 15:9 - And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Act 15:10
Act 15:10 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Act 15:11 - But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Act 15:12 - Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
James's Judgment ©
Act 15:13 - And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Act 15:14 - Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
Act 15:15 - And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
Act 15:16 - After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Act 15:17 - That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Act 15:18 - Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Act 15:19 - Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Act 15:20 - But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Act 15:21 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Act 15:22 - Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
Act 15:23 - And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Act 15:24 - Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Act 15:25 - It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Act 15:26 - Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Act 15:27 - We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
Act 15:28 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Act 15:29 - That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Act 15:30 - So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:
Act 15:31 - Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Act 15:32 - And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
Act 15:33 - And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
Act 15:34 - Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Act 15:35 - Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
Second Missionary Journey ©
Act 15:36 - And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
Act 15:37 - And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Act 15:38 - But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
Act 15:39 - And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
Act 15:40 - And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
Act 15:41 - And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
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Partnership Gets Millions to Supply US-Made Generics for Pandemic
Jill Wechsler is BioPharm International's Washington Editor, jillwechsler7@gmail.com.
The Trump Administration has awarded a hefty contract to a new pharmaceutical manufacturing consortium to produce in the United States all components of certain critical medicines needed to combat COVID-19.
The Trump Administration has awarded a hefty contract to a new pharmaceutical manufacturing consortium to produce in the United States all components of certain critical medicines needed to combat COVID-19. The stated aim of an initial $354-million, four-year award to Phlow Corp. by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is to reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign producers for both the ingredients and finished dosage forms of certain drugs experiencing supply shortages, in some cases due to international supply chain issues [see ].
In announcing the surprising BARDA award, which can rise to $801 million over 10 years, Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, made clear that a prime objective is to reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign suppliers for vital medicines as envisioned by the administration’s “Buy American” campaign. Navarro lamented the US reliance on foreign manufacturing and supply chains for “our most important medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients,” which places “Americans’ health, safety, and national security at grave risk.”
A main question about the initiative, though, is whether it can provide high-quality, made-in-the-USA generic drugs at affordable prices without the large subsidy from BARDA. Many industry analysts have documented how production of APIs and generic drugs moved offshore in the 1980s to reduce costs and avoid more stringent environmental regulations. Ongoing shortages of generic drugs, particularly sterile injectables, relate to quality manufacturing issues in all regions, according to reports from FDA and other authorities. Yet US policy makers and drug purchasers show little interest in supporting higher prices to address these issues, even to achieve higher quality production.
Experienced partners
Richmond, VA-based Phlow will operate through an alliance with the US chemical company Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC) to provide chemical precursor and APIs and with Civica Rx, the non-profit generic drug producer for a network of leading hospitals, which will produce finished medicines. The company is led by Phlow president Eric Edwards and co-founder Frank Gupton, head of the Medicines for All Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering. Edwards was a founder of Kaleo Pharmaceuticals, which gained some infamy several years ago for astronomical price hikes of the drug-overdose rescue treatment naloxone, plus earlier difficulties with an alternative to Epi-Pen.
The partnership began operations this week with Civica Rx delivering 1.6 million doses of five critical generic medicines, including antibiotics, pain management drugs, and medicines used for sedation to help patients requiring ventilator support. Phlow provided those therapies to the US National Strategic Stockpile (SNS) and also plans to build a Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (SAPIR) to secure domestic supplies of key ingredients for essential medicines.
Edwards and his partners emphasize that advanced manufacturing technologies will be key to producing more reliable, high-quality and affordable medicines. Gupton will provide strategies for commercializing innovative process technologies, such as “flow” chemistry and continuous advanced manufacturing processes to produce APIs. He predicted that the program will “revolutionize America’s generic drug manufacturing model” by producing affordable ingredients for high-quality, US-made products.
AFC brings to the partnership experience in producing precursor chemical ingredients and APIs for the pharmaceutical industry through current good manufacturing practice (cGMP)-compliant operations in California, Texas, and Virginia. Phlow plans to work with AFC to build an advanced manufacturing capability in Virginia and facilities for producing sterile injectables. California-based AFC is part of SK pharmteco, a unit of Korea-based SK Holdings.
Civica Rx was formed in 2018 as a non-profit corporation to provide high-quality, low-cost generic drugs to a network that now numbers more than 1200 hospitals in 50 health systems. It has supplied 20 sterile injectables in its first year with the aim of producing 100 medications by 2023. Through the partnership, Civica plans to build its own finished dosage form manufacturing facility near AFC’s Virginia operation to gain end-to-end production on the same site.
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This Young Woman Dresses Like It’s The 19th Century Every Day (40 Pics)
Fashion, People
This Young Woman Dresses Like It’s The 19th Century Every Day (40 Pics) Interview
If you think you take too much time to get ready in the morning, wait till you meet this young woman who dresses to impress in a very unusual way. Mila Povoroznyuk from Ukraine, who is known to her fans as your_sunny_flowers, has ditched all modern fashion trends to follow her own aesthetic that makes her look like she came back from the 19th century.
Every day, Povoroznyuk pulls off a full-blown head-to-toe look including long vintage dresses, corsets, puffed blouses, elegant top hats and footwear, intricate accessories, hairstyle, and makeup to become a living representation of 19th-century fashion.
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12 years ago, Povoroznyuk got involved in the movement of historical reconstruction. She started sewing her own outfits for various occasions, from medieval festivals to 18th and 19th-century balls. For around two years now, she has been wearing vintage outfits every day.
"The first piece of clothing in the style of the 19th century which I started wearing in my everyday life was a blue autumn coat. It was made 8 years ago. I naturally started selecting harmonious things that would go with it. My wardrobe was gradually filling with vintage items," Povoroznyuk told Bored Panda.
Povoroznyuk finds inspiration for her wardrobe on Pinterest, Google, and old magazines with dresses from that era. She sews and thrifts her vintage attire, which makes her one-of-a-kind outfits stand out in a crowd (not that 19th and 20th-century-inspired clothes are a common sight on the streets in modern times). She finds her accessories from like-minded people's personal collections and flea markets. Her unique style makes her comfortable and confident and that's all that matters. Although Povoroznyuk often gets weird looks in the streets, her sense of style has brought her internet fame—she already has 69k followers on Instagram and her short videos on TikTok have millions of views.
Povoroznyuk admires Victorian fashion, but the Edwardian era from the early 1900s is her favorite.
"The suffragette movements began during that period. I think that all women should be grateful for this period for the rights and opportunities that we have today.
"Povoroznyuk says that she likes all the clothes she owns as she chooses them carefully. The most uncomfortable one, though, is the modern bra and most women could relate to that.
If you have ever tried cosplay or bought a costume, you would assume that dressing like that would cost a fortune, but since Povoroznyuk hand-crafts most of the clothes, she would disagree. Although she says that it often depends on the outfit and can sometimes be pretty costly.
"Everything is very relative. I have outfits that cost me less than $10 because I sew them by myself out of fabric I found in a second-hand store. I also have really expensive ones because I buy expensive fabric and visit a seamstress."
When we asked Povoroznyuk how people react to her unique appearance on a daily basis, she had a lot to say.
"Everyone reacts in accordance with their upbringing and their level of psycho-emotional development. It should be added that a person's reaction to a stimulus (light, noise, a person in unusual clothes) is influenced by temperament, character, mentality."
She could divide people she meets into several groups. The first group "includes people with a high level of intelligence and psycho-emotional development. Such people are well-mannered, mature, tolerant. They have a sense of both self-esteem and respect for others, regardless of age or social status." Although they might not have a soft spot for vintage, they would react with the understanding that everyone "has every right to express themselves." Those who like vintage, on the other hand, would often not show any reaction and respect the boundaries of personal space or won't hesitate to compliment if they are more open-minded.
Another group is not so tolerant, but Povoroznyuk says she doesn't take it to heart as she wouldn't be offended at a dog who barks at her.
"Unfortunately, in our world, there are a lot of people who are uneducated and psycho-emotionally immature, and due to various reasons, they have not yet mastered at least minimal foundations of ethics and respect for other people. There are also people with low IQ levels. These features can also be combined in one person. The reaction of such people is not only negative but also pronounced (due to a lack of education). It manifests in different ways—from laughter to vile comments and assaults."
If you ask Povoroznyuk why she dresses like it's the 19th century, the answer will be quite simple and straightforward—because she likes it and wants to. She advises other people who would like to express themselves through clothing but are too afraid of judgment to follow her example: "Life is too short to be wasted in fear. You need to live for yourself and not think about what others will think about you."
Violeta Draseikaitė
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After getting her BA in Communication, watching more guilty-pleasure films and TV series than she should have and becoming interested in how it‘s all made, Violeta wandered into the Film Industry and got to see and experience the mysterious behind-the-scenes of film production: from finances to sets to marketing. But being a self-proclaimed captain of the Internet with close to no activity on social media, scrolling through the web for a living and sharing its treasures was always at the back of her head. So a year ago, she joined the army of Bored Pandas as a Community Manager and have been fighting the boredom ever since. Her mission is to shine a spotlight on talented artists and inspiring stories...
Jihana
There are girls like her, putting so mush effort in their appearance. And then there's me, yesterday when I was at work I realized that I put on my socks inside out.
I sympathize with you, I worked outside in forests for 10+ years and never bothered with my appearance. And now when I do want to look nice, I don't really remember how... : /
Who? Me?
I once wore an inside out tshirt to school..... didn't realise until someone pointed out. Since then..... I have learnt to look into the mirror
Jay Hegener
I've gone to work with my shirt inside out...
i wore 2 different shoes the other day and noticed it only in the evening when i came back home and took them off ... so don't worry !! you're not alone
ADHORTATOR
Beautiful photos
Kim Lorton
These dresses are soo amazing! I love the fact she wears one every day, that is fierce!!
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Dharni Vasudevan
Druckenmiller Hall Directory
Affiliation: Chemistry, Environmental Studies
Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Inclusion
Dr. Vasudevan's research is concerned with the fate of synthetic and naturally occurring organic and inorganic compounds. Her work focuses on the mechanisms by which organic and inorganic compounds interact with mineral surfaces in soil and aquatic environments. Central research issues include the study of sorption, desorption and coordination chemistry; surface complexation theory; mineral precipitation, dissolution, and weathering; and surface-assisted chemical transformation processes. Dr. Vasudevan and her group use a combination of controlled laboratory experiments, molecular and surface complexation modeling, and statistical tools in their research. Completed and current projects have emphasized the study of iron oxide rich soils, and pure phase minerals (iron, aluminum and titanium oxides, silica, and kaolinite) and include:
Polar and ionic organic compound (pesticides/herbicides, pharmaceuticals) sorption-desorption in soils;,
Sorption of organic ligands with -OH, -COOH, -NH2, heterocyclic N groups at the metal-oxide water interface;
Influence of phosphate on organic compound retention in soils;
Fluoride sorption to soils and associated aluminum release.
Sorption of approved tracers and their potential use as surrogates for pesticide fate and transport;
Chemometric analysis of pesticide and pharmaceutical retention in soils
W.C. Jolin, R. Goyetche*, K. Carter*, J. Medina*, D. VASUDEVAN, A.A. MacKay. 2017. Predicting Organic Cation Sorption Coefficients: Accounting for Competition from Sorbed Inorganic Cations Using a Simple Probe Molecule. Environmental Science and Technology, 51, 6193-6201.
W.C. Jolin, J. Sullivan*, D. VASUDEVAN, A.A. MacKay 2016. Column chromatography to obtain organic cation sorption isotherms. Environmental Science and Technology, 50, 8196-8204.
M. D’Alessio, D. VASUDEVAN, J. Lichwa, S. K. Mohanty, C. Ray 2014. Fate and transport of selected estrogen compounds in Hawaii soils: effect of soil type and macropores. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 166, 1-10.
M. Samaraweera, W. Jolin, D. VASUDEVAN, A.A. MacKay, J. Gascon. 2014. Atomistic prediction of sorption free energies of cationic aromatic amines on montmorillonite: A linear interaction energy method. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 1, 284-298.
D. Vasudevan, T.A. Arey*, D.R. Dickstein*, M.H. Newman*, T.Y. Zhang*, H.M. Kinnear*, and M.M. Bader*. 2013. Nonlinearity of cationic aromatic amine sorption to aluminosilicates and soils: Role of cation-π interactions, Environmental Science and Technology, 47, 14119-14127.
A.A. MacKay and D. VASUDEVAN. 2012. Polyfunctional ionogenic compound sorption: Challenges and new approaches to advance predictive models, Environmental Science and Technology, 46, 9209-9223.
Figueroa-Diva, R.A., D. VASUDEVAN., A.A. MacKay.. 2010. Trends in Soil Sorption Coefficients Within Common Antimicrobial Families. Chemosphere, 79, 786-793.
Cooper, E.M., and D. VASUDEVAN. 2009. Hydroxynaphthoic acid isomer sorption to goethite. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 333, 85-96.
VASUDEVAN, D., G.L. Bruland, B.S. Torrance*, V.G. Upchurch*, A.A. MacKay. 2009. pH-dependent Ciprofloxacin Sorption to Soils: Interaction mechanisms and soil factors influencing sorption. Geoderma. 151, 68-76.
Carrasquillo*, A.J., G.L. Bruland, A.A. MacKay, D. VASUDEVAN. 2008. Sorption of ciprofloxacin and oxytetracycline zwitterions to soils and soil minerals: Influence of compound structure. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008, 42, 7634-7642.
Fimmen, R.L., D.D. Richter Jr., D. VASUDEVAN, M.A. Williams, L.T. West. 2008. Rhizogenic Fe-C redox cycling in deep upland soils: A hypothetical biogeochemical mechanism that drives crustal weathering. Biogeochemistry, 87, 127-141.
Fimmen, R.L., T.D. Trouts, D.D. Richter, D. VASUDEVAN. 2008. Improved speciation of dissolved organic nitrogen in natural waters: amide hydrolysis with fluorescence derivatization. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 20, 1273-1280.
Trivedi, P. and D.VASUDEVAN. 2007. Spectroscopic Investigation of Ciprofloxacin Speciation at the Goethite-Water Interface. Environmental Science and Technology, 41, 3153-3158.
Jones, A.D., G. L. Bruland, S.G. Agrawal†, D. VASUDEVAN. 2005. Factors influencing oxytetracycline sorption to soils. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 24, 761-770.
VASUDEVAN, D. and E.M. Cooper. 2004. 2,4-D Sorption in Iron-Oxide Rich Soils: Role of soil phosphate and exchangeable Al. Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 163-170.
Abstract Full Article: HTML / PDF (156K)
†Harrington, L.F, E.M. Cooper, and D. VASUDEVAN. 2003. Fluoride sorption and related Al release in variable charge soils. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 267, 302-313.
VASUDEVAN, D., E.M. Cooper, and O.L. Van Exem. 2002. Sorption-Desorption of ionogenic compounds at the mineral-water interface: A comparison of metal oxide rich soils and pure phase minerals. Environmental Science and Technology, 36, 501-511.
VASUDEVAN, D., R.L. Fimmen, and A.B. Francisco. 2001a. Tracer Grade Rhodamine WT: Structure of constituent isomers and their sorption behavior. Environmental Science and Technology, 35, 4089-4096.
VASUDEVAN, D., P. J. Dorley, and X. Zhuang. 2001b. Adsorption of hydroxy- pyridines and quinolines at the metal oxide-water interface: Role of tautomeric equilibrium. Environmental Science and Technology, 35, 2006-3013.
Sutton, D., Z.J. Kabala, A. B. Francisco, and D. VASUDEVAN. 2001c. Limitations and Potential of Commercially Available Rhodamine WT as a Groundwater Tracer. Water Resources Research, 37, 6, 1641-1656.
VASUDEVAN, D. and A.T. Stone. 1998a. Adsorption of Catechols, 2-Aminophenols and 1,2-Phenylenediamines at the Metal Oxide/Water Interface: Effect of Metal Oxide Structure. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 202, 1, 1-19.
VASUDEVAN, D. and A.T. Stone. 1998b. Adsorption of Dissolved Organic Ligands onto (Hydr)oxide Minerals, In: Soil Chemistry and Ecosystem Health, SSSA Special Publication, 52, SSSA, Madison, WI.
Miller, P.L., D. VASUDEVAN, P.M. Gschwend, and A.L. Roberts. 1998c. Transformation of Hexachloroethane in Sulfidic Lake Water. Environmental Science and Technology, 32, 1269-1275.
VASUDEVAN, D. and A.T. Stone. 1996. Adsorption of Catechols, 2-Aminophenols and 1,2-Phenylenediamines at the Metal (Hydr)Oxide/Water Interface: Effect of Ring Substituents on the Adsorption onto TiO2, Environmental Science and Technology, 30, 1604-1613.
Stone, A.T., A. Torrents, J. Smolen, D. VASUDEVAN, and J. Hadley. 1993. Adsorption of Organic Compounds Possessing Ligand Donor Groups at the Oxide/Water Interface, Environmental Science and Technology, 27, 895-909.
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* Bowdoin College Undergraduates
† Duke University Undergraduates
Summer 2017-Spring 2018
Leah Alper. Prediction Sorption of Anionic Compounds to Soils: An Evaluation of Probe Compounds (Summer)
Jorge Gomez. Evaluating Phenyltrimethylammonium as a Potential Probe for Heterocyclic Amine Sorption to Soil (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Eric Guiang. Predicting the Sorption of Anionic Pharmaceuticals Using Probe Compounds (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Emma Landes. Sorption Isothers of Anionic Pharmaceuticals and Probe Compouds (Summer)
Samuel Shaheen. Predicting Pyridine Sorption to Aluminosilicate Clays: Influence of Solid Phase Composition and Structure (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Leah Alper. Prediction Sorption of Anionic Compounds to Soils: An Evaluation of Probe Compounds (Summer, Spring, Fall)
Danielle Freeman. Predicting the sorption of heterocyclic amines to aluminosilicate clays (Summer, Spring, Fall)
Samuel Shaheen . Predicting pyridine sorption to aluminosilicate clays: Influence of solid phase composition and structure (Summer)
Katherine Carter. The analysis of benzylamine and salicylic acid as potential probe compounds for the development of soil sorption predictive methods (Fall)
Gillian Kramer. Quantifying and Comparing the Nutrient Input of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and Leach’s Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) on the Terrestrial Ecosystem of a Small Island in the Bay of Fundy (Summer, Fall)
Alandra Lopez. Evaluation of Salicylic Acid as a Probe for Polyfunctional Ionogenic Compound Sorption via Surface Complexation and Cation Bridging Sorption (Fall, Spring)
John Medina. Evaluation of Phenyltrimethylammonium as a Probe for Sorption of Cationic Organic Compounds to Soils and Sediments (Summer)
James Sullivan. Structure based prediction of substituted pyridine cation exchange to soil aluminosilicates (Summer, Spring, Fall)
Katherine Carter. The analysis of benzylamine and salicylic acid as potential probe compounds for the development of soil sorption predictive methods (Summer)
Alandra Lopez. Evaluation of Salicylic Acid as a Probe Compound to Quantify Surface Complexation and Cation Bridging Sorption to Soils (Summer)
Malik McKnight. Monitoring Polar and Ionic Organic Pharmaceutical Chemicals in Aquatic Ecosystems using an Equilibrium Passive Sampler (Summer, Fall, Spring)
James Sullivan. Environmental Fate of the Toxic Bird-Pesticide Avitrol and Implications on Human and Ecosystem Health (Summer)
Summer 2013-Spring 2014 (Vasudevan on sabbatical leave)
Reaha Goyetche Evaluation of the use of probe compounds to quantify cation exchange and surface complexation to soils. (Fall, Spring)
Phoebe Aron An investigation of sedimentary pyrite as an indicator of dourgh tin mid-coast Maine (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Daniel Dickstein The quantification of non-linear sorption of cationic amines to soils and soil minerals. (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Reaha Goyetche Evaluation of the use of probe compounds to quantify cation exchange to soils. (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Basyl Stuyvesant Structure-Activity Relationships for Pyridine Cation Exchange. (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Summer 2011 – Spring 2012
Teresa Arey The effect of cation-pi interactions on the sorption of cationic amines to montmorillonite. (Summer)
Amie Corso Exploring cation bridging as a potential mechanism of phosphate sorption to sediments. (Summer)
Allison Dupont Investigating the effect of agricultural practices on soil carbon and nitrogen – co-advised with P. Camill. (Summer)
Heather Kinnear Investigation of p-phenylene-diamine sorption to montmorillonite. (Summer)
Heather Kinnear Methylamino-L-aniline sediment sorption dynamics. (Fall, Spring)
Phoebe Aron Quantification of pyritic iron and sulfur in Merrymeeting Bay sediments. (Fall, Spring)
Summer 2010 - Spring 2011
Teresa Arey. Non-linear sorption of cationic amines to montmorillonite (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Allie Dupont. Investigating nonlinearity in aniline sorption to montmorillonite (Summer)
Andrew Cardamone. Phosphate sink-source dynamics in Androscoggin River sediments (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Tina Zhang. Influence of structure on zwitterion sorption to aluminosilicate clays (Summer)
Tina Zhang. Effect of soil properties in the non-linear sorption of cationic amines to soils (Fall, Spring)
Teresa Arey. Sorption of Aromatic Amines to Montmorillonite (Summer)
Mo Bader. Phenylenediamine sorption to Montmorillonite (Fall, Spring)
Andrew Cardamone. Phosphorus in Merrymeeting Bay Sediments: Sink-Source Dynamics (Summer)
Mark Newman. Cationic Amine sorption to aluminosilicates: inter-molecular interaction (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Summer 2007 - Spring 2008 (Vasudevan on sabbatical leave)
Anthony Carrasquillo. Influence of Molecular Structure on Sorption of Cationic Amines to Aluminosilicate Clay minerals- (Summer)
Kelly Rula. Bioremediation: Principles and Processes (Fall)
Anthony Carrasquillo. Influence of Molecular Structure on Sorption of Cationic Amines to Aluminosilicate Clay minerals- (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Elizabeth Onderko. Retention and desorption of DNA to iron oxides and iron rich minerals (Summer)
Kelly Pitts. Analysis of biodiesel production by transesterification of a high free fatty acid feedstock - Use of waste oil from Bowdoin Dining (Summer)
Brendan Torrance. Probing the Connections Between Wastewater Contamination and Marine Animal Health (Summer)
Summer 2005- Spring 2006
Anthony Carrasquillo. Mechanisms of Oxytetracycline sorption to model soil components (Summer); Analysis of sorption of Oxytetracycline to soils through probe compound analysis (Spring)
Amber Davis. Chemical Analysis of Activity Residues at a Maya Marketplace (Summer, Fall, Spring)
Adam Hall. DNA quantification and sorption to iron oxides (Summer).
Brendan Torrance. Ciprofloxacin sorption to soils (Summer)
Tim Cashman: Sorption of oxytetracycline substructures onto metal oxides and aluminosilicates. (Summer and Fall)
Amber Davis: DNA analysis, sorption, and desorption from soil iron oxides.(Summer)
Brendan Torrance: Sorption of Ciprofloxacin onto soils of eastern United States (Summer and Fall).
Virginia Upchurch: Development of a fluorescence based analytical technique for quantifying DNA concentration (Fall).
Virginia Upchruch: Evaluation of the sorption and desorption of ciprofloxacin in soils of the eastern united states (Spring).
Kiersa Benson. A Survey of the Effects of the Sprague River Salt Marsh Restoration (Summer, Fall, Spring) - co advised with L. Whitlow.
Sarah Close. A Survey of the Effects of the Sprague River Salt Marsh Restoration (Summer, Fall, Spring) - co advised with L. Whitlow.
Professor Dharni Vasudevan Helps Detect Chemical Exposure in the Environment
Bowdoin Students Present and Get Inspired at Diversity Conference
PhD, Environmental Chemistry, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, John Hopkins University, 1996
MSE, Environmental Engineering, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, John Hopkins University, 1992
BS, Environmental Engineering Science, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
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Boy dies during surgery, parents lodge plaint against doctors
Assam launches toll free women's helpline
IFC to invest Rs 150 cr to fund Ashiana's housing projects
Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at March 29, 2018 22:00 IST
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Saya group to invest Rs 400cr in housing project at Ghaziabad
Ashiana Housing inches up on bulk buying from SBI MF
Ananda to invest Rs 10 cr to open 150 outlets in Kanpur
Hathway Cable & Datacom leads gainers on BSE's 'A' group
Indiabulls Real Estate in focus after a huge bulk deal
IFC, the investment arm of World Bank, will invest Rs 150 crore in the residential housing projects of developer Ashiana Housing.
Ashiana Housing Ltd (AHL) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a part of World Bank Group, have entered into an agreement to co-invest in upcoming affordable and middle income residential projects including in senior living projects, the realty firm said in a BSE filing.
"The agreement envisages a total investment of Rs 150 crore on a project to project basis by IFC, representing 40 per cent of the capital required by a project. The remaining 60 per cent of the capital required, i.e. Rs 225 crore, will be contributed by AHL," it said.
The investment of IFC will primarily be in the form of non-convertible debentures for identified projects with returns linked to project specific returns, it added.
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Oklo Announces its Aurora Advanced Fission Clean Energy Plant
Aurora is the product name for a clean energy plant the company developed to power communities with affordable, reliable, clean power
The Aurora is a revolutionary step forward towards providing nearly always-on clean power with no need for refueling for decades
The Aurora powerhouse integrates solar panels and local art to illustrate the ability of advanced fission to integrate with renewables and for a power plant to integrate with a community
Oklo Aurora powerhouse rendering - desert (Photo: Business Wire)
Oklo Aurora powerhouse rendering - arctic night (Photo: Business Wire)
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oklo Inc. announces the launch of Aurora, an advanced fission clean energy plant design developed to power communities with affordable, reliable, clean power.
The Aurora powerhouse houses the Aurora advanced fission power plant, also called a fission battery. The plant produces about 1.5 MW of electric power, while having the ability to produce usable heat. The plant uses metal fuel to produce heat, an advanced fuel type which is well demonstrated with decades of experimental data. Heat pipes carry the heat to a heat exchanger, and a power conversion cycle converts the heat into electricity.
“The Aurora is built on years of technology research, development, and demonstration done at the U.S. national labs and universities, and work done by Oklo to make the Aurora possible. While heat and electrons are the product, the Aurora powerhouse is the main point for community interaction. We spent years thinking about how it could look, how it would function, and how it would become a point of pride in a community,” said Jacob DeWitte, CEO and co-founder of Oklo.
The Aurora offers a number of unique capabilities. Among these are the ability to produce power for decades without needing to refuel, the small size of the Aurora design, the placement of the Aurora fuel underground, the ability to operate without needing cooling water, the demonstrated natural shutdown behavior of the fuel, the use of a fission spectrum which can recycle fuel and ultimately convert nuclear waste to clean energy, and many more unique and beneficial attributes. “For years we would not put out renderings, waiting instead until detailed analytical work behind it was completed. We are happy to share that the art and the engineering have come together at this point to launch the Aurora and share renderings of the Aurora powerhouse,” said DeWitte.
The Aurora powerhouse utilizes an iconic design while keeping practicality and operation in mind. The sloped roof is functional in a range of weather conditions, which can include significant snowfall in some of the areas in which the Aurora may operate. The roofing pieces enable modular construction. There is a front area which may be useful to the community, and a separated back area where the power conversion system is housed. The sloped roof also serves as the support for solar photovoltaic panels, which echo the Oklo logo on the sides of the powerhouse. These solar panels also serve as a canvas for local art which will be developed in tandem with the communities that choose the Aurora as part of their low-carbon microgrid. Oklo has been intentional to include solar panels as part of the Aurora powerhouse to illustrate how advanced fission and renewables can work together in a high reliability, clean microgrid.
The concept art on the solar panels was developed based on an inspiring image taken by NASA which showed aurorae on the earth from space. “We were inspired to see how both the beauty of the earth and current human energy needs, as well as human potential and the beauty of space, could be symbolized by the aurora dividing the lights on the earth from the lights from the stars. We are excited to think about how fission could both enable human development while preserving the environment on earth, and even enable deeper space exploration,” said Caroline Cochran, COO and co-founder of Oklo.
In order to realize the architectural design, Oklo worked with the sustainability group of Gensler, a leading architectural firm. For the concept art, Oklo worked with Forest Stearns, an artist they have drawn inspiration from since the early days of the company. The Oklo team has worked on the Aurora development in recent years as well as developed partnerships with regulatory experts, engineers, security analysts, operational experts, construction specialists, and many others to analyze design, construction, operations and maintenance.
About Oklo Inc:
Oklo is a small company based in Sunnyvale, CA, developing clean energy plants using advanced fission. Oklo has been engaged in pre-application activities with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2016 for the Aurora design, and is preparing to submit its first license application.
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“My wife calls it a military operation,” smiles Nick Shepherd over coffee. “Every time I have to go out to get an early shot everything has to be ready the night before – even the thermos!”
We are discussing how he manages to capture the amazing images that have graced the front cover of the vast majority of By The Dart magazine over its four-year history.
The amount of organisation and planning that go into each shot is, frankly, mindboggling.
To get the right light the former finance professional works out the position and angle of the sun or moon (depending on whether it is a night or day shot) in his chosen place, checks the weather reports in detail and of course spends hours walking to find just the right location – it’s all very impressive.
Nick has, in nearly 40 years of photographic endeavour, achieved a huge amount: a Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society, won best Spring Photo for the International Garden Photographer of the Year and been a finalist in the Landscape Photographer and Weather Photographer of the Year competitions. His work is also on display at Kew Gardens.
So for someone who has clearly achieved so much at a discipline that is still just a hobby, what keeps Nick getting up in the middle of the night to capture these beautiful pictures?
“I’m chasing the perfect shot I suppose,” he says, “I want to make the most of each location and each shot so it looks its best. I’ve taken hundreds of pictures of the same places, but I’ll always keep looking for something new, slightly better, more satisfying for me as a photographer.
“A good shot does not simply require good planning, good equipment and good timing: it needs luck and that extra something that turns a good shot into a great one. I remember taking a picture on Bayard’s Cove recently - it was just after dawn, the sun was rising between the castles, a light mist was curling off the water. But the shot I took was so much better because a trawler happened to be sailing out of the harbour and a bird flew overhead at the right time. Those two things, which I could never have planned for, made the shot.”
That begs the question: is he often disappointed?
“I’ve left the house at four in the morning to get a shot and there was too much cloud cover, or a particularly pretty house was covered in scaffolding, or the fog was too thick,” he says. “There’s nothing you can do in that instance – you just pack up and go home. But when it works and you get a great shot it was worth all the planning, the early mornings and even the failures – it’s just a great feeling.”
Nick found his passion for photography when he was just 16. Now 55, he focuses on landscapes, expressing his love of the South Devon coast and the high moorland.
“I walk a lot and do enjoy being on my own, and I wanted a way of keeping that special feeling of being the only person to see a beautiful landscape, and share it,” he smiles. “I enjoy being in these breathtakingly beautiful places and just soaking up the view. We are incredibly lucky to live where we do and I feel privileged to be able to document it in my photographs.”
Nick’s wife and two children fully support the work that he does, but point out that he doesn’t display much of his work at his home in Strete.
“I don’t have a great many pictures on my own walls, it’s true,” he says. “The greatest buzz I can possibly get is for other people to see my work, to have it on the front of a magazine, or hanging in someone’s home, that is the most wonderful feeling. That someone has chosen my image to be something they love to look at each day, it’s a feeling that cannot be beaten.
“This is not my business – it’s my passion. I wouldn’t do it unless I loved it, and I do.”
Nick’s Photos can be viewed at his new website: www.southdevonphotos.co.uk. This features galleries with over 1500 photos. It is primarily aimed at businesses that need to promote the area as well as anybody who simply wants to enjoy the beauty of the South Hams. You can contact him to ask about prints and commissions on 01803 770659
Interview by Phil Scoble.
First Published May/June 2012 By The Dart
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NETGEAR Announces the Death of Local Media Storage
The first-ever home storage system to support the media-shifting of multimedia content
SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 12, 2010 - NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative networking solutions for homes, businesses and service providers, today eliminated the requirement for local media storage. The new ReadyNAS® Ultra family of 2-Bay, 4-Bay and 6-Bay network storage systems is perfect for power users yearning to set their digital entertainment content free. The Ultra family is the first-ever storage with media-shifting capabilities, enabling users to centralize media on a ReadyNAS and consume it in any networked location and on any networked device. The Ultra family is more than twice as fast as legacy ReadyNAS systems and has already received glowing reviews.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra Beta Testers Praise TiVo®, Skifta and Orb Technology Integration
"The ReadyNAS Ultra 4 is a tech-head's dream come true; it lets me encode, decode, stream HD video, and no matter where I am, play music and video to any DLNA certified device and a large number of mobile devices thanks to NETGEAR' embedded Skifta™ and Orb™ technology partnerships,” says Shawn Markins, a beta tester and long-time advanced ReadyNAS user. "Couple it with Intel® Atom™ processors, full X-RAID2™ functionality, and you have a 'force to be reckoned with'. Now, I have a central location with full data redundancy and enough total storage space to be happy for years."
The ReadyNAS integration with TiVo® enables users to stream video programming, music and photos to any TiVo box in the house. “By streaming television programming, the ReadyNAS gives easy access to stored content and offers a great way to expand the amount of content available to TiVo users,” says Tom Cramer, ReadyNAS beta tester and TiVo DVR owner.
The ReadyNAS Ultra family transforms the way people interact with their multimedia content
"NETGEAR's ReadyNAS Ultra family is a major breakthrough, converging mobility and content consumption,” said Drew Meyer, director of storage marketing at NETGEAR. “ReadyNAS has always been an excellent choice for storing, sharing and protecting media content, but now our technology firsts take that content to the next level. Users may now shift media from any networked location onto nearly any device and unplug their direct-attached disks.”
NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra products are the first TiVo compatible DVR network storage systems. Users can now alleviate storage capacity concerns by streaming HD programming content to anyTiVo box in the house at a later date without additional software or computers.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra products are the first storage systems with Skifta media-shifting capabilities, so users can access their private media libraries remotely from any DLNA® certified™ device without worrying about the physical location of their content.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra products are also the first-ever network storage systems to include transcoding. The Orb integration means that a ReadyNAS Ultra device automatically formats and sizes streaming video content for mobile devices or browsers - on the fly.
Industry Analyst Comments on NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra
"These are the first storage devices we’ve seen of this kind on the market - o one else is doing this yet," said Norm Bogen, industry analyst, In-Stat. "The Ultra models are great additions to NETGEAR’s home storage product line. They provide advanced features for the multimedia enthusiast, enabling fast access to stored media content from any location via any DLNA certified device."
Additionally, the NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra family continues to offer the most advanced storage features for the consumer NAS market today, including X-RAID2™, the only self-managing volume expansion technology; ReadyNAS Remote, the only secure drag-and-drop remote access technology; and ReadyNAS Vault, the only embedded online backup and recovery service. ReadyNAS Ultra is the ideal storage system for media enthusiasts looking for a better way to interact with their extensive media collections.
The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra 4 (expected street prices of $599.99 diskless and $899.99 2 x 2 TB) and Ultra 6 (expected street prices of $899.99 diskless and $1349.99 3 x 2 TB) are available for immediate pre-order at amazon.com, with shipping starting in mid-July. The NETGEAR ReadyNAS Ultra 2 will be shipping in October.
For more information, please visit: www.netgear.com/ultra
NETGEAR (NASDAQGM: NTGR) designs innovative, branded technology solutions that address the specific networking, storage, and security needs of Small- to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) and home users. The company offers an end-to-end networking product portfolio to enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, multimedia content, and applications among multiple computers and other Internet-enabled devices. Products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless, Ethernet and powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. NETGEAR products are sold in over 26,000 retail locations around the globe, and via more than 39,000 value-added resellers. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in 25 countries. More information is available at http://www.NETGEAR.com or by calling (408) 907-8000. Connect with NETGEAR at http://www.twitter.com/NETGEAR and http://www.facebook.com/NETGEAR.
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Packard Advertising Art (1927–1928)
Tags: Blog, Packard, 1920s, ads, illustrations
Packard Eight 4-Passenger Coupe Ad (December, 1927) - The art of enameling dates from the fifteenth century when Venetian glass workers discovered the secret of firing enamel on metal surfaces
Packard Ad (January, 1928) - The most splendid period of English furniture has been called Chippendale after the greatest of English cabinetmakers
Packard Ad (January, 1928) - Early in the 17th Century Galileo pioneered modern astronomy and the measurement of interstellar space
Packard Ad (February, 1928) - Greek artists depicted Hercules and Zeus on the dies cut to strike the gold coins of Alexander's world empire (300 B.C.)
Packard Six Convertible Coupe Ad (February, 1928) - Designers of the late 18th century made the elaborate sedan chairs of that period beautiful in line and artistic in color and embellishment
Packard Victoria Sedan Ad (March, 1928) - Before men learned acid plating in the 15th century, precious metals were dissolved in mercury and applied as a liquid, the quicksilver then being evaporated in a furnace
Packard Phaeton Ad (March, 1928) - One of the wonders of the ancient world was the bronze statue if the sun-god Helios, 105 feet high, cast in 280 B.C. and known as the Colossus of Rhodes
Packard Eight Convertible Coupe Ad (March-April, 1928) - Years before the Christian Era it was a slave's duty to lubricate each chariot for the Public Games in the Roman Circus
Packard Convertible Coupe Ad (April, 1927) - The skill of the medieval swordsmiths was an heritage from generations at the forge
Packard Ad (April, 1927) - Repoussé, the ancient art of raising designs upon metal by hammering from the back, was extensively used in ornamenting early bronze armour
Packard Ad (May, 1927) - The consummate art with which the old masters mixed and applied their pigments is attested by the color values and the character still retained by their paintings
Packard Ad (May, 1927) - The methods used in heat treating metals in the early days of automobile manufacture were still those of the Dark Ages
Packard Ad (June, 1927) - In Colonial days spoke holes in a felly were bored by the wheelwright one by one — a laborious, inexact process
Packard Phaeton Ad (June, 1927) - A colt from a long line of blue-blooded thoroughbreds, expert attention, careful conditioning — then the private test to prove its expected speed and stamina
Packard Ad (July, 1927) - The Emperor of the French was noted for his rigid standards in the inspection of his crack regiments
Packard Eight Phaeton Ad (July, 1927) - The elaborate figureheads of famous American clipper ships were no cut from solid timber, but built up of fitted pieces — then carved to final form
Packard Coupe Ad (August, 1927) - To our great-grandfathers the coach and four represented the height of luxury, speed and comfort in transportation
Packard ads of this era liked to tell us a story from history – in this case, the ancient forging of the 105-foot high bronze statue of Helios in 280 B.C., and then show how they carry on the grand tradition. “In one of the world’s most modern foundries Packard precision parts first take form under scientific control. Every detail of temperature and the blending and pouring of metals into the intricate moulds is carefully checked.” However it was created, the resulting convertible is a thing of beauty. Prices in this 1928 ad range from $2,275 to $4,550 with “individual custom models from $5,200 to $8,970, at Detroit”.
Source: www.saturdayeveningpost.com
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Bristol man sent to prison after speeding on M4 and giving false details to police
The 30-year-old put ‘other road users’ at risk, a court heard
Michael YongEducation and news reporter
A Bristol man has been put behind bars after speeding on the M4 and providing false details to the police.
Rikki Wyatt was stopped by officers from the Tri-Force – Avon and Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire forces – on March 25 last year while driving on the motorway.
The 30-year-old from Royate Hill, Eastville, was doing 106mph in a Vauxhall Mokka around 5.10pm that day.
Man dies outside Debenhams in Bristol city centre after being found unconscious
A court heard on Monday, February 5, that Wyatt had provided false details to officers, as he was driving with no insurance.
He was summoned to court for the offence of driving with excess speed.
But he later contacted police again to explain he had provided incorrect personal details and attended Gablecross police station, where he was interviewed under caution.
Wyatt was charged with committing an act with intent to pervert the course of public justice and pleaded guilty to the offence.
As well as a 20-week prison sentence, he was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £115 when he appeared at Swindon Crown Court.
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PC Will Ayres said: "By providing incorrect personal details after he was stopped for driving 36mph over the speed limit on the motorway, Wyatt committed an offence of perverting the course of justice.
"I cannot stress how important it is to drive within the speed limits. Wyatt was caught driving at 106mph, which not only put himself at risk but other road users.
“I'm satisfied with the sentence handed out to Wyatt and I hope this sends a clear message to motorists that we will do all that we can to target those drivers who continue to drive at excess speeds on our roads."
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All they’re ’cracked up to be!
By Bill Roundy
Pretty in pink: Dancers from the National Ballet Theater of Odessa will perform their version of “The Nutcracker” at On Stage At Kingsborough on Dec. 14.
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Brooklyn loves this old chestnut!
In addition to “The Hard Nut” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Borough of Mouse Kings will host another half-dozen versions of “The Nutcracker” before Christmas.
Now running in Bushwick is a decidedly adult version of the children’s tale: “Nutcracker Rouge,” which adds burlesque and striptease elements along with classical ballet moves and circus acts. The annual production from Company XIV has only grown more elaborate now that the formerly-traveling baroque burlesque company has settled in its own venue.
“Nutcracker Rouge” at Theatre XIV (383 Troutman St. between Wyckoff and Irving avenues in Bushwick, www.companyxiv.com). Through Jan. 13, Wed–Fri at 8 pm; Sat at 5 pm and 10 pm; Sun at 4 pm and 9 pm. $95–$135.
Nut cracks you!
Catch this elaborate “Great Russian Nutcracker” from the Moscow Ballet. This over-the-top version from Tchaikovsky’s home country features painted sets, a scene with the “Dove of Peace,” and it adds some Muscovite touches, including dancing Russian Nesting Dolls and Snow Maidens.
“Great Russian Nutcracker” at Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. between Tilden Avenue and Duryea Place in Flatbush, www.nutcracker.com). Dec. 8 at 2 pm and 7 pm. $45–$125.
Candy Ukraine
The National Ballet Theater of Odessa brings “The Nutcracker” to Manhattan Beach. This full-scale production features 40 Ukrainian ballet stars in glorious costumes, on its first-ever tour of the United States.
On Stage at Kingsborough [2001 Oriental Blvd. at Oxford Street in Manhattan Beach, (718) 368–5596, www.onstageatkingsborough.org]. Dec. 14 at 7 pm. $34–$39.
Flatbush fairies
Brooklyn Ballet’s annual “Brooklyn Nutcracker,” which adds flex, hip-hop, and world dance traditions to its baller ballet performances, moves to the spacious Kings Theatre this year for one night only. After the show, the company will host “Nutcracker in Paradise” a fund-raising dinner and gala in the theater’s mezzanine.
“Brooklyn Nutcracker” at Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. between Tilden Avenue and Duryea Place in Flatbush, www.brooklynballet.org). Dec. 14 at 7 pm. $25–$110 (gala tickets another $150–$500).
Join the show!
The fourth wall falls down in a new, immersive version of “The Nutcracker” from Alden Moves Dance Theater. The show uses traditional music and choreography, but will recruit audience members to become guests at the party, or courtiers in the Land of Sweets.
“The Nutcracker” at East Midwood Jewish Center Grand Ballroom. (1625 Ocean Ave. between Avenues K and L in Midwood, www.aldenmovesbk.com/nutcracker). Dec. 16 at noon and 5 pm. $30 ($25 in advance, $20 kids).
Catch an up-to-date version of the classic in “The Hip Hop Nutcracker” which features contemporary moves from a dozen dancers, performed to Tchaikovsky’s classic music, remixed by an onstage disc jockey and an electric violinist. Hip-hop founding father MC Kurtis Blow will narrate the performance, and will rap a short set before the show.
“The Hip Hop Nutcracker” at Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. between Tilden Avenue and Duryea Place in Flatbush, www.kingstheatre.com). Dec. 23 at 6 pm. $29–$79.
Reach arts editor Bill Roundy at broundy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–4507.
The lady in red: The Alden Moves production of “The Nutcracker” on Dec. 16, a the East Midwood Jewish Center, will bring the audience in on the action.
Matt Carr
Bill Roundy
Bill Roundy is the arts and entertainment editor for Brooklyn Paper. He is also a cartoonist, a Shakespeare buff, and an alcohol enthusiast. He has lived in the borough since 2001, and, according to the prophecy, will never leave.
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Were We a Nation under God from the Start?
BU input in Smithsonian’s American religious artifacts exhibition
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, prodded by the work of BU’s Stephen Prothero, is mounting a first-of-its-kind exhibition on religion in colonial America. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of American History
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By Rich Barlow
The United States remains the most religious nation in the industrialized world, according to an international survey. Yet the government’s national museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution, has never mounted an exhibition on how faith played out in the cradle of the country. Its National Museum of American History will address that omission two summers hence, when it opens Religion in Early America, an exhibition that will boast priceless artifacts as well as a BU pedigree.
The exhibition’s guest curator, Peter Manseau, is a scholar and author who was an administrator in the College of Arts & Sciences religion department for two years in the early 2000s. Assisting him is Stephen Prothero, a CAS religion professor, the primary academic advisor to the Smithsonian’s broader initiative in religious education, which was inspired by Prothero’s work on the PBS series God in America and his writings on religious literacy.
Manseau’s backstory is worth its own exhibition. The son of a censured Catholic priest who refused to resign despite marrying a nun and fathering children—a story Manseau recounted in his memoir Vows—he says the exhibition will aim to hit three marks in educating the public: religious “diversity, freedom, and growth” in colonial and early America.
The diversity leg will surprise those who assume non-Christian religions are a modern arrival on these shores. Among the display items will be an Islamic text written by a Muslim slave in Georgia. “Many of the slaves who came from West Africa…were Muslims,” although many were forced to abandon their practice, Prothero says. Other items will include George Washington’s christening gown; Roger Williams’ compass, used by Rhode Island’s founder to find his way there after his banishment from the Massachusetts colony over theological disagreements; the Bible on which Washington swore the presidential oath; the Jefferson Bible, famously shorn by the third president of all passages referring to miracles; and a Revolution-era Torah scroll.
For all the country’s religiosity, then and now, Prothero sees a countercultural aspect to the exhibition. “I think there’s nervousness in almost all public institutions now around religion—whether it’s public schools, public universities, or national museums—that it’s a kind of hot-button issue with all the culture wars stuff going on.” Focusing on the republic’s early days sidesteps modern controversies, he says: “You’re not having to talk about Jerry Falwell.” Yet it might still remind people of the debate between the religious right, whose members insist that the United States was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation and has strayed from God, and those who say the Enlightenment-inspired, mostly Protestant founders consciously erected barriers to the religious antagonisms that had torn Europe for centuries.
This debate leads to what Prothero hopes will be the crucial takeaway from the exhibition: “Religion matters. Whether you’re religious or not, whether you think religion is stupid, whether you think God exists, is irrelevant. Religion has a huge impact on personal lives, but also on politics, economics, history.”
By focusing on individual Americans and their religious objects, Manseau says, “we hope visitors will learn that the story of religion in early America was not only about churches and worship, but about individuals, communities, and beliefs and practices that influenced every aspect of life.”
For a prolific author like Prothero, whose most recent book is The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation, working on a museum exhibition—which seeks short, fact-based descriptions of its objects—was a departure from the freedom afforded by books to expound at length and to be opinionated. “When you have a card over an object, you might have 40 words,” he says. “You can’t get into a whole lot of Christian nation debate.”
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Lexus CT review
The CT is Lexus' entry-level car, but it offers the same level of luxury and craftsmanship as its more expensive models. It’s well made with high-quality materials and has lots of kit as standard.
Luxurious feel inside
Plenty of standard equipment
Impressively low running costs
Less space than other hybrid cars
Some people find the gearbox a little noisy
Could be more fun to drive
“The Lexus CT is very well made from high-quality materials and is low cost to run.”
The exterior design of the Lexus CT is distinctive and modern. Inside, the car is eye-catching with luxurious fittings you’d normally find only on bigger and more expensive models. It’s equipped with features such as air con, sat nav and parking sensors.
Featuring a petrol-electric engine, the CT is good to drive and very economical. With low tax and insurance costs, the running costs are inexpensive.
What's the interior like?
“There’s no faulting the quality and the amount of standard kit.”
The Lexus has a high quality interior made from top-notch materials. There’s lots of kit, with all cars getting Bluetooth, USB connection and 6 Panasonic speakers. Move up the range to the F-Sport version and you’ll find luxury soft leather trim for the seats and a powerful Mark Levinson stereo.
While the interior is beautifully finished, space is at a premium. The driver and passenger space is sufficient, but the back seats are cramped.
The boot can accommodate just 375 litres with the seats up, so enough space for several small suitcases. This expands to 985 litres with the rear seats folded flat, but the Mercedes A-Class and Audi A3 are roomier.
What's it like to drive?
“The Lexus is a car that likes to take it easy, making the most of its hybrid engines efficiency.”
Driven gently the Lexus CT is quiet and smooth, its engine remains hushed and there’s very little wind noise. Very supportive front seats make long trips supremely comfortable. Around town, careful use of the accelerator pedal results in near-silent driving in electric mode for short periods. But ask more of the car and the CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) automatic gearbox can be a little noisy.
Light steering and the extra weight of the hybrid system’s batteries means the CT can feel slow driving through corners.
Is it cost-efficient to buy and run?
“This economical hybrid has low fuel and tax bills, while generous equipment delivers strong value for money.”
The combination of a 1.8-litre petrol engine and electric motor makes the Lexus remarkably efficient. It will return 54.3 mpg which is really good.
It wasn’t a cheap car new and depreciation hasn’t been as steep as mainstream cars, but the CT is still good value if you take into account the generous amount of standard equipment and high-quality finish.
You’ll pay a little more for servicing than a Prius owner, but insurance costs are reasonable compared with rivals.
How reliable and safe is it?
“Few cars are as highly regarded by their owners, while later versions come loaded with safety equipment.”
The Lexus CT has topped numerous customer satisfaction surveys, with owners raving about the cars reliability, quality and low running costs.
Safety has always been key for the CT, with the car earning a five-star EuroNCAP rating in 2011. All versions feature eight airbags and electronic stability control. Blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control were options when new, so are worth looking out for when buying used. From 2018, all versions from SE Plus Pack and above feature an improved Safety System+ pack, which added lane departure warning and autonomous emergency braking as standard.
Which one is best for you?
Best for economy - Advance
Best for families - SE Plus Pack
Best for fun - F-Sport
With the same Prius hybrid engine used throughout, the running costs for various Lexus CT models are largely the same. However, search out post-2014 versions with the smallest 16-inch wheels and you’ll benefit from tax-busting CO2 emissions of just 88 g/km.
All versions of the Lexus CT come well equipped as standard, but models such as the SE Plus Pack and Advance deliver additional desirable extra kit, including sat nav and more safety systems. The F-Sport comes with a racy body kit and a sporty interior trim.
Browse used Lexus CT
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OPINION | Alberta, get ready for higher taxes
Albertans are about to pay higher taxes, says economist Trevor Tombe. And yes, that could include a PST and a provincial carbon tax.
PST and provincial carbon tax should be on the table, says economist
Trevor Tombe · for CBC News · Posted: Jan 14, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: January 14
Jason Kenney greets supporters at an anti-carbon tax rally in Calgary in 2018. According to economist Trevor Tombe, if the Alberta government took over the carbon tax, the revenues could be used to shrink the provincial deficit. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
This column is an opinion from Trevor Tombe, an associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary.
After the COVID dust settles, Albertans will pay higher taxes.
And despite not having explicitly said so, our provincial government has already committed us to this path. As 2021 unfolds and we gradually put COVID-19 behind us, we'll need to come to grips with Alberta's new fiscal reality.
For many years now, Alberta's governments struggled with persistent deficits. The former NDP government banked on rising oil and gas revenues to solve the problem, while the current UCP government hoped spending cuts would do the same.
Today, neither strategy is enough and we must soon change course.
We're already seeing some recognition of this. In its recent November fiscal update, Alberta announced what are called "fiscal anchors" (guideposts to keep fiscal policy on track). They effectively provide a new foundation for Alberta's budget planning:
Align public spending with 'comparator provinces.'
Keep debt below 30% of GDP.
Balance the budget and 'repay' debt over time.
Together, these anchors almost surely mean higher taxes are in our post-COVID future.
Are spending cuts enough?
The first anchor commits Alberta to "align" per capita spending with "comparator provinces."
They do not specifically say who those are, though they likely mean the three other large provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. Currently, Alberta spends roughly 20 per cent more than these three provinces per person, on average. But based on currently announced plans by each province, we'll achieve our first anchor within two years.
One can certainly agree or disagree with the wisdom of spending reductions. There are important trade-offs to consider, and the reductions will not be easily achieved. Difficult public sector wage negotiations and lower levels and quality of public services are in the cards.
If spending is successfully lowered, however, it will make a big difference to the province's bottom line. We're facing a projected $10-billion deficit by 2022-23, compared with what I estimate would have been a $20-billion deficit had total expenditures followed the path laid out by the former NDP government in their pre-election fiscal plan from 2019.
Achieving the first fiscal anchor is therefore roughly half the job. But maintaining spending in line with comparable provinces after 2022 means the $10-billion fiscal gap will persist. Below I plot my own budget projections. (Which updates this recent analysis.)
The government, of course, could opt for greater spending restraint — say, lowering per person spending by another 15 to 20 per cent — but that would violate their first anchor. If we take their commitments seriously, then this option is off the table.
In short, Alberta's "spending problem," as some refer to it, will be solved within two years. But this alone is not enough. We therefore need to look at new revenues as well — and non-resource revenues in particular.
Increasing government revenues
While there are many options — ranging from income taxes, to health levies, to gas taxes, and so on — I'll explore, just for fun, two of the most politically difficult options available: carbon taxes and sales taxes.
Currently, the federal carbon tax is set to rise to $170 per tonne by 2030, with nearly all the revenues rebated directly to households rather than any government's budget. If Alberta takes over this tax, it could instead opt to target rebates only to lower income households and use the rest to shrink the deficit. A rebate system modelled as in British Columbia might mean over $5 billion in carbon tax revenues to Alberta by 2030.
This helps, though still falls short. So consider our next option: sales taxes.
Currently, Albertans pay a five per cent sales tax on most goods and services we buy, with all revenues going to the federal government. Alberta can choose to increase this tax to, say, 10 per cent and the federal and provincial governments would then split the revenues evenly between them. This is known as a "harmonized sales tax," or HST.
If we gradually phased-in this change with a six per cent sales tax starting in 2022, eight per cent by 2023 and finally 10 per cent by 2024, then Alberta would be on track to roughly balance its books by 2025 — midway through the next government's mandate. And, for perspective, a 10 per cent sales tax (five per cent federal, plus five per cent provincial) would be the lowest of any province in Canada. (Saskatchewan's PST plus the federal GST currently totals 11 per cent.)
These options — or something else of roughly equivalent magnitude — would achieve all three fiscal anchors. We would maintain spending in line with (or, indeed, perhaps slightly less than) other provinces, our provincial debt would not exceed 30 per cent of GDP, and over time we would balance the books and begin "repaying" the debt we've recently accumulated.
Securing Alberta's fiscal future
Restraining spending growth, accepting carbon taxes and increasing sales tax rates would not only allow us to overcome our current fiscal challenges but would serve Alberta well over the long run.
The province would continue to be the lowest tax jurisdiction in Canada, and surpluses after 2025 could gradually be used to redirect resource revenues to debt repayment rather than funding public services. Lower debt and finally easing ourselves off the royalty roller-coaster is a tantalizing opportunity.
Tax increases are politically difficult, to be sure, and may explain why the government is only quietly setting Alberta on that path while simultaneously noting that "now is not the time to raise taxes." Of course, it would be inappropriate to increase taxes during what will be a difficult recovery from one of the largest economic shocks in generations.
But that is the path we're now on, and it's never too soon to plan prudently, openly and honestly for the future.
This column is an opinion. For more information about our commentary section, please read our FAQ.
Trevor Tombe
Trevor Tombe is an associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and research fellow at the School of Public Policy.
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Unlicensed contractor slugged nearly $30K
An unlicensed building contractor who took money from six unsuspecting consumers has been penalised nearly $30,000 for breaches of consumer and building work contractor laws.
In the Adelaide Magistrates Court, 39 year old William Alexander Roch pleaded guilty to breaches of the Building Work Contractors Act 1995 (SA) and the Australian Consumer Law.
The court heard Roch had accepted money from six consumers for a range of jobs – including installing fences, doing painting work, building a pergola and installing security screens and doors – and either didn’t start or made minimal progress in doing the work.
At the time of the offences, Roch didn’t hold the relevant contractor’s licence, and he ignored repeated requests from customers to complete the work.
Magistrate Susan O’Connor told Roch he had treated consumers as “dupes”, using the money to buy drugs.
“This is not only a clear breach of our consumer protection laws, it also shows callous disregard for those consumers who had paid money in good faith to have work done around their homes,” Commissioner for Consumer Affairs Dini Soulio said.
“I’m pleased to see the courts recognise the seriousness of this kind of behaviour, and respond appropriately.
“In this case, the contractor was unlicensed – and I would again urge all consumers to check the public register to ensure the person they hire is actually qualified and holds the relevant licence to carry out the work.”
Roch was fined $18,000 and ordered to pay a total of $9130 compensation to the six consumers.
To find out whether a contractor is licensed, visit the Consumer and Business Services website at https://secure.cbs.sa.gov.au/OccLicPubReg/LicenceSearch.php or call CBS on 131 882.
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Zink Named 2017-18 First Tennessee Chair Of Excellence At Chattanooga State
October 19, 2017 | Betty Proctor | College Advancement
Chattanooga State Community College Business faculty member Dan Zink was named the 2017-2018 First Tennessee Chair of Excellence. Zink is currently the director of the Hospitality & Tourism Management program at Chattanooga State.
Bobby Lusk, senior vice president of First Tennessee, presented the First Tennessee Chair of Excellence in Business to faculty member Dan Zink. “First Tennessee is proud to invest in education excellence in our community, and we are honored to recognize the outstanding work of hospitality instructor Dan Zink,” said Mr. Lusk.
The First Tennessee Endowed Chair of Excellence in Business was established through the Chattanooga State Foundation for the purpose of recognizing a distinguished faculty member within the Business Division.
The Business Division at Chattanooga State prepares students to enter the rapidly changing business world in a variety of programs, from accounting, marketing and digital media, to paralegal, hospitality management and culinary arts.
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Induction of labour in women with normal pregnancies at or beyond 37 weeks
Does a policy of inducing labour at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation reduce risks for babies and their mothers when compared with a policy of waiting until a later gestational age, or until there is an indication for induction of labour?
This review was originally published in 2006 and subsequently updated in 2012 and 2018.
The average pregnancy lasts 40 weeks from the start of the woman's last menstrual period. Pregnancies continuing beyond 42 weeks are described as 'post-term' or 'postdate' and a woman and her clinician may decide to bring the birth on by induction. Factors associated with post-term birth include obesity, first baby and the mother being more than 30 years old.
Prolonged gestation may increase risks for babies, including a greater risk of death (before or shortly after birth). However, inducing labour may also have risks for mothers and their babies, especially if the women’s cervix is not ready to go into labour. Current tests cannot predict the risks for babies or their mother, as such, and many hospitals have policies for how long pregnancies should be allowed to continue.
What evidence did we find?
We searched for evidence (17 July 2019) and identified 34 randomised controlled trials based in 16 different countries and involving > 21,500 women (mostly with low risk of complications). The trials compared a policy of inducing labour usually after 41 completed weeks of gestation (> 287 days) with a policy of waiting (expectant management).
A policy of labour induction was associated with fewer perinatal deaths (22 trials, 18,795 infants). Four perinatal deaths occurred in the labour induction policy group compared with 25 perinatal deaths in the expectant management group. Fewer stillbirths occurred in the induction group (22 trials, 18,795 infants), with two in the induction policy group and 16 in the expectant management group.
Women in the induction arms of the trials were probably less likely to have a caesarean section compared with expectant management (31 trials, 21,030 women) and there was probably little or no difference in assisted vaginal births (22 trials, 18,584 women).
Fewer babies went into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the policy of labour induction group (17 trials, 17,826 infants; high-certainty evidence). A simple test of the baby’s health (Apgar score) at five minutes was probably more favourable in the induction groups compared with expectant management (20 trials, 18,345 infants).
A policy of induction may make little or no difference to the women experiencing perineal trauma and probably makes little or no difference to the number of women having a postpartum haemorrhage, or breastfeeding at discharge. We are uncertain about the effect of induction or expectant management on the length of maternal hospital stay due to very low-certainty evidence.
For newborn babies, the number with trauma or encephalopathy were similar in the induction and expectant management groups (moderate and low-certainty evidence respectively). Neurodevelopment at childhood follow-up and postnatal depression were not reported in any of the trials. Only three trials reported some measure of maternal satisfaction.
A policy of labour induction compared with expectant management is associated with fewer deaths of babies and probably fewer caesarean sections; with probably little or no difference in assisted vaginal births. The best timing of when to offer induction of labour to women at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation warrants further investigation, as does further exploration of risk profiles of women and their values and preferences. Discussing the risks of labour induction, including benefits and harms, may help women make an informed choice between induction of labour for pregnancies, particularly those continuing beyond 41 weeks, or waiting for labour to start and/or waiting before inducing labour. Women's understanding of induction, the procedures, their risks and benefits, is important in influencing their choices and satisfaction.
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There is a clear reduction in perinatal death with a policy of labour induction at or beyond 37 weeks compared with expectant management, though absolute rates are small (0.4 versus 3 deaths per 1000). There were also lower caesarean rates without increasing rates of operative vaginal births and there were fewer NICU admissions with a policy of induction. Most of the important outcomes assessed using GRADE had high- or moderate-certainty ratings.
While existing trials have not yet reported on childhood neurodevelopment, this is an important area for future research.
The optimal timing of offering induction of labour to women at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation needs further investigation, as does further exploration of risk profiles of women and their values and preferences. Offering women tailored counselling may help them make an informed choice between induction of labour for pregnancies, particularly those continuing beyond 41 weeks - or waiting for labour to start and/or waiting before inducing labour.
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Risks of stillbirth or neonatal death increase as gestation continues beyond term (around 40 weeks' gestation). It is unclear whether a policy of labour induction can reduce these risks. This Cochrane Review is an update of a review that was originally published in 2006 and subsequently updated in 2012 and 2018.
To assess the effects of a policy of labour induction at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation compared with a policy of awaiting spontaneous labour indefinitely (or until a later gestational age, or until a maternal or fetal indication for induction of labour arises) on pregnancy outcomes for the infant and the mother.
Search strategy:
For this update, we searched Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth’s Trials Register, ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (17 July 2019), and reference lists of retrieved studies.
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in pregnant women at or beyond 37 weeks, comparing a policy of labour induction with a policy of awaiting spontaneous onset of labour (expectant management). We also included trials published in abstract form only. Cluster-RCTs, quasi-RCTs and trials using a cross-over design were not eligible for inclusion in this review.
We included pregnant women at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation. Since risk factors at this stage of pregnancy would normally require intervention, only trials including women at low risk for complications, as defined by trialists, were eligible. The trials of induction of labour in women with prelabour rupture of membranes at or beyond term were not considered in this review but are considered in a separate Cochrane Review.
Data collection and analysis:
Two review authors independently assessed trials for inclusion, assessed risk of bias and extracted data. Data were checked for accuracy. We assessed the certainty of evidence using the GRADE approach.
Main results:
In this updated review, we included 34 RCTs (reporting on over 21,000 women and infants) mostly conducted in high-income settings. The trials compared a policy to induce labour usually after 41 completed weeks of gestation (> 287 days) with waiting for labour to start and/or waiting for a period before inducing labour. The trials were generally at low to moderate risk of bias.
Compared with a policy of expectant management, a policy of labour induction was associated with fewer (all-cause) perinatal deaths (risk ratio (RR) 0.31, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.15 to 0.64; 22 trials, 18,795 infants; high-certainty evidence). There were four perinatal deaths in the labour induction policy group compared with 25 perinatal deaths in the expectant management group. The number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) with induction of labour, in order to prevent one perinatal death, was 544 (95% CI 441 to 1042). There were also fewer stillbirths in the induction group (RR 0.30, 95% CI 0.12 to 0.75; 22 trials, 18,795 infants; high-certainty evidence); two in the induction policy group and 16 in the expectant management group.
For women in the policy of induction arms of trials, there were probably fewer caesarean sections compared with expectant management (RR 0.90, 95% CI 0.85 to 0.95; 31 trials, 21,030 women; moderate-certainty evidence); and probably little or no difference in operative vaginal births with induction (RR 1.03, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.10; 22 trials, 18,584 women; moderate-certainty evidence). Induction may make little or difference to perineal trauma (severe perineal tear: RR 1.04, 95% CI 0.85 to 1.26; 5 trials; 11,589 women; low-certainty evidence). Induction probably makes little or no difference to postpartum haemorrhage (RR 1.02, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.15, 9 trials; 12,609 women; moderate-certainty evidence), or breastfeeding at discharge (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.04; 2 trials, 7487 women; moderate-certainty evidence). Very low certainty evidence means that we are uncertain about the effect of induction or expectant management on the length of maternal hospital stay (average mean difference (MD) -0.19 days, 95% CI -0.56 to 0.18; 7 trials; 4120 women; Tau² = 0.20; I² = 94%).
Rates of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission were lower (RR 0.88, 95% CI 0.80 to 0.96; 17 trials, 17,826 infants; high-certainty evidence), and probably fewer babies had Apgar scores less than seven at five minutes in the induction groups compared with expectant management (RR 0.73, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.96; 20 trials, 18,345 infants; moderate-certainty evidence).
Induction or expectant management may make little or no difference for neonatal encephalopathy (RR 0.69, 95% CI 0.37 to 1.31; 2 trials, 8851 infants; low-certainty evidence, and probably makes little or no difference for neonatal trauma (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.63 to 1.49; 5 trials, 13,106 infants; moderate-certainty evidence) for induction compared with expectant management. Neurodevelopment at childhood follow-up and postnatal depression were not reported by any trials.
In subgroup analyses, no differences were seen for timing of induction (< 40 versus 40-41 versus ≥ 41 weeks' gestation), by parity (primiparous versus multiparous) or state of cervix for any of the main outcomes (perinatal death, stillbirth, NICU admission, caesarean section, operative vaginal birth, or perineal trauma).
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Middleton P, Shepherd E, Morris J, Crowther CA, Gomersall JC
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Middleton P, Shepherd E, Morris J, Crowther CA, Gomersall JC. Induction of labour at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD004945. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004945.pub5.
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