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The Opposition View: Plymouth Argyle vs Coventry City
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by Guest Writer | Jan 17, 2019 | Matches | 0 comments
Sideways Sammy gave his opposition view ahead of Coventry versus Plymouth Argyle.
1. Hi again and thanks for talking to us. How do you think the season has gone since the two clubs last met in August?
It’s been a season of good and bad runs. After a fairly poor start, we matched a club record five league wins in a row back in October, before failing to win the following nine games, winning three in a row over Christmas and coming back down to earth more recently by failing to beat two relegation contenders in our most recent games.
2. What do you think has been the key to Coventry performing above expectations this season?
While we’ve rarely been outstanding, we’ve generally had chances to win in the games we’ve lost or drawn this season. There has a consistent baseline of quality in our performances. Had we a finisher in the class of Marc McNulty, Adam Armstrong, or Leon Clarke, who we’ve had in season gone by, we would be in the play-off picture, but we don’t and this season has felt slightly underwhelming thus far despite sitting in a comfortable position in the top half.
3. Who have been the key players?
Tom Bayliss remains a class act in central midfield. His ability to drive forward and glide past opposing midfielders is a key feature of our attacking play. With pacey and dynamic players around him – especially Luke Thomas and Dujon Sterling on the right wing – we have threatened to play some really confident and incisive attacking football. Alongside him, Liam Kelly stepping into Michael Doyle’s defensive role in midfield has improved our attacking play with Kelly playing the ball quicker and covering more ground than Doyle to free our attacking players to get on the front foot more.
4. If anyone, who have been the weak links?
Finishing has been a consistent problem for us this season, especially with our key summer signing, Conor Chaplin, struggling for confidence in front of goal. It could well be the case in this game that we’ll have a lot of the play and create chances, but I wouldn’t back us to put the game to bed in a convincing manner if we do so.
5. How do you expect your side will set up for the game on Saturday?
It is likely to be a similar set-up to recent weeks where we have a front two in Jordy Hiwula and Conor Chaplin who’ll offer energy to press the Plymouth defence. As it’s an away game, I would imagine we’ll look to utilise the pace in this side to launch quick counter-attacks but if Liam Kelly and Tom Bayliss can get on the ball in midfield, we could play more of a possession-based game.
6. One player who Argyle have got the best out of who never really shone at Coventry is Ruben Lameiras. Why do you think this is?
The general problem for Lameiras at Coventry City was getting a run in the side. First of all, he was a supporting cast member against leading acts such as Jacob Murphy, James Maddison, Ryan Kent and Adam Armstrong, then he was part of a side struggling against relegation that was too desperate for results to be patient enough to allow a potentially flaky attacking midfielder to develop some consistency and express himself. He finally got a run in the side towards the end of his spell with us, linking up particularly well with George Thomas with those delightful reverse passes he specialises in, but Mark Robins’ natural caution saw him released in favour of more experienced campaigners to get us out of League Two last season.
7. Coventry are still deeply embroiled in a dispute with the owners about the Ricoh Arena. How do you see that playing out in the long run?
The honest answer is, I don’t know. The only thing that can resolve this situation is our owners, SISU, selling the club, but they appear to have little interest in doing so. As it stands, this club is homeless at the end of the season with the parties involved in the dispute seemingly unwilling to return to the negotiating table and there being no viable alternatives to playing at the Ricoh Arena. It looks grim, but we’ve been here before and there have been short-term fudges, my guess is that there will continue to be fudges until all legal options for SISU to dispute the sale of the stadium are exhausted. What happens after that, is anyone’s guess.
8. What are your thoughts from the outside on Argyle’s underwhelming season and the reasons for it?
Aside from Ruben Lameiras, Graham Carey and possibly Freddie Ladapo, there aren’t too many players in the Argyle squad that I would imagine would walk into most other League One sides. While Derek Adams is a shrewd manager, that lack of quality across the pitch appears to have been the biggest reason why Argyle have struggled, even if there have been runs of form that have suggested the team can pull away from danger.
9. How do you see the season planning out for both clubs? Can Coventry sneak into the play offs?
I would be delighted to be wrong, but I don’t think we’ll sneak in to the play-offs. The gap is widening with each week and having seen us play the better teams at this level, we’re lacking that quality in the final third to win enough games to bridge that gap.
For Argyle, it’s going to be difficult to stay up with several teams starting to improve at that end of the table, but not impossible given that there are sides like Rochdale and Walsall that look to be in a tail-spin. Staying solid, eking out draws and narrow wins could be the key to staying up.
10. Finally, a prediction for the score on Saturday?
Having struggled in recent weeks against play-off contenders, I’m feeling pessimistic heading into this game. I can see Argyle sneaking the win here, 2-1.
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Astrobiology Science News 24 September 2009
Bright optical dayside emission from extrasolar planet CoRoT-2b, astro-ph
A transit timing analysis of seven RISE light curves of the exoplanet system HAT-P-3, astro-ph
Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars, University of Arizona
NASA Spacecraft Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts, NASA
NASA Instruments Reveal Water Molecules on Lunar Surface, NASA
NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material, NASA JPL
Deep Impact Spacecraft Finds Clear Evidence of Water on Moon, University of Maryland
Brown Scientists Announce Finding of Water on the Moon, Brown University
New research shows water present across the moon's surface - It turns out the moon is a lot wetter than we ever thought, University of Tennessee Knoxville
AbSciCon 2010: Session Topic Proposal Deadline Extended
The deadline for proposing Session Topics to AbSciCon 2010 has been extended until September 30. The organizing committee is soliciting community input for session topics. Suggestions will be reviewed by the organizing committee, and the approved list of session topics will appear in the second announcement along with the call for abstracts. The announcement of Session Topics, along with instruction for submitting abstracts, will be online by October 14. The Abstract deadline remains December 1. For more information: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/abscicon2010.topics.shtml Source: NAI Newsletter
ROSES-09 Amendment 17: New Due Date, Start Date and Clarification for C.7, Outer Planets Research (OPR) Program
This amendment delays the proposal due date for Appendix C.7, Outer Planets Research (OPR) Program. The program element in ROSES-2009, Appendix C.7, Outer Planets Research (OPR), solicits proposals for diverse scientific investigations that contribute to the understanding of the outer Solar System, including the giant planets, their satellites, and smaller solid bodies including comets, asteroids, and Kuiper Belt objects. The program includes both data analysis from NASA missions and fundamental research.
Student Travel Grants - Workshop on Methane on Mars
November 25-27, 2009 in Frascati, Italy - The NASA Mars Program Office has announced that travel funding will be made available for as many as 5 students who are U.S. citizens or legal residents, with Mars-related interests, to attend the Workshop on Methane on Mars: Current Observations, Interpretation and Future Plans, November 25-27, 2009 in Frascati, Italy. An application must be submitted by September 28, 2009, to be considered for this funding. NASA Headquarters will make the selections and students will be notified no later than October 15, 2009. Reimbursable costs include registration fees, transportation (airfare, mileage to/from airport, parking, rental car) and lodging/per diem. In most cases, actual expenses will exceed the funding provided.
10/5 NAI Director's Seminar
Danny Glavin (speaker) and Jason Dworkin, "Southpaw Solar System: L-Amino Acid Excesses in Meteorites and the Implications for the Origin of Homochirality on Earth"
Abstract: Meteorites provide a record of the chemical processes that occurred in the early solar system before life began on Earth. The delivery of organic matter, including amino acids, by carbonaceous meteorites could have been an important source of the early Earth's prebiotic organic inventory. The earlier discovery of slight to significant excesses for several indigenous left handed
Kepler Science Openings
The Kepler Science Office has recently posted two positions and requests your help in recruiting good candidates. Currently, the positions are posted on the SETI Institute's website at:
http://www.seti.org/jobs/kepler-analysis
http://www.seti.org/jobs/kepler-archive
The first is for a data analyst to help with image artifact mitigation and other data processing/analysis. The second is for a data archiver to help with the post-processing, archiving, and operation of KSAS, the Kepler Science Analysis System. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Source: NAI Newsletter
AbSciCon 2010 First Announcement
The Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 will be held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) April 26-29, 2010. Please submit the Indication of Intent form [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2010/iofi/ ] by October 1, 2009, in order to be added to the mailing list to receive reminders and other pertinent information related to the conference.
View the Announcement Now!! Source: NAI Newsletter
Postdoc Position Available at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole
A postdoctoral position in microbial ecology with secondary emphases in evolutionary ecology, information theory and/or modeling is available at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole. This NSF-funded project seeks to determine the principles governing how energy and matter flow through biological systems using laboratory microcosms as experiment systems. In addition, the project will advance a mathematical framework for modeling biogeochemistry orchestrated by microbial communities using a distributed metabolic network representation constrained by thermodynamics. We are seeking an individual with expertise in molecular microbial ecology with an interest in theoretical ecology or systems biology. Approximately 10% of the successful applicant's time will be devoted to program outreach that involves development of educational web resources as well as dissemination of project results. Funding support is available for 2.5 years.
NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet
NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
"Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts."
Elsila is the lead author of a paper on this research accepted for publication in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. The research will be presented during the meeting of the American Chemical Society at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington, DC, August 16.
NAI Research Reveals Major Insight into Evolution of Life on Earth
Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found.
By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes - a type of single-celled organism without a nucleus - molecular biologist James A. Lake from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Astrobiology showed that two major classes of relatively simple microbes fused together more than 2.5 billion years ago. Lake's research reveals a new pathway for the evolution of life on Earth. These insights are published in the Aug. 20 online edition of the journal Nature.
This endosymbiosis, or merging of two cells, enabled the evolution of a highly stable and successful organism with the capacity to use energy from sunlight via photosynthesis. Further evolution led to photosynthetic organisms producing oxygen as a byproduct. The resulting oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere profoundly affected the evolution of life, leading to more complex organisms that consumed oxygen, which were the ancestors of modern oxygen-breathing creatures including humans.
Three New NASA Postdoctoral Fellows Join The NAI
The NAI has selected three new postdoctoral fellows, Siobhan Wilson, Sanchaya Gupta, and Nancy Akerman as they join NAI teams through the NASA Postdoctoral Program. Nancy Akerman will work with Julie Huber at the Marine Biological Laboratory (Carnegie Insitution of Washington Team), to examine "Habitability in Extreme Environments: Microbial Function and Activity in Deep and Shallow Marine Hydrothermal Systems". Sanchaya (Neal) Gupta will work with both the MIT and CIW teams on the research topic, "Polymeric Biosignatures in Organismic Fossils and Environmental Controls on their Preservation", working with Roger Summons and George Cody. Siobhan (Sasha) Wilson will be working with David Bish at Indiana University, on a project entitled, "Hydrated Sulfate Minerals: a Habitat for Martian Microorganisms?" The next application deadline for the NASA Postdoctoral Program is November 1, 2009. See http://nasa.orau.org/postdoc/ for more information. Source: NAI Newsletter
Nominations Solicited for ExoPAG Executive Committee
The Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate is soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of a newly established Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). The inaugural ExoPAG Chair will be Jim Kasting, a long-time member of the astrobiology community and the NAI. The ExoPAG will be responsible for soliciting and coordinating community input into the development and execution of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. Interested members of the astrobiology community are encouraged to nominate colleagues or themselves to serve on the ExoPAG Executive Committee. The deadline for receipt of nominations is Sept. 4, 2009. For more information: http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/exep_exoPAG.cfm Source: NAI Newsletter
AGU Session B30: Revisiting the Habitable Zone
This year, the AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA will have a session on the habitable zone organized by colleagues from the NAI. The conveners would like the session to be interdisciplinary in nature, and invite astrobiologists from all disciplines to present concepts related to habitability and the definition of the habitable zone.
For more information see http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=523
The deadline to submit an abstract is 03 September 2009.
A planetary eclipse map of CoRoT-2a. Comprehensive lightcurve modeling combining rotational-modulation and transits, astro-ph
Dust amorphization in protoplanetary disks, astro-ph
The inner environment of protoplanetary disks with near infrared spectro-interferometry, astro-ph
Protoplanetary gas disks in the far infrared, astro-ph
SEPM Field Conference on Microbial Mats in Siliciclastic Deposits (Archean to Today)
May 21 - 23, 2010 Denver, Colorado and Dinosaur Ridge, Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone, Denver
The conference presents an important and novel review on microbial mats and the sedimentary structures they form in siliciclastic settings through Earth times, from the early Archean to the present. The meeting brings together the expertise and knowledge of an international panel of leading researchers to provide a state-of-the art overview of the field. The participants give a timely review of the current and most topical areas of research, essential for all scientists interested in this rapidly growing field. For more information: http://www.sepm.org/activities/researchconferences/microbial/microbial_home.htm Source: NAI Newsletter
Seeking Nominees for COSPAR Awards and Medals
COSPAR, the Committee on Space Research of the International Council for Science, is seeking candidates to be nominated for COSPAR awards and medals, which recognize the outstanding achievements of space scientists throughout the world. The awards will be presented at the 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, to be held in Bremen, Germany, 18-25 July, 2010.
It is important to honor the contributions of your colleagues. Please take a moment to consider nominees for the following awards and medals:
AGU Session B14: Early Oxygen
Session Abstract: During most of the geologic past, life and the surface environments on Earth were profoundly different than they are today. In particular, it is generally accepted that the atmosphere was devoid of O2, or nearly so, until the "Great Oxidation Event" approximately 2.4 billion years ago. However, considerable uncertainty remains about the abundances of O2 and other oxidants during the first half of Earth history, as well as processes that constrained these abundances to seemingly trace levels. Emerging data should allow tighter constraints on Archean free oxygen concentrations, the variability of redox conditions at high temporal resolution, and the evolutionary and biogeochemical consequences of oxygenation. At the same time there is a need to refine existing proxies, assess their limitations, and develop new ones. This session will explore these issues. We encourage abstracts from a variety of areas ranging from analytical and theoretical geochemistry to genomics. For more information see
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=219 Source: NAI Newsletter
Detection of Planetary Emission from the Exoplanet TrES-2 using Spitzer /IRAC, astro-ph
Tohoku-Hiroshima-Nagoya planetary spectra library: A method for characterizing planets in the visible to near infrared, astro-ph
Exoplanet Transit Database. Reduction and processing of the photometric data of exoplanet transits, astro-ph
Hubble Space Telescope Multi-Cycle Treasury (MCT) Programs Call for Proposals
Release Date: August 14, 2009 Proposal Deadline: November 18, 2009
NASA and The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are pleased to announce the Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs Call for Proposals for Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Observations. Participation in this program is open to all categories of organizations, both domestic and foreign, including educational institutions, profit and nonprofit organizations, NASA Centers, and other Government agencies.
Call for Nominations: National Academy of Science Awards
The Academy presents a number of awards, spanning a wide range of scientific disciplines, to recognize outstanding achievements in science.
Nominations for awards to be presented in the year 2010 will be accepted through September 15, 2009.
Astrobiology Science News 7 September 2009
Massive Satellites of Close-In Gas Giant Exoplanets, astro-ph
Construction of Coupled Period-Mass Functions in Extrasolar Planets through the Nonparametric Approach, astro-ph
NASA Astrobiology Institute Research Reveals Major Insight into Evolution of Life onEarth
Insights into the formation of Fe- and Mg-rich aqueous solutions on early Mars provided by the ALH 84001 carbonates
Martian meteorite may have held life, New Scientist
Dust Distribution in the beta Pictoris Circumstellar Disks, astro-ph
Outward Migration of Terrestrial Embryos in Binary Systems, astro-ph
A homogeneous spectroscopic analysis of host stars of transiting planets, astro-ph
Giant planet migration, disk evolution, and the origin of transitional disks, astro-ph
Detectability of Transiting Jupiters and Low-Mass Eclipsing Binaries in Sparsely Sampled Pan-STARRS-1 Survey Data, astro-ph
Explorations Beyond the Snow Line: Spitzer/IRS Spectra of Debris Disks Around Solar-Type Stars, astro-ph
gamma Doradus stars in the COROT exoplanets fields: first inspection, astro-ph
Water in HD 209458b's atmosphere from 3.6 - 8 microns IRAC photometric observations in primary transit, astro-ph
The Stability and Prospects of the Detection of Terrestrial/Habitable Planets in Multiplanet and Multiple Star Systems, astro-ph
Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars - VII. Theta Cygni radial velocity variations: planets or stellar phenomenon?, astro-ph
How deadly are cosmic rays?, MSNBC
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The Internet May Be Next Victim of Coronavirus Pandemic – Netflix, Google, Apple and Amazon React
With an estimated billion people staying home, remote working or just watching shows online all day, telecom infrastructure is coming under great strain. Experts and companies are mostly saying that the risk is far from critical yet, but the EU has taken the possibility of the internet crashing very seriously. Netflix, Google, Apple, and Amazon have begun to restrict HD video streaming to reduce data usage in Europe.
Also Read: Encryption Standards Threatened Under Pretext of Battling Coronavirus
Coronavirus Crisis Hurts European Internet Infrastructure
The epicenter of the coronavirus crisis has squarely migrated from China to Europe these days. Italy bore most of the brunt, with the highest number of casualties so far, but Spain, France and other countries are also suffering the strong effects of the pandemic growing quickly. Governments have reacted by imposing curfews on citizens, closing borders, shutting down businesses and generally putting in place various restrictions on normal life in order to slow the spread of the virus and “flatten the curve”.
The main measure that everyday people were asked to take in response is to stay home and avoid any unnecessary trips outside the house. As such, it is no surprise that internet usage in Europe has spiked, with employees working remotely, students learning online and everybody streaming videos. This caused European telecommunication companies, such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, to raise the alarm and the European Union soon reacted.
Important phone conversation with @ReedHastings, CEO of @Netflix
To beat #COVID19, we #StayAtHome
Teleworking & streaming help a lot but infrastructures might be in strain.
To secure Internet access for all, let’s #SwitchToStandard definition when HD is not necessary.
— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) March 18, 2020
The EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, revealed on Twitter that he has had discussions with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and asked that the streaming service downgrades its broadcasts in Europe from high definition video quality to lower resolution. An hour of HD video from Netflix takes about 3GB of data and an hour of standard definition (SD) video takes about 1GB of data so the move could cut a significant amount of used bandwidth.
Video Streaming Giants React
According to recent estimates, video streaming services can account for more than 60% of global internet traffic, with Netflix alone responsible for 12% of online bandwidth around the world. The company was the first of the operators in the market to announce it will take measures to help with the situation in Europe.
“Given the extraordinary challenges raised by the coronavirus — Netflix has decided to begin reducing bit rates across all our streams in Europe for 30 days,” a Netflix spokesperson said. “We estimate that this will reduce Netflix traffic on European networks by around 25% while also ensuring a good quality service for our members.”
Google has also reduced bitrates on its subsidiary Youtube, where an estimated one billion hours of content is being watched every day. This reportedly happened after EU Commissioner Breton talked with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default,” the company said.
Amazon has also taken similar measures on its Prime Video service. “We support the need for careful management of telecom services to ensure they can handle the increased internet demand with so many people now at home full-time due to Covid-19,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “Prime Video is working with local authorities and internet service providers where needed to help mitigate any network congestion.”
Disney has postponed the planned launch of its Disney Plus streaming service in France at the request of the local government while going forward with the plan in other European markets. It also said it will lower its overall bandwidth utilization by at least 25% in all of the markets launching Disney Plus on March 24, 2020. This will reportedly be done in response to an EU request to “ensure the smooth functioning of the broadband infrastructure.”
According to reports from European subscribers, Apple has reacted to the situation by downgrading the streaming quality of Apple TV Plus in Europe.
What do you think about the possibility that the internet will crash due to the global coronavirus crisis? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Changes to NSW dam regulation – what you need to know
Categories: Innovation Insight Series , Water Management
ATC Williams works closely with the NSW Dams Safety Committee and has a clear understanding of the expectations for dam performance and safety across the region. We outline the recent changes that affect dam engineering in NSW and what they mean for you.
How are dams regulated in NSW?
Dam Safety NSW is responsible for “regulating the safety of dams in NSW.” The Dam Safety Act 2015 supersedes the previous 1978 Act. Under the new Act, legislative guidance is provided by the Dams Safety Regulation 2019 (source: Dam safety reform, summary of legislation changes), and replaces previous guidance sheets.
The new legislation reflects a recognition by Dams Safety NSW of the changing standards and practice applied to dams, with emphasis on safety and accountability for the public and the environment. The stated intent of the change is:
“to improve the safety management practices of declared dam owners
to improve the regulator’s ability to enforce the requirements
to remove the potential conflict of interest resulting from dam owners being on the board of the Dams Safety Committee”.
What are the significant changes?
Changes in the legislation relevant to dam owners and designers are:
The term “Prescribed Dams”, as we have become accustomed to in the past, has changed to “Declared Dams”. A dam will become “Declared” if as a result of failure, human life would be endangered, or the severity of loss or damage would be major or catastrophic.
The approval of a dam design previously provided by the Dams Safety Committee is no longer required. However, the dam design must be carried out under an AS/NZS ISO 9001:2016 quality management system, which means that accountability for the performance of the dam will now rest with the designer.
Notwithstanding the above, engineering controls on the design and performance of Declared Dams will be maintained by an independent review of:
Consequence Category assessments
Design for all High and Extreme Consequence Category dams
Safety reviews (required nominally every 15 years)
All dams require Operations and Maintenance Plans. For High and Extreme category dams, plans must be updated annually, and for other Declared Dams, every five years.
An Annual Report, addressing compliance with dam safety standards, will replace the former Surveillance Reporting requirement.
All dam owners must implement a Dam Safety Management System (DSMS) that defines a risk-based approach to managing the dam. It is of interest that once a Declared Dam falls below a defined safety threshold, risk-based decisions are based on “so far as is reasonably practical” (SFAIRP) principles. This safety threshold is benchmarked against ANCOLD standards.
The new Act and Regulation came into effect on 1 November 2019, with standards and guidelines progressively being developed.
Important dates to know…
There is a two-year transition period to fully implement the legislation (ending on 1 November 2021).
For dam owners “who do not have operations and maintenance plans, or emergency plans for their Declared Dams”, Dam Safety NSW required this documentation to be submitted by 1 May 2020.
Please refer to damsafety.nsw.gov.au for further advice.
Guidance on HRA submissions
Did you know the NSW Resources Regulator now requires HRA (High Risk Activity) submissions for dam developments on all mine sites? It is notable that tailings storage facilities (TSFs) for all operations other than coal, opal and small gemstone mines, are now considered as HRAs. The specific activities considered to be High Risk include:
You can read more about HRAs at resourcesregulator.nsw.gov.au.
How is ATC Williams assisting dam engineering?
ATC Williams has worked within the NSW mining industry for more than 25 years, through the coalfields and metalliferous mining regions. We are committed to maintaining this relationship well into the future, supported by the recent opening of our Singleton office.
Dam engineering is a significant component of our business, both in the tailings and mine water management space. We are well prepared to transition with the new legislation and offer the full range of services related to dams, from siting, geotechnical investigation, design, construction support, operational planning, and closure. We can also assist in the preparation of HRA submissions for your TSF.
To understand how these changes may affect your operation, please contact:
John Milson, Principal Engineer and Hunter Valley Office Manager, Genevieve New, Senior Associate Melbourne or your existing ATC Williams contact.
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Novelist To Play Exclusive Charity Gig
MOBO Award nominated artist Novelist has been revealed as a headline act to play an unforgettable charity concert at London’s Peckham Audio on April 2.
The intimate South London gig is part of Youth Music’s Give a Gig Week, where musicians put on fundraising events across the country to support the charity’s work. And, thanks to support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Youth Music project participants will be involved in every part of Give a Gig Week: as performers, event runners, photographers, filmmakers and more.
For Novelist’s gig, he will be joined by fellow South London MC Lioness, and Birmingham’s young rising star T.Roadz - the winner of Youth Music’s Outstanding Act Award - with more performers to be announced.
To purchase your ticket to this event, please click here.
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Let's be about it
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Talk to me Goose!
Re: Let's be about it
I think I am going to take a brief pause in writing at this point... my head hurts from so much writing so fast.
I also have over-run my plan by writing so much so soon. :) I know what happens in the Talbott Cluster, and back in Manticore... I'm not sure what happens at Spindle. LOL!
Don't fear, a day or two break at the most. I parallel to the segments here I am re-formatting the story more conventionally. I might make that version available in epub format, freely of course. Don't want to step on any copyright toes. :)
Part XII: The Stage is Set
The Lynx Terminus was not well positioned to serve the Talbott cluster. Even for a warship as fast as Enterprise, the trip still took almost a week before Enterprise made planetfall at Spindle. Thomas reminded himself that from this point forward he must refer to the Star Empire of Manticore. San Martin, Lynx and Medusa had joined the original three Manitcoran planets of Manticore, Sphynx and Gryphon in the old Kingdom of Manticore. The planets of the Talbott Cluster had joined later, and the combination was now the Empire. It seemed strange to Thomas, who had grown up with only the original three systems.
Still, it was hard to argue that San Martin, Lynx and Medusa as Terminus systems didn’t belong. Once you allowed Lynx and San Martin to vote themselves into the Kingdom, the door was opened to allow the Talbott Cluster to join a larger union. Still it seemed strange to an old timer. No doubt future generations would think the original three system polity was ‘quaint’.
Arrival at Spindle brought with it the need to report to Tenth Fleet that Enterprise was on station. No sooner was that report made than Enterprise was contacted by Captain Cynthia Lecter, Chief of Staff to Admiral Gold Peak, Tenth Fleet’s Commander, “Captain Kirk, please to have you here. The Admiral has asked me to inquire if it would be convenient for you to repair on board in two hours?”
Thomas didn’t bother to hide his smile, “Of course Captain. I’ll call away my own cutter if that is acceptable?” Captain Lecter smiled back at the shared joke, “Thank you Captain, that would be fine. You’ll be receiving a full situation brief at that time and meeting with Admiral Gold Peak as well as the Governor General and several local government officials. You can consider this your courtesy call on all officials present.” Thomas considered that this would amount to quite a time saver, courtesy calls were necessary, but time consuming on a major change of station. “Captain Lecter, thank you very much.” Thomas began “I’ll see you in two hours.” Captain Lecter gave another smile, “I’ll be looking forward to it Captain Kirk.”
Thomas reflected that Captain Lecter had a very nice smile; foreign beers might not be the only thing worth exploring in Talbott space.
Thomas arrived on board HMS Artemis precisely on schedule, as was to be expected. He had elected to use the cutter from Galileo 7 once again; he had been impressed by the small craft skills of the pilot. The ritual for boarding a Queen’s ship complete he was met by Captain Lecter. “Captain Kirk, Cynthia Lecter. Pleased to meet you.” Captain Lecter offered her hand, and Thomas noted that she was an attractive woman. Trim, somewhat shorter than himself and with a smile that made her look younger than she must be. “Pleased to meet you as well Captain Lecter. Please call me Thomas, I’m afraid there are quite probably far too many ‘Captains’ about for clarity.” Thomas offered with a smile of his own.
Cynthia smiled, but with just a touch of confusion, “Thomas? I had thought it would be Jim. You really don’t look much like a Thomas.” Thomas was taken aback, “I used to go by Jim, I’ve only recently changed to using Thomas.” Cynthia frowned slightly, “Well Thomas it is. You should really consider changing back though. Jim suits you better.” Thomas decided he didn’t much like seeing a frown on Cynthia Lecter’s face, “I’ll consider it Cynthia, it may be something I have to grow into again.”
The meeting with Admiral Gold Peak and assembled local dignitaries was very business like. It was clear that 10th Fleet, indeed the entire Talbott Sector, was on a war footing. Present at the meeting were the Admiral an Imperial Governor General, as well as the Talbott Cluster Prime Minister, it’s Minister of War and several lower level ministers.
Admiral Gold Peak made introductions around the conference table and Thomas acknowledged all present in turn. “Captain, I wish we had more time to acclimate you to the Talbott Cluster. In truth we don’t. Tenth Fleet has to be prepared to defend the Lynx Terminus and the Cluster. Known threats include the Solarian League Navy, proxies of Manpower Incorporated seeking to destabilize the Cluster and the average problems any Verge area will encounter with pirates and slavers.” Admiral Gold Peak’s assessment was grim, despite the generous success that she had already accumulated against the SLN.
Admiral Gold Peak was about to continue when two new arrivals showed up. One was a Captain (Senior Grade), the other a grizzled Chief Petty Officer. Thomas recognized them immediately, and was unsurprised when Admiral Gold Peak named them as Captain Prescott (Scotty) Tremaine and Chief Warrant Officer Sir Horace Harkness. “Scotty, Sir Horace, I’ve just been explaining the Talbott situation to Captain Kirk” the Admiral began before turning to Thomas, “Captain, I’ll be attaching you administratively to Captain Tremaine’s Cruiser Division. I expect you will be acting independently most of your time here though.”
Scotty Tremaine nodded, “Yes Ma’am. I currently have deployed one CA and a DD as escort in the piracy suppression role in the north of the Cluster. Enterprise has her attached LAC, which gives her the same scouting ability as the two detached ships. Enterprise will have slightly less combat power, but it should be more than enough for piracy suppression. I’ll be tasking Enterprise to carry out that duty while the CA and DD rejoin the remainder of the Fleet.”
The remainder of the meeting went quickly, most of it was administrative matters dealing with getting the Talbott Cluster up to Manticoran standards as quick as possible. The Cluster needed to be able to aid in it’s own defence.
Once the meeting broke up, Thomas was stopped in the passageway by Captain Tremaine. “Captain Kirk. A moment please.” Thomas had been walking with Cynthia Lecter, who moved aside to allow the two Captain’s to speak with some privacy. “Of course sir.” Thomas replied, “How can I help you?” Scotty looked embarrassed. “Do you mind if I call you Thomas and you call me Scotty?” Thomas nodded and Scotty pressed on. “Normally you would be my second in command. I need your ship deployed though, which makes that normal appointment impractical.” Thomas smiled, “Of course Sir. Not many Cruiser Captains would complain of independent action vs. a staff appointment anyway.” Scotty smiled at the other Captain’s spirit he liked this man. Then Scotty sobered, “There is one other matter. I know you brought a full external load of pods equipped with Mk 23 missiles, including Apollo. I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to offload half of them to go to the rest of the Division. We will replace them with Mk 16 pods, but the Fleet is extremely short of the Mk 23’s.”
Now it was Thomas’ turn to sober. He could hardly refuse the order, but offloading that many of the longer-range Mk 23’s would remove a significant amount of his long-range punch. After a moment’s consideration Thomas replied, “Of course Sir. I should have anticipated the requirement. I’ll see to the swap immediately.”
Scotty brightened at the response and then grinned, “I do have some good news. Admiral Harrington sent a dispatch boat which included her tactical assessment of Enterprise. The engineers here have already assessed the requirements for your Ferret to be able to be used to strengthen your aft armament. The change isn’t that hard, well within the capabilities of the local shipyards with our support ships to assist. One of the local shipyards is already started design work on a prototype. We can use one of the local LAC’s for proof of concept trials.”
Thomas wasn’t sure he wanted the locals tampering with his ship, and it must have showed. “Don’t worry Thomas. Admiral Gold Peak would never let you get saddled with an unsuitable ship. It will work or stay on the drawing board, you have my word.” Scotty seemed completely assured, so Thomas relented. “As you say Sir. It would be a nice thing to have.”
Scotty took his leave and Cynthia Lecter collected Thomas to escort him back to his waiting cutter. Arriving at the boat bay containing his cutter, she told Thomas “Good Luck and Good Hunting Sir. You’ll have to tell me all about your ship over dinner some time.” With a smile she was gone.
Thomas thought the Talbott Cluster could definitely hold promise.
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Part XIII: To Pequod
The formal orders for HMS Enterprise assigned her to patrol the Pequod, Prairie and Nuncio systems in the ‘north’ of the Talbott Cluster. The amount of merchant shipping had climbed rapidly in the area since the Annexation by Manticore. Along with an increase in the amount of shipping had come a massive increase in the value of the cargos. Manticore was committed to bringing the new territories up to a better standard of living as fast as possible, this meant that vast amounts of modern equipment and training materials were almost always in transit.
Nuncio in particular saw quite heavy traffic. With a planetary population of only 350 million people, and two habitable planets in the system, Nuncio was an attractive system for investment. That investment had brought pirates out of the woodwork. Local detachments of LACs had helped, but the pirates were crafty, the LACs couldn’t be everywhere and the pirates only struck when it looked like they had a chance to raid and escape.
If traffic in Nuncio was heavy, Pequod was the most varied. In Pequod ships from the various planets of The Verge, New Tuscany, Manticore and the Solarian League were almost always present. The start of hostilities with the Solarian League meant that their shipping was to be excluded from Manticoran space, but there was no way of knowing what might still be enroute. The problem was made worse by the fact that ships arrived from all bearings, there was no accounting for where a ships last stop might have been.
Thomas spent the time enroute to Pequod formulating a plan. The ‘Frontier Mentality’ of The Verge meant that there were no established shipping routes. His first priority then would be to establish such routes. Once shipping started to arrive and depart on predictable bearings, the LACs could better manage the local pirate issue.
Examining the map of Cluster space Thomas noted that, in general terms, the Cluster was comprised of two concentric rings. This simplified his plan, each system in the outer ‘ring’ would have approach and departure vectors aligned with its nearest ‘same-ring’ neighbours. It would also have a similar approach/departure point that was common to all shipping coming from the other ‘ring’. In this way each system would have three arrival/departure points, rather than the entire plane of the ecliptic. Ships arriving at the outer ring would be expected to arrive at one of the two ‘neighbour’ arrival points.
The shipping concerns were likely to grumble, but if it reduced piracy losses they would put up with any minor inconvenience. Ships from outside of Manticoran space would be harder to convince, but here Thomas had a bigger hammer to use, comply or be excluded from the whole cluster. The Verge systems needed Manticoran goods far more than Manticore needed to sell them to them. He was sure that once it was explained, they would comply.
His plan complete, he ordered a change in course to the Rembrandt system. He knew from his brief that Rembrandt was a major shipping nexus and that several dispatch boats would be available. He planned to send one boat back to Spindle so that his plan could be vetted by the political leadership of the Cluster, and hopefully formally enacted. Having made his decision on how to proceed he asked for Midshipman Davis to meet him in the wardroom. A large number of hyperspace course needed to be calculated and she seemed like a good person to put in charge of the project. He didn’t expect her to do it all herself, but his seemed a good mix of practical exercise and a lesson in command. Davis would need to learn to trust those who were better at some tasks than she was, even as she was responsible for their work.
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Über Engineer...at least that is what he tells us.
Yes, it's coming along quite nicely. I daresay Nuncio's seen quite a traffic increase since HMS Hexapuma first visited there and I wonder just what will show up.
I did catch one typo, "...original three Manitcoran planets of Manticore, Sphynx and Gryphon Medusa..." should be "...original three Manitcoran planets of Manticore, Sphynx and Gryphon...".
Incidentally, I see from Baen's publishing schedule that a new sub-series, Manticore Ascendant, is premiering in October with, A Call to Duty, a novel length development of the story Timothy Zahn had in Beginnings. The sub-series would seem to cover the growth of Manticore from a small polity in the middle of nowhere to a major interstellar power. Going by the story in Beginnings, this looks quite promising.
I caught the error as well, already fixed by the time you posted. :)
Is anyone else reading this still? I don't mind at this point... But I am curious. :)
Part XIV: Here there be Pirates!
The course change to Rembrandt caused Enterprise to drop out of hyperspace well outside of the normal approach vectors. Strangely, the gravitic sensors picked up a contact soon after the entered normal space. The tactical officer, Lt. Commander Cumberland, reported the contact, “Sir, I have a frigate-sized contact that just lit off its drives. Bearing 214 mark 29. Current range is 9.6 light seconds, range opening slowly.”
“Just lit off its drives you say?” Thomas questioned, “Does the contact match anything in the database?” Rembrandt had a system defence fleet; it was possible that the contact was a member of that force. “Nothing in the database sir, contact now turning to pursue, accelerating at 375 gravities.”
Thomas brightened, “We may have a pirate that was lying doggo. I want our acceleration held to 320 G, and mask our emissions to make us look like a merchie. Not some local merchie though, I want us to look like a nice fat Manticoran merchantman. Switch our transponder to read as Sphynx Servitor. Also, try and keep our wedge facing the contact so he can’t see our hull.” Sphynx Servitor was one of the smaller Hauptman Shipping Cartel’s ships serving the Talbott Cluster. Right now, she was back in Manticore, but a pirate wouldn’t know that. Several of the bridge crew grinned; a Manticoran merchantman loaded with modern goods would be hard for a pirate to pass up.
Lt. Cormier’s head jerked up, “Sir receiving a message from the contact. They identify themselves as Manticoran Customs Vessel Prince Roger. We are ordered to heave to for customs inspection.” Several of the bridge crew chuckled, there were no Manticoran Customs Vessels in the Cluster as yet… and nothing that small would bear the name Prince Roger.
Thomas chuckle himself, the range to the contact had opened to almost 11 light seconds at this point, but already shrinking again. With it's superior acceleration the contact was overhauling them, just another few minutes and the contact would have them in beam range. Unfortunately for the ‘Prince Roger’, Enterprise held the contact in beam range now.
“Helm! Slew turn 65 degrees to port. Sidewall and defences active! Tactical, one graser shot across their bow!” Thomas was barking orders as fast as possible, “Comm, record message. Attention Prince Roger, this is Her Majesty’s Cruiser Enterprise. You are ordered to strike your wedge and surrender!”
Lt. Cormier responded, “On the chip Sir!” Thomas called “Transmit!”
‘Prince Roger’ didn’t respond via comm, but 10 seconds after Enterprise’s message went out the pirate’s wedge dropped and the ship went ballistic.
Thomas ordered the helm to “Open the range to 15 light seconds and hold us there.” To tactical he commanded, “Launch Galileo with a Marine boarding party. Let’s see what we’ve caught.”
‘Prince Roger’ turned out to be an ex-Monican frigate that had been sold for ‘scrap’ when the Technodyne Corporation had upgraded that system’s Navy. Apparently the scrap dealer, like so many others, had found it more profitable to sell the ship to ‘other interests’.
Those other interests had then turned to piracy as a way to fund the purchase of the ship.
Contact was made with Rembrandt, and despite the time lag involved in conversation over a range of nearly 40 light minutes, Enterprise found that there were no reported incidents of piracy in Rembrandt space.
Enterprise escorted the ex-Monican frigate to Rembrandt orbit and once there the crew of the pirate was handed over to Rembrandt authorities. Under questioning it was discovered that Enterprise had been the very first ship the pirates had intercepted. These pirates were out of the business for good, before they ever started. They wouldn’t be tried for piracy, they had never succeeded in that crime. At most they could be tried for impersonation of Queen’s officers. In any event, their ship would be seized, and the pirates imprisoned.
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I just formatted my stories Malignant Mustelids, Canadian Cobras... Redux, Transport to Tactical and Jam It!/Old Crows into a single document covering Canada's Persian Excursion. That collection spans 24,085 words on 60 pages.
Encouraging... I'm obviously quite able to write things in this size bracket. I wasn't really conscious that I had done so already.
Now I can get back to Enterprise without worrying that I've bit off more than I can chew.
That I will leave to the SLN... soon enough :)
Part XV: Landfall
While Enterprise was in Rembrandt orbit Thomas used the opportunity to fill her fusion reaction mass tanks from the orbital tank farms. He also consulted with the Rembrandt Trade Union about his plan to establish shipping corridors. Instead of resistance, he found enthusiastic cooperation. The Trade Union offered to implement the plan even without official approval of the government. The Trade Union would see about getting a dispatch boat sent to Spindle, and would include the new measures in messages to all its offices in other Cluster Systems.
Thomas had heard that there was some controversy about whether the RTU had been acting in the best interests of the Cluster, or its investors, in the period prior to Annexation. He couldn’t comment on that period, but it was clear the RTU was completely on side now. Their cooperation would be invaluable.
Sadly, the captured ex-Monican frigate turned out to be no prize. Thomas’ survey of the ship proved that it was far too small and poorly equipped to be bought into service. He lamented that his crew would be deprived of the prize money that a functional ship would have brought in.
Here again, the RTU surprised him. When Rembrandt naval architects surveyed the ship, they pronounced it sound and suitable for service. When he objected it was pointed out that Manticoran service had spoiled him, most Cluster systems had had no defensive vessels until the RMN had deployed its LAC’s. Suitably re-fitted, the little frigate would be the most powerful unit in many systems until such time as Manticoran fleet strength could be built up in the Cluster. Sensors, weapons and acceleration compensators would need to be replaced, but that was actually the work of a normal refit. The work shouldn’t take more than a few months. Based on the survey, Rembrandt decided to buy the frigate into service. The prize money wasn’t huge, but Thomas was extremely pleased to be able to announce it to his crew.
Enterprise took its leave from Rembrandt in style. Instead of simply slewing the bow of the ship onto its new heading, the Bosun actually banked through a turn. Thomas asked about the banked turn and the Bosun told him “It just felt right. Enterprise is a fine ship, we might as well let people know it.” Thomas could hardly argue with ship’s pride. By now though, he had watched the old entertainment cubes, and thought about another Enterprise that banked through turns. Surprising himself, he found he really didn’t care. Instead of a reprimand he just said, “That’s fine Bosun, Enterprise should show some flair.”
Leaning back in his command chair he considered for a moment. “Bosun, you were right about Enterprise, she is a fine ship. Let’s show off some. Bring us to 560 gravities, let’s show Rembrandt what a starship can really do.” Enterprise charged across the Rembrandt system heading toward the hyperspace limit. Thomas mused that he couldn’t maintain this acceleration all the way to the wall, Enterprise would be going far too fast. Still, showing off a little couldn’t hurt.
Behind Enterprise on Rembrandt, they had never heard of the old entertainment cubes. Most of the Rembrandt System Navy saw Enterprise break orbit though, to them Captain Kirk and Enterprise exuded style… it was how a starship and her Captain should behave.
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Part XVI: ZULU!
Enterprise spent the next two months in uneventful patrols of the Pequod, Prairie and Nuncio “Northern Flank’. The only remarkable thing about the whole period was the level of traffic around Nuncio. A system population of only 350 million couldn’t begin to explain why so many vessels were calling there. Certainly Manticoran vessels were involved in the education and infrastructure rebuilding program in Nuncio in earnest… but why were all the independents from neighbouring systems coming to Nuncio?
After the third visit to Nuncio, Enterprise made a side-trip to Rembrandt. Rembrandt was well positioned to serve as a logistics centre for the ‘Northern Flank’ and Enterprise met there with a Fleet Support ship to restock food and other consumable stores. Thomas also met with representatives of the RTU and found that reports of piracy reports were down across the area. Apparently the shipping corridors were working, but Thomas realized he had never heard back from Cluster officials on the idea. The RTU official cleared up his confusion instantly, “We forwarded the plan Captain. The only response we got was ‘shipping plan enacted as requested’; it seems that the government is rather busy.
Enterprise was scheduled to remain at Rembrandt for a week, but three days into her stay Captain Kirk found himself summoned from dinner at a local restaurant for an urgent comm message. He took the call at the restaurant’s terminal and was shocked at what he heard. On the line was Lt. Cormier, “Sir, a fleet dispatch boat dropped into Rembrandt space 6 minutes ago. We issued the standard challenge via grav-pulse. Sir, the dispatch boat responded by fluttering her wedge. Three cycles then repeated!” Thomas stiffened, dispatch boats were too small to accommodate the grav-pulse transmitters that would allow communication, but they could use their wedges to send messages slowly.
The dispatch boat hadn’t sent a message though, it had just fluttered its wedge. That message was clear enough. The dispatch boat had something to say, but it wasn’t allowed to send the message in the clear.
“Lt. Cormier, what is that boat doing now?” Thomas needed to know just what the boat was up to. “Sir the boat has accelerated to 675g, direct course for Rembrandt orbit.” Lt Cormier’s image looked concerned, as well he might be. 675 g was high, even for a small, overpowered vessel like a dispatch boat. That crew was pushing hard.
“Lieutenant, send Galileo to pick me up. In addition, start a complete crew recall and make preparations to get underway. I have a feeling that our shore leave has just come to an end.” Thomas was already running through the state of his command in his mind. Enterprise was ready for just about anything, or so he thought. “Yes sir, I’ll get on it right away.” Lt. Cormier looked relieved that his Captain was making the decisions.
Thomas and Enterprise had less time than he thought. Immediately after recognizing that an RMN vessels was in orbit the crew of the dispatch boat had transmitted its message using fleet security protocols. The dispatch boat was still 16 hours from orbit when Lt Cormier sat bolt upright in his seat aboard Enterprise, “Captain! The dispatch boat is sending, ZULU! ZULU! ZULU!” Thomas, and the rest of the bridge, crew sat bolt upright. Code ZULU was the code for ‘Invasion Imminent’.
Lt. Cormier continued, “Sir, there is an embedded message from the Flag, and a specific message for Enterprise.” Thomas shook himself then turned to the Comm station, “Samuel, play the message for us first and then the general message from the Flag.”
The screen lit up with the image of Admiral Gold Peak, “Captain Kirk, I am anticipating incursion of Spindle space by major units of the Solarian League Navy. They have badly underestimated just how far outclassed they are, but I doubt they will go away just because I tell them to. I anticipate that 10th Fleet will be required to engage and destroy the SLN units. You are to consider that a de facto state of War exists between the Solarian League and the Star Empire. I wish there were time for you to join the Fleet, but there isn’t. Enterprise is to hold the Northern Flank. I am placing you in command of all forces not attached to the Fleet. May God have mercy on us all Jim.”
Thomas didn’t even flinch when the Admiral had called him Jim instead of Thomas, she was obviously just a little bit preoccupied. “Samuel, let’s have the other message please.”
The fleet-general message was little more than a recap of what they already knew. The Star Empire of Manticore was in a shooting war with Solarian League, a star nation larger than all others combined and possessing a Navy sized to match. The RMN held a decisive qualitative advantage, but could they kill SLN ships fast enough for it to matter?
Yes, indeed, the SLN will quite surely bite off rather more than they can chew. I loved that touch with the erstwhile pirate (really, they couldn't do anything right nor catch a break). It should be rather interesting to see what eventuates in Thomas Kirk's area of responsibility now that Adm. Gold Peak has rather other fish to fry. It should be fascinating to see who tries something.
Is the anticipated attack the one commanded by SLN Adm. Crandall? That could have some very interesting repurcussions in the area of responsibility Captaint Kirk now has.
BTW, if someone's really desperate, I have most of the Honorverse Baen CD's and while they don't have the very latest entries in the series, they have most of them and I'll be glad to transfer the files if asked (as long as I do it at no profit, Baen has already given permission for that). *wry chuckle* It's amusing, really, Baen's ebooks originally started out as advertising and grew from there.
Yes, I couldn't help but smile while writing the bit about the pirate... their very first try and the intercept an RMN heavy cruiser. The only thing that did go right for them is that they aren't actually pirates. They go to jail, not the gallows.
Can you imagine the look on the pirate Captain's face when the grazer opens up and the message is received? If it hadn't been a shot across the bow, he'd never have known what the message said. No Verge frigate is going to take an RMN cruiser on and live. :)
And yes... Admiral Crandall is about to get to learn what it is to stick one's generative organs into a meat grinder. :)
My work schedule has been adjusted for the coming week.. and it's ugly. I'm going to be working 12/12 for 5 consecutive days.
Apologies, but updates will be thin. I will try and get the current section I'm working on finished. It's a better cliff hanger.
Part XVII: A Mystery
Captain and crew of Enterprise couldn’t help but feel that they were going in the wrong direction. The Fleet was in a fight for its life at Spindle, perhaps even a fight for the very life of the Star Empire… and Enterprise was cruising back out to the Northern Flank of the Cluster.
Thomas tried to distract himself with the mystery of all the traffic at Nuncio, but he lacked important facts and he knew it. The crew had no such distraction and crew morale was suffering as a result. Thomas considered everything he could think of, including a dedicated drill schedule, but that seemed like punishment for a crew that had done well and come together in the last few months.
Thomas called his First Officer, Commander Harbin Durling, to his cabin to discuss the morale issue. “Harbin, I’ve been thinking of crew morale. It seems to be slipping with us heading out to the Rim.” “I know Sir. I’m sorry you noticed it, I’ve tried what I can. I was hoping to correct the issue before it came to your attention.” Commander Harbin sounded hurt, as if the Captain was admonishing him for some failure.
“Harbin, it’s not your fault that the crew feels the way they do, or that you haven’t been able to fix it. We all feel like we are running while the Fleet is in a desperate battle.” Thomas realized, belatedly, that even his First Officer was on edge. “We need something to pull the crew together, some way to dispel this feeling of helplessness that has all of us in its grasp.”
The two officers tossed ideas around for over an hour, and came up with nothing that even seemed remotely likely to work. Mugs of Old Tillman had been brought, drunk and refilled. The steward had brought sandwiches, and Thomas found he couldn’t even recall how long ago that was. Captain and Exec were getting frustrated at their failure to come up with anything to help crew morale when the steward timidly made her presence known, “Sir? I have a suggestion, if it would acceptable?” Regina actually sounded contrite, something unusual in a steward.
“Go ahead Regina, what do you have in mind?” Thomas was frustrated enough at the issue that any council would have been welcome.
“Well Sir. It occurs to me that we are HMS Enterprise, commanded by James T. Kirk. But, we aren’t the Enterprise under command of James T. Kirk. Respectively, Sir.” Thomas was stunned, and must have looked it, “Regina, are you suggesting that we actually adopt the manner of that ship and crew from the old 2D cubes?”
Regina looked abashed, as well she might, “Sir, about 2/3’s of the crew are fans at this point. It can’t hurt, can it?” Thomas considered the suggestion for a few seconds while Regina actually fidgeted. Then he decided and turned to his First Officer with a grin… “Opinions, ‘Mr. Spock?’”
Commander Durling grinned back at his Commanding Officer, “I can take it if you can Sir. I’m just the trusty sidekick. It should be…. Fascinating.”
The Bosun was called into the conference, for the concept to work the crew would have to be fully involved. When the idea was explained to the Bosun, he reacted with relief, “Well Sir, I think it would be a good thing. So many of the crew are fans, and up until now, they’ve felt that they have to hide the little parallels they find or create. Adopting them openly would certainly make the crew happier.”
The three men worked for two more hours, with occasional contributions from Regina. Sometimes those contributions were snacks or beer, sometimes an actual suggestion on how to implement their plan. Finally Thomas was satisfied and pronounced, “OK Gentlemen, we have a plan. This is how we will proceed…”
Over the next several days a number of small changes were introduced into ship’s routine or systems. None of the changes were substantive, and all were within the normal purview of a Commanding Officer to change or adjust. The first change noticeable by the crew was the replacement of the soft ‘gong’ sound made by the communication system. The new sound was the electronic ‘chirp’ familiar to the fans of the entertainment cubes.
The crew assumed the Communications Officer, or one of his ratings, was having fun while the Captain was not around. The first time it sounded, with the Captain on the bridge, several crew members looked around in horror. Thomas hid his grin, selected the comm panel on his command chair and merely responded, “Kirk here.”
By the time Enterprise arrived back at Nuncio a half-dozen small changes had been made in ship’s operation. Crew morale had rebounded handily and Thomas was certain that Enterprise, and her crew, could handle anything that was thrown at them.
The LAC detachment at Nuncio was operating without a support vessel and spares for the LAC’s was one of the priority items Enterprise had loaded at Rembrandt. Many of the Nuncio LAC’s were operating well below optimal when Enterprise returned, in fact only three were fully operational.
Thomas deployed Galileo 7 to assist in securing local space while Enterprise would use it’s LAC bay to conduct repairs on the local LAC detachment. Thomas reflected that this mode of operation had never even been considered, but had obvious applications in system defence roles. He could easily imagine cruisers such as Enterprise playing ‘mothership’ to small fleets of LAC’s for defence of forward operating bases. LAC Carriers could do a better job, but those were always in short supply.
Eighteen hours into the repair cycle Galileo 7 reported a strange contact on its electronic warfare system. The command pilot reported, “Enterprise, we’ve picked up a whisker laser transmission from Basilica. The laser was not aligned with Pontifex; it was heading out-system. Our systems are trying to break the coding now.”
The report was concerning for two reasons. First, Basilica had been abandoned early in the colony’s history and was supposed to be uninhabited. Second, there wasn’t anyone else to talk to in the system except the inhabited planet of Pontifex. Thomas ordered Galileo 7 to proceed along the laser’s direction to attempt to determine who was listening. Enterprise would investigate the ‘uninhabited’ planet of Basilica. Both missions were to proceed using a maximum of stealth, someone was trying to keep the communication secret. There was no point in advertising that they had been discovered.
Part XVIII: A Threat Emerges
Enterprise arrived in the vicinity of Basilica and launched a stealthed recon drone to survey the planet. It discovered that the ‘uninhabited’ planet housed over 200,000 inhabitants. Careful analysis of the signals emanating from Basilica discovered a large amount of short-range radio chatter that indicated the planet was being used as, of all things, a prison planet.
An unauthorized prison planet would be bad enough, but the analysis also showed that the signals were of Solarian League origin. It appeared that the Sollies had been dumpling people on the planet for at least a decade. Nuncio had a rather weak system navy, and even for the SLN, or Frontier Security, it would have been no great difficulty to slip vessels into the system unnoticed.
The arrival of the RMN in the area had forced the Sollies to become more circumspect. They now appeared to be masking the various comings and goings of their ships as Verge transports looking to pick up stray cargoes. Undoubtedly, the empty transports arriving at Pontifex had just finished offloading their real cargo of supplies at Basilica.
Thomas reflected that the laser transmission that Galileo 7 had intercepted was probably a result of his shipping lane policy. The designated arrival and departure points would have made it much harder to slip an unexpected ship into the system unnoticed. It was very possible the prison was running short of supplies.
Thomas lamented that modern RMN ships carried only a handful of Marines, 200,000 prisoners in the prison would mean a fair number of guards, and he wasn’t sure his Marine detachment could handle that many. He called his Marine detachment commander to his quarters to plan how taking the prison could be accomplished. One thing he was sure of was that without taking the prison, he would never be able to find out just why the Sollies had built a prison here.
The MarDet commander, a “Major’ by courtesy since there could be only one Captain aboard ship, arrived and Thomas explained the problem. The MarDet commander was confused, explaining his difficulty he asked a basic question, “Sir? Why don’t we just call for troops from Pontifex?”
Thomas almost slapped himself with the enormous blunder he had made. He was used to thinking in terms of the assets aboard his vessel, and he almost forgot that he had a planetary population to call on. Thanking the Major, he composed a message to Nuncio System Command, asking what troops were available and how soon they could arrive. He also explained that stealth was of the utmost importance, he didn’t want the inhabitants to know what was happening until it was too late.
Nuncio System Command responded within two hours, the delay resulting from determining available lift rather than being imposed by distance. Nuncio had an available grav-pulse communication system and message transmission was slow, but receipt was instantaneous. When Nuncio responded, Thomas found he had 14 hours before Nuncian forces arrived. He used that time having his recon drones make detailed maps of the inhabited area of Basilica. He enlisted his MarDet commander to ensure that any feature of tactical significance was included in the maps.
Nuncio didn’t send just any troops, nor did they rely on numbers rather than quality. The Nuncian contingent consisted of only two reinforced companies of their Army… but both were Special Forces, skilled in urban pacification operations. Sadly, Nuncian history had provided many opportunities for such skills to be retained. As big a contribution as the Nuncian Special Forces could make, it was how they arrived that almost guaranteed success.
The Nuncians had seized a Solarian designed freighter 6 months ago. The freighter was crewed by a group of smugglers who also appeared to not shy away from the occasional slave trading. Examination of the ship had found the crew in violation of the ‘equipment clause’ of the Chertwell Convention. Ship, and lives of the crew, had both been forfeit.
Nuncio had no need for a slaver, nor a cargo vessel. When the Nuncio System Defence force had examined the ship though, they were struck at how closely it resembled a smaller example of a naval assault vessel. The ship had a generous life support capacity (shipping slaves who didn’t live to be sold was not profitable) and was equipped with four rough-field capable heavy lift shuttles. Refitting had taken three months, and now the ship was in service as NNS Redeemer. Redeemer had the landing capacity to land the entire assault force, leaving the two assault shuttles from Enterprise to fly ground support.
Part XIX: The Plot
The assault on Basilica turned out to be almost anti-climactic. There wasn’t a large force of guards on the planet at all, just a rather modest sized constabulary. The combined Nuncian/Manticoran forces swept across the settlement with ease… and were frequently welcomed as saviours. That welcome was offered not only by the ‘prisoners’, but also by the Frontier Security Forces that formed the constabulary. The whole situation was becoming more confusing as more information became available.
Once the situation on the ground had stabilized, and a message sent to Pontifex to request police forces rather than combat troops, it became possible to conduct a thorough investigation. The investigation revealed that the settlement was desperately short of food. Examination of the computer records revealed that, unknown to the settlers, the food shortage was actually planned.
It had long been rumoured that Frontier Security had staged ‘civilian uprisings’ on planets desired as ‘protectorates’. In this case the Sollies had planned to seize an entire system by planting a colony on one planet, having it descend into anarchy through lack of food… and then blame the other planet in the system for a situation they had no hand in. Essentially, one planet would be held responsible for the failure of an illegal colony it had had no knowledge of.
The plan to seize Nuncio through this method had apparently been far along when the Manticorans discovered the Lynx Wormhole Junction. Frontier Security had immediately accelerated its plan, but reducing a planet to starvation levels takes time. The anti-piracy measures enacted by Thomas had actually helped the Sollies, at least insofar as shifting the blame to the Manticorans was concerned.
The plan had started to come apart for Frontier Security when the Nuncian standard of living had started to rise. The Nuncian had happily broadcast their new-found circumstance planet wide… and the signals had been received on Basilica. Initial reports had been dismissed as propaganda, but the first reports of demonstration against the slow pace of improvement started to convince the unwilling colonists.
Reports brought in by the few truly independent tramp freighters confirmed the broadcast reports… as did the few pieces of Manticoran goods the freighters managed to bring in. Before long, most of the transported colonists believed in Manticoran largesse. The Frontier Security forces on the planet were harder to convince. Those forces though had traditionally been conscripted from the poorest of Frontier Security hellholes. They had first-hand experience with how the Solarian League went about ‘assimilating’ new planets. Signs that the Manticorans were truly as good as their words convinced all but a few holdouts.
The investigation eventually turned to the most secure Frontier Security databases. What was discovered there was disturbing, a ‘suitably large’ Frontier Security force was to be sent to put down the food riots and ‘general disturbance’ in the Nuncio system. How large a force was being sent was not revealed, nor was an exact arrival time. There was an assessment of how large a force of Royal Manticoran Navy vessels might be encountered in the system. Frontier Security anticipated that two ‘neo-barb’ battlecruisers, with attached suitable screen’, might be assigned to hold the system. The ‘suitably large’ force was anticipated to be able to sweep aside the battlecruisers.
Thomas had Enterprise, a single heavy cruiser, instead of a pair of battlecruisers… and he still had the responsibility to hold the system against whatever the Sollies might be sending.
Smaller chunks, but what I can write in the free time I have.
Hopefully it keeps folks interested. :)
Oh yes - starting (and continuing) to sound GOOD!!
Part XX: Opening Gambit
Thomas set course for the listening post that had been receiving signals from Basilica. A 'suitably large force' from Frontier Fleet could mean almost anything, but Thomas was willing to bet it would arrive in the form of a light Task Group. Enterprise would take position near the listening post and deploy a shell of recon drones, backed by Galileo, to keep the area under surveillance. Several of the drones would be deployed outside the hyper limit in case the Sollie commander was smarter, or more subtle, than average. It wasn't likely, but guarding against all probabilities kept one alive in space.
Thomas had two other measures he could take. First, he had the Pontifex dispatch boat take a Code Zulu message to Rembrandt. From there it could be spread to the remainder of the Cluster. Second, Enterprise, like all heavy cruisers, carried a small number of mines. The traditional use of the mines was to interdict planets which harboured pirates. The mines could keep ships from departing a planet while the parent cruiser dealt with any pirate vessel in space.
The RMN had always planned to win the war against Haven, so even wartime cruiser classes maintained the mines. The Saganami-C class carried 60 mines. Enterprise' redesigned after hammerhead had cost her the starboard mine magazine space, it now served as a magazine for weapons used by the cutter attached to Galileo 7.
Thomas had the mines offloaded so that Galileo could position them in a loose shell around the Sollie listening post. Chances were low that any Frontier Fleet ship would stray close enough for the mines to do any good, but the possibility did exist. So out went Enterprise' meagre supply of mines.
Preparations made, Enterprise and her crew settled in to await the Solarians. They had no idea how long the wait might be, or what was coming. They did know, from Admiral Gold Peak's message, that Enterprise was on her own.
Eight days later, Enterprise was just over one light-hour from the listening post when Galileo reported the hyperspace emergence of multiple Solarian units. What Galileo reported could hardly be called good news.
Frontier Fleet hadn't sent a Light Task Group, it was closer to a Light Task Force. Galileo reported an Indefatigable-class battlecruiser escorted by two Mikasa-class heavy cruisers, a single Bridgeport-class light cruiser and four Rampart-class destroyers.
What Enterprise faced was bad enough, but it seemed to be half-strength; half a BC division, half a CA division and half a DD squadron, albeit with its CL command ship present. Enterprise would be in real trouble should the other half of these forces show up!
Fortunately, Enterprise had been operating under stealth, there was no chance the Sollies even knew Enterprise was even here.
"Second emergence detected! Designating as Force Beta. Looks like a second BC, another pair of CA's and a single contact, approx. 6 million tons. Designating first group as Force Alpha" The tactical officer's report caused very head on the bridge to snap around. That 'single' contact could very well be a dreadnaught or a smaller superdreadnaught.
Reason For Edit: Readability, Form and small Grammatical Errors.
« Last Edit: July 03, 2014, 06:30:56 AM by Silver Fox »
I'd hazard a guess, based on known SLN operational modes, that the single large contact is probably a transport with occupation troops for both Basilica and Nuncio; it should be interesting to learn the truth. It won't be a fair fight, but it's nowhere near as lop-sided as Frontier Fleet will expect since they still haven't realized that they aren't the most advanced or powerful navy in the known galaxy; the Mark 16 DDMs, even the basic ones available at this time, are going to be a rude surprise. I just re-read the description of the Saganami-C class in House of Steel and I reckon this situation bodes to thoroughly test out the results of BuShips simulations; it's likely going to be a close-run battle but I suspect that, even if this Frontier Fleet task force has a competent commander and captains (I know, even on the sharp edge, that's questionable for the SLN), quality and training of personnel is going to matter and, here, the RMN definitely has the edge.
« Last Edit: July 02, 2014, 10:08:03 AM by elmayerle »
Enterprise has one trick up her sleeve, called Galileo 7.
Unfortunately, she's also missing 1/2 her normal external pod load.
It will be fun, more so for some than others.
Part XXI: Message Received
Rear Admiral Pontraine, commanding Frontier Fleet’s Task Group 1307.1, was annoyed. Instead of having his Task Group as a unified force he was required to escort a superdreadnaught-sized ‘Mythos-class’ assault transport. Having the transport arrive a the same time as the naval force might be standard procedure, but Frontier Fleet had never tried to take a planet from under the nose of someone as annoyingly capable as the Royal Manticoran Navy before.
Pontraine had contacts inside the SLN’s Office of Naval Intelligence. He couldn’t credit most of what he had heard from there, either it was obviously self-serving and under-rated… or scare-mongering that made out the Manticorans as three-headed monsters. Obviously, neo-barbs like the RMN weren’t going to be as capable as the Solarian League, but some of the ‘intelligence’ community were obviously forgetting that Manticore was a developed, relatively rich star-nation. Manticore was going to be a tougher nut to crack than these folks thought. No doubt Manticore had ships that might almost be considered ‘modern’, even by the standards of the SLN.
Far worse from his perspective were the reports of RMN ships that had incredible acceleration rates, were almost immune to missile fire, threw massive salvos and capable of missile ranges that were, quite frankly, absurd. Oh, he didn’t doubt that the RMN may have developed some superiority in one tactical area or another, they were somewhat educated after all. Across the board quantum superiority was ridiculous though. If such developments were even possible, the SLN would be using them.
Still, having to assign one of his battlecruisers and a pair of heavy cruisers to escort that damned Mythos split his main combat power up in ways he didn’t like. If the Manties had hit his force on arrival, they might have caused significant damage before they were destroyed. He wouldn’t have lost the Mythos, sadly, or either of his two Indefatigables, but his light forces might have taken a beating from a pair of Manty battlecruisers. Losing any ships to the Manties would make him look bad, and even in Frontier Fleet an officer had to be aware of his image if he wanted continued advancement.
The good news was that, having arrived in Nuncio space unchallenged, he could now alter his escort plan to something more tactically sound. Turning to his chief of staff he commanded “Execute Escort Plan Alpha”. That would have Destroyer Squadron 2307 fall back on the Mythos and restore his BC and CA elements to full strength. Now all he had to do was download the reports from Basilica. That would tell him if the ‘spontaneous’ rioting had started yet and, hopefully, what Manticoran forces he was facing. He considered breaking out one of his destroyers to rendezvous with the listening post, but that would slow the re-integration of his forces.
He’d been dithering over this decision for the last two days, but now in Nuncio space he needed to be decisive. Looking at the status display to see which of his two forward heavy cruisers was closer, he decided. SLNS Fujimi was the closer of the two cruisers and he almost decided to send SLNS Tanaka instead. Commodore Prescott commanded the cruiser element from aboard Fujimi and would undoubtedly use his ‘forward’ deployment and ‘first to advance into hostile space’ for all it was worth in the political battles to come. Well, he was welcome to try. The Admiral who slapped down the Manticorans and took a system right out from under them would have more than enough fame to slap down a little upstart like Prescott. He ordered Prescott ahead personally, that should shift some of the credit back where it belonged… to the Flag. Let him think about that!
Aboard Fujimi, Prescott was fuming. He knew what that clown Pontraine had in mind. Prescott’s advance was now ‘subject to orders from the Flag’ rather than on his own authority. Was a Rear Admiral actually so petty that he would try to steal every bit of glory from this mission? Of course he was! Political in-fighting in Frontier Fleet might not be the blood sport it was in Battle Fleet, but it was intense. Pontraine wanted every bit of glory he could grab so that he could climb the ladder to Vice Admiral. There was nothing to do about it now though, nothing but carry out the orders efficiently and try to hitch his flag, literally, to Pontraine’s. Be a good little subordinate and hope for some scraps in the after-action reports. Turning to the comm screen that displayed the Captain of Fujimi he said, “Bob take us to the listening post. Smartly please, the Flag will undoubtedly want us back in position as soon as possible.”
On board Enterprise Thomas watched as the destroyers and their CL commander fell away from Force Alpha. When the BC and the two CA’s started their advance, he figured, correctly, that an exchange of escorts was taking place. For a few minutes he thought that nobody would download the output from the listening station, then one of the forward Mikasa’s advanced… and rapidly. Apparently, someone had lit a fire under the backside of that cruiser’s commander. Thomas smiled a predatory smile. Based on the course that CA was taking, displeasure from the Flag wasn’t going to be a concern for much longer.
SLNS Fujimi crept the final distance to the listening post under low power. The area was part of the Oort cloud of cometary bodies that surround any star system and some idiot had placed the listening post in the middle of a cluster of proto-comets. They had probably figured that nobody would notice one more minor planetoid in the middle of the other trash, but who would be looking in the first place?
The current Mark 47, Mod 6 mine deployed by the RMN was more than just a simple mine. Unlike earlier mines, which would detonate as soon as a target came into range, the Mark 47 waited. As long as a target was closing, the mine would hold fire unless certain conditions were met, such as sidewalls coming up or a radical change in perspective. Such a change in perspective could mean a target was ‘rolling ship’ or turning a vulnerable aspect away from the mine. Multiple mines in a field could also communicate, albeit in a rather limited way. Each mine would forward an acquisition signal to others in its deployed minefield. They would also forward a ‘detonation’ signal if their own engagement requirements were met. These gave the Mark 47 the capability of engaging multiple targets in a minefield simultaneously.
In the case of SLNS Fujimi, seven Mark 47 mines could see her as she approached the listening post. Five of those were in target acquisition when something caused the sidewall generators aboard Fujimi to start to spin up. The most likely reason was that someone had recognized the minefield. There would never be a way to know, five Mark 47’s detonated as one and SLNS Fujimi simply… vanished. The Mark 47 mine carried lasing rods capable of generating forces that could punch through the sidewalls of a modern Havenite superdreadnaught, and through the armour underneath.
Fujimi didn’t have sidewalls, modern or not, when the X-ray lasers sleeted through her hull. Nor did she have armour of any appreciable value. Aboard Enterprise the tactical section estimated that no less than thirty laser rods had scored hits. Thirty hits would have gutted a superdreadnaught, the effect on a heavy cruiser was unimaginable. Forces she couldn’t withstand pummelled Fujimi and her hull broke in two pieces. Both pieces then expanded into glowing fireballs as her fusion generators lost containment. 400,000 tons of starship were reduced to glowing plasma in less than 2 seconds. The were no lifepods deployed.
« Last Edit: July 05, 2014, 09:46:18 PM by Silver Fox »
34 pages, 17,484 words.
Again, Brilliant. Perhaps you should think about seeing a publisher? Maybe see if anyone is doing collections of short stories?
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Expert Love Advice: What to Do If Your Job Intimidates Your Partner
Posted In: Relationship Experts, Sandra Fidelis Articles
By Sandra Fidelis
Modern relationships and love can indeed be challenging. In the past, the purpose of romantic partnerships was to accomplish two things: to procreate and to preserve power. Over the past several decades, though, we have begun asking more of our unions. We now expect them to be deeply fulfilling and to provide us with a supportive partner, best friend, and perhaps even a soulmate. We expect to be with a partner who celebrates our wins and accomplishments as well as one who supports us when things aren’t going as well as we’d like. But sometimes, we can be let down when he doesn’t seem as supportive of our career or perhaps is even downright jealous of our success.
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Related Tags: Dating Advice, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson, Relationship Advice, Sandra Fidelis
Cutest Celebrity Baby Announcements
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively
In October 2014, this gorgeous couple almost broke the Internet with their subtle but powerful baby announcement. The 'Gossip Girl' alum posted a post titled Preserve Celebration of Family on her website with a photo of her holding her baby bump. The couple have openly expressed their desire to start a family, and we know they're excited to welcome their bundle of joy in 2015. Photo: AAR/FameFlyNet
Related Tags: Alicia Keys, Ashton Kutcher, Beyoncé, Blake Lively, Carrie Underwood, Dax Shepard, Eric Johnson, Fergie, Jay-Z, Jessica Simpson, Josh Duhamel, Kate Middleton, Kristen Bell, Mike Fisher, Mila Kunis, Prince William, Ryan Reynolds, Tori Spelling
Jessica Simpson Says She’s Done Having Kids with Eric Johnson
Posted In: Celebrity Babies, Celebrity News
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson do not want more kids. Photo: Aaron J. Thornton / PR Photos
Mrs. Johnson is perfectly smitten! According to UsMagazine.com, singer and actress Jessica Simpson (now formally Jessica Johnson) is happy with NFL hubby Eric Johnson. The mother of two commented on their relationship, saying, “We have felt like ever since we got married, we’ve been kind of living on this honeymoon…Life is better, but we don’t toast every morning with champagne.” They are perfectly content and are done having kids, according to Simpson.
What are some ways to know it’s best not to have more kids?
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Related Tags: Celebrity Babies, Celebrity Couples, Eric Johnson, Family & Children, Jessica Simpson, Relationship Advice
Jessica Simpson Shares Five Wedding Vows For a Happy Marriage
Jessica Simpson recently shared her secrets to marriage. Photo: Aaron J. Thornton / PR Photos
By Amanda Boyer
We have seen Jessica Simpson go through ups and downs over the years, but now this newlywed is discussing her five wedding vows for a happy marriage. If you pick up Glamour magazine, you can read about how Simpson feels “truly comfortable in my own skin” now that she is married to Eric Johnson. Through other factors like better exercise habits, food choices, and lifestyle changes, she’s gained happiness as well. According to UsMagazine.com, Simpson believes that sharing her vows will “bring you closer to yourself and your happily-ever-after.”
What are three tips for writing your own wedding vows?
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Related Tags: Celebrity Marriage, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson Shares Sexy Photo from Honeymoon
Eric Johnson and Jessica Simpson are happily married. Photo courtesy of Jessica Simpson's Instagram.
By Laura Seaman
Jessica Simpson was showing off her figure as she Instagramed a photo of herself during her honeymoon with Eric Johnson. The couple enjoyed their honeymoon together at the Four Season Punta Mita Resort in Mexico. A source tells UsMagazine.com that “They had an amazing time and looked so in love during the entire visit.”
What are some fashion must-brings for your honeymoon?
Related Tags: Beauty, Celebrity Honeymoon, Eric Johnson, Fashion, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson Gushes About New Husband Eric Johnson
By Shannon Seibert
Happily in love, Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson are not the couple to shy away from bragging about the love of their life. Having recently exchanged vows on Independence Day weekend, the Johnsons According to UsMagazine.com, Simpson recent posted a photo to Instagram gushing about her man, captioning the image: “I love this man, our marriage, and everything in between.”
What are some ways to keep the spark alive after marriage?
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Related Tags: Celebrity Couples, Celebrity Weddings, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson
Donald Faison Says Jessica Simpsons Wedding Was a ‘Major Dance Party’
Jessica Simpson’s wedding, which took place on July 5, was big and beautiful, as anyone can see from the massive media coverage. The reception that followed, according to one of Simpson’s good friends actor Donald Faison, was “awesome”. Faison’s wife told UsMagazine.com that they had a wonderful time. Faison added, “We danced the night away!”
What are some unique ways to incorporate dancing into your wedding?
Related Tags: Celebrity Marriage, Donald Faison, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson
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Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson Include Their Kids in Lavish Wedding
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson married this past Saturday in a beautiful Independence Day weekend wedding. The pair took a special approach to their wedding day and had their children be a part of the ceremony. Two year-old daughter Maxwell was the flower girl and their 13-month-old son Ace served as the ceremony’s ring bearer. Additionally, the couple shared their special day with more than 250 guests, according to UsMagazine.com
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Related Tags: Celebrity Babies, Celebrity Weddings, Eric Johnson, Family & Children, Jessica Simpson
Eric Johnson Hits the Golf Course Pre-Wedding to Jessica Simpson
Eric Johnson and Jessica Simpson. Photo: Janet Mayer / PR Photos
By Sanetra Richards
Watch out, Tiger! According to UsMagazine.com, Jessica Simpson’s fiance (now husband), Eric Johnson, spent a day with his groomsmen on the golf course on Thursday, July 3rd. The former NFL player shared a few games and laughs as they prepared for and celebrated the wedding. Johnson and about 20 of his best bro friends enjoyed themselves at Sandpiper Golf Course in Santa Barbara, California: “They were a really attractive group!” an eyewitness tells Us, including the group joked about being in town for a “secretive” wedding. “They played 18 holes and drank lots of Bud Lights!” The father-of-the-bride was also included in the bunch says another onlooker. “There were definitely a lot of Southern accents,” says the witness. “The guys were all super hot!” The source went on to add,”When they all arrived, they were really boisterous, greeting and hugging each other. They had a really good time.” The couple of four years definitely felt the fireworks as they exchanged vows over the 4th of July weekend.
What are some unique bachelor/bachelorette party ideas?
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Celebrity Couples Who Love Fourth of July
Posted In: Love, Relationship Advice Articles
Christina Milian and Jas Prince. Photo: Mike/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES
Tis the season to take pride in your homeland and rock the colors of vigilance, perseverance and justice. It’s also the day where we sport killer bikinis, chow on barbecue and watch amazing fireworks displays. The best part about the holiday, though, is that it’s a day in which our entire country takes pride in their homeland, especially our celebrities. We’ve pulled together the envy-worthy patriotic plans and traditions of these stars to hopefully inspire a little Independence Day tradition in your own household:
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Related Tags: Beyoncé, Celebrity Couples, Eddie Cibrian, Eric Johnson, Jay-Z, Jessica Simpson, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Katherine Heigl, Kim Kardashian, LeAnn Rimes, Selena Gomez
The Pros and Cons of a Whirlwind Romance
Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting. Photo: VM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES
Taking a cue from some of our favorite celebrity couples — Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting, Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy, and Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson, to name a few — we thought it’d be fun to explore the benefits and pitfalls of quickie engagements. Plus, it’s a topic our executive editor knows quite well: She got engaged to her now-husband after only nine weeks of dating! It’s not a decision to make lightly though. Here are three pros and three cons of a whirlwind romance — all important things to consider before giving your heart away.
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Related Tags: Dating Advice, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson, Kaley Cuoco, Relationship Advice, Ryan Sweeting, Whitney Johnson
Top 10 Hollywood Couples of 2013
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake. Photo: SGP/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES
By April Littleton
The year 2013 is slowly drawing to an end, and it’s only fitting to look back at some of the most memorable celebrity couples to grace the television screens and magazine covers. Here are Cupid’s top 10 favorite famous lovebirds of this year:
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Related Tags: Angelina Jolie, Beyoncé, Brad Pitt, Celebrity Couples, Celebrity Love, Celebrity Weddings, Dax Shepard, Drew Barrymore, Eric Johnson, Halle Berry, Ian Somerhalder, Jay Cutler, Jay-Z, Jessica Biel, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, Kate Middleton, Kristen Bell, Kristin Cavallari, Nina Dobrev, Olivier Martinez, Prince William, Romance, Will Kopelman
Celebrity Couple Predictions: Jessica Simpson, Miranda Kerr and Beyonce
Posted In: Love, Relationship Experts, Yolanda Shoshana Articles
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson with Maxwell. Photo: VM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES
For today’s column, let’s consider three couples who have controversy currently surrounding them, whether it’s because of baby weight, a surprise split, or anti-feminist song lyrics:
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson: This blonde pop star has come a long way, which makes it so easy to root for her success. Recently, she announced that she’s going to stop acting and retire from the entertainment world. Her focus is now on being a business woman and mother.
Related Tags: Celebrity Couples, Eric Johnson, Jay-Z, Jessica Simpson, Miranda Kerr, Orlando Bloom, Yolanda Shoshana
Jessica Simpson Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby Boy Ace Knute Johnson
Eric Johnson and Jessica Simpson. Photo: CWNY/FAMEFLYNET
By Kerri Sheehan
Jessica Simpson’s family increased by one this weekend! She and fiancé Eric Johnson brought home a baby boy this weekend. UsMagazine.com reported that Ace Knute Johnson was born in Los Angeles via C-section on Sunday, June 30th. The happy couple are already parents to daughter Maxwell, nearly 14 months.
What are some ways to decide on a baby name with your partner?
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Celebrity Baby: Jessica Simpson Celebrates Her Baby Shower
Posted In: Celebrity Babies
By Andrea Surujnauth
Jessica Simpson celebrated her baby shower on Sunday, reported People. Guests included Simpson’s sister Ashlee, close friend Jessica Alba, and hair stylist Ken Paves. In the Tom Sawyer-themed bash, vintage tables, tin pitchers, and a wooden boat alongside the nearby pond were incorporated in the event. Simpson served pigs in a blanket, mini sliders and grilled cheese from a custom station. The mom-to-be was also sure to request Thousand Island dressing for the salad bar, “She’s craving it!” says Mindy Weiss, Simpson’s party planner. Simpson had a look of pure joy as she entered the party holding her 11-month-old daughter, Maxwell, and patting her pregnant belly. Simpson is expecting a baby boy.
What are some ways to make a baby shower for a second child special?
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Related Tags: Ashlee Simpson, Eric Johnson, Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson
Celebrity Baby News: Jessica Simpson Accidentally Reveals Baby-to-Be’s Gender
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson. Photo: DMac/Flynetpictures.com
By Jessica Conigliaro
Pregnant Jessica Simpson accidentally broke news of her baby-to-be’s gender on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, March 6, UsMagazine.com reports. “The crazy thing is I never knew a wiener could make me nauseous,” the Fashion Star mentor quipped. “…Well, I guess I just told the world that I’m having a boy!” Although it was unplanned, Simpson’s televised reveal was certainly an exciting one.
What are some creative ways to reveal the gender of your unborn child to family and friends?
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Related Tags: Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson Confirms She’s Pregnant Again
Eric Johnson and Jessica Simpson. Photo: Apollo/FAMEFLYNET
The rumors are true: Jessica Simpson and fiancé Eric Johnson are set to become parents for the second time! According to People, the singer/actress announced her big news via Twitter with a picture of her 7-month old daughter, Maxwell Drew, in Christmas pajamas next to some sand with the words “Big Sis” carved into it. Speculation of a pregnancy has been circulating, as Simpson has been spotted in loose fitting clothing around town and a tight black dress showing a slight baby bump at Cacee Cobb’s wedding.
How do you support your partner through an unplanned pregnancy?
Related Tags: Eric Johnson, Jessica DeRubbo, Jessica Simpson
Pregnant Jessica Simpson Displays Baby Bump at CaCee Cobb’s Wedding
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson. Photo: Stoianov/Pablo/FAMEFLYNET
By Nicole Weintraub
Jessica Simpson is expecting baby number two with fiancé Eric Johnson, according to UsMagazine.com. The pregnant star showed off her baby bump proudly at her best friend and former personal assistant CaCee Cobb’s wedding to Scrubs’ actor Donald Faison. Simpson’s divorced parents and younger sister, Ashlee, were also in attendance as groomsman Zach Braff escorted the pregnant singer down the aisle. She tried hiding her baby bump behind a bouquet of flowers, though her flowing black dress could not shield her belly.
How do you know when to go public with your pregnancy?
…This way for more deets on when to reveal your pregnancy.
Related Tags: Cacee Cobb, Donald Faison, Eric Johnson, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson Is Pregnant Again!
By Jennifer Ross
At barely seven months old, baby Maxwell Drew Johnson is going to be a big sister soon. In what is surprising news to everyone, even those involved, UsMagazine.com confirms that Jessica Simpson is pregnant again. A source states, “It definitely wasn’t planned. But yes, Jessica is pregnant again. She really is overjoyed!” This will be the second child for both Simpson, 32, and fiancé Eric Johnson. It wasn’t long ago when Simpson went on episode one of Katie, Katie Couric’s show and said, “Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.” It looks like Simpson will now have two reasons to be amazed.
What are some ways to support your partner during a surprise pregnancy?
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Related Tags: Celebrity Love, Celebrity Pregnancy, Eric Johnson, Family & Children, Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson Celebrates Eric Johnson’s Birthday with Baby Maxwell
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson with Maxwell. Photos courtesy of Jessica Simpson's Twitter.
Jessica Simpson and fiancé Eric Johnson celebrated his 33rd birthday this year with their little bundle of joy. According to UsMagazine.com, the couple was ecstatic to enjoy Johnson’s birthday with their four-month-old daughter Maxwell. “Last year at Daddy’s party, Maxwell was in my belly…this year she’s in my arms,” shared the star. The trio took photographs in order to remember the first birthday that father and daughter was able to share together. For the occasion, baby Maxwell had a little bow on her head.
What are some ways to involve your kids in your birthday celebration?
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WORK OF DELHI METRO PHASE IV COMMENCES
The construction work for Delhi Metro’s Phase 4 was formally started today at Haiderpur Badli Mor in the presence of DMRC’s Managing Director, Dr. Mangu Singh and other senior officials.Piling work was commenced at Haiderpur Badli Mor as part of the Phase 4’s first civil contract which was awarded last month for the construction of a portion of the Janakpuri West – R. K Ashram Marg Corridor (Extension of Line – 8, Magenta Line).The contract includes construction of 10 stations - Keshopur, Paschim Vihar, Peeragarhi, Mangolpuri, West Enclave, Pushpanjali, Deepali Chowk, Madhuban Chowk, Prashant Vihar & North Pitampura. The entire corridor is elevated.The work involves the part design and construction of elevated viaduct, elevated ramp, siding line and station buildings from Keshopur to Haiderpur Badli Mor. The work on this corridor is expected to be completed within 30 months from the commencement of work.The 28.92 km long Janakpuri West – R. K Ahsram Marg corridor is an extension of Magenta Line and will come up with 22 stations. The tenders for the remaining stations of this corridor are also nearing finalisation. Tenders for civil construction have already been floated for the other planned corridors and two more contracts have already been awarded.
As part of this particular contract, three interchange stations, Peeragarhi (with Green Line), Madhuban Chowk (with Red Line) and Haiderpur Badli Mor (with Yellow Line) will come up. In addition, the entire Janakpuri West – R. K Ahsram Marg corridor will comprise of three more interchange stations at Majlis Park (with Pink Line), Azadpur (with Yellow and Pink Lines) and R K Ashram Marg (with Blue Line). Therefore, in total, this corridor will have six interchange stations..
When the Haiderpur Badli Mor Metro station was constructed on the Yellow Line as part of Delhi Metro’s Phase 3, provisions were kept for its expansion as an interchange facility in Phase 4. This will help in substantially reducing construction time as well as costs in Phase 4. The Phase 4 platforms of Haiderpur Badli Mor which will come up above the Phase 3 station will also the highest ever platform in Delhi Metro at a height of 23.5 metres. The Mayur Vihar Phase 1 Pink Line station is at a height of 22 metres while the Karkardooma station is at a height of 20 metres. Three corridors of Phase 4 have so far been approved under which, 61.679 kilometres of new Metro lines shall be constructed across three different corridors comprising of 45 Metro stations. These new sections shall provide interconnectivity among the already operational sections of Delhi Metro. .
Anuj Dayal
ED(CC)DMRC
“Today, the DMRC commenced work on the 4th Phase of construction of the Delhi Metro Project comprising of three corridors covering 61.67 kilometers at Haiderpur Badli Mor. The first phase of construction of the Delhi Metro had started on 1st October, 1998 and since then the Delhi Metro has established itself as the most reliable public transportation system in the national capital and its peripheries. During these two decades, the Delhi Metro project has also emerged as one of the fastest executed Metro projects anywhere in the world.” The first three phases have interconnected the NCR and helped in reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the city.
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Board index Comments World Politics
Elections America.
Discuss world politics in relation to Islam and Muslims.
Re: Elections America.
Post by Hombre » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:51 pm
Speak of doctored videos mocking & denigrations can work both ways.
Here is one of the best ones named "trump & Billions & Billions & Billions" (need to watch the whole video.)
Post by Centaur » Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:33 pm
For Joe Biden it’s effortless
https://youtu.be/xSSMG0MaEnQ
One of those rare occasions you feel sympathy for Hilary
Click to win $50,0000
only 2% of KKK are radical, the rest are peaceful law abiding moderates
Islamic Football Team: Striker:Extremist; Defender: Moderate One; Goallie :Leftist
Post by Ariel » Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:10 pm
Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls out Biden for quoting Muhammad pronouncing Sharia law in remarks to Muslim voters
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden quoted the Muslim prophet Muhammad pronouncing Sharia law during an address to Muslim voters last month, Hoover Institution research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali told “Tucker Carlson Tonight" Tuesday.
Carlson played several clips from the July 20 remarks, in which Biden vowed to end Trump's "Muslim ban on day one" of his administration and stated, "I wish we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith. I wish we talked about all the great confessional faiths."
According to Ali, elsewhere in his speech, Biden said, "'If you see something wrong' -- and he quotes the Prophet Muhammad -- 'use your hand. If you can't use your hand, use your tongue and if you can't use your tongue, use your heart.'" What he's basically doing from that point onwards is enforcing Sharia law and it is vigilantism on steroids.
“If you’re a Muslim, [if] you grew up within Islam trying to reform it, or [are] just a good American Muslim, you’re being confronted with ... a candidate for a major political party who’s basically saying 'Let’s enforce Sharia law,” Ali went on. “I’m with him on 'Let’s fight [anti-Muslim] discrimination, we should not be bullying Muslim children' ... but I don’t know who puts these words in his mouth and I’m alarmed.”
The Somali-born Ali, who has left the Muslim faith and is now an atheist, explained that Sharia law is based on the concept of “commanding right and forbidding wrong,” which she told Carlson she “cannot believe” Biden is promoting in the year 2020.
“I understand Joe Biden doesn’t know what he’s doing and I think most Americans don’t,” she said. “But he does have a campaign team… Joe Biden should come out and apologize profusely to the American people, especially to those American Muslims who have adopted and embraced the foundational principles of America.”
If he did so, she added, he would show a “great trait of leadership”.
However, she added, “this group of people ... who lured him into saying these things, I know that they are part of the Islamist groups -- we call them the Muslim Brotherhood, I do know that the people who look after him, the campaign team, were not on red alert and that they didn’t stop him from saying this type of thing.”
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
Alexander Soros ( son from) is happy .
Congratulations to our future Vice President Kamala Harris ! History in the making!
Elections 2020. Between Soros and Trump.
Post by Ariel » Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:06 pm
Democratic Party sets rules for criticizing Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris
Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett operatives sign a missive that warns what media message must be
Media organizations have just been warned by the Democratic Party machine that they better be very, very careful with how they cover Joe Biden’s vice presidential choice — just revealed to be Kamala Harris. Any criticism of the expected woman will be considered racist and sexist, we are told. Oh, they wrap up that threat in a word salad, but that’s the bottom line: There should be second and even third thoughts about any criticism of Mr. Biden’s VP pick.
An actual memo went out from an ad hoc group of Democratic operatives (pretending to be advocates for women) to media organizations with orders on how to proceed with their coverage. The fact that they expected this partisan missive to be accepted and adhered to by media entities tells you all you need to know about the problem with today’s legacy media.
For decades, the Democrats have enjoyed a pliant media. Ranging from covering up for John F. Kennedy’s affairs, to ignoring Hillary Clinton’s health and corruption issues during the 2016 race, the media certainly have never needed such a public reminder about their duty to handle a Democratic politician like a fragile, and special, golden egg. So why now? Because identity politics demands it, and with news now disseminated beyond the broadcast networks and just a few loyal newspapers, Democrats need to reinforce the need for media protection in order to gaslight the public about their real agenda and inherent incompetence.
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Post by pr126 » Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:11 am
Kamala Harris, that vaunted self-righteous feminist candidate who's using her 'year of the woman' chops to challenge President Trump in 2020, has a little problem: She slept her way to the top.
Islam: an idea to kill and die for.
Post by manfred » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:40 am
Ariel wrote: ↑
And the party she belongs is is called "democrats"?
This reminds me of the way Robespierre behaved... He also went into the assembly and announced that he has information of many traitors of the revolution and he would bring them all to Madame Guillotine in the near future. Worried members of the assembly demanded to know the names, but he refused to give them. Guess what.... they came for Robespierre next, thus ending the period called the "reign of terror".
I think such comments will drive people to vote Trump. Generally people don't like witch hunts, nor entitled brats.
Post by Ariel » Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:19 am
Indian-American Muslims are happy with Kamala Harris as the Democratic party’s Vice-Presidental candidate.
Indian-American Muslims and Sikhs here have hailed the selection of Senator Kamala Harris as the Democratic party’s Vice-Presidental candidate, calling it a remarkable success for the entire community.
In a statement, the Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) congratulated Harris on her nomination and lauded the Indian-American community for its extraordinary success in the face of tough competition in US in just about five decades.
Oh, dear.
But it seems not all people are happy with Kamala. The question arises, "Is she black enough.
“It is challenging ... and to be honest with you, it is also hurtful,” the Democratic senator said.
Kamala Harris Responds To People Who Don’t Think She’s ‘Black Enough’
Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said Monday that questions about whether she is “black enough” to represent the black community are offensive.
“It is challenging ... and to be honest with you, it is also hurtful,” the California senator told Jemele Hill on an episode of her podcast “Jemele Hill Is Unbothered.”
Harris has endured the racist attacks from conservative figures like Donald Trump Jr. who say she can’t truly represent African Americans because her father was born in Jamaica. Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, is an American of both Jamaican and Indian descent.
“It just feels like your blackness is always being put on trial,” Hill said.
“I have said to my team, I’m like, ’Look, I am not running for black history professor. I am running for president of the United States,” Harris responded. “These people need to know black history. And it cannot be, as it always ends up being, that the couple of chocolate chips on the stage have to be the ones teaching everybody else about America’s history. It’s America’s history.”
Former president Barack Obama experienced similar attacks when Donald Trump and others questioned where Obama, the first black president, was born. The so-called “birther” conspiracy was developed in the late 2000s to cast doubt his legitimacy as president.
Harris told Hill that she’s figuring out where to focus her energy during the presidential race, but that answering questions about her ethnicity is not something she needs to do.
“For other people who can’t figure out am I ‘black enough,’ I kinda feel like that’s their problem, not mine,” she said. “Maybe they need to go back to school to figure it out. And maybe they need to learn about the African diaspora and maybe they need to learn about a number of other things.”
This isn’t the first time Harris has been forced to respond to attacks on her blackness. Earlier this year, she addressed critics who pointed to her record as a prosecutor ― which contributed to high rates of incarceration in California ― as a reason why she wasn’t “black enough” to represent black Americans.
“Look, this is the same thing they did to Barack. This is not new to us,” Harris responded at the time. “They’re trying to ... sow hate and division among us. So we need to recognize when we’re being played.”
Post by manfred » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:47 am
A not too serious Russian contribution... turn on the subtitles, if you need them.
Post by Hombre » Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:08 am
You can bet your beautiful neckless that you can have exact same type of pyramid - at the head sitting Rupert Murdoch or Robert Mercer. Otherwise there is nothing wrong with people think & believe other then your belief - as long as they do not harm you with insidious intent.
Post by pr126 » Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:43 pm
Left Is FURIOUS After I Revealed Kamala Harris Is Descended From Slave Owner (Part 1)
Kamala Harris Has a Slave-Owning Ancestor – So What? (Part 2)
Post by manfred » Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:52 pm
Slave owning ancestor.... someone needs to throw her into Bristol harbour....
There is more:
BRUTAL: Resurfaced Video of Joe Biden Should Destroy His Campaign.
Biden The plagiarizer
Post by Ariel » Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:40 pm
Wow!!!! Democratic National Convention: Day 1. My dad was a healthy 65-year-old.
This sets the tone for a memorable election.
Post by Hombre » Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:18 pm
pr126 wrote: ↑
Please Please don't bring this garbage-human ever again. He is a convicted felon (Campaign violations) & while himself married - he was caught fornicating a married women named Denis. This Indian-Born immigrant has build his career & most of his time on spreading hate of Democrats. He makes millions duping white conservative Americans to believe he is one of them. He is the one who saws division & intolerance of others.
Few years ago I butchered & calling him up on twitter for which he banned me.
Post by manfred » Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:46 pm
A woman named Denis?
You are right gorgeous
A very powerful speech. "My father voted for trump" & "The only per-existing condition my father had - trusting trump & he paid for it with his life"
Post by Centaur » Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:46 pm
why should he care. Clinton fornicated inside white house while married to Hillary and raped many others whom Hilary later helped him to silence.Does he sniff and grab like Bidder as well?
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The Finlander Forum > The Library > Obituaries > Elma Pitkämö Saari 6 Sep 1913 ~ 7 Dec 2011
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ILWACO — Longtime Ilwaco resident Elma Saari, 98, died at her residence on Dec. 7, 2011. Born Sept. 6, 1913, in Powell, Ariz., she was the daughter of Finnish immigrants Eli and Edla (Pihlajaniemi) Pitkamo [ Pitkämö ].
Elma came north with her parents to the Eufaula/Stella area along the banks of the Columbia River and she was a 1932 graduate of R.A. Long High School in Longview. In 1933 she moved to Ilwaco. Shortly thereafter she married Charles Saari and they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary prior to his passing in 1993.
Elma was a wife, mother and homemaker. She also worked at the Chinook Cannery and for Sportsmen’s Cannery in Seaview for a number of years. She enjoyed cooking, visiting with friends, crossword puzzles, garage sales and going to PACE with her grandson.
Survivors include her son, Loren (Ann) Saari of Ilwaco; grandsons, Ralph Baker III, Charles Saari (Sarah Eakin) and Nicholas Saari (Angelyn Solko); granddaughters, Annette (Richard) Day, Lisa Baker and Diane Baker; nine great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; five nieces and a nephew. She was preceded in death by her daughter Barbara Baker, twin sister Elvi Hendrickson, and her sister Elinor Fowler.
No service will be held. Private inurnment will be at the Ilwaco Cemetery Columbarium. Her guest book is available at www.penttilaschapel.com.
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Lesbian Paralympian Dies While Trying To Row Across The Pacific Ocean
June 25, 2020 Kim Wong-Shing
She was trying to become the first openly gay athlete, first paraplegic, and oldest woman to row across the Pacific Ocean alone.
Angela Madsen, a three-time Paralympian rower and US Marine veteran, died at age 60 while trying to become the first openly gay athlete, first paraplegic, and oldest woman to row across the Pacific Ocean alone.
Madsen first set sail in April in a 20-foot rowboat. Her goal was to reach Hawaii within four months.
Her wife, Deb Madsen, confirmed her death in a Facebook post, explaining that she hadn’t heard from Angela since the weekend, when Angela had said she was going into the water to do some maintenance on her boat.
When Deb checked the boat’s tracking, she found that it appeared to be simply drifting rather than steered by an oar. That’s when she got concerned.
“She was about as far from any land as she could get and the communication can be a challenge, I was hopeful but still had a feeling of heaviness in my chest,” Deb wrote.
A Coast Guard plane discovered Angela’s body on Monday, still tethered to her boat.
“Angela was living her dream,” Deb wrote. “She loved being on the water as you could see from the photos she sent.”
Deb further explained that she’s “sad but ok.” She added, “I never planned a life without her so be patient with me while I figure all of this out. Thank you for all your support.”
Documentary filmmaker Soraya Simi had been chronicling Angela’s voyage. Simi wrote on Instagram that this is “the single heaviest moment of my life.”
“She was willing to die at sea doing the thing she loved most,” Simi wrote of Angela. “She was a hell of a woman and one of the most influential and inspiring people in my life. I hope to live with a fraction of the fierceness of spirit Angela had.”
Angela was paralyzed in 1993 after a back surgery. She competed in the Paralympics three times and earned bronze medals in rowing and shot put.
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Published: 09 May 2008 | Print | Hits: 10851
The most group of people that AIDS has been most prominently associated with is gay men. This is not very surprising when you look into the whole sociology of AIDS with a good realistic knowledge of the flaws in AIDS science. Of course, this is claimed by many to be because anal sex is more prone to transmitting the AIDS virus. That notion fails to withstand scrutiny on so many levels it's too big to go into here.
It fails to take into account, for instance, the experience of a medical officer in a South African men's jail who said that with typically 30 men to a cell, and that "sex is rampant, and condom use virtually non-existent", the jail has a rate of HIV+ diagnoses dramatically lower than that claimed for the general population of South Africa and virtually no deaths classified as AIDS in a seven year period. That does rather challenge the notion that it's men having rampant sex that is inherently the cause of AIDS - perhaps there has been some other difference in men having sex between groups of men in an African Jail, and groups of men on the gay scene in LA, SF, NY and London?
Could be. Anyway, long-time dissenting AIDS activist and gay man, Michael Geiger, recently drew up a list of 10 key essential points for survival from long-term observation of gay men that survived an HIV diagnosis, compared to those that died. In a strident letter to Charlie Fidelman, author of a snide and nasty article in the montreal gazette, Michael Geiger's 10 points for surviving AIDS for gay men are:
1) Not allowing themselves to be stressed to death after being diagnosed HIV positive on the highly flawed HIV tests.
2) Not caught up in drug addiction.
3) Have not overused antibiotics b/c of multiple std's
4) Have lower stress levels as they regard HIV aids mostly as hype.
5) Have expectations of health and well being instead of expecting sickness and death.
6) Avoid stressful T-cell and viral load testing.
7) Did not take AZT during the years of 87 to 95, and will not take current haart drugs.
8)Are psychologically well adjusted to their sexuality.
9)Are often health oriented with good diets and exercise.
10) Have families who are supportive of their sexuality.
Clearly, there are some points here that others could benefit from too. let's hope that people do.
Michael Geiger's full email is below:
Hello Mr. Fidelman. A moment of your time, if you would be so kind. Regarding "Denialists" in your piece: "Deadly consequences of ignorance" in the Montreal Gazette, May 5th 2008:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=e24ef0ac-aba7-492c-af1e-c1f4c77a0db6
As a person of Gay man, and as an AIDS dissident, or Rethinker of Jewish Descent, I must tell you that I am disgusted by your, and others equating of those who disagree with the highly contentious scientific evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS, as being comparable to Holocaust Denialists. And particularly as your choice of the word "denialist" in the press comes across as pure propaganda. I am disgusted that you would abuse this word that is highly sensitive to Jewish people to propagate and propagandize your own, as well as others, obvious agendas.
As such, this letter is also CC'ed to many editors of the Jewish press and to Professor, writer, and cell biologist, Dr. Henry Bauer, who by the way is a noted Jewish writer and AIDS Rethinker, and to the many other Jewish AIDS Rethinkers and Jewish AIDS Dissidents who are also noted professors, scientists, doctors, members of the National Academy of Science, reporters, gays, and others.
Though, sir, you may question my, or others own sanity, however, after intensively studying the issue of AIDS causation and more, the fact is that I myself am not blind or ignorant.
After more then 30 years myself, of being an "out" Jewish descended homosexual in the gay community, since well before the word AIDS meant anything other then a teachers assistant, I myself have seen first-hand who gets sick, who dies, and who stays well and symptom free, including first-hand experience with many HIV positive friends and even lovers. Do you, sir, have any such personal experience?
What I myself have always over and again seen in those who survived as long term nonprogressors versus those who sickened or died prematurely, are people who had most of the following in common:
As an out member of the gay community who has first hand knowledge and experience with HIV positives and those diagnosed as AIDS, I have clearly seen that the further people stray from these 10 "little" things, the more likely they are to eventually be chronically sick or even die prematurely. After all, liver failure, particularly in those who choose HIV drugs, has been the leading cause of death in HIV positives for the last 13 years.
Yes, Mr. Fidelman. Ever since AZT monotherapy ended in 1995, Liver failure has been the leading cause of death and is directly linked to those taking arv drugs. Prior to 1995, all HIV positives, caught in the web of mass hysteria that extended even to their doctors, survived an average of 8 months to 1-1/2 years on that toxic and deadly drug, that those in medicine and government and pharma business all well know, but would prefer the issue to be kept quiet, and disappear.
Am I really a holocaust denying, flat earthing fool of a "DENIALIST" because I recognize a different source and cause of the AIDS Holocaust then do you or others? Should my point of view be censored? Should it not be shared with others?
Nice of you to continue to be Mr. Wainberg's mouthpiece, as you have been in the past. As such you are far from unbiased in this issue, which as a reporter, IS YOUR DUTY!
The simple fact that you childishly use such words as "denialist" when describing those who don't agree with you, including many hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, clearly shows your work to be mere propaganda for AIDS Inc, and its overly funded researchers, and drug companies and stock holders. If truth was on your side, you would need no such ad hominem attacks.
But please tell me why Wainberg is so rageful of the hundreds of thousands who disagree with him? Is it because Mark Wainberg holds very valuable patents on some of the most very toxic of AIDS drugs and because profits from them as thousands upon thousands suffer predominently from liver failure, neuropathy, and extreme disfigurement from lypodystrophy directly due to his drugs. Or is it because he is a major stockholder in AIDS drug companies? Or is it because his mega funding from government and drug companies is now highly threatened.
And speaking of owning vast stock in aids drug companies, is there some reason that you have NOT shared with your readers that George Bush's right hand men, George Shultz, and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, are major stockholders, and Rummy himself was even the CEO of Gilead till he joined Bushy in 2001. No wonder Bush was so fond of promoting AIDS drugs for Africa! He has profited quite handsomely from Gileads Blockbuster AIDS drugs and Tamiflu for the Bird Flu Hoax, don't you think?
How nice of you, Mr. Fidelman, to point out that Miss Martineau is still alive and well after 12 years, even though she is now taking the highly toxic AIDS cocktail, that probably by the way contains either toxic AZT, or some of Mark Wainbergs disfiguring and toxic drugs. No wonder she is fatiqued and dealing with illness.
Are you, as a science/medical writer for some strange reason also unaware of the toxic effect of extreme stress that she is under due to her belief that HIV is slowly killing her and her daughter. Even your grandma knew enough to know that high stress levels intensely and negatively affect the immune system (including CD4 counts) and can eventually be lethal if one is stressed out long enough.
And I hope you realize, that sooner then you think, that Wainberg, as well as yourself, may soon be eating your words. After all, Dr. Peter Duesberg, who you seemingly slander and impugn, is now scheduled, and quite soon by the way, to testify to the US congress under the Whistleblower protection act.
Celia Farber, who you also seemingly slander by the way, and impugn, is next week receiving the "Clean Hands" award for her AIDS reporting, from the Semmelweis Society for honesty in Peer Review for Doctors.
And as for you, will YOU be receiving such an award when history is finally written? By the way Mr. Fidelman, how much have you profited from your many fear mongering stories about HIV or AIDS?
So, just when is enough fear mongering enough, Mr. Fidelman, and when does media, and its obviously biased reporters such as yourself, stop weakening gays and all others through fear mongering or encouraging gays or anyone else diagnosed as HIV positive to be victims instead of responsible for our own health and our own choice of beliefs including believing that HIV is the cause of why gay men prematurely sicken or die?
It might be nice if you would be so kind as to knock it off, will yah? Your still making us sick!
Michael Geiger
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TD Bank Financial Group to Become Majority Shareholder of Banknorth Group, Inc. Strategic acquisition provides TD with personal and commercial banking growth opportunity in the US Banknorth gains partner to expand its community-based banking model PORTLAND, Maine–Aug. 26, 2004–Banknorth Group, Inc. (NYSE: BNK) and TDBank Financial Group (TDBFG) today announced that they have signed adefinitive agreement for TDBFG to acquire 51% of the outstanding shares ofBanknorth for approximately US$3.8 billion (approximately CDN$5 billion)in cash and TD common shares. This acquisition will provide TD with themajority interest in a growth company that has a proven track record ofmaking strategic acquisitions. “This strategic acquisition provides us with an expanding beachhead inthe Northeastern United States and an outstanding personal and commercialbanking complement to our strong U.S. wealth management franchise,” saidEd Clark, TD Bank Financial Group President and Chief Executive Officer.”The addition of Banknorth to our brand provides us with immediatelyaccretive earnings and a majority interest in a company that has anexcellent management team focused on growing their business bothorganically and through smart and profitable acquisitions.” “Having TDBFG as our majority shareholder offers us the depth tocontinue with our strategy of acquiring high potential banks in strategiclocations and positions us to move to the next level in terms of size andproduct capability,” said William J. Ryan, Banknorth’s Chairman, Presidentand Chief Executive Officer. “Both TD and Banknorth are leaders inemploying a customer-focused approach to their markets and bring proventrack records of successfully integrating acquisitions. I firmly believethat working with TD will be a positive experience for our shareholders,our customers and our employees.” Acquisition Details The agreement between TDBFG and Banknorth provides for the merger ofBanknorth with a TD subsidiary in which each Banknorth shareholder willreceive a package of US$12.24 in cash, 0.2351 of a TD common share and0.49 shares of the new Banknorth stock, which will continue to be listedon the New York Stock Exchange. TD will be permitted to buy additionalBanknorth shares up to a limit of 66 2/3% either in the open market or inspecific circumstances directly from Banknorth, such as if Banknorth werelooking to raise capital. The transaction will be taxable for Banknorth shareholders for U.S.federal income tax purposes with respect to the cash and TD shares theyreceive. The new Banknorth shares will be tax free. The agreement also permits TD to bid for the remaining publicly heldshares in subsequent years, subject to certain limitations in the firsttwo years, approval by a majority of designated independent directors andunaffiliated Banknorth shareholders during the first five years andapproval by a majority of designated independent directors or unaffiliatedBanknorth shareholders after five years. The deal, which is subject toapproval by Banknorth’s shareholders and by U.S. and Canadian regulatoryauthorities, is expected to close in February, 2005 and be immediatelyaccretive to TD’s earnings, without reliance on synergies. “We have structured the deal this way to allow the maximum degree offlexibility for both TD and Banknorth. TD gains an important personal andcommercial footprint in the U.S. while maintaining our strong capitalratios,” said Clark. “From our perspective, we are gaining access to capital and additionalflexibility to allow us to continue to participate in largeracquisitions,” added Ryan. Bill Ryan will remain Chairman, President and CEO of Banknorth and willjoin TD’s Board of Directors upon the conclusion of the deal. He willcontinue to be based at Banknorth’s headquarters in Portland, Maine.Banknorth’s experienced management team was an integral component of thedeal and will remain intact. To maintain the Banknorth board’s effective working size, but at thesame time reflect the interests of the majority shareholder, TD willinitially be adding up to five members to the board in addition to thecurrent 14 Banknorth directors, all of whom are expected to remain on theboard following the closing. A majority of both the full board and thedirectors appointed by TD will be required for any motion put before theBoard to reflect TDBFG’s majority shareholder position. TD will have theright to elect a majority of board members generally as long as it remainsa majority shareholder. Maintaining Community Roots “Banknorth has a long standing reputation of being committed to thecommunities in which it operates and we intend to continue with that sameapproach,” said Ryan. “We are pleased that our two organizations have thesame focus on meeting the needs of our customers in the local markets weserve. We think that there is a good cultural fit between the two banks,”added Clark. TD Bank Financial Group and Banknorth will hold an analyst conferencecall and meeting today, August 26th, 2004 at 8:45 a.m. ET to discuss thedetails of the transaction. The call will feature a presentation by EdClark, President and CEO of TD Bank Financial Group and Bill Ryan,Chairman, President and CEO of Banknorth. A question and answer period forpre-qualified analysts and investors will follow the formal presentation.The call will be webcast live via TD’s website at www.td.com/investor(link is external) aswell as the investor relations section of Banknorth’s website atwww.banknorth.com(link is external). Pre-qualified analysts and investors may access thecall by calling 416-640-1907 or toll free at 1-800-814-4860. Media mayalso access the call at those numbers, but in listen-only mode. Recordingsof the presentation will be archived on TD’s website www.td.com(link is external) followingthe webcast and will be available for replay for a period of at least onemonth. The replay of the webcast will also be accessible from the investorrelations section of Banknorth’s website at www.banknorth.com(link is external). Banknorth Key Facts & Figures A New England-based company recognized by Forbes magazine as the bestmanaged bank in America, Banknorth offers personal and commercial banking,insurance, investment planning and wealth management services. Theoperations of Banknorth include: — 389 branches and 548 Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in 6 states — 1.3 million households served — US $29.3 billion in assets, as of June 30, 2004 — US $19.3 billion in deposits, as of June 30, 2004 Banknorth is first in combined market share in Maine, New Hampshire andVermont, and 5th in Massachusetts and 6th in Connecticut. About TD Bank Financial Group The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known asTD Bank Financial Group. In Canada and around the world, TD Bank FinancialGroup serves more than 13 million customers in three key businesses:personal and commercial banking including TD Canada Trust; wealthmanagement including the global operations of TD Waterhouse; and wholesalebanking, including TD Securities, operating in a number of locations inkey financial centres around the globe. TD Bank Financial Group also ranksamong the world’s leading on-line financial services firms, with more than4.5 million on-line customers. TD Bank Financial Group had CDN$312 billionin assets, as of April 30, 2004. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on theToronto and New York Stock Exchanges under the symbol “TD”. About Banknorth At June 30, 2004, Banknorth Group, Inc. headquartered in Portland, Maineand one of the 30 largest publicly-traded commercial banks in the country,had $29.3 billion in assets. 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Major League Baseball players countered the owners proposal of a 60-game schedule with their own 70-game schedule on Thursday, as the two sides continued battling over a deal to begin a shortened season.The players’ counter was not received well by at least some on the owners’ side who believed they had an agreement at 60 games.The sides have apparently agreed that the players will be played their full pro-rated salaries and both sides’ proposals included expanded playoffs, creating extra revenue.“We believe this offer represents the basis for an agreement on resumption of play,” union head Tony Clark said in a statement after offering 70 games. Now, they must settle on the length of the schedule, which obviously has financial implications if the players are to be paid on a per-game basis.The difference in total player salaries between 60 and 70 games is about $250 million, or about $8.3 million per team.Owners proposed a 10-week season starting July 19 and ending Sept. 27. The players proposed adding three days at the end to accommodate the extra games.The owners also proposed adding the designated hitter to the National League in 2020 and 2021, a change likely to be embraced by the players because it creates more high-paying jobs and allows older players to remain in the game longer.“We’re at the same place,” Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters. “We want to reach an agreement… We’re doing everything necessary to find a way to play, hopefully by agreement.” Negotiations had apparently hit a stalemate Monday, when Manfred said he was losing confidence there could be an agreement with the players. On Tuesday, Manfred and Clark met face-to-face in Phoenix for a meeting that established what Manfred later said was the “framework” of a deal.Although some on the ownership side reportedly believed the players had agreed to the 60-game plan, Clark on Thursday afternoon released a statement indicating that there was never any agreement.“In my discussions with Rob in Arizona we explored a potential pro rata framework, but I made clear repeatedly in that meeting and after it that there were a number of significant issues with what he proposed, in particular the number of games,” Clark wrote. “It is unequivocally false to suggest that any tentative agreement or other agreement was reached in that meeting. In fact, in conversations within the last 24 hours, Rob invited a counterproposal for more games that he would take back to the owners. We submitted that counterproposal today.”Manfred then responded, telling reporters: “I don’t know what Tony and I were doing there for several hours going back and forth and making trades if we weren’t reaching an agreement.” Newsroom GuidelinesNews TipsContact UsReport an Error read more
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Carlton Hotel in Madrid – Spain
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Project and Site management of the revitalization, refurbishment and updating of Carlton Hotel in Madrid’s city center.
Location: Paseo de las Delicias 26. Madrid
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Project and Site management of the revitalization, refurbishment and updating of a hotel in the center of Madrid.
A partial renovation was carried on mainly on the first floor of the building conditioning part of its surface which was occupied by banquet halls into new rooms.
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Episode Discussion (Spoiler Free) »
Episode 3x15 »
Author Topic: Rain (Read 10206 times)
kmetzk92
Just wondering, but right before it rained.. juliette definately knew that it was going to rain anytime soon.. do you guys think this is just a coincidence or does julliete know something more
WhatThe
Re: Rain
I thought the rain was an excuse to show two beautiful women with wet shirts handcuffed together lol...
surfmadpig
Juliette has been living on the island for three years. That's why she's more accustomed to the climate and can recognize signs of imminent rain. That's what I think. Nothing strange there.
She knew. If you recall, Locke took off from camp in the first season, after he had encountered Smokey and "looked into the eye of the Island," and someone....Boone, I think...followed him and wanted to go along. He told him that he should turn back, especially since it was getting ready to rain. Boone told him that it didn't look like rain, and a few seconds later it started to pour down. I think Boone said something like "So, they teach you that at the box company?"
Juliet, like Locke, has a connection with the Island. I think part of this connection is being in tune with the weather.
Quote from: surfmadpig on April 05, 2007, 12:13:03 PM
I would buy that if it wasn't for the similar incident with Locke. I think it's more than that.
I also just noticed that kate was following a trail and said if it rains ill lose the trail.. the trail leads them back to the others camp so the others most probably left from the camp throught he tunnels
kkehoe5
I think she saw the forcast on Others TV news at 10!
HanginWithMrEko
She predicted the rain just like Locke. Let's not over think what she knows and doesn't know. When I am outside and it's 2 minutes from raining... I could probably guess it... and in some areas, you can actually smell it..
If she said, it's going to rain 45 minutes from now, I'd think bout it more.
Quote from: HanginWithMrEko on April 05, 2007, 12:32:06 PM
True...plus I don't thnk Kate doubted Juliet when she predicted rain. It was more like Kate said "So what" and kept on walking, whether it was going to start raining or not. It was as if she, too, knew it was gonna rain soon, but didn't care.
I still hold up my theory that it was nothing more than the writers wanting to show Kate and Juliet all soaking wet lol...notice they ALSO had these two women fall into the mud (!! lol). Rain, mud, handcuffed, wrestling...oh, yeah, it was purposeful lol
I guess there is a remote chance it means something more, but its' a very very remote chance :b
dweebs
Background Extra
I don't think anything sinister is here. Juliet is merely accostomed to the climate, and it makes sense that locke should know because of his hunting/walkabout obssesion.
Maxor127
I thought of Locke too when that scene happened. I think she somehow knew. I don't see any other reason why they'd have that scene. They could've just made it start raining with no comments.
thwgt
Quote from: WhatThe on April 05, 2007, 12:12:22 PM
And to create a convenient mud puddle for them to fall into.
DHARMA Scientist
We know that one aspect of the Dharma projects was weather experiments. We were told this in one of the orientation videos, the Swan, I think. I think the rain is on a cycle and that is why Juliet knows when it will happen and I think that Locke figured it out. Plus, is the rain connected to cerberus? We always see him during or right after a good rain!!
She looked up and saw clouds, and said it will rain. Not that much of a mystery.
Wow the writers must love it when we add to their story about a simple rain fall. Try not to over think this show too much.
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Lindeth Fell, Best in Cumbria, Best in England
Top Award for Lake District Country House
With glorious views over Windermere lake, a seven acre Thomas Mawson designed garden and private tarn, this Luxury Country House has recently been voted by The AA as the best in England. At a glitzy award ceremony in London, owner Diana Kennedy with daughters Sheena and Jo, accepted the ‘Guest Accommodation of the Year, England Winner 2019-2020’ award from The AA.
This award follows quickly on the heels of winning ‘Boutique Guest Accommodation of the Year 2018-2019’, at the recent Cumbria Tourism Awards and retention of the ‘5 Star, Gold Award’ rating from the AA. In addition, the business is in the TripAdvisor ‘Hall of Fame’ for achieving their ‘Certificate of Excellence’ five years running and have also achieved the accolade of ‘Editor’s Choice Award – Garden Hotel’, by the Good Hotel Guide.
Proprietor Diana Kennedy, who at 82, is still active in the business, has spent 35 years welcoming guests to Lindeth Fell. She said “These awards offer great satisfaction to us. Being the best in England is quite an accolade, but what’s really important is making sure our guests leave happy. It’s a simple ethos, but one we’ve stuck to since buying Lindeth Fell in 1984. Thanks must go to our team for their hard work over the years”.
Daughter and General Manager, Sheena Kennedy said “Hospitality has changed hugely since 1984 and that has required significant ongoing investment to maintain and improve standards. Over the years we’ve always listened to guests and tried wherever possible to exceed their expectations. What’s interesting is that while ensuite bathrooms, WiFi, coffee machines, digital TVs and the like are important, it’s good old-fashioned customer service that wins every time.”
Lindeth Fell was nominated for the award by AA inspectors who rate more than 2,000 properties.
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