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What constitutes public interest?
By Corruption Watch 26 Nov 2012, 11:15
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Dear Corruption Watch,
I am trying to understand how the law defines 'public interest'. It seems to vary according to who is championing it. For instance, the Public Service Act has a section that says an official can be transferred to another unit if it is in the 'public interest', which seems to happen even when (or especially when) a public official is busted for some kind of corrupt activity. And then in the draft legislation to protect state information a 'public interest' defense is anathema to the government. It seems that it's in our interest for criminals to be redeployed but not to be allowed access to a good deal of information in the hands of officials we elect. – Confused
Dear Confused
The term "public interest" is used in a wide variety of contexts in our law. Its meaning varies according to the context – there is no single definition of the phrase that applies in all contexts. At its heart is the idea of something being of benefit to the public – in other words, of benefit to all of us, rather than just to some individuals.
Black's Law Dictionary defines "public interest" as follows:
1. The general welfare of the public that warrants recognition and protection.
2. Something in which the public as a whole has a stake especial an interest that justifies governmental regulation.
For example, in many countries in the world, a litigant may only approach a court if the relief that she seeks is in her own interest. Our Bill of Rights provides that litigants may approach the courts where doing so would be in the public interest, in other words, for the benefit of the public.
In the context of the Protection of State Information Bill, the debate is about whether the Bill should include a public interest defence to a charge of unlawful disclosure of classified information. This would mean that if someone is criminally charged for disclosing classified information, they will not be convicted if they can prove that the disclosure benefited the public.
For example, if a local government official discovered a scam to profit from a school feeding scheme, disclosure of that knowledge would clearly be in the public interest.
There is a difference between information that is in the public interest and information that which is interesting to the public. Topless photographs of a member of the royal family may be interesting to some members of the public, but publication of those photographs would not be in the public interest.
At the time when a public interest defence was going to be included in the Bill, it was very narrowly worded: there would only be a defence against a charge of disclosure of classified information if the disclosure revealed criminal activity.
Though revealing criminal activity would clearly be in the public interest, there are many disclosures that would be in the public interest that would not fall into this category. We believe that "public interest" should be more broadly defined if a defence is included in the Bill.
In the context of the Public Service Act, the transfer to another unit of a corrupt official would only be legally justified if, objectively, that decision means that the public would be better served than by dismissing him or taking other disciplinary measures. For example, the transfer could not legitimately be effected for the purpose of protecting politically well-connected individuals.
Despite this, officials often attempt to justify their decisions by referring to legal provisions that appear to assist them, even if those justifications are unsound and would not stand up in court.
Take a stand and report an incident of corruption. This article originally appeared in the Sunday Times Business Times on 25 November 2012.
The term "public interest" is used in a wide variety of contexts in our law. Its meaning varies according to the context – there is no single definition of the phrase that applies in all contexts.
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Operation Freedom
How a former FBI special agent is leading a crusade against human trafficking.
by Katie Smith
When Ro Lopez travels to exotic locations around the world, it's not for vacation. He arrives with a team of men who all give off the impression that nothing could surprise them. They're well-trained and well-traveled. After getting settled, the team heads to a local park, sets up a boombox, and worships. They call out all the names of God and pray over the nation upon which they stand. They pray for protection and success—two requests that take on deeper, more desperate meaning than usual because young lives truly depend on them. The mission for their trip is clear: rescue the children.
You can't apply for the FBI until you're 23 years old. Ro Lopez knew this, but he applied anyway. At only 21, Ro had sped through college taking summer classes and working overtime. He was ready. He knew he wanted to be an FBI special agent since he was a sophomore in high school and an FBI case named ABSCAM emerged on the news. In it, FBI special agents had gone undercover, posing as Arabs to get corrupt congressmen to bite on something illegal, and they did. It was a big deal, and Ro knew that's what he was supposed to do too.
He passed all his language exams, and to his surprise, they scheduled him to take the special agent test, which he also passed. He filled out the 15-page background check form and then got a call. "The recruiter said, 'Ro, we thought you were 31, not 21!'" Ro says with a laugh. "He told me I wasn't even supposed to be in the process yet, and that they'd need to put my application on pause. He said they would call me two weeks before my birthday." Disappointed and impatient, Ro waited through the delay, even a couple months beyond his 23rd birthday, until one day an evangelist came into his hometown.
"I thought I loved God growing up, and then in college, I joined the Christian organization Chi Alpha. These guys were crazy in love with the Lord," Ro says. "My relationship with God really grew in those years, but as I waited, I really struggled with surrendering it all to God. I thought that if I truly surrendered everything to Him, He'd send me to Africa as a missionary, and I'd never get to be an agent." So when the evangelist came to town, Ro was sitting in the sanctuary, still chomping at the bit to be called up by the FBI. The evangelist said to the congregation, "There's a young man here who has been so passionate about something, but he's afraid that if he totally surrenders, he may not get what he asked for. I'm here to tell you that the Lord wants you to give Him a try and just surrender." A humbled and sobbing Ro walked to the front of the church and surrendered his heart and desires completely to the Lord. After that, everything accelerated and he got the call he'd been waiting for since 10th grade: "Be at the academy in two days."
Ro spent 15 years in the FBI. He was younger and less experienced than most of his colleagues—the average acceptance age is 30 years old—but he listened and absorbed a lot. He went undercover, busted drug cartels, received death threats, was sent into countless dangerous situations, and saw a lot of bad in the world. "I thought I was going to be in the FBI for 30 or 40 years and then retire. That was my plan," Ro says. "But when I surrendered at 23 years old, I told God if He ever wanted me to leave, I would." When God called him out, it was tough, but Ro obeyed. Over the next few years, he traveled to 48 countries as the director of security for Benny Hinn Ministries, did freelance kidnap and ransom negotiation work, and landed a job in the corporate world doing crisis management.
A couple years into the new job, on Thanksgiving Day in 2009, Ro got an email. A friend of his had visited an orphanage just outside of Nairobi, Kenya, two weeks earlier and recently learned it had been attacked. Fifteen men robbed the orphanage, gang raping two young girls and beating the house mother nearly to death. "There I was, eating and giving thanks for everything I had, and I just broke down in tears," Ro says. "I said to the Lord, 'I know there are a lot of guys out there with my kind of background who could help. I know we can make a difference.'" Driven to action, by his righteous anger for justice and his extensive experience in security and rescue ops, Ro created an organization called Freedom's Shield. In just four days, with the help of his dad and a Navy Seal buddy, they set out to work securing orphanages around the world.
"That first year and a half, I was funding Freedom's Shield with my own money," Ro says. "Financially, it was tough." Ro and his team began building security around orphanages in Africa and then pivoted to focus on orphanages in Central America. On the Mexican side of El Paso down to Brownsville, they identified every orphanage that was in harm's way because of cartels or gangs. "We installed safe rooms, cameras, and security upgrades. Then, we started providing contingency and crisis management plans," Ro says. "At about the six-month mark, we were asked to help launch an eastern European branch of A21, an anti-trafficking nonprofit created by Christine Caine." There, Ro and his team did more than security assessments and upgrades. They actually trained the national police force on anti-trafficking tactics. Soon after, another organization invited them to Asia to do the same thing. It was there when God began to move in Ro's heart again. "I remember we were almost finished, and the Lord said to fly to another city," Ro says. "It was nine hours away, but I felt so strongly we needed to go there. So I told my team, and we made the trip."
They didn't know where exactly they were going or why, so when Ro's team arrived, they connected with the US Embassy. "As a former FBI special agent, I can pretty much go into any embassy and connect with the FBI-trained guys on the ground," Ro says. "So we connected with an agent who knew a little bit about the anti-trafficking training we'd done, and we asked to see a local general." Much to everyone's surprise, the general, who is typically unavailable, took the entire next day off to spend with Ro and his team.
The general brought them to a facility where he introduced them to six little Malaysian boys and girls, all 8 to 10 years old. "The general said, 'You see these kids? All six of them were drugged, kidnapped, and brought here. For the last 30 days, they've been locked in a home and sold for sex. One of them escaped and told us, and we got the rest of them out,'" Ro says. "And I just broke down. I knew this was what God was calling me to for the rest of my life—to fight human trafficking. It was one of those memories that's so clear you'll never forget." From that moment on, with those six kids' faces in mind, Freedom's Shield expanded its purview to also fight four types of human trafficking: sex trafficking, forced labor, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and organ harvesting.
With this newfound vision, Freedom's Shield began targeting organized crime and extremists involved in trafficking, especially child sex trafficking. Ro's team was small and mighty, but their funds were limited. Freedom's Shield couldn't grow much more without more time, relational equity, and financial investment, and Ro was still working full-time at his corporate job, until he met a cyber intelligence man who made him an offer. "This man flew me to Virginia in his private jet to see if I would enjoy doing the type of cyber work he needed, and then said that he was going to pay me full-time but only wanted me to work part-time. He wanted me to grow Freedom's Shield," Ro says. "It was an answer to prayer."
This man's generosity allowed Freedom's Shield to grow tremendously. For three years, they worked with the general in Asia to train, equip, and organize recovery operations with an agency similar to the FBI in their country. The relationship was mutually beneficial. "If the general wanted to take down an arms-dealing group and we knew they were also trafficking children, we would partner with his people to shut down the group so the kids would be freed," Ro says. "That's how we work. We find that local law enforcement is just as passionate as we are about combating these atrocities in their country, and we've gotten really good at working together." The guys behind Freedom's Shield operate within the rule of law to provide the investigative work, the funding for equipment and technology, the organization of the specific ops, and most importantly, the training of trusted national law enforcement in everything from sniper training to organized crime enterprise investigations and criminal conspiracy. That way, the locals on the ground get to be the heroes in physically freeing their people. This strategy allows Ro's team to develop networks of contacts in many countries and be part of many more operations all over the world, without having Freedom's Shield folks on the ground every time. This works especially well in countries where Americans aren't welcome.
In 2015, Ro decided to take the leap and begin working full-time with Freedom's Shield. With Ro's laser focus in the last few years, Freedom's Shield has conducted more than 500 missions in the Middle East alone, a fair amount being snatch-and-grab ops behind enemy lines. But a mission starts long before that moment. Because no two operations are the same, Ro and his team spend months scouring and obtaining intel, developing relationships with nationals, finding sources, and creating a custom plan. "When the day finally comes, it's not about coming in with guns blazing," Ro says. "It's a complex operation to recover those enslaved, without firing a shot." With loads of experience, divine intervention, and steady provision, in the last 10 years, Ro's team has been largely successful recovering more than 2,500 men, women, and children being trafficked or held against their will. "We've even developed enough trusted sources that we've gotten phone calls like, 'Hey, there are 75 kids on a boat headed to southeast Asia about to be labor and sex trafficked.' So we, in turn, give a tip to the maritime police, and they free 75 kids," Ro says. "Those are great moments for us." Freedom's Shield also supports about 5,500 orphans in 14 countries and handles any extortions, kidnappings, and security issues pro bono.
The guys behind the scenes at Freedom's Shield are mostly volunteers from diverse backgrounds. "I've got about 25 former FBI special agents, 10 former counterintelligence case officers, over 100 military or special ops guys, about 45 analysts, and 25 cyber guys—some of the best hackers in the world," Ro says. "We have a lot of capabilities, a lot of cool stuff that we use, and more we continue to acquire." For a lot of these guys, there's tremendous risk in being involved in Freedom's Shield. They don't have hats or t-shirts to indicate they're part of this team, and when asked to interview one or two of them, Ro said no because their identities need to be kept confidential to keep them and their families safe. "We know God has done a lot of supernatural stuff to protect us over the years. And we're not cowboys. We're slow and methodical. We know what we're anointed to do, and we stick with it," Ro says.
But you can't do what Ro does and not be jaded or cynical. Fifteen years in the FBI alone would have been enough for some people to throw in the towel. But Ro really fights the good fight and remains eager to help in whatever God calls him to. "You know that verse that says, 'Don't grow weary in doing good'? Well, I'm often weary and frustrated that I can't do more good," Ro says. "The need is so great, and some days, not having enough money or equipment or men to help really whittles away at my faith. My prayers often sound like, 'Come on, God. You said to take care of the orphans and the widows and the oppressed. We're trying to. You said all we had to do was ask. You said You would provide.'" And He does provide, though it may not be in the way that Ro expects. Some days the burden is heavy—there are approximately 40 million people held in slavery across the world—and we don't always understand everything God is doing. To share the extent of the horrors he combats daily, Ro pulls up a photo on his phone of a 16-year-old girl with a machine gun, a child soldier, who was killed in a firefight with local military—she was still wearing her purple pajamas. They couldn't save her, but there are many they have saved, their stories intertwined with hope and grief. They once recovered a little six-year-old girl who had been taken when she was only three. She didn't know her name or that her parents had been killed on the day she was taken, but she's now free from her traffickers and receiving help. "A few years ago, we were notified about these guys who created a video to sell a four-year-old girl. They were going to cut her up and sell her organs in eastern Europe," Ro says. "We began to track her down. We lost her for a while when they crossed borders, but by God's grace we found her. We ended up buying her from one of the guys' brothers and getting her back to her parents." Ro and his team have story after story like this, but Ro admits that the real tough work starts after the child or adult is recovered, so Freedom's Shield partners with trauma specialists who provide mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual support to the precious ones recovered all over the world.
When asked what's on the top of his list right now, Ro passionately describes several situations. "We know of 500 girls who are being trafficked in a desert in the Middle East, and then there's 250 Christians a month being sold on the auction block in north Africa that we can recover. We've also identified hundreds of camps in southeast Asia that use eight-year-old boys as soldiers," Ro says. "We have the intelligence and the plans in place. We can rescue them. We don't have the money right now, but we know God will provide it." So, Ro and his team soldier on, doing what they can and praying for God's help to get these people out of slavery and for patience to wait for His timing. It's dif- ficult for sure, and there have been moments when he wanted to quit—especially amid the disappointments and the death threats. "But I think of how many times we've gone into a country, and people have said to us, 'We know you're Christians by the way you love us.' They're touched that we're there to help their people, and it preaches more than words," Ro says. "When I hear that and I see the faces of those recovered, I know this is what God has called us to do."
Ro has been attending Gateway since 2005. For almost seven years, Gateway has been supporting the work of Freedom's Shield, including funding toward technical equipment.
The entire Freedom's Shield team requests your prayers, especially for protection over their team so they may continue to do their life-saving work. For more information about Freedom's Shield and to donate, visit freedomshieldfoundation.com.

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Latest food stamps cut won't affect Iowans, but the next one might
Iowa was one of 17 states that didn't request waivers to work requirement laws for food stamps this year, meaning the USDA's change won't be felt here.
Latest food stamps cut won't affect Iowans, but the next one might Iowa was one of 17 states that didn't request waivers to work requirement laws for food stamps this year, meaning the USDA's change won't be felt here. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/12/04/new-food-stamps-cut-wont-affect-iowans-though-next-one-might/2611640001/
Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register Published 7:03 p.m. CT Dec. 4, 2019
The Trump administration's new restrictions on food stamps will not directly affect Iowans, though experts warn they could bind state officials if there is an economic downturn and could hurt farmers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's new rule, made official Wednesday, gives states less freedom to waive work requirements for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP and often referred to by its former name, food stamps. However, Iowa is one of 17 states that did not request the waiver this year.
"This will only affect states that currently have waivers," said Laura Wheaton, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who studies SNAP.
Eligibility for the program, which helps feed about 340,000 Iowans, is based on a formula that takes into consideration family size, citizenship status, household income and certain expenses.
Under the new federal rules, adults younger than 50 who don't have children and aren't disabled also must work to receive the benefit. Previously, states could apply for waivers in areas where the unemployment rate was higher than the national average, allowing those recipients to get the benefit without working.
Now, the exception to the work requirement will only exist in areas where the unemployment rate is 6% or higher. (The previous exception shifted monthly as the unemployment rate went up or down, and was most recently at 4.3%.)
The USDA estimates that 688,000 people will lose SNAP as a result of the change. It takes effect April 1.
Although the new rule doesn't affect the state currently, Iowa Policy Project Executive Director Mike Owen warned that it takes an option off the table in the event of a recession. He envisions situations where people need the benefit but can't find work.
"We'll be in a box like all other states," he said.
Sarah Reinhardt, a food systems and health analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said slashing SNAP rolls could also impact Iowa's agriculture-heavy economy. Decreasing the benefit means fewer food purchases overall.
"These cuts will almost certainly be felt by farmers and food producers," she wrote in an email Wednesday.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue defended the decision in an Arizona Daily Star opinion column, writing that the food stamp program "was never intended to be a way of life."
"Americans are generous people who believe it is their responsibility to help their fellow citizens when they encounter a difficult stretch," he wrote. "Government can be a powerful force for good, but government dependency has never been the American dream. We need to encourage people by giving them a helping hand but not allowing it to become an indefinitely giving hand."
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Wednesday that the new rule "would potentially throw hundreds of thousands off food assistance, driving the vulnerable into hunger just as the Christmas season begins."
"This is cruel and exposes a deep and shameful hypocrisy in this administration," he said in remarks on the Senate floor.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following the weekly Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on November 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
Brandon Lipps, deputy undersecretary for the USDA's Food Nutrition and Consumer Services, said the change would save roughly $5.5 billion over five years. The department estimates 74% of the "work-eligible adults" without dependents in the program are not working.
The department's announcement noted that just more than 17 million people received SNAP benefits in 2000 when the national unemployment rate was 4%, while 36 million are receiving them in 2019, when the unemployment rate is 3.6%.
The department said there are "a wide range" of ways for individuals to keep their benefits under the new rule through SNAP-funded employment and training programs.
The new rule also tightens states' ability to roll over any unused exemptions into the next year.
Wheaton said a second SNAP cut under consideration would have a deeper impact in Iowa. The USDA has proposed eliminating a rule that allows states to ease financial requirements for the program's recipients.
Under the current rule, an Iowa family of three can qualify for SNAP as long as its monthly income is no higher than $2,700 — about 160% of the federal poverty guideline. The new rule would drop that to about $2,200 a month.
Wheaton said the rule also would require that SNAP-eligible families have no more than $2,250 in savings. In Iowa, the current rule allows families to save as much as they want.
Though the public comment period of the rule has ended, the USDA has not yet enacted it. Wheaton said it would drop about 34,000 Iowans from the SNAP rolls — one out of every 10 current recipients.
"We will see if the USDA will modify the rule," she said, "or if they go through with it."
Tyler Jett covers jobs and the economy for the Register. Contact him at 515-284-8215 and tjett@registermedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @LetsJett.
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Art is "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects" .But the thing about art is that it's so diverse that there are as many ways to understand it as there are people. That's why there are scholars who give their own special definition of the word, such the one penned by this famous Russian novelist, which goes:
"Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others" – Leo Tolsto"
Some say, art is boring. But the fact remains that art has the power to take cultural practices from where they are from and then transport and integrate them into different parts of the world without losing their identity.
There, these art forms can be used to entertain, create awareness, and even inspire foreigners to accept these cultures, no matter how strange or alien they may seem.
This is especially important in our highly globalized world. Art has played an important role in helping fight against intolerance of different cultures, racism, and other forms of unjust societal segregation. With immigration becoming a growing trend, the world's countries are expected to be more tolerant and accepting of those who enter their borders.
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IMPRESSIONISM IN ART
Impressionism in art is to create an impression of the objects, using colour, texture and other techniques. Realism is to create scenes as close as possible to the real life scene. It was said of Claude Monet: "He is just an eye…but, my God, what an eye!" So the essential difference between the two, is that the focus of Realism is on the subject matter…on WHAT is painted, whereas Impressionism was more concerned with looking at the world and HOW to paint it. Though Impressionism may have gotten off on the wrong foot in France, the French did eventually enjoy it. In general, Impressionism is very appealing; especially the works by Monet. Impressionist art was done relatively quickly, and in the moment, with fast, loose brush strokes of colour that would blend together when viewed. Unlike a lot of previous Realistic and Romanticist artwork, impressionist artwork did not depict historic events, heroes, or religious figures. Instead, impressionist art depicted pleasant moments in time and nature. Subjects of impressionism included nature, entertainment of the middle and upper class, and effects of light and weather. Some of the popular Impressionist painters were Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Degas. Realistic painting contrasted with impressionist art, and became very popular in France just before the dawn of Impressionism. Realist paintings depicted realistic events as their subject matter, but they were very different in style from Impressionism. Realist paintings were obviously realistic; they would almost look like a photograph at first glance. This is very different from the impressionist paintings which were more abstract. Realist and impressionist paintings were also similar because neither style depicted heroes, kings, or theatrical events, however, realist artists chose to focus on the "ordinary" things in life, such as farming, chores, livestock, while impressionist artists tended to focus on not just ordinary, but the beautifully ordinary things in life, such as nature, city skylines, and ordinary people doing leisurely activities. One clear difference between the two styles of painting is the brush stroke method, which is much more subtle in realist paintings than impressionist. Some of the popular realist painters were Courbet, Bonheur, Manet, and Homer.
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You may not know her as a well-known artist, but it is quite likely you know her face. Berthe Morisot was the model and muse to Edouard Manet, the famous painter, appearing in some of his best known works, including 'The Balcony'.
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English News and Articles - AnkawanewsFour kidnapped seminarians are finally named
Four kidnapped seminarians are finally named
By Fionn Shiner and Maria Lozano FOUR seminarians kidnapped in Nigeria by armed intruders have been named by a leading Catholic charity which supports persecuted Christians.
Aid to the Church in Need can at last reveal that the four men are Pius Kanwai, 19, Peter Umenukor, 23, Stephen Amos, 23, and 18-year-old Michael Nnadi.
They were taken on Wednesday (8th January) evening from the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna city, northern Nigeria.
Armed assailants broke through the fence surrounding the living quarters of the seminary, forced themselves into the student hostel, and stole some of the students' valuables before abducting the seminarians.
The four men came from different dioceses across northern Nigeria and had only just started studying for the priesthood.
The kidnappers' identity and motive remain unknown.
Police said their quick response prevented the attackers from taking more students.
Abductions have risen sharply in Kaduna.
The Rev John Joseph Hayab, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said abductions in the state had become "a big business" but others are taken for religious reasons.
On Boxing Day 2019, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), an offshoot of Daesh (ISIS), released a video purporting to show 10 Christians being beheaded on Christmas Day.
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto responded by criticising the Nigerian authorities for not doing enough to prevent the violence.
He told ACN: "The only difference between the government and Boko Haram is Boko Haram is holding a bomb."
On 25th March 2019, Father John Bako Shekwolo, a priest of Kaduna archdiocese, was kidnapped. His whereabouts are still unknown.
Nearly two weeks earlier, Father Clement Ugwu of St Mark's Catholic Church in Enugu state was abducted from his parish home and a few days later his decomposing corpse was found 12 miles from his home.
Leah Sharibu, abducted on 19th February 2018, is still in the custody of Boko Haram.
She was taken with 109 other girls but she alone was held back after she refused to convert to Islam.
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Der BET Award for Best Movie ergänzt seit 2010 die Filmpreiskategorien des BET Awards um einen Award für den besten Film des Jahres.

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11 Things That Only Australians Get But The Rest Of Us Don't.-RumourJuice.
Do not be surprised if you find yourself wondering the beautiful streets of "the lucky country" a little confused. Many have found themselves in that state because they look around and have so many questions from the things they see. Questions such as why is everyone drunk at midday and on a Sunday, why does the coffee not taste like water and why aren't people wearing shoes?
For the Aussies all that is a normal life in the Down Under.However, so that you don't go asking questions the next time you see something strange when you are in Aussie territory, here are a few things about Australians that only they understand but the rest of us can't just figure out why they do them.
Why are shoes the devil you may wonder, it is because it's too hot, that's why. Wearing socks and shoes is actually an ordeal that many Australians would rather pass. That is why you will see many of them wearing flip flops whenever they can and those really brave ones will just walk around the streets barefoot. Try walking barefoot in London or New York and you will get these weird sideways looks and someone might even call an emergency number if you show them the slightest sign of being unwell. So hating shoes is just one of those things that can be called Australian.


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Green Party prepares for leadership contest
Image caption The current co-leaders have yet to make their intentions clear
The Green Party of England and Wales has outlined details of its leadership contest to be held this summer.
Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were elected as co-leaders for a two-year term in September 2016.
Ms Lucas, the MP for Brighton Pavilion and Mr Bartley, elected as a councillor in May, have yet to say whether they will stand on a joint ticket again.
Nominations will open in June, with the result to be announced in September. A deputy leader will also be elected.
Current deputy Amelia Womack's two-year term is also expiring.
Greens elect Lucas and Bartley as leaders
Greens: We're England's fourth party
The co-leaders, who won 88% of the vote in 2016, have described their joint arrangement as a "first in Westminster politics".
Under their leadership, the Greens saw their share of the vote squeezed in last year's snap general election, although Ms Lucas successfully retained her seat.
The party fared better in May's English council elections, winning 39 seats - an increase of eight on when the seats were last contested in 2014. Mr Bartley was elected to Lambeth council in south London.
The Greens say they have overtaken UKIP - which lost 123 seats on the night - to become the "fourth party" in English local government behind the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems.
In 2007, the Greens moved away from their longstanding tradition of having two principal speakers in favour of electing a leader every two years.
Ms Lucas won elections in 2008 and 2010 but decided against standing in 2012, when she was succeeded by Natalie Bennett who served until 2016.
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Green Party: Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley elected as co-leaders


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Epic Illustrated (1980) #5-9
edited by Archie Goodwin.
OK, I meant to do one post per day, really, but finding time to read these comics has proven problematic. These magazines are chock full of material, so it's taking even longer than I thought it would take, and I thought it would take twice as much time as I estimated.
(I'm in software.)
Anyway! We're in EI's second year, and about half of the ads are now for movies (mostly sci-fi and humour). I had no idea that the movie above existed: American Pop? Is that it? (It's a three page ad.) By Ralph Bakshi? I thought he went bankrupt after Lord of the Rings?
No, it exists:
Seems like it's well-liked, too?
Anyway! EI steps up the publishing rate and it's now bi-monthly (so I'll be aiming for plowing through six issues per blog post, which means *gets out sliding rule*) four more of these posts before we get started with Epic Comics proper.
Oh, and Jo Duffy joins the editorial team.
We get the conclusion of Almuric, which means that that's the last Tim Conrad barbarian face we have to look at.
I normally enjoy Roy Thomas barbarian stuff just fine (I mean, I don't seek it out or anything, but it's usually readable), but Almuric was just a non-starter. Basically nothing of interest happens: It's just a bunch of pointless running around until they've filled the required number of pages. It's not Robert E. Howard's most famous property. For a reason.
The text pieces remain EI's weakest point. Reading a comic with an eye-rolling twist ending is somehow much more acceptable than when it's prose? Here's Ralph Macchio… not doing a riveting story.
I mean, like this Rick Veitch story: It's basically just a gag, but that's fine. There's just something about the panel arrangement of the guy stepping on the bananas that just makes it.
50% more issues per year means that you can put more non-comics (i.e., cheaper to produce) stuff into the issues without people feeling let down, I think? Well, OK, or perhaps it just feels more well-rounded to have other things in here, too. One can be too cynical sometimes, right?
RIGHT?!?
I think it kinda works. While reading this, I just skimmed these columns (there three of them; one about books, one about movies and one about games), and I think I would have liked them when I was a teenager. But I just don't have time to read them now. So busy!
Speaking of busy, Jim Starlin is busy experimenting with new painting techniques in every segment of his Metamorphosis Thingy. I wondered whether this might just have been a printing accident, but… it's hard to imagine what accident would have this solarising effect? I mean, it looks nice, doesn't it?
And it does help having a continuous story going through these issue: Just reading one short piece after another after another is fine as far as it goes, but some longer pieces does help with the… texture.
But putting in 18 pages of interviews with The Brothers Hildebrandt is pushing it. I mean, they're not really comics artists, are they? Mostly illustration?
Hm. Perhaps it really is about the budget.
The vast majority of the creators employed by EI are men, but the occasional woman does show up, like Margaret Gallagher here in a very flower-powery style. It's unusual in an EI context, too, in that it doesn't end with the protagonist getting horribly mutilated and killed on the final page.
EI is way into "edgy, ironic" endings. I guess it's the insidious influence of EC Comics by way of Warren? It does get a bit grating after a while, at least when reading these issues like this.
Wow! An ad for a movie that's not sci-fi!
"The social impact of fantasy games has yet to be studied."
I guess that's still true?
Bob Aull does a quite undergroundish thing that follows the template of the protagonist getting reamed (sort of), but in this instance, he totally deserves it, so it's a gleeful, happy ending. In the context of the other stories, that's a twist.
Wow. Starlin's way weird.
Ken Steacy illustrates another Harlan Ellison story, and these are the best illustrated stories in the magazine, still. Steacy leans into having a lot of text on the page, but still manages to be graphically interesting, while making that design be relevant to the story. This story is about who can't move because a robot will kill him if he does, so it's basically just a guy sitting on the floor, which is a challenge to make arresting visually.
And the story's pretty satisfying, as these stories go.
Jo Duffy's column is about books, mainly, but she also writes about comics. Here's her take on Cerebus, and basically the only negative she can find is the inconsistent verb tense in the captions.
SR Bissette and Steve Perry do an inventive story about cult movies. I mean, I didn't really… understand what it was all about in the end? Was it a Groundhog Day thing? But how can you not like a comic with Divine in it?
And that's an excellent movie lineup there in the background.
There's a long thing by Neal Adams called Holocaust that I couldn't quite make out what was about. I mean, I know what it's about about, but it didn't really make much sense on a page to page basis. And the reproduction is really bad, which is unusual for EI. It was done (apparently) as a record booklet in the 70s, but never used, so it was dusted off here. Didn't Adams have the originals any more, and it was shot from photocopies? That's what it looks like.
We get 17 pages of interview from Barry Windsor-Smith, which makes more sense.
This is by JK Potter and Tim Caldwell. Is that any relation to JK Rowling? Anyway, I think I've seen Caldwell's stuff around in the undergrounds, and it's this hyper-realistic photo-based fumetti-like thing… that's really offputting.
Yes! It's not Nov. 30 yet! Get your 14K gold chain for $10 plus $2 shipping! Quick!
That's a weird ad to have in a magazine like this, so I'm guessing it's a scam?
People are clamouring for more serials, which is surprising in one way…
Hey! Trina Robbins! Her art style is well suited for some Egyptian pharaoh thing.
In the first few issues of EI, Goodwin desperately tried justifying printing some nice artwork by having people come up with accompanying prose stories. He's fortunately given up on that by now, and instead we just get some nice artwork with some chatter. This article is about the "portfolio" phenomenon which was all the rage around this time.
I wonder whether there was an editorial change of policy, because there were no penises in this magazine up until now? I mean, even that character was devoid of one in earlier issues.
Perhaps they just got more daring as they realised the rules on the "adult" magazine newsstand marked was radically different from the comics stands.
I'm always up for some Charles Vess, but I feel the story here wasn't very engaging.
Hm. A "retail display plan"? Is that like a Marvel-branded stand or something? It was apparently a big deal, because they even alerted the retailers about it on the cover:
Perhaps Marvel didn't have any other way to reach the retailers? Independent distribution was mysterious.
In the ninth issue, The Metamorphetc ends, and it turns out that the entire thing was rather underwhelming. Spoilers: After collecting four people, the bald guy blows up the galaxy and then a million years later they surface in another galaxy. He had to blow up the galaxy, see, because some space aliens were evil and etc. It doesn't really make much sense dramatically. But it's a good read nonetheless.
We get an interview with Starlin, who doesn't look at all like he's a caretaker at a remote hotel in the middle of the winter, and he tells us what he's got planned for the Odyssey thing now. He says that the "Vanth" character is a different character now, which is what I remember from reading Dreadstar as a teenager. But we'll see: Dreadstar is the first Epic Comics comic proper, so I'll be reading it in… er… a week's time?
Virtually everything Epic Illustrated published until now has been creator-owned. The exception was a Silver Surfer story in the first issue, but now we get Weirdworld, which had been published by Marvel before. This iteration is written by Doug Moench, and it's pretty entertaining.
I love the style Lee Marrs uses here. Coloured with crayons? I have no idea, but it looks great, and very different from anything else in EI. (And, yes, the story has a twist, but it's fun without being a straight-up joke.)
Hey! I don't think I've seen this P. Craig Russell thing before. "The Ideal: Opus 11". It's quite unusual for being reproduced from his pencils: He usually inks his linework. And it's usually in colour. This is very lovely, and expertly printed here.
A letter writer isn't impressed by all the violence in the book. Oh! It's catherine yronwode! Is this before she started working for Eclipse Comics? I guess it must have been, but not by long.
Goodwin counters, disingenuously, by claiming that yronwode must think that all stories without violence are good stories, which is something she did not say at all.
Anyway, that's the end of Day Two of my Journey into Epic Illustrated. It was, again, a very pleasant way to spend the evening.
Author larsmagne23Posted on November 29, 2019 Categories Uncategorized


New York City dropped to number two behind Washington, DC in the green buildings awards stakes year, but a new set of guidelines from the mayor's office on resilient building might push the Big Apple back to the top spot in 2018.
The guidelines instruct city agencies to build with climate change in mind, and to include projections for climate impacts through to 2080. New public buildings are to include robust backup systems for power outages, window shades and building angling to avoid direct sunlight, and use materials that absorb heat.
Green roofs and permeable pavements are also suggested against increasing storms. In spite of flood risk, New York's waterfront magnetically attracts luxury development, and the resilience standards are not mandatory for private builders. Yet just as green building standards were at first rejected and then adopted by the design and construction community, resilience rules are likely to enter the mainstream. Hurricane Sandy was a seminal storm that altered the view on the need for resilience against climate events.


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Widryny (niem. Widrinnen) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim, w powiecie kętrzyńskim, w gminie Reszel.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa olsztyńskiego.

Historia
Wieś istniała już przed 1422 r., ponieważ w roku tym znajdowała się w rejestrze wsi czynszowych.

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 Max Toeppen "Historia Mazur" (w przekładzie Małgorzaty Szymańskiej-Jasińskiej i opracowaniu Grzegorza Jasińskiego), wyd. Wspólnota Kulturowa "Borussia", Olsztyn 1995, . (str. 116 wieś czynszowa)

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Black Drop Effect
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Heard somewhere about the Venus transit or Mercury transit but don't know a dime about what actually they are?
Don't you worry because this article lights up all about the transits and the Black Drop Effect associated with it. The black drop effect is an optical phenomenon that can be viewed during a transit of Venus or in transit of Mercury. Transit of Venus occurs when planet Venus passes directly in between the Sun and some other superior planet. This way, it becomes visible against the solar disk and it blocks a small portion of the sun. When a transit takes place, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black dot. This dot may tend to be moving across the front visible portion of Sun. The duration of such transits can be of usually several hours.
We know that the diameter of Venus is three times that of Moon and is comparatively farther from Earth. For these very reasons, Venus appears smaller and travels slowly across the face of the Sun. The Transit of Venus is considered to be the rarest among all other predictable astronomical phenomena.
The black drop effect was earlier thought to occur due to Venus's thick atmosphere. This indeed was proved to be the first real evidence that Venus actually had an atmosphere. However, undergoing several kinds of research and advancements in the field of Astronomic sciences, it has now been concluded to be the Optical phenomenon. Additionally, it is found that the effect was caused by the combination of these 2 factors:
Extreme darkening of the Sun's disk near the edge
The internal imperfection of the viewing apparatus
EARLIER OBSERVATIONS – BLACK DROP EFFECT
Mercury transits were the ones which are observed frequently before. The Shuckburgh telescope of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London was used for observing the transit of Mercury in the year 1832. It was well equipped with a micrometer. The micrometer was used to report the events as seen through the small refractor.
When Mercury was observed during its transit in May 1832, Bessel and Argelander noticed some effect in the process. This was later called the black drop effect. Both of them observed this effect with an instrument of lesser resolution.
With more accurate measurements, a black drop effect was observed again from outside of Earth's atmosphere during the 1999 and 2003 through transits of Mercury as it has no significant atmosphere of its own. In June 2004, during transit of Venus, many observers reported that they did not see the black drop effect. Large telescopes, better optical resolutions, and darkening of a limb might have been stated as the responsible factors for the same.
By observing the transit in such combinations, the diameter of the planet was taken. The last transit of Venus was seen on 5th and 6th June 2012. This was also the last transit of Venus of the 21st century. The transit prior to this took place on 8th June 2004. The more previous one was seen in December 1874 and December 1882. According to the studies, the next transits of Venus will take place on 10th or 11th December 2117. More later, it will be seen on 8th December 2125.
HISTORICAL REFERENCE_VENUS TRANSIT
In 1627, Johannes Kepler was the first person to predict the transit of Venus by predicting the event of 1631. He failed in a way that he could not explain why the transit was not visible in most of Europe. As a consequence, nobody was able to understand his prediction and thus lost relevance.
Jeremiah Horrocks made the first recorded observation of the transit of Venus from his home in Much Hoole, England on 4th December 1639. His friend, William Crabtree, also observed the same transit from Broughton, Manchester. Kepler had predicted some kind of transits in 1631 and 1761.
Venus transits are historical of great scientific importance since they were used to gain the first real estimates of the size of the Solar System and its planets. Observations, when the transit took place in 1639, provided an estimate of the size of Venus. The same observation also estimated the distance between the Sun and Earth. These observations taken at that time was more accurate than any other up to that time. The 2012 transit provided scientists with many other research opportunities as well.
MERCURY TRANSIT – BLACK DROP EFFECT
A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet. It then becomes visible against the solar disk like a small spot that obstructs the light. During the transit, Mercury appears as a tiny black dot moving across the face of the Sun.
Mercury transits are more frequent than Venus transits with respect to Earth. It is because Mercury is closer to the Sun and orbits faster than any other planets. Transits of Mercury usually seem to occur around May or November. The last four transits were observed in May 2003, November 2006, May 2016 & November 2019. The next transit is said to take place on November 13, 2032. A typical transit may last for several hours.
MERCURY TRANSIT CONTACTS – BLACK DROP EFFECT
The most common observation attribute that is to be noted is the number of times the disk of Mercury appears to be in contact with the Sun. These contacts are traditionally called the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th contacts. Among these, the 2nd and 3rd contacts occur when the Mercury disk is fully on the disk of the sun. It is generally seen that the 1st and 4th contacts cannot be accurately detected. The 2nd and 3rd contacts are readily visible.
Observed contact times for the transit of mercury between 1677 and 1881 are given in S Newcomb's "Analysis of Transits of Mercury". Observed 2nd and 3rd contact times for transit during 1677 and 1973 are given in "Royal Greenwich Observatory Bulletin".
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Amfora (- 788 m) je druga po dubini jama na Biokovu i peta u Hrvatskoj. Ulaz u jamu nalazi se u vršnom dijelu Biokova, oko 1000 metara zračne udaljenosti od vrha Sveti Jure. Ulaz jame nalazi se na jugoistočnom boku dna jedne od brojnih vrtača tog dijela Biokova.

Ulaz u jamu pronašli su članovi Speleološko alpinističkog kluba Ekstrem iz Makarske 1998. godine kada su je u nekoliko akcija i istražili do dubine od 290. m. Istraživanje je 1999. godine nastavljeno, kada je dostignuta dubina od 390. m. U 2000. godini, istraživanju su se pridružili speleolozi iz SO PDS Velebit, SO HPD Željezničar, SO Dubovac te Hrvatskog prirodoslovnog muzeja. Tada je izrađen nacrt cijele jame, a istraženo je i novih 47 m dubine kanala te se došlo do uskog meandra na -437 m gdje je istraživanje zaustavljeno.

U 2001. godini, SO PDS Velebit i SAK Ekstrem nastavljaju istraživanje, prolaze uski meandar i otkrivaju novih 177 m dubine. Istraživanje je tada završeno zbog nedostatka opreme. Tada je pronađena i podzemna pijavica i to prvi put u podzemlju Biokova, a jama Amfora je sa -614 metara dubine postala najdublja jama Biokova i četvrta po dubini u Hrvatskoj.

Speleološka  istraživanja su nastavljena u razdoblju od 14. do 30. lipnja 2002. godine. Dosegnuta je još veća dubina, pa je jama "produbljena" za 174 m, do konačne dubine od -788 m. Duljina jame povećana je za 107 m, na 468 m. Otkriveno je da se na dubini od 788 metara nalazi usko neprolazno suženje između uglavljenih kamenih blokova, gdje se osjeća jako strujanje zraka što upućuje na realnu mogućnost nastavka jame iza suženja. Zbog velike opasnosti obrušavanja kamenih blokova i zaglavljivanja, nakon prokopavanja 3 m duljine, odustalo se od proširivanja suženja. Na dnu jame pronađene su nakupine mikroskopski sitnih kristala koji su igličaste forme i u stručnoj literaturi se nazivaju špiljski pamuk.

Istraživanje jame Amfora detaljno je opisano u speleološkoj literaturi (Bakšić i Jalžić, 2001, Lacković i Bakšić, 2001, Bakšić i Lacković, 2002.i dr).

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 Jama Mokre noge - najdublja jama na Biokovu

Vanjske poveznice
 Jama Amfora, Biokovo
 A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave

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Daniil Dubov bags Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge
6/4/2020 – Daniil Dubov defeated Hikaru Nakamura to become the champion of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. In the third, deciding rubber of the final, Dubov was the first to score a full point, in game two. Nakamura bounced back with an impressive win and, after a draw in game four, Armageddon was all that was left. An opening catastrophe for Nakamura gave Dubov a winning position as early as move 13 — the Russian duly converted his massive advantage and clinched the title. | Photo: Valeria Gordienko / World Chess
"I would probably prefer to beat Magnus"
Hikaru Nakamura took down Magnus Carlsen in the semis, but was not able to beat Daniil Dubov — the world champion's second — in the final. Much like Nakamura against Carlsen, Dubov came from behind to win the tournament after losing the first mini-match of the final. The Russian bagged $45,000 for his efforts, while Nakamura received an also hefty $27,000 prize as the runner-up.
The third rubber of the final saw Dubov winning game two after a draw in the first encounter. An immediate comeback by Nakamura tied the score. The five-time US champion had white in the last 15-minute game and, following his strategy of the event, played it safe instead of going all-in. Afterwards, Dubov confessed that this did not come as a surprise:
Throughout the match I had this feeling like he's absolutely sure that he will win the Armageddon with black. [...] He didn't try to play in game four; he was also slightly better in game one and decided to repeat the moves.
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Of course, 'Naka' adhered to the plan and chose black in the sudden-death decider. An early blunder, however, left him with a lost position prematurely. Peter Svidler, in the commentary 'booth', found a killer shot for Dubov immediately, but the younger Russian failed to notice the opportunity. Nevertheless, he went on to convert his massive advantage into a win.
The champion was asked to rate this victory in comparison to other career triumphs and, naturally, he noted it is hard to improve on his victory at the 2018 World Rapid Championship. Incidentally, back then, he also won the event without having to face Carlsen. Dubov declared:
It's a bit weird to win a tournament with Magnus participating without beating Magnus. It always felt a bit unfair to me.
He went even further, stating that he would have preferred to be in Nakamura's shoes — i.e. to beat Carlsen but not to win the tournament:
If you'd ask me what would I prefer, to win the Lindores Abbey or to win a series of matches against Magnus, I would definitely think about it. [...] And, in terms of the way I see things, I would probably prefer to beat Magnus, to be honest.
The respect Dubov feels towards Carlsen continued popping up in the conversation. While talking about how he managed to bounce back from the loss in the first mini-match, the Russian grandmaster said:
In general, when you feel that you are quite a decent player, then you normally know that it's pretty much about yourself, unless you're playing Magnus probably. [...] If it's not Magnus, I just feel like I can basically fight all the rest.
There was a general feeling of satisfaction for Dubov's win among chess fans in social media. Of course, Nakamura's status as a blitz virtuoso has not subsided at all, but seeing a sharp and talented lower-rated player winning an important event increases the chances of him getting more invitations — certainly a welcomed prospect:
Big congrats to Daniil Dubov, for making things even more interesting on the new tour. Hard not have a soft spot for such a creative player.
— Jonathan Tisdall (@GMjtis) June 3, 2020
The next event of the Magnus Carlsen Tour, the Online Chess Masters, kicks off on June 20th.
Dubov 3:2 Nakamura
The first one to score a full point was Dubov. He got the bishop pair out of a Sicilian with black and went on to make good use of it in an endgame with play on both sides of the board:
Bishop against Knight
In chess, the technique of exchanging pieces is the ultimate knowledge. The biggest specialists of this were such greats as Akiba Rubinstein and Vasily Smyslov. The exchange bishop for knight is the most common case. The technique of exploiting the individual power of these pieces is completely different.
Black has the more active rook and the possibility to both attack White's weaknesses on the kingside and potentially come back in time to the queenside if a pawn race emerges — a good example of the superiority of the bishop pair under the right circumstances. The game continued 40...Bh5 41.a5 Bxf3 42.Rf1 Rf4 43.a6 Bd4 and after the blunder 44.Re1 White cannot avoid losing a piece: 44...Re4 and Nakamura resigned.
Nakamura bounced back immediately, also winning with black by getting the better of his opponent in a queenless position. A 39-move draw that never quite took off led to Armageddon. A 5-minute game would decide the winner of the competition. However, early into the much-anticipated sudden-death encounter, it seemed all but impossible for Dubov not to get the victory:
Catastrophe in the Opening
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Black's 12...Bxd5 (instead of 12...fxg3+) pretty much put an end to the game. Now White has 13.Nxf4, and after 13...Ne7 Svidler found the clear-cut 14.Nfxd5 Nxd5 15.Qh5, winning a piece by force. Dubov went for an immediate 14.Qh5, which is also clearly winning, and claimed the win after Nakamura sacrificed a queen and failed to find a way to trick his younger opponent.
Final: Day one, Day two
Chessbuddha 6/5/2020 01:38
This victory is potentially huge. With serious competition at higher speeds Carlsen will no longer be able to stonewall the classical championship to settle the classical match at faster time limits. Not my [classical] world champion.
manu1945 6/4/2020 07:16
I admire the way Duvov plays. But in classic he has to tone it down in order to become and elite player. Congrats Daniel.
Keshava 6/4/2020 11:54
Dubov was also the 2018 Rapid World Champion and so he is 'the real deal' in this format.
hurwitz 6/4/2020 09:43
Reinforcing this comment in this article "general feeling of satisfaction for Dubov's win among chess fans":
Is it only me thinking that Nakamura's emotional reaction is rather fake? Look at the video of the games and pay attention to critical moments when the position really needs some serious thoughts. In those moments he is clearly calm, but when he has a better (or even worse position) where the moves are not difficult, he has lots of animated behavior (like looking at ceiling or floor, nodding his head, playing with fingers, just to name a few).
ulyssesganesh 6/4/2020 06:53
congrats Dubov, a young champion....


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World's biggest dinosaur footprint found in 'Australia's Jurassic Park'
Updated: 10:26 AM EDT Mar 27, 2017
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Steven W. Salisbury via CNN
Richard Hunter lies alongside a 1.75 meter (5 foot 9 inch) sauropod track in the Lower Cretaceous Broome Sandstone, Walmadany area, Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. The sauropod that made these tracks would have been around 5.4 meters (17 feet 9 inches) high at the hips.
SOURCE: Steven W. Salisbury via CNN
The world's biggest dinosaur footprint has been discovered in northwestern Australia, measuring at nearly 5 feet 9 inche, the lead author of a study said.The track belonged to a sauropod, a long-necked herbivore. It tops a record 1.15 meter-long footprint found last July, the biggest ever from a carnivorous dinosaur."The giant footprints are no doubt spectacular," Steve Salisbury, the lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Queensland, told CNN of the record-setting fossil. "There's nothing that comes close (to this length)."But the footprint was just one of a series of amazing finds in an area Salisbury dubbed "Australia's Jurassic Park."Twenty-one different dinosaur tracks were discovered across the Dampier Peninsula in the unprecedented" find, the University of Queensland said in a news release, with some rocks as old as 140 million years.Salisbury said the conditions on the Dampier Peninsula were ideal for both the creation of these tracks and their preservation, which is why the find was so spectacular.His team conducted more than five years of work in the area."This is the most diverse dinosaur track fauna ever recorded," Salisbury said. "If we went back in time 130 million years ago, we would've seen all these different dinosaurs walking over this coastline. It must've been quite a site."They also found the first confirmed evidence of stegosaurs in Australia.
The world's biggest dinosaur footprint has been discovered in northwestern Australia, measuring at nearly 5 feet 9 inche, the lead author of a study said.
The track belonged to a sauropod, a long-necked herbivore. It tops a record 1.15 meter-long footprint found last July, the biggest ever from a carnivorous dinosaur.
"The giant footprints are no doubt spectacular," Steve Salisbury, the lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Queensland, told CNN of the record-setting fossil. "There's nothing that comes close (to this length)."
But the footprint was just one of a series of amazing finds in an area Salisbury dubbed "Australia's Jurassic Park."
Damian Kelly via CNN
World's biggest dinosaur footprint found in 'Australia's Jurassic Park' -- tracks can be seen on the rocks of the Broome Sandstone.
Twenty-one different dinosaur tracks were discovered across the Dampier Peninsula in the unprecedented" find, the University of Queensland said in a news release, with some rocks as old as 140 million years.
Salisbury said the conditions on the Dampier Peninsula were ideal for both the creation of these tracks and their preservation, which is why the find was so spectacular.
His team conducted more than five years of work in the area.
"This is the most diverse dinosaur track fauna ever recorded," Salisbury said. "If we went back in time 130 million years ago, we would've seen all these different dinosaurs walking over this coastline. It must've been quite a site."
They also found the first confirmed evidence of stegosaurs in Australia.


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How much water is the atmosphere losing to space?
Up until recently, I was under a (wrong) impression that the amount of planetary cumulative water resources was finite as I believed its escape from the atmosphere was impossible. I believed that, unlike other planetary resources, it was impossible to "waste" water as any waste would simply recycle itself in nature, i.e. municipal waste would be treated and get into the oceans from where it would eventually evaporate and precipitate back into continental waters renewing our water supply.
Recently, I learned I was wrong and that there is such a phenomenon called sequestration and that it is indeed possible for the total water resources on the planet to vary.
I am curious if there are metrics on how much water the planet has been losing (or gaining in case of a reverse phenomenon). Additionally, is there anything we can do to reduce this effect?
This article says that we've lost a quarter of our water total but I was looking for more granular statistics.
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Camilo Rada
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It is not actual water what is lost to space, because in the high atmosphere water usually dissociate into other molecules or ions. The oxygen ion outflow is frequently assumed to be a proxy for the loss of water from the planetary atmosphere. In terms of global outflow rates for the Earth the rate varies from $10^{25}$ to $10^{26} s^{-1}$, depending on geomagnetic activity (reference).
On the poster of the reference (sent to me by the author) we can read:
If we assume oxygen corresponds to water loss (self-regulation, Hunten and McElroy [1970]), then an oxygen loss rate of ~$10^{25} s^{-1}$ corresponds to ~300 $\text{g s}^{-1}$ of water loss. Over the age of the solar system (4.5 billion years ~ $1.4 \times 10^{17}$ s) this loss rate gives $4.2 \times 10^{19}$ g of water.
The current loss figure is equivalent ~25,920 liters per day, or 9,467 $\text{m}^3$ per year. And the reference of that figure seem to be the paper Escape of O+ through the distant tail plasma sheet, that used measurements from the STEREO‐B (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft.
That would correspond to a total loss over Earth's history of 42,000 $\text{km}^3$ of water, equivalent to about 12 cm of sea level change. However, that's a straightforward extrapolation of the current rate, because they acknowledge that they don't know how to model how Earth's magnetosphere would have behaved in the past when the Sun was weaker. Although, for a weaker Sun it would be reasonable expect smaller losses.
This value is radically different to that of the article you pointed to. In that case they use the loss of hydrogen instead of oxygen as proxy for water loss:
Knowing how much hydrogen had disappeared from the oceans over the last four billion years enabled the researchers to calculate that the oceans have lost about a quarter of their water since the Earth's early days.
They the say:
Today the atmosphere is rich in oxygen, which reacts with both hydrogen and deuterium to recreate water, which falls back to the Earth's surface. So the vast bulk of the water on Earth is held in a closed system that prevents the planet from gradually drying out.
That suggests that the limiting factor for the existence of water is now the abundance atmospheric oxygen (although oxygen in rocks if very abundant). So it would make sense to use now Oxygen loss as proxy for water loss, but in the past, before the atmosphere was flooded with oxygen, maybe hydrogen loss was a better proxy.
They suggests that methanogenesis can free hydrogen atoms and make them liable to be loss to space, but when it is part of a water molecule it is safe. Methanogenesis would have been much more common in the past when the atmosphere was rich in methane (50 to 500 richer than today).
To wrap up, it seem that there is no consensus about the actual amount of water loss trough Earth's history. Different proxies give different values. Some proxies might be representative to some periods in Earth's past, but other proxies are more representative of other periods. And unfortunately we don't have yet a good reconstruction of the composition and density of the atmosphere throughout Earth's history.
But we do know with some confidence, that while you where reading this answer, one or two liters of water were loss to space.
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$\begingroup$ Do you possible have a typo there in the first sentence? By how much does the global outflow rate vary? $\endgroup$ – AtmosphericPrisonEscape Feb 1 '19 at 21:07
$\begingroup$ @AtmosphericPrisonEscape Yes, thanks for spotting that!!! I just fixed it. Cheers $\endgroup$ – Camilo Rada Feb 1 '19 at 21:08
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THE automobiles you see pictured here will never be built. They are dream cars from the Advanced Styling Studio of the Ford Motor Co. The studio's artists drew them as a free exercise in imagination.
never-never dreamboat designs every year. While these cars will never reach a production line, an idea for a fender curve, radiator grille, or top may be borrowed for a production car in 1955 or 1960.
These cars look great for any time period. I have been seeing concept cars for 40 years that have never made it to market. Too bad they didn't try producing one and seeing how it would sell.
The big side-view car is my favorite; something about the proportions say "small car" to me. If they built it as a full four-seater 2-door hardtop with the British Ford Consul 1.5L four, it would've blown the Nash Metropolitan out of the water. But please, with exposed front wheels!
Too bad Ford doesn't revisit some of their own past designs, maybe they could make something other than boring rental cars and get out of the sales cellar.
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South Africa navel-gazing, Zimbabwe facing starvation
By Takudzwa Shonhayi February 26, 2020 36 views
Village women receive aid from a charity organisation in Chirumhanzi, Zimbabwe, File picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
By Shannon Ebrahim
SOUTH Africans might be transfixed by our own domestic crises of load shedding, deepening unemployment, stagnant growth and a bankrupt national airline, but across our border in Zimbabwe half the population is facing acute hunger.
According to the World Food Program (WFP) 7.7 million Zimbabweans are facing the worst hunger emergency in a decade.
Sources on the ground tell Independent Media that the situation has not yet reached the catastrophe of 2007 where people were dying of starvation and there was no food in the shops, but the staple food maize meal ran out last month, and many households are lucky if they have one meal a day.
The Red Cross had confirmed the gravity of the situation. Its head, Dr Michael Charles, says he has seen people going for two to three days without food, not only in Zimbabwe but also in Zambia.
In Harare, it has become common place for fights to break out in grocery stores for what little maize might be available.
It is commonly reported that bread is hard to find in the shops, and when it is available it costs R20 a loaf, which is beyond the reach of most citizens. Inflation in the country is more than 490%, the highest in the world after Venezuela.
The shocking finding of UN Envoy Hilal Elver is that the country is on the verge of man-made starvation.
An astounding 90% of infants are malnourished and have stunted growth. Elver came face to face with severely stunted children in the informal settlements of Harare, as well as in rural Masvingo and Mwenezi. Many infants are being deprived of breast-feeding as their mothers lack access to food.
The WFP says the number of Zimbabweans who are food insecure has doubled since August, and it is urgent that donors are made aware that an additional 1.1 million people are facing acute malnutrition.
The situation has become so grave that women are increasingly turning to prostitution in order to keep their children alive.
Many children have been separated from their families, or forced out of school so they can take on menial work. Official unemployment in the formal sector is at 90%.
Aid agencies have reported that girls in southern Africa are selling sex sometimes for less than the cost of bread in order to survive a hunger crisis ensnaring tens of millions.
World Vision's emergencies director in Angola, Robert Bulten, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that a girl might get $1 (R14) for sex – enough to buy about 1kg of beans or 2kg of maize.
World Vision says that in Angola girls of 12 years sell themselves for as little as 40 cents to feed their families, as the south of the country faces its worst drought in four decades.
Drought has been a primary cause of the catastrophe. In Zimbabwe, there were poor rains in the 2018/19 agricultural season, and similarly, there was none of the rain that usually falls in the planting season, between September and December. The rains started only last month – too late to ensure a decent harvest. Only 3% of Zimbabwe's agricultural areas have access to irrigation.
Apart from the drought, Zimbabwe's agricultural output has been severely affected by Robert Mugabe's land reform policy where war veterans occupied and took over white commercial farms in 2001, many of which are not being viably farmed.
WFP country director for Zimbabwe Eddie Rowe estimates that there is a 60% chance of another failed harvest this year.
This is the most underreported and neglected crisis facing our region. As a result, the international donor community and regional leaders are not being spurred into action to address starvation on our doorstep. There seems to be no public awareness of the crisis, minimal news reports, and South African politicians claim to be unaware this is the situation Zimbabwe finds itself in.
We all seem to be so engrossed in our own navel-gazing that we are not cognisant of what is going on around us.
The crisis goes well beyond Zimbabwe, extending to the entire southern African region. As a result of drought, widespread flooding and economic problems, 45 million people in southern Africa are facing food shortages.
WFP regional director for southern Africa Lola Castro has said, "The hunger crisis is on a scale we've never seen before and evidence shows it's going to get worse."
The central and western areas of the Southern African Development Community have been hit by the worst drought in 35 years, during the growing season.
Last year, Botswana, Lesotho, and Namibia declared drought emergencies. In Angola, 2.4 million are affected by food insecurity, where children are barely eating one meal a day. World Vision staff in Angola report they have never seen hunger and malnutrition on this scale.
In Zambia, 2.3 million are facing acute hunger, and in Eswatini 24% of the population are suffering food shortages. In Lesotho, 20% of the population is food insecure.
The southern African region has had one normal rainy season in the past five years amid cyclones and flooding. The WFP has attributed the crisis of recurrent droughts to climate change.
The SADC has been identified as a climate hot spot by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The severe drought cycles are trapping people in a vicious cycle of poverty which could cause increased social unrest and violent clashes with authorities. This is what happened in Zimbabwe in August when protests against spiralling prices led to a violent reaction by the police.
If food security is national security, which is what most governments in the region believe, then there needs to be a regional strategy on how to address the chronic challenge of climate-induced food shortages.
Over the past three years, almost half Zimbabwe's strategic plan has been aimed at mitigating the impact of climate crisis, but the country finds itself in an impossible situation.
Gross levels of corruption and mismanagement persist, where elites enjoy the spoils of wealth accumulated under the Mugabe and current administrations, with no prosecutions undertaken of those guilty of corruption.
Zimbabweans continue to suffer a lack of basic services, with electricity in the urban areas often on for only five hours a day. In September last year, Harare ran out of convertible cash to purchase chemicals to purify the remaining public water supplies.
The result was that public water supplies were shut down, ending access for 2 million residents of Harare to clean water. It is this type of economic mismanagement that has caused the service sector across our border to collapse.
If we don't start treating the crisis in Zimbabwe as a crisis of the region which affects us all, our own economy will never recover from the consequences.
It will lead to thousands more Zimbabweans streaming across our borders in one way or another in a desperate attempt to survive.
If we believe in Ubuntu, we have to work together as a region to address the seemingly insurmountable challenges. – IOL
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The "Code" System 12/1/98
[prepared with permission from information Encyclopedia of Matchbox Toys © 1997, 1999 [2nd Ed.], by Charlie Mack]
The "Code" system was originally developed in 1977 by Ray Bush, editor of UK Matchbox and redeveloped over time to distinguish models made or approved by Matchbox & those altered by third parties.
CODE 1 – any model originally manufactured by Matchbox, including alterations at a Matchbox owned or leased facility.
CODE 2 – any model altered in whole or part (relabeling, repainting, etc.) by a third party with full written permission of Matchbox (including "blanks" tampoed or relabeled with blanket or specific approval).
MICA has added "models not available to the general public" to Code 2, and some, including Charlie Mack, do not recognize this addition, believing it is an "excuse" to lump some "really" rare Code 1 models into a category so that collectors would not be disappointed at having no hope of obtaining one for their collection.
In 1994 Matchbox in UK offered short run (as few as 300-500) promotions on a selected set of models using "blanks" from the orient tampo printed in England. In 1996 a similar program was set up in the US with a private company called ASAP, offering orders as small as 144 using 12 all white blanks. Tight controls by Tyco prevented release to collectors and only the company doing the printing knows what was released.
CODE 3 – any model altered in any manner without Matchbox approval.
[Charlie Mack says these are models collected by some and not generally cataloged (specifically not by C.M.) and he classifies Code 3 as a "fake" with no value].
Value is what someone is willing to pay for it.
CODE 4 (added 1995) – any model manufactured by Matchbox, but usually one-of-a-kind used in auctions or awards presentations


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