We rather enjoyed Terror of the Vervoids which caused me to pause and reconsider Pip and Jane Baker's reputation in Who fan circles.
For the uninitiated, Pip and Jane Baker wrote three and half stories for Doctor Who during John Nathan-Turner's time as producer. In fan circles they have become something of a shorthand representing what was wrong with the era. However, on viewing this, it was difficult to see quite why they attract such opprobrium and I then recalled thinking fairly highly of their first story Mark of the Rani. Of their other contributions, The Ultimate Foe is a hideous mess, but that is not entirely (or even mostly) their fault and they only wrote half of it. Memory suggests Time and the Rani is also pretty dire - we will have to see what I think when it comes around again. But assuming Terror of the Vervoids is representative of their first two stories then one feels that their major crime was to write unambitious successes. Given the season in which this story appears consists of, (again if memory serves), a dull failure (The Mysterious Planet), an ambitious failure (Mindwarp), Terror of the Vervoids and the aforementioned hideous mess I'm tempted to suggest that this is really the only competent offering the season has.
Of course, being aware of the ensuing 25 years or so of criticism, I was conscious of the somewhat odd dialogue the Bakers write. At one point it had tame layman googling a phrase, and there is definitely a tendency for the Bakers to use slightly unusual expressions and idioms which all the characters appear to understand even though the audience have not necessarily come across them before. Similarly a lot of the Doctor and Mel's dialogue consists of rather lame jokes passing as banter. It's a nice (and I believe deliberate) change from the more acerbic relationship between the Doctor and Peri, but it would have worked better if the banter had actually been funny as opposed to a bit forced.
Bonnie Langford, as Mel, is better here than she was in The Ultimate Foe and I can sort of see why I was impressed by her performance back in the day (because it could have been a lot worse), but she still looks more like the stage actress she was and is, rather than a television actress. In fact this story has more than the usual number of familiar faces, the most famous being Honor Blackman, turning up to do their bit as hapless passengers and crew, and the level of acting competence helps the story as well. The monster design for the vervoids isn't bad either, though it suffers as so many Who costumes from being less impressive below the shoulders (rather obviously a green jumpsuit with leaves stuck on it) and sadly the director didn't have the wisdom to limit them to head shots as much as possible.
The story itself follows the form of a whodunnit, something Doctor Who attempts surprisingly rarely since it seems like quite a natural fit for the show. The Baker's provide the requisite trail of clues, a smattering of red herrings, and motivations which (if a little perfunctory) more or less make sense. It falls apart somewhat in the last episode when the monster element comes to the fore and most of the characters, including the murderer, are summarily bumped off but even so the whole thing remains an example of competent plotting, that keeps things moving along and keeps the audience guessing. Into all of this the framing device of the Doctor being put on trial by the Time Lords intrudes like a dead weight pulling the story down. In the middle of the murder mystery the audience (or at least this audience member) really isn't interested in watching the Doctor and Valeyard trade rather laboured barbs. The fact that the Baker's also appear to have been lumbered with the requirement to suggest some of the footage has been altered also adds an element of the ridiculous into the whole thing. While the murder mystery story holds together fairly well, by the end of the story there is pretty clear evidence that the matrix has indeed been tampered with, something the Time Lords conveniently forget.
I found Terror of the Vervoids surprisingly watchable, given its reputation, and I can absolutely see why Pip and Jane Baker were considered a safe pair of hands by the production team. The dialogue may be a little odd and leaden, and they may fail to rise above some of the elements imposed upon them (the trial, Mel's obsession with fitness), but the story hangs together, keeps moving and retains the viewers' interest. Compared to a lot of other stories of that era, this level of basic competence is a welcome change.
No time for a long comment, but I agree this is better than its reputation. Although Tat Wood is right to suggest that all the characters are suffering from "OEDema: an unnatural swelling of the lexicon." It wouldn't be so bad if, as I seem to recall, not the long words are quite being used correctly and are certainly not naturalistic.
There's a fanfic author I sometimes interact with whose characters all have a tendency to share, in detail, the author's own knowledge and expertise and, as a result, have conversations based on unstated assumptions and vocabulary which the reader has to deduce or look up. Terror of the Vervoids somewhat reminded me of this.
I suspect, to an extent, all authors struggle not to have their characters speak and think as they do, but some are better at compensating than others. I assume that the Bakers, in real life, have a fondness for ornate vocabulary and expressions which is bleeding through into the mouths of their characters. I didn't spot any misuses, but the dialogue certainly came across as rather odd in places.


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It occurs on this line: using (SPSite site = new SPSite(listURL)) where listURL is "http://portal.denallix.com".
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*Running Visual Studio 2010/C#/ASP.NET WebForms, platform target "Any CPU", targeting .NET Framework 3.5, trying both Debug and Release modes, with breakpoints and without.

*Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise environment with Sharepoint 2010 installed. Seems to be the server SP server is installed on, how can I verify that?

*Tried running it both as main admin account, which is an SCA on the main site collection, and the farm admin.

*The SP url used (http://portal.denallix.com) is listed in AAM settings in Sharepoint Central Admin.

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*I'm able to browse to http://portal.denallix.com in my browser.

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A: Change the Platform Target from Any CPU to x64

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Why THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL Season Three Isn't a Good Fit for Families
Photo via The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Instagram
By Allyson Vannatta, Senior Writer
Season three of THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL on Amazon Prime Video follows Midge (A.K.A. Miriam Maisel) as she sets out to tour and open for musician Shy Baldwin.
If you were a fan of GILMORE GIRLS, this show could be right up your alley. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL is from the creators of the aforementioned series and the comedy mirrors that of what audiences know from Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.
What THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL struggles with, though, are the jokes. Most of the time the jokes aren't that funny because of all the foul language in them.
Furthermore, a lot of the jokes are lewd and talk about subjects that aren't very family friendly, focusing heavily on sex.
This season also features Midge's manager, Susie, as she's develops an addiction to gambling.
Throughout the eight episodes, audiences also see Midge and Joel (her ex-husband) sleeping together, characters drinking sometimes to the point of drunkenness, tiny outfits are worn by dancers, a man attempts to cheat on his wife while out at a club, and someone commits a felony. Shy also comes out to Midge as a homosexual man.
However, with all the negative there are some positive themes.
Midge and Joel love their children and try to do what's best for them. The two of them even get re-married after spending a night in Las Vegas together, and are still married at the end of the season.
There is a comment about how money can break a heart, which shows that some characters know money isn't the most important thing in life.
The show also takes place in the 1960's during the civil rights movement. Even though the movement isn't mentioned, Midge's tour with Shy and his band show positive friendships and interactions between white and black people.
Overall though, the third season of THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL has way too much foul language and lewd jokes to be worth watching.
Happy birthday to the man who gave Midge her big break, our very own LeRoy McClain aka Shy Baldwin! #MrsMaisel (📸: @ljrmac)
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Barcelona: Transfer Rumors & News
Barcelona transfer news and rumors
Barcelona president reportedly says he will sign Erling Haaland
"I'm going to sign Haaland next summer," he is quoted as saying.
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"I'm going to sign Haaland next summer."
Those are the words of Joan Laporta, FC Barcelona's president, at least as they are being reported in Spain's biggest sports daily.
The remark was supposedly uttered to colleagues behind closed doors. Publicly, Laporta has made it a point to not discuss Erling Haaland, one of the world's best strikers, by name.
He only made a general comment that Barcelona were "back," and ready to make signings.
Barcelona have money but have had problems with La Liga's salary cap rules due to reduced income after the COVID-19 pandemic. But if what Laporta has told fans, that the team has the money to make big moves in the market, then the question becomes whether he can convince the Borussia Dortmund star that Barça have the sporting project for him.
The Catalans are said to be optimistic that they can continue rebuilding the team this season. First of all, they need to finish in the top four of La Liga to get into the UEFA Champions League next season. That provides the prestige and the money that cannot be replaced. A good participation in the UEFA Europa League - perhaps winning it - wouldn't hurt, either.
Haaland would be the face of the team for the future, which could give him substantial off-the-pitch earnings. Real Madrid also want him, although there, he would compete with Kylian Mbappé in terms of being the leader of the team.
There are other teams in the mix for him, as well, notably Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.


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WHY IN THE WORLD IS CROOKED HILLARY NOT BEING PROSECUTED!?
© July 8, 2019
In less than a week's time the Crooked Hillary lawyer Heather Samuelson and the illegal email server have caught my attention:
BREAKING: CLINTON LAWYER CAUGHT OUT! A Vincent Vendetta Video; SlantRight 2.0; 6/29/19
Hillary Clinton's Lawyer Changes Story on When She Knew About Emails; By Mark Tapscott of The Epoch Times; SlantRight 2.0; 7/4/19
In both those cases Judicial Watch was the listed primary source.
Out of curiosity I ran a label search of my SlantRight 2.0 blog for the label Heather Samuelson. I don't understand the search protocol reasoning, for the results are scattered by date. And by "scattered" I mean there is no sequential order. In some cases "Heather Samuelson" may show only once and not the primary subject of the pages listed; however Crooked Hillary definitely was the central theme. If you run a similar label search you may or may not get the same results. At this point I'm not going to verify if the search results are the same every time. The dates stretch 2019 through 2016 where the name Heather Samuelson appears at least once.
My WordPress platform blog – NCCR – also returned scattered results for a Heather Samuelson search returning similar dates ranging from 2019-2016.
AGAIN Heather Samuelson is showing up implicating a Crooked Hillary criminal intent. This time from The Gateway Pundit who also sources Judicial Watch.
TGP lays out the Judicial Watch findings and the last 5 paragraphs or so has this damning conclusion:
And here is where Samuelson lays an egg! Samuelson noticed during her review that Hillary's emails were displayed as hrod17@clintonemail.com, but this address was not even created until after Hillary was Secretary of State.
You can't send emails from an account that is not created or in place!
The only reasonable explanations for the receipt of emails from a domain that was not yet in place is, 1) the source name in the emails had been doctored and updated to an email account not yet in service, or 2) a utility was used to copy the emails in bulk from one account to another and in the process change some of the fields including the original email source.
Why would Hillary do this? The only explanation that makes sense is that the Hillary team was trying to eliminate or strip out all the classified markings in her emails, and in the process, they stripped out the old email addresses, and since that account didn't exist anymore, their process added the new address.
To put it plainly – Hillary attempted to doctor (i.e. change) her emails for some reason and in so doing she inadvertently changed her email address.
Clearly if Hillary was caught editing her emails by the FBI, then former FBI Director James Comey knew very well that Hillary intended to break the law! Three years ago Jim Comey lied to America!
In essence: WHY IN THE WORLD IS CROOKED HILLARY NOT BEING PROSECUTED!?
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Judicial Watch Uncovers Clinton Attorney Samuelson Interview with FBI – Indicates Hillary's Emails Were Altered and Other Crimes
By Joe Hoft
Crooked Hillary Checking BlackBerry Wearing Sunglasses [2011]
Hillary Clinton likely attempted to alter her emails in an effort to cover up illegal activities rather than just deleting emails as was previously reported. Judicial Watch's efforts to obtain her attorney's interview with the FBI show this and other criminal actions!
Judicial Watch again has performed a service to the country. In its efforts to get to the truth, Judicial Watch may have uncovered another shocking revelation in the Hillary Clinton email saga.
In June of 2019 Judicial Watch posted the interview notes it received from the government between the FBI and Hillary Clinton's attorney Heather Samuelson. Hidden in the deposition are bits of information that when compared to information made public to date in the Hillary email case make no sense at all.
In the interview Samuelson states to the FBI's Peter Strzok that she was assigned the duty of reviewing Hillary's emails and in doing so, Samuelson reviewed the emails on her laptop both at her apartment and in Cheryl Mills' office.
FBI Notes Heather Samuelson Interview 1
As is the case with the entire Hillary email coverup, the Clintons and her team were above the law. Others have been thrown in jail for similar actions. (For example, one NSA employee who brought hacking tools home was sentenced to 66 months in prison.)
Samuelson was assigned the task of obtaining Hillary's emails for her tenure as Obama's Secretary of State. After making a request for Hillary's emails from Platte River Networks (PRN), the firm that administered Hillary's personal email system, Samuelson reviewed them and noticed that some of Hillary's emails were missing.
FBI Notes Heather Samuelson Interview 2 red marks & redaction
Samuelson stated that she believed that Hillary's emails that were missing for the period between January 2009 through March 2009 must have not been backed up.
But this makes no sense. Classification only works on classification 'enabled' systems. For example, in a typical agency, when a document is created it is immediately stamped electronically and visually (water mark or text stamp) with the classification level. From that point forward, when the document is stored on a server, sent via email, or printed out, it will go through a number of security controls that will prevent certain operations on it. For example, if you are a user with lower level security clearance, you won't be able to see the document name, its metadata, content, or be able to print it. In fact, the document won't even show up in any of the searches.
This is where her story really begins to not make sense. There is no way that a backup would be deleted of anyone's emails in the government, especially those of someone at the level of the Secretary of State.
The classified email systems used by the government are highly sophisticated (per an IT expert we contacted). These classification systems are fully automated in order to remove the human factor/errors from the process. These systems also control the entire document life cycle from its creation to its declassification and are tied to the organization's access control and audit systems. So you can see exactly who and when the document was viewed (even which pages were views, how long it was on the screen, etc.). If there is no classification system in place, then all of the documents on the server can be considered breached. This is even without any proof of an external hacker accessing it.
The reason for this is the exact scenario described by Samuelson, i.e. one in which an individual such as a system/personal attorney without the proper security clearance would view and make electronic/physical copies of the documents.
Next Samuelson makes another shocking remark. She states that after Clinton left the State Department she started using another domain for her emails (@hrcoffice.com). But she states that no old emails were transferred from the clintonemail.com domain to the new domain. She also stated that she didn't know how Clinton or her close assistant Huma Abedin obtained her old emails once the new domain was established.
At this point it's important to note that most people view the whole Clinton email server saga as an honest mistake that was going to be remedied somewhere down the road by putting the 'proper security controls' in place. This is certainly how Hillary, her staff, and the media justified it. But this is not the case; the whole purpose of a standalone email server from the get go was for Hillary to circumvent government email system security controls.
Hillary's emails contained classified material because former FBI Director James Comey told us this in his infamous press conference three years ago nearly to the day. But Samuelson stated that she didn't believe that Hillary's emails were classified because they did not have classified markings on them.
FBI Notes Heather Samuelson Interview 5 redaction
Hat tip D. Manny and Yaacov Apelbaum
Author oneway2dayPosted on July 8, 2019 Categories Conspiracy/Secret Society, Crime, Democrats, News and politicsTags Criminal Intent, Crooked Hillary, Deleted Emails, Email Manipulation, FBI Notes, Heather Samuelson, Illegal Server, Judicial Watch, TGP4 Comments on WHY IN THE WORLD IS CROOKED HILLARY NOT BEING PROSECUTED!?
BREAKING: CLINTON LAWYER CAUGHT OUT!
It is my humble opinion – sure to anger some – that info from anonymous sources with the appellation "QAnon," "Vendetta" or the such tend to deliver a message that spurs embellished excitement rather than integrity based data. HOWEVER, I just ran into a video from The Vincent Vendetta Channel that is using a source of integrity in Judicial Watch. If you are a fan of those anonymous sourced outlets you definitely trust this particular video post (which also provides a bitchute link in case Youtube goes censorship crazy).
VIDEO: BREAKING: CLINTON LAWYER CAUGHT OUT!
Posted by The Vincent Vendetta Channel
BREAKING: CLINTON LAWYER CAUGHT OUT! TO WATCH 'VINCENT' ON 'BITCHUTE': CLICK ON THE LINK. https://www.bitchute.com/video/JnIgJErXuvse/
Author oneway2dayPosted on June 29, 2019 Categories Conspiracy/Secret Society, Crime, Democrats, Left Wing, News and politics, OrganizationsTags Cheryl Mills, Crooked Hillary, Deleted Emails, hdr22@clintonemail.com, Heather Samuelson, Hillary Email Server, Judicial Watch, Platte River Networks, Vincent Vendetta1 Comment on BREAKING: CLINTON LAWYER CAUGHT OUT!
KERRY STATE DEPARTMENT PROMOTED STEELE DOSSIER AND RUSSIA COLLUSION FANTASY
Regardless of any claims to the contrary by former VP Biden and former President Obama, you have to be amazed on how corrupt and crooked the Obama Administration actually was! Thanks to Judicial Watch, more poop on what should be prosecutable corruption comes to light.
"Let's do a movie about this!"
By Lloyd Billingsley
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Dept. of State
One day before the FBI launched its Trump-Russia investigation, Sovietophile academic Nellie Ohr, wife of DOJ boss Bruce Ohr and an employee of Fusion GPS, met with former British spy Christopher Steele. The upper reaches of the FBI and DOJ – Ohr, McCabe, Comey, Strzok, Page and such – have drawn the most attention in the fake Russia collusion story. It now emerges that the elusive Steele also deployed collaborators at the U.S. Department of State.
As 43 pages of documents obtained by Judicial Watch explain, "State Department 'Special Coordinator for Libya' Jonathan Winer played a key role in facilitating dossier author Christopher Steele's access to other top government officials," and "prominent international business executives."
According to the Middle East Institute, Jonathan M. Winer was "deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, and counsel to United States Senator John Kerry." Winer has written and lectured widely on, among other things, "corruption, and U.S.-Russia issues," which seems somewhat removed from the Yale alum's background.
In November of 2014, Winer sought to hook up Steele with Nelson Cunningham, president of McLarty Associates, a consulting firm co-founded by former Clinton White House Counselor Thomas 'Mack' McLarty. Winer's email describes Steele as "an old friend of mine," and "a former senior British intelligence officer focusing on former Soviet Union with a number of US and European private sector clients these days…"
In November of 2014, Winer "openly acts as a liaison for Steele," attempting to set up meetings for "Chris" and referencing "Three Orbis Reports" in the subject line of the email. That same month Winer set up Steele with Ariuna Namsrai of ACPO "one of the world's leading advisory and advocacy communications consultancies."
Jumping ahead to January of 2017, movie producer Eric Hamburg forwards an article on the Steele dossier to Winer, proclaiming "Let's do a movie about this!" Hamburg is the producer of the 1995 Nixon, starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by Oliver Stone. As it happens, Hamburg's IMDB profile shows him posing with Hillary Clinton.
In February of 2018, Winer wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post claiming that Steele told him in 2016 he had "learned of disturbing information regarding possible ties between Donald Trump, his campaign and senior Russian officials." Steele and Clinton factotum Sidney Blumenthal approached Winer with "separate dossiers." No word whether the DNC also paid for Blumenthal's dossier and whether his high concept featured any Russian whores urinating on a bed. Scenarios like that doubtless had Eric Hamburg panting to produce a movie.
"These documents show that Fusion GPS and Clinton spy Christopher Steele had a close relationship with the Obama State Department," said a statement from Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. "The State Department under John Kerry is emerging as another center of the Spygate conspiracy against President Trump." That should come as no surprise.
Kerry once testified that U.S. actions in Vietnam were "reminiscent of Genghis Khan." Kerry said the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in France had a "sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy" and "a rationale that you could attach yourself to." Kerry described the terrorist attack as obscurantisme, which even in French fell a bit short. The performance prompted Sen. John McCain to call Kerry, "the most inept secretary of state, certainly in my lifetime." And when no longer Secretary of State, Kerry still acted like one.
After President Trump nixed the Iran deal, Kerry duly showed up in Iran for back-channel talks. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Kerry for "actively undermining" administration's policy toward the Islamic Republic.
For his part, Jonathan Winer was a State Department "Special Coordinator" for Libya, but what he managed to coordinate there remains unclear. For Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the murder of four Americans was all about some internet video, and after all, what did it matter?
As the State Department emails obtained by Judicial Watch show, Jonathan Winer was, in effect, Steele's personal agent with the State Department, the Clinton propaganda machine, and even the entertainment industry. So Winer qualifies as an associate producer of the Russia collusion show, which the Democrat-media axis shows no sign of abandoning. It's the biggest production on the left since Barry Soetoro teamed with David Axelrod on Dreams from My Father, which official biographer David Garrow called a novel, and the author a "composite character."
Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr is aiming at a broad-based, multifaceted investigation of the Russia collusion story's origins. As other emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal, the DOJ's Bruce Ohr, Nellie's husband, grabbed bonuses while that was going on, and bagged a pay raise after he lost his job as Associate Deputy Attorney General.
Prosecutor John Durham should find out if that was a reward for the Ohrs' role in the illicit targeting of President Trump. In similar style, Durham might have a look at State Department records, and what they reveal about the multifaceted Jonathan Winer.
Curious observers might note that the State Department did not volunteer the material about Winer's connections with Christopher Steele. Likewise, no congressional committee and nobody in the establishment media came up with the documents. The revelation resulted from legal action by Judicial Watch, whose motto is "because no one is above the law!" Other pertinent Judicial Watch revelations can be found at this link.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Barack 'em Up: A Literary Investigation and, most recently, Sexual Terrorist, about the Golden State Killer. Lloyd's work has appeared in City Journal, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, California Globe, and many other publications. Bill of Writes: Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield is a collection of his journalism. His crime books include A Shut and Open Case, about a double murder in Davis, California.
Author oneway2dayPosted on June 17, 2019 Categories Conspiracy/Secret Society, Crime, Democrats, Left Wing, News and politics, OrganizationsTags Ariuna Namsrai, Bruce Ohr, Christopher Steele, Crooked Hillary, DOJ Corruption, Eric Hamburg, FBI Corruption, Fusion GPS, John Kerry, Jonathan Winer, Judicial Watch, Nellie Ohr, Sidney Blumenthal, State Dept, Steele DossierLeave a comment on KERRY STATE DEPARTMENT PROMOTED STEELE DOSSIER AND RUSSIA COLLUSION FANTASY
Tom Fitton's Weekly Update: Reactions to the #MuellerReport…
Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton delivers his take on the Mueller Report submission to AG Barr, discovery of more Crooked Hillary emails on illegal server and news on Left-Wing mob harassing Tucker Carlson's home.
VIDEO: Tom Fitton's Weekly Update: Reactions to the #MuellerReport, MORE Classified Clinton Emails, & More!
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Intro to JW, Soros & U.S. Taxpayers
© December 5, 2018
If you are a Conservative, you probably have heard of George Soros. He is a nefarious individual who actually has a past connected to the Nazi regime of Germany's Adolf Hitler.
Judicial Watch has put together an exposé of Soros showing that his voluminous Left-Wing Globalist organizations are receiving taxpayer supported funding.
This man's agenda is to destroy and transform America which should sound familiar to Barack Hussein Obama's 2008 election night promise to his cadres:
VIDEO: Obama promised to transform America.
Those Obama words is one reason Conservatives believed he was a puppet of the /Soros agenda.
Let's look at a little Soros history for context today:
George Soros was born to Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz, non-practicing Jews, in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. Tivadar was an attorney by profession, but the consuming passion of his life was the promotion of Esperanto—an artificial, "universal" language created during the 1880s in hopes that people worldwide might be persuaded to drop their native tongues and speak Esperanto instead—thereby, in theory at least, minimizing their nationalist impulses while advancing intercultural harmony. In 1936, Tivadar changed his family surname to Soros—a future-tense Esperanto verb meaning "will soar."13
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, Tivadar decided to split up his family so as to minimize the chance that all its members would be killed together. For each of them—his wife and two sons he purchased forged papers identifying them as Christians; paid government officials to conceal his family's Jewish heritage from the German and Hungarian fascists; and bribed Gentile families to take them into their homes. As for George in particular, the father paid a Hungarian government official named Baumbach to claim George as his Christian godson, "Sandor Kiss," and to let the boy live with him in Budapest. One of Baumbach's duties was to deliver deportation notices to Hungary's Jews, confiscating their property and turning it over to Germany. Young George Soros sometimes accompanied the official on his rounds.14 …
Soros today recalls the German occupation of Hungary as "probably the happiest year of my life." "For me," he elaborates, "it was a very positive experience. …
In 1947 the Soros family relocated from Hungary to England, where George attended the London School of Economics (LSE). There, he was exposed to the works of the Viennese-born philosopher Karl Popper, who taught at LSE and whom Soros would later call his "spiritual mentor."17 Though Soros never studied directly under Popper, he read the latter's works and submitted some essays to him for review and comment. Most notably, Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies introduced Soros to the concept of an "open society," a theme that would play a central role in Soros's thought and activities for the rest of his life.18
… Popper readily embraced this concept and expanded upon it. In his view, the open society was a place that permitted its citizens the right to criticize and change its institutions as they saw fit; he rejected the imposed intellectual conformity, central planning, and historical determinism of Marxist doctrine.20 By Popper's reckoning, a society was "closed"—and thus undesirable—if it assumed that it was in any way superior to other societies. Likewise, any belief system or individual claiming to be in possession of "ultimate truth" was an "enemy" of the open society as well. Popper viewed all knowledge as conjectural rather than certain, as evolving rather than fixed.
Thus, by logical extension, Popper did not share the American founders' confident assertion that certain truths were "self-evident," and that certain rights—such as the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," as referenced in the Declaration of Independence—were "unalienable" and thus not subject to doubt, because they had been granted to mankind by the ultimate authority, the "Creator."21 We shall see that George Soros, as he grew to maturity, would likewise reject the founders' premise. Indeed Soros would harbor great disdain for modern-day American political figures who displayed unshakable confidence in their own culture's nobility, and who embraced the tenets of the Declaration and the U.S. Constitution as timeless, immutable truths. To Soros, "Popper's greatest contribution to philosophy" was his teaching that "the ultimate truth remains permanently beyond our reach."22
… READ ENTIRETY (George Soros; Discover The Networks; last updated 12/4/18)
More history: Connoisseur of Chaos: The dystopian vision of George Soros, billionaire funder of the Left; By Stefan Kanfer; City Journal; Winter 2017)
Conservapedia is correctly hostile toward Soros:
George Soros (born August 12, 1930) is an anti-Semitic[2] atheist,[1] international financier and con artist who bankrolled the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among other left-wing causes.[3] He is officially the 190th richest person on the planet,[4] though he transferred $18 billion of his wealth to his organizations, making his official wealth appear smaller.[5] He manages the funds of many other of the world's richest people. Soros' organization, the Open Society Foundations, is responsible for financing postmodernist, Neo-Marxist organizations for his personal gain. As Snopes.com noted,[6] it devotes $2.6 billion to advance left-wing SJW priorities which in reality promote feminism, Islam, illegal drugs, prostitution, and homosexuality. He has attacked Jews, falsely claiming they cause anti-Semitism.[7]
Soros is a naturalized American citizen, born in Hungary where he worked for the Nazis as a teenager, fingering and looting his compatriot Jews.[8] He is a leftist and elitist whose current net worth is estimated to be about $8 billion, not including the $18 billion of his wealth that he transferred to his organizations in 2017.[5] He is considered by many to be a modern robber baron.[9] Calls for his arrest due to currency manipulation and other crimes have reverberated around the world.[10]
In 1992, Soros earned the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England",[11] for shorting the British Pound. …
Soros was born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary. His parents were Elizabeth and Tivadar Soros. Tivadar, who sometimes went by Teodoro Ŝvarc,[15] was an active Esperantist. George Soros grew up learning Esperanto from his father.[16][17]
George Soros' birth name was György Schwartz, his family name was changed in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros to avoid antisemitism. The name "Soros" is itself derived from an esperanto word "Sori", which means "To Soar".[18] George Soros later said that he "grew up in a Jewish, anti-semitic home," and that his parents were "uncomfortable with their religious roots."[19] Soros is an atheist.[20]
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The Soros Leftist network is too extensive to share in this intro. Discover The Networks breaks down this shadowy network of Leftists: GUIDE TO THE GEORGE SOROS NETWORK.
Now to the Judicial Watch exposé on the Soros Left getting your American taxpayer dollars which are being used to destroy the America our Founding Fathers managed to put together and ratified by the People of the original 13 States.
The Judicial Watch document is a 30-page PDF. I am cross posting the JW email alert, Intro and Background and Context subdivisions of the document. You should really take the time to read the entire document.
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JW Special Report: Government Funding of Soros Foundations
Email sent by Carter L. Clews, Director of Communications
Sent Dec 3, 2018, 1:47 PM
Via Judicial Watch
"Why are U.S. taxpayers funding billionaire 'philanthropist' George Soros and his highly politicized Open Society Foundations?" – Judicial Watch Special Report
Dear Editor/Broadcaster,
I urge you to take a few minutes to read the stunning Judicial Watch Special Report on the United States government funding of George Soros' radical leftist agenda worldwide.
As the Special Report, penned by JW Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell, painstakingly documents, Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and their affiliates are promoting and advancing:
"… a radical, progressive agenda that seeks to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders and identities, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education, and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain."
The Special Report fully documents the hundreds of millions of dollars Soros-affiliated organizations have received from the United States government to implement their radical agenda.
And, should anyone harbor any doubts as to the authenticity of the Report, I invite them to examine the 154 meticulous footnotes – most with clickable hyperlinks.
Please set aside the time to peruse this important document.
And then, please alert your readers and viewers as to how the U.S. government is spending their tax dollars to promote the Soros agenda.
Carter L. Clews
PS: Any who still doubt illegal alien caravan-related activities funded by the Open Society Foundations should direct their attention to pages 19 – 23.
A Judicial Watch Special Report:
The Financial and Staffing Nexus Between the Open Society Foundations and the United States Government
Advancing a Radical Leftist Agenda at U.S. Taxpayer Expense
Judicial Watch promotes transparency, integrity and accountability in government, politics and the law. We carry out our mission through investigations, research, litigation and public education. As part of our educational activities we produce Special Reports on important public policy matters in order to illuminate the operations of government in a way that informs the public and holds our trusted public servants accountable.
This Special Report describes the activities of billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF), which are partially financed by U.S. taxpayers. Soros, his foundation and their affiliates promote and advance a radical, progressive agenda that seeks to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders and identities, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education, and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain. The Soros network is engaged in an active and ongoing effort to affect politics, economics, and societies in Europe (Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary), Latin America (Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico), and across the globe. Judicial Watch has successfully investigated and litigated to document the paper trail left by the OSF network as it operates, at taxpayer expense, to subvert and manipulate the sovereignty of constitutional republics and allies of the United States.
The Soros operations are highly sophisticated and multi-faceted, working across academia; the courts; labor and agriculture; "social justice" organizations; religious associations; and, of course, political groups. OSF operations also utilize U.S.-based non- profit organizations to further their agenda. Key personnel in the Soros/OSF network (and their affiliates) are former U.S. government officials capable of leveraging their government status and access to benefit the OSF's progressive goals.
Judicial Watch will continue to investigate and litigate to obtain evidence that we will analyze as we pursue additional lines of inquiry concerning Soros and the Open Society Foundations around the world and, in particular, the United States.
Thomas Fitton President Washington, DC
Background and Context
The Open Society Foundations' mission is to: "… work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people."1
The OSF, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, are subsidized with U.S. taxpayer money, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Senior U.S. government officials have leveraged their positions for post-government employment with OSF programs, sometimes seeking taxpayer funding for the very same specialties, functions and regions that involved their government employment.
It is important to contextualize the operations and financing of the Open Society Foundations. A year ago, Soros took dramatic action to step up his leftist political activities. As reported by the Wall Street Journal on October 17, 2017, Soros transferred $18 billion to his Open Society Foundation:
"The pioneer of hedge-fund investing has transferred the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations"
"Open Society today has a broad mandate driven largely by its founder's values. It operates through a network of more than 40 foundations and offices in countries from Afghanistan to South Africa.
Mr. Soros has urged developed countries in Europe and elsewhere to share the burden of increased migration from conflict-ridden countries [conflict, it appears, Soros groups help foment]. Anti- Soros politicians in Macedonia, Poland and some other European countries have attacked foreign-funded groups, including Open Society, for what they see as outside interference in their affairs."2
Three years before this massive transfer of wealth to the Open Society Foundation, Inside Philanthropy reported:3
"The Open Society Foundations is bigger than you think. In fact, it may be the largest philanthropic organization ever built, with branches in 37 countries. While the Gates Foundation spends more money, OSF has a larger footprint worldwide thanks to its many local offices, including throughout Africa. OSF's budget will be around $930 million this year—which is substantially more than Ford's [Foundation] total grantmaking."
One might reasonably wonder why U.S. taxpayers would be asked to fund the activities of such a wealthy, sophisticated, highly politicized, "philanthropic" organization.
In 2018, OSF projected expending $537,000,000 in grants and program funding throughout the world.4 The 2018 OSF budget exceeds $1 billion. While the OSF's self- professed goals of strengthening the rule of law, supporting democratically elected governments, promoting fairness in political, legal, and economic systems, and safeguarding fundamental rights may seem innocuous – or even noble – the reality is far different. Soros promotes a radical left agenda. In the United States, this has included:
Promoting an open border with Mexico and fighting immigration enforcement efforts;5
Fomenting racial disharmony by funding anti-capitalist racialist organizations;6
Financing the Black Lives Matter movement and other organizations involved in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri;7
Weakening the integrity of our electoral systems;8
Promoting taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand;9
Advocating a government-run health care system;10
Opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts;11
Promoting dubious transnational climate change agreements that threaten American sovereignty;12 and,
Working to promote gun control and erode Second Amendment protections.13
The Soros foundations funded the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) (founded by former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, who remains on the CAP Board of Directors14), and the related 501c(4) CAP Action Fund to the sum of $1.835 million dollars in 2016 and 2017.15 OSF program strategy documents describe CAP as an "anchor" grantee of the organization.16 The current President of CAP, Neera Tanden, was Policy Director of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and domestic policy director for the Obama campaign. Additional CAP Board members include Tom Steyer and Sen. Tom Daschle.17
Soros foundations also funded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and its related entities, and Democratic voter turnout initiatives. In 2003, Soros described defeating President George W. Bush as, "the central focus of my life," and donated more than $15 million to anti-Bush organizations and efforts.18 At the January 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Soros attacked President Trump and described him as a "danger to the world."19
Similarly, in Europe, Soros and his foundations have sought to erase national borders and identities,20 targeted conservative politicians,21 financed civil unrest,22 infiltrated institutions of higher education,23 and orchestrated a massive refugee crisis24 that will leave the continent forever changed.25
Judicial Watch has filed four lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia directly related to uncovering the facts about the global Soros-funded network of left-wing activist groups – what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls Soros' "Mercenary Army"26 – organized in part through the Soros Open Society Foundation and his East West Management Institute. The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch through a series of lawsuits reveal that the Obama administration turned over key State Department activities to George Soros' OSF. Judicial Watch reporting suggests the Deep State continues to be aligned with Soros as career and holdover State Department officials in countries such as Albania, Colombia, Guatemala, Macedonia and Romania help OSF push its radical agenda.
What U.S. Taxpayers Fund
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Notes (to this point):
1 The Open Society Foundations Internet website mission statement, https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/.
2 "George Soros Transfers $18 Billion to His Foundation, Creating an Instant Giant," Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2017 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soros-transfers-18-billion-to-his-foundation-creating-an-instant-giant-1508252926).
3 "Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet," Inside Philanthropy, September 14, 2015 (https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/9/14/philanthropy-vs-tyranny-inside-the-open-society-foundations.html)
4 "Open Society Foundations: About Us: Expenditures." (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/expenditures-budget). OSF 2018 budget overview: (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/open-society-foundations-2018-budget-overview-20181107.pdf, p. 4). The organization's "migration budget" nearly doubling between 2017 and 2018 (from $34.4 million to $63.3 million) and its spending on U.S. programs increasing by 21 percent (from $100.4 million to $121.1 million).
5 "Open Society U.S. Programs Board Meeting," DC Leaks. September 3-4, 2013. (https://fdik.org/soros.dcleaks.com/download/index.html%3Ff=%252Ffinal%2520book.pdf&t=us); and, WND, "Border Caravan? Call It The George Soros Express," April 29, 2018. (https://www.wnd.com/2018/04/border-caravan-call-it-the-george-soros-express/).
6 "Open Society Foundations' 2015-2018 U.S. Programs plan lists a number of redistributionist policy goals and sets out the organizations that will function as either "anchor" or "core" grantees for that specific set of goals. Included among these grantees are a number of hot-button left-wing contemporary organizations such as the Black Lives Matter aligned group Color of Change, Unidos US (formerly the National Council of La Raza), and the NAACP." Influence Watch, (https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-foundations/); and, Meza, Summer, " Black Lives Matter Wants to Bring Down White Capitalism with Black Christmas, Newsweek, November 28, 2017. (https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-black-christmas-capitalism-724309).
7 Richardson, Valerie. "Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations." Washington Times. August 16,2016. (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/); and, Riddell, Kelly, "George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action," Washington Times, January 14, 2015. (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/).
8 Higgins, Sean, "Soros' $5 million bankrolls suits to stop voter ID laws," Washington Times, June 6, 2015. (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-5-million-bankrolls-suits-to-stop-voter-id-laws).
9 Open Society Foundation, Women's Rights Program. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/women-s-rights-program).
10 VanBooven, Valerie, "Billionaire Soros Funding Effort to Put Universal Home Care on Ballot in Maine," Home Care Daily, February 14, 2018. (https://www.homecaredaily.com/2018/02/14/billionaire-soros-funding-effort-to-put-universal-home-care-on-ballot-in-maine/).
11 Open Society Foundation, National Security and Counterterrorism Program. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/national-security-counterterrorism).
12 George Soros was a member of the U.N.'s High-Level Advisory Group on Mobilizing Climate Change Resources, https://www.un.org/press/en/2010/sga1223.doc.htm, and the Open Society Foundation was a founding funder of the Climate Policy Initiative (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/open-society-foundations-2018-budget-overview-20181107.pdf, p. 8; https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/us/)
13 NRA Institute for Legislative Action, "Anti-Gun Billionaire George Soros Pumps $18 Billion into His Political Apparatus," October 20, 2017. (https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171020/anti-gun-billionaire-george-soros-pumps-18-billion-into-his-political-apparatus).
14 Lorber, Jamie, "CAP Faces Challenges as Podesta Steps Back," Roll Call, October 25, 2011. (https://www.americanprogress.org/c3-board/, https://www.rollcall.com/news/Center-for-American-Progress-Faces-Challenges-as-John-Podesta-Steps-Back-209775-1.html).
15 Open Society Foundation Grants Database. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants-database/?filter_keyword=center%20for%20american%20progress).
16 Open Society Foundation, "U.S. Programs 2015 – 2018 Strategy." (https://web.archive.org/web/20170227181554/http:/dcleaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/soros/strategies/usp-2015-2018-proposed-strategy.pdf).
17 Center for American Progress, Board of Directors. (https://www.americanprogress.org/about/c3-board/).
18 Borger, Julian. Financier Soros Puts Millions into Ousting Bush. The Guardian (UK), November 12, 2003 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/12/uselections2004.usa)
19 Edwards, Valerie. They are a Danger to the World: Billionaire Clinton Supporter George Soros Says the Trump Administration Wants to Create a Mafia State. Daily Mail (UK), January 25, 2018 (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5314897/George-Soros-calls-Trump-blistering-Davos-speech.html)
20 Gorondi, Pablo, "Hungary's leader: EU and Soros seek to "Muslimize" Europe," Seattle Times, July 22, 2017. (https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hungarys-leader-eu-and-soros-seek-to-muslimize-europe/)
21 Adam, Christopher, "Hungary Explains Why 'Persecuted' Former Macedonian PM Deserves Asylum," Hungarian Free Press, November 14, 2018. (http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/11/14/hungary-explains-why-persecuted-former-macedonian-pm-deserves-asylum/).
22 CRC Staff, "Video: 'George Soros's European Uprisings," Capital Research Center, April 18, 2018. (https://capitalresearch.org/article/featured-video-george-soross-european-uprisings/).
Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation's public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people. Judicial Watch fulfills its educational mission through litigation, investigations, and public outreach.
The motto of Judicial Watch is "Because no one is above the law". To this end, Judicial Watch uses the open records or freedom of information laws and other tools to investigate and uncover misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities.
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TOP STORIES / World / Asia
Pakistan hands over Taliban prisoners to Afghans
Pakistan has released several Afghan Taliban prisoners to "facilitate the peace process" in Afghanistan. However, experts say this should not be mistaken for a change in Islamabad's Afghanistan policy.
Pakistan Gefängnis
Pakistani officials said on Wednesday that the government had decided to free several Afghan Taliban prisoners in order to bolster peace efforts in neighboring Afghanistan.
"A group of Afghan Taliban has been released and they are accessible to anyone who wants to contact them," a Pakistani foreign ministry official told the German news agency, dpa.
The news was confirmed on Thursday after a series of meetings in Islamabad between Afghan peace mediators Pakistan's top leaders and religious figures. A joint statement issued said the negotiating parties had agreed to cooperate to allow safe passage for "potential negotiators amongst Taliban" to attend future talks.
Dozens of mid-level and senior Taliban commanders - who fled to Pakistan after the NATO forces attacked Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban regime in 2001 - are being held in Pakistani jails.
The decision to release Taliban prisoners came during the meetings between Afghanistan's High Peace Council delegation - led by Salahauddin Rabbani - and Pakistani authorities in Islamabad.
The Afghan peace delegation - which arrived in Islamabad on Monday on a three-day visit - met with Pakistan's civilian and military leadership to discuss ways to persuade the Taliban militants to end the decade-long insurgency in Afghanistan.
Reconciliation efforts
The Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told dpa that it was "too soon to comment" on Islamabad's decision. "The Islamic Emirates (the Taliban's name for Afghanistan) will announce its reaction soon after the decision of the leadership meeting."
Eager to pave the way for an exit, the US is trying to hold talks with the Taliban
The number of freed Taliban leaders is said to be less than a dozen and it does not include Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy leader. Baradar was arrested in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in February 2010.
The Afghan government believes that Baradar can influence the Taliban to join the Afghan government-led peace talks. So far, the Taliban have rejected the negotiation offers.
"We aren't too certain whether they (the released Taliban leaders) can play an important role in peace negotiations but it is a positive gesture from Pakistan in helping peace efforts," an Afghan official told the Reuters news agency.
The Afghan government and the US are trying to hold separate peace talks with the Afghan Taliban in the hopes of finding a peaceful solution to the decade-long war.
The US is winding up its operations in Afghanistan against Islamist militants and NATO troops are scheduled to withdraw from the war-torn country in 2014.
Bargaining chip
Afghanistan has long criticized Pakistan for not giving it access to imprisoned members of the Taliban leadership. The Afghan government and the US accuse Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) of supporting its favorite Taliban factions to use them as a bargaining chip while dealing with Kabul and Washington.
Experts say that, despite the fact that Islamabad has agreed to hand over some Taliban leaders to Afghan authorities, it is unlikely that it is going to abandon its policy of maintaining strategic influence in Afghanistan through the Taliban.
The Pakistan is accused of using the Taliban to exercise strategic influence in Afghanistan
Dr. Naeem Ahmed, professor of International Relations at Karachi University, told DW that Pakistan wanted "to see a bigger role for the Taliban in Afghanistan."
"Washington and Kabul also want to take the Taliban on board, and they are already conducting secret talks with some of their factions, but they want to exclude Pakistan from these negotiations," he added. "That is not going down well with Islamabad."
Islamabad-based defense analyst Tahir Khan told DW that there were several unresolved issues between the two uneasy neighbors.
"The Afghan government demands that Pakistan must give access to detained Taliban leaders so that its officials could talk to them directly," Khan said, adding that the Afghan government had always accused Pakistan of assassinating the Taliban leaders that were willing to negotiate with Afghanistan.
A U-turn?
Dr. Moonis Ahmar, professor of International Relations at Karachi University, told DW that peace efforts in Afghanistan were in Pakistan's own interest. He said that Pakistan did not want to see a civil war in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO troops from the country in 2014. For that reason, Ahmar said, Pakistani authorities had been trying to use their influence on some "moderate Taliban leaders" to engage in talks with the Afghan government and the US.
"It is not clear on what terms and conditions these Taliban leaders are being released," Ahmar said. "The Afghan government has clearly said that it will only talk to the Taliban if they agree to certain rules and abandon the use of violence. I am not sure that those who are being freed have agreed to these terms."
Ahmar also told DW that Saudi Arabia had been playing a big role in the Afghan reconciliation efforts at the behest of the US government, suggesting that the deal between Kabul and Islamabad for the prisoners' release could be facilitated by Riyadh.
Many Taliban fled to Pakistan during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan
Experts, however, say that Pakistan would not favor any government in Kabul which did not protect its interests. They say that, despite its willingness to set some Taliban leaders free, it will still bargain with the US and Afghanistan through leaders like Baradar.
"India is becoming a major player in Afghan politics," Ahmar said, referring to several economic and strategic pacts between Kabul and New Delhi during Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent Indian visit.
Experts say that the US and other NATO countries have to find a way in which Pakistan, particularly its powerful military generals, feels that its interests are not compromised.
Ahmar concluded that the lasting solution of the Afghan conflict depended on how India and Pakistan came to an agreement about their respective roles in the post 2014 Afghanistan.
ISAF spokesman: Taliban are considerably 'weakened'
In an interview with the German public broadcaster ARD in Kabul, ISAF Spokesman Brigadier General Günter Katz claimed the Taliban have been considerably "weakened" but admitted that many problems remain. (12.11.2012)
Mystical Islam 'a threat to the Taliban'
The recent attack on a shrine in Pakistan's northwestern district of Nowshera is proof that the Taliban consider pluralistic Islam a big ideological threat, say experts. (30.10.2012)
'Kabul is less conservative than Pakistani cities'
Kabul is always in the news. Yet, we do not seem to know much about it. DW's Thomas Baerthlein recently visited the Afghan capital and discovered a different city from what he had expected. (15.10.2012)
Author Shamil Shams
Related Subjects Taliban, Pakistan, Washington, White House, Pentagon, Terrorism
Keywords Taliban, Pakistan, peace process, Afghan war, terrorism, insurgency, Kabul, Washington
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Have you ever had Royal Thai cuisine? The answer is probably a no, since it's not like they have a street food stand of that. However, there is a food tour you can take that would take you straight into the home of a royal's chef's family. In fact, you can also try your hands at making them, too!
Farang Kudeejeen – a Portuguese-Siamese cupcake that can only be found in Kudeejeen, it's fluffy yet crispy, with raisins inside and sugar sprinkled on top.
Jeep Nok – duck shape dumpling made from potato, sticky rice, and rice flour. Fillings are made of minced chicken stir-fried with garlic, palm sugar, and salt. This is by far my favourite with the sweet and tangy filling and chewy dumpling skin.
Tung Thong – akin to a fried wonton, the fillings are minced pork stir-fried with garlic pepper and coriander root. The satisfying crunch and the meaty filling makes it a more filling dish.
Dragon bite grass – mandarin slice topped with tapioca mix (pineapple also possible). The contrasting juicy and tart texture with the chewy tapioca makes it almost addictive.
Rice noodles with red chicken curry – cooked with the perfect balance of spice and coconut, the red chicken curry is accompanied by homemade rice noodles!
We continued the tour by visiting a local museum on the Portuguese-Siamese history of the region as well as an 100-year-old teak wood house.
I discovered this gem via googling restaurants in the area and was pleasantly surprised at how delicious the meal was. Prai Raya is a famous small chain in Phuket that has expanded to Bangkok, and I'm super glad they did. The restaurant itself looks like a colonial villa with Portuguese tiles.
We ordered their signature crab meat yellow coconut curry noodle, a pepper sauce slow cook ribs and rice, and a coconut to share. The portion sizes are very generous, with big chunks of crab meat in the curry and crispy pork ribs. The total came to 883 baht for 2, all in all not bad for a meal.
If you are stuck on what to eat, Terminal 21 might or might not be the answer since you will have a million choice, but you'd still have to make a choice. The food court in the airport-themed shopping mall is legendary for its affordable prices and variety, with crowd favourites like chicken rice, mango sticky rice, and pork knuckles.
I had ended up there more often than not if I'm in the urban downtown, because who can say no to mango sticky rice? They do have a system to order, with patrons paying for credits in a card and using it for purchases. Once you are done, simply go back to the counter to get the remainder.
One of the most famous place for chicken rice is Kaiton Pratunam. Expect to be queueing for a while because it is a popular spots for local and tourists alike. However, the restaurant has kept the price of chicken rice at 40 baht, which is extremely affordable.
Only a few shops down from Kaiton Pratunam (and less if you are standing in the queue), Bamee Sawang is equally affordable. Although the portion size is on the small side, the food is delicious. I had a wonton dry noodle and my friend had a pork knuckle rice at 120 Baht altogether. It is also air-coned, unlike Kaiton Pratunam.
For a comprehensive Thai menu and dishes of all budget, Krua Apsorn near the Democracy Monument is perfect. The air-conditioned interior is a reprieve from the heat outside and was a great rest point between temple hopping.
I ordered garlic shrimp with rice, while my mum ordered pad thai and they are both delicious. They also have curry dishes and other Thai fare, they are more pricey and suited for sharing.
The Pad Thai place to visit, Thipsamai Pad Thai spots a long queue just like Kaiton Chicken Rice. With cooking stations placed outside, diners can take in the mouth watering scent of Pad Thai and watch the skillful chefs work the wok to dish up the food. The restaurant only opens during the night from 5pm, so make sure you plan your visit and budget in some time to queue.
On my first visit to Chatuchak, we ended up eating at a random vendor and my fried rice was kind of meh. On my second visit, we opted for 345 by Yorwor at section 3 for some quality food. It is, however, more expensive.
We ordered their Pad Thai which was amazing, but their other signature of pork with rice wasn't very good. But there is good seating area and the indoor portion has air-conditioning too.
We found this restaurant when we was staying at Ekkamai. It's a great affordable and atmospheric choice, with a Thai and western menu. I ordered a Thai sausage fried rice and lemongrass drink and they are both delicious.


8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.


Today I was the leader of the forest school at Compton Verney which took place around the willow tunnel. We did pom pom making and weaving of many kinds including weaving among the willow tunnel itself. Clifford and Janet were great and it was good to have Clifford stay until the end of the session. I was pleased that despite the mixed weather we had over seventy people taking part. One young visitor wanted to stay all day and weave her section and she made a great job of it to.
A 2014 British biographical drama film directed by Richard Laxton.
Its subject is the love triangle involving Victorian art critic John Ruskin (played by Greg Wise) his wife Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning) and Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge). Emma Thompson also appears in the film as Elizabeth Eastlake. The film's initial release was delayed by lawsuits alleging that the script, written by Emma Thompson, was plagiarised from earlier dramatisations of the same story. The cases were won by Thompson.
In a pre-credit sequence Effie Gray is seen walking through a garden speaking about a fairy story in which a girl married a man with wicked parents. After the credits, the marriage of Effie to John Ruskin in Perth, Scotland is seen. The couple travel to London to stay with his parents. Effie soon begins to feel isolated, especially as she is repeatedly belittled by John's mother. Her distress is compounded by the fact that her husband shows no interest in consummating the marriage and refuses to discuss the subject.
At the Royal Academy of Arts, John and Effie attend a dinner at which there is heated debate about the new Pre-Raphaelite movement in art, which John supports. John convinces Sir Charles Eastlake, the president of the academy, to allow the young artists to exhibit their pictures. Effie attracts the attention of Sir Charles' wife, Elizabeth. When the Eastlakes visit the Ruskins, Elizabeth sees how distressed Effie is in the repressive atmosphere of the Ruskin family.
Effie hopes that matters will improve when they travel to Venice, where John will be researching his new book The Stones of Venice. But when they get there, John busies himself studying the many historic monuments of the city, leaving Effie in the company of Rafael, a young Italian. Effie enjoys the city life, but is distressed when Rafael nearly rapes her. Her husband seems oblivious to the situation.
Effie dreads returning to the Ruskin family. Back at their house she suffers from a string of nervous aliments. Her doctor advises fresh air and more attention from her husband. John says they intend to travel to Scotland where Everett Millais, one of the Pre-Raphaelites, will paint his portrait. In Scotland, Everett befriends Effie, and becomes increasingly disturbed by John's dismissive attitude to his wife. He is deeply embarrassed when John leaves the two of them alone together for several nights when he visits Edinburgh. Effie and Everett fall in love. When John returns he says Effie must come back with him to London. Everett convinces her to take someone she trusts with her and to explore the options for divorce. Effie brings her sister Sophy, claiming that Sophy wants to see the capital.
In London, Effie visits Elizabeth Eastlake. She tells her she is still a virgin and that John has told her he was disgusted by her body on their wedding night. Elizabeth advises her to seek legal advice. Effie is examined by a doctor, who confirms her virginity. Her lawyer tells her the marriage can be annulled. Effie leaves for Scotland, supposedly to accompany her sister, but really to leave John forever. Before she leaves London, she visits Everett, but only communicates with him via her sister. Everett says he will wait for her. Ruskin's family is horrified when Effie's lawyer calls round with a notification of annulment proceedings on the grounds of John's impotence. As she travels back north, Effie smiles.
Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, known as Effie Gray, Effie Ruskin or Effie Millais was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but she left her husband without the marriage being consummated. She later married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
Effie Gray, initially known by the pet name of "Phemy", was born in Perth, Scotland, and lived in Bowerswell, the house where Ruskin's grandfather had committed suicide. Her family knew Ruskin's father, who encouraged a match between them. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for her in 1841, when she was twelve years old. After their marriage in 1848, they travelled to Venice, where Ruskin was researching his book The Stones of Venice.
Their different personalities are thrown into sharp relief by their contrasting priorities. For Effie, Venice provided an opportunity to socialise while Ruskin was engaged in solitary studies. In particular, he made a point of drawing the Ca' d'Oro and the Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace), because he feared they would soon be destroyed by the occupying Austrian troops. One of the troops, Lieutenant Charles Paulizza, made friends with Effie, apparently with no objection from Ruskin. Her brother, among others, later claimed that Ruskin was deliberately encouraging the friendship to compromise her, as an excuse to separate.
Ruskin confirmed this in his statement to his lawyer during the annulment proceedings: "It may be thought strange that I could abstain from a woman who to most people was so attractive. But though her face was beautiful, her person was not formed to excite passion. On the contrary, there were certain circumstances in her person which completely checked it." The reason for Ruskin's disgust with "circumstances in her person" is unknown. Various suggestions have been made, including revulsion at either her pubic hair, or menstrual blood. However, Robert Brownell, in his analysis Marriage of Inconvenience, argues that Ruskin's difficulty with the marriage was financial and related to concerns that Effie and her less-affluent family were trying to tap into Ruskin's considerable wealth. While married to Ruskin, she modelled for Millais' painting The Order of Release, in which she was depicted as the loyal wife of a Scottish rebel who has secured his release from prison. She then became close to Millais when he accompanied the couple on a trip to Scotland in order to paint Ruskin's portrait according to the critic's artistic principles. During this time, spent in Brig o' Turk in the Trossachs, they fell in love. While working on the portrait of her husband, Millais made many drawings and sketches of her. He also sent humorous cartoons of himself, Effie and Ruskin to friends. She copied some of his works.
After their return to London, she left Ruskin, nominally to visit her family. She sent back her wedding ring with a note announcing her intention to file for an annulment. With the support of her family and a number of influential friends, she successfully pursued the case, causing a major public scandal, and their marriage was annulled on the grounds of 'incurable impotency' in 1854.
In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856; George, born in 1857; Effie, born in 1858; Mary, born in 1860; Alice, born in 1862; Geoffroy, born in 1863; John in 1865; and Sophie in 1868. Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, was a notable bird artist and gardener. She also modelled for a number of her husband's works, notably Peace Concluded (1856), which idealises her as an icon of beauty and fertility.
When Ruskin later sought to become engaged to a teenage girl, Rose La Touche, Rose's parents were concerned. They wrote to Gray to ask about the marriage; she replied by describing Ruskin as an oppressive husband. The engagement was broken off.
After his marriage, Millais began to paint in a broader style, which Ruskin condemned as a "catastrophe". Marriage had given him a large family to support, and it is claimed[who?] that his wife encouraged him to churn out popular works for financial gain and to maintain her busy social life. However, there is no evidence that she consciously pressured him to do so, though she was an effective manager of his career and often collaborated with him in choosing subjects. Her journal indicates her high regard for her husband's art, and his works are still recognisably Pre-Raphaelite in style several years after his marriage.
However, Millais eventually abandoned the Pre-Raphaelite obsession with detail and began to paint in a looser style which produced more paintings for the time and effort. Many paintings were inspired by his family life with his wife, often using his children and grandchildren as models. Millais also used his sister-in-law, Sophy Gray, then in her early teens, as the basis of some striking images in the mid to late 1850s, provoking suggestions of a mutual infatuation. The annulment from Ruskin barred her from events at which Queen Victoria was present. Both she and her husband were considerably bothered, as she had been socially very active, although many in society were still prepared to receive her and to press her case sympathetically. Eventually, when Millais was dying, the Queen relented through the intervention of her daughter Princess Louise, allowing Gray to attend an official function. Sixteen months after Millais' death, Effie died at Bowerswell on 23 December 1897[ and was buried in Kinnoull churchyard, Perth, which is depicted in Millais's painting The Vale of Rest.
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature". From the 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild of St George, an organisation that endures today.
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Twitter has announced a new feature to limit or disable replies on tweets.
The social network, which has faced significant criticism in recent years over its handling of trolling and abuse, confirmed that it was looking for ways to reduce toxicity on the platform.
One of its solutions is to allow users to choose who can reply to their tweets.
As first reported by TechCrunch, users will be able to select from one of four reply options: Global, allowing anyone to reply, Group, only allowing followers to reply, Panel, only people who are tagged in a tweet can reply, and fourth not allowing replies, the "Statement" tweet.
Twitter made the announcement during CES 2020, where company executive Kayvon Beykpour revealed that the company wanted to give consumers more control over their social networking experience.
Speaking at the event, he said: "The primary motivation is control. We want to build on the theme of authors getting more control and we've thought that there are many analogues of how people have communications in life."
"Right now, public conversation on Twitter is you tweet something everyone in the world will see and everyone can reply, or you can have a very private conversation in a DM. So there's an entire spectrum of conversations that we don't see on Twitter yet."
The company has not confirmed a timeline for the new disable or limit tweet replies option, but did confirm that the first rollout would be to a select group of users for testing purposes.
That means there's no guarantee this feature will make it to the public build of the app and desktop experience, though based on initial reaction, we expect this to be a popular feature.
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I knew the story and you got me all choked up! Miss you guys!!
Thank you, Erin! I miss you, too!
Ask I sit here, in tears, I am filled with an overwhelming feeling of happiness. The profundity (you don't use THAT word everyday) of your statement of Danny making you YOU again, is blowing my mind right now.
You guys *are* unstoppable and I am honored to witness this!
Also, let it be known that I was slamming my fists on the desk because I was laughing so hard at all thoughts involving courtship with wagons! BWAHAH!
And now, I'm crying. Thank you, Jules. We love you, too.
Yay! Great story! Thanks for sharing! I'm so happy for you!
I have that elegant frozen treat in the freezer right this minute! Truth be told, I got it for the (beloved) vegans in my life, but good to know we could please you instantly. Walking around your neighborhood at Christmastime was trippy and very very fun. Thank you for a warm wonderful meal and fine entertainment. Most important thought: we LOVE Danny and now we love an entire sweet family. Barbara is blessed. So are we.
Thank you, Billie! We love you, too! Hopefully we'll get to see you and James very soon.


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Bradford City chairman Edin Rahic has issued the following statement ahead of Saturday's Sky Bet League One visit of Charlton Athletic:
"A great deal has been said over the last few weeks and I want to take this opportunity to address some of the concerns and comments expressed.
"I want to start by saying to you, our loyal supporters and partners, I am truly sorry for some of the decisions I have made - which have resulted in a loss of momentum.
"I understand some of our supporters are hurting at the moment and so am I. I feel responsible and accept I am open and perhaps deserving of some of the criticism which has come my way. Football is emotional and passion is at the heart of many opinions formed, which I wholeheartedly respect. Providing comments made towards me are respectful, I will always listen and take on board any concerns.
"The appointment of the coaching team - and Michael Collins as head coach - did not work out and I am responsible for this. He received our full backing from day one, as did the playing squad and his fellow staff. But the results did not come on the field.
"After seven competitive games in charge - and with so much of the season still to come - we felt we had to make a decision and make a change in the best interests of the club. I have a great deal of respect for Michael and, for me, he is a very good coach. He was the subject of a lot of criticism and I will take the responsibility for this.
"I am aware of an article published in a national newspaper earlier this week and, although a lot of what was written was opinions formed on the back of changes and, of course, results on the field, a significant proportion of it just isn't accurate.
"We are trying to create a sustainable future for Bradford City. We are developing the club, so it is set up in the best way for the future. Sometimes this can result in people walking away or deciding the time is right to move on. Equally, it can be the case that the club requires change in certain areas and so a decision is taken for one reason or another.
"I attended the Shipley Bantams' annual general meeting last night and it was great to speak with supporters through the course of the evening. Over the coming months, I am looking forward to meeting with various supporter groups, partners and season-ticket holders. These events will provide opportunities for you to ask the questions you wish to ask about the future of the club going forward.
"I, like you, am disappointed that our season has not got off to the start we hoped. However, I can assure you we are committed to improving our position - on and off the pitch. Together we can achieve great things here and I fully intend to do all I can to right the wrongs of the past few months, with the club's best interests at heart.
"We are delighted to have David Hopkin on board. Despite the injury problems facing us at the moment, we are confident David can turn our on-field fortunes around and help us climb the table. He is a great leader and will make the right decisions for us within the football department.
"Blackpool ended in disappointment but there were plenty of positives to take and I am sure David and the players have done so, as they prepare for Saturday and Charlton. I look forward to seeing you all this weekend, getting behind David and the team as your support can make all of the difference. Come on City!"


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Jim May Recognized for a Life in Stevia
Gilbert, AZ (06/18/10) – Long time stevia patron Jim May has been awarded a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the burgeoning industry at the Stevia World Europe conference in Geneva.
May, who is founder and president of the SweetLeaf Stevia® brand, began importing stevia into the United States in 1982 and worked for over 25 years to achieve regulatory approval. He was lauded for his leadership in spawning a new industry, for championing stevia as an agricultural crop in developing countries for family farmers, and for promoting stevia as a natural sweetener that could have a role in fighting childhood obesity and preventing diabetes.
"I have dedicated a significant part of my life to bringing this wonderful natural sweetener to the market," May said upon receiving the award, from Stevia World International, last month. "I had a deep and enduring faith for the day stevia would come. Judging by the accelerating demand we are experiencing in the market, the consumer is exhibiting a strong preference for natural stevia extract over synthetic and controversial caloric alternatives."
Following a positive opinion from EFSA, EU-wide approval of sweeteners with a high steviol glycoside content is expected in the near future.
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It all started with one man who had a dream – Jim May, Founder of Wisdom Natural Brands™. Stevia is a naturally sweet herb native to Paraguay that has been consumed for centuries. After tasting stevia leaves given to him by a Peace Corps worker, May made it his mission to bring the extract from the deliciously sweet plant to the United States. May is world known as "The Father of Stevia." The process involves taking the highest-quality leaves of the stevia plant and extracting their naturally sweet taste with only cool, purified water – no chemicals, solvents or additives that adulterate and cover up the great taste created by nature.
May first traveled to Paraguay to import stevia in 1982. His most satisfying victory came in 2008, when GRAS Associates and Life Science Research Office, two completely independent panels of scientists, awarded SweetLeaf Stevia® GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status, pursuant to FDA regulations. This allowed SweetLeaf® products made from its new, revolutionary extraction technology to be labeled as sweeteners. SweetLeaf® could finally use the word "sweet" to describe its product, now known as SweetLeaf Sweetener®. The FDA granted a no-questions letter to SweetLeaf®'s GRAS status in 2009, validating all the hard work done by May over more than a quarter of a century.
Wisdom Natural Brands™, a leading U.S. manufacturer of stevia products, offers SweetLeaf Sweetener® in convenient double-serving packets. SweetLeaf Sweetener® is sold in boxes containing either 50 or 100 packets. Each packet replaces two teaspoons of sugar. SweetLeaf® is also sold in the SweetLeaf Stevia Plus® Shaker Bottle for easy home use and SweetLeaf SteviaTabs™ Dissolvable Tablets for easy on-the-go use.
Today, May is a leading expert on stevia and travels across the Americas promoting the benefits of the stevia plant.
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I did test the Kiosk Admin Tool to enable the users to change their Desktop settings. If you setup the debian-edu-pupils profile, under "Desktop Icons" the Desktop Settings are locked down. By removing this, users can change their desktop settings (including background). This worked fine by me.


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THE decisive incidents of our cruise were now fast approaching. Looking back on the steps that led to them, and anxious that the reader should be wholly with us in our point of view, I think I cannot do better than give extracts from my diary of the next three days:
'16th Oct. (up at 6.30, yacht high and dry). Of the three galliots out at anchor in the channel yesterday, only one is left … I took my turn with the breakers this morning and walked to Wangeroog, whose village I found
half lost in sand drifts, which are planted with tufts of marram-grass in mathematical rows, to give stability and prevent a catastrophe like that at Pompeii. A friendly grocer told me all there is to know, which is little.
The islands are what we thought them–barren for the most part, with a small fishing population, and a scantyaccession of summer visitors for bathing. The season is over now, and business slack for him. There is still, however, a little trade with the mainland in galliots and lighters, a few of which come from the "siels" on the mainland. "Had these harbours?" I asked. "Mud-holes!" he replied, with a contemptuous laugh. (He is a settler in these wilds, not a native.) Said he had heard of schemes for improving them, so as to develop the islands as health-resorts, but thought it was only a wild speculation.
'A heavy tramp back to the yacht, nearly crushed by impedimenta. While Davies made yet another trip, I stalked some birds with a gun, and obtained what resembled a specimen of the smallest variety of jack-snipe, and small at that; but I made a great noise, which I hope persuaded somebody of the purity of our motives.
'We weighed anchor at one o'clock, and in passing the anchored galliot took a good look at her. Kormoran was on her stern; otherwise she was just like a hundred others. Nobody was on deck.
'We spent the whole afternoon till dark exploring the Harle, or gap between Wangeroog and Spiekeroog; the sea breaking heavily on the banks outside … Fine as the day was, the scene from the offing was desolate to the last degree. The naked spots of the two islands are hideous in their sterility: melancholy bits of wreck-wood their only relief, save for one or two grotesque beacons, and, most bizarre of all, a great church-tower, standing actually in the water, on the north side of Wangeroog, a striking witness to the encroachment of the sea. On the mainland, which was barely visible, there was one very prominent landmark, a spire, which from the chart we took to be that of Esens, a town four miles inland.
'The days are growing short. Sunset is soon after five, and an hour later it is too dark to see booms and buoys distinctly. The tides also are awkward just now. (I exclude all the technicalities that I can, but the reader should take note that the tide-table is very important henceforward.) 'High-water at morning and evening is between five and six–just at twilight. For the night, we groped with the lead into the Muschel Balge, the tributary channel which laps round the inside of Spiekeroog, and lay in two fathoms, clear of the outer swell, but rolling a little when the ebb set in strong against the wind.
'A galliot passed us, going west, just as we were stowing sails; too dark to see her name. Later, we saw her anchor-light higher up our channel.
'The great event of the day has been the sighting of a small German gunboat, steaming slowly west along the coast. That was about half-past four, when we were sounding along the Harle.
'Davies identified her at once as the Blitz, Commander von Brüning's gunboat. We wondered if he recognized the Dulcibella, but, anyway, she seemed to take no notice of us and steamed slowly on. We quite expected to fall in with her when we came to the islands, but the actual sight of her has excited us a good deal. She is an ugly, cranky little vessel, painted grey, with one funnel. Davis is contemptuous about her low freeboard forward; says he would rather go to sea in the Dulce. He has her dimensions and armament (learnt from Brassey) at his fingers' ends: one hundred and forty feet by twenty-five, one 4.9 gun, one 3.4, and four maxims–an old type. Just going to bed; a bitterly cold night.