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Apollo Up! are a fairly straight forward rock trio. To be honest, there is nothing particularly imaginative or inventive about their music but I have loved it ever since I first heard Walking The Plank when it was featured on some mp3 blog.
The music is on the heavier side but still firmly in the middle of a "Rock" genre. No metal influence, very little punk influence and no electronics. Lead singer Jay Leo Phillips has a voice very reminiscent of Elvis Costello (only harder) and it was that suggestion that made me want to listen in the first place.
They have their own band page where you will find a selection of tracks from their albums to download to get you started. There are also some on last.fm to stream.
If you like them enough to want to spend some money on them, their albums are available on Amie Street and are still very cheap there (cheap as in just over $5 would get you everything!).
To get you started, my favourite track is "The Job's A Game" (a short but powerful song, not streamed or free I'm afraid) but of the free downloads, check out "Walking The Plank" and "Guilty Fever".
For years I used to get upset at the awful repetition you would get listening to commercial radio. In my early 20s I spent a bit of time listening to Triple J (that's a public "alternative" radio station for those outside of Australia) and realised that even public radio has the same problem. Awful repetition, just different music being repeated.
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the music well enough. It's just that once you listened for a week or two you would find yourself listening to much the same songs every day. No different to my current forced radio listening (the radio on at work). Classic Rock 24/7. Nice in moderation.
As usual the JJJ Hottest 100 was about as narrow-minded as any commercial radio countdown, which is fine… just don't pretend it's better.
That pretty much sums it up. The Triple J listening crowd do tend to see themselves as quite the alternatives, but that's really just a matter of perspective. And I'm sure similar stations all over the world have much the same attitude. "Triple J" music is a particular sort of music and its listeners don't have all that much to differentiate them from each other.
Last.fm user Anthony Liekens has created a couple of very useful scripts for our desired purpose. They take your top artists from your last.fm user profile and add in all the similar artists to each of them. The more unique artists you get in the total, the more eclectic your musical taste.
Try out the Eclectic Test and if you are truly awesome, the Super Eclectic Test.
If you get a pass result on either of them, give yourself a clap. And then consider coming and joining the Better Hottest 100 group on last.fm. I've got this idea that if we get enough truly eclectic listeners joining in, at the end of the year we can create our own chart that would show Triple J and its listeners was alternative really means.
Where's my Dr Who Lego?
My 12 year old son and his friend spent much of last weekend mixing and matching all his lego minifigs to make his own Dr Who Lego.
Given that there was nothing manufactured specifically for what they were trying to make, I think they did a great job.
I've never been that interested in branded Lego, but if they ever did a merchandising deal with the Beeb over this, they would have a large amount of my money. And plenty of my childrens' too.
Please excuse the poor photography. I rushed a bit, perhaps I can upload some new versions later.
The Great Empire of The Gristika was formed on its maritime power and for centuries had ruled the oceans. Its polar opposite was The Rozan Empire, created out of a forge of magic and violence. These two great peoples conquered The Known World. Ultimately their rivalry peaked and there was war.
Neither could gain the upper hand. They had such enormous armies that the chance of either making any sort of great advance was minimal. An arms race of sorts developed. Weapons that had never before been seen in the world were used. Explosives of the most violent sort. Flames from the very pits of Hell. Artillery that could attack from vast distances.
While this unending war raged on, the people of the central territories of the Empires barely knew anything was happening. The front would move tens, even hundreds of miles at a time, but always back and forth. The central peoples were untouched. The common man in either Capital wouldn't even know there was a war on unless the prices for his favourite delicacy increased or if his son was conscripted and sent off to the front.
One hundred and years and more this went on. If the truth was really to be told, the war was off more often than it was on. On the frontiers there would be clashes; some small, some larger. Every few years a great conflict would arise, shifting the front to the advantage of one Empire or the other and then the armies would settle back into their uneasy routine. The war became part of the daily life of the Empires. Something that was just always there. Something to talk about in the market place. A jingoistic rallying point for the leaders. A place to go for the searchers for glory.
As so often happens in history, the approach to the war changed simultaneously in both Empires. Emperor Nikolae of the Roza and Francois de Gristika were both approached by their own Sages. They had calculated that if they couldn't win the war using the people they did have, then they may have more success if they were to bring some more in. In other words: summon them from elsewhere.
At first, the Emperors rejected this idea. The wizardly discipline of Conjuring had been outlawed for centuries. Humankind had known, almost inherently, that they could not guarantee the control of creatures from beyond the mundane. They both resisted all advances.
The Sages went out gained support from the nobles for their ideas, and the nobles from the commoners. Ultimately, the Emperors were unable to control the discontent. They were asked "Do you not wish to win this war?" and they were unable to answer. They could not be seen to care about their Empires while they resisted this easiest of options. And besides; what if they decided not to take this route and the enemy had no such reservations? They would be wiped out.
With Imperial approval the Sages and the Colleges of Wizardry researched and tested their theories for a decade and a half. The Gristika worked towards what they thought would be the most simple, reliable and safe option: The Faerie Realm. The faeries (or the Vitter in the old tongue) were closer to the mundane and as such easier to control.
The Roza thought only of raw power. They looked to the very pits of the Abyss for their servants and would call forth whatever hell-spawn creatures they could get their hands on.
The Abyssal creatures, the Ferb, were most willing to come up to the world. It was their greatest desire. The Roza spent their time researching how to control them once they arrived. The Vitter were much harder to bring forth. They assumed it was their job to bring humans into their realm, not the other way around.
The initial summonings were simple and went relatively well. The creatures were powerful, able to perform all sorts of feats that their human opponents were not and they defeated whole armies at a time. After a number of defeats on each side, the Empires each realised that that their enemy had worked on the same plan. From this point on, the arms race began afresh. Each side needed to summon more and bigger creatures.
Eventually, the empires found themselves with armies of barely controlled and hostile aliens. Without any real warning they rebelled. Entire cities were destroyed. The armies of both Empires were destroyed from within by their supposed allies and the Conjurers themselves were destroyed and consumed by the creatures they were supposed to be controlling.
For five years the aliens (the Locusta as they came to be called) ravaged the lands. The human race escaped extinction only because there were two tribes of the Locusta. They killed each other on sight and their numbers gradually declined. With no more Conjurers, no further creatures could cross over into the mundane.
Unbelievably, the two men who started this devastation, Emperors Francois and Nikolae survived. Between their Battle-Wizard guards and their own cunning to survive, they had manage to avoid the Locusta, their own people, their human enemies and the now unrestrained barbarian tribes once kept well away from their borders.
In the wilds of the desert, they came across each other. They had both long since regretted their weakness of mind, they had no reason left to want to kill each other and decided to work together. Their team of wizards numbered one dozen only. They were the last of their kind and were the world's last hope.
A year went by as they studied their enemies and worked out the best way to counter the efforts of the Conjurers. In the end it was decided that half of them would to work on a Dispelling, an anti-conjuring, to create a rift back to the worlds of the Locusta. The others worked on a great spell that would enable them to control the very elements, to call lightning from the sky in great thunderstorms and to rend the ground with earthquakes. As a team, they would create a rift and then use the elements to force the Locusta into it.
The emperors knew that they would not be able to destroy all of them at once. They worked on a plan where they would pick off small groups of Locusta, drawing attention to the fact that someone out there had worked out a way to destroy them, that they no longer had free reign around the world.
The Saints smiled on their efforts. For a year they travelled from mountain to valley to hill to coastline, finding groups of two or three Locusta and attacking. Eventually, the remaining Locusta decided that they could no longer ignore this threat. Setting the trap, the Emperors attacked on the ruins of Algundy, the former Gristik capital, killing half a dozen Vitter-creatures and then setting camp and waiting.
Four hundred Vitter and Ferbin arrived within an hour. Another hour later and there was nothing living left within one hundred miles. The Emperors dead. Their wizards torn apart by the Locusta and their own mighty magics. The Locusta killed or banished. And a continent, once the jewel of civilisation, destroyed and populated only by the desperate and the wild.
No, not that sort of time machine (though I do happen to like the TARDIS, and the DeLorean and HG Wells' as well, but that's another conversation).
No, I'm talking about Time Machine, the backup-made-so-simple-any-idiot-can-do-it software that comes with Mac OS X (10.5 and above). I won't bore you with the details of what it is and how it works, you could find that out for yourself if you are so inclined. Instead, I'll share why I like it so much and few extra comments.
I'm not any idiot (as referred to above), but I am a particular kind of idiot. I know the importance of backups (having desperately needed one on a number of occasions) and usually manage to keep up a good routine. The key word there is "usually". A backup that doesn't happen every time it is supposed is only fractionally better than no backup at all.
Time Machine (when your Mac is attached to its backup drive) backs up every part of your system every hour. Without fail. When you combine that with a wireless network-connected Time Capsule you are on to a sure winner.
Here's what I do: I have the Time Capsule at the hub of my network (connected to printers etc) and two Macs elsewhere in the house. They get their files backed up automatically to the 1TB hard drive. Right now the oldest backups on the drive are about 3 or 4 months old and these gradually get deleted as newer ones take up more space.
Once a month, I bring home another external USB drive (which lives in the safe at work). I attach it to one of the Macs and change the Time Machine preferences so the backup is made to the USB drive. Of course, the incremental backup takes a bit longer (not having been done for a month) but it is still relatively fast and very, very easy. Repeat the process on the other machine, switch the prefs back so that the Capsule is used again, take the drive back to work and we are done.
So what I have is a local network drive with almost complete backups on it and a spare backup off-site with backups no more than a month old. If we have a hard drive failure or a broken computer, then we restore from the local backup and lose nothing. If we get broken into or our house burns down and lose everything, then we've got years' worth of data safe off site and we lose at most one month's worth.
Yes, I could do this better. My data could be even more secure, but I think this method is an acceptable blend of security vs effort. And apart from my once-a-month secondary backup, it is as good as automatic.
This really is a killer app. Time Machine is a good enough reason on its own for you to get yourself a Mac. Seriously. I switched to Mac just before Leopard came out, but when I saw how Time Machine worked, I realised I would have swapped just for that. Setting up a computer for your parents or I-just-use-a-computer friends and co-workers? Get them to get a Mac and watch them never worry about backups.
Why on Earth has no one done anything this good for Windows or Linux? Time Machine is over 2 years old. It doesn't usually take this long for the me-too programs to arrive. Does Apple hold some super-sensitive patent that is preventing anyone from doing it? Inquiring minds want to know.
And that's it. Thanks Apple. Thanks Time Machine.


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//
//  LoginViewController.m
//  Practise01
//
//  Created by tarena on 15/11/10.
//  Copyright © 2015年 Andleaforer. All rights reserved.
//

#import "LoginViewController.h"
#import "RegisterModel.h"
#import "RegisterViewController.h"
#import "LoginedUser.h"

@interface LoginViewController ()
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *bottom;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *top;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *width;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *avatar_top;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *acountTextField;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *passwordTextField;
//判断
@property (nonatomic, assign, getter=isUp) BOOL up;
@property (nonatomic, assign, getter=isDown) BOOL down;
@end

@implementation LoginViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    self.up = NO;
    self.down = YES;
    //设立广播
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(upView:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(downView:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)upView:(NSNotification *)noti {
    //获取键盘出现信息
    UIViewAnimationOptions option = [noti.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue];
//    NSTimeInterval duration = [dict[@"UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey"] doubleValue];
    //动画
    [UIView animateWithDuration:1 delay:0 options:option animations:^{
        if (self.isDown) {
            self.avatar_top.constant -= 20;
            self.top.constant -= 40;
            self.bottom.constant += 40;
            self.down = NO;
            self.up = YES;
        }
    } completion:nil];
    [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
}

- (void)downView:(NSNotification *)noti {
    //获取键盘出现信息
    UIViewAnimationOptions option = [noti.userInfo[UIKeyboardAnimationCurveUserInfoKey] intValue];
//    NSTimeInterval duration = [dict[@"UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey"] doubleValue];
    //动画
    [UIView animateWithDuration:1 delay:0 options:option animations:^{
        if (self.isUp) {
            self.avatar_top.constant += 20;
            self.top.constant += 40;
            self.bottom.constant -= 40;
            self.up = NO;
            self.down = YES;
        }
    } completion:nil];
    [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    //移除监听
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

- (IBAction)dismiss:(id)sender {
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

- (IBAction)regist:(id)sender {
    RegisterViewController *vc = [[RegisterViewController alloc] init];
    vc.block = ^{
        [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil];
    };
    [self presentViewController:vc animated:YES completion:nil];
}
- (IBAction)login:(id)sender {
    [LoginedUser loginInbackgroundWithAccount:self.acountTextField.text andPassword:self.passwordTextField.text block:^(BmobUser *user, NSError *error) {
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"LoginError:%@", error);
            UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"登录失败" message:nil delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
            [alertView show];
        } else {
            LoginedUser *Luser = [LoginedUser sharedUser];
            Luser.username = user.username;
            Luser.password = user.password;
            Luser.login = YES;
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"UserLoginStatus" object:nil];
            });
            [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
        }
    }];
}
- (IBAction)forgetPWD:(id)sender {
    NSLog(@"忘记密码");
}
- (IBAction)acountTF:(id)sender {
    [self.acountTextField resignFirstResponder];
    [self.passwordTextField becomeFirstResponder];
}
- (IBAction)pwdTF:(id)sender {
    [self.passwordTextField resignFirstResponder];
}

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet<UITouch *> *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
}

/*
#pragma mark - Navigation

// In a storyboard-based application, you will often want to do a little preparation before navigation
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
    // Get the new view controller using [segue destinationViewController].
    // Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
}
*/

@end

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The Scene | People & Parties
Stephen Riady Acquires $95million Good Class Bungalow: All You Need To Know About These Prestigious Homes
By Andrea Saadan
Cover 98 Binjai Park (Image: CBRE)
Good Class Bungalows are the crème de la crème of properties—exclusive and with unrivalled prestige. Before buying one, here's what you need to know about the most sought after property in Singapore
Earlier this week, property developer OUE's executive chairman Stephen Riady made headlines for buying a Good Class Bungalow (GCB) located in the Nassim Hill enclave for $95 million.
The acquisition was announced by OUE in a Singapore Exchange (SGX) regulatory filing on August 14.
OUE Reef Development, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OUE, entered a sale and purchase agreement with Dr Riady—who is on Singapore Tatler's 300 list—for the 3,182 sqm plot at 26A Nassim Road as well as the property built on it.
(Related: Take Tropical Style Cues From This Colonial-Style Bungalow)
The $95 million total consideration is 10.1 per cent higher than the average market value.
But Dr Riady's most recent acquisition isn't the most expensive in Singapore. Just last month, Wing Tai Holdings chairman Cheng Wai Keung sold his Nassim Road GCB—which features an in-ground swimming pool and a full-sized tennis court—for a record $230 million. It remains the single most expensive GCB to date.
In light of similar GCB transactions made over the years, here are some facts about the most prestigious type of residential property in Singapore:
Above 39 gazetted GCB areas (Image: URA)
1. What exactly is a GCB?
For a GCB to actually be classed as one, it has to first meet the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) guidelines in which the property cannot be more than two-storeys high and a minimum plot size of 1,400 sqm. Additionally, the bungalow must be situated within the 39 areas gazetted by the URA.
On top of that, GCB owners are not allowed to build a property that is larger than 35 per cent of the plot area. There also has to be enough greenery in the surroundings.
Some GCBs are over a hundred years old, dating back to the colonial era.
Above GCB near the Botanic Gardens (Image: Cushman & Wakefield)
2. Where are they usually located?
GCBs are found within prime residential districts 10 and 11 and also 20, 21 and 23.
Real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank said the luxurious Belmont Park area and nearby Leedon Road are among Singapore's most popular GCB neighbourhoods.
In fact, a Belmont Road GCB was put up for sale for the second time (after it failed to sell at an auction in July) at a lower price. The freehold property was re-launched for sale at a lower asking price of $40.8 million. Some of the house's features include a basketball court, covered car porch and an outdoor playground.
Above GCB in Chatsworth Park. (Image: URA)
3. Who can purchase them?
Since the latter half of 2012, the Government implemented a rule that only Singapore citizens are eligible to purchase these homes. Foreigners or Permanent Residents who are interested in purchasing restricted residential properties, including GCBs, have to apply for approval with the Singapore Land Authority.
Last year, Kuok Hui Kwong, chairman of Shangri-La Asia and daughter of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok, grabbed headlines for purchasing a bungalow in Belmont Road for $43.5 million. The property is about 15 years old, according to data released by URA Realis.
Other notable GCB buyers include the late Lim Kim San, who was Singapore's first Housing Board chairman, seasoned property investor George Lim and Yongnam Holdings CEO Seow Soon Yong. In July, the co-founder of AAC Technologies Ingrid Wu Chunyuan reportedly acquired a bungalow along Leedon Park for $31 million. Last year, Alibaba co-founder James Sheng was said to have purchased a bungalow on another stretch of Leedon Park for $50 million. Both Wu and Sheng are understood to have become Singapore citizens.
(Related: 10 Resort-Style Pools In Singapore That Bring Villa Vibes Home)
Above 22A King Albert Park (Image: Google Maps)
4. How many are there in Singapore?
There are only about 2,800 GCBs located within Singapore's 39 gazetted GCB areas, which explains why they are incredibly rare and deemed extremely prestigious in status. However, the properties with land plots that are below 15,069 sqft when the 39 GCB areas were gazetted in 1980 are still considered GCBs.
The strict planning conditions stipulated by the URA are meant to preserve the exclusivity and low-rise character of GCBs.
Above Image: Amazon
5. Facts and history
No one actually knows who coined the term "Good Class Bungalow" and where it was derived from.
In his book, Singapore Good Class Bungalow 1819-2015, Professor Robert Powell wrote that the exact origins of the words are unknown but that GCBs may be called that way to "differentiate them from smaller bungalow plots".
The popularity of GCB does not seem to be fading. Back in 2017, the number and value of transactions in GCB areas rose to their highest levels in five years based on data released in January 2018.
Whether or not the GCB market eases this year is anyone's guess. From the way large transactions were made in 2018 as well as the first half of this year, there's no slowing down the well-heeled and high net worth individuals of Singapore when it comes to pursuing the most exquisite type of residence.
(Related: The Design Directors Behind Singapore's Most Glamorous Homes)
Good Class Bungalows Property Luxury homes

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Everyone has a story. Sometimes we tell our story through art, movies, comic books, music, drama or the written word. Baby boomers offered the world ground shaking music and novels that challenged the status quo. Millennials are telling their story through a digital invasion of sharing information that no wall is too powerful to contain. Sometimes it seems that ages, nations and races are worlds apart, but what if these stories are closer together than they seem. God is telling a story, too.
The Holy Spirit has an amazing way of revealing truth in whatever medium anyone is brave enough to try. Whether the truth is veiled in flesh or chords or brush strokes or language, if we are willing to listen to the parables in pop culture, we just might find that God is always trying to bring us together.
Matt Rawle is the Lead Pastor of Asbury UMC in Bossier City, Louisiana and author of the Pop in Culture series designed to invite those outside the church in through weaving music and media into preaching. Rawle is an international speaker who loves to tell an old story in a new way, especially at the intersection of pop culture and the church. The Pop in Culture Series of worship and study resources includes The Faith of a Mockingbird, Hollywood Jesus, and The Salvation of Doctor Who.
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"Insanity 101: Phrasing"
Like last month, I'm going to include a little section from some recent guitar clinics I'm currently doing with fingerstyle guru Jerry Belsak and fusion wizard Philip High. One of the questions that comes up at clinics a lot is: "How can I learn to solo?" A lot goes into soloing well, but it begins with a basic understanding of the fretboard and some basic musical concepts (some of which we've discussed in the past, like melody fragments and octave displacement and variations on a theme), not just application of technique.
David with a student improvising a solo at a guitar student recital.
The concept I'd like to touch on today is phrasing.
Phrasing is the thing that separates one musical idea from another and adds spice. It is of particular importance to shredders, because without it one just plays a perpetual barrage of notes. While that may be cool a time or two, it ultimately makes all your solos sound alike. Guys like Tony MacAlpine, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Scott Henderson, and Jeff Beck are absolute masters of phrasing, so if you like any of them, I'd suggest throwing one of their discs on and really listening to how their solos are constructed.
In the example below, you'll make use of the A pentatonic minor scale. Notice how it plays a theme, then a counter, then repeats the theme, and then a variation on the counter. Notice also that the variation alters both melodically and rhythmically.
Grok the implications of the example, and consider (while remembering that "phrasing" is creating distinct musical sections within a piece [in this case, a solo within a song] in a dynamic and fluid way) concepts like theme & variation, melodic & harmonic & rhythmic variation, composition vs improvisation, overall structure of the song and solo, and the like. Try mapping out a practice solo over a basic progression (maybe from last month's etude) and try to include fast passages, slow passages, rhythmic variations, and expressive flairs by using vibrato and bends. Like always, be sure to drop me a line and let me know how it's working for you or if you have any questions.
See ya next month!


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 Xiping (西平县), Kreis in der chinesischen Provinz Henan
 Xiping (Anxi) (西坪镇), Großgemeinde im Kreis Anxi in der chinesischen Provinz Fujian
 Xiping (Bozhou) (西坪镇), Großgemeinde im Stadtbezirk Bozhou in der chinesischen Provinz Guizhou
 Xiping (Gangu) (西坪镇), Großgemeinde im Kreis Gangu in der chinesischen Provinz Gansu
 Xiping (Xixia) (西坪镇), Großgemeinde im Kreis Xixia in der chinesischen Provinz Henan
 Xiping (Santai) (西平镇), Großgemeinde im Kreis Santai in der chinesischen Provinz Sichuan
 Xiping (Songyang) (西屏镇), Großgemeinde im Kreis Songyang in der chinesischen Provinz Zhejiang
 Xiping (Yunzhou) (西坪镇), Großgemeinde im Stadtbezirk Yunzhou in der chinesischen Provinz Shanxi
 Xiping (Jiangyou) (西屏乡), Gemeinde der Stadt Jiangyou in der chinesischen Provinz Sichuan
 Xiping (Weishan) (西平乡), Gemeinde im Kreis Weishan in der chinesischen Provinz Shandong
 Xiping (Xilin) (西平乡), Gemeinde im Kreis Xilin in Guangxi, Volksrepublik China
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America's Other Espionage Challenge: China
By DAVID WISE
With all the focus on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the damage done by China's vigorous and continuing espionage against the United States has taken a back seat. The preoccupation with Russia, in fact, has obscured the significant inroads made by Chinese intelligence and cyberspies. In some cases, China has proved more skillful than Russia in infiltrating American intelligence. A case involving a former C.I.A. officer named Jerry Chun Shing Lee is a perfect example. Beginning in 2010, C.I.A. sources in China began disappearing; a dozen were reported executed and several more imprisoned. What had seemed a major success in establishing a network of C.I.A. spies inside China had been turned into a devastating intelligence failure. The C.I.A. and F.B.I., suspecting a mole, went on a secret hunt.
China Belt-Road Plan May Create Debt Problems From Djibouti to Laos
China's Belt and Road Initiative creates the potential for debt-sustainability problems in some of the world's weakest economies, according to the Center for Global Development. The infrastructure project -- aimed at forging new economic links with Europe, Asia and Africa -- puts Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, the Maldives, Mongolia, Montenegro, Pakistan, and Tajikistan "at particular risk of debt distress," researchers at the Washington-based research institute said in a report on Sunday. "Belt and Road provides something that countries desperately want -- financing for infrastructure," co-author John Hurley, a visiting policy fellow on leave from the U.S. Treasury Department, said in a statement with the report. "But when it comes to this type of lending, there can be too much of a good thing."
The hidden risks of China's war on debt
HENNY SENDER
HONG KONG -- When the Bank of Jinzhou, based in China's northeastern rust belt, went public on the Hong Kong stock exchange two years ago, its finances were a wreck. It had issued 34 billion yuan ($5.36 billion) worth of "wealth management products" that are hallmarks of China's sprawling "shadow" banking sector, and it was owed 9 billion yuan by an unnamed borrower who was under investigation by Hong Kong regulators. The bank, like many others across China, was loaded with risky debt -- the kind that China's leadership in Beijing is now determined to stamp out.
US tailors forces to deter growing Chinese nuclear threat
By BILL GERTZ
The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review outlines a new 'tailored deterrence' policy that seeks to persuade Chinese leaders to avoid miscalculations – provocative action in the South China Sea, or hostile activity related to Taiwan or Japan – that could escalate into war. Chinese soldiers stand guard in front of a model of a nuclear warhead in a nuclear lab in China's northwestern Qinghai province. Russia's leader Vladimir Putin unveiled several new nuclear weapons last week in a replay of the Cold War. China, meanwhile, is continuing a similar buildup of high-technology strategic nuclear forces that remains largely hidden from view.
China's Thrift, And What To Do About It
What makes China's citizens so thrifty, and why does that matter for China and the rest of the world? The country's saving rate, at 46 percent of GDP, is among the world's highest. Households account for about half of savings, with corporations and the government making up the rest. Saving is good, right? Up to a point. But too much saving by individuals can be bad for society. That's because the flip side of high savings is low consumption and low household welfare. High savings can also fuel excessive investment, resulting in a buildup of debt in China. And because people in China save so much, they buy fewer imported goods than they sell abroad. That contributes to global imbalances, according to a recent IMF paper, China's High Savings: Drivers, Prospects, and Policies. The country's authorities are aware of the issue and are taking steps to address it.
There's Nothing Shocking About Xi's Rise
In a season of political shocks, President Xi Jinping's assumption of supreme power has still managed to startle many longstanding observers of China. The Economist magazine dramatically declared, "The West's 25-year bet on China has failed." Instead of moving towards democracy, these voices suggest, China is sliding further into authoritarianism. It's worth asking, if for no reason than to avoid more such shocks in the near future, why the "West" placed this bet on China at all.
Selected Chinese AI Companies, Projects and Cooperations
This graphic maps out a selection of Chinese AI companies and provides an overview of their current projects and collaborative efforts. To find out more about China's ambitions to become a world leader in artificial intelligence, see Sophie-Charlotte Fischer's recent addition to our CSS Analyses in Security Policy series here. For more graphics on economics, see the CSS' collection of graphs and charts on the subject here.
War between China and the United States isn't inevitable, but it's likely: An excerpt from Graham Allison's Destined for War
Will Presidents Trump and Xi, or their successors, follow in the tragic footsteps of the leaders of Athens and Sparta or Britain and Germany? In his new Gelber Prize-nominated book, Allison says the omens are not good. In the run-up to the awarding of the Lionel Gelber Prize, the National Post presents excerpts from all five nominated books. The winner will be announced on March 13 and give a free public lecture on April 17, 2018 at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Today: Graham Allison on the historical signs that war between the United States and China is likely in the years to come.
The Rise of Islamist Groups in Malaysia and Indonesia
Malaysia and Indonesia, important U.S. partners and leaders in Southeast Asia, have been touted over the past two decades as model countries where Islam coexists with civil law. Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, founded the Global Movement of Moderates in 2010, an organization that seeks to unite countries to combat extremism and proffers Muslim-majority Malaysia as a tolerant nation. Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, has been held up as a leading global example of democratization. (I echoed this view in a 2013 CFR book, Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions.)
Made in America, But Lost in Iraq
BY DAVID AXE
The U.S. company that repairs Iraq's American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks has pulled many of its people from Iraq after at least nine of the armored vehicles ended up in the hands of pro-Iran militias. Now, many of Iraq's tanks are immobilized for want of maintenance, potentially jeopardizing the country's ongoing campaign against Islamic State militants. While the Islamic State has retreated from large swaths of Iraq it once controlled, mobile groups of militants continue to stage attacks on Iraqi troops and their allies. An Islamic State attack near the city of Hawija in mid-February reportedly killed 27 militiamen fighting for Baghdad.
Why is the world at war?
Jason Burke
We live in a world of trouble. Conflicts today may be much less lethal than those that scarred the last century, but this brings little comfort. We remain deeply anxious. We can blame terrorism and the fear it inspires despite the statistically unimportant number of casualties it inflicts, or the contemporary media and the breathless cycle of "breaking news", but the truth remains that the wars that seem to inspire the fanatics or have produced so many headlines in recent years prompt deep anxiety. One reason is that these wars appear to have no end in sight.
Russia Has Made Cyberwarfare, Disinformation and Internet Trolling Integral Parts of Its Military Strike Forces
Information Warfare: Fake News Is Old News
Since late 2016 there have been frequent accusations of Russia interfering in American elections. This was accomplished by using government directed messages to be posted, on a massive scale, in social media and other online sites. One aspect of this that didn't attract much media attention was that this technique, and its use by foreign governments in the United States, was nothing new. This sort of thing has been widely used on the Internet for over a decade and for generations before that there was "astroturfing" (creating fake "grass roots" support with a variety pre-Internet techniques) and more lavishly funded Soviet efforts called dezinformatsiya (disinformation) operations.
The Rise of China-Europe Railways
The Dawn of a New Commercial Era?
For over two millennia, technology and politics have shaped trade across the Eurasian supercontinent. The compass and domesticated camels helped the "silk routes" emerge between 200 and 400 CE, and peaceful interactions between the Han and Hellenic empires allowed overland trade to flourish. A major shift occurred in the late fifteenth century, when the invention of large ocean-going vessels and new navigation methods made maritime trade more competitive. Mercantilism and competition among Europe's colonial powers helped pull commerce to the coastlines. Since then, commerce between Asia and Europe has traveled primarily by sea.1
Time For a Trade War?
By Peter Zeihan
After a particularly… volatile week in the White House of Donald Trump, the administration announced March 1 trade tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum. Countries near and far almost immediately announced plans for counter-tariffs on American goods. Many, most notably the American president himself, are now openly talking about a global trade war. Trump went so far as to tweet "trade wars are good, and easy to win." Anti-Trump reactions among the media, corporate world and global elite has been – in a word – acidic. Similarly, markets haven't exactly taken news of a potential trade conflict with a ringing endorsement.
Putin on the nukes
Steven Pifer
Vladimir Putin devoted one-third of his March 1 state of the union speech to new Russian weapons systems, particularly nuclear weapons that could strike the United States. What he said is worrisome, in part because it suggests he remains obsessed with things nuclear at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are already tense. Remember, however, that the Russian presidential election takes place on March 18. Mr. Putin aimed his speech primarily at his domestic audience. With little to offer to improve the life of the average Russian, he opted to hype the American threat, show some shiny new missiles, and portray himself as defender of the Russian motherland.
The Differences Between Busy and Productive People
By Larry Kim
Here are some valuable insights into what productive unicorns do during their work week, and how they are way different from busy donkeys, inspired by Conor Neill. Busy people are hell-bent on fitting in more things into their day. Productive people cut their to-do list thoughtfully by 50 percent. Busy people think that getting more things done in the sanctioned eight or nine hours at work is the way to go. They fit in too many tasks in their to-do list only to end up moving most of their tasks the next day. Productive people know too well that they do not need 40 tasks in their to-do list. They take a less-is-more approach when it comes to planning their work day by only accomplishing those that are important.
America's Military Is Choking on Old Technology
BY LEO BLANKEN, JASON LEPORE, STEPHEN RODRIGUEZ
In a seminal 1958 article, Edward Katzenbach wrote about how militaries had been determined to maintain large horse cavalry formations well into the 20th century — "a capacity for survival that border[ed] on the miraculous" — despite overwhelming evidence from World War I that a cavalry charge on the modern battlefield was ludicrous. In the words of the last U.S. Army chief of cavalry, who insisted on maintaining tactical horses in the face of armored vehicles, "When better roller skates are made, Cavalry horses will wear them."
Meet Russia's trolls: From standup comic to a Siberian Jay Z
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — One tried his hand at standup comedy. Another wrote a psychological dissertation about loneliness among the elderly. A third, from eastern Siberia, studied economics and wildlife management, and was known to his work colleagues by the unlikely nickname of "Jay Z." They are among the 13 Russians indicted by a grand jury in Washington in a sweeping conspiracy to defraud the United States and its political system, including the 2016 presidential election, via bogus social media posts and other "information warfare." The indictment said they sought to support the campaign of Donald Trump and disparaged Hillary Clinton.
Why is America letting Russia get away with meddling in our democracy?
By FRED KAPLAN
The most remarkable thing about Russia's meddling in our democracy is that President Trump has done nothing about it. There are plenty of steps that he could have taken. There are people, including some working just steps away from the Oval Office who could have—and may have—advised him what to do. But Trump chose inaction. According to Monday's New York Times, the State Department was allotted $120 million in the past two years to counter Russia's "information warfare" against the West, but not a dime has been spent, in part because the office that runs such programs has no Russian speakers or computer experts, but mainly because Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has imposed a hiring freeze.
Europe Wants American Support for a Common Security Policy
Gabriela Marin Thornton Tobias Oder
The Treaty of Lisbon, which came into effect in 2009, introduced the "Permanent Structured Cooperation," also known as PESCO, as a "specific CSDP flexibility mechanism," for EU member states to increase their defense cooperation and mutual-security commitments. Article 42(6) of the Treaty on the European Union now states that "Those Member States whose military capabilities fulfil higher criteria and which have made more binding commitments to one another in this area with a view to the most demanding missions shall establish permanent structured cooperation within the Union framework." The permanent structured cooperation clause allows for differentiated integration on military and defense matters among EU member states. In other words, it allows for a cluster of EU states to create a common-defense policy.
The arrival of post-Putin Russia
Ivan Krastev and Gleb Pavlovsky
Russia's March 2018 election will mark the arrival of the post-Putin era in Russian domestic politics. Following the vote, Vladimir Putin will focus on shaping the new era, in a process he views not as a search for a successor but as a transfer of power from his generation to the "Putin generation" (comprising politicians who came of age during, and have been shaped by, his rule). Meanwhile, the behaviour of Russia's major political and economic players will be defined not by the president's presence in the system but by the expectation of his departure. Despite widespread expectations that the regime will undergo a major transformation, it is unlikely that post-Putin Russia will be an anti-Putin Russia. Moscow will likely maintain its current foreign policy objectives even after Putin's exit from the Kremlin, but without him Russia will probably be a weak international player.
Gagliano Giuseppe
There is no doubt that information warfare plays a fundamental role in today's economy and society. Furthermore, its importance has led to the emergence of a new form of conflict and therefore led to a change in reasoning. Our highly-digitalized economies and society obviously present significant windows of vulnerability linked to the fact that the modern economic system cannot but be open and fluid. At any rate, the concept of information warfare – as is widely known – emerges primarily from American publications and emerges in the moment in which the legitimacy of information has been placed under discussion in the American context. Required to deal with significant budget cuts, the leading US federal intelligence agencies have attempted to justify the preservation of their budget by emphasizing the importance of protecting the nation's economic security; and yet as early as the 90s, it had become clear that the logics of conflict present in the geopolitical sphere have been transferred to the context of the economic sphere in which nations must be capable of implementing strategies of dominance based on the control of both the information infrastructure and the flows of technological and economic knowledge.
The Flat Mind of Thomas Friedman
Helen Andrews
The French statesman Talleyrand famously observed about the Bourbons, "they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Something similar might be said about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Once upon a time he was the avatar of a new age of economic interdependence that would lead to global peace. No two countries that each had a McDonald's, he wrote, would ever go to war with each other. Then came the Balkans Wars in the 1990s. So much for the flat and interdependent world that Friedman purported to have discovered.
Blockchain is a pipe dream despite the hype
Nouriel Roubini Preston Byrne
Predictions that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will fail typically elicit a broader defence of the underlying blockchain technology. Yes, the argument goes, over half of all "initial coin offerings" to date have already failed, and most of the 1,500-plus cryptocurrencies also will fail, but "blockchain" will nonetheless revolutionize finance and human interactions generally. In reality, blockchain is one of the most overhyped technologies ever. For starters, blockchains are less efficient than existing databases. The required storage space and computational power is substantially greater, and the latency higher, than in the case of a centralized application. Blockchains that incorporate "proof-of-stake" or "zero-knowledge" technologies require that all transactions be verified cryptographically, which slows them down. Blockchains that use "proof-of-work", as many popular cryptocurrencies do, raise yet another problem: they require a huge amount of raw energy to secure them. This explains why bitcoin "mining" operations in Iceland are on track to consume more energy this year than all Icelandic households combined.
Danish defense minister: Deterring Russia on the cyber battlefield
By: Claus Hjort Frederiksen
The fact that Russia's aggressive cyberattacks are primarily meant to undermine the cohesion of Western societies and our partners — and above anything else create division and a rift within both NATO and the European Union — clearly stands out as a concern from this year's Munich Security Conference. The Russians are masters of distorting reality. One of the more bizarre episodes occurred when U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster was asked by a Russian expert if it was time to restart dialogue on cyber with reference to the high number of cyberattacks targeting Russia that allegedly originated in the United States, saying that only a few cyberattacks targeting the U.S. originated in Russia.
Hypervisibility: Mission Command's Unseen Adversary
by Fred E. Martin Jr. and Ronald D. Walck
In a galaxy much closer to home than we may think…
While observing his dismounted squad's every action through terminals via their body camera feeds, Lieutenant Gorman, from the safety and security of his infantry-fighting-vehicle-based command post, issues the following orders as his squad executes a mission and encounters the Xenomorphs. "I want a straight 'V' deployment, second team on the left flank." ... "Watch your spacing" … "What is that?" … "Proceed inside" … "Look. We can't have any firing in there. I, uh, I want you to collect magazines from everybody." … "Flame units only. I want rifles slung" … "Just do it Sergeant. And no grenades." Following the order, the Sergeant collects the ammunition for each squad member's primary weapon due to concern for damaging the facility. "Who's firing? God dammit, I ordered to hold fire." Shortly after the Xenomorph attack, the Lieutenant loses control of his squad while trying to command and control the squad, through terminals via body camera feeds, from the safety and security of his infantry-fighting-vehicle-based command post.[1]
False Flags in Cyberspace: Targeting Public Opinion and Political Will
LEVI MAXEY
Bottom Line: In the digital age, determining the origins of cyberattacks is already difficult, but cyber actors can further muddy attribution by diverting blame for attacks to others. The intention is not necessarily to trick intelligence services – who are able to access information beyond technical forensics of the hack – but rather undermine public confidence in attribution and therefore undercut political will to respond to belligerent activity in cyberspace. This appears to be the motivation behind Russian hackers imitating North Korean hackers when attempting to disrupt the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, according to the Washington Post.
Goodbye James Bond, Hello Big Data
Sir John Sawers
Just as the technological revolution has transformed how people live and do business, it has upended the often hidebound field of intelligence gathering. Where once the focus might have been on the savvy agent clandestinely dashing around the world, like James Bond, now it's on something far less sexy but no less vital: big data. "That [Bond] model, if it was ever true, is completely over," said Sir John Sawers, chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), known to fans of spy novels as MI6, from 2009 to 2014. "Now, the most important person in any intelligence service is the data analyst, because it's the data analyst who will tell you where the threats are coming from and where the opportunities are emerging that you as an intelligence agency can exploit."
Army Studies 30 Cities For Futures Command
"It's not going to be an 800-person command," Army undersecretary Ryan McCarthytold reporters. The plan is to "lease….a couple floors in a high-rise, as opposed to a massive building that we own." As technology and the economy changes, he added, the command may well need to move "10 to 15 years from now." The new HQ, he emphasized, needs to be small, unbureaucratic, and able to blend in to the hoodies-and-sneakers culture of civilian innovators from both the private sector and academe.
What the Gulf War Teaches About the Future of War
The Gulf War, codenamed Desert Storm, ended on February 28 1991 with the overwhelming victory of a coalition of states, spearheaded by the United States, against Iraq. In a Blitzkrieg-like ground assault, preceded by an extensive aerial bombing campaign, the United States and its allies expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait, killing 25,000-50,000 Iraqi soldiers and wounding over 75,000, while losing 292 killed and 467 wounded in action. It remains one of the most one-sided military victories in history. Rather than a modern battle between roughly evenly matched opponents, the Gulf War shares more in common in its outcome with, for example, the British defeat of the Mahdist forces at Omdurman, Sudan in 1898 during the heydays of European Imperialism, where the British killed and wounded over 25,000 against 48 dead and 382 wounded of their own.
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C/1985 K1 (Machholz) è una cometa non periodica scoperta il 27 maggio 1985, si tratta della seconda cometa scoperta dall'astrofilo statunitense Donald Edward Machholz.

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Secondo le effemeridi la cometa avrebbe dovuto raggiungere una magnitudine compresa tra la 4a e la 5a tra la fine di giugno e l'inizio di luglio 1985, in effetti la cometa, molto mal posizionata per le osservazioni in quanto estremamente vicina al Sole, dopo essere stata osservata di 7,6a nella prima metà di giugno non fu più osservata fino a quattro giorni prima del perielio quando fu osservata nell'infrarosso, raggiungendo la -2a nella banda dei 12,5 micron, dopo il passaggio al perielio ci fu un'unica osservazione da parte dell'astrofilo giapponese Tsutomu Seki che la osservò di 10,0-10,5a, riuscendo anche a fotografarla.

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The former 'Wizards of Waverly Place' star and his wife, Maria Cahill, welcomed their first child together, a girl named Pia, on March 19.
AceShowbiz - "Wizards of Waverly Place" star David Henrie is a new dad.
The 29-year-old former Disney Channel star and his wife, Maria Cahill, welcomed daughter Pia on Tuesday, March 19.
"It's been six decades since there's been a Henrie girl, so we are overjoyed to welcome little Pia Henrie into the world," the actor said.
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China's Central Bank Greenlights Hong Kong Bond Connect Scheme
The People's Bank of China has given the go-ahead to a long-anticipated initiative that will grant foreign investors greater access to the country's $9 billion bond market via Hong Kong.
The "Bond Connect" scheme will make a major contribution to the opening up of the Chinese capital account by allowing investors in Hong Kong and mainland China to invest in each other's bond markets.
The plan was first mooted back in 2014, followed the launch of a program to permit bi-directional trading between the Hong Kong and Shanghai bourses.
PBOC has indicated that the Bond Connect scheme will progress in separate phases, with a launch date yet to be announced.
The initial phase will only permit "Northbound" interbank bond market transactions made by foreign and Hong Kong-based investors in mainland Chinese bonds, and will place no cap on transaction volumes.
No timeframe has been given for when Chinese investors would be permitted to make "Southbound" investments in Hong Kong or overseas bonds.
Bond Connect will also abide by the existing framework for foreign investment in China's interbank bond market, allowing central banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to hawk or procure corporate bonds, Chinese sovereign bonds, local government bonds or policy bank bonds.
The China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) & National Interbank Funding Centre, China Depository & Clearing and Shanghai Clearing House will serve as the primary fixed income infrastructure providers on the mainland Chinese side, and work in collaboration with Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing (HKEX) and Central Moneymarkets Unit on the Hong Kong side.
CFETS and HKEX would be responsible for establishing an electronic bond trading mechanism for the scheme in conjunction with an international bond trading platform.
While some observers have hailed Bond Connect's likely positive impact upon Hong Kong's status as a financial gateway to China, others note that international investors have been able to directly tap into the Chinese interbank bond market since last year, yet have until now displayed little enthusiasm for its debt instruments due to concerns about exchange rate stability and capital outflow restrictions.
Foreign investment currently accounts for just 2% of the onshore Chinese bond market.
According to HKMA executive director Howard Lee, however, the Bond Connect could facilitate outside investment by providing a "new and convenient channel" that will spare outside parties the trouble of having to set up their own dealing accounts in mainland China.
PBOC Issues 25 Billion Yuan in Renminbi Central Bank Bills via Hong Kong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority Calls for Regulation of Cryptocurrencies
PBOC Governor Says Evergrande Debt Crisis Will Be Handled in Accordance with Market Principles and Rule of Law


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World Pro Ski Tour returns to its Aspen Mountain roots on the Little Nell ski run
Head-to-head racing takes place Saturday and Sunday
Austin Colbert
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Michael Ankeny, left, and Rob Cone compete in the World Pro Ski Tour stop at Granby Ranch in December. The WPST's second stop is this weekend in Aspen.
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Bringing professional ski racing back to Aspen Mountain was a meaningful and personal goal for World Pro Ski Tour CEO Jon J. Franklin.
The Little Nell ski run, which is the bottom-most pitch of the mountain, has seen its share of epic races over the years, a legacy the former Aspen resident is happy to bring back to the forefront.
"It's super inspiring to bring this race to Little Nell because the first races that I saw of World Pro Skiing were back in the early '70s on Little Nell when I was just a kid," Franklin told The Aspen Times on Friday. "My dad brought me out here and I got to see guys like Spider Sabich and Jean-Claude Killy race here in Aspen. Then, when I moved to Aspen in 1979, I remember going over to Buttermilk and watching World Pro Skiing there in probably '81 or '82. For me, it's a legacy project to bring this tour back to Aspen Mountain and particularly Little Nell."
The WPST is slated to make its return to Ajax this weekend, with head-to-head racing scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday. The event had originally been scheduled for Dec. 10-12 in Aspen, the tour's season opener, but it was pushed back to January due to a lack of early-season snow.
Granby Ranch then stepped in to host the first races of the season from Dec. 17-19, with Aspen now being the second of four planned stops on the tour this winter. Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs will host WPST races Feb. 13-15, while Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico will close out the season. Those dates have not yet been announced.
All told, there will be 11 total races, eight for men and three for women, with three of those 11 taking place this weekend in Aspen.
"We really love being at Little Nell and it looks great," Franklin said. "It's a great course. Little Nell is almost the classic race hill, really the classic pro tour race hill. We are super appreciative of the Aspen Skiing Co. to partner with us on this and allow us to bring pro skiing back to Little Nell."
The WPST is the latest iteration in a tour that dates back to 1969, when Aspen's own Bob Beattie helped found what was then called World Pro Skiing. The tour has attracted some of the sport's best stars over the years and is known for its unique head-to-head format, which puts two racers on the same course against each other at the same time. This is believed to be a more spectator-friendly form of competition compared to the standard World Cup affair, which is single racers competing against the clock.
However, the tour's popularity waned and it eventually folded in the 1990s. After two decades away, it was revived in 2017 as the World Pro Ski Tour and among its first stops that season was a visit to Snowmass Ski Area — home of the Spider Sabich Race Arena, named for the famed ski racer and former Aspen resident — in March 2018.
"Going to Snowmass was interesting and great because of the legacy of Spider Sabich, and they held it up at the Spider Sabich Race Arena. But not as many people could access it, obviously, as you can if you are finishing right into town," said Franklin, who took over as the tour's CEO ahead of the 2019-20 season. "For us to finish the race right in the heart of town is super important and super meaningful for not only us, but for our sponsors and for the TV networks and for everyone involved on the tour."
Franklin's first season with the tour was ultimately cut short after the pandemic shut down the ski areas early in spring of 2020. After a slow start last winter due to unknown rules and regulations surrounding the pandemic, they ultimately raced four times as part of a strong finish to the season.
This winter is the first under Franklin with a full schedule. It also includes a more robust sponsorship lineup and for the first time since its return will have a dedicated women's tournament. The Rocket Mortgage women's tour will make its debut Sunday on Aspen Mountain, with the top women earning the same payout as the men despite an overall smaller purse due to a smaller number of athletes.
That said, the de facto men's races on the WPST have always been "open" divisions, meaning women have always been allowed to compete head-to-head against the men, and still can. The three-race women's tour simply gives the female athletes their own division for the first time since the WPST's return.
Jon J. Franklin is the CEO of the World Pro Ski Tour.
"I grew up in a family where I had three sisters and they were all athletes, tennis players and ski racers and all that," Franklin said. "I love providing opportunity for women and it was important for us to have equal prize money for the women because their racing is just as exciting."
Among the most notable athletes expected to compete this weekend in Aspen are Vermont's Nolan Kasper, who competed in the past three Olympics with the U.S. ski team, and Aspen's own Wiley Maple, who started the 2018 Olympic downhill in Pyeongchang. Maple has since retired from World Cup racing, making the WPST his comeback, of sorts, on the professional level.
Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 10 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday on Aspen Mountain. The round of 16 (or round of 8 for the women) is scheduled to start around 1:30 p.m. both days, with finals expected to take place somewhere around 3 p.m.
Spectating is free from the base of the mountain and will include must-see views of the final jump ahead of the finish area.
"That third jump that you can see from gondola plaza looks big and massive," Franklin said. "It's going to be super exciting for the fans. They'll come off that third jump and then have a couple more gates and finish at high speed. The adrenaline will be pumping, for sure, and with the big screen TV you can watch the guys come right out of the start and come into view over that jump. We are super excited about it."
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CORPORAL HARPER VC
One of our most well known local heroes is, of course, Corporal J W Harper who was the only Yorkshireman to be awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II. He was born in Hatfield on 6 August 1916, the son of George Harper, himself a corporal in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War, serving on the Somme, Types and Loos. He attended Hatfield Woodhouse school and met and married a local girl, Lily Marshall. He enlisted into the York and Lancaster Regiment in 1940 and lost his life on 29 September 1944, aged 29, whilst in action in Depot-de-Mendicite, France and is buried in the Leopoldsburg British War Cemetery in Belgium. He was, therefore, awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. Corporal Harper's actions were recorded in the London Gazette as follows:- "The success of the Battalion in driving the enemy from the wall and back across the dyke must be ascribed to the superb self sacrifice and inspiring gallantry of Corporal Harper. His magnificent courage, fearlessness and devotion to duty throughout the battle set an example to his men, rarely equalled. Such conduct in the face of direct close range enemy fire could have but one result but before he was killed, Corporal Harper, by his heroism, had ensured success for his Battalion in a most important action. The success of the attack on the Depot de Mendicite can be fairly attributed to the outstanding bravery of Corporal Harper."
You can see a memorial to Corporal Harper in Hatfield Cemetery.
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Catalogue of Archives and Manuscripts Collections | National Library of Scotland | Search | Subject: Printed materials. Object genre., Subject: Voting registers.
'Registered Voters of the County of Roxburgh' (Jedburgh, 1832), with manuscript notes showing how each freeholder will vote or has voted., 1832.
Annotated registers of voters, arranged by polling station., 1832.
Voting register labelled 'Blairgowrie poll'., 1832.
Voting register labelled 'Bridge of Earn poll'; with one leaf of notes pasted in., 1832.
Voting register labelled 'Bridge of Earn poll'., 1832.
Voting registers labelled 'Bridge of Earn poll'., 1832.
'Register of voters in the county of Perth ... 1832 with list or division of the county into districts for polling', printed by J Taylor (Perth, 1832); interleaved for notes, but with no endorsements., 1832.
Printed Registers of Voters, County Bute, annotated by Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1868-1884.


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LDR Capital Management LLC Buys MGM Growth Properties LLC, The RMR Group Inc, Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc, Sells Hersha Hospitality Trust, UDR Inc, American Campus Communities Inc
LDR Capital Management LLC (Current Portfolio) buys MGM Growth Properties LLC, The RMR Group Inc, Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc, CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc, Cedar Realty Trust Inc, sells Hersha Hospitality Trust, UDR Inc, American Campus Communities Inc during the 3-months ended 2021Q3, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, LDR Capital Management LLC. As of 2021Q3, LDR Capital Management LLC owns 35 stocks with a total value of $166 million. These are the details of the buys and sells.
New Purchases: MGP, RMR, CORR, CDR,
Added Positions: BXMT, COLD, SLG, PLYM, RPT, GNL, CLDT, UBA, PK, AKR, AHH, CIO, OUT, OHI,
Reduced Positions: HT,
Sold Out: UDR, ACC,
For the details of LDR Capital Management LLC's stock buys and sells, go to https://www.gurufocus.com/guru/ldr+capital+management+llc/current-portfolio/portfolio
These are the top 5 holdings of LDR Capital Management LLC
SL Green Realty Corp (SLG) - 598,758 shares, 25.56% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 1.27%
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (BXMT) - 867,325 shares, 15.84% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 45.40%
MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP) - 277,528 shares, 6.40% of the total portfolio. New Position
Playa Hotels & Resorts NV (PLYA) - 1,199,883 shares, 5.99% of the total portfolio.
Global Net Lease Inc (GNL) - 542,419 shares, 5.24% of the total portfolio. Shares added by 1.60%
New Purchase: MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP)
LDR Capital Management LLC initiated holding in MGM Growth Properties LLC. The purchase prices were between $35.88 and $43.1, with an estimated average price of $39.21. The stock is now traded at around $40.640000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 6.4%. The holding were 277,528 shares as of 2021-09-30.
New Purchase: The RMR Group Inc (RMR)
LDR Capital Management LLC initiated holding in The RMR Group Inc. The purchase prices were between $33.2 and $46.34, with an estimated average price of $38.07. The stock is now traded at around $35.370000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 5%. The holding were 248,099 shares as of 2021-09-30.
New Purchase: CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc (CORR)
LDR Capital Management LLC initiated holding in CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. The purchase prices were between $4.12 and $6.62, with an estimated average price of $5.09. The stock is now traded at around $5.140000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 1.14%. The holding were 2,025,000 shares as of 2021-09-30.
New Purchase: Cedar Realty Trust Inc (CDR)
LDR Capital Management LLC initiated holding in Cedar Realty Trust Inc. The purchase prices were between $15.75 and $23.5, with an estimated average price of $18.05. The stock is now traded at around $21.705000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.32%. The holding were 24,562 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Added: Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (BXMT)
LDR Capital Management LLC added to a holding in Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc by 45.40%. The purchase prices were between $30.01 and $33.05, with an estimated average price of $31.75. The stock is now traded at around $32.535000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 4.95%. The holding were 867,325 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Added: RPT Realty (RPT)
LDR Capital Management LLC added to a holding in RPT Realty by 47.74%. The purchase prices were between $11.98 and $13.32, with an estimated average price of $12.75. The stock is now traded at around $13.690000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.09%. The holding were 35,900 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Added: Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT)
LDR Capital Management LLC added to a holding in Chatham Lodging Trust by 43.64%. The purchase prices were between $11.12 and $13.05, with an estimated average price of $12.02. The stock is now traded at around $12.700000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.07%. The holding were 31,600 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Added: Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc (UBA)
LDR Capital Management LLC added to a holding in Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc by 36.78%. The purchase prices were between $18.36 and $19.61, with an estimated average price of $19.1. The stock is now traded at around $20.100000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.07%. The holding were 23,800 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Added: Acadia Realty Trust (AKR)
LDR Capital Management LLC added to a holding in Acadia Realty Trust by 23.99%. The purchase prices were between $20.03 and $22.59, with an estimated average price of $21.1. The stock is now traded at around $22.610000. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.05%. The holding were 22,223 shares as of 2021-09-30.
Sold Out: UDR Inc (UDR)
LDR Capital Management LLC sold out a holding in UDR Inc. The sale prices were between $49.59 and $55.59, with an estimated average price of $53.39.
Sold Out: American Campus Communities Inc (ACC)
LDR Capital Management LLC sold out a holding in American Campus Communities Inc. The sale prices were between $47.24 and $51.99, with an estimated average price of $49.65.
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Spitzer spies a hot spot of star formation
30 August 2020 Astronomy Now
The nebula known as W51 is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. First identified in 1958 by radio telescopes, it makes a rich cosmic tapestry in this image from NASA's recently retired Spitzer Space Telescope.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE & MIPSGAL Teams.
Located about 17,000 light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Aquila in the night sky, W51 is about 350 light-years across. It is almost invisible to telescopes that collect visible light, because that light is blocked by interstellar dust clouds that lie between W51 and Earth. But longer wavelengths of light, including radio and infrared, can pass unencumbered through the dust. When viewed in infrared by Spitzer, W51 is a spectacular sight: Its total infrared emission is the equivalent of 20 million Suns.
If you could see it with your naked eye, this dense cloud of gas and dust would appear about as large as the full Moon. The Orion Nebula – another well-known star-forming region and a favourite for amateur astronomers – occupies about the same size area in the sky. But W51 is actually much farther from Earth than Orion and thus much larger, and it's about 75 times more luminous. While Orion contains four known O-type stars – the most massive stars in the Universe – W51 contains over 30.
"Star factories" like this one can operate for millions of years. The cavernous red region on the right side of W51 is older, evident in the way it has already been carved out by winds from generations of massive stars (those at least 10 times the mass of our Sun). The dust and gas in the region are swept around even more when those stars die and explode as supernovas. On the nebula's younger left side, many stars are just beginning to clear away the gas and dust in the same way the stars in the older region have done. It's apparent that many of these young stars are in the process of forming bubbles of empty space around themselves.
This image was taken as part of a major observation campaign by Spitzer in 2004 to map the large-scale structure of the Milky Way galaxy – a considerable challenge because Earth lies inside it. Called the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE), the survey also turned up valuable data on many wonders within the Milky Way, including images of multiple stellar factories like W51 that were hidden by dust from visible-light observatories.
"The really spectacular images provided by Spitzer via the GLIMPSE survey - in concert with data from many other, complementary telescopes – give us insight into how massive stars form in our Milky Way, and then how their powerful winds and radiation interact with the remaining ambient material," said Breanna Binder, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, who studies the life cycles of massive stars. "We can't observe star-forming regions in other galaxies in anywhere near the level of detail that we can in our own galaxy. So regions like W51 are really important for advancing our understanding of star formation in the Milky Way, which we can then extrapolate to how star formation proceeds in other, nearby galaxies."
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope launched 17 years ago on 25 August 2003. The spacecraft was retired on 30 January 2020.


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Häagen-Dazs x Sanrio Reusable Ice Cream Cups Let You Get Your Dessert & Kawaii Fix In One Serving
Sanrio Ice Cream Cups
Following the Häagen-Dazs x Sanrio Fondue Kit, Häagen-Dazs Hong Kong and Sanrio have released a new item to add to its growing collaborative collection: reusable ice cream cups. Like the other items in the series, the cups feature 3 popular Sanrio characters—Hello Kitty, My Melody and Pompompurin—to add a kawaii factor to your ice cream experience.
This time, the two companies are working with 7-Eleven Hong Kong to promote the ice cream cups. Each cup comes with a mini Häagen-Dazs tub.
Image courtesy of Häagen-Dazs Hong Kong
Open up the Hello Kitty cup and you'll find a mini tub of Häagen-Dazs Chocolate ice cream.
Since they are reusable, you can use the Sanrio ice cream cup as a decor piece to add to your Hello Kitty collection.
The My Melody cup comes with a tub of Strawberries & Cream ice cream that's just as sweet as the beloved cartoon character. It is palm-sized, which makes it easy to carry around with you, be it to carry ice cream or your Sanrio lip balm.
Häagen-Dazs x Sanrio Fondue Kit Stars Hello Kitty, My Melody Plus Pompompurin & Is Fit For Your Next Sleepover
Pompompurin is accompanied by a mini tub of Cookies & Cream ice cream, which is as close as it gets to his favourite snack, cream caramel pudding.
Along with the new ice cream cups, Häagen-Dazs Hong Kong and Sanrio have also introduced an Ice Cream Cake. If having to choose a favourite Sanrio character is a difficult decision for you, fret not. The new 311 Sanrio Characters Fabulous Party cake resembles a shopping bag and is split into 2 flavours: Strawberry and Cookies & Cream. It even has the 3 characters sitting atop the cake so you can literally have your cake and eat it too.
Häagen-Dazs Hong Kong And Sanrio Ice Cream Cups Are Perfect For Those With A Sweet Tooth
Simply looking at the cute characters accompanying you as you enjoy your ice cream will make the experience so much sweeter. Unfortunately, like the fondue kits, the ice cream cups are not available in Singapore at the moment. For now, get your sugar rush from the BTS x Häagen-Dazs series instead.
Cover: Courtesy of Häagen-Dazs Hong Kong
BTS' TinyTan x Häagen-Dazs Collab Lets ARMYs Cop Cooler Bags & Keychains Featuring The Miniature Members
By: Vivien Q
haagen dazs, hello kitty, my melody, pompompurin, sanrio, sanrio characters
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Like any other Gen Z Singaporean, I like watching anime, listening to K-pop and scrolling through TikTok.
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Holy Post Podcast
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426: Power, Freedom, and Identity with N.T. Wright
The most esteemed New Testament scholar alive today is back on the show! N.T. Wright discusses his new book about John's gospel, "Broken Signposts." Wright talks to Skye about two competing visions of power and freedom at work in the world today, and how the church sometimes fails to follow the right one.
He also unpacks how "identity" has become the dominant framework in our culture, how it's a reaction to colonialism, and the danger it poses to Christian unity. Also this week—Is America having a moral convulsion? David Brooks things so. The gang discusses his new article about what happens when we lose trust in America's institutions and in one another, and why the church could be the answer. Plus, Phil gets invited to a cookout, Christian wins another award, and Skye's dog vomits on his sofa.
Should Christians vote for Trump? Eric Metaxas vs David French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYk4-NdCz0
"America Is Having a Moral Convulsion":
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/
Episode 440: Southern Shame Culture & How to Fight Racism w/Jemar Tisby
Episode 439: Was the Capitol Attack a Christian Insurrection?
438: The Year that Unveiled Evangelicalism with John Fea
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