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- THE MAN IN SPANDAU #7 DEPARTMENT -
DNA Study Debunks Rudolf Hess Impostor Theory
A longstanding conspiracy theory that the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess was replaced by a doppelganger in prison has been debunked.
For years, there were rumours that the prisoner known as Spandau #7 at the Berlin jail was an impostor substituted in to take the place of the deputy Führer of the Third Reich.
But now scientists say analysis of blood samples from Spandau #7 and a living relative of Hess has put an end to the theory. The inmate was Hess after all.
"No match would have supported the impostor theory, but finally we got a match," said Prof Jan Cemper-Kiesslich, of the University of Salzburg, a co-author of the research.
On the night of May 10, 1941, a Scottish farmer named David McLean found a German Messerschmitt airplane ablaze in his field and a parachutist who identified himself as Captain Alfred Horn. McLean's mum was soon serving him a cup of tea by the cottage fireside, but their surprise guest was no ordinary Luftwaffe pilot. Incredibly, he was Rudolf Hess, a longtime Hitler loyalist, to say the least. Hess joined the Nazi party in 1920, stood with his friend Adolf Hitler at the Beer Hall Putsch, and served in Landsberg prison -- where he took dictation for much of Mein Kampf. As deputy Fuhrer, Hess was positioned behind only Hermann Goering in the succession hierarchy of the Nazi regime that had Europe firmly under the heel of its jackboot.
The Hess flight was remarkable in itself. He left an airfield near Munich in a small Messerschmitt fighter-bomber a little before 6 p.m., flying up the Rhine and across the North Sea. Hess displayed considerable skill by navigating such a course alone, using only charts and maps, on a foggy dark night over largely unfamiliar terrain—all while avoiding being shot down by British air defenses. By 10:30, Hess was over Scotland, out of fuel, and forced to bail out just 12 miles from his destination.
That unlikely site was Dungavel House, home of the Duke of Hamilton. Hess hoped to make contact with one of the highly placed British figures who, unlike Churchill, were willing to make peace with the Nazis on Hitler's terms. Hess believed that Hamilton headed a faction of such people and immediately asked his captors to be taken to him. But Hess was misinformed. Hamilton, who wasn't home that night but on duty commanding an RAF air base, was committed to his country and to its fight against Germany.
The unlikely envoy's mission quickly took a turn for the worse. When granted a meeting with Hamilton the next day Hess's pleas fell on deaf ears. Worse for Hess, he denied from the start that Hitler knew anything of his mission, which meant that the British afforded him none of the diplomatic respect to which he thought he'd be entitled. Instead he was imprisoned, and by the night of June 16, the obvious failure of his mission left Hess so mentally shattered that he attempted suicide by hurling himself down a flight of stairs.
Hess spent the war in British hands, confined in various locales including (briefly) the Tower of London and a military hospital at which he was even allowed guarded drives in the country. He was visited frequently by intelligence officers eager for secrets and by psychiatrists eager to plumb the Nazi mind—which in Hess's case increasingly showed serious signs of mental illness. The psychiatric examinations were rooted less in concern for Hess's mental health than in the hope that this fanatically devoted Nazi could provide them valuable insights about how the criminals ruling Germany, including Hitler himself, thought.
Hess was transferred back to Nuremberg for the post-war trials in October, 1945, where he escaped the hangman but was sentenced to life in prison. He spent the rest of his long life, 46 years, as Prisoner Number 7 in Spandau where he lingered long after the other Nazis were freed. Hess was the facility's only prisoner for more than 20 years, his term ending only when the 93-year-old was found hanging from a lamp cord in a garden building in August 1987. The suicide was denounced as a murder by those, including Hess's own son, who suspected he'd been silenced.
But an enduring rumour before Hess even reached Spandau was that the inmate was a doppelganger. The study's authors say his doctor at Spandau prison was among those who believed the theory, pointing to doubts about his journey to Scotland, his refusal to see relatives until 1969 and his "claimed amnesia".
The theory was also believed in the highest echelons of political life, including by the former US president Franklin Roosevelt. Hess's family, however, disputed the idea.
Writing in the journal Forensic Science International Genetics, Cemper-Kiedslich and colleagues report that their conclusion is based on analysis of a blood sample taken from Spandau #7 in 1982. The sample was hermetically sealed on a microscope slide kept for years for teaching purposes by another of the study's authors, Rick Wahl, a former US army pathologist.
It was a fortunate situation: Hess's body was disinterred and cremated in 2011 to avoid his grave becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
The team tracked down a distant male relative of Hess, whose identity they are careful to protect. According to the New Scientist, which first reported on the study, the man agreed to give a DNA sample and the team compared it with that of Spandau #7, looking at DNA markers across the genome..
Cemper-Kiesslich told the Guardian the key was to look particularly at the Y-chromosome. "Usually the DNA markers that are used for paternity testing don't work out for distant relatives. But on the other hand we knew that both sample donors [if Spandau #7 was Hess] shared a common paternal line," he said.
With Y-chromosomes passed down from father to son, that offered the possibility of a different analysis. "Persons with an unbroken paternal line display the same set of DNA markers on the Y chromosome," said Cemper-Kiesslich.
The authors say the people who carried out the analysis were unaware of the story of the samples until after the results were in.
The results showed that the two people from whom the samples were taken were more than 99.99% likely to be related.
"We are extremely sure that both samples [originate] from the same paternal line," Cemper-Kiesslich said. "The person the slide sample was taken from indeed was Rudolf Hess."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/22/dna-study-debunks-rudolf-hess
-imposter-theory
- SHIVERS IN THE SHALLOWS DEPARTMENT -
Some Weird Cases of Monsters in Ponds
By Brent Swancer
It sometimes seems that, in addition to the lake monsters said to populate many major lakes of the world, the smaller bodies of water get less attention. Yet there are plenty of very small lakes and ponds that also allegedly have their mysterious denizens, and it seems that one only needs a decent bit of water sitting there to spawn legends of things roaming about beneath the surface. While lake monsters like the Loch Ness Monster and other big hitters of its ilk get all of the attention, lets look at the little guys, and the more little known mystery beasts that allegedly call various ponds home.
One relatively well-known pond monster is said to have made its home at the small town of Churubusco, Indiana, at a place called Fulk Lake, which is actually more like a pond, located on a remote, rural farm in the area. The first main sighting of the strange creature came out in 1898, when the farmer named Oscar Fulk was out fishing there one day on property and said that the monstrosity had come bubbling up out of the murk to reveal an enormous, "prehistoric looking" turtle, with a head the size of a human's and a neck as "thick as a stovepipe." Whatever it was disappeared back into the muddy water and would not be sighted again for many years.
In 1948, two men named Ora Blue and Charley Wilson went out fishing on the lake and they too reportedly spotted a gargantuan turtle with a shell as big around as a car, which was enough to get the attention of authorities, worried that there could be something dangerous lurking under the placid surface. Shortly after this the owners of the lake at the time, the Harris family, also began to sight the giant turtle there from time to time, to the point that in March of 1949 Mr. Harris decided that he was going to try and capture the gigantic monster himself. To this end he meticulously set up an array of stakes and chicken wire in the area where it was most frequently seen, a stagnant cove only about 10 feet deep. Apparently the creature actually approached and circled though the brown depths, but did not fall for it and remained elusive.
In the meantime the media was having an absolute field day with the idea of some prehistoric monstrosity in the pond, calling it variously the Beast of Busco or just Oscar, and the search for the beast became an event that drew great curiosity, pulling in hundreds and then thousands of people who came to gawk, as well as reporters from all over the country, many of them who did not take any of it seriously at all. Harris and his friends ignored all of this, instead focusing on creating ever more sophisticated and elaborate traps to try and capture it, as well as a periscope-type device that allowed them to peer underwater in an attempt to catch sight of it. Harris was even able to procure a diving suit and try and actually literally walk down to the bottom, a plan that was thwarted by a leaky mask. Other divers were also getting in on all of this, but the extremely poor visibility down there meant the beast could have been sitting in the silt and muck right in front of them and they'd never know.
The search was half-media circus and half-joke to a lot of people, generating several hoaxes such as a couple of men who claimed to have captured it and then offered a sea turtle head as evidence. All of the trickery and lack of results meant that media interest faded, but Harris was still hard at work, getting increasingly desperate to prove that it was really there, using dynamite charges and even attempting to drain the whole lake of its water. As the water began to flow out, there was a spike of public interest once again, as people just couldn't resist the curiosity of seeing what would be lying there on the exposed muddy bottom, and crowds began to flock there once more. During this time there were some onlookers who claimed to have seen the beast, one even saying that they had seen it eat a duck. Alas, the efforts to drain the lake failed when the nearby dam to which they had been diverting water broke, and the pump they had been using broke down. The lake was now just a muddy sliver of water, but it could be drained no further.
Desperate and seeing the end of his quest so near, Harris and company tried dredging the bottom of the depleted pond, but rain would gradually fill the lake once again before they could finish. All of this had not come cheap, and considering what a money pit the search for the Beast of Busco had become Harris finally threw in the towel. The Beast of Busco would then fall into obscurity, and it is still unknown if there was ever anything there at all, although it has been speculated that it must surely have been an outsized and very out of place alligator snapping turtle. As to why it has not been seen since, theories run from that has died to that it escaped via an underground tunnel system, perhaps the same one that had allowed it to get into the pond in the first place. We will probably never know. Whether it really ever existed or not, interestingly the town of Churubusco to this day still has an annual festival dedicated to the beast, called "Turtle Days," where one can enjoy all manner of turtle themed activities.
Also in the U.S. is an alleged pond monster that seems to be pretty mired in folklore but is still interesting nonetheless. In the northeast portion of state of Maine there is a tiny pond called Boundary Pond, which according to reports going back centuries is home to a curious creature called the Billdad. This strange creature is said to be about the size of a beaver, with powerful hind legs like those of a kangaroo, which allow them to supposedly jump vast distances, as well as webbed feet, a thick, flat tail, and a vicious looking curved beak. It supposedly lies in wait for prey at the water's edge and when a fish surfaces it will stun it by slapping the water with its tail. The creatures were supposedly often seen by woodsmen and lumberjacks, and their meat is said to be poisonous.
In the state of Indiana we have a creature purportedly sighted at a place called "Lakeside," at its tranquil Rose Gardens and its pond. According to a report on the site Cryptozoo-ocity, in 2010 witness Hannah Ramsey was walking her dog near the pond when she had quite the bizarre encounter indeed. As she passed the water, she noticed some sort of "fish-like" creature lurking near the shore, of which she says:
It was really weird. It had a snake's tail. It was really long and really big in the middle and it had fish scales. It stayed there for a couple of minutes, but it wouldn't turn so I could see its face. It was acting like it was strangling a fish or something.
Whatever this thing was has apparently been seen before, as a photographer named Lerry Kenner also says he saw something peculiar at the pond, something snake-like, of which he reported:
It looked bigger than a snake. It had a lot of girth. But it was long. Some friends say, 'Oh, that's a carp, but it kind of slithered through the water.
Kenner managed to snap a photograph of the mysterious creature, and when he posted it to his Facebook page people began to come out of the woodwork claiming to have seen the same thing, although employees in the area have reported nothing amiss. Moving out of the United States we come to a rather infamous pond in Japan with its own purported monster, called Takanami Pond, in Niigata prefecture. The pond itself lies 540 meters (1,722 feet) above sea level in a wilderness area, and is known for its pristine wilderness, camping, and hiking trails. It is also allegedly home to an enormous fish locals affectionately refer to as the Namitaro.
The fish is said to be between 2 to 4 meters (6.5 to 13 feet) in length and covered in large scales. The Namitarou rarely comes to the surface, but is known to startle people strolling along the pond from time to time. Fishermen have also claimed on occasion to have caught the beast, only to have it break their lines. One report of a more close encounter described how a man had entered waist high water in the pond to retrieve something he had dropped. As he blindly felt through the murky water and silt at the bottom, his hand came up against what he took at first to be a large log at the bottom. It was only when this "log" suddenly began to swim away that he realized it was some incredibly large fish. The mysterious fish was so large and powerful that the sweep of its tail as it swam off actually bumped into the man and knocked him down. The man described being terrified, and quickly exited the water to see a large wake as whatever it was sank into the depths. The pond is an odd place for such a large cryptid, as it is small and shallow, being only 13 meters at its deepest point. In addition, the area is quite popular for its hiking and camping, and there are many campgrounds, parks, shops, and restaurants in the vicinity of the pond.
The Namitaro has become somewhat of a legend in the area, and most people who pass through pause at the pond hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive creature or the large wakes and waves it is said to produce as it cruises under the surface. These waves are so well-known that indeed the name Namitaro is a combination of the Japanese words for "wave," nami, and Taro, a common Japanese first name, sort of like "John" for Westerners. It has been speculated that the Namitaro could be a specimen of a large species of Asian carp, such as the grass carp or black carp, that has somehow been released into the pond and grown to epic proportions. These species of carp get to very large sizes that are comparable to what people have seen in the pond. The black carp, for instance, can reach up to 6 feet in length and weigh over 200 pounds. An even larger species, the Siamese giant carp, can get up to around 10 feet long.
These have just been a few cases of many of very strange things lurking within the smallest of bodies of water. It shows that one does not necessarily need an expansive lake and miles of shoreline to have instances of something strange in the water, and one wonders how these things came to be and how they can remain so hidden, indeed if they are even real at all. One thing is for sure is that the water draws us and the mysteries of what lie beyond that reflective surface seem to invite tales of the unknown. Whether any of these creatures ever really existed at all, it is fascinating all of the same, and adds to the lore of cryptozoology in their own unique way.
Source: Mysterious Universe
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/01/some-weird-cases-of-monsters-in-ponds/
- PATENTS FOR FLYING SAUCERS DEPARTMENT -
Alexander Weygers "Discopter"
By Ernie Smith
Early in the summer of 1947, an amateur pilot from Idaho named Kenneth Arnold spotted something in the Washington skies that kind of blew his mind.
Despite the skies being clear that day, he saw a series of nine flashes of horizontal light. He landed, told others what he saw, and his story spread through the popular consciousness, taking on a life on its own, as well as a name—the flying saucer.
Two weeks later, a much more famous incident in Roswell, New Mexico, involving a weather balloon (if you believe what the government tells you), further cemented the idea of the flying saucer in the public consciousness.
Not long after, hobbyists of all kinds suddenly felt inspired make their own—and they've been flooding the patent offices globally ever since.
But the guy who got to the U.S. Patent Office first, surprisingly, wasn't actually inspired by the popular perception of the UFO at all. He had the idea, in fact, years before Kenneth Arnold took his fateful flight.
The Dutch painter and sculpture artist Alexander Weygers, who grew up in the Dutch East Indies—now Indonesia—and spent most of his adult life in the U.S., was something of a 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci. He had both an engineering and artistic background, and his work spanned sculpture, illustrations, photography, and many other fields.
In 1927, he conceptualized a device that predicted the infatuation with flying saucers before they even had that name. And as an engineer, he did so with a practical eye toward the failings of the device he hoped to replace.
"Helicopters are vulnerable," he said in an interview with UPI in 1985. "People were being killed in them during the 1920s. They go down like a brick. The saucer became the logical answer."
His creativity was driven by tragedy. In 1928, his wife died during childbirth, as did his son. The painful incident ended up pushing him closer to art, with the losses inspiring some of his most notable sculptures.
A similar tragedy—the capture of his family, still in the Dutch East Indies, by Japanese forces during World War II—pushed him in the early 1940s to complete his saucer project, which he had first started in the 1920s. He called the device a "Discopter."
The idea was inspired not by spaceships or science fiction, but by a practical desire to create a vehicle that could be used to rescue people in incidents not unlike the one that faced his family members. His frame of reference was his own prior work.
He filed for a patent in 1944, and that patent was granted the next year. A key passage from that patent:
To a helicopter, a craft constructed on the principles of my invention bears a superficial resemblance in that both types are sustained by at least one horizontal rotor. From this point on, however, all similarity between the two types of flying craft ends. A craft embodying my invention is distinguished from a helicopter in that the rotor or rotors in my craft are enclosed within a substantially vertical tunnel, the rotor regarded as a whole is mainshaftless and the external form of the craft is not very different from the familiar discus of the athlete, in common with which the craft enjoys certain aerodynamic advantages characteristic of the passage of the discus thru the air. Not only the rotors and power plant compartments but all of the usual moving and fixed protruding parts, present in both airplanes and helicopters, such as stabilizing and directing means and otherwise, are entirely enclosed within the strikingly simple and cleanly streamlined contour line of the craft when regarded from exteriorly thereof in any elevation view, thereby concealing from the casual view such parts.
Alexander Weygers wasn't trying to invent the flying saucer. He was trying to reinvent the helicopter, along with aviation in general, so that it could be used more practically. (It should be noted that the device was never built.)
But the existence of everything that came afterwards meant that his name would forever be associated with futurism and science fiction, elements that didn't actually inspire his invention.
Soon after the flying saucer hit the public consciousness in the late 1940s, people noticed what Weygers had done. A 1950 article in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Morning Call, dedicated column space to a dentist named Dr. Harold T. Frendt, who used the existence of the patent to argue against the existence of aliens. Frendt suggested that the patents were being used to create these saucers, despite his only evidence being Weygers' patent.
"They should be operated at high altitudes instead of exposing them for observation to the general public and the pro-communistically inclined, and thereby stimulating a trend of foolish speculation," Frendt told the newspaper at the time.
During his service in the army Weygers was given a Carmel Valley property where, over several decades, he and his wife, Marian, would build a retreat with a residence and studios, while he pursued his career teaching at Berkeley.
Marian Weygers, his second wife, had graduated from the University of California at Berkeley as an art major where she worked and studied under Chiura Obata, who taught her the ink wash painting and design. She developed a printmaking process that she named "imprints from nature", using natural materials such as flowers, leaves, and grass as well as rocks and insects.
Alex and Marian Weygers relocated to the Monterey Peninsula in the 1960s and settled into their former retreat in Carmel Valley that then served as their home and studios. This was the location of his death at the age of eighty-seven. Marian remained very active in environmental and civic issues in Carmel Valley until her death in 2008.
Source: Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-saucer-patents-alexander-weygers
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- SECRET BLACK PROJECTS DEPARTMENT -
UFOs, Warp Drives, Stargates - Pentagon's Secret Research
The United States Defence Intelligence Agency has one great fear: that someone, somewhere, has an unknown advantage … a secret weapon that could topple the world's sole superpower from its perch. So when it hears talk of UFOs, stargates and warp drives — it takes it seriously.
Seriously enough to spend some serious money on.
Documents released under a freedom of information request confirm the DIA went full "X-Files" and established teams to examine almost every seemingly outlandish idea it encountered.
Now Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy director Steven Aftergood has gotten his hands on some previously classified papers that reveal just how far the DIA was prepared to go.
The declassified documents don't reveal a whole lot more than the titles assigned to 38 secret research programs. But they do detail some of the speculative subjects that were being investigated.
Aftergood wasn't impressed.
"I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defence Intelligence Agency was thinking," science and technology blog Motherboard reports Aftergood as saying. "These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with."
BLACK PROJECTS
Nuclear-powered deep space propulsion. Invisibility cloaking. Wormholes through space. Biomaterials.
The existence of research projects involving the likes of NASA, DARPA and private firms probing these subjects are already widely known. But their potential ties to US Defence Department 'black money' was not.
For example, in 2008 it was revealed NASA had engaged in serious studies of the potential for interstellar warp drive engines. Another science paper was released by researchers Harold White, titled Warp Field Mechanics 101. But a follow-up project to create a warp field by NASA's Jet Propultion Laboratory in 2013 produced "inconclusive" results.
From the outset it seemed a farfetched idea for NASA to be studying. But not so much if prodded — and funded — by the DIA.
And they have competition.
Icarus Interstellar director and theoretical astrophysicist Richard Obousy is also looking into the idea of interstellar warp drives powered by dark energy through alternate universes. But he's also branching out into the slightly more practical idea of nuclear propulsion, among others.
Stargates leapt into the public conscious out of nowhere with the release of the 1994 movie Stargate, and the follow-up long-running TV series of the same name.
We don't even know if wormholes actually exist. But EarthTech International Inc hasn't hidden the fact it's been looking into the idea of creating one capable of traversing space and time. "Our research interests include theories of space-time, gravity and cosmology; studies of the quantum vacuum; modifications of standard theories of electrodynamics; interstellar flight science; and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, specifically as these topics may apply to developing innovative space propulsion and sources of energy," its website boasts.
And a multitude of studies, from just as many sources, have been exploring ways of turning Harry Potter's invisibility cloak into reality.
'ANOMALOUS AEROSPACE THREATS'
"I loved science fiction when I was younger," Aftergood told Motherboard. "Today I love good government. So I was not especially amused."
US politics is a murky affair. Particularly when it comes to spending defence funs. For example, military bases aren't necessarily placed where they're needed. Instead, they often go into the electorates of the most powerful lobbyists.
And the DIA's secret research funding appears no different.
The New York Times reported in 2017 that much of the Pentagon's $US22 million of 'black money' research into UFOs was untraceable.
The Anomalous Aerospace Threats unit lasted just five years before it was shut down in 2012. And not all of its spend was classified 'top secret'.
Turns out, much of the money was channelled through then Senate majority leader Democrat Harry Reid to his close friend, Robert Bigelow — an alien visitation conspiracy theorist also involved in developing space habitats for NASA.
Source: News
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/ufos-warp-drives-stargates
-freedom-of-information-query-reveals-secret-list-of-pentagon-research-projects/
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- HEY I'M WALKING HERE DEPARTMENT -
Truck Driver Claims Yowie Bashed His Truck
By Robyn Wuth
A Queensland truckie claims he eye-balled a hulking 3-metre tall Yowie in broad daylight before it punched his bonnet and melted into the bush.
The delivery driver, identified only as Gary, says he was driving in the bushy Gold Coast hinterland on a November morning last year when he rounded a sharp right bend at Witheren and had the experience of his life.
He slammed on his brakes after spotting what he thought was a boulder tumbling down a steep slope and onto the road. But then it moved.
Gary says he watched as the creature unfurled huge, hairy limbs and stood upright before locking eyes with him through the truck's windscreen.
"It wasn't a rock at all," Gary has told Yowie hunter Dean Harrison in an interview shared on social media.
"This thing scared the absolute crap out of me."
He said the creature was a towering beast, its navel level with the truck's bonnet 6-feet (1.8 metres) off the ground. And he reckons it would have weighed close to 400kg.
At first the Yowie - with its small head and over-sized body - seemed somehow shocked or embarrassed as it stood in the full glare of day at 10am on that November morning.
But then it got mad.
"He slapped, or punched the centre of the bonnet of my truck. It was like I had hit a small car," the truckie said.
"He was so tall, he had to reach down to hit the truck. Just before he hit the truck, he grunted. It wasn't a scream or a cry, or a howl but a loud grunt.
"It was hairy, it had hair probably two inches long all over its body ... It had a round face, like a chimpanzee."
While Gary was still trying to make sense of what he was seeing, the creature turned and vanished into the bush.
Gary does not want to be identified, fearing being labelled a "loon".
Mr Harrison, the yowie hunter, understands that but he's not bothered by those who doubt the Yowie's existence.
He's sure they are out there, having tracked scores of sightings across Australia for the past 20 years. He says he's even been attacked by a Yowie not once, but twice.
As far as Yowie sightings go, Gary's is a good one, Mr Harrison says.
"This is astounding, he had such a clear view of it. Amazing," he told AAP, adding the truck driver got such a good look at the creature that he was able to draw it.
He says his years of tracking work indicate Yowies are most likely to be spotted along the Great Dividing Range, with the Blue Mountains the nation's hotspot for encounters.
"People chose not to believe it but that is of no consequence to me - we believe based on the facts we are presented with. People should be vigilant and aware these things do exist."
Mr Harrison said park rangers had reported close encounters and strange activity in the bush that they could not explain.
WHAT IS A YOWIE?
There is no proof that Yowies exist. There is no hard evidence, no specimens, no bones, but plenty of reported sightings.
But similar sightings have been reported all over the world, where these creatures are also called Sasquatch, Yeti or Bigfoot.
In Australia, it's the Yowie. But their existence hasn't been conclusively proven or verified by science and most stories rest on folklore or eyewitness reports.
The Yowie has roots in Aboriginal oral history and according to folklore, is a creature of the Outback.
The Kuku Yalanji Tribe of far north Queensland claims to have coexisted with the Yowie for centuries. They have a long and detailed history of attacks by the Yowie in their legends.
The Yowie is the Australian equivalent of the US Sasquatch of Native American tribal lore.
WHAT ABOUT THE SO-CALLED SIGHTINGS?
Yowie hunter Dean Harrison claims there have been thousands of sightings of the Yowie - or "hairy man" -
The first 'official' Yowie report was made in Sydney in 1790.
WHERE ARE THE MOST RECENT SIGHTINGS?
The Blue Mountains in NSW is a hub for reported Yowie sightings, followed by the Sunshine and Gold coasts in Queensland. Reported sightings have also increased recently in Western Australia around the Mandurah area.
They're apparently adept at blending into the bush and prefer the eastern seaboard along the Great Dividing Range.
They can range large distances, but Mr Harrison says the Yowie does have a 'home' territory and operates in family units.
WHY HAVE NO BODIES BEEN FOUND?
Mr Harrison believes Yowie family groups operate as a community to take care of their dead.
Source: The West
https://thewest.com.au/news/offbeat/truck-driver-claims-yowie-bashed-his-bonnet
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"Ancient" Stone Circle Actually Built in 1990s
An "ancient" stone circle discovered in rural Scotland last year and thought to be thousands of years old was actually built in the 1990s by a local farmer.
Archaeologists in Aberdeenshire were thrilled last year after they discovered what was thought to be another recumbent stone circle, which typically date back to 3,500 to 4,500 years ago and are unique to northern Scotland.
The historical find was first reported in December by a landowner in the parish of Leochel-Cushnie, and crews were dispatched to the area for further research.
"Archaeologists were initially excited about the addition of another recumbent stone circle to the many already identified in Aberdeenshire," the local government said in a statement. "But during further investigation into the site in the parish of Leochel-Cushnie it transpired that it is a replica only around 20 years old."
As the British Press Association notes, the circle formation was considered unusual for its small diameter and relatively small stones. Turns out, the former owner of the farmland where the "discovery" was found admitted to building it as a replica in the mid-1990s.
"It is obviously disappointing to learn of this development, but it also adds an interesting element to its story," Aberdeenshire council member Neil Ackerman said in a statement. "That it so closely copies a regional monument type shows the local knowledge, appreciation and engagement with the archaeology of the region by the local community."
According to the council, recumbent stone circles have a defining feature, a large horizontal stone (the recumbent) flanked by two upright stones, and they're usually situated between the southeast to southwest of the circle.
The council noted that it's extremely rare to find undocumented circles in this day and age.
"I hope the stones continue to be used and enjoyed – while not ancient it is still in a fantastic location and makes for a great feature in the landscape," Ackerman.
In any case, the '90s definitely produced some solid rock.
Source: Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/4871174/scotland-stone-circle-built-1990s/
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This thesis is an investigation into artists, mostly circa the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist periods who traveled and the influence their locations have on their artwork. Eugene Delacroix and his paintings The Death of the Sardanapalus and The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage is discussed as a starting point for being one of the first artists to garner inspiration from his travels and incorporate it into his artwork. Vincent Van Gogh is used as an example of an artist who was impacted emotionally by his environment, which was then expressed via his paintings. Paul Gauguin is discussed as the archetype of artists who travel, using his location as a direct influence and subject matter. Finally, Henri Matisse lauds the benefits of travel as inspiration and character improvement. Two or three of their respective artworks are briefly analyzed by how their travels influenced their artwork. In addition, the author examines her own experiences traveling to foreign countries and created six canvases in an attempt to capture her own impressions and immediate associations of the countries. The foreign countries separately depicted in each of the six canvases include Spain, Mexico, Jamaica, Canada, France, and the United States.
Raap, Amber, "Traveling Artists: The Influence of Location on Artwork" (2012). Honors Theses. 43.


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ESCWA is committed to creating a region-wide networking and partnerships platform with public and private-sector stakeholders to foster science, technology and innovation (STI) in the region. Tools being mobilized include the promotion of technology transfer, and science diplomacy and technology matchmaking.
ESCWA will also advocate for member LDCs to benefit from the United Nations Technology Bank for LDCs that will be based in Turkey. The bank is seen as a mechanism to help LDCs to build a robust STI base by improving their access to and use of technology.
The ESCWA Technology Centre runs a project to foster innovation through dynamic policies and the creation of national technology transfer offices linked to universities and research institutions and designed to facilitate partnerships with local industry, government and multinational corporations seeking local partnerships. ESCWA intends to establish such offices in member States that request them.
Tunisia: National Agency for Scientific Research Promotion, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Morocco: National Centre for Scientific Research and Technology (CNRST)
Egypt: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)
Lebanon:The National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Oman: The Research Council (RC)
ICC and United Nations launch Centre of Entrepreneurship in Beirut to support small businesses in the Arab region
Experts discuss Artificial Intelligence at ESCWA
Lebanese Minister launches Open Government workshop, commends ESCWA presence in Lebanon
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Review of Information and Communications Technology for Development in the Arab Region Issue No. 21

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Some netrunner cards are blatantly powerful, no one would disagree that Astroscript Pilot Program is pound for pound, a more powerful card than Braintrust. The game would be boring if every card comparison was this easy – two things bring power disparity between similar cards in line.
With the case of Astroscript, it's "balanced" and contextualized by the other cards that can be played beside it. You can't play astroscript outside of NBN, very often players need to find "the next best thing" in their non nbn 3/2 slots.
Some cards balance themselves by asking the player to make a trade-off. 10 credits for 2 tags, 1 bad publicity for 5 extra credits, etc. These are the most interesting cards, because they dare players to mitigate their drawbacks or even turn them into advantages.
The deck that our group designed takes on that particular challenge with respect to the most swingy 3/2 agenda of all time: Accelerated Beta Test.
Only fire beta tests with Jackson on the table, after using a precognition, when Jupiter is in retrograde, and only if you are losing is a common approach to the card. Every player who has ever played HB has felt the pain of a failed beta test, and known the thrill of a game saving successful test.
It's like getting handed a slice of sheet cake at an office party, you might end up with a center slice of the yellow part with a thin film of white icing on top like some depressing cupcake, or you might get an all chocolate corner glory-piece festooned with twists of ganache. What are you going to get? Will this make me fat?? Is this gluten free?? Nobody knows!
But hold! – What if I told you that there was a card that put the cake spatula in YOUR hands. Plus it's in faction, rezzes for 1 and costs the same to get rid of as an NAPD is to steal.
Install-advance ABT is a glacier power play because it could be an NAPD, it could even be a Priority Requisition that you will biotic next turn, and if it isn't you get to score a 3/2 and use your last click to install another 3/2 to score, extending your scoring window if the circumstances are right.
Team Sponsorship does all that work for you, and it even helps you tutor for the next beta test and put it into play the same turn. That's more tempo than Kasparov's Bxd5 in game 4 against Topalov at Wijk aan Zee in 1999!
In the goal of making ABT the best card in the deck, ICE rather than combos is the main consideration. When it's all said and done, you still always want at least 1 ICE when you score a test. 22 ICE is a good number for NEXT Design decks to get frequent 2-3 click starts – we want our ICE suite to be as close to that number as possible in order to get the strongest beta tests.
At the same time, the quality of ICE matters a lot. The better your ICE, the more powerful your beta tests can be, and the more value you get out of the free installs, easily setting up 5 deep no-win servers. Playing a lot of rush ICE makes it easy to land the first beta test, but when you have 5 agenda points to go and a 3 quandary remote, it can be a long slog to match point.
The final consideration before finalizing an ICE suite and fleshing out the rest of the deck is: how does my deck function when my opponent knows how to play around my strategy? Keeping Jacksons off of HB's table is really standard procedure to make it unsafe for them to beta test – now we're mixing in 3 additional high trash cost cards that serve a similar function.
Allowing this deck to have live team sponsorships is a recipe for disaster. It is a must-trash card, it is an NAPD worth 0 points.
Fusion-Haa's accelerated playtest team attacked the shell of this deck from all angles, after about 6 weeks of testing, we found that a set of mid-range ICE with high individual value pieces was the optimum suite for the current environment.
Because we are getting more card draw from ABT, and it is easier to pick out the agendas we want to score. 3 NAPDS are played to double down on the asset tax and because scoring one off of the table isn't a big deal for this deck like it is for others.
One Vitruvious over 2 The Future is Now for deck space concerns, I would play 3/1s if I were running a different agenda suite. TFN is a great card, but without a fast advance shell, it didn't pull it's weight and had to go.
Priority Requisition gives the deck some consistent speed, the ability to end a game in 2 turns with only 1 card as opposed to 2-3 cards like in all 2 pointer decks, is very valuable. Pri Req generates more instant value than any other 5/3. Hades Fragment is anti-synergy for the deck, and the game should never go long enough that it's ability matters. Obviously, global food initiative is insane for this deck.
Crick, guards archives for cheap, must break, turns off sec testing, early dirty laundry, data leak, sneaks, installs pri-req when noise tries to steal it.
This is a high variance deck, and the ICE reflects that. There aren't enough ICE that generate instant value, so we fill out the ICE by using All of the best value ICE and some quality pieces that can safely be rezzed early without much cost like Enigma and Wall of Static.
The first cracks at this deck were running SSCG, and I found the cost to be too prohibitive to rez for the deck to flow. @Jdalart brought us over the design hump by adopting Breaker Bay Grid as a hedge fund you can architect into play. Keeping the deck high on cards that can be cheated into play is the name of the game. Biotic Labor didn't make the cut as an agenda stop-gap – late game scores are going to be off of the backs of Ash and Caprice if all else fails.
The remainder of the deck follows up with recurring hate cards like Caprice, Ash, Cyberdex and Crisium Grid, and economy cards that tax and sidestep account siphon for you.
Team Sponsorship is a big game changer, play 3 copies, expect them to be killed on sight – your game unfolds like a regular HB glacier deck with you having a leg-up in economy when your opponent is respecting the snowball.
Yes Whizzard is good against this deck, we know. Everyone playing Whizzard please raise your hands.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can play HB.
Dank, Fusion-haa, HB: ETF, Team Sponsorship.


The date of Labor Day in 2014 is on Monday, September 1st.
Labor Day 2014 typically serves as a day of rest and signals the end of the summer season, while Memorial Day signals the start of the summer season. Labor Day also signals the start to the National Football League's (NFL) and National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) football seasons. Common ways to celebrate Labor Day are picnics, bar-b-ques, fireworks, and public social events and gatherings.
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Q: Right use of "follow up" phrase I've read an article on something from my line of work and I would like to contact the journalist who wrote it and send him results of the research I've done which is closely related to what he wrote about.
I was thinking about sending him an email with the research but I'm not sure about the subject line.

Can I write "Follow up on your article about x"?

Is this the right way to use "follow up" phrase?

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follow something ↔ up (phrasal verb)

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The police take people's statements and then follow them up.

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If there is no response to your press release, follow it up with a phone call.
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OpEdNews Op Eds 6/29/2013 at 12:11 AM EDT H3'ed 6/29/13
Kerry and Chutzpah
By Uri Avnery (Page 1 of 3 pages) 2 comments
Reprinted from Gush Shalom
IF YOU happen to bump into John Kerry at Ben Gurion Airport, you may wonder whether he is coming or going. He may well be wondering himself.
For many weeks now he has been devoting most of his precious time to meetings with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, trying to get these two people together.
It is about half an hour's car ride between the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem and the Palestinian President's Mukata'ah in Ramallah. But the two are more distant from each other than the Earth and Mars.
Kerry has taken it upon himself to bring the two together -- perhaps somewhere in outer space. On the moon, for example.
TOGETHER FOR what?
Ah, there's the rub. The idea seems to be a meeting for meeting's sake.
We have watched this procedure for many years. Successive American presidents have undertaken to bring the two sides together. It is an American belief, rooted in Anglo-Saxon tradition, that if two reasonable, decent people get together to thrash out their differences, everything will fall into place. It's almost automatic: meet -- talk -- agree.
Unfortunately, it does not quite work this way with conflicts between nations, conflicts that may have deep historical roots. In meetings between leaders of such nations, they often just want to hurl old accusations at each other, with the aim of convincing the world that the other side is utterly depraved and despicable.
Either side, or both, may be interested in prolonging the meetings forever. The world sees the leaders meeting, the mediator and the photographers working hard, everybody talking endlessly of peace, peace, peace.
I remember a Scandinavian gentleman named Gunnar Jarring. Remember him? No? Don't blame yourself. He is eminently forgettable. A well-meaning Swedish diplomat (and Turkologist), he was asked by the UN in the early 1970s to bring the Egyptians and Israelis together and to achieve a peaceful settlement between them.
Jarring took his historic mission very seriously. He shuttled tirelessly between Cairo and Jerusalem. His name became a joke in Israel, and probably in Egypt, too.
The protagonists in those days were Anwar Sadat and Golda Meir. As we disclosed at the time, Sadat gave Jarring a momentous message: in return for getting back all of the Sinai peninsula, conquered by Israel in 1967, he was ready to make peace. Golda rejected this proposal out of hand. There was, of course, no meeting.
(A popular joke doing the rounds had Golda and Sadat facing each other from opposite banks of the Suez Canal. Golda shouted: "Make Love not War!" Sadat looked at her through his binoculars and replied: "Better war!")
Everybody knows how this chapter ended. After Golda had rejected everything, Sadat attacked, won an initial surprise victory, the whole political world started to move, Golda was kicked out, and after four years of Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin came to power and agreed the same peace with Sadat that had been proposed before the war. The 3,000 Israeli soldiers and around 10,000 Egyptians who died in the war did not see it.
Jarring, by the way, died in 2002, unsung and forgotten.
KERRY IS no Jarring. First of all, because he does not represent a powerless international organization, but the World's Only Superpower. The full might of the United States of America is at his disposal.
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Gigiotti Zanini, "La nascita di Venere", 1922, olio su tavola, Mart
Gigiotti Zanini, "Paesaggio con carretto", (1919), Mart, Deposito Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto
Tullio Garbari, "Testa di donna", (1916), tempera e acquerello su carta, Mart, Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Tullio Garbari, "Momenti di vita campestre", 1915, Mart, Provincia autonoma di Trento
Zanini and Garbari.
In the Sign of the 20th Century
10 June 2017 / 08 October 2017
Casa Depero presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of two Trentino artists who interpreted the artistic languages of the early 20th century with great originality.
Linked by the same origins and their participation in a number of important cultural debates, Gigiotti Zanini (1893-1963) and Tullio Garbari (1892-1931) distinguished themselves for their original contributions to the Italian art of the early 20th century.
Presented together for the first time at the 1913 Palazzo Galasso exhibition in Trento, both established strong ties to the Florentine group of La Voce and later, in Milan, to some of the most representative artists of the 'return to the origins' movement during the post-WWI reconstruction era.
The two-man exhibition offers a broad overview of the work of Gigiotti Zanini, including a group of works for which Mart can thank the fundamental contribution of Giorgio Zanini and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto, executed between 1914 and 1958: from Ballerina, testament to his youthful adherence to Futurist poetics, to the works of the post-WWI period, which document his adoption of a Primitivist language, and concluding with the more mature works and landscapes after the Second World War.
Further enriching this section is a selection of materials from the Archivio del '900 and a group of rarely exhibited woodcuts, close in style and theme to Tullio Garbari. From Garbari, the exhibition features works on paper in watercolor, gouache and tempera, painted between 1914 and 1924, in which subjects dear to the artist - scenes of the countryside and domestic life - are immersed in a characteristically timeless dimension, along with his portraits of women, from which emerges all the power of Garbari's concise and cultured language, based on the lessons of the masters of the past.
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Apenas pode ser encontrada no México.

  World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Evarra bustamantei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Dados de 10 de Julho de 2007.

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Xploree is a smart mobile keyboard app that understands user intent based on the user's conversation, social interactions, online search and recommends relevant brands, offers and content in a non-intrusive manner. Deepti Mani Saxena, Director- Sales & Marketing at KeyPoint Technologies, explains to Team NewsBarons about the working of the industry's first hyper contextual and intent based mobile keyboard Xploree and the winner of the 2015 New Product Innovation Award.
NB: Please explain the concept and working of Xploree?
Deepti: Xploree is industry's first hyper contextual, multi lingual, intent based, mobile keyboard and discovery app. Powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning, Xploree understands and interprets a smartphone user's intent and topic affinity as the user engages in conversations, social interactions or searches on any app. It then recommends relevant brands, offers and content even before users explicitly verbalize their intent. The Xploree recommendations appear right on the keyboard as non-intrusive 'Intenticons' as the user inputs text across apps. Xploree creates serendipitous discovery experiences to users in the mobile moment, setting new benchmarks in consumer engagement and experience.
NB: What is your USP and how do you differentiate yourself from other similar service providers?
Deepti: We believe the mobile keyboard is an integral part of user experience on mobile and is best suited for driving consumer satisfaction in the digital space. This smart keyboard app has taken a step further to augment predictions: not just words but INTENT. Xploree works with all devices, (across all apps, in virtually any language, based on unique individual history, personality, interests and behaviour), connecting people to content, products, services and solutions, almost faster than ideas can actually lead to words that too in their moment of need!
Another USP lies in awarding top most priority to user convenience and privacy.Done entirely on the user's phone with our proprietary and lightweight NLP algorithms, Xploree does not compromise on user privacy. We follow strict EULA & data privacy policies and do not capture, store or map users' data. The only data thread that hits our servers is the context and even that dies with the closing of the keyboard session.
NB: What are the other salient features of your app?
Deepti: Intent-oriented & discovery-driven emoticons-Xploree hints at useful suggestions in the user's moment of need, followed by relevant need based discoveries.
Cross-app reach – Seamless browsing that brings relevant options minus the hassle of switching apps.
Hyper-contextual – Deeper understanding of user needs to match it with meaningful discoveries around product suggestions and offers.
Personalized keyboard – Users can save new words to the keyboard dictionary and personalize it with new keyboard themes.
Effortless typing in multiple languages – Users can experience faster multi-lingual chat in their favourite languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Oriya, Malayalam, etc., with improved language prediction. The Xploree keyboard supports 110+ global which includes 29 Indic languages.
NB: What is your geographical reach and user base?
Deepti: Xploree's user base is around 2.5 million. Currently Xploree caters to Indian market only.
NB: What is Xploree's revenue model?
Deepti: We have an ad-supported business model. Xploree is free for users.
NB: Has Xploree raised any funds yet?
Deepti: Xploree is an off-shoot product company of KeyPoint Technologies backed by single investors since 2006.
NB: What are the challenges that you face in this market?
Deepti: The Smart Keyboard App is revolutionary and first of its kind in the market. While the market has seen many word prediction keyboards, Xploree takes the mobile keyboard to a whole new level. It captures user's intent. This is something very new for people to understand. Therefore, challenges are bound to come. But the profound belief that a product like ours will drive the future of digital experience while users and brands remain ultimate beneficiaries – is what drives the team to innovate in this space.
NB: How many brands have you partnered with in India?
Deepti: We have partnered with prominent brands like Zomato, Flipkart, Amazon, Shopclues, First Cry, Housejoy, Coupondunia, Daily Motion among several other known brands.
NB: How do you wish to capitalize on the exponentially growing smart phone users in the country?
Deepti: Despite 100% penetration across smartphones; keyboard remains the most underutilized and passive input app / device. By today's internet analogy, keyboard is to mobile what 'Googling' is to internet. Our vision is to build a future where the mobile keyboard can be leveraged to help people in their moment of need, create value for users as well as brands and improve the way people interact with their mobile keyboard.


Two people sitting face-to-face on a monopod, opposed seat (TAIZA).
TAIZA is a design furniture that can create communication without tension by not facing directly from the front, but facing each other from a little oblique.
We have prepared 9 patterns of three types of seat and frame so that you can link to various space creation from home to commercial facilities. Waterproof specification correspondence is also available.
* Collaboration with fashion designers and jewelry designers is possible for sheets / frames.
Using a silhouette and LED lights, we will produce a different atmosphere during the day and at night.


If you're planning to make promotional flash drives for your company, make sure it's cute and reflects your products to a T. The goal is to remind the recipient of how cool of a company you are every time they use your flash drive. The only way to do that is by incorporating the designs of the actual product to your USB design without being too predictable. Here are some of the most creative promotional flash drives on the planet.
That's real beer inside the flash drive. The plastic case and the beer just makes it look like a beer in a mug. There is no way this won't remind you of sipping ice cold beer. Just make sure you finish what you have to do in the office before hitting the bar.
This is one of the cleverest USB flash drive designs you will ever encounter. Made for the Alzheimer's Foundation, this is a promotional USB that encourages you to store your memories in this little USB before they'll last forever. Ain't that just clever?
If your actual product has a shape of a standard USB flash drive, then you're lucky! Look at this Wrigley's Doublemint. They don't have to customize a shape, all they needed to do is find the right shade of green and print their logo.
This one looks so delectable you'd want to put it in your mouth! A sure way to make any owner want to drop by a convenience store and get a Magnum.
So you see? It's really helpful if you make good-looking promotional flash drives?


If you are seeing something interesting on the iPad screen that you would want to capture. Screenshot is quite useful, especially if you have an error on your device and you want to capture an image so that later you could show it to a support tech and they could assist you in fixing the issue.
1. While you are looking at the screen press Sleep/Wake + Home button and quickly let go of the buttons.
You will see the screen quickly flashes indicating that it has taken the screenshoot. Your capture should now be placed in the Camera Roll album. To view the image go into the album and open it up.
Once you have the image you could email it.


Now there's more of Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) to love. On Thursday officials cut the ribbon to open 3.4 new acres of lawns, a shaded picnic grove and meandering paths around a grassy sound-blocking berm, nestled in the uplands just east of the Picnic Peninsula at Pier 5.
This brings the park's construction to more than 80 percent complete, BBP said in a statement Thursday. The underlying design principal is to provide a "restful counterpoint to the activities at the adjacent Pier 5 sports fields and Picnic Peninsula," the park said.
Capital funding for the new parkland was secured through allocations from the City of New York. BBP President Eric Landau was joined by Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, state Sen. Daniel Squadron, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, Councilmember Levin and NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver.
From left: Squadron, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, BBP President Eric Landau, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and BP Eric Adams.From left: Squadron, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, BBP President Eric Landau, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and BP Eric Adams.
Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and BBP President Eric Landau.Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and BBP President Eric Landau.
Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, BBP President Eric Landau and state Sen. Daniel Squadron.Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, BBP President Eric Landau and state Sen. Daniel Squadron.
Rebecca Roddick, director of horticulture at BBP, and her son Milo meander across a swath of the newly opened area upland of Pier 5 in BBP.Rebecca Roddick, director of horticulture at BBP, and her son Milo meander across a swath of the newly opened area upland of Pier 5 in BBP.
NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.
BBP's designers, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, continue to use the park's material palette of rocky rip rap, wooden benches and salvaged granite. Topographic changes echo the design language found throughout the Park with elevations increasing by 10 to 15 feet to create dynamic changes in how visitors perceive the River and the views to the Harbor. The design also includes the second of the Park's sound-attenuating hills. The 35 foot long berm is designed to mitigate noise from the adjacent Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Additional amenities will be available to visitors when work is completed this fall. Set into the hillside will be a new boathouse that includes public restrooms. A new access point will be created at the Montague Street Turnaround. Finally, a new building will provide critical work space for BBP's Maintenance and Operations teams at the southern end of the park.
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Character » Prism appears in 3 issues.
Dr. Linus Powell was a gifted scientist turned into a living prism by a parasitic alien. Prism is able to harness light for a number of effects. He was a member of the New Blood, un-official member of the Blood Pack, and premiered in the Bloodlines event.
Linus Powell was a childhood prodigy said to have been "born with a prism in his hand" who's time in college was interrupted to work for NASA. He spent a decade refining and condensing the Powell Unified Theory of Light, a theory which proved conclusively the possibility of faster-than-light travel. Powell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this, and used the money to build a laboratory to realize this theory in the center Utah's Great Salt Lake.
dampens the released energy. The result was a miniature artificial sun. This function, along with having the crystal itself made him an enemy of Eclipso who attacked the laboratory nightly. However the lab itself being an artificial sun had various light-based defenses which made it altogether impenetrable to Eclipso. For this reason, Eclipso tricked the alien parasite Angon into destroying the lab for him. In the process Angon sucked Powell's spinal fluid, activating his latent metagene. Initially Powell appeared to be melting into sand, but as the reactor was about to explode with the Eclipso crystal knocked out, Powell picked it up and moved into the reactor to stop the explosion. He was able to dampen it, but it still exploded. Poetically when he woke up miles away "the boy born with a prism in his hand" discovered he had been transformed into a living prism, and fittingly took the name Prism for himself.
Prism had a small part in the Bloodlines event by hanging with other New Blood characters, particularly the Blood Pack, and usually being pictured next to Loose Cannon. He was one of the characters who lent his powers to Animus in the final battle to defeat the spawn of the alien parasites remarking "Fascinating. Symptomatic of interdependent group gestalt. May I join?"
Prism could bend light around himself to become invisible.
Prism once demonstrated the ability to create a large number of illusionary duplicates of himself. Strangely, sound was shown to come out of the illusion's mouths as well. Whether he could apply this ability to other objects was never explored.
Prism was able to fire triangular beams from his hands and eyes fueled by the light he absorbed. He described these as "laser beams" and "infrared beams" and he primarily fired them from his hands and eyes. His Infrared Beam seemed to work as a form of targeted pyrokinesis as he was able to look at and heat up a person or object by looking at it.
In addition to his light-manipulation abilities, Prism's body seems to grant him strength sufficient to injure Loose Cannon, and completely destroy a door with a single punch.
His crystal body is also strong enough to survive several explosions occurring right in front of him, blasts of electricity -which he's completely immune to- the punch of Loose Cannon, and blade projectiles fired at high speed.
In addition to his powers, prior to becoming Prism, Powell stated he had nightly target practice firing his energy weapon at Eclipso bats.


Reviews and pictures of actress Alicia Sánchez naked in "Cuentos eróticos" and "Furtivos" .
A little on the plain and tomboyish side, well-suited to playing country girls and kitchen maids on screen, but Alicia's first love is the theatre.
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The star of this short story Tiempos Rotos , one of an impressive Spanish collection (cf. Virginia Mataix, Emma Cohen), is Ana Belén, a woman revisiting childhood haunts. She and her best friend Alicia have gone different ways in the world, Ana storing up riches in the city, Alicia staying closer to nature.
This hot summer's day Ana (a born ringleader that one) suggests they recreate a girlhood game, and Alicia allows herself to be persuaded (but has to put her baby carefully aside first - I'm sure this is significant). The rules are simple: pull a playmate's article of clothing down (or up - mustn't forget singlets) and stick a wild flower the rudest place you can find. Viewers at home will have to devise their own scoring systems.
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Now that the Bristol Shop has been up and running for a month, we thought it might be nice to start taking a look at some of the products that we have, and seeing what it is about Bristol that has inspired them.
With that in mind, first up are our collection of Clifton Suspension Bridge Art Prints. No surprise that one of the most iconic bridges in the UK serves as inspiration for so many artists here in Bristol, especially when it is set in such a stunning natural gorge.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel the great engineer, and was completed in 1864. The bridge spans the Avon Gorge to connect Clifton in Bristol with Leigh Woods in North Somerset. As well as providing a vital transport link into the city it provides a visually striking frame for views of Bristol, and the vistas it affords have spurred poetry in the hearts of generations of Bristolians.
Amongst the artists on The Bristol Shop whose art prints have been inspired by The Clifton Suspension Bridge is Jenny Urquhart, who has produced a series of views of the city in different styles, and finds a recurring theme in the bridge.
Photographer Brett Charles has been moved by the view of the bridge from South Bristol to create a wonderful photographic art print of Clifton Suspension Bridge captured through the early morning mists.
The bridge also appears on a unique illustrated Bristol map giclee print by Naomi Wilkinson, who has placed Clifton Suspension Bridge alongside a series of city landmarks.
The bridge is also the subject of a nursery wall art print by Jenny MacKendrick, which has proven to be very popular with young Bristolians...and their parents! Jenny has produced a colourful print that includes the famous fiesta balloons, another iconic Bristol theme.
As The Bristol Shop grows we are sure to see more Clifton Suspension Bridge art prints that capture the many facets of this engineering marvel, so remember to keep checking back to see what's new!
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Robotic bees could take the sting out of Colony Collapse Disorder
Cosette Jarrett
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America's agricultural sector faces an unprecedented crisis. Native honeybees, one of the most prolific pollinators in the animal kingdom, are dying off at an unprecedented rate from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and threatening an ecosystem service worth about $15 billion.
Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the RoboBees project looks to minimize the loss of this critical resource with new microbots that can mimic the pollinating role of a honeybee. But the project has a number of challenges to overcome before these robots can take to the skies.
Harvard's RoboBees
The RoboBee is a microrobot inspired by the biology of a honey bee. In a remarkable display of biomimicry, scientists have developed a flight-capable robot that's just half the size of a paperclip and weighs in at one tenth of a gram.
"This is a proof of concept — there's nothing compared to this. It's a totally first-time demonstration," said lead author Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science in Tsukuba, Japan, in an article published in Scientific American.
The RoboBees project pushes the boundaries of research in a variety of fields, from micromanufacturing to energy storage and even the computer algorithms that control the robots by the swarm.
Controlled flight
In 2012, scientists at Harvard showcased the first controllable flight of an insect-scale robot, heralding the first major breakthrough and proof of concept for these prototype bots. The RoboBee achieves flight using piezoelectric actuators, small strips of ceramic material that expand and contract when an electric current is supplied, mimicking muscle tissue. The wings operate independently, allowing for controlled flight — a miraculous achievement for a robot that weighs less than an actual honeybee.
Breakthroughs in manufacturing
The RoboBee owes its weight and size achievements to new microscale manufacturing methods that make use of a technology called "pop-up microelectromechanical (MEM) technologies." Pop-up MEMs allow unprecedented scale for the RoboBees and open doors for further development.
Harvard's latest generation of RoboBees is making waves — literally. The biggest breakthrough for the next generations of RoboBee was announced in 2015, when new algorithms were developed that allowed the tiny robot to swim underwater. The algorithms allow scientists to control the RoboBees' wings in new ways and guide the tiny robots through water. Here, scientists borrowed from nature yet again after observing the way puffins used their wings to sail through the water during a dive.
Scientists are also looking to overcome challenges of energy usage, the biggest remaining barrier to the RoboBees' development. In an article published in Science in May 2016, scientists described a new method of energy conservation enabled by stronger, more efficient wing systems that allow the RoboBee to carry just a bit more weight.
These scientists, from Harvard and other top universities, looked to the perching behavior of most birds and insects to give the RoboBees their next upgrade: small foam caps. The caps sit on the top of the tiny robots' structure and provide a platform for electrostatic adhesion, allowing the RoboBees to perch on nearly any surface to save energy. The foam caps add a few more grams of weight, but they allow the RoboBee to "rest" during a flight, dramatically increasing its potential run time.
"A lot of different animals use perching to conserve energy, but the methods they use to perch, like sticky adhesives or latching with talons, are inappropriate for a paper clip-size microrobot," said Kevin Ma, who's doing his postdoc work at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute and who coauthored the paper.
Biomimicry again provided the inspiration for the robots' ingenious, low-power perching ability, which Harvard demonstrated on the surface of a leaf. When perching, the RoboBee uses 1/1,000th of the power used when hovering.
The next big steps
While honeybee populations have increased very recently, diseases, pesticides, and CCD still have scientists working harder than ever to move the RoboBee from concept to reality. The ability to operate under their own power and communicate as a hive remain two significant obstacles for the tiny robots.
Onboard battery systems
Until now, the RoboBees have been operating with a microthin wire that transmits power to the bee's muscles. Transitioning to an onboard battery requires a greater weight capacity and smaller power sources. Both are currently under development, and Ma is hopeful that a breakthrough is around the corner.
"Once the robot can stay aloft on its own, we would be working on things like allowing it to perform tasks, increasing its battery life, and making it fly faster," Ma told VentureBeat.
In a beehive, honeybees use sophisticated "dances" to indicate the direction and distance of a potential source of nectar. Coupled with pheromone releases and the scent of the flowers themselves, bees are able to hyperfocus on single flower species, harvesting nectar while pollinating every flower they intercept.
Over the last few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has connected more and more devices, allowing them to interact without continual human input. And while it's hard to tell whether the IoT will help the RoboBees work together in the next few years, a similar hive-mind capability is crucial to their development and represents the next big task for Harvard's team.
While the effect of a single robot might be miniscule, a coordinated group of hundreds, thousands, or millions of RoboBees could perform a host of unprecedented tasks. Aside from pollinating plants for agricultural purposes, the RoboBees could coordinate to digitally map terrain, monitor weather conditions, and even assist in relief efforts after a disaster, through data collection. While RoboBees are only intended as a stopgap measure for honeybee loss, the potential applications of the technology have the world holding its breath for the next breakthrough.
Cosette Jarrett is the guest post editor over the AI and Transportation channels at VentureBeat.


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Aug 1 (Reuters) - Spanish travel technology company Amadeus IT Group said on Wednesday it was in discussions with U.S.-based TravelClick, a provider of online reservation systems to hotels, about a possible acquisition.
Amadeus's announcement confirms a Bloomberg report that said TravelClick could fetch up to $3 billion and may attract other suitors.
Amadeus said the terms of the potential deal are still under discussions.
TravelClick, which is owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, is headquartered in New York City and serves more than 50,000 properties across 175 countries.