Galahad (formerly "Kid Galahad") is a superhero in the "Big Bang Comics" universe. He was formerly the sidekick to the superhero Knight Watchman, but struck out on his own after Knight Watchman retired.
Galahad's real name is Jerry Randall, and in his citizen identity, he is a lawyer working under the District Attorney of Midway City. The Knight Watchman, Reid Randall, was his uncle.
In the story Galahad, Jerry tracks down the assassin Headhunter, the murderer of Reid, to New York City. He interrupts a man and woman in mid-coitus and begins attacking the man, who he believes is Headhunter, and tells the woman to lock herself safely in the bathroom. During the fight, the woman re-emerges, revealing herself to be Headhunter, and the man who Galahad had mistaken for the assassin is actually the Japanese crime boss Oroku Saki. Saki steps forward in his full Shredder armor and orders his Foot Soldiers to kill the pair.
Galahad and Headhunter call a truce and begin battling the Foot Clan. Galahad fights his way to the Shredder and explains that he's only after Headhunter. Shredder refuses to give her up, saying they have unfinished business. Galahad then takes three arrows to the back and a bo staff to the head. As Galahad falls face first to the ground, Headhunter berates him for not taking the Shredder down when he had the chance and angrily calls their truce off. As Headhunter escapes, Shredder orders two of his Foot Soldiers to finish off Galahad while the rest go after Headhunter and bring her back alive. The Foot Soldiers decide to do a half-assed job and just dump Galahad's body into the sewers.
Downstream, a very, very young Michelangelo and Leonardo are fishing. Mikey snags something that turns out to be Galahad. Raphael then shows up. Unimpressed with yet another dead body in the sewers, the three Turtles fish him out and argue over who he might've been. As Leo attempts to remove Galahad's mask, the superhero comes to life and grabs Leo's hand. Raph is about to beat him with his stick when Splinter intervenes. Splinter and the Turtles then aid the injured and confused Galahad back to their lair.
Reviving Galahad with some herbal tea, Galahad reveals that his body armor stopped all but one of the arrows. Leo identifies them of ninja design and then all four Turtles begin fighting over it. Galahad explains to Splinter that he had a run-in with the Foot but then finally breaks down and has to inquire just what the Hell is up with all the talking animals. Splinter tells his origin to Galahad: Hamato Yoshi, the Foot Clan, Oroku Saki, the ooze, you know the drill. Galahad is surprised to hear the name Hamato Yoshi, as his mentor had trained under him as well. Splinter than leads him to just below a shoe store that's secretly operated by the Foot and bids him good luck on his confrontation with the Shredder. Galahad thanks Splinter for his help and leaves. Splinter sighs that Galahad's code of honor will not allow him to kill the Shredder and resolves to teach his children the more deadly arts for their inevitable confrontation with their foe. As they go back to the lair, the Turtles all agree that Galahad's mask was just awesome and decide to make some for themselves.
Galahad cautiously enters the shoe store and finds seven Foot Soldiers dead; slashed to death presumably by Headhunter. Galahad then finds the Shredder, sitting behind a desk. Shredder asks if "the White Knight" has come to rescue his damsel in distress, but Galahad insists he's here to arrest her. Shredder is reluctant to give her up, as she's a threat to his life and he doesn't believe any prison can hold her. Galahad insists, leaving Shredder no choice…but to hand her over? It seems that he owes Galahad a debt of honor for (accidentally) saving his life when he was in bed with Headhunter. At any rate, he's done with Headhunter, anyway. After an interrogation, it seems that seven of his Foot soldiers, displeased with Shredder's leadership, hired Headhunter to deal with him. Shredder, in turn, dealt with them. Shredder then tells Galahad to go collect Headhunter and then never cross his path again, lest he be forced to kill him.
Galahad finds Headhunter in an interrogation room, badly beaten and with a sai sticking through her hand. Galahad arrests her and is about to bring her to a prison hospital when she offers "a deal". Galahad refuses anything she has to offer, so Headhunter responds by knocking him out. Giving him a kiss, she promises to come back for him some day after she's healed from her interrogation.
A few days later, Galahad swears over Terry's grave that next time Headhunter shows her face anywhere in the world, he'll take her down.
Jerry Randall reappears in issue 9 of the Image run, under the guise of Knight Watchman.


With its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, and important ports, Louisiana plays a vital role for commerce in the South. Products can easily be transported from Louisiana to other parts of the country – or the world – by sea, but they are just as often transported by land in tractor-trailers, big rigs, and other commercial trucks. These large trucks must share highways and roads with other private vehicles, however, which means that you and your family are at risk of being involved in a collision with one of these large vehicles if you travel within or through Louisiana.
A Louisiana trucking crash can cause you to suffer such severe injuries as traumatic brain injuries, spine and neck injuries, broken bones, and other similar injuries. In some cases, collisions between a large commercial truck and a passenger vehicle can prove to be fatal to the occupants of the passenger vehicle. These injuries can, in turn, cause you and your family to experience financial strain and turmoil as you struggle to pay medical bills and other expenses at a time when you may not be able to work.
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Driving while distracted by a cell phone, text message, radio, or any other distraction that takes the driver's attention away from the safe operation of the vehicle and the road.
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, even if the drugs are prescribed or available over the counter. The impairing effects of drugs and alcohol are only magnified if the commercial driver decides to consume both at the same time.
Driving while drowsy. Regulations dictate how long a trucker or commercial driver can drive before they must stop their vehicle and rest. A commercial driver or trucker who disregards these regulations not only risks their license but also puts others on the road at risk if the driver were to fall asleep at the wheel.
Aggressive driving behaviors. Speeding, passing without sufficient clearance, and other similar behaviors increase the likelihood of a truck crash – especially if such behavior happens in heavy traffic conditions.
Zinda Law Group is your truck accident law firm. We are dedicated to helping you seek financial compensation from a truck driver who fails to exercise due care in operating their vehicle and, in so doing, causes a truck crash that seriously injures you.
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Video Games Are Free Speech
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that video games are free speech. And, the government may not restrict speech without a compelling interest. Thus, California's ban on selling video games to minors is unconstitutional. Judge Consuelo Callahan wrote for the majority that, "The Supreme Court has carefully limited obscenity to sexual content," and declined to apply the same rationale to violent video games.
The ban was enacted in 2005 and barred the sale of a video game to anyone under 18 if the game was violent enough to be deemed patently offensive (according to prevailing community standards for minors) and lacked any literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Affected video games were labeled with an "18" and the fine for selling such video games to minors is $1000.
California failed to show a compelling interest for the state to regulate the sale of video games because there is no proof of harm to children. The state argued that because youths who play violent video games are more likely to behave aggressively, the games caused psychological harm to the minors who play them. However, the research samples were small and there was no proof that the games caused violent behavior. Senator Leland Yee, D – San Francisco, urged state officials to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Chatsworth and Dupree is an American folk and bluegrass exciting duo formed by the songwriting team and founding members of the jamgrass band Cornmeal. Derived from their individual pseudonyms, Gilman Chatsworth and Charlie Dupree, the duo formed as an outlet for the expansion of their songwriting and to showcase a wide variety of acoustic styles in more intimate settings.
Performing a mix of Cornmeal songs, unreleased original material and bluegrass standards, the chemistry of these two on stage is a testament to their 17-year tenure of making music together. They will be playing a select few shows this summer, including The Dawson, so be sure to catch them while you can.


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Silvaco Appoints Babak Taheri as Chief Technology Officer
New position created to drive expansive growth plans for products and services
Santa Clara, CA – October 22, 2018
Silvaco welcomes Dr. Babak Taheri as CTO and Executive Vice President of Products. He brings three decades of engineering and leadership experience, with a track record of transforming and scaling global technology platforms. This new position at Silvaco is designed to drive innovation and project execution while increasing the synergy between Silvaco's products and services across the company.
Dr. Taheri said, "Silvaco has tremendous growth potential and I look forward leading Silvaco technologies as their CTO and EVP of products. My focus will be on TCAD, EDA, IP products, IP security, and related services. Silvaco has an impressive history of innovative solutions. I am excited about the opportunity to help bring the next level of innovation for products and services while deepening relationships with our customers and partners. Silvaco has a compelling combination of ground-breaking software solutions, global reach, and talented employees that form a strong foundation for industry leadership and success."
Earlier in his career, Dr. Taheri has served as VP/GM of the Sensor Solutions Division at Freescale Semiconductor (now NXP). He also held VP/GM roles at Cypress Semiconductors and Invensense (now TDK), as well as key roles at SRI International and Apple.
David Dutton, CEO of Silvaco, welcomes Babak to the Team: "Babak Taheri is joining at the perfect time in Silvaco's growth as a technology company in the demanding semiconductor industry," said Dutton, "Babak understands our products and how to make them work together in a cohesive solution for the changing needs of our customers. I am looking forward to our partnership in growing Silvaco's leadership in the industry."
Babak has a Ph.D. in EECS and Neurosciences from UC Davis, a 30-year career spanning Engineering, R&D, Corporate IP Development/Management, MEMS/Sensors/Actuator Products, Memory Products and more, including 20 Published articles and 28 patents to his name. Silvaco welcomes Babak Taheri to join its Executive Team to help drive Silvaco's Vision, Mission and strategies.
About Silvaco, Inc.
Silvaco Inc. is a leading EDA tools and semiconductor IP provider used for process and device development for advanced semiconductors, power IC, display and memory design. For over 30 years, Silvaco has enabled its customers to develop next generation semiconductor products in the shortest time with reduced cost. We are a technology company outpacing the EDA industry by delivering innovative smart silicon solutions to meet the world's ever-growing demand for mobile intelligent computing. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has a global presence with offices located in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia.
Press/Media Contact:
press@silvaco.com
Silvaco, Purdue Team Up to Bring Scalable Atomistic TCAD Solutions For Next... Silvaco Inc. Achieves Fourth Consecutive Year of Double-Digit Growth in Sales...


The father of a large family suddenly found himself unemployed and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Day after day, he scrutinized the classified section of the newspaper for a job, but to no avail.
On one hand, most jobs required a degree and years of experience, while a host of vocational and technical schools promised a great training for the "jobs of the future." The only problem was that he needed a job now. After weeks of fruitless job-hunting, he read an ad that said, "No experience necessary, we will train." That was his big break!
When the Lord called us to become Christians, he told us to come as we were. None of us had experience in being a Christian or were "prepared" for such honor. He called us, not because He saw any merit or future faith in us. He chose to save us by pure grace.
David's offer to build a temple for God was rejected temporarily until Solomon's reign. David, however, did his best to prepare all the materials for the construction of God's house.
Once again, balance is vital. Serving God without proper preparation or training can reach a plateau of mediocrity, but spending countless years in training to serve the Lord, could be a wasted time if there is not an active involvement in a ministry.
God uses the layman as well as the brilliant theologian. The first must learn more; the latter, serve more. Let our lives be a mixture of constant training and service. In other words, let's practice what we learn and learn from what we practice.


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Q: No build errors but crashes in simulator. I get no build errors but once I am in the simulator and press the + in the top right corner to add new url the program crashes. This is the error I get:

2017-02-21 09:37:48.667 Favorite Websites[2211:128142] ->[Favorite_Websites.MasterViewController addButtonPressed:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7ff266408aa0
  2017-02-21 09:37:48.672 Favorite Websites[2211:128142] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[Favorite_Websites.MasterViewController addButtonPressed:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7ff266408aa0'
  * First throw call stack:
  (
      0   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d0b0d4b exceptionPreprocess + 171
      1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x000000010cb1221e objc_exception_throw + 48
      2   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d120f04 -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 132
      3   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d036005 ___forwarding_ + 1013
      4   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d035b88 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
      5   UIKit                               0x000000010d4d68bc -[UIApplication sendAction:to:from:forEvent:] + 83
      6   UIKit                               0x000000010d9184a1 -[UIBarButtonItem(UIInternal) _sendAction:withEvent:] + 149
      7   UIKit                               0x000000010d4d68bc -[UIApplication sendAction:to:from:forEvent:] + 83
      8   UIKit                               0x000000010d65cc38 -[UIControl sendAction:to:forEvent:] + 67
      9   UIKit                               0x000000010d65cf51 -[UIControl _sendActionsForEvents:withEvent:] + 444
      10  UIKit                               0x000000010d65d0db -[UIControl _sendActionsForEvents:withEvent:] + 838
      11  UIKit                               0x000000010d65be4d -[UIControl touchesEnded:withEvent:] + 668
      12  UIKit                               0x000000010d544545 -[UIWindow _sendTouchesForEvent:] + 2747
      13  UIKit                               0x000000010d545c33 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 4011
      14  UIKit                               0x000000010d4f29ab -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 371
      15  UIKit                               0x000000010dcdf72d dispatchPreprocessedEventFromEventQueue + 3248
      16  UIKit                               0x000000010dcd8463 __handleEventQueue + 4879
      17  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d055761 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION + 17
      18  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d03a98c __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 556
      19  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d039e76 __CFRunLoopRun + 918
      20  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010d039884 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 420
      21  GraphicsServices                    0x000000011173fa6f GSEventRunModal + 161
      22  UIKit                               0x000000010d4d4c68 UIApplicationMain + 159
      23  Favorite Websites                   0x000000010c516e0f main + 111
      24  libdyld.dylib                       0x00000001107af68d start + 1
  )
  libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
  (lldb)

Here is the MasterViewController.swift code where the error comes from.
class MasterViewController: UITableViewController, ModelDelegate {

    var detailViewController: DetailViewController? = nil

    var model: Model! = nil // manages the app's data

    // conform to ModelDelegate protocol; updates view wehn model changes
    func modelDataChanged(){
        tableView.reloadData() // reload the UITableView
    }

    // called after the view loads for further UI configuration
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // set up left and right UIBarButtonItems
        self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem

        let addButton = UIBarButtonItem(barButtonSystemItem: .add, target: self, action: Selector(("addButtonPressed:")))
        self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = addButton

        if let split = self.splitViewController {
            let controllers = split.viewControllers
            self.detailViewController = (controllers[controllers.count-1] as! UINavigationController).topViewController as? DetailViewController
        }

        model = Model(delegate: self) // create the Model
        model.synchronize() // tell model to sync its data

    }

    // displays a UIAlertController to obtain new url from user

    func addButtonPressed(sender: AnyObject) {
        displayAddEditurlSearchAlert(isNew: true, index: nil)
    }

    // handles long press for editing or sharing a url
    func tableViewCellLongPressed(
        sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer){
        if sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.began &&
            !tableView.isEditing {
            let cell = sender.view as! UITableViewCell // get cell

            if let indexPath = tableView.indexPath(for: cell) {
                displayLongPressOptions(row: indexPath.row)
            }
        }
    }

    // displays the edit/share options
    func displayLongPressOptions(row: Int){
        // create UIAlertController for user input
        let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Options",
                                                message: "Edit or Share your url",
                                                preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

        // create Cancel action
        let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel",
                                         style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: nil)
        alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

        let editAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Edit",
                                       style: UIAlertActionStyle.default,
                                       handler: {(action) in
                                        self.displayAddEditurlSearchAlert(isNew: false, index: row)})
        alertController.addAction(editAction)

        let shareAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Share",
                                        style: UIAlertActionStyle.default,
                                        handler: {(action) in self.shareurlSearch(index: row)})
        alertController.addAction(shareAction)
        present(alertController, animated: true,
                              completion: nil)
    }

    // displays add/edit dialog
    func displayAddEditurlSearchAlert(isNew: Bool, index: Int?){
        // create UIAlertController for user input
        let alertController = UIAlertController(
            title: isNew ? "Add URL" : "Edit URL",
            message: isNew ? "" : "Modify your URL",
            preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

        // create UITextFields in which user can enter a new URL
        alertController.addTextField(
            configurationHandler: {(textField) in
                if isNew {
                    textField.placeholder = "Enter URL"
                }else{
                    textField.text = self.model.queryForTagAtIndex(index: index!)
                }
        })

        alertController.addTextField(
            configurationHandler: {(textField) in
                if isNew {
                    textField.placeholder = "Tag your URL"
                }else {
                    textField.text = self.model.tagAtIndex(index: index!)
                    textField.isEnabled = false
                    textField.textColor = UIColor.lightGray
                }
        })

        // create Cancel action
        let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel",
                                         style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: nil)
        alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

        let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save",
                                       style: UIAlertActionStyle.default,
                                       handler: {(action) in
                                        let query =
                                            ((alertController.textFields?[0])! as UITextField).text
                                        let tag =
                                            ((alertController.textFields?[1])! as UITextField).text

                                        // ensure query and tag are not empty
                                        if !query!.isEmpty && !tag!.isEmpty {
                                            self.model.saveQuery(
                                                query: query!, forTag: tag!, syncToCloud: true)

                                            if isNew {
                                                let indexPath =
                                                IndexPath(row: 0, section: 0)
                                                self.tableView.insertRows(at: [indexPath],
                                                                          with: .automatic)
                                            }
                                        }
        })
        alertController.addAction(saveAction)

        present(alertController, animated: true,
                              completion: nil)

    }

    // displays share sheet
    func shareurlSearch(index: Int) {
        let message = "Check out this cool Web site"
        let urlString = urlEncodeString(string: model.queryForTagAtIndex(index: index)!)
        let itemsToShare = [message, urlString]

        // create UIActivityViewController so user can share url
        let activityViewController = UIActivityViewController(
            activityItems: itemsToShare, applicationActivities: nil)
        present(activityViewController,
                              animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

        // MARK: - Segues

    override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
        if segue.identifier == "showDetail" {
            if let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {

                let controller = (segue.destination as! UINavigationController).topViewController as! DetailViewController

                // get query String
                let query = String(model.queryForTagAtIndex(index: indexPath.row)!)

                // create NSURL to perfrom url search

                controller.detailItem = NSURL(string: urlEncodeString(string: query!))
                controller.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.splitViewController?.displayModeButtonItem
                controller.navigationItem.leftItemsSupplementBackButton = true
            }
        }
    }

    // returns a URL encoded version of the query String
    func urlEncodeString(string: String) -> String {
        return string.addingPercentEncoding(
            withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)!
    }

    // MARK: - Table View
    // callback that returns total number of sections in UITableView
    override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 1
    }

    // callback that returns number of rows in the UITableView
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return model.count
    }

    // callback that returns a configured cell for the given NSIndexPath
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        // get cell
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath) as UITableViewCell

        // set up long press guesture recognier
        cell.textLabel!.text = model.tagAtIndex(index: indexPath.row)

        // set up long press guesture recognizer
        let longPressGestureRecognizer = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(
            target: self, action: Selector(("tableViewCellLongPressed:")))
        longPressGestureRecognizer.minimumPressDuration = 0.5
        cell.addGestureRecognizer(longPressGestureRecognizer)

        return cell
    }

    //callback that return whether a cell is editable
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
        // Return false if you do not want the specified item to be editable.
        return true // all cells are editable
    }

    // callback that deletes a row from the UITableView
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        if editingStyle == .delete {
            model.deleteurlSearchAtIndex(index: indexPath.row)

            // remove UITableView row
            tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPath], with: .fade)
        }
    }
    // callback that returns whether cells can be moved
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canMoveRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool {
            return true
        }

    // callback that reorders keys when user moves them in the table
    override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, moveRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath,
                            to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) {
        // tell model to reorder tags based on UITableView order
        model.moveTagAtIndex(oldIndex: sourceIndexPath.row,
                             toDestinationIndex: destinationIndexPath.row)
    }

}

A: The problem is this expression:
Selector(("addButtonPressed:"))

Replace it with:
#selector(addButtonPressed)

A: Try clean the build folder and restart Xcode

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The strategy of reinforcement of the AFRs, beyond the improvement of the work conditions, with qualification and promotions, backwards the formation of organizations as associations and cooperatives. In 2003 an association of processing agroindstrias of some colonial products in such a way of vegetal origin was created the Association of the Net of the House as animal, with the objective to carry through actions come back toward qualification of the commercialized products and to search practical alternatives to take care of the current law producing sustainable goods of consumption in the spheres ambient, economic and social. This AFRs products of the familiar subsistence search a survival strategy transforming into a market alternative, and for such they are organized of associativista form. How was organized this association? As the producers had absorbed this idea? Then, the work proposal was to understand better as the involved actors in the process interact. To sharpen the look on the questions that permeiam the AFRs is of the highest complexibilidade, therefore the facts are not explicit.
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La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, El Hierro Canary Islands, a group of islands located west of Africa. The Canary Islands belong to Spain and the European Union. The seven main islands are Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. All the Islands are of volcanic origin. The last eruption was in 1971 on La Palma. The climate is pleasant throughout the year. The average temperature is barely above 25 degrees Celsius in the summer.
On the Islands there are 146 nature reserves stretching on 301.335 hectares. The nature on the Islands is very different, which is due also to the height of the mountains. The highest mountain is in Tenerife and has a height of 3.718 meters and is also the highest mountain in Spain. 2456 metres high is the highest mountain of La Palma, the Roque de Los Muchachos of. These high mountains ensure the clouds on the slopes to set and lose their moisture.
Therefore, many islands of the Canaries are very green and unique in their nature. In the meantime they have become a popular destination for tourism. More than nine million tourists visit the Islands annually. The biggest holiday centers are on Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. The islands of La Gomera and La Palma are still at the beginning. Here, the number of tourists is still relatively low. It is hardly visited the island of El Hierro. The number of German emigrants increase. To create a platform on which the Canary lovers can interact, was the Forum Canaries "launched. A forum with many topics to all the Islands. Interesting for tourists and residents alike. The Forum has been renovated recently. New features include a calendar, entered fiestas and General events, a blog that is available to each Member, and a newly designed Gallery with beautiful photos from the Islands.


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History FeedHerostratus of Ephesus, Herostratus Who Burned Artemis, History of the Temple of Artemis, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Temple of Artemis, Who burned the temple of Artemis?
Herostratus: A Madman Who Burned the Temple of Artemis For Fame
"I, myself, burned the temple. I couldn't have shared this victory with anyone else. I felt the horror to my joints. Now its over. First, I was very scared then it all went away once I imagined the fame I would have…"
— Herostratus
On the 21st of July in 356 BC, Alexander the Great was born. On the very same day, the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was burned down by a mad arsonist named Herostratus.
Herostratus was a young Greek man from Ephesus, the ruins of which are situated in the western Turkish province of Izmir. He aspired to leave his mark in history and die as known man, and in order to achieve his goal, Herostratus set the Temple of Artemis ablaze.
Subsequently, he was caught and tortured by the authorities. Herostratus was not only executed but condemned with damnatio memoriae, a punishment forbidding the culprit's name to to be uttered by anyone and mentioned in written sources forever. As apparent, his name didn't vanish the way the Greek courts had decreed. On the contrary, the term "herostratic fame" was coined from this event which means "to do anything to gain fame".
The temple of Artemis was world-renowned due to its vast size, about 110 by 55 metres, and the remarkably artisanal works it beheld.
After the temple was burned down, the folks of Ephesus were bewildered with a question: Why did the goddess Artemis not protect the temple?" The story goes that she was supposedly aiding the birth of Alexander the Great and left the temple unattended for a day.
After it was burnt down, the temple was rebuilt, this time bigger and more magnificent. Available to the folks of Ephesus as the prime place of worship for another century, it was not too long after that the temple's fate was tested again and the temple of Artemis was decimated by the Goth invaders in 262 AD, never to be built again.
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Baldwin school officials weigh in on 'Innovation 2020'
Residents: air conditioning, new restrooms needed
Posted Friday, December 20, 2019 6:42 pm
Schools Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi presented preliminary plans for facilities improvements at a Nov. 13 Board of Education meeting.
Courtesy Baldwin School District
Our goal here is to take the information and the input from our community and turn it into something real . . . and to share that openly and honestly with the community."
Dr. Shari Camhi, superintendent
People would love to have all of those things. Everyone's just concerned about how much it's going to cost."
Doris McKeon, president, Baldwin Council of PTAs
Community information sessions
The district will host community information sessions at 7:30 p.m. in the district office "Professional Learning Lab," at 960 Hastings St., on:
By Bridget Downes
Baldwin School District officials have in recent weeks collected residents' input on proposed renovations for a districtwide project called Innovation 2020. Superintendent Dr. Shari Camhi presented the results at a Dec. 11 Board of Education meeting.
Renovation ideas stemmed from a state-mandated Building Conditions Survey as well as Community Input Night in 2016, when more than 100 local residents shared their thoughts on what they would like to see next to improve school facilities.
The original proposed projects and early renderings were shared at a Nov. 13 school board meeting. School officials said the plans would be adjusted based on input from residents, presented to the community and voted on in March.
Not far off from the original plans, community members said they would like to see air conditioning, new and renovated restrooms, a performing arts center, new auditoriums, redesigned elementary classrooms, a new media center to replace the high school library and new athletics facilities.
Camhi said that 347 people offered feedback via ThoughtExchange, an online platform. They shared 452 "thoughts" and more than 10,000 star ratings, or ratings on thoughts that range between one and five stars.
The idea that received the highest number of comments and star ratings was the request for air conditioning for the high school, middle school and elementary schools.
"There was a 4.4 or 4.3 average star for each of those air conditioning comments," Camhi said. "And that was fairly consistent across all of the comments people wrote for air conditioning, so it seems like air conditioning is very high on the list."
Another popular idea was new or remodeled restrooms. There were many comments about restrooms, Camhi said, and they generally received somewhere between four and five stars.
Building a performing arts center was also high on the list. People requested improved auditoriums at the high school and middle school as well as a dedicated space for the orchestra ensembles.
Another major theme was a desire for improvements in the athletic facilities, including new locker rooms, artificial-turf fields and a new track. These were rated between 3.5 and 4.3 stars. People also shared their desires for modern elementary classrooms and new cafeterias and kitchens.
Parents and community members also requested an updated media center to replace the high school library.
"The high school library needs to be updated to reflect the state-of-the-art educational community," one idea on ThoughtExchange read. "The design is simply outdated and must be modernized."
A demographic chart recorded whether a user was a parent or faculty member, or had another role in the district, and Camhi said there was good representation from across the community.
At the November school board meeting, Karen Montalbano, of the Baldwin Civic Association, commended the district's use of technology to gather input but asked about outreach for residents who are less tech-savvy.
"There are a lot of people in the community that may not get to the phone, may not get to the website, may not know about it," Montalbano said. "I know you'll be able to reach out to the schools, you have those opportunities, but what about a person who doesn't show up here who is a resident who will be voting on this and needs to see what it's about besides just when they hear that bottom line dollar line?"
Besides mailers being sent to residents and information posted on the district website and its social media channels, "there will be meetings across the community between now and March almost on a continual basis," Camhi said at the most recent meeting.
"Our goal here is to take the information and the input from our community and turn it into something real for our children who go to school in our school buildings and to share that openly and honestly with the community," she said.
The final proposals, based on the feedback and the Building Conditions Survey, will start rolling out in January. Meetings will be held with the PTAs, the Baldwin Civic Association, the Baldwin Chamber of Commerce and other community groups.
"We really want to make sure the community is well-informed about the projects that are being proposed," Camhi said.
The district also scheduled two community information nights for Tuesday, Jan. 21 and Tuesday, March 3.
"The scope of the work will be shared at both of those meetings," Camhi said. "Not only the projects, the cost of the projects, all that kind of work."
Some district parents, though, shared concerns about the cost of the upgrades.
"The schools need the update, without a doubt. Every one of those things is needed," Baldwin Council of PTAs President Doris McKeon said. "People would love to have all of those things. Everyone's just concerned about how much it's going to cost."
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Teens struggle with a significant amount of pressure, each and every day.
Sports goals, difficult homework, surging hormones and changing friendships can make even the most relaxed teenager feel tense, upset and angry. Some teens deal with these troubled feelings by turning to marijuana. Even though the drug is illegal, it's readily available to many teens. In fact, some teens may think smoking marijuana is safe because the drug is sometimes provided to people with chronic illnesses.
While many teens may experiment with marijuana without becoming addicted, other teens aren't quite so lucky. A report published in 2011 by the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that daily marijuana use is on the rise among teens in the United States. In 2009, 6.1 percent of 12th graders reported near daily use in the previous month, compared to 5.2 percent in 2009. Daily use of a drug generally qualifies as addiction. See more Marijuana Addiction Statistics.
At Newport Academy, we can help teens overcome their addiction to marijuana.
Our inpatient treatment program is designed to help wean the teen from the drug, and help the teen learn new coping skills that could make addiction to other drugs and/or alcohol less likely. If, after reading this article, you believe that your teen has a serious problem with marijuana, we urge you to contact us and learn more about how our program can help your family.
Marijuana is often smoked in a cigarette or water pipe, but the small stems and leaves can also be made into tea or included in baked goods such as cookies or brownies. Some people place marijuana inside cigars after pulling out the tobacco leaves. The active ingredient in marijuana, THC, will enter the user's system through any of these methods.
People who abuse marijuana may seem dizzy or silly, and they may have bloodshot eyes. These symptoms may seem harmless enough, but according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, long-term abuse of marijuana could have a profound effect on the user's ability to learn and retain information. Also, smoking the drug for long periods of time could severely damage the heart and lungs. It's clear that, contrary to what teens might believe, marijuana use is dangerous. And, teens with addiction issues may need professional help to overcome it.
A study from the journal Addictive Behaviors might add one more item to this list. In this study, researchers determined that teens struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were likely to medicate themselves with marijuana. This fact persisted, no matter what other variables the researchers looked for. Teens with mental health issues might be particularly at risk for marijuana abuse.
Teens struggling with marijuana addiction often can't beat the addiction alone. When they stop using the drug, they may feel intense cravings for the drug and those cravings may drive them to use once more. In addition, the teen may be surrounded by friends who also abuse the drug, and when the teen spends time with those friends, old habits hold sway and the teen begins to use once more.
Inpatient treatment programs can give these teens the help they need to beat addiction. In an inpatient treatment program, the teen moves into the facility for a specified period of time. Family members and selected friends may be asked to visit from time to time, just to help the teen stay connected, but the teen is living in a supervised environment away from all stresses and bad influences. This functions as a sort of reset button for the teen, allowing him or her to develop new habits and truly think about the addiction and craft a new plan for living.
Inpatient treatment programs also provide a significant amount of medical supervision. This can be of particular importance to teens who are struggling with mental health issues and addiction at the same time.
No inpatient program would be complete without group counseling sessions. Here, the teen can learn from other recovering addicts and find out more about how addiction tends to impact young people. Many inpatient programs encourage family members to come to the facility for family counseling sessions. Destructive communication habits within the family can drive the teen to addiction, and counselors can help families develop new sets of habits that are more supportive, kind and effective. This could be a major help for struggling teens.
When inpatient treatment programs are over, teens return home and once again they must deal with outside influences and choose to stay sober. While teens may have received significant help in an inpatient program, their recovery is fragile, and they are often prone to relapse into drug use. This can be frightening for parents to consider, but teens must receive therapies even after the inpatient program is complete in order to truly beat addiction. Families must also remember to be supportive during this time of transition.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, relapse rates among chronic drug users are similar to relapse rates for chronic diseases such as asthma, hypertension and diabetes. When a person with diabetes has a relapse of the disease, people often blame the disease. When an addicted person has a relapse of addiction, people often blame the person. It's important to remember that addiction is a chronic disease, and your teen will always have to work hard in recovery.
For some teens, 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous can provide extraordinary support. Here, teens listen to other recovering addicts talk about their addictions, and they learn how to cope with temptation. Teens are often paired with someone successfully in recovery, named their "sponsor". Their "sponsor" is available at all times to help the teen deal with stresses and addiction struggles. As the teen begins to improve, he or she may be asked to mentor an addict who is new to the program. This is often some teen's first experience with leadership, and teens strengthen in their own recovery as a result.
No matter the method chosen, the teen must stick with the program that works best for them to stay sober. In order to keep from falling back into drug and alcohol use, a reliable support system, healthy lifestyle, and home environment are crucial.
Family members can help teens stay motivated by offering to drive them to meetings, offering to listen to them talk about addiction or offering to attend meetings as a supportive presence. Teens need to feel accepted and cared for by friends and most of all, by family, on their recovery journeys.


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Carnival Cruise Lines Paying $20 Million Criminal Penalty for Probation Violations
"A corporation is responsible to its shareholders and board of directors to be profitable, but not by breaking the law and destroying the very environment in which it navigates for profit," said Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. "Carnival's failure to comply with the terms of its probation and, later, its attempt to drown its deceit goes against the fiber of corporate compliance.
Consent Order Signed as Hawaiian Dairy Closes
The order was completed to address numerous discharges of wastewater containing manure from the dairy to state waters during the past two years that were documented by the department, and it requires Big Island Dairy's owners to terminate their dairy operations.
New CalEPA Secretary Appointed
Jared Blumenfeld, 49, of San Francisco, has been appointed secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
Explo Systems Employees Sentenced in Conspiracy Case
"Through their reckless mismanagement of waste explosives, the defendants put the safety of an entire town at risk," said Susan Bodine, assistant administrator of the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "Today's sentencing should send a clear message that EPA and our law enforcement partners will hold corporate officials responsible for violating laws designed to protect our communities and the environment."
Compliance Order Issued After Pipeline Explosion
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection reported that its inspections after the Sept. 10 explosion "discovered violations including unreported landslides, impacts to aquatic resources, construction activities occurring in unpermitted areas, and several sections of the pipeline that required the installation of additional measures to prevent accelerated erosion."
Waste Recycler Settles RCRA Case with EPA
The settlement requires Rho-Chem, LLC to complete a supplemental environmental project to purchase and provide at least $352,992 worth of emergency response instruments and communication and computing equipment to the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Homeland Security/Hazardous Materials Response Section.
SoCal Gas Announces $119.5 Million Gas Leak Settlement
The parties had submitted a tentative consent decree to the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Aug. 8 to settle the litigation over the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak. At least 109,000 metric tons of methane emissions were released during the leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, according to CARB.
Colorado Taking Action on Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells
By Aug. 1, the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will produce an updated list of all such sites known to exist in the state. Gov. John Hickenlooper's executive order expands state efforts to plug, remediate, and reclaim them and to prevent additional wells and sites from being orphaned in the future.
Authorities Worldwide Target Wildlife, Timber Smugglers
"Operation Thunderstorm has seen significant seizures at global level, showing how coordinated global operations can maximize impact," said INTERPOL Secretary General Jürgen Stock. "Operation Thunderstorm sends a clear message to wildlife criminals that the world's law enforcement community is homing in on them."
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A consent decree was filed in federal district court in the Northern District of Indiana that requires U.S. Steel to pay more than $600,000 as a civil penalty and to reimburse EPA and the National Park Service for response costs incurred after an April 2017 spill of wastewater containing hexavalent chromium that entered a waterway flowing into Lake Michigan.
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Sunoco Pipeline Agrees to $12.6 Million Penalty, State's Hold on Permits Lifted
Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline can resume. "DEP will continue to monitor and enforce the conditions of the permits and will take necessary enforcement actions for any future violations," said McDonnell. "If a resident should witness pollution from the pipeline affecting streams or other waterways, then please alert DEP at 1-800-541-2050."
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The Great Lakes Oil Spill Prevention Act was introduced earlier this month and would "impose additional requirements on portions of petroleum pipelines that cross waters of the Great Lakes," among other goals, according to the bill's text.
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What Kind of Economy Will Germany's New Leader Inherit?
Stephan Richter spoke to Marketplace's David Brancaccio about the issues Germany's new chancellor Olaf Scholz will face in office
By: EBR - Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
The transition comes as the country faces myriad economic challenges, along with a lagging COVID vaccination rate and rising virus cases
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's term will come to an end this week. Social Democrat Olaf Scholz will take office once the country's Congress affirms his government with a vote, likely Wednesday. The transition comes as the country faces myriad economic challenges, along with a lagging COVID vaccination rate and rising virus cases.
Stephan Richter, publisher and editor in chief of the Globalist, spoke to Marketplace's David Brancaccio about the issues Scholz will face in office. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
David Brancaccio: When you read into the history of Merkel's time in office you see a mixed record, according to many commentators. What kind of economy [does] her successor, Mr. Scholz, what does he face?
Stephan Richter: He faces an economy with many challenges. There's tremendous stuff to be done on the energy issue, never mind on the mess that we have with coronavirus, the apparent complete lack of digitalization of the economy. [It's] a Germany that, over the past decade, has really slipped in most of the performance indicators on competitiveness.
Brancaccio: You mention the energy issue — you're talking about the conversion to renewable energy sources in the face of climate change.
Richter: Correct. Now, imagine a country that is a leading industrial producer around the world and that decides — basically at the same time as they go full stock and barrel into renewable energy — to abolish coal energy and nuclear energy. That is an experiment that nobody has tried in the, in world history before, and Germans may be hard put to do the proper change and transformation. And it's going to be a very open race for Mr. Scholz as to whether he can get done what he had promised — namely, to become a good climate chancellor.
Brancaccio: Now, you said "complete lack" of progress in digitization. Surely Germany has internet connections, so what are you talking about?
Richter: 5G [cellular networks], the level of quality of video signals, the quality of non-digitalization at the administration level — I mean, small European countries, everybody pretty much beats us. And we're really paying the price with the horrible administration during these COVID times for it. All the public health offices are completely undigitized. Notices are sent around by fax. And we can't get the old people vaccinated because we don't know how to reach them where they are because in Germany, the eternal excuse is "data privacy." Privacy rights above everything, so we can't do anything that's effective, unlike Israel and any other country. Even the U.K. is much better organized on that front.
Brancaccio: On vaccination rates, Germany is doing OK. But it has a goal of vaccinating 75% of the population — I was looking at the latest statistics. The country is not there yet.
Richter: In fact, it's not just Germany. All the German-speaking countries, so also Austria and Switzerland, and including the northern part of Italy, which is German-speaking, are the total laggards in Europe. These Germans, all of a sudden, are risk takers bar none because they don't want to get vaccinated. And that's the opposite of what we always thought and have talked about Germans being cautious and circumspect. It's not the case anymore.
Brancaccio: And if you look at some of the other [European Union] countries, vaccination rates are higher in some of those countries, places like Spain, but also — I think you've noticed this — Italy.
Richter: Portugal, Spain and Italy are all doing better. Italy, in fact, is acting like the Germany of old. It's very organized. They really check whether people have the permission to be out there. They fine people appropriately. Whereas Germany today is acting like the Italy of folklore, following up on nothing, total laissez faire and so on. So this is the wrong kind of European integration. The Italians have lived up to the German model, and the Germans have slid down to the Italy of old that apparently doesn't exist anymore in these COVID times.
Brancaccio: In the United States, sometimes it's hard to fully account for people not getting vaccinated in this country. But what accounts for it, from your point of view, in Germany?
Richter: Oppositional defiance, to a large degree. And the paradoxical thing is any American who's ever moved to Germany knows, you basically have to register with the authorities on the, like, third day when you get here. And that speaks for a very well-organized administrative state. Alas, when it matters the most — vaccination, it's just not there anymore.
Brancaccio: Stephan Richter, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Globalist. He is also the Director of The Global Ideas Centre (GIC) in Berlin. Stephan, always good to talk to you.
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We do however welcome those who own a second/holiday home even if it is not rented commercially. If you have this type of property and you do not have a website/listing for your property contact us before joining. You can use your personal Facebook page as the link or otherwise we may have other options available to you.
So why do we require a website or listing link to your property?
Generally speaking, any property that is eligible to join SwapNights.com should either have its own website OR be listed on a recognised website (eg: Booking.com, Homeaway.com, bandb.com or similar).
After all, it's hard to imagine a property that is commercially available that does not have a web presence these days.
Verification - SwapNights.com Support checks each new listing to verify status and make sure each property listed is a professionally operated commercial accommodation (not a private home). One of the checks we do is that each listing links to either a property's own website OR to a listing on a website portal (eg: www.booking.com, www.homeaway.com or similar).
More Information - We also generally want to see a web/listing link on every SwapNights.com listing so that our members can click through from the very basic listing detail on SwapNights.com to see more details about your property, and, if possible, check availability before placing a booking enquiry with you. We have a streamlined listing format to keep listing setup and browsing fast and we link to an external site/listing if users seek more detail on a property before deciding to book.
This guide shows how to obtain the link to a website or listing in the correct format to add to your listing.
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The MILC Token Allows Media Content Producers To Trade Without Intermediaries
Place/Date: Germany - June 25th, 2018 at 10:03 pm UTC · 4 min read
Contact: Hendrik Hey, Source: MILC
Founded in 1996, Welt der Wunder expanded its territories over the years and grew far beyond the borders of Germany with its footprints in over 30 different countries.
With decades of experience on deck, Welt der Wunder grew to become one of the quality producers of content and with a strong foothold in the media industry, it became fully aware of the pain points and needs of content producers as well as content buyers.
The demand for high-quality content grew throughout the world with countless TV stations and expansion of VOD platforms. Other media agencies such as online newspapers and magazines, with their growing needs to position themselves on online platforms, also have an insatiable need for quality videos to drive traffic and increase the demand.
However, the content being traded on TV, VOD and online publishing platforms, while being mostly international in nature, the licensing agreements differ from country to country. As a result, the media industry is plagued with an absence of any standard definition of a 'Transfer of Rights' agreement, and thus every license agreement being executed, although very similar, is constantly redeveloped and re-drawn.
International license contracts without any standards or norms make it difficult for producers and broadcasters to buy a content license. In addition, distribution and sales departments often intercede between the buyers and sellers, leading to a price increase. This results in higher costs or the deal falling apart.
The pain point of this industry is the lack of a trusted partner structure that can standardize and automate the contracts while securing the interests of both vendors and purchasers.
The MILC Solution – A Licensing Coin that Automates the Execution of Contracts in a Transparent Manner
With Welt der Wunder in the center of this problem, and with a rich experience within the media industry, integrating Blockchain with Content Licensing system became the best use-case. By combining some of the creative experiences with their dedicated team, Welt der Wunder unleashed a much more sophisticated solution.
The MILC token, a media cryptocurrency is the answer that provides a virtual marketplace, full of solid professional content, which brings leading quality content producers closer to an international market of buyers that can buy such content through MILC token on the blockchain ecosystem. All this without the need for an intermediary, for the fact, content licensing contracts are executed using smart contracts.
In an interview, Hendrik Hey, Founder and Managing Director, Welt der Wunder said:
"We wanted to win our audience with sophisticated content and high-quality visuals and prove that these two things aren't mutually exclusive when it comes to achieving success. The resultant MILC platform is an innovative solution that brings high-quality content producers and leading content buyers and brands on a single platform for content trading."
Adding further, he said:
"No one will ever need an intermediary, for as transparent as the blockchain ecosystem is, the MILC token allows users to buy content with a much more sophisticated technology using smart contracts."
Smart contracts and in particular virtual agreements filed in the blockchain are excellent tools that completely reorganize certain parts within the media industry.
With a central global ecosystem for content sharing and trading that will map the most relevant international contract norms, it will simplify one of the oldest and yet complex norms being traditionally followed in the media industry since decades. The smart contract execution system manages the trade in a way that is legally impermeable and binding.
When a content seller matches his content with the appropriate smart contractor, for the given usage and license periods, the buyer has only to confirm the contract and finalize the deal. Negotiations, if any, can be made on the platform, and once the contract is finalized, the deal payment is automatically managed securely through blockchain.
Thus, with the blockchain ecosystem acting as a platform to provide a content marketplace for professional video and TV licenses, the future of media industry, the MILC cryptocurrency holds the potential to evolve as a disruptive technology and position itself as an important currency within the global media industry.


Bloomberg Media has reinforced its position as the number one business media brand in Europe with the results of this year's annual Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe.
The survey confirms Bloomberg Television as the business and financial television channel of choice for advertisers wishing to reach upmarket business professionals during the business day. Bloomberg were revealed to be 43 per cent more influential than the average survey respondents, as well as collectively in command of €3.9 trillion of corporate spend.


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Red Pills of the Week — September 14th
Red Pill Junkie September 16, 2013
Greetings, fellow Coppertops! This week we've been ordered by Zion to investigate ancient Stargates & suicide missions to Mars; along with UFO hoaxes, Stonehenge solstice alignments, and comments made by one of TV's most iconic personalities in favor of the Abominable Snowman. And as we analyze the claims of British scientists about the discovery of alien life –right here on our planet– we'll say Bon Voyage (again) to our (now official!) first emissary to the stars. I want to be quick about the mission, so after it's over we can plug into Garibaldi plaza, where the famous Tenampa salon is located. What could be better than enjoying a shot of tequila & a cold cerveza while hearing a song by José Alfredo Jiménez? Maybe having all that while riding a jet-ski…
Man, how does time fly when you're inside the Matrix! 20 years ago an obscure TV show named The X-Files took our collective imagination by storm, and pop culture was never the same again. In many ways Chris Carter's Magnum Opus embodied the zeitgeist of an entire era, when the world was entering the uncharted waters beyond the Cold War, and a growing sense of mistrust in government agencies & corporations was starting to take a hold in our minds.
Not to mention all the times TV networks have exploited its soundtrack when covering some damn UFO story.
I remember when I first started watching Mulder & Scully via Mexican cable. At first I thought it was like a grown-up version of Scooby Doo, with this pair of raincoat-clad agents chasing after monsters & aliens on dark alleys. I also found it curious how the people in charge of dubbing the episodes for Mexican television, had chosen for the voice of Fox Mulder the same guy who also voiced Ren in the Ren & Stimpy cartoon! Later I also recognized that the Mexican voice of the Cancer Man was also the voice of Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons, a detail I personally find oddly synchronistic, seeing how 'burns' might allude to Mulder's nemesis always burning his lungs with those Morley cigarettes…
Here at MU, my colleague Michael Rose has started a series of posts with his list of favorite (non-canon) X-Files episodes (season 1) (season 2). Here's hoping he continues with the good work.
9 You guys remember the episode Space, from season 1? It was inspired by Carter reading about the 'face' on Mars in the newspaper. Will we have to face angry alien ghosts should we finally decide to set a colony on the Red Planet?
That's probably the least of the concerns of the more than 200,000 people who have submitted their application on the Mars ONE website, in order to have the chance to win a one-way ticket out of this rock.
Mars One reported that the applicants came from 140 countries, with about a quarter coming from the United States, 10 percent from India, and 6 percent from China. Brazil, Great Britain, Canada, Russia, and Mexico, each put up about 4 percent of the applicants.
The Las Vegas Guardian Express have collected a few samples of the more… shall we say, peculiar applicants. But here's hands down my personal favorite (h/t the Grimericans):
[youtube]http://youtu.be/ICuEdEIQfPA[/youtube]
Of course, the premise of Mars ONE would seem a hell of a lot more feasible, if the US Military finally decided to lend us the Stargate portal they've kept secret all these years.
Wot, you think that was just a TV show? Bitch, please!
Another one who didn't think it was just a TV show is Stargate's creator, Roland Emmerich, who's planning to reboot the franchise with a movie trilogy. Something SG fans might not be too pleased with, since Emmerich doesn't think of the several TV versions of his original universe as 'canonical.'
Roland is also currently working on a sequel to his most successful film, Independence Day, which will be set (and released) 20 years after the defeat of the alien invaders –let's hope humanity still knows how to whoop ET's ass.
7 Despite the fact that Emmerich's career is full of hits & misses, I can't help feeling respect for a man who's willing to share his inner convictions about the Fortean mysteries with moviegoers –even if that means scaring the crap out of them with 2012 doom porn.
Risking failure takes a lot of balls; which make for great filmmakers & entrepreneurs, but for lousy fathers. That's at least the conclusion behind a rather controversial scientific study lead by James Rilling, an anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta. The idea being that larger testes account for a higher sperm count & increased promiscuity, something easily observed with our nearest cousins, the bonobos; male gorillas are polygamous but don't have to face a lot of competition, hence smaller testicles –though I wouldn't dare to mock a gorilla on its face.
But with us humans, having more 'change in the coin purse' could also mean –aside from awkward glances at the beach if you're wearing a Speedo– a lack of interest in child-rearing, which is a big deal because for most children the male role model is given by the parent, and if you are raised up by a lousy dad there's a good chance you'll have a harder time in becoming a well-balanced adult.
However, Dr Rilling said that the conclusions of the study assumed that testes size was not changed by the act of becoming a father. "We're assuming that testes size drives how involved the fathers are," Dr Rilling said.
"But it could also be that when men become more involved as caregivers, their testes shrink. Environmental influences can change biology. We know, for instance, that testosterone levels go down when men become involved fathers," he added.
…Or maybe you should just check the THERMOSTAT in your office, doc.
Any single mom trying to raise a kid on her own is a Wonder Woman in my book, even if they don't own a golden lasso or an invisible jet plane. Speaking of which, the star-spangled amazon might give her seal of approval to the architectural firm GDS Architects, who are planning to build an invisible skyscraper near the Incheon airport, just outside of Seoul Korea.
An invisible tower near the landing path of airplanes… what could possibly go wrong?
Is building a mimetic building with XXIst century tech easier than building a site like Stonehenge with Stone-age tech? It's possibly impossible to answer, but one thing we do know is that the Stonehenge builders chose the location in Wiltshire for a reason: because its geographical features aligned with the solstice axis.
Just below the tarmac, Parker Pearson has found naturally occurring fissures that once lay between ridges against which prehistoric builders dug ditches to create the Avenue. The ridges were created by Ice Age meltwater that happen to point directly at the mid-winter sunset in one direction and the mid-summer sunrise in the other.
Parker Pearson said: "It's hugely significant because it tells us a lot about why Stonehenge was located where it is and why they [prehistoric people] were so interested in the solstices. It's not to do with worshipping the sun, some kind of calendar or astronomical observatory; it's about how this place was special to prehistoric people.
"This natural landform happens to be on the solstice axis, which brings heaven and earth into one. So the reason that Stonehenge is all about the solstices, we think, is because they actually saw this in the land."
Parker Pearson said the findings backed theories that emerged in 2008 following exploration of a narrow trench across the Avenue. "This is the confirmation. It's being able to see the big picture."
Could there have been other reasons behind the builders' decision, though? such as a confluence of telluric currents at Stonehenge's site?
4 Whether out of practicality or due to other more arcane reasons, it's no mystery to Forteans that Stonehenge is a hotspot for UFO activity & weird phenomena. Last week Canadian baseball fans thought their favorite sport was also effective in attracting ET's attention, when during the sixth inning of a game between the Vancouver Canadians and the Everett AquaSox at Scotiabank Field's Nat Bailey Stadium, some of the attendees began noticing a strange object in the sky.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/irItgeBZ7ds[/youtube]
The pics & videos taken by the fans soon went viral, but eventually it was revealed the UFO was actually a sophisticated hoax. But the most shocking thing about it? the hoax was perpetrated as PR stunt for a local planetarium. Astronomers faking flying saucers?? Lawd have moicy!!
With all those fake UFO videos on Youtube, sometimes it feels like the sensible thing to do is to hang the tinfoil hat & call it quits.
Then something like the next Red Pill comes up, and the fires of Forteana are rekindled in this old Mexican heart: Sir David Attenborough, a man whose face is linked to nature documentaries in the minds of millions of TV viewers across the planet, has recently claimed he thinks the Yeti might be real:
"I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that," he said. "There are footprints that stretch for hundreds of miles and we know that in the 1930's a German fossil was found with these huge molars that were four or five times the size of human molars. They had to be the molars of a large ape, one that was huge, about 10 or 12 feet tall. It was immense."
Attenborough also went on to provide his views on how a creature like the Yeti may have survived for so long without being officially discovered and recognized by science.
"If you have walked the Himalayas there are these immense rhododrendron forests that go on for hundreds of square miles which could hold the Yeti," he said. "If there are some still alive and you walked near their habitat you can bet that these creatures may be aware of you, but you wouldn't be aware of them."
I assume the molars 87-year-old Attenborough might have referred to, were the ones found in Hong Kong by Ralph von Koenigswald, which called his discovery Gigantopithecus, considered by many to be the best candidate for an actual ancestor of the Yeti & Bigfoot in the fossil record. Here's hoping Sir David might still be able to shoot a documentary about these elusive cryptids, once they're finally discovered.
And since we're at it with our wishing list, I hope I'm still around to watch the first TV documentaries on alien life. Something that might come sooner than we realize, if a group of British scientists from the University of Sheffield are proven right. The team sent a balloon 27 km into the stratosphere and captured microscopic algae using sterile microscope slides, during the latest annual Perseid meteor shower. Their conclusion: the micro-organisms could only be the result of panspermia, a term co-developed by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who lead the Sheffield team.
If the name sounds familiar to you, it's because Professor Chandra has been mentioned in this column previously, when in January he made a similar claim re. a meteorite from Sri Lanka where he found fossilized diatoms of (alleged) non-terrestrial origins. It's interesting to note here that diatoms are also a form of microscopic algae.
Chandra's findings were the subject of many attacks in January and it's been no different for this latest claim, with skeptics saying that the algae could have been transported to the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions. But even if these micro-organisms turn out to be terrestrial in origin, it would still give credence to one of Charles Fort's (and Ivan Sanderson's) weirdest assertions: the idea that entire ecosystems could exist in the top layers of our atmosphere that we had no previous knowledge of… until now.
Perhaps Chandra's algae are the plankton on which the sky jellyfish feed?
1 But what if Chandra is right, and "the seeds of life" are plentiful throughout the Cosmos? That would obviously mean that great adventures –and challenges– await us if we, like Bilbo Baggins, decide to be taken by our feet once we step outside our doorstep.
If Earth is Bag End, then Voyager 1 has officially reached the edge of the Shire (our solar system): that's the ground-breaking announcement given by the Voyager team of JPL in Pasadena last Thursday. And I for one am willing to accept it, mainly because I'm sick & tired of returning to this story again & again. So SCREW YOU, Oort Cloud! You're the gas station lying outside of the system as far as this column is concerned.
And in case you're wondering what the edge of our cosmic backyard sounds like, wonder no more:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/LIAZWb9_si4[/youtube]
Vaya con Dios, V'ger!
Until next time, this is RPJ jacking out. Reminding you that a journey of a thousand miles begins with choosing the right kind of shoes.
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Countries which borrow a lot have to repay their loans at some point.

As the recent excellent paper by Sebastian Horner et al. [here]( https://www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications/Christoph_Trebesch/KWP_2132.pdf) lays out, there's a lot of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) lending out there, possibly more than anyone realized.

As this chart shows, debt to China is between 20-30% of GDP for most of the top 20 debtors, as assessed by the authors. Add to that assorted other debts to other governments, the World Bank and the IMF.

Fans of BRI invariably talk about how all the BRI infrastructure is going to generate growth – and thus presumably the revenues to service and then repay these loans. It would be super-great too if the projects could generate US dollar receipts, since that is how BRI loans will need to be repaid (see [here](http://credibletarget.net/notes/BRI_CNY) for a crowd-sourced discussion of that). (Short summary: Belt & Road is a huge and quite risky long-dollar/short-renminbi trade disguised as an infrastructure program).

There's been discussion of "debt trap diplomacy" – that Beijing was intentionally trapping its borrowers. And then, of course there were critiques of the "debt-trap diplomacy" critique, which have variously pointed out that (1) it has only been in Sri Lanka where Beijing has taken collateral (2) there's loads of debt forgiveness and (3) Beijing is not *intending* to entrap these countries.

On the first criticism, it is still early days. On the second, yes there have been some cases, but it is usually pretty small-scale borrowing. And I think a good push-back for the third argument is US sub-prime mortgage lending. Countrywide did not intend to entrap its borrowers – it was aiming for a win-win with its borrowers no doubt – but the end result was horrible anyway.

Now, for this debate to be resolved we need some metrics for measuring how able the borrowers will be to repay these loans.

Unfortunately, repayment ability is hard to evaluate – it depends on all manner of assumptions about economic growth, tax revenues and other spending requirements. The supporters of BRI say that all the infrastructure will catalyze more growth; others point out that these projects are expensive and unlikely to do much for their local economies. You can point to examples of both.

But since most BRI loans are denominated in US dollars, these countries will have to earn dollars. And you usually do that by exporting more than you import.

So it would be a good idea for China to be lending to countries which either have a current account (C/A) surplus – or which are projected to have one soon.

We can lean on the IMF for some data. Here are some interesting charts which hopefully throw some light on this question.

First up, apologies to the Kiel papers' authors, but I eye-balled their numbers for the "debt to China" in chart above as I could not see if they had published the data or not.

I then plotted debt to China in 2017 against the C/A, both as a share of GDP. Most economies are running a C/A deficit. Not a great start.

You might be wondering if BRI has exacerbated these countries' current account deficits. After all, when you borrow BRI money from China you're usually going to be importing a lot of machinery and raw materials.

Here I show debt to China against the 2013-18 change in the C/A. There is not much of a relationship. Of course, there are other things going on, commodity prices and global trade stagnating.

But that's history – what about the future? Well, here are IMF projections for the C/A in 2024 for the big BRI borrowers. Pretty much every one of them will still be running a C/A deficit. Not good news.

That said, the IMF may be already factoring in interest repayments to China, which should logged in the income line of the C/A. (Repayment of principal will get logged in the financial account.)

(Though one of the arguments of the Kiel paper is that some of the BRI debt is disguised/not reported, and even when it is, the interests may not be known to the IMF.)

The IMF do not publish separate projections of the goods and services lines of the C/A (which exclude debt interest). But they do forecast export and import growth rates. Here they are.

The IMF are hopeful that for most countries export growth will exceed import growth. The median project for exports is 6% a year, against 4% for imports during 2018-24.

This would be a turnaround for most borrowers from recent years – the median import growth during 2012 was 5%, the same as for exports.

Maybe BRI projects will support borrowers' export growth and attract FDI. That's certainly the game-plan for borrowers like Pakistan and Ethiopia, which see Special Economic Zones, filled with manufacturing, as the way out of the incoming balance of payments crisis. They hope thus to repeat the China model. The differences, though, are that back in the 1980s, China was not borrowing that much from the rest of the world (wisely), and most of the inward investments from Hong Kong and Taiwan were equity stakes, not loans. Equity only gets paid if it is successful.

In short, if the BRI projects do not work, we are going to have a problem.

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Review: Jonah Hill finds his footing with 'Mid90s'
Hill's writing and directing debut unfolds in the world of 1990s skateboarding culture
Adam Graham
Detroit News Film Critic
The tribal rituals of skateboarding are celebrated with authenticity and exuberance in "Mid90s," Jonah Hill's heartfelt coming-of-age story that marks his assured debut as a writer-director.
Hill has a deep reverence for the skating scene that translates on screen, and he makes you feel the romance of attempting your first kickflip or laying down grip tape on a board. If the story's emotional stakes are lacking, Hill makes up for it in mood and feel, and is propelled by a booming soundtrack full of on-point '90s hip-hop cues.
Stevie (Sunny Suljic, "The Killing of a Sacred Deer") is a shy, scrawny kid in Los Angeles in the film's titular time period. Dad's not around, mom is working to make ends meet, and his admiration for his emotionally stunted older brother (Lucas Hedges, effective in bully mode) results only in brotherly beatdowns.
So he links up with a group of skaters at the local skate shop, including Ray (Na-kel Smith), Ruben (Gio Galicia) and Fourth Grade (Ryder McLaughlin). It's not easy, but he ingratiates himself with the group, and through them Stevie finds his place in the big, bad world.
"Mid90s" is like Larry Clark's 1995 street manifesto "Kids," but with heart. The awkward Stevie desperately wants to be cool, and Hill captures the effortless swagger that makes Ray and his friends so appealing. Stevie's not a natural skater, but Hill makes viewers invested in the minor triumphs of putting oneself out there. Stevie tries, he falls, he gets back up. And when he finally lands his first trick, you feel it.
At just 84 minutes, "Mid90s" feels brief, like a sketch rather than a full painting. But Hill is finding his footing, landing one trick at a time, and he's off to a strong start.
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'Mid90s'
Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use, some violent behavior/disturbing images -- all involving minors


Thornbay Accommodation is the prime accommodation establishment in Doringbaai, a small town in southern Namaqualand, situated on the West Coast of South Africa. Here you can enjoy total relaxation in a safe and friendly environment.
Accommodation is offered in 8 fully equipped, self-catering apartments with fantastic views of Doringbaai harbour, the lighthouse, and the sea, often accompanied by breathtaking sunsets over the Atlantic Ocean. All units are seafront apartments with an unimpeded view of the sea, which is virtually a stone's throw away. Linen and bath towels are provided.
Each apartment has a fully equipped, open-plan kitchen and lounge area as well as a patio braai area and its own entrance. Some apartments are on the ground floor while the rest are on the first floor. Parking is available on the premises. Other facilities available on the premises include a recreation room with pool table and dartboard, a mini library, a trampoline, and swimming pool.
A fully stocked fishery is available for all your seafood needs, firewood, and ice. Fishing tackle and a limited stock of diving equipment are also available. When catering for your family becomes a chore, a restaurant and pub are only a minute's walk away from Thornbay Accommodation as well as various takeaways.
Discover our part of the world while you are at Doringbaai, sleep alongside the cool Atlantic Ocean and explore the hot, inland towns during the day.
The areas along the coast north and south of Doringbaai, as well as inland, have much to offer the visitor at any time of the year. Walks along deserted beaches, 4x4 routes, whale watching, fishing, Olifants River Mouth bird sanctuary, hiking trails along the sea cliffs or in the mountains, Namaqualand's flowers during late winter and spring, a world-renowned succulent nursery, wine routes which start in Doringbaai itself and much more are there to be enjoyed.


Smokey quartz: Grounding and anchoring. Like other dark crystals, it is absorbs negative energy surrounding the owner. Wand is approximately 3cm in length.
Rose quartz: Love. Encourages unconditional love. Linked to the heart. Wand is approximately 8cm in length.
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The lawyer for a Quebec man whose lawsuit against the search and rescue team in Golden, B.C., forced it to shut down says some good can come of the court action.
Jun. 22, 2009 3:41 p.m.
VANCOUVER — The lawyer for a Quebec man whose lawsuit against the search and rescue team in Golden, B.C., forced it to shut down says some good can come of the court action.
Nancy Wilhelm-Morden says if problems with search and rescue teams come to light as a result of the lawsuit, then that's a positive thing for all involved.
Search and rescue teams throughout the country have been scrambling to re-examine their insurance policies since the negligence suit was filed by Gilles Blackburn against the Golden team.
In B.C., the search and rescue unit in Kimberley followed Golden's lead by temporarily suspending its services and Vernon has given the province 60 days to clear up any insurance gaps or it too will cease operations.
Blackburn is seeking damages after he and his wife spent nine days lost in the wilderness. He claims SOS messages he stamped into the snow were ignored and enough wasn't done to save him and his wife, who died during the ordeal.