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Going Viral: An Environmental Activist's Story
Dr Nathan Robinson
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Dr Nathan Robinson's video of him removing a plastic drinking straw from a sea turtle's nose went viral in 2015. He has since been developing new ways of using technology to gain insights into the secret lives of marine creatures, including capturing the first footage of a live giant squid in US waters and mounting cameras on shells of sea turtles.
This lecture will give a practical guide to building viral science stories to bring about environmental change.
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Going Viral:
An Environmental Activist's Story
I am here to tell you a story. This story covers how a chance encounter enabled me to connect with hundreds of millions of people around the globe and impassion them to join the fight against plastic pollution - an issue that currently threatens the health of all marine life on this planet. I will also share how this set me down a path of using social media and viral videos to engage ever larger audiences in ocean conservation. By telling you this story, I hope to impart some of the lessons that I learned on this journey. I also want to show you that you already have the necessary tools at your fingertips to start enacting global behavioural change today.
My story begins when as kid, I was obsessed with nature. In fact, my Mum often tells me instead of bed-time stories, I used to ask her to read to me from an old, tattered animal encyclopaedia that I used to carry around with me like a cuddly toy. To me, the natural world exemplified something more fascinating than anything than could be dreamed up in a work of fiction. It therefore made sense that as I teenager, I found myself hooked on nature documentaries. And the more I watched, the more I learned two things. One, our oceans were under threat and two, I wanted to do something about it.
My next step was rather predictable, I went to university to study marine biology. My expectation was that upon starting my degree, I would be ushered into a world of rescuing whales, dolphins, and other imperilled critters but the reality was a little more mundane. My professors were deeply knowledgeable about the issues facing our ocean, but we learned almost nothing about what to do about it. I found this feeling very frustrating and so I decided to take a different path and began volunteering.
I decided to volunteer for Archelon – the sea turtle protection society of Greece. Here, my expectations met reality. We would spend our days patrolling endless beaches looking for the tracks in the sand from nesting sea turtles. When we found a track, we would dig until we confirm that exact location of the eggs, before setting up a protective cover to guard the eggs until they hatched a few months later. Through every protected nest, I would feel that I was having a direct impact on ocean conservation, and I loved it. Luckily, my enthusiasm was also picked up by supervisors who quickly offered me a paid job for the next season.
After several summers spent with Archelon, I eventually was offered a similar job in Costa Rica. This then led to a Ph.D that had me bouncing between the USA, the Caribbean, and South Africa. Finally, I returned to Costa Rica again as a post-doc. I was living my dream of being a marine biologists and conservationist but something else weighed on my mind. Regardless of how many sea turtle nests were protected by me or the thousands of other people working with sea turtles worldwide, in most areas the trends were the same; sea turtle population were in decline. In fact, at Parque Nacional Marine Las Baulas in Costa Rica, the location that I had spent 8 years of my life, sea turtle populations had been declining by a rate of about 20 % per year since monitoring began in the late 1980s. This site was once that largest recorded nesting beach for the leatherback turtles. Last year, only 2 turtles nested there.
These reasons behind declining sea turtle populations in many locations worldwide had already been largely figured out long before I had even begun my life in conservation. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles were dying annually after being caught accidentally by commercial fisheries, others were choking on the marine plastic debris that was continually emptying into our oceans, and countless eggs were literally cooking in their nests as climate change raised beach temperature beyond survivable limits. Unfortunately, none of these issues could be fixed by guarding nests as I had been doing and on top of this, these problems were global issues and so could not be addressed via local initiatives. Fishing fleets are driven by global economic and political processes, plastic pollution enters the ocean from every country on this planet, and we all contribute to CO2 production every time we drive a car or eat imported food.
To truly fix these issues requires global collaboration but there is also a lot of individual responsibility as each of us can play a role in our daily decisions such as eating sustainable seafood, recycling more, or driving less. So, to compliment by work on nesting beaches, I also began to organize various outreach campaigns. I gave talks in public forums, schools, universities, hotels, and basically anywhere where people would listen. However, I discovered a more effective way to reach far larger audiences thanks to a chance encounter in 2015.
I had been invited to join a research expedition off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The expedition was being run by a good friend, Christine Figgener from Texas A&M university, to collect tissue samples from olive ridley sea turtles for genetic analyses. As collecting these samples required us handle the turtle directly, I decided to also use this opportunity continue one of my own studies on sea turtle epibionts. Epibionts are the animals, such as barnacles, crabs, and leeches, that live on the bodies of larger marine organisms, such as sea turtles. These epibionts can be very interesting animals themselves but importantly they can also reveal information about health, behaviour, and movements of their sea turtle host. In turn, this information can be used to develop improve management plans for sea turtle conservation. So, every time we brought sea turtle onboard the boat, I would scour over them to study their epibiont hitchhikers. On one notable animal, we found something we had never seen before. The turtle appeared to have something lodged in its nostril. I initially thought it was a tubeworm, a worm-like animal with an encrusting shell, but as it was clearly blocking the turtle's airway I decided to jump into action. I reached for my pocket tool while Chris grabbed her camera. Here, is the video that she recorded. The following video can be a little disturbing and so viewer discretion is advice.
Much to our surprise, the object was not a tubeworm; it was a plastic drinking straw. I wish I could say that this was a one-off event, but two months later lightning struck again.
We were working at another research site about 50 kilometres away from the first site and were once again collecting epibionts. When we found another animal with something in its nose, I once again grabbed my pocket tool while a different friend, Sean Williamson, grabbed his camera. Here, it that video that he recorded.
This it was not a plastic straw, but a plastic fork.
After both encounters, my first feeling was one of guilt. I had used countless plastic straws and forks in my life, and I so felt part responsible for what I had witnessed. I also wondered how these objects found their way into those turtles' nostrils? They could not have been forced in from the outside as the head of fork was too large and so I concluded turtles were accidentally eating plastic items and them attempting to regurgitate them later. Unfortunately, for some animals, the plastic item was not being passed out of the mouth but was getting stuck into the internal nares, which is the channel that connects your external nostrils to your throat and can be seen in the X-ray shown. For anyone looking for an analogy, it is like what happens when you laugh when drinking and the liquid is expelled out of your nose!
Even though it was well known that sea turtles are frequently eating plastic debris in the ocean, no one had previously reported that plastic items were also becoming wedged into turtle's nostrils. So, I did what most scientists would do and I wrote up two short scientific articles describing these events and published them the a peer-reviewed journal: Marine Turtle Newsletter. Recently, I looked up the first of these articles a platform called ResearchGate and I could see that it had been downloaded a few thousand times. Not bad for a scientific article but hardly world changing. Yet when I posted the original photos and videos on social media alongside a quick call to action about the impact of marine plastic pollution, the impact was quite different.
This was the Facebook post I made when I first shared the images from the share video. As you can see it was eventually shared over 32,000 times. When compared with my posts from the fork video, the shares exceed 60,000. These videos have also now received over 220,000,000 views on YouTube, were picked up by an array of international news sources, inspired several anti-single use plastic campaigns, and were the focus of a full-length film, somewhat predictably, Straws.
Or perhaps the most modern measure of cultural impact is the quantity of memes it produced, and for this I will just say "a lot".
The impact of these videos was clear. A global conversation had begun regarding our use of single-use plastics and before long coffee shops, restaurants, provinces, and eventually entire countries were calling for bans on single-use plastic and especially straws, often stating directly that it was "for the turtles!"
Seeing the impact of these videos, I wondered how I could continue to incorporate this strategy of using online videos for outreach into my own research as a Marine Biologist. So, I decided to start developing new research projects that would be based around camera technologies. This way I could simultaneously generate footage that could answer important ecological questions while also be used as a platform for conducting "viral" environmental outreach.
For the next section of my talk, I will give a quick introduction three of these projects and their successes. The first of these projects involves using cameras attached to drones, the second will be cameras mounted directly on the animals of interest (or animal-borne cameras), and lastly cameras that we are deploying into the deep-sea.
Starting with drones, which are often more accurately called Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles, these devices have led to something of a mini revolution in the field of ecology in the past decade. As small drones became commercially available at a relatively affordable price, ecologists were able to use them to study wildlife from an aerial viewpoint that could only previously be achieved using helicopters of low-flying aircraft. This has been particularly useful for people working in shallow-water or coastal habitats as it provides a new method to quickly count the number of individuals in a particular habitat or to study their behaviour without disturbing them. Next, I wish to share with you a couple of my favourite clips from these projects.
We have published some great scientific articles from this work and received coverage from National Geographic and a couple of British newspapers, but nothing on the scale that we were aiming for. So, for the next project we aimed to get take a brand-new perspective. Specifically, a first-person perspective of the animals that we were studying.
Animal-borne cameras can be thoughts of like GoPro head mounts for the animal kingdom. Several researchers had been deploying similar cameras for many years but typically they were deployed by scientists for the primary goal of science. For this reason, it might be critically important that you film in the highest resolution, and you might prioritize recording for longer over the quality of your footage. We took a more image-centric approach and decided to use high-quality diving cameras that could record crisp, 4k footage and we developed a simple method for quickly mounting these cameras onto the shells of sea turtles in The Bahamas. We picked sea turtles as we knew that they were charismatic and engaging animals but instead of focusing on the threats that these animals face, we wanted to share a more positive message. So, instead we decided to focus our study on the sea turtles of The Bahamas as these habitats were relatively pristine and had minimal impact from pollution, boat traffic, or habitat development. We wanted to show the world exactly how beautiful it could be to swim through the oceans like a sea turtle.
As mentioned earlier though, the goal was to compliment engaging footage with real scientific questions, and there is a lot that you can do with footage from animal-borne cameras. Knowing how a sea turtle sees and interacts with the world around it, can provide insights into what they eat, how they find food, how the find shelter, and even how turtles interact with each other? In fact, learning that sea turtles are surprising social was one of the key discoveries of this project. It was generally accepted that sea turtles, even when forming large aggregations in their feeding habitats, were not typically social animals and rarely interacted. However, our animal-borne camera footage showed that turtles would almost never swim past another turtle without some form of interaction. Sometimes these interactions were clearly aggressive and may reflect territorial behaviour, but we also recorded plenty of non-aggressive interactions, such as gentle head rubbing. Seeing as these turtles were all juvenile and not reproductively active, we are still trying to figure out the mystery of this behaviour. Maybe, if I show you some of this footage, you can come up with your hypotheses.
We are currently still writing up the peer-reviewed articles from this project, but the media coverage has been great. We have been featured in several newspapers and online media channels including CNN, Great Big Story, 60 Second Documents, and OceanX. A clear step forward in engaging with global audiences.
For my final project, I will take us away from the waters of the tropics and head somewhere far picturesque – the deep sea. Many of us rarely think about the deep sea but it's a lot more important than we often think. Over 70 % of the world's surface covered by water and 93 %, or the area highlighted in orange is below, 200 m. This makes the deep-sea one of the largest habitats on this planet and far bigger than any single terrestrial ecosystem. Nevertheless, it also remains one of the least studied habitats on this planet and an arguable over-used fact is that we have more detailed maps of the surface of the moon than we do of the bottom of the ocean.
There are a few key reasons that make deep-sea exploration particularly challenging. Firstly, while the deepest depth that a human can dive is a few hundreds of meters, the ocean can reach depths of over 11,000m. Moreover, with every meter you descend, the external pressure increases. In other words, you become slowly crushed by the weight of the water above you. As pressure increases at a rate of one atmosphere per 10 meters, with one atmosphere being the pressure you feel at the surface, this will have already increased 20 times by the time you reach 20 meters. Exploring the deep therefore requires the use of expensive technology such as submarines, submersibles, or Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
Another key issue is that the deeper you go, the less sunlight penetrates from the surface. Below depths of around 200 m, the amount of light penetrating from the surface is so low that we can barely see anything with the human eye. We therefore tend to attach bright white lights onto the front of our submarines or ROVs to explore pierce through the inky darkness around us. But just because we need extra light to see at these depths that is not necessarily the case from the natural inhabitants of these depths, many of which have evolved incredibly low-light sensitive eyesight. Consequently, it is possible many species that live in the deep sea can see our artificial lights from far away and flee far before they are close enough for us to see.
One of the first scientists to ponder this dilemma was Dr. Edith Widder, who decided to build a "stealth" camera platform to record the behaviour of ever the most camera-shy deep-sea fauna. This camera, which was called the Medusa, used a low-light sensitive camera with far red illuminators instead of white ones. This was important as Edith's own research had shown that many deep-sea species did not see light of the colour red. Unlike a submarine or submersible, the Medusa also had no moving parts and so it was completely silent. This gave Edith a device that deep-sea organisms could not see or hear but she still needed a method to draw animals in close. For this, she developed a device called an E-Jelly that had a circle of blue LEDs that emitted this light in a pin-wheel display. These lights mimicked the bioluminescent display of a deep-sea jellyfish, a common prey items in these habitats. You see the key was not to get rid of all light, just to use light in a slightly clearer way.
Edith had already built the device, but she needed someone with a background in underwater filming to help her deploy it on an expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, and I jumped at the opportunity. On this expedition, we filmed everything from deep-sea sharks to shrimp that would spew bright neon blue jets of bioluminescence, but one species in particular left us speechless. We filmed a species that is it a true cultural icon. This species is so captivating that it has featured in everything from Norse mythology to modern-day blockbusters. The species is commonly called the "Kraken", but its scientific name is the giant squid. For all its fame it has only been filmed alive once before in the waters of Japan. What you are about to see if the second ever clip of this species and the first to be filmed in US waters.
This revealed some new information about the hunting behaviour of giant squid that we published last year. It was also immediately picked up by one the largest newspapers in the world, the New York Times and over 400 other international media sources. Suddenly, the deep sea, a habitat that generally most people never even think about was being discussed worldwide.
For the final section of my talk, I will try to synthesize this information into five lessons that I have learnt on my journey in science communication.
First, and most importantly, "Global Outreach Needs Global Communication". Another way of saying this is that science shared in a bubble, stays within that bubble. As scientists, we tend to not be great at engaging with non-scientific audiences. However, unless we attempt to bridge this gap, we are stunting the potential impact of our research. There are now so many platforms that scientists can use to share their research outside of non-peer reviewed journals, including press releases, social media, blog posts, podcast, and more. Using these platforms, we provide a bridge that is the first step towards going viral and reaching the largest possible audience.
Second, "Emotional Connection Promotes Engagement". Science is commonly communicated in terms of statistics and facts. While we always need to keep facts central to science communication, we also need to recognize that emotional connection provides the necessary engagement to communicate these facts. For example, try telling someone this quote from an article in the journal Science "We calculate that 275 million metric tons of plastic waste was generate in 192 coastal countries in 2010, with 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons entering the ocean". This quote is scary, but it is difficult to visualize or connect with emotional. Instead, try sharing the straw video and then use this as a platform to say that this was the impact of one straw from that potential 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste that entered the ocean in 2010. For many people, the second option helped build the emotional connection that allowed them to engage the original fact that was presented. Another example is the giant squid video. The giant squid is a great platform to engage people in conversations about the deep sea and specifically why conserving deep-sea habitats is so important.
Third, "Positivity Is As Powerful As Negativity". With stories on ecological disasters growing each year, it is easy to focus on the negative. Such stories can be very impactful, and the straw video shows the power of a difficult-to-watch imagery, but we need to be careful of "Apocalypse Fatigue". If we only share negative information, we run the risk to turning people off and loosing engagement. So, it's important to remember that positive and awe-inspiring imagery such as that from the animal-borne cameras of the giant squid can be just as engaging and help spread a bit of positivity about the natural environment.
Fourth, "Promote Individual Action". The key to the success of the straw video was that there was an easy solution that we could easily identify and take part it. Removing straws from our lives was relatively easy for most of us and even if it was only a tiny faction towards addressing the global issue of marine plastic pollution, it was at least a step in the right direction. In contrast, the animal-borne camera videos or the giant squid have been arguably as viral but it's harder to identify specific behavioural changes that have resulted from these videos. This does not mean that the awe provide by these videos may not have indirect effects on engaging people with more eco-friendly living but it's clear to see that promoting individual action is key to really seeing that change.
Five, "You Have Everything You Need". My story today has focused on sharing stories recorded from remote corners of the planet and using state-of-the-art technology, but I want to end by saying that it does not have to be this way. Almost everyone listening to this talk now has a smart phone and direct access to any social media platform of their choosing. This technology has given us the power to tell the stories that are important to use and share them on a global platform. You already have what you need. The only remaining question how you will use your story to change the world?
© Dr Nathan Robinson, 2022
Robinson NJ, Figgener C (2015) Plastic straw found inside the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle. Marine Turtle Newsletter 147:5-6.
Robinson NJ, Dornfeld TC, Butler BO, Domico LJ, Hertz CR, McKenna LN, Neilson CB, Williamson SA (2016) Plastic fork found inside the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle. Marine Turtle Newsletter 150:1-Robinson NJ, Figgener C, Gatto C, Lazo-Wasem EA, Paladino FV, Santidrián Tomillo P, Zardus JD, Pinou T (2017) Assessing potential limitations when characterising the epibiota of marine megafauna: effect of gender, sampling location, and inter-annual variation on the epibiont communities of olive ridley sea turtles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 497:71-7.
Farlow JO, Robinson NJ, Turner ML, Black J, Gatesy SM (2018) Footfall pattern of a bottom-walking crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). Palaios 33:406-13.
Robinson NJ, Bigelow WF, Cuffley J, Gary M, Hoefer S, Mills S, Smith A, Miguel Blanco A (2020) Validating the use of drones for monitoring the abundance and behaviour of juvenile green sea turtles in mangrove creeks in The Bahamas. Testudo 9: 24-35.
Robinson NJ, Johnsen S, Brooks A, Frey L, Judkins H, Vecchione M, Widder E (2021) Studying the swift, smart, and shy: unobtrusive camera-platforms for observing large deep-sea squid. Deep-Sea Research I 172:103538.
Life Through The Eyes of a Sea Turtle - Mission Wild: https://youtu.be/JxvhFX4S1A0
Giant Squid Spotted In US Waters - OceanX - https://youtu.be/dqLLiNxxKUI
The Most Famous Straw in the World - OceanX - https://youtu.be/suPt9SGXG34
Filming Giant Squid and Saving Sea Turtles - The Morning Show - https://youtu.be/Q6tR1bM4IM8
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I just have a couple of questions about the way the forums are set up.
First up, I see I am now a "Guru". Nothing could be further from the truth. How is this calculated? Purely on number of posts? It a serious question since these tags give new users an idea of who really knows their stuff and has been around MCE a while.
Next, I have a Karma of something like -43. Is this because people keep "smite"ing me? It's a shame coz if you were to meet me, you'd find I'm actually quite laid-back and most people who know me seem to think I'm quite a nice guy! (Honest!) Again, where does this value come from?
The board clock. It tells me the time is currently 11:39:14pm GMT-1. That's not correct. (I'm in the UK at the moment, which is currently GMT+1, and it's 16:39, so the clock is out by 3 hours or there abouts by my calculation) I know it's a little thing, but it irritates the hell out of me (even though I'm a laid back kind of guy ) I'm not sure where the server is, but can we either set the clock correctly or set the timezone correctly? Please?
Yes, the 'guru' status is done via number of posts.
Karma is done by smites.
You can change the timezone for your account in your preferences.
I think this should be reviewed. Seriously! Just because I've posted a lot, doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about (or vice versa) and this can give a false impression of the weight that should be applied to someone's opinions.
Oh I've obviously p****d someone off (probably the devs in the thread about documentation and management). I see I got 4 stars though! I wonder how I got those :-) Someone else has been smiteing me too! (Down to -44 Karma) - I could get paranoid!
Just done some digging around in my profile and it would seem the timezone is what is incorrect. I changed my offset to make the time correct, but it still says "GMT-1"!!!
I think my comments about status are valid and, may I say, relevant.
As for the time thing - what message does it give the casual visitor if we can't get that right?
On the time thing: In your profile you can set the 'offset'. I used 'autodetect' and it correctly entered -8 as I'm in California. The time for me is now correct. It does still say GMT-1 next to the time but I'm guessing that is indicating the time zone the server is in, not my time zone.
On Karma: I wouldn't worry about it too much, as you can see, most people have negative karma (including people I know to be helpful and informed). It's a system where anybody can 'smite' you so it's easy to rack up negative karma.
On the posting rank: The titles themselves are a bit misleading, yes. However, anyone that has used any forums should understand that it refers to number of posts and in general it is a good indication of LMCE experience. The thinking being that even if you're not a dev, the fact that you have 150+ posts shows that you've been around and will have at least a good general knowledge of the system. A reply from you would carry more weight to a brand new user than a reply from someone with 4 posts as you've obviously been around longer and have probably seen the issue yourself or seen a thread in which someone else has had the issue.
I can relate to the OCD like concerns, my thing is open cabinets and drawers. A desk drawer left 1/2" open drives me bonkers. Dunno why.
I guess you're right. It all just seems very odd to me and, like I said, what impression does it give to the casual visitor?
That's not OCD! If you leave it open then the network gremlins can get out. If you look into the darkness in the drawer opening, you can see their green glowing eyes staring back at you! FEAR the gremlins - keep drawers closed!!!!
For the most part post count does reflect experience with lmce.
Point taken. Can someone reset my post count, please?
i think for each level you start with no stars and work up to 5. so if your a guru with 4.5 stars that means your close to the next level.
Did anyone else notice that the KArma has gone?
Thank's oh forum management person!


Another huge name joins the list.
A Google spokesperson says company is still figuring out what specific actions it would take and hasn't posted publicly about its involvement on Google's company blog.
The worldwide day of action is an online protest against the Federal Communications Commission's proposed rule-making that would eliminate Title II restrictions on internet service providers, effectively ending the concept of net neutrality, which is the concept that all websites should load at the same speed, no matter their content or who owns them.
Title II restrictions were the core of the Obama-era FCC's decision to regulate ISPs like telecommunications companies, making it so the powerful corporations governing internet access did not use their power unfairly, creating things like paid fast lanes for quicker access or superior service for preferred websites.
So far, a huge cross section of the internet has jumped on board. Amazon and Reddit were two of first big names to sign on in early June, and PornHub signed up later that month. Netflix dragged its heels a bit at first, but eventually got on board on June 15.
Fight For the Future, the internet advocacy group that organized the protest, has similarly mobilized tech companies and public voices to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress. You can see a video released by Fight for the Future above.
Net neutrality supporters protest outside the FCC.
Google is part of the Internet Association, a lobbying group of internet-based businesses that publicly signed on to Fight for the Future's day of action early on, but the company had not confirmed it would be specifically participating. Reddit, Etsy, Netflix, and Amazon are all also Internet Association members.
During online days of action, participating websites sometimes black out portions of their site to remind users just how crappy the internet would be without a free web, or post banner ads or other pop-ups that advocate for the cause.


Hundreds of persons yesterday turned up at the Square of the Revolution, to take part in the 'Government comes to you" initiative.
As a part of the initiative, representatives of various ministries of the government and agencies affiliated with the ministries, were on deck to listen and assist members of the public with their concerns.
Various ministers and heads of departments from over 20 ministries and agencies were present at the outreach and were able to interact with members of the public…..


The Treasury market's inflation forecast has remained fairly steady since May, hovering in the 1.5% to 2.0% range. As of Monday's close, the current outlook for inflation is 1.80%, based on the yield spread between the nominal 10-year Treasury less its inflation-indexed counterpart.
As our chart below shows, this stability follows a period of extreme volatility, launched last September when the implosion of Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEHMQ) sparked a steep wave of selling in almost everything, government bonds being the leading exception.
The Treasury market's 1.8% inflation outlook contrasts with the most-recent 12-month change in the headline consumer price index, which dropped 1.5% for the year through August. But if we look at core CPI, which excludes the volatile energy and food sectors, prices rose by 1.4% for the 12 months through last month. That's just under the 1.8% inflation forecast implied by the Treasury market.
If future inflation for the next decade lives up to the current forecast, the pace of consumer price changes will compare well with the historical record. A world where inflation resides under 2% is favorable if we use the long-run past for comparison. But inflation expectations aren't a constant, which works well since inflation isn't set in stone either. And therein lies the potential for mischief making.
Such concerns will no doubt be on the agenda of the Fed's FOMC meeting, which begins today and concludes tomorrow. For the moment, however, the market expects that the central bank will keep monetary policy on an even keel, which is to say maintaining its Fed funds interest rate target of 0-0.25%.
As our second chart below illustrates, Fed funds futures project rates will stay unchanged for the next few months, rising slowly in 2010. If the futures market is correct, a year from now we'll see Fed funds at roughly 1.0%.
It all makes for a wonderful outlook. Inflation is low and expected to stay that way, save for a s-l-o-w rise in the months ahead from an extremely low base. As inflation projections go, this is about as good as it gets. And that's what worries us.
But for now, all's well. Enjoy it while it lasts.


the bus pulled round the corner and into the stop.
that it was Chris, my then boyfriend.
it back upstairs and Chris took the lock off for me.
the garage for a lock when I felt something cold sliding down my back.
realise what had happened. I had fallen thorough the glass back door.
If only there hadn't been a power cut!


Currently there are fire bans in effect in the RM of Moosomin and the RM of Martin, but NOT in the town of Moosomin.
The town of Moosomin council recently approved a new bylaw regarding fire bans BUT DOES NOT HAVE A FIRE BAN CURRENTLY IN PLACE, so you can still enjoy your firepit in the town of Moosomin.
4. Be prepared and have a plan to extinguish a fire should it escape from the fire pit/barbeque.


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Het Estisch honkbalteam is het nationale honkbalteam van Estland. Het team vertegenwoordigt Estland tijdens internationale wedstrijden. Het Estisch honkbalteam sloot zich in 1992 aan bij de Europese Honkbalfederatie (CEB), de continentale bond voor Europa van de IBAF.

Estland is een van de minst actieve leden van de Europese Honkbalfederatie. Het heeft de afgelopen vier jaar niet gepresteerd of deelgenomen op EK's, WK's, Intercontinental Cup's, World Baseball Classic's of andere honkbaltoernooien.

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 Estland op ibaf.org

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God's Providence and Sin (5)
We concluded our last article by calling attention to the Scriptural truth that God is free. We noted that Pelagianism would maintain a freedom for the sinner in the sense that he is free, able to choose both the good and the evil. Otherwise, so he claims, we lose man's responsibility. The Arminian, we understand, is guilty of the same heresy. Man, he asserts, must be free to accept the general, well-meaning offer of the gospel. To him, the preaching is such a general, well-meaning offer of a salvation which the Lord would bestow upon all that hear it.
Taking Heed to the Doctrine Other
Letter to Timothy
Dear Timothy, I want to conclude our discussion of Christ-centered preaching in this letter to you. We have discussed a number of particular illustrations of Christ-centered preaching-illustrations from different kinds of biblical material. But there remains one kind of biblical material which we must still treat. I refer to hortatory texts, i.e., texts which contain admonitions.
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Our Calling as Protestant Reformed Churches to be Specific (1)
For various reasons which will become clear, I trust, as we proceed, I am intending to write an occasional editorial on the subject which heads this article. As churches, we must be specific. We must not be generally Christian. We must not be known or try to be known merely as "conservative," nor even as "conservatively" Reformed. But we must be clearly, unmistakably, specifically Protestant Reformed. We have a distinctively Protestant Reformed heritage. By that heritage we have always been known over the years. And by that heritage we must continue to be known.
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Justified Solely in Christ
Ques. 62. But why cannot our good works be the whole, or part of our righteousness before God? Ans. Because, that the righteousness, which can be approved of before the tribunal of God, must be absolutely perfect, and in all respects conformable to the divine law; and also, that our best works in this life are all imperfect and defiled with sin. Ques. 63. What! do not our good works merit, which yet God will reward in this and in a future life?
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Harbach, David
I am glad to receive responses to certain news items. I am informed that "The Reformed Witness Hour has not been on WJBL-FM on Tuesday at 12:30 for a number .of years." The same person wanted to know if the Reformed Witness Hour broadcasts over ELWA on a regular basis. ELWA is not one of the radio stations of the RWH. The tapes they receive must be the cassette-taped copy of our broadcasts that Mr. Jake Kuiper sends out every month overseas for the Reformed Witness Committee of Hope P.R.C. in Walker. Rev. Harbach has provided me some useful information...
LEARNING JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM, by Karl Barth; Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1982; 141 pp., $4.95 (paper). (Reviewed by Prof. H. Hanko) This book contains two sections: the first is a series of lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism delivered by Barth at the University of Bonn in 1947; the second is a lecture given in 1938 in a course for teachers of religion on the Schauenberg, near Liestal, Switzerland and entitled: "Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism."
Book Reviews Other
The Covenant and the Atonement
Koole, Kenneth
In his excellent book, The Scripture Doctrine of the Church, D. D. Barmerman makes the following points:
Guest Article Other
Article 1 (cont'd) After confessing that the one true God is Maker of heaven and earth, the Nicene Creed adds the phrase "and of all things visible and invisible."
Faith Of Our Fathers Other
Report From Singapore
denHartog, Arie
By the time this article appears in print almost a half a year will have gone by since we had opportunity to visit some of our churches on our furlough. It was a real joy to be back in the U.S.A. for a while and to be able to speak on the Lord's work here in Singapore. We were much encouraged by the evident interest and excitement about the mission work in Singapore that we found among our people. We trust therefore also that you will be interested in hearing again about the progress of the work.
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Missionary Methods (15)
In the previous article we faced the question: Along what lines ought the native church be organized? Missionaries usually do not face that question very seriously. They simply assume that the mission church ought to be organized in the same fashion as the sending church. If the missionary is Presbyterian he organizes the mission church upon Presbyterian principles of church government. The Anglican missionary organizes the mission church according to the Episcopal form of church government. Dr. Nevius thinks this is wrong.
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CTS Eventim's Austrian Business Unfazed By Banking Scandal | Pollstar News
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An Austrian bank is being investigated for making half-a-billion Euros disappear. CTS Eventim's Austrian business, Barracuda Music, currently cannot access its deposits.
Barracuda Music, Austria's biggest concert and festival promoter, got acquired by CTS Eventim late last year, Pollstar revealed at the time. The company holds some €34 million ($40 million) in deposits with the bank in question, Commerzialbank Mattersburg.
The bank has been prohibited from conducting business in mid-July, when it had become clear that it was engaged in shady dealings. It had artificially inflated its balance sheet by roughly half-a-billion Euros. Investigators are currently figuring out all the false accounting entries, according to
local press
Which means Barracuda's funds are currently not accessible. CTS Eventim, however, has assured its investors that the progress of its subsidiary was safe.
CTS EventimCEO Klaus-Peter Schulenberg
"Thanks to a comprehensive financing plan, the activities of the Barracuda Group are well protected, particularly its two flagship festivals, Nova Rock and Frequency," a company statement reads.
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg, CEO of CTS Eventim, commented: "Even in times of Corona, we are pursuing a long-term corporate strategy and are fully aware of Barracuda's enormous potential. We are therefore pleased that Barracuda, one of most creative concert promoters in Europe, has been a member of our corporate family since early 2020, which also means a significant investment in Austria, a market that is so important to us.
"The team around Ewald Tatar, Barracuda's managing director, can rely on us totally, even in these turbulent times. We would like to emphasise at the same time that both CTS Eventim and the Barracuda Group will take any steps that are necessary to protect our rights in respect of the current situation at Commerzialbank Mattersburg."
Barracuda Music CEO Ewald Tatar emphasized, "We are immensely struck by the fast and uncomplicated way that CTS Eventim jumped to our side and are really very glad to have such a strong and flexible company as our parent. We are delighted for hundreds of thousands of music fans from Austria and abroad that we are able to carry on our successful work and that the future of Nova Rock, Frequency and hundreds of concerts a year is secure."
Barracuda Music was founded in 2004, and has grown continuously. The group brings together the activities of various independent concert promoters, including the organisers of the Electric Love, Frequency and Nova Rock festivals.
The company has also been the local promoter for concerts by The Rolling Stones, Ed Sheeran, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Phil Collins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John, Iron Maiden, Robbie Williams, and many more.
Since 2012, Barracuda has also been the exclusive promoter of concerts at the ancient castle of Burg Clam, a pretty spectacular outdoor venue offering space for up to 10,000 spectators.
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Posted by: africanpressorganization | 22 April 2013
Introductory remarks by his excellency Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commisionner for peace and security
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Introductory remarks by his excellency Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commisionner for peace and security
Excellency Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania,
Honorable Bernard K. Membe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania and Chair of the Peace and Security Council for the month of April 2013,
Honorable President Joaquim Alberto Chissano, International Mediator for the situation in Madagascar,
Honorable Minister and members of the Peace and Security Council,
Invited guests,
I would like, on the outset, to say how delighted my colleagues in the Commission and myself are to be here in Dar-es-Salaam for this important meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU). I would like to express our appreciation to the Tanzanian President, Government and people for the warm welcome and hospitality extended to us since our arrival. I bring to you, Excellency President Kikwete, the warm greetings of Dr. Dlamini Zuma, the Chairperson of the Commission, who could not be with us today due to other pressing commitments.
I thank our partners who are attending this meeting. While committed to the promotion of African leadership and ownership in grappling with its challenges, we are also mindful of the fact that success in our endeavors requires a strong partnership between the continent and the other members of the international community. Achieving peace and security in Africa will go a long way in furthering collective security as provided for in the United Nations Charter.
Mr. President,
Honorable Ministers,
The present meeting is taking place at an opportune moment as Africa prepares to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Organization African Unity/African Union, next May, in Addis Ababa, and, indeed, through the continent.
When we look back at the last fifty years, there are many reasons to be proud of what we have achieved. It suffices to mention the liberation of the continent from the yoke of colonial and racial domination, the strides towards ending violence and conflict, the gains recorded in the democratization processes, and the progress made with respect to economic development and integration.
These achievements provide inspiration and hope as the continent and its people look forward to continuing their endeavors over the next fifty years and address the many challenges lying ahead. The realization of a conflict-free, prosperous, democratic, well-governed, integrated and united Africa remains our ultimate goal.
Tanzania has made major contributions to those achievements. Notably, Tanzania was host to the OAU Liberation Committee, which played such an instrumental role in the liberation struggle and the emancipation of the continent. At critical junctures in the history of the OAU, when political differences and diverging approaches threatened to destroy our continental institution, the wisdom of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was what made it possible to overcome the difficulties then at hand and preserve the higher interests of the continent.
Tanzania played an active role in helping to resolve some of the most intractable African conflicts. I have here in mind the outstanding contribution made by the late Julius Nyerere to the resolution of the conflict in Burundi, against all odds.
Allow me to pay tribute to President Kikwete, who both as former Foreign Minister and now in his capacity as President of the United Republic of Tanzania, has shown an exemplary commitment to the advancement of our continent. He demonstrated leadership and resolve in addressing the separatist crisis in the Comoros. He was, as Chair of the AU and a neighbor, instrumental in finding a solution to the post-electoral crisis in Kenya, in 2007/2008. He actively contributed to the work of the AU High-Level Panel on Cote d'Ivoire. His continued contribution to the promotion of peace, security and stability in the Great Lakes Region also deserves recognition and commendation.
Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, a three-term Secretary-General of the OAU now a member of the AU Panel of the Wise, also helped make the History of Africa as the continent had to adjust to the fundamental changes brought by the ending of the Cold War.
Africa has made a major step in its quest for lasting peace, security and stability with the establishment of the AU and the putting in place of the African Peace and Security Architecture in 2002. The Peace and Security Council is the locomotive of this continental architecture. Since its launching in 2004, the PSC has actively pursued its mandate of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts on the continent. In so doing, the PSC has been actively seized with various crises on our continent.
Significant gains have been made in the promotion of peace, security and stability in Africa, as demonstrated by the encouraging developments in Somalia, a country once considered as doomed, the improvements in the relations between Sudan and South Sudan, and the recovery by Mali of its territorial integrity threatened by a mixture of criminal, rebel and terrorist groups. The recent developments in the Great Lakes Region, notably the signing, in Addis Ababa, on 24 February 2013, of a Framework Agreement outlining a set of commitments by the different stakeholders in DRC and the region, are a source of hope for a region that has had more than its share of conflict and violence on the continent.
However, major challenges continue to face the AU and its Peace and Security Council. For one, we need to consolidate the progress I referred to earlier. This requires sustained efforts and a long-term commitment by all concerned.
Second, we have to address the recurrent crises being faced by some of our Member States, such as Guinea Bissau and the Central African Republic. These call into question basic principles of our Union. While making every effort to assist these countries in restoring legality, we have to remain steadfast in our rejection of unconstitutional changes of government and recourse to armed rebellion to further political claims. Africa cannot afford any hesitation in this respect. It is only by standing up to the principles enshrined in relevant AU instruments that we can safeguard peace and prevent further trouble on the continent.
Third, there are longstanding conflicts that have so far defied all attempts at peace making. Allow me to mention here the conflict over the territory of Western Sahara, as well as the stalled peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the challenges that continue to be encountered in the relations between Djibouti and Eritrea.
The Golden Jubilee should be used as an opportunity to inject the much-needed momentum in the efforts to consolidate peace where it has been achieved and resolve outstanding conflicts. It should also be an opportunity for all our Member States to recommit themselves to the founding principles of our Union and to advance the cause of democracy and good governance, as the best way and means to prevent conflict and sustain peace.
At this juncture, I am honored to refer you to the Report of the Chairperson of the Commission on the situation in Madagascar to which today's meeting is devoted. I wish to report that all the stakeholders in Madagascar are engaged, one way or the other, in efforts to return their country to constitutional order. Africa has deployed unrelenting efforts, and continues to do so, in support of the efforts of the Malagasy stakeholders.
Tanzania, alongside other African countries and in its capacity as the Chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defense and Security Cooperation, is making a significant contribution towards the efforts to restore constitutional order in Madagascar.
Progress has clearly been made, as shown by the steps taken to implement the Roadmap agreed to by the Malagasy stakeholders. This meeting is expected to thoroughly assess the situation, with a view to identifying what further measures are needed to achieve the objectives set and what the continent, through the Peace and Security Council, can do to facilitate the completion of the transition process and the holding of free and fair elections.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate our appreciation to President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, for finding time in his busy schedule to come to grace this ministerial meeting of the Peace and Security Council with his presence.
I wish this meeting every success.
African Union Commission (AUC)
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In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.
In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.
She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current despair about children and the loss of childhood innocence; the changing attitude of myths about wild men and beasts and the undertow of racism which is expressed in myths about savages and cannibals.
The last lecture, on home, brings the themes together to examine ideas about who we are and where we belong, with reference to the British nation and its way of telling its own history.
Using a range of examples from video games to Turner's paintings, from popular films to Keats, Marina Warner interweaves her critique of fantasy, dream and prejudice.


Locate an empty bottle. Carefully remove the tap. Fill with water to displace any left over gas.
Tampering with LPG cylinders or converting them to any other use as shown here is highly dangerous and can result in serious injury or death. It is also unlawful and could result in companies taking legal action or, if appropriate, criminal prosecution. Branded cylinders are and always remain the property of the company. I now import empty cylinders from China which are branded with my company logo and have never been filled with LPG.
Find your scrap bits to use for the detailing...zip work in a school and we have loads of bits that are no longer any use for projects.
I like to use making tape to hold my bits on place.
I marked out where the hinge would go, drilled and tapped with a 4mm tap and attached the hinge using 4x10mm machine screws. I find it easier drilling and tapping and attaching the hinge while the bottle is still intact.
All the holes and details in the bottle we're made using a 4" angle grinder with cutting discs and a 10mm drill bit.
I drilled several holes around the bottom of the bottle so air will circulate and help the fire to burn.
I gave my Vader 2 coats of ultra high temp black spray paint which finished it off a treat.
How much do you charge for one of these?
I am not willing to remove my 'Instructable' as requested however I have added the paragraph below which has been edited to remove any company affiliation.
You should be aware that your company has already reported me to South Yorkshire Police who I fully cooperated with and was cleared of any wrong doing.
I also obtained my own legal advice regarding the matter. As I have removed all images showing any branded bottles you have no rights to ask me to remove my images or videos as you do not own the rights to all LPG cylinders.
I wrote a letter to your company explaining that any further attempt to contact me about such matters would be classed has harassment under the Protection and Harassment Act 1997.
What size of gas bottle are you using?
bottle. Now I know what I am doing over Christmas!
Did you have to "force" any part of this? (ok it was funnier in my head -- never mind!!
How much do u change for this darth Vader ...i love him and I would love to have him on my patio.
Love it. Logistics on selling/sending one to the USA?
Thanks for your interest. I currently have two orders placed to ship to the USA. The shipping alone has been between £108 - £118 plus the cost of the burner.
I have to say these are just amazing. I can build all kinds of things if I put my mind to it, but I have never done metal. I may have to after seeing this. My husband and son would go nuts. And for all the wackjobs who don't think wood burning is good for the environment should probably go back to class, or maybe just watch The Lion King until they get it ;). Supurb work man, I'll be sharing this!
very inventive, i'll share it with my mate, he love star wars!
Great Idea dude. Don't let the tree-hugging, bad-science-believing ::cough::AL GORE cough:: internet trolls stomp on your stones. Nothing Man has done has been as detrimental to this planet more than - THIS PLANET.
There are no emission reduction features so the smoke and fumes will pose a threat to neighbors. Hopefully more municipalities will join Montreal and Hampstead (Canada) with measures to eliminate wood burning by 2020.


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Trump Wins 5 Points in Polls Following Handling of Kavanaugh And Hurricanes
The new poll implies that Trump and Republicans are performing well
As far left groups ramp up their anti-Trump protests in the run-up to the midterms, the President has gained five points in the polls for his handling of the Brett Kavanagh confirmation and the recent hurricanes.
Following the circus surrounding the confirmation of Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, many liberals were confident that the Democrat base would be secured a win for the midterm elections.
Once again, just like two years ago when Trump won the presidential election, the left had miscalculated.
The new poll implies that Trump and Republicans were not negatively affected by the confirmation of Kavanaugh. Instead, it has appeared to have boosted the president's numbers.
President Trump's approval rating has risen five percentage points since late August, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
According to WJ: The poll determined that 41 percent of adults approve of the president's job performance, up from 36 percent in late August.
That's not a high approval number, but the fact that the president's ratings went up dramatically is particularly noteworthy when the timing of the Kavanaugh kerfuffle is acknowledged.
This means only one thing: Even in a fairly liberal poll from ABC and The Washington Post — neither conservative bastions — the Democrat strategy of delaying the judge's confirmation and slandering him in public has backfired big time.
Meanwhile, amazingly low unemployment numbers and Trump's handling of recent hurricane relief efforts have also helped Republicans.
The economy, in particular, will likely play a major role in the upcoming election.
"Trump and Republicans have pointed to the economy and Kavanaugh's confirmation as two key issues that will unite GOP voters in next month's midterm elections," Brett Samuels wrote at The Hill.
Different polls are even more positive for the president.
As we reported earlier this month, a Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll has Trump's numbers several points higher, with 49 percent of likely voters currently giving him the thumbs-up.
That's a point higher than former President Barack Obama at the same time in his presidency.
On the same day in October eight years ago, Obama had a 47 percent approval rating.
This fact blows a hole in the narrative that Trump is floundering, even though his first term has so far been marked by controversy and drama.
Once again, it looks like the left's divisive rhetoric has failed to resonate with voters.
Wailing, clawing and moaning doesn't work — yet Democrats seem stuck in this mode.
Polls are good indicators of which way the wind is blowing, but the real results happen on election day … and that's why it's so vitally important for conservatives to show up to vote on Nov. 6.
READ MORE: Black Voter Support For Trump Almost Doubles To 36%, Rasmussen Poll


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APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, and Annenberg doctoral student Jeffrey A. Gottfried published an essay, "Are there lessons for the future of news from the 2008 presidential campaign?" in the spring 2010 issue of Daedalus on The Future of News.
When news does its job, attentive citizens are better able to understand both the challenges facing the country and the competing visions of those seeking to lead it. Indeed, some argue that "the purpose of journalism is to provide people with the information they need to be free and self-governing." In years past, those studying media have reliably found that consumers of traditional news were better informed about issues of national concern. However, the growth of a new media culture in which partisans are able to envelop themselves in like-minded content raises a question: in the world of ideologically tinged cable news, opinion-talk radio, and viral email, does news in any of its various incarnations still sift fact from fabrication and, in the process, heighten a voter's knowledge about those aspiring to lead?
Our study of the presidential general election campaign of 2008 suggests that traditional news sources are not the custodians of fact that they once were. At the same time, sources that blend discussion of news with what we call opinion are at least occasional purveyors of unbalanced issue coverage and misinformation. In this transformed media environment, presidential debates hold up as one of the only venues, if not the sole source, that heightens citizens' campaign knowledge. These conclusions arise from our study of how newspapers, national and local broadcast and cable news, Internet, talk radio, and debate audiences responded to questions about the central deceptions advanced by the major party candidates.


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Q: Chromium loading on the tab lags I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and Chromium 65.0.3325.181. Everything was good before the last update but after the update (updated chromium and Ubuntu base), Chromium loading on the tab lagging before showing up the content.
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Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

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Turkish Steps
Discovering Turkey...
Merhaba, benim adım Neil. Ben Avusturalya'lıyım.
I can only vaguely remember my first brief visit, in the summer of 1995, to Istanbul, Turkey, with an old school friend. Whilst I can recall it being quite interesting, it was one of many mini-break excursions of a few days duration, viewed largely through what a Turk might call the lens of the typical Western tourist or yabancı. A couple of days of city tours, mosque visits, a Bosphor ous boat trip, and a few delicious plates of grilled fish by the waterfront. Nice, but not exceptionally memorable.
Quite a few years later, in 2006, having relocated from Australia to the cosmopolitan melting pot of London, fate gifted me the privilege of my first Turkish friendship. This site is dedicated to the wondrous land, people and culture which has captivated me ever since.
This site is no more, and no less, than a sharing of my own personal journey as I seek to explore and understand the soul of this land and its people. I have been touched deeply through my own encounters, as I've glimpsed the world, in as much as it's possible for a 'Westerner' to do so, through the lens of the Turkish soul. Of course, in a land as culturally and historically diverse as Turkey, there is no single cultural lens. Turkey has many faces. It stands to reason that those faces I'm drawn to, the predominantly "traditional" ones which have inspired me, may not be your glass of cay.
I hope that this site conveys my ongoing fascination and affinity with this beautiful and complex land, its people, its culture. Where words fail me, as they often do, I hope that my photos and videos impart some sense of what I 've seen and felt.
A Turkish friend once paid me a great compliment (I think). She said "You are the most unusual Westerner I've ever met. You look British, you sound Australian, but your heart is almost Turkish".
I know that I have barely 'scratched the surface' in my efforts to know and understand the Turkish soul. I wish that I am able to continue this journey of discovery for many, many years to come.
Kalbinde yakılmayı bekleyen bir kandil, Ruhunda doldurulmayı bekleyen bir boşluk var, sen de hissediyorsun, değil mi? – Hz.Mevlana
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Admonter Warte är en bergstopp i Österrike.   Den ligger i distriktet Liezen och förbundslandet Steiermark, i den centrala delen av landet,  kilometer väster om huvudstaden Wien. Toppen på Admonter Warte är  meter över havet.

Terrängen runt Admonter Warte är varierad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  kilometer nordväst om Admonter Warte. Närmaste större samhälle är Trieben,  kilometer söder om Admonter Warte.

I omgivningarna runt Admonter Warte växer i huvudsak blandskog. Runt Admonter Warte är det ganska glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.  Trakten ingår i den hemiboreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är maj, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med  mm nederbörd.

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Each July, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents approves the tuition and fees for the upcoming year. Approximate costs for the Master of Nursing program are outlined below for the 2017-2018 academic year only.
The school offers a range of scholarships. Students are considered for scholarships at the time of their admission offer, and it does not require a separate scholarship application.
Many of these scholarships are based in part on financial need, and therefore scholarship applicants are encouraged complete a FAFSA application early January in order to be eligible for scholarships at the time of admission (mid to late February).
Students are also encouraged to explore external funding opportunities.


The holidays are over, and we're ready to finish the year in style. So let's be good to ourselves in 2015. Doesn't hurt to treat yourself to get the new year started right. Right? Here are some of our favorites… hint, hint.


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| Penn outlasts Ivy League-leading Yale, 69-61, with strong second half play
Penn outlasts Ivy League-leading Yale, 69-61, with strong second half play
AJ Brodeur passed Ernie Beck for the most made field goals in program history
By Charlie Ma 02/15/20 8:12pm
In his past 113 consecutive starts, senior forward AJ Brodeur has only failed to score in the double digits 20 times.
Credit: Son Nguyen
It seemed all too familiar for the Quakers. But not this time.
After struggling in the second half against Brown Friday night, Penn men's basketball finished strong on Saturday and beat Yale by a score of 69-61 on an impressive second half.
With the game tied at 58 with just over two minutes left, senior forward AJ Brodeur sunk a three-pointer to take a lead late in the game. The crowd was having all of it.
After a defensive rebound, Brodeur found junior guard Eddie Scott in the corner on the ensuing sequence, and the junior drained another three. The crowd erupted.
Notebook: Seven things we learned from Penn men's basketball's loss to Brown
Penn men's basketball collapses after taking early lead in double-digit loss to Brown
A six-point lead with under two minutes left would prove to be too much for the Bulldogs to overcome, and the Quakers took that lead with them to the final buzzer.
The Red and Blue started the game on a roll, forcing a few quick turnovers to jump out to an early 8-0 lead. Penn kept that lead for the majority of the first half, leading for over 15 minutes and by as many as 10 points — a similar situation on Friday night against Brown.
With just under three minutes left in the first, the Bulldogs clawed back to take their first lead of the game, which they would take to halftime with a score of 29-27.
Penn would regain the lead with 10 minutes left in the game, but the second half was mostly back and forth — the largest lead of the half was only five points until the Red and Blue pulled away in the final minutes.
While the Quakers struggled in the second half against Brown on Friday night, Penn maintained its composure throughout Saturday night, finishing the game on a the game on a 16-3 run.
"We talked about it all day. If we get into those moments when we struggle on offense, just keep competing on defense, and we'll get there somehow. We'll figure it out on the offensive end," coach Steve Donahue said.
It was a record-breaking night for senior forward AJ Brodeur, whose second field goal of the game put him first in program history in made field goals with 705. Brodeur finished the night with 19 points and eight rebounds.
"Honestly, I didn't even realize I was close to [the record]. When I came [to Penn], I knew what kind of system I was getting into, and I knew this was a place where I could play my game. I really feel like this was the product of what I have been working for," Brodeur said.
While freshman guard Jordan Dingle had another slow night, shooting just 1-of-7 from beyond the arc, Scott had a career night, scoring 18 points off of the bench.
"I felt like I put myself in the right position. I tried to play off of my teammates. When AJ got the ball down low, I would try to make a backdoor cut or space the floor and get an open three," Scott said.
For Yale, junior forward Paul Atkinson led the way with 20 points on the night while junior guard Azar Swain put up 13 points.
Penn will leave the third Ivy Weekend splitting its two games. Every game from here on out will be crucial to the Quakers making the Ivy tournament in a few weeks. The team will take the road to Dartmouth and Harvard next weekend.