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How to think about the pandemic historically and financially | Interview with Dr. Niall Ferguson
We met with notable historian, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution from Stanford University and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard, Dr. Niall Ferguson to talk about the the historic and financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and so much more. Enjoy!
Notable historian Dr. Niall C. Ferguson explores inflation both in the past in 1920s Germany and in the United States in the near future, with COVID-19 as a deficit intensifier with a delayed impact. He explores the thinking about pandemic lockdowns in light of the influenza wave of the late 1950s and what the USA could have done differently to limit spread. Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies, Harvard, Dr. Ferguson talks with Dr. Jed Macosko, academic director of AcademicInfluence.com and professor of physics at Wake Forest University.
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00:00 JM: Hi, I'm Dr. Jed Macosko at Wake Forest University and Academicinfluence.com. And today we have another wonderful guest, Niall Ferguson, professor at Stanford University and coming to us from, actually, Montana today. So thank you, Professor Ferguson, for joining us today. And I like to ask all of our guests, how did you get started in your particular field? How did you get interested in history?
00:25 NF: Well, Jed, as a school boy, I was drawn to literature, and probably envisaged at the age of 15 studying English literature. I read Tolstoy's War and Peace one summer, and at the end of War and Peace, which is of course a work of historical fiction, there's a tremendous essay Tolstoy writes, in which he offers his thoughts on the philosophy of history, and I found this extraordinarily engaging. And it was around that time that I began to think that perhaps I was a historian rather than a student of literature, so blame Tolstoy.
01:06 JM: So what about that essay intrigued you? What is the philosophy of history, and are you studying that now?
01:12 NF: I think I've been studying it in perhaps a rather amateurish sphere, I've only really written and published one essay in the philosophy of history, which was the introduction to a book called Virtual History. And in that introduction I offered the view, in opposition to Tolstoy, that history is a chaotic and contingent process that is not deterministic, and therefore not predictable. That we have free will perhaps more than we realize, and there is no great historical force that is propelling us forward against our will or unbeknownst to us.
01:52 NF: Tolstoy's big question in War and Peace is, "What is the power that moves nations?" And that struck me as a great question to which there didn't seem to be a ready off-the-shelf answer. And in Tolstoy's telling, it's only Napoleon who thinks that he's driving the invasion of Russia. In reality, Tolstoy argues, there are great forces at work of which Napoleon is unaware and these forces impact all the characters in the novel. So I guess at the age of 15 I just wanted to know more about those forces. My mother is a physicist, so is my sister. My father was a physician, a doctor, and I'm the black sheep of the family. But they understood, I guess, the forces that govern the natural world and I wanted to understand the forces that govern the human world, which seemed to me to be harder in fact to identify, and therefore more interesting.
02:50 JM: That is fascinating. So that was what really brought you into history, and once you started studying it you say that the philosophy of history is not what you really specialized in. Can you tell us how you got into what you specialize in through college and grad school and then a professorship?
03:08 NF: Well, I was fortunate to study at Oxford in the early-1980s, when there were still some extraordinary brilliant historians teaching. And I did what the Oxford curriculum requires you to do if you major in history, as they say in the United States. I did some English Medieval history. I studied quite intensively the history of the Reformation, but I also did a good deal of work on modern European history, and in particular got interested in German history. Back in those days, if you wanted to pursue some kind of scholarly career in history, there only really seemed to be three countries worth studying. You could study Russia if you wanted to be a kind of integral part of the Cold War. You could study Germany if you thought that Germany was always going to be the issue in Europe, or if you just wanted to have La Dolce Vita you studied Italy. And it felt as if my contemporaries chose between those three, nobody thought of studying the United States.
04:06 NF: And I remember thinking that the big question that interested me was really a German question, or "The" German question, inspired by the great Karl Kraus's play "The Last Days of Mankind", which I happened to see at the Edinburgh Festival when I was an undergraduate. And that was one of those, again, literary turning points in my life. I came out of the theater thinking, "I need to understand that world." And at first I wanted to write a doctoral dissertation about Kraus and the satirical literature of late-19th century, early-20th century Vienna. I was talked out of that by the great late-lamented Norman Stone, who said that it would be very difficult to translate the jokes into English and that one should attempt something that had a more empirically viable foundation.
05:00 NF: So I ended up going down the economic history road, and that was because, unlike my contemporaries who'd been educated in England, as a Scotsman I was really quite numerate and found math relatively easy. So I'd done a fair bit of economic history as an undergraduate. Norman's advice was, "Do something that involves number crunching and statistics. It'll make your doctoral dissertation somehow more compelling." And so I decided, after much deliberation and having learnt German, which I did as a graduate student, that I was going to study the history of the German hyperinflation that culminated in 1923, because if you're going to do numbers you might as well make the numbers really, really, really long, which the numbers in the German hyperinflation generally were. So I did my first real bit of historical research on financial and monetary history of Germany in the early-1920s.
05:57 JM: Well, I'm sure that that was pretty esoteric, and did it lead to your getting a professorship, and then what did you do after that?
06:07 NF: Well my father, as I mentioned, a doctor, was also a man of great West-of-Scotland Protestant good sense. And his advice, when I told him the dreadful news that I wanted to be an historian was at least to acquire some technical skills that would stand me in good stead if I failed as an historian, if my academic career didn't go anywhere. So the idea was partly to learn Economics as well as to learn German. And I think it was a good decision. It was the mid-80s. In fact, I finished the work on the dissertation in 1989, and at that very moment the German question sprang back into life. I'd only just got my first job as a junior fellow at Christ's College Cambridge when the Berlin wall came down. I'd been in Berlin all summer but just missed the crucial night of November the 9th. But that meant that Germany was suddenly a live question again in a way that it really hadn't been.
07:01 NF: And so I was able not only to write about the financial consequences of Germany reunification, I remember writing a long essay on that subject for the New Republic, but also to persuade people that knowing about German inflation might actually not be so esoteric. And I think that that's really why I went further down the road of financial history. I'd acquired some skills that were suddenly applicable to some big problems. It's worth adding that the German Hyperinflation of 1919-23 was one of the most disastrous monetary episodes in all of history, and it's the one that's in all the economics textbooks. So knowing about that wasn't entirely knowing something esoteric, it's still a fundamental question every time a government runs an enormous budget deficit or a central bank prints a lot of money, as now, people ask them, "Is this going to cause inflation?" And I think having studied the hyperinflation I'm relatively well-qualified to attempt to answer that question.
08:00 JM: Mm-hmm. Well, you gotta answer it now, so is there big inflation brewing? We just finished interviewing some criminologists that say that because we haven't had inflation since the early 1990s, we have been in a lower crime wave, and there's a direct correlation. So are we due for more inflation? What's going to happen now?
08:22 NF: Well, the answer is not certain, that we saw in the period after World War I in the United States or in most European countries. There is gonna be some pretty serious inflation in some emerging markets, like Argentina, where the government has not only inflicted lockdowns on the economy but then run a large deficit which the central bank is financing by printing money. That is going to lead to high inflation, without a shadow of a doubt. And there are a bunch of other emerging markets that are gonna be in a similar place. But the United States and the developed world generally have been in a relatively deflationary environment for a variety of reasons, including technology, but also the way in which central banks have operated since the 1980s. And so it's not likely that we're suddenly going to be catapulted back to 1920s, or for that matter, 1970-style inflation, especially as the kind of financing of government that's going on now is not quite the same as we're seeing an Argentina, in a couple of ways.
09:25 NF: It's not that the Federal Reserve is [inaudible] and dishing out freshly printed dollars, that's not how it works. Most of what's done in the name of quantitative easing or large-scale asset purchases is financed by creating excess bank reserves, a funny kind of money that you and I can't go and spend on Lattes at Starbucks. So it's not actually inflationary, the policy that's being pursued at the moment, it's better to think of it as something that's saving off what would be a pretty savage deflation. I do think that ultimately we'll end up with higher inflation over, let's say, a five-year time period, because the sheer scale of the expansion that the US has undertaken and the sheer breadth of the monetary growth almost certainly translates into a weaker dollar and could translate into higher inflation expectations after the pandemic's over, but that's really over several years. In the short run it's definitely not an inflation scenario, not this year and probably not next year.
10:28 JM: And all of this five-year inflation that you're talking about is due to COVID, if it hadn't been for COVID we would still just be in this sort of flatline time?
10:37 JM: Yeah, I think inflation expectations are the key here, it's when the public starts to anticipate higher prices that you start getting something like a meaningful increase in inflation. And that I don't think would have happened without the huge shock that we've experienced this year. Not so much because COVID-19′s a disastrous pandemic by historical standards, it's not even in the top 20, but because countries like the United States and many European countries did lockdowns in 2020, there was a huge decline in output and a great many people were suddenly out of work. And the government's response, most obviously in the US, was then to run a huge budget deficit, literally send people checks through the mail. Many people ended up getting paid actually more than they had been paid in work. And this, in the short run, isn't of course going to be inflationary, we're trying to offset a massive contraction, which left its own devices, would have been Great Depression-like.
11:39 NF: But the question is, "What happens when the pandemic is finally brought under control by a combination of a vaccine or vaccines and other measures?" And at that point there will be a lot of money to be spent, that people right now have been saving a chunk of. So there will be a change of behavior and a change of expectations at some point in the next few years. The last thing I'll add is that, as a historian, I've been struck by how often in history it's been a geopolitical crisis, usually a war, that has triggered a big move in inflation expectations. And I think it would take something like that really to shift people's expectations. That's why I spend a lot of my time looking at the US-China relationship and the way Cold War 2 has been evolving. I should have explained at the outset that I wasn't just interested in the economic history of Germany, I was interested in the history of Germany and relating the economics and the financial history to the history of politics and geopolitics. You're only really interested in Germany as an historian, I think, if you want to understand why two World Wars and a Holocaust emerged from Germany's politics.
12:54 NF: So I really approached that early part of my work with a non-economic question, the question was, "What had gone so wrong in Germany? Why had this very advanced economy, with the best universities in the world in the 1920s, ended up going down the path of Nazism?" And a big part of the answer I think is the trauma of the hyperinflation of 1923, which really discredited democracy in the eyes of a great many German voters.
13:25 JM: Interesting. So, as a historian, getting back to this current geopolitical crisis of COVID, you're saying as a historian you don't see it as a big… It's not in the top 20. So had we not gone into lockdown we would have been following in this more historical path of keeping business going as usual, do you think that would have been better for our country? It would have been a more historical approach, but have we evolved as a society and as a civilization beyond just letting the weak and sick die, or what's going on?
14:01 NF: Well, the way to answer that question is partly to look at historical experience, but also to look at the experience of other countries in 2020. In 1957-58, the United States and the world were hit by a new strain of influenza, people called it the Asian flu, it did indeed originate in China. And unlike COVID-19 this strain of flu killed the young as well as the old. It probably didn't kill as large a proportion of world population as COVID-19 ultimately will kill, but if you factor in the fact that young people were suffering and dying, it was in some ways worse. If you just calculate quality adjusted life years lost. COVID-19 is very unusual historically, because it overwhelmingly kills people over the age of 65, and indeed in Europe it's been people over 80 who've been the great proportion of victims. And that's why I say COVID-19 is not by historical standards a top 20 pandemic, I think it ranks about 25 right now. And it's not gonna get anywhere close to 1918-19, which was even worse Influenza pandemic. Now, in 1957-58, faced with a comparable pandemic, roughly comparable with our own, governments did pretty much nothing. There were no lockdowns, in fact there weren't even school closures, and there were two great waves and death, and the ultimate death toll was… We can't be exactly sure, but certainly in the region of 100,000, maybe 200,000 Americans.
15:39 NF: Now, if you had simply done that with COVID-19, you would have ended up with a lot more dead Americans. It's hard to say, the Imperial College epidemiologist estimated 2.2 million if the US did nothing. I think that was on the high side. Nicholas Christakis at Yale has a new book just coming out, he comes down at closer to a million. I think in the end, even with lockdowns, even with social distancing, we're going to see substantial numbers, more Americans, die. Larry Summers just estimating 625,000 is the ultimate death toll. I think when you put these numbers together, a policy of doing nothing, a 1957-58 strategy of basically letting it rip and trying to get a vaccine, which was what they did, would have had too high a death toll to be acceptable. But that doesn't mean we had to do lockdowns, because Taiwan didn't do lockdowns, South Korea didn't do lockdowns. What they did was what we should have done, which was very quickly to ramp up testing, and contact tracing and isolation of people who tested positive. And by doing that from the very get-go in January, Taiwan was able to keep the number of casualties down, last I checked, to single figures.
16:58 NF: So we didn't need to do nothing, we had to do something, but we did the wrong thing. Instead of acting early, following Larry Brilliant advice, "Early detection, early action", we dithered around. We were still dithering around through February and it wasn't really until mid-March that governments in the US and the UK thought, "Oh God, we have to do something drastic." And that was when the lockdowns happened, causing much, much more economic damage than I think would have been the results of a Taiwanese or South Korean strategy.
17:29 JM: No. I agree. Wow. Now, back to your career. So you were at Christ Church when the Berlin wall fell. Where did…
17:36 NF: "Christ's". Not to be confused with Christchurch. Christ's Cambridge, my first experience of Cambridge, I'd been Oxford all through my undergraduate and graduate years, but my first job was at Christ's College Cambridge, and that was where I heard the news that the Berlin Wall had come down.
17:50 JM: Yeah it's Christ's College, thank you for correcting me. Where did you go from there? And how did you end up at Stanford?
17:58 NF: Well, I'd done a tour of duty in Germany, researching my PhD at the University Of Hamburg, came back to Cambridge, taught there for three years, and then moved back to Oxford. And I'd taught for about a decade as the history tutor at Oxford, became professor of financial history at Oxford. But by the late '90s I was beginning to feel that the work I was doing in financial history, I'd written a book about the history of the Rothschild bank, I had written a book about World War 1, The Pity of War, that was very much concerned with its financing, was more interesting to Americans than to Brits who generally like their historians to write about kings, queens and prime ministers. And I did find that I was getting more invitations to talk in the US, whether in New York or at Harvard, than I was getting in the UK. And so I think I got itchy feet around about the year 2000 and started to consider the possibility of moving to the US. I had been due to give a lecture at NYU the day after 9/11, I think it was scheduled for 9/12, but of course, I never flew, and I sat in my Oxford rooms watching the twin towers fall. And in my very bloody-minded Scottish way I decided there and then "I'm definitely going to the US, I'm not going to have these people mess with me."
19:26 NF: And so I wrote very shortly after that to the Dean of the Stern Business School at NYU saying "I'm in the market", and he faxed over a job offer the next day, and in a very short time after that I had left Oxford and was teaching at NYU. I spent two years there, and then Larry Summers persuaded me to move to Harvard, which was a bit of a dream come true, because I think I'd had a crush on Harvard for some years. Had 12 happy years teaching history and business at Harvard, as the Lawrence Tisch Professor of History. And then reached a point a few years ago, in 2016, when I'd kind of done enough teaching, felt I'd achieved all I was going to achieve at Harvard, had to choose was I gonna spend the rest of my career there or do something different, and decided to do something different and accepted an offer at the Hoover Institution to go over to California, and that's where we would now be located were it not for COVID-19.
20:23 JM: Absolutely amazing, just to hear what all you've done, all the books you've written, it's really incredible. Just as we go, what would you say to people who are interested in Economics or History or Politics, if they're in high school or going into college, what should they be thinking about?
20:43 NF: Well, I'd actually address this also to the people not interested in those things, and I would say, "You may not be interested in Economics and History, but they are interested in you, and they will have an effect on your life, and it will probably be a negative effect if you don't really have any understanding of that facet of life." I think Economics is often taught in an abstract fashion, with a great deal too much math and not enough history, and I prefer to understand things by finding out where they came from. So I wrote a book called The Ascent of Money back in 2008, which was really pre-financial crisis, designed to explain a financial crisis that I thought was coming. And I think that book's a good introduction to my style of history because it explains the whole complex system of money, of banks, of stock markets, and all the rest of it, in a way that is designed to be intelligible to the lay reader. There's not, I think, an equation. Maybe there's one equation in the book, but it's really not crucial, and it's designed to explain the international financial system in terms of where it came from. And I found that that book has been my most successful book 'cause it answered a need for people who, in 2008, began to realize that financial history was definitely interested in them and wanted to have an answer to the question, "Where did all this come from and how did we get into this mess?"
22:09 JM: Wow. Well, thank you for that good book advice. And we really appreciate you taking some time with us today to talk about your career, talk about the interesting things you've studied, it's been truly fascinating for me. Thank you so much.
22:21 NF: Thanks Jed, I appreciate it.
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The Lacepede Islands were named by Nicolas Baudin in 1801 after the celebrated French naturalist, Count Lacepede. Baudin saw the islands from a distance but, to the annoyance of the naturalists on board, refused to go closer. From the comfort of the Xplorer we cruised the sandy spits while seeing silver gulls, white-faced and eastern reef egrets, oystercatchers, tiny bar-tailed godwits and whimbrels, a wide variety of terns masterfully flying on the wind's currents, hundreds of mature and immature brown and masked boobies, and several lesser frigatebirds, circling overhead and waiting to relieve the terns of their catch. We were even treated to a demonstration of kleptoparasiticism when a frigatebird harassed a tern enough to convince it to regurgitate its day's catch, not far off from the Xplorer. Around us in the water, green turtles bobbed up briefly and shovel-nosed rays flittered around in the shallows.
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After lunch on board, we disembarked to Langgi Beach, where we were greeted by the hundreds of petrified sandstone shapes of Wandjina warriors exposed on the beach. Our Worrorra guides met us and told the story of Namarali, their Wandjina ancestor who, together with his warriors, fought a fierce battle at Langgi. The evidence of that battle was all around us as we wandered through the limestone pillars and felt the weight of this consecrated land.
This evening after dinner, Terry Done gave a fascinating yet haunting lecture on Montgomery Reef, Corals, and Climate Change followed by Shirley Campbell's distillation of Kimberley Rock Art.
This morning we found ourselves anchored off Naturalist Island. As most of us were enjoying breakfast, brilliant blue-and-white helicopters gently set down on the nearby beach, waiting to whisk us off to Mitchell Falls—one of the most iconic and remote sites in Australia. As we lifted off on our second heli tour of the trip, we were treated to expansive plateau views with yet more astonishing rock formations, stretching out on all sides to the horizon. We observed from altitude the Mitchell River cut through the open scrub terrain of basalt ridges and dolerite intrusions as it snaked its way towards the falls. Landing just upstream from the Falls, we had an hour to wander out to various vantage points with good views of the famed four-tiered falls, as well as take a dip in the sun-warmed pool that formed just above the cascading waters.
As we enjoyed our day, the ship's hotel staff were busy setting up a barbecue on the beach at Naturalist Island. With the sun low in the sky, we were transported to the beach where we enjoyed drinks and a magnificent dinner featuring lean kangaroo, together with other more traditional barbecued meats and salads. A group photograph in the setting sun and the relaxing beach atmosphere was a fitting end to yet another memorable day. Returning to the ship for an array of delicious cakes and pies, we satisfied our sweet tooth before retiring for the night.
It was an early, but gorgeous Kimberley morning as the Coral Discoverer made its way to Wary Bay and Bigge Island. The traditional owners of the island are the Uunguu people of the Wunambal language group, who have many sacred and culturally significant sites on the island. We looked down to a ceremonial ground tucked into the escarpment, as well as a grave mound facing out to the open sea. Closer to the beach there were beautiful Wandjina figures, as well as paintings from the contact period representing ships, Europeans in hats, and perhaps Macassans smoking pipes.
Cathedral Cave is only accessible when the tides are low and this morning we could walk into this magnificent, water-eroded cavern. A huge sandstone 'slice' had fallen to create a yawning gap through which we walked to enter the inner chamber. Exiting out the other side, we had to slide through a narrow gap with only a splinter of sunlight to guide us.
Back on board, we enjoyed another lecture from Tom, The Kimberley: Ancient Rocks, Ancient Land, and a talk from The Nature Conservancy's James Fitzsimons entitled, Fighting Fire of Fire: How Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Science are Uniting to Keep People and Nature Healthy, while we sailed for the Montesquieu Islands in hopes of catching colonies of roosting birds.
We disembarked in the Xplorer, surveying a few islands in the Montesquieu Island group. These islands varied in composition from spits of basalt rock jutting up from the sea to low-lying, gradually-sloping sand islands that played host to various land and sea birds. During this outing, we saw numerous different birds: the greater, lesser, and rosiette terns; cormorants; red-necked stints; white-bellied sea eagles; and even a few brown boobies and an osprey.
Anchoring off the Bougainville Peninsula, we headed ashore in the Xplorer, past a huge pearl oyster lease. Here, we hoped to find evidence of Macassan trepang (sea cucumber) processing 'factories.' These sea-faring peoples from southern Sulawesi had been visiting the northern shores of Australia, arguably since the 17th century, looking for the prized trepang to supply the lucrative Chinese market. Combing through the sand dunes, we found remnant trepang boiling hearths lined up regularly along the dune ridge, evidence of a foreign people interacting with Aboriginal people in the past. As the sun was setting, the golden hour delivered beautiful evening lighting on the surrounding islands and a stand of boab trees to one side of the beach.
An early morning group of keen trekkers left the ship via Zodiacs and motored up the King George River toward the falls. While we leisurely made our way up the gorge, marveling at the vertical, Lego-like sandstone cliffs rising 263 feet high into the sky, our goal was a 'survival of the fittest walk' to the top of the escarpment above the waterfalls. A group of 17 climbers clambered and panted up the steep rocky ascent to the top, and were rewarded with fabulous views down the river. The remaining group made their way on the Xplorer, likewise experiencing high walls towering above and seeming to enclose us mere mortals the further we went. The fractured orange cliffs and the fantastic sculptured erosion near the water level revealed the rocks' creamy pink interior and amazing honeycomb patterns of fine purple stripes, as if painted by a master artist. All had a very good encounter with an 11-foot crocodile sunning itself on a 1.8-billion-year-old sandstone ledge, translucent purple jellyfish, and an osprey's nest on a high cliff ledge. As we neared the falls, the full sun came out and provided us with a spectacular golden vista of the cliffs and their reflected glory on the bright blue of the river. Merten's water monitors were abundant, with both groups getting good views of these on the river and above the falls. Zodiacs took the willing for a wet experience under the falls; despite the relatively small flow of water due to a series of poor wet seasons, the force of the water in free fall was enough to take your breath away!
Back on board we set sail across the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (sometimes known as the 'blown apart' Gulf) to the Tiwi Islands. Expedition Leader Brad Climpson presented, Reptiles of the Northern Territory, and we all enjoyed an Ice Cream Social. It was a perfect afternoon to be sailing and enjoying some down time, as outside black clouds unloaded their cargo all afternoon. We had our last recap of the voyage before a lovely cocktail evening provided by Zegrahm Expeditions and Stanford Travel/Study.
Waking to a rainy, humid morning we continued towards the Tiwi Islands. Thankfully, all of our morning activities were on board, with a scrumptious breakfast and lectures, including one from Shirley on, The Tiwi.
As we anchored off Bathurst Island for lunch, we could see dark clouds shrouding the islands. However, when it was time to disembark for the little settlement of Wurrumiyanga (once Nguiu) the downpour had passed. We split into three groups and rotated through three locations of interest. The Nguiu Mission was established in 1911 by Father Gsell. We heard the story of how the mission's radio was used to warn Darwin of Japanese Zero fighter planes en route to the mainland on February 19, 1942. Alas, the warning went unheeded by authorities in Darwin and the small town was leveled by the same fighters which had earlier attacked Pearl Harbor. The excellent museum displaying Tiwi culture and history was a short walk from the Mission. A bus had to transport us to the third site, Ngaruwanajirri Inc, or The Keeping House. This is a special art center supporting Tiwi artists needing mental and emotional support. From here, we recombined at the community's meeting place to enjoy billy tea and damper, while women demonstrated the skillful plaiting of place mats and baskets. We watched men paint their faces in preparation for dances and with humor and informative commentary, we were 'smoked' to cleanse us of unwanted spirits. Both men and women energetically danced various clan dances to our delight. Finally, the performances over, we either returned to the ship or walked a short distance to Tiwi Designs where many of us contributed extensively to the Tiwi economy!
Back on board, we readied for the captain's farewell cocktails and dinner, followed by a marvelous slideshow prepared by Brent.
Packed and ready to depart, we said goodbye to the crew of the Coral Discoverer and boarded buses for a city tour. We traveled along Fannie Bay to East Point Lookout and fabulous views back to Darwin. Many had good sightings of wallabies grazing the fields, as we returned to visit the impressive Darwin Museum and Art Gallery. Despite Darwin being only a remote little city in the Northern Territory, it has a rather fine museum and art gallery. We wandered through the displays before spending our last Aussie dollars at the bookshop and enjoyed delicious sandwiches and drinks on the outside deck. Some of our group were going different ways so we bid them farewell before traveling to the airport where we boarded our flight to Sydney.
Arriving in the evening, we had a short ride to Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel and a seamless check-in, before gathering on the top floor for refreshments. It was here that we said our final goodbyes, and exchanged addresses and promises of traveling together again.


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Narrowsburg Union presents four new exhibits
A sense of place: Included are prints, painting, photography, and pen-and-ink
Published Feb 15, 2019 at 6:01 am (Updated Feb 12, 2019)
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NARROWSBURG, N.Y. — Four new exhibitions have recently opened at the Narrowsburg Union, located at 7 Erie St. in Narrowsburg, N.Y.
The public is invited to view "See What I Mean!?," prints and painting by wm landau; "Places I Belong," photography by Maureen Neville; "Excerpts," documentary photography by Patricio Robayo; and "Semi-automatic," pen and ink drawings by Kevin Graham.
wm landau of Hankins, N.Y., has produced art and craft since his youth. "See What I Mean!?" presents the viewer with vivid, graphic, and joyful prints created with wood, fabric, hand-cut wood letters, and paint alchemy that incorporates poetry, prose — and some mischief.
Maureen Neville of Damascus, Pa., loves to take her camera along to quiet, rural landscape or seascape settings. Water, the shoreline, and roadsides off the beaten path are the inspiration for her photography in "Places I Belong."
Patricio Robayo of Mountaindale, N.Y., a photo documentarian, showcases "Excerpts," a selection of landscape, typography, and documentary photographs that he's been working on since 2000. "I feel as though I'm exploring my own life through my photographs," Robayo said.
Kevin Graham, who is based in New York City, is known for his abstract pen-and-ink drawings in a style similar to the automatism art method. His goal is to tap into the unconscious and to reveal uninhibited personal expression created from the subconscious, thus his title, "Semi-automatic."
The exhibit may be viewed through March 30. Gallery hours are Mondays through Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sundays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Brandi Merolla is curator of the Narrowsburg Union's galleries.
For more information visit narrowsburgunion.com.
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Q: Where does rpm look for dependencies? I have an rpm which I have build using rpmbuild. Lets say it is sample.rpm.
It builds successfully. The rpm has and executable (let's call it init).
When I try to install it using rpm -ivh sample.rpm it shows me failed dependencies.
Let's say the error is Failed dependency for: example.so which means that rpm is not able to locate this shared object file. (even though the so file exists in the same directory).
So, I install the rpm as rpm -ivh sample.rpm --nodeps (as I know that I have the required so files).
Why is rpm not able to install those rpms then?
where does it look for the object files? (does the linux loader looks for these .so). I have LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include path to these .so and so when I run the installed file (init) from the rpm it runs.
Then why is rpm not able to install sample.rpm (where exactly does it look for dependencies)?
Is it something that needs to be specified at the time when the rpm is build?

A: The dependencies of an RPM file are specified in its .spec file on the "Requires:" line.
Sample SPEC file:
Summary: <Summary for my Linux project>
Name: <Name for my Linux project>
Version: 2.5.1
Release: GA
Requires: libx1.so >= 2.6.3
BuildArch: i586
Group: System / Applications
License: GPL 2.0
Vendor: <my organization>

You can also run this command to determine which dependencies are required:
$ rpm -q --requires <my_rpm>
libx1.so.2
$

The dependency libx1.so itself should be installed through an RPM, so that its presence is entered in a database maintained by the RedHat Package Manager. In other words, the physical presence of libx1.so on the file system is not the criteria for the dependency test.
To find out which package provides the dependency, run the command:
$ rpm -q --whatprovides libx1

If no package provides libx1.so, your RPM will continue to show a dependency error unless you remove libx1.so from the "Requires:" line.
To disable automatic detection of dependencies, you can add this to your .spec file:
AutoReqProv: no

A lot more information is at rpm.org and rpm5.org.

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23 Year old Hip-hop, pop and R&B Vocal artist releases his brand new single ATTENTION. With the success of launching his brand-new album titled 'Careful", the young star has Been on many music lovers list.
1 song stands out in comparison to others on this 14 Track masterclass. "Attention" is considerably one of his best work to date and shows how the artist has developed both musically and maturity wise.
He mentions: "Throughout my career I have never felt more connected with my fans and my music. I truly believe in my work and can't wait to give much more music to you".
His new upcoming Single "Attention" is a distinct look at the artist maturity and understanding for the everyday struggles within relationships as the single outlines the risks one has to take within their relationships in order to reach a common ground. Inspiration self drawn on this track as motivation to never give up on what you truly believe in and he believes he shall speak this into reality.
Bred from the Southern region of Johannesburg. The young star has many years of experience in this industry providing a wide range of different sound that appeal to many corners of South Africa and the African market. Recording and performing has been a lifelong passion of the Artist which seems to be growing rapidly with his tender age.He grew up in many parts of the country – Namely From Young dreams in the streets of meadowlands to Durban and back to the heart of Joburg, the artist has picked up an ear for what people demand and smashes the stereotype of hard work and persistency.
Now Firmly residing in the city, the artist has spent countless hours perfecting his craft and the art of performance through music. "Talk about the music when you talk to me", he mentions in one of the tracks of the album.
Throughout his career T.Nale has released 3 mixtapes of full album length and an official album which you can find on all major streaming platforms.In 2018 he released his highly anticipated single called Gamble mama which is still currently making its rounds on many radio stations. The music video has been published and certified by "Vevo" but he believes he has much more in store and promises a quality showing from here on out. In 2017 he was featured in Omen the Chef's "Nomayini" Single which made way to Channel O and Trace shortly after its release.
His stand out verse allowed a new look for fans on what's to come and insight on how the industry works – Aiming to achieve award winning status within his field in South Africa.His breakthrough is imminent. T.Nale's music stretches the audience perception and enables most to think outside of the musical walls. The passion is shown through the emotion he displays in his music. With a very unique sound, it is very easy to identify the artist with almost every verse played.


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Thread: Multiculturalism doesn't work in Hungary, says Orban
Multiculturalism doesn't work in Hungary, says Orban
Take a lesson.
Reuters – 8 hours ago
Reuters/Reuters - A boy attends a protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's immigration policy proposals in central Budapest, Hungary, May 19, 2015. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The era of multiculturalism is over and Hungary should be spared its effects at all costs, the country's Prime Minister said on Wednesday.
In comments that appeared to toughen his already uncompromising stance on immigration, Viktor Orban was quoted as telling a Hungarian newspaper there should be no "mass-scale" mixing of different creeds.
"Multiculturalism means the coexistence of Islam, Asian religions and Christianity. We will do everything to spare Hungary from that," he said in an interview with daily Napi Gazdasag.
"We welcome non-Christian investors, artists, scientists, but we don't want to mix on a mass scale."
Orban, whose governing Fidesz party is losing ground in the polls to the far-right, anti-immigrant Jobbik party, has clashed with European counterparts over his isolationist views.
At the European Parliament in mid-May, he criticized as "bordering on insanity" EU proposals for migrant quotas drafted in response to thousands of deaths among asylum-seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean in increasing numbers.
On Wednesday he called Jobbik dangerous for Hungary "because they offer a constant temptation, an intellectual capitulation to the simplest solutions", saying his government would strike a conciliatory tone towards voters.
'CLUMSY' EU
Orban, who has often sparred with Brussels during his five years in power, also criticized the EU's response to economic crisis, calling it the "clumsiest" in the world, and played down prospects of Hungary adopting the euro.
Eastern European countries had a competitive alternative in keeping their own currencies, and Hungary's forint could stay strong and stable for decades if domestic fiscal policy was tightened and economic growth boosted, he told the newspaper.
Central Bank Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy, one of Orban's closest allies, told a forum on Tuesday that Hungary would be able to adopt the euro at any time after 2020.
The central bank moved on Tuesday to channel more market funds towards Hungarian government debt, potentially cutting the country's exposure to foreign currency debt.
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Are you ready for the doomiest, gloomiest weekend of music in 2016? Good, so are we. Moonspell, In The Woods, Mourning Beloveth, and many more excellent bands have been announced already (full lineup here) and this is truly looking like the best installement yet. See you there.
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Archive | October 27, 2020
Update 27th October 2020 @ 23:35 hrs UTC: Coronavirus Confirmed Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance Subject To Change
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VERY POWERFUL INFLUX OF ENERGY WILL STRIKE THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE FROM 31st Oct to 2nd Nov 2020
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VERY POWERFUL INFLUX OF ENERGY WILL STRIKE THE WEAK MAGNETOSPHERE FROM 31st Oct to 2nd Nov 2020. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANO ACTIVITY AND ADVERSE WEATHER WILL BE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE COSMIC RAYS STRIKING THE EARTH'S CORE
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EARTHQUAKE SWARM SWITZERLAND 26th Oct 2020
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Huge Fireball Meteor over Alaska Sets off Volcano Warning System 360 Miles Away
A huge "fireball" meteor that lit up skies across west Alaska also set off newly installed sensors for detecting volcanic activity, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has said.
The event, which took place on October 15, triggered six of the sensors' alarms at a new monitoring station on the Kenai Peninsula. The sensors are built to detect low-frequency sound waves in the atmosphere during volcanic activity, but in this case they picked up waves coming from the meteor that had streaked across the sky around 360 miles away.
In a Facebook post, the USGS said the meteor also triggered an alarm at Mount Spurr—a large, active volcano that sits around 80 miles from Anchorage that last erupted in 1992. However, as other monitoring systems also picked up on the waves, "it quickly became clear that this was not activity at Mount Spur," the post said.
Scientists with the USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory worked with researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute to investigate the cause. They found the meteor passed over Alaska around 40 miles from the Athabaskan community of Kaltag, which sits on the Yukon River.
In a blog post for the American Geophysical Union, UAF science writer Ned Rozell said witnesses reported the fireball in regions hundreds of miles apart. One resident of Ruby described it as an "enormous ball of light in the sky," saying it was moving north to south. Another resident said it looked like "fireworks" that split into four dots.
David Fee, head of the infrasound program at UAF's Geophysical Institute and researcher with the AVO, said he believes the meteor exploded somewhere east of Kaltag. "I typically don't work on meteors, but they are often really nice infrasound sources to help better understand the performance of our networks, and I think provide valuable information on meteors and bolides themselves," he said.
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A Meteorite – Asteroid Passed Near Earth at Record Speed
A meteorite called 2020 UF3 passed at record speed from a point that could be considered quite close to our planet on October 22. The asteroid detected by the Virtual Telescope Project has passed only 42 thousand kilometers. This distance roughly corresponds to 11% of the distance between the Earth and the moon.
According to NASA reports, the speed of the asteroid was also very high. The 2020 UF3 was traveling at 22 kilometers per second. In other words, its speed was 79 thousand kilometers per hour. If the asteroid was orbiting our planet at full speed, it could have made almost 2 rotations per hour.
The asteroid also managed to become the fastest meteorite ever observed by this astronomy group, according to the Virtual Telescope Project. The team published an article on the subject on their website.
"The near-Earth asteroid 2020 UF3 has safely come very close to our planet, to a minimum distance of 42000 kilometers from Earth. It is about 11% of the average moon distance ".
An image of the meteorite was also captured in the project. This image is not very clear. The object, which can be viewed for only 3 seconds by the Elena robotics unit, is a bit blurry and there are slight distortions in the image. Yet enough to witness the passage of the asteroid.
Despite being so close to Earth, the meteorite's discovery took place only on October 21st. The reason for this is that the celestial body is a relatively small meteorite between 13 and 57 meters tall. The Lemmon Mountain research team discovered the asteroid.
From time to time, such small structures can go around our planet. In fact, the Sun and Jupiter greatly prevent such structures from hitting our planet thanks to their enormous gravitational field.
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Several Colorado ski resorts get 10 inches of snow from weekend storm
Multiple Colorado ski resorts received 10 inches or more of fresh snow from a weekend storm that provided a boost to snowmaking efforts in the final week of October, usually a month when one or two areas are already open for the season.
No areas have opened yet, but Loveland and Arapahoe Basin are racing to become the first. Keystone, which also has been making snow, has been aiming for a Nov. 6 opening date.
Sunlight received 10-12 inches at the base, according to spokesperson Troy Hawks, adding that the bounty will be good for snowmaking there.
"Having the moisture on the lower mountain is just fantastic because man-made snow holds up better in the long term on top of moist frozen ground, verses dry frozen ground," Hawks said. "The dryness draws moisture out of the man-made snow above it. When the ground is already moist, the man-made snow generally lasts longer into the season."
At Winter Park, spokesperson Jen Miller said the snow stake was showing 11 inches at mid-morning and "it's still snowing," she said.
Eldora also received 11 inches, with another inch expected through the day, according to spokesperson Kyle Ogilvie.
Snowmass, Vail and Beaver Creek all received 10 inches, while Breckenridge and Keystone reported nine. Loveland got seven inches and Arapahoe Basin got six.
"We are expecting a little more snow to come in this evening," said Arapahoe Basin spokesperson Leigh Hierholzer. "We definitely can use the precipitation to help recharge our reservoir."
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Snow Is Falling On October 26, 2020 in Kansas City, USA
A winter storm is bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain to Kansas – and that's causing travel troubles and school closures.
USD 259 (Wichita) IS OPEN TODAY, but several school districts have called off class for today. They include Andover, Derby, Mulvane, Clearwater, El Dorado, Haysville and Rose Hill.
Valley Center and Maize both called off in-person classes. All students will be learning remotely today.
The Kansas Air National Guard is also on a 2-hour delay for non-essential personnel.
Roads are slick across the state. We are hearing of crashes all over Kansas. Thankfully, as of 6:30 a.m., we have not heard of any serious injuries from those crashes.
Give yourself some extra time before you head out the door this morning. Of course, if you can avoid driving this morning, it may be best to just stay home.
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Flash floods, landslides displace 2,000 residents in Cagayan, Philippines
MORE than 2,000 residents have been evacuated in 30 barangay (villages) in three northern Cagayan towns, with a 60-year-old male farmer missing and believed to have drowned during widespread flooding brought about by heavy downpours Maj. Stanley Banan, Sanchez Mira town police chief, said teams conducted rescue operations in flooded areas and for Artemio Bumiltac, who reportedly was trying to save his carabao from his rice field when he was swept by a flash flood on Saturday around 5 p.m. in Barangay Santiago.
Banan added that Bumiltac's carabao had been rescued but its owner has not yet been seen by Santiago residents where more than 100 of them were also evacuated to higher grounds and brought to five evacuation areas in Sanchez Mira.
He said the rescue teams transferred more residents from 14 villages and low-lying areas in the town where houses were already submerged by floodwaters.
Cagayan Gov. Manuel Mamba said the towns of Claveria, Pamplona and Santa Praxedes had been affected by flash floods and landslides, making roads and bridges not passable.
Most of the more the 2,000 evacuees were from 30 villages in Claveria with 1,400 individuals, followed by Santa Praxedes with 850 and the rest from Sanchez Mira and Pamlona towns.
The provincial Task Force Lingkod Cagayan (TFLC) reported that a bridge in Santa Praxedes had been damaged by floodwaters, which submerged parts of the national highway in Claveria, Pamplona and Sanchez Mira.
The task force said Daang Maharlika (national road) in Calvaria going to Santa Praxedes remained not passable as of Monday.
Mamba said the TFLC had teamed up with the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Marine Battalion Landing Team-10 in the rescue operations of residents and livestock in the province.
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Landslide forces residents to evacuate as wild weather lashes Sydney, Australia
Sydney has been plunged into chaos after severe weather swept through the state, causing flash flooding and triggering a landslide at a remote walking trail in the city's north.
Aerial footage shows the land spill at the Mackerel trail near Palm Beach that came within metres of several properties and caused severe damage to at least one home at Mackerel Beach.
Another two properties were "partly" damaged.
Residents at 18 addresses – totalling 25 people – have been evacuated, while officials at the Northern Beaches Council have been called in to assess the damage, a NSW SES spokesman said.
Sydney's Northern Beaches have already copped 100mm of rain in the last three days with more on the way as flash flooding prompted road closures and left many homes without power.
The news comes as Australia's east coast battles a hammering from mother nature.
Australia has been hit by more than 2.24 million lightning strikes in just 48 hours, while damaging winds of up to 100km/h continue to rip through multiple states, with volunteers inundated with calls for help.
More storms are expected this week.
"This is peak storm season," BOM meteorologist Dean Narramore said.
Sydneysiders can expect the storms to hit on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the peak predicted for the latter.
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Onize Ohikere
Onize is WORLD's Africa reporter. She is a World Journalism Institute graduate and earned a journalism degree from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. Onize resides in Abuja, Nigeria. Follow her on Twitter @onize_ohiks.
World leaders respond to Capitol riots
by Onize Ohikere
Posted 1/07/21, 07:22 am
Video footage and images of rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday drew condemnation and shock from other nations. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the scene disgraceful and urged a peaceful transfer of power.
Hong Kong detains democracy activists en masse
Hong Kong police on Wednesday morning arrested about 53 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists in an unprecedented crackdown under the national security law. Majority of those targeted had participated in unofficial election primaries for the territory's legislature in July, which drew more than 600,000 voters. The national security law carries a maximum life sentence for subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign powers.
Census numbers delayed to February
The population data used to allocate congressional seats and a $1.5 million federal budget to each state would not be ready until Feb. 9 or later in the month, John Coghlan, a deputy assistant Attorney General, said Monday. Federal law mandates the Census Bureau to submit the data by Dec. 31, but the bureau last week said it would likely miss the year-end deadline.
NYSE backtracks on Chinese telecom delistings
Onize Ohikere | 1/05/21, 03:11 am
The New York Stock Exchange on Monday said it would no longer remove the shares of three Chinese state-owned phone carriers after "further consultation" with regulators. The exchange had announced Thursday it will delist China Telecom Corp. Ltd., China Mobile Ltd., and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd.
Republican senators to challenge Biden's victory
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and 10 other senators and senators-elect in a joint Saturday statement said they would reject Joe Biden's Electoral College victory when Congress convenes on Wednesday to certify the vote. The lawmakers called for a 10-day delay to allow an electoral commission to audit the results. Separately, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he would join House Republicans to reject the state tallies. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans, including Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., have urged party members to refrain from challenging the vote.
Britain officially leaves the EU
People spread out across Parliament Square in London clinked champagne glasses and cheered as Big Ben struck 11 pm on New Year's Eve. It marks Britain's official exit from the European Union. After a turbulent 11-month transition period, the two sides concluded a trade deal on Christmas Eve that will ensure Britain and the bloc would continue to buy and sell goods without quotas or tariffs.
Battles for freedom
International | Cases of insurgency and protests continued in 2020 despite the pandemic
Onize Ohikere | 12/31/20, 03:49 pm
This year, countries around the world grappled to rein in COVID-19. But the deadly virus didn't claim complete dominance of the headlines. Ongoing struggles for peace continued. Persistent insurgency plagued many countries, while others saw new outbreaks of civil unrest. But 2020 also ushered in some welcome changes. Here are the top five World Tour stories of the year:
Explosions rock Yemen
Shortly after a plane touched down in Aden, Yemen, carrying members of the newly formed government on Wednesday, a loud blast struck the airport, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 50 others. The Cabinet members left for the Mashiq Palace, and officials reported another explosion there as well. A Saudi-led coalition later shot down a bomb-laden drone that tried to target the palace, the Saudi Arabian Al-Arabiya channel reported.
U.K. approves its second vaccine
A sharp rise in COVID-19 infections led the British government on Wednesday to extend its highest Tier 4 restrictions to more areas of the country, banning household mixing and closing nonessential shops. British regulators on Wednesday authorized emergency use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after granting approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's immunization earlier this month.
U.S. reports first case of COVID variant
Onize Ohikere | 12/30/20, 02:38 am
A Colorado man in his 20s tested positive for the highly infectious virus strain first reported in the United Kingdom, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. State health officials said he is currently under isolation in Elbert County, southeast of Denver.


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11:53 am - 04/30/2012
Model Nanao talks about her relationship with TM Revolution's Nishikawa Takanori
On April 29th, model Nanao attended a release event for Bacardi's canned cocktail, 'RTD'.
Previously, Nanao was reported to be in a relationship with T.M. Revolution's Nishikawa Takanori. When asked, "Is your relationship going well?", the model responded, "It's going well. Without any happenings." She also shared that everyone questions her about marriage, and revealed, "I think we're both aware of it, but we're not close to it. But I would like to have children someday."
Since this was a cocktail event, Nanao was also asked, "Have you ever made any mistakes with alcohol?" She commented, "I don't really get drunk, so I've never made any mistakes." She then continued, "But he [Nishikawa] can't too drink much alcohol. When we're together, we don't drink that much."
Bacardi held this event to commemorate the launch of their new products, 'Bacardi Mojito' and 'Bacardi Cuba Libre'. They handed out free drinks to the first 1,000 people that arrived at the event. The event also featured a surprise dance show produced by choreographer MIKIKO, who is known for working with techno-pop unit Perfume.
Taken aback by the dance show, Nanao exclaimed, "I used to take dance lessons, so I had fun!" She also challenged herself to making cocktails with the assistance of a professional bartender. "I love getting together with people, so this summer, I want to drink at the beach and BBQ," she said.
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burger 30th-Apr-2012 08:24 pm (UTC)
I had no idea they were dating, she's very pretty! Canned cocktails usually don't taste great though.
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dollhouse__x 1st-May-2012 12:29 am (UTC)
wtf this is amazing.
poleenc 1st-May-2012 04:30 am (UTC)
OH. SO THIS IS HIS MODEL GIRLFRIEND. :O
wolfofsorrow 1st-May-2012 04:02 pm (UTC)
So this is his girlfriend... hmm


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MedStar Health Baltimore Hospitals Recognized for Commitment to Environmental Sustainability
In recognition of their leadership in environmental sustainability, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, MedStar Good Samaritan, MedStar Harbor and MedStar Union Memorial Hospitals have been honored with the 2016 "Partner for Change" award.
MedStar Montgomery Medical Center Receives Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award for Stroke Care and Target: Stroke (SM) Honor Roll Designation
The award recognizes the hospital's commitment and success in ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center Is Named a "Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality" By National Survey
This is the fourth consecutive year the hospital has been recognized for its commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients, their families, and associates.
Medical ICU Reaches Rare Milestone: 2 Years CLABSI-Free
MedStar Washington Hospital Center medical intensive care unit 2G achieved an impressive milestone on March 18 (and counting): two years without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), a huge accomplishment for an ICU.
MedStar Health Is a Leader in Patient-Family Communications and Disclosure
MedStar Health is in the vanguard of health systems across the country that are embracing transparency and adopting practices to immediately communicate with patients and families—and other members of the care team—when something goes wrong. MedStar has been following the principles of communication and disclosure for several years, and was asked to develop and pilot the toolkit for the Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) program of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). AHRQ made the toolkit available today to hospitals and health leaders at no charge to encourage transparency everywhere.
Report: Healthcare Systems Must Create Means for Patients to Voice Concerns
Healthcare systems must create an environment that encourages patients to voice concerns about their care by adopting strategies for encouraging reporting and for responding in real time to address concerns, concludes report.


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MacRumors Giveaway: Win AirPods Retro From ColorWare
Friday August 10, 2018 12:00 PM PDT by Juli Clover
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with ColorWare to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a set of custom-painted AirPods that have been designed to look like a classic Macintosh.
The AirPods Retro case has been painted a soft beige shade that matches the design of Apple's earliest computers, with gray lines representing faux vents. There's also a rainbow colored button at the back that mimics the classic rainbow-colored Apple logo, and an all-over matte finish.
ColorWare has painted the AirPods themselves a nice matching beige color, for an overall look that's sleek and a throwback to the early Apple design language all at once.
AirPods Retro, priced at $399, aren't cheap, but you're not going to find AirPods that look like this anywhere else. These are also a limited edition from ColorWare and won't be available to purchase for long.
ColorWare has been offering custom-painted electronic accessories for years now and has established itself as a company that offers impeccable quality thanks to years of experience perfecting the painting process.
ColorWare uses a coating process that includes a primer, an application of a proprietary color formula, and an X2 liquid plastic coating that protects the new color for all of its AirPod paint jobs, and speaking of other paint jobs, ColorWare also offers custom AirPod painting in a range of colors. Pricing for a custom paint job starts at $299, and ColorWare is now one of the only companies offering custom AirPod painting.
Because ColorWare is using traditional AirPods for the Retro AirPods paint job, full AirPods functionality is intact, with a W1 chip for easy pairing, a long battery life, a built-in accelerometer for ear detection, iCloud support for quick device switching, and support for gestures.
We have one set of AirPods Retro to give away to a MacRumors reader. To enter to win, use the Rafflecopter widget below and enter an email address. Email addresses will be used solely for contact purposes to reach the winner(s) and send the prizes. You can earn additional entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.
Due to the complexities of international laws regarding giveaways, only U.S. residents who are 18 years or older and Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory are eligible to enter. To offer feedback or get more information on the giveaway restrictions, please refer to our Site Feedback section, as that is where discussion of the rules will be redirected.
The contest will run from today (August 10) at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time through 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on August 17. The winner will be chosen randomly on August 17 and will be contacted by email. The winner will have 48 hours to respond and provide a shipping address before a new winner is chosen.
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Weaselboy
Can anyone confirm these giveaways are even real?
I've seen posts in these threads where forum members mentioned they have won in these contests and received their prize.
Edit: Here are a few comments I was able to find.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/26320617/
Not gonna lie, as much as I dislike the look of the actual AirPod, that case color... the matte finish... that retro design... yeah, that's fire. The matte finish and off white color even look good on the AirPod.
CarlJ
I do have to say, these look kind of awesome - not only the retro tie-in, but one of the few things I dislike about the AirPods is, whenever I see someone with them, they really really stand out, with their blinding pure white finish. I'd be happier to have some if they didn't attract attention to themselves so much. (I'm a little surprised Apple hasn't offered them in black yet, but the ones I'd really like from Apple would be something like a 50% gray, not too bright, not too dark, to draw less attention to themselves).
seinman
The raffles are absolutely real. I won one way back in the day... 2003 or 2004. It was a case and battery adapter (4 AAs, wow) for the third generation iPod. :D
hushypushy
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/airpods-tips-and-tricks/
ActionableMango
What is support for gestures?
Tapping. I set mine to double-tap left for Siri and double-tap right for play/pause.


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Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin, photographed in Courtroom No. 1 of the Schuylkill County Courthouse, says he'll retire at the end of 2021.
Dolbin says he will leave Schuylkill County bench; Hobbs will seek seat
By Peter E. Bortner Staff Writer
Peter Bortner
POTTSVILLE — Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin will not remain on the bench after 2021, and a Pottsville lawyer said Monday he will run for the seat.
Christopher W. Hobbs, an assistant county solicitor and former assistant public defender, said he wants to be part of what he considers to be an "outstanding" group of judges.
"With Judge Dolbin's decision not to seek retention, I feel this is a tremendous opportunity to continue to serve the public," he said.
Dolbin, whose father and grandfather also served as county judges, will end his judicial career with 30 years on the bench.
"I'm leaving the bench at the end of this year," he said Monday.
Dolbin would have run for retention, since he is a sitting judge. That election would have been a simple yes or no vote, without an opponent, on whether he should have remained on the bench.
Since Dolbin is not seeking retention, the election becomes a standard competitive one for a 10-year term. Hobbs, and any other candidate, will be allowed to file for both the Democratic and Republican nominations.
Hobbs, a Republican, is the first person to announce his or her candidacy for the position. He is a graduate of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, and Widener School of Law, Harrisburg.
"I always have practiced law with respect and integrity, and promise to approach each case fairly and impartially, free from political interference and in accordance with the federal and state constitutions," Hobbs said.
He is a partner in the Pottsville law firm of Lieberman, Tamulonis & Hobbs. He started his career with the firm of John E. Jones & Associates, Pottsville, and later opened his own office in the city before joining Lieberman, Tamulonis & Hobbs.
"After 20-plus years handling civil, criminal and administrative cases in various tribunals, I believe I have the experience, temperament and expertise to serve the citizens of Schuylkill County well," Hobbs said.
He has deep roots in the county, where he lives with his wife, Dr. Ali Rhoades Hobbs, and their two children, Caroline and Christopher. He is a director of the Schuylkill YMCA, co-leader of Schuylkill United Way's Lawyer's Division, and a member of the county Bar Association's Board of Directors and the Disciplinary Court of Pennsylvania Hearing Committee. He also coaches youth baseball and basketball teams.
Hobbs also has one of the best-known political pedigrees in the county. Three state senators, one of whom became an appellate court judge, are part of it.
His grandfather is the late G. Harold Watkins, who served in the state Senate and later became president judge of the state Superior Court.
His late father and father-in-law, Frederick H. Hobbs and James J. Rhoades, respectively, also served in the state Senate. After Rhoades died following a 2008 accident in Monroe County, Hobbs lost the 2009 GOP primary election for that position to David G. Argall, who still occupies it.
Also a Republican, Dolbin succeeded his father, Donald D. Dolbin, on the court; he is believed to have been the first Pennsylvania judge to succeed his father. His grandfather, Cyrus Palmer, also served as a judge on the county court.
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Who's powerful in sports?
Can BusinessWeek's 2007 power champ Roger Goodell repeat now that the voting's been opened up to the masses?
By King Kaufman
Published June 30, 2008 6:00PM (EDT)
BusinessWeek wants to know who you think are "the most powerful people in sports today." You can vote on the matter in a poll at businessweek.com.
Last year NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was No. 1, followed by Tiger Woods and NBA chief David Stern. The top -- and only -- typist or chatterer on the list was John Madden at No. 81, though media executives were sprinkled throughout the top 100, starting with George Bodenheimer, the top dog at ESPN and ABC Sports.
But last year's list was compiled by a panel of "20 distinguished people from the sports and media world." The panel was dominated by athletes and agent types, with a couple of academics and writers mixed in. This year, the panel's been expanded to 35 distinguished people, plus you, the teeming masses. Or at least that part of the teeming masses that makes its way to businessweek.com. It's this item's aim to make those masses a little more teemy.
A BusinessWeek spokesperson said the magazine will consider the collective wisdom of the readers a 36th panelist.
If you've noted the parallel to the historical development of this column's Panel o' Experts, adding experts and the wisdom of the crowd over time, you're not alone.
And if you want to nominate a certain handsome caricature, well, you'd be throwing away a vote on an extremely unpowerful person in sports today, but it'd be pretty funny.
King Kaufman is a senior writer for Salon. You can e-mail him at king at salon dot com. Facebook / Twitter / Tumblr
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Chongqing is the largest independently administered municipal district in China. It is one of the most representative cities in the modernisation of China and great changes have been taking place here everyday since China began opening up 30 years ago. As the economic centre in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing reaps maximum economic benefit from the Three Gorges Dam project, yet by the effects of the same project, many historical thousand-year- old towns have disappeared. Chongqing is like a big construction site, building fervently to catch up with the rest of the world. In the advent of a development that contradicts their tradition and culture, citizens here still have their ordinary lives to lead — working nine-to-five, feeding the kids, taking vacations, and so on. As the Chinese economy takes flight, they face a high level of stress and anxiety. These pictures seek to illustrate the social development of the modern Chinese, a reflection of us.
for his photography include "They", Three Shadows Photography Award (China), "Coastline", PRIX HSBC POUR LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (France), and "Shanxi", MIO Photo Award, (Japan). He has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally including "Shanxi", FORMAT International Photography Festival, (UK), "They", Contemporary Chinese Photography, Katonah Museum of Art (New York), "Coastline", Galerie Baudoin Lebon, (Paris), "Subdue", Dali International Photography Festival, (China), and "Coastline", 2902 Gallery (Singapore).


There are also some general fishing principles that need to be adjusted when fishing in a river.
You need to scale down the size of bait you use when fishing rivers. Small lures that can be inhaled by a panfish are often the best baits to use when fishing rivers. Fish in rivers are much more active than those in lakes. They will eat much more often on much smaller morsels.
You can and should use heavier line. I advise using the heaviest line you can cast for distance. If you have braided line, use it. Since visibility is low you do not need to be as concerned with fish seeing your line. Strength and ability to withstand abrasions are now your prime concerns when selecting a line.
You need to alter your speed in rivers and allow the current to work for you. Before you fish think about what you are doing. Understand that both species of bass are looking for something that seems natural. A small fish speeding upstream against a strong current is not a natural offering. It is a much better approach to retrieve your lure downstream very slowly, allowing the current to do most of the work for you. Another excellent approach would be to retrieve the bait upstream but do it very slowly. Small fish fight strong currents very slowly, your presentation needs to resemble this.
In rivers you need to select baits that are highly visible. Rivers generally have very murky water. This combines with the agitation created by the movement of the water make visibility a high concern for the fisherman. Colors such as white, chartreuse and many of the florescent light shades work best.
In rivers your sense of awareness needs to be keen. As we discussed before rocks, especially large ones are a great locator of Smallmouth Bass. The problem is these rocks are rarely visible, they rarely extend over the surface of the water. You need to read your surroundings. Submerged rocks are located by looking for distinct water patterns on the surface. As you gain experience fishing rivers you will be amazed at how much you can deduce from the signals the water gives you.
To get the full "River Bass Fishing – Tips for catching Bass in rivers" article you'll need to download it here.
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Now There Are More Internet Addresses Than Stars in the Universe
Long story short: After this week's switchover to a new protocol called IPv6, there are a whole lot of IP addresses on the Internet. How many more? Just one day after the world wide web made a permanent and forever change on Wednesday, CNN reported t...
Why IPv6 Is a Win for Digital Advertising
For everyday users, yesterday's big shift in Internet addresses -- from the IPv4 to IPv6 -- will go unnoticed. To anyone doing business on the Web, though, it's of extreme interest, and there's one group who may benefit from the re-organization more ...
Developers: Learn Who's Playing Your Games, Increase Retention
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Playnomics Quick Pitch: Playnomics' sof...
The Web's Been Running Out of Space, But IPv6 Is Saving It
Written by Jolie O'Dell
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. The web has been running out of IP addresses, but some of the key players on the Internet have been testing a new...
Google, Facebook, Mozilla & Others Rev Up for IPv6
Tuesday is World IPv6 Day, and Google is leading the charge to test and adopt the new Internet Protocol. IPv6 is the web's solution to "the Internet is running out of addresses" dilemma that's been floating around for a few months. In January, Google...
IPv4 & IPv6: A Short Guide
Written by Ben Parr
The Internet has run out of Internet addresses... sort of. Perhaps you've heard the news: the last blocks of IPv4 Internet addresses have been allocated. The fundamental underlying technology that has powered Internet Protocol addresses (ever seen a ...
The Internet Is Running Out of Space...Kind Of
Written by Sarah Kessler
On February 2 around 4 a.m., the Internet will run out of its current version of IP addresses. At least that's what one Internet Service Provider is predicting based on a rate of about one million addresses every four hours. Every device that is conn...