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Coronavirus Impact: Financial Losses Hitting Colleges Hard
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Colleges and universities across the country are reeling from all aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, some schools fear being forced to close. In an article published by the AP, schools detail the financial losses from refunding students for housing, dining, and parking. Schools have also lost millions in event and sports ticket sales, which are used to subsidize campus needs. On top of that, millions more have been lost in their endowments and other funds due to stock market swings.
What will be worse, though, if the pandemic hasn't been slowed enough by fall, campuses will stay closed. Students, new and old, will be unable to return. Schools are putting together plans to bounce back from this spring's losses, but another lost semester would be crippling. Additionally, little help is on the way from the government.
The $2 trillion federal rescue bill provides $14 billion for higher education. The American Council on Education, an association of college presidents, had requested $50 billion. Ted Mitchell, the group's president, called the package "woefully inadequate."
"This crisis is causing massive disruption to students, institutional operations and institutional finances. On some campuses, it is creating an existential threat, potentially resulting in closures."
Ted Mitchell, President of The American Council on Education
Large and Small Colleges Impacted
Large universities, like the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, each expect losses of about $100 million. Bucknell University reports it has lost $150 million from investment losses.
Smaller schools, like Millsaps College in Mississippi, is refunding $1 million in fees, out of their $33 million budget. They've faced enrollment issues in recent years, and now worry about attracting future students. Smaller schools run on very lean budgets, and may not be able to recoup these losses.
Benedict College in South Carolina has 2,000 students and a $52 million yearly budget. The strain of refunds has pushed administrators to look at layoffs to stay afloat.
"We have to think clearly about the future of the institution," said Roslyn Clark Artis, president of Benedict to the AP. "The notion of refunding an amount this significant would cripple the institution, there's no doubt."
Even larger schools like Brown and Yale have already instituted hiring freezes.
David Tandberg, vice president of policy research and strategic initiatives at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, spoke with the AP. "It's this major double whammy with multiple hits on the revenue side and new hits on the cost side," he said. "I'm afraid we're going to lose some private institutions. I have no idea how many, but many were operating on the margin already."
The San Francisco Art Institute and MacMurray College in Illinois have already announced their permanent closures. Both have said that while coronavirus wasn't the direct reason for closing, it was the deciding factor. Both schools are negotiating transfer agreements for current students.
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Additionally, experts believe the international student population will continue to decrease, especially from China, a historically strong group. At the University of Connecticut, which hosted over 3,000 Chinese student last year, they're preparing for 25 to 75% fewer international student this fall. Bloomberg reports the shortfall in international student enrollment will cost the worldwide economy billions. Bloomberg also says coronavirus will force universities to face their "addiction to foreign students' money."
Many schools report that many incoming high school students have decided to take a gap year this fall. The impact of that loss, an already assumed budget addition, will be significant.
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Origins of the Sacred Marriage
" … The Great Mother goddess was worshipped from the earliest times, and she bore various local names. At Comana in Pontus she was known to the Greeks as Ma, a name which may have been as old as that of the Sumerian Mama (the creatrix), or Mamitum (goddess of destiny); in Armenia she was Anaitis; in Cilicia she was Ate ('Atheh of Tarsus); while in Phrygia she was best known as Cybele, mother of Attis, who links with Ishtar as mother and wife of Tammuz, Aphrodite as mother and wife of Adonis, and Isis as mother and wife of Osiris.
The Great Mother was in Phoenicia called Astarte; she was a form of Ishtar, and identical with the Biblical Ashtoreth. In the Syrian city of Hierapolis she bore the name of Atargatis, which Meyer, with whom Frazer agrees, considers to be the Greek rendering of the Aramaic 'Athar-'Atheh–the god 'Athar and the goddess 'Atheh. Like the "bearded Aphrodite," Atargatis may have been regarded as a bisexual deity.
Some of the specialized mother goddesses, whose outstanding attributes reflected the history and politics of the states they represented, were imported into Egypt–the land of ancient mother deities–during the Empire period, by the half-foreign Rameses kings; these included the voluptuous Kadesh and the warlike Anthat.
In every district colonized by the early representatives of the Mediterranean race, the goddess cult came into prominence, and the gods and the people were reputed to be descendants of the great Creatrix. This rule obtained as far distant as Ireland, where the Danann folk and the Danann gods were the children of the goddess Danu.
Among the Hatti proper–that is, the broad-headed military aristocracy–the chief deity of the pantheon was the Great Father, the creator, "the lord of Heaven," the Baal. As Sutekh, Tarku, Adad, or Ramman, he was the god of thunder, rain, fertility, and war, and he ultimately acquired solar attributes.
A famous rock sculpture at Boghaz-Köi depicts a mythological scene which is believed to represent the Spring marriage of the Great Father and the Great Mother, suggesting a local fusion of beliefs which resulted from the union of tribes of the god cult with tribes of the goddess cult.
So long as the Hatti tribe remained the predominant partner in the Hittite confederacy, the supremacy was assured of the Great Father who symbolized their sway. But when, in the process of time, the power of the Hatti declined, their chief god "fell… from his predominant place in the religion of the interior," writes Dr. Garstang. "But the Great Mother lived on, being the goddess of the land."
The Names of the Great Mother
"THE dawn of history in all parts of Western Asia discloses the established worship of a nature-goddess in whom the productive powers of the earth were personified. 1 She is our Mother Earth, known otherwise as the Mother Goddess or Great Mother. Among the Babylonians 2 and northern Semites she was called Ishtar: she is the Ashtoreth of the Bible, and the Astarte of Phœnicia. In Syria her name was 'Athar, and in Cilicia it had the form of 'Ate ('Atheh). At Hierapolis, with which we are primarily concerned, it appears in later Aramaic as Atargatis, a compound of the Syrian and Cilician forms.
In Asia Minor, where the influence of the Semitic language did not prevail, her various names have not survived, though it is recorded by a later Greek writer as "Ma" at one of her mountain shrines, and as Agdistis amongst one tribe of the Phrygians and probably at Pessinus. These differences, however, are partly questions of local tongue; for in one way and another there was still a prevailing similarity between the essential attributes and worship of the nature-goddess throughout Western Asia.
The "origins" of this worship and its ultimate development are not directly relevant to our present enquiry; but we must make passing allusion to a point of special interest and wide significance. As regards Asia Minor, at least, a theory that explains certain abnormal tendencies in worship and in legend would attribute to the goddess, in the primitive conception of her, the power of self-reproduction, complete in herself, a hypothesis justified by the analogy of beliefs current among certain states of primitive society.
However that may be, a male companion is none the less generally associated with her in mythology, even from the earliest historical vision of Ishtar in Babylonia, where he was known as Tammuz. While evidence is wanting to define clearly the original position of this deity in relation to the goddess, the general tendency of myth and legend in the lands of Syria and Asia Minor, with which we are specially concerned, reveals him as her offspring, the fruits of the earth.
The basis of the myth was human experience of nature, particularly the death of plant life with the approach of winter and its revival with the spring. In one version accordingly "Adonis" descends for the six winter months to the underworld, until brought back to life through the divine influence of the goddess. The idea that the youth was the favoured lover of the goddess belongs to a different strain of thought, if indeed it was current in these lands at all in early times. In Asia Minor at any rate the sanctity of the goddess's traditional powers was safeguarded in popular legend by the emasculation of "Attis," and in worship by the actual emasculation of her priesthood, perhaps the most striking feature of her cult.
The abnormal and impassioned tendencies of her developed worship would be derived, according to this theory, from the efforts of her worshippers to assist her to bring forth notwithstanding her singleness. However that may be, the mourning for the death of the youthful god, and rejoicing at his return, were invariable features of this worship of nature. It is reasonable to believe that long before the curtain of history was raised over Asia Minor the worship of this goddess and her son had become deep-rooted."
Herbert A. Strong and John Garstang, Lucian's the Syrian Goddess, A Translation of De Dea Syria with a Life of Lucian, 1913, pp. 1-4.
Fish Symbolism Spanning Cultures and Eras
"For those who hold that the Grail story is essentially, and fundamentally, Christian, finding its root in Eucharistic symbolism, the title is naturally connected with the use of the Fish symbol in early Christianity: the Icthys anagram, as applied to Christ, the title 'Fishers of Men,' bestowed upon the Apostles, the Papal ring of the Fisherman–though it must be noted that no manipulation of the Christian symbolism avails satisfactorily to account for the lamentable condition into which the bearer of the title has fallen." 2
So far as the present state of our knowledge goes we can affirm with certainty that the Fish is a Life symbol of immemorial antiquity, and that the title of Fisher has, from the earliest ages, been associated with Deities who were held to be specially connected with the origin and preservation of Life.
In Indian cosmogony Manu finds a little fish in the water in which he would wash his hands; it asks, and receives, his protection, asserting that when grown to full size it will save Manu from the universal deluge. This is Jhasa, the greatest of all fish. 1
The first Avatar of Vishnu the Creator is a Fish. At the great feast in honour of this god, held on the twelfth day of the first month of the Indian year, Vishnu is represented under the form of a golden Fish, and addressed in the following terms:
"Wie Du, O Gott, in Gestalt eines Fisches die in der Unterwelt befindlichen Veden gerettet hast, so rette auch mich 2."
The Fish Avatar was afterwards transferred to Buddha.
In Buddhist religion the symbols of the Fish and Fisher are freely employed. Thus in Buddhist monasteries we find drums and gongs in the shape of a fish, but the true meaning of the symbol, while still regarded as sacred, has been lost, and the explanations, like the explanations of the Grail romances, are often fantastic afterthoughts.
In the Māhāyana scriptures Buddha is referred to as the Fisherman who draws fish from the ocean of Samsara to the light of Salvation. There are figures and pictures which represent Buddha in the act of fishing, an attitude which, unless interpreted in a symbolic sense, would be utterly at variance with the tenets of the Buddhist religion. 1
This also holds good for Chinese Buddhism. The goddess Kwanyin (= Avalokiteśvara), the female Deity of Mercy and Salvation, is depicted either on, or holding, a Fish.
In the Han palace of Kun-Ming-Ch'ih there was a Fish carved in jade to which in time of drought sacrifices were offered, the prayers being always answered.
Both in India and China the Fish is employed in funeral rites. In India a crystal bowl with Fish handles was found in a reputed tomb of Buddha.
In China the symbol is found on stone slabs enclosing the coffin, on bronze urns, vases, etc. Even as the Babylonians had the Fish, or Fisher, god, Oannes who revealed to them the arts of Writing, Agriculture, etc., and was, as Eisler puts it, 'teacher and lord of all wisdom,' so the Chinese Fu-Hi, who is pictured with the mystic tablets containing the mysteries of Heaven and Earth, is, with his consort and retinue, represented as having a fish's tail 2.
The writer of the article in The Open Court asserts that "the Fish was sacred to those deities who were supposed to lead men back from the shadows of death to life 3."
If this be really the case we can understand the connection of the symbol first with Orpheus, later with Christ, as Eisler remarks:
"Orpheus is connected with nearly all the mystery, and a great many of the ordinary chthonic, cults in Greece and Italy. Christianity took its first tentative steps into the reluctant world of Graeco-Roman Paganism under the benevolent patronage of Orpheus." 1
There is thus little reason to doubt that, if we regard the Fish as a Divine Life symbol, of immemorial antiquity, we shall not go very far astray.
We may note here that there was a fish known to the Semites by the name of Adonis, although as the title signifies 'Lord,' and is generic rather than specific, too much stress cannot be laid upon it.
It is more interesting to know that in Babylonian cosmology Adapa the Wise, the son of Ea, is represented as a Fisher. 2
In the ancient Sumerian laments for Tammuz, previously referred to, that god is frequently addressed as Divine Lamgar, Lord of the Net, the nearest equivalent I have so far found to our 'Fisher King.' 3
Whether the phrase is here used in an actual or a symbolic sense the connection of idea is sufficiently striking.
In the opinion of the most recent writers on the subject the Christian Fish symbolism derives directly from the Jewish, the Jews, on their side having borrowed freely from Syrian belief and practice. 4
What may be regarded as the central point of Jewish Fish symbolism is the tradition that, at the end of the world, Messias will catch the great Fish Leviathan, and divide its flesh as food among the faithful.
As a foreshadowing of this Messianic Feast the Jews were in the habit of eating fish upon the Sabbath. During the Captivity, under the influence of the worship of the goddess Atargatis, they transferred the ceremony to the Friday, the eve of the Sabbath, a position which it has retained to the present day.
Eisler remarks that "in Galicia one can see Israelite families in spite of their being reduced to the extremest misery, procuring on Fridays a single gudgeon, to eat, divided into fragments, at night-fall.
In the 16th century Rabbi Solomon Luria protested strongly against this practice. Fish, he declared, should be eaten on the Sabbath itself, not on the Eve." 1
This Jewish custom appears to have been adopted by the primitive Church, and early Christians, on their side, celebrated a Sacramental Fish-meal. The Catacombs supply us with numerous illustrations, fully described by the two writers referred to.
The elements of this mystic meal were Fish, Bread, and Wine, the last being represented in the Messianic tradition: "At the end of the meal God will give to the most worthy, i.e., to King David, the Cup of Blessing–one of fabulous dimensions." 2
Fish play an important part in Mystery Cults, as being the 'holy' food. Upon a tablet dedicated to the Phrygian Mater Magna we find Fish and Cup; and Dölger, speaking of a votive tablet discovered in the Balkans, says, "Hier ist der Fisch immer und immer wieder allzu deutlich als die heilige Speise eines Mysterien-Kultes hervorgehoben." 3
Now I would submit that here, and not in Celtic Folk-lore, is to be found the source of Borron's Fish-meal. Let us consider the circumstances. Joseph and his followers, in the course of their wanderings, find themselves in danger of famine. The position is somewhat curious, as apparently the leaders have no idea of the condition of their followers till the latter appeal to Brons. 1
Brons informs Joseph, who prays for aid and counsel from the Grail. A Voice from Heaven bids him send his brother-in-law, Brons, to catch a fish.
Meanwhile he, Joseph, is to prepare a table, set the Grail, covered with a cloth, in the centre opposite his own seat, and the fish which Brons shall catch, on the other side.
He does this, and the seats are filled–"Si s'i asieent une grant partie et plus i ot de cels qui n'i sistrent mie, que de cels qui sistrent."
Those who are seated at the table are conscious of a great "douceur," and "l'accomplissement de lor cuers," the rest feel nothing.
Now compare this with the Irish story of the Salmon of Wisdom 2.
Finn Mac Cumhail enters the service of his namesake, Finn Eger, who for seven years had remained by the Boyne watching the Salmon of Lynn Feic, which it had been foretold Finn should catch.
The younger lad, who conceals his name, catches the fish. He is set to watch it while it roasts but is warned not to eat it. Touching it with his thumb he is burned, and puts his thumb in his mouth to cool it.
Immediately he becomes possessed of all knowledge, and thereafter has only to chew his thumb to obtain wisdom.
Mr Nutt remarks: "The incident in Borron's poem has been recast in the mould of mediaeval Christian Symbolism, but I think the older myth can still be clearly discerned, and is wholly responsible for the incident as found in the Conte du Graal."
But when these words were written we were in ignorance of the Sacramental Fish-meal, common alike to Jewish, Christian, and Mystery Cults, a meal which offers a far closer parallel to Borron's romance than does the Finn story, in which, beyond the catching of a fish, there is absolutely no point of contact with our romance, neither Joseph nor Brons derives wisdom from the eating thereof; it is not they who detect the sinners, the severance between the good and the evil is brought about automatically.
The Finn story has no common meal, and no idea of spiritual blessings such as are connected therewith.
In the case of the Messianic Fish-meal, on the other hand, the parallel is striking; in both cases it is a communal meal, in both cases the privilege of sharing it is the reward of the faithful, in both cases it is a foretaste of the bliss of Paradise.
Furthermore, as remarked above, the practice was at one time of very widespread prevalence.
Now whence did Borron derive his knowledge, from Jewish, Christian or Mystery sources?
This is a question not very easy to decide. In view of the pronounced Christian tone of Borron's romance I should feel inclined to exclude the first, also the Jewish Fish-meal seems to have been of a more open, general and less symbolic character than the Christian; it was frankly an anticipation of a promised future bliss, obtainable by all.
Orthodox Christianity, on the other hand, knows nothing of the Sacred Fish-meal, so far as I am aware it forms no part of any Apocalyptic expectation, and where this special symbolism does occur it is often under conditions which place its interpretation outside the recognized category of Christian belief.
A noted instance in point is the famous epitaph of Bishop Aberkios, over the correct interpretation of which scholars have spent much time and ingenuity. 1 In this curious text Aberkios, after mentioning his journeys, says:
"Paul I had as my guide,
Faith however always went ahead and set before me as food a Fish from a Fountain, a huge one, a clean one,
Which a Holy Virgin has caught.
This she gave to the friends ever to eat as food,
Having good Wine, and offering it watered together with Bread."
Aberkios had this engraved when 72 years of age in truth.
Whoever can understand this let him pray for Aberkios."
Eisler (I am here quoting from the Quest article) remarks, "As the last line of our quotation gives us quite plainly to understand, a number of words which we have italicized are obviously used in an unusual, metaphorical, sense, that is to say as terms of the Christian Mystery language."
While Harnack, admitting that the Christian character of the text is indisputable, adds significantly: "aber das Christentum der Grosskirche ist es nicht."
Thus it is possible that, to the various points of doubtful orthodoxy which scholars have noted as characteristic of the Grail romances, Borron's Fish-meal should also be added.
Should it be objected that the dependence of a medieval romance upon a Jewish tradition of such antiquity is scarcely probable, I would draw attention to the Voyage of Saint Brandan, where the monks, during their prolonged wanderings, annually 'kept their Resurrection,' i.e., celebrate their Easter Mass, on the back of a great Fish. 1
On their first meeting with this monster Saint Brandan tells them it is the greatest of all fishes, and is named Jastoni, a name which bears a curious resemblance to the Jhasa of the Indian tradition cited above. 2
In this last instance the connection of the Fish with life, renewed and sustained, is undeniable.
The original source of such a symbol is most probably to be found in the belief, referred to in a previous chapter, 1 that all life comes from the water, but that a more sensual and less abstract idea was also operative appears from the close connection of the Fish with the goddess Astarte or Atargatis, a connection here shared by the Dove.
Cumont, in his Les Religions Orientales dans le Paganisme Romain, says:
"Two animals were held in general reverence, namely, Dove and Fish.
Countless flocks of Doves greeted the traveller when he stepped on shore at Askalon, and in the outer courts of all the temples of Astarte one might see the flutter of their white wings.
The Fish were preserved in ponds near to the Temple, and superstitious dread forbade their capture, for the goddess punished such sacrilege, smiting the offender with ulcers and tumours." 2
But at certain mystic banquets priests and initiates partook of this otherwise forbidden food, in the belief that they thus partook of the flesh of the goddess. "
Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance, 1920, pp. 118-26.


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Recently I was on a panel at the World Science Fiction convention about the role editors play in the publishing process. While participating, it was brought to my attention that I'm one of a fairly rare breed: a writer and editor. By the end of the convention, that's how I was referring to myself, and when (if) I ever get a blog up, the title will definitely have something to do with being a writer/editor hybrid.
I've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to do both throughout my career, not only for 16 years at Tekno Books, but also afterward as a freelance writer and editor. I enjoy both immensely; when my wife recently asked me which one I would choose if I had to, it was a very difficult decision. Although writing won out (narrowly, and for the primary reason that I don't believe there are any truly rich and famous editors, whereas writers still have that chance, although the odds are similar to winning the lottery), I hope that is a choice I never have to make.
I enjoy writing and editing so much that when William invited me to contribute to this blog, I agreed on the condition that I could discuss what inspires me as both an author and an editor. He was happy to agree, and so here we are.
Although I often refer to editing and writing as two different vocations (to the point of often saying that I wear two different hats, one as a writer, and one as an editor, and switch back and forth as needed), as I thought about this topic, I realized that the two have more in common than I thought. Whether writing a short story or novel or editing an anthology or novel, the goal is still the same: to produce or help to produce the very best story possible, bringing all of my knowledge and skill to the table either to create a story in my world or someone else's, or to help shape other people's stories into a stronger, more enjoyable experience.
Not the keyboard I use . . . although some scenes make me feel like I'm typing on something like this. . . .
From there, I go into what is both the most fun and occasionally most frustrating aspect of writing: fleshing out the world, characters, and plot while trying not to get waylaid by the myriad choices available to me as the writer. Here's where I find out whether that kernel is enough to sustain a plot line, whether short or long. I'm a firm believer is creating at least a rough (1-2 page) outline of the main plot points, but at the same time, I don't ever feel constrained by it—if an idea pops into my head during writing that improves the story and doesn't detour too much, I go with it. While I don't admit to any sort of god complex, usually I retain absolute control over what happens to the plot and characters I create in a story (When a character resists my control, that's another item altogether. Fortunately it doesn't happen very often).
One aspect of writing that I must confess puzzles me is the opposite of inspiration: writer's block. Although I will admit to having to puzzle out how a particular scene should start or unfold more than once, I have always been puzzled by those folks who say that they are having writer's block. Like many other writers I know, I have more ideas than I'll probably ever write (the motivation to actually write those ideas is sometimes another matter entirely) so I'm forced to pick and choose which ones I'm going to work on. I really don't ever expect my creative well to run dry—there's simply too many ideas in the world today, waiting to be crafted into entertaining, engaging stories.
Editing a project, whether it is an anthology or novel, starts the same way—with the idea. For a theme anthology, I have to come up with a concept that is not only salable, but also intrinsically interesting enough not only for me to read 12-16 stories about the theme without becoming bored, but also be broad enough to allow the invited writers to spin their tales without worrying about stepping on another writer's toes (fortunately, this also happens very infrequently).
Once the idea has been firmed up and sold, then the process of soliciting authors begins. As the editor of any project, my role is to make sure that the anthology is on target both in theme and length, and to hit its delivery deadline to the publisher. Along the way, I ensure that the authors are all on topic and deadline—a process very similar to herding cats. But the end result is always worth it.
For working on an edited novel, again the idea has to be one I'm willing to work on—there is nothing more deadly to a manuscript than a bored editor, or one who is unfamiliar with the genre or sub-genre a novel falls into. Fortunately, when I was at Tekno Books, we packaged a lot of techno-thriller novels and genre fiction anthologies, so I had no dearth of interesting projects to work on.
The same criterion applies now that I'm a freelance editor—I have to be engaged in the novel projects that I decide to take on. If I'm going to give a writer the best possible editorial experience, I have to be as committed to seeing his or her manuscript succeed, and therefore help them tell the best story they can.
Whether writing or editing, it all begins with the idea and goes from there. They're all around us, just waiting to be taken and turned into amazing fiction. And whether I do it myself, or invite a collection of talented writers to give me their visions of a particular theme, I intend to be creating and commissioning fantastic fiction for many years to come.
John Helfers is a freelance author and editor currently living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. During his sixteen years working at Tekno Books (the largest commercial book packager in the nation), he co-edited more than twenty short story anthologies, as well as overseeing many others for publishers in all genres. He has worked with many well-known authors and co-editors, including Charlaine Harris, Anne Perry, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Weis, and Kevin J. Anderson. He has also edited dozens of novels by such authors as Doug Allyn, Brendan DuBois, Brian Herbert, James Patrick Hunt, Richard Parks, Jean Rabe, and Tim Waggoner.
He has published more than forty short stories in anthologies such as If I Were An Evil Overlord, Time Twisters, and Places to Be, People to Kill. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, game books, and novels for the Dragonlance, Transformers, BattleTech, and Shadowrun universes. He has written both fiction and nonfiction, including the third novel in the first authorized trilogy based on The Twilight Zone television series, the YA novel Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers: Cloak and Dagger, and a history of the United States Navy. He wrote three novels in the Room 59 espionage series for Gold Eagle/Worldwide Publishing (including the launch book, The Powers That Be) and has written novels in both their Deathlands and Mack Bolan/Executioner series.
His essays on the military have appeared in Beyond Shock and Awe, edited by U.S. Navy SEAL founder Eric Haney, and in the Civil War and World War II volumes of the How to Lose a War series. His most recent nonfiction book, The Vorkosigan Companion (co-edited with Lillian Stewart Carl), a guide to the science fictional world of Lois McMaster Bujold, was nominated for a 2009 Hugo Award. In 2010, the Shadowrun anthology Spells & Chrome won the Origins Award for Best Game-Related Publication.
Currently he's working on several tie-in and original projects in both the adult and YA genres.


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Grindr reveals which countries have the most tops and the most bottoms
Nick Duffy
Gays, get your passports ready for a post-pandemic trip – Grindr has revealed the countries with the highest numbers of tops and bottoms.
The global hook-up app is active in nearly every country in the world, but some regions have markedly different preferences than others.
Vietnam, Sweden Thailand, Peru and South Africa are home to the biggest proportion of users who list themselves as bottoms, according to the gay app's 2020 Grindr Unwrapped roundup.
Meanwhile, Nigeria, where gay sex is illegal, is home to the one of the highest proportions of tops, behind only Morocco and India and ahead of Chile and Israel.
If you're looking up for a man who is up for anything, South America is definitely your destination of choice, with men in Venezuela, Guatemala and Argentina most likely to list themselves as vers.
Grindr did add an important clarification: "This data only represents a subsection of our users (not all Grindr users include this information on their profiles), and Grindr itself only represents a subsection of the global queer community.
"So it's important to note that this is not meant as a comprehensive or scientific report on global queer sex and dating behaviours.
"Instead, it's meant as a fun and informal way to help our users get to know each other better, serve as an ice-breaker for conversations in the app, and provide some insights into Grindr activity trends from the year."
Chile is top of the tops, according to Grindr (Rafael Henrique)
In more robust data, the United States remains the biggest market for the app, followed by Brazil, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom, with Brits admirably cracking the top five despite the UK's smaller population.
Meanwhile, the holy day is looking more like the holey day, with Grindr revealing Sunday evenings are the most active time for users.
Breaking news: Gay people like Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.
Grindr also revealed the most-listed songs of 2020, and we are stunned to report that gays love listening to Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande.
The pair's collaboration "Rain on Me" topped the list, followed in short order by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's year-defining cultural phenomenon "WAP". The jokes write themselves, really.
Grindr added: "It was a year unlike any other, and many of the usual ways people enjoy Grindr—in-person dates, hookups, tennis (yes, some of us use Grindr to find tennis partners)—were off the table in 2020 due to COVID-19.
"But that doesn't mean people weren't still connecting. This snapshot of activity shows that even in a year of quarantine and isolation, people still found ways to express themselves and connect safely from home."
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Don't know that the Chinese actually "own" table tennis, but in many countries, like China, table tennis is taught from an early age and even in school much the same as our basketball and football are done here. That's one reason why they are so (add your own expletive) good.
I'm rather surprised that table tennis isn't used in our sports training systems as it considerably aids hand/eye coordination, reflexes, quick lower body movement, breathing control, etc.


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In Photos: 'Sesame Street' unveils Rohingya Muppets to help refugee children
According to UN figures, children make up more than half of about 730,000 Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh in 2017 after a mass exodus from Myanmar and now live in camps in Cox's Bazar
Reuters , Friday 18 Dec 2020
Tuktuki and Elmo sing and dance with Rohingya children in the Kutapalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There are over 700,000 Rohingya child refugees in the camp, growing up without access to a formal education (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
Elmo, Cookie Monster, Muppets from Asia, Middle East in 'Sesame Street' special on coronavirus pandemic
Sesame Street launches Arabic TV programme for Middle East children dealing with displacement
Children's TV show "Sesame Street" has unveiled its first Rohingya Muppets to help thousands of refugee children overcome trauma and tackle the pandemic's impact in the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh.
Six-year-old twins, Noor and Aziz Yasmin, will feature alongside the show's famous characters like Elmo and Louie in educational videos in Rohingya language in the camps, according to Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organisation behind the show.
Elmo and Tuktuki play with a group of Rohingya refugee children in the Kutapalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
"Noor and Aziz are at the heart of our efforts to bring early education ... to children and caregivers ... impacted tremendously by the dual crises of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic," Sherrie Westin, president of social impact at Sesame Workshop, said in a statement.
"For most Rohingya children, Noor and Aziz will be the very first characters in media who look and sound like them... (they)will bring the transformative power of playful learning to families at a time when it's needed more than ever before."
The first Rohingya muppets, a pair of twins named Noor Yasmin and Aziz, are part of a $200 million effort to infuse an innovative form of education into the camp (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
According to UN figures, children make up more than half of about 730,000 Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh in 2017 after a mass exodus from Myanmar and now live in camps in Cox's Bazar.
Tuktuki reads to a Rohingya refugee family inside the Kutapalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
Earlier this year aid agencies said the risks of child marriage and trafficking had increased in the camps as the pandemic led to scaling back camp activities and shutting youth services.
Sesame Workshop described Noor as a passionate and curious girl who loves to make up funny new rules for games, while her brother is a storyteller whose creativity can, at times, distract him from his daily tasks.
Elmo plays with Rohingya children in the Kutapalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
Grover plays with a Rohingya child in the Kutapalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Sesame Workshop believes that if they invest in reaching young children in humanitarian settings, the children will have a chance to succeed and that can change the word (Photo: Courtesy of Sesame Workshop)
Bangladeshi non-government organisation BRAC, a partner of the programme, said the video segments would begin "soon".
"This will definitely help the Rohingya children stay connected to their roots," said BRAC spokeswoman Hasina Akhter.
For more arts and culture news and updates, follow Ahram Online Arts and Culture on Twitter at @AhramOnlineArts and on Facebook at Ahram Online: Arts & Culture
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Running a business of any kind can be an expensive endeavor, especially when it comes to companies offering any kind of manufacturing. Manufacturing equipment has a number of pieces that are constantly in motion which leads to components needing to be replaced and maintained frequently. One way to stay within a budget while purchasing and maintaining equipment is to look into refurbished products. Purchasing and using refurbished equipment and replacement parts can save upwards of sixty percent when compared to new. The best part, it is as equally as reliable especially with regular maintenance.
When purchasing reconditioned equipment and reconditioned parts business's can save a great deal of money. Usually the cost of equipment, in any business, is the most expensive aspect of a new business venture. You can start-up a new endeavor at a fraction of the cost without putting all of your money into equipment and leaving yourself without a financial cushion.
Purchasing equipment that has been reconditioned, especially when it comes from a reputable source with proven knowledge and experience. When equipment is well maintained, no matter if it was brand new or purchased refurbished, it will function for years.
The biggest benefit of purchasing refurbished equipment is that the known wear and tear on the equipment can be addressed when it is reconditioned. If we know that an axel always fails after 4 hours of constant use, then the issue can be addressed during the refurbishment process. Although the exterior of reconditioned equipment can show wear and tear the internal aspects will be even better than new.
There are a number of reasons that purchasing refurbished electrical components and equipment makes sense for your business. Reconditioned components allow you to save money without sacrificing quality.
Many businesses and manufacturing facilities must purchase equipment and parts for maintenance & repairs. One of the key goals with purchasing equipment and parts is that they will serve them for the longest possible amount of time at a reasonable and affordable price. Refurbished machinery and reconditioned parts can be a great alternative for all business owners, especially those just starting out and are working within a budget. There are certain myths surrounding reconditioned components, especially electrical, that can deter business owners from making a purchase even when it's the most logical option.
Below we will look at these myths and share advice on how to make a wise investment when purchasing reconditioned electrical components and refurbished machinery for your business.
Myth 1: Reconditioned electronics are slow and operate poorly in comparison to new components.
The truth is that how well a refurbished electrical component operates today has little to do with how new it is. It does however, boil down to the quality of reconditioning, maintenance, and use. New electrical components operate based on how they were constructed, and the software used to create them.
Myth 2: Reconditioned electrical components are junk.
Electrical components are termed as junk if they are no longer being used. However, once an old piece of electronic equipment is refurbished, it can work better than a new piece of equipment. When reconditioning the piece issues that have been exposed over time can be addressed. If one part is always breaking on the component, then when it is refurbished that element can be fixed properly to avoid an issue later down the road.
Myth 3: Refurbished gadgets and used devices are the same thing.
A used device is one that has been used and is experiencing wear and tear whereas reconditioned gadgets are those that are taken, dismantled and given a new lease on life. This means that it is rid of issues and malfunctions that could affect how it functions.
Myth 4: Reconditioned electrical components have a shorter lifespan.
Authorized refurbishing companies make significant investments on their reconditioned electrical components and as such, it is to their benefit if the refurbished equipment works for the longest time possible. So just because the electrical equipment is refurbished does not mean that it will not serve you for a long time in fact many times the exact opposite is the case.
Your circuit breaker is one of the most important safety systems in your home. It detects when there is too much electrical current running through the circuit and cuts power until the problem is fixed. If your home didn't have a circuit breaker, electricity would be too dangerous to use in a house as the risk of potential fires, injury or death would be too high.
When electricity comes into your home from the grid, it enters through a circuit breaker. From there it is divided into many circuits which lead to different areas of your home. Each circuit is protected by it's own breaker. Each circuit in your home is designed to take on a certain load. For example, the circuit that powers the kitchen and all it's many appliances will have a greater capacity than the circuit that powers the bedrooms. Learn how to determine the amperage of a circuit breaker.
Your electrical system, including the wire, wire insulation and the breaker, all have limits. If too much electrical current is running through a circuit, it can cause bad things to happen. The wire will start to heat up and the insulation around the while can melt. If it melts than the current is now loose in the wall and that's how fires start. That is why you need a circuit breaker to stop the current before there is any danger.
Circuit overload: The most common reason why your breaker will trip is because the circuit is overloaded. That means you are running too many things off the same circuit. You'll have to move some of those appliances or devices to another circuit in the home or make sure you're not using them all at once to reduce the electrical load.
If you've redistributed the devices and appliances, it might be overloading because a certain appliance is overheating. Try unplugging your devices one at a time and see if that makes the difference. If not, contact Renovationfinds best electricians in Calgary to take a look and remedy the situation.
Short circuit: This is when a hot wire touches another hot wire or a neutral wire inside one of your receptacles. When they touch, it causes a lot of current to flow, creating more heat than the circuit can carry. The safety feature is shutting down the circuit. Short circuits are very dangerous as they are a potential fire hazard. Check your switches and outlets for any black or brown marks or for the smell of burning. If you find signs of a short circuit, contact an electrician immediately.
Ground fault: A ground fault is when a hot wire touches the copper ground wire on the side of a metal outlet box that is connected to that ground wire. You can detect a ground fault by looking for brown or black burn marks and the smell of burning.
In conclusion, if our circuit breaker continues to trip you should consider it a warning sign that something is wrong with your electrical system. Do not put this home repair off. Contact a certified electrician to fix the problem before it starts a fire or injures someone in your home.


England midfielder David Beckham launched a passionate defence of his professionalism as he prepared for his comeback game with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Thursday's match against the New York Red Bulls will be the 34-year-old's first since embarking on a loan at Serie A club AC Milan as he attempted to boost his chances of playing in next year's World Cup. That move led Galaxy team-mate and captain Landon Donovan to question Beckham's commitment.
But the former England skipper said: "I'm a very honest person. If I didn't want to be here, I wouldn't."
He added: "I've always been committed to every contract I've had as a soccer player - Manchester United, Real Madrid, Galaxy - and that doesn't change.
"I'm a very committed person.
"If people want to question my professionalism and also my commitment, what I will say about that is the fact that I'm willing to travel thousands of miles to play for my country says it all."
Since returning to the United States, Beckham has had a meeting with manager Bruce Arena and Donovan - and he claims the forward's comments are now in the past.
"It was actually the manager that brought us together," Beckham said. "We knew that we had to speak once we were back in the same country.
"We sat down, went through everything. Landon apologised and I told him my view on things and it's forgotten about.
"I've been criticised by Pele before, I've been criticised by George Best before. And these are people I've respected for my entire career, people I look up to. At the end of the day, it's about the criticism and how it affects you and it doesn't affect me."


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After a successful career in the mining industry, Amanda Healy started Maxx Engineering, which she sold in 2015. She's now focused on her next venture, the social enterprise Kirrikin.
A woman in a man's world
For Amanda Healy a career in mining was a natural choice. "My father was a mining surveyor, so I grew up on mine sites around Australia," she explains. "I loved the sense of fellowship you get in the smaller communities and I still have a great love for the characters that populate this industry."
She worked with blue chip mining companies including BHP, Rio Tinto, and the WMC group before starting her own business, Maxx Engineering. "Maxx Engineering specialises in maintenance engineering and welding work for the mining sector so the experience was invaluable," she says. "I gained an understanding of the corporate culture of large business and how they think in relation to people. For example, mobilising hundreds of people into remote mine sites taught me how to train and prepare people for remote work. I also learned how to facilitate getting paid, which is very important in small business."
As an indigenous woman, Healy admits that she found it tough when starting out in such a male-dominated profession. "I did need to develop some resilience, though I found that most people respond well to someone with a genuine desire to learn," she says. "I think men are more likely to tell it like it is, so I now do that myself to some extent. And I also think I've become more ambitious and driven to compete with my male colleagues."
While she wishes that her family grew up with a stronger connection to their Aboriginal culture, Healy now enjoys working closely with the indigenous community. "I mentor Aboriginal people who'd like to get into business and, in the future, I want to continue helping the community in any way I can," she says. "I believe that, by giving me a higher profile, the award will support that."
She tells indigenous women who'd like to start their own business to hold firm to their dream.
"It's hard work but it's worth it, particularly if it allows you to work in your own time and with your own resources," she says. "For me, the most important aspect of having my own business was being able to watch my son grow up and gain his own sense of self. I've rarely missed a sporting event or an important milestone and that wouldn't have been possible if I'd been working for someone else."
Recognition for her hard work
That hard work was recognised at the 2014 Ethnic Business Awards, when Healy won the Indigenous Business Award. She describes winning as both exciting and humbling, and she encourages others to put themselves forward.
"I was thrilled to have my hard work recognised and to have the opportunity to connect with other successful business people," she says. "There's a bit of work involved in the application process but even that has important benefits. You have to step back and have a really close look at how the business is working and what we've done to make it work, and that's something we rarely take the time to do. I also had some wonderful encouragement and support from NAB."
From mining to fashion and art
In April 2015 she sold Maxx Engineering to the international engineering company ThyssenKrupp in a multi-million deal and has started a new business, Kirrikin, an Aboriginal word that roughly translates as "Sunday's best clothes".
Made in Australia, her handcrafted silk and cashmere scarves, silk neckties, bow ties and pocket squares feature artworks of contemporary Indigenous Australian artists. A percentage of each purchase is returned to the Indigenous Australian artist involved in the design.
Healy started the business on the side in late 2014, taking it on full-time in April 2015. The first items were ready by May 2015 and are selling online and in specialty shops such as the gift shop at the Art Gallery of NSW and Aboriginal art galleries. The bulk of her sales stem from the international market including the US and Europe and she's exploring opportunities in China.
She's also in the process of starting an art program with the Department of Corrective Services in Western Australia to help indigenous women who have served time in prison break the cycle. "They get out of prison, they've got no money, they go back to the same environment and surprise surprise the same thing happens – they end up back in jail again," she says. "So, we're starting a program that teaches the girls about how to create Aboriginal artwork and telling their stories through art. We'll put those designs onto cashmere and silk for them to start raising money to re-settle their lives when they come out of prison and stop the whole cycle of re-offending."
While mining to fashion is quite a jump, the idea for the business came out of the frustration she felt trying to find a suitable scarf to wear during the many presentations she was giving on Aboriginal issues.
"I've always been on the lookout for a nice Aboriginal-themed scarf that really represents my heritage and the depth and beauty of the culture, but there wasn't much around that was made in Australia and made from really nice materials," she says. "It was just out of sheer frustration that I thought, I'm going to do this myself."
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Do you ever feel that you don't have a unique personal brand? Have you ever felt a disconnect between what people thought and who you are inside? Ever wonder if there is more to a person's signature look than meets the eye?
In today's episode of "Why It Works," Larry Boyer, founder of Success Rockets and a leading authority on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, reveals some of the hidden mechanisms behind personal branding.
We explore the how advances in technology make branding more important than ever, the power of knowing and leveraging your authentic brand, and how better branding contributes to a bigger payday.
Larry Boyer has spent a lifetime developing the knowledge, skills and himself to talk with us about why personal branding is the key to succeeding during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Physicist, economist, technologist, strategist, leader and coach, all wrapped into one, to help us understand the breadth and depth of the coming technological and economic disruption.
He founded Success Rockets LLC in the wake of the Great Recession after seeing how many people's lives were completely changed, many literally overnight, as company after company failed. His mission is to help people better understand the business climate their financial well-being depends on and develop strategies to help them prepare and navigate the disruptions. He also advises businesses on navigating the changes through business strategy and leadership development.
Larry is the author of The Robot In the Next Cubicle: What You Need to Know to Adapt and Succeed In the Automation Age. He is a Certified Business Economist™, an ICF certified coach and Reach Personal Branding Strategist. He is on the Advisory Boards of the Rutgers Big Data program and TECH Pakistan and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and co-leader of the ICF's Coaching Science Community of Practice.
A great book to go with this episode is New York Times Bestseller, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger.
If you prefer paper, Kindle or are already an Audible member, no problem, buy the book here.


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The latest audio revival from Big Finish is a series that enjoyed just a single ten-episode run on BBC One in the summer of 1979.
The Omega Factor followed the story of journalist Tom Crane, whose psychic abilities brought him into contact with the secretive Department 7.
Staffed by a team which included physicist Dr Anne Reynolds (Doctor Who's Louise Jameson), the Edinburgh based government department pursued "the science of the mind"; matters such as ESP, telekinesis and spiritual possession. These investigations drew them into conflict with a sinister organisation known as Omega.
Returning some thirty-five years on, Matt Fitton's 'From Beyond' deftly reintroduces the series' premise; Department 7, now led by Dr Reynolds, is under threat when Adam Dean (John Dorney) arrives. The estranged son of Tom Crane, he has inherited both an archive of paperwork and his father's "gift". The latter is promptly employed in unravelling the tale of a woman attempting to contact her recently deceased twin brother.
Phil Mulryne's 'Old Gods' takes the pair out of Edinburgh on the trail of a missing student. Claiming to be sensitive to electro-magnetic fields, she has fled to a remote community run by the darkly charismatic "Magus" Edmund Fennick (Terry Molloy). When an impetuous Adam takes himself undercover, he finds a terrifying secret lurking at the heart of this refuge.
'Legion' by Cavan Scott supplies a frightening tale of exorcism and extortion, as the work of Wanda MacCrum comes under the scrutiny. Throwing links back to the original series, it highlights the strength of Adam's burgeoning abilities.
Finally, Ken Bentley's 'The Hollow Earth' revolves around Department 7's investigation of missing homeless people at a city church. Playing out in real time, and with a found-footage sensibility, the tale draws on notions of ley lines and sacred geometry as it builds to a thrilling denouement.
With its heady mix of the scientific and the supernatural, The Omega Factor is terrifically entertaining and at times utterly terrifying. Louise Jameson's rational, pragmatic Dr Reynolds is well matched by John Dorney's impulsive and sometimes irreverent Adam, who begins his journey as a sceptic. With a strong guest cast supporting the two leads, the four hour long stories fully exploit the audio medium's limitless budget with unsettling white noise, beastly noises and demonic voices.
As there is little mention of the eponymous Omega, and a fair few plot threads left open, we are thrilled to see there has already been a further season commissioned. In the meantime, the original TV series has shot to the top of our DVD wish list!
Extras: The release comes with a comprehensive disc full of interviews featuring the cast and crew, covering the series' development through to its recording.
Released in July 2015 by Big Finish.
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HARNETT, Robert T.
Robert T. Harnett of Kettering died on Monday, September 6, 2021, at 12:45pm. He was born on September 21, 1927, to Richard and Gladys (Zindorf) Harnett. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Richard of Kettering, and sister Eileen Daley of Peru, NY. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Celeste E. (Schwenger) and his four children: Thomas (Marybeth) of Middletown, Mary Beth (Muni) Natarajan of Yellow Springs, Gregory (Kim) of Kettering, James (Nicole) of Copley, Ohio, eight grandchildren including Stephanie (Sonny) Pil, Brooklyn (Ben) Heilgeist; Max, Tess, Tate and Beck Harnett; Quinn (Leah) Harnett, Gillian (Griffin) Rath, and 5 great-grand children including Konner, Kai, Ace, Hayden and Mia. He graduated from Chaminade HS in '44, then from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in '47, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in '48. He was selected for Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi honor societies at Cornell. He received an MS degree from The Ohio State University in '59. He began his career as an engineer in the Aeroproducts Division of GM for five years. He then served the United States Air Force for three years as an officer and 32 years as a civilian engineer at the Aeronautic System Division (ASD) Computer Center, WPAFB. His comprehensive career in the area of computer systems spanned four decades from 1949–1987. After his retirement, he volunteered at the Kettering Police Department for 13 years and received the Outstanding Citizen Involved in Crime Prevention award from the Ohio Crime Prevention Association. He also volunteered at the Montgomery County Historical Society for three years. Bob greatly enjoyed golf, tennis, bowling, and playing cards (euchre and bridge) with his many friends. He was interested in travel, maps, archeology and genealogy (as it pertained to his Irish and German roots). He and Celeste took special joy in seeing their children and grandchildren do well in school and sport programs. They were both happy that they lived long enough to see so many. With his sparkling blue eyes and cheerful disposition, Bob was known for his kindness, wisdom, integrity, and willingness to lend a hand whenever needed. His quiet, soft-spoken, loving presence will be deeply missed by all who knew him. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated by Reverend Paul Ruwe at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 4500 Ackerman Blvd., Kettering on Saturday, September 11, 2021. Friends may visit St. Charles Church at 9:00 am for a one-hour visitation prior to Mass at 10 am. Streaming of the service will be available at
www.stcharles-kettering.org. Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church or Ohio's Hospice of Dayton. Arrangements are by Westbrock Funeral Home.
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Use this template to prepare a Farmout and Participation Agreement for oil and gas properties in the Province of Alberta.
If the interest of any party to the Agreement becomes encumbered, such encumbrance will be charged to and paid by that party.
The farmor makes no warranty of title to the farmout lands or the title documents.
The farmee will spud the test well and will drill the same to at least contract depth, lot and test, and either complete, cap or abandon it in accordance with the agreement and the Regulations.
The farmee is responsible for obtaining and maintaining control of well insurance.
Provision for drilling a substitute well.
The farmee's earned interest in the farmout lands is calculated as 100% of the farmor's interest down to earning depth in the lands and title documents that comprise the test well spacing unit, subject to encumbrances, and a specified percentage of the remainder.
Optional clauses for option well election.
Provisions for calculating each party's share of expenses and percentage of interest.
This Alberta Farmout and Participation Agreement is available in MS Word format.


Jefferson Landing is a 500 acre, master-planned, gated residential golf community with a variety of beautiful property to choose from. The 24-hour attended Gatehouse, provides security without pretension and the Property Owner's Association actively maintains common areas within the community and provides seasonal plantings for added vibrancy and color. With gorgeous views and tranquil private locations, it's the ideal place to own North Carolina mountain real estate. This is a community where people and the environment peacefully co-exist. Come be a part of the splendor.


What Are The Effects of Global Warming on Earth?
The effects could be enormous. Relative to the hectic pace of your daily life, global warming is a slow-moving problem. But that does not mean you should "wait and see" what happens. If we wait, we may be creating an unsolvable problem, an unstoppable climatic shift that could have devastating impacts in years to come.
The majority of effects will be devastating to human and animal populations. An insecure food supply, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and rapidly rising sea levels are just a handful of the possible effects you will see in coming years. But it isn't too late. You can even take action right now to help stop global warming!
The effects could be far greater than you imagine. Global warming does not occur evenly across the world. Temperature changes have been, and will be, much more extreme in the Arctic and Antarctic. A 5 degree Fahrenheit warming for the whole world means only 1 degree at the equator, but 12 degrees at the poles. Global temperatures have already risen about .8 degrees Celsius, or 1.4 degree Fahrenheit.
The arctic tundra is melting already, which may be causing an increase in methane levels in the atmosphere. A mysterious spike in atmospheric methane was measured in 2007. In addition, the rate of carbon increase in the atmosphere is accelerating each year, which may also be related to the thawing of arctic areas. You may be contributing to a positive feedback loop whereby the warming of polar regions puts more carbon and methane into the atmosphere, thus causing yet more warming in an unstoppable cycle.
Increased storm activity and intensity is caused by global warming. Did you know in the last several years, even insurance companies have faced regular, increasing costs from these types of storms? Sadly, you are likely to see the ravages of global warming induced weather on the economy become yet more severe in the future.
Severe drought and flooding will occur as weather pattern become more extreme. Unfortunately, the world's economic and agricultural systems rely on existing patterns of weather, and as global warming changes these patterns, our ability to produce food is declining.
The overall trend is clear, regardless of knowing if any particular weather change was "caused" by global warming. Increased overall average temperatures cause more extreme weather, more devastating storms, and more severe and prolonged droughts and floods. These changes impact ecosystems and the human economy.
The price you pay for food is getting higher already as a result of global warming effects on agriculture. What's worse is that this is leaving many of the world's hungry in a desperate situation, unable to afford adequate food. In the future, it could make it so hard for humans to grow enough food that even wealthy people experience food scarcity.
We depend on a predictable climate to keep our agricultural markets and our economy as a whole stable. Climate change makes our markets unstable, less efficient, and thus more expensive. Prices are increasing for a number of reasons, a few of which are not related to global warming, but global warming induced heat waves have already been shown to reduce grain harvests in India, Canada, and the U.S. significantly.
Drought conditions have doubled since 1970. Many plants become less productive or will not pollinate when it gets too hot. For all of these reasons, we should be concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food scarcity.
The danger to animals is severe as well. As sea levels rise and lowland coastal areas are flooded, many animal species will be harmed. Coastal areas serve as natural hatcheries for fish and are home to a greater diversity of land and sea creatures than any other ecosystem. The flooding of coastal estuaries by rising sea levels would have dramatic effects on animals across the world.
Countless species will be wiped out if global warming continues unchecked. It could play a major role in the extinction of many species that are crucial to stabilizing the food chain that you and I (and countless other animals) depend on for our food. It will surely mean an end to the polar bear, which depends on sea ice for hunting.
A 20-foot sea level rise is likely if either the Greenland Ice Shelf or the East Antarctic Ice Shelf were to melt and slip into the sea. You may think a 20-foot rise in sea level is unlikely, but even a relatively small rise in sea levels could have an enormous impact on people around the world. For example, in Bangladesh, 15 million people live within 1 meter of sea level and in India, the number of people at a similar elevation is 8 million.
The changes have been extreme, developing far faster than anyone foresaw, despite the fact that scientists have been predicting that significant rises in sea level could only happen decades or centuries in the future. In the summer of 2007, the ice in the Arctic receded further than any of the climate models had predicted.
This is significant, because as white arctic ice is replaced by dark water (or land, in the case of tundra), our planet absorbs more heat. The reason for this is ice reflects more light and heat than do water and land, something scientists refer to as the "albedo effect." The albedo effect of ice is believed to have had a major impact on Earth's climate over the eons and the loss of albedo could accelerate the warming of the Earth significantly. All of this means an ever more dangerous future for your kids.
It could even affect santa!
If the current trend continues and warming at the poles triggers a positive feedback loop whereby more carbon and methane are released into the atmosphere, then the 20-foot sea level rise could come much sooner than was previously predicted. Such a change would inundate many of the world's largest cities and much of the world's most productive farmland.
The consequences could be devastating. In addition, much more dramatic sea level rises in the future are possible. If global warming catalyzes further warming and melts all of the ice in the arctic regions and at high altitudes, sea levels will rise by 230-260 feet.
Earth could be drastically altered. The Earth might even come to resemble the steamy planet that was ruled by the dinosaurs! The harm to human populations and civilization would be incalculable.
But you can help. As an individual you have more power than you can imagine to help solve this problem. Do you know how?


If you're like me and scooping out CeraVe by the handful to use it on yourself and your kids, then you're going to want to get your hands on this: the Cerave Jar now comes with a pump.
Thick and rich, this cream is enriched with three essential ceramides (1, 3, 6-II) which absorb quickly and without greasiness into your skin. They're hydrating but without being annoying. And best of all, you can use the cream on your face or body.
Because of the gentle ingredients and a lack of any fragrance, this cream is dermatologist-recommended for sensitive skins, and because it works well for those, it's great on any kind of skin!
And if you liked the original packaging, that's still available, along with the other tubes, and the Lotion in a large pump bottle, and an eye cream.


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Women sue city over topless ban, calling it discriminatory
DENVER (AP) — A growing movement to remove laws against women going topless is headed to court in Colorado.
A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Fort Collins' indecency code, which makes it a crime for women but not men to show their nipples.
The Fort Collins City Council voted last year to retain its ban on women going topless, rejecting a growing movement to remove gender-specific indecency codes. The college town did make an exception for nursing mothers.
Other cities, including Denver, Boulder and New York, have removed gender-specific language in their indecency codes.
But a federal judge in Chicago recently ruled against a woman challenging that city's law against women displaying nipples.


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During the excitement of Ming Week, we missed NASA's announcement about new discoveries from the orbital telescope Kepler. Ever since the reaction wheels used to point Kepler started failing, the plucky space observatory has been in real trouble. Kepler's mission has been steeply downgraded and it is not the mighty force of discovery it once was…but…a huge amount of data which had been collected prior to these malfunctions had not yet been analyzed. On May 10th, NASA announced that they had gone through this information and discovered another 1284 planets, a handful of which are somewhat Earthlike.
This is more than 30% more planets than we previously knew about, all dumped on the public in one day. It is a phenomenal number: more than a thousand new planets to think about. It is surprising to me that none of these planets have the (approximate) same mass and orbital distance from their respective stars as Earth. Maybe our solar system really is unusual. There sure do seem to be a lot of weird hot Neptunes and giant fast rocky planets and other strange & unanticipated worlds. What's going on, planetary physicists? Could you start explaining some of this stuff?
However Kepler's mission to find Earthlike planets was not a wash. There are indeed other planet in the habitable zone. Some of them could have liquid water and clement atmospheres.
The real excitement of this data is that astronomers will already know where to point the next generation of exponentially more powerful telescopes as they come online in the next decade. I can hardly wait for astronomers to point the Webb Space Telescope and the Large Magellan Space Telescope at some of these newly discovered worlds!
The constellation Lyra was named after the haunting lyre of Orpheus. After the great musician was killed by maenads, his severed head and his lyre were thrown into the river and then drifted down to the sea. Zeus sent his eagle to pick up the lyre and carry it up into the night sky as an eternal reminder for human creative professionals about the nature of their discipline. The myth of this constellation is entirely different in China—as we have seen—yet it too revolves around star-crossed lovers sundered by circumstance.
Meanwhile…the robot observatory Kepler has been scanning the heavens for the subtle signs of exoplanets since 2009. The spacecraft malfunctioned in 2013, and engineers are still arguing about how best to salvage or repurpose it (or whether such a thing is even possible), but the vast treasure troves of data collected by Kepler are still yielding stunning discoveries. One of those discoveries just came to light this past week. In the constellation Lyra, there is an orange star 117 light years away from earth. The star is only 3/4th the size of the sun, but it is much older—dating back to 11.2 billion years ago (the sun, by comparison, is 4.567 billion years old). The universe itself is 13.8 billion years old—so the orange star has been burning through most of the history of creation. Because the orange star is smaller than the sun it has a much longer lifespan and will probably continue to fuse atoms together for another 20 billion years (whereas the dear sun, alas, will use up its fuel in another 4 or 5 billion years).
This is already heady stuff to think about, but not unprecedented. What is news is that Kepler discovered five small, rocky planets orbiting this ancient star—by far the oldest planets ever discovered. The planets are tiny—smaller than Earth and closer to 444 Kepler than Mercury is to our sun. In light of this discovery, the ancient orange star in Lyra has been designated as 444 Kepler.
444 Kepler is from one of the first broods of stars to exist. The fact that it has planets at all is something of a surprise. Astronomers are working to explain the genesis of such early planets. Of course this discovery raises other questions as well, about whether life could be much older than imagined. However to such questions there are still no answers. From the heavenly lyre of Orpheus, as from the rest of the firmament we have still heard nothing but silence.
This week's posts [concerning translucent sea slugs, wasps named for a crazy pop star, an elusive Indochinese cousin of the cow, and whole sunless ecoystems] have all been about finding new life-forms. There is, of course, only one place such a topic can ultimately wind up—far beyond the living jungles, azure seas, and swirling clouds of our beautiful home planet, out in the immensity of space where the greatest question of all waits like a magic golden apple spinning in darkness.
Many ancient societies reckoned that other worlds existed. The Norse had their nine worlds joined together by the great ash tree Yggrdasil. The Chinese had myths about Chang'e and the Jade rabbit on the moon. Even the stolid Christians believe in heaven & hell, which are places filled with intelligent beings that are not on earth (ergo, alien realms somewhere out there in the multiverse). William Herschel, great astronomer of the Enlightenment, believed that life was everwhere—particularly everywhere in the solar system.
When humankind entered space age, we used our burgeoning technology to examine the solar system for signs of Sir William's spacefolk. Although we did not find the Venusian space hotties we were looking for (dammit), we did discover that among our neighboring planets, there are several other possible homes for earthlike living things. The cloud tops of Venus are inviting and could host bacteria-like life (although I hope not, since I want us to build a second home there). For centuries, scientists and fabulists speculated about life of Mars. We now know that the Martian magnetosphere died and the planet's atmosphere was swept away, but perhaps there are some hardy extremophile bacteria living in the Martian rocks somewhere. It's a sad scenario to imagine them on their dying world—like little kids left in a bathtub going cold. Certain moons of Jupiter & Saturn seem to be the real best bet for life in the solar system. The Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all believed to have extensive liquid oceans beneath their crust. Likewise the Saturn moons Titan and Enceladus are believed to have subsurface water. The discovery of life on Earth which did not directly require photosynthesis (like the cold seeps from yesterday's post) has given scientists hope that bacterial mats—or maybe something even more advanced–exists on one of these moons.
So maybe there are some bacteria analogs or conodont-like creatures squiggling around in some cranny of the solar system. Perhaps life takes on an unknown form and we already flew over a clever, good-hearted ammonia-based life form on Enceladus (which NASA analysts then promptly dismissed as a snowbank), but I doubt it. The true answers to the questions about life lie out there among the stars. Exoplanets are being discovered at a tremendous rate and everyone hopes that some of the more earthlike examples harbor life. Unfortunately our technology is nowhere close to being able to spot the planets themselves and gauge whether life is there by means of spectrograph. We are stuck waiting for peers who are either broadcasting radio signals or screwing around with the fundamental nature of existence in such a way that would bring them to our attention. Indeed as humankind's technological savvy grows, scientists are looking for more sophisticated signs of advanced life such as black holes of less than 3.5 solar masses or sophisticated particle radiation which could only be created (or detected) by civilizations of huge sophistication. All we can say right now is that, after a hundred years of looking, we have not found a lot of radio chatter in our neck of the galaxy—which is an answer of sorts itself.
Perhaps we are among the first sentient beings in this area of space (or anywhere, for that matter). The first generation of stars had to live and die before there were any raw materials for chemically based life. It took billions of years to get where we are, and, despite a few perilous missteps and accidents, life on Earth has been lucky. In my opinion some of those planets we are discovering are almost certainly covered with microbial life, but not many have little green scientists in many-armed lab coats firing up their radio telescopes (or forging little suits of chain mail a few hundred years behind us).
In writing about the Curiosity rover, I humorously mentioned how much it looked like the aliens from golden age science fiction. It seems we are also broadcasting retro style messages to the stars. Above is the print-out version of the Arecibo message—one of the loudest broadcasts we have sent. It's like a macramé knitted by Dr. Zoidberg's great aunt or a valentine from Atari's space invaders! Imagine if you pointed your radio telescope at the heavens and received a message like that! Maybe the aliens are scared of us or maybe they don't want to talk to a species with such homespun tastes!
So, after the whole post we are no closer to knowing if there is life in the cosmos, but what did you expect? Did you think I would tell you some secret here before you saw it blaring out of every news station on the planet? [If you did think that, then thank you so much!] I believe that extraterrestrial life is out there. I even believe that intelligent extraterrestrials are out there, but the universe really is ridiculously, ridiculously vast. It's going to take a while to find our fellow living beings. In the mean time have faith (which is not advice I thought I would be giving) and keep looking up at the cold distant heavens.
I am combining two important science discoveries from this week into one (small) post. This week astrophysicists working on the Keplar program discovered the three smallest known exoplanets (each of which is smaller than Earth) in orbit around a little red dwarf star. In a completely unrelated field (and scale) of science, biologists in Papua New Guinea discovered the world's tiniest known vertebrates, two species of miniscule rain forest frogs named Paedophryne amauensis and Paedophryne swiftorum.
The exoplanets were discovered by a team led by scientists from Caltech who used data from NASA's mission in conjunction with observations from the Palomar Observatory, (outside San Diego), and the W.M. Keck Observatory (on Mauna Kea in Hawaii). The three planets orbit tiny red dwarf star KOI-961 which has a volume only one-sixth that of our sun (making the star only about 70% bigger than the planet Jupiter). The planets are all very close to their star, and the most distant, takes less than two days to orbit around KOI-961. The three worlds have volumes of 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth.
The discovery of the tiny frogs was made by a team of zoologists in New Guinea led by Chris Austin, a herpetologist trained at LSU. The team was in the forest of New Guinea when they heard a faint metallic song coming from the leaf litter on the forest floor. Unable to see the animal producing the faint chorus of "tink" noises, the biologists grabbed up handfuls of leaf litter into a large transparent bag, and began carefully sorting it–expecting a singing insect to emerge. They were stunned when the miniscule adult frog hopped off a leaf. The fully grown creature only measured 7.7 millimeters (less than one-third of an inch).
Named Paedophryne amauensis the little amphibians are not just the smallest known frogs–they are also believed to be the smallest free-living vertebrates on Earth (supplanting a minute 8mm long translucent Indonesian carp for that title). The frogs do not undergo tadpole metamorphosis in water like other frogs, but are born hopping. They spend their entire lives in the leaf litter where they prey on miniscule arthropods and other invertebrates. A similar species Paedophryne swiftorum was also discovered by the team, although P. swiftorum frogs were nearly a millimeter larger.


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H. Allan Dickenson
Herbert Allan Dickenson was one of Canada's leading racing pioneers, a trait he perhaps inherited from his family. The Dickensons were committed to community service; his grandfather, John Dickenson, was a Member of Parliament, and his father was warden of the home county. Dickenson, who was born in Mount Hope, Ont., in 1905, adopted harness racing as his community, and devoted to it a lifetime of service. Farmer and stockman, he was a familiar face on the concession roads and at the county fairs as he travelled seeking cattle for his growing export business. Always familiar with horses, it seemed only natural for him to join the sport of harness racing so passionately followed by his friends. The first horse he owned was Joe Hal, while Ivan Hope with 34 wins was the best of his many top standardbreds.
Drawn into local discussions, he became a leader in striving to resolve the problems of conflicting rules, dates, and separate associations that finally resulted in the formation of the Canadian Trotting Association (CTA) in 1939. Always ready to take on any job, assume any responsibility, Dickenson believed in the value of cooperation to get the job done. He was a director of the CTA for 26 years and president for 10 years, meeting horsemen on their home grounds, from coast to coast.
He used talent for negotiation, compromise to develop, and cooperation that would aid the growth of harness racing as a burgeoning national industry.
He was elected a director of the Canadian Standardbred Horse Society in 1945, serving as vice president from 1949 to 1951, and president for the next two years, and was its first recipient of the Achievement Award for his dedication and devotion to the sport. In 1978 he was honored as the Ontario Harness Horsemen's Association Senior Citizen of the year. A quiet, unassuming, thoughtful and friendly man, Dickenson was an international ambassador of good will for Canadian harness racing during a difficult era of expansion in the industry. He died on May 12, 1984, at his Mt. Hope home.


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Q: How do we set border-top-radius 50% without diminishing the border edges? I would like to have the same border width px throughout the half circle.
Please refer to the image attachment below:

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  height: 300px;
  width: 300px;
  position: relative;
  background: #fff;
  border-top: 3px solid #3498db;
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: row nowrap;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

Thank you for any help.

A: You can make two sides of the border-*-color transparent and use the transform: rotate() to align it horizontally:

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  border: 3px solid #3498db; /* modified */
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  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  border-radius: 50%;
  /* added */
  border-right-color: transparent;
  border-bottom-color: transparent;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
}

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