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Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell is a fantasy sitcom which follows the exploits of a TV comedian, who, while shopping at a used car lot for a new station wagon, instead purchases a dilapidated 1928 Porter touring car. Shaun hears the car call his name in a woman's voice. The car turns out to be the reincarnation of his dead mother. The car is coveted by a fanatical collector named Captain Manzini
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Wolfenstein: The New Order is a video game developed by Machine Games and released in 2014. It's a first person shooter set in an alternate history where Nazi Germany won World War II.
It's 1946. B.J. Blazkowicz is part of the Allies' last great armada seeking to destroy the base of the Nazi scientist Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse. Blazkowicz and his team fight their way into Strasse's castle hoping to kill him and end the war, but they are trapped, and Strasse forces Blazkowicz to consign one of his comrades to death. Blazkowicz then escapes, but as he does so is shot in the head and enters a vegetative state.
Fourteen years later, the Nazis have conquered the entire world, including the United States, which surrendered after the Nazis nuked New York.
Blazkowicz recovers full consciousness to find the Nazis are shutting down the hospital he has been held in and murdering all the patients. Galvanised by his nurse, Anya Oliwa, he kills the Nazis and escapes.
Anya drives Blazkowicz to her family farm. At the farm, Blazkowicz discovers a Nazi hiding in the boot of the car who reveals that the few remaining resistance fighters are held in a prison in Berlin. Anya's family take Blazkowicz to the station so they can get the train to Berlin. On the train Blazkowicz and Anya become lovers.
Blazkowicz successfully breaks the prisoners out, although all but one are killed during the escape. The survivor takes Blazkowicz to a secret base in the centre of Berlin. There he meets an old comrade, Caroline Becker, leader of the 'Kreisau Circle' resistance organisation. Caroline has discovered that the Nazis are testing a new stealth helicopter in London and asks Blazkowicz to steal it.
In London, the Kreisau Circle detonate a car bomb at the Nazi air/space port. In the confusion, Blazkowicz steals secret documents, infiltrates the rooftop hangar and opens the doors, allowing resistance members to hang-glide in and steal the helicopters.
Back in Berlin, the stolen documents reveal the Nazis are reverse-engineering ancient technology hidden for centuries by a group called the Da'at Yichud. Anya discovers the uber-concrete the Nazis are using is deteriorating and suspects a Da'at Yichud scientist, Set Roth, has sabotaged it.
Blazkowicz infiltrates the factory in Croatia that produces the concrete and rescues Roth. Roth tells the resistance about another cache of super-weapons that would be useful in the fight against the Nazis. The problem is it's underwater. So, Blazkowicz hides in a weapons shipment being delivered to a Nazi nuclear submarine, and once at sea, kills the crew, takes control and retrieves the weapons from their undersea hiding place.
Caroline discovers that keys that would enable the group to fire the nuclear weapons from the submarine are held on a base on the moon. Blazkowicz steals the credentials of a Nazi scientist after derailing a train on the bridge between Gibraltar and Morocco. Using the credentials he travels to London and takes a shuttle to the Nazi moon base, where he steals the keys and a shuttle to fly himself back to Earth.
Wolfenstein: The New Order – has a 'mission' plot (see Spy Novel Plots).
The original Castle Wolfenstein (1981) and Wolfenstein 3D (1992) effectively have no story. The hero simply navigates a maze shooting everything he comes across.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) has a limited story. The player has a goal, to investigate and prevent the activities of the "SS Paranormal Division". It features the debut of Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, the antagonist of the subsequent games.
Wolfenstein (2009) has a story too, but it is still very much a series of levels.
Wolfenstein: The New Order in contrast, despite being a first person shooter, has a strong, if pulpish, storyline. The characters are far more realistic than previously. Though Blazkowicz himself is still largely indestructible, he is humanised, and the relationships and the dialogue are believable. The voice acting is first-rate and the facial animations have reached a level where nuance is a possibility.
Unlike dialogue-choice games like Mass Effect, the story in Wolfenstein: The New Order is told mostly through quite lengthy cinematic cutscenes. This is similar to Max Payne 3, which also has a good story and great art direction, but where the player has limited 'agency' within the confines of the game. Unlike Mass Effect, in Wolfenstein: The New Order there are no branching storylines or open worlds and very few choices for the player to make.
There is one exception – early in Wolfenstein: The New Order the player is forced to choose which of two non-player characters survive in an impossible to avoid, no-win scenario (if the player refuses to choose, both characters are killed and the scene restarts). The two characters are a hard-bitten Glaswegian paratrooper, Fergus, and an enthusiastic, young American soldier, Wyatt.
The game then alters slightly depending on which non-player character the player chose to live. Wyatt gives the player lock-picking skills and armour upgrades, and Fergus gives him hot-wire ability and extra health, which enable access to different hidden areas. The surviving non-player character also appears later in the game but, a few cut-scenes and bits of dialogue apart, it makes little difference to the plot.
In storytelling terms, the ending of Wolfenstein: The New Order is a little weak. The final 'boss battles' are tough and a good finale, but the last cut-scene is a bit brief and doesn't resolve the storyline in a satisfying way. The end really is the place for an extended cut-scene that delivers an emotional punch. It was disappointing, as I'd been really enjoying the story up to that point.
In much of Wolfenstein: The New Order going in guns blazing is the only option. In some sections though, the player can try to kill a commander by sneaking up on them and killing them silently. If they succeed then the rest of the level is easy, but if they're spotted an alarm sounds and troops flood in. This makes for an interesting change of pace. Personally I'd rather have had more stealth sections.
The developers claim the Wolfenstein games all take place in a the same alternate history. However, the stories don't fit together, and the early games barely have a story anyway. The later games do include a coherent, if extremely unlikely, history.
1940 Nazis discover a source of occult power.
1943 Events of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. First Nazi attempt to use occult powers is prevented.
1945 Red Army retreats from Moscow after the city is obliterated. Royal Air Force is crippled in the Battle of Liverpool. Events of Wolfenstein. Occult breach is sealed. Nazis discover cache of advanced technology.
1946 Allied forces fail to destroy Strasse's base. Blazkowicz enters vegetative state. US Navy defeated by combined Germany-Japanese force at Leyte Gulf. Soviet Union surrenders to Germany.
1947 Germany invades Canada. Red Army ceases organised resistance.
1948 Chinese Army repels Japanese. United Kingdom, China, Japan all surrender to Germany. USA surrenders after New York is attacked by a German atom bomb.
1949 German forces occupy the USA and demolish Mount Rushmore. Germany invades Italy.
1951 German astronauts land on the Moon. British resistance to German rule ends.
1956 German lunar base is completed.
1957 Gibraltar bridge opens to traffic.
Enjoyable action and stealth gameplay, a good story and great art direction. The best game I've played this year.
Wolfenstein: The New Order – is available for Windows, Xbox and Playstation on US Amazon here and UK Amazon here .
If you enjoyed Wolfenstein: The New Order, you'll love my novel A Kill in the Morning, which is also a spy thriller set in a 'Nazi Victory' alternate history.
In the UK I recommend A Kill in the Morning on Amazon UK, although the novel is also available in bookshops.
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Thread: Doctor Who
August 13th, 2020 09:21 PM #6741
Nobodyman
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Re: Doctor Who
Originally Posted by starlalilymoon
The first half of series 7 felt weird, probably because it didn't feel like there was any overarching story till Clara came along in the second half which I enjoyed more.
Series 7 was pretty weird in that it was split in half, so they aired the first half with Amy and Rory one year and the second half with Clara the next.
Originally Posted by Mr. Zoro
As Nobodyman pointed out, you can get the first 50 Monthly adventures for dirt cheap on their website.
Actually, the first 100 are dirt cheap, so even better! But, that said, the first 50 adventures do probably have a better selection than 51-100.
In addition to what you said, here are some of my favorites from the Monthly Adventures.
Jubilee: Fun fact, this story was the inspiration for the "Dalek" episode from the 9th Doctor's season, and arguably pulls it off even better.
Davros: Davros has never been more intimidating. That speech at the beginning always gives me chills.
The Natural History of Fear: An ingenious story with a twist that could only work in an audio story.
Live 34: Probably the best 7th Doctor story I've heard. A chilling look at a dystopian dictatorship through the eyes of the press.
The Nowhere Place: The science in this story makes no sense, but it's still one of the most effectively eerie and disturbing Doctor Who stories I've heard.
The Reaping: Mentioning this one if only for the fact that it completely redeems and justifies Peri as a companion.
And, although you already mentioned it, I'll throw another shoutout to The One Doctor because I love, love, LOVE that story! An awesomely creative, funny, and lighthearted adventure. I wish Doctor Who was always like this.
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I liked Rose. Wasnt a fan of Martha since she felt like a constant guilt trip for missing one of the original cast. Like even when Jack meets back with the doc and they have a brief nice moment about how the third member of their group didnt actually die, you have to get a shot how Martha is sad we're talking about Rose.
I did love Donna since her 10th were just buddies having fun together and being able to openly share things and with both a desire to discover new things.
August 15th, 2020 11:09 AM #6743
CosmicDebris
The Grand Wazoo
I really like all the actors that have played the Doctor. Some unfortunately had some really bad decisions made for them, Colin Baker being at the top of that list. I'd say Matt Smith was the one that really felt like my Doctor. But when I went back and watched the older stuff, Peter Davison became my favorite. So 5, 11, 4, and 2 have been my top favorites. I have noticed that while people complained about Capaldi endlessly during his time on the show, since he left, it feels like appreciation for him has gone through the roof. Personally I thought he was amazing, though I think he was a little too gruff at the very beginning.
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I don't know if you'll really learn much about the "lore" in the audios, but they are quite fun adventures in their own right! Some dabble in continuity, and some don't. You can listen to quite a lot without knowing much about the classic stuff. There's even a handful of companions that are exclusive to the audio stories.
That's great! That's good to know about extra companions.
As Nobodyman pointed out, you can get the first 50 Monthly adventures for dirt cheap on their website. Or alternatively, they're on Spotify, if you have a Spotify account. Even if you don't, I think you can get a one month free trial.
Some of my recommendations: *list*
Awesome thank you! I need to make a Spotify account xD
Season 2.
She had an air of… entitlement? To the Doctor, acting like only she could be close to him (and even had a petty jealousy with Sarah Jane).
It probably doesn't help that I wasn't fond of the romance, and a lot of Season 4's end really soured my feelings even more (Metacrisis Ten going off with Rose to be lovers). Felt too much like fan fulfillment, and not really earned romance.
Oh, oki. I was fine with the romance, so it makes sense why. I actually like Rose and that scene where the Doctor had to give up on her was really touching. Though I'm not sure how much I would want to be with a clone of the person I'm in love with. Though she's not my favorite companion, I never had any dislike for her.
Originally Posted by Robby
Too long a list to get into without getting annoyed, but basically she treated everyone like crap. Her mother, old companions like Sarah Jane, or even her boyfriend who she strung along, abandoned for a year, people thought he had killed her! and she never really sets that right.
Ah, right. I remember that about Mickey. ><
She feels like *she* owns the doctor and is entitled to him, and the writers never seem to realize these massive flaws as actual flaws. Because she was the Showrunner's pet, the doctor acted like she was perfect, completely messed up his next companion Martha because he couldn't get over Rose, and then at the end even made a clone just for her so she could get a happy ending... while other much better characters like Donna just... got their memory wiped and lost all their development.
Well, honestly I think the Doctor really loved her and wanted her to be happy. I don't think the Doctor thought that Martha will fall for him too.
I don't have any problems with the actress but her character was awful. Single handedly makes those two seasons nearly unwatchable for me.
Ah >< I guess I'm one of the few that likes Rose. Thanks for explaining why you disliked her! :3
Other later companions like River or Clara also became creator's pet and had issues as a result of it, but that was more them being Mary Sues and less them being awful people.
Ah... I like Riversong and Clara way more than Rose.
Originally Posted by andre
I think Rose was really good in series 1. She's a working class girl who gets invited to travel with The Doctor and plunges right into it. She's heroic in her own right and they form a tight relationship. For me Series 1 is still by far the most solid all the way through. The worst episodes (3 and 4) are better than every other series worst and the best episodes compete with the best and there's lots of them! Dalek, Rose, Father's Day, The End of the World, Hell, every episode from The Empty Child until The Parting of the Ways is great to me. 9 was fun and slightly quirky while being able to dip into serious stupid human mode at the drop of a hat, but a lot like Capaldi, he was only barely keeping it together. I also love the way that the story as him as the final timelord plays out, both with how he initially treats (and is eventually changed by) Rose and his reaction to the Daleks.
Yeah, I agree with this. I don't really hate the 9th doctor, though sucks he only did one season.
Originally Posted by Nobodyman
Yeah, it was. I'm glad on Amazon Prime they put the two halves together. It would have been annoying to buy the series in splits instead of altogether.
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Also, I'm finally caught with the series! The final episode of series 12 was like woah with the Doctor being the Timeless Child. Now trying to figure out the order of regeneration is gonna be tough. Though honestly I think Ruth/Fugitive Doctor (Not sure how to label her.) was a good version of the Doctor, and I think she was the one who got her memory wiped before being changed into the 1st Doctor. Hopefully, the Doctor can get her memories back and maybe hopefully series 13 can focus more on this.
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September 14th, 2020 08:03 AM #6745
SheriGoddart75
I used to love this show very much. But now I barely watched the last seasons to the end.
It is a pity that the series has become boring and mediocre over time.
Recommend a series like this to me
October 19th, 2020 09:17 PM #6746
When do trailers regarding the specials usually appear? I'm honestly hyped to see the new episode and see how the Doctor will get out of that situation.
November 6th, 2020 07:09 PM #6747
It's only a quick promotional video for an audio drama, but this is technically the first time Eric Roberts has played The Master on screen since 1996.
November 23rd, 2020 09:59 AM #6748
Great sage,equal of heaven
Web of Fear being released on Bluray, with the missing ep to be reconstructed in what seems to be 3D animation with some nice cel shading. Great to see so many of Troughton's serials getting completed in this way, I think this would make the 7th (with rumours of Abominable Snowmen and Evil of the Daleks recons also underway to be 8 & 9, leaving only 4 Troughton serials left).
November 23rd, 2020 03:01 PM #6749
In other news, Jack will be returning in the upcoming holiday special
And the final audio drama from Big Finish's monthly adventures range will be a 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Doctors crossover.
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v...beginning-2057
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Man, I still need to watch... the entire last season and a half.
I just really did not dig Jodie's first season. Did it get any better in her second? I know about the batshit crazy retcon twist, so aside from that.
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I just really did not dig Jodie's first season. Did it get any better in her second?
I thought it did. Not a humongous improvement, I suppose, but there were still some good episodes (Fugitive of the Judoon and Haunting of Villa Diodait are the standouts). And the new Master is pretty cool.
Holy shit! I'm hyped for this! I love Jack! I can't wait to see how he will interact with the 13th doctor!
I think it was better. I liked how it had an overarching storyline compared to the previous season which honestly had none. Like no foreshadowing or anything compared to previous seasons.
Yes! The new master was awesome! The actor who played him really pulled off and made me a great adversary for the doctor. Makes me wonder how he survived from the last incarnation, though probably be explained in future seasons like with Missy.
Makes me wonder how he survived from the last incarnation, though probably be explained in future seasons like with Missy.
Don't count it. It's pretty much standard practice that The Master always comes back from certain death. No explanation necessary. He/She's just here and don't ask questions.
November 24th, 2020 07:50 AM #6754
There's a bit of an improvement.
Jodie still hasn't really made the role her own yet, and there's still one companion too many, but there are some pretty good episodes and the new Master is probably my favourite of all of them.
Second season wasn't as unrelentingly boring as the first at least. Had two great eps (the ones Nobodyman mentioned) and two rubbish eps, rest somewhere inbetween. They went really strong on climate change a couple of times, and one of them was done in a cringingly hamfisted way. But yeah, at least had a couple of eps I'd happily sit down & rewatch this time.
Mr. Zoro
Colin Baker Apologist
I'm so excited for this! His performance in Diary of River Song was kind of meh, like he was still exploring/re-exploring the role? His performance in Day of the Master was great though.
Quite a bit of material is implying it's 5,6, and 8 teaming up against 7, which sounds delightful. And probably based of that rumored script of 50/50 that a lot of fans talk about (a story about 8 working against 7).
Pretty much everyone agrees season 12 is better than season 11. And... I didn't mind season 11 (I really liked It Takes You Away and Resolution), but you could tell they were playing it really safe, which I understand why they went that route. Didn't do the stories any favors, unfortunately.
But good God is season 12 better. There was only 1 episode I didn't enjoy, and the rest were certainly above season 11's output. I heartily welcome the wild twist to cannon, but I thought the delivery was pretty terrible... Neat twist, but could've been better if there was a story to go along with it rather than just telling us about it. Still, solid season that I'd probably put in my top 5.
The episode Fugitive of the Judoon in particular is great because
Captain Jack returns and it's the 3rd most interesting thing that happens in that episode.
The nostalgia whiplash between seasons is pretty great. From "No old monsters" Series 11 to "Haha okay peasants training wheels are off, guess who that fella is and here's what's up with Gallifrey."
True True. Yeah, it's to surprise the Doctor that every time they get him, he still comes back alive no matter what.
December 2nd, 2020 01:03 PM #6758
December 22nd, 2020 01:31 PM #6759
Woo, I'm excited about this new special! A few more weeks! I probably end up buying it on Amazon Prime as it's the only way I can see it since I don't have cable with BBC. It feel pretty epic indeed.
Here's a source where it shows some new pictures from the special:
https://www.ign.com/articles/doctor-...-daleks-photos
January 2nd, 2021 01:56 PM #6760
New episode is out, and it was pretty okay? Fun plot at the very least. Had the usual problems with Chibnall scripts, with lots of dialogue explaining rather than showing. There were some fun cameos in the maybe-maybe-not-Shada space prison, and Jack was about as Jack as could be. Nice to see him return in more than just a scene.
Apparently this episode was shot in late 2019, which is interesting considering the scene with protesting, and I originally thought it was the show's hamfisted way of addressing the topic of protests and police forces (if they had the daleks replacing/standing in for the police... that would have been one hell of a statement).
For some of the spoiler-y bits:
What was up with the 4 knocks when the Doctor was in her cell? Are we led to believe it was Jack trying to communicate with her before seeing her in person? I wouldn't be thinking much into it if it wasn't 4 knocks, which has a direct relation to the Master. But nothing was really done with it, nor do I think anything will (or even can?) be done with it in the next series.
If I have my info correct, the Doc was in prison for 79 years. Looks like Big Finish will have some more ample room to play with once they can do 13 Doc stuff.
Okay so I know it's only a cameo and not the point of the episode, but having a Silent in prison is a fun concept that should have been played with more. Like, do the Judoon have technology to remember Silents? Do the prison guards (whoever they may be) get surprised everyday to see Silents in a cell? Come to think of it, this episode could have really been more fun if the Doctor escaped prison by using the various aspects of each alien to escape, rather than Jack showing up with a deus ex machina way to get out. Oh well.
I liked how Jack Robertson had no arc and remained the same throughout the episode. Which is generally odd since stories work great when a character changes, but it can also be interesting to see a character double-down on who they are when given the chance to change. And Robertson had a few opportunities to redeem himself, and he kept choosing to be the slimy businessman/politician. At least Chibnall didn't make many (or any?) strong, obvious parallels to Trump, but it's hard not to associate Robertson with him when… you've been around for the last 4 years.
Loved the bookending of Ryan and Graham's arc for this show, with them trying to get Ryan to ride his bike. And that Ryan wore a yellow beanie after the Doctor's comment. "If anyone could pull off a yellow beanie, it'd be Ryan".
And some news for the next series:
I'll admit, I had no idea who John Bishop was. I guess I don't pay as much attention to British entertainment as I thought I did.
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A December 2021 United flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C. carrying more than 100 people was the first passenger flight to use only "sustainable aviation fuels" in one of its two engines. (United Airlines)
When United Airlines flew a plane using "sustainable aviation fuels" earlier this month, the company took a small but meaningful step toward cleaning up the aviation sector. With more than 100 people on board, the Boeing jet flew from Chicago to Washington, D.C. burning only alternative fuels in one of its two engines — a first for any aircraft full of passengers.
The December 1 flight revealed two things about the global effort to curb the carbon emissions that result from hauling people and cargo in the sky. First, the tiny amounts of "sustainable aviation fuels" (SAFs) that airlines use today are made from surprisingly mundane materials: used cooking oils and discarded animal fats. One major fuel supplier, named Neste, gathers its waste ingredients from some 45,000 fast-food kitchens across North America.
Second, much more innovation is needed both to boost supplies of SAFs and to ensure more of the fuels can be used in existing jet engines. Old burger grease and other alternatives don't meet the criteria for jet fuels on their own, so fuel companies are required to blend them with petroleum-based kerosene before they can supply commercial airlines.
United avoided this conundrum on the Dec. 1 flight by combining greasy, fatty fuels with synthetic compounds made from corn sugar. The compounds performed the role of petroleum in the fuel mix, allowing United to claim "100 percent SAF" for the 500 gallons used in that particular engine. The second engine, meanwhile, burned only fossil fuels.
The milestone comes as airlines, manufacturers and policymakers in the United States and European Union are pushing to drastically boost adoption of sustainable aviation fuels for commercial flights starting this decade.
Commercial air travel accounts for roughly 3 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and about 2.5 percent of global emissions every year. As the industry bounces back from Covid-related disruptions, aviation emissions are on track to triple by 2050 if nothing changes, according to an analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Experts say batteries are unlikely to be able to power anything but small planes on shorter routes. Other zero-emissions solutions — such as liquid hydrogen made using renewable electricity — are still many years from takeoff at commercial scale. (Relatedly, this week United acquired a stake in ZeroAvia, a startup developing hydrogen-electric engines for regional aircraft.)
Although SAFs aren't entirely emissions-free, fuels made from waste materials have the potential to start curbing carbon dioxide pollution using the aircraft and fuel infrastructure we have now and will continue to use in the coming decades.
Eventually, "We want to just use [SAF] 100 percent so that we can actually take a significant step toward decarbonizing our operations," Lauren Riley, United's managing director of global environmental affairs, told Canary Media.
The seven shades of SAF
Today, sustainable aviation fuels represent less than 1 percent of total jet fuel demand, with about 26 million gallons produced worldwide every year. Both the Biden administration and European officials aim to increase production to several billions of gallons a year by 2030.
Seven types of SAF are now approved for "drop-in" use by ASTM International, which sets technical standards for the aviation industry. These include fuels made from landfill garbage, corn stalks, sugar beets and algae, though the most common fuel is hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) — made from pork fat, beef tallow and the yellow grease collected from fast-food kitchens.
But used onion-ring oil and other SAFs are missing a key element: aromatics.
These compounds help lubricate jet engines and reduce fuel leakage around the seals, and today they're primarily made from hydrocarbons. To ensure fuels are compatible with engines and infrastructure worldwide, industry standard-setters limit the amount of alternatives that can be blended with conventional jet fuel. For instance, producers can't use more than 50 percent HEFA in a given fuel mix.
The recent United flight was part of a larger initiative to develop new aromatic compounds and also demonstrate that engines can handle higher shares of SAF. Virent, a subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum, provided "synthesized aromatic kerosene" made from corn dextrose and other plant-based sugars at its facility in Madison, Wisconsin. World Energy produced the remaining sustainable HEFA fuels, while Boeing and CFM International supplied the jet and engines, respectively.
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An aircraft fueler in Chicago supplies the sustainable aviation fuels for United's December 1 flight. (United Airlines)
In October, with federal approval, United conducted a passenger-free test flight using a mix of 80 percent HEFA and 20 percent Virent's sugary aromatics. According to Riley, the test pilots said the plane operated as expected. "You would not know the difference between SAF and conventional jet fuel," she said, though the pilots did notice the smell of french fries in the galley because of the used cooking oil.
The December demonstration flight, which used the same proportion of fuels, was the next step in proving the new fuel's compatibility with jet engines. Riley, who was a passenger on the second flight, said it felt like a wedding party — and she didn't catch a whiff of fries.
Next-generation engines, hold the soot
Aromatics are a mixed blessing for the climate, however. While they enable jets to burn sustainable fuels, the compounds are also a source of soot emissions and contribute to the condensation trails ("contrails") from aircraft exhaust — which researchers say are making the planet warmer.
"Aromatics are the chemicals we need to get to 100 percent SAF…but they're also very harmful to the environment," said Pratik Chandhoke, the technical services manager for renewable aviation at Neste, the world's largest producer of sustainable fuels from waste and residues.
So engine manufacturers are working to develop new models that bypass the need for aromatics altogether, he said.
Headquartered in Finland, Neste is part of a research initiative in Europe to test the use of only HEFA fuels in newly designed Rolls-Royce engines on an Airbus passenger jet. A series of test flights this spring over the Mediterranean Sea showed no operational issues or engineering obstacles to using the greasy waste oil in the next-generation engines, according to companies and researchers participating in the Emission and Climate Impact of Alternative Fuels study.
"As this technology gets adopted and a lot of the [commercial jet] fleet starts changing over to new aircraft, I think we'll see a lot more 100 percent SAF demand then," Chandhoke said from his office in Houston.
Beyond the fast-food fry vat
Both the United flight and European engine tests are largely working to solve a future problem. Even if jets were technically capable of running on 100 percent alternative fuels today, there's not enough supply of SAFs right now to meet demand.
"It's irrelevant today because we're nowhere near that limit. But it could be important in 2050," said Dan Rutherford, director of the aviation and maritime programs at the International Council on Clean Transportation. (Rutherford recently joined Shayle Kann on Canary Media's Catalyst podcast.)
As the fuel industry works to boost production of SAFs, much of the supply will continue to come from HEFA, which is considered a mature technology and is also commonly used for renewable diesel in trucks. In 2020, Neste acquired Illinois-based Mahoney Environmental to support its expansion into North America. Mahoney collects and recycles used cooking oil from fast-food spots like Burger King, Wendy's and Buffalo Wild Wings. After being processed into fuel in Houston and transported to California, the HEFA is delivered to a hub at San Francisco International Airport.
Yet the world discards only so much french fry oil and beef fat. If all the HEFA available today were used solely for the aviation sector, it would still only cover about 2 percent of the annual jet fuel supply, Rutherford said. Beyond that point, producers will need to look for new materials. A concern that Rutherford and other experts share is that those feedstocks could include crops like corn or soy, which might result in displacing food supplies or driving deforestation and land-use change.
For its part, United is also investing in fuels made from other types of waste, such as leftover corn stalks or fallen branches and leaves. In 2015, the airline bought a $30 million stake in Fulcrum BioEnergy, which recently finished building a commercial-scale plant in Nevada that will turn household landfill garbage into synthetic fuels. Neste is likewise looking to develop fuels made from municipal solid waste, forest residues and, potentially, hydrogen.
Given that a typical jet can operate for 25 years, planes and engines built today will likely face increasingly stringent emissions standards over their lifetimes. In many ways, the push to use 100 percent sustainable aviation fuels is an attempt to "future-proof" commercial jets, especially as airlines pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, Rutherford said.
"If you're a manufacturer," he added, "you kind of have to have an argument for why this will never be a stranded asset."
Maria Gallucci is a clean energy reporter at Canary Media, where she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the energy transition more affordable and equitable.


Psychic ability gets a bad rap; that's the truth. One of the challenges to psychic ability in general is that despite mounting acceptance of it in the United States, there are always going to be those who will doubt it. Jack Rourke's book, The Rational Psychic: A Skeptic's Guide to Extraordinary Perception was written to show two perspectives: that someone can be psychic but also question the phenomena as well.
From my perspective, however, the main flaw is that it's trying to be a book about too many topics. You'll find many stories about Jack Rourke and his psychic ability in here, almost like an autobiography, meant to inspire and enlighten. Then there are the definitions of many different concepts, such as paranormal projective identification. Finally, Rourke delves into such topics as "psychic vs. psychotic" and discusses the role of emotions in psychic ability. So I found myself trying to get my head around what this book actually is, and honestly, I think it's three books in one. I think Rourke would have been better served to divide the book into three books, or even two.
The author's psychic ability is well documented, and assuming everything written in the book is true, he is a very gifted man who has helped a lot of people. He seems to have all the answers. But there are so many stories that those alone could have been a book, and it was a challenge for me to read them without thinking that he had made his point a little too well. The fact that the only thing on the front cover is the psychic's photo just reinforces that idea, which is unfortunate.
The Rational Psychic has two things that I liked a lot: A fantastic bibliography and an index. I could go to it, for example, and see that "tarot cards" are mentioned on page 21. It makes the book much more useful when you don't have to flip through pages looking for a particular concept. If you take that and the definitions together, in some ways the book seemed more like a textbook. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, and in my mind it makes the book more valuable.
I'm not sure I agree with all of the author's points. It sounds convincing, but I'm just really not sure. This book will challenge what you believe about psychic ability, and overall I see that as a positive.
This book is great if you're trying to find out more about what psychic ability is and isn't, and the fact that the author is ready to question it made a positive impression on me. With that said, I struggled with this book, not just in deciding whether I shared the author's opinions, but because it dragged in places and seemed to lack focus on one central theme as well. I think it's best read in small pieces. Considering the amount of people Jack Rourke has helped, I'm sure there's more than enough material to break up this book into two or three parts.


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Malla (Amelie) Höök, född 1811, död 1882, var en svensk skådespelare och kurtisan. Hon var aktiv vid Dramaten 1834-1842 och även en välkänd kurtisan. I teaterhistorien nämns hon ofta för sin vänskap med Emilie Högqvist.

Hööks far är okänd. Hon var tidigt personlig vän och kollega med Emilie Högqvist. Hon var elev vid Kungliga Baletten 1825-26. Liksom Högvist var hon under 1826-28 medlem av det resande teatersällskapet Berggrenska truppen, och var då liksom denna även aktiv som lärare i dans enligt annonser i lokalpressen. Hon debuterade på Dramaten 1828 och var därefter elev 1829-34. Höök var engagerad vid Dramaten under åtta år, från 1834 till 1842. Som scenartist var hon främst verksam i rollen som subrett och beskrivs som flitig, skötsam och med gott anlag för skådespeleri.

Förutom för sin karriär som skådespelare var Höök välkänd  i det samtida Stockholm som kurtisan, dvs lyxprostituerad. Hon var enligt uppgift under flera år erkänd mätress till en högadlig diplomat. Höök avslutade sin karriär på Dramaten vid 31 års ålder, och såg då till att i samband med detta få sig själv myndigförklarad. Ogifta kvinnor var enligt lag omyndiga i Sverige, men detta tillstånd gällde i realiteten mest ekonomiska frågor; ogifta kvinnor kunde ansöka om att bli myndiga, och sådana ansökningar blev som regel bifallna.
Hon bosatte sig sedan i eget hus på Nybrobacken 5 och lämnade efter sig också en egendom vid Drottningholm och en förmögenhet på 33.500 kronor till kanslisten vid Kungliga Kommerskollegium Ludvig Hegardt, som möjligen var hennes utomäktenskaplige son.

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Källor
 Ingeborg Nordin Hennel: Mod och Försakelse. Livs- och yrkesbetingelser för Konglig Theaterns skådespelerskor 1813-1863. Stockholm: Gidlunds (1997) .
 Nordisk familjeboks månadskrönika / Andra årgången. 1939 /
 Fredrik August Dahlgren: Förteckning öfver svenska skådespel uppförda på Stockholms theatrar 1737-1863 och Kongl. Theatrarnes personal 1773-1863. Med flera anteckningar. Stockholm (1866)

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Biden's 1st information convention will take a look at verbal self-discipline
As a third-time candidate and now president, Joe Biden has appeared decided to undo his decades-long status as one of the vital undisciplined motormouths in American politics.
He often takes a handful of questions from reporters however principally delivers scripted remarks from behind lecterns, leaving little to likelihood.
Now, nevertheless, he's scheduled his first information convention as president for Thursday afternoon — a wide-ranging, usually unpredictable format that may take a look at his new restraint and mental agility.
Media have been clamoring for the chance to interrogate Biden at size. He'll probably face questions concerning the rising variety of migrants on the southern border and the mass shootings in Boulder, Colo., and Atlanta, whilst he seeks to concentrate on his efforts in opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic, maybe by saying a brand new vaccination goal after assembly his preliminary objective forward of schedule.
Requested how Biden was getting ready, White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki joked to reporters that he was "taking a look at your Twitters and seeing what's in your thoughts."
These tuning into the information convention can anticipate extra preparation than that, since Biden not often speaks off the cuff anymore. It's a return to regular in Washington, the place presidents' public appearances tended to be fastidiously stage-managed till his fast predecessor, Donald Trump, broke that sample and lots of others.
Consultants on political rhetoric stated Biden has performed to his strengths up to now, projecting folksiness in in any other case formal settings whereas limiting the chance so as to add to his record of notorious gaffes.
"He appears to me extra relaxed now than I ever keep in mind him in his profession," stated Barbara Perry, director of presidential research on the College of Virginia's Miller Middle. "He's each real and genuine, however he's taken on the mantle of the presidency and the dignity of the presidency."
Trump, as president, would prowl the row of cameras when leaving the White Home, fielding questions over the whirring of Marine One's helicopter blades. He relished the undivided consideration and verbal fight throughout press briefings and public occasions. Whereas he struggled when studying from ready remarks, generally showing listless, he drew power from a crowd and spoke within the hyperbolic language of a salesman.
Washington has a a lot totally different soundtrack with Biden within the Oval Workplace. For starters, he retains his feedback brief and tailor-made to the subject at hand, whether or not it's the coronavirus or reduction spending.
"This isn't the Biden we noticed when he was a senator," stated Kathleen Corridor Jamieson, a communications professor on the College of Pennsylvania. "You wouldn't have forecasted this rhetorical type. However given his predecessor, this makes good sense."
Though the brevity is new, his trademark phrases and magnificence will not be.
"God love ya," he says when speaking to lecturers or firefighters. He speaks usually and empathetically of dying, a subject that Trump averted however Biden is all too aware of, having misplaced his first spouse and child daughter in a automobile crash in 1972 and his older son to most cancers in 2015.
Biden regularly begins sentences with "My mom would say," and he likes to speak about his household. Throughout a current assembly with the Irish prime minister, Biden described a visit to his ancestral homeland as if he have been about to interrupt out a slideshow.
"We went to Mayo, the place the Blewitts are from, and Balina, the town, and we went to County Louth, the place the Finnegans are from," he stated.
It's not the hovering oratory of Biden's political heroes, like President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, however extra right down to earth.
"The one factor he has retained from the outdated type is the 'working class Joe' facet of his persona," stated Robert Rowland, a communications professor who makes a speciality of political rhetoric on the College of Kansas.
A glimpse of what Biden will be like when unfiltered got here throughout a CNN city corridor on Feb. 16, the one such occasion he's executed since taking workplace.
He confirmed his acquainted empathy throughout his interactions with voters, together with a lady who stated her kids have been apprehensive about dying from COVID-19. Biden addressed his reply to the lady's 8-year-old daughter, who was standing at her aspect.
"Don't be scared, honey, don't be scared," he instructed her. "You're going to be wonderful, and we're going to ensure mommy is ok too."
Biden additionally appeared to know when he risked stepping on a political landmine. Thrice in the course of the city corridor, he prefaced an announcement with some model of, "I'm going to say one thing that's going to get me in hassle."
He was undiplomatically folksy, at one level making a joke concerning the identify of a former Chinese language chief — President Hu, which feels like President Who. It was an echo of the Abbott and Costello comedy skit, "Who's on first?" initially carried out in 1938, 4 years earlier than Biden was born.
"Not a joke, not a joke," Biden stated.
He has disregarded considerations about his talking type. In his e book "Promise Me, Dad," Biden recalled a gathering with advisors when he was questioning whether or not to run for president in 2016.
"The voting public was uninterested in cautious and thoroughly packaged candidates," Biden stated. "My status as a 'gaffe machine' was now not wanting like a weak spot. The general public might see that I spoke from the center and I meant what I stated."
Earlier than that, his penchant for speaking an excessive amount of and saying the unsuitable factor had become a debate query for him in the course of the 2008 Democratic presidential-nomination contest.
"Phrases have previously gotten you in hassle," stated NBC broadcaster Brian Williams, the moderator. "Are you able to reassure voters on this nation that you'd have the self-discipline you want on the world stage?"
Biden answered with a smile and a single phrase: "Sure."
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The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board meets today and tomorrow in Rancho Cordova. Meeting will be webcast. Click here for the agenda.
NOTE: Plenty more Colorado River news in the section below.
Putting Solar Panels on Water Is a Great Idea—but Will It Float? "Winemaker Greg Allen had a problem. As president of Far Niente Winery in Napa Valley, California, he had done the math on how much land the vineyard could possibly dedicate to solar panels, to offset energy costs. The figure—about two acres—"really hurt," Allen says. So he compromised: Far Niente completed an array of 2,296 solar panels, 994 of which float on pontoons tethered to the bottom of the winery's pond. The installation was the world's first nonexperimental floating solar array. ... " Read more from Scientific American here: Putting Solar Panels on Water Is a Great Idea—but Will It Float?
What is Happening with the Colorado River Drought Plans? "States that rely on the Colorado River for their water supplies are currently unable to finish a series of agreements that would keep its biggest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, from dropping to levels not seen since they were filled decades ago. Five states — Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nevada — are done. The country of Mexico has also completed its portion. But California and Arizona failed to meet a Jan. 31 federal government deadline to wrap up negotiations and sign a final agreement. … " Read more from KUNC here: What is Happening with the Colorado River Drought Plans?


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#189: "No, Honestly!" (1992)
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#640: "Rights, Wrongs, and Winners" (2008)
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Bart Rathbone is a main character in Adventures in Odyssey, voiced originally by Walker Edmiston and briefly later by Robert Easton.
If the Barclays are a "good" example of an Odyssey family, the Rathbones are the complete opposite. Bart Rathbone, the father, wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. There are few ethical questions that he's not inclined to ignore. From unscrupulously coaching a softball team to using shady methods to run his electronics shop, The Electric Palace, to coming up with all manners of get-rich-quick schemes, Bart affably stands for everything Whit—and the world of Odyssey—is against.
Rathbone is known as a cheap and scheming businessman, always plugging his store (phone number is 555-3122 or 553-1222) while pushing questionable sales promotions and launching half-baked entrepreneurial ideas (such as "Rathbone's Electric Castle and Rock and Roll Instruments of Destruction" in #164: "Sixties-Something").
Bart is also known for his ill-fated campaigns for the mayorship of Odyssey. In episodes #286: "Tom for Mayor, Part 1" & #287: "Tom for Mayor, Part 2", he faces off against Tom Riley; in #380: "The One About Trust, Part 1" & #381: "The One About Trust, Part 2", he runs against Margaret Faye. According to Bart himself in #181: "It Takes Integrity", he has been running for office since his school days.
Apparently Bart had a bad experience in Sunday School as a child (#196: "Harlow Doyle, Private Eye"). This could have possibly turned him against Christianity, but nothing is known for sure.
Although on rare occasion Bart is deeply moved enough to change his attitude and behavior, these changes of heart are usually brief-lived and never permanently impact his character. In #121: "Missing Person", Bart is convinced by Officer O'Ryan to reconsider his parenting strategy with his son Rodney after Rodney runs away from home; Rodney continues to be a bully to his peers thereafter, however. Years later in #368: "The Other Woman", Bart and his wife Doris show sincere remorse for their actions after seeing how much their scheme to convince Tom Riley not to run for re-election as mayor has hurt him publicly, though the experience does nothing to sway Bart from running the following year against Margaret Faye.
Bart comes from a long line of "big-headed Rathbones", including his father, for which he was teased in high school. Bart is the proud "pop" of Rodney and the less-than-ideal husband of Doris Rathbone. He has a brother named Lanny Rathbone who has been in prison, and his brother-in-law is a business agent who, according to Doris, is as reliable as Bart is. His grandfather is Joe Smith. He has a sister named Delores Vineropoli who married Doris Rathbone's brother.
He has been kicked of his house by Doris for a multitude of reasons, including putting engine parts in the dishwasher and eating cheese doodles in the shower (#552: "Sunday Morning Scramble")
He once tried to take advantage of people during a tornado (#397: "Tornado!")
He once taught his son, Rodney, to cheat while playing checkers (#214: "The Living Nativity")
He once trained Alex Jefferson to become the next mini golf champion (#471: "Fifteen Minutes")
He sounded almost exactly like Rodney when he was young (#442b: "Sticks and Stones")
He attended middle school in Odyssey, but also lived in New York City at some point when he was younger. (#129: "Not One of Us", #390: "No Bones About It", #442b: "Sticks and Stones")
He disguised himself as his grandpa to "Get on the T and V" (#572: "Odyssey Sings!")
He is a fan of polka musician Lawrence Welk (#164: "Sixties-Something")
He is bald or balding and wears a toupee — in which he wears grease (#254: "Truth, Trivia and 'Trina", #540: "The Girl in the Sink", #603: "The Family Next Door")
His original name was Bill. (#23: "The Quality of Mercy", #115: "An Act of Mercy")
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Bart Rathbone has appeared in the following albums:
Family Portraits (0)
The Lost Episodes (3 episodes)
Album 01: The Adventure Begins (0)
Album 02: The Wildest Summer Ever (0)
Album 03: Heroes (0)
Album 04: FUN-damentals (0)
Album 05: Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes (0)
Album 06: Mission: Accomplished (0)
Album 07: On Thin Ice (0)
Album 08: Beyond Expectations (3 episodes)
Album 09: Just in Time (2 episodes)
Album 10: Other Times, Other Places (0)
Album 11: It's Another Fine Day... (0)
Album 12: At Home and Abroad (2 episodes)
Album 13: It All Started When... (3 episodes)
Album 14: Meanwhile, in Another Part of Town (3 episodes)
Album 15: A Place of Wonder (0)
Album 16: Flights of Imagination (2 episodes)
Album 17: On Earth as It Is in Heaven (0)
Album 18: A Time of Discovery (2 episodes)
Album 19: Passport to Adventure (5 episodes)
Album 20: A Journey of Choices (0)
Album 21: Wish You Were Here! (1 episode)
Album 22: The Changing Times (2 episodes)
Album 23: Twists and Turns (1 episode)
Album 24: Risks and Rewards (1 episode)
Album 25: Darkness Before Dawn (7 episodes)
Album 26: Back on the Air (1 episode)
Album 27: The Search for Whit (0)
Album 28: Welcome Home! (3 episodes)
Album 29: Signed, Sealed and Committed (2 episodes)
Album 30: Through Thick and Thin (2 episodes)
Album 31: Days to Remember (1 episode)
Album 32: Hidden Treasures (1 episode)
Album 33: Virtual Realities (1 episode)
Album 34: In Your Wildest Dreams (1 episode)
Album 35: The Big Picture (0)
Album 36: Danger Signals (3 episodes)
Album 37: Countermoves (0)
Album 38: Battle Lines (0)
Album 39: Friends, Family, and Countrymen (1 episode)
Album 40: Out of Control (0)
Album 41: In Hot Pursuit (1 episode)
Album 42: No Way Out (2 episodes)
Album 43: Along for the Ride (3 episodes)
Album 44: Eugene Returns! (2 episodes)
Album 45: Lost and Found (2 episodes)
Album 46: A Date with Dad (and Other Calamities) (1 episode)
Album 47: Into the Light (1 episode)
Album 48: Moment of Truth (1 episode)
Album 49: The Sky's the Limit (0)
Album 50: The Best Small Town (1 episode)
The Truth Chronicles (0)
Passages: Darien's Rise (0)
Album 51: Take it From the Top (0)
Album 52: Cause and Effect (0)
Album 53: The Green Ring Conspiracy (0)
Album 54: Clanging Cymbals...and the Meaning of God's Love (0)
Album 55: The Deep End (0)
Album 56: The Grand Design (0)
Album 57: A Call to Something More (0)
Album 58: The Ties That Bind (0)
Album 59: Taking the Plunge (0)
Album 60: Head Over Heels (0)
Album 61: Without a Hitch (0)
Album 62: Let's Put on a Show! (0)
Album 63: Up in the Air (0)
Album 64: Under the Surface (0)
Album 65: Expect the Unexpected (0)
Album 66: Trial by Fire (0)
Album 67: More Than Meets the Eye (0)
Album 68: Out of the Blue (0)
Album 69: Best Kept Secrets (0)
Album 70: Finding a Way (0)
Album 71: A Slippery Slope (0)
Album 72: The Long Road Home (0)
Bart Rathbone has appeared in the following club seasons:
Odyssey Adventure Club: Season 1 (0)
Adventures in Odyssey Club: Season 4 (0)
30th Birthday Live Show (album) (0)
Aventuras en Odisea: Volumen 1 (0)
B-TV: The Collection (0)
Daily Bible Readings (album) (0)
Hope in Trying Times (1 episode)
Odyssey Adventure Club: Season 1 Soundtrack (0)
Adventures in Odyssey Club: Season 4 Soundtrack (0)
The Leonard Meltsner Saga (0)
The Officer Harley Collection (0)
Bart Rathbone has appeared on the front cover of the following albums:
Album 13: It All Started When...
Album 19: Passport to Adventure
Album 36: Danger Signals
Album 50: The Best Small Town
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Bart Rathbone has appeared in 71 episodes, has been voiced by 3 actors, and has received an average user rating of 91.3%.
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#115: "An Act of Mercy" (1)
#121: "Missing Person" (2)
#124: "The Winning Edge" (3)
#129: "Not One of Us" (4)
#160: "A Rathbone of Contention" (5)
#163: "A Model Child" (6)
#164: "Sixties-Something" (7)
#175: "East Winds, Raining" (8)
#179: "You Gotta Be Wise" (9)
#181: "It Takes Integrity" (10)
#182: "The Scales of Justice" (11)
#196: "Harlow Doyle, Private Eye" (12)
#198: "Treasure Hunt" (13)
#214: "The Living Nativity" (14)
#220: "This is Chad Pearson?" (15)
#243: "Family Values" (16)
#246: "My Fair Bernard" (17)
#251: "Pilgrim's Progress Revisited, Part 2" (18)
#254: "Truth, Trivia and 'Trina" (19)
#256: "Aloha, Oy!, Part 1" (20)
#280: "Gone..." (23)
#286: "Tom for Mayor, Part 1" (24)
#306: "A Victim of Circumstance" (26)
#312: "Rewards in Full" (27)
#323: "A Little Credit, Please" (28)
#324: "Small Fires, Little Pools" (29)
#325: "Angels Unaware" (30)
#326: "Gathering Thunder" (31)
#328: "Hard Losses" (32)
#332: "Another Chance" (33)
#334: "The Final Conflict" (34)
#342: "Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard" (35)
#359: "The Merchant of Odyssey" (36)
#364: "Home, Sweet Home" (37)
#368: "The Other Woman" (38)
#380: "The One About Trust, Part 1" (39)
#387: "New Year's Eve Live!" (41)
#390: "No Bones About It" (42)
#397: "Tornado!" (43)
#417: "Not-So-Trivial Pursuits" (44)
#430: "Blind Girl's Bluff" (45)
#435: "A Look Back, Part 1" (46)
#438b: "The Telltale Cat" (47)
#440: "I Slap Floor" (48)
#442b: "Sticks and Stones" (49)
#444a: "Career Moves" (50)
#463: "Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips" (51)
#470: "Break a Leg" (52)
#471: "Fifteen Minutes" (53)
#480: "The Popsicle Kid" (54)
#500: "500" (55)
#501: "Inside the Studio" (56)
#502: "Live at the 25!" (57)
#528: "The Taming of the Two" (58)
#538: "Stubborn Streaks" (59)
#545: "Something's Got to Change" (60)
#551: "Stars in Our Eyes" (61)
#552: "Sunday Morning Scramble" (62)
#558: "A Glass Darkly" (63)
#570: "For Better or For Worse, Part 1" (64)
#572: "Odyssey Sings!" (66)
#581: "A Christmas Conundrum" (67)
#586: "A Cheater Cheated" (68)
#598: "My Favorite Thing" (69)
#609: "Prequels of Love" (70)
#632: "Suspicious Finds" (71)
#442b: "Sticks and Stones" (1)
#632: "Suspicious Finds" (1)
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#189: "No, Honestly!" (1)
#199: "The 'No' Factor" (2)
#207: "The Case of the Candid Camera" (3)
#216: "Like Father, Like Son" (4)
#252: "The Bad Hair Day" (5)
#266: "It Began with a Rabbit's Foot" (6)
#285: "George Under Pressure" (7)
#319: "A Touch of Healing, Part 2" (8)
#329: "The Return" (9)
#398: "A Case of Revenge" (10)
#443: "Changing Rodney" (11)
#507: "The Benefit of the Doubt" (12)
#540: "The Girl in the Sink" (13)
#543: "Nothing But the Half Truth" (14)
#587: "Bringing Up Dads" (15)
#603: "The Family Next Door" (16)
#640: "Rights, Wrongs, and Winners" (17)
The Blackgaard Chronicles
#19: "Recollections"
Daring Deeds, Sinister Schemes
#73: "A Bite of Applesauce" · #76: "Eugene's Dilemma" · The Nemesis: #77: "Part 1" – #78: "Part 2" · The Battle: #83: "Part 1" – #84: "Part 2"
Intermediate Episodes
#128: "One Bad Apple" · Waylaid in the Windy City: #155: "Part 1" – #156: "Part 2" · #159: "The Homecoming" · #160: "A Rathbone of Contention" · #203: "Double Trouble" · Tom for Mayor: #286: "Part 1" – #287: "Part 2" · A Name, Not a Number: #290: "Part 1" – #291: "Part 2" · #293: "A Code of Honor"
#324: "Small Fires, Little Pools" · #325: "Angels Unaware" · #326: "Gathering Thunder" · #327: "Moving Targets" · #328: "Hard Losses" · #329: "The Return" · #330: "The Time Has Come" · #331: "Checkmate" · #332: "Another Chance" · #333: "The Last Resort" · #334: "The Final Conflict"
Blackgaard's Revenge: #424: "Part 1" – #425: "Part 2"
#72: "An Encounter with Mrs. Hooper" · #74 – #75: "Connie Goes to Camp" · #79: "Our Best Vacation Ever" · #129: "Not One of Us" · #301: "The Good, the Bad and Butch" · #314 – #316: "The Underground Railroad" · #342: "Welcome Home, Mr. Blackgaard" · #359: "The Merchant of Odyssey" · #440: "I Slap Floor"
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Sometimes I end up in a laugh when life seems just to dreadful. I wonder in the middle of the night `will this feelings ever pass?` I sometimes TRY to HARD. Ever felt that way? Yes? No? If not, this is probably not the right article for you, or maybe it is after all :-) I suggest you read on, if not only to read an article from one person in this world - knowing words can mean something. Especially if you are all alone, or at least feel like it. If you are in deep pain mentally, have given up, or gone through something that want you to pull your brains out. I suggest you stay put. I don`t need many words, but you might just need to read them... or share them?
Who do you admire? Who do you look up to?
Choose someone that will inspire YOU! Yes please notice other peoples suggestions, just be shure you choose someone that will fit your own beliefs, okay? Set a goal of becoming more like this person every day. Now work for it. Feel like you imagine this person would feel. You deserve a happy life too!
Yes, this is a peaceful advice - and it will make you so strong. Pretty early in life I learned to sit still under a storm... I learned to be quiet, my only escape was to go within. So I did, and I found a world there - a world I`ve never left behind since. This world I carry around - making other people happy ( not all the time of course, I`m just a human as you - almost nearly :-) ) I did find a very creative side, a side of my own creativity and a intuitive knowing of what others was yearning for deep below. I felt no obligations - I just knew I had to put a smile on their face, and of course... or at least a little hope would leap out of my lips. My crowd would laugh and smile - sometimes ending up in tears with laughter.
REALLY? No, relax dearest... You should not try to change for ANYBODY. Just be you. But what if everybody leaves you? Then what? You are asking the right person. I have experienced this, and today I live a life filled of joy ( almost nearly) and most of the time, I`m alone - not feeling alone. As soon as you are `doing you´ people may leave you, and you can be pretty shure the right people will leave you right away, just as well as the right people will stay. There is no `wrong people´ they came into your life to teach you something, or maybe you did teach them? Forgive, move on - don`t care about any having regret of the experiences you have met ( sorry about the rhymes again) you will see soon that they did you a favor! In fact, as soon as you stop worry about them - you will start to think about something fun to do, something you enjoy so much that you will have stars in your eyes every day. I see my life with stars - because I can create every day. Even when I think I don`t have the energy to create ( it happens) I`ve find myself writing, drawing, or maybe investing my time in listening to others I can learn from, reading a book, or talking to strangers that will learn from me. Just be you - you`ll be okay, in fact... You`ll be amazing! Attracting the people who will LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. These people will lead you towards your dreams, push you ( oh yes) and in deed... they will surely love every attribute, every little inch of you, every `defect` and small quirky things and side effects you might have of you being just they way you are. They will understand your not perfect - and that`s perfect to them. They came all this way to be the best that they can be, with their own experiencing of different heartaches, painful memories haunting them ... and now they are finally so HAPPY having found you!


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HKMA Implementation Guidance on Securitization Framework for Banks
HKMA published a set of questions and answers (Q&A) on the revised securitization framework under the Banking (Capital) Rules (BCR). This set of Q&A supersedes the guidance on securitization set out in pages 52 to 66 of the revised Questions and Answers on BCR, which were issued on December 31, 2014.
These Q&A were built on the existing Q&A, with modifications to align with the amendments made to Part 7 of the BCR and to clarify the policy intent in respect of specific issues. New guidance is provided on the notification requirement under section 230(3), (4), and (5) in Part 7 and the assessment of significant credit risk transfer for obtaining capital relief for the underlying exposures of a securitization transaction under the BCR. HKMA responses to the industry during the consultations conducted in 2017 on the implementation of the revised securitization framework in Hong Kong had mentioned that supplementary guidance will be provided to assist authorized institutions in interpreting Part 7 of BCR (as amended to implement the framework) at a more detailed level in a number of specific areas. This supplementary guidance is now being provided in the form of this set of Q&A.
The Q&A have been drafted, as far as possible, in simple non-legal language to facilitate consistent interpretation and application of the capital or disclosure requirements. They are, however, explanatory and supplementary in nature and do not seek to replace any requirements in the BCR. Also, the Q&A are inevitably general in scope and do not take into account the particular circumstances of individual authorized institutions.
Keywords: Asia Pacific, Hong Kong, Banking, Securitization, Q&A, Banking Capital Rules, HKMA
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When Stan Cudia was drafted into the Vietnam War, he was conflicted. He had friends on both sides of the national dialogue on the war – some believed it was a duty to fight for their country, and others felt the war was pointless. Cudia remembers what he did to make his desicion: "I finally looked at my dad one day and said, 'What should I do? War is war I know that much.' He said, 'I was in WW2, you could go to war too.' So I said, 'OK, that's what I need to do.' And I was feeling that way anyway, that that was my duty, as an American." Rather than let himself be drafted into the army, Stan Cudia opted to enlist in the U.S. Air Force.
Cudia was first sent to basic training at Lockland Air Force Base in Texas in 1968. He was expected to preform at a high level physically and mentally. Although it was a scary experience for him to go through at a young age, he powered through it because he knew he had to. Despite the toughness of the training, Cudia does not regret it: "I think it was thorough and effective. It's stuck with me all these years and I am 68 years old now and I still look for dust on things and what not. Try to run a tidy ship." After basic training, he was sent to Shepard air force base in Texas for communications training. Cudia learned how to encode and decode messages the Air Force needed to keep secret. After the initial training, Cudia needed to get a security clearance to become a communications specialist. While waiting, he was sent to Norton Air Force base in San Bernardino to hone his skills.
Once Stan Cudia was given a security clearance, he was sent to the Da Nang base in Vietnam. He called a two-inch mattress home and had to be careful about the food and water or face disease and death. Cudia was severely sick twice as a direct consequence of the sustenance in Vietnam; once from local crab meat and once from the water. His job was to send and recieve classified information about the war effort between bases throughout Vietnam. However, sometimes Cudia would have to do different work, such as making deliveries to other bases. One such mission Cudia remembers as the scariest of all: "That was pretty scary not knowing what to expect. We ran out of gas. The sergeant in charge filled up this deuce-and- a-half, put the generator on it, and the next morning four of us, with nothing more than M-16's, jumped on this deuce-and- a-half single truck, four Air Force guys were going to drive highway 1 from Da Nang to Quang Tri to deliver this generator. We are driving along and I don't know how far along we got, we were out quite a ways. All of the sudden the truck boom boom boom, ran out of gas. The old sergeant, 'I filled this thing up myself last night!' He thought everything was good to go. Should have been good to go. So we hit a little Army fire base asked if we could get gas. They said, 'What the heck are you guys doing out here?' We said, 'We're on our way to Quang Tri to deliver this generator.' They said, 'Well you shouldn't be out here. Not right now.' They were kind of reluctant. They were giving us a hard time, but eventually they gave us the gas. Scary actually." Cudia lived in Da Nang's barracks until March of 1971.
Cudia's next assignment was to work with the 57th radar Squadron in Birch Bay, Washington. His job was to handle secret communications about Soviet aircraft movements between his base and other bases. The work at Birch Bay jarred Cudia because of how much easier life was there. One specific anecdote highlights this: One of the things that amazed me; I was standing in line and the guy says, 'How do you want your eggs?' and I go, 'What? How do I want my eggs? In the chow line, you just get what you get.' Well it turns out that it was such a small place that things like that could happen. " Cudia worked both his military job and a second job as a bartender with few hiccups.
The last assignment Stan Cudia was given was at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cudia worked decoding and encoding secret messages as he had previously. However, he worked long and hard hours in the new environment due to the magnitude of calssified information he had to process. For him, it was nearly reminiscient of his workload in Vietnam. However, Cudia lived off base as a married man at this point in his military career, so the work never became to grueling for him. After six months of work at Ent AFB, Cudia was honorably discharged.
After his work in the Air Force, Stan Cudia went on to work for the army in a civilian capacity for thirty-four years, doing the same job he did in the service – communications. Today, Cudia is commander of the Marin Veterans of Foreign Wars. The story of how he achieved the position is a simple one: "A lot of Vietnam veterans stayed away from the VFW. Finally, after years and years, in fact it wasn't till 2010, I thought I'd like to do something for the vets, so I went down and joined up. And lo and behold they started putting me in an officer's positions. Now I am the commander of the local post. I have been for the last three years." Since 1968, Stan Cudia has been working non-stop to help the United States Military in any way he can.


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When Paris Hilton threw a bottle of $350,000 champagne all over a dance floor, we could say 'typical'. This New Year's top champagne story is the offer of the 30L Armand de Briganc 'Midas' champagne bottle for a staggering $100,000 at Las Vegas' prime party zone, XS at the Encore. The bottle was bought a night later at UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez's after party, UFC 125 – the flash news however is that no one knows who the buyer is! Two strong men were employed to carry the 80-pound bottle over to the high roller's table. The event featured some big shots like Gilbert Melendez, Urijah Faber, Jake Shields and Bruce Buffer but it needn't necessarily be any of them. This can't be Paris either because there is nothing 'secret' about her retail extravaganza.
The Armand de Brignac is renowned for its 'unmatched winemaking expertise' produced by Cattier Champagne. The Cattier family has a rich history dating back to 1773 and roots from a French village, Chigny-les-Roses. It signature Ace of Spades is its identification.


Ellandi LLP - Would you invest on a stag weekend?
Would you invest on a stag weekend?
It seems that when unprecedented economic events occur commentators reach for metaphors to try and rationalise what can not be readily explained using logical economic arguments. Thus, we regularly read about "Black Swans," "Five stages of grief" and numerous other biological metaphors.
Given that I am a simple person and so are most of the people I know, even the ones with high flying finance jobs. I felt I would try and capture the irrational economic behaviour we are currently seeing in the stock market with my own valley boy metaphor.
The irrational but much welcomed bounce in equity markets are driven by the same short term energy that underpins Saturday night on a stag weekend.
The global economy is unquestionably in decline, corporate earnings are starting to reflect this and almost every major company, regardless of sector, is having to try and re-build its balance sheet. Yet, against this incredibly negative backdrop the FTSE is up 14.7% over the last three months. I have studied a bit of economics, worked at two major banks and I read the FT every day but I am still at a loss as to why share prices are flying.
Friday night everyone is over excited, we are all dressed in Toga's and everyone gets happily plastered. I awake the next morning, feeling terrible and vowing never to do this to myself again. I stroll down to the beach, drink as much water as possible and try to avoid 25 idiots and the inevitable beer that will follow when I bump in to them.
At this point I have total clarity. Beer is bad for me, I can't handle my booze and when pissed I am likely to do something stupid that I will regret in the morning. This is almost inevitable especially as I will be surrounded by 25 drunk daredevils who will encourage each other on to new levels of recklessness.
So for all of Saturday afternoon I stand in a sun drenched bar avoiding as much alcohol as possible and carefully hedging my position by following each pint of beer with a sneaky bottle of water.
Saturday morning = 2007 / 2008. The dawing realisation that the party is over, you have lost your wallet and your head hurts so much that you can not conceive what to do next. The only thing that you know for sure is that you are not ever going to invest again, well not for a long time at least and next time you will be sensible! True to form nothing reallyhappened in late 2007 and 2008 as everyone liked thier wounds digested the fall out of the high jinx that had enjoyed and now regretted.
And suddenly, it's Saturday evening... The sensible afternoon has helped, the pain of the night before has faded. You have had one or two quiet drinks and suddenly as the sun fades and the music begins to play you are feeling somewhat better about life. You were thinking you would never drink again, at least not before 2010, but suddenly its mid 2009, it Saturday night and all of your mates are in town - hey why not, lets get involved, after all yesterday we were the masters of the universe.
Deep down you know that this is a bad idea, that tomorrow will be even more painful than this morning andthat this is a stupid idea but by now its too late - the band is playing, you andeveryone aroundyou is two sheets to the wind and in full voice you blast out the lyirics to Sweet Caroline - "Good times never seemed so good, I've been inclined, To believe they never would..."
Suddenly for no apparent reason other than everyone is on a high and you are feeling good about life the FTSE is through 4000 and heading for 4500 - the good times are rolling once more.
Oh, if only I'd listened to my inner voice, that Neil Diamond had added the line he forgit to sing "Good times never seemed so good, I've been inclined to believe they never would... I don't believe it, your making it up!"
I left Magaluf on Sunday morning - feeling a shadow of my fomer self, my wallet empty and my limbs aching. It was always inevitable!
So if you buy into my metaphore it seems there will be a sudden downwards market correction as the night clubs closes and the bar man kicks out the final revelers. It is never easy to leave a party early, especially one you are enjoying but as we sang on that balmy Saturday night in Majorca - "You got to know when to walk away, know when to run..."
You may feel me metaphore is baseless but I have one other piece of anecdotal evidence. The stag is a finacialadviser who specialises in shares, he has been off work since his stag weekend - maybe he has come to the same realisation? Surely nobody would believe he has an infection that would take this long to heal, we were only in Spain.


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Panda Beer anyone? Craft beers flow in middle-class China
Hundreds of craft beer enthusiasts, investors and brewers are attending an exhibition in Shanghai dedicated to expanding the palette of Chinese consumers and promoting sales of high-end brews
SHANGHAI — "Panda Beer," ''Little General," ''Flying Fist IPA," and "Mandarin Wheat" are among the offerings on tap at a craft beer exhibition this week in Shanghai dedicated to expanding the palette of Chinese consumers and promoting sales of high-end brews.
The 2018 Craft Beer of China Exhibition features breweries like Rasenburg Beer, Myth Monkey Brewing, Lazy Taps, Goose Island and Boxing Cat Brewery that are sharing tips on the latest technology and sales trends as Chinese shift from legacy brews to more experimental, refined, and expensive flavors.
From taps at the expo flowed creative mixes of flavors and traditions, a swirling cocktail of Chinese ingredients, barley, hops and spices from around the world.
"After drinking it (craft beer), it feels much better than the domestic industry beer, and then you just can't leave it," said Yu Shiqi, a 40-year old craft beer consumer at the expo who dreams of brewing his own.
There's money to be made in China, which drinks a quarter of all beer worldwide, and small-batch brewers and giant multinationals are cashing in. Though craft beer is far from upstaging local beer behemoths like Tsingtao that dominate the $28 billion national beer market, it is rising in popularity as small breweries open up in China's major metropolitan areas like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Craft beers are typically more expensive than mass-market, low-alcohol content brews like Budweiser and China's Yanjing. But as China's middle class grows, so too does its tastes for finer products.
A couple of years ago, craft beer made up only 0.3 percent of total beer consumption. It has since risen to about 5 percent, said Darren Guo, one of the exhibition's organizers, who expect to see 30 percent growth in the craft beer market every year until 2020. "Beer culture is pretty much on the beginning or starting level."
Laurel Liu, sales director of Beijing-based Jing-A brewery, says she gets calls from small towns asking how to start up a craft brewery.
"You don't even expect them to have craft beer there but now they do," Liu said. "I'm really surprised and happy to see now that craft beer in China is a thing and it's really easier to access these products now."
More money was spent on beer in China than the USA in 2017, according to beer industry research firm Drink Sector. Craft breweries were "rapidly increasing" although foreign imports continue to dominate the high-end beer sector.
The Belgian-Brazilian firm Anheuser-Busch InBev, the makers of Budweiser, has invested heavily in China, building breweries and acquiring craft breweries like Shanghai's Boxing Cat. Anheuser Busch also owns Goose Island, which is based in Chicago.
Michael Jordan, brew-master at Boxing Cat, and his staff experiment with flavors like egg tart, green tea, peppercorn, chai, kiwi, hibiscus and sweet potato.
Jordan chalks up some of the success of craft brewing in China to President Xi Jinping sharing a pint of IPA, or Indian Pale Ale, in 2015 in the UK with then-prime minister David Cameron.
"The 'Xi phenomenon' really kind of opened people's eyes to IPA," he said.
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