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Month: June, 2016
A World that Only the Blind Can See
Overlook has released the third of Jason Deem's magnificent countdown teasers, as you can see above. The Last Cishaurim, I must say, has special place in my heart. Such water!
The Daily Dot has listed The Second Apocalypse as one of ten series to read while waiting for the next Game of Thrones installment. A recommendation echoed by the Spanish language culture webzine, Conectica.
And last, but certainly not least, Adam has "The History of Earwa, Part 4: The Modern Age" up at the Wertzone.
Reading Adam's ongoing exegesis, especially while revising and expanding the Encyclopedic Glossary for The Unholy Consult, has got me thinking hard about the significance of world building in fantastic literature, and role of what might be called 'folk ontologies,' and the notion of 'adaptive ignorance.' I'll be posting on this in the near future.
On the Irreducible Unity of Language and Ancient Old Souls
So Overlook has released another one of Jason Deem's visual interpretations of The Great Ordeal. This time he takes us deep into Ishterebinth, and to the revelation that will transform Sorweel forever.
Adam Whitehead continues his epic recounting with, History of Earwa, Part 3: The Apocalypse. The more I read, the more I want to buy this Bakker guy's books, largely because I'm a 'world junkie' from way back. I've been cooking, snorting, smoking, and injecting ontologies for as long as I can bloody remember. Part of what makes Adam's treatment so cool, of course, is the way he incorporates Jason Deem's art to visualize his retelling.
And lastly, Mike Hillcoat has opened two subforums on The Second Apocalypse discussion boards, an Author Q&A where I will answer, as best I can, general questions pertaining to the series, and also TGO ARC Author Q&A, where I will do my best to not answer specific questions pertaining The Great Ordeal (and of course, The Unholy Consult), but will do my best to sound generally informative. Bear with me on these. And remember, I love difficult questions. If a zone swallows me up during the day, as is usually the case, then I will try to respond sometime after 10PM, Eastern Standard Time.
Cosmic Darkness…
The Unholy Consult rewrite has been owning me, of late. But I wanted to share a couple more incredible advance reviews for The Great Ordeal, one from Grimdark Magazine,
It's everything you expect from a Bakker book: gut-shredding violence, big moral dilemmas, grey and grey and grey, sweeping epic scale, detailed historical world-building, and a sense of horror that eclipses anything else in epic fantasy. Boy oh boy, does The Great Ordeal deliver.
and the other from Kosmos Biblioth, a.k.a., Roger Eichorn, whom I love precisely because he's never had a problem telling me when things are shite. This time his words are golden:
In sum, Bakker's latest is both harrowing and thrilling, often simultaneously. The final chapters are among the most propulsive he's ever written; they'll leave you breathless. They certainly left me gasping.
As an author, dissatisfaction is far and away the safest thing to feel about one's work. It's the spur that keeps you working, and even more importantly, keeps you open to continually learning and relearning your craft; it also bridles your hopes, pre-empts the authorial instinct to read your book for your readers, to assume your blinkered estimation, your reading, is the reading that will carry the day. It almost never is. This is why I've been terrified by my own appraisal of The Great Ordeal, and why that terror subsides a little with each review like these.
So… Who knows? My hope is that these next two years will hoist the series into the mass cultural imagination, that it will scratch the eyes and bruise the hearts of millions, actually do what contemporary literary fiction can only pretend to do. Pulp is the way forward. Trump supporters are Trump supporters because those who could have broken the me-first spell are too concerned with displaying their anti-me-first credentials to one another, and congratulating themselves for their courage after.
Just believe! This is the ubiquitous moral, the inescapable refrain of our culture. I think it's safe to say we could use a little more EAMD moving forward.
Updatage: History, Hell, and Thievery
Check out Jason Deem's rendition of Kellhus in the Thousand Hells. If you pester him enough, he might spill the beans on his inspiration painting the scene, as well as my inspiration writing it.
Kudos to everyone who contributed to the previous thread: I think I've compiled a great list of zingers to send to my new publicist thanks to you.
Just a note of warning to those who think I need neither food nor shelter to write, there's apparently some phishing sites using The Great Ordeal as click bait. It looks like they're even lifting material from The Second Apocalypse Forum to lend the appearance of legitimacy.
Also, the inimitable Adam Whitehead has posted A History of Earwa, Part 2: The Age of Man on Wertzone. Very, very cool, especially if you, like me, were bewitched by historical atlases in your youth. Consulting a number of different sources, Adam has pulled together a very interesting interpretation of the overthrow of the Nonmen and the rise of Men to literate civilization. But simply being able to visualize the ebb and flow of nations and empires through the centuries will, I think, help those who feel overwhelmed by my historical references.
And the winners of the Second Apocalypse Forum galley giveaway have been announced. Congratulations to Corky and Litgreg!
If Truth does not shine, then perhaps it glimmers now and again… or blinks like an icon.
Aesthetic Insanity (or insane aesthete)?
I've been trying to force myself to think more in marketing terms, as I'm sure some of you have noticed. It makes for odd bedfellows, pitching free book giveaways one post, then eliminativistic interpretations of observer effects the next. Truth be told, I like the way it jars, the way it renders sensible the boundaries between cultural ingroups. If accusing people of "selling out" doesn't amount to an ingroup shame mechanism, I'm not sure what does. The same goes for accusations of "pretentiousness" coming the other way. In each case it amounts to shouting, "Objectionable communication!" Personally, I think anyone who wants to write literature—fiction that actually jumps the rails of ever tightening buyer-seller relationships—needs to be perched in some uncomfortable, easy-to-spoof spot like this. You need to find yourself places where others aren't sure you belong, otherwise you're simply one of the likeminded writing for the likeminded, and simply pretending that people have been challenged and/or appalled. It's all 'genre' in the pejorative sense, otherwise—algorithmically managed no less!
A commenter mentioned the 'insane ambition' of The Second Apocalypse on the previous thread, and that got me thinking about how one would go about estimating the ambition of a literary project. The thing is, I've always had an easier time selling the ambition of the project than I have the project itself. The problem with this, of course, is that the world is drowning in grandiose ambitions—I'm pretty sure I only manage to identify myself as a probable manqué when I do this. But what if I could say that The Second Apocalypse was one of the most insanely ambitious literary projects ever undertaken? Does anyone know how a project like this fits in the greater scheme of literary ambition?
Is this worth telling my publicist to use?
Updatage: New Interview and Another Giveaway
– You've previously described The Aspect-Emperor series as ending in a 'Gordian Knot' of plots. At which point do you think the reader will have all the pieces to elucidate the problem, let alone the answer?
Plot closure, yes. Thematic closure, not so much. The problem of the books—the problem of ourselves—has no solution, of course. All the things that make fantasy fiction fantastic—the magic, the spirits, the gods, the objective morality, the fate—also happen to be staples of Scripture, be it Christian or ancient Greek or Hindu or what have you. Fantasy celebrates and critiques our most natural way of conceiving the world, a way that has been and continues to be undermined by the findings and proceeds of science. The way I see it, fantastic literature is the dirge of our civilization, a final retelling of our most ancient and primordial songs. The song ends when our voices fall silent. No one knows what follows the song. We can only hope that we're somehow stronger for the singing.
This is what the best storytelling does, I think: arms us against what we cannot understand. Given my themes, ending any other way would be a betrayal.
Just a snippet from my latest interview on Pat's Fantasy Hotlist…
Also Grimdark Magazine is hosting its own Advance Reading Copy giveaway of The Great Ordeal. To enter, simply name your favourite character in the series and explain why–there's already several pages of fascinating explanations. My favourite character overall has to be the Great Ordeal itself, simply because it embodies all the contradictions of aspiration and appetite on the scale of epic endeavour. It also has the least dialogue. Nothing worse than a prolix holy war.
Updatage: History and Luck
Wertzone has posted "A History Earwa, Part One: The Fall of the Ark and the Cuno-Inchoroi Wars," a gobsmacking entry that draws on a number of sources (including correspondence with myself), and features artwork from Jason Deem's catalogue on unearthly Earwan imagery (my favourite is above) . The idea, for me, has always been to create just such a World as Adam relates, one that lives parallel to our own in the imaginations of others. This is narrative transcendence in spades—where literature lives among the people, and not the choir. Check. It. Out.
In concert with Overlook, Andy (aka bakkerfans) is running a giveaway contest for two Advanced Reader Copies of The Great Ordeal. To enter, you need only:
Go to www.second-apocalypse.com
Register an account (which is easy, never fear)
Navigate to the thread entitled, "The Great Ordeal ARC Giveaway" in the The Great Ordeal subforum.
Post the most burning question you hope The Great Ordeal will answer.
The winners will be randomly selected next week!
I'm an obsessive soul, prone to follow one ball so closely as to drop all the others. I have a bunch of stuff coming up, interviews in print and video, all organized by others, and I wanted to take time out to thank all those who's efforts allow me to continue obsessively mining these twin veins of gold, fictional and philosophical. If you know anyone with a thoughtful bent who perhaps once loved fantasy but has given up, or who is simply exhausted by high culture hypocrisy and is ready to see the profundities that pulp has always housed, always shouted, then send them the trailer.
If they think they're smarter than genre, then send them to Three Pound Brain. We got scales, here, you see…
To Ping or Not to Ping: Physics, Phenomenology, and Observer Effects
JAMES XAVIER: Sam, what's the range of human vision?
SAM BRANT: Distance?
JAMES XAVIER: No, wavelength.
SAM BRANT: Between 4000 angstrom units and 7800 angstrom units.* You know that.
JAMES XAVIER: Less than one-tenth of the actual wave spectrum. What could we really see if we had access to the other ninety-percent? Sam, we are virtually blind, all of us. You tell me my eyes are perfect, well they're not. I'm blind to all but a tenth of the universe.
SAM BRANT: My dear friend, only the gods see everything.
JAMES XAVIER: My dear doctor, I'm closing in on the gods.
What happens when we begin to see too much? Roger Corman's X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes poses this very question. At first the dividends seem to be nothing short of fantastic. Dr. Xavier can see through pockets, sheets of paper, even the clothes of young men and women dancing. What's more, he discovers he can look through the bodies of the ill and literally see what needs to be done to save them. The problem is that the blindness of others defines the expectations of others: Dr. Xavier finds himself a deep information consumer in a shallow information cognitive ecology. So assisting in surgery he knows the senior surgeon is about to kill a young girl because he can see what's truly ailing her. He has to usurp his superior's authority—it is the only sane thing to do—and yet his subsequent acts inevitably identify him as mad.
The madness, we discover, comes later, when the information becomes so deep as to overwhelm his cognitive biology. The more transparent the world becomes to him, the more opaque he becomes to others, himself included. He begins by nixing his personal and impersonal social ecologies, finds respite for a time as first a carnival mystic and then a quasi-religious faith healer, but even these liminal social habitats come crashing down around him. In the end, no human community can contain him, not even the all-embracing community of God. A classic 'forbidden knowledge' narrative, the movie ends with the Biblical admonition, "If an eye offends thee…" and Dr. Xavier plucking out his own eyes—and with remarkable B-movie facility I might add!
The idea, ultimately, isn't so much that ignorance is bliss as it's adaptive. The great bulk of human cognition is heuristic, turning not so much on what's going on as cues systematically related to what's going on. This dependence on cues is what renders human cognition ecological, a system functionally dependent upon environmental invariants. Change the capacity adapted to those cues, or change the systems tracked by these cues, and we find ourselves in crash space. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes provides us with catastrophic and therefore dramatic examples of both.
Humans, like all other species on this planet, possess cognitive ecologies. And as I hope to show below, the consequences of this fact can be every bit as subtle and misleading in philosophy as they are disastrous and illuminating in cinema.
We belong to the very nature we're attempting to understand, and this has consequences for our capacity to understand. At every point in its scientific development, humanity has possessed a sensitivity horizon, a cognitive range basically, delimiting what can and cannot detected, let alone solved. Ancestrally, for instance, we were sensitive only to visible light and so had no way of tracking the greater spectrum. Once restricted to the world of 'middle-sized dry goods,' our sensitivity horizons now delve deep into the macroscopic and microscopic reaches of our environment.
The difference between Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment and the Large Hadron Collider provides a dramatic expression of the difficulties entailed by extending this horizon, how the technical challenges tend to compound at ever more distal scales. The successor to the LHC, the International Linear Collider, is presently in development and expected cost 10 billion dollars, twice as much as the behemoth outside Geneva.[1] Meanwhile the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble and the Spitzer, has been projected to cost 8 billion dollars. Increasingly, cutting edge science is an industrial enterprise. We talk about searching for objects, signals, and so forth, but what we're actually doing is engineering ever more profound sensitivities, ways to mechanically relate to macroscopic and microscopic scales.
When it comes to microscopic sensitivity horizons, the mechanical nature of this relation renders the problem of so-called 'observer effects' all but inevitable. The only way to track systematicities is to physically interact with them in some way. The more diminutive those systematicities become, the more sensitive they become, the more disruptive our physical interactions become. Intractable observational interference is something fundamental physics was pretty much doomed to encounter.
Now every account of observer effects I've encountered turns on the commonsensical observation that intervening on processes changes them, thus complicating our ability to study that process as it is. Observer effects, therefore, knock target systems from the very pins we're attempting to understand. Mechanical interaction with a system scrambles the mechanics of that system—what could be more obvious? Observer effects are simply a consequence of belonging to the same nature we want to know. The problem with this formulation, however, is that it fails to consider the hybrid system that results. Given that cognition is natural, we can say that all cognition turns on the convergence of physical systems, the one belonging to the cognizer, the other belonging to the target. And this allows us to distinguish between kinds of cognition in terms of the kinds of hybrid systems that result. And this, I hope to show, allows us not only to make more sense of intentionality—'aboutness'—but also why particle physics convinces so many that consciousness is somehow responsible for reality.
Unless you believe knowledge is magical, supernatural, claiming that our cognitive sensitivity to environmental systematicities has mechanical limits is a no-brainer. Blind Brain Theory amounts to little more than applying this fact to deliberative metacognition, or reflection, and showing how the mystery of human meaning can be unravelled in entirely naturalistic terms. On Blind Brain Theory, the first-person is best understood as an artifact of various metacognitive insensitivities. The human brain is utterly insensitive to the mechanics of its physical environmental relations (it has to be for a wide variety of reasons); it has no alternative but to cognize those relations in a radically heuristic manner, to ignore all the mediating machinery. As BBT has it, what philosophers call 'intentionality' superficially tracks this specialized cognitive tool—fetishizes it, in fact.
Does the brain possess the capacity to cognize its own environmental relations absent cognition of the actual physical relations obtaining? Yes. This is a simple empirical fact. So what is this capacity? Does it constitute some intrinsically inexplicable pocket of reality, express some fundamental rupture in Being, or is it simply heuristic? Since inexplicable pockets and fundamental ruptures entail a wide variety of perpetually speculative commitments, heuristics have to be the only empirically plausible alternative.
Intentional cognition is heuristic cognition. As such, it possesses a corresponding problem ecology, which is to say, a limited scope of effective application. Heuristic cognition always requires that specific background conditions obtain, some set of environmental invariants.[2] Given our insensitivity to these limits, our 'autoinsensitivity' (what I call medial neglect elsewhere), it makes sense we would run afoul misapplications. Blind Brain Theory provides a way of mapping these limits, of understanding how and where things like the intentionality heuristic might lead us astray.
Anyone who's watched or read The Red October knows about the fundamental distinction drawn between active and passive modes of detection in the military science of warning systems. So with sonar, for instance, one can 'ping' to locate their potential enemy, transmit an acoustic pulse designed to facilitate echoic location. The advantage of this active approach is that reliably locates enemies, but it does so at the cost of alerting your enemy to your presence. It reliably detects, but it changes the behaviour of what it detects—a bona fide observer effect. You know where your enemy is, sure, but you've made them more difficult to predict. Passive sonar, on the other hand, simply listens for the sounds your enemy is prone to make. Though less reliable at detecting them, it has the advantage of leaving the target undisturbed, thus rendering your foe more predictable, and so more vulnerable. this.
Human cognition cleaves along very similar lines. In what might be called passive cognition, the cognitive apparatus (our brain and other enabling media) has a negligible or otherwise irrelevant impact on the systematicities tracked. Seeing a natural process, for instance, generally has no impact on that process, since the photons used would have been reflected whether or not they were subsequently intercepted by your retinas. With interactive cognition, on the other hand, the cognitive apparatus has a substantial impact on the systematicities tracked. Touching a natural process, for example, generally interferes with that process. Where the former allows us to cognize functions independent of our investigation, the latter does not. This means that interactive cognition always entails ignorance in a way that passive cognition does not. Restricted to the consequences of our comportments, we have no way of tracking the systematicities responsible, which means we have no way of completely understanding the system. In interactive cognition, we are constitutive of such systems, so blindness to ourselves effectively means blindness to those systems, which is why we generally learn the consequences of our of interference, and little more.[3] Of course passive cognition suffers the identical degree of autoinsensitivity; it just doesn't matter given how the passivity of the process preserves the functional independence of the systematicities involved. Things do what they would have done whether you had observed them or not.
We should expect, then, that applications of the intentionality heuristic—'aboutness'—will generally facilitate cognition when our targets exhibit genuine functional independence, and generally undermine cognition when they do not. Understanding combustion engines requires no understanding of the cognitive apparatus required to understand combustion engines. The radically privative schema of knower and known, subject and object, works simply because the knowing need not be known. We need possess no comportment to our comportments in instances of small engine repair, which is a good thing, given the astronomical neural complexities involved. Thinking in terms of 'about' works just fine.
The more interactive cognition becomes, however, the more problematic assumptive applications of the intentionality heuristic are likely to become. Consider phenomenology, where the presumption is that the theorist can cognize experience itself, and not simply the objects of experience. It seems safe to say that experience does not enjoy the functional independence of, say, combustion engines. Phenomenologists generally rely on the metaphorics of vision in their investigations, but insofar as both experience and cognition turn on one and the same neural system, the suspicion has to be that things are far more tactile than their visual metaphors lead them to believe. The idea of cognizing experience absent any understanding of cognition is almost comically farfetched, if you think about it, and yet this is exactly what phenomenologists purport to do. One might wonder what two things could be more entangled, more functionally interdependent, than conscious experience and conscious cognition. So then why would anyone entertain phenomenology, let alone make it their vocation?
The answer is neglect. Since phenomenologists suffer the same profound autoinsensitivity as the rest of the human species, they have no way of distinguishing between those experiential artifacts genuinely observed and those manufactured—between what they 'see' and what they 'handle.' Since they have no inkling whatsoever of their autoinsensitivity, they are prone to assume, as humans generally do when suffering neglect, that what they see is all there is,[4] despite the intrinsically theoretically underdetermined nature of their field. As we have seen, the intentionality heuristic presumes functional independence, that we need not know much of anything about our cognitive capacities to solve a given system. Apply this presumption to instances of interactive cognition, as phenomenologists so obviously do, and you will find yourself in crash space, plain and simple.
Observer effects, you could say, flag the points where cognitive passivity becomes interactive—where we must ping our targets to track them. Given autoinsensitivity, our brains necessarily neglect the enabling (or medial) mechanical dimension of their own constitution. They have no way, therefore, of tracking anything apart from the consequences of their cognitive determinations. This simply follows from the mechanical nature of consciousness, of course—all cognition turns on deriving, first and foremost, predictions from mechanical consequences, but also manipulations and explanations. The fact that we can only cognize the consequences of cognition—source neglect—convinces reflection that we somehow stand outside nature, that consciousness is some kind of floating source as opposed to what it is, another natural system embedded in a welter of natural systems.[5] Autoinsensitivity is systematically mistaken for autosufficiency, the profound intuition that conscious experience somehow must come first. It becomes easy to suppose that the collapse of wave-functions is accomplished by the intervention of consciousness (or some component thereof) rather than the interposition of another system. We neglect the system actually responsible for decoherence and congratulate the heuristic cartoon that evolution has foisted upon us instead. The magically floating, suspiciously low-dimensional 'I' becomes responsible, rather than the materially embedded organism we know ourselves to be.
Like Deepak Chopra, Donald Hoffman and numerous others insisting their brand of low-dimensional hokum is scientifically grounded, we claim that science entails our most preposterous conceit, that we are somehow authors of reality, rather than just another thermodynamic waystation.
*The typical human eye is actually sensitive to 3900 to 7000 angstroms.
[1] Baer, Howard, Barger, Vernon D., and List, Jenny. "The Collider that Could Save Physics," Scientific American, June, 2016. 8.
[2] Sometimes it can be gerrymandered to generate understanding in novel contexts, sometimes not. In those cases where it can be so adapted, it still relies on some kind invariance between the cues accessed, and the systems solved.
[3] Absent, that is, sophisticated theoretical and/or experimental prostheses. A great deal needs to be said here regarding the various 'hacks' we've devised to suss out natural processes via a wild variety of ingenious interventions. (Hacking's wonderful Representing and Intervening is replete with examples). But none of these methods involve overcoming medial neglect, which is to say all of them leverage cognition absent autocognition.
[4] Blind Brain Theory can actually be seen as a generalization Daniel Kahneman calls WYSIATI ('What-You-See-Is-All-There-Is') effects in his research.
[5] This is entirely consonant with an exciting line of research (one of multiple lines converging on Blind Brain Theory) involving 'inherence heuristics.' Andrei Cimpian and Erika Saloman write:
we propose that people often make sense of [environmental] regularities via a simple rule of thumb–the inherence heuristic. This fast, intuitive heuristic leads people to explain many observed patterns in terms of the inherent features of the things that instantiate these patterns. For example, one might infer that girls wear pink because pink is a delicate, inherently feminine color, or that orange juice is consumed for breakfast because its inherent qualities make it suitable for that time of day. As is the case with the output of any heuristic, such inferences can be–and often are–mistaken. Many of the patterns that currently structure our world are the products of complex chains of historical causes rather than being simply a function of the inherent features of the entities involved. The human mind, however, may be prone to ignore this possibility. If the present proposal is correct, people often understand the regularities in their environments as inevitable reflections of the true nature of the world rather than as end points of event chains whose outcomes could have been different.
See, Andrei Cimpian and Erika Saloman, "The inherence heuristic: An intuitive means of making sense of the world and a potential precursor to psychological essentialism," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2014), 461-462.


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Mesquite este numele cel mai comun pentru mai multe specii de arbori scunzi, aparținând genului Prosopis, specifici zonelor deșertice din nordul Mexicului, respectiv sudului și sud-vestului Statelor Unite.  Mesquite este numele comunpentru mai multe specii de arbori mici ai genului.  Majoritatea arborilor speciilor genului cresc nativ în statele mexicane Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California și Baja California Sur, respectiv în statele americane New Mexico, Arizona și California.  Există doar o excepție, varietatea Prosopis strombulifera (numit popular creeping mesquite), care este o specie invaziva sudului Californiei.

Etimologie

Cuvântul folosit în limba engleză, mesquite este un cuvânt împrumutat din limba spaniolă, mezquite, care la rândul său este o adaptare a cuvântului din limba Nāhuatl mizquitl.

Mesquite ca specie invaziva

Cunoscut în Statele Unite ca "mesquite de miere" (în original, Honey mesquite), varietatea Prosopis glandulosa a fost introdusă în anumite părți ale continentelor Africa, Asia și a statului continent, Australia, după care a fost considerat de către organizația World Conservation Union ca una dintre speciile invazive care creează cele mai multe probleme.

Specii

 Prosopis glandulosa (honey mesquite)
 Prosopis juliflora
 Prosopis laevigata (smooth mesquite)
 Prosopis pubescens (screwbean mesquite)
 Prosopis reptans (tornillo)
 Prosopis strombulifera (creeping mesquite)
 Prosopis velutina (velvet mesquite)

Vedeți și

 Mesquite Bosque
 Tamaulipan mezquital

Referințe

Legături externe

 USDA NRCS Plants Database
 Honey mesquite, Screwbean mesquite, and Western mesquite at Texas A&M's Plant Answers
 Honey mesquite at the Texas Tree Planting Guide
 AgNews  article on wood to ethanol using mesquite
 Mesquite Furniture Maker Directory
 Mesquite Roasted Coffee  web site devoted to mesquite wood fire roasting of coffee
 Mesquite Local Business Directory

 Casa de Fruta
 Mesquite Furniture

Arbori ornamentali
Arbori rezistenți la secetă
Flora de deșert a Americii de Nord
Leguminoase comestibile
Nume comune de plante
Plante de grădină ale Americii de Nord

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In the Trap is a 2019 Italian horror film directed by Alessio Liguori.

Cast
Jamie Paul as Philip
David Bailie as Father Andrew
Sonya Cullingford as Catherine
Miriam Galanti as Sonia
Paola Bontempi as Rose
Delena Kidd as the old woman
Jude Forsay as young Philip
Leila Gauntlett as Isidora
Amelia Clay as the next door's girl
Robert Nairne as the Creature

Release
The film premiered at Trieste Science+Fiction Festival on 31 October 2019.

References

External links

2019 films
English-language Italian films
2019 horror films
Italian horror films
Films directed by Alessio Liguori
2010s English-language films
2010s Italian films


When a loved one dies, there are many tasks to be performed in the settlement of their estate. Assets need to be identified, gathered, valued and protected. Bills need to be paid and your family members need to keep functioning. Tax considerations are critical, and important decisions need to be made within a very short period of time. We are here to help smooth out the process and provide guidance at what is an emotional and difficult time for most.


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El Refugio de Potosi is custodian to the only sperm whale skeleton on display in Mexico. At 18 meters, it seems to be the largest on exhibit in the world.
Much to the dismay of the residents of Playa Blanca, the decomposing whale drifted on to the rocks in front of Guamilule in August 2009. By great fortune, PROFEPA granted us permission to collect what we wanted. (In Mexico, all whales are protected live or dead.) Over a period of 6 weeks, we collected the bones, at times tying ourselves to trees and fence posts (since yes, the waves did crash over us). We used the usual-chain saws, machetes, ropes and brute force to free the bones from the carcass and the sea. Often the impact of the waves aided us in our efforts by pushing the bones out and onto the rocks. We carried the bones over the rocks, through the mud (it was the rainy season) and toted them back to El Refugio. (No, they did not smell good. Yes, they were very heavy. Yes, usually it was very hot.) Applause to us, we collected 90% of the skeleton. On the days we could not collect bones, we busied ourselves scraping off the remaining flesh and debris (another charming task). Finally, we set the bones in the sun to drain; sperm whale bones are full of oil) are full of oil. In time, the sun did its work; too much in fact. Lee Post arrived from Alaska to guide us further; did you know there was a book with directions of how to assemble a sperm whale skeleton, "The Sperm Whale Engineering Manual"? Thank you Lee!
The mighty force of the sea left some of the bones mangled and marred. We repaired damaged bones and fabricated missing bones using our unique innovation of surf board blanks (carved and sanded to the correct shape and size) with a covering of polyester resin.
Moving the bones from one place to another became a repeated ritual until we eventually settled on the perfect spot.
Protection from blasts of both tropical sun and tropical rain became the next imperative. Who wants to work on a whale skeleton beneath this sun? With creative ideas from Zihuatanejo Architect Jorge Espinosa, a roof was added. Happy days for the whale, the visitors and the workers! What a difference a roof makes! Jorge, we bow to you. Great ideas!
And now…work continues on repairing the skull. We eagerly await October for the arrival of David Evans and family to guide us through the final assembly and balancing act of the remaining bones. Our goal is to complete this by December 2015. Let's see.
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Generally only visit the surface to breathe. It is the mammal that dives deep - has been documented to reach 1.130 meters deep, although it is believed they can reach 3.000 meters and stay underwater for up to two hours.
Sperm whales feed almost exclusively on fish and squid from the depths, but their diet can include anything from sea sponges to sharks up to 4 feet long.


I used a set of instructions to create a bootable USB drive for ChromeOS. I want to install ChromeOS in VirtualBox. This is apparently impossible to do from a USB drive. I tried mounting the 9GB .img file as a floppy controller, but it errors out.
I'm making an attempt with ddrescue, but I don't imagine that'll work.
How can I make a bootable ISO to accomplish this task, or what other solution can you recommend to reach the end goal by any means?
Writing a bootable ISO image to USB and having it boot only works if the ISO image is specially prepared to be bootable in such a situation, using isohybrid or similar tool. That tool embeds another bootloader in the very beginning of the ISO image that is only used when the ISO image is written to USB.
The opposite, turning a bootable USB image to a bootable ISO would normally require installing a different, ISO9660-compatible bootloader.
However, you could fairly simply copy your .img into .vdi.
From your second link, I found this procedure.
1.) First, create a .vdi file of the necessary size. The contents are unimportant, as they will be overwritten in the next step.
This will automatically copy the partition table and all the partitions within the .img file to the .vdi file.
Now you'll have a .vdi file you can use in lieu of an USB stick in the VirtualBox world. Configure it as an extra virtual disk for the new VM and boot from it.
Disclaimer: I don't have ChromeOS so I cannot test this procedure, but it should work in theory.
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Installing Android-x86 on a USB (not creating a Live USB)?
Is there any way to boot from iso while running system from live disk?
How can I edit a file inside a bootable ISO and make it bootable (USB) again?


I think that's a question mark in the folder. It means that your computer can't find a system folder. This is either a corrupted system or a failed hard drive. Try starting up from the installation DVD by holding down the "C" key and booting with the disk installed. Go to the second screen and the pull down menu will appear. Go to Utilities - Disk utility and see if your hard drive comes up. If so repair it. If not let me know and we'll go through hard drive replacement.
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1. The Silent Epidemic
A factual science based review and evaluation of vaccines and their impact on our health. Experts detail how fraught the widespread use of vaccines is for our current and future generations. Director: Gary Null. Stars: Dr. Nancy Banks, Dr. Toni Bark. (2013) IMDB reviews here.
2. Trace Amounts
During the past 20 years, the frequency of autism occurring in children has skyrocketed from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 68, and the scientific community is no closer to determining a cause. Trace Amounts is the true story of Eric Gladen's painful journey through mercury poisoning that he believes resulted from a thimerosal-loaded tetanus shot. His discoveries led him on a quest for the scientific truth about the role of mercury poisoning in the Autism epidemic. After recovering from a sickness that would bring him to the edge of despair, Eric Gladen began researching the science behind what had made him so sick. His research led him straight into one of the biggest medical debates of all time, the question of whether or not childhood vaccines are causing Autism. He would end up quitting his career, moving into an RV, and traveling the country interviewing experts and piecing together thousands of studies and leaked documents. But Eric wasn't focused on the vaccines themselves, he was focused on something that belongs nowhere near vaccines — mercury. (2014) IMDB reviews here. You can rent this documentary from the official website.
3. The Greater Good
The film looks behind the fear, hype and politics that polarize people into emotionally charged pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine camps with no room for middle ground. Stories of individuals and their families, whose lives have been forever changed by vaccine choices, interwoven with interviews from leading experts in the field, will re-frame the vaccine debate and offer, for the first time, the opportunity to have a rational, scientific and factual discussion on how to create a more effective vaccine program in America today. (2011) IMDB reviews here.
4. Vaxxed: From Coverup To Catastrophe
A documentary showing evidence and video clips by William Thompson, "The CDC Whistleblower," that the CDC (the government agency charged with protecting the health of American citizens), destroyed data on their 2004 study that showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. (2016) IMDB reviews here (it's been hit by trolls, read the reviews, not the ratings).
More information and video clips on the CDC Whistleblower here.
5. Man Made Epidemic
A worldwide journey to visit leading doctors, scientists, and families to find out the truth about the autism epidemic and whether or not vaccines have a role to play. (2016) IMDB here.
6. Bought
Modern industrialization is no longer about steam power, ocean ships, and railways. It's about herd immunization, the mass drugging of our population, and the industrialized production of cheap, storable food. We've ended up with an entire society getting sicker and sicker while the industrial powers get richer and richer. What were once considered farfetched conspiracy theories are now being shown to be stark irrefutable realities. Serious illnesses have been on a steep incline since the number of mandated vaccines has skyrocketed (starting with infants within their first hours of life) coupled with the advent of GMO foods since the mid 1990's. But if anyone dares question these remarkable correlations then they are labeled anti-science and ignorant. We used to brag that we had the most remarkable healthcare system in the world, the last example of a great private healthcare system. Now we are waking up to the fact that we don't have a private system, we have a pharmaceuticalized system and it has created the sickest species ever to inhabit this earth…our children. Your food, your health, your family's health has been Bought. (2015) IMDB reviews here.
7. Deadly Immunity
Written by Robert F. Kennedy, and turned into a video. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal at the Simpsonwood Meetings. (2013)
8. Vaccine Nation
This Gary Null, Ph.D. documentary challenges the assumption that vaccines are PERFECTLY safe. The use of heavy metals such as mercury, connections to autism and the high number of vaccines given at a very young age to children are among the arguments presented. The story chronicles the nightmare of parents who lost a child soon after a vaccination series and the father was sent to prison for murdering his child but was later released. Government cover-ups and deceptions with corruption in the scientific community are illustrated by those featured in Vaccine Nation. A list of participants in the film can be found at vaccinenation.net. (2008) IMDB reviews here.
9. Silence on Vaccines: Shots In The Dark
Review: This Canadian movie is also titled "Shots In The Dark". A wonderful collection of the scientific research on vaccines. Over a dozen specialist in medicine and microbiology from all over the world explain their findings clearly and concisely, while teachers and pediatricians also give their take on the subject, based on their personal observations. Most other documentaries are based on the premise that there has NOT been any research done on the effects vaccines have on the long term. Shots in the Dark (or "silence on vaccines") shows that this is not the case. Many,scientist around the world are working to find out why many different health problems have become so common (developmental disorders, MS, diabetes in children, asthma etc.etc.) and finding an obvious link to various types of vaccination. Not a romantic, tear-jerking kind of movie, but a straight up documentary. (2009) IMDB reviews here.
10. Vaccination The Hidden Truth
Interviews with doctors and scientists, including Dr. Viera Scheibner, reveal what is really going on in relation to illness and vaccines. Ironically, the important facts come from the orthodox medicine's own peer-reviewed research. With so much government and medical promotion of vaccination for prevention of disease, the video is clearly devoted to presenting the other side of the issue that parents and others are not being told. The result is a damning account of the ineffectiveness of vaccines and their often harmful effects. It declares that parents are not being told the truth by the media, the Health Department and the medical establishment, with a medical doctor, Dr. Mark Donohoe, confessing that "It is a problem for me that I am part of a profession that is systematically lying to people…" (2011)
11. The Truth About Vaccines
Compilation of videos from other documentaries. No synopsis. (2011) IMDB reviews here, no reviews.
12. Lethal Injection
Episode series. Part 1: The definitive look into the history of vaccination. From cancer, to autism, to the purposeful sterilization of innocent people around the globe, find out why all of these things are perfectly legal according to U.S. CODE – why the government considers you no different than cattle in their own law. (2011)
13. Autism – Made in the USA
(2009) IMDB reviews here.
14. Beyond Treason (Military)
This extremely powerful 89 minute film presents comprehensive documentation from United States Government archives of a massive cover-up, including military and civilian experimentation, dating back over 60 years. As ailing Gulf War Heroes from all 27 coalition countries slowly die of "unknown causes," they wait for answers from their respective governments, but no satisfying or even credible answers have come forth from the military establishment. Records that span over a decade point to negligence and even culpability on the part of the U.S. Department of Defense and their "disposable army" mentality. From the first Gulf War the VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 troops are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a "mystery disease." How many more will have to die before action is taken? (2005) IMDB reviews here.
15. We Don't Vaccinate: The Myth and Reality of the Vaccination Campaign
A comprehensive protection from dangerous diseases? Vaccinations are
classed as the best protection that modern medicine has to offer. But there
is increasing proof and indications that show that the dangers from which
the vaccinations are supposed to protect us from, are totally disproportionate
to the vaccines side effects. (36 minute clip)
16. Autism Yesterday
A 27 minute documentary about vaccine-induced autism and recovery.
17. "De Vaccinerede Piger"
This Danish Documentary on the HPV Vaccine has English subtitles. (2010)
18. 50 Cents A Dose
A father revisits the autism study that his daughter participated in: the study on thimerisol. During this process, a story breaks about the CDC Whistleblower. (2015)
19. DTP Russian Roulette (1982)

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2017 Gift of Life dinner & auction raises more than ever before!
Community, Event, Uncategorized - Event, fundraising event, gift of life - December 21, 2017
A big thank you to the 240 guests who attended our annual Gift of Life dinner and auction in September. We raised a record $237,000—the most dollars ever raised—at this year's event!
Guests at the event take a look at the Puppy Package during the silent auction.
"It was truly a great evening. It really is special to see so many people turn out to support the work we do at Puget Sound Kidney Centers," says Harold Kelly, president and CEO of PSKC. "Those of us at PSKC feel very fortunate to be part of such a caring community of friends and colleagues who share in our mission to enhance the lives of people with kidney disease."
The 'wine grab,' always a favorite!
This year's event also had a record number of sponsors and auction donors, and because of their support we were able to raise additional funds to support patients.
See more photos from this year's Gift of Life dinner & auction below. We're already looking forward to next year's event and we hope you are too!
Guests Denise and Pete Sontra.
Karen and Chris Schmitt.
Auctioneer Nelson Jay.
Guest Jenni Tyner and friends.
We couldn't do what we do without the support of the amazing community around us. Learn more about what we do for kidney patients and those at risk for kidney disease in our community.


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Danny Willett defends brother's comments on American Ryder Cup fans
• 'Unfortunately some American fans showed that [he] was in fact correct'
• Willett failed to win a single point in Europe's defeat at Hazeltine
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Danny Willett lost his singles match 5&4 against Brooks Koepka on Sunday. Photograph: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images
Danny Willett has said his brother Peter's pre-Ryder Cup criticism of American supporters was backed up by the behaviour of some supporters at Hazeltine.
The Masters champion endured a difficult weekend as Europe crashed to a 17-11 defeat, losing his singles match 5&4 against Brooks Koepka on Sunday. That came after his brother had provoked a strong reaction from the home team when he wrote an article for a US golf magazine which referred to American fans as "cretins" and "fat, stupid, greedy, classless, bastards".
Ryder Cup celebrates the true spirit of sport
"Tried my best but played poorly," he wrote on Twitter. "Unfortunately some American fans showed that @P_J_Willett was in fact correct. Nothing to blame my bad play on.. But still shows that sometimes fans don't know when to call it a day.. Shame really!!"
Danny Willett (@Danny_Willett)
Very strange week here at the Ryder cup.. Tried my best but played poorly.. Unfortunately some american fans showed that @P_J_Willett was..
The 29-year-old from Sheffield had apologised for his brother's comments earlier in the week, saying that he was "disappointed" Peter had written the article.
Willett, who was making his Ryder Cup debut after winning at Augusta in April, came away without a single point from his three matches as Europe were beaten for the first time since 2008. Afterwards, he was asked to assess his performance and gave an honest summation.
.. In fact correct.. Nothing to blame my bad play on.. But still shows that sometimes fans don't know when to call it a day.. Shame really!!
"Shit," he said. "Sorry, would you like me to elaborate? Really shit."


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Annals of the Congress of the United States, Parte2
Por United States. Congress
Relations with Spain.
are yet entertained by the United States, on this it be confined distinctly to the subject of each matter,
one of my notes, according to their respective This point, then, being, separated from those order, or to propose a mode embracing all the connected with the question of claims for inju- points comphehended in them, by which we may ries, losses, and damages, because that is already have them collectively settled in the negotiation settled between France and the United States, or which is to be entered upon for the exchange or is to be settled with France directly, if anything cession of the Floridas, In this proceeding you still remains to be performed, we can agree upon will perceive, sir, a certain proof of the frankness a just and suitable mode of determining a recip. and good faith of the Spanish Government, and rocal satisfaction for the injuries, losses, and dam- of the sincere and friendly sentiments entertained ages, before spoken of, and included in the three by the King, my master, for the United States. points of the first class as enumerated in this note, I conclude with the renewed assurances of in order that we may proceed more clearly and my respects, and I pray God to preserve you methodically. These three points, as I have be- many years. fore said, will be submitted to the judgment and
LUIS DE ONIS. decision of the joint commission, in virtue of the convention to be formed on the basis of that of 1802, simplifying and rectifying it in such man
The same to the same. ner as will insure its most expeditious and faith
WASHINGTON, January 8, 1818. ful execution.
Sir: In the National Intelligencer of the 6th In this note, and the two others which I have of this month, I have seen published the official already had ihe honor to address to you, are notice of the occupation of Amelia Island by the contained all the points in dispute between the troops of the United States. I had already antiGovernment of His Catholic Majesty and that cipated this unpleasant event, by the note which of the United States; and, to avoid confounding I had the honor to address you on the 6th of last them with each other, I have treated them in month, in which I remonstrated, in the name of their regular order, with precision, simplicity, His Catholic Majesty, against the measures anand clearness. You can examine each of them, nounced in that part of ihe President's Message sir, with the impartiality and rectitude which to both Houses of Congress which manifested an distinguish your characier; and I Batter my. intention to invade and forcibly seize on places self ibat all the motives and grounds of the con- and territories belonging to the Crown of Spain. troversy will be completely removed by your Having received no answer to that note, I now discernment and wisdom, as you will not fail to feel myself obliged to repeat its contents to you, acknowledge the irresistible force of what has and to protest, as I now do strongly protest, in been, and is now, demonstrated on the part of the name of the King, my master, agaiost the the Government of Spain.
occupation of Amelia Island, effected by the naWhen the different points treated of in each of val and military forces of this Republic, destised these notes with the necessary discrimination are to operate against that island, forming a part of considered, and a decision formed on each of them, Easi Florida, one of the possessions of the Spanit is requisite that we should definitively selile ish monarchy on this continent. and terminate the controversy, without leaving Whatever may have been the motives on any room for dispute in future.
which the Government of the United States This general and definitive arrangement of all bave founded their adoption of this measure, it the points in dispute must, by its nature and cannot but be considered by all nations as a viocircumstances, precede the negotiation for the lent iovasion of the dominions of Spain at the exchange or cession of the Floridas, since, until time of a profound peace, when His Catholic it be determined and settled what are the territo- Majesty omils nothing to give the most generous ries on the frontier which belong to Spain, and proofs of his perfect friendship and high considwhat are those which belong to the United Siates, eration for the United States. it is impossible to estimate the equivalent to be I therefore trust that, upon your communicagiven to Spain for the two Floridas. Neverthe ting this solemn reclamation and protest to the less, as it is the earnest desire of His Catholic President, he will be pleased to direct that suitMajesty to meet the wishes of the United States able orders be given to the American commandin everything that may be compatible with the ers at Amelia Island, and on that station, forthrights and honor of his Royal Crown, you may, with to restore the said island, together with all sir, devise and propose a mode by which we may its dependencies, to His Catholic Majesty, and to at one and the same time adjust all the points of deliver up the same to the Spanish commandant, the controversy, and stipulate the exchange or and officers presenting themselves for that purcession of the Floridas, in case your Govern pose, in the name of their Sovereign. ment should not agree to our previously settling It is also my duty to represent to you, sir, that, the poidis connected with the question of boun- at the time of the invasion and occupation of daries, and establishing a convention, in confor- that island by the American troops, there was, mity to the basis of that of 1802, for the mutual and I believe still is, a considerable property becompensation of losses and injuries, according to longing to Spanish subjects, which, in all cases, the order I have adopted in my pole.
it is required by strict justice should' be delivered I expect, therefore, your answer, sir, whether to the owners, which, 'I doubt not, has already Relations with Spain. been, or will be done, in a due and proper man- 1. Spain to cede all her claims to territory ner, care being taken in the mean time ibat it be eastward of the Mississippi. not removed or suffer injury.
2. The Colorado, from its mouth to its source, I await your reply to this reelamation and and from thence to the northern limits of Louisprotest, that I may be enabled to give seasonable iana, to be the western boundary ; or, to lcave intelligence and instructions to the Governor of that boundary unsettled for future arrangement. St. Augustine, and to the Captain General of the 3. The claims of indemnities for spoliations, Island of Cuba, provided the President, as I flat- whether Spanish, or French within Spanish ter myself, will resolve on the prompt restitution jurisdiction, and for the suppression of the deposand delivery of Amelia and iis dependencies to ite at New Orleans, to be arbitrated and settled His Catholic Majesty's Government.
by commissioners, in the manner agreed upon I cannot by any means doubt that this will be in the unratified convention of 1802. effected, confiding, as I do, in the high rectitude 4. The lands in East Florida, and in West of the President, and in the inviolable principles Florida, to the Perdido, to be made answerable of public faith, on which the security of nations for the amount of the indemnities which may be reposes.
awarded by the Commissioners under this arbiI have the honor to renew the assurances of tration ; with an option to the United States to my respects, and pray God to preserve you many take lands and pay the debts, or to sell the lands years.
LUIS DE ONIS. for the payment of the debts, distributing the
amount received equally, according to the amount
of their respective liquidated claims, among the The Secretary of State to Don Luis De Onis.
claimants. No grants of land subsequent to the WASHINGTON, January 16, 1818. 11th of August, 1802, to be valid. Sir: Your letters of 29th December, and of 5. Spain to be exonerated from the payment 5th and 8th of the present month, have been re- of the debts, or any part of them. ceived, and laid before the President of the United These proposals do not materially differ from States.
those made to Don Pedro Cevallos on the 12th of He has seen, not without surprise and regret, May, 1805. The President has seen nothing in any that they consist almost entirely of renewed dis- eveots which bave siace occurred, nor in the con. cussions upon the several points of difference tents of your notes, which can afford a reason or which have so long subsisted between the United a motive for departing from them. Of the moStates and Spain-discussions which had been tives for coming to an immediate arrangement, the exhausted in the correspondence between the urgency cannot escape your attention. The events Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at which have recently occurred in a part of the Madrid and your Government in the years 1802 territory which you have informed me the King and 1803, and more especially in that between of Spain is willing lo cede to the United States, Don Pedro Cevallos and the special extraor- those which are notoriously impending over the dinary mission of the United States to your remaining part of that territory yet in the possesCouri in 1805—a mission iostituted by the sion of Spain, make it indispensably necessary Amercan Government, under the influence of that the ultimate determination of your Governthe most earnest desire to terminate amicably, meat in this negotiation should be acted on withand to the satisfaction of both the parties, all out delay. The explanations requested by your tbose differences, but which, after five months of notes of the 6th December and 8th January, of negotiation at Aranjuez, issued in the refusal of the motives of this Goveroment in the occupation Spain to give satisfaction to the United States of Amelia Island, have been given in the Message upon any one of the causes of complaint which of the President to Congress of the 13th instant, were to be adjusted, or even to settle the ques- and cannot fail of being satisfactory to your Gov. tion of boundaries existing between the United ernment. You see it there distinctly and expliStates and the Spanish provinces bordering upon citly declared that the measures which this Gove them. The President considers that it would be ernment found itself under the necessity of adoptan unprofitable waste of time to enter again ating in relation to that island were taken not with large upon topics of controversy which were at a view to conquest from Spain. You well know that time so thoroughly debated, and upon which that, if Spain could have kept, or recovered the he perceives nothing in your notes which was possession of it from the trifling force by which not then substantially urged by Don Pedro Ce-it was occupied, the American Government vallos, and to which every reply essential to elu- would have been spared the necessity of the cidate the righis, and establish the pretensions measure which was taken, and which was dicon the part of the United States, was ihen given. lated by the duty of protecting the interests as For proof of which, I beg leave merely to refer well of this country as of those with whom we you to the letters of Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinck- are in friendly commercial relations, including ney 10 Mr. Cevallos, of 28th January, 26th Feb. Spain herself.' But Spain cannot expect that roary, 8th and 16th March, 9th and 20th April, the United States should employ their forces for and 12th May, 1805. I am instructed by the the defence of her territories, or to rescue them, President to propose to you an adjustment of all for her exclusive advantage, from the adventurers the differences between the two countries, by an who are projecting and in the act of executing arrangement on the following terms:
expeditions against them from territories without
the jurisdiction of the United States. Neither single fact, or a single argument, that can affect can ihe United States permit that the adjoining the certainty or decisive force of the facts, grounds, territories of Spain should be misused by others and reasons which support and determine the for purposes of annoyance to them.
aforesaid rights of the Crown of Spain. There Under these circumstances, the President is does not appear 10 be a siogle incident to give persuaded that you will perceive the necessity the smallest support to the pretensions of your either of accepting the proposals herein contained Government. All the vague positions on which as the basis of an adjustment of the long-standing it bas been attempted to found them have been differences between the United States and Spain, refuted and dissipated by the Spanish Goveroor of offering such as can, by any possibility, be ment, by a demonstration so luminous and conacceptable to this Government, without reverting vincing as to leave no alternative to reason to to a course of proceeding the only result of which resist it. must be further procrastination.
To lay all this aside, and merely to say "that I pray you, şir, to accept the assurance of my it is a matter already thoroughly, debated, on very distinguished consideration.
which nothing further essential can be urged, and JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. that the American Government insists on main
taining a contrary opinion," is to adopt an arbiThe Chevalier Don Luis de Onis to the Secretary of ported by any solid foundation, and being, as it
trary course, because, this opinion not being supState.
is, diametrically opposite to the unquestionable WASHINGTON, January 24, 1818. result of facts, and to the most incontestable prinSir: I have received your letter of the 16th of ciples and arguments
, does not, nor can it, give this month, by which I see, with great regret, to the United States any right to the pretensions that, in acknowledging the receipt of those I had they have formed. Neither can it be required the honor to address to you on the 29th of last that the Government of Spain should subscribe month, and the 5th and 8th of the present, you to this opinion, and renounce its rights to the teromit to answer them, and decline taking into ritory which the United States wish to possess in consideration the indisputable facts and grounds, the Spanish provinces bordering on those States, and the irresistible arguments advanced in them, since ihat opinion, as I have already said, is altoin relation to each of the points embraced by the gether groundless and arbitrary, and since, on dispute set on foot by the Government of the those rights, there peither does nor can there fall United States. You say it is useless again to any doubt. discuss the facts, reasons, and arguments pro- It is the sincere wish of His Catholic Majesty duced by the Spanish Government in the years that a just mode of amicably settling all pendiog 1802 and 1803, and in 1805, the American Pleni- differences may be adopted, and he has auihorized potentiaries, and the special extraordinary mission me for this purpose ; but neither the powers he conjointly with them, having then replied to the has conferred on me, nor my own sense of duty, different points of the notes of the Spanish Min- permit me to enter into an arrangement which istry in a manner capable of elucidaiing the re- is not based upon the principles of common jusspective rights of each of the two Powers, and tice, combined in good faith with the suitable establishing the pretensions of the Government considerations of reciprocal utility or conveniof the United States ; for proof of which you re- ence. Being anxiously desirous of carrying the fer me to the letters of Messrs. Monroe and Pinck-wishes and frank dispositions of my Sovereign ney to His Catholic Majesty's Minister, Don into execution, I suggested to you, in our last ver. Pedro Cevallos, of the 28th of January, 26th of bal conference, the expediency of your making to February, 8th and 16th of March, 91h and 20th me such proposals as you might think fit to reconof April, and 12th of May, 1805.
cile the righis and interests of both Powers, by a I think it proper to observe, in the first place, definitive arrangement of the differences pending that although the facts, grounds, and arguments between them. Since you communicated the then produced by the Spanish Government do present state of things to the President, you have not differ essentially from those stated in any proposed to me in your note a plan of arrange. notes, their irresistible and conclusive force is ment or adjustment embracing the question of neither altered nor in any manner impaired. boundaries, and that of indemnities, which is as Truth is of all times; and reason and justice are follows: founded on immutable principles. It is on these To settle the former, you propose " that Spain principles that the righis of the Crown of Spain shall cede all her claims to territory eastward of are founded to the territories eastward and west- the Mississippi, (that is to say, the two Floriward of Louisiana, claimed by your Government das ;) and that the Colorado, from its mouth to as making part of that province-rights of im- its source, and from thence to the northern limits memorial property and possession, never disputed, of Louisiana, shall be the western boundary of but always notorious, and acknowledged by other that province." nations.
I have expressed in one proposal what you have In the second place, I must remark to you that, stated in two, as both are reduced to the cession throughout the whole correspondence on this sub- of territory by Spain. It is not only proposed ject belween the Ministry of the United States that Spain sball cede both Floridas to the United and that of His Catholic Majesty, there is not a States, but that she shall likewise cede to them Relations with Spain.
the vast extent of Spanish territory comprehendo fered by American citizens, and omit that which ed within the line following the whole course of is equally due to Spaniards for spoliations comthe Colorado. I presume that it is the river Cole mitted on them by the citizens and authorities of orado of Natchitoches you speak of, and not of this Republic, in violation of the law of nations another bearing the same name, and which is and the existing treaty. I also observe that you still fartber within the limits of the Spanish not only omit this indispensable basis of reciproprovinces. I leave it to you, sir, to examine the city and common justice, but propose the immeimport of these two proposals, and to see whether diate cession of both the Floridas, which two they are compatible with the principles of jus- Spanish provinces are to be retained by the Unitice, or with those of reciprocal utility or conve- ted States as an indemnity or payment of what nieoce. It is demanded of Spain to cede prov- may appear to be due by Spain to American cito inces and territories of the highest importance, izens, according to the arbitration of the joint not only to the eastward, but to the westward commission. of Louisiana, and that without proposing any You cannot fail to admit, sir, that this proposal, equivalent or compensation.
independent of its injustice, is offensive to the To settle the question of indempities, you make dignity aod honor of His Catholic Majesty. It the following proposals:
is unjust, because it demands an indemnity or 1. That indemnity for spoliations on American anticipated payment of claims yet to be proved citizens, committed by Spaniards or French with and liquidated, while, at the same time, it proin the jurisdiction of Spain, as well as for inju- vides for no correspondent indemnity or payment ries sustained by American citizens by the inter- of what may be due by the United States to ruption of the deposite at New Orleans, shall be Spanish subjects. It is offensive to the dignity seitled by a joint commission, as agreed upon in and honor of Spain, because, by the very fact of the convention of 1802.
demanding this anticipation, a want of confidence 2. The lands in East Florida, and in West in the integrity and punctuality in His Catholic Florida to the Perdido, to be made answerable to Majesty's Government is manifested, whereas a the United States for the amount of the indem- single instance does not exist of Spain having nities which may appear to be due by Spain to failed in fulfilling her engagements; the most American citizens on the settlement to be made scrupulous exactness, good faith, and strict obserby commissioners appointed according to the con- vance of the point of honor, having at all times vention of 1802; it being at the option of the invariably formed the distinguishing traits of her United States to take the lands and pay the character. It therefore becomes unnecessary to amount of the indemnities according to the award point out to you the enormous disproportion beon the claims, or to sell the lands, and effect the iween the value of the two Floridas, and that of payment with the proceeds of the sales. To this the probable amount of the claims of American proposal you add, that all grants of land subse citizens on the Government of Spain, after they quent to the 11th of August, 1802, are to be null are ascertained and liquidated. This disproporand void.
tion will be still more enormous when you con3. That Spain shall be exonerated from the sider that, in the first of the three proposals, to payment of the debts, or any part of them. which I am now replying, is included the indem
Before I reply to these three proposals, I must pity for spoliations on citizens of this Republic repeat the uniform declaration of the Spanish by French cruisers and consuls on the coasts and Government to the United States, that His Cath in the ports of Spain, and by the tribunals of cas. olic Majesty is, and always has been, ready to sation in France, confirming the condemnation of setile the question of indemnities, with a view to American prizes. the full satisfaction of the just claims of the par- It has been proved to mathematical demonstraties interested ; and that His Majesty has always tion that Spain neither is nor can be responsible manifested the same sincere desire to settle defia- in any way for this indemnity. It is France itively the question of boundaries to the satisfac- which must be responsible, if she has not already tion of both Powers; and that, if neither of these satisfied the clain, as her Government assures objects has been accomplished, it has not de- she has done. pended upon the Government of Spain. The Nor can I omit to declare to you, sir, that the contrary is evideat, beyond the possibility of de- pretension of annulling the grants of lands in Flopial, from the official correspondence between rida since August, 1802, would be in opposition to His Catholic Majesty's Minister of State, and all the principles of justice. These grants are the Plenipotentiaries of the American Govern- made in a lawful manner, and by a lawful authorment, who suspended and broke off the negotia- ity. Spain was the owner and peaceful possessor tion at Aranjuez, after having obstinately refused of those lands. She had then an indisputable right to accept the modifications founded on strict jus- to make the grants you allude to, as she now has tice which were proposed by the Spanish Gov- to the property of the territory afterwards forcibly ernment.
taken possession of by the United States, since a I now proceed to state the most obvious and violeni dispossession never deprives an individ essential difficulties which render your three pro- ual or nation of their lawful rights. I proceed posals for the settlement of indemnities inadmis. to your last proposal, which is, that on the adsible. I observe that, in speaking of them, you mission of those preceding, Spain shall be exonly mention the indemnity for spoliations suf- operated from all obligation to pay the debts or Relations with Spain.
claims which may be due to American citizens all I wish to ask, and give up all you may justly on their settlement and liquidation by the joint claim or show is yours."! I am, however, percommission. I conceive this to be the import of fectly, persuaded that this neither is nor can be the expressions, stating that "Spain shall be exo your intention, or that of your Government; and operated from the payment of the debts, or any ihat, in making these proposals for an adjustment, part of them." This proposition is a corollary, your only object was to afford me an opportunity of the two preceding it, since, if Spain should io make such as you might consider just and cede the two Floridas to the United States as an admissible. indemnity or compensation for the losses and in- I shall, therefore, point out to you such as I conjuries done to the citizens of this Republic, she ceive to be founded in justice and reciprocal conwould necessarily be exonerated from this respon- venience, and therefore cannot fail to meet the sibility, the cession being, in such case, equiva- wishes of the United States. lent to a final discharge of the claims referred to. 1. "The dividing line between Louisiana and I go farther. Supposing your last two proposals the Spanish possessions to be established in one for the definitive adjustment of the question of of the branches of the Mississippi, either that of indemnities to be admitted and carried into effect, La Fourche, or of the Atchafalaya, following the the one preceding, namely, that which refers this course of that river to its source. Spain to cede business to the award of commissioners to be ap- the two Floridas to the United States in full and pointed by both Governments, agreeably to the complete sovereignty." convention of 1802, would be useless and contra- In case this proposal should not appear admisdictory. As none of the proposals offered by sible to your Government, the following may be you provide any indemnity for ihe losses and in- substituted: "The uti possidetis, or state of posjuries caused in Spaniards, nor even make any session in 1763, to form the basis, and the western mention of them; and as by the two last pro- line of division to be established from the sea, at posals, if admitted, the losses and injuries sus- a point between the rivers Carcasa and the Mertained by American citizens would be indemni- mento, or Mermentao, ruoning thence by Arroyo fied and compensated, according to the wishes of Hondo, till it crosses the Colorado of Natchitoyour Government, and Spain would consequently ches, between that post and Adaes, thence northbe exonerated from all responsibility on this head, ward to a point to be fixed and laid down by it is clear that the business would then be settled commissioners respectively appointed for the purand cancelled, and there would be no necessity pose.". for recurring io arbitration.
2. His Catholic Majesty to ratify the convenFinally, I cannot refrain from expressing my tion of 1802, and both Governmenis to abide by great concern at not being able in any degree to the decision of the joint commission on the quesreconcile the proposals you have made me by or- tion of indemnities, classing as such those which der of the President with the inviolable principles regard American citizens and the Crown and of common justice; and on perceiving thai on subjects of His Catholic Majesty, for spoliations the part of the United States no basis is present. reciprocally committed to the period of the said ed of a due reciprocity for the adjustment of the convention, and thereafter, to the date of ihe condifferences pending, the said proposals being alto- firmation of the adjustment by the joint commisgether inadmissible.
sion. Five or seven members to compose the I repeat to you, sir, that the King, my master, commission, with this condition, that if they are being desirous to meet the wishes of the United Ave, each Government shall respectively nomiStates, in respect to the cession of the Floridas, nale a person for the fifth member, to be chosen although it is well known how highly important by lot, provided they cannot agree on the person those iwo provinces are to cover and secure the to be so chosen; the same to take place for the possessions of Spain in that part of America, fifth, sixth, and seventh, if there be seven memHis Majesty is ready to cede them, provided he bers; but ihe fifth, in the first instance, and the is compensated by an equivalent in ierritory be- fifth, sixth, and seventh, in the second, shall neilonging to the United States, and bordering on ther be Spaniards nor citizens of the United the Spanish possessions; and it is upder this idea Slates by 'birth or naturalization. They shall that the powers and instructions I have from my moreover be, by their profession and office, judges, Government are conceived. But you cannot fail of the number of those subjects who, among mar. to admit that the plan of adjustment proposed itime and commercial nalions, are usually em: involves exorbitant and enormous sacrifices io the ployed to judge and decide on matters connected prejudice of Spain, since, without offering any with maritime law and the law of nations, wheequivalent or compensation on the part of the ther in France, England, Russia, Austria, or the United States, it requires not only the cession of Netherlands; in both cases, the person so desig. both the Floridas, but also that of immense ter- nated to be provided with a certificate of the ritories belonging to the Spanish monarchy west. Government of the country he belongs to, pror. ward of Louisiana ; and ihat, in relation to the ing the opinion entertained of his integrity and question of reciprocal indemnities, it only compre- capacity, his quality and actual profession as a hends those respecting American citizens, omit- judge in the malters referred to, and also the asling those due to the Crown and subjects of surance that permission shall be granted to him His Catholic Majesty. This plan of adjustment for discharging the duties of the commission, in would amount to the following one: "Give me case the said person shall be chosen by lot.


According to court records, it was determined that "sovereign immunity" bars Bearden's suit against KSU. Likewise, qualified official immunity bars Bearden's claims against the individual defendants employed by KSU.
She also failed to state a claim for defamation, for intentional infliction of emotional distress and for harassment and intimidation and hostile environment, according to the ruling.
On the same day that the case was dismissed, the KSU Board of Regents voted on a resolution that stated the lawsuit may be cause for Bearden's removal because it created an impermissible conflict of interest.
According to state law, once the Board of Regents notifies the Council on Postsecondary Education that a member should be removed, the member has seven days to resign or provide evidence to the council that his or her conduct does not warrant removal.
Within 30 days of receiving the notice, the Council of Postsecondary Education must review the written notice, investigate the member and make a recommendation to the governor of whether the member should be removed. If Gov. Matt Bevin decides to remove the member, he will notify the member, the board, the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Legislative Research Commission.
If Bevin decides to remove the member, he must do so by executive order and appoint a new member.
Bearden was first appointed to the Board of Regents in 2004 by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher. She was reappointed in 2013 by former Gov. Steve Beshear. She served as chair from 2012 to 2017, and her term ends in 2019.


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MEPs Approve Deal On Latin American Banana Imports
The 2009 Geneva agreement on European Union (EU) import tariffs for bananas from Latin American countries, which is designed to end the longest-running dispute in the history of international trade, has received the backing of the European Parliament (EP).
The EU is the world's largest banana market. More than 70% of bananas sold in the EU come from Latin America (mainly Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama), around 20% come from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states (chiefly Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Belize and Surinam) while the rest are grown in the EU itself (Cyprus, Greece, Madeira, Canary Islands and French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique).
Under the Geneva agreement, the EU has agreed to gradually end its preferential treatment of banana exporters in ACP countries in exchange for an agreement by Latin American countries to drop their complaints at the World Trade Organisation.
As for the main ACP banana-producing countries, in addition to regular EU aid, they are to receive extra help from the EU budget of up to EUR200m (USD272m) to compensate for the EU's improving trade relations with Latin America. The EU's gradual reduction in its import tariff on bananas from Latin America, from EUR176 per tonne at the outset to EUR114 in 2017 is expected to make Latin American bananas more competitive on the EU market.
MEPs have warned, however, that the deal that has been reached cannot reconcile the interests of all parties, including those of EU banana producers. They do not believe those special financial provisions give sufficient support to EU producers in the ACP countries, who could be significantly affected by the agreement.
They therefore called on the European Commission (EC) to increase support for EU and ACP banana growers and extend it to 2020, if necessary. They urged the relevant EU authorities to take other steps to ensure that domestic EU producers are able to stay in the market.
MEPs have also firmly rejected any attempt to finance this support by using money earmarked for development cooperation. They have therefore asked the EC to indicate clearly that it would be financed by fresh money from additional resources, and to present a new multiannual financing arrangement.
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De pinguïns van Madagascar (Engels: The Penguins of Madagascar) is een animatieserie die is gebaseerd op de pinguïns uit de film Madagascar.

De Amerikaanse première was in maart 2009. In Nederland wordt serie uitgezonden door Nickelodeon.

Plot
Het verhaal speelt zich af in Central Park Zoo en bevat verschillende personages uit de oorspronkelijke film. De hoofdpersonen uit de film komen echter in de serie niet voor, omdat die (zoals te zien in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa) nog in Afrika zitten.

De vier pinguïns Skipper, Kowalski, Junior en Rico beleven verschillende avonturen in Central Park Zoo en de stad New York samen met onder andere Koning Julien, Maurice en Mort. Ook komen de twee chimpansees Mason & Phil in de serie voor, terwijl ze in de film maar een kleine rol hadden. Er zijn ook nog andere dieren bijgekomen, o.a. Marlene de otter en Joey de kangoeroe. Verder is er ook nog een verzorgster: Alice.

Personages

Overige - Arjen Ederveen, Lizemijn Libgott, Laura Vlasblom, Just Meijer, Marloes van den Heuvel en Jan Nonhof

Afleveringen

Seizoen 1: 2008-2010

Seizoen 2: 2010-2012

Seizoen 3: 2012-Nu

Overige afleveringen

Externe links
  Website op Nick.com
  The Penguins of Madagascar in de Internet Movie Database

Madagascar
Programma van Nickelodeon
Televisieserie gebaseerd op een film
Amerikaanse animatieserie


I am a lover of all things Swedish. It isn't just simply owing to the fact that my boyfriend is a born-and-bred Svensk, but it's the entire package; it's the illusion of Swedish charm. You can (figuratively) wrap Sweden in a neat little box- like a perfect gift that is full of quirky yet breathtaking surprises. A gift of many layers that constantly makes your heart flutter with each little gem that you unveil- and let me assure you, it's a never ending cultural experience.
Not having personally set foot in the land of fika, ABBA, and renowned DJ's that are seemingly taking over the music world (Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Icona Pop etc.), many would wonder what I, a 21 year old non-European-travelled, introverted Australasian girl would know about these so called "gems" of Sverige. Well, as a self-confessed Eurovision fanatic and inexperienced tumblr-wanderluster, I can say that I know enough to fuel my indisputable desire and fervent yearn of this beautiful, nation-state.
To journey through Norrland and revel in the beauty of small cities and summer houses that I will hopefully, inevitably call my second home in the distant future.
But for now, I can only admire Sweden from afar and grasp as much of it through articles and images, tweets and a slow increase in Swedish connections on Facebook (courtesy of Mattias). I could also somehow figure out a way to hide in IKEA and live on Swedish meatballs and cinnamon buns whilst taking much needed naps on the gorgeous bedding designs. Though Australia doesn't have much to offer by the way of Swedish culture, there are some hidden treasures lurking amongst the MADE-IN-CHINA labels plastered and plaguing almost every store.
One of them is kikki.K.
The thing that I love about Swedish design is the modernistic simplicity that makes it undeniably unique and stylish, and kikki.K certainly epitomises the beauty of Swedish design. It's thanks to the entrepreneurial genius of one Kristina Karlsson who shared the beauty of Swedish stationery with those outside of Sweden that Swedish lovers such as myself, am able to spend my pay-check on gorgeous stationery that is both qualitatively functional and aesthetically pleasing.
I personally find that a lot of stationery that I purchase from Asian stores (e.g. Morning Glory) are often overly-flowery and of a below-average quality- though I suppose you kind of get what you pay for… except you should never buy pens from Morning Glory because they literally run out of ink after a day of usage. Though kikki.K's products aren't very accommodating to the wallet of full-time students, the quality is of such an impeccable standard and worth every dollar you spend. They're great gifts for anyone of any age- there's a plethoric range of diaries and notebooks that suit every need; yearly planners, baby planners, wedding guest books, memory and photo albums, organisational folders and pretty much anything you can think of to get your life in track and organised. Again, you will find the perfect gift from kikki.K, so if you're not buying something for yourself, definitely buy it for a loved one.
These are just some of the items that I've bought from kikki.K over the past year, as gifts and for personal use.
I've pretty much abused my 2013 diary. I've written on every page and stuck personal memos so that when I reflect back on my year, I can remember what I've done every day and what my favourite songs of the month were.
I am itching to start using my 2014 diary; especially since 2014 will be the year that I will step foot in Europe… and yes, come the European summer, I will be wandering the streets of Sweden wearing my wanderlust heart on my sleeve and documenting every bit of it with my trusty Canon 60D and my kikki.K diary. Then, when I get back from my year in Europe, I hope I can get a nice little job either in Ikea or kikki.K, just to fuel my Swedish desire.


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The shake-up at BP
BP has replaced its embattled CEO, Tony Hayward, with its first-ever American CEO, Mississippi-born Robert Dudley.
With its cap on the broken oil well hblic anger" over the spill and said the company needed a "new face" to move forward. The company also announced olding and cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico underway, BP this week replaced embattled CEO Tony Hayward with its first-ever American CEO, Robert Dudley. Hayward acknowledged that he had become "a lightning rod for puit's setting aside $32.2 billion for oil spill costs and will sell up to $30 billion worth of assets—triple what it had said in June was needed for the cleanup.
The oil slick on the surface of the Gulf is dissolving far more quickly than anyone expected, thanks to strong summer sunlight, natural oil-eating bacteria, and thousands of gallons of chemical dispersants. But nobody knows how much oil is dissolved in the waters of the Gulf, or how much damage it will cause.
Putting an American in charge of BP is a smart move, said Nile Gardiner in National Review Online. After all, the company, formerly British Petroleum, is now "a truly Anglo-American operation" that employs 29,000 people in the U.S. The British Hayward was a disaster during the crisis, "prone to gaffes and seemingly insensitive to the plight of the large number of U.S. victims." The Mississippi-born Dudley is a welcome change.
Gulf residents are skeptical, said the New Orleans Times-Picayune in an editorial. Dumping Hayward will prove to be another cynical PR move unless BP delivers—now—on its promises of compensation to the Gulf region. We won't miss Hayward's "self-absorbed whining." But "plugging the gaffes is a small matter; making things right is a much more critical mission."
BP is still stonewalling, said Robert B. Gagosian and Christopher F. D'Elia in The Washington Post. A $500 million research initiative it promised has been shelved. Instead, it is hiring scientists to argue its case in the federal damage assessment process. As a result, crucial data "will be tied up in the courts," unavailable to researchers. It's "a terrible loss of scientific opportunity and information critical to planning better responses to future spills."


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There is no time difference between Asaba and Abuja.
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Vox Populi: If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? In the film industry, yes.
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