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Subject: Ask Longaotian00
Written By: Longaotian00 on 08/19/17 at 7:27 am
Feel free to ask me any questions lol. :)
Subject: Re: Ask Longaotian00
Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/19/17 at 8:21 am
What sports do you like? :)
I like Basketball, Tennis, Sailing, Skiing, Hockey, Baseball, Bowling, Archery, Rugby :)
Interesting! Do you follow rugby league or rugby union?
Rugby union for the most part :)
Ah ok.
What are your favourite bands/artists?
Written By: aja675 on 08/19/17 at 10:01 am
How are you still up this late?
Written By: Longaotian00 on 08/19/17 at 10:11 am
Idk. ;D Rip my Sunday though :\'(
Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/19/17 at 10:35 am
I'm going to ask the exact same question as aja675. :P It would be 3:35am in NZ at the moment!
Written By: Howard on 08/19/17 at 1:01 pm
What video games do you play?
Written By: nally on 08/19/17 at 3:41 pm
What part of the world do you live in?
Written By: TheReignMan99 on 08/19/17 at 3:43 pm
He's from New Zealand.
1. What do you dislike about New Zealand?
2. Do you live in or near Auckland?
3. What is your opinion of the United States of America?
4. Do you feel like you're apart of Gen Y (aka the Millennial generation) or Gen Z? Both?
thanks, I guess I missed that.
LOL, you're welcome.
Written By: Longaotian00 on 08/19/17 at 4:31 pm
1. There's not too much dislike, with that said though I really don't like how far away and isolated New Zealand is, it usually means that it is takes really really long to get anywhere else in the world and is also quite expensive to get to, except Australia for obvious reasons.
2. Yup, I live in the suburbs of Auckland
3. Hmm, my opinion on the U.S. is I guess similar to a lot of New Zealanders, generally I think it looks like quite an interesting place that I really want to visit as the country is so vast with so many different people, landscapes etc and that I think some aspects of America are quite similar to NZ, but some things are very different. However, I get the impression that the country can be quite divided, with race/religions/politics etc, which was made especially obvious through last years election which got a lot of coverage here, but I think this is strange as I view Americans as being very friendly people. :)
Also, the scenery looks great :).
4. Good question. For now I view myself as being the very end of Gen Y/ Gen Y/Z cusp. As long as these stereotypes of Gen Z growing up in a world with constant social media, with iPhones/IPads etc continued, I just can't view myself as being a part of that because well over half of my life so far has been spent without those things being commonplace and growing up I never used those things, given that they didn't exist for most of my childhood, however this is a result of my personal experiences and other people born around the same time as me (2000) May feel different.
Yeah, that definitely sucks for you guys.
Cool. Do you like it there?
Yes, many areas of the US are beautiful. Also, don't worry about the fringe racists, most Americans don't support racism but were duped by a billionaire mad man because many of them no longer had hope in their economic situation improving because of the many jobs that have been lost in the past few decades.
As a 1999 born, I am in total agreement with you. I feel the same way.
Written By: aja675 on 08/19/17 at 9:40 pm
Admittedly, I myself was still awake when it was 5 AM here and 9 AM in New Zealand.
Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/19/17 at 10:34 pm
Written By: mxcrashxm on 08/19/17 at 11:57 pm
Is there a special thing behind your username?
I actually don't have any favourite bands/artists tbh :).
Yeah, it was a name I was given haha :P
Umm I used to play simcity when I was younger but the newest one wasn't too good so I play Cities:Skylines, GTA (V & SA are my favourite games), Kerbal Space Program, Rainbow Six Siege.
Probably the video game I played the longest was The Sims and Need for Speed lol I used to play that all the time when I was a kid :)
Have you ever played SimCity 4? It's one of my favourite video games. :)
Yup that was my favourite simcity game, simcity 5 wasn't as good. :)
Written By: TheReignMan99 on 08/20/17 at 2:16 am
Which ones?
Umm the ones I played the most were Need for Speed :Underground 2, Most wanted and Carbon. :)
Awesome...me too 8).
I also played Hot Pursuit 2, the original Underground and Pro Street growing up. Fun times!
Written By: Howard on 08/20/17 at 7:40 am
How do you pronounce your name?
Written By: temaichi on 08/21/17 at 2:36 am
1. Are you proud of being born in the millenium year like me? ::)
2. How did you discover inthe00s.com?
3. Which year was your best & worst?
4. Are you into social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat?
5. What makes you different then any teenagers in our age?
Have a nice day, brother! ;) ;D
Written By: aja675 on 08/21/17 at 2:39 am
So your username is your based on your real name?
1. Yup, I like being born in 2000, I got to live in 2 centuries and 2 millenniums before my 1st birthday lol. :P
2. I actually can't remeber lol, I think I saw someone over on Personality Cafe mentioned that, and I discovered that becasue I was interested in what generation I was in :)
3. Hmm I don't really have a worst or best year really, as I enjoy every year in my personal life :). However, if I had to pick a worst it would probably be 2013, personal events in that year were pretty sad and it has made me hard to look back on the year positively, 2009 would be close to that though.
For my favourite year however, in my personal life I'm gonna say 2007, it was the peak of my childhood, it was great I miss being at primary school, living at my old house and playing with my friends all the time in my neighbourhood, also the music that year was great :).
4.I have Facebook, Instagram and snapchat. I used to have Twitter but I found it pretty boring and useles. I like Instagram and snapchat is fun lol, I use Facebook but not as much as the other two.8)
5.Hmm good question, although I don't really know what makes me different from other teenagers my age, do you have any examples of what you were looking for.?:)
No, my username is not based off or is my real name lol 8)
What are your favourite TV shows? :)
I think that may have been me, because I have mentioned inthe00s in a few of my posts on Personality Cafe. :-X
I don't think I have any favorite TV shows, but I'm currently watching Orange is the New Black on Netflix and it seems pretty good. I like watching modern family too.
The TV show I watched the longest though was Criminal Minds which i started watching when I was 5 lol, my mum wasnt happy. ;D
Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/28/17 at 4:35 pm
Have you traveled to the South Island of New Zealand before?
Yup! I've been down to the South Island 6 times before and I'm actually going down there to Dunedin next weekend. :)
Cool. Is there are a ferry service between the North Island and South Island? So, can you take your car across from one island to the other? I'd assume there would be, but I just thought I would ask anyway. :)
How far have you traveled in your life?
Yup :), there's a ferry service that's goes between wellington and the South Island and you can take like your cars and everything on it. But I just fly down there otherwise I would have to drive and it takes really long. :P
Written By: d90 on 08/29/17 at 1:13 am
How's the winter weather in New Zealand?
Which Northern Hemisphere climate do you suppose is the most like New Zealand?
I have only been to one overseas country, so the furtherest I have travelled is Australia (New South Wales & Victoria).
I think areas around coastal California in the U.S. have quite a similar climate to NZ, where I'm from at least.
It all depends on which part of the country you live in, for example in the South Island it can get quite cold and snows on occasion during winter, however I come from the North end of the country and its a lot warmer so the winters aren't very cold. It's still winter here and today at school it felt really warm, not like winter at all. :)
If you don't mind me asking, where did you go in NSW and Victoria? What did you think of Australia?
No problem :), I have a lot of family over in Australia so in Victoria I stayed in Melbourne and I went further south down to Phillip Island and then I also went along the Great Ocean Rd to the Apostle things. In New South Wales I stayed in Sydney and I went up towards Newcastle and I visited the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and then I went to a National Park half way between Sydney and Wollongong.
Umm I thought Australia is a really nice country, the scenery is really Beautiful, especially along the coastlines and everything. The people are very friendly and all, but to be honest it is very similar to New Zealand imo so everything felt pretty familiar already. :) With that being said, one thing I don't like about Australia is the scary wildlife ;D :o. Damn there are killer snakes and spiders and man eating crocodiles so I wasn't very happy about going to far into the wilderness lol. It's probably just like that because in NZ, the worst animal you can encounter in the wild is a 2ft tall flightless bird. ;D
Could you, like, put the furthest away places you've been to in Google so I'd know the overall distance you've traveled?
Do you spell color and favor with a u or without the u?
When did you first go on Youtube?
When did you get your first Cellphone?
1) I spell those words: Colour & Favour
2) The first time I went on YouTube was I think back in 2006/7 when someone just showed me a short video, but I didn't start using it frequently until the earlier years if this decade.
3) I got my first cellphone around early 2011. It wasn't a smartphone just like a basic Nokia thing. :P
Have you been to New York? ???
He literally said this:
Interesting! The Twelve Apostles are really nice. I went on a holiday down to the Twelve Apostles back in 2011 and they are a great thing to see. It's a shame though that some of them have naturally eroded over time. There's only seven or eight apostles now. :P Phillip Island is a very nice place as well. Did you go to the maze place or see the penguins while you were down there? :)
The Blue Mountains is a nice area. I assume you went and saw the three sisters (the rock formation) while you were there? It's interesting that you went to the Royal National Park between Sydney and Wollongong. It is only about an hour away from where I live, because I live in the city of Wollongong. :)
I had a feeling that you were going to mention the wildlife as being the one thing you don't like. :P A lot of overseas people mention the wildlife as being the worst thing, even though it's not even bad! We may be home to some of the most deadliest animals in the world, but you never come across them in day-to-day life. It's not like you walk down the street and see a cassowary on someone's front lawn!
Haha true! But there was a spider bigger than my hand walking around our apartment in the middle of Sydney! It was terrifying. :)
Anymore questionssssssss? ;)
What is your favorite event or events that happened in the year you were born?
I'm not sure what events really :( what kind of events do you mean?
Written By: 2001 on 08/31/17 at 4:16 pm
What countries do you want to travel to?
Sports and entertainment events.
Idk lol I guess there was the 2000 Olympics.
China, Japan, Mediterranean, Rarotonga, United States, United Kingdom
Those aren't countries. The Mediterranean is a sea and geographical region. Rarotonga is an island that is apart of the Cook Islands.
OH OK.
But see that you aren't much of a sports fan? :P
Yes I'm aware of that, but there's no specific country in the Medditranean I want to visit, I just want to visit the region in general.
Also I know Rarotonga is part of the Cook Islands, which is actually governed by NZ, however everyone I know just refers to it as Rarotonga when going on vacation lol. :P
Nah not really
That's a lot of countries though! Going to Egypt and going to France would be very different, haha. But thanks for your answer anyway ;)
Fair enough :). I also would like to visit a country in the Mediterranean region (preferably Spain or Italy).
I could tell.
Maybe, he wants to go on a road trip...or is it a boat trip? ;D ;)
Sorry for being to general......more specifically around Southern France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Portugal. :)
Lol I defintley don't want to go to Egypt. At least not currently.
I was actually planning to go there this year... even made a post about it: "It's between Egypt and Japan/South Korea for me this spring". ;D That whole thing went haywire.
edit: Oh wait, my bad, I forgot. This is your thread. ;D
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/17 at 3:15 am
Did you get to see the final of the Women's World Cup?
Have you ever heard of the lost continent of Zealandia?: https://www.quora.com/What-would-the-climate-of-New-Zealand-be-like-if-Zealandia-wasnt-submerged
What countries don't you want to visit? ???
There's far too many countries to list individually but most of the countries that I woudnt go to are in Africa or the Middle East :)
Written By: Longaotian00 on 09/01/17 at 11:13 pm
Yup I have. It was apparently discovered and was on the news either earlier this year or last year.......... I always knew it was there years previous.
Also the person who answered that question on the link is really, really stupid. :P
Written By: aja675 on 09/01/17 at 11:16 pm
Did you see my thread on City-Data about Zealandia and Doggerland?
Yeah I did! :) I always thought it would be interesting to see how the climate would change if the whole continent rose up, especially in my location, I'm sure it would change quite drastically.
Does anyone here speak Mandarin?
Written By: 2001 on 09/02/17 at 1:45 am
I can sometimes make out what the traditional characters are saying (not simplified though). I was going to ask if your username was Chinese. If not, how do you pronounce it?
Do you like fesh and cheps? :P
Haha yeah! That's if the person made it good though. 8)
Oh ok. I can recognise simplified, not traditional. :)
Are you of Chinese descent?
That's understandable! ;D
What is/was your favourite subject at school?
Are you Chinese descent?
Nah I'm New Zealand European :P
Oh OK...I was just wondering because you were talking about recognizing Mandarin ;D :-X.
Social studies, Chinese, Biology.. :)
Haha :). Yeah I learn it at school.
What do you learn about in Social Studies? I do a subject called Society & Culture, so it might be similar to the subject you do. :)
Basically you learn about past and present issues facing society, also learn about different cultures etc, unfortunately it terminates after year 10 >:(. So from then on I took Geography... It's not quite as good though :P
Lol, I actually had fesh and cheps yesterday. ;D
It sounds like the subject I do. :) Our curriculum is the complete opposite. We can't do Society & Culture before Year 11. :P
It looks like we are having fish and chips today.
BTW, that thread was partially research because I have this hypothetical situation where I move continents around. Like, so Alaska is gonna be where Western Europe is now, and that wouldn't be too different from Doggerland.
Nice! How long have you been studying Mandarin? How many hanzi have you learnt?
I was reading through the Late 2000's nostalgia thread and it made me think of some of the songs I can remember from the time. Some of them are Australian, so I thought that no one else on here would be familiar with them. However, then I realised that many Australian songs also chart in New Zealand and are just as popular over there, so I was curious to find out if you know any of them as well. Are you familiar with these songs? :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimgRedLkkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbkmnkIfgIo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZe9YxJNs48
Sorry, I don't recognise the last two songs. However, I definelty have heard the first song, I'm trying to remember when and where I might have heard it but I can't rmember lol, I do know that I have heard it play quite often though. :)
Written By: Rainbowz on 09/03/17 at 8:47 pm
What's your most favorite song?
Written By: Rainbowz on 09/03/17 at 10:40 pm
Oh damn!! I don't have a clue, do you know how many songs there are ?! ;D
Any song, whether it's on the billboards or from 9 billion years ago ;D
Another question, how do you pronounce your username and what does it mean? ;D Just curious lol
What was your first musical memory?
"Walking on a Dream" was pretty popular when it came out. You might remember it from then. :)
Do you like any New Zealand artists/bands?
Ahh good question :). As far as my first musical memory goes I'm pretty sure one of the first songs I remember hearing was "These Heaux" by Danielle Bregoli.
Was VHS still popular in New Zealand during the Late 2000s?
In 2008, you could still buy new, blank video tapes from stores like JB HI FI and K-Mart. Although, they were only reduced to being on a single shelf by that point. :P My parents and I still used VHS to record things off TV in 2009 and I know plenty of other people did as well. VHS only became completely obsolete/redundant here around 2009/2010. Even though VHS wasn't the main format in the Late 2000s, plenty of people still used it.
It was fairly popular however it was quickly becoming obsolete during that time. I remember the last time I used our VHS was around late '06- early '07 when our VCR player broke so we had to throw out all our VHS tapes and bought a DVD player. However, while DVD was clearly more popular by around 2007 it's not like no one used VHS all of a sudden and I think in the late 2000s up to around 2010/11 some people had these VHS/DVD players together.
I also rmemeber there being VHS tapes at rental places during this time aswell, although most of these places have closed down during this decade, there's like one place left in my area where you can still go and get DVDS and stuff.
It sounds like New Zealand was relatively similar to Australia in that regard. It's strange that VHS remained relevant/popular in Australia and New Zealand for a few more years. If i'm not mistaken, VHS pretty much died out in the US around 2005!
since you live in New Zealand, have you ever heard of The Bushwackers? ???
Lol, never heard of them sorry :P
Why do New Zealanders say "aye" and "bro" so much? :P
I watch Police Ten 7 and Motorway Patrol quite regularly and I always find it funny how often it is said. Even the police officers say it, lol. :P
Is Bushwacker an Australian term?
Lol those shows are classic ;D. Yeah Nah Idk aye , I guess it's just part of our NZ slang bro. ;)
I'm not a New Zealander but I say "aye" a lot when greeting my friends lol
I don't think so. ???
Yeah, but I think you use it in a different context.
We do use it in a different context (I assume Rainbowz is also American).
You seem to know a bit about aviation and airplanes. Am I wrong or right?
You are correct! ;)
Cool 8).
Now since you asked me...I'll ask you: What is your favorite type or types of commercial aircraft?
Sure :) in no particular order:
757-200/300
Some older aircraft I like:
It's just unfortunate that so many of these cool aircraft such as the 747,757,767 are constantly being retired for newer aircraft which while are usually much more efficient which is good, I just don't like them as much 8)
Great list and I agree with you on your last paragraph.
I see that we have a some similarities in our lists. I forget to mention that I also like the 747-400 8).
Long live the Queen of the Skies :\'(
Hell yeah! The 747 was what made me interested in aviation from when I was a little boy.
Do you watch any sports? American sports?
Same :)! Way back when I was younger I remmeber seeing seeing so many 747s out at the airport becasue most long haul flights outta here were operated by them, now that's not the case anymore and the 747 is definelty a rare find in these skies today :\'(
I know right. It's sad that the 747 has sort of died out and is continuing to decline in usage.
Nah not really :-X
Dang it! :(
I feel bad now :\'(
It's OK :P.
Just in case you were wondering, my 5 favourite airlines (in no particular order) are:
-Air New Zealand
-Qantas
-Korean Air
-Lufthansa
-British Airways
I like those airlines as well. The only one that I have been on though is British Airways :P.
Lol, I just found a picture of that 767-300ER I was telling you about:
https://i.imgur.com/ckr773b.jpg
Unsurprisingly, this particular aircraft was retired this year :\'(
Written By: TheReignMan99 on 09/16/17 at 11:46 pm
Awesome dude! That plane looks sweet! 8)
Sad that it's retired though :(.
I found British Airways pleasant to travel with, but I enjoyed the service more on Virgin Airlines.
That's nice to know, although I've never flown BA so I wasn't basing it off their service :). When you mentioned Virgin, were you talking about Virgin Atlantic?, if so I like them aswell!
That's It, Virgin Atlantic. When I typed Airlines, I know it was wrong. It was with them we flew to the USA a few years back.
Anyone got some questions for me? ??? :)
You got a Kik?
Nope :( ....again lol ;D
How do you pronounce Longaotian?
For you and everyone else who was asking lol- this is how you pronounce my username :) : Longaotian
This is the way I pronounce it too! ;D
like Long- gow- shun? ???
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/04/17 at 3:21 pm
No it's Longaotian ;D
What was with the random angry comment on City-Data?
Sorry about that, I was just wondering about that time you were asking why I was up at 3AM, but then the next morning, you admitted you were up at 5AM. I don't know why I brought that up all of a sudden, and why on City-Data, but it was really random of me, sorry for that. (What was I thinking! ::))
Once again, that was completely uncalled for. :)
Sometimes at 3am I have to be awake, but that is for another reason.
I'm four hours behind you, could you, like, guess where I'm from? (Everyone else, don't say it if you already know.)
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say The Philippines ;)
Correct. I do wonder why you guessed The Philippines because there are lots of countries that run on UTC+8 though.
I think I know where I remember it from. Just now I found my old MP3 player I used when I was younger :), I was looking through the songs and i saw that one there, don't know how it got there haha but that's probably how I know it :)
That night, I was at a strange bed. (I was at a hotel.)
Ah ok. That would explain it. :)
Did you know that when I was about to sleep and when you were (presumably) asleep, there was some sockpuppet drama on City-Data?
No, what happened? ???
The first time around I forgot to take screenshots, but the second time around, I did not. You could find them in these links: https://imgur.com/a/1lMHx
https://imgur.com/a/jiZGI
https://media.giphy.com/media/l6OjNLMKO0fEQ/giphy.gif
Lmao is this on a forum about the weather? ;D ;D ;D
Yup ;D. I'm not allowed to say anything but I can say that mysteriously in recent weeks the majority of the members have suddenly disappeared and the place has been overrun by trolls :-X ;D.
The thread got closed for mod review and all of those posts were removed! :o btw I couldn't view those shots clear enough to read.
Written By: annimal on 10/21/17 at 6:43 pm
but if they're removed wouldn't they be impossible to read?
You could still zoom in on/click on individual photos.
You have to appreciate the entertaining trolls. They are more skillful in their art than just the plain annoying troll. :P
I'd rather take that burger from you Slowpoke
What's your favorite kind of climate?
Cfa & Csa
I had to look that up. I'm 100% with you on that one! Have you experienced Cfa climate though?
Yes I have. Some definitions put the climate I live in as a Cfa, but that's only using some. Other than that yeah I've been to some international cities like that and I dislike very cold/cloudy/snowy winters(even though I've never really experienced that) but I don't mind rain :P
Does Million Dollar Minute still air on Prime over in NZ?
Don't know that show, tbh :P
BTW, people there tend to be really pissed off by my constantly talking about alternate Earths. Actually, their tendency to do get annoyed by that is rooted in the days when I was still into moving continents around by moving them around instead of moving continents around by tilting the Earth. I would change my mind all the time by constantly changing the arrangement of continents because I wasn't satisfied with how I moved them around because I realized that some continents would crash or the climates weren't good enough.
I would change my mind all the time by constantly changing the arrangement of continents because I wasn't satisfied with how I moved them around because I realized that some continents would crash or the climates weren't good enough.
Europe and Africa wouldn't combine well. :P
Why? ???
Because of the completely different climates! :P
Oh haha, I see.
With the Continental Drift, and with the location of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Africa, the two continents are drifting away from each other, and the Mediterranean Sea is filling in the gap made.
https://i.imgur.com/X34Symi.png
OK, so in this tilted Earth, the North Pole is at -11.6, 166.9 in real life.
Here's a formula so that you'd know where you are in this alternate Earth. From someone in alternatheistory.com: "In real life or on the tilted planet? If you're having trouble calculating distance, this site has a convenient and accurate tool for you to use. If you want to enter latitude and longitude coordinates, use the "upload coordinates" button below the map.
Let's do an example. Say I want the new north pole to be in Paris. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, which is 6304 km from Paris. Dividing by 111 km, we find that my location is 56.8° away from the north pole. Since the north pole is 90°N, and everything is south of the north pole by definition, it's 90-56.8 or 33.2°N on the new planetocopia.
Suppose I want the north pole to be in Alice Springs, Australia. That's 16196 kilometers away from me. 16196/111=145.9. 90-145.9=-55.9. Therefore, my new location would be 55.9° South."
Wait, why I can't I type alternatheistory right? Is it a word filter?
I think this is where I am in my alternate Earth: https://darksky.net/forecast/37.4865,-145.87/si12/en
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/28/17 at 10:20 am
You are in the Middle of Nowhere, or alternate Earth, are you in Middle Earth? ;D
Written By: nally on 10/28/17 at 11:18 am
I can answer this for you.
Yes, there is a word filter. It seems that any word containing the substring "t-e-h" will come out incorrectly, since "t-e-h" was added to the cuss filter in 2005.
The word-filter mainly contains swear words, which will get censored to alternate words if you try to type them on here, and any typed word containing such a word (as a substring) will also get affected.
Have you seen CityData?!!?? :o
BTW, I just made some new screenshots.
https://imgur.com/a/AnALW
https://imgur.com/a/bxSir
How's the weather today for your city?
BTW, I think the OP would wind up living in an Icelandic climate.
It was 22C and sunny :) Now it's night time :P
in Fahrenheit? ???
https://i.imgur.com/6Eu6zVKb.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/FvJ8YNOb.jpg
No, I just said 22C for fun ::)
https://imgur.com/a/k3O1O
Several things I've noticed here:
-I'd be closer to the rest of Asia here. Like, I would be closer to the likes of Shanghai, Taiwan, and Bali. (Like, you see in the map, Taiwan is close enough to the Philippines that it could be passed off as yet another Philippine island.)
-And I'd be closer to Australia too. Australia is gonna be Canada-like in the north and California-like in the south.
-Antarctica is gonna be a large subtropical/tropical continent.
-Russia is gonna contain the biggest desert ever, maybe even bigger than the Sahara, but I suspect that being tilted in a way that makes it face the sea is gonna make the desert less big.
Feel free to ask me any questions :)
Why though?
TBH, my collection of troll comments on City-Data is super big, and I haven't uploaded all of it.
The slur filter is really annoying. C'mon, we're all adults (well, most of us). I want to f*cking swear without having to use asterisks >:(
Worst is how 'p o s t e r o u s' (without the spaces) gets filtered to spammersite. now try writing "pre post er ous" (without the spaces), your post gets ruined. :o Prespammersite!
Well, certain profanities are not tolerated on here.
Well that's new to me. Perhaps we should ask Chuck about that one. This is obviously another case of the Skunthorpe Problem (word intentionally misspelled to avoid getting hit by the cuss filter)... in which a substring of a perfectly acceptable word gets filtered because the substring is a bad word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clbuttic
Are there more we do not know of?
Written By: abisert on 11/10/17 at 1:29 pm
Judging by your username, weren't you born in 2000? If so, what years do you consider to be your childhood? Any TV shows you grew up with?
Do you also remember the early 2010s well?
Written By: 2001 on 11/11/17 at 12:49 am
We're waiting!
Yeah I was born in 2000 :). I just use the 3-12 year old definition so I consider my childhood to be 2003-2012. I grew up with ALOT of TV shows, probably too many to think of right now tbh haha ;D
Written By: abisert on 11/11/17 at 10:00 am
Oh, that's nice.
Still waiting?
All I knew (until earlier this week) is that there are many words and names out there that contain the t-e-h substring.
Written By: annimal on 11/11/17 at 12:14 pm
and hope I don't end up going in my pants
A slight change to make myself a little further south:
https://i.imgur.com/Y3AMwFP.png
Written By: 2001 on 11/18/17 at 10:02 pm
What is that place attached to Africa?
Still Africa.
can I go roller skating in a buffalo herd?
You guys are derailing my thread :-[
I'm just interested in shilling my alternate Earth map.
This is just a suggestion, but on Popedia, there is a sub-board called "Check this Out!" where you can share things you have made. You could create a thread based on your alternate Earth maps. :)
Thought I'd go to the beginning of this thread to read some earlier replies...
Are there any particular teams and/or athletes that you favor (in any of these sports)?
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Me to that sockpuppet guy. He made this topic. http://archive.is/NiExp
:) I reached 1000 posts guys! :)
Congratulations. O0
祝賀你.
And I have many screenshots of them on my phone in order to pass the time in places where there's no Wi-Fi.
LOL I wouldn't be able to control my laughter.
BTW, here's what they have to say about me on some pop forum: https://i.imgur.com/WTgF3rr.png
BTW, it's this site: http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/
That looks 1000x more active than inthe00s but not active enough to be entertaining, considering the main topic.
What impression do you get from it?
My first impression was that it was slow moving, and my second impression was asking myself "Is this forum gay or not?" and I still don't have an answer ;D
Um, it is.
Mild shock! :P
Like, I'd say it's relatively unique for its specific type of forum in that it isn't an ATRL clone and that .gifs are frowned upon there.
Honestly I love the GIFs and the sassy talk and the funny emoticons. Hence why I couldn't figure out if it was mostly gay or not ;D
Because there aren't that many .gifs there?
Yeah and not much sassy talk.
How does a forum have a sexual orientation?
Guys stop talking about your gay forum on my thread already >:(
Anyways........anymore questions? :)
It's when the gays take over a forum.
Just the ones you haven't answered (what does your name mean and how do you pronounce it.) :P
Oh ok, lol
.....and that is a question for another day ;)
Is it a Chinese name? If so, how would you spell it in hanzi? :P
K, so this is where I've moved discussion of my screenshots: http://popedia.boards.net/thread/957/collection-screenshots?page=1&scrollTo=13190
What do you think of this?: http://www.city-data.com/forum/weather/2843670-climates-do-you-expect-there-tilted.html
Did you see my calculation to find where you are?
Is Canada where Indonesia is supposed to be? If so, I would love the warm weather but I would miss the 4 seasons tbh.
New Zealand I'm guessing is where Norway is? I wonder if Longaotian00 can handle that weather. Although Oslo is slightly warmer than Toronto in the winter, its summers are disgustingly cold, and pitiful amount of sun year-round. 8-P
You'd be at 27.666666667 degrees south.
Apparently, Auckland would be at 70th degrees north, and it would probably be like this. So yeah, obviously, he won't like it.
Personally, I wound up at 33.8378 degrees north, close to where Southern California is now. (Couldn't you tell this is a Mary Sue fantasy? :P)
What are the best and worst climates you've ever experienced?
Written By: mxcrashxm on 03/10/18 at 9:24 pm
What do you like about your homeland?
Are you still capable of reading this? Check out my screenshot thread because I have something I'd like to share there.
Best is Toronto in the summer and worst is Toronto in the winter.
Ooo he'd love that climate. 8-P
Actually, despite it being in the Arctic and receiving no sunlight, that place is actually warmer than my city in the winter ;D
Written By: Dr. Mario on 04/01/18 at 10:21 pm
What career do you want to have in 5-10 years?
Let me re-ask this question: how do you feel about where you ended up in my alternate Earth?
How do you feel about where you ended up on aja's alternative Earth?
Oh, to be fair, maybe New Zealand might be more like mainland Norway. And Auckland would be more like Tromsø, and the extreme ends of South Island might be like Bergen.
Oh, and in case you don't answer that, what did you think of that one guy who trolled Popedia?
Excuse me, but last I checked I do indeed have a name.
I mean, this one guy: http://popedia.boards.net/thread/1523/who-hhh?page=1&scrollTo=25218
Um, so which other questions could I ask in order not to fully derail this thread? Oh yeah, um, where did you find inthe00s?
How come this thread stays in my Show new replies to your posts think no matter how many times I come here?
Because this is the best thread on the entire forum, It doesn't want you to leave.
I don't remember you trolling on Popedia? ???
If Auckland was there I would just leave.
Oh, BTW, it's that way because the North Pole is in Vanuatu.
Personally, I did that so I would end up in the early 30's in latitude.
Btw what do you think of my alternative Earth? It's like if the Earth wasn't flat but instead a sphere.
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I don't like it because it means im gonna fall off the bottom of the earth, duh
You see, it works like, if you're too far or close from Vanuatu, you're gonna freeze. :D
Good point, it is a bit unrealistic.
Written By: SailorSteven2017 on 06/22/18 at 5:53 pm
On A scale from 1-10, how well can you whip up a dish? ;D
Straight up 10/10
Seen this yet? http://www.city-data.com/forum/weather/2947786-tilted-earth-do-you-like-most.html
tbh I don't think anyone knows anything about that.


LG Optimus 3D, that word feels huge, right? Well, the device is too. The device unveiled on February at MWC, has its place among smartphones, prides itself to be the first 3D glasses-free smartphone ever released, bet it still is. For those who like viewing 3D and get realer than life view of video and images, you got the device. LG Optimus 3D was launched in Kenya last week and is available in Safaricom shops. This phone promised to deliver a memorable 3D experience, and it delivers. I was at this party last night and fellow bloggers who had a feel of the device were awed. Good graphics.
LG Optimus 3D has a 4.3 inch screen, which to me is the standard size screen, gives you most of the stuff you will need on a smartphone, somebody convince you otherwise send them my way. Add the 3D capacitive touch screen of 16m colours, Corning Gorilla, Gingerbread UI, plus the optional 3D UI and we have a good combination. There are no physical buttons on the front, all the four menu, home, back and search are capacitive touch buttons that become active and light up once the phone is active. A long press on home menu reveals 8 open applications on the task manager, many android devices show 6.
On browsing the applications the list by default shows three distinct lists of 3D applications, preinstalled apps and downloaded apps. When you reach the end of the list you get a fuzzy glow at the top or bottom, whichever end of the list you are on. I have several games installed on mine, like Lets Golf 2, Gulliver's Travels and Nova. As I said earlier, I am not discussing my golfing, there is a pretty girl who holds the stick though, and she swings fine, but I refuse to be drawn to this discussion, just yet. Asphalt 6 3D play is just fine, well ofcourse if you have played in in 2D you will get confused before you learn that the accelerometer doesnt work in 3D, you have to use your fingers and touch the direction you want the car to turn, learn that and the experience is fine.
Apart from the Android Market there is the LG Smart world, which has a large number of apps. 3D applications are not many though, infact I only saw one 3D game in LG SmartWorld. Another thing, when you get into the LG Smartworld, there is no option for Kenya in the list of countries, I had to select South Africa as the closest country. There is an icon for 3D games that leads to gameloft wap shop.
LG Optimus 3D music is one amazing bit. The loudspeaker is amazing, and also plugging in the earphones you get a good music experience. There is also a fixed music selector menu in the pull-down notification.
Physically LG Optimus 3D is not really flashy, I mean it looks bulky, is 168 grams and at 128.8 by 68 by 11.9 mm its slightly larger than any other 4.3 inch device. The back is well designed, but the front isn't something to write home about, it looks well…er plain. The Optimus Black does better on this front. At the top there is the 3.5 mm jack and the power/standby button. LG Optimus 3D buttons are all flush, well not bad as this would prevent things happening without you knowing in the pocket. On one side there the usb port which also serves as the charger port, next to it is the HDMI out port. That gives you the chance to watch the 3D movies or games on a 3D tv(well, ofcourse that will require special glasses as opposed to watching on the phone).
Right side has the volume rocker which also functions as the zoom facility when taking images and the 3D switch dedicated button. This one takes you to a 3D interface, LG's own development for this phone, pretty fancy I must say. This 3D button also functions as a camera button when the camera is on.
Inside the battery cover, you find that you wont require to remove the battery to switch both the memory card and sim card. However, only the memory card is hot-swappable, the sim card will require you to restart the phone. The battery is a 1500 mAh which for this device that requires more power due to the high graphice and 3D isnt enough. Other smartphones with less requirements have more than this. However on normal use, this phone will last you a day, which rarely happens. You will feel conned of you dont experience all the functionality.
My judgment is this is a masculine phone, the weight, size and look. It delivers all it says and more. The 3D experience is amazing, though at some point when training your eyes you feel the strain, the gorilla glass makes you at ease when playing with it. As for 5 mp camera, well I have come to get the feeling that 8 mp is fast becoming standard for high end smartphones, but the 5 mp gives quite good shots. Well, I think its worth the Kshs 65000 its priced for.
if u want battery, performance, camera, and higher resolution screen, go SGS2. If you are looking for performance and 3d go for the optimus 3D.
Its disappointing to see that a phone with such huge specs can be on 512MB Ram, come-on LG you can do better.
Who cares, do we use all that anyway? The processor is fast, the cortex A9, thats more important.


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Chamber of Commerce Country Factsheet Last update: 04.07.2018
Your advisors at the Chamber of Commerce
Thomas Bertrand
Steven Koener
Contact us: africa@cc.lu
14,668,522 (July 2017 est.)
Government type
French (official), Wolof, Pular, Jola, Mandinka, Serer, Soninke
$43.07 billion (2017 est.)
The French colonies of Senegal and French Sudan were merged in 1959 and granted independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. The union broke up after only a few months. Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia in 1982. The envisaged integration of the two countries was never implemented, and the union was dissolved in 1989. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance has led a low-level separatist insurgency in southern Senegal since the 1980s. Several peace deals have failed to resolve the conflict, but an unofficial cease-fire has remained largely in effect since 2012. Senegal remains one of the most stable democracies in Africa and has a long history of participating in international peacekeeping and regional mediation. Senegal was ruled by a Socialist Party for 40 years until Abdoulaye WADE was elected president in 2000. He was reelected in 2007 and during his two terms amended Senegal's constitution over a dozen times to increase executive power and weaken the opposition. His decision to run for a third presidential term sparked a large public backlash that led to his defeat in a March 2012 runoff with Macky SALL, whose term runs until 2019. A 2016 constitutional referendum reduced the term to five years with a maximum of two consecutive terms for future presidents.
Source: The CIA World Factbook - Senegal
Senegal's economy is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fisheries and agriculture, which are the primary sources of employment in rural areas. The country's key export industries include phosphate mining, fertilizer production, agricultural products and commercial fishing and it is also working on oil exploration projects. Senegal relies heavily on donor assistance, remittances and foreign direct investment. Senegal reached a growth rate of 6.5% in 2015 and surpassed that in 2016-17, due in part to a buoyant performance in agriculture because of higher rainfall and productivity in the sector.
President Macky SALL, who was elected in March 2012 under a reformist policy agenda, inherited an economy with high energy costs, a challenging business environment, and a culture of overspending. President SALL unveiled an ambitious economic plan, the Emerging Senegal Plan (ESP), which aims to implement priority economic reforms and investment projects to increase economic growth while preserving macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability. Bureaucratic bottlenecks and a challenging business climate are among the perennial challenges that may slow the implementation of this plan.
Senegal is receiving technical support from the IMF during 2015-17 under a Policy Support Instrument (PSI) to assist with implementation of the ESP. The PSI implementation continues to be satisfactory as concluded by the IMF's second review mission in March 2016. Investors have signaled confidence in the country through Senegal's successful Eurobond issuances in recent years, including in 2014.
The government is focusing on 19 projects under the ESP to continue the structural transformation of the economy. These 19 projects include the Thies-Touba Highway, including the new airport- Mbour-Thies Highway. Senegal increased the national family allowances program and the community development emergency program in 2016. Electricity supply is a chief constraint for Senegal's development. Electricity prices in Senegal are among the highest in the world. Power Africa, a program led by USAID and OPIC, plans to increase the current 500 MW of generating capacity to over 1,000 mW in the next three to five years. Recent gas discoveries on the Senegal-Mauritanian border, as well as just south of Dakar, will help alleviate some of the energy shortages.
Source: The CIA World Factbook - Economic Overview
IMF Statistics:
Subject descriptor
Gross domestic product, constant prices
Gross domestic product, current prices
U.S. dollars (Billions)
15.362 13.665 14.870 16.172 17.633
Gross domestic product per capita, current prices
U.S. dollars (Units)
1,056.569 913.024 965.225 1,019.818 1,080.233
Inflation, average consumer prices
-1.083 0.129 1.005 1.788 1.788
Volume of imports of goods and services
3.864 -6.239 6.587 5.699 6.114
Volume of exports of goods and services
-1.373 -1.033 -1.244 -1.326 -1.395
Percent of GDP
Colored cells are estimates
Source: IMF Statistics - Senegal
Luxembourg and the country
Existing conventions and agreements
Non double taxation agreement
On 10 February 2016, Luxembourg and Senegal signed an Income Tax Treaty. The Treaty will come into force after the two countries exchange ratification instruments. The provisions of the treaty will have effect from 1 January of the calendar year next following that in which the agreement enters into force.
Air Services agreement
Source: Administration des contributions directes
The Statec Foreign Trade statistics provide information on the trade of goods - by product and by country. This information is collected respectively through the INTRASTAT declaration and on the basis of customs documents.
You can see the statistics on the website of the Statec.
Contact Points in Senegal
Embassy of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Dakar
Ambassador: Mrs Nicole BINTNER
Immeuble Lot 43, 2ème étage
Cité des jeunes cadres Lébous
Zone Toundoup Riya
N°YF23 Route de l'Aéroport Léopold
Sédar Senghor – Yoff
BP 11750 Dakar
Tel.: (+221) 33 869 59 59
E-mail: dakar.amb(at)mae.etat.lu
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg
Country risk as defined by Office du Ducroire for Senegal
Ducroire is the only credit insurer covering open account deals in over 200 countries. A rating on a scale from 1 to 7 shows the intensity of the political risk. Category 1 comprises countries with the lowest political risk and category 7 countries with the highest. Macroeconomics experts also assess the repayment climate for all buyers in a country.
Link: Ducroire Office - Country Risk for Senegal
CIA World Factbook on Senegal
Investir au Sénégal
Investment Climate Statement - Senegal 2015
Présentation du Sénégal par France Diplomatie
World Bank Open Data - Senegal
GDP evolution in Senegal
Index of Economic Freedom - Senegal 2015
Doing Business in Senegal
Das ist der Senegal
The Chamber of Commerce and the country
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The 2014–15 season was Manchester United's 23rd season in the Premier League, and their 40th consecutive season in the top-flight of English football.
United began the season on 16 August 2014, with the opening game of their Premier League campaign. They also competed in the two domestic cups, the FA Cup and the League Cup. This was the first season since 1989–90 that Manchester United did not compete in any European competition.
United finished seventh in the Premier League last season so did not participate in the UEFA Champions League for the first time since the 1995–96 campaign and were not in any European competition for the first time in 25 years. Louis van Gaal was announced as the new manager on 19 May 2014 after the sacking of David Moyes in April. He appointed Ryan Giggs, who retired from playing, as assistant manager, Marcel Bout as assistant coach, specialising in oppositional scouting, and Frans Hoek as goalkeeping coach. United completed their first signing of the season on 26 June 2014 with the acquisition of Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao for £29 million, and followed this up the following day with Luke Shaw from Southampton. Following the departures of Vidić and Evra, Wayne Rooney and Darren Fletcher were named as captain and vice-captain respectively.


Can You Be a Social Widow?
Widows have a hard time during the holidays being social, going to parties and they often wear a mask hiding their pain. Here are a few tips to help you handle the holidays when grieving.
Death of a loved one that is sudden and unexpected can really mess us up. Grief is hard enough but when its sudden we may have unfinished things not yet said or done.


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Reader Submissions: Once Neglected, A Hopeful Owner Revived A South African Boss 302 Mustang Into His Dream Car
Once Neglected, A Hopeful Owner Revived A South African Boss 302 Mustang Into His Dream Car
Owner: Rui Esteves
Make & Model: Boss 302 Mustang
To Rui Esteves of Cape Town, South Africa, a Boss is the ultimate Mustang, because it was built for racing. Twelve year ago, he saw this car listed in a classified ad, but thought there was no way it could be a real Boss. Nevertheless, he called the seller right away and made an appointment to see the car. He did a lot of research and compiled a checklist.
When he arrived at the seller's house, the first thing he saw was the car. It was very original and had been very neglected, but the interior was perfect, and there were only 38,000 miles on it. Rui only needed 30 minutes to inspect the car—everything on his checklist confirmed that the car was a legitimate Boss. There was already another potential buyer looking at the car, so Rui had to get assertive and tell the seller he should have the first choice, because he called about the car first. The other buyer turned out to be a serious collector who started throwing big numbers around, but it was too late—by this time, Rui had already shaken hands with the seller. The deal was done, and the Boss belonged to Rui.
With the help of his father, Manuel Esteves, it took ten years to finish the car—Rui has the original engine and gearbox stored safely away. Now he enjoys driving the car on the weekends. His favorite place to take it is through the winelands of the Western Cape and up the west coast where the roads are endless and dead straight.
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Allen Dumler
South Africa seems to be all about black Mustangs recently…saw this on Speedhunters http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/02/the-black-death-800hp-in-a-68-mustang-fastback/
I'm far from a Mustang fan, but this one is amazing. I'm also a sucker for all original, but having it stored away to put back in is actually a great idea, and I'm glad that even though he modified it, it can always go back to original. Great job on a beautiful car.
That is quite lovely.
Andreas Lavesson
While it's a shame that the car doesn't have the original drivetrain in it, I totally understand why. I used to be a hardcore "off the assembly line"-guy, but I'm having second thoughts. Mainly because it's fun to modify even these rare beasts (given they can be reverted to original form) and especially because low mileage matching numbers specimens of these are getting so insanely expensive that you almost don't dare to drive them anymore.
Totally forgot to compliment the car. A black Boss looks absolutely killer and I was completely gobsmacked when I saw one for the first time. Albeit a 429. Very very cool car and while some aftermarket rims totally destroys the looks of old American iron (saw chromed 22 inches on a '57 Chevy a couple of days ago), these make the car look even more menacing.


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National Park & Preserve Alaska
Pretty Rocks Landslide
Updated: October, 2021
The Pretty Rocks landslide displaces 100 yards (90 m) of the full width of the Denali Park Road near its midpoint at Mile 45.4 (km 73). In recent years this landslide has evolved from a minor maintenance concern to causing substantial road restrictions.
The Pretty Rocks landslide has been active since at least the 1960s, and probably since well before the Denali Park Road was built through this area in 1930. Before 2014, the landslide only caused small cracks in the road surface and required moderate maintenance every 2-3 years. However, in 2014 road maintenance crews noticed a substantial speed up. By 2016 the movement had increased further and a monitoring program was begun. The rate of road movement within the landslide evolved from inches per year prior to 2014, to inches per month in 2017, inches per week in 2018, inches per day in 2019, and up to 0.65 inches per hour in 2021.
Composite photo of the Pretty Rocks Landslide area from 2015. Approximate landslide outline indicated by red dashed line.
Time lapse of the Pretty Rocks slump, from July 21 to August 25, 2021. In this time, the road displacement was ~6.5 meters (21 feet)
NPS Geology Team
Pretty Rocks Landslide Time-lapse (July 25 to September 28, 2021)
Time-lapse video of the Pretty Rocks landslide from July 25th to September 28th, 2021, looking to the northeast. From July 25th until September 2nd, road maintenance crews were spreading up to 100 truckloads of gravel per week within the landslide to maintain the road.
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Pretty Rocks Time-lapse (Park Road, September 9 to 28, 2021)
Time-lapse video of the road within the Pretty Rocks landslide from September 9-28th, 2021, looking to the southeast.
While Pretty Rocks landslide had caused minor road restrictions in prior years, by 2019 conditions began to deteriorate further. In August 2019, heavy rains caused increased landslide activity, which resulted in road restrictions on the 8th and a 24-hour road closure that began on the 16th. In 2020 weather conditions were mild and the road crew was able to maintain a safe and drivable surface. In July and August 2021 the landslide sped up considerably, requiring the road crew to spread up to 100 truckloads of gravel per week to fill in the slumping road.
By August 24, 2021, maintenance activities could no longer keep up with the increasing displacement and road surface instabilities. Park managers recognized that adding gravel was no longer tenable or safe and enacted a road closure west of Pretty Rocks for the remainder of the season. The park's ability to adapt to future conditions will require transitioning to more expensive and novel construction methods to maintain road-based access beyond this point.
September 16, 2021 photo of eastern side of the Pretty Rocks landslide. The displacement of approximately 14 vertical feet seen below the person standing on the stable road surface (for scale) occurred over two weeks following the cessation of maintenance and road use on September 2, 2021.
Climate Change as Causal Agent
Based on climate data from 1950 to 2010, Denali National Park has experienced a temperature increase of 7.7°F ± 2.0°F (4.3°C ± 1.1°C) per century, the highest of all national parks (Gonzales, et al, 2018). A recent shift in mean annual temperatures in the area to near 32°F (0°C) (Swanson et al., 2021) combined with heavy rainfall events is believed to be causing permafrost to thaw, resulting in the recent acceleration of many landslides in Denali. In the case of Pretty Rocks Landslide, climate change has likely taken a problem previously solved by minor road repairs and made it difficult to overcome with short-term solutions. Temperature and precipitation increases are likely to continue, and the rate may worsen, over the coming decades.
While these changes were predicted by modelers (Rupp and Loya, 2009), the magnitude of the change has been greater than expected. For example, the area where Eielson Visitor Center is located (Mile 66 [km 106]) reached an average mean annual temperature of 32.4°F (0.2 °C) from 2015-2019 (Sousanes, 2020); this exceeds the temperature of 29.8°F (-1.2°C) projected for 2040 by Rupp and Loya (2009).
Last updated: October, 2021
Park managers are weighing potential engineered solutions that will allow for short- and long-term access west of Pretty Rocks. To learn more about potential solutions, see the Polychrome Area Plan.
Pretty Rocks is one of several known landslides in the Polychrome Overlook area and one of the more than 140 mapped unstable slopes along the entire Park Road (Capps et al., 2017). As a result, even though Pretty Rocks is currently our most problematic unstable slope, we must manage the park road and its other unstable slopes proactively and wholistically.
Geology of Pretty Rocks Landslide
We have learned about the subsurface of Pretty Rocks through multiple borings (drilling) in and around the landslide. While conditions are variable, a representative cross section is shown in the following scientific illustration by Laurel Mundy. All borings within the landslide contain permafrost, or ground that is at or below freezing for two or more years. The shallowest material, the active layer, thaws seasonally and is therefore not permafrost. Permafrost can be essentially ice free (ex. granite high on Denali), ice poor, or ice rich.
Some of the substrate here is ice poor, meaning that ice volume is equal to or less than the pore space between debris. Some of the substrate is ice rich, meaning that ice volume exceeds the pore space between debris. Pretty Rocks contains abundant ice – we have drilled through up to 15' (4.6 m) of 85% ice directly beneath the road. The ice-rich permafrost typically is positioned directly above the debris and bedrock interface. Slope inclinometers (instruments that measure displacement) indicate that most movement is occurring at this interface.
Scientific illustration of the surface and subsurface of the Pretty Rocks landslide
Illustration by Laurel Mundy
While it's appropriate to describe the substrate of Pretty Rocks landslide as ice-rich permafrost, it is most accurately described as a rock glacier. Rock glaciers are closely related to glaciers, but they contain much more rocky debris with ice in the pore spaces. Rock glaciers typically only move a few inches (several cm) per year, as was the case with Pretty Rocks prior to 2014.
However, Pretty Rocks and some other rock glaciers around the world have begun to advance quickly, with climate change as a major cause (Müller et al., 2016). Denali has many rock glaciers, likely thousands of them, and efforts are underway to identify and classify them. Some of these rock glaciers are currently advancing beyond their historic margins.
Conceptual model of the evolution of a rock glacier that illustrates the Pretty Rocks rock glacier accurately. Arrows show sediment transport. t0, t1 and t2 show rock glacier surfaces at different times resulting from variations in environmental factors such as warming and a decrease of sediment-ice
Müller et al., 2016 (unmodified)
Many that learn about Pretty Rocks ask a reasonable question, "Why don't you just scrape off or blast into the material that is coming down and rebuild the road on bedrock?" The borings help us answer this question. The substrate that is now sliding was deposited horizontally about 55-million-years ago in volcanic eruptions. Subsequent folding and faulting inclined the material to approximately 60°, as shown in the following scientific illustration by Tracey Faber. The blue highlighted layers are mostly competent rock. The orange layer is mostly volcanic ash that has altered to clay through time.
The clay is very unstable on steep slopes like those at the road. The clay is also mostly frozen, but only barely – it is within 1°F (0.6°C) of thawing. Based on borings and surface mapping, the clay is known to extend hundreds of feet into the subsurface and laterally to the north-northeast all the way to the East Fork of the Toklat River just north of East Fork bridge. Where this same layer intersects the East Fork River, landslides similar to the one at Pretty Rocks are occurring but do not intersect the road. This long, vertical layer of unstable clay is the reason that we cannot simply dig the undesirable material out and put the road on competent bedrock farther in on the cliff face.
Scientific illustration of the Pretty Rocks area. Blue highlighted areas are mostly competent rock. The orange layer is mostly unstable clay. Pretty Rocks landslide is located where the road (white line) intersects the orange. The main branch of the East Fork River is near top right.
Tracey Faber
Monitoring System for Pretty Rocks Landslide
The Pretty Rocks landslide monitoring system is located on a stable bedrock ridge below the road and above the western side of the landslide. The robotic total station is a surveying instrument that uses a laser to accurately measure distances and angles from about 35 small prisms (mirrored reflectors) installed within and around the landslide. After staff complete initial measurements manually in the field, the total station repeats the measurements on a defined interval (typically every hour). The weather station includes a shielded thermometer, anemometer (wind speed and direction), and tipping-bucket rain gauge. We create time-lapse videos from photos taken every few hours.
Above: Annotated image of the Pretty Rocks near-real-time monitoring system. To improve visitor safety and understand the movement of the Pretty Rocks landslide, we built a near-real-time monitoring system. The system has five main components: 1) a robotic total station; 2) a weather station; 3) a time-lapse camera; 4) a solar-power system; and 5) a satellite internet system
Because of the large amount of displacement that was occurring in the fall of 2021 and the road closure, we installed a second time-lapse camera looking down the axis of the road to create additional time-lapse videos. The solar-power system utilizes solar panels to charge numerous batteries that power the system during low-light times. The satellite internet system relays all the data from the above system to a computer at park headquarters.
This data is then processed by software and posted to a web interface that allows staff to view the data remotely at any time. Further, weather and movement threshold alarms alert staff automatically when thresholds (ex. heavy rain, increases in movement) are exceeded.
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The parents of a missing 6-month-old will be charged in connection with the infant's murder.
CULVER CITY, Calif. (KABC) -- The parents of a missing 6-month-old baby will be charged in connection with the infant's murder, Culver City police told Eyewitness News on Monday.
Jacsun Manson's body has never been found, but his mother confessed to detectives that she knew the baby was not alive.
Authorities said they believe Jacsun's parents, Adam Manson and Kiana Williams, killed Jacsun and discarded the child's body in a dumpster somewhere near the Crenshaw Mall in Los Angeles.
Investigators on Monday searched the El Sobrante Landfill in Corona, where they believe Jacsun's body may have ended up. It's sure to be a painstakingly slow process trying to find the remains of a 6-month-old boy inside a landfill that processes 70,000 tons of trash every week.
"We have over 20 personnel at the landfill right now," said Culver City police Lt. Troy Dunlap.
Investigators searched the El Sobrante Landfill in Corona, where they believe Jacson's body may have ended up.
Jacsun was reported missing on Jan. 25, but he was last seen on New Year's Eve with the parents in a PT Cruiser.
Police say that car ended up being stolen from a homeless transitional housing facility in Culver City, where they were living. Jacsun's parents were arrested a few days later, but there was no sign of the baby.
"They stole the girl's car that lived here, they had a meth pipe in their room full of drugs, they were pretty crazy," said one person familiar with the situation.
Police said the two have not been helpful in giving up information to help investigators find the baby.
"They should have never (been given back) the child. They are two recovering addicts," Adam Manson's sister Aegina Manson said. "A lot of it doesn't make sense. There's a lot of lies."
She said she believed that for awhile, the baby was with a friend. Aegina Manson said she talked to her brother shortly before the boy went missing. She said he was in tears, admitting he just couldn't care for his child. She agreed to care for the boy, but he never called back to make those arrangements.
Nine years ago, the Fontana Police Department found the remains of a teenager in the same Corona landfill. In that case, it took three months to find the remains - and they started searching just days after she went missing.
Monday's search of the landfill turned up empty. Now, authorities are putting together a plan as to how to move forward because the trash from the time they need is already buried, and they will need heavy machinery to dig.
Manson and Williams are expected to be charged later this week with second-degree murder. If you have any information about Jacsun's case, you're urged to contact the Culver City Police Department. During business hours, contact Detective Raya at (310) 253-6318, and after business hours, please contact the watch commander at (310) 253-6202.


Wellingborough RFC's official Kit Supplier for all sections of the Club is Macron. Macron are the official Kit Supplier to Northampton Saints, as well as a number of other professional clubs including Scotland, Italy, Biarritz and Edinburgh.
Macron Northamptonshire have a shop on the outskirts of Kettering where you can see the kit before your order if you choose, or try on for a better idea re sizing.
Wellingborough RFC teamwear is available online. Link above goes to the Senior Page, but click on the club shops section to select our Mini/Junior Page.


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Maggie Lebherz '08, modern languages and linguistics, was featured in a recent Baltimore Sun article about the evolution of olive oil. The owner of an olive oil shop in her native Frederick, Md., Lebherz shared her thoughts on the way the public has embraced the versatile oil in their cooking.
Lebherz also shares her recipe for lemon olive oil cake with wild blueberry icing.
Read the UMBC Magazine story here.


The minor in Political Science offers a variety of approaches to understanding government. In addition to their coursework, students are encouraged to pursue extracurricular activities that will enhance their understanding of political events and philosophies. The minor requires 15 credits, at least 6 of which must be at the upper-division level.


Carnilove Energy & Outdoor Reindeer Adult Cat Food is a delicious grain and potato free recipe that has been formulated especially for cats who love the outdoorsCarnilove Energy & Outdoor Reindeer Adult Cat Food contains high levels of natural antioxidants, unsaturated fats, and omega-3 fatty acids, reindeer meat is ideal for restoring energy after every catty adventure. With forest fruits, vegetables, and herbs, the formula provides the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants essential to maintaining top physical condition and building natural immunity every day. Read more…IngredientsReindeer meat meal (28%), wild boar meat meal (28%), yellow peas (18%), chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols, 13%), chicken liver (4%), tapioca starch (2%), salmon oil (2%), apples (1%), carrots (1%), flaxseed (1%), chickpeas (1%), hydrolysed crustacean shells (a source of glucosamine, 0,026%), cartilage extract (a source of chondroitin, 0,016%), brewer´s yeast (a source of mannan-oligosaccharides, 0,016%), chicory root (a source of fructo-oligosaccharides, 0,012%), yucca schidigera (0,01%), algae (0,01%), psyllium (0,01%), thyme (0,01%), rosemary (0,01%), oregano (0,01%), cranberries (0,0008%), blueberries (0,0008%), raspberries (0,0008%). Analytical ConstituentsCrude protein 41. 0 %, fat content 19. 0 %, crude fibre 2. 5 %, crude ash 5. 5 %, moisture 10. 0 %, calcium 1. 1 %, phosphorus 0. 9 %, sodium 0. 3 %, magnesium 0. 08 %.


The LT1012 is an internally compensated universal precision operational amplifier which can be used in practically all precision applications. The LT1012 combines picoampere bias currents (which are maintained over the full –55°C to 125°C temperature range), microvolt offset voltage (and low drift with time and temperature), low voltage and current noise, and low power dissipation. The LT1012 achieves precision operation on two Ni-Cad batteries with 1mW of power dissipation. Extremely high common mode and power supply rejection ratios, practically unmeasurable warm-up drift, and the ability to deliver 5mA load current with a voltage gain of one million round out the LT1012's superb precision specifications.
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Fairview Ridge Murray Greys has a quality assurance program in place to give clients confidence in the reproductive soundness and the overall health of their purchases. Our bio-security program is rated as J-BAS 8 (formerly Johne's MN3) by PIRSA. All bulls have been vaccinated with 7 in 1 and all females with 5 in 1. Our bulls have been vet inspected for structural and reproductive soundness.
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This luxury accommodation is spaciously deceiving and briefly comprises of four double bedrooms, family bathroom and two en-suite shower rooms. To the ground floor the living accommodation offers a welcoming entrance hall, w/c, lounge, kitchen/diner and snug/garden room. Externally the property has a double driveway leading to a detached double garage. To the rear there is a well maintained secluded rear lawned garden and patio seating area with spectacular far reaching views over open countryside.
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Learn about the meaning behind the jargon and why privacy cryptocurrencies are so challenging.
Mimblewimble combines several individual privacy features.
Each of these features adds a different facet of privacy.
Hiding user info while ensuring a system can still verify the correctness of a transaction is difficult.
Mimblewimble is a bundle of cryptocurrency privacy features that have been assembled in a unique way. The end result is that when you use a Mimblewimble-based cryptocurrency, your transactions are completely private to everyone except you and the recipient.
The transaction values are invisible, the recipient is unknown and it's impossible to track people down by following a transaction record. At the same time, it shows signs of being a relatively lightweight and practical privacy protocol.
Mimblewimble is the name of the tongue-tying magic spell from the Harry Potter series.
Mimblewimble creator, the pseudonymous Tom Elvis Jedusor (it's Voldemort's given name in the French translation of the Harry Potter series) said it was a suitable name because in both worlds Mimblewimble is designed to prevent the revealing of secrets.
The protocol is a response to the unique challenges of facilitating private, anonymous transactions on a public blockchain.
The problem is that public blockchains require a network, typically via its miners, to verify users' transactions. To verify these transactions, a miner must automatically confirm details such as whether a user actually has the coins they're trying to send, and who they're sending it to. Basically, the "correctness" of a transaction has to be verified to keep a network running as it should.
The question is how can miners verify transactions without actually knowing any of the details of the transactions they're verifying?
A lot of extremely clever work was needed to solve this seemingly impossible problem, and different privacy protocols have emerged as a result. To date, the most widely used privacy protocols are Zerocoin (as used in Horizen, Zcash and others), CryptoNote (as used in Monero) and now Mimblewimble.
Picture a cryptocurrency transaction as unlocking and walking through a door.
The door is the receiving wallet (a public wallet address), while your private key is the key used to unlock that door. The doors can only be unlocked by whoever has the key. The end result is that cryptocurrency is safe even though it's public for the same reason your house is safe even though it's sitting on the street – the doors are locked.
The challenge is finding a way for the network to successfully observe people unlocking and coming and going from all the houses, without anyone actually being able to see it.
There are two key ingredients for enabling people to actually unlock doors and walk into houses on the blockchain.
The first ingredient is "public key cryptography." This is the technique of safely matching private keys with public addresses to unlock doors, without the keys being stolen or copied.
The second ingredient is blockchain technology. When first deployed, it created ways of reliably programming unbreakable rules into this kind of system. For example, "you must have the right key to enter a house" and "you can't break in through a window."
With these two key ingredients, public key cryptography and blockchain, you now have the foundation of cryptocurrency: a system where people can use keys to unlock doors, aka send cryptocurrency transactions.
The problem is the network still needs to verify the correctness of transactions. Essentially, it needs a way to watch people unlock doors and walk through them, so they still need some way of seeing who's unlocking and walking through doors to keep this system working. But to keep things private, this observation needs to be programmed entirely into the blockchain back end and secured in a way that prevents people from reverse-engineering details such as wallet addresses or transaction values from it.
Confidential Transactions: These conceal who and when someone walks through a door (conceals transaction value and individual coins).
CoinJoins: These conceal who unlocks a door (conceals public addresses).
Dandelion: This conceals where the door is (conceals the sender of a transaction).
All were proposed for bitcoin, but never really implemented.
This system was first devised by bitcoin developer Adam Back then refined into a more usable form by Gregory Maxwell.
It essentially breaks up a single transaction into multiple parts while sending them through, as well as hiding the real values of each part of a transaction.
The reason miners can still verify that someone has all the money they're trying to send, and that they haven't broken up a transaction into parts that are equal to more money than they have, is because it's based on a system of "homomorphic encryption" with the use of "blinding factors."
Homomorphic encryption: This is an algorithm for splitting numbers (such as the value of a transaction) into multiple parts in a way that the parts will always be equal to the whole.
Blinding factors: This is a system that throws random numbers into the mix to conceal the values of each part of the homomorphically encrypted transaction.
Put them together and you have a system where the values of each transaction and the histories of individual coins are hidden from public view, while the system is still able to guarantee the correctness of transactions.
Observers cannot see the value of transactions because they only get those blinding factors, but the system can still verify the correctness of transactions by reverse-engineering the homomorphic transactions based on how much money it "knows" was being sent.
This protects privacy by hiding the values of individual transactions. It also protects privacy by breaking transactions down and making it much more difficult to track individual transaction histories.
It's now almost impossible to prove that someone was sending or receiving tainted cryptocurrency because it's almost impossible to tell one transaction apart from each other. This prevents people from tracking transaction histories.
Confidential Transactions were never implemented in bitcoin.
CoinJoin is a system of cooperative anonymity first proposed by Gregory Maxwell. It essentially groups multiple transactions into a single transaction to hide the details of who sent what.
Say three people named A, B and C want to individually send money to three people respectively named X, Y and Z.
If they each just sent the money without CoinJoin, anyone could see that A sent money to X, B sent money to Y and C sent money to Z.
But with CoinJoin, you'd only be able to see that A, B and C sent money to X, Y and Z. You can't tell who sent how much to whom. In its initial form, CoinJoins were simply done as agreements between multiple bitcoin users who wanted to mutually benefit from improved privacy and who would meet in chat rooms to organise it.
CoinJoins were then made safer and easier with purpose-built tools such as specially designed wallets that could programmatically group the transactions of users without them needing to cooperate.
But these were still informal arrangements, subject to problems such as needing to trust that the other party wasn't recording details of your joined transaction. With traditional CoinJoins, the FBI (for example) could quickly build a database of suspect transactions simply by posing as a CoinJoin counterpart.
To solve this, effective CoinJoins would need to be built into a cryptocurrency at ground level in a way that all users are automatically CoinJoining.
Mimblewimble accomplished this with a system utilising "one way aggregate signatures" (OWAS), an evolution suggested in 2013 by the presumably pseudonymous Horas Yuan Mouton. It basically has the result of bundling up all the transactions that are being sent on a block into one big transaction, while still ensuring that the right amount ends up with the correct recipients.
Signatures are how cryptocurrency transactions are signed by users. So if Bob wants to send Jane 2 BTC, he would sign a message saying "take 2 BTC from Bob and give 2 BTC to Jane."
This message is broadcast to the blockchain, and the blockchain gets it done.
"Take 2 BTC from Bob"
"Give 2 BTC to Jane."
And both are broadcast to the blockchain separately. This severs the transaction trail between Bob and Jane. The reason these can still be verified for correctness is because Bob has signed both messages, so the blockchain can see that everything's in order.
The "aggregate" part of OWAS comes into play with other blockchain users. Bob isn't the only person sending a transaction on that block, so his signatures and signed messages are all aggregated with other users, and bundled into one big transaction which can itself still be verified as correct because all the signatures in it are correct.
The "one way" part refers to the fact that this big aggregated signature cannot be reverse engineered into its separate senders. In the end, you can tell that Bob sent 2 BTC, and you can tell that Jane received 2 BTC, but you can't say that Bob sent 2 BTC to Jane.
CoinJoins were used in bitcoin, but it was never built in on the protocol level using Mouton's OWAS.
Dandelion is a solution to the problem of being able to guess the physical location of a transaction sender. It was first assembled by a joint team of seven researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and the University of Illinois.
It's possible to make an educated guess at a sender's identity because although the blockchain is global, its users and nodes still have some kind of physical real-world location, and network latency (as an effect of the real-world distance between users) will affect how quickly network nodes are able to detect a transaction.
The end result is that whenever someone sends a bitcoin transaction, it ripples through the network. A transaction hits the closest nodes first and then further nodes a bit later.
Observers with the right know-how and the right equipment are able to watch these ripples as they emerge from specific transactions. Eventually, with enough observation, it's possible to deduce the real-world location of a user based on recurring ripple patterns.
Dandelion is a way of solving this problem on the protocol level. It works by bouncing a transaction from the initial sender to a semi-random node before it begins propagating across the network.
The end result is essentially that the ripples which might give away someone's location will be appearing semi-randomly and will no longer have much bearing on the actual location of the sender.
It's called Dandelion because when you chart the path of a transaction made with dandelion, it looks like a dandelion. First, the transaction bounces to another node (forming the stem) and then it explodes into the fluffy bulb when other nodes start propagating the transaction.
It can still be verified for correctness because the initial transaction is still just as good.
The researchers who discovered Dandelion briefly implemented it in a small set of test nodes on the bitcoin network, but it was never implemented on the protocol level.
A lot of ingredients have gone into Mimblewimble, each of which was devised and improved on by different researchers. All of them were also originally devised for bitcoin, but for various reasons never made it into bitcoin at the protocol level.
The pseudonymous Mimblewimble creator, Tom Elvis Jedusor, was the one who first managed to put all of these developments together into a workable form. As you can imagine, this wouldn't have been easy given how some of these improvements might have confounded the others.
The end result is a system for allowing almost completely anonymous and untraceable transactions, where almost no information whatsoever can be gleaned from the blockchain but transactions still process smoothly.


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People's Campus
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Pre-registration open at People's Campus for BBS, BBA and BBM programs(Open: 2020-12-18 Close: 2021-02-28)
People's Campus is located at Paknajol, Kathmandu with the main block of the campus consisting of more than 60 classrooms and spacious ground for outdoor games, parking, and other purposes. The campus building and the inner area cover more than four ropanies of land at the heart of the city in Paknajol, which makes the campus self-dependent regarding the need for infrastructure. Its peaceful atmosphere is conducive to learning and teaching.
The campus is a pioneering and a leading community-based academic institution was established in 1981 AD by a group of educationist, academicians and key stakeholders in the field of education with the motto of enhancing quality education which is affordable to the wider society. People's Campus offers 10+2 in Management with the affiliation from National Examination Board (NEB) and BBA, BBM, BBS and MBS programs with the affiliation from Tribhuvan University.
Along the changing pace and demand of time, the campus has been modifying and modernizing the teaching pedagogy and organizing various types of demand-driven training for the teachers. In order to strengthen the learner autonomy in the classroom and motivate the learners intrinsically, the campus organizes activities viz workshops, presentations, seminars, and well-modified lectures. People's campus combines academic excellence with an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to research supporting a culture that engages and challenges students and staff in their pursuit of learning.
People's Campus ensures that students are prepared for employment, entrepreneurship, and opportunities when they graduate. One of the ways in which we do this is through the awards, which recognizes and reward students who have gained significant academic skills through curricular and extracurricular activities and help them develop skills successfully to be potential employees and employer. The evidence is People's Campus has regularly been winning the prestigious "Nepal Chamber of Commerce Excellence Award" for securing the best result in the Management Education and TU topper awards several times in BBS and MBS of TU.
Provide quality education for all at an affordable cost
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I am pleased to welcome you to People's Campus, a pioneering and a leading community-based academic institution, established in 1981 AD with the motto of enhancing quality education which is affordable to the wider society. We are a growing family of more than eighty faculties, fifty administrative staff members and over 1800 students.
We are particularly proud of the team of intellectually sound professional teaching faculties; and dedicated administrative staffs. People's Campus offers Management Courses of graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We ensure that students are prepared for employment and opportunities when they graduate. At People's Campus, we believe in the development of the whole person. Overall personality development of students with a concentration on intellectual foundation and skilled professionalism is the hallmark that the campus possesses. It's our pride that People's Campus has regularly been winning the prestigious "Nepal Chamber of Commerce Excellence Award" for securing the best result in the Management Education.
Further, there are a number of good reasons why students enjoy at People's Campus. In addition to an impressive academic track record, it's spacious well-structured building, location and peaceful environment are the fundamental physical features, which are instrumental to effective learning and teaching. It owns excellent amenities such as the resourceful library, e-library, computer labs with a high-speed internet connection, a spacious auditorium hall, multimedia rooms for presentations and seminars.
People's Campus systems include a friendly environment that promotes creativity, innovation, and responsibility towards the society among its students. We are dedicated to empower citizenry offering a good education to the students, who will finally change the society and make it a better place to live in.
I invite students and parents to visit People's Campus. Your choice of People's Campus will definitely be a right decision, which will ensure your better future.
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Offering Courses
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Tribhuvan University | Available seats - 64
Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) - Tribhuvan University | Available seats - 44
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) - Tribhuvan University
Master of Business Studies (MBS) - Tribhuvan University
Ten Plus Two (+2) Management - National Examinations Board (NEB)
Sound and qualified experienced faculties
Updated computer lab with unlimited internet facilities
Substantial multimedia facilities for regular classes
Advanced library facilities with substantial textbooks, journals, periodicals and other reference documents
Regular guest lectures, interactive programs, seminars, etc.
Sound internal evaluation system
Friendly environment in learning and teaching
Scientific teaching methodologies with modern equipment
Learners centered teaching and learning activities
Quality education in affordable fees
Well established infrastructures.
Scholarships for deserving students
Educational excursions
Effective student counseling
Cafeteria with hygienic food at affordable price
Various tutorial events
Journals published by students
Social service programs
Eligibility for BBA and BBM Programs:
The candidate applying for BBA and BBM programs:
Must have scored at least C grade in each subject of Class 11 and 12.
Must have passed the entrance test of TU (CMAT) and personal interview conducted by the college.
Eligibility for BBS Program:
The candidate applying for BA, BSW and BBS programs:
Must have scored at least D+ grade in each subject of Class 11 and 12.
Must have passed the entrance test conducted by the college.
Eligibility for +2 Management Program:
The candidate applying for +2 program:
Must have completed SEE or equivalent.
Eligibility for MBS program:
The candidate applying for MBS program:
Must have completed Bachelor's Degree.
People's Campus offers various types of scholarships for deserving students. They are:
Scholarship offered to pursue BBM program
1. Scholarships at the time of admission will be awarded on the basis of Marks secured in +2/Intermediate level which are as follows:
Grade Point Scholarship %
A+ (Above 90 %) 30%
A (80% - 89.99%) 15%
B+ (70% - 79.99%) 10%
B (60% - 69.99%) 5%
2. Monthly Fee will be waived to the student Semester toppers.
3. People's Campus students will get additional 5% extra on above Scholarship Scheme.
Scholarship offered to pursue BBA program
B+ (70% - 79.99%) 5%
Scholarship offered to pursue BBS program
B (60% - 69.99%) 10%