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De vlag van Mauritius bestaat uit vier gelijke horizontale banen in de kleuren rood, blauw, geel en groen. Rood staat voor het bloed dat in de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd is vergoten, hoewel er nooit sprake was van een strijd. Blauw symboliseert de Indische Oceaan, die de eilandstaat omringt. Geel staat voor het 'licht van de onafhankelijkheid, dat over Mauritius schijnt'. Groen vertegenwoordigt de natuurlijke rijkdommen van het land.

De vlag werd op 12 maart 1968 ingevoerd, bij de onafhankelijkheid van Mauritius.

Overige vlaggen van Mauritius

Historische vlaggen van voor 1968 (onder Brits bestuur)
Voor de onafhankelijkheid voerde Mauritius tussen 1903 en 1968 de volgende vlaggen:

Mauritiaans symbool
Mauritius

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Union VFX Supervisor Simon Huges joins Producer Nick Barton from Harbour Pictures to introduce Swallows and Amazons at the Keswick Film Festival on Saturday 17th February 2017.
Simon will walk the audience through some of the VFX used to bring this well loved storty to the screen.
Screen by the Lake, Keswick Film Festival 2017.
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August 14th in stamps Hans Christian Ørsted, Cologne Cathedral, Paul Sabatier
1777 Born: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)
Hans Christian Ørsted (often rendered Oersted in English; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. Oersted's law and the oersted (Oe) are named after him.
On 21 April 1820, Ørsted published his discovery that a compass needle was deflected from magnetic north by a nearby electric current, confirming a direct relationship between electricity and magnetism. The often reported story that Ørsted made this discovery incidentally during a lecture is a myth. He had, in fact, been looking for a connection between electricity and magnetism since 1818, but was quite confused by the results he was obtaining.
His initial interpretation was that magnetic effects radiate from all sides of a wire carrying an electric current, as do light and heat. Three months later, he began more intensive investigations and soon thereafter published his findings, showing that an electric current produces a circular magnetic field as it flows through a wire. For his discovery, the Royal Society of London awarded Ørsted the Copley Medal in 1820 and the French Academy granted him 3,000 francs.
Ørsted's findings stirred much research into electrodynamics throughout the scientific community, influencing French physicist André-Marie Ampère's developments of a single mathematical formula to represent the magnetic forces between current-carrying conductors. Ørsted's work also represented a major step toward a unified concept of energy.
A leader of the Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen and the brother of politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1853 to 1854.
Danish stamp issued to commemorate Hans Christian Ørsted
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day. At 157 m (515 ft), the cathedral is currently the tallest twin-spired church in the world, the second tallest church in Europe after Ulm Minster, and the third tallest church in the world. It is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.
Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. Work did not restart until the 1840s, and the edifice was completed to its original Medieval plan in 1880.
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".
German stamps depicting the Cologne Cathedral
1941 Died: Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
Prof Paul Sabatier (5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals.
Sabatier is best known for the Sabatier process and his works such as La Catalyse en Chimie Organique (Catalysis in organic chemistry) which was published in 1913. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with fellow Frenchman Victor Grignard in 1912. He is also known for the Sabatier principle of catalysis
French stamp depicting Paul Sabatier
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Home Columnist Will Pablo Mari be able to fix Arsenal's defence?
Will Pablo Mari be able to fix Arsenal's defence?
We Are The Arsenal
Contemplating their centre-back issues this year, possibly Manchester City missed a trick by allowing Pablo Mari to visit Brazil last summer. Now accountable at Arsenal, Arteta was in a rush to make the 26-year-old Spanish defender, which makes him his first signing since taking control in the Emirates.
After coming through the ranks in Valencia, Mari played Mallorca and Gimnastic prior to being picked up by City in 2016. They had a new trainer, the veteran Jorge Jesus, who utilized his European connections to help build one of the greatest club sides South American soccer has seen lately.
They won the club's initial Copa Libertadores, South America's Champions League because 1981 — plus they gave Liverpool a match before going down 1-0 at the Club World Cup closing final month. The leading four gained all the plaudits, particularly the goal-grabbing feats of attack duo Gabriel Barbosa and Bruno Henrique. However, there was reason to think that the most important part of this side all together was Mari.
This is not uncommon in Europe but established revolutionary in Brazil, in which defences have a tendency to sit very heavy. Pushing up allowed Flamengo to keep on front, strangle competitions in their half of the area and maintain the sectors of their group close enough to get the ball to stream. With no high defensive lineup, Flamengo wouldn't have appreciated the exact same attacking prowess.
Yet it is a process of drama that involves considerable risks. To begin with, it leaves a whole lot of space in supporting the centre-backs, making domestic freshwater defenders really nervous. They don't wish to get captured in space. They'd rather retreat for their own penalty area and seem to mind or kick the ball away out of risk, consequently leaving the staff extended outside and obliging the midfielders to return nearly the entire length of the pitch. Back in Mari, Jorge Jesus discovered somebody who had been used to playing at a top line. While he is blessed with exceptional pace, he is fast enough and gets the positional sense to function in the manner that his trainer needed.
Mari was thrown into the deep end right away after registering for Flamengo in July. With no suitable preseason, he had been expected to instantly slot into a brand new team within an unknown league and conduct a high risk job. It may have gone wrong, along with also an early blunder or two could have turned the fans against him undermined his confidence. Instead, he seemed immediately at home. He organised the large line, made possible its successful execution, defended soundly and handed the ball crisply from the trunk with his reliable foot.
By being a virtual reality in European soccer, he became a Flamengo idol despite playing 30 games for the club. Nevertheless, it was a glorious time to tug the black and red shirt, and he'll definitely be sorely missed.
There has been haggling over the cost, but after choosing up the player for a reported $1.7 million, Flamengo will likely be making a wholesome profit. And Mari can barely turn down the chance, either. He won't stand out at the Premier League as far as he's performed in Brazil.
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Police: Man plowed his car into crowd because he thought they were Muslim
A 13-year-old girl remains in critical condition in a coma.
Kiley Kroh Apr 27, 2019, 10:16 am
Police stand outside the suspected residence of Isaiah Peoples, who is accused of driving his car into a crowd because he believed some were Muslim. (CREDIT: Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
Isaiah Joel Peoples, a 34-year-old army veteran, deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people in Sunnyvale, California, because he thought some of them were Muslim, police said Friday.
"Based on our investigation, new evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith," Sunnyvale police chief Phan Ngo said outside court. "We understand that you will have many questions based on this announcement. However, we will not be releasing further information for now."
Peoples is accused of hitting eight pedestrians with his car Tuesday evening. According to police, Peoples had picked up food and was driving to a Bible study group when he intentionally drove into a crosswalk. A witness told the San Francisco Chronicle that he reached speeds of 60 miles per hour before striking the victims. "After crashing, he dragged himself out of the sedan and repeatedly moaned, 'Thank you, Jesus,' witnesses said. Police found a disassembled, inoperative shotgun in the Toyota."
A 13-year-old girl remains in critical condition in a coma and had to have part of her skull removed to relieve pressure, the Chronicle reported, citing court documents. She also has a broken pelvis. The seven other victims have injuries ranging from broken bones to scrapes.
Peoples, a former U.S. Army sharpshooter who served in the Iraq War, appeared in court Friday. He has been charged with eight counts of attempted murder and ordered to be held without bail.
While Peoples has not been charged with a hate crime, officials said they are prepared to do so if the investigation finds sufficient evidence.
"Even before our decision, I will say this: if this is a hate crime, there are far more than eight victims. Hate crimes are a brazen attack on our entire community… We stand together on that street corner. We stand together in that young girl's hospital room," Jay Boyarski, Santa Clara County chief assistant district attorney, said in a statement. "This community has been hurt — but we are strong and steadfast and we will stand together against violence, ignorance, and hate."
Peoples' mother told the Sacramento Bee that her son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Iraq. Chuck Smith, Peoples' attorney, denied that his client intentionally targeted the victims, saying, "This act was clearly the product of some mental disorder or mental defect." Police said Peoples showed no sign of remorse.
Reported hate crimes have been on the rise for three consecutive years in the United States, according to FBI data released in 2018. More than half of reported hate crimes targeted a person's race or ethnicity, while about one in five targeted their religion. After a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, killing 50 people, Muslim leaders blamed the normalization of Islamaphobia around the world.
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4. A New Land
"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."
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The sight of those three great beasts barring our way was just about as discouraging as anything I have ever encountered. Of course I had my pistol; but the rays don't always kill immediately any more than bullets do, and even if I should succeed in killing them the delay would permit the women to overtake us. I could hear them shouting, and I was afraid their voices might reach one of the hunting parties; so, all in all, I was in a tough spot. Fortunately, they hadn't come out of The Narrow Canyon yet; and I thought I saw a possible chance of eluding them and the tharbans. We were close to a group of trees the dense foliage of which would form an excellent hiding place; so I hoisted Duare to a lower branch and swung up after her. Climbing well up, we waited. Through the foliage we could look out, though I doubted that anyone could see us.
The three tharbans had witnessed our ruse and were coming toward the tree, but when the running warrior women hove into sight out of the mouth of The Narrow Canyon the beasts paid no more attention to us, but turned their attention to the women instead. The sight of the tharbans brought the women to a sudden stop. I saw them looking around for us; and then, as the tharbans advanced, they retreated into The Narrow Canyon. The three beasts followed them, and the moment that all were out of sight Duare and I dropped to the ground and continued on toward the ship.
We could hear the roars and growls of the tharbans and the shouts of the women growing fainter in the distance as we almost ran in our eagerness to reach the anotar. What had appeared a few moments before almost a catastrophe had really proved our salvation, for now we had no need to fear pursuit from the village. My only immediate concern now was the ship, and I can tell you that I breathed a sigh of relief when we came in sight of it and I saw that it was intact. Five mmutes later we were in the air, and the adventure of Houtomai was a thing of the past. Yet, how near it had come to meaning death for me and a life of slavery for Duare! If the warrior women had taken but an extra moment to make sure that I was dead how very different the outcome would have been. I shall always think that fear of the ship, a thing so strange to them, caused them to hurry away. Duare says that they talked much about the ship on the way back to the village and that it was evident that they were troubled by it, not being quite sure that it was not some strange beast that might pursue them.
We had much to talk about as I circled in search of game, that I might make another kill; for I had not eaten for two days, and Duare only a few mean scraps while she was the slave of Bund. Duare kept looking at me and touching me to make sure that I was alive, so certain had she been that the Samaryans had killed me.
"I should not have lived long, Carson, if you hadn't come," she said, "with you dead, I didn't care to live--certainly not in slavery. I was only waiting for an opportunity to destroy myself."
I located a herd of antelope-like animals and made my kill much as I had the previous day, but this time Duare kept vigilant lookout while I attended to the butchering; then we flew to the island where Lula and I had stopped while I transformed myself into a brunette. This time I reversed the operation, after we had cooked and eaten some of our meat. Once again we were happy and contented. Our recent troubles now seemed very remote, so quickly does the spirit of man rebound from depression and push black despair into the limbo of forgetfulness.
Duare was much concerned about my wounds and insisted on bathing them herself. The only danger, of course, was from infection; and we had no means of disinfecting them. Naturally there was much less danger than there would have been on Earth, where overpopulation and increased means of transportation have greatly spread and increased the numbers of malignant bacteria. Also, the longevity serum with which I had been inoculated by Danus shortly after my arrival upon Amtor gave me considerable immunity. All in all, I was not much concerned; but Duare was like a hen with one chicken. She had finally given in to her natural inclinations; and, having admitted her love, she was lavishing on its object the devotion and solicitude which raise love to its purest and most divine heights.
We were both of us pretty well done in by all that we had been through, and so we decided to remain at the island until the following day at least. I was quite sure that there were no men and no dangerous beasts there, and for the first time in many months we could utterly relax without concern about the safety of ourself or that of the other. Those were the most perfect twenty-four hours I had ever spent.
The next day we took off from our little island with real regret and flew south along the valley of The River of Death down toward the ocean into which we knew it must empty. But what ocean? What lay beyond it? Where in all this vast world could we go?
"Perhaps we can find another little island somewhere," Duare suggested, "and live there always, just you and I alone."
I didn't have the heart to tell her that in a few months we'd probably be wanting to knife one another. I was really in a quandry. It was impossible that we return to Vepaja. I knew now definitely that Duare would rather die than be separated from me; and there was no question but that I should be executed the moment Mintep, her father, got his hands on me. My only reason for planning to take Duare back to Vepaja had been my sincere belief that, no matter what became of me, she would be happier there eventually and certainly much safer than roaming around this savage world with a man absolutely without a country; but now I knew differently. I knew that either of us would rather be dead than permanently separated from the other.
"We'll make a go of it some way," I told her, "and if there's a spot on Amtor where we can find peace and safety we'll locate it."
"We have fifty years before the anotar falls to pieces," said Duare, with a laugh.
We had flown but a short time before I saw what appeared to be a large body of water dead ahead, and such it soon proved to be. We had come to the ocean at last.
"Let's go out over it and look for our island," said Duare.
"We'd better stock up with food and water firstly." I suggested.
I had wrapped the remainder of our meat in the large, waxy leaves I had found growing on the little island; and was sure that it would keep for several days, but of course we didn't want to eat it raw; and as we couldn't cook it while flying, there was nothing to do but land and cook the meat. I also wanted to gather some fruits and nuts and a tuber that grows almost everywhere on Amtor and is quite palatable and nutritious--palatable even when eaten raw.
I found an open flat that extended back from The River of Death for several miles. It was forest bordered on one side, and a little river ran through it down to the larger stream from mountains to the east. I made a landing near the forest in the hope that I would find such fruits and nuts as I desired, nor was I disappointed. After gathering them, I loaded some firewood into the rear cockpit and taxied over beside the small stream. Here we were in the open where we could see the surrounding country in all directions and therefore in no danger of being surprised by either man or beast. I built a fire and cooked our meat while Duare kept watch. I also filled the water tank with which I had equipped the ship at the time it was built. We now had food and water sufficient for several days, and filled with the spirit of exploration we took off and headed out to sea, passing over the great delta of The River of Death, a river that must rival the Amazon.
From the first, Duare had been keenly interested in the navigation of the ship. I had explained the purpose and operation of the controls, but she had not actually flown the anotar herself. Now I let her try it, for I knew that she must learn to fly against the possibility of our being in the air for long periods such as might be necessitated by a trans-oceanic flight. I would have to have sleep, and this would not be possible in the air unless Duare could fly the ship. Now, flying a ship in the air under ordinary weather conditions is not even so difficult as walking; so it required only a few minutes to establish her confidence and give her something of the feel of the ship. I knew that practice would give her smoothness, and I had her fly at an altitude that would permit me to come to the rescue if she got in any trouble.
We flew all that night with Duare at the controls about a third of the time, and when morning broke I sighted land. As far as I could see to the east and west the boles and foliage of great trees rose thousands of feet to disappear in the inner cloud envelope which floats forever over the entire expanse of Amtor, a second defense to the outer cloud envelope against the intense heat of the sun that would otherwise burn the surface of the planet to a crisp.
"That aspect looks familiar," I said to Duare when she awoke.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I think it is Vepaja. We'll skirt the coast, and if I'm right we will see the natural harbor where the Sofal and the Sovong lay at anchor the day that you were kidnaped and Kamlot and I were captured by the klangan. I'm sure I shall recognize it."
Duare said nothing. She was silent for a long time as we flew along the coast. Presently I saw the harbor.
"There it is," I said. "This is Vepaja, Duare."
"Vepaja," she breathed.
"We are here, Duare. Do you want to stay?"
She shook her head. "Not without you." I leaned toward her and kissed her.
"Where then?" I asked.
"Oh, let's just keep on going. One direction's as good as another."
The ship, at the time, was flying perhaps a couple of points north of west; so I simply maintained that course. The world ahead of us was absolutely unknown, as far as we were concerned; and as this course would keep us away from the antarctic regions and well into the northern part of the south temperate zone, it seemed as good a course to hold as any. In the opposite direction lay the stronghold of the Thorists, where we could hope to find only captivity and death.
As the long day wore away, nothing but illimitable ocean stretched monotonously before us. The ship functioned beautifully. It could not function otherwise, since into its construction had gone the best that the finest scientific minds of Havatoo could give. The design had been mine, as aircraft were absolutely undreamed of in Havatoo prior to my coming, but the materials, the motor, the fuel were exclusively Amtorian. For strength, durability, and lightness the first would be impossible of duplication on Earth; the motor was a marvel of ingenuity, compactness, power and durability combined with lightness of weight; the fuel I have already described. In design the ship was more or less of a composite of those with which I was familiar or had myself flown on Earth. It seated four, two abreast in an open front cockpit and two in a streamlined cabin aft; there were controls in both cockpits, and the ship could be flown from any of the four seats. As I have before stated, it was an amphibian.
During the long day I varied the monotony by instructing Duare in landings and take-offs, there being a gentle westerly breeze. We had to keep a sharp lookout at these times for the larger denizens of the sea, some of which might easily have wrecked the ship had their dispositions been as fearsome as their appearance.
As night fell, the vast Amtorian scene was bathed in the soft, mysterious, nocturnal light that benefieient Nature has vouchsafed a moonless planet. Seemingly as limitless as interstellar space, the endless sea rolled to the outer rim of our universe, glowing wanly. No land, no ship, no living thing impinged upon the awful serenity of the scene--only our silent-plane and we two infinitesimal atoms wandering aimlessly through space. Duare moved a little closer to me. Companionship was good in this infinite loneliness.
During the night the wind veered and blew from the south, and at dawn I saw cloud banks rolling in ahead of us. The air was much cooler. It was evident that we were getting the tail end of a south polar storm. I didn't like the looks of that fog. I had blind flying instruments on the instrument board; but, even so, who would care to fly blind in a world concerning the topography of which he knew nothing? Nor was I particularly keen to chance waiting the fog out on the surface of the sea. The chances are it would have been safe enough, but I had seen far too many leviathans cavorting about in the waters beneath us to incline me toward spending any more time on the surface of the water than was absolutely necessary. I determined to change our course and fly north ahead of the fog. It was then that Duare pointed ahead.
"Isn't that land?" she asked.
"It certainly has all the appearances of land," I said, after taking a long look.
"Maybe it is our island," she suggested laughingly.
We'll go and have a look at it before the fog rolls over it. We can always beat that fog if it gets too thick."
"Land will look pretty good again," said Duare.
"Yes," I agreed. "We've been looking at an awful lot of water."
As we approached the coast line we saw mountains in the distance and far to the northwest what appeared to be one of those giant tree forests such as cover almost the entire area of the island of Vepaja.
"Oh, there's a city!" exclaimed Duare.
"So it is--a seaport. Quite a good-sized city, too. I wonder what kind of people live there."
Duare shook her head. "I don't know. There is a land northwest of Vepaja that is called Anlap. I have seen it on the map. It lies partially in Trabol and partially in Strabol. The maps show it as an island, a very large island; but of course nobody knows. Strabol has never been thoroughly explored."
It seemed to me that none of Venus had ever been thoroughly explored, nor could I wonder. The most able men I had met here clung to the belief that it was a saucer-shaped world Boating on a molten sea. They thought that its greatest circumference lay at what I knew to be the south pole, and on their maps the equator was not even a dot. They never dreamed of the existence of another hemisphere. With maps based on such erroneous reasoning, everything was distorted; and because their maps were therefore useless, no navigator dared go far from familiar waters and seldom out of sight of land.
As we approached the city I saw that it was walled and heavily fortified, and closer inspection revealed the fact that it was being beleaguered by a large force. The hum of Amtorian guns came faintly to our ears. We saw the defenders on the walls; and, beyond the walls, we saw the enemy--long lines of men encircling the city, each lying behind his shield. These shields are composed of metal more or less impervious to both r-rays and T-rays; and their use must result in far more mobile attacking forces than could have been possible were the men facing earthly bullets; it practically amounted to each man carrying his own trench The troops could be maneuvered almost anywhere on the field of battle while under fire, with a minimum of casualties.
As we passed over the city, firing practically ceased on both sides. We could see thousands of faces upturned toward us, and I could imagine the wonder and amazement that the ship must have engendered in the minds of those thousands of soldiers and civilians, not one of whom could possibly have conceived the nature of this giant, birdlike thing speeding silently above them. As every portion of the ship, whether wood, metal, or fabric, had been sprayed with a solution of this ray-resisting substance I felt quite safe in flying low above the contending forces; and so I spiralled downward and, circling, flew close above the city's wall. Then I leaned out and waved my hand. A great shout rose from the men within the city, but the attackers were silent for a moment; then a volley of shots were directed at us.
The ship might have been coated with ray-resisting material; but Duare and I were not, and so I zoomed to a safer altitude and turned the ship's nose inland to reconnoiter farther. Beyond the lines of the investing forces we flew over their main camp, beyond which a broad highway led toward the southwest, from which direction troops were marching toward the camp; and there were long trains of wagons drawn by huge, elephantine animals, and men mounted on strange beasts, and big T-ray guns, and all the other impedimenta of a great army on the march.
Turning toward the north, I reconnoitered in search of information. I wanted to know something about this country and the disposition of its inhabitants. From what I had already seen, their dispositions seemed unequivocally warlike; but somewhere there might be a peaceful, hospitable city where strangers would be treated with consideration. What I was looking for was a single individual whom I might question without risking injury to Duare or myself, for to have made a landing among those fighting men would probably have been fatal--especially among comrades of the contingent that had fired on us. The attitude of the defenders of the city had been more friendly; but still I couldn't risk a landing there without knowing something about them, nor did it seem the part of wisdom to land in a beleaguered city that, from the number of its attackers, might be taken any day. Duare and I were looking for peace, not war.
I covered a considerable area of territory without seeing a human being, but at last I discovered a lone man coming out of a canyon in the hills several miles north of the big camp I have mentioned. As I dropped toward him, he turned and looked up. He did not run; but stood his ground, and I saw him draw the pistol at his hip.
"Don't fired," I called to him as I glided past. "We are friends."
"What do you want?" he shouted back.
I circled and few back, landing a couple of hundred yards from him. "I am a stranger here," I shouted to him. "I want to ask for information."
He approached the ship quite boldly, but he kept his weapon in readiness for any eventuality. I dropped down from the cockpit and went forward to meet him, raising my right hand to show that it held no weapon. He raised his left--he wasn't taking any chances; but the gesture signified a friendly attitude, or at least not a belligerent one.
A half smile touched his lips as I descended from the ship. "So you are a human being, after all," he said. "At first I didn't know but that you were a part of that thing, whatever it is. Where are you from? What do you want of me?"
"We are strangers here," I told him. "We do not even know in what country we are. We want to know the disposition of the people here toward strangers, and if there is a city where we might be received hospitably."
"This is the land of Anlap," he said, "and we are in the kingdom of Korva."
"What city is that back by the sea? There was fighting going on there."
"You saw fighting?" he demanded. "How was it going? Had the city fallen?" He seemed eager for news.
"The city had not fallen," I said, "and the defenders seemed in good spirits."
He breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly his brow clouded. "How do I know you're not a Zani spy?" he demanded.
I shrugged. "You don't," I said, "but I'm not. I don't even know what a Zani is."
"No, you couldn't be," he said presently. "With that yellow hair of yours I don't know what you could be--certainly not of our race."
"Well, how about answering some of my questions?" I inquired with a smile.
He smiled in return. "That's right. You wanted to know the disposition of the people of Korva to strangers and the name of the city by the sea. Well, before the Zanis seized the government, you would have been treated well in any Korvan city. But now it is different. Sanara, the city you asked about, would welcome you; it has not yet fallen under the domination of the Zanis. They are trying to reduce it now, and if it capitulates the last stronghold of freedom in Korva will have fallen."
"You are from Sanara?" I asked.
"Yes, at present. I had always lived in Amlot, the capitol, until the Zanis came into power; then I couldn't go back, because I had been fighting them."
"I just flew over a big camp south of here," I said; "was that a Zani camp?"
"Yes. I'd give anything to see it. How many men have they?"
"I don't know; but it's a large camp, and more soldiers and supplies are coming in from the southwest."
"From Amlot," he said. "Oh, if I could but see that!"
"You can," I told him.
"How?" he demanded.
I pointed toward the ship. He looked just a little bit taken aback, but only for a second.
"All right," he said. "You will not regret your kindness. May I ask your name? Mine is Taman."
"And mine is Carson."
He looked at me curiously. "What country are you from? I have never before seen an Amtorian with yellow hair."
"It is a long story," I said. "Suffice it to say that I am not an Amtorian; I am from another world."
We walked toward the ship together, he, in the meantime, having returned his pistol to its holster. When we reached it, he saw Duare for the first time. I could just note a faint expression of surprise, which he hid admirably. He was evidently a man of refinement I introduced them, and then showed him how to enter the rear cockpit and fasten his lifebelt.
Of course I couldn't see him when we took off, but he afterward told me that he believed his end had come. I flew him directly back to the Zani camp and along the highway toward Amlot.
"This is wonderful!" he exclaimed time and again. "I can see everything. I can even count the battalions and the guns and the wagons."
"Tell me when you've seen enough," I said.
"I think I've seen all that's necessary. Poor Sanara! How can it withstand such a horde? And I may not even be able to get back and make my report. The city must be surrounded by troops by now. I just barely got out an ax ago." An ax is equivalent to twenty days of Amtorian time, or slightly over twenty-two days, eleven hours of Earth time.
"The city is entirely surrounded," I told him. "I doubt that you could possibly pass through the lines even at night."
"Would you--" he hesitated.
"Would I what?" I asked, though I guessed what he wished to ask me.
"But no," he said; "it would be too much to ask of a stranger. You would be risking your life and that of your companion."
"Is there any place large enough for me to land inside the walls of Sanara?" I asked.
He laughed. "You guessed well," he said. "How much space do you require?"
I told him.
"Yes," he said; "there is a large field near the center of town where races were held. You could land there easily."
"A couple of more questions," I suggested.
"Certainly! Ask as many as you please."
"Have you sufficient influence with the military authorities to insure our safety? I am, of course, thinking of my mate. I cannot risk harm befalling her."
"I give you the word of a nobleman that you will both be safe under my protection," he assured me.
"And that we shall be permitted to leave the city whenever we choose, and that our ship will not be molested or detained?"
"Again you have my word for all that you have asked," he said; "but still I think it is too much to ask of you--too much to permit you to do for a stranger."
I turned to Duare. "What is your answer, Duare?" I asked.
"I think that I shall like Sanara," she said.
I turned the ship's nose in the direction of the Korvan seaport.
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March 22, 2018, Vancouver, BC -- Amarc Resources Ltd. ("Amarc" or the "Company") (TSX-V: AHR; OTCBB: AXREF) is pleased to announce that crews have been mobilized to begin a 2,500 m core drilling program at the DUKE copper project in the Smithers region of central British Columbia.
"The objectives of the drill campaign are to begin delineating the geometry and grade distribution of both the bulk tonnage gold-copper mineralization and the copper-molybdenum-silver mineralization discovered by drilling of two core holes at DUKE in late 2017," said Amarc President Diane Nicolson. "The drill intercepts we generated late last year were highly encouraging in terms of the volume and grade of mineralization intersected. They also provided compelling geological information to guide our current exploration program."
Results from 2017 drilling indicate the presence of an important porphyry copper-molybdenum-silver-gold deposit at DUKE, with copper equivalent grades comparable to those being milled at BC's copper mines (see Amarc news release dated December 19, 2017). A drill plan, details of the targets to be tested and the results of 2017 drilling are provided in an updated corporate presentation available on Amarc's website at www.amarcresources.com. Provincial government permits for the current drilling are in hand.
In November 2017, Amarc drilled two core holes at DUKE that targeted the lateral and vertical extensions of near surface, porphyry copper mineralization over an area measuring approximately 800 m by 400 m, as defined by 29 shallow (average 90 m deep) holes drilled by a previous operator. Amarc's holes, drilled to lengths of over 500 m, successfully intersected copper-molybdenum-silver-gold mineralization at depths of up to 450 m significantly below areas of mineralization demonstrated by the shallow historical drilling. The mineralization is mainly hosted by biotite-feldspar-porphyry and felsic intrusive rock -- rock types that also host the Bell, Morrison and Granisle porphyry copper deposits in the region.
Importantly, after intersecting some 400 m of copper-molybdenum porphyry mineralization, continuation of the westernmost of the two holes (hole DK17001) encountered adjacent bulk tonnage-style gold-copper mineralization that is open to expansion. This gold-bearing interval hosts a very different geochemical expression than the rocks above, which assay for copper, molybdenum and silver. The last 9.5 m of hole DK17001 returned excellent assays for bulk tonnage gold-copper deposits, indicating that further drill investigation is warranted.
Moreover, the host rock to this gold-copper mineralization also appears to be logged near surface in a 55 m deep historical drill hole. The historical drill hole in question lies about 200 m to the north, but that historical interval was not assayed. Nicolson said "This unexpected development multiplies both the potential of the DUKE project, and the regional porphyry district staked by Amarc".
Amarc is advancing its 100% owned IKE, DUKE and JOY porphyry copper deposit districts, located in southern, central and northern BC, respectively, each with proximity to industrial infrastructure, power, rail and highways. These projects represent significant potential for the discovery of multiple and important-scale, porphyry gold-copper and copper-molybdenum deposits. Hudbay Minerals Inc. is funding development of the IKE and JOY projects in partnership with Amarc, which is operating these exploration and development programs.
Amarc is associated with Hunter Dickinson Inc. ("HDI"), a diversified, global mining company with a 29-year history of porphyry discovery and development success. Pervious and current HDI porphyry projects included some of BC's and the world's most important mineral resources -- such as Pebble, Mount Milligan, Kemess South, Kemess North, Gibraltar, Prosperity, Xietongmen, Newtongmen, Florence, Sisson and Maggie. From its head office in Vancouver, Canada, HDI applies its unique strengths and capabilities to acquire, develop, operate and monetize mineral projects to provide superior returns to shareholders.
Mark Rebagliati, P. Eng., a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical content in this release.


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U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR FOUR-BALL
Final Day: Five Storylines May 31, 2017 | MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. By David Chmiel, USGA
Mary Ellen Shuman and partner Sammi Lee advanced to the Women's Four-Ball semifinals in their first USGA championship. (USGA/Darren Carroll)
U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Home
After winning two matches on Tuesday, the semifinalist sides remaining in the 3rd U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship at The Dunes Golf & Beach Club will have to win two more matches on Wednesday to win the championship. Here are five things to keep an eye on:
CONFERENCE CALL Tuesday's matches had more SEC representation than the college football playoffs. Nine of the 16 players in the morning matches – three for Georgia, two for LSU, two for Florida and two for Kentucky – were flying their colors. And when the dust settled, LSU (Kathleen Gallagher and Kendall Griffin) will square off in one side of the bracket against recent University of Georgia graduates Sammi Lee and Mary Ellen Shuman.
BYE BYE BIRDIES The morning matches looked like the classic Alfred Hitchcock film about an avian invasion. Monica Vaughn and Bailey Tardy (10 birdies in 15 holes) and Jennifer Chang and Gina Kim (six birdies and an eagle on the outward nine) dominated the action in the morning. In the quarterfinals, though, a combination of fatigue and tucked hole locations made finding feathered friends an elusive chase. The four winning sides managed "only" 26 birdies. The semifinalists still pledged to be judiciously aggressive when competition resumes, but the gravity of the situation could force more of a chess game than a game of darts.
FIRST TIME'S THE CHARM Lee and Shuman, University of Georgia class of 2017 grads, are getting perilously close to having to join the real world. Lee, for example, will soon join the workforce as an equities sales and trading analyst for Barclays. But the 22-year-olds are hoping that they can use their college experience to extend the summer day dream and make it to the finals. Despite being the oldest remaining team, they are playing in their first USGA championship.
GOING UP While the average age of the field had dipped with the passing of every round, the number spiked more than an entire year – from 18.7 to 19.9 when Lee and Shuman knocked off a pair of 17-year-olds, Annick Haczkiewicz and Sydney Smith in the quarterfinals. With Taylor Totland (22) and Alice Chen (21), and Lee and Shuman in each side of the draw, the finals could be one for the ages – the first time that a pair of teenagers were not in contention – at the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball final.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS No matter how tight the matches have gotten (or how tough some of the losses have been) at The Dunes Beach & Golf Club, the teams vying for the Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship have been unfailingly focused on having fun and enjoying the ride. From the analysis of the course and the greens to the camaraderie among competitors, even when situations got sticky, the competitors made it clear that they wanted to win, but wanted to beat their opponents' best efforts.
"The players are so good so we feel like we have to just keep trying to hit our best shots all the time," said Gina Kim. "We didn't make any birdies on the back nine this morning, but it wasn't like we were trying to slow down. This championship has raised our game and we're trying to keep it going. A couple of times we got on the wrong side of the hole, so we had to be careful, but we are fired up and ready to roll. More birdies!"
The sentiment was echoed by the rest of the field.
"I just can't believe we made it to the semifinals. Now you tell us that we are exempt into next years' Four-Ball too," Kathleen Gallagher said. "That is awesome. We are going to fight to get to the finals, but we're going to have fun along the way. I am super excited that I will be going to California (El Cabellero Country Club in Tarzana) next year."
David Chmiel is the manager of member content for the USGA. Email him at dchmiel@usga.org.
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A bat set off a fire alarm in a German highway tunnel , forcing an hour-long closure and causing long delays, police said.
Police in Goettingen said the animal apparently landed on a smoke detector or a pipe in the Heidkopf tunnel -- triggering a fire alarm, which automatically led to the tunnel being closed in both directions at about 4:45 a.m.
Police and fire officers searched the tunnel and surveillance camera footage for signs of a blaze, but to no avail.
After about an hour, the tunnel -- and the A38 highway, a busy east-west route -- was reopened.
A tailback of about 800 yards built up in one direction, while cars queued for more than a mile at the tunnel's other entrance.


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Richard Hall (November 26, 1926 – October 29, 1992), sometimes credited as Richard Walter Hall, was an American novelist, playwright and short story writer.

Background
He was born in Manhattan in 1926 as Richard Walter Hirshfeld to Jewish parents, who later changed the family's name to Hall after experiencing an antisemitic incident. Raised in Westchester County, Hall served in the United States Army during World War II, and was educated at Harvard University and New York University. He worked in advertising and public relations, and taught at Inter American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1970s.

Writing career
His first novel, The Butterscotch Prince, was published in 1975.

As a book critic and essayist, he contributed to publications including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice and The Advocate. He was the first openly gay critic ever admitted to the National Book Critics Circle.

His other published books included the short story collections Couplings (1981), Letter from a Great Uncle (1985) and Fidelities (1992), the novel Family Fictions (1991) and Three Plays for a Gay Theater (1983), a compilation of his stage plays Happy Birthday Daddy, Love Match and Prisoner of Love.

He died on October 29, 1992, in New York City, of AIDS-related causes. He was predeceased in 1989 by his longtime partner Arthur Marceau.

Legacy
He posthumously won a Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2005 for "Country People", a supernatural-themed short story originally from Fidelities which was republished in the 2004 anthology Shadows of the Night and adapted to a short film in 2019.

Couplings was the subject of an essay by Jonathan Harper in the 2010 non-fiction anthology The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.

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Recycling is booming business on Sweet Briar's campus
Posted on November 30, 2007 May 5, 2017 by Staff Writer
Sweet Briar's physical plant department announced today that the campus community has achieved across-the-board and dramatic increases in the College's recycling program.
Overall, the campus recycled approximately 60 percent more cardboard and mixed paper in 2007 than in 2006. Physical plant director Steve Bailey cites the collection of cardboard from the Prothro kitchen and the addition of 100 recycle bins in residential halls as the two primary reasons for the improvement.
This year plastic recycling was up by more than 150 percent over 2006 levels. The increase resulted from collecting materials bearing numbers 1 through 7 of the plastics recycling code. Previously only No. 1 and No. 2 plastics were collected.
No statistics for glass recycling were made available because some of the 2006 collections were combined with the current year's.
Bailey said the department is adding two additional recycling bins at the physical plant, and will notify campus residents when they are in place. The College also continues to collect recyclable metals and is working with a new company to provide a more cost-effective pick-up service.
"As the recycling program grows, we will expand our recycling to other areas such as the academic and administrative departments," Bailey said.
"Our students have played a major role in the dramatic increase in recycling from our residence halls and again, we appreciate everyone's effort in making the recycling program a success."


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It's the wax on, wax off, martial art loved by millions across the world who prefer a more sedate form of daily exercise.
But park the preconceptions, for Tai Chi is now believed to be as good or better than more rigorous forms of aerobic exercise for managing the symptoms of chronic pain.
Findings published in the British Medical Journal suggest the discipline is an important alternative strategy for patients with fibromyalgia - a long-term condition that causes widespread body pain.
It also leads to extreme tiredness, muscle stiffness, difficulty sleeping and depression and affects around 2-4% of the adult population worldwide.
Aerobic exercise is currently recommended as a standard treatment, but many patients find it difficult to exercise due to fluctuations in symptoms. Some trials have suggested that tai chi alleviates pain and improves physical and mental health in patients with fibromyalgia.
They identified 226 adults with fibromyalgia who had not participated in tai chi or other similar types of complementary and alternative medicine within the past six months. The average age of participants was 52 years, 92% were women, 61% were white, and average duration of body pain was nine years. At the start of the trial, participants completed the fibromyalgia impact questionnaire (FIQR), which scores physical and psychological symptoms such as pain intensity, physical function, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and overall wellbeing. Participants were then randomly assigned to either supervised aerobic exercise twice weekly for 24 weeks or to one of four tai chi interventions: 12 or 24 weeks of supervised tai chi completed once or twice weekly. Changes in symptom scores were assessed at 12, 24 and 52 weeks and participants were able to continue routine drugs and usual visits to their physicians throughout the trial. FIQR scores improved in all five treatment groups at each assessment, but the combined tai chi groups improved significantly more than the aerobic exercise group at 24 weeks. Tai chi also showed greater benefit when compared with aerobic exercise of the same intensity and duration (twice weekly for 24 weeks).


YAY! The Muse is back!!!! */* and the three spikes are very cool. Happy July to you.
I am trying not to laugh while writing this reply because I know that, at the time of all this happening, you probably weren't too happy. But, Muse, it's hard not to. I love your title!
You desert spoon must be an awesome sight. I'd love to see how big it is! Sorry your poor lizard has lost his home. Maybe he'll make his way back.
It is such a relief to see you are doing well, though.
The Desert Spoon is very impressive! Apparently it's in the same plant family as asparagus, if you can believe that. I like that comparison of fireworks to the geometry of the spoon plant. We have leeks and onions flowering now that have that same explosive look.
Sorry about the lizard relocating. Maybe it will come back.
BD, you are, as usual, quite nice to me. You may laugh all you like! I think the Lizard may have forgiven me. I hear rustling when I go out the front door. I am relieved as well.
I'll be darned, David, when the spikes are first sprouting, they look just like giant asparaguses (asperagi?) At least you can eat what grows in your garden. I wouldn't attempt that with the 'spoon, it's very likely to bite back! I'll post a Lizard summer update too! Thanks for being here.


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What degree do you need to be a herbalist?
There isn't one common training or certification program for herbalists, which makes their path different from a doctor who attends medical school. Some schools offer graduate-level programs in clinical herbal medicine, where students are encouraged to combine evidence-based science and traditional herbal medicine.
Can you major in herbology?
Although many programs offer instruction in herbology (which is also called phytotherapy in certain educational programs), bachelor's degree programs specifically in herbology are rare.
What jobs can you get with a herbology degree?
An Herbalist's Salary and Career Opportunities
Clinical Herbalism.
Making Herbal Products.
Herbal Products Retail, Marketing, and Sales.
Teaching + Herbal Education.
Herbal Writing + Blogging.
Herb Farming + Wildcrafting.
Herbal Research.
Miscellaneous Herbal Opportunities.
What do you call someone who studies Herbology?
An herbalist is someone who studies herbs and uses a variety of plants to foster health and healing. Many qualified herbalists are also licensed practitioners of other disciplines, such as acupuncture, naturopathy, or traditional Chinese medicine.
How do you become an Apothecarist?
To become a practicing herbalist, the American Herbalists Guild recommends a program of at least 1600 hours of study at a school of herbal medicine, including a 400-hour clinical requirement. Naturopathic physicians must complete a bachelor's degree as well as a 4-year Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) program.
How much do botanists make?
Depending on where they work and what they research, botanists can make $33,000 to $103,000 per year. Most botanists average $60,000 per year. If you want to explore a scientific career as a botanist, find your botanical niche and go wild.
What is a herbal consultant?
Herbalists are people who dedicate their lives to working with medicinal plants. They include native healers, scientists, naturopaths, holistic medical doctors, researchers, writers, herbal pharmacists, medicine makers, wildcrafters, harvesters and herbal farmers to name a few.
What kind of degree do you need to become an herbalist?
To gain certification students must pass exams in oriental medicine, Chinese herbology and biomedicine. Those interested in pursuing herbalism studies can work towards a certificate or master's degree in herbal science. Popular career choices of graduates include an herbal entrepreneur or herb cultivator.
What is the curriculum for an herbal medicine certificate?
The curriculum of an herbal medicine certificate program includes didactic coursework in herbs and herbal formulas, as well as herbal applications. Case studies are utilized to research drug and herb interactions.
What kind of Medicine is herbology used for?
Herbology is used in several different forms of holistic medicine, including Ayurvedic, Chinese and Western medicine, so training programs vary significantly.
Which is the best school for herbal education?
Directory of Herbal Education 1 Adiantum School of Plant Medicine. Natalie here, teacher at the Adiantum School. 2 Albuquerque Herbalism/Yerba Mansa Project. 3 American College of Healthcare Sciences. 4 Blackbird's Daughter Botanicals.
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The greatest chat show question ever?
On the chat show the, "Kumars at Number 42", they had an interview with Alan Alda, and the father asked him:
"I understand you started smoking a pipe at the age of three years, was that to make you look older Alda?"
Astrologist – somebody who hates somebody based on their star sign?
Could Astrology actually be true? It seems awfully unlikely but it is – of course – possible.
There are a variety of systems which exist in the world which sound almost laughably silly but help because they make things easier to remember. For example Feng Shui is effectively the practice of furniture arranging viewed as "what would a dragon do"? You might not think that dragons know about the arrangement of furniture but think of it another way. When you sit in a space and you feel too cramped what the arranger has forgotten is that people need space around them, when you look at a room that seems to be broken up and bitty you have forgotten that the room needs a visual sweep and that if you put a lamp in a precarious position you have forgotten that a dragons tail needs space when it goes round tricky corners. In fact it's much easier to remember the few key rules of dragons and how they work than all the specific rules of style. It's a form of systemization. It's kind of like not having to remember exactly how long an inch is but instead measuring the thing with the bit between your knuckle and the tip of your fattest finger – a kind of rule of thumb.
Astrology probably developed in a similar way. People for a variety of reasons will tend to be similar if similar things have happened to them, and similar things will tend to happen to them based on the times of the year that they are born. These could vary from temperature of the child in bed in the first few days of life to being one of the oldest or youngest in the school year. So the stars could have nothing to do with it working or not working they could just be the way that people identify which time of the year you were born.
Actually I've never read a horoscope and had it ever come true. I've never seen it and said, "oh yeah that's incredibly spooky". There is so much generalisation in there as to make it completely irrelevant and stupid. The part that is harder to throw away is the descriptions of your sign. Some descriptions of Aquarius, Taurus etc seem to be reasonably accurate of the kind of people who fit in that group. And I think that part of it is probably reasonably likely to be due to a combination of real world factors as described above (eg. temperature, age oldest to youngest in class, etc).
But I once suggested this to a keen astrologist and she said I was completely wrong. So I asked her for her "scientific" explanation of astrology. Her answer? She said that the human brain gets a real kick at the exact time of birth and that kick is incredibly subtly influenced by gravity. So that even the exact positions of far away stars can affect the way that the child's brain will grow from that moment on. Sounds unlikely to me but then I suppose – you never know.
People say that being a hostage is really difficult…
…but I think I could do it with my hands tied behind my back.
Thanks to Phil Nicol who just won the if.comedies which is the new name for the Perrier award. They really do have to change that name again, the new name is rubbish.
Why different species can't mate
Literally* the problem of the birds and the bees. I was asked the other day about why different kinds of birds can't mate. And it's a question that seems to divide people. Some people seem to think the answer is really obvious and others seem to think that they probably can.
This seems to all stem from a strange feeling that people have that birds might be a species rather than a class. So some people think that you can kind of go: cats, dogs, birds in a list and that this would be a sensible list. But it's not really true. You would be able to go: cats, dogs, chickens. These are all animals or species of animals, but the first list contains a class. So you should go, mammals, birds.
In fact birds are more diverse a class than mammals and yet we wouldn't think of cats and dogs mating (although I once met a person who thought that cats are female dogs but they were stupid). Compare a hummingbird to an emu would you think they could mate? (Although a lot of people think that emus and ostrich are closer to mammals than other birds they are still closer to dinosaurs than mammals actually.
*There was a story during the first world war of a village that wanted to show that it had more food and supplies than it actually had so that they enemy wouldn't want to attack it. But all they really had was one cow so they painted the cow a different pattern every day. The first time I heard somebody talking about this story was when they were talking about a painting of this incident. And this they had to say was a painting of a person literally painting a cow. It's a great example of somebody using literally correctly, because literally has become now an autoantoym which means that it means the opposite of itself. Other examples are dust. To dust can mean to remove particles from something and can also mean to add particles to something (first like cleaning, second like cooking). Literally means in actuality something and also can mean figuratively something. So you can use literally to say explain how when you translated something into English you translated it word for word, "he translated it from the Latin literally". Or you can use literally to make a metaphor stronger, like "he was literally ready to explode". The second meaning came about by accident and shouldn't really be acceptable as far as I'm concerned.
There are more here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html
That one day my four little children… whoops I don't have any children.
But I did have a dream the other day which was pretty odd. I was dreaming about track racing, more specifically I was dreaming about the four hundred meters race. Now in Formula 1 racing there is a specific thing that happens if it rains, you still go out and race but you use different tires. Obviously this situation was weighing on my mind at the time of this dream, as I noticed that it was raining at the track. And just as I wondered what they do in the running races when there is a wet race then I heard the commentator explaining that exact thing. This is what I heard:
"Well the race has been declared officially wet. So we are expecting that all of the racers will have gone for their wet trainer. The wet training shoe has spikes in it and also has been warmed so that it displaces more water than a usual cross shoe. But what's interesting today is that only three out of the four racers is using their allotted dog."
Yes that's right, "dog". As I looked down at the track I could see a set of dogs lying on the blocks of three of the racers, but not the fourth. I carried on listening:
"Yes, three of the competitors are racing as usual with dogs on their stocks, but not the racer in lane four. There are obvious advantages to having a dog on a wet track, especially fluffy dogs like these, they tend to soak up all of the water on the start line. But of course there are disadvantages, first some runners prefer to not have to stand on either side of the dog as they feel this unduly slows them as they start running. And of course, as Kriss Akabusi found to his chagrin back in the late eighties your start dog can also bite".
It was at this point I woke up. And the only thing that I can add right now is that I suddenly realised a few hours later that the dream didn't make sense. I mean of course it doesn't actually make sense, but it doesn't even make sense in it's own internal logic. If you were going to get a furry dog to lie on your starting blocks before the start of a race wouldn't you get them to move out of the way just at the last minute? Rather than standing on either side of the dog when basically you'd still be standing on the wet?
A male rabbit walks up to a bar and says "I'm not moving"
The bartender says, "I see, the buck stops here".
I was talking to a taxi driver the other day and he was telling me that he was going through a rough patch at home.
I like to get into conversations with taxi drivers about them rather than their political beliefs and so on. I think it's kind of interesting to talk to them about what makes them tick because frankly it must be kind of boring being a taxi driver. And there are the main thing that everyone likes talking about is – themselves. So I imagine that it gives them some fun and is an interesting diversion in their day. Of course it might be that every other punter is doing the same. Or it might be that underneath their brusque exterior they are essentially very shy people and that is why they chose a job where they spend no time with anyone but also hopelessly close to them?
So anyway for whatever reason I do it I tend to talk to taxi drivers about their personal lives, and you get some very interesting stories. And this guy, Paul was his name, was going through a rough patch at home. He had done something he said, he didn't want to say what it was, but he had done something a few years ago and his wife had never really forgiven him. And then his wife in retribution had cheated on him, which – he told me – had stretched things to breaking point. There had been a lot of rowing and shouting and this, he said, had been their way of things for the last few years. But a few months ago they had been on best behaviour as they had been called into the school of their child and had been told about how their child's behaviour had been getting worse for the last two years and had suddenly got so bad that they had been called in. So, he said, he wasn't now sure what it was that had caused it to happen but he thought it might have been because they were all dressed up to meet the headmaster, and had been on best behaviour themselves, but after the meeting they had sat in the car in the carpark and had a conversation.
The conversation, he said, had started because he had said to her, "You know how we're always saying that we're staying together for the kid? I'm starting to think that it might not be doing him much good".
And ever since the conversation things had started to get better. Because while they still argued, there was more chance of a conversation now then their had been. Things still weren't great though he said.
At this point I made a suggestion, it was just a little suggestion, but one that I'd been thinking about for a while. I suggested to him that he swap sides of the bed with his wife. I mean there's no reason why you have one side or another, people just start on one side or the other and then stick with it forever. And really, in the end, you're just getting stuck in a rut. And even though it seems such a small thing it does three things simultaneously. It literally gives you a new perspective, it moves you out of your comfort zone and if you argue with the idea then you know that there's no hope. What I mean by the last point is that there is no real reason not to try it, it might help it might not. But the person who suggests it is at least trying to make things better, the person who says no has no leg to stand on if they aren't even willing to change sides of the bed to save their relationship then the relationship is probably doomed.
He said he was going to try it.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber walks into a Burger King and says, "Give me two Whoppers".
And the guy behind the counter says, "You're good looking, and your musicals are great".
A pint of lager please
I've always believed that nobody in the world goes into a pub and orders a "pint of lager", but on soaps people do this all of the time. Surely the next question that the publican would have is "which lager would you like? We have several on". In soap operas I can sort of understand it because they don't want to be mentioning a brand all of the time. But I don't see why they don't do what Coronation Street does and invent a brewery that way people can simply order the imaginary beer from that place and not sound really silly.
The only time that I had seen people do something similar was when they would order a lager top (a ridiculous drink in my opinion which is simply beer with lemonade in the top). I have been told by some people that it is very refreshing drink, which may be true but I can't imagine it, personally I find lager a refreshing alternative to bitter on a Summers day so I can't see how making it even sweeter and fizzier is going to help the poor drink. But I do understand why if you're ordering a lager top you are effectively planning on ruining the taste of whatever beer you're ordering so you may as well have the cheapest one that there is, hence "lager top", although I have increasingly heard "Fosters top" being used which presumably is because the lemonade doesn't have enough sugar in it.
On a slight aside, I can understand the lager top thing being refreshing really, I know that other people have different tastes than me – so that's fine. The thing that annoys me about them is that certain people seem to think that putting a small amount of lemonade in the top of their beer renders them alcohol free. I mean it will reduce the alcohol level slightly but only by the inch of beer that they didn't put in. This is a big annoyance for me, and for a time when I would ask people why they were drinking a lager top and they told me that it was because they were driving I'd suggest to them that they should simply have an inch less than a pint in their beer – but somehow they felt that the dilutive effects were much stronger than they possibly could be. I think that the entire practice probably came from another horrible invention the lime top. This came from the Mexican beer trend of having lime in the neck of your beer (a very good thing) and applying it to regular beer by putting an inch of lime cordial in your pint of beer (a very bad thing).
But back to the main point of not ordering a specific beer. A few weeks ago I actually saw somebody do just this. They said, "a pint of lager please". And I almost spilled my pint! The waitress (for it was a pub with waitress service – oh yes) started reeling off names, he said, "whatever's cheapest luv". Which reminded me of an ordering I'd seen years and years before (this time somebody I knew) which went, "Which beer do you serve which has the most alcohol in it? I'll have that one". Which is sort of the same but hadn't triggered the concept in my mind because they didn't use the magic phrase "a pint of lager please".
There is an element of this conversation which revolves around the idea of beer as a "getting drunk delivery system". Some people in certain situations just want to get drunk. They don't care how they do it. But I'm not sure that's what's going on here. Because in that case they'd know what they were doing and sit outside with a can of Special Brew. Here they know they are in a pub and they know they want a lager but they haven't ever even bothered to learn what they like.
I wonder particularly if it is something about beverages which is the thing, or rather a thing that bugs me. Because it also bugs me when people say, "a tin of pop" or a "can of drink" surely you know what kind of drink you want. But on the other hand I will ask for a pack of crisps. Because sometimes you know you want a packet of crisps but you don't know which ones you want.
I have always explained this discrepancy by simply referring to the sheer number of crisps available and the fact that in pubs while they might have all the beers out on display for you to read out their names, the crisps are often hidden away.
It probably shouldn't annoy me, but it does. Because I want to believe that people drink beer because it's a nice drink, not just to get pissed. And if they don't even care which of the beers they are drinking then its certainly not going to help.
I only popped next door for a bowl of sugar
"Hi, I'm your new next door neighbor," I pointed to where next door was for dramatic effect.
It was only now that I looked up at my neighbor and realised what she looked like. She was young, blonde and pretty and was wearing a negligee* which left literally one thing to the imagination, her left arm. Her arm was bandaged, mummy style, from her nape to the tips of her fingers.
She saw me staring at her arm and seemed about to explain what had happened when I said, "please don't explain it. Otherwise you really will leave nothing to the imagination".
She looked back at me with that quizzical look that some people look at me with and said, "I bet you're good with knobs".
"I beg your pardon", I seemed, suddenly, to say.
"Well," she said coquettishly, "I didn't answer the door, you opened it. And this door hasn't opened by human force since the early eighties. We use the back for access".
I realised she was playing with me, and I decided not to play along.
"Now look here", I said, while I was pointing at a crack in the door, "I didn't force entry".
"I know," she replied, "you look innocent enough".
"I just wanted to borrow a bowl of sugar," I had even brought the bowl, and as if to prove the point I brandished it at the appropriate moment in the sentence.
"Oh," she said in that disappointed way that some people are terribly practiced at. It was as though, all of a sudden, I was the thirtieth person that day who had ambled past wanting sugar, when moments before she had genuinely thought it all a ruse.
"Do you have a picture of your wife on you?" she asked naturally.
Naturally, as an unmarried gentleman I did not, and I said so, "Sorry I don't".
"Who, may I ask bought you that china if not your wife?"
"Oh it was my mother, years ago, she's dead now of course".
"Oh a mothers boy, looking for a replacement".
And with that she grabbed hold of my bowl and said, "well lets see where this take us".
* negligently as it was pretty cold that morning.


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As officials warned of a quick spread in Beijing following the country's unexpected abandonment of its zero-tolerance policy, China's top health agency declared Wednesday that it is now "impossible" to track the exact amount of COVID-19 infections in the nation. After nearly three years of trying to eradicate the virus, China this week relaxed its mass testing and quarantine regulations. As a result, officially reported illnesses dropped sharply from their record highs reached last month.
Furthermore, because testing was no longer required across the majority of the country, China's National Health Commission stated on Wednesday that their figures no longer correctly reflected reality. Many asymptomatic people are no longer engaging in nucleic acid testing, therefore it is difficult to accurately estimate the exact number of asymptomatic infected people, according to a statement from the NHC. The announcement comes as Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said that new ailments were "rapidly growing" in the capital, according to state media.
Chinese leaders are adamant about moving forward with openness; on Tuesday, the Beijing tourist bureau announced that tour groups will once again be allowed to enter and exit the city. However, the nation is currently dealing with an increase in cases that it is ill-prepared to handle, with millions of frail old people who are still not completely immunized and underfunded institutions that lack the means to handle an anticipated inflow of infected patients.
Many people who are experiencing symptoms have chosen to self-medicate at home as the nation navigates a hard route away from its "zero-tolerance" policy towards living with the illness. Long pharmacy lineups and sold-out cold medications have been complaints from Beijing residents, while the Chinese search engine giant Baidu reported a 430 percent increase in searches for the fever-relieving drug Ibuprofen over the previous week. Rapid antigen testing and treatments are in such high demand that there is now a black market with exorbitant costs, and purchasers are forced to purchase the products from "dealers" whose connections are circulated among WeChat groups.
The local Beijing News claimed on Tuesday that authorities are clamping down and fining one Beijing company 300,000 yuan ($43,000) for selling test kits at exorbitant prices. People are now turning to social media to brag about their test results and describe their illness in great detail, marking a sea change in a society where the virus was formerly taboo and recovered patients suffered prejudice.
User "Nina" from Beijing's Xiaohongshu social network advised people who were not yet sick to add sugar and salt to their lemon water after their body temperature was above 37.2 degrees.
On Tuesday, China reported 2,291 additional confirmed cases, a fraction of the 30,000 new infections per day that the nation was reporting before lifting the bulk testing mandate. Beijing has made a major effort to persuade the public that it can withstand the possible dangers of loosening regulations and still bring the second-largest economy in the world back on track after China abruptly changed direction and relaxed its zero-tolerance stance to COVID last week.
Previously grim predictions have become downright upbeat: According to one of the foremost experts on the coronavirus in China, COVID-19 is in its "final stage" and will soon turn into a treatable seasonal sickness. Another well-known Chinese researcher projected that the virus's transmission would peak in a month. Given that the most recent COVID variations are less harmful and that officials claim the nation's medical preparation would guard against the worst-case scenarios, a leading state TV news anchor claimed that "we are on the road" to ending the crisis.
Even with such guarantees, China is unsure of how the upcoming months will turn out. It will be challenging to evaluate Beijing's response to the upcoming wave of COVID infections due to the opaque and inaccurate nature of the information. The government's need to seem respectable following a humiliating retreat from its defining pandemic strategy will only cloud the situation.
There are already indications that China is using propaganda to support the idea that the situation is under control. Furthermore, without a steady stream of information, foreign companies and investors are forced to guess how long the country's economy will take to recover. Due to the government's relaxation of mass testing regulations and the voluntary reporting of at-home test results, it is difficult to even answer the most basic question regarding the number of COVID-infected individuals in China at this time.
Tuesday saw China report 2,291 fresh confirmed cases; down from the nearly 30,000 new infections it recorded before removing the bulk testing mandate. After China's National Health Commission said on Wednesday that it will stop reporting asymptomatic infections, which constituted the great majority of positive results in the past, case counts are certain to be further lowered.
Anecdotal reports of a rise in positive cases and overflowing hospitals with patients waiting to be treated contradict the decline in recorded illnesses. Due to the shift in testing policy, several towns and counties all around the nation are promoting the idea that testing should only be done when necessary on official social media. Jörg Wuttke, head of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, declared that the data were useless.
For a nation with a population of 1.4 billion, some of China's data goes beyond what is reasonable. China said that after lifting pandemic restrictions six days ago, there have been no deaths associated with COVID. In contrast, the US reported 469 COVID-related fatalities just on Tuesday.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, virologists have questioned China's official mortality statistics and questioned how the nation's hospitals categorize COVID fatalities. Chinese hospitals generally attribute fatalities to preexisting or chronic conditions, such as cancer or a heart ailment, rather than mentioning those who died after catching COVID-19 in official records, as is the custom in other nations, they added.
Although China is not the only nation that underreports COVID cases, it is still exceedingly challenging to comprehend. The government only publishes the daily change in the number of cases, not the overall number, when reporting "severe" COVID outbreaks. China reports that there were three more serious incidents on Tuesday than there were on Monday.
It is difficult to predict how long it will take for the economy to recover due to the absence of trustworthy data on COVID cases. With both the United States and Europe headed for recession, the demand for Chinese exports, a solid foundation of the global economy, is suffering. The global picture does not appear good.
The continual fear of lockdowns and erratic quarantines under China's no-holds-barred COVID policy also kept customers out of businesses, chained tourists to their homes, and deterred diners from eating out for the better part of three years. Even though patrons are now able to leave the establishment without restriction, there is still a lot of uncertainty regarding the future. Since there are still no clients, Zheng Jingrong, a Beijing shop owner who offers handcrafted imported clothing, said she hasn't bothered to restart her business.
She stated, "My impression right now is that everyone is frightened of testing positive, and the timid do not go out." Although loosening the nation's COVID regulations is a positive first step, Zheng added that "nothing is definite at the time" and that "the government has to do more to help common citizens and small companies."
Nomura, a Japanese firm, employs Ting Lu as the head economist for China. He said he wasn't "very hopeful" about a swift rebound in the Chinese economy because he anticipates ongoing disruptions from an overburdened healthcare system and a rise in infections. He continued by predicting that the economy's pent-up demand will be "pretty weak" in 2019 following three years of financial ruin caused by lockdowns in China. No nation of this scale has ever changed course so abruptly, going from a full-on COVID attack to learning to live with the virus, which contributes to the ambiguity around how China will leave "zero COVID." Long-standing conventions are evolving every day.
As of last week, asymptomatic or mild cases were no longer necessitating hospital admissions. The lifting of all limitations on buying painkillers and flu medications coincided with a surge in demand for fever reducers and even certain traditional Chinese remedies. A trip monitoring app, one of several smartphone applications the Chinese government uses to monitor Chinese people's travels and determine their COVID risk, was also deactivated on Tuesday.
Before the massive public outcry over the government's harsh COVID measures two months ago, China's leader Xi Jinping declared that combating COVID required an "all-out battle" since it presented such a serious threat to public health. It's incredible how the entire control system has vanished in just two weeks," Wuttke said.
According to Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, Australia and New Zealand were able to abandon their zero-COVID goals last year with some success since they had put in place "good immunization programs with effective vaccinations."
Both of those considerations, nonetheless, are debatable in the case of China. In China, just 40% of those over 80 and almost two-thirds of those over 60 had gotten a booster injection. When it comes to China's domestic vaccinations, which employ inactivated viruses and have been proven to be less effective than their international counterparts that use more modern mRNA technology, the World Health Organization has said that boosters are crucial. China's health authority said on Wednesday that it was introducing a second vaccination booster for high-risk groups and adults over 60.
The "potential for a very major public health disaster" exists in the absence of comprehensive coverage and a very efficient vaccination, according to Woolhouse. The COVID limitations harmed Zhu Yan's hostel beside Qionghai Lake, a popular tourist attraction in Sichuan province. She said that because people are worried about getting the virus, there are still no visits. She acknowledged that it could take some time for both the economy and her business to revive, but at least she was feeling optimistic once more.
The 40-year-old Zhu expressed her desire for China to achieve herd immunity so that things could get back to normal. She anticipates testing positive shortly since she believes that getting COVID early is preferable. It's not conceivable to imprison everyone at home for all time, is it? Said Zhu. "You cannot escape what must happen; it will arrive." Everyone must follow this road for China to resume its regular business and way of life.
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Q: Navigation bar visibility on Samsung S8 As many of you already know, Samsung has introduced option to hide navigation bar by double-clicking on small dot in bottom-left corner.
I need to figure out if it is hidden or not, so I tried to do that by getting its height.
It looks like it always 144, no matter if it's visible or not.
Samsung does in its way, so probably this is not a good way to go.
Is there a way to figure out if navigation bar is hidden or not on Android devices?

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