The Minnesota Broadband Task Force met today. They had a quick check in with subcommittees on their recommendations for the legislature. Continued funding for the Office of Broadband Development and for grants were popular themes.
Also they heard from Chris Buse from State Cybersecurity. They have a plan to improve security – one bit of advice. The movement to improve cybersecurity starts with better supporting IT.
Got recognition for the program from NATOA.
MN opted into FirstNet. Now the State can move forward with AT&T and FirstNet. It should have a positive impact on rural broadband in the future.
The biggest thing is going through grant applications. We are hoping to make an announcement around Thanksgiving – at least by the end of the year. The challenge deadline is next Monday.
Jane has been working on the broadband conference Oct 25-26. Many grantees will be talking about their projects. Also presenting will be 3 WISP providers.
Working on BDAC. Minnesota is getting attention for what we are doing here.
They are a part of the MTA conference. I will connected them with school folks and e-rate possibilities.
Can we know what the absolute unserved number in the state?
OBD doesn't have an answer now – but lots of discussion points.
There are a lot of moving pieces. We don't know which CAF deployments will meet these standards. We know there are OBD-grant projects being deployed.
The Task Force talked to a few consultants about getting a new estimate – but no one has been able to say yes. There are too many variables, some folks no longer look at this topic. Network chosen a variable, terrain is a variable.
Big question – does the big question or cost still matter? The answer may be more nuanced now.
We don't' know the future beyond the TF – we have one more legislative session with this permutation. We want to be able to provide info that may help going forward.
The difficulty is trying to plan for the future – like we've done with 2026.
Maybe we can tackle the cost with info from OBD. Each program has a cost per home – can we extrapolate?
Should we count satellite? Maybe as a footnote – but the latency doesn't make the standards we've set.
Satellite is enough for people who just want email. But you can't run a business.
Original estimate to close the gap ($1-3 billion) is stale. Can we update that number?
We want to talk about the technologies we heard from and work on an appendix material rather than make recommendations. We would discuss what we learned throughout the year. This could feed into the 2018 Task Force. We can also feed in some of what we learn today.
We want to support a cyber security request for the State.
On healthcare – 2 recommendation 1) support grant funding because broadband is a cornerstone in good health 2) cover pharmacists working with telemedicine for opiod tapering. Use telemedicine to get people off opiods. All healthcare providers can bill for telemedicine but not pharmacists. We don't' know if the pharmacists will ask for this. Probably not.
It might be nice to hear from some pharmacists. We could be in a good position to support them rather than take the lead.
If broadband support opiod treatment – that's a good ROI for broadband.
We had put out 4 recommendation based on paste reports. We made a matrix of which recommendations had related to accessibility & Adoption. We have altered our plan based on the decision to pare back the report this year.
What do we mean by accessibility, affordability and adoption? Community perspective, consumer perspective?
Want to give a nod to previous recommendations (such as gov computers refurbished & redistributed) and say they still have merit but given budget we step back. It will serve as a reminder.
We remembered that we only want to add content that relates to the recommendations – fund the grant, fund the OBD.
Technology is awesome – we have increasing levels of power – but there is a dark side of it.
It's a living document – that gets updated annually – including tracking progress made.
Having a plan bonded a community. We have 60 security professionals.
Got security professionals from private sector to help too. They are concerned and therefore happy to help.
The risk and responsibility need to be shared with departments outside of security.
Getting talent – they have an awesome program that involves scholarships for service. Also looking to become the entry level employer of choice.
What's the best thing we can do to improve security? Support IT.
Question – are there initiatives to bring in women and people of color?
At the broader level, yes.
Question – how can we support your efforts – any specific recommendations?
Yes – need to find a way to get state government in better shape. We need funding.
We need to support cities, counties, higher ed. We need to look at government more holistically.
Citizens don't care which part of government has their data – they want it to be safe.
The master plan talks about opportunistic things we should think about looking forward.
Question – does the data practice act/open meeting law impede your work?
No – not a lot of issues. We have compliance that gets difficult but the ability to communicate risk with real examples can be a challenge.
Disappointing legislative session; we got nothing. Legislative commission on cybersecurity (Sen Paul Anderson) – didn't come to pass – couldn't get a hearing in the House. We needed a forum where we could really talk about down and dirty risks.
Question – At some point there will be a big enough attack – then the legislators will get it.


AN ocean of red erupted beneath the Spitfire that guards the entrance of Bull Creek's Air Force Memorial Estate yesterday as residents and their families banded together to honour the memory of the fallen.
The retirement village houses about 600 people — including many ex-service personnel and their partners — and in January a small group of residents led by Lyn Armitage set out to knit 1000 poppies to mark the Armistice Day centenary.
"We got to 1000 pretty quickly and then someone said '2000 would be good', and then it sort of went on from there," Mrs Armitage said.
Before long more than 100 people were contributing their creations, some coming from as far afield as Albany and even NSW.
"A lot of people who live here are actually farming folk and have got their friends and family on board so we've had outside donations from all over the State and country," Mrs Armitage said.
"Once we got to 10,000 I decided I had to stop it," Mrs Armitage said.
The field of 10,000 poppies was carefully installed yesterday ahead of today's memorial service.
"We decided we wanted to remember the fallen and our friends that are gone and could think of no better way to do that," Mrs Armitage said.


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AUSTIN, Texas — Let's say you're a credit card company known for a certain level of class and distinction that's trying to promote a new Twitter tie-in, and you want to get the word out in a way that doesn't suck. What do you do?
[bug id="sxsw2012″] If you're American Express, you hire Jay-Z — the one guy who, when he speaks, everyone listens.
American Express brought in the rapper, long known for dropping references to the credit company and its uber-fancy "black cards" (four references by our count), to hold a concert here at the South by Southwest Interactive festival Monday. The product being promoted was American Express' new Sync service, which allows cardholders to link their cards to their Twitter accounts and earn discounts for sending tweets with particular hashtags.
In a set that was much more lengthy than the average South by Southwest performance, Hova stayed on stage for nearly an hour and a half. The show took place at the Moody Theater, which also serves as the home for the Austin City Limits television show. The rapper, wearing Air Yeezy sneakers, barreled through a set of his biggest hits, including "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder." But the highlight was "Glory," the song he wrote for his daughter with Beyoncé Knowles, Blue Ivy. (The song was trending on Twitter during the show with fans requesting the rapper perform it.)
Many of the product launches and promotional parties happening here this week feature performances by big names from the music world. These shows often have a whiff of insincerity, as the performers and the attendees are acutely aware they're only fanning the flames of hype for their corporate sponsors. If Monday's performance proved anything, it was that not only can Jay-Z command a crowd pretty much anywhere, his clout (not Klout, mind you) is so high within the music, tech and business worlds, he can pull off a promotion for a product launch without making it feel like a gimmick.
"When we approached it, we were thinking, 'How do we mix music and technology and interactive and put it all together, but really in a way that stands out,'" said Leslie Berland, American Express's senior vice president of digital partnerships, in an interview before the performance. "So Jay-Z was just perfect."
Jay-Z's clout is so high within the music, tech and business worlds, he can pull off a promotion for a product launch without making it feel like a gimmick.
Sync, which launched last week, allows card-holders to link their AmEx (black or otherwise) to their Twitter accounts and get discount coupons for purchases when they tweet certain hashtags (#AmexWholeFoods, for example). At the SXSW conference, cardholders could sign up with Sync on Saturday to get access to Hova's show, which was organized in conjunction with Austin City Limits Live.
Of course, it wouldn't be a American Express event, or a Jay-Z event for that matter, if there wasn't at least a little exclusivity. The Moody Theater venue only holds a little more than 2,700 people, so essentially only about 1,000 American Express cardholders and their +1s made it in to the show.
In order to reach the rest of the world, though, Monday night's concert was broadcast onto a digital billboard on Austin's infamous Sixth Street district, and also live-streamed over YouTube. The show is now available on YouTube as an on-demand stream.
Monday's gala was one of only a few shows Jay-Z (known as Shawn Carter to the IRS) has performed since the birth of Blue Ivy™, who arrived in January. The most recent was his much-ballyhooed show in February at Carnegie Hall, which benefited the United Way of New York City. Proceeds from Monday's show (presumably) benefited the Carter family and American Express.
Check out photos from Jay-Z's performance at SXSW in the gallery above.
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It was built many years before 1965 of course. The only memory of mine is just some trivia : It was featured in the opening sequence of Danger Man 1960 and also in Cliff Richard's film The Young Ones in 1961.
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Disjunção prismática, ou disjunção colunar, é a designação dada em geologia e geomorfologia às formações constituídas por grandes prismas de rocha separadas por diaclases paralelas que se formam em resultado das tensões que se geram durante o processo de arrefecimento de massas de magma ou lava. Dada a sua origem, as formações colunares resultantes ocorrem exclusivamente em rochas ígneas do tipo vulcânico e subvulcânico, sendo mais frequente nos basaltos, especialmente quando em escoadas lávicas espessas, em lagos de lava ou no material que preenche as chaminés vulcânicas. Quando o material arrefece em camadas de espessura uniforme, as diaclases formam-se perpendicularmente à superfície de arrefecimento e resultam na formação de estruturas colunares aprumadas, de lados perfeitamente paralelos e secção perfeitamente hexagonal, razão pela qual as colunas de 6 lados são as de ocorrência mais comum. Quando a espessura varia lateralmente, formam-se colunas que podem variar em direcção e em espessura e apresentar diferente número de lados, mais frequentemente de 5 a 7.

Descrição
É um tipo de ocorrência geológica que acontece durante o processo de arrefecimento do magma ou da lava. Com o arrefecimento, o material rochoso resultante da solidificação contrai-se gerando tensões internas que se traduzem em forças que geram planos de fractura, denominados juntas ou diaclases, perpendiculares à superfície principal de arrefecimento. Essas fracturas estendem-se pela massa rochosa adentro, resultando na formação de colunas paralelas umas as outras e perpendiculares à superfície do fluxo, sendo estas colunas geralmente poligonais (frequentemente com seis lados).

As colunas podem variar entre os mais de 3 metros e alguns centímetros de diâmetro e podem atingir mais de 30 metros de comprimento. Tipicamente as colunas são estruturas prismáticas paralelas entre si, de tamanho relativamente uniforme e direitas, mas podem ser curvadas e variar em diâmetro. O número de lados de cada um dos prismas pode variar de 3 a 8 faces, sendo 6 faces a tipologia mais comum.

A disjunção prismática pode ocorrer em escoadas de lava, lâminas de intrusão, diques, intrusões superficiais e despósitos de ignimbritos.

As rochas ígneas nas quais se desenvolvem estruturas colunares com maior frequência são as rochas basálticas, dando lugar às conhecidas colunatas basálticas, mas podem ocorrer em rochas vulcânicas e subvulcânicas com outras composições, nomeadamente andesítica, dacítica, riolítica e lamproítica.

Entre os exemplos mais conhecidos de formações geológicas exibindo disjunções prismáticas contam-se o Monumento Nacional Devil's Postpile, o Monumento Nacional Torre do Diabo, a Rocha dos Bordões e a Calçada dos Gigantes.

A semelhança destas formações com um órgão de tubos conduziu a que estas estruturas fossem denominadas na linguagem corrente por órgãos, o que se reflecte na toponímia de diversas regiões, com destaque para as Canárias (Los Organos, La Gomera) e Cabo Verde (São Lourenço dos Órgãos).

Ocorrências de disjunção prismática

Os basaltos colunares ocorrem com alguma frequência dando origem a estruturas que pelas suas características aparentem ser obra de processos não naturais. Constituem assim postos importantes de visitação, estando nalguns casos associadas a pontos turísticos de grande relevo.

Nos territórios lusófonos existem interessantes ocorrências na Rocha dos Bordões (ilha das Flores, Açores), na ilha do Porto Santo, na ilha Terceira (costa da Fajãzinha da Agualva e bordo sueste da Caldeira Guilherme Moniz) e no Penedo de Lexim (Mafra). Outros lugares famosos incluem a Calçada do Gigante na Irlanda do Norte e a Gruta de Fingal (Fingal's Cave) na ilha de Staffa, Escócia. Também são famosas as ocorrências na Devils Tower em Wyoming, no Devils Postpile na Califórnia nos basaltos de inundação da bacia do Rio Columbia no Oregon, Washington e Idaho.

Rocha dos Bordões

A Rocha dos Bordões, assim conhecida pelas enormes colunas de basalto que quando vistas à distâncias parecem gigantescos bordões, é uma formação geológica constituída por um espesso manto de traquibasalto, localizado no sítio denominado por Cabo Baixo das Casas, na freguesia do Mosteiro, concelho das Lajes das Flores, Açores.

Penedo de Lexim

O Penedo do Lexim é uma estrutura geológica localizada no concelho de Mafra, actualmente classificada como geomonumento, constituída pelos restos de uma chaminé vulcânica na qual o magma sofreu arrefecimento lento e gerou minerais bem desenvolvidos num rochedo formado por colunas prismáticas. Para além do seu interesse geológico, é um importante sítio arqueológico, considerado um dos pontos-chave para a compreensão do Neolítico e da Idade do Cobre na Península Ibérica. Foi utilizado durante o Neolítico final, Calcolítico e Idade do Bronze, épocas das quais restam artefactos diversificados.

Torre do Diabo

A Torre do Diabo (, no estado de Wyoming (Estados Unidos) é uma estrutura subvulcânica com cerca de 40 milhões de anos de idade e 382 metros  de altura. É consenso entre os geólogos que as rochas que formam a Devils Tower solidificaram a partir de uma intrusão, mas não é claro que o magma que a formou tenha atingido a superfície. A maioria das colunas apresenta 6 lados, mas ocorrem prismas com 4, 5 e 7 lados.

Calçada do Gigante

A Calçada do Gigante (; ) na costa norte do Condado de Antrim da Irlanda do Norte foi criado por actividade vulcânica, ocorrida há cerca de 60 milhões de anos atrás, e consiste em mais de 40 000 colunas. Conta a lenda que o gigante Finn McCool construiu a Calçada do Gigante como um calçada para chegar à Escócia.

Traps do Decão

Os basaltos de inundação do final do Cretácio que formam os Traps do Decão (Deccan, Índia) constituem uma das mais extensas províncias vulcânicas da Terra. Nas gigantescas formações basálticas daquela região encontram-se alguns exemplos de basaltos colunares, com destaque para os basaltos das Ilhas Santa Maria (em canarês: ಸೈಂಟ್ ಮೇರೀಸ್ ದ್ವೀಪ), no estado de Karnataka.

Marte

Foram descobertas no planeta Marte diversas áreas de exposição de basalto colunar nas imagens da câmara High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), enviada a bordo do Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Ver também
 Rocha dos Bordões
 Calçada dos Gigantes
 Pitão vulcânico de Cancarix
 Prisma (geologia)

Ligações externas

Aydin, A., and J. Zhong  (nda) Columnar Joints, Multiple Joint Sets,  Rock Fracture Knolwedgebase, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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Vulcanologia
Petrologia

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OJ Simpson granted parole in armed robbery case, to be freed as early as October
Sports AFP Jul 21, 2017 09:45:33 IST
Los Angeles: Disgraced American football legend OJ Simpson, whose 1995 acquittal for double murder polarized the nation, was granted his release from prison on Thursday after serving nearly nine years behind bars for armed robbery.
A four-member parole board in the western US state of Nevada voted unanimously to free the 70-year-old Simpson after a tense public hearing broadcast live by news networks.
An emotional Simpson, who bowed his head and mouthed "thank you" to the parole commissioners, could walk free as early as 1 October.
O.J. Simpson reacts during his parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Centre in Lovelock, Nevada. Reuters
"I've done my time, you know?" he told the parole board, which deliberated in private for just 30 minutes before announcing its decision. "I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anybody can."
Simpson was found not guilty in 1995 of the grisly murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a male companion, Ron Goldman, in a racially charged case that transfixed America and became known as the "Trial of the Century."
But the former National Football League running back and actor was sent to prison in 2008 for his role in a 2007 armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas resort.
Simpson claimed at his trial that he was just seeking to recover personal items from the dealers and he repeated that explanation on Thursday.
"It was my property," he said. "I wasn't there to steal from anybody."
Simpson initially did not express any remorse for his actions but eventually offered to the parole board that he was "sorry that things turned out the way they did."
"I had no intent to commit a crime," he said. "If I would have made a better judgment back then, none of this would have never happened."
Simpson appeared before the parole board by video conference from Lovelock Correctional Center, the medium-security prison where he has been serving his sentence.
Seated behind a plain wooden table, he was wearing standard-issue blue jeans, a light blue button-down shirt, a white T-shirt and white sneakers.
Simpson walked stiffly — the legacy of his years on the football field — but appeared to have lost weight and looked healthier than during his last parole board appearance four years ago.
"I've spent nine years making no excuses about anything," Simpson said. "My commitment to change is to be a better person.
"Right now I'm at a point in my life where all I want to do is spend time, as much time as I can, with my children and my friends," he said, before adding jokingly, "believe it or not I do have some real friends."
Simpson said he intended to settle in Florida upon his release.
Also present at Lovelock was Simpson's eldest daughter Arnelle, who said she just wants her father to "come home" and held her hand over her mouth as the commissioners voted one-by-one for his release.
Simpson's sister Shirley wept openly.
Simpson was convicted in October 2008 of armed robbery, assault, kidnapping and other offenses after he and five associates, two of whom were armed, ambushed the two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room.
He was sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison and a maximum of 33 years.
Bruce Fromong, one of the dealers, testified on Simpson's behalf on Thursday, saying his 'friend of almost 27 years' deserved a second chance.
"I'm here to say that I've known O.J. for a long time," Fromong said. "I don't feel that he's a threat to anyone out there. He's a good man."
The other dealer, Alfred Beardsley, died in November 2015.
Speaking to reporters following the decision, Simpson's attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, said he had not been entirely confident going into the hearing that his client would receive parole.
"Mr. Simpson is obviously a very polarizing figure," he said. "He's very, very well loved. But also he's held in contempt by a lot of people."
Orenthal James "O.J." Simpson shot to fame in the 1970s with the NFL's Buffalo Bills after winning the prestigious Heisman Trophy, the award for the best player in American collegiate football, as a running back at the University of Southern California.
He retired from football in 1979 after setting numerous rushing records and went on to become an advertising pitchman and actor ("The Towering Inferno," "The Naked Gun").
In June 1994, Simpson's 35-year-old ex-wife, Brown Simpson, and Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home.
Simpson was arrested after a low-speed car chase through Los Angeles that was broadcast live by television stations and watched by millions.
He was acquitted in October 1995 after a nine-month trial, a verdict that was greeted with disbelief by many Americans.
Public views on the African-American athlete's guilt or innocence divided sharply along racial lines.
Simpson was subsequently found liable for the deaths in a 1997 civil suit and was ordered to pay damages totaling $33.5 million to the families of the victims.
Simpson has been out of the limelight while behind bars, but fascination with his story lives on.
"O.J.: Made in America," a nearly eight-hour documentary about his murder trial, won the best documentary Oscar in February.
And a television mini-series, "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" starring Cuba Gooding Jr as the former NFL star, won nine Emmy awards.
Updated Date: Jul 21, 2017 09:45:33 IST
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Christmas Ghost Stories
The tradition of gathering around a camp fire to tell scary stories is probably as old as mankind. During the long, cold winter nights the ancient people of Europe would gather together to drink and entertain each other with tales of the gods, the ancestors and the spirits. Less than two months after celebrating Samhain (Halloween) they celebrated the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, referred to as Yule in northern Europe. The festival celebrated the return of the sun and like Samhain, it was believed to be a time when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead was at its thinnest. Though the pagan festival was later replaced with Christmas, many of the traditions of Yule continued and were incorporated into Christmas celebrations, including the telling of ghost stories.
One of the earliest mentions of supernatural storytelling during the winter period is in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta (1589)
"Now I remember those old women's words
Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales
And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night"
In William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale (1623), Prince Maximillius says,
"A sad tale's best for winter; I have one / Of sprites and goblins."
An early example of a ghost story being printed at Christmas time is an account of the ghost of Mrs Veal which appeared in the new magazine The Loyal Post: with Foreign and Inland Intelligence, on Christmas Eve, 1705. The story was later taken up by Daniel Defoe in 1706, in his pamphlet The True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal, the next Day after Her Death to one Mrs Bargrave at Canterbury, the 8th September 1705. It may also be no accident that Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, recognised as the first Gothic novel, was first published on Christmas Eve, 1764.
In The Sketch of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819) American author Washington Irving describes the scene of a traditional English Christmas.
"When I returned to the drawing-room, I found the company seated around the fire, listening to the parson, who was deeply ensconced in a high-backed oaken chair … From this venerable piece of furniture, with which his shadowy figure and dark weazen face so admirably accorded, he was dealing forth strange accounts of popular superstitions and legends of the surrounding country, with which he had become acquainted in the course of his antiquarian researches."
Henry James used the telling of Christmas ghost stories to frame the story he told in The Turn of the Screw (1898).
"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child."
Christmas ghost stories became very popular during the Victorian period, in part due to advances in publishing which made printing cheaper, combined with greater levels of literacy and the rise of the middle classes. As a result a greater number of periodicals were printed. Early in the nineteenth century Christmas literary annuals were sure to contain a Gothic ghost story, as well as special Christmas editions of publications such as Household Words and All the Year Round. Many credit Charles Dickens with the popularity of the Christmas ghost story, most notably in A Christmas Carol published in 1843. In The Christmas Tree (1859) Dickens sets the scene for telling ghost stories,
"There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire."
Other ghost stories written by Dickens include The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), The Haunted Man (1848) and the short story The Signalman (1866). Authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell also began to write ghost stories especially for Christmas.
However the author best known for his chilling tales was M R James. James was a medieval scholar and a Provost at Eton college, but in his spare time he would write ghost stories to entertain his companions at Christmas. In the preface to Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) James said,
"I wrote these stories at long intervals, and most of them were read to patient friends, usually at the seasons of Christmas."
The Christmas ghost tale tradition was brought into the modern era (on British television at least) with Jonathan Miller's 1968 adaption of James' story Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, for the arts documentary series Omnibus. Following its success the BBC produced the series A Ghost Story for Christmas, which adapted more of James' stories, such as The Stalls of Barchester (1971), A Warning to the Curious (1972) and Lost Hearts (1973). They also included an adaptation of Dickens' The Signalman (1976) starring Denholm Elliott. During this time other supernatural dramas were commissioned including Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape which was broadcast during the Christmas of 1972.
A Ghost Story for Christmas was revived in 2005 with adaptations of James' A View from a Hill and Number 13 and in 2010 with a modern reworking of Whistle and I'll Come to You, starring John Hurt. In 2013 Mark Gatiss, actor and writer best known for the TV series The League of Gentlemen and Sherlock, wrote and directed an adaptation of The Tractate Middoth. In many interviews Gatiss has expressed an intense desire to continue the tradition of producing Christmas ghost stories for television. Gatiss also wrote the three part ghost story Crooked House which was shown during the Christmas of 2008. Though there have been no new Christmas ghost stories in recent years, the fact that A Ghost Story for Christmas continues to appear on television each year, as well as new print editions of James' stories, including a graphic novel, shows that there is a continued appetite, stretching back thousands of years, for spooky storytelling during winter and at Christmas.
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The Horror of Bette Davis
Though famous for her dramatic roles Bette Davis, towards the end of her career, found herself an unexpected niche within the horror genre. "Hag horror" or "psycho-biddy" horror flourished during the 1960s and 1970s, featuring famous actresses from Hollywood's golden age like Tallulah Bankhead, Shelley Winters, Joan Crawford and of course Bette Davis. They were a combination of Gothic, thriller and melodrama, with the stories centering around the mental instability of older women. Early incarnations of this figure can be seen in Dickens' Miss Havisham and in Tennessee Williams' Blanche Dubois. Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) can also be seen as an early influence. Bette Davis however proved to be an exemplar in the role.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is a psychological horror/thriller credited with creating the "psycho-biddy" sub-genre, directed by Robert Aldrich. The story c…
Retro Halloween Music
The 1950s and 1960s saw an explosion of fun novelty Halloween music. So to continue with my Vintage Halloween Playlist here are a list of songs from the Crooners, the Groovers, the Rock 'n Rollers and the Doo-Wops.
1950s Little Demon – Screamin' Jay Hawkins (circa. 1950s)
Haunted House – Johnny Fuller (circa. 1950s) It was also recorded by Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Halloween – Betty Grable (1950) From the film My Blue Heaven
He's a Demon, He's a Devil, He's a Doll - Betty Hutton (1950)
Haunted Heart - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (1950)
Yodeling Ghost – Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters (1951)
Punky Punkin – Fran Allison (1952) Also recorded by Rosemary Clooney
The Wobblin' Goblin With The Broken Broom - Rosemary Clooney (1952)
Trick or Treat - Paul Smith and His Orchestra (1952)
My Friend the Ghost – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (1953)
Nightmare - Jack Turner (1953)
I Want to be Evil - Eartha Kitt (1953)
The Ghost Song – Salty Holmes (1954)
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater – Martha …
Pre-Raphaelite Hair
One of the most recognisable features of a Pre-Raphaelite painting is the long, beautiful hair of the woman depicted. In Victorian society women's hair was subject to certain rules of etiquette, only young girls were allowed to wear their hair down, whereas ladies were expected to pin their hair up. A lady's unbraided hair was to be seen only by her husband whilst she was undressing. As such the long, loose hair depicted in Pre-Raphaelite paintings conveyed both intimacy and eroticism. Loose hair also had connotations with wildness and untempered passion and its depiction in Pre-Raphaelite paintings created a sense of romance and drama, in keeping with their subject matter of ancient myths and Arthurian legends.
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In 2016 the Children's Museum of Art and Social Justice (CMASJ) was established as a space for children's voices and a resource for arts programming and education. CMASJ's goal is to lessen the impact that budget cuts have on students at KIPP Chicago as well as other CPS schools. CMASJ supports this goal by raising awareness and ensuring financial sustainability for arts programming and education for Chicago's children, while also giving students a platform for their voice and vision for addressing social issues and understanding social movements.


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The White Album: Soundtrack for the sixties turning sour
Adam Behr
The Beatles and their wives at the Rishikesh in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, March 1968. Photo: Hulton Archive
ADAM BEHR assesses the White Album in its wider cultural context
The Beatles' White Album – actually eponymously titled, but nicknamed as such due to its plain cover, with the band's name embossed (also in white) and a serial number – was a shift away from the technicolour explosion of psychedelia of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. Yet even this austere packaging has proved influential (witness, for instance, the parodic Brown Album by Primus, Prince's plain Black Album, and Jay-Z's The Black Album, which was mashed-up by DJ Danger Mouse with the Beatles' own effort into The Grey Album).
But the now traditional trappings of a re-mastered release, replete with outtakes and demos, belie a mixed history behind the justly celebrated work. It was, predictably, a huge commercial success, debuting at No.1 in the UK charts where it resided for close to two months. But initial reviews were mixed. While Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone had it down as "more perfect" than Sergeant Pepper, British rock critic Nik Cohn was scathing, noting that "more than half the songs are profound mediocrities" and that the band had "abjectly mishandled themselves". Others described it as "something of a failure" and "a collection of bits and pieces" that "reeked of argument… and self-indulgence".
What remains today, and links positive and negative responses, is a work riven with contradictions. 'The personal is political' was a phrase used by the student movement of the late 1960s and the White Album's fragmentary nature embodied that, in relation to both its own creation and how it reflected its wider context.
While still breaking new ground, it lacks the cohesiveness of predecessors like Sergeant Pepper and Revolver. Instead, it manages to be simultaneously sprawling and indulgent (as its critics noted), yet also stripped back and austere. Even while deploying a musical armoury that encompasses lush orchestras, acoustic guitars, rock instrumentation and abstract tape-loops, it never gels into the unified confection of its predecessors but deliberately, stubbornly even, maintains a sense of individualism across both the songs on the album, and the four Beatles behind them.
Its internal disconnectedness was partly a reflection of changes within the band, whose equilibrium had never quite recovered from the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967 and whose social dynamic was shifting. Personal relationships, notably the introduction of Yoko Ono into Lennon's life, had some bearing on this as four young men started finding their own divergent paths through life for the first time, in some cases, since their teens. But this also saw them flexing their creative muscles in different ways, and so their working practices in some ways precipitated as well as symbolised their eventual dissolution. As George Harrison was to put it: "There was a lot more individual stuff and, for the first time, people were accepting that it was individual. I remember having three studios operating at the same time. Paul was doing some overdubs in one, John was in another and I was recording some horns or something in a third."
The resulting collection therefore consisted of individual songs whose influences were less submerged by a common aesthetic than previously. It took in a wide array of genres, all worn 'up front' – from folk, blues and rock through avant-garde and psychedlia through to vaudeville, music hall, calypso, ballads and nursery rhymes. This eclecticism was decried by the New Left of the time as mere pastiche – escapism that failed to engage with the pressing political concerns of the moment. In retrospect, though, it has been seen as the first 'post-modern' album. And it certainly reflects the fractured polity of 1968, as the hippie dream started to sour with the Tet Offensive marking a new, dark low in the Vietnam War, echoed domestically in the US with a violent response to protests at the Democratic Convention, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and, in Europe, student protests and Soviet tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia. The Beatles' responses to these were perhaps oblique, or even noncommittal. Harrison's Piggies may have lashed out at corporate greed, but was hardly explicit in its targets. Lennon's Revolution (as the aggressive, electric single version and the slower shuffle that appeared on the album as Revolution 1) was at best back-handed about wanting to "change the world" and McCartney's Back in the USSR parodied the Beach Boys and Chuck Berry as much as making any comment about geo-politics. But the White Album's sheer range – its determined inclusiveness, even in the face of qualms from producer George Martin – has helped seal its legacy amidst the plethora of jewels in The Beatles' catalogue.
It helped to define the album form as a statement of artistic position. This can be felt across popular music, in acts as diverse as Queen's miscellanies on their classic albums – whose miscellanies on their classic albums similarly saw them accommodating multiple songwriting voices – to Kanye West's handbrake turns towards different aesthetic strategies (as on 808s & Heartbreaks). Its 'warts and all' nature may have been a factor of the Beatles' pre-eminence at the time. But it empowered subsequent generations to see an album as a blank canvas. It is now not so much canonical for its flaws as well as its gems, although it is that too, but because it made the point of nestling them alongside one another. Its openness in doing this may have marked collectivity giving way to individualism, but this happened on the larger stage too as the 1960s gave way to the 1970s. And if the White Album only addresses these politics at a tangent, it brings useful lessons along the way.


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Effects: Powerful- hence the "Punch" in Hawaiian- It has a 'melty' effect on the body and calming effect on the brain. The effects are long lasting too making this a favorite among patients with severe chronic pain.
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I wish to request a copy of the Greytown Ladybird Daycare Centre notes which record on a daily basis a general observation of my children on arrival at the centre for the day.
We are already provided with a notebook to take home each night which records what the children have done during the day, the notes I am requesting are in addition to these notebooks.
The Act allows up to 20 working days for a response, making 29 August 2016 the latest date for our response to you. If more than 20 working days are needed due to the potential workload involved in answering your request, we will notify you accordingly.
Unless the Ministry holds the information, you are unlikely to get the notes from them using the OIA.
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Water21's vision is to restore the natural storage capacity of the landscape, attenuating (slowing and holding back) water in the upstream areas, and making space for water to flood away from homes in the downstream areas. At the same time as preventing floodwater from rushing downstream, it helps to infiltrate the water to restore over-abstracted water tables, provide new habitats for wildlife, enhance the beauty of the landscape. It is also often possible to benefit from clean renewable small scale hydro-power or recreational fisheries. Because the features are small and local, landowners are in a position to easily retrieve any silt that accumulates for recycling the locked-up nutrients, that would otherwise escape to the ocean.
creation and restoration of buffer vegetation to increase the "hydraulic roughness" of the land, slowing down the rate of runoff, and promoting infiltration into deep soils via root structures.
For downstream zones, communities must be empowered to resist further development on floodplains, spot unconsented changes to watercourses, and work together with authorities and experts (both local and external) to decide how best to manage the floodplain zones (including sluice gates where relevant).
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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by higsy, Mar 30, 2019.
I'm looking at getting a new gpu and am looking at the gtx 1080ti or rtx 2080...both are comparable performance wise. I basically only do racing games on my pc..is rtx required for raceroom (in the future) ac and /or acc ?
RTX will never be required, but ACC most likely will support Ray Tracing in the future. And you won't get that on 1080ti.
Ray tracing is coming to GTX 1060 and above in an April NV driver update, obviously it will impact performance and it won't be the full experience like a 2080ti but it may help the decision, personally I would find a good used 1080ti for the price.
I am also upgrading, rtx range cards except maybe the 2060 are out of my budget, it's looking more like a 2nd hand 1080. I think if you only play racing Sims and you only use 1080p or 1440p resolution I would go with the 10 series. If you go up to 4k and more demanding games then the 20 series. Not sure about ACC but no other racing sims will ever use all the features like Ray tracing that the new RTX series bring.
Not sure about ACC but no other racing sims will ever use all the features like Ray tracing that the new RTX series bring.
hmmm, I wouldn't be to sure on that. If that feature persists, it will come to other sims as well. But the day that we see other racing-sims with raytracing, the 20-series will be outdated already. And if I get it right, the 20-Series is only a starting-point for Raytracing and actually not powerful enough for a wide-spread use of that feature.
If I have to decide to buy a 1080 ti or a 2080 I would chosse the 2080´.
So a new one is not that much higher in prices but it is new, there is full warranty and so on. Never know, what others do with their hardware. And the 2080 is mostly a bit faster than a 1080ti.
For best bang for buck, I suggest never buying used PC parts.
The lifetime of PC parts exceeds their relevance of performance in time by 2-4 times.
You can find used 1080ti beginning from 450€ with reference design, while 2080 is 800€ and 2080ti 1200€ new in the store.
Never had an issue with 2nd hand parts, buy wisely, I've built a lot of systems from 2nd hand parts that are still going strong, mine included, only thing I buy new is SSD's, most RAM has lifetime transferable warranty and if you buy EVGA or MSI GPU's or mobo's they are warrantied from production date and serial number so warranty is transferred.
This, i have always done the same, my current gpu, ram, mobo, psu and cpu all 2nd user and not one issue with either. Ex mining cards, my current gpu is, altho i was lucky it was 6 months old when the miner owner fell on hard times, i bought 3 off him and sold 2 on ebay for enough to make mine a virtual freebie @ £75.
Please share info regarding RTX 2080 performance using triple setup at 144Hz and 1080 res Raceroom.
I can only tell you that I have a 2080 and an Oculus Rift. All GPU related things on max and it is performing with 90 FPS here.
Rift has only 90 or 45 FPS.
A little OT. Nvidia wont be alone with ray tracing in the future.


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Soil Seedbank Longevity of a Terrestrial Orchid
Seeds of terrestrial orchid species are small and essentially without food reserves, but data on the longevity in the wild of seed of most orchid species is lacking.
Bill Brumback (New England Wildflower Society) and Jay O'Neil (Smithsonian Experimental Research Center)
Seeds of terrestrial orchid species are small and essentially without food reserves, but data on the longevity in the wild of seed of most orchid species is lacking. In October 2003, packets containing seeds of the Federally Threatened orchid, Isotria medeoloides, small whorled pogonia, were buried within a population of this species in New Hampshire. Seeds packets were removed from the soil for testing in 2007 and again in 2017. Seeds were examined for viable embryos and also tested with Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) for viability. Results showed that in 2007 over 50% of the seeds remained viable, and by 2017, more than 13 years after burial, the number had only dropped to 42%. There was no evidence of germination or mycorrhizal association in the buried seeds. These results indicate the potential for a persistent soil seedbank for this orchid species, despite its minute seeds. Protocols for ex situ seed banking of many terrestrial orchids have yet to be developed, but in situ soil seedbank experiments with orchid seeds can give clues to the survival potential of a population in the wild.
Isotria medeoloides


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Головний храм Збройних сил Російської Федерації () — храм «присвячений 75-річчю перемоги у Великій Вітчизняній війні, а також ратним подвигам російського народу у всіх війнах». Храм розташований у парку «Патріот» в Одинцовському районі, Московська область. Храм будувався на народні пожертвування і бюджетні кошти Москви і Московської області. Освячення мало пройти в рамках святкування 75-річчя перемоги у Великій Вітчизняній війні. Відкрити храм планувалося до 9 травня, проте відкриття було перенесено на невизначений термін через пандемію коронавірусу.

На території споруди розміститься виставкова експозиція, присвячена історії становлення Російської держави та її збройних сил.

Історія

30 вересня 2020 року у головному храмі Збройних сил Російської Федерації пройшли богослужіння, присвячені «п'ятиріччю початку антитерористичної операції російських військ в Сирійській Арабській Республіці». За Богослужінням не були згадані молитви за жертв серед мирного населення, загиблих внаслідок авіаударів ЗС РФ.

Стиль і оздоблення

Згідно з офіційним сайтом, храм спроєктований в монументальному російському стилі. Фасади будівлі оздоблені металом, склепіння — засклені. Стіни храму прикрашені розписами з батальними сценами з військової історії та з текстами Святого письма.

Обробка нижнього (малого) храму виконана з кераміки і прикрашена гжельським розписом, а при виготовленні мозаїчних панно використовувалися шматочки скляної смальти. Центральна апсида, присвячена Воскресінню Христовому, виконана у вигляді металевого рельєфу. Оздоблення храму, ікони та іконостас створені з міді з емалями, як це робилося на похідних військових іконах. Склепіння храму зібрані з вітражів із зображенням орденів, якими нагороджували за ратні подвиги в різні періоди історії Росії. Образ Спаса Нерукотворного в центральному куполі храму — найбільше зображення лику Христа, виконане в мозаїці.

Деякі ікони прикрашені патронами. В храмі є фреска озброєних російських військових із надписом: «Конфлікт в Чехословаччині, Примус Грузії до миру, Возз'єднання Криму…».

Розміри
Висота храму разом з хрестом за проектом складає 95 метрів.

Діаметр барабана головного купола складає 19,45 метрів. 1945 рік — закінчення Великої вітчизняної війни.

Висота дзвіниці складає 75 метрів. У 2020 році виповнюється 75 років з дня закінчення Великої Вітчизняної війни.

Висота малого купола складає 14,18 метрів. 1418 днів і ночей тривали бойові дії у Великій Вітчизняній війні.

Площа храмового комплексу — 11 тис. м². Місткість внутрішнього приміщення храму — до 6 тисяч осіб.

Дзвони
Дзвони виготовлені на Воронезькому ливарному заводі. Оздоблення дзвонів розроблено на основі орнаментів, які прикрасять храм. На дзвонах відбита тема Перемоги в Другій світовій війні, ікони покровителів російського воїнства. Головний дзвін-благовісник прикрасили барельєфи із зображеннями ключових подій Великої Вітчизняної війни. Робота над виготовленням дзвонів велася протягом півроку. Вага ансамблю більше 20 тонн, до нього увійшли 18 дзвонів, найбільший з яких важить 10 тонн. 17 з 18 дзвонів присвячені видам і родам військ. З одного боку на дзвін нанесена емблема, з іншого — зображення святого покровителя.

23 серпня 2019 року дзвони встановлені на дзвіницю храму.

Купол
15 листопада 2019 року на храм поставили 80-тонний центральний купол, висота і діаметр якого становить 12 метрів.

Всього храм має шість куполів, з яких чотири однакових, кожен з яких вагою 34 тонни, центральний найбільший і один — на дзвіниці. Конструкція має каркас з високолегованої сталі.

Головна ікона
Головною іконою головного храму Збройних сил РФ є «Спас Нерукотворний». Ікона Спас Нерукотворний являє собою канонічне зображення лику Ісуса Христа, за переказами, чудесним чином відбите на шматку матерії і передане Ним самим слузі царя Абгара V. Лик на іконі оточують образи Божої Матері Казанської, Володимирської, Смоленської і Тихвінської, розміщені на художніх рельєфах, які зображують знакові події в історії Російської держави. У ковчезі, який незмінно супроводжує ікону, знаходиться вісім часток святих покровителів: великомученика Георгія Побєдоносця, апостола Андрія Первозванного, святителя Миколи Чудотворця, преподобного Сергія Радонезького, великомучениці Варвари, апостола Петра, великомученика Пантелеймона Цілителя, а також праведного воїна Феодора Ушакова, який був командувачем Чорноморським флотом і є одним з найбільш шанованих святих на флоті.

Образ Спасителя поміщений у бронзовий оклад і має вагу близько 100 кг. Сама ікона без окладу має розміри близько 98 × 84 × 10 см.

Бічні приділи
Кожен з приділів присвячений святому покровителю одного з родів військ чи видів Збройних сил Росії:

 Приділ Святого Іллі Пророка — покровителя Повітряно-космічних сил і Повітряно-десантних військ;
 Приділ Святої Великомучениці Варвари — покровительки Ракетних військ стратегічного призначення;
 Приділ Святого Апостола Андрія Первозванного — покровителя Військово-морського флоту;
 Приділ Святого Олександра Невського — покровителя Сухопутних військ.

Фінансування
Повідомлялося, що храм буде зводитися виключно на добровільні пожертви з особистих коштів військовослужбовців, членів їх сімей, а також усіх небайдужих громадян та організацій. До початку лютого 2020 року було зібрано понад 3 млрд рублів пожертвувань, а держконткрактів було укладено на 6 млрд рублів. Видання Znak.com з'ясувало, що в 2019 році фонд «Воскресіння», призначений для збору пожертв на храм, додатково до пожертв отримав 2 млрд рублів від уряду Москви і 950 млн рублів від уряду Московської області.

Галерея

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Посилання
 https://hram.mil.ru/ Сайт Храма Воскресіння Христового в парку «Патріот»
 Сайт Проекту Міноборони Росії «Дорога пам'яті»

Засновані в Росії 2020
Православні храми Росії
Збройні сили Росії
Одинцовський район
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Культові споруди Московської області
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/ Will women outpace men in 2156?
September 29, 2004 By Helen Pearson This article courtesy of Nature News.
Prediction of female champion sprinters causes controversy.
The 2156 Olympic Games is bound to hold unforeseen events: a balmy Antarctic venue, say, or virtual reality volleyball. But according to a group of UK scientists, it might also go down in history as the first year that women beat men in the 100-metre sprint.
To come up with this controversial prediction, epidemiologist Andrew Tatem of the University of Oxford and his colleagues plotted men and women's winning 100-metre Olympic times since 1900, and used this to forecast how race times would change in the future.
Women's times have been improving steadily faster than men's in recent years, they showed. If this trend continues, they calculate that a woman should be the fastest person in the world 152 years from now, give or take an ample statistical margin of 724 years. Women would triumph in a time of 8.079 seconds compared to men's 8.098, they report in Nature1.
The study revives a long-standing debate about whether the gender gap in athletics will ever disappear. In 1998, for example, a paper in Nature predicted that women would surpass men's marathon times in 19822. They did not.
As they were about the previous prediction, sports scientists are sceptical about this one. They say the reason women's performance has been improving faster is because women have had growing opportunities to participate in sport and train at a competitive level. But, they say, this faster pace of advancement will level out before women's times overtake the men's.
The conventional view is that there are basic differences between male and female physiology that mean men will always maintain around a 10% advantage in strength and endurance sports. Because the new analysis ignores this, "it is flawed at a fundamental level," says exercise physiologist Carl Foster at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse.
For example, testosterone in men tends to create more muscle and oxygen-carrying haemoglobin than women possess. And female reproductive hormones mean that women, including super-lean athletes, tend to carry around more fat for their body weight than men, and this slows them down.
To illustrate these points, exercise scientist Kirk Cureton of the University of Georgia, Athens, and his team made men carry weights that mimicked the body-fat ratio of women. When he put them on a treadmill, some of the gender gap in performance disappeared. Similarly, bleeding men of some of their haemoglobin evened up performances to some extent3,4.
Indeed, athletics experts rack their brains to think of any sport in which women's physical characteristics might allow them to outstrip their male counterparts. Swimming the English Channel might be one event, suggests Foster, because fat is so crucial for keeping warm.
For his part, Tatem acknowledges that there are difficulties in foretelling the Olympic future, but says there is no proof that women's times will level out. "I should be happy to stake my reputation on the predicted date," he says. "If I'm wrong anyone is welcome to come and question me about the result after the 2156 Olympics."
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A laptop computer containing personal information about patients at Salina (Kan.) Regional Health Center has been reported missing, putting up to 1,100 patients at risk for identity theft.
The hospital said the computer contained names, Social Security numbers and medical histories of the patients. The hospital is offering a $2,000 reward for the laptop's return.
The computer was stolen earlier this month from the office of Veridian Behavioral Health. Also taken were a docking station, printer, overhead projector and other computer equipment, plus a small amount of prescription drugs.
Patients whose privacy was potentially compromised have received letters from the hospital, notifying them to let their financial institutions know about the threat and to be on guard for false charges, said Beth Vinson, the hospital's marketing supervisor.
The reason the patient information was stored on the machine was because the user travels to different offices to treat patients. She said the patient information is double-password protected.
''This person has different offices to go to, and this way when he traveled to different offices, he'd have that information available to him,'' Vinson said.
She said there was no indication that any of the information on the computer had been breached.


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June 26, 2011 / 12:17 PM / 8 years ago
Antofagasta, Barrick to win Pakistan rights -govt
* Baluchistan site rights worth $3.3 bln
* No other companies have applied
By Kamran Haider
ISLAMABAD, June 26 (Reuters) - Chile's Antofagasta and Canada's Barrick Gold are likely to win mining rights for a $3.3 billion copper and gold project in Pakistan, a senior provincial government official said on Sunday.
The companies are partners in the Tethyan Copper Co (TCC) joint venture, which has a 75 percent interest in the Reko Diq project in the southwestern Baluchistan province.
TCC has carried out exploration but wants to expand its presence through mining.
Baluchistan has huge natural resources. However, growing anger over outsiders exploiting Pakistan's biggest and poorest province makes it difficult for investors to gain access.
Separatists have for decades waged a low-level revolt over control of Baluchistan's resources, which they say are unfairly exploited by the country's richer and more powerful provinces.
Reko Diq holds an estimated 5.9 billion tonnes of mineral resources with an average copper grade of 0.41 percent and an average gold grade of 0.22 grams a tonne, according to data released by Antofagasta.
TCC completed exploration on Reko Diq last year and submitted a feasibility report for mining.
A senior Baluchistan government official told Reuters that TCC's request for a mining licence was under consideration.
"If they fulfil the conditions then we have no objection at all," Baluchistan chief secretary, Ahmed Bakhsh Lehri, said.
No other companies have applied for mining permission, mining and government officials say.
Last week, the Baluchistan government announced it would set up a facility to refine copper and gold concentrates extracted from Riko Diq.
TCC has said it would sell the concentrate from Reko Diq to the provincial government on a commercial basis if it gains permission to mine.
In a bid to secure the deal, TCC has also offered to arrange financing for the government's 25 percent share of investment in the project through a soft loan and to pay the interest, according to a company document seen by Reuters.
The first stage of the project, which is hoped to start production in 2015, would produce 200,000 tonnes of copper and up to 300,000 ounces of gold a year, the company said.	(Editing by David Hulmes)


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Scottish EV start-up Munro Vehicles will unveil its first car, the Mk1, on 5 December – a car that, it claims, is the world's most capable all-electric 4×4.
To be launched in Edinburgh, the 4×4 is conceived as an electric alternative to the Land Rover Defender. It is designed for use in sectors such as construction, mining, forestry, mountain rescue and agriculture in various worldwide locations, including in Canadian forestry and Texan oil fields.
The Mk1 will be the final production version of the running prototype that Munro first showed in 2021 and started testing later that year.
Said to be capable of operating for up to 16 hours on a single charge, the Mk1 uses axial flux motors to deliver 516 lb ft of torque and is capable of 168 miles on one charge. With a 1000kg payload and 3500kg towing capacity, it is competitive with the Defender and Toyota Land Cruiser Commercial.
The Mk1 has been designed to be as reliable and sustainable as possible, with a focus on ease of repair and the ability to provide owners with "decades" of use with low maintenance costs – something that has been achieved through extensive use of existing components.
The Mk1's off-road abilities are further bolstered by a 480mm ground clearance and 800mm wading depth, with Defender- and Land Cruiser-beating 38-degree approach and 51-degree departure angles.
Currently available for pre-order in the UK, the £75,000 Mk1 will be offered in US markets from 2023 as part of Munro's partnership with EV sales, leasing and distribution specialist Wyre.
Munro CEO Russell Peterson said: "North America is a key growth market for Munro and we're pleased to be able to partner with Wyre to realise our ambitions ahead of our original timeline.
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Two years on from Thr!!!er, Sacramento's premiere dance-punks are back with a sixth LP that references disco and 90s house. We caught up with frontman Nic Offer to find out more about As If, and to chat creativity, critics and clowning about.
Firstly, congratulations on having the best artwork of 2015.
Can you tell us about the significance of the monkey, please?
There's always this idea that you have to be completely serious when you're making art, and I think you can make art as the clown.
When we spoke to you around the release of Thr!!!er, you talked about it being the album with all the hits on it. By extension, where does As If fit?
(Laughs) I think we were just trying to write more hits, really. It's very much an extension of Thr!!!er, you know? We really got into writing. We wrote 40 songs, recorded 20 of them and then our friends picked the ones that they liked best. I think they're the hits we want for a different world, almost, because sometimes hits means that you're trying for something and I don't think we think that we're still going to have giant hits at this point. [They're] hits for the world we want the world to be, you know? 'All U Writers' is not something the kids I babysit can jam out to or something.
On your blog, you referred to As If as being a "tough album". Was it tougher than previous records?
I think, by far, it was the toughest. We had this idea that it was going to be a club record, kinda like we do every time. (Laughs) And we went in with a lot of different club music producers but none of it worked, so it ended up coming down to us at the last minute with our friend Patrick Ford. We were set to mix it in two weeks, so we did two weeks of 18-hour days and tried to make the songs work.
Actually, the last three songs on the record – 'Funk (I Got This)', 'Lucy Mongoosey' and 'I Feel So Free (Citation Needed)' – we finished those at the end. 'I Feel So Free' was literally the last one to come together, but it just barely got in. It was tough. I feel like we were fairly ambitious; 'I Feel So Free' was an ambitious song.
There's a very strong disco feel to the album. Can you tell us about some of the music that inspired As If, please?
Particularly with 'Freedom', we were inspired in a way, but we were very conscious that the sound must move forward. We were very inspired by 90s house that was inspired by disco. You know, there was that moment with Daft Punk and Roulé Records, where they were just sampling a disco loop, throwing a 909 underneath it, and then filtering the disco loop? At this point, 19 years in, we're a pretty good little disco band, so the idea was that we would sample ourselves and manipulate that, and hopefully get something different.
Disco is something that I still always love, but I think I really like the dance music that manipulates it and treats it like a plaything and is almost abusive to it. I think the proper way to do a musical style is to do it with reverence and irreverence at the same time, otherwise it's just stale and boring.
Did you working methods change at all for this record?
In the blog post you discuss As If receiving "one mediocre review" from "a snivelling, piece of sh*t". Presumably, it's written in jest, but do reviews matter to you?
They do. They do more than you want them to... (Laughs) It's funny, I just made another artist friend of mine – who I'm not going to name – turn off her Google alerts for herself. I was like, "What are you f***king doing?! That is not a way to live." You have to read the reviews the week [the album] comes out... But, I mean, yeah, they matter. You're trying to communicate something to the world, and when someone says that your opinion doesn't matter – that it's worthless – it hurts, you know? If someone says, "Nah, these other bands all matter, and they're part of the popular dialogue, and you're not." But absolutely it hurts.
Is this what the song 'All U Writers' is getting at?
No, that was one more like, "Come on, all you writers – let's go." (Laughs) Because honestly I get on with journalists. I'm obsessed by music and I'd rather always change the topic to music, so there's a way that I can relate to them in ways that I can't to regular people. That one was just a joke between us and the writers, and I liked it at the beginning of the record as an intro. Because the writers introduce [the music] to the world, like, "Hey everybody, check this out." So it was a message to them to sit down and get their pens out and listen to this record.
How about 'Til The Money Runs Out'?
That was my attempt at romance. I always like that ideal in romance, where nothing else matters but this and us, and you could just be in a sh*tty hotel room and the only thing that matters is everything that you're saying. You just never want to stop talking to each other; you just want it to go on forever. So that reckless abandon of, "Let's just drive forever. We have no particular place to go and every place to go. Let's just keep driving." That ideal of romance really appeals to me.
You've said before that you try as hard as you can to make records as enjoyable as possible. Do you ever feel confined by that expectation? Like you can't write a sad song, even if you wanted to?
I don't really want to. (Laughs) No, there are a couple but I don't know if they're much use to anyone. Generally, our demos have a bit of a groove to them. There are some tear-jerkers in there but they're always groovin'. You've seen 'Spinal Tap', yeah? I've got a few 'Lick My Love Pump's on deck. (Laughs) But I don't know that the world needs those, I don't know.
So what's the plan for the rest of 2015? Is it all touring?
Yeah, pretty much. Some DJ gigs too. In America, we're opening for ourselves as a Stereolab cover band, called Stereolad.
Do you switch things up much between tours? With different visuals, for example?
We just try to get better and add things to the set, but we never really did a lot with visuals. We hope that I'm the visuals.
Are you still giving out hugs at shows?
Has anyone ever reacted negatively?
That's a good first impression.
Yeah. She was like, "What do you do out here?" and I was like, "It's hard to explain..." But I hadn't known that I was inspiring that kind of reaction. I thought I was coming out there as good times. It's only confrontational in an Iggy Pop sort of way, but it's all love, you know?


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Environment|Momentum on Climate Pact Is Elusive
Momentum on Climate Pact Is Elusive
By Andrew C. Revkin
The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.
The plateau in temperatures has been seized upon by skeptics as evidence that the threat of global warming is overblown. And some climate experts worry that it could hamper treaty negotiations and slow the progress of legislation to curb carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
Scientists say the pattern of the last decade — after a precipitous rise in average global temperatures in the 1990s — is a result of cyclical variations in ocean conditions and has no bearing on the long-term warming effects of greenhouse gases building up in the atmosphere.
But trying to communicate such scientific nuances to the public — and to policy makers — can be frustrating, they say.
Mojib Latif, a prize-winning climate and ocean scientist from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, in Germany, wrote a paper last year positing that cyclical shifts in the oceans were aligning in a way that could keep temperatures over the next decade or so relatively stable, even as the heat-trapping gases linked to global warming continued to increase.
But Dr. Latif, who gives about 200 talks to the public, business leaders and officials each year, said he had been met with confusion and even anger when he tried to describe this normal variation in climate while at the same time conveying the long-term threat of global warming.
"People understand what I'm saying, but then basically wind up saying, 'We don't believe anything,' " he said in a telephone interview.
Other climate researchers dispute Dr. Latif's forecast, saying that climate cannot be reliably predicted on such a short time scale, though even they agree that sooner or later, cool stretches are inevitable.
Underscoring just how little clarity there is on short-term temperature fluctuations, researchers from Britain's climate change office, in a paper published in August, projected "an end to this period of relative stability," with half the years between now and 2015 exceeding the record-setting global temperatures of 1998.
Whatever the next decade may hold, critics of global warming have lost no time in using the current temperature plateau to build their case.
"I think it supports the arguments of those who've said, 'What's the rush for policy on this issue?' " said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist affiliated with George Mason University and the Cato Institute, a group opposing most regulatory solutions to environmental problems.
The recent stability of global temperatures makes regular appearances in blog postings disputing the reality of global warming and is frequently invoked by pundits who oppose the climate bill that passed the House this year and is pending in the Senate.
Andrew C. Revkin reports Tuesday from the United Nations, where world leaders have gathered to discuss climate change.
Advocates of such regulatory measures are equally vehement. In a post last week on his blog, Climate Progress, Joseph Romm, a physicist and energy expert affiliated with the liberal Center for American Progress, wrote that statements by climate skeptics about planetary cooling were "nonsense."
"We need all the unmuffled warnings we can get given that humans are not like slowly boiling frogs, we are like slowly boiling brainless frogs," he wrote.
The recent spate of years with stable temperatures is particularly noticeable because it followed a seesawing from unusually cool temperatures to unusually hot ones in the 1990s, said Vicky Pope of Britain's climate agency, called the Met Office.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines had a cooling influence, as the volcano threw off veil-like emissions. Then, in 1998, an El Niño episode in the Pacific Ocean set off a record-setting hot spell.
The global average temperature is now only 0.13 degree Fahrenheit higher than it was in 1999, according to the British meteorology office.
A series of unremarkable storm seasons followed the string of destructive storms in 2004 and 2005 that included Hurricane Katrina. And in the Arctic, an extraordinary summer retreat of sea ice in 2007 has been followed by less substantial losses and projections by some researchers of a possible, if temporary, recovery.
Most climate scientists stand firm in their projections of centuries of rising seas and other disruptive effects of a warming planet if humans take no steps to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.
In an address to world leaders at the climate summit meeting on Tuesday, Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has advised the world's nations on climate issues for 20 years, described the mounting risk and said, "Science leaves us no space for inaction now."
A clearer view of whether the recent temperature plateau undermines arguments for dangerous climate change in the long run should come in a few years, as the predictions made by the British climate researchers are tested. Their paper appeared in a supplement to an August issue of The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
While the authors concluded that there was a 1 in 8 chance of having a decade-long pause in warming like the current plateau, even with rising concentrations of greenhouse gases, the odds of a 15-year pause, they wrote, are only 5 in 100. As a result, the next few years of observations could tip the balance toward further concern or greater optimism.
Meanwhile, social scientists who study the way people understand and respond to environmental problems say it is not surprising that the current temperature stability has created confusion and apathy.
Getting people to care about a climate threat that is decades away is hard enough, they say, without adding in the vagaries of natural climate cycles.
At best, said Robert J. Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University, global warming remains an abstraction for many people.
"It does not have the direct visual or emotive impact of seeing seabirds covered in oil from the Exxon Valdez oil spill," he said.


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Q: Set opacity of image in pygame Okay guys, I'm trying to fade out an image. So given this:
img_ = pygame.image.load('circle.png')
screen.blit(img_, [100, 100])

how can I change the opacity of img_? Thanks!

A: Pygame surfaces have a method named set_alpha() for this, which takes a value between 0 and 255.
Relevant docs: https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#pygame.Surface.set_alpha

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With several thoughtful and gorgeous floorplans that include customizable options and high-end finishes, homebuyers enjoy between 499 – 650 square feet of living space. These tiny homes pack a powerful punch in each square foot optimizing use of space and livability. Despite the fact that the cottages are considerably smaller than the average home, current Simple Life homeowners enjoy full-sized kitchen appliances, stackable washer and dryers, one and two bedroom options, flex space, and in some models, an additional 160 square foot loft ideal for visiting grandchildren or extra storage.
McCann and his team held several meetings with members of the Lake Association (Lake Andrew) helping the community understand the quality and aesthetics of Simple Life in Wildwood. "They embraced our vision and give us full support knowing we are community partners," said McCann. Simple Life will begin site work in June with anticipation of presales to begin in July. As visionaries and a company that is committed to providing homebuyers with a place they are proud to call home, Simple Life's team is enthusiastic about moving into the Ocala area and developing a community that will enhance the current landscape.
About Simple Life: Simple Life is excited to be paving the way for people wanting to live in an award-winning tiny home community. Tiny homes in Simple Life communities start in the low $100s and include use of community amenities that are specific to each development but include a pool, fitness center, internet café, yoga room, dog park, and outdoor gathering spaces. For more information about living a simpler life in our communities contact our Simple Life Concierge at 828-707-0969, email us info@simple-life.com or visit us on the web at www.simple-life.com.
Will there be an area for tiny houses on wheels, commonly called towables, like there is in NC?
At this time our Ocala community is not slated to have a tiny towable area.
I own a tiny home at Simple Life in Flat Rock and have been very pleased with the community. I also have a place in Pensacola but have been considering downsizing and moving farther south. I plan to be heading down to S. FL in March. Please provide an address and I will swing thru to check out your proposed community. Thank you.
We're glad you love your Flat Rock tiny home! We will just be beginning to break ground in March, but we would love to welcome you back later in the summer when the grounds are available to walk.
That's excellent I'm glad you're sitting with Presidence. now if they would go one step further and allow people to have their tiny homes stay on wheels then we are really making progress. Are park we are in currently in is one of those rare year-round parks we're all the residents pay for a space yearly. Also inquiring if you need management people 2 be sight assisting with the residents the grounds, office and all the other activities. My partner and I are looking for a permanent position in a community such as this. Let me know if there is any opportunity at this one that you will be breaking ground on in March?
Thank you for your letter and your interest in Simple Life tiny home communities. We are excited about the approval from the City of Wildwood and we look forward to our newest location.
We will have a dedicated staff at the new community attending to operations, maintenance, and resident satisfaction. We haven't begun soliciting applications yet, but we anticipate starting that process in the Spring and Summer of 2019.
We will keep your information and note your interest, please keep an eye out for more information from us later this year.
If you would like to join our email community to receive exciting updates and developments, we encourage you to email info@simple-life.com or call (828) 707 – 0969.
Bedrooms are located on the main living area with loft options available for additional living space or storage opportunities. Our current tiny home offerings range from 400-500 square feet.
So glad to hear! We are in the process of finalizing details of the new community, but we'd be happy to provide more information as it becomes available. Please email info@simple-life.com to be added to our database so that we may provide news and updates about the new Florida community!
Are there any garage/storage space? Will love seeing this development. Very interested.
The Wildwood, FL community is currently in the early stages of development and details are still being finalized. However, our current communities allow for a 6 x 6, 8 x 8, or 10 x 10 shed on each homesite and we anticipate that Wildwood will offer the same outdoor storage solution.
What other areas of FL are you looking to build?
Simple Life is exploring Central Florida including Ocala to Leesburg and East to Deland and Daytona areas as well as South West Florida including Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, and Fort Myers areas as potential places for our Florida communities.
Love tiny homes! Interested in Wildwood site, as I already live in a neighboring community. Looking forward to checking out your site and also your model homes.
Yes, Simple Life can help secure financing for our tiny homes through third-party lenders. Buyers will meet with our finance manager to assess which lender is best for specific needs. Thanks!


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