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the Second wave of the pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19, if it happens, it's "very, very painful history" for Russia. This opinion was expressed by the head of IAC "Alpari" Alexander Razuvaev.
According to him, "usually immediately think of the country that depend on tourism — Spain, Turkey, Armenia, etc." "But the oil exporters will also have hard times. New global quarantine can easily regain the price of oil at $20 per barrel or even below. It is very painful for the Russian budget and ruble", — stated in the review of the expert.
He believes that "against the backdrop of a pandemic, Russia is more vulnerable than many other countries, as well as receiving two blows at once". "The sharp increase in health care costs and a sharp drop in revenues because of falling oil prices," — says Razuvaev.
Earlier today, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the situation with coronavirus in Russia "can swing in any direction". He noted that, according to official data, in June—July the number of cases of coronavirus is gradually reduced. "But the situation still remains difficult," — declared the head of state.
He said: there is no reason for calm and rejection of the doctor's recommendations for wearing masks and gloves in public, especially as not all regions have managed to achieve a sustainable reduction of morbidity.
Recall, for the last day in Russia identified 5 thousand 475 cases of coronavirus. Just sick over the entire period of the pandemic, nearly 829 thousand.
Putin also said about the need for prevention and proactive measures to try to avoid re-introduction of restrictions due to the new coronavirus infection. "Of course, everything must be done to the expense of preventive, proactive measures to try to avoid a repeat of the regime of restrictions. The more massive thatwould schools, kindergartens, universities, businesses and organizations can operate in a safe, normal, usual people mode," — said the President.
let's Add that the Russian economy in February—March 2020 was under the powerful impact of two negative factors — the rapid spread of the pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19 and its deleterious effect on the global economy and collapse in oil prices. Against this background, the rouble significantly depreciated against the dollar and the Euro. Reacting to the situation, the government and the Bank of Russia adopted several packages of measures to support the economy and citizens.
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July 2, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolychev said that the total cost of the measures (the bailout package), aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus infection in Russia and mitigating economic impacts from restrictions imposed, estimated to be worth about 4 trillion rubles. According to him, the main focus of the budget measures were made on several fronts: strengthening health systems, supporting citizens and businesses, the balancing of regional budgets.
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Playing video games is a great way to bond with your guy, whether just one of you is a regular gamer and you're just making an effort to show an interest in each other's hobbies, or you both love to game. A lot of the most popular games are single-player, though, and while it can be fun to just watch each other play or play separately on your own computers, it's always fun to find good multiplayer games that you can play together!
There are plenty of awesome games out there that you can play co-op on date night so you can team up to take down bad guys or, if you prefer, competitive games where your goal is to take out your boyfriend or husband! As a gamer myself, I can attest to how much home-bound fun video games can offer. Below, I've listed a few awesome multiplayer video games you and your sweetheart will have a blast playing together on date night!
This action-based role-playing game is perfect for anyone who is a fan of Greek mythology. Equally fun in multiplayer as it is in single player mode, you can team up with your date as you fulfill quests that take you all over ancient Greece. Along the way, you will meet all kinds of mythical monsters, including satyrs, centaurs, gorgons and more! You can choose from a variety of weapons from spears and axes to a bow and arrow as you help out history's famous Spartans and other characters that will be familiar. The best part about this game is that the loot on your screen is only visible to you, so you don't have to worry about sharing the goods! Buy it here.
LittleBigPlanet 2 is an awesome game for those who like to get their creativity flowing. It's a sandbox game, which means the players have the ability to alter the world in which they are playing. Mainly a puzzle-based game, you can create your own levels and play levels that have been created by players all across the world. The freedom of this game is limitless, even down to the customization of your "Sackboy" character. By interacting with objects in the levels and moving things around, you will complete puzzles and collect all kinds of silly stickers and costumes that you can apply to your character, the background and items in the level. It's a super fun game for anyone to enjoy! Purchase it here.
It may be a bit old school, but Crash Team Racing is a classic, and I've never heard anyone say they didn't have fun playing it. If you'd rather play against your sweetie than on the same team, here's one for you. Any true 90s kid is familiar with the Crash Bandicoot franchise, and this is just one of many their beloved games. More than just a basic racing game, Crash Team Racing is so much fun because of all the weapons and power-ups that you can pick up on the track. In addition to the racing aspect of the game, there's also a battle mode in which you still operate a kart, but instead of trying to race each other, it's a last-man-standing battle to the death! Get it here!
The name of this game is pretty much a giveaway as to what your goal is: defeat the orcs! In co-op mode, one of you will play the War Mage and the other will play the Sorceress. Working together, you will use traps, spells, and other equipment to defeat the various types of orcs that are coming through rifts. There's also "Endless Mode," where you and your partner will have to work together to defeat wave after wave after wave of orcs coming at you! It's not truly endless; there are 40 waves of orcs in this mode, but it can sure feel like there's no end in sight! Get the game here!
If you're a fan of either the Lego or Marvel franchises, you will have a blast with this game. With around 150 characters from the Marvel universe to unlock and play, you will enjoy seeing all your favorite Marvel superheroes (or villians!) and controlling them along with their unique abilities. From Pepper Potts to Captain America to Wolverine, you will have to complete all the levels just to see how many possible characters that the both of you can play together! The game starts with Galactus, Eater of Planets, coming for Earth and Doctor Doom building the Doom Ray of Doom, which he intends to use to stop Galactus—and then take over the world! Help the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop the bad guys and save our beloved planet! Get it now!
Another favorite of mine and my husband's to play together, Torchlight 2 is a super fun action role playing game that is perfect for multiplayers. There are four different classes that you can choose for your character—engineer, embermage, outlander, or berserker. Each class comes with its own type of weapons and tons of abilities. As you level up by defeating monsters and completing quests, you will gain points to either level up existing abilities or purchase new ones with. Another aspect of this game that we love is the customization—you can upgrade your weapons and armor by using embers to give it special defensive or offensive capabilities, making everything you create unique. Download the demo or buy the game now!
Everyone loves the Mario brothers. Although I'm not a fan of the Wii console in general, this game was one of the few exceptions for me. Playable with up to four characters (can you say double gamer date?), it follows the classic Mario platformer game style. You know the drill—defeat Bowser's many henchmen as you go off to save the ever-elusive Princess Peach. One of my favorite things about this game is that while it's technically supposed to be co-op, it's oh so easy to work against your team as well. For example, you can actually pick up your teammates—and drop them over a cliff, if you should decide to do so! Your boyfriend will hate you for it, but that's half the fun of playing video games, isn't it? Get it here!
In this interactive turn-based RPG, you and your date will each control a Source Hunter whose cooperative goals are to destroy "The Source," an evil magic that plagues your world and all practitioners of this magic, known as Sourcerers. The game starts with the investigation of a murder that appears to have been carried out by a sourcerer, and as you journey onward to discover the truth about the murder you will encounter many enemies, including orcs, undead beings, cult members, witches and even dragons—and you will also discover the truth about The Source. Perfect for couples that love fantasy role playing games, this one promises hours and hours of fun! Purchase the game here.
A unique puzzle/maze game, Portal 2 was and still is a very highly rated game, both for single player or multiplayer. In co-op mode, both players control a robot and must make their way through the complicated maze that is the Aperture Science Laboratory, with the aid of unique portal guns. These guns do not fire bullets—instead, they open up portals that the players must use to move themselves or objects from one place to another in order to make their way through the laboratory. This game will definitely stretch your brains out, so be prepared to put your heads together as you work your way through the game. Get it here!
Of course, on a list like this, at least one first-person shooter just has to be included! Counter-Strike: Source has a pretty basic concept: terrorists versus counter-terrorists. Each map offers a fairly short stage in which the counter-terrorists' goal is either to defuse a bomb or rescue hostages. The goal of the terrorists, of course, is to not let them do it. You can either play on the same team as your sweetie or go against him, using mainly guns as weapons to take down your enemies and accomplish the goal of the stage. Get it now!
The reason I love this ever-popular game so much is because I have absolutely no musical talent in real life. None. I can't sing or play an instrument, and I'm pretty hopeless when I try. But in Rock Band, I, well, rock! Fun for both the musically inclined as well as those who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket (like myself), Rock Band is always a party fave, and it's especially fun to rock out with your lover. Create a band together, name it, and go on a world tour. You can choose from four instruments: guitar, bass, drums or vocals. With songs from every genre, from classic oldies to modern hits, the Rock Band playlist promises something to tickle everyone's fancy, and I guarantee you'll have a blast belting out your favorite tunes in the privacy of your living room. Purchase it here!
Fusion Frenzy was a favorite of mine when I was a kid, and it still is today! There are 45 different mini-games, so there's absolutely something for everyone here. This one is another game for those couples who prefer competing against each other. While some of the mini-games will be team games, your teams will be chosen randomly (CPU players will fill in if fewer than four players are playing) and there will still be only one winner at the end of the set. There is a huge variety of mini-games to choose from; my favorites are Tail Blazer, which is sort of a competitive version of the classic game Snake, and Falling Star, where you are literally collecting falling stars in order to fuel rockets. Get it here!
So what are you waiting for? Dust off your console or hook up your LAN cable and start playing! It's a perfect way to spend date night at home—just you, the guy you love, and some awesome video games! Embrace your inner gamer and show your boyfriend that he can be beat by a girl!


The above diagram shows a formerly-temperate glacier suddenly cooled by an abrupt change in climate (see Note 1 and Note 2). The glacier overlies bedrock possessing a joint system comprising interconnected vertical and horizontal joints. It is assumed that groundwater can percolate through the joints and that the temperate ice incorporates a significant fraction of mobile water. The central portion of the ice sheet exerts hydrostatic pressure creating a pressurized aquifer when glacial water seeps downward into the bedrock. The water is trapped beneath the glacier, its cold-based edges and a layer of frozen bedrock.
Given the circumstances shown in the above diagram, a pressurized aquifer is a certain result. In places where ambient hydrostatic pressure is lower than that under the thickest and highest part of the ice sheet, there is potential for artesian groundwater to break through toward the surface, freezing near the surface, and thereby disrupting bedrock.
The complete set of circumstances described above could have existed at certain locations on the Avalon Peninsula during intervals of the pre-Holocene deglaciation time period (Note 1). Pressurized groundwater could help explain observations of bedrock frost heave (specifically, hydraulic bedrock frost heave, Note 5) that apparently occurred underneath glacial ice (see Illustrative Features).


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Emma Grede (left), Aurora James (center), and Noor Tagouri (right) at the Forbes Power Women Summit.
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In 2020, Canadian designer and Brother Vellies Founder Aurora James was underwhelmed with corporate America's response to the murder of George Floyd. She saw their diversity pledges and anti-racist donations, but for James–and millions of Black Americans–it wasn't enough. And so, James took to Instagram, tagging the world's largest retail brands and challenging them to have fair Black representation on their shelves. "We represent 15% of the population and we need to represent 15% of your shelf space," she wrote.
The concept of the Fifteen Percent Pledge is simple: A worldwide effort to have major retailers ensure that 15% of their sourcing partners are Black-owned businesses. Two years and 29 partnerships later, James' pledge has routed nearly $10 billion to Black-owned businesses.
"What does it mean to be anti-racist? You're no longer just neutral. You're anti-racist– that's a powerful thing, right? It's activated… So what does that actually look like?" said James. "And so I realized we need to start unpacking things. We also need to stop talking about entrepreneurs as though they just so happen to be underrepresented… Black American entrepreneurs haven't been just underrepresented– they've been historically excluded."
"Black Americans are almost 15% of the population," said James. "Major retailers should consider committing 15% of their shelf space to black owned businesses, period."
The more you say no to things that don't feel right, the more powerful the yes is.
The post soon caught the attention of thousands, including Good American CEO and Skims founding partner Emma Grede, who later signed on to the pledge as chairman.
"The beauty of the Fifteen Percent Pledge was how succinct and simple it was. You can wrap your head around it in a millisecond," said Grede, who joined James and journalist Noor Tagouri onstage at the Forbes Power Women Summit to discuss their efforts to open opportunities for Black creators and business owners. "I saw the future of the idea. I saw 20 years down the road."
This marathon mentality has turned into quick results. Since 2020, 29 brands, including Macy's, Sephora, Bloomingdale's, Vogue Magazine, Next Model Management, and West Elm have signed contracts– some as long as 10 years– to allocate 15% of their shelf space to Black businesses. Over 625 Black-owned businesses, many of them small businesses, have landed deals with pledge-takers. The Pledge has also partnered with Google Shopping to create the Business Equity Community, an online ecosystem that connects corporate Pledge-takers directly with Black entrepreneurs and small businesses. It currently supports more than 2,000 Black-owned businesses across all industries, 90% of which are owned by women.
There's something to be said about working towards a goal that's entirely uncompromising.
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James started her own fashion brand with $3,500 at a flea market on Manhattan's Lower East Side and has since grown its earnings to more than $1 million in annual revenue. She explained onstage that she's always had a complicated relationship with what it means to be successful because she's historically centered her decisions around sustainability and thoughtfulness.
"Which is not what you would do for the bottom line, necessarily. But having a business that I felt proud of was my definition of success above financial return."
Brother Vellies creates high-fashion shoes, bags and clothing by leveraging the talent of traditional craftpersons. All dyes and materials are natural, and the leather and hides are a byproduct of the local meat industry, turning usable products into wearable art.
"The more you say no to things that don't feel right, the more powerful the yes is," said James.
Grede, recently featured on Forbes' America's Richest Self Made Women list, juggles a handful of global brands: she's a co-founder and the CEO of Khloe Kardashian's apparel brand, Good American; the co-founder of Kris Jenner's natural cleaning products brand Safely; and a founding partner of Kim Kardashian's SKIMS apparel brand. She's led these brands to explosive success, in part due to her commitment to inclusivity and representation in retail. Her billion-dollar footprint has garnered her a net worth of about $360 million and a seat as the first female judge of color on entrepreneurship show Shark Tank, where she places a strong priority in investing in Black women.
"I've had two businesses before starting the ones I'm involved with now and at a certain point in your career, you start to be less and less inclined to make any compromises. And the thing about the pledge is that it's completely uncompromising," said Grede. "You're either in and you're doing the work, or you're saying to us, the work doesn't matter. There's something to be said about working towards a goal that's entirely uncompromising."
James and Grede are, admittedly, opposites when it comes to their businesses. But they find that collaborating from different pages opens the possibility to push their initiative universally.
"We've been able to work together because we're curious about the way that we both see the world," says James. "And we understand that Black women are not a monolith. We're going to feel different ways, and I think we've both really challenged each other."
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Students will learn about Claude Monet's wall-size paintings of water lilies then create a classroom mural decorated with Monet-inspired water lilies that they paint, cut, and fold into 3-dimensional flowers.
By making thier own 3-dimensional water lilies students will understand how Monet's loose, colorful brush strokes come into focus and seem to shimmer when seen at a distance. When the lilies are displayed together in a mural, students will understand the size and impact of Monet's wall-size paintings.
• work as a group to create a mural.
1. Show students an image of Claude Monet's wall-size painting Green Reflections while reading About the Art (see below). Ask students to look at the image up close to see the loose, unblended brushstrokes of the Impressionist style. Next, have students stand at a distance to see how the brushstrokes seem to come into focus. Ask them what words best describe Monet's painting. Answers might be: shimmering, fuzzy, colorful. Next, ask students to imagine what it would be like to be a painter who was loosing his eyesight, and what it would be like to get your eyesight back.
2. Show students the virtual tour of the Orangerie Museum. Ask them to imagine what it would be like to stand in the middle of the gallery, surrounded by Monet's shimmering art. Tell them that they too, as a class, will make a wall-size masterpiece. Each one will contribute a painted and crafted water lily for the piece.
4. Now for the lily pond background. Demonstrate how to sponge-paint a sheet of blue construction paper using the Impressionist style -- refer to Monet's Green Reflections painting for color ideas. Note: each student should fill the blue paper as he or she wishes. They do not have to cover the entire piece with paint, but some of the edges should be painted so that the individual sheets blend together when hung. Set up one table, covered with newspaper, for the sponge painting.
5. Hand out lily patterns for students to paint. When they are finished with their pattern they should write their name in one corner and set it aside to dry. Each student should then paint one sheet of blue/green background.
Before class: tape the blue/green painted background sheets onto a wall, touching side-by-side, to create a rectangle.
1. Demonstrate how to cut, fold, stack, and staple the painted lily pattern. Note: for this project, you will not add the plastic lid under the lily pad.
2. Hand each student his or her painted pattern so they can construct their piece. When finished, each should write their name on the underside of the lily pad and bring it to the blue/green wall. Help them decide where to place their flower in the pond, and tape it in place.
3. When all lilies are in the pond, ask students to discuss how their piece is similar to Monet's painting and what it is like to stand in front of their shimmering work of art.


Triangle Aquatic Center offers private and semi-private lessons for those who are interested in one-on-one instruction, need more flexibility with scheduling on a lesson-by-lesson basis, or have a specific area of interest.
Classes are 30 minutes and can be in either the instructional or program pool, depending on the needs and level of the student. There are no age restrictions for private swim lessons. Please note that there are limits on the dates and times that private lessons can be conducted.
If you have any questions, please email programs@triangleaquatics.org or call 919.459.4045.
Full payment is due prior to the start of each Private Lesson. Private Lesson series of six (6) or more lessons booked at one time must be paid in full prior to the lesson being taught on the first lesson date.
The Private Lesson series discount is only given when six (6) or more Private Lessons are booked and paid for in one transaction, prior to the start of the first lesson.
Guests taking private lessons must check in at the Front Desk upon arrival of each visit, receive a lane rental card, and meet their instructor on the pool deck beside the lifeguard stand. The lane rental card must be given to the instructor prior to the lesson, or the parent will be sent back upstairs to the Front Desk to receive their lesson card.
48 hour advance notice is required for requesting a Private Lesson. Electronic request forms are found online at triangleaquatics.org under the Programs tab.
48 hour advance notice is also required for cancellations or rescheduling. The request must be sent in writing via email to both the Private Lesson instructor and programs@triangleaquatics.org , or the lesson will be charged in full and not rescheduled. Same day cancellations or no-shows will be charged full fees.
Triangle Aquatic Center will notify families as soon as possible about facility closures or cancellations due to instructor illness. Private Lessons will be rescheduled based on Instructor availability.


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Carpenter who built pallet home by Winnipeg bridge shares his story of homelessness
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The man behind a homemade structure Winnipeg drivers may have noticed spring up under a bridge over Omand's Creek said he knows he could be asked to leave at any time, but doesn't want to return to sleeping in the streets.
Allen Par, a carpenter by trade, said he lost his job in 2014, four years after coming to Canada from the Philippines, to find work and to "find a better future."
He told CTV News after spending last winter under a bridge, he decided to build the house.
"Because I want a better sleep at night," he said. "Because before, I don't know where I'm sleeping."
Par has been working on the build every day for the last two months. He said he's used wood from pallets given to him from stores for free, and purchased other materials — like shingles, nails and cement — with money he earned returning shopping carts to a store.
"The people there, they give me food, sometimes they give me money, and I accept that because that is the grace, right?" he said.
An employee of a nearby business said the structure hasn't gone unnoticed, but Par has been nothing but respectful.
"I'm just really impressed with it," said Jasmine Illsley, who works at the Vapour Mill. "He's definitely a handy man. He builds it very quickly and it looks great, surprisingly."
Par's home is built on city property and he said he's aware he could be given marching orders.
In a statement to CTV News, the City of Winnipeg said it is working with community groups to: "develop an inclusive plan for temporary encampments going forward to ensure greater consultation takes place before the city takes actions that impact those experiencing homelessness."
Par said he has just one hope: to not end up "sleeping in the street again."
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Friendship and flowers go hand in hand, so make their day with a festive bouquet. Our Friends do so much for us throughout the course of a year. Friendship's Day special is a perfect occasion for us to really thank them for all they do. Bright, cheerful and joyful are what come to mind when thinking of a yellow rose. Yellow roses create warm feelings and provide happiness.
Giving yellow roses can tell someone the joy they bring you and make their friendship special. Yellow roses, Gazania, marigold show sunny feelings of joy, warmth and make your friendship-day special. They are symbols of friendship and caring. Give A sparkling look to your home decor by bringing home the beautiful friendship day special plants.
Full of allure and elegance, these beautiful planters with design lets you cultivate your favourite plants and other gorgeous indoor plants. Happy feet with Syngonium is a perfect example of giving for making your friendship day special and nostalgic. These miniature gardens, in short, are the symbol of care and love for your friends.


It was a busy couple of days at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in October, with the venue playing host to the London Build Expo 2017. This year, a team from Powerday took residence among industry peers to talk to people about the variety of services we offer for construction and demolition companies.
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From the DVD Shelf: Citizen Kane (1941)
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The 70th Anniversary blu-ray set of Citizen Kane topped my Best DVDs of 2011 list, even though back in January I was still in the process of making my way through the expansive three-disc set. Over the last few months I've had a great time watching the film, listening to all the commentary tracks, and making my way through all the special features (including the 1995 Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane and HBO's 1999 film about Kane's troubled production, RKO 281). Citizen Kane is considered by many to be the best movie ever made, and while it's not my personal favorite film of all time, it's a film that I really, really love. More than seventy years after it was made, Citizen Kane remains a magnificent film, and the blu-ray set is phenomenal.
I feel a bit under-qualified to write about Citizen Kane. The film has been the subject of so much scrutiny and attention over the past seventy years, and film scholars far more knowledgeable than I have written voluminous tomes about the movie. The two commentary tracks on the blu-ray set, by Roger Ebert and Peter Bogdanovich, are both two-hour-long scholarly dissections of Kane above anything I could hope to write.
I first saw Citizen Kane in a film architecture class I took while at college. The course was a history of set-design in film, but it was also a history of the movies themselves. Each week the professor screened several films on the big-screen (using a projector in one of the lecture halls). I encountered quite a few major films for the first time through that class (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Battleship Potemkin, and many more), and Citizen Kane was among them. I was smitten with Kane immediately. I'm sure it helped that my first viewing was on such a large screen, where I could really soak in Orson Welles' and Gregg Toland's marvelously innovative cinematography. I have seen the film many times since then, and I never fail to be impressed and engrossed. This new blu-ray edition is absolutely gorgeous. The film is dazzlingly pristine, yet not scrubbed so clean that it loses its character. (Don't judge the image quality by the opening few minutes — that newsreel footage is SUPPOSED to look crummy!)
I'm a sci-fi nut and I love big visual effects films, so it's no surprise that one of my favorite aspects of Citizen Kane is the extraordinary depth and variety of visual effects trickery used by Mr. Welles to create the look of the film. Citizen Kane is a visual effects movie, make no mistake! In just the opening shot alone (the slow series of dissolves that take us through Xanadu, Kane's enormous castle and estate, and up towards the one lonely lit window) Mr. Welles used in-camera trickery and optical dissolves to blend models, matte paintings, and live-action shots into a seamless sequence. Scene after scene in the film features the blending of multiple images, done with such skill that you'd never know you were looking at a visual effect if you didn't study the image carefully. Take the scene in which Kane (Orson Welles) writes a bad review of Susan Anthony's performance, while his estranged friend Jedediah (Joseph Cotten) looks on from the background. This is an example of the "deep focus" technique pioneered by Mr. Welles and Cinematographer Gregg Toland, in that both Kane (on the left side of the screen, in the extreme foreground) and Jedediah (on the right side of screen, way in the background) are both in perfect focus. This was achieved by an in-camera trick, in which Welles was filmed first while the right side of the screen was completely dark. Then the film was re-run through the camera, and Jedediah's side of the scene was filmed. The two separately-filmed images are combined so perfectly that the effect remains seamless, even so many decades later.
Still don't believe me that Citizen Kane is a visual effects film? Then consider the marvel of the movie's make-up effects! Orson Welles is aged, as Kane, from a virile young man in his twenties through middle age and all the way into old age. There are several different make-up effects used to capture Kane at these different stages of his life, and I always find myself staggered by how convincing the make-up effects are. Kane in his fifties looks like a real fifty-year-old man to me. It's stunning that the character is played by the same actor (Orson Welles himself) who played Kane in his twenties. Many of the other main characters — Jedediah (Joseph Cotten), Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane), and Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore) — go through a similar aging process, created by make-up. The actors are of course as critical as the make-up effects in selling these transitions in age, and here is just one example of what a powerful actor Orson Welles was. The middle-aged Kane doesn't just look different from his younger self, he MOVES differently. Mr. Welles carries himself in a completely different manner when playing the older Kane. Watch the way he walks. It's an extraordinarily impressive achievement.
There are so many ways in which Citizen Kane was staggeringly innovative! Consider the film's fractured narrative structure. We start at the end of Charles Foster Kane's life, and through a series of flashbacks gradually learn the details of the man's life. But the flashbacks aren't in chronological order. We jump backwards and forwards in time as the film progresses. As different characters share their recollections of Kane, we follow them into and out of flashbacks. It's so easy to imagine how this could be extraordinarily confusing, but the film's careful structure keeps everything balanced and the audience clearly placed in time and space so we have no question about where or when the scenes we're watching take place. This film was made in 1941! And it's structure is every bit as clever as a film you might see released today.
Then of course there is the imagery within each scene. Mr. Welles never chose the ordinary or predictable way to stage a scene or to place the camera. Watch any five-minute scene from Citizen Kane and I guarantee you that you'll see some extraordinarily beautiful and clever mise-en-scène. I adore the shot at the very beginning of the film, right after Kane utters his dying word and the snow-globe crashes to the ground. We see a nurse run in, but the shot is focused on the smashed open snow-glove — we only see the door open and the nurse run in through the glass of the globe. Marvelous!
But all of this stunning visual invention, about which I've been going on about, would be worthless were not the story so engaging. Citizen Kane is a great American tragedy, and even upon repeated viewings I find the story of the rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane to be deeply moving. Despite his basically good intentions and terrific wealth, Kane finds himself continually stymied throughout his life. But his main obstacle is not external, but internal. Time and again he proves his own undoing.
Kane, in the end, remains an enigmatic figure. Despite all the time spent (basically the film's entire run-time!) examining his life, he persists as an enigma to the audience. When you consider the film's structure, this is no surprise. None of his friends or acquaintances really knew Charles Foster Kane. Because the film is basically told from their point of view, since they didn't really know him, neither do we. Here lies the core, for me, of the film's powerful re-watchability. Every time I see the film, I feel like if I only pay close attention, this time I'll really get to understand Kane. But, of course, that's impossible. "Rosebud" is suggested as being the key to understanding Kane's true self, and the revelation at the end of the film does indeed shed some light on Charles Foster Kane's character. But as Jerry Thompson (William Alland), the faceless reporter charged with hunting down the meaning of Kane's last word, says at the end of the film: "It wouldn't have explained anything… I don't think any word can explain a man's life."
Though much was made at the time (and in the years since) of how the character of Charles Foster Kane was based on publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, the tragedy of Citizen Kane is that, in many ways, it's also proven to be about Orson Welles himself. In The Battle Over Citizen Kane documentary, Kane's editor Robert Wise (who would go on to become a renowned director of his own — he even directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture!) remarked: "Well, I thought often afterwards, only in recent years when I saw the film again two or three years ago when they had the fiftieth anniversary, and I suddenly thought to myself, well, Orson was doing an autobiographical film and didn't realize it, because it's rather much the same, you know. You start here, and you have a big rise and tremendous prominence and fame and success and whatnot, and then tail off and tail off and tail off. And at least the arc of the two lives were very much the same."
Following the controversy and turmoil that surrounded Citizen Kane's release (because of Hearst's voracious efforts to block the film's release, it was little-seen in 1941, and in fact it wasn't until the film's re-release in 1956 that it began to garner the wide-spread acclaim that it has today), Orson Welles never again had complete editorial control of another movie. The remainder of his career is replete with unmade or unfinished projects, or films that were taken away from him. His follow-up film, The Magnificent Ambersons, was famously cut by about an hour in run-time by the studio, and tragically no copies of Welles' original cut survive. His 1958 film, Touch of Evil, was similarly butchered by the studio (though an amazing 1998 effort spearheaded by Walter Murch restored the film, as much as possible, to Wellles' original intentions, using a famous 58 page memo that Mr. Welles had written to the studio which detailed his unhappiness with their cut). (Click here for my review of the restored version of Touch of Evil.) Watching Kane today, it's hard not to get wistful in watching what Orson Welles was able to create when allowed to operate under his own devices, and wondering what other great films we were robbed of because he never got this same chance again.
Before I bring this already-lengthy piece to a close, let's turn to some people smarter than I am for their thoughts on Citizen Kane:
In the New York Times' original review of Citizen Kane from 1941, they wrote that Kane "is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood."
In a 1998 article about Citizen Kane, Roger Ebert wrote: "It is one of the miracles of cinema that in 1941 a first-time director; a cynical, hard-drinking writer; an innovative cinematographer, and a group of New York stage and radio actors were given the keys to a studio and total control, and made a masterpiece." A decade later, in a wonderful piece from 2008, Mr. Ebert commented that while asking a film critic to name the BEST film of all time is a difficult if not impossible proposition, "Citizen Kane is arguably the most important film… it consolidated the film language up until 1941 and broke new ground in such areas as deep focus, complex sound, and narrative structure."
Just last week I read an interesting summary of a lengthy interview with Martin Scorsese, that boiled down the conversation into what they called "Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need to See to Know Anything About Film." No surprise, Citizen Kane was on the list. Here's what Mr. Scorsese had to say: "Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don't think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we'd seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them—it's very interesting. It still holds up, and it's still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air." Here's an older clip of Martin Scorsese talking about what he learned from watching Citizen Kane:
In his recent review of the Citizen Kane blu-ray set, The Digital Bits' Bernie Maxwell wrote: "This is a film that can be savoured on multiple levels. Is it acting that's your primary interest? Then sit back and enjoy a whole raft of actors making their impressive film debuts: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warwick, George Coulouris, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Paul Stewart. Maybe you appreciate the work of a top-flight cinematographer? Then let Gregg Toland give you a course on the sort of deep focus work previously only hinted at in films. Perhaps you enjoy watching how the director frames the various scenes and positions the actors to get certain desired effects? Then Orson Welles will give you endless examples to analyze and argue about. Does skillful editing do it for you? Then Robert Wise and Orson Welles virtually provide a textbook on when and how to go about it. Or maybe an intriguingly structured script full of good turns of phrase excites you? Then Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles have the answer for you." Mr. Maxwell then summed up: "I've already mentioned the acting and the direction and the camerawork and the editing and the script and so on. All had innovative elements. The real brilliance was that so much innovation should appear in one film and that all components should work so well both individually and collectively. No matter how many repeated viewings, you never manage to exhaust all the film's pleasures."


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The retreat has officially been canceled due to the Coronavirus situation. 3/16/20
Day Retreat
Registration will close on April 30.
Friday ($50) includes evening program and dinner.
Saturday ($65) includes all day program, lunch, and dinner.
Sunday ($50) includes morning and afternoon programs and lunch.
The Day option does not include onsite overnight accommodations. Please refer to the Alternate Lodging List.
Rates ($250 single, $220 double) include lodging and 6 meals per person, from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon – 2 nights.
Early registration is encouraged.
Regarding single room requests, technically there are no single rooms. There are a total of 36 rooms with shared bathrooms in three lodges. Although each room can accommodate at least two persons, we assign no more than two to a room. "Single room" availability depends on the number of weekend registrations, which is not known until registration closes in late April. For this reason, single room requests are wait-listed on a first-come-first-serve basis. The earlier you register the more likely you are to get a single room.
The registrar will notify those who request single rooms of their status approximately two weeks prior to the retreat. If there are not enough single spaces to go around you will be assigned a roommate of the same sex and be refunded the difference between a single and double room. If you request a single room and have not received notification by May 3 please contact Betty Hillman at bahillman@earthlink.net or 916-501-2284.
Alternatively, those who would rather not share a room can register for one or more days and stay overnight in one of the hotels in the Auburn area .
Register Online and Pay With Credit Card
As these are credit card payments everyone, both day and weekend retreatants, must pay in full when they register. Weekenders can still make a deposit by using the paper registration option.
Since scholarship applicants must attach their scholarship application to their registration form, they will not be able to register online.
Those who wish to make a donation to help with retreat costs and scholarships will be able to do so.
Online registration will be available at the Center on Sundays after the readings service during March and April.
Other Registration and Payment Options
Click on the following links to download a registration form: day or weekend . Paper registration forms can also be obtained at the Center. You can mail the form and include a check made payable to Sacramento Center of SRF:
Sacramento Center of SRF – ATTN: Registrar
4513 North Ave
Those who wish to use a credit card for payment, please register online by clicking the registration button above. Unlike in past years, we will not accept credit card payments made in the bookroom.
MEALS: both lacto-ovo vegetarian and vegan options are provided. If you require a special diet you will need to bring your own food. Refrigerators are available.
WHO MAY ATTEND: The retreat this year is open only to Kriyabans and SRF Lessons students.
DUE: Payment in full is due by April 19 for those registering for the weekend.
ALTERNATIVE LODGING LIST
REFUNDS: No refunds are available after May 1.
ARRIVAL: Please plan to arrive after 4:30 pm on Friday. Dinner starts at 6:30 pm. Class starts at 7:45 pm.
DIRECTIONS: Google Maps – address: 1001 Boole Rd, Applegate, CA 95703
SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarship applications are available at the Center. The scholarship application deadline for both DAY and WEEKEND applicants is April 19.
QUESTIONS: Please contact the registrar (Betty Hillman) at (916) 501-2284 or bahillman@earthlink.net
NOTE: The Jesuit Retreat Center is private property. Please do not visit the site prior to the retreat.
Please note that the email address you provide when you register will be used to send information about the retreat. On May 1 important information of a practical nature will be sent to all registrants. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive it before contacting Mary Fontaine at maryfontaine49@gmail.com or 530-574-3089.
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Cabinet minister Michael Gove and journalist wife, Sarah Vine, have 'agreed to separate'
The announcement of their separation comes a week following the scandal surrounding the former health secretary Matt Hancock who was caught on CCTV romantically entangled with one of his aides, Gina Coladangelo
By Isaac Bickerstaff
After 20 years of marriage, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and his journalist wife, Sarah Vine, have 'agreed to separate' and are 'in the process of finalising their divorce', a joint spokesman for the couple has said. 'They will continue to support their two children and they remain close friends. The family politely ask for privacy at this time and will not be providing any further comment,' the statement concluded.
As reported in the Guardian , a friend of the couple told the PA news agency that they had 'drifted apart'. 'This is a difficult and sad decision for Michael and Sarah after 20 years of marriage,' the friend said. 'It is an entirely amicable separation and there is no one else involved. They have drifted apart over the past couple of years but they remain friends. Their absolute priority is the children.'
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Of course, it comes a week following the scandal surrounding the former health secretary Matt Hancock who was caught on CCTV romantically entangled with one of his aides. Sarah Vine, a columnist for the Daily Mail, wrote last week in the Mail on Sunday that Westminster can change a man and that she wasn't surprised to hear of Hancock's affair with Gina Goladangelo. She wrote: 'The eternal lot of the political spouse [is] keeping the home fires burning so the 'Big I Am' can do more important stuff — in this case saving the world from Covid-19…'
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The high-profile couple married in October 2001 and Vine's Twitter handle is 'Westminster WAG' as an established member of the political inside group. Vine, 54, has two children with Gove, 53, and she is a godmother to one of David Cameron's daughters.
Vine concluded the Mail on Sunday article, writing: 'Climbing that far up Westminster's greasy pole changes a person. And they require something new from a partner. Namely, someone who is as much a courtesan as a companion, one who understands their brilliance and, crucially, is personally invested in it.'
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Linda Burton posting from Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Merry Christmas glows red on the electronic board behind the President's chair in the Louisiana Senate Chambers. Seasons Greetings follows below, in green. The time and date and the Louisiana state seal shine brightly in the middle; the senator's names are listed on either side of the sign. Through the open door I see red-striped flags, pots of red poinsettias, and wreaths with red bows; all surrounded by soaring square columns in a dark exotic sturdiness. Splendid is the word that comes to mind; it's the shine, the color, the richness of the look. The House Chambers are closed for a while; major renovation work is going on. But that's okay, there is plenty to see in stunning Memorial Hall; handpainted murals in glowing colors; white marble statuary, double life-sized; filigreed bronze chandeliers; the Senate Chambers to the left; and just beyond the centered Christmas tree, the flags. I counted twelve in all, hanging over the bronze elevator doors. I boarded the elevator with a crowd; a mix of state employees and others like me, just visiting. It's clear, the Louisiana state capitol is open for business.
The elevator takes us to the 24th floor; there we switched to a smaller elevator for the observation deck on the 27th. The Louisiana capitol is the tallest capitol in the United States, at 450 feet, with 34 floors. It's built on the sweep of a hill above the city, and the river; added oomph. The balcony allows views in every direction; I see massive tank fields to the north, a part of the state's petrochemical corridor. I see the wide Mississippi River to the west, barges floating south, a ship docked. I see pelicans floating on Capitol Lake, just below. East and south are city views – the Old Arsenal Museum; the Governor's Mansion; the Capitol gardens, 27 acres filled with magnolias and azaleas and Huey Long's statue and grave.
Back downstairs, a plaque marks the spot where Huey Long was killed in 1935; I see the hole in the wall from one of the bullets fired that night. He's the governor who pushed for the construction of this capitol during Depression years, though he was serving as a US senator the day he was killed; the legend of Huey Long is a story worthy of a separate post.
There are many stories brought to mind in a walk around this capitol. The statues in Memorial Hall for instance – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, governor in colonial times; William C C Claiborne, the first governor after statehood; Henry Watkins Allen, governor during the time Louisiana was part of the Confederacy; Francis T Nichols, governor during Reconstruction; Pinckney Benton Pinchback, the first African-American governor. There are stories in those flags hanging over the elevator doors – Spanish, French, British, Confederate; the Republic of West Florida and LA Independent Republic; a 15-star US flag; the current state flag and United States flag.
There is a story in the pencil still embedded high up in the ceiling in the Senate Chambers; I zoomed the camera in to see. It happened in 1970; controversy was intense over Right to Work legislation; a bomb was slipped into the Chambers in a suitcase. Fortunately it exploded on a Sunday night; it is believed the timer was set incorrectly and the intention was for it detonate on Monday morning when the Chambers were occupied. I saw photos of the horrific shambles that was the Chambers scene; unlike the shining room today, where each beautiful walnut desk is marked with a small US flag, and handsome leather chairs sit waiting, ready for January's session to begin.
I headed out through a basement exit; the Scion was close. There are plenty of parking spaces out front; no meters; no restrictions; all who need to come inside are welcome. This functional, beautiful art deco highrise capitol on the banks of the Mississippi River is open for business. Seasons Greetings, to all.


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Who Owns Space (And Why Does It Matter)?
We humans do a pretty good job of dividing up ownership of the world.
But what about beyond that?
Who owns space? Who decides who owns that, and why does it matter?
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[00:00:03] Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the English Learning For Curious Minds podcast by Leonardo English.
[00:00:09] I'm your host Alastair Budge, and it's time for the final part, part three of our three-part mini series on who owns the sea, sky and space.
[00:00:19] And this means today we are talking about space, who owns it and why that matters.
[00:00:25] If you haven't already checked out parts one and two, which are who owns the sea and who owns the sky, then I'd really recommend listening to them first.
[00:00:34] You can certainly listen to this podcast without having listened to the others, but you'll get a lot more value if you've listened to the first two as they will help explain some of the things we'll be talking about today,
[00:00:46] And this is your customary reminder that you can grab a copy of the key vocabulary and transcripts for this podcast on the website, which is Leonardoenglish.com.
[00:00:56] Okay then, let's get cracking.
[00:00:59] Space, the final frontier, the cosmos,
[00:01:03] The moon, sun and stars have of course, captivated the minds of philosophers, scientists, and just about everyone since the beginning of time, but they were always so far away, so unreachable that there was no need to think about ownership.
[00:01:21] Of course, a large proportion of major religions and belief systems held the stars and space as the realm of the gods, the afterlife, and so on. They belonged to the gods.
[00:01:34] And even for those who might not believe in any kind of supernatural properties of the stars or space, it seemed implausible, so unbelievable, impossible that anyone could actually get there.
[00:01:47] So what was the point of deciding who would own it if they could?
[00:01:53] Then in the latter half of the 20th century, everything changed.
[00:01:58] Starting with Sputnik One, the first satellite to be sent into space in 1957, mankind had finally sent something into orbit.
[00:02:08] And just four years later, in 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to ever make it into space.
[00:02:18] It suddenly became clear that space wasn't beyond the realms of possibility, and there was a real sense in the 1950s and 60s that space was going to be where the Cold War was fought.
[00:02:31] You only have to read some science fiction from the fifties and sixties to understand quite how real the belief was that space was the next logical frontier for the battle between East and West.
[00:02:44] Given that space was no longer beyond the reach of man, there needed to be agreement about who owned it or rather who didn't own it.
[00:02:54] The rest of the earth, sea and sky was divided up, but space, well, that didn't really belong to anyone.
[00:03:03] Neil Armstrong famously placed an American flag on the moon in 1969 which may have implied some sort of ownership, but this was just figurative.
[00:03:14] It didn't actually mean anything.
[00:03:16] The fact that the Americans were the first people to set foot on the moon didn't mean that they owned the moon any more than you or I do.
[00:03:26] Why not? I guess you might be wondering.
[00:03:28] Well, in 1967 a treaty was formed documenting the laws of space. It is now called the Outer Space Treaty, but previously it went by the slightly less catchy Treaty On Principles Governing The Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.
[00:03:50] So it seems like a sensible name change to have made.
[00:03:53] For those of you who remember part one of this series, you may recall the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Sea, which was actually signed a little later, in 1982. The Outer Space Treaty is a similar kind of concept, but for space.
[00:04:08] From the point of view of ownership, it's actually far simpler than the Convention on the Law of the Sea because well, it states that no country can claim ownership over any part of space, that nobody owns it.
[00:04:22] It states that space exploration shall be free for all countries for the benefit of mankind.
[00:04:29] As a side note, the main purpose of the Outer Space Treaty wasn't actually to define ownership, it was to ban the use of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in space.
[00:04:40] Remember, there was this very strong belief during the Cold War that there was this real possibility, and certainly in the West at least, that the Soviet Union could send nuclear bombs into space and then fire them back down on the US and of course vice-versa. The USSR believed that the US would do the same to them.
[00:05:01] So in terms of ownership of space, where does that leave us? If nobody owns it, what does that actually mean from a practical point of view? Are countries free to go to the moon, Mars and beyond, and not to have to worry about anything, as it doesn't belong to anything?
[00:05:18] In a world, or should I say in a, in a universe where humans colonise Mars, who actually owns the land, what laws apply?
[00:05:28] At the moment, some of these definitions are a little loose.
[00:05:33] For starters, the definition of space isn't clear, as we talked about in part two and there's currently a working group at the UN trying to tidy this up.
[00:05:44] It looks like the demarcation of space will be at the Karmen line, as listeners from part two of this series will remember as the line a hundred kilometres up from the Earth's surface.
[00:05:54] At least the definition of where space ends on the other side is clear. On one level at least it never ends, right? It's everything beyond where it starts and it is expanding.
[00:06:05] And in terms of how countries or companies should interact within space, there also isn't a huge amount of clarity provided here.
[00:06:14] As the treaty was principally around ensuring that space remained a peaceful place, free of nuclear weapons, there isn't much provision made for commercial activity in space, be that space tourism or the use of space for natural resource extraction.
[00:06:29] So the law is unclear on whether a private company can go to the moon, Mars, or beyond, mine natural resources and bring them back to the Earth for profit.
[00:06:40] Of course, on the Earth's surface, if a company did this, then they would have to pay some sort of fee to the country that owned the territory.
[00:06:49] But in space, if nobody owns it, well who would they pay?
[00:06:53] this is the unclear part.
[00:06:56] There is a proliferation of companies that are trying to develop technology for a future where there is some level of colonisation of space, from Elon Musk to companies like Moon Express and Planetary Resources, but no clear legal framework for how they should all work.
[00:07:13] Why is this important?
[00:07:15] Well, the space industry is set to grow to $1 trillion by the year 2040.
[00:07:21] You don't have to hear it from me that the Earth is overpopulated, with the global population predicted to hit 10 billion shortly after 2050 and of course, natural resources are finite and space entrepreneurs believe space to be an untapped source of resources.
[00:07:40] Just Google Elon Musk colonise Mars if you want to learn more about this.
[00:07:44] Another aspect of space ownership that isn't particularly clear is that although space itself isn't owned by anyone, anything that goes into space is technically sovereign territory of the state from where it was launched.
[00:08:00] So a Russian spacecraft is technically in Russian territory when it's in space.
[00:08:05] Similar to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, ships have to obey the laws of the country where they're registered.
[00:08:12] This is a similar idea, but for space.
[00:08:15] This of course becomes all the more complicated in the event that the space shuttle, for example, is damaged and splits into lots of different pieces.
[00:08:24] If, for example, a Chinese launched satellite is damaged and splits into a thousand different pieces, a million different pieces, this could be interpreted to mean that there are a thousand, a million little pieces of Chinese territory orbiting the earth.
[00:08:39] Where almost everyone is in agreement is that ownership of outer space needs a lot more clarification and current global laws are not set up for a world of space mining, space travel and and large scale colonisation of other planets
[00:08:57] I don't think we're in any danger of that happening in the immediate future.
[00:09:01] Although I guess people back in the 13th century looked up to the sky and said, we don't really need to worry about figuring out who owns that, there's no one will ever get there.
[00:09:09] And then evidently they did.
[00:09:11] In terms of space entrepreneurs though, and ownership of space, it's not all scientists building rockets and space shuttles.
[00:09:20] Indeed, the lack of clarity on ownership of space hasn't stopped one American based entrepreneur trying to sell the moon and Mars.
[00:09:28] Dennis Hope of Nevada has been selling land on the moon and Mars since 1980. In fact, for less than $20 you can grab yourself an acre of the moon, perhaps a nice Christmas present.
[00:09:42] I should point out though, that the probability of this holding up in court is comparable to your probability of actually being able to get there, and so I'd hesitate before deciding to plough your life savings into becoming a lunar real estate tycoon.
[00:09:58] Okay then, today we have covered who owned space.
[00:10:02] On one level, the answer is simple, nobody, and yet everybody.
[00:10:09] In 2019 this may not be a huge issue, but in a world or should I say universe where space becomes more congested than it is today, then ownership is going to be a bit of a thorny issue and there certainly needs to be a lot more work done on clarification of how it actually works.
[00:10:30] I hope that you've enjoyed this podcast and this mini-series on who owns the sea, sky, and space. If you haven't listened to the first two parts yet, then they are well worth a listen, if I may say so myself.
[00:10:42] Ownership of stuff is, well, it's complicated. It's not something that you think about every day, but I find this kind of stuff absolutely fascinating.
[00:10:52] Stay tuned for more mini-series like this. It's been a fun one to make and I hope that you've learned a lot about who owns what.
[00:11:00] As always, thank you very much for listening to the show. If you've enjoyed it, then do consider taking 20 seconds out of your day and leaving a review.
[00:11:09] Every review puts a smile on my face and tells people what the podcast is about, so those are two pretty good things.
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[00:11:26] Okay, you've been listening to the English Learning for Curious Minds podcast by Leonardo English. I've been Alastair Budge and I'll catch you in the next episode.
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Customary: usual, normal
Captivated: attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm
Realm: a field or domain of activity or interest
Supernatural: (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
Implausible: unbelievable
Into orbit: sent into space
Realms of possibility: what people think is possible
Logical: something that makes sense
Implied: suggested but not directly expressed; implicit
Figurative: without real meaning
Catchy: easy to remember
Side note: something that's not relevant to the main argument or subject
Ban: prohibit, not allow
Vice versa: also the opposite way around
Loose: unclear
Demarcation: a dividing line
Provision: a condition or requirement in a legal document
Mine: dig in (the earth) for coal or other minerals
Proliferation: rapid increase in the number or amount of something
Framework: a basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.
Untapped: (of a resource) not yet exploited or used
Sovereign territory: land owned by a nation state
Interpreted: understood
Set up: prepared, ready
Grab yourself: buy, get
Holding up: be considered legally binding
Plough: invest, put all your money
Lunar: relating to the moon
Tycoon: a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry
Congested: busy, full of traffic
Thorny: difficult to manage
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