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Local Attractions in Shadyside & Pittsburgh
The Inn on Negley is conveniently located within a short walk or drive of many Pittsburgh attractions, including universities, hospitals, and major employers. Our neighborhood, Shadyside, has a variety of shops and restaurants and makes for a pleasant stroll. And if you'd like to explore more of Pittsburgh, our concierge services and special packages will help you make the most of your visit.
Universities & Institutions
We are conveniently located for visits to many Pittsburgh area universities and employers, including:
Chatham University (0.5 miles)
UPMC Shadyside (0.7 miles)
Carnegie Mellon University (1.3 miles)
Google (1.5 miles)
University of Pittsburgh (2 miles)
Carlow University (2.2 miles)
The Inn on Negley is located in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood, known for its historic homes, tree-lined streets, as well as local restaurants, shops, national retailers, and high-end boutiques, all within a 5-10 minute walk.
Think Shadyside is the Shadyside Chamber of Commerce's website, updated with the latest information.
Visit Pittsburgh also has a page devoted to Shadyside, as does Next Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh is rich in historic, cultural, recreational, and culinary attractions! Here are a few links to get you started:
Visit Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh's official tourism site features information on local attractions, sightseeing, special events, a visitor's guide, and more. They also feature a Travel Safely page featuring up-to-date COVID -related information.
Next Pittsburgh – Extensive blog featuring local news, events, neighborhood guides, job listings, and more.
Good Food Pittsburgh – From new restaurants to hidden gems, this blog highlights the best that Pittsburgh has to offer in food and drink.
Pittsburgh Magazine – This local blog features news and special events, in addition to an extensive food section.
Pittsburgh Attractions
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Four Distinct Museums
The four Carnegie Museums are home to so many priceless treasures: important collections of contemporary art and the works of French impressionists; fantastic artifacts of past civilizations and long-extinct creatures; interactive exhibits that bring science alive to kids and adults alike; and the wonderful and sometimes wacky art and archives of one of Pittsburgh's most famous native sons, Andy Warhol. Our museums also are home to constant exploration—of stars and planets, bugs and birds, the human body and its evolution, and the long and storied history of the Earth and its earliest inhabitants.
Please check official websites before making plans, as hours and closures are subject to change.
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213
Monday, Wedneday, Friday-Saturday: 10 am. to 5 pm. Thursday: 10 am. to 8 pm. Sunday: 12 pm. to 5 pm. Closed on Tuesday and holidays.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Closed Monday, September–June. Open Monday, July & August. Tuesday–Saturday: 10 am.–5 pm. Thursday: 10 am.–8 pm. Sunday: 12 pm.–5 pm.
Carnegie Science Center
One Allegheny Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15212
Sunday – Friday 10 am – 5 pm. Saturday- 10 am – 7 pm
117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Tuesday–Thursday: 10 am. to 5 pm. Friday: 10 am. to 10 pm. Sunday: 10 am. to 5 pm. Monday: Closed
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
One Schenley Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Awaken your senses. Immerse yourself in 17 distinct botanical experiences. Encounter something of the secret life of plants. And glimpse one of the worlds greenest public gardens.
Phipps is open daily from 9:30 am. to 5 pm. and until 10 pm. on Friday. A tour of the Conservatory will take approximately 90 minutes so please plan to arrive in plenty of time to complete your visit before the closing times noted above.
Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh
The Cathedral has symbolized the pursuit of higher learning and the achievements possible through education, research and public service. The Cathedral of Learning, the unique and architecturally stunning landmark that has come to symbolize the University of Pittsburgh is the second tallest education building in the United States and is home to 27 Nationality rooms, 25 working classrooms and 2 display rooms
Frick Art & Historical Center
Frick Art and Historical Center
7227 Reynolds Street, Pittsburgh Pa 15208
Experience the culture and refinement of the Gilded Age at the Frick Art & Historical Center, located on beautifully landscaped gardens in Pittsburgh's East End. The museum and its multiple collections are the legacy of Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, one of America's greatest industrialists and art collectors.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am. to 5 pm. Closed Monday
Heinz Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh
1212 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh,
The Heinz Memorial Chapel began as a gift. Henry John Heinz, the founder of the H.J. Heinz Company, wanted to honor his mother, Anna Margaretta Heinz, with "a building" at the University.
500 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA 15212
The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into — room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists. Located in the historic Mexican War Streets of Pittsburgh's North Side since 1977, the Mattress Factory is one of few museums of its kind anywhere.
Tuesday-Saturday 10 am. – 5 pm. Sunday 1 – 5 pm. Closed Monday.
7340 Butler Street Pittsburgh, PA 15206
The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium strives to foster positive, lifelong connections between animals and people. The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium is home to thousands of amazing animals representing more than four hundred species, including 22 threatened or endangered species. 4000 animals representing 475 species on 77 acres. Includes children's zoo.
Hours of Operation vary during seasons. (Ask Innkeeper for current hours)
National Aviary
700 Arch Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
The National Aviary is America's only independent indoor nonprofit zoo dedicated exclusively to birds. Located in West Park on Pittsburgh's historic North Side, the National Aviary's diverse collection comprises more than 500 birds from around the world, many of them threatened or endangered in the wild. The National Aviary's large walk-through exhibits create an experience unlike any other – an intimate, up-close interaction between visitors and free-flying birds, including opportunities to hand-feed and meet many species rarely found in zoos anywhere else in the world.
Monday – Saturday: 10 am. – 5 pm. Sunday: 12 noon – 5 pm.
Rivers Casino
Rivers Casino, which opened in August 2009, is a top entertainment destination in Western Pennsylvania. The casino offers patrons more than just gaming-it offers a full entertainment experience. Located on Pittsburgh's North Shore next to Heinz Field, Rivers Casino features stunning views of the Ohio River and the Pittsburgh skyline.
For those seeking an entertainment experience, Rivers Casino offers more than just gaming with a 1,000 seat outdoor amphitheater, live music and bars and lounges that cater to everyone's scene. Live jazz, reggae, oldies, classic rock and contemporary music can be heard throughout the casino's bar and lounge areas.
Walking Tours of Pittsburgh
Free guided walking tours of the city. Expert guides love Pittsburgh, and will help you see significant places in three dimensions: each with a rich past, present, and future.
Downtown and Oakland tours offered every Friday, Noon to 1:00 pm. through October. And, special weekly tours are offered on Saturday from 2:00 – 3:30 pm. through October.
Bike Pittsburgh, Golden Triangle Rentals
Bike Pittsburgh, Golden Triangle Bike Rentals
Whether you have lived in Pittsburgh all of your life or you are visiting for the first time, you will be amazed at the breathtaking views and experiences offered on our city's bike trails. Ride along the shores of the Three Rivers. Weave through the historic Southside, Northside and Downtown neighborhoods. Visit Point State Park, Washington's Landing, Heinz Field, and PNC Park. Lock up the bike and enjoy shopping, dining or drinks…. all of this, right on the bike trails.
Bike rentals available at hourly or day rates from Golden Triangle Bike Rentals.


Shredded Wheat Bread, 1.5 lb.
Add a couple of large shredded wheat cereal biscuits to this bread for added fiber and nutrition. The cereal blends right into the dough. Well worth a try if you have some cereal on hand.


LANCASTER – At a recent council meeting, the National Alliance for Faith and Justice (NAFJ) thanked the Lancaster City Council for its ongoing support of the organization, in particular the Council's support of the successful Antelope Valley Mentoring March, which took place September 13, 2013.
Inspired by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial March in Washington D.C., the NAFJ attracted more than a thousand local participants marching in honor of the civil rights accomplishments made possible by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.
Bishop Henry W. Hearns and Gwendolyn Cole showed gratitude for the City of Lancaster's embrace of the NAFJ's Pen or Pencil movement, which strives to keep children enrolled in school and out of trouble.
Three students from the NAFJ's Pen and Pencil mentoring program then presented the City Council with t-shirts that were worn during their August 28th march in Washington D.C. In all, 15 students were able to travel to the nation's capital to march in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech.


This pair of sneakers were made for my dear friend and roommate, Chris Hales, AKA DJ Tapedek, AKA Mookie. He passed away early Spring 2010.
I made a pair of sneakers for Chris to take with. He loves his sneakers and he always have the perfect pair to go with his outfit. He was fashionable.
These sneakers were in his Tribute show entitled "Tapedek: The Afters Cool Show" at CAD on April 9th, 2010. One of the pair was burned at the end of the show with a gathering of his friends.


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Summary and book reviews of I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
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I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
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Sep 2014, 384 pages
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A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell. Winner of the BookBrowse 2014 Award for Best Young Adult Novel.
Winner of the BookBrowse 2014 Award for Best Young Adult Novel
Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and divisive ways...until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an unpredictable new mentor. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they'd have a chance to remake their world.
This radiant, fully alive novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing - often all at once.
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With Zephyr and Fry—reigning neighborhood sociopaths— torpedoing after me and the whole forest floor shaking under my feet as I blast through air, trees, this white-hot panic.
"You're going over, you pussy!" Fry shouts.
Then Zephyr's on me, has one, both of my arms behind my back, and Fry's grabbed my sketchpad. I lunge for it but I'm arm-less, helpless. I try to wriggle out of Zephyr's grasp. Can't. Try to blink them into moths. No. They're still themselves: fifteen-foot-tall, tenth-grade asshats who toss living, breathing thirteen-year-old people like me over cliffs for kicks.
Zephyr's got me in a headlock from behind and his chest's heaving into my back, my back into his chest. We're swimming in sweat. Fry starts leafing through the pad. "Whatcha been drawing, Bubble?" I imagine him getting run over by a truck. He holds up a page of sketches. "Zeph, look ...
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Through gorgeous poetic language, and no-holds-barred examination of emotion (and their consequences), Nelson reminds us that we can only ever know our own perspective, and that seeking out other people's is the key to seeing the whole picture, and to survival. But in the end, this novel is a plea for deep love, and a testament to its power to heal...continued
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I'll Give You the Sun is a daydream . . . otherworldly and mesmerizing . . . Nelson's evocative language envelops one's imagination . . . an exquisite surrender to wonder and possibilities.
This is the big one—the blazing story of once inseparable twins whose lives are torn apart by tragedy.
Starred Review. This is a passionate, vulnerable, wonderfully complete and irresistible book.
The novel is structurally brilliant, moving back and forth across timelines to reveal each teen's respective exhilaration and anguish but holding the ultimate revelations back until just the right time.
A story of love, loss, and healing that will resonate with readers long after they've finished reading.
Starred Review. Readers are meant to feel big things, and they will - Nelson's novel brims with emotion (grief, longing, and love in particular) as Noah, Jude, and the broken individuals in their lives find ways to heal. Ages 14–up.
Starred Review. A resplendent novel…Art and wonder fill each page.
Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City
A wild, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel. Jandy Nelson's writing is so electric, so alive, her pages practically glow in the dark.
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Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent, and one of the best writers working today. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world.
Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s
I love this book. Jandy Nelson is my new writing hero. Read this book. She'll be your favorite author as well.
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Jandy Nelson's writing is poetic and mesmerizing. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day... I'll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it.
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An extraordinary book! I've never read anything like it. Lyrical-unique-passionate-magical-tragic-hopeful - Nelson's characters will fly off the page and into your heart.
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Beautiful and poignant view of adolescence
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Phuket | Foreign flagged yacht docks and completes quarantine in Phuket
Foreign flagged yacht docks and completes quarantine in Phuket
PHOTO: Asia Pacific Superyacht
The following is a statement from Asia Pacific Superyachts. The new Special Tourist Visa scheme allows tourists and crew members on foreign yachts to dock in Thailand and depart after an onboard quarantine.
"The first Asia Pacific Superyachts (APS) Phuket foreign-flagged superyacht client has now completed quarantining aboard in Phuket", reports APS co-founder, Jojo Tanyuta Singmanee (Jojo), adding: "All aboard are now preparing to enjoy their time in Thailand".
Following the completed quarantine and subsequent negative tests, the crew is now allowed to moor the yacht at the marina of their choice and may also travel within Phuket in the same manner as those that arrive on the island via air travel.
"The APS team was delighted to be part of the critical process for the first superyacht to clear into the country and complete quarantine aboard", said Gordon Fernandes, APS Phuket co-founder. He noted the Navy from The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command, based on Cape Panwa, monitored the yacht during quarantine to ensure she remained in the allocated area, tracking the boat by Automatic Identification System (AIS).
More good news from Thailand is the announcement of a 45 day tourist visa exemption proposal relaxing restrictions for foreigners entering Thailand. The welcomed proposal is now quickly moving forward to be presented to the Cabinet next week and will extend the on-arrival visa exemption for tourists from 30 to 45 days.
The 15 days added on to the visa exemption is intended to make up for the 2 week quarantine required for those entering the country. At the moment, foreign tourists can only enter Thailand under the pre-issued 60 day tourist visa or the new Special Tourist Visa, which is allows a 90 day stay that can be extended twice, adding up to around 9 months.
And lastly, the Royal Thai Government will now allow long-stay visitors from around the world to apply for the 'Special Tourist Visa' (STV), previously available only to travellers from countries considered low- to medium-risk for the COVID-19 pandemic. This latest announcement covers long-stay visitors to Thailand of all types – from tourists to business travellers, investors and others, as well as travellers and crews of foreign yachts.
Asia Pacific Superyachts Phuket continues to work closely with the government to support yachts seeking to enter the country. APS may be contacted at gordon@asia-pacific-superyachts.com for details on the process needed to visit Thailand during the Coronavirus era.
www.asia-pacific-superyachts.com/phuket/
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Another ill thought out idea destined for failure. The 14 day onboard quarantine will be an obstacle for many to deter travel to Thailand. Super yachts cost an absolute fortune to run in fuel to just get there. Once the owner and crew have filled in all the paperwork and cleared quarantine, they are restricted to the island and its waters. They are not free to travel to other Thai islands or visit the mainland ports, does anyone think the owners will accept being restricted to an essentially closed down destination? I don't. Super yacht owners are invariably multi millionaires with many options, and as such not likely to put up with c**p
Maybe good for small yachts, I don't think it's only for mega yachts and super rich people, there are many who live on their boats and this will be good for them to have another destination to go ….
Issan John
"Once the owner and crew have filled in all the paperwork and cleared quarantine, they are restricted to the island and its waters. They are not free to travel to other Thai islands or visit the mainland ports"
Are you sure of that?
While it's not clear from the article, that's never been suggested before and it would be self-defeating as everyone they meet in Phuket can go wherever they want in Thailand, and APSP never suggest that on their website.
I think you've read far too much into a couple of lines in the article that are very obviously contradictory, not what APSP say, and that that's very much not what the rules are, which are that quarantine on board is accepted as the direct equivalent of an ASQ, so that the owners can fly in and go directly to their yachts for their 14 days quarantine.
As for it being "destined for failure", it was suggested and negotiated by APSP who probably know rather more about "superyacht owners" than you, and they're evidently happy with the outcome, so if it turns out to be a "failure" that's their problem, nobody else's.
The numbers are minimal and so is the return in overall / GDP terms but, equally, so is the cost to Thailand (nil) and the risk (minimal).
None of these changes are going to have many takers or be big money spinners and I doubt anyone in authority expects them to be.
How could they be?
There aren't that many superyachts, and even in the unlikely event that many go to Phuket what are they going to spend their money on?
Hotels, dining out and guided tours? Patong bars and some souvenirs? Swinging the light with some expats?
It's just a very gradual start, nothing more – pointless in terms of a major affect on the tourist industry and the economy, but equally pointless not to do it.
Why should the authorities not have agreed to it?
Mr Nachapong further explained that crew aboard the yachts will have to quarantine themselves on-board for the required 14 days. Navy from The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command, based on Cape Panwa, will monitor the yachts to ensure they remain in the allocated area and will track them by Automatic Identification System (AIS).
After the quarantine period aboard the yacht has elapsed, and assuming the subsequent tests are negative, the crew will be allowed to moor the yacht at the marina of their choice and travel within Phuket in the same manner as those that arrive on the island via air travel. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Phuket received approximately 1,300-1,500 yachts per year.
Patrick Kelly
Pointless is the key word….could not have said it better! The authorities agree to pointless measures is 2020 in a nutshell.
albert zweistein
According to the space vissible on the picture this is just an average yacht and in no way a superyacht. Why is Thailand always exaggerating ?
Mark Spencer
Indeed. Just google "Dilbar yacht" for example. That is a super yacht. The picture here shows a small ship 🙂
Nipral
…and free to visit deserted Phuket !!! What a treat !!! Nothing better to do with a superyacht ??????
(Your pic shows a mediocre day-boat, certainly not a yacht and far less a super one !)
Timmytime
Where is the yacht then???. I've seen super yacht tenders bigger then this average size speedboat for sure. Maybe a yacht is something different in Thailand.
I would like to know how the visa on arrival will work, no preflight testing no fit to fly certificate
Toby Andrews
Asia Pacific Super Yachts are an agency.
On their website they show they have handled some big boats.
They supply everything and sort out the dock requirements where the yachts want to berth.
The Thais will not like missing out on the income from the quarantine hotels, but they will be able to receive a few more hundred visitors, so why not?
If the Thais were smart they would allow some of the quarantine to be allowed at sea.
For instance it is six days by sea from the Maldives. Modern technology could track the yacht at sea, and allow that time. But the Thais are not that smart . . .
Exactly, Toby A, "why not"?
Income lost to the ASQs is balanced by income gained from yacht servicing, repairs and maintenance and visitors who wouldn't otherwise have come at all.
It doesn't replace mass tourism, but that was never the intention so "why not" indeed?
As for being "not that smart", though, your suggestion to "allow some of the quarantine to be allowed at sea" is a nice idea but it simply isn't realistic.
While "Modern technology could track the yacht at sea" what it can't easily do (note "easily") is monitor the yacht to see who gets on or off, any interaction with other boats on the way, etc, to maintain quarantine.
Tracking a yacht, and ensuring that the yacht is quarantined throughout, are two very different things.
If anything, there's a better argument on those grounds for starting the 14 day quarantine period for those flying in from when their plane takes off, rather than from when they arrive at the ASQ (to "allow some of the quarantine to be allowed" in the air), not that it would make much difference. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Reading what APSP have said, very clearly, both here and on their website, is evidently way beyond some commenting here.
1. APSP asked the authorities if those on boats arriving in Phuket could quarantine on board instead of in an ASQ.
The authorities agreed.
2. They also agreed that owners and anyone flying in to join their boats could do so to do their quarantine on board instead of in an ASQ facility, going there direct from the airport.
3. Once the 14 days quarantine is complete on the boat, those quarantined (and their boat) can go anywhere they want to in Thailan, including in Thai waters, in exactly the same way as anyone flying in.
God almighty, it's not complicated …..
Preesy Chepuce
Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 2:46 pm
They'd have to be driven all the way from Bangkok though to their marina to maintain the bubble… hours and hours, and best pack a catheter or a portaloo… I know this from direct experience.
Marina's closer to Bangkok are a bit more viable until Phuket's airport resumes normal business.
What's to stop the yacht owners flying in to Phuket to join their yachts for quarantine?
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Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor's degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.
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A unique curved focal surface enables a highly sensitive telescope capable of surveying broad swaths of deep space to detect the faintest objects in the night sky.
The SST awaits nightfall to be tasked with scanning space from its location atop the Atom Site, a high-altitude observation point in New Mexico that provides a view of the sky that is virtually untouched by light pollution.
The SST is shown here inside its mountaintop enclosure at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Lincoln Laboratory staff developed the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), under DARPA sponsorship, to address the threat that an increasing population of microsatellites and space debris poses to the safety of satellites in deep-space orbits. Finding these potential threats requires a sensor that performs high-rate, wide-area searches and has the high sensitivity to detect faint objects in deep space (26,000 miles or more from Earth). For the SST to have such search capability, we chose a compact three-mirror optical design that uses an 11.5-foot aperture with a wide field of view (FOV) and an agile telescope mount. The SST mirror design retains its inherent curved optical focal surface. This design choice allows an FOV much larger than that of a conventional telescope while providing sufficient sensitivity to detect faint objects.
The upgraded Space Surveillance Telescope camera contains 12 charge-coupled devices developed by Lincoln Laboratory researchers. The devices are integrated into a precision dewar, above, to create the array for the telescope's focal surface.
To achieve good image quality across the FOV, our researchers developed thinned, large-format, back-illuminated charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors that can be formed to match the curved focal surface of the telescope mirrors. The SST camera comprises a mosaic of 12 CCDs, 2048 × 4096 pixels each, precisely aligned to the spherical focal surface to enable the system to achieve a very wide FOV. Our design for the SST includes the mission execution and data processing computers and peripherals required to control the system, receive and process in real-time 1 terabyte of image data per night, and communicate the processed data to end users. These features give the SST an unprecedented combination of high search rate, sensitivity, and measurement accuracy that enables surveys that discover faint objects while scanning one-quarter of the sky multiple times per night.
The SST was located at Atom Site on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico from 2011 to 2017. This mountaintop site was chosen because it provides high-altitude observing in a pristinely dark setting. In 2017, system ownership was transferred from DARPA to the U.S. Air Force. The SST is being relocated from Atom Site to the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt on the North West Cape in Western Australia, where, as part of the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, it will be operated jointly by the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force.
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The Remaking of an Internet Novel – The Irish Times
In 1996, Geoff Ryman, a Canadian author based in London, began publishing episodes of 253: A Novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash online. It concerns 253 people on a Bakerloo train in London rushing towards death. Its subjects are a fascinatingly diverse array of receptionists, musicians, immigrants, business people, the homeless, lawyers, artists, failures, successes, victims of crime, perpetrators of crime, the occasional historical figure and ghosts. "253 happens on January 11, 1995," Ryman writes, "which is the day I learned my best friend was dying of AIDS."
The innovation of 253 was that readers could look at each carriage on the train and click to read exactly 253 words about the inner lives of each of the 253 passengers. Each episode is a miniature story. They can then be read one after the other, or the reader can via hyperlinks jump to other passengers that the subject of the installment is staring at or has a connection elsewhere on the train. Those were the first years of the web. "It can take ages to load a single page," says Ryman. "There was no broadband. There was no wifi."
Ryman was already an award-winning novelist. His interest in "hypertext fiction" was partly inspired by Kathryn Cramer's writing in the New York Review of Science Fiction. "Kathryn did a very good job of working out a theory and aesthetic for hypertext fiction (where) the reader actually has control, the reader actually can choose, the world is big enough to explore."
On a ferry from France to Britain, he got the idea for his hypertext novel to be partly an exploration of a fictional physical space, but he reasoned that the London Underground would be a better place than a boat. "There's nothing outside the window and everyone exists in a kind of isolation, but they're all lined up facing each other so they can stare at each other."
The whole project was colored by the knowledge of his friend's terminal illness. "It's a novel about the diversity of life, the strangeness of life, the wonderful variety of London and how funny London is," says Ryman. "But it's also about how in the end the train always crashes and people die."
Author Geoff Ryman
The site was all "hand-coded" by Ryman himself, who had learned HTML. When he switched from a Microsoft machine to an Apple machine, he realized that they each counted words differently and he had to adjust his 253 word count. He became obsessed with observing people on the tube. "Slightly also obsessed … If there was someone who I couldn't work out what they were doing or who they were, I would sometimes follow them to see where they went … It took me to little alleyways around Lambeth North and Vauxhall ."
Once a documentary crew put him on a train and asked him to guess what people were doing. They pointed to a very well-dressed woman talking to a shabbily dressed man. "I said, 'She has to be presented impeccably, so she's not standing in the back office. I think she's a receptionist. And I reckon she's really good at her job and she has to be with a lot of people all the time to do. And she would be something of the secret heart of how that office works.' And to my horror, the camera crew approached her and said, 'We're very sorry, we're making a documentary. We just want to ask you what you're doing.' She was a medical receptionist."
In 1998, 253 was published in book form, 253: The Print Remix, and won the Philip K Dick Award for Science Fiction, although, as Ryman notes, it is mainly science fiction in the sense that it used new science to convey fiction. Nor does he believe that the web version and the printed version are exactly the same book. People read the printed version in a more linear way. Online, people jumped from one connected character to another in ways that changed their understanding of the novel's mood. "The online version was about hidden similarities. Similarities that you couldn't see on the surface."
Shortly after the release of 253, Ryman planned a collaborative sequel called Another One Along in A Minute, about 300 people in a stopped train behind the train in 253. He sought 300-word character studies from the public, but few kept to the word count and many submitted offensive material. "The internet had lifted the lid on all sorts of really, really disgusting things," he says sadly.
Then in the noughties, like many remarkable internet artifacts, 253 disappeared. The web is very bad at preserving its own history. The events that led to 253 being deleted are nebulous. At some point after giving some well-meaning convention organizers access to the site, he realized the novel had disappeared. "Then it happened that I got cancer … and while I was sick, I didn't renew the URL." The web address was sold on. He conjures up an analogy from his life: "My father built a house by hand. It was a beautiful house. And if you go on Google Earth, someone has torn it down to build a hideous classic pink villa."
If I did my job properly, the book's interest in the future would probably be mostly historical. There are no mobile phones. Someone uses a Filofax. Not one person works on the Internet. It's another world
It was too painful for him to think about for years. He wrote many other books. He won the Arthur C Clarke and James Tiptree, Jr awards for his novel Air and a Nebula award for What We Found in 2012. His next novel, Him, is about Jesus Christ and will be published later this year. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.
Recently, he began work on restoring 253 to the Internet. He used Internet archives, the printed book, and a coded version he once sent to his graphic designer collaborator Roland Unwin to recreate it. Doing so, he says, "wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be". Since January 11 of this year, it is recently available at www.253novel.com.
Ryman is not convinced that in a world of sophisticated computer games and epic superhero movies, hypertext novels will steal a march on the culture. He sees 253 in part as a record of how people dressed and thought in the 1990s, comparing himself to 253 character Harold Pottluk, whose job it is to record his fellow travelers.
"I realized when I wrote it that if I did my job properly, its interest in the future would probably be mostly historical… There are no cell phones. Someone uses a Filofax. Not one person works on the Internet … It's a different world. And that's what strikes you the most. Also pre-internet where most people are apolitical. They really don't think politics."
I tell him I thought it was a strangely life-affirming book about death. He likes this tag. "I think that's absolutely right," he says. "It's not (saying) 'Life is a bitch and then you die'; it's 'Life is a lot of fun… and thereafter you die."
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The Ghoul Goes West :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to Mario Bava's Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)
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"Dear Jack,xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Since the gang couldn't get dishonest enough to make
any money, I went looking for an honest job. Yesterday,
I punched out a cowboy. How sad! I miss our fistfightsx
very much. So long.xxxxxxxx1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-- Your friend, Roy."
Our film opens with our two title characters fighting over who gets to be the leader of their band of outlaws. And while these two beat the snot out of each other, the rest of the gang idly watches unenthused; obviously, they do this kinda thing a lot ... In the end, when Jack (Southwood) wins, Colt (Halsey) decides to leave his lawless days behind him and go legit. And while he's off trying to go straight, Jack manages to save Manilla (Tolo), an enterprising Indian maid -- who never met a dollar she didn't like, and a man she couldn't dupe several out of -- from a gang of vigilantes. As a reward, she let's Jack sleep with her -- after he takes an ice-water bath, and then keeps a running tab on all her *ahem* services rendered during the rest of the movie, no matter who she winds up bunking down with.
Meanwhile, Colt manages to get himself appointed Sheriff of Carson City, a mining town; and while he's off escorting a gold shipment, Jack teams up with another outlaw to find out where the lucrative mine is hidden. This outlaw in question is a psychotic Russian called the Reverend (Corra), a former disciple of Rasputin himself, who is also a massive hypochondriac with a thing for dynamite. Together, they manage to destroy half the town and steal a map to the gold, each taking half of it. Using that mistrust to his advantage, Sheriff Colt unhinges the shaky alliance by playing both sides against each other, letting the rival gangs whittle each other down to a more manageable size, as they head for the X-that-marks-the-spot and the final, fatal showdown...
Of the thirteen films included I was probably most anxious to see Roy Colt and Winchester Jack when I placed the order for both of Anchor Bay's Mario Bava box-sets awhile back. I was aware that the brilliant director/cinematographer had made some westerns but, up to that point, I had yet to see any of them. Now, my enthusiasm took a major hit when I did a little research and found out that this movie was, in fact, a parody of the genre's trappings. Uh-oh ... I mean, those of us who've sat through Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Bombs (-- and if you managed to make it to the end of that I salute you, fellow survivors --) know what I'm talking about, and if the maestro has an Achilles heel, cinematically speaking, it is with his handling of comedy, where he usually falls flat on his face. Yes, he can be funny -- when he's being morbid, sly and subtle, but when he goes all out for the laughs the results were typically pretty odious. But now, having finally seen it, I'm happy to report that as a comedic vehicle, Roy Colt and Winchester Jack, like its protagonists, is a lot more hit than miss.
Obviously a mish-mash of (and cash-in on) Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, with a healthy side-order of The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, it didn't take long for the film to win me over. Starting with the trippy and infectious theme song provided by Umiliani and Gizzarelli, it had me laughing before the credits and initial brawl had barely finished. ("I won," says Southwood, who promptly collapses.) Halsey was a former AIP regular (Hot Rod Rumble and High School Hellcats), who moved to Italy when his domestic career stalled out, and he and Southwood (I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin and A Fistful of Lead) are both likable doofs and have good chemistry together as our brawling, roguish heroes. And this was my introduction to the absurdly gorgeous Marilù Tolo (The Triumph of Hercules and Kiss the Girls and Make them Die), proud holder of my latest cinematic crush/obsession, who really commands your attention as the conniving vixen/sexpot. Her career has run the gambit of peplum, spies, spaghetti westerns, and gialli, and I look forward to tracking down as many as possible. A nod must also be given to Corrà's take on the mad Russian; that throwaway scene where he's dropping a deuce while his men are setting up an ambush is priceless and had liquid coming out my nose once I realized what that honking music cue meant.
And those actors do deserve a lot of credit because rumor has it that it didn't take Bava long to chuck Mario di Nardo's script (-- the two would collaborate on Five Dolls for an August Moon the very same year, where it's rumored Bava did the exact same thing), meaning the majority of the film was ad-libbed from the get-go and shot piecemeal. But aside from a lengthy, unnecessary, and ill-advised sidetrack to a brothel that is ultimately destroyed in an ensuing melee over a chance to bed a couple of Irish whores, the film holds together remarkably well. While watching, it's easy to tell that nobody was taking things all that seriously, so as a viewer, I won't either.
And even if the comedy leaves you flat, there are still plenty of inventive and masterful Bava strokes to take in. There's a great scene where Halsey rallies a posse to go after Jack and the Reverend, and as the camera pans with him, back and forth, as he speaks in front of the mob, we notice with each pass the crowd is thinning out until, his speech complete, he turns to face an near empty room, setting up the scenes ultimate punchline. (And yeah, it should have quit while it was ahead.) And the whole scene at the Indian burial ground -- the set-ups and camera-work -- are pure Bava. (I especially liked the scene where the camera actually "digs" for the gold.) It's also kinda cool to see how the director tried to make the Spanish coast look like Monument Valley with just some National Geographic cut-outs and a little shifty matte work.
I don't know, maybe it caught me on a good day but, in the end, I think Roy Colt and Winchester Jack is one of those movies that will only get better with repeated viewings. It is by no means the second-coming of Blazing Saddles, or as good as the Terence Hill and Bud Spencer Trinity movies, but it will go a long way to scrub the lingering after-taste of Dr. Goldfoot from your palette if you'll just give it half a chance.
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970) Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) :: Tigielle 33 / P: Luigi Alessi / D: Mario Bava / W: Mario di Nardo / C: Antonio Rinaldi, Mario Bava / E: Olga Pedrini / M: Piero Umiliani / S: Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Marilù Tolo, Teodoro Corrà
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There is no other love like the love for a bro. There is no other love like the love from a brother.
If I can choose my brother in next life,then it will be u Love u bro Happy Raksha Bandhan.
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother . Oh, how I hated that little boy. & how I love him too.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.& this day is RAKHI. Happy Raksha Bandhan Sis.
Rakhi is just an excuse for me to express myself:You mean the world to me. Happy Raksha Bandhan to my sweet sister.
Phoolon ka_ taron ka_ sabka kehna hai,Duniya me sobse achha mere Bhaiya hai.
love You always.Happy Raksha Bandhan.
A brother is a friend given by Nature.Happy Rakhi bro.
Brothers are like streetlights along the road, they don't make any distance but they light up the path and make the walk worthwhile.Love u Bro.
We gain and lose things everyday.But trust me on one thing.You will never lose me.I will always be here for Ur Happy rakhi..
Sister is someone who is caring and sharing and She can understand pain which is not visible to anyone.I love you sister.Happy Rakhi!!
Dear Brother, on this Raksha Bandhan I wish to say that U are my best brother..Happy Raksha Badhan.
Ajj Rakhi ka tyohar hai!
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, with two unidentified workers, in "Touch Sanitation Performance," which took eleven months, beginning in July, 1979.
The manifesto is currently framed on a wall at the Queens Museum, where it introduces a revelatory survey of Ukeles's five-decade career. (Also on view are sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations, studies for unrealized projects, and a deluge of documentation.) For maximum impact, visit the show on a Saturday, when a mirror-covered New York City garbage truck is parked, during museum hours, between the east side of the building and the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. The vehicle is also an art work—what Duchamp would have called an "assisted readymade"—embellished by Ukeles in 1983, with the help of the New York City Department of Sanitation, where she has been the official (and unpaid) artist-in-residence since 1977.
In 1976, Ukeles invited three hundred custodial workers in one Wall Street building to dedicate an hour of their eight-hour shifts to perform their duties as art, instead of as labor. (The Polaroids she took of the participants fill an impressive wall of the museum in Queens.) New York had just skirted bankruptcy, and an art critic joked in the Village Voice that the sanitation department might secure some fresh funding if it got in on the conceptual act. Ukeles liked the idea and proposed the residency to its commissioner. Against all odds, he agreed. In 1979, Ukeles undertook her most radical project, "Touch Sanitation," an eleven-month-long ritual during which she shook hands with eighty-five hundred "san men" across the five boroughs, thanking each one for his service. In the most moving section of her retrospective, L.E.D. lights illuminate her route around the museum's Panorama of the City of New York, like diligent fireflies.


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Ptaah is about 775 (Earth) years old (outdated 2019) and has three children, two daughters by the names of Semjase and Pleija and one son by the name of Jucata who is no longer alive. His father was called Sfath and one of his nieces is Asket. Ptaah is the commander of the Plejaren spacecraft fleet and is vested with the rank of an Jschwjsch, (JHWH), which is comparable in meaning to a king of wisdom. In earlier times, this term was translated as God, not in the sense of creator but as a king of wisdom who has the duty to provide his peoples with help and advice. He also presides over other inhabited planets but may never assume the role of despotic ruler, which happened on earth to some extent in earlier times. At the present time, Ptaah presides over three different planets, two of which are known to us as Erra and Terra (earth).
Ptaah is the one in charge. However he is not governing as governor, ruler or in the authoritative sense; he's instead responsible and this extends to the spiritual teachings and the various developments on Earth.
" Fundamentally, like paranoia, reality-estranged-naivety is characterised by a particular sensitivity regarding rejections, bearing grudges, being easily aggrieved, exaggerated mistrust, and so forth, whereby still to add to that is an inclination to interpret that which is experienced in the direction of tendencies which are hostile towards oneself. The reality-estranged-naive human being rebels, through a deep-reaching might-demeanour and through all kinds of similarly directed modes of behaviour, and often also through revenge machinations, against everything which does not correspond to his/her view and opinion construct, whereby, in this form, he/she exerts might over fellow human beings, which happens in extremely insidious form and is not realised by those human beings who are involved in it. A further thing to say regarding that is that a reality-estranged-naive human being, just like a paranoiac, defines neutral and friendly actions of others as hostile, pejorative or disparaging, whereby in this way these impulsations are also experienced by him/her in a thought-feeling-based form. Thereby, also a delusional jealousy emerges which is directed against the views, the opinions and might of others, who are deemed to be adversaries if they do not conform to his/her own reality-estranged-naive modes of behaviour. As a rule, the whole matter of the reality-estranged-naivety also leads to unjustified suspicions in regard to an incapability of those fellow human beings who are viewed and considered to be stupid, and, in regard to intellect, rationality and the ability to make decisions as well as the ability to act, are viewed and considered to be without intellect and without rationality, and consequently, in line with the delusion of the reality-estranged-naive human being, 'must' be dictatorially taught, 'correctly led' and 'guided' through his/her 'intellect and rationality'. That is the actual might-behaviour of the reality-estranged-naive human being, who is additionally also stubborn and quarrelsome and brings this to the fore in such form that the fellow human beings, who are directed and suggestively-dictatorially led by him/her, do not perceive that they are steered selfishly and imperiously through the machinations of the reality-estranged-naive one. Human beings with a reality-estranged naive personality disorder are controlled by a false and inflated self-worth delusion and by a greatly exaggerated self-centredness delusion, as well as by an insatiable egoism and by an insistence on being right, whereby, under certain circumstances, the reality-estranged naive state can also be associated with a paranoid schizophrenia and an actual paranoia. Basically in every case a reality-estranged naivety concerns a psychical disorder, in which, significantly, also psychopathic influences are present; consequently therefore a reality-estranged naive human being is without doubt, in a certain way, also a psychopath. This is a fact which, naturally, as a consequence of the perfect acting skill, the psychopath knows how to conceal outwardly so much that, as a rule, at least lay-people, as well as very often also experts, are not able to perceive and therefore also not recognise, not define and not understand his/her personality-disordered disposition. Consequently also the might-filled decisions, actions and modes of behaviour of a reality-estranged-naive human being are not recognised, which leads to the reality-estranged-naive one – who, as a consequence of his/her psychopathy, has a pronounced acting capability at his/her disposal – being able to transfix the fellow human beings, deceive them and win their unjustified trust, which often leads to quarrel and strife as well as to far-reaching unpeace among the human beings with whom they interact. And wars frequently arise, and acts of revenge and retribution as well as hate and destruction, if reality-estranged-naive ones stoke the corresponding embers long enough until they become a blazing fire and inextinguishable conflagration.
Ptah spelled this way with one a, is the way the Egyptian deity Ptah is spelled and is not Ptaah for obvious reasons, ~2.5 thousand years or so ago. However in Contact Report 031 line 6-10. Ptaah explains that an ancestor of his had the same name, and indeed was this Ptah. Apparently Ptaahs ancestor Ptah was an Jschwjsch, married to Basth, presumably extraterrestrial, and was openly communicating with the Egyptians by deduction. This is not the first time we have been given a story like this by Ptaah, according to a FIGU forum questions answered by Billy comment, Ptaah himself lived in Greece for a period of time (a few hundred years ago) and another great-great grandfather of his, Hilak was also involved with Earth in some way.
According to Earths very old traditions, tales and legends about Egyptian Ptah and South American Ptah, he said he "existed before all other things" and, "by his will, thought the world into existence". "It was first conceived by thought, and realised by the Word". Statements which were they actually said by him i.e. were not myth or legend, do standalone as somewhat sensical in the context given in the overall story.
Ptaah is the one in charge, however, he's not governing in the authoritative sense; he's instead responsible and regarding the spiritual teachings and the various developments on Earth.
Ptaah belongs to a white race.
Ptaah has mastered spoken Greek.
Ptaah also learned ancient Greek in Greece itself, a couple of hundred years ago.
Ptaah was seen by mistake for 15 seconds by Kalliope Meier (now ex-wife) on Eduards birthday, 3rd of February 1979. She walked into the living room at the SSSC and saw a tall bearded male figure dressed in a grey full body overall suit, which had a large round opening in the neck for a helmet, wasn't wearing. All around the belt were attached some strange things. Upon sight of each other she was startled and he took a step backwards, grasped a small device on his belt and disappeared.
↑ ~ this may tie into other information given to us that this position was held by him as well as the others specifically associated with Earth, in a past life as well as those that have now passed away which constitute ancestors and family. So we could say that its in his evolution to be the leader and leader of Earth. Its not just a position that has been handed over in some random application due to previous competencies in a similar position like it usually occurs on Earth. Ptaah somehow has the propensity of the experiences from a previous life in a similar position.
↑ http://forum.figu.org/us/messages/12/3296.html?1043822889#POST9502 May have to search forum, the link may be broken, pages may have changed around, please update.
↑ Please note it is nothing more than an educated assumption presented here that Ptaah lived illegally in this country, Greece. Its a concession to the benefit of the doubt that he did not fabricate a birth certificate to apply for residency. Also please note that insufficient research has been carried out to make the claim that a governing authority would rule out accepting a birth certificate that indicated another world as a birth place.


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Check the profile of Parameter for network,(OPUV) . There u must have missed to tick Activity account assign.


1. The Special Committee on Decolonisation (known as the C24) was established by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in 1961, to oversee implementation of the 1960 UN "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples" (UNGA resolution 1514 (XV)). The C24 hosts conferences and regional seminars on the status of Overseas Territories (OTs), and organises special missions in order to collect first-hand information on the economic and political development of OTs. It also reviews reports submitted to the UN Secretary-General by the UN Secretariat (which "Administering Powers" such as the UK contribute to), pursuant to Article 73 of the UN Charter, on developments in their OTs (Or "Non-Self Governing Territories" in UN parlance). The C24 also hears oral "petitions" from individuals and groups from the territories, as well as any statements from the Administering Powers, and calls on the General Assembly to agree to their programmes of work. The C24 then adopts resolutions on each territory. Most of these are then forwarded to the UNGA, via its Fourth Committee. All C24 resolutions on UK OTs reach the UNGA, except that on the Falklands (a position agreed by the UK and Argentina since the resumption of bilateral relations in 1989/90). On Gibraltar the C24 adopts a consensus decision, which both Spain and the UK support. The Fourth Committee debates and adopts the consensus decision, and UNGA simply takes note of the decision.
2. Under the UN Charter, the UK as an Administering Power is to ensure, among other things, the OTs' political, economic and social advancement and the development of their "self-government". Territories come off the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories ("de-listing") once they have been deemed to have achieved "a full measure of self-government". The C24 has a role in recommending territories for de-listing. This issue has been a point of much dispute between Administering Powers and the C24.
3. The Committee has 29 members, listed at the end of the memorandum (Annex A). None of the four remaining Administering Powers - the UK, France, New Zealand and the US – are members. Neither are there any EU or Western Group States members on the Committee. France and New Zealand both formally participate in the Committee's work, in respect of their territories. The US does not.
4. Despite abstaining on the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and the General Assembly resolution setting up the C24, the UK agreed to join and cooperate with the C24. This it did until 1971, when it left the Committee. The UK was concerned at that time by the Committee's recently adopted "programme of action" to implement 1514 (XV), its reluctance to address the issue of small territories, as well as its unfavourable composition.
5. In 1974 the UK resumed cooperation with the Committee, without rejoining. The US and France were not members either. However, by mid-1985, again frustrated at the Committee's work, the UK decided to cease cooperation (with effect from January 1986), while reserving the right to participate in the C24's debate on the Falklands. In a letter to the then C24 Chair, the UK Permanent Representative in New York explained the UK's decision on the grounds that the territories which remained in close association with the UK had chosen to do so, that this was unlikely to change in the near future, that the UK and its (then "Dependent") Territories, therefore considered the colonial era over, and hence the UN's interest in these territories' affairs should cease.
6. UK policy evolved again by the mid-1990s, when it resumed some informal cooperation with C24, although the UK did not participate in formal Committee meetings. In 1999, the UK policy became one of an "informal dialogue on de-listing". The UK started informally discussing with successive C24 chairs the possible modalities for de-listing its Overseas Territories (OTs). Despite much discussion (and even a C24 visit to Bermuda in 2005), these efforts came to nothing and no territory has been de-listed.
7. Since then the UK has maintained "informal cooperation" with the C24. It attends C24 meetings but does not sit in the UK seat, nor make any statements. Counsellors from the Falkland Islands address the Committee annually, to put forward their case. Representatives of the Gibraltar government have also petitioned the Committee. The UK continues, however, to be frustrated that the C24's resolutions on its OTs do not properly reflect developments in the territories, including their wish to retain links to the UK, nor explicitly acknowledge the Falkland Islanders or Gibraltarians right of self-determination.
How does the UK currently make its case in the UN and other international fora?
· The UK voted against texts calling for "Member States to intensify their efforts to continue to implement the plan of action for the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism and use those efforts as the basis for a plan of action for the next Decade" and "urging Member States to do their utmost to promote effective measures for the full and speedy implementation of the Declaration in all Non-Self-Governing Territories to which the Declaration applied". The UK argued that the proposals for the Third International Decade and the Fiftieth anniversary of the Decolonisation Declaration were "unacceptable", as the texts failed to recognise the progress made in the relationship between the United Kingdom and its territories. With regard to the text relating to the Third International decade, the UK stated that the UK considered the "Special Committee of 24" to be outdated. The UK also took the opportunity to stress that none of the UK's overseas territories should remain on the UN list of Non-Self Governing Territories. The resolution which called on member states to intensify their efforts to implement the C24's plan of action was passed with 130 votes in favour, three against (the UK, US and Israel) and 20 abstentions. The resolution calling for member states to promote effective measures for the implementation of the Declaration in all Non-Self-Governing Territories was passed with 150 votes in favour, three against (the UK, US and Israel) and no abstentions.
· The UK also abstained in UN Fourth Committee votes relating to the transmission of economic and other information on Non-Self Governing territories. The UK explained that it did not take issue with the resolution's main objective and continued to meet its obligations in that regard. However, the UK believed that a decision as to whether a Non-Self-Governing Territory had reached a level of self-government was ultimately for the government of the Territory and the administering Power concerned (in this case, the UK) to decide, and not the UNGA.
· The UK also used its right of reply to address specific points raised by a number of States regarding the Falkland Islands. The UK representative said that the UK had no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, and attached great importance to the principle of self-determination, which underpinned the UK's position on the Falkland Islands. The democratically elected representatives of the Falkland Islands had asked the "Committee of 24" to recognise that they, like others, should be free to exercise the right of self-determination.
9. Further information on the position of the UK in Fourth Committee sessions can be found on the UN website: (http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2010/gaspd455.doc.htm).
10. The relationship between the EU and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs - Gibraltar excepted) is determined by the 2001 Overseas Association Decision (OAD). Article 2 states that "the Association shall be based on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. These principles …..shall be common to the Member States and the OCTs linked to them."
11. The current OAD is due to expire at the end of 2013. Work has already started on drafting its successor. To help inform the process the Member States and the OCTs prepared a Joint Position Paper (JPP) outlining areas that should be covered in the new OAD. The JPP was handed to the European Commission in March 2010. The JPP, which was sent to the FAC on 10 March, notes that the future EU – OCT relationship should be based on the principle of solidarity, mutual interest over the long term and should recognize and respect the OCTs' diversity and vulnerabilities. It also notes that the different constitutional relationships with the Member State to which they are linked needs to be respected. The FCO will keep in regular contact with Commission officials and the other Member States, which have OCTs, to ensure that these fundamental principles are retained in the new OAD.
12. Gibraltar is the only UK OT within the EU. Under Article 355(3) TFEU, the EU Treaties apply to Gibraltar as a European Territory for whose external relations a Member State (the UK) is responsible. Although under the United Kingdom's Act of Accession of 1972, certain Treaty provisions do not apply to Gibraltar (such as free movement of goods and the Common Agricultural Policy), Gibraltar is in many areas highly integrated in the EU. The locally-elected Government of Gibraltar is responsible for introducing legislation that transposes EU measures, and the UK is responsible for ensuring that Gibraltar complies with its obligations under EU law.
How can the UK best make its case in the UN in respect of its Overseas Territories?
"The British Government's relationship with its Overseas Territories is a modern one based on partnership, shared values and the right of each Territory to determine whether it wishes to stay linked to the UK or not. The UK has no intention of imposing independence against the will of the people concerned. Where independence is an option and is the clear and constitutionally expressed wish of the people of the Territories, the British Government will give every help and encouragement to those Territories to achieve it. For as long as the UK's Overseas Territories wish to retain the link to the UK, the British Government will remain committed to their future development and continued security."
· To ensure that our sovereignty over the OTs is respected, and that the rights of the peoples of the OTs to self-determination is respected.
· To uphold the constitutional settlements that we have reached, or may wish to reach, with our OTs, and to protect the interests and democratic rights of their populations.
· To ensure the UK's relationships with its OTs are presented in the most accurate light.
15. The (then) Chairman of the C24, Mr. Donatus Keith St Aimee, suggested to the FAC on their recent visit to New York that the UK should reconsider its relationship with the C24. He suggested that this would allow the UK to be better able to put forward its point of view on the territorial dispute with Argentina over the Falklands, and highlight positive developments in the UK's relationship with its other OTs, such as the Gibraltar-UK-Spain relationship. Such formal engagement would require the UK to speak at meetings and contribute to resolutions.
16. The FCO keeps the UK's relationship with the C24 under review. We have considered whether more formal engagement would allow us to better defend our position. However, we have decided that the UK's current policy of informal cooperation will be maintained. Any proposal to increase engagement with the C24 would need to be balanced against the risk of adversely affecting UK interests in Gibraltar and the Falklands. Informal cooperation is also in line with the UK's position that the C24 process is outdated, and not one in which we should engage more systematically. Furthermore, we are able to defend our position in the UNGA irrespective of our position on the C24.
17. We will continue to monitor our relationship with the C24. Should we identify an opportunity to increase engagement without risking our wider bilateral relations or our policies towards our OTs, we will look to pursue it.


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But Boyd insists that British Jews are also connected to Britain.
Fascinating. I would advise Boyd and his fellows at the Jewish research institute to try and find out what the British people think about the Jewish Lobby, the CFI and the LFI that push them into immoral interventionist wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran. Boyd and his institute should try to ascertain what British people think about the fact that a tribal foreign lobby dominates Britain's political affairs.
What do the British people think about the idea that an ethnic group that amounts to less than half a percent of British society has so much influence in politics, finance and media?
Looking into these topics may help to save both Britain and its Jewry from an unfortunate disaster.
The lady is right. There is nothing Christian about Zionism. American Christians should be standing in solidarity with their Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine. The fact that more aren't is shameful.
The United Methodist Church's General Conference opens tomorrow in Portland, Oregon. The conference takes place every four years, and this year, as was the case in 2012, a measure calling for divestment from Israel will be up for consideration.
The divestment measure in 2012 failed by a narrow margin, but what has occurred in the years since, of course, is the Gaza destruction of 2014, in which Israel killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, including 521 children. Be that as it may, a Methodist minister has penned a shameful commentary opposing this latest divestment measure, an article in which he not only gets some of his facts wrong but also, disgracefully, fails to mention the enormous injustice done to Palestinians in 1948, the 2014 bloodletting in Gaza, or the illegal settlement construction and land grabs continuing to this day.
"Pressuring Israel will not end the occupation, because Israel is not capable of making peace unilaterally," he asserts, implying in essence that Israeli doesn't have "a partner for peace," a trope which has been a standard Zionist talking point for a number of years.
Below is an article I wrote back in 2014 about a divestment measure under consideration by the Presbyterian Church at that time. It offers some insight into some of the pressure tactics that likely are being exerted against the Methodists at present.
Do They Worship Jews or Jesus?
Recently Israeli media published a report about a US Christian couple, Chad and Libby McJunkin, who, along with their ten children, converted to Orthodox Judaism. In doing so, they have adopted new names for themselves: instead of Chad and Libby, they now go by Shalom and Nechama, and they are even considering making "aliyah" to Israel.
I am glad the McJunkins have taken the step they have (although I do have some concerns for the McJunkin children, who apparently are being forced to adopt a new lifestyle not of their own choosing), for this is something I've been advocating a good while now: Christian Zionists should simply convert to Judaism.
In other words, McJunkin regards Old Testament narratives about conquest and genocide, and of God's sanctioning such misconduct, to be more believable and worthwhile than the Gospel accounts of a man who came along and told Jews they should instead be loving, merciful and compassionate.
So far, the Jewish community has stepped up to help the McJunkins as they embark on their new path. People they had never met hosted their wedding, and others are contributing to a crowdsourcedwedding shower fund to assist them in purchasing new dishes, housewares, appliances, Judaica, and kosher groceries.
"There is a simple mitzvah of showing love to a convert," said Alexander Rapaport, executive director of the Masbia food kitchen network, who organized the online fund. In the last three days, 221 people have donated $9,335 toward a $20,000 goal.
The reason I bring up the McJunkins' story is that another divestment-from-Israel measure will be coming up when the Presbyterian Church holds its General Assembly later this month, and as per usual, Jews are planning to descend en masse upon the convention to badger, cajole, and hector the delegates into voting it down.
And also not surprisingly, as these things go, some within the church itself are siding with them. One such individual is Christopher Leighton, and it's tempting to reach the conclusion that people of this nature would do well to simply follow the lead of the McJunkins.
The gist of it is Leighton is deeply concerned this year's divestment measure will pass (the last one, two years ago, was narrowly defeated by a vote of 333-331), and I'm inclined to believe that ministers like him are one of the main inspirations of Americans dropping out of the church and adopting atheism.
Christian conservatives often like to complain about "moral relativism," but what could be more ethically "relative" than grappling for some sort of means of justifying what Israel is doing to the Palestinians? I can't think of any. Yet the problem, as Leighton sees it, is that many of the delegates who'll be attending this year's assembly just don't understand the "complexities" of the Middle East.
"Stereotypes"—presumably such as Israel's abuse of Palestinian child prisoners, or its continued settlement building in contravention of international law. Yes indeed, stereotypes of this nature certainly "require work to undo," but rest assured, Leighton will get plenty of help from his Jewish allies.
Or in other words, those who support an end to Israeli occupation are terrorist sympathizers, and that will include the Presbyterian Church if it passes the divestment measure. How's that for Zionist intimidation? And of course, by default they're also anti-Semites—naturally.
There will also be an effort to demonstrate to the Assembly delegates that "left-leaning and dovish Jews" also oppose divestment. In fact, this is being described as "a pillar of organized Jewish pushback" on the matter, and apparently here J Street is playing a critical role.
The sad part is Lerner and her fellow Zionists will get plenty of help from inside the church. The JTA makes clear that Leighton isn't the only one.
It is of course absurd, patently so, to believe that Jesus would have countenanced the infliction of violence, the building of massive walls to divide people, the ongoing subjugation and humiliation of an entire population, along with the assassination of its culture, that are part of day-to-day life for Palestinians under occupation.
Things are changing, however. Mindless, unequivocal support for Israel is becoming, shall we say, "retrograde," and I profoundly wish that people of this backwards persuasion would simply go—do as the McJunkins did—and convert to Judaism.
For in remaining within the church they seem to be doing their utmost to poison the Body of Christ.
I cannot judge whether this is indeed the case but I can clearly say that the only way to deal with these issues is to discuss them openly and to make sure that as much information as possible is available to all of us.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I do believe that this is the principle that guides Arthur Topham, who for over 30 years has made some of the most important texts on the matter available to us all.
I wouldn't know about'Germany Must Perish' unless Mr Topham had made it into a satire. Would you? Even the Crown Expert, Mr Rudner, admitted that he wasn't aware of the text and actually confirmed by this admission the importance of the Radical Press. Two days ago Mr Rudner admitted that 'Germany Must Perish' is a hateful text. Congratulation to Mr Rudner. It took the Jewish world more than 7 decades to denounce one of the most horrible Jewish texts ever. Is not Mr Rudner long awaited denunciation the direct outcome of Mr Topham's satire?
Ironic isn't it? That the State of Israel, and the worldwide anger over its racist policies and illegal settlements, now has in essence come to represent a threat to the safety of Jews? That at any rate seems to be what's on the minds of the folks at Neturei Karta, the Orthodox Jewish organization that for years has been speaking out against Zionist aggression against Palestinians. Of course now, with a new intifada raging and with videos such as this one going viral all over the Internet, the stakes are even higher.
My take on Neturei Karta is that they endeavor to draw a clear line of demarcation between Torah Jews, or "the authentic Jewish people," and the Zionists, and to wholly disassociate themselves from the latter. Furthermore they try to make this as public as possible. I would probably do the same thing in their position. In this, their latest video, they call for an international peacekeeping force to protect the Al Aqsa Mosque from intrusion by Israeli settlers.
A little earlier this evening I posted an article regarding the Jewish War on Free Speech, in which I posited that Judaism, the religion, may be at least as much a part of the problem, if not more so, than Zionism, the political ideology. This is contrary to the way most people view the situation in the Middle East, but it's important to reflect on the fact that it was Zionism that grew out of Judaism, and not the other way around.
Imagine if the foundation of the state of Israel had been predicated upon the teachings of Christ or the Buddha rather that the genocidal narrative of the Old Testament. Would we have seen the same relentless progression of wars, massacres and occupation-without-end that we have seen over the past 67 years? I tend to think not, or at least that the chances of it turning out that way would have been less likely.
At any rate, after posting that article I came across this video which does a rather superb job of illustrating my point. What the speaker is giving us is Judaism in a nutshell, or Judaism 101, you might say, at least as seen from the perspective of this one Israeli rabbi, and I'm sure there are probably many others like him. Not all of them would advocate some of the extreme things this guy seems to advocate, such as the assassination of a US president, but the view of Jews as destined to dominate the world, I would say, is very prevalent, and not only among religious Jews but secular Jews as well.


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Your brand should give your customers a picture of who you are and what you want to be known for. It should tell people more about the motivation, quality and values behind your service or product.
Building your corporate brand isn't just about a logo, a catchy slogan, advertising or packaging. It extends to the customer service you provide and the way you treat your staff too.
1) What about your logo?
Take Amazon, for example. It has developed a brand reputation for lightning fast shipping and for selling anything and everything under the sun. This is reflected in the company's logo, the word 'Amazon' underlined by a yellow line swooping from A to Z. It is meant to convey that the company sells everything from A to Z and to suggest a smile, hopefully inspired by its customer service.
One of the main aims of branding is to differentiate your company from your competitors. Your brand should generate a positive emotional response from customers and build a long-term relationship with them.
2) What is brand loyalty?
Building brand loyalty is critical because repeat customers cost less to retain than new customers and they spend more money. They are valuable because they will actively seek out your product or service, even advocating your brand. Customer loyalty means people keep buying from you even when competitors cut their prices or when a global financial crisis strikes. It also puts up barriers for other companies hoping to enter the market.
Having a strong brand gives a company a competitive edge because customers are often willing to pay higher prices for the brand name. For example, Apple advertisements have concentrated on promoting the company and its products as innovative, young and stylish, defining itself in comparison to the grey, nerdy, relatively dour world of PC users.
That said, having a strong brand doesn't mean you can let your standards slip and charge what you like. Constant customer engagement and brand reinforcement is the key to long lasting success.
It pays to find out what your customers already think about your company and its products and services. Find out too what services and products people need, and think about what they might want in the future.
Look at your existing customers in terms of demographics, income groups and geographical spread as well as their communication preferences. You should explore what influences their purchasing decisions and ask for suggestions on how you can improve your product, service, processes and distribution. The Chartered Institute of Marketing's content hub is a good starting place to look for cutting edge tools and ideas.
Remember that loyalty is mostly driven by emotion. Customers are more likely to develop loyalty to your brand if it aligns with their beliefs and values, e.g. ethical bank accounts, sustainably sourced fish, clothing stores that ensure minimum wages and conditions for workers in developing countries and don't use child labour.
Check what people are saying about you online, e.g. using Google Mention and monitor social media on Hootsuite and analyse any positive and negative feedback you receive.
Finding out about your existing customers will help you target new customers, as will finding out more about your competitors. Start by looking at what your competitors are doing and what their customers are saying about them: their prices, products and services and the customers they are targeting. Check out their website, social media feeds and customer reviews on independent sites. Sign up for their newsletters and don't forget to go to events and conferences too.
Make use of free resources like Google Alerts or use paid tools, such as SpyFu and SEMrush, which will give you an insight into the keywords and AdWords your competitors are buying.
5) What to do with your visual brand identity?
It is important to have your logo on promotional materials, products, shop fronts and awnings, staff uniforms, vehicles etc. Decide on a consistent central message you would like your brand to communicate and what you want to stand for. Make sure you communicate this to your staff and integrate these values into your customer service, processes and products. Once you have decided this, be consistent and stay true to your brand and deal quickly and politely with complaints and feedback.


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