If you're in the market for a kayak that can support two people but just as easily be managed by one, it's worth considering the Lifetime 10 foot Sport Fisher kayak.
Although others might be faster, this is a nice little fishing kayak that's stable and steady on the water. You won't feel like you're toppling over when casting. For around $500 if you're after a kayak to cruise out to your favorite fishing spot, this will do the job nicely.
Not all tandem kayaks are as spacious as you'd hope. They may have enough room for 2 people but just barely.
This isn't the case with the Sport Fisher. It's a good 10 feet long but it also gets as wide as 3 feet where seating is concerned which should be more than enough room for you to sit quite comfortably even during longer trips. We like the extra width and this makes it a good choice for fishing. It's easy to access you gear without struggling to keep your balance.
There's room in this kayak for supplies and equipment. Whether you're just headed to another beach for a picnic or you plan to camp overnight, this kayak has you covered.
You won't have any issues taking smaller items like a cooler or poles either, although the poles might need some bungees to keep in place. Straps are included to make this easy.
Fishing pole holders make it convenient to cast your line and then sit back and relax. On hot summer days, you'll appreciate having a bottle holder right by your seat.
The interior storage hatch is useful. It gives you room for your things that will keep them out of the way. This is a reliable place to store your devices likes your 'phone and wallet.
Despite how much room it has to offer in terms of size and storage, Lifetime did a good job of creating a kayak that's lightweight and relatively easy to move around. This is especially important for a tandem kayak if it's going to be used solo. Many are light enough for two people, but when someone tries to transport it to the water by themselves, it turns into a real workout.
Note: The Lifetime Sport Fisher tandem is just 60 pounds but it is wide, 36 inches, which is good on the water. You'll find a kayak cart useful for getting it into the water if you're going solo.
Lifetime kayaks went into business to create products that last their customers a 'lifetime'.
The Lifetime Sport Fisher doesn't seem to be an exception. It's made from high-density polyethylene. This gives the kayak tremendous strength and just the type of durability you want.
This is why the kayak weighs so little relative to its size and storage capacity. That plastic is extremely tough but doesn't make the craft bulky. It also allowed Lifetime to create a mold that is effortlessly able to cut through the water with tight angles.
The worst part of any kayaking session is going home, not just because the trip is over but because you have to drain it.
This can be a real pain, especially after you've been paddling for hours and just want to relax.
This tandem kayak is easy to empty. Once you're ready to hit dry land, just get out, pull the scupper plugs and the water will drain. There's no turning it over or executing other cumbersome maneuvers just to make sure the inside gets dry.
Once drained, it's easy to store until next time.
While it's true that you won't be breaking any speed records in the Sport Fisher, that's really not what this model is built for. It's designed to be comfortable and great for fishing and we think it lives up to both promises.
If you're taller, wider or have otherwise had issues in the past with your kayak struggling while you paddle, the Lifetime Sport Fisher kayak is the solution for you. Even when you add a second person, you'll find it easy to maneuver through the water.
As far as tandem kayaks go, this model is easy to recommend for people who like to fish or simply enjoy their time out on the water. Its sturdy design is great for beginners, but more experienced kayakers will enjoy it too. Whether you're hitting the water with a partner or going by yourself, leaving for an hour or planning to camp, for around $500 the Lifetime Sport Fisher won't dissappoint.


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ZTE Nubia Z9 Max and Z9 Mini officially announced with 16MP cameras, 2900 mAh battery
Chetan Bhawani
ZTE, at a press conference in Beijing, China, has announced the much leaked smartphones, the Nubia Z9 Max and the Z9 Mini. While the two come with different screen sizes, the screen resolution is the same, at 1920×1080 pixels.
The larger flagship, i.e. ZTE Nubia Z9 Max has a 5.5-inch display, and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, 3GB of RAM and 16GB internal storage, which can be expanded with a MicroSD card slot. The 7.9mm thick device packs in a 2900 mAh battery, and the phone weighs 165gm. The camera is the same as in the Z9 Mini, thus read below for the details.
The Nubia Z9 Mini with a 5-inch display comes with a Snapdragon 615 processor, along with 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage, along with a MicroSD card slot for storage expansion. Interestingly, although the smaller size and being just a bit thicker than Z9 Max, at 8.2mm, the device has the same 2900 mAh battery.
What's similar in both, the Nubia Z9 Max and Z9 Mini
The camera on both the devices is the same – a 16-megapixel camera on the back with a F/2.0 aperture, and the camera is capable of recording 4K videos.
On the front, we see an 8-megapixel camera for selfies, on both the smartphones.
The phones will run Android 5.0.2 out of the box, with Nubia UI launcher, v2.8.
Both these will have 4G LTE connectivity, among the other connectivity options.
The ZTE Nubia Z9 Max and Mini come with a metal frame wrapped on the sides, and while the Z9 Max has a glass back that cannot be removed or replaced, the Z9 Mini offers the users with a dotted pattern on the back, which is made of plastic, and there are several back cover options for the users, including bamboo and denim finishes.
The price of Nubia Z9 Mini is CNY1,499, while the price for Z9 Max is CNY2,499.
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Huawei launches the Honor 4X with Snapdragon 410 SoC, Dual 4G SIM in India

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Александр Васильевич Ба́рченко (1881, Елец — , Москва) — советский оккультист, писатель, исследователь телепатии, гипнотизёр. Проводил исследовательские работы в рамках особого спецотдела ОГПУ. После обвинения в контрреволюционной деятельности и шпионаже был расстрелян, реабилитирован в 1956 году.

Биография
Отец Барченко был нотариусом окружного суда, мать происходила из духовного сословия. По словам Барченко, он уже с юношеского возраста отличался «склонностью к мистике и ко всему таинственному».

В 1898 году окончил петербургскую гимназию, затем пытался получить высшее образование, слушал лекции на медицинском факультете в Казанском, затем в Юрьевском (Дерптском) университетах. Из-за недостатка денежных средств учёба не была завершена.

Путешествия и литературная деятельность
В 1905—1909 годах А. В. Барченко в поисках своего призвания и с целью заработка объехал «в качестве туриста, рабочего и матроса», по его словам, «большую часть России и некоторые места за границей», в том числе побывал в Индии. В этот же период происходит увлечение Барченко эзотеризмом.

В 1909—1911 годах занимался «рукогаданием», давал частные консультации в Боровичах Новгородской губернии (с разрешения местной полиции).

С 1911 года под псевдонимами А. Нарвский, А. Елецкий писал научно-популярные статьи и репортажи для журналов «Мир приключений», «Жизнь для всех», «Русский паломник», «Природа и люди», «Исторический журнал». В 1913 году опубликовал роман «Доктор Чёрный», год спустя — роман «Из мрака» (переиздан в 1991) и сборник рассказов «Волны жизни» (с собственными иллюстрациями).

Исследовательская деятельность
После Октябрьской революции Барченко приглашают работать в Институт Бехтерева. Исследованиями Барченко заинтересовались чекисты, после чего началась активная работа в особом спецотделе ОГПУ под руководством Г. И. Бокия.

С августа по ноябрь 1922 года Барченко руководил этнографической экспедицией в центр Кольского полуострова, в район Ловозера и Сейдозера, где проживали саамы (так называемая «Русская Лапландия»). Одной из целей этой экспедиции было изучение распространённого у саамов и иных народов Крайнего Севера явления «меряченья», подобного массовому гипнозу; также в ходе экспедиции Барченко заявил об обнаружении неких старинных каменных памятников, якобы присущих цивилизации саамов. Результаты экспедиции были представлены астрономом Александром Кондиайном в докладе «В стране сказок и колдунов» от 29 ноября 1922 года в Петрограде на заседании географической секции общества «Мироведение», и в статье Барченко в «Красной газете» от 19 февраля 1923 года, а после отчётного выступления в Институте мозга о проведённых исследованиях решением Главнауки от 27 октября 1923 года Барченко был принят на работу в качестве учёного-консультанта. Утверждалось, что Барченко якобы нашёл «участок великой Римской дороги» на Кольском полуострове и предоставил его фотоснимок в ГПУ, однако негатив снимка при этом был признан утраченным. Михаил Вечеслов позже настаивал на том, что фотоснимок Барченко является фальшивкой. Летом 1923 года Арнольд Колбановский организовал независимую экспедицию в район Ловозера, по итогам которой заявил, что выводы Барченко не соответствуют действительности.

Организация эзотерического общества (1923)
В 1923 году Барченко организовал эзотерическое общество «Единое трудовое братство», в который входили А. А. Захаров, жена П. Д. Успенского Софья Григорьевна, Г. И. Бокий и другие. Эта страница его биографии нашла отражение в романе Д. Быкова «Остромов, или Ученик чародея» (2010).

Со времён учёбы в Юрьевском университете и знакомства с работами Сент-Ив Д'Альвейдра Барченко интересовался Шамбалой как неким очагом древней культуры и науки, существующим в горах Тибета. В рамках спецотдела готовился к экспедиции на поиски Шамбалы для овладения наследством «тайной науки» и для укрепления позиций СССР в Азии, однако экспедиция не состоялась из-за вражды между отделением иностранной разведки и руководством ОГПУ. Согласно одной из версий, Г. В. Чичерин вместо Барченко поддержал Тибетскую экспедицию предположительно связанного с ОГПУ художника Николая Рериха (по мнению авторов, состоящих в рериховском движении, Рерих не был связан с ОГПУ).

Арест (1937) и расстрел (1938)
Арестован 21 мая 1937 года, осуждён 25 апреля 1938 года Военной Коллегией Верховного Суда СССР к высшей мере наказания по обвинению в создании масонской контрреволюционной террористической организации «Единое трудовое братство» и шпионаже в пользу Англии (пункты 6, 8 и 11 статьи 58 УК РСФСР). В этот же день расстрелян. Реабилитирован Военной Коллегией Верховного Суда СССР 3 ноября 1956 года.

Библиография
Прижизненные издания (избранные)
 статья «Передача мыслей на разстояніе» // «Природа и люди», 1911, № 31
 роман «Доктор Чёрный» // «Природа и люди», 1913, № 1-5. Ежемесячный иллюстрированный журнал (сборник) `Мир приключений`. 1913 г. Петроград Издание П.П. Сойкина.
 роман «Из мрака» (1914)
 сборник рассказов «Волны жизни» с собственными иллюстрациями (1914)
 повесть «Океан-кормилец» (1918, второе издание)
 «Введение в методику экспериментальных воздействий энергополя» (конфисковано НКВД)
Посмертные издания
 - 537, [7] с.: портр., орнаменты; 21 см.- ISBN 5-270-01374-6: (В ПЕР.)

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 Тантра для комиссара Бокий, Барченко и дачная коммуна

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  (Доклад Начало оккультного и паранормального проекта ОГПУ: декабрь 1924-го — август 1925 года и его отголосок  представленный в 2007 на научной конференции «The Occult in 20th Century Russia: Metaphysical Roots of Soviet Civilization / Оккультизм в России XX века: метафизические корни советской цивилизации» в Harriman Institute)
 Znamenski A.

Первоисточники

Оккультисты
Парапсихологи
Деятели культуры и искусства, репрессированные в СССР
Расстрелянные в РСФСР
Посмертно реабилитированные в СССР
Казнённые в 1938 году

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As a boy Wade did not know any dancing or singing. His people on the slopes of Black Mountain did not dance or sing. They lived without these foolish excesses. If they were trading goods with a strange tribe, and those people began to dance or sing, his people always turned away. The boy wondered at this shyness, but then he would forget until day-to-day life was broken by someone's death. They always burned the body on the western plateau of the mountain, and Wade could hear mixed in with the roar of the funeral fire the people humming. Their singing grew and faded with the fire.
At no other time did he hear singing. In growing up he took in with his food a bitter sadness everyone felt, a sadness borne on the face of each mother seeing her baby for the first time—as if some longstanding promise were broken again—and in the faces of the father and elders huddling to come up with a name for the child. And yet for all of this burden of bitterness no one could remember the source of their sadness.
But along with the bitter wind of those black basalt slopes Wade also felt brief breaks of warmth. His older sister Moira gave him a smile whenever she saw him. And Wade took this in with his food as well. Seeing one of her smiles he sometimes felt a great urge to jump high over the black stones.
And then one day she was not there. Not anywhere. He looked and looked over the cold slopes. He whined and bawled to get his parents to tell what happened. They tightened their lips. In the whole tribe no one said a word. It was as if Moira had joined that long-forgotten source of sadness. But Wade could not forget.
His father cut firewood from the forest and hauled it up the slope on a donkey each day for the people. Wade had always helped, and as he grew into his broad shoulders he took on more of the work. But this day he refused. He took an ax and killed the donkey. The animal laughed and lay down, shivered and went stiff. The old man stared at the blood pouring from the donkey's head. Then he turned to his son.
He took the ax and led his son to the chief. As punishment the chief's men lashed a large stone onto Wade's back. He was to carry that stone on his back all through the winter. Yet he still must help his father bring firewood up from the forest. As his father cut, Wade hauled loads of wood on a drag uphill several times a day. By itself this was grueling work, and the stone made it worse. His anger seethed under the stone. He thought of running away, but where would he go?
The horsemen around the chief cut up the donkey's carcass for their hunting dogs. They hunted roe deer, meat to be roasted or dried, and the skins tanned for leather. Sometimes the men brought in a bear. Then everyone feasted. Wade longed to ride a horse, to roam the hills and mountains. On rare days the horsemen brought back things of beauty. Where did they find ivory and gold? What could they trade for such things?
His mother wore a silver bracelet that was handed down from her grandmother. Men and women around the chief wore gold, silver, copper and precious stones. Wade did not want any of these. He wanted a horse. With a horse he could roam free. His eyes were greedy for what lay beyond Black Mountain. But each day he woke up with a stone on his back. He braved the wind to haul firewood along the trail that he tracked again and again. And as winter passed, moon after moon, the stone felt less heavy.
But winter was hard on his parents. At night even with extra wood on the fire they were cold. At last when the stone was let off his back Wade found he could easily haul large stacks of wood from the forest. But his father could only carry the ax and wedges. One evening as he climbed, the old man began shaking in his knees. The next day he stayed by the fire.
Wade worked hard to bring wood for the people, but his mother complained that his father would not go out on the slope to gather roots and leaves for their soup. Wade heard their bitter words back and forth in the night. He began to laugh at them, but in his laughter he heard the sound of that donkey he'd killed.
Not long afterward his father died in his sleep. When the body was burned in a funeral fire on the western plateau Wade heard again the humming of the people mixed in with the fire's roar. Yet he looked up toward the high ridge of Black Mountain where there was a gap. To him the singing also seemed to come from the wind over the gap. In the evening he sat with his mother and asked her again what happened to Moira.
His mother left him to live with other widows. Wade kept hauling firewood. Young men of the tribe bargained for horses and dogs. They went out hunting for days and days. He was stronger than any of them, but what did he have to trade for a horse? He was poor and kept his own fire. Finding a bride was far out of reach. Seasons came and went, but no one forgot that he had once carried a stone on his back. And they knew as well that his sister had jumped into the gap.
One morning he heard that his mother had suddenly died. When they burned the body he saw for once all the charred bones in among the black basalt on the plateau. That evening the husband of his mother's cousin brought him her silver bracelet.
Wade began to sob. He could not stop. Later, still weeping he saw the filigree design on the silver. As cold and hard as she had been, she had sent him her prized gift.
Not long afterward the horsemen rode back to the mountain, their horses all in a lather, leading other horses that carried big baskets of grain, spilling they were so full.
The horsemen were heroes. After the feasting and boasting had played out, Wade began to talk with one of the older horsemen.
The horseman hesitated. Wade took the bracelet and began to seek out another horseman. Then the man called him back.
"That I will." Wade leaped on, and the horse trembled. All at once it galloped across the slope past the western plateau and down through rolling lowlands, away from Black Mountain. He was gasping, clinging to the horse's mane and holding the thin leather halter. The horse ran up a set of rising hills and down the other side, on and on. At last the animal stopped by a stream. Wade got off, the halter tight in his grasp, and the two of them drank from the stream. But the horse was not shy of him now. It grazed on bunch grass nearby. Wade mounted and rode in the way of a horseman, pressing with his knees to guide the animal into the evening. Then they rested under the stars.
At dawn Wade turned his horse toward Black Mountain. As he drew near he saw smoke rising in the distance, and on the breeze he heard thin cries. He rode steadily, yet he knew he was too late. When he arrived all the people had been killed and everything scattered or destroyed. So he began to pile the bodies on a drag and with his horse haul them up to the western plateau. But one he found was still alive, a little girl, her head swollen and bleeding and both her legs broken. He tucked sleeping robes around her and gave her sips of water. Then he finished hauling the bodies away.
But when he came back to her there were hunting dogs circling in. He drove them off and kept a fire by her side. On the plateau dogs were quarreling long into night. Beside him the little girl grew hot with fever. He tried to feed her drops of water, but her arms fluttered outward and she kept calling for her mother. Later he heard dogs just beyond the fire scratching themselves. And then his horse ran off.
The girl moaned and whispered without sense. Near dawn she stopped breathing. He felt her warmth drain away. Half numb, he carried her little body out to the western plateau. Dogs lay around. He placed the girl with the other bodies, all of them in disarray. He threw rocks at the dogs to send them off. When he had piled the bodies together again he found enough dry wood to start a fire. He fed that fire with wood from the forest through the day and night. And in the middle of night he heard a humming from the fire's roar, but he had no strength to lift his voice for these dead.
With the rising sun he wanted to bathe. He knew of a pool in the forest, but each step downward made him dizzy. He found himself climbing, stumbling toward the high ridge and the gap, where Moira had jumped. Maybe it was time to follow her. As he climbed he heard voices on the wind. Their humming grew clearer. Had his sister heard them and been drawn to them? He tried to think it was only wind coming down over the gap, but no, the breeze was behind him, as if it too were urging him on toward the ridge.
Yet when he stood above the gap the voices stopped. Wade stared down into the shadows. Far below something moved—and laughed in a donkey laugh. He nearly fell off in shock. But the donkey climbed upward from ledge to ledge. Just below him it halted and laughed again—he-haw!
Wade crept down and slipped onto its back. The donkey descended by switchbacks and narrow crevices into that darkest night. When they were in pitch dark the donkey laughed again—he-haw—and bucked Wade off. Down, down through empty space he tumbled—and was caught, upside-down in a tangle of tree branches. For a moment he tried to get free, but they gave way so quickly and he was afraid of falling farther. He stayed upside-down in those brittle branches, sleeping and waking in pain. How long? It was endless.
But the donkey came clopping up from below. It laughed and broke the branches until Wade tumbled into the dirt, so sore and weak that he had to lean on the animal to get to his feet. Holding onto the donkey's stiff mane, he stumbled along as the animal led him. And light came, not from above or afar, but a dim luster from the donkey itself.
Then he heard squabbling voices, and in the half-light he saw shadows moving back and forth. The donkey spoke.
But the donkey left them behind, and Wade followed it downward into a deep trembling of thunder on all sides.
"Aw! Aw!" A great rumbling swept through the ground in waves.
"Hold onto my mane," the donkey said, and Wade followed as they descended away from the angry dead toward sounds of whispers that softly moaned. He heard no humming in their moans, only faint whispers.
But Wade just now lost his footing, lost his grasp of the donkey, and he slipped and fell forward, facedown.
But his cheek had already stuck fast to the ice. The cold invaded him and drained away the life. All of him froze in place.
Then he heard the donkey laugh in the distance. But its laughter—he-haw, he-haw—came out in such a heartbreak that Wade, stuck as he was, began to weep and sob. His tears flowed down his face and thawed his cheek, and as he sobbed he came loose from the ice, came onto his knees. As his tears kept flowing there came more tears from those frozen dead nearby. With the donkey's cry the darkness began to soften. Those long pent-up tears of the dead flowing now over dirt and stone formed a braided stream. Wade heard it, but he stood in pitch darkness. The donkey could not be seen anywhere.
"Moira? Where are you? Have you gone again?" All of a sudden he heard her beside him in the dark.
"Now you may return to the living, and I will lead you partway." She pulled him along, and he staggered into a stream that dropped deeper, and then she let go. He tried to swim, but the water sucked him down. He could not breathe. He was dying—down and through and out into daylight. He splashed onto the bank, and his body shivered, head to toe. He began rolling on the grassy bank, and all at once he rose up in a leap, and leaped again. He lifted one foot, then the other, one, and the other.
Then he collapsed on the bank, gasping and smiling, and his breathing settled little by little into humming. He was humming with a full heart beside this new stream, which had its own way of humming, a new stream that flowed out of the lower slope of Black Mountain. He slept there for a long time, until something nearby woke him. It was his horse, standing and waiting. He pulled himself onto its back, and it took him into the forest where he knew of roots and berries and nuts, enough to regain strength.
He hunted and roamed among the far hills, but he always returned to the mountain. New grass was growing on the slopes where there had been only black rocks. And one day he climbed again to the high ridge, but he heard no voices and never a donkey laughing.
Later he found a woman to love and live with, a woman with a ready smile, one who knew how to dance and sing. With her he began a new tribe along that stream and up those green slopes. And he called it Moira's Mountain, and so it was known thereafter.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;

namespace MySql.AspNet.Identity.Repositories
{
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        private readonly string _connectionString;
        public RoleRepository(string connectionString)
        {
            _connectionString = connectionString;
        }

        public IQueryable<TRole> GetRoles()
        {
            var roles = new List<TRole>();
            using (var conn = new MySqlConnection(_connectionString))
            {
                var reader = MySqlHelper.ExecuteReader(conn, CommandType.Text, @"SELECT Id,Name FROM aspnetroles", null);

                while (reader.Read())
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                    role.Id = (int)reader[0];
                    role.Name = reader[1].ToString();

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                }

            }
            return roles.AsQueryable();
        }

        public void Insert(IdentityRole role)
        {
            using (var conn = new MySqlConnection(_connectionString))
            {
                var parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>
                {
                    {"@name", role.Name},
                    {"@id", role.Id}
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                MySqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(conn, @"INSERT INTO aspnetroles (Name) VALUES (@name)", parameters);
            }
        }

        public void Delete(int roleId)
        {
            using (var conn = new MySqlConnection(_connectionString))
            {
                var parameters = new Dictionary<string, object>
                {
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                MySqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(conn, @"DELETE FROM aspnetroles WHERE Id = @id", parameters);
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                    {"@id", role.Id}
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    }
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What tourists need to know when visiting Bangkok's Grand Palace
By Pedro Pan | December 5, 2016 | News, Travel | 395 views
Bangkok's Grand Palace has reopened its doors to tourists and visitors since November 1. The royal body of the late His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej is lying in state at Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall inside the palace.
As Thailand continues its official mourning period for the revered late king, what should visitors including tourists do when they visit to pay respects? Aside from wearing appropriate and respectable attire and bringing their passports when entering the gate, the Bureau of the Royal Household, Ministry of Tourism and Sports, the Ministry of Transport's Marine Department, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration have some advice for tourists.
For tourists, the Grand Palace is open everyday from 8.30 am – 3.30 pm. Tourists and visitors are advised to enter and exit at the Wiset Chai Sri Gate only.
Drop-off and pick-up locations
For group tours
There are three drop-off and pick-up locations for tour companies taking foreign group visitors to visit the Grand Palace.
Travel by car only: drop-off and pick-up at the Royal Rattanakosin Hotel.
Travel by car and boat: arrival by car, drop-off at the Royal Rattanakosin Hotel; return by boarding the boat at the Tha Chang Pier.
Travel by boat only: boarding the boat (maximum capacity: 400 passengers) both ways at Asiatique The Riverfront, and access via the Tha Maharaj Pier. However, there is an extra cost of 130 Baht per person.
Tour buses can park at the Rama VIII Bridge, the Old Southern Bus Terminal (about 1 km past Central Pinklao), Wat Dusidaram (at the foot of Phra Pinklao Bridge on the Thonburi side). For smaller tour vehicles or private cars, the drop-off and pick-up is at the Chang Rongsi Bridge.
Travel by BTS Sky Train: get off at the Saphan Taksin Station and take a boat to the Tha Chang Pier or the Tha Maharaj Pier.
Travel by MRT Bangkok Metro: get off at the Hua Lamphong Station (Bangkok Railway Station) and take a bus to the Grand Palace.
Tourist facilitation and assistance
The Department of Tourism in collaboration with the Tourist Police has deployed special-task officers and volunteers as well as Tourist Police officers with the ability to communicate in foreign languages to facilitate tourists and provide assistance. The six officers and volunteers are stationed at the Tourist Assistance tent opposite the Wiset Chaisri Gate from 08.30-16.30 Hrs., or call +66 (0) 2642 2767 (Chinese language) and +66 (0) 84 651 5549.
The Department of Tourism in collaboration with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has arranged to set up signage for the drop-off and pick-up locations in English and Chinese.
The Marine Department will deploy Tourist Assistance officers at three piers: Tha Chang, Tha Maharaj and Asiatique The Riverfront.
Tourists must show their passport at the checkpoints before entering the Grand Palace, and It is advised not to bring many belongings.
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Home Uncategorized FBI Discovers Hacker Guccifer Missing From Jail, Whereabouts Still Unknown
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James Rink, July 7, 2016
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An astounding Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar (known as Guccifer), who successfully gained access to all of the private and government emails of Hillary Clinton, was discovered missing yesterday by agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who were sent to interview him at the US jail he was supposed to be in—and his whereabouts are still unknown. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka Guccifer
According to this report, Guccifer is at the center of what is turning into one of America's greatest political scandals for his hacking into the private email server of former Secretary of State (and current US presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton that, in turn, allowed the SVR to gain access to them too—and which recently an unnamed US State Department official admitted to the Washington Times both China and Israel now have possession of too.
As we had previously reported too, Guccifer first came to the attention of the SVR in 2011 when he attempted to hack into the computer systems of the Federation funded RT television network, after which he was able to be tracked and his hacked documents seized—some of which were then authorized to be leaked by Chairwoman of the Council of Federation Valentina Matviyenko that resulted in the 20 March 2013 RT articleHillary Clinton's 'hacked' Benghazi emails: FULL RELEASE.
In early March (2016), it should be further noted, after Chairwoman Matviyenko advocated releasing all of Hillary Clinton's classified and top secret emails to the public, the Obama regime responded by rushing Guccifer from his Romanian prison cell to the US—and that NBC News kept secret from the American people for weeks afterwards.
Once in US custody, this SVR report continues, Guccifer (who described Hillary Clinton's illegal email computer server as being "like an open orchid on the Internet") reached a plea deal with the FBI that in exchange for his cooperation in the Hillary Clinton criminal investigation he would receive a minor prison sentence—and to which he pleaded guilty to on 25 May with his sentencing scheduled for 1 September.
While awaiting his sentencing, this report continues, Guccifer was imprisoned at the Detention Center Bureau (DCB), located in Alexandria, Virginia—but when 3 FBI agents tried to visit him there yesterday, they were informed that he had been moved to an undisclosed location on the evening of 25 May—which (coincidentally?) was just hours removed from a secret meeting held between former President Bill Clinton and the Attorney General of the United States, Loretta Lynch.
SVR analysts note in this report that Attorney General Lynch was the only US government official authorized to move Guccifer from the DCB and that she did so using agents from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) who are under her direct control.
As to why Attorney General Lynch would want Guccifer out of the reach of the FBI, this report says, is likely due to the upcoming interview of Hillary Clinton by those FBI agents investigating her, and that some USnews reports say may even be happening today.
And to the most critical information held by Guccifer against Hillary Clinton, this report continues, are the "encrypted computer keys" to emails sent by Secretary Clinton to the Clinton Foundation—and which a recent filing by the US State Department in a US Federal Court seeking to block their release estimated their staggering number at being around 34,000 emails.
The encryption algorithms of Hillary Clinton's emails deciphered by Guccifer, this report explains, are like a key that specifies the transformation of plaintext into ciphertext, and vice versa for decryption algorithms. Keys also specify transformations in other cryptographic algorithms, such as digital signature schemes and message authentication codes.
Though not specifically commented on in this SVR report, it does strongly suggest that the Federation has been behind the release of many of these keys to various international news organizations and whistle blowing sites that have then published revealing stories about Hillary Clinton's nefarious actions, including:
1.) How Hillary Clinton attempted to manipulate the debt negotiations between the European Union and Greece in an attempt to illegally enrich her son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky at the expense of the Greek people.
2.) How Hillary Clinton's State Department conspired with US Air Force General Philip Breedlove to instigate a war with Russia against President Obama's express order not to do so.
To if Hillary Clinton, or her husband, will ever be charged for their many crimes against the American people, this report concludes, is never likely to happen as these Western elites exist above the laws they force others to live under and have blackmail files on each other they constantly use to threaten one another—and that the Kremlin now has on Hillary Clinton too.
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[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their 'agents' has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
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The Peloponnesian War 3.82-83
(82) So savage was the factional strife that broke out - and it seemed all the worse in that it was the first to occur. Later on, indeed, all of Hellas (so to speak) was thrown into turmoil, there being discord everywhere, with the representatives of the demos (i.e. the extreme democratic factions) wanting to bring in the Athenians to support their cause, while the oligarchic factions looked to the Spartans. In peacetime they would have had no excuse nor would they have been prepared to summon them for help, but in the midst of a war, the summoning of outside aid readily offered those on both sides who desired a change in the status quo alliances that promised harm for their opponents and, at the same time, benefit for themselves. (2) Many harsh events befell the various cities due to the ensuing factional strife - things which always occur in such times and always will occur, so long as human nature (physis) remains the same, although with varying degrees of violence, perhaps, and differing in form, according as variations in circumstances should arise. For in peacetime, and amid prosperous circumstances, both cities and individuals possess more noble dispositions, because they have not fallen into the overpowering constraints imposed by harsher times. But war, which destroys the easy routines of people's daily lives, is a violent schoolmaster, and assimilates the dispositions of most people to the prevailing circumstances. (3) So then, affairs in the cities were being torn apart by faction, and those struggles that occurred in the latter stages of the war - through news, I suppose, of what had occurred earlier in other cities - pushed to greater lengths the extravagance with which new plots were devised, both in the inventiveness of the various attempts at revolt and in the unheard-of nature of the subsequent acts of retaliation. (4) And people altered, at their pleasure, the customary significance of words to suit their deeds: irrational daring came to be considered the "manly courage of one loyal to his party"; prudent delay was thought a fair-seeming cowardice; a moderate attitude was deemed a mere shield for lack of virility, and a reasoned understanding with regard to all sides of an issue meant that one was indolent and of no use for anything. Rash enthusiasm for one's cause was deemed the part of a true man; to attempt to employ reason in plotting a safe course of action, a specious excuse for desertion. (5) One who displayed violent anger was "eternally faithful," whereas any who spoke against such a person was viewed with suspicion. One who laid a scheme and was successful was "wise," while anyone who suspected and ferreted out such a plot beforehand was considered still cleverer. Any who planned beforehand in order that no such measures should be necessary was a "subverter of the party" and was accused of being intimidated by the opposition. In general, the one who beat another at performing some act of villainy beforehand was praised, as was one who urged another on to such a deed which the latter, originally, had no intention of performing. (6) Indeed, even kinship came to represent a less intimate bond than that of party faction, since the latter implied a greater willingness to engage in violent acts of daring without demur. For such unions were formed, not with a view to profiting from the established laws, but with a view toward political advantage contrary to such laws. And their mutual oaths they cemented, not by means of religious sanction, but by sharing in some common crime. (7) Fair proposals offered by the opposing faction were accepted by the party enjoying the superior position in a guarded fashion, not in a truly generous spirit. More concern was placed on exacting vengeance from someone else than on not suffering a wrong yourself in the first place. And if ever oaths of reconciliation did come about, having been exchanged in the face of some temporary difficulty, they remained in force only so long as the parties possessed no resources from any other source. The one who was quicker to seize the opportunity for some daring outrage, if ever he saw his opponent off his guard, took more pleasure in taking vengeance in this way than if he had done so openly, considering this method to be safer and thinking that, by getting the upper hand through deceit, he had won in addition the prize for cleverness. And indeed, most people accept more readily being called clever, when they are knaves, than being called fools when they are honest: the latter they take shame in, whereas they preen themselves on the former. (8) The cause of all of these things was the pursuit of political power, motivated by greed and ambition. And out of these factors arose the fanatical enthusiasm of individuals now fully disposed to pursue political vendettas. For the leading men on both sides in each city, employing fine-sounding phrases and advocating either equality before the law for the masses (in the case of the democrats) or the moderate rule of the best men (in the case of the oligarchs) made a show of serving the common good but in fact engaged in competition for personal advancement. Competing in every possible fashion to get the better of their opponents, they went to the farthest extremes of daring and executed even greater acts of vengeance, not limiting themselves by the demands of justice or the interests of the city, but only by their whims at any particular moment. In their efforts to gain power either through the use of trumped up lawsuits or by force, they were always ready to pursue the political vendetta of the moment. The result was that neither side was wont to pay any regard to personal integrity: those who succeeded in accomplishing some act of malice under cover of some fine phrase were the ones to gain general approval. By contrast, those citizens who chose the middle course of moderation perished at the hands of both factions, either for their failure to join in the struggle or due to envy at the fact that they were surviving amid the general chaos.
(83) Thus moral degeneration of every type took hold throughout Hellas due to factional strife, and simplicity of character — with which a concern for honor is intimately connected — became an object of mockery and disappeared. People were ranged against one another in opposite ideological camps, with the result that distrust and suspicion became rampant. (2) For there was no means that could hope to bring an end to the strife — no speech that could be trusted as reliable, no oath that evoked any dread should it be broken. Everyone, when they had the upper hand, reckoned that there was no hope of any security by means of promises or oaths, and so concentrated on taking precautions not to suffer any injury rather than daring to trust anyone. (3) And, for the most part, those of more limited intelligence were the ones to survive: in their fear regarding their own deficiencies and their opponents' cleverness, lest they might be defeated in debate (e.g. in a political trial) or be forestalled in laying some plot by their opponents' cunning, they turned to action right away with a boldness born of desperation. (4) Their opponents, overconfident in their assurance that they could anticipate the plots of their less intelligent antagonists, and feeling that they could attain their ends by cunning rather than by force, tended to be caught off guard and so perished. (Italics mine)
posted by Tom Matrullo at Monday, November 21, 2011 1 comments
Re JSTOR cartel, fake scarcity, bullshit economy, etc.:
via techdirt:
Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field
from the let's-just-do-it dept
The arguments against open access have moved on from the initial "it'll never work" to the "maybe it'll work, but it's not sustainable" stage. That raises a valid point, of course: who will pay for journals that make their content freely available online?
There are many open access business models that are being tried, and one of the most obvious ones is to charge authors a publication fee – in fact, many traditional academic journals do that as well as making readers pay a subscription fee. In practise, the fee is usually paid by the author's funding institution as part of their overall support for research.
A per-article publication fee is the approach adopted by one of the leading open access publishers, Public Library of Science (PLoS). Its announcement earlier this year that revenue now covers its operating costs is an important data point in establishing the viability of the open access approach.
Meanwhile, on the traditional publishing side, Heather Morrison has been analysing the profits of the major academic publisher Elsevier (disclosure: I worked in one of Reed-Elsevier's divisions a few decades ago) on her splendidly-named blog "The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics":
If the total profit from Elsevier and Lexis-Nexis is added together and converted to U.S. dollars, the total is $2,075m. Divided by the estimated worldwide scholarly article output of 1.5 million articles per year (Björk et al, 2008), this comes out to $1,383 U.S.
That figure is very close to the $1350 article fee charged by PLoS for its biggest title, PLoS ONE, which means:
the profits of this one company alone could fund a global, fully open access scholarly publishing system, at a rate of $1,383 U.S. per article.
A comment on a post on another blog with a fantastic name - "Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week" (what is it about open access advocates and their blogs?) - pointed out that this calculation was incorrect, and that the actual figure was more like $730 per article. But adding in the profits of another major academic publisher, Springer, would bring the overall profit per article published back up to the PLoS ONE level.
But those are just details; what really matters is the fact that collectively the top two or maybe three publishers take out of the academic world enough profits to pay for every research article in every discipline to be made freely available online for everyone to access using PLoS's publishing fee approach.
As Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week's Mike Taylor explains, that would mean:
Dentists would be able to keep up with the relevant literature. Small businesseswould be able to make plans with full information. The Climate Code Foundationwould have a sounder and more up-to-date scientific basis for its work. Patient groups would be able to understand their diseases and give informed consent for treatment. Medical charities, amateur palaeontologists, ornithologists and so many more would have access to the information they need. Researchers in third-world countries could have the information they need to cope with life-threatening issues of health, food and water.
We can have all that for our $2.075 billion per year. Or we can keep giving it to Elsevier's [+Springer's] shareholders. Giving it, remember: not buying something with it. Don't forget, this is not the money that Elsevier absorbs as its costs: salaries, rent, connectivity, what have you. This is their profit. It's pure profit. This is the money that is taken out of the system.
So, yes, open access is cheaper. Stupidly cheaper. Absurdly, ridiculously, appallingly cheaper.
It's an intriguing thought: to provide global access to all current academic research we just need to flip from one system – the present one, where a few giant corporations make billions of dollars a year – to one where open access publishers break even, and where academic institutions save money. So what are we waiting for?
Feel free to post this article in full anywhere you please...
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For some, maintaining a healthy weight may just be a matter of diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
For others, it may not be that simple.
Something is affecting an increasing number of adults today, and it is now beginning to affect the very young.
To understand what is happening, and how to deal with it, needs a new perspective.
Obesity in infants under 6 months has risen 73% since 1980, reported scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health. Why are infants experiencing excess weight gain at this early age?
Something is definitely wrong. What is affecting adults, is now beginning to affect babies, even before birth.
The Environmental Working Group' shocked the scientific world in 2004 with in their discovery that the average newborn baby has 287 chemicals in the umbilical cord blood, 217 of which are neurotoxic.
Environmental chemicals, such as pesticides, as well as heavy metals, enter the human body through the food we eat, the air we breathe, and through our skin; they are also being stored in our fat cells. Scientists have discovered that this is one of the biggest contributory factors in excessive weight gain, even in infants.
Chemicals that these infants are exposed to include pesticides, phthalates, bisphenol A, flame retardants, and heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic. Heavy metals can directly or indirectly cause, contribute to, and even make worse nearly every disease or illness we know, for all ages.
"The evidence now emerging says that being overweight is not just the result of personal choices about what you eat, combined with inactivity … exposure to environmental chemicals during [fetus] development may be contributing to the obesity epidemic", says Retha Newbold of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in North Carolina, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Genetics are not to blame – the obesity rate of 50-60 years ago was only one-third of what it is today, explains Walter Willett, the chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard school of public health.
• Exposure to chemicals is to blame – "The chemicals these infants are exposed to have a broad range of negative effects on human biology, as they are neurotoxic (toxic to nerves), carcinogenic (cancer causing), and now it seems, obesogenic (causing excess weight)." Mark Hyman, M.D.
• Blood serum does not tell the whole truth – it has now been uncovered that the average person has 500 times higher levels of toxins in their bodies than what is revealed in their blood serum; certain chemicals such as DDT's metabolic waste DDE is about 1,000 times higher in the fat cells than the blood serum levels.
One in four adult Canadians and one in 10 children are clinically obese, meaning six million Canadians are living with obesity.
An adult male is considered overweight when his body weight exceeds the maximum desirable weight for his height, and obese when his body weight is 20% or more over this desirable weight. A similar guideline holds true for women, but the obesity threshold is 25% rather than 20%. Whether overweight or obese, the increase of overweight and obese Canadians over the past 30 years is now at an epidemic rate.
The greatest concern is that excess weight is a leading cause of Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and even cancer. Studies conducted jointly by researchers at Imperial College London and Harvard University, published in the medical journal The Lancet, show that obesity worldwide almost doubled in the decades between 1980 and 2008.
A 2005 report released by the Canadian government's Economics Division reported that "In 2004, approximately 6.8 million Canadian adults aged 20 to 64 were overweight, and an additional 4.5 million were obese".
Toxic chemicals and heavy metals are stored in the fat cells – people who have a higher body mass index may well be storing a proportionately greater amount of toxins. This is the body's wisdom at work – it creates more fat cells to store toxic contents as well as retaining water to dilute toxic chemicals. Both of these strategies cause weight gain as a defence mechanism to protect vital organs from being poisoned.
Could this be the reason for weight gain? Individuals can gain 25 – 50 pounds in a year when acute toxin substances are stored, and not released.
Safe and gentle weight loss is vital. The solution isn't in ingesting more chemicals. According to Dr. Daniel Neides, medical director for Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute, in a recent interview with Bloomberg Business Week, the risks associated with weight-loss medication overwhelm their limited benefits.
Toxic substances in the body cause all sorts of health issues and illnesses. Many toxic people feel like they have the flu continuously. Toxicity affects all functions and activities in the body which has to detour vital healing energy to counteract and contain toxic poisons.
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LONDON, UK - 27 APRIL 2015: Canary Wharf tube station looking up at the escalators heading to the surface level with commuters making their way into the business and finance district of London known as Docklands.
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New York City subway system. D train on elevated tracks over 86 street Brooklyn. Shot from street level up with Asian grocery market sign in foreground.
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Nurturing student wellbeing is firmly Rooted in University life
Nurturing student wellbeing is equally as important as developing academic abilities at Leeds.
And in Rooted – the University Union's community food project – there has been considerable growth in the number of people seeking to volunteer for this pioneering project.
As an oasis of calm among the hustle and bustle of University life, Rooted supports local biodiversity, improves employability skills for students and creates strong links between them, the University and the wider community.
Speaking in the greenhouse of the sustainable roof garden – perched on top of the Student Union building – Kate Kirkpatrick, a part-time project assistant with Rooted, said: "There is an incredible sense of calm and wellbeing here, which students find really attractive. It can be daunting moving away from home to University. You can get stuck in the bubble of student life, but this is the perfect escape from all the academic pressures you can face. We have also been able to refer students on to other appropriate services, if needed, such as the Student Advice Centre."
Second-year English and Music student, Liberty Anstead, first volunteered more than a year ago. She has enjoyed the experience so much she is now preparing to take up a year-long work placement with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Liberty said: "I come here because it's so relaxing and meditative.
"I absolutely love working with Kate and the rest of the team. Everyone is so friendly and supportive. It's such a nice escape from being sat at a computer studying. It's definitely the best thing I have done here. It has also expanded my horizons, introducing me to other organisations I have got involved with, like the Real Junk Food Project."
Volunteer drop-in sessions are staged twice a week, and are also open to staff and the general public.
Kate added: "We find this creates a really nice mix of people, from all sorts of backgrounds and age groups. People come along for as little as ten minutes at a time between lectures. We have loved having Liberty as part of the team, and now she is helping us develop our salad growing enterprise, which is very exciting."
This success story is just one example of how the University of Leeds has achieved its ranking of third in the UK in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. Find out more here.
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Sahuarita Mayor Tom Murphy and former Chamber President Dan Cavanagh were guests of honor at the 2nd Annual Local Artists Open House hosted August 17 at the Mexican Consulate in Nogales.
Tom, also a former GVS Chamber board member, joined Consul General Ricardo Santana Velazquez and 15 artists from Nogales Az and Sonora in cutting the blue ribbon (see below) to open the week long display at the Consulate.
The invitation is part of a long term initiative by this Chamber to help improve cultural and economic relations within the I 19 Corridor. That effort will continue when the Consulate sponsors a performance of famed Hispanic pianist Hector Acosta September 28 at Saint Francis of the Valley Episcopal Church here in Green Valley.
Santana has invited Chamber and community leadership to return to the Consulate on September 14th to help celebrate the beginning of a 3 day festival to recognize the 208th anniversary of Mexican Independence.


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So excited to drop some hints that ALL ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT will go to press soon!
It's been a while in the collecting and editing, but the printed book will include MANY more images and new material, especially threading together Native, Star Being, and Inner Earth connections with the Buddhas.


Made by Meadowbank Manufacturing Co. in Meadowbank, New South Wales, 1909.
The O-class tram has a combination of enclosed and open sections. In the centre are the four closed sections accessible to the street via sliding doors and fitted with cross bench timber seats. On either side of these are the two open compartments, each fitted with two facing cross bench seats with metal armrests. These two sections have pull-down canvas blinds to protect passengers against the elements. Enclosed driver's compartments at each end are joined to the open compartments. Since all the seats on the O-class trams are transverse or crossbench this gave rise to the pet name of "toastrack" trams, referring to the pattern of equally spaced vertical divisions between the bench seats. Around the exterior of the tram is a timber conductor's footboard where the conductor walked to collect fares in all weathers.The tram is driven by 4 motors, two each in the two trucks in which the running wheels are housed (Sydney No.2 trucks, 4-ft (1.22m) wheelbase).
During the first decade of the twentieth century, the Sydney tramways produced a variety of electric tramcar designs, none of which proved entirely satisfactory. From 1901, when the established steam tram policy of crossbench seating was revived, electric cars were built of both open and closed types with capacities of 50, 60, and 70 passengers. However, none of these was built in large numbers other than the hybrid E class, of which 202 were built.
In April 1908 the prototype of the O-class electric car, Sydney's most famous tram design, rolled out of the Randwick Tramway Workshops. Numbered 806, the tram was capable of seating 80 passengers in a combination of open and enclosed accommodation. This design was an immediate success. Technically, the O-class trams were the most advanced in Australia, with the adoption of four traction motors in two equal-wheeled bogies with multiple unit control. Mechanically they were simple and trouble free in operation and were always popular with passengers and crew alike.
The prototype O-class tram, Car No. 806, went into service on 8 March 1908, with adjustments completed in April 1908. It was attached to Waverely depot and worked from Coogee to Circular Quay. On 30 August 1908 the tram was sent to the Meadowbank Manufacturing Co., at Meadowbank, (Sydney) as a sample for the first production batch of cars Nos 807 to 818 which were delivered in time for Sydney's Christmas-New Year holiday traffic of 1908-1909.
The Meadowbank Manufacturing Co. constructed all the cars in the class. These were undertaken in batches from 1908 until 1914, Nos 803 to 805, 807 to 873 (70 cars); Nos 874 to 897 (24 cars); Nos 898 to 947 (50 cars); Nos 949 to 998 (50 cars); No.999 (1 car); Nos 1000 to 1129 (130 cars); Nos 1130 to 1279 (150 cars); and Nos 1330 to1479 (150 cars). A total of 626 cars were in the fleet, making the Sydney 0-class trams numerically the largest class of tramcar in the world. The last O-class car, No.1479, entered service on 26 September 1914. On 9 March 1914 Tramway Traffic Superintendent Kneeshaw and Electrical Engineer Brain suggested a further 50 non-coupling O-class cars be built for the perceived tramway needs after June 1915. These would have been Nos 1480 to 1529. However, Kneeshaw's death, only 6 days later, and the onset of World War I prevented any more route expansions or the increase of rolling stock.
The Museum's O-class electric, tram No. 805, was built in 1909 and given the vacant K class number of 805.
The O-class tramcars were launched in Sydney in 1908 with great fanfare and were referred to as "Dreadnoughts", a name used for everything modern at that time. With their 33-inch diameter wheels, the "toastracks" were the fastest trams of the day. They were especially suited to venues such as race meetings, sporting matches and the Royal Easter show as they could be emptied and filled quickly by means of the numerous doorways. They carried Sydneysiders everywhere: to the beach, the zoo, the cricket, to the football and to work. Ladies would generally sit in the enclosed compartments, while gentlemen sat in the open compartments braving the elements. The O-class tramcars were the backbone of the Sydney fleet for 40 years and saw service on all the Sydney electrified lines at various periods.
Recollections of travel on the O-class trams in Manly during the 1920s were compiled by Robert Makim in his article "All aboard the last Manly rattler". Some are quoted below.
"The tram guards were a race apart apart and were generally much admired by little boys, even though we did our best to outwit them by 'scaling' a ride, crouching unseen on the footboard on the other side of the tram. They [the conductors] had a marvellously free-flowing style of walking the footboards. By using vertical brass handrails, they would sweep majestically from one end of the tram to the other with a graceful sideways step not unlike a ballroom dancer. They were outside in all kinds of weather, and in heavy rain would be swathed in voluminous black oilskins. Their leather money bag with its ticket clipboard never seemed to get wet, as they would open the doors, lean inside with their bag, brace themselves with their elbows and knees, announce 'Fares 'ease', and then perform the complicated task of thumbing off the correct tickets, taking money and counting change, all the while balancing on the footboard as the tram swayed along the tracks."
"Also, at the terminus, theirs was the exciting job of pulling down the operating pole, thus silencing the motor, then bringing the motor panting back to life again by fitting the other pole onto the overhead wire with a most satisfying shower of sparks."
Sydney's tramway system developed into the largest in the British Commonwealth outside of London and supplied transport to the growing suburbs. At its peak in 1922 some 1,600 trams were used. The controversial decision to phase out trams altogether in favour of government buses was made as early as 1938. The O-class tram numbers dwindled from 1953 onwards, until the class was totally removed from the Sydney system with the closure of the George Street line in 1958. The once great tramway system was defeated by the high cost of maintaining track, servicing the aged and rundown O-class trams, and the increased use of the private car, which saw commuters desert the public transport system in droves. Furthermore, the trams were blamed for the increased traffic congestion in the city. The last tram to operate in Sydney ran from La Perouse to Maroubra on Saturday 25 February 1961.
The Museum's O-class electric tram No. 805 was built in Sydney in 1909, the first contract batch of O-class trams built by the Meadowbank Manufacturing Co. of Meadowbank, NSW. It was placed in service on 4 August 1909, and operated on the route from Manly Wharf to Narrabeen, at North Sydney, at Ashfield. and for a brief period in the Rockdale district. The tram was restored at the Randwick Tramway workshops under Mr Hastie and presented to the Museum in 1961. Only six of the 626 O-class trams have been preserved. Four of these are at the Sydney Tramway Museum, Loftus - Nos 957, 1111, 1030 (14S) and 1089 as an OP class - while No. 1187 is owned by the Oregon Electric Railway Society, USA.
The O-class tram No. 805 was owned and operated by the New South Wales Government Tramways. In 1961 it was presented to the Museum.


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In this showcase you will find a selection of training courses and exams in the TOGAF® 9 Level 1 (Foundation) context.
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The Level 1 (Foundation) certification provides validation that the candidate has gained knowledge of the terminology, structure, and basic concepts of TOGAF 9 standard, and understands the core principles of Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF standard.
The TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation) certification is automatically achieved after passing the TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation) exam. The TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation) course provides an optimal preparation to pass the exam and, therefore, to obtain the certification.
The Foundation level is a prerequisite to continue with the following levels of qualification.
The TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation) course deals with the basic principles of the methodology and looks at the components, principles and processes.
The course prepares the participants for the exam TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation).
Here below you can read the course sheet with information about TOGAF 9 Level 1 (Foundation) courses.
Some experience solving problems at the enterprise level, although familiarity with TOGAF standard is not required.


After several months of development, our new website is online!
Larger images, clearer texts and a better navigation to assist you to find easily what you really are interested in.
The new site of the Pinacoteca (still in beta version for the final debug), has been completely revolutionized not only from a design point of view: it is easier to read and allows you to search for information on the works in the Museum and on all the activities taking place in Brera in a totally innovative approach. You can discover the collections, admire the masterpieces with high-definition images, participate in educational activities, access to insights on restoration works, watch videos, share events and feel part of a knowledge and central entertainment system constantly upgraded.
Thanks to an extremely updated calendar of events it will be possible to find out in a single glance the activities in order to plan and schedule a visit.
Important news also concerning the online collection of works that is now "navigable" with detailed charts for each work and large images. It will start with almost six hundred online art works including all masterpieces.
A new route just started: we continue to work in order to enrich the experience on the web with the entire collection of the Art Gallery, drawings, photographs and the large collection of works not currently on display, along with the English translations of all the online cards.
Developed in responsive mode, the new site will be available both via computer, tablet or smartphone.
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Australian economy continues to show signs of weakness. To be sure conditions are far better than in most other developed economies, but the nation is not immune from the global manufacturing slowdown - particularly in China.
The latest manufacturing surveys show a marked contraction over the past few months.
A very similar picture is developing in the Australian services sector.
The RBA (the central bank) has been trying to stay "ahead of the curve" by lowering interest rates. The overnight rates are approaching historical lows of 3% reached in 2009.
The market expects Australian short-term rates to continue moving lower. The OIS curve (overnight index swap) which predicts where the overnight rates will be in the future is highly inverted. The curve implies an 87% probability of a 25bp rate cut in November.
Bloomberg/BW: - Interest-rate swaps data compiled by Bloomberg show traders see an 87 percent chance the RBA will lower its overnight cash rate target by 25 basis points to 3 percent on Nov. 6, following a quarter-percentage point reduction on Oct. 2. That compares with an 82 percent probability on Oct. 5. If policy makers deliver a rate cut next month, that would be the first back-to-back reduction since June.
Below are the market-implied probability curves for the overnight rate over time, as we move into record low territory (the RBA rates have never been below 3%).
Bloomberg: - Swaps data compiled by Bloomberg show traders see an 81 percent chance the RBA will reduce its key rate from 3.25 percent to 2.75 percent by February, the least in the central bank's 53-year history.
In spite of the lowest rates in its history, Australian short-term rates are still expected to stay higher than those in the US, the UK, the Eurozone, and Japan.


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