Traditional drum dance in Kulusuk, Greenland.
There are only two ways to fly to Greenland—that icy remote country that many of us jet over but few of us land in, that monster of the Mercator projection. You can fly there from Copenhagen, Denmark, or from Reykjavik, Iceland. So, if you're in Iceland, it's natural to consider popping up to Greenland (it's just a two-hour flight) for a glimpse. After my husband surprised me with a trip to Iceland last week, he surprised me all over again a couple of days later with a day trip to Greenland.
Air Iceland runs a daily eight-hour tour where you leave Reykjavik at 10:15 am for Kulusuk, Greenland, landing back in Reykjavik at 6:15 pm. You spend four hours in the air and only four on the ground in Greenland, but that's enough to get a taste of East Greenland's scenery and the local way of life.
It's expensive, though: The tour price is $800. That includes airfare and the guide in Kulusuk but does not include the reservation fee for airline seats (I paid $11 to reserve a window seat on both flights); taxi fare between your hotel and Reykjavik Airport, 1.2 miles from the city center (I paid $26 roundtrip); lunch (I bought a sandwich at RKV pre-security and two bottles of water post-security; fellow tour members wished they had); the $40 boat ride in Kulusuk from the town marina back to the airport (this photogenic icebergs-and-glaciers boat ride was not part of the Air Iceland tour but was a highlight of the day); or the tip for the guide.
The Air Iceland tour was bare bones. It did not include most of the professional niceties or advance instructions that are par for the course on trips designed by my WOW travel specialists. There is no tour vehicle in Kulusuk; you walk the 1.8 miles from the airport into town. No lunch is included, nor are you told ahead of time where and how to get lunch. None of these things bothered me (I mention them because they might bother you), but what did disappoint me is that we did not get to interact with any locals, aside from our guide, the curator in Kulusuk's museum, and the cashier in Kulusuk's one store. I felt very much like the tourist I was. In my mind, I kept comparing this experience to the week I spent in the tiny town of Point Hope, in remote Arctic Alaska. That trip was far more interesting and enjoyable because I got to know the local people—tribal elders, whale hunters, schoolteachers, students, artisans, the pastor and his wife, and storytellers galore. In Kulusuk the only person we got to know was our guide. Then again, I'm comparing a week-long trip to a four-hour one.
We couldn't have asked for better weather: It was sunny and clear, which I was told is the summertime norm in Kulusuk. And we lucked out with our charismatic guide, 25-year-old Massanti Riel, who grew up nearby in Greenland, lives in Kulusuk in the summertime, and works for Icelandic Mountain Guides (the tour firm used locally by Air Iceland). Massanti and I are now Facebook friends, and you can spot him in the boat-ride video below (he's the one in a hat).
Hopefully these photos and videos from my day in Greenland will help those of you who are Iceland-bound determine whether such an excursion would be worth the price tag for you. In my case, my husband made that determination for me. I would never have splurged like this on my own…but, in the end, I'm glad I can say I've been to Greenland.
If you have questions about the trip, feel free to ask me in the comments.
The town of #Kulusuk in #Greenland is only about 100 years old. The #church (which is the spiffiest building in town) was built from the remains of a Danish sailing ship that ran aground here 100 years ago.
Last night my husband bundled me and the kids off to the airport for a surprise trip. Can you figure it out where we went?
so it is worth the money for the excursion frpm iceland?
is that all? = the museum and boat ride?
Do you know if this 1 day tour still exists with Iceland Air? Their site did no allow me to select any dates.
Thanks for all your good information!
Sweet! What kind of plane were you on to Greenland?
Hi Johnny! A Fokker 50.
Wow! Another one for the wander list!! What a treat to get to go there!
How exciting! I adore Greenland, and after my visit a couple years ago I felt it is one of the most underrated places I've ever been. My trip was a bit different, in that I was onboard an expedition ship and was able to spend a bit more time exploring the impressive fjords, appreciating the magnificent ice, and watching for whales as we traveled from point to point. Since we had a charter flight back to Ottawa, it was surreal to be walking on the Greenland ice cap one day and back at home in Seattle the next! While I generally prefer time for more in-depth exploration, my take on a one-day trip from Iceland is GO FOR IT! Whether you experience Greenland for a day or for a week, it's worth it!
I'm with you, Shelley. A small expedition ship hugging the coastline, stopping in settlements that would otherwise be very hard to access, sounds like a smart way to see Greenland.


Lip Smackers have released a few Disney themed lip balms, and more are on the way!
The makeup brand teased the next round of Disney characters to be embodies into lip balm, and fans have their theories! The original emoji balms included Mickey, Minnie, Belle, and Cinderella.
The most popular guesses for the next round are Winnie the Pooh, Simba, Marie from Aristocats, Daisy Duck, and Dumbo. Besides an Instagram post of the silhouettes of the new characters, information about the new flavors has been released.
I'm sure they will be super cute!


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Q: Godot - Loading a Saved Game I am trying to create a C# script to save and load the saved games in Godot. I have organized the information of each node (each node that will be saved) in a dictionary (one dictionary is created for each node that will saved) and all the information is saved in a txt document with a format like "gamesaved.txt".
The system is saving the information without problem in the Project Data folder. The problem is that when I want to load the game saved, Godot appears to have problems to open the File. I use something like this in my "load method":
saveGame.Open("user://savegame.text", File.ModeFlags.ReadWrite)
and in the next line I use
While (saveGame.GetPosition() < saveGame.GetLen())
to start to read the file and use the information of the dictionaries but system says ERROR!` And says:
"get_position: File must be opened before use"
It appears that the system doesn't recognize that the File has been opened in the previous line with saveGame.Open()
Do you have any idea what the open method could not be working?

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Council forced into two-month investigation to prove it IS 'gay enough'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 10:26 EDT, 24 June 2009
One of Britain's most historic cities has today been told it IS gay enough - after a complaint sparked a two-month investigation costing thousands of pounds.
Canterbury was told today that it does sufficiently promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture by a government watchdog after a complaint it wasn't 'gay enough' by a local group.
The Local Government Ombudsman - who asked for the city's council to provide evidence of how it supported the gay community - said it was satisfied the community was being catered for.
'Not gay enough': Pride in Canterbury complained the town was not gay-friendly enough, but the Ombudsman disagreed
But the conclusion the council was not at fault was only reached after council officers had to painstakingly build a case for its 'inclusiveness'.
It had to provide the ombudsman with 'details of touring plays and musicals, for example, which would be of interest to the LGBT community'.
And it had to show that it had 'put forward suggestions for small events that it might help fund, as well as proposals for other events such as exhibitions'.
Rob Davies, spokesman for the council, said: 'Obviously we're delighted with the outcome of the investigation.
'We feel we do a great deal for the gay community in Canterbury and we have always tried to support various gay events and promotions.
'But at the same time it is not the duty of any council to set up a gay bar - that's not what councils do.
'We have also spent around £4,000 in support of gay events and marketing over the course of the last four years.
'One of those events was a gay open day held at council offices on a Saturday - it was a very well attended and successful event.
'And with the recent episode of the Apprentice, which featured the contestants rebranding of nearby Margate as a gay tourist destination, we are more tuned in than ever to the provision of gay-friendly services.
'All of this evidence was submitted to the Ombudsman after a team of three officers looked back at past correspondence and press cuttings to show what efforts we have made to accommodate gay members of the community.'
BBC's The Apprentice visited nearby Margate in the recent series, rebranding the town as a gay destination
Council chief executive Colin Carmichael added: 'We have always refuted suggestions that the council doesn't engage with the lesbian, gay and transgender community and I'm delighted that the Ombudsman agrees that the argument is groundless.
'Such allegations have been particularly disappointing in light of the past funding we have secured for Pride in Canterbury.
'We hope this draws a line under the episode.
'We will of course continue to work closely with the local LGBT community in identifying particular needs and concerns and offering help whenever possible.'
The two-month investigation began at the end of April after a letter was sent from two representatives of Pride in Canterbury.
Chairman Andrew Brettell lodged a formal complaint with the Local Government Ombudsman claiming his initial letter to the council in November fell on deaf ears.
Mr Brettell, who is in his 60s, said last month: 'We do not believe the council want a thriving LGBT( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community in our city.
'The impression I get is that the council just doesn't want to know.
'I get the feeling it is precious because Canterbury has a cathedral and history.
'I think they think the gay community will turn it into Sodom and Gomorrah.'
A spokesman for the Local Government Ombudsman confirmed it had sent its decision to the council via a copy of a letter to Pride in Canterbury.
The letter, written by the ombudsman Christine Kane, said the council had 'no statutory duty' to promote LGBT culture.
The letter read: 'I see from information provided by the council that it has given your organisation funding in past years.
'It has invited you to provide details of touring plays and musicals, for example, which would be of interest to the LGBT community.
'And it has also invited you to put forward suggestions for small events that it might help fund, as well as proposals for other events such as exhibitions.'
She also wrote that there was no basis for continuing to respond to the same complaint from the activists after the council apologised for failing to send a letter to the initial complaint last year.
She said: 'I see no reason, therefore, for the council to keep revisiting complaints that have been properly considered simply because you are unhappy with the outcome.'
A spokesman for Pride was not available for comment.

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Freedom of Transnational Movement: The Helsinki Accord and Beyond
Daniel C. Turack
Initial formal evaluation of the implementation of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe signed at Helsinki on August 1, 1975, [hereinafter Helsinki Accord] took place at a 35-nation conference in Belgrade during the period from October 4, 1977, to March 9, 1978. The Helsinki Accord, though not a treaty, sets forth various principles of governmental conduct concerning freedom of transnational movement. The Accord morally commits participating states to implement certain measures either domestically or with other states, to respect, promote, and encourage human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Helsinki Accord is divided into three principal parts which are referred to as "baskets." Basket III, "Cooperation in Humanitarian and Other Fields," obligates signatories to facilitate freer movement on the basis of family ties, family reunification, proposed marriages, and personal or professional travel. Opportunities to visit family members located in foreign countries on a temporary or regular basis must be provided without distinction as to national origin or destination. Cases of urgency, such as serious illness or death, receive priority status. Requests to relocate in order to reunite families are to be dealt with in a "positive and humanitarian" spirit. Persons who are sick or elderly are to receive special attention. Receiving states agree to see that relocated individuals are afforded opportunities for education, medical assistance, and social security equal to those of citizens. Citizens of different signatories wishing to marry are to be allowed appropriate entry and exit documents." Married couples and their minor children may transfer their permanent residence to a state in which one spouse was normally domiciled. The participating states have also agreed to simplify procedures for exit and entry and to ease other security restrictions to promote travel for personal or professional reasons.
Daniel C. Turack, Freedom of Transnational Movement: The Helsinki Accord and Beyond, 11 Vanderbilt Law Review 585 (2021)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol11/iss4/1
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April 13 is Thomas Jefferson's Birthday, the third President of the USA. He is considered as an American Founding Father and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. He had a prominent career as a politician.
He was a spokesman for democracy, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress, embraced the position of Governor of Virginia, served as the U.S. Minister to France and the United States Secretary of State.
One of the major Jefferson's achievement was signing of the Declaration of Independence, that proclaimed all 13 Britain colonies to be independent sovereign states, no longer governed by the British Empire.
Thomas Jefferson was a well-educated person and depended on books. He sold more than 6,000 books from his own library to the Library of Congress after it had been burned by the British 1814. Also 74 volumes of Jefferson's library were discovered at Washington University in St. Louis. Although Thomas Jefferson is known as an outstanding politician, he was also an inventor, agriculturist, paleontologist, archaeologist, writer and a collector.


National Express West Midlands has just launched their latest TV campaign to convince people it really is 'Better by Bus', and they've done a good job.
I like the script, think the voice over has a great tone to it, like the styling, and despite the fact it's got a bus in it, I think it's quite 'un-bussy' - if that makes sense.
Kudos to their agency for developing the idea and to the client for buying it. Branding is nicely followed through on the website too.
Not sure what the brief was but let's hope the result is more bums on the seats of those buses.


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Make sure all cords and chains are always secured out of reach of babies and young children. Don't tie them together and make sure they don't twist and create a loop.
These break apart when undue pressure is applied on the chain, but after inspection can be reconnected again. Chain sizes vary so you must use the chain break connector which is designed to be used with your specific chain.
These should be securely fixed to an adjacent surface and at the maximum distance from the top of the blind so the cords/chains are held permanently taut by the device.
These should be securely fixed to an adjacent surface out of reach of children and at least 1.5 meters from the floor. The cord must be secured after each and every operation of the blind.


From the boards of Llandegla to the peaks of Scotland, the UK has some excellent trails for mountain biking and here are ten trails in no particular order definitely worth a ride!
Macca, Jake, Churchy, Griff and Dave shoot Dalby Forest - Black/Red Route + Dixons Hollow with GoPro HD. The video is really well put together and gives you a great feel of what Dalby is all about.
Neil Donoghue rides B-Line (New Black @ Llandegla) - The new trails at Oneplanet Adventure Llandegla are now in full swing.
Gee and Rach Atherton take you on a tour of one of their favourite trails in Wales: Coed Y Brenin.
Machynlleth, Mid Wales - The cycling landscape around Machynlleth is wonderful and the Cli-Machx trail through Dyfi Forest provides a gorgeous 15km round trip, with eight tricksy berms, or banks, at the end. Dyfi forest is also home to the infamous Dyfi Enduro.
Kirroughtree, Southern Scotland - One of the lesser known of the 7stanes, Kirroughtree offers some of the best technical singletrack in the country through forest and open country. Offering a relaxed Green run through Bargaly Wood or the 31km Black Craigs trail, littered with section descriptions such as "Heartbreak Hill".
Feel free to share your own favourites below.
This entry was posted in Mountain Bike and tagged Black Route, Dalby Forest, Dixies Hollow, Glentress, Llandegla, Mary Towneley Loop, National Forest, Neil Donoghue, Trail Centres by Paul Carvill. Bookmark the permalink.
Why doesn't the South Downs Way get mentioned on websites like this? 100miles of continuous and very hilly bridleway. This is surely one of the most epic off-road routes there is.
Just started mountain biking just wanted to know and good trials on the south coast ??
Rostrevor in Northern Ireland is epic. whys it not there?
Woburn Sands needs to be added definitely! Doesn't boast 100s miles but more than enough to last a day. The trails are awesome and all natural!


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Interesting Facts about the Mexican-American War — Market Mad House
Daniel G. Jennings
Oct 18, 2020 · 8 min read
The Mexican-American War is one of the most interesting and important conflicts in US history.
For instance, America's two most populous; states California and Texas would not be in the Union if the United States had lost the Mexican War. In addition, many places we think of as American today only became American because of the Mexican-American War.
Los Angeles, Hollywood, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Francisco, the Hoover Dam, Dallas, San Antonio, Orange County, the Las Vegas Strip, Silicon Valley, Houston, San Diego, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Reno, the Great Salt Lake, and Salt Lake City were theoretically Mexican territory in 1845. By 1850, all those places were United States territory and remain so today.
The interesting aspects of the Mexican War go far the beyond territory America gained. Some strange and fascinating aspects of the Mexican-American War include:
Mexico went to War for People who did not want to be part of Mexico
Most of the people in the Mexican territory, the United States conquered did not realize they were Mexicans. Instead, most of the inhabitants of the "Mexican territory" North of today's Southern United States border were Native Americans. Many of those people did not know Mexico existed, or that they were part of it.
Additionally, there were large populations of Mormons and American settlers in some areas of Mexico's northern territories who did not recognize the Mexican government's authority over them. Moreover, the British Empire, the United States, and the Russian Empire all had credible claims on some "Mexican territory."
Thus it is hard to see what Mexico was fighting for.
The United States Went to War for Debt in 1846
One major cause of the Mexican War was the enormous amount of debt that the Republic of Texas owed to American bankers.
Texas won its "independence" from Mexico in 1835. However, Texas had no money and could only pay its bills by borrowing from American, European, and British banks.
Bankers loaned money to Texas because they thought it was full of rich cotton land. By 1844, however, Texas could never pay back all the money its government had borrowed.
To matters worse, the Mexican government refused to recognize Texas's independence and was trying to reconquer the state. If Mexico; which was broke and in debt to European banks, conquered Texas the bankers could never get paid? Another fear of American bankers was that the British or French governments would seize Texas to collect their banks' debts.
There was one way for the American bankers to get paid. It was for Texas to join the union as a state. If Texas joined the United States, the federal government could assume the Lone Star Republic's debts and pay them.
Moreover, the United States' military power was far greater than Mexico's. That meant the US military could protect the bankers' investment. In addition, the US military was powerful enough to scare off British and French imperialists.
The bankers got to work and spread enormous amounts of money around at the 1844 Democratic Convention and on Capitol Hill. At the 1844 Democratic Convention, James K. Polk of Tennessee, who favored Texas annexation, surprised pundits by winning the nomination over popular ex-President Martin Van Buren (D-New York). In November 1844, Polk won an upset victory over the annexation candidate Henry Clay (W-Kentucky).*
As President, Polk sent US Army troops into Texas which made war with Mexico inevitable. The bankers' investment was safe but the nation was at war. Moreover, the Mexican War was the first time Wall Street used its' money to change American politics.
Four American Presidents fought in the Mexican War
Four future American presidents served as officers in the Mexican-American War.
Three future U.S. Presidents; General Zachary Taylor (W-Louisiana), Franklin Pierce (D-New Hampshire, and Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois), fought in the Mexican-American War. Taylor commanded the US Army that won important victories over the Mexican Army of the North.
Pierce served as a Brigadier General and defeated another Mexican War hero General Winfield Scott in the 1852 presidential election. Grant, a young officer, fought under Taylor's command in Northern Mexico and Texas.
Moreover, future Confederate President Jefferson Davis (D-Mississippi), served as the colonel of a volunteer regiment in Taylor's army. Interestingly, Davis was Zachary Taylor's former son-in-law. Davis's deceased first life was Taylor's daughter. Notably, Taylor and Davis were good friends despite serious political differences.
The Mexican-American War almost destroyed Abraham Lincoln's political career
In 1846, U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln (W-Illinois) was a rising star in the Whig Party. Lincoln destroyed his career by questioning Polk's pretext for war — the exact location of a Texas border the president alleged Mexican troops had crossed.
Lincoln's protest doomed his reelection in 1848. Honest Abe went home to Illinois and spent the next decade as a successful corporate lawyer. Lincoln made a successful political comeback in the late 1850s that led his election as president in 1860.
A Routine Appropriations bill in the Mexican-American War helped cause the US Civil War
On 8 August 1846 US Representative David Wilmot (D-Pennsylvania) added what historians call the Wilmot Proviso to legislation to finance the purchase of Mexican territory.
The Proviso added language from Thomas Jefferson's Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that banned slavery in conquered Mexican territories to the bill. Wilmot's action split the US House of Representatives along sectional lines.
Every Northern Representative; both Democrat and Whig, voted for the Proviso. Most Southerners of both parties voted against the Proviso. However, the U.S. Senate stripped the Wilmot Proviso from the Appropriations bill it went to President Polk. To elaborate, under the US Constitution both the House and the Senate have to approve budget legislation.
Wilmot's action set the stage for the Civil War by convincing many Southerners that Northerners would never let them expand slavery to the territories conquered from Mexico. Those suspicions proved correct in 1850 when President Zachary Taylor (W-Louisiana), ironically a Southerner and a slave owner, and other Whig leaders forced California's admission to the Union as a free state.*
Another long-term result of the Wilmot Proviso was that antislavery northern Whigs and Democrats left their parties and formed a new organization. That organization became the Republican Party, which is still one of America's two major political parties.
President Polk did not like the Treaty Ending the Mexican War
In 1847, Polk sent diplomat Nicholas Trist to Mexico City to negotiate an end to the war. Polk sent Trist because he was afraid Whig General Winfield Scott would negotiate a treaty he did not like.
However, Trist and Scott; whose armies were occupying Mexico City, negotiated the treaty Polk did not want. To explain, Polk wanted to seize Mexican lands south of the Rio Grande River. Polk wanted to get land suitable for cotton growing and distribute to wealthy Southern slave owners some of his biggest supporters.
Instead, Trist and Scott realized that Mexican leaders were willing to give lands north of the present US Mexican border away to get American troops out of Mexico. Scott wanted US troops out of Mexico to avoid a deadly guerrilla war he was afraid America could lose.
Thus Trist negotiated and the Mexicans signed the treaty Polk did not want — the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago. Trist sent the treaty to Washington where the U.S. Senate ratified it ending the war.
Polk got his revenge on Trist by refusing to pay him for his diplomatic work in Mexico. Meanwhile, Scott forced the US to accept the treaty by pulling his army out Mexico.
Trist left the diplomatic service and ended up working as railroad executive for the next few decades. It would be nearly 20 years until Abraham Lincoln's (R-Illinois) presidency that Congress finally paid Trist for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.*
The Southern slave owners never got the cotton lands in Mexico they wanted. Instead, northerners settled most of the lands seized in the Mexican War and formed additional free states.
Many of America's Civil War Generals Fought Together in Mexico
Most of the men who led the Union and Confederate armies in the U.S. Civil War fought side by side as U.S. Army officers in the Mexican-American War.
Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Ulysses S. Grant, Albert Sidney Johnston, George McClellan, James Longstreet, P.G.T. Beauregard, and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson all served in the Mexican War. Jackson, McClellan, and Lee all won some fame with their Mexican-American War Service. However, Grant did not.
Many Americans opposed the Mexican War
Ulysses S. Grant called the conflict a "wicked war" and speculated that the Civil War was God's punishment on America for the Mexican Conflict.
Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted "Mexico will poison us" when he wrote about the conflict. Notably, Emerson's friend Henry David Thoreau held one of America's first peace protests against the Mexican-American War.
On 23 July 1846, authorities in Concord, Massachusetts, jailed Thoreau for refusing to pay the poll tax. Thoreau refused to pay taxes to a government that was waging war for slavery. Thoreau only spent one night in jail because an anonymous benefactor paid his tax.
In 1849, Thoreau wrote a lecture and essay about his antiwar protest that became known as Civil Disobedience. During the 20th Century both Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cited Civil Disobedience as an inspiration for their work.
It is easy to see why many historians regard the Mexican-American War as the beginning of the United States. America would have never become a continent spanning superpower, fought a civil war, or abolished slavery without the Mexican-American War.
*For a good view of the bankers' role in Texas annexation and California's admission to the Union see Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850by Holman Hamilton.
*See The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson page 50 a good description of Trist's diplomacy.
Originally published at https://marketmadhouse.com on October 18, 2020.
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Daniel G. Jennings is a writer who lives and works in Colorado. He is a lifelong history buff who is fascinated by stocks, politics, and cryptocurrency.
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