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Following its recent acquisition of cult streetwear label Supreme for $2.1 billion, Denver, Colorado-based lifestyle company VF Corporation has reported net income of $347.2 million for the third quarter ended December 26, 2020, down 25% compared to $465 million in the prior-year period. Diluted earnings per share were $0.88 per share, down from $1.16.
VF completed its acquisition of Supreme in January - Instagram: @supremenewyork
Quarterly revenue at the company fell 6% year over year, from $3.2 billion to $3.0 billion. In constant currencies the decline was 8%.
This decrease was largely due to temporary store closures implemented as part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as lower consumer demand related to the ongoing health crisis.
More than 95% of VF's owned retail stores in North America were open at the start of the quarter, with all locations having reopened by mid-October. However, due to the resurgence of the coronavirus, some 15% of the company's stores in the region had closed again by the end of December.
Similarly, having begun Q3 with almost all of its stores open in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the retailer was forced to close around 50% of its locations in the region by the end of the quarter. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, nearly all of the company's stores remained open throughout the quarter.
Overall, international revenue at the group was flat, as a 17% decline in non-U.S. American sales was partially offset by rises of 1% and 6%, respectively, in the EMEA and APAC regions. The company's revenues saw an 18% increase in Greater China alone, including 22% growth in Mainland China. U.S. revenues fell 11%.
By channel, VF's direct-to-consumer revenue decreased 2%, despite a 53% rise in digital sales. Wholesale revenues declined 10%.
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In spite of the fairly consistent declines across the company's portfolio, VF chairman, president and CEO Steve Rendle struck an optimistic note when commenting on the retailer's progress in a release published on Wednesday. "Our third quarter results were largely ahead of expectations despite the impact of additional Covid-19-related disruption to our business," he said.
Year to date, VF's revenues were $6.7 billion, down 21% from $8.4 billion in the first nine months of the previous fiscal year. Net income was $318.3 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, falling from $1.2 billion, or $2.90 per diluted share.
In light of its third-quarter results, VF has also raised its full-year financial guidance, reporting that it now expects revenues to be in the range of $9.1 billion to $9.2 billion, a prevision that includes around $125 million in revenue from the newly acquired Supreme brand. Adjusted annual earnings per share are predicted to be approximately $1.30, including a contribution of around $0.05 per share from Supreme.
"Our portfolio remains on track to return to growth in the fiscal fourth quarter and we are confident in VF's plans to accelerate growth into fiscal 2022 and to continue advancing our business model transformation," concluded Rendle.


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McDonald's opens a new outlet every 14.5 hours and their mascot, Ronald McDonald has an official title: Chief Happiness Officer. When they started their first restaurant in 1940, the McDonald brothers had no idea their enterprise would one day become synonymous with American pop culture. With a basic menu and an ordering system based around burgers and milkshakes, McDonald's grew from one company to more than 31,000 in just 50 years. Seventy-five years on, the company continues to offer meals that are affordable and comforting, if not necessarily healthy, and their service is quick and efficient. They've had their share of battles and controversies but, as you will see in The Story of McDonald's, the company is taking its original offerings around the globe by successfully finding new ways around local palates. McDonald's is surging ahead leaving behind a trail of competitors and copies.
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Caironi maintains excellent run with world record on home soil at IPC Athletics Grand Prix
Paralympic and world champion Martina Caironi continued her impressive run of form as she broke her own T42 200 metres world record for the second time in two weeks in front of her home crowd at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix in Grosseto.
Caironi, who enjoyed a superb outing at the recent Grand Prix in Nottwil, Switzerland, did not crumble under the pressure of performing on home soil as she stormed to victory in a time of 32.29sec, beating her own mark by 0.03 seconds.
The 25-year-old then came third in the 200m T42/43/44 as compatriot Giuseppina Versace clinched an excellent win in 30.14, while Britain's Sophie Kamlish came through in second.
"This morning I was ready and felt really good," Caironi said.
"At the World Championships in Doha [in October] I want to run under 15 seconds in the 100m, this is my goal and I know I can make it.
"This year's Grand Prix is an important test towards the 2016 European Championships and I am very happy that we will feel the support and warmth of all Italians here at home."
The event, held in the Stadio Olimpico Zecchini, host of next year's IPC Athletics European Championships, also saw Greece's Manolis Stefanoudakis win the men's javelin with a record-breaking throw of 29.54 metres in his final attempt.
Stefanoudakis' effort saw him break a record that had stood for four years and he admitted he did not expect to be able to produce that level of performance.
"I cannot believe that I broke the world record over here," he said.
"I didn't expect such a good performance."
Manolis Stefanoudakis of Greece was also in record-breaking form as he won the men's F54 men's javelin ©Getty Images
Elsewhere, triple Paralympic and world champion Yunidis Castillo of Cuba won the T35/37/38/46 200m in 27.40, finishing ahead of Britain's Sophie Hahn, who clocked 27.96.
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June 2015: Jorgensen breaks long jump world record for second time in eight days at IPC Athletics Grand Prix
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Medal of Honor Monday: Army Sgt. John J. McVeigh
Aug. 12, 2019 | BY Katie Lange
The invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, gave the Allies a foothold on the European continent, but a lot more needed to be done to keep it in place. Army Sgt. John J. McVeigh was one of the thousands of men tasked with strengthening that foothold. He died during his mission, but his effort earned him the Medal of Honor.
McVeigh was born in 1921 in Philadelphia. He was drafted into the Army in 1942, and within two years, he found himself a sergeant with the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
Army Sgt. John J. McVeigh.
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Battle for Brest
McVeigh earned the nation's highest award for valor during the Battle for Brest 75 years ago. It was one of the fiercest battles of World War II's Operation Cobra, which was the Allied breakout of the Normandy area that began July 27, 1944.
Brest, France, was an important port to the Allies during that summer. To successfully keep their foothold in Europe, it was necessary to capture port facilities across France so enormous amounts of wartime goods could be delivered to supply the invading forces during their push east.
Americans breached the town of Brest on Aug. 7, and after extra reinforcements moved in, they were able to surround the city, trapping thousands of German soldiers who had dug in to fortify their position. A full assault was launched Aug. 25.
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USS LST-325, right, and USS LST-72 ships unload trucks directly onto the beach after being left high and dry by the tide at Morlaix, France, Sept. 5, 1944.
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City Capture
A wrecked German gun sits at Brest, France, after the city was captured from the Germans, Sept. 7, 1944.
Defending At All Costs
Shortly after dusk four days later, on Aug. 29, 1944, McVeigh's platoon was near the town and had just begun to assume defensive positions along a hedge when the enemy counterattacked. Since McVeigh's platoon wasn't dug in, part of their defensive line sagged briefly under heavy fire, leaving a section of heavy machine guns with a lot of space in front of them and no rifle protection.
The Germans moved quickly and were almost on top of one of the machine gun positions where McVeigh was. Without pause, he stood up in full view of the enemy and directed his squad to fire on them, despite the heavy fire that was coming his way. His position was close to being overrun when he pulled out a trench knife — his last remaining weapon — and charged several of the Germans.
McVeigh killed one German with the knife and was headed toward three more when he was shot and killed at point-blank range. But his heroic drive to stop the Germans gave two other soldiers time to kill the three men McVeigh was headed for, then concentrate their machine gun fire on the rest of the attackers. Between the platoon's two machine guns, they were finally able to stop the flow of men charging at them. It also gave an accompanying rifle platoon time to reorganize and hold the high ground they had gained earlier in the day.
Pillbox Emplacement
A U.S. Army tank destroyer M36 fires its 90 mm gun point-blank at a Nazi pillbox emplacement to clear a path through a side street in Brest, France, September 1944.
Photo By: Library of Congress
General Surrender
Army Maj. Gen. Donald A. Stroh receives the surrender of German Gen. Hermann Ramcke, commandant of the Brest fortress, Sept. 19, 1944.
Photo By: National Archives photo
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But McVeigh's heroics will always be remembered. The sergeant, who was about a month shy of his 23rd birthday when he died, posthumously received the Medal of Honor on April 6, 1945.
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Zara Larsson and her band perform on an electric bus in Gothenburg, Sweden (Photo courtesy Volvo AB)
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, October 19, 2015 (ENS) – The ElectriCity project launched its campaign Silent Bus Sessions in the last week of September, featuring Swedish artists Zara Larsson and Seinabo Sey performing acoustic concerts for unsuspecting passengers on the new electric bus route in Gothenburg.
The videos of their impromptu shows have gone viral and have topped 2.5 million YouTube views. See the music videos and "Behind the scenes" video here.
Larsson's new song 'Better You' has attracted a lot of attention, with half a million views in total, while the most shared video so far has been Sey's hit song 'Younger.'
Helena Lind, manager media relations at Volvo Buses, said, "'Younger' is a fantastic song that many have heard before and this version is a little bit special. 'Better You' is brand new material from one of Sweden's hottest artists."
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ElectriCity is a collaborative project among academics, industry and the public sector aimed at developing, demonstrating and evaluating new sustainable public transport systems for the future.
ElectriCity project is attracting international interest due to the CityTalk blog. It is run by ICLEI, a global network of more than 1,000 cities all working towards a sustainable future. Gothenburg has been part of the network since 1992.
Testing and evaluation of electric bus transport is a central part of ElectriCity. Silent, emission-free public transport can operate in places where traffic is currently banned. This opens up new possibilities for urban planning in towns and cities, says Volvo, the company that made the electric buses.
Besides the three completely electric buses, the route has electric hybrid buses that run on electricity for approximately 70 percent of the route before switching to petrol.
The three electric buses run on renewable wind power and are energy-efficient, silent and completely emission-free. The buses run on batteries that are quickly recharged with renewable electricity at the terminal bus stops.
An electric bus on Route 55 travels close to sidewalk tables without disturbing the occupants, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015 (Photo courtesy ICLEI)
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Eureka County responds to sage grouse plan
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In September, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service (USFS) approved and adopted new regulatory schemes under their Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Plan Amendment (LUPA).
Based on the widespread and critical harms the LUPA created in Eureka County and throughout Nevada, we joined eight other affected Nevada counties, mining entities, and ranchers in filing a legal challenge in federal district court in Nevada to the LUPA. Eureka County, among other counties, separately requested that Governor Sandoval and Attorney General Laxalt both take actions to challenge the flawed LUPA.
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Immediately after the Attorney General joined the suit on behalf of the State, Governor Sandoval's Office issued a press release claiming "litigation at this juncture threatens to compromise future collaborative efforts to implement the Nevada plan" and "a lawsuit now will chill ongoing discussions between the state and Department of Interior, divert resources from the current strategy of engagement and could actually undermine the 'not warranted' decision nearly every stakeholder has been working toward for over a decade….by pursuing litigation now, the Attorney General is acting in his personal capacity and does not represent the State of Nevada, the Governor, or any state agencies." This press release ignores the fact that the legal challenge raises issues in a manner that is in lockstep, and does not conflict with, the very issues the Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Council raised during development of the Nevada State Sage-Grouse Conservation Plan, the Council's comments during the LUPA process, and the issues the Governor raised during his consistency review and administrative appeal of the same LUPA. The litigation challenges the very same "one-size-fits-all" approach which the Governor asserted was unproductive "without specific analysis of the benefit provided to the species."
The finding by US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) the Greater Sage-Grouse was not warranted for listing as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act is certainly a welcome one.
However, just because the Sage-Grouse was not listed is not sufficient reason to allow ourselves to be lulled into accepting an overreaching and harmful LUPA. The LUPA is detrimental to our economy and community stability and provides inferior Sage-Grouse habitat conservation when compared to the State and local plans. We agree with the Governor's statement in his appeal letter that the "LUPA/FEIS shows that national level policy replaced Nevada's state and local planning efforts." The litigation's intent is to ensure the State and local plans, policies, and proposals for Sage-Grouse conservation are properly considered and implemented for management in Nevada. These localized plans and policies will conserve Sage-Grouse in Nevada and properly balance the needs of Sage-Grouse and the sagebrush ecosystem with our long-term socioeconomic stability and way of life.
Governor Sandoval's pursuit of "collaborate efforts" and "strategy of engagement" with Department of Interior Secretary Jewell are private, behind closed doors, and unilateral, without the engagement of affected Nevada counties to provide a complete understanding of the LUPA's outstanding issues and harms. On December 3, Governor Sandoval wrote Secretary Jewell and thanked her for "the ongoing dialogue…on the concerns the State of Nevada has" with the LUPA and highlighted "several concerns that still need to be addressed;" he commended the Secretary for her "commitment to work with me to find mutually acceptable resolutions." The Governor's Office press release the following day extolled an update on this "continued dialogue." Despite the Governor's previous comments that the litigation would hamper his dialogue with Secretary Jewell, his press release shows that the litigation has had no effect on his discussions with the Secretary to try to solve some high profile imminent harms. However, because these discussions are private and unilateral, they can offer no more than piecemeal, ad hoc solutions to a handful of high-profile issues, with no resolution of the adverse provisions of the LUPA that are harmful to Eureka County and rural Nevada.
The "resolutions" being reported by the Governor's Office do not even mention the two top threats to Sage-Grouse – fire and invasive species. Nowhere is there mention of adequate measures to address the impacts on ranches from unnecessary restrictions, or the major threat of catastrophic fire due to increased fuels which result from reduced grazing. While there may be updated state maps forthcoming that Secretary Jewell committed to use with the LUPA, until we have a chance to see and review these maps, it is premature to claim they offer relief. In addition, the data for these maps were gathered prior to execution of the Record of Decision (ROD) on the LUPA but never disclosed to the public or Eureka County during the LUPA process even though we were a cooperating agency. Changing LUPA land use restrictions and prohibitions will require more than new habitat maps.
Changing the maps does not by itself change the LUPA. Former Nevada BLM State Director Lueders, during the November hearing on a Motion for Preliminary Injunction, testified that BLM would consider site-specific information for projects, but formal changes to maps impacting the area of a project likely would require NEPA analysis, and probably a LUPA amendment. Because the Nevada State Plan map is a landscape-scale map, the decision process for projects in concert with this map require site-specific habitat data, which is much different than the way the LUPA uses this map. Using the Nevada State Plan map without the underlying State Plan decision process is not a solution. The Nevada map defines management categories and was not meant to be used as hard-and-fast habitat designations to impose land use restrictions as it is being misused in the LUPA. The Governor may want the process outlined in the State Plan to be the process used by our federal partners, but that is not possible without a change to the LUPA's reliance upon maps to identify land use allocations and management actions. For example, federal land disposal is critical to Nevada communities that are surrounded by public lands. Even if new maps fix the error of depicting already developed areas as habitat, without a change to the LUPA, most lands previously identified for disposal may remain unavailable for acquisition and interfere with community development plans, including long term infrastructure needs. The LUPA hampers and may preclude Eureka County's ability to implement a rational water management plan. We have to address our water needs to supply two-thirds of the population of Eureka County in addition to industrial needs.
The LUPA restricts viable options for infrastructure emplacement, for alternative land uses to reduce groundwater allocations, and restricts our plans to transfer water from undeveloped areas to the needs of citizens, farms, and mines.
Another concern is the true value of assurances Secretary Jewell has made to the Governor about preservation of valid existing rights. Many rights that are on federally administered lands, such as RS 2477 roads, RS 2339 water storage and movement rights-of-way, and vested water rights are not recognized by federal agencies as valid because many of these rights have not been formally adjudicated in court. Even before the LUPA these rights have been impaired. Any assurances made using the right catch-phrase ("subject to valid existing rights") should not be accepted as sufficient without a clear and confirmed understanding of these rights.
Negotiations by the Governor may legitimize a legally flawed process and may set a dangerous precedent for future land planning and management by the BLM and USFS for the 86% of land federally managed in Nevada. The time and proper process to get a LUPA right is before the Record of Decision is signed.
Unfortunately, before the Record of Decision, BLM and USFS chose to ignore the bulk of State and county input, and chose not to incorporate any meaningful portions of State and local plans, policies, and proposals for Sage-Grouse conservation. Now, outside and beyond any proper process, steps taken by the Governor to initiate post-decision negotiations may be wide open to challenge by any interests, including interests with ideologies counter to what is best for Nevada. The avenue made available by federal law—primarily the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process—to get the State Plan and county plans and policies for SageGrouse conservation implemented, was during the development of the LUPA, not after. Federal laws and regulations contain mandates for coordination and consistency with State and local plans, policies, controls, and programs. We identified concerns during the development of the LUPA, and offered valid proposals throughout the process. We continue to express our concern the MOU we have with the BLM was not being followed; we were not granted full authority as a cooperating agency. Litigation is therefore necessary; we cannot go back to the drawing board and coordinate to find solutions without restarting the process to ensure it is carried out as intended, and as required by law. It is simply impossible, as well as counter to a legally acceptable process, for the Governor to address the legion of outstanding concerns and issues through a post-process, private and unilateral dialogue.
The Governor's post-process negotiation and our litigation highlight there is consensus among the Governor, Attorney General, local government, and public land users the LUPA is flawed and requires modification. While we may all agree the process by which the LUPA was created and the final product are flawed, the Governor may disagree that attempts to fix it outside the legal confines of proper process are legally and practically questionable. However, we should all consider that Governor Sandoval is not going to be the Governor of Nevada, and Secretary Jewell is not going to be Secretary of Interior, for the life of the LUPA. How many individual closed-door meetings addressing problems piecemeal, rather than getting to the heart of the flawed process, can we expect? Do we really believe meetings with selective agendas in private are the solution?
The State of Nevada must consolidate its efforts in a carefully coordinated manner that includes Governor Sandoval, Attorney General Laxalt, Nevada counties, and affected users, to challenge the entire volume of outstanding issues and harms stemming from the LUPA. The LUPA problems need to be addressed through a proper process, for all of Nevada, once-and-for-all, and not on an ad hoc, one-byone basis for only the most high-profile issues. Such a process excludes the bulk of Nevada and leaves many Nevada counties and public land users with great uncertainty about their futures. The Governor apparently has been promised some expedited but as of yet unclear and unproven administrative process for a select number of high profile harms. Instead, focus should be placed upon a global solution to address the significant flaws in the LUPA, perhaps by expedited action to commence a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to provide the public and the affected counties their opportunity to participate—an opportunity that has to date been denied.
We urge Governor Sandoval to be much more transparent in his efforts to correct the LUPA, engage in principled discussions with Nevada counties and public land users in a common path forward, and change his direction by supporting the Nevada legal challenge to ensure a proper process is followed and the final outcome provides deference to the State and local plans for Sage-Grouse conservation for all Nevadans.
The Eureka County Natural Resources Advisory Commission was created in November 1993 to assist the Eureka County Commission with issues and involvement relating to public lands and natural resources, including water quantity and quality, air space and air quality, wild horses, wildlife, grazing allotments, mining, and recreation. The Board consists of 9 members representing ranching, farming, mining, wildlife, business and recreation.
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Q: How to wait for Word Object to complete? I'm trying to run a VBScript to do some operations within a Word file (heavy).
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When this script is called from the command line, there is no way to tell when it has completed as it runs "asynchronously".
How do I wait for process completion?

A: Try WScript.Echo Now() at the top and bottom of the script; you'll see the code runs synchronously. When you get the second message box, instead of clicking OK, check for the file you're saving as; it will be present.

A: You seem to be running the script with wscript.exe. Use cscript.exe to run VBScripts synchronously from a console or batch script.
cscript.exe //NoLogo "C:\path\to\your.vbs"


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Q: Firefox (and only Firefox) can't load some websites when using WiFi, works with LAN I'm trying to debug this connection issue with some websites (facebook or youtube for example): www.facebook.com loads correctly on Edge o Chrome on my laptop, using wifi OR lan connection, connecting to the same AP Router that connects to my ADSL modem. If I use Firefox, with LAN, works the same, fine. If I use Firefox, over wifi, can't load facebook.com (or youtube.com, or others).
Can't find a reason. There should be no difference between wifi or lan, and there isn't, for Edge and Chrome. But there is, for Firefox. I tried to look for all the possibile settings, but can't find any difference.
How can I debug this? Tried tracert and nslookup of www.facebook.com , with wifi and lan, and are exactly the same, as expected. Erased cache in Firefox (but why?), and tried a Firefox Portable version, for a completely virgin installation, and have the same problem. Firefox version is the latest 92.0.1, but I've been having this issue for months now. I tried to connect to other wifi networks, office, phone hotspot, and always the same behavior. Everything ok with Edge or Chrome, nothing loads with Firefox with certain websites.
What else can I do to debug this issue? Is there some settings in Firefox that can detect the connection type and change its behavior?
UPDATE3:
I tried to route traffic through Fiddler to debug the issue, and discovered that when using Fiddler as a proxy, with wifi, Firefox works fine.
Firefox,Edge,Chrome over LAN, all work (load all sites)
Edge, Chrome over wifi all work, Firefox has problems
Firefox over wifi with Fiddler works
UPDATE2:
I've tested my laptop with another wifi network, and facebook.com (and the other sites not working) works.
So with Firefox I can load Facebook.com on my home lan, my office lan, my office wifi, but NOT my home wifi.
With Edge or Chrome, works in any situation.
I'd really like to debug this issue.
It's not a matter of facebook.com ,I'm using it as an example, many other websites doesn't work.
UPDATE1:

www.facebook.com loaded with Firefox on LAN

www.facebook.com NOT loaded with Firefox on wifi

www.facebook.com loaded with Edge on wifi


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Beach House On Their New Album 7 and Capturing the Dark Side of Glamour
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
by Quinn Moreland
Across scripture and cosmology alike, the number seven symbolizes virtue and divine perfection. When Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally were considering titles for their seventh record as Beach House, the numeral called out to them. "It has this singularity, it's standing alone in space the way a '1' does," Legrand tells me on a recent evening in New York. "It's sort of pointing in a direction, but you don't know where. '7' contains everything that words could not for this album."
The record is one of rebirth, and easily the Baltimore duo's most apparent sonic departure since 2012's Bloom. "We felt an excitement working on it that felt much more intense and visceral than it had in a bunch of years," Scally says. For the first time since their 2010 breakout Teen Dream, Legrand and Scally chose not to work with their longtime co-producer Chris Coady. Instead they teamed up with Spacemen 3's Peter Kember, aka Sonic Boom, who encouraged them to follow their whims to see where they could lead. "We were letting creativity have full rein, with no anxiety of, 'Will this be able to be reproduced live in concert?,'" Legrand adds.
Such practicalities are not necessarily Beach House's strong suit. Their magic as a band has always centered around Legrand and Scally's ongoing exchange of inspirations and ideas. Perhaps why they've worked so well, for so long, is because they are in some ways spiritual foils; you can see this on a small scale as we sip drinks at a Manhattan hotel bar, Scally cocooned in a black hoodie while Legrand emphatically pierces the air with her bejeweled hands. "It's just this conversation that's always happening, even in times of nothingness," Legrand says of their process. "We've been very lucky that the muse hasn't gone away." On 7, the muse appears in dying stars, decaying beauty, and elusive dreams. It is a striking reminder that within beauty, there is almost always an element of terror.
Pitchfork: You transformed your Baltimore practice space into a home studio to make this album. Were there any special objects that you had around while recording, like talismans?
Victoria Legrand: Oh, yeah, we're surrounded by them. The space is full of endless junk from tour. It's organized, but it's definitely like a museum, a hall of life. When we were in Louisiana for the last two records [recording at the Studio in the Country], we had this incredible ring of all of our organs and keyboards, so they create an energy field on their own.
Alex Scally: I think the individual sounds become talismans in their own right because so much of our music is based around the inspiration and obsession that comes with the sounds themselves. Before tour, we record all the sounds into our weird supercomputer organ, and they're all there with us there every night.
You mentioned earlier that your co-producer Sonic Boom helped you break through certain patterns in your songwriting. Bringing a new person into such a defined set of sounds, what does that add?
AS: Breaking the kind of chord progressions or melodies that happen to come out of us when we write together would have to be a very intentional thing, whereas our M.O. has always been to have everything be as natural as possible. We really like messiness in music. I remember past moments in the studio where something would be really messy and off kilter, and I think we're used to having someone around to be like, "You can't do that, no one can hear anything going on in the music." But there's a certain kind of creative energy that happens when there's not a negative mood in the studio, you know?
VL: Yeah, it's like you're all high and no one's bringing it down.
AS: I think that freeness can be bad for people who aren't good at setting parameters, but the way we make music already has limitations because it's just the two of us, so it's actually really good to have this no-parameter kind of mentality.
VL: When you think of like a movie about the music industry, there's always that controlling producer guy. We've never been a band that's wanted to work with that kind of producer. That's going to be toxic, and games are going to get played, and egos are going to get thrown around. With Peter, we never felt like that. There was a silent encouragement to be constantly open to things. It was a spirit of, "Even if it's foolish, it's probably a great idea."
AS: During the sessions, we always reserved the last day at the recording studio to just fuck with stuff. Often it didn't lead to anything, but a couple of times, it led to incredible tiny things that were wonderful cherries on the top.
Can you give me an example?
AS: A really good one is "Drunk in LA." There's this really weird sound going throughout that song that's kind of hiccuping along. Peter filtered the drum machine through the organ and made that happen. It's a minor feature in the overall song structure, but it does so much in this one way.
If you were making a mood board for 7, what would be on it?
VL: I'd have Warhol's Factory, Edie Sedgwick, and Nico. I would have pop art in general, which a lot of the album's artwork references.
AS: The Left Hand of Darkness, the Ursula K. Le Guin book. Rest in peace.
VL: There's a certain amount that is not sci-fi, per se, but some kind of pre-apocalyptic unrest. Glamour and destruction mixed with youth and nighttime and black cars and The Left Hand of Darkness. If you tie the Warhol Factory to these kind of more abstract and futuristic things, there's some crazy hybrids that you get.
What fascinates you about the Factory and Nico?
VL: The big thing for me is on an abstract level. It's the striking qualities, the black and the white. It's the darkness and the vanishing and the certain sadness to it all.
AS: The beautiful, comet-like burnout.
"Drunk in LA" reminds me of the Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties," this idea that behind such coveted glamour is often melancholy. Do you find yourself drawn to those sorts of characters?
VL: There's a lot of imagery throughout the record, like the shooting stars on "Woo," that could be related to that kind of thing. Like an old starlet sitting in a bar in the dark by herself, someone who maybe had an insane life that no one will know about because there's no one to talk to but themselves now. I think the song's title symbolizes the darkness of L.A., but it's more of a poetic acknowledgement of the L.A. of the mind. The actual place too, but we're aware of the glamour from an outside perspective.
AS: It's a dark, empty pursuit to search to be loved by everyone. It makes me feel a bit weird saying this, but I'm the first person to hear the lyrics Victoria writes, and those ["Drunk in LA"] are my favorite. When she unveiled those lyrics, it was just like, "holy crap." It's just like each one is whip lashing you around all these abstract sensory places.
There are several reasons that the album is called 7, some very literal, like that it's your seventh record and you've released 77 songs. But your fans have a lot of theories about Beach House numerology. They have noticed patterns in your releases, like that the Sup Pop listing for this record is SP1240, which adds up to 7.
AS: The record's issue number for Bella Union, our European label, is 777. "Lemon Glow" came out on 2/14. "Dive" came out on March 7, and "Dark Spring" on April 3 so 4+3=7.
VL: There's randomness and then there's coincidence. The two are constantly nipping at each other's heels.
AS: We spend a lot of time creatively making mountains out of nothingness. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that.
VL: Things keep blaring out at you and I think being able to listen to those signs is a fundamental part of the creative process. I feel like there's a reason why this record happened. We're about to find out when we go on tour what it means to people, if it means anything at all. I think there's a whole lot of electricity to keep unlocking.
The beat on "Lemon Glow" feels totally new for Beach House—it's clubby, even slightly reminiscent of trap music. Can you tell me the story behind it?
AS: It's a shitty '90s drum machine that we found in L.A. in like 2012. [Scally finds the beat on his phone, labeled "dyslexia" and plays the demo.] We were messing around one time and Victoria made this beat. When we go to find a beat to go along with something, you just have all these toys you've been collecting for a million years, but that beat just made us feel real excited. Then the whole song was getting really confusing and filled up with high sounds, so we felt like we needed to anchor it, and we ended up putting like an 808 in there, which is just really deep, so that's how the beat developed. The beat does this thing where it's like do do do do do do do do, and that was a Sonic Boom addition.
VL: Talking about music frequently ends up in onomatopoeia.
With so much of this record circling around the idea that there's beauty in terror, light somewhere in the darkness, have you two been living in that viewpoint yourselves?
VL: I think being creative and falling in love with things and feeling alive are so important, now more than ever. You don't get to control how much darkness or light exists in the universe, they're inherently part of the fabric of everything. But we all need art and dancing and joy. 2017 was a very strange year, but I will always think of it as one of my favorites. We were just working and having fun and experimenting. I see no better way to be spending life on the planet than to be playing with things in your life. You have to do something, and our doing is making music. We're not politicians, we're not orators. I don't think we're lunatics necessarily—
AS: We're not far.
VL: I mean, we're all controlled by the moon.


The generic diagnosis of Nagmia Nagaty, 1930, is emended to include species having some vitelline follicles extending into the extracecal space. Two new species belonging in the genus are described from the Gulf of California: Nagmia rodmani n. sp. From the body cavity of the giant electric ray, Narcine entemedor Jordan and Starks, 1895, and Nagmia cisloi n. sp. from the body cavity of the smoothtail mobula, Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908). Both species are distinguished from each other and the 13 other known congeners by the number of testicular follicles, ratio of widths of oral sucker to ventral Sucker, and position of the vitelline follicles relative to the ceca. Nagmia rodniani is distinct based oil the combined features: 12-17 follicles per testis, sucker width ratio of 1:1.7-2.0, vitelline follicles extending into the extracecal space, and the excretory vesicle being I-shaped and lacking perpendicular lateral branches along the main stem. Nagmia cisloi is distinct based on the combined features: 23-26 follicles per testis, body measuring 13.4 mm long by 14.6 mm wide, eggs measuring 47-48 pin long by 43-47 mu m wide, and the excretory vesicle is I-shaped and has lateral perpendicular branches along the main stem. Supplemental data are provided for the anaporrhutine species Probolitrema richiardii (Lopez, 1888) collected front a variety of rays in the Gulf of California. Our specimens are indistinguishable from those described as Probolitrema californiense Stunkard, 1935, and Probolitrema mexicana Markell (1956), both of which previously had been synonymized under P. richiardii. Checklists of parasites reported from N. ententedor and M. thurstoni are provided.
Curran, S. S., Overstreet, R. M. (2009). Nagmia rodmani n. sp., Nagmia cisloi n. sp., and Probolitrema richiardii (Lopez, 1888) (Gorgoderidae: Anaporrhutinae) from Elasmobranchs in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Comparative Parasitology, 76(1), 6-18.


By David Whinyates on 2018-11-12 - David is one of the UK's most experienced motoring writers and was instrumental in setting up the Driving Force syndication service for Britain's biggest regional newspaper group. Former Chief Motoring Editor of Trinity Mirror Regionals, he is Driving Force's Consultant Motoring Editor and a director of Driving Force Media Ltd.
WHILE other British car makers have been sounding off about the consequences and dangers of Brexit, Aston Martin seem pretty relaxed about the whole thing.
Whether, it's a hard, soft or no-deal Brexit, the iconic British sports car maker reckons it will take it all in its stride - even though it's dependent on Mercedes-Benz for electrical systems and the V8 engines which power most of the latest range.
But most parts are UK sourced, says the company, which remains proudly British, in spite of the fact that prior to this year's £5bn public floatation, its' revival had been bankrolled by Italian, Kuwaiti and German investors - the latter being Mercedes' parent company, Daimler, which still retains a five per cent share.
Just how British? Well, take a look at the sill-plate on the new Aston Martin Vantage which leaves you in absolutely no doubt as you step into the cockpit of this awesome, 195mph machine. 'Hand built in England' says the inscription.
Having taken that in, you squeeze into the body-hugging, leather bucket seat, sitting low in the cockpit and trying to make sense of the initially confusing barrage of buttons and controls clustered around you.
Hmmm⦠a little more Maranello than Gaydon, maybe, and certainly far removed from the clean-cut facias which adorned classic Astons of an earlier era.
But that's hardly surprising, for this is an Aston for the 21 century and the switchgear controls a multitude of high-tech functions. Not least among the plethora of controls are an almost inconspicuous button marked 'S' and a small switch with a pictogram of a shock absorber, both mounted on the steering wheel.
These are the controls which allow you to completely change the character of this beautifully styled car. Press them and the Vantage goes from grand tourer to mean machine to rip-snorting, track-ready racer in three distinct modes.
But first press the start button and revel in the beautiful burble from the twin exhausts. Blip the throttle and delight in the raucous roar from the AMG-developed 530bhp, twin-turbo, four-litre V8. The sound is an engineering symphony; mechanical music to the ears.
Hit the Drive button to engage the eight-speed ZF automatic transmission and you're under way. There are paddle shifters behind the steering wheel too, but in truth the Vantage always seems to be in the right ratio for the conditions, whether you're burbling around town or hustling through the corners on twisty back doubles.
And that's where the Vantage is at its very best. From the outset it has been designed as a sports car rather than a Grand Tourer in the traditional Aston style.
And as a sports car it's up there with the best. Apart from that astonishing near 200mph top speed it will rocket from rest to 60mph in just 3.5 seconds and, with 685Nm of torque between 2,000 and 5,000rpm, mid-range acceleration is neck-snapping.
It grips tenaciously at seemingly ridiculous cornering speeds and remains entirely predictable. There will be a limit - but you'd have to be very brave or stupid to reach and exceed it.
It's all down to perfect 50-50 weight distribution between the front and rear wheels, extensive aerodynamic aids both at the front, rear and underneath the car plus an electronic rear differential.
Linked to the car's electronic stability control system, the so-called E-Diff monitors the car's behaviour, and reacts in milliseconds, taking fine control of the Vantage's dynamic behavior at higher speeds.
It makes the car feel totally composed both in terms of its straight-line stability and its cornering performance and the beautifully weighted electronic power steering responds to the merest flick of a wrist.
In normal suspension and transmission modes - Aston calls it the Sport setting - ride is firm but comfortable and available power and torque jaw-droppingly good. Up the ante to Sport + and the ride firms up and the G-forces increase. Track mode? How brave are you feeling?
With each step the Vantage gains in agility and responsiveness with throttle and steering responses becoming progressively sharper. The Vantage feels totally connected with the road at all times and you feel totally connected to the car.
As you'd expect from an Aston, craftsmanship is of the highest quality and the standard equipment list comprehensive - too comprehensive to detail here. There's a long list of options, however - almost £35,000-worth on the car we drove, including an Aston umbrella at £195.
The Vantage may not quite be in supercar territory, but with a £120,900 price tag, stand-out-from-the crowd but recognisably Aston Martin styling and amazing performance and agility it's an absolute snip of a super sports car if your pockets are deep enough.


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The ACTCM Shuji Goto library provides access to a number of electronic resources such as E-Journals and databases for the campus community. Some E-resources marked with a * are made available under special license with access restrictions:
The E-resources are available on-campus within the ACTCM campus networks
The E-resources are available off-campus for ACTCM community members with a student/library ID
Acupuncture in Medicine*
Alternative and Complementary Therapies*
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine*
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine (AJCM)*
BioMedSearch – BioMedSearch contains free PubMed/MedLine publications, plus additional journals and a collection of theses and dissertations that are not available elsewhere, making it the most comprehensive biomedical search on the web.
HerbalGram – Your source for reliable herbal medicine information
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine *
Journal of Chinese Medicine Article Archive * – This archive gives you the exclusive 24-hour online access to nearly every article published in The Journal of Chinese Medicine (JCM) since 1979 in pdf format and over a thousand abstracts from the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (JTCM) – click on article title to read abstract.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Journal Watch – Reviews over 180 scientific and medical journals to present important clinical research findings and insightful commentary.
Medical Acupuncture *
Meridians: JAOM *
Meridians: The Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine features scientific, peer reviewed articles focusing on the professional practice of acupuncture and Oriental medicine.
Townsend Letter – The examiner of alternative medicine
Alt HealthWatch + Medline *
Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) *
Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for 200 international, and often peer-reviewed, journals and reports.
Natural Standard*
Natural Standard provides high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine including dietary supplements and integrative therapies.
Medline with / Full-Text (EBSCO)*
MEDLINE with Full Text is also the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, 1,450 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 551 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source® or Biomedical Reference Collection.
Wanfang Data * (Chinese)
The Wanfang Database features full-text peer-reviewed articles from about 118 different Chinese medicine journals. It has been one of the most comprehensive and authoritative resources for TCM information.
AcuBriefs
AcuBriefs promotes access to information on acupuncture and Oriental medicine with best medical practice for doctors and medical professionals.
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 220 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals.
Chinese Herb Academy
The Chinese Herb Academy is dedicated to providing relevant information on Chinese herbal medicine and professional discussion on the clinical use of Chinese herbs.
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
The Hong Kong Baptist University School of Medicine and Library worked together to create this database which includes pictures and information on all Materia Medica specimens found in their Chinese Medicine Centre.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Medicinal Plants Image Database
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Q: How to store multiple lines of command output to a variable using JSch So, I have a nice bit of code (that I'm struggling to understand), that allows me to send a command to my server, and get one line of response. The code works, but I would like to get multiple lines back from the server.
The main class is:
JSch jSch = new JSch();
MyUserInfo ui = new MyUserInfo();
String Return = "Error";
try {
    String host = "Username@HostName";
    String user = host.substring(0, host.indexOf('@'));
    host = host.substring(host.indexOf('@') + 1);
    Session rebootsession = jSch.getSession(user, host, 22);
    rebootsession.setPassword(Password);
    rebootsession.setUserInfo(ui);
    rebootsession.connect();
    Channel channel = rebootsession.openChannel("exec");
    ((ChannelExec) channel).setCommand(Command);
    channel.setInputStream(null);
    ((ChannelExec) channel).setErrStream(System.err);
    InputStream in = channel.getInputStream();
    channel.connect();
    byte[] tmp = new byte[1024];
    while (true) {
        while (in.available() > 0) {
            int i = in.read(tmp, 0, 1024);
            if (i < 0) break;
            Return = new String(tmp, 0, i);
        }
        if (channel.isClosed()) {
            System.out.println("exit-status: " + channel.getExitStatus());
            break;
        }
        try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        } catch (Exception ee) {
        }
    }
    channel.disconnect();
    rebootsession.disconnect();
} catch (Exception e) {
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e);
}
return Return;

I would like to be able to return multiple lines from the first class.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

A: You have to concatenate the output to the Return variable, instead of overwriting it in each pass:
Return += new String(tmp, 0, i);


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This second volume of three covers the events during World War I. Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food, fuel and cigar shortages continue? Will Freud's enlisted sons survive? The letters vividly record the use and misuse of analysis at this time.
Ernst Falzeder, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, and editor and translator for the Philemon Foundation of the publication of the Complete Works of C. G. Jung. He is a former research fellow at the University of Geneva, as well as Cornell University Medical School (NYC), and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). He was chief editor of the Freud/Ferenczi correspondence (3 vols., Harvard University Press), editor of the complete Freud/Abraham letters (Karnac), translator of Jung's seminar on children's dreams (Princeton University Press), and editor, with John Beebe, as well as translator of Jung's correspondence with Hans Schmid (Princeton University Press). He has also written more than two hundred publications on the history, theory and technique of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; from 1860 until Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938 he lived in Vienna. He was then forced to seek asylum in London, where he died the following year. He began his career as a doctor, specialising in work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when his interests first turned to psychology, and during ten years of clinical work in Vienna he developed the practice of what he called ""psychoanalysis"". This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an investigation of the workings of the mind in general, both ill or healthy. Freud demonstrated the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freud's ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but have also influenced the entire intellectual climate of the last century.


Stretch your legs on this 30 minute circular walk which takes you on a tour highlighting some fascinating aspects of Paisley's history.
You'll learn about some of the people who made Paisley known around the world – from weaver-poet Robert Tannahill to industrialist Thomas Coats, responsible for so many of the fine buildings you'll see on this route.
A stroll through Paisley oldest public park reveals the sight of the fantastically-eccentric Gran Fountain – recently restored and much loved by the town's people.
And there are a couple of nods to those on the wrong side of the law, with the route taking you past Paisley Sheriff Court and the former site of Paisley jail.
One of many wonderful statues around Paisley Town Hall, the statue of Robert Tannahill was designed by David Watson Stevenson. The most famous of around 290 weaver poets produced by Paisley, Tannahill's name sits proudly alongside Robert Burns as one of Scotland's finest wordsmiths. Standing next to the Town Hall is a statue to honour Thomas Coats, thread-maker and industrialist, who contributed greatly to Paisley's architecture.
The Piazza Shopping Centre stands on the site of the old Paisley jail. Built in 1821 and known as County Bridewell, the impressive-looking building was home to the old historic Renfrewshire Council and incorporated Paisley Burgh Police headquarters. The building was knocked down in the 1960s.
By the time it reaches Paisley, the White Cart Water has meandered its way from Eaglesham Moor in East Renfrewshire, past East Kilbride and Cathcart, through Pollok Country Park, Crookston and Hawkhead, before falling over the Hammils rapids and disappearing under the Piazza. It joins with the Black Cart Water after passing Glasgow Airport and becomes the River Cart, shortly before flowing into the River Clyde.
Originally laid out in 1797, Fountain Gardens is Paisley's oldest public park. The current layout and name date from the 1860s. It consists of a grand geometric layout with broad walkways, all of which lead to the Grand Fountain—an ornate cast-iron fountain at the centre of the park which contains statues of herons, dolphins and walruses. The fountain is one of only three A-Listed fountains in Scotland. The park's statue of famous poet Robert Burns was erected in 1896 and was constructed by Frederick William Pomeroy, a prolific British sculptor.
Paisley Sheriff Court has occupied the same building in St James Street since 1885 and was extended in 1998 to house the Sheriffs, Scottish Court Service staff and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service staff. In 2011, the Justice of the Peace Court relocated here too.
With views over towards the Abbey, Forbes Place was built in the 1830s with part of this street built as a warehouse for James Forbes, shawl manufacturer.
From Forbes Place, follow the River Cart back towards Renfrewshire House.


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Opinion: A solution to the housing crisis?
Rotorua house prices jumped 7.4 per cent year on year, according to new data.
The latest QV House Price Index showed the Rotorua market increased 1.1 per cent in three months. The average value in the district was now $434,253.
Tauranga home values rose 3.3 per cent year on year and 1.2 per cent in the past three months. The average value in the city was now $709,746.
The Western Bay of Plenty market rose 0.9 per cent year on year and 0.4 per cent in the past three months. The average value in the district was now $633,158.
Nationwide residential property values have increased steadily in the past year by 5.4 per cent and by 1 per cent in the three months to October. The nationwide average value was now $681,802.
QV general manager David Nagel said value growth remained modest across many areas as affordability constraints put the brakes on after a period of sustained growth.
"Undoubtedly, the heat has been taken out of the market in recent months," he said.
Nagel said the median number of days to sell was up across many regions including Auckland.
"The Super City, in particular, is seeing vendors' sales price expectations being challenged," he said.
"However, in many cases, sellers' are refusing to sell below their expectations which is keeping values either at or slightly below their current levels."
Despite the slowdown, Nagel said GDP growth remained strong and the labour market continued to perform well, which is underpinning a seemingly steady market.
"These factors, coupled with a steady interest rate environment and strong net migration, signal that the market is in a relatively strong position."
Nagel said a real positive was the continued resurgence of first home buyer activity.
He said the latest CoreLogic Buyer Classification data indicated first home buyers remained a major presence across most main centres, particularly in Wellington and Christchurch.
"Over the coming months, I'll be closely following investor activity as we see what impact the foreign buyer ban will have on the market.
"I'd anticipate the low-to-med priced section of the market to remain busy and first home buyers to continue to be a strong presence throughout the summer months."


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COMMITTEES ARE THE HEART OF SCSY. WITH A 4:1 DELEGATE TO CHAIR RATIO, METICULOUSLY DETAILED TOPIC GUIDES AND CRISIS MAPS, AND SOME OF THE SMARTEST STUDENTS IN THE WORLD, COMMITTEES TAKE DEBATE TO A NEW LEVEL.
19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES | THE PAST
GILDED AGES CRISIS 1870-1900
The Gilded Age, the end of US 19th century, saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business. Immigration brought racial tensions. Financial volatility brought major depressions. Reconstruction catalyzed a whole new approach to life. Prohibition and women's suffrage pervaded public debate. Arguably, it was the best of times and the worst of times although the chairs expect that for delegates, it will always be the worst of times. Unquestionably one of the most influential periods of American history, the Gilded Age provides crucial lessons even for today and will challenge delegates to think in those terms.
INDIA-PAKISTAN PARTITION 1947
Welcome to undivided British India, summer 1947. Sectarian violence is breaking out all across the country. Colonial rule is under intense pressure from a burgeoning independence movement. And the British are growing more anxious by the day. Will India split apart, and if so, among which fault lines? Can conflicts between the young nation's warring factions be resolved peacefully, or do these disputes require a more forceful approach? Does the country's real power rest with British-educated intellectuals, or iron-fisted regional leaders? As a delegate, you will be tasked with resolving these pressing questions, and many more. The future of South Asia, and the lives of all its citizens, is at stake. Good luck!
SOVIET POLITBURO 1953
Delegates will assume the roles of various Soviet Politburo members in the year following Stalin's death. Using diplomacy and varied power bases, delegates will vie for power of the Soviet Union, trying to advance their own agendas, while simultaneously trying to ensure the success of the Soviet Union; the vanguard of the great communist movement. In between back stabs, alliances, and politicking, delegates will try to properly address a broad range of domestic and foreign issues, creating a complex and exciting experience reminiscent of one of the most chaotic times in the Soviet Union's history.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL (EXCOMM) 1962
Get ready to partake in a world of atomic bombs, angry Cuban leaders, and questionable alliances as we delve into the Cuban Missile Crisis. Delegates will be representing the views of President John F. Kennedy's Executive Committee. While delegates are expected to know their Cold War history, expect different and complex crisis unlike those in your standard history book. Ultimately, the objective of the Committee remains the same: to avoid nuclear war at all costs.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1968 JOINT CRISIS
The 1968 Presidential Election was one of the most important ones in American history, pitting the intense Richard Nixon against the robust Hubert Humphrey. Old deals will be questioned, scandals will be revealed, Cold War crises will emerge, civil rights controversies will pervade and healthy (and unhealthy) political competition will define the days. In seating a unique Democratic and Republican convention-of-sorts, the scenarios will challenge participants to analyze and critique the players involved in the most important American political events of the twentieth century.
21ST CENTURY | THE PRESENT
The African Union is in a potential to solidify its unity and expand its power to make a difference for the continent. There are various intricacies involved in not only increasing Pan-African unity but also in developing adequate and multifaceted responses to crises that may evolve. The ultimate goal of the delegates must be to increase the sustainable development of the African continent while also pragmatically debating issues such as the Ebola Outbreak, Terrorism in Africa, cultural and social divisions in the union, representing nations and organizations that are in the African Union and involved with the African continent, respectively.
ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EASTERN ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) CRISIS
Once reduced to a superficial Cold War battlefield, Southeast Asia and its vanguard, ASEAN, has returned to mainstream discourse as a hotspot of economic growth but perhaps also a zone on the brink of political crises. From the re-emergence of Myanmar and the proliferation of Islamist terrorism to tense island disputes and refugee chaos, the region today is in the midst of serious and unexpected crises. Insurgencies in Kachin State, Burma, secessionist movements in the Southern Philippines, pirate invasions in Sabah, Malaysia. From this internal conflict comes a fertile breeding ground for extremist movements, and a ripe recruiting pool for international terrorist organizations. The committee will take charge of the region from within rather than externally and superficially as is often done to address questions such as America's pivot to Asia and the role of China.
FAILED STATES CRISIS
State collapse is a rising problem for the global community. How do we navigate the primary directive of respecting state sovereignty if states can't function themselves? How can we mitigate the consequences of state collapse on neighboring countries, interconnected economies, and the preservation of cultural heritage? What is the most effective plan of recovery? Most importantly, what causes collapse, and how can we predict it? In this committee, we'll examine a past collapse, and then run a simulation of collapse for a state currently on the brink.
MUAMMAR GADDAFI | LIBYAN SPRING CRISIS
A nation on the brink of collapse. A leader reviled and condemned by the international community. Riots, instability, dissatisfaction, frustration, rage. Libya's political climate after 42 years of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's vigilant regime is nothing short of explosive. In this harshest of national atmospheres, specially-appointed U.N. Advisory Legal Panel will try Muammar Gaddafi, otherwise known as the "brother leader" of Libya, for crimes against humanity reportedly committed in February of this year. This committee is charged with a most unusual and sacred legal task, and so will adhere to strict legal regulations and will demand the highest level of judicial aptitude from its members. Impartial judges from around the world will come to judge the guilt of a man who may or may not have prompted the mass murder of thousands–a man who ignited a revolution.
RALPH LAUREN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In 1967, Ralph Lauren began making ties in New York City. Today, Ralph Lauren Corporation is a publicly traded holding company, which through its subsidiaries, sells luxury clothing, accessories, fragrances, and home furnishings. It's a multi-billion dollar company with 23,000 employees. Delegates in this committee will navigate the worlds of business and fashion in order to lead RL into the next generation.
IRANIAN SUPREME NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
The rise of ISIS: The rise of groups such as the Islamic State (colloquially referred to as ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has radically changed the balance of power across the Middle East, placing the National Security Council at the heart of one of the most important discussions about the future of Iran. The Council will discuss the growing influence of ISIS and other such groups, determining how best to position Iran in the ever-changing political and military climate of the region. With ISIS' rapid accumulation of territory, the Council must consider targeted measures to ensure the safety and security of Iranian citizens for years to come.
In an odd turn of events, Europe today has become one of the world's most unstable continents. The rise of the far-right and Brexit have accompanied one of the world's worst migrant crises since the Second World War. Moreover, Europe's own internal economic woes have continued to fester, creating discord and anxiety regarding the integrity and prosperity of the Union. With a worsening situation in Turkey, debates over the burkini, a surge in terrorism, neverending civil wars in the Middle East, calls for a European army, troubled negotiations over Brexit, calls for a migrant quota system and various other dilemmas, Europe has become one of the most fascinating centers of debate and discussion in the world. This committee will put delegates right in the center of the discord and enable them to deal with the continent's new challenges in real time with a special focus on the migrant crisis.
REBUILDING EMPIRES | THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
"We're staking our claim. Yo, we sell when we want, where we want. We're gonna be kings, understand?" – Jesse Pinkman
Beginning in 2006, Mexico's drug cartels have been involved in a bitter conflict against the Mexican military, local governments, and more in a war that has claimed an estimated 120,000 lives. The Mexican Drug War as it became to be known saw the demise of numerous cartels and drug lords. Mexico's cartels are now a shadow of their former selves, as just a fraction of the cartels found a decade ago remain, many of which only exist as small splinter groups rather than the all-powerful organizations they once were. As the United States and Mexico get closer to ridding the region of cartels once and for all, this committee represents the last hope for the cartels to reclaim their former glory. Will the remaining drug lords succumb to infighting and government pressure? Or will the cartels be able to unite together and once again bring the country to its knees?
UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AD HOC CRISIS
The crown jewel of the United Nations system cannot, does not and will not predict the multitude of crises it must deal with, day and night, at home and abroad, on paper and in its mind. Good luck.
KOREAN REUNIFICATION CRISIS 2055
The year is now 2055. There are rumors that Kim Jong-Un, the leader of North Korea, is sick with colon cancer with no apparent heir. Due to a trade dispute in 2033, the United States and South Korea severed their military alliance, forcing South Korea to rapidly militarize. Fortunately for South Korea, their armament was successful, and they have risen to be a preeminent military power in East Asia. At a time of relative weakness and uncertainty for North Korea, South Korea has invited high ranking representatives from the USA, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, ASEAN, and NATO to discuss the potential reunification of the Korean peninsula.
MOON RUSH 2066
50 years in future, the various coalition spheres of influence of the world are eagerly waiting the announcement from the UN on a petition to the Security Council to allow the colonization of space and more importantly, the moon. What will be the implications of this decision on the world, coalitions, and individual nation states? What will the potential opening up of the frontier of space mean for man? These questions and more will be at the crux of this high-octane committee.
POWERPUFF GIRLS CRISIS
In a world in which young girls are genetically transformed into superheroes, where do we draw boundaries of justice? How do we operate a society where five year-olds are working alongside police departments and international organizations to ensure national and worldwide security? The Powerpuff Girls committee will consider challenging questions of morality and international security, while operating on the edge of a fictional world that intersects very tangibly with the world in which we find ourselves in 2016.
GAME OF THRONES | A COMMITTEE OF ICE AND FIRE
AFTER THE EXECUTION OF Neddard Stark, Warden of the North, King Joffrey Baratheon holds a tentative grip over the Seven Kingdoms. He summons all of his vassals to the court to make them pay homage to his legitimacy. However, rumor suggests that King Joffrey is not the child of the deceased King Robert Baratheon, but rather a product of incest between the Queen and her brother. All of the lords that come to King's Landing and the Iron Throne want to increase their own power, if not claim the throne for themselves. However, this could divide and weaken the Seven Kingdoms just as winter is coming…
PRESS CORPS
Today, many people's entire worldview is framed by the information they seek and receive from news and journalism organizations. From the well-known BBC and Reuters to the popular BuzzFeed and Vice, new organizations are a driving force around the world. Aside from reporting what's going on, news organizations have spearheaded political, social and economic change with a speed and authority unimaginable to politicians: Bob Woodward brought down the Nixon administration by reporting the Watergate scandal, Bethany McLean brought the Enron corporation to justice by examining their finances; Chai Jing made China's 1.2 billion people reconsider their climate change priorities. At YMUN XLII, we are bringing this spirit of investigation and inquiry to the conference through the Press Corps committee, open to delegates via application. Delegates in this committee will have the special opportunity to report on conference and real-world events from an objective, third-person viewpoint and deconstruct global affairs issues through interviews, research, and analysis in both writing and multimedia.


Note (picture above) the rounded masonry... or is it masonry?
From all outward appearances, this is solid stone, meticulously carved and carefully fitted.
The eroded surface reveals that these "stones" are actually manufactured "cells" of some unknown material.
Stairway to... where? This site has evidence of large stone rooms or chambers. What were they for and who constructed them?
ViewZone received a small sample of the cells for analysis.
More evidence of something strange!
I was looking at the images on your site concerning the Phoenician-like surface in Oklahoma and was surprised by the similarity to a rock 'shelf' at a nearby location, over here in England. We have a local beach which is noted as an historical site with a 'platform' with a block relief, very similar to that at the Oklahoma site. The platform is lying at an angle and has been partially uncovered by millennia of tides.
I have attached some photographs of the platform, to be found at Doniford Bay, Somerset, England. Some images show evidence of fossil remains to confirm their age.