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In Yard digs, there's an app for that
It's Housing Day, with snowballs
Harvard student Alexis Hartford tests the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project app. The app will let users "see" where various objects were discovered during Yard excavations.
Photo by Jeffrey P. Emanuel
Come next fall, web link will allow viewers to probe archaeological finds from Harvard's earliest days
By Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent
Date March 12, 2018 March 15, 2018
The trenches have been hard to miss. Dug nearly every other year since 2005 between the trees and pathways crossing venerable Harvard Yard, these excavations have begun to offer insight into its history. Next September, when work begins again, visitors will have a new tool with which to peek into the past: an augmented-reality app that will re-create these excavations and shed light on some of their more interesting finds.
A collaboration among Harvard's Peabody Museum, Cambridge startup Archimedes Digital, and the digital scholarship support group made up of representatives from academic technology, the Harvard Library, and the History Department, the app — simply called the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, for now — will make its public debut next fall.
Because the dig will resume again as the fall fieldwork for the Archaeology 1130, "The Archaeology of Harvard Yard," the timing will allow insight into an ongoing project, along with a deeper understanding of the discoveries from digs in fall 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2016. The yearlong course focuses on lab work involving the finds during the ensuing spring semester.
Although each year's excavation site moves slightly within the Yard, the app will provide access to previous years' work. With GPS to guide users to the precise location of each trench and 3-D overlays to virtually visualize what lay within, the app will let users "see" where various objects were discovered, complete with information about the strata of the dig where the object was found, and its importance.
"You have the exact experience of being there when the trenches were opened, but the objects are clean, their biographies are written, and you're not going to fall in," said Jeff Emanuel, associate director of academic technology, who oversees the app project. (Because Emanuel is also an archaeologist — specifically a CHS Fellow in Aegean archaeology and prehistory — he added, "I also have a vested interest in this one.")
Screenshots of the app, including images of dig sites, a library of finds, and a simulated view. Courtesy of Archimedes Digital, Peabody Museum, Digital Scholarship Support Group
The app, now in its beta or testing mode, will give users access to the object biographies of select pieces, along with essays and maps that trace the likely history of objects, as well as their social or cultural meaning. These range from tobacco pipes and wine bottles — there was "an unbelievable amount of smoking and drinking on campus," said Peabody Museum curator Diana Loren, one of the course's instructors — to bits of type. Sourced from the first printing press in the British colonies, Loren (who shares teaching duties with co-curator Patricia Capone) said the type "was used to print religious texts in the Algonquin language to facilitate conversion" of those Native Americans.
Those finds were discovered around the remains of the Old College building, the first university building in what became the United States, which dates from 1639, and the Indian College, which boasted Harvard's first brick building, from 1655. (The Indian College was established in 1650 to house and educate Native American students so they might, in turn, proselytize Christianity.)
Since 2008, "Digging Veritas," an exhibit at the Peabody Museum, has been introducing viewers to many of these newfound treasures. With the app, all that information will be immediately available and, perhaps most noteworthy, accessible at the very sites where the discoveries were made.
Loren sees the technology as keeping the archaeological experience alive. "After we leave the Yard, you don't know what we've done," she said. "It's beautiful, thanks to Harvard's landscape services. This kind of allows you to understand the process of excavation when excavation is not taking place."
Overall, the app should enlarge on the aims of the class, which Loren describes as, at least in part, "to provide a better sense of the multicultural institution, its goals in the early colony, and to have a place for that history to be remembered today." In the students' encounters with the real objects used by their predecessors, she said, they "have this visceral experience. These are students digging the past lives of students. They understand the history in a whole other way."
The project app, she hopes, will further the mission "to make that history known and to share it."
The public can experience an augmented reality "excavation" with the app, guided by Harvard graduate student Alexis Hartford, during the Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard on March 24.
Julius Wade (right) and fellow PfoHo residents celebrate being the second to arrive at the John Harvard statue for the annual delivery of housing assignments.

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Turning themes of racism and slavery inside out in service of a devastatingly clever narrative message, Beatty spins a web of splenetic black comedy and social satire in this provocative, wickedly funny novel.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016
All it takes is a daytrip past Georgetown and Chinatown. A slow saunter past The White House, Phoenix House, Blair House and the local crack house for the message to become abundantly clear. Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you're either a citizen or a slave.
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles and raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He was led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realises there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.
Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident - the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
Beatty's fast-paced, hard-hitting prose is as eloquent as it is laugh-aloud funny. He is a master of his craft, riffing on the chords of contemporary black culture with a speed and deftness that leaves his readers breathless.
The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time.
'The first 100 pages of his new novel, "The Sellout," are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade. I gave up underlining the killer bits because my arm began to hurt.' The New York Times
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award 2016
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
'A no-holds-barred satire about the history and legacy of racism in America.' - The Guardian, Best Books of the Year
'A book of coruscating satire and the darkest humour whose bilious narrative voice leaves you at once enthralled and exhausted.' - Observer, Best Books of 2016
'One of the few books of recent years that has made me choke with laughter.' - Daily Mail, Best Books of 2016
'A provocative, razor-sharp satire.' Mail on Sunday, Best Books of 2016
'Wow, the Man-Bookers got it right! Nothing is harder to write or easier to read than a full-on comic-philosophic novel that makes you laugh and think, sometimes at the same time. Nathanael West and Joseph Heller are hooting from heaven for this one. If you haven't already read Paul Beatty's The Sellout, your life is more meagre for the omission.' - Simon Schama, Financial Times, Best Books of 2016
'A deeply ironic, comically inventive and sometimes very sad novel.' - Lorien Kite, Financial Times, Best Books of 2016
'[An] outrageous scattergun satire.' - Telegraph, Books of the Year
'A hilarious, anger-fuelled cadenza that feels as if it were written in one manic burst.' - Mark Haddon, Observer, Best Books of 2016
'Bitterly funny and finely layered...[The Sellout] seems even more essential after the racially demarcated "whitelash" of Donald Trump's victory.' - Tom Gatti, New Statesman, Books of the Year 2016 *
'I was banned from reading in bed because I was laughing so much.' - Olivia Williams, Man Booker Judge 2016
'Brilliant. Amazing. Like demented angels wrote it.' - Sarah Silverman
'A sharp satire of contemporary America and an irreverent but poignant take on the country's racial tensions.' - The Lady
'[There is so much to enjoy in this profane battering-ram of a novel.' - New Books *
'Dazzling...vital and vigorous.' Bay Books
'A breathtakingly confrontational American race satire with a big laugh and a gasp on every page.' - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
'This brilliant satire on racial politics in the US is at once timely, hilarious and outstanding.' - Robert McCrum, Observer
'One of the most astute pieces of satire to have discussed the heightened racial tension in the USA in recent years...one of the most compelling and funny pieces of politically relevant fiction seen for some time- ' - Country Life
'[A] whip-smart, gag-happy assault on modern American race relations.' - Metro
'A compelling act of demonstrative rhetoric, a masterful show of verbal energy that questions just how far equality has come and where it hopes to go.' - New Statesman
'Beatty is an original and irreverent talent.' - The Times
'Paul Beatty's blistering The Sellout shares DNA with the work of Swift, as well as possessing some of the savagery of Wyndham Lewis, and the single-minded absurdity of Myles na gCopaleen.' - Jon Day, Man Booker Judge 2016
'There's satire and then there's satire, and without question Paul Beatty's caustic third novel, The Sellout, definitely falls into the latter category...Brutally honest and very funny.' - The Independent
'An outrageous scattergun satire taking aim at racism and what racism has done to black Americans... The Sellout aims to do for race relations what Joseph Heller's Catch-22 - a favourite novel of Beatty's - did for the Second World War...Beatty's sharp humour challenges pieties from all sides, while never losing sight of the fundamental issue: America's racism and the legacy of slavery. Intelligent and entertaining.' The Telegraph
'Not for the faint-hearted.' - Daily Mail
'Both riotously experimental and touching...erudite...and viscerally engaging...Exceptional comic writing makes the skeletal plotting work...Beatty's inspiring new novel about the impossibility of "post-racial" anything in America is much more than "scathing" - it is constructive.' - Times Literary Supplement
'Beatty's sharp humour challenges pieties from all sides...Intelligent...entertaining...exhilarating.' - The Daily Telegraph *
'The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' - The Guardian
'[A] howl-a-passage assault on the pieties of race debates in America...outrageous, hilarious and profound...It takes a whole other level of sheer audacity to expose atrocious things through the play of wit. Beatty plays for high stakes - but he wins. His brilliant, beautiful and weirdly poignant book knocks the stuffing out of right-thinking solemnities and he delivers droll wisdoms besides which the most elevated rants...pale into ponderous sententiousness...Juiciness stains every lovely page of Beatty's mad, marvellous, toothsome book.' - Simon Schama, Financial Times
'[An] outrageous, riff-strewn satire on race in America...[The Sellout] combines effervescent comedy and stinging critique, but its most arresting quality is the lively humanity of its char-acters.' - The New Yorker
'Hilariously caustic.' - Rolling Stone
'Scarysmart...A hell of a ride.' - Newsweek
'[The Sellout] is among the most important and difficult American novels written in the 21st century...It is a bruising novel that readers will likely never forget.' - Los Angeles Times
'I am glad that I read this insane book alone, with no one watch-ing, because I fell apart with envy, hysterics, and flat-out awe. Is there a more fiercely brilliant and scathingly hilarious American novelist than Paul Beatty?' - Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet
'Let's get this out of the way: The Sellout is a work of genius, a satirical opus on race in 21st-century America.' - O, The Oprah Magazine
'`[The Sellout] may end up being the smartest, funniest, and most important novel of 2016.' - Flavorwire
'Had we been granted a chunk of pages in this magazine to extol the virtues of Paul Beatty's uproarious new novel, The Sellout, we could've easily and gladly filled them - much as Beatty floods his 288-page racial satire with blistering comic flourishes.' Penthouse
'The Sellout isn't just one of the most hilarious American novels in years, it also might be the first truly great satirical novel of the century...[It] is a comic masterpiece, but it's much more than just that-it's one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time.' - NPR.org
'Beatty creates a wicked satire that pokes fun at all that is sacred to life in the United States...His story is full of the unexpected, resulting in absurd and hilarious drama.' - Library Journal
'As Mark Twain so ably showed us, America...is rich with mate-rial worthy of ridicule. But where is today's Twain? The answer is Paul Beatty...Beatty has written a wild new book, an uproar-iously funny, deliciously profane and ferociously intelligent send-up of so much of our culture.' - San Francisco Chronicle
'An exuberant parade of forbidden words and twisted stereo-types...It's incendiary fun with very serious undertones.' - New York magazine, "Vulture" blog
'Timely, phantasmagoric, and deliriously funny.' - Barnes & Noble Review
'[An] audacious, diabolical trickster-god of a novel...[A] damn-near-instant classic.' - Bookforum
'Beatty is funny as hell...Behind all the humor, however, Beatty asks important questions about racism and identity. The Sellout is a knock-out punch.' - Shelf Awarenes
'[Beatty] is back with his most penetratingly satirical novel yet ...[A] daring, razor-sharp novel from a writer with talent to burn.' - Kirkus
'Beatty, author of the deservedly highly praised The White Boy Shuffle (1996), here outdoes himself and possibly everybody else in a send-up of race, popular culture, and politics in today's America . . . Beatty hits on all cylinders in a darkly funny, dead-on-target, elegantly written satire . . . [The Sellout] is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and, in the way of the great ones, profundly thought provoking. A major contribution.' - Booklist (starred review)
'Paul Beatty has always been one of smartest, funniest, gutsiest writers in America, but The Sellout sets a new standard. It's a spectacular explosion of comic daring, cultural provocation, brilliant, hilarious prose, and genuine heart.' - Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
'A brutally fun read, but don't misunderstand it as unserious...Beatty delivers brilliant humour with a caustic bite, and parts can be uncomfortable to sit through...But it was unlike anything else I'd read before, at once side-splitting and thought-provoking. It's a book that forcibly ejects you out of your comfort zone, and once you're there, you're going to want to linger a while.' - The Atlantic
'It will make you laugh, but most of all it will make you think.' - The Sunday Times
'Beatty's towering talent proves there's no subject, no matter how infuriatingly unjust, how outrageously sorrowful, which can't be made to glitter like gold in the hands of a brilliant writer.' The Big Issue
'Beatty impresses hugely in this mischievous and caustic satire, which buzzes with inventiveness and iconoclasm.' Sunday Herald
'Beatty takes very little entirely seriously in this zany, irreverent take on racial politics in America today.' - Shiny New Books
'[The Sellout] is the most lacerating American satire in years, fearless in the way that it takes apart our sacred cows and shared delusions. It responds to America's tortured relationship with race in the past and the present with the mockery it deserves, sprinkling jokes steeped in tragedy throughout.' - The Guardian
'The first 100 pages of [Paul Beatty's] new novel, The Sellout, are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade. I gave up underlin-ing the killer bits because my arm began to hurt...The riffs don't stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel...[It] puts you down in a place that's miles from where it picked you up.' -Dwight Garner, New York Times
'Swiftian satire of the highest order...Giddy, scathing and dazzling.' - Wall Street Journal *
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Back in 1997, GIJoe: A Real American Hero returned to store shelves for a limited engagement at Toys R Us. There were no new figures or vehicles produced—simply a great many repaints and a few "renames" due to copyright issues. The line proved to be a success and this series of store exclusives paved the way for GIJoe to return to mass retail in 2000 with a vengeance. Much of the "A Real American Hero Collection" has been overshadowed, however, by the more recent GIJoe vs. Cobra and Direct-to-Consumer figures and so many of the figures from that '97 re-launch have faded to the back of collector's minds. One figure, however, made such a splash with collectors that Hasbro replicated him in not one but two versions as a summer convention exclusive figure. What figure is this that is resurrected with such prominence? Read on, and find out!
I'm not going to bore readers with the history of the infamous "Pimp Daddy Destro" figure—not when there is a website that covers the "ballad of PDD" in such fantastic detail. For more information, head on over to Peter Hubner's ProjectPDD.com to find out the real story on this infamous figure.
"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk." While I certainly can't see this figure walking anytime soon there is no doubt that Destro has been taking lessons from Ralph Furley of "Three's Company" on "what the ladies like" in terms of fashion. Not since the era of disco and roller skates has there been an outfit quite like this—and for good reason. Rejecting the classic black leather of his normal uniform, James McCullen – aka the infamous Destro—has opted for a more "casual look". Honestly, I can't begin to describe this uniform with anything resembling a straight face. However, do not mistake my incredulity for disdain or scorn. I absolutely love this figure for everything that it is—gaudy, cheesy, tacky, cliché, and yet oddly fascinating all at the same time. From the basic maroon body suit and black boots, right down to the leopard print collar and upper pants, this figure has rapidly become my single favorite figure from the 25A line. I'm serious—simply for the sheer outlandishness of the costume, this Destro opens up more diorama possibilities than any other version of the figure yet produced. The basic body is that of the previously released Battle Pack Destro; only the colors have been changed to protect the "funky". I can't help but look at this figure and hear disco playing in the back of my head. Simply throw on an extra VvV Wild Bill hat and find a suitable substitute for a cane and Destro is ready to "strut his stuff" on the dance floor and take Anastasia out for a night on the town. The only aspect of this figure that bothers me somewhat is the fact that his neck is painted gold as is the collar at that base of his mask, yet the more common head sculpt is the silver version. It's the only detail that hampers my outright twisted fascination with this figure.
I can't help myself—I LOVE this figure. Maybe it's the fact that Destro, one of the most hard-edged characters in the entire GIJoe mythos, is dressed in the cast-offs from Liberace's closet. Maybe it's the chromed head or even the fact that I've been listening to "Stayin' Alive" the entire time I've been writing this review. Regardless of the source of his appeal, I can't get enough of this figure. Simply put: he makes me laugh and reminds me of the fact that figures can just be fun. I don't own one of the original PDD figures from 1997, although like many Joe fans I swear that I passed one up on the shelves years ago. If you have the chance to acquire one of these figures and don't have to spend an arm and a leg—by all means grab one and enjoy him for all of his over-the-top 70's machismo. If you're fortunate enough to have purchased a gold version, consider yourself fortunate. If you've got an extra gold version, contact me immediately as I really do think the gold is the better color for the modern "Pimp Daddy Destro".


Stop looking at me! Your EYES are touching me!
Stop breathing in the same room as me!
Every Christmas, my family relies upon the passage I call Old Faithful, a.k.a. Philippians 2. It has seen us through many a grumpy moment on holidays, vacations, and—well, even on regular old days when we have descended into selfish funks.
being made in human likeness . . . .
The way of Christ is humility, sacrifice, and selflessness! Putting others' needs before our own. Forgetting what we want and what would make our holidays great, and putting others' needs first. Choosing gratitude over discontent, speaking thanks instead of complaint. When we become selfless, a funny thing happens: We get happier! We have more fun! We find joy in the midst of chaos and stress! Isn't it amazing how wise God's ways are? Our heavenly Father—our Designer—knows how we function best…and he made us to give! We thrive when we serve.
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Here's to defeating the spirits of Scrooge and Grinch and Grump, and having a holly-jolly Christmas through the Spirit of Christ!
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Ebola took hold of the media this week with the first deaths in Europe and US. Most energy news disappeared from front-pages and TV night news broadcasts. Petroleum prices slid further this week and thus what may happen in Iraq, Lybia or Iran appears now less relevant.
There is though a major crisis in the making with gas supplies from Russia. Little attention is being paid to the subject while the weather is still mild, but winter will eventually set in. Negotiations with Russia are completely stalled for the moment; on the ground a fragile cease-fire holds with daily accusations of violations from both sides.
Rune Likvern provides some needed macroscopic insight on this story, with an update to his projection for gas extraction in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Slovakia, a key gas hub through which a large share of the gas transiting from Ukraine enters Europe, is now registering less than half of the gas flow it is requiring from the Russian suppliers. This state of affairs can not last much longer without causing shortages at some point.
Slovakia could seek compensation from the European Union on potential losses from replacing what it says is a shortfall in deliveries requested from its main supplier Russia over the past month, an economy ministry spokeswoman said on Monday.
Poland, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary have all reported that Russia's state-controlled Gazprom has sent smaller deliveries than requested after the European Union began sending gas to Ukraine.
Slovakia, a major transit point for Russian gas through Ukraine to the EU, last week said that state importer SPP's flows from Russia were down more than 50 percent on its requested deliveries.
Meanwhile Russia speeds up its gaits to increase gas flows to China. Irrespective of what the press and some western governments may say, Russia is not on the loosing end of this conflict.
Russian energy giant Gazprom is ready to boost natural gas supplies to China to 100 billion cubic meters a year in the near term, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Tuesday.
"Gazprom has entered this market quite recently by signing a very advantageous contract, which will yield $400 billion for us during 30 years," Miller said at the St. Petersburg international gas forum.
"In fact, this is only the beginning. The prospects of supplies to the Chinese market, if we comment on them, are simply huge. We say that the volumes of our deliveries may shortly rise to 60 and even to 100 billion cubic meters a year," the Gazprom CEO said.
Fuel shortages are something Ukraine at least will not escape this winter; as usual, common folk stand to pay the tab left by quarreling giants. Coal is for the greatest concern in the short term.
The head of Ukraine' Kherson region has urged district heads to switch social facilities to firewood as alternative fuel, Ukrinform news agency said on Tuesday, citing the regional administration press service.
"Every district must be supplied in full with firewood. We must have our wood not to be exported, but left in the region for own needs," the region's administration head Andrei Putilov said.
The radical decision is explained by the acute shortage of coal.
Officials noted during a meeting of the regional education and science department that only 42% of schools and universities had coal, and eight districts in the region had no coal supplies at all.
And with the week closing a shortage of gas was announced as a certainty. It will be a long winter in Ukraine.
Ukraine needs to secure a reliable natural gas partner as shortages are expected during the upcoming winter, a Cabinet official said.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights this week said energy security issues in Ukraine may take on a humanitarian tone as residents there fear there could be a natural gas shortage this winter.
Cabinet Minist Ostap Semerak told Ukrainian news agency Glavkom some of those fears may come to fruition.
"We will have a gas shortage ... for the upcoming winter," he said in an interview published Thursday. "We must find this gas in order to survive the winter [and] to ensure the effective work of the economy."
MEPs are Wednesday (8 October) to decide on the five commissioners who failed to get the green light after parliamentary hearings.
They are likely to ask that Slovenia's Alenka Bratusek be replaced while some other portfolios be reshuffled.
Bratusek, who is supposed to be a vice-president in charge of EU's nascent "energy union", was deemed to have given a poor performance on Monday, with short and unconvincing answers.
Meanwhile, an anti-corruption commission at home contradicted her statements in the European Parliament, a further blow to the former prime minister who appointed herself as commissioner nominee while she was still in office.
Miguel Cañete will succeed to Günther Oetinger in the Energy Commission. His nomination is particularly delicate due to his (and his family's) ties to the fossil fuel industry. The Energy Commission seems set to remain a weak link in the European executive.
Canete's candidacy sparked widespread incredulity because of his links to the oil industry.
He was forced to sell his shares in two oil companies Petrolifera Ducar and Petrologis Canaris to shore up support after being chosen as climate action and energy boss.
But critics, including Podemos and the Greens in the European Parliament, have pointed out that his wife, son and brother in law remain shareholders or even sit on boards of the companies.
Closing the gas section some food for thought from Eni. The graph opening this review shows among other things how gas consumption has been far from forecasts in recent years. Economic recession and the rise of decentralised electricity generation have crippled consumption in Europe.
A review of the global oil and gas industry by Italian oil major Eni has raised a question mark over whether the world is about to enter a so-called "Age of Gas", with data showing that growth in oil consumption worldwide far outstripped growth in gas consumption last year.
The 13th edition of the company's World Oil and Gas Review, published Monday, found that the world saw consumption of oil and gas both increase last year. But while oil consumption grew by 1.4 percent, gas only grew at only one percent compared to average consumption growth between 2000 and 2013 of 2.5 percent.
The fall in prices still dominates petroleum related news. From the US come interesting signs of reversal, with an abatement of the spreads between cash and futures (meaning the contango structure is flattening). The US remains mostly a regional market and for now this trend seems unlikely to spread elsewhere.
As global oil futures tumble, U.S. cash crude traders ask: What glut?
U.S. futures have fallen 17 percent since mid-June and hit $88.18 per barrel on Thursday, the lowest since April 2013.
Among cash traders in Houston and Calgary, where batches of North American crude are bought and sold for delivery in a month's time based on a premium or discount versus futures, a long-anticipated collapse has failed to materialize.
[...] But glut is hardly a factor in U.S. cash markets. Bakken crude in North Dakota is trading at around $4.40 a barrel below benchmark WTI, a sharp recovery from a more than $10 discount a year ago. Light Louisiana Sweet has held steady since March around $3 over WTI. Western Canada Select, which often slumps in winter, is at a 14-month high.
At the same time, benchmark West Texas Intermediate futures have fared better then European Brent. The spread between Brent and WTI was $1.50 a barrel on Friday, near its narrowest since 2010.
At some other time the following news bit would have had far more echo. Apache, the company that owns the Forties field in the North Sea, looks set to jumping ship. The outlook is clearly bleak for this mature petroleum region.
Oil and gas operator Apache is looking at withdrawing from its North Sea fields and either selling them off as an individual asset or spinning its entire international business into a new company.
[...] The US firm is the third-largest oil producer in the North Sea, behind BP and Royal Dutch Shell, and is the owner of Forties, the UK's largest oil field.
Finishing off the fossil fuels section some insights on what is likely the most damaging policy conceived by energy optimists: carbon capture and sequestration. It essentially boils down to spending the triple to reduce electricity output by one third - what a deal!
Refurbishing the 45-year old Unit #3 to extend its life for another 30 years and retrofitting it with equipment to capture carbon dioxide emissions has cost almost C$1.3 billion, according to the company's accounts, about three times as much as a similar-sized plant without CCS.
SaskPower received $240 million from Canada's government to help with construction costs and will realise additional revenues from the sale of CO2 to an enhanced oil recovery project. But the high capital costs of Unit #3 underscore how far away CCS remains from being competitive with conventional power stations or renewables such as wind and solar.
[...] The refurbished and retrofitted Unit #3 is also much less efficient than its predecessor. It will supply "over 110 megawatts" of electricity to the grid compared with 139 MW previously, a reduction of around 20 percent, according to SaskPower.
The past few months the wholesale electricity market in Germany has been one of the cheapest in Europe. This does not mean electricity generation is cheaper, rather that traditional suppliers are being purged from the market by de-centralised suppliers, mostly solar. It is an hidden benefit to consumers, often forgotten, but also a sign of negligent energy policies: the infrastructure should be able to distribute even more renewable energy, but that would "kill" traditional suppliers that will still be required in the near future.
Germany's Photon Magazine, which also tracks wholesale prices on the exchange, found that baseload prices were down from an average of 4.467 cents in September 2012 to 4.171 cents in September 2013 and 3.479 cents last month – nearly a full cent.
[...] The most surprising charts do not show prices particularly high or low, but rather a great distinction between those in Germany and in France & Switzerland. For instance, on September 17 German peak wholesale prices will more than 1.1 cents cheaper than in France. On that day, wholesale generation was kept at 42.6 GW around noon time in Germany.
The difference was even greater on September 22, when German peak power cost 1.6 cents less than in France. That day, conventional power was pushed back to 40.5 GW has solar power production peaked.
These market quirks takes us back to the opening graph. The winding down of gas fired electricity is visible in many ways, for instance in the manufacturing of turbines, .
German industrial conglomerate Siemens expects low profit margins at its energy division in the next couple of years and could close some factories as a result, the head of the division told the Boersen-Zeitung newspaper.
Lisa Davis said the company was reviewing individual sites and it was unclear whether some would be closed or whether they would be used for different products.
"We will see low margins (in the Power and Gas unit) in the next two to three years," she was quoted as saying.
The newly-created Siemens Power and Gas division makes products ranging from gas turbines and compressors to oilfield equipment. Siemens strengthened it this year with the acquisitions of U.S.-based Dresser Rand as well as Rolls Royce's power unit.
Last but least is the sole energy news piece that made it to front-pages this week. The go-ahead to the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant finally came, with a 0.12 €/kWh tab attached to it, and to be adjusted with inflation. It becomes remarkably clear that nuclear power is no longer competitive in Europe, at least at the present stage of technological development. Requirements for such infrastructure are today very different from what they were 3 decades ago, in the hey day of the European nuclear programme.
The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday gave the green light to a subsidy scheme that will enable the first new nuclear reactors to be built in Britain for nearly 20 years.
But the EC claimed that the decision had been made only after the financial arrangements put forward by the UK had been substantially modified to save cash for the British taxpayer.
[...] There was little explanation from the EC on what exactly had been changed, argued critics. The basic deal allows the French-owned electricity generator to be guaranteed £92.50 per megawatt hour over the 35-year life of the Hinkley plant. This subsidy, twice the current price of electricity, will be paid out of household energy bills.
Closing a note on information technology. Another city in Germany is ditching proprietary software for open source solutions based on Linux. The work made through the years by the city of Munich today greatly facilitates this kind of migration, that is clearly the future of IT, at least in Europe.
"The administration now uses 300 thin client PCs, with desktop and applications retrieved a SuSE Linux Terminal Server cluster of six servers. The desktop environment is Mate. The city staffers use the LibreOffice suite of office productivity tools and the Open-Xchange suite of email, instant messaging, calendaring and online collaboration tools. Some departments use Wollmux, an open source tool for managing forms and document templates developed by the German city of Munich," reads the announcement made on the official website for the European Commission.
From an outside point of view it looks like Linux is becoming more and more popular in Germany. City officials from all over the county must see the progress made by other administrations and they are setting the wheels in motion to do the same. Granted, it will take a long time for Linux and Windows systems to hit at least parity, but that day is coming soon.
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Utah Yoga & Wellness was created by Elise Jones in 2015, as a venue to unite local yoga and wellness communities through connection, in a fun lighthearted way. Creating "Unity in Community," what began as promoting local wellness events & products for a healthier, happier community, has now grown into a family operated Yoga/Aerial/Boutique studio/Wellness Center, Yoga Alliance certified training school, Wasatch home base for Vive Juicery products, local retreats, and continued community festivals in the beautiful mountain village of Midway, Utah.
Elise envisioned a place like Cheers, "where everybody knows your name," without studio intimidation. A space for physical & emotional healing, and to utilize her education in Yoga Therapy locally, along side other wellness therapists and professionals.
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Striving to strengthen 'Unity in Community' in a town based upon this principal, Elise believes in the culmination of camaraderie, dedication, and a little laughter to achieve positive results and overall wellbeing. Keeping it real and more personal, with familiar local talent, even creating the class schedule based on community input, brings value to the details you don't always find in "big box" type studios.
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7 Interesting Facts I Discovered in Donald Trump's Tax Return
Some thought-provoking gems about income, losses and alimony lie buried in the old document (limited as it is), if you read between the lines.
by: Paul Sundin, CPA
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As Congress hammers away at its tax overhaul proposal, maybe now is a good time to take a closer look at one famous tax return in particular: Donald Trump's.
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Maybe you've forgotten, but in March we finally got a copy of Donald Trump's tax return. There are just a couple of small problems. It's only two pages of it, and it's from 2005.
But can we really tell much about his tax situation? Even though it's only two pages, there are a few details that can be gleaned. Let's take a look at some of the items I discovered in the return.
Do they look favorable or unfavorable to Trump? I'll let you decide.
$42 million on a Schedule C.
Trump has $42 million in business profit on Form Schedule C. This schedule reports income from sole proprietorships. This is an incredibly high amount, because all accountants should know that Schedule C is the most audited tax schedule. The IRS loves to go after people who have them.
The main reason is that taxpayers (and sometimes tax professionals) often have trouble completing them accurately. If audit adjustments occur, the IRS not only gets federal income taxes, but self-employment taxes as well.
Another reason this is strange is that all of the income earned above the Social Security cap ($90,000 in 2005) is subject to Medicare taxes of 2.9%. Considering Trump had wages of approximately $998,000, he was already well above the Social Security cap.
So assuming this income came from an S-Corporation (and he paid himself a reasonable wage), he could have possibly saved himself Medicare taxes in excess of $1 million. Not a bad deal.
In addition to tax savings, he may have been able to limit his audit exposure. But my guess is he is probably audited every year anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter.
Large net operating loss.
The big negative number of $103 million on line 21 is presumably a net operating loss carryover. This loss is being used to offset income made during the year.
Of course, we don't know for sure, but this may be the carryover from the infamous $916 million loss taken in 1995. Assuming this is the case, it was all utilized in 2005 and there would be nothing left to carry forward into future years.
Alimony received?
Many folks may not realize that when you receive alimony, it is a taxable event. Line 11 to the return is where alimony received would show up, and there is none on the 2005 return. However, just to the left of the line it says "STMT 6." STMT mean "statement." A statement to the tax return is where one would disclose additional information relative to that tax line. It typically contains a detail of amounts received or deducted. It may also include a narrative discussing the specifics of that line.
Now, since there is no number entered in this line, it appears that neither Donald nor Melania received alimony that year. But why would there be a statement? The only thing I can think of was that there was alimony received in prior years and the accountant just forgot to take the statement out. Did Melania receive alimony in the past? Has Donald received alimony from his ex-wives? Who knows?
Death of 'Stretch' IRAs Would Mean Loss of Flexibility for Beneficiaries
2005 was a much better year than 2004.
I am assuming this is the case as a result of the big extension payment of $22.4 million. Trump made estimated tax payments of $13.3 million and had federal income tax withholdings of approximately $433,000. But he paid in $22.4 million with his extension request.
Presumably, the $13.8 million in estimated taxes and withholdings would have been similar to what his tax liability would've been for 2004. Of course, we can't be certain. This would result in the $22.4 million extension payment to offset the big increase in income.
Penalties and interest.
Trump incurred penalties and interest of $158,000. This occurred because he filed an extension and paid the remaining $2.2 million that was due after April 15. As a result, he would have been assessed interest of approximately 3% along with a non-payment penalty of a half a percent a month.
If he were my client, I would've requested that he pay in a larger amount with his extension. That way he can minimize penalties and interest and just roll any overpayment into the subsequent year. But this was 2005, so he was probably using the government's money to chase more real estate deals.
AMT is brutal.
Trump got hammered by the alternative minimum tax (AMT). Most people have heard of AMT, but don't really know what it is. Essentially, all taxpayers go through two sets of tax code — the "regular" tax and the alternative minimum tax. They pay whichever is greater. AMT tends to trap folks with high state and local taxes (like real estate taxes).
But it can also trap folks with large long-term capital gains like Trump had in 2005. Even though the regular tax assessed 15% on his gains, AMT turned around and hit him hard. His regular tax was $5.3 million, but his AMT was $31.2 million. This resulted in a total tax liability of $36.5 million (excluding self-employment tax).
Foreign ties?
On line 47 of page 2, we can see a foreign tax credit of approximately $24,000. This relates to tax payments made on foreign investments or business interests. When these interests are taxed in the foreign country the taxpayer gets a credit back in the U.S. to avoid double taxation.
I think it is no surprise that Trump has foreign business interests. The amount paid is relatively small. This could be because he had limited foreign interests, they generated minimal profits in 2005, or possibly the foreign governments didn't tax such income. Possibly the interests were just structured differently. We don't really know.
Conclusions?
Maybe in the future we will be able to examine a full and complete copy of the tax return. That way we will be able to see charitable deductions and other interesting items. Unfortunately, just two pages of a 1040 tax return don't tell us much.
We may be left with more questions than answers. But one thing it clear — there are a few interesting details evident in Trump's 2005 tax return.
Taxes Can Be a Real Threat to Your Retirement
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Paul Sundin is a CPA and tax strategist. With a worldwide client base, he specializes in tax planning and tax structuring for individuals, entrepreneurs and the real estate industry. In addition to being a CPA, he is also an author, speaker and consultant. His professional mission is to educate taxpayers on tax strategies and personal finance.
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L'Acadie est un secteur appartenant à la ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, province de Québec (Canada), située dans la municipalité régionale de comté du Haut-Richelieu dans la région de la Montérégie.

Historique
Des colons s'établissent sur les rives de la Petite-rivière-de-Montréal (Rivière L'Acadie) dans la seconde moitié du . À partir de 1763, par grappes successives, les exilés acadiens s'installent sur ce territoire. Ceux-ci fuient la déportation de la population lors du Grand Dérangement à partir de 1750, survenue avec la prise de l'Acadie par les troupes anglaises. L'Acadie portera successivement les toponymes de Petite Cadie, Nouvelle Cadie Blairfindie, Lacadie et finalement et L'Acadie en 1976.

En 1782, le village de L'Acadie compte .

L'Acadie fusionne avec sa voisine, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu en 2001.

L'église Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie
Immeuble patrimonial, l'Église Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie a été construite entre 1800 et 1801. Son architecture traditionnelle de l'époque de la Nouvelle-France, son décor intérieur datant du début du  ainsi que sa situation géographique en dehors du village, sur une langue de terre formée par un méandre de la Rivière l'Acadie, contribuent à sa valeur patrimoniale.

Urbanisme
Devenu un quartier résidentiel de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, L'Acadie conserve de nombreuses maisons anciennes d'une richesse patrimoniale historique. L'école élémentaire porte le nom du peintre et sculpteur Napoléon Bourassa.

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Kasich Stingy With Clemency!
In his first four years in office, Gov. John Kasich used his executive clemency power more sparingly than any other Ohio governor in the past three decades. He granted 66 of 1,521 requests, about 4.4% of 1,521 non-death-penalty cases he received and acted upon from 2011 to 2014 making him the most conservative with clemency of any Ohio governor going back to the 1980s, when the state began tracking gubernatorial clemency.
Last year, Kasich, a Republican who began his second term in January, approved 17 of 433 clemency requests he reviewed, about 4 %. All of the cases approved were pardons, some going back to crimes committed more than 25 years ago. A pardon wipes out a past criminal record.
Kasich commuted the death sentences of five killers during his first term, but allowed 12 to be executed. He recently used his executive authority to push back the entire execution schedule for a year, to January 2016, to allow time for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to obtain sufficient quantities of new execution drugs as permitted by a change in state law.
In the past 30 years, Ohio governors have used clemency in different ways, sometimes reflecting personal ideological persuasions. Former Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, approved 20 % of 1,615 clemency requests he handled between 2007 and 2011. Most involved low-level, nonviolent offenses, but he did commute five death-penalty sentences to life without parole.
No Ohio governor in modern history has commuted a death sentence and set a prisoner free. Republican governors George V. Voinovich (1991-98) and Bob Taft (1999-2007) each approved less than 10 % of the clemency requests they received. Gov. James A. Rhodes, a Republican, approved 17.5 % of clemencies in 1982, his last year in office.
Democrat Richard F. Celeste, governor from 1983 to 1991, used his clemency power most liberally, commuting the death sentences of eight killers on Death Row in his next to last day in office. He also granted clemency to 25 female prisoners, reasoning they were victims of "battered-woman syndrome" and deserved mercy.
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If you feel passionate enough about the success of your own book to commit to working in both of these areas then we will support you every step of the way. We will guide you through the jungle, show you how it all works and equip you with the tools you need. However if you feel unable to engage in both of these areas then we will quite understand but unfortunately we will not be the publisher you are seeking.
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Tips for getting your manuscript noticed.
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Q: Is there a way to recover erased code in a source-controlled project(TFS)? I'm working on a project in Visual Studio 2012, that's hosted on TFS.Any way, I don't know if it's due to lack of sleep or sheer carelessness, when trying to move one large function body from one file to another, I copied the declaration to the new file, but forgot to copy the body and then erased the body from the old one, clicked save by reflex and closed the first .cpp file, so when I pasted it in the second one, to my surprised I pasted the declaration and not the definition.Undo pending changes would only undo the 'Add' alltogether.Is there ANY way to retrieve the lost source or should I start rewriting it ASAP?Because I spend quite a while writing it.

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This obviously assumes you've checked it in at some point.

A: Under Visual Studio you have several levels of Copy / Paste, so you could have retrieved it by pressing CtrlAltIns (if I remember well).
If you still haven't closed Visual Studio, it might still be in your Copy / Paste ring, it might be worth giving it a try.
Otherwise, you can always rollback to a previous check-in state in your TFS server (if you checked in the code you want before you deleted it).
First, check-in your current state to the server. Then rollback to the previous version that had your code (right click your solution, then Source Control -> Get Specific Version). Now copy your code in a side editor. Re-go to the latest version (Get latest Version... on your solution). Now re-paste your code at the right place and you're done.

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Vote Counting Finishes in Fiji Election With No Clear Winner
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—Vote counting finished in Fiji's general election Sunday but there was no clear winner, and various political parties are now negotiating to form a coalition government.
The election had pitted two former coup leaders against each other.
Sitiveni Rabuka, who led a coup back in 1987 and later served as an elected prime minister in the 1990s, emerged as the main challenger to Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who has held power for the past 16 years.
Rabuka's People's Alliance Party and allies the National Federation Party won about 45 percent of the vote combined. Bainimarama's Fiji's First party, meanwhile, won about 43 percent.
That has left both sides seeking to form a coalition with the Social Democrat Liberal Party.
The liberal party's general secretary Lenaitasi Duru told media they were having meetings with both sides.
"The first round of negotiations was done yesterday," Duru said. "We are expecting more negotiations later this afternoon."
He said the party's priorities included indigenous affairs and education.
"Right now we're sitting in the middle," Duru said. "We're watching and waiting for what is on offer, then we'll make the decision based on what's best for the nation."
Earlier, on Friday, Rabuka's party and four others had said they were launching a nationwide petition because they had no faith in the integrity of election officials.
But an international group that monitored the election said Friday it did not observe any voting irregularities and the process was transparent and credible.
Rebekha Sharkie, an Australian lawmaker and co-chair of the 90-strong Multinational Observer Group, told reporters in Fiji they had unrestricted access to the election process and didn't observe any irregularities. She said the group had assessed that Fijians were able to vote freely.
Rabuka's concerns came after his party had been leading in preliminary results posted online after polls closed, but then the results app stopped working.
Election officials said they'd found an anomaly in the system and needed to reload the results. When the next batch of results was posted, Bainimarama's party was in front.
Election officials later stopped their provisional count and switched to a final count.
Bainimarama first seized the top job by force in 2006 and later refashioned himself as a democratic leader by introducing a new constitution and winning elections in 2014 and again in 2018.
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Long Before McCandless, John Hornby Tested Himself in Northern Canada—and Failed
by Brook Sutton | Jan 13, 2022 | Historical Badass | 5 comments
By Brook Sutton | January 13, 2022
In early spring, caribou cows from the Barren Ground herds migrate from the boreal forests of Canada to their calving grounds on the northern, open tundra of the Northwest Territories and flanks of the Hudson Bay. The bull caribou set a more leisurely pace north, with less to lose and more energy to protect themselves from the wolves that hunt along the tree lines.
When the calves are one to two months old, they retreat south with their mothers to meet up with the bulls. These new groups are called bunches, and they can include tens of thousands of caribou. The bunches gather in the middle of Canada's Barren Grounds (the Barrens), a vast, mosquito-laden, black fly paradise of tundra. From here, the herds continue en masse toward overwintering grounds in the forests. For generations, indigenous people who rely on caribou meat to survive, have known that the July and August bunches are the prime hunting opportunities of the year.
Presumably, Englishman John Hornby knew this too. But just like the barren ground bulls in their northern migration, Hornby was never bothered by any particular sense of urgency.
Hornby was born in 1880 to a wealthy family. It was expected that he'd stay in England and work some sort of dull, socially acceptable job, and that'd be it. But while it doesn't appear that Hornby had a particularly deep thirst for adventure, it does seem he had a particular distaste for the trappings of society.
He answered his own need for solitude when he discovered the vast expanse of the sub-arctic desolation of the Barrens, in Canada. His first encounter was on a trip to visit relatives in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1903. By 1904, he moved there. Minus a few quick trips back to England and a stint fighting in World War I, it is assumed that he lived primarily alone in the Canadian wilderness, largely off the land, from 1908 through the rest of his life. He became a proficient hunter, angler, and trapper. Though for the most part, he wasn't above traveling to Edmonton to resupply his provisions.
Unlike the stereotypical hermits of lore, Hornby was neither a grumpy misanthrope nor a militant survivalist. Nearly everyone said they enjoyed his company. He was a likable guy. His lifestyle choices seem to have been motivated more by an appreciation for minimalism than by some deep-seated need to prove himself. Unfortunately, while an attitude that tilts toward laissez-faire can be fun socially, it can also be your undoing in one of the harshest landscapes on earth.
Most of what we know about Hornby we know from the people who accompanied him on his long-term adventures. Frankly, adventures is probably a misnomer for the more apt term, "experiments." One such experiment was with James Critchell-Bullock in 1924.
Hornby and Critchell-Bullock set out to overwinter south of the Arctic Circle near Hudson Bay. Though the full list of provisions has been disputed, it appears the duo had plenty of guns and ammunition, flour, tea, and most importantly, a dog team. Their shelter has been described as a cave, or perhaps, just an excavated pit. At first, hunting and trapping was plentiful enough. The duo's success dwindled through the winter and the springtime trip home. They were malnourished and up against brutal spring blizzards. One by one, their dogs died or needed to be put down. The three-and-a-half month trip home by canoe, with freezing waters and mosquito-ravaged portages, pushed them to the brink of starvation.
At first, Critchell-Bullock came away from that trip wary of the man he once revered as the ultimate frontiersman. Later, he would recall him with fondness. Hornby came away from it as though their experience was par for the course. They survived, therefore, the experiment was a success.
The next year, in the summer of the 1926, Hornby headed deep into the Northwest Territories once again. His willing partners were his nephew Edgar Christian (age 17 or 18) and an acquaintance, Harold Adlard (age 27 or 28). Neither Christian nor Adlard had any frontier or sub-Arctic experience, so they would rely entirely on Hornby's guidance.
For his part, Hornby took the lessons from his near-death experience with Critchell-Bullock in a peculiar direction. Despite having had reached the brink of starvation last time, he was determined to be even more of a minimalist this time. If Hornby had any concerns, he certainly didn't plan for them.
The trio departed Edmonton in April 1926. By July, they were just leaving civilization and beginning their several month journey to their winter home. July, of course, is the prime month for hunting caribou in the Barrens – many hundreds of miles away from where the trio found themselves.
Conventional wisdom in the Canadian Barrens says if you don't have your meat preserved for winter by September, you're in trouble. Hornby and his crew didn't even reach their destination, a dilapidated cabin on the Thelon River, until October.
They immediately split chores between hunting and winterizing the cabin, which needed a new roof and floorboards. By November, the cabin still was barely a shell against the brutal elements, and the men were already feeling the effects of hunger as it slowed their thoughts and exhausted their energy. Despite the lack of caribou this time of year, the area still has healthy populations of fox, snowshoe hares, and wolverine. The problem is that Hornby had opted against packing shotguns, which are far better suited to hunting small game than his preferred rifles. Even so, they managed to snag some small animals.
In a winter that never logged a day warmer than 10 degrees below zero, the men relied on daily subsistence hunting. Adlard got angry first. He was over it by December. Christian remained in good spirits, conscious that things were not going well, but ever-hopeful that his uncle's pluck would pull them through. Then the injuries flared up. Adlard's face was so badly frostbitten he couldn't leave the cabin for several weeks without agonizing pain. Hornby had an old leg injury return with a vengeance. It didn't stop him, but it certainly slowed him down.
Throughout the winter, Christian kept a detailed diary of the endless disasters and the tiny successes that gave them hope to live another day. He was impressed by Hornby – small yet powerful and as tough as the wolverines he resigned himself to tracking. Even so, they had been just barely staving off starvation since November, and March would be particularly brutal.
At some point, Hornby had managed to shoot a feeble caribou. There was only enough meat to last six days, but it gave the men the energy to undertake a longer hunting mission. They left in gale force winds, venturing as far as 30 miles away from the cabin. It was a failure. They returned home with nothing but depleted energy and frustration from such a long, pointless hike. To add insult, while the men were out hunting for their very survival, a herd of caribou spent the day just outside of the cabin. The tracks were everywhere.
And then freezing rains leaked through ragtag roof of the cabin.
Hornby died on April 16, 1927. Adlard died on May 4, same year. Christian, alone and no doubt terrified, died sometime in June. He left the instructions, "Whoever comes here, look in stove." Inside the stove was his diary, with a final entry addressed to his mother and father. It said, "Please don't blame dear Jack."
Depending on who is talking, Hornby has gone down in history as either a fool or a superb frontiersman. He's been accused of arrogance and stupidity, and has been lauded for bravery and skills. The only consistent observation about this odd, solitary man, is that no one has ever accused of him of being well-prepared.
Photos (from top): Wikipedia, Geo_Swan, and Cameron Hayne.
For more on Hornby, pick up Snow Man: John Hornby in Canada's Barren Lands, by Malcolm Waldron.
Jay Long	on October 28, 2016 at 5:42 am
Amazing story! Feel kind of bad for Edgar and Harold; wonder if they knew what they were getting themselves into.
Tim Tomer	on November 5, 2016 at 8:39 am
Interesting story. Although it appears Hornby's version of minimalism was bound to have his story end this way.
Jeff Fujita	on January 14, 2017 at 12:51 pm
I wonder about the state of mind of a minimalist at the end of his life versus that of a materialist having lived a sedentary life filled with excess. I'd like to think the materialist would be filled with regret: "What was it all for?" The minimalist? I'd like to think, "No regrets."
Jenny	on January 13, 2022 at 5:13 pm
Another book, Unflinching. Horrifying way to die.
Unflinching is by George Whalley, not the more recent book. It's the diary of one of the people involved.


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Seats in the back half of the Loge will have an overhang to keep them shielded from the sun, even when it's at its highest point. The same is true for Reserve Level, which is the upper deck at Dodger Stadium. Seats higher up in these sections will have an overhang above them, bringing shade to the back rows.
The stadium opened on Apr. 10, 1962, and only had its first rain delay on Apr. 21, 1967. Because the area has dry summers, the stadium has only had 17 rain delays to date.
Food is permitted from outside the stadium provided it is in a clear bag smaller than 12″X12″X6″ and not in glass bottles, cans, coolers, glass containers or thermoses. Unbroken, factory-sealed plastic bottles of non-alcoholic beverages of 1 liter or less are permitted.
How early should I go to Dodger Stadium?
Advance Tickets Sales within Dodger Stadium on game days begin 1.5 hours prior to game time and will close 2 hours after the start of the game. Once ticket windows are closed, tickets may be purchased at the following kiosks: Left Field Pavilion and Right Field Pavilion team stores.
Best Seats at Dodger Stadium The Best Seats for an LA Dodgers game are located in the Field Box sections behind the backstop and around the infield. If you cannot score tickets in those sections, any tickets in the Loge MVP level sections 101-136 are a great option as well.
The most recent rainout at Dodger Stadium happened on April 17, 2000 against the Houston Astros. From that date to 2018, the Dodgers played 1,471 consecutive home games without a rainout, which is the longest streak in MLB history.
For all of you that don't know what a tarp is, that's perfectly fine because as Dodgers fans, we've only seen it come out 17 times since 1961.
How much are seats behind home plate at Dodger Stadium?
Seats out in the pavilion are similarly in the "low" one-thousands. And if you're truly reckless and feel like getting up to field level, that'll cost you at least $3,500, with some seats behind home plate going for more than $12,500.
Can I bring bottled water to Dodger Stadium?
Bottles and Non-Alcoholic Beverages of one liter or less, contained in factory-sealed plastic bottles, are permitted to be brought into Dodger Stadium. Refillable water bottles are permitted provided they do not exceed 1 liter, are empty, and do not have any glass components.
Dodger fans looking to walk to a game must walk up along the road on a pedestrian path that is only marked by painted stripes on the road. This is the big question. Yes, it's fairly safe, but you gotta be heads-up about your personal safety.
Backpacks/Bags/Purses are no longer permitted. Only adult diaper bags, diaper bags that accompany infants, clear plastic bags smaller than 12"X12"X6", and non-clear wristlets/clutches no larger than 5"x8"x2" are permitted and subject to search.
1) The neighborhood is perfectly safe. Checking LAPD's crime map, there a five reported crimes in a recent one-week period with the only assault being spousal abuse. That's comparable to my ultra-safe neighborhood in southern Orange County.
Does Dodger Stadium have water fountains?
Today, the Dodger Stadium ballpark guide lists 21 water fountains at the stadium, as well as stations to fill water bottles in center field, and behind sections 152 and 153 on the Loge level.
How many rainouts have there been at Dodger Stadium?
17 rainouts
Facts: Dodger Stadium opened on April 10, 1962. The first rainout was on April 21, 1967. There have been 17 rainouts in the stadium's 59-year history.
But Dennis Gilbert is much more than "the man behind home plate" who, by our estimation, pays more than $250,000 a year for four front-row seats in the Dodgers' exclusive Dugout Club. He generally uses the seats to entertain current and prospective clients, but sometimes his guests are just friends.
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