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#43: Pink Floyd, "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973)
True, the cosmos is full of darkness, practically seems to be made of it—the emptiness between stars, dark matter, black holes. There is also the "dark side" of the moon, but it's not a thing that is actually dark so much as a cultural idea of darkness. And because the moon is tied to cultural ideas of mental illness and "insanity"—"lunacy," they say—evoking the moon's "dark side" carries with it, I guess, some sort of cultural weight along said lines. So, when Pink Floyd named their most beloved, successful, and acclaimed album The Dark Side of the Moon, I can't imagine that anyone was surprised to learn that the whole thing ended up being about "madness." How could it not be?
As if the album's title weren't enough, the first voice we hear on Dark Side of the Moon, buried beneath a building heartbeat and ticking clocks, says, "I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years." The voice belongs to Pink Floyd's road manager at the time, Chris Adamson. A moment later, even harder to hear as the sound effects intensify and new ones are added, a second voice says, "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad." This is the voice of Abbey Road studio doorman Gerry O'Driscoll. Soon, the sound effects build to a fever pitch. A third voice laughs hysterically, and a fourth launches into a blood curdling scream—then it all breaks against the shore of the album's first song, the most Pink Floyd sounding thing of all Pink Floyd sounding things, "Breathe," the song that invented the platonic ideal of the Pink Floyd Sound. But before we get to the birth of that platonic ideal of Pink Floyd, the preceding sound collage—"Speak to Me," it's called—establishes that the album to which listeners are about to listen, the album that's soundtracked a billion burning dime bags and moderately paced fucks, is, as the title suggests, all about madness and the fragility of the human psyche.
The last time I saw you was right after Christmas, 2014. You were drunk and spoke about loneliness. I wasn't drunk because I was the one driving. I drove you home to your father's house, where you were staying while in town from London for the holiday. Your father had recently moved out to the suburbs, so it was a bit of a drive. In the car, you were talking about loneliness and love. You said, "There are women who I've loved and now they are married and have kids, and where am I? What do I have to show for my life?" And I said, "You have a career, and you have friends and family who love you." You said, "But what do I have to show for it." And I didn't think much of it, not then, anyway, because sadness was nothing new to you—what was different was the way that, for your entire visit to Dayton, you kept circling the same sadness, stuck on repeat. Like you couldn't break out of a pattern of thought.
The reason there even is a "dark side of the moon" is because of tidal locking, meaning that the Earth's tidal forces have slowed the moon's rotation so that it matches the moon's orbit just right so that we're always seeing the same side of the moon. The use of the word dark does not mean that the other side of the moon never knows the sun's light, only that the other side is never seen by human eyes. More commonly known as the "far side of the moon," it's not that side of the moon's fault that it's considered by many to be the dark side of the moon. The first time the far side of the moon was seen by human eyes was 1959, when it was photographed by a soviet probe. I should note, though, that prior to that, approximately 18% of the moon's far side could be seen at times due to libration, or the point from which people are viewing the moon.
Before we go any further, let's be clear about one thing: by today's standards Dark Side of the Moon's approach to mental illness is bullshit. It's big and romanticized, the kind of garbage high school kids consider "deep." It's not about the types of mental illness we see, daily, in the people we love. It's not about the type of thing you, my friend, were dealing with before you died.
But maybe the album should get a pass because it isn't exactly about madness in broad terms, so much as it's specifically about two of the things with which Roger Waters, the album's lyricist, was obsessed throughout the Floyd's beloved run of '70s albums—the descent into madness and resulting absence from the band of founding Floyd member Syd Barrett, and Waters's own fragile psyche. That is, Dark Side of the Moon seems to have begun as a response to Waters watching Barrett—whose already delicate mental faculties were compromised by his prodigious LSD usage—and then turned into Waters railing against his own fear of losing his mind due to things that cause stress to the wealthy and powerful: the all too quick passage of time (as evidenced on the cleverly named "Time"), paranoia ("On the Run"), mortality ("The Great Gig in the Sky"), pressure to earn money (on, ahem, "Money"), intersubjective conflict ("Us and Them"), and groovy synthesizers(?) ("Any Colour You Like"), ultimately leading to full-blown madness ("Brain Damage") and some sort of vague absolution and/or healing ("Eclipse"). While we can't really expect thoughtful, grounded discourse about mental health on a '70s corporate rock album, Waters et al's approach, here, feels overly simplistic and linear, the bland kind of pop psychology that leads to people saying things like "It's all in your head," and "Toughen up!" to people who are struggling with real mental illness. It's as if Waters watched as Syd Barrett lost his mind and said, "That's interesting, let's write an album about that," but never took into account the fact that, according to many folks close to Barrett—members of Floyd included—he showed signs of mental illness long before he started ingesting fucktons of LSD and diving headlong into the road ravaged life of being in a semi-successful psychedelic rock band. We shouldn't be surprised, then, that The Dark Side of the Moon doesn't account for biology, brain chemistry, or even any kind of trauma—the album is ultimately the equivalent of two guys playing golf and one saying, "Hard week at the office—feel like I'm losing my mind." Then the other probably saying something back like, "Ditto." And then, too, "I'm here if you need anything."
While many critics look back and see Meddle as the album on which Pink Floyd finally "found" themselves after Barrett's departure, the biggest change clearly came with the production of Dark Side. Not only was it the true birth of the "Classic Floyd Sound," but it was also the coming out party for Roger Waters as the band's thematic mastermind. In the space between Meddle and Dark Side, though, Waters provided a bit of a clue as to where his vision for the band might be heading with a song produced for a little known film called La Vallée. The song in question is a jaunty little cut called "Free Four." Despite the song's up tempo bounce, its lyrics are a grim rumination on dying. At the end of the first verse, Waters sings, "You shuffle in the gloom of the sickroom / And talk to yourself as you die." The second verse begins, "Life is a short, warm moment / And death is a long cold rest." Indeed, nearly every verse contains at least one mention of death. Meanwhile, Waters reminds us that "The memories of a man in his old age / Are the deeds of a man in his prime." Not only is Waters fixated on dying, here, but he's also terrified of living, warning himself and others to live good lives so as to die more purely? Perhaps more interesting, though, is a verse around the song's midpoint in which Waters overtly dips even further into his bag of obsessions: "You are the angel of death / And I am the dead man's son. / And he was buried like a mole in a fox hole. / And everyone is still on the run." In a single verse, we find Waters's obsession with death, more specifically his father's death at war, and a reference to being "on the run," a phrase used on Dark Side to represent paranoia. While "Free Four" sounds nothing at all like the "Classic Floyd Sound" that would soon debut, it served as a crucial thematic stepping stone to get Waters from the trippy albatrosses and labyrinths and coral caves of "Echoes" (which, to be fair, does kind of preview the sound that the Floyd would pursue on Dark Side), to the death and taxes and fear that define Dark Side's thematics.
But let's talk about you for a moment, friend, because you loved looking at the night sky, and Pink Floyd's album is laced with space imagery, mostly related to the moon. In June of the year you died, you visited your mother in Costa Rica and spent your nights looking up at the stars and all the nothing between them. I know with reasonable certainty that the moon you would have seen those nights would have been a waxing crescent, forty-one percent illuminated. I don't know the exact day that you died in September, but depending on what day it was when whatever happened happened, the moon would have most likely been in waning crescent, at either twenty-nine or thirty-nine percent illumination. Whatever happened that September when you were back in London, whatever you did—I hope you got to see the night sky one last time, to see the stars, and the moon, its crescent when you died, again waning like your own light, more dark, at that point, than light. A waning crescent—I can't even blame the full moon for your death, for causing whatever happened to happen.
We all know that the word lunar evolved out of Luna, the name of the Roman goddess of the moon, and the term "lunatic" was originally devised as a way to describe someone as "moon-struck," again, implying that the moon was somehow tied to mental health. Of course, no research has ever tied the moon to insanity, temporary or otherwise, or even plain old wild behavior, no matter how many people tell us that the eighty percent of our bodies that are water get all stirred up when there's a full moon, and no matter how many ER doctors or nurses say that the emergency room is crazier around full moons. Perhaps the most compelling theory on how the persisting myth of this connection between the moon and mental health originated comes from a study by Varinder Parmar et al, called "Effects of Full-Moon Definition on Psychiatric Emergency Department Presentations," in which the authors suggest, "One plausible explanation is that this belief is a cultural artifact, left over from the time before artificial lighting, when the lunar cycle had a real influence on the severity of bipolar and epileptic symptoms . . . it was too dark for people to be active after sunset during the waxing and waning phases of the lunar cycle. The full moon provided an increase in the amount of nighttime illumination and caused a significant sleep disturbance as a result." So, Pink Floyd made an album about mental illness and used for a central symbol a thing that is barely even tangentially related to mental illness. My impulse, here, is to dismiss the thematic elements of Pink Floyd's album as irresponsible and lazy—but then, it's not like they probably knew better in the '70s. When The Dark Side of the Moon was being written and recorded, Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was still new. Treatment for mental health was underdeveloped and not yet much understood. Studies hadn't yet been done to show the lack of connection between a full moon and "lunacy"/"insanity"/"madness" or plain old erratic behavior. And besides, despite all of its trappings, The Dark Side of the Moon barely seems to have anything to say about mental illness, anyway. With regards to mortality, however—
That last night that I saw you, I felt like I was seeing a side of you I'd rarely seen before, your own "far" or "dark" side of the moon, spun to shine in the acknowledgement of recognition. I wasn't entirely sure what to make of your sadness and weariness. I'd always known you as impossibly optimistic, upbeat and positive, willing to carry on your shoulders the burdens of anyone else in need—until that last time I saw you. Then, it was as if you'd been freed from the power of the tides and rotated to finally show off your dark side. I don't think I understood how dark that side felt to you, how unwell you truly felt.
In many ways, The Dark Side of the Moon is more successful as an album about mortality than it is as an album about madness. Album opener "Breathe" is loaded with lyrics obsessed with mortality. Despite twice proclaiming "Long you live and high you fly," the song ultimately tells us, "balanced on the biggest wave / you race towards an early grave." This idea is extended on "Time," in which David Gilmour sings "The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, / Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." Though "The Great Gig in the Sky" includes no lyrics, the song's title, as well as Clare Tory's ecstatic and mournful vocal performance, speak to death's ever-presence. On that same song, the voice of Gerry O'Driscoll can be heard saying "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime." Though his words speak to an acceptance of death, everything else about the song and the album seem acutely aware and terrified of dying. This idea continues into the screen projection footage employed by the Floyd in early concert performances of the album. The concert opens with a distant light that turns out to be an ambulance. When the ambulance stops, the camera tracks out of the ambulance's rear doors, down the halls of a hospital to an emergency room. A light over the table begins to spin and is replaced by an extreme close up of a human eye, just as the sound effects opening "Speak to Me" begin to play. In the animation for "Time," flying clocks dance through the sky. One notable moment finds a clock and pendulum ascend into light. During "The Great Gig in the Sky," audiences were treated to footage seemingly taken within waves, creating the sense of drowning. And, finally, at the album's ultimate track, "Eclipse," the projection footage finds us back in the hospital, tracking down a long hallway lined with doctors. Curiously, we pass right by the psychotherapy wing as we barrel toward a flashing red light at the end of the hall, which starts inscrutable but turns out to be an "Emergency" sign outside of an operating theater. If Dark Side of the Moon is about mental health, it isn't about madness—but maybe we can say it has a lot to say about anxiety?
Digging into the "madness" of Pink Floyd's most beloved album, I can't help but think of the very real, tangible ways that you were hurting in the months leading up to your death. I know you were lonely. We all know you were lonely. But I don't think it was just loneliness. It's never just anything. You were struggling and I'm not sure I ever knew how or why. In the last message you sent me—what was it, a month or two before you were gone?—you told me you were seeing a psychiatrist, that you were working on things, that things were looking up. I assumed, as you were seeing a psychiatrist, that you were on meds. I assumed that something in your brain chemistry made it so you felt alone in ways many of us will never know. I remembered the way, when I'd seen you in December, you seemed stuck in a loop of thought, and how maybe the meds would help you break out of that loop.
In early 2019, China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe became the first spacecraft to land on the moon's far side. Within days, Yuta 2, the probe's rover, sent back pictures from the moon's surface, empty and desolate, but not any darker, or any more empty and desolate than the side of the moon we see regularly. In fact, the probe landed just as the sun rose on the far side of the moon, meaning that, because of the length of the lunar day, the far side of the moon would remain illuminated for close to two week's worth of Earth days. The reason it took so long to send a probe to the far side of the moon is because of the problem of the probe remaining in contact with Earth so that it can send back data. The Chinese solved this problem using a relay satellite called Queqiao. The probe carries a tin of seeds from various plants and some silkworm eggs, and will monitor how the seeds and eggs react to being on the moon. How could anything grow or thrive in such desolate landscape and in the absence of other living things?
Looking at the pictures that Yuta 2 and Chang'e-4 have sent back from the moon, I can't help but feel a little claustrophobic. There is no angle at which we will ever see our own planet in these images, only the impossible darkness of space's expanse. Imagining the infinite beyond the moon's gravity, and the nothingness everywhere on the moon, I feel my breathing accelerate, and I feel a sense of dread take root in my chest. Maybe it is best we refer to the far side of the moon as its dark side. Maybe, though I can never know what you were feeling, or why you were feeling that way, when I look at these images or listen to Pink Floyd's album, I can begin to imagine the whatever it was churning inside you before you died.
The last thing we hear on The Dark Side of the Moon, as the album fades on a heartbeat echoing the one that opened the album, is one last bit from Gerry O'Driscoll, saying "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
—James Brubaker
Written by Brad Efford On February 28, 2019
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October 17, 2014 | David F. Coppedge
Mercury, Moon May Still Be Erupting
Two objects that should be cold and dead show surprising volcanic activity. Other indications of youthfulness in the solar system are noted.
Astrobiology Magazine published new findings from the MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury that suggest recent—and perhaps ongoing—volcanism: "Volcanoes on Mercury may have been more explosive than previously anticipated, and they may have erupted more recently, as well." This is not supposed to be. If the planet is 4.5 billion years old (the conventional age of the solar system), it should have cooled to a hard ball eons ago. The article includes photos of bright areas indicative of recent, explosive eruptions. There's no explanation given for these unexpected findings, which are surprising in at least three ways:
Recent age: "Scientists examining volcanic deposits on the surface of the planet using NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft found evidence of explosive activity as recently as a billion years ago. Previous studies of the cratering of other lava flows placed most volcanic activity at more than 3.5 billion years in the past.
Quantity of volatiles in the lava: "scientists think that an impact early in the planet's lifetime evaporated most of the crust, vaporizing most of its volatile components. 'So the presence of explosive volcanism on Mercury is a little bit surprising,' [Laura] Kerber [JPL] said."
Similarity to Earth's moon: "In fact, volcanism on the hot planet bears a strong similarity to volcanism on the Moon, which scientists say is surprising because of their differences. 'Both Mercury and the Moon are a lot smaller than the Earth, and so will have cooled more than Earth since their formation. For that reason, a lot of models would not predict volcanism within the last two billion years,' lead author Rebecca Thomas of The Open University, in the United Kingdom, told Astrobiology Magazine by email.
Breaking news: Water discovered on Mercury! Shadowed craters harbor several billion tons of water ice, BBC News reports. The "geologically young" ice deposits are "surprising," Dr Nancy Chabot says; "The uniform surface texture of presumed water-ice areas in Prokofiev crater suggest the deposits arrived relatively recently." The age is an issue:
She added: "One of the big questions we've been grappling with is 'When did Mercury's water ice deposits show up?' Are they billions of years old, or were they emplaced only recently?
"Understanding the age of these deposits has implications for understanding the delivery of water to all the terrestrial planets, including Earth."
Overall, the images indicate that Mercury's polar deposits either were delivered to the planet recently or are regularly restored at the surface through an ongoing process.
If it's an ongoing process, though, it would seem that water input must be balanced by water output. "One explanation could be that the deposits on Mercury are more recent," the article says, otherwise a "considerable mass" of volatiles should have been delivered to the inner planets over billions of years. "This will be a very interesting line of inquiry going forward," Chabot remarked. Francis Nimmo at UC Santa Cruz said in New Scientist, "It's really hard to understand how an ocean could survive for billions of years inside something as small as Mimas."
In a separate article, Science Magazine happened to mention "Recent volcanic eruptions on the moon"—so recent, in fact, that scientists cannot rule out ongoing activity. "The moon, thought to be cold and dead, is still alive and kicking—barely," Eric Hand writes. "Scientists have found evidence for dozens of burps of volcanic activity, all within the past 100 million years—a mere blip on the geologic timescale. And they think that future eruptions are likely—although probably not within a human lifetime." Once again, this is not supposed to be possible "For a world thought to have gone cold long ago," because the smaller the body, the faster it cools.
Lunar scientists cannot ignore the anomalies any more. A map in the article pinpoints dozens of features that appear to show recent volcanic origin. Using crater count dating (see 5/22/12), they estimate some of these are 100 million years old, but even granting that age puts planetary science in a quandary: that's only 2.2% of the assumed age of the moon. It should have been quiet by ten times that age (1 billion years). One feature is estimated to be 18 million years old, but that's moot if the moon is still active and could erupt in the future. The only explanations are mere suggestions: (1) there might be more radioactivity in the maria, and (2) internal heat tends to leak out in "fits and starts." Why either of those should be true is not apparent.
"Young volcanism indicates possibly more magma, or magma at higher temperatures, or magma at shallower depths, or all of the above," said one expert quoted by New Scientist. "This paper demonstrates how much we don't know about the moon," said another. The two explanations offered "both suggest the moon isn't dead." New Scientist wrote about this again on October 12, saying, "Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm." Reporter Maggie McKee quipped, "The man in the moon may still have some fire in his belly."
"Ring rain" is the phenomenon of water from Saturn's rings raining down on the planet. A new estimate announced in the planetary science journal Icarus puts the the rate at almost a million billion trillion water molecules per second (1.0 to 6.7 x 1026 sec-1) being lost from the rings to the atmosphere. How long could this persist? The Abstract doesn't say.
A new photo of the North Polar Hexagon was publicized by Space.com. This amazingly geometric figure, 20,000 miles across, filled with hurricanes larger than those on Earth, has persisted for over 30 years since first discovered in 1981 by the Voyager spacecraft. A video clip shows the "puzzling" hexagonal cloud changing over time but maintaining its geometric shape.
Breaking News: Cassini scientists think Mimas may have a subsurface ocean—at least that's the last unfalsified hypothesis from measurements of its orbital wobbles (National Geographic). If so, age becomes a serious problem, Eric Hand reports for Science Magazine: Mimas is "too small to have enough heat-producing radioactive elements in a rocky core to maintain a liquid ocean." Proposing a subsurface ocean led another astronomer to have fits:
But not for very long, says William McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. If such an ocean were buried there, its tides would iron out Mimas's orbital eccentricity within a few million years—eliminating the very thing that can keep the ocean liquid. That means that Cassini would have to be catching Mimas at an incredibly coincidental moment in its history, just after something put the moon into an eccentric orbit that in turn heated up and created the ocean. "I find it quite implausible," McKinnon says.
Cassini scientists have watched with interest an ephemeral island appear and disappear in one of Titan's northern hydrocarbon lakes (JPL press release). Steve Wall said, "Science loves a mystery, and with this enigmatic feature, we have a thrilling example of ongoing change on Titan."
The press quickly latched onto reports of a cold cloud of cyanide (HCN) hovering over Titan's south pole (see Space.com, Astrobiology Magazine, Nature Perspective, and original paper in Nature). One scientist quoted in Nature News said, "This is telling us that you have to expect the unexpected, even on 'planets' that we thought we knew relatively well."
A separate paper in Icarus about Titan's atmospheric tholins confesses, "The chemistry in Titan's atmosphere and its resulting chemical structures are still not fully understood in spite of a great many efforts being made."
Jupiter-family comets are disrupting rapidly, another paper in Icarus estimates. A "large percentage," Michael J. S. Belton writes, "must physically disrupt, i.e., macroscopically disintegrate, within their median dynamical lifetime." How quickly does this occur? "The typical disruption rate for a 1 km radius active nucleus is ∼5 × 10−5 disruptions/year and the dormancy rate is typically 3 times less," he says. An average comet might disrupt within 25 to 100 years. "We also estimate that average fragmentation rates range from 0.01 to 0.04 events/year/comet, somewhat above the lower limit of 0.01 events/year/comet observed by Chen and Jewitt (Chen, J., Jewitt, D.C. [1994]. Icarus 108, 265–271)."
We are just weeks away from the Rosetta spacecraft's historic landing of its lander Philae on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scheduled for November 12. (Universe Today).
What happened to the Ceres family? It's a murder mystery three scientists investigated in another paper in Icarus: "The case of the missing Ceres family." This large asteroid should have kin: "Ceres is unusual among large (>250 km) asteroids in lacking a dynamical family," the authors say; "We explore possible explanations, noting that its particularly large size and the ubiquity of families associated with other large asteroids makes avoidance of a sufficiently-sized collision by chance exceedingly unlikely." Here's their working hypothesis: "Because there seems to be no likely mechanism for removing a rocky Ceres family, and because the formation of a Ceres family of some kind seems nearly statistically inevitable, the lack of a Ceres family is indirect but independent evidence for Ceres' differentiation." Perhaps the upcoming orbital mission by the DAWN spacecraft next spring can shed light on this mystery.
Other main-belt asteroids undergo catastrophic disruptions, too. Another paper in Icarus begins, "We have calculated 90% confidence limits on the steady-state rate of catastrophic disruptions of main belt asteroids" based on observations of brightness variations. The new estimate: one catastrophic disruption per year for asteroids with absolute magnitude H > 28. Rotational disruptions, they say, occur 400 times as often. Impacts and spin are the main causes of disruptions. The paper did not mention new asteroids forming. How long before the main belt would be disrupted to fine dust?
Planetary scientists could avoid so many problems with their models if they would just abandon the A.S.S. (age of the solar system; see Darwin Dictionary). What is it that forces them to think in terms of billions of years? Clearly it's not the evidence cited above. The number of anomalies are astronomical, yet they persist in clinging to that age figure. Why? You know the answer; it's because Charlie needs the time for his evolutionary theory to work on Earth. So the Bald Assertions of Darwinism (B.A.D.) are the real reason for the B.A.D. A.S.S. position of secular planetary science.
Tags: asteroids, Ceres, comets, crater count dating, crater counts, cyanide, disintegration, disruption, eruption, impacts, lava, mercury, moon, Philae, planetary rings, ring rain, Rosetta, saturn, titan, volcano
Categories: Astronomy, Dating Methods, Geology, Physics, Solar System

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China's Shandong to cut steel and coal production
Scarlett Evans 6 August 2018
China has some of the worst air pollution in the world Credit: erhard.renz
The eastern province of Shandong in China has pledged to reduce steel and coal production, discontinue outdated aluminium smelters and shift to cleaner energy sources as part of the country's ongoing war on pollution, now in its fifth year.
In its new three-year environmental plan, Shandong's Environmental Protection Bureau said that by the end of this year it would cut pig iron production capacity by 600,000 tonnes and crude steel capacity by 3.55 million tonnes.
Coal production capacity is also to be reduced from 156 million tonnes to 140 million tonnes by 2020.
The bureau said imports of natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from other areas would increase as the country attempts to shift away from coal and other more polluting fuels.
In its environmental plan, the bureau said the amount of natural gas in its energy mix would increase to 15.8bn cubic meters by 2020, with LNG consumption targeted to reach 8% by 2020.
Coal transportation from the ports Qingdao, Yantai and Rizhao is due to change to rail or waterways by the end of this year, while heavy materials such as iron ore and coke are set to be transported via rail before the summer of 2020.
The bureau added that it hopes more than 70% of heating provided to rural areas in winter would be derived from clean energy sources by 2020.
Also included in the plan was the target of decreasing fertiliser use by 6% and pesticides by 10% by 2020, as compared to 2015 levels.
The latest measures from Shandong follow Beijing's State Council issuing a three-year plan which proposes the reduction of coal consumption, increased sales of electric vehicles (EVs) and a clamp-down on outdated steel and coke capacity.
As well as becoming a forerunner in clean energy technology, China has its sights set on becoming a leader in the global EV industry, aiming to reach seven million annual sales by 2025.
China's rapid economic growth over the past forty years cemented it as the world's biggest carbon emitter, with research group Berkeley Earth estimating in 2015 that the country has 1.6 million air pollution-related deaths per year.
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Check Out The First Trailer For New 'Terminator' Movie 'Dark Fate'
By The Movie God | @ | May 23rd, 2019 at 10:01 am
Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate, the latest installment in the long-running film franchise.
The movie, which follows the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, sees original stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to play the roles of Sarah Connor and the T-800. James Cameron, who directed the classic first two entries in the series, is also back as a producer.
You can give the teaser trailer a watch below, where you'll also find a newly released behind the scenes video and a poster as well.
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By Dr. Zaius | @ | September 1st, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Less than a month after MTV's Scream closes out its debut summer season, FOX hits us with another show about sins from the past wreaking havoc, with Scream Queens, premiering September 22nd on FOX. Scream Queens stars past and present women of horror, in a new series about a devil-clad killer stalking sorority girls at the Kappa House, led by American Horror Story's Emma Roberts. Other young stars including Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin, Glee star Lea Michele, Syler Samuels, and controversial pop star Ariana Grande. Oh, and there's this other "scream queen" you may have heard of… JAMIE LEE CURTIS!
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Movie Review: Rock of Ages
By Adam Frazier | @ | June 15th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Directed by Adam Shankman
Starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Åkerman, Mary J. Blige, Alec Baldwin
Rated PG-13 | 123 Minutes
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Disclaimer: I am a 27-year-old man with an affinity for musical theatre and '80s glam rock. I am not ashamed to admit I have shed a tear or two during Glee or the occasional off-Broadway production of Rent. Musicals aren't for everyone, but for all the Drama Nerds, Band Geeks, and Glee Kids out there, this one's for you.
From director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) comes Warner Bros. Pictures' big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages. The year is 1987. Movies like Fatal Attraction, Moonstruck, and Beverly Hills Cop II blow up the box office while Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi play to sold-out stadiums across the country. In this alternate reality of 1987, however, rock god Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) is responsible for every '80's anthem and power ballad – an amalgam of every legendary front man in rock'n'roll history.
Rock of Ages features Julianne Hough (Footloose, Burlesque) as Sherrie Christian, a small-town girl who leaves Tulsa, Oklahoma to follow her Hollywood dreams. There she meets rock'n'roller Drew Boley (Diego Boneta), a bartender at The Bourbon Room, one of Sunset Strip's hottest concert venues.
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Updated on April 16, 2021 | by Austin
Riding a bike is not for everyone. The phrase only seems a myth as in today's world, everyone wants to get their hands on bikes that are not only comfortable but are fast too.
While most people seem satisfied with average speeds, others crave more than just this which is why the need for superbikes saw a serious hike. Superbikes are quite different from the average bikes and focus more on the speed and comfort of the rider instead of the mileage and the durability of the bike.
In today's article, we will be looking at the top 10 bikes in the world that even make average cars look stupid.
Here are the top 10 fastest bikes in the world that can make average bikes look like a piece of junk when it comes to being fast.
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Disclaimer: We do not promote the riding of these bikes at high speeds in any manner and we also advise you to ride safely as rash driving may cause you serious injury and can even lead to death.
Top 10 Fastest Motorcycles in the World in the Year Of 2021
10. BMW K1200S
At a top speed of 174 MPH, the BMW K1200S is the first superbike on our list. The bike is quite lightweight and agile which makes it super easy to handle the bike for the rider. It has a 1157cc engine that has a four-cylindered inline along with an inbuilt transmission.
It takes just 3.2 seconds for this superbike to reach from zero to sixty. The brake system of this bike is talked about too. The secret to the brakes is the EVO brakes that are coupled with the partially integrated BMW Motorrad integral ABS which gives it the upper hand on other bikes that didn't make the list.
The bike can go up to a whooping power of 164 HP at 10250 rounds per minute with a max torque of 129 Nm at 8250 rounds per minute.
9. Aprilia RSV 1000R Mille
Even though the bike was made way back in 1998, it is still special as many people still ride it. The bike can achieve a top speed of 175 MPH, which is quite impressive considering the time that has passed. The bike has a 998cc liquid-cooled engine with electronic fuel injection.
The Rotex V-twin that is installed at 60 degrees in the engine makes it more compact. This leaves room for vibrations which is countered by Aprilia's Anti Vibration Double Countershaft, commonly known as ADVC.
The handling of the bike is extremely smooth and it can go from zero to sixty in about 3.1 seconds. When this superbike was launched, it exceeded everyone's limits and achieved a max power of 141.3 HP at 1000 rounds per minute and a torque of 107 Nm at 5500 rounds per minute.
8. MV Agusta F4 1000R
This bike is quite popular among riders and for one reason, in particular, 1000cc of raw power. The handling of this bike is as close to perfection as it can get. A light crankshaft with a short motor on this superbike makes sure that accelerating is not an issue at any time.
All it takes is 2.7 seconds for this bike to go from zero to sixty. You can experience great handling even at high speeds thanks to the 8-level traction control. The top speed of this bike is 185 MPH, which is a lot.
This superbike achieves a max power of 174 HP and a max torque of 115Nm at 1000 rounds per minute respectively.
7. Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R
This amazing beast can go up to 186 miles an hour. The only reason for this bike to be this below in the list is that there are faster bikes out there. It is one of the best bikes in the world in terms of looks and form factor.
The engine is another story as the bike has a 1441cc with an inline-four moto which makes it a beast. The bike is smooth and easy to handle thanks to the three-level traction control system.
The best thing about this bike that even if the bike is at speeds of 50-60 on gear 6, the ride will still be as smooth as you like. It only takes 2.6 seconds for this beast to go from zero to sixty and it achieves a max power of 108Kw at 10500 rounds per minute.
6. BMW S1000R
This flagship superbike has a 999cc 16-valve motor engine with the addition of a new intake cam along with lighter inlet valves when compared to the previous flagship model. The bike has a light frame, which helps it in achieving fast speeds.
Around 4kgs has been cut from this superbike and it also has the updated semi-active suspension pack of the HP4's Dynamic Damping Control. The power curve helps the rider in turning with relative ease. It can achieve a maximum speed of 190 MPH and goes from zero to sixty in 2.7 seconds.
The big is street-friendly too with the help of features like ABS and cruise control. The BMW S1000R achieves a max power of 195.2 Bhp at 13500 rounds per minute.
5. Honda CBR 1100XX Black Bird
One can experience a trip down memory lane when talking about this bike. Ever since its inception way back in 1996, the bike is back to its personal best if not better like the rest of the bikes on this list. This bike tops out at a speed of 190 miles an hour.
The bike packs a punch with a 1137cc liquid-cooled inline-four cylindered engine which leaves no room for the rider to compromise with speed. It can hit the 0-60 mark in a whooping 2.8 seconds which is quite impressive considering how old this piece of machinery is.
It may not give a rider the best of ride quality, it sure does not leave any room when it comes to the build and reliability. The bike can achieve 153 HP at 10000 rounds per minute in terms of speed.
4. Kawasaki Ninja H2R
This bike is an overall beast. It comes with a 998cc liquid-cooled, 4-stroke, inline-four, DOHC, 16-valve engine. The bike is fast enough to be one of the top bikes in the world in terms of speed. The engineers even managed to install an electronic rider support suite.
As for protection, the bike has KTRC (Kawasaki Traction Control), KIBS (Kawasaki Intelligent anti-lock Brake System), KEBC (Kawasaki Engine Brake Control), and KLCM (Kawasaki Launch Control Mode).
All these systems ensure a smooth ride apart from protecting the rider. All it takes is a mere 2.5 seconds. The bike can achieve a max power of 197.3 Bhp at 11,000 rounds per minute. The top speed of this Ninja model is 222 miles an hour.
3. MTT Turbine Superbike Y2K
At a top speed of 227 miles an hour, the Superbike Y2K is one of the most powerful motorcycles to ever be built. This amazing bike takes no more than 2.5 seconds to go from zero to sixty. This time lap is faster than the time a normal human will take to read this sentence.
The bike has the Rolls-Royce 250 C-18 turboshaft engine with a 2-speed semi-automatic transmission which makes it fast. The bike hits a max power of 320 HP at 52000 rounds per minute.
2. Suzuki Hayabusa
A four-cylinder 1340cc with a short stroke and DOHC 16-valve engine. All this sure does live up to the hype that was around this beast of a bike. The Suzuki dual throttle valve makes sure that the rider gets the best out of this bike at all times.
The ride by wire system combined with the Suzuki Drive Mode Selector gives the rider an option to tweak the settings for optimal performance. The bike can hit zero to sixty in just 2.6 seconds and has a top speed of 248 miles an hour.
The rider experiences reduced torque thanks to the Suzuki Clutch Assist System and can hit a max power of 197 HP at 6750 rounds per minute.
1. Dodge Tomahawk
The number on our list is a bike that even gives cars a run for their money. The Dodge Tomahawk is the world's fastest bike at a top speed of 350 miles an hour. This dream bike has an 8277cc 10-valve four-stroke engine which sounds like a fairy tale for riders.
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The bike has a total of four wheels, each with a suspension of its own. The bike has the same engine that can be found in a Dodge Viper. The bike has a traditional chain and sprocket system along with a two-speed manual toe-shift transmission.
The bike has a throttle intake at the place where usually headlights are and it also has a cooling system that is placed just behind the intake manifold. This bike has no match and remains a sole winner in terms of speed but due to four wheels, the bike is not legal to ride in many countries.
The bike can go from zero to sixty somewhere in between 1.75-2.5 seconds and hits a max power of 500 HP at 5600 rounds per minute making it the number 1 bike in the world in terms of speed.
These are the top 10 fastest bikes in the world as of this year. The record may or may not change depending upon the launch of new and faster bikes all over the globe. The speed of these racing bikes is what separates them from an average model.
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Entries are filling fast for the Thunderbolts Adventure 2019 – an exciting weekend exploring remote gravel roads starting from Gloucester across Barrington Tops with other gravel grinders!
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A Unispace survey of more than 2,000 global occupiers shows that firms are erroneously introducing open plan working environments believing that they will enhance staff productivity. In fact, it shows that many companies are overestimating the amount of time that they spend in meetings and "collaborating" while underestimating time required for concentration.
The survey data was split across four different continents and across different sectors. Distraction caused by noise was a continual theme across each of them.
I challenge the premise of the thinking that open plan workplace solutions are introduced to increase workplace collaboration. For some organisations that may be the case, however the origination of open plan solution is rooted in the effort to rein in real estate costs.
Our data clearly shows that on average, two hours per employee per day face to face collaboration is a reasonable amount to be effective. Organisations that plan for the more than the two-hour average are unknowingly facilitating an overly-collaborative environment that is potentially disruptive.
Those firms that tend to 'over-collaborate' usually have environments that create barriers between different teams and departments, thereby creating silos. Over-collaboration is not intentional but 'boiling frog syndrome'.
The three main reasons that companies set out to change their workplace is better collaboration, employee attraction/retention and savings. This is broadly consistent across each region.
However, the need for focus and concentration is not cited by clients as a key reason to change.
This leads me to conclude that our industry may have underestimated the value of focus-based work and its impact on productivity.
Effective collaboration is important, but not at the cost of focus. With a number of working tasks requiring concentration, there is an obvious benefit to a balanced, choice-led environment.
I should be clear that when we say 'open plan' that we specifically refer to a one-form open plan configuration ie, a sea of desks as far as the office-bound eye can see with no break.
Open plan without different forms of space to interrupt the rows of desks does not support privacy in the workspace and fails to support individuals pursuing alternative modes of working mode. There must be a variety of spaces to support the ability to focus and lend concentration to a specific task.


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Electrokinesis: He had the ability generate electricity.
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Museum of Black Civilisations. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera
Senegalese President, Macky Sall has inaugurated the country's new Museum of Black Civilisations in the capital, Dakar.
It follows calls from Senegal and other African nations for France to return art it looted during the colonial era.
Among the first temporary exhibitions to be shown is work from artists from Mali and Burkina Faso as well as from Cuba and Haiti.
After decades of inaction, construction was finally made possible after a $34 million (£27 million) Chinese investment.
The idea of establishing the museum dates back more than 50 years, to Senegal's late poet-president, Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Along with Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, Senghor was a creative force behind the philosophy of Négritude, which opposed the imposition of French culture on colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
The museum will not be a commemorative monument, its director says, but rather a creative laboratory to help shape a continent's sense of identity.
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Scaling Up for Mass Distribution
July 7, 2018 in Ministry by Dave | Permalink
In our April update, we took time to highlight the ministry of Light for the Lost. Through their support, we were able to furnish all of our church planters with the evangelism materials that they needed to effectively present the gospel to the unsaved in the neighborhoods, towns, and villages where they are starting new works. In this July report, we're excited to update that story as we've been able to extend that support to churches throughout the district of Yucatán.
Leading the District Evangelism Department since July of last year, we've been promoting the idea that the local church is the engine that drives evangelism. It is therefore a pleasure to support these pastors and congregations, utilizing our network to distribute some 68,000 tracts and 600 Bibles in support of their evangelistic efforts. We're convinced that through their desire to reach the lost and the use of these tools, their outreaches will leave a lasting impact.
We are also providing churches with a particularly exciting tool: Respuestas De La Vida (Journey Answers) cards. Designed to follow up gospel conversations or be left with restaurant servers, gas station attendants, taxi drivers, etc., these cards lead the lost to an online, relevant gospel presentation and a site where they can respond with questions, prayer requests, or make a decision for Christ. These respondents can then be directed to any one of our local congregations for continued discipleship. Our hope is that this mass distribution will lead many to respond to the gospel and connect with a church home.
Of course, this kind of operation does create its share of complications. Our spare bedroom has since turned into a warehouse/staging center as we prepare evangelism packets for distribution! Still, it's a small price to pay for the opportunity to take another step toward fulfilling the vision of the Yucatan full of churches.
Pray with us, then, that these messages will reach their intended audience and influence them to become disciples of Christ. And, as you do pray, would you please add these additional needs to your list?
Tags: Church planting, Discipleship, Evangelism, LFTL
Evangelism: How Can They do the Work Without the Proper Tools?
April 5, 2018 in Ministry, Progress, Thanks by Dave | Permalink
As president of the Department of Evangelism of the District of Yucatan, we've been given a tremendous platform from which to launch a church planting program. But as our planters enter into this their third month of the process, which emphasizes evangelism and small group formation, the question arises: "How can they do the work without the proper tools?"
Take a look at the above video message for insight into how Light for the Lost is helping us to answer this question.
Tags: Church planting, Evangelism, LFTL, Small Groups
When the Plan Comes Together
January 9, 2016 in Progress, Support by Dave | Permalink
My youth was marked, as many kids of my generation, by the programs that played on prime time television. I remember pleading with my mom to let me stay up to watch the "Dukes of Hazard," and being completely amazed by the genius of "MacGyver."
One of the more notable shows was the A-Team. Explosions abounded and the bad guys were sure to get their due when they were on the job. When it was all said and done, you could be sure to hear their leader, "Hannibal" Smith say, "I love it when a plan comes together."
That phrase was said so many times during that series' five-year run, it's no wonder that it came back to me this past week as an improbable series of events came together to bring about a blessing for the work here in the Yucatán. Let me set up the situation:
Committed to stimulate church planting, Kelly and I held meetings with district superintendent, Magaly Balam, soon after our arrival. She received us enthusiastically and recommended further meetings with a committee charged with the very task that we were promoting.
Nevertheless, our arrival appeared to have been a bit late in coming. As event planning for the district had already taken place, those meetings had been suspended. Until they could resume, we could and did state our intentions informally, but no action could be taken.
In the meantime, the fall progressed with the various mentions from our leadership in the States of evangelistic resources available for those who had a need. We knew that we could utilize them, but without direction from the district, we felt that we needed to allow others with more pressing needs to speak first.
Fast forward to this December when we had our first meetings with the department of Evangelism. They shared with me their ambitious project to plant 26 churches, and they stated their needs; among them was evangelistic literature totaling 200,000 tracts and some 1,500 Bibles. I left that meeting pledging to do all that I could to help, but at the same time wishing that they had talked to me sooner, when funds were available.
Imagine my delight, then, when an email from my area director, Paul Kazim, hit my inbox. "Happy New Year," it was titled. He continued:
Hope the fireworks did not keep you awake. Mexico City was silent. Not sure why. Anyway, just a reminder, the field still has LFTL and BGMC funds available.
While Mexico City was silent, the explosion of gratitude that overtook me was stronger than any blast the A-Team could have concocted.
LFTL, or Light for the Lost, is a ministry dedicated to providing literature for outreach purposes. That was the exact resource that our district needed to be able to fast track its upcoming efforts, the same resources that I thought had already been distributed.
Needless to say, I replied immediately, and funds meeting nearly the entire need will be made available with plenty of time to order and receive delivery of the tracts and Bibles before the evangelistic push which is set to begin mid February!
While I admit that my life as a missionary might not always be exciting enough to fill a slot during prime time, as I sent out my thank you note to those who helped, I found myself repeating the phrase, "I love it when a plan comes together." Don't you?
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the eldest son of Adam and Eve. He was the first man who had been a child, and the first man born of woman. For his history, as connected with that of Abel, see Abel. The curse pronounced upon Cain, on account of his fratricide, is thus expressed: "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is thy brother Abel? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper? And God said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest it, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth," meaning, probably, from his own native district, and from the presence of his kindred, "and from thy face shall I be hid;" by which he probably intended the divine glory, or Shekinah, whose appearance sanctified the place of primitive worship, and was the pledge of acceptance and protection. The mark set upon Cain "lest any one finding him should kill him," has been variously interpreted. Some have supposed at a change in the colour of his skin, others a certain horror of countenance. The LXX. understood the passage to mean, that the Lord gave him a sign, to assure him that his life should be preserved. Whatever it was, its object was not to aggravate, but to mitigate, his punishment, which may intimate that Cain had manifested repentance. Cain, being thus banished from the presence of the Lord, retired into the land of Nod, lying east from the province of Eden. While he dwelt in this country, which is generally understood to be Susiana, or Chusistan, he had a son, whom he named Enoch, in memory of whom he built a city of the same name. This is all we learn from Scripture concerning Cain.
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Welcome to Page 3... Day One! - Page 3 (Friday, May 25th, 2007) A continuation of the festivities at the VIP Dinner.
Gregg Palmer and Emily
Michael and Ed Faulkner
Emily and A.C. Lyles
Most of you should know the background on these people but for those of you that don't here's some facts. First we have Gregg Palmer and my wife. Gregg Palmer is probably best know for his role in Big Jake as the big bad fat man that killed "Dog". But he was also in several other movies with Duke: The Commancheros, The Undefeated, Chisum, Rio Lobo, Big Jake and The Shootist. Other than that he was in everything you can think of from The Lone Ranger to Have Gun/Will Travel and even Star Trek: TOS. He does an amazing story and imitates Duke, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and Red Cloud He also does another little imitation that is just fantastic that I will put on here later.
Next we have myself and Ed Faulkner. Ed was also in several movie with Duke, the most notable one for me was The Green Beret. But he was also in: McLintock, Hellfighters, The Undefeated, Chisum and Rio Lobo. He also did roles in Have Gun/Will Travel, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Mod Squad and even Gunsmoke. He was a great guy to talk to, actually all of them were really down to earth.
Last but not least for the VIP Dinner is A.C. Lyles. AC has been working at Paramount since he was 9 years old and now he's 89 so he's been at Paramount for over 79 years. AC has done several things through out his career, as an actor he was in The Hunt for Red October, he was a crew member in a few episodes of HBO's Deadwood, everyone should remember that series. As a Producer he did episodes of Rawhide and many other shows. Him and Duke were very good friends as was Ronald Reagan. Reagan commissioned him to sit on a couple Advisory Councils and eventually awarded him the George Washington Award of the Freedoms Foundation.
George Washington Award of the Freedoms Foundation
We did have a politician speak, (they put me to sleep), Brownback I think his name was, it's someone the Wayne family is endorsing but I doubt he has much chance for President. Ethan was suppose to make the dinner but was help up at Orange County airport. He got bumped or something and ended up missing the festivities. There were a couple of audio interviews, first with Harry Carey, Jr. These were done prior to the celebration since they couldn't make the dinner. The other audio interview was with Maureen O'Hara. You could tell she would have really wanted to be there but her health was a factor from what I'm told. She expressed her feelings of a very special friendship with Duke. Her favorite movie she did with him was "The Quiet Man". Maureen said: "Without being political, through his acting, he had a message. He continues to show there is bravery and heart in this country."
The remainder of the evening included some presentations and an auction. First Carolyn Wilson, the Manager of the Birthplace/Gift Shop, was presented with a plaque by David Trask, Chairman of the Birthplace Board, for her years of service and devotion. On the plaque was a picture of a new flag that her and her husband had put up in front of the Birthplace. Excuse the fuzzy picture, I thought I would have had a better seat buying my invitation early but I got stuck way in the back of the room.
Birthplace Gift Shop Carolyn Wilson & David Trask
A couple things they brought up before the auctions started. They recognized a couple from Peoria, Illinois by the name of Nick and Terri Schaub, who founded the bronze statue fund years ago and have contributed to it regularly. The fund now totals over $20,000 with contributions from them and other for the last several years. I'll be showing you the statue later. Another item is the saddle also on the main webpage here... they wanted to make sure everyone knew about the raffle and that you'd be buying a chance to win that $10,000 saddle which was bought and donated to the new museum. So all money brought in from the raffle goes straight to the new museum fund.
Next was the auction. It went sort of fast so I didn't get a chance to snap any pictures and I think some of the items were unplanned. But here is a brief synopsis of what was auctioned and what things went for...
10 DVD's of John Wayne Movies - $200.
100 Yr. Centennial Poster (Full Sized) signed by Michael Bryan - $5,000.
Lobby Cards of "Big Jake" - 2 Sets - Each set went for $250.
A white Stetson hat worn and signed by Melinda Munoz - $250.
A black Stetson hat worn and signed by Father Matt Munoz - $400.
A white Stetson hat signed by Melinda and Father Matt - $450.
An original theater marquee poster from Rooster Cogburn, signed by family members - $350.
I'm sure there were a few other items but my wife was doing the writing while I was doing the bidding.
One last item I do remember was a full sized original theater poster from the movie "The Quiet Man". This was donated by Brian Downes, the person who put together the John Wayne Birthday Wild West Revue, to be put up on eBay for auction. The only requirement Brian had was that the starting bid be $15,000. Yes, I said fifteen thousand dollars. It was one of those huge original posters and it was in mint condition. I've been told it has not gone up for auction yet. If your an extreme collector you can certainly call the Birthplace and they can tell you who to call to take about the poster. The wife just wouldn't let me go down that road. We're running out of wall space anyway.
The two people in the picture are Mary Terry, Chairperson of the Centennial Committee and the Auctioneer Pat Corkrean.
After we were done with the auction we were thanked for coming and were told we could mingle and talk with the co-stars or family members. I tried to bid on a couple things but you know, the wife just didn't understand the value of a good collectible. That's okay... I ended up getting something I wanted the next day that made up for not getting any of the auction items. We left the Stoney Creek Inn and retired to our hotel about 20 minutes away. it has been one long day, a full morning of traveling then checking out Winternet and then the VIP Dinner. More to come... stay tuned.
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Net sales recorded for the financial year were Rs 1,790.23 crore as compared to Rs 1,517.76 crore in the previous financial year.
The earnings per share (EPS) for FY2017 stood at Rs 15.91, compared to Rs 12.39 in the same period last year. On the basis of strong financial performance, the board has recommended a dividend of 40% (Rs 2 per share) for the approval of the shareholders.
JBM's in-house R&D, based in Delhi-NCR, works in sync with its three international R&D centres in Italy, China and the UK. JBM Group is involved in the design of all vehicle segments right from concept stage including packaging and engineering projects with Fiat, Escorts, Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz/Daimler, Kamaz, Ashok Leyland, Piaggio, Volvo and other OEMs. At the top end of the spectrum, JBM's engineering services to Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren are able to provide higher margins and brand equity.
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Artists Respond: Elena Dorfman
Elena Dorfman, Bell Avenue, 2014, from the series, Los Angeles, River.
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Artist Elena Dorfman was invited to participate in Artists Respond, an online series of projects by artists inspired by a work of art at LACMA. She chose Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School, as her point of departure, and, in particular, Thomas Cole's painting The Course of Empire: The Savage State, part of his five-part series, The Course of Empire. The paintings, made between 1833 and 1836, chronicle the rise and fall of an imaginary city, and serve as an allegory for the cyclical progression of civilization from a state of barbarism through advanced social and cultural development, and eventual descent into ruin. Dorfman shares her thoughts on her own work and the legacy of the Hudson River School painters in this extended interview.


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Arianna wants Obama to get angry. I've heard other people say this offline as well. I just don't buy it.
For one thing, anger would suggest that McCain has gotten under Obama's skin. A cool unflappability has been an Obama calling card for about a year now--throwing that out the window with two months to go doesn't strike me as such a hot idea. I also think he's as likely as not to get media coverage emphasizing not the righteousness but the rage, fueling a storyline that Democrats are in some kind of panicked meltdown.
Finally, we all know the sad but real stereotype of the angry black man, a trap Obama has brilliantly avoided. Just as Republicans are waging a culture war, I just don't think that's where he wants to go.
If there has to be righteousness, let it come from other quarters--respected party surrogates, perhaps like Al Gore. Better yet, maybe Obama can assemble, or put in a TV ad, a group of heavyweight corporate and civic leaders--Warren Buffett, Susan Eisenhower, the most senior ex-military man he can find (Colin Powell being the dream)--to implore Americans not to get distracted from the burning issues that really affect their lives.


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Lakeside North Harbour is celebrating with technical recruitment agency Carrington West, following the company's expansion on the prestigious business campus.
Carrington West, which has occupied space at Lakeside North Harbour since 2012, initiated the expansion last year following its successful growth and need for more extensive office space. The company has gone from strength to strength in recent months culminating in its recent accolade as Employer of the Year, received at local business awards.
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Teen banned from parts of Henbury after public order offences
Posted at 14:39 on 26th November 2021 in In Court
Anthony Martins
A teenager who has admitted carrying out antisocial behaviour in Henbury has been handed a court order banning him from the area.
Anthony Martins, 18, pleaded guilty to three public order offences, for causing harassment, alarm or distress, when he appeared at Bristol Magistrates Court on Wednesday 24 November.
Earlier this week he verbally abused two PCSOs and a PC carrying out high-visibility patrols in the area and was arrested and subsequently charged.
Martins, from Brentry, was handed a community order, a six-week overnight curfew and a two-year community behaviour order. The latter prevents Martins from entering parts of Henbury marked on the map, including Crow Lane and Station Road.
Neighbourhood Sergeant Richard Jones said: "We are acutely aware of community concerns around antisocial behaviour and our message is we're listening.
"Off the back of high-visibility patrols, we've been able to take proactive action against a teenager who was acting antisocially. We welcome the court's decision to put in place a legal restriction preventing Martins from returning to the area and continuing to be a nuisance to the community – should he enter the prohibited area he could find himself back in court.
"We'd please urge anyone who experiences issues around antisocial behaviour in their neighbourhood to make sure they report it to police, either online or via 101, to help us build up a comprehensive understanding of what is going on so we can try to put a stop to it."
PCC Mark Shelford added: "The court's decision of a legal restriction for Martins is a step in the right direction and was made possible thanks to the proactive work of the local Neighbourhood Policing Team.
"Antisocial behaviour can impact people's everyday lives so it is essential that police and statutory agencies continue to address this crime to ensure local residents feel safe in their neighbourhoods, towns and cities."


Baseball Australia chief executive Cam Vale signing a deal with Korean winterball.
Plans to host Australian Baseball League roster games in Launceston this summer have now been scrapped.
New ABL club Auckland Tuatara were hoping to take two of its five home series to Australia in lieu of an initial permanent venue in the city.
But a clash of dates at UTAS Stadium with cricket's Big Bash League on December 30 and January 31 has forced Baseball Australia to rule out the possibility of eight games shifting to Launceston.
It effectively had also ruled out playing any single games of either four-game series in Burnie or Devonport.
The two Auckland series are scheduled to be played on December 20-23 against Adelaide Bite and January 17-20 against Melbourne Aces.
Vale ruled out North Hobart Oval as a venue over inadequate lighting for games.
Launceston City general manager Michael Stretton said it was unfortunate the timeframe was not suitable at this stage to host baseball.


Rumour has it, Instagram could be developing a standalone shopping app, aptly named 'IG Shopping'. First TV, now an online shopping platform, is there anything they're not branching into?! This would make sense for the platform as Facebook recently confirmed 25 million businesses are using the service. Added to this, 4 out of 5 Instagram users follow at least one business. Following on from the success of shoppable posts in March, this looks to be Instagram's latest attempt to make a major expansion into e-commerce.
While shoppable posts allow users to shop directly from tags in photos by taking them to the 'add to cart' option on the retail website, the Instagram shopping app could mean we're able to browse products from merchants and buy them directly within the app. Added to this, the shopping platform could become a new money-spinner for Instagram if they introduced paid-for promotion and management tools.
IG shopping would undoubtedly offer brands and entrepreneurs a great opportunity to showcase their best products by creating a visual storefront and give consumers the chance to purchase them with a single action. We all know that Instagram is already the go-to platform for inspiration, so the shopping app would give retail brands the perfect way in.
Knowing Instagram, we can expect this to be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their e-commerce expansion. Similarly, with IGTV recently being released as a standalone application, it's unlikely that Instagram will stop building their app collection.
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I just finished a very good book by Jodi Picoult titled "Nineteen Minutes."
It is about a school shooting at a high school where lives are changed forever. The premise of the novel deals with how bullying can affect a person's life.
It is one of those books that you just don't forget. It has made me ponder the problem of bullying and fitting-in that goes on every day. As a parent, I know Laura, like all adolescents, will struggle with finding acceptance among peer groups as she grows older.
As a teacher, I saw bullying first-hand in the public high school setting.
And I remember those days as a teenager, when I followed the clothes fads, hairstyles, and just want to be liked by my peers. Now I look at the clothes young girls wear, and I really dread the days of junior high when Laura might want to show her belly and wear strapless shirts!
How as parents can we help?
A friend of ours at church with a grown daughter recently offered this advice -- start training them early. When her daughter was 4 they started going clothes shopping together and they always followed the bend-over/sit down test. If the clothes "passed" this modesty test they could buy it. My friend stated that by establishing this rule so early with her daughter, when she got into jr/high school there wasn't even a question about what was appropriate to wear.
After I read The Pact by Jodi I swore off her books. Tooo emotional.
As for style advice, I say go for the "lose the battle, win the war" tactic. You should always have the final say in what she wears, but dressing ones self is a creative expression of your personality.
Good luck, even I'm scared by some of the clothes sold for the young girls these days!
Hey Sara- just found your blog. Just wanted to say that I am glad I have boys, but scared about the choices they will face. I will be wearing out God's ear with all my prayers.


Bell Canada said Tuesday it is offering retirement incentives to 1,500 qualifying union workers in the latest move by Canada's largest telecom operator to streamline and cut operating costs.
Bell Canada is trying to become more competitive in the wake of last month's failure of a failed offer to acquire its parent, BCE Inc., by an investment group led by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan board.
The retirement incentive offer affects workers represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers' Union of Canada.
Bell Canada, which has more than 41,000 employees, said the retirement offer is not an early retirement program, since it applies only to workers who meet certain criteria and are already eligible to retire this year and in 2010. It didn't give details on the incentives.
The telecom company said it plans to stagger the dates on which these employees retire, to ensure there is no impact on service to customers.
Telecom analyst Carmi Levy of AR Communications said that BCE will likely issue further cuts as it reworks operations.
"This is what Bell has to do in order to align themselves with the times," he said.
However, times have changed for the industry and it has forced Bell to catch up with competitors as more Canadians move toward an Internet-driven telecommunications market, Levy said.
In recent months, Bell Canada has announced plans to expand its 3G wireless and fiber Internet Protocol networks, improve repair and installation services, boost its satellite TV operations at BellTV and mobile smartphones and expand its new national marketing brand.
Since the takeover fell through, Bell's Canada's 44-per-cent-owned unit, Bell Aliant, Atlantic Canada's dominant telephone company, announced it is cutting 500 management jobs in a move to streamline operations and improve its bottom line.
The cuts at the Halifax-based company reflect about 15 percent of the telecom operator's management positions, or about five per cent of its overall work force of about 10,000 employees.
The cuts at Bell Aliant mirror similar moves made last summer by Bell Canada, which pared about 2,500 white-collar jobs, or 15 percent of its management work force, in one of the first streamlining moves made by new CEO George Cope.


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Magda Prichodko started attending classic dance classes in her home town Czestochowa in Poland at the age of 7. Her dancing background started in ballet, jazz, modern jazz, disco dance, acrobatics, hip hop and contact-improvisation. Her dance path eventually connected her with Luis Vasquez, with whom she teaches at local and international dance festivals – including LatinWeekend 2019!
In 2005, together with the Polish disco dance group V2, she took 4th place in World Disco Dance Championship. The same year she accidentally dropped by a salsa club in Warsaw and fell in love with salsa at once. Six months later she joined Salsa Libre team, becoming performer and salsa teacher. Together with Salsa Libre she has performed on many stages in Poland and abroad.
In January 2009 she accepted the invitation of the biggest Norwegian latin school Salsakompaniet and moved to Oslo. She has been teaching and performing with such names as Jazzy Ruiz, Alexis Ruiz and Luis Vazquez. During those years she has established her position of leading female salsa artist in Scandinavia and one of the best in Europe. In 2017 she moved to Trondheim to take the position of head instructor in SalsaNor. She choreographs and coaches several dance teams in Norway (including Groovin Dance Company, Groovi'n'Heels and SalsaNor Student Teams). She travels internationally for dance workshops, dance choreography bootcamps and performances.
She is known for her unique expressive dance style, musicality and social dance skills. She enjoys dancing latin dances, swing as well as jazz and contact-improvisation. But social dancing remains always her greatest love, bringing joy of connection and improvisation on the dance floor.