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By Kyle Wakeling -
Tetris is back, and with all the options they're giving you it's more ultimate than ever.
Now I don't profess to be a Tetris professional, or to have played all (or even most of) the versions – my most recent regular player being a PlayStation One version that I had on disk up "til last year – but I've been playing variations on the concept since I was about three and am more than familiar with how the original played.
This version of the game however, is everything it pretends to be and more – offering the most popular gameplay modes alongside a high level of rule customization for the purist and tinkerers. Though I prefer the default setup personally, if you don't there's quite a lot you can do to fix that; but we'll get into that later… for now let's run through the modes that are included in this version.
First up we have Marathon mode, in which you attempt to clear horizontal lines of tetraminos through fifteen progressively more difficult drop speed levels. This mode isn't endless, and will be completed once you've beaten the fifteenth speed level without touching the inside of the roof with your tetramino matrix. It's a pretty basic mode, but one that does well to introduce you to the game.
Battle mode can cause your screen to fill up fast!
Next we have Battle, which is the first of the two versus only modes. Battle pits you against an opponent (either one of the four AI options or an online foe) in a sudden death match with a twist; cleared lines and level bumps will add random unfilled lines to your opponent's play area. All added lines appear as grey "shadows" and serve to fill up your play area that much faster while also making it harder to clear what you have possibly planned out (if you're thinking ahead, as you should). The first of the opponents to touch the inside of the roof of the play area with their matrix will be the loser, making the survivor the winner of the match for surviving.
The third basic gameplay mode is called Sprint, and tasks you with clearing forty lines of tetraminos in your fastest possible time. This mode is all about speed and accuracy, so it's a good one to hone your skills on if you've only got a few minutes – as it shouldn't take you too long.
Time's Up mode is the first of the more difficult ones, and has you clearing lines of tetraminos in order to add time to a countdown clock. You start with thirty seconds, so it's important to get a bit of a cushion in this one with some quick clears if you're looking to survive long.
See those marked tetraminos? They're trouble.
Battle Ultimate is the second battle type mode and the only other mode that is 100% versus. As with regular battle mode, you'll be fighting an opponent – however this time they've introduced a series of power ups to shake things up. There's Buzzsaw which sends three random lines from your matrix into your opponents, Carousel which temporarily shifts their matrix to the left every time they drop a tetramino, Hip to be Square which makes your opponent's next four drops square tetraminos, Haunted Well which makes your opponent's blocks invisible for three turns, and Let it Rain which rains tetraminos down on your opponent's game. This is where things got a little too "new age" for me and I had to back off – but I'm sure the masochistic of you out there might enjoy the challenge of dodging around all of the power ups (or sending them your opponent's way).
Ultra's a three minute challenge mode, giving you just 180 seconds to throw down as many clears as you can in order to obtain a high score. To me it was one of my lesser played modes, but I understand the lure of a mode that has a fixed time – both for score chasing purposes, and a limited amount of play time.
Endless mode is exactly what it suggests; endless… if you're good enough. Offering an endless succession of speed drop modes which get progressively faster, it's a true score chasing mode as it pits you against yourself and the randomizer – looking for the highest score you can get without touching the top of the play area with your matrix. Think of it as a variation on Marathon mode that only ends when you mess up; it's the ultimate challenge for the quick to react Tetris player.
Next we have Landslide mode, where every ten drops you'll get a random tetramino dump to add to your matrix. To me, it felt like a single player battle mode with a slow but smart opponent that will never lose – and so I avoided it in favour of the next mode… which happens to be my favourite.
This isn't a cleared board, it's haunted mode – everything's invisible.
Haunted is the mode for those with a memory, 'cause it's Marathon mode with a twist – you can only see your already set pieces when you lock a new one in (they're otherwise invisible), and as you level up the viewing of your set pieces becomes less frequent (happening every two lock-ins, then every three, and so on). It's a mode that relies on memorization, Tetris skills, and logic – and is easily the hardest mode in the game. It's also my clear favourite, because it trains you for literally every other mode in the game.
All these modes can be played multiplayer (either with AI or an actual opponent online), and the non-battle modes can be played single player as well – giving you plenty of options for play. All the games with single player modes also track your scores, giving you a readout of either the global charts or your friends with a simple toggle. In addition to that, there are also awards and other stats collected, along with a challenge feed to give you new scores to reach for.
Speaking of options, aside from the modes you're probably wondering what other options you have for customizing play – well, there are quite a few;
Now I'm no expert on all the different rules that have been implemented over the years and changes that have been possible, but that seems like a pretty extensive list of changes to have access to (especially when most of those options have multiple levels). It certainly seems like however you've grown up dropping tetraminos, there's a rule or change to make sure that's what you get. What more could you ask for?
Looking at the game from a graphical and sound based perspective, it's clear that the game both runs and sounds new-age. Gone are the bland single tone tetraminos of the original version, and gone is the original version of that familiar Tetris chiptune – however in their place are the coloured blocks many of us have come to know over the years, and a remixed Tetris tune that'll appeal better to the current generation of up-and-comers. Despite these changes, the game runs smooth even at higher speeds (or at least the ones I could reach) and seems to be rock solid in all graphical and audio areas – something that has proven well worth the wait to experience.
As for the game itself, it's very solid. In all my gameplay with Ultimate on Vita I never encountered a single in-game crash, graphical glitch, multiplayer disconnection, or issue in general – aside from one small nag of a crash. I couldn't figure out what the cause was exactly (it almost felt random), but certain times when starting the game from the bubble it would hang right before the "Press X to Start" screen; a simple closing of the game and then reopening it usually remedying the issue (though annoying).
It may be a little more pricy than some expected – debuting at $15 US, £12, or €15 – but it's notable that it comes with the Challenge DLC that the PlayStation 4 version doesn't come with built-in, and if you buy the PlayStation 4 version with the DLC it actually costs more than the already complete Vita version does.
If you combine that cheaper entry price with just how solid the game runs on Vita and the added portability compared to other versions… you have me wondering why you're reading this review instead of playing this game. Tetris Ultimate is simply a must have for any Tetris fan of the past, and a must try for any puzzle fan out there today.
Packed with some great modes, a proper online leaderboard, stat tracking, enough customization options to please almost any player, and the offer of true portability... this truly is the ultimate version of Tetris.
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Kyle Wakeling is the Editor in Chief and Jack of all trades here at The Vita Lounge. A long time gamer and aspiring writer, he's just hoping to spread the word of PlayStation Vita to the darkest corners of the internet - and beyond.
Lester Paredes
Hmmm.. my vita dies need a tetris game… but how does it stack up if you already have (quite possibly the best vita puzzle game) Lumines?
I'm a big Lumines fan from back on PSP, but Tetris is just the better game IMO.
If I had to choose between them, I'd say Tetris – but if you simply asked me which you should buy I'd say both. 😉
Cousin Jeffrey
Kyle, any word on a review of Lego Jurassic world for vita? Just wondering on its quality compared to the console versions, I'm waiting for the vita lounge review before deciding on a purchase 🙂
We'll hopefully have one up soon, but I can't speak to the specifics of that at this moment.
We are hoping to get a review copy but it's looking like at least a week. If We don't get one we will need to purchase it.
If only my pockets were li ed with gold. Lol.
Muhammad Hatta
Looking for Tetris Ultimate battle….add me hattatheiceman
Deft Beck
I'd say that Lumines has much more personality than Tetris.
good review. any word on when the physical version will be released? Amazon had it listed for 2 june but it still isnt available
I'm not sure about Amazon, but there are physical copies out there right now – I've seen them.
Devin Hudson
Sounds great. Glad to see the Vita wasn't saddled with a subpar port.
I'll probably pick up a physical copy whenever it goes on sale/gets a price drop (I understand paying a premium for physical, but double the price of the digital version is a bit too pricey for me).
Buckybuckster
Great review Kyle! My many many thanx! Will have to pick this up sometime in the near future if only for the nostalgia factor. I'm a little burnt-out on match 3 so this would come as a nice change of pace (although I'm currently enjoying FP: Piece of Cake).
Kimi Denise
Hey I have a quick question that prompted me to search online. I just downloaded this cause I've always loved Tetris. I just went into the options to take off the ghost piece I hate and I can't seem to change it. It says press R to change but that just backs me out. No other button budges it. What's going on?
Hey Kimi, it's actually asking you to use the right analog stick to change the option – not the right trigger (R) button.
Oh! Dammit. Thanks! I was wondering what that thing was for…hahaha…
izz_t
Awesome! Nostalgic game, definitely going to buy this for my vita!
Mongo från yttre rymden
Is there an ad-hoc multiplayer mode? If there was, it would truly be ultimate in my opinion. If not, can you search for friends and invite them to a match? That would be the second best. Tetris is best played multi with a person physically next to you. Like the good old GameBoy days 🙂
Eric withCheese Ashley
Love this game. Wish it utilized more of the original music though. It seems to only make cameos here.
Also like that the file size was really small so I chose to download over physical so I can always have a quick game of Tetris at the ready. 🙂
CosmicSense
Meh, I'd buy it if it was $5 or so…
Howard Katz
got mine 7.99 at Gamestop preowned.
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Govt to Ban Fish Importation in Two Years - THISDAY
By James Emejo
Abuja — The federal government has announced plans to end fish importation in the next two years as it asked fish importers to consider producing fish locally.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Sabo Nanono, said yesterday in Abuja at the 35th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), that the federal government has also initiated and is implementing programmes, especially in the agriculture sector to diversify the economy.
Nanono noted that an estimated over 12 million Nigerians are actively engaged in primary and fish production, adding that contribution of fisheries to the national Gross Domestic Products is about 4.5 per cent.
"Let me inform you that the vision of Mr. President is to grow Nigeria's agriculture sector to achieve a hunger-free nation, through agriculture that drives income growth, accelerate the achievement of food and nutritional security, generate employment and transform Nigeria into a leading player in the group of food and fish markets, and to create wealth for millions," he said.
He said it is in this regard that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is pursuing a holistic approach to the development of the fisheries subsector through the diversification programme along the value chain process.
"In line with the theme of this conference, the ministry has developed various programmes to increase domestic food/fish production and the main target is the empowerment of the youth and other groups especially the women," he stated, adding: "All these programmes are tailored towards wealth and jobs creation, arrest and prevention of youth restiveness." The minister said currently, the total demand for fish is 3.6 million tonnes annually while Nigeria is producing 1.1 million tonnes, leaving a deficit of about 2.5 million tonnes to be supplemented by importation.
He said as part of the measures of the ministry to reduce this importation and generate employment, the government has directed all fish importers to go into backward integration for local consumption and export to international market.
He said in this regard, several companies have complied with the policy and that the ministry is optimistic that in the next two years, Nigeria will have no business with the importation of fish.
The minister, who was represented by the Director of Federal Department of Fisheries, Mr. Imeh Umoh, described fisheries as one of the value chains in the ministry, stressing that it is the driving force for wealth and jobs creation, contribution to food and nutrition security, poverty reduction as well as the creation of numerous investments for the teeming Nigerians, "especially during the economic recession which is occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic."
Nanono added that the contributions of the fisheries and aquaculture sub-sector to the Nigerian economy and the ongoing economic recovery programme of the current regime are significant in terms of employment, income generation, poverty alleviation, foreign exchange earnings and provision of raw materials.
President of FISON, Mr. Adegoke Agbabiaka, stated that in order to achieve self-sufficiency in food fish production, the government in the last decade had made a paradigm shift under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda and is now considering agriculture, including fisheries and aquaculture, as a business.

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Aiming strong for stardom with a set of very popular parents, Lily-Rose Depp is making her own mark, and has become quite the Chanel muse.
The young 18 year old blonde is featured once again as the face of Chanel Beauty, and stars in the Chanel Coco Rouge Lip Blush Campaign.
Her previous Chanel campaign was the Rouge Coco Gloss, and she is also the face of Chanel L'eau No. 5 Fragrance, and for the latest set of images, Lily-Rose is lensed by Patrick Demarchelier.
Wearing a white dress, posing on a swing, Lily-Rose models the Chanel two-in-one lip stain and cheek blush, and is a pretty vision.
Chanel Beauty's latest product is made with a Hydraboost Complex and a natural coconut oil derivative, and gives maximum hydration with a pretty colour.


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Colour-Coordinated
I may have privileges you lack;
Yet, sister, I am not that different from you.
I too have been black,
And at times blue too.
Though different points on the atlas,
The same lines run through us.
First published in DeltaWomen Magazine, 29 August 2013.
Labels: Gender, Poetry, Race
Are You a Consumer or a Participant?
The question was first posed in the Paris of 1968. It was the first time in history when students and workers came together in such numbers for a common cause, to join hands against state tyranny, to urge 'the revolution is in you'.
It has been forty-five years since. We still haven't made the right choice. Let alone empathizing with the cause of 'other' communities, we shy away from standing up even for our own. What are we afraid of? What keeps us from taking the plunge and becoming active, resisting participants rather than being passive, vulnerable consumers (which is any seller's dream), except in the form of temporary attendance at protest 'events'?
In the nursery rhyme 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee', the two characters keep on fighting with each other because that is the routine they are familiar with. Familiarity is reassuring. We are the facsimiles of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The established order is silently followed. The students-workers movement had also asked us to unzip our minds as often as our fly. We forget to unzip. Instead, our minds carry an old, rusty padlock. The signboard reads: Dissenters will be persecuted.
Alternatives are not to be looked for. If found, who would accept them? Accepting them would mean letting go of the old order which is familiar, comfortable and reassuring. The structure may be rotten. Who cares tuppence? We go on replastering. We go on clinging pathetically to the centre, till the very end, so that we know where to come back to. Suddenly, it strikes us we can be safer. We take a short rope and tie ourselves to the centre. Like we tie our dogs. So that we/the dogs do not stray afar.
Make it new, they tell us. But what is new is scary. Discovering new centres means stepping into the unknown. How many people in our generation have witnessed a revolution? How can we recreate something we have not seen? No use getting into the pointless exercise of envisaging how it would have been if our predecessors would have thought likewise.
We might have a thing or two to learn from Jane Fonda when she says, 'Sometimes, you have to give it all up. To gather.' We have to open your arms to gather. But they are crossed firmly against our chests. In fear. In defence. In defence of the fear. Because the old blabbermouth of our conscience would not keep quiet. It insists on whispering with its wicked mouth our own weaknesses to us.
But we can put our fears to rest. The knight in shining armour comes to our rescue. We find refuge in cynicism, aka, 'practicality'. Everything falls in line thereafter. Marches invite our sneers. Sloganeering passers for empty rhetoric. Long and trying struggles of radical groups get a sympathetic shake of the head, underlining the futility of any attempts at change. Our fervent prayers echo, 'God! Give us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change.' The rest of the phrase, 'and the power to change the things we can', sinks into oblivion.
When it seems that cynicism cannot be a permanent solace, when we start noticing chinks in its armour, a movie like Rang De Basanti comes. A certain group of young people are deeply 'stirred' but hate to admit it. After all, when do these things happen in 'real' life? They are quick to explain to their friends, and to themselves, the unrealistic elements of the movie. Another section cries out loud, claps, cheers, swears and shouts 'Inquilab Zindabad', all the right reactions corresponding with all the right moments in the movie. The intensity of passion finds an outlet. Catharsis happens.
We need not hasten to identify ourselves with any of the two groups. We can choose to respond in a different, third kind of manner. We do not have to critique the 'unrealism' of the movie. We do not have to act as cheerleaders. We do not even have to watch the movie. We just need to take a good, hard look around and what we see would arouse the same passion, the same rage in us. We can choose to build up the anger, the frustration, the agony. And then use all of it. To fight. To struggle. To build and create. To 'make it new'. It is a unique experience altogether. Slightly unfamiliar. Slightly scary. Completely exhilarating. Listen to Dylan Thomas:
Do not go gentle into that good night . . .
Rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The revolution is in you, remember?
First published in Youth Ki Awaaz, 13 August 2013.
Labels: People's Politics, Prose
Half the Sky: Endangered on Earth
Primetime television commercials and full-page newspaper jackets zoom on fresh young faces and sleek new gizmos stressing how technology has moved forward since the time of Ambassador cars and HMT watches. If you have any memory of the Licence Raj economy, when stifling entrepreneurship was the raison d'etre of the system, the brave bold today ads flaunt a brash, happening India.
We are made to believe that because of a new car model hitting the road every three months or the screen of our television getting bigger and bigger, we have been able to usher in a new dawn and leave behind all that was old and stagnant. But modern machines do not make modern people. Technology is most certainly a major route for reformist change, but its role as an instrument of change depends on its users and so it can be as potent in propagating stultifying stereotypes. Technology can help us grow in the direction we want but may not be able to help if we are misdirected. Just think of the supercomputer which can be used to trace the footprints of an erratic monsoon and – and develop nuclear weapons as well.
Moreover, when newer electronic avatars threaten to throw asunder the old order, the keepers of the crusted establishment know a thing or two about protecting the status quo. When a Khap panchayat in Uttar Pradesh banned the use of cell phones by women, the diktat of the male-chauvinist kangaroo court sought to put an end to the many possibilities technology held for women in those remote villages, because the holders of power saw a definite threat in the little device. The exclusively male group was afraid that the SIM in the hands of the 'onion peelers' could shake the ground beneath the smug footholds of patriarchy. (You see, all it takes is a missed call.) At such times, it is not technology but its users who would have to intervene. What would need to come into play are something as basic as the human values of courage and empathy. These cannot be substituted by technology.
The other aspect of the date between gadgetry and youth has been that while access to knowledge has never been easier, while participatory platforms have never been wider, these alone are not sufficient to pave the way towards a more egalitarian world. Yes, we now know a lot more; yes, we now are more on talking terms with more of those like us . . . But has all this 'increased talktime' helped the urban, privileged lot to reach out? Has it helped us be more sensitive to those that fight the survival battle in Other India, the vast tribal hinterland unvisited by the laptop and fast-food culture?
Then there is the question of those who do try to use modern media and technology to change warped mindsets. A social campaign against rape by a Bollywood personality comes to mind. The heart of the campaign may be in the right place, its intentions noble. But the principle of gender sensitivity is carried only halfway through. So while its aim is to end gender violence, the logic is flawed. It does affirm that women have their own identity and that they should not endure violence but these right noises get lost in the absence of a sharper focus. It reminds men of the many roles women play in their lives and how, therefore, they should be respected. Maybe inadvertently, but it ends up encouraging the notion that women have to be related to men and their lives in order to be deserving of this respect. It talks of what 'real men' do, thus solidifying gender binaries and stressing that there is something quintessentially masculine and feminine instead of an all-encompassing humane bracket. It is naïve to say that as men would take time to come out of familiar categories and would feel lost if old certainties are taken away, first one should expect them to become better men and then better human beings. The gender binary in our society is hugely skewed. One cannot take five hundred years to achieve step one, the next five hundred to step two. We can't apologetically shrug and say that, till then, we would have to accept the present forms of violence arising from prejudices we are wary of disturbing, while new kinds of attacks each day continue to take place. This is precisely why the more things change, the more they remain the same.
At the same time, to achieve a fast solution, one ought not to pluck a half-ripe principle. Even if we forget the ideal of honest means for an honest end, this is not sustainable. If a man tries to be a 'real man' by not hitting his partner, he may also have some expectations from her that he thinks should be fulfilled by a 'real woman'. So, at its very inception, such patchy logic is ridden with holes.
The sellers and propagators of technology, companies offering new technological 'solutions' every day and swearing by the notion of 'progress', cannot operate in a value-neutral vacuum. If women are threatened with rape on Rediff chat or Twitter, the portal and service providers cannot throw up their hands at these 'non-technical' issues. They are being run by people, not machines, who are a living-thinking-feeling part of our society and they cannot but address these violations in the strictest manner possible. Such contradictions are also blatant when 'new age' IT companies practise gender-based wage difference and evade putting women in top positions notwithstanding their merit.
On a personal level, I have felt this yawning (literally) gap in the modernity of a techno-savvy blooming glowing shining dining young India and the way we lead our lives and make our choices time and again. A year or so back, when people I know had not started chiding me for the pounds I had gained, I got a call from a friend in advertising. A couple of actors/models had backed out at the last moment, and my friend had been assigned the task of looking for replacements. I have problems with something as commercial as product endorsements. But this was to be for a publication and promised a 'public interest' message. I love doing different things; this was something I had never done before, and I got all ears for the details. She described the scene to be shot to me.
Two women are in a public space, a man tries to harass one, the woman is nervous, the other woman intervenes, thus lending strength and solidarity to the first one. It seemed simple enough. It wasn't. The two women could not be just any women. They had to be a particular sort. The target: thin, preferably fair. The intervener: someone bigger.
I had to be the target. Always allergic to stereotypes, I asked to play the latter. My friend went back to the director and asked him. He said he couldn't flip, that he had visualized the scene a certain way and couldn't play with the aesthetics of it, and that it wasn't about stereotypes. I wasn't convinced, and my two minutes of potential fame went down the archetypal drain in less than two minutes.
My first job involved working on the Right to Information. A journalist friend informed that her magazine's next issue was on young activists and for a change they wanted not models but activists for the cover. I appreciated the nous of the magazine in wanting to have real, 'flawed', and not airbrushed people on the cover, something that most mainstream magazines are loath to do. As for being on the cover, I felt I was young enough but not activist enough. I asked her if I could pass the brief around, thinking I'd ask a young friend who had been engaged with activism longer than I had. My journalist friend asked her editor. She reverted to hesitantly inform me that while the magazine was looking for activists, they wanted someone thin, and preferably fair. I stated that I wasn't up for it if such were the criteria for selection. But I told my other colleagues about the opportunity. (Looking back, I felt I shouldn't have passed the word around for a shoot that ostensibly chose people for their work but based on their skin colour and body type.) I thought I shouldn't impose my opinions on them. Finally, someone was chosen from our group who, though not fair, was slim enough but was even newer to activism than I was.
The cover needed men too. When my friend proffered, they required him to get rid of his facial hair. He refused.
The magazine cover we eventually saw on the stands had some stiff models, except the person chosen from our organization, in fashionably 'ethnic' clothing. Considering that the magazine was conforming to stereotypes, it hadn't done a great job of it. The models were more 'model-like' than 'activist-like' but, the lord be blessed, reflected enough white light and had all the right angles.
That we live in a regressive society riddled with stereotypes around gender, class, caste, race and religion is yesterday's news. But the jab of disappointment is particularly sharp when as young people, 'with it' in every way and adept in playing with the toys of technology, we go back to walking on all fours the moment we are called upon to stand up for things. In the first instance, a young director, in whose hands sophisticated technology willingly yielded to enhance his creativity, felt turning stereotypes on their heads would interfere with aesthetics. I do not have his skills, experience and expertise, and I am in no position to question them. But can aesthetics and politics not go hand in hand? Does art have to be apolitical and politics unaesthetic?
When I ask my friends in advertising about why commercials still try so hard to conform, they say that while they are dying to do brave new work, their clients are afraid of taking risks and have no romantic notions about traversing the road less taken. So on screen, we hardly see men changing diapers and women being the breadwinners, though such real-life instances have been around for quite some time now, even if they aren't the norm yet. Technology, claiming to deliver things ahead of our times, fails when as popular media it cannot even keep pace with the times.
Of course, there do exist some young people discerning enough to acknowledge that this is not how it should be. Having studied literature, my friend went for an advertising course hoping to introduce to that world the gender sensitivity and non-conformity she had always believed in and absorbed even better in college. Upon joining the new course, it did not take her long to grasp that advertising expected her not to use her previous education but unlearn it. She tried to change things, came up with exciting presentations of her ideas but nothing budged. She ultimately decided to quit and got back to academics, instead of doing something that flew in the face of all she stood for.
There are also some who stay but keep trying to create a dent instead of allowing themselves to get completely co-opted. An editor I know ensures that the primary school textbooks she handles have Ravi and Sunil fetching water and doing other household chores, apart from studying. 'No Malti or Susheela would ever wash utensils in by book, while Ram goes to school,' she promises. While publishing is a business, she ensures that being responsible for the content she does not lend a hand in planting gender stereotypes in young minds.
If there were more such who insisted on pushing against the wall instead of predicting it won't give way, or resisted becoming a part of something they did not believe in, if we did not let ourselves be a supine mass of wood floating in any direction that wind or water would deign to carry it, undoubtedly the tectonic shift one had never dared to hope for because of its scale would have happened. Still can.
In the case of the magazine cover, we had a well-established publication for the youth trying to do something different and real. But the media house was trying to be radical in a halfway, conditional manner, not confident that their young readership would be welcoming enough of their initiative. When I was in the Film and Television Institute, Pune, we had a guest lecture by young film-maker Dibakar Banerjee. He has contributed gems to the Hindi film industry like Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai. Among other things, his films often expose middle-class hypocrisies. In each of his works, he has shown brilliant film-making and has got his politics right, thereby answering the question of the compatibility of politics and aesthetics. Speaking to us, he shared his frustration over how young couples 'modern' in every sense of the term would say that they cannot marry each other because one of theirs is a no-onions-nor-garlic family. No different are our matrimonial ads where the young gleefully participate with their parents in a caste-based elimination-selection of prospective partners.
In Love Sex Aur Dhokha, we witness an India which is abreast with technological advancement but is actually using it to fulfil its greed, creating a divide between the doer (the user of technology) and the done upon (the ones against whom technology has been used). One example shown in the movie, and something rampant in recent India, is the use of hidden cameras for pornography and blackmail. The employment of technology to commit crimes like foeticide is also common amongst the middle class. At the other end of this lie our daily soaps where they reveal that girls are valuable indeed and, of course, the best way to understand this is to see them performing sacrifices and participating in trials by fire, all in order to do what they do best – 'keep the family together'.
All these issues are related to the young inhabitants of India, who know their iPods like the back of their hand but are shy of breaking free of the old dogmas on which they base their lives. The old principles – honesty, truth, standing up for ourselves and others, sharing our privileges – lying forgotten are the inconvenient ones. Even as I wrote this, it came as a small shock to me that I paused to think of whether there are 'cooler' substitutes for these words; words that should have been basic to our existence now sound 'loaded', 'outdated', 'moralistic', as if human values also come with an expiry date, and all rights and wrongs have become perspectival (unless we are at the receiving end of those wrongs). Those of us who have discarded all ideologies need to find them back. Those who think who they have them need to probe deeper to practise them with complete scrupulousness. The young, technology-driven India is an India privileged like never before. But on the other side, there's the underprivileged India, some of whose young members are fighting brave battles on their personal and societal fronts. The privileged India cannot simply be the benefactor of a modern India and refuse to acknowledge its accountability. If a girl from a family where 'honour killing' is a threat runs away to escape a fate imposed by her family, she is of huge inspiration to me. People like us are clearly better ensconced and do not run risks so dire. In comparison, and also in deference, to that girl if we do not even shake ourselves out of our stupor to assert to our (surely, more understanding) families a right as basic as that of choosing our partners, we should shed all pretensions of modernity. One expects this young India to raise the right questions and find some answers, and if the process causes discomfort or inconvenience, to kindly deal with it.
After the 16 December rape case in Delhi, we had cried ourselves hoarse asking the state and the police to deliver justice and had sworn that we would not let this go on. To fulfil that promise, we ought to do justice to our own lives as conscientious beings. We have to use technology and all the privileges we have received as part of the modern world package to seek and destroy whatever is rotten in the state of India. There is no other way we can allow ourselves to go on.
First published in The Equator Line, August-October 2013.
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24 Horas de Vida é um programa de televisão que tem como objetivo, ajudar celebridades a escolher o que fazer nas suas 'últimas' 24 horas de vida. É emitido aos domingos à noite e apresentado por Bárbara Guimarães, assinalando o regresso da apresentadora à antena da SIC.

No início do mês de março de 2020, na sequência do surto de Covid-19 em Portugal, em linha com as medidas preventivas adotadas pela SIC para os seus programas de entretenimento, as gravações da primeira temporada do programa foram suspensas, com previsão de ser retomadas quando "existirem condições para voltar a gravar".

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Este é um formato televisivo intenso, verdadeiro e emocionante.

Em 24 horas de Vida, Bárbara Guimarães vai ao encontro de uma celebridade e desafia-a a viver plenamente as suas 'últimas' 24 horas de vida. Para tal, há que estabelecer prioridades e fazer escolhas.

Ao longo dos programas, as figuras conhecidas partem deste cenário hipotético rumo a uma bola de neve de emoções. Os afetos, os medos, as ânsias e incertezas, as dúvidas e o arrependimento, a amizade e o amor, numa jornada única, repleta de encontros, atividades, memórias, momentos de afeto e de reflexão. O objetivo é viver ao máximo... como se não houvesse amanhã.

Durante 24 horas, numa corrida contra o tempo, o convidado decide o que quer fazer, de quem deseja despedir-se e que experiências quer viver. Bárbara Guimarães acompanha-o ao longo de toda a jornada, garantindo a concretização dos seus últimos desejos.

Este é o programa que o fará questionar-se acerca das suas prioridades.

Se tivesse apenas 24 horas de vida...
O que faria?
Quereria estar com a família? Reunir os amigos? Pedir desculpa a alguém? Concretizar um sonho antigo? Ou apenas divertir-se?

Confrontado com o fim, sentir-se-ia grato? Diria que viveu a vida da melhor forma? Ou deixou muitas coisas por fazer? Por fim, estaria pronto para dizer adeus?

Não deixes nada por fazer.
Não deixes nada por dizer.
Se há algo que queres realizar, o momento é agora!

24 Horas de Vida, um formato surpreendentemente feliz... Uma homenagem à vida!

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Indiana Jones: Harrison Ford discusses shooting fifth film
Indiana Jones fans have long awaited the next step on the franchise's journey. Harrison Ford has starred in all four of the films so far, from Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was released in 2008. A fifth Indiana Jones film was announced to be in production in 2020, with Lucasfilm apparently taking on the story once again. What's more, Ford has apparently signed up to continue the journey of his his iconic character once again – but since then no new information has been released.
John Rhys-Davies has now spoken candidly about the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones film.
The as-of-yet untitled movie currently has just a few names signed up to it at the moment, but Rhys-Davies isn't certain he is going to be a part of it.
In a recent interview the Lord of the Rings actor explained that filming will be starting soon, revealing: "I understand the film is going to be made, allegedly in May."
Despite the good news, he wasn't confident in the ability to make a film during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Rhys-Davies continued: "I have the slightest skepticism that the world will be able to shoot a movie like that in May."
The 76-year-old also touched upon whether he would be returning to the franchise as his long-played character, Egyptian excavator Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir.
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The Gimli actor added: "I think we ought to wait a little bit longer and, you know, let our masters actually make announcements and then you can either share my joy or my disappointment. Is that suitably diplomatic?"
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Potawatomi success stories: December 2014
Citizen Potawatomi Nation members have had many accomplishments and earned distinctions in professional, academic, athletic and artistic fields over the past few months. Here are just a few of their success stories.
Ryun Godfrey.
In the fall of 2014, Tribal member Ryun Godfrey began his first year as the head cross country and assistant track and field coach at Kansas State University. Godfrey, a member of the Bergeron family on his paternal grandmother's side, joins Kansas State after 14 years at North Dakota State University. He was named the 2014 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Association indoor and outdoor women's Coach of the Year awards in the Midwest Region. During his time at NDSU, Godfrey coached eight All-Americans in indoor track, 11 All-Americans in outdoor and two Academic All-Americans in cross country.
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CPN member Alaina Hardin Wiseley from Houston, Texas, earned her first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do last spring. The black belt test is a five-hour exam that requires 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and several mile runs. Wiseley also sparred with opponents, broke boards and demonstrated proficiency of 20 different traditional Korean forms all without food and water breaks.
Wisely, a sixth grader is training for her second degree black belt as well as teaching other students with their forms.
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Roselius was awarded Outstanding Senior for multidisciplinary studies and was presented a plaque by President David Boren. Upon his graduation from OU in the spring, Roselius will attend The University of Minnesota at Duluth Medical School.


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The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France re-open!
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Posted: Dec 07, 2014 16:11 Post subject: The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France re-open!
The Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France, finally will re-open after being closed 10 years.
In this museum there are 400 years of history and more than 130,000 specimens. Don't miss the visit to one of the great Museums in the world, full of History! (and quality specimens ;-)
For more info (in French language) you can check: Exposition "Trésors de la Terre" du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
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Posted: Jul 24, 2015 19:33 Post subject: Recent trip to The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
As Jordi said in his last post, the National Natural History Museum of France recently re-opened. I was lucky enough to visit the museum on my way home from the 2015 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mine Show.
Back in 2014 I also visited the museum after the SMAM Show but the new Gallery hadn't yet been opened. Now it's open and it's TRULY worth a visit.
I'll start posting the mineral photos next week.
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This is me in front of the entrance to the museum. This is located in the North Western side of the Jardin de lécole de botanique (Botanical and Ecology Garden). This is in the 5th Arr (arrondissements or administrative district) of Paris where the Latin Quarter is located.
In the Classic Mineral Hall (due to open next year) with Curator Gian Carlo Parodi.
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Inside the Museum. Me with Curator Cristiano Ferraris.
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Posted: Jul 30, 2015 15:21 Post subject: Re: The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France re-open!
More from my trip.
René Just Haüy - the father of modern crystallography and founder of the Mineralogical Museum at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The rumor is if you rub his foot you will be extremely lucky in finding minerals. It's funny to see his right foot so smooth compared to his left foot. I guess if you rub that, you just end up stuttering.
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The entrance into the newly-opened Mineral Hall features these Quartz Sentinels watching over the exhibit. The displays continue down this hall and the loop back on the other side of the Sentinels. I was quite amazed as one year ago I visited and this entire area was nothing more than a construction zone.
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Close up of some of the Sentinels (FYI, this is my word for them, not the museum's).
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Down the first half of the display, there are four nooks like this where minerals are displayed on the three sides of the nook. Very nice display and the people really enjoyed this. Lots of English-speaking people too.
Now, on to the specimens...The A's and B's
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Mineral: Afghanite
Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
And nice and BIG Afghanite from Badakhchan, Afghanistan.
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Mineral: Amethyst
A final shot of the Quartz Sentinels. In the back is a large Amethyst geode with a nice big Calcite growing inside of it.
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Mineral: Azurite
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Four nice Azurite specimens from Bisbee, Arizona, USA.
A LARGE Azurite specimen also from Bisbee, Arizona, USA.
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Azurites from the ancient collection of Des Cloizeaux. Des Cloizeaux was a professor here at the National Museum of Natural History and is credited with the discovery of microcline feldspar (think Amazonite - probably the most well-known microcline here in the USA). He was probably most well known for his exhaustive study of crystal structure. The mineral Descloizite was named in honor of Des Cloizeaux.
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Mineral: Benitoite
California State Gem Mine (Benitoite Gem Mine), Dallas Gem Mine area, San Benito River headwaters area, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito County, California, USA
A big Benitoite specimen from California, USA. Benitoite is the State Gemstone for the state of California.
Minerals starting with the letter C and continuing to minerals starting with the letter F
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Mineral: Calcite
Dalnegorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
An GREAT Calcite from Dal'negorsk, Russia.
Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France
The FAMOUS Mickey Mouse Calcite from Fontainbleau, France.
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Mineral: Cuprite (variety chalcotrichite)
A large Cuprite piece from China.
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Mineral: Dioptase
A KILLER Dioptase from Congo. I LOVE the single crystal sticking up in the middle.
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Mineral: Fluorite
Le Burc Mine, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Occitanie, France
A really great blue Fluorite from Le Burg, France.
Le Beix Mine, Saint-Germain-près-Herment, Herment, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme Department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Another French Fluorite. This one is from Le Beix.
Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
The FAMOUS Laurent Fluorite from Chamonix, France (the French side of Mont Blanc). This specimen is the first natural history specimen to be classified as a French National Treasure.
GOLD GOLD GOLD!!!!!!
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Mineral: Gold
A nice Gold specimen from Placerville, California, USA.
Eagle's Nest Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff District, Placer County, California, USA
A spectacular Crystallized Gold specimen from the Eagle's Nest Mine in California, USA.
352.5 grams of a Gold nugget from Queensland, Australia.
Adelaide, Western Australia, Australia
A 270g nugget of Gold from Adelaide, Western Australia.
A 507g Gold Nugget from Peru. According to the label, this piece is called, "Gold of the Incas" and was presented to the Museum by an emissary of the Spanish King Carlos IV in the hopes that this gift would dissuade Napoleon Bonaparte from invading Spain. As history shows, this was not an effective ploy.
THIS is the kind of history that this museum has on display. INCREDIBLE!!!
Another great crystallized Gold specimen.
Minerals starting with the letter M and continuing to minerals starting with the letter S
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Mineral: Mimetite
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
A huge Mimetite specimen from the Santa Eulalia District in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Mineral: Platinum
A nice set of Platinum Nuggets from Russia. Weighing in (from left to right) at 803g, 737g and 204.5g, these pieces are from the ancient collection of Czar Nicolas I. When Nicolas died in 1855, these pieces were gifted to the Paris Academy of Sciences which then delivered them to the museum two years later.
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Mineral: Pyromorphite
Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Allerdale, former Cumberland, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
A LARGE Pyromorphite plate from Roughton Gill, England, UK.
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Mineral: Rhodochrosite
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma District, Park County, Colorado, USA
A classic Rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado, USA.
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Mineral: Silver
Kongsberg mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
A VERY rare native Silver specimen from the classic Kongsberg Mine in Norway. VERY rare to see a complete and unbroken loop.
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Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico
A beautiful specimen of Native Silver with Calcite from the Valenciana Mine in Mexico - one of the most important Silver mines for colonial Spain. This piece is from the Vesignie Collection. Colonel Jean Paul Louis Vesignie (1870-1954) was an important French military man who amassed a collection of over 40,000 minerals that he eventually donated to the Paris School of Mines, the National Museum of Natural History and the Sorbonne Museum. The mineral Vesignieite is named after him.
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Mineral: Stibnite
A large French Stibnite specimen.
Minerals starting with the letters T, V and W
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Mineral: Tourmaline
East Siberia Region, Russia
A large Rubellite from Siberia, Russia. This was in the collection of Russia's Catherine The Great who ruled Russia during their Golden Age and made Russia one of the great powers of Europe.
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A nice Tourmaline and Quartz slab from Brazil.
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Mineral: Vanadinite
Mibladen (Mibladen mining district), Midelt, Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
I was most impressed by this Vanadinite from Morocco but then thought that the three specimens made a nice display.
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Mineral: Wolframite
Kara-Oba, Betpak-Dala (Bet-Pak-Dala) Desert, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
A crazy Wolframite with Fluorite from Kazakhstan.
Coming up next will be some of the INCREDIBLE display themes that the National Museum has on display.
Amazing photos and nice specimens.
Thanks Roger. Wait until you see some of the more historic pieces of jewelry on display. Simply amazing.
Posted: Aug 03, 2015 15:00 Post subject: Re: The Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France re-open!
More displays from the National Museum in Paris
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A nice pair of minerals - Azurite and Malachite...
...and then the paint pigments that were made from the minerals.
From the collection of the National Museum of Natural History - Paris.
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Again, minerals...
...and the paint pigments made from grinding up the minerals into powder.
Absolutely FANTASTIC mosaic tables from Italy.
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Not mineral specimens but mosaic table tops made from various minerals. These are from Florence, Italy and are out of the collection of the Medici Family - one of the wealthiest and powerful families in Europe.
Another mosaic tabletop from the Medici Family Collection, Florence, Italy.
Rough & Cut displays always have a warm place in my heart.
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One of the museum's two Rough and Cut displays.
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Mineral: Topaz
Imperial Topaz from Minas Gerais, Brazil - Rough & Cut
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Mineral: Kunzite
Kunzite - Rough & Cut
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Topaz - Rough & Cut
The second display of Rough & Cut.
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Mineral: Emerald
Emerald - Rough & Cut. The crystal is a 320.6ct specimen from Russia, the 556ct engraved Emerald bottle is from Brazil and the cut stone is a Colombian Emerald and was part of the Haüy collection.
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Pala, Pala District, San Diego County, California, USA
Tourmaline rough and cut from Pala discovered in 1900. At this time in Pala's history, these pink tourmalines were being mined for the Empress Dowager Cixi of China who LOVED pink tourmalines and was responsible for driving the economic boom of the Pala region of this time. In 1907 George Kunz, working for Pierpont-Morgan at the time, donated these pieces. Most recently cleaned by French dealer Alain Martaud.
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Mineral: Citrine
A Citrine Rough & Cut display all from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Home stretch...these are the final uploads from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
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The museum also has a VERY historic collection of gems and jewelry.
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Mineral: Aquamarine
This is a 205ct Russian Aquamarine that was owned by Louis XVIII - the only French monarch to have ruled after Napolean Bonaparte - TWICE!!
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Mineral: Opal
A 77ct Opal from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Also from the Louis XVIII collection.
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Mineral: Pearls
A set of Pearls that were once owned by Marie-Antoinette - the Queen of France from 1774-1792. She was ruling when the French Revolution took place and, in 1793, she, literally, lost her head as she was found guilty of treason and guillotined in the Place de la Révolution.
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Mineral: Diamond
Three diamond briolettes, each at 3.5 carats, most likely from Golcanda, India. These were also once owned by Marie-Antoinette - Queen of France.
One year ago I was able to see these as they were stored in the museum vault. It's very nice to see them now on public display.
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Mineral: Sapphire
A 135.8ct Sri Lankan Sapphire. This was owned by Louis XIV (aka Louis The Great and the Sun King). Louis XIV ruled France from 1643-1715 - the longest rule of any monarch in European history. Louis XIV loved blue gemstones and made this one of the main pieces of the French Crown Jewels.
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Topaz jewelry belonging to Empress Maire-Louise - second wife to Napolean Bonaparte. These stones came from Minas Gerais, Brazil and this pieces was part of the collection of the Crown Jewels.
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Also on display is a lapidary collection.
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Close up of one of the pieces from the lapidary collection.
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Mineral: Phenakite
A CRAZY fine Phenacite crystal...
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Mineral: Phenacite
...and it's matching Phenacite cut stone weighing in at 18.56ct.
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Here is a shot of the original display hall for the museum. Very classic display and education room with two levels on both sides. This was a learning museum and, as you walk down and look at the cases and drawers, it becomes very evident of this past. The current plan is to have this section re-opened to the public in the next year or two.
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Police have located a Mississauga man that was reported missing on Monday April 23.
According to Peel Regional Police, 79-year-old Christopher Smith was last seen on Monday at 3:15 p.m. in the area of the Square One Bus terminal, in the area of Square One Drive and City Centre Drive in Mississauga.
On Tuesday April 24, Smith was located in good health, say police.


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Bachelorette's Michelle Young, Nayte Olukoya Make Their Red Carpet Debut! Inside Their Relationship
Bachelorette star Michelle Young's season finale ended with her engagement to Nayte Olukoya, but some fans are wondering whether the couple are still together after their whirlwind romance.
Keep reading to see if Michelle and Nayte are still together!
Michelle and Nayte are still going strong two months after the season 18 finale premiered. The two even participated in a photo shoot with People magazine in January 2022, which Michelle teased via Instagram.
"I promise to always be the person to pick food out of your teeth," the fifth grade teacher captioned her Instagram carousel post that month, with the first photo showing her fixing up his smile. Michelle continues to feature her fiancé on social media, giving fans a glimpse into their romance from time to time.
Not only that, but they made their first red carpet appearance as a couple just one month later. The lovebirds attended a party for Rihanna's Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin brands. They even smooched for the cameras at the event, both wearing classy, all-black outfits.
Before the finale aired in December 2021, Michelle hinted at her happy ending for weeks before. In November, she gushed that she was very content with the way her season wrapped during an interview with E! News.
"I'm in love with where I'm at," the reality star said at the time. "Coming into this process is such an abnormal thing, and walking into it, I wasn't sure how it was going to end. But I knew that I was going to be learning so much along the way, and that's all I wanted."
She added, "I wanted to go through it. I wanted to stay true to who I was. And I knew that if I did that, I would get something out of this entire process."
Courtesy of Michelle Young/Instagram
However, Nayte's storyline toward the end of season 18 seemed to point to the contestant not being ready to make a commitment, despite telling Michelle he was "falling in love" with her.
"I am feeling things for you that I never felt for anybody before," he said. "It's easy for me to close my eyes and picture a genuine life with you."
The Austin native also said he could "most definitely" see himself proposing during the finale, but after meeting his family during hometown dates, Michelle began to have her doubts.
Nayte revealed that Michelle was the first woman he ever introduced to his parents and that his family rarely says "I love you." Also, Nayte's stepdad, Charles, was very candid when asked if he thought his stepson would be ready to pop the question.
"He doesn't know the difference between being in love and being married or being engaged," Charles told the Minnesota native. "One's a feeling, and one's a commitment. They tie together very closely, but is he ready for that? I don't know if he can handle this. I don't know if he's going to get to that point."
Despite the initial rocky road, the duo are enjoying their time together outside of their reality TV experience.
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Baudenbach ist eine Marktgemeinde im Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim (Mittelfranken, Bayern) und Mitglied der Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Diespeck.

Geografie

Geografische Lage
Die Gemeinde liegt in den südlichen Ausläufern des Steigerwaldes. Die Siedlungsplätze liegen in dem aus Laimbach und Ehebach gebildeten unteren Talzug sowie in einem Nebental der Steinach. Die Bäche fließen nebeneinander zur nahen Aisch.

Nachbargemeinden
Nachbargemeinden sind (von Norden beginnend im Uhrzeigersinn): Markt Taschendorf, Münchsteinach, Diespeck, Neustadt an der Aisch, Langenfeld, Sugenheim und Scheinfeld.

Gemeindegliederung
Es gibt sechs Gemeindeteile (in Klammern ist der Siedlungstyp angegeben):
 Baudenbach (Hauptort)
 Frankenfeld (Dorf)
 Hambühl (Kirchdorf)
 Höfen (Dorf)
 Mönchsberg (Dorf)
 Roßbach (Dorf)

Geschichte
Der Ort wurde 1333/34 als "Butembach" erstmals urkundlich erwähnt (1421 pawtenpach, ansonsten auch Beuttenbach und Butenbach). Der Ortsname leitet sich vom gleichnamigen Gewässernamen, dem Butembach, ab. Möglicherweise ist dessen Bestimmungswort der Personenname Budo. Ein Mann dieses Namens könnte somit als Gründer der Siedlung angesehen werden. Wahrscheinlicher geht der Bachname jedoch als Bach mit einer Walkmühle auf biute ("Beute", "Walkmühle") zurück. Gegründet wurde der Ort wahrscheinlich noch im 10. Jahrhundert.

Im Urbar der Burggrafschaft Nürnberg von 1361 wurde der Ort als "Pautenbach" erwähnt. Zu dieser Zeit hatte ein Marchart von Pautenbach jährlich 30 Heller Zins an die Burggrafschaft zu entrichten. Die meisten Anwesen unterstanden aber anderen Grundherren (Herren Hohenlohe und Kloster Münchsteinach). Im Ort gab es eine St.-Georgs-Kapelle, die von den der Pfarrei Gutenstetten betreut wurde. Am 29. Januar 1438 wurde Baudenbach zur Pfarrei erhoben. 1554 hatte der Ort 8 ganze Höfe, 9 Lehenhöfe und 31 Selden (Viertelhöfe).

Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg wurde Baudenbach 1625 in Brand gesetzt und war 1645 ganz verödet. Baudenbach wurde Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts Zufluchtsort österreichischer Glaubensflüchtlinge, die dort eine neue Heimat fanden und zum Wiederaufbau nach den Kriegszerstörungen beitrugen.

Vom 10. Dezember 1700 bis 1732 hatte der Markgraf Baudenbach zusammen mit Gutenstetten, Münchsteinach und Schornweisach an den Würzburger Fürstbischof verpfändet. Gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts gab es in Baudenbach 51 Anwesen. Das Hochgericht übte das brandenburg-bayreuthische Stadtvogteiamt Neustadt an der Aisch aus. Die Dorf- und Gemeindeherrschaft hatte das brandenburg-bayreuthische Klosteramt Münchsteinach. Alle Anwesen hatten das Fürstentum Bayreuth als Grundherrn (Klosteramt Münchsteinach: 6 Höfe, 1 Mühle, 15 Güter, 13 Sölden, 2 Halbsölden, 7 Häckersgütlein, 1 Tropfhaus, 2 Häuser, 1 Badstube; Klosteramt Birkenfeld: 1 Wirtshaus, 1 Widemgut; Kasten- und Jurisdiktionsamt Dachsbach: 1 Widemgut).

Von 1797 bis 1810 unterstand der Ort dem Justizamt Dachsbach und Kammeramt Neustadt. 1810 kam Baudenbach zum Königreich Bayern. Im Rahmen des Gemeindeedikts wurde 1811 der Steuerdistrikt Baudenbach gebildet, zu dem Ehe, Frankenfeld, Hambühl, Hanbach, Obermühle, Stübach und Untermühle gehörten. 1813 wurde die Ruralgemeinde Baudenbach gebildet, zu der Frankenfeld, Hanbach, Ober- und Untermühle gehörten. Mit dem Zweiten Gemeindeedikt (1818) entstanden daraus drei Ruralgemeinden:
 Baudenbach,
 Frankenfeld mit Ober- und Untermühle und
 Hanbach.
Die Ruralgemeinde Baudenbach war in Verwaltung und Gerichtsbarkeit dem Landgericht Neustadt an der Aisch zugeordnet und in der Finanzverwaltung dem Rentamt Neustadt an der Aisch (1919 in Finanzamt Neustadt an der Aisch umbenannt, seit 1972 Finanzamt Uffenheim). Ab 1862 gehörte Baudenbach zum Bezirksamt Neustadt an der Aisch (1939 in Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch umbenannt). Die Gerichtsbarkeit blieb beim Landgericht Neustadt an der Aisch (1879 in das Amtsgericht Neustadt an der Aisch umgewandelt). Die Gemeinde hatte ursprünglich eine Gebietsfläche von 10,589 km².

Eingemeindungen
Am 1. Juli 1969 wurde die Gemeinde Frankenfeld eingegliedert. Am 1. Juli 1971 kamen Mönchsberg und Roßbach hinzu. Am 1. Januar 1972 folgte Hambühl.

Einwohnerentwicklung
Im Zeitraum 1988 bis 2018 stieg die Einwohnerzahl von 972 auf 1159 um 187 Einwohner bzw. um 19,2 %.

Gemeinde Baudenbach

Ort Baudenbach (= Gemeinde Baudenbach bis zur Gebietsreform)

Politik

Marktgemeinderat
Die Kommunalwahlen seit 2002 führten zu folgenden Sitzverteilungen:

Bürgermeister
Der 1. Bürgermeister Wolfgang Schmidt gehört der Fraktionsgemeinschaft CSU/Freie Bürger an.

Wappen und Flagge
Wappen

Flagge
Die Gemeindeflagge ist schwarz-weiß.

Baudenkmäler

Bodendenkmäler

Verkehr
Die Staatsstraße 2256 führt zu einer Anschlussstelle der Bundesstraße 8 bei Langenfeld (2,1 km südwestlich) bzw. nach Roßbach (3,2 km nordöstlich). Die Kreisstraße NEA 15 führt nach Stübach (4,1 km südöstlich).

Durch den Ort Baudenbach führt der Wanderweg Roter Flieger.

Persönlichkeiten
 Lorenz Teufel (1879–1941), Landrat

Literatur

Weblinks

 Homepage

Einzelnachweise

Fußnoten

Ort im Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim
Markt in Mittelfranken
Ersterwähnung 1333
Gemeindegründung 1813
Ort am Ehebach (Aisch)


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Q: .Net Application Cache in Cloud Environment I'm using the Enterprise Application Block and my application is hosted in a Cloud Environment. I was wondering what else I need to do with my implementation to make it as efficient as possible.

A: In the cloud, where everything is naturally distributed, you will definitely want to look into having a distributed cache solution.
In-memory application cache will not be able to handle distributed environment very well.
Imagine this scenario:

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*request 1 comes in

*server 1 is processing the request

*in memory cache on server 1 is primed and filled in with the popular data

*request 2 comes in, asking for the same data

*server 2 is processing the request

*in memory cache on server 2 is yet primed again and filled in with the popular data

as you can see here, we're getting 2 misses to prime the cache. You will need a dedicated distributed cache server where it'll service all the cache requests.

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Live Music Shenanigans
Robert Best Imitation of Myself January 18, 2022 1 Minute
Inspired by: "F10-D-A" (2015) from the Ben Folds (with Y Music) album So There
I have seen Ben Folds perform live at least a dozen times, though the number is probably closer to 20 the more that I think about it. Aside from probably the first time I saw him – the X96 Big Ass Show in 1999 – it never fails that some jackass will scream from the audience "Rock this bitch!" at some point. It's something that started at the early Ben Folds Five shows, when the "Five" were booking "rock clubs" and people would be surprised when there were only three dudes, one of which was playing a piano.
What followed was usually an improv of a song, usually including the name of the city where he's playing or the venue or whatever else. He included a version on Ben Folds Live, from a show in Chicago. For some reason, some fans think that this is a good thing. Sometimes it can be cool – it's still pretty cool seeing him do it with a full orchestra – but you can definitely count me as one of the people that think it doesn't add much to the show.
After all, I've been at concerts – usually with a symphony, where it takes a little longer to bring it all together – where he's had to cut the show short because he was going long and there was a time limit on how long he could play. I'd much rather see a fully arranged version of almost any other song than an improvised thing that takes ten minutes to put together, just to satisfy the people who want to be a part of the show.
That's how I feel about "F10-D-A," which ends up being a play on "Effed in the A" (haha so clever!) with a capable chamber music orchestra that put together a pretty decent album with him. Granted, it was probably thrown together in a few minutes and all that, and maybe I'm just an old man yelling at clouds on this point, but I don't need more "Rock this bitch" in my life, I need less.
F10-D-A
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How can reach:- "Museum Island" is located in Berlin capital city in Germany country. Tourists can get it from "Berlin Tegel International Airport" which is just 11 KM distance. Some European countries tourists also can get Berlin city via high speed trains from Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Zurich (Switzerland), Prague (Czechia), Vienna (Austria), Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands).
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Can anyone tell me how to make a loop in no limits??? its pretty confusing!!!
I'm guessing its only the demo? What type of loop also? Vertical are the easiest. Give me a day and i'll do some screenshots. My computer has had sooo many complications because nothing works on the bugger. That's what happens though when you run XP.
cheers, thanx for that, yer its only the demo, but i wanna fiddle around with it before i actually buy it.


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PREAH SIHANOUK RAJA BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY
The First Buddhist Higher Educational Institution in Cambodia
Ven. Prof. Preah Tepsattha Khy Sovanratana (M.A.), Vice-Rector, Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University was founded on 1st July, 1954, under the royal patronage of King-father Norodom Sihanouk, then the King of Cambodia. It was the only educational institution providing higher Buddhist education to monk students. It was the third oldest Buddhist University in the world. Its first Rector was Venerable Huot Tath, who held the ecclesiastical title Samdech Bodhivamsa (Rajagana First Class), and who was also the Director General of Buddhist Education.[2] The founding of this Buddhist University was the direct result of the Venerable Huot Tath's proposal to the King about the re-organizing of Buddhist education after the country regained national independence on 9th November 1953.
The Buddhist University began by providing Buddhist upper-secondary education to monk students and continued to offer Bachelor's degree courses while still maintaining the former. With the admission of only 40 students for each academic year, the University was able to maintain high academic standard. The graduates possessed so good knowledge of Pali that some of them had also played an important role in the Tripitaka Translation Commission which undertook the herculean task of translating Pali Tripitaka into Khmer language. However, the translation was successfully done in 110 volumes, one page in Pali and one page in Khmer. The publication task which was undertaken by the Buddhist Institute, Phnom Penh, was completed in total in 1969. The translation was highly regarded by intellectuals and scholars, and Cambodia was the first country to have a complete translation of Pali Tripitaka into its national language.
Unfortunately, after civil war broke out following the coup d'état on March 17, 1970, the Buddhist University, like other institutions in the country, faced unexpected hardship and difficulties. Its allocated budget was not provided and in due course conditions became so dire that it had to be closed down in 1972. During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), the Buddhist University met with the worst period of its existence; it received heavy losses and destruction.
The present structure of the University started in 1997, eight years after the first Buddhist primary school was re-established. The University began by offering the Buddhist upper-secondary education, and proceeded to offer Bachelor's degree in 1999. For the first three academic years, it was able to maintain only one Faculty, the Faculty of Buddhist Studies, for which a competitive entrance examination was conducted to select 50 students each year.
In response to the demands of the yearly increase in the number of applicants, the University created the Faculty of Education Science in 2002. This also selects 50 students annually. Therefore, from 2002, a hundred of students are selected for each academic year.
On January 23, 2006, Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University was upgraded by a sub-degree of the Royal Government of Cambodia to be a full-fledged university, with the addition of two more Faculties and a Center[3]. Consequently from academic year 2006, the University was able to select 200 students each year.
The main objectives of the Buddhist University are as follows[4]:
1. To provide Cambodian Buddhist monks with in-depth knowledge of
Buddhism, Pali and relevant fields.
2. To train Cambodian monks to become qualified teachers and leaders, who
have wisdom and skills to provide guidance and counseling to the people
3. To train Cambodian monks to become intellectuals and scholars who would
form an important part of the national human resources.
4. To uplift morality and peace among communities and nations.
5. To preserve and promote Buddha's teachings in Cambodia and abroad.
6. To encourage the practice of Buddha's teachings in people's life.
Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University is headed by a Rector and five Vice-Rectors, who are responsible for different sections:
1. Vice-Rector for Administration
2. Vice-Rector for Finance and Planning
3. Vice-Rector for Academic and Students' Affairs
4. Vice-Rector for Public Relations and Research
5. Vice-Rector for Technical Work
Currently the Buddhist University consists of four Faculties and a Center as follows:
1. Faculty of Philosophy and Religions
2. Faculty of Education and Information Technology
3. Faculty of Khmer Literature
4. Faculty of Pali-Sanskrit and Foreign Languages, and
5. Center of Teacher Training
Each Faculty is headed by a Dean and Deputy Deans. It consists of a few Departments.
At present, there are 35 non academic staff members and 48 academic staff members[5].
The Buddhist University is offering students Bachelor's degree courses in four majors of study, namely, Buddhist Philosophy, Education, Pali Language and Khmer Literature. For all these majors, Vinaya Pitaka, Suttanta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka are compulsory subjects, especially in first year and second year. Besides the subjects according to the majors, other relevant subjects are also taught. They are: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Economics, Introduction to Political Science, Introduction to Psychology, and Introduction to Law, English Language and French Language.
The Buddhist University has paid serious attention to Pali studies. Therefore, in 2006, a Bachelor of Arts degree course in Pali was started with the aim to produce Pali teachers and scholars to cater to the increasing demands of Pali teachers from Buddhist secondary and upper-Secondary schools.
The Credit System has been followed by the Buddhist University in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Education. Students are required to complete the amount of Credits in order to graduate from the University. Should any student fails any subject, he/she will have to repeat the same subject or sit for a qualifying paper.
As stated above, all applicants for a Bachelor of Arts degree has to pass the competitive entrance examination in order to be admitted. The examination consists of four papers, namely, Buddhism, General Knowledge, Pali and English.
The Buddhist University has now 403 monk-students studying in the four Faculties. Meanwhile, 115 students were already graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree in Buddhist Philosophy and Education from the University. Some of the graduates have now become teachers at Buddhist secondary schools. Some others are pursuing their Master degrees at various universities both in the country and abroad. For the academic year 2007-2008, it will conduct entrance examination to select 440.
As the number of monk students who complete the Buddhist upper-secondary education is increasing year by year, the Ministry of Cults and Religion has plan to establish branches of the Buddhist University in three major provinces, i.e. Kompong Cham in North-eastern Cambodia, Battambang in Western Cambodia, and Kompong Chhnang in Central Cambodia.
The University has a plan to offer Master of Arts program in Buddhist Studies in the near future.
Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University, with its long history, is the first Buddhist University in Cambodia. Before it was closed down in 1972, it was the premier University in the country and its educational standard was well recognized nationally and internationally. Buddhist monks from Laos and Vietnam came to study there.
With regards to the present structure, it was reopened in 1997 and started to conduct Bachelor of Arts degree only in 1999. This makes it one of the newest Buddhist higher educational institutions in the region. However, right now the university is progressing very well under the state support. The number of staff and students are also increasing significantly all the time. We hope that it will become once again an important seat of learning and practice, and be able to contribute to the promotion of Buddhism, and to the social development in Cambodia.
[1] Presented at the International Conference of Theravada Buddhist Universities held at the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Yagon, and at Poppa Mountain Resort, Pagan, Myanmar, 9th - 12th March, 2007
[2] Toasanavadey Buddhika Siksa (Buddhist Studies Journal). 1959. Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University, Phnom Penh, p. 14
[3] Source obtained from Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University. 2006. Phnom Penh
[4] Chhorn Iem (2000); The Curriculum of the Preah Sihanouk Raj Buddhist University (Unpublished), Phnom Penh
[5] Annual report of Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University, 2006-2007, Phnom Penh


Eagles of Death Metal still cannot comprehend what happened the night their gig was stormed by terrorists.
Singer Jesse Hughes, 43, admits it was "chaos" when gunmen barged into their show in Paris last November, resulting in 89 people losing their lives - and he still finds it tough to talk about.
He said: "I can't describe it. I saw fear manifest itself like a physical thing, like a blanket, and it was chaos."
The group took to the stage in the French capital on Tuesday night (16.02.16) at the Olympia Theatre, the first time since their gig at the Bataclan theatre was attacked by terrorists.
The US rock group insist they will not be "silenced" by mindless criminals who intend to kill innocent people and their commitment to last night's concert showed that same sentiment.
Josh told the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine: "Whatever the goal was to injure innocent people, it didn't work. It did the opposite. It united people that were un-united previously, and gave a common cause that couldn't be silenced. How could you silence it?"
The full interview appears in this week's Kerrang! magazine, on sale now.
Gwen Stefani has confessed country star Blake Shelton is only the second boyfriend she's ever had.
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The statistics suggest that general life expectancy is rising by two and a half years per decade.
In the 18th century, there were about 10 centenarians in the whole of Europe. Now there are 14,500 just in the UK. Predictions are that by the end of the 21st century there will be 1.5 million centenarians in the UK.
Another prediction is that half of the babies being born now in the UK will live until they are 104. In Japan it is 107. "We are ageing dramatically and we are ageing without radical science," said Harper.
Harper said the concept of retirement, and what it meant, had changed over the last 50 years. When William Beveridge recommended the 65 retirement age for men, half would die before they were 70.
In the 1950s and 1960s, retirement was considered a period of rest after a long working life, said Harper. In the 1970s, it became a reward for the hard work which had gone before. In the 1980s and 1990s, a time of huge youth employment, came "early retirement" – it became what people saw as a right to a period of leisure.
The issue of longer lives raised lots of issues which needed to be debated, she added. What happens if you do not inherit from your grandparents until you are in your 80s? Do we need to rethink marriage when not every couple may relish the prospect of being together for 60 or 70 years or longer.
The debate at Hay resonates with the Guardian's series on "the new retirement" this year.
Harper was delivering a talk under the theme of Reformation, scheduled by Hay festival to tie in with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, regarded as the start of the Reformation.


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Q: How to retrieve stdout when piping several commands in Go I'm writing a Go function to upload local Docker images to an instance that has SSH access. I'm using the following method for this:
        cmdSave := exec.Command("docker", "save", image)
        cmdLoad := exec.Command("ssh", fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s", user, externalIP), "docker load")

        read, write := io.Pipe()
        cmdSave.Stdout = write
        cmdLoad.Stdin = read

        var buffer bytes.Buffer
        cmdLoad.Stdout = &buffer
        var stderrSave bytes.Buffer
        cmdSave.Stderr = &stderrSave
        var stderrLoad bytes.Buffer
        cmdLoad.Stderr = &stderrLoad

        err = cmdSave.Start()
        if err != nil {
            return errors.Wrap(err, stderrSave.String())
        }

        err = cmdLoad.Start()
        if err != nil {
            return errors.Wrap(err, stderrLoad.String())
        }
        err = cmdSave.Wait()
        if err != nil {
            return errors.Wrap(err, stderrSave.String())
        }

        err = write.Close()
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }

        err = cmdLoad.Wait()
        if err != nil {
            return errors.Wrap(err, stderrLoad.String())
        }

        _, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, &buffer)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }

However because of the way the commands are piped, if there is a problem with e.g. the SSH key or WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! error presents itself when SSHing to the instance, the functions just hangs endlessly on the cmdSave.Wait() and no output is displayed, leaving the user unaware of what the problem is.
Is there a way to do this so that the output isn't swallowed and the function isn't left hanging?