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SeaWorld needs a dose of creative magic to…
SeaWorld needs a dose of creative magic to start winning again
Electric Eel, a new rollercoaster at SeaWorld San Diego, opened May 10. (Photo courtesy of SeaWorld San Diego)
By Robert Niles | themeparkinsider@gmail.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2018 at 6:01 am | UPDATED: May 15, 2018 at 6:03 am
SeaWorld San Diego is betting on its biggest, fastest thrill ride ever to help boost attendance at the park this summer.
Electric Eel offers a unique experience for roller coaster fans in Southern California. The Premier Rides Sky Rocket II coaster includes three launches – two forward and one backward – speeds up to 62 mph and an amazing inline twist at the top that leaves you feeling like you are hanging motionless over the park.
But for all the fun that Electric Eel delivers, SeaWorld didn't get to be at one time the top competitor behind Disney's theme parks by building thrill rides. Fans can go to Six Flags and other thrill parks to enjoy many more coasters than SeaWorld ever will get permission to build in San Diego. If SeaWorld is going to climb back and take on Universal to become a real Disney rival again, it's going to need to tell the story of the sea in a way that captivates the imaginations of fans who are used visiting the worlds of princesses and wizards when they go to parks.
Storytelling drives the top of the theme park industry. With dozens of successful entertainment franchises, Disney and Universal can offer customers unique opportunities to spend time with their favorite characters. That has helped those parks to add attendance much faster than the thrill parks have over the past decade.
Reader careeen along the track fo SeaWorld San Diego's Electric Eel. (Photo courtesy of SeaWorld San Diego)
Disney's theme parks grew by 24 percent from 2006 to 2016, according to attendance reports from the Themed Entertainment Association, while Universal enjoyed an amazing 84 percent increase in visitors over that decade. But the Six Flags, Cedar Fair and SeaWorld chains saw their collective attendance rise only by single-digit percentages over that time. To be fair, Six Flags sold several parks between then and now, but even considering just its current line-up of parks, Six Flags' collective attendance rise was in low double-digits, short of Disney's attendance gain.
So people want stories from theme parks. The good news for SeaWorld is that its theme provides wonderful storytelling opportunities. How many great myths and tales have been set on or in the sea?
While you can find references to mythical sea creatures in some of its parks, SeaWorld mostly sticks to non-fictional stories within its parks. And that creates a problem for the chain.
Every week, it seems, SeaWorld is sending out press releases boasting of its rescues of injured or sickened marine mammals and other wildlife. You cannot watch a show at a SeaWorld park without getting a message about threats to global marine environments.
There's definitely a story here. But unlike the fictional stories at Disney and Universal, where we get to play the role of the hero, in SeaWorld's very real story, we human beings are often the bad guys. We are ones polluting the oceans. We are ones destroying habitat for development. We are the ones choking the atmosphere with pollutants and carbon dioxide, driving global climate change.
No one wants a guilt trip on their vacation. The more that SeaWorld tells its very important story about global environmental health, the more it can turn off the would-be visitors the park needs to attract.
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If SeaWorld is going to challenge Disney and Universal again, it must find new ways for its visitors to feel more like heroes in an amazing place, too. But to do that, SeaWorld will need to spend its remaining money on some creative magic – not more roller coasters.
Robert Niles
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ARCHES (at risk cultural heritage education series)
A beginner's guide
ARCHES, an introduction
Cultural heritage "in crisis"
What is cultural heritage?
A market for looted antiquities
Whose art?
From tomb to museum: the story of the Sarpedon Krater
Who owns the Parthenon sculptures?
Plunder, war, Napoleon and the Horses of San Marco
Nazi looting: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally
The role of archaeology
What is archaeology: understanding the archaeological record
The rediscovery of Pompeii and the other cities of Vesuvius
The importance of the archaeological findspot: The Lullingstone Busts
When there is no archaeological record: Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca bust)
Conservation vs. restoration: the Palace at Knossos (Crete)
Destruction, trafficking, and protection
Save culture – end trafficking
Trafficking the past
Frameworks for cultural heritage protection: from ancient writing to modern law
The unintended consequences of UNESCO world heritage listing
We will need Monuments Men for as long as ancient sites remain battlefields
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Lost History: the terracotta sculpture of Djenné-Djenno
A race against time: manuscripts and digital preservation
Cultural heritage at risk: Mali
Endangered heritage: The Americas
Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage
Unearthing the Aztec past, the destruction of the Templo Mayor
What the bulldozers left behind: reclaiming Sicán's past
Cultural heritage at risk: Peru
Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York
A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
Cultural heritage at risk: United States
Endangered heritage: Europe and West Asia
Ancient Babylon: excavations, restorations and modern tourism
Palmyra: the modern destruction of an ancient city
Cultural heritage at risk: Syria
Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes
Cultural heritage at risk: Turkey
Saving Venice
Diarna: documenting the places of a vanishing Jewish history
Endangered heritage: Pacific Islands
Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Paikea at the American Museum of Natural History
Endangered heritage: Southeast Asia
The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities
The Scourge of Looting: Trafficking Antiquities from Temple to Museum
Sotheby's Returns Looted 10th Century Statue to Cambodia
Cultural heritage at risk: Cambodia
What can be done to protect cultural heritage?
Organizations and agencies that work to protect cultural heritage
Backstories: additional endangered objects and sites
ARCHES advisors
by Emma Cunliffe
The ruins of the 11th century Great Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo, Syria (photo: Fathi Nezam from Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0)
The destruction and looting of cultural heritage has been intertwined with conflict for thousands of years. To steal an enemies' treasures, defile their sacred places and burn their cities has been part of war throughout history. And sadly, in the modern battlefields of the ancient world, in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and elsewhere, it continues to this day.
The Colosseum in Rome, for example, was built using spoils from the sack of the Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70. Many of the Louvre's collections were "acquired" by Napoleon while rampaging through Europe (albeit later returned). In fact, much of Napoleon's collection of war booty – acquired during his failed campaign in Egypt – was declared forfeit by the British victors and given to the British Museum under the Treaty of Capitulation of 1801. The Rosetta Stone, which famously enabled the deciphering of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, was acquired through this treaty and is still on display there today.
Although antiquities gained widespread public interest throughout the 19th and early 20th century, it was not until the Second World War that the idea of preserving them in conflict finally took hold. As Hitler's armies advanced across Europe, he saw an opportunity to conquer not only the land and the people, but the cultures of defeated nations. Millions of artistic works and important cultural objects were seized and sent back to Germany, where Hitler took a personal interest in selecting the very best. His new Führermuseum was to be the most spectacular art museum ever built, culled from the cultural riches of the western world.
Those in command of the Allied forces were faced with a historical and cultural loss of unprecedented scale. Declaring his support for the protection of the past, the supreme Allied commander, Dwight Eisenhower, said:
Inevitably, in the path of our advance will be found historical monuments and cultural centres which symbolise to the world all that we are fighting to preserve. It is the responsibility of every commander to protect and respect these symbols wherever possible.
Enter the Monuments Men
In 1943, the Allied forces approved the formation of a new unit: the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Commission (MFAA). For the first time in history, armies went into the field with officers dedicated to protecting art and monuments during the conflict. It was going to be a tough job. Entire historic quarters in cities such as Warsaw were demolished in days and the artistic treasures of Europe were vanishing.
Just 345 men and women, with no dedicated resources, were tasked with protecting historic buildings, monuments, libraries and archives across the whole of Europe and North Africa. Most were museum staff, art historians, scholars and university professors, yet their success was incredible. They found and returned more than five million stolen objects and artworks and ensured the protection of numerous buildings, often using no more than their own ingenuity.
A part of their story is told in the new film, Monuments Men, based on author Robert Edsel's book of the same name, by the Monuments Men Foundation, and also in the book and ensuing film The Rape of Europa. In 1951, the MFAA was disbanded as politicians drafted the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, followed by the First Protocol in 1954 and the Second Protocol in 1999 (which extended and clarified the original tenets).
The convention protects places and objects "of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people" during conflict. It argues the heritage of all sides should be protected and that warring sides should not use it or its immediate surroundings, nor direct assaults against it. It also granted suitable authority and units for its protection. Crucially, it separates the principles of military necessity from military convenience. Unfortunately, it is not widely adhered to and many of the lessons learned by the MFAA have been forgotten.
The monumental battle today
The Monument Men of today are almost all volunteers. Some are local people, such as the Syrian Association for Preserving Heritage and Ancient Landmarks, who work in Aleppo (a UNESCO World Heritage city) to try and save its monuments and buildings. Individual organisations monitor the situation. Some countries have formed voluntary national Committees of the Blue Shield.
The Blue Shield network was suggested in the Hague Convention and is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is a group of non-governmental organisations working to protect monuments, sites, museums and archives during and after conflict and natural disasters. Members are drawn from universities, museums and heritage organisations, with advisors from the Red Cross, UNESCO, the military and others.
World Heritage site: The Basilica of St Simeon Stylites in Syria, the oldest surviving Byzantine church, dating back to the 5th century, now rumoured to be badly damaged by fighting (photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Their objectives are to formulate and lead national and international responses to emergencies that threaten cultural property. They encourage respect for, and protection of, cultural heritage, providing training and advice. Despite the Hague Convention's mandates, often the only military personnel who engage with cultural heritage protection do so voluntarily.
Today, 126 countries have ratified the Hague Convention, although the necessary work is rarely funded and not all the tenets are enforced. The UK has not ratified it, despite the destruction caused by the coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003. In August 2013, chemical weapons were used in Syria and intervention was discussed. Had it happened, the British military is under no obligation to protect, or even consider, any of the thousands of significant sites throughout the country, many of which date back to the earliest achievements of mankind.
Protecting cultural property is about more than old books, buildings and fine paintings. Our cultural heritage stands as the symbol of everything humanity has achieved: our finest moments and even our worst atrocities. It is the physical reminder of our past and inspiration for our future. While not every site can be saved, its loss should be a matter of necessity and never convenience. As Eisenhower stated 70 years ago, to fight without even considering it is to sacrifice everything for which we are fighting.
by Emma Cunliffe, Postgraduate Associate, Durham University (CC BY-ND 4.0)
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Cite this page as: Emma Cunliffe, "We will need Monuments Men for as long as ancient sites remain battlefields," in Smarthistory, June 7, 2018, accessed January 21, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/monuments-men/.


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1.Recount some of the major biographical details of Xenophon's life and of his involvement with Socrates.
The root of the Socratic Problem is that Socrates himself was not in the habit of writing down his thoughts, and preferred speaking and conversation for sharing his ideas and philosophies. The written records we have about Socrates, therefore, were written by others, some who knew him well, and some who did not. Aristophanes wrote Clouds, a play that featured Socrates as a comic, ridiculous figure. Plato wrote about Socrates and presented him as intelligent and charismatic. Xenophon also wrote about Socrates, and his portrait of Socrates, like the others, offered insight into the great philosopher while also telling us something about the author as well.
Many details of Xenophon's life are unknown, but there are some facts that have survived over the centuries. It has been estimated that he was born sometime around 441 B.C.E., though the exact date of his birth is uncertain. Xenophon was born into a well-off family, and he likely had a good education when he was growing up. He had an interest in government and politics, and felt that good government must bring together strength and enlightenment. Although Xenophon clearly admired and valued intelligence, many of his critics claim that he was not particularly smart, and even that he represented Socrates poorly because he was unable to truly understand the philosopher's ideas. Xenophon's father's name was Gryllus; when he later had two sons he gave his father's name to one of them. By his own account, Xenophon was an accomplished military tactician, and he was actually engaged in a military operation in Persia when Socrates was condemned to death and subsequently executed.
2. Explain the reasons why Socrates seems to choose death according to Xenophon.
Although Xenophon was not present at the trial of Socrates, he clearly felt a responsibility to write about him, perhaps to counter the negative public perception of the philosopher that was common among many Athenians. In his Apology, Xenophon describes a conversation between Socrates and Hermogenes in which Socrates discusses the possibility that he will be put to death. According to Xenophon, Socrates did not fear death, and in a way he even welcomed it. Socrates was concerned that if he lived a much longer life, he would lose his eyesight and suffer other health effects, and would die a miserable death. If he were executed by the court, however, he would leave this life with his faculties and his health mostly intact.
Navia, Lewis E. (2007). Socrates: A life examined. Prometheus Books. Amherst, NY.
Navia, Lewis E. (2002). Socratic testimonies. University Press of America. Lanham, MD.
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Q: RestKit Error "Failed transformation of value at keyPath _ to representation of type 'NSString" I am new to iOS and I am trying to map the Foursquare Explore API and I keep getting the below error
E restkit.object_mapping:RKMappingOperation.m:440 Failed transformation of value at keyPath 'name' to representation of type 'NSString': Error Domain=org.restkit.RKValueTransformers.ErrorDomain Code=3002 "Failed transformation of value '(
"Jenkinson's Pavilion",
"The Spot Pizza Grill",
"The Ark Pub & Eatery",
"Jenkinson's Inlet Bar",
"Outside the Box Patio Bar",
"The Off Shore"
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"Error Domain=org.restkit.RKValueTransformers.ErrorDomain Code=3002 \"The given value is not already an instance of 'NSString'\" UserInfo=0x14d26ab0 {NSLocalizedDescription=The given value is not already an instance of 'NSString'} "Error Domain=org.restkit.RKValueTransformers.ErrorDomain Code=3000 \"Expected an `inputValue` of type `NSNull`, but got a `__NSArrayI`.\" UserInfo=0x14d73060 {NSLocalizedDescription=Expected an `inputValue` of type `NSNull`, but got a `__NSArrayI`.}"

here is my code:
- (void)configureRestKit
{
// initialize AFNetworking HTTPClient
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.foursquare.com"];
AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:baseURL];

// initialize RestKit
RKObjectManager *objectManager = [[RKObjectManager alloc] initWithHTTPClient:client];

// setup object mappings
RKObjectMapping *venueMapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[Venue class]];
[venueMapping addAttributeMappingsFromDictionary:@{@"name": @"venueName"}];

// register mappings with the provider using a response descriptor
RKResponseDescriptor *responseDescriptor =
[RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:venueMapping
                                             method:RKRequestMethodGET
                                        pathPattern:@"/v2/venues/explore"
                                            keyPath:@"response.groups.items.venue"
                                        statusCodes:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:200]];

[objectManager addResponseDescriptor:responseDescriptor];
}

Right now I am just trying to map the 'name', what am I doing wrong?

A: Your key path of response.groups.items.venue drills too deep because groups is an array and then items is also an array. Drilling to the first array and mapping at that level is fine. But, when you drill to the next array level you are forever trying to convert an array into a single destination object. This is why you see an array of names in the log output.
So, you need to back up and map at a different level, generally using a container object, and potentially moving part of the key path to the mapping instead of the descriptor.

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Dubai's first fully fledged arthouse cinema is now open
Cinema Akil will play independent films every night - with the opening programme including an acclaimed Alexander McQueen documentary, a skate film and the moving Egyptian tale 'Yomeddine'
The new Cinema Akil theatre in Al Serkal Ave. Photo: Mohamed Somji / Seeing Things
Cinema Akil began showing independent films at pop-up screenings across the UAE in 2014, and the great news is that they now have their own fully-fledged site.
Cinema Akil's permanent theatre opened in Al Serkal Avenue in Dubai last weekend, and it will open at 4pm daily, showing two to three screenings every night of the week (see the full schedule here). It will also be home to Project Chaiwala, a tea concept that will feed and water you to keep you satisfied throughout the films.
The cinema walls are covered in dark-red paper and some of the seats have been salvaged from the balcony of the Plaza (later Golden) Cinema in Bur Dubai – the oldest single-screen standalone cinema in the city, which was knocked down three years ago to make way for a hotel. Seats are unassigned, and you can buy tickets at the Cinema Akil website.
Inside the new arthouse cinema. Photo: Mohamed Somji / Seeing Things
The films you'll be able to see there in the next few months
The movies on the opening programme reflect the diverse range Cinema Akil will showcase...
Yomeddine (2018)
This film took home the François Chalais prize at Cannes in May, and is Egypt's Academy Award submission for this year.
McQueen (2018)
This looks at the late designer's life and has a rare 100 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)
Blending the tactile with the abstract, this art film revives the splendours of Armenian culture through the story of 18th-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative.
Dogman (2018)
An Italian story of a quiet, unassuming dog groomer who becomes tied up with a violent boxer who is terrorising the neighbourhood.
Skate Kitchen (2018)
A story of a lonely suburban teenager whose life changes dramatically when she befriends a group of skateboarders.
In Syria (2017)
In this tense drama, a mother of three turns her flat into a safe haven for her family and neighbours in an attempt to protect them from the war raging on the streets of Damascus.
The Old Man and the Gun (2018)
Robert Redford stars in this true story of Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin at the age of 70 and went on to commit an unprecedented series of heists that confounded authorities and fascinated the public.
A romance set against the backdrop of 1950s Poland.
One for pure cinema buffs, this German fairy tale is the oldest surviving animated feature film.
Summer of '84 (2018)
A bit like Stranger Things but with serial killers rather than supernatural in-betweens.
Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017)
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This documentary follows the many different facets of the pop culture legend's private and public life.
A classic horror of the 'cabin in the woods' type that is one of Sam Raimi's earliest works.
So why go from pop-up to permanent?
"There is the magic of cinema and the egalitarian nature of accessibility to the language of film," founder Butheina Kazim told us earlier this year. "But then there's the bigger picture, which is the thing that film allows to happen in the space of a cinema. That's why I insisted on having a site.
Butheina Kazim. Photo / Supplied
"A lot of the standalone cinemas are gone, and there are very few spaces where you can sit with the film. That's where the magic happens: the few moments after a film where people are settling in and looking at each other and trying to understand what happened, or that shared disgruntlement sometimes, or exasperation, or shared joy. It's kind of like travelling together."
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Aspects of the biodiversity of brackish water foraminifera
Institute's contributions
Scholarly literature
Jayalakshmy, K.V.; Rao, K.K.
Citation: Environmental Forensics, Vol. 7; 353-367p.
URI: http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/816
Document Type: Journal Article
Foraminiferal fauna of the Chilka lake situated between 19 degrees 25 minutes and 19 degrees 54 minutes N and 85 degrees 6 minutes and 85 degrees 38 minutes E in Orissa state on the east coast of India during different seasons was studied using Pielou's, Simpson's, Margalef's, Shannon-Wiener's, and Heip's evenness indices of diversity. Mean diversity levels were low during the postmonsoon period (November) when there is heavy rainfall followed by the diluting effects of the river systems of the area; however, levels were high during the premonsoon season (March and May) due to prevalence of marine conditions in the lake. Furthermore, the evaluation of different sectors in the study area showed somewhat poor diversity within the lagoon and rich diversity in the outer channel, the fauna of which was similar to the nearshore foraminiferids of Bay of Bengal. The spatial pattern of species diversity was predictable and was related to environmental features of the areas in the lake. Regarding the spatial community structure, outer channel showed highly stable environment due to its proximity to the sea whereas northern sector showed highly fluctuating environment being away from the oceanic region and highly affected by variations in the salinity. Seasonal comparison showed postmonsoon season as the most consistent period, whereas early premonsoon was the least consistent period. Bray-Curtis group linkage cluster analysis showed that none of the clusters of foraminiferal species present during post-monsoon occurred during pre-monsoon. In contrast to this observation, approximately 30% of the species were always clustered together during early premonsoon and late premonsoon, indicating the possibility of succession of species during November. An interesting observation was that a species replacement takes place in the case of foraminiferal fauna over a seasonal cycle. This finding could be an indication of the seasonality of this community through species succession.
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Q: Akka: testing supervision strategy with TestProbes I'm testing an actor which spawns and coordinates child worker actors. In order to do so I've substituted child actor creation with TestProbes which are used to observe and simulate exchanged messages.
However I've ran into a problem when trying to test actor's supervision strategy. I was able to simulate an exception generated within child actor by setting up an AutoPilot on a TestProbe. But it turned out that TestProbes are supervised  by system guardian by default and my test actor does not receive error notifications.
One idea that came into mind is to set up an intermediate ForwarderActors layer that will be supervised by test actor and generate test exception, but otherwise forward messages between TestProbe and test actor, like this:
case class GenerateException(exception: Exception)

class ForwarderActor(phase: Phase) extends Actor {
  val probe  = TestProbe(phase.toString)

  override def receive: Receive = {
    case GenerateException(e) => throw e
    case msg if sender() == probe.ref => context.parent ! msg
    case msg => probe.ref ! msg
  }
}

This way actor will supervised properly but messages can still be inspected with TestProbes.
I wonder if there is an easier way of accomplishing this?


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Cruising, Cultural travel, European travel, Historic Places, River Cruises
Barging through Burgundy, Day 5-6: Walking Tour of Dijon's Old City
May 31, 2017 krubin723
The Caprice finishes its cruise of canals and rivers of Burgundy in Dijon © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Thursday: Arrival in Dijon
We are only a few miles to the last lock before Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, and the French landscape, though still predominantly countryside, becomes more and more populated and commercial as we come closer.
After breakfast on board the Caprice, our charming barge hotel, we take bikes and explore a village.
Back on board the Caprice, Chef Herve treats us to a cooking demonstration – he is preparing salt-encrusted salmon, which is the lunch entree, along with a variety of salads.
The Caprice, one of France Cruises' luxury hotel barges, floats up a canal in Burgundy © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The wine is a 2010 Musadet Sevre et Maine sur Lie, from the Loire Valley, with a fresh, sharp, neutral flavor to compliment fish; and a 2010 Burgundy red, Saint Armour, named for the village which was named for a martyred Roman soldier, with a fruity flavor of currants.
The last bridge before we enter Dijon's port is one where we all have to duck – it seems the barge uses every inch of space above.
We come into the port of Dijon, where we will stay overnight.
Caprice's Chef Herve serves the salt-encrusted salmon for lunch; earlier in the morning, he provided a cooking demonstration © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Guy, who has been our guide and bus driver throughout our journey, takes us for a guided tour into the Dijon's old city, the climax to an incredible week-long journey into Burgundy's countryside. Dijon is the crowning jewel.
The historic district is just a 15-20 minute from where the Caprice is docked, so we can return on our own and have a couple of extra hours to explore.
As always, Guy, who is a former journalist, is fascinating, illuminating with stories and anecdotes what we can appreciate visually.
He reminds us of the popular Burgundy drink, Kir, which was named for a mayor who served from 1946-1960, was a priest, a canon, and a member of Parliament- the famous drink is named for him. "He did nothing in Dijon – that was reason it is well preserved." The current mayor, on the other hand, wants to modernize, and is constructing a street car (light rail).
The magnificent architecture of Dijon's Old City © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Dijon is a household name because of the mustard, which is still produced here, but these days, they import seeds from Canada. It is also a center for artificial flavors and fragrances.
Dijon is the capital of Burgundy – hospitals, university, administrative services (government), and the main stop between Paris and Lyon.
Burgundy was an independent state, and allied with Britain against France. The last Duke was killed 1463 – his enemy was King Louis XI of France, known here as "the Sneaky One" because though France had a treaty with Burgundy but the King still invaded Dijon.
One of the highlights is the main indoor market – a marvel of steel architecture that goes back to Eiffel, though his colleague finished the project.
The Caprice squeaks under the bridge as we float into the port of Dijon © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
It is just across from the church of Notre Dame with a marvelous bell clock. "The King of France tried to bribe a town in Burgundy to rebel, and when it did, the Duke besieged it and as punishment, in 1673, took the clock. At the time, it only had a man with the pipe; then in 17C, the people of Dijon (who have a good sense of humor), added a woman so the man wouldn't be lonely, and in 18C, added two children." The man strikes the bell on the hour; the woman on the half, and the children on the quarter hour.
Notre Dame has stunning gargoyles, but Guy tells us that a usurer was killed when a gargoyle broke off and fell on him. As a result, the "corporation" of loan sharks demanded they all be taken down; but finally, they were cleaned and replaced in 18C. Notre Dame was defaced during the 1793 Terror, and the anti-religious furor that swept through.
The Church of Notre Dame provides a dramatic backdrop at the end of the Rue Musette © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The owl is symbol of Dijon, and there is an owl on Notre Dame that legend says, you touch with your left hand to have a wish come true (it's been rubbed smooth over time).
Here we come to the Maison Millière, the charming shop we had first encountered on our first afternoon in Dijon, which specializes in hand-crafted owls.
There are fabulous buildings – stately majestic public buildings, grand mansions that served the noble members of Parliament – through Dijon.
Many of the grand buildings have been "re-purposed" after the Revolution.
Guy, our guide from the Caprice, explains the legend of rubbing the owl that is on the side of the Church of Notre Dame, with your left hand: wishes come true © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The Plaza Royale was renamed Place de la Revolution, and the avenue renamed Avenue de la Liberte.
What is astonishing is how many famous people are associated with Dijon: the architect of Versailles, Jules Mansart, also designed the Plaza Royale; Francois Ronde, who designed the Arc d'Triomphe in Paris, is from here.
I wander on my own, and am fascinated with the street names, many with biographical information
In the square of Dijon's Old City, buildings from the Renaissance flank a carousel from 1865 © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Rue Danton was named for "conventionnel organisateur de la defense nationale, ne en 1759, mort sur l'echafaud en 1794." I am fascinated and subsequently learn that Georges Danton was a French Revolutionary leader and orator, often credited as the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic (September 21, 1792). He later became the first president of the Committee of Public Safety, but his increasing moderation and eventual opposition to the Reign of Terror led to his own death at the guillotine.
The clock above the church of Notre Dame, with the man who strikes the hour, his wife who strikes the half hour, and their two children who strike the quarter hour. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
I come upon Eglese Saint Philibert, originally built in 12th century, and destroyed in the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution. It is now undergoing a restoration.
I am so happy that I will have two extra days in Dijon (see story).
Gala Farewell
I walk back to the Caprice in time for our gala farewell dinner.
The last night of our cruise is a gala dinner (we "dress" in our finest, that is what we have with us) – the table, in a U-shaped banquet formation, is set magnificently, with fresh lilies and zinnias.
A fountain provides respite during a walking tour of Dijon's historic district, spanning 97 hectares © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The menu consists of foie gras with leek salad with a sweet fig jam; filet de boeuf with red wine sauce, potatoes from Noirmoutier and mushrooms.
The 2007 Sainte Croix du Mont, a Sauvignon Blanc, Tina tells us, is produced at a vineyard on right bank of Bordeaux in southeast France, where there are early morning mists (usually not good for wine) is difficult to produce. "You need a lot of luck. The grapes have to develop a 'local rot' – a fungus – which actually produces a bursting sweetness. The yield is small – you have to pick the grapes by hand when ripest – a lot of work. It's lighter than a dessert wine but full bodied."
The red is a Grand Barrail Larose St Emilion 2009, a Bordeaux.
Three houses dating from the 1400s in Dijon's Old City: the middle one is propped up by the two on either side © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The cheese tonight is a Roquefort – the quintessential sheep's milk blue cheese from Avignon in the south of France, owes its distinctive character to a mold found in the soil of local caves
The second cheese is a Brie de Meaux, from the Ile de France, a creamy cow's milk similar to Camembert. "King Louis XIV had 3 passions: poetry, wine and cheese," Tina, the general manager, says. "He would send a damsel a cheese with a poem"
The dessert is a Chef's surprise (actually a birthday cake for one of the guests).
Lunch onboard the Caprice always features red and white wines as well as cheeses © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Friday morning, after breakfast, we depart the Caprice. The whole crew, wearing their Barging Through France shirts, line up to greet us and bid us farewell. It is that most amazing and gratifying feeling that only travel provides when you get to realize how everyone has bonded and formed friendships in just a week's time.
Incomparable Value in France Canal Cruising
In reflection, I think this is as perfect a trip as it could have been, vastly exceeding my expectations – in terms of the sights we have seen, the interesting attractions and excursions, the quality of the wining and dining, the cruise experience – France Cruises, the American agent for Barging through Burgundy which owns and operates the Caprice, really offers superb value for money.
The gala farewell banquet onboard the Caprice features a beef filet with red wine sauce © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The passengers onboard have really bonded – gives you plenty of opportunity – we are not on top of one another, but the meals, where you basically sit where you want or where there is room, so the table groupings always change, and you get to know one another, or when walking or biking along the canal, or on the bus or walking through the villages during our excursions, or in the evening sitting around in the lounge or on deck… people came from all over and many different backgrounds, but shared an interest and eagerness to learn and experience things, and we each shared from our own experience and knowledge base.
The immersion into French food and wine – especially with the selection of wines and cheeses at lunch and dinner – has been very satisfying and also interesting, since food and wine are so inextricably linked to culture and heritage of a place.
The size of the boat and the service makes it ideal for families, family reunions and groups of friends traveling together. There are barge boats that a single family can hire and guide themselves , though it seemed to me to be tricky process to go through the canals – some were automatic, operated by sensors, some had attendants, but some involved hand-cranking the bridge or pulling a chain to activate the doors.
Many people have the concern that you can get bored on a barge cruise or feel confined, but we are never bored or stir crazy – because of the opportunity to go off the boat and explore, especially by bike, and also the excursions. Those who want a more sedentary experience can have it, as well.
This size boat and the itinerary are perfect for us – not too small that you are forced to be on top of people or lacking in level and quality of service, and not too big.
The crew of the Caprice at the farewell gala banquet © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
The daily excursions are marvelous and interesting and take you to places you might not have known to visit, and into the essence of what the region is -particularly the visit to the Chateau Rully with the Count – just seeing the portraits on wall of his ancestors, the very mug his 14th century ancestor had drunk from (that he still uses), the personal artifacts of the family were amazing.
Considering all that is provided, and the high level of service, the experience fulfills France Cruses' boast that this cruise affords some of the best value in canal cruising in France (particularly with the special offers and packages that are available from time to time). I am a believer.
For information, contact France Cruises, Inc.,9901 IH 10 West, Suite 800 | San Antonio, TX 78230, 866-498-3920 or 210- 775-2184; Email:[email protected], visit www.FranceCruises.com orwww.FranceCountryTours.com. Visit the blog The France Insider.
The cruise aboard the Caprice is now completely updated for next season:http://www.francecruises.com/barge-354-Caprice-742.html
Dijon is such a fascinating city, our exploration continues (see A Walk Through the Centuries in Dijon, France).
(Originally published in 2011)
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The British Colonial Auxiliary Forces referred to the various military units of Britain's colonial empire which were not considered part of the British military proper. Though the first colonial units established in the British Empire were militia formations in Britain's American colonies, by the Victorian era these units were modelled after the regular armed forces of Britain and consisted of professional soldiers. They supplied a reserve force either to be called up in war time to reinforce regular British Army garrisons for home defence, or in some cases were entirely responsible for home defence. Many units, however, took part in active campaigns outside of the role of home defence in various conflicts the British Empire was involved in, including the two world wars.

Some of the reserve colonial units, especially in the strategically-important imperial fortress colonies (consisting of Halifax, Gibraltar, Bermuda and Malta), were funded by the War Department out of Army Funds and considered part of the British Army (by example, the Bermuda Militia Artillery was grouped with the Royal Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers with the Royal Engineers in the official Army Lists, which also listed the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps and Bermuda Militia Infantry officers as part of the British Army, whereas most colonial units were listed separately or did not appear at all), whereas others that did not receive Army Funds were considered auxiliaries (British military units, but not part of the British Army). This had originally been true of various other military forces in the United Kingdom before the mid-Nineteenth Century, following which the Board of Ordnance was abolished and its military corps (the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners) and previously-civilian Commissariat, stores and transport departments were all absorbed by the British Army and the Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces were more closely integrated with the British Army through a succession of military reforms.

Many colonial units started out as auxiliaries and later became regular units and forerunners to the current militaries of those colonies which have become politically independent. While most of the units listed here were army units, colonial marines were raised at various times, as were colonial naval and air force reserve units. Today, only four British Overseas Territories regiments remain (not including cadet corps): the Royal Bermuda Regiment; the Royal Gibraltar Regiment; the Falkland Islands Defence Force; and the Royal Montserrat Defence Force. The British Government is currently (2020) working with the local governments of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands to raise reserve military units in those territories, also, with recruitment for the new Cayman Islands Regiment starting in January, 2020.

List of  Colonial Auxiliary Forces

Aden
 Aden Protectorate Levies

Africa
 King's African Rifles garrisoned the East African colonies of Nyasaland, Kenya, Uganda and British Somaliland.
 Royal West African Frontier Force garrisoned the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia.

America
Provincial troops in the French and Indian Wars
 Corps of Colonial Marines
American Legion (1780-1783)
American Volunteers (1779-1780)
Armed Boat Company (1781-1783)
Black Company of Pioneers (also, known as the Black Pioneers, later merged into the Guides and Pioneers in 1778), (pioneers, another name for military construction engineers) (1777-1778)
British Legion (placed on American establishment in 1781 as 5th American Regiment) (1777-1778)
Bucks County Dragoons (absorbed by British Legion in 1780) (1778-1780)
Butler's Rangers (1777-1784)
Caledonian Volunteers (formed part of the British Legion in 1778) (1777-1778)
Campbell's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
Canadian Companies (1777-1783)
Claus' Rangers (1775-1783)
Collett's Independent Company (1777)
De Lancey's Brigade (1776-1783)
Detroit Volunteers (claimed descent from Roger's Rangers, later became 1st Battalion 119th Field Artillery Regiment, Michigan National Guard) (1778-1783)
Diemar's Troop of Black Hussars (also, known as Diemar's Hussars and Black Hussars, hussars, (light cavalry) (1779-1781)
Duke of Cumberland's Regiment (1781-1783)
Duchess County Company (1776-1777)
Emmerich's Chasseurs (chasseurs / light cavalry) (1777-1779)
Fenwick's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
Forshner's Independent Company (1780-1781)
Georgia Light Dragoons (there was also, a Local Volunteer Corps unit, of the same name) (1779-1781)
Georgia Loyalists (1779-1782)
Governor Wentworth's Volunteers (1777-1781)
Guides and Pioneers (absorbed the Black Company of Pioneers in 1778) (1778-1783)
Harkimer's Batteau Company (1780-1783)
Hierlihy's Corps
James Island Light Dragoons
King's American Dragoons
King's American Regiment (placed on American establishment, in 1781, as 4th American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1776-1783)
King's Rangers
King's (Carolina) Rangers
King's Orange Rangers
King's Royal Regiment of New York
Kinloch's Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778)
Locke's Independent Company
Loyal American Rangers (1780-1783)
Loyal American Regiment
Loyal Foresters
Loyal New Englanders
Loyal Rangers
Loyal Rhode Islanders
Maryland Loyalists Battalion
McAlpin's Corps (also, known as McAlpin's Corps of Royalists, absorbed the American Volunteers, King's Loyal Americans, Queen's Loyal Rangers, and Adams' Rangers)
Nassau Blues
Newfoundland Regiment (placed on British establishment in 1782)
New Hampshire Volunteers
New Jersey Volunteers (Skinner's Greens)
Newport Artillery Company (Rhode Island) 1741
New York Volunteers (placed on American establishment, as 3rd American Regiment in 1779)
North Carolina Highlanders
North Carolina Independent Company
North Carolina Independent Dragoons
Pennsylvania Loyalists
Philadelphia Light Dragoons (formed part of the British Legion in 1778)
Prince of Wales's American Volunteers
Provincial Light Infantry
Queen's Rangers (placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 1st American Regiment, descended from Roger's Rangers)
Roman Catholic Volunteers (1777-1778)
Royal American Reformers
Royal Fencible Americans
Royal Garrison Battalion (placed on British establishment in 178
Royal Georgia Volunteers
Royal Highland Emigrants (placed on British establishment in 1779 as 84th Foot)
Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment
Saint John's Volunteers
Starkloff's Dragoons (South Carolina Dragoons) (1781)
South Carolina Rangers
South Carolina Royalists
Stewart's Troop of Light Dragoons
Van Alstine's Batteau Company
Volunteers of Ireland (absorbed the Roman Catholic Volunteers and New Jersey Volunteers and placed on American establishment, in 1779, as 2nd American Regiment, part of the regular, British Army) (1778-1782)
Volunteers of New England
West Florida Royal Foresters
West Jersey Volunteers

Antigua

Australia

Barbados
Barbados Volunteer Force

Bermuda
Bermuda Militias 1612-1815
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (1894–1965)
Bermuda Militia Artillery (1895–1965)
Bermuda Volunteer Engineers (1931-1946)
Bermuda Militia Infantry (1939-1946)
Bermuda Home Guard
Bermuda Regiment (1965–Present)
Bermuda Cadet Corps (19th Century-2013)
Air Training Corps
Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps (1968–Present)

British Guiana
 British Guiana Volunteer Force (BGVF)

British Honduras
 The Prince Regent's Royal Militia (1817-1866)
 The Belize Volunteer Force (1866-1868)
 The Belize Volunteer Corps (1868-1883)
 The Belize Light Infantry Volunteer Force (1897-1905)
 British Honduras Volunteers (1905-1916)
 British Honduras Territorial Force (1916-1928)
 British Honduras Defense Force (1928-1944)
 British Honduras Home Guard (1942-1943)
 British Honduras Volunteer Guard (1943-1973)
 Belize Volunteer Guard (1973-1977)

Burma
Burma Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve

Canada

 Provincial Marine

Ceylon
Ceylon Volunteers (1881–1910)
Ceylon Defence Force (1910–1948)
Ceylon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Dominica
Dominica Defence Force

Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands Defence Force (1892–Present)

Fiji
Fiji Defence Force

Gibraltar
Royal Gibraltar Regiment

Gold Coast
Gold Coast Constabulary

Grenada
Grenada Defence Force

Guernsey

High Commission Territories
African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps (1941-1946)

Hong Kong
Royal Hong Kong Regiment (1854–1997)

India

Cavalry
The Allahabad Light Horse
The Assam Valley Light Horse
The Bihar Light Horse
The Bombay Light Horse
The Calcutta Light Horse
The Cawnpore Light Horse
The Ghazipur Light Horse
The Gorakhpur Light Horse
The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
The Oudh Light Horse
The Punjab Light Horse
The Surma Valley Light Horse

Infantry

The Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Allahabad Rifles
The Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
The Baluchistan Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Bangalore Contingent
The Bengal and North West Railway Battalion
The Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion
The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment
The Bombay Volunteer Rifles Corps
The Calcutta and Presidency Battalion
The Calcutta Presidency Battalion
The Cawnpore Rifles
The Chota Nagpur Regiment
The Coorg and Mysore Company
The Coorg and Mysore Rifles
The Dehra Dun Mounted Rifles
The East Coast Battalion
The East Indian Railway Regiment
The Eastern Bengal Company
The Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Regiment
The Hyderabad Rifles
The Kolar Goldfields Battalion
The Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
The Madras Guards
The Malabar Volunteer Rifles
The Malwah Bheel Corps
Meywa Bheel Corps
The Midlands Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Moulmein Volunteer Rifle Corps
The Mussourie Battalion
The Nagpur Rifles
The Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles
The Nilgiri Malabar Battalion
The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
The North West Railway Battalion
The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion
The Poona Rifles
The Shillong Volunteer Rifles
The Simla Rifles
The South Andaman Volunteer Rifles Corps
The South Indian Railway Battalion
The Yercaud Volunteer Rifle Corps

Iraq
 Iraq Levies

Jamaica
Jamaica Militia Artillery
Jamaica Engineer Corps
Kingston (later Jamaica) Infantry Volunteers
Jamaica Home Guard
consolidated postwar to form:
Jamaica Defence Force

Jersey

Kenya
Kenya Regiment

Leeward Island
Leewards Islands Battalion (1943-1945)
Leewards Home Guard

Malaya
Malay States Volunteer Rifles (1915–1936)
Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve

Malta
King's Own Malta Regiment

Mauritius
 Mauritius Territorial Force
 Mauritius Defence Force
 Mauritius Regiment

Montserrat
 Royal Montserrat Defence Force

New Zealand
Waikato Mounted Rifles
Hauraki Regiment

Nigeria

Rhodesia/Nyasaland
 British South Africa Police
 Northern Rhodesia Police
 Nyasaland Police
 Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve
 Royal Rhodesia Regiment
 Northern Rhodesia Regiment
  Rhodesian Native Regiment
 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion King's African Rifles
 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion King's African Rifles
 22nd (Nyasaland) Battalion King's African Rifles
 Southern Rhodesian Reconnaissance Regiment
 'C' Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment
 Rhodesian Light Infantry

St Christopher Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis Defence Force

Singapore
Singapore Volunteer Corps
Singapore Naval Volunteer Force

St Lucia
St. Lucia Volunteer Corps

St Vincent

Sudan
Sudan Defence Force

Trinidad/Tobago
Trinidad Volunteers (expanded during WWII to form:)
Trinidad Regiment
Trinidad Volunteer Artillery
Trinidad Home Guard

Uganda
Uganda Volunteer Reserve

West Indies
 West India Regiment

Zanzibar
Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force

Medals
 Efficiency Decoration
 Efficiency Medal
 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal

References & External links

British colonial regiments
Lists of military units and formations
Lists of military units and formations of the United Kingdom
Reserve forces of the United Kingdom

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L'USS Quincy (CA-39) était un croiseur lourd de la Marine américaine de la classe New Orleans, coulé lors de la bataille de l'île de Savo dans la nuit du 8 au .

Récompenses

Le navire a reçu une battle star pour son service lors du second conflit mondial.

Notes et références

Lien externe
  Photographies du USS Quincy

Classe New Orleans (1931)
Croiseur de l'US Navy de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Bateau lancé en 1935
Navire construit à Quincy (Massachusetts)
Navire coulé en 1942


One of the charms of adenovirus is its unique blend of orthodoxy and idiosyncrasy. Although the virus operates largely via host cell mechanisms, at least for transcriptional and translational purposes, it coopts these mechanisms by using a variety of viral products to modify cellular activities for its own benefit. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the virus-associated (VA) RNA genes, which are transcribed by RNA polymerase III (pol III) while the rest of the viral genome is grist for pol II. More abundant in the infected cell than any messenger RNA, the VA RNAs encode no protein but are essential for efficient translation, a feat that is accomplished through a protein kinase that is regulated by highly structured RNA molecules. The protein kinase is a key element in the cellular antiviral defenses that are induced by interferon, and it is probable that one of the roles of the VA RNAs in natural infections is to spike the defensive guns.


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Remember the 13th? Why?
October 4, 2013, 12:32 PM ET
By Phil Plait
[UPDATE (Oct. 4 at 21:00 UTC): WARNING: The site discussed below may be a scam, used by a company for phishing, a way to collect email addresses from people to sell to spammers. The site Android Malware Dump has the scoop. DO NOT ENTER YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AT THAT SITE! In fact, don't even visit the site; I've removed all links to it to be safe. Thanks to my friend James Kerwin for letting me know.]
Iâm getting a lot of tweets and emails asking me about a mysterious website thatâs popped up in the last few days. Called âRemember the 13thâ, it purports to have huge news from NASA it will reveal:
âThe biggest discovery that will shake the Earth, it will never be the same again. [sic]â
A lot of folks are assuming this is an official NASA webpage, because it uses the NASA logo, and says, âNASA has made a historic discovery that will shake the entire planet.â But note that nowhere on the page does it actually say itâs an official NASA page.
The one thing we can know for sure is that this is not an official NASA site. Being a government agency, NASA has to follow certain rules about websites, and this one has a few key indicators itâs not legit:
Official NASA sites are all part of the nasa.gov network, and this one isnât.     Â
WHOIS reports itâs registered through Panama. Hello. [UPDATE (Oct. 4 at 18:00 UTC): The actual ownership of the site is hidden using an anonymizing service, and it's that service that reports the site is in Panama. But NASA would never use a service like this, so the argument stands.]
Official NASA sites donât use the â.comâ top-level domain.
All NASA sites are inaccessible right now due to the government shutdown.
Any one of those is enough to show this ainât NASA.
Also, NASA isnât coy like this. Understated, maybe, but not coy. If they had a big announcement, they would send out a press release first. It would go to journalists and others signed up for their news service. That's their usual modus operandi, which theyâve always done when theyâve had major news.
Alsoâand this is just my opinionâ if it were an official NASA announcement, the grammar would be a touch better. âSo whats [sic] that all about?â, âIt will be a day to remember and One [sic] for the history books,â and so on.
Clearly, this is really just some sort of viral marketing attempt (which, just as clearly, is working well). Stuff like this has been done before to advertise movies; the steaming pile of cellulose â2012â did it with a series of ads for the fictional âInstitute of Human Continuityâ, for example. I poked around the web looking for any movie premieres on November 13 but didnât see anything obvious (the âHunger Gamesâ sequel, âCatching Fireâ, premieres that day in London, but seems unrelated). Also, the page says they moved the announcement date up to October 6, so it doesnât seem like this would be a movie release.
Bottom line, I donât think thereâs enough information here to really know. Iâve seen guesses that itâs for a game release, or itâs an email hacking scam. Those are as good guesses as any. I would bet a lot of money this has nothing to actually do with NASA, unless itâs a crackpot claiming to have found life somewhere (there are links on the page to the Mars Curiosity rover, for example). Itâs almost certainly a publicity stunt. If so, it may be a mistake; people tend not to like being fooled, or being played for one. A marketing campaign like this could easily backfire.
Anyway, weâll see soon enough. October 6 is this Sunday.
This lopsided galaxy is a mess. But why?
Cancel Columbus Day: Sun storms pinpoint Europeans being in Canada in 1021 A.D.


Having good or bad credit affects how you can spend money and what you can buy. Building your credit up opens a lot of doors like having the ability to buy a house or car or open a credit card. However, there's a lot of confusion about which things truly affect your credit positively and negatively. Below, there are four credit myths that are commonly perceived to be true.