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Metro 2033 Redux is a downloadable remaster of the Metro 2033, a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter originally released in 2010. The game is based on the novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, which first debuted in 2002.
How to Download Metro 2033 Redux
Metro 2033 Redux can be downloaded from Steam. To start, simply click on the Download button located at the end of the review. And if you want to play Metro Exodus, the third part of the series released in 2019, then head over to Epic Games Store.
The Game Review
The story of Metro 2033 takes place several years after a nuclear attack decimates the land of Russia, forcing its civilians and survivors into the metro tunnels below the surface. Here, in the dirty and dank transportation tunnels, small survivor settlements have popped up. As the weakened and disheveled humans try to make due in this new and frightening world, terrifying mutated monsters wait in the dark.
You play as Artyom, a 24-year-old man who was born before the nuclear attack and lost his parents in the eventual chaos. Raised by a station leader under the surface, Artyom must fight back against the shadowy creatures known as The Dark Ones, or face utter distinction.
Although Metro 2033 Redux might be considered a first-person shooter and first glance, there's more than just shooting enemies in this dark tale. Seeing as how the game takes place during a post-nuclear world, supplies are scarce. Instead of bartering with coins and currency, the members of the underground Metro outposts use ammo to pay for goods. It seems like self-defense is the highest priority, as owning a weapon and knowing how to use it is one of the first focal points of the game.
As you work your way through Metro 2033's story, you'll have to pay attention to your resources and surroundings. Break your gas mask or run out of air filters? Good luck surviving the radioactive surface. Low on ammunition? Your next enemy encounter might be your last. In Metro 2033, surviving the brutal environment is your top priority, seconded only by defeating the ominous Dark Ones.
Speaking of the Dark Ones, the plot in Metro 2033 Redux is a surprisingly well-done adaptation of the novel. While it doesn't hit all the same high notes, the story here is interesting and full of twists and turns.
The game also takes into account player choice, as your actions (or inaction) can often change the outcome of the story. In both minor and major ways, your journey through the game feels personalized and a direct result of your choices. The game presents some tough moral dilemmas too, and you'll often question your morals and ethics when making a decision. Metro 2033 Redux is a bleak and often sad tale, but it's one that is effective and memorable.
Overall, Metro 2033 Redux is a great remaster of an already-awesome game. It takes some much-needed improvements from the later Metro games and implements them back into the original. This eases some annoyances and makes the experience more enjoyable, and the updated visuals give a clearer look at the world around you.
The horror elements in Metro 2033 Redux are just as effective as the survival mechanics, making the player feel underpowered and unsure of themselves. This is reflected in the story as well, resulting in a great shooting game that has much more depth than you would think.
Metro 2033 Redux is a revamped version of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic horror first-person shooter game. Download it now.
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The BBC has won a battle to keep control of Dr Who's Tardis after the Metropolitan Police unsuccessfully argued it should own the trade mark of the distinctive image.
The police objected to the BBC using the image of the Tardis on comics, T-shirts, videos and other merchandise, something it has done since the 1970s.
But the Metropolitan Police lost its appeal and has been ordered to pay �850, plus legal costs.
The case has been rumbling on since 1996, when the Patent Office originally accepted the Tardis as a BBC trade mark.
But the Met claimed it should be trade mark holder of the Tardis, believing it to be commonly known as the police telephone box.
It said in 1953 there were 685 blue police telephone boxes in London, and that the boxes had a considerable reputation among the general public.
The Tardis has been Dr Who's preferred mode of travel for transporting him through time zones since 1963.
But hearing officer Mike Knight remarked that even if the police had built up any reputation, it would have only been in the area of policing and law enforcement and would not have extended into the goods and services which the BBC had applied to use it for.
Mr Knight said that the police telephone box had been used by other police forces outside London, so was not exclusive to the Metropolitan Police, and at best it would be described by the public as "street furniture".


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Locating 'Human Dignity' in Cambodia
'Human dignity' is considered a foundational human rights concept, appearing in the UN Charter, the International Bill of Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the concept's framing as 'universal' and its frequent use in human rights and development programmes around the world, in practice 'human dignity' does not easily translate into diverse cultural settings or languages. Centring the case study of Cambodia, this project interrogates how 'human dignity' is constructed, conceptualised and negotiated in a context where no direct or 'official' translation exists. A post-conflict state where responding to past violence, preventing future insecurity and building sustainable peace is an ongoing project, Cambodia provides an illuminating site for exploring the ways in which understandings of 'human dignity' within various individual, cultural and societal frames could present opportunities and/or challenges for the prevention of violence, human rights education and practice, and current approaches to building a sustainable, inclusive peace.
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Mumbai pilot Amol Yadav signs a Rs 35,000 crore pact to build aircraft in India
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The dream of a commercial pilot to set up an aircraft manufacturing company is set to take wings with the Maharashtra government on Monday signing a Rs 35,000 crore pact with him to build aircraft.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was present when the MoU, which envisages Rs 35,000 crore investment in the project, was signed at the "Magnetic Maharashtra" global investors summit in suburban Bandra.
The MoU, between Amol Yadav and MIDC, will lead to generation of around 10,000 jobs in the project, which will be spread over 157 acre of land in Palghar district.
In 2017, Fadnavis had assured all help to Yadav, 42, who hails from Satara district, to start manufacturing facility for indigenous 6-seater and 19-seater aircraft.
"I have to make planes. I have demonstrated the capabilities. Fadnavis wants the first plane making factory of the country to be in Maharashtra. The 157-acre plot was identified in Palghar. The MIDC will provide us land and support facilities like roads," Yadav said.
"My responsibility is to build the plane and create the factory which will be producing more, and also to look after factories to be set up henceforth. This will be an aerospace hub to make planes," he said.
Maharashtra government will help in getting the required funds, Yadav said. "The government expects Rs 35,000 crore investment for not my company alone, but also for the ancillaries which will be a part of the hub," he said.
"Rs 35,000 crore is the total amount of funds which will be required to achieve the broader targets. The target is to create employment for 10,000 people. The investment figure is included in the MoU agreement but it will not be coming from me alone," he said.
"In the first phase, I am required to build a prototype 19-seater plane and three more similar planes for production. The investment required for this will be Rs 200 crore, which is the immediate requirement and will be spent in the next six months," he said.
"Our target, from the Rs 35,000 crore investment, is very simple. We want to make 600 19-seater planes in the next 2-3 years and then take it to 1,300 planes after that. We are planning for 1300 19-seater planes at present," he said.
"We have already identified many potential investors," Yadav said. The government will also help, he added.
"Pratt & Whitney is supplying me the engines at present. The engine supplied to me is 30 years old and a tested one," he said, adding he "fully owns" the company.
Yadav, senior commander with Jet Airways, has promoted Thrust Aircraft Private Limited company for manufacturing aircraft.
His six-seater aircraft was the centre of attraction during the Make In India exhibition held in Mumbai in 2016.
The aircraft that was assembled on the terrace of a Charkop building, got the certificate of registration from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), in 2017.
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Kim Jong-Un Becomes Head of North Korea
Posted byVictor Vaughn December 26, 2011 December 27, 2011 Posted inAnti-Imperialism, Asia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Imperialism & Colonialism, Internationalism, Juche, North Korea, Revisionism
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SEOUL — North Korea indicated on Monday that Kim Jong-un, the son and successor of its deceased leader, Kim Jong-il, was being elevated to the top of the ruling Workers' Party's hierarchy, calling him head of its Central Committee.
The young successor's apparent rise to the party leadership came two days after the North's state-run news media published an entreaty for him to become supreme commander of the country's Korean People's Army, whose support is considered crucial to his consolidation of power. The top brass also moved quickly to swear their allegiance to Mr. Kim.
Since Kim Jong-il's death was announced on Dec. 19, a series of pronouncements from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have indicated that his son was rapidly consolidating his grip on power by assuming top titles, or that whoever was rallying the key agencies of power behind the young leader was ensuring that the son would not share power, at least in the public eye.
Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack on Dec. 17. His funeral is set to take place on Wednesday, and a memorial is scheduled for Thursday.
On Monday, Kim Jung-un met the first South Korean visitors since his father's death when a former South Korean first lady and the chairwoman of Hyundai-Asan, which had business ties with North Korea, expressed their condolences at Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the late leader lay in state, according to the South Korean government.
Lee Hee-ho, the widow of former President Kim Dae-jung, and the Hyundai-Asan chairwoman, Hyun Jeong- eun, the widow of Hyundai's former chairman, Chung Mong-hun, were the only South Koreans allowed by the government in Seoul to lead private delegations to Pyongyang.
Mr. Kim thanked the South Korean visitors, the North Korean official news agency, K.C.N.A, said.
Ms. Lee and Ms. Hyun laid their wreathes and walked around Kim Jong-il's glass coffin to show their respect, K.C.N.A said. In a message in the visitors' log, Ms. Lee wrote that she hoped the two Koreas would achieve an "early reunification" by honoring a 2000 summit agreement in which her husband and Kim Jong-il promised to encourage political reconciliation and economic exchanges.
The younger Mr. Kim, his father's third son, is believed to be in his late 20s. There has been no indication that he had worked in the government or the military before his father, who had a stroke in 2008, unveiled him as his successor last year and put him on a fast track to be groomed as heir.
On Monday, the North's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, urged North Koreans to "defend the party's Central Committee headed by respected Comrade Kim Jong-un."
The same slogan was used for his father when he was alive. Over the weekend, the North Korean media were blessing the son with the same honorifics until now reserved for his father: "heaven-sent leader," "the sun of the 21st century" and eobeoi, the Korean word for parent, which North Korea has used only for Kim Jong-il and his father, Kim Il-sung, the North's founding president.
Under the charter of the Workers' Party, the head of its Central Committee doubles not only as general secretary but also as chairman of the party's Central Military Commission.
Kim Jong-un was made vice chairman of the Central Military Commission when he was anointed as successor.
The Seoul government said that Ms. Lee and Ms. Hyun were reciprocating for the North Korean delegations that visited Seoul to express condolences over the deaths of President Kim Dae-jung and of Mr. Chung.
Hyundai-Asan led a flurry of South Korean investments that followed a 2000 summit meeting between the two Koreas. But the South suspended its signature project in North Korea — a hiking and spa resort near the North's Diamond Mountain — after North Korean guards shot a female South Korean tourist who had strayed off the resort in 2008.
"I hope my trip will help improve South-North relations," Ms. Lee told reporters before crossing the border on Monday.
On Sunday, striking a typically strident note, North Korea reiterated that if the South blocked private delegations from visiting Pyongyang for Mr. Kim's funeral on Wednesday, there would be "unimaginably disastrous consequences" for relations between the two.
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Biografia
Jay Hunter Morris è nato e cresciuto a Paris (USA). Entrambi i suoi genitori erano musicisti professionisti: suo padre, Jack Hunter Morris, morto quando Jay aveva 13 anni, era un ministro della musica battista del sud e sua madre, Carolyn, era un'organista di chiesa. Morris ha cantato nel coro della chiesa e al liceo ha anche cantato in gruppi rock 'n' roll garage. Si è diplomato al Liceo di Parigi nel 1981.

Morris ha studiato musica al Paris Junior College ed ha conseguito un Bachelor of Music Education presso la Baylor University nel 1986. Dopo il college si è trasferito a Nashville e si è esibito in musica gospel e country ed è stato interessato nel ministero, ma ha avuto scarso entusiasmo per queste attività .

Un amico lo portò a vedere La traviata a Dallas e Morris rimase affascinato dall'opera; conobbe anche Alfredo Kraus, che gli consigliò un insegnante di canto. Morris ha conseguito un Master of Music in performance vocale presso la Southern Methodist University e ha anche studiato interpretazione vocale per due anni alla Juilliard School of Music.

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Carriera operistica iniziale
Nel novembre 1995 Morris ha interpretato il ruolo di Anthony Candolino nella produzione originale del Master Class di Terrence McNally, vincitore del Tony Award. Nel giugno 1996 ha cantato Pinkerton con Cheryl Barker in Madama Butterfly per Opera Australia. Morris ha fatto il suo debutto alla Seattle Opera nel 1999 in Vanessa di Samuel Barber e il suo debutto al Metropolitan Opera nel 2007 come Steva in Jenufa, quest'ultimo trasmesso in tutto il mondo.

Oltre ai suoi tradizionali ruoli di tenore ed alle sue esibizioni, Morris ha cantato ruoli da protagonista nelle anteprime mondiali di diverse opere nuove. Ha debuttato all'Opera di San Francisco nel ruolo di Mitch, alternandosi con il creatore del ruolo Anthony Dean Griffey, nella prima stagione di Un tram che si chiama Desiderio (1998) di André Previn. Morris ha interpretato i ruoli di padre Grenville in Dead Man Walking (2000) di Jake Heggie alla San Francisco Opera, Unferth in Grendel di Elliot Goldenthal e Julie Taymor (2006) alla Los Angeles Opera, il capitano James Nolan in Doctor Atomic (2005) di John Adams. all'Opera di San Francisco e Marky in The Fly (2008) al Théâtre du Châtelet di Parigi. Nell'agosto 2011 Morris ha cantato il ruolo del Capitano Achab in Moby-Dick di Jake Heggie nella sua prima australiana alla State Opera South Australia. Ha ripreso questo ruolo nel febbraio 2012 alla San Diego Opera e l'ha cantato alla San Francisco Opera da ottobre a novembre 2012.

Sigfrido
Il ruolo di Sigfrido ne L'anello del Nibelungo di Wagner, un ruolo lungo e difficile che pochi tenori possono cantare, ha portato Morris all'attenzione internazionale a partire dall'autunno del 2011. Il suo inserimento nel ruolo arrivò da un invito del 2008 di Speight Jenkins come sostituto nella parte di Sigfrido nel Il crepuscolo degli dei alla Seattle Opera per la loro stagione 2009. Ha poi anche sostituito il ruolo alla Los Angeles Opera nel 2010. Morris debuttò come protagonista in Sigfrido alla San Francisco Opera nel giugno 2011.

A partire dal 27 ottobre 2011 Morris ha cantato il ruolo del protagonista nella nuova produzione di Sigfrido del Metropolitan Opera e lo spettacolo del 5 novembre della serie fu trasmesso dal vivo nei cinema di tutto il mondo tramite il Metropolitan Opera Live in Cinecast HD. Ben Heppner era stato originariamente programmato per interpretare il ruolo, ma si era ritirato a febbraio. Gary Lehman avrebbe dovuto esibirsi al suo posto, ma si ritirò solo otto giorni prima della serata di apertura, adducendo una malattia e Morris, fu chiamato come sostituto di emergenza. Morris ha anche cantato Sigfrido nel nuovo Crepuscolo degli dei del Met a partire dal 27 gennaio 2012 ed anche quella produzione fu trasmessa in cinecast e via radio dal vivo in tutto il mondo l'11 febbraio 2012.

Morris ha ripreso il ruolo di Siegfried al Met nell'aprile e nel maggio 2012 in due Cicli dell'Anello consecutivi, inclusa una trasmissione radiofonica in diretta del Metropolitan Opera di Sigfrido il 21 aprile. Il 7 maggio 2012 un film documentario, Wagner's Dream, che documenta la realizzazione del Ciclo dell'Anello del 2011-2012, incluso il precipitoso casting e l'ascesa alla ribalta di Morris: è stato proiettato in tutto il mondo in cinema selezionati. Repliche di Sigfrido e Il crepuscolo degli dei di Morris si sono verificati il 16 maggio e il 19 maggio 2012, nell'ambito del Ciclo del bis al Metropolitan Opera Live in HD; Sigfrido è stato proiettato di nuovo in sale cinematografiche selezionate il 22 novembre 2012. Sulla televisione statunitense, la PBS ha trasmesso Wagner's Dream e l'intero ciclo del Met del 2011-2012 per cinque notti consecutive a partire dal 10 settembre 2012 come parte delle loro serie Great Performances at the Met. Nel 2013 Morris ha condiviso il Grammy Award per la migliore registrazione d'opera per la registrazione del Met dell'Anello del Nibelungo.

Morris ha eseguito di nuovo due Cicli dell'Anello al Met nell'aprile-maggio 2013. Ha cantato di nuovo il ruolo di Sigfrido al Wagner Days Festival di Budapest nel giugno 2014 e ha ripetuto il ruolo alla Houston Grand Opera nel 2016.

Tra gli altri ruoli di tenore wagneriano di Morris figurano Tristano, che ha cantato in concerti con Zubin Mehta nel Tristano e Isotta a Valencia, Spagna nel giugno 2012 ed Erik in L'olandese volante, che ha cantato al Glimmerglass Festival nell'estate del 2013. Il repertorio wagneriano comprende anche Walther, Lohengrin, Parsifal e Siegmund.

Vita privata
Jay Hunter Morris ha sposato la ballerina-cantante-attrice Meg Gillentine nel 2008. Hanno un figlio, Cooper Jack Morris, nato nel 2009. La casa della famiglia si trova a Roswell, in Georgia, un sobborgo di Atlanta.

DVD e CD
Sono disponibili i seguenti DVD e CD, con Morris nei ruoli principali:
Madama Butterfly (2008) (DVD) – Pinkerton
Doctor Atomic (2008) (DVD e Blu-ray) – Captain James Nolan
Der Ring des Nibelungen (2012) (DVD e Blu-ray) – Sigfrido
Wagner's Dream (DVD e Blu-ray) – Sigfrido
Twilight of the Gods: The Ultimate Wagner Ring Collection (CD e MP3) – Sigfrido
Moby Dick: San Francisco Opera (2013) (DVD) – Capitano Ahab

Autobiografia
Morris ha pubblicato una sua divertente autobiografia nel 2013, intitolata Diary of a Redneck Opera Zinger (Diario di un cantante lirico zoticone). Il libro è pubblicato in brossura da Opera Lively Press ed è disponibile in Amazon Kindle.

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Siegfried's "Forging Song" – Morris canta al Met nel 2011
Interview on Charlie Rose – 7 maggio 2013 (insieme a Deborah Voigt e Fabio Luisi)

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Working out is a great way to get your body into shape and stay healthy. The act of exercising is good for your mind and your body in so many different ways. In order to benefit from working out, you have to do it and that's the part that is not always easy. It can be easy to push the snooze or drive past the gym and instead go home after work. However, when you enlist the help of a workout buddy, you will find there are many benefits. Read on to learn why you should workout with a friend.
First of all, when you have a workout buddy, you have built in motivation. It is much easier to get to that workout when you know you have a friend that is counting on you to be there. Plus once you do arrive, you will have someone there that you enjoy spending time with. For many, that is enough motivation to make time for exercise on a regular basis.
Another benefit of having a workout buddy is that you are accountable to someone. Yes, a good friend to exercise with can motivate you, but they are also great for holding your accountable to exercising and doing the work outs that you want to do. By talking with your friend and asking them to either nicely, or not so nicely remind you of your goals should you forget about them, you will remember exactly why it is that you are choosing to live a healthier lifestyle.
Working out with someone is also great for learning new workouts and techniques. When you work out alone, it's easy to get stuck in a rut and continue doing the same thing over and over. However, when you work out with someone on a regular basis, they can share their workout ideas or routines helping you enjoy your time getting in shape and staying that way. Also, when you have a workout buddy, you can have someone to help check your technique. Proper technique is important to help you achieve the results that you desire.
Also, working out with someone can be safer in many situations. If you are running outdoors for exercise, having someone there with you is a lot safer than being alone. Also, if you are working out with weights or doing other exercises where assistance is a good idea, having a buddy there with you can make your workouts much safer.
In conclusion, when you want to make the most of your workouts, choosing to work out with a buddy is a smart decision for many reasons. Someone to work out with provides you with motivation and accountability. It is also good for learning new workouts and using proper technique. Plus you can be safer while exercising with a buddy. Consider the information shared here as you decide which buddy you want to enlist for your workouts to make them funner and more effective.


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Dharma King Dorje Losang Rode the Dharma To Buddha Land; Left 141 Shariras After His Vajra Body Burned for Six Hours
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Dharma King Dorje Losang Rode the Dharma to a Buddha Land; Dharma King Dorje Losang Left Behind 141 Shariras after His Vajra Body Burned for Six Hours
Elderly Dharma King Dorje Losang with Vajra Hair
Elder monk Dorje Losang, one of great perfection and great accomplishment, was the incarnation of the Venerable Vimala-prabha who came to this world in response to its needs. Elder Dharma King Dorje Losang was a disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. He was in the habit of displaying his supernatural powers and thereby manifested the Buddha-dharma. Examples of this are written in the book True Stories About a Holy Monk. He learned and practiced Buddhism under H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III for many years. Day and night, he did not sleep and did not rest. He did not even have a bed. He only had a mat made of rush stems that he took with him when traveling.
Dharma King Losang received deep teachings originating from the lineage of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. He was so appreciative of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that he wept profusely. He made a great vow to act according to the teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and save living beings.
Throughout his entire life, Dharma King Losang led a simple life. He had a correct view of the Dharma. He was not attached to things of the world. Before he passed away, he simply said to everyone, "I am leaving. It would be well if you recited Amitabha Buddha's name more." On the second day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar (October in regular calendar) in the year 2004, he made good on his promise and passed away. Monks from the Bao Guang Temple rushed over to the place where he lived and took his body to the Bao Guang Temple.
In the afternoon of the day Dharma King Losang was cremated, a variety of wonderful phenomena appeared. They were very extraordinary. Monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen surrounded Dharma King Losang's body and chanted the name of Amitabha Buddha. Each of them had their own particular feelings toward the wonderful phenomena that appeared.
At 4:20 in the afternoon, the cremation fire was lit. Everyone gathered around the body of Dharma King Losang, which became engulfed in soaring flames. The huge fire looked like a fire dragon circling in the furnace. The wooden container in the furnace holding Dharma King Losang's body turned into a fireball. However, at this time, a dignified image of elder Dharma King Losang's head suddenly appeared. Everyone became excited and spontaneously began chanting loudly in unison the Six Syllable Great Brightness Mantra.
During the cremation process, the person in charge of the cremation, Monk Ji Xin Shi, added all together four barrels of firewood into the furnace. He said, "I have never used so much firewood for a cremation." After the fire raged for a while, people thought that the elder Dharma King's body had already turned to ashes. However, at this time, the elder Dharma King's head and body suddenly became visible. His head and body were not burned in the slightest. His clothes, however, were burned to ashes. Still, his head and body could not catch on fire.
In Buddhism history, there were records that stated Master Milarepa could not be burned by any fire of this world. During Dharma King Losang's cremation, such a phenomenon unexpectedly appeared before our eyes. The elder Dharma King truly deserves to be called "Vajra Dorje Losang Dharma King." Everyone in attendance then understood the wonderful and profound meaning of "a Vajra body cannot be burned by fire of this world."
In the midst of the fire, Dharma King Losang sat in the cross-legged lotus posture and manifested the Mahakala state. Everyone loudly chanted mantras. They supplicated that the body catch on fire so that they could collect shariras. They then heard a sudden popping sound. The body of the Dharma King finally caught on fire. After the cremation ceremony ended, the set of monk's clothes worn by Dharma King Losang during his life was put into the cremation furnace. Light immediately flashed repeatedly inside the furnace. Then, the furnace emitted a great burst of light. Additionally, it intermittently emitted fragrant scents. Everyone was jubilant.
Under normal circumstances, the entire cremation process only takes a little more than one hour. However, the body of Dharma King Losang burned for more than six hours. This is truly a rare event in this world. One can imagine just what kind of Vajra body he had. After the cremation, 141 shariras (relics) were collected from his remains. The six hour cremation of his indestructible Vajra body, which was a manifestation of the Dharma, and the collection of shariras/firm relics thoroughly prove that Dharma King Losang indeed learned the true Dharma of the Buddha from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Dharma King Losang was not like those people of the world whose practice of the Buddha-dharma is merely uttering empty theories. The holy phenomena described above occur only as a result of the true Buddha-dharma. Thus, we should again stop and think. We often say, "The Buddha-dharma is difficult to seek. The true Dharma is difficult to encounter." However, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III does indeed teach the true Dharma of the Buddha. As a result, we see that one after another of his disciples have attained great accomplishment (liberation). Shouldn't we think about how we will face our own liberation from the cycle of reincarnation?
Now all the Buddhist disciples should know that the true, precious and supreme Buddha Dharma has been presented in front of us, we should wholeheartedly follow the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III's teachings and go to the Buddha Land at the end of our life on earth.
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Revolutionary Metahero and The Rich List host events to remember at Abu Dhabi Race Weekend
By bigthinkbuzz on December 14, 2021
The Rich List Group and Metahero took over the Royal Terrace, Palm Garden from 10th to 12th December, after hosting a weekend to remember with A-List celebrities including Street Artist and DJ Alec Monolopy and world-famous R&B singer Akon.
At the ground-breaking event, Metahero introduced the revolutionary technology that is combining the metaverse and cryptocurrency. Not only did they bring a highly innovative technology to the market, but they also curated a whole experiential weekend at Yas Island as they hosted international talent during the most anticipated weekend of the year at the Abu Dhabi Race Weekend.
The Rich List and Metahero's weekend kickstarted on December 10 as guests filled the Royal Terrace, arguably one of the most exclusive places to party as past attendees include The Weeknd, Bella Hadid, Rick Ross, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
This year saw a vast array of individuals in attendance all weekend, including world renowned Hollywood actress Eva Longoria, with guests such as Mona Kattan, Huda Kattan, Anastasia.
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The Order: 1886, A third-person shooter set in a steampunk vision of Victorian England
The word 'cinematic' has had an awkward relationship with videogames since it was first used as an adjective in relation to them. Any kind of videogame description that relies on language developed for another medium is doomed to failure, particularly when trying to translate it universally across both passive and interactive entertainment forms. Videogames are not movies and, therefore, can never hope to be truly 'cinematic' in the truest sense of the word.
Sadly, predictably, tragically, The Order: 1886 shows little sign of disproving this reality. By concentrating so heavily on mimicking the beats and communication techniques of film, it feels as though developer Ready At Dawn would rather be working out of Universal Studio's famed film sets than their own Californian studio. This filmic focus leaves The Order in something of a land of limbo; the interaction prevents it from flowing like a movie, while the fiercely unidirectional design prevents it from playing like much of a game.
Our latest demo starts enjoyably enough, though, our grey/blue-jacketed heroes abseiling down the side of a Zeppelin in what is a visual feast of gluttonous proportions. Genuinely, the quality of the graphics is beyond reproach this is one of the most impressive games ever conceived at a visual level, such effort presumably being the result of its cinematic ambitions.
Crucially, this abseiling moment is not a simple cut-scene. It's interactive… somewhat. Holding down on the analogue stick moves Galahad, the hero, slowly down the canvassed side of the airship. When you reach a certain point along its hull you need to press X to jump to a lower level, thereafter embarking on another session of holding the analogue stick as Galahad chats to his companions.
It's shallow, but this slight interaction does act to draw you into the world and engage you more snugly in the characters' actions. The problem is that the 'real' game is not all that muchmore interactive, and when it tries to be it tends to fall embarrassingly flat.
" We don't want to recreate history with The Order, we want to twist it
A stealth section some minutes later is so rigid that it feels as though you're playing on rails, the movements of enemies meaning 1) it's seemingly impossible to fail and 2) there's never any choice about where to move. This might not be trying to be an open-world, choice-heavy experience, but to control your every action in such a heavy-handed manner immediately makes you question what, if any, impact you're having on the onscreen events.
When you're given freer rein in a gallery shooting section later in the demo Galahad shooting down on enemies from a balcony the AI is currently so inept that you feel guilty for hurting them. In their current state, they have no chance whatsoever of being able to defeat anyone that's ever held a water pistol, let alone shot one.
Enemies run blindly, making them an easy target. Enemies pop out of cover and stay there for agonisingly long periods of time, making them an easy target. They can't even aim well enough to shoot you when you yourself leave the safety of cover, meaning it's okay to become an easy target yourself. The last point might be designed as some clever parody on evil movie grunts always being a terrible shot (a la James Bond), but such references don't work when you're supposed to feel challenged.
Generally this is where we'd point out that The Order is a work in progress and that we hope things will be different come launch day, but with launch day fast approaching there's little time left to fix things.
Despite that, we've still got out fingers crossed that our dislike of the demo was merely the result of Sony/Ready At Dawn making a bad decision in selecting which part of the game to show us. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but it would be a genuine shame to see these gorgeous visuals wasted on something so apparently superficial.
ENTER STAGE LEFT, THE QTE
Tightly Controlled Moments of melee action are common, playing out using quick-time events in which you must hit the relevant button within a short time limit. It's possible to miss a button input without failing during longer QTE scenes, the action simply playing out differently from if you'd perfected every test of your reactions.
Less welcome is the fact that stealth kills require you to engage in a short QTE. When you approach an enemy from behind, you must quickly hit the button that pops up on the screen. Failing to do so results in instant death, further cementing the fact that there really is only one way to succeed in each of The Order's moments.
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'Philanthropy Day' Celebrates UC Merced's Growing Culture of Giving
By Michelle Morgante, UC Merced
Paw-print 'Friendship Cookies' sold on Philanthropy Day help fund the MSSM Friendship Scholarship
The Bobcat culture of giving will be celebrated with cookies and fun on Thursday, as the campus marks UC Merced Philanthropy Day hosted by the Student Alumni Association.
"The annual celebration highlights and supports the spirit of philanthropy across the campus community," said Alumni Relations Specialist JaeJae Julian ('10), a graduate who advises the Student Alumni Association. "This truly is a day for Bobcats to define what philanthropy means to them and learn ways we can make a difference in our communities — whether it's dedicating our time to volunteer, sharing our skills as mentors, or fundraising for student scholarships."
This year's Philanthropy Day is putting a spotlight on the MSSM Friendship Scholarship, which was founded by Dr. Christine McFadden, a Merced veterinarian, philanthropist and writer, in celebration of the lives of her children Melanie, Stanley, Stuart and Michelle.
The children are honored in the McFadden-Willis Reading Room atop the campus library, where there is a portrait of the four.
Sunbeams light the McFadden-Willis Reading Room atop UC Merced's library
This year, the foundation awarded MSSM Friendship Scholarships of $1,000 each to four UC Merced students.
Fourth-year environmental engineering major Spencer McDermott says the scholarship has helped him fund his education without having to rely as heavily on his family.
"It means everything to be accepted for any scholarship, but particularly for the Friendship Scholarship," McDermott said. With its theme of friendship, he said, "I feel especially honored to be recognized, and I hope to someday be able to give back to the community."
On UC Merced's Philanthropy Day, anyone wishing to support the MSSM Friendship Scholarship for UC Merced students will be able to do so by purchasing "Friendship Cookies."
The pawprint-shaped sugar cookies will be sold for $2.86 each, with $1 of each sale going to the scholarship fund. The cookies will be available in the Lantern from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Bobcats also will be able to use the cookies to create "Friendship Goodie Bags" for their friends. Tables set up on Scholars Lane from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will have stations for people to create friendship cards or bracelets and take photos.
They also will be able to learn about the many forms of philanthropy that are supported by UC Merced clubs and organizations through both volunteer hours and fundraising. Signage on campus will highlight the many ways UC Merced alumni and students have made a meaningful impact on the campus community. For example, showcasing alumni donors, class gifts, and the incredible turnout of student participation in the annual Give Tue UC Merced campaign.
Despite its young age, UC Merced has already proven to be a campus with one of the nation's strongest cultures of giving. Last year, U.S. News and World Report said UC Merced's rate of alumni giving ranked No. 27 in the nation among public universities . Already, a dozen Bobcat alumni have committed to endowing scholarships by pledging $10,000.
Julian, who is among the 12 alumni who have endowed a scholarship, said Philanthropy Day is about continuing the tradition of giving.
"That's what builds our community," she said. "And that's what makes us Bobcats."
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Hot sauces are such a perfunctory ingredient in theory; like really. Who would think that a slight drizzle of some hot sauce can revolutionise not only your taste buds but also your entire meal?! And hot sauces come from a variety forms – from different peppers to different preparations.
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Cultivated in the North East region of India, this pepper is the Queen of sass and sauce. One of the hottest chilli pepper to exist, Bhut Jolokia chutney will make you gasp for air because you would be exhaling only fire, buddy!
Surprise surprise, did you know your beloved peri peri actually comes out of Indian soil? We mean all those delicious times you had peri peri chicken, would they even be half as good if not for the pepper? Now just imagine some peri peri sauce, just a tad drizzle in your favourite soupy noodles – or should we say saucy noodles!
Considered to really give it to you in the gut, Tabasco is pretty much the hottest sauce around and it is responsible for making your weekends fiery; we mean have you ever had a bloody mary that is not swirling with a dash of tabasco? Spicy and heat-y, we recommend this so hard!
There was a time when Sriracha was considered an elusive sauce. One that your relative or friend from abroad got and changed the way you looked at good old chilli sauce. But then fancy superstores started selling it, and cafes started prepping food with it and before you knew it you were entertaining a bunch of friends with succulent chicken wings with a side of hot hot Sriracha!
There is a whole food chain named after it, and why wouldn't it?! Mexican food without chipotle hot sauce amounts to nothing. Crunchy tacos, meaty burritos, or just simply extra spiked cheesy quesadilla – the plethora of flavours with the fierce red of the sauce and the crunchy bites of tacos, and the dash of lemon! Oh my!
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Q: Can I write single byte to a file without temporary variable? I have a simple debug function that writes bytes to a file that will be displayed as image. It follows ppm format.
Originally, I used this:
static void SaveDebugImage(const std::string& filePath, const unsigned char* psdata, const int resolution)
{
  // Debug: print stored data in file
  std::ofstream file;
  file.open(filePath, std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
  if (!file.is_open())
  {
    // Throws error and crashes the program on purpose
    RError("[ImageDebug::SaveDebugImage] Cannot write to %s", filePath.c_str());
  }

  file << "P6"
    << "\n"
    << resolution << "\n"
    << resolution << "\n"
    << "255"
    << "\n";

  const char zero = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < resolution * resolution; ++i)
  {

    file.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(pxdata), sizeof(*pxdata));
    ++pxdata;
    file.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(pxdata), sizeof(*pxdata));
    ++pxdata;
    file.write(&zero, sizeof(zero));
    ++pxdata;
  }
  file.flush();
  file.close();
}

You can see it skips last byte of color, that's because the data are not strictly RGB image, but rather a meta information format. R, G and B channels mean something else than color. You can also observe the need for const char zero = 0 that I have to use to write zeros.
I now have a function on hand that really provides the surface color, it may look like this:
OurLibrary::Color getRealColor(byte r, byte g, byte b);

Now assuming this fictional Color class has a unsigned char getR() const method, how can I write the result to file without temporary variable. Now I have to do this:
OurLibrary::Color pixelColor(getRealColor( ... ));
const unsigned char colorR = pixelColor.getR();
file.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&colorR), sizeof(colorR));

I would prefer:
file.write(pixelColor.getR());

Is there any such method? I couldn't find it in docs.

A: Per the documentation, put "inserts a character".
So, simply:
file.put(pixelColor.getR());

(You may need to cast to char to avoid some narrowing-conversion warnings; not sure.)

Also, that flush() is completely pointless. C++ streams flush on close.

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A whopping 53 Victoria's Secret stores are set to close
Not so heavenly now.
Uh oh… it looks like somebody had a bad Christmas. L Brands Inc., the parent company of Victoria's Secret, just announced they'll be shuttering doors on no less than 53 locations of the lingerie brand, citing a drop in sales and a disappointing holiday season.
A drop in sales of 3 per cent over the Christmas period, combined with a fall of in-store sales by 7 per cent, meant shares in the parent company dropped by almost 9 per cent this week.
All of the closures will be in North America, and will see their actual square footage shrink by 3 per cent. To put that in context – they usually close around 15 stores in any given year. The holidays are normally seen as a reliable time to gift some undergarments, but even their PINK line, usually a teen fave, has seen a slide in sales.
According to Bloomberg, the company stated, "Given the decline in performance at Victoria's Secret, we have substantially pulled back on capital investment in that business versus our history." Sounds like a definitive move. Perhaps some of the change in management has something to do with it – after all, they lost long-term boss Sharen Jester Turney after more than ten years in 2016, followed by Jan Singer who stuck around only two years. The former president of Tory Burch, John Mehas was finally installed at Victoria's Secret Lingerie this year, along with a new brand head at PINK. No pressure, but – they might have their work cut out for them turning this ship around.
A little lift from your friends (the new Perfect Shape Bras).
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The numbers say as much about what's been going on outside of Victoria's Secret as within it. "The outlook illustrates that the lingerie-sales struggle will persist until the retailer finds a way to reconnect with shoppers on price, product and image," said Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Poonam Goyal and Morgan Tarrant. That's putting it tactfully.
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Indeed, the brand has endured its fair share of criticism, mainly that in an era of #MeToo and increased awareness of the hyper-sexualisation of women's bodies, it's uncomfortably tone deaf (not to mention, not very diverse). For our part, we're not entirely surprised at its waning success. With ever-progressing cultural attitudes, the Victoria's Secret brand looks outdated, and frankly out of touch. What's more, the emergence of inclusive, body-positive, and diversity-championing brands like Savage x Fenty, American Eagle Outfitter's Aerie, and ThirdLove mean they're facing stiffer competition than ever. Target also recently threw their hats in the garment ring, announcing the launch of three new low-cost lines of swimwear and nightwear. Perhaps with that in mind, Victoria's Secret has promised the return of its popular swimwear line online next month, which was originally discontinued in 2016.
For now, maybe L Brands Inc. will look to one of its other stores, Bath & Body Works, which saw a jump of 12 per cent same-store sales, for happier news.
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Likelihood of two-state solution in Middle East dimming, say two clergy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The likelihood that a two-state solution will emerge in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict is narrowing to the point of impossibility, according to two clergy familiar with the situation.
Mallon, a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement who is external affairs officer for the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, pointed to a number of current difficulties, such as continued settlement-building by Israelis in the Palestinian territories – Israel, he said, now has total control over 61 percent of all Palestinian land. He also pointed to the lack of development in Palestine. Its economy is shrinking at a rate of 6 percent a year, Mallon said, and the typical Gazan now gets only six hours of electricity a day.
In the United States – which moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem – she said, "More people will get married across religious divides than political ones." Israel's politics, she noted, "are just as hypercharged," with elections around the corner.
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In light of the massive fish kill incidents in Luzon, there is much to learn from the mariculture park demo farm on Guimaras Island.
On our recent trip to Guimaras Island, we went on an island hopping tour, which included a quite interesting trip to a mariculture park demo farm.
The aquaculture park is a research facility sponsored by the government to aid fishermen in the Guimaras Island area. They've opened the facility to the public for educational purposes and in a way showcase this government program to the people.
The mariculture park demo farm stop was an interesting tour that I would highly recommended, especially if you have kids with you on your trip.. One of the researchers there talked to us to explain what they do there, and gave us insights into the lives of the fish they have in the facility.
At the fish farm, we saw huge lapu-lapus that were said to be around 183 pounds in weight and about 30 years old. We thought them so huggable and cute, until we're told that they're carnivorous, and if a cat would fall into the fish cage, it would likely be eaten.
Lapu-lapu weighing more than an average human. This one was approximately 30 years old.
There's another fish cage housing milkfish (Chanos chanos) for production of bangus fingerlings. The research facility produces the fingerlings used by fishermen to grow bangus for commercial sale.
Every fish species has its unique way of propagating. Our guide told us about the interesting mating rituals of milkfish: two males sandwiching a female that's ready to release eggs. When she does, she sprouts a milky substance, which is why they're called milkfish. The males release the sperms, and all together, the milkfish swim in a big circular motion, so as to stir the water, thereby fertilizing the egg cells.
Incidentally, there's been rampant fish kills in the Luzon area, and our guide couldn't help but explain why that happened and how their methods help avoid such tragic incidents. Fishing in the Guimaras area is controlled. They make sure that there is only sustainable numbers of fish cages to ensure aeration. They also clean the fish pens after harvest to clean the muck left by unused feeds, which tend to pollute the water when they're not removed.
I was happy to have visited this marine research facility, and it's also good that it's open to the public. Usually, research facilities can only accessed by students or people in the field. Opening them to tourists would help educate more people on how we can take care of our so-called home.


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A new ride for Imogen from July 2017 and a serious prospect for the future. Already scoring a personal best for horse and rider of 14.3, this attractive mare has all the credentials to go far. Making a successful step up to Novice, Sky completed the CIC*YH 6-year-old Championships at Osberton to finish the 2017 season.
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Currently based at Tower Hill Equestrian in Essex, under the watchful eye of Anand Patel and co-owner Shona O'Neil.
Teddy is destined to be a babysitter these days, having jumped Advanced tracks he seems to have fallen out of love with Eventing at those dizzy heights. He enjoys teaching the apprentices, babysitting the youngsters out hacking and being a travel companion for those that need one!
2018 saw a return to eventing for Teddy with Head Girl Scarlett. He seems to be enjoying the low pressure life of eventing for fun at BE100 level.
Bertie is with us while Edgar is at University. He has previously competed at 1* level and the plan is that Imogen will continue his training and do a bit of competing with him while Edgar is studying.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Richwood Branch
The Baltimore & Ohio Richwood Branch extended from Clarksburg to Richwood, West Virginia, a distance of 121 miles. Much of the route was later abandoned.
The B&O Richwood Branch was originally built as the West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad (WV&P), which was incorporated on January 30, 1876. 5 It consisted of the Clarksburg, Weston & Midland Railroad (CW&M) and the Buckhannon River Railroad (BR). 11
The CW&M, incorporated on April 10, 1889, 11 comprised of the following:
Weston & West Fork Railroad, formed on March 4, 1875, attempted to construct 24.9 miles of track between Clarksburg and Weston.
Clarksburg, Weston & Glenville Railroad, incorporated on August 6, 1878, finished the work of the Weston & West Fork. By September 1879, 24.9 miles of narrow-gauge track was open between Clarksburg and Weston.
Buckhannon & West Fork Railroad, incorporated on April 10, 1882, built 15.8 miles of narrow-gauge track from Weston to Buckhannon.
Buckhannon River Lumber Company, incorporated on October 15, 1885, constructed 13.3 miles of narrow-gauge line from Buckhannon to Indian Camp Run (Calico Run) in 1886.
Weston & Elk River Railroad, formed on February 20, 1889, attempted to build a line from Weston south towards Charleston via the Elk River. No line was built.
The Buckhannon River Railroad, formed on August 13, 1889, was never built. 11
The WV&P fell into receivership in 1898 and on June 1, the WV&P was acquired by Johnson N. Camden and Clarence Cary. The railroad's projected southern terminus was then modified to be the mouth of the Williams River near present-day Cowen, in Webster County, to extract the area's virgin timber forests.
The WV&P was extended from Weston south to Sutton via Flatwoods in 1890-91, and to Camden-on-Gauley in 1891-92. 4
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
On August 31, 1899, 5 the WV&P and its 17 locomotives, 18 passenger cars, and 530 freight cars were leased by the B&O. 4 (It was not until December 31, 1990, that the WV&P was fully merged into the B&O's ultimate successor, CSX. 5)
The renamed B&O Richwood Branch was completed to Richwood in 1901, providing a railroad connection between the B&O and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad (C&O). 5
At the time, Richwood was known as Cherry Tree Bottoms and had a population of 27. 6 Richwood, named so because of the area's rich abundance of timber, was incorporated in 1901 and rapidly developed. By 1930, the town had blossomed to a population of nearly 7,000. 7 It boasted the Steele-Wallace Clothespin Factory, the largest in the world at the time, the Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company, the Cherry River Paper Company, the J.D. Wescott & Son broom and chair factory, and the Wm. F. Mosser Company, the largest sole leather factory. 8
Further north, Weston developed as the center of several glass manufacturing plants. 14 The companies were initially drawn to the region because of the availability and affordability of natural gas, which made glass production competitive.
The freight depot at Lost Creek became the largest shipping point for cattle on the entire B&O in the state. 12 By 1923, it became the largest cattle shipping point east of the Mississippi River with 275 cars needed to carry between 4,000 to 5,000 cattle. The depot had been built in 1892 by the WV&P and served unbroken blocks of grazing lands for cattle controlled by the Goff, Gore, Haymond, Lowndes, Lucas, Maxwell, and Reynolds families. By the 1930s, the county had become one of the biggest beef cattle-producing regions in the eastern United States.
Coal mining was developed around Richwood after the Great Depression but collapsed after 500 coal mining jobs were lost in 1984 and 1985. 7
The C&O took financial control of the B&O in 1963. 2 The B&O at that point already had a controlling interest in the Western Maryland Railway (WM). In 1973, the three railroads were brought together under one identity, the Chessie System. The WM was formally merged into the B&O in 1976.
In 1980, the Chessie and the Seaboard Coast Line, which controlled the Louisville & Nashville, the Clinchfield, and Georgia railroads, merged to form the CSX Corporation. 2 Despite the consolidation, CSX never had its own identity until 1986, when all of the merged entities was renamed CSX Transportation (CSX).
In April 1987, the B&O was formally absorbed into the C&O, which merged into CSX in August. 2
The first abandonment of the B&O Richwood Branch came in the 1940s when the line between Weston and Orlando was abandoned. 15 The B&O opted to route through trains from Orlando northeast to Buckhannon via the Coal & Coke Railway, and then west to Weston via the B&O Pickens Branch (originally the Weston & Buckhannon). The Coal & Coke had been acquired by the B&O in 1916, becoming their Charleston Branch. 16
During the 1970s and 1980s, increased foreign competition caused one glass company after another to close in Weston. With little originating traffic in the city, CSX discontinued use of the Richwood Branch between Weston and McWhorter on August 25, 1989. 13
After the coal mines around Richwood never reopened, CSX abandoned the Richwood Branch between Cowen and Richwood in 1990. 9 The Cranberry Tri-Rivers Rail-Trail committee purchased the right-of-way for $189,000 after securing a $69,000 grant from the Georgia-Pacific Company, which operated a large mill in Richwood. The company retained the rights to operate the trail as a logging haul road during the off-season to move cut timbers into Richwood.
In September 1998, the state dedicated the new six-mile Cranberry Tri-Rivers Rail-Trail, which followed the Cherry and Gauley Rivers between Richwood and Enoch Branch near Allingdale. 9 The multi-use path included a long trestle over the Cranberry River and the 640-foot Sarah's Tunnel. The trail is planned to extend from Enoch Branch to Cowen along the abandoned branch's mainline and from Bolair to Cowen on a former spur to a coal mine.
In 1999, CSX abandoned the section of the Richwood Branch between McWhorter and the former B&O St. Louis mainline in Clarksburg. 10
The remaining active portions of the B&O Richwood Branch became the CSX Cowen Subdivision, which extended south from Grafton to Philippi, Buckhannon, Burnsville, and Cohen.
A 2003 system map from CSX of its routes in northern West Virginia.
On March 25, 2005, the Appalachian & Ohio Railroad (A&O), a part of Watco Companies, took over operations of the former Cowen Subdivision. 1 (The sale also included the former Pickens Subdivision, from Hampton Junction to Alexander.) The A&O had connections to the WVC at Tygart Junction, the BEEM at Alexander, and the Elk River Railroad at Burnsville.
The A&O was expected to move 90,000 carloads in the first year, 1 with coal comprising 95% of the route's traffic. Coal was expected to be shipped from the mines to power plants in the North and Mid-Atlantic states. The A&O held onto the line for just a short time before turning it over to Four Rivers Transportation, now P&L Transportation, on May 15, 2006. 3 P&L Transportation is jointly owned by the P&L Railway and CSX.
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Steven Smith says:
Sherman Cahal, I think your site is professionally done. I love the rising captions below each picture. I also admire the depth and variety of your black and white photographs. I am finishing a full-length manuscript with five years research behind it. Since my book's story finishes in Cowen, it's fitting. I toured the area several summers back and met some of the nicest people in the country. Besides Cowen, I was able to see Webster Springs, Camp Caesar, and Richwood. Again, nice work.
Thank you for the warm regards Steven. I'd love to read your publication when it's finished!
Brent Lambiotte says:
Also, some captions say "Cohen", should be Cowen.
Nice article. I worked for the B&O around Cowen, WV from about 1971 to 1973. I worked WN Tower in Cowen, Allingdale, and Richwood. At that time, there were several district runs west (geographically South) of Cowen. Number 3 (day) and Number 7 (night) took empties from Cowen to Allingdale, and returned with loads. Allingdale was the junction of the SCSM (Strouds Creek and Muddlety) and the B&O Richwood Branch. The SCSM had been acquired by the B&O and the SCSM crews were B&O employees; but there were territorial restrictions. The SCSM crews could not operate on the B&O, and vice versa. Made for extremely inefficient operations; with the B&O operating the 8 miles between WN Tower and Allingdale, and the SCSM working the mines on the 22 mile branch between Allingdale and Muddlety. Both the B&O district runs and the SCSM trains had head and rear end power (3 units each); so crews on each were 5-6. The B&O had operators at Allingdale from 7AM-3PM and 8PM-4AM. These jobs had almost nothing to do. They issued Clearance Form A, and any train orders, if required, to originate the SCSM trains. As I recall, the SCSM crews were called by the B&O Caller in Cowen.
District run Number 4 was the Richwood local. 28 miles from WN Tower to Richwood. Primary freight was shipments of hardwood lumber from Georgia Pacific sawmill in Richwood. There was some boxcar freight–maybe wooden cabinets.
District run Number 5 was the "Gauley River Man". Ran the 19 miles from WN Tower to Gauley Jct., and then worked mines on the 6 mile Gauley River Branch.
About once a week, one of the yard jobs, No. 1 or No 2, would work mines on the Williams River and CRB&L (Cherry River Boom & Lumber) branches. Williams River ran 10 miles from WN Tower, and CRB&L was a 20 mile branch of the Williams River Branch.
Article states that the Richwood Branch connected the B&O with the C&O; but I don't think this ever happened. By the time I worked there, Richwood was the end of the line. I think there were tracks south of Richwood at one time (possibly CRB&L) but pretty sure they never built to the C&O.
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El Dorado (in Spanish; Castilian pronounced as /el doˈɾaðo/, ; Spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people in then Spanish colonial province of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally to an empire.
See main article: article, Muisca people and Muisca mythology.
The earliest reference to the name El Dorado was in 1535 or 1536, before Spanish contact with the Muisca people.Between 1531 and 1538, the German conquistadors Nikolaus Federmann and Georg von Speyer searched the Venezuelan lowlands, Colombian plateaus, Orinoco Basin and Llanos Orientales for El Dorado. Subsequently, Philipp von Hutten accompanied Von Speyer on a journey (1536–38) in which they reached the headwaters of the Rio Japura, near the equator. In 1541 Hutten led an exploring party of about 150 men, mostly horsemen, from Coro on the coast of Venezuela in search of the Golden City. After several years of wandering, harassed by the natives and weakened by hunger and fever, he crossed the Rio Bermejo, and went on with a small group of around 40 men on horseback into Los Llanos, where they engaged in battle with a large number of Omaguas and Hutten was severely wounded. He led those of his followers who survived back to Coro in 1546. On Hutten's return, he and a traveling companion, Bartholomeus VI. Welser, were executed in El Tocuyo by the Spanish authorities.
See main article: Spanish conquest of the Muisca. In 1536, stories of El Dorado drew the Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada and his army of 800 men away from their mission to find an overland route to Peru and up into the Andean homeland of the Muisca for the first time. The southern Muisca settlements and their treasures quickly fell to the conquistadors in 1537 and 1538. On the Bogotá savanna, the Spanish received reports from captured natives about El Dorado and the initiation rite of the new zipa, which used to take place in Lake Guatavita. The Spanish captured large amounts of gold from the Muisca, which led them to spread the word that El Dorado was near.
In 1560, Basque conquistadors Pedro de Ursúa and Lope de Aguirre journeyed down the Marañón and Amazon Rivers, in search of El Dorado, with 300 Spaniards and hundreds of natives; the actual goal of Ursúa was to send idle veterans from the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire away, to keep them from trouble-making, using the El Dorado myth as a lure. A year later, Aguirre participated in the overthrow and killing of Ursúa and his successor, Fernando de Guzmán, whom he ultimately succeeded.  He and his men reached the Atlantic (probably by the Orinoco River), destroying native villages on the way.
In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I of England died, bringing to an end the era of Elizabethan adventurism. A bit later, in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the great inspirer, was beheaded for insubordination and treason. In 1695, bandeirantes in the south struck gold along a tributary of the São Francisco River in the highlands of State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The prospect of real gold overshadowed the illusory promise of "gold men" and "lost cities" in the vast interior of the north.
See also: List of Muisca research institutes. In 1987–1988, an expedition led by John Hemming of the Royal Geographical Society of London failed to uncover any evidence of the ancient city of Manoa on the island of Maracá in north-central Roraima. Members of the expedition were accused of looting historic artifacts but an official report of the expedition described it as "an ecological survey."
See main article: article and Lake Parime. Although it was dismissed in the 19th century as a myth, some evidence for the existence of a lake in northern Brazil has been uncovered. In 1977 Brazilian geologists Gert Woeltje and Frederico Guimarães Cruz along with Roland Stevenson, found that on all the surrounding hillsides a horizontal line appears at a uniform level approximately 120m (390feet) above sea level. This line registers the water level of an extinct lake which existed until relatively recent times. Researchers who studied it found that the lake's previous diameter measured 400km (200miles) and its area was about 80000km2. About 700 years ago this giant lake began to drain due to tectonic movement. In June 1690, a massive earthquake opened a bedrock fault, forming a rift or a graben that permitted the water to flow into the Rio Branco. By the early 19th century it had dried up completely.
Voltaire's 1759 satire Candide describes a place called El Dorado, a geographically isolated utopia where the streets are covered with precious stones, there exist no priests, and all of the king's jokes are funny.
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Ocampo López, Javier. 2007. Grandes culturas indígenas de América [Great indigenous cultures of the Americas], Plaza & Janes Editores Colombia S.A..
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Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Spire, Georg von". in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana, Hakluyt Society, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006.
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discussions it had become clear that many of us worked within a phenomenological framework, which is not the most common approach in ethics. This should be taken in a very wide sense – for some this means having expertise in the work of Charles Taylor, others read almost forgotten French personalists, while for others again phenomenology just means a general approach to follow their own questions in, for instance, health care ethics. In my case the project provided me with an opportunity to delve into the ways in which William James, Max Scheler and Charles Taylor helped me to understand the relationships between religious experience and moral orientations in the value realm. I also wrote a second chapter where I clarified – with texts by Levinas and Derrida – aspects of Simone Weils criticism of an ethics of rights.
And now I heard how my peers read this work – which is a weird experience. Sitting and listening for almost an hour something struck me: how often I heard references to Immanuel Kant. Obviously my esteemed readers held the view that I was in a continuous philosophical conversation with Kant! The only name that didn't appear in any of the titles of the chapters. With some surprise I looked into this mirror that was held up before me, but couldn't deny what was said. After the session I tried to think back how Kant the thinker of ethics had come into my life, while chatting over drinks with another visitor from Leiden university. I told her that when I was doing the work for my PhD, on Spinoza, I did something to avoid becoming a narrow-minded expert: the last two hours of the work day I allowed myself to read philosophers that intrigued me, but whose work had no direct relationship to the project. I chose Arendt, Levinas and Strasser – and the lastmentioned again led me to Scheler, whose Non-formal Ethics of Values I only read a few years ago. For two of the eight years between the very beginning of my Spinoza project and the day of the defense of my thesis, I got funded to work at the University of Amsterdam, in the section practical philosophy. It was there, during the monthly meetings of the section members, that I got my first real introduction to ethics as a field. Although I had had some classes in ethics during my studies, philosophy in Leiden had an overall focus on epistemological questions, and now I realized I didn't have a real understanding of the structure of ethical questioning.
There Kant got in. I read his Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals, and, as I had managed to get inside his epistemological ideas during my studies, through reading this short work I finally could enter into the idea of ethics – the autonomous ethics perceived by Immanuel Kant. All the other present day texts that were discussed in the practical philosophy section I could now break into by using the Kantian idea of ought as my tool. It was a discovery that impressed me. Finally Kant also gave me a tool (his distinction between theoretical and practical reason) to break through the difficulties I had making sense of seeming inconsistencies in Spinozas Theological-Political Treatise (which was the subject of my research). His words ended up in the preface of the book in which I finally published the results of my research. A long quotation. Ending with the bonum vacans sentence: Kant says that speculative reason should provide the foundations for practical reason, that doing so is a duty. For if he would leave this question, theory would be empty of the good, and fatalism would take hold of it. My very short and inadequate paraphrase this is. I felt Kant – the despair that modern scientism would lead to, not so much even an existential or moral despair – but the despair that anything to do with the good would be lost for philosophy, for thinking. That could not happen. All the thinkers I wrote about in this new book somehow felt this same anguish – Levinas, Derrida, Weil, Scheler, Taylor (James is a bit different in this, but I will leave that for another time). So that must have been what my readers had picked up. The question obviously has never lost its hold on me. Perhaps I should face it directly some time. And write about Kants Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals.


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US and UK governments prioritising Green technologies in patent applications
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I was talking to Paul Craane of Chicago law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun today. Paul is a patent attorney an interest in Green technologies.
Paul got in touch because he wanted to highlight the fact that the US Green Technology Pilot Program, a special program announced by the US Patent and Trademark office at the start of December, has had an underwhelming response!
The pilot program was created to accelerate the examination of certain 'green' technology patent applications.
"Every day an important green tech innovation is hindered from coming to market is another day we harm our planet and another day lost in creating green businesses and green jobs," Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos said. "Applications in this pilot program will see a significant savings in pendency, which will help bring green innovations to market more quickly."
Green technologies with pending patent applications will be expedited which will reduce the time it takes to patent these technologies by an average of one year. According to the announcement in December:
Under the pilot program, for the first 3,000 applications related to green technologies in which a proper petition is filed, the agency will examine the applications on an accelerated basis.
According to Paul the USPTO has received petitions to fill only a third of the 3000 positions available so it should still be possible to petition to have your application included in the program.
As this is a pilot program, the chances of it being repeated obviously diminish if it is under-subscribed.
Why has it been under-subscribed to-date? Well, Paul speculated that it may have been due to the timing of the announcement, coming as it did just before the the Copenhagen Climate meeting, followed by the holiday season.
Paul also pointed out that the US is not the only country with such a program – the UK announced a similar initiative under which the time to get a patent granted would be reduced from a typical 2-3 year average down to 9 months! More details of the UK Intellectual Property Office accelerated services is available here. [PDF]
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