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Posted on July 30, 2008 by billthomuk
Watching the Olympics
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website – and it seems the story is already moving on, with reports that press access to the net will be filtered by the Chinese]
I won't be going to Beijing for the Olympic Games next month, and in fact I probably won't even be going to London in 2012 when it's our turn to host the festivities.
I don't watch athletics or any of the other events that will be taking place. I don't support a football team either, or have much interest in cricket despite being an English male. Sport just doesn't excite me at all.
But even though I don't care which country wins most gold medals or whether world records are broken for running, jumping or throwing odd-shaped objects, I'll be watching what goes on around the Olympic Games with keen interest, because this world-wide sporting event offers a fascinating perspective on the state of the internet today.
Back in 2004 the Athens games generated an astonishing amount of traffic to Olympics websites, and in the last four years the number of net users has almost doubled from around 750 million to 1.4 billion.
That is going to place a massive strain on the official Olympics website and the associated infrastructure, and it will be interesting to see how it stands up. Over the past few months we've seen a number of high-profile websites fail, including Amazon and Facebook, and just this week when Amazon's S3 service was offline for several hours because of too much 'gossiping' between servers – that's the official explanation, honest.
The Olympics are also the first real test for Silverlight, Microsoft's alternative to Flash for building rich-content sites with streaming media, after they did a deal with NBC to use it to deliver all the USA's online coverage of the events.
So far it looks great, and works well with Firefox on my MacBook as well as in Windows, but there have been a number of criticisms of Silverlight's video capabilities and if the servers don't keep up then this could be a PR disaster for Microsoft at a critical point in its attempt to build its online business.
Then there will be the battle to police the content, as the International Olympic Committee is one of the most aggressive bodies around when it comes to protecting its content and controlling its use.
As expected, the IOC is exerting as much control as it possibly can over all aspects of the event online. The Olympic symbol and other insignia, and even the use of the word 'Olympics', is rigidly managed, largely to protect the commercial interests of the high-paying sponsors, but there are also complex restrictions on the use or reuse of video. Video clips cannot be embedded, so anyone wanting to blog about the Olympics will have to link to the original site, and anyone taking excerpts and posting them can expect to have them pulled pretty quickly.
And whatever else this may be, it is not going to be the YouTube Olympics. YouTube removed all videos showing material from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and they will surely do the same next month.
Then there is the politics. The decision to award the 2008 Games to Beijing was controversial right from the start, and in recent months we have seen reports of dissidents being arrested. Just this week local journalists attempting to report fights in ticket queues in Beijing were detained and had video footage deleted, a sign that the promised openness may not be delivered.
Reporters have also found that despite promises from Chinese officials sites like BBC's Mandarin site and Apple Daily are still blocked, and there are concerns that visitors' traffic will be as heavily monitored as that of Chinese citizens.
As the games get nearer the tension between the authorities' desire to control all aspects of reporting and their willingness to keep to the promise of offering free access will increase, and anyone interested in the future of China will learn much from how it is resolved.
With all this going on, I'm surprised anyone has time to think about the athletics and other sporting events planned for August.
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One Reply to "Watching the Olympics"
Glad to know I'm not the only one with no interest in the Olypmics, Bill! Speaking as someone highly critical of the Chinese regime and the awarding of the games to them, I have to say that I would hope that "visitors' traffic will be as heavily monitored as that of Chinese citizens". We can't really expect one law for us and one for them – when you visit another country, you expect to play by their rules. Hopefully, if foreigners have trouble using the web in China, it'll help to highlight the difficulties faced by ordinary Chinese people. That's better than having concessions for foreigners while the Chinese people suffer.
I wish London wasn't hosting the 2012 games. The money could be much better spent on other things. And with Phorm, the BPI, and so on, it could be that visitors to the 2012 Olympics will have their net usage even more heavily monitored than at the 2008 games!
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In her "best novel," the New York Times–bestselling author follows the love life of a British department store heiress from the 1880s through World War I (Publishers Weekly).
The plump, plain daughter of a successful shopkeeper, Beatrice Bonnington has no illusions about her looks—or her marital prospects. So when she receives a proposal from the dashing William Overton—a man she's secretly desired for years—Beatrice can't believe her good fortune. Knowing her husband will never wholly belong to her, she turns her energies to the other great passion of her life: her family's department store. As she endures tragedy, betrayal, and the horrors of war, she builds Bonnington's Emporium into a titan of commerce that rivals London's Selfridge's. But with all of her worldly success, she never stops loving William. One more challenge awaits Beatrice—the battle for her husband's heart.
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Dorothy Eden (1912–1982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling Gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. Born in New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary, she moved to London in 1954 and continued to write prolifically. Eden's novels are known for their suspenseful, spellbinding plots, finely drawn characters, authentic historical detail, and often a hint of spookiness.
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So here she was, in the autumn of 1881, Beatrice Florence Bonnington, aged twenty-four years, being dressed for her wedding.
The three women revolving round her, Mamma, Miss Brown from Ladies' Fashions in Papa's shop, and Hawkins, her maid, all wanted to be responsible for making her a beautiful bride.
The material on which they had to work was not highly promising. Beatrice had no illusions about her looks. She was of short stature and cosily plump. Because she held her head high to make herself taller she gave an impression of arrogance of which she had none at all. She had grey eyes and the rosy complexion of a country girl although she had always lived in the city. Her fair hair was plentiful, but difficult to manage, her smile warm, but she had too serious a nature to smile a great deal.
Now, dressed in the over-elaborate expensive wedding dress which Miss Brown had chosen for her, she looked stiff and composed, giving no outward sign of her turbulent thoughts, her mixture of uneasiness and elation, happiness, apprehension and downright disbelief. For little Beatrice Bonnington who, with her self-confessed desire to be a shopkeeper like her father, and with no looks to speak of, had surely been destined to be an old maid, was marrying the catch of the season.
No one, of course, was deceived about romance, not even the bride herself. She had worked towards this day as single-mindedly and coolly as Papa would have approached an important business transaction.
She had always known about business methods, for, from a tender age, she had been commanded by Papa to visit his grand new shop in the Edgware Road, scarcely a stone's throw from Marble Arch and the hurly burly of Oxford Street. Bonnington's Emporium.
Dressed in a fur-trimmed bonnet, and with a matching fur muff, her head just level with the polished mahogany counters, she remembered following Mamma down the narrow aisles, smugly aware of the respectful bobs from the black-garbed shop assistants. The splendid head floor walker himself led them to their destination, the impressive gilt cage of the cash desk where Papa was to be found surveying his empire.
These excursions had been all the more heady because they gave Beatrice a sense of importance that was lacking in every other part of her life. At home she was expected to trot obediently after her mother's rustling skirts, or to submit meekly to her governess's orders. She was considered to be a plain and rather dull child, and nobody ever bothered to discover what her feelings were.
But in Papa's shop which had grown so impressively from the little haberdashery he had inherited from his father, she was Miss Beatrice, a personage, the Crown Princess—since to Papa's everlasting disappointment there was no Crown Prince.
Apart from the personal satisfaction this adulation gave her, Beatrice was wholly delighted by the shop itself. It was an Aladdin's Cave mesmerising her. The cascades of lace and French ribbons, the enormous ostrich feather fans, the flower-trimmed bonnets like a lush permanently blooming garden, the cut-glass scent bottles, the rows of elegant shiny buttoned boots, the ruffled petticoats and shifts, and the cool gauzy materials of the Indian room, not to mention the rich satins, brocades, and velvets—this was heaven to a child with a lively imagination and a hankering for beauty.
On her promenade with Mamma the pause to speak to Papa was necessarily brief, for he was always much too busy to talk to people whom he could see at home every morning and evening. The day at the shop belonged to that sacred person, the customer.
When he wasn't counting the sovereigns which he tipped out of the little carriers that came whirring along on overhead wires, or looking with keen eyes at his domain, he was in his office surrounded by ledgers and stock books, or making a personal tour of every department, appearing silently behind his counter assistants, listening critically to their salesmanship, enjoying the way they nearly jumped out of their skins when they became aware of his presence. He was an awe-inspiring figure to them. That was how he was so successful, Mamma said. He kept everyone on tenterhooks.
The small Beatrice, no higher than the shop counters, didn't know what tenterhooks were. She only knew that she, personally, wasn't afraid of Papa. He was an imposing figure with his snapping black eyes and black moustache, and he never made a secret of his disappointment that she wasn't a boy, but he could be jolly in the brief times that he put business out of his mind. She loved him because there was no one else in her life to love. Mamma, who changed her dress at least six times a day, and spent an inordinate amount of time at her mirror, was really only a body, dressed in expensive clothes.
By the time that she was ten years old, Beatrice had developed a canny sense about money, perhaps because Mamma spent it like water. When the enlarged Bonnington's proved to be a great success Papa was at last persuaded to build a house in a fashionable part of Hampstead, near the Heath. This new house was quite a change from the small old-fashioned one in which they had previously lived, (in a common street in Kentish Town). Mamma was entitled to put on airs as she watched the dark brown carpets laid and the dark brown curtains hung. This was such a smart and fashionable colour, and so practical, too, considering the constant smoke from coal fires, and those dirty yellow fogs in winter. The heavy oak furniture Mamma had persuaded Papa to buy looked very grand, as did the ornate Victorian silver, candlesticks, chafing dishes, trays, tea-sets. An extra servant had to be engaged to clean it all, and to polish the long mahogany table after a dinner party. Mamma was beginning to fancy herself as a hostess. It was important that people should come to the house, since Beatrice was growing up, and must begin making friends. The first step towards this, of course, was to find her the kind of school where she would make the most suitable friends. After all, they were a prosperous family now. If Papa's ambitions were realised, they would be rich.
So, when she was twelve years old, Beatrice, rescued from the clutches of a succession of patronising governesses, found herself less happy at the snobbish Dame School Mamma eventually found.
She had always been a lonely child, introverted and shy, except with people whom she liked. She had no friends of her own age. Her favourite outings were still those made to Papa's shop in the busy heart of London, where shoppers jostled on the pavements and stared at window displays, and the road, muddy in winter and chokingly dusty in summer, was a tangle of horse buses, carriages, tradesmen's vans, wheelbarrows, and street vendors with their moveable stalls.
She was playing a part, of course, but it was a much happier part than that forced on her at the horrid Dame School where she was supposed to make the right friends and get herself invited to the important houses on the Heath. Not houses that were wealthier than her own, but older, mellowed, part of history and inhabited by gracious cultured people.
Mamma, once a lady's maid (though this was never mentioned nowadays) had acquired, by working in them, a taste for such establishments and was overambitious for her only child.
However, even at the Miss Faulkners' school, Beatrice contrived to go her solitary way, although learning to play the piano, to sing in an agonised gruff voice, to dance the waltz and polka, to identify wild flowers and to paint water colours, to speak French and German and to make polite conversation at a dinner table.
All this, she privately thought, was a complete waste of time, since what she needed was a practical education to fit her for taking over Bonnington's one day. There was nothing she wanted to do more, except marry for love. Since the latter did not seem probable—she was absolutely realistic about herself, and knew that no young man was going to fall passionately in love with a plain girl with a head for figures—she didn't allow herself to dwell too much on the thought. Her mother, of course, insisted relentlessly that there was only one aim for a girl and that was marriage. Papa agreed, but eyed his quiet unspectacular daughter thoughtfully.
Lately she had been making some deuced good suggestions about the shop (opening the Indian room, for instance, so that trousseaux could be provided for the many young women going to India to marry or to seek husbands).
He had come to the conclusion that little Bea had an excellent practical brain, almost a masculine one, and it would be rather wasted on a husband and a purely domestic life. However, the girl's mother was right. She must marry. A woman without a husband was a poor half-thing. Like Miss Brown with her drainpipe figure in Ladies' Fashions.
It was possible, of course, that, once married, Bea might come into the shop. That thought Joshua Bonnington kept secret. Which was a pity for Beatrice. It would have improved her spirits had she known it.
It seemed, as it happened, that Mamma had been laying the right foundations for Beatrice's future, for when she was fifteen she was invited to one of the grandest houses on the Heath. Overton House, a small but beautiful Queen Anne house built by Captain Rufus Overton (who had made a fortune trading in the China seas) and subsequently occupied by his descendants, all of whom had followed distinguished careers in the army and the navy.
Beatrice, on her way home from school, had often stood at the gates of Overton House and looked up the steps to the white doorway, the warm red-brick walls. She had seen the daughter of the house, Caroline Overton, pretty, delicate, insufferably haughty, whisked home by carriage, or escorted on foot by a maid, and had felt like the poor people in the Edgware Road, pressing their noses against Papa's shop windows and vainly longing for what was within. Caroline, although her classmate, scarcely ever deigned to speak to her, since Caroline was a snob of the first water and Beatrice belonged to that unmentionable class, trade.
Beatrice actually didn't care a pinch of snuff about Caroline, but Overton House exercised a fascinated spell over her. It glowed beyond the lime trees, a warm and gentle fire. She had a feeling for beauty and harmonious lines that neither her mother nor her father understood. Their own house, so solid and prosperous, filled her with gloom. Since babyhood she could remember nothing but dark walls, curtains drawn against the sunlight, claustrophobic crowded interiors.
The colour and opulence of certain departments in Bonnington's gave her this same feeling of fulfilment, but there the goods were constantly sold. The treasures of Overton House were permanent. If only she could get inside she thought that she would be bathed in light and beneficence.
It seemed too good to be true when the opportunity actually occurred.
It was Caroline Overton's fifteenth birthday and she had made the request that her whole class at school be asked to her party. It was a well-known fact that Miss Caroline's requests were never refused because she was so delicate.
So twenty girls (among them Beatrice Bonnington, achieving her dream at last) played childish games like Drop the Handkerchief and Follow my Leader in the sunny walled garden, and later had tea in the music room, a long room which ran the length of the house, and was also used as a ballroom. It was light and sunny, with french windows opening on to a stone-flagged terrace. It pleased Beatrice very much. But there were other more beautiful rooms, she had heard, including the yellow drawing room, and the famous mirror room where it was said some notable courtships had taken place.
Beatrice, tongue-tied but with her watchful eyes missing nothing, sat at the tea table being waited on by two maids in immaculately starched caps and aprons, while Caroline at the head of the table, gave orders with her nauseating airs and graces.
Later, Caroline's mother, a small dainty woman with a pretty pink and white face, like painted china, came in to meet her daughter's guests, and apologised for her husband not making an appearance. He was a retired General, a good deal older than his wife, who now suffered indifferent health. His temper was precarious, and Mrs Overton asked anxiously that there might not be too much noise, otherwise Papa would begin thumping with his stick.
Caroline's health had been adversely affected by living in the extreme heat of Delhi and Cawnpore as a child. Nor was her younger brother, the heir to this lovely house, as strong as could have been wished. It really looked as if the first winds of winter could blow the entire Overton family away, like leaves. Beatrice had seen the large vault in the churchyard just across the road from Overton House, which held various Overton remains. All of the family, including those here today, she thought morbidly, would eventually be neatly put away like the bales of goods kept on shelves in the basement at Papa's shop.
The church itself, was full of Overton memorials. The precise white slabs shone out from the spider-grey walls.
Colonel Rufus Edwin Overton, killed in action while storming the Heights of Abraham ... Midshipman Charles Edwin Overton died of wounds received at the Battle of Trafalgar ... William Rufus Overton died of fever in Calcutta in the service of the East India Company ... Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Overton cruelly murdered by mutinous Sikhs in Delhi ... Major William Edwin Overton, seized and killed by brigands while travelling in Afghanistan ...
And the women, the wives of these loyal and adventurous men, Caroline Sarah, sorrowing widow of Charles Henry Overton ... Mary Susan, widow of Rufus Edwin Overton and adored mother of ten children ... Elizabeth, dearly loved wife of William Edwin Overton, died in childbirth leaving an only son William Rufus Charles who has erected this memorial to his parents ...
The only son referred to in this memorial was, Beatrice knew, Caroline's father, General Overton, covered in honours for his outstanding services to his Queen and country in the Crimea, Afghanistan, the Punjab, Zululand, and now somewhere upstairs listening testily to the shrieks and giggles of twenty young ladies in their best party dresses.
Like the family vault, this house with its arched and pedimented doorways, its wonderful flying staircase, its smell of beeswax and pot-pourri, was much more solid and permanent than its inmates had ever been. Beatrice responded strongly and intensely to it. Not long ago her father had told her that he was getting rich, rich enough to buy her anything she wanted. But he had been thinking in terms of clothes and jewellery, a new carriage and a pair of greys.
If she had said she wanted none of these things, but only to own a house like Overton House, he would have given his great roar of laughter. Such houses couldn't be bought, even by self-made millionaires. They had to be married into. And it was scarcely within the realms of even her mother's most ambitious dreams that Beatrice should become an Overton wife and bear Overton children (eventually to be tidied away into that solid everlasting vault).
Nevertheless, Beatrice had a stubborn nature. During that birthday tea, where she felt like a nervous little goldfish in polar waters, she toyed with the thought of living in this charming house. That desire might have to remain a fantasy, but at least, while she was here, she was determined to see more of the house.
When tea was over and Caroline asked her guests to come into the garden again, Beatrice deliberately lingered behind. Presently, unnoticed, she slipped away and ran up the lovely flying staircase that curved into a dim passageway overhead.
If she encountered anyone, she would say she was looking for the bathroom.
The stairs were covered with a leaf-green carpet that extended along the landing at the top. It was like walking on a well-cut lawn. Portraits of dead and gone Overtons dressed in all the splendour of military and naval uniforms, hung over the staircase, the walls were papered in a fascinating design of leaves and branches, the same bosky green as the carpet. The sun shining through the window at the far end of the passage was like light filtering into a forest.
All the doors were closed. What rooms did they conceal? The yellow drawing room would be on the ground floor, but one of these closed doors might lead into the mirror room or the china room. Her heart beating rather quickly at her temerity, Beatrice made a wild guess and opened the door on her right.
Excerpted from Speak to Me of Love by Dorothy Eden. Copyright © 1972 Dorothy Eden. Excerpted by permission of OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA.
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ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER OVER MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS
Posted on April 26, 2019 by KEN PFEIFER
AUGUST 4, 1963 ……….MOUNT VERNON ILLINOIS
Shortly before midnight on the 4th August 1963, and continuing into the early hours of the 5th, 18-year-old, Ronnie Austin would experience one of the most bizarre incidents of his young life. And one that is still open to investigation today over 50 years later.
That evening, Ronnie was driving back from a drive-in movie site at Mount Vernon with his girlfriend, Phyllis Bruce to see The Great Escape. It was as they were heading along Illinois Route 15 past Mount Vernon Airport when Austin first saw something strange out of the window.
He would later describe it as a "round ball of bright white light" which was approximately the size of a washtub. He pointed it out to Phyllis, asking her if she thought it was an airplane. She would reply:
No, it's not an airplane. It doesn't have flashing red and green lights!
Ronnie would speed the car up slightly and was a little unnerved to see that the object sped up also. When he slowed, it slowed. It was obvious that whatever it was, the strange glowing light was keeping pace with their vehicle.
A little concerned, but not overly alarmed, the pair continued with their journey. They would head north towards Phyllis' parent's home. As they did, the object continued to follow them. As it remained at a safe distance, however, each of the teenagers remained calm. Perhaps, they thought, it was just coincidence.
A High-Speed Pursuit Along The Quiet Gravel Roads Of Illinois!
Upon arriving at Phyllis' house, her sister would come out to greet her. When she did, she also witnessed the glowing object overhead. All three of them would watch it for around fifteen minutes before Phyllis went inside. Ronnie then turned the engine back on and set off for home.
At first, it appeared the light was content to observe his journey. However, when he turned his car off the main road on to a quieter, gravel-type road, it suddenly sped towards him. It would cut him off from a diagonal direction. It would then come to rest over the top of a barn slightly ahead of him at a crossroads.
As he looked a little closer at the glowing ball, it was now turning from a brilliant, bright, white light to a darker orange glow. He could see he was approaching the crossroads. As he did, he pressed down harder on the gas. He would burst straight over them and past the orange ball traveling much faster than the conditions dictated he should. Ronnie would estimate later that he was likely moving at around 120 miles per hour.
Even more worrying, however, was the fact the orange ball began to glow brighter once more. It would immediately burst into life and pursue his vehicle again. It took only seconds to be no more than 100 feet away from his car.
Half looking at the road rushing forward to meet his headlights, and half looking at this now large, car-sized craft close behind him, Ronnie continued onwards into the night. Then, his car radio which had quietly scored the bizarre events descended into a cacophony of hisses and static. At the same time, a "cooling effect" went through him. The light passed right over the top of the moving vehicle.
Changing Colors And Brightness! A Small But Intriguingly Important Detail!
Ronnie was now operating on the edge of panic. However, he remained in control enough to stay in control of the car. He had, though, the distinct feeling, as he would tell his father later, that whatever intelligence was behind this mysterious glow, it had waited for him to be alone before beginning such an aggressive pursuit as it was now.
It would make several more passes over his vehicle before returning to the barn area. When it did so, the light also returned to the duller orange.
This is an interesting detail in that many other reports over the decades speak of different shading or urgency of lights in relation to their movement or lack thereof. Given that Austin's encounter in 1963, this was certainly not a well-known "fact" of UFO sightings at the time. Remember, at the time, there were very few UFO organizations, and the ones that did exist were far from the slick, professional, and far-reaching groups that are active today.
By this time, Ronnie was a mere three miles away from his home and family farm. He pressed down hard again on the gas pedal. As if in response, the strange light surged forward and across his path. It passed over him, settling again behind and gave chase. The car's engine began to struggle. Even threatening to cut out and stop working entirely.
However, he would ultimately reach the family home, swinging the car around in the large driveway and stepping from the vehicle the instant it came to a stop. He glanced to the sky as he did so. There, the glowing object hovered over one of the farm's outbuildings around 200 yards away from the main house.
An Abundance Of Witnesses To A Most Unusual Event!
Ronnie rushed inside, calling to his parents and siblings as he did so. Checking the wall clock, he could see it was just short of half an hour past midnight. Regardless of the late hour, both of his parents, as well as his brother and sister, ventured outside to see what the fuss what all about.
Much to their surprise, the object remained exactly where Ronnie said it was. Hovering amid the dull glow of its own light over the farmhouse opposite. Not at all sure what to do, Ronnie's father was very much aware of the surreal and unique nature of the situation. He would telephone Jefferson County authorities requested that they notify the nearby Scott Air Force Base.
However, perhaps not treating the incident as seriously as they might, they instead contacted Deputy Lee (pictured above) to investigate. He duly did. Unbeknown to him, though, two state troopers, Richard Gidcumb and George Sexton, had heard the exchange over their police radio. As they were close-by, they would decide to investigate for themselves.
They arrived at the Austin's family home at 12:45 am. 25 minutes before Lee. Each of them clearly witnessed the hovering, glowing light upon arrival.
As if making sure they were not experiencing some kind of bizarre group hallucination, Ronnie's father telephoned their friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Withrow. They would go outside and from their yard, they too could see the glowing orange craft. It would begin to ascend higher and higher before it became no bigger than "an extremely bright star".
In fact, in total, eleven people would witness the glowing light that evening (including Phyllis and her sister), with the only person at the scene who missed them being Deputy Lee who did not arrive until 1:10 am.
Initial (And Twisted) Reactions
The "star" was still there right until the moment dawn took over watch over the Earth below. By that time, mainly from the sedative, Dr. Conarski recommended several hours previously over the phone that his parents administer to him, such was his state of shock at the time.
In fact, by the time professional UFO investigators arrived in the area to speak to the witnesses, Ronnie's father, Orville Austin, was critical of the local press and how they had "put words in the boy's mouth" and even taken advantage of his shocked and dazed state of mind only hours after the encounter had unfolded.
What's more, following the initial wave of local press interest the wider national and international press agencies picked up the stories. This would go on for almost a week. Then, on the 10th August, while sightings were unfolding all around the state, members of the US Air Force would arrive at the Austin home. Two of the three men present, Robert Friend and Hector Quintanilla had involvement in the Project Blue Book program. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
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Sailing club launches new website
FELIXSTOWE Ferry Sailing Club (FFSC) have re-launched their website, complete with real-time weather readings, and a webcam.The website has been re-developed to be more user-friendly and accessible for sailors, as well as providing weather information for visitors to the area.
FELIXSTOWE Ferry Sailing Club (FFSC) have re-launched their website, complete with real-time weather readings, and a webcam.
The website has been re-developed to be more user-friendly and accessible for sailors, as well as providing weather information for visitors to the area.
Wind speed measurements, gust strength, barometer readings, and general weather forecasts will be available, and a webcam, which updates every five minutes, will show the weather around the mouth of the River Deben.
Information on the weather over the past 24 hours will also be available. The gallery of photographs has been updated, and a news section added.
The re-launch has come in time for the start of the new sailing season.
FFSC are expecting 2007 to be a successful one, with membership to the club increasing, and sailors coming from all around the UK to hold their championships in the waters at the Ferry. Included in the sailing programme are the Shearwater National Championships, and a 'Fastsail' Regatta.
Commodore Robert Wright said: "The weeks leading up to the start of the sailing season are always exciting and busy, and we are always looking for ways to entice more people to take up sailing as a hobby. The new website will allow users to check the weather at the Ferry before they come to sail, and gives those from outside of Suffolk the chance to see the Ferry before they hold their championships here.
"It is important that we keep in touch with technological advances, and make Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club accessible and appealing to as many people as possible. The fact that we have been chosen to hold several top-flight championships is testament to the quality and standards of sailing and facilities here."
For more information on the club, and to see the new weather facilities in action, visit www.ffsc.co.uk


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Moody's lowers outlook on Tunisia's debt but keeps rating stable
Ratings agency cites economic, financial, social and political challenges faced by the country's new government
A mask-clad customer speaks with a fruit seller at the central market in Tunisia's capital Tunis. Moody's expects the country's economy to contract 6.5 per cent in the wake the Covid-19 crisis. AFP
Sarmad Khan
Moody's Investors Service maintained its B2 issuer rating on Tunisia, citing the strength of the North African country's foreign exchange buffers, but changed its outlook to negative.
The ratings agency cited the economic, financial, social and political challenges faced by the country's new technocratic government in implementing its reform agenda as the reason for its more cautious assessment. The country's sovereign debt rating has been under review since April.
The confirmation of its B2 rating reflects the "resilience of the foreign exchange reserve buffer observed since the opening of the review, as a backstop for maturing external liabilities over the next year", Moody's said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The instalment of a new technocratic government in September supports Moody's assessment that Tunisia's institutions and governance will contribute to policy continuity."
The government is likely to maintain medium-term fiscal and economic reform implementation under a new International Monetary Fund programme. Moody's expects monetary and fiscal policy to continue to be aimed at "containing Tunisia's external and fiscal imbalances", which will support its access to "official and market financing".
Moody's places Tunisia's B2 rating on review citing weak growth
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IMF chief creates external advisory group on Covid-19 pandemic
Tunisia's economy, which is largely reliant on tourism, has taken a hit in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Moody's expects its gross domestic product to contract 6.5 per cent this year, followed by 4 per cent growth as it recovers from the pandemic shock in 2021. The ratings agency expects growth to average 2-3 per cent per year thereafter. The IMF in April approved a $745 million emergency loan for Tunisia to help the country mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on its economy.
"The pandemic exacerbates a decline in trend growth over the past decade," Moody's said. The government's high debt ratio constrains scope for a rapid increase in public investment as a means to boost growth potential."
Taking weaker revenue into account on the back of the pandemic shock, Moody's expects the fiscal deficit to widen to 7 per cent of GDP in 2020, followed by 4.5 per cent in 2021. Tunisia recorded a deficit of 3.6 per cent in 2019.
The ratings agency also expects Tunisia's debt burden to increase to over 80 per cent of GDP this year and to stabilise within the 80-85 per cent range around 2024.
"A number of structural weaknesses weigh on public finances, including a large public-sector wage bill amounting to over 15 per cent of GDP, which remains to be addressed over the long term," Moody's said.


Picture from a story I did for the Observer Magazine five years ago, about Masai in Tanzania being forcibly evicted so that tour operators can turn their homelands into 'nature refuges' for holiday makers. This image, which I hadn't seen in a while, landed back in my inbox this week, when Alex Renton, the journalist I did this story with, emailed about a possible return. I wish it was to document a happy ending, but it looks like the Tanzanian government is reneging on recent promises to let the Masai keep their land.


Busi Mavunga runs three businesses, including AWEddingday which she started in 2016. She hires out table decor with an African theme, ranging from vases to table runners and napkins rings made from printed fabric sourced from different countries across the continent.
Mavunga ditched her nine to five job to branch out on her own. She previously worked for two of South Africa's five big banks, in the business banking and mobile payments space, before moving to pay television, looking after digital payments and thereafter working for a giant pay scheme that focuses on prepaid cards.
The inspiration for the decor business came from her wedding in 2015, when Mavunga struggled to find the African decor she wanted for the reception. She decided to go out and buy her own fabric so that a vendor could make African-themed table runners and napkin rings.
In 2017 Mavunga expanded her business, creating a new division called "LoveTEAtime", where she imported tea from Kenya under the brand Kericho Gold and sold it at pop-up markets and expos.
She is currently expanding to retailers, including several SPAR outlets and ecommerce seller Takealot.
Mavunga has not stopped there.


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Charter of Rights and FreedomsCollective BargainingComparative Work LawFreedom of AssociationHuman RightsStrikes and LockoutsSupreme Court of CanadaUnions and Collective BargainingUnited States
What Might a Right to Strike for Non-Union Workers in Canada Look Like?
written by David Doorey December 16, 2022
By David Doorey, York University
Workers at some 100 Starbucks stores in the United States today began a 3-day strike. This follows upon other mass strikes across the U.S. in recent years by low-wage non-union workers hoping to improve their work lives. These strikes would be illegal in Canada exposing the workers to possible termination. For those who have followed me for a while, you will know this is a topic of great interest to me. We have reached a point in the development of Canadian labour law when we need to address the elephant in the room:
How can Canada recognize a constitutional right to strike in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms while at the same time persist with a legal model that permits the 85 percent of Canadians working in the private sector who are non-union to be fired for striking?
First, some background. I have discussed much of this before so I will be brief. At the end of the post, I suggest for the sake of discussion some possible legal reforms to create a 'right to strike' for non-union workers in Canada.
The U.S. Right to Strike
When Canada imported the U.S. 'Wagner model' of collective bargaining law in the 1940s, it tweaked some features to address Canadian concerns. One crucial tweak related to how strikes would be regulated. In the U.S., the National Labor Relations Actprotected a right of employees to "engage in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection" (Section 7, NLRA). This protection was broad in scope, and it was later confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court that it protected a right of both unionized and non-union employees to strike over working conditions. Section 13 of the NLRAalso explicitly protects a "right to strike". Therefore, when a group of Starbucks employees who are not in a certified majority union walk off the job in protest over working conditions, they are protected by Section 7.
However, what it means to be protected in this regard needs some clarification.
What does it mean to have "a right to strike"?
One answer would be that you have a right to strike if you are not legally prohibited by force of law from walking off the job with your coworkers to protect working conditions. Slaves did not have a right to strike. Or it might mean that strikers are not committing a criminal offence, so that a 'right to strike' means you will not be imprisoned if you strike. Until the early 20th century in fact strikes were often treated as unlawful conspiracies and criminal offences.
However, if you ask people on the street what it means to have 'a right to strike' you would probably be told that it means you can't be fired if you go on strike. If the employer can just fire you the moment you join co-workers on a picket line, then it would be ridiculous to call that a right to strike. To speak of a right to strike in any meaningful way today means looking at how law guarantees the jobs of strikers. In the U.S., the law is quite complicated in this area.
It divides strikes into 'economic' strikes and 'unfair labor practice' strikes. Economic strikes are over working conditions, the stuff of collective bargaining. If workers in the U.S. go on strike to pressure the employer in collective bargaining, then that is an economic strike. In 1938, in a case called Mackay Radio, the USSC ruled that employers can 'permanently replace' economic strikers. What that means in practice is that the employer can hire replacement ('scab') workers to replace the strikers and when the strike ends keep the scabs over the strikers. The logic here is that the strikers aren't being fired for striking, because they retain a right a first right of recall if their old job becomes vacant later.
An 'unfair labor practice'strike occurs when workers walk off the job in response to what they perceive to be actions by the employer that amount to a violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Workers engaged in an unfair labor practice strike cannot be permanently replaced. That's why Starbucks Workers United has characterized this weekend's strike as a response to Starbucks unfair labor practices:
The union says this is a strike it to protest unfair labor practices, including closing stores which have voted to join the union, such as the first store in the company's Seattle hometown to vote for a union, and what the union says is the company's refusal to bargain for an initial union contract.
To summarize, the Starbucks workers who are striking this weekend may or may not be union members, but under U.S. law it doesn't matter. U.S. labor law protects employees' right to strike regardless, although whether the employees can lose their jobs for striking depends on whether the strike is characterized as an 'economic' or an 'unfair labor practice' strike.
Meanwhile in Canada….
When Canada imported the Wagner model in 1944, it did not include in the labour legislation either an expressed 'right to strike' or a 'right to engage in concerted activities.' The Canadian right to strike is much narrower. Firstly, our laws only protect a right to engage in 'trade union activities' not the broader 'concerted activities'. As I have explained for many years, this means that Canadian labor law does not protect a 'right to associate' per se. That is why workers can be fired in Canada for raising collective concerns about working conditions if they do so organically without a union, or even for discussing their wages with one another. Collective activity, including striking, is only protected in Canada if done through a "trade union".
Secondly, a strike is only lawful in Canada if done by workers who are in a majority union that has been certified or voluntarily recognized by the employer. Non-union workers in Canada (at least in the private sector) never have a protected right to strike. In addition, even unionized workers only have a protected right to strike during a very narrow window of time at the tail end of collective bargaining after a variety of legal prerequisites have been satisfied. On the other hand, if ununionized Canadian workers strike after satisfying all the legal perquisites, they have a protected right to return to their jobs at the end of the strike. We do not distinguish between 'economic' and 'unfair labor practice' strikes in Canada and employers cannot 'permanently replace' lawful strikers.
A Right of Non-Union Workers to Strike in Canada?
To return to the Starbucks discussion, if Canadian Starbucks employees joined the mass strike occurring in the U.S. this weekend, they would be acting in violation of their employment contracts. These workers would have no legal protections.
The policy question is whether that situation should change. In Canada, about 85% of private sector workers are non-union and therefore have no legally protected right to strike, ever. This situation seems incongruous given that the Supreme Court of Canada recently concluded that a right to strike is a necessary component of meaningful collective bargaining and is therefore protected by 'freedom of association' in the Charter. The fact that the vast majority of Canadians can be fired for striking makes a mockery of the Supreme Court's finding that a right to strike is fundamental to protect meaningful collective bargaining.
What could be done about this? I have thought about this question quite a bit over the years. To walk through the options in detail would require another post. In this paper in the U of T Law Journal I discuss how I envision a U.S. style 'right to concerted activities' coming to Canada in the near future (see pages 200-203).
My belief is that Canadian labour law should begin by recognizing a free-standing "right to associate and act collectively" with regards to working conditions. We can call it a right to engage in concerted activities like in the U.S., but a right to associate works just fine. This new protected right would protect employees from reprisals who come together to discuss amongst themselves or raise concerns about working conditions with their employer. This right should cover all employees and dependent contractors.
Then, on the specific issue of protecting the right to strike of non-unionized workers, a number of options could be considered. Here I will list a few. Do you think any of these ideas make sense? What risks exist of adopting any of them? Is there one option that makes most sense to you? It's time for a discussion.
Status Quo: Do nothing, provide no legal protections for non-union workers who strike to pressure their employer to improve working conditions.
Legislate a free-standing "right to strike" for all workers: This law would replace the existing Wagner model of a limited right to strike for unionized workers with a broader right for all workers (union and non-union) to strike to pressure their employer to address working conditions with a guaranteed right to return to work following the strike. This model would effectively undue the historical compromises in Canadian labour law surrounding the right to strike and move towards the British idea of creating 'statutory immunity' for striking workers from the consequences of strikes provided the workers satisfy certain preconditions (like an attempt to negotiate first and provision of strike notice).
Legislate a supplemental right to strike for non-union workers in response to unlawful employer behaviour: This proposal calls for adoption of something like the U.S. 'unfair labor practice' strike. If workers have an honest and reasonable belief that the employer has violated a labour-related statute (say labour relations, employment standards, and occupational health and safety, for example), workers can give notice of a strike and then strike with a right to return to their jobs after the strike is concluded. This model effectively harnesses the threat of strike to improve enforcement of protective statutes.
Legislate a new right of non-union workers to engage in economic strikes: The existing strike laws would continue to apply for unionized workplaces. However, a new supplemental right to strike would be introduced for non-union workers. These workers would be entitled to strike to pressure the employer to improve working conditions following a notice period. Under this model, employees of non-union Starbucks stores could combine and organize a mass strike similar to that occurring in the US. The big question that would need to be addressed is the scope of the strike protections. Two options come to mind:
A. Economic strikers have the same full job guarantee as presently exists for unionized workers engaged in a lawful strike. They get their jobs back when the strike ends or if they ask to return to work.
B. We adopt a U.S. style lesser right to strike for non-union economic strikers. These workers can be 'permanently replaced', meaning that the employer can hire a replacement worker and keep them on after the strike, but must offer any vacancies that come up later to the strikers first.
There are other options too. Can you think of any?
Should Canadian law-makers be thinking about some form of right to strike for non-union workers?
David Doorey
Professor Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law and Industrial Relations at York University. He is Academic Director of Osgoode Hall Law School's executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program. Professor Doorey is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., Ph.D), London School of Economics (LLM Labour Law), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.).
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Black Swan Rising
Sarah Price wants a career in politics. But she has a secret past that won't stay past, threatening her job on a San Diego congressman's reelection campaign.
Casey Cheng wants a story. An ambitious local television reporter, Casey needs to get her career back on track after being seriously injured in a mass shooting. When she investigates the man who nearly killed her, she finds a connection to a group of online harassers called #TrueMen–and realizes her shooter may not be the only killer they have inspired.
Casey's investigation and Sarah's secret put them both in the crosshairs of a hate group that targets anyone they've deemed to be against their cause, including Sarah's boss, the congressman. Now Sarah and Casey have a choice to make–do they hide? Or do they fight back?
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In late fall 2013, I moved back to my hometown of San Diego after two and a half decades away. It's not like I'd been a stranger all that time—I'd been living up the freeway in Venice Beach, and I visited San Diego frequently. But visiting a place and living in it are two different things. The city of my birth had changed – a lot. It was bigger, busier, more diverse. I spent a lot of time taking very long walks around different parts of the city, particularly around Clairemont, where I'd gone to high school. I'd always thought of Clairemont as the absolute burbiest of the burbs—a middle-to-working class community of tract houses that sprawls over a large area north of the 8 freeway and east of the 5 and the bay. My high school, Clairemont High, was the real life inspiration for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." That should give you some idea.
On foot, I was finding Clairemont to be a lot more interesting than I'd remembered – downright weird at times, in fact!
Oh, and the beer! San Diego can credibly claim to be the craft beer capital of the world, with 152 operational brewhouses as of 1/30/18.
That's…a lot of beer.
Politically San Diego was no longer the conservative military town of my childhood. In fact, Clairemont had become a swing district, electing a Democrat to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2012. But in 2014 this was still most definitely a swing district – and the Congressional race that year was heavily contested. At the time more money was spent on this race than any other congressional race in history. The advertisements were constant and the attack ads, ubiquitous and incredibly nasty. I've always been a political junkie, and I watched it all, fascinated and repelled.
Another thing going on at that time that I found fascinating and repelling: GamerGate.
In case you missed it, "GamerGate" was ostensibly about ethics in journalism covering the online gaming industry. What it really was about was attacking and shaming women involved in that industry who dared to advocate for more inclusive and more women-friendly games or even examine the kinds of sexist and racist tropes common in gaming. These attacks ranged from constant online harassment of women, people of color and at times, their male allies to doxing, "swatting" (calling in a fake police report to provoke a SWAT team response on a target) and real-life death threats.
The attackers? Mostly young, angry white men.
The internet has long been hostile territory for women and people of color, but this was several steps beyond anything that had gone on before, with subReddits and other chat boards used to organize and coordinate attacks.
GamerGate was not taken terribly seriously by many. After all, it was just the internet, right? If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or more accurately, get back into the kitchen where you belong. The virulent misogyny behind this "movement" was undeniable, but for whatever reason, online platforms and commentators were slow to respond in any positive way.
Here's the thing, though. Misogyny is frequently the canary in the coalmine.
It is not a stretch to say that the current "Alt-Right" movement, up to and including Neo Nazis, grew out of GamerGate, sharing ideologies and adopting their methods of online organization and harassment.
"Before white supremacists, neo-Nazis and white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in August they were organizing behind a computer screen," according to a video piece by NBC News. "And a lot of that organizing happened through a messaging service called Discord which was original created to connect video game players to one another. This is just the latest in the long-running, shared history between the gaming community and the alt-right."
Something else I found fascinating and appalling became another key element of BLACK SWAN RISING: Mass shootings, in particular the constant drumbeat of these stories, of deaths, of a media storm over a particularly violent incident that quickly subsides and is replaced by the next mass slaughter, to the accompaniment of meaningless "thoughts and prayers."
I started researching mass shootings as a phenomena. I found that the great majority of mass shooters have domestic violence in their backgrounds (in fact, most mass shootings are "domestics," with the victims primarily being the male shooter's family). At the very least, these shooters have documented sentiments of hatred of women.
Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista shooter, is just one example. "I will punish all females for the crime of depriving me of sex," he wrote in a document outlining his massacre plans. "They have starved me of sex for my entire youth, and gave that pleasure to other men. In doing so, they took many years of my life away."
"I will arm myself with deadly weapons and wage a war against all women and the men they are attracted to. And I will slaughter them like the animals they are."
Another common thread? Racism and other "Alt-Right" beliefs.
Elliott Rodger, Dylann Roof, Christopher Harper Mercer, Alexandre Bissonette, and now Nikolas Cruz—the list goes on and on.
From Rodger, again: "How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. I deserve it more."
"How could an ugly Asian attract the attention of a white girl, while a beautiful Eurasian like myself never had any attention from them?"
And thus the horrible circle — online harassment, misogyny, racism, rightwing extremism and mass slaughter — is closed.
I wrote the first chapter and a pitch for BLACK SWAN RISING in mid-2014, and then put it aside to write GO-BETWEEN. I ended up writing most of BLACK SWAN RISING in 2016. All I can say is that watching the political events unfold as I was writing was another peculiar mix of fascinating and appalling. There were times that I was afraid to write down what was in my head because I was scared that it might actually happen in front of me. I know, rationally, that this is ridiculous. But I felt a bit like Casey Cheng, one of the heroines of the novel, a reporter who by giving something a name fears that she's helped bring it to life.
This was not an easy book to write. Generally my books have a lot more humor to them than this one does. But I felt that it was an important book to write, and a necessary one. Maybe one thing that the #MeToo era has shown is that we need to call these things out, to give them names, to bring them into the light, if we truly want to defeat them.
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Ernest James Bolz, II (Ernie), Wenatchee, Washington, 77 died May 4, 2021. He was born to Ernest and Lorraine Bolz in Medford, Oregon May 15, 1943.
Will Rogers said it well, "Lord let me live until I die." Ernest James Bolz, II (Ernie), Wenatchee, Washington, age 77 died as the result of a fall while hiking the Rogue River Trail in Southern Oregon on May 4, 2021.
He was with his lifetime best friend Dean Hiser at the time of the accident. Ernie was born to Ernest and Lorraine Bolz in Medford, Oregon May 15, 1943. He was the middle child of three. The family resided in Phoenix, Oregon where Ernie attended Phoenix Elementary School grades 1-8 and graduated from Phoenix Senior High School in 1961.
At the time of his high school graduation, he was a state officer with the Future Farmers of America. He spent his first year out of high school with the FFA as state treasurer.
The following year, 1962, he enrolled at La Verne College in Southern California. During his college years he met the love of his life, Sharon Self. They were married at Palm Springs, California on December 19,1964. Ernie and Sharon have two children Chris Bolz (Rebeccakate) of Missoula, Montana and Dr. Justina Bolz of Wenatchee.
After graduating from La Verne College Ernie attended Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California and then transferred to Bethany Theological Seminary in Oakbrook, Illinois, graduating with a Master of Divinity. Upon graduation in 1969 he was ordained as a minister in the Church of the Brethren.
Ernie and Sharon then moved to East Los Angeles, California where Ernie was the pastor of the Bella Vista Church of the Brethren. Following his tenure at Bella Vista they moved their young family to Live Oak, California.
When Escil Hiser retired as the minister of the Ellisforde and White Stone Churches in Tonasket, Washington Ernie followed in the footsteps of his childhood and adolescent pastor while Sharon continued her career as an elementary school teacher. Tonasket remained the family community until three years ago when they moved to Wenatchee.
Ernie's ministry not only consisted of meeting the needs of the people in his parish, but also in serving the needs of people who lived near his church When he pastored the Live Oak, California congregation the parishioners built a new church that had moveable walls so it could server as community center and child care center during the week and as a house of worship on the weekends.
Ernie was a person who had a never-ending curiosity and a desire to learn and to serve. He raised goats for Heifer Project International. He served on the General Board for the Church of the Brethren for many years, stepping down from that position in 1999.
With the help of friends, he constructed the family home on the banks of the Okanogan River where he raised Bosc pears. He also served on the Board of Directors of Regal Fruit Company.
He wrote poetry, thought provoking articles for the church newsletters, and wrote challenging sermons for his congregations. In 1993 he traveled as a leader on a Brethren peace initiative to South Sudan making friends with his fellow travelers.
In 2005 Ernie was elected as a Commissioner with the Okanogan County PUD. He took office in 2006 and was re-elected to a second six-year term serving through 2016. He was recognized for his leadership and contributions to the PUD's development of telecom, broadband services and for his support of the Northwest Open Access Network. His leadership resulted in extended high speed broadband services to businesses and residents in Okanogan County. He was also an active member of the state of Washington PUD Association.
Ernie was an avid hiker and outdoorsman. He hiked the Pasayten Wilderness in Washington, first with church youth and later with the "Geezer Hikers." In addition to the Cascades, his hiking took him into the Sierras of California and the Bitterroots of Montana. He enjoyed inventing then making camping equipment as well as repairing his and others' equipment. An item of pride was teaching his children to fish!
Upon their retirements he and Sharon felt privileged to travel to Germany, France, Italy, Spain and China. They also enjoyed time on the Oregon and Washington coast.
Ernie was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest J. and Lorraine R. Bolz. Ernie is survived by his wife, Sharon; his son, Chris (Becca) and daughter, Justina, as well as his grandchildren, Jazmine Grangroth, Jalen Bolz, MyaBelle Burbank, Josephine Hyde, Maxwell Francis and great grandson, Enzo Briggs, as well as his sister, Ida Marie Callison (Gary) and brother, Dennis Bolz (Joycelyn) of Wenatchee.
A celebration of life will be held Saturday June 19 @ 11:00 am at the Ellisforde Church of the Brethren, Tonasket, Washington.
Donations as memorial funds may be given to the Tonasket Food Bank.
A special 'thank you' to all his many friends for cards, messages and prayers that have meant so much to our family.
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Before becoming a writer, Nelly Alard was trained as an actress, and acted in a number of movies, tv movies, and on stage. She is also today a screenwriter.
After graduating from the Conservatoire de Paris in 1985, she made her theater debut under directors such as Andreï Serban, Jacques Lassalle and Jean-Pierre Miquel. She then left for the United States where she played the lead role in two feature-length films by American independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom, entitled Eating and Venice/Venice.
At the same time, Nelly also developed her own work as a writer. Her first feature-length screenplay, Thank You Satan, became a film in 1989 starring Patrick Chesnais and Carole Laure. Later, she worked in the United States as a screenwriter for the series The Red Shoe Diaries, which launched the career of David Duchovny.
In 1994 Nelly returned to France, and after a year of graduate studies in multimedia at Paris Beaux-Arts, she produced the 50th Anniversary Album for the Cannes Film Festival in conjunction with Télérama. In 1998, she joined the editorial staff at Télérama to take part in the design and creation of its website, of which she would later become the director in 2004.
As an actress, she continues to appear regularly in a number of television films and series.
In addition to her writing and screenplay development, she has directed a documentary in the United States called On the tracks of a filmmaker and written a play for France Culture entitled La Comtesse de Hohenembs.
In 2010, her first novel Le Crieur de nuit was published and won the Roger Nimier Prize. Her second novel, Moment d'un couple (translated and published in the US under the title Couple Mechanics) won the Interallié Prize and was a best-seller translated in several languages.
La vie que tu t'étais imaginée, a very personal inquiry about the enigma of "the Sassetot child" is her third novel.


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Hilton Hotels & Resorts expanded its global portfolio to 78 countries with the opening of its first hotel in Equatorial Guinea — Hilton Malabo. Located between Equatorial Guinea's capital city and the International Airport, Hilton Malabo features 187 rooms, including 12 suites. The opening marks the second new country entered by the brand in three days following the opening of Hilton Windhoek in Namibia on May 28.
Hilton Malabo offers two restaurants and a bar, while recreation facilities include a Hilton Fitness by Precor fitness center, tennis court and outdoor swimming pool with its own pool bar and grill. The hotel has a dedicated conference wing with six multipurpose meeting rooms, a boardroom, a ballroom that seats more than 450 people and a fully equipped business center. The opening of Hilton Malabo follows the recent opening of Hilton Windhoek, the first Hilton Hotels & Resorts hotel in Namibia. Hilton Worldwide now has 51 hotels across the Middle East and Africa — seven of which have opened this year. For more information about Hilton Malabo, visit www.hilton.com.


We're excited to announce that Leonardo, the famous mummified dinosaur from Malta, Montana, is coming to the Houston Museum of Natural Science this September for its world premiere display.
The fossil block, weighing 6.5 tons, reveals secrets that would not be evident from bones alone. For example, note the pouch under the throat – it may be a crop, to store food – a feature that also exists in modern birds. Photo by Grant Delin.
Leonoardo is one of only a very few big dinosaurs with preserved skin - and it covers 90% of his body. What makes him truly extraordinary is that his stomach contents - his last meal - are preserved. Until his discovery, scientists could only theorize what plant-eating dinosaurs ate. Now we know.
You can see video of this astounding fossil here. The link also includes photos of skin texture, illustrations of Leonardo in life, and more information about the exhibit and fossil.
In this Cretaceous scene, Leonardo calls to his mother, left. The foliage in this image – conifers in the background, ferns in the foreground – represents the types of plants found in Leonardo's stomach. In the background, a tyrannosaur lunges at another Brachylophosaurus. Mural by Julius Csotonyi.
Leonardo is a young Brachylophosaurus, a two-legged, plant-eating duckbilled dinosaur, and is the first juvenile of this species ever discovered. He was approximately three or four years old when he died and would have been 20 feet long, weighing about 2,000 pounds. He was discovered on July 27, 2000 during the Judith River Foundation's expedition in Malta.
The exhibit will also include an Ichthyosaur mummy with internal organs and four babies preserved inside and and the only mummified Triceratops skin ever found, which will also be on display for the first time.
The AP posted a short story on the exhibit, and the Great Falls Tribune did a wonderful feature this morning as well. There should be an article in the Houston Chronicle coming up soon. We'll post the link when it's live.
Never had I thought that we would know what their skin texture really looked like, and there it is, preserved right there in the rock! Simply amazing.
Sorry for the typo...meant to say: WHY is Bakker taking all the credit for Leonardo when it was Nate Murphy's team that discovered, excavated and did the prep work on Leonardo?
Many paleontologists have contributed to the Leonardo project, including Dr. Bakker - who is also the curator of paleontology for the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the museum which is developing the world premiere exhibit that will feature Leonardo for the first time.
He is also the official curator for the Leonardo exhibit itself, editor of the forthcoming book on Leonardo and chair of the curatorial committee of the High Plains Dinosaur Museum - which will be the permanent home for Leonardo after his display at HMNS.
This is certainly not to diminish the contributions of the many other paeontologists who have worked on the project, but rather to illustrate the nature of Dr. Bakker's involvement as curator and spokesperson for the exhibit that will feature Leonardo.
Thanks for reading the blog; if you have any other questions, please post them and we will get back to you.
Thank you for your quick reply. I am a member of HMNS and live here in Houston. I have followed the story of Leonardo and his discovery. You mention " there is much more information about the project, the exhibit and the scientists involved"...I went to the list of scientists involved...There is absolutely no mention of Nate or Matt Murphy on the list...there are quite a few "volunteers" on the list that worked under Murphy on the dig, excavation and preparation of Leonardo.
My question is why are Nate and Matt Murphy not mentioned at all?
Thank you for your support of HMNS - I am glad that you'll be able to see Leonardo close to home, especially since you've been following the story so closely.
The list posted on our Web site was provided to the Museum by the Judith River Foundation. There is contact information at the link above, if you would like to inquire with them about the list itself.
Go to the link you pointed me toward and see that Nate and Matt Murphy are on that list but no mention in any of HMNS links.
They led the Discovery, Excavation and Preparation of Leonardo, Not Bakker. Nate brought Bakker on board but Murphy deserves credit.
As a member of HMNS I expect our museum to present the facts about its exhibits....the fact is that Murphy deserves the credit for this discovery, excavation, Preparation and he presented Leonardo to SVP.
I am not concerned with the politics and legal issues that surround this specimen. As a follower of this discovery I want HMNS to present the facts and give credit to the right people.
Erin, if you and others at the Museum are not familar with the history of this discovery the web is filled with articles and videos discussing the Leonardo discovery, excavation and preparation led by Murphy.
click heading "Dino mummy first to be discovered"
On The HMNS "Leonardo Facts" page the first bullet is not correct....."Leonardo was discovered on July 27, 2000 during the Judith River Foundation's expedition in Malta Montana" The correct fact: The Judith River Dinosaur Institute (JRDI) and its volunteers discovered, excavated and prepared Leonardo not the Judith River Foundation. The Judith River Foundation was not created until 2003 (by Nate Murphy) to house Leonardo and the other Specimens. JRDI funded everything including the lab until 2003.....The fact should read " Leonardo was discovered on July 27, 2000 during the Judith River Dinosaur Institute's Expedition led by Nate Murphy near Malta, MT...... HMNS needs to get the historical facts correct about Leonardo and present them to the public accordingly.
We have been suporters of the HMNS for a long time. I had my rehearsal dinner for my wedding at the Museum. It is a great thing that Leonardo is coming to our museum. The significance of this dinosaur is incredible.....There must be a lot of behind the scenes issues surrounding all of the parties involved. Obviously, Nate Murphy is no longer affiliated with the Leonardo Project and the powers that be have their reasons for not including him in the information regarding the exhibit. I am a historian first and a paleo buff second. I think it is important for a museum such as HMNS to present the facts about the specimen even if it is a minor part of the overall exhibit. Nate Murphy and his team of volunteers from the Jusith River Dinosaur Institute did discover, excavate and prepare Leonardo and they should be given credit for this for historical accuracy. I know the HMNS press release information on Leonardo just went out recently. I am sure by the time September rolls around for the the Premiere of the exhibit credit will be given to all the people involved from the 2000 discovery to the present.
We are very lucky to have Leonardo come to our museum.
I can assure you that Dr. Bakker is in no way trying to take credit for the discovery of Leonardo - nor would we promote that impression. However, he is the HMNS curator of paleontology and the Judith River Foundation's chosen curator for the Leonardo exhibit - which is why he is featured prominently in our press materials for the exhibition.
Since we are working with the Judith River Foundation, we are also working with the information that they have provided to us regarding the history of the excavation, for the purposes of the exhibition.
I will certainly pass your concerns regarding the historical context of the fossil's discovery and excavation along to the people who are developing the exhibition.
Good to hear you again mate!
I appreciate your comments and know where you're coming from.
But regarding your concerns about roles in the Leonardo story, Dr.Bakker was actually an important part of the team since at least 2001, when I personally saw him being extensively consulted on many aspects of the discovery. Over the following years he continued to be a behind the scenes mentor and advisor on technical issues to management at the time.
I don't believe anyone is trying to change history here, because the facts are that Bakker was a Leonardo team member at an early stage even if he wasn't in the spotlight at the time. The way I see it he now has a valid and appropriately high role in the new exhibition, and will continue to be a great asset to the Leonardo dinosaur mummy fossil.
Hello, I just read in the Chronicle that David Temple is hoping to bring people to do controlled digs in Malta. Where can we find more information on this sort of thing? Thanks!
Hello! Thanks for reading the blog! This program is not yet available, but we do have a thriving paleontology volunteer program locally. For more information, please call 713-6369-4629 and ask for David Temple.
Thanks again for reading - you might also be interested in the Museum's new blog.
Sounds like an amazing experience to see the fossils in person. Only two more months to go.
I am sure you guys get all kinds of inquiries like this...but, as strange as this may sound, my family was in Matagorda Bay this weekend and found something that looks exactly like a fossil/bone from a titanus walleris (sp?).
I did not believe it at first, but after my husband and I began doing some research - it's kinda wild how VERY similiar this bone/fossil looks like one from this bird.
If you can email me at kfisher65@gmail.com - or you can get me in touch with one of the palentology staff members - I can send you pics - or bring it over to you guys (as we live in Houston). Thanks.
Just saw the "Dinosaur Mummy" special on Discovery Channel. Wow! What a story! I was intrigued by the sudden and unexplained departure of Nate Murphy from the project. Found the explanation, though, here: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080910/NEWS01/809100301/1002. Which also perhaps accounts for why not much is being said about him officially in connection with this exhibit.
I just saw the Leonardo Project and was wondering about Nate Murphy and finally found this article --> Maybe reasons why the HMNS does not mention him.
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