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I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.
I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times. And I found that one way or the other, your life doesn't change at all. Which is sad, in a way. Because the people love your film… nothing great happens. And people hate your film… nothing terrible happens. Many years ago, I would… I would… a film of mine would open, and it would get great reviews, and I would go down and look at the movie theater. There'd be a line around the block. And when a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with…. So, I'm just never nervous about it.
I made the statement years ago which is often quoted that 80 percent of life is showing up. People used to always say to me that they wanted to write a play, they wanted to write a movie, they wanted to write a novel, and the couple of people that did it were 80 percent of the way to having something happen. All the other people struck out without ever getting that pack. They couldn't do it, that's why they don't accomplish a thing, they don't do the thing, so once you do it, if you actually write your film script, or write your novel, you are more than half way towards something good happening. So that I was say my biggest life lesson that has worked. All others have failed me.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Day one of the 2018 Orange Empire Conference (OEC) Swimming & Diving Championships kicked off today with 10 swimming events occurring. The Orange Coast College Pirates stole the show with each side finishing ahead of the pack with the men earning 246 total points and the women amassing 287 total points.
For the men, the Pirates earned all but one first-place finish. OCC's freshman Hayden Hemmens broke the 500 Free conference record with a time of 4:29.41. He snapped Riverside's Adrien Deloffre's record set in 2016. Michael Jones earned a first-place nod in the 50 Free after touching the wall with a time of 20.57. Dawson Sloan earned the bronze in the 200 IM with a clip of 1:54.99 after shaving four seconds off of his seed time.
Santiago Rivera highlighted Golden West's efforts as he hauled in the lone Rustler first-place finish with a clip of 1:51.51 in the 200 IM. He trimmed approximately four seconds off of his seed time. Jacob Thompson earned the silver medal in the 500 Free with a time of 4:45.02, while Connor Wallace placed fourth in the 500 Free with a mark of 4:49.41. Liam McClafferty placed fifth in the 500 Free with a clip of 4:51.77.
Riverside was highlighted by Javier Bernal as he placed second in the 200 IM with a time of 1:54.15. Farouk Zaoui placed third in the 500 Free with a time of 4:49.17.
Orange Coast paced the field of women with a trio of first place finishes. Lilli Lingard earned a first-place showing in the 50 Free with a clip of 23.99, while Kylie McCormick hauled in the gold with a time of 2:14.90 in the 200 IM. Cheyenne Morris reigned supreme in the 500 Free with a time of 5:13.34.
Supavee Nilaad highlighted RCC with a fourth-place finish in the 200 IM with a time of 2:19.10. Caelan Loroff earned a fifth place finish in the 500 Free with a time of 5:43.42, while Monet Marquez placed fifth in the 50 Free with a clip of 26.58. The Tigers did well in the diving events with Jaquelin Meza placing third in the one meter.
Saddleback's Kailey Banayat and Kaylee Inducil worked towards sixth-place finishes to helm their crew. Banayat earned a time of 2:20.82 in the 200 IM, while Inducil worked towards a5:50.59 clip in the 500 Free. Sarah Duke notched a second-place finish in the one-meter dive.
Below are the scores after day one:
Orange Coast – 287
Golden West – 214
Riverside – 168
Saddleback – 131
Cypress – 75
Fullerton – 0
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Cypress – 100
Fullerton – 99
Santa Ana – 0
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With over 3 million lakes, 3,000 rivers and 34,000 miles of coastline, Alaska is one of the most bountiful fishing regions in the world, producing a wide variety of seafood. All five species of Pacific salmon, four species of crab, many kinds of groundfish, shrimp, herring, sablefish, pollock, and Pacific halibut are all harvested from Alaska. The fisheries of Alaska are recognized as some of the best-managed fisheries in the world, providing tens of thousands of seasonal and full time jobs and a vital, long term economic engine for Alaska communities and the state.
Alaska's constitutionally-mandated commitment to sustainable management practices ensures that all Alaska commercially harvested seafood species in Alaska are sustainable for future, as well as current generations.
Alaska is the only state to have coastlines on three different seas: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Over half of the nation's commercially harvested fish come from Alaska, nearly four times more than the next largest seafood producing state. Eight of Alaska's ports consistently rate in the top 30 U.S. ports in terms of volume or value of seafood delivered. The City of Unalaska – Port of Dutch Harbor has ranked as the top port in the nation for 22 years in terms of seafood pounds harvested, landing 706 million pounds in 2011 and was second in the nation in terms of value at $207 million.
Seafood has been and remains one of Alaska's top export commodities. In 2011, the ex-vessel value of the state's seafood exports was $2.3 billion, up 29 percent decrease from the year prior. This amounted to over half of the state's total exports. China has taken the lead as Alaska's largest customer of seafood, with exports to Japan, Central Europe, Korea, and Canada following.
The vast fishery resources of Alaska are of tremendous importance to the economies of the state and the nation. These resources are self-renewing if properly managed, and it is the mission of both state and federal fishery management agencies to sustainably manage and maximize the economic benefits from these resources for generations to come.
• 5.35 billion pounds of fish and shellfish worth over $3.0 billion were harvested in Alaska waters in 2011, putting Alaska in first place for value of landings.
• Bristol Bay's 2010 sockeye salmon harvest of 28.6 million fish was the 11th largest since 1959. The ex-vessel value was worth $165 million, greater than the total value of fish harvests in a combined 41 states.
• In terms of value of landings nationwide in 2011, Alaska led with $2.3 billion, distantly followed by Maine with $527 million.
• Fishing is the core economy for much of coastal Alaska where fish harvesting and processing often provide the only significant opportunities for private sector employment and where fisheries support sector businesses provide property and sales tax as the largest source of local government revenues. Seafood harvesting and processing jobs provide more than 50 percent of the private sector employment in coastal Alaska.
• All geographic areas of the state benefit greatly from the fact the seafood industry provides an important "back haul" for shippers that otherwise primarily bring goods and supplies north to Alaska. One major shipping company has estimated freight rates to Alaska would be 10 percent higher without the back haul of seafood shipped out of Alaska.
• Salmon generate more harvesting jobs than any other fishery, but in terms of value and volume of the catch, the state's largest fishery is groundfish where a relatively smaller number of boats catch an enormous amount of fish, predominantly pollock.
• In recent years, the fishing industry generated nearly 60,000 jobs. However, many of these jobs were of short seasonal duration, ranging from one week to several months. On a monthly average adjusted basis, there were 8,061 direct fulltime equivalent jobs in Alaska attributed to the fishing industry in 2011.
• Revenues generated by the fishing industry in FY12 totaled more than $100 million in state and local taxes. These revenues ranged from fish processing and corporate taxes to fishery resource landing taxes, license fees, and seafood marketing assessments.
• At the end of 2012, Alaska residents held over 7,000 commercial fishing permits, and nearly 12,000 full-year crewmember licenses. Estimated earnings by Alaska based permitholders was $681 million.
• The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program is a unique fishery management system that allocates a portion of the total allowable catch for all federally-managed Aleutian Island and Bering Sea fishery species to eligible communities in Western Alaska. Revenue largely earned from the harvest of this quota funds infrastructure, local fisheries development and other community and economic development activities. Since its 1992 inception, the CDQ program has generated more than $521 million in direct wages, payments to resident fishermen, scholarships and training benefits. In 2011 alone, the six CDQ entities invested more than $176 million in its communities and fisheries activities.
• The CDQ program has allowed development of processing facilities in some villages in the six CDQ regions, and the revenue generated from the program has allowed some CDQ groups to invest and take ownership positions in many major seafood companies in the North Pacific as well as ownership in many harvesting and processing vessels, that work the various fisheries in the North Pacific. The CDQ groups are now major players in all fishery activity that accrues in the North Pacific.
• Alaska's state fish, the King salmon, can weigh up to 100 pounds.


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Ghislaine Maxwell: the trial will enter the second day with the testimony of the pilot of Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell's child sex trafficking trial enters its second day of testimony on Tuesday, with the longtime pilot of her alleged accomplice, financier Jeffrey Epstein, returning to the witness stand in Manhattan federal court.
Maxwell, 59, pleaded not guilty to six counts of allegedly procuring teenage girls for Epstein, some of whom were as young as 14.
Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr, who worked for Epstein from 1991 to 2019, began his testimony Monday afternoon. He testified that Maxwell was around 30 years old when he met her in 1991 and said that "we interacted quite often. She was on a lot of flights ".
The pilot testified that Maxwell supervised Epstein's households. Asked about the relationship between Maxwell and Epstein, he said: "I thought it was more personal than professional. "
The duo stayed close in the 2000s. Visoski said their relationship was not necessarily romantic, but was "a couple". Visoski said he did not see them holding hands or kissing.
Visoski's testimony came after the defense opening remarks. Maxwell's lead attorney, Bobbi Sternheim, has presented the Briton as a scapegoat for Epstein's crimes – going so far as to invoke the Bible.
"Ever since Eve was accused of tempting Adam for the apple, women have been blamed for men's bad behavior and women are often more mean and punished than men ever are," Sternheim explained. "The charges against Ghislaine Maxwell relate to acts committed by Jeffrey Epstein.
"But she's not Jeffrey Epstein. She's not like Jeffrey Epstein – and she's unlike any of the other men, powerful men, tycoons, media giants, who abuse women.
Prior to Sternheim's argument, prosecutor Lara Pomerantz argued that Maxwell was complicit in Epstein's crimes, arguing, "She knew what was going to happen to these girls. "
Maxwell "preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them and served them to be sexually assaulted," she said.
"The accused trafficked children for sexual purposes. "
Pomerantz continued, "Maxwell was Epstein's best friend and right-hand man. She was involved in every detail of Epstein's life. The accused and Epstein were partners in the crime.
Maxwell also faces two counts of allegedly lying under oath, on which she will be tried separately. These charges stem from the civil lawsuit of Epstein's longtime accuser, Virginia Giuffre, against Maxwell.
Giuffre alleged that Maxwell and Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17. Giuffre filed a complaint against Maxwell, who called her a liar. Maxwell and the Duke of York insist on their innocence.
In the United States, call or text the Childhelp Abuse Hotline at 800-422-4453. In the UK, the NSPCC offers assistance to children on 0800 1111 and adults affected by a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers assistance to adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline at 1800 55 1800, or Bravehearts at 1800 272 831, and adult survivors can contact the Blue Knot Foundation at 1300 657 380. Other sources help can be found on Child Helplines International
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This week's Challenges are all about finding information from an unusual perspective.
One of the biggest problems people have when searching for information is that they get locked into thinking about their search in one particular way. By asking these questions, I'm trying to make the deeper point that sometimes you have to have a different point-of-view.
1. I was in Los Angeles (CA) the other day, and I happened to notice something unusual attached to the back of each letter on the famous "Hollywood" sign. Once you see it, of course they'd need to have this on the back of each letter--but I'd never though about it before. What's on the backside of each of the letters?
It's an interesting point-of-view problem. Literally.
Google Earth won't give you this; neither Streetview nor satellite view in Google Maps will do. What else can you do?
When I thought about this, I immediately thought about Google Images. "Surely someone has taken a recent picture of these letters... and almost certainly from the backside as well."
From this vantage point you can see that there's a support structure (which you'd expect) and a set of ladders to climb up each letter (which I did NOT expect). I assume they're for maintenance, but the point here is that everything has multiple points-of-view. It's not hard to search for them, but you have to keep your mind curious and remember this.
2. The aurora borealis (or aurora australis) is one of the most amazing sights on the planet. When you look at it, you see vast sheets of colored, translucent drapes moving across the sky. In appearance, it's just colored lights--but when seen from above, what shape are the Northern (or Southern) Lights? Can you find a picture that shows the overall, planet-wide shape of the aurora?
We've all see these pictures of the aurora--they're gorgeous (and I hope to see them in person one day). They're generated when the charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, causing electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they create the glowing curtains of light we see as auroras.
But to figure out the pattern of the aurora on a planetary-scale, we have to find an image that's taken from WAY out in space.
but I ended up accidentally finding lots of science fiction images (who knew that "Deep Space" is the name of a science fiction television show AND a 1988 horror/science-fiction movie?).
But notice that this isn't QUITE a picture of the aurora as it appears on Earth. If you read the web page carefully, you'll find that this is a picture of the aurora in a composite image: It wouldn't look like this from space without special filters, etc. As the web page says: "The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma—an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth. The ring of light that the solar storm generated over Antarctica glows green in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, shown in this image. The IMAGE observations of the aurora are overlaid onto NASA's satellite-based Blue Marble image. From the Earth's surface, the ring would appear as a curtain of light shimmering across the night sky."
3. We know that some plants move to follow the sun. Can you find a video of a sunflower following the sun? How about some other plant? What do they do to follow the sun across the sky?
As I looked through the videos, I learned from the Indiana Dept. of Biology website that many people are under the misconception that the flower heads of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus) track the sun. When you see a field of cultivated sunflowers, the flower heads face in more-or-less the same direction. However, if you check out a field of sunflowers in the afternoon, it will be apparent that the flower heads are mostly facing east, where the sun rises each morning. And if you look at them in the morning, they're still pointing east.
Immature flower buds of the sunflower do exhibit solar tracking and on sunny days the buds will track the sun across the sky from east to west and by dawn the buds will have returned to face eastward, like the leaves in the movie above.
and found this video of immature sunflowers sun-tracking during the day.
However, as the flower bud matures and blossoms, the stem stiffens and the flower becomes fixed facing the eastward direction. Flowers of the wild sunflowers seen on roadsides do not follow the sun and their flowering heads face many directions when mature. However, their leaves exhibit some solar tracking.
But that left me wondering: What DOES a sunflower do during the day, if not tracking the sun?
brought me the following very satisfying (and beautiful) video of a sunflower making small, fascinating movements during the day, but notably NOT tracking the sun!
Unlike the sunflower flower, the flowers of some plant species track the sun across the sky from east to west. A good example of this is the alpine plant, the snow buttercup (Ranunculus adoneus). Searching for a video for this lead me to this completely unexpected video of Arctic poppies following the sun during a full 24-day (when it never sets).
These weren't hard Challenges, but they're great examples of the deeper point that we searchers sometimes need to take a somewhat different point of view... and that it's often useful to think about what other points of view (from the back, from space, from a time-lapse) would be helpful in answering our Challenge questions.
First, I wanted to focus in a bit on finding "unusual perspectives," that is, finding answers to questions through images in ways that you might not have thought about.
Today I have three questions, all of which can be answered, but the usual searches might not quite work, so you'll have to try something a bit different.
But now, even as I write this, I'm sitting in an airport heading for the Caribbean. Time to go diving again.
So THIS is my plan for the week.
My plan is to kick back, read a bit, and write a Search Challenge for next week.
But this week? Nah. I need a break. I'm hitting the water later today.
I'll be back. Don't go away. Take a mini-vacation yourself!
Answer: Is the fruit getting sweeter?
We've heard rumors that farmers add sugar (or some kind of sweetener) to the irrigation of fruit.
(1) Is this true? Does this actually work to make fruit sweeter?
(2) Should I be concerned? Sugar is already hiding in so many everyday "non-sugar" foods (way more in the US than in Portugal, granted) that I don't want to take any more added sugar. If it's really more sugar, how much more is it?
When I first read this question, I immediately thought this sounds like an "urban legend" that could have some basis in fact. How can we find out?
A. First, check-assumptions about the question: Maybe the presumption that "fruits have been getting sweeter over the past decade isn't true. Is it?
B. Second, try a "first principles" approach: If it's true that fruit is getting sweeter, then I'm going to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation to see if just adding sugar to an irrigation system makes sense. How many pounds of sugar would you have to feed to a plant to make the fruit sweeter? How would you dissolve it into the irrigation supply?
C. The simple approach: Search on things like [ irrigation additives ] and explore how people decide what to add to irrigation systems. I already know they add certain kinds of fertilizers, could they add something that acts to make fruit sweeter? (Note here--I'm not assuming they're adding just sugar--it could be some kind of artificial sweetener or chemical that acts to increase total fruit sugars.) In the process, I'm probably going to check out some agricultural schools to see what they teach farmers to put into irrigation systems, and I'm going to look at both row irrigation (where the water flows freely down channels through the fields) and drip irrigation systems (where a small water line is run directly to the base of each plant).
This is a long query--why did I add "over time"? I added that to see if I could get articles that discuss the changes in fruit sweetness, and I would expect that phrase to appear in the text.
I explored this for a while, finding a couple of articles, e.g., "Sugar high: Why your food is getting sweeter" which includes the tidbit that a Cornell apple specialist denies that apples are getting sweeter over time, although a Times of London article (requires subscription) claims that food scientists are breeding fruits and vegetables to be sweeter, so our baseline understanding of what's "naturally" sweet is changing.
While I read a lot of articles here, all of them suggested that new, and improved varieties are probably making some fruits sweeter. But, interestingly, none of the articles mentioned changes in irrigation practices.
So it seems that some fruits have been getting sweeter, but so far, it seems to be slow changes over time with changes in new fruit varieties.
B. Try a "first principles" approach: Would adding sugar to irrigation water work to make the fruit sweeter?
Let's consider oranges. How many pounds of fruit will a single tree generate in a year?
Which leads to multiple articles, the best of which is from Texas A&M agriculture school. "Home fruit production: Oranges" which has a good table of orange tree production as the tree ages. At maximum production, a single Navel orange tree can produce around 100 pounds of fruit per year.
leads to several articles, the best of which is from the University of Arizona agricultural school. The article, "Irrigating Citrus Trees" tells us that each tree requires a different amount of water, depending on canopy size and the air temperature. That makes sense... but what's the average? There's a giant table in that article, when you boil it down, tells us that an average tree needs around 29 gallons / water / day during the growing season.
If you produce 100 pounds of fruit and want to add sugar to the irrigation water to get a 1% increase in sugar to the fruit, you'll need around 1 pound of sugar to get into the fruit. If you assume that 10% of the water delivered to the tree is then directed to the fruit, then the irrigation water needs to have 0.29 gallons of sugar, or 5 cups of sugar, to each tree for each day. (Assuming drip irrigation.) If you have 1000 trees, that's 5000 cups of sugar to add to your irrigation system each day to keep it at that level.
1 cup of sugar weighs in at about 0.5 pounds. So 5000 cups of sugar is around 2500 pounds of sugar each day. That's a LOT of sugar to be sending out into the irrigation water.
Surprisingly, none of these worked especially well. I found lots of off-topic content, but little that led me directly to useful results.
I know farmers sometimes add things to their irrigation--the question is, what do they call it? What special terms do they use?
leads to a LOT of articles--many about pest controls and fertilizer agents.
And although I tried many queries to follow up on sweetening (or additional sugar) via irrigation and/or injectors, I didn't find anything.
On the other hand, I DID learn that red-colored plastic film seems to make strawberries sweeter, and that there's a good deal of research to make sugar beets have more sugar.
But I couldn't find anything about anything added to irrigation to make fruit sweeter.
led to a large number of articles, many of which point out how active breeding programs have led to sweeter pineapples (such as the "Maui Gold" which is twice as sweet as its predecessor, introduced into Europe in 1996), sweeter strawberries, and sweeter apples.
So while it's tempting to think that irrigation additives are making the fruit sweeter in taste, the more likely story is that farmers are using the fruits of agriculture breeders in their quest to constantly improve the fruit.
Search Lessons: There are two big ones here.
1. Disproving something that's not happening is hard. As you can tell, a lot of searches that do NOT find anything doesn't definitively close the case, but it does give pretty strong evidence. The best thing to do here would really be to go talk to an orange farmer, or apple farmer and ASK. But barring that, a complete sweep of all the different ways you can think of to ask the question.... that's about the best we can do. Proving that something doesn't exist is always hard.
2. When your searches aren't working, look for something in the field that you KNOW you can find; go read there, and learn some language that can help. That's what I did when I searched for [ irrigation fertilizer ]. I knew that was true. And in the process of reading broadly in the topic I learned all kinds of terms and concepts that I could use to hone my search more effectively.
Many thanks again to Miguel Viterbo. This excellent question comes from him.
The basketball ref hand sign for illegal traveling.
Okay, this was an error on my part.
I'd forgotten that I'd be traveling today. I'm flying up to Seattle, then driving on to Vancouver to attend the ACM "Learning at Scale" Conference. It's not optional--I really have to be there.
But I'm busy from now (3:45AM) until at least 10PM tonight. So I'm willing to bet I won't be able to write up my answer to this week's Search Challenge.
That gives everyone an extra 24 hours. So if you haven't chimed in yet with your idea about whether or not fruit is sweeter because of something they're doing with the irrigation water, now you've got an extra day.
P.S. To be clear, I didn't forget exactly, but I thought I'd have time to write up the answer this morning.
THEN I realized my flight is at 6AM. Oops! See you tomorrow.
Search Challenge (3/11/15): Is the fruit getting sweeter?
It seems unlikely, but who knows? Maybe it's true.
My friends, family, and myself, have been noticing that in the most recent years (latest two to four years), fruits in Lisbon, Portugal are much sweeter than they were, especially in supermarkets and big superstores, where fruit was always worse than the one we could buy at local stores.
Oranges and citrus fruits have been particularly noticeable in their increased sweetness.
We have no idea if this is a global trend, or if it's just true in Portugal.
At first, we tended to assume that supermarkets just got better at dealing with producers and acquired better stuff. In fact, most people I know didn't buy their fruit in supermarkets, so it's reasonable to expect that they had to fix that problem.
In the past months, though, we've heard rumors that farmers nowadays use sugar (or some kind of sweetener) added to the irrigation. Yesterday, the fruit shop owner in my neighborhood (whom I assume to be knowledgeable, because she has been picking her suppliers for 20+ years, and at a time was married to a producer herself, if I remember it right) told me that this was common knowledge (she said, "some time ago those sweeteners were added to the fertilizers, now they're within the irrigation itself").
I haven't spent any time trying to research this Challenge. I didn't want to get a head start on this. I want to check this out this along with all of you loyal Search Researchers.
I have no idea if this is true, or if we're going to be chasing down an urban legend.
That's why this is an especially interesting question: We don't know how it's going to turn out!
Let's begin on Miguel's Challenge. What can you find out about this? Is it true that farmer's are now adding sweeteners to their irrigation water?
Unleash the hounds of Search Research! Go!
Let us know what you find out AND tell us how you did it.
- Muito obrigado to Miguel Viterbo for this excellent Challenge.
I'm glad you also enjoy learning about obscure places on the planet, and picking up a few lessons about how to search for information along the way.
1. Can you find the island? What's its name, and where exactly is it? Is it an independent country, or is it part of another country?
2. The history of this island is fascinating--at the crossroads of history, but often not really a part of it. Recently a cave was discovered on this island that has some rather old graffiti. What kind of graffiti is it? Can you find a picture of the inscriptions?
3. Why is there a military tank on the island? Who would bring such a thing there?
Finding the island wasn't that hard, but there were a few hiccups along the way.
I chose these terms as they seemed as though they would appear on any description of the island. Location is always an important term, but not knowing ahead of time anything else about it, I chose to include the terms "cave graffiti" as that seemed pretty unusual--at least unusual enough to let me find the island.
Sure enough, the results quickly led me to the island of Socotra (after a few moments being diverted by reading about cave paintings recently found in Petra--but that's not an island, so I stopped reading that quickly).
leads to a wealth of information, with the Wikipedia article being the most prominent.
Socotra is just off the coast of Yemen and Somalia, solidly in the western Arabian Sea, at 12°30′36″N 53°55′12″E, nearly due west of Goa, south of Oman.
In this view, you can see it's a chain of 4 islands, with the largest, Socotra, being mostly undeveloped, and pretty arid.
It has fascinating flora (the Dragon's Blood tree, and a traditional frankincense source), and is also home to some remarkable caves.
That source (which is not just a copy of the English Wikipedia article) agrees. It's part of Yemen.
Finally I tried one last thing, just for completeness.
Which leads to several marvelous articles on the National Geographic site.
And then, just because I was really interested in Socotra, I decide to do a related: search as well, using one of the best articles from National Geographic as my seed text.
Leads to lots of related things… Really a great way to browse around and find great content.
Graffiti: Finding pictures of the Socotran cave art wasn't hard, but I really wanted some good context AND an authoritative source.
I had noticed that there was a reference to the book "Foreign Sailors on Socotra. The inscriptions and drawings from the cave Hoq" in the references on the Wikipedia article, so I had to search for it.
Leads to Academic.edu article Socotra Island, which is a great resource for all things academic that have been written about Socotra.
Images from the Academic.edu article.
This is a marvelous book, written by archaeologists who have spent considerable time in the Hoq cave on Socotra. Even if you don't read French, this is well worth looking at.
Note how the first image (Fig 10) looks much like an Indian script, not an Arabic one. There are a large number of inscriptions, drawings and archaeological objects. The majority seem to have been left by sailors who visited the island between the 1st c. BC and the 6th c. AD. The majority of the texts are written in the Indian Brahmi script, but there are also inscriptions in South-Arabian, Ethiopian, Greek, Palmyrene, and Bactrian scripts.
And clicking through on a few of those tells the same story over and over... "geez... we were on Socotra, and look at this tank we found."
Question is: How and why is it there?
That worked. It led to multiple documents, including several first hand reports by war machine fans, who verified that this is a T34/85 (a popular Soviet tank).
By looking at a few of those articles, it's pretty clear that the Soviets had a military relationship with Socotra (although they now seem to have moved away, and few traces of their existance there remains to be seen in Google Earth).
1. Check multiple sources. As you can see, Socotra is an "in-between" topic. There are references to it scattered across multiple sites, in multiple languages. As Luís mentioned in his comments, many of the best references are in Russian (they were there for quite a while, doing extensive scientific studies). We have to learn to check multiple kinds of citations!
2. Think about checking sources that are on the general topic, but might not show up in the top 10 (or 20) of the SERP. As you saw, my search in National Geographic reveals a host of related and really interesting articles. Unfortunately, you have to know to look in order to find them. Keep in mind that sometimes a well-known site might have to be searched separately.
3. Check different kinds of resources. That's why I looked at Images and Books, as well as the usual web search results.
Postscript: About that "at least one million years.." reference at the top of my Challenge.


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War & Weather in the Technetronic Era, WW3, part.2
Posted December 2nd, 2015 by lizburbank
"If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect."
1941 Council of Foreign Relations private memo to the US State Department
http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/contemporary/0013.htm
Remember the Iraq War? More U.S. Combat Troops Heading Back...
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/01/remember-the-iraq-war-more-u-s-comba...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday the Pentagon will send a "specialized expeditionary targeting force" of elite troop UNITS LIKE Navy SEALs to Iraq with freedom to operate inside Syria ...There are already about 3,500 U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq...and about 50 Special Operations troops on their way to Syria to assist Syrian rebels plan missions...The new deployment will push total higher, but no numbers have been provided yet.
NATO to Beef Up Security Along Turkish Borders
http://www.voanews.com/content/nato-wants-to-beef-up-security-along-turk...
12/1/15 Resolute Support Meeting, NATO HQs, Brussels
global dictatorship means 'leading' solutions to global crises US finance capital & partners lead in producing
Kerry Quietly Makes Climate Pact a Priority
1/3/14 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/world/asia/kerry-shifts-state-departme...
Kerry initiated a systematic, top-down push to create State Department focus on global warming. His goal is to be the lead broker of a 2015 global climate treaty.
Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm..
Joint Vision 2020 Emphasizes Full-spectrum Dominance
6/2/2000 http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45289
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2000 – "Full-spectrum dominance" is the key term in "Joint Vision 2020," the blueprint DoD will follow in the future. Joint Vision 2020, released May 30 and signed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Henry Shelton, extends the concept laid out in Joint Vision 2010. Some things will not change. The mission of the U.S. military today and tomorrow is to fight and win the nation's wars. How DoD goes about doing this is 2020's focus.
Joint Vision 2020 addresses full-spectrum dominance across the range of conflicts from nuclear war to major theater wars to smaller-scale contingencies. It addresses amorphous situations like peacekeeping and noncombat humanitarian relief. Key to U.S. dominance in any conflict will be what the chairman calls "decision superiority" -- translating information superiority into better decisions arrived at and implemented faster than an enemy can react....The development of a global information grid will provide the environment for decision superiority. Innovation has always been a hallmark of the American military. In 2020, this native American talent will be even more important....Joint Vision 2020 expands the term "interoperability" to include the development of joint doctrine and information sharing. Joint Vision 2020 is a blueprint.
Military Scientists Study Ionoshpere
2/26/10Special to American Forces Press Service http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=58119
"The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, a program known as HAARP, is basically a joint Air Force-Navy program to investigate ionospheric physics and radio science," explained James Battis, HAARP program manager at the Air Force Research Laboratory, in a Feb. 24 interview on Pentagon Web Radio's audio webcast "Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military."
Japanese Government Pays 60 Trillion Yen to Stop More H.A.A.R.P. Attacks
May 24th, 2011 http://www.eutimes.net/2011/05/japanese-government-pays-60-trillion-yen-...
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan paid 60 trillion yen HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program) to the Federal Reserve Board crime syndicate immediately after his country was attacked with HAARP and nuclear terror, according to Japanese security police sources. The extortion money was paid off following threats to use HAARP to cause Mt. Fuji to erupt. For those of you still too brainwashed to believe such a thing is possible, please take a look at the following transcript available on the US Defense Department http://www.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=674
US Gov. Opens Official On the Record Study Into Weather Modification and Geo-Engineering
http://www.eutimes.net/2013/08/us-gov-opens-official-on-the-record-study...
Weather warfare is banned under a 1980 treaty to which the U.S. is a signatory, but the U.S. intelligence has an interest in such technologies, said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a security think tank in Alexandria, Va.
US Study Exploring Weather Modification to be Completed Fall of 2014
August 15, 2013 http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/us-climate-change-study-under...
...The project is supported by the Academy, the U.S. intelligence community, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA...."Most of the proposed geoengineering techniques for solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal being discussed have global implications and are generally discussed in a global context...The project's main goal is to provide a technical evaluation of proposed geoengineering techniques..include how using such technology may impact the environment, economy and national security..."
Attempts to change the weather have taken on various forms for about 70 years...including cloud seeding to bring rain and snow to parched areas of the western United States. The U.S. government research to modify hurricanes from the early 1960s to the mid-80s was unsuccessful....
Weather modification is the process of modifying weather... with the use of glaciogenic (silver iodide) and/or hygroscopic (calcium chloride) material, Project Meteorologist Jonathan Jennings of the West Texas Weather Modification Association said. Aircraft or ground base generators deliver the materials into the clouds he said. "In Texas, our operations are conducted by seeding at the base of a convective thunderstorm with an aircraft....
Weather warfare is banned under a 1980 treaty to which the U.S. is a signatory, but the U.S. intelligence community definitely has an interest in such technologies, said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a security think tank in Alexandria, Va."Because global warming may impact the security of other countries and create national security problems for the U.S. government...perfectly ethical for the U.S. government to use weather modification to save lives and money, Pile said.
The U.S. study is expected to be finished in the fall of 2014.
WW3 'global integration' and 'climate change'
CLIMATE-SMART INTEGRATION AT USAID
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USAID engages with dozens of countries and communities around the world to support programs in agriculture, energy, infrastructure, economic development, democracy and governance, and to provide humanitarian assistance. Climate change adds a new variable to all these efforts, giving integration a special meaning at USAID.. working with country partners and development professionals seeking innovative ways to include climate change considerations in existing development programs for democracy and governance, food security, agriculture, infrastructure, energy, health, education, gender and disaster preparedness.
Islamic State Targeting Africa ...
12/1/15 US African-commander-warns-voa/3083034.html
"Access from Libya to Europe is disturbingly easy,"an-commander-warns-voa/3083034.html
STUTTGART, GERMANY—U.S. Africa Command Deputy for Military Operations, Vice Admiral Michael Franken, with VOA in Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 1, 2015.
The Syria-based Islamic State group has expanded its reach in Africa, courting Islamist extremists from Nigeria to Somalia while establishing a major nerve center close to Europe Vice Admiral Michael Franken, U.S. Africa Command Deputy for Military Operations, told VOA...according to Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution defense policy expert, "access from Libya to Europe is disturbingly easy...Ties between Islamic State group, al-Qaida, Boko Haram and other terror groups is why defense expert O'Hanlon also wants to see elements added in Mali and Nigeria to any counter-Islamic State or counter-al-Qaida plan..in volatile nations....that will take time to fix...
"The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States."
USAID (Agency for International Development) Source: "Direct Economic Benefits of U.S. Assistance Programs," 1999
Beyond Humanitarianism: Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa
: What You Need to Know About Africa and Why It Matters
Editors: Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Patricia Lee Dorff, Director, Council Publishing Council on Foreign Relations Press
Sept. 2007 http://www.cfr.org/publication/13535/
Africa is moving center stage in world politics, not just for humanitarian reasons. This citizen's guide to the complex issues and conflicts on the continent clarifies what's at stake... the growth of democracy, the focus of attention and rising activity of China, political and economic prospects for countries in Africa...Currently, 15 percent of U.S. oil imports come from Africa—as much as from the Middle East—and the continent is poised to double its output over the coming decade. regional conflicts and terrorist threats there--- provides an absorbing look at Africa's emergence as a strategic player[...]
US GLOBAL DOMINATION DEPENDS ON IT, REGARDLESS OF COSTS
Africa Rejects US AFRICOM (excerpts)
9/9/08 http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/118
AFRICOM will preside over all countries on the continent except Egypt...Pentagon officials say it is needed to secure vast, lawless areas where terrorists have sought safe haven to regroup and threaten U.S. interests.
4/30/07 http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070430-124131-8532r.htm
12/1/15 Stuttgart Germany where it still is today
African opposition means the new US command headquarters will more likely be in US or Europe."
5/16/08 www.csmonitor.com/2008/0516/p03s03-usmi.html
Congresss Demands US Carry Out Simulated Specifically Targeted Cyber War Games
11/14/15 http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/11/lawmakers-demand-us-military-c...
In the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress, in an unprecedented move, ordered the Joint Chiefs of staff to conduct U.S. Cyber Command [CYBERCOM] to carry out a series of simulated "war games" specifically against, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea..."
Peter Singer, strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank, told Nextgov...is far more than stealing Social Security numbers or email from Hollywood executives... but the takedown of the modern military nervous system and Stuxnet-style digital weapons," [digest: USraeli offensive first-strike cyber weapons like Stuxnet and other viruses used against Iran]] ... War games typically refer to large-scale exercises, such as "Cyber Flag," the information security portion of the "Red Flag" training at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, said Rob Bagnall, founder of contractor Maverick Cyber Defense.... "You are talking hundreds of participants from many places."Cyber Flag, for instance, teams all branches, CYBERCOM and other government entities in multiple locations...
National Defense Authorization Act FY2016
signed into law by President Obama November 25, 2015 https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1356/text
"The Secretary of Defense should develop creative and agile concepts, technologies, and strategies across all available media to most effectively reach target audiences, to counter and degrade the ability of adversaries and potential adversaries to persuade, inspire, and recruit inside areas of hostilities or in other areas in direct support of the objectives of commanders."...Section 1056 of 2016 NDAA which also directed DOD to...advance its ability "to shape the informational environment."...
Also see digest 'information war' 'strategic communications/public diplomacy', propaganda, 'psyops', DOD social media responsibility
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Weather and War: A Perfect Storm
7/25/14 14 by TARA SONENSHINE, http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/07/weather-and-war-perfect-storm/89...
Tara Sonenshine, former under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, is a Distinguished Fellow at George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Three recent airline tragedies turned the world's spotlight on collateral damage's innocent victims—changing the idea of international security into one of personal security as well. For the hundreds of people who lost their lives this week in airlines disasters on three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe, the conditions that led to tragedies in the sky will not change the facts on the ground. The lives of human beings were lost in twists of fate. Left behind are families, friends, and futures from Taiwan to Mali... The "conditions" of flight do matter to those left wondering and worrying about stowing our luggage and buckling our seats.
Most importantly, the conditions surrounding these air disasters are critical to policymakers everywhere—especially those who work on war and weather. For foreign policy professionals—wars are worrisome, especially when civilians find themselves caught in the crossfire of conflict. In eastern Ukraine, evidence points to Putin and his policies. What began as a hostile takeover of Crimea has become a messy war. The conflict between Moscow and Kiev is no longer limited in scope and seriousness. The shooting down of a civilian aircraft is a policy and human disaster. That means America and Europe have no choice but to ratchet up more sanctions and prepare to press Mr. Putin harder to reign in the thugs that roam freely within a sovereign nation next door to his own.
Beyond war there is weather. Within the foreign policy expert community are climatologists who have to figure out why bad weather seems to be getting worse around the world... storm coverage in the past two years has included more disasters than in previous years. We see images of floods and rains that bury cars and people, now we are left wondering if the weather woes may be causing havoc way above us. International security has become personal security. We must demand answers and solutions that make the chances of collateral damage from war and weather smaller.


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Woodstock music festival co-creator Michael Lang dies aged 77
National News / 09/01/2022 09/01/2022 / By Radio News Hub
Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, has died aged 77.
Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Lang's family, said he had been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and died on Saturday at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.
"He was absolutely an historic figure and also a great guy," said Mr Pagnotta, who has known Lang for about 30 years. "Both of those thing go hand in hand."
Along with partners Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, Lang put together the festival billed as "three days of peace and music" in the summer of 1969 as the Vietnam War raged and led increasing numbers of disaffected young Americans to embrace a lifestyle that celebrated freedom of expression.
Roughly 400,000 people descended on the hamlet of Bethel, about 50 miles north west of New York City and endured miles-long traffic jams, torrential rain, food shortages and overwhelmed sanitary facilities.
More than 30 acts performed on the concert's main stage at the base of a hill on land owned by farmer Max Yasgur, and concertgoers were treated to iconic performances from artists including Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, The Who and Jefferson Airplane.
Lang, sporting a head of bushy brown hair, is seen throughout Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary movie that chronicled the festival.
"From the beginning, I believed that if we did our job right and from the heart, prepared the ground and set the right tone, people would reveal their higher selves and create something amazing," Lang wrote in his memoir The Road To Woodstock.
Lang and others sought to mount a concert in 2019 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock, but the endeavour ultimately was scrapped due to financial issues and difficulty securing a venue.
In an interview with AP at the time, Lang called the experience "a really bizarre trip" and said he still hoped to hold the concert in the future.
Although Woodstock often is viewed as creating the template for large-scale music festivals, it was not the first to take place in the US.
Two years earlier, the Monterey Pop festival drew about 200,000 people to California, and in 1968 the Miami Pop Festival followed, which Lang also organised. But Woodstock nonetheless holds an indelible place in history.
"A lot of them are modelled after Woodstock — Bonnaroo and Coachella, in particular," Lang said of other festivals in a 2009 interview. "There was a ritual that was created that keeps getting replicated."
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If you're planning to renovate your space, why not consider something that will improve the energy-efficiency of your property? Small changes, like a thicker glass window or different doors, can have a huge impact on your energy bills and the comfort level inside the structure. Here are some ideas to consider when you're attempting to renovate for a greener tomorrow.
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The Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena was designed by Jan Kaplický architect.
Following Jan's death in 2009, Andrea Morgante, formerly of Future Systems, has seen the project through to completion.
Andrea Morgante works at Shiro Studio, based in London.
The new building has been constructed to Kaplický's original design – it is sensitive to the existing historical context, combines the latest in construction and energy saving technology, and resonates in spirit, language and materials with the cars it is intended to showcase. The fully restored house and workshop provide additional exhibition space designed by Morgante.
Deyan Sudjic comments: "Jan was a remarkable architect, and a brilliant artist. We can only now begin to understand his impact on the shape of the contemporary world".
The husband and wife partnership of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete are to split after twenty years.
Kaplicky (Czech), 71, will retain the Future Systems name he established in 1979 and will work with about 10 staff; Levete (Welsh), 53, will operate under her own name with about 40 staff.
They divorced in 2006 and have both since remarried. Kaplicky married Czech film producer Eliska Fuchsová in 2007. Apparently their design approach diverged with Jan wishing to fully exploit curvilinear ideas, often labelled as 'blob architecture'.
Levete's new practice has a commission from James Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation in Europe and the Middle East, to rebuild the headquarters of the Times and Sun at Wapping, east London.
Kaplicky considered his new national library in Prague could be the grand finale to his career.
The Selfridges Building is a landmark building in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store. The building was completed in 2003 at a cost of £60 million. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. Since its construction, the building has become an iconic architectural landmark and seen as a major contribution to the regeneration of Birmingham. It is included as a desktop background as part of the Architecture theme in Windows 7.
The Lord's Media Centre, officially known as the J.P. Morgan Media Centre for sponsorship reasons, is a building at Lord's Cricket Ground, London.
This unusual organic building cost around £5 million. The Media Centre, which was built by Pendennis Shipyard from the UK in combination with Centraalstaal from The Netherlands, was commissioned in time for the 1999 Cricket World Cup. It was the first all aluminium, semi-monocoque building in the world. It was built and fitted-out in two boatyards and utilises boat-building technology. It has only one opening window.
Future Systems are best known for Selfridges Birmingham and their earlier Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand. The architects have a reputation for organic architecture ie where the section and plan are curvilinear. Future Systems have also completed some notable bridges.
Architect offices in Notting Hill, west London Future Systems Architects - Background Future Systems was run by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. For years they designed visionary buildings with little to show, but then they had a starkly modern house built in northeast Islington and rose to fame with their Lords Cricket Ground Media Stand. This was criticised for looking space age but being made using old-fashioned, slow techniques in a Cornish boat-building yard. Nevertheless Future Systems have certainly pushed the boundaries of English architecture, indeed building design globally. One of their highest profile buildings in recent years was Selfridges in Birmingham. Located at the Bull Ring the result has a close relationship with their wacky model from their early days of Trafalagar Square, London. Selfridges were a brave client - they had also approached Toyo Ito for a Glasgow store - but the result has a poor relationship with the pedestrian: it looks cool but appears to fail on basic ergonomic levels. Jan Kaplicky left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and worked for Richard Rogers then Norman Foster before founding Future Systems in 1979. Kaplicky in 2002 published a book entitled Confessions. Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete had a son, Josef.
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Fall/Winter 2019 Movie Preview
November 23, 2019 · by The Diamond Editor · in Art, Entertainment, Fall 2019. ·
Staff Writer – Zach Dirksen
Tired of Marvel Movies? On your seventh rewatch of Friends or The Office? Want to drive to a bigger movie theatre that's over an hour away to expand your cinematic horizons?
Judging by the 2019 box office, people are most comfortable watching movies that are familiar. Superheroes and Disney characters are a safer bet for your enjoyment and entertainment than spending money on a movie you haven't heard of.
That's where I come in. I like superhero movies and Disney movies, but there are also a handful of movies I'm excited for that are a bit less mainstream. Here's a list of upcoming non-franchise 2019 movies that I think might be worth checking out.
PARASITE: Directed by Bong-Joon Ho. This South Korean thriller is about a poor family conning their way into a more affluent household to disastrous effects. This movie has been consistently tearing up the Festival and Awards scene since this summer and promises to be a surefire Oscar contender, possibly even in categories outside Best Foreign Film. In select theatres October 11, wider release on October 18.
THE IRISHMAN: Directed by Martin Scorcese. Adapted from a possibly-true explanation of the disappearance of Union Leader Jimmy Hoffa, this 3.5-hour gangster epic promises a fun and engaging time, while also being more mature, thoughtful approach to Martin Scorcese's bread and butter. Scorcese's a master at making the most vile or inaccessible people into some of the most compelling, sympathetic characters in recent film history, and the Irishman seems to continue the trend. The best part? It's a Netflix original, so you can watch it at your own pace. Stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel. In select theatres November 1, Netflix on November 27.
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Directed by Marielle Heller. TOM HANKS IS MR. ROGERS. That is all. In theatres November 27.
KNIVES OUT: Directed by Rian Johnson (who, depending on your opinion, either ruined Star Wars or gave it the kick-in-the-pants the franchise needed). In this twist on the classic formula, a classy private detective investigates the murder of a wealthy patriarch of a publishing dynasty. The twist? All the presumed suspects are family members. Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Shannon. In theaters November 27.
MARRIAGE STORY: Directed by Noah Baumbach. Starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johannson as a couple in the midst of a messy divorce, what could've been a depressing, dour film seems to be elevated by Noah Baumbach's dynamic, funny, and heartwarming script. Once again, this one's on Netflix. Released on Netflix on December 6.
LITTLE WOMEN: Directed by Greta Gerwig. It's yet another adaptation of the 1868 classic, but this one stands out. Greta Gerwig's 2017 film Lady Bird was fantastic, and she's brought the same energy and youth to her version of Louisa May Alcott's timeless story. Plus, the cast is insane. Don't ask me why I care so much about Little Women adaptations; I don't know either. Starring Saorise Ronan, Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet, and Meryl Streep. In theatres December 25.
1917: Directed by Sam Mendes. Set during WWI and shot as if it's one long take, 1917 follows two young British soldiers as they cross enemy lines to spare the lives of hundreds of troops. Seemingly every remotely recognizable British actor is in this movie: Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Richard Madden, Andrew Scott, and Mark Strong. In Theatres December 25.
It seems like every new release is either a sequel or a remake, but only because moviegoers continue to buy tickets to see sequels and remakes. If we, as consumers, make a point to spend our money in such a way that discourages this trend, perhaps we might see less corporate products and more bold, risk-taking films hitting theatres near us.
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Here are some new 2019 shows also worth checking out: Watchmen (HBO), Chernobyl (HBO), His Dark Materials (HBO), Doom Patrol (DC Universe), When They See Us (Netflix), What We Do In The Shadows (FX), and Good Omens (Amazon).
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Double-sided map, combining a map of Taiwan with a street plan of Taipei. The map of the island at 1:386,000 shows the road and rail networks, indicating local airports and airfields, national parks and scenic areas, places of interest and beaches. The country's administrative divisions are marked, with names of the provinces and provincial capitals shown in both Roman alphabet and Chinese. All other place...
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Costa Rica on a waterproof and tear-resistant map from ITMB at 1:300,000, with a plan of central San José, an enlargement for the environs of the capital, and a separate index of place names for each side of the map.
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Indexed double-sided road map at 1:800,000 from ITMB of the southern part of British Columbia, extending from Vancouver Island to Calgary to cover the whole of the Banff and Jasper National Parks, with plans of downtown Vancouver and Victoria. Coverage northwards extends to include the southern part of Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte) Islands and Prince Rupert along the coast, as well as Fort St. John near the ...
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Northern Honshu and Hokkaido at 1:800,000 on a double-sided, indexed map from ITMB, with large, clear street plans of central Tokyo and Sapporo showing plenty of tourist information, plus an enlargement of the environs of Tokyo.
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Double-sided, indexed map showing Nova Scotia with Price Edward Island at 1:380,000, plus street plans of central Halifax and Sydney. The map is part of a series from the Vancouver-based ITMB, covering Canadian provinces with topography presented by altitude colouring rather than by relief shading (colour bands and spot heights are in feet).
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Kamchatka Peninsula at 1:1,700,000 on an indexed map at 1:1,700,000 from ITMB with an enlargement showing in greater detail the Valley of the Geysers, plus a street plan of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On the reverse is an indexed map showing a section of eastern Siberia at 1:3,600,000. All place names are in the Latin alphabet.
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Street plan of Accra on a double-sided map from ITMB which also offers on the reverse a road map of southern Ghana and small street plans of Kumasi and Cape Coast. On one side is street plan showing Accra at 1:23,000 with coverage extending east to the Mallam district, north to the West Legon Botanical Gardens and the University of Ghana, and west beyond the international airport to the Light Industry Area....
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Sikkim & India Northeast ITMB
Double-sided map from ITMB conveniently combining coverage of north-eastern India with eastern Nepal at 1:1,500,000 with, on the reverse, more detailed mapping of Sikkim including a street plan of Gangtok showing tourist facilities.
China East ITMB
A double-sided, indexed, general-purpose road map of Eastern China at 1:3,000,000 scale, extending as far west as Xinin (approx. 101°E) and to the northern and southern borders. The national road network is clearly shown, marking different classes of road down to provincial highways, with some other major local roads shown. Intermediate driving distances between locations are marked alongside roads. Railway...
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