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Irish politician in Britain has bitterly attacked an anti Christmas poster
A banned Islamic hate group have launched a nationwide campaign denouncing Christmas as evil.
Fanatics from the group plan to erect thousands of placards around the UK claiming the festive season is responsible for rape, teenage pregnancies, abortion, promiscuity, crime and pedophilia.
The aim of the campaign is to "destroy Christmas" in the UK and persuade the masses to convert to Islam instead.
Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP and anti racist campaigner has branded the posers "extremely offensive" and has demanded that they be taken down.
The signs which have already appeared in parts of London, look very festive at first glance, with a red background and an image of the Star of Bethlehem over a Christmas tree.
Under the title of "the Evils of Christmas" the signage features a message mocking the twelve days of Christmas. It reads: "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me an STD (sexually transmitted disease).
"On the second day debt, on the third rape, the fourth teenage pregnancies and then there was abortion.'
The poster also insists that the holiday season is responsible for paganism, domestic violence, homelessness, vandalism, alcohol and drugs.
The bottom of the poster declares: "In Islam we are protected from all of these evils. We have marriage, family, honor, dignity, security, rights for man, woman and child."
The organizer of the campaign is 27-year-old Abu Rumaysah, who once called for the introduction of Sharia law in Britain.
The former Home Secretary Alan Johnson banned this Islam4UK group earlier this year, making it a criminal offense to be a member of the group.
Mr Rumaysah told the London Daily Mail that he wasn't concerned about offending Christians.
He said: 'Christmas is a lie and as Muslims it is our duty to attack it.
"But our main attack is on the fruits of Christmas, things like alcohol abuse and promiscuity that increase during Christmas and all the other evils these lead to such as abortion, domestic violence and crime.
"We hope that out campaign will make people realize that Islam is the only way to avoid this and convert."
The campaign was first highlighted by volunteers distributing food and presents to pensioners for the holiday season.
Sister Christine Frost, who is a founding member of the East London Neighbors in Poplar charity, said: 'The more posters I saw, the more angry I got.
"Someone is stirring hatred which leaves the road open to revenge attacks or petrol bombs through letter-boxes.
'I told the Mayor we are all scared.
"If we said such things about Muslims, we'd all be hanging from lamp-posts.
"The posters appear to be professionally printed," she added.

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Setbacks in the Tomb of Annihilation
We're a year into our Tomb of Annihilation campaign, and the players are closing in on the final level of the actual Tomb of Annihilation (after previously exploring the jungles of Chult as a hexcrawl, and the ruins of the Forbidden City). Past installments of the campaign reports are here (Tomb of Annihilation recaps).
Last update involved character deaths at the hands of a Beholder. The Tomb isn't done with our heroes, and there is more death in today's update. This update covers sessions 40 through 46 of the campaign, in which the intrepid characters plumb the level 4 "Chambers of Horror" and the level 5 "Gears of Hate".
First, some new faces appeared to replace the fallen. Emporo was petrified by the Beholder (and ultimately disintegrated) and Reed the Halfing was also disintegrated. Their respective players returned to the game with Vera, an inquisitive rogue, and Zook, a gnome trickster (rogue arcane trickster). Vera in particular proved to be a godsend in the Tomb of Annihilation, with a ridiculous +12 or +13 perception score; her passive perception is high enough to notice most secret doors. I let them start new characters at 9th level, the suggested minimum for the Tomb. This rounds out our group, which includes survivors - Stompy (dwarf forge cleric), Osric (aasimar hexblade warlock), Woodson (aasimar sorcerer / celestial warlock), and Prisim (human evoker wizard). By the end of these vignettes, most of the group is 10th and 11th level.
Rather than recount a dreary play-by-play of every session, here are recollections of some high and low points from the past two months.
Can I Get a Hand Here?
A section on level 4, Chambers of Horror, includes a maze of death. To enter the maze, you raise your hand and mirror an otherworldly shadow figure etched on a stone block. The block descends allowing passage into the maze. When the trap at the heart of the maze triggers, the block raises and the party is sealed in. The malign figure on the reverse side of the stone block also shows a raised arm, except the hand and forearm are missing. Who would be willing to maim themself to mirror the figure on the block?
I'm getting ahead of myself. First the party discovered the Opal Crown, a rare treasure at the heart of the maze. The trap was sprung, and a pair of Bodaks slithered out of the mouth of a Green Devil Face, playing cat and mouse with the characters in the maze, allowing their death auras to whittle the party down at range. Everyone avoided their deadly gazes and the Bodaks were destroyed. It was at that point they discovered they were completely trapped.
The mouth of the Green Devil Face was a black void; they experimented and learned it acted like a Sphere of Annihilation. Forlorn there was no other choice, Prisim volunteered to thrust his arm into the mouth, disintegrating it above the elbow and forcing them to bandage the stump. Now he was able to mimic the figure on the stone block, maimed arm and all, and the block retreated, allowing the party to escape.
He's now the One-Armed Prisim. No one escapes Acererak's Tomb unscathed.
The Saga of Woodson
In order to understand Woodson's plight, you need to know a bit about the 9 Trickster Gods. They were 9 "false gods", actually just powerful jungle spirits, that masqueraded as gods to the citizens of Omu during its twilight years, before it fell and became the Forbidden City. Each trickster is associated with a specific alignment and a totem animal. They were slain by Acererak and imprisoned in his Tomb of Annihilation.
Each trickster's spirit inhabits a signature magic item where it lies imprisoned in the dungeon. Picking up the magic item gives the spirit an opportunity to possess the person touching the item. Once inside, the spirits coax their host into certain actions, and grant special abilities. If a host touches another possessed item, the two tricksters fight for supremacy over the host. Over the course of the campaign, all of the characters have managed to become hosts, in some cases gaining amazing abilities and acting symbiotically with their trickster spirit. In other cases the alignments of spirit vs character are opposed; several of the good characters have been hosting evil spirits and treating their minds like a prison, suppressing the spirit's urges with grim resolve. The trickster mechanic has been great for roleplaying opportunities.
Woodson had spent 9 months as a nervous, asthmatic, scholarly sorcerer lurking timidly in the back of the party. He accidentally became the host to the bold and courageous spirit of Kubazan, whose totem animal is the mighty Froghemoth. Now puny Woodson has strength 23, strong as a frost giant, and he leaps into the fray, "Get out of my way, weaklings". "Let me get that door for you". "Lift the heavy portcullis? Don't mind if I do". The other players have been calling him "the Hulkson". To top it off, he gained a temporary charm that made him immune to sharp weapons for several days.
After traversing a dangerous elemental gauntlet and almost dying in a vacuum, Hulkson was teleported into a burial chamber where dozens of terracotta warrior statues silently observed a central tomb. Pottery shards littered the floor. Hulkson doesn't do stealth, nor any quiet magic. You can picture him trying to take a careful step but crunching down on pottery shards, the noise echoing in the hollow chamber. 50 clay warriors came to life and assaulted him with hardened clay swords. They should have massacred him.
Imagine Hulkson's glee to discover his charm made him impervious to their weapons. Programmed only to attack and strike, the clay warriors swung with increasing futility while growing mounds of broken pottery shards piled up around Hulkson. The scene ends with him practically moon-walking to the center of the tomb after wrecking everything in the room. "That was awesome", remarked the other players.
Sometime after looting that particular tomb, the players were feeling their oats and yearned to revisit the Beholder on level 3 that dealt them such a great setback a few months ago. They prepared methods to detect invisible monsters, as well as ways to alert them to the anti-magic field. Osric now had True Seeing, too. The Beholder would not bedevil them with its invisibility this time. They also ditched their metal armors; it's giant magnetic ball wouldn't nullify their frontline fighters, either.
The battle was one-sided and quick. The party slaughtered the Beholder in just a few rounds. (What a difference a few levels of experience and a cohesive plan made!). One of the treasures the Beholder claimed off the dead characters last time was the staff of Moa, the item of a trickster god. The instant the fight was over, Hulkson's player called out, "Woohoo, I'm grabbing my staff of Moa again!" (We all have a player like that, right? I grab the magic sword before anyone else can react). The problem is that Hulkson forgot that the Moa staff was actually inhabited by the spirit of Moa. The hulking sorcerer thrust it into the air above his head, and then reacted in horror as the two trickster gods began to battle for supremacy. Kubazan was driven out, and with it, the gift of frost giant strength was completely gone. Hulkson was no more. Wheezing 8 strength Woodson was left in his place.
Furthermore, Kubazan's receptacle was destroyed, disintegrated by the Beholder. After being ejected from Woodson, the spirit had no place to return, and wailed as it went into the void.
Woodson's story eventually turns happy again. He was able to coax the spirit of Shagambi to drive out Moa. Shagambi grants an extra attack action, and with Woodson's ability to cast 3 eldritch bolts per attack (as level 11) this has become 6 bolts an attack with Shagambi's help. He's gone from Woodson to Hulkson to the Machine Gun-son. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat.
(5E is a little nutty, more like a super hero game much of the time. Dungeons and Vigilantes, or Villains and Dragons, one of my players calls it).
The next level, Gears of Hate, has a very challenging layout. Several of the rooms are pentagons with limited ways in and out. However, the players noticed some of the hallways between the rooms have gaps in the sections, as if they were modular tunnels. The players caught glimpses into a larger cavern outside the tunnel junctions where they didn't align perfectly. They squeezed a familiar through the gap and into the surrounding cavern to fly around. The pentagon rooms were sitting on giant gears, apparently floating on an underground lake in a vast cavern. The lake stank of putrid slime, it's viscous water twinkling with strange phosphorescent globs. From above, using the familiar as eyes, the party was able to see that there were other tunnel connections around the lake. If the gears beneath the pentagons could be rotated, the rooms would re-align and grant access to new places on the dungeon level. Eventually the players would find the control room, and through trial and error, begin to gain access to these unavailable tunnels by learning how to manipulate the position of the gears.
One of the more dangerous locations they discovered involved a long sloping hallway. At the high end of the hall, a rolling Stone Juggernaut lurked behind a concealed wall. Of course the players triggered the trap that released the rolling construct and got promptly flattened, although a few made it out into the side passage before being crushed. Vera was able to roll aside as the juggernaut rolled past, and quickly looked up the slope where the juggernaut had been lurking. A glorious spectacular jewel gleamed on a shelf in the juggernaut's hiding place.
Vera sprinted to the top of the slope as the juggernaut rolled back into position, swiping the jewel, and then climbed up and out of reach before the juggernaut got her. It was a cool bit of maneuvering, and earned the party the fabled Eye of Zaltec jewel.
Death of a Hero
One of the new areas they were able to reach after rotating the "gears of hate" was a trap room with a golden mastodon. The room was an homage to a Chultan hero who had harried Hell itself. When the trap was triggered, the room sealed shut, hellfire raced across the floor, and the players were assaulted by escalating waves of devils - starting with spiny devils, then bearded and barbed. The fight started to feel desperate when a pair of horned devils joined the fray, topped off by the Erinyes.
Several of the characters discovered they could fight from the back of the giant mastodon statue, and avoid the hellfire on the floor. Stompy, the cleric, had a gift (from his trickster god) that let him walk on walls and ceilings; he cast an aura spell called "Spirit Guardians" to damage the devils, and one of the wizard characters made him invisible so the devils couldn't disrupt his concentration. In this way, he could wander the walls invisibly, positioning himself above the hellfire, while inflicting maximum damage with the spirit guardians effect.
The party was holding their own until the horned demons materialized. They are fearsome, over-sized enforcers. the Malebranches, and the devils quickly started dropping characters to zero hit points, threatening to make them fall off the back of the mastodon and immolate in the surging hellfire on the ground. Other characters would use their reactions to grab their fallen comrades before they slid into the flames. Several characters were beginning to do the 5E yo-yo, dropping to zero hit points and unconsciousness, then healing and back into the fight, but the party was being ground down by the devilish onslaught.
That was when the erinyes made an offer. "Hello boys, you're all going to die, but we could make a deal. One of you could give up your soul, and I could call this whole thing off". A gruff voice called out from nearby, where the invisible dwarf had positioned himself near the big devils. "I'll do it, lassie, to save my friends".
And that's how Stompy the Dwarf died.
Full disclosure, Stompy's player, Mike, is about to move, and needs to miss the next 4 weeks of the game anyway. It was clear we were headed for a near-TPK or full on TPK if nothing changed in the devil fight. So he made a rational calculation; by the time he's ready to return to gaming, the Tomb of Annihilation will be done or wrapping up and we'll be off to the next thing anyway. He sacrificed Stompy so the rest could live.
In the aftermath of the devil battle, the players took stock of the party composition without their cleric, and how they'd manage healing without their cleric. It all seemed manageable until they considered rations. Food and water. Stompy had been reserving a daily Level 3 Create Food and Water to supply the party for as long as they could remember, their walking commissary. "Exactly how many days of rations do we have left?" One. Without Stompy, the party has enough food for one day. They get one more "long rest" to finish the Tomb of Annihilation, and then they begin starving. Next week should be interesting.
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Jesse Smith July 16, 2020 at 1:31 PM
I lost my ranger's animal companion (a velociraptor) to that golden mastodon. Four of us went in, knowing that two of us had Dimension Door and could get the rest of us out. Tragically, I forgot that the little dinosaur chicken counted as a separate person. He heroically sacrificed himself, leaping into the flames to battle the devils, so that the ranger would flee. It was quite a tearjerker moment ("Artax!"). We never dared try again with that statue.
I loved ToA - lots of moving parts that can really change things up long term. (I still have that stupid golden skull following me around messing up all my ability checks, even after we "won".)
John Arendt July 19, 2020 at 7:43 PM
Watch out for Dimension Door - if you try using it in the Tomb, there could be a surprise for the players.
Peter D July 16, 2020 at 5:34 PM
All of this was awesome to read.
The sacrifice of the arm and then of the dwarf cleric was really impressive, too.
Dragonsdoom July 17, 2020 at 7:55 AM
very interesting, i wonder how the rations will play out.
Ed Auger March 25, 2021 at 8:42 PM
What happened next?
Reflections on the OSR
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We admire people, who walk through life full of energy, who master every challenge or difficult phase of life with self-confidence and calmness, who due to a great charisma and optimism, are able to bring joy and a positive feeling for life to people.
The secret of those people is that the life force Qi is flowing freely within their body and mind.
According to several thousand years old Chinese knowledge, the universal energy "Qi" animates plants, things and human beings. By the time we are born we have a potential of Qi that normally should last for about 120 years. However we have to take care of the Qi we received. Our living conditions are not always optimal; we experience stress, environmental pollution or injuries which reduce the Qi and cause blockades which hinder the free flow of Qi. Those blockades can lead to physical and mental illness – the Traditional Chinese Medicine does not differentiate between those two kinds of illnesses, because it always considers the human being as a whole.
We can take care of the Qi and nurture it and maintain it flowing freely. For this it is extremely effective to practise Qigong regularly and doing so to build up our virtues.
Qi and Gong
Qi is often being translated as "breath" or "air". But its true meaning is far more comprehensive. Qi is a crucial term in Chinese Philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Qi stands for the individual life force as well as the life energy of the whole universe.
Gong means (artistic) work, which is related to abilities and skills. Therefore Qigong can be understood as the constant work with Qi, or in a more advanced sense, the ability to master the Qi to achieve health and healing.
The origin of Qigong
The first artefacts and documents which are considered as instructions for body and energy exercises are more than 5,000 years old. Qigong probably has its origin in tribal dances more than 10,000 years old, which being guided by shamans served to use the forces of nature, to appease the spirits and to heal. About 2,000 years old illustrated instructions from the Mawangdui-Tombs in the province today known as Hunan indicate the wide distribution of Qigong exercises of this time.
Qigong schools
The development of Qigong took thousands of years. Various aspects of the work with Qi did shape the different exercises, which were either revealed as maintaining health and healing, the development and deepening of the spirituality or the improvement of physical strength and skilfulness. The influence of Chinese Teachings like Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism as well as those of Traditional Chinese Healing Arts and Martial Arts lead to different schools.
Parallel to the individual schools and the numerous styles of exercises that developed, an extensive traditional knowledge, about the positive effects Qigong has on health, evolved. Complemented by different practises from Traditional Chinese Medicine, the exercises and the knowledge were passed on within the families. Until today they serve for preventive healthcare and contain philosophical and spiritual elements as well.
Qigong and Chinese Philosophy
Qigong has been and is still being characterised by essential philosophical ideas. They include:
the duality of Yin and Yang, which means that through the contrariness of the two a complete whole is formed;
the teaching of the five converting phases, which relate to a dynamic interrelationship of the five elements wood, fire, earth, metal and water being in constant interrelationship with nature;
the teaching of the internal organs, which are based on observations of human nature thousands of years old, which have led to the conviction, that the internal organs, having an interrelationship with another, also have spiritual aspects apart from their physical meaning;
the importance of the Meridians, which according to Chinese Philosophy, are energy channels within the body which function as a bridge between the body and the mind.
Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
The great philosophy of Yin and Yang underlies both Qigong and TCM. Furthermore the teachings of the five converting phases as well as the internal organs and the Meridians have an important influence. An essential commonness is additionally the holistic view of the human being. The unity of body, mind and soul are also being considered, as well as the connection between the individual person and his or her social environment and their close connection with nature. TCM and Qigong are closely interlinked within their evolution. Qigong is often being referred to as "mother of TCM", for without its deep knowledge of the energy "Qi" many of the developed methods of medical examination or treatment would not be conceivable. Today Qigong is, next to acupuncture, massage, medicinal herbs and nutrition, one of the five cornerstones of TCM.
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Shortly before 8 a.m. on March 20, 1995, five followers of the doomsday cult Aum Supreme Truth boarded subway trains in central Tokyo. Using umbrellas with sharpened tips, they pierced plastic bags containing lethal quantities of sarin nerve agent, and fled as the liquid evaporated.
As the sarin coursed through packed carriages, passengers started to cough and struggle for breath. Some of those who made it on to platforms and upstairs to street level collapsed, foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood.
The attack killed 13 people and made 6,000 others ill. Many of those poisoned in this and another attack in the city of Matsumoto the previous year, will never fully recover from the damage the gas inflicted on their nervous systems.
Read the rest of the story: Double lives for Japan's most wanted terrorists.
His trail cold for years, the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995 was caught at a comic book cafe Friday, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack.
He had altered his appearance and reportedly used a fake name and avoided meeting people to evade arrest, but Katsuya Takahashi admitted who he was when approached by police at the cafe in downtown Tokyo.
The former bodyguard for the Aum Shinrikyo cult leader, Takahashi had been on Japan's most wanted list for years for his suspected participation in the sarin gas attack that killed 13 people and injured about 6,000, shattering Japan's long-held sense of safety.
Read the rest of the story: Japan doomsday cultist arrested 17 years after deadly subway gas attack.
Japan has mobilized thousands of police to hunt for the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway 17 years ago.
The long-cold search advanced significantly with the surrender of one fugitive earlier this year and the arrest of another Sunday, leaving only Katsuya Takahashi.
Some 5,000 officers fanned out Friday across the Tokyo area to hand out fresh photos of him and monitor transportation hubs to keep him from escaping the capital.
Read the rest of the story: Japan hunts last fugitive in '95 subway gas attack.
Katsuya Takahashi, the last Aum Shinrikyo fugitive still on the run for the 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system, probably lived in a Kawasaki apartment under the name Shinya Sakurai until late last year and may still be in the city, investigative sources said Tuesday.
A security camera in Kawasaki recorded footage of a man resembling Takahashi between Sunday and Tuesday, police said.
They plan to search the Kawasaki apartment for evidence soon and will continue questioning cult fugitive Naoko Kikuchi, 40, who was arrested Sunday in connection with the deadly nerve gas attack, and Hiroto Takahashi, 41, who was arrested Monday on suspicion of harboring her at a home in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Read the rest of the story: Final Aum fugitive traced to Kawasaki.
One of the two remaining fugitive members of the doomsday cult behind the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways was arrested Sunday, Japanese media reports said.
Former senior Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi, 40, had been spotted in Sagamihara city, 30 kilometers 20 miles southwest of Tokyo, and acknowledged who she was when approached by police, according to NHK TV and other media reports, citing investigative sources. She was wanted on charges of murder in the 1995 attack.
Read the rest of the story: Report: Japan Arrests Sarin Attack Cult Member.
A woman claiming to have lived with a senior member of the doomsday cult behind the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways turned herself in and was arrested Tuesday for helping him evade police for nearly 17 years.
Akemi Saito, also a member of Aum Shinrikyo, gave herself up after Makoto Hirata surrendered to police on New Year's Eve, according to police and Saito's lawyer.
Hirata has refused to explain how he managed to keep underground for so long despite being one of Japan's most-wanted fugitives.
Read the rest of the story: Japan arrests woman who lived with cult fugitive.
Judicial proceedings for Aum Shinrikyo figures effectively came to an end Monday as Seiichi Endo became the 13th member of the doomsday cult to have his death sentence finalized by the Supreme Court.Spin control: Hiroshi Araki, spokesman for Aleph, a spinoff of Aum Shinrikyo, faces the media Monday in front of the Supreme Court.
But while Aums criminal masterminds await the hangmans noose on death row, splinter groups remain active and are showing signs of loyalty to guru Shoko Asahara.
"Aleph is operating under Aums old teachings. They are taking a defiant attitude," Kazuyuki Furuma, a resident of Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, told The Japan Times on Monday. Furuma heads a group that wants Aum-related groups ousted from the ward.
Read the rest of the story: Aum may be gone in name but guru still has following.


Noy Holland's latest work is I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, out now from Counterpoint Press. Noy's debut novel, Bird, came out in 2015 to much critical acclaim. Other collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). She has published work in The Kenyon Review, Antioch, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Western Humanities Review, The Believer, NOON, and New York Tyrant, among others. Her story "Tally" was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2018 (ed. Meg Wolitzer) and performed at Symphony Space, NYC, by Suzzy Roche of The Roches. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award for artistic merit, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and was awarded the biennial Katherine Anne Porter Prize in May 2018 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, as well as at Phillips Andover and the University of Florida. She serves on the board of directors at Fiction Collective Two.


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Nearby Kalaw
Kalaw stands 1320 meter above sea level on the western edge of the Shan Plateau. It is 70km west of Taunggyi, about halfway along the Thazi-Taunggyi road. This was a popular hill station in the British days and it is still a peaceful and quiet place. It is also pleasantly cool and a good place for hiking amid gnarled pines, bamboo groves and rugged mountain scenes. A former colonial British hill station, this small-town offers cool temperatures and plenty of trekking opportunities. The population is a mix of Shan, Indian Muslims, Bamars and Nepalis (Gurkhas retired from British military service), many of whom are missionary educated. Traveling by car, it's about two hours west of Nyaungshwe on the western edge of the Shan hills.
Shwe U Min Pagoda
Set inside a natural cave dripping with golden Buddha statues, Shwe U Min Pagoda is about half a mile south-west of the Kalaw Market.
Distance: Pine Hill Resort is less than 3 km to Shwe U Min Pagoda
Palaung Village
The Palaungs, who mainly live in the Kalaw area in Shan State, belong to the Mon-Khmer. It takes about two to four hours through the hills to the village of the Palaung tribe. At first a steep track leads down into a narrow valley where the Palaung cultivate tea, damsons and mangoes on the hillsides. The track across the valley floor and then climbs very steeply again to the Palaung village of Pinnabin, which sits on top of a hill.
Distance: Pine Hill Resort is less than 3 km to Palaung Village
Nee Paya (Bamboo Buddha Statue)
It lies in Pinmagon Monastery. of Pinmagon Village. Kalaw Township. south of Shan State. It was estimated to have been established in First Inn-wa Period over 500 years ago. The donors were hard to ascertain and there were no records but its head was sharp upright. its ears were not touching the shoulders and the nether garment was covered for the whole of its lower parts. So it was believed to be historic. It is eight feet four inches high. It is noted for its longevity. its prevention of fire. and its wishgranting powers. Occasionally radiation seemed to come from the pagoda at the front of image. The image is now lacquered and gilded all the way.
Distance: Pine Hill Resort is less than 3 km to Nee Paya (Bamboo Buddha Statue)
Myin Ma Hti Cave
Distance: 7 minuts walk
The winding complex of natural caves and tunnels is filled to bursting point with Buddha Images in an astonishing variety of shapes and sizes. The Myin Ma Hti cave is 1028ft (313m) long from the entrance.
Distance: Pine Hill Resort is less than 3 km to Myin Ma Hti Cave
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Maggie McCloud. (herein referred to as "Company") agrees to provide services of Project Phoenix (herein referred to as "Program"). Client agrees to abide by all policies and procedures as outlined in this agreement as a condition of their participation in the Program.
A) (7) Seven group coaching sessions with Maggie at designated times (subject to change at company's discretion).
The length of the program is limited to 13 weeks from the initial session, following the outlined schedule below (herein referred to as "Commitment Period"). Client understands that any/all scheduled sessions, calls or other benefits expire at the end of the Commitment Period, and will not be carried-over.
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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, if you love the work, you will find your reward in that.
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
Love..." she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word because it means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand.
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in saying anything of it; his passion mastered her. She tried to calm him, to calm herself, but it was too late. His feeling infected her. Her lips trembled so that for a long while she could say nothing.
But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.
He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
Count Vronsky: I love you! Anna Karenina: Why? Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.
This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.
No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.
the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.
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One of my favorite things to do, is to eat outside.
Who are we kidding, eating anywhere is always a favorite thing.
BUT, when the weather is as nice as it's been, dining *al fresco* (soooo fancy) is a thing of beauty.
Even if it's just a morning cup of coffee. And a scone. And some bacon. And probably an egg or two. You see where this is going.
I wish I was there. :) It looks so carefree!


I know we are less than a week out of Thanksgiving but I'm about to give you something comfortable that I know you are going to rock. Leather leggings. Still with me? Ok, great. I promise, you are ready for this. Think about wearing them with heels and lengthening your legs, or pair it with a longer tunic sweater to cover your midsection. No matter how you style these pants you are going to look chic and stylish.
Slimming in a beautiful crimson. Not omg holiday red, but rather, a wow you look fantastic merlot.
Worth the investment ladies. Spanx will never steer you wrong.
Didn't expect a slate gray, did you?
I like this pair because of the mock fly. It gives the look of regular pants without the hassle.
Are you still breathing? Can we do this? I think so. Try it with a shimmery sweater or a bigger statement necklace to really dress up the look.


Dia de los Muertos is a celebration of expression in many ways. Not only is it dedicated to remembering and honoring those that have passed before us, it's centrally focused on the artistic expression of the living through the creation of ofrendas, costumes, cooking, etc.
Crafting and handmade decorations have a long tradition in Day of the Dead celebrations, as well as other fiestas central to Latin cultures. Instead of using store-bought decorations for your altar or party, simple crafts like the ones below can make this Dia de los Muertos one to remember.
Crafts listed are by Valley artist, novelist and glittery crafter Kathy Cano-Murillo. Visit her projects and blog at CraftyChica.com.


July was full of exciting game releases. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age had gamers searching the world of Ivalice once again for legendary weapons, Splatoon 2 had players using gallons of colored ink to spray on environments and attack each other, and Minecraft: Story Mode's second season marked the return of Jesse and the Order of the Stone. Now we've come to the end of June but what was the best game of the month?
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age was more than a remake of the classic 2006 game. It introduced the license system used in the international release, optional speed system, and refined enemy AI. The story of was different from other Final Fantasy games, focusing on a war between 2 superpowers and how it affected the lives of those caught in the middle. For veterans or newcomers, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is an excellent RPG adventure full of challenging content.
What was your favorite game of July 2017, let us know in the comments below!


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SilverStone Raven RV03: Streamlined Bird of Prey
by Dustin Sklavos on July 20, 2011 1:00 AM EST
Introducing the SilverStone Raven RV03 In and Around the SilverStone Raven RV03 Assembling the SilverStone Raven RV03 Testing Methodology Noise and Thermal Testing, Stock Noise and Thermal Testing, Overclocked Conclusion: Not Bad, But Needs Care
Introducing the SilverStone Raven RV03
At this point, SilverStone's signature in the enclosure world is the 90-degree rotation of the motherboard. This unique engineering decision makes cases like the FT03 possible, but for a long time enclosures with this design have been extremely pricey and outside the reach of most users. While the new Raven RV03 is still fairly expensive compared to the enclosures we've tested thus far, at $159 it's at least closer to the realm of reasonable though it still must contend with offering at least as much value as the cases at $100 or below we've reviewed so far. Is it worth spending up?
Since restarting our case reviews with the new testing methodology, we haven't had in an enthusiast-class (and enthusiast-priced) enclosure like the RV03 in house yet, so our comparisons may seem a little bit unfair. This can't really be helped, but we have a Thermaltake Level 10 GT in for review soon and that should balance things out a bit. In the meantime, the RV03 is certainly bigger than the other units we've tested, and I'm anxious to see how it turns out.
The last generation Raven, the RV02, was expensive but proved popular nonetheless. The trio of fans, fairly clean internal design, and SilverStone's signature rotated motherboard helped keep that enclosure running cool and quiet, and the styling was a little bit more subdued. To reduce the Raven's price tag (and its footprint) for the RV03, some changes needed to be made. SilverStone has reduced the number of internal 180mm fans from three to two, but increased their efficiency. Mounting space for drives has been dramatically increased, and as a whole the RV03 is a far more modular design than its predecessor. At least on paper, this Raven is an impressive specimen.
SilverStone Raven RV03 Specifications
Motherboard Form Factor SSI EEB, SSI CEB, Extended ATX, ATX, Micro ATX, Mini ITX
Drive Bays External 7x 5.25" (six occupied by 2x5.25"-to-3x3.5" adapters)
Internal 10x 3.5" (see above), 2x 2.5"
Cooling Front 4x 120mm fan mount (attached to bay adapters)
Rear 1x 120mm fan mount
Top 1x 120mm
Side 1x 120mm fan mount (back)
Bottom 2x 180mm (compatible with three 120mm fans)
Expansion Slots 8 (one blocked off if rear fan mount used)
Front I/O Port -
Top I/O Port 2x USB 3.0, headphone and mic jacks, fan controller
Clearance 13.58" (Expansion Cards), 163mm (CPU HSF), 180mm (PSU)
Dimensions 20.55" x 9.25" x 22.44"
The enclosure is essentially designed to employ bottom-to-top convection style cooling, but SilverStone includes the means to turn it into a more typical front-to-back design using the bay adapters. Admittedly, one of my biggest concerns with the rotated motherboard design is the noise being moved out of the top of the enclosure instead of the rear since so many users keep their towers on the floor (myself included.) With cases as big as this one, that's really the only place for it.
In and Around the SilverStone Raven RV03 Introducing the SilverStone Raven RV03 In and Around the SilverStone Raven RV03 Assembling the SilverStone Raven RV03 Testing Methodology Noise and Thermal Testing, Stock Noise and Thermal Testing, Overclocked Conclusion: Not Bad, But Needs Care
yelped - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
Great job on the review!
tzhu07 - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
Do these industrial designers have any taste at all?
That thing looks like crap. So tacky looking and lacking any kind of grace.
If there was a Razzie award for industrial design, this thing would be nominated for sure.
B3an - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
Exactly! Why is it SO ridiculously hard to find cases in this category that actually look good? And not like they've just got a load of ugly random plastic parts and glued them all together?
I mean just look at the first pic on page 1, thats one seriously ugly case, but almost all cases like this look just as bad (or close anyway) and cheap/home-made looking.
For a long time i've been looking for a case with good cooling, loads of space and features and theres such extremely little choice as 99% of them look like cheap tacky shit even when they cost hundreds.
Impulses - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
I feel like a lot of case manufacturers are trying to solve non-existent problems... While ignoring the real issues. CPU heat output hasn't increased all that much over the last ten years, the latest HSF tower designs have largely kept up with the demand and other components have become much more efficient (PSU, HDD, SSD, larger fans, etc.)... The one outlier is the GPU(s).
Silverstone's internal design does address that to an extent, but I think they're over-complicating matters. The tried and tested ATX design of old still works wonders, especially if manufacturers stop insisting on throwing in so many useless drive bays that the majority of people just aren't using (5.25" particularly).
People with multiple GPUs aren't usually running a server or a RAID 5 array inside the same rig... Cases don't need to be huge to cope with multiple video cards, just deep. Take any mid-range case that allows you flexible placement of 120mm fans across the front bays and line up those fans so that they each push air directly past the CPU and GPU independently and you don't even need discrete thermal zones, because the airflow creates it.
As far as external design... It's a crying shame Silver stone has forgotten their CM ATSC roots, the understated design of those old AL cases would still sell like hotcakes today imo. Corsair understands that to an extent, tho I think they could go even cleaner.
piroroadkill - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
I disagree with the many drive bays thing - I think it's very useful to fit as many internal 3.5" bays as you can - I have an Antec P182 and I'm running 9 drives - an SSD that I cable tied in, and 8 3.5" hard drives (no optical drive).
However, we live in a world where CPU cooling issues can be fixed with something like a Noctua NH-D14, and will be almost silent under any condition, as long as you put a 120mm fan in line to exhaust the heat, that problem is solved, so I completely agree with the GPU cooling issue, since that's the thing that will cause the most heat and noise inside a case.
The0ne - Monday, July 25, 2011 - link
Yep, I like having as man internal drive bays as I can for my main computer. But recently, with USB3.0 and such I've started to lighten up as more devices comes out to make use of it. This is because for the most part most of the HDD are storing data, backups, movies, music and TV shows. Still, it is very convenient to have all the drives in one case and at full speed.
This case is not attractive.
EnzoFX - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
Agreed. I too would like a compelling reason to upgrade. I think a layout re-design would be great, and easy for them to do, yet they waste all their time into ugly exteriors and features no one really cares about.
How about something with positive air pressure? (Yeah this and other cases do, but most are negative). Get rid of all those 5.25 bays! Fine if you need one, keep one, but make the ones you do put on there have a secondary function, and not just it be wasted space. I also dislike when they add features that other people may add through 3rd party manufacturers, like card-readers, etc. but they are no more better integrated than theirs. If it's coming direct from the case manufacturer, how about integrating it so that it isn't wasted space, or a mess of wires to handle, etc.
SamVimes - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
at the moment most of the cases can be classified into the two main looks, the KITT (Knight Rider) look (with moving lights on the front) and the Transformers look.
When I see the RV03 I'm afraid of pushing the wrong button, not booting my machine but making it convert into a robot, ...
FT02 wft!
gramboh - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
Chiming in to agree with you here. The FT02 is a nice, subtle, high quality looking enclosure. Excited for a new product from Silverstone, I took one look at the first picture of this thing and didn't even bother reading the review.
There is a big segment within the enthusiast sector that wants high quality materials, sleek, understated looking cases like the Antec P180/182/183, FT02, Corsair 650D etc. Personally I prefer an option for a window-less side panel as well.
I get there is still a bling contingent who like the hideous stuff that Thermaltake and others put out.
Zoeff - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - link
I don't understand the reason why this case exists when you can get the RV02-E if you pay 10 more euros. (This case is mostly identical to the FT-02 that the reviewer mentions)
This is what I did and many of the flaws of this case don't exist. The mechanical HDD's are properly cooled by a 180mm fan, the PSU length is of no concern and the design is much more simplistic which would appeal to a wider audience. How a case looks like isn't usually what makes or breaks a decision for me but that's just too flashy for me.


Many homeowners believe that carpeting can be a health hazard, especially to allergy sufferers, and often rush to replace it with tile or wood. But according to a recent study by the Germany Asthma and Allergy Foundation (DAAB), this not necessarily the case. In fact the study, which looked at the content of in the air over smooth floors in 186 rooms and over carpet in 104 rooms, found that the indoor air in the carpeted rooms contained less than half the amount of fine particulate dust than in rooms with smooth floors.
Dust levels over smooth floors were found to be higher than the recommended European standard and the study concluded, along with similar independent industry research, that indoor air quality is better in carpeted rooms. The vertical pile of carpet plays an important role in filtering indoor air because it can hold many times its weight in small particles of soil, dust mites, pet dander and other allergens. Your carpeting is actually trapping potentially unhealthy particles that would otherwise be circulating in the indoor air you and your family breathes.
If you have carpet in your home be sure to have it steam cleaned on a regular basis to remove the trapped particles and keep your indoor air fresh and healthy!


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Too Indian at Vishal Enclave is located right opposite the TDI Mall and quite close to the Rajouri Garden Metro station. It has opened doors recently and is already gaining a lot of traction and popularity. It blends in a retail plus food concept, offering some unique products on sale along with sumptuous food.
Do try the Nutella Shake (the name says it all) - Your nutella shake is generously topped up with whipped cream, flavored confectionary, and chocolates.
The Anarkali is a mocktail which came in a tall LIIT glasses and reminded me that this place doesn;t serve liquor. Yet. But the mocktail was great.
Here is something to Taco About - I loved the presentation of this one. The tacos are rolled into cones and baked. Then filled with butter paneer.
Indo- Persian Kebab - Lamb Kebabs nicely wrapped in roomali rotis and served in a book. Yes. Little less spicy for the 'mirchi seekers'. But mild enough for me.
Painters Canvas - The dish really resembled a water color paint plate. It has five different dips for panko fried Amritsari Fish.
Chick Popcorn - One of the best starters on the menu, an ultimate snack for leisure, this is crispy fried chicken, generously topped with Chef's spice mix which made the fried chicken ' too Indian'.
Palak Paneer Ravioli - We grew up on Palak Paneer but Too Indian, packs up the cottage cheese, Ravioli Style.
Home Style Chicken Curry - Your routine chicken dish with no complaints at all.
Daulat ki Chaat - It is one dish I would definitely recommend everyone to try once. It seeks inspiration from the famous Daulat ki Chaat of Chandni Chowk Delhi and serves up a foamy creamy 'milk malai' which is as light as air.
Milk Cake Pie - A blissful slice of the favorite Indian sweet presented in a western style pie.
A good place to shop, party, eat, catch up with friends and have some great leisure time. They also have buttons to beckon the service staff at the tables. Just like they have it on air planes. Just another example to show how thoughtful the makers of the place have been in setting up a unique and interesting concept.


Many times a app update bring it back to the front of my list to play with on my iPhone. Color Splash is a great example. They added a few items that I will find useful, but the overall app is great as it is. The idea is that you can selectively color or gray areas of your photo. Your not adding color, your allowing the colors in the photo to come through. The above picture was a quick snap out my back door, dropping out all of the color except the sky really changes the feeling of the picture. If the trees had been much greener, I would have most likely had them show up in color too.
When you import an image into Color Splash, you can zoom in and out to get to the detail level you desire. The image is automatically converted to gray, then you choose the area you want to be colored.
When 'coloring' you have two choices of how thing appear to you to see your progress. You can have the color show through of you can have the color area show up as red, then flip to the natural color when your done. The red it much easier for fine detail since a lot of time it is hard to distinguish between a light color and area you want to leave gray.
The buttons along the bottom of the editing area are for zooming in/out and moving around the picture, allowing color to come through and 'Gray' puts an area you 'colored' to go back to gray… needed when your going for fine detail.
Zooming in, you can get down to the pixel level to get into the little corners.
When your done, you can safe your Color Splash work as complete or save it to pick up later where you left off. A extra cool item is that you can have the photo auto revered – gray and colored area. This is handy if going for a different effect later or where it is easier to see to color an area you want dark.
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Donald Trump's announcement to withdraw from the last debate before the Iowa caucas has garnered a lot of attention—particularly with Fox News, the media empire hosting the debate.
Sean Hannity spent his whole show talking about it Wednesday. He had several guests on, including Trump's sons, discussing what the motive and outcome of Trump's decision might be. Newt Gingrich repeatedly referred to it as petulant. Jamie Dupree said it couldn't really be about the first debate because people have forgotten about that.
Dupree may be, as Hannity touts "the most informed guy in Washington" but he is seriously uninformed when it comes to the people on the ground.
It is apparent he and the media have no idea who Trump followers are. So, let one of the people on the ground, shed some light on the conversation. We have not forgotten the first debate. And while Gingrich calls Trump's decision petulance, his supporters would call it audacious and applaud him for it--because of that first presidential debate last August.
It was clear from the very first question that the moderators had an agenda.
Bret Behr came out, guns blaring asking if there were any candidates on the stage who had a problem pledging not to run as an independent if they didn't get the Republican nomination. The audience immediately erupted in protest knowing full well it was a loaded question directed right at Trump. It set the tone for the entire debate.
It was like Fox News set the attack dogs out on Trump.
But it was Megan Kelly's question and relentless pursuit about Trump's Twitter comments calling women fat that really infuriated people. Her question about when he decided to be Republican didn't go over well with Trump supporters either. It wasn't the question itself; the question was fair. It was the way she asked it, sounding just like the establishment media we have come to loathe. His support from American's fed up with the system skyrocketed.
Why? Because they saw Trump as a victim of the system, just like them, and they rallied around him. They give their support when they meet him at rallies.
Hannity said he and several others at Fox News had been very fair with Trump and couldn't understand why he'd back out of the Fox debate when the other networks debates were so much worse.
Well, of course they were. We're not giving them a pass but we've come to expect that kind of behavior from them. We don't like it. We speak out against it, but we've pretty much given up any notion they will ever change.
Fox News, however, is another story. That is the one network we could count on to be fair and balanced. What Megan Kelly did was neither fair nor balanced. It was unprofessional, disrespectful, and we expect higher standards from Fox News. There were people so upset over the whole thing they were clamoring for Megan to be fired. The more the media and the establishment attack Trump, the more people follow him.
Maybe the other Fox News media personalities were fair to Trump but that's not what Trump supporters and conservatives everywhere saw. We saw Fox News behaving like the other networks. We saw Brett Behr, and several others from Fox News, rally around Megan saying how terrible it was that Trump treated her that way while patting her on the back agreeing that "of course she had to ask the question." We can get biased reporting, distorted news and agenda-driven debates on any network. We don't want it on Fox News.
No, we haven't forgotten. And that is why Trump supporters will rally around him even stronger.
They are people who are concerned for their country and fed up with business as usual and an out of control government. They're Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, independents, conservatives and even few liberals in the mix. They're black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, and atheist. They're business owners, military veterans, doctors, and ranchers. They cover a wide range of ages from all economic backgrounds, races, and religions.
They are American families who see the American way of life slipping away and they really believe with all their heart, Donald Trump can single-handedly bring it back and make things right again.
They love it when he calls the establishment on the carpet, tells it like it is and refuses to bend or apologize. He shows strength and they're fed up with weakness. He shows boldness and they're tired of the "let's cross the isle and all get along." He talks about love for his country and their tired of people apologizing for it. He proudly declares his success and they're tired of being persecuted for theirs. It is easy for people to support Trump because he is saying everything they want to hear.
I've been blown away by some of my friends who I have known and served with for years who are Trump supporters. It's like all the issues that mattered so much to them are suddenly pushed aside. One of my friends, a strong conservative leader in Ohio, said people were flabbergasted when she told them she was supporting Trump.
"But what about pro-life?" they asked her.
"And you really believe he can do that?" I asked her.
It is a bit of phenomenon but we've seen it before. Hope and change is a powerful message.


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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons
Prime Minister Sunak is seen as a pragmatic prime minister, but he lacks a vision for the future.
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Since Brexit, many on both sides of the British coast have been wondering what the proud island kingdom still stands for in the world. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to fill this vacuum with the empty phrase "Global Britain". To this day nobody really knows what that is supposed to be. Since the beginning of the year, his successor Rishi Sunak has been dreaming of an "innovation nation" full of enterprising inventors who, supported by world-class universities, should be at the forefront of technological progress.
The insolvency of Britishvolt, the battery start-up that wanted to build a "gigafactory" for the transformation to electromobility in northern England for more than four billion euros, shows how far Britain is from this. Batteries for more than 300,000 electric vehicles should be produced there per year.
There are many reasons for bankruptcy. A major reason, however, is that economic ambitions and political realities in Great Britain have not been compatible for some time. A gigantic battery factory for a country that has neglected its industry for decades and isolated itself in terms of trade policy by leaving the EU could not go well. If you want to be at the forefront of new technologies, you need a market that is as big as your ambitions.
It's not as if Britain has nothing more to offer. On the contrary. Indeed, the Kingdom is home to some of the best universities in the world, has cutting-edge research, is a major power in life sciences and, with London, remains one of the most important and dynamic financial centers in the world.
However, the Conservatives, who have been in power for twelve years, have not succeeded in forging a coherent location profile from these strengths after Brexit that not only stands for tradition but also for the future. Britain today is associated more with royal family feuds, a sick healthcare system, mass strikes and political chaos than with forward-thinking innovations.
Sunak lacks a convincing vision
Prime Minister Sunak has calmed down the country after the chaos of "Trussonomics" last year. So far, however, he has not been able to prove that he is more than a pragmatic crisis manager and that he can show the wandering country a new direction. Johnson had at least one idea with "Levelling up" to bring the economically torn country back together. With Britishvolt, this plan also initially failed.
Maybe that's why it was a good thing that Sunak didn't go to the World Economic Forum in Davos. What message would he have wanted to send on the world stage? And perhaps it is also a signal that opposition leader and Labor leader Keir Starmer held the British flag high in the Swiss mountains and was asked by top managers from all over the world about his plans for the future of Great Britain.
More: Battery start-up Britishvolt is insolvent.
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At Least for the Next Ten Years, "Peak Lithium" is Nonsense
At the Lithium Supply and Markets conference in Toronto, analysts make clear that until 2020 there will literally be more than enough of the element to go around
By Seth Fletcher | Published Jan 21, 2011 1:53 AM
The noise about "Peak Lithium"—the idea that not enough economically extractable lithium exists in the world to support a large-scale switch to cars powered by lithium-based batteries—has quieted significantly in the past year, but I still sometimes get asked: Are we going to run out of this stuff?
Not any time soon. In fact, as a noted market analyst made clear this morning, so many companies are developing so many lithium deposits around the world that many of them will probably go out of business, because they're on track to dramatically oversupply the world with lithium.
Currently, most of the world's lithium comes from a handful of companies, most notably SQM, Chemetall, and FMC; they extract lithium from high-altitude salt flats in northern Chile and Argentina. Those companies have long insisted that they have access to so much lithium, and that they could expand supply so easily and quickly, that the dozens of independent lithium prospectors who hope to capitalize on arrival of the lithium-ion-powered electrified automobile are doomed.
This morning, Edward R. Anderson, president of the independent consulting firm TRU Group, told the assembled group of international lithium prospectors much the same thing. According to TRU's latest study of the lithium market—an update of an earlier study TRU conducted for Mitsubishi, which the group presented at the first Lithium Supply and Markets Conference in Santiago, Chile in January 2009—the world will soon be overloaded with lithium producers. Together, these producers will end up flooding the market; there will be too much lithium to go around, and all but the strongest companies will probably fail.
We at PopSci are not concerned with lithium as an investment, of course: We're interested in what news like this means for the people who buy raw lithium, make it into batteries, and then put those batteries into electrified vehicles. For the junior mining companies in the audience, Anderson's presentation might have been bracing. For battery companies and carmakers, however, it means that there is no reason to be concerned about the availability or price of lithium, even as batteries—particularly electric-vehicle batteries—quickly come to consume the bulk of the world's lithium supply.
To be sure, Anderson didn't even mention the words "Peak Lithium"—his was a business presentation focused on the next ten years. He's also far from the first person to argue that lithium is plentiful. (See Keith Evans's blog.) But Anderson's presentation this morning was a current and forceful argument that one vastly overhyped barrier to the near- and mid-term adoption of electrified vehicles simply doesn't exist.
All this said, it's worth keeping in mind that the majority of all this abundant lithium is extracted by three companies from a relatively tiny section of South American desert. There's still a case to be made that diversifying the lithium supply is a good thing. Later in the conference we'll hear Western Lithium, a company that controls a potentially massive lithium mine in northern Nevada, make that case.
Bottled Lightning is a blog series by Seth Fletcher, Senior Associate Editor at PopSci and author of Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy,_ to be published in May 2011 by Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The book is about lithium, the rechargeable lithium battery, and the technological transformations it has helped (or will help) make possible—the wireless revolution; the burgeoning electric-car revival; the coming spread of clean energy. Seth also posts off-the-cuff observations on these and other subjects on Twitter._
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Nuro's little grocery-toting robot just got a big upgrade
The third-gen autonomous vehicle now has an airbag. On the outside.


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Chinoiserie - Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
During the eighteenth century Europeans coveted Chinese imports and developed an intense interest in Chinese clothes, porcelain, tea, and other items. These items were known as chinoiserie. Europeans imported thousands of bolts of cloth to make Chinese-style clothing and wall and window coverings. European textile manufacturers learned Chinese dyeing techniques and soon printed cloth with Oriental scenes of pagodas, temples, and other Chinese-inspired objects. In addition, Europeans began dyeing cloth in colors once only seen on imported Chinese fabrics, including a pale golden yellow and a light green, called "Chinese green."
Some clothing styles imitated the Far East. The most popular was the banyan, an informal robe, worn by men at home instead of a justaucorps, or a suit coat. Some styles of banyan looked very similar to the cheongsam worn in early Asian cultures. The robe had a stand-up collar, long sleeves, and its opening crossed over the chest to tie just under the right shoulder. Other banyan styles imitated Indian jackets that buttoned up the front and were called Indian gowns. Banyans were made out of expensive silk or printed cotton. They were so popular in the late eighteenth century that many wealthy men had themselves painted wearing a banyan and cap instead of more formal clothing, which had been the norm for centuries. Other oriental styles and patterns would become popular in future eras, including the 1920s and the 1980s.
Halls, Zillah. Men's Costume: 1750–1800. London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973.
Payne, Blanche, Geitel Winakor, and Jane Farrell-Beck. The History of Costume. 2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
[ See also Volume 2, Early Asian Cultures: Cheongsam ]
Also read article about Chinoiserie from Wikipedia
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