The ascent of this 6000m plus mountain in 10 days is probably the quickest one can climb it, keeping in mind that one needs some time to acclimatize to the altitudes as well. After spending the first couple of days acclimatizing in Leh during which time we also visit some monasteries and the interesting Leh market, we set off for a week long trek. Instead of approaching the mountain head-on we travel some distance west and then approach it through a slightly longer route crossing the Stok La (4890m) and then descending to the Stok valley. This approach gives us a little more time to acclimatize and the steep climb up to Stok La acts as a good test before the final ascent.
The final climb of Stok Kangri will present a challenge to even the fittest of the members. Even after being fully acclimatized and completely in form, one would always find any climb going over 6000m to be a hard one. The climb itself is not technically demanding, and on days with good weather conditions, involves going up a steep rocky scree slope and walking over sharp rocky ridge to reach the snowy summit. Most of the snow on the mountain melts away by early August and we have rarely used crampons on our August departures. However with weather becoming more & more unpredictable one cannot rule out a possibility of dealing with some unexpected snow & ice on the mountain. One of the most popular trekking peaks in the Indian Himalayas and on the planet, the proximity to Leh (the capital of Ladakh) brings a lot of people to its summit. Not so difficult peak to climb, this trip has a short acclimatization trek built in where we climb a 4890m/16040ft high pass to get to the base of the mountain.
Note : Unless you are in good physical shape, you will NOT be able to summit in that long last day to the top and back!
Stok Kangri is a challenging mountain that presents a wonderful array of natural beauty on the way up. If climbing this fascinating mountain in the fastest possible manner sounds like your idea of a fun trip then this trip is certainly for you!
On a clear day, flights to Leh offer excellent views of the mighty Himalayas. Very soon you're going to be right in the middle of these mountains. Upon arrival at Leh homestay, we recommend you to spend this day resting which will help your body acclimatize to the altitude.
We start with a drive to Zingchen. The drive takes us past the Leh airstrip, the Spituk Gumpa, and crosses the River Indus on a bumpy road. Then we start our trek up to Rumbak along the stream till we get to the pastures. The campsite is just an hour's walk from here.
After an early morning breakfast, we approach the base of the Stok La and start climbing the steep winding trail up to the pass. Stok La is at 4,890 m, and this climb makes everyone feel the altitude. A steep descent from here brings us to the Stok Valley and along the more popular route used to approach the mountain. We camp at a small campsite just short of the bigger campsite of Mount Karmo.
Today we take an acclimatisation climb up a side valley to get some real height gain in. We'll return to the camp by late afternoon for a hot lunch.
Now we follow the busy trail up to the Stok Kangri base camp. It's a short day with a gradual ascent to the campsite. The base camp is on a big meadow and is usually full of climbers from all parts of the world. After lunch, do a short yet steep hike to gain some altitude.
We spend the first half of the day getting our gear ready. We check the entire climbing equipment and ensure that everyone is kitted out properly. Relax in the second half of the day as we leave for the summit in the middle of the night.
The toughest day of the trip, it would test anyone's endurance as it's a long way up from the Base Camp to the Summit and back. The climb has a steep start from the Base Camp, which flattens out slowly till we cross the glacier. Having crossed the glacier we climb up the steep slope to the summit ridge. A couple of hours of scrambling on the ridge brings us to the summit of Stok Kangri, which offers wide open views of the Karakoram range on the north with the Saser Kangri dominating the sky and Zanskar ranges to the south.
We exit out of the Stok valley at Stok village, and board vehicles for our drive back to Leh. Once in Leh, we can enjoy the comforts of our hotel, and even do some quick last minute shopping in the markets.
We'll have an early morning transfer to Leh Airport for our Leh-Delhi flight, bringing our wonderful adventure together to an end.
09 nights accommodation Homestay in Leh on twin sharing basis & camping during the trek.
Transfers - Leh to Stok village and return.
Any transportation to / from Leh. Your tour price starts Ex Leh.
Porters or mules to carry your personal luggage. This can be arranged for you at an additional price of INR 4200. This will cover porterage of your personal luggage upto 10 kilograms for 07 trekking days.
Airport transfers - Budget around 400 per vehicle per way from airport to guest house/ homestay and back.
Local sightseeing in Leh on Day 2.
International / domestic air ticket.
Entrance fees to monasteries / monuments.
Any meals not mentioned in the itinerary.
Evacuation charges and damage of any nature.
Government Service Tax of 9.0%.
Homestay in Leh on twin sharing basis and camping accommodation while trekking. You will sleep inside tents. Karri mats are provided for you to sleep on and are placed under your sleeping bag. If you have your personal karrimat, please carry it along.
While walking the body heats up and all we need to wear is a T-shirt & cargos/ trousers. However all our warm clothes will come into play in the mornings / evenings when we aren't doing much physically. A good base layer which could be a thermal top (polypropylene), with a T-shirt on top will keep you warm and dry. Mid layers provide insulation so anything that is warm will do e.g. a medium thickness woolen jumper or a mid-weight fleece top, along with another lightweight fleece top will suffice. If you really feel the cold, substitute the thinner layer with a down jacket. The outer layer is the final layer between you and the elements and must be capable of keeping out the wind, rain and snow. Any good waterproof, windproof jacket would do the job. Leg wear in the form of thermal long johns are invaluable. A good sun hat is very essential. Sunglasses which offer 100% UV protection are necessary to combat strong daylight.
The following is a list of things that we suggest that you take with you. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, rather it is intended to act as a reminder of those items that we feel are essential for your comfort and convenience. However we recognize that you may have your own personal preferences for clothing which may be equally as suitable.
Depending on the snow conditions we sometimes need plastic boots for the climb which can be hired easily in Leh.
Clothing Apart from the regular clothes.
Thermal Underwears / Long Johns (Upper + Lowers).
Wind protection and Rain protection gear.
A day pack which one needs to carry oneself.
Climbing Equipment (if needed can also be hired in Leh).
Water bottle - should have atleast 2 lits for the Summit bid.
Personal toiletries: toothbrush, comb, sunscreen, lip balm etc.
Menus vary from Indian fare to Chinese, pasta, cold cuts, sandwiches, eggs etc.. We will provide you safe drinking water throughout the trek - it will either be bottled or boiled with a dash of iodine.
Our entire crew will consist of guide and cooking staff (along with mules and mule men), which would prepare the days meals for the days that we are camping out.
You can arrive in Leh anytime on the first day. For this trek, we recommend you arrive prior to the beginning of the trek. Being present at this altitude earlier will assist your acclimatization process.
It will help for you all to carry some easy to access medicine on the trip, for headaches, diarrhea, constipation, and some re-hydration powders like Electral etc. It's also a good idea to have a roll of toilet paper accessible should you need to go.
Travel to any part of the Indian Himalayas deserves a little more respect than many other mountain ranges because most of the regions lie in high altitudes 2500 meters (8000 ft). This is not something that you should worry about. The human body is quite capable of adapting to a very wide range of barometric pressures and there is plenty of oxygen even at the highest point of our trips. However, this process of adaptation or acclimatisation does take time and the most important rule is to gain height slowly. This trip itinerary gives the best possible acclimatization program within the limitations of an 11 day holiday. Our trek leaders are widely experienced in these matters and will be able to give you good advice to help minimise any temporary discomfort that you might experience. If you have suffered serious problems at altitude before, you should seek the advice of your doctor or a specialist. We are always ready to give advice on this subject. We do not take heart or lung patients, or pregnant mothers on such trips.
It's best to carry your belongings in a large, tough duffel bag or a big rucksack. Pack similar things such as clothes, washing things, camping equipment etc. in separate stuff sacks or polythene bags so they are easier to pull out and add to the waterproofing in your bag. Your main bag should be a tough one as it will be on mule back or with the porter, not the best place to be for a fragile backpack.
While trekking you will need to carry a small daypack big enough to carry your camera, water bottle, packed lunch, a warm layer and wind/rain jacket.
A day on a trek begins with breakfast at 7 am by which time; you are expected to vacate your tent so packing can begin. Your help with setting up and packing up of tents is always welcome. We aim to usually be on the trail by 8:30 am and reach our camp for the day by 2-3pm, if not earlier. Long days on the trail may mean an earlier start and an 8-10 hour walking day. On the climb up to the summit we start as early as 2:30 am to get the best of the weather conditions. Lunch is usually had on the walk, and you'd get into camp for a welcome cup of tea.
All tipping is optional and by no means mandatory, however if you feel that your staff and drivers have performed at a good or excellent level, it is a great way to let them know you appreciate their efforts.
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Volcanoes, churches and tuna... maybe life is better than art?
Walk & Talk Arts Festival, Azores, 5–20 July
Francis Bacon at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
Homing in on Francis Bacon's audacious representation of male bodies, sex and desire before (and after) the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain
By J.J. Charlesworth
Liliane Lijn: SHE at Rodeo, London
exploring robotics and protofeminist mythology
Mike Nelson: Projektör (Gürün Han)
on the British artist's unsettling video installations commissioned by Protocinema, Istanbul
By Ben Eastham
Navine G. Khan-Dossos at The Showroom, London
Care and control in a surveillance society
By Izabella Scott
Arthur Jafa at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
By Max L. Feldman
This presentation of Arthur Jafa's touring exhibition, which moves through the Rudolfinum's horseshoe-shaped first floor, opens with his best-known work: Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016). Already widely seen as an iconic artwork of its era, this seven-minute film contains short clips from silent movies and later Hollywood films, marches, concerts and sports events, news stories, police dashcams, citizens' journalism and Jafa's own home movies, cut to the sound of Kanye West's Ultralight Beam (2016). The focus on the materiality of black bodies, as a means of making the seemingly paradoxical political assertion that black people are more than just things, is implied by other works in the show, including Jonathan, Black Flag and Pledge of Allegiance 1848 (all 2017). Each places images of black bodies in white spaces or stories in order, Jafa explains in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist in the exhibition catalogue, to produce 'contextual dissonance'.
Jonathan is a huge, wall-length, black-and-white photograph of the 1970 Marin County Courthouse incident. A nervous, boyish-looking Jonathan Jackson tries to negotiate freedom for his brother George, the Marxist Black Panther-supporting author, by abducting Judge Harold Haley. George was part of the Soledad Brothers group, accused of killing a white prison guard in retaliation for the deaths of three black prisoners some three days earlier. The resulting shootout left four dead, including Jonathan and Haley. Black Flag, a hand-sewn Confederate Flag painted matte black, has the look and feel of a monochrome painting. The flag's cross-and-stars pattern is only revealed, like a hideous secret code, when the viewer adjusts their bodily position. Pledge of Allegiance 1848, meanwhile, is an archival photograph showing a group of African-American children collectively saluting the Stars and Stripes as it is held up by a classmate. The children in this photograph would have to wait another seventeen years for the abolition of slavery.
In the light of the 841 images featured in the video work Apex (2013), Black Flag and Pledge appear as the histories preceding everyday violence against black bodies in the present. Set to a pounding techno soundtrack where the synth bleeps and bass-drum hits are just out of time with the image sequence, Apex rapid-fires images of fashion shoots, autopsies, celebrities, lynchings, dancers, cartoon characters and outer space, clocking in at a gruelling eight minutes. In London and New York, this exhibition makes viewers reflect on the history of the representation of black lives from the Atlantic Slave Trade to emancipation, the Civil Rights movement, ongoing racism and police brutality. The Czech context adds new historical contingencies.
The Czech Republic is founded on a history of suffering under Austro-Hungarian, Nazi and Soviet empires, but a 2015 EQUINET survey showed that its citizens were the least tolerant in the EU towards black people. As in other European countries, though, 'blackness' – particularly as mediated via hip-hop – forms a part of the accepted popular culture; widespread consumption of images of black bodies and style trends thus coexists with uneasiness about living with real black people. In Prague, Jafa's work produces a new nationally or regionally specific version of contextual dissonance. Here, Black Flag, Love is the Message and Apex force the viewer to confront their own, perhaps limited, assumptions about black lives by recirculating the very images that shape those perceptions in a context where they do not have quite the same political significance. The current climate in Hungary, Poland or Slovakia, meanwhile, means this exhibition is unlikely to tour there; just by showing it here, the Rudolfinum is taking a stand.
Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, 17 January – 31 March
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Denzil Forrester at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
The artist who recorded London's 80s dub culture in his paintings
By Louise Darblay
The National: New Australian Art
across three venues in Sydney, through 23 June / 21 July
By Micheal Do
Jack Whitten at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
through 1 September
By Martin Herbert
Calculated incoherence at the Venice Biennale
Lavanya Mani at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
By Rahel Aima
Jews, Money, Myth at The Jewish Museum, London
through 7 July
New Media and Conceptualism in the 1970s at Galeria Superfície, São Paulo
Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now at Fondation Cartier, Paris
through 16 June

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Q: Swift iOS - subscription receipts for each apple ID? The application that I am working using the subscription model and validated the receipt get the information it needs to give (or not) the user access to full functionality. I was doing all my initial development using one testing sandbox account.
Now, when I was starting to take the testing from the top again using a fresh sandbox user, I signed out of the initial Apple ID I was working with, and deleted the application from Devices. When I ran the app again and looking at my console debug I was surprised to find that it found the same receipt that was being used by the first Apple ID and started validating it!
What am I missing here? Why is the same receipt being found while I have sign on using a new sandbox test account?
Thanks

A: It seems I finally found that the logic had a problem and skipped the "requestDidFinish" callBack of that "SKReceiptRefreshRequest". This meant that it skipped the actual sign in process using the Apple ID. Which also meant that it was not using the wrong receipt during validation.
If you are facing this issue, make sure you go through the "didfinish" callBack which means a successful sign in and a successful refresh of ID's receipt

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The cost of undergraduate training is expensive at up to £9,250 per year, along with the added cost of living, leaving many people owing up to £50,000 in student loans. So, choosing the right institute and course for you is important. So university or drama school? Here are some comparisons between the two to help with your decision.
Applying for a university is usually done through UCAS and you will need a certain set of grades to gain a place on your chosen course. Some universities will interview candidates, but most will select based on your grades and personal statement.
Applying for a drama school is different depending on the school; it may be through direct application, UCAS Conservatoires or the main UCAS scheme. Drama schools will likely hold auditions or interviews and focus more on talent and potential than grades. Acting courses at drama schools are the most difficult courses to get into as they can attract thousands of applications for a relatively small number of places.
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Universities allow students to take care of their own time management, with a few lectures/classes a week along with research and writing expected to be done in your own time. There is also little to no consequence if you do not attend the contact hours as you are responsible for your own time keeping. This is great experience for self-discipline and time management.
A drama school will have a much more intensive time structure where you will spend most of your time in classes 9am - 5pm, if not longer. The contact hours set are compulsory and there is likely to be severe consequences for missing or being late for a class.
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Universities will tend to offer more of a broad course that will teach a range of skills such as Theatre Arts. This will give students a good insight into different areas within the theatre that you can work in. However, due to it being so broad you won't receive the same level of detail and teaching as if you were to study only one field. However, there are a small handful of universities who do offer more specific courses.
A drama school will give in-depth and intensive training into a specific area. You will not be taught on the details of the other roles within theatre and only focus heavily on your particular field of study. Due to the small class sizes you will tend to have more one-on-one time with your tutors compared to at a university.
Universities often offer the chance at the end of the course for a public performance where students have a chance to showcase their talent whether on stage or offstage. However the attendance by industry professionals can be quite low at most universities. Personal invitations by a student to professionals can help boost the attendance.
Top drama schools attract a lot of industry professionals to their showcases. Many will actively look out for when the showcases are in order to go along, rather than needing to be persuaded by a personal invitation.
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There are more and more opportunities at drama school to train in a postgraduate degree. Therefore, one option is to study a non-theatre related undergraduate degree at university and then go on to train in a postgraduate degree at a drama school. However, there are fewer funding opportunities and financial support for a second degree, so this option may not be readily available for everyone.
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Due to the range of subjects studied at universities you are more likely to come across and/or live with people who are studying different courses to you. You also may have the opportunity to work outside your contact hours and join societies and clubs that don't necessarily have a link to your course which can offer a wealth of experience. You are more likely to be more independent at university, which can be seen as a good way to set you up for life after studying.
At drama school, due to the specialist studies at the institute, you will only come across and/or live with people who also study at your school. This can be helpful as they will understand your day-to-day life and you will be going through a similar experience, however it can also be seen as a 'bubble', which is unlike life outside of drama school.
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Does Donald Trump thinks there is no inflation?
Posted By: Jacob Wolinsky Sep 12, 2019, 10:08 am
The King Report September 12, 2019 Issue 6090
ESUs fell early on Tuesday night but rallied sharply during the Nikkei's 2nd Session. ESUs hit their session high of 2987 just after midnight ET. They then slid into the European open. Traders bought the early dip in Europe and ESUs rallied 7 handles by the end of the first hour of trading. A sudden reversal pushed ESUs 8 handles lower. Mighty Mouth fomented a rally before the NYSE open.
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@realDonaldTrump: The Federal Reserve should get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less, and we should then start to refinance our debt. INTEREST COST COULD BE BROUGHT WAY DOWN, while at the same time substantially lengthening the term. We have the great currency, power, and balance sheet. The USA should always be paying the lowest rate. No Inflation! It is only the naïveté of Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve that doesn't allow us to do what other countries are already doing. A once in a lifetime opportunity that we are missing because of "Boneheads."
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Le Grande Orange is stupidly proposing that the Fed appropriate interest income from the masses to fund his grotesque fiscal spending that will abet this reelection. If Trump thinks there is no inflation or he is trying to convince the masses of that risible notion, the 'Bonehead' in the above tweet is obvious.
@realDonaldTrump 2:24 PM · Sep 29, 2011: The Fed's reckless policies of low interest and flooding the market with dollars needs to be stopped or we will face record inflation.
@NorthmanTrader: It is an interesting inadvertent admission though: The US debt construct can't handle normalized rates and is entirely dependent on cheap money. Trump must know recession risk is high and hence is asking for a Fed bailout. And be clear: Cutting rates to zero would be a bailout.
US Public Debt to GDP ratio vs. S&P 500 Index – Bubble economy & stock market fueled by debt
Obviously, the key question that the above chart poses is: When will the debt bubble burst?
China Exempts Certain Products from Tariffs
China announced a range of U.S. goods to be exempted from 25% extra tariffs put in place last year, as the government seeks to ease the impact from the trade war without lifting charges on major agricultural items like soybeans and pork… Pharmaceuticals and lubricant oil are among exclusions to levies on imports announced by the Ministry of Finance on its website on Wednesday…
China's tariff retaliation strategy to date has focused heavily on curbing trade of agricultural and manufactured goods produced in U.S. states key for President Donald Trump's re-election chances…
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We have repeatedly opined that China is playing a dangerous game with US food products. The politics of food in Asia is very tricky. The massive populations of China, India and Indonesia (and Japan relative to inhabitable/farmable land) demand that countries import large quantities of food.
US Core PPI increased 0.3% m/m in August and 2.3% y/y. Headline PPI for August increased 0.1% m/m and 1.8% y/y. Each measure is 0.1 more than expected. Shipment for freight surged 4.8% m/m, a record for the data series that goes back to 2009. Energy prices declined 2.5% m/m; food prices fell 0.6% m/m.
ESUs tumbled before and through the NYSE open, hitting 2974.75 at 9:34 ET. Traders, of course, bought the opening dip. 14 minutes after the NYSE low was hit, ESU rallied 14 handles on DB's prediction that the Fed will cut rates another 100bps 'over the next several months' and these WSJ headlines:
Trump Again Mulls Capital Gains Tax Cuts
Trump, advisers set to meet Wednesday to discuss indexing capital gains taxes to Inflation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-again-mulls-capital-gains-tax-cuts-11568210829
Trump, Advisors to also focus on Broader Plan to Cut Taxes - WSJ
ESUs and stocks methodically rallied until that afternoon arrived. Traders wanted to be long for Draghi; and the mounting indications of pending global fiscal stimuli. After the afternoon dip, the usual late ESU manipulation appeared. The desire to be long for the expected ECB stimulus package pushed US stocks and ESUs to session highs. Who is not long stocks and related derivatives for today?
Part of the scheme on Wednesday was the desire to close the S&P 500 Index above 3000. The standard late ESU manipulation closed the S&P 500 Index at 3000.93.
Despite the ubiquitous reports of impending central bank largesse and fiscal stimuli, why didn't stock experience a great rally? Perhaps, the stench of solon desperation alarmed some investors and traders.
The Treasury auction of $24B of 10-year (actually 9-yr & 11months) notes was disappointing. The yield is 1.739% vs. 1.736% WI. The bid to cover ratio was 2.46 vs. 2.20 at the previous auction. Non-comp bids were only $2.3m. Indirect bids (mostly central banks) were 62.6%; direct bids were 12.7%.
GM Strike Risk at 12-Year High with Weekend Deadline Approaching
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/gm-strike-risk-at-12-year-high-with-weekend-deadline-approaching
Positive aspects of previous session
A robust rally on hope of ECB QE & rates cuts; plus hype about US tax cuts
The best performing group was the (+1.4%) NY FANG+ Index gain due to trader buying for Draghi
The S&P 500 Index closed a tad above 3000
Negative aspects of previous session
The rally was largely traders getting long for today
Ambiguous aspects of previous session
Who isn't long for Draghi/ECB?
First Hour/Last Hour Action [S&P 500 Index]
First Hour Up; Last Hour Up
Previous session S&P 500 Index High/Low: 3000.93; 2975.31
Pivot Point for S&P 500 Index [above/below indicates daily trend for traders]: 2992.39
BBG: U.S. Passive Stock Fund Assets [$2.4271T] Exceed Active [$4.246T] for First Time
M. El-Erian @elerianm: Strongly-worded FT editorial on what ECB President Draghi "must deliver" While I understand (but have concerns) why it's pushing Draghi hard "to provide all the support he can," am surprised that they rank tomorrow's meeting "among the most important in his eight-year tenure"
Draghi must deliver his parting shot of stimulus
With external risks continuing to rise, caution could prove costly
Mr Draghi must also convince markets that further easing of monetary policy will be effective, and that it will not leave the ECB at its limits. Tiering is key…
https://www.ft.com/content/0e375bbc-cfdd-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f
Today – Traders will respond to the ECB Communique and Draghi's farewell press conference. The market expects QE and a rate cut. These ingredients have been baked into the market for weeks. Ergo, the probability is high that a reversal could occur after the ECB and Draghi deliver the expected goodies.
The game for today will be to pump and dump stocks on any ECB stimulus package. The goal is to push the S&P 500 Index to a new high and then feed any lemming buyers.
Among the universe of traders, only permabears have not bought stocks or derivatives for the assumed ECB stimuli. Logically, there has to be a subset of traders that expects to sell stuff into a rally. Will there be enough reactionary buyers to ECB largesse to absorb the traders that want to cash in their chips?
The final tranche of the Treasury auction, the 30-year bond, will occur. Because the 3 and 10-year tranches had disappointing results, look for the old Street game of bidding down the final tranche and then gunning bonds after the Treasury announces the 30-year results.
Last night, ESUs jumped 18.00 on this: @realDonaldTrump: At the request of the Vice Premier of China, Liu He, and due to the fact that the People's Republic of China will be celebrating their 70th Anniversary on October 1st, we have agreed, as a gesture of good will, to move the increased Tariffs on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods (25% to 30%), from October 1st to October 15th.
The S&P 500 Index 50-day MA: 2949; 100-day MA: 2916; 150-day MA: 2882; 200-day MA: 2815
The DJIA 50-day MA: 26,588; 100-day MA: 26,316; 150-day MA: 26,171; 200-day MA: 25,682
S&P 500 Index support: 2985-90, 2972, 2955-60, 2940-45, 2930, 2922, 2914, 2900, 2880
Resistance: 3013-17, 3027, 3040, 3050
Expected economic data: Aug CPI 0.1% m/m, 1.8% y/y; Core 0.2% m/m, 2.3% y/y; Initial Jobless Claims 215k, Continuing Claims1.675m; Aug Budget Statement -$195.0B
S&P 500 Index – Trender trading model and MACD for key time frames
Monthly: Trender and MACD are positive – a close below 2502.93 triggers a sell signal
Weekly: Trender is positive; MACD is negative – a close below 2816.78 triggers a sell signal
Daily: Trender and MACD are positive - a close below 2888.70 triggers a sell signal
Hourly: Trender and MACD are positive – a close below 2974.99 triggers a sell signal
9/11 outrage: 'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg slams members of Congress who skipped moment of silence [Only 26% of Reps were present.]
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-9-11-congress
@DineshDSouza: In this now-deleted tweet, the New York Times attempts to blame 9/11 on the AIRPLANES that "took aim" and "brought down" the World Trade Center. What lengths they will go to divert attention from who actually did this! ["…Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center…more than 2000 people died…"]
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1171787237635383297/photo/1
Why would the NYT attempt to mitigate the WTC tragedy by posting "more than 2000 people died", when about 3000 died?
Retired Intel Operative Tony Shaffer @T_S_P_O_O_K_Y: Every senior FBI and intelligence official who played a material role in the 9/11 failures was promoted and protected - resulting (as we know now) to prompt other failures and political use of Intelligence... this cannot be permitted to continue...
Never Forget How U.S. Intelligence Failed You
Brennan routinely ignored calls from his colleagues to pressure his Saudi counterparts to hand over more information on bin Laden and the rising al-Qaeda terrorist network in the 1990s…
When the Clinton Administration considered using force either to kill or capture bin Laden in the 1990s, Brennan led the effort to stop it… Of course, it did not help that Clinton's own CIA director, George Tenet, backed Brennan's opposition to the proposed bin Laden raid…
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/10/never-forget-how-u-s-intelligence-failed-you/#.XXj7Ml3QEak.twitter
'The Attacks Will Be Spectacular'
An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored this warning from the CIA months before 9/11, along with others that were far more detailed than previously revealed.
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." The CIA's famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack… Tenet also wrote about it in general terms in his 2007 memoir At the Center of the Storm…
That morning of July 10, the head of the agency's Al Qaeda unit, Richard Blee, burst into Black's office. "And he says, 'Chief, this is it. Roof's fallen in,'" recounts Black… Tenet picked up the white phone to Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice… "Rich [Blee] started by saying, 'There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda's intention is the destruction of the United States.'" [Condi said:] 'What do you think we need to do?' Black responded by slamming his fist on the table, and saying, 'We need to go on a wartime footing now!'"… "And I'll never forget this until the day I die. Rich Blee looked at everybody and said, 'They're coming here.'"…
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353
As August went on, Tenet was so agitated by the chatter he was picking up and Bush's lack of attention to the matter that he arranged for another CIA briefing of the president later in August, with Bush still at his ranch, to try to get his attention to what Tenet believed was an impending danger. According to Ron Suskind, in the introduction to his book The One Percent Doctrine, when the CIA agents finished their briefing of the president in Crawford, the president said, "All right. You've covered your ass now." And that was the end of it…
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/10/21/bush-responsibility-twin-towers/
FBI Was Warned About Flight School
Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying…
AP reported last month that Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flight schools and at least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into federal buildings…
A month after the 2001 memo from Arizona to FBI headquarters, FBI agents in Minnesota arrested a French citizen of Moroccan descent, Zacarias Moussaoui, after a flight school instructor became suspicious of his desire to learn to fly a commercial jet. Moussaoui has since emerged as the single most important defendant in the post-Sept. 11 terrorism investigation, charged with conspiring with the hijackers and Osama bin Laden to kill thousands of Americans…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-was-warned-about-flight-schools/
The FBI's Investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui
On May 21, 2002, Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI's Chief Division Counsel (CDC), sent a letter to FBI Director Mueller in which she criticized FBI Headquarters for the way it had handled the Moussaoui case. Among other things, her letter disputed the way the FBI was describing its Moussaoui investigation, and she asserted that FBI Headquarters had prevented the Minneapolis FBI from seeking a criminal search warrant. In addition, she alleged that FBI Headquarters inappropriately failed to seek a FISA warrant…
Upon receipt of Rowley's letter, Director Mueller referred it to the OIG and asked the OIG to conduct a review of the issues raised in the letter, the Phoenix EC, and other matters related to the FBI's handling of intelligence information that was potentially related to the September 11 attacks…
On August 24, Martin and Gary discussed the options for the Minneapolis FBI in pursuing a FISA warrant for Moussaoui. Martin asserted that the Moussaoui situation did not qualify as an emergency, which required information that an "imminent act of terrorism" was about to take place, and he added the FISA request lacked sufficient evidence of a connection to a known foreign power…
On the morning of September 11, at 8:34 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Martin sent an e-mail to Gary finalizing plans for Moussaoui's deportation, which the FBI believed would occur within several days. Just 12 minutes later, the first hijacked airplane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center…
[The OIG report exonerated everyone.] https://oig.justice.gov/special/s0606/chapter4.htm
Motion to Compel Brady Material Unsealed: Flynn Took Polygraph in 2016 And Passed
List Of Brady Material Requested By Powell
A letter delivered by the British Embassy to the incoming National Security team after Donald Trump's election, and to outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice (the letter apparently disavows former British Secret Service Agent Christopher Steele, calls his credibility into question, and declares him untrustworthy)… [Many more documents]
https://saraacarter.com/motion-to-compel-brady-material-unsealed-flynn-took-polygraph-in-2016-and-passed/
@BreitbartNews: Actress and gun control activist Alyssa Milano revealed she has two guns in her home for self-defense. "I have two guns in my household for self-defense," said Alyssa Milano.
Senate will not adopt a motion to dismiss the articles of impeachment
Chief Justice could grant motion to dismiss impeachment process
White House snow tweet triggers mocking responses
Yes, Legality of the Impeachment Articles Can Be Challenged


Apple was right: whatever you could possibly need, there's an app for that. Fashion and photography have always gone hand in hand and now the iPhone camera app Hipstamatic can be used to further your aspiring fashion photography career.
W magazine, known for the unique lens perspectives used in their fashion photography, has partnered with Hipstamatic. Starting today, Hipstamatic will feature a W magazine inspired lens, free of charge, for the next six weeks.
W will also host a photo contest. Each week the best Hipstamatic W lens photos will be posted to W's Facebook page. Winners of this contest will be featured on W's website, wmag.com, alongside photos taken by W editors and contributors. How cool is that?


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Being in business for yourself isn't easy, and we all have our own reasons for going out on our own.
1) What are the top three lessons you have learned in the _30_ years you've been in business?
1) When approaching a prospective client for the first time, do your homework. Know the business thoroughly and what you propose to do for it. Also check credit rating, if possible. Knowing whether to go ahead or not can save a lot of inconvenience and perhaps even money in the long run.
2) Take time to get a thorough understanding of what the client wants and what they think they want. Then compile a series of answers to requirements and suggestions where refinement might be needed, to take back to the client.
3) Always think outside the square – and encourage yuour client to do the same.
If you could offer some one that is self-employed any advice what would it be?
Be patient. It takes time to establish yourself and to generate recommendations from satisfied clients.
Maintain contact with established clients and be responsive to inquiries or complaints.
Avoid discussing competitors and never rubbish their work.
Ensure you stay on good terms with your suppliers/contractors – they will support you and might even refer business to you.


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Speaking in Tongues: Multichannel Video Installation
posted by Jochen Becker	on July 22, 2014
Aernaut Mik: Impressions from the multi-channel installation Speaking in Tongues, which was shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt from November 2013 to January 2014.
From November 2013 to January 2014, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) showcased video artist Aernout Mik's multi-part video installation "Speaking in Tongues" under the auspices of the Global Prayers Congress. An essential component of Mik's work involves comparing the prosperity gospel and the practices of religious communities who espouse it with the beliefs and practices of the secular business world, exploring the extent to which the business world relies on religion for establishing its own rites and practices, and vice versa. Mik's approach combines aesthetic, fictional, and documentary elements, resulting in the creation of an autonomous artistic performance that both brings to life and reflects on the individual phases of the exploratory work.
"Speaking in Tongues" explores religious prosperity movements from a transnational perspective. A characteristic feature of these movements is the promise of material wealth for the individual, alongside the hope of salvation and redemption. Prosperity gospel churches often appropriate the business models of international corporations and, through a combination of the material and the spiritual, operate as hybrid companies, producing what Mik calls "staged wonders."
Mik's production offers documentary footage from numerous Pentecostal prosperity churches in Lagos, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro, as well as staged scenes filmed in Berlin and edited excerpts from the self-presentation of religious companies (churches and businesses) in the media. This footage is formatted into a video installation, which is projected on a number of synchronised screens. The work spans three continents, thus highlighting the global dimension of the growing urban "religion industry." The staged events were produced and filmed as improvised performances in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, which serves as a uniting metaphor for the improvised performances that seek to re-enact the Haus der Kulturen's construction in the power-war period, collapse in 1980, and finally its reconstruction. These performances offer the tourist a metaphorical story of redemption and rebirth. By serving as the central location for the fictional events, the HKW functions for its visitors as both an anchorage and as a hypothetical ritual space for their own experiences and reflections.
The point of departure for Mik's work was the preceding research work of "Global Prayers," particularly the reservoir of images and detailed stories accumulated. Extensive research was carried out on the Internet and during numerous filming trips to Lagos, Brazil, and Berlin. Two days of shooting were scheduled for the footage filmed in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt with up to four camera teams working at once. Here, the performers' theatrical improvisations, developed according to a general script, were of great importance, especially emotionally. Debates on respect for the religious practice of "speaking in tongues" were as much a part of the process as the idea of suddenly working towards a sect-like event.
A landscape of transitions between the religious and the secular is created from a range of source material—a threshold region bringing to light chance and structural similarities, demonstrating how one form passes into the other or generates it. The project highlights the extent to which the corporate self-presentation of globally active companies has entered the communication structure of Pentecostal communities (logos, marketing and organisation, new media, access to material wealth, etc.) and examines how western corporate gatherings have integrated implicit religious rituals (mass celebrations, cultic veneration of the market, collective ecstatic states, psychological training for personnel, etc.) into their corporate culture.
What begins as the re-enactment of a large shareholder meeting with its big video screens, is subsequently transformed into a series of novel, even speculative events. The gathering, initially recognisable as a business event, mutates into an ambivalent form with a multitude of parallel actions whereby secular and religious motifs and collective rituals exist side-by-side or merge into one another. Trance-like states suddenly spread throughout the crowd of business people, moments of passionate celebration of unity or silent prayer erupt into the conventional sequence of a business meeting, while assistants or security staff regulate the process. Admissions of sin or reports of the awakening of faith mutate into emotionally charged presentations of business prospects and profit forecasts. The invisible hand of the market rules, while an iPhone-like product is praised by a messianic marketing guru.
Both worlds—the Prosperity Gospel with its worldly appeal as much as the esoteric-like business practices—provide glimpses of a new type of self-government. The power of self-discipline in the spirit of an orientation to higher things pervades the entrepreneurial and spiritual worlds in equal measure. Individuals become the architects of their own fortune, while state and society are absent: "I consider it highly questionable that methods appealing to employees on a religious and spiritual level are employed to bind them more tightly to the corporate exploitation process. These methods aim to make the most intransigent of people compliant, and thus completely 'domesticate' the employees."
Belief and reason manifest themselves at the same instant. The secular and the holy both presume and generate one another. From the very start they elude a strict demarcation, forming a "blurry area." Suddenly, people stand up in the audience, joining in an endless "speaking in tongues," while others offer assistance. In such ambivalent situations one can no longer be certain as to the nature of the event one is witnessing.
Tags: business, Global Prayers, glossolalia, performance, prosperity gospel, ritual


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Q: Dfinity internet computer - error during communication with the replica I'm following the quickstart local development setup on an Ubuntu v20 machine
I'm getting the following error on dfx deploy:
An error happened during communication with the replica: error sending request for url (http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v2/status): error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Connection refused (os error 111)

I'm struggling to interpret this error.

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*What is "the replica"?

*What is a typical cause of the above error?

Is there a high level description of what should be happening? E.g dfx start creates a local server, dfx deploy connects to it...
EDIT:
Here is the error message I get when starting a canister (dfx start):
Starting webserver for /_/
binding to: 127.0.0.1:39075
thread 'replica-actor' panicked at 'Could not start replica.: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }', src/dfx/src/actors/replica.rs:270:41
stack backtrace:
   0:     0x55b33e8c1c9c - <std::sys_common::backtrace::_print::DisplayBacktrace as core::fmt::Display>::fmt::hc7188311863b0a19
   1:     0x55b33e915c9f - core::fmt::write::h1307f2f9840d31ee
   2:     0x55b33e8c08d6 - std::io::Write::write_fmt::h532114cf70864559
   3:     0x55b33e891fb5 - std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}::h93cbb62df5d5a099
   4:     0x55b33e891b85 - std::panicking::default_hook::he8b45a702a668bc8
   5:     0x55b33e892573 - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::h6bea14b72fcfecfa
   6:     0x55b33e8c29d7 - std::panicking::begin_panic_handler::{{closure}}::h7f75d52845ef501f
   7:     0x55b33e8c1ddc - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_end_short_backtrace::h22ba316cf03ea695
   8:     0x55b33e892162 - rust_begin_unwind
   9:     0x55b33d32b2d1 - core::panicking::panic_fmt::h9bdcdb491a1e0164
  10:     0x55b33d32b6f3 - core::result::unwrap_failed::hf33778b32d467866
  11:     0x55b33d50b6ab - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::hd6fd0b117aef8154
  12:     0x55b33d5843f7 - core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once{{vtable.shim}}::hba2d7669c4d85358
  13:     0x55b33e8babf8 - std::sys::unix::Thread::thread_start::h8e496d3e84bbb47f
  14:     0x7f5e64069609 - start_thread
  15:     0x7f5e641da293 - clone
  16:                0x0 - <unknown>

Does anyone have any ideas for next steps I could take?
EDIT 2:
I got this working in the end by running the uninstall.sh script and reinstalling, it then worked...
Incidentally, the second time installed v0.8.1 (the first was 0.8.2)
Also, just to note that I upgraded ubunutu from v18 to v20 after an initial failed install (related to GLIBC version error). So perhaps the above error is related to this..

A: In general, if you get a replica issue, I recommend you try to restart a new one and deploy everything again.
Use dfx start --clean

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*killall dfx replica

*dfx start

*dfx deploy (if you have new changes)

*npm start (if you are using npm)

A: I solved these problems by checking dfx --help, where I found dfx upgrade. After running
dfx upgrade

I no longer received the replica error and the npm start error anymore. Then the app runs on my local machine.


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I saw this on Pinterest and knew my great niece would like a Minnie Mouse cake for her fourth birthday – she loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. This was a last minute cake – I received notice of the event the night before at nine for a next day event at my house at 5 pm! Whew!
I pulled out my 12″ round and 6″ round wedding cake pans (2″ deep). I used a large oblong cutting board instead of a corrugated cake board to be sure the cake would all fit. I mixed up two vanilla cake mixes for the 12″ round (the body) and 1 milk chocolate cake mix for the 6″ round (the ears). Note: I had about two cups of vanilla batter and 1/2 cup of chocolate batter left over.
I purchaed two containers of chocolate fudge icing for the ears and mixed up some buttercream icing using 1 pound of confectioners sugar and Wilton's recipe and tinted it pink for the skirt. The white dots are marshmallows. The hardest part was icing the ears while they are sitting near the body.
I made a ruffled skirt from fabric and added white round stickers to it – stuck it to my lazy susan with rolled up duct tape then put the cake on it. I made the bow with some pink dotted ribbon and floral wire. I put some wax paper on the cake to keep the ribbon out of the icing.
I almost forgot to write her name on the cake – lol – and grabbed my icing bag quick! We put the candles just above her name. My niece was so excited when she saw her cake she immediately started pulling marshmallows off the skirt! She insisted we cut her daddy a piece of cake – and he's deployed!
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Home > Latest News > Churchill student wins a Salters' Graduate Award
Churchill student wins a Salters' Graduate Award
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George Fulham (U17) has won a Salters' Graduate Award in recognition of his academic achievement as a final-year undergraduate in 2021, and in anticipation of his acting as an ambassador for the chemical engineering profession throughout his future career. George, accompanied by Dr Jethro Akroyd, George's former Director of Studies, attended an award ceremony at Salters' Hall, situated next to the historic London Wall, at the start of December. The award was presented by Sir Tom McKillop, former CEO of AstraZeneca. George remains a member of Churchill College and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, where he has started research under the supervision of Dr Ewa Marek.
George writes, "I was very flattered to be nominated by the department, and to have been selected as a recipient of the award was a very pleasing finish to my undergraduate studies. The chemical engineering course at Cambridge has both challenged and developed me greatly. I feel well-equipped with the technical proficiency and broad knowledge base required to help tackle some of the essential problems of the coming decades. Furthermore, I am incredibly grateful to Churchill College for the welcoming and comfortable environment it provided during my undergraduate studies, without which this would certainly not have been possible. I would like to express my gratitude to my director of studies, Jethro Akroyd, for the helpful discussions and coordinating excellent teaching provision. The input of lecturers, supervisors, and support staff has also been invaluable – especially within the trying circumstances of the last 18 months. Finally, thank you to all my peers in the cohort, whose camaraderie has made the last few years so enjoyable. I now look forward to undertaking my PhD studies at Cambridge, for which I will be investigating renewable jet fuel synthesis within the Energy Reactions and Carriers Group, under the supervision of Ewa Marek."
George Fulham and Dr Jethro Akroyd outside Salters' Hall, December 2021.
About the Salters' Company: First licensed in 1394, The Salters' Company has its origins in the salt trade of medieval London. Ranked number nine in the order of precedence, it is one of the Great 12 Livery Companies and today The Salters' Company is a diverse organisation responsible for several charitable foundations, important philanthropic work in science education and the fostering of fellowship among its members.


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The Adventurer episode 24 – Mr Calloway Is A Very Cautious Man
"Mr Bradley, one thing you've got to know; Mr Calloway-"
"-is a very cautious man, I know."
Plot – Gene is bored, and when Gene is bored everyone else pays dearly.
For reasons I may never understand he's imported a load of guns illegally, and then used his mighty Dick Van Dyke impression to report himself to the authorities who promptly arrested him. So far, so screwy.
After a trial he's let out on bail and contacted by a Mr Stepford, who works for the Cautious Mr Calloway, who arms some rebels in Africa and who wants to go into business with Evil Gunrunner Gene. The law has been after Calloway for years but hasn't managed to catch him, so Gene's finally taken it upon himself to do something about it.
But! It turns out that in fact Mr Calloway has been dead since 1956, and that the firm of Stopford Graham & Stopford (who drew up Calloway's will and paid off his daughter with a few thousand pounds) are the ones posing as Calloway in order to inherit the rest of his empire and thus, um…er….
Something. Involving a lot of money, methinks.
Starring – 'Gene Barry and Barry Morse as Mr Parminter', who again is watching Gene's 'copter – and y'know, it's really depressing to see that shot of the helicopter rotors when you know there should be one or two more names there…
Guest Cast – Paul Daneman (Stopford), Toby Robins (Ingrid Shore), Freddie Jones (Calloway), Victor Lucas (Inspector Tribe), David Hargreaves (Russell), Anne Sharp (Laura Darnley), Anthony Rowlands (Soames), John Stuart (Records Clerk), Robert Gillespie (Customs Officer), Nancie Wait (Secretary).
Writer – Donald James.
Director – Barry Morse.
Locations – There's a few clips of stock footage London to be had here, and some location work involving cars, but nothing very exciting…
Mission Briefing – No mission, although Gene infodumps on Parminter about halfway through the episode, which makes a change from doing it 30 seconds before the end credits roll as has been the case lately…
The Bradley Way – It must be a bugger to be the President of the Gene Bradley fan club, no? What with the man himself constantly up to all sorts of international intrigues, and even being put on trial in this episode…although interestingly they've not really played up the whole movie star angle lately, instead concentrating (as is the case here) on him being a phenomenal businessman in addition to being the finest living example of humanity.
Anyway, it turns out that Gene set himself up in order to lure Calloway into contacting him, which he did, and they met and made a deal and all was going very well. After Calloway's thugs take Gene home (right to his door, there's service) Gene repays their generosity by strangling one of them in the hope that he'll be able to drive him back to Calloway's secret hideout. That doesn't work, and thus his carefully-laid plan is suddenly down the crapper. I guess it's because now that he's met Calloway, he thinks that…um…no, it doesn't make sense, does it?
Anyway…being put on trial for gunrunning has got to damage his business dealings and movie career, surely? Remarkably he's let out on bail (presumably the jury was made up of screaming groupie girls like the ones seen in the very early episodes) but that doesn't excuse the fact that he was operating about as outside the law as it's possible to get. Whenever the Saint did that he would at least let the police know beforehand what he was planning if it were something big, and if it wasn't something big he'd still manage to keep himself mostly in the clear. Here Gene illegally imports a crate full of guns without a licence, wastes the time of the police and the courts for no real reason, and he's let off.
Hanging's too good for him, I tell you.
Mr Parminter is a Very Cautious Man – Parminter is most distressed to learn that his pal Gene Bradley has taken up gun-running, and allows a little of that grief to creep onto his face when their eyes meet just after Gene's trial.
Is their romance doomed?
Anyway Parminter has Gene followed, by Parminter, and is eventually let in on the plan. Gene explains that he couldn't have told him about it right away because he's been hired by the President of the African nation in which dwell the aforementioned rebels, and also because "I was sick and tired about hearing your excuses about why you hadn't caught up with Calloway all these years!"
Um…the man is dead, yes? He has a grave and everything. That could be the reason nobody caught up with him.
"What About Diane?" – I really really miss Diane. In fact, I miss her so much that I wrote a song about my feelings for her, and got Stuart 'Too Tall' Damon to sing it for me. He's a good bloke, 'e is.
It was on Youtube, but Youtube took it down, so…you can't see it. But imagine it. It was good.
"And Gavin?" – I like him too, but not enough to write another song.
The Oldest Swinger in Town – Gene is very nearly successful in beating off two thugs after starting a fight with them for no real reason, but there's no new moves on show here.
"Alright, old friend – let me see you!" – Gene is expertly defended in his court case by a Miss Ingrid Shore, who may or may not be an old friend. She follows him to his secret dodgy meeting with Stopford, which of course is perfectly not a conflict of interest in the slightest. She decides to leave the room before things can get too despicable.
"Go ahead and make your deal. If you get caught, I'll defend you, that's my job."
What? I don't know much about the law and stuff, but…wouldn't that mean she'd have to be a witness in her own case? If she knows that Gene is doing something dodgy she can't defend him, can she?
Can she?
One thing she can do is arrive without explanation (and with the police) at the end of the episode to do…well, bugger all as far as I could make out…
"Shall we take them?" – Stopford invites Gene along to his office to hear 'Calloway's' offer, but that's about all he does. He, his mute associate Graham, and another man (played by Freddie Jones) who is only ever named as Calloway, have been pretending to be Mr Calloway all over the world for the last however many years in order to keep making money from the vast empire that was already set up. Given that they all look utterly different from each other and that Calloway's business partners might already know what he looked like, and that Calloway is dead anyway, their plan is clearly foolproof.
'Calloway' also has three thugs – two of whom are named Russell and Soames and the third is a hotel porter – working for him, and the two with names somewhat sneakily do something sneaky to Gene's car while he and Parminter are at the cemetery looking for Calloway's grave. All we ever see is one of them hiding behind the car with a razor, which is proof enough for me of sneakiness afoot.
They tail Gene and Parminter until the Adventurermobile crashes into a tree, then drive past having seen that the two men they just tried to kill are perfectly fine. So, um…mission accomplished, right?
Fret not – everyone naughty is arrested at the end of the episode, so you can sleep easy tonight.
Quotable Quotes –
PARMINTER (on Calloway): "He's kept more wars going than any man alive! We've tried to catch up with him for years!"
GENE: "I know."
Permit me to stuff this pillow over my face while I scream incoherently for a few moments.
Gene explains the reason for his actions:
GENE: "President Yboto."
PARMINTER: "Oh, I see."
GENE: "The rebels in his country have been receiving supplies. I met him a couple of years ago, remember?"
PARMINTER: "Yes, I remember."
"You came into my office one morning, and said "I just met President Yboto!" And I said "Did you?" and you said "Yes." And there we have our sweet sweet continuity."
It's all falling apart for Stopford Graham & Stopford, and their poor secretary:
SECRETARY: "Mr-"
GENE: "Bradley!"
PARMINTER: "Parminter!"
I like that bit.
STOPFORD: "Mr Calloway-"
GENE: "-is a very cautious man."
STOPFORD: "…you've already heard?"
Yes, and it wasn't funny the first time. Or the second time. Or the third, or the fourth, and certainly not the fifth…
Cracking Cliffhangers – Mr Chief Inspector Tribe reads out the list of charges for which Gene is finally being taken into custody; "misrepresenting a customs declaration, unlicenced possession of a weapon, or weapons, and illegally attempting to export the said weapons….Mr Bradley, I think you'd better get your coat."
To which Gene replies "Don't you like this one?"
Ba-dum-boom-tish. Actually, for this series, that's a reasonably good opening…
The Irony of It All – "I do not create conditions that make for terrorism!"
"What's it all about, Gene?" – Would Parminter really go along to the docks and demand a package for Gene be opened just because somebody who wouldn't give his name phoned him up and told him "you'd be surprised what's inside it"? He seems more like the sort of chap who would then phone up Gene and go "I say, Gene, I just had the strangest conversation on the telephone…" and actually ask Gene what was going on.
The package Gene has sent to the docks gives his address as 29 Westminster Mews, despite him living at number 20 back in episode 19. This may not be a continuity error as such, though…perhaps he owns the entire street, and all the interiors are linked together in one big long mansion, thereby explaining all those wonderful inconsistencies in his home that have been driving me crazy.
Except for that time a woman walked through a solid brick wall, of course.
My theory is further confirmed by the number 20 on his front door.
Yep, He owns the entire street alright.
"It's all rather difficult." – As you can see from the piccy up top the footage seen behind the episode title and credits makes it look like London has just been plunged into a nuclear winter.
Also, given the terrible murkiness of the DVD it's difficult to make out, but as Gene discovers his car's brakes are gone the shots of the speeding countryside as seen through the windshield show that the car bonnet is red, when the car itself is silver.
And there's also some spectacularly dodgy back-projection during the chase, but that's to be expected, natch.
The Defining Moment – comes right at the start of this episode, as we join Gene practicing his Dick Van Dyke impression, and looking for all the world like he's finally lost it and is sitting around his house talking to himself.
Our hero, ladies and gentlemen. What an utter loon.
A runner-up would be Gene's car crash, which involves him just missing a tractor, then swerving off screen. After a shot of Gene and Parmy bracing for impact we cut to a shot of a lone hubcap landing on the road (!), then back to Gene and Parmy sitting in the smashed-up car, uninjured.
After it collided with a stationary tree while doing at least 50 mph.
Still, could have been worse. If ITC had had stock footage of that make of car falling off a cliff, then brother, it would have fallen off a cliff…
Ramblings – I don't got much more to add, but isn't it amazing to think we're just two episodes away from the end of the series now? Gosh.
Rating – 2/5. I just got done watching it and all I can remember about it is that it wasn't very good.
Still, I'm sure all this is building to an absolutely cracking finale.
"One plus one…um…ahh…"
I bet you anything that Jason King is in that crate, and he's being smuggled behind the Iron Curtain. Again.
The Super Deluxe Adventurermobile, shortly before its untimely (and goofy) demise.
Gene Barry's 'This is Your Life' was a somewhat sombre affair…
"Don't mind me, your tyre just, um…needed shaving…"
The Very Cautious Mr Calloway, accompanied by the Somewhat Less Cautious Mr Russell and the Downright Short Mr Soames.