Down in second place is Thor: The Dark World which has made £13,973,977 in the UK box office in its second week. The film follows the story of Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth, who must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman, and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all. Tom Hiddleston, as bad guy Loki, also reprises his role from the first. Thor: The Dark World grossed £2,979,564 last weekend.
British drama film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, Philomena, is in third place making £1,407,318 last weekend. The film follows a world-weary political journalist, Martin Sixsmith (Coogan), as he picks up the story of an Irish woman's (Dench) search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. Philomena met with positive reviews and has made a total of £4,762,182 with Jason Korsner of UK screen stating, 'In many ways, Philomena is an odd-couple road movie across space and time which manages to squeeze a surprising amount of humour out of the stunningly bleak story at its heart.
Captain Phillips is at fourth place with £1,063,974 being made last weekend, bringing its total to £13,344,620. The film is the true story of mariner Captain Richard Phillips, played by Tom Hanks, who was taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean during the Maersk Alabama hijacking.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is in sixth place after making £675,311 last weekend. The film's plot revolves around 86 year-old Irving Zisman who is ordered to take his 8 year old grandson to see his father after his mother is jailed. Bad Grandpa has made a total of £5,292,385 in the UK.
Fourth week in the box office charts for 3D animated sports film, Turbo as it brings in £576,827 last weekend, making it to seventh place. A remarkable cast voice the characters including Ryan Reynolds, who voices Theo aka Turbo, Snoop Dogg, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph, Michelle Rodriguez and Samuel L. Jackson as the film makes a gross of £10,431,843 in the UK. Turbo is in fifth place after making a total of £9,711,401 last weekend.
The controversial Ender's Game, which was in the news for the authors' opinions on homosexuality, is in eighth place, in its third week of release, making £173,541. The American science fiction tells the story of the International Military as they seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender's Game has brought in £2,832,047 in UK profits.
In ninth place is Bollywood superhero film, Krrish 3, which follows Krrish and his scientist father have to save their family, and the world, from an evil man named Kaal and his team of human-animal mutants led by the ruthless Kaya. The film made £147,633, bringing its total to £717,930 in the UK last weekend.
Lastly, One Chance, a film about Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts and his life struggles, has made a total of £2,224,014 with £133,816 coming from last weekend.
Look out for next week: The Butler, The Counsellor, Don Hemingway and Don Jon.


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Are You Better Off? Democrats In Charlotte Say It's Complicated
Published September 4, 2012 at 12:11 PM PDT
Caroline Sink (from left), Liz McKeithen, Mary Edith Alexander and Sue Collins were handing out lemonade and cookies in front of the First Presbyterian Church.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
As Mark reported earlier, that's the question Republicans want Americans to ask themselves as they head to the polls this November.
The question was brought to the forefront after Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley was asked that question on CBS' Face the Nation.
"No," he said. "But that's not the question of this election. The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush ..."
The Hill also released a poll today looking into the same question. It found that nearly a third of respondents felt the country was in a "better condition." About 15 percent said the country was about the same.
We wanted to get a feel for how people on the streets of Charlotte, N.C., with the Democratic National Convention on their doorstep, felt about that question. Overall, at first we got a quick and enthusiastic "yes." But as they thought it over, a more complex picture emerged.
About five blocks from the Time Warner Cable Arena, we stumbled upon the First Presbyterian Church. It's a majestic church, with an imposing spire, built in the 1800s. Some of its congregants were out on the lawn sipping lemonade and handing out homemade cookies to passersby.
It was an exquisitely Southern scene. Most there were Democrats, so when I posed the question, "Are you better off?" — they pounced.
"It would have been far worse had Obama not been elected," said Caroline Sink, a lawyer. "Not everything worked, but it takes two to tango," she added, referring to what she said was a Republican House that was intent on obstruction.
Mary Edith Alexander, an art curator, said that Obama had stabilized the economy, and "it's become better."
Another lady in the group, 77-year-old Sue Phillips, said that she was disappointed that President Obama had abandoned the Bowles-Simpson commission's deficit reduction plan.
"And I understand why [Obama] did it," she said — because he used up his political capital on health care reform.
We walked across the uptown area — as downtown here is known. It was buzzing with activity. Delegates were milling about, vendors hawked pins, T-shirts and pictures of the president and the first lady. And every few blocks, there were anti-abortion protesters.
On the outskirts of downtown, right in front of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, was the officially sanctioned "free speech zone," a green area surrounded by barricades, where protesters were given a stage and microphone to air out their grievances.
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Bob Kunst says he's voting for Mitt Romney because he's upset with President Obama's foreign policies.
That's where we met Bob Kunst, who said he was the president of Shalom International in Miami Beach, Fla. He said he drove to Tampa for the Republican National Convention, and just kept driving up the coast and on to Charlotte.
He was inside the pen, wearing a blue shirt emblazoned with the word "infidel," and he wore a button that said, "Oy vey Obama."
When I asked him if he was better off, he answered the question in terms of foreign policy. Obama, he said, has caved to Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and he has allowed Iran to get closer to a nuclear weapon.
No, he's not better off, he said, because after four years, Obama has left Israel in a precarious state.
We kept walking. Past the restaurants, past the throngs of reporters, until we got to the Time Warner Cable Arena. You can't really get anywhere near the place without credentials. Every car is checked, and the crosswalks are locked down by metal barricades.
Creola Boswell (left) and her sister Susie Collins flew to Charlotte from California to enjoy the convention atmosphere.
But Creola Boswell, 69, and her sister Susie Collins, 58, flew from California to be here.
They were sitting on a bench in the shadow of all the arena security. They were eating ice cream and taking in the scene.
Boswell said Obama's presidency has made things better for her as an individual. She's retired and on a fixed income, and her tax bill went from $1,000 in the Bush years to nothing in the Obama years. Her grandson, whom she said had a medical condition, was able to attain insurance because of Obamacare.
Is she better off? Absolutely. What frustrates her, she said, is the American people "don't understand what he's done."
"No one is going to be perfect," her sister Susie added. But Obama pulled the country out of a recession, she said, and he deserves more time to see his policies through.

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Argument: Wave power generators obstruct and are a hazard to fishers
Debate: Wave power
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"Efforts to Harvest Ocean's Energy Open New Debate Front". Wave Power. 8 Dec. 2007 - "Opposition from fishermen who don't want these million-dollar buoys in the middle of the ocean."
"Off Oregon's coast, wave power makes a splash". Forecast Earth. 30 Sept. 2008 - "Linda Buell owns Garibaldi Charters with her husband, Mick, and co-chairs an advisory committee of fishing interests. She said she appreciates the early discussions with the developer but is concerned about potential conflicts.
At the Garibaldi site, the devices would lie in the middle of important chinook fisheries, she said, and at Netarts, in prime crabbing grounds.
'They can't just come in here and grab up fishing grounds without offering anything in return,' Buell said."
Maddalena Jackson. "Proposal to harness wind power off Mendocino coast worries fishing industry". The Sacramento Bee. 11 Aug. 2008 - Others are wary. "When you first hear about it, you think, 'That's a great idea!' " said Jim Martin, director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance.
He's concerned wave power may interfere with fisheries. He wonders if electrical signatures from the devices also might disturb fish.
His biggest complaint right now, however, is that local fishermen and residents have had no say in the planning.
Martin is also associated with Fishermen Interested in Safe Hydrokinetics, or FISH. With local lawyer Elizabeth Mitchell, FISH is battling for a role in the planning.
A federal deadline has passed for gaining an official voice in the legal planning for the wave projects, alongside PG&E and federal energy regulators.
Mitchell has filed a request for a belated entree with the Federal Electric Regulatory Commission. She argues that an isolated community, with limited high-speed Internet service, and few residents who even know what FERC is, could not have met the deadline.
Jim Martin. "Wave Energy Projects Threaten North Coast Fisheries". West Coast Director, Recreational Fishing Alliance. 17 Nov. 2007 - Oregon's Lincoln County Commissioner Terry Thompson spoke about the impacts to local fishermen, and how some areas off Oregon's coast produce over $100,000 per square mile for the local economy every year. "The basic flaw in all this," he said, "is when the power companies mark off a box and say, 'this is ours.' We believe there is a better process. There will be untold conflicts if you go on the way you are going. There are businesses out there already, fishermen who depend on these areas for their livelihoods."
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Washington Township is one of the twelve townships of Jackson County, Ohio, United States.  As of the 2010 census, 782 people lived in the township.

Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Richland Township, Vinton County: north
Clinton Township, Vinton County: east
Milton Township: southeast
Coal Township: south
Jackson Township: west

A small part of the city of Wellston lies in far southeastern Washington Township, and the unincorporated community of Byer is located in the township's northwest.

Name and history
Washington Township was established around 1818, and named for George Washington, first President of the United States. It is one of forty-three Washington Townships statewide.

Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Jackson County, Ohio
Townships in Ohio

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A row erupted in 1990 when then chief cabinet secretary Mayumi Moriyama wanted to present the Prime Minister's Cup to a sumo champion in the ring.
Tokyo: The head of Japan's sumo association has apologised after women attempting to perform CPR during a medical emergency Wednesday were repeatedly asked to leave a sumo ring.
Women, who are considered to be "ritually unclean", are barred from stepping into them.
According to witnesses cited by local media, sumo officials threw large quantities of salt into the ring after the women had entered, in an apparent bid to "re-purify" the sacred ground.
In a statement, the sumo association's chief, who goes by the name Hakkaku, described the announcements as "inappropriate" under the circumstances.
"The announcement was made by a referee who was upset, but it was an inappropriate act in a situation that involves one's life. We deeply apologise," Hakkaku said.
"We pray from the bottom of our heart for safety of the mayor, and express our deep gratitude towards women who offered emergency measures on the spot," added the sumo chief.
This is not the first time there has been a sumo battle of the sexes.
A row erupted in 1990 when then chief cabinet secretary Mayumi Moriyama wanted to present the Prime Minister's Cup to a sumo champion in the ring. She eventually lost that battle in the face of ultra-conservative sumo bosses.
A decade late, Osaka mayor Fusae Ota took up the fight again, trying several times to present the champion's trophy in a tournament held in the city. She too found herself banned from the ring.
But the sport's stock has fallen in recent years with claims of bout-fixing, illegal betting and bullying, including the violent hazing death of a young apprentice wrestler in 2007.
Japanese Twitter commentators were swift to express their outrage, with one user writing under the handle @yoox5135 asking: "So women are unclean? The sumo association should go under. This is so stupid."
Another user, @miroku203, wrote: "If tradition is more cherished than a person on the verge of death who is in front of you, the sumo association should collapse."


June 4,1924- June 10,2018 It is with deep sadness the family of Bud announced his passing on June 10,2018 in St. Catharines, Ontario. Bud was born in Joggins, N.S. the son of Anthony and Flora (McDonald) Belliveau. He lived the majority of his life in St. Catharines and worked most of his career at the St. Lawrence Seaway. He was the last remaining member of his immediate family at 94. He is survived by his nephews Richard Belliveau and Warren Belliveau. By his nieces Brenda Chader, Wendy Stuart, Lisa Strathearn and Tracy Belliveau. Sister-in-law Ethel Belliveau and niece -in-law Beverley Belliveau and many great and great great nieces and nephews. Besides his parents he was predeceased by wife Isabelle(Gordon) and son Russell Jr. Along with his sister Margaret (Belliveau)Keeley, his brothers Lester, Bernie and his nephew Norman. He will be resting at the Patrick Darte Funeral home in St. Catharines, Ont. with burial on Thursday June 14, 2018. Donations in his memory may be made to a charity of your choice.


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Working on Romeo and Juliet
Full Name William Shakespeare
Title(s) Bard of Avon
Job(s) Playwright
Power(s) Phoenix Feather Quill Pen
Number of Issues 1
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William Shakespeare was a famous playright who lived from April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616. Many of his plays are very well known, such as Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and many more.
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It turns out that when he wrote Romeo and Juliet, he used a quill pen made out a phoenix feather. This had the effect of making the two stars of the story relive their lives over and over again. Romeo and Juliet met and married at least a dozen times over four hundred years. When Elise Rothman had Phoebe Halliwell, one of the Charmed Ones, doing a publicity stunt for The Bay Mirror where she married off dozens of couples, they approached her, hoping that having a Charmed One marry them would end the cycle that William Shakespeare accidentally started with his phoenix quill pen.
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All the screws are the same except for the 1 screw on the face plate next to the CF card slot.
You only need a Phillips screwdriver for the task.
Unplug two wires from the old pad set to fully remove it. When the pads are exposed, the 1st plug is on the bottom left and the 2nd is under the pad tray.
When everything was plugged in, I turned on the MPC 1000 and made sure the pads were working. After I placed the pad tray back into place, I again turned on the MPC 1000 and made sure the pads were working. Once the pad tray was screwed in, I once again turned on the MPC 1000 and made sure the pads were working. The plug under the tray was stubborn and would come out while trying to place the tray back in.
Placing the pad tray back into position wasn't the easiest thing to do. I had to loosen the board with the white button on top to fit the tray back into place. If you do this, don't forget to tighten the screws on that board.
When placing the housing back on the MPC 1000, be very carefully. I broke one of the plastic buttons while putting the cover back on. As you place the screws back on, make sure the button are protruding where they should be.
It's not so hard and the upgrade is well worth it if you are trying to get rid of the nasty version 1 pads that Akai originally put in the MPC 1000s.
This entry was posted in Music Gear Talk and tagged Akai Pro, MPC 1000, Sampler on January 30, 2016 by Eric PM.
I can sample vinyl anywhere with the battery operated Numark PT01 Touring!
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Great hangers for basses and guitars.
We've used these in our school classroom for about three years with nylon string acoustics and solid body electrics and basses. The hangers get used daily by students and are still functioning perfectly.
The arms are 52mm apart with a little extra for the compression of the foam once the headstock rests down. Just wide enough for a 'typical' nylon neck at the nut.


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Do you know who is talking to your son?
May 27, 2017 at 11:35 am | Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK
Forensics scientists look for evidence in the Manchester Arena stadium in Manchester, UK on May 23, 2017 [Lindsey Parnaby/Anadolu Agency]
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I am haunted by the Manchester bomb attack. Like many other people I'm angry, sad and confused, and have endured a rollercoaster of other emotions as I try to work out why a young British man would carry out such a revolting and savage act in the city where he was born.
To target children in the Manchester Arena deliberately, with the intention of killing, maiming and hurting as many as possible, defies reason. But that's what Salman Abedi did, with the result that 22 mainly young people had their lives taken from them.
I know many of the British Libyans who live in London and Manchester; I even travelled with a few across Libya as they fought to win their country back from the mad dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Standing in Benghazi in 2011, I watched these Libyans wave British, American and French flags in thanks for the air support they received in getting rid of the brutal dictator. There was even more flag-waving in town squares from Derna to Ajdabiya and Misrata. While, as an anti-war campaigner, I felt uncomfortable about this. Having spoken to the former occupants of the newly-liberated Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli, though, I was left in no doubt that this military intervention had saved the hundreds of thousands of people who Gaddafi and his son had promised to wipe out "street by street". A massacre of ordinary Libyan citizens had been prevented.
Image of Salman Abedi, Manchester Arena suicide bomber, May 22, 2017 [Twitter]
Not only did Britain offer a safe haven to Abedi's family and scores of other Libyans who had fled from the Gaddafi regime, but many were also able to return in triumph to Libya after military intervention by Britain and other NATO countries.
There has been a spirit of solidarity between Britons and Libyans over many decades. Libyans have had a soft spot for the Brits since World War II, when a series of battles for control of Libya reached a climax at El Alamein in October 1942. Britain's Eighth Army – including the famed 7th Armoured Division, the Desert Rats – under the command of Lt General Bernard Montgomery inflicted a decisive defeat on German General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, forcing its remnants into Tunisia. By May 1943, thousands of German and Italian fascist soldiers had surrendered and, I've no doubt, across North Africa no one cheered louder than the Libyans. Salman Abedi must have known this history and may even have witnessed at first-hand how British, French and American fighter jets provided vital air support to the anti-Gaddafi rebels.
French minister: Manchester bomber had 'proven links' to Daesh
Without this support, the rebellion would have been crushed; Tony Blair's old friend Gaddafi would still be running Libya with cold brutality; and the country would still be a two-bit petrol station for the West and a watchdog to stop asylum-seeking Africans from making the hazardous journey to Europe. The abandonment of the air campaign was typical of Western foreign policy, but that cannot be used as an excuse for Abedi to go back to Britain and bring death and destruction to the streets of his home city.
On subsequent trips to Libya I was introduced to the ex-Guantanamo detainee who formed part of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's protection unit during one of her official visits. I don't think that she ever knew about the connection but it was amusing, and a classic example of how some Arabs are able to overcome and then move on from trauma and injustice. Another was the rebel commander I interviewed who had been waterboarded and tortured by the Americans at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan; amazingly, he held no grudges and was very grateful when US air support enabled him to take control of his home city of Misrata. A large dose of pragmatism, stoicism and hellfire missiles helped his people move on.
I even met a former Libyan fighter who told me that he had planned to behead me back in October 2001 when I was being held in a Taliban prison in Afghanistan. "You represented the West and we were at war," he told me. "It was nothing personal." We both laughed – me probably more nervously then he – and I was suddenly and eternally grateful for the others who prevented him from entering my prison cell and killing me. It was a mystery to me why I was moved suddenly from Jalalabad to Kabul; I discovered why in Libya.
Apparently, the young Salman Abedi was said to be wanting "revenge" for the death of too many Syrians since 2011, but why target young Britons? Bashar Al-Assad is, without doubt, the biggest killer of Syrian children in the Middle East. Abedi's "revenge" makes no sense.
It is sad that so many Muslims in Britain, people like Abedi, feel that they are victims, although given the level of racism and bigotry to which we are exposed by the Establishment as well as racist individuals and groups, it's hardly surprising. However, we Muslims have got to stop this wallowing in self-pity and move on. If one Libyan can get over being waterboarded and tortured in Bagram while another can overcome the many atrocities he faced in Guantanamo to work alongside the British, US and French military, then you have to wonder what grievances Abedi actually had to make him kill so many innocent people with his bomb last Monday.
Yes, the Middle East is a basket case because of failed western interventions, but the regimes have to take their share of the blame, not least because of their misogyny, treating women as second-class citizens. If any Muslims are justified in feeling a sense of victimhood, in Britain and overseas, they are the women who keep many communities alive; they're the unsung heroes, and until and unless the patriarchies put an end to their negative social control, the Muslim world will continue to be a backwater visited only by prime ministers and presidents bearing massive arms contracts just waiting to be signed.
The big question now is who got to Salman Abedi and his network of friends, who may now also be dead or fighting for Daesh? He had no reason to hate his country of birth, but someone obviously messed with his head and took advantage of his immaturity.
Read: Brother, father of Manchester bomber arrested in Libya
Sadly there are scores of young men like him out there, unable to turn to any wise scholars for advice. The dumbing down of western society has extended to a dumbing down and shortage of Islamic scholars as well. Mosques are no longer magnets of learning and teaching; they have been turned into worship boxes, empty except at prayer times and run by committees who are afraid to hold open discussions about "controversial" issues.
Indeed, there are mosques in Britain with posters forbidding any discussions about Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Palestine. This nonsensical self-censorship has come about in part because the Imams and committees have been scared into silence by the government's failing Prevent anti-radicalisation policy. The mosque wallahs have to second-guess what local Prevent officials will deem to be acceptable. Incredibly, this varies from locality to locality and often depends on the approach taken by the individuals in question.
Young people will rarely turn to their parents for advice and, in truth, technology has advanced so much that they are often way beyond the control of their parents in any case. They are left to roam the darker recesses of the internet where jihadi siren songs begin to poison their young minds.
Instead of being loved and valued in the West, they are told by these faceless voices that Britain is a desperate place where women are not respected; a place where women should be hidden away and protected like precious jewels. This garbage is as damaging to women as it is to those who would exploit women through drugs, porn and alcohol.
The truth is that women are used and abused on all sides. The secret is not to engage with these darkly-dissenting voices. Studying hard at university, holding down a full-time job or making a long-term commitment should be encouraged and not sneered at; our young people need goals and achievements and the loving support of parents and community leaders.
Wander through any Muslim community and it is easy to spot the young people at risk; and if I can spot a vulnerable person then you can bet your bottom dollar that the Daesh recruiters can as well. I don't know who turned a young man born in Manchester into a mass killer, but somebody does; if they have any sense of honour and self-respect, they will pick up the phone today and call the relevant authorities. We really do have to stop protecting the toxic individuals who use and abuse Islam – or any other faith, ideology or politics – for their own perverse objectives. There is nothing "Islamic" about mass murder, and nothing "cool" about keeping mum.
No parent wants to see their son or daughter's photograph plastered all over the front pages as either a terrorist suspect or a victim of terrorism. It is incumbent on all of us to do much more to protect our young people, so here are some questions for any concerned parents reading this. Do you know where your son is tonight, who his friends are and what he is doing right now? Do you know who he chats to online, and do you have access to his Facebook and Twitter accounts? If you can't answer "Yes" to any of these questions, then make it your business to be able to do so. Your kids are not your pals, they're much more precious than that; they're our sons and daughters and we need to protect them. This is serious, people; very serious.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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For two years, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has been warning about the risks in the real estate market. By activating its anti-cyclical buffer in February 2013, Switzerland is entering new territory. This instrument is a component of the Basel III regulatory framework. It stipulates that the banks must increase their equity capital. The additional buffer is limited to mortgage loans for the financing of residential property in Switzerland and should amount to one percent of the respective risk-weighted positions; it is to be implemented from autumn 2013. In the estimation of the SNB and the Swiss Federal Council, the risk of a crisis is too high in order for them to rely solely on the system of self-regulation by banks in the mortgage lending business, and on the specific monitoring of individual banking institutes by the Swiss Federal Financial Market Authority (FINMA).The LLB Group already has available sufficient equity capital, but it is carefully monitoring developments.
A further issue which banks are addressing is the new role of bank branches. A decisive criteria will be the possibility of linking bank branches and internet banking. The bank branch will become an alternative to internet banking for clients who do not wish to use the internet as a means of access to their bank. The client experience of a bank will be characterized by an interlocking concept of mobile, web-based and stationary banking services. Modern infrastructure employed in an innovative manner will generate substantial added value, but the task will be not to design high-tech islands in the form of branches, but rather banking zones in which the client feels comfortable. With the opening of its new branch in Eschen in December 2012, the LLB Group has created a modern, communicative bank branch of this type.


When you get a new computer, or software, it should come with paperwork and/or software (usually in CD form). It is important to keep this information. Recently, I have had a case where a user could not find either their original paperwork, in this case license numbers. I had another case recently, where the user could not find their software, in this case the operating system installation CD.
In both of these cases, if they had kept the information filed, where they could have found it, the time spent would have been greatly reduced.
There have been many times where users have gone along for years with no problems, then something happens. Then either a license number, or a software CD is needed. Of course, when it can't be found, then it delays correcting the problem. Usually vendors, or support personnel, need to track down the information from archives. If it can not be tracked down, then often the only option is to re-purchase it.
So, keep all the important information on your computer(s) and software filed where you can easily find it. It can save headaches, and speed up getting going in the event that something does happen.


LUCKNOW: There is a need to upscale the renewable energy policy of Uttar Pradesh in order to mitigate the growing power shortage in the state, according to industry body ASSOCHAM.
"A clear roadmap with targets for development of renewable energy technologies based on overall resource potential is imperative to perk up renewable energy sector in UP", Secretary General of ASSOCHAM D S Rawat said while releasing a chamber paper here.
There is a huge scope to upscale renewable energy for meeting both electricity and thermal energy requirements in UP, said the paper titled 'Roadmap for tapping renewable energy potential in Uttar Pradesh'.
"UP is slated to deploy 10,697 mega watt (MW) of solar power, 3,500 MW of biomass cogeneration and 25 MW of small hydro power project totalling at 14,194 MW of renewable capacity by 2022, as such there is a grave need to mobilise huge investments for the industry to realise its true potential," Rawat said.
Renewable energy policy of the state must focus on bottleneck areas like mandatory net metering, feed-in tariff for rooftop solar photovoltaic, grid integration and evacuation.
Besides, the policy should also look into restructured and enforceable renewable purchase obligation (RPO). These will ensure compliance and develop a solution for better forecasting of renewable energy generation in the state, it suggested.
It also recommended for providing support mechanism for compliance and timely implementation of the policy.
"There should be a one-stop-shop for financial support, investor grievance redressal and time-bound clearance processes," Rawat said.
ASSOCHAM said that renewable energy policy of the state should address the land acquisition issue also.
"Pre-identified government land at district level committee (DLC) rate for usage by industry for solar power projects will boost deployment of solar power capacity in the state as it would minimise delays on account of land acquisition process", he said.
The paper also suggested the UP government to implement a dedicated cooking energy mission to accelerate use of modern sources of energy including sustainable and clear cooking system backed by fuel supply chain.


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New Optical Telescope to Join University's Astronomy Department
May 14, 2020 , by Emmy Hughes, Executive Editor
A new telescope, recently purchased by the University's Astronomy Department, will replace the department's older telescope that was irreparably damaged. The new telescope will be used for observational research, teaching, and outreach. Though the telescope was initially meant to be installed over spring break, the COVID-19 pandemic forced delays. Faculty hope that the telescope will be installed this summer.
The new telescope is a compact, 24-inch diameter telescope from the instrument manufacturer PlaneWave. It will be housed in the small dome atop Van Vleck Observatory, which was been home to a series of other telescopes operated by the University's Astronomy Department.
This includes the earliest telescope owned by the University, purchased in 1836. The telescope—called the Wilbur Fisk Telescope, after the former professor and University president—was removed and placed on display in 1986. An additional half-a-century-year-old telescope is currently housed in one of the additional domes at the observatory and is used for research and student training. A radio telescope is also operated by astronomers at Wesleyan.
This new telescope will fill an important niche. After the retirement of the Wilbur Fisk Telescope, each of the subsequent telescopes housed in the Van Vleck dome eventually needed replacing. John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy Bill Herbst explained the progression of telescopes in that space over the years, beginning with the Fisk Telescope.
"[The Fisk Telescope] was replaced, sometime in the 1980s by a 10-inch telescope that had previously been owned by an amateur astronomer in Middletown," Herbst wrote in an email to The Argus. "That telescope, in turn, was replaced by a 16-inch telescope that served us for many years and, now, the [new] 24-inch [diameter telescope]. This will be the first telescope in that location with the capability to perform professional quality research, and we are very excited to be getting it."
Recently, the need for a new telescope became particularly potent. Associate Professor of Astronomy Seth Redfield explained that the 16-inch telescope formerly operated by the Astronomy Department became incapable of tracking or pointing effectively and subsequently was rendered mostly unusable. Thus, finding and purchasing a new telescope became both necessary, and exciting.
"We were so excited to find out…that we could purchase a telescope that large that's 24 inches in diameter, and put it in that dome at the top of the stairs, and we could use it both for research and for the student observing and for the public outreach as well," Redfield said. "An unfortunate event of something breaking led to us exploring this really exciting opportunity."
The telescope, which cost a total of approximately $130,000, was purchased through a combination of funds provided by Astronomy Department faculty grants, the University, and gifts from alumni. Redfield explained that in recent years, the cost of high-quality telescopes has gone down, which allowed for this purchase.
This new telescope is optical, meaning it operates using visible light, rather than other wavelengths of light such as infrared. Optical is a favored wavelength range because visible light penetrates the earth's atmosphere down to the surface, without much absorption by atmospheric molecules. The new telescope is also an imaging telescope, meaning it takes pictures. This is useful for a variety of research projects that University professors are currently engaged in, ranging from studying stars to galaxies.
"I'll be able to search for new planets, and confirm and monitor ones that other people have discovered, and we follow up on," Redfield explained. "Bill [Herbst]'s work will continue, where he can monitor very young stars, and observe their unique behavior, as a young star with a disk around it or something [like that]. [Associate Professor of the Practice of Astronomy] Roy [Kilgard] is interested in imaging nearby galaxies, and kind of looking for big structures that are really faint, but give us a clue to the history of the…interactions that galaxies have with each other. You need a big area to see them because they're huge structures, but you also need a lot of time, because they're faint, so you kind of build an image over many nights essentially. So it's perfect for this kind of telescope."
Kilgard spoke more specifically to his research interests, explaining that this new telescope, given its robotic capabilities, is especially well-tuned to capture transient events happening in the cosmos. Kilgard is interested in capturing visible light counterparts to detections of gravitational wave anomalies. This is applicable to events such as merging black holes or merging neutron stars. While black holes do not emit their own light, neutron stars—which are formed from the gravitational collapse of a star—do emit light. The new telescope will be able to capture these events in visible light, which can supplement gravitational wave detections. This can help researchers learn about the formation of some of the elements that make up the solar system.
Kilgard also explained that the University is in a good position for making these kinds of detections, because we fill a niche of the night sky.
"Where Wesleyan is situated, we're so far east, because New England juts out from the East Coast, that we have this kind of almost unique slice of time that we own, after the sun has risen at the next further east observatory at the Canary Islands," he explained. "And so we're very well positioned to do follow up of sources in a particular slice of time."
In addition to filling a variety of critical research needs, this telescope can also be operated remotely. Redfield explained that once some of the necessary equipment is retrofitted, students will be able to operate the telescope from their dorm rooms, or really from anywhere around the globe.
"[The new telescope] is capable of doing completely autonomous observations," Redfield explained. "So that means it has a weather station, it assesses whether conditions are right, [and] it has an all-sky camera. It can tell, 'Do I see stars?' If the weather's good and it sees stars, it can open the dome up itself, and orient itself, and start taking observations. If clouds come in or if it starts raining, it closes up. And if it clears up at 3 a.m. it'll open back up again."
This is especially useful for a school located on the East Coast of the U.S., which does not have the advantage of continuously clear skies that observatories in the Southwestern U.S. or Chile have. Since the telescope can operate itself given observing instructions, it will be able to take advantage of differing optimal conditions over the course of an evening, preventing astronomers from needing to stay awake until conditions are right.
As a consequence of this and the telescope's additional functions, Herbst notes this telescope will be an excellent tool for teaching.
"It is right on campus, is obviously modern, using the latest technology, and can be operated in both manual and automatic modes," he wrote. "It will be a great resource for incoming majors and even advanced non-majors who just want to learn more about the use of telescopes and the exploration of the sky."
The telescope will also be used for outreach programs, which the Astronomy Department hosts regularly.
"This telescope will be an important component of our strong outreach program, in which thousands of visitors each year get to look through a telescope, see our lovely observatory and its exhibits, and hear a brief, understandable lecture on some recent advances in our knowledge of the universe," Herbst wrote. "Astronomers at Wesleyan, both student and professional, love sharing their passion for the sky with interested members of the Wesleyan and Greater Hartford communities. This new telescope will add to the tools we have to make our science come alive for others."
Redfield remains hopeful that the telescope will be installed this summer.
"I'm really hopeful that it'll happen this summer," he said. "We were going to have a First Light Party. And we still will, but it'll just be a while."
Emmy Hughes can be reached at ebhughes@wesleyan.edu or on Twitter at @spacelover20.


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Reality Check: The Trump-Kim Meeting is Just For Show
March 14, 2018 March 14, 2018 Categories Opinion
By: SARAH HEYWOOD
Nanjing: News agencies around the globe are in a frenzy after President Trump accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and for good reason. The meeting, predicted to be held sometime in May, will be a symbolic first – the first talks in history between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader (the highest-level American official to meet with a North Korean leader to date is former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who visited Pyongyang in 2000). That being said, we must not let our desire for progress give way to unrealistic expectations. Let's be real, the Trump-Kim meeting is just for show. It's an opportunity for Trump to boast of the "great progress" achieved under his administration, and an opportunity for Kim to prove that North Korea is a political equal to the U.S. on the world stage. Before we get too excited about Kim's "commitment to denuclearization," here are a few important things to keep in mind:
Lessons from history
This isn't the first time that North Korea has toyed with the idea of denuclearization. Pyongyang has gained a reputation for dangling the idea in front of the U.S. whenever it wants something, hoping to wrangle concessions from the U.S. and using the negotiations to buy more time to hone its nuclear arsenal. Take the 1994 Agreed Framework, for example, under which Pyongyang committed to the freezing and eventual dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program in exchange for international aid. North Korea received yearly fuel provisions until the framework fell apart in 2002, following the U.S. announcement that North Korea admitted to operating a clandestine nuclear weapons program in violation of the agreement.
Similarly, under the auspices of the six-party talks, a tentative agreement was reached in 2005 when North Korea pledged to surrender its nuclear weapons program in return for the provision of aid and economic cooperation. However, shortly following the agreement, North Korea announced its first successful nuclear weapons test in 2006.
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Historically, Kim Jong Un has no reason to trust the U.S. either. As is frequently mentioned by North Korean officials, the downfall of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi began when he agreed to abandon his nuclear weapons program in 2003. This enabled an uprising backed by the U.S. and NATO to overthrow the Gaddafi regime in 2011.
Deep-rooted mistrust on both sides is a major stumbling block to progress. Who moves first? North Korean denuclearization or the removal of U.S. troops from South Korea? Before any substantial progress can take place, some semblance of mutual trust must be established between Washington and Pyongyang.
Testimonies from North Korean defectors
Since Kim Jong Un came into power, he has made the advancement of nuclear weapons technology the nation's top priority. Out of the six total nuclear weapons tests in North Korea, four have been carried out after Kim Jong Un became leader in 2011, with each weapon stronger than the last. Though Kim Jong Un may say that he is committed to denuclearization, reports from North Korean defectors suggest that the North Korean leader is unlikely to follow through with such promises.
Through my volunteer work as a Korean to English translator for PSCORE (People for Successful Corean Reunification), a South Korean NGO, I've learned a lot about Kim Jong Un's promotion of nuclear weapons. One defector expressed that the government propagates claims like, "Because we have nuclear weapons, we can vanquish everyone with our strength." Another defector was told that "we must have nuclear weapons to live" because "nuclear weapons allow us to confront America," and after Kim Jong Un came into power, one defector stated that documentaries came out nearly every week, stressing that "through our nuclear weapons, we are a great military power."
Based on these testimonies, it seems like a Trump-Kim meeting will be used as propaganda to demonstrate that North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities have made it a political equal of the U.S. Rather than serve as a reason to denuclearize, it may well incite greater emphasis on the importance of nuclear weapons to North Korean survival.
For the above reasons, I am skeptical of what immediate gains we can realistically expect from the Trump-Kim meeting. It seems like this meeting is just a chance for Trump to stroke his ego by undertaking something none of his predecessors accomplished, and for Kim to attempt to loosen sanctions and gain international legitimacy as the U.S.'s political equal. This is not to say that the meeting should not take place – dialogue in any form is better than the current status quo. However, it's just the beginning. For any substantial progress to be made, Trump needs to lay a positive foundation for continuing communication with the North. My hope is that Trump refrains from hurling any insults and leaves the deal-making to the experts.
Sarah Heywood is a staff writer at the Nanjing Bureau. She is an HNC Certificate/SAIS MA student currently completing her certificate at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center before starting at SAIS DC next fall.
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Olá! I'm back from 2 weeks in Portugal, my annual solo trip for this year… Well semi-solo this time around, since the first half of it was spent with dear Y in Lisbon and Lagos before she took off for Spain and I hung around in Portugal. It's gonna be super busy in the upcoming weeks getting all the posts together, so here's a bit of a pictoral round up just to give you a bit of a teaser of my entire trip.
Check out all my Portugal related posts here!
Portugal is a pretty amazing country to visit. I didn't know very much about it going in, other than that it was next to Spain and I was probably gonna see a lot of castles and churches there, but it surprised me with its various other facets – from the amazing street art not just in Lisbon, but in almost all the cities I visited.
mural done earlier in the year by Aryz found near the Lagos bus station.
The widespread use and sheer variety of Azulejos, the decorative tiles introduced by the Moorish back in the day embraced and adapted to Portuguese style also kept me quite busy taking pix throughout the trip.
and of course to the great hearty food that's generally cheap and filled me right up to the brim. It was mostly pork and seafood, and I'm heartily sick of ham and cheese at this point.
Cataplana for 2 is like feeding an entire Asian family! A soup stew with clams, pork and prawns, it was absolutely amazing.
And the walking, all that walking and the endless hills to climb – Portugal apparently is known for producing good quality shoes, and it's no wonder given the extremely hilly terrain they have to deal with! I bought myself a cute pair of cork booties as a nice souvenir of the city, so we'll see whether that is true in the long run.
Only called Pasteis de Belem in this store, it's known as Pasteis de Nata everywhere else in Portugal.
I spent a fair bit of time exploring the street art scene as well as queuing 4 hours to visit the Galerias Romanas, something even the locals don't always have the chance to do.
A day trip out to nearby Sintra to check out the medieval ruins ended up in an unexpected detour to Cabo da Roca, the quite stunning western-most point of Europe.
The weather in the Algarve in the south was very lovely and appropriately warm and sunny, and we enjoyed both the coastal cliff beaches of Lagos and the beautiful flat sandy beach in Tavira. Again, unexpected encounters with street art in Lagos ended up in a really tiring but enjoyable art discovery of the little beach town, while the quiet little town of Tavira was a great midpoint break and a nice way to start off the solo half of my trip.
After that I headed all the way up North to Porto, which is a stunning city right from the get-go, as you enter the city via train and the valley comes into view. Even the train station is a work of art in itself!
Naturally I had a lot of Port and probably ate my weight in meat, spent a lot of time by the Douro river and while it rained down on me during several bits of the trip, I still had a great experience overall.
A day trip out to the medieval town of Guimaraes was a nice change of pace from the wine, if perhaps not the most exciting.
And of course no trip is special without the sheer variety of random friends and acquaintances you make on it, however fleeting they may be. Dutch mum and balcony neighbour Vivian had a nice leisurely exploration of Tavira together, while Puerto-Rican native Lui from New York became a familiar face who made the various walking tours more fun. Aussie-Polish couple Sean and Joanna whom I ran into twice quite serendipitously in Porto were really cool folk I'd love to get to know better and even the various older folk (mostly Canadian or German) that I got to know at various junctures definitely made the travel more fun, whether it was sharing some really strong alcohol in Coimbra, or just waiting in the long queues for the bus in Sintra.
Big shout out to Bloghouse buddy Julika from Sateless Suitcase who gave some really great tips on Portugal. And thanks to the folk from Oppo Singapore who loaned me a Oppo N1-Mini phone to test on the trip – the majority of the photos you'll see are from this phone, which has a flippy camera that makes taking selfies easier. This trip was the first time I tried booking AirBnB accommodations as well which resulted in some pretty cool stays.
*New users can use the Airbnb link above for S$50 credit. It will give me some credit in return that I can use for myself as well, whee!
taking the Oppo N1 Mini for a spin. The details on using this phone with the swiveling camera here.
Obrigado Portugal for an excellent trip! Now, where to begin blogging about it? Besides the usual fare like accommodation reviews and city guides, you're also likely to see a bunch of street art guides as well, and I think I'll need an entire post just to dedicate to my obsession with Azulejos too… Check out all my Portugal related posts here.
I've just begun posting about my two weeks in Portugal and it's great fun to see another side of it that I didn't make it to! Looking forward to the rest of your posts!


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Casey Veggies Drops Debut Album, 'Live & Grow'
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It's been a long time coming for Casey Veggies.
The (2)Dope To Sleep On alum has grown tremendously throughout his career, building his fanbase and his stats as one of Los Angeles' most exicting newcomers. From his acclaimed 2010 mixtape Sleeping In Class to 2013's Life Changes, Casey would ultimately sign a major label deal with Epic Records and notch a regional smash in the YG and IAMSU!-featured "Backflip," all while working on his major label debut.
Finally, casey's Live & Grow has arrived. A 13-track effort, the album features a wide-ranging array of guests: Dom Kennedy, DeJ Loaf, Hit-Boy, BJ The Chicago Kid, Ty Dolla $ign, and more.
Stream the album on Spotify (below) or Apple Music, and be sure to cop on iTunes.
As a bonus, watch Footaction's "Veggie Stoop" with Casey down bottom.
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This is an Aboriginal perspective on education. It's a great metaphor. And there are clear links to similar discussions we have here on the same topics.
It's just over 5 minutes long and great food for thought. Hat tip: Rachel Bulliff.
Let me know any thoughts or comments.
Very good way to express it. Love the metaphor of the river compared to the desert – so different. So easy to take for granted a culture that has academic success as norm, not an exception. In my research I noted that the learners saw mathematical proficiency as an 'exceptional' achievement, not a norm. You could do it if you worked 'really really really hard'. Comments like 'just keep trying and you might make it'. To me this hints at learners being positive in the way we are positive about the Warriors winning the NRL. Yip, it can be done, and boy it'd be great, but it would be out of the normal pattern of things.
yeah… nice analogy too. Thanks.


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Вифре́д II (; ) (погиб в ноябре или декабре 957) — граф Бесалу (927—957; самостоятельно с 941). Второй сын Миро II Младшего и , представитель Барселонской династии.

Биография

Регентство
После смерти графа Миро II его владения были разделены между двумя его старшими сыновьями: Вифред II получил Бесалу и округа Валеспир и Рипольес, а его старший брат Сунифред II — графство Сердань. Два младших сына, Олиба Кабрета и Миро Бонфиль, остались без владений. Так как сыновья Миро II ещё были малолетними детьми, управление всеми владениями было возложено на вдову умершего, графиню Аву, регентство которой продолжалось до 941 года.

Начало регентства Авы прошло в борьбе с мятежами вассалов и отражениями притязаний соседних сеньоров на управляемые ею земли. Вскоре после смерти Миро II граф Барселоны Сунийе I, сам претендовавший на опеку над детьми графа Сердани, взял под свой контроль Бесалу, о чём упоминается в данных им хартиях, однако через некоторое время Аве удалось вернуть Бесалу обратно. В 935 году произошёл новый конфликт между детьми Миро II и графом Барселоны, когда Сунийе I попытался захватить владения богатого монастыря , находившегося в Рипольесе. Исторические хроники сообщают, что по призыву своей тётки, аббатисы Эммы, Сунифред II и Вифред II оказали сопротивление графу Барселоны и заставили его отказаться от намерения присвоить имущество монастыря.

Самостоятельное правление

С 941 года началось самостоятельное правление Вифреда II. Признав над собой сюзеренитет графа Сунифреда II, граф Бесалу получил от брата помощь в защите владений, а также во всех своих начинаниях. Оказывая покровительство церквям и монастырям, находившимся в его графстве, Вифред II выдал несколько дарственных хартий в пользу каталонских храмов, а в 952 году основал большой монастырь .

В 952 году Вифред II посетил в Реймсе двор короля Западно-Франкского государства Людовика IV Заморского и принёс ему вассальную присягу. 3 февраля граф Бесалу получил от короля хартию о привилегиях для монастыря Сан-Пере-де-Кампродон и о передаче ему и Сунифреду II имущества виконта Конфлана Унифреда, обвинённого в измене, а 4 февраля, по просьбе графа Сердани, получил от Людовика IV иммунную грамоту для монастыря . Вифред II стал последним из графов Испанской марки (будущей Каталонии), посетившим двор королей Западно-Франкского государства и лично принёсшим им клятву верности.

В конце 957 года в Бесалу вспыхнул мятеж, который возглавил клирик Адальберт. В ноябре или декабре Вифред II погиб, защищая один из своих замков во время нападения мятежников. Его тело было похоронено в монастыре .

Неизвестно, был ли граф Бесалу женат и имел ли детей. Преемником Вифреда II стал его старший брат Сунифред II.

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I hope everyone had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving with their loved ones. recently our editor has informed me that he no longer is able to edit the journal. We are a year behind due to a lack of stories being sent in to us. I have resigned as a Board member and chairman, mainly due to my twenty years of service on the board and for health reasons. I'm sorry to see us go on without a journal, but such is the fact at the moment. If any current Board member wishes to start up the journal, please let with the current Board know to discuss this possibility.
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Research encompasses core areas of fundamental physics as well as interdisciplinary border areas. In the core areas, research focuses on elementary particle physics, the structure and evolution of the universe, and the properties of complex classical and quantum systems. The interdisciplinary border areas include environmental physics, bio- and medical physics as well as technical computer science.
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Condensed matter physics deals with all aspects of the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter. Research at Heidelberg University includes a wide range of physical phenomena and mathematical concepts in both quantum and classical systems and ranges from fundamental many-body physics and quantum materials to materials science and modern technology. It covers fundamental questions central to our understanding of quantum mechanics, such as unconventional ordering phenomena and how complex multi-body quantum systems can be understood as well as aspects of surface science and nanomaterials.
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Doctoral students of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Physics can concurrently be admitted to one of the topical graduate schools in physics located in Heidelberg. (However, students of these schools must be admitted to the HGSFP).
These schools provide a focused programme in a specific research area, ranging from detector specialization through to specialization in quantum control and astronomy.
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Jeffrey Zuckerman
Radiant Terminus
by Antoine Volodine
Format pb ebook
"With the calm strangeness of dreams, and humor deepened by a hint of melancholy, these wonderful stories fool around on the frontiers of the imagination."
—Shelley Jackson
The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade people's dreams—including those of his daughters—and torment them for thousands of years.
When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyei's commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity.
Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally funny, Radiant Terminus is a key entry in Volodine's epic literary project that—with its broad landscape, ambitious vision, and interlocking characters and ideas—calls to mind the best of David Mitchell. (Read an Excerpt)
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
About the Author: Antoine Volodine Antoine Volodine (a.k.a. Lutz Bassmann, a.k.a. Manuela Draeger) is the primary pseudonym of a French writer who has published more than 40 books, over 20 under this name. Seven of his titles are currently available in English translation, including Minor Angels, Bardo or Not Bardo, and Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven.
"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary."
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A Greater Music


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The stolen Skull
A peculiar requiem
20 December 2020,
Henry Sienra
Some catholic buildings stand out due to the architectonic feats they represent and the pictorial art they keep. It's apparent that they try to portray, perhaps within rough terrestrial limitations a celestial realm aimed to depict biblical descriptions if only with bricks, mortar, and stone. Tall walls and columns of gigantic proportions supporting cupolas populated by angels, saints, and virgins of pious faces are most likely created to illustrate with profusion a doctrine of eminent aesthetic dominance.
This particular structure enshrined to San José and belonging to the village of the hacienda, the subject of my stories is no exception. Its structure is typical of the cross-shaped naves with high, round domes dotted with windows and a wide range of paintings throughout walls and columns of stone and gypsum. Cool and quiet in its interior it's seemingly the perfect spot for longing local parishioners to parade at intervals during the day avid for peace or perhaps to see the object of their faith preserved therein.
On this visit, we found the cracked, antique bell had been removed to be replaced by a shiny and polished new one. Both bells rested at the time on the street floor on the side of the temple waiting for the new one to be hoisted and installed. The pair was visible from the back of the house that hosted us located right alongside the church. Its entrance facing the handsome bell tower, mute for the time being.
It was a sunny afternoon, clear and radiant when my traveling troupe decided to attend a party in the village. Rejected the idea of partying while secretly relishing in advance the solitude and abandon in which I planned to listen to "my "music without restrictions for the rest of the evening. It was around 4 and my Stix cassette blared from the recorder. It was a piece I had memorized by having listened to it daily:
Harmless and innocent you devil in white
You stole my will without a fight
You filled me with confidence, but you blinded my eyes
You tricked me with visions of Paradise
Now I realize I'm Snowblind…
Almost hummed it while being unable to stop admiring the pair of bells. I kept ogling them fleetingly from the back patio since they could be seen from where I was. I couldn't help but notice the oddity of having them on sight while being the only person in town who could see them at all. Despite being on the street they remained hidden between two stony low walls. I was in the middle of those reflections all peaceful and relaxed when something extraordinary and incredible happened.
Thought the cassette had broken down for it grew mute unexpectedly. Hurried to examine it believing the mechanism had gotten stuck, but inexplicably it kept on rotating freely. Stood by the device in complete confusion watching the reels spin in silence, when suddenly got startled by a most lugubrious and sad peal coming from the recorded track in the middle of the musical piece!
Stunned and frozen kept on observing in disbelief the cassette turning when after some moments there was a second peal equal to the first and then another and another to total seven! Thereafter, the music resumed until it reached the end. Feverish now, I did rewind the tape to the point where the bells had started and alarmed and incredulous found out that the peals had been recorded on the tape over the music track!
In disbelief kept on rewinding the tape time and again only to confirm ever with more certainty that a paranormal act had taken place in the middle of the afternoon: seven crystal-clear peals were indelibly recorded on the cassette without human intervention and overlapping my favorite track. Next, a barrage of runaway questions came up. Should I be scared? Was there a message I had to interpret? I didn't know the answer at the moment. Frustrated and in shock lamented that my cassette had been partially replaced and just waited for my peers to come back from the party to dine and sleep.
The first thing I did the next morning was to go out to closely inspect the now-famous bells. My Mind raced at 60 miles per minute in search of some hint or clue that tells me who and why had they messed with my music cassette and if those bells had anything to do with it for it was too much of a coincidence. After having admired their colossal size, their structural beauty, the heaviness of the bronze material, and pictured the danger and difficulty needed to hoist them up, decided to deepen my detective work by entering the temple through a lateral door straight to the sacristy.
Open-mouthed before the minimalist but sober beauty of the place, scrutinized the humble details of the chapel and the sacred elements like the baptismal font, some cinctures, and solemn priestly habits hanging from a coat rack. My sight, now adjusted to semi-darkness could perceive with the corner of an eye an obscure object contrasting with the white walls over the glowing floor on the farthest corner.
Curious, got closer, and saw with clarity it was a human skull, just like that. Couldn't find any reason for a skull to be in a church, and neither found one to keep me from taking it with me so I could do a favor to the priest in the bargain who perhaps was in the process of getting rid of such a macabre presence anyway. So, with no restrains moral or otherwise, I stashed it down my jacket planning to convert it into a lamp.
Most probably owed to inexperience, I opted for an act I thought contributed service to the padre by taking with me a carcass that on the other hand considered of use, certainly unaware of the consequences. At that point, my elation for its possession compensated the hardship we were having on this trip and the intrusive recording of funereal bells that came out of who knows where that had screwed my cassette for good. Without being deliberated, it was nevertheless a kind of revenge where I confronted and challenged the other world while waiting for any response that could explain once and for all what was the message that they were trying to reveal by ruining my favorite musical recorded track.
I hid that bony head in my luggage without my traveling party noticing it and a couple of days later was back in Mexico City in my normal activities. Took out the skull from its wrapping and proud and excited placed it on my night table picturing just how great it would look with a red candle stuck to the upper parietal, or maybe yellow? How about black? Couldn't believe in my good taste and eccentric creativity wishing for the night to approach and get to see mi lamp shine in the gloom in that old mansion in Colonia Roma.
Every night, reclined over my pillow I turned off the electric lights to stake out the somber eye sockets under the candlelight. I seriously was in the hopes of getting some signal from the unearthly or any hint that cleared some existential question or a transcendental message. That nightly contemplation of the skull became the search for a connection that could reveal the secrets of life and death.
But nothing. Nothing took place. Only after several months started to notice a change in my emotional state; no longer was it merriment caused by stupid mischief or the emotion felt by having a human carcass in my room, neither the sterile and ridicule searching of some connection with the otherworldly.
To my surprise, the scrutiny of the empty eye sockets on that skull transformed my festive foolishness into guilty compassion for the person it had been in life. While watching my colored candles, suddenly felt great shame and repugnance of myself for having to my solace a human head in frivolous bondage without the respect every human being deserves alive or dead. With sudden compassion, I had now the imperious need to know more about that person for no longer was fun to look at it while having it as a lamp, or a failed window to the stars. Now it was a person equal to me with whom I coexisted under the same roof. I knew I had to take it back to the chapel I had stolen it from as soon as possible.
So, I took it off my night table, diligently cleaned the paraffin accumulated over the superior parietal, and stashed it in a suitcase with the firm resolution of taking it back to the village of the hacienda the first chance I got. I wasn't afraid, but I think it would've been preferable to the shame and remorse felt after having run over or denigrated a human being regardless of its clinical status. From then on, every time my friends visited and asked for my skull, I kept saying it had had a Christian burial while they laughed and joked. Only I knew it was in the suitcase ready to be buried by the priest of San José.
Came the day to travel to the ranch and punctually took the head with me. Waited for the precise moment to stealthily cross the street and get into the sacristy carrying with me a duffel bag in a casual fashion. The church was empty and was able to put the skull exactly on the same spot it was when I found it. Silently, exited the church without being seen. At a table talk, started to inquire about the story of that skull abandoned in the temple's sacristy. I was told that a madman had come into town kicking it and that the padre had rescued it to give it, yes, a Christian burial. Meanwhile, he had put it in a corner at the sacristy on the floor knowing no one would touch it because the respectful locals are kind of superstitious and fearful of the supernatural, and especially, the dead.
Already back in Mexico City, a witch interpreted what had happened. She said the peals recorded on my cassette were a call to requiem mass a dead person was asking for whose head was in the sacristy across the street. The investigation that led me to analyze the bells on the floor closely and then enter the temple to pick up the skull was no other than to fulfill the occult designs of that rite like a puppet. I didn't do a mass of the dead but an equivalent indeed for it had had company during eight months, a candle was lit every night while resting on a wooden table and I stared at it fixedly waiting for a sound or a gesture until piety and shame got me back my common sense.
No one knew I stole the skull and the padre knew nobody in town would ever take it. It wasn't a horror story in the least. However, it intrigues me to imagine what the priest would have thought alone in that temple. Probably the facts forced him to make a profound reflection over the arcane mysteries of life and death after seeing a skull vanish and, eight months later see it reappear on the same spot and in the same position. I just trust his ample theological culture kept him from believing that forces from the otherworldly took the skull for a tour of the dead before having been buried.
Attended high school in Los Angeles, CA and got GED certified. Taught English at IT University and Technologic Institute in Veracruz; was editor/ translator for Nexus Tours. Presently, I write investigative/didactic essays for Livingston Research London, UK.
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Home People Longtime Vancouver cycling advocate died after an accident doing what he loved
Longtime Vancouver cycling advocate died after an accident doing what he loved
Naoibh O'Connor
Longtime cycling advocate Arno Schortinghuis, who "travelled the world on two wheels," died Nov. 30, a day after he had an accident while riding home from a meeting about cycling.
Arno Schortinghuis died Nov. 30. He was known as a tireless advocate for cycling in the region. File photo Dan Toulgoet
The 72-year-old president of the BC Cycling Coalition and Richard Campbell, the organization's executive director, met with TransLink in New Westminster on Nov. 29 about the B.C. bike summit being held in June.
Afterwards, Schortinghuis took the SkyTrain part way home and then hopped on his bike to travel along Vancouver's Ridgeway Greenway. He was found on 37th Avenue just east of Ross Street. He suffered a spinal cord injury, which possibly led to cardiac arrest. But there were no witnesses, and it's unclear exactly what happened. He was taken to the hospital where he died the next day.
Campbell said when it came to cycling advocacy, Schortinghuis would do whatever needed to be done — from administration work to arranging meetings with politicians.
"He did so much, worked very hard and was a really kind and gentle person — really good to work with," Campbell said.
Aside from the BC Cycling Coalition, Schortinghuis was involved with many cycling organizations throughout the years. Previously, he was a board member and past president of HUB Cycling (formerly Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition), a co-chair of the HUB Cycling Regional Advisory Committee and a board member of Bike to Work BC Society/GoByBike Society. He was also a founding member of Canada Bikes.
Schortinghuis met his wife Jean Matthewson in 1977. They have two adult children.
"I'll miss my partner in adventures most," she told the Courier.
The couple went on a three-month-long cycling tour in Europe last summer, including biking through Hungary, Denmark and the Netherlands. Schortinghuis was born in the Netherlands. He moved to Ontario with his family in 1949 when he was three. He moved to B.C. in the mid-1970s.
Matthewson said her husband, who was a computer programmer for Finning before he retired, always talked about the mental, physical and environmental benefits of cycling, saying it's not wasted time if you go from A to B on a bike instead of sitting in a car.
But she said cycling advocacy wasn't the only volunteer work he was involved with during his lifetime. He also volunteered for the Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C., for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and on school parent advisory committees.
Schortinghuis' contributions to the region's cycling community, meanwhile, were highlighted through online tributes.
Colin Stein wrote about Schortinghuis on the Van Bikes website. The piece notes that the first time Schortinghuis became involved in cycling advocacy was when the city was rolling out residential bike routes and wanted to put in the 37th Avenue Ridgeway Greenway.
"Over the past decade, Arno put most of his waking life (or so it seemed) to advocating for and promoting cycling safety, accessibility, urban commuting and touring — to decision-makers, planning and engineering staff at all levels of government, in meetings, at public events, and across all forms of media — always with a characteristic twinkle in his eye," Stein wrote in the post.
"He was always the person to check a fact, look up legislation, debunk fake news, gently put down a troll, appear on-camera, help make quorum, start a new committee, and store (and haul out) the extra bus bike rack for a demonstration at a Surrey library. Arno was that guy."
Stein, who had known Schortinghuis since 2013, said he will be missed for many reasons, including his historical knowledge of cycling advocacy in Vancouver and his subject matter expertise.
Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (B.E.S.T.) described Schortinghuis on its website as a "local cycling legend" who "was a champion for increased sustainable transportation options and, in particular, the creation of safe and effective cycling infrastructure."
Erin O'Melinn, executive director of HUB Cycling, knew Schortinghuis for about a decade.
"He was very well loved. He got along with everyone, even when he was pushing hard to make change…" she told the Courier.
O'Melinn said Schortinghuis devoted thousands of volunteer hours to improve cycling in the region and had probably travelled on more bike routes in Metro Vancouver than any other cyclist she knows.
"Arno was an institution in cycling advocacy, and worked tirelessly for many years to improve cycling conditions within HUB Cycling, BC Cycling Coalition and Canada Bikes, among many other worthy causes. His generosity of heart combined with his tenacity made him a unique advocate who has left a distinct mark on safer and more accessible cycling," she wrote in a follow-up email.
"He travelled the world on two wheels, coming back with new ideas for local improvements, and gave so much of his time to see these improvements take place here."
About 80 people took part in a 35-kilometre memorial ride in Schortinghuis' honour Dec. 8.
A private memorial for family is planned for Dec. 17.
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I just got my sled back from the shop and it has an out of the water idle of about 5000 RPM. Have started it 3 times and only run it a few seconds each time because it is out of the water.
Had the limiter float in the tank replaced because it was previously been limited in top end RPM.
It is Saturday and shop is closed. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot the problem?
Checked the throttle cable and it has some play. The butterly valves seem to close well. Hi grade fuel less than a month old put into an empty tank. 110 octane fuel. Have not put it into water because it is a lot of work to get it in on our lake.
Ho doogrich, WELCOME to the Green Hulk Forums!!
I moved you here to the general area so others can field your questions.
Have you tried to turn the idel screw lower and see if the RPM'scome down?
You might also have a small vacuum leak, try adding a little choke and see if it brings your RPM's down.
Make sure to set the idle in the water after she's warmed up, roughly 1300RPM.


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