Dubai is a Paradise for shoppers– verily it is. There is a massive list of the products and merchandise you should buy in Dubai. From eatery to wearables and households, everything presented here is of Top-notch quality. In fact, your Dubai trip would be incomplete if you DO NOT buy anything from here.
There is a countless number of International brands for clothing and a vast variety of shoes that can give you a tough time while deciding best for you. Of course, the prices are high as compared to the other Middle East cities. So, to take the best of Dubai memories with you, you better you're your clothing plans and instead spend on much other cheaper, yet more impressive things. Below is a brief list of the must-consider souvenirs for you, while you visit Dubai.
Dubai being the city of Gold offers you very pure quality gold and yes, cheaper as compared to the rest of world. Come and explore the lanes of Dubai Gold Souk brightened with various eye-catching designs of gold. Remember, to bargain although the retailers are professional in handling the price deals with customers.
Who does not like gold? Gold is perhaps the most expensive and valuable item in the world since it plays a significant role in the development of economies as well. The countries have to keep gold as the reserve to print the money, and that's why money's supply and demand have a very high link with gold. The Arabs and Indians are famous for wearing gold jewels, clothes, plates, lockets, rings, etc. And that's why gold is sold in huge quantity in Dubai and other Gulf regions. The gold is expensive, and its price daily fluctuates, but its demand has never taken a negative turn.
Carpets are relatively high-cost souvenirs if you want to take along. Anyways, Dubai has various shops, which offer excellent qualities of Persian rugs, as well as carpets from Kashmir city of Pakistan. There are no taxes levied on them, so the prices are entirely fair. Some of the best mats of Dubai may be found in souks near Baniyas Road in Deira.
Dubai is a tax-free zone, which means that you can experience some of the amazing prices of same electronics, which will cost you higher in the rest of World. Make sure, you pre-check the Discount galas held in different seasons, to save a little more. Electronics is the, in fact, the best choice to purchase in Dubai if you are a Tech person. Almost every type of electronic is available in Dubai. The markets for electronics have a very high percentage of visitors and thus the selling and buying of electronics also strengthen the UAE's economy and Dubai in particular. The sale of electronics has increased in the recent years because of the digital marketing and Internet era and thus every foreigner must visit the electronics markets in Dubai. The items sold in these markets have a high quality and the prices are reasonable and thus the tourist is attracted towards the electronics' market in Deira and in shopping malls and superstores. Alternatively, you can buy online on souq.com.
There is a huge variety of silver culinary items, which are characteristic and symbolic of the Arabian culture. Take some, to add to your kitchen equipment.
If you are interested a little bit in perfumes and fragrances, visit Perfume Souk, to choose from the vast variety of scents and attars over there. The shopkeepers are very keen to help you decide the best for you. Give it a try, as it would remain with you even after your visit has ended.
The must-buy souvenir is the Came-milk chocolate; it is chocolate with the engraving of a camel on it, with a rich taste. Try it, so that it keeps on the top of the list of most-bought souvenirs of Dubai.
Perfumes available in Dubai have outstanding quality, and thus it is highly recommended to people that they should buy these perfumes whenever they are in Dubai, Perfumes are considered valuable gifts as well, and Dubai offers every type of fragrances which are available in the world.
Who says no to chocolates? Do you? If you do, then you need to visit Dubai and have a look and taste at the chocolates. Dubai has almost all types of chocolates available in the world and visitors have a huge demand for these chocolates. Their chocolates range from Camel Milk to American, European, Australian and the list goes on. The best collection of chocolates is in Dubai like Europe, and there is not an even iota of doubt in it. The best thing about the chocolates in Dubai is that they are available at all the shopping malls, supermarkets, superstores, souks, bazaars, streets, alleys, etc. The reason for the vast availability is that tourists have a high inclination towards chocolates and thus the chocolate sellers are living a satisfactory life in Dubai due to their demand for the business and products.
Some of the most beautiful and high quality dried fruits available in the world and thus visitors continue to buy these dried fruits while strolling around the city. Moreover, Arabs also have had a long tradition to include dried fruits in their lifestyles, and thus more extensive availability proves this statement.
Dried fruits are not the type of food which are widely exported from Dubai by foreigners but they are sure sold in a huge variety and quantity of the Arab territories and regions, and thus Dubai sees a significant amount of dried fruits being sold every day. The exceptional quality of dried fruits in Dubai often attracts Afghan and Pakistani tourists as well because the South Asian countries also have a long history with dried fruits.
The Deira Souk is widely known for the Pashmina shawls since it has many small alleys, streets, and bazaars. The material is always pure, and the quality can never be questioned. These shawls are displayed in a matriculate way which is another reason why visitors cannot refrain themselves from having a glance at these exquisite Pashmina shawls. These shawls are highly recommended if you have a visit to Dubai because they are delicate and elegant and are considered a valuable present as well. And thus people are seen in souks and bazaars buying Pashminas on a regular basis.
Do women certainly stop themselves from buying purses and extravagant handbags? It's a highly ambiguous question. And women have a very high response towards hand carries and handbags, and thus they are widely bought and sold in Dubai. The lavish handbags are designed in such a beautiful manner to attract women, and that's Dubai has a huge market of bags where the local Arab women and foreigners are often seen in the souks, bazaars, shopping, supermarkets, superstores, etc. buying the lavish and beautiful handbags. The prices are often not very high if the handbags are not branded and thus women usually buy in large quantities.
Clothes and shoes are perhaps the most widely sold items in the world. These are necessities of life as well because these two items are bought and sold throughout the year and thus they have no limited season offering. Men, women, and children have a very high inclination towards clothes and shoes and that too towards designer clothes and branded shoes. The clothes and shoe market in Dubai sees thousands of visitors every day who visit the market and buy their favorite products. The Dubai malls and supermarkets are usually filled with unlimited designer clothes and shoes and different and unique boutiques opened everywhere where ladies and gents are seen serving the customers. The quality has no match and thus the demand has never decreased. You just have to name the designer or the brand and Dubai will offer that to you. The beautiful outlets are opened throughout the year so that huge number of customers can visit them every day. The stuff has a good quality and Dubai often holds designers exhibitions on different retail outlets and shopping malls. The discounts offered at designer clothes and shoes are often very reasonable.
They were widely used in the Arab voyages and wars, and thus they are still available in the Gulf regions. Arabs seem to take pride when they buy or have the daggers. It is a symbol of bravery in the Arab areas. Also, Arabs attach these daggers on their holy festivals, and it is a ritual to have these daggers at home hanging on the walls. The knives are widely available in smalls bazaars in Dubai, i.e., souk, Deira, etc. These are not very expensive to buy, but some of them are made of pure gold which is costly. The tourists often purchase these daggers though not in huge chunks. The sizes of these daggers range from small to large, and thus people have plenty of options to choose from. These traditional Arabian daggers can also be given as a gift to others because of their delicate and beautiful.
Painted ceramics are perhaps the only item in Dubai which are not bought or sold in huge quantities but still they are widely available in bazaars and souks. These are beautiful pots made of clay. They are displayed in shops and are bought by visitors who keep them in homes as decoration pieces. The different designs and paintings drawn on these ceramics attract people, and they are cheap as well so you must buy these. They are heavy since they are made up of steel or clay, and that's why people do not buy these in large quantities.
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Граф (1760) Рома́н Илларио́нович (Ларионович) Воронцо́в (1717—1783) — действительный камергер (1746), генерал-аншеф (1761), сенатор (1760), владимирский, пензенский, тамбовский и костромской генерал-губернатор (1778—1783), один из первых деятелей русского масонства. Брат канцлера Михаила Илларионовича Воронцова и сенатора, действительного камергера Ивана Илларионовича Воронцова. Владелец усадьбы Андреевское.

Биография
Средний сын Иллариона Гавриловича Воронцова от брака его с Анной Григорьевной Масловой. В молодости Роман Воронцов служил (1733) в лейб-гвардии Измайловском полку, в 1730-х годах поддерживал цесаревну Елизавету Петровну, принял участие в перевороте 25 ноября 1741 года (увёз из Петербурга членов Брауншвейгской фамилии).

В момент образования Российской академии стал её членом. В 1748 году награждён орденом Св. Анны; 5 сентября 1751 года — орденом Св. Александра Невского, в 1783 году — орденом Святого Владимира I степени. За время царствования Елизаветы Петровны Р. И. Воронцов стал одним из богатейших людей России, владельцем поместий и заводов.

Грамотой императора Священной Римской империи Франца I (от  года) действительный камергер, генерал-поручик Роман Илларионович Воронцов вместе с родным братом, действительным камергером Иваном Илларионовичем, был возведён с нисходящим их потомством в «графское Римской империи достоинство».

В 1760 году Воронцов стал членом Уложенной комиссии, в которой, как и в Комиссии о правах дворянства (1763), выступал сторонником законодательного оформления сословных прав дворянства, в том числе права исключительного владения крепостными.

С приходом к власти Петра III Федоровича положение Романа Воронцова при дворе укрепилось, поскольку его дочь Елизавета Романовна была фавориткой нового императора; 26 декабря 1761 он был награждён орденом Святого Андрея Первозванного,  года — произведён в генерал-аншефы.

При Екатерине II был сначала в опале, даже арестован и выслан в Москву, лишён ряда имений в Малороссии.
Новым назначениям и карьере Воронцов оказался обязан народным волнениям. Пугачёвщина выявила многие недостатки провинциального управления империи. Попыткой исправить положение стала реформа 1775 года, по которой вместо 23 губерний было создано 50. Губернскую администрацию возглавлял наместник и генерал-губернатор, управлявший двумя-тремя губерниями. Генерал-губернатору были даны большие права.

В марте 1778 года, по указу Екатерины II, было образовано Владимирское, в 1779 — Тамбовское, а в 1780 — Пензенское наместничества. Первым владимирским, пензенским и тамбовским наместником и генерал-губернатором стал Роман Воронцов. Своими поборами и лихоимством он довёл вверенные ему губернии до крайнего разорения, за что получил прозвище «Роман — большой карман».

Историк князь М. М. Щербатов писал о нём:
Дело дошло до того, что Екатерина прислала ему подарок с намёком — большой кошелёк, который прибыл к нему как раз на именины и, говорят, так на него подействовал, что он вскоре заболел и умер 11 декабря 1783 года.

С другой стороны, выражение «большой карман» могло возникнуть как следствие деятельности графа Воронцова в «Вольном экономическом обществе». В своих печатных статьях он указывал пути к смягчению нравов крестьянства, а также, ссылаясь на собственный пример, предлагал помещикам организовывать в деревнях годовые запасы хлеба на случай неурожая. Настойчивые советы графа Р. И. Воронцова запасать продукты вполне оправдывают прозвище «большой карман».

Именным Высочайшим указом от  года повелено «род Римской империи графов Воронцовых ввести в число родов графских Российской империи».

Похоронен в Дмитриевском соборе во .

Семья
Роман Воронцов был женат с 1736 года на богатой купеческой дочери Марфе Ивановне Сурминой (1718—1745), скончавшейся от тифа в 26 лет и оставившей сиротами пятерых детей. Овдовев, Роман Воронцов не испытывал желания заниматься семейными делами и воспитанием детей. Двух старших дочерей императрица сделала фрейлинами и забрала во дворец, сыновья жили у деда — старшего графа Воронцова, младшую дочь Екатерину воспитывал вместе со своей единственной дочерью дядя Михаил Воронцов.

 Мария Романовна (1737—21.04.1779) — фрейлина, была замужем с 1757 года за графом Петром Александровичем Бутурлиным (1731—1787). Умерла в Петербурге от чахотки. Их сын Дмитрий был директором Эрмитажа; дочь Елизавета — супругой сенатора А. И. Дивова.
 Елизавета Романовна (1739—1792) — фрейлина, фаворитка Петра III, была замужем за статским советником Александром Ивановичем Полянским (1721—1818).
 Александр Романович (1741—1805) — государственный деятель екатерининского и александровского царствований.
 Екатерина Романовна (1743—1810) — участвовала в перевороте Екатерины II, приобрела громкую известность под именем княгини Дашковой.
 Семён Романович (1744—1832) — российский посланник в Великобритании.

У Романа Воронцова были также дети, родившиеся после того, как он овдовел, — от англичанки Елизаветы Брокет. Эти отпрыски, получившие фамилию Ронцовы (Ранцовы), «пользовались особенною нежностью своего родителя, так что на них уходило его состояние».

Примечания

Литература

 Алексеев В. Н. Граф Роман Илларионович Воронцов // Вопросы истории. — 2009. — № 4. — С.144—148.

Ссылки
 Виртуальный музей и архив семьи Воронцовых.

Генерал-аншефы
Сенаторы Российской империи
Члены Академии Российской
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You have to sign a waiver and have a safe word before entering the 'world's scariest haunted house'
McKamey Manor is a haunted house so extreme participants are required to fill out lengthy waivers and come up with a safe-word before they are even able to enter the house. Almost no one is able to finish the experience.
Author: Andrew Willis
Published: 5:05 PM EDT October 4, 2018
Updated: 9:12 PM EDT October 9, 2018
WARNING: This article contains graphic images and video
Netflix promotes its deep horror catalog every year in October. Among the popular subgenre horror films like the slasher, psychological, sci-fi, ghosts and others I found a documentary called "Dark Tourist."
"Dark Tourist" is a documentary where a New Zealand filmmaker and journalist David Farrier visits haunted, horrific and unusual tourism locations around the world.
In the last half of the final episode of the 'docu-series,' Farrier visits what many consider the scariest, most extreme haunted house in the world: the McKamey Manor.
I would peg the experience to fall under the 'gore' subgenre of horror -- think of "Hills Have Eyes," or "Saw." Located in Summertown, TN, the haunted house lets guests truly live out a real-life horror film for free, and those that complete the hours-long journey even win prize money.
On a brochure-type ad found online, the haunted house is considered "The worlds only TRUE interactive 4 to 7 hour extreme haunt experience." The wait list is as long as 24,000 applicants.
A 2014 article by the NY Daily News states owner/creator Russ McKamey and his girlfriend Carol Schultz have reportedly spent more than $500,000 (around 311,000 GBP) to make McKamey the scariest experience on Earth. That number is sure to be higher by now.
The horror begins before you even enter the haunted house as McKamey has his guests (always only two at a time) sign a 40-page waiver. In the documentary, the waiver was so long it took hours to complete. The signing process seems to initiate the horrific psychological experience.
Other requirements to enter the house include:
21 and above, or 18-20 with parent approval.
Completed "sports physical" and doctors letter stating you are physically and mentally cleared.
Pass a background check.
Be screened via Facebook, facetime, or phone.
Proof of medical insurance.
Sign a detailed 40-page waiver.
Pass a portable drug test on the day of the show.
McKamey also records the entire haunted experience on camera, and has had to use the footage to defend himself against legal trouble.
In an interview by Morgan Cook of the San Diego Tribune, McKamey said, "They know the truth that I have footage of everything. I tell people they'll get cuts and bruises. It's aggressive. But these people weren't injured like they say they were."
See if for yourself. Would you dare give this haunted house an attempt?
(WARNING: This video contains graphic scenes)
If you would like to participate in the McKamey Manor haunted house, I'm sure there are details somewhere on its website. I didn't want to stick around long enough to find them.
Andrew Willis is a Digital Content Producer at First Coast News, an avid Horror Film fan and can't wait for the new Halloween movie to come out October 19. He would not step foot on McKamey Manor.

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TerraPower, which is developing the 345 MWe Natrium sodium cooled fast reactor, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and two Mitsubishi business units to collaborate on sodium fast reactor technology. [press release]
The agreement will enable both sides to advance fast-reactor technologies for commercial use. JAEA, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Mitsubishi FBR Systems will share data and resources related to the development of advanced sodium fast reactor (SFR) technology with TerraPower.
Despite the obvious advantages of sharing technical expertise in this high technology domain, it's not clear that the two parties are on an equal footing. Also, the planned export of the advanced Natrium reactor has garnered the attention of nonproliferation analysts who worry about unintended use of the fast breeder design to produce weapons grade plutonium.
Scope of the MOU
Japan has extensive experience with R&D efforts to develop sodium-cooled fast reactors dating back to the mid-1980s. TerraPower is interested in technical cooperation with several Japanese entities and intends to work with JAEA and Japanese fast reactor industrial firms for advanced testing of certain components of its Natrium reactor,
Testing of materials and functions for components of the reactor are crucial as input to getting a license from the NRC and in issuing specifications to supply chain firms who will make the components needed to build the reactor.
TerraPower is on a tight schedule under DOE's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to build a first of a kind unit (FOAK) at a site in Wyoming. The 345 MWe reactors will replace the power generating capacity of an existing coal fired plant.
TerraPower is constructing the Natrium reactor through a public-private partnership with DOE. The department is contributing approximately $2 billion toward licensing and construction costs and TerraPower is matching that total dollar-for-dollar. In the first release of funding TerraPower received $80 million under the cost shared program.
TerraPower's CEO says he is confident the MOU will succeed. "As a nuclear innovation company, we value mutual learning with the broader global nuclear community and applying this expertise to ongoing efforts," said Chris Levesque, president and CEO of TerraPower.
"We appreciate the expertise that JAEA will bring to our project, and we are confident that our program will help them as they consider advanced reactors in Japan."
Likewise, the view from Japan is equally positive. "This cooperation with TerraPower will contribute to further development of the U.S.— Japan cooperation on sodium cooled fast reactors. We believe that It can provide a good opportunity for Japan to advance our SFR technologies toward carbon neutrality," said Toshio Kodama, president of JAEA.
Levesque noted that while there are many opportunities to share knowledge among U.S. and Japanese partners, there are several differences between the Natrium reactor and previous sodium fast reactors in Japan.
Notably, the Natrium reactor is a commercial power source that will utilize once-through high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel and is not intended for either breeding fissile material or for working in tandem with a reprocessing program. This distinction is very important as fast breeders are often tagged as proliferation risks due to their capability to produce weapons grade plutonium that could fall into the wrong hands.
Japan's Fractured Fast Reactor Program
I t isn't clear what the scope of the expertise Japan's team is bringing to the agreement. Mitsubishi's development of the the Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) was linked in a partnership with the French ASTRID project. The JSFR was a 750 MWe fast reactor design which would burn MOX fuel. Japan had visions of turning its spent nuclear fuel from its fleet of commercial reactors and having it reprocessed into MOX fuel and burned in fast reactors like the JSFR.
[ IAEA ARIS DBMS Technical Profile – PDF file ]
In September 2019 France pulled the plug on the effort saying it was not commercially viable as a design. Further, Japan's plans to have a commercial fast reactor by 2050 were probably severely impacted by the French decision to kill the ASTRID effort.
Separarely, the Monju design was a Japanese sodium-cooled fast reactor located near the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture. Construction started in 1986 and the reactor achieved criticality for the first time in April 1994. Monju was a sodium cooled, MOX-fueled, loop-type reactor with three primary coolant loops, designed to produce 280 MWe from 714 MWt.
The reactor has been inoperative for most of the time since it was originally built. It was last operated in 2010 and is now closed. A series of accidents, incidents, and reports of mismanagement of safety inspections all contributed to its demise. It is now in the process of being decommissioned.
The challenges faced by developers of fast reactors in Japan include;
Reactor design issues and challenges to work with new materials for high heat applications and all for first of a kind systems (FOAK),
Fuel development, testing and fabrication,
Regulatory agency safety review and licensing,
Developing a supply chain for the fuel and the reactor components
Most importantly, the developer of any new nuclear technology in Japan, which has a nuclear adverse electorate due to the Fukushima disaster, must be able to not only be successful in outreach to the public but must also convince a risk adverse publicly traded electric utility that the vendor can deliver one on time, within budget, that it will work as specified, and that it can be operated at a profit within the realities of a regulated market. These challenges come on top of complying with the strict regulatory regime of Japan's nuclear safety agency.
That's a tall order and neither of Japan's two fast reactor projects came close to addressing them with any degree of success. It may be, based on this track record, that Japan may get more benefit from the MOU than TerraPower will get from Japan.
It will be interesting to follow any funded work that develops from it. From TerraPower's perspective. While the firm hasn't said as much, the basic principle is that it is always useful to learn from the mistakes of other so that you don't make them as well. It's even better if your partners will get the benefit of learning how you solved their problems. Sometimes a little conceptual block busting goes a long way.
There's a lot that TerraPower brings to the table. The Natrium reactor is based on the GE-Hitachi PRISM reactor which in turn is based on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) developed at Argonne West in Idaho and the EBR II also a fast reactor developed at the Idaho lab. As far back as 2010 a task force of subject matter experts concluded that there were no technical barriers to licensing the Integral Fast Reactor. In 2022 the basic design principles of the IFR are incorporated in the ARC-100 which is a 100 MWe SMR being considered by Point Lepreau which is the nuclear utility in New Brunswick, Canada. In summary, the U.S. has a strong technical legacy on fast reactors to share with Japan.
Nonproliferation Concerns
More recently, two noted nuclear nonproliferation experts published an OP ED in a Japanese newspaper raising questions about the export of the Natrium reactor and the possible use of the design as a fast breeder which could produce weapons grade plutonium that could fall into the wrong hands.
Asa lead in to their OPE D, Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski write that the Natrium is to be fueled with uranium enriched to a level below that usable for weapons.
"TerraPower says no 'reprocessing,' or chemical separation will be involved, at least at this stage. That would seem to allay security concerns, but there is more to the story."
According to the authors, the logic of their concerns are;
Natirum is based on a GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) Prism plutonium-fueled fast-breeder design.
Fast reactors are very flexible in choice of fuel and can switch easily between HALEU and surplus plutonium from reprocessing or other sources..
TerraPower's commercial purpose is to produce a product for export to global markets.
It is possible, the authors say, "in fact likely, that international customers will want to run the reactors in the breeder mode, in which case they would have access to copious amounts of plutonium, the stuff of bombs. This creates the classic concern of proliferation, that nuclear weapons would be within easy arm's reach of many countries. International inspection could not cope with such a situation."
The authors point out that India and China are investing in fast breeders and have not been transparent about these developments. For instance, China has not been forthcoming about its work on its CFR-660 Fast Breeder reactor.
TerraPower's Commitment to Nonproliferation
So this is potentially scary stuff and the article raises an important concern. A check of TerraPower's website indicates the firm is well aware of the issue and has taken steps to address it. The website includes several statements about export of its design and nonproliferation issues.
"Depending upon market conditions, future generations of Natrium reactors could be larger designs, up to the GW scale. Doing so could allow the reactors to take advantage of the benefits of "breed-and-burn" designs that would allow the plants to be refueled with natural unenriched uranium or even depleted uranium. By enabling refueling to occur with these enrichment plant wastes or unenriched materials, the risk of proliferation from exported reactors is further reduced. Inside the reactor core, the reactor does convert some U-238 into a fissile isotope (Pu-239), which it then uses as fuel with uniquely high efficiency before removal. This is the same basic process that occurs in the current generation of light water pressurized reactors, which have been successfully exported around the world."
"From its beginnings over a decade ago, TerraPower has made reduction of weapons risks a foundational principle. Ethical global exportability is one of the keys to addressing human poverty and climate change. With the participation of retired weapons laboratory directors and their expert personnel, TerraPower laid out the once-through fuel cycle approach that avoids reprocessing, keeps used fuel intact and countable, makes fuel reloads a rare, monitorable event, and eventually reduces need for enrichment plants. The simplified total fuel infrastructure also reduces the opportunities for theft, terrorist actions or accidents during fuel transport by an order of magnitude relative to reprocessing-based approaches."
There is always a risk of uncontrolled proliferation of weapons grade plutonium, regardless of what reactor it comes from as the world is a dangerous place. The website statement shows that TerraPower has committed to an approach to prevent its efforts from contributing to that problem.
In any case, it will be a few years before TerraPower is ready to deliver on any export deals. That doesn't take away from the basic concern that some countries can't be trusted to manage their plutonium stocks in a transparent manner. This means these countries shouldn't be allowed to participate in nuclear technology export deals from the U.S. that could eventually result is making more of it for them.
This concern was reportedly a contributing factor in the U.S. government's action in 2019 to cancel TerraPower's collaborative work with China for development of its traveling wave reactor.
TerraPower has clearly stated its technical approach to avoid having its reactor be a source of surplus plutonium that could be used in weapons. The fact that the technology could potentially be adapted by other countries for this purpose means the issue remains an export control policy issue for the Department of Energy to address sooner rather than later. It is to the agency's advantage, and TerraPower's, to craft an policy that allows for exports of the Natrium reactor with appropriate safeguards to countries that are committed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
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The Ottawa Little Theatre Presents "The Railway Children" Until December 13
Posted by Eventful Capital on December 6, 2014
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By Hollie G. Davies for Eventful Capital
Theatre-going in Ottawa doesn't necessarily mean you brunch on the weekends and shop at the new Nordstrom. It's more accessible than you may think. At the Ottawa Little Theatre, prices start at an economical $12.00 and reach a maximum of only $25.00. Currently playing is a family production for all ages, based on a book by E. Nesbit. It follows the adventures of three children forced by circumstances from comfort in Edwardian London to the countryside where for a summer they become The Railway Children.
The Ottawa Little Theatre isn't new to the Ottawa's cultural landscape. In fact, this is its 102nd season, and is Canada's longest continually-running theatre company. The director of this particular production, Jim McNabb, came out beforehand to say a few words, informing us that what we were about to experience a very different kind of play. Since it's based on a children's book from 1905, and has only recently been adapted to theatre, it involves the usual acting, props, and lighting, but the cast also speaks directly to the audience, as a sort of narrative. I was highly impressed with the execution, as there was such excellent flow. For example, a character would be mentioned, they would prance onstage, and seamlessly blend into whatever was going on. In addition, it's always a pleasure to witness so much participation in moving the set around so graciously – you barely even notice you've been warped into watching a different setting.
The actors were top-notch as well, especially the children – Katherine Norland, Elie Dib, and Alexandria Hodgson. They offered a spin on their characters using much of their own personalities, and added humour at exactly the right moments. Alexandria certainly deserves some praise here, since she was taking on the stage for the first time with such professionalism that no one would have known it. With many great actors, designers, and a fantastic production team, it made for a fun-filled, well-acted, family night out at the theatre.
E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is being presented at the Ottawa Little Theatre until December 13, 2014 with nightly shows at 7 :30 pm and it's a perfect Holiday outing for everyone and anyone who enjoys the magic of theatre.
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Beau's All Natural Brewery presents Toronto-based Punk/Reggae/Grime band The Flatliners live in concert at the Vankleek Hill location. The fundraising show, taking place on Saturday, will include performances by Crusades and Audio.
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Newfoundland comedian Trent McClellan brings his Live Once Comedy Tour to Ottawa this Saturday night. Happening at the Ottawa Little Theatre, the show will have you laughing your heart out with this rising Canadian comedian.
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Brave New World Reconsidered: A Tale of Two Gnosticisms
Mark Shiffman
Many who are alarmed at the prospect of the "abolition of man" have found in Huxley's Brave New World a dark and salutary warning – an imaginative rendering of our post-human future that, as that future continues to arrive, looks ever less like prophecy and more like rapportage. We Americans (and especially those of us who first read Brave New World in the context of Cold War politics) are immediately struck by the totalitarian character of the society Huxley depicts. Under the complete dominion of the central planning of life, from in vitro fertilization to cremation (and reclamation of valuable bodily chemicals), there is a total absence of free thought, personal development, choice and civil liberty that disgusts us. While central economic planning and time-management shape the goals and rhythms of social life, the means by which technocratic control pervades every intimate aspect of life is socialized medicine.
The extremities to which Huxley pushes his portrayal make it rather easy, at least in these respects, to congratulate ourselves on living in what is still the land of liberty. But if we crop out the central planning from Huxley's portrait (and set aside the question of how far we actually are from it), I think we can only be struck by how effectively our own society has taken on many of the same features by means of freer institutions. After all, though characters in the novel are named after Marx and Lenin, the revered figure of its civil religion is the democratizing industrial capitalist Henry Ford, the man who did more than any other to liberate Americans from the confinements of place.
Here is an example that goes to the heart of the matter. In the second chapter, the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning explains to a new crop of technicians why children are conditioned to hate flowers.
If the children were made to scream at the sight of a rose, that was on grounds of high economic policy. Not so very long ago [they] had been conditioned to like flowers—flowers in particular and wild nature in general. The idea was to make them want to be going out into the country at every available opportunity, and to compel them to consume transport.
"And didn't they consume transport?" asked the student.
"Quite a lot," the D.H.C. replied. "But nothing else."
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy…. The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes. It was duly found.
"We condition the masses to hate the country," concluded the Director. "But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume manufactured articles as well as transport."
Americans, to be sure, are free to enjoy the gratuitous loveliness of the natural world. But the conditioning we receive from our media and pervasive advertising, and from our built and paved and wired environments, effectively discourage it. And although businesses like REI do a brisk trade in tents and sleeping bags, which allow you to spend time surrounded by the restorative beauty of the great outdoors, the majority of floor space in the store is taken up by the elaborate gear and gadgets required by those who want to move through the outdoors at high speed, on wheels or water.
The alienation from the natural world in Huxley's dystopia is carefully engineered to distract its denizens from the cosmic realities of beauty, mystery and infinity as well as from the bodily realities of fecundity and mortality. At the end of the workday, released into the open air atop the Hatchery building, the deviant Bernard Marx scans the azure sky and wide horizon, remarking to Lenina Crowne, "Isn't it beautiful!" Lenina: "Simply perfect for Obstacle Golf!" That evening Lenina and her hookup Henry Foster walk, shielded from the "depressing stars" by video billboards projected onto the sky, to a dance hall in which the effects of sunrise and blue sky are artificially produced and coordinated with the music. Afterward they wend their way, in "happy ignorance of the night," off to their rigorously scheduled tryst, kept docilely in the track of routine by the mood-stabilizing drugs that maintain "a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds."
One of the most alarming and disgusting sights Lenina sees when she goes with Bernard to the Indian reservation is a woman nursing her baby. Nursing flies in the face of the ingrained notion that "Civilization is Sterilization," and encourages all the particular attachment and emotional intensity that might threaten to ruffle the smooth surface of this harmonious and productive society. And besides, it is just too inconvenient in a world where everyone is so busy on behalf of everyone else, producing goods for them to consume and providing them with sexual gratification.
These are a few of the many details by which Huxley depicts what, elsewhere on this site (by myself and Jason Peters), has been described as the Gnostic character of modern life: a deliberate alienation from the created world and from the humanizing drama of bodily life within that world's order. Perhaps we can give the name "Neo-Gnosticism" to this modern rejection of the goodness of creation, which is expressed in the effort to remake the world as a thoroughly artificial environment, the hermetic home of human distraction.
The character who rebels against this constricted horizon is John the Savage, accidentally live-born to a "civilized" tourist who gets lost while visiting the reservation. John champions the Truth and Beauty that have been sacrificed to controlled contentment. One of the high points of the novel is John's conversation with European World Controller Mustapha Mond. We have earlier seen Mond engaged in censorship of some brilliant scientific research on the grounds that it might lead to the notion that happiness consists not in contentment, but in
some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.
It is just such a notion of happiness that John defends against the degradation of human existence to wretched contentment and physical well-being. John has learned from the Indians amongst whom he was raised that belief in God is a cornerstone to a more elevated existence:
If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage…. If you had a God, you'd have a reason for self-denial.
Mond replies:
But industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning…. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.
This is the opposition in the novel: On one side, the project of orderly and comfortable communal self-preservation, premised upon economic productivity and the elimination of passionate attachments; on the other, the intense feeling of one's existence that comes with self-restraint, self-denial, and self-reliance – including the intensification of love through the practice of chastity.
In the end, however, John's position (and Huxley's) remains another form of Gnosticism, one more directly descended from the ancient version. This lineage is traced in Denis de Rougemont's brilliant study, Love in the Western World. The core of Rougemont's argument is that the medieval Cathars are the connecting link between the old Gnosticism and the courtly love poetry that becomes one of the principal currents of modern European literature concerning love. The courtly celebration of chastity, Rougemont notes, is directed not toward cultivating a social virtue that prepares for the goods of marriage and family life, but rather toward the intensification of the individual passion of the lovers, and toward their tragic immolation in that passion. Such chastity serves not life, but death. It carries forward the Gnostic repudiation of childbearing (which is the social dimension of rejecting the goodness of creation), and builds this repudiation into a spirituality of love that is ultimately nihilistic.
Huxley's own Gnostic tendencies will be clear to anyone who reads his florilegium The Perennial Philosophy, a thematically organized collection of extracts from mystical and wisdom traditions. Where the wonders of the natural world enter into this collection, they serve as symbolic means to elevate the spirit beyond the world. As Jason Peters has eloquently observed, this one-sided elevation into the transcendent, neglecting the unity of finite and infinite that gets crystallized in the Incarnation, is one of the hallmarks of Gnosticism. (And if you want to learn about Huxley's discovery of the shortcut to intensified consciousness through dropping acid, read The Doors of Perception.)
Huxley's portrayal of this Paleo-Gnostic response to Neo-Gnosticism underscores the unifying principle of the two, which is the rejection of the goodness of the created order. John the Savage defends the elevating power of the True and the Beautiful, but has little to say about the grounding and vivifying potency of love of the Good. This Paleo-Gnosticism is often at the heart of visions that pass for conservative (for example, those of Peter Viereck and Allan Bloom), because they share the Nietzschean contempt for the contentment and mendacity of the "Last Man."
Moreover, as the final gambit of John the Savage suggests (when he goes off to live alone and grow his crops), such revulsion can even motivate the glorification of agrarian self-sufficiency. John's agrarian project involves no concrete embodiment of the natural goods of community and animal husbandry (and indeed the novel notably lacks any significant presence of animal life). This reactionary agrarianism in the void can (symbolically speaking) only end as it does, in suicide. The good cannot be real to us as a mere ideal, counterpoised against what is contemptible. It can only be real in its concrete embodiments in the lives for which we bear ongoing responsibilities and which elicit our love and cherishing. In the absence of such cherishing, we are left with the varieties of Gnosticism, whose other name is Nihilism.
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Mark Shiffman was born in north Florida to the son of expatriated New York secular Jews and the daughter of small town, pillar of the community southern Presbyterians. After spending much of his childhood in Alaska and California, he discovered in his Tennessee adolescence, first reluctantly and then gratefully, that more than half his heart belonged to the South. He occasionally rediscovers this viscerally when his body descends below the Mason-Dixon line from his northern exile in Philadelphia, where he has also brought his wife into exile from her lifelong home of Chicago. They live in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia with their two sons, having moved from one of the more successfully racially integrated neighborhoods in America (Hyde Park) to one of the most. Mark received his education from the McCallie School in Chattanooga and the surrounding mountains and trees, St. John's College in Annapolis and the Santa Fe desert, Pendle Hill outside Philadelphia and the woods around Crum Creek, the University of Chicago and the icy prairie winds, and the Catholic Worker House and grimy streets of New York City. He is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions and affiliate faculty member in Classical Studies at Villanova University. He has also taught at Brooklyn College, Notre Dame, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. His current projects include books on the political philosophy of Plutarch and on the meaning of modern individualism, as well as a translation of Aristotle's On the Soul (Focus Press).
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Kevin June 12, 2009 At 11:30 am
Thanks. You've put your finger on one troubling dimension of BNW when I read it with students… the absence of any really good alternative. We're easily seduced into this kind of either/or, between the shallow indifference of last men and the heroic resignation of those who know. And you're right, heroic resignation is a persistent temptation to those of us who occasionally pass under the name (for lack of better) as "conservative." When we buy into these terms, it's difficult to be transformed at all. Ironically, both gnosticisms, purportedly aiming to escape the world, tend toward the reinforcement of the status quo.
The truth that this great rivalry can obscure is that the world is neither that good nor that doomed. As Hopkins says, "And, for all this, nature is never spent;/There lives the dearest freshness deep down things."
Septeus7 June 12, 2009 At 9:45 pm
You have written an excellent post Mr. Shiffman. I believe this the first time I've read someone who actually mostly understood Brave New World and the deeper deception of it. BNW like most works of British System propaganda has no really opposition to the liberal paradise of the Brave New World and so it disarms those who think it is presenting a dystopia. It is not a dystopia but the ultimate utilitarian utopia throughly consistent with the doctrines of British Radical Liberalism.
But I have you correct Mark one wrote. You wrote that the BNW "lacks any significant presence of animal life."
Wrong. It does not lack any animals but lacks human beings. It story about animals some civilized and some wild. What is totally lacking is the creative free human being because the entire work is an attack on the idea of being human.
Jason Peters June 12, 2009 At 11:17 pm
Mark: A very provocative last phrase (in a very provocative essay) and the seed, let us hope, of another essay.
Bob Cheeks June 13, 2009 At 6:26 am
Mark, the point you make here is most important,"this one-sided elevation into the transcendent, neglecting the unity of finite and infinite that gets crystallized in the Incarnation, is one of the hallmarks of Gnosticism," in that it details the hypostatization of the transcendent, where the desire for immortality (athanatizein), the "escahtological existence" (a potential result of the individual's encouter with the Incarnation), can distort into "the integral existence of man" as a function of a distorted gnostic existentialism that seeks "the annihilation of nature and history."
In the end the examiniation of gnosticism taken up here at FPR is a good first step in understanding man in his existence, in his relationship with his fellow man and in his search for God. Our culture has lost the meaning of the symbols of, for example, truth, order, love, and existence. It is in our immutable nature to seek to recapture them; we must or face annihilation.
Al June 15, 2009 At 3:20 pm
Very insightful review. Thanks for it.
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After urging from a federal judge, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine delayed three more executions today.
DeWine has said he doesn't want to carry out another execution until the judge's concerns with Ohio's current method are addressed. He has directed the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to come up with a new protocol after federal Magistrate Judge Michael Mertz said the "current three-drug protocol will certainly or very likely cause (the one being executed) severe pain and needless suffering."
In January, DeWine issued a reprieve of execution to Columbus killer Warren Henness, who had been scheduled to die Feb. 14.
Earlier this month, Mertz pushed the governor to delay additional executions until Ohio's method is changed.
So this morning DeWine delayed the death dates for Cleveland Jackson, who was scheduled to be executed May 29, to Nov. 13; Kareem Jackson, set for July 10, moved to Jan. 16, 2020; and Gregory Lott, slated for Aug. 14, now scheduled for March 12
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The general plan is to connect through a VPN to a terminal server connected to the network.
The users will then connect to the network in an RDP session which we will configure to prevent files from being taken off the network and moved onto remote machines.
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Basically, we want to limit the users to a few business applications installed on the terminal server we also want them to be able to create and save documents in the RDP session (like MS Word and Excel) while they are out on the road. And we do not want them accessing their local work files from the road.
The terminal server is running MS Server 2008.
The domain controller (which is also the file server) is running Server 2000.
There is a Cisco 3550 switch which will sit between the Terminal Server and the Domain Controller/File Server. So one thought was to use the switch to prevent access to the shared files, that would solve #2 above. But I do not think I can use the same technique to prevent access to user profile documents.
Is there some kind of a group policy setting that can be done to set this up?
I don't have anything set-up on the terminal server end yet so I cannot test much. I needed to give some kind of sensible proposal for the two points above to roll forward and complete the set-up.

A: This seems like a pretty silly business requirement.  But you're not here looking for opinions.  So on to suggestions.
The main problem is that you're essentially trying to give conditional access to the same set of windows domain users.  There's really no good way to do what you want.  A user either has permissions to a file share or they don't.  Like you said, creative use of firewall rules will prevent traffic from the Terminal Server to the File Server.  And since you don't want users using files stored in their roaming profile, why not just turn off roaming profiles for this server as well.
The other option that seems like more of a compromise is to use group policy to disable all of the RDP features on the Terminal Server that would normally allow easy data extraction (drive redirection, clipboard redirection, printer redirection, etc.).  This still gives people useful access to their network documents, but basically limits the data export capabilities to screen captures on the client side.  As long as the data you're trying to protect isn't easily parse-able from a screenshot, you're golden.
Oh, and don't forget to deny Internet access from the Terminal Server as well.  There are plenty of places in the cloud to copy data to that users can access without admin rights.

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Artists, crafts people & businesses involved in millinery.
Millinery is the creation of hats and headpieces from design to manufacturing. A person that makes hats is called a milliner or a hatter People have worn hats to reflect there status, position and rank, for fashion and protection for centuries.
The oldest hat shop in the world is in James St, London. James Lock and Co was established in 1676 and is still family run. Robert Davis a hatter from Bishopsgate set up his hat shop in a prime location, next to St James Palace and near the coffee house frequented by the political classes. Locks were the creatures of the bowler hat (named after William and Thomas Bowler who made the prototype), then called the Coke, as it was made for William Coke in 1850. The bowler hat started its life as protective headgear for gamekeepers.
One of the main characters in Alice in Wonderland was the mad hatter. Hatters of old used to mercury nitrate in the felting process and the fumes damaged their lung and brains.
The Hat Works Museum in Stockport, is the only museum in the county dedicated to hatting, hats and head-wear.
John Hetherington was a hatter who famously was arrested for wearing a hat that was calculated to frighten timid people, the top hat.
Hatmaking, depending on the complexity of the hat, requires many skills and potentially lots of tools.
Some standard things are hat blocks (pillbox, two piece brim and crown, whole head) with rope lines, ropes with slip knots, tape measure, pins, thimbles, kneedles and heavy threads for structure that will not be seen and fine threads in the colours of the material being used, a selection of scissors, water spray bottle and steam iron for wetting and heating felts for shaping, markers, heat cloves, millinery wire (for stucture) and ribbon that can be curved. A hat stretcher depending on the number of hst forms you are creating.
You can purchase hand woven materials and silks for your hats that give a unique feel but you will need to make sure that any imperfection in the material are ditched and not passed onto the hat. Be selective.
No two silks (hatters plush) are exactly the same, as it is a natural product produced by silk worms then woven.
Glue is use where it is of benefit to the hat and sewing is impracticle, like when attaching feathers.
Felt is a popular material for hats because it can be shaped so well.
Hats need to be shaped, trimmed and sewn.
You start with the cutting process for which you can just use a pair of scissors, if you are making one hat at a time to order. Cut all the shapes and sizes you need for the finished hat.
After cutting you will be blocking (shaping from the hood) it on a wood or aluminium block.
After blocking, if the hat has a brim then you would cut the the brim to the correct shape and then put a supporting wire around the edge to keep it stiff. Then you would bind the edge with a ribbon or material.
If you are making a hat to order have the customer pick and approve the colours from the material you have rather than from swatches. When you order from a swatch, it is very unlikely to be the exact the same shade when it arrives, which could leave you and the customer unhappy.
You can use a single piece of material for the colour but you could also layer multiple materials to create different tones.
Panama hats are made from grass that is woven to create a material. A very tightly woven material is like a cotton and once turned into a hat can be folded up. This is not the case with an inferior grade of weave.
If you are using all natural and handmade materials no two hats will be exactly the same.
A hat is a very personal object and if you are making a hat by hand for an individual then you need to understand what they want to convey on the day. Try to complete the hat with a week or so of meeting and talking to the customer, so that you can remember there personality.
There are a number of different roles in the making of a hat, all of these can be done by one person or in a larger hat makers there may be a team. For example the trimmer that finishes the hats once they have been cut and shaped. Learning the crafts associated with millinery like sewing can help you.
When wearing a hat it is important to put it on correctly. Have the hat at a slight angle and tipped either forwards or backwards. Choose that hat that you want but make sure you get advise from a person you like.
The hat does not have to be matched to a dress or a suit it can also be matched to the colour of your eyes. This is especially true with day wear.


Morgan Rielly wasn't out of breath when he spoke to media late on Monday night.
It wouldn't have come as a surprise had the Maple Leafs defenceman summoned for an air tank.
In the Leafs' enthralling 3-2 victory against the Boston Bruins in Game 3 at Scotiabank Arena, a win that was earned by each and every Leaf, Rielly was a stalwart.
There wasn't an inch to be had without a battle throughout the intense match, and when the game was done, Rielly led all players on both sides with 27 minutes 58 seconds of ice time.
It was the most Rielly has played in a 60-minute game in the playoffs in his National Hockey League career, and Rielly being Rielly, deflected his workhorse outing to speak of the greater good.
"Just a team effort," Rielly said. "It's not a one-man job, ever, whether you are talking about matchups or whatever, it's a group effort and I think we did a great job right through. More than one guy has to take the responsibility.
Winger Zach Hyman also went the big-picture route.
Shot attempts during five-on-five play ended 61-61 … Can the Leafs get a better game from their fourth line in the rest of the series? The trio of Frederik Gauthier between Trevor Moore and Tyler Ennis was in extreme hustle mode all night and was rewarded with the first goal of the game early in the second period when Moore stuffed a loose puck past Boston goalie Tuukka Rask. With Nazem Kadri out, Ennis was inserted in the lineup and performed with the kind of energy one would expect from a player who was a healthy scratch in the first two games … Heck of a play by John Tavares on the Leafs' third goal, drawing the attention Bruins defencemen Brandon Carlo and Steven Kampfer behind the net before feeding Andreas Johnsson with a no-look pass. Just as fine, the move to the backhand made by Johnsson to lift the puck over Rask's left shoulder and into the top of the net for a power-play goal … Johnsson's heads-up pass helped result in Auston Matthews' first point of the series, coming when Johnsson set up Matthews for a goal a mere 12 seconds after David Backes started serving a high-sticking minor … Summing up Johnsson's effort on the whole: All heart … We started to lose count of the defensive plays Mitch Marner was making, especially coming back to help kill a Bruins chance in the offensive zone. No matter how these playoffs end for the Leafs, or when, there's no reason Marner should get anything less than what Matthews signed for in February (five years with an average annual value of $11,634,000 US). Marner easily is as valuable to the Leafs' future fortunes as Matthews … Of Marner's two blocks on David Pastrnak in the final seconds, Rielly said: "Great, I love it. I think it was probably the biggest reaction our bench had. There was never a question of the character of our team, but that was a good display of it. That can be big for our group to see and really feed off." … The refereeing of Chris Rooney and Kyle Rehman was a marked improvement over what Brad Meier and Trevor Hanson provided in Boston in Game 2 … Bruins forward Jake DeBrusk, who had a running feud going with Kadri in the first two games, was booed each time he touched the puck. After the morning skate, he was asked whether he was prepared to be public enemy No. 1 once the puck dropped. "Yes and no," DeBrusk said. Kadri, as we learned around the dinner hour, has been suspended for the remainder of the series for cross-checking DeBrusk in Game 2 … Pastrnak was the recipient of a few hard hits, including one by Jake Muzzin that sent Pastrnak's helmet flying. Not coincidentally, Pastrnak didn't have a point.


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