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Kamikaze Sherman Gnatses
Took last weekend off, but did two shows midweek [posted and codified]. Came back this week looking back at some of the gigantic historical lies we swallowed:
One thing I neglected to mention during the show, was that with a Kamikaze Zero, you suicide one man/plane, but could end up taking out an entire ship (even an aircraft carrier). The best things your typical Sherman Tank Crew could hope for (other than that there were no more Panzers left on the battlefield), was a direct hit which might kill them outright, else they would slowly but surely burn to death.
On the positive side, their families might get some ridiculously homoerotic trophy [yes, the above examples are both real] … but that seems small compensation, even for fools who volunteered to kill men who were not their enemies. Fact: the tanks functioned as designed. One question left to ask is, "Burning for whom?"
That's the show (above), and as usual, also [downloadable]. The difference in the public perception of Shermans tankers versus that of Kamikaze pilots is so grossly inaccurate, it just proves what humongous fallacies [¿phalluses?] we swallow without question. Aside from blaming repeated mental abuse by Priests of Cock [Wood], we can also fault our edjewcation system, which not only fed us a slew of rancid sausages, but also distracted us from seeing/smelling the largest omissions:
Look into white slavery for yourself, and I'm talking about the Colonial history of the Americas (not the modern underground variety). You'll easily find countless examples and proofs. The notion that slavery was somehow a "black" experience is not only patently false, but extremely divisive and inhumane. We can only reason, considering how few historians dare speak of it [much less even know about it], the intentional erasure serves some agenda. Perhaps Steven Spielberg will make a movie about it? Um, I'd be willing to bet not. I doubt NAMBLA would ever allow it.
The foolishness of celebrating a completely superficial holy day aside, I'm also willing to bet few Americans (even those I spared this weekend) 😉 … will ever bother to look within [at themselves] while looking for someone to blame for their present condition. I don't want to be a hypocrite, so I looked at the mirror:
The date on the above image is [sort of] right, it is the year I created my They Live, We Sleep (Deeply) Mini-documentary, which garnished me much attention. As said, I know you're not supposed to tear apart your prior work, but I had to:
Alvin Boyd Kuhn: "Hypnotism need not be induced by overt manipulation or by an operative; one can hypnotize oneself. And the agency can be a suggestion, a philosophy, a persuasion, a conviction, a belief, an infatuation, a book, a sermon, a piece of music, a personality, an addiction of any kind. Hold a conviction long enough and it ends by holding you."
The mirror, can be, our friend. For those unfamiliar with my prior videos: one day, I may go ahead and replenish the web with all of them, but that day is not today.
As usual, took the time to honor a couple of Temple Dogs, and in this case it was Louis CK, and Jon Stewart. One thing they both have in common, other than being completely full of shit, is that they are portrayed as trying to bring about a positive change, which is obviously (to anyone not completely brainwashed), another lie. Oh, and they have one more thing in common, some kind of ethnicity thing, I forget.
The above discovery shows how absolutely twisted the minds of those we allow to enter–train our children are. Of course, the associated band is called The Wiggles:
The Wiggles' "strong connection" with the US was "forged in the shell-shocked weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York City in 2001," when the group performed there, even other acts cancelled their tours. Paul Field reported that "New York has really embraced them. It was a kind of watershed."
The group was named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors in early 2008. In 2010, the four original members of The Wiggles were appointed Members in The Order of Australia for their service to the arts in Australia, especially children's entertainment.
They have been won the ARIA's Best Children's Album award nine times: They won in 1995 for Big Red Car, in 1996 for Wake Up Jeff!, in 1998 for Toot Toot!, in 2005 for Live Hot Potatoes, in 2006 for Racing to the Rainbow, in 2007 for Pop Go The Wiggles, in 2008 for You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, in 2009 for Go Bananas!, in 2010 for Lets Eat.
Louis CK is probably loving that "Toot Toot" album name, of course. Oh, and in case you think I was reaching with my insinuation their name was chosen, because it represents a means of getting large objects into tight places: Are You Wigglin?
Turning our children over to this machine is not only ignorant, but sinful; not from the abrahamic perspective, but in the spirit-crushing destruction of their creative potential, thus ultimately, their souls [written of previously]:
"Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12:31-32)
Let's now try an exercise in perception. Look at the below images with your own eyes, and tell me what you "see." Two thumbs way up? Way up where, prey tell?
For the naive: I am not pulling these codes out of my ass. There are far too many correlations to dismiss them as a product of programmatical devolution. Once you open your eyes and start seeing, you will will find their codes are everywhere:
I touched on P-ark'ing [alternately π-arc'ing] long ago. For the record: that's Judy Law making an otherwise inexplicable appearance above. Judy's quite familiar with the spineal arching process (it's always worse the first time). Well, he is ""a star."
Above we have a trio of Temple Whores being properly degraded. The woman getting a facial is Maria Schneidder, the star[let] of the "watershed" anal-agenda movie, Last Tango in Paris. Whatever your thoughts on the back orifice, Jennifer Aniston is telling us come recognition time, her first ass-rape didn't feel so good.
I close this by asking the same very relevant question that I asked during the show, and one many a speculative historian has asked before (albeit, with less common sense). What if Germany had won World War II? How could the world be any worse off, in any way shape or form than it already is? Anyone who suggests it possibly could have, might risk exposing themselves for the ignorant fool they are.
I think the above image pretty much sums up our situation. But, rather than dwell on that end of the human stargate, I'd recommend focusing on what we stuff into the other end. Our Letter From Hiro came too late. Our Letter from NAMBLA came far too early. But, at least my Letter From Lucy came! 😈
A Few Other Arbitrary Celtic Rebel Posts on Related or Similar Subject Matter
Sep 2010: Peasants are Revolting [3] May 2010: Returning to Honour
Oct 2010: Train Wreck o Sexual Healing Nov 2010: Ignoble Turnkey Day
Note A: I have been busy updating posts as of late [in order of last update]: The Dreaded Truther Twofer, Teenage Full Frontal Lobotomy, and Week of Counterdevolution.
Note B: I'd like to thank those of you who contributed images/ideas to this: Lee I, Vicky, Alex R, and the guy who sent me the Irish Slavery clip. Anyone else who should get a mention I've either neglected, forgotten, or misfiled, please do write in an remind me.
~ by celticrebel on July 11, 2011.
Posted in [NSFW], [Pending]
Tags: anal sex, christianity, conmen, consciousness, creativity, education, gay agenda, germany, history, hypnosis, imagination, japan, jon stewart, jude law, louis ck, lucifer, NAMBLA, nazis, pederasty, pedophilia, slavery, social engineering, steven spielberg, synchromysticism, they live, white slavery, WWII, zionism
36 Responses to "Kamikaze Sherman Gnatses"
Thank you for the explanation about Germany, Nazis, WW2.
You are very smart. Finally someone who gives answers that make a lot more sense than that stuff I learned in school or no one really wanted to talk when I asked about the Germans in WW2. Or it was like 'hush, don't talk about it'.
Growing up in a divided Germany with the fences and minefields 'almost in my backyard' about 300meters away we got a lot of programming. I grew up on the west side and in the 70's I travelled quite frequently to the east
side to visit my Grandparents because my Mother ran away in 1954 to West Germany. Going through the border control was an ordeal to visit East Germany. Reminds now when we go through custom here in the States. Then the fences came down, Berlin had a wall and some villages who were so close to the border, so you could not wave to the people living there, everything else was tripled fenced with self shooting weapons when you touched the fence installed in the early 80's between East and West Germany. To keep the bad guys out of East Germany, no I mean, to keep the East Germans from running away, only the retired people could leave easily, so they don't have to take care of them anymore.
We could not imagine that East and West would be 'one' again, maybe after 2000 or so, that was our thoughts and than we might become Socialists or Communists, which is very much present.
Biggi said this on	July 12, 2011 at 12:49 am
Seriously what's going on in New Zealand? This is just plain gross.
Stallion Semen Served Up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink
Chris said this on	July 12, 2011 at 2:26 am
I've written a little about Π (quick read 😉)
The replacement of the symbol was made by the Romans. The latin alphabet was step 1, the english language step 2. Some time and a lot of blood over the alphabet, no one wanted it. And it took their temple doggie Hitler to put the final nail in the coffin of gotic.
Π represents your feet, rho (R or P is the same) represents a human head, hence so many occupations ending with -er.
Now about parking or p-arking, it's sense would be arking feet. And I only see one instance where you ark feet. 😦 They're so sick.
effel said this on	July 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Great show Alex, lots to think about and plenty of laughs. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the P-arking thing a bit more. I got the pi part, but was just a bit unsure what the definitive link between arking and gay sex was. I listened to that bit a couple of times and couldn't quite work it out. I will certainly be keeping an eye out for those parking signs though either way!
PS: thanks effel, i think i understand now. I guess us regular dudes aren't used to arking our feet for pleasure! Well spotted.
James B said this on	July 12, 2011 at 1:52 pm
get mutilated… it's good for you
raffi said this on	July 12, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Biggi, and thank you for getting me started thinking along the lines of "why" they spent so much time and money racial profiling the entire German populace. Logically, it would go far beyond looking a little "jew" blood. Had some thoughts on the later division, and may touch on them again.
Chris, people seem to drink and eat all manner of absurd things, perhaps this and red bull, are just a joke to remind us plebians how dumb we are.
effel, nice addition there, and thanks for reMinding the Roman forefathers of the Britions beat them to the swap. I think Pi refers more to the other "bottom" part of our system, though .you make a good case (visually too) of how it refers to the feet. There is the soul/sole connection too. It seems inter-related.
James B, arcing is what an electrical spark does when it can't make a direct connection (e.g., two pos charged ends of a magnet). The patsy priests seem to be of the impression when a male penis enters another male, a spark of electricity (lightning) goes up the spinal column from the anus to stimulated the pineal gland directly (33 degrees).
raffi, ugh, HPV, yet another made up, entirely nonexistent disease, but does that matter, the proles worry and talk about it. 🙄
celticrebel said this on	July 12, 2011 at 3:15 pm
What was the trophey for 1st place? A full facial?
Steven UK said this on	July 12, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I'm helping to look after my sister's kids while she's away – yesterday my 10 year old nephew wanted help with homework on inventions – a famous one that affected the world & one that should never have been invented. He told me that his teacher mentioned the atomic bomb as a useless one, that reminded me of Sherman tanks – so that's what he did. They were also called 'Tommy cookers'.
Great show, great points.
alex robinson said this on	July 12, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Hey Alex. Great show. I just wanted to agree with your point that children these days are having their imaginations destroyed by television and holy-wood. I am a primary school teacher in Australia and have taught several grade 3 classes and currently teach Music, Art and Grade 1.
I find so many aspects of the kids creativity and imagination stunted in all areas of education. One example is creative writing. Students struggle to create individual characters and plots. Instead, they regurgitate what has been fed to them via television and movies. If I had a penny for every time a student included Bart Simpson as an original character, I would be a rich man.
As an educator, it seems to be getting harder and harder to inspire and motivate children who are over stimulated by all of the techno gadgetry surrounding them 24/7. A majority of parents are indeed, handing their children over to the television with dire consequences, that are becoming alarmingly more apparent to me everyday.
I could go on with many more examples of how children are being permanently damaged by the media but I will save it for another time : )
Aaron said this on	July 12, 2011 at 11:23 pm
London calling, Mongoose here. Great show, got me thinking free-style.
Donkeys, butter and Eddie Murphy. In England we put a "knob" of butter in when we cook – there are loads of links there. In Italian butter is called "burro", which means……small donkey in Spanish. A donkey is a "domesticated ass" while a male ass is called a "jackass". (Programme made by idiots, for idiots)
The Democrat Party has the symbol of the donkey, first drawn by Thomas Nast who was well known for two other things of relevance. First, the drawing of the modern depiction of Santa Claus, really a depiction of Satan "that bearded old goat". [Nast also depicted Uncle Sam with a goatee – yes, a synchro home run in your vernacular]. According to Richard Cavendish in "The Black Arts", "The Devil frequently appears as a goat..and the goat and ass are both symbols of lust." There is also a chance Santa Claus is linked to Odin but will post GODS OF THE PEDERASTS another time.
Secondly Nast was known for "revealing" how the Catholic Church was a danger to young children, which links and echoes 19th century spin and focus to the what the Celtic Rebel is pointing out in 2011 – the same thing is happening. They are,of course, ALL PEDO SCUM! (that was me shouting from London).
And then we come to Shrek, obviously, a bromance with a talking donkey (our dress wearing funny man Eddie Murphy). Dave Chappelle talked about this dressing up the black guy ritual, and luckily didn't take it any further when asked!"What is this? Brokeback Mountain in here?" Good on you Dave, "You gotta take a stand" – each one of us will have our own battles.
Obviously links with the slavery aspect – if the idol (Eye dolls/mannequins?) have to wear dresses & do well, strong, black men, then who am I, the viewer, to say otherwise? That is the mind bend on a subconscious level. We are all slaves and free at the same time.
Speak soon, Mongoose out.
The Mongoose said this on	July 13, 2011 at 7:50 am
Steven UK, these are soldiers, man! Boys, who sacrificed themselves for their cunt(re:) and you read homosexuality into it? 😈 Shame! 😉
alex robinson, thanks for sharing that, as you can see, it made it into the post-show imagery.
Aaron, yes, it is a shame. Sometimes, I wonder just how many kids are left that can play/create games that don't involve tv characters.
The Mongoose, some nice linguistic additions there to the cock and butt[er] meme which they so seem to love. Hm, I like the eye-doll take too, hadn't thought of that accurate descriptions for these temple doggies which so enrapture the mAsses. Anus Dolls. Hm, accurate.
celticrebel said this on	July 13, 2011 at 9:09 am
Two things Alex. About Adolf Hitler, he was son of Alois Hitler an illegitimate son of Salomon Mayer Rothschild and his servant girl Marie Anne Schicklgruber. On 1918 he was blinded in mustard gas attack in the trenches. He was taken to the Pasewalk military hospital in northern Germany where he was diagnosed as suffering from "psychopathic hysteria."
Hitler was consequently placed under the care of a psychiatrist, Dr. Edmund Forster. What exactly was done to Hitler while under Dr. Forster's care is uncertain because years later, in 1933, the Gestapo rounded up all psychiatric records related to Hitler's treatment and destroyed them. Dr. Forster "committed suicide" in that same year.
There is strong evidence, that the 'hate and pain' which characterized Hitler's speeches in 1919 and afterward, as well as his fanatical purpose, were not in evidence prior to his psychiatric treatment.
So in 1918 real Hitler was replaced by many impostors. One of them was Aleister Crowley. Ironically, in 1918 the New Hitler will abruptly lose his artistic talent. Out of awkwardness, he must abandon the art of applying paint to canvas, even as a pastime. The illustrator who once made a living by selling landscape paintings in Vienna will now be all thumbs: he can't draw a straight line. His artist's signature will not be the same. The World was Lied to about Hitler's Death
Second. I agree with you that transhumanism is suspiciously promoted in conspiracy movement, nevertheless there is an issue that people seem to be oblivious to. And that is how during all wars from last century much more people got wounded than got killed. I think that shows (if the statistics are accurate and not manipulated) how war can creates opportunities in the advancement of prosthetics and robotics. In other words, how it gives the mad scientists, an excuse to use humans as guinea pigs.
Max said this on	July 13, 2011 at 11:44 am
Great show. Love that you are really focusing on how not to ruin children. I am really taking that to heart and also figuring out things on my own. It seems that the things you touch upon apply to my life journey very much. I think I have discovered this wonderful site just in time to do less damage to myself and others. Thanks as always.
B said this on	July 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I just got back from a dinner with friends. A young mom told us that she was being threatened by his son's teachers that if his alleged ADHD is not cured by ritalin they would kick him out. I haven't listened to the show yet; most likely this subject is not related to it directly but I just wanted to share.
The mom talked to the school principal, asked him how was he like when he was six, and he told her that he would jump off the desk and kick the blackboard to make a shoe print as high as possible…. Kids and especially smart kids are hyper, they focus better on things that they enjoy and skip the rest. Right? Isn't this a description of a healthy child?
PS: they have a special kind of problem with the "black man".
I will figure it out soon. Not fair.
defne said this on	July 13, 2011 at 4:43 pm
For a second there I thought you were going to tell me that I was looking to Louis as someone who is revealing the truth to us. More like rubbing "it" in our faces. Anyway, your point on They live and re-evaluating our beliefs and ourselves was very poingant along with the quote from Alvin Boyd Kuhn. Seeing how you are consistently evolving along this path strewn with feces and not becoming mired in it is amazing in an of itself. I can understand taking breaks, I'm just surprised you do not take more of them.
I guess your work can be seen along the same lines as trying to interpret the Aghori practices ……. stomach churning.
iamlonefrog said this on	July 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Alex, here's an interesting connection, if you didn't know it already. I was listening to a podcast from a fellow Oracalist, Mark Palios yesterday. He's well versed in the ritual and symbolism of the occult, and this particular show was on the symbolic construct of the September 11th mega-ritual. He was talking about the sun setting between two towers on the death tarot card, and in passing mentioned that the ancient Egyptians called dying 'Westing', i.e. going to the land of the setting sun. Same priests, same rituals, same symbolism. Go West young man!
PS Alex R and Aaron (above): Kids are young goats. Young humans are called children.
Ross said this on	July 13, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Max, very interesting points you make about Hitler's mysterious past, some of which were new to me. I'm not dismissing the concept of transhumanism entirely (the prosthetics issue you raise is a salient point), I'm just tired of the reinforced and ballyhooed constipatorial focus which misses the ongoing death of the human spirit.
B, thank you for sharing that here.
defne, yes, it's sick. They're also cutting back on recess, which of course makes more kids agitated and restless.
iamlonefrog, no mate, you were one of quite a few who's linked or pointed to that guy of late. Interesting parallel you draw there, which reminds me, I probably do need to take more breaks. The stench sometimes, can be quite depressing.
Ross, yes, when I had Dennis on (link), he made a god case that my research into the Western ideology (preversion), is connected to the cult of Set (the egyptian god of the underworld, and as you suggest, where the sun "sets"), which may be the same as Jehovah, Typhon, DIs and Pluto.
celticrebel said this on	July 13, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Jesuits trying to get a foothold in Afghanistan schools: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10994
Lugh said this on	July 13, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Great show, very thought provoking! Anyway, just found this "news piece" on Yahoo. Turns out some Orthodox Jewish guy killed and dismembered an 8 year old boy. Thought it may be of interest:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/police-ny-man-custody-remains-8-old-hasidic-164513436.html
Also, I just had to attend a funeral today, one of my Aunt's just passed away. I couldn't help but think of the connections between the red rose and death itself. Now it makes sense why they place roses on the coffin, doesn't it? I miss her, but she was suffering and not really here anymore (conscious mind disabled thanks to years of being drugged in a nursing home)
Anyway, thanks for the good work,
Wes Tilson said this on	July 13, 2011 at 11:52 pm
@Ross
Also if interest is that both the towers were hit when Sirius was higher on the equatorial grid than the Sun and that the towers fell about one minute after the sun rose higher than Sirius. The second tower collapsed just before Sirius descended below the horizon. So the act is witnessed by the higher standing Sirius, the collapse by the higher standing Sun.
Sirius is part of the Canis Major constellation which resembles a dog. Canine = K9 = 11 9.
It is also the brightest star, second to the Sun. Which nicely fits the mythology of Osiris.
Aszeran said this on	July 14, 2011 at 7:41 am
My WW2 education began in 1974 when a veteran of Pearl Harbor told me the official story is "all bullshit." Privately, all of my friends and relatives who served in Europe and the Pacific have said the same thing, both the Germans and Americans. All these years later we still can't discuss it rationally. BTW, your "They Live We Sleep" trilogy is still up on this site:
http://mycosmicstardust.blogspot.com/2011/06/they-live-we-sleep-deeply-must-see.html?zx=f3bb87525bd17b4f
upsaciman said this on	July 14, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I think your "they live" glasses are working too well, mate. They're freakin' me out:
How do you POP an EYE? Some OLIVE OYL will help. But it will be done by a big hairy BLUeTO who will put a SPIN on snAtCH.
Sounds like I'm "reaching" doesn't it?
What was Bluto's nickname for Popeye? "One-eyed runt"
What was Popeye's father's name? "Poopdeck Pappy"
What type is Popeye's pipe? A corncob (boy, he sure can suck on it!)
Where was Popeye born? In a typhoon off Santa Monica, CA. [As Rebel insightfully pointed out – the anus of the U.S.]
What is Popeye's foster daughter's name? "Swee' Pea" [P]
What are Popeye's identical nephews' names? "Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Peep-eye, and Poop-eye."
And, in 1941, Popeye joined the Navy to fight those evil Germans and Japanese, starring in such films as "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap."
It's a poopalooza out there, man. Thanks for the weekly truth-slap to remind us they're targeting our children. P arking? I think you're the only human being on this planet who could've seen that.
And I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
the living tiki said this on	July 15, 2011 at 12:25 am
RE: John Stewart – I noted he took great and long , juvenile, giggling interest in his alleged 'friend' Anthony Wiener's penis pictures.
"Giggle giggle penis joke, giggle, cock, wee-wee-weener' etc
Anyhow Wiener's wife is apparently Hillary Clinton's lesbian partner.
Funny that , the man admits infidelity , the gals go right on with it.
cheres
aferrismoon said this on	July 15, 2011 at 5:09 am
Hmm, for some weird reason, "Sherman" sounds a lot like "German"… 🙂
So why are/were we so stupid?
I think a lot of it has to do with conservation of energy. Many individuals take the easy and fast way and listen to "experts" or look at the majority for guidance, thus saving effort, time and energy. Apparently these short cuts are being taken way too often by way too many people. (This shortcutting was beautifully addressed in the show about goalhangers, by the way.) Or, "If everyone does it, it must be right, right?"
So I encourage everyone to go the hard way once in a while (or most of the time)!
Alex, thanks for bringing so much sanity our way!
Uptide said this on	July 15, 2011 at 2:33 pm
You gotta love how (sh)it gets delivered. As you said "prepackaged" aka an easy swallow, convenient, salvation for free.
"Cartoon" phonetically means "vehicle song" or "siren song". On the Joker card, the king looks elsewhere as he rides his bike around the 808 stone. He is under a geis, a spell. Compare the Joker Card and the center of the Meat Show. The 808 stone in the latter is the "beehive". This means the structuring of all in the "pool of possibility" aka 8, 88, 888, 808. This is why "King Kong" adds to 88.
Donald Duck (44=8) gets a lesson in why you pay Uncle Sam. The clincher here is "death = taxes". One is an uncontested supreme law. The other is a foisted faux law. Both have come to have the same power. The joke is on us that such a falsity has come to have such gravitas as something so supreme as death. Since death is equal to Saturn, the LOTR, the tie to taxes is obvious. The singer on top of the 808 stone, ie the beehive is ass-robin.
How does faith come?
Disney phonetically means "divide or make apart knee" Dis or "divide or make apart a females origin name, ie "ney". She is made to nipple from one Pap to another. A complete inversion of supreme order … just like death and taxes.
And we know what happens when you get dissed between the knees.
Sex below the event horizon is where an orifice gets unioned be being divided at the knees/feet. In the OT its called uncovering one's feet.
Sex above the event horizon is where a mind gets its ears divided.
"Faith comes by hearing" = the semen that forms the idea in your mind comes from outside yourself. The "B" on the knife is "beelief". The song is a bag of wind. The arrow in his ass is the power of the air. The one who accompanies him is the shaper of his mind, ie how his mother made him. She says son be a good little doughboy be like Pater.
The one who rules the world is the one who forms the mind of the hand rocking the cradle. As you have stated before the guys will follow the pussy. Shape the pussy and you automatically get the meat and muscle. Put women in combat boots who can also run a jill hammer and you will fill hell faster. This is the meaning of Gehenna.
It's a tune or song that leads you … the car down OPEL LOPE POLE.
The whole world is pregnant with what?
That's right .. the 2nd coming of the bastard child. The first time led to two millenia of bloodshed followed by the 20th century where more were murdered than ever ever before. What happens when you think the first coming and its disappearance was bad enough? It returns with devils seven times stronger than before.
This is the secret of idol building .. its 7 x 7, just like Cain's curse in founding cities. Cars and cities go together like butter and jam.
The single key to undoing the cartoon is to hear the inner voice and follow it no matter who says different, including your own outer tongue. One must be true to the Queen of Spades and not the imp pater poster who is only a beast of six spades.
Ewe knew this already.
eugene said this on	July 15, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Alex – thank you so much for talking about corn. You're spot-on. I've been waiting for a LONG TIME to hear someone else say it so succinctly. And the timing couldn't have been better.
I'm working up the nerve to respond on that note on my own – I don't know what good it will do, as it is very close to home, literally and figuratively – but I just wanted to say how much that meant to me. You have no idea. You're a very rare gem, thanks as always
Joanne said this on	July 16, 2011 at 2:56 am
Here's one for the children….
Illumination Entertainment (!) is a part of Universal. Their past and future movies include Despicable Me, Hop, the Lorax, and Where's Waldo? Tim Burton is also working on an Illumination project.
Vigilant Mommy said this on	July 17, 2011 at 7:57 pm
I told you you couldn't trust Lucy. She'll leave you heartbroken and broke. Think I haven't been down that road?
Mat said this on	July 17, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Someone here made a comment about the popular phrase Oh my God. (O) My God.
At first I thought that might be a stretch and kind of laughed at the idea that there might be something more to the expression.
But then I picked up the phone tonight and it hit me.
David said this on	July 18, 2011 at 3:16 am
The world is not ruled by the hand that rocks the cradle….
It is run by the hand that forms the minds of the hands that rock cradles.
In the Meat Show the tent in the background has a stage theme making women dance (ballerina) as well as the overall theme of making water (see octopi dancing as 5, its arms forming 6's thus meaning beastly to its own nature) flow the way it is not supposed to. This is highlighted by the low wall (black and white are the law under the monkey king) holding the "pink" in place. The water is the female because the box is "40".
The writing on the tent is Cyrillic Russian.
eugene said this on	July 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Okay I'm obviously going mad. Just been reading the online "Guardian" when two stories caught my eye:
Under 'Film & Music' is a 'story' about a new android called Selena Gomez, the "New Tween Queen" that 'Disney has groomed'. It says "blah blah blah her new album When The Sun Goes Down"
Up near the top, in the 'important stuff' is the headline "NI (News International) Shunned by GB's Olympic Athletes" sub-headed "Contract heralded by Rebekah Brooks giving News International titles exclusive access to Olympics stars is torn up ". In the story itself it says "blah blah blah But the symbolism of Britain's Olympic athletes turning their back on the Sun could prove particularly damaging."
You don't suppose they're trying to tell us something do you?
Ross said this on	July 22, 2011 at 4:19 am
You made me think about the naming of British newspapers Ross, you make salient points . Our Media is owned by various Jews (surprise!) from Maxwell (deceased) to Murdoch (Soon to be deceased) and of course, Newscorp own the 'Sun' and the News of the world newspapers.. commonly referred to as NOTW…Ta Dah! a bit of wordSmithery and we have TNWO, The new world order? also, other British papers of note, The Mirror (the deep dark truthful one?)
The Star (The Dis-Astor? Disaster,the death of a star, Astor is Greek for star, you can google Astor and Astar and see what you come up with, wealthy families, technology think tanks…and the prefix DIS has been raised before, as in a negative, a separation) , the paper previously known as the "Independent" is now renamed just "The i" (the EYE, or the "i" as in the ID) and then we have the Guardian (As in, Guardian of the Underworld)
Aforementioned newspapers the Sun, Mirror, star, TNWO are referred to as "Red Tops" here due to the colour of the logo. Why Red? The colour of anger, of blood. Of course the newspapers have been known to win political parties elections based on which way they lean, and so we may also have the connection to the red and blue paradigm of the false political groupings. and of course, the red and blue of parties is recognised globally.
stephen aka digital sickness said this on	July 22, 2011 at 8:38 am
Star Wars = Allegorical Tale of Coming to Terms with Homosexuality
http://www.yrad.com/csp/starwars.htm
rodo said this on	July 26, 2011 at 11:12 am
Run your "gay agenda in movies" notions through Dan Savage, the podcast sex counselor guy. He's a very reasonable, no bull guy. Call in your question(s) to his show. The voicemail is always on receiving. It would be educative to hear you on his show !
Vick Hale said this on	July 30, 2011 at 7:22 pm
I'm going to have to second Vick's sentiments there, Celtic. Just listened to 10 minutes of Dan Savage, you should really call this guy. I think he'd be interested. And you could really take him to school on a thing or two…
James B said this on	August 2, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I have done some research on Judy Law's acting history, and look what I've found:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm301833216/tt0118698
The summary on IMDb is reading:
"Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride."
Mr. Law acted as a Stormtrooper in this movie.
I am finding it rather intriguing that the writer's last name is Sherman. Stinkornicity ahoi!
Max said this on	August 3, 2011 at 4:23 pm
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Castro's Fox News Town Hall Nearly Doubles His CNN Town Hall
Mike Brest Reporter
Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro's Thursday night presidential town hall on Fox News had nearly twice as many viewers as his previous town hall on CNN.
Castro's town hall on Fox News averaged 1,131,000 viewers with 194,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic, according to early Nielsen Media Research. He addressed issues such as illegal immigration and a Hatch Act violation from his time as the head of HUD in 2016.
His first town hall took place on CNN April 11. That event accumulated 654,000 viewers with an audience of 174,000 people in the key demographic.
Castro is one of a multitude of presidential candidates to host town halls on multiple networks. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand have had town halls on CNN and Fox News.
Sanders' Fox News town hall currently stands as the most-watched town hall of this election cycle with 2.6 million viewers. Each of his two CNN town halls failed to eclipse 1.5 million viewers. Similarly, Klobuchar's most-watch town hall occurred on Fox News, while having participated in two on CNN. (RELATED: MSNBC And Fox News' Normal Nightly Lineup Beat CNN'S Five Town Halls)
Buttigieg, who has appeared in four town halls, had the largest audience during his MSNBC event with 1.6 million viewers. His town hall on Fox News was sandwiched between his two CNN town halls, but it occurred on a Sunday, so that played a role in the smaller audience.
Gillibrand experienced a similar situation with her MSNBC town hall beating her event on Fox News, which took place on a Sunday. But, it did beat her town hall on CNN.
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Transformation will be used to introduce into sorghum, and possibly Setaria, candidate genes from EPICON efforts - a number of which appear to be important to mechanisms of drought tolerance.
The position will involve creation of vectors, introduction into Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and subsequent transformation into sorghum, and possibly Setaria viridis.
Further characterization of transgenic plants will be performed using molecular, biochemical, physiological and transcriptomic means to determine gene function.
If possible, growth of modified plants will be characterized under abiotic stress situations in the greenhouse and, if possible, in the field.
PhD or enrolled in a PhD degree program (or equivalent international degree) at the time of application.
PhD (or equivalent international degree) required by the appointment start date. The candidate may have no more than four years of post-degree research experience by start date.
Demonstrated experience with plant tissue culture, construction of overexpression and knock-out vectors, and general molecular biology techniques.
This position reports to Dr. Peggy G. Lemaux. The initial appointment is 100% for one (1) year with the possibility of an extension, based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding. Anticipated start date for this position early Spring 2019.


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Self-Driving Cars: Around the Corner or Still Many Kilometers Away?
June 28, 2019 Marketing Department
In a survey conducted in the end of 2018 about the Automotive Industry, NationMaster uncovered information regarding the American attitude toward the advent of fully autonomous, or Level 5, self-driving cars.
A survey conducted with 501 U.S respondents, uncovered that, overall, drivers are rather easily adapting themselves to the idea that self-driving cars are on the way and should be expected to begin their initial commercial availability and arrival to the roadways within just a few years.
Traditional automakers as well as tech companies such as Google and Tesla, are still competing to figure out how to design and build the most attractive and advanced Level 5 self-driving car.
Automated driving features are already in place in traditionnal cars
More than two thirds of Americans interviewed (79%) are still passionate about driving their own cars. But meanwhile, they're gradually growing accustomed to the concept of riding in a self-driving car. This is largely due to continuously added automated driving features found in more recently manufactured cars.
Nearly half of the time, those Americans interviewed said that they've got automated cruise control in their cars (46% of mentions). Furthermore, their cars often have rear-view and/or side-view cameras (35% of mentions). Automatic, sensor-driven braking and collision avoidance systems (20% of mentions for each) are also a fairly common feature of modern American cars.
So, the technology actually present in cars today is opening drivers' minds to a more general acceptance of completely automated cars. More than four out of five drivers (81% of Americans interviewed) are comfortable with their car of the future being automated, with nearly half of them desiring it to be a Level 5 AV car. However, these survey results say that they've grown a little more cautious and skeptical about such cars now than they have been in the recent past.
Americans remain positive despite security concerns
The caution and skepticism are well warranted, at least for the near-term, when Level 5 driverless cars, while certainly appearing to be an imminent reality, may still be much further away from mass acceptance and deployment than their advocates desire to believe. For instance, according to a piece in the widely read technophile magazine Wired, "the world is too diverse and unpredictable, the robots too expensive and temperamental, for cars to navigate all the things human drivers navigate now. Even John Krafcik, CEO of Waymo (the grown-up company that was Google's self-driving car project), agrees, saying last year, 'Autonomy always will have some constraints.'"
Then there's BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, who writes: "It was on the motorway near Phoenix, Arizona, that I realised fully driverless cars might be quite a distant dream. And that was because our Google Waymo robo-taxi seemed incapable of leaving that motorway." The robot car had been programmed never to exceed the speed limit, and because of that programming constraint couldn't aggressively dart over to squeeze into the exit ramp lane, which was fully packed, as a human driver would have done (and been allowed to do by some other politely sympathetic human driver). Thus, the needed exit ramp was missed, and the next ramp was also missed, before the self-driving car got off the motorway.
Additionally, British transport writer Christian Wolmar warns us: "Once you set the rule that driverless cars have to effectively kowtow to any pedestrian in the street, and pedestrians begin to learn that, then the whole balance of power in our streets will change. The concept just doesn't survive the idea of mixed use streets."
And yet, while Wolmar fears a kind of pedestrian oppression forcing fully automated cars (presuming they have no human driver override capability) to sit idly with their riders going nowhere for big blocks of time, the potential threat to pedestrians of malfunctioning self-driving cars has, infamously, not yet been eradicated.
So, while automotive consumers maintain a positive attitude about Level 5 self-driving cars, they remain concerned about security. Over half of Americans interviewed are very positive-minded about the advent of self-driving cars (57%), and most others remain cautiously optimistic about them (45%). This overall positive attitude has remained steady throughout recent years.
American automotive consumers envision various benefits from self-driving cars. For instance, 14% of Americans interviewed stated that long-distance travels could be less tiring. Multitasking while on the move could be possible without having to catch a train or bus, which is essential for more than a tenth of consumers interviewed (11%). And if roads were shared with AVs only, they could become safer (said 11% of Americans interviewed).
Nevertheless, Americans still don't feel that the technology is truly safe enough for mass commercial deployment. Nearly seven out of 10 Americans interviewed would not feel sufficiently safe using a driverless car (69%). Indeed, 36% of the Americans interviewed mentioned the autonomous Uber car's braking failure alluded to above as the major AV safety concern. Another 14% of American automotive consumers interviewed said that the price of the cars is just too high to justify.
Tesla, Ford, Toyota and Google come up first in peoples' minds
When thinking of self-driving car makers and brands, 27% of those interviewed brought up Tesla spontaneously. The other players in the game lag far behind: Ford comes top-of-mind for 7% of Americans interviewed, while Toyota is in third place (6%). Google only got mentioned top-of-mind by 4% of those interviewed.
Tech companies are more trusted to build safe AVs than traditional car makers
Self-driving cars are much more associated with technology companies than with traditional automotive makers. In fact, tech companies are still perceived as the most trustworthy for developing self-driving cars by 33% of Americans interviewed, while the traditional car manufacturers are trusted by less than a quarter of American consumers (20%). Once again, Tesla stands out most prominently (27% of mentions), even though BMW (10%) and Ford (9%) are also perceived as potential leaders in this competitive market. However, if such a traditional automotive maker does develop a Level 5 self-driving car, it should partner with a tech company to ensure its success, says the great majority of American automotive consumers (67%).
If self-driving cars were more readily available, more than half of our US respondents (57%) still would prefer to own one instead of having to use a car-sharing system (especially those living in urban areas). They feel they might be getting more used to the idea of ride-sharing and car-sharing if self-driving cars could make the experience more efficient and enjoyable.
Nevertheless, the idea of the roads being dominated by self-driving cars is still unreal for the majority of today's transportation consumers. More than half of respondents (55%) said that they just couldn't see AVs replacing traditional public transportation one day.
Although there are companies in the industry that are presently testing self-driving taxis and even busses, 64 % of Americans interviewed have little interest in using them at this time, with 49% stating that they're "not at all" interested. The future of AVs probably lies mainly with privately owned cars and car-hailing systems like Uber's and Lyft's.
In the end, the advent of the mass deployment of Level 5 self-driving cars seems much more a question of "when", not "if". Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive for Nvidia, tells us that his company believes in today's Level 2+ driving technology being merely the precursor to fully autonomous, or Level 5+, cars and other road vehicles. "Level 2+ functionality will become a must-have for every vehicle… 94% of crashes are caused by human error—that's the harsh reality we're facing. The industry is working toward zero accidents with the development of autonomous vehicles. Our platform utilizes AI to achieve superhuman levels of perception and performance."
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Online casino operators in Belgium were celebrating last week after the Belgian Constitutional Court issued a ruling stating that the country's online casino operators would no longer be subject to the country's 21% value added tax (VAT).
In it's decision the court overruled every substantive element of a 2016 law making Belgian online casino operators subject to the tax on gross gaming revenues. Belgian online casino operators are already subject to an 11% gambling tax in addition to the now defunct requirement to pay the 21% VAT.
The second was that the additional VAT as applied to online gamers made those services less attractive and less competitive, potentially decreasing total tax revenue from the service.
Third, the court argued that imposition of the VAT tax on the federal level unfairly undermined the rights of the countries regions, who are allowed under the Special Finance Act to determine their own tax regimes.
Finally, the court noted that in passing the 2016 law the countries legislators ignored an EU Directive from 2006, which stated that "betting, lotteries and other forms of gambling" should be exempt from VAT and that the issue should largely be settled by individual member states based on their local laws.
VAT is a European Union consumption tax on selected goods and services that ranges from 5% to 21%. As an internal EU consumption tax, goods that are exported outside the EU or services provided inside the EU to customers resident abroad are not subject to VAT.
At the same time legislation looking to ban casino bonus advertising is still pending in the Belgian parliament and is largely expected to pass into law later this year.
Casinos in Dubuque, Iowa, a quaint town of 53,000+ set on the west bank of the Mississippi river, have reported that the city's casinos saw a 6.4% drop in gaming revenues in February when compared to last year.
The city's Q Casino reported a meager $3.6 million in revenue last month, a 5.2% year-on-year drop. Diamond Jo Casino pulled down $5 million in revenue to chalk up a 7.3% year-on-year drop.
The trend held firm across the largely rural middle American state, with only three of a total 19 casinos statewide reporting positive year-on-year revenue figures for last month.
Casino operators pointed the finger at the rise in the number of video gaming terminals across the state as a possible contributor of the declining revenue numbers. Over the last three years, reports the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, the number of video gambling terminals in the state has risen some 49.7% to 25,565.
As competition increases across the state, numbers may well continue to fall. Iowa is one of 18 states currently considering legislation to legalize sports betting in the event of a favorable US Supreme Court decision on the matter expected in the coming days.
In the event the US Supreme Court decides to overturn the federal law banning sports betting, the Iowa legislature, who are still debating appropriate taxation levels for sports betting, may place even further pressure on the states existing licensed casino operators as funds are channeled to legal sports betting and away from casino games.
While the casinos themselves are likely to offer legalized sports betting in the event the Supreme Court rules in favor, it remains an exceptionally low margin business and any kind of open competition landscape may well continue to draw revenue form the states 19 existing casinos.
Gambling revenues in South Korea are down in the first quarter of this year thanks in large part to increased tensions between South Korea and Beijing. Tourists from mainland China remain the primary source of income for most South Korean casinos, as in all but one of the nation's 18 casino resort facilities are intended for foreigners only. With premium tour groups, as opposed to Chinese whales, who were banned for the last three years from travelling abroad to gamble, the bread and butter of South Korea's fledgling casino industry, being steered elsewhere by Chinese authorities, casino revenues are expected to continue to dwindle.
The winter Olympics last year did give casino operators a revenue boost of approximately 23% for Q4, but with the games gone and tensions increasing between Seoul and Beijing, numbers are quickly falling off again.
With China making aggressive moves in the South China Sea, a disputed area of largely international waters also claimed by Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and China's thinly veiled support of nuclear armed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un within missile range of Seoul, South Korea recently took an aggressively self-defensive posture by installing a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery in the south east of the country, much to Beijing's chagrin. In light of South Korea's installation of the advanced missile defense shield, the number of Chinese visitors to the country's casinos have fallen off sharply.
At home, China has already taken a hard line when it comes it its citizens gambling abroad. Late last year the Chinese government banned independent tour operators from offering package holidays to gambling destinations abroad – specifically South Korea, instead forcing all tours to South Korea to go through the China National Tourism Administration, a state-controlled travel and tourism agency. The move, in effect, banned all charter tours, and online package tours, leaving Beijing in complete control of the number of Chinese tourists visiting South Korea.
The result was an estimated $6.5 billion loss in total tourism revenue from Chinese gamblers, with the slump expected to continue as long as tensions in the region remain high.
The iconic Madison Square Garden is looking to expand its brand overseas to London as well as going west domestically with a new generation of entertainment facilities known as Madison Square Garden spheres.
Intended to use the latest in ultra-high-tech, state-of-the-art visual displays and sound will dominate these spherical entertainment facilities. The venue will each have a distinct spherical shape, the exterior of which will be covered in the world's most high-end digital imaging screens, allowing the outside of the sphere to be used as a high-resolution display to promote artists and events as well as illuminate the surrounding cityscape. The spheres will also be installed with a cutting-edge digital camera systems and digital sound.
The plans for the MSG Sphere Las Vegas include more than 18,000 scalable seats directly in front of the stage and space for some 5,000 standing attendees.


Beijing Tier Time Technology Co., Ltd. settles in Huairou District, the bright pearl of suburb of Beijing, which is the high-tech enterprise specialized in researching and making 3D printers.
It aims at researching and producing 3D printers, and now have large scale and industrial leveled 3D printer of INSPIRE series, desktop leveled 3D printer of UP! series. The printers mentioned above all use the technology of melted extrusion modeling rapid prototyping, with low costs and low environmental pollution. It can be widely used in fields of education, industrial design, architecture, medical treatment, comics and animation. It can also be used in offices and families.


Artistic touches, bold colors, transparent fabrics, and glamorous silhouettes were key trends from the Paris collections.
Stand out in chic Americana with stars and stripes. Jacket, $4,220, top, $1,690, pants, $2,600, and pins, Chanel. 800-550-0005.
Let loose in layers of sweet sorbet hues. Dress, tulle hairpiece (on hat), gloves, tights, and pumps, Louis Vuitton. 866-VUITTON. Vintage hat and scarves. New York Vintage Inc., NYC.
Gown, $5,428, Lanvin. Barneys New York; 888-8-BARNEYS.
Old-school glamour is reinvented in a vintage Cristóbal floral pattern. Jacket, $6,750, shorts, $3,985, and boots, Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière. 212-206-0872.
Jacket and vest, $4,180, slip, $5,300, hat, and heels, Dior by John Galliano. 212-930-2950. Vintage rose (on hat). New York Vintage Inc., NYC.
Blouse, $1,375, Chloé. 212-717-8220. Vintage headband. New York Vintage Inc., NYC.
Evoke the exotic with Indian-inspired ensembles. Sari top and shorts, $9,150, bangles, and sandals, Hermès. 800-441-4488. Belt (on turban), LAI. Turban, stylist's own.
Blouse, $1,535, pants, $1,735, and boots, Givenchy. Barneys New York; 888-8-BARNEYS.
Bow top, $1,390, and pants, $1,580, Valentino. 212-772-6969.
All things iconic: These pieces modernize the classic YSL stars. Dress, price upon request, and sandals, Yves Saint Laurent. 212-980-2970. Vintage hat, New York Vintage Inc., NYC. Tights, Donna Karan Hosiery. Star hairpiece, stylist's own.
A quintessential wild-child wardrobe calls for rock & roll T-shirts. Shirt, $790, pants, $1,450, and tights (worn as gloves), Nina Ricci. nina-ricci.fr.


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EXPOSED: Intrigues that led to Uhuru Jubilee Party's FAILED nominations, HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED !
Details of how Jubilee top officials botched original plans for credible party primaries can now be revealed. The party's original plan churned out by the secretariat in February and seen by Sunday Standard sought to to have ballots covering 90 per cent of the registered voters in 2013 election, printed.
Under the original plan, only 18 "Jubilee stronghold" counties were to undertake nominations, with the rest encouraged to go the consensus route. A total of 29,093,240 ballots were to be printed out for the five positions of Governor, Senator, Woman Rep, MCA and MP. Total cost for printing at Sh8 per ballot with security features came to Sh232,745,920.
If the National Election's Board opted for ballots without security features, they were to be printed at Sh3 totaling to Sh87,279,720. "When changes were made at the secretariat, decisions began to be reviewed and a lot of these things were either discarded or whittled down significantly," a source at the secretariat told Sunday Standard.
Party leadership unveiled a nine-member National Election Board (NEB) chaired by little known lawyer Polka Wanyonyi. The game of musical chairs began right then. A few days later, the party discovered he was soaked up in myriad of disciplinary issues and booted him. He was replaced by another lawyer Lumatete Muchai, who only served for two days before he was moved to chair the disciplinary committee of the party. Andrew Musangi took over the leadership of the board. On the same day Musangi took over the board, the affable Secretary General Veronica Maina was booted from the powerful post and moved to the amorphous post of deputy chair in charge of strategy.
The head of the secretariat, Raphael Tuju, took over in double roles of Secretary General and Executive Director of the party. Tuju served these powerful positions for only nine days before former Judicial Service Commission official Winnie Guchu moved in as the Executive Director. "These movements unsettled our plans a great deal at a time we were bogged down by a myriad of issues including the smart cards fiasco," an ex-official of the secretariat who has since "moved on", told Sunday Standard.
In the ensuing changes, ballots papers were reduced from 90 per cent of the 2013 voters to 50 per cent of the current voter estimates which were later scaled down to 40 per cent. The number of clerks originally planned at 6 per polling stations were reduced to 3. Vehicles which were to be hired to distribute the materials from the county offices were also axed from the list, leaving a vacuum.
A lot more drastic cuts were made on provisions for fuel, ballot boxes, projectors, stationary, transport personnel and coordinators among others. In general, the carefully planned total budget of Sh543,318,420 covering stationery, ballots, personnel, machines was scaled down. The reductions significantly changed the dynamics of the primaries as candidates of the five positions on offer whipped huge voter turn-outs in their areas.
In Bomet County, the registered voters for the 2013 elections stood at 290,947. The ballots planned for the county therefore stood at 1.4 million minus the presidential ballots. This translates into approximately 2,700 ballots for the county's 524 polling stations. However, Bomet ended up getting approximately 500,000 ballot papers which if divided among the county's polling stations comes to 1,000 ballots per polling station. Aspirants claimed only a quarter of this ended up arriving at polling stations on Friday morning.
Spread out In Embu County and under the original plan, Jubilee voters were entitled to 1.1 million ballots spread out in 571 polling stations in batches of approximately 1,900 ballots per polling station. In the revised plan, Embu got 40 per cent of that- 455,000 ballots at 700 per polling station. Again, aspirants led by Embu Governor Martin Wambora claimed only a quarter of that came through. "It's a joke and an insult to democracy. Only a quarter came. The rest were being marked and stuffed into the boxes overnight," Wambora sensationally claimed yesterday.
In Uasin Gishu, the original plan was to supply the county's 467 polling stations with approximately 3,500 ballot papers. In the revised plan, they ended getting 660,000 ballots, 1,400 per polling station. By yesterday morning however, most polling stations sampled by journalists had only 250 ballot papers each. As early as February, Jubilee headquarters had already identified a number of challenges which if addressed would have averted yesterday's fiasco.
If they used the party register, they would be bogged down by the slow activation of the smart cards. Had they used the IEBC register, they would have to go with the 2013 figures and lock out around 6 million newly registered voters. Up to this day, IEBC has not officially updated its register. To print the millions of ballot papers, the printer required a minimum of 30 days ahead of the April 21 nomination date. This also means the printer had to leave about two weeks or so for transportation and distribution.
Ideally, therefore, printing ought to have begun early or mid-March. Before then, all aspirants must have paid their nomination fees and submitted their paperwork. Most of these things were supposed to be done with authority of the elections board which had not been set up. "Without NEB, we can prepare for the above but we cannot communicate the plans officially," an internal party communication dated February 10 said.
Possible solutions explored included using "any means possible to get the latest IEBC register in its raw format. True to their recommendation, an ex-IEBC commissioner with expertise in IT and affiliated to Deputy President William Ruto secured the raw register for the party. To add insult to the injury, top party officials with patronage of senior Jubilee leadership battled over the ballot printing tenders until the Office of DP reportedly took over to salvage the situation.
Crisis meeting Yesterday, Ruto visited the party's Pangani offices and held a two-hour crisis meeting with the secretariat and the elections board. At the meeting, the party resolved to print afresh ballot papers ahead of tomorrow's exercise. It also released a list of counties to be covered in the next two days Ruto then departed leaving officials led by vice chairman David Murathe and Tuju to address the media. "We may have hired one or two transport company but now we have hired more to ensure smooth distribution," Tuju added. The party says it will print ballot papers to cover about 8 million registered members and will be using the party register and the IEBC roll.


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Master Gardeners are in a class of their own: Mark and Ben Cullen
These homegrown experts cultivate a community among Canadian gardeners.
By Mark and Ben CullenSpecial to the Star
Sat., Nov. 11, 2017timer3 min. read
updateArticle was updated Nov. 26, 2020
When it comes to cultivating passion, energy and talent, Canada's Master Gardeners are standouts.
Master Gardeners are dedicated to the art and science of gardening. And, with their generosity of knowledge and time — on public garden tours, at local horticulture societies, at small shows and big ones such as Canada Blooms and in various online forums — they help sustain a broader community of Canadian gardeners.
The term, or title, Master Gardener is not one that is simply pulled out of the air — or the soil. The real dirt:
In the early 1970s, Washington State University developed the concept that volunteers could get horticulture training they would then share with their communities. The title Master Gardener was borrowed from Germany, where the highest title for horticulture was "Gartenmeister," which translated to Master Gardener.
Journey North: As the Master Gardener program began to sweep across the U.S. in the early 1970s, Dave Omrod, a plant pathologist in British Columbia was taking note of a problem north of the border: garden centre staff were often ill-equipped with the necessary knowledge to advise backyard gardeners. Omrod joined Bill Peters, a B.C. horticulture specialist, to adapt the Washington State U. curriculum to their west-coast province. They started with a six-week course for willing volunteers. It was an instant success.
With help from a handful of universities and provincial agriculture ministries, the program moved its way across Canada throughout the 1980s.
During the 1990s, provincial governments gradually withdrew financial support, which led to the Master Gardener programs becoming established through independent not-for-profits.
Becoming a Master Gardener: There is no shortcut. Achieved through the Master Gardeners of Ontario Inc., the title's authority is well-earned.
Future Master Gardeners start with an entry exam and then are interviewed to assess their potential for "public service and volunteerism." If they pass, they become "Master Gardeners in Training" (MGiT).
Once a MGiT, they must do 30 hours of annual public service and attend a minimum number of monthly meetings. Plus, there's an educational component that can take up to three years and ends with a comprehensive exam for certification.
While a handful of universities offer Master Gardener Certificate programs, regional chapters often have more-affordable self-study options.
All Master Gardeners pay a small annual fee to support the ongoing activities of the organization.
Why become a Master Gardener? To borrow an old advertising slogan from American Express: It has its privileges. Those include access to technical updates with industry experts. As well, the designation provides access to a group of passionate, community-minded people with a common interest.
Where to find them: Master Gardeners are often present wherever gardening touches our lives:
Doing speaking engagements at local horticulture or service clubs.
At botanical and display gardens across Canada, where they share both their expertise and physical labour skills.
Online, where they offer rich resources and answer your questions. Or over the phone, if you prefer the analog approach.
Look up a seed exchange or a plant sale, where Master Gardeners are often the driving force.
Schools invite Master Gardeners to take part in the teaching curriculum.
Townships often call upon Master Gardeners when looking for advice about green initiatives in their communities.
In countless and often invisible ways, Master Gardeners contribute much to the gardening community at large, elevating both our appreciation and knowledge of horticulture over the years. You could call them the superheroes in our midst.
Question of the Week
I like your suggestion of raking leaves onto the garden. I have a large oak tree and the leaves take forever to break down. Should I bag these leaves?
Oak leaves should be mulched with your lawn mower before you put them on the garden.
Mark Cullen is an expert gardener, author, broadcaster, tree advocate and holds the Order of Canada. His son Ben is a fourth-generation urban gardener and graduate of University of Guelph and Dalhousie University in Halifax. Follow them at markcullen.com, @markcullengardening, on Facebook and bi-weekly on Global TV's Morning Show.


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Green for Take Off - Inside the Electric Airplane Industry
Will electric airplanes dramatically reduce fuel costs, save the environment, and jumpstart the dying regional industry? In this article, we examine why electric airplanes are having their moment in the sun. We size the market, take bets on the winning players, investigate the challenges in current technologies, and take a guess at when you'll be flying in an electric plane.
Elizabeth J. Howell Hanano, CFA
Elizabeth was an equity research analyst on both the buyside and sellside before transitioning to freelancing where she specializes in market research and valuation.
Why United Reduced Its In-Flight Magazine by One Ounce
In 2018, United Airlines began printing its inflight magazine on lighter paper, cutting 1 ounce from each magazine to 6.85 ounces. At the time, United operated 744 mainline aircraft with an average seat capacity of ~210. This translates to a reduction of just ~13 pounds per flight—about the same weight as a scrawny Cavalier King Charles. Yet, United said this generated 170,000 gallons of fuel savings annually, translating to $290,000 in fuel costs.
Airline industry profit margins are some of the thinnest of any industry in the world. And fuel is nearly half of the cost to run an airline. Therefore, it is no surprise that airlines are constantly seeking new and creative ways to lower this "uncontrollable" and large expense.
Enter: the electric airplane.
The electric airplane promises to reduce fuel costs significantly (just how much is still up for debate) while simultaneously saving the planet (somewhat) from hazardous fuel waste. Yet, if Tesla is any indicator, the road from fossil-fuel to electric is not a smoothly paved one; battery, infrastructure, safety, and regulatory issues abound.
This article analyzes the reasons why the electric airplane is coming to the forefront now, the technologies and hurdles, the size of the market, and the competitive landscape. We'll also take a guess at when you'll be flying in your first electric plane.
Why Are Electric Airplanes Taking Off Now?
The primary answer to the question of why electric airplanes are having their moment in the sun now is climate regulation. Recently, US and foreign regulators have made serious calls to reduce emissions. While "only" 2-3% of worldwide emissions come from flying, according to Roland Berger, this could reach 10% by 2050 or even 24% if other sectors get cleaner faster as some experts are predicting. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency, is calling for a cap on net aviation CO2 emissions as of 2020 (carbon-neutral growth). With greater adoption of electric propulsion, this could remain relatively steady at 2-5%.
Air Travel Growth and Emissions Forecasts from IATA
And, of course, there is the economic element. The business case for electric aircraft essentially rests upon 3 pillars:
Lower operating costs
Unleashing a new regional travel market
Ability to meet mandatory carbon emissions standards
According to electric plane startup Ampaire, an electric aircraft vs. fossil fuel aircraft can have a 90% reduction in fuel costs, 50% cut in maintenance, 66% quieter takeoff & landings, and 0% tailpipe emissions. These reduced costs will be a boon to the $26 billion short-haul market (~30% of all flights currently)—creating service between small, regional airports that are currently uneconomical.
Dean Donovan, managing director at aviation-and-travel investment firm DiamondStream Partners, sees how electric planes can save the day for currently uneconomical regional destinations, estimating an additional ~8,000 airports would be able to be served profitably.
Electric Planes Expected to Open Up Previously Unprofitable Regional Routes
Additionally, thanks to many of the technological breakthroughs from automotive companies working on electric vehicles, new lower-cost, lighter-weight, and high-power solutions are coming to market.
However, while all of the factors mentioned have been building slowly over the past few years—nothing is exactly new. What really brought things to a tipping point, according to Wright Electric CEO Jeffrey Engler, is Tier 1 suppliers and supporting players announcing their commitments to electric airplanes. "For example, last year, Heathrow Airport announced that they're going to waive landing fees for the first year, for the first hybrid electric planes or electric planes. The year before that, easyJet announced that they were working with us. By itself it's just one piece, but if you add it up, it's meaningful."
Actual skin is now in the game.
In April 2019, Collins Aerospace unveiled plans to develop the electric flight market, including a high-power, high-voltage $50 million facility for designing and testing the "industry's most power dense and efficient propulsion motor" in Rockford, Illinois. In June 2019, Rolls-Royce accelerated its electrification strategy by acquiring Siemens' electric and hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion business. Finally, the latest announcement in July 2019 came from BAE Systems which announced they will be working with electric airframer start-up Wright Electric on "flight controls and energy management systems."
An Enormous Regional Market Waiting to Ignite (Market Size Analysis)
The electric aircraft market is tiny currently—an estimated $99 million in 2018. MarketsandMarkets forecasts this to grow to a modest ~$122 million by 2023, a CAGR of ~4%. For comparison's sake, the electric vehicle market is around $119 billion and the global commercial aircraft market is $840 billion. So the potatoes are currently small. To be blunt, there are just no electric-powered aircraft in commercial operation today.
Looking further out, the future looks…well, electric. UBS forecasts a $178 billion hybrid electric aviation market by 2040 with particularly strong growth starting in 2028 when the first hybrid electric 50-70 seater aircraft is expected to be delivered. This assumes about 16,077 deliveries with an average price of about $11 million. Market appeal is expected to remain limited until 2028 with a lack of competitive products, however, as new, scrappy entrants like Eviation, Ampaire, and Wright Electric come out with viable products, the market should begin to take flight.
The regional market, defined as trips ranging less than 500 kilometers (km) or ~310 miles are expected to lead growth for electric and hybrid planes. This is due to (1) limited battery capacity and (2) new economic viability of serving these previously money-losing routes.
Siemens forecasts a relatively similar chronology with the expectation of ultra-lights and military aircraft landing first (due to less strict certification rules), followed by a ramp-up for certified systems in 2022, scheduled flights based on hybrid aircraft in 2030 and then finally, by 2050, Siemens predicts that electric propulsion will be the "standard solution" for all aircraft segments. Roland Berger's panel of aerospace experts' prediction is in a similar hemisphere—forecasting the first >50 seat hybrid electric aircraft will enter commercial service by 2032.
Siemens' Electric Propulsion Prediction Map: e-Propulsion will be the Standard by 2050
Let's look at the market from a utilization perspective. CEO of Ampaire Kevin Noertker estimates, "Major carriers serve ~150 airports in the United States. Commercial US airlines service about 500 airports, however, there are about 5,000 municipal airports that could support commercial aviation. This means the amount of airports that could be served commercial could increase 10x."
Another way to think about it is to look at the expected number of regional aircraft that will be retiring and therefore need to be replaced. The major OEMs predict around 10,000 9-passenger aircraft will need to be replaced assuming zero market expansion. Assuming an aircraft price of $5-10 million, this sizes the market at $50-$100 billion. However, many in the industry, including Noertker, expect a significant expansion in the regional market "driven by reduced prices on existing routes, but especially driven by opening up new routes that have never really been profitable before." Noertker goes on to note, "The most conservative groups are saying double the number of aircraft needed. Some are going so far as to say 10x increase in the number of aircraft servicing the market. The increased demand being the driving factor."
Next, let's take a look at the individual players driving this market.
Big OEMs Dipping Their Wings Into Electric
Big OEMs like Boeing and Airbus have dipped their toes into the electric plane market. Boeing partnered with startup Zunum (more in Shocking Startups below) to help give itself some exposure to the industry and Airbus has experimented with projects like Vahana, City Airbus and E Fan X.
In addition to its investment in Zunum, Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences, an aviation and aeronautics research company acquired in 2017, is working on developing a network of flying taxis with an Uber partnership. In January 2019, Aurora Flight Sciences conducted its first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle (pictured below).
The test was relatively small, however, as the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft hovered just for a few seconds before landing. It is progress to see, however, that a big OEM like Boeing is investing in the future of autonomous, electric "flying taxis," creating an entirely new mode of transportation for urban mobility (think: skyscraper hopping).
Airbus is also interested in launching its own flying taxi network. Last year, Airbus demonstrated its Vahana VTOL aircraft. In March 2019, Airbus and Audi presented its 4-passenger air taxi CityAirbus as part of the EU initiative Urban Air Mobility project and tweeted "maiden flight soon."
However, there are so many uncertainties—eventual economics, regulatory issues, safety issues, infrastructure issues (how does an already struggling air traffic control system deal with a 10x increase in the number of 9-seater planes?), and more. These unknowns make it hard for big, publicly-traded OEMs to invest significant capital and therefore open the market up to entrepreneurial, spirited start-ups looking for alpha.
Dean Donovan, managing director at aviation-and-travel investment firm DiamondStream Partners, notes, "OEMs are very interested in the space, but see the value from working with start-ups to complement their existing skills. They recognize the strengths of their existing models in many cases complement rather than compete directly with the start-up ideas. It isn't obvious on how it will play out, so start-ups let them participate in some areas in a low risk way."
So let's take a look at these scrappy, new players.
Shocking Start-Ups Electrify a Sleepy Industry (Financial Model & Competitive Landscape Analysis)
Roland Berger estimates that there are about 170 electric aviation concepts underway currently. However, despite significant customer demand, few of the 170 deals that have received funding were funded at scale, according to Dean Donovan. Donovan makes the point that if each of those 170 companies required ~$100 million in funding, the overall industry would need $17 billion in funding - a relatively large amount of capital compared to its sector size.
The reason, Donovan argues, why this cash is so tough to come by at the institutional investor level is because the investing profile of an aircraft start-up is much harder to stomach versus the current field of opportunity which is primarily focused on software. Software startups can get to a minimum viable product quite easily. However, certification issues for aerospace startups drive enormous upfront costs. Meanwhile, the company generates zero revenue. This means the pitch to a VC firm is that you have a very cool product that the government might let you sell eventually. In the meantime, the company likely needs to spend $2 million per month.
So how do we bridge this funding gap? Based on past experience, you need the heart and soul of a billionaire willing to invest in a pet passion project. A la Paul Graham and the Stratolaunch (an aircraft built to carry rockets to space) or the more obvious one, Elon Musk and electric cars and space travel. If that's the answer, then it looks like Eviation has the biggest leg up at this point with its backing from billionaire Richard Chandler. But let's take a look at all the players more in-depth.
Ampaire - Eyes on the Prize: Aggressively Focused on Regional
Los Angeles-based startup Ampaire is focusing on six-, nine-, and 19- passenger aircraft initially. Ampaire is using an existing structure and retrofitting a solution—praised by the IDTechEx report as a "walking before they try to run strategy." Ampaire CEO Kevin Noertker believes "the most capital-efficient approach and time-efficient approach is starting with existing airframes."
Ampaire recently successfully tested a five-passenger aircraft with a retrofitted electric motor powering a propeller in the back of the plane with a normal combustion engine driving the propeller at the front of the plane. The retrofit, originally a Cessna Skymaster, can travel up to 200 miles on a single charge and uses 55% less fuel than an unmodified plane and costs up to 50% less to maintain. Ampaire CEO Kevin Noertker says, "It's kind of like a plug-in hybrid car. We are really riding the coattails of ground electric vehicles here."
Beginning later this year, Hawaii's Mokulele Airlines will begin testing a hybrid aircraft with Ampaire on its commuter route between Kahului and Hana airports in Hawaii. The current plan, according to Noertker, is to have the hybrid service commercially available by 2021.
Beyond Mokulele, Ampaire has 14 letters of interest (LOIs) from regional airlines. To Noertker, these are the most important customers he can win.
[Regional airlines] are the companies that know the ins and outs. They struggled to be profitable due to the cost of fuel. They need planes now. And so that's where we're focused.
Kevin Noertker, CEO of Ampaire
Ampaire has raised money from a variety of VCs, government grants, and from players within the aviation industry such as engine manufacturer Continental Aerospace.
Wright Electric - Blitzscaling to 150-Seater Planes
Wright Electric is another Los Angeles-based startup attacking the electric plane market. Wright's business plan is to become an airframer, similar to Airbus and Boeing, whereby they design and integrate systems. However, to begin with, Wright is taking a common 9-passenger existing plane and doing a retrofit. Unlike Ampaire, Wright's ultimate goal, however, is to go after the more traditional passenger aircraft—a 150-seater plane.
In 2017, Wright Electric and easyJet partnered together to build a 180-seat electric aircraft to fly routes of up to 300 miles beginning in 2027. easyJet makes a natural partner for Wright Electric as the low-cost airline has a long history of promoting the innovation of low emission aircraft and, of course, reducing expenses. However, creating a fully electric jet of such a size does seem like quite a stretch—and likely won't happen for at least a decade.
Future easyJet planes could be equipped with exchangeable battery packs with enhanced cell chemistry.
In 2017, Wright Electric debuted its idea for a no gas 150-seat aircraft at the Y Combinator Demo Day in Silicon Valley with the goal of short-haul flights in the next 10 to 20 years. According to Crunchbase, the company has raised a total of $120k with Y Combinator as its lead investor.
Zunum Aero - Enormous Vision but Sputtering Out of Funding
In Washington state, Zunum Aero, backed by Boeing and JetBlue, was preparing test flights for its hybrid plane sometime in 2019, however, recently admitted it is having a bit of difficulty raising a new round of financing. Zunum appears to have made the mistake of going straight to larger hybrid-electric airplanes. Forbes reported in July 2019 that Zunum had shuttered its Bothell, Washington headquarters, closed offices in Indianapolis and Illinois, and laid off nearly all 70 employees. The Seattle Times reported that Zunum "has run out of cash, and much of the operation has collapsed." On its website, Zunum is currently soliciting investors for a $50 million Series B. Zunum estimates that additional equity of $80 million net of customer deposits and production loans will be necessary to bring its ZA10 to market (this includes a 150 unit/year production facility).
While some in the field believe Zunum bit off more than they could chew by trying to do propulsion and airframe at the same time, Dean Donovan, managing director at aviation-and-travel investment firm DiamondStream Partners, doesn't see much of a difference in terms of capital required, "If you need $100 million and four years to get to flying or $75 million and three years to get to flying…does it really make a difference?" Donovan was actually impressed by the Zunum team, noting that they had "incredible vision."
If Boeing- and Jet Blue-backed Zunum is struggling to keep its funding, how can a startup with uncertain economics and myriad technological and regulatory hurdles succeed? Perhaps the answer lies behind having one humongous billionaire backer—as is the case with the Israel-based Eviation.
Eviation - The Belle of the Paris Air Show Captures Real Orders
Eviation made quite a splash at the Paris Air Show in June. The company took "double digit" orders for its $4 million electric plane, Alice. Alice can fly up to 650 miles at ~500 miles per hour with an electric motor on its tail and each of its wingtips. Regional airline Cape Air is reported to be one of the first airlines to place orders for commercial electric airplanes.
As of February 2019 (which is, arguably, light years ago in this fast-moving industry), Eviation was a 35-employee company with ~$200 million in funding secured to get through certification—a relatively solid war chest. Most of the funding has stemmed from billionaire Richard Chandler's private investment fund Clermont Group. Clermont invested $76 million in exchange for notes convertible to a 70% stake in Eviation according to an SEC filing.
Electric Commercial Airplane Adoption: A Touch of Turbulence to Get to Blue Skies
Fully electric aircraft use batteries (or some energy storage device like fuel cells) to power an electric motor instead of jet fuel to power an engine. Modern battery types for powering electric motors are often lithium-based, however, given the limited endurance between charges, they have limited range.
Current lithium-ion batteries would only be able to generate a maximum speed of ~200 mph versus a current passenger aircraft cruising speed of ~500 mph. While the automotive industry has made great progress on lithium-ion batteries, the auto industry would likely be satisfied with a gravimetric density of ~350-400 Wh/kg whereas current aircraft propulsion systems would need closer to ~500 Wh/kg. Therefore, it is going to be up to the aviation industry to take up the baton from here. Roland Berger proposed a reasonable roadmap to 500 Wh/kg batteries here.
The second option, and the one most likely to take off in the near-term, is the hybrid electric model which combines a gas turbine with an energy storage system that drives an electric motor during certain portions of the flight. After all, fully electric automobiles were preceded by hybrids for about 20 years.
Ampaire has retrofitted Cessnas for its hybrid concept with its Ampaire 337 wherein one of the two engines is replaced by an electric motor. Beyond the technological constraints, retrofitting hybrid models is an appealing avenue to electric plane stakeholders as regulatory oversight is likely to be less stringent.
Hybrid Electric Plane
NASA was one of the first to investigate electric aircraft propulsion (EAP) in an effort to reduce emissions and noise pollution. NASA has a semi-electric aircraft whereby fuel cells rather than batteries generate electric power which it expects could be introduced into service in 2035. Essentially, they are developing power systems that are much lighter and more efficient which are expected to enable EAP for single-aisle aircraft like a Boeing 737. However, an aircraft as large as a 737 is likely very far out as initial solutions will focus on regional aircraft more suitable to serve Tier 2 airports.
NASA's Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) Plan for Larger Aircraft
Ampaire CEO Kevin Noertker noted an interesting challenge with chasing this technology—by the time the pieces of an electrified propulsion system have gone through an FAA approval process, it will be outdated. As such, they need to continually be thinking 10 steps ahead. Noertker equates the innovation necessary to an iPhone upgrade cycle. "We have to look at regular upgrades, almost like iPhone releases to these airplanes and whether that's in the software, the control systems or the battery technology, that's an interesting area where you never wait. We're not waiting for technology. We're certainly moving with what's available, but we have to be resilient to those changes. And that's an interesting opportunity and challenge."
Dean Donovan also notes some significant hurdles to electric commercial airplane adoption, "You need to solve for battery charging time, air traffic control problems, pilot issues, and safety. From a safety perspective, each individual flight could actually be safer because you can build redundancy into an electric engine that is not available in traditional engines, so if you lose a part, you don't lose the whole thing… But with many more aircraft flying as 9-passenger planes take an increasing number of passengers, the number of accidents could increase."
The biggest barrier to adoption, according to some of the executives we talked to, is indifference. Without getting airplane executives to believe that this is a worthwhile investment, the industry won't take off. Wright Electric CEO Jeff Engler believes higher R&D investment from the top will trickle down to speed up many electric plane challenges. "Imagine if 100x the number of engineers were working [on the battery issue], how much more innovation we'd get."
So When Are We Lighting Up the Skies?
The increased desire to lower emissions, lower costs, and open up a regional market are all driving factors of the hybrid electric market. It appears likely that the market addresses the following markets chronologically: (1) crop dusting/island hopping/skydiving/bush hopping small aircraft in ~2020, (2) small charter and cargo in ~2025, and (3) 50-70 seaters by ~2030.
All we need now is the battery technology (and the infrastructure). Paging Mr. Musk.
How far can an electric plane fly?
As of 2019, electric airplanes can travel about ~300 miles.
What percentage of emissions is air travel?
While only 2-3% of worldwide emissions come from flying today, this could reach 10% by 2050 or even 24% if other sectors get cleaner faster.
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