10...9... main ignition start...6...5...4...3...2...1...0......lift off.....we have lift off, 32 minutes past the hour................launch tower cleared.
"I describe it as a nervous novice driving a wide car down a narrow alley, gotta make corrections and what it is , it's those big motors underneath gimbling underneath, you know swirling back and forth to keep you in balance. You feel by the seat of your pants, thinking gee that launch tower is just a few feet off the one side, I hope this sucker ain't gonna gimble in that direction too much and then when they tell ya launch tower cleared you kinda say oh wosh, we don't have to worry about hitting that moose, then off you go" Mike Collins Apollo 11.
Was watching In The Shadow of the Moon last night for like about the 20 gazillionth time and it really hit home how these astronauts who ventured to the Moon all had profound experiences, how all their lives had changed, so much so that what they once thought was important, now seemed trivial. Some even made major decisions about following God, it changed their lives, little things like not worrying about the price of gas any more, about crowded places like malls, Alan Bean is happy now there were people after visiting such a desolate place as the Moon.
After going through a life changing event myself I can relate to some of their thinking, let me make this perfectly clear, I don't pretend that what has happened to me is any worse then what has happened to a lot of other people, I know of people in far off worse places then I, serious illnesses and the such, but I know somewhat how they feel and what they are going through, but that's what it is all about , helping each other get through difficult times to the other side.
This blog post is something I have put off for a long time, I hope by reading it you will in some way benefit, maybe even help you get through your rough times. It's about how I handled an overwhelming situation by making what I feel to be the right lifelong decisions, and of course relating it back to the Apollo Missions, my most favorite thing ever, so here we go.
When it seemed no one was was there for me, God was. I said God look, just been told after 30 years of Marriage, the one I loved no longer wants to be with me, mostly my fault made some bad decisions, God said no problem, he is after all in the business of forgiveness, with Jesus, John 3:16 and all, He took me, put me in the command module, strapped me in, said hold on, and I was off.
Now the fun begins. Initially I was trying to make all kinds of course corrections early on with all the buttons at my disposal in my command module to try and get where I thought I had to get to, God of course was correcting my wrong corrections with the rocket's motors, pulling me away from the Launch Tower at just the right time, keeping me straight. It is reassuring that no matter how bad we continue to screw things up, God knows about it ahead of time, I mean it's not like he's up there saying "Wow...never saw that coming....any ideas, Peter...Jesus........anyone?" he is there to guide and correct you from as Mike Collins put it "hitting that moose" which is very comforting.
"Will metal stand this kind of vibration, have the engineers realized how this thing shakes? because it shakes so much more then I ever imagined." Alan Bean Apollo 12.
Since God is my engineer, he knew what I could stand, no matter what I was going through especially in the early stages of my adventure like getting off the launch pad and the forces at work against it, with God's help I got through it in one piece.
"Those engines, those 5 engines, when ignited shakes the whole body to reverberation from it, it's very emotional." Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14.
Actually very emotional, you know when God's guiding engines cut in, even though it shakes you to the core, you know you are going somewhere forward.
"You're not just riding along, a lot of people think you're just lying on your back waiting for it to happen, but not really, because every second is something of significance" Dave Scott Apollo15.
From the outside looking in it looks like the person who is working through a major upset is kinda just getting on when in reality, the person is changing their whole outlook on life, making decisions on the go, reflecting and growing, coming to grips with what has been dealt them and in my case couldn't have happened without God, Christ and the Holy Spirit to help me.
Once you get off the launch pad, into space and on to your new place, somewhere between where you were and where you're going, the blindfold comes completely off, you look behind to see where you came from getting smaller and smaller, but more important it's gravity or effect on you is less and less, your new destination on the other hand getting big and bigger and it's pull on you, it's gravity increases, the "why me".... "who's fault is it" questions start to fade away and the anticipation of a new start becomes more focused.
"I always thought of myself as one of the more fearful astronauts, really, and when I look out that window of the spacecraft I would think if that window blows out I'm going to die in about a second...there's death right out side there about an inch away." Alan Bean Apollo 12.
Sometimes, alone in your little command module, you do fret what God has in store for you, even though you are not alone, God is always there even though sometimes it feels like he's not. You vacillate between fear and exaltation.
"I didn't feel it as loneliness, I certainly didn't feel it as fear, I felt it as awareness almost a feeling of exaltation, I kind of liked it, good feeling, everything was going well in the command module, had my happy little home, had the bright lights on, everything was fine, I enjoyed that time."
This post was not about me insomuch as what God has done for me, given me a richer fuller life, a greater appreciation for his creations, whether it be people, or the cosmos, oh and eternal life, not afraid of dying anymore. Where this blog goes from here is still unknown to me, won't be quite the same as I'm not quite the same, I'll still post some of my images, some reviews, who knows. Through it all God has placed key people in my life and even though it's quiet most times in my brightly lit command module their voices come through loud and clear on my com channel giving me words of encouragement and guidance, a lot have been my readers and I thank you for that, special mention to Astro- Nuts and Fishhawk who have been on the com almost daily.
"I felt that I was standing on a plateau, a plateau somewhere out there in space. A plateau that science and technology allowed me to get to but now what I was seeing, even more important, what I was feeling at that moment in time, science and technology had no answers for, literally no answers. Because there I was and there you are...there you are Earth, dynamic, overwhelming, and I felt that the world just...just too much purpose, too much logic, was just to beautiful to have happened by accident. There has to be somebody bigger then you and bigger then me and I mean this in a spiritual sense not a religious sense, there has to be a creator of the universe who stands above the religions that we ourselves create to govern our lives."
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 10&17, Last Man on the Moon.
I'll leave you now with my first Moon video taken years ago, kind of crude, but it shows that even though something that looks like it isn't going anywhere.... when you look up at the Moon for example.......well when you look real close, when you look under a magnifying glass, aka telescope at it you see nothing is constant, you see movement.
Karen Schweitzer, the About.com Guide to business School and who also writes about online degrees for OnlineDegreePrograms.org has once again offered her most excellent services, this time giving us 10 places to receive free podcasts from iTunes.
Have your iTunes application open before hand and then click on the below links which will then open up your iTunes store with the free astronomy podcast.
Listening to podcasts can be a great way to learn about anything while you are on the go. There are hundreds of astronomy-related podcasts that you can listen to and participate in online. Many of them are available for free through iTunes. Here are 10 to try in your spare time.
Astronomy Cast- Hosted by Dr. Pamela L. Gay of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Fraser Cain of Universe Today, Astronomy Cast is iTunes' most popular astronomy-related podcast. Most episodes focus on what is known about the universe and things that are still being discovered.
This Week In Space- This Week in Space is a new podcast that reports astronomy-related news. Episodes are hosted by Miles O'Brien, a journalist and member of the NASA Advisory Council.
NASACast- NASACast is a video podcast direct from NASA. Episodes focus on the latest astronomy news as well as current NASA missions.
Hubblecast- Hosted by Dr. Joe Liske, a German astronomer at the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), Hubblecast covers news about astronomy and the famed Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomy.com- This weekly podcast from Astronomy Magazine reports up-to-date news and previews upcoming sky events.
Astronomy 141- Professor Richard Pogge of Ohio State University presents audio recordings of his lectures through this free podcast. Lectures are designed for non-science majors and explore life in the universe.
Naked Astronomy- Naked Astronomy is a relatively new podcast from the Naked Scientists, a group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University. The podcast hosts explore a wide range of space science topics and conduct interviews with professional astronomers.
Slacker Astronomy- This podcast offers interesting interviews as well as news stories about astronomy and science. Slacker Astronomy also presents the occasional video on special topics.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe- This weekly podcast features a discussion among five skeptics who cover everything from the paranormal to controversial claims--all from a scientific point of view.
Mysterious Universe- The Mysterious Universe podcasts covers the latest in science, technology, and astronomy with a strong emphasis on the strange, extraordinary, and just plain weird.
National Geographic Channel's "A Traveler's Guide to The Planets"
Get ready with an out of this world journey to the planets with National Geographic Channel's "A Traveler's Guide To The Planets" a 3 day, 6 part mini series premiering Sunday February 14, a.k.a Valentines Day 9pm EDT. What better way to cap off an evening with that someone special then to tour Saturn and Jupiter.
Using a combination of the latest images taken with the biggest and best Earth telescopes and stunning CGI animations you'll navigate through Saturn's rings, tour it's surface and view it's amazing auroras, then it's on to Jupiter, dive below it's atmosphere which is so dense the pressure of which could crush a car into the size of a tin can. Jupiter the solar system's vacuum cleaner, with it's immence gravitational pull sucking in comets and asteroids that would otherwise pummel the Earth, without Jupiter they estimate we'd be hit by a comet every 50 years or so, life as we know it would not exist.
Monday, February 15, at 9pm EDT. Travel to Mars, Venus and Mercury. Did you know that 4.5 billion years ago Venus and Earth began as planetary twins, formed right next to each other, even exchanging materials, parts of Venus were falling on Earth and visa versa. You'll learn all kinds of cool things about these 3 planets, again the animations and visuals on the preview dvds were awesome.
Tuesday, February 16, at 9pm EDT. Last stops on our journey of the Planets, Neptune, Uranus and yes..little Pluto, still a planet in Bobland. You'll see stunning new pictures of these planets and visit the New Horizons control room where scientists are working with the first spacecraft to visit Pluto around 2015, just past Jupiter, 1979 more days to arrival at Pluto.
Unfortunately the mini series is only showing for now in the U.S. but as in past NGC space shows have come to Canada within 6-8 months through the Discovery and Canadian National Geographic Channels.. I will update you on this one either through my blog or my Facebook where I am spending some time at.
I'll leave you now with a preview clip of Saturn.


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15 sierpnia, wtorek

W nocy niemiecka obrona przeciwlotnicza zestrzeliła 3 z 20 samolotów brytyjskich dokonujących zrzutów. Jeden z nich spadł na ul. Miodową. Cała jego składająca się z Kanadyjczyków załoga zginęła. Kolejny samolot – Halifax (MkII JN926) spadł przy ul. Wolskiej, w okolicy Reduty Wolskiej. Zginęli w nim piloci - sierżanci RAF: Robert S. Darling, Peter M. Roots, Ronald R.E. Hartog i Thomas Law; przeżyli natomiast: Richard O. Samways, Keneth A. Bedford i Maurice L. Casey z RAAF-u.

Odbywają się uroczystości związane z rocznicą "Cudu nad Wisłą", świętem Matki Boskiej Zielnej i Żołnierza Polskiego.
Miron Białoszewski w Pamiętniku z powstania warszawskiego opisuje to wydarzenie w następujących słowach:
Dni się tak nie rozróżniało za bardzo. Ale to jedno święto – 15 sierpnia (wypadało we wtorek) – nagle postanowiono obejść, uczcić. Na przekór. Od rana. [...] Tym razem czekało się też na Cud nad Wisłą. Też z nimi. Po drugiej stronie. I za Żeraniem. Ale żeby przyszli.

Odparto atak na pl. Krasińskich, płonie ul. Miodowa.
"Biuletyn Informacyjny" rozpoczyna drukowanie i przyjmowanie nazwisk osób zaginionych.

Premiera Kantaty na otwarcie Teatru Narodowego (reż. Leon Schiller) w Kawiarni Aktorek (przy ul. Mazowieckiej 5) przerwana przez bombardowanie.

Ambasador Stanów Zjednoczonych - William Averell Harriman zwrócił się z prośbą o pozwolenie na lądowanie na terenie radzieckim amerykańskich samolotów po dokonaniu zrzutów nad Warszawą. Andriej Wyszyński (zastępca komisarza spraw zagranicznych ZSRR) udzielił następującej odpowiedzi: Rząd sowiecki nie może się na to zgodzić, twierdząc że wybuch powstania jest dziełem awanturników.

Jednocześnie nasila się brutalna kampania propagandowa komunistów polskich z Polskiej Partii Robotniczej, wymierzona w Polskie Państwo Podziemne i dowództwo Armii Krajowej, 15 sierpnia 1944 Komitet Centralny PPR w swojej odezwie stwierdza:

 "(...) banda sanacyjnych i oenerowskich awanturników i warchołów podnosi dziś swą brudną łapę przeciw Polskiemu Komitetowi Wyzwolenia Narodowego, przeciwko Wojsku Polskiemu, które toczy bohaterską i ofiarną walkę o wyzwolenie ojczyzny. Garstka niepoczytalnych przywódców Armii Krajowej, na rozkaz Sosnkowskiego, w imię nędznych kombinacji politycznych kliki sanacyjnej, pchnęła ludność Warszawy do walki wbrew elementarnym zasadom wojskowym i wbrew uczciwości politycznej".

Tego dnia przy ul. Grzybowskiej, róg ul. Żelaznej poległ Louis Vengelli (ps. "Herbert") – starszy sierżant, dezerter z Luftwaffe, powstaniec w kompanii "Janusza" batalionu "Harnaś" Narodowej Organizacji Wojskowej. Walczył w obronie Śródmieścia. Zginęła również sanitariuszka Eryka Tyszkówna z batalionu "Parasol".

Przypisy

sierpień, 15

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Plot Outline: A forensic detective (Fiennes) and an insurance claims investigator (Ryder) trek to investigate a potential Darwin Award winner. From http://www.darwinawards.com/: "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways."
Okay, so what is this post about? Nothing. I'm just checking out Yahoo's BuzzIndex and wondering what would happen if I blog about popular celebrities about whom I know next to nothing. Isn't that exciting?


Measurement is something that features on a regular basis at many communication conferences but yet no one seems to have found the magic formula. Committee member, Debbie Aurelius, shares a model that has worked for her in the past and she has kindly shared her thoughts behind it. What do you think? Have you come across something that works for you? If so, please do share….over to Debbie!
At this point, we assess the uptake of new information or knowledge. Typically, it's measured by tests or observed in scenarios where newly-acquired knowledge can be brought to life safely. Think quizzes, role plays or sandbox systems environments.
It's hard not to be tempted to champion outcomes as final when you get good data points along the first few steps of the model.
The information shared about a company wellness programme had lots of positive feedback and read-rates, (Level 1) and most people entering the quiz scored highly (Level 2). It inspired a large number of people to take up a screening offer and promote it on the intranet (Level 3). This led to improved engagement scores in a pulse survey about wellness, where it was reported the programme contributed to the retention of valued team members (Level 4 – Result!).


As promised part 2 of December !
The mouse is back and it's starting to get more colours. I must have seen 50 of these last year.
Not really street art.. but I thought that was very clever on the front of this store.
I took a picture of this way back in 2009.. it used to be a hair salon.. and now it's another business.
It's a little faded after 10 years.. but it still looks good.
I posted this before.. but I didn't realize that it was the work of Jimmy Chiale until recently. It's a hair salon and he has more artwork inside the salon.
That mouse around the corner is ubiquitous !
I found these and didn't know what to make of it.
That sign says not to leave paint cans outside.
They must be by the same artist.
"Only the Lonely" by Ben Johnston who does amazing things with typography !
Whoever does the sandwich boards at this store does a really incredible job on them. They are always interesting and clever every time I go by.
Found this in an alleyway covered with graffiti. This one by Sarah Sturgis as a commission piece.
These were all in that same alley as the Sarah Sturgis mural..
This graffiti writer goes by Scieter on his Instagram but always tags "Sight".
I found this beat up old park bench.. but someone painted some flowers on it to brighten things up.


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Q: Is it a security risk to use the names of SQL parameters client-side? I have a web method that runs a given SQL procedure and returns the result as a serialised table. It could use one of a number of procedures, and each one requires different parameters:

*

*Proc1 requires @StartDate and @EndDate

*Proc2 requires @StartDate, @EndDate and @ResourceType

*Proc3 requires @StartDate, @EndDate and @ClientName

*Proc4 requires @StartDate, @User, @ResourceType and @RowsToReturn
If the parameters are passed as an array from the client to the web method, the web method needs to know which value corresponds to which parameter. That means the names need to be associated with the values before they are passed, and that means the names need to be paired with the values in the client JavaScript, making them visible to the user.
My question is: does revealing the parameter names in this way increase the system's susceptibility to intrusion?  Or are they already revealed to the user in some other way?
For example (using jQuery):
$.get(
    "Service.svc/GetData",
    JSON.stringify({
        query: "Proc2",
        params: [
            { name: "@StartDate", val: "01-JAN-2019" },
            { name: "@EndDate", val: "31-JAN-2019" },
            { name: "@ResourceType", val: 12 }
           ]
        }),
    function() { console.log(r.d); },
    "json"
    )

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A man armed with hand grenades and an automatic weapon opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia on Friday in what authorities called a terrorist attack. A policeman and the gunman were wounded, but the embassy said none of its employees were hurt.
Sarajevo Mayor Alija Behmen said the gunman "got off a tram with a Kalashnikov and started shooting at the American Embassy." Witnesses told Bosnian television the man urged pedestrians to move away, saying he was targeting only the embassy.
He wore a beard and was dressed in an outfit with short pants that reveal his ankles - typical for followers of the conservative Wahhabi branch of Islam.
Police arrested the wounded man - who one of Bosnia's three presidents said is a foreigner - and took him away in an ambulance as pedestrians cowered behind buildings and vehicles. Hospital spokeswoman Biljana Jandric told The Associated Press the gunman had a minor wound to his leg, and would spend the night at the hospital before being released into police custody.
Campara said Jasarevic had crossed the Serbian border into Bosnia on Friday morning. He said Jasarevic had two hand grenades with him when he was arrested and is also currently under investigation by Serbian police, but did not detail why.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed his identity and said he is 23 years old. Bosnian TV said Jasarevic is a Wahhabi follower.
The Wahhabis are an extremely conservative branch which is rooted in Saudi Arabia and linked to religious militants in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Western intelligence reports have alleged the tense, impoverished area of Sandzak, along with Muslim-dominated regions in Bosnia, are rich ground for recruiting so-called "white al-Qaida" - Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and carry out attacks.
The Islamic extremists joined Bosnia's 1992-95 war for independence. They were largely tolerated by the U.S. and the West because of their opposition to late Serbia's strongman Slobodan Milosevic's quest to create "Greater Serbia" out of the former Yugoslav republics.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said several bullets struck the outside wall of the embassy, but that all embassy personnel were safe.
She said the wounded police officer had been assigned to protect the embassy. Ambassador Patrick Moon expressed his gratitude for the swift response by the police.
"Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with those who put their lives on the line to protect the embassy," Nuland told reporters.
Bakir Izetbegovic, one of Bosnia's three presidents, issued a statement condemning "the terrorist attack on the embassy of the United States."
Zeljko Komsic, chairman of Bosnia's presidency, said told AP that authorities have not yet determined whether the attack "was the act of an individual, or something organized."
"But whatever it was, it is not just an attack on the U.S. Embassy or the U.S., it is also an attack on Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said.
Bosnian Muslims are extremely protective of their relations with the U.S. because it was the driving force behind NATO military intervention and brokered a peace agreement that ended Bosnia's war.
The head of Bosnia's Islamic Community, Mustafa Ceric, condemned the attack late Friday, and said "the attack on the U.S. Embassy is an attack on us."
"We will confront every individual or group that jeopardizes the peace and security in this city and this country," he said in a statement.
Serbian police said Jasarevic was briefly arrested a year ago for brandishing "a large knife" during a visit by the U.S. Ambassador to Serbia and other Western envoys to Novi Pazar.
Associated Press writers Aida Cerkez in Sarajevo and Dusan Stojanovic in Belgrade contributed.


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The Prophecy Heist
Mon, 11/23/2020 - 12:01 — Chris.Haddock
Chris Haddock
In the wake of the Alchemist's Conference, a band of criminals set out to perform the biggest heist in Kaldera's history! The Soup of Prophecy is said to grant the common folk unfiltered views of the future, a path to infinite wealth and power! However before the heist can even be planned the extracts of the famous Fallivaro must be stolen, to provide the ingredients for a potion that will obscure the thieves from the future sight of the Seers. If everything went to plan, they should have the formula now…..
Or do they!?
Fate is a narrative roleplaying game - the outcome of the story is more often than not a collaborative one, rather than the GM determining the consequences. Your character's aspects and backstory are integral to their stats, and can impact on how the game plays out.
Kaldera is a custom setting using the Fate 3 rules. Kaldera is a land of magic, where the fundamental building blocks of the universe exist in the form of Glyphs, ancient symbols that are used to write spells. Every spell is different, because each Glyph contains a myriad of interpretations - the Glyph for Fire also means Passion, for passion burns hot like a flame. It also means life, as warmth is vital to survival, but can mean danger too - because fire burns! Three Glyphs combined with the intention of the user creates a spell. Your characters in Kaldera are expert users of Glyphs, the only limit is your imagination!
This game, The Prophecy Heist, is the second in a two part game. The events of the game will be influenced by the choices of the players in The Alchemist's Conference!
The Alchemist's Conference
The annual Alchemist's conference has come to Kaldera, along with all the chaos it can bring. Barry's Boys are planning a grand heist of the Seer's council, but before they rob from those who literally see the future they have to whip up some spells to fog the eyes of the wise. Rumour has it the grand Alchemist Fallivaro has concocted just such a formula.
That's where you come in. Barry has hired you as a deniable asset - you'll be performing the heist of Fallivaro's new formula, before his Boys pull off the main heist later in the week. You'll need to plan your approach, come up with some sneaky spells to get the goods, then make it out without the Heat catching you!
This game, The Alchemist's Conference, is the first in a two part game. The events of this game will affect the events in The Prophecy Heist!
Supers Anonymous
Sun, 12/29/2019 - 19:41 — Rave
Bridget Hughes
It is a time of superheroes. Paragons of strength, justice, and freedom patrol the skies seeking to stop evil in it's tracks. The guild of heroes is organised into strings. The A string deals with planet wide threats, the B string deals with national threats, the C string deals with more localised threats and so on. The guild of heroes provides training, regulation, lawyers, makeup, and PR for heroes so they can focus on being beacons of virtue (and getting great endorsement deals)
But not every super is a hero, and not every power is wonderful. You are the G string: Supers with powers (or personalities) too strange, unstable, or ridiculous to be allowed to wander around loose, but who haven't done enough wrong that they can lock you up (yet).
The jerks at the guild would rather you didn't exist. They'd have you fetching coffee if there wasn't a solid chance you'd blow it up, so you've been banished to some backwater city. Your secret base is a janitors cupboard, and your companions are the residents of a retirement home that isn't all it seems. Maybe you want to prove yourself and rise in the ranks, maybe it was this or jail, maybe you have a score to settle, or maybe you just took a wrong turn and no one's told you what's going on yet.
This game leans heavy into the tropes, the more ridiculous the better. The goal isn't to win so much as to be as bizarre as possible while doing it.
We will be using lines and veils, and the X card. Pregens will be provided, but some customisation (as time allows) can be done. We may deal with themes including addiction, (comedic) nudity, and mental health, but this will be discussed before the game starts and we'll rule out themes that folks are uncomfortable with.
A group of strangers compete for fabulous prizes on a reality TV show. Alliances will form, tensions will flare, bonds will be broken, heads will roll - Wait, what?
A modern fantasy/horror game that leans into the tropes. Plenty of room for comedy too. The object isn't to win the game so much as to play out the shenanigans, try to survive, or die amusingly trying.
Kaldera: The Homunculus Gang
Tue, 12/22/2015 - 17:34 — Chris.Haddock
They're ratbags and scoundrels who don't know no law,
They're a horribly cantankerous crew.
The Homunculus Gang are the bosses of town,
And they're coming to say hi to YOU!
Nobody in town messes with the Homunculus Gang. They're small time bullies and thugs, but they have big money and bigger magic behind them. So when they come knocking with their grins and their stupid hats people just clam up and pay them the danger money.
But they've gone knocking a bit too hard on the wrong door.
Barry is mad. Hell, Barry is always mad. Being the owner of the largest Bed and Breakfast chain in Kaldera will do that to you. But today Barry is madder than mad. He's effing furious. The Homunculus Gang cruelly destroyed the door of his favourite establishment, and now he wants revenge. That's why he's calling on you. Mayhem, murder, trickery and treachery, Bed and Breakfast Barry doesn't care how you do it, just so long as you make sure the Homunculus Gang doesn't dare come knocking in his neighbourhood again.
Kaldera is a setting for the Fate Core and Fate Accelerated game systems that I have created. It's unique feature is a custom magic system that uses an alphabet of runes that each have a base name and a multitude of meanings. The goal is to use your imagination and cunning to create crafty spells and grand effects using three runes. Since it is Fate, the sky's the limit! Come to this game ready to do some crazy magic, in a crazy city full of crazy people!
You do not need any prior knowledge of the system or the setting, everything will be learned and explained at the table, although some knowledge of Fate Accelerated will be useful. Character's skill sets are pre-constructed, but names and backgrounds will be done at the table as well. No dice are needed, but some paper and pencils are useful.
Fate Accelerated
KapCon XXV
The Three Rocketeers
Tue, 11/24/2015 - 20:27 — Paul
THE THREE ROCKETEERS!
Journey through the Holy Roman Stellar Empire and the worlds of Britannica Solaria in this Swashbuckling Adventure!
The Queen's enemies may have disbanded the Rocketeers, but duty cannot be set aside so easily.
A deadly cabal of nobles and clergy threaten to usurp Her Majesty Queen Marie-Hélène's throne and hand Gallia over to Pope Regulus IV, and the Rocketeers now work from the shadows to protect the queen from threats both foreign and domestic. Foreign spies and papal agents lurk in every shadow as the trap draws ever closer.
A laser-sharp blade and even sharper wits will serve you well as interstellar powers play the game of puppets and shadows. The fate of the crown is in your hands.
Join forces in this planetary romance adventure inspired by the adventures of the three musketeers.
Fate Core
Pulp adventure!

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Jet on out to the warm waters along Key Largo on this exciting fishing tour that takes you to the best spots to find butterfly peacock bass. Join an expert captain as you move through stunning freshwater canals, all the while only a cast away from saltwater, resulting in enormous fish being caught on your line.
Meet your guide and climb aboard a modern 21-foot (7-m) boat that transports you out along the Keys at the tip of the Florida mainland. Your captain is an expert in catching peacock bass, a colorful prized game fish that is known to put up a fight whenever it gets hooked on the line. Make your way down the Aerojet canal to find the perfect spot to catch some giant bass.
Once you've cast your reel out in the water, sit back and relax, soaking up the warm Florida sunshine as you take in the natural beauty of the water all around you. Whether you're a first-time fisher, or an expert at reeling them in, your captain is happy to provide helpful tips and tricks to ensure an excellent fishing adventure.
If live-bait is used, it is additional. Your captain will discuss with you prior to your outing.
After initial scewup on location we had a successful day with a good guide. Young fellow with a pleasant attitude Cptn. Wayne Fellows proved his value when he found where the Peacock Bass were holding up. I would tell anyone to ask for Cptn. Fellows directly.
Only complaint is the address given on the booking is NOT where you go for the tour. It was actually 30 minutes farther, but still worth it!


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Supreme Court rules on 9/11 case
The ruling does not exclude a case being brought against other officials
The US Supreme Court says FBI Director Robert Mueller and ex-Attorney General John Aschcroft cannot be sued by a former 9/11 detainee for alleged abuse.
The justices on Monday reversed a lower court ruling that had allowed a lawsuit brought by Javaid Iqbal to go forward.
Mr Iqbal, from Pakistan, argued the two officials were responsible for a policy that saw him singled out for abuse on the basis of his religion and race.
The court ruled that his complaint failed to back up this claim.
Mr Iqbal spent some six months in solitary confinement in a federal prison in Brooklyn in 2002.
In his lawsuit, he said he had suffered physical and verbal abuse and had been singled out for mistreatment because of ethnic and religious discrimination.
The government argued that there was nothing to link Mr Mueller and Mr Ashcroft to the alleged abuse of Mr Iqbal.
'Secure conditions'
In a ruling by five votes to four, the Supreme Court justices overturned a ruling by a New York appeals court that had allowed Mr Iqbal's lawsuit to proceed.
"The complaint does not show or even intimate that petitioners purposefully housed detainees" in prison "due to their race, religion or national origin," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy in the court's majority opinion.
"All it plausibly suggests is that the nation's top law enforcement officers, in the aftermath of a devastating attack, sought to keep suspected terrorists in the most secure conditions available until the suspects could be cleared of terrorist activity."
The court ruled that Mr Iqbal may be able to bring a case against others officials if "unconstitutional misconduct" could be proved.
Mr Iqbal was arrested in November 2001 on charges unrelated to terrorism. His lawsuit alleged that two months later he was moved to a prison in New York where he was held for more than 150 days in solitary confinement, the Associated Press reports.
He was cleared of any links to terrorism and deported to Pakistan in January 2003 after pleading guilty to fraud, according to AP.
Monday's ruling appeared to be narrow, limited to the facts of this particular case, although it could be cited as precedent in other lawsuits, Reuters reports.
Dozens of Muslim men were arrested in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, and the justice department's inspector general found that many of those held at the Brooklyn detention centre suffered abuse.
In 2006, the US government agreed to pay $300,000 (£195,000) to settle with Mr Iqbal's co-plaintiff, Egyptian Ehab Elmaghraby.
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Not unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure Freed from her crown, she cut a breathtaking path across Europe spending madly, seeking out a majestic throne, and stirrinNot unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure Freed from her crown, she cut a breathtaking path across Europe spending madly, seeking out a majestic throne, and stirring up trouble wherever she went With a dazzling narrative voice and unerring sense of the period, Veronica Buckley goes beyond historical myth to breathe life into an extraordinary woman who set the world on fire and became an icon of her age a time of enormous change when Europe stood at the crossroads of religion and science, antiquity and modernity, war and peace.This P.S edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and .
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It's a lie that all biographers and in love with their subject, and I get the feeling that Buckley doesn't actually like Christina very much. But then it's difficult to write a biography of somebody who didn't achieve anything, who was a monarch and quit, and was then a dilletante. I read this because I came across Christina in an article on poisoning and thought she sounded fascinating -- the book left me feeling she's less fascinating and more pathetic.I sometimes read biography as an introduc [...]
C.R. Elliott
Having known nothing about Christina at the start of reading this book it was indeed an interesting read in a sense. However, I was frustrated by the author's constant commentary and interpretation of events. Christina was very much the product of her environment but I felt that Buckley put far too much of her own perspective on why Christina said or did this or that without necessarily backing it up with specific documentation. In many sections the author spoke of what an individual like Azzoli [...]
Haven't read much about her before so this was very interesting and well written. But I absolutely hated her. She was selfish and spoiled.
Christina the DabblerEveryone knows of the great Virgin Queen of England, Elizabeth I. With the "heart and stomach of a king", she was able to move England into the forefront of the European community. But what of the other Virgin Queen, Christina of Sweden? Born just a generation after Elizabeth, the young Christina succeeded to the throne as a child. Her seemingly great intellect promised the start of a epic age in Sweden, which had become a military power under her father and seemed poise [...]
Sonja Isaacson
Buckley is apparently negatively disposed towards Christina. She has obviously done quite a bit of research, but I would expect that if she has spent that much time researching, Buckley wouldn't write off every decision Christina makes as selfish, thoughtless and/or immature. I am rather surprised on how it seems that nobles were all broke. Didn't anyone ever have to pay their bills? Why didn't the sellers ever say "show me the money"? Apparently accounting was not part of her practical educatio [...]
Bettie☯
As with most European royal families, the Vasas were totally dysfunctional.Here we have a sad case of an ingrate and malcontent penile envier who showed great propensity for hubris, cruelty and disloyalty. Your average European ruler then! ETA - I have been investigating Calvins v Lutherans as it came up in my new-to-me book 'Christina Queen of Sweden' by Veronica Buckley. What I gather is that Lutherans think of themselves individually interacting whilst Calvinists think of their social group i [...]
Wealhtheow
Christina became Queen of Sweden as a child and abdicated as a young woman. I absolutely hate her. She was a terrible queen and a selfish, pompous, spoiled woman. I was so pleased when she abdicated the throne so she could pursue her Grand Artistic Future, and doubly pleased when it turned out she was no great genius, after all. She died alone, desitute, and despised by most of Europe, which I think fitting for such an annoying person.The history itself is well-researched and well-written. I usu [...]
Sara W
The three star rating isn't really a reflection on the book itself. It's written well, but Christina was entirely annoying. I just wanted to slap her. She gave up the Swedish crown just to turn around and chase after other crowns. She meddled when she should have been minding her own business, and she showed up in countries when no one wanted her around. I normally would feel sorry for someone like this, but she had no humility whatsoever.
Sarah Wagner
I came to this book knowing the basic outline of Christina of Sweden's life but not the details - and what struck me was the role of gender in this 17th-century queen's life. Initially mistaken for a boy at birth (and possibly intersex?), Christina become Queen of Sweden in her own right while still a child. She refused to marry, however, and eventually abdicated from her throne, motivated partly by a desire to convert to Catholicism. She spent years traveling across Europe, often dressed in men [...]
Christina, Queen of Sweden is doomed to forever be known as the cross-dressing queen who abdicated her Protestant throne and turned to Catholicism. Veronica Buckley explores the quirks of Christina's personality in "Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric". Few books exist revolving around Queen Christina which puts a lot of pressure on Buckley's writing skills. Luckily, Buckley's language and flow are smooth, beautiful, and well-written. However, the begi [...]
All too often we can be caught up in this history contained within our borders, particularly when it concerns royal families and other powerful figures. This sceptre isle contains a plethora of stories, myths, legends, heroics, skulduggery, cynicism and downright nastiness to keep anyone entertained for years. How refreshing then that on a whim I picked out Veronica Buckley's wonderful biography of the 17th century Swedish monarch, Christina, Queen of Sweden. Christina Alexandra was the only s [...]
Lissa Notreallywolf
What I thought is what I am thinking-I am dragging myself through this book with rapt attention to costumes, and the authors repeated judgement that we are dealing with a petulant, perennial child, a typical 'arrested development" bias for viewing gender-different people, whether a matter of outward morphology or internal configuration. Christina's mother was apparently sunk deep in some sort of mental pathology, as were many of her royal relatives, and the fact that Christina, was not-male heir [...]
Jack Hrkach
I decided to read this fine biography for several reasons. I saw the film that I remember as being quite good, decades ago - love to see it again but it's not the easiest to come by. Then recently I focused to an extent on Bernini for a trip that included Rome, read a biography of that great and innovative artist, and found that he was well acquainted with the Queen during her self-imposed exile in the Eternal City. Finally, I am contemplating a trip to Norway primarily, but with a few days in S [...]
Edward Podritske
Biography is a part of history but it is the historical context that makes a biographical treatment interesting, contrary to Emerson's sentiment that all history is biography. Not all biography is so very interesting on its own. Properly, it examines the subject's life in the context of challenges faced at a particular time and place.Queen Christina was born to a life of status and privilege at a time when Europe was in tumult. The power nexus of state and religion was being challenged by mo [...]
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Biografia dettagliata, ben scritta e ricca di aneddoti…Cristina, regina di Svezia per un decennio, ci viene presentata come una donna piuttosto bassa di statura, minuta, con un gran sedere ed un naso altrettanto notevole, eppure intelligente e molto colta, appassionata di musica, balletto e teatro, dotata di un fascino del tutto suo, capace di affascinare e suscitare passioni sincere e durature… Fu amata e vanamente richiesta in sposa dal cugino, suo successore, cosi' come fu adorata dal c [...]
Veronica Buckley does a good job of describing not just the political situation Christina was born into but the events leading up to it without the reader longing for the pre-history to be over. She is well read on her subjects as well as the country she writes about. She also is not biased towards seeing Christina as a feminist icon that so many choose to see her as. As Buckley states a few times over, Greta Garbo's Christina, while scandalous like the real Christina, was always beautiful and [...]
Mariavv
I first heard of Christina when I was living in Rome, and thought she was absolutely fascinating, so I was really happy to find out someone had written a book about her. I have given it four stars mostly because of the interesting subject matter and because I don't think a better book about Christina exists, but there were a few things that annoyed me about the book. The overly flowery language felt a bit forced at the beginning, though I got used to it after a while. Also, the author included a [...]
Jennyb
This book is well written, but what a despicable character! Knowing little about Christina besides that she was eccentric, reputedly lesbian, and abdicated her throne, I expected to learn about someone, if not noble and distinguished, at least interesting. Instead, Christina was petty, arrogant, grasping and insufferable. To her credit, Buckley stays away from the more lascivious rumors about her subject, and writes a good bio of a thoroughly dislikable subject. Try as she might to humanize Chri [...]
It's well-written, which is frankly the only compliment I could give it. The author completely bypasses one of the reasons Christina is a figure of interest - the questions surrounding her sexuality - and literally spends more time discussing the minutiae of Christina's coronation than delving into her sexual life. What's even more puzzling is that Veronica Buckley seems to dislike her subject. She constantly belittles Christina's intellectual achievements and contributions and sometimes gives t [...]
Victoria Witthoff
The book was well-written and interesting, but it's hard to really get into it because Christina is just not likeable. She was a greedy, petulant, spiteful, immature waste of space and the author obviously feels the same way. It's strange to read a historical book where the historian has no respect at all for the subject. Not that I blame the author, it just makes for slightly more difficult reading. I finished it feeling that Christina didn't even deserve to have this book, or any, written abou [...]
On the surface, the story of Christina, the Queen of Sweden who abdicated in order to move to Rome and participate in intellectual and artistic life, sounds like it should make for great reading. Unfortunately, Christina makes for a highly unsympathetic character. She was deeply irresponsible with her considerable power. She acted like pre-teen, rebelling against her principal Chancellor just for rebellion's sake, priding herself on her ability to "dissimulate" while acting like an ass, etc. up [...]
I was really looking forward to reading this, because by all accounts Queen Christina of Sweden was a fascinating figure, but this book proved to be disappointing. The author had a clear slant against Christina, portraying her in a negative light and often with a wry sneer, which is unfortunate. So many aspects of her life are exceptional and directly challenge the status quo of her time, but these are brushed aside by way of a backhand comment and instead chapters are dedicated to the Queen's f [...]
I would have rated the book higher if it wasn't for the thinly veiled disdain the author felt for her subject - Christina. At least this is what I sensed throughout much of the book. I lost count how many times Christina and her actions were described as selfish, foolish, spoiled, petulant etc. All right, I got it the first time, let me make my own conclusions already. I'm glad I didn't end up hating Christina after that unsympathetic portrayal. She was a flawed human being born in a position of [...]
I have given up.I spent more than a year trying to work my way through this book.I really love story of Queen Christina (and not just because we share the same name).It's a shame Buckley has to ruin it with overwrought, ugly prose.I have another book about Christina at home that is much better, but out of print. I think it's called "A Psychological Biography of Queen Christina of Sweden." I picked it up at a yard sale more than 10 years ago. And I highly recommend it if you can find it.
Donna Boultwood
This book was given to me and it's not one I would've bought myself. I struggled to get into Swedish royal history and the immense detail in this book. That said, I got the measure of Christina and felt sorry for her being thrust forward as a young queen. She didn't know who she was or what she wanted, no wonder she wanted to escape. I think she found peace right at the end of her life. Shame she hadn't known that peace, and perhaps met azzolino earlier, as she probably would've made a strong qu [...]
Andrew Pessin
I read about half, since my interest was primarily in Christina up to the point of her famous abdication and conversion, not afterwards -- a very splendid book, easily and smoothly written, filled with just the right balance of quirky/titillating personal details, anecdotes, intrigues and more serious history and political analysis -- Christina is a very interesting case study, and Buckley studies her interestingly .! definitely worth reading for anyone interested in 17th century history .
Kaia Landelius
I love Kristina but I really hated this book. Somehow the author makes every single decision she ever made into something selfish and immature and seems unable to entertain the thought that she did ANYTHING good in her life. There are a lot of descriptions of how strange she looks, how people laugh at her clothing choices and so on, and it just made me mad as hell.I read about 90% of the book before I COULDN'T TAKE MORE.
I have come to the conclusion that I do not like Queen Christina one bit.However, this biography is hard to put down. It is full of details and little episodes that really make it come alive. Her life as well as the world she lived in are put into context, and you can't help but turn the next page in order to follow her story. The author obviously spent quite some time researching Christina's life, and I think she did a fine job.
Queen Christina was a very interesting woman and I had always wanted to know more about her. This book was somewhat satisfying, though it offers far too much in the way of details and the author judges Christina rather harshly. Despite the book's shortcomings I am glad I read it. Christina was an amazing woman and her life was truly stranger than fiction. (PS – I enjoyed the same author's book about the secret wife of Louis XIV.)
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Bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow is tired of living in poverty on a failing farm, and she's frustrated by her marriage to the boy who got her pregnant in high school. Then one day, as she's hiking through rural Tennessee on her way to meet a lover, she witnesses a miraculous event on an Appalachian mountainside. The beautiful, ominous vision ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. Barbara Kingsolver addresses rural life, climate change and environmental stewardship in this story of personal awakening.
June 3, 2013 • In softcover fiction, Barbara Kingsolver explores climate change, Jami Attenberg depicts an eating disorder, Dave Eggers sends a businessman to Saudi Arabia, and Vaddey Ratner fictionalizes life under the Khmer Rouge. In nonfiction, Jeffrey Toobin examines the Supreme Court and President Obama.
April 20, 2013 • More and more writers are setting their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.
November 9, 2012 • Writer Barbara Kingsolver is one of a handful of novelists with a science background, and she puts it to use in her new novel Flight Behavior. Kingsolver discusses the book and why she chose to look at the the issue of climate change in a fictional work set in rural Tennessee.
November 8, 2012 • Barbara Kingsolver's new novel starts when millions of monarch butterflies alight on a mountain in eastern Tennessee. Yet, as author Brian Kimberling describes, the beautiful winged visitors in the novel reveal both humankind's effect on nature and the nature of humankind.
November 6, 2012 • Barbara Kingsolver's seventh novel addresses global warming and the failings of public education through the story of a Tennessee woman whose thus-far disappointing life changes when 15 million monarch butterflies alight in the woods near her home.
On shearing day the weather turned cool and fine. On the strength of that and nothing more, just a few degrees of temperature, the gray clouds scurried away to parts unknown like a fleet of barn cats. The chore of turning ninety ewes and their uncountable half-grown lambs through the shearing stall became a day's good work instead of the misery expected by all. As far as Dellarobia could remember, no autumn shearing had been so pleasant. After all the months of dampness, the air inside the barn now seemed unnaturally dry. Stray motes of fleece flecked the beams of light streaming from the high windows, and the day smelled mostly of lanolin rather than urine and mud. The shorn fleeces were dry enough to be skirted while still warm off the sheep. Dellarobia stood across from her mother-in-law at the skirting table where they worked with four other women, picking over the white fleece spread out between them. The six of them surrounded the table evenly like numbers on a clock, but with more hands, all reaching inward rather than out.
There was no denying the clear sky was fortuitous. If the sheep had stood in rain and mud all morning waiting to be shorn, some of the wool would have been too fouled for sale. A lot of income turned on a few points of humidity. But good luck was too simple for Hester, who now declared that God had taken a hand in the weather. Dellarobia felt provoked by the self-congratulation. "So you're thinking God made the rain stop last night, just for us?" she asked.
"Know that the Lord God is mighty," replied Hester, who likely could live her whole life as a string of Bible quotes. She looked daunting in a red-checked blouse with pearl snaps and white piping on the yoke. Everyone else wore old work clothes, but Hester nearly always dressed as if she might later be headed out for a square dance. The festivities never materialized.
"Okay, then, he must hate the Cooks." Dellarobia's insolence gave her a rush, like a second beer on an empty stomach. If Hester was suggesting God as a coconspirator in farming gains and losses, she should own up to it. The neighbors' tomato crop had melted to liquid stench on the vine under the summer's nonstop rains, and their orchard grew a gray, fungal caul that was smothering the fruit and trees together.
Valia Estep and her big-haired daughter Crystal both looked at their hands, and so did the two Norwood ladies. They combed the white fleece for burrs and bits of straw as if the world turned on rooting out these imperfections. Neighbors always came on shearing day, starting with ham biscuits and coffee at six a.m. Not the unfortunate Cooks, of course, who had failed to gain Hester's sanction in the five years since they'd moved here. But the Norwoods' farm abutted the Turnbows' on the other side of the ridge, going back several generations, and they were also sheep farmers, so this help would be returned at their own shearing. Valia and Crystal were motivated only by friendship, it seemed, unless there was some vague unmentioned debt. They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
"I didn't say word one about those Cook people," Hester said, not letting it go. "Valia, did you hear me say word one about the Cooks?"
"I don't think you did," replied mousy Valia. Dellarobia knew her mother-in-law could command unlimited agreement from these women. Hester's confidence in her own rectitude was frankly unwomanly. She never doubted a thing about herself, not even her wardrobe. Hester owned cowboy boots in many colors, including a round-toed pair in lime green lizard. But at the moment it was the self-interested logic that irked Dellarobia: if Hester and Bear had bad luck, like the winter of terrible chest colds they'd suffered last year, they blamed the repairman who failed to fix the furnace and charged them anyway. But when the Cooks' little boy was diagnosed with cancer the same winter, Hester implied God was a party to the outcome. Dellarobia had let this kind of talk slide for years, showing no more backbone really than Valia or any other toad in Hester's choir.
Until now. "Well, it just seemed like that was your meaning," she said. "That God stopped the rain for us, but not the Cooks. So he must like us better."
"Something's got into you, miss, and it is not good. You'd do well to consult your maker on respecting your elders." Hester spoke down her nose. She lorded her height over others in a way that her tall son did not, even though Cub had a good fifteen inches on Dellarobia. Only Hester could cut her daughter-in-law down to her actual size: a person who bought her sweatshirts in the boys' department, to save money.
"The Cooks are older than me," Dellarobia said quietly. "And I feel for them." Something had gotten into her, yes. The arguments she'd always swallowed like daily ration of pebbles had begun coming into her mouth and leaping out like frogs. Her strange turnaround on the mountain had acted on her like some kind of shock therapy. She'd told her best friend Dovey she was seeing someone that day, but not even Dovey knew what she'd been called out to witness. A mighty blaze rising from ordinary forest, she had no name for that. No words to put on a tablet as Moses had when he marched down his mountain. But like Moses she'd come home rattled and impatient with the pettiness of people's everyday affairs. She felt shamed by her made-up passion and the injuries she'd been ready to inflict. Hester wasn't the only one living in fantasyland with righteousness on her side; people just did that, this family and maybe all others. They built their tidy houses of self-importance and special blessing and went inside and slammed the door, unaware the mountain behind them was aflame. Dellarobia felt herself flung from complacency as if from a car crash, walking away from that vale of fire feeling powerful and bereft. It was worse even than years ago when the stillborn baby sent her home with complicated injuries she could not mention. Both then and now, Hester was not one to ask about personal troubles. She seemed unacquainted with that school of thought.
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Minnesota Troopers plan to arrest hundreds of protesters who have paralyzed the Interstate in Minneapolis.
Minnesota state police are planning to arrest at least 200 people who participated in a demonstration in which part of Interstate Highway 94 was closed on Wednesday night.
Demonstrators participating in the demonstration, which began earlier in the evening, were confined to the freeway until 10:30 p.m. local time after law enforcement agencies allegedly blocked nearby exits. Minneapolis police officers supported the Minnesota State Patrol in its response to the protest.
Those who participated in the demonstration marched a section from 1-94 to protest the possible re-election of President Donald Trump and, as one organizer said, to work for a more progressive and inclusive future regardless of the outcome of the election.
"We're here to say we don't want four more years of Trump, and we're here because we want to promote a progressive agenda and a progressive future for this city and for this country," said Meredith Aby, a member of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, an activist group that was present at Wednesday's demonstration. Aby told Washington Newsday that others who spoke earlier during the protest "addressed the fact that we need to stop talking about this election and start working to build the movement" because "we have a lot of work to do in this country.
Other photos and videos from the demonstration showed several activist groups involved, including advocates for racial justice, labor rights and environmental issues.
When Aby spoke to Washington Newsday about the demonstration, the activist said she was "trapped" on the highway with hundreds of other Minnesota protesters, surrounded by Minneapolis police and state police. Aby explained that law enforcement agencies "have been holding the protesters here for over an hour, and they won't let people leave the highway. At the time, she watched as police slowly arrested protesters from the crowd as they approached her and other members of her organization. Children reportedly participated in the demonstration with their families.
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The tactic used by Minnesota troops and local police to seize protesters and then arrest them for not leaving the area is known as "kettling," a crowd control method for which a number of law enforcement agencies nationwide responded to backlashes during the Black Lives Matter protests earlier this year. Aby told Washington Newsday demonstrators on I-94 that they "actually marched to the exit" to try to get off the freeway when soldiers and Minneapolis police stopped them from continuing.
"They wouldn't let us drive on. They wouldn't let us go back," she recalled. Some demonstrators tried to climb over the barriers that border the highway, Aby said, but even the police forces "wouldn't let people go that way.
Lieutenant Gordon Shank, a spokesman for the Minnesota State Patrol, confirmed the plan to arrest all of the protesters involved in the highway demonstration in a statement made to Washington on Wednesday night. Shank declined to comment on reports that police and Minneapolis police had blocked the highway before the arrests began, citing an "open investigation" into the matter.
The Minnesota State Patrol offered preliminary information about their response to the demonstration earlier Wednesday in a series of postings on Twitter.
"Troopers continue to detain 1-94 protesters on Riverside Avenue," said a tweet posted on CT at 9:00 p.m. "Walking on the highway is illegal and very dangerous for pedestrians and motorists. We respect everyone's right to speak under the First Amendment, but the interstate is not a place to do that".
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The ATN X-Sight II HD 3-14 Day/Night Riflescope is the latest generation of software assisted digital optics. It is available as either a 5-20x or a 3-14x magnification, and is capable of doing a ton of neat, slick and even downright useful things, provided you know how to operate it. As the name implies, the scope allows the user to run the exact same optic during the night as in the daytime with the push of a couple buttons.
The ATN X-Sight II HD represents the future of optics, as the tagline says. This scope can record video with audio and take pictures at 1080p quality either through manual user input or recoil initiation. Yes, you can immediately review the video on the device to see how good the hit was on that whitetail, or you can attach the scope to an external video monitor via a micro HDMI cable for everyone at the camp to see how awesome you are for all time. The scope can be paired to external devices, such as your smart phone, a remote control, and a laser rangefinder. It also has a built-in weather station that automatically tracks temperature, barometric pressure and altitude, you can manually enter wind speed, direction, and relative humidity. The X-Sight II HD also has a manual rangefinder that utilizes basic MIL range finding techniques. You also get a WiFi hotspot, Bluetooth ability to pair, a GPS enabled compass, built-in level and angle readouts, a ballistic compensation calculator (that pairs to the ATN1500 rangefinder) and an IR illuminator. And that's just to start. There is quite a bit more that this optic is capable of that will be touched upon later in the article.
Upon delivery of the ATN X-Sight II HD 3-14 I spent an evening going through the basic instructions that come along with everything in the box, familiarizing myself with the terminology of the technology. These are basic instructions and will get you to a place that you can start to operate the optic. You will have a ton of questions at this point. There is a lot going on with the riflescope and unless you are a natural with modern tech-based systems I would highly recommend spending a bit of time looking at the various threads located at www.atnowners.com. In all seriousness, every one of my, 'what about this,' and, 'how do you do that' questions were answered right there, everything from tech support questions and suggested updates to accessories, and there are even links to contact customer service.
I am not a super tech savvy guy so there was a bit of a learning curve involved for me. There are also some very good videos on YouTube that walk you through several of the features, like the one shot zero feature for instance. The next evening I spent poking around the ATN Owners Forum and YouTube, charging spare batteries and playing around with the settings and the setup of the riflescope systems. I never did figure out how to not have to reset the time and date, as you will probably notice by looking at the date and time stamps on the photos and videos. Over the course of my testing I mounted, set up and zeroed the riflescope on seven different rifles, so now I have that setup procedure down in my sleep. The process is very straightforward.
I mounted the riflescope, extended battery life package and remote controller on my 20" barreled 6.5 Grendel AR, a consistent and validated 0.6 MOA shooting rifle that I put together a few years back when the 6.5 Grendel was all the rage. l had set up the ballistic profile in the riflescope to match that of my proven load using the 130g Berger AR Hybrid at 2,400 fps, and it was time to head to the range and sling some lead getting this thing zeroed.
I started at 25 yards and was literally zeroed after the first shot, no kidding. I will walk you through that process. I simply fired a shot and went to the settings menu and then to the profiles/zero menu and selected current then moved the colored crosshair to the bullet hole on the target while holding the white crosshair on the center of the bullseye. I took one more shot to confirm the zero because I could not believe it was that easy; it was. I then turned on the ballistic compensation feature and went to the 200-yard range. I utilized the ATN1500 laser rangefinder that I had previously paired to the riflescope and ranged the target at exactly 200 yards. A little flag and, '200yd' appeared on the upper left of the display screen and I zoomed the display to 14X and fired three shots, which landed in a quarter-sized cluster, a little left of center. I moved the zero of the reticle to take that into account and sent another three shots dead into the center of the bullseye. Easy as pie.
It was time to stretch the riflescope system out and see how well it handled longer distances and the never-ending gusting Nebraska wind. We set up early in the morning the following Saturday at 917 yards with a steady 12mph wind gusting to 18mph. I entered the temperature, wind velocity and direction into the riflescope. I ranged the steel plate with the ATN1500 laser rangefinder, and verified that I saw 917yd next to the little flag in the upper left of the display and centered the reticle on the plate. I fired and made a cold bore hit on the plate in a 12mph wind that I followed up with two more within the margins of the changing wind on the steel plate.
The ballistic compensation features work well, provided you have valid velocity and ballistic information entered. My velocity data was previously recorded with a Magnetospeed and the ballistic data was validated with live fire. The riflescope tracked nearly exactly with my recorded values. I took the opportunity to also test the internal rangefinder by entering the known size of the plate target and taking a reading at the top and bottom of the target, it calculated the range to be 877yd. Your ability to aim and take a reading precisely at the top and bottom of the target heavily influence its output values, inside of 400 yards it is pretty well ok and will get the job done. It has several default object sizes and you can manually enter the exact size of a target as well.
I mounted the riflescope next on my Ruger 300 blackout bolt gun that I shoot a 250g Outlaw State Bullets low-velocity expanding round-nosed bullet from at 1,020fps. It is a sub-sonic expanding bullet for hunting that I have harvested a few whitetail deer with, and is a good fit for sub-sonic suppressed hunting. It has a similar ballistic arc to that of a thrown rock.
I zeroed it at 25 yards, only needing one shot again to zero it. I moved over to the 100-yard range and took a reading with the paired ATN 1500 rangefinder and fired a group. I made a slight adjustment in the zero and fired another group that centered right up on the target.
The next morning, I was able to get to my local range and really push the limits of what the riflescope ballistic compensation could do, both with manual range entry, internal rangefinder and the paired rangefinder. I started by entering the wind data and temperature into the system. Then I used the paired rangefinder and ranged a 6" square steel plate at 315 yards, and after I verified that 315yd appeared next to the little flag in the upper left of the display screen I sent five in a row into a neat little cluster on the plate. I then ranged a chicken silhouette at 27 yards and readily toppled it, followed by the steel plate at 315, a pig silhouette at 218, the chicken at 27 yards and back to another silhouette at 164 yards as fast as I could range them, aim and shoot.
If you are shooting at a known range you can also manually enter the distance and apply the same ballistic corrections. It is just more fiddly to scroll through the menus and enter the distance and isn't exactly quick, but it also works fine.
The ballistic compensator works by automatically making the corrections needed inside the riflescope. You hold the crosshairs where you want the bullet to hit and the computer does the rest. The crosshairs stay centered in the view finder. This works for elevation via your distance entry that you can enter manually, enter through the internal range finder or through pairing with the ATN 1500 laser rangefinder.
You can choose to either hold off for the wind, or to enter the direction and velocity values and the riflescope will compensate for the wind. You will see the offset that the calculator is applying in the lower left hand portion of the screen as an arrow pointing up or down followed by the correction in inches, then an arrow pointing left or right followed by the correction in inches. Think of it as a digital version of a ballistic turret on your traditional glass optic.
You click the rangefinder and the elevation correction happens automatically. No dialing in the wrong distance value accidentally or using the wrong hashmark for the wind. The feature works day or night and can be turned off at any time. Just manually set the distance back to your normal distance, or click a few times around your desired distance, and once you get it right just scroll to the menu and turn off the compensation calculator and you are right back to your normal zero range.
It works equally as well with your 22LR as it will with your 6.5 wildcat laser beam, provided your ballistic data is correct. I used this feature flawlessly to shoot my 50 yard zeroed 300blk out to 315 yards, 6.5 Grendel out to 917 yards, 5.56 x 45 to 625 yards, 7.62 x 39 to 315 yards, 6.5/06 to 865 yards, 308 to 865 yards and 22LR to shoot to 315 yards. Bottom line, it worked and could not be easier to use unless it utilized telepathy.
I lust after a very high resolution thermal scope. Then even if game is hiding I can see the heat signature/shape.
Would be nice if we could afford the military night/thermal scope combination. It's the beat of both worlds at a mere $10,000.
I bought ne at BPS in Montgomery about 3 months ago. Returned it to BPS in Tallahassee a week later.
It would not recognize any of three mini SD cards and it would not focus. I could see movement through it but is was like looking through 3" of cracked glass. I returned it and bought a Vortex for my son's 308.
To clarify, I did not try to exchange it for a replacement and did not call CS about the unit. So other than this unit being a lemon I had no other bad experience. The other 99% of them might have worked perfectly.
Welcome to the party. Have had one for a year. Also have the binocs. Simply cannot be beat for the price. Worth mentioning although mine has found a permanent home on a 20" .308 the profiles are absolutley spot on. I have multiple profiles for sub/supersonic ammo with and without suppressor. A simple press of a button changes profiles and is 100 percent reliable. The reticle I use has perfect subtensions for my pet 155 grain load for this gun. Each one is another 100 yards. It is absolutely lethal out to 400 yards at night with the right IR. I use an evolva t30and can identify east to 700 yards. I won't shoot over 4 at night though. Its a personal thing. Many a dead coyote round these parts because of this combo as well a feral hogs.
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OneSpace () or One Space Technology Group () is a Chinese private space launch group based in Beijing, subsidiaries in Chongqing, Shenzhen and Xi'an. OneSpace was founded in 2015. OneSpace is led by CEO Shu Chang, and is targeting the small launcher market for microsatellites and nanosatellites. OneSpace launched China's first private rocket in 2018.

The company plans to unveil its family of rockets early in 2019. At least 10 such firms have emerged since the Chinese government policy shift in late 2014 to allow private companies into the launch and small satellite sectors.

Facilities
OneSpace's headquarters and an R&D center is located in Beijing. Its research and development center, and manufacturing and assembly base, is located in Chongqing. Its rocket engine testing facility is located in Jiangxi Province and Shanxi Province.

Rockets

OS-X series
The OS-X series of rockets are suborbital sounding rockets, reaching high altitude or reaching space but not orbit; they are meant for research and development of their launch systems.

OS-X0
The OS-X0 (aka "Chongqing Liangjiang Star") is a  long suborbital high-altitude rocket. It uses solid propellant and is designed to carry payloads up to  reaching space. First flight (suborbital) was on 17 May 2018, reaching an altitude of . The rocket is built completely from homegrown Chinese technology. Its launch represents one of the first rockets (see i-Space Hyperbola-1S) designed by a private company launched in China. The development, building and launching of the rocket was achieved with budget less than $78 million. This flight was paid for by the Chinese state owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China.

OS-X1
The OS-X1 (aka "Chongqing Liangjiang Star") is a suborbital high-altitude rocket, a sounding rocket, designed for research and testing. The solid rocket motor was successfully tested in December 2017. This 9-meter long rocket was launched at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 7 September 2018 (04:10 UTC), reaching an altitude of 35 km and traveling 169 km.

OS-X6B
The OS-X6B (aka "Chongqing Liangjiang Star") is a  long suborbital high-altitude rocket. It is designed to send payloads up to 300 km (190 mi) with an estimated flight time of 10 minutes. The maiden flight of this rocket took place on 5 February 2021 (09:05 UTC). The flight was successful.

OS-M series
The OS-M series of rockets are larger than the OS-X series and aim to provide low cost flights to LEO and SSO.

OS-M
The OS-M is a light-launch satellite launch vehicle rocketing payloads to low Earth orbit (LEO) and Sun synchronous orbit (SSO). It is projected to be capable of lifting  to  high LEO; and  to  high SSO.

As of December 2018, the tests completed for OS-M were:
 2018/July/4: First-stage main rocket motor test.
 2018/August/24: Three-stage solid-state propellant and the second and third stage separation system test.
 2018/October/23: Fourth-stage engine and the third and fourth stage separation system test
 2018/November/26 through Nov/30: Attitude control system mechanical environment test.
 2018 December: Completed the OS-M attitude control system hot fire test.

OS-M1

OS-M1 or just OS-M, (also known as Chongqing Liangjiang Star or Chongqing SQX or Chongqing or SQX-1Y1), is a 4-stage solid fuel orbital rocket that is 19-meters long, 1.2 meters in diameter and weighs 21-tons. It is designed to lift about 112 kilograms into a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.

It was launched for its first orbital mission carrying the Lingque-1B technology verification satellite from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 27 March 2019. Liftoff from the TLE-2 flat pad (atop a movable platform) took place at 09:39 UTC. After the first-stage separation, OS-M's attitude was unstable and the launch failed. A preliminary investigation found a malfunction of the rate gyroscope as cause. In the follow-up, OneSpace team said they will learn from the mistake and optimize the performance of the rocket.

Reportedly OS-M1 uses demilitarized solid rocket motors from retired military missiles.

OS-M2
The OS-M2 is similar to the OS-M1, but has two boosters. Block A will be capable of lifting  to LEO and  to  SSO, while block B will be capable of lifting  to LEO and  to  SEO.

OS-M4
The OS-M4 has four boosters. Block A will be capable of lifting 552 kg to LEO and 307 kg to 800 km SSO, while block B will be capable of lifting 748 kg to LEO and 446 kg to 800 km SEO.

Future OS-M rockets
The firm is anticipating making future entries in the OS-M series of rockets in some way reusable.

OneSpace is developing a 59-ton rocket, that was originally scheduled for launch in 2018. It is to have a  payload to LEO. This is projected to cost RMB 100,000 CNY/kg (6500 USD/lb) OneSpace also envisions to eventually develop a crewed space capsule.

Marketplace
OneSpace is in competition with several other Chinese space rocket startups, being LandSpace, LinkSpace, ExPace, i-Space, Galactic Energy, and Deep Blue Aerospace.  Space Pioneer is a Chinese liquid-propellant rocket startup competing in the sector.

Financing
OneSpace secured $43.6 million in series B funding in August 2018. The financing was led by CICC Jiatai Equity Fund, followed by FinTrek Capital, with China Merchants Venture Capital, Qianhai Wande Fund and Qianhai Wutong M&A Fund also increasing their investment in the company. This fourth round of financing takes the total raised since the founding of OneSpace in August 2015 to $116 million.

See also
 Commercialization of space
 ExPace
 iSpace
 LandSpace
 LinkSpace
 NewSpace
 Space industry
 Space Pioneer, a competitive liquid-propellant launch vehicle provider

References

Aerospace companies of China
Space launch vehicles of China
Private spaceflight companies
Commercial spaceflight
Commercial launch service providers
Companies based in Beijing
Transport companies established in 2015
Chinese companies established in 2015


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Benjamin Fernand Lucien François Stambouli (born 13 August 1990) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Süper Lig club Adana Demirspor.

Stambouli began his professional career with Montpellier, playing 130 games from 2010 to 2014 and winning Ligue 1 in 2012. After a season each with Tottenham Hotspur and Paris Saint-Germain – winning five domestic trophies with the latter – he signed for Schalke in 2016. Stambouli made 12 appearances for France at under-21 level from 2010 to 2012.

Early life
Benjamin Fernand Lucien François Stambouli was born on 13 August 1990 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. His father is Henri Stambouli, a former football player and the current youth director of French club Marseille. One of his grandfathers is former manager Gérard Banide.

Club career

Montpellier

Stambouli spent eight months as a child at Marseille, and also had two years at Sedan before joining the ranks of Montpellier in July 2004. On 3 March 2010, he signed his first professional contract, a three-year deal with Montpellier.

Stambouli made his professional debut on 8 August 2010 on the first day of the 2010–11 Ligue 1 season, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 home win over Bordeaux. During the 2011–12 season, he played 26 league games as Montpellier won the Ligue 1 title for the first time in the club's history. During the 2013–14 season, Stambouli played 37 out of Montpellier's 38 league games and was promoted to position of vice-captain behind Brazilian Vitorino Hilton.

Tottenham Hotspur
On 1 September 2014, Stambouli signed for Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee, rumoured to be in the region of £4.7 million. He scored his only goal for the club in a UEFA Europa League match against Partizan on 27 November, following up a shot from Roberto Soldado, which had rebounded off of the post. Stambouli appeared in every round of the League Cup as Tottenham reached the final at Wembley where, however, Stambouli was an unused substitute as Tottenham were beaten 2–0 by Chelsea. At the conclusion of his first year at Spurs, Stambouli had made just 12 appearances in the Premier League.

Paris Saint-Germain
On 20 July 2015, Paris Saint-Germain manager Laurent Blanc confirmed Stambouli would be joining PSG for a fee of £6 million, £1.3 million more than Tottenham had paid a year earlier. He made his debut on 1 August in the 2015 Trophée des Champions at the Stade Saputo in Montreal, playing the final 20 minutes in place of Marco Verratti in a 2–0 victory over Lyon. Stambouli played 40 total matches for PSG, winning all four domestic trophies in his one whole season, but did not score and assist and was unpopular with some fans due to his connections to their rival Marseille. His final match was the 2016 Trophée des Champions, which his team won 4–1 against Lyon in Austria.

Schalke 04
After spending only one season with the French champions, Stambouli joined Germany's Schalke 04 on a four-year contract on 26 August 2016. He made his debut on 9 September in a 2–0 home loss to reigning champions FC Bayern Munich. On 20 May, he was sent off for unsportsmanlike conduct in the last game of the season, a 1–1 draw at FC Ingolstadt 04, and suspended for two matches.

Stambouli suffered a metatarsal injury in October 2019, ruling him out for the rest of the season. On 4 August 2020, he extended his contract with Schalke until 2023. Due to a clause in that deal, he left following their relegation in May 2021.

Adana Demirspor
On 26 July 2021, Stambouli joined Turkish club Adana Demirspor on a two-year contract. He was one of a number of high-profile players joining the newly promoted Süper Lig club that summer, including Mario Balotelli.

International career
Stambouli played 14 times for France at under-21 level, from his debut on 8 October 2010 in a 2–0 friendly win over Turkey in Troyes.

Stambouli is eligible for the Algeria national team because his father was born there; in November 2018 he denied rumours that he would play for them.

Career statistics

Honours
Montpellier
Ligue 1: 2011–12

Tottenham Hotspur
Football League Cup runner-up: 2014–15

Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1: 2015–16
Coupe de France: 2015–16
Coupe de la Ligue: 2015–16
Trophée des Champions: 2015, 2016

References

External links

1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Marseille
French footballers
Association football defenders
Association football midfielders
Montpellier HSC players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
FC Schalke 04 players
Adana Demirspor footballers
Ligue 1 players
Premier League players
Bundesliga players
Süper Lig players
French expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
French expatriate sportspeople in England
French expatriate sportspeople in Germany
French expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
France under-21 international footballers
French sportspeople of Algerian descent


For many of the topics in the below agenda we prepare demos, code fixing exercises, and DIY practices. Most of the hands-ons and other practical exercises are available as cloud instances developed and hosted by defdev.eu.
Practicing is part of many of the above blocks. We start off basic hacking challenges, but the real exercises are about fixing vulnerable codes, and tasks when attendees need to assess code and an application on their own. We mostly offer cloud based facilities to run the exercise environments, so no local installation is needed.
For most of the courses there are intentionally vulnerable applications which we use to demonstrate and learn specific vulnerabilities and how to fix them.
In some cases we use public "damn vulnerable" applications, in some cases we prepared our own applications to practice with.
We assume that developers should be capable of running basic automated tests against the security of their codes on their own. And also be able to tune the SCA tools to produce reasonable false positive and valuable findings ratio.
Normally we teach how to use security plugins of Sonarqube.
We provide sample codes to test. Though the best experience is achieved when developers run the security SCA against their own codes.
See also the extra, on-demand block of 'Assisted code-review lab' below for practicing on your own codes.
OWASP ASVS is the current standard for assessing the security quality and design flaws of a (web) application, and it's the developers who know the answers to the ASVS audit questions. So we take developers to a short journey in assessing the security properties of their applications.
K: In case of languages and frameworks our trainers are familiar with as auditors we can deliver an additional day to let developers apply the knowledge and skills learnt against their own codes. We call it the 'Assisted code-review lab'.
This document describes a subject under discussion. The agenda of the training and the particulars of the planned delivery may change during further iterations of the discussion.


The story of a simple Northern village [Royston Vasey] where everyone keeps themselves to themselves and people like to keep things 'local', The League of Gentlemen is one of the most powerful comic formats ever created.
Along with The Fast Show, it made the sketch format 'cool' after the genre spending years in the wilderness. Without The League, there would have been – almost without a doubt – no Little Britain.
At times genuinely moving, at others so profoundly disturbing and shocking that it transcends traditional comedy, most of the time TLOG is just extremely funny, biting and brilliantly, dramatically written – the classiest sketch-based format written in recent broadcasting history.
Steve Pemberton was also busy acting in other roles during that period. These included Churchill: The Hollywood Years, Match Point, and Mr. Bean's Holiday.
Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, on September 1, 1967, Steve Pemberton attended St. Michael's CE High School in Chorley, Lancashire, where his acting skills were first realised. He later graduated from Bretton Hall Drama College with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts.
Pemberton's other TV credits include: Whitechapel (2009); Doctor Who (2008); Benidorm (2007–present); Under the Greenwood Tree (2005); Hotel Babylon (2005); The Last Detective (2005); Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased); and Blackpool. He also appeared in Shameless as the husband of Sheila, Frank's Girlfriend. In 2004 he played Dr. Bessner in Agatha Christie's Poirot – Death on the Nile. Pemberton also starred in the film Lassie (2005) as Hymes.