Tom and Molly lived in a little white house in the Kingdom of Troth.* No place could be more wonderful, for it was ruled by the greatest King ever! Nothing was impossible for Him.
Who but their King was wise and powerful enough to make great mountains, trees full of cherries, and funny little kittens? Who else could feed all the animals in the forest? Who else had the power to send rain to water the grass and sunshine to make flowers bloom? Tom and Molly didn't know of anyone.
Only their King--and none other--could have created people. People were special to the King. He wanted them to be his very own friends. And if they would only stay close to him, he would always keep them safe. That's what the King himself said, so it had to be true. Tom and Molly were glad the King took care of them, but since they didn't see any dangers, they didn't think much about it. They just had fun climbing trees in the King's garden, racing down his natural waterslides and splashing around in the royal lake. The Kingdom of Troth was full of fun things to do.
In school, they learned about a time when there were wars and fighting in Troth. But nobody that Tom and Molly knew--not even their parents or grandparents--had lived that long ago. They had all heard that in those bad years, people were afraid all the time. Now that everything was peaceful, people didn't worry about war. They couldn't see any enemies. Some had even forgotten how the King had saved his people long ago.
The King didn't want people to forget. So he invited them for breakfast each morning in the palace garden. There He read to them from his wonderful Book of Truth. Of course, almost everyone in the royal city came.
After the special reading, everyone would sit down at the lovely tables in the King's garden and eat the scrumptious food his servants had prepared. Some, like Tom and his friends, liked to sit on the palace steps or lie down in the soft grass. Molly's favorite breakfast was a big waffle shaped like a face with whipped cream hair, blueberry eyes and a red raspberry mouth.
When Tom and Molly looked beyond the royal forest, they could see a range of mountains. On the other side lay a mysterious land--a dark and dismal place, where thick clouds hung like a leaky ceiling above the ground and made everything damp and dull, even in the middle of summer. People called it Lucidia, as if it was a bright and happy place. They should have called it The Land of Gloom.
An evil Baron ruled that horrible land. All the children of Troth knew that he had attacked the King and started a war long ago, but the King had defeated him. Now the mean Baron could only hurt his own people--and he did that all the time. The poor people of Lucidia couldn't trust anyone, because everyone there lied, stole and cheated--and the Baron was the worst of all. Tom and Molly were glad the Baron stayed far away from the Kingdom of Troth.
One thing about Lucidia had been kept a secret. The two children had no idea how much the evil Baron hated their King. People just didn't talk about that. But it was true. Day and night the Baron schemed how he might cheat the King, steal his land and capture the people again. Of course, the Baron didn't dare declare war and fight openly. He knew that the King was far too powerful for him. And the King's people were much stronger than his own weak, fearful subjects. No, this time the Baron had to win by trickery. But how?
One night the evil Baron lay awake in his bed plotting the King's defeat as usual. Suddenly his mouth twisted into a sly grin. He had thought of a devious plan.
"Wake up, everybody!" he yelled. "Come right now, or you'll be dead! I want you to hear my plan to conquer the Kingdom!"
One by one, his servants crept into the dark chamber of the castle. Shaking with fear, they bowed down before their terrible tyrant.
"My plan is foolproof," shouted the Baron. "I know how we can conquer Troth and turn the people into slaves. Listen..."
Shivering in the cold, the servants and soldiers waited.
"We'll dress like his people," continued the Baron. "We'll infiltrate his Kingdom! We'll sneak into their towns and learn their language."
"It won't work," shouted one of his generals. "They know the King's mysteries. They can tell the difference."
"Many can't," argued a young spy. "Some children no longer listen to the King. They don't know what is written in the Book of Truth. They're easy to fool."
"It's true!" yelled the Baron. "This is a new age--and it's ours! We'll distract them, deceive them and destroy them!" His eyes sparkled with sinister glee. "They will never guess what happened until we've taken control from the inside. This will be our Invisible War!"
His cruel laughter echoed through the halls of the gloomy castle.
* TROTH means a promise to stay together. When we love and follow our King, He will care for us and keep us close to Him forever.


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Alejandro Valverde is a Spanish World Champion road racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. Alejandro Valverde won World Road Race Championships (2018) and Vuelta a España General classification (2009). He is one of the most successful cyclists in history to win the Monument Classics and Stage Races.
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Full Name : Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
Born : April 25, 1980 in Las Lumbreras, Spain
Nationality : Spanish
Rider Type : All-rounder
Current Team : Movistar Team
2022 Season UCI Road Cycling World Tour Results of Alejandro Valverde
* The listed results include only the events that cyclist has completed in the top 10.
La Vuelta a Espana
Stage 1 - TTT
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
La Flèche Wallonne
Criterium du Dauphine
Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Amstel Gold Race
Itzulia Basque Country
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
2021 Season World Tour Wins of Alejandro Valverde
Critérium du Dauphiné - Stage 6 (June 4, 2021)
UAE Tour - Stage 3 (February 26, 2019)
La Vuelta ciclista a España - Stage 7 (August 30, 2019)
Major Wins of Alejandro Valverde
4 individual stages (2005, 2008, 2012)
1 individual stage (2016)
General classification (2009)
Points classification (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018)
Combination classification (2003, 2009, 2012)
12 individual stages
2 TTT stages (2012, 2014)
Critérium du Dauphiné (2008, 2009)
Volta a Catalunya (2009, 2017, 2018)
Tour of the Basque Country (2017)
Abu Dhabi Tour (2018)
Route d'Occitanie (2018)
Vuelta a Andalucía (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
Vuelta a Burgos (2004, 2009)
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (2004, 2007, 2018)
One-day races and Classics
World Road Race Championships (2018)
National Road Race Championships (2008, 2015)
National Time Trial Championships (2014)
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2006, 2008, 2015, 2017)
La Flèche Wallonne (2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2008, 2014)
Roma Maxima (2014)
GP Miguel Induráin (2014, 2018)
UCI ProTour (2006, 2008)
UCI World Tour (2014, 2015)
UCI World Ranking (2018)
Let's know Alejandro Valverde with Q & A
When was Alejandro Valverde born?
Alejandro Valverde was born on April 25, 1980
Where was Alejandro Valverde born?
Alejandro Valverde was born in Las Lumbreras, Spain
What is Alejandro Valverde's nationality?
Alejandro Valverde is Spanish
What sport does Alejandro Valverde do?
Road Racing Cycling
What team is Alejandro Valverde on?
Alejandro Valverde's current team is UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team

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This 20-minute leg workout builds stronger, toned glutes
These lower body muscles improve stability, prevent injury, and are essential for free weight exercises
By James Frew published 6 December 21
In most exercise programs, there's a lot of focus on your arms, chest, and abs. These are core areas of your body, especially if you're hoping to build functional muscle.
But it's just as vital you include the best leg workouts in your routine. It's easy to pass on lower-body activities, but the benefits of stronger legs and glutes are enormous.
Much like your core, the mid-body area around the abs, your glutes support your whole body, play a vital role in stability, and can prevent injury, especially back pain.
If you're short on time but looking for an effective leg workout to strengthen your lower body, check out fitness YouTuber Carole Girvan's 20-minute glute workout.
You won't need a lot of equipment, just a dumbbell and a set of the best resistance bands. The routine is split into seven two-move complexes.
Rather than finishing once you hit a rep count, you'll do as many reps as you can in 2.5 minutes, before a 30-second rest.
Watch Caroline Girvan's 20-minute glute workout
As the focus is on time rather than total reps, this is stylistically like an AMRAP workout, where the priority is to do As Many Reps As Possible in the time available.
But AMRAP routines don't usually have any rest periods built-in. These are more common in HIIT workouts, where you train intensively for around 30-40 seconds with a 20-second break between moves.
So, Girvan's session is more like a customized blend of AMRAP and HIIT routine, working you intensively for 2.5 minutes at a time and giving you a short recovery period before the next move.
This is important, as the routine focuses solely on your legs and glutes, so you need the rest to prevent the muscles from getting fatigued too quickly.
Still, that doesn't stop this from being a challenging leg workout, so you'll definitely feel the effects the following day. This post-workout pain is known as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS).
If you haven't trained these muscles before, or it's been a few months since you did, then you'll want to follow these DOMS tips for speedier recovery after intense training.
The most effective intervention is to use one of the best foam rollers. It's a bit like giving yourself a massage and helps to promote blood flow to the muscles for getting workout-ready again in no time.
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James is a London-based journalist and Staff Writer at Fit&Well. He has over five years experience in fitness tech, including time spent as the Buyer's Guide Editor and Staff Writer at technology publication MakeUseOf. In 2013 he was diagnosed with a chronic health condition, which spurred his interest in health, fitness, and lifestyle management.
In the years since, he has become a devoted meditator, experimented with workout styles and exercises, and used various gadgets to monitor his health. In recent times, James has been absorbed by the intersection between mental health, fitness, sustainability, and environmentalism. When not concerning himself with health and technology, James can be found excitedly checking out each week's New Music Friday releases.
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Fitness Learning how to deadlift properly with barbells helps to strengthen your back, hamstrings and builds bigger muscles in your glutes
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CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA Season 3 Debuts New Footage with Music Video, "Straight To Hell" Ahead of January 24 Premiere!
One of my favorite new genre series of the past few years is Netflix's CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. Netflix will premiere season 3 of the series on January 24th. [...]
FX Renews AMERICAN HORROR STORY for 3 More Seasons!
FX today announced they have given an unprecedented three-season renewal to their hit series, AMERICAN HORROR STORY! FX is owned by Disney and the network has ordered [...]
VAN HELSING Renewed for Season 5 by Syfy!
We are just two days away from VAN HELSING'S 4th season finale on Syfy. As season 4 is about to end, Syfy has announced it has renewed the series for its 5th and final [...]
Supernatural Original Series THE DEAD LANDS Set to Premiere on Shudder in January!
Shudder announced today its new original series, THE DEAD LANDS will premiere on the streaming service on January 23rd, 2020. The show is set in mythic New Zealand. You can [...]
AMC's Spinoff Officially Titled THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND; Julia Ormond Joins the Cast!
The third series in The Walking Dead Universe, World Beyond, is currently filming in and around Richmond, VA and set to premiere in spring 2020. Emmy Award winner Julia [...]
Netflix Renews Zombie Thriller BLACK SUMMER for Season 2!
Netflix announced recently they have given a second season order of 8 episodes to their highly-rated zombie thriller, BLACK SUMMER. The series stars Jaime King and production [...]
Shudder Brings Horror for the Holidays with Special JOE BOB'S RED CHRISTMAS!
In a bit of news that slipped through the Halloween cracks, Shudder has recently announced they will have a holiday horror special with JOE BOB'S RED CHRISTMAS. [...]
AMC Renews ELI ROTH'S HISTORY OF HORROR for Season 2!
Great news for horror fans as AMC network announced today they have given a green light for the second season of Eli Roth's HISTORY OF HORROR documentary. If you [...]
Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD is Heading to Hulu as a Feature Film!
Hulu announced today they are upping their game in the feature film arena. The streaming network announced they have procured rights to Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD [...]
Shudder Renews CREEPSHOW for Second Season!
Shudder announced today it has given a second season order to their hit horror anthology series, CREEPSHOW! Creepshow has met every expectation we had for Shudder's [...]
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Turkey's Currency Dips Again
14 Aug 2018, 04:05 GMT+10
Turkey's central bank failed to halt the slide of the country's lira currency on Monday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of purposely trying to damage his country's economy.
'We are together in NATO and then you seek to stab your strategic partner in the back. Can such a thing be accepted?' Erdogan said in the capital, Ankara.
The Turkish lira has plunged 40 percent this year, dropping 16 percent Friday and tumbling another seven percent Monday, trading at 6.9 to the dollar, up slightly from its low point.
The Turkish central bank said it would take 'all necessary measures' to stabilize the country's economy to make sure the banks have all the money they need. But world stock traders were dismayed the bank did not raise interest rates, which is what many economists believe is necessary to ease the crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum exports last Friday, in part a response to Turkey refusing to release American pastor Andrew Brunson, whom Turkey accuses of espionage.
Brunson has been detained under house arrest pending his trial. Trump has called the preacher's detention a 'total disgrace.'
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses Turkish Ambassadors during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Aug. 13, 2018.
Erdogan said Turkey is facing an 'economic siege,' calling the decline of the lira an 'attack against our country.' Yet he remained optimistic, saying 'it is not at all like we sank and we are finished .The dynamics of the Turkish economy are solid, strong and sound and will continue to be so.'
On Sunday, speaking to political supporters Erdogan said 'the aim of the operation is to make Turkey surrender in all areas, from finance to politics. We are once again facing a political, underhand[ed] plot. With God's permission we will overcome this.'
'What is the reason for all this storm in a tea cup?' he said.'There is no economic reason for this ... This is called carrying out an operation against Turkey.'
Tourists count their Turkish liras after exchanging foreign currency at a exchange shop in Istanbul, Aug. 13, 2018.
Erdogan renewed his call for Turks to sell dollars and buy lira to boost the currency, while telling business owners to not stockpile the American currency.
'I am specifically addressing our manufacturers: Do not rush to the banks to buy dollars,' he said. 'Do not take a stance saying, 'We are bankrupt, we are done, we should guarantee ourselves.' If you do that, that would be wrong. You should know that to keep this nation standing is ... also the manufacturers' duty.'
Erdogan signaled he was not looking to offer concessions to the United States or financial markets.
'We will give our answer, by shifting to new markets, new partnerships and new alliances,' he said.
Erdogan has in recent years built closer ties with countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. 'Some close the doors and some others open new ones,' he said.
He indicated Turkey's relationship with Washington was imperiled.
'We can only say 'goodbye' to anyone who sacrifices its strategic partnership and a half-century alliance with a country of 81 million for the sake of relations with terror groups,' he said.'You dare to sacrifice 81-million Turks for a priest who is linked to terror groups?'
If convicted, Brunson, the pastor, faces a prison term of 35 years.


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Aron Ralston, a native of the Midwest, moved with his family to Colorado at age twelve, quickly becoming an avid outdoorsman. He retired from a career as a mechanical engineer at age twenty-six, when he moved to Aspen and attempted—among other things—to climb all fifty-nine Colorado peaks alone in winter. Since his accident, recorded in his book Between a Rock and a Hard Place and the Oscar nominated film 127 Hour, he has completed his unprecedented project of conquering Colorado's peaks.


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Orange Business offers up VPN-based cloud service
Dec 8, 2010 7:11am
With its VPN Galerie service, Orange Business wants to take the guesswork for enterprises that want to tap into multiple cloud service sources. Instead of having to make an individual connection to each cloud service they need, Orange Business' VPN Galerie will instead enable large multinational corporations (MNCs) to access multiple cloud services from one common point.
Marc Blanchet, Senior Vice President of Global Communications Services, Orange Business services said that if an enterprise customer has "20 services, they won't have to build 20 connections."
Customers that sign up for VPN Galerie will be able to leverage a private network connection to access cloud services.
Among the many cloud providers that are providing their services through Orange are e-commerce provider Ingenico, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and S.W.I.F.T., a provider of financial software services.
Orange has been able to extend Microsoft's Software as a Service (SaaS) e-mail offering, for example, to clients that don't want the hassle of installing software on individual PCs at their respective locations.
"Microsoft has a data center in Seattle, on the East Coast and in Dublin, Ireland and Amsterdam," Dennis Kruse, Vice President, Network Solutions, Orange Business Services in an interview with FierceTelecom. "What we have been doing for some clients that want to use that data center is we're making the interconnection between our Dublin POP in Ireland out to that data center. We just extend their IP/VPN out to that data center and make that data center look like another branch office on their network."
The new service, which is already being leveraged by more than 10 MNC customers at over 100 sites, will be officially launched in France this month followed by a broader international pilot deployment in Q1 2011.
- Connected Planet has this article
VSG: Orange Business Services tops global Ethernet service charts
Orange Business, Cisco, EMC VMware strike cloud computing pact
Orange fans out its international Ethernet reach
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Investor's Forum Annual Conference Sustainability Conference Conference Archive
Charity Times Awards Better Society Awards
JustGiving scraps 5% fee for UK charities
Joe Saxton: Wales needs its own charity regulator
Charities warned to start asking 'uncomfortable' questions about ethics of social media platforms
Project launches to 'rebalance relationship' between large and small charities
Charity trustee disqualified over 'offensive' social media content and financial mismanagement
Written by Charity Times staff writer
A trustee of the Ghulam Mustafa Trust has been disqualified after posting 'offensive' content on social media, the Charity Commission has revealed.
The regulator today published the findings from its investigation into the charity, which found its former trustees were responsible for a series of failings, resulting in misconduct and mismanagement of the charity.
The charity, which sought the prevention of poverty or financial hardship in Pakistan and was dissolved in February 2018, was probed by the regulator after complaints were made about a video posted on the charity's social media.
Upon intervention, the regulator removed the video and the trustees were questioned about whether they were acting in accordance with charity law.
The regulator's inquiry found the trustees were unwilling or unable to properly administer their charity and failed to maintain accounting records. Furthermore, it found the board failed to have properly responded to and accounted for the failures made by one trustee in particular.
The trustee in question had created and/or posted offensive content on social media, with no oversight by the others and the trustees conducted themselves 'below the standards expected of trustees', the regulator said.
Collectively the trustees failed to comply with their legal duties under charity law and their charity's governing document to produce their accounting returns within specified timeframes. One trustee completed the majority of transactions, with little or no oversight by the other two, the watchdog's inquiry revealed.
It also found £10,000 of the charity's funds expended in Pakistan were not accounted for and while some expenditure was supported by invoices, it was not always clear as to how the expenditure related to the charity's work.
Two of the charity's original trustees resigned in April 2017, leaving one remaining, who then appointed three new trustees to the charity. The original trustee was disqualified from serving as a charity trustee as a result of the findings of this inquiry.
The new trustees decided, in 2018, that the charity was no longer viable. The charity was removed from the register and dissolved on 28th February 2018.
Commenting on the inquiry, Charity Commission director of investigations, monitoring and enforcement, Michelle Russell said: "As regulator, we want to see charities thrive, and inspire trust. That means living up to the high standards the public rightly expect of those that enjoy the privilege of charitable status.
"Our inquiry found that one of the trustees abused his position at the charity in order to spread offensive messages on social media. It's right that we took robust action to end this practice and the harm it could cause.
"The charity was also involved in couriering cash overseas, which is against Commission guidance. This practice is high risk and puts valuable charitable funds in jeopardy. In this instance, the trustees were unable to account for the charity's expenditure.
"Through their misconduct and mismanagement the trustees jeopardised the trust that donors placed in those responsible for the charity through their use of social media and their poor financial oversight. The trustee responsible for creating and posting offensive material on the charity's social media is now disqualified from acting as trustee."
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Douglas Robb was born on January 2, 1975 in Agoura Hills, California, USA as Douglas Seann Robb. He is an actor and composer, known for The Recruit (2003), Daredevil (2003) and Catwoman (2004). He has been married to Christiana Robb since August 2, 2008. They have two children. See full bio »
January 2, 1975 in Agoura Hills, California, USA
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2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Video Game) (lyrics: "Fist Bump") / (performer: "Fist Bump")
2018 Idols (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
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2017 Sonic Forces (Video Game) (lyrics: "Fist Bump") / (performer: "Fist Bump") / (writer: "The Light of Hope")
2012 Todd's Pop Song Reviews (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2004 (2012) ... (writer: "The Reason")
2012 The X Factor (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Live Decider 3 (2012) ... (writer: "The Reason")
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2012) (music - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2011)
- Episode #20.200 (2012) ... (lyrics: "No Destination" - uncredited) / (music: "No Destination" - uncredited)
- Episode #19.190 (2011) ... (writer: "Without a Fight" - uncredited)
2009 The Stepfather (writer: "Say the Same")
2007 SingStar Pop (Video Game) (writer: "The Reason")
2007 Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar (TV Mini Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Viña 2007: Noche 2 (2007) ... (writer: "The Reason" - uncredited)
2006 Lumines II (Video Game) (writer: "Born to Lead")
2006 Cesko hledá SuperStar (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
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2004-2006 Australian Idol (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Top 10 Performance Show: Australian #1's (2006) ... (writer: "The Reason")
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2006 Cold Case (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Joseph (2006) ... (writer: "The Reason")
2005-2006 Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Topp 12 - Ditt Idol (2006) ... (writer: "The Reason")
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2006 Deutschland sucht den Superstar (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
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2005 The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (TV Special) (writer: "The Reason")
2004 Singapore Idol (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Final Showdown Results (2004) ... (writer: "The Reason")
2004 Halo 2 (Video Game) (lyrics: "Connected")
2004 Karaoke Revolution Volume 3 (Video Game) ("The Reason")
2004 Malaysian Idol (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Spectaculars #4 - Rock Hits (2004) ... (writer: "The Reason")
2004 Catwoman (writer: "Same Direction")
2004 Torque (writer: "Out of Control")
2003 Karaoke Revolution (Video Game) ("Crawling In The Dark")
2003 Daredevil (lyrics: "Right Before Your Eyes")
2003 The Recruit (writer: "Too Little Too Late")
2002 The Challenge (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Battle of the Seasons: Vertical Limit (2002) ... (writer: "Crawling in the Dark" - uncredited)
2006 Punk'd (TV Series)
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2005 American Express Jam Sessions (TV Movie)
2005 Video on Trial (TV Series)
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[After hearing that the band's songs were nominated for three Grammy Awards, for Best Pop Performance by a Group with Vocals, Best Rock Album for "The Reason," and the hit single "The Reason" nominated for the Song of the Year Grammy, Robb said:] It hasn't sunk in yet. I feel like I'm in a daydream. [Tampa Tribune, December 17, 2004] See more »
Lead singer of southern Californian pop-punk rock band Hoobastank (formed in 1994), Robb began playing guitar at the age of fifteen. Very early in their career, Hoobastank's debut went platinum, with three radio hits. Doug Robb has a large vocal range, capable of singing a crooning, melancholy ballad style in a haunting tenor (with touches of baritenor) or the screaming ache of the punk-style ... See more »


Huang, Hsun-I (2012) An empirical analysis of the strategic management of competitive advantage : a case study of higher technical and vocational education in Taiwan. PhD thesis, Victoria University.
Institutions of higher technical and vocational education (hereafter HTVE) in Taiwan face the pressures of a reduced number of students and competition for students from an increased number of domestic and international institutions. To cope with these challenges, HTVE institutions that are better equipped to respond to market requirements, and are prepared to make constant improvements in the efficiency and performance of their academic and administrative affairs, are expected to attain a competitive advantage and enhance their long-term sustainability.


The EGIA Foundation Industry Study discovered that poor public image is a major factor attributing to the HVAC labor shortage. This discovery is the basis of a public awareness campaign targeted at students, parents, and secondary school professionals.
Through a compelling media campaign, we expect to demonstrate that HVAC is not a last resort profession. Currently, messaging and context is being developed by a steering committee made up of industry allies. The campaign will launch in Summer/Fall 2019.
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Jane currently serves as Managing Principal of Momentum Search Partners and continues to recruit for companies and law firms. Her recruiting experience spans legal and compliance departments in many industries, including financial services, energy, renewable energy, healthcare, biotech, manufacturing, retail and technology companies.
Jane obtained her JD with honors from the University of Texas, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. After law school, she practiced law with Thompson & Knight, an AmLaw 200 firm based in Dallas, focusing on commercial and oil and gas litigation. She obtained her undergraduate degree with high honors in Accounting from the University of Arkansas, and worked for Price Waterhouse as a tax accountant prior to law school.
Jane lives in Austin and has been a speaker on legal hiring/attorney placement and career development and has served on various boards of directors in the Austin community. She is also on the national Board of Directors for NALSC, the professional association for legal search consultants. She spends her free time with her husband, who is also a lawyer, traveling, biking, gardening, and reading.
jane@momentumlegal.com
Jennifer is a founding Principal of Momentum Search Partners and specializes in helping law firms and companies alike find top talent in attorney, paralegal and compliance professionals. Jennifer is a native Texan and a third generation graduate from The University of Texas, Austin. During her early years she worked in the advertising field, specializing in radio and print in Houston and Austin. Jennifer was recruited by a fortune 100 company to open their Austin office and develop a business base, serving law firms and large corporate clients with innovative facilities management solutions. She performed in-house complex business analyses of customer's capital costs, personnel and internal communication requirements in order to develop a smarter and more cost effective way to manage their operations. Law firms and corporations across Texas partnered with Jennifer due to her customer driven focus, professionalism and tailored solutions in helping them manage their personnel and business needs.
Jennifer lives in Austin with her husband and has two sons in college. She values her family, friends and faith and can often be found cheering on her Texas Longhorns, riding her bike through the hill country or sitting by the beautiful Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas.
jennifer@momentumlegal.com
Allison McCowan
Search Director
Allison has seventeen years of legal recruiting experience in Texas. She recruits attorneys, paralegals, and legal support staff for law firms and in corporate legal departments, all on a temporary, temp to perm, and direct hire basis. In addition, Allison has extensive experience staffing document reviews on both a national and local level and with both English speakers and those fluent in foreign languages.
Allison is active in all of the Austin legal networking and professional groups she has always enjoyed, such as Women of Wind Energy, Capital Area Paralegals Association, the Austin Legal Professionals Association.
Allison is active in her two young children's schools and sports activities. In her spare time, she loves to travel, cook and spend quality time with friends and family.
allison@momentumlegal.com
Mary Alice Kuykendall
A native Austinite, Mary Alice has two decades of experience in the legal placement industry. After attending the University of Texas, Mary Alice began her career as the Recruiting Coordinator of a large Texas law firm. Since 1996 she has sourced, recruited, and marketed candidates to law firms and corporations, managed existing clients, and developed new business. She has experience recruiting and placing legal secretaries, paralegals, compliance professionals, office administrators, contract administrators and attorneys.
In addition, Mary Alice has experience staffing large document review projects, including a one hundred lawyer project for an international company that lasted over four years. Mary Alice has been an active member of the Capital Area Paralegals Association, the Austin Legal Professionals Association, and served on the Board of Women in eDiscovery.
maryalice@momentumlegal.com
Micah Hurt, J.D.
In his eighth year as a legal recruiter, Micah came to the recruiting profession with prior experience in both public relations and in private law practice. After beginning his career with a large New York-based public relations firm in Houston, Micah became an attorney in 2001. He practiced as a commercial litigator in both Dallas and Houston until 2008. Micah has recruited attorneys for both law firms and Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller companies. He has experience working with associates, partners, and in-house attorneys at all levels.
As a native Houstonian, Micah has emphasized the energy industry on many of his searches. In that regard, he has worked with major energy and energy services companies on in-house legal searches ranging from General Counsel to staff attorneys. In fact, the energy industry has been part of his life for as long as he can remember, as his father was an attorney with ExxonMobil for over 30 years. Micah's wife works in the energy business as well. So, the energy industry is completely intertwined with his life experience — both past and present. Because of these personal ties, Micah especially enjoys working with energy companies to add legal talent in an ever-changing global marketplace.
Micah obtained his J.D. from Southern Methodist University in 2001, where he served as Articles Editor on the Computer Law Review & Technology Journal. Prior to law school, Micah earned his Bachelor's degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin.
Micah lives in Houston with his wife and three daughters. He enjoys football, soccer and spending time with his wife and three daughters, and his boxer, Rex.
micah@momentumlegal.com
Nancy McClain
Nancy has twelve years of experience working as a recruiter and in legal support services. She also has ten years of experience as a high school English teacher, which equipped her with the tools necessary to educate candidates about their career possibilities and opportunities, coach candidates, and provide advice on their resumes. Prior to recruiting Nancy spent several years in legal support at a Silicon Valley-based high tech law firm in Austin, Texas and an Am Law 200 firm in Houston. Upon graduating from college, Nancy began recruiting for a leading professional staffing agency. She has successfully placed candidates in all walks of legal staffing and, as the newest member of the Momentum team, is looking forward to helping law firms and companies in both Houston and San Antonio find top legal talent. She is active in the Houston Metropolitan Paralegal Association and the San Antonio Association of Legal Administrators.
Nancy is a native Houstonian and enjoys volunteering at her local school district where she once taught and at a non-profit women's training organization which prepares ladies for the workforce with counseling, resume building, interview techniques, basic MS Office training, professional dress and demeanor skills. She is the proud mother of one smart, precious daughter and enjoys vacationing, home decorating and spending quality time with friends and family.
nancy@momentumlegal.com


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"Boot fallback initramfs"    "rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p6 initrd=\boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=%s-fallback.img"
See the %s at the end of each line? It is a variable which gets replaced by the automatically found initramfs file on runtime (with the .img extension stripped off - this is to allow adding suffixes such as -fallback).
This patch is useful if you have multiple kernel versions installed (so you have e.g., initramfs-linux-4.17.img, initramfs-linux-4.16.img, etc.).
rEFInd just didn't do what I wanted it to, so I wrote my own patches. I made a merge request and hope that they get merged upstream.


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Thinner and Lighter Solar Cells
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Solar cells have been changing for years and gradually becoming less expensive, more compact and more efficient. Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now MIT researchers are opening another avenue for improvement, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible which will reduce manufacturing and installation costs.
Such panels, which have the potential to surpass any substance other than reactor-grade uranium in terms of energy produced per pound of material, could be made from stacked sheets of one-molecule-thick materials such as graphene or molybdenum disulfide.
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon. In this material, carbon atoms are arranged in a regular hexagonal pattern. Graphene can be described as a one-atom thick layer of the mineral graphite, (many layers of graphene stacked together effectively form crystalline flake graphite). Among its other well-publicized superlative properties, it is very light, with a 1-square-meter sheet weighing only 0.77 milligrams.
Graphene has a unique combination of high electrical conductivity and optical transparency, which make it a good candidate for use in solar cells. Because this material only absorbs 2.3% of visible light, it is a candidate for applications as a transparent conductor.
Jeffrey Grossman, the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, says the new approach "pushes towards the ultimate power conversion possible from a material" for solar power. Grossman is the senior author of a new paper describing this approach, published in the journal Nano Letters.
Although scientists have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the potential of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, Grossman says, there has been little study of their potential for solar applications. It turns out, he says, "they're not only OK, but it's amazing how well they do."
A solar cell (also called a photovoltaic cell) is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. It is a form of photoelectric cell (in that its electrical characteristics—e.g. current, voltage, or resistance—vary when light is incident upon it) which, when exposed to light, can generate and support an electric current without being attached to any external voltage source.
By far, the most prevalent bulk material for solar cells is crystalline silicon, also known as solar grade silicon. Bulk silicon is separated into multiple categories according to crystallinity and crystal size in the resulting ingot, ribbon, or wafer.
Using two layers of such atom-thick graphene materials, Grossman says, his team has predicted solar cells with 1 to 2 percent efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity, That's low compared to the 15 to 20 percent efficiency of standard silicon solar cells, he says, but it's achieved using material that is thousands of times thinner and lighter than tissue paper. The two-layer solar cell is only 1 nanometer thick, while typical silicon solar cells can be hundreds of thousands of times that. The stacking of several of these two-dimensional layers could boost the efficiency significantly.
"Stacking a few layers could allow for higher efficiency, one that competes with other well-established solar cell technologies," says Marco Bernardi who was the lead author of the paper.
Pound for pound, he says, the new solar cells produce up to 1,000 times more power than conventional photovoltaics. At about one nanometer (billionth of a meter) in thickness, "It's 20 to 50 times thinner than the thinnest solar cell that can be made today," Grossman adds. "You couldn't make a solar cell any thinner."
This slenderness is not only advantageous in shipping, but also in ease of mounting solar panels. About half the cost of today's panels is in support structures, installation, wiring and control systems, expenses that could be reduced through the use of lighter structures.
Molybdenum disulfide and molybdenum diselenide, the materials used in this work, are just two of many 2-D materials whose potential could be studied, to say nothing of different combinations of materials sandwiched together. "There's a whole zoo of these materials that can be explored, "Grossman says.
For further information see Graphene Solar Cells.
Graphic image by Jeffrey Grossman and Marco Bernardi.
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We are committed to meet the academic standards set by the Asia Theological Association. Certain number of classroom hours must be met for graduation.
We require students to read, do research in the library, and do constructive thinking.
We form faculty members and students into mentoring groups to give personal attention to the students' development. This activity is in addition to the required Formation Courses that emphasize faithful completion rather than grading.
We pause for chapel in the midst of studies: for community worship, prayers, and fellowship. A healthy "spiritual climate" is deliberately cultivated and maintained in the seminary community.
We require students to be involved in supervised weekend field education and practical projects with the aim that they discover their giftings or "polish up" their giftings.
We form faculty members and students into teams for mission trips where all learn cooperation, mutual submission, and practical skills. The experiences in the mission fields will greatly help to mature the students spiritually.
We set aside times for faculty and students to go on retreats, to work in teams for kitchen duties, and to attend conferences and seminars conducted by guest lecturers.
We believe that theological training is best done in a community setting. Students do not learn only from textbooks but also from meaningful interpersonal relationships. Even when MBTS offers Distance Learning and Part-Time studies, it also seeks to provide group centered learning. MBTS encourages all Part-Time students to complete a certain number of courses on campus. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to come to one location and spend a season with others in theological studies. At MBTS, residential students are urged to use the God-given opportunity to cultivate the art of community building as they live, study, pray, serve, and play together. On campus, a wide range of community experiences can be expected as students come from different backgrounds in terms of age, educational experience, professional experience, and culture.


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Travel: Crisscrossing The Continent: I Drove My 1961 Land Rover Across Australia, And Back
Crisscrossing The Continent: I Drove My 1961 Land Rover Across Australia, And Back
By Petrolicious Productions
Story by Louis Wyatt, photography by Louis Wyatt, David Cyngler, Ruby Mansell
Two years ago, I became the lucky owner of a 1961 Land Rover SWB named "Little John" whose green charm I could not resist. After many months ironing the inevitable foibles from the vehicle, a plan was formed to embark on a road trip of the adventurous sort: 8000km through central Australia, traveling from the vehicle's home in coffee-loving Melbourne, Victoria, to the hot and sticky surrounds of Cairns, Queensland. Taking the inland Stuart Highway, as opposed to the more leisurely eastern coast, the conditions would test any vehicle, let alone a 57-year-old Land Rover with no air conditioning, no modern brakes, and a top speed of around 52mph (going downhill on a good day).
Any serious road trip requires a name, and so soon the Trans-Australian Expedition was born, the name hoping to give an air of professionalism, which a group of early 20 year olds would otherwise have lacked. A second car was found (a 2002 Holden Jackeroo nicknamed Jeff), along with a group of friends who were willing to battle central Australia during its wet season. Six months after the trip's conception, the two vehicles, laden to the brim with gear and six eager souls, finally rolled out of Melbourne on an overcast day hoping to return again approximately six weeks later.
As the convoy rolled out of the city and onto the open highway, it soon became clear to our crew what the coming weeks would entail. Having removed the windows from the car, the wind in our face was constant, billowing our cheeks. The only onboard entertainment in an electronic sense came from a pair of speakers powered by a solar panel which we'd ratchet-strapped to the canvas roof.
A number of hours later, the two vehicles rolled over the Victorian border, entering South Australia. With the customary photos secured, we ventured further down the highway, aiming for our first night stop in Robe, the port town situated about 500km from Melbourne. Day One was complete, and camp was set up for Night One—a routine which certainly got quicker as the days rolled by—and soon we were all settled down for the evening.
Two days later, and having crossed through Adelaide in the interim, we pulled into Port Augusta, the southernmost town on the Stuart Highway, and the point we really thought the road trip began. In front of us lay the 2834-kilometer stretch of road running through the centre of Australia, which we would follow for the next two weeks.
Having sourced a strip of metal to replace the broken mirror arm on the car, the tires rolled onto the highway again, and enthusiasm and expectations were back to their previous highs. By the evening, we had pulled into our camp for the night, Lake Hart. The massive salt lake for which the site was named was visible below us, and as the desert sun set it cast an array of blues, reds, and golds across its otherwise stark white surface. Once again, further tinkering with the car followed, as we considered the great distances we had already covered in the previous three days.
Day four brought with it the promise of the opal mining town of Coober Pedy. The climate around the town is so harsh that many locals live underground, protecting themselves from the extreme sun. The sun did not disappoint, and as the mercury climbed to 44°C (over 111°F), the Land Rover and its lack of air conditioning became particularly unbearable. Forceful winds and the extreme heat further exacerbated the already slow progress of the vehicle, reducing the maximum speed to 40 mph. Only when the massive road trains would overtake the little car, creating a windbreak, did it give us an opportunity to regain some momentum.
Over the next two days we would cross the Northern Territory border, and survive our first tropical storm, which in turn forced us to sleep in our cars. Then finally, after six days on the road, we caught a glimpse of a large, red arkose rock over the horizon. We had arrived at Uluru. The sheer awe of Uluru is breathtaking, it's red rock face rising out of an otherwise flat landscape like something out of a surrealist work than a vision of reality. The wet season's tropical storms encouraged mass growth of vegetation, creating an undergrowth of pure green in contrast to the red sand which had defined our view for the last few days. We spent the day walking around Uluru, before returning at sunset, to watch as the sun cast its final rays over the iconic Australian landmark.
Sadly, our original plan to enter Alice Springs via Kings Canyon and Hermannsburg were derailed by the storm from the previous days which had flooded the roads and made them impassable. So we ventured back to the Stuart Highway, and into the second city of the Northern Territory. Alice Springs was to be our first multi-day rest area, providing much needed relief to both the weary travelers and their vehicles. We located some watering holes, and spent the next day cooling off in the water or lying under the eucalyptus trees keeping cool. When the fellow campers at our campsite discovered we were all musically inclined they requested we put on a small concert. Luckily for them we had carried our instruments all the way from Melbourne, and so the evening passed with renditions of jazz standards and tap dancing. Alas, after three very comfortable days in Alice Springs, having met some wonderful people in between servicing the Land Rover, we once again pulled out of the town, the cars heading further north into increasing humidity.
Over the next 1500km between Alice Springs and Darwin we spent our first (and what would be our only) night in a quintessential Australian Road House. We also spent an afternoon frolicking in the naturally occurring Mataranka Springs. After almost two weeks on the road, it was certainly a delight to be able to soak in the warm water.
We were actually particularly lucky that the springs were open, as during the wet season the area is a favorite spot for crocodiles. Eventually, however, and after twelve days on the road, we arrived in Darwin, the northernmost point of our trip. On the afternoon of our arrival, Darwin was certainly living up to the expectations of the wet season, with the rain coming down so hard that it was coming in through the air vents under the windscreen. The single speed wipers certainly struggled, and the conditions added a new element to our idea of "low visibility." Though other times were sublimely clear.
A pleasant few days were spent in Darwin, enjoying the wave pool (because you are not allowed to swim in the beach due to the crocodiles and stingrays), before we once again filled the cars, and headed on back down the Stuart Highway once again. Spending the entire day on the road, we finally pulled in for the night at the Daly Waters Pub, a historic pub and landmark. The interior of the pub is adorned with t-shirts, number plates, licenses and any other item that people have left behind over the many years of operation. In keeping with this tradition, we all signed one of our Trans-Australian Expedition shirts, and had it pinned up, our road trip firmly cemented in the fabric of the pub.
To avoid further backtracking down roads we had already travelled, the next morning we veered off the Stuart Highway, heading east across the Carpentaria Highway towards Borroloola, a town of around 900 people. The publican had forewarned us that the roads would be wet due to the 126mm of rain the town had coped with the previous night, and that if we were to get stuck that we would most likely have to abandon the vehicles as it was very difficult to have cars towed out. With this warning in mind, we turned off the highway and began the 390km journey along sodden roads to Borroloola. The first 50km proved a breeze, and we all wondered what the concern was all about, although as soon as these thoughts had radioed between the cars, the road become covered in large mud-sucking puddles, which required immense concentration to negotiate. Reaching the Heartbreak Hotel after about four hours of this careful crawl, and with over 100km still to go, we refueled and headed back out. The road become even worse, greeting us with sections of immense flooding—roads covered in water for 30m stretches—making us very glad to have the Land Rover's high ground clearance. Wading through in this fashion certainly slowed the journey, and by the late evening a weary crew rolled into town.
The next morning, we woke and prepared for the single most isolated road of the trip, the Tablelands Highway, a stretch of 377km of single-lane highway, running from the isolated Heartbreak Hotel heading south to the Barkly Homestead and Barkly Highway, with no towns, petrol stations, or homesteads between. The cars full of fuel, we began this southerly route through what would become the most dramatic and mesmerizing scenery of the trip. Seeing only three other vehicles over the course of the drive on the highway, the immense vastness of the continent was put on visual display. As far as the eye could see, the expanse of land was almost fully devoid of vegetation, the only company being the odd lizard or kangaroo, and the hundreds of cows who roam the highway (the highway running through unfenced farming land). So vast was the distance between petrol stations, that having carried the full jerrycans all the way from Adelaide, at lunch the cars were refilled, and the empty cans repacked. By the mid afternoon, we rejoined the main Barkly Highway, and headed on the vastly less impressive highway east towards the coast.
Crossing into Queensland the next morning, the excitement began to pick up again as we realized we were getting ever closer to our destination. By that evening we had reached the mining town of Mount Isa, where once again the car was checked and serviced. The following day, we woke early, and continued our journey eastward, planning to drive as close to the coast as we could, before finishing the journey the next day. Removing the canvas roof from the car, in an attempt to improve the "air-conditioning" on the 39°C day, we soon realized that fuel economy had plummeted, and that heat stroke was setting in. At lunch we stopped, refitted the hood, remounted the solar panel, and once again headed eastward. We were running low on food at this point, and so decided it was best to buy lunch in a local pub rather than a bunch of groceries that would bake and melt in the backseat. Being Australia Day however, a public holiday, we struggled to find anywhere that was open. Finally, we located a small pub, and ordered lunch for the seven of us. It transpired that the pub only had seven sandwiches, so we bought the lot—talk about a small town.
As the day wore on, many kilometers slowly drifted by and as the sun began to set, we thought it time to find a place to camp. Pulling into a small rest area, the prospects looked grim, and so at 9:30pm, it was decided that we would press on to Townsville and the coast that evening. As we entered the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, the cool air brought a welcome relief, the smell of salt creating tantalizing glimpses of what lay ahead of us. By 2:00am, and with 980km covered in the Land Rover in one day, we arrived in Townsville (what a name), and made our way to a campsite. What had been planned as a two-day drive had been completed in one, and after 2800km from Darwin we had once again crossed the country. We later learnt that the stretch of road between Mount Isa and Townsville is known as "Death Road" due to the high number of unsolved murders, and were thus glad that we hadn't stopped for the evening.
A lazy morning followed, with departure set for around midday. With a tropical storm beginning to set in, we headed north for the final time, traveling along the coastal highway until finally we caught a glimpse of Cairns. It had taken twenty days of hard, slow, hot driving, yet 7000km had been covered, and a continent had been sufficiently crisscrossed. Both cars had survived, and what many had deemed unlikely had been accomplished in full. Our Trans-Australian Expedition had been completed, and all that was left was to turn around, head south, and drive the 3500km back to Melbourne…
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Doug Miller(@sportscarfan)
Great story and photos. I love old Landies and "adventure stories". Thanks! In the photo with the "Welcome to Alice Springs" sign, is the guy on the left relieving himself? Ha!
Christian Peta(@petachr)
Congratulations on your journey. I am curious however, you mentioned 'servicing' a few times – what was called for to ensure proper function?
Louis Wyatt
Reply to Christian Peta
All that i really did was check the oil levels, and change the spark plugs. Most of the spares i carried i never used.
Gonzalo(@lalorto)
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Americo
A fantastic write up. May have to follow your route and do my own Trans-Aus trip.
DJ Todd
Congratulations. What an amazing adventurous thing to do in such an iconic vehicle. It has given me inspiration to get my 4WD sorted for another trip north.
Thanks for sharing your story.


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Does the contacts list on the mobile app update from the contacts list in My Ooma?
Please provide an update for the members about the progress of an a mobile application for Android. The iphone is not an option for many and most would like to be included in the current Ooma programs. When is the projected date for roll-out?
I think an optional setting would be a good idea. To allow the user to select which contacts list to use (iPhone or Ooma). We have a iPod Touch and it would be preferable to use the Ooma contacts.
You could also try exporting your Ooma Contacts and importing into iTunes to sync on your iPhone.
The reverse can be done, too. First export your iPhone contacts (via iTunes, select device then click Info tab), and then sync to Outlook directly, or to your chosen mail program where you can then export to an Outlook CSV file.


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The New World Order: Failing States and Collapsing Systems
Our global dramas are now driven by the end of cheap energy, journalist Nafeez Ahmed argues.
By Andrew Nikiforuk 14 Apr 2017 | TheTyee.ca
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. His book The Energy of Slaves outlines the perils of petro politics in a global economy. Find his previous stories here.
'Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context,' writes Nafeez Ahmed. Photo by Jonathan Ernst, Reuters Media Express.
Donald Trump is a symptom of imperial decline, and not really the problem.
The world faces not a "clash of civilizations" with radical Islam (although the dust-up remains a significant challenge), but a crisis of civilization that includes riotous climates, poisoned oceans, failing forests and collapsing economies.
And if you think those two statements ring truer than what you are reading in the media these days, then spend some time with Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
Ahmed is a British investigative journalist who has been connecting the dots on energy, climate change and globalization for years. The title of his latest book sums up our current predicament: Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence.
"Trump is what happens," recently wrote Ahmed, "when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context."
His pithy book lays out the grim context. The new global drama of eroding democracies and failed states, he says, can best be explained by a radical energy story that the media ignores or doesn't understand.
The whole mess begins with net energy declines.
As the world runs out of cheap fossil fuels, industry has switched to earthquake-making shale gas fracking, messy bitumen oil sands projects and deep offshore oil.
But these extreme fuels, which require complex technologies to extract, are poor substitutes for cheap oil. They not only return less energy but also require more capital, water and energy to extract.
Our economy, largely shaped by the high-energy returns of cheap fossil fuels, doesn't know how to metabolize costly fuels that deliver minimal returns.
Meanwhile hydrocarbon emissions are also destabilizing the climate, melting ice, fostering extreme weather and acidifying oceans — and all as you safely read The Tyee.
To visualize the great energy decline, think for a moment about the predicament of polar bears.
They evolved to hunt seals on ice floes nearly 400,000 years ago. Today seals provide 70 per cent of the energy needs of your average polar bear.
Catching seals at ice holes — a largely sit and wait game — netted high energy returns and made the polar bear empire fat and healthy.
But what happens when you melt the ice that serves as a kitchen table for that "fast food" and makes it harder for polar bears to dine?
Well, the bears have to expand more energy to get less. As it gets more "expensive" and complicated for the world's 26,000 polar bears to live, the empire fractures.
Some starve. Some fail to reproduce. Some mate with grizzly bears. Others try to replace the declines in protein by foraging for goose eggs and blueberries. But that kind of foraging often takes more energy than it ever returns.
In a world of shrinking ice and declining seal diets, the population of bears in the southern Beaufort Sea off Canada's coast has decreased over the last decade, from 1,500 in 2006 to about 900 bears today. Polar bears can expect more rude shocks.
The human economy, which still depends on rich diet of fossil fuels (80 per cent of our energy sources), grew as fat as the polar bear on cheap energy. When oil prices were low, human economies gobbled oil and expanded like clownish balloons, but whenever prices rose and oil demand slackened, the economy shrank.
But the see-saw has ended and the economy is now having trouble digesting a new diet: unconventional fuels and in some cases, renewables, all delivering diminished returns and funded by easy credit and wild debt.
As Ahmed notes, global oil and gas production once offered God-like energy returns of 100 to one. For every barrel spent finding and extracting oil, society secured a hefty surplus or what the ecologist Charles Hall famously described as "EROI": energy return on investment. Unprecedented net returns fuelled the unnatural scale of economic growth for 100 years.
But those bountiful energy returns are now falling off a cliff. Today, net energy returns average around 15 to one. Once returns drops below 10 per barrel of energy expended, fossil fuels can't generate enough surpluses to pay for the arts, government and society as we know it, let alone a transition to renewable energy.
As the quality of fuels decline, the global economy, a highly engineered tree fertilized by cheap oil, has registered the change as "economic stagnation" and stopped growing.
In financial papers, the words stagnation and inequality have become the economy's dominant vocabulary.
Around the world "the rate of GDP growth correlates directly with the steady decline" in energy returns, notes Ahmed. Gross Domestic Product is dropping or slowing down everywhere from China to Europe.
Ahmed's analysis is in good company. The U.S. sociologist Fred Cottrell warned in 1955 that shrinking energy returns would transform our high energy culture: "The growth of centralized government will stop and wither. Moreover the energy descent will unleash endemic conflict. Those whose greatest advantage is in the market place will struggle to protect it."
This energy descent is taking place just as the globe's fossil fuel economy has transgressed several biophysical limits to growth, including climate change, the decimation of wild creatures and the alteration of the world's nitrogen cycles from fertilizer abuse.
Climate change is now undoing economies and shifting populations. Heat waves and drought propelled by disruptive carbon emissions could put a third of the world's population at risk of starving by 2050. The more we disrupt earth systems, warns Ahmed, the more we destabilize human systems.
Take Syria for example. It is not only an energy basket case, but also a bloody poster boy for how things fail due to a constellation of interconnected events.
It started with Syria's oil production. About a decade ago, it dropped by half due to depletion. In the process, the government lost a key source of revenue that used to subsidize wheat prices.
Then climate change amplified drought cycles in Syria, killing crops and depleting water resources.
Hundreds of thousands of climate refugees poured into the cities while food prices triggered protests. The nation's bloody civil war now threatens to unhinge Europe with millions of refugees.
Complexity, built by fossil fuels, has made the world a fragile place, and the world's political class is still reading Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.
Or consider, says Ahmed, the mayhem in Nigeria. Its population will rise from 160 million to 250 million by 2025 just as the nation's key revenue earner, oil, experiences a serious drop in production due to depleted reserves and rampant corruption.
Meanwhile, the terrorist group Boko Haram recruits from areas ravaged by drought and food shortages. The forecast: an escalation of political violence.
The Macabre Petroleum Waltz of Trump and Putin
And what of the European Union?
Oil production peaked in the region in 2000, and the union's dependency on foreign oil imports hit 87 per cent in 2014 — the highest level recorded in 25 years.
Unrelenting economic stagnation coupled by high unemployment has revived nationalistic movements while climate change could overwhelm the continent with more refugees from North Africa and the Middle East by 2030.
So Trump and anti-Muslim rhetoric is what happens when you ignore a qualitative change in energy resources and a decline in the Earth's resources.
Meanwhile the mainstream media prefers to focus on chaos and terrorism, and ignore the many-headed hydra quietly engineering these spectacles.
"Human systems — social, political, geopolitical, cultural, and so on — are becoming destabilized in the context of escalating Earth System Disruption driven by dependence on fossil fuels," writes Ahmed.
"But the failure to understand this is driving increasingly reactionary approaches that address only symptoms of this destabilization."
This may well be the globe's most pressing negative feedback loop.
Years ago, the Christian philosopher C.S. Lewis wrote that "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
Ahmed has uncovered some uncomfortable truths. Read him.
In the end, you will have a much clearer sense of what an energy descent means for ordinary people.
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(Bloomberg) -- Tahoe Investment Group Co. is weighing a sale of its life insurance unit that could fetch about $1 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The company, which is also the major shareholder in luxury real estate developer Tahoe Group Co., is working with an adviser to seek buyers for Tahoe Life Insurance Co., said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private.
Tahoe has approached several insurance firms to gauge their interest in the potential divestment, the people said.
Deliberations are at an early stage and Tahoe could decide to keep the business, said the people. A representative for Tahoe Group did not respond to requests for comment.
The potential sale comes after Tahoe Group Co. defaulted on a yuan bond earlier this week, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on sales. The real estate firm failed to repay a 1.5 billion yuan ($210 million) local note due Monday because of short-term liquidity issues, the company said in a statement. It is working on a plan to restructure its debt, according to the statement.
Tahoe Investment bought Dah Sing Life, a Hong Kong insurer, from Dah Sing Financial Holdings Ltd. for HK$10.6 billion ($1.4 billion) in 2017 and renamed it Tahoe Life. Early bidders in that process included China Life Insurance Co. and Canada's Sun Life Financial Inc., Bloomberg News reported previously.


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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was born near Warsaw to a Polish mother and a French father. He grew up in Poland and showed early promise as a pianist and composer. At age 21 he left Poland to give a concert tour of Europe, and eventually settled in Paris. There his social circle included a number of well-known composers, including Liszt, Rossini, and Berlioz. Starting in the late 1830s, Chopin carried on a passionate love affair with novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known by her pen name, George Sand. Around that time, he developed a case of tuberculosis, which eventually killed him at age 39.
Almost all of Chopin's works include piano. He wrote concertos and other works for piano and orchestra, but most of his work was for solo piano. His output included three sonatas, 27 etudes, 24 preludes, works in free form such as the ballades, scherzi, and fantasies, and character pieces such as the polonaises, mazurkas, and waltzes. Schumann called him "the boldest and proudest poetic spirit of the age."


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Kate accessed the Floating Support Service at Stockport Without Abuse in September 2011. She had a young son and was heavily pregnant when she was re-housed into her new property after staying in a women's refuge.
Kate was very nervous about what would happen to her young son when she went into labour. Her worker discussed arranging for Social Care to help out but she managed to get a family member to stay with her for a week before she was due to have the baby. Kate was very scared about having the child alone and asked the worker if she would attend the birth with her. Kate went into labour late one Sunday evening and her worker was there and even cut the babies cord.
Kate had a lot of debts from her previous property as the perpetrator hadn't being paying the bills. She was very anxious about all the letters she was receiving from debt agencies and after a discussion with Christians Against Poverty they agreed to help her make plans to clear the debts.
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Scott Britnell is competing in the 2018 Dakar with no assistance and totally self funded.
Of all the ways to do the Dakar – the Marathon class (Malle Moto) would have to be the toughest.
No support crew, no mechanic, no one to put your tent up and sort out your riding gear for the next day, no assistance at all – just the bike, the rider and a metal chest 100 x 40 x 40cm to hold all the spares, tools and any personal belongings and home comforts you can fit.
Race officials transport these boxes to each bivouac ahead of the rider so they can work on their bikes after they've completed each days racing.
And just like Christophe Barriere-Varju in Dream Racer, that's how Aussie Scott Britnell is doing the Dakar this year!
Despite a limited budget, Scott was determined to make it to the 2018 Dakar.
Of the three Australians in the motorcycle division he is the only one to be privately funding his Dakar efforts. He has raised the funds through a series of auctions, fundraising events, and donations through a GoFundMe page.
And that dream of competing doesn't come cheap – the financial bill runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars!
He purchased a new KTM 450RR off the production line, but that is only a part of the costs.
There's the necessary spares, additional equipment and tools, riding gear, entry fees and the costs of transporting the bike, equipment and Scott to the starting line in Peru.
And to qualify for the Dakar, a rider must show they have the ability to compete and finish other internationally accredited events – and that takes more money, time and commitment!
As part of his preparation and qualification process, Scott took off to the Middle East in 2016 to compete in two of the most demanding events in the region – the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and the Qatar Sealine Cross Country Rally.
He finished a credible 17th in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, and 6th in the Sealine Rally – and those results ensured his entry was accepted for the Dakar 2018.
But with his acceptance letter in his hand, Scott still needed another $60,000 to compete in the 2018 Dakar. And somehow, he's managed to pull it all together.
By the way ….. you can still help Scott with his Dakar dream by donating at gofundme.com/rallyfordakar2018.
Scott grew up on a farm in MacArthur Victoria and like many Dakar competitors set his sights on off road racing at an early age.
He is no stranger to danger and difficult conditions, having spent over 20 years serving in Australia's Special Forces.
But at 40 he decided to have a crack at setting the record for the fastest ever crossing of Australia.
Starting at Byron Bay (the most easterly point of Australia), Scott travelled the distance of more than 4,000 km to Steep Point in WA (the most westerly point) on a KTM 690RR in just 72 hours and 10 minutes, taking more than 15 hours off the previous record.
Less than half of that route was bitumen too!
In July 2016 Scott attempted a double crossing of the Simpson Desert in a single day, but the record attempt ended in a serious crash.
Having set off from Birdsville at 4am alongside Trevor Wilson, Scott made the turnaround point at Mt Dare in under 8 hours.
On his return trip he saw Trevor who was still heading west, and after a brief chat the two riders continued.
While hard on the brakes the rear wheel hit a sharp lump in the ground, and Scott was thrown into a forward somersault at more than 100km/h.
The impact of the crash knocked Scott out, but when he came to he was able to stagger about 45 metres to where the bike had landed and make a call on his satellite phone to his wife, who then co-ordinated a rescue.
Scott's injuries included 9 broken ribs, a punctured lung, bruised liver, a separated collar bone and torn ligament from the shoulder.
While on his return trip Trevor Wilson came across Scott being treated and prepared for transportation to hospital. Scott told Trevor to continue on his journey, and Trevor actually took the record after a 23 hour and 38 minute epic ride!
The injuries from his Simpson Desert crash kept Scott out of the Dakar in 2017, forcing him to watch the event on TV while he recovered.
At the time he said, "I am just as serious about Dakar as I ever was".
Now, at 43, he's fulfilling that dream of competing in the world's toughest motorsport event.
Scott has worked hard to get his physical fitness back on track, but he has also focused on the mental aspect of the race.
"It's a mental game as much as it is a physical game," he says.
If Scott Britnell's story has inspired you, it's not too late to help him on the way to his Dakar dream. Head to Scott's GoFundme page – www.gofundme.com/rallyfordakar2018 – to donate. Every contribution, no matter how small, will help.


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93 Per Cent of Christians Say Faith is 'Marginalised' in UK
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More than 90 per cent of Christians in the UK believe their faith is being marginalized in British society, a survey has revealed.
It also found a majority of Christians thought their faith was not given the same respect as other religions in the UK, with most feeling it was considered unacceptable for them to share their beliefs in public.
The survey, conducted by Premier Christian Communications, questioned more than 12,000 "ordinary Christians" as part of a 'State of the Faith' study.
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