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List Words : Sarah Baxter | 12 July 2019
20 of the best cultural UNESCO sites around the world
From rock-hewn cities to Welsh castles; mountaintop temples to island prisons, we celebrate the UNESCO-listed wonders that make the world a more cultured place...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was born out of the horrors of the Second World War, with the remit of spreading peace.
The idea of designating and conserving World Heritage sites – places deemed of great import for their cultural, historical or scientific value – was ratified in 1972.
Just six years later, the first 12 were announced, ranging from Ecuador's Galápagos Islands to Germany's Aachen Cathedral.
Today, 1,073 sites have been listed and protected for posterity, with a new batch added each July. The variety is staggering. But the idea is that each one makes the world a more enriching, more fascinating, more united place.
Here are just some of the more remarkable cultural sites from around the globe…
1. Ancient Kyoto, Japan
The Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan (Dreamstime)
It was 150 years ago that Japan's capital began to shift to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), but Kyoto – its imperial capital for over 1,000 years – remains the country's cultural and spiritual heart.
Some 17 elements make up UNESCO's Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto site, spanning the evolution of Japanese wooden architecture and landscape gardens from the tenth to the 17th centuries.
This collection includes the golden tiers of Kinkaku-ji, the Zen garden of Ryoan-ji and the towering pagoda of To-ji, Japan's tallest. Spring visitors should head for the serene Ninna-ji, renowned for its late-blooming cherry trees, while the autumn colours are especially spectacular at the mountain-tucked Tenryu-ji.
Get there: Kyoto is around 2.5 hours by train from Tokyo.
Why? Revel in the country's former capital
2. Lalibela, Ethiopia
Unique monolithic rock-hewn Church of St. George, Lalibela, Ethiopia
The medieval rock-hewn churches of this 'New Jerusalem' in the highlands of Ethiopia were among the first 12 sites designated by UNESCO in 1978 – a nod to their splendour.
With the help of angels (allegedly), these sunken chapels were chiselled from monolithic blocks, with windows, floors, doors and decoration subsequently carved in.
Colonnaded Bet Medhane Alem, the biggest, is more than 11.5m high; some are only accessible via tunnels or ropes. Despite its age, Lalibela remains a place of devotion, alive with pilgrims, swirling incense and hypnotic chants. It's like stepping back 900 years.
Get there: Lalibela is a 90-minute flight from Addis Ababa.
Why? Find living faith buried in ancient architecture
3. Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia
Pre-Angkorian temple complex ruins, Sambor Prei Kuk, Kampong Thom, Cambodia (Dreamstime)
Newly inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2017, the impressive, forest-cloaked complex of Sambor Prei Kuk comprises over 100 temples yet sees precious few visitors.
Predating Angkor, this archaeological site on the eastern bank of Tonle Sap lake was once capital of the Chenla Empire, which thrived in the late sixth and early seventh centuries, and helped inspire the Khmer-style architecture seen at Cambodia's more famous UNESCO site.
Hire a guide, both for greater insight and protection again unexploded ordnance, and explore a quiet mix of still-standing temples, sandstone carvings and crumbling ruins that are slowly being swallowed by the jungle.
Get there: Sambor Prei Kuk is 30km north of Kampong Thom and 175km east of Angkor.
Why? Seek an 'alternative Angkor'
4. Robben Island, South Africa
African penguins on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa (Dreamstime)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in the Eastern Cape village of Mvezo on 18 July 1918 but spent 18 years, from 1964 to 1982, incarcerated on this small outcrop just off Cape Town.
Robben Island is now a living museum, where a former prisoner-turned-guide will take you on a tour. Visit the old leper graveyard, the African penguin colony, the lime quarry where Mandela and the other inmates were forced to toil, and the Maximum Security Prison, where you can walk the corridors, ascend the watchtowers and finish your explorations at Mandela's two-metre by three-metre cell.
Get there: Robben Island is roughly a 30-to-60-minute ferry ride from Cape Town's Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
Why? Sail out on Mandela's centenary
5. Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Dreamstime)
The devastating earthquake of April 2015 devastated UNESCO's Kathmandu Valley site, with the Durbar Squares of Patan, Hanuman Dhoka (Kathmandu) and Bhaktapur almost completely destroyed.
But all's not lost. UNESCO has proposed a plan to restore the whole site and repairs are beginning – museums have reopened and the cracks in Boudhanath's vast stupa have been filled.
Though work is well behind schedule, the plan to 'build back better' should ensure that when the valley's tiered temples and Buddhist shrines are finally restored, they're still worthy of their World Heritage status.
Get there: Kathmandu is about a 12-hour flight from the UK, plus stopover.
Why? Support heritage that is slowly edging its way back from the brink
6. Rajasthan hill forts, India
Amer and Jaigarh Forts and Kesar Kyari Garden, Maotha Lake, Rajasthan, India (Dreamstime)
The Rajput princes knew how to live. These rulers, who flourished in northern India from the eighth to the 18th centuries, built some truly magnificent fortresses, a handful of which were jointly recognised by UNESCO five years ago.
They are a varied sextet: Jaipur's Amer Fort (pictured), desert-flung Jaisalmer Fort and Sawai Madhopur, which sits within tiger-prowled Ranthambhore National Park, are well-known on the tourist circuit. Lesser-visited are the riverside Gagron Fort, in the Jhalawar district, and Kumbhalgarh, near Udaipur, which has walls measuring 38km long.
Top pick, though, has to be the majestic Mewar fortress of Chittorgarh, an enormous clifftop cluster of gates, palaces, towers and temples comprising the country's biggest walled complex.
Get there: Railways connect Jaipur, Udaipur and Chittorgarh.
Why? Explore six for the price of one flight
7. Skellig Michael, Republic of Ireland
Skelling Michael, Republic of Ireland (Dreamstime)
Clinging onto a scatter of pyramidal rocks off the Irish coast, this Gaelic Christian monastic settlement is thought to have been founded in the sixth century.
Monks lived precipitously, moving between the hermitage, beehive-shaped huts and the man-made terraces via steep stone steps.
These remote islands was abandoned in the late 12th century, but soon became a pilgrimage site, first for Catholics, then for movie-lovers when it played the home of Luke Skywalker in the recent Star Wars films.
Get there: Skellig Michael is 12km off Portmagee, south-west Kerry; boat trips run to the islands.
Why? Take a trip to Luke Skywalker's home
8. Mesa Verde National Park, USA
Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park, USA (Dreamstime)
UNESCO designated its first batch of World Heritage sites in 1978, and this cluster of Ancestral Puebloan ruins in south-west Colorado was one of that original dozen.
The only US national park focused solely on archeology, Mesa Verde comprises a massive concentration of Native American dwellings built from the sixth to the 12th centuries on a verdant plateau, 2,600m above sea level.
Within the park, 4,400 sites have been recorded, ranging from simple pits and hollows to elaborate multi-storey cliff mansions with more than 100 rooms.
Get there: Mesa Verde is located off Route 160, 14km east of Cortez; it lies around 600km south-west of Denver.
Why? Admire American and UNESCO roots
9. Troy, Turkey
City walls in the ruins of Troy, Turkey (Dreamstime)
Turkey has declared 2018 the 'Year of Troy', in honour of the site's entry onto the UNESCO list in 1998.
And quite right, too: the ancient Anatolian city is easily one of the world's most famous archaeological treasures, founded in the third millennium BC by the Hittites and made a household name by Homer's Iliad.
The ruins, rediscovered in the 1870s, are extensive, and span millennia of occupation. You can see the early defensive walls and later Greek and Roman temples; also, the surrounding plains are littered with human history, from prehistoric settlements and Ottoman bridges to monuments to the First World War Battle of Gallipoli. An incredible site.
Get there: Troy is a 45-minute minibus ride from the city of Çanakkale, which has an airport.
Why? Mark the 20th UNESCO anniversary of this incredible 5,000-year-old city
10. Petra, Jordan
Ancient Petra at night, Jordan (Dreamstime)
Jordan has suffered by Middle Eastern association in recent years; the US government still urges travellers to 'exercise increased caution' here.
Visitor numbers are creeping up, but it remains a good time to see the country's headline site minus the crowds. Petra, which was carved by the Nabataeans in the third century BC, is a wonder, and more extensive than many assume.
Spend time here, squeezing through the Siq, marvelling at the Treasury, climbing up to the monastery and exploring the old city. Or better still, combine with the new 650km Jordan Trail that winds the nation.
Get there: Petra is a 2.5-hour drive south of Amman; buses run to Wadi Musa (Petra's gateway).
Why? For a huge heritage hit without the crowds
11. Old Havana, Cuba
Singing in the streets of Havana, Cuba (Dreamstime)
Havana was founded in 1519 by the Spanish, so next year sees Cuba's capital celebrating its 500th. However, years don't pass in a regular way in this time-warp city, beloved for its dishevelled mansions, leafy plazas, salsa-swaying streets, vintage cars and general state of appealing disrepair.
Listed by UNESCO in 1982, Habana Vieja (Old Havana) is undergoing a long restoration to ensure it remains the most impressive historic city centre in the Caribbean.
Explore on foot, weaving between the five large plazas, the cathedral and out to the fortifications that protected this once-key port, including one of the largest colonial fortresses in the Americas.
Get there: Havana is around a ten-hour flight from the UK.
Why? To gear up for its big birthday
12. Churches of Chiloé, Chile
Wooden church at sunset, Chiloé Island, Chile (Dreamstime)
The Chiloé Archipelago, south of the Chilean Lake District, was once the preserve of the native Chono and Huilliche peoples; then came the Spanish conquistadores and, from the 17th century, Jesuits and then Franciscans, eager to convert the locals.
To that end, a ring of churches was constructed across the islands; today, 70 mission churches remain, 16 of them recognised by UNESCO for their wooden architecture and neat fusion of European and local traditions.
Plan a church-hop: highlights include the tri-towered sky-blue Tenaún and 53m-long Quinchao.
Get there: Chiloé Island is around two hours from Puerto Montt airport; buses run via the Chacao Channel ferry.
Why? For a resplendent religious circuit
13. Prague, Czech Republic
View from a tower window, Prague, Czech Republic (Dreamstime)
It's a big year for Prague: 2018 marks both 100 years since Czechoslovakia's formation and the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Divorce, when it split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Of course, this fairytale, riverside city, with its perfectly preserved, UNESCO-listed centre of medieval streets and Gothic houses, is good to visit at any time.
But this year sees it at its finest and there will also be special exhibitions at the castle in 2018, while the Old Town Square's astronomical clock will finally emerge from under scaffolding in August, restored to its fully working, 15th-century glory.
Get there: Prague is connected to many UK airports; flight time is from around two hours.
Why? See a spruced-up capital in a historic year
14. Gwynedd castles, Wales
Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey, Wales (Dreamstime)
After his invasion of North Wales was completed in 1283, Edward I embarked on the era's most ambitious building project: a network of new castles, to secure the territory for the English crown.
With 2018 designated the Welsh Year of the Sea, it's a good time to visit the four coastal bastions encompassed in UNESCO's 'Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd'. This includes beautifully symmetrical Beaumaris, rock-top Harlech, the beefily fortified town of Caernarfon and the well-preserved ramparts and turrets of Conwy.
Get there: Harlech and Conwy have mainline train stations. You can link all four by walking the Wales Coast Path (a stately 1,400km).
Why? Celebrate the coastal strongholds of Wales during the Year of the Sea
15. Ravenna, Italy
Ceiling mosaic of the Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy (Dreamstime)
Italy has more UNESCO sites than any other country, and the Emilia Romagna city of Ravenna, one-time capital of the Western Roman Empire, has eight of them, known as the 'Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna'.
All date from the fifth and sixth centuries, and chief among them is the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, built for the sister of Emperor Honorius who made Ravenna the capital in 402 AD.
Austere outside, its interior is a kaleidoscope of rich, elegant mosaics, including a cupola sparkling with stars. Combine the sites with dips in the Adriatic and indulging in the fine regional cuisine and a glass of Sangiovese wine.
Get there: Ravenna is 70km from Bologna; trains and buses connect the two.
Why? Go mad for mosaics
16. Tsodilo Hills, Botswana
Sunset at Tsodilo Hills, Botswana (Dreamstime)
Safari buffs descend on Botswana for its wonderful wildlife. But less lauded is the country's wealth of rock art.
The Tsodilo Hills have been dubbed the 'Louvre of the Desert' – over 4,500 paintings are clustered in a small patch of quartzite rocks in the Kalahari, in the country's north-west.
San people view this as the site of first Creation, a place frequented by ancestral spirits, and have daubed the rocks with various figures, animals, shapes and geometric patterns. While some were painted as recently as the 19th century, others are thought to date back more than 20,000 years.
Get there: Tsodilo is a four-hour 4WD trip from the village of Shakawe, about 370km from Maun.
Why? See the highest rock art in the world
17. Caral-Supe, Peru
Ruins in Caral-Supe, Peru (Dreamstime)
Fellow Peruvian UNESCO site Machu Picchu might get more of the plaudits and punters, but for historical heft, Caral-Supe wins hands down.
This sacred city, once capital of the Norte Chico peoples, is around 5,000 years old, making it the oldest centre of civilisation in the Americas.
Its ceremonial pyramids were in use 500 years before the Egyptians built those at Giza. Set on an arid desert terrace above the lush Supe Valley, the extensive site incorporates both public and private buildings, including circular sunken plazas, an amphitheatre and six large pyramidal structures; the largest, the Templo Mayor, measures 150m long and 28m high.
Get there: Caral-Supe is 200km north of Lima.
Why? To go back to where it all began
18. Valletta, Malta
Sunrise view of St. Paul's Cathedral, Valletta, Malta (Dreamstime)
Strategically sited Malta has been ruled by Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and the Order of the Knights of St John.
Thus its diminutive capital Valletta, perched on a hill between two natural harbours, is a dense layer cake of monuments – according to UNESCO, 'one of the most concentrated historic areas in the world'.
The best way to get a sense of the fortified city is aboard a dghajsa (traditional boat), then visit the Baroque dazzle of St John's Co-Cathedral and the opulent Grand Master's Palace, a centre of power from the 16th century on.
On top of that, this year sees Valletta named European Capital of Culture; check out all its upcoming events.
Get there: Valletta is connected to many UK airports; flight time is from around three hours.
Why? Embrace the European Capital of Culture
19. Tikal National Park, Guatemala
Mayan temple, Tikal National Park, Guatemala (Dreamstime)
The Maya ruins at Tikal – and across the Petén region – are vast.
What's more, research this year using LiDAR laser technology, which digitally removes the forest from aerial images, indicates the ruins are far more complex than first thought, revealing previously unknown structures and links between sites that were inhabited for 1,400 years from the 6th century BC.
This all adds to the 'what else could be here?' frisson as you roam a Maya metropolis of temples, squares and palaces.
Get there: Tikal is around 75 minutes' drive from the town of Flores.
Why? For a tiny taste of Maya magnificence
20. Abu Simbel, Egypt
Great Temple, Abu Simbel, Egypt (Dreamstime)
Rescuing the ancient Nubian temples of Abu Simbel from the rising Nile wasn't just important for Egypt, it revolutionised the global approach to safeguarding heritage.
In 1968, the complex built for Ramses II in around 1260 BC was cut into 2,000 pieces and moved – brick by brick – to higher ground. Now it's the headline act of a UNESCO site that includes other Nubian Monuments, such as the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, and a powerful symbol of conservation.
Get there: Abu Simbel is 280km south of Aswan; 30 minutes by plane, about three hours by bus.
Why? Celebrate 50 years of salvation.
Check out more incredible UNESCO-listed sites around the world:
UNESCO's 18 new Biosphere Reserves
17 World Heritage wonders in South-East Asia
21 World Heritage wonders in Latin America
Our favourite new UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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NEW ARDUINO LIBRARIES VERSION FROM MRRWA!!!!
A new version of MRRWA libraries has been released!!! Before making a brief summary of the project, I post directly the address to download them:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrrwa/
The main change I saw is in Loconet part, including an implmementation for LNCV config. And it is just perfect for my projects, so I can setup my programs from the Intellibox, Uhlenbrock PC software or Rocrail directly using this LNCV protocol. There is no need to dismount the Arduino when it's in place under the layout and connected, nor connect a USB cable to it for configuring or setup the application parameters.
Some review until this point:
Some months ago I posted some musings about Arduno used in a railroad layout and how to connect it to a Loconet network. I showed how to use a cheap GCA50 board to make an interface to connect Arduino to a Loconet network using the standard Giling Computer Applications connector that provides both loconet and power to feed the Arduino:
http://www.clubncaldes.com/2014/06/loconet-interface-for-arduino.html
After that, a first prototype shield was designed and built by Peter Giling, called GCA185, which you can buy here: http://www.phgiling.net/
http://www.clubncaldes.com/2014/06/arduino-loconet-shield-gca185.html
At this point, I did a program to turn Arduino in a Sound Module for ambient sounds in a station. It was able to be governed by a remote control (for analog users) and also to be configured to play a sound for each function key of each train or even detect a train stopped in a detection section to reproduce its announce. Here and here there's all the information.
But I wanted to implement a configuration protocol through Loconet to avoid dismounting the Arduino or connect a USB cable in order to configure it. I did it using the same GCA50 protocol, and copying its functionality but in an Arduino board. But that was not enough for bigger or different projects and programs.
Next step was implementing the LNCV protocol. That's the protocol used by Uhlenbrock to setup all his hardware and modules, but as everything from Uhlenbrock the information is strictly confidential. Rocrail was also implementing this protocol and I started looking at their source code. But suddenly a new version of Loconet Libraries for Arduino has been released, with LNCV protocol already implemented!!!!
BRAVO, BRAVÍSSIMO for MRRWA guys!! Congratulations and thanks so much to share your work!!!
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What was the Cause of Weste Erickson's Death? Age, Net Worth in 2022
Who is Weste Erickson?
Weste Erickson was a well-known and adored actor who appeared in the horror documentary television series Terror in the Woods.
Unfortunately, he died in the year 2017 and left everyone heartbroken. Please stay with us to learn more about the late actor and the circumstances surrounding his death.
Quick Facts about Weste Erickson
Full Name: Weste Erickson
Birthplace: Forks, Sekiu, Washington
Profession: Actor
Net Worth: $500000
Father: Ron Erickson
Mother: Karen Erickson
Siblings: Lincoln Erickson, Thomas Erickson, and Emma Erickson
What was the Cause of Weste Erickson's Death?
Weste Erickson passed away on January 23, 2017. He was working as an IT specialist at Tahoma Middle School. Everyone adored him because he was cheerful and kind. Everyone who knew him, including the students and faculty, adored him.
Unfortunately, Weste died at 34, leaving behind his cheerful personality and kind nature.
He was born and raised in Sekiu, Washington, with his parents, Karen Erickson and Ron Erickson. They work together to run the Pysht Pottery.
Caption: Weste Erickson's Death Body (photo: site-logo)
When was Weste Erickson Born?
Weste Erickson had three siblings in addition to his loving parents. Lincoln Erickson, Thomas Erickson, and Emma Erickson are their names. He was also a friendly person with many friends in his hometown. Friends and family describe him as an "inquisitive" man.
While a lot of information is available about how he lived, there is very little information about the cause of his death.
The only information available about his death is that he died in his Auburn, California, home. Regrettably, no one has mentioned the precise cause of his death. He is currently at Maple Valley, resting in peace.
Photo: Instagram
Weste Erickson was a well-known and beloved actor. Weste Erickson passed away on January 23, 2017. Unfortunately, Weste died at the age of 34, leaving behind his cheerful personality.
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Vietnam: A Television History; First Vietnam War, The (1946 - 1954); Interview with Madame Duong Van Khang, 1981
Madame Duong Van Khang recalls being allowed to participate on an attack of the French military. Her job consisted of helping move soldiers safely to a place where they would be able to attack the enemy and then safely guide them home. Madame Duong Van Khang also describes gathering intelligence on the French and passing the information along to the appropriate people. She explains the different disguises she used in order to complete her tasks. Additionally, Madame Duong Van Khang talks about the experiences of having to grow hemp for the Japanese instead of rice, and the suffering people experienced due to not having the land available to grow food.
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Interview with Madame Duong Van Khang, 1981
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Nation buildings
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With the world opening up, Finnair is poised to fly out of the gate with an ambitious refit of its long-haul fleet – in particular, a bold re-imagining of what Business Class can be.
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As the world wakes up to new opportunities, make sure to be dressed for the occasion.
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From our very first issue, Monocle has cast an informed and clear-sighted eye over the issues and people that matter. We follow up on the stories we started telling in 2007 to find out how they have developed in the tumultuous 15 years since.
Back in 2007, we premiered Style Leaders, a column to decode the politics of power dressing in the global elite. For this special issue we asked its illustrator, a celebrated Norwegian engineer, to help us reprise the popular format.
A lot can happen in 15 years, especially when there's been a global recession, a pandemic and a complete transformation in how we communicate. In these four essays we look back at a momentous decade and a half.
We track down a few of Monocle's launch team to ask, 'What happened next?'
We visit a new members' club and resort that's offering a slice of the Lower East Side in the Catskills.
A new luxury hotel in a former maternity hospital has balanced respect for a beloved, historical building with a global vision in a decade-long transformation.
Jail breakers
A German architect duo is converting a former jail into a smart hotel. Monocle takes an exclusive first look at the prison-turned-pension.
Nostalgic neon
The fluorescent signs lining Hong Kong's streets are a huge part of its identity. Heritage group TNX is working to stop these lights from burning out by restoring them with a new mission to illuminate the next generation of Hong Kongers.
Slice things up
Here's what's fresh in the gourmet world: from a cheese affineur who goes to grate lengths to a Norwegian opening in Tokyo and the launch of a newly renovated Los Angeles legend. Plus: a toothsome chicken dish to cook at home.
In the shadow of the iconic Rockefeller Center, a new restaurant and bakery is combining Manhattan's sophistication with the welcoming bustle of Milan's aperitivo culture. We break bread with Ignacio Mattos, Lodi's celebrated chef-owner.
Sleeper hits
Across Europe, new hotels are showing why superior service, not photo opportunities, keeps guests coming back for more.
Hello trolley
This bentwood birch bar trolley from 1936 is a key part of Alvar and Aino Aalto's original design for the recently revamped Savoy restaurant in Helsinki. There are now two of the original trolleys under chef-patron Helena Puolakka's roof. The first can be found beside barman Aleksi Mehtonen and the second is wheeled out to tables – a finishing touch to the spot-on service.
Snappers' delight
To mark Monocle's 15th anniversary we've asked 14 faithful photographers in seven key cities to shoot a portrait of one another and share their insights on the importance of visual storytelling, being present and the craft of photojournalism.
Affairs: The Debate / USA
Andrew Mueller
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Campaigning is afoot for the US midterm elections in November. Though both parties are gearing up for the fight, with hundreds of billions of dollars already raised, it is widely expected that the Republican Party will reclaim the House of Representatives and very possibly the Senate. If so, the party would find itself able substantially to dictate the domestic agenda for the remainder of Joe Biden's term.
It therefore matters what kind of party it wants to be. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, there was some hope among his critics that his defeat might break the fever of delusion and grievance that had consumed the Grand Old Party (gop), as it is colloquially known. There has been little indication of any such respite. The party has become dominated by a Trumpist faction and its hero might well make a second bid for the presidency in 2024.
No political party has a divine right to exist. Indeed, American parties that once seemed to be inexorable fixtures have faded and expired: the ninth, 10th, 12th and 13th presidents were all Whigs, a party that disbanded in the 1850s. But no sensible citizen wants to live in a one-party state, even if it's the party they vote for, and any grown-up democracy should include a party that represents the conservative case, ideally with phlegmatic common sense.
Can the gop be returned to its upright and serious founding principles? If so, how? And if it can't, or won't, then what?
Meet the panel
Peter Meijer
The congressman
Meijer is the member of the US House of Representatives for Michigan's third district and one of only 10 Republican congresspeople who voted to impeach Donald Trump after last year's Capitol riot. Prior to his election in November 2020, Congressman Meijer worked in conflict analysis in Afghanistan and disaster response in South Sudan and elsewhere. He also served in Iraq as a US army reservist.
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
The historian
Cramer Brownell is an associate professor at Purdue University, where she teaches 20th-century US history. She specialises in the intersections of American politics, media and popular culture, and is the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life. Her forthcoming book documents the political history of US cable television.
Tom Nichols
The pundit
Nichols is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of several books, including The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy.
Congressman, you're running for re-election. Let's imagine that I'm an open-minded constituent of Michigan's third district. What's your pitch to me?
peter meijer: If you look at what has gone right in this country, it has been things that have focused on more regional governance. What we've seen in Washington, in less than a year, has been a strong consolidation of power not only by the federal government but also within the federal government, by the executive.
Is the Republican Party still capable of delivering those, though?
pm: Right now it's the only party that has at least a pretence of the ideological underpinnings that could.
Tom, you've been a very vocal ex-Republican in recent years. Would you still consider yourself such?
tom nichols: Oh, yes. Today more than ever. I just disagree with the congressman. There is no ideological underpinning to the Republican Party. There is no policy more important than the constitutional integrity of the government. And that's under attack from the Republican Party – my former party, of which I had been a member since 1978, which has become an authoritarian vehicle. I'm no longer a Republican but I'm a conservative. I have plenty of issues with the Democratic Party but I'm standing with a pro-democracy coalition against authoritarianism. To me, that's the only issue.
Is what has happened to the Republican Party in the past five to 10 years unique in US history?
kathryn cramer brownell: Over the course of the 20th century there was political realignment in both parties but what is new is this emphasis that began under Donald Trump's presidency on conspiracy theories and misinformation as a way to govern. That's different. Politicians frequently try to manipulate and spin information but this invention of an alternative reality is now very much the crisis of the Republican Party.
"Politicians frequently try to manipulate information but this invention of an alternative reality is now the crisis of the Republicans"
We shouldn't spend too much time on the problem – but to find a possible way out of it, it's worth considering whether this was inevitable. Was it?
tn: No. If I had to put my finger on when I began to feel unease, it was when I worked in the Senate in the 1990s for John Heinz, who today would have been hounded from the party. It was Newt Gingrich's revolution, where winning became more important than believing in anything and making other people mad became more satisfying than governing. Now is the first time that a major party hates and fears its own constituents. That's partly why I don't hold out any hope for the Republicans.
"Fox exists for the same reason that junk food exists: it's bad for you but people like it"
Congressman, does the Michigan third frighten you?
I'm wondering whether there's a conversation among Republicans about a fear of confronting the manias of their voters who might be very angry – and armed.
pm: On the margins. But the broader trend is just a lack of conviction, or lack of leadership. I talk to plenty of constituents who vehemently disagree with some of my stances but are desperate for somebody whom they can look up to. This is part of the reason why you saw a reversion to a Trumpian mode after [the Capitol riot]: this window opened and nothing filled it.
Is there any hope that things might correct themselves if Trump were no longer involved?
kcb: He's not the first politician to have created this celebrity persona: you saw it in Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. He's the culmination of many shifts in media and politics, the fusion of entertainment and politics, over the past century. But the party leaders' dedication to him as an individual, not standing up to him when he does egregious things – not just flouting norms but potentially the law – that's different with his presidency and post-presidency.
tn: I want to push back on a couple of things. We're talking about Donald Trump as if he is in a tradition of outsized presidential figures and not what he is, which is a mentally unstable, sociopathic autocrat. I also want to push back on congressman Meijer's narrative that, well, what can you do? That's a rationalisation for having to deal with the fact that those voters just want to trust someone. The reason that they don't is that they won't turn off their televisions, won't read a newspaper and gorge themselves on a steady diet of insanity that they love. Fox, the internet and these podcasts don't exist because they're trying to get the truth to people. They exist for the same reason that junk food exists: it's bad for you but people like it. And they eat it by the tonne.
Is there a chance that we could see that appetite starting to ebb, if it becomes more obvious that the falsehoods reported by conservative media and the online realm simply aren't happening?
kcb: This has developed over time; it has strength and has become embedded in conservatism. It's also about what sells. Today if you look at some of the financial structures around subscription television or podcasts, they don't necessarily have to be dependent on advertisers; they just need the loyalty of their viewers. So there's an emphasis on getting a very loyal viewership. That outrage drives the programming and cultivating it helps to do that.
"I talk to plenty of constituents who disagree with some of my stances but are desperate for somebody whom they can look up to"
pm: In order to exploit something, you can fabricate it – and there certainly have been fabrications – but it's a lot easier if there is a modicum of truth. We are, for now, the sole global superpower and yet the amount of mediocrity and incompetence that we seem to tolerate in any number of areas is what gives rise to that impulse, which is exploited by the extreme media.
tn: And this is where a responsible conservative party would throw some of this back onto the citizens of the US and say: "You have to take some responsibility here. You have to be stoic. You have to be an adult."
"Certainly one of the lessons that we can take from the 2016 election is the importance of calling out misinformation"
Would it help if the media was more rigorous in how it reported the Trump phenomenon? How do you cover someone who thrives on attention?
kcb: One of the lessons that we can take from the 2016 election and the Trump presidency is the importance of calling out lies and misinformation. But another issue that is not talked about enough is the need to teach media literacy: how to understand information and evaluate sources and biases.
Congressman, do you have any worries that maybe you're not the future of the Republican Party?
pm: To be clear, the likes of [Georgia representative and Trump ally] Marjorie Taylor Greene are exponentially more powerful and influential within the gop today than they were a year ago. But we were missing the forest for the trees a little with the role of Trump in the existential dilemma. In my view, the threat is the person sitting there taking notes and saying that we can do this in a smarter, sharper, more disciplined, more strategic way, so that in our quest to accumulate and exert absolute power, we don't make the same mistakes that Trump did.
tn: I don't think that rescuing this Republican Party from extremists is going to happen. Marjorie Taylor Greene scares [House minority leader] Kevin McCarthy and if McCarthy becomes speaker, you'll have a Congress run by kooks. There is no path back from this, other than to defeat the Republican Party as an institution, to prevent it from holding those levers of power.
Is there a way of working around the extremists? Is there a viable centre ground in the Republican Party that can be reclaimed – and if so, how?
tn: No. The Republican Party I knew died at least four or five years ago. I wish the congressman all the best but the moderate Republican Party can't just be him, me, Liz Cheney and three other guys in Rhode Island.
pm: There are normal people planning for what comes next. And there are also some very crazy people doing the same. Our thoughts should be on both: supporting and buttressing institutions, keeping people who are thinking about the long term in office, getting people who have that orientation into office and not just succumbing to accelerationism. I mean, you either stay or you go. I'm going to stay and fight. Not screaming from a mountaintop but in a quiet, persistent way. But as a freshman member of Congress, I'm under no illusion about my degree of power or agency.
Let's try to be a bit optimistic. If we're all agreed that a sensible and serious conservative party is a necessary component of a great democracy, who would we choose as a unifying, stabilising figure to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024? Congressman Meijer might just be old enough by then...
tn: I wouldn't nominate the congressman because I wouldn't do that to him; that's just unkind. I would love to see a bipartisan government of national trust. There are centre-right figures who could be part of such an administration. But until the madness passes, I don't think the answer lies there.
"The party has become one of complaint, grievance, victimhood and misery about how they're the most put-upon people in the world"
pm: I have who I would like it to be and then I have who could actually win – and the centre of that Venn diagram is challenging. The challenge for a moderate, which I do not define myself as, is that it becomes squishy. You can wind up with the worst of all worlds if it's someone who doesn't really stand for anything. I share Tom's concern that I taint anyone I endorse but perhaps Chris Sununu, governor of New Hampshire. I love the fact that he held a press conference at which everybody wanted him to run for the Senate and effectively just said, "Yeah, Washington looks like it sucks." You need someone who's going to be a bit pugnacious but who only does that when they need to, who isn't waking up every morning thinking, "Who can I swing at?" But the idea that the president is going to be a saviour is part of our problem. We're always looking for that salvation.
kcb: As a historian, I do not predict the future. But what would be most important is someone who is rooted in reality, respects the democratic process and institutions and has done something to actually defend democracy at this particular moment, when it is being threatened. We need someone who navigates in facts, rather than conspiracy theories and misinformation.
"The idea that the president is going to be a saviour is part of our problem. We're always looking for that salvation"
tn: With the honourable exception of the Republican congressman in this conversation, the party has become one of complaint, grievance, victimhood and misery about how they're the most put-upon people in the world. That is not the conservatism that brought me into the Republican Party. That was not the party of Ronald Reagan, which won 49 states in 1984. This is a party that has a vested interest in terms such as "American carnage". Until that ends, there's no way out of this.
The US, like every democracy, needs a party making the conservative case – and in the US the case for individual liberty and responsibility should, in theory, be easy to make. The Republican Party remains fond of pitching itself as that of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan. It would be something to see the gop conduct an honest and open conversation about why it would not now nominate for president anyone resembling any of those leaders.


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Could Trump Pardon Indicted Co-conspirators If He Was Also Implicated?
Sheila Markin November 17, 2017 April 18, 2018
A president cannot pardon himself. Richard Painter, Norm Eisen and Laurence Tribe clarify this in their article in the Washington Post from July. But here is the next question. Can a president who is an indicted co-conspirator for federal crimes pardon his fellow co-conspirators? I think that will be a question we will see played out in the future. Why? Because if there are crimes against the United States that were committed in the run up to the 2016 election then Trump was in on it. We all know that Trump is a man who has to have his hand in everything. Note how he had to write Trump Jr's statement about the Russian meeting in Trump Tower – it was about adoptions. Yeah right. Trump knew everything that was going on in his campaign because it was relatively small group of people in the inner circle. When it comes to the Russians and their engagement with that campaign in the run up to the election, does anyone doubt that Trump knew what was going on? If Mueller has enough evidence to charge a conspiracy, Trump will be in the middle of that conspiracy. He will be implicated. Manafort, Gates and Flynn all have compelling reasons to flip and tell Mueller what was going on inside that campaign. As for evidence of obstruction of justice, that is obviously something Trump can be charged with and will not be able to pardon himself for. The evidence of obstruction is very clear already. There is no need for more evidence, according to Jill Wine-Banks, former Watergate prosecutor, although Mueller may want to be able to uncover exactly what motivated Trump. What was the underlying reason Trump wanted Comey to lay off of Flynn.
When it comes to the Russian meddling conspiracy, there is an interesting question. Could Trump pardon his co-conspirators if they are implicated in crimes against the United States that he is involved in also? I don't think so. I have heard that from pundits on cable news although I have not seen that question answered in other online sources or articles by a reliable source.
There is some reporting that Mueller has a grand jury indictment of a "Defendant A". It is only speculation right now, but it would make sense that as evidence proceeds in the grand jury looking into Russian meddling in the election and obstruction of justice, Mueller is accumulating charges against this unnamed Defendant A who is most likely to be Trump himself. Why would Mueller do that? One obvious answer is that he is accumulating charges against Trump to checkmate Trump if he tries to pardon his own co-conspirators in crimes he was also involved in.
There is debate about whether a sitting president can be indicted while he is in office. Mueller might or might not be able to indict Trump for his crimes in a conspiracy against our country while he is president. However, Trump would definitely be indictable after leaving office. (He would probably seek a pardon from Pence if he is impeached). But I think Mueller may be playing the long game here with Defendant A. This is speculation, but it makes sense to me that Mueller would be guarding against the pardon power of the president as he accumulates evidence in the grand jury. If Trump is implicated in a conspiracy where there are federal charges of violations such as violations of hacking laws (hacking is illegal and if the Trump campaign worked in concert with a foreign entity, namely Russia to benefit from that hacking- that is a crime), accessory after the fact to violate election laws, campaign finance laws, the Espionage Act, possibly racketeering charges (RICO), all of these are possible federal criminal violations that might be charged depending on the evidence coming out in the grand jury,
We shall see. This should be interesting.
Opinion | No, Trump can't pardon himself. The Constitution tells us so.
And so does hundreds of years of legal tradition.
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Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen not returning for 'Fuller House' Revival
Olsen Twins will not reprise the role they shared as Michelle Tanner on the upcoming Netflix series. Fuller House will be without Olsen twins which were one of very important members of the Tanner family. Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen will not reprise the role they shared as Michelle in the upcoming Netflix revival of the beloved ABC sitcom.
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"Although Ashley and Mary-Kate will not be a part of Fuller House, I know how much Full House has meant to them and they are still very much considered family," executive producer Robert L. Boyett said in a statement. "It has been exciting to see how they have built their professional careers, and I support their choice to focus on their fashion brands and various business endeavors. I appreciate their support and good wishes towards Fuller House."
The actual incarnation will star original cast members Candace Cameron Bure (D.J.), her on-screen younger sister, Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie) and Andrea Barber, who played her best friend, Kimmy Gibbler. John Stamos will produce and reprise his role as Uncle Jesse in a guest role. Dave Coulier will also return as Uncle Joey. Talks are underway to bring back fellow original stars Bob Saget and Lori Loughlin.
They started on Full House when were just nine months old. Twinsquickly turned their notoriety on the show into an empire of direct-to-video movies and specials under their company, Dualstar Entertainment. After Full House ended in 1995, they starred on TV series with name : Two of a Kind and So Little Time. Now twins have turned their attention to their two fashion lines, Elizabeth and James and The Row.
Fuller House is set to debut in 2016.
THR first reported this casting news.
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Q: How to SSH from MacOS terminal to Ubuntu 22.04. No matching host key type found I'm not able to login to Ubuntu 22.04 which I newly installed from MacOS terminal.
Here is the error I get while trying to SSH to ubuntu
QWERTY-M-91FL:~ qwerty$ ssh mnbv@16.67.45.123
Unable to negotiate with 16.67.45.123 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519

A: This error is caused by the server and the client not having a common accepted type of host key. Most probably this is caused by a new SSH server version and an old SSH client version. Ubuntu 22.04 bundles with OpenSSH 8.9, while ssh-rsa (the most used key type) has been disabled since OpenSSH 8.8. From the release notes:

This release disables RSA signatures using the SHA-1 hash algorithm by
default. This change has been made as the SHA-1 hash algorithm is
cryptographically broken, and it is possible to create chosen-prefix
hash collisions for <USD$50K 1

The best approach would be to update your ssh client version. Seriously. It might be an easy approach to change the server's settings, but as stated by the OpenSSH developers, hash collisions are very easily found for older ssh-rsa, which could completely break your security and allow for man-in-the-middle attacks.

Another approach is to tell the server to generate older host key types (manual).

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*Get a list of all supported host key types on the client:
mtak@client:~$ ssh -Q sig
ssh-ed25519
sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com
ssh-rsa
rsa-sha2-256
rsa-sha2-512
ssh-dss
ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
ecdsa-sha2-nistp384
ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com

*Pick a supported host key (signature) type and add that to the HostkeyAlgorithms list on the server:
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, add and/or set:
HostkeyAlgorithms ssh-rsa

(note that I haven't tested this. I don't have an SSH client old enough to run into this issue)

A: Note that you encounter this error due to old host key algoriths being disabled. So be warned as you proceed:
You can override the host key algorithm using
ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+rsa-sha2-512 mnbv@16.67.45.123

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Daniel Lanois' Harvest Picnic Comes of Age
nicholas_ray Posted On August 15, 2013
Daniel Lanois' annual Harvest Picnic is entering it's third year, having shaken the terrible twos. I spoke to Lanois, Emmylou Harris and new festival guest Pegi Young about the festival and what makes it special to them.
"There's no glamour in the Hammer / but they sell it at the Big & Tall" starts one of the standout tracks on Whitehorse's most recent (and excellent) album The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss before launching into its refrain of "There's no getting out of this one."
"The Hammer", in this case, is a reference to Hamilton, Ontario. The city of just more than a half million people is about an hour's drive west of Toronto. Home to the first Tim Hortons in the world, the well respected McMaster University and two major steel manufacturers Hamilton enjoys the kind of reputation suburban satellite cities tend to: it's a place Torontonians make fun of, and a place people seem to want to get out of.
It's also home to Daniel Lanois: he grew up just down the road in Ancaster, and he feels like the reputation isn't well deserved. "The Industrial part gets all the attention," he says, "As soon as you get up the hill its the Upper Great Lakes." He's right too: the area is overrun with beautiful rivers, lush farmland and the Niagara Escarpment–one of Canada's most defining geographical features. In 2005 the Ontario government formally established the Greenbelt to permanently protect the valuable agricultural land from encroaching development.
Three years ago Lanois threw the first Greenbelt Harvest Picnic concert to support the region's local farmers: listen to him talk about his love of the locally grown tomatoes and his passion is obvious. Lanois' mother (he says that "You can safely say she's the brains of the operation" with an affection that's obvious and adorable) still lives in the area and he and a friend were travelling around the region during harvest season when they hit upon the idea of the festival. "As the supermarkets get bigger," Lanois says, "it's nice to be reminded about the local grower." Who could argue with that?
A few phone calls to friends were made–"It'd be great if we could get Emmylou," Lanois said before picking up his phone and calling her–and pretty soon that inaugural edition of the Picnic was set. That's a bit of an oversimplification but it's not as much of one as you might think: Lanois has lots of friends, and he describes the Picnic as "…feeling like a family affair." Emmylou Harris has played every year and says she loves the fact that the Picnic "…has become a passion of Dan's." Lanois has helped Emmylou with her Nashville based animal rescue efforts and the Picnic is just one more opportunity for the two friends to "Help each other out making the world a little better."
That first edition of the Picnic did a lot to dispel the myth that there was no glamour in The Hammer, with a tonne of local musicians sharing the stage with Lanois, Harris and the day's closing act Ray LaMontagne. At the time I called that show the best concert I'd ever attended: with impeccable sound, gorgeous weather and a line up that kept a good sized crowd entertained from morning to night that Picnic set a high standard to follow. A follow up show a year later featured Sarah Harmer and Gord Downie for a second time but put Feist into the closing slot.
The Picnic did more than just present a great musical lineup. Staying true to its intended mission, local farmers were invited to attend and sell fresh locally grown produce on the festival grounds. It was a nice change from the commercialized nature of most festivals which offer not much more than fast food as an option. In between musical sets environmental activists and farmers took the stage to address a receptive crowd with their 'eat local' message. It was a message that was made less abstract when accompanied by those produce booths: the abundance of beans, tomatoes, corn and other vegetables was an enticing reminder that much of what we eat could be grown in the area, and that makes the area worth protecting. This activism prompted Emmylou Harris to describe the festival as being "…like a local Farm Aid," a reference to the massive and national movement started by Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp years ago.
Though most fans think of Lanois as a producer, those first two picnics also provided an opportunity for Lanois to play with some of his friends. For those friends this wasn't a surprise–Pegi Young says that she "…thinks of Daniel as always playing. Whatever configuration his band is at the time. If he's working in production, he's playing anyway." Seeing him collaborate on stage with his friends it's readily apparent why they're happy to have him do so: he's easily one of the best guitarists I've ever seen. That's equally true whether he's playing one of his numerous six strings or sitting at the pedal steel–an instrument he's famously called his "church in a suitcase."
These days Lanois seems to be playing live more frequently than he has in the past. When I spoke to him he'd just come back from Japan where, he says, "They love music, like I haven't seen since I was a kid. They have good artists coming out of Japan," he goes on, "but they never had rock and roll." Lanois agrees that he's been playing more frequently and says he feels like he's "…playing better than ever…spending less time behind the console. I enjoy it–in a live setting, you get that fantastic feedback."
It's clear that the live experience is something Lanois relishes and not something he was avoiding. He was just busy for a long time with producing. He describes a feeling of isolation when playing solo. "…A certain kind of voice. On the [pedal] steel guitar the more melancholy side of me has a chance to be exercised," he says, "It puts an artist in a vulnerable state." Lanois' songwriting has always been intensely personal: Acadie opens with Still Water whose fictional Caledonia River runs through the area of the Picnic; Jolie Louise is a loosely autobiographical story of his childhood; songs like Harry from Here Is What Is tell stories of close friends and acquaintances. Lanois writes what he feels, reflecting his view that it's what you feel not what you hear that keeps you coming back to the music you love.
The first Harvest Picnic saw Lanois and Emmylou playing material from their legendary 1996 collaboration Wrecking Ball together for the first time in years. Songs written by Lanois took on an especially personal tone when played to this hometown crowd. That album's Blackhawk speaks to Hamilton directly with its opening lines of "Well I work the double shift / In a bookstore on St. Clair / While he pushed the burning ingots / In Dofasco stinking air." You couldn't ask for a better tribute to the men and women of the town than hearing those notes fade off into a summer sky, leading into its refrain of "A small town hero never dies / He fades a bit and then he slips." That first Picnic was a powerful demonstration of the artist at her most vulnerable, in front on an audience of thousands who weren't just listening to but feeling one of the great pieces of music of the 20th century.
The idea of feeling the music came up again when I asked both Lanois and Emmylou if they had any favourite moments from the first two years of the Harvest Picnic. With such a broad range of talent and music there's a lot to choose from but both said the same thing: last year, when the Rev. Brady Blade Sr. took the stage. Lanois' has played regularly with both of Blade's sons on drums and described the Reverend as a "…roaring gospel singer…" while Emmylou demonstrated her trademark eloquence and said it was "…like the stage lifted up from the Earth." Gospel music is a form that comes almost entirely from the heart. It's an expression of the artist's feeling at it's purist. Nothing quite defines the Harvest Picnic experience as well as that.
It's an ability to consistently deliver musical moments like that which sees the Harvest Picnic heading into its third year. The lineup of talent is as impressive as previous editions. Consistent Lanois collaborators like Rocco DeLucca and Trixie Whitely are on the list. Pegi Young and the Survivors will be playing a full set of music earlier in the day as well. The show will mark only her second or third visit to Canada as a solo artist. The singer's 2011 release was well reviewed, and the set promises to be a good one.
This year's headliner is a big one though: Lanois' fellow Canadian Neil Young is bringing Crazy Horse to The Hammer. A show like this would normally see Hamiltonians travelling an hour down the road to Toronto's Air Canada Centre to see Crazy Horse, instead of the 20 minute drive to the outskirts of town. It's a testament to Lanois' reputation and the strength of his friendships that Crazy Horse is kicking off the North American leg of what's been described by band members as possibly their last tour in Hamilton. Lanois said he hasn't really seen Young since they finished recording Le Noise and he's not the only one looking forward to it: unprompted Emmylou commented that "It's so nice to see Neil & Daniel together. I was glad when they finally made Le Noise together." Safe to say that's a sentiment shared by a large number of people.
This third Harvest Picnic has the distinct potential to see Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris and Neil Young on stage at the same time and also to be Crazy Horses' last stop ever in Ontario. How's that for glamour? Score: Hamilton – 1; Toronto – 0.
Of course, staying true to another of its original goals the Harvest Picnic has also recruited a healthy dose of local talent. Whitehorse called Hamilton home for a long time and the duo are playing this year's Picnic. When I spoke to Melissa McClelland in Vancouver at the Folk Fest her excitement was obvious: she attended the festival in the audience last year, and was pretty happy to be on the bill this year. Luke Doucet's guitar playing is fantastic and the prospect of seeing him joined on stage by Lanois is something to look forward too.
The young men of Harlan Pepper will take the stage early in the day as well. The foursome call Hamilton home, and some of them weren't even old enough to order a drink in a bar when their debut album was released. That debut album showed a lot of youthful promise and the banjo led opening track Great Lakes gained them a solid following on the college radio circuit. They've toured relentlessly over the last year, including an opening slot with Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. The band's guitar/pedal steel and banjo driven sound shows a musical depth that seems beyond their years, and their sure to find a few new fans who wouldn't normally go to one of the smaller clubs they've been playing in town.
It's refreshing to know that the musicians enjoy these young bands as much as the audience does. "One of the great things about playing these festials," Pegi Young said, "is being exposed to new music. I really do enjoy getting that exposure." The singer's tone made it obvious that as much as she's looking forward to playing her own set, she's also looking forward to seeing the other acts.
Given the depth of Lanois' friendships the Harvest Picnic may offer the best opportunity in the world for fans of music of all kinds to get what they're looking for from an event like this: the sound, engineered by Lanois, is guaranteed to be about the best you've ever heard; Lanois says the Picnic has been "Blessed with terrific weather the first two years" and you can pretty much count on that in Southern Ontario at this time of year; you can go for a swim or fish in the lake in the hot afternoon; the food on site is fresh, mostly organic and locally grown; the line up is rich and diverse and features something that's guaranteed to make everybody in the audience happy. There really is something for everyone.
When I asked Lanois about how he feels playing the pedal steel he paused for a minute to collect his thoughts. "The nice thing about those limited instruments," he said, "you operate within a limited form and there's something grounded about that. It's like a human voice. It's the instrument I go to to remind myself that I'm still just a human."
It's a beautiful sentiment, and it reminds me of the feeling of watching Lanois sit down at his pedal steel for that first Harvest Picnic show, that very human voice reaching towards a starry, cloudless Hamilton sky. One man, isolated for a moment on stage but surrounded by his friends and family–sharing that beautiful, pure moment of melancholy joy with the audience in a grassy field accompanied only by the wind and the crickets and the night.
Whoever said there was no glamour in The Hammer just needs to listen a bit more closely, because there'll be plenty to go around at this Picnic.
The 3rd Annual Greenbelt Harvest Picnic is on August 31, 2013 at Chrstie Lake Conservation Area in Dundas, Ontario–just west of Hamilton. and features Rocco DeLuca, Trixie Whitely, Harlan Pepper, Pegi Young & the Survivors, Daniel Lanois, Emmylou Harris and Neil Young & Crazy Horse. You'll find photos from the 2011 edition on my site and my review is elsewhere on No Depression. Tickets for his year's show can be ordered at the Harvest Picnic web site.
You can listen to Daniel Lanois' and Emmylou Harris' set from the 2001 Harvest Picnic on the CBC Music site.


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I think these forms are a way that risk can be shifted to the physician. In addition to driving one of the riskiest forms I have seen is certifying that somebody can get all of their firearms back. They were typically confiscated by the police in some action that had nothing to do with with treatment. In practically all of the cases I was not the physician of record at the time. People may request an appointment for that specific purpose. My response it to clearly state that this is a law enforcement decision that has nothing to do with me. I take the same position of driving and typically refer people to courses or facilities that can certify their driving based on how they perform on a course.
HR requests have a high mixed agency agenda. Many people including practically all physicians are coerced into signing consent for their employers to obtain embarrassing information about them. That includes information that may directly interfere with their employment status. If I do need to communicate with an employer, I make sure the person I am treating sees what I am sending and I let them know that there is no reason an employer needs to see medical information that is in place for treatment like actual medical records.
This is a difficult area. I have talked with physicians where employers demanded specific records and interventions and were quite assertive about it. I have not had that experience, but agree that it does take time to carefully draft letters and reports that people want.
Not really related to your post, but I'm super surprised that you've never told a patient not to drive! My doctor won't let me drive if I'm unwell, and I have to agree. You just don't have the cognitive capacity when you're that unwell. And thinking about it, if she has to write down what happened in the appointment for me because I'm too unwell to remember what she said, managing a moving vehicle seems a bit much. Although this is only an agreement between us, and not something mandated by the state.
George: So what do you do when a patient says "I don't want my potential employer to know that I suffer from schizophrenia? It's all hard.
BecB-- I do tell people not to drive, or not to go to work when they are delusional, or not to walk on the ice when they are frail, or not to drink and drive. Giving medical advice is different than answering questions that an agency asks for. Does China define what a mental illness is?
A little late, but no, the visa form didn't give any details.
I'm now also facing the joy of loosing my license as our licensing authorities have decided that people with ('severe') mental illnesses can't be trusted to drive. Seriously, I declared my illness to the rta and now I might end up loosing it. Never had a speeding fine or drink driving. Just got caught crying whilst stopped in a loading zone. So not happy.


Christina Morelli is an American writer, producer, and creative consultant, born in New York and based in London. Having completed a Masters in Screenwriting at London Film School, Christina continues to develop her international portfolio of TV pilots and feature length scripts, in addition to taking on the roles of producer, script editor and script supervisor.
In 2009, Christina founded NYC Art Scene, an indie artist resource and promotional site, where she interviewed Grammy-award winning musicians, pop stars, and local breakout acts, and spent time traveling through Europe documenting the international music scene. Her work with the community led to the 2011 birth of CEO Artist, her creative consulting company. Inspired by a desire to fuse a passion for the arts with a hard-driven business sense to help artistic entrepreneurs gain an understanding of their market, product and purpose in the industry, Christina's expertise lies in writing, producing, consulting and cross-pollination event coordination. She currently works as a creative consultant, educator, coach, and public speaker for various companies and institutions, including London Film School, University of Warwick, The Cockpit Theatre, The Actors Centre, International Moving Image Society, Raindance, Royal Holloway University, University of California, Irvine, and more.


The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) was incepted on 1st of August 2005. It was formed through a merger of two existing associations of online gambling operators, namely the Association of Remote Gambling Operators (ARGO) and the Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association (IGGBA). The objective was to ensure that the online gambling industry offered a single voice on important issues to regulators, legislators and key decision makers.
The RGA operates from London and represents the interests of remote gambling operators of Europe. Full membership of the RGA is available to those remote gambling operators that are licensed for gambling activities and operational within the European Economic Area (EEA), the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. The members of the RGA include some of the largest, licensed and stock market-listed remote gambling companies in Europe. Some of the prominent members are William Hill, Ladbrokes, PartyGaming, Victor Chandler and 888. The RGA also includes online gaming software suppliers like Microgaming, Cryptologic and Playtech. Organizations that do not meet the full membership criteria can become Affiliate Members and would receive limited support from the RGA.
The functions of the RGA are listed in its "Aims and Objectives". The RGA comes into the picture when there is a need to negotiate on behalf of the industry as a whole, particularly with trades' organizations, employer's organizations, government bodies and the media. The RGA also helps it members in litigation over the right to provide remote gambling services. In this connection one of the objectives towards which the RGA is working is the creation of a uniform remote gambling market in Europe where any operator in any country in Europe can offer his services across Europe without any hindrances.
Within its association the RGA encourages high standards of integrity and social responsibility among its members. In order to achieve this, the RGA has formulated a code of conduct, compliance with which has become a condition of membership since January 2006. The code deals with issues such as prevention of underage gambling, protection of players' interests and responsibility in advertising. A third function of the RGA is to keep its members informed of the latest developments in the remote gambling industry through in-house newspapers, magazines, periodicals and books.
One of the more important initiatives of the RGA has been the stand it has taken against the violation of international law by the United States through the enactment of the UIGEA and the persecution of non-American online gaming operators. The RGA has filed a complaint under a provision of the European Union's Trade Barriers Regulation against the United States Department of Justice challenging its discriminatory practices.


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Kepler-47 is a binary star system in the constellation Cygnus located about 1055 parsecs (3,442 light years) away from Earth. The stars have three exoplanets, all of which orbit both stars at the same time, making this a circumbinary system. The first two planets announced are designated Kepler-47b, and Kepler-47c, and the third, later discovery is Kepler-47d. Kepler-47 is the first circumbinary multi-planet system discovered by the Kepler mission. The outermost of the planets is a gas giant orbiting within the habitable zone of the stars. Because most stars are binary, the discovery that multi-planet systems can form in such a system has impacted previous theories of planetary formation.

A group of astronomers led by Jerome Orosz at San Diego State University, including astronomers from Tel-Aviv University in Israel, discovered the planetary system via NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012. In November 2013, evidence of a third planet orbiting between the planets b and c, Kepler-47d, was announced. Later analyses of transit data from the Kepler space telescope confirmed the existence of Kepler-47d.

Nomenclature and history

Prior to Kepler observation, Kepler-47 had the 2MASS catalogue number 2MASS J19411149+4655136. In the Kepler Input Catalog it has the designation of KIC 10020423, and when it was found to have transiting planet candidates it was given the Kepler object of interest number of KOI-3154.

Planetary candidates were detected around the pair of stars by NASA's Kepler Mission, a mission tasked with discovering planets in transit around their stars. The discoverers referred the pair of stars as Kepler-47, which is the normal procedure for naming stars with exoplanets discovered by the spacecraft. Hence, this is the name used by the public to refer to the pair of stars and its planets. Candidate planets that are associated with stars studied by the Kepler Mission are known as Kepler objects of interest (KOI) and are assigned the designations ".01", ".02", ".03"  etc. after the star's name, in the order of discovery. If planet candidates are detected simultaneously, then the ordering follows the order of orbital periods from shortest to longest. Following these rules, two candidate planets were detected, with orbital periods of 49.51 and 303.158 days. Upon confirmation, the planets of Kepler-47 are designated by letters, with the first planet being designated b and so on. The ordering of designations are identical to the latter designations for candidate planets.

Stellar characteristics

Kepler-47 is a binary star system located about  away from Earth. The binary system is composed of a G-type main sequence star (Kepler-47A) and a red dwarf star (Kepler-47B). The stars orbit each other around their barycenter, or center of mass between them, completing one full orbit every 7.45 days. The stars orbit their barycenter from a distance of about 0.084 AU. The stars have 104% and 35% of the Sun's mass, and 96% and 35% of the Sun's radius, respectively. They have surface temperatures of 5636 K and 3357 K. Based on the stellar characteristics and orbital dynamics, an estimated age of 4–5 billion years for the system is possible. In comparison, the Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, and has a temperature of 5772 K.

The primary star is somewhat metal-poor, with a metallicity ([Fe/H]) of about −0.25, or about 56% of the amount of iron and other heavier metals found in the Sun. Both of the stars' luminosities are typical for their kind, with a luminosities of around 84% and 1% of that of the solar luminosity, respectively.

The apparent magnitude of the star system, or how bright it appears from Earth's perspective, is about 15.4. It is too dim to be seen with the naked eye, which can typically detect objects with a magnitude less than 6.5.

Planetary system

Prior to the discovery of the Kepler-47 planetary system by Jerome Orosz, his colleagues, as well as astronomers from Tel-Aviv University in 2012, most scientists thought that binary stars with multiple planets could not exist. It was believed that gravitational perturbations caused by the orbiting parent stars would cause any circumbinary planets to collide with each other or be ejected out of orbit, either into one of the parent stars or away from the system. However, this discovery demonstrates that multiple planets can form around binary stars, even in their habitable zones; and while the planets in the Kepler-47 system are unlikely to harbor life, other planets orbiting around binary star systems may be habitable and could support life. Because most stars are binary, the discovery that multi-planet systems can form in such a system has impacted previous theories of planetary formation, and could provide more opportunities for finding potentially habitable exoplanets.

The binary system is known to host three planets, all orbiting close to each other and larger than Earth, with no solid surface. All three of the planets in the Kepler-47 system have a very low density, less than that of Saturn. The densities of the planets are estimated to be around  to . The low densities of the planets are unusual for their relatively mild temperatures; planets with such low densities are typically hot jupiters that orbit close to their host stars, being known as so-called puffy planets. Temperate low-density planets like these are thought to be uncommon.

Kepler-47b is a Neptune class planet and the innermost planet of the Kepler-47 system. It resides close to its parent stars, at a distance of 0.2956 AU. It completes one full orbit around its parent stars in less than 50 days. The equilibrium temperature of Kepler-47b is 442 K, therefore being inhospitable to life. Due to the high equilibrium temperature of Kepler-47b, methane gas in its atmosphere would be broken into other compounds, leading to a thick haze that would cover the planet's atmosphere. It is the smallest planet of the Kepler-47 system, being 3.1 times the size of Earth.

The second planet discovered, Kepler-47c, is a Neptune class planet and the outermost planet, orbiting its parent stars from a distance of 0.989 AU, nearly the distance from Earth to the Sun. It completes one full orbit around its parent stars in about 300 days. Kepler-47c is situated within the habitable zone, with an equilibrium temperature of 241 K. The radius of Kepler-47c is 4.7 times that of Earth, comparable in size to Neptune. Although it is assumed Kepler-47c is not capable of harboring life, it could possibly have a dense atmosphere of water vapor.

The most recently discovered planet in the system, Kepler-47d, was announced as being discovered by astronomer Jerome Orosz and his colleagues at San Diego State University in November 2013. From transit data of the Kepler-47 system from the Kepler space telescope, Orosz's team had noticed one orphan transit signal that lasted for 4.15 hours, and was not attributed to the two previously known planets. Due to the weak transit signals of Kepler-47d, it was not detected earlier in 2012. Only one noticeable transit of Kepler-47d has been detected, thus an additional transit of the planet was needed to confirm its existence. From dynamical simulations, the orbit of Kepler-47d was shown to precess over time, resulting in a four-year period without transits from Kepler-47d. Later studies of the Kepler-47 system led to the confirmation of Kepler-47d, which was announced in April 2019. The discovery of Kepler-47d was unexpected for Orosz's team, as they had expected to find additional planets with more distant orbits. Kepler-47d is the largest planet of the Kepler-47 system, with a radius at least 7 times the radius of Earth (almost the size of saturn, though its mass is still little more than that of Neptune). It orbits between the planets Kepler-47b and c at a distance of about 0.7 AU, completing an orbit every 187.35 days. Its equilibrium temperature is around 283 K.

See also

 Kepler mission
 NN Serpentis, an eclipsing binary system hosting two exoplanets
 Lists of exoplanets
 List of extrasolar planet firsts, including Kepler-47 with the most circumbinary planets

References

Cygnus (constellation)
Planetary transit variables
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Eclipsing binaries
Articles containing video clips
Circumbinary planets
G-type main-sequence stars

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DESCRIPTION: The Melodious Laughingthrush or Chinese Hwamei is a passerine bird that is mainly brown. It has a white circle around the eye that extends as a line behind it. The bill is yellowish brown, and the legs are pink. Sexes are similar. The bird reaches approximately 9 inches (23 cm) long.
VOICE: http://soundshawaiian.com/mp3/Hwamei.mp3 . The WhatBird website (see reference below) has good song recordings, with one from the Northern Mockingbird for comparison. See videos below also. Chinese hwameis can also imitate the song of other birds.
NAME: The Chinese name 'Hwamei' refers to the eye circle feature. The English name 'Laughing' stems from the fact that this is a genus of vocal birds. The name 'Thrush' is from Anglo-saxon 'Thryce', which means 'thrush'. The Latin genus name 'Garrulax' means 'babbling', and the species name 'canorus' means 'melodious'.
DIET: This species forages on the ground in forests for seeds, fruit, arthropods and insects.
NESTING: In its native range the bird builds a nest in bamboo groves not far from the ground. About four blueish eggs are laid. Both parents feed the chicks.
DISTRIBUTION: The native range of the Chinese Hwamei is China and Southeast Asia. It was likely introduced to Hawaii in the late 1800s by Chinese sugar plantation workers. Then during the Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire, it is believed that residents released a number of birds to save them from the fire. Since then the species has adapted well and is now common on the main Hawaiian islands.
CONSERVATION: The Chinese Hwamei has a wide range and in spite of being under pressure for the cage bird trade, it is still considered as of 'least concern'.
NOTES: The melodious laughingthrush is much easier to hear than to see because its plumage blends well with its habitat. It apparently likes bananas though, which can help locate or attract those birds.
The video below is rather an audio of a melodius laughingthrush singing somewhere in the trees of a trail on Oahu. In spite of carefully trying to locate the bird I was unable to find it, yet it was near. If you can see it through the foliage please let me know!


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The North Queensland Toyota Cowboys can today announce the re-signing of 2015 Premiership winger Kyle Feldt to the club for a further three seasons.
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Townsville junior Feldt, 25, has signed a contract extension that will see him remain at the Cowboys until the end of the 2020 National Rugby League season.
"I'm thrilled to be able to remain at the club that handed me my NRL debut," said Feldt, who has played 56 games for the club over five seasons.
"I've had so many great memories here already and played alongside some amazing players, so to be able to continue that journey in the city I grew up is a real blessing."
"I look forward to performing well for the rest of the 2017 season and helping the club to further success."
Cowboys General Manager – Football Peter Parr said Feldt has been a fine example of the club's development pathways at work.
"Kyle has come up through the grades, through our Under-20s system – where he played in a grand final – on to Queensland Cup with the Northern Pride and the Townsville Blackhawks, and now he's an integral part of our NRL team," Parr said.
"The club places tremendous stock in nurturing and retaining talent, and with Kyle, you couldn't get a better example of this."
At 191cm tall and 105kg, Feldt is a powerful ball runner and classy finisher, the one-time Junior Kangaroo making his NRL debut in Round 21, 2013 versus South Sydney.
He has gone on to score 34 tries in 56 games, including that famous four-pointer in the 2015 grand final.
Aside from Junior Kangaroos honours in 2011, Feldt was also in the NYC Team of the Year. In 2015, Feldt was selected in the Queensland Residents team.
He was also part of the Queensland Cup-winning Northern Pride team in 2014 and was last year invited into Queensland's State of Origin camp for game 1 of the series.
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