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Holtanna, l'aventure antarctique
Sam Beaugey (2010)
Holtanna, l'aventure antarctique is a documentary about expedition that takes place in Holstinnd and Kinntanna Peak. It was directed by Sam Beaugey in 2010 and produced by Puzzle Media. It features Sam Beaugey, Manu Pellissier, Seb Collomb-Gros, Geraldine Fasnacht, Christian De Marliave, Yan Giezendanner and others.
Sam Beaugey, Frank Dalmat
Holstinnd
Kinntanna Peak
Holtanna
The conquest of Everest 1953 is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Everest. It was directed by Andrew Aitken in 1993 and produced by LaMancha Productions.
Docudrama / Recreation
Recreation of the first ascent of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865. Four of the seven men led by the Englishman Edward Whymper lost their lives in the attempt, and the story of Zermatt and the tragedy on the Matterhorn was soon on everyone's lips. The rope connecting Edward Whymper and local guides Peter Taugwalder and his son to the rest of the unfortunate rope group, broke during the descent.
France, Germany, Switzerland / 60 min
France, Germany, Switzerland
During the summer concert in Holmenkollen in 1992, a touch was made with a climbing couple who 'danced' up the pitfire Trollveggen in six minutes. In reality, there was an airy blood clot for five days under constant TV surveillance for four of Norway's premier climbers. By Stein P. Aasheim, Robert Rolen, Hallvard Blekastad and Stein-Roger Bull.
Norway / 47 min
Octobre Blanc
Christophe Raylat (2017)
Accompanied by his friend Cédric Gras, Sylvain Tesson puts on his crampons for an expedition through the highlands of Tajikistan. Leaving the capital Dushanbe, the small team advance for three days on chaotic tracks before reaching the first massifs of the Pamir Tajik, on the border with China, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan. Memories of the Soviet past of these Far Eastern borders, the peaks which rise up to 7000 meters high are called "Lenin", "Marx", "Engels" or "Marshal Zhukov". The line of sight of Sylvain Tesson and his companions is the ascent of the peak 'October', towards a glacier culminating at 5,600 meters above sea level.
Christophe Raylat
Pik Oktobriskyi
From the ocean to the sky
Michael Dillon (1979)
Sir Edmund Hillary and a team of adventurers journey by jetboat and foot up the 1,500 mile length of India's sacred River Ganges.
New Zealand / 50 min
Michael Dillon
Nar Parbat
Martin Welch (1994)
In 1994, during the worst summer weather for 10 years, British mountain guides Martin Moran and Simon Jenkins performed the incredible feat of climbing all the Alpine 4000-meter peaks continuously. Shunning any form of motorized transport, these Alpine purists powered their way by bike and on foot across the roof of Europe. The documentary follows the climbers and their support teams through the triumphs and traumas of this record-breaking 52-day epic. Filmed by climbing cameraman Martin Welch.
Martin Welch
Una vida entregada a la montaña
Michael Robinson (2010)
Una vida entregada a la montaña is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Annapurna and Everest. It was directed by Michael Robinson in 2010 and produced by Canal+. It is a part of the series Informe Robinson. It features Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Denis Urubko, Carlos Pauner, Horia Colibasanu, Jorge Egocheaga, Jorge Nagore and others.
Spain / 23 min
Michael Robinson
Bergtatt av Everest
Lars Nilssen (2007)
Bergtatt av Everest is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Everest and Mont Blanc Massif. It was directed by Lars Nilssen in 2007 and produced by Truels Zeiner-Henriksen. It features Tormod Granheim, Tomas Olsson, Tsering Pande Bhote and Fredrik Schenholm.
Lars Nilssen
Mont Blanc Massif
The 1961 RAF Karakoram Expedition was, like the 1955 RAF Expedition to Lahul, an exploratory expedition to an unknown region. The RAF team in 1961 did not do everything they intended. They did not climb K6, but at least contributed to human knowledge on this peak. With two 22,000 feet and two 20,000 feet summits attained, a glacier system opened up, and a good map, they have no reason to be disappointed with their results. The expedition consisted of twelve British climbers of whom eleven came from the RAF, and one guest climber.
Upside down Wales
Alun Hughes (2008)
George Smith, upside-down guru and arch obsessive, leads us on a remarkable journey into his wonderful world -- a journey with attitude and character. Like salad after chips.
Alun Hughes, George Smith, Ray Saunders
Desert rats
Desert rats is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in The Wall and Canyonlands National Park. It was directed by Peter Mortimer in 2009 and produced by Sender Films. It is a part of the series First ascent - The series (7/7). It features Rob Pizem, Alex Honnold, Nick Martino, Steph Davis, Steve 'Crusher' Bartlett, Chip Wilson and others.


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Another Bogus Triumph of Justice
On its front page yesterday Haaretz proclaimed an apparent triumph for the cause of justice: Part of the barrier that separates the villages of Jayus and Falamah from their lands would be moved closer to the Green Line – at the cost of 50 million shekalim to the Israeli taxpayer. The original route had been planned, of course, to accommodate the expansion of the settlement Tzofim, which itself is built on Palestinian land.
It seems that IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi,doesn't want to spend time, energy, and money, planning a route that may later be moved by the High Court of Justice. In this case, the new route follows the suggestions of the "dovish" Council for Peace and Security headed by Col. Shaul Arieli (ret.), who has co-authored a book on the barrier with the human rights lawyer, Michael Sfard.
A triumph for the good guys, you say? Think again.
The new barrier will be closer to the Green Line, not on the Green Line. What difference is it to the villagers of Jayus and Falamah if the barrier is moved closer to the Green Line, when they still have to go through gates and get permits to farm their lands. Maybe some villagers will benefit. But if you have lands on both sides of the barrier, and if you have to farm both lands at the same time, you still lose out – and plenty.
The decision is emblematic of the way things work here in Israel. A decision is made that involves an outrageous injustice and that causes untold suffering in the name of Israeli security. Then comes along the High Court, usually because of a suit brought when the human rights organizations are involved, and occasionally a policy is changed, with great fanfare, to something more moderate. The Alan Dershowitzes and Michael Walzers of the world are happy. But the less egregious decision still involves an outrageous injustice and causes untold suffering. Israelis pat themselves on the back and retain their self-image of being civilized – since they had the power to do worse.
Any wall, even one on the Green Line, is a lousy idea that endangers both people's security.
But I won't argue that in this post. Rather I wish to claim that the question is not, "What can the State of Israel legitimately do to Palestinians for the sake of its security?
The question is rather, "What can the State of Israel legitiimately do to any civilians, including Jews, in the name of its security?
The answer to the second question determines the answer to the first. If it is wrong to do it to a Jew (say, one that is not a citizen of Israel), it is a wrong to do it to a Palestinian.
Please read the article below or here
In one West Bank village, new barrier route won't help
By Avi Issacharoff
Farmers in the village of Jayus, in the northern West Bank, were not overjoyed over the defense establishment's reported decision to move the separation fence, thus giving the villages there easier access to their lands.
"Israel's decision is a disaster for us," said Jayus farmer Sharif Khaled.
Until now, Khaled would pass through the fence every morning and evening, via a special gate the Israel Defense Forces opens three times a day, in order to access his lands and greenhouses west of the fence.
He and his wife returned home Monday at 4:30 P.M., as they have been doing since October 2003. He showed the soldiers at the gate his special IDF-issued work pass, and entered Jayus.
However, even after the fence is moved, Khaled will have to go through a similar gate in the new fence, he said.
Contrary to Israel's announcement that 2,600 of the village's 3,000 dunams will be east of the new fence, another 6,000 dunams of Jayus' land will remain west of it, Khaled said.
"We had hoped the new fence would be on the Green Line. It will leave 6,000 dunams west of the fence and only 2,000 on our side. It will still be difficult to reach the land," he said.
Khaled has 175 dunams of land west of the fence, where he grows vegetables and fruit. He must renew his permit every few months in order to access his lands. However, he fears that by the end of this month, he may not be able to do so.
Posted by Jerry Haber at 11:55 PM
One beneficiary of this new route is Lev Leviev. The new route will still allow him to build his 1,500 unit expansion to the Leviev-built settlement Zufim, to be called "Nofei Zufim." Note the blue line on the map at the end of this article: http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1700.shtml
The article also points out:
he change in the route of the Apartheid Wall will return 2,609 dunums (out of almost 9,000 dunums) of agricultural land to its Palestinian owners, while 5,585 dunums will be confiscated once and for all and will be used for settlement expansion plans. A further 277 dunums of land will be razed for the new path of the Wall. Farmers will be completely cut off from their lands that are on the other side of the Wall as the gates in this section of the Wall will be completely closed.
The settlement of Zufim is slated to swallow much of the annexed land together with an industrial zone the Occupation will build on the agricultural lands of Jayyous. The construction of infrastructure for the new part of the settlement called "North Zufim" has already begun. Construction of an electricity network has started and the creation of housing units is imminent.
Once again the Occupation promotes a court decision as a concession that presumably is to "legalize" the Wall. Yet, it simply seals the farmers' fate of dispossession. The Wall is not less illegal and no less a tool of colonization and settlement expansion; furthermore, Palestinians do not fight to re-route the Wall but to tear it down.
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Kohashi-Overwater-Verploegen trio is a collective jazzgroup that creates a unique sound, all three standing on an equal footing. Kohashi from Japan, Overwater and Verploegen from the Netherlands, seek and discover their own soundsharing their passion for music, beyond ethnicity and nationality.
Japanese pianist Atzko Kohashi had something special in mind when she invited Dutch bassplayer Tony Overwater to join her for a musical encounter. She longed to create a unique unit of bass-harmony and melody, with each voice being equal and contributing selflessly to the music. Her vision is connected to Japanese Zen aesthetics that generates simplicity and spontaneity. With trumpetplayer Angelo Verploegen they found their match-a soloist who can blendin, shine and support the music at the same time. On a cold winterday they met in an empty church in Amsterdam and started playing. For hours. Instantly the delicate sound of these three instruments blended into gentle and generous music that warmed their hearts. A few months later they recorded their debut album Virgoin the only way possible for such collaboration: a beautiful radiostudio from the 1930's, with a great sounding Steinway, only a few microphones but of the utmost quality, and recorded directly to a two track analogue taperecorder before a live audience. — The three instruments blended in to one sound, telling a story together.


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Flawed Air Permit Issued for Proposed Refinery Near Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Jeffon Seely
Medora, ND – The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) today issued a permit
allowing construction of Meridian Energy Group's proposed Davis Refinery to move forward,
risking harm to nearby Theodore Roosevelt National Park. More than 11,000 people wrote to the
agency about the refinery, the majority raising concerns against the proposal. National Parks
Conservation Association, the Environmental Law & Policy Center and the Dakota Resource
Council called the health department's action a failure to protect Theodore Roosevelt National
Park.
"We are deeply concerned about the impact of air pollution from the proposed refinery on
Theodore Roosevelt National Park," said Stephanie Kodish, Clean Air Program Director for the
National Parks Conservation Association. "The park's air quality is already hurt by pollution,
limiting views, damaging ecosystems and making the air less healthy for visitors to breathe. The
question is not whether this new source of pollution will do additional harm to the park – but
rather how much."
The Permit to Construct classifies the industrial refinery as a "minor" rather than "major" source
of pollution, allowing it to bypass requirements to evaluate and use the best emission control
"The Clean Air Act has strict requirements for large new sources of pollution," said Scott Strand,
Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center. "The law requires the states to make
sure that facilities with significant potential to pollute our air will have the best available
pollution control technology in place. Unfortunately, the state appears to be willing to let
Meridian get by with its bland assurances that its emission controls will be good enough to meet
the law's requirements."
The permit comes amid controversy over Meridian's refusal to undergo siting review with the
state's Public Service Commission, which is required for refineries over 50,000 barrels per day.
The NDDoH permit sanctions up to 55,000 barrels per day at the refinery.
The failure of the NDDoH to hold Meridian accountable for the company's stated goal of 55,000
bpd means the North Dakota Public Service Commission's responsibilities become even more
critical. Local members of Badlands Area Resource Council (BARC), an affiliate of DRC, are now
asking the PSC to protect their land, water, air, and quality of life by requiring Meridian to apply
for a siting permit. Most BARC members live close to the proposed site. Linda Weiss, Chair of
BARC said, "The placement of this refinery next to a Class I Airshed not only destroys the air
quality today but will continue to destroy air quality for years to come. The cumulative air
pollution from the many facilities in the industrial area will jeopardize health and safety of
people who live here."
The groups are carefully evaluating the permit to determine their next steps.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park stands as a testament to America's conservation legacy and
the very president who helped shape it. The park welcomed more than 700,000 visitors in 2017
who spent over $47 million in nearby communities, supporting over 550 local jobs.
Kati Schmidt, Director of Communications, National Parks Conservation Association
P: 415-847-1768 | kschmidt@npca.org
Judith Nemes, Media Relations Specialist, Environmental Law & Policy Center
P: 312-795-3706 | jnemes@elpc.org
Liz Anderson, Field Organizer, Dakota Resource Council
P: 701-516-2456 | Liz@drcinfo.com


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These are the 12 Brave Men Who Walked on the Moon
After Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the surface of the moon, eleven more astronauts followed him over the years, taking the total tally of men to have walked on the moon to 12. We will take a brief look at the careers of these extraordinary men who made their country proud because of their achievements.
Rahul Pandita
There are only 12 people who have walked on the surface of the moon. These people, all men, and all from the United States of America, were part of NASA's Apollo program (1961 - 1975). Between the period of 1969 and 1972, NASA sent manned spacecrafts to the moon, thereby realizing the dream of President John F. Kennedy, who wanted 'landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth'.
Given below is a brief description about the 12 men who will be remembered forever for being a part of one of the most ambitious endeavors of mankind.
(Note:
• 'Moonwalk' refers to the date on which these astronauts stepped out of their spaceships and walked on the moon for the first time.
• 'Time on moon' refers to the entire duration in which the astronauts were on the surface of the moon. It includes time spent inside the spacecraft, and on the surface of the moon.)
Space Flight - Apollo 11
Moonwalk - Jul 21, 1969
Time on Moon - 21h 31m 20s
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong developed an interest in flying during his childhood, and earned his flight certificate at the age of fifteen. He joined the Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering at the age of seventeen. There, his studies were interrupted by the Korean War as he received a call-up to join the US Navy. After the war ended, Armstrong joined National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became NASA. It was in the year 1962 that Armstrong was selected for the astronaut program, and served as the command pilot for his first mission - Gemini VIII. Armstrong's biggest moment came in 1969, when he was chosen for NASA's first manned lunar mission, along with Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins. On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.
After returning from the moon mission, Armstrong became an international icon and was honored by various countries from around the world. He became a professor at the University of Cincinnati and remained there for eight years. He was also involved in public speaking, and served on the board of numerous corporations. He died on August 25, 2012 after complications of a bypass surgery he had undergone two weeks earlier.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." - Edwin Aldrin
Edwin Aldrin was interested in the flying from a very young age, as his father was a Colonel in the US Air Force. Aldrin graduated from the West Point Military Academy in New York, started his career as a jet fighter pilot with the US Air Force, and had the opportunity of serving in the Korean War. In 1963, Aldrin earned a Doctor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aldrin was a part of the final Gemini mission in 1966. He was selected for the Apollo 11 mission, and became the second human to set foot on moon on 21st July, 1969.
After his retirement, he battled depression and alcoholism - issues he has mentioned eloquently in his autobiographies. He was in the news in 2002 when he punched conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel, who pestered him to swear on the Bible that the moon landings were not faked. Currently, Aldrin works to promote space exploration in America.
Moonwalk - Nov 19, 1969
"I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself." - Pete Conrad
During his childhood, Pete suffered from dyslexia, due to which he faced issues in his studies. He failed in the 11th grade, resulting into his expulsion from school. After his expulsion, Pete joined Darrow School, where he performed so well that he won a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship.
Before joining NASA, Pete was a fighter pilot with the Navy and served as a flight instructor. He was invited to be a part of NASA, but he was so frustrated with what he considered 'invasive tests', that he decided to walk out of the program. It was on the persuasion of Alan Shepard, who was also a naval aviator, that Pete decided to apply again for NASA. He was one of the best fighter pilots of his group, and was made the pilot of Gemini 5. He was also associated with Gemini 8 and Gemini 11 as a commander. Later, he was chosen as the commander of Apollo 12, and landed on moon on Nov 19, 1969.
After his retirement, he worked for American Television and Communications Company, and McDonnell Douglas. Conrad died of internal bleeding caused due a motorcycle accident on July 8, 1999.
"We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult." - Alan Bean
Alan Bean was born in Texas and has a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas. Alan Bean attended the US Naval Test Pilot School, where he trained under Pete Conrad, who later became his commander on Apollo 12 - the second manned lunar mission on the moon. Bean became a part of NASA in 1963, when he was selected for the Astronaut Group 3. After Clifton Williams died in an air crash, Bean took his place, and became a part of the Apollo 9 program.
Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and became the fourth person to set foot on moon as he followed his commander Pete Conrad. After Apollo 12, he was a part of the Skylab Mission III, and has a record flight of 24,400,000 miles. He later became the backup spacecraft commander of a joint US-Russian space mission.
Alan is an avid painter and resigned from NASA in 1981 to take up painting full-time. One of the highlights of his art is that he sprinkles moon dust on the paintings that he makes.
Moonwalk - Feb 5 , 1971
Time on Moon - 1d 9h 30m 29s
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." - Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire, and it is where he took his first flying lessons from a local. After graduating from the Admiral Farragut Academy, Shepard started his career from the United States Naval Academy. After an illustrious career as a naval aviator, Shepard, along with 110 other volunteers, was invited for America's first manned space mission. He was chosen to be the pilot of Freedom 7 mission, and became the first American, and second person (after Russia's Yuri Gagarin) to travel into space. For achieving this iconic feat, he was honored with NASA Distinguished Medal, which he received from John Kennedy. Shepard was diagnosed with Ménière's disease, which interrupted his further space travel. However, he underwent corrective surgery and was chosen as the commander of Apollo 14 - NASA's third manned lunar mission. He landed on the moon on the 5th of February, 1971.
After his retirement, Shepard served as the President of numerous corporations. Shepard died in California on July 21, 1988.
Moonwalk - Feb 5, 1971
"We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians." - Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Mitchell was born in Hereford, Texas. In his childhood, he was involved with the Boy Scouts of America. After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in industrial management, Edgar joined the navy to train as a test pilot. Edgar has a Doctorate of Science in aeronautics from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was selected by NASA in 1966, and was later made the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14. He followed his commander Alan Shepard onto the moon, becoming the sixth person to do so. Edgar retired from NASA in 1972, and has been actively working to promote research into the areas of psychic events.
Edgar has repeatedly expressed his belief that UFOs belong to other planets. He believes that the US government is in possession of some 'recovered alien bodies', and is covering up this issue so that the truth doesn't come out.
Time on Moon - 2d 18h 53s
"When I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end." - David Scott
David Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1932. He was a part of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong in 1966. He was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 15, which was NASA's fourth manned lunar mission. Apollo 15 touched down on the surface of the moon on July 31, 1971. The earlier lunar missions had landed on a flat surface, but Apollo 15 landed in a mountainous region. David Scott was the first astronaut to drive on the surface of moon, using a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).
After returning to earth, Scott was embroiled in a controversy with NASA and the government, as it was revealed that he and his crew had taken 398 postage stamps along with them on the Apollo 15 mission and sold them to a German stamp dealer on return. As a result of this incident, Scott was denied the opportunity of becoming a part of any other flying mission.
"As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine." - James Irwin
James Irwin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1930. He did his graduation in naval science from the United States Naval Academy. He went on to complete his Masters in Aeronautical and Instrumentation Engineering from the University of Michigan. Irwin was a distinguished pilot and received several awards for his work. Irwin joined NASA in 1966 as an astronaut support crew. He was selected as the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 15, and became the eighth person to walk on the moon.
Irwin was also involved in the postal stamps incident and 'grounded' by NASA. After leaving NASA in 1972, Irwin spent the rest of his life promoting the message of Jesus Christ. He died on August 8, 1991 after suffering a heart attack.
Moonwalk - Apr 21, 1972
Time on Moon - 2d 23h 02m 13s
"NASA is not about the 'Adventure of Human Space Exploration'...We won't be doing it just to get out there in space - we'll be doing it because the things we learn out there will be making life better for a lot of people who won't be able to go." - John Young
John Young is one of the most prolific NASA astronauts, having spent four decades of his life with the organization. Upon his retirement in 2004, John had made six space flights, including two to the moon. Young completed his graduation from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the United States Navy, and served in the Korean War. Young became a part of NASA in 1962 as a part of Astronaut Group 2. He was a part of the Gemini spaceflight, but was in the news for wrong reasons, as it was reported that he had taken a sandwich along with him to the flight. Although he was reprimanded for this act, he was given further opportunities, and traveled into space on the Apollo 10, along with Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Young was made the commander of Apollo 16, which landed on moon on April 16, 1972. He was the ninth person to set foot on the surface of the moon. He was also a part of the final manned lunar mission Apollo 17, and served in the capacity of backup commander. John continued to be a part of the spaceflights and was chosen as the commander of first space shuttle flight in 1981.
Young retired from NASA after serving for around 42 years. In 2012, he published an autobiography, Forever Young. He lives in Texas with his wife, Susy.
"Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot." - Charles Duke
Charles Duke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1935. He attended the United States Naval Academy, from where he received a Degree in Naval Science. He did his Masters from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing his education, Duke trained at the Spence Air Base and Webb Air Force Base. He joined NASA in 1966, and was a support crew for Apollo 10. He served as a capsule communicator on Apollo 11, which was the first manned lunar mission. After Apollo 11 touched down on the surface of the moon, a nervous Duke said the above words,
Duke was selected as the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, and became the tenth person to walk on the moon. At 36 years of age, Charles was the youngest person to do a moonwalk. After his retirement, Charles has been actively involved in several business ventures. He is the current chairman of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in Titusville, Florida.
Moonwalk - Dec 11, 1972
"Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed." - Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan joined NASA in 1963 and was a part of the Gemini and Apollo missions. He has a Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Before joining NASA, he was a naval aviator, having trained at the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. In NASA, he was assigned the role of backup crew on Gemini 9, but after the prime crew died in a plane crash, the responsibility was given to Cernan and Thomas Stafford. Cernan was the commander of the final manned lunar mission - Apollo 17, and became the eleventh person to walk on the moon. He is more famous for being the last man on the moon as his crew mate Harrison Schmitt climbed onto the spacecraft before him.
After retiring from NASA and the navy, Cernan ventured into private business, and co-authored a book, The Last Man on the Moon. Cernan is an avid supporter of space exploration and has testified before the Congress about the future of American space program.
"It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like." - Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Jack Schmitt could have been described as the only civilian to walk on the moon, had Neil Armstrong not left the armed forces before becoming the first man to walk on the moon. Jack Schmitt was a geologist and trained with the US Geological Survey. Schmitt was originally scheduled to be a part of the Apollo 18 lunar mission, but when the program was canceled, the scientific community lobbied for him to be included in the Apollo 17 lunar mission. He was chosen as a lunar module pilot for Apollo 17, and landed on the moon on December 11.
After his retirement, he ran for the senate as a Republican and was elected as a senator from New Mexico. Currently, he lives in Silver City, New Mexico.
These were the 12 men who have walked on the moon. Each of these 12 men had the courage to take up the opportunity that was presented to them. They didn't want to go to the moon to achieve fame and stardom. They were just doing their job as astronauts of NASA. But the hysteria that followed when they successfully returned to earth was something that catapulted them into celebrities around the world.
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A new banking Trojan – MnuBot – has been detected by IBM X-Force researchers which uses an unusual method of communication. Instead of using a command and control server like most other malware families, MnuBot uses Microsoft SQL Server to receive its initial configuration and for communication.
The MnuBot banking Trojan is being used in targeted attacks in Brazil and its primary function is to make fraudulent bank transfers via users' open banking sessions. MnuBot uses full-screen social engineering overlay forms which hide the attacker's activities, allowing them to perform fraudulent bank transfers unbeknown to the user. As information is entered into the overlay form, it is captured and used in the underlying open banking session.
The exact method of distribution of the malware is not known, although X-Force researchers explain that most banking Trojans used in Brazil are distributed via email.
X-Force researchers explained that the malware has the typical features of a remote access Trojan (RAT) and gives the attacker full control of an infected device.
By using the Microsoft SQL Database server for communication and to receive commands, the communications are harder to detect that standards C2C communications.
This is a two-stage malware variant that uses two base components for attacks. Initially, MnuBot searches for a file called Desk.txt in the AppData Roaming folder. MnuBot uses this file to determine which desktop is running. If the file is not present, it is created by the malware and the user is switched to the newly created desktop. That desktop runs side by side with the legitimate desktop.
The malware then checks for window names similar to the bank names in its configuration file. When one is identified, it queries the server for the second stage of the attack based on the bank that is being used. An executable – Neon.exe – is then downloaded to the C:\Users\Public\ folder. It is this executable that performs the main attack, giving the attacker full control of the infected device.
The malware can take screenshots of the browser and desktop, logs keystrokes, simulates user clicks and keystrokes, creates bank overlay forms, and can restart an infected machine. By using overlay forms the attackers can capture data and enter the information into the open banking session. If further information is needed in order to perform a transfer, the malware can create another overlay form to request the necessary information.


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Riding career
Varian moved to the United States as a teenager and found employment as a work rider at Hollywood Park. On his return to the United Kingdom rode as a National Hunt jockey, mainly for the Josh Gifford stable, riding seven winners. He went back to the United States in 2001 for the Maryland-based Jack Fisher commenting that his riding career "needed a push forward". Less than two months after relocating to the United States, Varian sustained a serious wrist injury in a fall, ending his career as a jockey.

Training career
Varian returned to the United Kingdom and became assistant trainer to Michael Jarvis at the Kremlin House stable in Newmarket. He remained at the stable for ten years, handling horses such as Rakti and Eswarah before taking over the yard when Jarvis retired due to poor health in February 2011. Commenting on his succession, Varian described himself as "very grateful... very privileged and... very lucky".

In his first season as a trainer Varian sent out the filly Nahrain to win the Prix de l'Opéra. Nahrain won the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes in 2012, and other major winners from Varian's stable that year included Beyond Desire (Prix de Saint-Georges), Sri Putra (York Stakes) and Shimmering Surf (Pinnacle Stakes). In 2013, Varian's winners included Farraaj (Winter Derby), Ambivalent (Pretty Polly Stakes, Aljamaaher (Summer Mile Stakes), Princess Noor (Princess Margaret Stakes) and Kingston Hill), a grey two-year-old colt who won the Autumn Stakes and the Racing Post Trophy.

In 2014 Kingston Hill finished second in the Epsom Derby before giving Varian his first British Classic Race win in the St Leger. Other winners for Varian stable in 2014 included the filly Cursory Glance (Albany Stakes, Moyglare Stud Stakes), Ambivalent (Middleton Stakes), Vert de Grece (Critérium International) and Belardo, who was rated the best two-year-old colt trained in Europe after his win in the Dewhurst Stakes.

Varian moved from Kremlin House to Carlburg Stables in January 2017 after purchasing it from previous owner Clive Brittain.

Major wins
 Great Britain British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes – (1) – Eshaada (2021)
 Coronation Cup – (2) – Postponed (2016), Defoe (2019)
 Dewhurst Stakes – (1) – Belardo (2014)
 International Stakes – (1) – Postponed (2016)
 Lockinge Stakes – (1) – Belardo (2016)
 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes - (1) -  Bayside Boy (2022)
 Racing Post Trophy – (1) – Kingston Hill (2013)
 St. Leger Stakes – (2) – Kingston Hill (2014), Eldar Eldarov (2022)

 Canada E. P. Taylor Stakes – (1) – Sheikha Reika (2018)

 France' Critérium International – (1) – Vert De Grece (2014) Prix d'Ispahan – (1) – Zabeel Prince (2019) Prix de l'Opéra – (1) – Nahrain (2011)
 Prix Jean Romanet – (1) – Ajman Princess (2017)
 Prix Vermeille  – (1) – Teona (2021)

 Ireland
 Moyglare Stud Stakes – (1) – Cursory Glance (2014)
 Pretty Polly Stakes – (2) – Ambivalent (2012), Nezwaah (2017)

 UAE
 Dubai Sheema Classic – (1) – Postponed (2016)

 USA
 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes – (1) – Nahrain (2012)

Family
Roger Varian is the son of Nigel and Sue Varian. His older brother Christopher was murdered in 2010 at Thame by a migrant worker with a history of mental illness. Varian is married to Hanako Sonobe and has three children: Momoka, Eiji and Reika.

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British racehorse trainers
Living people
1979 births
People educated at John Hampden Grammar School

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Charles and Monique Morazé Award Lecture, December 3, 2013. More information on the Charles and Monique Morazé Lecture.
Social history of modern science, particularly the way it acquired social legitimacy clearly depicts the science and society relationships emerging from the time of Galileo. The social institution of science has evolved as one of the most powerful, highly influential and sought out institutions. Knowledge as public good; peer review of science; prominence attached to open publications; and premium placed on professional recognition and scientific autonomy remained the hall mark of science for the last three centuries. Based on this ethos of science, the social institution of science evolved a unique social contract between science and society in the last six decades. As we enter the second decade of 21st century, the social institution of science is undergoing a major change. Three societal forces are responsible for the change: a) globalization; b) industrial and post-industrial society; and c) climate change. What is at stake? Is there a significant change? Is it transforming the very social institution of science? And what implications this has for our contemporary and future society? These are some of the important issues, which will be addressed in this essay, which has inspired the lecture given during the awarding of the Charles and Monique Morazé Prize 2013 to the international journal Science, Technology and Society published by Sage India.
Venni V. KRISHNA is Professor in Science Policy at the Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU), New Delhi, and Editor-in-Chief of Science, Technology and Society – An International Journal published by Sage Publications. He has a PhD in Sociology of Science from the University of Wollongong, Australia. With over 28 years of research and teaching experience he has published over 30 research papers and five books.
He was a consultant to UNESCO, Paris, for the World Science Report 1998; UNESCO Science Report 2005 ; World Social Science Report – Knowledge Divides, 2010; and to the ILO in 2001. He was a Council Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), USA. Since 2005-06, he is the correspondent for European Union network programs (ERAWATCH and Trend Chart Analysis) on innovation policies and research policies for India. Dr. Krishna held several visiting positions at FMSH in 1994-96; National University of Singapore in 2008-10; University of New South Wales in 2009-12; and University of Western Sydney in 2004-05. Currently he is holding a Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Advanced Study, United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan.


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4 Surprising Lessons from Former Cybercriminals - By Roxanna Ramzipoor
by The Solitary Writer on 9/27/2017 11:06:00 PM in guest posts, hackers
They say that crime doesn't pay, and that's often true – but some former hackers have enjoyed lucrative afterlives as security consultants, once they've finished their jail time. Others have drawn on their experiences to write novels. Many ends up authoring nonfiction for consumers and business owners looking to protect themselves from…well, people like the author.
To some, the ethical merits of hiring former fraudsters to do security work are debatable. Regardless of your moral proclivities, though, it's hard to deny the former criminals' expertise. Here are four surprising lessons that these cyber criminals-turned-good-guys have to teach us.
1. Stealing your identity is easy.
Actually, it's embarrassingly easy. In his book The Art of Invisibility, former hacker Kevin Mitnick says that an average hacker can commit identity theft using a computer or mobile device in just 60 seconds. Most "private" information is accessible through databases maintained by information brokers. Mitnick, who's known as the "world's greatest hacker," says that most fraudsters can use these databases to access social security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and phone numbers. This personal information can then be leveraged in account takeover (ATO) attacks.
And it doesn't stop there. You probably remember when John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chair, fell victim to a hack that claimed his emails, which were then leaked throughout the campaign – but Mitnick says that with the right training, a 14-year-old could have committed that attack. Hackers aren't usually the sophisticated, high-tech characters we see in movies, he explains. Just about anyone is capable of manufacturing a legitimate-looking link that, once clicked, exposes the victim's information.
2. When it comes to online safety, people are the weakest link.
Though hackers may disagree on the best methods for duping a victim, they all agree on one thing: human fallibility. Cybercriminals often attribute their success to their victims' carelessness, regardless of whether those victims are businesses or individuals. In his book Kingpin, hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Poulsen describes how a group of cybercriminals exploited careless businesses and their employees to steal credit card numbers.
As these criminals discovered, internet security systems can be consistently dependable, but the people operating them sometimes can't. The hackers of Kingpin – and Poulsen himself – relied on social engineering to carry out their dastardly deeds. Instead of spending time and resources building programs to infiltrate personal or corporate accounts, the cybercriminals simply tricked people into handing over private information.
3. Online safety is impossible to guarantee.
How do you make sure your data is safe online? Former cybercriminals get this question a lot. The more information people store online, the more they fear that a fraudster might get ahold of it. As reformed hacker Mark Abene explains, it's a catch-22: as technology gets better, fraudsters get better at what they do. So, how do you guarantee your safety online?
Former hacker Kevin Mitnick says that short of completely erasing your online presence, it's impossible to 100% guarantee online safety. And to completely disappear online, you'd have to take three difficult steps: first, scrub your devices of their IP addresses; second, obscure your hardware and software so fraudsters can't figure out what device you're using to get online, and third, create anonymous email accounts that aren't associated with your social media, online payment programs, gas or electric bill, student loans, or anything else.
4. Understanding cybercriminals is the key to beating them.
Robert Schifreen, a former hacker and author of Defeating the Hacker, says "[t]here's no such thing as an unhackable network." But by understanding how cybercriminals operate, he explains, businesses and ordinary users can beat them at their game. The bottom line is that hackers and fraudsters want to maximize gains while minimizing effort. What does that mean for businesses and consumers? You can deter fraudsters by making their lives just a little more difficult.
Former cybercriminals agree that there's no way to guarantee your privacy online, but they also cite one reliable method for keeping would-be fraudsters at bay: multi-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication secures your data by requiring more than one piece of information to confirm your identity, like a PIN and a password, or a passphrase and an answer to a personal question. Cracking this extra layer of protection requires more effort than a typical hacker is willing to invest.
Businesses that require employees to use multi-factor authentication are less likely to suffer data breaches. That's why reformed cyber criminals insist that companies and lay people use it to secure their data. In fact, Kevin Mitnick goes so far as to say that Podesta may have prevented the email hacking scandal just by enabling multi-factor authentication on his mobile device. No one can say for sure whether that's true, but why take the chance?
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THE BACHELOR PILOT BEGINS AS AN AUTHOR OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The adventures of pilot Pete
~ The Adventures of Pilot Pete teach kids the value of passion, dedication and hard work ~
I want to connect and inspire kids to follow their passions and dreams. The book has a powerful message for children: that they can really accomplish whatever they think about it. "
– Author and candidate for ABC's hit show The Bachelor
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, August 2, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ – Peter Weber has loved airplanes ever since his father, a pilot for United Airlines, showed him the inside of a cockpit when Peter was only five years old.
After more than 20 years of passion for the skies and hard work in college, flight school and pilot training, Peter has achieved his dream of becoming a commercial airline pilot.
He shared his passion for aviation as The Bachelor on the hit ABC show, which became known as Pilot Pete, but he also wanted to connect and inspire kids to follow their passions and dreams. .
He did so in The Adventures of Pilot Pete, a colorful and beautifully illustrated 32-page hardcover aimed at ages 3-12. Copies of the first edition are now available for pre-order at: theadventuresofpilotpete.com.
The book follows the story of Peter's journey to becoming a pilot and brings his emotion to life as readers see it:
• That moment that changed her life when her father showed her an airplane cockpit
• Peter studies aviation late at night
• Peter completes flight school and training
• Achieving his lifelong dream: a job in a major airline
• And touching family scenes that come full circle in the story
Peter worked on the book, its beginnings as an author, for almost a year, writing its text and overseeing its illustration and design. In fact, his recent hire by United Airlines – the same airline his father flew for – precipitated a change in the book cover and interior artwork to reflect his pride in flying for the airline.
"I couldn't be prouder of The Adventures of Pilot Pete," said Peter. "It's full of beautiful details and has a powerful message for kids: that they can really accomplish whatever they want."
The book, edited by Blue balloons books, a children's book print from Ballast books, will be available in a large version in October. Pre-orders of signed and personalized copies are now accepted on www.theadventuresofpilotpete.com. A portion of each book sale will support Pilots for Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping hospitalized children.
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Jason Momoa wants to do a 'Twins' remake with Peter Dinklage
By this stage, we're guessing that if you're not completely on the bandwagon with Hollywood's relentless cavalcade of remakes and reboots, you're at least come to begrudgingly accept them. It's not easy to get to the point where you're actually looking forward to reboots of your favourite old-school movies, but once you remind yourself that entertainment's supposed to be fun and updated versions of the greats fit that shoe, you can get on board pretty bloody quickly.
And that brings us to Jason Momoa. The big legend is obviously paying his publicist a heft amount of overtime right now, because the prick seems to be everywhere, but from our perspective, that's not a problem. We like the dude – and we know the ladies like him too.
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Anyway, in a recent interview at Celebrity Fan Fest, the big fella was asked what he thought of remaking Twins, the old Arnie and Danny DeVito classic, with his fellow Game of Thrones alumni, Peter Dinklage. Now, as you're probably aware, Momoa is an excitable dude. In this instance, he didn't go full Tom Cruise on the couch, but he was pretty enthusiastic:
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"F–kin' tell me where to sign! Absolutely. That'd be amazing. I love that movie."
If you don't know what Twins is all about, the entire premise is that The Governator and DeVito are odd-couple twins. Obviously, there's more to it than that, but with the knowledge that the butt of every joke is essentially that point, you can start to make your own mind up about whether or not this is a good idea.
What we like about it is that it's obviously a fun comedy. On top of that, it's not really doing a disservice to any of the classics. Would we watch it? Probably. We're not sure we'd hit it up in the cinema, but we'd definitely give it a spin on Netflix after a couple of beers.
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Final thought: All we really need to do now is get Dinklage on board. Someone send him a raven and have him let us know whether he's down with it or not. From there, Hollywood can get right behind it.
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NEWS: Coventry City FC confirm pre-season friendly against Championship side Norwich City in July
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Coventry City FC can confirm that the club will be playing a pre-season friendly against Championship side Norwich City FC in late July.
The first team will be travelling to Austria in mid-July for a week-long tour, with a fixture against European opposition yet to be announced.
Upon return to England, the Sky Blues will go head-to-head with Sky Bet Championship outfit Norwich City at Carrow Road on Tuesday, July 26th.
Ticket information and pricing for the Norwich City fixture will be announced at a later date.
July 9th: Nuneaton Town FC v Coventry City FC (Liberty Way, 3pm kick-off).
July 11th-16th: Coventry City tour of Austria.
July 26th: Norwich City v Coventry City (Carrow Road, 7.30pm kick-off).


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Q: What is the theoretical setup needed to make a black hole? What is the theoretical setup needed to make a black hole?
Firstly sorry for the broad-ended question. I recently came across this statement from this website.

"In theory, any mass can be compressed sufficiently to form a black hole. The only requirement is that its physical size is less than the Schwarzschild radius. For example, our Sun would become a black hole if its mass was contained within a sphere about 2.5 km across."

I was wondering if it is somehow possible (in real life) to make a black hole (whether that be a micro black hole). Assuming an infinite budget and resources would it be possible to compress matter to its Schwarzschild radius to make it a black hole? What will be the factors I need to consider?
I am imagining some sort of press to compress the matter or maybe some sort of high-energy particle collider.

A: There is no physical way of applying enough pressure to a bowling ball (to take a convenient example) to squeeze it that hard. Any tool or apparatus for compressing a bowling ball that was made out of ordinary matter would crumble just like the ball. Chemical explosions are too weak, even an atomic bomb going off would only vaporize the ball long before it could compress it enough.

A: In theory, if enough energy is concentrated in a small enough volume then an artificial black hole could be created - this is known as a Kugelblitz.
However, this is purely theoretical because creating such a concentration of energy is many orders of magnitude beyond current technology. One estimate is that it would require a particle accelerator 1,000 light years in diameter.
It is also possible that quantum effects might allow a smaller particle accelerator to create quantum black holes. These would be very short lived and would quickly evaporate into high energy particles due to Hawking radiation.

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Belgian-Maltese Co-Production Torpedo Wraps Malta Shoot
Belgian-Maltese co-production Torpedo (aka U-235) has completed principal photography . The film is loosely based on real-world events. Torpedo tells the story of a group of Belgian resistance fighters on a secret mission that goes awry. The co-production spent a few weeks on the Maltese islands. It shot primarily at sea, just a short distance away from the picturesque fishing village Marsaxlokk, where a 67 meter replica of the U-boat's exterior was purposelessly reconstructed for the film. Torpedo is Sven Huybrechts' debut feature film and stars well-known Flemish actors including: Koen De Bouw, Thure Riefenstein, Ella-June Henrard, Vic De Wachter, Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Sven De Ridder and Bert Haelvoet.
While on the set of Torpedo, Dutch language news HLN caught up with Koen De Bouw, who gave some insight into the skills needed when shooting some of those all-important underwater scenes. He explained: "I was really nervous about those shots. I had to swim through two flooded compartments of the submarine, but I couldn't see anything. You're swimming in a big, dark cave, so to speak […] Luckily there were divers here and there with extra oxygen bottles hidden just in case I needed air. I have to admit that the scene gave me a few panic moments. I had taken diving lessons, but something could always go wrong". Maltese crew are used to working on marine-based projects. The set had special mechanism in place to make sure the actor was safe at all times. "I'm happy," Koen exclaimed after his underwater scenes, adding that the shoot "produced fantastic images and everything went well in the end."
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Adolphe Joanne (born Adolphe-Laurent Joanne; 15 September 1813 in Dijon, France – 1 March 1881 in Paris) was a French geographical writer and author of travel books.

Work
In 1836 Joanne was a lawyer in Paris but he soon turned to journalism. A trip to Switzerland and the Black Forest prompted him in 1841 to write up a travel guide, which was the starting point for a whole series of similar and partly more extensive works, which covered not only the most interesting places and landscapes of France, but also of Germany, England, Switzerland, and the Orient. His travel books were published frequently, first under the name Guides Joanne and later from 1919 as Guides bleus.

A terser extract of his major travel books was published since 1866 under the title Guides Diamant. Joanne also puplished in Paris the geographical dictionary Dictionnaire géographique de la France.

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1813 births
1881 deaths
Writers from Dijon
19th-century French writers
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19th-century French male writers
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