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La Delta IV est une famille de lanceurs américains, développée dans les années 1990 pour remplacer les lanceurs existants de capacité moyenne à lourde Atlas Titan et Delta II utilisés jusque-là par les agences gouvernementales américaines (programme Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) de l'Armée de l'Air américaine). Il fait partie de la famille Delta.

Cette fusée est construite par Boeing Integrated Defense Systems dans l'usine de Decatur (Alabama) dont la production a commencé en 2000. Elle est commercialisée et lancée par United Launch Alliance. La Delta IV est la dernière version de la famille Delta et aujourd'hui la seule produite. Elle n'a plus aucun point commun avec le lanceur originel Thor Delta. Son premier tir a eu lieu en 2002.

Historique

L'appel d'offres pour l'Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle

Après plusieurs tentatives avortées, l'Armée de l'Air américaine décide de lancer un appel d'offres pour la réalisation d'un lanceur qui doit remplacer à la fois les lanceurs moyens et lourds - Delta, Atlas et Titan IV - utilisés par les différentes agences gouvernementales (dont l'Armée de l'Air et la NASA) pour lancer satellites et sondes spatiales. L'objectif est de disposer d'un lanceur moins coûteux, couvrant bien les besoins et offrant des interfaces standardisées pour l'intégration des satellites. La solution doit s'appuyer sur des solutions techniques à la fois avancées et éprouvées. Le futur lanceur désigné sous le sigle Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) et le dispositif de lancement (qui est inclus dans l'appel d'offres) doivent permettre d'abaisser les coûts en partie grâce à la reconquête du marché des satellites commerciaux. Mais le cahier des charges rend cet objectif difficilement tenable car les performances attendues ne permettent de toucher que 42 % du marché commercial.

L'appel d'offres est lancé en 1995 et 4 sociétés y répondent : Alliant, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas constructeur des Delta ainsi que Lockheed Martin constructeur des Atlas et Titan. Une première sélection désigne en 1996 comme finalistes Lockheed Martin et McDonnell Douglas. Les deux concurrents disposent de 18 mois pour le deuxième tour. Boeing rachète McDonnell Douglas en 1997 et se retrouve donc finaliste. La société propose une version complètement refondue de son lanceur Delta, la Delta IV. En 1997, l'Armée de l'Air décide finalement de retenir les deux finalistes pour ne pas se retrouver face à un fournisseur unique. En 1998, la première tranche de lanceurs est attribuée : 19 lancements sont accordés à Boeing et 9 lancements à Lockheed Martin pour une somme totale de 2 milliards de $. Mais en 2003 une enquête révèle que Boeing a dérobé des documents confidentiels de son concurrent susceptibles d'avoir faussé la compétition et le nombre de lanceurs commandé à Boeing est par mesure de rétorsion réduit à 12 (entre autres mesures) le solde devant être construit par son concurrent.

Lancements et coûts

Le premier lancement a eu lieu en 2002 et en  le lanceur comptait 7 vols tous réussis. 35 lancements ont eu lieu au  dont un échec partiel. Le premier lancement de la Delta IV Heavy en  intervient après une très longue période de mise au point et est un demi succès du fait de l'arrêt prématuré des moteurs. Depuis 8 lancements réussis ont été effectués (situation fin 2016).

En , ULA s'est vu attribuer 70 lancements (Delta et Atlas). La gamme Delta IV coûte entre  de dollars le modèle.

Retrait programmé du lanceur Delta IV

Au début des années 2010 deux événements remettent en cause la position d'ULA sur le marché des lanceurs :
 L'apparition d'un concurrent SpaceX qui propose à des prix attractifs le lanceur moyen Falcon 9 et développe un lanceur lourd Falcon Heavy qu'il annonce vouloir commercialiser à un tarif qu'ULA ne peut égaler.
 Le lanceur Atlas V utilise pour son premier étage un moteur RD-180 très performant mais fourni par un constructeur russe. Le regain de tension entre les États-Unis et la Russie lié au conflit en Ukraine en 2014 s'est traduit par un embargo économique partiel. Dans ce contexte le Congrès américain porte une appréciation négative sur le fait que le lancement de satellites jouant un rôle important dans la sécurité de la nation dépende d'un fournisseur russe.

À la suite de la certification de la Falcon 9 pour les lancements de satellites relevant de la sécurité nationale en 2015, les militaires américains renoncent à se fournir de manière exclusive auprès de ULA. ULA réagit à ces événements en lançant début 2015 le développement du nouveau lanceur Vulcan dont l'objectif est de rétablir sa compétitivité vis-à-vis de ses concurrents et de mettre fin à sa dépendance vis-à-vis de son fournisseur russe. La Falcon 9 décroche peu après cinq des six lancements des satellites de navigation GPS (premier lancement en 2018) qui relevaient jusque là du monopole de ULA. En , plusieurs lancements pour la période 2019-2021 pour une valeur de 645 millions de dollars sont attribués aux lanceurs Falcon 9 et Atlas V. Désormais, le retrait de la version de moyenne puissance du lanceur Delta IV est programmé pour 2019 tandis que la version la plus puissante Delta IV Heavy continuera à être utilisée jusqu'au début des années 2020 pour lancer les satellites militaires les plus lourds.

Caractéristiques techniques

La Delta IV est un lanceur comportant deux étages propulsés tous deux par un moteur très performant brûlant une combinaison d'hydrogène et d'oxygène. C'est actuellement la seule fusée au monde qui peut décoller avec des moteurs consommant de l'hydrogène et de l'oxygène sans avoir recours à des propulseurs d'appoint.

 La coiffe est disponible en 2 diamètres (4 et ) et 4 longueurs de 11,7 à .
 Pour les missions interplanétaires un troisième étage à ergol solide (le PAM-D) est proposé.

Premier étage
Le premier étage baptisé CBC () est de conception entièrement nouvelle : la Delta IV est le premier lanceur de la famille des Delta à abandonner l'étage dérivé du missile Thor. Le CBC qui est commun à toutes les versions de la Delta IV, est haut de  avec un diamètre de  et pèse à vide . L'étage contient un réservoir d'oxygène liquide surmonté d'un réservoir à hydrogène liquide et est motorisé par un seul moteur-fusée RS-68 développé par la société Rocketdyne à partir du moteur de la navette spatiale américaine SSME. Le RS-68, n'est pas réutilisable comme le SSME. Il a été simplifié pour abaisser son coût de fabrication : des méthodes de fabrication moins coûteuses sont utilisées et la tuyère utilise un revêtement ablatif. Son impulsion spécifique est plus faible (410 s dans le vide, 365 s au niveau de la mer) mais sa poussée de  en fait le moteur LO2/LH2 le plus puissant du monde et permet à la version de base de la Delta IV de décoller sans recourir à des propulseurs d'appoint.

Pour augmenter la charge utile, le premier étage peut comporter un ou plusieurs propulseurs d'appoint à poudre GEM-60 : ceux-ci sont une version plus puissante des GEM-46 utilisés sur le lanceur Delta III. Les GEM-60 ont un diamètre de  et sont fabriqués par la société Alliant Techsystems. Ils comportent des tuyères orientables qui sont utilisées pour corriger l'orientation du lanceur en vol.

Deuxième étage

La technique de construction de l'étage Centaur n'est pas reprise : contrairement à celui-ci, la rigidité de l'étage n'est pas assurée par le maintien sous pression des réservoirs mais par la structure. Le moteur, optimisé par rapport à celui de la Delta III est un RL-10B-2 de Pratt & Whitney avec une impulsion spécifique de 462 secondes. Il peut être rallumé jusqu'à 15 fois. La tuyère est en partie extensible (elle se déplie en vol) ce qui permet de réduire la longueur de l'étage et donc son poids à vide. La partie fixe de la tuyère, réalisée en composite carbone, est fabriquée par la Société européenne de propulsion en France. Le deuxième étage est proposé dans deux diamètres,  et , contenant respectivement 20 et  d'hydrogène et d'oxygène liquide et fonctionnant durant respectivement 825 secondes et .

Assemblage et lancement

Avec la Delta IV, Boeing abandonne les sites de lancement utilisés depuis les débuts de la Thor Delta : à la base de Cap Canaveral en Floride l'ancienne aire de lancement des Saturn I et Saturn IB (l'aire 37) est convertie pour le nouveau lanceur. À Vandenberg sur la côte ouest, le constructeur aménage l'aire SLC-6 édifiée pour le lancement du laboratoire spatial militaire MOL, projet avorté des années 1960.

L'assemblage du lanceur sur l'aire de lancement, de mise sur tous les lanceurs Delta, est abandonné : désormais le lanceur est en partie monté et testé dans un bâtiment d'assemblage à l'horizontale (Horizontal Integration Facility HIF) puis transféré sur l'aire de lancement et redressé à la verticale sur sa table de lancement. Une tour de lancement mobile (Mobile Service Tower MST), qui est éloignée avant le lancement, permet d'achever le travail en particulier en fixant la charge utile au sommet du lanceur et les boosters à propergol solide s'ils sont nécessaires. Boeing espère ainsi abaisser de 2 ou 3 fois le temps de stationnement sur l'aire de lancement permettant d'accélérer le rythme des tirs.

Les versions

La Delta IV est disponible en cinq versions : Medium, Medium+ (4,2), Medium+ (5,2), Medium+ (5,4) et Heavy qui peuvent placer en orbite une charge utile comprise entre  et  en orbite basse.
Le lanceur est décliné en deux sous-familles : les Delta-IV Medium et le lanceur lourd Delta IV Heavy. Le développement d'autres versions ont été abandonnés au profit du lanceur Vulcan destiné à remplacer les lanceurs Delta IV et Atlas V.

Delta IV Medium

La sous-famille des Delta IV Medium peut comporter au choix un deuxième étage de 4 ou  de diamètre et 0, 2 ou 4 propulseurs d'appoint à poudre. En fonction de sa configuration, cette version peut lancer de 3,96 à  sur orbite de transfert géostationnaire (GTO). La Delta IV Medium a des capacités similaires à celles de l'Ariane 5 mais Boeing a révisé son coût de fabrication à la hausse de 95 à 230 millions de $, un prix trop élevé pour que le lanceur puisse concurrencer la fusée européenne. Le , la toute dernière Delta IV Medium a été lancée.

 La Delta IV Medium (Delta 9040) est le modèle de base de la famille des lanceurs Delta IV. Elle comporte un simple CBC et un second étage d'un diamètre de  et une coiffe dérivée de celle de la Delta III du même diamètre. La Delta IV Medium peut lancer  en orbite de transfert géostationnaire.
 La Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) (Delta 9240) est identique à la Medium, mais elle utilise deux propulseurs d'appoint à poudre fabriqués par Alliant d'un diamètre de  GEM-60 qui porte la charge utile à .
 La Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) (Delta 9250) est similaire à la Medium+ (4,2), mais elle utilise une coiffe composite de  de diamètre et un second étage modifié comportant un réservoir d'hydrogène de  de diamètre et un réservoir d'oxygène allongé. Ces modifications ne lui permettent de lancer que  c'est-à-dire moins que la Medium+ (4,2).
 La Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) (Delta 9450) est similaire à la Medium+ (5,2), mais elle utilise 4 propulseurs d'appoint GEM-60 au lieu de deux ce qui lui permet de placer en orbite de transfert géostationnaire .

Delta IV Heavy

La Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) a été conçue pour reprendre le rôle du lanceur lourd Titan IV et peut placer une charge utile de  en orbite basse, de  en orbite de transfert géostationnaire ou de  à destination de la planète Mars. La partie centrale est similaire à une Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) mais les propulseurs d'appoint sont remplacés par deux CBC ce qui porte sa masse à . Au lancement les trois moteurs sont poussés à leur puissance maximum (102 %) puis après 50 secondes la puissance du moteur central est ramenée à 58 %. Au bout de 235 secondes, la puissance des propulseurs d'appoint est également ramenée à 58 % pour ne pas dépasser les 5G d'accélération. Peu de temps après, les propulseurs d'appoint sont largués et le moteur du premier étage est de nouveau poussé à 102 %. Le Delta IV Heavy dispose également d'une coiffe en composite allongée de  par rapport à la version Medium.

La charge utile est la suivante :
 Orbite basse : ,
 Orbite de transfert géostationnaire : ,
 Orbite géostationnaire : ,
 Orbite d'évasion : ,
 C2  : ,
 C3  : .

Autres versions étudiées

Une version moins puissante dite « Lite », utilisant les étages supérieurs de la Delta II et permettant de placer  sur orbite de transfert géostationnaire, a été étudiée mais son développement a été abandonné.

Liste des lancements de Delta IV

Liste des lancements (mise à jour le )

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Sources

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Delta (famille de lanceurs Delta)
 Atlas V (lanceur américain concurrent)
 Vulcan (lanceur américain concurrent)

Liens externes
  Détail des caractéristiques techniques de la Delta IV Heavy sur le site Spaceflight101
  Détail des caractéristiques techniques de la Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) sur le site Spaceflight101
  Genèse et caractéristiques caractéristiques techniques de la Delta IV sur le site de Berndt Leitenberger
   Synthèse des caractéristiques techniques des lanceurs ULA

Programme spatial militaire américain
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How are you progressing on the Norton? Would love to hear more.
I am writing you all the way from Denmark, Europe, as I just saw your beautiful 600 cc Norton. As a custodian of 4 Nortons, a 1931 CS1, 1939 CS1, a 1950 500T and a 1955 International, you can tell I am a Norton enthusiast. The first three machines are running fine, the last one is an ongoing project.
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I hope your New Year is enjoyable and prosperous. If you have time to email me with more information about your bikes I would be delighted.
I own a 54 manx with the big banger manx engine ..
Would you tell me more?
yes .. the sound is really great (of course .. as i use it on road I must have fitted a silencer).
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Thanks Marilyn, I might get the hang of all this some time!


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Bīt rimki, "House of Ablution" or "Bath-house", is an ancient Mesopotamian prophylactic ritual and accompanying incantation series, recorded on seven or more tablets, the first of which describes the actual performance of the ritual. Its purpose was to cleanse the person of the Assyrian king, and his household, of the evils portended by the inauspicious sign of a lunar eclipse, witchcraft, ritual abuse, etc. The correspondence of Esarhaddon with his priests Adad-šumu-uṣur, Urad-Ea, Marduk-šākin-šumi, and Nabû-nāṣir shows that he was subjected to this ceremony on four separate occasions, while masquerading as a "farmer", in an elaborate substitute-king ritual. The Assyrian king of Babylon, Šamaš-šum-ukin, endured two such rituals where fresh copies of the incantation tablets were laboriously prepared. It seems likely that the ceremony lasted seven days.

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The Šamaš cycle of bīt rimki is a group of seven themed "houses", or perhaps more properly "stations", at each of which a pair of prayers, a bilingual ki'utu kam (invocation of Šamaš) recited by an āšipu, "exorcist", at daybreak, a šu'illa (prayer of lifted hands), recited by the king – and the ritual action (offerings to appease a deity, takpirtu "purification ritual", or apotropaic rite), to accompany the incantations takes place. The king passed between each station of the temporary fabrication called bīt rimki, probably a reed-built structure, was ritually bathed and dressed in fresh clothes while passing a series of evils on to figurines representing his persecutors, the demons who have contaminated him, dousing them with wash water or spittle. Finally, he emerged from the structure with his priest – purified, reborn, and ready to resume his monarchical office.

The incantations prescribed in the ritual tablet included a universal namburbi to avert inauspicious portents, and several ušburrudûs to dissolve sorcery. Although all exemplars of this ritual have their origin in Assyrian courtly compilation, it was composed from material of Babylonian source material.

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i have one in the humidor. ou are making me want to review it.
You should, Matt, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Picked up a ten pack on a Kelly Deal,, great creamy smoke. May want to contact her if you'd like a different vitola.
Actually I was wanting to try them in the lonsdale anyways, I generally go for that vitola if its available. Thanks for the heads up, though.
Yeah, they are pretty good. I am liking the smaller ring gauges more on these. I've tried a few singles of different sizes, and I bought a five pack of robustos that disappeared pretty fast. Time for a ten pack next time I guess.
I'm glad you started this thread. I had to dig forever in my coolers but I found them and I'm enjoying one now. Thanks.
Lol, no problem, glad you're digging it. They have 10-packs of the short churchills in the clearance section for $40, I'm going to jump on one or two of those pretty soon.
I had one last week and loved it. It probably had a yr or so on it. I honestly didn't know what to expect and after some research discovered its the "poor mans" God of Fire. Bonus!


Fiona Wood wrote television scripts for twelve years before braving up to write her first novel, Six Impossible Things, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers. Her next novel, Wildlife, won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers 2014, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Queensland Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize. Cloudwish is her third novel. Her books are published internationally. Fiona lives in Melbourne with her family.
I began writing more than twenty years ago, when I had my children. I started with freelance journalism, mostly for The Age and The Sunday Age in Melbourne; I then wrote PR material for Australian films, and, after studying screenwriting at RMIT, I wrote TV scripts for about twelve years, then I finally started to write my first novel eight years ago. After three years and five drafts it was published by Pan Macmillan in 2010, and it's just been published in the US by Little, Brown. I'm really lucky to be represented by Cheryl Pientka at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, which led to a three-book deal in the US with Little, Brown, and sales to Turkey, Brazil, Germany, Poland and Hungary.
Cloudwish just came out in Australia, and will be published in the US in 2016. It takes a minor character, Van Uoc Phan, from my second novel, Wildlife, and puts her centre stage. Van Uoc's story involves a little romance, a little magic, a little politics and a lot of discovering who she is at sixteen. With some help from Jane Eyre.
It's a tiny but functional little studio away from home, which is great. I find the fridge and even the laundry can be strangely compelling when I'm working at home.
The shape of the day varies with whatever stage the current book is at. So, for example, if I'm writing a first draft, I go to work and don't leave until I've written a thousand words. If I'm writing subsequent drafts, I'll have the goal of rewriting particular scenes or chapters. When I'm plotting, the computer is off the desk and I have pages and pages of notes and storylines covering the desk, and I stare at them and think about them and rework them day after day after day.
I spend a lot of time plotting and planning. And I write quite a few drafts. I could keep rewriting endlessly, and I'm never satisfied, and my publisher is very patient with me wanting to check every single stage of proofing, and still I can open any of my books and see things I want to change. So, I need deadlines, or I'd still be writing my first book.
I love writing – trying to construct a beautiful sentence or create a believable character or structure a tight storyline. I love creating something that might give readers pleasure, as so many books have given me pleasure as a reader. I always think of handing a book to an individual reader, and hope that one of my books might be just the right book at just the right time. It's perhaps a bit harder to develop a fiction reading habit in this era; there's less quietude, so much static and buzz and distraction – so many alternatives to reading books.
Intersections and obstacles. And people.
Being alone most of the time is not great for mental health. Linked to that is the feeling of self-doubt that can easily become overwhelming. And sitting down most of the time is hell on your body.
I really just want to write the next book, and to write it as well as I can. I'd like to see the profile of Australian YA continue to grow – people can follow @LoveOzYA on Twitter to hear news of new releases, and #LoveOzYA to share YA news and reviews. And I'd really like to see a more equal gender representation on school reading lists, and I support the work of the Stella Prize Schools Program.
There are so many I love – if I started the list, it would run to pages – but my favourite is Jane Austen.
Great. You'll have to let me know what you think of the new one!
I have Cloudwish on my bedside table right now! Loved Fiona's first two books for the fabulous characters.
Nice. Let me know how this one compares!


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We have just gotten off the phone to the case toolers and we've been told the first case samples will be ready this week, hopefully first thing tomorrow morning (Tuesday 16th).
We had wanted this update to include pics of the shiny new case samples but further difficulties with the tool manufacturing have caused delays. It has been a little while since our last update so apologies for the silence and delays, we were waiting for good news. With the delivery of the sample cases we'll be able to ramp up from a stutter into overdrive as we reach the final stages of production and we'll provide you with regular updates on each step of the process.
We will be in the factory waiting to pick up the first samples as soon as they are produced, we'll then undertake testing ourselves (immersion testing, shower with water etc.) before sending them to be officially IP (ingress protection) rated. Once we are satisfied with the quality of the final injection moulded cases we'll give the green light to produce all the kits and ship your rewards.
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Q: FileInfo constructor reporting long filenames when they're shorter than 256 chars I'm being passed a filename, and I need to verify whether it's valid.
There are many criteria a valid filename must meet in order to be considered valid in Windows, one of which is that its length cannot exceed 256 characters.
In order to validate this property (and many others), I'm leveraging the FileInfo constructor:
try
{
    var fi = new FileInfo(filename);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    //PathTooLongException among others
}

However, a PathTooLongException is being thrown even for filenames under 256 characters (e.g. 240 chars). Why is that?
Note that:

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*the file itself does not have to exist

*the filename I'm given will not contain any path segments (e.g. C:/filename.txt or //filename.txt)

A: If the string being passed into the FileInfo constructor is a simple filename with no path segments (e.g. filename.txt), then it will be prefixed with the current working directory.
So if you're application is running under C:/Really/Long/I/Mean/Reaaaally/Long/Path, then filename.txt will be transformed into C:/Really/Long/I/Mean/Reaaaally/Long/Path/filename.txt.
So, even though filename.txt is a perfectly valid and short filename, it may become invalid after being prefixed.
To avoid this, prefix it with C:/ instead:
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Василь Михайлович Струк (11 січня 1940, с. Копачинці, Чернелицький район, Станіславська (нині Івано-Франківська) обл.) — 23 травня 2021) — краєзнавець, письменник.

Біографія
Народився у бідній селянській сім'ї, яка складалася з восьми осіб.

1957 року закінчив Чернелицьку середню школу, працював обліковцем в контору місцевого колгоспу ім. Калініна.

У 1960 році закінчив Снятинський культосвітній технікум, після чого був направлений на роботу у Вінницьку область, призначений на посаду директора будинку культури в селі Лозова Шаргородського району.

1960 року одружився зі своєю однокурсницею Надією Журжою, з якою народили та виховали двох дітей – Оксану та Олександра.

1961 році молоде подружжя переїхало в с. Андріївка, де разом працювали в будинку культури.

1970 року заочно закінчив природничий факультет Черкаського педагогічного інституту.

1966 року В. М. Струка направлено на роботу  в Хоменківську середню школу Шаргородського району на посаду вчителя біології.

1974 року Василя Михайловича призначено на посаду директора Хоменківської середньої школи. На цій посаді він пропрацював тридцять років. За подвижнецьку педагогічну працю удостоєний почесного звання «Відмінник народної освіти».

2005—2014 рр.  працював бібліотекарем у шкільній бібліотеці.

Помер 23 травня 2021 року.

Творчий доробок
У співавторстві видав книгу історичних нарисів «Хоменки» (1998); «Краяни» (2009) — приурочена 515-й річниці писемної згадки про рідні Копачинці; «Погляд в минуле» (2010) — книга нарисів та віршованих творів; посібник з фітотерапії «Допоможи собі сам» (2011); «Село над Мурафою-рікою» (2016) — продовження і доповнення книги історичних нарисів «Хоменки». Безліч віршів на патріотичну тематику та ліричного спрямування.

На громадських засадах працював редактором колгоспної багатотиражки та майже десять років керував літературною студією «Сонячні кларнети» при редакції районної газети «Комунар». Автор ряду статей на педагогічну та краєзнавчу тематику.

Писав Василь Михайлович до останнього подиху, за декілька годин до того, як перестало битися його серце, він написав такі рядки: «Минули весни буйним цвітом. Минула молодість в труді. Як хочеться жити на цім світі, Хоч вже й морщини на чолі…»

Джерела та література

 Струк В. Погляд в минуле. — Вінниця, 2010. — 156 с.
 Струк В. Краяни. — Вінниця, 2009. — 120 с.
 Чернега М. Життя, як спалах // Шаргородщина. — 2021. — 23 черв. — С. 4.
 Нагребецький А. Н. Іменами багата земля Шаргородська. — Вінниця  : ТОВ «Меркьюрі-Поділля», 2014. — С. 333.

Українські краєзнавці


US commercial real estate sales in the first half of 2010 were just a quarter of the average of the previous six years as owners kept properties off the market, according to a new figures. Buyers and sellers completed $34.2 billion of deals, some 26% of the average first half dollar volume since 2004, according to data from Real Capital Analytics.
The total was about 12% of the 2007 peak, when $277.7 billion of properties changed hands in the same period but the report shows that sales increased 58% from last year's first half when purchases dried up after the US credit crisis and recession sent values tumbling.
Demand for properties is strongest in New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco with these four markets accounted for 20% of first half sales, compared with about 15% last year, according to Real Capital.
But a lack of available properties is leading to a lot of frustration in the commercial real estate sector and has sparked demand for the few deals being offered, according to Alan Kava, co-head of Goldman Sachs Group's Real Estate Principal Investment Area in New York.
'People are frustrated that not a lot has been trading. When something does come to market, that lack of supply is causing almost a feeding frenzy. People have real estate funds that are not on an infinite time line, they need to put capital to work,' he explained.
One reason that there are a lot of buyers and few sellers is that much of the money raised by private equity firms was in anticipation of a rush of foreclosure sales that failed to materialize, according to Sam Chandan, Real Capital's chief economist.
In top cities such as New York and Washington, owners who owe more than their properties are worth are instead finding new sources of equity and lenders are willing to restructure their loans, he said.
'Many people were looking to acquire distressed assets, but those opportunities have been few and far between. That's been leading to bidding more aggressively for some of these core assets,' he added.
Also record low interest rates make it easier for owners to hold a distressed property.
'The Armageddon scenario that several people predicted two or three years ago just hasn't occurred. Part of it is the lenders realize the current borrowers are in a better position to work out problems than they the lenders are,' said Tom August, president and chief executive officer of Equity Office Properties, a unit of Blackstone Group.
There is little incentive for owners who bought as the market climbed to sell now. Values in April were down 41% from their October 2007 peak, according to figures from Moody's Commercial Property Price Index.


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Royal Holloway and Study Group sign 10 year partnership extension
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Royal Holloway University of London and Study Group have renewed the partnership between the two institutions for a 10-year period.
In 2011 Royal Holloway and Study Group set up a partnership to offer various pathway programmes to allow international students to have access to degree level studies at the university.
According to the university, the success of the partnership has driven them to extend their partnership for another 10 years.
In September, Global Education Times reported that 16 universities in the UK had agreed to accept online delivery of Study Group programmes throughout 2021.
Royal Holloway and Study Group an 'evolving' collaboration
The partnership between the two institutions is seen as evolving over time and has led to a transformation in the development of the course and its delivery and has also introduced International Year One programmes.
The International Year One programmes are in the following areas: Economics and Electronic Engineering, Business and Management and Computer Science.
This programme also provides online pre-sessional English Language summer courses and will help students integrate completely with student life at the university.
Pre-Masters programme set for launch in March 2021
In March next year, Study Group and Royal Holloway are set to launch a Pre-Masters Programme intake and this will include four new academic pathway options: Economics, Business and Management, Electronic Engineering and Information Security, Computer Science and Social Science, and Arts and Humanities.
This programme will allow international students to progress to a variety of postgraduate courses at Royal Holloway University of London.
Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, Royal Holloway and Study Group have collaborated to meet the needs of international students and have launched a new optional English Language Module. This will allow direct entry to undergraduate students who are coming from outside the U.K the flexibility to begin their programme in January 2021.
James Pitman, Managing Director for UK and Europe at Study Group, said: "We are extremely pleased to have renewed our contract with Royal Holloway, University of London, for a further 10 years.
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There is some uncertainty around Direct Awards when using a framework agreement, we would like to clarify the legal view on this method of using framework agreements. We have sought legal clarification and I can now advise that the correct way to make a direct award is to use the scores from the original tender exercise and award to the highest scoring supplier. If they cannot fulfill your requirement then you should move on to the next highest scoring supplier. This should include all award criteria, not just price.
When making a direct award there is provision to make minor amendments to the weighting of each criterion but this should not be more than 5% - so for example if you have a weighting of 10% you can move it between 9.5% and 10.5% (0.5% being 5% of 10). Any variation of more than 5% could be considered 'material', which would trigger the Pressetext case ruling – material changes can mean that you are no longer using the framework agreement and have in fact created a new contract with new conditions.
(b)where not all the terms of the proposed contract are laid down in the framework agreement, by re-opening competition between the economic operators which are parties to that framework agreement and which are capable of performing the proposed contract in accordance with paragraphs (8) and (9).
To summarise, it is our view that in order to mitigate risk of challenge we would recommend that members either conduct a mini competition (ensuring all capable suppliers are invited to participate) or they go to the highest scoring supplier from the original tender exercise.


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Malcolm served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA in Economics from Harvard University. He also holds an honorary degree from the New School.


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Under Head Coach Justin Towe, in recent years the Bruin baseball team has experienced success. They won four consecutive district titles and are seeking their fifth in 2016. A fifth consecutive victory, however, will not be an easy task.
The Bruins, who play in Class District nine, are stuck in perhaps the most competitive district in the state. In the most recent rankings released by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association (MHSBCA), three teams in District nine were in the top 10, including the Bruins, who boasted a second place ranking .
The competitive nature of the district has been a result of an equally competitive regular season. The Bruins were 8-2 in the first 10 games, which featured five games in the competitive Rawlings Select Classic.
Despite winning their next eight games, RBHS was hit with adversity as senior shortstop Curtis Holliday went down with an injury. As a result, underclassmen such as junior Jordan Smith and sophomore Trevor Twehous were forced to fill into larger roles.
The Bruins hit a rough patch in the season following the winning streak. Losing three of four games, including a defeated district rival, the Smith-Cotton Tigers, the Bruins were 17-5 on the season.
Eleven days later, however, the Tigers would lose to the Jefferson City Jays, 7-1. The Bruins would then defeat the Jays, 6-3, on senior night as the game ended on a double play started by Twehous. RBHS then blew out Hickman, 11-0, the following day. As a result of the two impressive victories, the Bruins had locked up the first seed.
"It's always fun playing a cross town rival," senior Brandon Goins said. "That night just felt good knowing it was my last chance to throw against them ,but it was even better to shut them out."
On top of the district victories, RBHS' regular season campaign featured two wins against Francis Howell and wins against Blue Springs and Christian Brothers College (CBC). Riding a 25-7 record into district play, the Bruins endured a difficult final stretch to achieve not just the top-seed in the district but also the claim of being the second best team in the state.
"It's good to get down to the last two weeks of the season and play two of the top teams in our district," Towe said. "We have one of, if not the toughest schedules in the state and [It was difficult] having to play Staley and Blue Springs in one of our last weekend series, plus the two district worthy games the following week."
With the top seed, the Bruins receive a first-round bye and will play the winner of fourth-seeded Hickman (18-9) and fifth-seeded Camdenton (8-16).
Third-seeded Smith-Cotton (23-4), ranked eighth in the state, plays last-seeded Battle (13-10). Jefferson City (21-6), ranked fifth in the state, also receives a bye in the first round.
"This year we really had to work for that number one seed," senior Taten Lyngstad said. "Our districts not easy this year, and the tournament will definitely be a difficult challenge."
Despite the competitive district tournament that awaits the team, the Bruins look to carry the momentum from a successful season into the tournament.
"We have played well and as a team all season, and that has allowed us to reach our goals," Smith said. "Hopefully, we will be able to continue our success during the postseason"
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The YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities received a $5,715,014 grant from Microsoft YouthSpark, an initiative to help youth around the world. This generous grant—the largest one-time grant in the history of YMCA—provides software and licenses, which will help the Y update its entire technology infrastructure between 2014 and 2016.
Through the YouthSpark program, Microsoft provides cash grants, software and services to organizations – like the Y – whose missions and activities support youth development. In just two years, Microsoft YouthSpark has created new opportunities for more than 227 million young people in more than 100 countries around the world through 30+ programs and partnerships with more than 350 youth-serving nonprofits.


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As coronavirus vaccines begin to be approved for use, many people are turning their attention to how they will be implemented—What exactly is the vaccination program, and will they be mandatory? Rest assured, you WILL be compelled to get vaccinated; however, compliance likely won't be achieved in quite the manner you might expect. Rather than outright state-mandated vaccinations, the World Economic Forum's Great Reset plan will seek to leverage corporations to "motivate" the sheeple into compliance through coercive manipulation!
How will the global elites accomplish this task?
Why through formal and informal public-private partnerships (PPPs) of course!
Mike Cernovich hit the proverbial nail on the head regarding the New World Order's approach to seizing the COVID opportunity when he Tweeted, "Government won't force you to take [the] vaccine. Amazon will. Airlines will. Banks will. You won't be able to buy, sell, or trade without the vaccine."
Government won't force you to take vaccine. Amazon will. Airlines will. Banks will. You won't be able to buy, sell, or trade without the vaccine.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 19, 2020
The World Economic Forum has been preparing for this opportunity for years and their strategy is simple: bypass the hurdles created by multilateral, state-mandated vaccinations by leveraging the relationships it has nurtured for years with the private sector to seamlessly and effortlessly "influence" the sheeple into compliance.
Make no mistake about it, the globalists are about to throw everything they've got at you—including the kitchen sink—to try and convince, deceive and coerce you into complying with and submitting to their transformative agenda by taking the vaccine.
To fully understand how the WEF will achieve widespread compliance, solidify its global control, and implement the New World Order agenda through its Great Reset, let's take a moment to examine the nature of the emerging vaccination program…
Mandatory Vaccination will Begin with Manipulative Coercion by Global Corporations
A recent paper, Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Yale and Stanford (institutions that have received major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for vaccine development), has joined the chorus of health, government and research voices calling for the coronavirus vaccine to become mandatory.
To avoid excessive and undesired resistance and backlash from the commoners (a.k.a. the sheeple), the authors recommend that the vaccine should initially be voluntary… with rapidly increasing levels of compulsion after that.
Furthermore, they assert that "noncompliance should incur a penalty… a relatively substantial one," with suggestions including "employment suspension or stay-at-home orders."
For more on this, I recommend reading our article Mark of the Beast—Mandatory COVID Vaccination Message Begins!
Rest assured, the coronavirus vaccine will become mandatory… but the process will involve a deceptive and devilish sleight of hand, combined with plenty of smoke and mirrors!
Contrary to popular belief, it won't be immediately compelled by the state. Rather, the state, following the World Economic Forum's playbook for global transformation, will utilize a well-developed network of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to compel the sheeple to get vaccinated—creating a soft mandate.
Thus, in the beginning, vaccination compliance will be the result of New World Order coercive manipulation—avoiding two of the greatest challenges confronting the global elites: resistance to state mandates and potential legal challenges.
When private-sector companies require vaccination for employment or service, they are not only well within their well-defined legal rights, but—unlike government—they can even sell (market) themselves to the masses as the good guys who are just looking out for their employees and customers.
If you are capable of influencing (controlling) larger corporations—especially global players—through either overt or covert PPPs, then you can, in effect, mandate vaccinations through creatively marketed motivations… otherwise known as coercive manipulations.
And the World Economic Forum and United Nations have been hard at work in the shadows developing that influence and control!
To learn more about the WEF Great Reset and New World Order agenda, I encourage you to read our article WEF Great Reset—A Glimpse into the New World Order Psyche.
The WEF Vaccination Plan: A Dual-Prong Approach to Compliance
The World Economic Forum's vaccination plan will utilize the private sector to motivate the sheeple to willingly become vaccine compliant via a dual-prong approach: (1) job security and (2) freedom of movement (i.e., return to "normalcy").
You want to keep your job? You want your life back?
No problem… just get vaccinated!
The freedom of movement attack will begin with the airlines, while the job security thrust will begin with the healthcare system.
However, the coercion will quickly be expanded to include large corporations in a wide range of industries, including retail, food service, technology, industrial, and financial services.
"No shirt, no shoes, no service" will quickly become "no vaccination… no service, job or freedom of movement."
This is why the Great Reset response to the pandemic has so aggressively targeted small business—the WEF can't influence them!
They must materially reduce the number of pesky small businesses in order to funnel as many sheeple as possible into and through global corporations, where the C-suites are loaded with like-minded globalists and the network of public-private partnerships runs deep.
It is a classic but subtle back-door strategy that will quickly and quietly disarm the psychological and emotional defenses of most sheeple. They will quickly conclude that they need their job and/or want their "normal" life back and succumb to the belief that they might as well get the vaccine.
It will be a simple case of the ends justify the means, predicated on a relativistic framework of situational ethics. In other words, the norm for sheep in our debased, post-modern world.
They will naively choose to place their trust in the private sector rather than government—oblivious to the fact that it is the government that is hiding in the shadows and pulling the strings of the private sector!
To learn more about the WEF drive to integrate vaccines and technology into humans in pursuit of their ultimate goal of global transformation, I recommend reading our article The Great "Transhumanism" Reset—Exposing the NWO Last Days Endgame.
Now, let's look at what's going on right now in the world around us regarding the emerging vaccine program…
Freedom of Movement: Airlines Seek Mandatory Vaccinations
When it comes to the "freedom of movement" (travel) front, we already see the airlines setting the tone and establishing the path forward—a path that is in lockstep with the WEF's Great Reset plan for global transformation and vaccination compliance.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that it is "in the final development phase" of creating a "digital passport" app that will tell airlines if international travelers had been vaccinated against COVID-19.
In fact, IATA has been working closely with British Airways' parent company—International Airlines Group (IAG)—on the digital passport app… and plans to launch the mandatory vaccination travel system in the first quarter of 2021.
The WEF plan is unfolding before our eyes. You start with international travel (easily restricted) and then expand the program to domestic air travel and, eventually, all forms of travel. This will also facilitate the rapid introduction and acceptance of digital health passports as the new normal for the sheeple—just as we proposed in our article New World Order Emerging: Not Such a Crazy Conspiracy Theory After All.
Nick Careen, IATA's senior vice president of airport, passenger, cargo and security, declared that the app would provide "governments confidence that systematic COVID-19 testing can work as a replacement for quarantine requirements," adding, "And that will eventually develop into a vaccine program."
The message is clear. If you want your life back, if you want to avoid those nasty quarantine requirements, if you want to have your freedom to travel back, then you will have to get vaccinated.
Stated differently, if you don't get vaccinated, then you will face continued and ever-tightening travel restrictions.
One man's idea of "motivation" is another man's forced compliance (a.k.a. mandatory vaccination).
Australia's Qantas Airlines has already announced that it is on board with requiring vaccination passports for international travelers as soon as one is available. The Airline's CEO, Alan Joyce, has stated that the carrier will require travelers to provide proof of vaccination as a non-negotiable condition of international air travel.
But rest assured, Qantas is not a WEF lone wolf—the other airlines are or will be quickly joining the digital passport program.
Joyce also revealed that he was in contact with the other major international carriers and asserted that "it's going to be a common theme across the board"—indicating they will all be joining the WEF's "mandatory" vaccination and digital passport agenda.
Similar apps have already been tested, including the World Economic Forum's CommonPass app (developed under its Commons Project Foundation and tested in cooperation with Oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam) and the International SOS's AOKpass.
In fact, three global alliances representing 58 airlines are pushing for the use of digital passports in leu of quarantine restrictions.
These airlines are perfect examples of the PPPs that will be on the front-lines of the Great Reset battle to implement mandatory vaccinations—the WEF and global elites are counting on them to do their part to usher in the New World Order agenda of control through the vaccination & digital passport system.
It will start with international travelers, but quickly expand to all air travelers… and then all travel.
Want to go to the mall? Want to go to the football game? Want to go to the office? Need something from Walmart? Want to go out for dinner? Need a hotel room for that upcoming trip?
Well, you'll need to scan your handy dandy digital health passport (or implanted chip) when you get there!
Return to Normalcy: Green Zones Coming to a Town Near You?
Again, government won't force the vaccine on you, but here's what the NWO global elites WILL do… they'll manipulate you into a position where you really have no other choice.
Israel just provided a perfect example of this.
Despite assurances by Health Ministry Director Hezy Levy that citizens would not be forced to take a vaccine, Israel provided a glimpse into the World Economic Forum compliance strategy when Dr. Eyal Zimlichman told the Special Knesset Coronavirus Committee that measures "are being planned to 'maneuver' the population into vaccinating as a way of regaining freedom of movement."
What exactly does "maneuver" mean?
Well, Zimlichman made it clear when he told the committee:
You can't force the population [to vaccinate]… What is possible is to create motivation. Whoever is vaccinated will automatically receive 'green status'. Therefore, you may vaccinate, and receive Green Status to go freely in all the green zones. They'll open for you cultural events, they'll open to you the shopping malls, hotels, and restaurants."
In other words, maneuver really means motivate, which in turn really means manipulate through leveraging freedoms (a.k.a. coercion), which, ultimately, is essentially the equivalent of mandate.
He added, "I believe people will understand by themselves that the vaccine will return them to regular [a.k.a. "normal"] life and they'll vaccinate themselves."
There you have it—the motto of the dystopian technocracy: If you know what's good for you, you'll understand and comply!
Zimlichman went on to repeat:
Whoever is vaccinated may enter those green areas, that 'safe zone'. Assuming we're discussing a protracted period… we see those areas growing in size, and those people who are vaccinated receive the pass to enter those green areas in the cities [across the country]."
It's coming to a town near you folks—a form of demilitarized "green" zones!
If you want to work, travel, shop, or play… you will have to comply and get vaccinated.
Furthermore, this isn't a short-term solution. Oh, no. This is the new norm for the foreseeable future. The WEF and NWO globalists have no intention of ever unwinding their gains!
Like the operation of a ratchet, Marxist change only moves in one direction!
And these green zones or areas will just continue to expand, while the restrictions on those who resist will continue to grow. Your vaccination and digital passport will become your ticket to getting your so-called life back. Again, just as we suggested in our article New World Order Emerging: Not Such a Crazy Conspiracy Theory After All.
The World Economic Forum and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
It should come as no surprise that the World Economic Forum would utilize the private sector to do its evil bidding… they've been developing this capability for years.
They have simply borrowed from their climate change playbook and applied it to the pandemic "crisis" (a.k.a. opportunity).
Veronica Scotti, writing on the World Economic Forum regarding climate change (2020), clearly defined the critical nature of the public-private partnership (PPP) strategy:
[W]e can't improve economic efficiency, protect and restore nature's ecosystems and enhance social wellbeing if societies, governments and individuals remain vulnerable to risk… This can only happen at scale and speed if the public and the private sectors come together on joint execution plans focused on ultimate efficacy and long-term impact… public-private partnerships are the smart way to go."
Harris Gleckman, writing for Open Democracy, noted in 2019 that "a new corporate and government marriage quietly took place last week when the leadership of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner with each other."
This MOU built upon a 600-page report entitled the Global Redesign Initiative published by the WEF in 2009, which called for a new system of global governing, one in which the decisions of governments could be made secondary to multistakeholder led initiatives in which corporations would play a defining role.
Gleckman warned that the MOU "gives multinational corporations influence over matters of global governance" and highlighted three major and highly concerning elements of the MOU:
The agreement circumvents the intergovernmental review process
The agreement elevates multistakeholderism as the solution to problems inherent in the current multilateral system
The proposed multistakeholder partnerships are not governed by any formal democratic system
Gleckman, almost prophetically, wrote:
All multistakeholder governance groups are largely composed of a self-selected group of multinational corporations and those organizations and individuals that they want to work with. They work without any common internal rule book to protect the views of all who might be impacted by the group."
We can now see just how "smart" the PPP strategy was for the WEF and UN in terms of providing the globalists with the ability to effectively and efficiently (1) define and drive the global transformation and (2) "motivate" the sheeple into compliance—not only with the vaccine program but with the Great Reset and overall New World Order agenda.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)—as part of the UN's broader Agenda 2030 plan (and COVID-19 Response)—asserts that:
The main objective of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) area is to increase the expertise of governments to identify, negotiate, manage and implement successful PPPs projects… particularly in the identification and testing of best practices," adding, "The activities will result in standards, guides on best practices, studies and innovative tools that can be used in capacity-building programs and training."
We are now seeing these PPPs being leveraged to develop the standards and best practices for the WEF vaccine program—a program that will be expanded in "capacity" until it encompasses the entire globe and all the sheeple within it.
Event 201—Public-Private Partnerships Are Lynchpin of Vaccine Program
In case there was any doubt about the World Economic Forum and United Nation's intention to use public-private partnerships to implement the Great Reset and usher in the New World Order agenda, one needs look no further than Event 201.
The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted in the Fall of 2019, was entirely geared around developing "public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness and response."
And who pray tell was one of the primary facilitators of this event?
Why the World Economic Forum of course!
The event participants asserted that a successful response to the next severe pandemic (i.e., the coronavirus plandemic) "will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments, international organizations, and the private sector… there are major unmet global vulnerabilities and international system challenges posed by pandemics that will require new robust forms of public-private cooperation to address."
In fact, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly proposed seven recommendations in the wake of Event 201—all of which involved a laser-like focus on utilizing public-private partnerships as the response mechanism.
Chaos Theory: WEF Seeks to Gain Global Control through Vaccine Program
Mandë Holford and Tolu Oni, writing on the WEF Forum, assert, "Never let a good crisis go to waste… Happily, chaos theory dictates that even apparent randomness contains underlying layers of patterns and interdependence that make chaotic moments opportune for doing transformational things."
Putting aside the rational and reasonable question as to whether the COVID "chaos" is in fact random at all… or, rather, is an intentional (planned) dialectic effort to produce the desired transformation, what is clear is that the globalists view the pandemic as the golden opportunity to finally achieve the great transformation that have sought.
And this transformation all ties back to Agenda 2030—and its predecessor Agenda 21.
Holford and Oni proclaim:
It just so happens that best tools for combating a global pandemic align perfectly with the SDGs [The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals], inciting renewed vigor to reset the relationship between nature and humanity and to rebuild better."
By the way, it's no coincidence that this sounds strikingly similar to Biden's "Build Back Better" motto for America.
And, again, how do they propose to seize that opportunity?
They point to public-private partnerships as one of the most critical tools in the NWO bag of tricks.
Their message is crystal clear for all those with eyes to see and ears to hear: "From crisis comes chaos, and collaboration for the greater good; partnerships towards a greater good for humanity are growing since the COVID crisis."
There is coming a day when a one-world government will officially mandate the vaccine. However, make no mistake about it, vaccination will be "mandated" from the very start by the private sector through carefully orchestrated coercive manipulation.
Want your life back?
Well, just get vaccinated and you can enjoy all the pleasures of "normalcy" offered in the Green Zones!
We began this article with a quote from Mike Cernovich. I think it's worth repeating as we now conclude: "Government won't force you to take [the] vaccine. Amazon will. Airlines will. Banks will. You won't be able to buy, sell, or trade without the vaccine."
While the vaccine will not be a state-mandated requirement in the beginning, make no mistake about it… it will quickly become "mandatory" none the less through coercive manipulation.
That was the plan all along.
The World Economic Forum and United Nations will usher in the Great Reset by leveraging a program of vaccination compliance—a program that will be unleashed on an unsuspecting world not by the might and force of government but, rather, by the wiles of the private sector.
The same private sector that is led by globalist executives who are secretly in bed with the New World Order agenda and working in concert with it through hidden and deceitful partnerships.
Want to keep your job? Want to have your life back?
No problem! The good guys of the corporate world can make that happen… all you have to do is comply and get vaccinated!
Why resist?
Everything you desire is behind door number one… you just have to sell your soul to get it.
No, the current vaccine is not the mark of the beast. First, we don't have a beast yet. Second, true believers won't be here when it becomes the mark—we will be gone!
However, it is clearly the forerunner to, framework for, and spirit of the coming mark and antichrist system.
Knowing that, do you really want to play with it?
Do you really want to accept it now… out of convenience and the misguided belief that, oh, when it really is the mark, I'll resist and refuse it???
Don't kid yourself. You're being conditioned like a sheep led to the slaughter.
If you aren't willing to resist a little inconvenient coercion now, you won't do it later… when doing so will cost you your life.
Well, you can have it. But, understand, it will cost you something… you will have to sellout to the NWO agenda and the spirit of the antichrist system through vaccination compliance.
In considering your decision, we would all be wise to remember the words of Jesus:
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal… For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (John 12:25; Mark 8:36)
To get your "life" back (i.e., the ability to work, buy, sell, trade and travel), you will have to comply with (and eventually worship) the New World Order system. It starts with the vaccine… but it won't stop there!
Be prepared by putting yourself in the best possible position to resist!
First, resisting will require that you are as physically prepared as possible. As the powers that be tighten the net around you (limiting your freedom of movement and threatening your livelihood), you will need to have the resources to continue resisting!
We will quickly shift from expanding "Green Zones" to shrinking "Red Zones". As compliance becomes the norm, the focus will turn to tightening the screws on the resistance. You will be increasingly cutoff from access to many resources. Make sure you are in a position where you can't be compromised!
For more on the importance of prepping, I encourage you to read our article 10 Reasons It's Completely Biblical for a Christian to Be a Prepper.
Second, you need to be spiritually prepared. Ultimately, this isn't a physical battle nor is there a worldly solution.
To learn more about the importance of your spiritual prepping, I encourage you to read our articles:
The Ship IS Sinking… What Are YOU Going to Do as It Goes Under?
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The Great Deception: 4 Biblical Reasons NOT to Fight the NWO Agenda?
My advice would be to resist the vaccine program and embrace salvation today—salvation in Christ… not a government, corporation or vaccine.
Salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone is the only answer—there is no other means by which you and I can be saved.
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." (Ephesians 2:4-9)
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Doug is a passionate servant of Christ and holds an MBA, BBA (Summa Cum Laude), and AAcc from Liberty University, as well as an additional two years of study at Bible college. He has over 20-years of corporate finance, accounting, and operations management experience—spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors. He is proud to have served his country as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and his local communities as a firefighter/EMT and reserve peace officer—experience that has provided him with a unique skill-set when it comes to emergency medicine, firearms, crisis management, and wilderness survival. Doug enjoys playing the drums, prepping, and spending time with family—especially in the Outer Banks of NC.
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A creationist museum is a facility that hosts exhibits which use the established natural history museum format to present a young Earth creationist view that the Earth and life on Earth were created some 6,000 to 10,000 years ago in six days. These facilities generally promote pseudoscientific biblical literalist creationism and contest evolutionary science. Their claims are dismissed by the scientific community.

Canada
 Big Valley Creation Science Museum, located in Big Valley, Alberta.
 Creation Truth Ministries Travelling Museum, located in Red Deer, Alberta.

China
 Noah's Ark, located in Hong Kong.

United Kingdom
 Genesis Expo, located in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
 Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, located in Wraxall, Somerset, whilst not strictly speaking a museum, represents creationism as scientific fact.

United States

California
 Cabazon Dinosaurs, located in Cabazon, California, are best known for their appearance in the film Pee Wee's Big Adventure. When the attraction's original owner died in 2005, the roadside dinosaurs were sold and turned into a museum promoting creationism. Unlike other creationist museums, the materials at this museum argue that dinosaurs still exist today.
 Museum of Creation and Earth History, located in Santee, California, was originally part of the Institute for Creation Research. The museum, established shortly after its parent in 1970, moved to its current site in the mid-1980s. The museum presents the view that all humans are descendants of the first humans created by God some six to ten thousand years ago and that a worldwide flood left behind beds of fossils that can be found all around the world, including on high plateaus and mountain ranges. The museum displays portraits of people the museum identifies as evolutionists, such as Andrew Carnegie who is described as "cruel and heartless in his own day to competitors and laborers alike" along with Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler.

Florida
 A Key Encounter Theater, located in Key West, Florida.
 Creation Adventures Museum, located in Arcadia, Florida.
 Creation Discovery Museum, located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Idaho
 Northwest Science Museum, founded 2014 in Boise, Idaho

Kentucky
 Creation Museum, located in Petersburg, Kentucky, opened in 2007 and constructed at a cost of $27 million, includes exhibits of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden accompanied by dinosaurs.  Fossils are said to have been created in the biblical flood during the days of Noah. Plans for the museum date back to 1996.
Ark Encounter is a Christian theme park that opened in Grant County, Kentucky on July 7, 2016. The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of Noah's Ark from the Genesis flood narrative in the Bible which is  long,  wide, and  high. The park also includes a petting zoo. Ark Encounter is operated by Answers in Genesis (AiG).

Montana
 Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum located in Glendive, Montana.

New York
 Lost World Museum, located in Phoenix, New York, features odd creatures in its creationist exhibits, including a one-eyed kitten and a supposed chupacabra from Texas.

North Carolina
 Creation Museum, Taxidermy Hall of Fame of North Carolina, and Antique Tool Museum, located in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

Ohio
 Akron Fossils & Science Center, located in Akron/Copley, Ohio.

South Dakota
 Grand River Museum, located in Lemmon, South Dakota.

Tennessee
 Wyatt Museum, located in Cornersville, Tennessee.

Texas
 Creation Evidence Museum, located in Glen Rose, Texas.
 ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History, located in Dallas, Texas, operated by the Institute for Creation Research
 Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, located in Crosbyton, Texas.
 Museum of Earth History, located in Dallas, Texas, was described by The Guardian as "first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective" and was constructed as a joint venture of the Creation Truth Foundation and the Great Passion Play outdoor Biblical theme park, which attracts over seven million visitors a year to its 4,500-seat arena. Among the high-quality replica casts of dinosaurs are exhibits showing dinosaurs coexisting in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. The museum asserts that most dinosaurs became extinct during the Great Flood, and that while a pair of young dinosaurs accompanied elephants and lions on Noah's Ark, these became extinct later.

Washington
 Mount St. Helens Creation Information Center, located in Castle Rock, Washington near Mount St. Helens, uses the volcano's 1980 eruption to show that geologic change can happen on a rapid scale, and that changes believed by mainstream scientists to take millions of years can occur in as short a period of time as hours or days.

See also
 History of Earth
 Timeline of human evolution

References

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Young Earth creationism


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The 2014 Dahsyatnya Awards was an awards show for Indonesian musicians. It was the sixth annual show. The show was held on January 21, 2014, at the Jakarta International Expo in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. The awards show was hosted by Raffi Ahmad, Luna Maya, Olga Syahputra, Ayu Dewi, and Denny Cagur. The awards ceremonies will held theme for "Dahsyatnya Cinta Indonesia".

In 2015, This awards show won the Favorite Special Events award at the Panasonic Gobel Awards.

Raffi Ahmad led the nominations with four categories, followed by JKT48 and Syahrini with three nominations. JKT48 was the biggest winner of the night, taking home three awards for Outstanding Stage Act, Outstanding Collaboration Duo/Group, and Outstanding Song for "River".

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

SMS and social media

Jury

Awards

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Title: Aventurine
Subject: Sunstone, Jewellery, Quartz, Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace, Murano glass
Aventurine is used for a number of applications, including landscape stone, building stone, aquaria, monuments, and jewelry. (Unknown scale)
Aventurine is a form of quartz, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence.
The most common colour of aventurine is green, but it may also be orange, brown, yellow, blue, or gray. Chrome-bearing fuchsite (a variety of muscovite mica) is the classic inclusion, and gives a silvery green or blue sheen. Oranges and browns are attributed to hematite or goethite. Because aventurine is a rock, its physical properties vary: its specific gravity may lie between 2.64-2.69 and its hardness is somewhat lower than single-crystal quartz at around 6.5.
Aventurine (unknown scale)
Aventurine feldspar or sunstone can be confused with orange and red aventurine quartzite, although the former is generally of a higher transparency. Aventurine is often banded and an overabundance of fuchsite may render it opaque, in which case it may be mistaken for malachite at first glance.
The name aventurine derives from the Italian "a ventura" meaning "by chance". This is an allusion to the lucky discovery of aventurine glass or goldstone at some point in the 18th century. Although it was known first, goldstone is now a common imitation of aventurine and sunstone. Goldstone is distinguished visually from the latter two minerals by its coarse flecks of copper, dispersed within the glass in an unnaturally uniform manner. It is usually a golden brown, but may also be found in blue or green.
The majority of green and blue-green aventurine originates in India (particularly in the vicinity of Mysore and Chennai) where
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