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Mon, 24 Sep 2018 | Greenland and the Arctic
Chukotka's main city forms a tatty sprawl across a low-lying tongue of fairly flat land on Anadyr Bay. Functional three- and five-storey concrete blocks line the main thoroughfare, Otke ulitsa, and the town's skyline is dominated by the chimney and cooling towers of the power station. The newly tapped Zapadno-Ozernoe gas field offers Anadyr hopes of economic salvation and has caused a small building boom, with new cinema and shopping complexes recendy completed. Near the main post office, the...
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 | Greenland and the Arctic
A host of national parks and reserves protects the pristine and fragile Arctic environments of the far north. Those mentioned in the table (see p58) are featured in more detail elsewhere in the book. Other parks in Norway include Forlandet in Svalbard, which protects the breeding grounds for eider ducks, geese, seals and walrus lonely and dramatic Rago, with its high mountain peaks divided by plunging valleys and waterfalls Reisa, which protects the dramatic Reisa Gorge, its lovely waterfalls...
Scandinavaia
Wed, 16 May 2018 | Greenland and the Arctic
Hvitserk ( 2412 6230 www.hvitserk.no) Offers three-and four-week tours across the Greenland icecap on skis or by dogsled (price on application), and two-week expeditions to climb East Greenland's Gunnbjornsfjeld ( 7500) and Mt Vinson. Nonni Travel ( 461 1841 www.nonnitravel.is) Greenland expeditions from Ittoqqortoormiit, including 10-day 68 TOURING THE ARCTIC Adventure Tours dogsledding trips ( 2795), 10-day kayaking trips ( 4880), two-week kayaking trips from Ammassalik ( 3600) and expedition...
Vegetarians Vegans
Sat, 07 Apr 2018 | Greenland and the Arctic
Sorry, folks, you're plain out of luck in the Arctic. Diets were traditionally meat based, and not much has changed in terms of cooking or attitude. Other than self-catering you'll have few options. However, most supermarkets, even in small towns, stock a good selection of basic vegetables and fruit, plenty of dried goods such as rice and pasta and the makings of simple vegetarian meals. Even at tourist hotels the menus typically have only three or four dishes, all meat-based. Vegetarianism is...
Yamal Permits
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Technically, you'll require a permit to venture into the Yamal Peninsula. Until 2003 several travellers managed a trip without one, but recently authorities have been much stricter, and some visitors have been arrested and deported from Russia for permit violations. Check carefully in Salekhard for the latest information before heading out. The strategic gas-production area Bovanyenkogo is especially sensitive. of the Easter Island Moai heads, albeit in miniature wooden form. Other totems have...
Side Trip Quttinirpaaq National Park
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
If you have a fortune to squander and a penchant for wide-open spaces, head for Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerly Ellesmere Island National Park), right up at the top of the world. It's Canada's second-biggest park and one of the world's most pristine wilderness areas. Superlatives include numerous High Arctic icecaps and glaciers Cape Columbia, the continent's northernmost point Mt Barbeau, which at 2616m is the highest peak in eastern North America and Lake Hazen Basin, a thermal oasis...
Lovozero
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
In the peninsula's centre, Lovozero is the concrete-block town to which Stalin forcibly moved many Sami nomads after 1929. This cultural disgrace resulted in the 1938 anticollectivisation rebellion, which was brutally suppressed by the Soviet army and followed by the execution of many Sami chiefs. These days the town has a Sami history museum featuring a particularly fine petro-glyph. Lovozero Adventure organises helicopter trout-fishing trips on the Rova River, sold through...
The Confrontation Period
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
In 1907 the Russian imperial fleet was defeated by Japan. Military reinforcements coming by way of the Suez Canal had arrived too late, and the loss prompted a survey to investigate the potential of the Northeast Passage's as a strategic waterway. Two specially built coal-fired icebreakers surveyed the Bering Strait region between 1914 and 1915, and then made the journey to Murmansk. Roald Amundsen completed the next transit of the Northeast Passage between 1918 and 1923 aboard the Maud. At the...
Getting There Away
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Four weekly flights go to Beryozovo (bookings 94544, R1065, 50 minutes). From June to September there are crowded but well-maintained Ob-Irtysh river steamers every eight days to Salekhard (first third class R920 345, two days). The steamers stop at Priobye Sergino, Beryozovo and the incredibly isolated Oktobrskaya market. Timetables vary every year request details from Rosrechflot ( 3812-398521 Omsk). If you have a berth you'll find the boats comfortable there are passable restaurants on...
Salekhard To Vorkuta
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
The nearest train station to Salekhard is in the town of Labytnangi, across the wide Ob River. Reaching Labytnangi from Sale khard starts with a 10km bus ride to the river ferry from the town centre, running via Hotel Sibir and the airport (R30, last at midnight). The ferry (R20 pedestrians, 15 minutes) runs hourly and leaves you a 3km taxi ride (R50) short of Labytnangi train station. Near Labytnangi the new Gor-nolyzhnyi Komplex (ski centre) operates a popular if somewhat unchallenging 400m...
Festivals Events
Sat, 22 Jul 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Apart from gold, Fairbanks' other claim to fame is as dog-mushing capital of the world, and the city is home to the North America Sled Dog Championships, a three day event in which mushers, some with teams as large as 20 dogs, compete in a series of 32km to 48km (20- to 30-mile) races. Fairbanks is also the start of the Yukon Quest, arguably the toughest dogsled race in the world. The 1637km (1023-mile) run between Fairbanks and Whitehorse follows many of the early trails used by trappers,...
Getting to Yakutsk
Sun, 04 Jun 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Yakutsk has several weekly air connections to Moscow (R9000), Irkutsk (R3400) and Khabarovsk (R4900), and a twice-monthly river ferry to Ust Kut on the BAM railway, where there are trains to Krasnoyarsk. Getting to Chukotka Anadyr (p291) is the main hub, with flights from as far afield as Moscow (Domodedovo) or Khabarovsk, mostly via Magadan on Chukotavia ((H) 42722 56569). Chukotka is sporadically accessible from Alaska thanks to charter flights from Anchorage to Anadyr and notably Nome to...
Sun, 21 May 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Although life in most Inuit towns and settlements resembles that of the Western world, with supermarkets, satellite TV and Internet access, many smaller settlements have few facilities, no running water and a much more traditional and generally impoverished lifestyle. Wherever you go, however, the veneer of modern life is fairly superficial and tradition influences many daily activities. Family groups are still incredibly important, and in most towns there is a complex network of family...
The Northwest Passage
Mon, 15 May 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
At the beginning of the 1700s, the central American Arctic was an unknown whalers had never travelled this far west, and the Russians had never ventured further east than Alaska. Investors were happily accumulating enormous wealth from fur in northern Canada, though, and were less willing to get involved in the more risky business of Arctic exploration. The British Royal Navy, long experienced in naval expeditions, and stuck with a very large and inactive fleet after the end of the Napoleonic...
Itinerary Yamal Explorer
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
This is the long, cold way to cross the Asia-Europe divide. Spot gulags (prison camps), oil fields and Nenets herders as you edge closer to the Yamal tundra, then bolt south again towards Moscow. The rural Yamal region is interesting for its Nenets reindeer-herding culture, although it's well hidden behind a veil of Soviet oil and mining settlements. For independent travellers the basic loop offers an opportunity to explore the Russian Arctic without a lengthy backtrack. Start with multiday...
Itinerary Canadas Dempster Highway
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Starting from Dawson, the last remnant of the Yukon gold rush, the Dempster winds its way through pristine wilderness flanked by craggy peaks and rolling tundra before arriving at the Arctic hub of Inuvik, gateway to the remote communities of the Western Arctic. One of the most incredible road trips on earth, the Dempster Hwy is one of only two roads in North America that cross the Arctic Circle (the other, the Dalton Hwy, is outlined in Itinerary 3). This 747km (467-mile) stretch of gravel...
The Inuit Today
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
The Inuit today seem caught in a constant battle with outside forces over which they can exert little control. Activities in the industrialised world are having a huge effect on what remains of their traditional culture. Climate change (see p27) is one of the most pressing concerns, as sea-ice conditions are deteriorating quickly and hunters can no longer travel to traditional spring hunting grounds. Couple that with health warnings advising Inuit not to eat their traditional food sources...
Russian Expansion
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Russia's long-term campaign to extend its empire and conquer new territory was highly successful, but in the 17th century the northern regions of the country still remained largely unknown. That is, until Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev rounded the extreme eastern cape of Asia, now Cape Dezhnev (p293), in 1648. Peter the Great, founder of the Russian navy, became even more intent on expanding his empire after Denmark began the colonisation of Greenland in 1721. He set in motion a series of...
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Arctic atmospheric research also looks at the role of the carbon cycle - the movement of carbon between the atmosphere, the oceans, living organisms and the earth itself. For decades scientists thought that sea ice prevented the Arctic Ocean from exchanging gas with the atmosphere, creating a carbon sink - or store of carbon - in the icy water. But new research suggests that the opposite is true, radically altering science's understanding of how the Arctic Ocean fits into the world's climate...
The Sami Today
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Although reindeer herding is central to Sami culture, only a minority depend on it today and many of those who do are supported by government subsidies. The expansion of agriculture, the development of mining, tourism, forestry and hydrocarbon projects, and changes in herding and breeding practice have all encroached upon Sami reindeer-herding lands and put further pressure on this way of life. Across the Sami homeland, environmental problems and resource development are among the biggest...
Traditional Culture
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 | Greenland and the Arctic
Like many other Arctic peoples, the Chukchi believe that the universe is populated with spirits. Everything in the world, be it animate or inanimate, has a life force and shares the same spiritual nature. In traditional Chukchi religion, shamanism was important for healing and divination, and the shaman made journeys to the spirit world to retrieve the wandering souls of the sick. Chukchi celebrations and rituals revolved around the annual cycle of hunting and harvesting. Traditionally, the...
Indigenous Conservation Efforts
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 | Greenland and the Arctic
Indigenous people have always relied on Arctic flora and fauna for survival, and they have been the first to witness the detrimental effects of industrialisation and climate change (see p27). They have also suffered at the hands of regional and federal governments who have appropriated mineral-rich land and returned little, if any, of its wealth to the indigenous people. This environmental injustice and the sight of traditional hunting or herding grounds ruined by industry has turned the native...
Starting some 75km east of Norilsk, the ultra-isolated, windswept Putorana Plateau rises magnificently, like a gigantic green-tinged dinosaur dripping with dramatic waterfalls. Russian adventure lovers nickname this the Lost World and rave about the purity of its untouched nature. Beneath lichen-covered rocks, brooks murmur hypnotically, foxberries remain edible beneath carpets of winter snows, and contorted larch trees give the forested areas a mysterious, fairytale atmosphere. Only the top...
Staples Specialities
Today most Arctic people enjoy a mixed diet of Western food and traditional meats. Although processed foods are expensive and fresh fruit and vegetables are still a luxury, in many places they are readily available. Traditional Arctic cooking is very simple, with stews and fried meat or fish being the highlight of the menu. Dried fish is popular when travelling and bannock, a simple white pan-fried bread, is common in the native communities of northern Canada and Alaska. The evening meal is...
Katannilik Territorial Park
One of the finest, most accessible parks in Nunavut is just outside the community of Kimmirut (population 433), about 175km (109 miles) from Iqaluit. Katannilik comprises two main features the Soper River and the Itijjagiaq Trail. A Canadian Heritage waterway, the aquamarine Soper splashes 50 navigable kilometres through a deep, fertile valley, past cascades, caribou, gemstone deposits and dwarf-willow forests. Paddlers usually spend three days to a week floating and exploring. Hikers and...
Itinerary The Arctic Yenisey
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 | Greenland and the Arctic
Were you permitted to use them, frequent Yenisey steamers would offer the easiest way to cruise a great Arctic river. The wild Taymyr Peninsula and Putorana Plateau are Arctic Russia's adventure treasure troves, and Khatanga has flights almost as far as the North Pole. If only they'd drop those accursed permit regulations Summer river transport on the Yenisey runs more frequently than on any other Arctic river. The route described here starts in Igarka, the first ferry stop above the Arctic...
Scandinavia Travel Routes
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 | Greenland and the Arctic
Making it to Svalbard (p324), one of the most impressive destinations on earth Enjoying a cocktail at the ultra-cool Ice Hiking in Pallas-Ounastunturi National Park (p327) or the Kilpisj rvi region Looking out over the turquoise seas and fabulous scenery of the Lofoten islands (p303) Sitting back and admiring the fantastic coastal scenery from the legendary Hurtigruten steamer (p298) Pallas-Ounastunturi Lofoten Af * National Park The starkly beautiful wilderness of the Scandinavian Arctic makes...
The Athapaskans Today
Tue, 10 May 2016 | Greenland and the Arctic
Dramatic changes swept through Athapaskan villages over the course of the 20th century. Education delivered through formal schooling, together with policies of modernisation and assimilation into mainstream American and Canadian society, meant that traditional knowledge and activities were lost. Language skills are now particularly vulnerable the dominant influence of English and a lack of suitably qualified local teachers to deliver schooling in Athapaskan languages mean that whole generations...
Activities Hiking Auyuittuq National Park
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 | Greenland and the Arctic
Auyuittuq (ah-you-ee-tuk) means 'the land that never melts'. Appropriately, there are plenty of glaciers in this 19,500-sq-km park, plus jagged peaks, vertiginous cliffs, deep valleys, fjords and meadows. The most popular activity in the area is the 97km (61-mile) Akshayuk Pass hiking route when it's snow-free (between late June and early September). Nearby, intrepid climbers head for Mt Thor, with its incredible 1500m granite cliff face, the earth's tallest wall. You can camp wherever you can...
Activities Paddling The Porcupine River
If you fancy some true wilderness experience, try an incredible canoe trip from Eagle Plains to Alaska. This unforgettable 1100km 688-mile trip takes about three weeks and will take you through remote and untouched landscapes with breathtaking scenery and plenty of opportunities for spotting wildlife and meeting the locals. You'll need to be prepared for true wilderness camping, unpredictable weather, swarms of mosquitoes and little contact with civilisation. You'll have to transport your own...
Varzuga
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 | Greenland and the Arctic
The traditional ex-whaling village of Varzuga is around 140km west of Umba through seemingly endless forest 115km of this is unpaved but driveable . Founded around 1490 by monks from the Solovetski Islands, many of Varzuga's houses are timber cottages with photogenic carved porches. Varzuga's highlight is the stunning Uspensky Church built 1684 , an all-wooden structure rising over 30m to a central bulbed spire. Beside it is the quaint Afansevskaya church built 1854 and a delightful log-framed...
The Sami
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 | Greenland and the Arctic
The name Lapp means 'piece of cloth'or'patch', and is now considered aderogatoryterm.The name Sami derives from the people's own name for themselves and is much preferred. The Sami people live in Fennoscandia more often known as Lapland , a vast swath of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Approximately 80,000 people make up this indigenous group and, although they are linguistically related to the Finns, Hungarians and Estonians, the culture and lifestyle are...
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 | Greenland and the Arctic
The redeeming feature of this crushingly dull new oil town is the Nyagan Museum admission R50 , displaying fascinating archaeological finds from Emder www.hist.usu.ru urc english exped itions.htm , which was the capital of a 12th-to 16th-century Ugrian principality on the Endyr River. Emder's site is 90km southeast of Nyagan, 7km by mud road off the new Nyagan to Khanty-Mansiysk highway. At the time of research archaeologists were still investigating volunteers keen to join the three-week digs...
Gateway Cities Getting to Dawson
Air North 800-764 0407 www.flyalrnorth.com flies from Whitehorse to Dawson. To get to White-horse by air you can pick up an Air Canada 1-8882472262 www.aircanada.ca flight in Vancouver, or an Air North service from Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary. Alternatively, bus it to Whitehorse with Greyhound 1-800 661 8747 www.greyhound.ca and then hop on the Dawson City Courier 1-867 993 6688 www.dawsonbus.ca to Dawson.
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 | Greenland and the Arctic
Set in an area inhabited for millennia by the Sami, Kandalaksha is a White Sea port city that traded with Novgorod from the 11th century. Until it was abolished in 1742 the town's focus was a major monastery whose magical silver bell remains the centre of local legends. Repeatedly sacked by invaders, Kandalaksha was a battleground in the 1919 struggle between the Bolsheviks and British-backed White Russia. Although now noted for its giant aluminium smelter, the area is nonetheless attractively...
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Meaning of Idiom 'An Embarrassment of Riches'
An embarrasment of riches is an overwhelming abundance of something; having more of a good thing than one needs, especially if this makes it difficult to choose. 1Ammer, Christine. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.,2McCarthy, Michael. Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. Cambridge University Press, 2002
To say someone has an 'embarrassment of riches' does not mean that they are actually embarrassed by having too many possessions or too much money. Although it can simply refer to having an overabundance of something, it is especially used to indicate that there is so much to choose from, you find it difficult to choose just one. The idiom can refer to material possessions, skills, people, etc.
"His problem was always an embarrassment of riches. He chose his university by drawing from a hat."
"When it comes to hotels, the town suffers from an embarrassment of riches."
"Presently we have an embarrassment of riches in the form of digital information."
It is widely claimed that this idiom owes its origin to John Ozell, who translated a French Play called L'Embarrass des richesses, into English and published this translation in 1735 (not 1738 as variously claimed…see image below: MDCCXXXV translates to 1735).
Although the title of the French play could indeed be directly translated into "an embarrasment of riches," the problem with the claim that Ozell originated the idiom is that Ozell did not use this as his title. Instead, he called the play Plague of Riches.
Although embarrassment of riches has been used in English since at least the 1720s, earlier than Ozell's translation appeared, it does not appear to have entered common use until the 1800s. Although the idiom clearly did not come from Ozell's translation, it is possible that it came from the play, as the translation is a fairly easy one even for those who do not speak French. The play was performed in both England and Scotland in the original French language. It is not clear that Ozell's English version was ever actually performed, however. See more discussion. 3 Deiss, Robert. "The Embarrassingly Wrong History of the Expression 'Embarrassment of Riches.'" This Day in Quotes, Subtropic Productions LLC, 9 Oct. 2016, www.thisdayinquotes.com/2013/07/embarrassment-of-riches-l-des-richesses.html.
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1. ↲ Ammer, Christine. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
2. ↲ McCarthy, Michael. Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. Cambridge University Press, 2002
3. ↲ Deiss, Robert. "The Embarrassingly Wrong History of the Expression 'Embarrassment of Riches.'" This Day in Quotes, Subtropic Productions LLC, 9 Oct. 2016, www.thisdayinquotes.com/2013/07/embarrassment-of-riches-l-des-richesses.html.

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Thousands Raised at One Million Meter Row-A-Thon Will Benefit Hampton, NH Police and Fire Departments' Charitable Work
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An exhausting one million meter row-a-thon will benefit the Hampton police and fire departments in a big way.
Calling it one of their largest donations, the Hampton Police Association and the Hampton Fire Fighters Charitable Organization on Monday received a whopping $14,200 gift from MaxEdge Fitness Training and LeMay Family Goodworks.
The row-a-thon was held at MaxEdge in Hampton on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and featured 20 rowing machines - each set to 50,000 meters - with participants who took turns rowing until the 1 million meter mark was reached.
After about four hours and a lot of sweat, the teams met their goal.
"We wanted to do something that would incorporate all of our members," MaxEdge owner Jay Collins said.
LeMay Family Goodworks, a North Hampton-based charitable organization, agreed to match the money raised by MaxEdge's row-a-thon.
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The $14,200 will be split between the police association and the firefighters' organization to support their charitable work.
The row-a-thon was a way to celebrate the gym's 10-year anniversary and also give back to the community.
"We do like to keep things as local as we can and we thought, what better way than to incorporate police and fire. They see the needs that happen that a lot of people don't see," Collins said.
The bulk of MaxEdge's portion was raised through a raffle featuring numerous donated items and the sale of event T-shirts.
"We'll be able to do a lot of things with this," said Craig Jordan, a Hampton firefighter/paramedic and president of the Hampton Fire Fighters Charitable Organization.
Jordan took part in the row-a-thon on a team of five members who began by rowing in 1,000-meter blocks, which took about four minutes to complete.
"There was plenty of rest time, but it was exhausting at times," he said.
Hampton police officer Clay DeMarco, president of the Hampton Police Association, said the donation was the biggest he's seen in his nine years with the association, which uses the money for charitable work in the community.
The association donates to the schools, helps children in need during the holidays, replaces children's bicycles when they're stolen or damaged, and donates to local homeless shelters and food pantries.
"We all love working here and giving back to our community every way we can. We'll be able to do a ton of good with it and we're excited," he said.
Michelle LeMay of LeMay Family Goodworks said the organization was founded last year and is in its 39th week of a 52 weeks of giving campaign.
"We talk to family, we talk to friends, we talk to local people we know to see what's important to them, what charitable organizations are meaningful to them and why. We figure out what we're going to do every week," said LeMay, who is a member of MaxEdge.
Over the past several months, LeMay said she's found that veteran, police, fire and children's charities may become the organization's focus, but for now it will continue to support a variety of causes.
Hampton firefighter Sean Murray has been a member of MaxEdge for 10 years and participated in the row-a-thon.
"Jay does a lot of things to help inspire people and push them to do things you wouldn't typically think of doing," Murray said.
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Barcelona Declares Climate Emergency, Vows To Halve Emissions By 2030
Spain's second-largest city is becoming a model for sustainable urban planning.
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01/16/2020 12:50pm EST | Updated January 16, 2020
BARCELONA ― The city government here declared a climate emergency and vowed to spend $628 million over the next five years to dramatically slash its output of planet-heating emissions and fortify this sun-soaked Mediterranean metropolis for the warming that's already unavoidable.
Lawmakers in Spain's second-largest city on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping policy package that includes 103 measures ranging from bans on polluting vehicles in newly demarcated "low-emissions zones" to the creation of more parks to phasing out single-use plastics.
The changes are projected to help halve the city's emissions by 2030. That target is in line with what United Nations scientists say is required globally to keep warming in the relatively safe range of 1.5 degrees Celsius, roughly half a degree hotter than average temperatures today.
"This is not a drill, the house is on fire," Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau said at a press conference, according to a translation of the speech published in El País, the country's newspaper of record.
The announcement comes months after a European Union report found that Spain's nationwide emissions increased 17.9% during a 27-year period in which greenhouse gas outputs fell 23.5% across the continent.
The backslide, coupled with a record-breaking heatwave this summer, helped spur the ruling Socialist Party to become the first national government in the developed world to endorse the Green New Deal framework for lowering emissions. Dubbing its program "el New Deal Verde," the center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez narrowly won reelection last fall and last week swore in a new cabinet formed in coalition with the anti-austerity party Podemos.
Yet domestic tensions and spending restrictions from the EU threatened to stunt this new left-wing government's loftier climate ambitions.
The Catalonian independence flag flutters on balconies across Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous region where the movement to fully separate from Spain flourishes. The nationalist fervor has inflamed tensions with the far-right Vox party, which surged to third place in Spain's parliament in November's elections in part due to its hard-line stance against independence. On Sunday, Vox, which rejects climate science outright, led rallies of more than 100,000 protestors, who called Sánchez a "traitor" to the nation.
Making it even harder to implement a sweeping Green New Deal plan is Spain's fragile economy and steep national debt, which means that it can't borrow money for large-scale climate infrastructure projects without running afoul of EU rules on deficit spending.
That hasn't tempered Barcelona's own urban planning goals. Since 2014, the city has been working on rezoning large swaths of its center as "superblocks," where all but necessary automobiles are barred from driving. The idea ― which the writer Dave Roberts called a "radical plan to take back the streets from cars" in a must-read series on Barcelona's urban planning strategy ― could now serve as a model for other cities choked by traffic and the emissions spewed by stalled vehicles.
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This is an old blog, on which you can find new media theory posts and other musings.
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It was a long, fun and interesting journey (and yes, I must admit, it was also tiring at times), but I'm happy to announce that my MA thesis on the software behind social networking sites (SNSs) is finally finished and submitted. Right now I'm waiting for the 'official' grading to be processed, but once that's in I will post my thesis entitled '(Re-)constructing Social Networking Sites: Examining Software Relations and its Influence on Users' on here ASAP.
As you can tell by the title, it treats both the software (the very construct) of SNSs and the influence this has on the user. One of the main claims in this writing is that software research – especially when it comes to SNSs – is still underdeveloped and more attention should be paid to the input just as well as the outcomes, which are now usually the subject of SNS studies.
Even though I started this blog only recently and did a pretty good job keeping it updated at first, I must admit (and regular visitors probably already noticed this) I'm not much of a blogger. At least not frequency-wise. Sometimes I'm just too busy. Other times, I can't find any inspiration. Either way: I don't blog much. UvA lecturer Anne Helmond gave a lecture on the 'Perceived Freshness Fetish', in which she looks at her own blogging addiction and analyses why bloggers feel the need to update their blogs daily.
1. The 'internal fetish', a wish or demand for the blogger himself to update daily.
2. The 'external fetish', the requirement from blog search engines to blog daily, thereby achieving a certain ranking.
Looking at my own experiences with blogging, I think this fetish could very well explain the need for bloggers to blog. Once my blog was up, I had to post. Of course, no one orders me to do this. But my blog is what represents me on the Web and since I've created it I HAVE to keep it up. It's something I feel internally. Perhaps this makes it more about others (the blog readers in this case) and less about me. Which makes me wonder: why am I blogging in the first place and who am I blogging for? I think it's safe to say that I'm not just blogging for myself, I hope to reach a certain audience and receive some feedback.
Not being a natural blogger, I constantly struggle with the question if I should blog randomly just to add a post (keeping my stats up) or if I should hold out until there's actually something interesting to write about. It's not that I don't enjoy keeping a blog, it's just not second nature to me. I have to make an effort to blog.
The external fetish is also something I've experienced. If I do not update my blog on a regular basis, the amount of visitors, stats and rankings will drop and eventually my blog will be deeply buried somewhere in search engine algorithms, nowhere to be found when requested. This raises the ontological question: do I still 'exist' when I can't be found on Google? How important is it for my online identity to be established and found on the Web?
In any case, this lecture introduces some interesting insights in the nature of the blogger.
I attended a workshop on (De-)Constructing Information Visualization yesterday evening, led by Yuri Engelhardt and Christian Behrens, who are both specialized in information visualization and data visualization and information design. It was all about 'exploring the notion of a 'building block systems' of visual language: Which basic visual coding principles can be identified as the building blocks of visualization? Which of these building blocks are appropriate for representing which kind of information? What are the 'rules of the game' for combining two, three, or many of these basic visual coding principles into meaningful and interesting visual representations?', as they explain it themselves.
We got a brief introduction to the history of data and information visualization, and then started cutting and pasting and created our own data visualization graphics. We used different cards and figures to represent the data or 'building blocks' and tried to recreate existing data visualizations (charts, maps and graphs). This turned out to be a pretty hard concept to grasp, because it's so abstract. We finally got the hang of it though, when we came up with our own data concept and a visualization to match.
I went to PICNIC 08 today, a three day conference on media technology, entertainment, art and science at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, where I attended the presentation All Media on which I wrote the following review.
Van Mensvoort says that our relation with nature is changing. Nature and culture are increasingly blending. He illustrates this with a few examples, like a picture he took on a nature walk of an odd looking tree, that actually turned out to be a cell phone antenne disguised as a pine tree. Or the fact that some people buy land from farmers and make this land look like it would have looked two thousand years ago. Nature becomes culture, and it's also becoming progressively more of a product.
Later on in the presentation Van Mensvoort brings up several concepts like biomimic marketing and visualization. He claims that scientists these days are doing a lot of interesting things, like creating non-allergic cats or 'victimless meat' (meat grown in lab dishes). We are reshaping nature for commercial objectives. We are creating our own mix between nature and culture.
The term 'Daily Me' was first coined in 1995 by author and MIT Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Law professor Cass Sunstein took up this notion in his book Republic.com published in 2001 (he also wrote about it in the updated version Republic.com 2.0 published last year) on which he wrote: 'It is some time in the future. Technology has greatly increased people's ability to "filter" what they want to read, see, and hear. General interest newspapers and magazines are largely a thing of the past. The same is true of broadcasters. The idea of choosing "channel 4" or instead "channel 7" seems positively quaint. With the aid of a television or computer screen, and the Internet, you are able to design your own newspapers and magazines. Having dispensed with broadcasters, you can choose your own video programming, with movies, game shows, sports, shopping, and news of your choice. You mix and match.' He decribed this utopian vision as a very possible threat to democracy and asks out loud if we really want these kind of applications.
I'm very curious to see what you all think about it.
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'80s Supercars
Here's How Your Boyhood Bedroom Posters Have Upended The '80s Supercar Market
1981 Lotus Esprit Turbo ($28,000)
1982 Lamborghini Countach ($420,000)
1983 Lamborghini Countach (Fire Dept.) ($445,000)
1983 Porsche 928 ($26,000)
1983 Porsche 911. $51,000
1985 De Tomaso Pantera. $82,000
1985 Ferrari 308 ($62,000)
1986 Mercedes-Benz 560SL Convertible ($31,000)
1986 Porsche 959 Cabriolet ($1 million)
1988 Porsche 911 Turbo Slant Nose ($85,000)
1988 Porsche 959 ($1 million)
1988 Ferrari 328 GTS ($66,000)
1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition. $290,000
1989 Rolls-Royce Corniche Convertible ($62,000)
1991 Acura NSX ($52,000)
1991 Dodge Stealth Twin Turbo ($30,000)
1991 Lamborghini Diablo ($99,000)
1991 Corvette ZR1 Convertible ($43,000)
1991 Ferrari 348 Testarossa ($37,000)
1991 Mercedes-Benz 500SL ($23,000)
Jared Paul Stern
According to the Financial Times, a new generation of buyers who came of age in the '80s has entered the classic car market, driving up prices for the dream cars of their youth. This has led to what the FT calls "bedroom wall" syndrome; the automotive equivalents of big hair, once shunned by collectors, are now fetching record sums. The paper cited figures from classic car insurer Hagerty International's latest price guide, based on auction prices, private sales and data from classic car dealers, showing certain models have skyrocketed. "Those who had the posters now have the means" to buy the actual cars, as an analyst from the UK's IHS Automotive said.
Citing examples of "emerging classics" like the Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari 308, Hagerty exec Marcus Atkinson noted they "have now solidly moved from 'yesterday's supercar' or 'used car' to certified collectable." The FT, however, failed to come up with a single original poster in support of its argument -- which is where we come in. The following 20 examples all date from the once denigrated decade of automotive excess that began in 1981. And we brought in our own expert, Megan Boyd, Car Specialist with Auctions America, to comment on some of the choicier selections. "Each of these cars is finding new and willing buyers in those who hung them on their walls, worshipped them on the big screen, or yearned to take their father's example out for a spin," she notes. (Check out Auctions America's Fort Lauderdale sale in March for a chance to score some up-and-coming '80s classics.)
NB: the values we've quoted here from the Hagerty guide are for totally mint, concours condition cars; you can still find fixer-uppers for a lot less if you're willing to invest in a costly restoration, or just want to keep a Lambo up on blocks in your garage.
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Top Story — As of today, Cuba will be able import U.S. goods on credit for the first time since the start of an economic embargo in 1962.
An economic embargo remains in place, subject to the control of the U.S. Congress. The shift comes two weeks after Obama called on Congress to "recognize that the Cold War is over," and end the embargo. Despite the intransigence of Congress, the Obama administration has made several recent, additional steps toward normalizing relations with Cuba, including a statement by Obama expressing his desire to visit the island nation before his term ends.
The administration nonetheless continues to highlight concerns over human rights, political expression and entrepreneurial freedom in Cuba. They urge the Cuban government to implement reforms that would increase economic independence, freedom of expression and access to the Internet.
Meanwhile, other major changes are coming to the island as tourism has increased overall by 17.4 percent since the Dec. 2014 restoration of diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba. Visits from the United States by non-Cuban-Americans have also jumped by 77 percent. The overwhelmed tourist infrastructure may have an easier time keeping up with booming demand as U.S. goods face fewer restrictions on their way to the island.
Mexico's Jalisco state became the fourth jurisdiction in the country where gay couples can be legally married after the Supreme Court ruled against language in a Jalisco state law that defined marriage as between a man and woman.
A Mexican Health Ministry official said there is "no justification" to ask women to delay getting pregnant due to the outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil and recently spread to the United States.
Meanwhile, Obama met with public health and national security officials about the virus Tuesday and has called for expedited research in order to help diagnose, prevent and treat it.
The Texas city of El Paso has approved a plan to prepare for the visit in February by Pope Francis to the adjacent Mexican city of Juárez, which could cost El Paso more than $1 million even though the pontiff will remain on the Mexican side of the border.
Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has enjoyed growing influence in his country since he returned from exile in 2011, according to Reuters, and may serve as a kingmaker in an ongoing electoral dispute.
Puerto Rico is scheduled to hold debt-restructuring talks with representatives from several bondholder groups on Jan. 29, in an attempt to decide what to do with the island's $70 billion of bonds, a process further complicated since the U.S. territory has over a dozen types of bonds it must negotiate simultaneously.
Costa Rica has detected its first case of the Zika virus in a 25-year-old man who had visited Colombia.
The United Nations and Panama's Foreign Ministry hosted a workshop Tuesday for representatives to take part in a truth commission that will investigate the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, in which a disputed number of civilians were killed.
On Tuesday, Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, was transferred back to prison, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses, after a medical scare necessitated his transfer to a hospital.
Henry Ramos, the head of the opposition-led Venezuelan National Assembly, said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday that he doesn't expect current President Nicolás Maduro to complete his current term, adding he believes Maduro might be replaced this year.
In response to decreased global oil prices, Venezuela's state-owned hydrocarbon company PDVSA is seeking to attract more investment from international oil companies.
In order to combat the spread of the Zika virus, the Brazilian government will be deploying 220,000 troops trained to raise awareness about the virus throughout the country.
Brazilian police on Wednesday executed several search warrants in the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina, including in the hometown and headquarters of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the latest phase in an ongoing nationwide investigation into corruption.
On Tuesday, Argentine officials ordered LATAM Airlines workers, who belong to the country's commercial airline worker's union, to cease striking and return to work as pay negotiations resume.


In this latest "Stuff I Read On The Internet" entry, I look at two complementary posts on supply and demand issues in the bond market.
In "Who's Afraid Of China?", Paul Krugman discusses the fears associated with China's massive Treasury bond holdings, and shows why they are not a worry. See the discussion on Mike Norman Economics with regards to how his taking the view of the dominance of rate expectations is a move closer to the MMT theoretical position (and mine).
In "The Looming Bond Fund Crash", Paul Amery discusses the vulnerabilities noted by Citi Credit Strategist Matt King that are allegedly created by the shrinking dealer inventories of corporate bonds.
The win-win solution is obvious: the Chinese government should become a market maker in corporate bonds. They can easily ramp up their corporates inventory, and they can diversify their USD exposure away from Treasurys.
I agree with Paul Krugman's analysis. We could imagine a scenario where the Chinese leadership started reading some other blogs and decided that they could become the dominant geopolitical power by dumping their Treasury holdings in one day. What would happen? Obviously, they would be selling at a big discount, and the only way the market would clear is if the Fed stepped in and bought what they sold. What would be the result once all the trades clear? The Treasury holdings would just move from Chinese accounts to the Fed, and the Chinese will have lost a lot of money. They additionally would have a lot of USD deposits that they have to do something with.
Once the dust settles, the Chinese would be poorer, and Treasury yields might ultimately end up lower, since securities were moved to entity that does not have to sell. The Chinese could drive down the value of the U.S. dollar, but that is incoherent with their previous currency interventions, which were driving USD higher. As a result, I do not see how this particular scenario fits China's geopolitical interests.
Turning to the Paul Amery piece, the key observation is that dealer inventories are shrinking, while ETF and mutual fund holdings are rising. The worry is that dealer inventory will be too small to absorb flows from retail investors, who assume that they have ready liquidity in their ETF holdings.
I assume that lower inventory levels have widened bid-offer spreads. The dealers have profit targets to meet, and so they need to make up lost carry income with more income off transactions. This matters if you are actively trading corporate securities. However, the inventory situation may make make a potential crash less dangerous.
The corporate bond market typically seizes up when there is something fundamentally wrong, such as some big defaults. Investor reallocations may cause problems, but the result is usually just a temporary blip in pricing. During the latest financial crisis, corporate spreads blew out but the sell side was not very active in bidding on corporate bonds. Why? One reason is that they were stuck with too much inventory themselves going into the smash-up (as shown in the chart above).
The best way to prevent a crisis is to have buying capacity sitting on the sidelines. We cannot conclude from the observed dealer inventory numbers that risk capacity has been taken away permanently; it may be that the sell side has learned something from past experience and lightened up positions in response to tighter spreads.


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Shades Of Deep Water
Death's Threshold
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Rock Inc.
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Finnish artist Juho Huuskola aka J.H. did form Shades Of Deep Water almost fifteen years ago as a solo-outfit to canalise his negative and isolationist ideas and thoughts about humanity, cosmos, reality and evolution. During the second half of last decade, he released some demonstrational recordings and one official EP, eventually followed by a first full length studio album, Waterways (independently released at the end of Summer 2013 on cassette). In 2015, two more EP's did follow, which were compiled afterwards in a decent physical format by Dunkelheit Produktionen. It's that very same magnificent German label that takes care of the release of this second full-length album too, which is called Death's Threshold.
This new album, Death's Threshold, is released on compact disc (available with or without jewel case, including an eight-page booklet plus pin), as well as on vinyl with poster / printed inner sleeve, in different formats ('regular' black vinyl, as well as aqua-blue and red vinyl). It was done by J.H. (who's the guy behind the new project Sarajah as well, by the way), i.e. song writing, lyrics, recording, production and mix, and the mastering was taken care of at the famous Resonance Studio by Dan Lowndes (think: Vile Apparition, Imindain, Suffer Yourself, Death Fortress, Profetus or Triumvir Foul, amongst many others).
Death's Threshold consists of four lengthy compositions (total running time: forty-one minutes), which were written and recorded in 2017 / 2018. It has quite strange, specific cover artwork, quite unusual for the sonic side of this act (by SV Belt, known for his visual efforts for e.g. Impaled Nazarene, Kataklysm, Oppressor or Wombbath), and the layout was done by guitar player / vocalist Mike 'Mia' Priest (member of e.g. Nightmare A.D. or Blood Division, and known as visual assistant for many bands and projects such as Anal Vomit, Goatblood or Scalded Infamy).
This second full-length studio release convinces (at least, in my case it does) as from the very beginning. The recording opens with Part 1, which starts modestly symphonic, with an intro performed on violin (or viola) and cello at first. Very beautiful it is, yet at least as bleak, woebegone, wistful. This extremely fins string introduction soon gets joined by 'predictable' elements – beware: for predictable can not be seen as something negative right here! – elements not uncommon or unusual when defining this project's raison d'être. I am talking about massive electric strings (very heavy and low-tuned electric guitars and basses) and slowly pounding drums. Also the vocals, which get introduced little later, are characteristic for this song's sonic unhappiness: ultimately deep, growling, tormented. However, at the same time J.H.'s throat has something distinctive too: hoarse, guttural, even crude. Two other characteristic elements that appear are the use of dreamlike piano interludes (not that pathetically mellow stuff, yet full-fledged and integer), which smoothly and organically is injected into this first song's structure, and secondly that floating lead soloing guitar play.
But hey, here comes the good thing. Forget about that 'predictable' thing I mentioned. Why? Well, because from qualitative point of view / listen, this is oh so magnificent. The whole atmosphere, nostalgic yet depressing, the reappearing violin / cello, the intensity of the almost physically translated emotions of this composition; all pieces of this puzzle fit, resulting in a majestic soundtrack of funereal pleasure and night sky colors.
And that is exactly what Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 are all about as well. What else anyway? It is all about melodious Funeral Doom Death Metal with overwhelming structures, monolithic constructions, a huge dose of variation within each single track, a truly amazing, powerful sound quality (perfect mix, professional production, detailed yet still rough-edged), and whatever you search for when wanting to experience dimensionless emptiness and infinity. I feel passion, I feel sorrow and gloom; I feel elusiveness and wonder too. A connection of life and space, of creation and destruction; it is like a quest for the unknown, or is it an escape from consciousness, when we go down, deeper down…
https://shadesofdeepwater.bandcamp.com/
https://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/deaths-threshold
https://www.dunkelheit-produktionen.de/presta/en/dunkelheit-releases/4409-shades-of-deep-water-deaths-threshold-poster-fin-cd-dunkelheit-releases-dunkelheit-produktionen-0662425101771.html