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The DAV MX™ circulating sub from Churchill Drilling Tools, an oilfield service company specialising in drilling innovation, has been used to significantly cut process time and costs for two challenging deepwater cementing operations, without compromising string functionality.
The DAV MX is a multi-function, multi-cycling circulating sub (CircSub) which is activated with Churchill's patented MX Smart Dart technology. The valve assembly operates on a piston and spring mechanism, which is activated when a dart is pumped down the drillstring. A range of robust darts are pumped at high speed into a simple sub and catcher.
In a deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico, following the deployment of several failed lost circulation material (LCM) pills at 28 000 ft, a heavy cement 250 bbl slurry of 16.6 ppg was directed into the formation via the DAV MX™ ports. This protected the lower bottom hole assembly (BHA) and delivered the cement straight into the loss zone. The unique 'latch and seal' ability of the DAV MX™ prevented ingress into the lower BHA while the innovative 'lock open' feature permitted bypass at low flow rates to restrict dynamic losses.
The controlled cement delivery and the ability to avoid tripping out of hole proved to be a major time and cost-saver for the operator.
Additionally, in a high angle well in the Norwegian Sector, of the North Sea, a cement slurry was delivered through a closed DAV MX and onto the bit to cure severe losses at 18 823 ft. Two treatments of fracture-sealing cement were pressured into the formation and activator balls were successfully chased through (without opening the DAV MX) to clean any residual material from the pipe.
At a total depth of 20 748 ft, the DAV MX CircSub was then activated in 'split flow' mode to allow rotation of the string for superior hole cleaning performance. This further demonstrates the ability to set optimal flow paths in a single sequence with the tool.
The DAV MX CircSub offers operators unique flexibility with a range of Smart Darts available, each designed to offer a specific performance depending on requirements. The DAV MX continues to showcase its utility to major operators and further enhances its position as the bypass tool of choice for major operators worldwide. In deepwater, high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) and high angle operations, the speed and performance of the DAV MX™ has delivered thousands of hours of savings.
Churchill CEO Mike Churchill said: "In these high-risk operations, it is important that the technology is as robust as possible because cement ingress can compromise valve functionality - causing non productive time. The most likely type of damage would be an inability to re-seal after the closing cycle, however in these two cases, the operators were not exposed to valve NPT due to the robustness of the DAV MX.


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W HEN I HEAR Russians vent about apathy, I always wonder what exactly they wish people
would fight for. And often the conversation turns nostalgic, revealing a determination not
to fight for something new but to preserve what made Russia special in the past. In Mo-
scow I met a thirty-three-year-old activist who leads the Baikal program at Greenpeace.
He scoffed at Putin's submarine stunt: "It's just plain stupid. You cannot see chemical sub-
stances in the water, like you can't see radiation. It's the same thing as standing near a
nuclear bomb and saying, 'Well, I don't see anything.'" I expected the activist, Roman, to
be most emphatic about the environmental damage the plant was causing and how he sees
this kind of pollution as immoral in our day—not that he doesn't believe that—but Roman
was most passionate about something else: how Russia may be letting go of something that
makes people proud. He remembered his teachers in the 1980s preaching about symbols of
Soviet pride, "And Baikal was one of them," he said. He was disappointed that Russia was
not taking better care of a national treasure. Vassily Zabello, who worked at the polluting
paper mill for twenty-six years, told me he desperately wanted it to close. Like Roman, he
told me he was devastated by the idea that Russia might fail to safeguard a national treas-
ure. If the government can't find a way to bring jobs and support to a city—and if polluting
Baikal is the only answer—then a "great, enormous country [is] acknowledging its help-
lessness." (At the time of this writing the plant had just been closed again. That, of course,
had happened in the past before the place was brought back online. A union boss from the
plant told the French Press Agency that the closing would create an "abyss of poverty and
unemployment.")
S CIENCE was also always a source of Soviet pride. And I was moved by a story about pro-
tecting that legacy in St. Petersburg. Amid all the horrors of World War II, one of the worst
was the German blockade of the city—then known as Leningrad—which cut off food and
supplies and starved hundreds of thousands of people. At a place called the Vavilov Insti-
tute, a dozen scientists were holed up with a large supply of grain that was important for
research into food supplies. Rather than eat any of the grain, they starved to death protect-
ing it. Seven decades later, when I visited, there was a new and seemingly less potent threat:
The importance of these plants was emphasized to me by scientists in Britain and the Un-
ited States. And yet, under a law that allows the government to sell off neglected property,
local officials were considering selling the property to wealthy real estate developers. The
head of the institute's gardens, Fyodor Mikhovich, got wistful when I interviewed him, fo-
cusing not just on the potential loss for science but on what it said about the country. "What
will we, the Russian nation, have to be proud of if we ourselves destroy this?" Then he got
nostalgic, saying that Communist leaders in the Soviet era would never have let this collec-
tion come under threat.
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

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Have you thought about how you are going to serve your Christmas treats this year? The Snowman plates are so adorable and unusual.
All Ceramix ware is Handmade in South Africa at a pottery on the outskirts of Johannesburg.


Financing empowers customers with the knowledge that they can check out and pay over time, on their terms. While many retailers consider payment methods an afterthought, they can actually be critical to their success. The payment process should be fully transparent and easy to understand, and used as a way to indicate to shoppers that they're in control of the purchase experience.
Consumers are showing that they're willing to not only shop online for big-ticket items, but also use financing options to make those purchases, particularly if they can pay for those items in small monthly payments over time. In fact, following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, shoppers who financed their purchases with Bread spent nearly 3 times more per order, on average, than shoppers who didn't.
Consumers value choice, both in the items they're purchasing and how they pay for them. There's also an expectation from consumers that online retailers will tailor their payment options to their desires, instead of the other way around. Consumers have become accustomed to a personalized shopping journey, which includes payment options that fit their needs.
Big-ticket items can cause sticker shock and quickly turn a customer away long before checkout. That's why financing options that allow the shopper to pay for an item through small, monthly installments — as opposed to in a lump sum — can keep these customers engaged, particularly when surfaced earlier on in the funnel.
Many consumers aren't confident in sharing secure information when shopping on their mobile device, making this a major hindrance to conversion. Retailers need to start alleviating concerns by beefing up their mobile site's security. For starters, they must see to it that their SSL certificate is up-to-date and that any information submitted through their site is encrypted.
This may seem like a small detail, however, in today's digitized society marked by frequent breaches, security goes a long way in the eyes of the customer.
2019 will undoubtedly bring momentous changes to the retail industry as consumer preferences continue to seismically shift. As mobile shopping gains momentum, payment processes become more streamlined, and the priorities of consumers move towards experiences, companies must follow suit or risk falling behind.
However, by following the tips above, retailers can ensure they're on the bleeding edge of industry trends and set themselves up for a successful year.
Julie Butensky is the director of business development at Bread, a full-funnel financing solution.


Contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Ardena has cemented a sustained period of growth with a move to expanded headquarters in Gent, Belgium.
Since 2015, Ardena has grown from 40 to 250 staff members and seen more than 20 per cent organic growth per year, fueled by the CDMO's M&A strategy which has seen four acquisitions in the past two years, most recently Netherlands-based ChemConnection and Sweden-based Syntagon.
It now operates across six sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Latvia and boasts a global reach, servicing more than 300 customers in Europe, the US, Japan and Korea.
Ardena offers integrated drug development services encompassing drug substance and drug product development, clinical manufacturing, clinical logistics, full product analytical and bioanalytical support and regulatory dossier development. The company is also a leader in nanomedicine technology.
Harry Christiaens, CEO at Ardena said: "After several acquisitions and an ongoing growth period, we are firmly on track to reach our €35m sales target for 2018 as part of our wider strategy to become a leading integrated drug development company.
"This new, larger headquarters will enable us to free up space for additional laboratories at our other sites and further expand our capabilities. It will also provide a base for our staff training centre to ensure we develop our team.
Ardena was formed in 2017, following the merging of three companies with complementary drug development capabilities: Pharmavize in Belgium, and Crystallics and Analytical Biochemical Laboratory (ABL) in the Netherlands.
The inauguration of the new HQ took place on Thursday 25th October and was attended by customers and suppliers.


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Members in the News: Deller, Novakovic, Hernandez, Zhang, Ahmed, Belton, Hu, and Reardon
Steven C. Deller, University of Wisconsin
Analysis: Foxconn considers another plant in Midwest, but at what cost?
By: USA Today- August 8, 2017
"Throwing money into incentives makes a slippery slope," Steve Deller, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "(People) get so wrapped up in the winning game, in the headline of 'we got it' that they lose sight (of the) pretty steep price. Hard to say because we don't know what the package looks like."
Read the entire article on USA Today
Andrew Novakovic, Cornell University
Short Takes: Dairy study, Ag Progress Days, land conservation
By: Berks Country - August 16, 2017
Andrew Novakovic and Mark Stephenson will discuss preliminary findings from the Pennsylvania Dairy Industry Study and have invited dairy producers and industry representatives to give input and observations.
Novakovic is E.V. Baker professor of agricultural economics and director of land grant programs at Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Stephenson is director of dairy policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin.
Read the entire article on Berks Country
Ricardo Hernandez, Xiaobo Zhang, and Akhter Ahmed,
Ben Belton, Chaoran Hu, and Tom Reardon,
Fish revolution
By: The Daily Star - August 9, 2017
Ricardo Hernandez (IFPRI), led, along with Ben Belton, Chaoran Hu, and Tom Reardon of MSU and Xiaobo Zhang and Akhter Ahmed IFPRI, a major value aquaculture value chain study in Bangladesh. The article and the work has been widely cited in six Bangladesh newspapers, including by the main paper The Daily Star (August 9, 2017), with excerpt: "With a 25-fold growth in farmed fish market over the last three decades, Bangladesh has been experiencing a quiet revolution in aquaculture… Hernandez said, "What really surprised me about these findings was the extent of the growth in many sectors, not just in production but also in many off-farm segments, such as rural and urban traders, input dealers and feed mills."
Read the entire article on The Daily Star
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Working in the relocation industry Kevin has always had a keen interest in property and wanted to be more involved in the financial side of buying and selling homes. Being a part of a family business for many years he has first hand experience on the needs of self employed clients.
Outside of work Kevin is recently married and a keen golfer.
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Auction Note: This offering features exceptional cropland and a large-scale Bin and Dryer Complex in Clay and Norman Counties and potential development land at Dilworth Minnesota. There are 28 parcels ranging in sizes from 80 +/- acres to 320 +/- acres; 25 of the 28 parcels have a Soil Productivity Index over 90!! This land has a strong cropping history with consistently strong and proven yields in corn, soybeans, sugarbeets, wheat, sunflowers and barley. View all information and pictures at www.pifers.com!
Parcel Note: This parcel is future development property located near one of the Dilworth City growth points! The cropland is of exceptional quality with a Soil Productivity Index (SPI) of 92.3.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 60th St. N located near Dilworth Minnesota, drive west 1 mile to the NE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This is an exceptional parcel of quality cropland with good access from the county road and excellent crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 91.3.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and Clay County Hwy. #26, drive north 2 miles to 110th Ave. N, then drive east 1/2 a mile to the SW corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This quarter of quality cropland has a Soil Productivity Index of 92.0.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and Clay County Hwy. #26, drive north 2 miles to 110th Ave. N and the SE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel has a great crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 91.6.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and Clay County Hwy. #26 drive north 3 miles to SE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This cropland parcel has excellent crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 91.6.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and Clay County Hwy. #26 drive north 3 miles to 120th Ave. N, then drive west 1/2 mile to the SE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This cropland parcel has good access from the county road and crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 91.3.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N., drive west 1 mile to the SE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This cropland parcel has excellent access from the county road and excellent crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 91.3.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N, drive west 1 1/2 miles west to the SW corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This cropland has a excellent crop production with a Soil Productivity Index of 92.3.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N., drive west 2 miles to the NW corner of the property.
Parcel 9: The cropland has a very good Soil Productivity Index of 78.1 This parcel is tiled.
Parcel 9a: This parcel features a slab on grade foundation ready to build. Electrical along with a new well are ready to go! This building site offers fantastic views.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N., drive west 2 1/2 miles to the NE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features excellent cropland with a Soil Productivity Index of 90.3 This parcel is tiled.
Site Description: This site features a 3.151 ML +/- bushel bin site and a large scale drying facility along with an seed and fertilizer plant.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N., drive 2 3/4 miles west to the SE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features a Soil Productivity Index of 90.3 and is tiled.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 110th Ave. N., drive 2 1/2 miles west to the SE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 90.0 and is tiled.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 120th Ave. N., drive west 2 1/2 miles to the NE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 93.0.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 130th Ave. N., drive west 2 ½ miles to the SE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 92.9.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 140th Ave. N., drive west 2 1/2 miles to the NE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 92.4.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County #5 drive south 2 miles to 140th Ave. N., then drive east to the SE corner of the property.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5 drive south 2 miles to the SE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 91.8.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5, drive south 1 mile to the NW corner of the parcel.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and 150th Ave. N., drive 1/2 mile south to the NE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 92.0.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5 drive south 1/2 mile to the NW corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 92.5.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5 drive south 1/2 mile to the NE corner of the property.
Driving Directions: At the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5 find the NE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soli Productivity Index of 90.3.
Driving Directions: At the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5 drive west 1/2 a mile to the NE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 92.1.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #34 and Clay County Hwy. #5, drive 1/2 mile north to the NE corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 91.7.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 200th Ave. N., find the SE corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 91.7 and is tiled.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Clay County Hwy. #11 and 210th Ave. N., drive west 1 mile to the NW corner of the property.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 89.0.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of U.S. Hwy. #75 in Norman County and 110th Ave. N drive east 2 1/4 miles to the SW corner of the parcel.
Parcel Note: This parcel features an excellent Soil Productivity Index of 87.7 and is tiled.
Driving Directions: From the intersection of Norman County Hwy. #39 and Norman County Hwy. #6 drive north 1 mile to 130th Ave. N, then drive east 3/4 of a mile to the SW corner of the parcel.
This sale is managed by Pifer's Auction & Realty. All statements made the day of the auction take precedence over all printed materials. The seller reserves the right to reject or accept any and all bids. Pifer's Auction & Realty, 1506 29th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560. Kevin Pifer, MN #14-106. Subject to prior sale.


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The third consortium meeting of the ASSEHS project was hosted by the Puglia Region in Bari on 23-24 June 2015. The meeting represented an important signpost of the work in progress carried out by the partners during these first 18 months. In fact more than half of the project has been completed and most of the preliminary work has been concluded. In the coming months, the consortium has to concentrate efforts on the definition of the tools to be put in place in order to inform the White Paper which will represent the final outcome of the project. This was the main objective of the meeting in Bari.
During the meeting, as well as reporting on the progress of the Work Packages, the partners concentrated their efforts on the following: (i) reaching a full agreement with regards to the strategies to be put in place in order to disseminate the project findings, and (ii) the structure of the White Paper which is intended to be a document for use by the Regions to generate awareness on Risk Stratification matters and to identify recommendations for detecting improvement areas based on concrete examples carried out by Regions using specific tools.
The meeting also highlighted how the ASSEHS project has already given a very important contribution to the EIP on AHA, specifically for the " Risk Stratification" Action Area. It has significantly enriched the work carried out in the Action Area and is going to contribute considerably to the overall Scaling up process aimed by the EC in the EIP on AHA, the consortium having agreed on the fact that the project will only be successful if the results are transferable to other countries and cultures.
To this extent, an electronic tool has been developed with this aim in mind. Philips Research presented their Appraisal Standard Tool, which is an online tool freely accessible but without open access. This has been achieved thanks to the work carried out by ASSEHS (desktop research and literature review).
This Tool is an important step forward in the Risk Stratification Field. The aim is to inform programme managers and policy makers about the available up to date methodologies, as well as to give them advice on how to better identify the most appropriate methodology for use according to their specific needs.
The Lead Partner considered the meeting very productive and successful, a relevant step forward in the ongoing process of ASSEHS implementation. A lot of hard work has been done but the activities yet to be carried out are numerous and there is less than a year left to the end of the project.


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Retro Respawn – Super Soccer
by Michael Fitzgerald March 15, 2016
There are some games that enjoy massive popularity and I just can't fathom why. For that reason, I've been kind of dreading doing a feature on this one for a while. I have never had the warm nostalgic memory of this game that so many others seem to. My opinion of it really hasn't changed that much over the course of two decades that have passed since I first played it. However, I know it's a game that's both revered and cherished by a large group of Nintendo enthusiasts, and I've always been a bit wary of pissing them off. But, one thing I pride myself on when it comes to Retro Features, or indeed anything that I write, is that I'm always honest with my audience, regardless of whether that will get me into hot water with them or not.
So, with that being said, I await your hate when I state that I really think Super Soccer is vastly overrated and a pretty bad football game.
While you light the torches and pick out your best pitchfork, I'll talk about the things I actually like about this game.
The music and sound effects are excellent. Every team has their own theme tune that plays in the background during their match, and all of them are catchy and fun to listen to. I quite like the graphics, although for some reason every goalkeeper ends up looking like late 80's era Dave Beasant, and the game is overall bright and colourful to look at. There are a number of formations to choose from, including the 3-2-2-3 (Also known as the "WM") which I don't think has been used since the 1950's, but it's still nice to see it as an option.
The controls are decent enough, with Y acting as a homing pass, A acting as low pass/shot, and B acting as high pass/shot. There is a marker above one of your team mates that designates who the homing pass will go to. You can alternate this by pressing the shoulder buttons. When you don't have the ball, you have the option to perform a slide tackle by pressing A/B and a shoulder charge by pressing Y.
There are a decent selection of teams, with most of the heavy hitters from the early 90's represented, and the lack of license is overcome by giving the fake players names that don't take away from the experience (England having a player called "Bert" just cracks me up for some reason. When he's not playing high level international football, he's working at a pie shop in Widnes).
The game has a frenetic pace and can provide some high energy thrills when played with a friend. You'll sink a good few hours into the multiplayer if you have mates to share it with. The single player experience isn't as substantial, with only exhibition and tournament options, but it still provides fast paced action and enjoyment.
So, there are things about this game that I liked. However, there are certain things about it that I really didn't, starting with the camera.
The camera is set up with a vertical view of the pitch similar to Sensible Soccer, but unlike "Sensi", the camera is quite low down which makes visibility an issue. If you're playing towards the southernly goal, you basically cannot see what's in front of you. This essentially makes the homing pass all but useless as the camera will always show more of the upper half of the pitch than the bottom, so the homing pass marker will usually be on a player closer to your goal than the opposition. This always gives the player who plays up the pitch an advantage and really unbalances the game.
In addition to the camera, there is also a massive, almost game breaking, flaw when it comes to defending and tackling.
There is seemingly no difference between what constitutes a foul and what doesn't, and there is even less to distinguish between what is a booking and a straight red. This essentially turns defending into nothing more than a lottery, with it being left purely to the game's whim as to whether you end the match with all 11 players or not.
A shoulder barge from behind can sometimes be just fine and receive no action whatever, but in other occasions it can bring an immediate red card. Sorry, but this is not the calling card of a good football game. It can still be part of an exciting game, which Super Soccer most assuredly is, but it kills any serious attempt at making it a decent football game. In Sensible Soccer, it was much clearer as to what constituted a foul and what didn't. This is also the case in a game like ISS Deluxe, which also provides two different forms of tackling which are actually different from one another.
In Super Soccer, both the shoulder charge and the slide tackle have almost an even chance of being a foul as the other, and there's no way to truly gage the "safe" way of performing either tackle. In ISS Deluxe it's relatively straight forward. You know that a slide tackle from behind that doesn't get the ball will almost always result in a foul and a possible booking, whereas sticking a foot in from the front will almost always end with a successful tackle that doesn't draw a foul. The slide tackle is easier to pull off but it has a wider margin of error, while the single foot challenge is harder to pull off but almost never results in an error if you manage to do it correctly.
Human was known for good sporting games, Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium in particular, but not having an easily identifiable criteria for what constitutes a "good" tackle and a "bad" one is a massive failure on their part and sadly makes this a bad football game. It doesn't stop it from occasionally being frantic fun, but it does make it an overall frustrating representation of the beautiful game. If they left in the randomness of what constitutes a foul but took away bookings entirely, like SEGA would eventually go on to do with Virtua Striker when it developed a fast paced kick about for arcade consumption, then I would be more forgiving of it.
Sadly however, my lasting memory of Super Soccer was not the fast paced thrills it can provide, but the frustration it gave me from seeing one of my players sent off for a challenge that both I and the CPU controlled opponent had already performed up to twenty times in the match already with nary a peep from the scowling referee. It is for this reason, above all else, that Super Soccer is an inferior footballing game when put up against its contemporaries.
I'd still recommend it if you could find it cheap enough. It will cost you £3.99 plus postage on Amazon, which isn't too bad. If it ever shows up on the Virtual Console for less than a fiver, it might be worth your time if you have some mates to play it with. I wouldn't pay more than one Bison Dollar for it though. I'd pay a little bit extra and purchase ISS Deluxe or Sensible Soccer instead.
I've played worse, oh my word have I played worse, but I've also played much better. Mildly recommended, but buy with discretion.
And with that, "Footy Month" comes to a close. I hope you've enjoyed it. Next week, we return to the original PlayStation, for a game you've likely heard of.
As always, I'll post some footage of the game below.
Nil Satis, Nisi Optimum
You can watch YouTube footage of the game, courtesy of World of Longplays, by clicking right HERE
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After a heavy rain storm, the drains for the heating, ventilation and AC (HVAC) system intake can be plugged with leaves and other debris, causing a dead battery. Water fills the intake cavity and overflows into the vehicle, directly onto the blower motor and its regulator. This causes the regulator to short out and the blower motor will continue to run, despite the key being off and removed from the vehicle. Usually the carpet at the right front passenger floor will be wet too. If the carpet is saturated, the passenger seat may need to be removed to dry out the battery storage area before water or moisture reaches the relay and fuse holders. To prevent this, do not let leaves and twigs accumulate at base of windshield. If there are leaves or debris below the wiper blades, clean the area.
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For those that don't know - the Luther Burger is a bacon cheeseburger served on a Krispy Kreme bun. This bad boy is offered up by Mulligan's - a suburban bar in Decatur, Georgia. Click on the picture below to see a really big picture of this mega-artery clogger.
So which came first, this burger, or the Boondocks cartoon I first saw it on?
The Luther Burger came first. Remember that Cartoon Network is based in Atlanta. I worked at Mulligans, the home of the Luther, way back in the day. A group of guys came in who were writers from CN and had heard about the Luther and Hamdog from Jay Leno. They tried it, and eventually it made its way into the cartoon.
Good question. According to Wikipedia, it looks like the show came second, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger. I'd be interested to know the date of it's origin though.
Made this tonight. Somewhat disappointed. The grilled donut overpowered all the other flavors. All we tasted was caramel.


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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and it's People
Note: Polynesian is a term that the Albino people have applied to Pacificans/Austronesians who have significant "White Mongol/European" admixture. They reserve the term Melanesian for the original "Pure Black" Pacificans/Austronesians who have resisted admixture.
Easter Island, situated in the southeast Pacific over 1,000 miles from the other islands of Eastern Polynesia and some 1,400 miles west of South America, is one of the most remote inhabited places in the world. Between 600 and 800 A.D., a group of colonists from an unidentified location in Eastern Polynesia settled on Easter Island after sailing in a southeasterly direction for many weeks. The name Easter Island originated with the European explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who first saw the island on Easter Sunday, 1722. Today, the Easter Islanders call themselves and their homeland Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui society was organized following the classic Polynesian pattern: an aristocracy composed of ranked hereditary chiefs (ariki) with political authority over the commoners, who constituted the majority of the population.
Early European visitors to Easter Island recorded the local oral traditions about the original settlers. In these traditions, Easter Islanders claimed that a chief Hotu Matu'a arrived on the island in one or two large canoes with his wife and extended family. They are believed to have been Polynesian. There is considerable uncertainty about the accuracy of this legend as well as the date of settlement. Published literature suggests the island was settled around 300-400 CE, or at about the time of the arrival of the earliest settlers in Hawaii. Some scientists say that Easter Island was not inhabited until 700-800 CE. This date range is based on glottochronological calculations and on three radiocarbon dates from charcoal that appears to have been produced during forest clearance activities. Moreover a recent study which included radiocarbon dates from what is thought to be very early material suggests that the island was settled as recently as 1200 CE. This seems to be supported by a 2006 study of the island's deforestation, which could have started around the same time. A large now extinct palm, Paschalococos disperta, related to the Chilean wine palm (Jubaea chilensis), was one of the dominant trees as attested by fossil evidence; this species, whose sole occurrence was Easter Island, became extinct due to deforestation by the early settlers.
The Austronesian Polynesians, who first settled the island, are likely to have arrived from the Marquesas Islands from the west. These settlers brought bananas, taro, sugarcane, and paper mulberry, as well as chickens and Polynesian rats. The island at one time supported a relatively advanced and complex civilization. It is suggested that the reason settlers sought an isolated island was because of high levels of Ciguatera fish poisoning in their then current surrounding area.
The Marquesas Islands
Wiki - Culture of the Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas Islands were colonized by seafaring Polynesians as early as 300 AD, thought to originate from Samoa. The dense population was concentrated in the narrow valleys, and consisted of warring tribes, who sometimes cannibalized their enemies. Much of Polynesia, including the original settlers of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rapa Iti and Easter Island, was settled by Marquesans, believed to have departed from the Marquesas as a result more frequently of overpopulation and drought-related food shortages, than because of the nearly constant warfare that eventually became a prominent feature of the islands' culture. Almost the entire remainder of Polynesia, with the exception of a few areas of western Polynesia as well as the majority of the Polynesian outliers, was colonized by Marquesan descendants centered in Tahiti.
According to legends recorded by the missionaries in the 1860s, the island originally had a very clear class system, with an ariki, king, wielding absolute god-like power ever since Hotu Matua had arrived on the island. The most visible element in the culture was production of massive moai that were part of the ancestral worship. With a strictly unified appearance, moai were erected along most of the coastline, indicating a homogeneous culture and centralized governance. In addition to the royal family, the island's habitation consisted of priests, soldiers and commoners. The last king, along with his family, died as a slave in the 1860s in the Peruvian mines. Long before that, the king had become a mere symbolic figure, remaining respected and untouchable, but having only nominal authority.
For unknown reasons, a coup by military leaders called matatoa had brought a new cult based around a previously unexceptional god Make-make. In the cult of the birdman, a competition was established in which every year a representative of each clan, chosen by the leaders, would swim across shark-infested waters to Motu Nui, a nearby islet, to search for the season's first egg laid by a manutara (sooty tern). The first swimmer to return with an egg and successfully climb back up the cliff to Orongo would be named "Birdman of the year" and secure control over distribution of the island's resources for his clan for the year. The tradition was still in existence at the time of first contact by Europeans but was suppressed by Christian missionaries in the 1860s.
European accounts in 1722 (Dutch) and 1770 (Spanish) reported seeing only standing statues, but by James Cook's visit in 1774 many were reported toppled. The huri mo'ai - the "statue-toppling" - continued into the 1830s as a part of internal conflicts among islanders. By 1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of Rano Raraku and Hoa Hakananai'a at Orongo. In about 60 years, islanders had for some reason (possibly civil struggle between tribes) deliberately damaged this part of their ancestors' heritage. In modern times, moai have been restored at Orongo, Ahu Tongariki, Ahu Akivi and Hanga Roa.
The first-recorded European contact with the island took place on 5 April (Easter Sunday) 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen visited for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants on the island. This was an estimate, not a census, and archaeologists estimate the population may have been as high as 10,000 to 12,000 a few decades earlier. His party reported "remarkable, tall, stone figures, a good 30 feet in height", the island had rich soil and a good climate and "all the country was under cultivation". Fossil-pollen analysis shows that the main trees on the island had gone 72 years earlier in 1650. The civilization of Easter Island was long believed to have degenerated drastically during the century before the arrival of the Dutch, as a result of overpopulation, deforestation and exploitation of an extremely isolated island with limited natural resources. The Dutch reported that a fight broke out in which they killed ten or twelve islanders.
The next foreign visitors arrived on 15 November 1770: two Spanish ships, San Lorenzo and Santa Rosalia, sent by the Viceroy of Peru, Manuel de Amat, and commanded by Felipe González de Ahedo. They spent five days on the island, performing a very thorough survey of its coast, and named it Isla de San Carlos, taking possession on behalf of King Charles III of Spain, and ceremoniously erected three wooden crosses on top of three small hills on Poike. They reported the island as largely uncultivated, with a seashore lined with stone statues.
Four years later, in mid-March 1774, British explorer James Cook visited Easter Island, he reported the statues as being neglected with some having fallen down; no sign of the three crosses and his botanist described it as "a poor land". He had a Tahitian interpreter who could partially understand the language as it was Polynesian. Other than in counting, though, the language was unintelligible.
In 1786 the French explorer Jean François de Galaup La Pérouse visited and made a detailed map of Easter Island. He described the island as one-tenth cultivated and estimated the population as a couple of thousand.
In 1804 the Russian ship Neva visited under the command of Yuri Lisyansky.
In 1816 the Russian ship Rurik visited under the command of Otto von Kotzebue.
In 1825 the British ship HMS Blossom visited and reported no standing statues.
Several foreign vessels approached Easter Island during the early 19th century, but by now the islanders had become openly hostile towards any attempt to land, and very little new information emerged before the 1860s.
A series of devastating events killed almost the entire population of Easter Island in the 1860s. In December 1862, Peruvian slave raiders struck Easter Island. Violent abductions continued for several months, eventually capturing or killing around 1500 men and women, about half of the island's population. International protests erupted, escalated by Bishop Florentin-Étienne Jaussen of Tahiti. The slaves were finally freed in autumn, 1863, but by then most of them had already died of tuberculosis, smallpox and dysentery. Finally, a dozen islanders managed to return from the horrors of Peru, but brought with them smallpox and started an epidemic, which reduced the island's population to the point where some of the dead were not even buried. Contributing to the chaos were violent clan wars with the remaining people fighting over the newly available lands of the deceased, bringing further famine and death among the dwindling population.
The first Christian missionary, Eugène Eyraud, arrived in January 1864 and spent most of that year on the island; but mass conversion of the Rapa Nui only came after his return in 1866 with Father Hippolyte Roussel and shortly after two others arrived with Captain Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier. Eyraud was suffering from phthisis (tuberculosis) when he returned and in 1867, tuberculosis raged over the island, taking a quarter of the island's remaining population of 1,200 including the last member of the island's royal family, the 13-year-old Manu Rangi. Eyraud died of tuberculosis in August 1868, by which time the entire Rapa Nui population had become Roman Catholic.
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Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier – who had served as an artillery officer in the Crimean War, but was later arrested in Peru, accused of arms dealing and sentenced to death, to be released after intervention from the French consul – first came to Easter Island in 1866 when he transported two missionaries there, returned in 1867 to recruit laborers for coconut plantations, and then came again for good in April 1868, burning the yacht he had arrived in. He was to have a long-lasting impact on the island.
Dutrou-Bornier set up residence at Mataveri, aiming to cleanse the island of most of the Rapa Nui and turn the island into a sheep ranch. He married Koreto, a Rapa Nui, and appointed her Queen, tried to persuade France to make the island a protectorate, and recruited a faction of Rapa Nui whom he allowed to abandon their Christianity and revert to their previous faith. With rifles, a cannon, and hut burning supporters, he ran the island for several years.
Dutrou-Bornier bought up all of the island apart from the missionaries' area around Hanga Roa and moved a couple hundred Rapa Nui to Tahiti to work for his backers. In 1871 the missionaries, having fallen out with Dutrou-Bornier, evacuated 275 Rapa Nui to Mangareva and Tahiti, leaving only 230 on the island. Those who remained were mostly older men. Six years later, there were just 111 people living on Easter Island, and only 36 of them had any offspring.
In 1876 Dutrou-Bornier was murdered in an argument over a dress, though his kidnapping of pubescent girls may also have motivated his killers. From that point on and into the present day, the island's population slowly recovered. But with over 97% of the population dead or left in less than a decade, much of the island's cultural knowledge had been lost.
Neither his first wife back in France, who was heir under French law, nor his second wife on the island, who briefly installed their daughter Caroline as Queen, were to keep much from his estate. But to this day much of the island is a ranch controlled from off-island and for more than a century real power on the island was usually exercised by resident non-Rapa Nui living at Mataveri. An unusual number of shipwrecks had left the island better supplied with wood than for many generations, whilst legal wrangles over Dutrou-Bornier's land deals were to complicate the island's history for decades to come.
The Fight for Rapanui
Can the Easter Island's indigenous Rapanui win the battle for independence from Chile to protect their land and culture?
In 1888, Chile annexed the South Pacific Island but until 1953 it allowed a Scottish company to manage the island as a giant sheep ranch. While the sheep roamed freely, the Rapanui were confined to the town. They revolted in 1964, obtaining Chilean citizenship and the right to elect their own mayor. Now, Chilean colonisers are threatening to wipe the indigenous culture out of existence. A wave of recent immigration to the South Pacific Island means that two out of every three inhabitants are from mainland Chile.
The government of Chile says it is committed to a four-year, $60million-development plan for the island.New luxury hotels are wooing rich Chileans into town, a glimpse of what critics say will foster an income gap.Chilean migrants come to the island in part because of tax exemption. Tourists and mainland Chileans flock to Easter Island to enjoy the beaches on one of the world's most remote islands. But among the Rapanui people, calls for independence are growing louder and protests in the past year have turned bitter and violent.
Inspired by a wave of Polynesian islands obtaining certain degrees of political autonomy, the Rapanui are demanding rights to govern their land. Leviante Araki, president of the self-styled Rapa Nui Parliament, a pro-independence organisation, has challenged Chilean rule and is taking the fight to the mainland courts to seek independence.
Last year, the Rapa Nui Parliament "crowned" Valentino Riroroko Tuki, the 81-year-old grandson of the last monarch, as the new king, an indication to Chile that it wants to void the annexation treaty. The 1888 treaty, the Rapa Nui Parliament says, removed the Rapanui from their ancestral land and confined their movements. The Rapanui want better healthcare, proper basic infrastructure like water and electricity and preservation of their culture. And they are taking their cause to the international level. Rapanui squatters like Lorenzo Tepano, a fisherman who with his wife, lives in a wooden shack in the Rapa Nui National Park, refuses to move. He wants to stay in what he claims is his own land.
In 2010, the dissension came to a head when Chilean security forces violently evicted the prominent Hitorangi clan and Tuko Tuki clan who had occupied buildings and sites, claiming the land belongs to them. Armed Chilean troops and police reportedly opened fire on unarmed Rapanui civilians and left protesters with blood-stained wounds. The captured images drew admonition from the United Nations over the use of force to resolve the island's problems. But the Chilean president defended the evictions saying that the forces did the necessary to maintain public order.
However, not all Rapanui are supporting the movement. Alberto Hotus, the head of the Council of Elders, maintains that the islanders depend on Chile for food, telecommunications and health care. "If we cut ties to Chile, we will return to eating pasture," he says. Carlos Llancaqueo, Chile's commissioner to Easter Island, is cautious in his approach, saying that the authorities are preparing proposals to give the Rapanui more control over the land's finances. He also says that officials are moving ahead to improve the power grid, portable water systems and education in both the Rapanui language and Spanish.
The Moai
(Met Museum)
The art of Easter Island is distinctively Polynesian, much of it centering on the creation of religious images. The most recognizable art forms from Easter Island are its colossal stone figures, or moai, images of ancestral chiefs whose supernatural power protected the community. Between roughly 1100 and 1650, Rapa Nui carvers created some 900 of these sculptures, nearly all of which are still in situ.
Moai Figures
The moai represent ancestral chiefs who were believed to be descended directly from the gods and whose supernatural powers could be harnessed for the benefit of humanity. The massive stone figures were generally erected on temple platforms (ahu) along the coast, where they faced inland to keep watch over the local community. Most were carved from soft volcanic tuff at Rano Raraku, an extinct volcanic crater that served as the primary statue quarry. The giant stone sculptures commonly weigh between 10 and 12 metric tons. Their average height is roughly 13 feet, but they range anywhere from 8 feet to an unfinished example over 70 feet high. Moai are characterized by long sloping noses, strong brows, deeply inset eyes, and prominent chins. Some examples also wear a hatlike cylinder made of red stone on their heads, which may represent a headdress or elaborate hairstyle.
Each moai was commissioned by a specific individual or group and created by a team of expert stoneworkers under the direction of a master carver. As many as fifteen people began by quarrying a large rectangular block using basalt picks (toki). Once the figure was roughed out, the master carver and his assistants added the fine details, usually beginning with the head and face. Afterwards, a team of workers used ropes and levers to move the sculpture down the quarry slope. It was then set upright and the remainder of the carving was completed. The finished sculpture was then moved to its final destination using a wooden sled or rollers. Experimental re-creation of this feat by modern archaeologists suggests that it required approximately 40 individuals to move an average-sized moai, and roughly 300 to 400 people to produce the rope and food required. Often the ahu were burial places were important personalities' graves were built, (Bodies were found around many Maoi).
By the time Europeans first reached Easter Island in 1722, the moai tradition was already in decline. Early explorers reported many moai still standing, but by the mid-nineteenth century, all had fallen due to neglect or warfare. Many have since been restored by archaeologists.
Other art forms on the island include petroglyphs, many depicting birdmen and other fantastic creatures, as well as a variety of wooden sculptures. One type of wooden image, the naturalistic male figures known as moai tangata, may depict family ancestors. Although their imagery is conventionalized, they may be individual portraits. What appears to be hair on the top of their heads is actually a low-relief carving depicting fishlike creatures with human heads and long flowing beards, possibly representing shark-human spirits (nuihi). In a number of respects, the moai tangata bear a close formal resemblance to the larger stone moai. With their enlarged heads, frontal orientation, prominent stomachs, and arms that extend down the sides of their bodies, both types of image embody a classically Polynesian conception of the human form. Easter Island art also includes barkcloth images, wooden ornaments, and featherwork. Apart from the stone figures and petroglyphs, virtually all surviving works from the island date to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A alternative theory as to what actually happened on Easter Island
by Robert Krulwich
First version: Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a thousand miles from the next inhabited spot in the Pacific Ocean. In A.D. 1200 (or thereabouts), a small group of Polynesians — it might have been a single family — made their way there, settled in and began to farm. When they arrived, the place was covered with trees — as many as 16 million of them, some towering 100 feet high. These settlers were farmers, practicing slash-and-burn agriculture, so they burned down woods, opened spaces, and began to multiply. Pretty soon the island had too many people, too few trees, and then, in only a few generations, no trees at all.
As Jared Diamond tells it in his best-selling book, Collapse, Easter Island is the "clearest example of a society that destroyed itself by overexploiting its own resources." Once tree clearing started, it didn't stop until the whole forest was gone. Diamond called this self-destructive behavior "ecocide" and warned that Easter Island's fate could one day be our own.
When Captain James Cook visited there in 1774, his crew counted roughly 700 islanders (from an earlier population of thousands), living marginal lives, their canoes reduced to patched fragments of driftwood. And that has become the lesson of Easter Island — that we don't dare abuse the plants and animals around us, because if we do, we will, all of us, go down together. And yet, puzzlingly, these same people had managed to carve enormous statues — almost a thousand of them, with giant, hollow-eyed, gaunt faces, some weighing 75 tons. The statues faced not outward, not to the sea, but inward, toward the now empty, denuded landscape. When Captain Cook saw them, many of these "moai" had been toppled and lay face down, in abject defeat.
OK, that's the story we all know, the Collapse story. The new one is very different.
A Story Of Success?
It comes from two anthropologists, Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo, from the University of Hawaii. They say, "Rather than a case of abject failure," what happened to the people on Easter Island "is an unlikely story of success." Success? How could anyone call what happened on Easter Island a "success?" Well, I've taken a look at their book, The Statues That Walked, and oddly enough they've got a case, although I'll say in advance what they call "success" strikes me as just as scary — maybe scarier.
Here's their argument: Professors Hunt and Lipo say fossil hunters and paleobotanists have found no hard evidence that the first Polynesian settlers set fire to the forest to clear land — what's called "large scale prehistoric farming." The trees did die, no question. But instead of fire, Hunt and Lipo blame rats. Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) stowed away on those canoes, Hunt and Lipo say, and once they landed, with no enemies and lots of palm roots to eat, they went on a binge, eating and destroying tree after tree, and multiplying at a furious rate. As a reviewer in The Wall Street Journal reported,
In laboratory settings, Polynesian rat populations can double in 47 days. Throw a breeding pair into an island with no predators and abundant food and arithmetic suggests the result ... If the animals multiplied as they did in Hawaii, the authors calculate, [Easter Island] would quickly have housed between two and three million. Among the favorite food sources of R. exulans are tree seeds and tree sprouts. Humans surely cleared some of the forest, but the real damage would have come from the rats that prevented new growth.
As the trees went, so did 20 other forest plants, six land birds and several sea birds. So there was definitely less choice in food, a much narrower diet, and yet people continued to live on Easter Island, and food, it seems, was not their big problem.
Rat Meat, Anybody?
For one thing, they could eat rats. As J.B. MacKinnon reports in his new book, The Once and Future World, archeologists examined ancient garbage heaps on Easter Island looking for discarded bones and found "that 60 percent of the bones came from introduced rats."
So they'd found a meat substitute.
What's more, though the island hadn't much water and its soil wasn't rich, the islanders took stones, broke them into bits, and scattered them onto open fields creating an uneven surface. When wind blew in off the sea, the bumpy rocks produced more turbulent airflow, "releasing mineral nutrients in the rock," J.B. MacKinnon says, which gave the soil just enough of a nutrient boost to support basic vegetables. One tenth of the island had these scattered rock "gardens," and they produced enough food, "to sustain a population density similar to places like Oklahoma, Colorado, Sweden and New Zealand today."
According to MacKinnon, scientists say that Easter Island skeletons from that time show "less malnutrition than people in Europe." When a Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggevin, happened by in 1722, he wrote that islanders didn't ask for food. They wanted European hats instead. And, of course, starving folks typically don't have the time or energy to carve and shove 70-ton statues around their island.
A 'Success' Story?
Why is this a success story?
Because, say the Hawaiian anthropologists, clans and families on Easter Island didn't fall apart. It's true, the island became desolate, emptier. The ecosystem was severely compromised. And yet, say the anthropologists, Easter Islanders didn't disappear. They adjusted. They had no lumber to build canoes to go deep-sea fishing. They had fewer birds to hunt. They didn't have coconuts. But they kept going on rat meat and small helpings of vegetables. They made do.
One niggling question: If everybody was eating enough, why did the population decline? Probably, the professors say, from sexually transmitted diseases after Europeans came visiting.
OK, maybe there was no "ecocide." But is this good news? Should we celebrate?
I wonder. What we have here are two scenarios ostensibly about Easter Island's past, but really about what might be our planet's future. The first scenario — an ecological collapse — nobody wants that. But let's think about this new alternative — where humans degrade their environment but somehow "muddle through." Is that better? In some ways, I think this "success" story is just as scary.
The Danger Of 'Success'
What if the planet's ecosystem, as J.B. MacKinnon puts it, "is reduced to a ruin, yet its people endure, worshipping their gods and coveting status objects while surviving on some futuristic equivalent of the Easter Islanders' rat meat and rock gardens?"
Humans are a very adaptable species. We've seen people grow used to slums, adjust to concentration camps, learn to live with what fate hands them. If our future is to continuously degrade our planet, lose plant after plant, animal after animal, forgetting what we once enjoyed, adjusting to lesser circumstances, never shouting, "That's It!" — always making do, I wouldn't call that "success."
The Lesson? Remember Tang, The Breakfast Drink
People can't remember what their great-grandparents saw, ate and loved about the world. They only know what they know. To prevent an ecological crisis, we must become alarmed. That's when we'll act. The new Easter Island story suggests that humans may never hit the alarm.
It's like the story people used to tell about Tang, a sad, flat synthetic orange juice popularized by NASA. If you know what real orange juice tastes like, Tang is no achievement. But if you are on a 50-year voyage, if you lose the memory of real orange juice, then gradually, you begin to think Tang is delicious.
On Easter Island, people learned to live with less and forgot what it was like to have more. Maybe that will happen to us. There's a lesson here. It's not a happy one. As MacKinnon puts it: "If you're waiting for an ecological crisis to persuade human beings to change their troubled relationship with nature — you could be waiting a long, long time."
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DNA study links indigenous Brazilians to Polynesians
Indigenous people that lived in southeastern Brazil in the late 1800s shared some genetic sequences with Polynesians, an analysis of their remains shows. The finding offers some support for the possibility that Pacific islanders traded with South America thousands of years ago, but researchers say that the distinctive DNA sequences, or haplogroups, may have entered the genomes of the native Brazilians through the slave trade during the nineteenth century.
Most scientists agree that humans arrived in the Americas between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, probably via the Bering land bridge linking northeastern Asia with what is now Alaska. But the precise timing and the number of 'migration waves' is unclear, owing largely to variations in early Americans' physical features, says Sérgio Pena, a molecular geneticist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
One broad group of these Palaeoamericans — the Botocudo people, who lived in inland regions of southeastern Brazil — stands out, having skull shapes that were intermediate between those of other Palaeoamericans and a presumed ancestral population in eastern Asia.
Now, a genetic analysis sheds light on the possible heritage of the Botocudo. Pena and his colleagues studied short stretches of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in samples drilled from teeth in 14 Botocudo skulls kept in a museum collection in Rio de Janeiro. By analysing material from inside the teeth, the team minimized the possibility of contamination with DNA from the numerous people who have probably handled the skulls since they arrived at the museum in the late 1800s.
The mtDNA from 12 of the skulls matched a well-known Palaeoamerican haplogroup. But mtDNA from two of the skulls included a haplogroup commonly found in Polynesia, Easter Island and other Pacific island archipelagos, the researchers report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. A separate lab confirmed the result with samples from one of the skulls, indicating that the 'Polynesian haplogroup' did not result from contamination, the researchers contend.
"But to call that haplogroup Polynesian is a bit of a misnomer," says Lisa Matisoo-Smith, a molecular anthropologist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The haplogroup is also found — albeit at a lower frequency — in populations living as far west as Madagascar.
Nevertheless, says Pena, it is a mystery how DNA from Palaeoamericans living in southeastern Brazil could include gene sequences typically found in Pacific islanders. "We have this finding," he says. "Now we have to explain it."
The researchers say that it is possible — but unlikely — that the DNA could have come from Polynesians who voyaged from remote islands to the western coast of South America. Those traders or their progeny would then have made their way to southeastern Brazil and settled or interbred with natives. But that, too, is improbable, says Pena, because the Andes are a formidable barrier that west coast residents typically did not climb or cross. Although researchers have suggested that ancestors of some species of chickens made their way to Chile through trade with pre-Columbian seafarers from Polynesia2, a subsequent study3 poked holes in that conclusion.
The researchers also entertain scenarios in which the haplogroup arrived in South America via the slave trade. Around 2,000 Polynesians were brought to Peru in the 1860s, and some could have ended up in Brazil, although the researchers say that they are not aware of any evidence that this occurred. And between 1817 and 1843, approximately 120,000 slaves were shipped from Madagascar to Brazil — and some of them were probably transported to areas where the Botocudo also lived. Although the researchers consider the latter scenario to be the most probable, Pena says: "We currently don't have enough evidence to definitively reject any of these scenarios."
"This is a pretty exciting initial result," says Alice Storey, an archaeologist at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. Further studies of genetic material from the skulls, including detailed analyses of nuclear DNA (which contains much longer genetic sequences than mtDNA), could offer more insight into the mysterious ancestry of the Botocudo, she says
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WHAT MAKES THIS BIT OF ALBINO BULLSHIT AND STUPIDITY PARTICULARLY DISGUSTING, IS THAT THERE ARE ANY NUMBER OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES WHICH CLEARLY SHOW THAT THE PALEOAMERICANS WERE ALL BLACKS, WITH THE MONGOL TYPE PEOPLE COMING LATER.
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AND, ARTIFACTS LIKE THE PAINTING BELOW, CLEARLY SHOW THAT THE BOTOCUDO TRIBES HAD BLACK/MIXED-RACE MEMBERS HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
The Botocudo People
The Aimoré are one of several South American peoples of eastern Brazil called Botocudo in Portuguese (from botoque, a plug), in allusion to the wooden disks or tembetás worn in their lips and ears. Some called themselves Nac-nanuk or Nac-poruk, meaning "sons of the soil". The last Aimoré group to retain their language are the Krenak. The other peoples called Botocudo were the Xokleng and Xeta. The Brazilian chief who was presented to King Henry VIII in 1532 wore small bones hung from his cheeks and from the lower lip a semi-precious stone the size of a pea.
At the end of the 19th century many Botocudo tribes still existed, numbering between 13,000 and 14,000 individuals. During the earlier frontier wars of 1790-1820, every effort was made to destroy them. Smallpox was deliberately spread among them; poisoned food was scattered in the forests; by such infamous means, the coast districts about Rio Doce and Belmonte were cleared, and one Portuguese commander boasted that he had either slain with his own hands or ordered to be butchered many hundreds of them.
Paul Ehrenreich estimated their population at 5,000 in 1884. As of April 1939, only 68 Botocudo were alive in Eastern Brazil. They were divided in to two groups. The first group numbered 10 people (belonging to Naknyanuk, Arana and Poyica tribes) and lived near Itambacuri. The second group were divided in to two bands residing at Guido Marliere, on the Rio Doce. One band consisted of 8 survivors from the Naktun, Nakpie, Convugn and Miyã-Yirúgn tribes. Another band consisted of around 50 Nakrehe.
Today, only a few tribes remain, almost all of them in rural villages and the Indigenous Territory. The last remnants of the Eastern Botocudo are the Krenak. In 2010, there were 350 Krenak living in the state of Minas Gerais.
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The Guardian headline: 20 Nov. 2018
Give us back 'our ancestor':
Easter Island leader makes tearful plea for British Museum to return
800-year-old statue taken by Royal Navy as a gift for Queen Victoria.
The governor of Easter Island wept yesterday as she urged Britain to return a 800-year-old statue considered to represent one of her people's ancestors. The four-ton, 7ft 10in Hoa Hakananai'a is regarded as one of the most spiritually important of the Chilean island's 900 famous stone monoliths, or moai. It was taken from the island, in 1868 by Commodore Richard Powell, captain of HMS Topaze, who gave it to Queen Victoria. She donated it in 1869 to the British Museum, where it now stands at the entrance to Wellcome Trust Gallery.
But Easter Island's indigenous community, the Rapa Nui, want Britain to give back the spiritually 'unique' effigy. Governor Tarita Alarcon Rapu found the sight of the artefact so emotional yesterday that she burst into tears as she begged the museum to return it. She said: 'We are just a body. You, the British people, have our soul.' A spokesman said the museum would only consider lending the statue out, adding: 'The museum is one of the world's leading lenders. The trustees will always consider loan requests.'
In 1877 there were 111 native inhabitants on Easter Island. The 2017 Chilean census registered 7,750 people on the island, of whom 3,512 (45%) considered themselves Rapa Nui. These are of course the Idiot Albinos who think just living in a place allows them the right to claim the places heritage - see Albinos and Mongols in Hawaii.
Laura tarita alarcón rapu - is just the latest in the obscene and insidious long line of Albino and 99% Albino mulatto imposters of Native Black People. These were created when Albinos went all-round the World killing and "Fucking" native people: both figuratively and literally. And then using the created Mulattoes to shoe-horn "FULL" Albinos in as natives. Now the Albinos of Chile want the property of Easter Island returned so as to gain benefit from it's tourism value.
{Note the absurd case of the Albino "would-be" American Indian below,
they benefit from control of native "Reservation" lands: Casinos, Oil Drilling, etc.}.


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EU Again Condemns Uzbekistan
July 18, 2005 18:02 GMT
Bodies in Andijon (file photo) 18 July 2005 -- The European Union today renewed its condemnation of Uzbek authorities for failing to open an independent international investigation into the killings in Andijon in May.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the EU foreign ministers remained concerned about the situation in Uzbekistan.
"The council reiterated its profound concern about the situation and condemned the Uzbek authorities' refusal to allow an independent international inquiry into the events in Andijon," Straw said.
Straw, whose country currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, was speaking at a news conference following a meeting of the EU foreign ministers council in Brussels.
On 13 May, Uzbek troops opened fire during a large protest in the eastern city of Andijon. The government says 187 people were killed, half of them armed militants. Human rights groups say as many as 750 people were killed.


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"The floods are risen. O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice: the floods lift up their waves. The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly: but yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier."
We spoke to a ferry which was conveying cattle from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland and learned from the steersman the bearings of St Paul's Island. We shortly afterwards passed a large fleet coming from the gulf and in the afternoon descried Cape North. The passengers expressed great delight at seeing land and were under the impression that they were near their destination, little knowing the extent of the gulf they had to pass and the great river to ascend. Early in the evening we saw Isle St Paul and indistinctly the point of Cape Ray, between which and Cape North is the passage into the Gulf of St Lawrence. St Paul's Island lies about ten miles to the north of the latter cape, in latitude 47 14' North and longitude 60 11' 17' West. It is a huge rock, dividing at top into three conical peaks. Rising boldly from the sea there is a great depth of water all round it and vessels may pass at either side of it. It has been the site of numerous shipwrecks; many vessels carried out of their reckoning by the currents, having been dashed against it when concealed by fog and instantly shattered to atoms. Human bones and other memorials of these disasters are strewn around its base. We passed the light of this dangerous island at 10 p.m. entering into the 'goodly great gulf full of islands, passages and entrances towards what wind soever you please to bend'. This gulf was first explored by John Cabot in 1497, who called the coast of Labrador Primarista. The Portuguese afterwards changed the name of that desert region to Terra Coterealis and the gulf they designated as that of the 'Two Brothers' in memory of Gaspar and Michael Cotereal, the first named of whom not having returned from the second expedition he commanded, the latter went in search of him, but neither of them was afterwards heard of. Jaques Cartier, having entered it upon the festival of St Lawrence, gave to the gulf and the river flowing into it the name they still retain.
We had a fair wind and were going full sail at 7 knots an hour. At noon we passed the Bird Islands which are low ledges of rocks and swarm with gannets, numbers of which were flying about. They were as large as geese and pure white with the exception of the tips of the wings which were jet black. Some of Mother Carey's chickens were following in our wake and it was highly amusing to watch the contentions of the little creatures for bits of fat thrown to them. We had a distant view of the Magdalen Islands which, although lying nearer to Nova Scotia, are considered as belonging to Canada and form a portion of the circuit within the district of Gaspe, court being held at Amherst harbour annually from 1 to 10 July. The largest of the group are Bryon, Deadman's, Amherst, Entry and Wolf islands which are inhabited by a hardy race of fishermen. The huge walrus may at times be seen upon their shores.
In the morning we were becalmed, the water being smooth as glass and of a beautifully clear, green hue. A breeze sprung up at 12 o'clock and, the captain having provided himself and me with lines, we spent the afternoon fishing for mackerel, which were so plentiful that I caught seventy in about two hours, when I had to give over, my hands being cut by the line. The captain continued and had a barrel full by evening. They were the finest mackerel I ever saw and we had some at tea which we all enjoyed as a delicious treat after six weeks of salt beef and biscuit diet. Many of the passengers, having noticed our success, followed our example and lines were out from every quarter; all the twine, thread, etc. that could be made out being put into requisition, with padlocks and bolts for weights and wire hooks. Even with such rude gear they caught a great number, but their recreation was suddenly terminated, a young man who was drawing in a fish having dropped upon the deck quite senseless and apparently dead. He was carried below and put into his berth, there to pass through the successive stages of the fever.
We were again becalmed during the forenoon, but a breeze that soon become a gale arose about 1 p.m. and lasted until evening, being accompanied by thunder and lightning and followed by a heavy shower of rain. The clouds cleared away at sunset when we were within 10 or 12 miles of the eastern point of the island of Anticosti which, when the captain perceived, he gave the order to sheer off on the other tack. This island is particularly dangerous, being surrounded by sunken reefs. It is of considerable extent, being 130 miles in length from east to west and 30 miles across its greatest breadth. Its surface is low and level and covered with a pristine forest, through which prowls the bear undisturbed, except when hunted by Indians who periodically resort hither for that purpose. The sterility of its soil offering no inducement to the white man, it is uninhabited except by the keepers of the lighthouses to which are attached small establishments for the purpose of affording relief to shipwrecked mariners. The name 'Anticosti' is probably a corruption of Natiscotee, which it is called by the aborigines. Cartier named it L'isle de L' Assumption.
We had the bold headlands of Capes Gaspe and Rosier on our left and had entered the majestic river St Lawrence which here, through a mouth 90 miles in width, after a course of upwards of 2,000 miles, disgorges the accumulated waters of the great lakes swollen by the accession of hundreds of tributaries (some of them noble rivers) draining an almost boundless region. The reports of the suffering in the hold were heartrending. Simon and Jack were both taken ill. Last night I was suddenly wakened by the captain shouting 'Get up! Get up and come on deck quickly!' Somewhat alarmed I obeyed the summons as speedily as possible and was well recompensed for the start by the magnificence of the glorious scene I beheld. The northern portion of the firmament was vividly illuminated with a clear though subdued light, while across it shot fiery meteors from different directions, now rushing against each other as if engaged in deadly warfare, again gliding about in wanton playfulness. Disappearing for a while and leaving behind a faintly luminous trail, they would again burst forth upon their stage, lighted up by a sudden flash for the igneous perforrners. I watched with delight until the lustrous picture was finally enshrouded in darkness when I returned to bed. There was birth on board this morning and two or three deaths were momentarily expected. The mate's account of the state of the hold was harrowing. It required the greatest coercion to enforce anything like cleanliness or decency and the head committee had no sinecure office. I spent the greater part of the day upon deck, admiring the numberless jets dread of the bottlenose whales that plunged about in the water. The poor mistress was greatly grieved about Jack and Simon and the captain was savage for lack of assistance.
The morning was fine and shortly after breakfast I was upon deck admiring the beauty of the pine-clad hills upon the southern shore of the river, when the captain came up from the cabin and after looking about gave the word to 'double reef top-sail and make all snug'. Not long after, the sky, which had been quite clear, became black and a violent gale arose, lashing the water into tremendous waves which tossed us mercilessly about, one moment borne up by an angry billow, the next plunging into a deep abyss. The roaring wind was drowned by the tremendous noise of successive peals of thunder, while the forked lightning played about in zigzag lines and the rain descended in torrents. At 5 p.m. the wind abated and the waves began to subside. About an hour after, the leaden clouds parted and, as if in defiance of the contending elements, the sun set in gorgeous splendour. The poor passengers were greatly terrified by the storm and suffered exceedingly. They were so buffeted about that the sick could not be tended and after calm was restored a woman was found dead in her berth.


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Watch G Perico Speak On Winning Early Support From A$AP Yams, Dedicating Songs On The Radio, And More
"I'm big on music, so I be sending little dedications out."
By Nazuk Kochhar
G Perico takes pride in his city of Los Angeles, so it's important to him that his hometown's story is depicted to the T. "Whatever is going on, whatever is popular in the world at the time, we're still L.A.," he told The FADER during a recent visit.
The rising South Central rapper came by to tell us the story behind his So Way Out independent label and storefront of the same name. He also told the story of how A$AP Yams became an early supporter of his music, and that one time he really did dedicate a slow jam on the radio. Watch the interview above.
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Akrecja – to przyrost obszaru państwa spowodowany działaniem siły Coriolisa. Siła ta powoduje, iż rzeki płynące na północnej półkuli podmywają brzeg prawy, a na południu - lewy, co powoduje przyrost obszaru jednego państwa, a ubytek u drugiego. Nabycie obszaru w wyniku akrecji jest traktowane jako rodzaj pierwotnego nabycia terytorium i nie wymaga od państwa żadnych działań o charakterze prawnym.

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Luniversité de Liverpool John-Moores (Liverpool John Moores University, ou LJMU) est une université de Liverpool (Royaume-Uni). Son plus grand campus est situé rue Byrom, près du centre-ville de Liverpool.

Elle a été présidée par Brian May, le guitariste du groupe Queen, jusqu'au .

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'Joker' Becomes the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie Ever
There are many ways to measure the massive impact of Todd Phillips' Joker. It has turned a nondescript stairwell in the Bronx into a massive tourist attraction and Instagram hotspot. It made Jared Leto really mad. And now it's the highest-grossing R-rated movie in the history of cinema.
With this week's grosses, Joker has narrowly passed Deadpool 2 to become #1 on the all-time list of R-rated blockbusters. Previously Deadpool 2 and Deadpool held both of the top spots. Here's what the new top ten looks like:
Joker - $785.1 million
Deadpool 2 - $785.0 million
Deadpool - $783.1 million
The Matrix Reloaded - $742.1 million
It - $700.3 million
Logan - $619.0 million
The Passion of the Christ - $611.8 million
The Hangover Part II - $586.7 million
Fifty Shades of Grey - $571.0 million
Ted - $549.3 million
(The Hangover Part II making $586 million worldwide will never not be incredible. How did that happen?!? Also, that means Todd Phillips has made two of the biggest R-rated movies ever.)
Deadpool himself Ryan Reynolds tweeted this note of "congratulations" to Joaquin Phoenix and the rest of the Joker team:
While the movie was clearly designed not to start a franchise, it seems inevitable that there will be some kind of continuation. How could Warner Bros. not try to continue the biggest R-rated movie ever?
Gallery — The Biggest Second Weekends in Box Office History:
Source: 'Joker' Becomes the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie Ever
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'Joker' Continued to Break Box Office Record in Second Weekend in Theaters
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Todd Phillips Says Joaquin Phoenix's Joker Might Not Be Batman's Arch-Nemesis


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Sadly when we go out for dinner the sight is now common – couples sitting opposite each other, not talking, but focusing on the screens of their smartphones. Taking pictures of the food to Instagram – or checking up on what others are doing on Facebook. In our homes, the idea of a TV in a child's bedroom is passé – instead each member of the family sits with their personal device – no longer sharing the watching experience, but in their own world with their screen. The London Tube has never been a place where strangers speak to each other – but the days of everyone being lost in their daily newspaper or latest bestseller are now replaced by the dreaded smartphones.
There is now mounting evidence that this addition to our phones and to an online life which may or may not represent reality, is not only damaging our social interactions, it is damaging our mental health too – especially that of our teenagers. At a time when they should be creating and developing relationships and practising the skills needed to be successful in the adult world, they are lost in the moment of likes online, or an unattainable image of 'real life'.
This article helps us to see what the research is indicating – and perhaps how we as educators and parents can help our children towards better mental health and more satisfying adult lives beyond school. Last year we posed the possibility of going 'phone free' in the Senior School. We will be revisiting this idea with pupils and parents in coming weeks and would be very happy to hear your thoughts. This is a discussion that cannot be had online.
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In Biarritz with Vans for the Big Festival! Thank you guys for this cool opportunity.
need to visit Biarritz asap!
that place is very nice and natural .
I love this Biarritz place.
Thank you for this cool opportunity.
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Animal Crossing: 15 Years On
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The Animal Crossing series has come a long way since the first game. There's been a lot of great ones and a few that has missed the mark. But overall it is a very popular series that we love and commit a lot of hours too. I myself have over 2500 hours logged altogether on New Leaf, which I still play after nearly three years.
I have a lot of love for the game because I also met some great people from the Animal Crossing communities.
The spin off Happy Home Designer was also enjoyable. I racked up 140 hours before it lost it's novelty. But i always saw it as a spin off so I got more out of it than I expected.
Recently it has been announced that Nintendo are making an Animal Crossing mobile phone game. We don't have much information on it yet but i hope it will have a lot more depth than Miitomo, Which was only fun for me for a couple days.
It needs to be engaging and offer a lot to do otherwise it will anger a lot of fans. Especially Wii U owners who have not had a proper Animal Crossing game, as Amiibo Festival was a spin off and a let down.
But it is worth mentioning Animal Crossing has now sold 1 million amiibo packs in Europe (3 cards are in a pack, meaning a total three million individual cards).
Having said that this new game should not make Nintendo delay a new console Animal Crossing game. I think that will be made for NX. I hope they can focus on both.
With all the disappointing delays announced lately Nintendo needs to do this right. They have a tough job as its such a loved series by a huge range of people worldwide.
I definitely will try the new mobile game. I can see it having in-app purchases though and i am worried it will be another Miitomo clone that gets boring fast. Hopefully we will have more Animal Crossing news soon that pleases fans. We have had too many spin offs lately. A proper game please Nintendo.
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