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Automated Observing Network Inaugurated at SOAR Telescope: New telescope network to rapidly follow up on the changing night sky
Credit: SOAR/Bruno Quint
While the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will soon discover millions of time varying sources—such as supernovae and erupting young stars—quick follow up observations are needed to understand these events. To meet the challenge of developing a network of telescopes that can be accessed with a touch of a button, four observatories have joined forces to create the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON). The SOAR telescope at CTIO has just completed the first observing night for the network.
Read more in NOAO Press Release 19-08.
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Fastest Eclipsing Binary: A valuable target for gravitational wave studies
Credit: P. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF; Inset animation: Robert Hurt
Observations made with KPED, a new instrument developed for use at the Kitt Peak 2.1-meter telescope, have led to the discovery of the fastest eclipsing white dwarf binary yet known. Clocking in with an orbital period of only 6.91 minutes, the rapidly orbiting stars are expected to be one of the strongest sources of gravitational waves detectable with LISA, the future space-based gravitational wave detector.
Commemorating 100 years of General Relativity
Credit: T. Abbott & NOAO/AURA/NSF; Inset, right: S. Pompea & NOAO/AURA/NSF
On May 29, 1919, Arthur Eddington performed an experiment during a total solar eclipse that confirmed Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, expanding our understanding of space, time, and mass. On July 2, another solar eclipse will pass over the telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A team of students from the University of La Serena, along with Juan Seguel (CTIO) and Rob Sparks (NOAO), will perform a commemorative experiment and attempt to replicate Eddington's results.
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Trump's Secret Weapon To Reverse Obama's Climate Policy
Labels: Global Warming Policy Forum Newsletter
How Obama's Climate Rules Might Unravel
1) Trump's Secret Weapon To Reverse Obama's Climate Policy
Bloomberg Government, 12 December 2016
2) How Obama's Climate Rules Might Unravel
Bloomberg, 15 December 2016
3) Reminder: Experts Debunk Obama's 'Social Cost Of Carbon' Estimate — It Might Be Negative
The Daily Caller, 6 July 2016
4) Mark Mills: U.S. Frackers Beat Putin's Hackers
RealClearWorld, 14 December 2016
5) Judith Curry: The Latest Climate 'Conspiracy Theory'
Climate Etc. 15 December 2016
6) And Finally: 'Mammon Is Coming Over To Our Side': Green Mentality In The Age Of Trump
London Evening Standard, 15 December 2016
Catherine Rolfe
If this all holds, the oil business is going to be well represented in the administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Exxon's Rex Tillerson at State. Texas' Rick Perry at Energy. Oklahoma's Scott Pruitt at the EPA.
Each of these candidates has deep, long-lasting ties to the industry. Each can rattle off the benefits of the U.S. production boom without a moments delay. And each is going to bring that bone-deep understanding to their job. What exactly that will mean for policy, will not always be straightforward. We discuss one aspect below in a section about the always entertaining Social Cost of Carbon.
But here's one other thing to think about:
Much is being made in the initial news stories about Tillerson's ties to Russia. But, Tillerson is also an evangelist for fracking, horizontal drilling and U.S. production. And the U.S. fracking boom is not something beloved in Russia; Russian media has invested a lot of time investigating problems blamed on fracking. Low prices brought about by the U.S. shale gale is bad news for Moscow — and this talk at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 shows that Tillerson has a nuanced view of the foreign policy impacts of the U.S. production boom. [...]
TRUMP TEAM MEMO'S HIDDEN GEM
Catherine Traywick's scoop that Trump's transition team was seeking to identify staff members involved in promoting President Obama's climate agenda deserves to be readand re-read. It's a fascinating look inside the nuts and bolts of this very unique transition.
In a section about the Social Cost of Carbon, one set of questions stood out to us: "Did DOE pick the discount rates to be used with the IAMs? What was DOE's opinion on the proper discount rates used with the IAMs? What was DOE's opinion on the proper equilibrium climate sensitivity?"
OK, this is super wonky. But it deserves a bit of pondering. Many of the advocates close to the transition are saying the incoming administration should pull carbon regulation up by the roots, and overturn EPA's endangerment finding that CO2 is a pollutant and needs to be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Doing so would seemingly lead to the reversal of many rules, including the Clean Power Plan. But, that's also both a radical move and one that would be challenged in court.
Another possibility would be for Trump's wonks to review the calculations for the Social Cost of Carbon, which is used by agencies across the government in determining whether measures to curb carbon emissions are worthwhile. The 2010 version from the Obama White House set a range of values for the price, which would increase over time. This is important because a greater climate benefit would justify regulations that cost more, e.g. tighter caps on emissions from power plants.
The Obama administration updated its calculations in 2013, but the analysis has come under continual criticism from business groups and Republicans in Congress. (In fact, it has also been criticized by environmental groups for being too weak.) Here's the thing: Figuring out what the accurate current cost should be for a unique, long-term risk is not a straightforward task.
When Obama's team did it "we tried to make decisions and assumption behind a veil of ignorance," University of Chicago economist Michael Greenstone, who was in the administration then, told me. But one thing that couldn't be hidden was the impact of the discount rate, which is basically establishing how much more to value immediate income compared to what is possible in the future. OMB used different discount rates — 5%, 3%, 2.5% — to get a range of values, and then did some kind of funky averaging.
For a sense of how big a deal this is: According to the 2013 report, in 2020 the SCC using a 5% discount rate is $12; using a 2.5% rate it's $65.
If that all sounds convoluted and complicated, well, it is. And that's how this relates to the Trump team. They could come, announce a reevaluation of the SCC, and then put the range at 5% — or 7%. That would turn a price that's pushing broad changes in everything from microwave ovens to coal leasing decisions to one that would have practically little or no impact on policy. A 7% discount rate, which has been used by EPA for other regulatory analysis, could actually lead to a *negative* carbon cost.
Oh, and the discount rate is just one way the SCC could be reconfigured. (See the question above about climate sensitivity.)
This change to the SCC makes sense for another reason. Listen to Trump discussing climate change with the New York Times: "It also depends on how much it's going to cost our companies." Lowering the SCC means lowering the costs to companies, such as power producers and refineries.
Matthew Philips, Mark Drajem and Jennifer A Dlouhy
Obama used an arcane number to craft his regulations. Trump could use it to undo them.
In February 2009, a month after Barack Obama took office, two academics sat across from each other in the White House mess hall. Over a club sandwich, Michael Greenstone, a White House economist, and Cass Sunstein, Obama's top regulatory officer, decided that the executive branch needed to figure out how to estimate the economic damage from climate change. With the recession in full swing, they were rightly skeptical about the chances that Congress would pass a nationwide cap-and-trade bill. Greenstone and Sunstein knew they needed a Plan B: a way to regulate carbon emissions without going through Congress.
Over the next year, a team of economists, scientists, and lawyers from across the federal government convened to come up with a dollar amount for the economic cost of carbon emissions. Whatever value they hit upon would be used to determine the scope of regulations aimed at reducing the damage from climate change. The bigger the estimate, the more costly the rules meant to address it could be. After a year of modeling different scenarios, the team came up with a central estimate of $21 per metric ton, which is to say that by their calculations, every ton of carbon emitted into the atmosphere imposed $21 of economic cost. It has since been raised to around $40 a ton.
This calculation, known as the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), serves as the linchpin for much of the climate-related rules imposed by the White House over the past eight years. From capping the carbon emissions of power plants to cutting down on the amount of electricity used by the digital clock on a microwave, the SCC has given the Obama administration the legal justification to argue that the benefits these rules provide to society outweigh the costs they impose on industry.
It turns out that the same calculation used to justify so much of Obama's climate agenda could be used by President-elect Donald Trump to undo a significant portion of it. As Trump nominates people who favor fossil fuels and oppose climate regulation to top positions in his cabinet, including Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency and former Texas Governor Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy, it seems clear that one of his primary objectives will be to dismantle much of Obama's climate and clean energy legacy. He already appears to be focusing on the SCC. […]
Still, by narrowing the calculation to the U.S., Trump could certainly produce a lower cost of carbon. Asked in an e-mail whether the new administration would raise the discount rate or narrow the scope of the SCC to the U.S., one person shaping Trump energy and environmental policy replied, "What prevents us from doing both?"
A soon-to-be-published paper challenges the Obama administration's so-called "social cost of carbon" estimate, which puts a monetary value on the supposed future damages from global warming.
But the new study's authors not only say the administration's "social cost of carbon" (SCC) is overblown, they also argue it might actually be negative based on observed temperature increases, not just climate models. That means there's actually benefits to emitting carbon dioxide.
"The resulting Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimates are much smaller than those from models based on simulated parameters," wrote Ross McKitrick, an economist at the University of Guelph, along with David Kreutzer and Kevin Dayaratna, both economists at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
McKitrick's study applied a recent study of climate sensitivity to two climate models used by federal agencies to estimate the SCC. In one model, the "SCC falls by 30-50% depending on the discount rate," they noted, while in a second model "average SCC falls by over 80%."
Most shockingly, when McKitrick and his coauthors analyzed the government's so-called FUND model, they found it "yields a substantial (about 40 percent or more) probability of a negative SCC through the first half of the 21st century."
The new study calls into question the science used by the Obama administration to come up with its SCC estimate, which is used by federal agencies to justify huge monetary benefits from reducing CO2 through regulations.
In 2013, the administration raised the SCC to $35 per metric ton.
That increased measurement of the supposed damages from emitting CO2 into the atmosphere was used to help justify Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions from power plants. EPA says its so-called Clean Power Plan would yield "climate and health benefits worth an estimated $55 billion to $93 billion per year in 2030."
McKitrick and his coauthors argue the SCC doesn't take into account empirically-based analyses of how sensitive the climate is to CO2. Their study incorporated a 2015 study by climate scientists Nic Lewis and Judith Curry, which found doubling atmospheric CO2 levels would only yield 1.64 degrees Celsius of warming — less than what most climate models assume.
We are supposed to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have a budding bromance, as it is called, because Trump made a few off-hand comments during the campaign. And so the trope now is that Putin so preferred Trump that he may have even helped hack a salutary election outcome? If you want to ask our intelligence agencies what's going on, let's try an intelligent question. What single thing matters the most to Russia? It is money, not rhetoric. To imagine that any Russian leader, never mind Putin, would be swayed more by the appearance of conversational bonhomie than by hard cash is, to put it kindly, silly.
Four facts illuminate the realities of where Russia's preferences reside. All of the salient information emerges from petroleum domains.
First, the price of oil matters to Russia. Half of Russia's gross domestic product and more than 70 percent of its export revenues come from selling oil and natural gas. That money not only powers the Russian economy, it is key to that nation's ability to finance expensive foreign adventurism from the Middle East to Ukraine. Today's low prices are depriving Russia of more than $150 billion every year; even in Washington, that's real money. But in equivalent terms, that would be like wiping $1.5 trillion from the U.S. economy.
Second, America's private-sector shale industry was the direct and indisputable trigger for the global petroleum price collapse. Thousands of small and mid-sized companies — it was not "big oil" that created the shale revolution — added more oil (and natural gas) to global markets in a shorter period than at any time in the past half century, anywhere.
American frackers came out of nowhere — i.e., they emerged out of private-sector innovation on private land, not from government subsidies and preferences — to go from near-zero revenues to $150 billion per year in sales in just a half dozen years or so. To put that in perspective, the global smartphone industry, which emerged around the same time, went from zero to $70 billion per year of sales over the same period.
Third, candidate Hillary Clinton made clear, repeatedly, her plans to throttle the shale industry when she said: "So by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place." Clinton promoted the focus-group-created phrase of becoming a "clean energy super power." Got it: message received. But Putin is not afraid of American windmills and (Chinese) solar panels robbing him of cold hard cash. Trump, on the other hand, not only boisterously supported shale, but a recent leaked transition-team memo makes clear that policy changes are likely to follow the bluster.
Fourth, consider a relevant off-hand comment earlier this year from Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, who, most people know, was a vigorous Trump campaign supporter and advisor. Noting that frackers had single-handedly doubled America's total oil production, Hamm said: "We can double it again." This may be the single most frightening set of words Putin saw in 2016. There are no technical or resource constraints to doubling it again. Indeed, while little-noticed in the general media (you can bet Putin's advisors know), progress in shale tech has doubled cost-efficiency and practically promises a shale 2.0 resurgence — provided regulators don't stifle the industry. Imagine, quelle horreur, that our government might actually streamline procedures to accelerate a second boom.
In this context, consider that Scott Pruitt is Trump's nominee for chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. This prospect has alarmed extreme environmentalists since Pruitt, the shale-friendly attorney general of the great state of Oklahoma, is a fierce opponent of EPA overreach and exactly the kind of person that Russia's oil oligarchs would prefer not to see in control of the regulatory brakes.
The geopolitical implications (never mind the domestic economic benefits) of expanding U.S. shale capabilities should be obvious. Not only would increasing shale output keep downward pressure on prices, but as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, earlier observed: "Many U.S. allies and trading partners are interested in purchasing American oil to diversify away from Russia, Iran, and other problematic sources."
As my lawyer friends say, I rest my case.
Mark P. Mills is a Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and author of Expanding America's Petroleum Power: Geopolitics in the Third Oil Era. The views expressed here are the author'sown.
Guess who the new climate 'conspiracy theorists' are?
When I first saw this published in the WaPo, I thought it was a joke: Why I'm trying to preserve federal climate data before Trump takes office. Excerpts:
Trump is serious about overtly declaring war on science. This isn't a presidential transition. It's an Inquisition. It's a 21st-century book burning. The incoming administration is likely to be willfully hostile toward the scientific process, with far-reaching implications.
One of the most tangible consequences of sharp cutbacks in federal funding for climate science is the potential loss of critical data — whether by neglect or malice — that underlie global efforts to understand our climate system. By all accounts, that's exactly what Trump and his team want: Ignorance of how human actions are affecting our planet makes it easier to maintain the status quo.
'Saving' climate data
WaPo has another article on the topic: Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump. Excerpts:
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
The efforts include a "guerrilla archiving" event in Toronto, where experts will copy irreplaceable public data, meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks, and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are compiling an online site to harbor scientific information.[…]
Michael Halpern, deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, argued that Trump has appointed a "band of climate conspiracy theorists" to run transition efforts at various agencies, along with nominees to lead them who share similar views.
"They have been salivating at the possibility of dismantling federal climate research programs for years. It's not unreasonable to think they would want to take down the very data that they dispute," Halpern said in an email. "There is a fine line between being paranoid and being prepared, and scientists are doing their best to be prepared. . . . Scientists are right to preserve data and archive websites before those who want to dismantle federal climate change research programs storm the castle."
To be clear, neither Trump nor his transition team have said the new administration plans to manipulate or curtail publicly available data. But some scientists aren't taking any chances. […]
JC message to the alarmed scientist/advocates:
Get over it, your side lost. Changes of Presidential administrations occur every 4 or 8 years, often with changes in political parties.
Get busy and shore up your scientific arguments; I suspect that argument from consensus won't sway many minds in the Trump administration.
Overt activism and climate policy advocacy by climate scientists will not help your 'cause'; leave such advocacy to the environmental groups.
Behave like a scientist, and don't build elaborate conspiracy theories based on vague conflicting signals from the Trump administration. Stop embarrassing yourselves; wait for the evidence.
Be flexible; if funding priorities change, and you desire federal research funding, work on different problems. The days of needing to sell all research in terms of AGW are arguably over.
Open your minds to different perspectives and interpretations of scientific evidence.
If you are advocating for policies, do some serious homework about the policy process, economics, and unintended consequences of technologies and policies.
Understand that climate policies are not the only, or even primary, driver for energy policy.
Rosamund Urwin
[…] If we're going to decarbonise the economy, I think we need a new coalition — one that is more suited than Swampy. It could involve religion: both the Pope and David Attenborough — as close as many secularists get to having a God — have called on us to do more to tackle climate change.
Mammon is coming over to our side too, with businesses increasingly realising they have to adapt and mitigate risk. Shell has invested in a new form of wind energy that uses high-altitude kites. Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy by next year. Our side has money — Bill Gates is launching a $1 billion fund to invest in clean, sustainable energy — and it has glamour too: Leonardo DiCaprio went to Trump Tower to try to persuade the President-elect that man-made climate change is real.
DiCaprio gave Trump a documentary on global warming. Unless it rubs off, this group will all share a common enemy: a White House as ecologically aware as a plastic-bag factory. If we do want to save the planet, Trump's victory has to ignite a fire — one that isn't burning with fossil fuels....
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March 12, 2020 March 12, 2020 Good Call Live Editor
PARTY DOZEN Announce New Album 'Pray For Party Dozen'
Sydney noise duo Party Dozen, saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, today reveal details of their second album 'Pray For Party Dozen', as well as dropping new single The Great Ape and announcing a handful of Australian tour dates for June.
'Pray For Party Dozen' is a typically DIY affair, produced by Jonathan and released May 22nd on their own label, Grupo Records. The album is the follow-up to their 2017 debut 'The Living Man', which established Party Dozen amongst Australia's foremost sonic adventurers. Since then they have played incessantly, performing at festivals as varied as WOMAD, Dark Mofo, Falls, MONA FOMA and Farmer & The Owl, and playing shows with the likes of Liars, Viagra Boys and Tropical Fuck Storm.
The second taste of 'Pray For Party Dozen', following 2019's eponymous Party Dozen single, comes in the form of The Great Ape, which was played by Henry Rollins on his KCRW show this week. Something of a slow-jam by their usual standards, The Great Ape sidesteps the frenetic pace of much of the group's earlier work, preferring a sludgey, stonerish groove, albeit one adorned with Party Dozen's usual sax drones and insistent percussion. The song comes with an accompanying video which features clips from their phenomenal live show, shot at a variety of gigs in 2019.
As you'll see from the video, each performance for the band is a trial of physicality and an expression of maximalism. Like the legendary Dirty Three, the members seem to meld into one mind, oblivious to the viewer. Tickle effortlessly navigates Boulet's ever-shortening attention span and wild tempo changes; form gradually materialises from chaos.
'Pray For Party Dozen' is the perfect synthesis of their renowned live show. Tracks like the aforementioned Party Dozen act as a bridge from The Living Man, where evil sample loops build the foundations upon which the duo erect a brand new temple of irreverence. Elsewhere, they flirt with electro-Krautrock (Auto Loser), stoner (The Great Ape) and even subtlety (Scheisse Kunst). It still sounds like Party Dozen, but somehow louder; more hushed; even wilder. Plus there are two songs with lyrics. It's smart enough to make you move and dumb enough to make you think. But it's not greater than the sum of its parts. There are no parts – there is only Party Dozen.
A limited edition pre-order pack featuring a vinyl copy of the album, a t-shirt and an exclusive Party Dozen prayer candle, lovingly handmade by the band, is available HERE
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DPS Director McCraw Issues Statement on Death of Retired DPS Chief Adolph Thomas
AUSTIN – Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw today issued the following statement on the death of Adolph Thomas Sr., who retired from DPS as Chief of Staff Services in 1995. Chief Thomas was the first black Trooper in Texas, and he went on to have a distinguished 27-year career with the department, serving in a number of positions of great authority and responsibility.
"Texas has lost a true law enforcement professional. During his time with DPS, Chief Thomas broke through many glass ceilings because of his perseverance, hard work and education," said Director McCraw. "He was known for his integrity, he led by example, and he promoted professionalism throughout his career."
A Texas native, Chief Thomas joined the department in 1968. After graduating from recruit school and serving as a Texas Highway Patrolman, he promoted to Narcotics Agent in 1972. He continued to demonstrate his capabilities as a dedicated officer and leader, and he subsequently promoted to Narcotics Sergeant, then to Narcotics Lieutenant, and by 1988, he had promoted to Captain in the Narcotics Service. Chief Thomas became a recognized search and seizure expert witness in state and federal court, and was also well-known for his expertise in law enforcement policies and procedures; case preparation; undercover drug investigations; and a number of other key law enforcement disciplines. In 1991, Chief Thomas was promoted to Commander of the DPS Training Academy, and in 1993, was named Chief of Staff Services. In 1996, after his retirement, the Texas Senate recognized Chief Thomas' 27 years of exemplary service with a Senate Resolution.
"It is said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Chief Thomas took that first step in 1968, and for nearly three decades, he blazed a trail that few will match but many have since proudly followed," continued Director McCraw. "We are grateful for Chief Thomas' many years of selfless service and sacrifice, and for protecting the people of this great state. We will continue to keep his family, friends and many colleagues in our prayers in the weeks and months to come."
Chief Thomas earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the then-Southwest Texas State University, and he was a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Southwest Legal Foundation. Chief Thomas held a Master Peace Officer Certificate from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education. He also held an Advanced Instructor's Certificate and participated in more than 2,500 hours of law enforcement education and training. Chief Thomas was a member of multiple professional law enforcement organizations and authored several publications on the Fourth Amendment – Search and Seizure.
Chief Thomas passed away on Sunday, Sept. 24. Services will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 30, at Meadowlawn Funeral Home located at 5611 E. Houston Street in San Antonio, Texas.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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            });

            // send logged in users if by executing the fiber
            return {id: getUserId.run()};
        }
    });
});

A: I think the problem is related to instead needing to use Meteor.bindEnvironment to control the scope of the (environment) variables and fibers in use.
A good three-step tutorial on the subject is found here:

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*https://www.eventedmind.com/feed/nodejs-introducing-fibers

*https://www.eventedmind.com/feed/meteor-dynamic-scoping-with-environment-variables

*https://www.eventedmind.com/feed/meteor-what-is-meteor-bindenvironment
My take on your code would be something like this (which in a similar problem worked for me):
Accounts.registerLoginHandler(function(loginRequest) {

    console.log("In login handler");

    var boundAuthenticateFunction = Meteor.bindEnvironment(function(err, ldap_user) {
        if (err){
            // ldap authentications was failed
            console.log("Login failed");
            return undefined;
        }
        else {
            // authentication was successful
            console.log("Login success");

            // extracting team name from ldap record
            var equals = ldap_user.memberOf.indexOf("=");
            var comma = ldap_user.memberOf.indexOf(",");
            var team_name = ldap_user.memberOf.slice(equals+1,comma);

            // add user if they don't already exist

            var id = null;
            var user = Meteor.users.findOne({username: loginRequest.username});
            if(!user) {

                // insert user and kick back id
                id = Meteor.users.insert({username: loginRequest.username,
                                          profile : {team : team_name}
                                         });
                console.log('no user found, creating' + id);

            } else {

                id = user._id;
                console.log('user found, returning id' + id);

            }

            console.log('id: '+id);

            return {id: id};
        }
    }, function(e){throw e;});

  return auth.authenticate(loginRequest.username, loginRequest.password, boundAuthenticateFunction);
});

Mind, the code sample above is untested...

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Royal Crescent is a crescent-shaped terrace of houses on the seafront in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in the late 18th and early 19th century as a speculative development on the open cliffs east of Brighton by a wealthy merchant, the 14 lodging houses formed the town's eastern boundary until about 1820. It was the seaside resort's first planned architectural composition, and the first built intentionally to face the sea. The variety of building materials used include black glazed mathematical tiles—a characteristic feature of Brighton's 18th-century architecture. English Heritage has listed the crescent at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance. An adjacent five-storey building, formerly the Royal Crescent Hotel but now converted into flats with the name Royal Crescent Mansions, is listed separately at Grade II.

History
Brighton's transformation from fishing village to high-class, fashionable spa town and resort happened in the second half of the 18th century and was prompted by several factors. Sea-bathing and drinking seawater became an upper-class fad, encouraged by the publication in 1750 of local doctor Richard Russell's book on the subject. The good climate—sunny, mild and breezy—also became widely known when Brighton's first guidebook was published by Anthony Relhan in 1761. Road improvements encouraged visitors from London and elsewhere: the road from London to Brighton, notorious for its poor (sometimes impassable) condition, was turnpiked throughout its length in 1770. The arrival of royalty and the effects of their patronage then gave the town such prestige that it became Britain's largest and most important seaside resort. The Duke of Cumberland lived in the town from 1779; the Prince of Wales first visited him in 1783 (although he may also have come in search of Brighton's reputed health benefits); and he liked it so much that he came back every year and eventually took up residence at the Royal Pavilion.

Late 18th-century Brighton became popular with speculative developers and builders: either professional builders who bought some land, started erecting houses themselves or using their own men, and tried to sell the remaining land at a profit as construction work continued—this was more common; or rich speculators from other industries who bought land (sometimes from a builder in the circumstances just described) and commissioned them to build houses to their specifications. J.B. Otto, a merchant who owned plantations in the West Indies, was an example of the latter. In 1798, he bought a wide east–west strip of land on the clifftop beyond the eastern edge of the built-up area, about  east of the Royal Pavilion, and hired an architect (whose identity is not known) and builders to create a crescent of houses which could be let to long-term visitors.

Work started in the same year; the ends of the crescent were started first. The project was then delayed when Otto ran out of money; he returned to the West Indies to secure more funds, then came back to Brighton and supervised the completion of the crescent, which happened in 1807. Unlike many contemporary and later developments in Brighton, Otto was able to take his time to complete it because he was not wholly dependent on it for his financial success: his plantations were still his main source of income.

The crescent of 14 houses was the first to be built facing the sea and to be designed in harmony with it. Brighton's 18th-century development had been haphazard and unplanned, and Royal Crescent also represented the first unified architectural design, planned as a set-piece and overseen from start to finish by one man. The grand scale was intended to attract middle- and upper-class residents, both permanent and seasonal, and it was immediately successful: early tenants included the Rice family, a brewing dynasty from London.

In 1802, Otto attempted to impress the Prince of Wales—probably with a view to obtaining an invitation to dine with him at the Royal Pavilion, which was the pinnacle of social achievement in Brighton—by erecting a statue of him at Royal Crescent. He commissioned a sculptor called Rossi to do the work; he used Coade stone, ceramic stoneware manufactured by Eleanor Coade in London. The statue was reportedly unable to withstand the weathering effects of sea-spray and strong wind: by 1807, the fingers on the sculpture's left hand had been destroyed, and soon afterwards the whole right arm dropped off. The statue began to be mistaken for Lord Nelson, and the Prince was reportedly so displeased that he forbade Otto's name to be mentioned in his presence. The dilapidated statue— tall on a  plinth—was removed in 1819. The gardens in front of the crescent, in which the statue stood, passed into the ownership of the Brighton Corporation after the 1884 Brighton Improvement Act was passed.

Royal Crescent was listed at Grade II* on 13 October 1952. Such buildings are defined as being "particularly important ... [and] of more than special interest".  As of February 2001, it was one of 70 Grade II*-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove.

Notable residents of Royal Crescent have included actor Sir John Clements—who lived at number 7—and Sir Laurence Olivier, who lived at number 4 with his third wife Joan Plowright and also owned number 5.

Architecture

Royal Crescent forms a shallow crescent-shaped of 14 terraced houses on a generally east–west layout behind Marine Parade. Numbers 1 and 14, the houses at each end, stand parallel to that road. Each four-storey house has common stylistic themes. There is a first-floor veranda on every house except number 1, the westernmost house, which has a balcony instead. Each veranda has curved metal roofs (with either cyma recta or cyma reversa mouldings), cast iron railings and bracketed supports.

The whole terrace has a timber-framed façade with brick nogging (infilling) and covered with black glazed mathematical tiles. These were laid in an interlocking pattern to mimic brick, and were frequently used in Brighton in the late 18th century. The glazing produced an iridescent effect which reflected sunlight in a visually pleasing way, and also coped better than bricks with sea-spray and other weathering effects. The houses were originally built with bow windows, but after critics argued that this spoilt the visual effect of the concave curve of the crescent, they were replaced (except at numbers 12 and 14) by canted bay windows with three sides. A parapet, running above numbers 7–10, has the painted legend . When the painter of the lettering, a Mr Leggatt, leant back to check his work, he fell off his ladder and was fatally impaled on the metal railings below.

The entrance porches and doorways to each house are considered particularly impressive. The details differ slightly from house to house, but most have open-topped pediments, entablatures, semicircular fanlights and Tuscan-style pilasters.

Royal Crescent Mansions
Standing slightly forward of Royal Crescent immediately to the east, the building now known as Royal Crescent Mansions was originally built as a two-storey house in the early 19th century. Former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister George Canning once lived there; this is commemorated by a heritage plaque designed by Eric Gill in the 1920s. Extension to five storeys and conversion into a hotel began in 1848, and it opened in its new form in 1857. Some remodelling took place later in the 19th century. The sea-facing façade has a three-window range: from left to right, canted, bowed and canted. Iron balconies span the second, third and fourth floors. The building has nine windows on each floor on its west façade, next to Royal Crescent, and eleven to the east (facing Burlington Street). After many years as a hotel, it was converted to flats.

The building was listed at Grade II on 20 August 1971. As of February 2001, it was one of 1,124 buildings listed at that grade in Brighton and Hove; the status indicates that the building is considered "nationally important and of special interest".

See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: P–R

References

Notes

Bibliography

Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
Houses in Brighton and Hove
Crescents (architecture)
Houses completed in 1807

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Mind The P's and Q's (And BAST?) Of DP – USCG And BSEE Issue Joint Safety Alert Regarding Dynamically Positioned Offshore Supply Vessels
by Christopher Hannan | Mar 9, 2015
Continuing their post-Macondo/Deepwater Horizon symbiotic approach to regulating the offshore oil industry, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued a joint Safety Alert in late February regarding a loss of station incident on a dynamically positioned (DP) offshore supply vessel (OSV) engaged in downhole operations on a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. See February 24, 2015 Safety Alert. This Safety Alert, coming just a few months on the heels of the USCG's recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding DP systems on vessels operating on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) (see USCG NPRM of November 28, 2014 Regarding DP Systems, 79 Fed. Reg. 70944, hereinafter "USCG DP Rules"), is the most recent reminder that USCG and BSEE both hold sway on the OCS, sometimes in ways that may not be readily apparent or intuitive.
The USCG DP Rules
As a preliminary point, the USCG (after several prior indications that rulemaking on DP systems was long overdue, as previously reported on this blog – see inter alia THE OSV REGS COMETH) issued its DP Rules in late November of 2014. In particular, the purpose of the DP Rules was to "decrease the risk of loss of position by a [DP'd] [mobile offshore drilling unit, MODU] or other vessel that could result in a fire, explosion, or subsea spill." Unsurprisingly, the USCG DP Rules make several references to the Macondo disaster, which – although it did not result from any loss of DP on the Deepwater Horizon MODU – provides a perfect example of the type of catastrophic incident that a loss of DP during critical downhole operations might cause. In this regard, the USCG DP Rules note numerous voluntary reports to the USCG of "near miss" incidents (which, given the non-mandatory nature of this reporting, suggests that even more such near misses have in fact occurred) involving loss of station (on both MODUs and OSVs) due to DP problems, many of which could potentially have resulted in personal injury, loss of life, and/or severe environmental damage.
Prior to the USCG DP Rules, the USCG had provided some intermittent guidance (via policy letters) regarding DP systems, but the November 28, 2014 NPRM is the first comprehensive effort by the USCG to regulate DP systems. The proposed regulations in the USCG DP Rules would appear at 33 C.F.R. parts 140, 143, and 146, and at 46 C.F.R. Parts 61 and 62. The new rules do not require that vessels have a DP system, but rather set minimum standards for any that do.
As an overarching, thematic matter, the USCG DP Rules repeatedly reference "critical OCS activities" throughout the newly proposed regulations. As defined at 33 C.F.R. §140.305, "critical OCS activities" include activities "where maintaining station is critical because a loss of position could cause personal injury, environmental pollution, or catastrophic damage." The USCG DP Rules recognize that industry has (to some extent) self-regulated the safety of DP systems used during "critical OCS activities," insofar as large leaseholders have unilaterally required their contractors providing DP'd MODUs/vessels to adhere to minimum DP system/design standards and operational guidelines. Nonetheless, the USCG has issued these new rules given in light of the potentially large-scale risks posed by DP failures; the expanded (and expanding) use of DP technology on the OCS; and the resulting need for a unified set of standards.
The USCG DP Rule focuses on two main areas: (1) operation and design of DP systems; and (2) training, manning, and watchkeeping standards for DP systems.
As for operation and design standards, the USCG DP Rule "requires new and existing MODUs, and new vessels other than MODUs, that engage in Critical OCS Activities using a DP system, to comply with certain provisions of" the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations, as well as provisions of the 2012 Marine Technology Society (MTS) DP Operations Guidelines (previously recommended by the USCG via Interim Voluntary Guidance notices published by the USCG). The standards derived from these sources will be mandatory for certain classes of DP vessels, depending on their size and the nature of their activities, on a sliding, "risk-based" scale. The details of these operation/design standards (including a matrix depicting the "risk-based" scale) are available in the USCG DP Rules.
As for manning/training/watchkeeping standards, the USCG DP Rules critically note that any MODU/vessel engaged in DP operations is considered to be a "self-propelled motor vessel and is considered to be underway" during such operations, thus rendering those vessels subject to the Standards for Training Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Convention. Thus, any such vessels are required to adhere to the watchkeeping/hours of rest mandates. Likewise, because DP vessels are considered "underway" while DP'd, the COLREGS/"Rules of the Road" likewise apply to such vessels. Accordingly, the new regulations require that every DP vessel on the OCS have a Dynamic Positioning Officer (DPO) who is a credentialed (but not necessarily licensed) mariner. Likewise, training for the DPO and other crew charged with DP responsibilities must meet International Marine Contractors Association and IMO minimum training requirements. Additionally, both DP crew training and watchkeeping protocols should be considered on a risk-based scale along the lines of a Safety Management System (SMS), depending on vessel-specific DP system capabilities and the nature of operations in which the vessel is engaged.
Finally, encompassing both operation/design and manning/watchkeeping/training, the USCG DP Rules require (again, on a sliding scale) that DP'd vessels/MODUs obtain certification from USCG-approved classification societies:
[D]ifferent levels of risk are associated with different vessels and missions. In general, we are proposing a risk-based approach tied to the type of vessel and whether the vessel conducts Critical OCS Activities. In addition, we propose to distinguish between vessels other than MODUs based on vessel size. For the lower risk category of vessels that conduct Critical OCS Activities, meeting IMO [requirements], obtaining surveys from a DP system assurance organization (DPSAO), meeting DP personnel and system training requirements, and following the MTS guidance is sufficient to ensure a satisfactory safety level.
[The USCG DP Rule] would require more oversight on MODUs and other larger vessels that use a DP system to engage in Critical OCS Activities. These higher risk vessels would be required to obtain plan review and surveys from a DPSAO.
Thus, the USCG DP Rules seem to provide certain minimum standards, but subject these standards (generally speaking) to a sliding, risk-based scale in terms of mandatoriness in application.
Notably, the USCG DP Rule expressly recognizes that "[u]nder a [2008] Memorandum of Agreement between the [USCG] and BSEE, the [USCG] is responsible as the lead agency for regulation of DP System design, and all aspects of DP system operation except criteria for well shut-in and disconnect when out of the watch circle [i.e. loss of station incidents]."
However, this is ostensibly at odds with BSEE's own express regulatory jurisdiction over "OCS facilities and any vessels engaged in drilling or other downhole operations," including "facilities under jurisdiction of other Federal agencies [e.g. the USCG] that [BSEE] inspect[s] by agreement," to verify compliance with both BSEE regulations "and other applicable law and regulations." 30 C.F.R. §250.130 (emphasis added). In other words, BSEE appears to retain some general level of authority over DP vessels.
And notwithstanding the DP-specific provisions of the USCG DP Rule, BSEE's recent rulemaking regarding "best available and safest technology" requirements – or BAST – could arguably encompass DP systems. Specifically, 30 C.F.R. §250.107 requires operators to "use the best available and safest technology (BAST) whenever practical on all exploration, development, and production operations." This regulation was initially issued in an NPRM that noted as follows regarding BAST:
Proposed [30 C.F.R.] Sec. 250.107(c) would provide that wherever failure of equipment may have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, an operator must use the BAST that BSEE determines to be economically feasible on all new drilling and production operations, and wherever practicable, on existing operations. Under this proposed provision, BSEE would specify what is economically feasible BAST. This could be accomplished generally, for instance, through the use of [Notices to Lessees] or on a case-specific basis. To implement the exception allowed by the Act, proposed Sec. 250.107(c)(2) would allow an operator to request an exception from the use of BAST by demonstrating to BSEE that the incremental benefits of using BAST are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies.
78 Fed. Reg. 52239, 52243 (Aug. 22, 2013).
Moreover, the then-current version of §250.107 included certain "safe harbor" language providing that (1) BAST was only required "whenever practical" and (2) that compliance with BSEE regulations would "in general" constitute the use of BAST. However, the NPRM would remove these safe harbors:
Existing §250.107(c) requires the use of BAST ''whenever practical'' on ''all exploration, development, and production operations.'' Moreover, it provides that compliance with the regulations generally is considered to be the use of BAST. The existing provision is problematic for a number of reasons. The use of the phrase ''whenever practical'' provides an operator substantial discretion in the use of BAST. The statute [43 U.S.C. §1347(b), regarding BAST on the OCS], on the other hand, requires the use of BAST that [BSEE] determines to be economically feasible on all new drilling and production operations. With respect to existing operations, the Act requires operators to use BAST ''wherever practicable,'' which does not afford the operator complete discretion in the use of systems equipment. In addition, although operators must comply with BSEE regulations, such compliance does not necessarily equate to the use of BAST. Existing paragraph (d) is written in terms of additional measures the Director can require under the Act, and includes a general requirement that the benefits of such measures outweigh the costs.
The proposed rule would more closely track the Act. Proposed §250.107(c) would provide that wherever failure of equipment may have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, an operator must use the BAST that BSEE determines to be economically feasible on all new drilling and production operations, and wherever practicable, on existing operations. Under this proposed provision, BSEE would specify what is economically feasible BAST. This could be accomplished generally, for instance, through the use of NTLs, or on a case specific basis. To implement the exception allowed by the Act, proposed §250.107(c)(2) would allow an operator to request an exception from the use of BAST by demonstrating to BSEE that the incremental benefits of using BAST are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies.
Id. (emphasis added).
Given the extraordinarily broad scope of BAST as proposed in the NPRM for §250.107 – and given that BSEE has (as previously reported here) asserted that its regulatory jurisdiction extends to both operators and their contractors – this BAST requirement could arguably extend to DP systems on contracted vessels supporting OCS leasehold operations.
The comment period for the NPRM regarding BAST closed in December of 2013, and the rule is now in the "Final Stage" regulatory process.
The USCG-BSEE Joint DP Safety Alert
Given this murky background – and notably notwithstanding the apparently clear delineation that the USCG wields the regulatory sword for all DP issues – the February 24, 2015 joint Safety Alert issued by the USCG and BSEE muddies the waters (which have been muddied in this regard ever since the Macondo/Deepwater Horison incident) as to who is really in charge.
The Safety Alert concerns an incident in which a DP'd OSV connected to a well while conducting downhole operations experienced a DP failure resulting in loss of station that sheered the well's Christmas tree superstructure. A subsurface safety valve prevented what would have otherwise been a hydrocarbon flow from the well.
The Safety Alert – which curiously does not even reference the USCG DP Rule – notes what steps could and should have been employed to prevent the loss of station incident.
In turn, the USCG makes certain recommendations to "owners and operators of OSVs using DP" to follow various USCG DP guidance documents (again, however, with no specific mention of the USCG DP Rule).
In addition, BSEE reminds "leaseholders/operators" – notably without any reference to offshore contractors, despite their prior suggestions that they have authority over these contractors as well – that they must "ensur[e] safety and environmental hazards associated with contract vessels on their lease," including specifically loss-of-station incidents involving DP vessels contracted for work on their leases.
Thus, notwithstanding the USCG's ostensibly unequivocal statement that it alone regulates DP systems, BSEE's involvement in the Safety Alert – as well as its behind-the-scenese presence vis-à-vis its broad BAST regulations, its self-proclaimed jurisdiction over contractors, and the omnipresent SEMS obligations of OCS operators – suggests as a practical matter that BSEE is just as much (at least potentially) of a regulator in this area as the USCG. Simply put, it appears that (once again) the universal thump may be passed round with respect to DP incidents on the OCS.
For example, "DP system equipment [is generally divided] into classes based on reliability levels designated as equipment class 1, 2, or 3. Equipment class 1 (DP–1) is the least reliable and equipment class 3 (DP–3) is the most reliable." 79 Fed. Reg. 70944, 70946. The USCG DP Rule sets baseline standards for DP systems, but does not necessarily require use of the most up-to-date or reliable DP systems; recognizes that all three classes are still in use; and requires DP-2 or higher (albeit noting significant performance disparities even within the DP-2 class) for new-build vessels/MODUs engaged in Critical OCS Activities. Id. at 70949. That said, "[b]ecause of the mechanical and structural demands associated with DP–2 systems or higher that are not feasible to satisfy in older vessels, the [USCG] proposes to make the existing population of OSVs and crewboats exempt from the DP–2 equipment requirements of the [USCG DP Rule]." Id. at 70959. Moreover, the USCG DP Rule does not even necessarily require use of DP: the rule requires "[u]se DP–2 or higher systems if conducting Critical OCS Activities" – "[o]r [allows vessel operators to] choose to not operate with DP" at all. Id. at 70977. However, under BSEE's proposed BAST regulations, leaseholders/operators, and potentially their contractors (insofar as BSEE asserts regulatory authority over them directly), might arguably be required to use vessels with DP-3 class systems notwithstanding the non-mandatory provisions of the USCG DP Rule.
With the comment period on the USCG DP Rules recently extended through May 27, 2015, industry interests should consider providing feedback requesting a more finite delineation of how – and by whom – DP systems will be regulated on the OCS.


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News, Reviews and Features 'A charming musical monologue': HOLLOW – The Space UK (Online review)
'A charming musical monologue': HOLLOW – The Space UK (Online review)
In Musicals, Native, Online shows, Plays, Reviews by Violet Mackintosh 28th August 2020
If you are wondering what a 'musical monologue' is – look no further. Hollow is a charming 20-minute musical journey written by David Kent. We follow a traveller returning home to search for what he has been missing, though it is not the story, but the music which makes Hollow special.
The entire piece is performed by Dereck Walker from an armchair. Walker is a captivating storyteller and the journey has real appeal to it. The actor may be sitting down the entire time, but he manages to embody the space as well. This is possible to do, given the lack of any special effects or props (apart from one cloak). Walker is clearly very moved by the words he is bringing to life.
Even if the show is a little confusing (at times it is unclear whether the songs are focusing on reality or supernatural), this simply adds to the magical mystery of the melodies. The overall effect made me feel very calm and this is definitely one to reach for when stressing about whether live theatre will ever return.
"The overall effect made me feel very calm and this is definitely one to reach for when stressing about whether live theatre will ever return."
As a piece of entertainment, Hollow can't be quite described as complete in and of itself. It is great in the audio department, but it lacks movement. The visual aspects are not enough to carry the story. To put it bluntly; we can watch someone sitting in a chair singing only for so long. The restrictions of lockdown are important to bear in mind, but there is nothing visually engaging or exciting in the shot at all.
Having said that, if we take the audio as a separate entity, the music is varied and catchy and the violin is, for want of a better word, beautiful. The audio is nicely balanced and the pace of the music carries the arc of the story forward.
The end credits of Hollow say it is 'homemade' and that's it – rough around the edges and not perfect in the middle, but considering the limited production resources, it really is an enjoyable 20 minutes. Hollow has the potential to be made into a live production when and if global circumstances allow, and I applaud such creativity through the drought of the pandemic. My advice – listen to Hollow now, watch it later.
Watch Hollow Here
Violet Mackintosh
Violet Mackintosh has experience as an assistant stage manager for the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) and as a production assistant at the Edinburgh Fringe. She pursues her interest in theatre through her blog: www.thevioletcurtain.com, also following global theatre, particularly in Germany. Violet lives in London and is a student at the University of Toronto.
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Blog Tour: Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Review + Giveaway
Tour organized by Hannah @ The Iris Banana Review
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I feel incredibly honored to be able to review Letters to the Lost as part of the blog tour. This book is amazing. Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of this post for a giveaway too!
Letters to the Lost
Read: March 18 - 20, 2017
Published: April 4, 2017 by Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Source: NetGalley (TY!)
Category: YA, Contemporary, Letter Writing, Loss, Photography, Cemeteries
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Book Description: Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.
Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community service at thelocal cemetery, he's trying to escape the demons of his past.
When Declan reads a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist writing back. Soon, he's opening up to a perfect stranger, and their connection is immediate. But neither Declan nor Juliet knows that they're not actually strangers. When life at school interferes with their secret life of letters, sparks will fly as Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart.
Even though she can't read them anymore, Juliet Young still writes her mother letters by hand. But instead of mailing them to wherever her mom is currently on photography assignment, Juliet leaves the letters by her grave. Declan Murphy mows the grass in the cemetery as part of a court-ordered community service. When he comes across one of Juliet's letters he reads it...and writes back. Neither knows who the other is, and they don't expect the strength of connection they find in each other's words. But while they feel free to express their hearts under the anonymity of their letters, things become a lot more complicated when they realize they aren't actually the strangers they think they are.
I loved this book so much! The You've Got Mail trope is popular right now, and I've read a bunch of books with this set up. But Letters to the Lost is definitely a favorite. In many ways that's because of the depth of emotion in these page - how raw story is, and the way the dual narrative allows us to get inside of both Juliet and Declan's heads. It's not as much waiting for the big reveal - when will they realize who the other is? - though I couldn't wait for that. It's aching for the pain and loss both characters are carrying, and wanting so much for them to be okay. It's seeing how much they crave connection, and watching how the letters gave them something to hold onto in a time that was dark for both of them.
Both Juliet and Declan are/have dealt with some really tough stuff in their lives, and this book does not shy away from any of it. This book gutted me, but it's also uplifting amidst everything these two are facing. I love that Juliet and Declan find each other amidst all of that, even though for a while, they don't know it's each other they've found. And boy do they spark against the other at first. The chemistry is strong with these two, even when they're yelling at each other.
Another thing I loved about this story is that Juliet and Declan each has a supportive friend who sticks with them through it all. Declan's friend Rev is my favorite, and I'm thrilled he's getting his own book next year. Though they feel nothing but alone and misunderstood at first, Juliet and Declan also both find other supportive people in their lives - teachers, family members, coworkers. To that end, both of their relationships with their parents go through an evolution in this book, and I wasn't prepared for how affected was by those relationships.
I truly don't have anything negative to say about this book. Highly Recommended.
Love Triangle Factor: None
Cliffhanger Scale: Standalone - Next year there is to be a companion book from Declan's friend Rev's POV called More Than We Can Tell.
BRIGID KEMMERER is author of Letters to the Lost (Bloomsbury; April 4, 2017), a dark, contemporary Young Adult romance; Thicker than Water (Kensington, December 29, 2015), a New Adult paranormal mystery with elements of romance; and the YALSA-nominated Elemental series of five Young Adult novels and three e-novellas which Kirkus Reviews calls "refreshingly human paranormal romance" and School Library Journal describes as "a new take on thesupernatural genre." She lives in the Baltimore area with her husband and four sons.
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Kristy Petree March 29, 2017 at 1:45 AM
Great review! I love books with written letters as part of the storyline. Glad you enjoyed it so well. :) Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
Kathleen March 29, 2017 at 10:13 AM
I've heard nothing but amazing this abut this book. After reading Salt to the Sea I've decided I really like books that have chapters from different POVs. Loved the review & I can't wait to read Letters to the Lost and the follow up! :)
Danielle H. March 29, 2017 at 10:20 AM
I enjoyed your review very much! I'm going to love this book with the emotional situations this author has placed her characters into. The synopsis definitely sounds intriguing and I want to get to know these characters.
John Smith March 29, 2017 at 4:16 PM
Looks like a good book! Thank you for the contest!
Linda Romer March 29, 2017 at 6:16 PM
Letters to the lost sounds great. I would enjoy reading this book. Thank you
Carina Olsen March 31, 2017 at 5:12 AM
Stunning review Lauren :D So glad you loved this book a lot. <3 I have seen it three times now this week, haha :D Getting more and more curious. <3 It sounds so sweet :)
Alyssa April 6, 2017 at 11:01 AM
I guess I need to look up You've Got Mail! To be honest, I love the trope. P.S. I Like You, Tell Me Three Things, this book... I've adored them all (and probably wouldn't mind reading even more based on the trope!). Wonderful review, Lauren! Hopefully More than We Can Tell will be ready for us before too long!
Have a great week, Lauren. =)
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The Setting of the Warriors Series by Rainshine
Rainshine theorizes on where the lake territories are.
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The Warriors series is situated in an imaginary world, with forests and mountains and twolegs. The Old Forest was said to be set in New Forest, in England. The newer series, starting with The New Prophecy, introduce a world beside mountains. I will be trying finding a place on earth that fits the canon setting.
The requirements are:
A small river beside a forest, open grassy field, and a city/town to the east.
Mountains to the west.
Saltwater to the west, beyond the mountains.
A small lake northwest of the 'Old Forest', and north of the salt water.
A large city north of the lake.
The first thing to find is mountains because those are easiest to find. I will also only be stating mountain ranges with a body of salt water to the west. Here they are:
The Western Ghats mountains, in India.
The Scandinavians, in northern Europe.
The Pyrenees, bordering France and Spain.
Atlas mountains, in northwestern Africa.
Taurus mountains, in southern Turkey.
The Caucasus mountains, beside the Black Sea.
The Alps.
The Rockies in western North America.
The Coast mountains, stretching from Alaska to Washington.
Sierra Nevada mountains in the US.
The Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.
And lastly, the Andes in South America.
Another thing to consider is the seasons. There are four, winter, spring, summer and fall, so this means that it isn't near the equator. The weather isn't very cold either, so it shouldn't be too far north or too far south. This doesn't mean that there can't be glaciers, even though I'm pretty sure the books never state that there are any. Winter for them is called the Time of Frozen Water after all, and that means that there are probably glaciers. The remaining mountain ranges are:
The Alps, in Europe.
The Coast Mountains, mostly in Canada.
We also need a large city, large enough to contain multiple skyscrapers and trains, north of the mountains. There should also be civilization large enough to hold cars east of the mountains, and maybe even a few hills for Mothermouth and the Moonstone? A lake to the west of the mountains, and a river to the east that goes through a forest beside a town or city should also be included in the last cut.
The Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain don't really have anything to the northwest other than ocean, so they are cut from the possibilities.
The Atlas mountains are situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. There aren't many civilizations there, and the weather, climate and biome do not fit the setting in the stories either.
The Taurus mountains in Turkey have mostly the same issues as the Atlas mountains. The northwestern side is very bare and doesn't fit well with the story.
The Caucasus mountains go east to west, and since in both the Great Journey (the new Prophecy) and when they follow the Sun Trail (Dawn of the Clans) they travel towards the sun – whether it's setting or rising, they're always going east or west – and they always across the mountains horizontally. Also, there are no major cities close enough.
The Alps in Europe would have been the ideal location, for the most part, they go east to west – but on the western end, the slope downwards, heading south. Now the cats can cross it and head for the sea by Marseille. The only problem now is Tigerheart's Shadow. As in, the book. The skyscrapers in France aren't the tallest, nor are there many of them, especially not in southern France. But, minus that last bit, the area around the Alps would be really close to the setting in the warriors series.
The Rocky mountains stretch almost the entire way through North America. Although it holds many possible just because of it's sheer length, it's just not close enough to the Pacific Ocean, and the Great Journey would have probably killed more cats.
Lastly, we have the Coastal mountains. The mountain range goes north to south and the Pacific Ocean lies to the west. And when it reaches south to the US, in the state of Washington (as a Canadian I don't understand why Washington D.C. isn't in Washington. But hey we couldn't have burnt the White House during the Battle of 1812 if Washington D.C. was out here in the west. Anywayyyy), up by the north-western part is the perfect place! Vancouver and company are to the north AND there's a railway leading towards it! (the big city is towards the north because Dovewing and Tigerheart left from the ThunderClan and ShadowClan border, and that's north) and there are many many lakes in the area (did you know Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined? And it's not like you'll fall into one with every step because Canada is also the second-largest country in the world. Anywayyyy) and there are small cities and towns everywhere. And you're bound to find a city/town close to a river – the rivers are everywhere.
Although my final conclusion on the fact that the Coastal mountains would be the best fit, I do recognize that it isn't at all perfect. The mountains are supposed to be dry and barren, and there's supposed to be a city that the cats can take as an alternate route for the mountains. They never mention glaciers in the series, but since there is a waterfall in the mountains, there is a good chance that there are also glaciers. The wildlife best suits the Alps, since it is mostly European (I wish there were elks and moose and more bears but sadly, no). There are probably a couple more things that I'm missing, too.
But that's it! Not the best article, kinda long, unprofessional, edited with Grammarly but it was kinda fun! Also, I like the fact that it's kinda Canadian 😉 . If you read it, thanks for reading! If you skimmed through it, that was really smart of you. Have a good day!
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This was a great article, however, I believe that it is confirmed that the INSPIRATION for the Great Lakes wasn't really anywhere but it was definitely in Europe somewhere because it was confirmed that the INSPIRATION for the original forest territory was some forest in Britain or something.
Rainshine 🌸 Rainie
Reply to Sky
Yeah, the forest territory was inspired by New forest or something. thanks!
Morningfrost
Huh, interesting. I think the lake territories are supposed to be a fictional place in England, but it's interesting to try and figure out where they would be in the real world. I did a bit of research a while ago, and came to the conclusion that the Blazing Star from Dawn of the Clans is an actual flower, and it only grows in North America. But a lot of the other wildlife is also from England (besides Sharptooth and the raccoons in Hawkwing's Journey, though we might assume at least the raccoons were brought in by Twolegs or something, as none of SkyClan or the other cats really knew about them), and in Tigerheart's Shadow there were green crosswalk lights in the city, which I think is more of a European thing (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this; I'm from the USA; I have been to some parts of Canada and done very minimal research on Canadian crosswalk lights, but I might very well be wrong).
Embers of a Winter Dawn (Emberdawn)
Reply to Morningfrost
In southern Ontario, our crosswalk lights are white and red 😛
Reply to Embers of a Winter Dawn (Emberdawn)
Also from southern ontario, my lights are red, yellow and green. I live closer to toronto, tho i've also been all the way down south and i don't think i've ever seen white traffic lights 🙂 maybe i'm just blind 😉
And Morningfrost – yeah, i think badgers are more of an european thing. The other thing is the absence of wildlife, like uhh moose and stuff that would have been mentioned had the series been based in canada.
Reply to Rainshine 🌸 Rainie
Oh, I was talking about the walking lights (for pedestrians), not the traffic lights 😛
ooof, that makes sense 😛 I still think they're green though? sometimes they do seem white though…. i have no clue 😛
Willow that Travels in TARDIS
As someone whose been to Canada, I definitely see it there!
But I'd have to say it COULD potentially be in the Sierras, on the Southern end, towards San Bernadino.
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Gingerpaw (frost)
Nice article, I've always wondered about this topic. Though I don't see how there are glaciers? I always, for some reason, pictured all of it taking place in California. I don't know why. I don't even live there! Nicely done
Reply to Gingerpaw (frost)
I feel like the weather in California might be too hot year-round? idk though. Thank you!
Aster is Meowing for Chinese New Year!!! (Asterstorm/ Meowing Aster/ Astie)
Interesting article 😆! I always wonder where do the warrior cats live too 😸! Though the most possible location of the Old Forest is in England, and the possible locations you suggested for the Lake Territory are in the U.S. and the inner part of Europe, they might still be true as the books are fictional, and it's not a surprise if the Erins mix all these locations together to create a new area for the cats 😺. Btw, winter is called "leaf-bare" in Warriors 😉.
Reply to Aster is Meowing for Chinese New Year!!! (Asterstorm/ Meowing Aster/ Astie)
oof I forgot about the season thing haha. I think it's New Forest, not Old Forest (it's old forest in the books 😉 ) Thank you!
Pastelblossom 🌺 Pasty
This is really interesting! Great job emoji buddy! 😛🌸
Reply to Pastelblossom 🌺 Pasty
yass thank you emoji buddy!!
Moondapple
I've never really thought about it! I kinda just really pictured everything in my head, but you really got into detail!
🌈owlfeather-owly🌈
Reply to Moondapple
Same 😛
Lilacpaw/frost - Li
Great article!!!
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Good job, my amazing mentor! 😛
I love the ideas!
Reply to Spotted Turkey's Spirit After Being Eaten
THANK YOU MAH APPRENTICE
Great article! 😀 This was so interesting!
But if the first arc is set in New Forest, England, how would they have gotten to America? 😛
Star that shines in Jack'O Lantern
I really love this article! Was actually going to write something like this myself, but no need since you've already smashed it. Being a European, I would've loved it to be in Europe, but considering that the tribe cats were plagued by a mountain lion, I think Canada or America is more likely. Congrats again! Really well researched and just a really interesting read. xx
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가장 좋아하는 name out of these in the Warriors series?
The fans pick: Brightheart? Stormpaw?
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Hello everybody! Okay, so in this first OC Making 101 Article... Mary sues. Now, most of 당신 know what i'm talking about. Rainbows, un-natural colors, neon. BUT, that's SO stereotypical! Most NORMAL Mary sue's, Like IceTalon here, Look normal and have something wrong with it. (The base was made 의해 WarriorCatkittyclaws on deviantart! ) Then... On the other hand... Stereotypical Mary sue's, like 퀸 무지개, 레인 보우 step over there at the bottom of the page... Is actually kinda scary. Now. if your a beginner, at least TRY? G'night! See 당신 on the 다음 episode of.. OC making 101!
Moontail ( Tigerfur's daughter ) "I give 당신 a life of courage, to keep FireClan together 당신 will need it."
Stormfire ( The deputy of ThunderClan before Tigerfur ) "I give 당신 a life of perseverance. It will be used to guide your heart, and your clan mates."
Lilacholly ( Tigerfur's oldest sister) "This is a place of light. Your 심장 is light. So, I give 당신 a life of light, to spread understanding to your clan mates."
Tigerpaw woke up in a dream. She heard whispers that said "You are a caged tiger and 당신 will deliver the clans peace. Be warned once the tiger is out, it doesn't go back in."
Moontail said "StarClan thought of that. We are actually here for your leader ceremony."
A video showing a Live Tornado in the background and Squrrielflight looks at it.
Why was Mapleshade (in Crookedstar's Promise) so intent on destroying Crookedstar's life?
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