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Agent of the Sway: Isolation - Part Six
The teleportation device did not carry them far, a few levels down into one of the side chambers of the Citadel. Clayton made short work of the few unsuspecting guards they found there, giving them time to take stock.
"What now?" Elizabeth asked.
"History records that Darigan will fall after gaining the orb. Kass will claim the Citadel afterwards," Clayton explained. "Kass will lay waste to Meridell."
"More than Darigan already has?" Elizabeth asked.
"You sound concerned," Clayton pointed out. "Have you forgotten that all this destruction was your original plan?"
"Back there, in the chamber... I felt their influence, the Three," Elizabeth said. "They offered me things, and... It was hard to resist. I had not counted on them being so strong. If Darigan was allowed to triumph as we had planned originally, it would have been difficult to stop them from stretching their influence further."
"I felt it too," Clayton admitted. "The more time we spend on the Citadel, the more they will be able to tempt us. For now, we should head back to Marko's office. We should be safe there until the next move is made."
Elizabeth agreed, and as best they could they stalked back to the little office near the Citadel kitchens. Marko was not there, but they waited all the same. Silence, just the ticking of a small clock on Marko's desk. Both of them were waiting, hoping that the sound of rushing footsteps wouldn't be heard outside the door - hoping that they wouldn't be found by Lord Darigan's forces.
When as last the footsteps came, they were gentle, but hurried. Elizabeth nodded to Clayton, signalling that it was Marko. The Darigan Meerca opened the door carefully, checking who was inside before hurriedly closing the door behind him.
"I take it you were in Lord Darigan's chambers to see what happened a few hours ago?" he asked.
Elizabeth nodded. "He's got the orb, used it to destroy the Castle Defender in a single blast."
Marko made a slightly confused look.
"You didn't see him transform?" he asked.
"Transform?" she asked.
"We had to make an... emergency exit soon after the Castle Defender fell," Clayton added. "What happened?"
"He has drained the orb of most of its power," Marko explained. "The power coursing through his veins... It has altered him. They are calling him a Spectre now, a magical beast. He has gone completely mad with power - even turning against his own people. Word has been sent to General Galgarroth down in the remains of Meridell Castle. A temporary truce has been called - he is aiding the remaining Meridell forces in their effort to reach the Citadel, while Master Vex and General Kass are rounding up troops here on the Citadel. It is a coup - Darigan and Meridell are united against the Spectre. Together, they may just have enough power to defeat him."
"Just as you said," Elizabeth said to Clayton.
"The attack, they will challenge him soon?" Clayton asked.
"As soon as Skarl and his forces reach the Citadel," Marko replied. "Within the hour."
"We must be there, watching," Clayton said. "Darigan's power is only partially coming from the orb. The Three have taken control of him. We must see his demise to understand what we must do in order to defeat Kass in the coming months."
"As long as we are observing, and not taking part," Marko agreed. "I don't know about you, but Elizabeth and myself are not equipped to take down a magical demi-god."
The three of them reached Darigan's chambers in good time, but they could already tell they were too late. The great wooden doors had been blasted off their hinges, and the remnants of them now lay splintered across the corridor. The Eyrie guards that had previously barred entrance to their master were hidden amongst the debris. Injured, but alive, Clayton noticed. Master Vex's rebellion was making sure casualties were at a minimum, at least.
Clayton signalled the others to pin against the wall as they approached. The sound of fighting was coming from inside - Darigan was putting up quite a fight.
A bright flash and a loud yell came as they neared the doorway, and General Kass was thrown outside by a sudden magical blast. The Darigan Eyrie impacted hard on the wall opposite Lord Darigan's chambers. He slumped to the floor, but Clayton noticed he was not unconscious.
"What is the matter with him?" Marko asked as he saw the Eyrie's eyes darting madly left to right.
Clayton and Elizabeth exchanged a glance. They recognised the agony painted on Kass's face. The true injury was taking place in his mind.
"The Three," Elizabeth answered ominously. "They are assaulting him from within."
"They must be sensing which way the wind is blowing," Clayton agreed. "They are looking for a new puppet."
Inside, the Spectre of Lord Darigan was surrounded by soldiers from both sides. He had transformed beyond recognition, fire now burst from his fur, burning on his flesh but somehow not destroying it. What skin that was not on fire had changed in colour, now black and red. His tattered wings swung this way and that, batting away the more reckless soldiers, and around his neck, the orb hung, powering the evil inferno.
"I will not fall as easily as Kass!" the yell of Galgarroth, the Grarrl General rang out.
He took a running leap at the Spectre, catching the Korbat in the side and causing him to momentarily wince with pain. The Spectre regained itself quickly, a fiery uppercut to Galgarroth sent him sprawling across the room.
Clayton and Elizabeth melted into the shadows outside of the conflict, while Marko rushed over to tend to Galgarroth's wounds.
Next, a yellow Chia in gleaming silver armour rushed forwards. Clayton recognised him from the Seeker's notes - the Yellow Knight. He had led an early attack on the Citadel only to be captured and imprisoned in Vex's dungeons. It appeared that the dungeonmaster, for now at least, was willing to liberate his prisoners to help with the war.
The Yellow Knight brandished a cutlass with a lazy flourish, but moved with surprising speed, ducking and weaving away from the Spectre's swipes. At last, the Yellow Knight found an opening, and took a wide slash. The blade impacted on the Spectre's flesh as if it was stone, and the Yellow Knight fell back, defeated for the time being.
The Spectre rounded on the Knight, intending to finish him off, but found himself tripped by the attack of Master Vex. The Mynci brandished a long metal pole wit the air of a master, spinning it and catching the Spectre across his chin.
"We'll never defeat this beast fighting one on one!" came a shout from King Skarl, battle mace in hand. "All at once, men! Give him what for!"
Skarl rushed forwards, along with Jeran, to give aid to Vex. The Yellow Knight meanwhile gathered his senses and took up his sword once more, rushing forwards with a few of Darigan's Draik guards. Another roar heralded Galgarroth's return to the battle as he steamrolled in towards his quarry. From the sidelines, Lisha and her friends were launching small magical blasts towards the Spectre. Their few days in Meridell appeared to have taught them some genuine magic, as the Spectre now flinched when they impacted.
All the gathered Neopets were now involved in the fight, and the Spectre appeared to be weakening. The fire seemed slightly less bright, his rage somehow less intense.
Clayton glanced back out towards the corridor. Kass's thrashing was becoming less. He was loosing his fight against the Three. They would soon be able to manipulate him just as they did Darigan. The Kougra wondered, perhaps, if this meant they were leaving Lord Darigan. Maybe the Korbat was returning to his senses.
A single bright flash brought Clayton's attention back to the Spectre. The Neopets attacking him had been forced back, and the Spectre was now kneeling, clutching its chest. They had done it, Lord Darigan was defeated.
The Spectre seemed to be listening, no doubt hearing the final taunting words of the Three in its ears. Abruptly, it leaned back, letting out a terrible scream.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
A bright red flash of magic followed, and Darigan was gone. The orb remained, hovering in the air for a moment before gently falling back down.
Across the room, King Skarl and Master Vex exchanged a glance. As the orb began to fall, both declared that their own land should hold the orb, and darted forward. Both were too far away. The orb tinkled to the floor, and to the gasps of those gathered, split cleanly in two.
Their was a brief wind, as if the magic held inside the orb was escaping back into the world from which it had once been drawn. And then, there was silence.
Clayton quickly took Elizabeth's arm, drawing her away from the chamber and back into the corridor. There, Kass appeared to be regaining consciousness. They watched as he straightened out his armour and marched into the aftermath. It was him that broke the silence the others had been keeping.
"This is a victory for the people of Darigan," he announced. "I can only apologise for what we have done, King Skarl. But now, it is time for all of us to put this madness behind us, and rebuild."
Hollow words. The Three would make sure Kass only perpetuated the horrors.
"Why are you taking us away?" Elizabeth asked. "They wouldn't have seen us, and we needed to know Kass's plans."
"We have somewhere else to be, we have to get back to Meridell town and talk to Zylphia," Clayton said.
"Why?"
"Because Lord Darigan is not dead!" Clayton hissed.
"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asked. "We all saw..."
"We all saw him disappear," Clayton told her. "Nothing more. And I've been teleported enough times now to recognise it when I see it in action."
"He's... been teleported somewhere? Where?" Elizabeth demanded.
"I don't know," Clayton answered. "But Zylphia will be able to track it, I'm sure. If Darigan isn't dead, we may have just gained an ally in stopping Kass - we may have our method of stopping all this and saving all three lands!"
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Designed by Greta M. Grossman in the 1952 year, the 62 Series desktop was considered to have been ten years ahead of its time, hence the name '62 Series' to designate this collection edited by Gubi. Its thin metal legs with solid wood spheres, contrast with the other rectangular shapes, giving the furniture an appearance of lightness.
Details: Chest of three drawers in walnut wood. Top plate in high gloss finish and door in solid wood.
Gubi is a Danish firm of furniture and lighting of original design characterized by the search of icons of the past and contemporary designs of avant-garde of new creators.
It is inspired by iconic remains lost from the past and avant-garde designs, resulting in a collection of eclectic furniture and lamps that blur the lines between the past and the future. Its collection of furniture and lamps is formed by original designs that are very aesthetic and reflective, and are characterized by their simple forms, original materials and innovative techniques that defy time and space.
Each piece of Gubi is exquisite in its own right, with a story to tell, the capture of a fleeting moment in history that is still relevant today.
The firm was founded in 1967 and from 2001 incorporates a creative vision in its designs, placing it as a global player in the furniture and design lamps scene, some of which have been exhibited in the most important museums of the planet.
Naharro furniture is official distributor of Gubi in its stores in Madrid and online store.
Greta M. Grossman (1906-1999) excelled in the fields of industrial design, interiors and architecture. This Swedish designer emigrated in the 40 years to the USA and was imbued with the Californian modernism of the mid-twentieth century.
During the decades of 40 and 50 he made his most representative designs, among which the Gräshoppa floor lamp (1947) and the Cobra lamp (1950) stand out. With this latest design, he won the prestigious Good Design Award. He has exhibited at the MoMA in New York or at the National Museum in Stockholm, among others.
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Australian banking giant Macquarie Group has joined a consortium of renewable energy leaders including Intercontinental Energy, Vestas, and CWP Energy Asia in investing in the Asian Renewable Energy Hub, a wind and solar hybrid power plant set to be built in Australia's northwest which has been expanded once again to over 11 gigawatts (GW) in planned capacity.
First announced towards the end of last year — though in development since 2014 — the Asian Renewable Energy Hub was originally supposed to have a total capacity of 6 GW — 4 GW of wind power and 2 GW of solar capacity. The project was conceived with the sole intention of exporting its electricity production to Indonesia via subsea electrical cables, making the most of the copious swathes of empty and sunny countryside in the northwest of the country.
We're not going to see movement on the project for a while, however, with Financial Close for the first phase of the hub anticipated for 2021 and construction to begin in 2023 and to be completed over a 6 to 7 year period.


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But Lucky has been wowing the fashion world for longer than you may have realised. He was photographed by Hedi Slimane (creative director of Saint Laurent) when he was just 12, which quickly led to campaigns for Levi's and GAP before his 15th birthday. In fact, his three sisters- Starlie Cheyenne, Daisy Clementine and Pyper America- starred in the GAP ads with him, as they're all signed to the same agency, Next Models. Raised as Mormons in Utah, the Smith siblings not only share supermodel genes, they also have a band- The Atomics- in which Lucky is the drummer.
But Lucky is most definitely dominating the fashion scene right now, and since dying his hair platinum blond, fashion's power players have come calling. The likes of Versace, Balmain, Bottega Veneta and Etro all recruited the American teen to strut his stuff on their catwalks at the most recent menswear shows, and if that wasn't enough, he's currently the face of Tom Ford's AW15 campaign and poster boy for high street hot spot, Zara.
That's not all. Online shopping haven Zalando has just recruited Lucky- along with a slew of other celebs- to front its brand new Share Your Style campaign, celebrating personal style across all ages, shapes and sizes. The German brand is encouraging us all to share our favourite outfits, with the likes of Christina Hendricks, Caroline de Maigret, supermodel Binx Walton and Lucky Blue all spilling their own style secrets to inspire us.
Things seem to have gone crazy for you recently, what's it been like with all the attention you've been getting? Can you go anywhere without being recognized at the moment?
It's not got to that level yet. I mean, really crowded places… like I went to this one café in LA on a Friday night so all the teenagers and kids were out and I got a lot of attention. It's starting to get that way but that's never going to stop me from going somewhere. It has been really crazy lately and totally insane. It's awesome.
You've been modelling since you were much younger so it's nothing new for you. How do you think it's suddenly exploded in the way that it has?
My agency has really been smart with what I've been doing and they've made sure that everything I've done is really cool and stuff people respect. When I was 15 I did a Levi's campaign and then I did a GAP holiday campaign with my sisters. So them making that happen has just kind of moulded this cool thing, you know.
So the campaign came through my agency and I shot it in London, and I just really like the idea of sharing your style.
My own style is like some classic black skinny jeans and maybe a t-shirt and just a cool jacket. I like basic stuff.
Yeah, I like James Dean and David Beckham. But it doesn't have to be some specific person. If I see someone on the street walking and I think they look cool, I would look up to them and think that's an awesome jacket maybe if they're wearing it in a different way.
So do you look at it as an aesthetic rather than one particular person?
You've mentioned your sisters, who are also models, and aren't you all in a band together?
That's amazing- how do you find the time to do everything?
Well we started playing music when I was really young- I got drums when I was seven years old, and then we all got instruments for Christmas one year. So we all started playing music together, and then did that for a while and played local shows in my old hometown- car shows, on the library steps, and then we got into this modeling thing so we're just doing it right now. It's really crazy schedule-wise for me but whenever I'm in LA I try to play music with them. We're all trying to work as a team to get it all done.
Do you get to see them much?
Yeah, I mean I'll go to LA and whenever I'm there I'll see them and hang out with them and a couple of times my sisters have travelled with me and done jobs with me so that's really nice.
How do your parents feel about you all being in the industry?
My parents think it's crazy, they think it's really cool and a really awesome opportunity.
Your Instagram followers just seem to keep growing- do you think it's something that's key to being successful in modeling these days?
I think it helps for sure, and it's totally helped me out but before I got this following I booked a couple of really cool campaigns that… well, like Levi's- not a lot of models would maybe book Levi's so it's for sure something that helps and people are starting to get to know how Instagram can help their company and their campaign. So having a following does help but it's not the deal breaker I don't think.
The only time it was scary, I was in Amsterdam for a job and on Instagram you can show your location on the map… I didn't know that so I didn't turn it off and posted a photo and then a couple of girls figured out where I was and showed up to my hotel and I had no announcements whatsoever or anything like that. So I was like 'how did you guys find me, this is really weird but hi, nice to meet you.' But then when they told me [about Instagram] I fixed that right away. But I'm never really scared or weirded out by it- they want to meet you and I like meeting them.
There's a lot. I mean, my friend- his name is Luka Sabbat. He's really cool with style and he lives in New York, so he's really cool to follow.
Is he a model as well?
Yeah, he just has really cool style, he's a super cool kid.
What's been the most amazing moment for you so far would you say?
So it's something you enjoy, you're not annoyed by it?
Are there any male models you see as an inspiration?
I mean, there's some cool shoots that other male models have done, um and I respect what they're doing but I'm not really trying to be and do exactly what they want. You know what I mean?
Yeah, you're doing your own thing.
Yeah, but it's like… I dunno, Zoolander is really funny and it's really cool to make fun of yourself and the industry and I'll take a joke but not really. I'm not trying to follow everyone's exact path and do the shoots they're doing. I'm just trying to do my own cool thing and do some cool projects.
You mention Zoolander- I feel that male models in the past have had a bit of a bad rap in the industry. All the focus tends to be on female models and they're often taken more seriously. Do you think that's something that's starting to change now?
It certainly seems that male models have more of a presence on social media at the moment.
Yeah, I mean a lot of teenagers like pretty guys [laughs].
Describe a day in the life of Lucky Blue for us.
There's probably a few different situations. I'm either running to the airport to get on a plane to go to New York or Europe or China or something and that day will be quite boring because I'm on a plane. Then, I'll either be in LA writing music with my sisters and hanging out with some friends or in New York on a casting or on a shoot so it just depends on the day and what I'm doing.
Do you ever get any time to chill out?
Yeah, yeah I do get some time. I really like this so it's not like 'oh I'm so tired, I just want to get some rest' or whatever.
Which designer would be your dream to work for?
Um… well I have had the opportunity to work with some really amazing designers already in my life, but I like working with up and coming designers and… there's not really one specific one that I would really want to work with it's like, I dunno, whatever comes through my agency and what I can do is cool, y'know? But I would love to work with the people I've worked with again. They were really awesome.
You've spoken about wanting to get into acting- is there anyone in particular you'd love to work with?
I mean, acting is something that I really do want to get into and start doing more often and it's kind of like the same thing. If I got the opportunity to be in a movie with, like, Brad Pitt- which would be really rad- um, then that would be awesome. But if I got a small role in some other movie, that would be awesome as well. I'm not really trying to get… it's not really a competition to me, I'm just trying to do some cool stuff. But I'm for sure getting more into that.
Can you tell us something about you that might surprise us?
Well, I think there's… I'm really open to people in the public and stuff but I think there are things to keep to myself. I dunno, if anyone finds out, then they find out so I'll keep it a secret!
If you weren't modelling (or acting or playing music) what do you think you'd be doing?
I couldn't picture anything else really. When I was little, I really loved surfing. I used to live in Orange County and that's what all the kids do there, so I wanted to be a surfer as a little kid and a firefighter or a cop or whatever, but I think when I got to the age when I started realizing what could happen so music and acting and modeling- that's what I want to do.
To #ShareYourStyle, head to Zalando.co.uk, or visit the brand's Style Hub, where you can share your daily outfits as well as vote for what other people should wear. You can even shop the looks of the campaign stars, giving you supermodel style in an instant.


Vancouver, B.C��..Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus� or the "Company�) - (TSX: KOR) is pleased to announce the discovery of a new high-grade gold vein system at the Yellowjacket target on its North Bullfrog property near Beatty, Nevada. The initial hole drilled into the target during the Company's 2010-11 winter exploration program returned 13.7 metres (11.9 metre true width) of 5.9 g/t gold and 5.2 g/t silver, including a high-grade intercept of 6.1 metres grading 11.9 g/t gold and 8.8 g/t silver.
The Yellowjacket target is the first of a series of high-grade, vein-type targets to be drilled in the Company's previously announced 10,000-metre drill program at the North Bullfrog project. In addition to the zone of 13.7 metres containing 5.9 g/t gold and 5.2 g/t silver, the same hole (hole NB-10-63) also intercepted 62.5 metres of 0.4 g/t gold and 1.2 g/t silver in the strataboundzone beneath the high-grade quartz-sulfidestockwork zone. Drillholes targeting the lateral extension of stratabound mineralization to the west and south continue to confirm widespread distribution of bulk-tonnage mineralization in the central Sierra Blanca region, including hole NB-10-51 which intercepted 32 metres of 0.5 g/t gold and1.6 g/t silver and hole NB-10-55 which intercepted 36.6 metres of 0.4 g/t gold and 0.8 g/t silver (see Table 1).
Drilling at the Sierra Blanca target has now confirmed the presence of many zones greater than 100 metres thick of mineralization outlining potential for a large, bulk-tonnage deposit in the area (Table 1, Figure 1). Hole NB-10-64, the first hole drilled in the Savage Valley target, returned an intercept of 131.1 metres at 0.3 g/t gold and 0.7 g/t silver, including 50 metres of 0.4 g/t gold and 23 metres of 0.5 g/t gold. This intersection confirms the continuity of mineralization into the area, which is 300 metres to the south and east of the nearest previous intersections. Following the initial drilling of the Sierra Blanca targets, the Company will begin testing targets in the Connection and Jolly Jane target areas, both of which have high-grade vein systems as well as large bulk-tonnage targets (see Figure 1).
Due to the early success of the exploration program, the Company has expanded its North Bullfrog drill program to 12,000 metres which will continue to the end of February 2011. The budget for the program has increased from $1.2 million to $1.35 million.
A video of the North Bullfrog project showing location, infrastructure access and 2010 winter drilling is available on the Company's website at http://www.corvusgold.com/investors/video/.
* Intercepts calculated using 0.1 g/t cutoff with maximum 3 metres of internal dilution.
Figure 1: Map of the Yellowjacket, Sierra Blanca, SavageValley and Jolly Jane target areas displaying the drill holes reported in this news release. Cumulative thickness values for the drill holes are calculated by summing all intervals within the drill hole that have grades greater than 0.1 g/t gold which highlight the main centers of mineralization.
The North Bullfrog Project covers over 24 square kilometres in southern Nevada just north of the historic Bullfrog gold mine formerly operated by Barrick. The project has excellent infrastructure, being adjacent to a major highway and power corridor, and is 100% controlled by the company.
The project currently includes eight prospective gold targets with one prospect â€" the Mayflower target â€" containing an NI 43-101 compliant initial Indicated Resource of 2.6 million tonnesat an average grade of 0.67g/t gold (at a 0.3 g/t cutoff) for 76,300 ounces of gold and an Inferred Resource of 2.2 million tonnes at 0.56 g/t gold for 39,000 ounces of gold with appreciable silver credits. Mineralization occurs in two primary forms: (1) broad stratabound bulk-tonnage gold zones such as the Sierra Blanca and Jolly Jane systems; and (2) moderately thick zones of high-grade gold and silver mineralization hosted by structural zones with breccias and quartz-sulfide vein stockworks such as the Mayflower and Yellowjacket targets. The Company is pursuing both types of mineralization with an expanded 12,000 m Phase 1 drill program.
Jeffrey A. Pontius (CPG 11044), a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has supervised the preparation of the scientific and technical information that form the basis for this news release and has approved the disclosure herein. Mr. Pontius is not independent of Corvus Gold, as he is the CEO and holds common shares and incentive stock options.
The work program at North Bullfrog was designed and supervised by Russell Myers, President of Corvus Gold; and Mark Reischman, Nevada Exploration Manager, who are responsible for all aspects of the work, including the quality control/quality assurance program. On-site personnel at the project log and track all samples prior to sealing and shipping. All sample shipments are sealed and shipped to ALS Chemex in Reno, Nevada, for preparation and then on to ALS Chemex in Reno, Nevada, or Vancouver, B.C., for assaying. ALS Chemex's quality system complies with the requirements for the International Standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 17025:1999. Analytical accuracy and precision are monitored by the analysis of reagent blanks, reference material and replicate samples. Quality control is further assured by the use of international and in-house standards. Finally, representative blind duplicate samples are forwarded to ALS Chemex and an ISO compliant third party laboratory for additional quality control.
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, "forward-looking statements�) within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein including, without limitation, statements regarding the anticipated content, commencement and cost of exploration programs, anticipated exploration program results, the discovery and delineation of mineral deposits/resources/reserves, the potential for higher grade zones of mineralization to exist at North Bullfrog, the potential for the identification of multiple deposits at North Bullfrog and the operation of a central processing facility to treat North Bullfrog mineralization,business and financing plans and business trends, are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located,variations in the market price of any mineral products the Company may produce or plan to produce, the Company's inability to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its activities, the Company's inability to produce minerals from its properties successfully or profitably, to continue its projected growth, to raise the necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies, and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's latest interim Management Discussion and Analysis and filed with certain securities commissions in Canada. All of the Company's Canadian public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sedar.comand readers are urged to review these materials, including the technical reports filed with respect to the Company's mineral properties.
This news release contains information with respect to adjacent or similar mineral properties in respect of which the Company has no interest or rights to explore or mine. The Company advises US investors that the mining guidelines of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC�) set forth in the SEC's Industry Guide 7 ("SEC Industry Guide 7�) strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned that the Company has no interest in or right to acquire any interest in any such properties, and that mineral deposits on adjacent or similar properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company's properties.


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Dwight Jones (basketball)
Dwight Jones
Houston, Texas
July 25, 2016(2016-07-25) (aged 64)
The Woodlands, Texas
Wheatley (Houston, Texas)
Houston (1970–1973)
NBA draft
Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Power forward / Center
Atlanta Hawks
Houston Rockets
Chicago Bulls
Los Angeles Lakers
Bic Trieste
911 (1.2 apg)
Representing United States
Olympic Games
1972 Munich Team
Dwight Elmo Jones (February 27, 1952 – July 25, 2016) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'10" forward/center, he was the leading scorer and rebounder on the 1972 Olympic team that lost the controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union. Jones was ejected from the Gold Medal game after an altercation with a Soviet player. Later it was revealed[by whom?] that the Soviets intentionally provoked him as they seemed him as the leader of the U.S. team and wanted to get him out.[citation needed]
Jones attended E.O. Smith Education Center and Wheatley High School.[1]
After playing college basketball at the University of Houston from 1970–73, Jones was selected as the 9th overall pick in 1973 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. Jones played for ten seasons in the NBA from 1973 to 1983 with four teams: Atlanta, the Houston Rockets, the Chicago Bulls, and the Los Angeles Lakers. The 6 ft 10 in power forward/center averaged 8.1 points in 766 career regular season games.
His son, Dwight Jones II, played at Houston Baptist University. A 6-3 guard, Jones II was named the Red River Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 2005-06 and 2006-07 while also being named an NAIA All-America both seasons.[2]
Jones died on July 25, 2016.[3]
^ "Distinguished HISD Alumni Archived May 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine," Houston Independent School District
^ JONES II TAKEN IN NBA DEVELOPMENTAL LEAGUE DRAFT[permanent dead link]
^ "Houston men's basketball great Dwight Jones passes away; Houston native was 64 years old". yourhoustonnews.com. July 25, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
Dwight Jones at Basketball-Reference.com
Career NCAA stats @ thedraftreview.com
United States men's basketball squad – 1971 Pan American Games – 7th place
4 Taylor
5 Davis
6 Wilmore
8 Forbes
9 Terry
10 McAdoo
11 Chones
12 Witte
13 Jones
14 Westphal
15 Buse
Coach: Gudger
United States basketball squad – 1972 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
5 Collins
6 Henderson
7 Bantom
8 B. Jones
9 D. Jones
10 Forbes
11 Brewer
12 Burleson
13 McMillen
14 Joyce
15 Ratleff
Coach: Iba
1973 NBA draft
Doug Collins
Jim Brewer
Ernie DiGregorio
Mike Green
Kermit Washington
Ed Ratleff
Ron Behagen
Mike Bantom
Dwight Jones
John Brown
Kevin Joyce
Kevin Kunnert
Nick Weatherspoon
Mel Davis
Barry Parkhill
Swen Nater
Steve Downing
Raymond Lewis
Louie Nelson
Mike D'Antoni
Allan Bristow
George McGinnis
Billy Schaeffer
Kevin Stacom
Larry McNeill
Allan Hornyak
Tom Ingelsby
Patrick McFarland
Derrek Dickey
Wendell Hudson
Jim Chones
Caldwell Jones
Gary Melchionni
John Perry
Phil Hankinson
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The Masked Singer Season 3: The Llama Gets Eliminated — and Is Revealed to Be Drew Carey!
"I had a blast," ousted contestant Drew Carey said of his short-lived time on the Fox singing competition Wednesday night
By Dana Rose Falcone
Published on February 5, 2020 09:19 PM
We got a double helping of The Masked Singer this week.
After season 3 premiered following the Super Bowl on Sunday and unmasked its first ousted celeb, which turned out to be Lil Wayne underneath a robot costume, the show slid into its regular time slot on Wednesday night.
Group A's remaining five contestants — Llama, White Tiger, Miss Monster, Kangaroo and Turtle — took the stage again as they make their way down to three singers who will move on to the finals. Panelists Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke continued to guess which stars might be under the intricate disguises, and actor Jason Biggs joined them as a guest judge.
Panelists (from left) Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong, Jason Biggs and Nicole Scherzinger. Greg Gayne/ FOX
After each performance, host Nick Cannon asked each masked competitor which superlative they would receive in the Masked Academy.
At the end of the night, the studio audience voted on their favorite performance, leaving the singer in last place to get unmasked. The Llama found himself in the bottom spot after singing "It's Not Unusual." Right before Llama removed his mask, the panelists suggested Adam Carolla, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Knoxville or Woody Harrelson might be under the four-legged getup, so they were shocked when Drew Carey appeared.
Lisette M. Azar/CBS
"I love you to death," Jeong told the actor-comedian once he revealed his identity. Biggs added that he's admired the Price Is Right host for a "very, very, very long time."
The Masked Singer: Who's Been Revealed So Far?
As for why Carey, 61, did the show, he explained, "The show looked like a lot of fun and I like having a goof and a lot of laughs, that's why. This is a great show, man. I had a blast."
Read on for a breakdown of Wednesday night's performances.
Greg Gayne/ FOX
Clues: a conga line; playing the accordion on stage; an audience member crushing a water bottle; "I want to keep the laughs rolling in."; "My strategy is to approach this competition the same way I approached my career: For a while, I was spinning my wheels, but then I started to envision my success and to think on my feet."; "I'll be the greatest of all time."
Song: "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones
Panelists' guesses: Zach Galifianakis, Woody Harrelson, Johnny Knoxville, Joel McHale
Most likely to …: "I was voted most likely to be near firing cannons."
Miss Monster
Miss Monster. Greg Gayne/ FOX
Clues:
a butterfly sketch; a queen chess piece; chalk; the initials BK; drawing Monster "like one of your french monsters"; "Now I can just focus on being an artist."; "You've got to stand up for yourself in this dance."; "People say, 'Miss Monster, Miss Monster, you can't do it all.' But why not try?"; "I'm like Mr. Monster, capable of anything and full of love."
Song: "Fancy" by Bobby Gentry
Panelists' guesses: Celine Dion, Priscilla Presley, Mary Wilson
Most likely to …: "I was most likely to be in the presence of royalty."
RELATED VIDEO: Seal Reflects on 'The Masked Singer': 'Now I Know I'll Make a Good Drag Queen'
Rob Gronkowski performing as White Tiger. Greg Gayne/ FOX
Clues: playing a boombox in a library; a poster of a skiing cow; a Wild World of Cats book; a long green wig; colorful feathered boas; "I had no idea how much work would go into taking a stage like this."; "My motto is work hard, play harder."; "I'm no stranger to celebrating."; "I love a good block party."; "This may sound kind of crazy but dancing heals my body after taking a beating."; "I'm putting in the time to hone this new craft to put the mask in masked."; "I'm ready to cut a rug on that stage tonight and tear it up."
Song: "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Panelists' guesses: Rob Gronkowski, Charles Haley, Hulk Hogan
Most likely to …: "I was voted most likely to go to the mat for a friend and I did, literally."
Clues: playing basketball on kangaroo kourt; makeup; basketball players wearing No. 23; a player with "Deejay" on the back of his jersey; "Recently it seems like I'm watching my life from the sidelines."; "I know I just need to have courage and get back in the game."; "I'm owning this underdog story and I'm not pulling any punches."; "I've got to be a role model for my little roo."
Song: "You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse
Panelists' guesses: Tatyana Ali, Candace Parker, Gabrielle Union
Most likely to …: "I was voted most likely to appear on a list with Seal and Mike Tyson and I might've been."
The Masked Singer Fans Think Jordyn Woods Is the Kangaroo: 'I'll Put Money on It'
Turtle. Greg Gayne/ FOX
Clues: a can of pop; a Chicago bears jersey; eating in a cafeteria; a menu of seafood du jour — Dover sole, slow-cooked beets and ginger snaps; a "Midterm today!" sign; pulling a fire alarm; writing "Don't rave ever at my school" on a chalkboard; "Being here feels like such an opportunity to break out of my shell."; "People have always expected me to act a certain way."; dropping tray; "You can punish me all you like for being myself."; "If I want to sing a love song, I'm going to sing a love song."
Song: "Say You Won't Let Go" by James Arthur
Panelists' guesses: Billie Joe Armstrong, Zac Efron, AJ McLean, Darius Rucker
Most likely to …: "I was voted most likely to hunt for booty and I have. Often."
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays (8 p.m. ET) on Fox.
'The Masked Singer:' Who's Been Revealed So Far?
'The Masked Singer' Introduces a New Round of Singers — but the Elephant Doesn't Last Long
The Masked Singer Reveals Its Most Shocking Celebrity Yet as Bear Gets Sent Home
'Masked Singer:' White Tiger Returns to the Jungle After Super 9 Take the Stage — Who Was Revealed?
'The Masked Singer' Follows Up Shocking Sarah Palin Reveal by Eliminating Swan
The Masked Singer Eliminates Another Living Legend When Mouse (Dionne Warwick!) Gets Ousted
'The Masked Singer' Eliminates Fan Favorite Character in the Race for the Last Spot in the Finale
'The Masked Singer' Names a Season 7 Winner — Find Out Who Took Home the Golden Mask Trophy
'The Masked Singer' Picks the Last Season 7 Finalist Who Will Compete for the Golden Mask Trophy
Ken Jeong Walks Off of 'The Masked Singer' Set After 1 Contestant's Unmasking: 'I'm Done'
'The Masked Singer' : Who's Been Revealed So Far — Season 7
Ken Jeong Calls 1 Unmasking the 'Biggest Upset' in 'Masked Singer' History During Double Elimination
5 New Contestants Make Their 'The Masked Singer' Season 7 Debut — and This Supermodel Gets Sent Home
Robin Thicke Calls 1 'Masked Singer' Performer an 'Absolute Frontrunner' While Another Unmasks
Ken Jeong Thinks This 'Friends' Star Could Be Lemur on 'The Masked Singer' Season 7
1 Contestant Accidentally Unmasks, Another Chokes During 'The' 'Masked Singer' Season 7 Premiere


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Teams agree to F1's 'show and tell' proposal for 2022
Tagged: F1, sport
Contrary to other recent reports, Formula 1 has confirmed that teams have in fact agreed to take part in the 'show and tell' events from next season.
Back at the start of November, F1's managing director of motorsport, Ross Brawn, unveiled plans for a new Friday morning event on race weekends next year, allowing the media and fans a much closer look at the 2022 challengers and what changes have been made to the car ahead of lights out on Sundays.
"What we're doing on a Friday is a big session for you guys [the media] to have a look at the cars and talk to the personnel," Brawn initially said.
"We're pushing on with initiatives to get greater engagement and a greater insight into what's happening.
"So next year, on a Friday morning, the cars will be presented to you. The teams will explain the changes they've made for that weekend and they'll declare to the FIA the changes they've made.
"It will create another nuance and other interest in the sport, because the technical side of the sport is quite fascinating to a lot of fans."
Brawn's comments led to some questioning the effectiveness of the 'show and tell' sessions, sensing teams would be very reluctant to share the juicy details about their car going into any given weekend.
That has since led to reports that teams have rejected the proposal and the plan has been scrapped, but Formula 1 has confirmed to PlanetF1 that 'the proposal has now been agreed and will be in place for 2022, so the show and tell events are happening'.
Information about the 2022 cars will not be so widely available to begin with as the first three days of F1 Testing in Barcelona next season will not be televised.
A 60-minute round-up will be broadcast each day from February 23 to February 25, with the second test in Bahrain (March 11-13) set to be fully televised on F1 TV.
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The Universal Party was a minor political party in South Africa. In the election of 22 April 2009 it appeared only on the Western Cape provincial ballot, and received 599 votes (0.03% of votes cast).

It did not contest the 2014 election and is no longer registered by the Independent Electoral Commission.

References

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There will be scant opportunity to check out the Idaho gubernatorial candidates side-by side. Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter refused to participate in a recent Twin Falls forum and the City Club of Boise announced that since all of the candidates couldn't attend an event, they wouldn't be holding a forum this year (though they will host a gathering to watch a televised debate in Idaho Falls).
So voters in North Idaho took advantage of a rare gathering of Idaho gubernatorial candidates Oct. 3, packing the Coeur d'Alene Library to watch Otter and his challengers: Democrat A.J. Balukoff, Libertarian John Bujak and Independent candidate Pro-Life.
"I would like to thank Governor Otter for gracing us with his presence," said Bujak.
This morning's Coeur d'Alene Press reports that there was "very little, if any, of what was said will provide material for late-night comedy shows, unlike a primary debate earlier this year."
"Governor Otter, on your watch, we are second to the last [in the country] in state funding for public education," said Balukoff.
But Otter pushed back, saying "It's not how much money you spend, it's how you spend the money. We're spending it smarter than these other states."
Otter also took the opportunity to defend the Idaho's state-run health insurance marketplace.
"I wanted Idahoans making decisions about one of the most important things that we have in Idaho, and that's our health care system," said the governor.
Which inspired Balukoff to advocate for an expansion of Medicaid to assist more of Idaho's uninsured people.
"We are already paying for their care when they show up at emergency rooms. We pay for that through taxes, through the state general fund taxes, and we also are paying federal taxes that we don't get back by not expanding Medicaid," said Balukoff.
The Press reports that Friday's event was standing-room-only.


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Asikli Höyük
Aceramic
Location: This site is approximately 25 km southeast of the city of Aksaray; in the district of the Gülagaç municipality within the village of Kizilkaya in the Aksaray province. It lies approximately 1.5 km south of the village.
Geography and Environment: The site of Asikli lies in the Cappadocia Region; in the low volcanic area surrounded by the Mount Hasan and the Melendiz Mountain Chains; in the northern extensions of the Ihlara Valley and along Melendiz Stream. The mound measures 230 m east-west and 150 m north-south and is 15.35 m high in the northwest. The south of the mound is 13.16 m high and 8.22 m above the level of the road. The highest point of the mound is at an altitude of 1;119 m. The western part of the mound has been eroded by the Melendiz Stream.
Research and Excavation: Asikli Höyük was discovered by E. Gordon in 1963 and was surveyed by I. Todd in 1964 [Todd 1966a:139-163]. Because the mound risked being partly damaged by the rising water levels as a result of the Mamasun Dam built on the Melendiz Stream; salvage excavations were begun in 1989 under the leadership of U. Esin of the University of Istanbul; Faculty of Letters; Prehistory Section [Esin 1991:3; 1996a:31-42]. Excavations are currently continuing. was carried on within this context until 2000. Between 2001-2003, a research that was lead by N. Balkan-Atli was carried out in order to understand the earliest layers at the Deep Trench. Beginning from 2006, a new period of research has started with the direction of M. Özbasaran. The research still continues [Birçek- Özbasaran 2011:32].
Stratigraphy: Excavations; which began at Asikli Höyük in 1989 have revealed that there is one cultural material period at this mound; which dates to the Aceramic Neolithic Period. Excavations so far have identified three phases. The first phase; immediately beneath the soil; is a layer with deteriorated surfaces; many pits and trenches. The main phase of settlement; Phase 2 on the other hand; is comprised of 10 occupational sub-phases. The third phase; which was uncovered in a stepped trench with three occupational phases in the northern side of the mound; is also dated to the Aceramic Neolithic [Esin-Harmankaya 1997: 2]. Phase 4 was also reached in the same area and the excavations are still being continued here [Esin 2002: 83]. Some finds found in the 1.5 m thick alluvial deposit south of the mound; appear to be the oldest finds from the site of Asikli yet found. According to the data from 2012, Layer 4 dating to 9th millennium BC., is the living area of the first inhabitants of Asikli Höyük [Kurt- Özbasaran 2013:24].
Small Finds: Architecture: According to the 1996 site report for the currently continuing Asikli Höyük excavations; there are two layers constituting the Aceramic Neolithic occupation [Esin 1996a:35-39; Esin et al. 1991:136]. The architecture consists of residential mudbrick houses without stone foundations; other structures with specialized functions and neighboring abodes. The eastern part of the settlement is marked by an enclosing wall. The houses built against this wall are mudbrick with stone foundations and are characteristically different than the other structures. Their functions have not been determined as their excavation is not complete. The structures at Asikli underwent little change in terms of location: after a mudbrick house is abandoned; for example; the collapsed mudbricks are used to make an even surface while the old walls are used as a foundation for the new ones. Residential houses; which are clustered on either side (north and southeast) of the main 2 m wide road (labeled GA) are separated by narrow alleyways. The alleys lead to central courtyards used as workshops or garbage areas. The residential houses; which are rectangular structures comprised of one to three rooms; are made solely of mudbrick without stone foundations. Some examples of houses with a rectangular and a rounded side also exist. These structures lack external doors/entrances although the multi-room houses do have intramural doors between the different rooms. It is thus concluded that the entrances to these houses were through the roof. The floors and walls of the houses are plastered. Hearths; which are the most common element within these structures; especially one-roomed houses; are usually placed in the corner of the rooms. They are mostly rectangular in shape; outlined by vertical stone slabs around the outer edges and filled with small pebbles. Although rare; terraces; work-areas marked by thin; low mudbrick walls; round partitions separated by mudbrick walls and post holes are among some of the interior building elements [Esin 1996a: 36; Esin et al. 1991: 136-145]. In the section south of the residential houses where structures with specialized functions are located; stone foundations are common. These structures appear to be clustered around two central courtyard areas. The northern building complex HV lies adjacent to the 2 m wide pebbled road. The wall of this complex facing the road is a thick mudbrick wall made of six rows of mudbrick. Behind this wall are four small rooms [Esin 1993:127]. The walls and floor have been plastered several times with care. Further south; among the buildings in area T; which faces open country; is a square structure with a red painted floor in the western part of the area. With the exception of the collapsed eastern enclosing wall; area T with its red and yellow painted floors has been well preserved. There are some pits; which may have been used as sacrificial areas; and hearths within these structures. West of the area is a monumental kilning while there are one or two roomed structures with carefully plastered walls and floors to the southwest [Esin 1994: 30-31]. As excavations continue; the purpose of the enclosing walls southwest of the structures with special functions might be understood and much about this Aceramic Neolithic settlement will be clarified. The settlement south of the mound; partially exposed by Melendiz Stream; is not very different in terms of structural building elements and finds from Phase 2 of Asikli Höyük. The settlement appears to have been destroyed by a flood [Esin 1996a: 35-36]. In Phase 4 that was reached in the stepped trench to the north of the mound; some differences in the settlement pattern were encountered together with the usage of mudbrick seen in he other phases. Based on the results of the previous studies conducted in Asikli, it has been already known that the settlement consists of clustered mudbrick houses and these houses were separated by narrow streets. The structures defined as "House" show similarity in terms of their size, form and interior building units. This similarity can also be traced in the renewal phases of the superimposed buildings. Besides, it has been known that before the houses were renewed, the mobile elements inside were taken or it was cleaned in one sense and then the houses were renewed. Taking the finds from the buildings, filling inside of the spaces by truncating the floors of the buildings up to 1 m high and sitting the new building on this level were the most important reasons to make it hard to understand the usage of the building and the activities within the buildings. Especially in one of 8 buildings (Building 7) which were excavated in the 2001 campaign, in situ finds which gave us a clue to understand these issues were exposed [Uzdurum-Özbasaran 2012:19-20]. Building 7 has two rooms and it covers an area of 15 square meters. This building had one room in its earlier phase and a second room was added in the renewal phase. The floors and walls were plastered at least two or three times. The floors of the hearths are covered with small pebbles. The western room of the building contains finds which indicate cooking/heating activities as well as different activities. There is a mudbrick bench in N-S direction which leans on its south wall. It has been seen that the hearth was converted into a bench for different purposes [Uzdurum-Özbasaran 2012:20]. The studies carried out in 2012-2013 show that the first inhabitants of Asikli built their houses around an open space. These buildings were exposed in the northern section of the mound. They are semi-subterranean and sub-oval in form. The average diameter of these buildings is 4 m. The walls of the deeply dug pits (about 1.5 m in height) were built with mudbrick blocks that are sun-dried, rectangular and of various sizes. The oval buildings were built, using long rectangular blocks by the superposition technique. The walls and floors are plastered. In one well-preserved semi-oval building, Building 3 (Level 4), pots holes supporting the roof were found on the floor. In a later building belonging to Level 3, four post holes were exposed on the east half of the building. These holes were regularly spaced on the floor and close to the wall. On the plastered floor and the floor fill of this building, two separate groups of collapsed beams were unearthed. The northern group consists of four or five beams, while the southern group has two. These beams are covered with phytoliths and the macroscopic analysis show that these were reeds. The features and finds found inside the buildings indicate some indoor activities. In Building 3, a plastered quadrangular platform, three pits and a central fireplace were exposed at the floor level. No significant archaeological material was found in these pits with a diameter of 35-40 cm. A rounded fireplace was found in the center of the room. This fireplace differs from the typical hearth of the 8th millennium BC in terms of form and location. õn another building (Building 1), slightly later stratigraphically, a similar hearth was found. The hearth is paved with cobbles and lined with mudbrick kerbs. A thick layer of ash and charcoal was found on these cobbles. An oval mudbrick basin, a small basket placed upside down, a finely worked bone spatula and two ground stone tools were recovered from the west of the inner space. These artifacts show the existence of a work or activity area within the building. The contents and condition of this in situ assemblage suggests the sudden abandonment of the building. The open areas outside the buildings are intensively and collectively used work areas. Some of these areas have plastered surfaces or are surrounded by post holes. One of the well-defined work areas is in regular round shape and it measures about 4 m in diameter. It was used regularly as a work area and its surface was continuously plastered. On one of its floors, four post holes were determined. The area was probably covered with a light organic shelter or semi-enclosed. The study on worked bones and obsidian tools indicates that it was used as a multifunction area. Use-wear analysis on obsidian tools shows that skin working, the preparation of vegetal material and cutting soft material occurred in this area. Other parts of the external open spaces were used for various activities as well. Fires and cooking took place either directly on the ground or in roasting pits [Özbasaran-Duru 2015]. Clay Finds: Examples of baked-clay and half baked clay figurines and cones comprise the clay artifacts from Asikli [Esin 1994b: 32][Esin-Harmankaya 1997: 2][Esin et al. 1991: 134]. On the floor of the oval/circular shaped building exposed in Level 4, an oval shaped unbaked clay slab was found near the west wall in the 2012 campaign. After it was molded, this slab was filled with clay and converted into a platform-like feature [Kurt-Özbasaran 2013:24]. Chipped Stone: All of the chipped stone finds are made of obsidian. Asikli has a large selection of a variety of types of chipped stone artifacts. Raw material was brought in large blocks/chunks and worked at the site. The fact that local chipped stone workshops were at the site is important because all the various stages of tool production are thus represented [Balkan-Atli 1993a: 213; 217]. The obsidian technology at Asikli is a blade industry. The number of blade and blade cores greatly exceed the number of flake and flake cores; cores have opposed striking platforms; retouched pieces are mostly scrapers; other tool types include retouched blades; retouched flakes; pointed blades; points; microliths; borers and perforators [Balkan-Atli 1993a: 215-216; 1994a: 209-221][Esin 1994b: 31][Esin et al. 1991: 145-149]. Microliths become more common in the Phase 4 of Asikli Höyük; on the other hand the dimensions of the tools become smaller. It was discovered that the flooring of small pebbles of the hearth which was found in 2011 and converted into a bench afterwards was used for the purpose of obsidian knapping. Obsidian cores, the blades belonging to the same cores and a lot of knapping debitage spread around indicate that this area was left as it was [Uzdurum-Özbasaran 2012:20]. Ground Stone: In addition to celts; sling stones; whetstones and various stone beads; many mortars and pestles; upper and lower grinding stones and a few cooking braziers were found [Esin 1991: 8; 1994b: 32][Esin et al. 1991: 133]. In Building 7 which was exposed in 2011, a ground stone on the bench, a grinding stone on the floor on the east of the bench, a lot of natural and worked stone tools concentrated in the middle of the room were found [Uzdurum-Özbasaran 2012:20]. Bone/Antler: Asikli inhabitants; who obtained much of their food through hunting; also made use of animal bones in many ways. Many bone awls; spatulas; fish-hook-like bone tools; clips; buckles; beads from animal (deer) teeth and antlers were found [Esin 1991: 9] [Esin et al. 1991: 134]. Metal Finds: Analysis of some copper beads from a burial showed that annealing was applied in addition to cold hammering. This sheds light on the early use of copper and malachite and indicates that the inhabitants of Asikli used "pyro-technology" [Esin 1995a61; Esin: in press]. Human Remains: The burial of the dead at Asikli is intramural. They have been placed into pits in the floors of the houses mostly in flexed position although there are examples of burials with the legs extended back. Floors have been replastered after the burial activities. Some of the better preserved skeletons appear to have been burned while others have been covered in straw matting [Özbek 1993a: 206]. While most of the burials of men; women; children; babies and fetuses are single burials; double burials occasionally appear. Of the analyzed skeletons; it has been determined that two of the males are of Mediterranean race. There is evidence of brain surgery (trephination) conducted on one female while another appears to have undergone autopsy. The average life-span for the inhabitants of Asikli is 34.4 years: males' life-spans vary between 18-19; 35-39 or 55-57; and females' are between 20-25 [Esin 1991: 7-8] [Esin et al. 1991: 131-132] [Özbek 1992: 153-154; 1993a: 201]. In the 2012 campaign, a skeleton of about 10-year- old juvenile was found on the hearth in the center of the oval/circular building exposed in Level 4. Due to not being buried in a pit and in hocker position, the burial technique of this skeleton differs from the tradition of mortuary practice seen on the levels of Asikli. In the same building, another skeleton was found in a pit dug into the floor. On the contrary of the above-mentioned skeleton, this one is buried in traditional way, hocker position. Traces of basket/mat were encountered on the skull. In the oval building with rounded corners which was exposed during the studies on the western slope, a skeleton buried in full hocker position was also found in a pit dug into the floor. There are traces of mat on the skeleton and it is thought that the skeleton belong to an adult male [Kurt-Özbasaran 2013:25]. Fauna: All the faunal remains recovered from Asikli are from wild animals. Animal bones are mostly concentrated between the houses in the narrow alley-ways; which were used as trash dumps. The fact that heads and hooves of animals are less frequently found indicates that the initial butchering was conducted at the hunting site. Sheep and goat remains are abundant; but cattle; wild-pig and hare remains are also present. Horse was among the faunal assemblage indicating that horses were living in the Asikli vicinity around 9.000 B.P. [Buitenhuis 1996: 417; fig.4; Buitenhuis: in press][Esin 1994b: 33]. The distribution of skeletal parts shows that almost all the body parts were represented on the mound. This indicates that some of the animals were slaughtered on site or nearby. However, the bones of the lowermost limbs of some of the animals are under represented and this suggests that some of the body parts were discarded before the meat was carried into the residential areas [Özbasaran-Duru 2015]. Flora: The fact that there are faunal remains of domesticated species indicates that in addition to hunting; the Asikli inhabitants supplied part of their subsistence by cultivating plants. These species include Einkorn (Triticum monococcum); Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum); durum wheat (Triticum durum); barley (Hordeum distichum); vetch (Vicia ervilia); lentils (Lens culinaris); peas (Pisum satuvim). Almond; pistachio nuts; berry of terebinth; and various grasses were also widely abundant [van Zeist-de Roller 1995: 181-184]. The recent archaeobotanical studies show that emmer and einkorn wheat were the two main domesticated cereals during the 9th millennium BC settlement. The remains of wheat and barley rachis internodes are much more numerous than the grains and it suggests that the harvesting was managed either within the settlement or adjacent to the site. Among the legumes, bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia) is abundant. Lentil (Lens orientalis/culinaris), pea (Pisum sativum) and a few chickpeas are among the consumed cultivated plants. Wild plants and weeds are gathered as well. These are wetland plants such as Carex, Eleocharis and Scirpus maritimus were used in basket and mat making [Özbasaran-Duru 2015].
Interpretation and Dating: Both 14C dates and Todd and Esin's research confirm that Asikli Höyük is a large Aceramic Neolithic central Anatolian settlement dating to 10;000/9;000 BP [Todd 1968b:157; 1980:149; Esin 1995b:144-146]. Agriculture; hunting; leather working; obsidian knapping; bone and antler working and most probably trade were practiced by the inhabitants of Asikli. The site situates in a geographically advantageous area in respect of its location, which is ecologically diverse. The proximity of Göllüdag and Nenezi volcanic mountains has provided easy access to the raw material resources. It is well known that the animals living in their natural habitat zones around Melendiz Valley were hunted, and variety of plants, nuts and cereals were widely consumed. In Asikli, agriculture and domestication of animals didn't play a primary role. The research is still carried out in order to clarify the reason of this situation by considering not only the convenience provided by the ecological diversity but also the socio-cultural pattern of the site [Birçek- Özbasaran 2010:32]. In the light of the gathered data, Asikli Höyük can be socially and economically defined as a transitional community. These people who maintain the habits of the "old", kept on to the hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy even though they had the knowledge and experience of agriculture. "Domestication" appears to be a phenomenon which hasn't been yet well settled into the different aspects of the community or hasn't been yet totally accepted. It is clear that in order to achieve activities such as hunting, constructing buildings, lime burning and constructing monumental street, communal labor is essential. The uniformity of the buildings in the dwelling area, and the lack of units such as storage facilities indicating individual usage, reveal that this community has a homogenous structure and act in unison. In this respect it is possible to define the social structure of Asikli community as egalitarian/communal. Perhaps the limited number of skeletons which have been treated specially can be considered as an indicator of this social structure becoming more complex. The absence of the symbols at Asikli reflecting the world of belief, the limited external relationships during approximately 1000 years of occupation, standing away from the magnificent symbolic movements of its period and sustaining their own life style at least through 25 generations suggest that the inhabitants possess a motivation except the classic meaning of belief/religion. According to the existing data it can be suggested that in Asikli this motivation corresponds to the communal lifestyle [Birçek- Özbasaran 2010:34]. According to the conclusions of the 2012 campaign, the subsistence economy of Asikli community was based on hunting, gathering and farming. Crops and the wild and domesticated legumes were consumed together. The most common consumed legumes are lentil and black pea. Also, the fruits such as celtis, almond and peanut were gathered and consumed intensively. Sheep and goat are the most common consumed animals. Wild cattle, boar, wild horse, wild ass and red fox were also consumed. Rabbits were hunted intensively. Obsidian was the only raw material in the chipped stone industry and it is known that it was brought from Göllüdag and Nenezi. The tools belonging to the level of 9th millennium BC. consist of bladelets. The tools were made on the flakes, scrapers, borers, burins, various microliths and geometric microliths as well as bladelets with diagonally cut ends show the variety in chipped stone industry [Kurt-Özbasaran 2013:25].


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Happy Bloomsday
Today is June 16th, otherwise known as Blomsday, the day on which James Joyce' masterpiece Ulysses is set. As such, I'd thought I'd re-post my essay on Bob Dylan and James Joyce for those new readers who may not have checked it out originally.
Imagine today, if a young rock and roll artist emerged on the scene, writing dozens of songs capturing the zeitgeist. Other popular artists cover his songs, and his lyrics are studied like a pop-culture Bible. Influential poets and thinkers, even called the "spokesman of a generation", embrace him. In the process, he changes not only popular music but also the cultural landscape at a mere 24 years old. Imagine this same artist, at the height of his popularity, turns his back on his audience picking up a new musical direction. Viewed as a traitor to the scene, his new guise also redefining, becoming a standard by which everything else that follows is measured. Except this no fictional rock and roll artist. This is Bob Dylan's influence and power in the mid 1960's.
No singular artist in the latter half of the 20th century has redefined the popular musical world as much as Bob Dylan. It is often argued Dylan is a true artist because of his achievements and not just one in the rock and roll medium. But what does being a true artist mean, and how does this apply to Dylan? The answer might be found in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man. In Portrait, Joyce tackles artistic integrity through the protagonist Stephen Dedalus. Throughout the novel, Joyce presents several forms, which must be followed in order for a person to truly become an artist. Using Joyce's outline and Stephen Dedalus as a model, the argument for Bob Dylan being seen as a true artist is even more evident.
Portrait follows the life of Stephen Dedalus (a fictionalized version of Joyce) an ambitious young artist conflicted between his Catholic upbringing and his artistic visions. At the end of the novel, he discovers the only way to be an artist is to completely abandon the familiar, leaving Dublin for Paris. As the novel progresses, Joyce's words become more complex paralleling Stephen's own revelation. When Bob Dylan started his career, his lyrics, music, and persona moved in a similar fashion to Stephen's. When Dylan first arrived on the scene, he began as a protest-singe. When he grew tired of "finger-pointing" (as he called it), he abandoned folk for rock and roll, again creating a standard by which almost other rock and roll is measured. Just as the world caught up to Dylan, he disappeared from the pubic eye, and created some of his best music while no one was watching. Dylan, like Stephen realized you must abandon the familiar and follow your own artistic visions.
In Portrait, Joyce (through Stephen) presents three forms outlining the progression of the artist. The first form is the lyrical form "wherein the artist presents his image in immediate relationship to himself." In the epical form the "artist prolongs and broods himself as the center of an epical event…the narrative is no longer personal." The third and final form is "reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and intangible aesthetic life."
Dylan's lyrical stage begins with his early albums and protest songs. Even early on, Dylan had major ambitions. He wanted to emulate his hero, Woody Guthrie. Much like Guthrie defined the post-depression era with his songs, Dylan captured the spirit of the early 1960's with songs such as Blowing in The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changing, and Masters of War. Dylan sang these songs in the first person, essential to the lyrical stage. Yet at the same time, these songs connected with the masses because they reflected the turbulence that many felt during the early 1960's. These songs and others brought Dylan national attention; earning him the infamous label "the spokesman of a generation."
Except Dylan wasn't just interested in protest. Much like Stephen feel hinged by Catholicism, Dylan felt similar to protest. Numerous artists were covering his songs, and soon many people were copying his style with less impressive results. As everyone was waiting for Dylan to make the next profound statement, he had no interest in doing so. In 1964, less than a year after The Times They Are A-Changing, he released Another Side of Bob Dylan, a collection of songs hardly touching on protest. Another Side presents Dylan as funny (Motorpsycho Nightmare), heartwarming (To Ramona) and even scathing (I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)) – themes barely present on his previous three albums. Following the trends of rock groups like the Beatles, Dylan went even further with his next album Bringing It All Back Home – an ambitious album featuring two sides of music split between rock music and acoustic songs.
With Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan had no intention on turning back, and writing more protest songs to appease his growing fan-base who worshipped his every single word. With this stroke of genius, he had now reached the epical stage of the artist. Joyce says the epical stage is reached when the artist no longer presents himself in the first person and becomes part of an event. Whereas Dylan's early songs were mostly song from the first-person to reflect a greater truth, Dylan himself was barely present. Even when he was, it was a fictionalized version of himself – as Joyce suggests, less personal.
Influenced by a combination of surrealism, drugs, and Beat poetry, Dylan's lyrics reached a new sophistication and height. Much like Joyce's own Ulysses weaves in and out of character's sub consciousness, narrative, and third person, Dylan was pursuing a similar path. His songs became filled with literary, Biblical and historical figures doing bizarre acts, and taking part if bizarre situations. And Dylan also put himself in the middle of all this craziness – the center of "epical event". No more is this clear than Desolation Row off Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan's first full rock album). Desolation Row's minutes follows characters such as Ophelia, Casanova, and TS Elliot who appear damned on a fictional placed called Desolation Row. Dylan himself does not appear until the last verse, where it is revealed he is on Desolation Row as well.
Dylan's fictional self was no limited to his music, either. Early in his career, he had been warm and funny in interviews – and most of all appeared sincere. Now, he traded his "every-man" image for that of a cynical hipster. Constantly under the influence of many drugs, Dylan began answering interviews in a vague and mysterious manner and could sometimes be antagonistic. When Blonde on Blondewas released in 1966, "the spokesman of a generation" was nowhere to be seen. The music was louder and wilder, the lyrics even more abstract – but never lacking intelligence. Just as he did with modern folk music, Dylan was changing the rules for rock music.
Dylan's retreat from the public eye leads to third and final form. Joyce suggests it is "reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and intangible aesthetic life". Just as Stephen leaves Ireland and goes to Paris for his artistic integrity at the end ofPortrait, Dylan created some of his most celebrated music while no one was looking. Taking cues from Americana, he recorded dozens of songs in his New York home with The Hawks (who would later become the known as The Band) at his home in Woodstock, New York. Freer, funnier than anything Dylan had previously recorded these songs with no pretense. More than anything, these sessions showed Dylan truly comfortable in his own skin. Never meant for official release, these sessions became bootlegged for years – eventually released as The Basement Tapesin 1975.
When Stephen reappears in Ulysses, he is wiser and much more intelligent. Yet, he lacks self-confidence even at one point dismissing his own ideas near the end of the novel. Dylan too faced a similar problem after his mid 1960's peak. He had a hard time living up to being "Bob Dylan" -releasing almost unlistenable albums including the critically panned Self Portait. Almost ten years after Highway 61,Dylan released Blood on the Tracks, which is generally considered another highpoint of his career. In the past 10 years, he has enjoyed a renaissance – he has released four critically acclaimed albums and artists constantly cover his songs in concert. Dylan never stayed in the same place twice, and like Stephen discovered you "gotta keep on keeping on."
Tagged as A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, Art, Bloomsday, Bob Dylan, dublin, folk artist, James Joyce, june 16, Literature, modern classic, modern literature, Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses, Woody Guthrie
In honor of the greatest novel of the 20th century and the day it took place, I'm devoting this post to Ulysses. It took me three different attempts to finish, as it is a colossus of a book. Each time I got a little bit further, before I finally ended up finishing it due to a bet. I won't give a detailed analysis of it, but the the thing that struck me about Ulysses was how simple its plot was. The fact that its plot revolves around Leopold Bloom's journey around Dublin on a voyage of self-discovery, takes nothing away from the novel. The prose if full of beauty, and surprises, and being Joyce deconstructing the way sentences could be put together. Ulyssess is already cluttered enough with its allusions to the Odyssey, the English language, inside jokes, and of course Catholicism.
If there were ever a book that felt like an album it would be Ulysses. Each section feels completely different, yet they all seen to be sewn together as one, and make the book work as a whole. And like many good albums have done, it shattered the premonitions of what art could do, and also caused its fair share of controversy. Someone once told me that Joyce constructed Ulysses with so many secrets that scholars and readers would be discussing it for centuries to come. I find that to not only be true, but also fascinating. Every artist wants to be remembered for their work and achieve longevity, but to constantly find something new in a work almost a century later is true artistic immortality.
Also check out my post on James Joyce and Bob Dylan.
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Candidates Go On Hunger Strike, Jack Daniels Woos Reporters With Booze and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 19
Open Secrets (2010-08-19) Evan Mackinder
Media Link: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/08/your-daily-dose-of-news-28.html
By Evan Mackinder on August 19, 2010 10:10 AM
Your daily dose of news and tidbits from around the world of money in politics:
HUNGRY FOR CHANGE: For little-known candidates facing well-financed incumbents, a malnourished campaign is a reality: Without money or the attention of the media, the sad truth your candidacy will often starve itself into oblivion before you can even reach Election Day.
Two such candidates in the race for California's 52nd District, however, seem to have found a way to turn their disadvantage into a teachable moment -- by going on hunger strikes.
Claiming incumbent Republican Duncan Hunter is stonewalling the candidates by refusing to engage in a series of eight debates in August, Democrat Ray Lutz and Libertarian Mike Benoit are in their first week of a planned 10-day protest. And there's sign that it may be working -- to an extent. Their ability to turn a dearth in resources into a living metaphor has earned both candidates some media coverage, as they've been picked up this week by the New York Times, Politico and several other political blogs.
Still, according to the Times, Hunter, who is in his first re-election race after inheriting the congressional seat from his father (who is also named Duncan Hunter), hasn't budged from his agreement to just a few debates.
The incumbent congressman has a significant lead in the money race. Having raised more than $562,000, Hunter had $93,339 at the end of June, compared to just Lutz's $6,037. Mike Beloit has yet to file campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission -- typically a sign that the candidate simply has no money to report.
Title Candidates Go On Hunger Strike, Jack Daniels Woos Reporters With Booze and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 19
Publisher Open Secrets
Author Evan Mackinder
Media Link http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/08/your-daily-dose-of-news-28.html


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Ignacio Martín (15 de outubro de 1983) é um jogador de rugby sevens espanhol.

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Ignacio Martín integrou o elenco da Seleção Espanhola de Rugbi de Sevens, na Rio 2016, que foi 10º colocada.

Jogadores olímpicos de rugby sevens da Espanha
Jogadores de rugby sevens nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016


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India Wins The Series Against New Zealand By 3-0
India won the third one day international against New Zealand by defeating New Zealand by 7 wickets. India won the series with 3-0.
After opting to bat, New Zealand lost their top order batsmen early. Ross Taylor (93) played a fighting knock with Tom Latham (51) as the duo stitched a 119-run fourth-wicket stand which helped the host manage a good score on the board. However, following their dismissals the lower-order fell in quick succession without adding much to the scorecard.
It was a complete team effort after the bowlers shot New Zealand out for 243 in 49 overs with all-rounder Hardik Pandya (2/45 in 10 overs) making his presence felt with the ball as well as on the field. Post the suspension for sexist remarks on a TV show was lifted, Pandya was playing his first match.
With Indian skipper Virat Kohli scoring 60 of 74 balls the chase for the target was quite easy. Rohit Sharma scored 62 in 77 balls with India managing to get to the target in just 43 overs. This win of the entire series against New Zealand following the previous win against Australia has added a lot of confidence in the Indian players especially when the World Cup 2019 is nearing.
Legendary football star Pele passes away
India Vs. New Zealand ODI In Hyderabad
IPL 2022 Entered Into The Guinness Book Of World Records


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Q: Columns have different width than specified in styles I have the following markup for columns:
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But although every column is equal as expected, they are not 50px wide, but 33px. I'm wondering why. Here is the fiddler with complete markup and styles.

A: Because you have given 100% width for table, it is adjusting according to it.
Hence remove width:100%; in .b-hdfs__files-list  and give width: 100px; (your choice) for cols.

A: Here's the problem:
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Try using this instead:
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A: I am not sure this will work, but I think it would:
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A: You can add table-layout: fixed to your table

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OOPS! There should be a Gallery of just over 60 photos here.
Twelve of us went to Lundy for a holiday which just happened to cover the IOTA contest. It was inevitable, therefore that we would take part in the contest.
We arranged that we would all be staying in Bideford the night before our departure and met at 'The Rose Salterne', a Wetherspoon's pub for introductions and a meal with a few drinks. Not too many drinks because we had an early start. The MS Oldenberg sails from Bideford Quay at 0900 and we all had to be there at least an hour beforehand to check-in and load our baggage into the special wooden crates.
Whilst our leaving the River Torridge was reasonably calm, once we got out into open waters the sea became very rough. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that most of the passengers on the MS Oldenberg suffered 'mal de mer'! Some more so than others. To many, the two hour crossing was two hours too long, for me personally I enjoyed it.
Lundy gradually came in sight, then we were in the lee of Lundy Island as we docked and disembarked. As per usual, the 'mad keen' were well on their way up the hill before the rest of us had stepped ashore!
Our party, duly gathered, made our way up the hill to assemble outside the Marisco Tavern. Our accommodation properties were not ready for us to occupy as the cleaning team were still doing their stuff. We ate lunch and explored the tavern and the shop.
Once it was signalled that our properties were ready, we made our way to see what they were like.
We were taking over Bramble Villas East & West and 'The Quarters'.
MS Oldenberg and her passengers after a pretty rough crossing.
Judy & I, along with Brian & Liz took Bramble Villa East (to the right in the photo) whilst Tony & Glenys and Rhodri & Mo had Bramble Villa West.
Bramble Villa is down in a hollow on the eastern side of the island so we had views of the mainland - Woolacombe Bay, but more importantly it was much more sheltered than 'The Quarters' which was right on the top of the island. Quintin & Sonya, Raymond and Andy were in 'The Quarters' pictured below.
We arrived on Lundy on the Thursday, two days before the IOTA Contest. This gave us time to play with various aerials to cobble something together to get us on air. We operated from 'The Quarters' as this had an enclosed back garden and a scrubby field net to it. This allowed us to erect our aerials safe in the knowledge that others would not be passing by on one of the many footpaths that criss-cross Lundy.
Brian brought his neatly packed iPro-Traveller and Raymond brought his Sigma Euro HF X-80 vertical. These were fairly quickly erected and tested.
I brought my 12m Spiderpole, this was erected and held up a 40m (and 15m) dipole. We then went on to make a 20m vertical, using Rhodri's mast and some lengths of wire and co-ax. Tony used his SARK-110 to help tuning the aerials to length. This had a couple of tuned radials. The Spiderpole and the 20m vertical can be seen in the picture to the right.
Then the weather closed in!
We used the 'foul-weather' time to get all the radios set up and tested. The laptop was connected to the K3S and it worked straight away without any problems. N1MM+ was as happy as we were.
Raymond brought his FT-991 and this was connected to his own mini-computer system with N1MM+ already up-and-running. I took my own FT-897 with its 300Hz crystal just in case we were going to do any CW work. (I like rocks for CW!).
For the purposes of signal isolation we used Dunestar filters in the aerial leads. This was definitely a great help and allowed us to use two stations throughout without break-through.
With all of us new to the K3S we all had a play to familiarise ourselves. We were about as ready as we could be.
The Spiderpole with the 40m dipole and in the background, the 20m vertical in the back garden at 'The Quarters'.
The Contest operation was fairly straightforward. I had registered us on the IOTA web-site as G0IVR/P - the Itchen Valley Radio Club call-sign as the greater number of us were members.
My ears would not settle into SSB so I operated only CW. The others were happy to work SSB.
The K3S worked SSB on the 40 m and 15 m bands as and when each band was profitable.
The FT-991 worked SSB on the other bands throughout.
A total of 162 IOTA stations on 54 different islands.
Conditions were not good. We actually operated for about 15½ hours of the 24. Lundy generates its own electrical power and this is normally turned off between midnight and 0600.
We had no problems at all with the N1MM+ or the computers.
Interestingly, whilst 'running' the QSO rate went up (as expected) but the IOTA Island count was reduced to just about zero.
We worked most of Europe plus US, Canada, Cuba, UA9, PY & LU.
On the Sunday afternoon, after the contest we continued to work, to give others the chance to work Lundy Island. We made contact with one or two of our Itchen Valley Club members. We attempted to contact the Waterside Club but they were out enjoying their 'HF Picnic' and we could not find them. We had a pile-up! For the couple of hours that the SSB team worked, they made 63 contacts.
Taking the equipment down and packing away took very little time.
Throughout the whole time we were working in 'The Quarters' we were looked after by the ladies of the group and I would like to pay particular thanks to Sonya who really looked after us by supplying endless teas and coffees. I am pleased to say that the dynamics of the group worked very well. Everyone played a part and (to my knowledge) everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We all loved Lundy and were all particularly impressed with the standard of accommodation that was supplied by The Landmark Trust.
Thanks go to all of you for being such a wonderful team!
Monday was (pretty much) a day without radio. This left us with time to walk around the island. Judy & I walked to the very northern tip of the island and had a look at the northern lighthouse where we saw more seals, where we met Rhodri & Mo. Andy walked just about every footpath on the island. We met Quintin & Sonya coming back from a walk - Sonya wouldn't go any further because of the 'horny cattle'. These certainly looked frightening but were very tame Highlanders.
On the Monday evening we all went as a group to the Marisco Tavern where we took over the mezzanine floor. Clockwise from the bottom left: Mo, Rhodri, Andy, Raymond, Quintin, Sonya, Brian, Liz, Tony, Glenys, myself and Judy.
On the Tuesday we had to vacate our rooms and put our cargo items ready for loading onto the MS Oldenberg.
Luckily the crossing to Ilfracombe was a lot better than the outward passage and nobody suffered any form of sea-sickness.
Rhodri loves green radios. He brought along a complete Clansman setup, radio, battery, mast with antenna and ground radials and all the necessary accessories. He made many contacts into the farther reaches of Eastern Europe on 20 m SSB with his 30 watts on battery. We were all very impressed with the capabilities of the Clansman radio. He even found that having the aerial laid along the top of a dry stone wall worked much better than anyone would have thought. Well done Rhodri! We all enjoyed seeing your radio and sharing your QSO success.


Seeing a distinct rainbow is always a treat. But seeing a double rainbow is doubly cool.
The double rainbow I saw this morning over Bellevue WA seemed especially bright to me. I later learned that the primary rainbow is the one that has red in the outer arc and violet on the inner aspect. (The lower arc in the photo above is the primary rainbow.) The second arc in a double rainbow, on the other hand, has its color order reversed with red facing the primary rainbow.