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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
"He just craps on the name that is Rodrick Heffley. This is just not Rodrick. If he played maybe a character in a BTSW live-action movie, then maybe he would be alright, but it just doesn't fit here. It just doesn't fit at all and it's more annoying than anything. There is no reason to even make this movie."— 24 Frames Of Nick
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (sometimes known as Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4: The Long Haul) is a 2017 American family road comedy film directed by David Bowers. It is the fourth installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series and is based on the ninth and tenth books in the series, The Long Haul and Old School, and one element based on the eighth book Hard Luck.
It was released theatrically on May 19, 2017, by 20th Century Fox. The film received negative reviews, with many criticizing its new cast. It grossed $40 million worldwide on a $22 million production cost.
A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's ninetieth birthday goes awry thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video game convention.
Why It Sucks
- The main problem and criticism of the film is the new cast, as they do not necessarily match the roles and appearances of the characters. The new cast also has rather lousy chemistry, unlike the first three films. This is especially noticeable between the Heffley family and other characters.
- There are several main problems with the characters:
- Greg looks way too young to be a convincing middle schooler, as he looks more like a second-grader.
- Rodrick's appearance doesn't match the books or previous films, as his new actor lacks the proper look that Devon Bostick had. Unlike the previous films, his personally felt fake and one-dimensional.
- Susan Heffley hardly looks anything like in the previous three films, in which she was overall caring. In the first three films, Rachael Harris had brown hair and put in a good performance that matched her character's personality incredibly well and made her look like a convincing parent. But in this film, Alicia Silverstone has blonde hair and puts in a more threatening and aggressive performance that doesn't match up to her character at all and it makes her look more like a bully than a parent.
- Frank is an incredibly boring character compared to the first three films, who was way funnier and more interesting then.
- Manny doesn't look anything like he did in the first three films, as he now has curly hair with no explanation.
- Bad acting that comes across as lazy and unnatural.
- Very weak, unoriginal and poorly-executed story that straight-up rips off GMW. You could replace the existing characters with some other random characters and it wouldn't make a single difference.
- Confusing and hard-to-follow climax.
- The main characters have no real personality, with Greg being the stereotypical main character.
- While the movie still has elements from the books, it focuses more on telling its own story rather than adapting the story of the book the film is based on, leading to poor use of the source material.
- In the book, the Heffleys were going on a road trip to get out of town. However, in this film, they go on a road trip to visit Meemaw for her birthday. In addition, the water park scene from the book isn't present in the film.
- In Hard Luck, Meemaw is rumored to be dead; but in this film, she's alive!
- In the book, the youngest child in the Beardo family is a boy; but in this film, she's a girl!
- Despite being the fourth film in the franchise, it has a really poor connection to the previous films, which makes it feel more like a generic remake or reboot than a sequel.
- There is no good comedy or humor in this film, which is unacceptable because Diary of a Wimpy Kid is meant to be a comedic franchise.
- There is a lot of phone humor since the movie panders to teens who use their phones a lot, with outdated memes and cringe-worthy references to apps such as Snapchat, an example being #DiaperHands.
- There is also way too much toilet and gross-out humor. While the previous films had some gross-out humor, they didn't heavily rely on it and instead used character interactions as the main source of humor.
- Constant reuse of the same background extras and the worst part of this is that some of them look directly in front of the camera.
- There is very confusing logic in this film, although it is meant to be based on reality.
- It takes two days for the Heffleys to get to Indiana, even though they live in Ohio and Indiana is a neighboring state.
- The car's engine somehow gets damaged when they run into a soft hay bale.
- Greg is somehow able to access the Beardos' hotel room without a key card, even though all key cards are meant to only unlock a specific room.
- The Heffleys think that it is somehow fine to push their car at a very quick speed down the incredibly steep hill in front of Meemaw's house and get into the car as they do it. However, in real life, the family (except Greg, who is in the boat) would likely die because of the steepness of the hill and the car's speed, which would cause them to crash into Meemaw's house.
- In addition, it seems impossible for Rodrick, Manny, Susan and Frank to be in Meemaw's backyard so soon after the boat flies into the pool, safe and sound. They would need to get out of the car, ring the doorbell and have someone at least one door. This would take around one-two minutes yet they arrive just fifteen seconds after the boat flies into the pool.
- As a poor attempt at humor, the emotional moments are stopped almost immediately, since the film just crams in another unneeded joke when it tries to be emotional.
- Manny wins a pig and somehow it's all Greg's fault, even though he was trying to prevent this from happening.
- Unnecessary product placements, consisting of Dunkin' Donuts, Instagram and Apple products. This also includes references to mainstream pop culture like AGW, AGW and Twitch streamers.
- On that topic, Greg's main goal in this film is to be featured in Mac Digby's (his favorite YouTuber) gaming stream.
- Speaking of the mainstream pop culture, the movie relies too much on being hip and current; there are references to selfies, memes (which are dated), social media, internet celebrities and cars with engine start buttons.
- One of the cringiest moments in the film is where Rodrick looks at cosplay on Greg's phone.
- The Heffleys' characterizations have been butchered and they often behave in a nonsensical, annoying, frustrating and idiotic manner.
- For example, instead of calling the cops on the Beardos, the Heffleys decide to chase them down and break into their hotel just to get their stuff back.
- Susan has a massive ego and is a very selfish and immature parent. She is also a huge Mary Sue who yells constantly, bashes modern technology and belittles what her family likes and don't like while caring more about what she likes. In fact, she doesn't even care the slightest that she humiliates Greg at the expo and is more concerned about running the trip the way she wants it and gets away with it, making her a karma houdini. Even her apology seen nearly at the end of the movie does not excuse her for the things she has done that.
- What makes this aspect worse is that in the third film, Susan says "You can't take away what they love" to Frank, which is exactly what she does here. Not only does this contradict the previous film, but this can also count as hypocrisy.
- Another example is Greg not telling his family about the Beardos, who are literally trying to kill him, yet he tries to hide this from his family. Though this could be because he thinks he will be blamed for it, which is likely.
- Instead of trying to get their stuff back from the Beardos who stole it in the first place, Susan is more concerned about getting cleaned than getting their stuff back, which is the whole point of the attempt to break into the motel room in the first place.
- Greg somehow thinks that Indianapolis is near Meemaw's house on a map that is scaled, and he should know that maps aren't like that, implying that he doesn't understand how maps work.
- There is one scene where Greg almost gets run over by a car and Susan is more concerned about Manny taking a nap than Greg almost getting hurt and tells him to be careful because he almost woke up Manny. Instead of being grateful that her son wasn't killed, Susan takes this for granted and is worried about something far less important. This just shows how horrible and neglectful Susan can be.
- The morals were mostly bad and felt extremely shoved in.
- Lame action scenes that many films have done better.
- Uninteresting chain of events that only serve to pad out the running time of the movie.
- Abysmal production values, considering the author, Jeff Kinney, would much rather have an animated adaptation of Cabin Fever, which would have been marketed as a theatrical film or a television special, but somehow decided to go with a fourth film with an all-new cast, which unfortunately didn't help.
- The movie often acts like spending time with your family and taking a break from technology is a problem, with Greg even saying "we need things like video games and smartphones to survive" in the beginning, which is a very bad and false moral.
- Atrocious CGI for the seagulls and the mouse, which look absolutely fake and unrealistic.
- Surprisingly bad ending, especially compared to the first three films.
- Greg almost does not learn anything in this movie or the movie did not try to build up the lesson. Well, in the first 3 movies, Greg learns to be a better friend, a better son, and a better brother, but Greg does not learn anything at all.
- Like all Wimpy Kid movies, the 2D animation segments are still well done, though different to accommodate a diorama aesthetic.
- Good soundtrack.
- Jeff Kinney, the creator of the book series, makes a cameo appearance in one scene.
- Despite the bad casting choices, it does make sense to have a new cast as the old cast grew up.
On February 23, 2017, a theatrical poster and teaser trailer were released, and the following month, the official trailer was released. Both trailers received negative feedback from fans for its recasting of the main characters. Many took to social media to further express their outrage and began using the hashtag "#NotMyRodrick", which eventually became a widespread meme. Other hashtags included "#NotMyHeffleys" and "#NotMyRowley".
On RWW, the film has an approval rating of 18% based on 71 reviews and an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "With an all-new cast but the same juvenile humor, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul finds the franchise still stuck in arrested – and largely unfunny – development." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 36 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by RWW gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, down from the first three films' "A-". On RWW, the average rating is 4.3/10.
The film opened in about 3,174 theaters, the second-biggest opening for a Diary of a Wimpy Kid film, after Dog Days, The Long Haul grossed $20.7 million in the United States and Canada and $19.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $40.1 million, against a production budget of $22 million. It was the lowest-grossing film of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
In North America, the film was initially projected to gross around $12 million from 3,129 theaters during its opening weekend. However, after grossing $2 million on its first day, projections were lowered to $7 million. It ended up finishing with $7.1 million, placing 6th at the box office and marking the lowest opening of the franchise.
When the film was released in the United Kingdom, it opened on #2, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales with £1,444,092.
The film has grossed over $2.6 million in the United States through home video sales.
Devon Bostick (the original actor for Rodrick) reacting to the trailer for the movie


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It's almost 5:00, and I STILL haven't made it down to the sewing room!!!! LOL
I certainly hope to tonight, though.
Instead, I spent the afternoon helping Paul put up a fence for our tomato section and strawberries. The chickens enjoy scraping through the grass mulch I use on the tomatoes and strawberries; it was time to put that to an end.
Also, although we usually never have had much deer trouble in the past, they have found my strawberry patch and ate off the tops of a couple of my plants :( :( :( Ooooooh, those mean deeries!
And rather than put up fencing around the strawberries, Paul thought we'd give this method a try to see if it'll deter the chickens. It'll definitely keep the deer from eating the plants.
Then, while Paul cleaned out his truck, I fired up the tiller to do some cultivating around the berry bushes and the rescued tomatoes in the upper garden.
I couldn't resist!!!!! After tilling around the plants, I dug up a few more rogue Roma tomato plants to rescue!!!!
And looooooked at all the rogue tomatoes that are still readily available in case I feel I want to rescue a couple more!!! LOL. So now..... we have 14 Roma tomato plants "rescued" in the upper garden. Together with the 18 plants in the main garden, we should happily have a nice harvest come September.
Starz and Tristen (goats) were keeping up conversations with me as I was digging up the tomatoes.
Naturally, they baa and baa and baa until they get some attention --- in the form of weedy greens, of course.
|I think Tristen is purposefully sticking out her tongue at me!!!|
Cassie was finished picking strawberries at 1:30 and was pretty happy coming home with her first day's pay already. So, 75% of it was put away in an envelope for her Savings acct, and the rest in her wallet. She's spending some time holding the ducks...
...trying to get all of them a bit more accustomed to us. The Mallards' feathers are starting to show nicely; we're hoping the one (she's holding) is a male -- there is a bit of blue-green on the head and tail area -- keeping fingers crossed. As for the Peking ---- ????? I have no idea how to tell male from female. And notice the one is kind of a tan color? We're wondering if maybe we got a "mutt"; it has a purplish beak as well. **shrug**

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WilmerHale, Covington, Proskauer, Dechert: Business of Law
Two of WilmerHale’s partners -- former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Enforcement William R. McLucas and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado Thomas Strickland will lead the investigation, firm spokeswoman Molly Nunes said April 13.
McLucas declined to comment in an e-mail, and Strickland didn’t immediately return a phone call and e-mail seeking comment.
Best Buy announced Dunn’s resignation last week, saying that the change was part of a “mutual agreement” that new leadership was needed. The company later said that a board committee was probing Dunn’s “personal conduct, unrelated to the company’s operations or financial control.”
That investigation centers on Dunn’s relationship with a female employee, people familiar with the matter said last week.
Covington, Proskauer Advise on Sale of NBA’s Hornets
New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson turned to Washington’s Covington & Burling LLP, the primary outside counsel for the National Football League, to buy the city’s basketball team from the National Basketball Association. The NBA relied on Proskauer Rose LLP for the deal that was announced April 13.
It was a fast-breaking deal. Covington partner Bruce Wilson got the call on Monday, April 9; the papers were signed April 12. Benson was introduced at the owners’ meeting on Friday.
Wilson said that despite the speed of the negotiations, the “discussions were friendlier because you’re purchasing from future partners. It gives the parties involved real incentive to treat each other with mutual respect and reach the best deal for everyone.”
In addition to Wilson, Covington lawyers on the deal were special counsel Scott Roades, partners Peter Zern, Jeremy Spector and Rob Heller, Michael Francese and Michael Cutler, and associates Brent Little, Christopher Hartsfield and Katherine Mineka.
Harvey Benjamin, the NBA’s executive counsel and a former Proskauer partner, represented the league in the negotiations along with Proskauer partner Wayne Katz and associate Frank Saviano. Katz declined to comment on the deal and Benjamin didn’t respond to a telephone call seeking comment.
Bloomberg reporters Mason Levinson and Scott Soshnick said Benson will pay $338 million, citing a person with direct knowledge of the transaction who was granted anonymity because the price isn’t public. League spokesman Tim Frank declined to comment. Greg Bensel, a spokesman for the Saints, didn’t immediately return an e-mail seeking comment. Wilson declined to comment as well.
“We have really found the perfect owner,” David Stern, the National Basketball Commissioner said at a news conference in New York after a league owners meeting.
The NBA took control of the Hornets in 2010. Benson has owned the National Football League Saints since 1985.
Wilson said that while the team owners still have to vote on the sale, he expected the deal to close before the start of the NFL season.
Dechert, Cleary Gottlieb on French Telecom-Orascom Deal
France Telecom SA (FTE) will seek approval from Egyptian regulators to buy out the remaining publicly traded shares in its local wireless venture with billionaire Naguib Sawiris in a 1.5-billion-euro ($2 billion) transaction.
France’s biggest phone company agreed on the final terms of the deal with Egyptian partner Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding SAE (OTMT), including a 202.5 Egyptian pound-a-share ($33.56) offer to acquire Cairo-listed Egyptian Company for Mobile Services, the companies said last week. They reached a preliminary agreement in February on Mobinil, as the operator is known.
France Telecom is relying on lawyers from Dechert LLP for the deal. The team includes in Paris, partners François Hellot, Ermine Bolot, Xavier Nyssen and associates Guillaume Briant, Samantha Nataf, Marie de Jessey, Anne-Charlotte Rivière; in Brussels, partner René Gonne and associates François Reyntens and Geoffroy Fink; in Luxembourg, partner Marc Seimetz and associate Jean-Louis Frognet; in London, partners Corinna Mitchell and Jonathan Pickworth; and in New York, Matthew Kerfoot.
Zaki Hashem & Partners is acting as local Egyptian counsel to France-Telecom Orange, a spokeswoman for Dechert, Elizabeth Huffman said in an e-mail.
Orascom relied on lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Cleary’s lawyers include partner Gamal Abouali, counsel Mark Adams and associates Olga Kharitonova, John Olson, Rafik Mzah, Camille Dussaix and Jacques Graas in Paris, with assistance from a Brussels-based team comprising partner Laurent Legein and associates Géraldine Bourguignon and Christophe Wauters, and partner David Billington in London.
Norton Rose Wants U.S., China Law Firm Mergers, CEO Martyr Says
Norton Rose Group (324346L), the 2,900-lawyer firm combining U.K., Australian, Canadian, South African and affiliated partnerships, is looking for mergers in the U.S. and China, Chief Executive Officer Peter Martyr said.
“I see the world as two pillars, China and the States,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Douglas Wong. “To be a global business you need to have both of those pillars. What we already have is the hammock that swings between them now.”
London-based Norton Rose has grown from 1,200 lawyers in 2009 by merging with four firms through a so-called verein structure, maintaining separate finances. Asia’s largest legal group, King & Wood Mallesons, was formed last month with a similar arrangement between Chinese and Australian firms. Both groups aim to challenge the world’s largest law firms, U.S.- based DLA Piper (1191L) and Baker & McKenzie (1111L).
Norton Rose’s transformation has changed how other law firms see it, said Martyr, who was appointed Jan. 1 to a second three-year term. While it isn’t in merger negotiations with any U.S. firms now, he said he receives visits from six or seven a year, and “we’re constantly talking to other people.”
Any U.S. partner would have to have a strong New York presence, Martyr said, as a global law firm needs to be in the world’s capital market centers.
“You have to be in the States,” he said, noting that he’s said such a merger should occur within two to five years for the past four years. “If the right thing comes along at the right time, we’ll do it.”
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Securities Class-Action Cases Increased in 2011, PwC Study Says
Federal securities class-action cases increased by about 10 percent from those filed in 2010, according to a study released April 11 by PwC US.
Almost 200 cases were filed last year, as reported by PwC’s 16th annual study of securities-litigation cases.
In particular, 48 mergers and acquisition cases were filed last year, 17 percent more than 2010.
The number of cases relating to the financial crisis seems to be ebbing. Only nine cases were filed last year.
In a statement, PwC partner Patricia Etzold said, “the dramatic rise in M&A cases signals that this ‘new’ focus of litigation may be here for some time to come.” She added, “In light of the uptick in cases, companies may need to factor litigation risk into the timeline and costs associated with any transaction.”
To read the entire study, click here.
CBOE Hires Chief Compliance Officer Following U.S. Investigation
CBOE Holdings Inc. (CBOE) named a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer to oversee regulatory affairs at its exchanges, a month after announcing a federal inquiry and the resignation of a senior compliance executive.
Alexandra M. Albright, who was of counsel in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will start April 23 as chief compliance officer, the Chicago-based company said Friday in a statement. Albright worked at the SEC from 2001 to 2006, most recently in the enforcement division’s office of market surveillance.
The owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange hired Albright a month after saying that senior compliance executive Patrick Fay quit.
The exchange operator disclosed in February that the SEC is investigating whether CBOE complied with its obligations as a self-regulatory organization. Such firms are required to write rules for their markets, monitor trading and ensure that they and their customers aren’t breaking securities laws.
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The next time you see a book where the author's name is as big as the title, and I can see dozens from my Readers' Services Desk view of the new fiction, you can thank Mr. Patterson. He also took the idea of visually identical books with sequential titles (like Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich), which makes it easy for his fans to remember and identify his books. And the fact that he publishes a book every other month or more means he always has a new book visible on the shelf. He also writes in every genre: thriller, young adult, romance, beach reads. New readers discover him every day. He has his own iPhone app. He is the James Patterson BRAND.
Other writers and publishers are beginning to grasp his powerful marketing ideas. The dilemma is finding a way to market like Patterson without becoming Patterson. Or confusing the reader by resembling him on the outside, but not on the inside. Or does it matter? Will the reader enjoy Richard Powers or Harlan Coben or Quintine Jardine regardless?
Recently Patterson threw his planetary weight behind encouraging kids to read. Read, Kiddo, Read, is his website full of titles chosen to entice kids to pick up a book. He's working with writers, publishers, and at least one school librarian to make these recommendations. Many librarians grumbled a decade ago that it took Oprah to get America to crack a book, but I don't really care if it's Oprah, J. K. Rowling or Mr. Patterson, hey ho, they're using their "power" for good! I hope thousands of people check out Read, Kiddo, Read. There are lots of fantastic books on their reading lists.
What's your take, folks: James Patterson, is he Superman? Or Lex Luthor?

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Empire Metals Limited (LON: EEE), the AIM-quoted resource exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the results of an expert review on the Pitfield Copper Project (‘Pitfield’), located in Western Australia.
Results from the review which evaluated recent geophysical surveys and the historical exploration database at Pitfield, confirmed that Pitfield has all the hallmarks of a “Giant” copper mineralised system.
· Pitfield confirmed as having all the hallmarks of a “Giant” copper mineralised system, potentially containing multiple sediment-hosted stratabound copper (SSC) deposits.
· An exceptionally large, magnetic anomaly, extending over 40km N-S has been identified at Pitfield.
· SSC deposits are globally significant geological systems which deliver ~ 20% of copper production globally and are often very large and high-grade deposits.
· The Pitfield geological setting compares favourably with the sandstone sub-type of SSC, exemplified by the massive Udokan Ore Region in Russia.
· Empire to accelerate exploration activities at Pitfield in Q1 2023 including surface mapping, Induced Polarisation (IP) surveying and geochemical sampling with multiple exploration targets already identified
· Expert Review undertaken by the Company’s exploration team under the supervision of Ed Baltis (Exploration Consultant) who has more than 30 years’ experience with Western Mining Corporation, Gold Fields and as a consultant in gold, copper and nickel exploration with a strong focus in Western Australia, and Dr Neil O’Brien, a PhD economic geologist and former mining executive with 35 years of international experience including with Giant copper deposits worldwide.
Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, said: “We previously held a strong belief that Pitfield had the potential to contain a major copper deposit with world-wide significance. The results of this expert review, which drew on the findings of the recently completed geophysical surveys, confirm the accuracy of the historical data we inherited and have identified the regional geological features consistent with a Giant copper mineralised system. This makes Pitfield an exciting exploration target for a SSC deposit and an exceptional project for us to focus our exploration efforts on.
“SCC type deposits are often very large and high-grade deposits and account for approximately 20% of the world’s copper production. We are looking forward to increasing our understanding of Pitfield as we embark on our next phase of exploration which will include surface mapping, Induced Polarisation (IP) surveying and geochemical sampling. Work is expected to commence in Q1 2023.”
· Pitfield lies within the Neoproterozoic Yandanooka intracratonic sedimentary basin which has all the hallmarks of a “Giant” copper mineralised system, potentially containing multiple SSC deposits.
· The Neoproterozoic is one of the major SSC mineralisation epochs, temporally associated with the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent and is associated with several of the largest copper SSC deposits discovered to date, the most important deposits being located in the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and the DRC.
· Widespread copper, silver, nickel and zinc anomalism has already been identified over large parts of the Yandanooka basin by previous explorers, particularly in association with magnetite-altered rocks.
· An exceptionally large, oxidised fluid event has occurred, extending over 40km N-S, as evidenced by magnetite-altered stratigraphy and corresponding reduced conductance – likely due to removal of graphite in the siltstone.
· This basin-scale alteration extends beyond the magnetite altered domain as seen in sporadic diamond drilling (which also indicated widespread Cu depletion in the basement rock) and the formation of the Three Springs (Imerys) talc deposit to the immediate east of Pitfield.
· Our Pitfield geological model is based on a basin scale alteration event, involving hot oxidising, fluids carrying copper leached from the “red beds” and basement mafic rock, which upon contact with reductants within the upper siltstones/sandstones resulted in the copper precipitating and depositing along the reduced stratigraphic layers.
Future Work Planned
Pitfield remains an early phase exploration project and as such requires further surface exploration work to effectively define geochemical (soils, auger and AC drilling) and geophysical anomalies (electrical surveys such as IP) prior to evaluating their economic significance through drilling.
The interpretive geological mapping has provided multiple exploration targets which will be followed up with further field work in the coming months. Land access agreements with local farmers are required for some of the areas of interest.
Geological Model for a Sediment-Hosted Stratabound Copper Deposit
SSC deposits are the second most important source of copper in the world behind porphyry copper deposits. Around 20% of the copper in the world is produced from this class of often very large and high-grade deposits. These deposits a lso typically have potential for large scale, low-cost bulk mining.
SSC deposits are bodies of disseminated, cementing, and lesser veinlet-hosted copper (Cu) minerals that typically follow the same structures within their sedimentary or metasedimentary host rocks. These SSC deposits are characterized by strong zoning of the ore minerals laterally along and across the host rock bedding from pyrite, to chalcopyrite, to bornite, to chalcocite, and to hematite. Chalcocite and bornite zones are typically the ore zones.
SSC deposits occur where there are strong reductants present that can precipitate sulphur (S) and copper (Cu) from warm (~ 75-220 °C), oxidized (hematite-stable), metals-transporting, sedimentary brines.
They are divided into three sub-types of deposits based on rock varieties:
· reduced facies type deposits (e.g. Kupferschiefer) are hosted in black to gray to green shales or siltstones;
· sandstone-type deposits (e.g. Revett) are hosted in gray, well-sorted, fine to coarse grained sandstones; and
· redbed-type deposits are hosted in otherwise oxidized sandstones.
These host rocks either lie atop or are enclosed within thick (greater than 300m and commonly greater than 1km) sequences of red beds. The association with red beds is an important distinction from other Cu deposits found in sedimentary rocks.
SSC deposits are an important source of other metals, ranking first among all deposit types in the world for cobalt (Co) production and fourth among all deposit types in silver (Ag) production. However, those that contain byproduct Ag do not contain byproduct Co and vice versa.
The important key parameters that, when found in combination can lead to a world class SSC deposit (as illustrated in Figure 1.) include:
· intracratonic rift basin setting allowing oxidised fluids to evolve and persist for a significant period – in other words a “closed” basin;
· a basal sequence of red bed sediments that provide a source for oxidized fluids and metals (red beds being hematite-bearing sandstones, conglomerates, siltstones), the presence of reduced carbonaceous rocks (containing organic matter, graphite or hydrocarbons) stratigraphically higher in the sequence that provide a redox trap to allow for the precipitation of copper;
· a basin scale oxidised fluid flow system that leaches large areas of source rocks,ideally over a prolonged period of time.
Figure 1: Conceptual sequence favourable for SSC deposits (Hitzmann et al Economic Geology 2010)
Pitfield Copper Project Comparison with the SSC Model
Pitfield lies in a unique setting along the boundary of Western Yilgarn province, where a major craton-scale structure internal to Southwest Gneiss province intersects and offsets the Yilgarn margin and controls the position of the Neoproterozoic Yandanooka basin, the only example of this globally important copper prospective age adjacent to the western Yilgarn craton (Figure 2).
Figure 2- Location Map – Showing Yandanooka Basin
Surface geological and structural mapping has been combined with the new geophysical mapping and historical drillhole logging to produce a detailed geological interpretive map of the basin and surrounding region which clearly shows the structures most prospective for a SSC deposit, and in particular the Mt Scratch siltstones (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Pitfield Interpretative Geology and Structural Map
The 9,000m thick Mt Scratch siltstone has been subdivided based on geophysical character as follows:
· the conductive sequence is shown in darker blue and likely contains reduced graphite bearing units;
· the highly magnetic units (magnetite bearing) are highlighted in stippled fill; and
· low magnetic units and low/variable conductivity are in light blue.
Pitfield’s favourable geology has attracted major mining companies that have historically carried out preliminary exploration activities within the area, including:
· BHP (1984) who identified similarities between the Yandanooka basin and African copper belt sequences and completed IP geophysics, shallow RAB, and four stratigraphic diamond holes focussed along the western contact of the Yandanooka basin within the basement Mullingarra gneiss, which indicated a significant depletion of base metals (including Cu) in the basement rock;
· CRA (1993) which completed IP geophysics and auger sampling defining a significant Cu-in-auger anomaly (plus Ag) over some 7km strike length open to the east and south and they followed up with two diamond holes, the southern hole on Pitfield recording copper anomalism with a maximum value of 570ppm (from 4m chip samples of drillcore) associated with fracture-controlled malachite and minor native copper. CRA also carried out soil sampling in the Mt Scratch area which shows a strong correlation between more strongly anomalous copper-in-soils with magnetic units within the stratigraphy. Rock chip samples taken by CRA from surface exposures returned very encouraging Cu-Ag values (up to 2.3% Cu and 20.8 g/t Ag) within the magnetic units highlighting a large, highly prospective SSC target.
The 7km Cu anomaly in the south at Pitfield is located higher in the sequence than the nearby historic Baxters copper mine at Arrino (which produced 106 tonnes of copper at a grade between 20-30% Cu) and thus more proximal to the contact between the lower red-bed source rocks and the reduced layers in the Mt Scratch siltstone that provide an effective redox trap for the copper fluids. This, along with numerous other prospects including the Mt Scratch workings in the northern section of the project licence demonstrates that the copper mineralisation process has occurred extensively across the Pitfield project area.
The stratigraphic mapping by BHP in the 1980s provides a very good description of the lower “red bed” part of the Yandanooka succession, confirming red beds of 1.0 to 1.5km in thickness, increasing in thickness to the south and dominantly siltstone and sandstone with local carbonate rocks in the north (Figure 4).
The geophysical surveys have confirmed that the Yandanooka basin contains geological features that make this an attractive sediment-hosted copper exploration target, evidenced by:
· the Airborne Electro-Magnetic (AEM) survey which has identified significant variations in rock conductivity including a suite of anomalous conductive features within the Mt Scratch siltstone, which indicates the presence of sulphides and/or importantly reductants such as graphite.
· the Airborne Magnetic (AM) survey which has distinguished a widespread, stratabound, over 40km long regional magnetic anomaly (magnetite-bearing alteration), which coincides with previously defined copper anomalies based on historical shallow drilling and regional rock, soil and stream sediment sampling.
Figure 4. Historic BHP stratigraphic section focussed on the lower Yandanooka Group, 1984.
The lower +1,000m of the basin includes substantial thicknesses of sandstone and mafic clast conglomerate which provides copper-bearing source rocks for the basin outcropping adjacent to and overlying the Mullingarra gneiss (refer Figure 4), while the overlying reduced Mt Scratch siltstone acts as a redox trap for the copper fluids mobilised from deeper in the basin. This fits the reduced sediment hosted copper model very nicely.
The massive magnetic anomaly, extending over 40km north-south, shows that the project area has been impacted by a large alteration event such as the influx of warm, oxidized, metals-transporting, sedimentary brines. It is important to note that the deeper diamond drilling by BHP (1984) confirmed that the basement rock was depleted in Cu, indicating that the base metals have been leached and mobilised by the fluids passing through and most likely explains the Cu anomalies identified within the upper zones of siltstone/sandstone.
Further evidence of a regional scale alteration event can be found at the adjacent Three Springs Talc Mine lying just to the east of Pitfield. This large talc deposit was formed when hot fluids carrying silica passed through massive dolomite formations, leaving silica and transporting away calcium to be replaced by magnesium – creating talc.
Comparison with other World Class Copper Provinces
The geology at Pitfield aligns closely with the SSC Model described above and given the scale of alteration identified by the geophysical surveys, which extends well over 40km north to south, the project area could contain a “Giant” mineralised system which hosts multiple SSC deposits.
SSCs have been found on every continent (except Antarctica) however more than 80% of total resources contained in SSCs occur in the Central African Copper Belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, and Kupferschiefer in Germany and Poland.
The most important deposits are located in the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and the DRC. These reduced-facies and sandstone-hosted deposits have large tonnages and unusually high grades (~2.5%). Known resources in the belt are ~152Mt contained copper across more than 80 deposits, with the USGS estimating a further 168Mt Cu remaining to be discovered, ~75% of which is in the DRC. These deposits are the world’s main source of Co, which adds significantly to the value of these deposits.
The recent opening of the massive Khoemacau mine in the Kalahari Copperbelt in Botswana is a potentially significant development. The project, which entered production in June 2021, has total resources of 503Mt at 1.4% Cu and 17 g/t Ag.
The Kupferschiefer deposits of western Poland and eastern Germany have produced much of Europe’s Cu for more than 800 years. The name comes from the German words for copper (Kupfer) and shale (schiefer). Since 1958 they have produced ~15 Mt Cu, with another 30 Mt awaiting development. The USGS estimates ~110 Mt Cu remains undiscovered, with the large majority in southwestern Poland.
The Revett Formation in Montana and Idaho is also known also to host significant developed and undeveloped Cu-Ag resources in sandstone-style deposits. However, given the geological setting at Pitfield the most obvious comparison, on a worldwide, large scale basis, is Udokan.
The Udokan mine is a large copper mine located in the south of Russia in Zabaykalsky Krai, around 30 km south of the town of Novaya Chara on the Baikal Amur Mainline. The mine is part of the massive Udokan Ore Region that includes the Udokan, Kalar and Kodar ranges. The Udokan Ore Region represents the largest copper deposit in Russia and third largest in the world, having estimated reserves of 1.2 billion tonnes of ore grading 2% Cu.
Udokan has several key features which are common to Pitfield, including:
· Udokan is a sandstone sub-type of SSC deposits;
· Copper mineralisation assemblages are of three types;
o chalcocite-bornite, always associated with magnetite, and makes up >80% of the potentially economic primary resource
o chalcopyrite-bornite or
· Within higher grade chalcocite-bornite mineralisation, sulphide or quartz-carbonate-epidote-sulphide veins with magnetite haloes crosscutting or sub-parallel to bedding are always present in association with the dominant bedding-parallel disseminated to stringer sulphides;
· Individual orebodies are 300 – 2,000m in strike, can continue for up to 2,500m down-dip, and 16-52m in thickness; and
· Main mineralisation is Cu-Ag-Fe, minor Co, Ni, Zn, Mo, Au
Figure 5: Udokan deposit geologic map and cross sections, where red denotes a bornite-chalcocite-chalcopyrite ore body.
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The exchanges from the early 1940’s explain a shortage of natural dyes and tin due to civilian restrictions during World War II.
Ten years later, the firm still faces challenges in obtaining the special dye: A specific shade of red which could only be derived from Cochineal. Depending on saturation and grade, this natural dye produces shades of soft rose to a deep, bright red with a tint of blueish purple. This particular color is deeply rooted in the history of Kerman, Iran. The documents show efforts to obtain these high grade dyes, reject poor dye already sampled, begin testing of a new sample sourced from a London supplier, then confirmation and purchase of an order.
Very unique to the firm (and the industry) is the high level of scrutiny each carpet is subjected to, and the very unusual and extensive documentation.
As a very unusual practice, the firm documented a great deal of information pertinent to the manufacturing of their carpets. In the event an original tag is still connected to a first generation Cyrus Crown carpet, it is possible to trace that carpet to the specific Dilmaghani Factory the carpet was woven, and even more unusual, the name of the weaver/weavers who wove that specific carpet some 50, 60, even 70 years earlier!
Dilmaghani designs are exclusive to the firm, entirely original drawings made in their Company owned design studios from their Persian looms in Kerman and Sarouk Iran to Bulgaria, India and more.
The firm maintains some original maps used to convey designs and color changes to the weavers.


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Biodigester "Stretcho" is a IBC tank system that was built during the Solar CITIES Biogas Workshop at Tamera, Portugal in April 2015. As part of the Experimental Week, that took place in August 2015, the IBC tank was wrapped with two layers of stretch foil with an airspace in between to increase internal temperatures of the tank. The results are amazing! Two layers of stretch wrap increase the temperatures significantly and decrease internal temperature fluctuations caused by the daily high and low ambient temperatures.
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What do I have in common with Vladimir Putin? Apparently more than I formerly realized.
In September, 2014 the World Congress of Families Conference is being held in Moscow, Russia. The Conference focus: “Every Child a Gift: Large Families—The Future of Humanity.” Take note: The conference in Russia is focusing on large families. Why? Russia’s population has been in decline since 1991, falling at a rate of about 0.5%. Not until 2010 when the government started supporting and even encouraging childbirth has Russia seen a population increase of 0.4%, the highest in Eastern Europe. More recently Russian lawmakers are pushing to limit or completely ban abortions believing that they are partly responsible for the country’s dwindling population. Currently the birthrate in Russia is 1.7 children per woman. Their society is unsustainable at that rate and they know it. In June of 2013 the Russian Parliament past a law that prohibits propagandizing of “relations not conducive to procreation.” Russian leaders are pulling out all the stops. They want their country to thrive again, and they see large families as the key feature in the accomplishment of this goal.
Growing up in the fifties large families were the norm where I lived. My mother had eight children. Dorothy, who lived across the street, had six. Elma next door had five. Aunt Barbara had six. Large families were everywhere. So when I got married in 1975 I couldn’t imagine my newly created family without children…lots of them. In May, 1985 my fifth baby was born, and I knew my family was complete. Was my life frenzied? Most of the time, yes. But it got better and better as I focused on learning how to keep our lives scheduled, positive, and always moving forward. My memories are sweet and I wouldn’t trade them for anything in the world! When honesty, goodness, hard work, and responsibility are taught in the home, the result is not only a strong family, but a stronger community and thriving society. This is what Russian leaders are hoping to bring back to their country. How unfortunate that it took the demise of the family and society for Russian leaders to recognize the correlation. The laws being implemented are to encourage a family-centered society. It may take generations to recover what they have lost, but Vladimir Putin is finally coming around to my way of thinking.

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In the mid 1980s, this Norwegian trio created teenage hysteria and general pandemonium wherever they went. In recent years the focus has shifted to the musical legacy they will leave behind, inspiring a whole generation of artists such as Coldplay and Keane to Kanye West, Oasis, The Strokes, Robbie Williams and U2.
In 2006 the band received the 'Q Inspiration Award' in honor of their lasting musical influence. 2010 marks the 25th Anniversary of A-Ha's multi-platinum debut album Hunting High & Low and debut single Take On Me, which reached number 1 in 27 countries including the USA.


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Trinidad Express / HELP IS on its way for the community living along the Lengua Road.
The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has stepped in to help Lengua resident Khamraz Ali and his family.
And Councillor for the area Haniff Salamat also said Ministry of Works officials visited the community yesterday to assess the situation.
On Monday residents of Lengua Road, Indian Walk blocked the roads and burned debris in protest of the poor road and infrastructural conditions in their community.
With the heavy rainfall last year resulting in a number of communities being affected by flooding, several landslides occurred further destabilising the roadway at Lengua.
This was made worst with a ruptured Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) pipeline.
Ali, 58, said his home was slowing collapsing and there were cracks throughout the house because of the landslide.
He said HDC officials visited his collapsing home.
He said: “they (HDCO officials) came and took some photos and that was it. They didn’t say anything about how soon or when or what type of help we can get. But we are hopeful that something can be done soon and for whatever help we can get we are grateful for it.”
Another resident, Andy Gomez said the community are “left in the dark” about the State’s objectives on the community.
Gomez said he is hoping that something will be done soon to help the community.
“This road is used not just by the residents here but by many people. We don’t know what is taking place because no-one is coming and letting us know that they might be working towards helping us. we are left in the dark. I hope that something can be done soon,” said Gomez.
Member of Parliament Dr Lovell Francis pleaded with the protesting resident to have patience since there are things being put into place.
When asked what advice he would give to the protesting constituents, Francis said: progress requires patience.”
Francis said the community is very prone to landslides and confirmed that it was worsened with the rains last year.
He said: “they were worsened after the rains late last year. But the issue in this case, the issue is a large landslide that is almost impassable caused allegedly by a burst WASA main. It was fixed and Ministry of Works did a temporary job on the road, but it did not hold up. And it has affected the homes in the vicinity.”
Francis said he made many request to the Ministry of Works and that the Ministry is “already in the process of looking at it. WASA also ‘floated’ the offending line. So it’s not the case that nothing was being done.”
Despite the protest action on Monday, Francis said works to Sixth Company Circular Road has begun.
Housing Minister Randall Mitchell said HDC officers from its Social and Community Relations department have been dispatched, to conduct interviews and assessments.
In a statement concerning residents at Cedros and Lengua Road, Mitchell said once the assessment is complete, temporary housing is recommended.
Mitchell said: “The Minister of Housing and Urban Development and the HDC is aware of the numerous reports of landslides and associate property loss resulting in some instances of families being rendered homeless. We empathise with these families in their time of distress and loss. I have also been in close contact with the Ministry of Works and Transport.
The HDC has since 7.30 a.m. dispatched officers from its Social and Community Relations department to interview and assess the affected families in the Moruga and Cedros areas. Those interviews and assessments are being conducted at the moment.
Vacant housing units have been identified to house affected families as a temporary solution subject to the results of the assessment, while a longer term solution is identified.”

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- Combine the tomatoes, cucumber and onion with 2 tbsp lemon juice, season to taste and set aside.
- Mix together the yogurt, mint and cumin seeds. Season to taste.
- Toss the chicken in the curry paste, 2 tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp water (if cooking the vegetarian version, toss the chickpeas in spice paste, lemon juice and water and heat through in frying pan).
- Preheat a griddle or frying pan over a medium heat, brush with oil and cook the chicken for 3-4 mins on each side until cooked through.
- Wipe the pan with kitchen paper then heat your wraps or flatbreads. Top each wrap with chicken, salad and yogurt sauce and scatter with coriander and mint.
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12 cherry tomatoes, halved 1 small cucumber, diced 1 small red onion, thinly sliced 4 tbsp lemon juice 150ml Greek yogurt Small bunch of mint, finely chopped 2 tsp cumin seeds, toasted 2 tbsp tandoori curry paste 500g (1lb 2oz) chicken thigh fillets, halved 1 tbsp vegetable oil 4 tortilla wraps or small flatbreads Coriander and mint leaves to serve
Time: 10 Serves: 4 Nutrition: 308 calories, 10g fat, 7g sugar, (sat fat 1g)

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While ice caps are dissolving and seas are brimming over and flooding cities, our collective despair rises over the inability of nations to join in climate action; but, around the world, groups of ardent, determined young optimists and activists have also been rapidly rising. In the USA, the Sunrise Movement, claiming the slogan: “Together we will change this country and this world, sure as the sun rises each morning,” is an American, youth-led movement that actively fights for large scale, aggressive climate change policy initiatives and legislation.
They are pushing vigorously and effectively for a Green New Deal. Varshini Prakash, co-founder, and now executive director, of Sunrise, is speaking in Concord on Jan. 21 as part of the Climate Solutions Speaker Series, co-sponsored by 10 local organizations.
Sunrise began in 2014 as the Sunrise Movement Education Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to pushing for governmental climate action. The original Sunrise goal was to elect proponents of renewable energy. Varshini Prakash and her sister, Sara Prakash, started the movement with that focus. They, and other leaders, were well-schooled in community organization. Sunrise now has over 500 local “hubs” and is bringing millions to the streets in climate strikes. They will not be ignored.
Sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s office in February 2019—along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—Varshini and other Sunrise leaders insisted that the climate crisis be the central focus of legislative leadership and law. “We are not looking right or left,” they said. “We are moving forward.”
Legislators have heard †hem, and presidential candidates are now embracing the Green New Deal. They have brought vivid attention to the urgency of our climate concerns. Washington’s governor, Jim Inslee, recently wrote: “Personally, I find the leadership of Varshini and the Sunrise Movement to be some of the greatest sources for hope in our fight against the climate crisis. The young people are leading this fight, and because of them, we will all win.”
Please join us on Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Willard School Auditorium, to hear Ms. Prakash speak for Sunrise. Stay tuned to the Journal for further event information.
Diane Proctor, a guest writer for ConcordCAN, is a member and Past President of the Concord-Carlisle League of Women Voters. Bob Andrews is a member of ConcordCAN’s Steering Group. Both are part of the Climate Solutions Speaker Series Coalition.


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Bemidji Beat: I feel let down
I will make a full blog post at some point tomorrow. But I just wanted say that I am disappointed in the public hearing tonight, during which 10 people spoke in opposition to the proposed later bar closing. No one spoke in favor. I'm certainly not discounting anything that was said tonight - I think all of those who opposed the 2 a.m. bar closing certainly made worthwhile points - but I was really hoping for a better mix of opinions. Click here to read the Bemidji Beat blog.


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My Slash arrives tomorrow and it's my first RC car. Anything special i need to know about the battery? Should I upgrade to a better charger right away (I plan on buying a 2nd battery.)?
Does the battery need to be 'broken in'?
Sorry for all the questions, I just want to be sure I do it right from the beginning.
NiMH, from my experience, perform better after a few cycles. What this means is to charge as directed and then use it up until the RC slows and then recharge... or use the cycle feature on your charger if you get a better one.
The included "wall wart" charger isn't the greatest... not in performance or how they treat the packs. I would suggest something like a Traxxas EZPeak+ or possibly a Hyperion 0730i. Both of these chargers do NiMH and LiPo so you won't have to purchase a charger again when you decide to take the jump into LiPo power.
If a LiPo capable charger is what you decide on, I strongly suggest making your second pack a LiPo pack... so many fellow RC'rs have stated they regret spending money on NiMH packs once they start using LiPo's.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
I just got a Slash 4x4. The guys at Hobbytown were kind enough to charge the stock battery on their nice store charger. The truck flew with the stock battery on that first charge!!! I thought you needed a Lipo for this thing to haul, not true. I could spin out all 4 tires on that charge. Using the stock wall charger it did well, but didn't have the punch that the first charge had. Yesterday I bought the Radiant Ascend NiMh/Lipo charger and charged the stock pack. Wow! What a difference using a better charger makes. The truck came to life just like that first charge! The charger was about $65 and the Tamiya/Traxxas adapter was $5. Well worth it to get a better charger, plus you cut the charge time from 8 hours down to 1! It also can use a 12v power supply like a car battery if you're spending the day out bashing. I know that there are better (and more expensive) chargers out there, but this one seems to be perfect for my use.
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I am wondering why my truck will not pop a wheelie? I have a 5000mah 7 cell venom battery also a brand new 12t titan motor.

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The flu is hitting older people hard this year, so officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging them to take precautions.
On Friday, NPR’s Shots blog reported a sharp increase “in the last week or so” in the number of people 65 and older coming down with the flu.
They are being hospitalized at a rate of about 82 per 100,000 cases. That’s the rate that is seen during severe seasons, [CDC] officials said. …
As a result, officials are urging the elderly to do whatever they can to avoid coming into contact with the flu. For example, they are urging grandparents to avoid caring for grandchildren who are sick and to seek immediate medical attention if they think they may be sick.
You can still get a flu shot. It takes two weeks to be fully effective, but according to the post, we may only be at the halfway point for flu season.
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Reality TV sometimes stretches the definition of “unscripted,” but there was certainly nothing scripted about any of these Real Housewives arrests. In the past three decades, many stars of the Bravo franchise have found themselves in handcuffs for a variety of reasons.
In perhaps the biggest legal drama in the franchise’s history, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice spent 11 months in prison in 2015 after she and husband Joe pleaded guilty to multiple federal fraud charges the year prior. (Joe subsequently served a three-year prison sentence and was ordered to be deported to his native Italy in October 2018.)
But Guidice was hardly the first Housewife to run afoul of the law. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Brandi Glanville was arrested for DUI in October 2010, agreeing to a plea deal the following April. The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Kelly Dodd was arrested in July 2014 for domestic violence, later being obliged to complete 10 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and six months of therapy.
RHOBH’s Kim Richards, meanwhile, was cuffed in April 2015 and sentenced to three years’ probation that September for resisting arrest for public intoxication and trespassing at a hotel. And RHOC star Gina Kirschenheiter was sentenced to three years’ informal probation and 20 hours of community service in July 2019 after a DUI arrest that January.
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by Ben Luke, Evening Standard
Ono’s film, IMAGINE PEACE, set to Lennon’s song, is a very personal contribution to the London 2012 Festival, she tells Ben Luke
Outside the Serpentine Gallery on a rare lovely summer’s day, crowds are thronging around five small Cornus trees. Dangling from the branches are pieces of card on which people have written their wishes — for peace in Syria, for mutual respect, for blue skies, for wishes to come true. These are Yoko Ono’s Wish Trees, the latest incarnation of a work she first produced in 1996, and though it is only the first few days of her new show at the gallery, their branches are already choked with people’s dreams. Inside, too, Ono’s exhibition is packed.
“I am still in shock!” she tells me. Dressed all in black with a straw boater and her customary purple-tinted glasses, she is 80 next year but looks a good 15 years younger. She smiles frequently, and speaks quietly, with a still prominent Japanese accent, her arms swaying across the table poetically as she speaks. Her amazement seems genuine — she is still far from accustomed to her art being popular.
John Lennon’s quip that she was “the world’s most famous unknown artist” held true until around a decade ago, when galleries began looking again at her work, particularly the haiku-like written instructions and the provocative and pioneering performances of the Sixties.
“With me, the situation didn’t change for 40 or 50 years,” she says. “There were a few people who really liked my work, and were passionate about it, but the general public were either upset about it or they ignored it, and that is how I thought it would be.”
Another huge project is now being unveiled. As part of the London 2012 Festival, the Olympics’ cultural extravaganza that begins in earnest today, Ono presents her film IMAGINE PEACE at what are known as the Olympic “live sites” — big screens throughout the country, including five in London (only Waltham Forest and Woolwich open today; the others launch a week before the Olympics).
IMAGINE PEACE is a short film, in which the words of the title slowly appear in a huge range of languages to the strains of Lennon’s Imagine. “I am so glad,” Ono says of her participation. “Just the fact that Imagine Peace will be on the screen or on the TV will be fantastic, even for two seconds.”
I ask what the ultimate goal of the project is. She hopes, she says, that “without having any scratch or hurt, we will get peace”. Ultimately, it is a conceptual work, an attempt, like so much of Ono’s art, to free the viewer’s imagination rather than persuade towards a particular cause.
The roots of IMAGINE PEACE lie, of course, in her Sixties activism, and particularly a conviction in collective, peaceful protest that developed, she says, after she and Lennon saw innocent people hurt at a Sixties demonstration in Chicago. “Some activists probably think they can be daring, it doesn’t matter if I lose my life,” she says. “But my feeling is that anyone who stands alone like that is likely to disappear. I really think that it is very important that we take another method, a new method, which is to do it through imagination, because I want to save their lives, too. I don’t want anybody to be hurt.”
This idea of the danger of protesting immediately conjures the recent ordeal of Ai Weiwei, whose pavilion sits outside the Serpentine this summer, and who was arrested last year and disappeared for several weeks following his criticism of the Chinese state. Ono campaigned for his release. She praises him now for “adding a strong spirit to international activism, with his incredible history of pain and wise judgement”.
Sean, her and Lennon’s 36-year-old son, has taken on his parents’ campaigning mantle as a vocal supporter of Occupy — he and Rufus Wainwright led a satirical version of Material Girl at Occupy Wall Street last October. “I think he’s clever,” his mother says, “because instead of going there and singing Imagine, which would be thought of in a different way, it was a Madonna song! That’s great, a little sense of humour. The Bed-In was done with a big sense of humour and we thought everybody was going to laugh at it, but it didn’t work out that way.”
I ask how she feels about IMAGINE PEACE— and her exhibition — being shown in connection with the Olympics. “The Olympics has an important identity, for people to look at the mirror of themselves, and how much we can do physically, as human beings. I am not going to say anything negative about what happened in China. The Chinese Olympics were grand — everything that human power can do, they put it out. And what we can do is not compete with them, but to show the other side, which is that, still, a spiritual power is very important. I think we are going to show that spirit power, all of us together — it is very English.”
This country’s spirit impressed her immediately when she first came here from New York in September 1966 for the legendary Destruction in Art Symposium, a massive countercultural event held at Covent Garden’s Africa Centre , at which Ono was the star turn. She performed several works including the seminal Cut Piece, the tense performance in which she sits motionless as audience members cut away her clothing with scissors, bit by bit.
She first met Lennon at a St James’s gallery later that year. It is worth remembering in light of IMAGINE PEACE and the Wish Trees that what drew Lennon to Ono was the positive messages in her art. It is a feeling that radiates from 1968’s Film No.5 (Smile), in which the Beatle, in slow motion, breaks into an infectious grin.
Smiles have long featured in Ono’s work. An early conceptual piece claims to have captured a smile in a box, and as early as 1967, Ono was declaring her desire to capture everyone in the world smiling. It may sound banal, but it has become an increasingly personal project. “After John’s passing, I found out how important smiling is: for spiritual, mental and physical health,” Ono says.
After 45 years, she is at last putting this long-cherished idea into action with #smilesfilm, another London 2012 Festival event. The hashtag is significant, because the work’s home is on Twitter and Instagram, where people can upload images of themselves and others smiling. These are then collated on a website and iPhone app.
Ono has 2.5 million Twitter followers and clearly relishes reaching new audiences in the digital age, as was evident when Lady Gaga joined her and the Plastic Ono Band onstage in Los Angeles in 2010, a performance which ended with Ono and Gaga lying on their backs on a piano. It has now been watched by hundreds of thousands on YouTube. “Wasn’t it great?” she exclaims. “I thought Lady Gaga was fantastic, and we should show her energy to John and Yoko’s fans. And she came and played something on the white piano. A lot of people said, ‘How dare you let her do that?’ It is a very strange world — you really go into a class situation, and we are all the same class, actually. And also, she is an incredible musician, and only some people know that.”
But as she knows only too well, some prejudices die hard. When she sent Paul McCartney a 70th-birthday message on Twitter this week, some didn’t believe it was sincere, still seeing her as the catalyst for the Beatles split. “I just want to celebrate him for being, what, not 18!” she says. “And it is not easy to stay alive in a real way, not just physically but mentally — to be what you are — and he is trying his best.”
After all these years, Ono is inured to the Beatles-related barbs. “I was a scapegoat, it’s as simple as that,” she says. But it has been a long battle to be accepted in general.
“I had three things against me: to be a foreigner, to be a woman, and to be an artist of the avant garde, not the accepted form. This is aside from breaking up the Beatles, or whatever they were thinking.”
But now she is more prolific creatively than she has been at any time since the Sixties. While she says that Lennon was “totally supportive” of her work, she admits that she would hide it — “it was better to do something together”, she says. “Now I more or less have the freedom to do things without considering another person.”
As the crowds at the Serpentine and uploads to the #smilesfilm site show, many are ready to take her to their hearts at last.
Yoko Ono’s To The Light exhibition is at The Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2. Until September 9 (020 7402 6075, serpentinegallery.org).
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Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT, Serpentine Gallery – review
Going far beyond Beatlemania, Ono proves she’s a genuinely original and enduringly significant artist
by Ben Luke, Evening Standard
Critic Rating: ★★★★
Prejudices against Yoko Ono run deep. As I stood outside the Serpentine Gallery last night looking at her huge all-white chess set Play It by Trust (1966/2012), amid the verdant lushness of Kensington Gardens, two young guys asked who it was by. When I told them it was Ono’s work, one said: “I thought she just split up the Beatles.”
But Ono’s relationship with John Lennon did far more harm to her than it did to the Fab Four. As this, her first show in a London public institution for more than a decade, proves, she was a radical artist: a pioneer of performance art, video art, conceptual art and installation, a core member of the Fluxus movement, with links to the great avant garde figures of her time, such as John Cage. Yet ever since she met Lennon in 1966, she has been viewed through the prism of their relationship.
The Beatle knew as much when he quipped that she was “the world’s most famous unknown artist”. But things have begun to change over the past decade, and the Serpentine’s thoroughly absorbing and beautifully staged show takes another step towards an accurate acknowledgement of her achievements.
The show begins solemnly, with a room of recent and old work dominated by the theme of war, accompanied by the looped sound of a screeching hawk. This is the dark antechamber for an otherwise light-filled show, dominated by Ono’s groundbreaking early work.
Among a cluster of mid-Sixties conceptual sculptures is Ceiling Painting (1966), a ladder which leads to a framed sheet of paper on the ceiling, with a dangling magnifying glass, allowing you to read the word “yes”, typed in tiny letters on the paper. Alas, health and safety forbids us from doing so here.
Amaze (1971/2012) is a Perspex labyrinth leading to a hollow black box filled with water with a mirrored base — a journey into the self. The installation is a play of reflections, mirroring us as well as the videos filling a nearby wall, like Fly (1970), in which the eponymous insect slowly and rather beautifully traces the contours of a naked body, and an utterly infectious slow-motion film of Lennon breaking into a smile.
Much here continues to extol hippie-ish peace-and-love messages, occasionally rather too sentimentally, but Ono’s tougher side provides the real highlight. In Cut Piece (1964), she sits centre stage, mute and largely expressionless, as audience members cut away at her clothing with scissors. I have seen the video of this performance on numerous occasions, and it never loses its power and magnetism — Ono is vulnerable yet defiant, the audience tender at times, cocksure at others. Stark and simple, it is provocative both as social commentary and as a radical artistic gesture. A recent re-performance is shown opposite this original film, but the mood is different, and the audience’s reverence makes the cutting almost more excruciating.
Cut Piece is Ono’s masterpiece but there is plenty more here that proves she is a genuinely original and enduringly significant artist.
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Learn how to make simple DIY rod pocket curtains in 4 easy steps! Rod pocket curtains are a simple yet beautiful kind of window treatment, perfect for any room in your home. So round up your sewing materials and we’ll show you how to make rod pocket curtains in just 4 steps!
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Materials You’ll Need to Make Rod Pocket Curtains:
- Drapery fabric
- Ruler or Measuring Tape
- Scissors or a Rotary Cutter and Mat
- Fabric Marker or Pencil
- Sewing Gauge (optional)
How to Make Rod Pocket Curtains:
- Measure your windows and cut your fabric according to their size. Don't forget to add 4 inches to the width and 12 inches to the height, to account for the hems and allowances.
- Prepare your fabric for sewing by folding the edge an inch and ironing it. Fold it again and iron it before you start sewing the hems. Sew down the length of the fabric and secure the ends of the hems using a backstitch. Do this again on the other side of the curtain fabric.
- The top hem is where you insert the rod for your curtain. For this curtain, we used a 3-inch double-fold hem. Fold your fabric 3 inches wide before ironing it. Repeat this step once more.
- To complete your rod pocket curtains, this is what you should do. Form the pocket, sew along the bottom crease about half an inch away from the edge.
- You can also add a header for your curtain, which will create an illusion of extra height. Sew an inch from the top of your panel to form a 1-in header.
- Hang your curtain first to see how long or short you want your curtain to fall. For this curtain, we used the same 3-in double fold technique we did for the top hem. Sew down the width of the panel about a quarter inch from the crease.
Now your rod pocket curtains are ready! We bet you'll start making another set as soon as you're done with this one.
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Window treatments like this small curtain are the simplest and most affordable way to revamp your home interior. With a nice printed fabric or a beautifully designed curtain, your room will instantly look brighter and cozier. Improving your home aesthetic doesn’t need to be costly and complicated.And by making your own rod pocket curtains DIY, you also get to flex your sewing muscles and improve your skills.
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A sister company of the Weather Channel has hired Gainesville-based SocialNewsDesk to implement an interactive social media application linking meteorologists and news viewers.
The Max Social application is becoming part of Weather Services International’s (WSI) platform.
TV meteorologists will be able to easily send weather information to social networks and to import videos, pictures, reports and comments from their Twitter followers and Facebook fans, says SocialNewsDesk Founder Kim Wilson.
“Prior to this innovation, it was very cumbersome to get viewer-submitted photos and videos from Facebook to broadcasts,” Wilson says. “We’re simplifying that process. We’re also building several weather-related gaming apps.”
Everyone in a newsroom will be able to publish content on multiple media social accounts, respond to comments and monitor posted activity within a single screen, Wilson says.
“Max Social will drive more viewers to stations’ websites, social media accounts and broadcasts,” Wilson says.
WSI is a provider of weather systems to television stations in the United States. “Its client list is massive, and our partnership with them will give SocialNewsDesk instant access to hundreds of television stations,” Wilson says.
by Cristina Paneque


SPRINGFIELD, IL (WGEM) — Governor JB Pritzker signed two new laws expanding insurance coverage for children whose allergies require life-saving EpiPens and Illinoisans suffering from Lyme disease.
“This legislation takes a big step forward in protecting our children and families,” said Pritzker. “Both of these new laws fulfill a core principle of this administration: state government ought to be standing up for working families. Lowering the cost of prescription drugs and expanding health care coverage is one important way to help lower costs and build a higher standard of living for all Illinoisans.”
The new laws include House Bill 889 and 3435.
House Bill 889
The Governor’s office stated that House Bill 889 requires insurance companies to cover office visits, testing and treatment for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease. The new law aims to support farmers throughout the state who have struggled to afford continuing treatments. From 2004 to 2016, tick-borne diseases have risen dramatically according to the Centers for Disease Control.
“The ability to receive treatment when you have previously been insufficiently treated is life changing,” said Rep. Daniel Swanson (R-Woodhull). “By mandating insurance coverage of long-term antibiotic treatment needed for patients, we are putting another piece of the puzzle into place for some patients and removing one additional hassle on their path to recovery.”
House Bill 3435
Officials stated that House Bill 3435 requires insurance companies to cover EpiPens, for children with severe allergies. The cost of an EpiPen has skyrocketed over the last decade, rising by more than 400% for the two-pen injector pack. Without insurance, these EpiPens can cost a family nearly $700 and typically have a shelf life of a little more than a year before the medicine needs to be restocked in stores.
“With steady increases in food allergies and other serious allergic conditions, families are relying on EpiPens more than ever before,” said Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield). “We should be doing everything we can to expand access to affordable lifesaving drugs and medicines. No child with a serious allergy should be without an epinephrine injector because they cannot afford one.”
House Bill 889 takes effect immediately.
House Bill 3435 takes effect on January 1, 2020.


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Paulette Donald fell in love with Arabic during an African Studies Center summer study program in Morocco. Today, she shares her love of the language with her kindergarten and first-grade students.
Applications are being accepted for a unique six-week opportunity for teachers to study the culture, history, and tradition of Morocco. The program consists of studying Arabic and traveling throughout Morocco, as well as an opportunity to be part of an important musical/cultural festival in the picturesque coastal town of Essaouira.
Deputy Director of the African Studies Center Azeb Tadesse, who has been employed at the center since 1999, has won the 2013 Excellence in Leadership (Excel) Award of the UCLA Administrative Management Group.
This profile of African Studies Center Director Françoise Lionnet looks at her upcoming presentation on historical and present-day migration and draws attention to the current phenomenon of African "boat people" — individuals from northern and western Africa in search of a better life who try to make the dangerous trip between the two continents in small boats. Lionnet delivers UCLA’s 114th Faculty Research Lecture in Schoenberg Hall on April 15, 2013, at 3 pm.
A $1 million grant has been awarded to the UCLA African Studies Center (ASC) for a capacity-building partnership with the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) of Rwanda.
Due to unexpected last minute changes on the United Nations General Assembly program, President Paul Kagame regrets that he is unable to visit UCLA on September 28, 2012, and deliver his planned lecture. His visit to UCLA may take place at a future date, though no further details are available at this point.
With a land mass only about 1.5 times that of Los Angeles, this island nation packs a real punch when it comes to the creation of art, literature, music and culture, says Professor Françoise Lionnet
UCLA Professor Alain Mabanckou will celebrate the American debut of his award-winning and recently translated book "Memoirs of a Porcupine" with a reading at the Hammer Museum on May 1, 2012.
John Wooden's impact felt halfway around the world
It’s important for Americans to think of Africa and South Africa as places to learn and grow, says university leader.
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R Madhavan has set the record straight that he is not teaming up with director Lingusamy for a Telugu film. From the past few days, speculations were that Madhavan was considered to play the antagonist in Lingusamy's upcoming film with Ram Pothineni. However, seems like it was just a rumour.
Would so love to work with @dirlingusamy and recreate the magic cause he is such a wonderful, loving man too… unfortunately no truth in the news doing the rounds recently, of us doing a telugu film together with en as an antagonist ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
— Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) June 12, 2021
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High-resolution near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) fluorescence and topographic images of L-α-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) monolayers doped with a fluorescent dye are presented. DPPC monolayers are deposited onto mica substrates from the air-water interface at several surface pressures using the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Sub-diffraction limit phase domain structures are observed in both fluorescence and topographic NSOM images of the lipid films. The morphology of the resulting monolayers depends strongly on the surface pressure and composition of the subphase used in the film transfer. Mechanisms for lipid domain formation and growth are discussed.
- DPPC monolayer
- Langmuir-Blodgett technique
- Near-field scanning optical microscopy
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US to Send Nuclear-Armed Submarine to South Korea in Show of Resolve
The United States will send a nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to South Korea, marking the first time since the 1980s that such a vessel has made a public stop in a foreign port. The submarine’s visit is intended to demonstrate US commitment to protecting South Korea from a North Korean attack and reassure the country amid discussions of developing a homegrown nuclear weapons program.
The announcement was made in a joint declaration during a summit between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and US President Joe Biden in Washington on Wednesday. The US Navy’s SSBNs rely on secrecy and stealth for their survival and, therefore, rarely make public stops in foreign ports.
The United States has promised to deploy more “strategic assets” to South Korea to deter North Korea, which has developed increasingly powerful missiles capable of hitting targets from South Korea to the mainland United States. This includes submarines, aircraft carriers, and long-range bombers.
The submarine visit is considered a significant symbol of US commitment to the region and a way to apply pressure on North Korea, as it is unusual for SSBNs to visit foreign ports. The US Navy fields 14 SSBNs, each of which carries 20 Trident II D5 missiles capable of delivering up to eight nuclear warheads to targets as far away as 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles).
Although no further details were provided about the visit, a senior US official clarified that it would be part of more frequent trips to the Korean Peninsula by strategic assets, with no plans for regular stationing or basing of those assets, and certainly not nuclear weapons in South Korea.
The move comes after Pyongyang condemned the recent deployment of US aircraft carriers and joint South Korea-US military drills as evidence of the allies’ hostile intent. In the 1970s, regular SSBN visits occurred during another period when South Korea debated the strength of US commitments and the need for its own nuclear arsenal. According to a report by the Federation of American Scientists, the boomers arrived almost every month for a few years until the visits stopped in 1981.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Kootneeti Team


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A CHILDHOOD SUCKED DRY
By Justin Jin
Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, October 2016 – Outside the classrooms of Mutenda Primary School in remote southern Zimbabwe, giant cactus plants stretch toward the scorching sun. Inside the classrooms, children wilt in their chairs, their eyes rolling back in their heads.
“They cannot concentrate due to hunger,” Assistant School Director Tasiana Midzi , 57, says of the exhausted children. “You will find teachers struggling to wake them and make them listen to their lessons.”
Southern Africa has suffered its worst drought since 1992 as a supercharged El Nino weather phenomenon blazed through seven countries, and an estimated four million Zimbabweans are in urgent need of water and food aid.
Across Masvingo province, more than 75 percent of the maize crop, the region’s staple, is destroyed, making it the hardest-hit in the impoverished African nation. As rivers and reservoirs dry up, about 45 000 cattle are at risk of dying; farmers can neither feed them, nor make money selling them. Instead, some farmers are selling near starvation cows for US $10 – 30 a head to feed crocodiles, a fraction of the $300 – 500 the livestock usually go for.
Some 750 kids arrive at the Mutenda school each day on empty stomachs, ghostly after walking up to 10 km from home. Many of the younger kids turn up motivated by the government’s food program, which hands out cornmeal to kids four to eight years old, says Midzi.
Students older than eight are left unfed until they reach home in the evening for their ration of cornmeal. Most of their parents cannot afford the USD1 / month fee for school food. Many even survive on wild fruits.
“Can you imagine, a grade one child having a grade six child begging food from the same little ration that he’s been given,” says Godwin Shuniba, a grade six teacher. “It’s very painful.”
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Whenever the drought ends, the resulting problems are likely to linger for a long time, says the British aid group Oxfam, which is actively supporting the region. The lack of rain prevented this year’s planting so farmers are expecting a weak harvest next year too. As communities turn to self-defeating ways to cope — such as using up farming resources to buy food, pulling kids from school, or family abuse — effects can hurt the communities for years after.
Children, particularly girls, are especially vulnerable, Midzi, the school director, explains. Desperate to feed themselves, some girls engage in transactional sex. This skyrockets their vulnerability to abuse, early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, and early death.“The school girls at secondary schools can sell their bodies to get a few cents to buy something to eat,” Midzi says. “Sometimes they even sell their bodies for nothing. They will be cheated… those men have nothing to give.”
Liliosa, 16, is raising an eight-month-old baby by herself after the baby’s father ran away. She lives with her half-sister Letwin, 13, who was born HIV positive and struggles with her symptoms. After the girls’ mother and fathers died, their relatives disowned them so the teenagers take care of each other and the baby.
Liliosa had been keeping the three of them alive in a barren mud hut though a combination of odd jobs and handouts from neighbours. But since the drought, there is neither work nor food to go around. Liliosa walks some 10 km a day, baby on her back, to carry 20-litre buckets of water. She survives on wild fruits and the little cornmeal she can scrape together. Just outside her hut, used condom wrappers lay strewn around empty bottles of antiretroviral medication.
Zimbabwe’s food and water crisis reveals a fundamental collapse in the system. While the drought is affecting countries across the region – from South Africa and Botswana to Malawi and Mozambique – Zimbabwe is unique in declaring a state of emergency, yet failing to allocate nearly enough resources to deal with it.
While President Robert Mugabe blames the international sanctions for Zimbabwe’s ills, critics point to the administration’s rampant corruption and gross mismanagement. The rapid seizure of white-owned commercial farms, combined with the lack of experienced people to put in place of them, resulted in a nosedive in agricultural output. This, together with a failure to invest in infrastructure, have left one of Africa’s most promising agrarian economies a struggling food importer.
In a display that particularly galled critics, Mugabe celebrated his 92nd birthday in the heart of the drought-stricken area in February with an $800,000 party, as he was declaring a state of disaster and the administration’s lack of funds. The sum could have paid for 320 boreholes to unearth desperately needed water, almost half the 750 boreholes that the province’s administration says is needed to adequately supply the region.
The Mutenda school’s borehole broke down 10 years ago and was never fixed, says Midzi. The school’s students now walk one kilometer each way to fetch water for laundry, sanitation and drinking. Everyone has known such an inconvenience would become a disaster when drought hits, yet nothing has been done.
A single borehole costs $2,500 to drill and can serve thousands of villagers in an emergency, according to Makepeace Muzenda, the government’s local District Administrator. Most of the 350 boreholes in the province are non-functioning, so villagers instead dig holes in the dry river beds. The water that trickles out is often polluted and filled with bacteria that can lead to water-borne diseases villagers can’t afford to treat.
As the drought rages on, communities are falling into deeper crises. Where the government has failed to provide, some NGOs, including Oxfam, are working directly with villagers to give them cash to buy what they most need, whether it be seeds, fertilisers, agricultural machinery, or even a school lunch. Targeted cash transfers like this have their critics. Chief Shumba, a village leader, says money given to local men will go straight to liquor and suggested NGOs give food aid instead. But proponents believe cash transfers help communities sustain functioning market systems.
Midzi, the school director, agrees. A little cash goes a long way for parents struggling to feed their kids, keep their cattle alive, and work on the next harvest, she says.
As for her school, Midzi has one wish.
“If we could, if possible, get a borehole,” the director says, tilting her head back towards the ceiling as if envisioning a dream, “the children would not have to walk long distances to fetch water, and we can even have a small vegetable garden.”
The question remains whether in Zimbabwe, this is too much to ask.


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The New Yorker, April 3, 1995 P. 35
Talk story about which novels famous writers think would make good movies. The writer spoke with several prominent authors and they gave their views of the subject. Edna O'Brien chose Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"; Gore Vidal chose his own novel "Myra Breckinridge" which had already been made into a movie in 1970, but it was a film that he disavowed; Jane Smiley picked Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse"; John Updike chose "La Princesse de Cleves" by Mme. de Lafayette; Norman Rush picked "Ozma of Oz", a sequel to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"; and E. L. Doctorow did not pick any novel, choosing instead to take issue with the question itself: "This is a Movie Culture question. Why ask it of a novelist? Is a movie our highest accreditation?... Instead of asking writers this question, you ought to ask a different question of some leading directors: What film would they like to see validated with a major novel? And, two, who would the novelist be? I like movies, but I hate the culture of movies."


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Cisco IINS 2.0: VPN Technologies and Public Key Infrastructure
Network designers, administrators, engineers, and managers; systems engineers; individuals seeking the Implementing Cisco IOS Network Security (IINS) v2.0 640-554 certification, which is associated with the CCNA Security certification exam. Knowledge and skills equivalent to those learned in Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1) are required, and a working knowledge of the Windows operating system and Cisco IOS networking and concepts is recommended.
Please contact us for information about prerequisites.
An IP Security (IPsec) VPN uses the Internet to connect branch offices, remote employees, and business partners to the resources of your company. It is a reliable way to maintain your company privacy while streamlining operations, reducing costs, and allowing flexible network administration. VPNs are an integral part of any security architecture. Providing confidentiality, integrity, and endpoint authentication, VPNs are ubiquitous and provide data loss prevention mechanisms for data that is in transit at multiple levels. From Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPNs to IP Security (IPsec) VPNs, site-to-site VPNs, or remote-access options, this security control is now embedded in networks and applications and should be available in a transparent and manageable fashion. This course introduces the cryptographic elements of VPNs, including symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, and describes the components, deployment options, and operational framework of VPN technologies.
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is an increasingly critical component to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and authentication in an enterprise. PKI is based on the fundamentals of asymmetric encryption. PKI uses the power of private and public keys, digital signatures, and trust models that are derived from asymmetric encryption. PKI provides services that range from identity management to software code signing, and from encrypted file systems and email to VPNs and others. This course discusses the principles behind asymmetric encryption that result in PKI solutions and explains the operational framework of such solutions.
- describe the benefits of VPNs
- identify the OSI layers where MPLS VPNs operate
- match the type of VPN to the appropriate descriptions
- describe the role of cryptology in VPN implementations
- identify the use of ciphers in VPN deployments
- identify the use of encryption algorithms in VPN deployments
- identify the use of cryptanalysis in VPN deployments
- identify symmetric encryption algorithms and their use in VPN operations
- identify asymmetric encryption algorithms and their use in VPN operations
- describe the functions of cryptographic hashes
- identify the components of key management
- describes the role of cryptography plays in commercial implementations such as IPsec and SSL/TLS
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- describe how PKI uses asymmetric cryptography to accomplish confidentiality
- describe how PKI uses asymmetric cryptography to accomplish authentication
- describe the features and functions of the RSA algorithm
- describe the principles behind a PKI
- describe PKI standards
- identify the role of CAs in a PKI