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Official name of the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing
THE entire length of the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, from the Warrego Highway intersection at Helidon in the south, to the Gore Highway intersection at Athol in the west, will officially be known as the Toowoomba Bypass.
A spokesman for Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey confirmed the name yesterday afternoon, but said the name for different sections of the road and its associated infrastructure had not yet been finalised by the Department of Transport.
Sources close to the project told The Chronicle a large section of the road is expected to be known as Multuggerah Way, as suggested by the road's naming committee.
On September 12, 1843, Multuggerah led around 100 indigenous warriors in an ambush of three wagons heading up the Range. This turned into a battle between the group and colonialists, which moved to Table Top Mountain, known then as One Tree Hill. This battle was known as the Battle of One Tree Hill.
Multuggerah is believed to have been killed in a battle at Glenore Grove near Ipswich in July 1846.
Several major pieces of infrastructure on the project, such as bridges, overpasses and more are expected to be named after prominent people from the region.
The names were chosen by the naming committee following public consultation, which included involvement from schools and local community groups.
Early in the naming process Mr Bailey ruled out calling the crossing Rangey McRangeFace.
A marathon (42km) will be held on the crossing on the morning of September 8, which will also include the options for a 5km, 10km and 21km run. The marathon, which will start at 6am, is being organised by the Toowoomba Road Runners group.


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Porphyry and epithermal ore deposits, which are the products of magmatic hydrothermal fluids, are intimately associated with volcanoes in continental and island arcs above subduction zones, but the exact nature of this relationship has remained enigmatic. Although metal deposition is usually thought to occur during the waning stages of volcanism, numerous ore deposits have been demonstrated to be synvolcanic. Here we show how the formation of these deposits is tied to volcanic cycles. We relate the chemical variations in vapors from Merapi volcano, Indonesia, to different stages of its eruptive cycle. The chemical compositions of volcanic vapors from subduction zone volcanoes are then compared globally to those of fluid inclusions from porphyry-epithermal deposits. These data show that adiabatic decompression is the principal control on mineralization. The data also suggest that volcanic and subvolcanic magmatic-hydrothermal systems are under lithostatic pressure during quiescence but decompress rapidly during injections of mafic magma and explosive eruptions. During quiescence, the magma evolves through fractional crystallization and devolatilization, gradually becoming oxidized and enriched in gold and other incompatible metals. Upon the injection of sulfur-rich mafic magmas, subvolcanic intrusions brecciate the overlying rocks, the systems are depressurized, the volcanoes erupt explosively, supercritical fluids unmix into vapor and brine, and base metal sulfides precipitate.
Magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits form over periods ranging from thousands to millions of years (Sillitoe, 2010), a generally shorter lifespan than those of arc volcanoes, which are thought to usually remain active for millions of years (Newhall et al., 2000). Although the economic mineralization is usually considered to postdate volcanism (Williams-Jones and Heinrich, 2005), numerous ore deposits have been shown to be genetically associated with volcanism (Hattori and Keith, 2001) or even interrupted by episodes of renewed magmatic activity (Maughan et al., 2002). It is interesting that the injection of sulfur-rich mafic magmas into shallow porphyry stocks appears to trigger explosive eruptions (Eichelberger, 1980) and generate ore deposits (Hattori and Keith, 2001). In this paper, we report data on the distribution of metals, sulfur, and chlorine in volcanic vapors collected at Merapi volcano (Indonesia) during a phase of quiescent degassing in A.D. 2004 and after a large explosive eruption in 2006, and compare them to data reported for volcanic vapors globally and for fluid inclusions from porphyry deposits. These data and comparisons provide the first convincing evidence that injections of mafic magma (which commonly coincide with explosive volcanic eruptions) are followed by decompression of the magmatic hydrothermal system, inducing fluid phase separation, rapid cooling, and the deposition of porphyry and epithermal ores. In so doing they demonstrate the important links between arc volcanism and porphyry-epithermal ore formation.
Volcanic vapors were sampled by inserting silica tubes into fumaroles and connecting the tubes to ice-trap condensers. The liquid that collected in the ice trap was analyzed by inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), ICP–optical emission spectrometry, instrumental neutron activation analysis, and ion chromatography. Sublimates from the vapors were collected by inserting silica tubes into fumaroles immediately after the condensates were sampled and waiting several days until sufficient solid had accumulated on the inner walls of the tubes. Temperatures were measured along the tube centerlines using a thermocouple. Aliquots of sublimates were mounted on polished sections for mineral identification via electron probe microanalysis and the remainder was analyzed using X-ray diffraction.
The concentrations of ligands (S-Cl) and metals (Au-Cu-Zn-Pb-Mo-Y-U) in condensed vapor were normalized to Na to compensate for variations in density and thus the water fugacity, fH2O, of the vapor (Fig. 1A). The vapors were enriched in S-Cl-Pb-Cu-Zn in A.D. 2006 samples (explosive) and enriched in Mo-Y-Au-U in 2004 (quiescent). In 2006, S and Cl concentrations in the vapor ranged from 0.7 wt% to 1.0 wt% and 0.5 to 0.7 wt%, respectively, whereas they varied from 260 to 520 ppm and 890 to 3030 ppm, respectively, in 2004 (Table 1). Copper and Zn concentrations ranged from 0.16 to 0.28 ppm and 0.15 to 0.42 ppm, respectively, in 2006, and only 0.003 ppm and 0.06 to 0.15 ppm, respectively, in 2004. By contrast, concentrations of Mo only reached 0.6 ppb in 2006 compared to 4–20 ppb in 2004. The concentrations of Y were 0.7–4 ppb in 2004 and 0.4–0.5 ppb in 2006, those of Au were 0.2–0.6 ppb in 2004 and 0.02 ppb in 2006, and those of U were 0.09–0.34 ppb in 2004 and 0.06–0.08 ppb in 2006.
The concentrations of the rare earth elements (REEs) were first normalized to Na and subsequently to chondrite (McDonough and Sun, 1995) to allow comparison with subduction zone fluids (Fig. 1B). The doubly normalized REE profiles all show light REE enrichment typical of subduction zone fluids. The vapors from 2004 had higher total REE contents compared to those from 2006. The concentrations of large ion lithophile elements (LILEs) and high field strength elements (HFSEs) were first normalized to Na and subsequently to mid-oceanic ridge basalt (McDonough and Sun, 1995) to evaluate fluid behavior (Fig. 1C). All samples display gradual enrichment of progressively more incompatible elements, except Ti, because it was compatible in titanomagnetite (Camus et al., 2000; Nadeau et al., 2013). All incompatible elements are enriched in 2004 samples relative to those for 2006, except for Zr and Hf in one sample.
Sublimate Mineralogy and Redox State
A variety of minerals precipitated from the vapors during cooling along the silica tubes. In 2004, the mineral assemblage consisted of chlorides, sulfates, and hydrated sulfates, oxides, and native elements, whereas the minerals comprised chlorides, sulfides, arsenosulfides, and native elements in 2006 (Fig. 2; Table DR1 in the GSA Data Repository1).
Iron precipitated in ilmenite and hematite in 2004 and in pyrite and smythite in 2006; Pb precipitated as anglesite in 2004 and as galena and tsugaruite (Pb4As2S7) in 2006; and Bi and Zn-Cd precipitated as bismuthinite and wurtzite-greenockite in 2006. The magmatic-hydrothermal system was thus relatively oxidized in 2004 and reduced in 2006.
Magmatic Arc Fluids
In order to expand our database beyond that of Merapi, and to compare volcanic vapors to ore fluids, we compiled published compositional data for 282 samples of vapor condensates from 19 subduction zone stratovolcanoes (Table DR2) and 292 fluid inclusion assemblages from 7 major porphyry Cu ± Mo ± Au deposits (Table DR3; Fig. 3). These data are illustrated in violin plots showing median (black dot) and interquartile range (black line) values as well as the total data distribution (gray envelope) (Fig. 3; see the Data Repository). The volcanic vapors ranged in temperature from 85 °C to 1020 °C, averaging 445 ± 216 °C (1σ), whereas the fluid inclusions were trapped at temperatures from 220 °C to 771 °C, or an average of 434 ± 130 °C (1σ). On average, base metal concentrations in fluid inclusions from porphyry deposits are more than three orders of magnitude higher than in volcanic vapors. Given their similar temperatures, and experimental studies of metal solubility in aqueous fluids, the higher metal content of the fluid inclusions is attributed to their higher fluid density and resulting higher capacity to hydrate metal complexes. At constant density, metal solubility increases with increasing temperature due to a corresponding increase in the partial pressure of H2O, which promotes the formation of metal complexes with high hydration numbers (e.g., Migdisov et al., 2014). Increasing temperature, however, destabilizes metal complexes with high hydration numbers, and a maximum solubility is reached when this effect outweighs that of the increasing partial pressure of H2O. In volcanic emissions, the Pb/Na ratio reaches a maximum in fluids with temperatures of 400–600 °C, Zn/Na is greatest in fluids with temperatures of 400–800 °C, and Cu/Na and Au/Na have maxima in fluids with temperatures of 200–400 °C. The use of Y as a proxy for the REEs suggests that REE/Na ratios are greatest in vapors with temperatures of 400–600 °C (Fig. 3A).
The Pb/Na, Zn/Na, and Mo/Na ratios are much lower in fluid inclusions than in volcanic vapors (Fig. 3B). This probably results from the preferential incorporation of Na in alteration minerals precipitating from the fluid between the porphyry and the fumaroles. By contrast, Cu/Na is higher in supercritical and vapor fluid inclusions and lower in brines and volcanic vapors. However, the higher content of Cu in vapor inclusions has been interpreted to result from postentrapment diffusion of Cu toward the vapor inclusions (Lerchbaumer and Audétat, 2012). The Cu/Na ratio is thus higher in supercritical fluids than in brines, vapors, and volcanic vapors, implying that Cu-bearing minerals undergo large-scale precipitation during the unmixing of supercritical fluids into brine and vapor.
Physical State of the Volatile Phase
An important difference between porphyry fluids and volcanic vapors is their physical state. Magmatic volatiles exsolved at pressures and temperatures greater than those of the critical point, i.e., porphyry fluids at depth, are in a supercritical state. When supercritical fluids ascend, they may reach the critical point and unmix into liquid and vapor. Upon unmixing, Cl preferentially partitions into the liquid forming brine (Bodnar et al., 1985), whereas S partitions preferentially into the vapor that is ultimately emitted as a volcanic gas (Simon and Ripley, 2011; Nadeau et al., 2013).
Pressure has a major impact on the physical state of magmatic hydrothermal fluids because decreasing pressure may lead to phase separation. It is possible to relate the pressure at which supercritical fluids unmix into brine and vapor to a critical depth, by assuming lithostatic and hydrostatic pressure gradients. According to experimental studies in the H2O-NaCl system, for a magmatic fluid at 1000 °C and 5–10 wt% NaCleq (Zajacz et al., 2008), the critical depth is 5 km under a lithostatic pressure gradient and 15 km under a hydrostatic pressure gradient (Driesner and Heinrich, 2007). The addition of CO2 and sulfur species to the system will increase this critical depth, but phase relationships in the C-O-H-S–NaCl system are not sufficiently known to quantify this effect (Webster and Mandeville, 2007).
Variations in Sulfur and Chlorine
Porphyry-type deposits have greater contents of sulfur than of the base and precious metals for which they are exploited. At Merapi, volcanic vapors were highly enriched in S following the explosive eruption of 2006 compared to volcanic vapors that were quiescently degassed in 2004 (Table 1). The total concentration of S in vapor condensates was 6730 and 10,580 ppm (in samples 1 and 2, respectively) in 2006, and 260 and 520 ppm, respectively, in 2004; the higher concentration of 2006 was attributed to the injection of sulfide melt–saturated mafic magma in that year (Nadeau et al., 2010). Chlorine was present in significant concentrations in volcanic vapors released from Merapi in both 2004 and 2006, but its concentration varied much less than that of sulfur between periods of quiescence and eruption.
During periods of quiescent degassing, magma becomes oxidized due to the preferential incorporation of Fe2+ in minerals (Kelley and Cottrell, 2012) and fluids (Bell and Simon, 2011) and preferential degassing of H2 relative to O2 during H2O disproportionation (Mathez, 1984). Although primitive arc magmas are usually considered to be oxidized [oxygen fugacity, fO2, ≥ FMQ (fayalite-magnetite-quartz) + 2; Mungall, 2002], the deep mafic magmas feeding Merapi were sufficiently reduced, with fO2 at or near FMQ (Jugo, 2009), to exsolve an immiscible sulfide melt (Nadeau et al., 2010) and an aqueous fluid that ultimately precipitated sulfides (Fig. 2B). Such immiscible sulfide melt inclusions also have been observed at other arc volcanoes and in porphyry Cu deposits (Larocque et al., 2000), suggesting that deep mafic feeders commonly may be less oxidized than shallower porphyry stocks.
Variations in the degree of oxidation of magmas and fluids have an important impact on metal transport characteristics. Highly oxidized magmas lack sulfides that could scavenge chalcophile and siderophile metals from magmatic-hydrothermal systems. In contrast, S-rich reduced magmas may exsolve chalcophile element–rich immiscible sulfide melts that, in turn, can be subsequently dissolved in magmatic hydrothermal fluids (Nadeau et al., 2010; Mungall et al., 2015). High oxidation states of hydrothermal fluids lead to low H2S/SO2 ratios, inhibiting the solubility of metals that are dissolved dominantly as bisulfide complexes (Zezin et al., 2011) but enhancing the capacity of the melt to transport sulfur as SO42– (Jugo, 2009).
Metallogenesis of Porphyry-Type Deposits
We propose that porphyry-epithermal systems evolve by cycling through periods of volcanic quiescent degassing dominated by fractional crystallization and volatile exsolution, and periods of explosive activity triggered by injection of mafic magmas (Fig. 4). According to this hypothesis, quiescently devolatilizing magmas evolve under lithostatic pressure gradients to relatively shallow depths (the critical depth is 5 km in the H2O-NaCl system; Driesner and Heinrich, 2007). Incompatible metals such as Au, Mo, REEs, HFSEs, and LILEs are gradually enriched in the magmas and fluids and deposited in these relatively oxidizing environments. Injections of less oxidized mafic magmas open up the systems and abruptly decrease the confining pressures to values closer to the hydrostatic gradient, thereby displacing the critical depth to deeper levels (15 km in the H2O-NaCl system; Driesner and Heinrich, 2007). Regional tectonic earthquakes, such as that near Merapi during the eruption of 2006, also may enhance the pressure regime transition by opening the systems. Although experimental studies in the H2O-NaCl system suggest a critical depth of 15 km under a hydrostatic pressure gradient, a study of rock rheology suggests that a hydrostatic regime would be difficult to maintain at depths greater than ∼5–10 km (Sibson, 1992). Therefore the pressure regime at this stage may be between lithostatic and hydrostatic. Upon depressurization, sulfur partitions preferentially into the vapor, which rises and expands, whereas chlorine remains in the brine that ponds beneath the volcano.
After the injection of mafic magma, Cu bonds with S to precipitate as a sulfide mineral under the combined effects of decompression and expansion of the hydrated metal complexes. The precipitation of Zn and Pb, which are also enriched in the hydrothermal system after rock failure and decompression, is not as abrupt as that of Cu (Fig. 3B) as these metals form stronger bonds with Cl. Their precipitation in sulfide minerals is thus delayed relative to Cu. After explosive eruptions, which typically last several months and contribute to fracturing and brecciating rocks at progressively greater depths, the magmas evolve by fractional crystallization, gradually becoming more oxidized and enriched in incompatible elements. The hydrothermal system seals itself by precipitation of minerals along fractures and in breccias under the weight of the rock column, with pressure returning to lithostatic levels. The ability of the fluid to dissolve metals gradually increases until the next explosive eruption (or rock failure at depth), typically a few years later.
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
Although economic mineralization is usually thought to postdate volcanism (Williams-Jones and Heinrich, 2005), numerous ore deposits have been shown to be genetically associated with volcanism (Hattori and Keith, 2001). In this paper we have related variations in the composition of volcanic vapors from Merapi volcano to different stages of its eruptive cycle and compared these compositions to those of volcanic vapors from other subduction zone volcanoes and porphyry-hosted fluid inclusions. These data provide the first convincing evidence that injections of mafic magma (that commonly coincide with explosive volcanic eruptions) are followed by decompression of the magmatic hydrothermal system, inducing fluid phase separation, rapid cooling, and the deposition of porphyry and epithermal ores. In so doing they demonstrate that decompression is the principal control on mineralization, and that pressure in the systems transforms abruptly from lithostatic during quiescence to hydrostatic during and immediately after an explosive eruption (rock failure at depth). During quiescence, magmatic-hydrothermal systems evolve through crystallization and devolatilization, gradually becoming oxidized and enriched in gold and other incompatible metals. Upon injection of mafic magmas, they are depressurized, supercritical fluids unmix into vapor and brine, temperature drops, base metal sulfides precipitate at depth, and volcanoes erupt explosively.
This research was made possible by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery grants to Williams-Jones and Stix, and an NSERC Ph.D. scholarship to Nadeau. We thank F. Gaillard and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.

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Solar Panels fitted on East Kent Housing homes in Dover
A CAMPAIGN to install solar panels to more than 100 homes in Dover
successfully concluded this week just hours before government support
for the scheme came to an end.
Dover District Council and East Kent Housing agreed a deal with
Carillion Energy Services to offer tenants living in a pilot area of St
Radigund's the chance to have solar panels fitted to their homes.


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Systems Technical University -- 1001 Arabian Nights
Systems Technical University 1001 Arabian Nights
Wrapping up my coverage of the [Systems Technical University 2014] conference, we had a special dinner with entertainment on Wednesday evening.
Before dinner, I was able to catch up with my colleagues from across the pond. Here I am pictured with Ola Surowiec, a Power Systems sales specialist from Scotland.
The dinner was set up as self-service buffet style, with choices of European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cuisine. This is largely the heritage of the Ottoman empire to provide a fusion of flavors from its neighbors.
The city of Istanbul is considered the border between Europe and Asia, with one side of the city on the "European" side, and the other side of the Bosphorus strait being the "Asian" side.
The entertainment started with two [belly dancers], one male and one female. (IBM is an equal opportunity employer!) For those not familiar with this particular form of performance art, it is improvised folk dances based on torso articulation and abdominal movements.
I have seen dancers before in Egypt, the country that most people associate with the origin of belly dancing, but the Turkish version is considered more energetic and athletic. Certainly both of our dancers were quite flexible.
This was followed by a live cover band that played the latest English-language hits. Several Americans at the table asked "Wait? We come all the way to Turkey and the local band sings the songs in English?"
I had to explain that [the Beatles made their start playing in Germany]. This let the band hone their performance skills, widened their reputation, and led to their first recording.
Today, what music tops the charts throughout Europe, including countries like Turkey that are predominantly not English-speaking residents, are mostly from American musicians. Emmanuel Legrand has a great article on this titled [Europe's music scene -- A mosaic of talent united by one language].
In the corner, attendees were invited to dress up as their favorite sultan to take photograph. Here for example, are some of the members of the STU event team. Mo McCullough, Don Meyer, Marlin Maddy, Glenn Anderson and Alex Abderrazag pose with two lovely local ladies in full costume.
The word "sultan" derives from the Arabic word meaning "strength", "authority" or "power". Sultans ruled the Turkish empire from 1299 to 1922.
The [Topkapi palace], where I visited earlier in the week, contains clothing on display of the sultans and princes from the second half of the 15th century to the early 20th century.
A fun time was had by all!

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The head of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) will hold a symposium at the European Union Parliament in Brussels to address the recent European Union decision to label Israeli goods made in Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights, and eastern Jerusalem.The symposium will be held on December 2 and will call on EU lawmakers to find an alternative approach in finding a solution between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to foster economic cooperation, stability, and peace, ICEJ said.“This labeling law will only divide Israelis and Palestinians further,” said ICEJ Executive Director Dr. Jürgen Bühler. “Co-existence is better achieved by establishing factories and business partnerships in areas where Palestinians and Israelis live side-by-side.”Earlier this month, the EU introduced guidelines requiring member states to stop carrying the “Made in Israel” label for products made in Jewish communities situated beyond the 1967 lines. Bühler said he believes the recent EU decision is a “double standard” and that the EU does not make similar labeling requirements for goods from other disputed territories such as northern Cyprus or the Western Sahara."If the EU really wants to promote peace they should stop penalizing those Israelis and Palestinians who are working together to make a living. Instead, they should provide greater incentives for them to forge deeper bonds of co-operation, without using labeling laws which could further the anti-Israeli propaganda that is sweeping Europe,” he said.Headquartered in Jerusalem, ICEJ represents millions of Christian supporters of Israel and reaches some 140 countries with branches in more than 80 nations.


Rave Reviews Continue To Pour In Exclaiming Nightlights As Needhamâ€™s Best Project So Far
Nashville, TN — Inpop Records announced Tuesday morning that Jimmy Needhamâ€™s new CD, Nightlights, reached the #1 position on iTunes Top 200 Christian Albums chart.Â At the same time, the CD is #25 on iTunes Top 200 Albums chart that covers all music genres. Today is the official street date for the highly-anticipated project with fans and media embracing the project.
Houston Press – Needham is no stranger to secular pop or hip-hop â€” in his bio, he shouts out Maroon 5, Michael Jackson and Jay-Z as the musical inspirations behind “Grace Amazing,” while Nightlights single “Yours to Take” has already made him a rising star in Christian circles.
JesusFreakHideout.com – New and old fans will both be greatly impressed with this latest release, and future releases will no doubt be just as successful if this variety continues.
Christian Manifesto – Jimmy Needham should be the darling of CCM. Ever innovative, original and fresh, his music is akin to a zap of electricity for an oft-tired industry.
Christian Music Today – â€¦his bluesy arrangements are beautifully crafted and his lyrics sincere.
Needham will celebrate the release of Nightlights this evening in The Woodlands, TX. The show will broadcast live at Needhamâ€™s website, www.JimmyNeedham.com or www.Facebook.com/JimmyNeedham, 8:00 â€“ 9:30 pm EDT where millions of fans around the world can watch Needhamâ€™s performance. The Houston Chronicle will be covering the show for an upcoming artist feature that will run later this month highlighting Needhamâ€™s incredible career.


Companies are working hard to keep up with demand during winter season
San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/07/2013 -- When Utah experiences its plummeting temperatures during winter, business for heating and plumbing officials is sure to have the opposite effect, as business spikes.
"The colder it is outside, the more it's going to run. The more it runs, the more likely it is to break down," said Mike Stischak, a service manager with Whipple Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning.
For those who had their heaters die out recently, or those who had pipes freeze on them, it is all-to-obvious how busy the professionals are. The companies have been fielding calls well into the evening, with some businesses even having to work into the night to meet demand.
Stischak went on a service call in Magna at Joey Montoya's residence. The heater had not been working for nearly five days.
“It wasn't even heating the house at all," Montoya says. "Just a little bit."
Joey and his family were using a space heater and extra blankets to keep warm. The heating unit was well over 50 years old, and it began to give off a strange smell. Joey's wife was beginning to experience headaches due to the problem, and so they called the heating professionals.
"Immediately, when I walked in the door, I was kind of overwhelmed with a spent fuel smell," said Stischak. So, he took a closer look. "I saw the flames starting to roll out from under the furnace."
The professional picked up a carbon monoxide reading of 18 ppm, a dangerous level.
"Surprisingly, we didn't get sick," Montoya said.
The reason for the problem was a soot build-up that was blocking the exhaust system. That blockage had forced the flame out below the furnace. A newer model of furnace would have a safety mechanism to avoid such a problem, as it would shut down when such an occurrence transpires.
Stischak stated that the monoxide level was not something that would make a person immediately sick. Over time, however, it could take its toll.
"Ultimately, this is an older furnace that has a plugged heat exchanger and it's time for a new one," the service manager said.
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It is a great advantage to walk in the ‘light of life.’ ‘When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
We are competent to minister the Kingdom in our new covenant mindset because we are light-bearers in the same manner that Jesus was the light of the world. Jesus’ baptism is an improvement on John the Baptist’s baptism. The latter was old covenant, notional rather than transformative and in separation instead of union. Baptism into Jesus is baptism into union with God and fellowship with the trinity.
SONS OF GOD
Our post cross union with God is ‘belonging’ realised and the spirit of sonship active. It is also the steady growth of our real selves and the shedding of our false Adamic self so that we become sons in spirit and in truth rather than notional sons and daughters.
We can participate in the Lord’s Table yet live separated from God. Then again we can live in God and signify this as the Lord’s Table alive in us. We can celebrate that the real being of Christ is our life – that we live, not from statements and formulations, but from a real Jesus manifesting as us. Thomas Torrance writes,
“While the deposit of faith was replete with the truth as it is in Jesus, embodying kerygmatic, didactic and theological content, but its very nature it could not be resolved into a system of truths or set of normative doctrines and formulated beliefs, for the truths and doctrines and beliefs entailed could not be abstracted from the embodied form which they were given in Christ in the apostolic foundation of the church without loss of their real substance.”
The mystery of iniquity is the law (the knowledge of good and evil) claiming to be godliness. The mystery of Godliness is Christ manifest as you and as us all.
Jesus’ baptism is both the baptism of assurance and baptism into the presence and life of the trinity. Here we share the spirit and life that is them and theirs. Believe Jesus and the trinity will come and make their home in you. For those who live in the truth and embrace the Light, God is never somewhere else or in some day rather than another day. He is in you. In Jesus you are in God and in His fellowship.
Grace is not the means of coping with the law. Grace is Jesus. This grace is the means of making us alive. It is His life as your life.
REALIZE – RECEIVE REVELATION
You are incarnated with God. ‘Realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.20 NIV.
Your inheritance is that you are part of God. Yet you are fully yourself, positioned to thrive in the Spirit of Sonship and the anointing of Holy Spirit.
“Upon the homecoming of the incarnate Son, with the human race gathered in his arms, the Spirit of adoption was unleashed upon the world with the singular mission of leading us to know the truth. The Spirit was sent to testify of Christ, to bear witness with our spirits that we are children of God in Jesus, and in bearing witness, to call us to believe the truth so that we can experience its liberation. The Spirit testifies of Jesus Christ as the Father's beloved Son, who sits at His right hand, and to Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of the human race, who has searched the universe for us, found us and taken us home. As he leads us to know the truth, not just in our heads as a bit of theological trivia, but in our souls as the surest thing in all the world, he brings us into the baptism of assurance.” (1)
RIVERS OF LIVING WATER
We can live in the old covenant among droplets of grace. But our difficulty here is that we are blind but think we can see. To ‘see’ one must be born from religion and law into union with God. With Christ as our life we are the church of the First-Born. When the law is our life we remain blind and comatose in dead Adam. If separation from God is the ‘great darkness’ union with God in Christ is the infinite light.
You have an inheritance, a life in which Christ is your life and belonging with the trinity is yours. Or not.
‘I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly’ Gal 2.20-21 NASB.
One who lives in God is a different person, a different being, to one who lives in Christianity. One is a living word - a personification of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The other is a figment of the letter. As a manifestation of the Spirit of Jesus it will be true of you that in you is life and that His life is your life and the life with which you touch others. This light will be the light of men and you will no longer walk in darkness.
(1) C Baxster Kruger, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam, Kindle loc 877


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Pink Stripe Cupcake Kit
Create your own cupcake box with one of our fantastic 3D Designs.
This kit includes all of the fabric & hessian required along with full colour instructions & template sheets. Why not add some brown fabric to your order & make a chocolate chip cupcake!
Please note there is no proggy tool included in this kit.
19cm x 19cm x 19cm (7.5" x 7.5" x 7.5")

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Football programme signed by Eisenhower weeks before D-Day to be sold
Dwight D Eisenhower attended the Football League War Cup between Charlton and Chelsea on April 15 1944 in a move aimed at fooling Hitler and the Nazis into believing that the Normandy Landings were not imminent.
The five star General was introduced to the players on the pitch and even handed the cup to Charlton captain Don Welsh after the 3-1 win on April 15 1944.
At the time it was critical to the invasion that the Nazis didn't receive any intelligence about D-Day, codenamed Operation Overlord.
His appearance was highly publicised in a bid to fool Hitler into thinking the Allies were on the back foot.
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“I grew up in the city of Linköping, in the county of Östergötland in Sweden.
Every day, the air force flew their planes around us; Saab 29 Tunnan, Saab 32 Lansen, Saab 35 Draken and Saab 37 Viggen… As well as the commercial turboprop airliner Saab A340. Saab Industries builded those planes and tested them on their own airfield just outside Linköping, and the military airfield F13 Malmslätt was situated just opposite on the other side of the city, so just imagine how much flying that went on all days…
Of course I grew up wanting to be a pilot, but I soon learned you needed great physical condition, as well as excellent multitasking, be great at mathematics and… I soon retired those plans. I became a graphic designer, still with aeroplanes and flying them as a great passion. I never got myself a license as a private pilot, but took all possibilities of riding in commercial airplanes’ flight decks, and learning more and more about navigation, technical systems and constructions.
Then I stumbled over X-Plane a few years ago.
Today I fly three airliners by the book: The Boeing 732 Twinjet (which I love), the Boeing 757 Cargo and the Saab 340. All by the checklists and procedures in real time, the real local time, as well as the real weather. Using the SIDs and STARs, and the real routes.
From time to time I also fly the Douglas DC3 up in the Northern Territories, at Hay River and Yellowknife as the guys at Buffalo Airways. Try to make a nice take off with crosswinds in a DC3… THAT is something completely different thing than for example in the Twinjet…. These planes gives me the most realistic simulation of the flight deck work, and it has to be done properly, otherwise things don’t work out. For me it’s like a dream come true.
Living in Sweden in the northern corner of Europe gives you real challenges with crosswinds, fast changing weather with clouds and fog, and in the winter flying in darkness is the most common thing you do as a commercial pilot. And I am proud to say, I do it rather well!
I have learned to master the Sperry autopilot, and later also the Boeing type FMS. So, later in life I could actually get to fly the planes I have admired and traveled with so much. Next big thing – if I ever can get to do it – is to climb into a real Boeing 737 simulator or later model, to see if I actually could master the real deal after all these sim hours..! But here in Sweden that is too expensive, and it can be done only some hours in the middle of the night, if ever.
But I keep on dreaming, and when the family goes to bed, I take my papers and enter the flight deck of my Boeing 732 Twinjet, turn on the battery and ground power, turn on the light, put the headset on and reach for my checklists…
X-Plane is the best there is.
Thank you so much for letting me fly my heavy birds!”
— Capt. Stiernspetz

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The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the moderating effects of age and social support from family members in the relationship between the bereavement of friends and depression. The participants were 1 402 Japanese community-dwelling men and women aged between 40 and 79 years, who had done the baseline and the two-year follow-up surveys of the National Institute for Longevity Sciences-Longitudinal Study of Aging (NILS-LSA). By using hierarchical multiple regression analysis, we detected a significant interaction between age, social support from family members, and the bereavement of friends. Younger participants who were receiving less support from family members after the loss of friends showed significantly higher depression scores.
- Social support
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Not quite 20 years ago, notable filmmakers from around the globe were invited to contribute short films to an omnibus feature about September 11th. The result, with only a couple of exceptions, was flat-out terrible, serving primarily as a reminder that it takes time to process something so momentous and turn it into compelling, meaningful art. So there was reason to be skeptical about The Year Of The Everlasting Storm, a similar project in which seven directors from four countries tackle the pandemic that we’re still very much in the middle of; while the film assembles an impressive roster of talent, that didn’t rescue September 11. This time, however, there are no outright disasters and two superlative shorts, one of which may well turn out to be this year’s single greatest cinematic achievement. Even if the rest are mostly forgettable, that batting average still qualifies as success in this notoriously erratic mini-genre.
By far the least interesting segments are those that merely depict the locked-down world we’ve all inhabited for the past year and a half. “The Break Away,” from Anthony Chen (Wet Season), kicks off with an ominous “Day 1,” Contagion-style, then proceeds to chronicle the gradual strain on a Chinese couple’s marriage as the man (Zhang Yu) loses his job—nobody’s driving, so auto salesmen have little to do—and the woman (Zhou Dongyu) struggles to work from home while being constantly pestered by their rambunctious small child. A bit more narrowly focused is Dominga Sotomayor’s “Sin Título, 2020,” from Chile, in which a new grandmother (Francisca Castillo, the director’s own mom) must see the baby from a distance, standing masked on the street several stories below her child’s apartment. Neither film is bad, but both traffic in exactly the details and emotions that one would expect from a COVID-19 drama.
That’s not an issue for the three documentary shorts included here, two of which are only tangentially related to the pandemic (and would likely have been much the same had it never happened). “Little Measures,” directed by Malik Vitthal (Imperial Dreams), talks with a dad struggling to see his kids, who’ve all been in foster care for many years; it’s inherently poignant, but omits virtually any context about why the state intervened and continues to deny custody, making the film feel sanitized for its subjects’ protection. Laura Poitras’ “Terror Contagion” plays like a companion piece to her acclaimed Citizenfour, investigating abuses of government surveillance (exacerbated by COVID contact tracing). The longest of the seven shorts, at about 25 minutes, it consists largely of Zoom conferences with Poitras and members of a research group called Forensic Architecture, and plays like an excerpt from a feature that would have provided much more context. The best of this bunch is “Life,” a sequel of sorts to Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not A Film, which briefly made an arthouse star of the family’s pet iguana, Iggy. The lizard’s back and now terrorizing Panahi’s elderly mother, who’s equally afraid of getting sick and shows up to visit in a full-body hazmat suit. The way that these anxieties resolve, if temporarily, is downright heartwarming.
Shrewdly, The Year Of The Everlasting Storm reserves its two strongest segments for the home stretch. David Lowery (whose latest solo feature, The Green Knight, is currently in theaters) puts an imaginative spin on the concept with “Dig Up My Darling,” which seems to be set in the present but concerns an unspecified outbreak of disease that happened roughly a century ago (albeit a bit too late for it to be the Spanish flu; the virus might be Lowery’s invention). Anchored by a silent, almost Clint Eastwood-esque central performance by Catherine Machovsky—who doesn’t seem to be a professional actor, as she has no other IMDb credits—it starts out as the fairly straightforward tale of an epistolary request very belatedly fulfilled, but there’s an unexpected, quasi-supernatural development at the end that genuinely provokes thought, while also reminding us that Lowery’s other films include A Ghost Story. Productively vague and allusive, and gorgeously evocative (not least when Bill Callahan reads some ancient letters in his inimitable voiceover), “Dig Up My Darling” proves that filmmakers can think outside the box about recent (or current) tragedy.
And then there’s Thailand’s avant-garde genius Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), who arguably ignored the assignment altogether yet still produced a masterpiece that speaks—however elliptically—to this era. “Night Colonies,” the feature’s closing short, couldn’t be more simple: “Joe” (as the director is commonly known by English speakers) set up an array of hot, bright lights overlooking an empty bed fitted with bone-white sheets, presumably left one of the building’s windows open, and filmed the multitudinous insect life attracted by the glow. That’s it—but no nature documentary has ever looked or sounded remotely like this. The first shot alone astounds, not so much due to what happens (though it’s grotesquely fascinating) as by virtue of the disjunction between the violence of nature and the otherwise pristine context. Various other critters crawl, fly, buzz, and hop around, captured in unmistakably and hypnotically synchronous sound. (Joe recorded it himself.) Precious few films ever made have achieved this level of concentrated visual and aural… “splendor” seems like an odd word to describe totally uninflected bug footage, but that’s nonetheless le mot juste.
What’s this arthropod fest got to do with the pandemic? Maybe nothing—it’s not hard to imagine Joe, who regularly makes short films, shooting it years ago. But given that the setting closely resembles Cemetery Of Splendor’s school converted to a hospital, and that film’s portrait of comatose people stricken by a virus, some mighty grim interpretations spring to mind. In any case, great is great, whether or not the greatness belongs where it was filed. Two directors creatively rising to a topical challenge is two more than we ordinarily get.


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Justice Department Urged To Analyze Deletion Of January 6 Texts By Pentagon Us Capitol Assault
A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by the Democratic chairman of the committee, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, threatened to make use of its power to legally compel Mr. Bezos to testify if he did not do so willingly, a serious step in any congressional investigation. Jeff Bezos is the most recent executive referred to as by the House to testify in its antitrust investigation of the tech business. The new system comes with apps for a few of the biggest cloud gaming providers pre-installed, and you may be wondering what the point of it’s once we all have very powerful telephones with great screens. Don’t fear, I answered this query months ago when I wrote about simply how dangerous phones are for serious cloud gaming! I cannot wait until we will run this factor through its paces and see if it gives us the cloud gaming hardware we’d like.
By the way in which, my calling for testament carries simply as a lot weight as theirs does, since they lost management of each the House and the Senate. The committee chair is the one which will get to resolve if there might be a vote to hold hearings on something or not, and none of those are Republicans. The republicans who know Trump did not win, and they are within the majority thoughts you, are performing as if he did as a outcome of their base is now Trump’s base, and if they don’t give Trump a handy they’ll activate them. The Republicans really consider The Great Lie that Trump gained the election and Trump continues to be chief of the Republican get together.
Click the play button and tap the display screen to see the on the backside of the player. Tap the to see a whole record of all Points of Interest – click on any moment within the record and the video will play. Bezos can be the owner of The Washington Post, a information outlet which Trump has repeatedly called “fake news” and accused, without proof, of printing false stories about his presidency. AG Letitia James is looking for $250 million in damages and to bar Trump and his youngsters from conducting business in New York state, where they constructed their fortune. OneWeb had formed an alliance in 2018 with companions together with Bharti Airtel to allow wireless carriers to extend their service into airplane cabins.
The game has had 1 million players, “both new and returning,” every day this week, based on developer CD Projekt Red. Interest is most likely going up as a result of an enormous new update and the well-received Netflix anime. I regret to tell you that phones are not good for cloud gaming. Iran blocks cell internet and social media in an try to curb rising protests.
In a sequence of dramatic public hearings, the House January 6 committee has demonstrated Trump’s function in election subversion efforts and in stoking the assault on the Capitol. So far, the antitrust investigations have been largely a bipartisan affair. A few Republicans on the committee signed the letter, though Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio lawmaker who simply took over as the panel’s high Republican, did not.
The State Department initially stated the diplomats would remain after the army withdrawal was accomplished by Aug. 31, but when the Afghan forces collapsed and President Ashraf Ghani fled the nation, leaving the Taliban in charge, a frantic evacuation began. Some in Congress have accused Milley of disloyalty for what the book Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reported as assurances to a Chinese common that the U.S. had no plan to assault China, and that if it did, Milley would warn him prematurely. In the times following news accounts of the e-book’s reporting, Milley declined to remark in detail, instead unceremonious shrouded beginning telling reporters that he would lay out his solutions on to Congress. His only feedback have been that the calls with the Chinese were routine and inside the duties and obligations of his job. Although Tuesday’s hearing was scheduled to give consideration to Afghanistan, other topics will likely come up, including Milley’s actions during the last months of Trump’s presidency. They also have pointed to a yearslong U.S. failure to build an Afghan military that might stand up to the Taliban.
You can even click the in the decrease left of the video participant to see a complete record of all Points of Interest from this program – click on on any second within the listing and the video will play. Trump has referred to as The Washington Post newspaper, owned by Bezos, “fake news.” The Post has printed important reviews about Trump and his enterprise dealings. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are also pursuing antitrust probes of the four firms, and state attorneys common from each parties have undertaken investigations of Google and Facebook. The southern Mykolaiv area has seen targeted strikes, leading Ukrainian officers to round up individuals suspected of leaking data to the Russians. It’s highly uncommon to depose a sitting president for a contract protest. Unidentified hackers have broken into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major firms in an obvious Bitcoin rip-off.

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Does the angle of the bend correspond with the direction of your prop walk in reverse by any chance?
Actually, you would have had to have determined that at the time you recovered the anchor, assuming you could have seen the bottom. (My thinking was that you might have bent the shank yourself while power setting the anchor, given the bottom you describe.) N'any case, you might want to replace that anchor. Given the bottom conditions, a Fortress would be a good alternative with the further advantage that the Fortress comes with a lifetime guaranty in the event that it is ever bent/damaged. Tough pieces of gear and very reliable when used in the appropriate bottom conditions...I think the angle of the bend is actually opposite of the prop walk.


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this post on real estate gurus Mike and Irene Milin, the self-described "Dynamic Duo" of late night TV infomercial fame, I have a received a steady trickle of updates and news on the pair since they have completed disappeared from the get-rich-quick in real estate world.
This update that arrived in an email yesterday from a reader really intrigued me.
Irene and Mike Milin raising money to elect a former Hawaiian governor to the U.S. Senate?
The actual email contained a great deal of contact information which I have redacted here.
I verified the information provided by my source.
Linda Lingle is a former governor of Hawaii.
She is indeed running for the U.S. Senate.
The organization that was listed as the sponsor for this fundraiser confirmed that they indeed were hosting such a brunch. (I redacted this information because it was not relevant to the Milins.)
I am very happy to see that the Milins are continuing their enthusiastic political activism on behalf of the candidates they support. I also note that Lingle is a conservative Republican and I guess so are the Milins these days. It is a bit of trivia to note that Linda Lingle is a Sarah Palin associate and also introduced Palin at the Republican National Convention in 2008 when Palin was nominated for VP.
Here is the video of Lingle's performance:
What I find utterly fascinating about Mike and Irene Milin is not their mediocre real estate investing products or their cheesy infomercials but their dramatic yin-to-yang political conversion from 1970s hippie Communist radicals to 1980s preachers of the capitalist ideal.
As I said before, to go from Karl Marx to Robin Leach of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" in just ten years is a remarkable political and economic transformation. The Milins even boast about this achievement on the rear cover of their most famous book, How to Buy and Manage Rental Properties.
I would love to read the story of their political transformation, awakening, whatever they want to call it. I would gladly buy the book and promote it here.
A very similar book on this same theme of finding a new political identity that I highly recommend is RIGHT TURNS by author and radio show host Michael Medved. How he went from a college leftist and a staff aide for ultra-liberal Ron Dellums to a protege of Rush Limbaugh draws an eerie parallel to the experience of the Milins.
And why are the political conversions from left to right, after all?

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Neon Genesis EvangelionBook - 2011
"Accompanied by his high-strung "frenemy" Asuka Langley, Shinji sets out on a mission directed by his teacher, Misato Katsuragi. On a journey through the underground tunnel beneath the NERV Academy, Shinji discovers something that shouldn't--couldn't--exist! At the same time, the mysterious Angels are closing in gradually, yet surely, on Shinji himself! This new take on the internationally successful Evangelion mythos combines spine-tingling action with crisp artwork and impossibly high stakes. In the threatening apocalypse, it appears that no one--and no one's secrets--are safe!" -p. of cover.
Publisher: Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2011.
Edition: 1st ed.
Branch Call Number: GRAPHIC FICTION Mingming v.3 06/2011
Characteristics: 1 v. (unpaged) :,chiefly ill. ;,19 cm.
Alternative Title: Campus apocalypse.


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(a) In addition to the activities authorized by Section 12.01 , the holder of a brewer's permit whose annual production of ale, together with the annual production of beer by the holder of a manufacturer's license at all premises wholly or partly owned, directly or indirectly, by the permit holder or an affiliate or subsidiary of the permit holder, does not exceed a total of 225,000 barrels may sell ale produced on the brewer's premises under the permit to ultimate consumers on the brewer's premises:
(1) for responsible consumption on the brewer's premises; or
(2) subject to Subsection (a-1), for off-premises consumption.
(a-1) Sales to a consumer on the brewer's premises for off-premises consumption are limited to 288 fluid ounces of beer and ale combined per calendar day.
(b) The total combined sales of ale to ultimate consumers under this section, together with the sales of beer to ultimate consumers by the holder of a manufacturer's license under Section 62.122 at the same premises, may not exceed 5,000 barrels annually.
(c) Subject to Subsections (b), (d), and (e), the holder of a brewer's permit may sell ale produced on the brewer's premises under the permit to ultimate consumers on the brewer's premises for responsible consumption on the brewer's premises even if the annual production limit prescribed by Subsection (a) is exceeded if:
(1) the permit holder:
(A) was legally operating a manufacturing facility with on-premise sales under Subsection (a) on February 1, 2017; or
(B) purchased an ownership interest in, or was purchased by the holder of, a permit or license issued under Chapter 12, 13, 62, or 63; and
(2) the permit holder has annual production that does not exceed 175,000 barrels at the brewer's premises.
(d) For purposes of Subsection (c)(1)(B), a permit holder may not sell to a permit or license holder whose annual production exceeds the limit prescribed by Subsection (a) an ownership interest:
(1) of more than 25 percent in the permitted location; or
(2) that provides the purchaser with the ability to control the operations at the permitted location.
(e) A holder of a brewer's permit who under Subsection (c) sells ale produced on the brewer's premises under the permit to ultimate consumers on the brewer's premises for responsible consumption on the brewer's premises:
(1) shall file a territorial agreement with the commission under Subchapters C and D, Chapter 102; 1
(2) must purchase any ale the permit holder sells on the brewer's premises from the holder of a permit issued under Chapter 19, 20, or 21; and
(3) with respect to those purchases, must comply with the requirements of this code governing dealings between a distributor or wholesaler and a member of the retail tier, including Section 102.31 .
(e-1) The commission:
(1) may require the holder of a brewer's permit who sells ale to ultimate consumers under this section to report to the commission each month, in the manner prescribed by the commission, the total amounts of ale sold by the permit holder under this section during the preceding month for:
(A) responsible consumption on the brewer's premises; and
(B) off-premises consumption, as authorized by Subsection (a);
(2) by rule shall adopt a simple form for a report required under Subdivision (1); and
(3) shall maintain reports received under this subsection for public review.
(f) The commission by rule or order shall annually adjust the production limit prescribed by Subsection (c)(2) in an amount that is equal to the percentage of the state's population growth for the previous year as determined by the state demographer under Chapter 468, Government Code.
(g) The commission may impose an administrative penalty against a permit holder who violates Subsection (a-1) or fails to comply with a requirement established by the commission under Subsection (e-1). The commission shall adopt rules establishing:
(1) the amount of an administrative penalty under this subsection; and
(2) the procedures for imposing an administrative penalty under this subsection.
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According to a report by USA Today, advisers have stated that Ukraine is currently stuck in a stalemate and that Russia did not have any intentions to conquer the country. This argument challenges the previous narrative presented by Western media outlets, which had been highlighting Ukraine’s alleged battlefield successes and the Biden administration’s vow to provide military and economic aid until victory is achieved.
The report points out that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is losing credibility with Western benefactors. Sean McFate, a Georgetown University professor and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, remarks that Zelensky finds himself in a difficult position where he cannot win but also cannot afford to lose. NATO, on the other hand, is experiencing donor fatigue and disappointment with Zelensky’s rhetoric.
Steven Myers, an Air Force veteran and entrepreneur who has advised the US State Department, suggests that a stalemate is the most likely outcome of the conflict. Contrary to the belief that Russia intended to conquer Ukraine, Myers argues that Putin’s main objective was to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. He states that the war was strategically lost from the beginning and that Putin’s intent was to achieve a stalemate.
US defense officials, however, continue to insist that Ukraine can defeat Russia, despite heavy losses suffered by Ukrainian forces and Western-supplied weaponry. Ukrainian troops have been involved in a counteroffensive since early June, and while progress has been made, it has not been as significant as desired. The situation is described as “not a stalemate” by John Kirby, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council.
The New York Times reported that Ukraine has recently launched its main thrust of the counteroffensive by deploying thousands of troops previously held in reserve. The developments have drawn the attention of White House and Pentagon officials, who are closely monitoring the situation.
However, according to Myers, Western and Ukrainian leaders have made unrealistic promises that they cannot fulfill. He argues that President Biden, NATO, and Zelensky have trapped themselves in a Catch 22 situation where they are unable to deliver on the expectations they created.
In terms of casualties, Ukrainian forces have suffered ten times more casualties than the Russian military during their counteroffensive. Putin stated that over 26,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of the counteroffensive. Russian units have also successfully destroyed numerous Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles.
Overall, US foreign-policy experts are suggesting that continuing to arm Ukraine and expecting them to defeat Russia is strategically unwise. They believe that Ukraine is trapped in a stalemate with a foe that never intended to conquer the country. This perspective challenges the previous narrative presented by Western media outlets and raises questions about the feasibility of the conflict’s outcome.


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Today I received an email from the famous pianist Mr. Lincoln Mayorga , requesting permission to use the painting of my "Gypsy Fortune Teller" to be part of a documentary. The piece is about a female musician, who was arrested in 1942 by the Russians and spent several years in a Soviet camp. As a young woman, while living at home with her family this musician had visited a fortune teller who predicted the devastating events that would happen in her life. The story is told in collage form and my Gypsy Fortune teller will make it's debut while the story unfolds.
The documentary is scheduled to be released on DVD by the end of September and I can't wait to get my copy. I also hope that it is accompanied by Mr. Mayorga's beautiful piano pieces.
Sometimes my choice of subject matter raises a few eyebrows, but as any artist knows, you have to paint what your muse tells you, regardless what others think. Now I know why!
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Advancements in electronic technology for monitoring and treating our health from within the body are ongoing. However, powering these small medical devices can be a challenging task.
A new type of rechargeable battery has been developed that can potentially solve the issue of powering medical devices inside the body. The battery is made from fully edible substances and can safely dissolve in the stomach after its use.
According to a recent study, the prototype of this battery operates at a harmless 0.65 volts and provides a current of 48 microamperes for 12 minutes, which is sufficient to power tiny electronics.
This edible battery has diverse potential applications, including the development of circuits and sensors for health condition monitoring, as well as powering sensors that monitor food storage conditions.. Additionally, due to the high level of safety, these batteries could also be utilized in children’s toys, where there is a high risk of ingestion, as per senior author Mario Caironi, a molecular electronics researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology.
The rechargeable battery, which can be consumed as a snack, is composed of a diverse list of ingredients. It is the first of its kind to be both functional and edible. The battery’s components consist of riboflavin, a vitamin, which functions as the anode (or ‘negative’ end), and quercetin, a supplement, serving as the cathode (or ‘positive’ end). The battery’s electrolyte, responsible for generating the electrical charge, is made from a water-based solution. Meanwhile, the separator, which prevents short circuits, is composed of nori, the seaweed commonly used in sushi restaurants..
To enhance the battery’s electrical conductivity, activated charcoal is added, which is commonly used for treating poisonings. The external contacts, responsible for transferring electricity to other devices, are made of beeswax and decorated with food-grade gold.
While it may not be a culinary masterpiece, the potential of the new edible battery is significant. It can maintain its charge for many cycles, although it needs to be outside the body for recharging. Currently, the prototype has a size of approximately one square centimeter (0.155 square inches), but the researchers are actively working on making it smaller..
Caironi explains that they are already creating devices with higher capacity and smaller overall size, which they plan to test in the future for powering edible soft robots.
The edible battery could also be useful in improving medical procedures, such as uncomfortable scans involving the insertion of cameras or other devices into the body for disease detection.
The edible battery could have significant applications in food quality monitoring by allowing devices to check the safety and standards of food in the gut before being digested along with the food. Although it may take some time for these developments to be realized, the researchers behind the prototype hope that their work will pave the way for advancements in the field, such as larger batteries for energy storage and electric cars.
“While our edible batteries may not be suitable for powering electric cars, they prove that safer materials than current Li-ion batteries can be used to make batteries,” states Ivan Ilic, a co-author of the study and a sustainable energy storage scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology. The researchers behind the study aim to inspire other scientists to create safer batteries for a sustainable future. The study’s findings have been published in the journal Advanced Materials.
The results of the study have been published in Advanced Materials.
In summary, scientists have developed a prototype of an edible battery made of fully edible substances that can safely dissolve in the stomach after use. With its potential application in health monitoring and food quality control, the battery could improve medical procedures and enhance food safety. While the current prototype is relatively small, researchers are working towards miniaturizing it further and increasing its capacity for future applications. Additionally, this development could inspire other scientists to create safer batteries for a sustainable future. Overall, this innovation highlights the potential of using edible materials for creating safe and sustainable energy storage solutions.


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Basic health insurance in Switzerland
In Switzerland, basic health insurance is compulsory. Basic health insurance is sometimes referred to as LAMal insurance. Newcomers have 3 months to join the health insurance fund of their choice. There are more than 80 insurance companies to choose from.
If no choice has been made after 3 months, the Canton can automatically affiliate the resident to a health insurance fund. This automatic affiliation is done by random draw. The late applicant may therefore be automatically affiliated to the most expensive fund. The newly arrived Swiss resident must take the necessary steps to join a health insurance fund if he or she wants to benefit from the best insurance coverage and the most advantageous prices.
Be aware that although there is a 3 month deadline for choosing a health insurance fund, the obligation to be insured from the first day in Switzerland remains. Consequently, the newcomer will have to pay retroactively their insurance for the days or weeks preceding their effective affiliation.
Certain categories of residents in Switzerland are exempt from compulsory membership of the LAMal. Please visit our ‘LAMal health insurance’ page to find out more about these exceptions and to explore the subject of compulsory insurance in Switzerland.
Understanding health insurance in Switzerland
In order to choose the right insurance, it is important to understand how health insurance works in Switzerland.
The three most important concepts for understanding insurance are:
The amount you have to pay to your insurer each month, regardless of your health costs.
The amount that must be exceeded before your insurance fund will start to reimburse your health costs.
- The co-payment (cost share)
Your contribution to the costs of your health care (10% of the costs of your health care services). This co-payment is limited to CHF 700 per year for adults and CHF 350 per year for children.
Making the right choice in terms of health insurance requires a good understanding of these key concepts. Visit our deductible and co-payment simulator to practice and understand the deductibles and co-payments in Swiss health insurance in 5 minutes.
In addition to premiums, deductibles and co-payments, it is also important to know about alternative health insurance models. A large majority of Swiss residents have chosen an alternative model to reduce their health insurance bills.
Most health insurers offer alternative models. Each insurer gives different names to its services. However, the alternative models can be grouped into 3 categories, the Telmed model (telemedicine), the Family Doctor model, and the HMO model (healthcare network).
Telmed – Telemedicine
The concept is simple. You undertake to systematically contact a medical centre by internet or telephone before going to see your doctor. In exchange, your health insurance premiums are reduced by 10% to 20%.
In addition to the savings on health insurance premiums, the alternative model of telemedicine has many advantages and some disadvantages that you should be aware of.
Visit our ‘Telemedicine’ page to learn more about this alternative model.
The family doctor model is the preferred model of the policyholders. In short, the insured person undertakes to contact his or her family doctor before going to see a specialist. In exchange, their health insurance premiums are reduced by around 10%.
The family doctor model has many advantages, especially for newcomers. But the model also has risks. What happens if your family doctor is no longer recognised by your insurer?
Visit our ‘family doctor’ page to answer these questions and to better understand this health insurance model.
HMO – Healthcare network
HMO stands for Health Maintenance Organization. In French, one speaks of “réseau de soins”.
With this model you undertake to systematically contact your referring doctor in the event of a health problem. The latter will then refer you to a specialist or therapist who is a member of the same health network.
In exchange, you receive significant discounts on your health insurance.
This alternative model is currently the least popular among policyholders. However, it is the fastest growing insurance model. The restructuring of the medical landscape is moving in the direction of care networks. This is undoubtedly one of the key models for the future of the LAMal.
Visit our ‘HMO – healthcare network’ page to learn more about this alternative health insurance model.
Choosing your health insurance
Once you understand how health insurance works in Switzerland, the next step is to find out how to optimise your health insurance cover. In other words, how to pay as little as possible for the best possible insurance.
To choose the right insurance, you have to decide between the cost of the premium you are prepared to pay each month, and the expected reimbursements and the desired levels of care.
To achieve this, we have developed a 4-step method that allows you to choose your health insurance in Switzerland quickly and efficiently.
Visit our page ‘Choosing health insurance’ to learn more about this method and choose the best health insurance at the best price.
Supplementary health insurance
Once you have understood and chosen your basic insurance, it is strongly recommended that you take out supplementary insurance. The basic LAMal insurance is very basic and many essential services are not covered. This is the case, for optical care or dental and orthodontic care.
In addition, supplementary insurance allows you to have better services. For example, they include access to private clinics or to choose the best specialists.
It should be noted that supplementary insurance is modular and can be chosen according to your needs. Some supplementary insurance plans cost only CHF 5 or 10 per month and allow you to customise your cover to your own needs. For example, by adding alternative and complementary medicine to your coverage.
There are many supplementary insurances and each insurance company creates its own products and gives them different names. However, it is possible to group supplementary insurances into the following categories:
Allows you to obtain additional services during your stay in hospital (e.g. private clinic, choice of specialist, etc.)
These top-ups include outpatient services (e.g. optical, sport, prevention, etc.).
- Natural medicines
Extend your coverage to alternative medicine.
Reimburse dental and orthodontic costs that are not covered by the LAMal.
For better coverage when you are abroad.
Bear in mind that the insurer, unlike your registration with a LAMal insurance company, may refuse your application for supplementary insurance. This decision is made on the basis of a health questionnaire that you will have to fill out in order to be able to take out supplementary insurance.
To find out more about supplementary insurance in Switzerland, visit our page ‘supplementary insurance’.
Questions / Responses
There are certain questions about health insurance in Switzerland that come up frequently.
Are you still covered by the health insurance of your former country of residence? How do you terminate your health insurance? What is the waiting period for your supplementary health insurance?
To answer these questions, visit our page ‘Health insurance – Questions / Responses’.

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19th Century Pudget Sound Berry Basket with Tumpline
L. 8½" : W. 10½" : H. 6⅜"
This is an oval fully imbricated 19th century berry basket with a tumpline woven on native cordage with cotton and red wool. The basket was cut down evenly a long time ago by its Indian owner, probably because of breaks along the original rim. It has four loops below the rim for attaching the tumpline. Three are old cotton cordage and the fourth is made of thick native tanned leather. The tumpline is worn but basically intact and the red wool on the wide band has had extensive moth damage. The shape and design on this basket would suggest that it is Nisqually or Puyallup but it has cherry bark in the imbrication which is more often seen in baskets from the Northern part of Puget Sound. This is a good basket for those who like 19th century basketry which have been used by their makers rather than made for sale.


Gelatin capsule![empty gelatin capsules size 000]Jinan May 27th (Zhao Xiao) The second preparation of the 30th National Book Trading Expo was held in Jinan on May 27. The reporter learned that this book will highlight the “publishing + Internet” “Exhibition + Internet” characteristics, and create a “online book fair…◆●…” brand. As of May 26☆★•●, there were more than 1●▷…,400 publishing issuers from all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, and more than 4,100 booths were booked. Thunder Tiantian, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said that this book fault has created “online book” as a highlight, using VR, live broadcast, video, graphic and other forms to show exhibitor.
Xinhua News Agency, on May 26▪■, Chinas resident of the United Nations Zhang Jun speaking at the Syrian Political Humanity of the Security Council on the 26th, the United Nations, in particular the Security Council to vigorously promote the Syrian crisis to end the Syrian people. Zhang Jun said that we must fully promote the political resolution of Syrian issues○△. China supported the Secretary-General of the Secretary-General, the Special Envoy, the special envoy of the Syrian, China, continued to promote resolution 2254 of the Security Council★■, calling on the Saruce Community to maintain communication, and promoted the Constitutional Committee on the basis of the existing consensus. The work of the Constitutional Committee must maintain independence and are not subject to external interference•☆▷▪. It should be ensured that the Syrian political process is “dominated by people”△◁. ◇□.
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This is what my family gets to wake up to... lucky them, I know.
Want to know why I have my "happy eyes" on - at some God-awful hour in the morning?
Guess what's in that cup. GUESS!
Chocolate Glazed Donut-Flavored Coffee.
I actually took this picture so I could send it to my fellow coffee-loving friends, Annie and Lisa, to pretty much bribe them to come home with me next time. I'm going through friend withdrawals.
Nothing that some Apple Pie Oatmeal can't cure!
- 1/2 cup of rolled oats
- 2 cups of water
- 1/4 of a chopped honey crisp apple
- 1 serving of sugar-free vanilla pudding
- 2 packets of sweetener
To make: start with the rolled oats, water, sweetener, and honey crisp apple in a pot on the stove top. After about 5 minutes, stir in the vanilla pudding (this makes it creamy and thick). Let it simmer for another minute and enjoy!! Sprinkle some cinnamon in there too :)
So, usually Saturdays are my fun day, run days... but something about being at home makes me want to sit on my butt, eat tons of good food, nap, and not run.
I decided to post-pone my run until after I got some shopping done with my mommma!
Yeah, like shopping is such a huge chore.
Some of my favorite purchases of the day?
Etienne Aigner boots
A knit scarf (Target!):
An ultra-cool cardigan, I forgot the name of the designer:
Another pair of Etienne Aigner black riding boots:
Yeah, I went a little overboard.
I can't help it... My mom is a bad influence (hey, Mom.. I blame you). Whenever I ask her for her "honest opinion" she says "oh that looks great you need to get it!"... apparently I look great in everything but the kitchen sink.
I was pretty hungry by the time we finished emptying my bank account -- so we stopped at one of my mom's favorite diet-friendly restaurants. Panda Express. I know, you don't believe it.
I got the Panda Bowl with mixed veggies and Kobari Beef with chili sauce.
So, Panda Express has caught on to the whole healthy-living thing and has begun to serve "wok-friendly" meals under 400 calories! Basically, you get a panda bowl with some fresh veggies and you choose between 5 or 6 healthy dishes that include Kobari Beef, Chicken and Mushrooms, Black Pepper Chicken... all of which are delicious.
After my meal, I had planned to go for a run, but...
You know how it goes. You're tired, you're on the couch, running sounds horrible.
So I decided to nap for a bit (curled up in front of the fireplace) and then head out when I felt a little more up to tackling a good run.
PANDA EXPRESS DOESN'T PROVIDE GOOD RUNNING FUEL. I started off and immediately regretted the beef with chili sauce. My chest was hurting and I thought my food was going to come right back up... for 13.15 miles. Of course, I had to walk for about 1 mile :( So, it's not as impressive as it sounds. But other than that, it felt good to get my legs moving again.
I came back and showered (shockerrrr) and started to prep dinner with Mom.
We had Bison filets, grilled butternut squash, sweet potatoes, and roasted veggies on the menu!
The bison filets, which my mom keeps raving about, are amazing! They're 4 oz of ultra-lean beef that are each about 150 calories.
We roasted asparagus, crimini onions, broccoli, carrots and sweet potatoes in the oven with some simple salt and pepper at 410 degrees for about 35 minutes. Then we wrapped the butternut squash, seasoned with salt, pepper, cinnamon, and maple syrup, in aluminum foil and put it on the grill for about 30 minutes and cooked the filets for about 12 minutes.
Sadly, my stomach was hurting and nothing sounded good. 13 miles with a little panda express reallllyy doesn't work well. So, I ended up having half a sweet potato and half a filet (I put the rest back on the plate - classy ).
Of course, my appetite came back in time for dessert:
Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry Banana, and Apple pie froyo topped with captain crunch, blueberries, oreos, thin mints, marshmallows, almonds, coconut, and a circus animal cookie.
Want to know what I'm doing now?
NOT moving off the couch.
And watching Crazy, Stupid, Love with my mom :) The fireplace is on and I have a cup of tea to warm my soul... life is good.


They were one of the lucky few bands who managed to get in a full album launch tour before Covid-19 shut everything down, but Brissy boys Dune Rats have shared a new video for their track ‘Bad Habits’. The new video shows clips from the band’s recently sold out tour, and for those of you that lucked out on tickets, it was a damn good time (see our review of the Brisbane show here).
Dune Rats released their third full-length, Hurry Up and Wait (our review here) back in January and since its release, went straight to #1 in Australia. The lads had a huge plan of touring ahead in Australia and overseas, but unfortunately have had shows canned like everyone else. The band are still set to play the newly rescheduled Big Pineapple Festival this November though!
Hurry Up and Wait is out now. Get it here.
Dune Rats – Hurry Up And Wait tracklisting:
2. Bobby D
3. Rubber Arm
4. No Plans
5. Rock Bottom
8. Bad Habits
9. Stupid Is As Stupid Does (featuring K.Flay)
10. If My Bong Could Talk
11. The Skids
12. Mountains Come And Go But Aussie Pub Rock Lives On (Forever)


Retiring Albemarle schools superintendent building thriving online community for educators
In her first tweet, Pam Moran told her followers that she was “… thinking about simplicity, creativity and [pre-K]-12 education.”
Those are topics the Albemarle County Public Schools superintendent has not stopped thinking, or tweeting, about in the nine years since.
“[Social media] has changed the game, well beyond public education,” said Moran, who recently announced she will retire next summer. “It has changed the whole world, in terms of how communication occurs. … It has allowed people to connect with each other and share ideas, expertise and resources.”
Under the handle @pammoran, Moran has tweeted about 103,000 times, including retweets and replies to other users. She has averaged more than 32 tweets per day since she joined the social network on Jan. 3, 2009.
By way of comparison, notable Twitter user President Donald Trump has tweeted about 36,000 times since creating his @realDonaldTrump account in March 2009.
Moran has gained more than 18,300 followers on Twitter, many of whom are fellow educators from across the United States and the world.
But Moran most frequently engages with people working for her own school division. Her list of Albemarle school employees on Twitter, “#ACPS tweets,” now includes nearly 600 accounts.
When Moran became superintendent in January 2006, Twitter’s public launch was still some six months away. She said a teacher introduced her to the social network a few years later, and showed her that it was becoming a global platform for discussing education issues and practices.
“My first thought was, ‘Oh, my gosh. There are people coming into the school system virtually and having an influence on the work we do, and I’m not even aware of it,’” Moran said.
As Twitter expanded its capability to host images and videos, Moran increasingly used her tweets and those of others to showcase project-based and personalized learning in the county schools.
“It’s become an almost viral form of PR media for what is going well across our school system,” she said.
“Twitter is a really good way to highlight productive learning,” said Anna Balazs, a library media specialist at Cale Elementary. “Dr. Moran picked up on that really quickly.”
Balazs said she follows the Twitter hashtag “#acpslibs” to find ideas for teaching in school libraries. She said tweets from Baker-Butler Elementary librarian Anita Mays inspired her to add “maker tubs” with Tinkertoys, marble runs and other building toys to Cale’s library.
“I think the maker education movement scared a lot of us at first; it seemed like there were so many lessons, materials and guidance for us to follow,” Balazs said. “Twitter gives you an instant visual that shows you how something is implemented. It’s short and sweet, and it feels attainable.”
Moran recently retweeted some of Balazs’ photos of Cale students using the maker tubs.
“You always get a little thrill when you have been retweeted by the superintendent,” Balazs said. “You have that wonderful validation that tells you, ‘I’m on the right path.’”
“If you don’t get retweeted, it tells you that it might be time for some introspection,” she added. “It’s a good barometer for whether your lessons are stale, or have already been done.”
Science teacher Chris Stanek joined Twitter in August 2016, as he was starting his first year at Monticello High School. Stanek advises Monticello’s student-run Beekeeping Club, which Moran has featured in multiple tweets.
“As a teacher, knowing that the leadership of the school system supports something that not everyone is comfortable with — like bees — makes you feel better,” Stanek said. “And it helps other people see the benefit of it, as well.”
“Without [Moran’s] leadership, I don’t think there would be such a strong countywide Twitter community,” he said. “There is no way she would have a relationship with so many teachers without Twitter.”
Most of Albemarle County’s 2,500 teachers and classified staff still aren’t using Twitter, or haven’t made their accounts visible to Moran.
“Getting [educators] to see the value in Twitter — that it will help them write lessons, and help children learn — can be a hard sell,” Balazs said. “Teachers are super busy; there is so much else they have to do.”
Moran said teachers can set a positive example for students by incorporating social media into their daily routine.
“Our kids have to learn how to be on the playground that we call social media, and how to learn how to use those tools responsibly,” Moran said. “If we as educators do not put ourselves in a position to understand those tools by using them ourselves, it puts us at a disadvantage in helping our young people.”
When Moran steps down next summer, she will be succeeded by current Deputy Superintendent Matt Haas.
Haas has tweeted nearly 4,000 times under the handle @mshaas68, but fewer than 40 of those tweets are from 2017. Haas said he would continue to tweet and blog about education as superintendent.
“Although we tend to dwell on the downsides of social media, it has changed the world in a lot of positive ways,” Haas said. “Twitter is an egalitarian communication network that demonstrates the power of ideas. A great idea can come from anywhere and turn into action.”
Anne Straume, a multi-age teacher at Meriwether Lewis Elementary, said she hopes Haas follows Moran’s lead in engaging with Albemarle educators on Twitter.
“Twitter is a great way for a superintendent to get to know the people working in their school division,” Straume said. “I think it helps to create a more cohesive county school system.”
“[Haas] has some daunting digital shoes to fill,” Balazs said. “But I think he is well aware of the direction we’re going in.”