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Robness is a pioneering NFT artist with a rich history in the digital art space. He was one of the first to adopt the counterparty protocol and has been creating unique and innovative pieces long before the term “NFT” even existed. His passion for art began at a young age, when he purchased a music album solely because of its captivating cover art, created by none other than Andy Warhol. This sparked a lifelong journey of exploration and experimentation in the art world, including a brief ban on his work on the platform SuperRare. One of his most notable works, “64 GALLON TOTER,” has even gone on to inspire a new movement in the crypto art world, known as #trashart.
NFT Granny: “Dear Robness, thank you so much for your time. You are one of the first crypto artists in the world. Could you tell me about the beginning? Which art style was minted as NFT back then? Who were the other first movers? How did you communicate with each other? How was the spirit?”
Robness: My crypto Art beginnings began on the counterparty protocol. The protocol is still in use today, although not as popular as Ethereum these days. I was BETA Testing two games in the early days. One is called “Spells of Genesis”, and another is called “Sarutobi”. Both games were the first to use blockchain game item NFTs and were way ahead of their time.
After a while, I stumbled onto a “Rarepepe” asset on the counterparty exchange and investigated what it was. It turns out there was a telegram with a few like-minded individuals, and we began minting “Dank Memes” and were obsessed with preserving them as NFTs on the Bitcoin Blockchain. The telegram grew into a worldwide network of artists, being one of the actual civilian and decentralized art groups in the space. We grew to about 1.600 People strong with artists around the world.
My beginnings started with simply crafting memes, but when the “Galery phase” of Crypto Art happened, with Superrare and KnowOrigin in 2019, I had an outlet to do more personal works, which were very influenced by the vaporwave music community at the time.
What I call the “Origin family” is the first tribe of Crypto Artists from the Gallery era…For example, Xcopy, Coldie, Max Osiris, Trevor Jones, Robbie Barrat, Jivinci, Miss al Simpson, Oficinastk, Mattiac and myself etc.
These were the Crypto Artists created when the concept of Whales/Collectors was non-existing.
Twitter combined with the Opensea Marketplace was our tried and true communication style and remains that way today.
Twitter has been a crypto native social media platform since 2014, and it was only natural for the crypto Art / NFT world to bootstrap right alongside it. Back then, the spirit was faithful to the ethos, and we all wanted to prove to the world that we could spend some of the controls of the art world. I believe we succeeded in some regard.
How did you first become interested in art, and how did you get started with it yourself?
Robness: I became interested in art through a sort of symbiotic process, being fascinated with music and being a musician in my younger years. When I was 12, I remember at a record store, and I had no hesitation in buying the Velvet Underground & Nico album because of the infamous banana on the cover. After taking it home, I realized it was an Andy Warhol work and that he produced the album’s aesthetics. This was indeed my first sleeper hit introduction to the fine art world through the most unusual of artistic transmissions. After this, I always paid attention to album covers, who did the art and who was behind specific creative directions as well.
Could you tell us more about the story of your Project “TechnOrigami Blockchain Fine Art Gallery テクノ折り紙”?
Robness: This was when fellow artist Max Osiris and I were regrouping from being removed from crypto art gallery Superrare for breaking terms of service by releasing copyrighted material.
That’s a whole other story, but we had to begin using other minting platforms because of this situation.
We began to use Rarible.com, which of course at the time was considered a ‘cheap’ minting platform and as a joke we thought it would be funny to kind of use and abuse it. In turn, it gave us a lot of artistic freedom, gone were the questions of citing our works and what type of material we were putting forth. This gave rise to my ‘Technorigami’ series, one of the first fine art collectables developed explicitly for the Rarible.com platform.
I say developed because I noticed that the aesthetics of the platform lent to making what I thought of at the time as some sort of true NFT collectable. I’m not sure if it was the ‘feel’ of the platform or how it was designed, but I remember joking with Max that this would be huge in Japan one day.
Which of your artworks are you most proud of?
Robness: Currently, I would have to say the ‘64 Gallon Toter,’ the piece that got me removed and de-whitelisted from Superrare. I say this because the work, through the last couple of years, has started an entire crypto art movement (#trashart), and to date, the whole NFT space is full of remixes and homages to the said piece in question. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see new trash can work that refers to the original piece. Artists from all over the world, on almost every continent, have done some sort of work about it. It amazes me, and I am humbled, genuinely proud of it as it stands.
Is there an artist you would like to work with? Like a collaboration?
Robness: Most of the crypto art space has seen artist Murat Pak and me as rivals with very differing opinions. Of course, I am not guilty of being adversarial on some outlooks on where the NFT/Crypto art space should be heading, and we’ve had our disagreements. I do think that a collaboration like that would be interesting and controversial.
We are curious 🙂 Would you be willing to share any plans of upcoming projects?
Robness: As far as plans, I would share them. However, I usually am very quick on the draw with where my creative output goes and sometimes I will move quickly and declare it on the day of. Most in the space are aware that I consistently change styles, so it’s usually expected of me to announce and then quickly deploy. My new series at the moment is delving into abstracts that have 3D, glitch, and ‘Trash .gif’ (Photomosh) elements all used together. Reception has been great thus far, and I have donated a piece to MOCA (Museum of Crypto art) for an upcoming show in Paris this month!
Who or what are your biggest influences or sources of inspiration?
Robness: This is an excellent question because I actually now have an answer after all of these years in the crypto art space. I’ve found that my best sources of inspiration are usually quick and reactionary, filled with emotion to express quickly. My most notable works, including the ‘64 Gallon Toter’ and burning a cryptopunk, were filled with either rage or an absolute distaste for some sort of establishmentarianism sprout ups I would see in the space that I deemed necessary sacred.
Is there something specific you are trying to express with your art?
Robness: Love it or hate it, cry or yell at it, be in awe or in utter distaste by it. The main goal is to express my true self, and I feel that the most adverse reactions to my work are closer to the truth than works fleeting to a wandering eye.
What do you feel when you are creating new art?
Robness: I feel youthful energy every single time. That’s how I know I’m on the right track. It’s usually there when I find a new technique or a combination of them, which is producing something that I haven’t seen before, maybe some others have, but it is a new journey. That venturing into the unknown and seeing what pops out on the other end is the magic.
Do you remember the first time you heard about NFT Art?
Robness: I’m so ancient in this space I predate the term NFT! I love saying this, but yes, I am proud to say that I and some other meme nerds on the internet were at the birth stages of this beautiful new renaissance, and it’s been an absolute blessing to witness. If I share something funny, I will say the first time I heard the term ‘NFT’ was when the cryptopunk project was created. I feel the very sparing crypto news cycles needed a punchy term and out popped ‘NFT.’
How do you enjoy the NFT Art you have collected? Do you have a way to display it for example at home?
Robness: While thinking about the answer, I have a Netgear Meural canvas behind me with all of the artwork I’ve either created or collected on a huge playlist! I can’t wait until everyone begins to enjoy having digital artwork ‘playlists’ in their houses, conversing on what artworks they’ve collected and having it enrich their lives. Just like walking into somebody’s house and inquiring about their music/vinyl collections, people will also be asking about their digital art that will be ‘playing’ on their walls.
What would be your biggest wish for the NFT Art scene? What is currently missing / not fully developed to reach full potential out of it?
Robness: Quite simply, we need more writers to document the unfolding changes and movements that occur in the crypto art scene. So many beautiful events have already occurred and the drama as well!
We would really like to know, where do you see the NFT Art scene in the future?
Robness: The NFT Art scene will be as vast as the music industry is. Instead of only a handful of artists getting chosen as some sort of winner by old auction houses or galleries, we will have that construct wholly shattered, and the roster of digital artists worldwide will be immense. The entire world will have an art school crash course, and I, for one, can’t wait to see this.
Which tools do you use to create your art?
Robness: Photoshop, After Effects, offbeat phone apps, Blender, Photomosh, Google Search(ripping photos for collages), Generative Adversarial Networks (A.I.), Twitter (for performance art), Opensea, and sometimes I will try and use the blockchain itself as a medium. It is a timestamp and event record keeper, after all.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?
Robness: It’s only failure if you quit.
Is there something aside from art or NFTs you collect?
Robness: I collect vinyl records from time to time.
What do you feel the moment a project you’ve created dropped?
Robness: I feel relieved that I got out of my previous art blockages and finally produced again!
Where do you like to travel?
Robness: Currently, my last trip to Tokyo was absolutely amazing.
- Full Name: Robness
- Date of Birth: 25th of February 1983
- Current hometown: Culver City, CA, USA
- Languages he speaks: English
- What did you want to be when you were a child: Rock Star
- Education: High School, only did one semester of college then dropped out.
- First Job: Mercedes Benz car porter


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THURSDAY July 14, 2022
By Adam Ihucha
Tranquility News Correspondent, Tanzania
It was a beautiful day with the sun shining brightly from a clear blue sky, as Afro-American son and daughter arrive at their African ancestral home.
Cheers and excitement rocked the sky as the groom, Mr Herb Moutra, and the bride, Ms Sharon, both from California in America, landed at Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), Tanzania, at around 9:00am on Monday July 4, 2022.
“It’s unbelievable! We’ve never been celebrated in American like we’re here. Indeed, there’s no place like home. Thank you so much my brothers and sisters,” Mr Herb said during concise greetings at the airport.
For years, Mr Herb and Ms Sharon lived with a faint hope that one-day they would travel to Africa to discover their ancestral roots and wed traditionally.
“When there’s a will, there’s a way, here we’re to reunite with our brothers and sisters after being awfully separated during the worst slave trade about 400 years ago,” the emotional Herb said.
Mr Herb Moutra, the US national, leads his companions during his traditional wedding ceremony held at Kigongoni, a tiny Maasai village situated along the slopes of the Great Rift Valley in northern Tanzania. VIDEO AND PHOTOS | COURTESY
Having been born and bred amid the forest of skyscrapers of the American city of California, Mr Herb and Ms Sharon had a dream of getting back into their ancestral natural settings to revisit the life before the snake had tempted Eve.
Thanks to the Off the Beaten Path Safaris, the Afro-American couple was picked to Mount Meru Hotel in Arusha, nearly a 45-minute drive from the airport to rest and get ready for their big day at a tiny Maasai village.
The founder of the Off the Beaten Path Safaris, Mr Salim Mrindoko chose Kigongoni Village along the slopes of the Africa’s Rift Valley, near the area the human evolution took place, as a suitable Garden of Eden for hosting Mr Herb and Ms Sharon’s customary wedding.
As it happened, the Afro-American couple exchanged their marriage vows before Maasai elders in a colorful traditional wedding hosted at a typical cultural boma, just a stone’s throw away from the Oldupai Gorge within Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Mankind evolution site
Ngorongoro covers original sites where the first human being is believed to have originated and actually lived millions of decades ago. This is where the entire globe population would have liked to trace their ancestral roots.
After all, the world has seen it all; modern technological inventions, trips to the moon, exploration to the outer space and diving into the deepest seas. What most are yet to witness, however, is the ancient life that preceded all these.
Humans have very much evolved and multiplied, with their population expected to reach an 8 billion mark this November, if the latest UN data is anything to go by. After centuries of innovations, most of them would wish to ‘travel back in time’ and retrace their ancestors ‘real’ footsteps.
Within Ngorongoro, the dinosaur age settings can be found, still in their authentic natural forms, unchanged and unspoiled, mapped onto two adjacent sites; namely Olduvai and Laetoli.
Named after the sword-shaped wild sisal thriving in the area, Oldupai (Olduvai) together with its adjacent Laetoli hominid footprint site, remain the only place where the world’s ancient natural stamps still exist.
At Olduvai, Tanzania has set a global record by establishing the world’s largest human history museum built right on the archaeological discovery sites.
And for Mr Herb and Ms Sharon, this area where they wedded is the perfect scene for life before the Biblical Cain and Abel, the life before Nephilim giants and the Noah’s flood.
Their historical wedding in their ancestral land brought back the world which used to exist shortly after the Biblical beginning of the earth.
“Welcome back home the son and daughter of the soil. We bestow upon you, your ancestral blessings. We pra that God guides you in your new adventure,” said the Maasai traditional leader, Mr Lembris Ole Meshuko, during the ceremony.
The Maasai community offered the newlywed couple new names of Lamnyak for Herb and Namanyan for Sharon as their ancestral designations.
“This wedding is a gift to our fellow Africans, our very own relatives. It took this long, about 400 years, to come back and reunite with you my brothers and sisters,” said the emotional Herb, expressing his gratitude to some 80-year-old Maasai elders who crossed the Serengeti plains just to attend their wedding.
While the Tanzanian people, breathtaking sceneries and other natural resource reserves are enough to grab one’s attention, it is until when one gets to the sprawling Serengeti National Park when it dawns that he or she gets into a real Biblical garden of Eden, thanks to its abundant wildlife flawlessly wandering across the endless savannah.
In their first leg into Serengeti, the Afro-American couple came face-to-face with a natural sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of animals such as leopards, rhino, wildebeest, zebra, lions, buffalos, giraffes, warthog, monkeys, baboons, antelopes, hyena, gazelle, topi, cranes and lizards all free to wander.
No sooner, as it happened, the newlywed couple went wild, ululating, charting, saying the natural beauty of the Serengeti made them feel as if they were in a wildlife heaven.
“This is a tantalising natural place remaining on earth, our brothers and sisters in the US and across the globe should know about and come to visit it. Forget about lifeless animals we see in the zoos,” Mr Herb said.
Their experience and ambiance did not end there. The Afro-American couple also had fallen in love with a five-star bush camp they spent two nights in the jungle, surrounded by hundreds of harmless wild animals at night.
“We’ve got lunch in the midst of Serengeti savannah, just 200 meters to where lions were also having theirs. This is a lifetime adventure,” he said as he vowed to come back with his family members and friends next year.
Wildlife experience aside, the couple was also moved by the hospitality of the people of Tanzania, services, amenities like exclusive bathrooms with hot shower, ice cream and environmental friendly solar-powered electricity in the middle of the wilderness, particularly hotels and bush camps they stayed in.
“The hospitality of the people of Tanzanian is outstanding! We were accorded with royal services right from the onset, we were served by nice waitresses and waiters, all the time wearing truly human smiles on their faces,” Mr Herb testified.
Their travel was partly prompted by President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s tour to the US during the debut of the Tanzania: The Royal Tour Film, in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere, he said, adding that the film was an eye opener to most Americans.
“It’s a great experience to be in Africa. I used to hear negative stories about Africa back in America. We were told Africa is poor, full of aggressive beggars, kids die of hunger and all negative-related narratives. But when I first arrived here, I was shocked to see the beauty of Africa that had never been talked about,” Ms Sharon said.
She vowed to go back in America and tell the truth about Africa as part of her contribution to changing the negative narrative about her ancestral land.
“I’ve really enjoyed. People are nice, respectful, lovely and extremely generous. I’ve an unforgettable experience that no one can take away from me. I take the hidden truth about Africa back to the US,” Ms Sharon said.
Discovering ancestral roots
Off the Beaten Path Safaris has come up with a ‘Discover Your Ancestral Roots’ tourism product, adding on its conventional list of adventures, as it seeks to offer Afro-Americans the opportunity for exploring their ancestors’ history through places, objects and tastes.
“I believe Afro-Americans are passionate in bridging cultural gaps by coming back home to explore their heritage and fill personal void,” Mr Mrindoko said.
The man behind the innovation said the ‘Discover Your Ancestral Roots’ tourism product has the potential for diversifying Tanzania’s wildlife viewing, mountain climbing and beach offerings.
From Oldupai Gorge where the first human being traces were discovered, all the way to Kilwa historical sites in Coastal Zone to see the slave trade route and markets in Zanzibar will form the Discover Your Ancestral Roots package, Mr Mrindoko explained.
The Afro-American tourists would also visit the slave market and dungeon in Zanzibar where they would encounter an ugliest face of slave trade in Africa.
They will also be visiting the historical Prison Island, popularly known as Changuu Island, that lies barely a 30-minute boat ride from Unguja, where stunningly horrific records of slavery in the Arab world and within Africa are preserved.
The Island was once used by an Arab trader to contain and prevent some troublesome slaves from the African mainland from escaping before shipping them to the Arabian purchasers or for auctioning at the Zanzibar market.
“Tanzania has a myriad of evidences of slave trade. I want Afro-Americans, who seek to trace their roots and reconnect with their relatives, to come,” Mr Mrindoko added.
The Tanzania Association of Tour Operators CEO, Mr Sirili Akko, admitted that the Off the Beaten Path Safaris would stand out of the crowd, owing to its groundbreaking innovationΩ


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As more and more companies use the Cloud to replace their existing file server the need for similar functionality to that which existed on-premise becomes important. Once such features is file locking.
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Dr. AQ Khan Network: Review of a German Documentary
By Khalid Hasan: August 21, 2007
WASHINGTON: A German TV documentary on Dr AQ Khan titled The Mullahs’ Phsyicist claims that in the mid-1980s, Iran’s leadership decided to acquire uranium enrichment technology. By that time, Pakistan had already mastered the process, and despite the unstable relationship between the two countries, officials from the two states held clandestine talks on nuclear cooperation.
By 1984, according to a review of the documentary by Tom Bielefeld and Hassan Abbas published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Dr Khan’s Kahuta facility had produced enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. In parallel to the official talks between Iran and Pakistan, members of the Khan network started their own business with Iran. From 1985, Heinz Mebus, a German engineer and former colleague of Dr Khan at Urenco, negotiated with Iranian officials, apparently on Dr Khan’s behalf that the material in their possession - blueprints of machines and facilities, and the industry contacts necessary for acquiring functioning equipment - constituted a valuable package, and they were willing to sell it. The film identifies Masud Naraghi as the Iranian individual in charge of these negotiations. Olli Heinonen, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy director general and responsible for the agency’s investigation into Dr Khan’s activities, confirms Naraghi’s role describing him as the “project leader” for Iran’s enrichment programme in an interview for the film. The deal between the two sides was closed in 1987 at a hotel suite in Dubai, in the presence of both Mebus and Naraghi, according to the film. The Iranians got reliable “specifications and drawings, and manufacturing instructions for the equipment” from the network. They also received a list of companies that could manufacture the parts. According to the film, the Iranians paid $8 million for the package.
With the material the Khan network provided, the Iranians made little progress with their enrichment programme. Naraghi led the Iranian project to an impasse and lost his responsibilities in 1992. Later that year, he walked into the US Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and was flown to the United States with his family. The Americans did not share the information they gathered from Naraghi with the IAEA nor did they act more decisively to deal with the emerging situation.
Instead, the United States focused the Russians and Chinese to cease their nuclear cooperation with Iran. China is said to have secretly sold uranium ore to Iran in 1991, and it began constructing a conversion plant in Isfahan. It also planned to deliver a reactor to Iran. Here, too, US pressure finally led China to discontinue support for Iran’s nuclear activities. The Iranians went back to the Khan network in 1993 to begin procuring components for about 500 centrifuges of the older P-1 type, as well as designs for the more advanced model P-2 centrifuge. These shipments then gave a boost to Iran’s clandestine enrichment programme. The film’s conclusion is that the lack of US cooperation with the IAEA in 1993 was key to Iran’s ultimate successes, but this finding requires further study.
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If you own a home, it is wisest to take both types of cover. Some insurers give discounted rates for combined buildings and contents policies. For those living on rent, the buildings insurance is mostly covered by the landlord.
Before purchasing home insurance, the first step is to assess how much insurance you will need, which begins with knowing the actual value of your home. If your house is damaged, you must know what the associated repair/replacement costs will be.
To get the fairest and truest value for your home, it is best to contact an assessment company or experienced homebuilder. The better your coverage, lesser you need to pay from your pocket. The amount of coverage you purchase for your home, contents and personal property affects the price you pay.
While taking out buildings insurance, ensure that your home is covered for the rebuild value and not the market value. Rebuild value is not your property’s current market worth; it is what the entire reconstruction would cost.
Note down the value of each item in your home, right from computers to clothes and from crockery to electronics.
Check if your insurance covers items like contents of your wallet/handbag, your garden, shed, storeroom, garage, etc. and the items therein. If you can include items that are damaged or stolen away from your home, it makes sense to pay extra for the same.
Valuables like antiques, jewellery, high-value electrical items, mobile phones, expensive technical gadgets, etc. may not be covered under your contents cover’s basic terms. Check with your insurer and take out separate cover, if needed.
Always get the new for old cover for your belongings, when you take contents insurance. This means the damaged/destroyed items will be replaced with identical new products, instead of getting the amount the old items were worth.
Calculate the right value of your belongings - undervaluing your contents will leave you underinsured, whereas overvaluation will increase the cost of your cover unnecessarily. Keep your inventory list in a fireproof safe (preferably not at home), along with your home insurance policy.
Your home and belongings can be insured for either actual cash value or replacement cost. While actual cash value is how much you need for replacements/repairs to your home, after depreciation; replacement cost is the amount needed to replace/rebuild your home or repair damages with similar quality materials, without depreciation.
Excess is the claim value below which the insurer will not pay. Most home insurance policies have a compulsory and voluntary excess. Paying a higher voluntary excess can lower the cost of the cover. However, in the event of a claim, you should be able to afford that excess.
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In case you happen to own an unusual property such as a renovated mill or listed building, or your home has an unusual feature like a thatched roof, you will need a specialist cover. The premiums for such unusual properties usually tend to be higher as it puts insurers at a greater risk. For example, thatched roofs are more susceptible to fire risks, while rebuild expenses for listed buildings are higher.
Anything that improves the internal and external safety of your home can give you a discount on your premium. Certain things that help earn a discount are fire alarms; sprinklers; dead bolt locks; a home burglary alarm; updated wiring, electrical and heating systems; well-maintained and robust entrances, stairs, sidewalks, driveways, etc. (lowered chances of injury), etc. Similarly, having a home close to a fire and/or police department can also help you earn hefty discounts.
This is what you pay out of your pocket on each claim. It only applies to coverage on your home and personal property. When choosing a policy, ensure that you are comfortable paying the deductibles, in case you make a claim. Higher deductibles could come at a lower price.
If you have not made any claim on home insurance for over one year, check with the insurer if you can avail the NCD, because this lowers your monthly premium considerably.
Once a year, ask your home insurance agent to ensure your policy offers adequate coverage. Remodeling, addition of a new room, new insulation/wiring, etc. increase your home value and make up the replacement cost.
Last but not the least, your home insurance policy is an important legal document that must be thoroughly read and understood.

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Songyuan Travel Guide
Chinese Name: 松原 (sōng yuán)
Area: 22,000 square kilometers (8,494 square miles)
Location: in the west-central Jilin Province, northeast China
Administrative Division: 1 district (Ningjiang); 2 counties (Changling, Qian'an); 1 autonomous county (Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County); 1 county-level city (Fuyu)
Area Code: 0438
Zip Code: 138000
GDP (2018): CNY 137.36 billion (USD 20.76 billion)
Nationalities: Han, Man, Mongolian, Hui
City with a Long History Date Back to Neolithic Age
Songyuan is situated in the west-central area of Jilin Province, and neighbors Changchun to the southeast. It borders Inner Mongolia to the west and is separated in the north from Heilongjiang by the Songhua, Nenjiang and Lalin rivers. Many historical sites including mammoth fossils and Qingshantou site records the long history of Songyuan date back to Neolithic Age. This city is a national large-scale commodity grain base and oil base, with an annual grain output of 75 billion kilograms. The main crops are corn, soybean, rice and sorghum, etc. Animal husbandry and fishery are also very prosperous.
Every winter in Chagan Lake, thousands of people fish together and can drag hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fish at a time. It is hard not to be shocked by such a spectacular scene. Also, Songyuan shows beautiful water landscapes and owns green, vast Horqin Grassland. Many nature reserves and geoparks provide good places for local people and tourists to refresh themselves and enjoy nature. Visitors can also enjoy Uliger, local storytelling and horse head string instrument.
Songyuan Attractions - Things to Do
Chagan Lake is the largest inland lake in Jilin Province and the seventh largest freshwater lake in China. The only Tibetan Buddhist temple, Miaoyin Temple is located on the banks of this jewel-like body of water some 22 kilometers southwest of Songyuan city proper. Another favored scenic spot is Long Keng (Dragon Pit). It was previously called Beilibu Spring and was formed by water accumulating in the natural ravine. The scenery here is particularly delightful in the spring and summer.
How to Get to Songyuan
Songyuan Chaganhu Airport, 29km to downtown, has opened flights to/from about 15 domestic cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Hangzhou... Airport shuttle bus and taxi can get to downtown Songyuan. Songyuan Port has eight docks accommodating freighters running along the river from Jilin to Harbin as well as the Port of Khabarovsk in Russia. The city is gradually becoming a traffic hub and logistics center connecting northeast China and Inner Mongolia.
The Passenger Traffic Central Station of Songyuan is located at 1, Wulan Jie. It is near the city's Railway Station to the west and is the largest bus station in the city. There are buses available to many nearby cities and scenic spots. From downtown Songyuan, travelers can get to Changchun or Harbin within two hours.
The city has four clearly defined seasons—a dry spring; a torrid summer; a cool autumn and a long a chilly winter. Songyuan weather usually rains during July and August. Its average annual temperature is around 4.5 (40.1). The period October through April is the best time to visit.
Songyuan Travel Tips
History: As early as seven thousand years ago, humans first settled in this area. It was governed by the ancient Fuyu Kingdom in the Han Dynasty (206BC – 220 AD) and by the Bohai Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907). Later, the Jurchen established the Jin Dynasty (1115 – 1234) here. Songyuan represents a mix of both the Manchu and Mongolian cultures.
Special Local Products: Songyuan is an important commercial food and oil production center. Nearby Chagan Lake is abundant with a wide variety of fish including the bighead variegated carp.
Can I know
1. What is the best time to go to be able to see the fish being pulled out from the nets?
2. How to get to the Chagan Lake from Changchun or Harbin or Shenyang?
2. From Changchun, you can take a train to Songyuan (SY for short). The trip takes about 2 hours. Then, take a bus to the site (about 1 hour).
From Harbin, take a train to SY (about 2.5 hours). Then, take a bus to the lake (about 1 hour).
From Shenyang, take a train to SY (about 5.5 to 6.5 hours). Then, atke a bus to it (about 1 hour).


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I knew about a quarter of the way through The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel that it was going to make me cry. But I was too far in to turn back. The central character, Kate, begins to have vivid dreams of her husband Patrick and their life together–a life that never happened because Patrick died twelve years earlier. Kate is naturally troubled by the dreams but finds comfort in them, compared to a reality where she still feels unsettled. Most surprising, though, is the appearance of a daughter, Hannah, who doesn’t exist in the real world.
If you read the reviews on Goodreads, you’ll see many saying that what would usually be an end-of-book reveal becomes obvious early on, and I’d agree. But I felt invested enough to continue, and wanted to know how it would all play out. Not everyone would feel that way, though, and that will be a major factor in whether I recommend this book. It’s entirely possible that the author meant it this way, that it was planned for us to suspect how things would end, and just stay along for the ride. It’s maybe not how I would have preferred to find out, but it didn’t ruin the book for me.
I liked the characters and enjoyed the subplots of Kate’s career (music therapy), how the appearance of a hard-of-hearing character launched her into learning ASL, and how she began to merge the two. It really just scratched the surface, of course, but I thought it was different and interesting. I loved Kate’s relationship with Patrick’s mother, Joan; it was well done and realistic. There were some fantastical elements but for me, they didn’t distract from the story.
Did I cry? Maybe a little. Am I sorry I read it? Not at all.

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Captain - Food & Beverage - Choix par Pierre Gagnaire - InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City
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โรงแรม: InterContinental - Dubai - Festival City (DXBHB)
Job number: EMEAA20787
As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental® brand. Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience. If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand. The InterContinental Hotels Group® properties in Dubai Festival City consist of four hotel brands. These include the luxury brand InterContinental, the superior upscale Crowne Plaza, the lavish long-stay InterContinental Residence Suites and the vibrant mid-scale Holiday Inn. In addition to over 1000+ bedrooms, the four properties boast a selection of high quality restaurants and bars, an impressive 3,800 square meter Event Centre across two levels, the 5,000 square meters Festival Arena by InterContinental, the luxurious Spa InterContinental, state-of-the-art gymnasium and swimming pool facilities. We are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming and full of life to people to join over 900 colleagues who are always finding ways to make every guests experience an enjoyable one. We value the passion and enthusiasm of our colleagues, and encourage you to share your passion when you work with us.
Your day to day
Ensure the smooth conduct of the shift through customer focused service delivery. Promotes the desired work culture around the True Hospitality as well as maintaining the service level as per Intercontinental and Pierre Gagnaire’s standards
- Delivering service to our customers as per Intercontinental standards as well as Pierre Gagnaire’s standards
- Endeavour to resolve all complaints during shift by alerting Manager on Duty and assisting him/her
- Supervise cash handling and banking procedures
- Prepare daily banking and cash flow reports
- Supervise the maintenance of service equipment
- Monitor standards of guest facilities and services
- Control stock and monitor security procedures
- Producing quality beverages (i.e. mocktails, hot beverages, etc) to ensure guests satisfaction
- Mastering food knowledge in order to assist guests on orders and ensuring the fulfilment of guests requirements Helping and caring for guests in any way required
What we need from you
Ideally, you'll have some or all of the following competencies and experience we're looking for:
- Great communication skills
- Ability to think calmly under pressure
- Willingness to learn open-mindedly
- Passion of food and curiosity for something new
- Basic organisation skills in restaurant operation
- Ability to work in a team and in different functions
- Warm and inviting personality
What we offer
We’ll reward all your hard work with competitive salary and benefits.
Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.
So go on - show us how your passion and personality are the perfect fit to deliver memorable experiences to our guests.

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WHSmith and Waterstones are set to host book signings for Melanie Murphy’s Fully Functioning Human (Almost).
Melanie Murphy has revealed details of a UK tour to promote her autobiographical book, Fully Functioning Human (Almost): Living in an Online/ Offline World. Commencing 29 August, the ticketed events will involve a book signing and an opportunity to interact with Melanie herself.
“You’re essentially paying for the book, but you also get to hang to with me and I’m going to be signing it,” Melanie revealed on her channel.
The tour will take place in various Waterstones and WHSmith stores around the UK. Melanie explained, “The shop will be closed so it will be like an in-store private kind of gathering.”
— Melanie 💚 Murphy (@melaniietweets) July 28, 2017
The book tackles the ups and downs of growing up in an online age, with topics including “Media and the Mind”, “Food and Body”, and “Sex and Sexuality”.
An Irish event, to be held in Dublin, was also revealed. Planned for 27 August, tickets to the show include a copy of the book as well as the chance to meet Melanie.
Fully Functioning Human (Almost) is published by Hachette Books Ireland and will be released 24 August. It can be preordered from Amazon for £12.99. Illustrations in the book were done by Charlie Belle.


Asset mapping, whereby a group of community volunteers map the assets of the community, helps communities to understand what resources, buildings, people, networks, skills, activities, knowledge and interests they already have, and learn what other members of the community (of place or interest) want to change.
As well as being a useful way of gathering information, asset mapping encourages new relationships between individuals and groups. Asset mapping can be undertaken by the community or supported by a community development worker.
The five key steps are:
N.B. it may be tempting to skip mapping the assets of individuals and move straight to mapping associations and organisations, not least because they are easier to do. However mapping individual assets will underpin the asset mapping overall and will also help to identify community leaders, champions, ‘fiery spirits’ and potential volunteers.
Those who are doing the asset mapping can ask individuals and organisations what they do/have now, but also what they would like to do/have in the future.


text: QCD at finite isospin chemical potential μI has no fermion sign problem and can be studied on the lattice. We solve this theory analytically in two limits: at low μI, where chiral perturbation theory is applicable, and at asymptotically high μI, where perturbative QCD works. At low isospin density the ground state is a pion condensate, whereas at high density it is a Fermi liquid with Cooper pairing. The pairs carry the same quantum numbers as the pion. This leads us to conjecture that the transition from hadron to quark matter is smooth, which passes several tests. Our results imply a nontrivial phase diagram in the space of temperature and chemical potentials of isospin and baryon number.

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Cornel West to speak at conference on race
Cornel West, one of the nation's preeminent thinkers on race relations in America, will give the keynote address at a conference titled, "Where Do We Go from Here?: A Colloquium on Race in the 21st Century," to be held Saturday, April 4, on campus. The one-day conference, sponsored by the Black Law Students Association and Stanford Law School, will bring together legal scholars and others from across the country.
West, a professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy of religion at Harvard University, will give a talk titled "Restoring Hope" at 9 a.m. in Cubberley Auditorium. Later in the day there will be panel discussions on criminal justice, education and coalition building. Those sessions will be held in Rooms 180 and 190 in the Crown Quadrangle.
The criminal justice panel, scheduled for 10:15 a.m., will include Stanford trustee Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, and Kim Taylor-Thompson, a former Stanford professor who teaches at the New York University School of Law. Robert Weisberg, vice provost for faculty recruitment and a law professor here, also will participate in that panel. The moderator for that session will be Angela Jordan Davis, a professor at the Washington College of Law at American University.
Sally Dickson, director of campus relations and a lecturer at Stanford Law School, will moderate the panel on "Race and Education," also at 10:15 a.m., in the Crown Quad. Participants will include Gordon Chang, director of Asian American studies at Stanford; Michael Wald, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford; Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, the Zellerbach Family Fund Professor at the University of California-Berkeley; and Ronald Takaki, ethnic studies professor at Berkeley.
A 1 p.m. panel on coalition building will be moderated by Dorothy Roberts, a professor at Rutgers University School of Law, and will include Al Camarillo, director of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; Geetanjali Dhillon, executive director of the California Minority Counsel; and Frank Tse, attorney for the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus.
At 2:30 p.m. participants will return to Cubberley Auditorium for a plenary session on agenda for the civil rights movement. Moderated by Ogletree, that session will include Eva Jefferson Paterson, executive director of the Bay Area office of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Joaquin Avila, a voting rights attorney. Constance Rice, Western Region counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, will participate in that panel as well as give the closing address at 4:30 p.m. that afternoon.
Law student Jacqueline Sutton, chair of the colloquium steering committee, said the passage of Propositions 209 and 187, efforts to end bilingual education programs and other recent political developments have exacerbated the color divide. "It's frustrating to only hear about what are the issues and why they exist," she said. "Answers to these questions are important, but only to the extent that they help to inform the creation of pragmatic solutions and strategies that will address these racial tensions."
Sutton added that West will bring a progressive voice to the current discussion about race. "He is a dynamic speaker, and he espouses a theory of the intermingling of race and class issues and how America needs to address both in order to fully address one."
West is the author of 13 books including Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America; Jews and Blacks Let the Healing Begin, with Michael Lerner; and Race Matters. His most recent book, Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America, is a compilation of interviews he conducted with prominent African Americans. West earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. He was head of Princeton's Afro-American Studies Department before joining Harvard's faculty in 1994.
In addition to the Black Law Students Association and Stanford Law School, co-sponsors of the event include the Federalist Society, the Stanford Law Students Association, the Black Community Services Center, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Department of Afro-American Students, the Asian and Pacific Islander Law Students Association and the Stanford Latino Law Students Association.
Registration for the conference, which includes lunch, is $35 for the general public. Admission is free to Stanford students, who will be charged $5 for lunch and must register in advance. For non-Stanford students with valid identification, admission, which includes lunch, is $10. Online registration is available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/BLSA/Colloquium.html. For more information contact the Black Law Students Association office at (650) 723-1873 or email@example.com.
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US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says that Hillary Clinton, his possible Democratic rival in the 2016 presidential race, will not be indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over her email case. The FBI has launched a federal probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server to exchange thousands of classified emails while serving as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
The former secretary’s spokesman Nick Merrill revealed on Saturday that Clinton gave an approximately three and a half hours “voluntary interview” to the law enforcement agency over the case and that she was “pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion.”
In reaction to the news, Trump took to his Twitter account later in the day, writing that some “sources” have told him that Clinton will face no charges. “It was just announced -by sources- that no charges will be brought against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Like I said, the system is totally rigged,” he wrote.
About half an hour earlier, the New York businessman had wrote that it would be “impossible” for the FBI to not recommend charges in the case. “It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid,” he said, referring to former US President Bill Clinton’s secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
The meeting, which took place last week, spurred bipartisan questions, forcing Lynch to step back from the case. On Friday, Lynch acknowledged that her meeting with Clinton’s husband was a mistake that had cast a shadow over the email investigation. She also said that she fully expected to accept the FBI’s recommendations in the case. Trump had reacted to the meeting by saying it smelled of a conspiracy. “I’m flabbergasted by it, I think it’s amazing, I’ve never seen anything like that before.”


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Why all this official attention to so much detail? Is the danger that great and are there methods that accurate? Other experts question the underlying arrogance here and challenge the assumption that it leads to smarter policy outcomes.
"People ask me all of the time if I have a hobby. I thought I didn't, but I was wrong. I do have one and it's bathing. That's my hobby. ... And since I'm a professional daydreamer, this is practically like being on the job."
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines privacy as "freedom from unauthorized intrusion." The United States government defines privacy as "freedom from unauthorized intrusion, except by us." Personally I prefer the former definition.
The current trend of superhero/fantasy/sci-fi films can be seen as a form of modern mythology -- grand out-of-the-ordinary tales inspired by human experience like lore of old, with this newer crop of stories heavily influenced by big entertainment corporate interests.
William Shatner, appearing at this weekend's Dragon*Con in Atlanta, is quite the busy (renaissance) man. Sure, you may know him from his Priceline commercials, his huge Twitter following, or some tv shows and movies you might be familiar with.
The visuals of The Twilight Zone form a kind of collective generational nightmare. The remarkable thing about the man who created many of these episodes from 1959 to 1964, Rod Serling, is that the writer-presenter learned his craft not in the visual era but in the age of radio drama.
In the interceding decades, I have attracted those I consider part of my "tribe" who may also hail from somewhere else in the cosmos. We speak a common language: that of nature and mysticism, music and art, touch and deep spirituality.
According to The New York Times, Gary Lucas is "a guitarist with a global guitar" and The New Yorker says he's "the thinking man's guitar hero." Introducing his new album Cinefantastique is the artist with a few words about the project.

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text: I designed this card for our demo meeting. We were challenged to design something using the spirelli technique. The spirelli technique involves wrapping twine around the scallop blue circle on this card. This is just one way in which to use the spirelli technique on a card. I am a vintage girl so I love the look of this card. I used a variety of scrap pieces of designer series paper from the Beau Chateau collection through SU.


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My girlfriend and I took a trip to Japan from 5/22 - 5/28. Our itinerary went something like this.
Tuesday 5/22: Leave from LAX at 11:40AM
Wednesday 5/23: Arrive at Tokyo Narita Airport at 2:55PM, Check out Tokyo Disneyland with Starlight Pass (After 6PM pass)
Thursday 5/24: Tokyo Disney Sea all day with about an hour break
Friday 5/25: Tokyo day trip (Tokyo, Asakusa, Ueno) Tokyo night trip (Shinjuku)
Saturday 5/26: Day trip to Kamakura, Tokyo Disney Sea at night
Sunday 5/27: Tokyo Disneyland during the day, Tokyo Disney Sea at night.
Monday 5/28: Leave for LAX at 2:50PM. Arrive at LAX at 8:40AM (same day)
So here are the pictures and observations from the full day and two nights we spent on Tokyo Disney Sea.
We stayed at the Tokyo Bay Hotel Tokyu. I'm sure many foreigners tend to stay at the Hilton or Sheraton because those are names they know, but this hotel gave us the best rates and the staff and service were excellent. At least one person at the front desk spoke English and we had no problems here.
This was the view from our room on the 11th floor. Here we are looking towards Disney Sea. Disneyland would be directly to the left.
Cinderella Castle and Big Thunder.
Space Mountain with buildings. You can't get this kind of shot at Disneyland as Space Mountain is tucked into a corner with other Tomorrowland buildings. TDL's Space Mountain stands free of obstructions. At TDL they even light all sides of it at night.
Tokyo Disney Resort Line
Tokyo Disney's version of the Monorail is a full service train system that charges a fare to ride. It's about two bucks for a single trip, or six for an all day pass. We opted for the 4-day pass which cost about 13 bucks.
Handy signs let you know how long you have to wait for the next train. The last train is at 11:39PM.
This is Bayside Station, the station for all official hotels. The next station is Tokyo Disney Sea station, where we will be departing.
Here are some views from the Monorail.
Room to expand? In fact I noticed a lot of room near Lost River Delta.
Approaching the main gate from the monorail.
I had no idea they did early entry but when we purchased our tickets from our hotel they gave us this. It allowed us to go on Raging Spirits, Indiana Jones, Sinbad, and Journey to the Center of the Earth before 10AM. That's almost half of the big attractions.
4-day passport. You have to pick a park for the first two days, and then you can park hop on the remaining days.
Tokyo Disney Sea
The main gate.
You have to pass under the hotel to get into the park and get your first glimpse of Mount Prometheus. Sunwheel it ain't.
Mount Prometheus dominates Mediterreanean Harbor. It's awe-inspiring. It looks good from any angle and creates a dramatic background in any area of the park.
Sunday was very cloudy and we thought there would be rain storms. Luckily none came but the wild weather gave us this backdrop for much of the afternoon.
Instead of doing a chronological trip report I'm going to go through each land and attraction using the park map and post some observations and pictures of them, starting with American Waterfront.


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Favourite songs of families who attend the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program across Canada; includes action songs, nursery rhyme songs, lullabies, etc.
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Singing and dancing: Circle of the sun. See the sleeping bunnies. Rig a jig jig. Put your shoes on, Lucy. Smooth road to London town. Horsey horsey. Pretty painted butterfly. She didn't dance. Grand old Duke of York. Sailing. Dropped my hat. Come-a-look-a-see. Rags the dog. Zoom, zoom, zoom -- Sleeping and dreaming: Watch the stars. Simple gifts. Hush little baby. Prairie lullaby. Rock me easy. Lullaby, lullaby. Rockabye baby/ Sleep baby sleep. Rock-a-bye you. Coulter's candy (Ally Bally). All the little ones are sleeping. I see the moon. Baby's boat. Goodnight children.
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A proposed 12-storey mixed-use building in the heart of Inglewood has sparked outcry among local residents and business owners, who feel the project could put the neighbourhood’s historic character at risk.
The development, known as RNDSQR Block, would be located along 9th Avenue near 12th Street S.E., within the boundaries of the Historic East Calgary Area Redevelopment Plan.
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It’s one of a handful of proposed developments along 9th Avenue that has some Inglewood residents up in arms.
Developer Landstar has proposed a 50-metre mixed-use residential complex, to be known as Louis on 9th, at 11th Street S.E., replacing a two-storey building.
A mixed-use residential building by Hungerford Properties, to be located near 8th Street, has been tentatively approved. The building, consisting of more than 10 storeys, would replace a surface parking lot and two-storey cinderblock building.


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The new LPA Commander for Slough has made tackling knife crime one of his key priorities.
Superintendent Gavin Wong returned to the place where his policing career began last week and will now be tasked with leading the town’s police force.
The 53-year-old told the Express he wants Thames Valley Police to continue its work engaging with young people to try and deter them from carrying knives.
Slough has seen two teenagers killed from stabbings in the past six months including 15-year-old Elton Gashaj who died following an attack at Salt Hill Park on September 21.
Superintendent Wong said: “Nationally we know there’s been an increase in knife crime which is linked to younger people.
“Being a bigger town, Slough is not going to be any different.
“But there’s been some really positive results from the work that’s been done and we are seeing a reduction.”
He added that Thames Valley Police could not solve the challenge of knife crime alone and praised organisations such as the Safer Slough Partnership for its work in trying to change attitudes to carrying blades.
“Ultimately, if we have the trust from the younger people on knife crime they will talk to us and if we understand the problem we can do more about it,” Superintendent Wong said.
“People are carrying knives because they think they are at risk and we need to educate them.”
Superintendent Wong told the Express he has also made supporting domestic abuse victims a key priority and he is hoping the force can continue to build trust with those affected to encourage more reporting of incidents.
Work is ongoing at Thames Valley Police to put contingency plans in place in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Slough’s new LPA Commander added.
But when asked last week about what role the force could play in enforcing a government lockdown on people movement, Mr Wong said officers would always be guided by the law.
“There’s nothing in the law that says we’d be prepared to do that (enforce a lockdown) and we want to remain as that service to the community as well as keeping our own staff safe.”
He added: “We need to make sure we have our contingency plans in place so we have the right people available to protect the public.”
Thames Valley Police is recruiting as part of a Government aim to bolster its policing numbers by 20,000 across the UK.
Superintendent Wong urged people to apply, particularly from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.
Slough has the most diverse police force in the Thames Valley and the new LPA Commander said he was keen to hear from people with good local knowledge of the town.
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This featured article can be found here.
It provides a neat summary of the devastating impact on the environment of war and war machines.
As there is no such thing as a solar powered bomber, wind-powered tanks and so forth, we are faced the fact that the war “industry” is the worst polluter known to Man.
Add to the impact of gas guzzling tanks, ships, trucks and planes – that all, moreover have to be built in factories of minerals dug from the Earth – the destruction of buildings, bridges, roads and so forth that then have to be rebuilt at further cost to the environment.
The orgy of “smash-it-all-to-bits-very-messily-then-rebuild-it” yields no increased wealth in exchange for the environmental damage: you can’t eat a missile, turn a bunker into a nice bungalow or ride to work in a tank. In fact the “yield” is usually a decrease in wealth (lowered standard of living) to one degree or another.
You want to engineer a drop in the human community’s wealth, wellbeing and survival potential, including a damaged environment? Start a war.
And so we are treated to the risible spectacle of governments pretending to give a crap about the environment maintaining and often using ruddy great filthy war machines that cause the environment, not to mention, people, untold damage.
The day governments become honest and worthy of trust, there will be peace on Earth and sane husbandry of our planet.
As the saying goes, “husbandry is senior to pillage”.
This is true on many levels.
The degenerate loons who have usurped the governance of many nations cannot of course apply this principle because it is too sane.
The environmental impact of a war
The environmental impact of a war
War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme collective aggression, destruction, and usually high mortality. The set of techniques and actions used to conduct war is known as warfare. There exist many types of wars, for example, civil war, guerrillas war, religiuos war, world war, etc. The application of weapons, the destruction of structures and oil fields, fires, military transport movements and chemical spraying are all examples of the destroying impact war may have on the environment. Air, water and soil are polluted, man and animal are killed, and numerous health affects occur among those still living.
Many women were raped as a tool of intimidation, resulting in a rapid spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV-AIDS. The war has a devastating effect on the environment. National parks housing endangered species are often affected for exploitation of minerals and other resources. Refugees hunt wildlife for bush meat, either to consume or sell it. Elephant populations in Africa have seriously declined as a result of ivory poaching. Farmers burn parts of the forest to apply as farmland, and corporate logging contributes to the access of poachers to bush meat.
Damage to sanitation structures by frequent bombing, and damage to sewage treatment systems by power blackouts cause pollution on the water. Two hundred blue plastic containers containing uranium were stolen from a nuclear power plant located south of Baghdad. The radioactive content of the barrels was dumped in rivers and the barrels were rinsed out. Poor people applied the containers as storage facility for water, oil and tomatoes, or sold them to others. Milk was transported to other regions in the barrels, making it almost impossible to relocate them.
During the war, many dams and sewage water treatment plants were targeted and destroyed.
Oil trenches are burning, as was the case in the Gulf War of 1991, resulting in air pollution. In Northern Iraq, a sulphur plant burned for one month, contributing to air pollution. As fires continue burning, groundwater applied as a drinking water source may be polluted.
In vivo inhalation studies and epidemiological studies pointed out the impact of the dust cloud. Health effects from inhaling dust included bronchial hyper reactivity, because of the high alkalinity of dust particles. Other possible health effects include coughs, an increased risk of asthma and a two-fold increase in the number of small-for-gestational-age baby’s among pregnant women present in or nearby the Twin Towers at the time of the attack.
Military movements and weapon application result in land degradation. The destruction of military and industrial machinery releases heavy metals and other harmful substances.
Bombs threaten much of the country’s wildlife. One the world’s important migratory thoroughfare leads through Afghanistan. The number of birds now flying this route has dropped by 85%. In the mountains many large animals such as leopards found refuge, but much of the habitat is applied as refuge for military forces now. Additionally, refugees capture leopards and other large animals are and trade them for safe passage across the border.
Pollution from application of explosives entered air, soil and water. One example is cyclonite, a toxic substance that may cause cancer. Rocket propellants deposited perchlorates, which damage the thyroid gland. Numerous landmines left behind in Afghan soils still cause the deaths of men, women and children today.
The first impact of the atomic bombings was a blinding light, accompanied by a giant wave of heat. Dry flammable materials caught fire, and all men and animals within half a mile from the explosion sites died instantly.
“When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?” Deuteronomio 20:19
Give free conferences to teach everyone especially children because they have innocent minds and we can teach them between what is good and wrong.
We also want to create a video that shows the damage that war makes in the environment and put a hashtag to make it viral.
Hand out brochures. And organize fairs in public places where we can show people the consequences of wars in environment.
Taking little steps will show people to value life will make a difference in the world.
War is something that would result in devastating human and environmental consequences, and set a dangerous precedent. So much innocent people are getting harmed with things they are not asking for, little kids should not be born in a world like this. Nowadays toddlers know how to use guns and they do not know what toys are, most of them will not know many animals, plants or spaces of nature, thanks to the war and the destruction that this brings. We hope in the future this could change, and we can leaves all in peace and protecting our environment.
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Posted October 06, 2018 08:01:13In an effort to predict the next wave of data coming into our data centers, mathematicians are using mathematical methods that have become increasingly sophisticated in the past decade.
But this is not a new problem: mathematicians were using such methods for decades before computers became possible.
The question now is whether these mathematical methods can still predict the outcome of future data.
“A good example is [an] application called Bayesian Bayesian Information Modeling (BAM), which I first described in my book.
It basically provides a way to predict whether a particular model will perform well,” said Randal Jankowski, an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Washington and the lead author of a paper in the journal Science.
The BAM method uses the fact that certain parameters in the model are related to each other in the first place to predict what the model will predict.
This allows scientists to better predict the outcomes of a system that may be performing poorly.
“You can see the importance of this model in the current economic crisis.
We all have a tendency to make generalizations about the economy.
You have a certain number of people who are suffering, and you expect that people will respond to these conditions by making trade, outsourcing, and so forth,” said Jankowski.
“We don’t know the true state of the economy at any given time.
We have to make predictions about the next one, so that we can make informed decisions.”
To do this, mathematicies use mathematical models that have been created by researchers from the Department of Energy, the University, and other institutions.
These models are very sophisticated, and they have algorithms to predict outcomes based on many variables.
For example, the BAM models have a “dynamic” model that uses a model of the past to predict future values, such as the current unemployment rate.
In addition, these models have statistical techniques to estimate the relative weights of different variables.
The goal of the Bam method is to provide a “superior approximation” to the future, Jankowkski said.
“The Bam approach is not about predicting the future directly, it is about using mathematical models to try to approximate the future.
This is one of the major advantages of this approach.
It is not just about predicting, but it is also about modeling.”
The Bams use a model with a “trend-neutral” model to predict a future outcome.
The model is an approximation to the past that gives the same predictions.
The trend-neutral model has a very high weight on the past and low weight on future values.
It has a high predictive power in predicting the outcome, said Jankski.
In the current financial crisis, the model is the most commonly used model, said Mina Sattar, a graduate student at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and co-author of the paper.
“The Bambas are a very good example of how you can use statistical methods to predict in advance the future of a specific industry, and this has a large impact on how you choose investments and policy,” Sattarsaid.
The model used by the Bambams, Sattarov said, was derived from a “business cycle” model.
“They look at the past, they look at current events, they use mathematical techniques to predict trends, and the predictive power is very good.”
The model developed by Jankowitzes team is based on the idea that “there is a relationship between the past value of variables and future values of variables,” he said.
This relationship is known as the “Bambas principle.”
“We don: 1) look at a model that has the Bams principle, 2) predict the current value of the variable, 3) predict what future value will be predicted, and 4) predict how it will change in the future,” Jankowicz said.
In a sense, the system has the ability to predict when the future value of a variable will be lower than the present value of that variable.
“It does this by taking into account the trend and the dynamic of the model and the statistical information,” he explained.
The mathematical models also provide predictions about how the past will change over time.
“We’re very interested in how the future changes, because we can use these models to look at when things are going to change,” said Sattara.
“If you think about a game of chess, you can imagine the board has a lot of moving parts.
You could say that every move you make has a big impact on the outcome.
In our case, we have the model that gives us the best predictions about what the future will be like, and then we predict what is going to happen in the next four or five years.
We can use this to predict our next financial crisis.”
Jankowski said the mathematical models are also used to predict economic conditions. “In


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