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Hey Guys! So today is the day I'm revealing that
You guys probably already knew that if you follow my facebook page or read my blog post yesterday and picked up on all the little hints :) Anyway since I'm going back I thought I'd do the tag that goes along with it that I found on Sam4God's youtube. I have no clue if I've done this before on my blog as it seems weird that I haven't but I searched and couldn't find it, I still gunna do it anyway!
Let's get started :)
1. What was your first trip and how many times have you been?
My first time was back in 2013 for the extended 20th anniversary and then I went back in 2014 so I've been twice. This year will be my third time :)
2. What Disney hotels have you stayed in? One you haven't stayed in that you like to?
I've never stayed in an actual Disney hotel, both times I stayed in Val-de-Europe, just outside of the park but I am staying in the Sante Fe when I go this year so I'm totally excited! I also hoping to stay in the New York if I go next year for my birthday :) I also wanna try the Newport Bay and the Disneyland Hotel because IT'S SO PRETTY!
3. What's your favourite restaurant?
That has to be Cafe Mickey in the Disney Village as I haven't done many of the restaurants, more of the quick service ones. I'm hoping to do some of the bigger better restaurants when I go for my birthday hopefully next year :)
4. A restaurant you'd like to eat in that you haven't yet?
Walts, Interventions, Auberge de Cendrillon...the list goes on...
5. What's your favourite quick service/fast food?
Probably either Colonel Hathi's or The Lucky Nugget Saloon, I loved both of the food when I ate there :)
6. What's your favourite shop?
Other than the World of Disney I also love the Emporium and the Christmas shop, it's so festive and I love the decorations.
7. What's your favourite season/event?
I loved the extended 20th anniversary event, that was so super magical and also my first trip but I also love Swing into Spring when I went in 2014. I've always wanted to go for Christmas & Halloween but that might be abit too cold for me!!
8. Disneyland Park or Walt Disney Studios?
It's gotta be my home park, Disneyland Park!!
9. What is your favourite ride in each park?
In Disneyland Park it's either Phantom Manor or Big Thunder Mountain and in the Studios it's probably Crush Coaster.
10. What is your favourite land in the Disneyland Park?
It has to be Fantasyland with all the magic and princesses!
11. What's your favourite character to meet?
I love meeting the princesses especially Rapunzel! I'd love to meet some more on my next trip. I'd also love to meet Peter Pan & Hook on my next trip as they are my total favourites!
12. What's your best meet and greet experience?
I love all the meet and greets but it's between Ariel & Belle. Ariel was super nice and noticed herself on my princess bracelet! We hugged and it was so magical. Belle was also magical as she was American compared to the usual french-sounding character, which was a lovely surprise!
13. What's your happiest or best Disneyland Paris memory?
My favourite memory is going to have to be watching the parade and Dreams for the first time. I'd never seen anything like it only on tv on adverts and photos from friends holidays. It was pure magic and it's my favourite part of the trip any time I go.
That's it for me today but thanks for reading!
Until next time, bye guys :)


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Stars from the sporting world gathered at The Brewery in Chiswell Street, London, as the first major event of Welsh rugby legend Alun Wyn Jones' testimonial year took place, thanks to support from key sponsor, Godi Financial, and additional sponsors Sony, Swansea University and RNA Plant.
The event was hosted by English pundit and former rugby player, David Flatman, with special guests including Ryan Jones, Jamie Roberts, James Haskell, Ken Owens, Kyle Sinckler, Jon Davies, Adam Jones and Huw Bennett, along with many other famous faces from the world of rugby union.
An auction was also held at the event, run by actor, broadcaster and former rugby player, Martin Bayfield. The auction helped raise funds for Swansea-based Forget Me Not Dementia Day Clubs and Golau Cancer Foundation, which are the official charities of the testimonial year and causes that are very close to Jones and his family's hearts.
July saw the launch of Jones' testimonial year at Godi's corporate suite at Swansea's Liberty Stadium. Jones was requested a testimonial year from the Ospreys Supporters Trust and this was granted by both the Ospreys and Welsh Rugby Union.
Godi is Wales' first foreign exchange (FX) company and has a long history and connection with Welsh sport. As well as supporting Alun Wyn Jones' testimonial year, the company sponsors Ospreys rugby club and has a long-established partnership with Swansea's Liberty Stadium, Swansea Stadium Management Company and Swansea City Football Club.
Paul Langley, managing director of Godi Financial, commented:
"Last night's event was fantastic and marked the start of what will be a memorable testimonial year for such a world class player as Alun Wyn Jones. We have extensive experience of working with sporting professionals and the wider industry, and so we're proud to be sponsoring Alun's testimonial year. We look forward to the additional events ahead as we continue to celebrate the many great achievements of this world renowned rugby star."
The next event for Jones' testimonial year will be held on 22 November at Cardiff's Principality Stadium. An intimate dinner hosted by Scott Quinnell will take place in the home dressing room of the Welsh squad.
Where next?
For more information on the Testimonial year and for upcoming events visit www.awjtestimonial.com

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An Alzheimer's Patient Goes Missing, But What They Found Him Doing Warmed Their Hearts.
Melyvn Amrine was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three years ago. On May 10, 2014, he went missing. After searching the neighborhood, his worried wife, Doris, immediately contacted the Little Rock Police Department.
After several hours, Sergeant Brian Grigsby and Officer Troy Dillard found Melvyn two miles away from his home. They told him he had to get in the car so they could take him home. That's when Melvyn explained what he had to do…
What a great story! I'm so thankful for the officers going above and beyond to help this man and his family. If this touched you, share this post with others.
Source: CBS Sunday Morning


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Reading texts
The first part of writing in anthropology is learning how to read anthropological texts. Texts in anthropology can come in many different forms — ethnographies, scholarly essays, book reviews, case studies, and site reports, to name a few.
In this unit, you will learn more about how to approach texts in anthropology by: situating texts within a context; grappling with difficult passages, and; applying and reflecting on analytic lenses in your own work.
Situate it
As anthropologists, we aim to understand as much about a social context as we can. This is because anthropological analysis is deeply contextualized: we believe that the specificity of the time and place matters for interpreting any given statement, action, process, event or object.
Contextualize sources and claims
- Who wrote it? What is the positionality of the author?
- When was it written?
- Is it written in a particular academic tradition?
- What are the assumptions that the author makes about their subject, data, evidence, and argumentation that enable them to confidently state what they think?
- What do these assumptions enable the author to recognize, do, or claim?
- What do these assumptions inhibit the author from recognizing, doing, and claiming?
Pay attention to the structure of the argument
- The order in which the author presents points, the structure of the book or the text, parallelism, repetition, and more can help you decode the meaning of the text.
- The context within which statements are made (the text around a particular claim) is not incidental to the meaning of the claim, it is essential to the meaning (meaning in context). Try to remember how the author introduces major claims and where this leads.
Grapple with it
Don't Read Instrumentally
What is the value of reading difficult texts?
Professor Steve Caton discusses how not to read solely for a section or class but for the value of "inhabiting" the text.
Why grapple with a difficult text or theory? Why not just do the easiest and quickest reading you can?
Think of reading theory as building your capacity to move abductively between theory and social life and back again to build stronger understandings of the social worlds.
Grappling with a difficult text trains you for one of the most important aspects of doing anthropological research: reflecting critically on the academic and ideological frameworks through which we encounter our lives, estranging ourselves from them, and considering whether there are better ways to think about complex social phenomena.
You are unlikely to be prepared to "do" grounded theory if you simply take the most easy interpretation of complex material you've encountered before. Be an active reader, grapple with the text, ask questions of the text, and remember any sources of confusion or discomfort for discussion in class, in papers, and with your peers.
Apply and Reflect upon it
While it is true that what we as scholars see and notice in our field sites has as much to do with our own positionalities as it does with the theories we're drawn to, it is also very important that we allow contradictions and challenges from our fields help us reflect back on our own assumptions.
Theory can be immensely useful for understanding what we're seeing in our field sites or in our own lives, but it can also be the case that a particular theoretical framework is not as helpful at understanding something as we previously thought. In these moments, your research can allow you to push back against common theoretical assumptions, and may prompt you to reflect more critically upon the theory itself.
Working with Theory
Professor Steve Caton delves into difficult passages from Adorno's Negative Dialectics in order to illustrate the value of situating it within a context, grappling with a text, and applying key concepts to analysis in his own work. Whatever the type of text, you are most likely going to encounter theory, but this doesn't have to be daunting.
Put simply, theory is a lens or framing device, a means through which the noise of daily life gets filtered into meaningful, understandable chunks for analysis (though, of course, all people operate with ideologies or theories that help them navigate their social worlds whether they are trained as anthropologists or not).
Contextualizing Negative Dialectics by Theodor Adorno
How many times must one read a text to really grasp it? Professor Caton discusses the larger context of Adorno's work and some of the analytic contributions of his research.
To Approach a Constellation: A Close Reading of Adorno
Professor Caton takes us through a close reading of a few passages of Negative Dialectics to demonstrate how we might grapple with difficult concepts in a dense work.
From Abstract to Visual: Dialectical Views of Lawrence of Arabia
Negative Dialectics was a key theoretical driver of Professor Caton's book Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. He discusses how Adorno's work informs his dialectical reading of Lawrence of Arabia.


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"Safe" in The New Quarterly
I'm very excited to see my story "Safe" out now in the latest issue of The New Quarterly (no. 138). The story is about a high school English teacher and his obsession with the murder of Chinese student Jun Lin four years ago. I was worried that no one would take on the story given its subject matter, so I'm very grateful that it found a good home at The New Quarterly. The new issue also has work by Elizabeth Hay, Steven Heighton, Cynthia Flood, and a number of others. Can't wait to dig in! Check it out! Also, learn all about why I do not write at my desk by checking out the TNQ blog here.


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ID a point on the screen and label it with a Mleader.
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The FacetCurve plugin can be used to facet 2D and 3D curves in AutoCAD® to approximate their curvature with a number of straight line segments. The faceted output is in the form of a number of lines
The DwgText plugin allows you to export/import texts and selected entity properties between your DWG drawing and an Excel or text file.
A basic recursive random tree generator in 2D and 3D.
Display internal version of DWG files - the source Autodesk® AutoCAD® release, build number and language.
Loads/Unloads references prior to opening selected drawing file.
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Firmware Update for PocketBook Pro eReaders Adds Multitasking and Other New Features
Earlier in the week, PocketBook's RSS feed pinged about new firmware for the PocketBook Pro line of ebook readers. The actual news article is dated December 16th and the firmware is dated December 15th, so who knows why they waited so long to announce it officially. The new firmware, version 2.1.2, is for the PocketBook […]Read more


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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event 9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Langley Fighters Fly East over Ocean instead of North toward Washington. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
Alan Scott. [Source: United States Air Force]NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) processes and transmits an order to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, to scramble three of its F-16 fighter jets. [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; Christian Science Monitor, 4/16/2002; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 16] NEADS mission crew commander Major Kevin Nasypany instructed his personnel to issue this order one minute earlier (see 9:23 a.m. September 11, 2001). Although he'd originally wanted the Langley jets sent to the Washington area, he will soon adjust this heading to send them to the Baltimore area. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] NEADS Orders Jets North - A NEADS officer calls Langley Air Force Base and instructs: "Langley command post, this is Huntress with an active air defense scramble for Quit 2-5 and Quit 2-6.… Scramble immediately.… Scramble on a heading of 010, flight level 290." This means the jets are to head in a direction just east of north, at an altitude of 29,000 feet. [9/11 Commission, 1/9/2004; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 96; Spencer, 2008, pp. 142] At Langley Air Force Base, a Klaxon horn will sound, notifying the pilots of the scramble order (see 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001), and they will be airborne by 9:30 (see (9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Filson, 2003, pp. 63; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 16; Spencer, 2008, pp. 141] Fighters Launched in Response to Flight 77? - In later testimony, military officials will give contradictory explanations for why the Langley F-16s are scrambled. An early NORAD timeline will indicate the fighters are launched in response to NORAD being notified at 9:24 that Flight 77 has been hijacked (see (9:24 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001] Colonel Alan Scott, the former vice commander of the Continental US NORAD Region (CONR), will suggest the same, telling the 9/11 Commission: "At 9:24 the FAA reports a possible hijack of [Flight] 77.… And at that moment as well is when the Langley F-16s were scrambled out of Langley." [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003; 1st Air Force, 8/8/2006] And a timeline provided by senior Defense Department officials to CNN will state, "NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley" in order to "head to intercept" Flight 77. [CNN, 9/17/2001] In Response to Flight 93? - However, Major General Larry Arnold, the CONR commander, will give a different explanation. He will tell the 9/11 Commission, "we launched the aircraft out of Langley to put them over top of Washington, DC, not in response to American Airline 77, but really to put them in position in case United 93 were to head that way." [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003] In Response to Incorrect Report about Flight 11? - In 2004, the 9/11 Commission will dispute both these previous explanations, and conclude that the Langley jets are scrambled in response to an incorrect report that Flight 11 is still airborne and heading toward Washington, DC (see 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 26-27; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 15] Tape recordings of the NEADS operations floor will corroborate this account. [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006] According to the 9/11 Commission, its conclusion is also confirmed by "taped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 34] Major Nasypany will tell the Commission that the reason the Langley jets are directed toward the Baltimore area is to position them between the reportedly southbound Flight 11 and Washington, as a "barrier cap." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27 and 461] John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, will later suggest that NORAD deliberately misled Congress and the Commission by hiding the fact that the Langley scramble takes place in response to the erroneous report that Flight 11 is still airborne. He will write that the mistaken report "appears in more logs, and on more tapes, than any other single event that morning.… It was the reason for the Langley scramble; it had triggered the Air Threat Conference Call. Yet it had never been disclosed; it was, instead, talked around." [Farmer, 2009, pp. 266-267] Conflicting Times - Early news reports will put the time of the scramble order slightly later than the 9/11 Commission places it, between 9:25 and "about 9:27." [Washington Post, 9/12/2001; CNN, 9/17/2001; CNN, 9/19/2001] But a NORAD timeline released a week after the attacks will give the same time as the Commission does, of 9:24. [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27]
Entity Tags: 9/11 Commission, Kevin Nasypany, Alan Scott, Larry Arnold, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Langley Air Force Base, US Department of Defense, Northeast Air Defense Sector
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Captain Craig Borgstrom. [Source: US Air Force / Austin Knox]The three F-16 fighter jets ordered to scramble from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia (see 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001) take off and, radar data will show, are airborne by 9:30 a.m. [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; Christian Science Monitor, 4/16/2002; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] Delayed during Launch - Major Dean Eckmann will recall that, after receiving the scramble order, he and the two other pilots have "a pretty quick response time. I believe it was four to five minutes we were airborne from that point." [BBC, 9/1/2002] According to the 1st Air Force's book about 9/11, the three fighters are "given highest priority over all other air traffic at Langley Air Force Base" as they are launching. [Filson, 2003, pp. 63] But, according to author Lynn Spencer, in spite of this, the jets are delayed. As Eckmann is approaching the runway, he calls the control tower for clearance to take off, but the tower controller tells him, "Hold for an air traffic delay." Air traffic controllers at the FAA's Washington Center "have not had time to clear airliners out of the way for the northerly heading. Dozens of aircraft at various altitudes fill the jets' route." After having to wait two minutes, Eckmann complains: "We're an active air scramble. We need to go now!" Finally, the tower controller tells him, "Roger, Quit flight is cleared for takeoff, 090 for 60," meaning the fighters are to fly due east for 60 miles (see (9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). Taking Off - The three jets launch 15 seconds apart, with Eckmann in front and the two other jets following. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 143-144] Pilot Craig Borgstrom will later recall, "[W]e took off, the three of us, and basically the formation we always brief on alert, we'll stay in a two- to three-mile trail from the guy in front." [Filson, 2003, pp. 63] According to the BBC, the pilots get a signal over their planes' transponders, indicating an emergency wartime situation. [BBC, 9/1/2002] Could Reach Washington before Pentagon Attack - F-16s have a maximum speed of 1,500 mph at high altitude, or 915 mph at sea level, so the three fighters could plausibly travel the 130 miles from Langley Air Force Base to Washington in just minutes. [Chant, 1987, pp. 404; Associated Press, 6/16/2000; USA Today, 9/16/2001; Washington Post, 9/16/2001 ; US Air Force, 10/2007] Major General Larry Arnold, the commanding general of NORAD's Continental US Region, will tell the 9/11 Commission, "I think if those aircraft had gotten airborne immediately, if we were operating under something other than peacetime rules, where they could have turned immediately toward Washington, DC, and gone into burner, it is physically possible that they could have gotten over Washington" before 9:37, when the Pentagon is hit. [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003] Yet according to the 9/11 Commission, the jets are redirected east over the Atlantic Ocean and will be 150 miles from the Pentagon when it is hit (see 9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] Conflicting Times - Some early news reports after 9/11 will say the Langley jets take off at the later time of 9:35 a.m. [Washington Post, 9/12/2001; CNN, 9/14/2001; Washington Post, 9/15/2001; CNN, 9/17/2001] But according to Colonel Alan Scott, the former vice commander of the Continental US NORAD Region, though the jets are airborne at 9:30, the report of this does not come down until 9:35, so this fact may account for the conflicting times. [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003]
Entity Tags: Brad Derrig, Alan Scott, Craig Borgstrom, Dean Eckmann, Langley Air Force Base, Larry Arnold
Route of the Langley Air Base fighters to Washington. [Source: Yvonne Vermillion/ MagicGraphix.com]The three F-16s that took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia (see (9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001) head east, out over the Atlantic Ocean, instead of north toward the Baltimore area, as NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) instructed when it issued the scramble order (see 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001). [New York Times, 11/15/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] Three Reasons Jets Head East - The 9/11 Commission will give three reasons why the Langley jets go east instead of north: "First, unlike a normal scramble order, this order did not include a distance to the target or the target's location. Second, a 'generic' flight plan—prepared to get the aircraft airborne and out of local airspace quickly—incorrectly led the Langley fighters to believe they were ordered to fly due east (090) for 60 miles. Third, the lead pilot and local FAA controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go '090 for 60' superseded the original scramble order." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] NORAD Commander Blames 'Peacetime Rules' - In his testimony before the 9/11 Commission in May 2003, Larry Arnold, the commanding general of NORAD's Continental US Region, will address the question of why the Langley jets head out over the sea. He says, "When we scramble an aircraft… the aircraft take off and they have a predetermined departure route." According to Arnold, NORAD is "looking outward," and so "our mission, unlike law enforcement's mission, is to protect things coming towards the United States." He concludes, "So our peacetime procedures, to de-conflict with civil aviation's, so as to not have endanger[ed] civil aviation in any particular way." Arnold will also suggest that "peacetime rules" might be partly to blame for the Langley jets heading in the wrong direction. He says, "[I]f we were operating under something other than peacetime rules… they could have turned immediately toward Washington, DC." [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003] According to the Wall Street Journal, the "peacetime rules" Arnold refers to are "noise restrictions requiring that [the Langley jets] fly more slowly than supersonic speed and take off over water, pointed away from Washington." [Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2004 ] One of the Langley pilots, Captain Craig Borgstrom, will later recall that, shortly after the jets take off, NEADS "gave us max-subsonic," which is "as fast as you can go without breaking the sound barrier." [Filson, 2003, pp. 65] Risk of Midair Collision - NORAD official Major General Craig McKinley will tell the 9/11 Commission that "another reason why" the Langley jets are "vectored east originally" is that "the air traffic over the Northeast corridor is so complex that to just launch fighters… into that air traffic system can cause potential damage or midair collision. So we rely on the FAA to de-conflict those corridors." [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003] Jets Far Away from Pentagon - When the Pentagon is hit at 9:37 a.m., the Langley jets have flown nearly 60 miles out over the ocean and are 150 miles from Washington (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27; Spencer, 2008, pp. 151]
Entity Tags: Craig McKinley, Larry Arnold, Craig Borgstrom
At NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), Staff Sergeant William Huckabone is the first person to notice that the three fighter jets launched from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia (see 9:24 a.m. September 11, 2001) are drastically off course. Jets Heading to Training Airspace - Huckabone has spotted the radar returns for the Langley F-16s and notices that, instead of flying north toward the Baltimore area as instructed, the fighters are going east, out over the Atlantic Ocean, apparently toward a military training airspace called Whiskey 386 (see 9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). Unfortunately, NEADS cannot contact the jets directly, as they are out of its radio range. Furthermore, the supervisor of flying (SOF) for the alert unit at Langley AFB is unavailable. [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006; Spencer, 2008, pp. 149] As the SOF, Captain Craig Borgstrom would normally be responsible for communicating with NEADS and getting information to pass on to his jets, but he has taken off himself, along with his unit's two alert pilots (see (9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Christian Science Monitor, 4/16/2002; Spencer, 2008, pp. 118] NEADS Calls 'Giant Killer' - Huckabone alerts fellow weapons director Master Sergeant Steve Citino, who is sitting next to him, to the off-course fighters. He then gets on the phone to "Giant Killer"—the Fleet Area Control Surveillance Facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This is the Navy air traffic control agency that handles all over-water military operations. [New York Times, 2/10/1997; Spencer, 2008, pp. 143, 149] Protocol requires that, because the Langley jets are in Giant Killer's airspace, the Navy facility is responsible for directing them until they reach the airspace of the FAA's Washington Center, where FAA controllers will take over. Navy Controller Unconcerned - Citino and Huckabone speak to the Navy air traffic controller who is handling the three Langley fighters, but the controller appears not to grasp the urgency of the situation. Huckabone says, "Those fighters need to go north toward Baltimore, and now!" The Navy controller asks: "You've got [the Langley F-16s] moving east in airspace. Now you want 'em to go to Baltimore?" Huckabone says yes, and adds, "We're not gonna take 'em in Whiskey 386." He tells the Navy controller that, once the jets are heading toward Baltimore: "Have [the pilots] contact us on auxiliary frequency 2-3-4 decimal 6. Instead of taking handoffs to us and us handing 'em back, just tell [the FAA's Washington] Center they've got to go to Baltimore." The Navy controller responds: "All right, man. Stand by. We'll get back to you." He seems to lack any sense of urgency, and Citino snaps at him: "What do you mean, 'We'll get back to you'? Just do it!" After hanging up the phone, Huckabone jokes, "I'm gonna choke that guy!" Looking at his radar screen, he sees that the Langley F-16s are continuing to fly out over the ocean. [Vanity Fair, 8/1/2006; Spencer, 2008, pp. 149-150]
Entity Tags: Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, William Huckabone, Northeast Air Defense Sector, Craig Borgstrom, Steve Citino
A typical F-16. [Source: NORAD]Accounts differ as to how far from Washington the F-16 fighters scrambled from Langley are when Flight 77 crashes. The Langley, Virginia, base is 129 miles from Washington. NORAD originally claimed that, at the time of the crash, the fighters are 105 miles away, despite having taken off seven minutes earlier. [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001] The 9/11 Commission claims that at 9:36 a.m., NEADS discovers that Flight 77 is only a few miles from the White House and is dismayed to find the fighters have headed east over the ocean. They are ordered to Washington immediately, but are still about 150 miles away. This is farther away than the base from which they took off. [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] The F-16 pilot codenamed Honey (who is apparently Captain Craig Borgstrom) offers a different explanation. As previously mentioned, he says they are flying toward New York, when they see a black column of smoke coming from Washington, about 30 or 40 miles to the west. He is then asked over the radio by NEADS if he can confirm the Pentagon is burning. He confirms it. He says that the mission of the Langley pilots at this time is clear: to keep all airplanes away from Washington. The F-16s are then ordered to set up a defensive perimeter above Washington. [Longman, 2002, pp. 76; Filson, 2003, pp. 66; New York Observer, 2/15/2004] The maximum speed of an F-16 is 1,500 mph. [Associated Press, 6/16/2000] Had the fighters traveled straight to Washington at 1,300 mph, they would have reached Washington at least one minute before Flight 77. Furthermore, at the time the Pentagon is hit, according to Craig Borgstrom, he and the other Langley pilots are hearing a lot of chatter over their radios, but nothing about airliners crashing into buildings. He says they are "all three on different frequencies… and [are] getting orders from a lot of different people." [Filson, 2003, pp. 66]
Entity Tags: Pentagon, Craig Borgstrom, Northeast Air Defense Sector
NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) issues coordinates to the three F-16 fighter jets launched from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia (see (9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001), sending them to Washington. However, the fighters head off in the wrong direction, reportedly because NEADS has accidentally given them incorrect coordinates. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 180-181] Communications Problems - The Langley AFB jets have already mistakenly been sent east over the ocean (see 9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). At 9:36 a.m., the NEADS mission crew commander ordered that they be directed toward the White House (see 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27] However, weapons director Master Sergeant Steve Citino has been having difficulty communicating with the jets. According to author Lynn Spencer, "NEADS radio coverage east of Washington is poor, and the noise level on the [NEADS] operations floor has only been exacerbating the problem." NEADS Issues Wrong Coordinates - Citino now forwards coordinates to the Langley jets, telling them to establish a combat air patrol over Washington. [Spencer, 2008, pp. 180] Apparently, it is Tech. Sgt. Ronald Belluscio, a senior weapons director technician, who contacts the jets at this time, although he will claim he orders them specifically toward the Pentagon. He will say: "I jumped on a frequency, per the senior director, and was told to ask the Langley birds to vector over the Pentagon. I didn't know it had been hit." [Filson, 2003, pp. 65] However, Citino has apparently given out the wrong coordinates. According to Spencer, "He inadvertently transposed two of the coordinates, and the F-16s turned onto a flight path that would take them 60 miles southwest of Washington." Aircraft Instrument Malfunctioning - What is more, as soon as the Langley jets turn onto their new heading, lead pilot Major Dean Eckmann has a problem with his aircraft. The bearing pointer on its horizontal situation indicator (HSI)—the instrument that shows a plane's position relative to its intended destination—freezes. Eckmann therefore has to get the heading from one of the other Langley pilots, Captain Craig Borgstrom. Shortly after sending the three jets in the wrong direction, Citino will contact them again with the correct coordinates (see (Between 9:41 a.m. and 9:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Spencer, 2008, pp. 180-181]
Entity Tags: Craig Borgstrom, Ronald Belluscio, Dean Eckmann, Steve Citino
A fighter and helicopter both fly directly above the Pentagon on 9/11 on the morning of 9/11. Exact time is unknown. [Source: Agence France-Presse]The three F-16s scrambled from Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, at 9:30 a.m. finally reach Washington and the burning Pentagon. The 129 mile distance could theoretically have been covered by the fighters in six minutes, but they've taken a wide detour over the ocean (see 9:30 a.m.-9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). The exact time they arrive is unclear. An early timeline laid out to CNN by senior Defense Department officials will claim they arrive as early as 9:49 a.m., but the 9/11 Commission later claims they only establish "a combat air patrol (CAP) over Washington" at "approximately 10:00 a.m." [CBS News, 9/14/2001; CNN, 9/17/2001; North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; 9/11 Commission, 8/26/2004, pp. 34] Conflicting Press Accounts - Press accounts of when the first fighters reach Washington are highly contradictory. Early news accounts describe fighters arriving from Andrews Air Force Base, not Langley, "within minutes," "a few moments," or "just moments" after the Pentagon crash. [Denver Post, 9/11/2001; Daily Telegraph, 9/16/2001; ABC News, 9/11/2002] Other newspaper accounts inaccurately deny that fighters from Andrews are deployed [USA Today, 9/16/2001] , and some deny Andrews even has fighters available. [USA Today, 9/16/2001] Defense officials will initially claim, "There were no military planes in the skies over Washington until 15 to 20 minutes after the Pentagon was hit"—in other words, 9:53 a.m. to 9:58 a.m. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 9/14/2001] But an ABC News report will suggest that by around 10:00 a.m., "Dozens of fighters are buzzing in the sky" over Washington. [ABC News, 9/11/2002] Fighter Jets Don't Arrive until Later? - In contrast, the New York Times reports: "In the White House Situation Room and at the Pentagon, the response seemed agonizingly slow. One military official recalls hearing words to the effect of, 'Where are the planes?'" The Pentagon will insist it had air cover over its own building by 10 a.m. However, numerous witnesses on the ground, including a reporter for the New York Times who is headed toward the building, will say they did not see any fighters until around 10:40 a.m., or "closer to 11" (see (10:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [New York Times, 9/16/2001; Creed and Newman, 2008, pp. 130-131] According to some accounts, the plane that flies over the Pentagon at that time is Major Billy Hutchison's F-16, launched from Andrews Air Force Base. [Filson, 2003, pp. 81-82; Spencer, 2008, pp. 235-236] NORAD will initially claim the Langley fighters were about 105 miles from the Pentagon when it was hit at 9:37, and the 9/11 Commission will later claim they were 150 miles away (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 27]
Entity Tags: Pentagon, North American Aerospace Defense Command, US Department of Defense, 9/11 Commission
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I took some night photos in Prague and Bruges that I thought were appropriate to the Dark and Creepy motif, so here they are 🙂
Walking around these places at night with hardly anyone around was an amazing experience. In Bruges, it had rained earlier so the cobblestones were wet, perfect…in Prague, it was a foggy night and I watched it drift over the spires of Tyn cathedral and the tower of the Charles bridge.
If you like these, I have an account at Flickr and posted more photos from Bruges, Ghent, Paris, Berchtesgaden, Salzburg, Vienna, Bern, Kandersteg, Prague, and Munich there…here's the link if you want to see more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chromaticblack/collections/72157622661120281/


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Archaeologist uncovers one of the biggest collections of rock art
Douglas Scott discovered a circle of 28 carved rocks which date back 5000 years.
An archaeologist has uncovered the biggest collection of ancient rock art in the Highlands.
Douglas Scott, 64, of Tain, Ross-shire, discovered a circle of 28 carved rocks which date back 5000 years while combing a 200-metre hillside farm in Evanton.
Mr Scott reckons the stones, which have cup-marked shapes cut into them, represent one of the biggest collections of ancient rock art ever found in Scotland.
He revealed he only visited the site, on Swordale Hill, Evanton, after one of his close friends died.
Mr Scott said: "I was first invited up the hill over 25 years ago by a friend of mine who was an archaeologist called Bob Gourlay.
"I think it was 1986 and at the time we found up to 14-15 rock panels with these hollow cup-marks cut into them - and these cup-marks are commonly known from other sites to be works of art carved out 5000 years ago.
"We found quite a few of these rocks and recorded them. We always meant to go back to see if we could find any more but Bob moved away and we never got to do that trip.
"He moved to Austria and four or five years ago he died and so I made it a sort of mission to go and visit the site again in his memory.
"It's taken a while as it's a big site to explore, but what I've found second time around is quite staggering - unknown to everyone, this hillside is actually one of the biggest collections of ancient art in the whole country."
After studying the patterns on the rocks, Mr Scott published a report on his findings and has come to the conclusion that he has found one of the most significant ancient ritual centres in the country, where people used to worship the sun during midwinter sunrises.
Mr Scott said: "I've been looking at rock art over the whole Scotland for the last 30 years and these things are the expression of the beliefs people had 4000 to 5000 years ago.
"The rocks on Swordale Hill all align to where the sun and moon rises and sets in midwinter, which is no coincidence.
"It's all to do with the beliefs these people had - they used the rock art to communicate with their ancestors in the underworld at that time of year.
"People would carve these cupmarks into the rock at the times when the sun was coming up, out of what they believed was the underworld.
"It's something to do with the belief that the spirits, who they thought were their ancestors, journeyed with the sun to the underworld."
Mr Scott, who is a retired silversmith, has lodged his findings with the Highland Historic Environment Record, the Royal Commission of Ancient Monuments and has even produced a photographic guide which he has sent to Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands.
He admits he is a proud man after discovering the major ancient ritual site - the biggest found in the Highlands - and now he wants to spread the word for future generations to visit.
"I'd class myself as an archaeoastronominer, someone who studies how people in the past have understood phenomena in the sky - but it's just a bit of fun for me, I enjoy it," he added.
"This is the biggest collection of ancient rock art in this part of Scotland and it's part of our heritage, but not enough folk know about it and I want that to change.
"I think Swordale Hill is a fascinating place - these people would have used these rocks just like we use paper - and it reveals so much about their behaviour that you can't learn from excavations."
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By Janet Keeping, Leader
Many people who follow this website will already be aware that an oil and gas company called Goldenkey is planning http://pillsarena.com to drill wells within the boundaries of the City of Lethbridge.
There is a lot of pushback on this from people who live in Lethbridge and organizations based there. "No Drilling Lethbridge" has a great web site with model letters to be sent to a variety of politicians, regulators and people representing the oil company: http://www.nodrillinglethbridge.ca/take-action Lethbridge's mayor and city council are unanimously opposed to the drilling proposal.
But other people in the province should also express their views on the wells proposed for Lethbridge. If these wells are approved, a dangerous precedent will be set for the whole province.
Directly below you will see the letter I have sent on behalf of the Green Party of Alberta to the Premier on this matter. We have also written to the company and to the Alberta Energy Regulator along similar lines Make your voice heard too!
The Honourable Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta
307 Legislature Bldg 10800 – 97 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 2B6
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Janet Keeping
Leader, Green Party of Alberta
STATEMENT OF CONCERN RE: GOLDENKEY OIL'S "PENNY PROJECT" in WEST LETHBRIDGE
Goldenkey Oil has provided notification of its intention to drill 3 exploratory wells from 2 surface sites within the municipality of Lethbridge, Alberta, at the following sites:
5-14-8-22 W4M and 16-16-8-22 W4M.
The purpose of this letter is to express the objections of the Green Party of Alberta to these proposed wells and to state our concerns. The Green Party of Alberta has members from all over the province, including Lethbridge.
We agree with the City of Lethbridge that the restriction imposed by the presence of production facilities and pipelines in this case would impede orderly urban development and could adversely affect property values.
On a more fundamental level, we do not believe that the petroleum industry or any other entity should have the right to impose development on a municipality without regard to its zoning or planning regulations, and that ultimately this principle needs to be reflected in legislation, beginning with a policy of not issuing mineral leases within city boundaries.
We also note that the proposed wells will encounter a sour formation. While we recognize that the formation is not expected to be productive in these wells, it is an additional area of concern, given the proximity of residential areas.
We are strongly of the view that the forthcoming application by Goldenkey to drill these or any further oil or gas wells within the city limits of Lethbridge should not be approved.
Janet Keeping


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Each week until the release of Warner Bros.' film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' "Watchmen," Eisner Award-winning retailers Carr D'Angelo (Earth-2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, CA) and Atom! Freeman (Brave New World in Newhall, CA) have reviewed one chapter of the landmark DC Comics graphic novel with a new perspective.
Carr is reading from his "Absolute Watchmen" while Atom! is perusing his well-worn early edition trade paperback. There's also a full set of original issues handy to settle the questions of what was in the first printing and what wasn't.
Joining us to discus the final issue of "Watchmen" is Damon Lindelof, co-creator and executive producer of the popular TV series "Lost" and the writer of the best-selling "Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk" miniseries. The only one of our guests to be quoted on the back of the book, Damon calls "Watchmen" "the greatest piece of popular fiction ever produced."
If you missed previous installments of RE-READING WATCHMEN, you can check out Atom! and Carr's past commentaries right here.
CARR:Â Damon, did you read "Watchmen" as it came out in 1986 or come to it later?
DAMON: No. I read it in '86, one issue at a time. My dad and I would buy it at Forbidden Planet on Broadway in Manhattan. And on the floor of my bedroom in his place (my folks were divorced at that point) I put each issue face down in order to slowly build the clock puzzle.
ATOM!: Something very right about that. It's both incredibly awesome and geeky at the same time. Little Damon with his comics spread out, arms pointing to five-minutes to midnight...
CARR: Have you ever seen anything like this before? A six-page panorama in a comic book? I imagine if you tear out the pages it makes a complete 360. There are a lot of those easter eggs here: the band names like Pale Horse (as in "Death rides a...") and the nom de guerre Krystalnacht. There's an electric car hydrant where the plug is now a bloody smiley face. Even the date November 2, 11/2 is a weird symmetry, 1-1=2
DAMON:Â Now you're just showing off.
ATOM!:Â So much to take in there. My favorite is the ad with Veidt promising you "Bodies beyond your wildest imaginings." But I think I have seen this kind of thing since. Wasn't there an "Ultimates" multipage panorama?Â
ATOM!: Poor Laurie, how many times has she vomited in this story?
CARR:Â Is she vomiting from the teleporting or the killer squid smell?
DAMON: Although, it wasn't the giant squid that killed everyone. It was the implanted cloned psychic's brain that did it! The squid got a bad rap.
ATOM!:Â Ain't that always the way
CARR: But do you buy the psychic thing? It seems more magic than science to me.
DAMON: Well, I think it was smart of Ozymandias to guarantee that people would interpret the "story" he was selling the way he wanted it interpreted. It's like in "The Matrix," when Neo gets this massive download and intones, "I know Kung-fu." Except, instead of knowing Kung-fu, it's terror related to incoming squids from another dimension.
ATOM!:Â Would have been cool if it was a giant red herring instead.
CARR:Â The vaginal design of the monster-"Watchmen" is as much about Freud as Nietzche.Â
DAMON: Wow. I was wondering how long it would take you to work "vaginal" into this conversation.
CARR:Â A new record!
ATOM!:Â He has a special talent.Â
CARR: Is vulvic better?
ATOM!: You have a special vulvic?
DAMON:Â "Vulvic" was the name of my college Heavy Metal band!
CARR: Adrian admits to killing Comedian and the people in New York but there is a casualty he is not directly responsible for: Hollis Mason. His murder is a loose end, though I suppose if the Knot Tops went to the concert, justice is done. It's weird, though. Why, as a writer, kill Hollis if not part of the "mask killer conspiracy?" It's a false proof of Rorschach's theory. I would suggest that the rage murder is essential to Moore's thesis that in the "real world," people would never trust masked heroes and look up to them.
ATOM!:Â Hollis was killed to activate Dan.
DAMON: No. Hollis was killed to show what Adrian was up against. He wasn't trying to save mankind from nuclear annihilation. He was trying to save mankind from itself. And when a bunch of knotheads break into an old man's apartment and beat him to death, that's a very serious problem.
ATOM!: Until just moments ago, I used to think that Hollis was killed to send a message to Dan. Story-wise, Hollis' death motivates Dan, removes some of his fear. But Damon has a point. The attack on Hollis does give us society as another villain.
CARR: Bubastis getting caught in the trap is one of those great character bits that Moore throws in to show how ruthless Ozymandias is. He's willing to kill his pet to accomplish his plan. The sad part is that Bubastis is sacrificed for no reason. Any chance she can pull herself together and returns as the super-powered Dr. Bubastis?
CARR: So who's the Messiah here: Jon or Rorschach? Both sacrifice themselves, right?
ATOM!:Â I always picked Rorschach as more the John The Baptist type.Â
DAMON: Well, I guess I'd say that if anyone's the Christ figure, it might just be the guy walking across water. And who is literally the deus ex machina: the hand of God reaching through the window and smiting Veidt. And by "smiting," I mean "doing nothing."
ATOM!: I don't really care how successful Veidt was. Any life that has an anecdote about a giant angry blue penis coming at you cannot be considered completely a success.
CARR: So in the new world, people start wearing hydrogen atoms around their necks? But there's no vengeance. Adrian lives.
DAMON: Exactly. I think Jon really respects Adrian.
CARR:Â Jon is totally passive. Adrian acts.Â
DAMON: Issue #12 goes out of its way to portray Jon as having a real appreciation for Adrian's plan. In fact, he gets excited by not knowing what's coming next. One could say that Dr. Manhattan doesn't like spoilers.
CARR:Â Well, Jon is clearly caught in some sort of time loop, wouldn't you say?
DAMON:Â As a result of the tachyons?
CARR:Â Well, prior to the tachyons.
DAMON: On Mars? Or just in general?
ATOM!: It looks to me like Jon knows he's walking into a trap. "Very well, if I must..."
CARR:Â He seems resigned to some predestination, reliving everything on some level.Â
ATOM!: No, more like I get the feeling that Jon has a real respect for anybody who can sneak up on him. So, why not, let's go into the death machine. Let's see what happens.
DAMON:Â Well, here's the thing about Jon -- despite Moore's genius in non-linear storytelling, we still don't entirely process how Dr. Manhattan "perceives" time. He can look forward and backward, but only if he wants to.
CARR:Â My interpretation is that he experiences everything simultaneously, which creates a sense of deja vu for him
DAMON: In theory, he should know that Laurie will be freaked out if he replicates for his kinky " menage à trois."
ATOM!:Â Over the issues, I've come to believe that he can see the broad strokes, but not the fine ones. A bit like looking at GoogleEarth but not seeing details until he picks a spot.
DAMON: I think that's a perfect explanation, Atom. But I would ask this: When Jon says in this issue that he'd like to go create some life, doesn't he already know how it will work out? Or has he embraced not knowing?Â
For me, one of my favorite moments in the entire series is when Jon stands over Dan and Laurie sleeping... and smiles. It somehow communicates that he has recaptured a bit of his humanity.
ATOM!:Â And that he hasn't completely ruined her.
CARR:Â Jon is that guy who always has a girlfriend but never seeks one out.
DAMON:Â And sometimes gives them cancer.
ATOM!: All this is nice and all, but I'm imagining the poor CSI tech that had to analyze a bullet that was caught with human hands found at the South Pole from a gun that had been the property of a New York cop. Poor schlub.
DAMON: I want to talk about Rorschach. Question...
CARR:Â He is the Question.
DAMON: Rorshach's face is his everything. In fact, he's literally holding it on as he's fighting Adrian in the previous issue. And yet... once he realizes Jon is going to vaporize him, what does he do? He takes off his mask. And so, the question is this: does Jon kill Rorschach? Or does Jon kill Walter?
ATOM!: Wow. Who knew there were still surprises? Walter kills Rorschach. Jon kills Walter.
CARR: Removing the mask is a symbolic suicide. But it's also saying that you can kill the person who is Rorschach, but not the idea of Rorschach.
DAMON:Â Well, Rorshach makes such a big deal out of that mask and what it means in regards to his identity.
CARR:Â Rorschach lives on in the journal too. "Nothing ever ends."
DAMON:Â I've always felt that Moore's decision to kill Rorschach was the only way to guarantee no one would ever write a sequel.
CARR:Â There was talk of a Nite Owl/Rorschach prequel and a Minutemen series.
DAMON: Thank God it was just talk.
CARR:Â Moore, ironically, thought the book would go out of print
ATOM!:Â Strange to think that this wasn't designed to be read and re-read.
DAMON:Â I've always wondered about Rorschach's decision.
CARR:Â Well, he wasn't going to get very far on foot was he?
DAMON: Clearly, the difference between right and wrong seems very clear to him. But I've always wondered what he thought it would accomplish if he did expose the truth. I think Rorschach doesn't want there to be peace, because he doesn't understand it. And there's no place for him in a world where there aren't animals to put down.
ATOM!: I think the mistake is to think Rorschach thought through longterm. Veidt thought longterm and decided to grow a giant squid. Rorschach knocked heads together until he got an answer to his question.
CARR:Â But is a world without nuclear war necessarily a peaceful one?
DAMON: Well, that's the $64,000 question. Did it work?
ATOM!:Â Wait for the sequel.
CARR: This scene had a very Curt Swan "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" feeling to me. I almost expect Dan to turn to the camera and wink.
ATOM!: No, that would be Veidt's gag.
DAMON: I like Dan's moustache. And blonde hair. I've always wondered if Dan's moustache isn't a new Nite Owl weapon... like a Batarang or something.
CARR:Â Another thought: if Dan and Laurie are still out there adventuring, then it must not be a crime-free world, even if it is safe from the threat of nuclear war.
ATOM!: I just love that Laurie reached that mature moment when you no longer blame your parents for who you are. That really seems to be Laurie's arc. Defined by her mother, defined by her men, defined by herself.
CARR:Â Except she's talking about giving up Silk Spectre II in order to become Comedian II or perhaps, the Comedienne.
ATOM!:Â Leather! I didn't get that. Damn, I'm dumb.
DAMON:Â I'd forgotten that the RR about to run for office was not in fact Ronald Reagan, but Robert Redford.Â
CARR: Still a cowboy actor. Remember, Alan Moore did that book about Iran-Contra, "Brought to Light?" So does the journal get published and does it have any effect.Â
DAMON: Yes. Journal gets published by one of the most disreputable publications in the city.
ATOM!: I say yes to both. So long as it would also end anyplace called Burgers & Borscht. Bleccch.
DAMON: Adrian covered all his tracks, so there is no proof. Only the ramblings of a mad man. It is quickly discredited.
CARR: So does it just feed a legion of anti-Veidt conspiracy theorists, the "Loose Change" of its day? Issue #12 makes me think about 9/11 a lot.Â
ATOM!:Â Agreed.
DAMON:Â This theme, "Kill a few to scare the living shit out of everyone else and thus, spare the lives of many," is an incredibly strong one.
CARR: A nuclear war would have destroyed the infrastructure. Adrian did what he did to preserve society.
DAMON:Â So they can buy more Bubastis action figures.
CARR: And trade their Nostalgia for Millennium, moving from the past to the future. Like Jon does.
ATOM!:Â Dammit, you keep doing that to me. Something else I missed.
DAMON: I love the line in #12 about Dan smelling like Nostalgia. That's a nice piece of writing there.
CARR: And the transition from that shot of silhouetted lovers to Rorschach's mask with a similar design. It's used other times in the book but hits home here.Â
DAMON: I've gotta read the Gibbons book that talks about all that visual awesomeness. That's the stuff I've missed.
ATOM!:Â Damon, can you talk a bit about how "Watchmen" has informed your writing?
DAMON:Â Uh... other than I rip it off every opportunity I get?
CARR:Â I never realized the "Lost" flashback device was inspired by "Watchmen" until you said it in an interview.Â
DAMON:Â From the flashbacks to the non-linear storytelling to the deeply flawed heroes, these are all elements that I try to put into everything I write.
CARR:Â There are no clear heroes and villains in "Watchmen."
ATOM!: Depends on how you define them.  Rorschach is the moral compass. Jon has the power. Veidt has the brain...and a rockin' costume.
CARR:Â Suddenly, it's "The Wizard of oz."Â Or Freud again:Â id, ego, superego.Â
DAMON:Â And I love how fucking risky it is.Â
ATOM!:Â It really could have been an ambitious train-wreck.
DAMON: That it takes a guy like the Comedian, who rapes Sally, and then she lays the ol' lipstick kiss on his photo by the end of the story. And somehow, you buy it. It's sick, but you buy it.
CARR:Â We all know people like that who love the wrong person.
DAMON:Â Rihanna?
CARR: Wow.Â
DAMON: Yes. I just implied that Rihanna is like Sally Jupiter.
ATOM!:Â But you don't know him like she does.
DAMON:Â If that isn't the perfect marriage of geekdom and hip-hop, I don't know what is.
DAMON: I have another question for you guys. Why do you think Adrian wanted to kill Eddie personally? I mean, he could've just blown up his apartment or something. Was it because he burned his map?
ATOM!:Â Not his map.Â
CARR:Â I think it was because of their first Marvel Team-Up moment. Doesn't Adrian tell the story of the first time they met, the Comedian "mistook" him for a villain and beat him up?
ATOM!: True. Maybe he wanted to bring Eddie in? And it didn't take. Maybe it was like catching a bullet. He thought he could, but...
CARR:Â I think Adrian was waiting years for a chance to get him back.
DAMON: It's this -- this conversation that we're having right now -- that has influenced my writing more than anything else. The fact that Moore generated something worthy of forming so many theories, so many questions, so many ideas...
ATOM!:Â This conversation? Talk about non-linear. I inspired "Lost!"
DAMON:Â You inspired "Lost."Â Because you have four toes.
ATOM!:Â Little known fact. Another one? Damon never speaks in the past tense.
CARR: It's the tachyons. Well, twelve issues later and we have reached the end. What a great way to re-read the book.Â
ATOM!:Â My last thought is that it continually surprises me that no matter how many times I read it or talk about it, there is still something else I missed. You scratch a layer of this book deep enough and there's another layer under it looking at you like you're an idiot for not seeing it before.
DAMON:Â God Bless you for doing this because lord knows, I haven't spent enough of my life talking about "Watchmen."
Carr D'Angelo is a member of the Board of Directors of ComicsPRO, the Comics Professional Retailer Organization. and co-owner of Earth-2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, California, the 2007 winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award. Visit them online at: http://www.earth2comics.com.
Atom! Freeman co-owns Brave New World Comics (2008 winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award) in Santa Clarita with his wife Portlyn. Since Watchmen came out the first time, he's lived in 10 different houses, had 5 different jobs, got married, bought a business and had a son. Read it today and maybe you can, too.


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This is somewhat surprising given Notre Dame's notoriously liberal faculty and administration, but it highlights how much a threat to religious liberty the HHS decision on contraception truly is. The University of Notre Dame filed a lawsuit Monday (May 21) challenging the constitutionality of a federal regulation that requires religious organizations to provide, pay for, and/or facilitate insurance coverage for services that violate the teachings of the Catholic Church. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the lawsuit names as defendants Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and their respective departments. The federal mandate requires Notre Dame and similar religious organizations to provide in their insurance plans abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures, which are contrary to Catholic teaching. It also authorizes the...(Read Full Post)


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This summer, Rozalia Project learned that the people we work with make our organization as great as it is. The interns that joined us this summer took our breath away with their perseverance, integrity, creativity, and professionalism. In every location we visited, our partners commented on the high quality of the Rozalia Project interns. We would not have been able to pick up over 40,000 pieces of debris (nor count or sort them) without the tireless efforts of our interns.
Other than just their hard work, the interns made this summer fun, upbeat, and a truly memorable experience. From dancing in immersion suits (viewable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMF7LeK_L5w&list=UUyGuOwTKG35ofRdtruO-qHw&index=2&feature=plcp to jokes around the dinner table to squeals of excitement over interesting sea creatures, we were never short on laughs or good times.
Happily, the interns felt the same. Please read on to see what the interns had to say when reflecting upon their time with Rozalia Project this summer:
"Entering the Rozalia Project late in the summer, I was both excited and anxious. I wondered if the crew would be intimidating, or the tasks overwhelming. I knew virtually nothing about sailing! Instead, I was warmly welcomed by the crew, and indeed, did jump right into work! My responsibilities, although new, were interesting and fun, and I never felt overwhelmed. After the first week in New York, I felt comfortable with caring for and driving the ROV and was ready to learn everything I could about sailing while on American Promise. Rachael, Rebecca and all the crew were so patient and helpful, I tackled sailing in no time! It's an exhilarating experience, which I'm sure I will continue as a hobby. Another activity I'm sure I will never stop doing, is picking up debris! Just the other day, I found myself collecting a Styrofoam packing peanut off the ground and whispering under my breath: "Shipping material" as if another intern was beside me, keeping tally on a Rozalia Project data sheet. As an action/science intern, I feel that I walked away with skills that will allow me to reach my career goals, and experiences and friends that I will never forget. During our last day on American Promise, as we headed back to Kittery, Maine with no wind to sail, our spirits were lifted as we encountered a marine mammal extravaganza of a lifetime! We had Minke whales breach close enough to look us in the eye, and numerous dolphins and seals gliding past the boat just feet away from us. It was an amazing end to an equally amazing internship." – Sarah Kollar
"There is much about the Rozalia Project that defies characterization. It is tempting to call the work that I did for Rozalia an internship, but it was really a lot more than that. While I was on board the American Promise, I was learning, living, adjusting, and growing in ways that cannot be triggered by a simple internship. Similarly, it is tempting to describe Rozalia as a conservation group, but they are actually something more complex. I had the pleasure of being surrounded by new places, new people, new wildlife, and new ideas for the duration of my time with the project. I learned how to work and live in tight quarters with a group of people I barely know, I learned to look at the ocean and the world in a more critical way, and, perhaps most importantly, I realized the importance of safeguarding the world's ocean. Thanks so much!" –Conor Grant
"Things I Learned With the Rozalia Project
· Reprovisioning isn't just a necessity, it's a skill. Feeding eight people, anticipating the week's meals, making sure it will all fit in the reefer, AND that everyone's Wheat Thins needs are met isn't for the faint of heart. That being said, no matter how often you've been, how much you've planned out your trip, or how quickly you need to be done, reprovisioning WILL take three hours, Sam's Club WILL be overwhelming, and you WILL get at least seven bags of Veggie Sticks.
· You have to be a jack-of-all-trades to start and run a non-profit. The number and range of challenges that Rachael and James, and consequently all the crew, face each day can, indeed, be daunting. Today, the sump pump stopped working. Tomorrow we have to go to Staples and make six posters for a booth. Wednesday, you're on dinner and have to walk the dogs.
· Networking is key. The only way the Rozalia Project (or any non-profit, or any company, or any person) can grow and progress in the world is to network. Even what seems to be an insignificant meeting could pan out to be something big. And if it doesn't, it's always nice to have 10 more people in the world telling their friends about the Rozalia Project.
· Real science takes time and often doesn't work. Sometimes you have a great idea and get really excited about testing it and think it's going to work as soon as you throw it in the water. When the Basker took its first plunge, however, this clearly wasn't the case. Although it takes a while, the tweaking, testing, and perfecting can be extremely satisfying. You may even have to get hoisted along the spinnaker pole to make it happen.
· There is trash in the ocean. A lot. Most of it is small, hard to see by the casual passerby, and easily consumed by animals. Even extremely remote locations such as Frenchboro, ME can have their pristine coastlines ruined by rusty traps, lobster bands made in Canada, and colorful bits of microfiber.
· Trash hunting is addicting. What cleaning up trash lacks in glamour, it certainly makes up for in fun. Amidst the scenery of the open ocean or the rocky beaches of Maine, who wouldn't enjoy bending over and picking up other people's litter?! Once you start you literally can't stop (especially Kyle!). I was overcome with pride and respect for our team during the first day of the Frenchboro beach clean-up. Despite incessant rain the eight of us went to work without a single complaint. We literally had to drag ourselves away from the beach, and THAT is awesome.
· We can predict where high densities of trash will be and find it! One of the more exciting discoveries during my month on the AP was that trash accumulates along "tide lines" where two bodies of water either from different currents or of different temperatures converged to form mats of sticks and seaweed. Our first "tideline" tow collected 384 pieces of plastic! The large lines we passed on the sail to Frenchboro had bottles, cans and buckets floating on them. If we can find these convergence zones and tidelines, we can get even more garbage out of the ocean.
· Red Solo Cups sink. They may be great for parties, but these little devils shoot straight to the bottom. It proves that everything we drop into the water, everything we lazily leave on the dock to get blown into the ocean, everything we throw on the ground to get swept out with the rain WILL sink. While it may be out of sight, out of mind, it still poses problems for our aquatic friends. Without the ROV, how would we know they were even there?!
· There is hope for the world. We can clean up the trash! We can use plastics responsibly! We can recycle and properly dispose of our garbage! And the beauty of it all is that children understand this! After watching groups of kids run enthusiastically between the ROV in the Fort Adams basin and the Rozalia Project tent on shore, gnarly-looking PVC pipe held triumphantly overhead, I believe that a change will happen. These kids know that we cannot have trash in the ocean. They know the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. They know that their individual actions will make a difference. This is what can and will solve the world's problems, and I am proud to have been a part of it." –Blais Hickey
"During my internship I managed to fall overboard while at a dock, destroy my phone, tell my mom the wrong day to pick me up and then drop her keys into the ocean! It was by far the most enjoyable internship ever! From sailing for the first time, to waving at seals, to picking up trash on far away islands there was no experience quite like it. Even though things may have not gone perfectly, I realized there's nothing more valuable then packing up and trying something new. All the crazy things that will happen along the way just might surprise you." –Andrew Randazzo
"So often we, being The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, are described as the people who pick up trash. And yes, this is true; we pick up a lot of trash, but we also do so much more than that. This summer, as part of the Rozalia Project team, I learned that cleaning the oceans begins with the removal of one piece of marine debris. While this seems like a basic concept, if you really think about it if every person in the world picked up one piece of trash a day (either from land or the water – all trash on land will become trash in the water), the world would already have over 7 billion less pieces of garbage littering the surface daily. If we each picked up more than one, imagine what we could do. As a science/action intern I spent a large portion of my time working on data sheets, organizing what Rozalia Project and our partners pick up. Analyzing these numbers made me realize how much we can really do about this issue. There was one day where Marina and I spent about 2 hours cleaning 2 or 3 blocks in Providence, RI and with just the two of us in this short period of time, we collected close to 900 pieces of garbage. Everyone knows that marine debris exists, but working with Rozalia Project taught me that awareness is not the only thing we need. What we, as a population need, is the inspiration to pick up that wrapper or piece of paper and toss it in a garbage can or a recycling bin. With Rozalia Project, I feel that not only do I now have the will to eliminate marine debris, but I feel that I have also inspired others to do the same." –Laura Migliaccio
Thanks again for an amazing experience!!! I thought I would share some things I learned and journaled while on American Promise:
1. Don't be afraid to ask questions. If you're learning something new, take advantage of theopportunity.
2. Keep a positive mindset and positivity will follow.
leading you there.
4. Be spontaneous even if it's scary.
5. Don't loose hope in mankind, inspire children.
6. There is no rush in life, you will reach your goals when
you're ready.
8. Don't be shy, there is no reason to be.
9. Everything happens for a reason.
Hope everyone got home safely and the next round of interns are ready for a once in a life time experience with amazing people! - Marina Maze
Some other anonymous quotes from our interns:
"This experience was significant for me in that I completely removed myself from every life comfort and familiarity. I put myself in a totally unfamiliar place and it made me step out of my shell. I became more confident and have realized I am not as shy as I used to be. It taught me to take every moment as an opportunity to learn something about myself and about life."
"This internship was one of the best experiences I have had; it is extremely unique. I love that the second you arrive you jump right in with whatever project is happening in that moment. The bond that forms between everybody on the boat is so special and you really feel like an important part of something great."
"I will continue to be active in my marine debris removal, just like the Rozalia Project is. I will also not be afraid to contact organizations that I am interested in and voice my opinion, or ask to get involved. After the internship, I feel more independent, flexible, spontaneous, creative and pro-active."
"This internship helped to solidify my desire to pursue further education and a future career in oceanography. It was a great way to test the waters of this field of study. After spending time on American Promise, I am now also interested in doing vessel research."
If you, or know someone who might be interested in an internship with Rozalia Project, please check the "join us" section on our website or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
As always, make sure to "like" us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @rozaliaproject, and check out our pictures on pinterest.com/rozaliaproject to see the excitement of Rozalia Project's Fall Tour!
For a Clean Ocean,
Rebecca Inver Moffa
Director of Outreach


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SalvaRx Group Plc selects Abchurch
Abchurch is pleased to announce it has secured the Financial and Corporate PR brief for SalvaRx, a biotech company focused on therapies that leverage the immune system to fight cancer, following its recent successful reverse takeover of 3Legs Resources on AIM.
Immunotherapy is a fast growing and new therapeutic area within oncology. SalvaRx's strategy is to acquire and invest in a portfolio of companies involved in novel cancer immunotherapies. The Company acquired iOx technologies in 2015, a spin-out from Oxford University, and is currently preparing to take its lead compound through to Phase I/II clinical trials.
Julian Bosdet, Senior Partner of Abchurch, commented: "Abchurch is delighted to have been appointed by SalvaRx. The team is looking forward to working alongside the Company and its advisors to communicate the story to City audiences. Cancer immunotherapy is at the forefront of modern cancer treatment. We look forward to enhancing and supporting SalvaRx's progress as it moves forward with its pipeline of promising immunotherapy candidates."
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Home Care in Monticello FL
As your parent gets older, it may become difficult for them to do many of the things they used to do with ease. Although they have a home care provider, they may still choose to handle some daily activities on their own. Activities like bathing and using the bathroom are very personal. Because of that, there are products that exist to help enable your loved one to continue to care for themselves. If they cannot care for themselves, these same products will help their home care provider care for them.
There are a variety of tools on the market today that are designed to make it easier for your senior parent to shower safely. A shower chair is one of them. Showers can be designed with a permanent shower chair built in, or a shower chair can be purchased and set in the shower. Shower chairs are great because your loved one won't have to stand for a long period of time every time they shower.
If you're worried about your parent being able to get in or out of the shower safely, consider having a hand rail installed. The hand rail is installed outside of the shower, but has a grip that extends 42 inches into the shower, enabling your parent to hold it while entering and exiting the shower.
Sitting and standing from a toilet can be difficult for many seniors. The muscles in their legs may have weakened to the point that they require assistance. If they'd like to continue to use the bathroom in private, but need assistance, consider buying a toilet lift. A toilet lift is a unit that sits around the toilet and assists the user by gently lowering them to the toilet or gently helping them rise from the toilet. They are made compact, so they can fit in most bathrooms. A toilet lift can also be an asset to home care providers who care for people who must be present when the senior in their care uses the bathroom.
You can also consider a toilet seat raiser. This is platform that goes at the bottom of the toilet. It lifts the height of the toilet seat, making it easier for your loved one to sit or stand.
There are many wonderful items on the market today that will help your loved one feel independent and/or help your parent's home care provider better care for your parent. Discuss these items with your mom or dad's home care provider and ways of incorporating them into their daily care plan.
If you or an aging loved one are considering home care in Monticello, FL, please call the caring staff at Hopewell In-Home Senior Care today at 850-386-5552. Providing Senior Care Services in North Florida.
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Landcare for Singles 2017 - Rescheduled due to Rain
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17 Jun 2017 - 9:30am to 1:30pm
NEW DATE: Landcare for Singles will now be held on the 17th of June. Unfortunately, the original day was rained out - great for the plants, just not for the planters!
You've heard of speed dating, well this is speed planting. Plant a new plant with a new person every 8 minutes and then join everyone to mingle over a free tasty lunch.
Even if you don't meet your match, at least you will feel fantastic having done something positive for your local environment.
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9 June, 2016
A slightly softer session yesterday for Europe's markets, though theFTSE 100 once again outperformed as oil prices continued to make headway gaining a foothold above the $50 a barrel level and closing at 10-month highs.
While oil inventories still remain at elevated levels, continued supply disruptions in Nigeria have sent output to a 20-year low and this is helping underpin prices. The third successive weekly draw in a row has also helped sustain the uptrend for oil prices, which has been in place now for nearly five months.
With the US dollar also on the weak side there appears to be little in the way to stop the upward momentum behind the move higher in the oil price.
This US dollar weakness has also had another positive side effect, pushing US markets back close to their all-time highs, as the prospect of a US rate rise gets pushed further out towards the end of the year.
Concerns about the Chinese economy also weighed on sentiment after disappointing trade data while there still appears to be no signs of any significant pick up in inflationary pressures either as the latest May CPI data slipped back to 2%, while factory gate prices declined 2.8%. A slightly weaker CPI number reflected a lower than expected rise in food prices as evidence grows that the recent stimulus efforts of Chinese policymakers may well be wearing off.
The flip side of this US dollar weakness has been to push the euro back up once more, and in the process keep downward pressure on European markets, as a higher euro erodes the export competitiveness of European companies.
This is despite the ECB starting its long awaited corporate bond buying program yesterday with the intention of buying around €5-10bn a month of investment grade bonds from companies in the telecoms, insurance and utilities sectors, sending yields to record lows in an attempt to help boost inflation and spur credit growth in the European economy.
The ECB appears to think that by intervening directly in corporate debt markets that these companies will then go out and start investing the money in order to promote further growth in the euro area.
This conveniently ignores the fact that the ECB having already bought €1trn worth of European government bonds sending yields to new record lows yesterday and negative in a lot of cases, European companies can already borrow at record low rates but appear reluctant to do so.
No amount of cheap credit can solve that problem, without fixing the solvency problems in the European banking sector. There is also a wider concern in that the ECB could find itself with a conflict of interest,particularly where insurance companies are concerned.
It wasn't that long ago prior to the financial crisis that bank corporate bonds were investment grade, and given the linkages in the financial system that nearly brought insurance giant AIG to its knees, you really have to question the wisdom of investing in a sector that firstly the ECB has oversight of given its Solvency 2 obligations, along with the precarious state of some of the European banking sector. Any new crisis in Europe's banks could well ripple out through into the insurance sector particular given the well documented problems in Italy.
In essence the ECB will be purchasing the debt of companies that it has regulatory oversight of, which surely has to be a significant conflict of interest.
Furthermore given how small the European corporate bond market is the ECB could end up finding it problematic in extracting itself from a market that is already quite expensive and at record highs.
It will be interesting to see what ECB President Mario Draghi has to say this morning when he speaks at the Brussels economic forum at 8:00BST.
In the UK we rather surprisingly saw a big pick up in April industrial production data which appears to suggest that the UK economy isn't suffering significantly from the current Brexit uncertainty, as the latest GDP estimate from the NIESR came in at 0.5%. We also get the latest trade data for April later today which is expected to show a deficit of -£3.55bn, a slight improvement from the -£3.8bn in March.
EURUSD – while above the 200 day MA at 1.1100, and trend line support from the December lows the bias remains for a move back towards the 1.1400 level and towards 1.1600.
GBPUSD – this week's move up to 1.4660 appears to be keeping the volatility fairy happy which means that we continue to remain stuck in the broader range between resistance at 1.4700 and the recent May lows at 1.4330. Unsurprisingly there is a reluctance to push it strongly one way or the other.
EURGBP – the main resistance on the euro remains just above the 0.7900 level area at the May highs and 200 week MA at 0.7930. While below here the downside bias remains towards 0.7760. A fall back below 0.7720 retargets the 0.7640 area.
USDJPY – key support remains down at the 106.30 area but really needs to push back through the 108.50 area to stabilise, otherwise it remains looks vulnerable to a retest of the 105.50 lows.
The pound has continued to come under pressure in the past couple of days sinking to new 31 year lows around the 1.2800 level against the US dollar and multi-year lows against the yen and the euro as well...
After several days of decent gains European markets slid back yesterday as concerns about the impact of last month's Brexit vote might have not only on the UK economy, but also the economy in Europe more broadly saw investors indulge in a spot of profit taking...
Last week proved to be quite a week for stock markets with the FTSE100 posting its best week since 2011, while the S&P500 also managed to post its best week this year...
Risk premium continues to unwind on hopes that central banks will adopt accommodative monetary policies amid Brexit uncertainties. Global equity markets rebounded for a second day, led by European markets...
Despite a late recovery from the lows last week, European markets had already looked as if they would open sharply lower this morning, after US markets rolled over and fell sharply into their close on Friday, with the S&P500 hitting a three month low...
European markets have plunged today, after UK voters caught complacent markets on the hop by deciding by 51.9 to 48.1 to leave the EU, in the process delivering a devastating verdict on a poisonous Brexit referendum campaign...
Sterling has soared to five-month high at 1.4810 ahead of the EU referendum today. Is the market over optimistic? The rally of risk assets over the past few days has also indicated that the market is trying to price in a remain vote.
While the opinion polls continue to remain mixed with respect to the UK referendum, equity markets appear to be sailing on serenely as we lead up to tomorrow's vote, and we mercifully enter the final day of campaigning...
Despite hitting three month lows last week European stocks managed to stage a late recovery at the back end of last week, and though they did finish the week lower, the late momentum gained is set to translate into a strongly positive start to the new week...


text: Methane (CH4) represents a major product of organic matter decomposition in lakes. Once produced in the sediments, CH4 can be either oxidized or emitted as a greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. Lakes represent an important source of atmospheric CH4, but the relative magnitudes of the internal pathways that lead to CH4 emissions are not yet clear. We quantified internal cycling and methane emissions in three lakes during summer stratification. These methane budgets included: sediment release of CH4 at different depths; water column transport patterns and methane oxidation; methane storage in the water column; and methane emissions to the atmosphere by diffusion and ebullition. The contribution of CH4 carbon, via oxidation by methanotrophic bacteria, to pelagic food webs was also estimated. Despite the very low concentration of CH4 in surface waters, shallow, epilimnetic sediments were major contributors of CH4 to the atmosphere. While 51 - 80% of the CH4 produced in deep sediments was oxidized in the water column, most of the CH4 released from shallow sediment escaped oxidation and reached the atmosphere. Epilimnetic sediments accounted for 100% of CH4 emitted during summer stratification, and 14 - 76% considering the release of CH4 stored in deep water layers during lake circulation after the stratification period; diffusive emission accounted for 26 - 48% and ebullition the remainder. These results indicate that it is important to address transport rates of CH4 from the shallow sediment along with the production-consumption processes when trying to understand methane dynamics and the regulation of lake methane emissions.


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The Remarkable True Story of the Pirate Of the Pacific The incredible true story of William 'Bully' Hayes, the so-called 'Pirate of the Pacific': a story that separates the myth from the man. Famous throughout the Pacific, from the US to Australia and all points in between, Captain Bully Hayes has been the inspiration for writers ranging from Robert Louis …Read More »
Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
Joy is the root of happiness. Joy is a sustainable state that fuels our creativity and inspiration for innovation. It strengthens our ability to attract friends and to get along with others. Learning to cultivate joy is the fundamental secret to success. In this long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan shows us …Read More »
Nathalia Buttface and the Embarrassing Camp Catastrophe
The laugh-out-loud funny girl-series returns – and Nat is more embarrassed than ever! From TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith. Nat's class is going on a week-long field trip to hunt for fossils. Cue mouldy log cabins, potholing, map reading and other totally boring geography-related stuff – all the things that Nat hates…and Dad loves! Of course …Read More »
The Singles Game
The new novel from the author of the bestselling THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA It's a match made in hell. Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high – and no-one plays by the rules.When Charlotte 'Charlie' Silver makes …Read More »
The Lynching
The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could …Read More »
Bohemein Fresh Chocolates
Bring the European Experience to New Zealand At Bohemein Fresh Chocolates, our aim is to bring the high standard of European Chocolate craftsmanship and quality to New Zealand taste buds. We want you to experience the same feeling as if you had just strolled off the boulevards of Brussels, Paris or Prague. We use only fresh, high-quality ingredients. We craft …Read More »
Raglan Coconut
They love each other, surfing, nature, good food, and of course – coconuts! When Mr Coconut decided it was time to go dairy-free due to allergies, Mrs Coconut started experimenting in her kitchen with making coconut yoghurt. It took time to get it right (and lots of taste-testing on Mr Coconut's part!) but soon breakfast became their favourite part of …Read More »
Secret Princesses: Dolphin Adventure
A gorgeous new series about best friends and magical princesses! Charlotte and Mia have been best friends for ever, even though they live far apart. Luckily, the girls share a special secret – they're training to be Secret Princesses, magical princesses who grant wishes for girls everywhere! But horrid Princess Poison is determined to stop them from making wishes …Read More »