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A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested on charges of attempting to pass along classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer. Water on moon scientist accused by US of trying to spy for Israel - World news, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk Stewart David Nozette Espionage Case In other words, H2O was chosen by God to be the Chosen Molecule. Water must keep the Sabbath holy .Naturally, Israel was shocked and dismayed when they heard the news.
Really, where'd you read that? Coz the article you posted simply said the Israeli's had no comment. The complaint does not allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf violated US law. In Jerusalem, where the story broke late at night, Israeli government officials had no immediate comment.
"If" Israel did have anything to do with this, that's really sad. What lower form if one of your own allies spies on you? Now, what if this man acted on his own? Why would any American SPY on his own country? Maybe he's very sick or deranged...many people are that wacked out. I would have rather seen us set up a REAL meeting with a representative from Israel to see if they would have tried to buy the information. Then we'd REALLY know.
According to the articles there is no "if." Israel had nothing to do with it and no knowledge that it was being done. We'd really know what? That the USA was capable of entrapment?
Israel is stupid to do this. We're their big brother, and the last thing they should do is piss us off. This is hardly the first such accusation. It's probably quite likely that, like most spies, he accepted bribes.
"According to the article...." is that good enough for you? Also, you can try to set up a meeting with a person who wants to buy information and that's not entrapment (see Acorn). There is more than one way to set up such a meeting without it being entrapment. Unfortunately, to trust your allies, you have to test them now & again. I'm sure other countries do it to us as well. Because when you get right down to it, any country that spies on another country can't be an ally. Granted, it all gets down to "If" and I have no opinion on this matter because i don't know the facts. But it's pretty difficult to argue against the statement: "Only enemies spy on one another."
Until there's another article stating something different and supplying it's source of information, yeah, it is. It's certainly better than immediately saying "What if," even though everything you've heard so far leads to the contrary - which opening then leads to someone (deliberately or otherwise) misreading what you said and making it something else entirely - as happened right here in the space of half an hour. At 9:23 you said ""If" Israel did have anything to do with this, that's really sad. What lower form if one of your own allies spies on you? insuinating that Israel may have had something to do with it - even though all evidence known so far points to the contrary. You sowed the seed in spite of the facts already mentioned - which is that Israel was not involved and was not charged. This is the USA and people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. At 10;15 Wolfpack took it one step further and said, "Israel is stupid to do this. We're their big brother, and the last thing they should do is piss us off. This is hardly the first such accusation" conveniently ignoring the fact that not only did Israel not do this but that they weren't accused of doing this, either. Except by your "if" insuination, of course. Do you even see how sh*t gets started and why people are so quick to accept lies as truth and do you even see your own moral obligation when you're making the choice between careful and careless in your word choices? Does it ever dawn on you that it's not "micro-managing" to seek the truth before opening your mouth and implying things which have not yet been implied? Can you see the danger involved?
Israel has a well documented history of spying on the US, and of course undermining US political processes. Good example: Charles "Chas" Freeman, Obama's pick to head the National Intelligence Council, has withdrawn from contention for the job. The Daily Beast's Max Blumenthal reported that the leader of the campaign against Freeman was Steven Rosen, a former director of AIPAC awaiting trial on espionage charges, who has a long history of attacking and undermining anybody he deems hostile to Israel. Source: Obama Intelligence Nominee Withdraws - Page 1 - The Daily Beast Nozette allegedly traveled to another foreign country with two computer thumb drives and apparently did not return with them. Prosecutors also quote an unnamed colleague of Nozette who said the scientist said that if the U.S. government ever tried to put him in jail for an unrelated criminal offense, he would go to Israel or another foreign country and "tell them everything" he knows. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/stewart-nozette-picture-s_n_326447.html I don't care if you are of Jewish ,Irish,Italian or Arab descent and you start spying on the US,it is just wrong , our country comes first......USA.It is what it is. BBC Article: BBC NEWS | Americas | US scientist charged with spying
Just an FYI....a comment in a newspaper isn't fact...it's a comment. Fact is backed up by proof. And (as someone already pointed out) this isn't the first time in recent history that Israel has been linked to spying on the US. Shouldn't all of us be hoping this isn't true? But at the same time, keep in mind America's best interest? After all, we're all US citizens.
Wow...I don't know what to say to you. I clearly stated "I have no opinion on this matter because i don't know the facts." I'd say the same thing if the guy were British. "image if that blimey sob actually was spying for England?" Imagine....if he actually were spying for Israel? as is the case in this instance.
"The scientist provided letters with answers containing information "classified as both 'top secret' and 'secret' that concerned US satellites, early warning systems, means of defence or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defence strategy", the justice department said. In return, Mr Nozette accepted cash totalling $11,000, it added." This is just plain WRONG !
Granted - but the sentence directly preceeding this one (which you did not post) said Nozette was a technical adviser for a consultant company that was wholly owned by the Israeli government. Nozette was paid about $225,000 over that period, the court papers say. Which leads me to think that, due to the wording "traveled to another foreign country" that leaves out Israel, which was mentioned by name in the first part of the paragraph, as the country where the thumb drives disappeared. Nozette was an American citizen spying on his own country for cash. It may be that ethnicity had nothing to do with it.
"Nozette agrees to provide regular, continuing information; asks for Israeli passport and the "Right of Return" because his parents are Jewish." Stewart David Nozette Espionage Case He worked for the US , trying to give sensitive informations to another country is wrong. If his parents were french or russians or iranians , i would tell you the same thing. Wrong is Wrong . Traitor.
From the same article - it appears he didn't much care where he went. Nozette tells colleague that if the US Government tried to put him in jail (based on an unrelated criminal offense), Nozette would move to Israel or foreign country "A" and "tell them everything" he knows. Wrong is wrong, I agree. I also agree he was/is a traitor. I wonder, though, if the FBI had pretended to be a country other than Israel, would the outrage be the same or less or worse? Seems to me that he was more interested in cold hard cash than he was in actually helping another country. "Well I should tell you my first need is that they should figure out how to pay me....they don't expect me to do this for free."--Nozette to UCE Nozette indicated to undercover agent that he could be paid in cash up to $10,000. "Cash is fine…[I know] how to handle cash...you buy consumables…cash is good for anything…you can eat it, drink it or screw it."
That "it's stupid" isn't really a convincing reason that Israel did not and has never spied on America. There are multiple people in prison right now, after being convicted of spying for Israel and passing along top secret American information. How do you think they got the A-bomb. Woops, I forgot, nobody including them officially admits they have the bomb. Also, not surprisingly, there is a ton of outcry even now trying to get these traitors out of prison.
Completely agree that it's wrong. Those defending him right now are acting ethno-centrically whether they want to admit it or not. Reminds me a lot of the biased-no-matter-what individuals defending Roman Polansky.
Nobody's "defending him." Why would you even say that, fer cryin out loud? Show me one instance in this entire thread where someone defended him.
It wasn't meant to be a denial that Israel spies on America and I apologize if it came out that way. Given the fact that articles like this come around every 6 months or so, I have no doubt whatsoever that Israel spies on the United States (even if this specific allegation turns out to be untrue). It is, IMHO, stupid for them to do it but they are doing it anyway. I remember a couple years ago a petty office in the US Navy was found guilty of doing just such a thing. I think they were given the a-bomb outright; I don't think it was "stolen" or anything like that. I don't think it's treason, but it should have severe consequences nonetheless.


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The collective welfare of crop plants, their microbial symbionts, farmers, and society can be undermined by tragedies of the commons. A crop could increase resource allocation to grain if each plant invested less in sending roots into soil already explored by neighbors and less in stem growth. But evolutionary fitness depends on which plants capture the most soil resources and light (e.g., by growing taller than their neighbors), not just on the efficiency with which those resources are used. As for symbionts, with several strains infecting each plant, only host-imposed sanctions limit the fitness of strains that divert more resources to their own reproduction, at the expense of activities that benefit their host plant. Similarly, individual farmers do not necessarily benefit from pest- and resource-management practices that benefit farmers collectively or society as a whole. Plant breeders have increased crop yields by reversing past selection for individual fitness and they could breed for crops that would favor more-cooperative microbial symbionts. Better aligning interests among farmers and society may be more difficult.
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- Title
- Increasing cooperation among plants, symbionts, and farmers is key to past and future progress in agriculture
- Journal
Journal of Bioeconomics
Volume 16, Issue 3 , pp 223-238
- Cover Date
- 2014-10-01
- 10.1007/s10818-014-9179-7
- Print ISSN
- 1387-6996
- Online ISSN
- 1573-6989
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Agriculture
- Cooperation
- Tragedy of the commons
- Symbiosis
- Plant breeding
- Pest management
- Authors
- R. Ford Denison (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Ecology Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN , 55108, USA


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DUBLIN, Ohio -- There were no signs of the injury that knocked him off the golf course three weeks ago but plenty of evidence that the inactivity is affecting his game.
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Tiger's impressive play in the Memorial Skins Game notwithstanding, the nature of his neck injury indicates the complexity of dealing with the ailment this week and for the foreseeable future. Stephania Bell
Tiger Woods shot even-par 72 on Thursday during the opening round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club, where he was unable to birdie any of the par 5s and made just two all day.
The effort, in his first round since withdrawing from The Players Championship with a neck injury, left him seven strokes back of first-round co-leaders Geoff Ogilvy, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler.
"I haven't played," Woods admitted. "This is my 10th round of the year. Usually you're like that in January. Here we are in June. I need competitive rounds. Hopefully I can make some birdies and get up there."
Woods is playing his fourth tournament of the year after his well-documented leave from the game.
After returning to competition at the Masters, where he tied for fourth, Woods missed the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship and then withdrew from the final round at The Players with what turned out to inflammation of a joint.
Following rest and rehab, Woods returned to the Memorial, tournament he has won four times, including last year. But he struggled with various parts of his game, especially short-iron shots. Five times he stood 100 to 121 yards from the green and never managed to hit it closer than 13 feet.
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110% agree with MurkyMar's comment! a short but proper recession could be a cure to what's happening in the USA right now.
I think by bailing out the troubled banks in the US, flushing the banking system with liquidity and lowering interest rates in general, the fed has facilitated a commodity boom. If the banks and speculators were not bailed out to such an extent, they would have had much less money to speculate in the commodities market and prices would have been lower.
I don't think the Fed has done any good to the US or the world economy by cutting interest rates and facilitating a loose monetary environment. What is the need for such a large scale bailout of banks in a free market economy. Let them pay for their mistakes and vanish.
It seems the central bankers are too impatient to wait for the real economy adjustments to come into play to resolve the crisis. They just jump in with loads of money everytime there is a problem, thereby aggrevating it in the medium term.
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America is bullet proof. It has debased the dollar yet it has low inflation (PCE or otherwise it is not startling). It is at the heart of the current crisis, yet stock markets in the US have fared better than many other markets ( and technically it has not even dipped 20% from peak). It has not had a run on the bank and the UK has. And it has been 9 months since things blew up and still no negative GDP growth.
What a benign crisis, worst crisis in half a century? Does not seem like it at all.
I think this crisis has more time left to live. The last quarter GDP figure was not negative, but there was a sharp increase in inventory (which means weaker growth ahead). It also means people are not buying up those items for inventory to pile up. The weak dollar has helped exports as the article mentioned, and exports are only going to rise as more production moves to the United States (BMW and Mercedes is expanding production; and Airbus is thinking of opening a production facility in Alabama).
But, as for a firm recovery... I think the median (not average) American has been in a slow recession since 2001. Median incomes have fallen in that time. The growth of the last few years have been due to two things: 1) wealthy individuals getting wealthier. 2) higher debt leverage by consumers, not for investment but consumption. This will harm future consumption and thus suppress future economic growth.
As for the stock market. We have been up this year, but most markets are far higher than they were in 2000. The Dow is not so far higher than it was back in 2000. If they're falling, it's because they've grown a lot while we haven't. Secondly, a weak dollar makes US assets cheaper for foreign investors, such as soverign wealth funds, driving up the price of US equity.
I also know that the banking sector is the first to hit a crisis, while there is a lag in other sectors. The last sector to feel a pitch in consumer spending. I think all of that will come in its due time. For small countries, crisis happens very swiftly and so does recovery. But Japan and Germany in the 1990's, and the US in the 1930's shows that for large countries, a crisis is never severe. It's just low painful growth for a long time.
America is bullet proof. It has debased the dollar yet it has low inflation (PCE or otherwise it is not startling). It is at the heart of the current crisis, yet stock markets in the US have fared better than many other markets ( and technically it has not even dipped 20% from peak). It has not had a run on the bank and the UK has. And it has been 9 months since things blew up and still no negative GDP growth.
What a benign crisis, worst crisis in half a century? Does not seem like it at all.
Ben knows he has got it under control. The so called tight lending conditions nullifying the rate cuts? Well, its a function of recapitalizations and SWFs are leading the charge, it is way better use of money than watching the value of their dollar reserves shrink. And if that does not happen fast enough, watch Ben BUY mortgages, auto loans, credit card loans, bar tabs outright at 99 cents of the dollar.
How about getting the BIS to change the capital ratio requirement to I dunno 1.5% tier one?
When this is over, "unprecedented" will be a difficult word to use.
He was a student of the Great Depression. A classic recession will not happen on his watch. Hyper inflation, now that is another story.
I wonder if globalization has led to the blunting of monetary policies, i.e. to fight inflation.If worldwide inflation of commodities and staple foods is due to too much liquidity on a global scale, how would the action of a single central bank be able to dampen demand? Unless a majority of central banks move in-step, the international carry trade could easily siphon off money from one locale and deposit that money in a place with higher interest rates. This would dampen the stimulative effect of lowering interest rates, no?I wonder if this is what happened to Japan during their lost decade (which seems now to extend further than a decade) when they had their low interest rate regime.Is this also what happened in the United States when the Feds were raising the Fed Funds Rate, while foreign countries, keep supplying money to the US market, keeping long term rates so low that we got this lending bubble that just burst last year? It seems the Fed's rate increases have not had much of an effect on inflation.
Lower interest rate will depreciate the US dollar...therefore, the prices on dollar based commodities must go up in order to maintain the same price on non-US currencies. Lower interest rate means that American Blue Chip stocks are on fire sale...hmmm, how does Citigroup of Dubai sound?
Sorry, You have lost me. What have interest rates to do with commodities; you did not explain that?
What if interest rates rose in the U.S? Shouldn't that raise the dollar versus the euro, thereby limiting the U.S. importation of inflation? Of course that means no more exports-fuelled growth, but U.S.'s exports don't really generate jobs . I really think that the U.S. economy, on a fundamentals basis, needs a deep short recession to clear the risk-averseness mentality, and to create a new lower base for future growth to spring from.
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Disclaimer: This map is based on the Girl Genius-inspired map of North America by Ephraim Ben Raphael (and made with his permission), depicting Europe in the same universe.
In summary, on December 21, 2012, one in every 10,000 people become mad scientists, or sparks, similar to those in the Girl Genius webcomic. Hilarity (and nastiness) ensues.
Thank you for your attention. We will now proceed with the tour:
The year is 2020, eight years after the Great Breakthrough that caused so much havoc on the world. Now, most of those areas that can still be classed as civilised are ruled by mad scientists.
In the ensuing anarchy following the emergence of the spark, it was those same sparks who were best positioned to capitalise on the chaos, and create the new world order. The ordinary people generally submitted to them because anything literally anything would be better than the world falling around them constantly.
Though the emergence of the sparks was largely random, for some reason no ones ever convincingly explained, many old noble and royal houses have quite strong ones amongst their number. But that could just be chance. Sparkiness does seem to run in families, though, so there is likely to be some genetic component to it.
Fortunately, no-ones figured out how to destroy the world yet. Not through want of trying, though planets are really hard to blow up.
Britain is one of the very few global powers left in the world, in as much as that term can be said to be valid anymore[1]. It is certainly one of the few European countries to have benefited overall from the events of December 2012, if purely by chance. Prince William turned out to be one of the most powerful and charismatic sparks in Europe; following the death of both Prince Charles and the Queen, he secured control of most of the country quite quickly. Fortunately, he managed to convince enough minor and middling sparks to submit to him to allow this in exchange, he ennobled the lot of them, and granted a few dozen of the most powerful/loyal of them various satrapies and seats in the (now far more powerful) House of Lords. Since then, he has declared himself Emperor, with the establishment of the New British Empire.
Though there are still local elections (but the councils have to work with the sparky satraps), the various parliaments and assemblies are largely talking shops. However, despite being the most politically powerful British monarch since Henry VIII[2], the Emperor at least allows a modicum of democracy to remain, which is more than can be said for other countries in Europe.
Britain has territory in Canada and the Caribbean[3] and elsewhere around the world; including holdings in Europe. Apart from Gibraltar, the New British Empire includes Malta, Calais, Dunkirk as well as Normandy (which includes the Channel Islands), which the Emperor rules as duke. The various minor Irish states agreed to give him the cursory title of High King of Ireland in July 2015, recognising William as their overlord in exchange for his assistance in maintaining order. Britain also has various allies and protectorates on the continent Flanders, Brittany, Alençon, Gascony, Cyprus, Bergen, and a few petty states in the Mediterranean.
His Britannic Majesty is not without opposition, however apart from the odd minor spark that gets the wrong idea (i.e. that the King-Emperor shouldnt be in charge), there are more organised groups, such as a revived and spark-boosted IRA (which operates throughout Ireland) and others that oppose his rule elsewhere.
On the plus side, British industry is booming again
France is interesting to say the least. There are two claimant French Republics, one based at Amiens, the other at Toulouse. The three pretender lines (Legitimist, Orleanist and Bonapartists) each have their own state; there are two Third French Kingdoms, and the Third French Empire. The Îsle-de-France is ruled by a despot, the so-called Master of Paris, who has so far declined the mantle of a third claimant Republic. Apart from the British protectorates and holdings in the north and west, there is also the Kingdom of Burgundy[4], and an episcopal state at Avignon, more on which later. Unfortunately, the Massif Central is a wasteland, populated by ravening monsters and deranged robots, remains of the devastating war between the sparks of Limoges and Auvergne the survivors defend themselves with whatever they can scavenge that doesnt blow up in their faces.
Iberia isnt much better off. The rump Kingdom of Spain is ruled by a sparky Junta in the name of King Philip VI (son of Juan Carlos). The other major states include the nominally socialist Catalonia and the Kingdom of Valencia (ruled by a Carlist claimant). Portugal has broken into three pieces; the northern portion is ruled by someone who claims to be related to the last king, Manuel II.
The previous president-for-life of Andalucía learned the hard way why you do not f**k with the New British Empire. After attempting to invade Gibraltar in 2016, his palace was destroyed by kinetic bombardment from the flying battleship HMS Illustrious, while the invading army was forced to flee from the engineered creatures of the Chimera[5] Regiment. Seville subsequently declared its independence, and continues to be pro-British; Murcia and Albacete fell into Valencias orbit; while Algeciras and Malaga were turned into British protectorates[6]. The current ruler is naturally rather more pragmatic when it comes to dealing with the great powers of Europe.
Extremadura and some of the surrounding area is also wasteland, similar to Frances, while the Balearics are divided between Valencia, Catalonia and the New British Empire.
The sparks of Italy have decided to refer to Leonardo da Vinci a lot, especially with the clockpunky stuff some of them have turned out. Apart from the restored Savoyard Kingdom of Italy and the colonialist Serene Venetian Republic[7] in the north, and the Kingdom of Naples in the south (not ruled by the Bourbons, though), there are a number of small republics squashed in between. However, they are too powerful to warrant the bigger states trying to annex them again (again).
Apart from the minor holdings of Naples and the NBE, Sicily is mostly ruled by spark-assisted Mafia. Unfortunately, one of them tried to use Mount Etna as a doomsday weapon, which failed miserably; apart from really colourful ash fields, the only other things there are whatevers escaped from his labs some of which have started to breed
There are a lot of rival Papacies Rome, Avignon, Santiago de Compostela, Ravenna, Krakow and Augsburg. Each of these has a number of different states recognising them as the true Pope (usually states that are nearby).
Switzerland is split between Bern and Zurich, both of which have taken to clockpunkyness as much as the Florentines have (which is a lot). Some bits have been nibbled off the edges by bordering powers, though.
Youll notice the area around Geneva is a wasteland. One of the few cases of coordination between the major spark powers (and that took some doing, let me tell you) they carpet-bombed CERN rather than let the local Joker-crazy spark turn the LHC into THE ULTIMATE WEAPON!!!. Fortunately, he hadnt finished modifying it. Unfortunately, the stuff he had modified reacted badly to the stuff in the weapons (just goes to show, huh). Nowadays, the neighbouring countries have heavily fortified their border with the Geneva wastes trust me, you do not want to go in there unless you have (a) an army, and (b) a strong stomach. Theres even a massive electrified net stretched across Lake Geneva the bordering countries have agreed to joint naval patrols.
The Balkans are home to three major European powers, all of them fairly decent places to live in as long as you (a) arent too fond of voting rights and criticizing the establishment, and (b) generally behave yourself. The first is the Habsburg Empire, ruled by a grandson of Otto von Habsburg (RIP). So far, theyve not only expanded Austrias borders a bit, but carved out a nice sphere of influence around them; the Habsburg puppets all acknowledge the Archduke as Emperor the title is more than just a courtesy one. They contest influence in Pannonia with the Grand Principality of Transylvania[8]. The Transylvanians are big on electrical-based stuff there are Tesla coils strapped to everything when it comes to the royal army; but whatever you do, if youre in Cluj, dont go near the castle[9] unannounced, unless you want to be turned into spare parts. The other Balkan power is the Third Bulgarian Empire. The rest of the Balkans is, well, balkanised. There are six Greek states, two Serbian ones, two Croatian (and a large Venetian province), three out of Bosnia, and an enlarged Albania and Montenegro.
Germany is just as chopped up as the rest of the continent. The royal houses of Baden, Saxony, Hanover and Bavaria have re-established themselves, and carved out states roughly corresponding to their ancestral domains. Apart from the two Danish protectorates and the vast wasteland between Magdeburg and Posen (the sparks in and around the Lander of Brandenburg were totally nuts), there are the republic of Swabia and the Augsburg Papacy.
Many people thought that the European Union couldnt survive the emergence of the spark. They were wrong. Grand Duke Henri showed them (showed them all), by seizing Brussels and Strasbourg, and going on to take control over large parts of the Low Countries, France and Germany. The Pax Luxembourgia, also known as the United Empire of Europa, also dominates several minor states, who arent quite willing to join the union fully just yet. The Grand Duke rules his empire with an iron fist in a velvet glove, mostly operating on the policy of dont make me come over there! and when you make him come over there, he kicks your arse without remorse. Many an uppity sparky vassal has come to a sticky end thanks to the Grand Ducal robotic army.
The remaining independent part of the Netherlands has detached itself from the rest of by flooding parts of the canal network, as well as all of Flevoland. The western bank of the new Lek Straits is one of the most heavily militarised waterways in the world. Make all the clogs and windmill jokes you want Holland[10] is an island fortress[11] that would make the Burmese Junta proud.
Poland is also in bits, which feud with each other constantly. The Tsardom of Galicia is the most powerful of these, having annexed a good chunk of the Ukraine thanks to judicious use of biological weapons; you do not want to mess with this guy, or hell strap you to one of his machines. They dont call him the Prince of Nightmares for nothing
Lithuania has also expanded. The self-proclaimed Grand Duke may be a nicer guy than the aforesaid Tsar of Galicia, but thats like saying being branded with a red-hot poker is better than with a white-hot one. Anyway, hes more of a death-through-energy-weapons sort of chap.
Following the obliteration of Stockholm (that spark might have been swapping notes with the guy in Haiti), Sweden fell apart completely. By now, there are three self-proclaimed kingdoms of Sweden (the house of Bernadotte hasnt fared well at all). Norway has also splintered, following the devastation wrought on Oslo and the surrounding countryside; the Republic of Bergen only survives thanks to backing from the New British Empire, while the Kingdom of Norway is now based out of Lillehammer. Most of the north has descended into petty feudalism, under the so-called Polar Ice Lords. Denmark annexed a good portion of the Swedish coastline, and established a puppet government on Gotland.
Turkey is in several bits. There is the restored Ottoman Empire in the west, the Republic of Turkey based at Ankara, and the Islamic Republic of Turkey based at Konya, all of which claim to be the true Turkey. Meanwhile, the Technocratic State of Trebizond and the Republic of Cappadocia try to stay out of their way.
Eastern Europe is a complete mess. Russia fell apart completely following the devastation of Moscow and St. Petersburg; the shattered remains of Kiev are at the southern end of the Pripyat Wasteland lots of bug-like beasts roam around there.
The self-proclaimed Hetman of the Crimea rules the most liberal of the post-Ukrainian states, and has lots of cool boats. Hes currently getting Transylvania and Bulgaria to haggle for his friendship.
Meanwhile, the Romanovs are back with a vengeance. Based out of Volgograd, now restored to its old name of Tsaritsyn, the cyborg bear cavalry and mutant Cossacks ensure that the Emperors word is law. Fortunately, the current Tsar is firm but fair (though a believer in Authority Equals Arsekicking), rather than the total nutcase that controls the Russian Republic who sees the likes of Ivan the Terrible or Vlad the Impaler as role-models, if a bit soft.
[1] Mad scientists manage to be much better for MAD than nukes, mostly because they are 100% (un)natural and organic (most of the time).
[2] Possibly ever. After all, his ancestors didnt have huge armies of robots and mutants backing them up
[3] See previous map for details.
[4] This is AH.com, after all. Theres got to be a Kingdom of Burgundy.
[5] Part lion, unicorn and dragon representing England, Scotland and Wales respectively with a bit of cybernetic enhancement thrown in for good measure.
[6] Though they are administered more like colonies.
[7] The self-proclaimed Doge has a taste for body modification. Dont mess with him if you want to stay looking noticeably human. You have been warned
[8] Sometimes, these things just work out
[9] *dramatic thunderstorm sounds*
[10] Now a rather more accurate term for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
[11] Albeit one financed by Denmark, the northern French states and especially the New British Empire.
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What font did you use to write with in the map?
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haha, thats funny, the most densly populated part of holland is left as uninhabited but the least dense part is labeld a country xD
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No - if you look closely, Holland is in *white*. Sparcely inhabited is in tan.
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Feb 16, 2012
ahh, now i see it xD (epic fail)
but one more question, why is that part of holland drifting away into the sea??? That might be of some concerne for the inhabitants :s
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If you read the description, it was due to seriour trench building. The landmass isn't going anywhere.
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ahh, i didnt get round to reading the whole thing. Was pretty tired and didnt have the energy (feels stupid now
But what a shame, we would have really had an internationally recognized sealand
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That does look like a messy world...unless you're British, Danish or Austrian...
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We are delighted to report that we have reduced The Achievement Gap* for our year 11 students in receipt of the Pupil Premium in 2012/13. At Eastbury, 56% of the year 11 cohort in 2012/13 received Pupil Premium. The targeted spending of our additional funding is having a demonstrable impact on student achievement in all year groups.
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(* The Achievement Gap is the difference in performance between children from low-income families (Free School Meal / FSM) and children in care (Looked After Children / LAC compared to that of their peers in public examinations (GCSEs). Nationally, FSM / LAC children are not performing as well as their peers in GCSEs.
At Eastbury we are committed to ensure all students, regardless of family background, achieve to the highest standards. Our mission 'Getting the best from and for all our learners' is fast becoming a reality).
Student Attainment Overall % 5 A*-C (including English and Maths) = 63% (-4% of 2012 but with a cohort of 290 students, 5% point improvement on 58% in 2011, 20% point improvement on 43% in 2010) (3% above National average, 60%, 2013).
Non FSM/LAC % 5 A*-C (including English and Maths) = 68% (Reduction from 2012 but large cohort with additional students placed in alternative provision, 4% point improvement on 64% in 2011, 29% point improvement on 49% in 2010) (in line with National average, 67.9%, 2013).
FSM/LAC % 5 A*-C (including English and Maths) = 58% (Reduction from 2012 but large cohort with additional students placed in alternative provision, 5% point improvement on 53% in 2011,) (17% above National average, 41%, 2013).
Eastbury Achievement Gap 10% (Gap remains at 10% as 2012 following a drop from 21% in 2011) (17% below National in 2013)
Student Progress 2013
Overall 3 Levels of progress English 87%
Overall 3 Levels of progress Maths 64%
Pupil Premium - FSM / LAC 3 Levels of progress English 83% More than expected progress 46%
Pupil Premium - FSM / LAC 3 Levels of progress Maths 60%
More than expected progress 33%
Non-FSM / LAC 3 Levels of progress English 94%
Non- FSM / LAC 3 Levels of progress Maths 69%
The impact is very encouraging; the achievement of our FSM / LAC students is accelerating and catching up with that of their peers. The Achievement Gap is closing.
Plan for 2013/2014 and beyond
The Government allocated a specific pupil premium grant to every school beginning in 2012/2013 (this will increase in future years). The grant is distributed @£900 per free school meal (FSM) and Looked After Child (LAC) student. We have implemented a research-based approach utilizing evidence both from the Sutton Trust and from encouraging all staff to network and bring ideas and experiences from colleagues in the borough and across the capital. This year we have also taken a more individualized approach when evaluating the suitability of options choices for our FSM/LAC students as well as students from other underachieving groups. Following the success of the Literacy intervention programme we will continue this work and extend it into numeracy, at the same time we are moving to reskill and support TAs and mentors to maximize their impact.
Pupil Premium Report September 2012 Appendix 1 - Spreadsheet Pupil Premium 2011-2012 Appendix 2 - Spreadsheet Pupil Premium 2012-2013 Appendix 3 - Spreadsheet Pupil Premium 2013-2014 |