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Seven years ago in the pages of Wired, I made a $1,000 bet with self-described neo-Luddite Kirkpatrick Sale. I was irked by his assertions of the coming collapse of civilization-as-we-know-it, and I challenged him to bet on his prediction that by 2020 we will suffer the convergence of three disasters: a global currency collapse, significant warfare between rich and poor, and environmental problems that render whole continents unlivable. The bet forced both of us to refine strongly held beliefs, and because our predictions were now public, our reputations were on the line. On the judgment date of our bet, my ideology or his will gain credence.
This is what public wagers can do: sharpen logic, filter out the halfhearted. Sometimes they can even alter collective views and shape society.
In 1980, biologist and ardent environmentalist Paul Ehrlich was so certain that natural resources would become scarce and expensive that he publicly bet iconoclast Julian Simon that the price of five mineral commodities (copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten) would rise in 10 years. In fact, by 1990 prices had plummeted by almost half, and Simon won the bet easily. Simon was a prolific skeptic of environmentalism, yet nothing that he ever wrote had as much impact on the course of culture as his wager with Ehrlich. That single, relatively small bet transformed the environmental movement by casting doubt on the notion of resource scarcity.
In the world of science, making a bet is a customary form of accountability. The earliest scientific wager on record was between the astronomers Johannes Kepler and Christian Longomontanus in 1600. Kepler bet his arch rival that he could derive the formula for the solar orbit of Mars in eight days. He lost. Although his slow calculations were correct and spawned modern astronomy and physics, they took him five years.
Since then, betting on future discoveries has been rampant among scientists and technologists. Robin Hanson, an assistant professor at George Mason University, has set up a prototype market where bettors back scientific ideas as a way to inform and guide research funding. He imagines these as "idea futures," much like corn futures "except that you bet on the settlement of a scientific controversy instead of the price of corn." But whereas Hanson's market involves no actual exchange of money, many bets involve real stakes. Maurice Goldhaber, a particle physicist, bet a colleague $500 that his brother Gerson, also a particle physicist, would never find the antiproton he was looking for, because it did not exist. Maurice lost. And so did Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, who made the same bet against particle physicist Emilio Segre. (The antiproton was discovered in 1955.) The historian Allan Franklin counted at least three wagers on whether left-right symmetry (parity) is maintained in subatomic reactions. In 1957, researchers determined it wasn't, and one of the notables who lost this contest (at 50-1 odds) was the legendary physicist Richard Feynman.
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking has made a number of high-profile wagers on future discoveries. In 1975, he bet Kip Thorne a subscription to Penthouse (the loser would get it mailed to his home) that a celestial mystery named Cygnus X-1 would turn out to be a black hole. It didn't. In 1991, he again lost to Kip Thorne, betting $140 and a T-shirt "embroidered with a suitable concessionary message" that a naked singularity could not exist. (A singularity is assumed to be the cosmic weirdness at the heart of a black hole; a naked singularity would be the weirdness of a point with infinite mass appearing outside the shell of a black hole.) Although no singularity, either naked or clothed, has ever been spotted in space, Hawking reluctantly conceded to Thorne in 1997 when Matthew Choptuik proved mathematically that the phenomenon was theoretically possible. Ever game, in December 2000, Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs Boson - labeled by headline writers as "the God particle" because it apparently gives matter its mass - will be discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron, the most powerful accelerator.
This kind of informal accounting of scientific forecasts often has subtexts. In the early 1980s, theorist Frank Shu bet observational cosmologist George Djorgovski 100 gallons of gasoline (at the tail end of the oil crisis, gas was precious) that, by January 1, 2001, theorists would have determined several cosmological constants (such as the density of the mass of the universe) to such high precision that the job of observers (like Djorgovski) would be simply to confirm the predicted value. Nearly 10 years later when things were looking especially good for the theorists, stubbornly optimistic Djorgovski made a parallel bet with David Spergel at Princeton. On the appointed day, the theorists had not prevailed. In a triumph for observation and empirical research, both Shu and Spergel conceded to Djorgovski. Shu paid up in wine of equal value to 100 gallons of gasoline.
Physics and cosmology are such quantitative fields that they readily lend themselves to wagers. And since it can take decades to build the high-priced gear needed to prove a theory, long-term betting is a way of dispensing credit for early insight. But other avenues of research have their share of bets. Early last year, two scientists studying the process of aging agreed to a $500 million bet on the world record for a human lifespan, now at 122 years old. University of Illinois at Chicago biologist Jay Olshansky bet that at least one person now alive will live to be 130, but no older. Steven Austad at the University of Idaho countered that the longest-lived person born in 2000 will make it to 150. If any 2-year-old today lasts till January 1, 2150, then Austad wins. Since neither Olshansky nor Austad expects to be around that long, a panel will adjudicate the contest and bequeath the prize to the bettors' heirs. And since neither scientist had $500 million on hand, each started a trust fund with $300, which according to their calculations should top $500 million in 150 years if the compounding is left undisturbed.
The value of responsible wagers on the future is so ingrained in some large research institutions that simple systems were created to track them. For several decades at the venerable Bell Labs in New Jersey, employees kept a book in which they recorded their gambles. It was sort of an office pool for geeks. Challenges ranged from bets on research findings to prognostications on the future of politics, public affairs, and the economy. Pierre Hohenberg, now at Yale, worked at the lab and added a bet or two to the book. "The stakes were always primarily symbolic - prestige among your peers - though since we were pitting our brains against those of our colleagues, it was not frivolous," he says. The book disappeared in 1990, without a backup copy, so earlier bets have vanished. Purloined by a sore loser? No one knows.
But at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a similar accountability book lives on. The Official SLAC Theory Group Record of Wagers holds 33 pages with about 60 bets, the earliest dating back to 1985. It's an ordinary lab notebook, filled with scribbles and an occasional pasted-in email, documenting Ed Witten's bet against Michael Peskin, for instance, that the cosmological constant is, well, constant. At stake: "One dinner in an Indian restaurant better than the one in which the bet was made." Other bets, too good to pass up, draw additional players. Fifteen bettors signed up for this one: "By 1990, it will be well accepted that an elementary Higgs scalar particle does not exist." Five names for, nine against.
Biologists keep records of their speculations as well. David Stewart, a biochemist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, oversees an old blue notebook that records the largest technical wager pool going. In this betting book, more than 400 scientists have put their money on what they believe will be the total number of genes in the human genome. The grand prize is called Genesweep. The winner will take the total pool (currently less than $500) and an autographed copy of the classic book The Double Helix. Guesses range from a low of 27,000 genes to a high of 312,000. DNA codiscoverer James Watson bet on 73,210 genes, while Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, predicted 48,011. The first peer-reviewed tally in 2001 estimated the total to be around 30,000, cutting out both Watson and Collins as contenders. As the research is honed, scientists can make further wagers of $20. The final total is expected to be determined in 2003.
Betting on the future is more than just entertainment. It's also an engine for study, rigor, and planning. With each handshake since Kepler's, some bit of scientific thinking has been further refined. And remembered. The injection of real money into debates has weeded out brainless bragging, insincere speculation, and a tendency - particularly among losers - to forget. Captured in lab books and witnessed by colleagues, real long bets endure enough to instruct us.
Editor at large Kevin Kelly (email@example.com) is cofounder of the Long Bets Foundation.
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Higher perceived HRQoL in Moroccan children with asthma and their parents
Monique Theodora Maria Veenstra-van Schie1,&, Kelly Coenen2, Hendrik Maria Koopman2, Florens Gerard Adriaan Versteegh1,3
1Groene Hart Ziekenhuis, Department of Pediatrics, Gouda, the Netherlands, 2Leiden University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden, the Netherlands, 3Ghent University Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Ghent, Belgium
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Monique Theodora Maria Veenstra-van Schie, Groene Hart Ziekenhuis, Department of Pediatrics, Gouda, the Netherlands
We explored the differences in the perceived HRQoL between children with asthma from Moroccan and Dutch descent and their parents. In total 33 children (aged 6-18 years) from Moroccan (16) and Dutch descent (17) and their parents participated. All children were currently under treatment in a general hospital in the Netherlands. Generic and asthma specific HRQoL were assessed (DUX-25, DISABKIDS, PAQLQ). Significant differences were found on the DUX-25 subscales physical, emotional and home functioning. Children and parents from Dutch descent reported a lower HRQoL. The findings of this study are contrary with previous research. Results can be explained by the individualistic-collectivistic dimension, socially desirability, language and the feeling of miscomprehension. If this explanation makes sense health care workers have to invest in a good relationship with especially immigrant children and their parents, so they will have enough confidence to talk more openly about their physical as well as their psycho-social complaints.
The Netherlands is a multi-cultural society with 17 million residents of which approximately 20% is from nonnative descendence. The three largest ethnic groups are immigrants from Suriname (2,3%), Turkey (2,3%) and Morocco (2,1%) [1]. In the Gouda region in the central part of the Netherlands the total percentage of children from Moroccan descent aged 6-18 years is 8% [2]. In the Groene Hart Ziekenhuis (GHZ), a general teaching hospital, a group of about 70 children with asthma, aged 6-18 years from Moroccan descent are treated. Several determinants were found to be of influence on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with ethnicity being one of them [1,3]. None of these studies explored the Moroccan population. Therefore we investigated the differences in the perceived HRQoL between children with asthma and their parents from Moroccan (Berber and Arab) and Dutch descent.
Children diagnosed with asthma and currently under treatment in the GHZ were tested, using generic and asthma specific HRQoL instruments (DUX-25 [4], DISABKIDS [5] and the PAQLQ [6]. Parents filled in proxy versions of the questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 18).
In this study 33 children were included (64 % male), 16 from Moroccan and 17 matched children and parents from Dutch descent. The age of all children ranged from 6-16 years and of the parents from 31-56 years. Generally, mothers completed the questionnaires (85%). No significant differences (age, education level, and asthma severity) were found between the Moroccan and Dutch groups. Independent t-tests showed that the two parent groups only differed significantly on the DUX-25 overall score (p = 0.024) and the DUX-25 subscale physical (p = 0.004) (Table 1). Moroccan parents showed higher overall and physical subscale scores indicating a better HRQoL. Moroccan children differed significantly on the DUX-25 overall score (p = 0.002) and the subscales physical (p = 0.006), emotional (p =0.003) and home functioning (p = 0.006) (Table 1), also indicating a better HRQoL compared to children from Dutch descent. No significant differences were seen on the DISABKIDS and the PAQLQ questionnaires.
In this study no differences were found on the asthma specific HRQoL instruments PAQLQ and DISABKIDS, maybe because these questionnaires are primarily disease based [5-7]. However, compared to other studies where the general HRQoL has shown to be lower in immigrant groups [1,3], our findings showed the opposite. The significant differences on the DUX-25 (subscales overall, physical, emotional and home functioning) indicated that Dutch children and their parents experience lower HRQoL. A possible explanation could be the cultural influences on the question comprehension and response. People from Moroccan descent have a more collectivistic culture, meaning that they see their self as part of a group instead of independent from a group (more individualistic culture) [8]. More over, it is shown that people in a collectivistic culture are less assertive and direct in their communication [8] and are likely to give more socially desirable responses (no complaints) and don't talk about the negative aspects of having asthma [9]. Small sample size cannot explain the different results on the general HRQoL scores in this study. Despite repeated effort it proved very difficult to include participants from the Moroccan population. However, parents of Moroccan descent became very communicative about their child's asthma while completing the general HRQoL DUX-25 questionnaire. The questions of the DUX-25 are short and clear and invite to talk about everyday activities and to give examples. The DUX-25 answer possibilities (smileys) proved to be more accessible for most people, especially for those of whom the Dutch language is not their native language. Language can be an important determinant in explaining cultural differences in the reported HRQoL [8]. Not only the difficulties of understanding the Dutch language may explain the differences in the perceived HRQoL. Nonnative speakers may not be familiar with the many different terms that can be used to specify disease and complaints in a language, leading to less differentiation in the response. Another explanation for the fact that parents and children of Moroccan descent experienced a higher HRQoL could be that the parents were born in Morocco where there were different expectations regarding health and healthcare [10]. They are raising their children with the same ideas and beliefs about disease as their parents had. Moroccan people are more comfortable in talking about physical complaints, contrary to psycho-social complaints they rather not discuss [8]. A reason may be that they would feel ashamed for their psycho-social complaints or that they would feel miscomprehended by the Western health care system. This feeling of miscomprehension might be the reason of the attenuated answering of the questions.
The findings of this study are contrary with previous research. Results can be explained by the individualistic-collectivistic dimension, socially desirability, language and the feeling of miscomprehension. If this explanation makes sense health care workers have to invest in a good relationship with especially immigrant children and their parents, so they will have enough confidence to talk more openly about their physical as well as their psycho-social complaints.
The authors declare no competing interests.
Monique T.M. Veenstra-van Schie and Kelly Coenen acquired the data of the study. Hendrik M. Koopman and Florens G.A. Versteegh contributed to the conception and design of the study. All authors have read and agreed to the final version of this manuscript and have equally contributed to its content and to the management of the case.
This study was supported by an unrestricted grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
Table 1: unadjusted mean scores#, the range and standard deviations (SD) of the DUX-25, DISABKIDS and PAQLQ in parents of children with asthma from Dutch and Moroccan descent (upper part) and in children with asthma from Dutch and Moroccan descent (lower part)
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ibis Le Puy en Velay Centre, Le Puy-en-Velay
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 54 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Nightclub
- Breakfast available
- Outdoor tennis court
- Self parking
- Business centre
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Front desk safe
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
- Free toiletries
- Terrace
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- Church of St-Michel (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Musee Interactif Hotel-Dieu (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Le Puy Cathedral (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Rocher Corneille (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Musee Crozatier (1.3 mi / 2.2 km)
ibis Le Puy en Velay Centre, Le Puy-en-Velay
Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803from £61
- Standard Room, 2 Single Beds
- Standard Room, 1 Double Bed
- Standard Room, 1 Double Bed
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 54 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time starts at noon
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room using existing bedding
- Pets allowed *
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Outdoor tennis court
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Nightclub
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Meeting rooms 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 430
- Conference space size (meters) - 40
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
Also popular with travellers from the UK
Special features
DiningIbis kitchen – Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specialises in French cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy al fresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Bar – This bar specialises in French cuisine. Open 24 hours.
ibis Le Puy en Velay Centre, Le Puy-en-Velay's small print
Also known as
- ibis Puy en Velay Centre Hotel Le Puy-en-Velay
- ibis Puy en Velay Centre Hotel
- ibis Puy en Velay Centre Le Puy-en-Velay
- ibis Puy en Velay Centre
The photos in this description reflect the brand standard and are provided for illustrative purposes only.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.80 per person, per night.
Optional extras
Self-parking costs EUR 6.50 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 9.90 for adults and EUR 4.95 for children (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 6.00 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around ibis Le Puy en Velay Centre, Le Puy-en-Velay
- Church of St-Michel (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Musee Interactif Hotel-Dieu (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Le Puy Cathedral (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Rocher Corneille (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Musee Crozatier (1.3 mi / 2.2 km)
Getting around
- Le Puy en Velay Station 18-min walk
- Le Puy-en-Velay Station 18-min walk
- St-Vidal 12-min drive
- Lyon (LYS-Saint-Exupery) 99-min drive
- Self parking (surcharge)
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.0 /5 from 42 reviews
Well situated in town centre and with parking. Dog friendly. Room adequate but towels very thin and we were charged €7 for a bottle of water
Good centre to go walking and birdwatching from. Hotel restaurant very good. Staff friendly and helpful.
Exceptional in every way! Helpful and attentive staff, comfy bed and a lovely breakfast. What more could we want?
Good location for staying in semi-luxurious surroundings before starting a long hike down the Chemin du Puy. Do be advised that there are prominently posted signs in the lobby and elevator banning "outside food" from the rooms. I don't know if this is in response to a problem they had or if it's just an effort to force more business to the restaurant in the lobby. Other than that, it's a perfectly serviceable, standard Ibis location.
Nice, basic hotel in the heart
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The Piccadilly Circus comes to New Hampshire this weekend for shows in Dover, Hampton and Manchester. Men, women and animal performers participate in acts high above and on the ground. There will also be a motorcycles race upside down in the Globe of death, women swinging from ropes at gasping heights, herds of camels, elephants and high-intensity music and bright, colorful lights. Don't forget about all your favorite circus treats like Cotton Candy. There will be a special guest appearance from THE MINNIONS! Tickets are $10-25.


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Unconditional Love
Having stated before that Love is to all entities meaningless, it is embarrassing to be affording myself a misquote.
Love, to me, is now all. Nothing to me has been so precious, welcoming, all encompassing and now, I realise, perfectly unconditional. It is with regret, then, that I recount my own story of the explored boundaries of Love.
Her name was Daisy. How peculiar, I thought, a girl named after a flower. But it suited her perfectly. She was enchantingly delicate, with light, short hair and stunning, fragile eyes; eyes so sad they could hold you in themselves, wrap you up and I dare say engulf your entirety.
Never have I been beautiful. Never would you look at me and see a man astonishingly haunted in his eyes or delightfully youthful, even as a lad I was not. That is to say, I seemed old when I was young, as Thought moulded my forehead into lines and cracks; Thought does not sit well with Beauty.
I was young when I met her, at a party at Oxford. She was becoming to the scene, dull as it was with the withering thoughts of the decrepit staining the walls. I did not see her at once, a tall brunette with her first caught my attention, for which I am deeply regretful, for Daisy held my attention and I detest that I deprived myself another moment of knowing her charming eyes, her delicate face. She felt my gaze on her, I think, and turned to face me. Embarrassed some, I smiled and turned away.
She came to find me in the garden. I'd spent the evening gladly with vague acquaintances, stealing an occasional glance at her. She smiled and asked to be seated with me. I obliged.
It was a beautiful spot, that expanse of land in which we first kissed, all the more for her presence. The lake before us, she said, glittered with the moon like a Long Island heat haze. Being as I am Scottish with my only ventures being into the wilds of England and Wales, I had never seen heat haze.
We spent 3 months blissfully in love. In my eyes, we were married, having somewhat consummated an agreement thus. It was a beautiful thing, she and I, together. Then came the war.
Some called it the Great War. I did not, because It stole from me something precious. Daisy.
Of course, I went to fight. I did so with my friend Nicholas Hemsworth, a fellow Oxford man. War itself did not affect me particularly, it was only the letters from home I noticed. I wrote often to Daisy, out of love, of course, but also out of a need to escape the wretched trenches. I also wrote to my mother, which is how my pressing boundaries began.
Mother told me how Daisy had become awfully close with a man named Thomas, and Oh he is a foul man, dull and awful, but Daisy seems quite taken with him, as though she doesn't even notice the smell. Her father seems quite sure that they'll be married, that she's forgotten all about you. But, I suppose you may find someone else, perhaps even a wee French girl?
She broke my heart, my mother. I don't suppose she realised. But I was shocked by my Daisy's betrayal, and I became overwrought. I spent much of my time hoping to find a wee French girl, that she'd take my mind off Daisy.
It was a stupid thing to do, in retrospect. Being young, and feeling betrayed, I never told her of my doubts of her faithfulness, did not reveal my pain until I came home and it was too late.
I found a French girl, who was quite spectacularly dull. If ever an honest thought were to come into her head, I suspect it would shrivel up and die from loneliness. She positively pontificated the lies of her friends, the hatred she had of them, the scandals of the French. It was not becoming of her, but I was so alone I didn't notice.
I took the French girl home and then to a party in Hampshire which Daisy attended. Her eyes grew bright, smiling and wide as she saw me across the room, then her gaze dropped to the woman on my arm. Her broken eyes flashed up at me, a reflection of the betrayal I'd felt when I first heard of Thomas. She ran from the room and I spent the rest of the night sour until the French girl, I forget her name, forgive me, finally left me with a promise that I was now truly alone.
So regretful is this story, because Thomas's Love for Daisy was unrequited. She refused his proposal and waited for me, in unconditional want for me. I betrayed her.
Unconditional. That is what Love is. So fitting it is then, my Daisy's Unconditional forgiveness. So fitting it is then, that our broken hearts can now beat together, attached by a confused, loving chord.


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The country appears to be deceptively flat but one can't go very far without encountering deep canyons that loom up suddenly. The region is riddled with these canyons.
Below is a shot of the favored firing point overlooking a good sized canyon. The photo flattens the depth and the canyon is deeper than it looks. You can meet Akmet in this photo if you know where to look. "Akmet" is a torso sized rock 356 yards out from the rim if I remember Bo's rangefinding correctly. Oddly, the same rangefinder registered the rock at 325 yards last year. We really hammered Akmet this year after giving him some concentrated fire last year. Akmet reveals much about firearms, cartridges, and shooting skills. We had other landmark rock targets with various irreverent names, not appropriate for internet forums, pegged for shooting at all sorts of distances.
Normal setting
Same view with telephoto
Akmet is the smaller of the two rocks in the center of the photo. There is also has a thick concentration of bullet strikes on the rock face below Akmet, seen as a white splash.
Akmet up close, after 2 days of pounding. In taking the photo of me leaning on Akmet, Bo is pretty precariously perched on the edge of the outcropping. It was about a 40 foot drop to the bottom of the creek bed.
A photo taken from Akmet back to the firing point on the rim.
For making caliche from long distance, nothing is quite as appropriate as full power battle rifles. We administered a proper whipping to rocks at 356 yards, 480 yards (not certain about remembering that one correctly), and 604 yards. We also made pot shots at rock formations out to 1500 yards or... infinity.
Rifles are my very favorite so this is great fun to me. We made use of .30-06, .308, 8mm, and 7.62X54 cartridges. Nothing is more gratifying than dusting a target at a distance so far that the rifle has time to recoil and settle before the bullet strike is observed. The sound of the rifles echoing and reverberating in those canyons is glorious, punctuated by the sharp crack of the bullet strike returning to the ears during the rolling thunder from the gun.
Some observations about the "lesser guns:" The .223 is easy to use to make accurate hits to well over 300 yards. We sustained stiff and variable breezes on both days. As usual, the AR 15 required just a hair more consideration for wind than either the big .30s or the 8mm did but not much really. The .223 bullet arrives speedily. I was using ammunition loaded with 55 grain bullets as appropriate for my SP-1 and its 1-12 barrel.
It was also observed that the strikes from the .223 were sometimes lost and the strikes seen gave less dust and loosened less material. The .30s and 8mm buck wind like champions and give more observable puffs of dust. They loosen more material too with impressive chunks seen flying on occasion or else sent sliding down the face of the formation below.
The SKS with its 7.62X39 cartridge was also pressed into service for this long range duty. I was pleased with its performance last year and it did even better this year. Once I got the range it was easy to hit Akmet with most of a 10 round magazine. This was in a breeze so stiff that it buffeted both rifle and rifleman around quite a bit and also had to affect the exterior ballistics of the 7.62X39 bullet to some extent.
Bo wearing out ol' Akmet with his new Yugo 8mm Mauser. This 8mm rifle was made just after WWII, apparently for Egyptian consumption. It is a scrubbed rifle, only having a serial number with no other identifying marks. It gave all appearances of being stinking new. Must have been manufactured, packed away, and untouched until the U.S. importer brought it in. It was that clean.
Bo brought some good imported fmj ammunition for this rifle and we put it to use at the distant targets. Some folks disparage the barleycorn front sight found on so many Mausers but it was as easy to make accurate hits with this Mauser as any rifle we had on the rim for the two days. Bo also had some Remington 170 grain 8mm which is a much watered down shadow of the "real" 8mm cartridge. He shot this plodding load in order to retrieve the brass.
I'm shooting the '03A3 at a rock target at 604 yards. There's a little white speck on the opposite face of the canyon if one knows where to look. This was a hole chopped into a rock by rifle fire. Hah, notice how the breeze has blown my hair to make it appear as if a bald spot is there.
I was using up an old batch of 180 grain Sierra Matchking bullets loaded over a full charge of IMR 4895. I'd loaded a large batch up back in 1995 for a possible trip to a 1000 yard match that never materialized.
I shot this Smith Corona 1903-A3 for some years in high-power competition back in the early to mid 1980s. It still feels like a familiar pair of old jeans. The 180 grain Matchkings shrug off wind admirably and are accurate. I can't buy another box of them for the cost of the ones I expended this week.
Here's a telephoto shot of the opposite canyon wall and the rock at 604 yards.
Another interesting new gun I got to try out was Bo's Diamondback .380. I did a brief side-by-side comparison, shooting it along with my Kel Tec P3AT.
The Diamondback is definitely the better of the two small .380 guns. It possessed a better trigger. It has considerably better sights. It has a better designed grip frame. The slide is easier to grasp. I could shoot it more accurately than I could my P3AT. The Diamondback never bobbled during the few magazines of ammunition I fired through it. It conceals just as readily as the P3AT. The Diamondback is superior to the P3AT in every way. If one wants an inexpensive .380 hideout pistol, the Diamondback is the way to go.
I shot the Diamondback just before we packed up to leave. I also got the chance to shoot Bob's SIG P6. He's kept several of these on his gun show table for a while. This is a nice 9mm handgun that would serve as a good general purpose pistol for most folks. It doesn't have the high-capacity magazines that are so popular but, being a single stack, has great dimensions for shooting. I have tried others various SIG models over the years and all have been impressive.
In working our way through the canyon bottom Bo found a sleeping bag, carelessly thrown away onto a bush. It hadn't been there long enough to become sun faded. Was it thrown away in haste because of the thundering rifles on the rim?
The 11:00 pm helicopter visit was interesting. Bob jumped up and ran outside exclaiming that a helicopter was coming. I'm a bit slow on the uptake because I frequently hear helicopters, but follow along. It does finally dawn on me that there really is not much reason for helicopters to be flying over such a remote region.
When the helicopter passed over, it was flying low with no lights. The FAA takes a dim view of flying without running lights. Its black silhouette could be made out against the overcast sky. It was not much higher than a cell phone tower and I wouldn't have wanted to be riding in it. I'm familiar with Bell helicopters and agreed with Bob's assertion that it was a Jetranger.
Was it the Border Patrol? A drug lord? Who knows?


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THOR: THE DARK WORLD Battles Into North American IMAX 3D Theaters Today
Imax Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and Marvel Entertainment, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), previously announced that Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, starring Chris Hemsworth, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX() 3D format and released into IMAX() theatres across North America beginning today, Nov. 8.
Chris Hemsworth has previously played Thor, the god of Thunder, in two highly successful Marvel films: 2011's Thor and 2012's Marvel's The Avengers, which collectively grossed nearly $2 billion at the global box office. In this latest adventure, Academy Award winners Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins will also reprise their roles along with Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander and Rene Russo. Alan Taylor (TV's Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Sopranos) has directed from a story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat, and a screenplay by Christopher L. Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.
Thor: The Dark World opened in some international Imax territories this past weekend, generating approximately $5.3 million in 136 Imax theatres. The film will also open in additional international Imax territories, including China.
"Marvel's dynamic characters and action-driven stories always create excitement among moviegoers," said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment and Senior Executive Vice President, Imax Corp. "We're very happy to continue our wonderful partnership with Marvel and Disney and present another installment of the iconic Thor series in the immersive Imax 3D format."
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Marvel's Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel's "Thor" and "Marvel's The Avengers," Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos...but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. To defeat an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor sets upon his most dangerous and personal journey yet, forced into an alliance with the treacherous Loki to save not only his people and those he loves...but our universe itself.
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgard, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano and Jaimie Alexander with Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Marvel's Thor: The Dark World is directed by Alan Taylor, produced by Kevin Feige, from a story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat and screenplay by Christopher L. Yost and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and is based on Marvel's classic super hero Thor, who first appeared in the comic book Journey Into Mystery #83 in August, 1962.
Thor: The Dark World is presented by Marvel Studios. The executive producers are Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Craig Kyle, Alan Fine, Nigel Gostelow and Stan Lee. The Film Releases November 8, 2013, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.


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The next MJAA meeting will be held on Sunday May 21st @ 6pm.
At the Sheetz Reception Center (4 E. Main St. Rear, Mount Joy).
All are welcome to attend.
The next MJAA meeting will be held on Sunday May 21st @ 6pm.
At the Sheetz Reception Center (4 E. Main St. Rear, Mount Joy).
All are welcome to attend.
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Player Relations Coordinator
The recent MJAA elections have resulted in the following positions for the upcoming 2-year term, beginning Jan 1st 2016:
The Mount Joy Athletic Association has always provided your children with the safest possible environments to learn and play ball. As the season approaches, and we recruit new volunteers to help our organization, please rest assured that we are constantly striving to meet and exceed all PA State Laws to protect our children. Please see our Volunteers page for details. Let's be safe, and PLAY BALL...!
We have instated a new position of Player Relations Coordinator beginning in the 2015 season. This position oversees any questions, comments, concerns, or issues that families may have with their child, and their team. Both positive and difficult responses are welcomed. We strive to resolve any issues, but we appreciate positive feedback as well. We will do our best to help meet the needs of the families in our organization.
The Player Relations Coordinator for 2016:
Ron Wagner 717-492-9359.
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Before former Android head Andy Rubin left Google, he headed up Google's robotics efforts. In 2013, Google acquired numerous companies and added 300 robotics engineers. The crown jewel was Boston Dynamics, already known for their animal- and human-like robots. However, Bloomberg is now reporting that Alphabet is selling Boston Dynamics.
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Tornado Cycle
A short poem about a girl who destroys everything she touches, a dangerous girl who longs to find happiness. She finds herself constantly hurting and affecting those around her, and is forever going in circles, unable to stop the cycle of pain. ENJOY! x
The winds grow stronger, the days grow longer,
And everyone around is disappearing.
Only black skies, and pain and lies,
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I try as I might, but nothing goes right,
Whatever I touch, turns and leaves.
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Why Gold Miners May Be 2017's Top-Performing Sector
In 2016 so far, investors who'd invested in a basket of gold miners would have seen high double-digit returns?the VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDX), which holds 53 gold names, is up about 70% for the year. In mid-August, however, GDX was up over 130%, and a return to mid-August levels would be a 35% return from current prices.
These returns stem from the fact that as of the end of September, gold was 2016's second top-performing commodity (next to oil) with returns greater than 20%. Going into 2017, a combination of bullish headwinds for gold, an attractive relative valuation, and…
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In 2016 so far, investors who'd invested in a basket of gold miners would have seen high double-digit returns—the VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDX), which holds 53 gold names, is up about 70% for the year. In mid-August, however, GDX was up over 130%, and a return to mid-August levels would be a 35% return from current prices.
These returns stem from the fact that as of the end of September, gold was 2016's second top-performing commodity (next to oil) with returns greater than 20%. Going into 2017, a combination of bullish headwinds for gold, an attractive relative valuation, and improving fundamentals for gold miners should help the sector see a very strong 2017.
The recent concerns over gold are unfounded—a good time to buy
Some of the best opportunities come during periods of negative sentiment. Bullish investors are a minority during these periods, and getting positioned in a sector with good fundamentals before other investors offers some of the best risk/reward trade-offs.
Earlier in the year, National Bank published a report that explained the movement of gold through four key factors—stock market volatility, 10-year real interest rates, the U.S. dollar, and inflation. Falling real interest rates (the 10-year bond yield minus inflation) benefit gold since they make the opportunity cost of holding gold less.
Much of the recent sell-off in gold has been attributed to fears of an upcoming federal reserve interest rate hike in December. This fear is greatly misplaced though; as gold analyst Adam Hamilton points out, during federal reserve short-term interest rate–hike cycles (defined as three or more consecutive increases), gold actually did extremely well.
Looking at the past 11 federal reserve rate-hike cycles, gold rallied on average 26.9%. Even more interesting is the fact that in the six of the 11 cycles where the price of gold improved, they improved by a huge 61%. During the five cycles where gold did poorly, it only lost 13.9%. This means there is much more to gain than to lose from federal reserve rate hikes.
What controls gold more is the longer-term 10-year real interest rate. The 10-year U.S. bond yield (before subtracting inflation) is extremely linked to GDP growth. With consensus expectations for GDP growth for the U.S. (and globally) being weak, it is unlikely long-term rates will rise significantly. In fact, the IMF just downgraded U.S. GDP growth expectations to only 1.6% in 2016. Lower long-term rates are a very healthy environment for gold.
Gold miners are trading at attractive valuations
Ongoing low interest rates, low economic growth, and economic uncertainty are a good environment for gold prices, and gold miners are likely to benefit. According to Bank of Nova Scotia, gold mining stocks are currently pricing in long-term prices that are about 7-8% above the price of gold. Since 2013 this premium has ranged from -3% to 17%. From 2000 to 2007, however (before the gold miners' period of major capital issues and falling gold prices), the premium was between 40% and 240%.
In other words, gold mining stocks could be trading much higher than they are today and be within historical norms. Gold miners are doing well today—the industry is once again generating free cash flow, balance sheets are improving and many producers are meeting their debt targets, and businesses are once again focused on exploration and organic growth. Production costs also continue to fall.
Currently, the U.S. S&P 500 is trading in the 85th percentile of its historical valuation. The price-to-sales ratio for the S&P 500 is the highest it's ever been. With stocks trading near record-high valuations, there is plenty of room for investors to move into a sector like gold miners, which is traditionally seen as a safe-haven alternative to stocks that are reaching bubble proportions.
Investors looking for more specific exposure than a gold miner ETF should consider Eldorado Gold Corp. (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) and Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX). Eldorado trades at a large discount to its peer group and is one of the few names with high production-growth prospects (110% from 2017 to 2020), and Barrick is the world's largest producer and a safe bet on rising prices.
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Dheepan is a 2015 French drama film directed by Jacques Audiard. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's Persian Letters.Featuring novelist, and former Tamil Tiger child soldier, Antonythasan Jesuthasan in the lead role, the film tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives.The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It has been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Movie: Dheepan (2015)
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
Written by: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain
Starring by: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Genres: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Release Date: 26 August 2015
Language: English
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PLOT:Sivadhasan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the last days of the bloody Sri Lankan Civil war. After the armed conflict resolves, his side loses and he is forced to move to a refugee camp. There he decides to move to France to take a fresh chance at life. However, in order to secure political asylum, he requires a convincing cover story. He is given the passport of a dead man, Dheepan, and pairs with people he barely knows posing as his family. Along with his supposed wife, Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and his supposed 9-year-old daughter, Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) they get on a ship bound for Paris. Upon arrival, he lands a job as a resident caretaker and starts building a new life in a housing project in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, a northeastern suburb of Paris, which turns out to be another conflict zone for him.


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Some of the most isolated properties in the UK could benefit from a new government scheme to give satellite broadband to areas that have slow internet speeds. An estimated 300,000 properties across the UK will see their internet speeds boosted by satellite.
Suffolk is one of several counties that will benefit from the scheme. Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey said: "This scheme offers immediate assistance to those homes and businesses in Suffolk with the slowest speeds and is all part of our transformation of the UK's digital landscape."
Any remaining cost of installation and commissioning, choosing the features of the satellite broadband service required and paying for the monthly subscription for the service selected will be the responsibility of the user. Users can choose any satellite internet provider and package that best suits them.
The scheme has been trialled in Suffolk over the last few months and will now be officially rolled out across the county. It is intended as an interim solution for businesses and homes that get less than 2Mbps, and which are not included in the planned coverage in the next 12 months.
Suffolk County Council leader Colin Noble said: "We have long supported the government's commitment to make sure every home and business can access speeds of at least 2Mbps by the end of 2015, and we are pleased to be making the scheme available to eligible homes and business across Suffolk from today."
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