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There are SO many books in my TBR list, but these ten are a must this winter!!
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare – It's almost here!!!!! I will devour this book the moment it is in my hands, this I promise you!
Shadow Heir by Richelle Mead – I have missed Dorian like. crazy!! Also, I hate Kiyo. The end. :)
PS – I about died when I got this ARC. DIED!
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – I'm really excited to dive back into this great, gothic world.
The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan – NIIIIIICK!! I'm sad to see this series end and it's one of the reason's I've been putting off reading it. But it will happen. Sadness!
Divergent by Veronica Roth – I KNOW! I have to read this soon or I'll have to deal with some serious shizzz from my bookish friends!
Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick – Oh, Patch. This book better be good!!
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith – I've put off reading this one for far too long! It's time!! :)
Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder – I LOVE this author! Her Poison Study series is one of my favorite fantasy books, so I'm really looking forward to this one.
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand – I've heard nothing but great things about this book, and with the release of the next book just around the corner, I think it's finally time to get to it!
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler – When I got this book at ALA and they asked us to (anonymously) give our own "Why We Broke Up" stories in the Little, Brown booth, I knew to be excited about this book.
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Being on holiday with the extended family is already a lot to be grateful for. Being on holiday with family in Perth at the beginning of the Australian summer is like having Santa come early. The view of the Swan River from our balcony made every day seem like a gift under the Christmas tree waiting to be unwrapped. The pink ribbons of light at dawn always unfurled into a beautiful sunrise, uncovering warm days filled with sweet smelling Oleander before finally bursting into fiery orange sunsets to close the day. Simply beautiful.
On the third day of my holiday I spotted a sign outside a church announcing there was Sunday service there at 11 am. St Andrew's church sat at the corner of the street where we lived.
When Sunday rolled around, there were less than 30 of us in the small hall. My fourteen year old and I stood out among the little group of silver haired Australian worshippers -- being Asian and quite a bit younger than the rest. We had expected that mass would be held in the red brick church next door but a sign led us around the back and up the old staircase to this meeting room, half the size of Holy Family's parish canteen. The church was undergoing repairs.
We were greeted by various individuals each extending a warm hand of welcome, each curious to find out where we had come from, and each inviting us to stay for coffee and fellowship after service. From the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of coffee cups set on a long table in the other room. Amidst them were three plates heaped with cake and biscuits. Simple fare. Simply welcoming.
After we took our seats, a small woman with large glasses stood up to welcome everyone. Bright and bubbly, she informed us that Mrs So-and-so (I forget the name ) was recovering quite well; that the Mayor's wife had mentioned putting up a slide outside the church the following week ( I think as part of Christmas celebrations) that may block their entrance and that there were two Singaporeans at mass that day and to please make them feel welcome. She then thanked God for the presence of the two priests who were there to say mass that morning.
Mass started promptly with a hymn. No pomp nor ceremony, just a white haired lady playing the organ and a congregation of feeble yet fervent voices praising God through song. Father, who I think would have been over 80, led with the opening prayer. There was no script, no mass book, no bulletin to follow. Just his deliberate, though sometimes tremulous voice communicating words on a page that I believed he had written himself. Except for his voice, the room was silent. But the quiet reverence was palpable, speaking loudly to me, like thunder bolts to my heart.
I wept throughout mass.
I'm not sure why.
I remember certain words from a hymn, the silhouette of an old man bent over in prayer, the basket of bread that was shared at communion. I recall parts of the homily, urging all to remember that the season of giving did not start and end at Christmas and not to forget a Christian's role in ending poverty. I don't remember everything except that my heart was broken and ecstatic all at once.
Throughout the mass and the unexpected wash of tears, a small hand clasped mine - unquestioning, all-knowing -- teenaged daughter turned adult. We discussed our experience at the little church on our walk home, and how its simplicity and reverence for God's sacred space touched us each differently but deeply.
Thinking back on that morning I was reminded how simplicity enveloped some of the most powerful moments in the bible with Jesus - a donkey for a chariot, an upper room to break bread, unschooled fishermen for friends. But reverence had sanctified each experience and made them extraordinary.
Christmas had come early for me. I have much to be grateful for - family time, the beauty of Perth and of course my experience at the little church. Now I know that when I am at mass in our own parish at Holy Family and witness parents letting their children talk through service or whole families playing games on their phones while exchanging scores unabashedly, I will let my mind wander to a simple room on the corner of a street in Perth, where a small group of men and women would be having their own quiet conversations with God.
I will let my heart be warmed by the knowledge that in that sacred space, God would be conversing intimately with each of them, just as He had with me.
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The Korean National Flag, the symbol of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), is named "T'aegukki." The name was derived from the taeguk circle in the center.
The circle is divided equally and in perfect balance. The red upper section represents the yang and the blue lower section stands for theyin. According to traditional Oriental Philosophy, the two symbolize the great cosmic forces, which oppose each other but achieve perfect harmony and balance.
The taeguk circle stands for the eternal principle that everything in the universe is created and develops through the interaction between yin and yang; thus it symbolizes creation and development.
The four trigrams surrounding the circle denote the process of yin and yang going through a spiral of change and growth. The three unbroken lines at the upper left represent heaven (kun), the three broken lines at the lower right represent earth (kon), the two broken lines with an unbroken line in the middle at the upper right represent water (kam), and the two unbroken lines with an broken line in the middle at the lower left represent fire (yi).
The white background of the flag symbolizes the purity of the Korean people and their peace-loving spirit. The flag as a whole is symbolic of the ideal of the Korean people to develop forever together with the universe.
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Barcelona: The photograph our rulers don't want you to see
Again last night we heard calls from the Spanish authorities for people not to publish photographs and videos of the incident or its aftermath. This now seems to be a standard part of the vehicular jihad attack routine. They don't want us to see the crushed and broken bodies of the victims of an immigration policy that is allowing primitive Muslims to colonise our continent. But when some brown baby dies on a beach, they're happy to have that image disseminated around the world. In that case, the likely emotional response fits their policy programme, so the plebs can be allowed to indulge their emotions.


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We make Jesus Known
I imagine many of you will know that Billy Graham died on Wednesday last week at 99 years of age.
Whether you agree with everything that Billy Graham stood for or not is not what I want to speak about this morning … but I think we would all agree that he was one of the most influential Christians of the 20th century.
As an evangelist, he told the gospel of Christ to more people than anyone else in history, I am told to nearly 215 million people in 185 countries.
There must be thousands and thousands and thousands of people who became followers of Christ because they heard the gospel of grace from Billy Graham. There are people here this morning who became Christians because they heard Billy Graham speak about Christ.
Billy Graham as an individual, had such influence and such powerful contacts, including American Presidents. Do you think he wasted his time, making Jesus known when he could have done so much good in the world?
This is what the Guardian said about Billy Graham this week:
"When Billy Graham stands before the judgement Seat of God, he may finally realise how badly he failed his country, and perhaps his God. On civil rights and the environmental crisis, the most important issues of his lifetime, he championed the wrong policies.
Graham was on the wrong side of history."
"Graham had the opportunity to lead fundamentalists into a new era. He could have pushed them to take social reform seriously as a God-given mandate to save the world from environmental destruction. He could have tackled racism, America's original sin, by championing the federal government's aggressive civil rights policies, but he squandered it. He could not overcome the speculative end-times schemes of his cohort of evangelicals, with their anti-government hostilities."
Is making Jesus known a waste of time when there are big things happening in our world? What about us?
I do not think for a moment that we as a church will have the same influence or impact as Billy Graham has had, but given that we are a group of 300 people what should we do with our time?
What should we be focused on?
Over the last few week we have been talking about what is at the heart of Trinity church. We have said we belong to a Big God. We listen to his voice. We are saved by sovereign grace.
What should we do?
Should we stand together against racism and discrimination in the world? Should we make a stand against global warming, and do all we can to fix it? Should we feed the hungry and the poor? Should we protect the innocent?
What should be our focus, and consume our lives, our time and energy?
Does the answer: 'Take every opportunity to make Christ known in all the world', sound ordinary or extraordinary? Let me be clear about what making the Jesus known, or evangelism is.
A few years back an Australian Christian leader stood in front of a bulldozer which was about to flatten houses in a slum area of Manila, in the Philippines. He wanted to protect the interests of the very poor people who lived in those houses. When he was later asked what he had done, he said he had been evangelising.
Now he might have been doing something good, or wise or necessary or compassionate, but he was not evangelising.
Evangelising, at its heart, is passing on a message the Bible calls the evangel. You can preach it, talk it, reason it, dialogue it, explain it, but however you convey it, means getting a clear and identifiable message to people in such a way that they can reasonably understand it.
The nice thing is that we do not have to work out for ourselves what this message is that we are to talk, speak, reason, explain, tell and preach because God has clearly told us what it is. It is possible to be 100% sure that what we say is not our invention, but God's.
We know that Jesus preached the gospel, we know that Paul preached the gospel, and so we can look at what they said.
Here are a few of those summaries:
· Mark 1:14, 15. Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God. "The time has come", he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel."
· Luke 4:43 "I must preach the gospel of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent."
You can sum up Paul's evangelistic preaching in the same way:
· Acts 28:31 "Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ."
Our evangelical tradition says that the message of the gospel is "God loves you", or "Jesus died for you", or "have faith", but that is not what we find in the gospels or the book of Acts. What we find is an evangel that proclaims "the kingdom of God" … or, Jesus is the King.
When we tell the gospel we are not primarily saying something about the people to whom we speak. We are not telling them how much they are loved, or what they get in the gospel, or what they must do, or even that they must be born again (though it is true that they must). The gospel is about God, not me. The gospel is about Jesus as King and Judge.
If that is our message, if that is at the heart of what we do,
There are lots of people who would say we are wrong or wasting our lives. Sceptics may say, "Isn't it really just an ego trip, to be so filled with self-importance that you try to cause someone else to accept your Jesus? It really isn't kosher in these pluralistic times, to try to get other people to change their belief and accept yours?
Others may say it is just too hard, and we make people angry at us, after all, there is a new level of hostility towards Christians in Australia.
I read this week: It has always been Babylon (meaning we live in an a world that rejects Jesus), and a certain level of hostility is to be expected, but the current context, in which the gospel person has moved from being a do-gooder to being a do-'badder' has caught people by surprise. No one likes Christians anymore so should we be silent?
Is it just a waste of time? Is the world just too apathetic?
I did hear of one concerned student a couple of years ago tried to organise a rally against apathy, but he had to cancel it because no one came. (Joke)
Is it nonsense? Once it was okay to draw lines - this is good and that is bad. This is right and that is wrong, and so there were issues for which to fight, but somewhere along the line we thought it was bad to draw the lines. Indeed it has become the ultimate sin to draw lines and say something is right and something else is wrong.
We have lost any notion of the truth, except the ones of self-interest.
To make Jesus known … do we really want that as one of the six things that we are saying is at the heart of Trinity Church?
We will actually be liked more if we fight for other things.
Well this morning let me give you two great reasons that making Jesus known will be the main focus for us.
Jesus did many things during his earthly ministry, but right up there near the top is the fact that he was an evangelist. He comes into this world preaching the gospel. He tells it to tax collectors, blind men, and women by wells, people with power, poor people, religious people, children and adults. He speaks so plainly that even the least educated can understand him. His miracles so powerfully point to the truth of what he says, that even the casual are forced to take him very, very seriously. He keeps acting as if he is the most important person there ever was, and he calls people to himself
John 6:35
35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Matthew 11
28 Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Jesus is absolutely committed to evangelism. He is the outgoing, preaching, evangelising God. In so many ways we can never be like Jesus. We cannot atone for sins by dying, as he does. We cannot know what goes on inside people like he does. We cannot do the gospel-confirming miracles he does. We cannot have the relationship with His Father that he does.
In some ways, we are exactly like him. He told his disciples "(In exactly the same way) As the Father has sent me, I am sending you" (Jn 20:21). Just as he came preaching the gospel (Mk 1:13), he expects that people like us will do the same, making disciples, "to the very end of the age." (Mt 28:20)
We cannot imitate his power, or his knowledge, or his death, but as we evangelise, telling people about him, we are doing precisely what he loves and what he does.
Many people visit Israel, and then tell us how they stood where Jesus stood, or sat where Jesus sat. You never get closer to standing where Jesus stood than when you tell people about him. You are never more like the Holy Son of God than when you evangelise.
When we as a church run Summerfest, when we organise ginger bread evenings. When we encourage each other individually to invite out friends to turn to Jesus in repentance and faith, we are standing in a direct line with Jesus.
Maybe no-one else will know about what we do, maybe people will mock it as a waste of time, but I tell you it really matters, because we are never more like Jesus than when we proclaim his gospel.
Privileges do not come much better than that. We make Jesus known, because God does.
But secondly.
The first creed of the first early church was … Jesus is Lord, it was that simple.
We see that confession here the end of Peter's sermon at Pentecost. He had been speaking about prophecies from the past, but here he brings us to a well know Old Testament text from
Ps 110.
Vs 34 …
34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,
"'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at my right hand,35 until I make your enemies your footstool."'
It is a strange passage, because King David says that strange line "the Lord said to my Lord."
An astounding thing given the monotheism of Judaism that David is saying God is speaking to someone, other than himself, who is David's Lord.
The sacred name given to God is the name Yahweh, that is the name that was protected by the Jews lest they defile it, and so they heaped up other titles so as not to say Yahweh, and the most holy, the most sacred title given to God was the title Lord, Adonai.
David says, The Lord says to My Lord. And the title Adonai always speaks about God, but here Yahweh says to my Adonai, sit at my right hand. So the meaning of this verse is God is speaking to the one that he is appointing to be King David's sovereign, to be David's Lord to be David's Adonai, and Peter now applies this to Jesus.
Vs 34
To be placed at the right hand of God is to be placed in the seat of all cosmic authority. When God elevates Christ to his right hand and gives him all authority in heaven and earth, it means he has cosmic authority.
If you have all authority in heaven and earth then there is nothing left. That authority is above every emperor, above every king, above every prime minster and president and is the one who God has placed at his right hand, calling him not just King, but king of all the kings and not just Lord but Lord of all the Lords.
What was prophesied by David 1000 years before is that God himself was going to take his messiah, his Christ and elevate him to his right hand, to the seat of cosmic authority.
You see, how do you speak about Jesus? So often we have reduced the significance of that affirmation. The theology that is around today that has Jesus as a saviour but he does not reign at the right hand of God. That is why some people can say, I have Jesus as saviour but not as my Lord.
How many times have you heard it said or said yourself, I asked Jesus into my heart and invited him to be the Lord of my life? What was he before that invitation?
The message Peter preaches is far more radical than that. He is saying that God who created heaven and Earth has made Jesus the Lord of universe, and that includes you and me. He rules, he does not wait for you or me, or anyone else to invite him to be Lord of our life. He rules you whether you want him to rule over you or not. You can be hostile to his reign and fight against his just place as the King of Kings but all of that does not reduce him at all.
God has decreed that Jesus is Lord, it does not change a thing if you or I declare otherwise.
The imagery of bowing the knee before the Messiah is used again and again in the Old Testament, and what the scriptures tell us is that there will be a day in which every person on the face of the earth will bow the knee to Christ as Lord.
You might ask," how can that be?", as most of the people in the world do not embrace the Christian faith. In the final analyses, that will not matter, what matters is who God declares Jesus to be, and God says I will make your enemies your footstool.
God says in Psalm 2 that he will break them with a rod of iron.
"I will break their knees with a rod of iron."
Many people come willing and throw themselves on the wonderful mercy of the King of Kings, others flee from him, but God says, "You will bow down before the Lord Jesus Christ whether you want to or not, I will break your knee…."
Now how different is Peter's Evangelistic message from what is often proclaimed in evangelism. How can we not proclaim Christ once we know who he is? When you know who he is, you will proclaim his kinship.
People who fail to look upwards, think that churches should not be proclaiming Jesus.
When I lived in Sydney as a university student and had nothing better to do we would climb out on the roof and drop water bombs on the cars as they stopped at the traffic lights. We were so close to the road that all we had to do was let them fall on the widescreen from directly above.
A strange thing occurred in my time of doing that. I notice that the people in the cars never looked up, they would look out to see where it had come from, but not up. (All the kids in the back seat however, would look up. Is this a strange behaviour in adults I wonder?)
If you never look up, if you only look horizontally then it is not surprising that the biggest problem we see is racism, or global warming, or people being bad to each other.
If there is a big God, who made us for himself, who owns and to whom we owe everything, well, that means there is actually something bigger than social action or political involvement as good as that might be. What a wonderful thing it would be if, as a result of seeing him in his supremacy, it seemed like peanuts to us to give up a career, or marriage, or comfort, to spread the knowledge of the supremacy of Christ.
I know that people show Christ as supreme, in their work as builders and teachers and farmers and doctors? Of course I do. But I also know that God has planned to make him known in every people-group across this world, and I know he will do it through people like us, some who will walk away from a promising career in our 20's,some who will surrender the usual 40's and 50's comforts to do it, and some who will trade in their retirement plans to do it.
For these people it will not be a big deal, because it will be for Jesus' sake.
Let us all proclaim him Jesus, our Lord and Christ.


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|Accident summary
|January 21, 1968
|In-flight fire
|7.5 miles (12.1 km) West ofThule Air Base (was Pituffik),
|Aircraft type
|B-52G Stratofortress
|380th Strategic Bomb Wing,Strategic Air Command, United States Airforce
|Tail number
|Flight origin
|Plattsburgh Air Force Base
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The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, Thule affair or Thule accident (pronounced /'tu?li?/) was an accident on January 21, 1968, involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber. The aircraft was carrying four hydrogen bombs on a Cold War "Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Baywhen a cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they could carry out an emergency landing at Thule Air Base. Six crew members ejected safely, but one who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out. The bomber crashed onto sea ice in North Star Bay,[Note 1]Greenland, causing the nuclear payload to rupture and disperse, which resulted in widespreadradioactive contamination.
The United States and Denmark launched an intensive clean-up and recovery operation, but thesecondary of one of the nuclear weapons could not be accounted for after the operation completed. USAF Strategic Air Command "Chrome Dome" operations were discontinued immediately after the incident, which highlighted the safety and political risks of the missions. Safety procedures were reviewed and more stable explosives were developed for use in nuclear weapons.
In 1995, a political scandal resulted in Denmark after a report revealed the government had given tacit permission for nuclear weapons to be located in Greenland, in contravention of Denmark's 1957 nuclear-free zone policy. Workers involved in the clean-up program have been campaigning for compensation for radiation-related illnesses they experienced in the years after the incident. In March 2009, Time identified the accident as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
In 1960, the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) began Operation Chrome Dome, a peacetime airborne alert program to fly nuclear-armed B-52 Stratofortresses to the borders of the Soviet Union. The flights were scheduled to ensure that up to twelve bombers were aloft at all times.[3][4] These bombers gave SAC offensive capability in the event of a Soviet first strike,[5] and provided a significant Cold War nuclear deterrent.[4] Beginning in 1961, B-52 bombers also flew secret "Hard Head" missions (or "Thule Monitor Missions") over Thule Air Base with the purpose of maintaining visual surveillance of the base's strategically important Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), which provided early warning of Soviet missile launches.[6] If the communication link between North American Aerospace Defense Command and the base was severed, the aircraft crew could determine if the interruption resulted from an attack or a technical failure.[4][7][Note 2] The monitoring mission started when the designated aircraft reached a waypoint at 75°0'N 67°30'W in Baffin Bay and entered a figure-eight holding pattern above the air base at an altitude of 35,000 feet (11,000 m).[6]
In 1966, United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara proposed cutting "Chrome Dome" flights because the BMEWS system was fully operational, the bombers had been made redundant by missiles, and $123 million ($832 million as of 2010) could be saved. SAC and the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed the plan, so a compromise was reached whereby a smaller force of four bombers would be on alert each day. Despite the reduced program and the risks highlighted by a 1966 B-52 crash in Spain, SAC continued to dedicate one of the aircraft to monitoring Thule Air Base. This assignment was without the knowledge of civilian authorities in the United States, who SAC determined did not have the "need to know" about specific operational points.[8]
On January 21, 1968, a B-52G Stratofortress with the callsign "HOBO 28"[9] from the 380th Strategic Bomb Wing at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York was assigned the "Hard Head" mission over Thule and nearby Baffin Bay.[10] The bomber crew consisted of five regular crew members including Captain John Haug, the aircraft commander. Also aboard was a substitute navigator (Captain Curtis R. Criss[11]), and a mandatory third pilot—Major Alfred D'Mario.[12]
Before take-off, D'Mario placed three cloth-covered foam cushions on top of a heating vent under the instructor navigator's seat in the aft section of the lower deck. Shortly after take-off, another cushion was placed under the seat. The flight was uneventful until the scheduled mid-air refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker, which had to be conducted manually because of an error with the B-52G's autopilot. Approximately one hour after refueling, while the aircraft was circling above its designated area, Captain Haug directed co-pilot Svitenko to take his rest period. His seat was taken by D'Mario. The crew was uncomfortable because of the cold, despite the heater's rheostat being turned up—D'Mario opened an engine bleed valve to increase the cabin's temperature by drawing additional hot air into the heater from the engine manifold.[6] As a result of a heater malfunction, the temperature drop between the engine manifold and the cabin's heating ducts was negligible; during the next half hour, the cabin's temperature became uncomfortably hot,[13] and the stowed cushions ignited. A member of the crew reported smelling burning rubber, and a search was mounted for the fire. The navigator searched the lower compartment twice before discovering the fire behind a metal box.[14] He attempted to fight it with two fire extinguishers, but could not put out the blaze.[14][15]
At 15:22 EST, approximately six hours into the flight and 90 miles (140 km) south of Thule Air Base, Haug declared an emergency. He advised Thule air traffic control that he had a fire on board and requested permission to perform an emergency landing at the air base.[10] Within five minutes, the aircraft's fire extinguishers were depleted, electrical power was lost and smoke filled the cockpit to the point that the pilots could not read their instruments.[16] As the situation worsened, the captain realised he would not be able to land the aircraft and advised the crew to prepare to abandon it instead. They awaited word from D'Mario that they were over land—when he confirmed that the aircraft was directly over the lights of Thule Air Base, the four crewmen ejected, followed shortly thereafter by Haug and D'Mario. The co-pilot, Leonard Svitenko, did not have an ejection seat and sustained fatal head injuries when he attempted to bail out through one of the lower hatches.[14][15]
The pilotless aircraft initially continued north, then turned left through 180° and crashed onto sea ice in North Star Bay—about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Thule Air Base—at 15:39 EST.[Note 3] The conventional high explosive (HE) components of four 1.1 megaton[17] B28FI model hydrogen bombs detonated on impact, spreading radioactive material over a large area in a similar manner to a dirty bomb.[18] A nuclear explosion was not triggered. The extreme heat generated by the burning of 225,000 pounds of aviation fuel during the five to six hours after the crash melted the ice sheet, causing wreckage and munitions to sink to the ocean floor.
Haug and D'Mario parachuted onto the grounds of the air base and made contact with the base commander within ten minutes of each other. They informed him that at least six crew ejected successfully and the aircraft was carrying four nuclear weapons.[11] Off-duty staff were mustered to conduct search and rescue operations for the remaining crew members. Three of the survivors landed within 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of the base and were rescued within two hours.[14][19] Captain Criss, who was first to eject, landed 6 miles (9.7 km) from the base—he remained lost on an ice floe for 21 hours and suffered hypothermia in the -23 °F (-31 °C) temperatures,[11] but he survived by wrapping himself in his parachute.[11][19]
An aerial survey of the crash site immediately afterwards showed only six engines, a tire and small items of debris on the surface of the ice.[10] The incident was designated a "Broken Arrow"—a United States military term that describes an accident involving a nuclear weapon but which does not present a risk of war.[20][21]
The resulting explosion and fire destroyed many of the components that the crash scattered widely in a 1-mile (1.6 km) by 3-mile (4.8 km) area.[22] Parts of the bomb bay were found 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the impact area, indicating the aircraft started to break up before impact.[13] The ice was disrupted at the point of impact, temporarily exposing an area of seawater approximately 50 metres (160 ft) in diameter; ice floes in the area were scattered, upturned and displaced.[23] South of the impact area, a 400 feet (120 m) by 2,200 feet (670 m) blackened patch was visible where fuel from the aircraft had burned—this area was highly contaminated with JP-4aviation fuel and radioactive elements.[23] These elements included plutonium, uranium, americium andtritium.[24][25] Plutonium levels as high as 380 mg/m2 were registered in the area.[18]
American and Danish officials (Greenland is a Danish territory) immediately launched "Project Crested Ice" (informally known as "Dr Freezelove"[Note 4][26]), a clean-up operation to remove the debris and contain environmental damage.[27] Despite the cold, dark Arctic winter, there was considerable pressure to complete the clean-up operation before the sea ice melted in the spring and deposited contaminants into the sea.[28]
A base camp (named "Camp Hunziker"[22] after Richard Overton Hunziker, the USAF general in charge of the operation) was created at the crash site; it included a heliport, igloos, generators and communications facilities. A "zero line" delineating the 1-mile (1.6 km) by 3-mile (4.8 km) area in which alpha particle contamination could be measured was established by January 25, four days after the crash.[29] The line was subsequently used to controldecontamination of personnel and vehicles. An ice road was constructed to Thule from the site. This was followed by a second, more direct, road so the ice on the first road was not fatigued by overuse.[30] The camp later included a large prefabricated building, two ski-mounted buildings, several huts, a decontamination trailer and a latrine.[31] These facilities allowed for 24-hour operations at the crash site.[31]
Weather conditions at the site were extreme; the average temperature was -40 °C (-40 °F), at times dropping to -60 °C (-76 °F). These temperatures were accompanied by winds of up to 40 metres per second (89 mph). Battery-operated instruments worked for limited periods in the cold; operators modified them to allow the battery packs to be carried under their coats to extend the batteries' lifespan.[22] The operation was conducted without natural light until February 14, when sunlight gradually began appearing.[32][33]
The USAF worked with Danish nuclear scientists to consider the clean-up options. The resulting plan involved the removal of contaminated ice and wreckage to the United States for disposal.[27] USAF personnel used graders to collect the contaminated snow and ice, which was loaded into wooden boxes at the crash site. The boxes were moved to a holding area near Thule Air Base known as the "Tank Farm". There, contaminated material was loaded into steel tanks prior to being loaded onto ships.[34] Debris from the weapons was sent to the Pantex plant in Texas for evaluation,[16] and the tanks were shipped to Savannah River in South Carolina.[35]
In 1987–88 and again in 2000, reports surfaced in the Danish press that one of the bombs had not been recovered.[36] SAC stated at the time of the incident that all four bombs were destroyed. In 2008, the BBC published an article that was based on its examination of partly declassified documents obtained some years earlier via the United States Freedom of Information Act. The documents appeared to confirm that within weeks of the accident, investigators realized only three of the weapons could be accounted for.[37] One of the declassified documents—dated to January 1968—details a blackened section of ice which had refrozen with shroud lines from a weapon parachute: "Speculate something melted through the ice such as burning primary or secondary."[37][Note 5] A July 1968 report states, "An analysis by the AEC of the recovered secondary components indicates recovery of 85% of the uranium and 94%, by weight, of three secondaries. No parts of the fourth secondary have been identified."[38]
The BBC tracked down several officials involved in the incident's aftermath. One was William H. Chambers, a former nuclear weapons designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Chambers headed a team dealing with nuclear accidents, including the Thule crash. He explained the logic behind the decision to abandon the search: "There was disappointment in what you might call a failure to return all of the components ... it would be very difficult for anyone else to recover classified pieces if we couldn't find them."[37]
In August 1968, the United States military sent a Star III mini-submarine to the base to look for weapon debris, especially the uranium 235 fissile core of a secondary.[10] A much bigger operation off the coast of Spain two years earlier led to the successful recovery of a lost nuclear weapon from the Mediterranean Sea; the B28FI bomb was lost for 80 days after a mid-air collision between a B-52 on a "Chrome Dome" mission and its refueling KC-135 Stratotanker.[39] The purpose of the underwater search at Thule was obvious to the Danish negotiators.[40] At lower levels, however, the dives were surrounded by some confidentiality. One document from July 1968 reads, "Fact that this operation includes search for object or missing weapon part is to be treated as Confidential NOFORN",[37] meaning it was not to be disclosed to non-US nationals. It continues, "For discussion with Danes, this operation should be referred to as a survey, repeat survey of bottom under impact point."[37] Further indications of the search are apparent in a September 1968 interim report by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which stated, "It was further speculated that the missing <deleted>, in view of its ballistic characteristics, may have come to rest beyond the observed concentration of heavy debris."[41] This discussion was a reference to the unsuccessful search for the uranium cylinder of one of the secondaries.[40]
The underwater search was beset by technical problems and eventually abandoned. Diagrams and notes included in the declassified documents make clear it was not possible to search the entire area where crash debris had spread. Four bomb reservoirs, one nearly intactsecondary, and parts equaling two secondaries were recovered on the sea ice; parts equaling one secondary were not accounted for.[42] The search also revealed a weapon cable fairing, polar cap, and a one-foot by three-foot section of a warhead's ballistic case.[41]
The United States Air Force monitored airborne contamination through nasal swabs of onsite personnel. Of the 9,837 nasal swabs taken, 335 samples had detectable levels of alpha particle activity, although none was above acceptable levels. Urinalysis was also performed, but none of the 756 samples displayed any detectable level of plutonium.[43]
By the time the operation concluded, 700 specialized personnel from both countries and more than 70 United States government agencies had worked for nine months to clean up the site,[26] often without adequate protective clothing or decontamination measures. In total, more than 550,000 US gallons (2,100 m3) of contaminated liquid—along with thirty tanks of miscellaneous material, some of it contaminated—was collected at the Tank Farm.[41] Project Crested Ice ended on September 13, 1968 when the last tank was loaded onto a ship bound for the United States.[13] The operation is estimated to have cost $9.4 million ($59.3 million as of 2010).[44]
The incident caused controversy at the time and in the years since. It highlighted the risks Thule Air Base posed to Greenlanders from nuclear accidents and potential superpower conflicts.[45] The accident, which occurred two years after the Palomares crash, signaled the immediate end of Operation Chrome Dome,[46] which became untenable because of the political and operational risks involved.[47] Scott Sagan, a political science academic and writer, postulated that if the aircraft had crashed into Thule Air Base, the missile early warning system and the redundant warning aircraft would have been knocked out simultaneously, potentially leading NORAD to conclude incorrectly that a nuclear attack had started.[48][49] In 1974, the submarine telecommunications cable between Thule and the U.S. mainland was replaced with a more reliable satellite link.[50]
According to Greenpeace, the United States and U.S.S.R. were concerned enough by accidents such as the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash, the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash and the Thule accident that they agreed to take measures to ensure that a future nuclear accident would not lead the other party to conclude incorrectly that a first strike was under way.[51] Consequently, on September 30, 1971, the two superpowers signed the "Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War". Each party agreed to notify the other immediately in the event of an accidental, unauthorized or unexplained incident involving a nuclear weapon that could increase the risk of nuclear war.[52] They agreed to use the Moscow–Washington hotline, which was upgraded at the same time, for any communications.[53][54]
In March 2009, Time identified the Thule accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters".[55]
Following the Palomares and Thule incidents—the only cases where the conventional explosives of U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally detonated and dispersed nuclear materials[56]—investigators concluded the HE used in nuclear weapons were not chemically stable enough to withstand the forces involved in an aircraft accident. They also determined that the electrical circuits of the weapons' safety devices became unreliable in a fire and allowed connections to short circuit. The findings triggered research by scientists in the United States into safer conventional explosives and fireproof casings for nuclear weapons.[57]
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed the "Susan Test", which uses a special projectile whose design simulates an aircraft accident by squeezing and nipping explosive material between its metal surfaces.[57] The test projectile is fired under controlled conditions at a hard surface to measure the reactions and thresholds of different explosives to an impact. By 1979, the Los Alamos National Laboratorydeveloped a new, safer type of explosive, called insensitive high explosive (IHE), for use in U.S. nuclear weapons;[58][59] the physicist and nuclear weapons designer Ray Kidder speculated that the weapons in the Palomares and Thule accidents would probably not have detonated had IHE been available at the time.[60]
Denmark's nuclear-free zone policy originated in 1957, when the coalition government decided in the lead-up to the Paris NATO summit not to stockpile nuclear weapons on its soil in peacetime.[61][62] The presence of the bomber in Greenland airspace in 1968 therefore triggered public suspicions and accusations that the policy was being violated.[63][64][65] The nature of the "Hard Head" missions was suppressed at the time of the accident;[66] the Danish and American governments claimed the bomber was not on a routine mission over Greenland and that it diverted there because of a one-off emergency.[65][67] US documents declassified in the 1990s contradicted this view, and resulted in a 1995 Danish political scandal known as "Thulegate".[65]
The Danish parliament commissioned a report from the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI)[Note 6] to determine the history of U.S. nuclear overflights of Greenland and the role of Thule Air Base in this regard. When the two-volume work was published on January 17, 1997[68] it confirmed that the nuclear-armed flights over Greenland were recurrent but that the United States had acted in good faith. The report blamed Danish Prime Minister H. C. Hansen for introducing ambiguity in the Danish–U.S. security agreement: he was not asked about, nor did he mention, the official Danish nuclear policy when meeting with the United States ambassador in 1957 to discuss Thule Air Base. Hansen followed up the discussion with an infamous letter pointing out that the issue of "supplies of munition of a special kind" was not raised during the discussion, but that he had nothing further to add.[69] In doing so, the report concluded, he tacitly gave the United States the go-ahead to store nuclear weapons at Thule.[70]
The report also confirmed that the U.S. stockpiled nuclear weapons at Greenland until 1965, contradicting assurances by Danish foreign minister Niels Helveg Petersen that the weapons were in Greenland's airspace, but never on the ground.[65][70] The DUPI report also revealed details of Project Iceworm, a hitherto secret United States Army plan to store up to 600 nuclear missiles under the Greenland ice cap.[71]
Danish workers involved in the clean-up operation claimed long-term health problems resulted from their exposure to the radiation. Although they did not work at Camp Hunziker, the Danes worked at the Tank Farm where the contaminated ice was collected, in the port where the contaminated debris was shipped from, and they also serviced the vehicles used in the clean-up.[72] It is also possible that they were exposed to radiation in the local atmosphere.[72] Many of the workers surveyed in the years following Project Crested Ice reported health problems. A 1995 survey found 410 deaths by cancers out of a sample of 1,500 workers.[73]
In 1986, Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlüter commissioned a radiological examination of the surviving workers. The Danish Institute for Clinical Epidemiology concluded 11 months later that cancer incidents were 40 percent higher in Project Crested Ice workers than in workers who had visited the base before and after the operation. The Institute of Cancer Epidemiology found a 50 percent higher cancer rate in the workers than in the general population, but concluded radiation exposure was not to blame.[74]
In 1987, almost 200 former cleanup workers took legal action against the United States. The action was unsuccessful, but resulted in the release of hundreds of classified documents. The documents revealed that USAF personnel involved in the clean-up were not subsequently monitored for health problems, despite the likelihood of greater exposure to radiation than the Danes.[74] The United States has since instigated regular examinations of its workers.[75] In 1995, the Danish government paid 1,700 workers compensation of 50,000 kroner each[76] (60,000 kroner as of 2010).
Danish workers' health has not been regularly monitored, despite a European Court directive to the Danish government to begin examinations in the year 2000,[77] and a May 2007 European Parliament resolution instructing the same.[75][78] In 2008, the Association of Former Thule Workers took the case to the European courts. The petitioners claimed that Denmark's failure to comply with the rulings led to delays in detecting their illnesses, resulting in worsened prognoses. The country joined the European Atomic Energy Community in 1973, and is therefore not legally bound by the European treaty with respect to events in 1968: "When the accident occurred, Denmark was not a Member State and could not therefore be considered as being bound by the Community legislation applicable at that time. The obligations of Denmark towards the workers and the population likely to be affected by the accident could only flow from national legislation."[79]
The Danish government rejected a link between the accident and long-term health issues. Dr. Kaare Ulbak of the Danish National Institute of Radiation Protection said, "We have very good registers for cancer incidents and cancer mortality and we have made a very thorough investigation."[77] The workers said the lack of proof was attributable to the lack of appropriate medical monitoring. As of November 2008, the case has been unsuccessful.[77]
Radiation contamination occurred particularly in the marine environment, which the local Inughuit rely upon as a food source. The fission material in the weapons consisted mostly of Uranium 235 (about 4 times the mass of Plutonium 239), while the radioactive debris consists of at least two different "source terms".[Note 7] Scientific monitoring of the site has been carried out periodically, with expeditions in 1968, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1991, 1997 and 2003.[80][81]
A 1997 international expedition of mainly Danish and Finnish scientists carried out a comprehensive sediment sampling program in North Star Bay.[13] The main conclusions were: plutonium has not moved from the contaminated sediments into the surface water in the shelf sea; the debris has been buried to a great depth in the sediment as a result of biological activity; transfer of plutonium to benthic biota is low. Other research indicates that uranium is leaching from the contaminated particles faster than plutonium and americium.[13] Research conducted in 2003 concluded, "Plutonium in the marine environment at Thule presents an insignificant risk to man. Most plutonium remains in the seabed under Bylot Sound far from man under relatively stable conditions and concentrations of plutonium in seawater and animals are low. However, the plutonium contamination of surface soil at Narsaarsuk could constitute a small risk to humans visiting the location if radioactive particles are resuspended in the air so that they might be inhaled."[82][83] In 2003, 2007 and 2008, the first samples were taken on land by the Risø National Laboratory—the findings were due to be published in 2009.[84][85][86]
The Danish foreign ministry reviewed the 348 documents that the BBC obtained in 2001 under the Freedom of Information Act. In January 2009, foreign minister Per Stig Møller commissioned a study by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) to compare the 348 documents with 317 documents released by the Department of Energy in 1994 in order to determine if the 348 documents contained any new information about an intact nuclear weapon at Thule.[87] In August 2009, DIIS published its report, which refuted the assertions of the BBC.[40] The report concluded that there was no missing bomb, and that the American underwater operation was a search for the uranium-235 of the fissile core of a secondary. For the first time, the report was able to present an estimate of the amount of plutonium contained in the pits of the primaries.[40][88]


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Monday, October 20, 2014
Greenacres Guild Artist Documentary/Interviews
While getting information for the previous post, I found a link to this really interesting compilation of local artist interviews from the Greenacres Artist Guild whose members include C. F. Payne, Loren Long, Will Hillenbrand and Bruce Erikson. There is some great stuff in here!
Their latest exhibition is up until November 15th. More details on their evens are here: http://www.green-acres.org/index.php/events/
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It's not too late to get your flu shot.
Flu shots are still available for adults and children over the age of 6 months at our walk-in health clinics in Olathe (11875 S. Sunset Dr.) and Mission (6000 Lamar Ave.). The cost is $30 for a seasonal flu shot and $50 for the high dose flu shot for those age 65 and older. The nasal spray vaccine will not be offered during the 2017-18 flu season.
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Too bad. We went to the planetarium to check the schedule and found out the news…See it before its gone. It will blow your mind…
Vancouver, BC, November 8, 2011 – "The time is gone; the song is over," (Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd). After more than 30 years, regularly scheduled laser shows at the Planetarium will wrap up on January 28, 2012.
A staple at the Space Centre for many years, laser shows by Roundhouse Productions (headed by Craig McCaw) presented music and visuals in Vancouver's iconic Planetarium theatre. For anyone needing a fix of Floyd or Zeppelin (with some more contemporary artists in the mix for added interest), they could be assured to get it most weekend nights at the Planetarium. It was a comfortable constant in the city.
Laser shows will be running through November (with the exception of November 12), then on hiatus during December, returning for the final run in January 2012 (final night January 28) It is anticipated that Roundhouse Productions will announce plans for a closing event in upcoming weeks.
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Neil Partrick
BIO and CV
Articles & Press
Some photos of work related gigs plus a more interesting, mostly historical gallery of images related to the region.
At the
Supreme Council for Policy & Development (Kuwait)
on the subject of 'Labour Market Reform in the GCC', January 2018.
With Walid Al-Nisf, editor-in-chief of
Al-Qabas (Kuwait)
at the newspaper's head office., January 2018
Book launch at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
in Washington DC hosted by head of Carnegie's Middle East Programme, Dr Michele Dunne, May 2018.
Image from book launch at the
Arab Gulf Studies Institute Washington
(AGSIW). March 2016. (For video of full presentation and discussion click link).
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal with UK Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, 1975.
Emir Sabah Salim of Kuwait with President Nasser of Egypt, mid-1960s
Bab al-Amoud (Damascus Gate), Jerusalem
Great Mosque, Aleppo
Abdul Aziz and Prince Saud
Green Line, Jerusalem, 1955 (Photo Jacques Rohm)
Santa in Najaf
Gaza Film festival, 2015
The Textile Souk, Bur Dubai
Carved Lion in Palmyra
Grand Serail Wall, Beirut, 2015


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I'm so proud of my daughter. She's currently exploring the world and is currently in the USA. The other day when she was out and about she decided she wanted to try painting so she purchased herself some acrylic paint and paper. This is her very first attempt
Featured This Week
This post by Solagratianmom is choc full of hands on activities covering: April Fools Day joke, Colour Explosion Experiment, Forgiveness Demonstration, Wooden Cross Project, Crown of Thorns, Chocolate Gak,, Making Puff Peeps, Erupting Easter Egg Dying and Easter Themed Snacks.
Your Turn
I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.
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The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.
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About Us
The Working Guitarist Blog are the thoughts, experiences, revelations, tips and guitar gear reviews from working professional guitarists who are out there, playing the guitar for their livelihood. The purpose of this blog is to share information that is relevant and useful to other working and aspiring guitarists.
Tom Castonzo
Tom is a Berklee College of Music alumnus and has worked as a union session guitarist and arranger in Chicago and Fort Wayne, Indiana and is the first call guitarist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra. Tom has performed, recorded and toured with The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, several national blues, roots, and jazz artists including Bill Lupkin, Big Time Sara, Lefty Diz, Fenton Robinson, Jane Baxter Miller, Ken Vandermark, Buddy Guy, Willie Smith (Muddy Waters), Sam Lay (Howlin' Wolf) and Nick Moss. Tom is currently touring and recording with Chicago blues harp player Bill Lupkin. Tom is also the first call guitarist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra


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Junior Reg Visits to the College (VICCI) Center
Junior Reg Visits
During the fall semester, each junior registry class will meet once in the College (VICCI) Center. Volunteers present an overview of the Center and our resources and services. Students receive a handout of information to take home. In addition, we provide this page with a packet of information to serve as a starting point for their college admissions path.
Juniors are also encouraged to read the College Admissions Guide and Paying for College sections of the VICCI Center Website and to attend the presentations by college admissions representatives in the College (VICCI) Center. See the College (VICCI) Center Calendar for the schedule.
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Here are links to useful reference materials for Juniors.
How to get started, including a few web resources
College Admissions Planning Calendar
A two-year, month-by-month list of what to be doing
College Entrance Test Taking Information for Juniors
Testing requirements of colleges and recommendations on when to take the tests
Admission Requirements and Application Review Procedures
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Standardized Testing
Note that both the SAT and ACT tests now require a photo for registration. See the websites for more information.
Current SAT Test and SAT Subject Test Dates and Registration
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"Fund Your Future" brochure from the California Student Aid Commission
The brochure gives good explanations of financial aid processes and includes a great list of websites on the last page. It's available on this website.
You can view the current version in English online or download an older version as a .pdf file in Spanish. You can also read the older version online in those languages and several others including Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Punjabi, Tagalog and Vietnamese. (Note: To get to the .pdf files, click the Epubs link at the bottom of the page, then click on "Fund Your Future" near the bottom of the Epubs page.)


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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. Second Edition. Hardcover. Gray and white striped paper covered boards, quarter bound in black cloth, gold and bronze stamped titles at spine, moderate shelf wear to corners, edges, and head and tail of spine, corners bumped but straight. Book body tight, previous owner's name written in at front free endpaper, else clean, pages lightly age toned. Packet from The Reader's Subscription, Vol. 7 No. 9 from August 1958 focused on the novel laid in. White dust jacket shows heavy shelf wear and some age staining, chipping and cracking to edges, portions of corners and head and tail of spine worn away slightly, taped by previous owner at inside of dustjacket mostly along spine, black and red titles at front and spine, price intact, archival Brodart protected. Good - / Fair. Item #48813
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With a big hat tip to The Marmot's Hole, and after long delay, here is an interesting article published in the Joongang Ilbo in August.
Keeping in mind the reconciliation mode that the North-South relationship has entered, we examined the current situation. Does North Korea have pornography and adult products? Numerous reports we heard said the answer is "yes". Truly, how could there not be adult products in a place where humans live.
This matches the transition to the rule of Chairman Kim Jong-il, known to be a lover of mass media and erotica, from the repressive regime of Kim Il-sung.
As soon as the transition had been made sexy magazines and books began to appear, led by '은밀한 이야기', which collected sexy stories and dirty books. In the mid-1990s '피죽도 못 먹은 것 같은' secretly filmed North Korean dancers dancing nude or in bikinis, but the unfunny truth is that that and other adult products were seized by authorities as soon as they were disseminated.
The price of renting it is just 1,000 won in our currency, but for ordinary people, not authorities, to view it that price would require them to give up eating and drinking. Even so, a person may desperately save up enough money for it beginning as a middle school student, desiring the satisfaction of basic instincts even in the face of starvation.
The North Korea-produced adult film '공화국 비화' ("The Degradation of the Republic"), depicting pretty girls and, of course, female warriors being repeatedly violated, was smuggled out and translated into Japanese by North Korean refugees hired to do so.
It was sold in Japan for 2,650 yen, but with the explanation that "this is not being sold for the arousal of interest but distributed solely as research material." Of course near the Chinese border the distribution of pornography is in the open.
North Korea is a nation where the doors of the Kaesong Industrial Park were shuttered and prison sentences handed out after the discovery that photographs showing foreign models in their underwear were being placed into packages of women's underwear. Sex crimes including rape, and normal sexual relationships, are rampant, but the lack of sex education leads to unsafe abortions performed by surgery or via pills handed free of charge by hospitals.
Ordinary people are often forced into prostitution to have enough to eat. On the outskirts of major cities, minbak guest houses are turning into red-light districts and despite the banning of prostitution a shockingly large number of women are doing it in order to eat. They charge 5,000 won in our currency per night including sleeping time.
Foreign media criticize not only the neglect of the average person but the dumbfounding taboos on sex despite the cheap availability of erotica and adult products. This is because of the cheap members-only clubs and restuarants frequented by the authorities.
Though imagining itself to be pure, North Korean sexual culture is highly depraved because of its opposition to freedom. It is easy to imagine that if reunification occurs the starving North Koreans and the culturally diverse South Koreans will be unable to get along.
Lee Eung-jun's well-received novel '국가의 사생활' ("The Life of the Nation") was the first to depict North Korea-born women as whores and authorities as pimps. But do we, as the author says, have to meet that way? We want to see the true, not the fake with subtitles. That is one reason the desire for reunification may be too much.


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These are two of waterfolourist Maamor Jantan's latest works. As you can see, the delightful Volkswagen Beetle is now part of the nostalgia Maamor has incorporated in his works.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Maamor's New Work
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Sunday, August 08, 2010
First Malaysian Art Auction Off To A Flying Start
|Ibrahim Hussein's The Dream - RM455K
The first Malaysian Art Auction held by the Henry Butcher Auctioneers flew off to an impressive start with about RM1.5 million worth of local art business done. Heading the impressive sale was the late Ibrahim Hussein's work - The Dream (Acrylic on Canvas - 121cm by 121cm) 1969 - which went for RM500,500 – inclusive of the 10% buyer's premium.
However, the greatest increase in price value was the pastel piece by Hoessin Enas (Peasant Girl - 48cm by 32cm - 1993) which went for RM44K, more than twice its expected price of RM20K.
|Hoessein Enas's The Pesant Girl - RM41K
Yong Mun Sen's watercolour works The Bridge (1948) and Horse Carriage in Malacca (1953) went for RM23 and RM25K respectively.
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Chanel offers a a skincare collection created to help prevent signs of fatigue and the appearance of first lines.
Chanel Skin Care features a powerful formula that performs at the source of dehydration, helping accelerate skin's ability to hydrate itself, utilizing skin proteins and an enzyme that trap moisture in and between cells. Chanel skin care performs also at the surface, creating a moist micro-climate to achieve perfect hydration.


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We offer a Boutique style, flexible accommodation at Drumdelgie and anyone and everyone is welcome to this family run "one of a kind" luxury accommodation with huge beds and Egyptian cotton linen, free WiFi, full Sky TV package, with a welcome pack of fresh coffee and milk and much more.
We know when you stay away from your home you want at least the three basic things. You want a comfortable bed, a great shower and most importantly - peace and quiet while you sleep. There's nothing worse than sleeping on an uncomfortable bed in a cramped room with a bathroom that has a poor shower, and…you had a disturbed night's sleep due to noisy neighbours or roads/railways/airports.
Here at Drumdelgie, we have left no stone un-turned to remove all of these usual worries so that your stay with us is memorable, that you will return to us and that you will recommend us to your friends and families and colleagues. Come and stop with us for a few days, relax and enjoy all that this stunning part of the UK has to offer, and be part of this family run, luxury accommodation.
Drumdelgie is situated above the river Deveron with stunning views over the surrounding countryside. Drumdelgie is just 3 miles from the traditional market town of Huntly right in the heart of the beautiful Aberdeenshire countryside. We are also only 4 miles from
wedding and events centre.
Drumdelgie was formerly the biggest farm in Aberdeenshire and one of the largest in Scotland and working life on the farm in the 19th century is described in a very well-known bothy ballad known as Drumdelgie, but called "
The Hash O'Drumdelgie
What the future holds
We have many exciting plans ahead such as developing the gardens into some small play, BBQ and seating areas for guests to enjoy. Also adapting one of the steadings to be used for small private functions. We also plan to develop a small gym and introduce jacuzzi's.
The area
We are located between the Grampian Mountains and the unspoilt coastline of Moray Firth. Such an ideal location for visiting the famous Speyside distilleries on the Whisky Trail, or Scotland's many dramatic and romantic castles on the Castle trail. Wildlife and walking, cycling, fishing and shooting are a sample of the many activities in abundance throughout the area, and even on our front door, and we can help you arrange fly fishing with a local guide.
Where are we
We are 3 miles (about 5 minutes) from Huntly: 45 minutes from Aberdeen airport: 3 hours to Glasgow: 3 Hours to Edinburgh: 2 hours to Inverness: 1 hour to Aviemore. Huntly has a Tesco and Asda supermarket, 2 butchers, various takeout outlets, Doctors, 24 hour A&E and pubs and restaurants and a train station (Inverness to Aberdeen line).


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General Parking Information
NEW Credit Card Meters
The City of Colorado Springs has just replaced 882 meters in the core of downtown and along Colorado Avenue through the Old Colorado City area with new credit card enabled meters. Customers can now use a VISA or MasterCard as a payment option at these parking meters. The hours of operation at the new meters in the downtown core have also been changed. The new hours are 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Monday - Saturday. All of the other parking meters will continue to accept the City's Easy Park card and all parking meters will continue to accept coins. Visit http://vimeo.com/65824595 to watch a short video about these new meters.
Off-Street Parking Facilities
All of the City owned off-street parking facilities have been privatized. A private, parking management company is currently operating them under a short-term (three-year) management agreement. Approximately every three years this contract is re-bid to ensure they are being managed in the most cost efficient manner.
On-Street Parking Facilities
The on-steet parking meter operation is managed in-house. This two-person operation is responsible for collecting and depositing all of the revenues on a weekly basis, maintain the operation and appearance of all existing meters, install all new meters and provide annual on-street stall painting.
Both the off-street parking facilities and the on-street parking meter operations are managed by Parking System Administration. The administration staff oversees all of the day to day operations and administers the parking meter hood program. Customer inquiries are also handled through the administration office at Parking Systems
Parking Budget
Annual budgeting, enhancements to parking policy and/or operations, plans for increasing system capacity, Public/Private partnerships, etc. are all developed and submitted to City Council by administration staff.
Parking Staff
Parking System Administration staff also takes an active role in the downtown community. The Parking System fills an Advisory Board Member position to both the Downtown Partnership and Downtown Business Improvement District (BID). In addition, staff is also active on the SAFE Downtown Committee and the Downtown Parking and Transportation Committee.


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|Cowman is a Scrabble word. Scrabble point value for cowman: 13 points.
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Above are the results of unscrambling cowman. Using the word generator and word unscrambler for the letters C O W M A N, we unscrambled the letters to create a list of all the words found in Scrabble, Words with Friends, and Text Twist. We found a total of 42 words by unscrambling the letters in cowman. Click these words to find out how many points they are worth, their definitions, and all the other words that can be made by unscrambling the letters from these words. If one or more words can be unscrambled with all the letters entered plus one new letter, then they will also be displayed.
1. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
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Green Art Park: Sustainable Community Transformation
Alwun House Foundation is developing a visionary sustainable Green Art Park (GAP). Designed to provide lush landscaped space for neighborhood and community gatherings, serving thousands of visitors, hundreds of artists and musicians in Garfield neighborhood's 6,000 residents and the Downtown Phoenix Art district. The Green Art Park will also provide a green desert shaded park, outdoor sculpture, community garden and additional parking
Gathering Place
The unique nature of Alwun House as an arts center and gathering place for cultural and social events is that it brings together both the artistic communities and the community at large. The primary neighborhood-resident experience will be one of a "pocket park," meeting neighbors out walking the dog, shaded seating and sculpture garden, a coffee cart, a peaceful respite under blooming trees and vegetation. The park is to be planted with a large variety of desert appropriate trees, vines and shrubs to celebrate the diversity within our urban desert community and neighborhood. We envision green lush gardens, shaded open space for community gatherings, art installations, performances, workshops, festivals, health fairs, food trucks, artists and vendors.
Sustainable Community Transformation
Our sustainable Green Art Park community enhancement project, doubles our existing facility by developing adjacent vacant lots acquired by Alwun House, into a one-of-a-kind community gathering place, with its unique custom zoning overlay. First, Alwun House made sure the property could be legally used for these lofty arty dreams of multi-purpose activities. Attorneys at Gammage and Burnham seeing the importance of our vision, helped with purchase contracts and the rezoning process. With their pro bono assistance, and strong Garfield neighborhood community support, and unanimous Committee and City Council approval, Alwun House created Phoenix's second custom PUD (Planned Unit Development) zoning since the City created the code. This custom personalized zoning enables the park, to provide parking and/or the open space could be used for a multiplicity of uses open space for special events. We are permitted stage, artisans selling wares, food trucks and many other specific uses. The property may host community gatherings and neighborhood yard sales. Also the park can host outdoor workshops and classes, such as pottery, raku firing, sculpture fabrication workshops, yoga and thai chi classes, and a community garden. These and other collaborative programs will bring in a new community educational component to further transform our community, going way beyond a simple parking lot. The need and community support for this project is demonstrated by the strong Garfield neighborhood support and City Council's unanimous approval establishing an official City Ordinance "The Alwun House PUD." These supporters know that this Green Art Park project will invigorate our entire neighborhood.
Etch your name into Phoenix's cultural storyline. Join fellow adventurers supporting this extraordinary grass-roots Green Art Park project. Your support transforms neighborhood blight into an aesthetic community asset. Various installed art elements will honor our donors; from pavers, benches, to entry monuments, each is etched with the names of people, businesses and foundations that make possible this model transformative art park
A simply pledge to buy one brick, a $100 brick (installments available), with your name etched on it, leaves a legacy showing support for your trailblazing art house. You can be original, consider memorializing one you love; a parent, artist, or pet. Start with a $100 brick on the Garden Path. Pledges may be upgraded over this two year capital campaign with such "signature" options as $500 leaf, $1,000 tree memorial. We're open to in-kind contributions; make us a proposal – this park will be your sandbox too. Your investment in this sustainable expansion project, adds to your legacy as well.
It's time for your voice to be heard.
Special thanks to Gammage and Burnham for donating their services, assisting Alwun House with purchase contracts and rezoning.
Thanks also goes to Paul Miluski of Project Engineering Consultants who donated a technical land survey of the site.
Special thanks to the following professional designers.
John Glenn*, Architect | Jason Harrington, Landscape Architect | Ritoch Powell Associates , Civil Engineer | Mark Greenawalt*, Electrical Engineer
*donating their professional assistance pro bono – THANK YOU!


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Loose Cobra T-shirt
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Support Matt's dive bar The Loose Cobra, located just a block from his studio in rural Tolono, IL. This comfy, 100% cotton American Apparel shirt features an original Jay Ryan logo and is available in red with black logo or in black with white logo. On the back it says "Tolono/Madrid/Paris/Tokyo." (Get it? Those places are big fashion, art, and design capitals of the world. Tolono isn't. Yet.)


text: First post. Ordering a Model S today at the UTC La Jolla store in San Diego. Went for a test drive a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. From the quality, quietness, and acceleration of the car to the lack of a typical car salesman to pressure me into buying that day, it was awesome. The guy even said based on my driving history that I shouldn't get the twin chargers, I probably don't need the air suspension, and I definitely don't need the HPWC. I will get a 14-50 outlet installed. I've read a lot of the threads here the last couple of weeks mainly around option choices. There are obviously some difficult decisions judging from the number of threads posted on this topic, and I'm feeling no different with respect to waffling on some options. I suppose it is hard to go wrong on any choices as it really comes down to personal preference and price. I live in the San Diego area (year-round temperate climate), and commute about 32 miles a day round trip. My main motivation for doing this is to get off gasoline and to use the carpool lane while driving by myself. :biggrin: I've also got solar panels on my house, and the idea of driving on sun power is kind of cool. My previous most expensive car was a 2010 Lexus IS 350 which came in around $44K. I'm going to replace a 2003 Acura MDX with this Model S - the cargo room is unbelievably similar in the S as it is in that gas-guzzling SUV. Don't want to wait for the Model X. At any rate, here's what I intend to go with: - 85 kWh - Blue metallic paint, tan nappa leather seats, obeche wood gloss decor - all glass panoramic roof (definitely did some waffling on this one) - 19" wheels (I guess a tire upgrade comes automatically with the 85) - tech package (this is a must IMO - I can't imagine this car without it) - Parking sensors (wife insisted - probably a good thing to keep her from scratching my new baby :wink - Parcel shelf The guy at the store said I should go with the 60 kWh + supercharger enabled and save $8K since I don't commute that far, but I figure I'll probably go on a road trip 1-2 times a year, and I would like to reduce as much range anxiety as possible on those trips. Thoughts?


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What's Next
After finding a vehicle that you like, be sure to fill out a finance application, value your trade, or visit our Toyota finance center to figure out what type of financing you qualify for, and how much your monthly payments will be. Our Toyota finance professionals will be more than happy to help you through every step of the car-financing process. They can also walk you through the benefits and drawbacks of owning a new or used car versus leasing a new car.
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1. How did you know her?
I knew her from facebook. she was actually my ex-boyfriend's friend. i call her lala at the first time. but now i prefer call her sakun or dewi as she used to be call.
2. When, where, and how did you meet her?
it was my holiday in jakarta on july 2010 when i visited her in bogor. we had dinner at McD's restaurant near her boarding house, together with my ex. it was a wonderful meeting between sakun, my ex and I. we talked about anything. actually we planned to go to karaoke after dinner but because it was late night so we decided to go home.
3. Tell about your relationship with her!
as i've told above, sakun was my ex-boyfriend's friend. but after i broke up with my boyfriend, me and sakun got closer. we share anything about our life, especially our problems with boys. haha..she's like a sister that i never had before. she makes me feel how it feels to have a sister. furthermore, her family welcome my family so well and we made a new family. her mother loves me and regards me like her own daughter.
4. How did she inspire you?
she inspires me so much in music. she supported me to take in the audition of choir in my university. and because of her, i motivated to take a piano course.
5. Tell about your impression to her!
my first impression about her was, she's a mature girl on her age. i can say it in indonesian as: dia anak SMA yang tidak labil. over time, i think her personality is similar to me, her mother said it so. hahaha..


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Garden work for January.
Flower garden
Lord Carrington once advised all gardeners 'Never go into your garden without your secateurs' – so if you do, have a safe place to keep them as they are expensive to replace. After all the feasting, it is a good idea to get out into the garden and clear the head by having a look around and seeing how it will all develop in the coming season.
This is the time of year when houseplants are most appreciated. Azaleas, cineraria and cyclamen will all help to cheer things up. Do not over water, and most of these plants like cool conditions.
Have a good look at the structure of your garden and decide where to put the plants that give height and substance to the overall shape of the garden.
Make sure that your bulbs that are in pots do not get waterlogged, and keep an eye out for any predators that may be about, such as squirrels, slugs and snails.
Towards the middle of the month start is a good time to make preparations for taking chrysanthemum cuttings. If you have a cold frame make sure it is ready and make up the necessary soil. A good mixture is two parts loam, one part peat, and one part sand to ensure good drainage. Any pots or boxes should be cleaned and the chrysanthemum stools brought in to start them growing sturdy cuttings.
Towards the end of January prune fuchsias. Cut back all side growth hard, to about 2 mm from the stem.
Rhubarb can be forced using an upturned bucket or tub. This should be covered with garden fleece to keep off any frost.
When seed potatoes arrive, keep them in a frost-free place and stand the tubers, eye-end uppermost, in shallow boxes. If you can get large egg trays these are ideal for keeping the tubers upright and just separated to prevent any infection spreading.
To get the best onions start the first sowings this month, and you should give a good dressing of wood ash on the site of the bed that you will use, since onions really do well with a good level of potash.
Why not try some different culinary herbs, for example Basil Lime (Ocimum americanum) which adds a twist of lime flavour to any dish. It can be grown on the window sill. Then there is Dill (Antheum gravolens), Oregano (Origanum vulgare) as well as Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) which is an evergreen and Myrrh (Myrrhis odorate). All can be grown relatively easily from seed.
Clear away the stems and roots of savoy and other green crops that have finished and push on with the winter cultivation whenever this is possible.
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06.28: The Flaming Lips – House of Blues
06.29: The Revivalists + Stokeswood – One Eyed Jacks
06.30: The Unnaturals – Le Bon Temps Roule
It can be said that the legacy of modern New Orleans artists is not an adherence to the old guard of our city's long history, but their ability to fantastically fuse disparate styles of indigenous music to create something wholly their own. Anyone from Trombone Shorty to Rebirth Brass Band to Galactic to Big Sam Williams and His Funky Nation could be obvious proof of such a notion, though perhaps the argument can simply be made by pointing out the exception that proves the rule: The Unnaturals. Though they have virtually nothing in common with the aforementioned brass/funk/soul/R&B hybrids, this instrumental three-piece has a knack for taking genres not inherently New Orleanian and combining them in ways that are wholly applicable.
With classic Dick Dale-esque surf rock at the forefront, guitarist Kevin Bowles shifts seamlessly between west coast and rockabilly while drummer Dano Cardona injects hazy flourishes of 30s-era swing time and bassist Jenn Attaway shreds 50s rock n' roll rhythms. The result is something undeniably a product of the Crescent City – intense, engaging and, most importantly, fun. On Saturday they stop by Le Bon Temps Roule for one of the venue's trademark late night endeavors, the Unnaturals' second in a three-month residency. Though a far cry from Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse, expect a crowd no less enthusiastic and considerably more rowdy. At the very least, The Unnaturals' nuanced west coast Americana milieu can serve as an appropriate come-down from the early-evening Southern Lord Records showcase at the Big Top
07.02: Widowspeak + Dominique LeJeune – Circle Bar
Check out our New Orleans Music Calendar for a full slate of constantly updated live picks


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Oyabun Knife is a melee weapon featured only in Hitman: Codename 47. It is the eastern counterpart of Pentagon Knife. It can only be purchased in Hong Kong missions. It is a traditional Japanese knife.
- Training - In the melee weapons training area.
Comparison to Pentagon knife
Even though they share similar moveset and usage, some differences exist between them, such as:
- Oyabun Knife can only be purchased in the first four missions set in Hong Kong (excluding Training). Subsequent missions replace it with Pentagon knife.
- It costs $65, slightly more than Pentagon knife, which costs only $50.
- It uses a different model, which is a bit shorter than Pentagon knife, however, it doesn't change the gameplay.
- Oyabun (親分) means "boss" in Japanese and is traditionally used by the yakuza to refer their chiefs.


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Austin, Texas- The Rural Caucus of the Texas Legislature held its organizational meeting for the 85th Legislative Session on February 9, 2017. Comprised of members from the House and the Senate, the Rural Caucus is a bi-partisan group of legislators that meets during session to communicate with the Legislature on matters of interest to rural Texans.
"I'm very honored to serve my district as a Vice-Chair of the Rural Caucus," Rep. Lambert (Abilene) said. "It is a privilege to work on behalf of rural Texans to maintain an effective presence in the legislative process. With 172 rural counties in Texas, our common concerns need to be heard."
Founded in 1999, the Texas Rural Caucus acts as an informational resource for members of the Texas Legislature on issues that impact rural areas of Texas.
Seth Juergens
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A Rayman Tradition on Thanksgiving is Mince Pie
With the Holiday Season almost here, i thought I'd share a tradition I celebrate each Thanksgiving. Having a good bit of English blood in me, I tend to go for the plum pudding, blood pudding, cakes and so forth. However, and absolute must on Thanksgiving is mince pie.
Somewhere in my early years I developed a taste for meat pie. I still enjoy it to this day, and have several throughout the year. From there I graduated to mince pie. I get a pie once a year, and really enjoy it for Thanksgiving.
I realize I'm in the minority here, but to be honest, I'm really baffles me that more people don't enjoy it. I can't enjoy it several times a year, once is good for me.
Talking about family traditions, do you have any? Maybe something special you eat or drink during the holiday season each year? If so, please let me know in the comment section of this post. Maybe I can find something new to try!