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This is about the second day of the Hurricane festival 2006 in Scheeßel. See also: Hurricane Friday, Sunday, the storm after and more photos as well as films – or Hurricane 2004.
This day was also going to be absolute highlight of the festival. With too many rather than too few great bands playing it was impossible to actually see all of them. But an effort could be made and it was absolutely worth it with:
Holy shit! This still reads mouth-wateringly good when writing it down now…
We meant to start the day by seeing Skin on the main stage and we were a bit early for that. So we heard The Sounds play on the secondary stage and introduce us for the first bit of Swedish goodness of the day which made us stay there for a while. Enjoyable music from bands you've never heard of – just what you hope to find in those lunch-time festival gigs.
Next we headed on to see Skin play the main stage. After I had seen her in an interview on telly lately, I wasn't too impressed and thought she was rather lame. But Jean wanted to go anyway. And it was worth it as she was much more powerful stage and there were many bits of Skunk Anansie goodness all over it.
I recently listened to The Kooks and ended up liking their album, particularly for its clear sound acoustic bits. Their live performance was disappointing in comparison as they gave up the clarity in many places for what seemed like a feeble attempt of being more noisy. Not what I was looking for.
The Raconteurs are another new band which deserves a little attention for being with Jack White and Brendan Benson alone. Which deserves a lot of playing for being kick-ass great. And which deserves being looked at for its nicely drawn letters.
And as luck has it, all of those points held for the gig they played at the festival. Their music was fantastic. Jack White – despite having a facial colour and hairstyle that makes him look like a cross-over between Michael Jackson and Robert Smith – is our guitar god. And they had that nicely drawn R put up at the back of the stage. Absolutely fantastic. More of this is needed!
I'm not the biggest Nada Surf fan. But some of their songs are nice and I didn't see them play last year at Haldern so this was a good opportunity to catch up. Except that it didn't really happen as their slot happened to be right in the Germany vs. Sweden match of some football tournament. Apparently loads of people at the festival wanted to see that match and the police said that all of them hanging out at the dedicated football screen was too dangerous or so.
So the organisers decided to show the game on the screens next to the secondary stage… where Nada Surf were supposed to play. Football fans cheered. And if there were any Nada Surf fans, they weren't too vocal. The organisers said that Nada Surf were great to see the need of the game being screened and gave up their slot for that… while the band's singer said something along the lines of it being strange that at first they were cancelled and then they were asked to play four songs in the middle of the game. Trying to make the best of it I suppose…
While I didn't watch the game, I still was in favour of Sweden all the time. After all they sent many of their great musicians to play for us… but it didn't help.
While the football went on, Hard-Fi played. While I found their album quite addictive after seeing them last summer, I don't think they're all that great. Particularly seeing them play the main stage after The Raconteurs was a bit of a shame. As the same space that had seemed vivid and brilliant and before, suddenly looked quite empty and a bit lame – particularly when seen from a distance. At least they played their cover version of Seven Nation Army.
With this gig Mando Diao reclaimed the 'most seen band' status with me because it has been the fourth time I saw them play live. I still like their music, but now I've seen them grow from being unknown to a headline act at a large festival. Which means that seeing them play just isn't as much fun anymore (or that I'm old…). Still nice to see them again, just from a certain distance this time.
Mando Diao's status in my list of most seen bands didn't last long. Counting a Moldy Peaches gig back in 2002 and two others, the wonderful Adam Green now scores a count of four again. And his gig was absolutely fantastic. While he sometimes seemed a bit sleepy or neglecting his excellent old songs in former gigs, none of that happened this time.
In particular there was a lot of audience participation. I'm not entirely sure I got this right, but it sounded like the singer of The Scorpions (who are from near by) was present and Adam forced him to sing a bit of Wind of Change with him to start off the gig. Later on he had an attention-seeking guy from the audience up on stage with him and they sung and danced a song together for us.
After some more great songs, he finished with Dance With Me, having two girls wearing paper bunny ears dance with him on stage. Great entertainment, just as in his early days. The best of his solo gigs I have seen.
While this would have been a good opportunity for a break, we quickly moved back to the main stage where The Hives had already started playing. We didn't have the best viewing angle, but could see them all wear suits and pose a little too much as usual – including a really cool moment where they all just froze on stage in mid-song. I can pretty much stick with what I wrote two years ago: great music, a lot of power, too much posing. Particularly their singer looks like he'd love to be Mick Jagger. But he's neither cool nor ugly enough for that. Talking a bit less might be a good first step, though.
It's only been a few weeks since I saw Element of Crime play live, but it was great to have a (short) look at them again. Their music was a soothing break –
Wo die Neurosen wuchern, möcht ich Landschaftsgärtner sein… – and a short one because, knowing that I'll see them again at Haldern in August, I gave up the end of their gig (which included an ultra-long version of Across the Universe) for the next one…
I just love The Strokes their newer albums may not be able to match the fantastic Is This It and they may just be a little too cool for their own good when playing live, but in total it's still enough for some serious ass-kicking.
Their set-list was great, including my favourite song The Modern Age and many others which are frequently neglected. The lights they had on stage were strips of lights which could change colour and all and are meant to go with their current album cover I suppose. I thought their lights were a bit too bright – shining too much into audience – though, which made it a bit hard to actually see the band at numerous times. And while I'm complaining, let me mention that my camera claimed its battery was empty after I took a single, really bad photo of the band. The camera took another 50 photos with the same battery an hour later, though. Argh!
And sometimes, just sometimes, when you've got everything you would have asked for, someone will come and offer yet another thing you really like. And at this festival Sigur Rós were that thing. Finally I got an opportunity to see them. And while starting to be exhausted after a day full of gigs this was worth every minute of standing in the night.
Not only did they play their beautiful music with eight people on stage, including an electric bass, electric guitar, drums, a strings and keyboards, with all those high pitched sounds actually being sung by a guy – the music was complemented by a simple yet stunning video projection on the back of the stage which was the only 'decoration' they used.
Great Stuff! And I was completely knackered after that day of extreme musical goodness.
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Glide Ratio: How Far Can I Coast Without An Engine?
By Richard Zephro
One of only a few complete engine failures in over 30 years of flying, happened to me a few years back. The fuel injector in this F model was full of crud from being operated out of a cow pasture with the ram air door seal rubber missing!
The engine failed over Kentucky. But with the legendary and unequalled 12.7:1 glide ratio, we were able to make the airport at Lexington with little sweat. We greased her right on. (of course we really had to stretch the glide to make this one and ended up flying through two small leafless trees, hit the runway abutment rise, ballooned and resettled on the runway. I actually did the math later on and I must have somehow exceeded the written 12.7-1 ratio in order to make that airport, but we made it!) Thanks AL!
Instincts played a great role here because although the engine seemed to be running smoothly at that moment, something was just not right so I began a turn back toward an airport I had passed when half way through the turn, the engine got very quiet. Only after I established my heading to that airport did I attempt a restart which ended up futile. The engine had been running so lean for so long a time that it also sucked a valve and turned it into an upside down umbrella shape as it turned out.
Had I been in a Beech, Piper, or Cessna, the (at the time!) unwelcome topography of Kentucky would have filled our windscreen.
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Killed for that? Nah.
In some ways, you are right. She, herself, I don't think was important - except as Hinzelman's tool to get Shadow out of the town. What is important is what she was to Shadow. The fact that he thought to go give her flowers at the end means that she did, indeed, touch his life. She meant something to him - maybe family? A part of his 'tribe' perhaps?
She might even be the next 'Shadow' - didn't she meantion having dreams of a bird-woman? One that appeared in Shadow's dream? She might be The Land's next savior.
I think the "I believe" speech, while cool, seems a bit impractical and possibly cliched, but I still liked it. (I never could figure out why cliches seems to have such a bad rep)
I'm not sure why cliches get such a bum rap..sometimes a cliche is the best way to say it. I suppose it has to do with freshness. Avoiding cliches forces us to look at the world with different eyes and other words.
She is a minor player in AG, but there I think she is an interesting character. Maybe someday (I hope) her story will be told.
|The Trendy Nihilist
Anyone here want to become a millionaire VERY fast? Here's the plan: Get Neil's permission to record the "I Believe" speech on top of some second rate dance music - and then release it as a single. Just like Baz Luhrman did with that annoying single "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen".
The plan simply can't fail. But when "I Believe. . ." has been on heavy rotation everywhere for a few weeks, we are all going to hate that speech for the rest of our lives. . .
|The Trendy Nihilist
Why don't you go f**k yourself gently with a chainsaw?
[This message has been edited by mtxx (edited 07-27-2001).]
|The Trendy Nihilist
A small footnote: The reason I brought up those copyright problems is because I know for sure that Neil definitely don't like it when his poems or short stories turn up on the Web without his permission. He's talked about this several times at The Well. (He's also very much against file-sharing services like Napster) And I DO think that the 'I Believe' speech can be compared to a poem or a short story. . . .
Well, this discussion is taking a serious header into the dirt.
C'mon guys, knock it off or ignore each other. We're not here for personal insults and angry exchanges. That's what chat rooms are for.
At the very least start a new thread for the angry stuff. Duke it out elsewhere. This one's about the book.
|The Trendy Nihilist
Okay, no more dirt. Sorry. We've both been childish and foolish (ESPECIALLY Stargrave) - let's forget it.
(AND I'll go replace 'u' & 'c' in the bad four letter word with some '*' to make it slightly less offensive. . . . See? I CAN be nice and diplomatic.)
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I could care less about the swearing. The word Fcuk* is a good ol solid bit of language.
A nice percussive, feel-better-for-saying-it kinda word. Y'know?
* Just in case.
I think it is a nice quote...and fuck is a very overused but effective word. About the name thing, don't you people think that if someone wants to call Neil Gaiman by his first name or whatever that they should be able to unless otherwise asked by the man himself not to? I don't know...I haven't met Neil because he doesn't come to this state much. Those of you that have and do call him Neil and such should just feel special because you can do it to his face and through other means. I wish I could call him by first name to his face and get to know him. That is all.
|Village Elder
stargrave: Why get upset that we take the time to thoughtfully respond? We aren't on your case because of your opinions. You are welcome to them and free to debate them. The problem is how disrespectful you are to everyone else.
yes, I refer to him as Grant, I don't care how you refer to him. And the handle you're proud of... Grant admits it's a cheap knockoff of a Michael Moorcock character
This probably doesn't need to be said anymore, but I still kind of want to say it...
Someone called the "I beleive" speech contrived. I think that's exactly the right phrase, rather then the slightly less accurate but always tempting "cliched." Cliches aren't untrue, but we avoid them in favor of subtler, more insightful truths, because cliche's became cliche through use.
So the speech is contrived. Well, so is the novel. So is all fiction. It is by its very nature a contrivance. But that's not what we mean. We mean that's its contrivance feels awkward, it calls attention to its creation rather than concealing it seamlessly the way the rest of the novel does. And this also is true of Sam's speech. At the end, Shadow wanted to applaud, but didn't. He knew it was contrived too, he knew it was a performance, as did Sam. We of course also know that it is Neil's performance in addition to Sam's. But this is a book about Beleif, and the repercussions and subtleties its existence brings with it. Beleif is one of those things that make humans neither fundamentally good, nor fundamentally bad, but fundamentally human (to paraphrase Neil). It deservies little asides like this, even if they are conspicuous. I had mixed thoughts when I first read it, about whether it really fit in, even as I already knew that I loved it completely. It's one of those great human contradictions that makes neither side of the experience any less. Be honest... even if you want to criticize its existance, don't you inherently like the speech at a gut level? I thought about it for a monologue too, as someone whos had to searhc for them for auditions, but the plain truth is it would probably make only a so so monologue, as I don't know that it would really impress so much as dazzle, if that makes sense. But it does work beautifully on the page, and I'd love to hear an MP3 or see a video clip of some really good actor bring it to life, and maybe they'd prove me wrong... in any case, it belongs there, despite every contradiction it embodies, even by its very presence.
|Smiter of the Stupid
My response to "Stargrave" has been moved to the 'Worlds' board due to topic drift and requests from Guardrail, et. al.
-=- Saint NightWalker -=-
Have you ever thought about
how much your cities weigh?
Gosh, NightWalker, this guy *really* doesn't know who you are, does he? But most of us think you're great, which I guess is why someone dubbed you 'Saint' recently...
And if only friends of Neil can call him 'Neil', that would set up a heirarchy that's not needed here... and 'Neil' *is* what Neil wants to be called, anyway... probably because it's friendlier and so many people mispronounce his name as 'Guy-man'...
Anywho, my two cents...
|Village Elder
It fit Sam well. Sam is a performer. She likes to make her mark. She is a conversationist who freely states her mind. She not only did those big speeches, but also had the Kiss and the purple car under her belt as well. When I went through the book, it didn't feel that awkward or contrived but just fit in with who she was. (just checked my book to see if she was a theater student, but no, it was art history. Theater student would've explained a lot)
Sam's speech is a little contrived in the way that cliches ARE contrived- we've heard them so often, we know what's coming before we read it. Oneiromancer made some excellent points about the 'performance' of it, and its function in the story. We learn a lot about the beliefs of the characters in AG throughout the story, and Sam's speech is a universal but highly individualized piece of work that reminds us of the contradictory welter of things we all believe. (My mother firmly believes both those things about California and Florida, incidentally). Personally I always find it fascinating to hear the wacked out things other people believe, and just as interesting when what other people believe makes sense to me. The belief of an ordinary person can be the most complex thing in the universe.
Which all really just says, very cool speech.
On another note, I say Neil with whom I often discuss Neil, and Neil Gaiman with people whom I don't, and Gaiman when I cite him in papers, or maybe when I'm trying to sound like a literary critic. A name is something that goes with being known. Most of us don't know Neil, but we know his work, and it registers with us on a personal (often deep) level. He seems to like it that way. Most of us would also never dream (ahem) of invading Neil's privacy, trying to act over familiar with him, or in any way furthering our use of his first name. I know, I know, all probably made clear long ago here by others... and if I am ever even marginally famous, you may ALL call me ...Teleute.
In fact, you may call me that now, too.
(out of an undivided curiousity)-
and when I think of him as an entity, it's Neil Gaiman, which I imagine would be different if I knew him personally. Does anyone think of him as Neil? Or only as his full name? or only as his last name?
Hey, Teleute. Nice to meetcha. You can call me JaNell.
Is Teleute your given name, and how in the world do you pronounce it, and what does it mean?
And yes, people think of Neil as 'Neil'. 'Cause he's just that kind of guy.
As another person with a greek-endless name, I feel compelled to remind you all that Teleute is a name for Death USED in Sandman, to spare poor Tel the indignity of explaining her name... come on JaNell, get with it!!! (j/k, of course)
(although it just occurred to me, this still leaves open the question of pronunciation, which I have in my head, but have no reason to beleive its right... in my head its "Tell-ey-ooht" or something close to that... But I never took greek.... I'm also assuming its not your given name Teleute, simply because what are the odds of your parents naming you death?)
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Now or Never by A.J. Bennett
Publication date: June 19th 2013
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
Book Description
Twenty-one year old Grayson Alexander finally breaks away from an abusive relationship and finds herself free for the first time in three years.
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But she didn't plan on Derrick.
Her attraction to the sexy man in uniform quickly turns into an unhealthy relationship. They both try to resist the pull, but neither can stay away.
When tragedy strikes, Grayson realizes it's now or never—walk away or make it work.
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Grayson's stomach flipped when the dark-haired man pulled up a stool beside her. She had no idea what her sister had said to the blond, who in turn had brought this sexy stranger to her side. Thankfully, the bar was dimly lit so he couldn't see how red her face was.
He leaned towards her resting his forearms on the table holding her gaze steadily. "What's your name?"
Grayson froze, she didn't want to give her real name. She looked around for inspiration, and then glanced down at the amber and carnelian bracelet around her wrist. "Amber."
"Amber." He rolled the word around as if he was tasting it. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Todd."
Grayson raised the glass to her lips finishing her drink, and then pushed it to the side to pick up the next. She wasn't sure why she'd lied about her name, but it was too late now anyway. Maybe if she pretended like she was someone else, she could actually go through with the madness?
Interview with A.J. Bennett
Now or Never is your debut novel how long did it take to write?
I worked on Now or Never for several months. It was a slow process. I've been intrigued by the New Adult genre. I love that sex is not taboo in the genre. And the age bracket is great. The college years are about finding yourself and experiencing life without the boundaries of your parents.
What are you currently working on?
I'm almost finished with my second novel. It's going to be called Unintentional Virgin. It's been fun to write and can't wait to release it. After that I'm going to start on a book about Luna the twin sister in Now or Never. Because I've had so many request to find out what happens with Grayson and Derrick. I thought that would be a good way to see where they are and also learn more about the free spirt Luna.
Do you have a favorite writing snack?
Popcorn. I LOVE popcorn.
Where do you prefer to write?
I really enjoy writing in cafes. There is something relaxing about that environment. Not to mention it's a great place to people watch.
Some authors still hand write and then type on the computer. What about you?
Goodness no. My handwriting is terrible and I probably wouldn't be able to tell half of what I'd written. I'm all about the laptop. I love to move around while I'm writing.
How would you describe your two main characters?
Grayson is a bit lost and confused. She recently got out of a horrible relationship and has never experienced any other men so she goes a little overboard. And she does it for the wrong reasons. She is really drawn to Derrick but not ready to believe he could possible be the one for her.
Derrick is hard to figure out. He had been hurt in the past. The only woman he ever loved cheated on him with a friend of his. So for the last few years he's been unwilling and uninterested in settling down. When he meets Grayson he knows he's going to fall so he keeps her at a distance.
What do you like to do when you're not writing?
I love to read, go hiking and hang out with my husband.
Do you have any advice for new writers?
Write everyday was the best piece of advice I've received. Even if you don't feel like it. It's good to get your brain in the routine.


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GUITARS & VOICES…Talking About Choices
DISCUSSION FOCI: The Issues of Faith / Race / Class / Environment / Human Rights / Justice & Peace (that are raised in the
CD Recording Project GUITARS & VOICES…Talking About Choices) are paired with a Lectionary Year C Scripture Reference, then presented with the opinions and experiences of a Special Guest Panelist who is personally connected with the issues. Each Zoom Video Conference Call will focus on a different Song and Centering Question.
SCHEDULE SEQUENCE: The Weekly Wednesdays of Lent 2019: March 6th – April 17th @ 9:00p – 10:15p
FORMAT: Panel Moderator (Rick Ufford-Chase) and a Guest Panelist volley with Warren (B) Cooper on the questions raised for them in the song(s) of focus for the week. The discussion will be framed with a Centering Question and a Scriptural Lectionary text from the following Sunday. Zoom Attendees will have an opportunity to interactively insert questions and comments to and for the Panelists.
WEEK 1 – Wednesday, March 6th Guest Panelist: Rev. Alonzo Johnson
Song 1a: Go Down (Just Like) Moses
Scripture Focus: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
Centering Question: What focused foundation can support our position(s) for Human Rights?
WEEK 2 – Wednesday, March 13th Guest Panelist: Rabbi Leora Abelson
Song 1b: Go Down (Just Like) Moses (con't)
Scripture Focus: Psalm 27
Centering Question: What repentance will satisfy our demands for Human Rights?
WEEK 3 – Wednesday, March 20th Guest Panelist: Philip Farah
Songs 2 & 3: (Heaven &) Nature Boy * Twinkle…Bethlehem Star
Scripture Focus: Isaiah 55:1-9
Centering Question: How do we hear, seek and follow the Life Witness of Jesus?
WEEK 4 – Wednesday, March 27th Guest Panelist: Rev. T. Denise Anderson
Songs 4 & 5: I AM Here * Concentrate On Love
Scripture Focus: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Centering Question: How can an 'enemy'…become an ally?
WEEK 5 – Wednesday, April 3rd Guest Panelist: Rev. Jeffrey Geary
Songs 6 & 7: The (Star Spangled)(Scar Strangled) Banner * Mitigated Witness
Scripture Focus: Psalm 126
Centering Question: How can we stand…and when do we kneel?
WEEK 6 – Wednesday, April 10th Guest Panelist: Joss Yarbrough
Songs 8 & 9: Falafel Hush Puppy * It's Me (Standing In The Need…)
Scripture Focus: Isaiah 43:16-21
Centering Question: Which palate most informs the ballot that we cast for Justice?
WEEK 7 – Wednesday, April 17th Full Guest Panelist Circle
Song 10: Hallelujah
Scripture Focus: Hebrews 10:15-25 * John 20:1-18
Centering Question: How can we simultaneously celebrate the crucifixion and the resurrection?


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Andy Rubin left Google back in 2014, he had previously run Android at the company and also Google's robotics division.
According to a recent report, Andy Rubin is looking to get back into the mobile business, but this time he is looking to build hardware and not software.
Andy Rubin is apparently trying to recruit people to help him build a new smartphone company through his Playground Fund which has already raised around $300 million.
He could be looking to build new Android smartphones with this new company, this is the most likely plan as he is the creator of Android and also ran it at Google up until 2014.
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Another excellent kit from my collection is this "MG Strike Freedom Gundam – Full Burst Mode -" ^^
This kit is worth every penny, if you do have some extra cash to get it. Apart from the normal MG Strike Freedom, FBM comes with gold chrome joint and an additional stand for the "Dragoon System" gimmick ^^ Moreover, it also comes with a special bonus poster. The poster made out of plastic instead of paper, featuring Strike Freedom VS Destiny + the pilots. The decals also comes with gold effect instead of silver in FBM version.
The bonus poster:
Some shots (Decided to take shots straight from the display cupboard, since it'll be a hazzle to move it ^^; )~
Dragoon System~
Basically in this FBM version, you get to display your "Dragoons" as if it was flying midair, by using some clear plastic wire. The let down of it is that it isn't sturdy enough, which cause it to bend down when displayed.
Close up (I like how it turns out ^^)~
Took me around 3 days to complete it. Despite the wire problem, FBM is worth getting, just like MG Destiny's EBM version ^^
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Coal Videsh & International Cooperation Division (CV&IC) is engaged in acquiring coking coal assets abroad and diversification in chemical/fertilizer sector.
To be an internationally competitive fossil fuel company having an organization and culture committed towards sustainable growth and increasing profitability with primary aim to enhance energy security of the country by bridging the demand-supply gap through pursuit of overseas opportunities and professional excellence in execution.
CIL's target coking coal assets:
Setting up of Natural Gas based Urea plants: A Joint Venture company named Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL) comprising of CIL, NTPC, IOCL, FCIL and HFCL has been constituted with the shareholding pattern of the JV partners as:
CIL: 29.67%, NTPC: 29.67%, IOCL: 29.67% & FCIL/HFCL (combined): 10.99%.
The founding purpose of the JV is to set up natural-gas based 1.27 MTPA urea plant at the premises of closed fertilizer plants of FCIL at Gorakhpur (U.P.) & Sindri (Jharkhand) and that of HFCL at Barauni (Bihar). The three plants are being set up at a total estimated cost of around Rs. 22,000 crores. Contracts have been awarded to the respective successful bidders for setting up of the three plants on Lump-Sum Turn Key (LSTK) basis.
Construction works of all three projects are on track and the urea production is expected to commence in the beginning of 2021.
For further details, please visit: https://hurl.net.in
Setting up of coal gasification based Urea plant: A Joint Venture company named Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL) comprising of RCF, CIL, GAIL and FCIL has been constituted with with the shareholding pattern of the JV partners as:
The founding purpose of the JV is to set up an integrated coal gasification based fertilizer complex at the premises of closed fertilizer unit of FCIL at Talcher (Odisha). Coal from the nearby Talcher coalfields blended with pet-coke shall be gasified to produce syngas, which shall be converted into Ammonia and subsequently to 1.27 MTPA of neem coated Urea.
Ministry of Coal has allotted 50% of North of Arkhapal-Srirampur (Northern Part) coal block to TFL. Detailed Exploration, Preparation of Geological Report, Preparation of Mining Plan & Project Report for allotted Coal Block is in progress by CMPDI.
Pre-project activities are already in progress at the site. The plant is scheduled to come in operation in FY 2023-24.
For further details, please visit: http://tflonline.co.in/
Setting up of Coal to Methanol plant at Dankuni Coal Complex (DCC): In pursuance to initiatives towards development of Clean Coal Technology and alternate use of coal, CIL is exploring the possibilities for setting-up a coal based Methanol plant in the premises of Dankuni Coal Complex (DCC) near Kolkata. Coal sourced from Raniganj coalfields shall be gasified to produce syngas which shall be subsequently converted into methanol.
Pre-Feasibility Studies have been carried out to set up of a 2050 MTPD (0.676 MTPA) capacity Coal to Methanol plant in the available vacant land at the existing DCC plant of CIL. Pre-project activities have been initiated at the site.
Tender for setting up of the plant shall be floated soon.
For further details, please regularly visit: https://coalindiatenders.nic.in/ , https://www.coalindia.in/tenders/en-us/home.aspx , http://eprocure.gov.in


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President Obama told the L.A. Univison affiliate yesterday that "Once that's done [the fiscal fight], you know, the day after, I'm going to be pushing to say, call a vote on immigration reform." Or, as a BuzzFeed headline crows, "Obama Has Already Won The Shutdown Fight And He's Coming For Immigration Next".
The Republican leadership is on board with Obama's agenda. House Homeland Security chairman Mike McCaul said a couple weeks ago, "I would think that would be the next agenda item in the queue after we're done with this mess." Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte has met with Democrats Luis Gutierrez and Henry Cuellar, who were "encouraged by his apparent enthusiasm for advancing immigration reform," in one reporter's description. And George Soros's National Immigration Forum is staging a conservative "fly-in" later this month to pressure Republican House members to pass Obama's top second-term priority. The "conservatives" making Obama's amnesty/doubling immigration case to the House GOP will include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Billionaires for Open Borders founder Michael Bloomberg, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and others.
So the question is what effect will the government-shutdown fight have on the politics of amnesty in the House? It seems like it could go one of two ways. On the one hand, it could be that conservatives are weakened and demoralized by the unsatisfactory result of the fiscal fight, and the leadership will want to show that it can work constructively with the Democrats, increasing chances of passing something to take to conference with the Senate, thus ensuring passage of what will amount to the Schumer-Rubio bill, with a few meaningless tweaks.
On the other hand, as Conn Carroll at the Examiner tweeted recently, "hey – ya know when a great time to bring up the very divisive issue of amnesty? right after a bloody GOP civil war." Carroll suggests even moderate Republicans, otherwise amenable to amnesty, might want to avoid poking a conservative hornets' nest. That suggests perhaps the passage of some targeted immigration measures (like a GOP version of the DREAM Act, a farmworker bill, McCaul's ineffectual-border security bill, etc.) but no conference with the Senate unless it also passes comparable targeted measures, rather than the gargantuan, Obamacare-style monstrosity that is Schumer-Rubio.
I know what I'm hoping for, but that doesn't mean it'll happen. I'm open to thoughts on how the fiscal-fight fallout will impact the immigration debate.


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Constructing the past
The discovery of the human remains near Durham Cathedral in November 2013 did not uncover the story of the Dunbar prisoners for the first time. Far from it, the story was already being told in the 17th century and it has continued to be embellished and presented in different ways on both sides of the Atlantic since then. Fine art, theatre, film, poetry, historical fiction, re-enactment, music, museum exhibitions, these are just a few of the creative outcomes inspired by the story. But what do the perspectives of actors, musicians, writers and museum displays bring to our understanding and how? In this final week we explore how the Scottish soldiers' story has been constructed, both in the past and today.
To begin with, what was it about these particular human remains which so fascinated the public? Initially, there was surprise that such a discovery could be made in such an iconic location. It is often assumed, wrongly, that a 'postcard destination' such as Palace Green in the centre of Durham is an historic environment which is comprehensively understood by archaeologists, historic buildings specialists and historians. Second, quite why the Cathedral was used to house prisoners was a point of misunderstanding for many. The fact that the Cathedral had no religious life during this period is often forgotten (see Step 3.10). Third, there is the Cromwell connection. Historical assessments of Cromwell, both for and against, are not hard to find and were voiced to us with passion on many occasions during the course of our research. Fourth, there were human remains involved and there was little doubting the poignancy of the events surrounding the deaths of the men. Fifth, this was a project which 'solved a 365-year old mystery' of the 'lost Scottish soldiers'. This was one of those rare opportunities in archaeology to research a group of people who were both closely dated and historically documented; in effect our research became both a 'whodunnit' and a 'whatdunnit'. Finally, as we learnt in Week 4, some of the brothers-in-arms of those who were excavated in Durham had a second chance in new lands and it was their US descendants who contacted us in the days after the discovery was first announced. Through them we have come to understand the shared heritage and strong sense of Scottish identity that is still so important today.
Two aspects of the project had particular resonance in the context of current affairs in the winter of 2015 when the results were first announced. Several journalists noted that there were child soldiers among the dead, including some perhaps as young as 13 years of age. This was true, bearing in mind that the human skeleton cannot be aged with complete accuracy (Step 2.2), even if it was a curiously generic inference to draw from such a small assemblage (less than 1%) of those captured at Dunbar. The second issue concerned the rights and wrongs of reburial of the human remains (Week 5), as seen within the wider context of national identities across the UK and the possibility of Scottish independence.
Clearly, the Scottish soldiers' story does not 'belong' to the archaeologist and the historian alone, it is of interest to a much broader audience, and for many different reasons.
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How to Launch a Publishing House [Charco Press]
It's Charco Press month! After stepping away from these "monthly themes" for a minute (or, well, actually, a full month), I'm excited to get back to this, and have a bunch of posts planned out for November. If all goes according to plan (spoiler: HA!) I'd like to post a couple interviews with Charco Press translators, a special podcast episode with the founders, and a few posts covering the five Charco titles to be released in the U.S. in the near future. (Four come out in November, and one—see below—comes out in February 2020.)
But where to start? Do you already know who Charco is?
This points to one of the (very) minor problems of the social media filter bubble. Charco's titles have been floating through my Twitter timeline since at least May 2018, with bookseller after critic after translator after friend heaping praise on their titles, so I just naturally assume everyone's heard of them and knows what they're about. (Even though they have yet to officially distribute a title in the U.S.) This is a pretty stupid assumption to make. I mean, shit, I work on a campus where I regularly run into people who have worked at the same university for decades and have never ever heard of Open Letter. If you're not in the industry, you probably don't know who they are.
So, I'm going to try and take this post to actually introduce them. But doing that in a straightforward way seems maybe patronizing to the great booksellers and readers—both here and especially abroad—who already know of Charco and their books. Instead, I want to play out a sort of backward-looking thought experiment: What are the qualities in how Charco is "entering the North American market" that brought them to my awareness so long ago, and with a preexisting aura of being both cool and important?
They're not the first press to enter the scene with a lot of hype and pre-pub momentum (see Deep Vellum, see Transit, see Archipelago back in the mid-2000s), and definitely won't be the last. But thinking about what they've done/are doing right now might be interesting—possibly even helpful to nascent, or soon-to-be-founded, presses. Here are nine reasons why I think Charco is going to take off here in the States.
Have a Great Press Name
From the Charco website:
Charco means 'puddle' in Spanish. It is also a colloquialism used in some Latin American countries to refer to the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, cruzar el charco means 'crossing the puddle' and is a way of referring to when someone is going overseas, or travelling between continents.
This is all fine. It's perfect for a mission statement, and great as a way of explaining what your unusual (to English-speaking ears at least) name means. But it overlooks how fun of a word it is to say. Charco. Char-ko. Charko. That has decidedly good mouthfeel.
Personally, I suck at names. Everything I come up with is either number based (Two Month Review . . . ) or the equivalent of the Big Bird problem (e.g., Big Bird isn't a name, it's just a descriptor, since Big Bird is just a "big" "bird"), like with the Best Translated Book Award. If it weren't for Nate Furl and E.J. van Lanen, Open Letter probably would've been named Translated Books.
Charco. Charko. This is cool.
When I was at Dalkey Archive Press, there was always an anxiety around the press's name. Sure, people would frequently call and ask if they had reached Darkly Archive Press. Or some paper would write Dakley. There are so many ways to mess this word, this, Dalkey, up. And no one inherently knew what it was. Which can be a problem for a nonprofit organization that does more than simply produce works of fiction and nonfiction, but for a book publishing company? The catchier and more (mis)rememberable possible, the better.
What do any of these names really signify? Like, if you weren't in the book world you a) wouldn't be reading this post, and b) you wouldn't necessarily have any associations (of covers, titles, authors, or reputation) to tie to these names. It's impossible to do this, but pretend you're hearing these presses for the first time and try and guess what sorts of books they'd publish. (My free-association imagined responses are in italics.)
Milkweed (Gardening)
Melville House (Old, sleepy, American)
Restless (Anarchism)
New Directions (Methadone)
Deep Vellum (Coffee)
Coffee House (Also coffee)
Transit (Boats, especially cruise ships)
Graywolf (What color are wolves?)
New Vessel (What's the obsession with transportation?)
Charco (Do I know what this means?)
Dorothy (We're not in Kansas)
Be in England, but in Scotland
You know who treats indie/small/unique/internationally-focused publishers well? The UK. You can publish obscure works in translation for two years and be shortlisted for the biggest awards in the country. The newspapers? They actually care about the outsiders. The presses on the fringes. It's so much less corporate.
Part of this has to do with England's size. The fact that their train system works. (Don't even, Brits. You have no idea what a truly dysfunctional railway is like.) The British snootiness that I love to make fun of when I'm tipsy is actually an advantage when it comes to appreciating culture. There's a sense of pride that favors intellectual innovation, whereas America is solely focused on money and financial gain and sales. It's wicked bizarre to present the belief that a country with a monarchy for Christ's sake is closer to a meritocracy than America, but, well, there we are.
But do you really want to live in London and be part of the London Publishing Scene? Hmm. Given London rents, rat-based plagues, gross class designations, Ladies and Lords, inefficient spelling choices, and . . . well, I suppose most of those things are limited to just London, per se, but still, you don't want to be overshadowed if you're launching a new press. You want to be part of a big scene, yet separate. Like, in Edinburgh.
I have about a million and one reasons to dislike Edinburgh (actually, it's just two, but they're very emotionally impactful), but I don't! It's a cool place where I would love to live. Especially if I were a book publisher who's main market was England. (Post-Brexit, it's not the United Kingdom anymore, right? "United' just feels so wrong to speak aloud.)
Cover Design
This is huge. Look at the covers sprinkled throughout this post. This a unified (yeah, intentional callback one paragraph later) design that's not too restrictive (see: Archipelago and to a lesser extent, NYRB and Europa), but immediately identifiable. This aesthetic could play for a number of years, since it's so anti-this moment.
Which brings up an interesting question: Is it better to make a name for yourself by going against the grain (design-wise), rather than chasing the "trend of the moment"? And is there a point when your "grain destroying" look is either adopted by others or deemed no longer "cutting edge" in a way that's valuable and "cool"? What do you do then?
Both Dalkey Archive and Open Letter operated—at different points in their history—under two contradictory cover ideas: that everything should look like a series (so that bookstores would give us a special shelf for our beautiful, matching books), and that every title needs to be treated differently. There is a danger in having the same spines for every title; my memory is awful and it's very easy for me to forget which books I already own when all the titles in a series look identical. But I also think that there's something to a publisher having a brand. It makes sense to me from a mathematical perspective: Every author's book stands alone, but if you have any sort of community who has a touch of brand loyalty—to the publisher or the author's past books or the translator or the cover aesthetic—it's that much easier to generate interest in your books. There are already some likely readers ready to help spread the word.
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff
The first Charco book I read was Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, a deliciously jagged, brutal book. It's like the flipside of Ducks, Newburyport. Instead of being long, sympathetic, and exacting, Die, My Love is a very short, very direct novella that drifts off into the irreal on occasion while depicting the life of a mom going wrong. It's a book about a mother and wife who is trapped in both roles, and rebels. Whose narrative is a firehose of raw truth that is also sometimes aware of its status as fiction—like in the sections in which the narrator assumes the perspective of her lover.
But let's start with the opening chapter:
I lay back in the grass among fallen trees and the sun on my palm felt like a knife I could use to bleed myself dry with one swift cut to the jugular. Behind me, against the backdrop of a house somewhere between dilapidated and homely, I could hear the voices of my son and my husband. Both of them naked. Both of them splashing around in the blue paddling pool, the water thirty-five degrees. It was the Sunday before a bank holiday. I was a few steps away, hidden in the underbrush. Spying on them. How could a weak, perverse woman like me, someone who dreams of a knife in her hand, be the mother of those two individuals? What was I going to do? I burrowed deeper into the ground, hiding my body. I wasn't going to kill them.
Hell-ooooo Charco. That's a bold beginning.
A normal woman from a normal family, but an eccentric, a deviant, the mother of one child and with another, though who knows at this point, on its way. I slowly slide a hand into my knickers. And to think I'm the person in charge of my son's education.
If there's one criticism I have of this book, it's that the translated language could be sharper. I love the narrator's voice, but feel like it could be ratcheted up into unforgettable. "The mother of one child and with another, though who knows at this point" is an example of where the prose pauses in a way that neither develops the character, nor adds anything to the overall flow of the narrator's way of thinking about the world. Again, that's not to say that it's bad, but I can see a version of this book that is even more lit.
The baby appears to have shat himself and I've got to go and buy his cake. I bet other mothers would bake one themselves. Six months, apparently it's not that same as five or seven.
This is a stupid game to play, but "Six months. Apparently not the same as five. Or seven." is an editorial suggestion I would make, with the hope that the translator would come up with a third version that's spot-on and related to a deeper reading of how the character thinks and talks.
Whenever I look at him I think of my husband behind me, about to ejaculate on my back, but instead turning me over suddenly and coming inside me. If this hadn't happened, if I'd closed my legs, if I'd grabbed his dick, I wouldn't have to go to the bakery for a cream cake or chocolate cake and candles, half a year already.
I know how this sounds, but I truly love mom narratives right now. Maybe because I have a twenty-month old? But also because I have a fifteen-year-old who, on Friday had a total breakdown about the "unfairness of the world" and not getting the attention and drama roles she deserves, which, well, sounds very familiar . . . It is uncomfortable to see your own flaws in your child. On the one hand, it makes it easier to explain where one's thinking has gone awry—"There are things you can control, things you can't! Live in the now and do your best"—and on the other it seems like proof that you, as a parent, performed poorly. Passing on your neuroses to the next generation is so bad.
We're one of those couples who merchandise the word 'love', who use it even when they despise each other. I never want to see you again, my love. I'm coming, I say, and I'm a fraud of a country woman with a red polka-dot skirt and split ends. I'll have a blonde beer, I say in my foreign accent. I'm a woman who's let herself go, has a mouth full of cavities and no longer reads. Read, you idiot, I tell myself, read one full sentence from start to finish.
This goes back to my comment about the "six months" line above. The self-critique about not being able to read a full sentence makes me feel like the more fragmentary the prose is, the better.
So many healthy and beautiful women in the area, and he ended up falling for me. A nutcase. A foreigner. Someone beyond repair. Muggy out today, isn't it? Seems it'll last a while, he says. I take long swigs from the bottle, breathing through my nose and wishing, quite simply, that I were dead.
Buy this book. Shit does get crazier. But rather than try and explain the minutia of it, let's use this as a case study for other "tips for successfully launching a press."
Have Crazy, Strong Comp Artists
There is exactly one reason why this was the first Charco book I read.
The language of Die, My Love cuts like a scalpel even as it attains a kind of cinematic splendour, evoking the likes of John Cassavetes, David Lynch, Lars von Trier and John Ford. In a text that explores the destabilising effects of passion and its absence, immersed in the psyche of a female protagonist always on the verge of madness, in the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector,
I'm sure Plath and Lispector will attract a large group of readers, but Lynch + von Trier? That's so particular. And so bold. All of those names together? (Putting aside my knee-jerk reaction against Lispector, Sebald, Murakami comparisons.) I need to see what's behind this cover.
And Harwicz doesn't disappoint. This book is fierce and unsettling. And part of a trilogy, which I'm also a sucker for.
Open Strong
Sphinx. Such Small Hands. Zone. Death in Spring. A big first book can do wonders for your list. Die, My Love came out in the UK on September 7, 2017, one of (the?) first books that Charco did. And it was named to the Man Booker International Longlist. (Again, England seems so much closer to a meritocracy to me than America does. Everything feels like a foregone conclusion here.)
Editorial vision
So hard to define, yet so easy to recognize. It would be amazing to create a giant Venn Diagram depicting the editorial overlap of independent presses. It would be easy (?) to do subjectively—gigantic circles for New Directions, Dalkey Archive, Graywolf, NYRB all overlapping to various degrees—and much more fascinating to create an infographic out of a few quantifiable things: number of authors in common, books presses have simultaneously bid on, shared readers . . . Actually, maybe shared readers is the only bit of data you need . . . How many Action Books readers read Open Letter vs. the number of Action Books readers reading Ugly Duckling titles?
Venn Diagrams are the new (old?) Word Cloud.
Fireflies by Luis Sagasti, translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch
This book doesn't come out until February 2020, which I didn't realize until I was fully sucked in, having finished the first chapter (what Volodine fans might call a "narract"?) about haiku, Vonnegut, Joseph Beuys, The Little Prince, Tartars, stars, myths. This book is going to get a lot of (deserved) love next year. It's about everything and nothing; it's an essay posing as fiction posing as an essay. It's very fun.
It's also a book that overlaps with Rodrigo Fresán and Juan Ignacio Boido. And Italo Calvino. Also Europeana by Patrick Ouredník. If only you could create a Venn Diagram of books that overlap . . . A way of generating book recommendations that's visually interesting and hopefully useful in encouraging readers to branch out and explore new voices.
But what quantifiable aspects of a book should be used to define the overlap between Book X and Book Y?
The genre and sub-sub-sub genre of the books in question? This sounds logical, although it could also create a sort of echo chamber, whereas I'd like to think that attentive, curious readers will appreciate the best of the best of every possible sub-genre. It's not just the narrative conventions found in a particular sub-genre that interest readers, but the quality of the writing itself. (One hopes.)
What about the overlap in sentence length and structure? Some sort of algorithm-driven computer analysis that can assess the underlying patterns in texts and match them up. . . . Just typing that out made me feel like Ray Kurzweil had magic vitamin-ed his way into my brain. I love data, I love using it to visualize information and think about the world from a new perspective. But the value of a reading experience isn't quantifiable in the same way a baseball game is. Partially because no book stands apart from its audience—a book only exists in the mind of its readers—and partially because a great work of literary art transcends its particulars. Plot, characterization, style, rhythm, pacing, dialogue, are all things you can excel at in your writing, but there's something about truly great literature that these categories don't quite capture.
"If you like X, you'll love Y" is basically what I'm talking about, although I think this is much too limited. It's like the most basic of Venn Diagrams.
Why not, "if you like X, Y, Z, C, Blue, and the number 27, you'll love Y"?
Oh shit. This is how Target and Amazon create their algorithms to figure out we're pregnant before we know we are. I feel the temptation to be evil . . . I mean, let's make some recommendations!
Die, My Love is for people who like Ferrante's Days of Abandonment, Esther Tusquets's Stranded, Ducks, Newburyport, Kristen Hirsh, parenting, the opioid epidemic, and understanding why someone breaks.
Fireflies is for anyone who likes The Nocilla Trilogy, Pynchon, Deleuze & Guattari, NPR, IDM, mosaics, and strong black coffee.
To be serious for a second: Fireflies is a book that builds its metaphysics in an exciting and super-fun way. I love books that embrace the idea of pattern from the outset, structure and meaning entwined and playing off one another . . . It's a proof of concept sort of novella. Can you weave together X number of interesting anecdotes and observations in a way that replicates the philosophical ideas about chance and connection that are portrayed in the story?
Again, this is the sort of book I'm a total sucker for. I know at least a dozen other people who are going to go crazy over this . . . which brings us to
Caroline Casey + Annie McDermott + Danny Hahn
"Hire the right people" is the sort of statement you could build a TED Talk around, and is totally a thing when you need to get a handful of people invested in your books. All the good bookstores in America will order Charco's list the second they see that Caroline Casey (formerly of Coffee House) is doing their marketing.
Annie McDermott is credited as the editor for several Charco books, and her growing reputation as a translator only adds to the allure of a press like this.
Having Danny Hahn, one of the most important and interesting and talented and brilliant and level-headed spokespeople for international literature ever, translate one of your first books goes a long way.
Having people like like Caroline, Annie, and Danny on board sends an incredibly powerful signal to the rest of the book community. This is something that all new presses strive to achieve—get as many trust-inspiring people on your team as possible right at the outset—although it might also be true that we realize which translators (or editors, or employees) are the superstars only after we've become successful. (For example, when Emma Ramadan translated Sphinx, she wasn't yet a superstar. But in retrospect, having her work on one of Deep Vellum's first titles seems like such an obviously brilliant decision.)
Several Books at Once
Both in the UK, and in the U.S., Charco employed an "all at once" sort of strategy. Instead of dropping a book at a time, one month after another, all the new titles came out around the same time.
I don't know how I feel about this, but I think it worked?
It's a strategy that New Directions (and others) have employed with varying degrees of success, but usually with regard to a particular author. I'm thinking of the four Clarice Lispector novels that came out at the same time—with interlocking covers—and the way NYRB reissued their Henry Green titles in batches.
Although I like the idea of waiting a month or more to get the next book from a press I respect, there is something compelling about dropping 4+ titles at once, making it seem like your books are everywhere, then making people wait three more months for the next title. Create demand!
Slow Roll Out . . .
. . . which sounds like a contradiction to the point above, but is really just about how Charco did the UK for a solid minute, building up respect and sales and readership, and then came to the U.S. And Other Stories did a similar thing years ago, and Fitzcarraldo more recently—all for good reason.
It's so smart to start building your press in a receptive, supportive community, and then expand outward. I think about this a lot when I think about Transit launching in the Bay Area. Adam and Ashley were surrounded by a number of amazing bookstores that are very supportive of international literature. The fact that the Center for the Art of Translation has been in the area for twenty-five years also makes a difference in terms of cultivating a receptive community. I don't think you can overstate the importance of having supportive people in your vicinity when you're doing creative work like this. It's one thing to get praised on Twitter, another to walk into your neighborhood bookstore and talk with a bookseller who's writing up a staff pick on one of your recent titles.
That sort of positive community situation—which Deep Vellum, BOA Editions, all the Minneapolis presses, and several others have cultivated—seems even more likely to develop in the UK than in our vast country. And once you have a strong home base, you're in a much better position to launch your books into the wider world.
I feel like I've been waiting for these Charco books for ages. And I'm excited to read more of them and highlight their press throughout the month. If you're looking for a new press to fall in love with, definitely go to your local bookstore, order all of these, and give them a try.
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CTE program receives grant for tower gardens
April 30, 2019
Students of the Food Safety and Nutrition class are embracing the future of growing food. Led by teacher Jordan Strayhorn, the students take care of the tower garden: an over-six-foot tall self-maintaining garden. Strayhorn got the tower garden earlier this year when she was awarded the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation (FPEF) grant. The garden- which has its own light, watering system, and timer- is a great learning experience for the students, Strayhorn says.
"[The students] are tending to this, and seeing it grow, so when it's time to eat it, they'll be open-minded and be excited about it," she commented, "when students are more involved in the growing and the source of the food, they're more likely to try something that they might have never tried before."
The students also have to tend to the garden, doing things like checking the pH of the water and adding nutrients to the water. "It's a great learning tool for the students," says Strayhorn, "to actually see things grow- it really is kind of miraculous."
The garden runs on a timer; every hour, the water will flow for 15 minutes. The lights turn on at night- to ensure that the plants get proper sunlight. The system can operate year-round, and might be the future of food growth.
"I think that the technology is going to get cheaper," Strayhorn said, "and that it'll get more accessible." The garden allows people with little land or harsher conditions to grow their own food.
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The StoryIn a story that recreates the signature sense of humor of the show, SpongeBob and Patrick decide one day to take Squidward with them to go jellyfishing!
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- Is fear of success is keeping you from being wealthy
- Why there might be a downside to having money
- How to find out what that downside is (for you)
- How to take back control
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Are you more afraid of failure… or success?
That sounds like a weird question, but it's not.
Surprisingly, succeeding at something can be as terrifying as failure…
particularly around something like being wealthy, getting rich or having lots of money.
Becoming rich will change who you are for everyone
Because going from being a normal, 'poor', blue- or white-collar worker to being wealthy will change everything.
It will change everything for you and your life, but it will also change who you are for other people. It will change the way they see you and, quite possibly, it will change their whole attitude towards you.
Being 'poor' keeps you safe
At least, that's one of the things you might be scared of. It was one of my blocks: I was afraid of being ostracised from my working-class extended family because I was now one of those rich, fat cats who have made their money on the back of the poor, downtrodden workers.
Journal about it
This is an exercise we need to do regularly but particularly if we've been trying to change our financial situation for a while but haven't managed to make any headway.
Get out a pen and paper and ask yourself:
- What are the downsides of being rich?
- Are there negatives (of course there are!)? What are they?
- What am I scared of?
- Why could staying 'poor' be safer for me?
Keep writing until you don't want to write any more. Then keep going. When you get to the bit where you think there's nothing else, and you keep going, that where the real gold is.
Share what you discover
Please share what comes up for you in the comments below, or message me and let me know.
The reasons are twofold:
- You never know who it might help.
- Getting that stuff out into the world takes its power away and puts the power back into your court.
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Artificial sperm 'grown in lab' for first time
Lubna Ahmed
Progress Educational Trust20 May 2015
A French company claims to have grown human sperm cells in a laboratory for the first time.
The Kallistem Laboratory, in Lyon, said it had produced sperm cells using patient testicular biopsies that contained immature germ cells, but the research is yet to be published in a peer reviewed journal.
The researchers claim that their work will enable them to extract reproductive cells from a male patient and store them until he decides to have a child. So far this process has proved effective in mice but still needs to be tested in humans.
The company said it will be holding pre-clinical trials in 2016 and, if they're successful, clinical trials may go ahead in 2017.
Isabelle Cuoc, Kallistem's CEO, said: 'Our team is the first in the world to have developed the technology required to obtain fully formed spermatozoa in vitro with sufficient yield for IVF. This is a major scientific outcome that enhances both our credibility and our development potential.
'We are targeting a global market worth several billion euros in which there are currently no players.'
Nonetheless, some scientists are treating this research with caution until it is proven. Allan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, told the Daily Mail: 'This is a bold claim to make and we have had our fingers burnt before. Until I see a peer-reviewed scientific publication showing unequivocally that this has been done, I have to remain sceptical.'
He added: 'Claims like this can often cause heartache for infertile couples who see them as hope, only to have their hopes dashed later when it doesn't translate into an available procedure.'
Nathalie Rives, manager of the CHU fertility clinic in Rouen, France, told Le Figaro: 'If it works, this procedure opens great prospects.' Though, she added that some men might have 'genetic anomalies' which could exclude them from the process.
Reproduced with permission from BioNews, an email and online sources of news, information and comment on assisted reproduction and genetics.