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Tulsa was the forecast we monitored over the weekend, and it was in a white knuckled tussle with thunderstorms. No storms actually hit the airport, but on Saturday, thunderstorms were reported in the vicinity. I didn't have the heart to mark anyone wrong, for not having precipitation, nor for having thunderstorms in the forecast, because everyone was right. Therefore, it came down to temperatures. Without any activity on Sunday, temperatures spiked again in the low 90s. Only one outlet went that warm, and Forecast.io was able to claim victory as a result
Actuals: Saturday – Thunderstorms in the vicinity, High 93, Low 76
Sunday – High 92, Low 70
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Dinosaurs » A-Z Dinosaurs List » Zephyrosaurus Dinosaur
Zephyrosaurus is otherwise referred as Westward wind lizard and this genus belongs to the family of euornithopod dinosaur. It is believed that the species had been lived in the scattered regions of current USA, over 145 million years ago in the late Cretaceous Period. This herbivore species comes under the classification of Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Ornithopoda.
Only few skeletal specimens have been found and based on the partial skull and post cranial skeleton still further more individuals have now been identified and described. From the fossil skeleton it has been observed that the dinosaur was about 1.8 meters long and typically walked on two legs often characterized by three-toed feet and horny beaks.
Zephyrosaurus is a medium sized dinosaur that had distinctive characteristics such as steep face, larger knob on the cheekbone and a raised knob on the upper jaw. This herbivore type is often featured by beak teeth, which support the creature to dig out burrows to hide from the eyes of predators.
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Chelsie and George paid honor to their alma mater at their Fall Brooks Farm wedding this past summer. Sticking to a black and white color scheme with pops of bright orange, they found a way to tie in an Oregon State University theme but still keep things extremely timeless and chic. Chelsie and George celebrated their day surrounded by stunning horses and were able to pull off a wedding that was fun and totally them.
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Meet the exosuit: It can carry a diver to remarkable depths — and sea creatures that could aid human health
Brian Palmer, Slate | February 28, 2014 3:43 PM ET
Image courtesy Nuytco Research Ltd.The exosuit can carry a diver to a depth of 1,000 feet while maintaining surface-level pressure
The exosuit can carry a diver to a depth of 1,000 feet while maintaining surface-level pressure. The pilot moves the device with four foot-controlled thrusters. Inside the helmet, there is a side panel displaying oxygen and pressure conditions, which are also relayed to the surface through a data link. The pilot can talk with his handlers as well.
The biggest technological advancement is the rotary joint, a simple ball-and-socket hidden within several layers of technology. The oil in the chamber reduces friction, making smooth movement possible under intense pressure. A sealant and a series of wipers keep debris out. There are 18 joints, providing extreme dexterity (and making the suit look awesome). The exosuit's arms end in stumps, to which the pilot can attach a variety of attachments depending on the mission objective, and bringing a Batman flavor to the Iron Man look. The standard accessory is a set of pincers that resemble the old Armatron robotic toy. Even an unskilled user can manipulate the pincers to pick a dime off the floor of a tank.
Another handy arm attachment is the vacuum. That's where the applications for the suit get interesting. This July, a team of scientists organized by the American Museum of Natural History will use the exosuit to explore "The Canyons," a 10,000-foot dip located just beyond the continental shelf off the coast of New England. The suit will enable them to put a live scientist, rather than just a remotely controlled vehicle, into the murky mesopelagic zone, where fluorescent and bioluminescent creatures lurk.
It's difficult to overstate the role that these organisms have played in biological research. In the 1960s, marine researchers discovered the green fluorescent protein, or GFP, in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. By injecting a form of the protein into cells, or genetically modifying the cells to produce GFP on their own, researchers could image individual proteins that had previously been invisible and monitor the inner-workings of a cell without damaging the organism itself. GFP was the subject of the 2008 Nobel prize in chemistry. According to Vincent Pieribone, who studies fluorescence and bioluminescence at Yale, "That one protein spawned an entire field."
American Museum of Natural History / Facebook When scientists take turns squeezing themselves into the single existing exosuit in July and dive deep into the Canyons, they will be hunting fluorescence and bioluminescence
It's far from a sure thing, but the hope is to discover new proteins that will enable them to see deeper into an organism with less invasive equipment. The applications are countless: They could, for example, aid in the detection of cancer, by putting the spotlight on rapidly-proliferating cells. They could also improve our still rudimentary map of the brain. Once we know the electrical signals that cause us to make a fist or flex our knees, we can quickly build machines that respond to those commands, effectively freeing victims of spinal cord injury from their disabilities. Not even Iron Man can do that.
The exosuit is on display at the American Museum of Natural History through March
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Friday, June 22, 2012
New Mortal Instruments News! Jemima West cast as Izzy Lightwood.
So, if you're a Mortal Instruments fan who has been living under a rock these past few days or you're simply not a Mortal Instruments fan at all (which is totally unaccaptable .. Just joking), you might not know that our Isabelle was cast the other day! I was at school when I found out and I may or may not have started sobbing in class. Don't judge me. I've been seriously excited for this movie for years now, but things have really moved slowly in terms of the production for the movie. Lily Collins was cast as Clary late 2010 and Jamie Campbell Bower was cast as Jace mid-2011. We are truly The Fandom Who Waited.
Anyways, back on to who the cast as the bad ass Isabelle Lightwood... Let me just tell you, although I was rooting for Phoebe Tonkin aka Faye from the Secret Circle, I totally approve of this girl! She's gorgeous!
Introducing, Jemima West:
I haven't seen her acting, but from what I've heard, she's an amazing actress. If you're looking to check her out, here's her imdb page, listing all the stuff she's been in. By the way, she's french-english, so a lot of the stuff is French.
Here's what Cassandra Clare had to say about her:
"Jemima West. She's beautiful (like whoa) and really talented. You can see her as Vittoria on The Borgias right now. And before anyone freaks out that she is blonde, she'll be dying her hair for the role. She had a lot of Izzy's toughness and directness in her audition. I like her."
So.. wow! Good to hear some casting news finally! Clare said she was also going to post who was casted as Alec as she made that announcement, but then had to hold off because of scheduling issues or something. She did, however, say that the person they cast is British and has dark hair. He is also someone we might know. She has confirmed the people not playing him are Ben Barnes, Chris Riggi, Nicholas Hoult, Douglas Booth, Aaron Johnson and Freddie Highmore.
She also said that Simon should be announced sometime in July, as apparently he is a hard person cast. (And I'm all cool with that, because frankly, Simon needs to be perfect.)
... And here's a look at our really good-looking and talented cast so far!
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Meet The New "Saturday Night Live" Cast Members
7 Minutes In Heaven host Michael Patrick O'Brien will be joining SNL in the fall, and three other men and one woman are top candidates to join him.
Saturday Night Live writer Michael Patrick O'Brien will be joining the cast as a featured player this fall, and three others are rumored to have been hired, Dateline reports. O'Brien has been a writer on the show since 2009.
O'Brien spent years perfecting his comedy skills at Chicago's iO and Second City theaters. He last appeared on the show during Justin Timberlake's opening monologue on March 9, 2013.
He also wrote this sketch.
O'Brien hosts the popular web-series "7 Minutes in Heaven," in which he interviews celebrities and comedians in a closet.
The other four featured players are rumored to be: Kyle Mooney, Noël Wells, Beck Bennett, John Milhiser.
All four are performers at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, and have popular web videos to his or her name. Here's one from Beck Bennett.
And a Step Up parody from John Millner, "Clap It Up."
Noël Wells is known for her character work; here is her reel.
And lastly, Kyle Mooney, doing an awkward man-on-the-street segment at a MLB game.
This is a huge transitional year for SNL, as five performers are entering, and Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Jason Sudeikis left at the end of last season.
Seth Meyers will also depart in the late fall to prepare for his takeover as host of Late Night.
FYI: SNL has not hired a black woman since Maya Rudolph left the show in 2007. Although Keenan Thompson plays them a lot.
Just think of all the sketches we could see (Beyonce, Michelle Obama, Oprah, Nikki Minaj, Rihanna, and SO MANY more) if they hired a black woman instead of making Keenan Thompson play these characters.
Especially because there are so many hilarious women of color in comedy.
But until then, best of luck to the comedians joining the 2013-2014 SNL cast!
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DVD Notes: "The Adventures of Tintin"
|Tintin and Captain Haddock in a troublesome situation in "The Adventures of Tintin"
In my introduction to The Back Row, I wrote that I'd be seeing films years, even decades after their release, and shouting out my own uncouth commentary from my seat among the distracted and amorous here at the back. So far, anyone who missed my introduction and my mention in it of Singin' in the Rain and Raging Bull, will think I've never seen a film released before 2008, the earliest date of a film I've reviewed so far. Now, my first review of a Steven Spielberg film would have been a marvellous opportunity to begin remedying this, with some of the Boy Wonder's most iconic and beloved features being landmarks in the New Hollywood of the 1970s and early 1980s. Alas, these, my first notes on Spielberg, are of one of his 2011 releases, The Adventures of Tintin (the other being War Horse), and I'll have to go a little longer with readers doubting my level of cultural literacy.
The Adventures of Tintin is based on three of Hergé's beloved Tintin albums: "The Crab With the Golden Claws," "The Secret of the Unicorn," and "Red Rackham's Treasure." These were written and published in the 1940s, and, though Spielberg describes the setting of his film as "just timeless
Europe," it seems very much constrained
to that time. The place, however, seems to have been changed – the books were
set in ,
but everyone here has a distinctively British accent, and when a currency is
mentioned, it is Pounds Sterling. No matter, this is enough of a globe-trotting
enterprise for the beginning and end points not to be of too much importance to
an audience rapt with heedless activity. Belgium
The plot is hardly worth detailing here. Tintin comes into contact with an antique ship, with a centuries-old mystery joined, and adventure ensues in his search for answers. For those who have seen Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (among whom I, unfortunately, cannot count myself), there is nothing new for you here, although – as I understand it – nothing new is needed by any of you from a Spielberg film. Indiana Jones's 1940s caper has garnered enough affection from its fans to head a hugely successful film franchise and innumerable spin-offs and spoofs, as well as the famous derision of the hero's inconsequence to the plot so heartlessly dished out on "The Big Bang Theory". And now a high-tech 3D motion-capture adaptation of a dearly-loved children's comic series, which could nearly take its place as the fifth Indiana Jones instalment. When Spielberg gets his hands on something that works (i.e. rakes it in), there's no stopping him or the studios from stretching that workability (profit potential) until it's too dried up (unmarketable) to yield any further enjoyment (returns).
To this jaunt,
's foreign-correspondent fanboy-in-chief,
Peter Jackson, has fastened both his considerable cinematic expertise and
delightful technological wizardry, or at least his resources thereof. Weta Digital, who created all the marvellous
effects in Jackson's Middle Earth series and King Kong, handled all the
complicated and dazzling motion-capture and animation systems on this movie,
and produced something uncannily like a three-dimensional representation of the
comics. The characters are markedly stylised just as Hergé's were, but they move
and breathe and speak like live action humans, and their clothing or their
hair, monochrome as in the comic books, are made up of visibly distinct fibres.
The entire effect is simultaneously astounding and eerie. Hollywood
Be warned, lovers of the comics (though you've probably all seen the film by now, and a warning is almost certainly redundant), it's no mere happening that I mentioned the similarity between this film and the Indiana Jones series before that between this film and its source material. Changes have been made, as changes must be when adapting, and these changes have fitted the material to something much closer to a
Hollywood romp. Surprises keep showing up
to those who are expecting the world of Hergé's old-world sensibility: in one
scene in his home, Tintin suddenly pulls out a handgun when he's give a fright;
villains have been changed from a sinister European gang to a debonair and
gentrified rogue; and, most disappointingly, we lose the inner dialogue of
Snowy, Tintin's dog, who here just yaps and tugs at Tintin's hems to say what
he needs to.
Despite my slight disillusionment with a delightful classic being turned into
product, I'm overall happy with the film. Characters' actions are often
disproportionate to their motives, and sometimes these are disregarded
entirely, but Spielberg's action moves ahead with a gleeful aplomb, and his
characteristically arresting showmanship, and any qualms we may have with
events and consequence, and with character and plot, are dismissed with the wave
of his hand and the pulling back of another curtain to reveal another
enthralling set piece. There is a sequence involving two battling ships, for
example, which firmly wrenches the title of Most Spectacular Maritime Clash
from the maelstrom-cataclysm in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
While the exuberant spectacles grip us, however, we feel there's something
lacking in the quieter, in-between scenes. Hergé curiously seems to have been
able to capture more humanity in his inkspot-eyes that Weta's brilliant
technicians have with their immense computer power.
I'm not sure what it is that Spielberg's frequent collaborators Janusz Kamiński (director of photography) and Michael Kahn (editor) did on this film. Kamiński was reportedly a "lighting consultant" to Weta Digital, and I assume he had something to do with the way the frame swoops and glides past characters and props throughout the film. Animation is certainly a medium conducive to the realisation of Spielberg's intentions: we get to see things in this film, as in a number of his others, which we've not seen before, like what it looks like hanging beneath the body of a racing car. Not a major revelation, but something new nonetheless. Inventive staging (if that's an appropriate word here) and brisk pacing prevail, as one would hope and expect, and the mark of Spielberg, never having worked in animation before, is still on every shot.
The Adventures of Tintin stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg.
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Daily Update
Posted by Faye Bell on April 22, 2011 at 08:45:44:
We wish you all a wonderful and peaceful EASTER filled with love and understanding of the reason why we celebrate EASTER. Easter is God's gift of love that gives us hope of what is yet to come for those who love God and live according to His promises.
Please take a moment and read this simple poem.
We hold so close to our hearts
The cross where Jesus died
But so much more than the blood-stained cross
Is that Jesus came back to life.
The stone's been rolled away
The tomb lays open and bare
They looked for Him, and then the angel said
That He is no longer here.
Oh what joy they must have felt
To see Him just once more
To eat with Him, to drink with Him
To receive Him back as Lord.
So much did He accomplish
Through His death upon the cross
And in His rising from the dead
He reconciled us back to God.
Nothing else could bridge the gap
That sin had wrenched apart
Now we can freely go to God
And receive Christ in our hearts.
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A fight Tuesday between two female Little Rock high school students that grew into a melee that left several wounded by gunshots prompted sometimes tense group e-mail communications yesterday among Little Rock School Board members. The fight occurred in Boyle Park about 3 p.m. on what was apparently, at least for some, a "Senior Skip Day." (Maybe Skip Day, an old tradition, needs to be discouraged. It is officially unofficially held toward the end of the school year, as one commenter has pithily noted.)
Check the jump for some of the school board back and forth.
UPDATE: I've added more after the original post as school board dialogue has continued. Perhaps a public meeting would be in order, since they are conducting public business as a group in a forum not readily available to the public.
UPDATE II: Still more Board member e-mail below and City Director Doris Wright, whose district includes Boyle Park, issued a statement today. She said she'll be working with police and others to discourage such gatherings in the park in the future and added, "I want the public to know that this unfortunate incident in no way reflects this park or the community in which it is located."
There was an incident at Boyle Park today after school involving Fair and Hall students. Details are not clear at this time, but this is what we believe to have happened at this time. It is reported that two female students met at the park after school today to fight over a boy. One of the females was beaten pretty badly at the park. Other people (not clear exactly who) continued to show up and cause more fighting. Four Hall students and one J.A. Fair student were shot and taken to Baptist Hospital and Children's. LRPD will continue to investigate into the late evening. Bobby Jones is requesting additional LRPD officers be placed at both Hall and J.A. Fair tomorrow.
Channel 7 is reporting on both incidents. I have an interview at 6:30 with them tonight.
I will do an interview with Channel 16 this evening regarding the Hall and Fair incident.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wanted to know if there were any incidents at school that would have lead to the events after school. There have been none reported at this time.
The press has already started calling me. The voicemail messages states that they want to know if Hall and JA Fair will have school tomorrow, how many people were hurt, why they were at the Park prior to school dismissing etc.. I have not spoken with anyone but I did call Dr. Watson about whether JA Fair and Hall will have school tomorrow. I have received a few phone calls from parents wanting to know what we are going to do about discipline at Hall. They, also, stated that their kids (and the whole school) knew there was going to be a showdown at the Park this afternoon.
I did not see any of the news at 6...
I have worked with 6 superintendents (permanment and interim) now in my 12 years on the board. I can not imagine any one of the other superintendents who would have not personnally called the board members in a situation as serious as this.
This incident did not happen on LRSD property and the people involved were not under LRSD supervision because it was Senior Skip Day (according to those interviewed).
I think it is irresponsible of you to blame Dr. Watson for something that occurred in a city park and far away from any school campus. What was she suppose to report to you? Everyone learned the details as they became available through the LRPD. It should be very apparent the LRSD has little or no authority here and limited investigative ability. This is clearly a matter for the City of LR and the detectives of the LRPD. Also, I can remember several incidents that occurred at some of our high schools that were never reported to the board. We learned of them through the local news media. Shall I provide you past e-mails which address the matter?
Dear Board Members:
Mr. Robert Jones, Director of Safety and Security, emailed the following report to me. I am forwarding it you in an effort to keep you informed on the educational climate at J. A. Fair and
After talking with the principals and security officers at Fair and Hall, there was nothing unusual other than a minor problem at lunch between two individuals at Hall and no one was arrested. There was a minor problem at Hall reference to the early morning scan, because there were not enough scanners. We have since sent additional scanners to the school and I don't think we will have the same problem if we have to do a full school scan again. There have been no indications that the events that occurred at
Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Allen have requested that additional security return to their schools and their requests will be granted by our department. The police department has advised us that they are going to increase the number of officers that are patrolling around Hall during the basketball tournament by two, and this should assist in proactive in any problems occurring during the basketball tournament.
Coach Johnson has done an excellent job in getting the gym ready and the security department has worked with him in getting security in place.
Again, I want to commend the excellent ways Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Hall have worked with the security department. We do not look for any further problems from the incident at
On talking to the detectives working the ballpark incident, they have good leads on the two people who they believe fired weapons and I expect that they will make an arrest today or tomorrow.
I agree that any type of violence where individuals are injured is serious. However, this situation happened in the park and not on a school campus. Therefore, it is being handled or investigated by the police department. The district administrators, including the director of safety and security, had limited information. Even though I was not called at 5:10 PM when the incident was reported, I do appreciate getting the information as the administrators learned more about the incident.
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EBENS Land on AKAU Island For 2009 Meeting!
WORLD BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE: The EBEN ALIEN CIVILIZATION FROM ZETA RETICULI LANDS on AKAU ISLAND on THE REMOTE U.S. TERRITORY of JOHNSTON ATOLL FOR THEIR NOVEMBER 2009 DIPLOMATIC RENDEZVOUS!
BONUS! ANONYMOUS "SITS DOWN" FOR A VERY RARE QUESTION and ANSWER SESSION TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS THAT MANY IN THE UFO COMMUNITY WANT ANSWERS TO!
FLASHBACK TO "Project SERPO" Release #30:
Before I address the ongoing BILLY MEIER issue you've raised many times in recent months [Release #33], I wanted to comment on one of our most recent posts in our "Question and Answer" interview.
QUESTION: Going back to "Project SERPO" Posting #30 — "ALIEN CRAFT CRASH LANDS DURING EARTH's DINOSAUR ERA!"—aside from the star system location that you subsequently provided me AFTER "Project SERPO" Release #30 was published, do you have ANY additional information/updates that you can now share with our large audience?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: "Project SERPO" Posting #30 was very detailed as you presented it, but I have more information to pass on from recent contacts with scientists who are still working on this very special project. In fact, we DID find and retrieve "Star Charts" inside the craft … well over a thousand of them. They were transcribed on thin black "paper" or something similar to paper. It is a form of an "X-ray of the Universe."
It has taken many, many years and very close analysis— using a combination of the Hubble Space Telescope and various ground-based telescopes—to study these highly complex, off-world maps. They were similar to our "star maps" and it has taken many years of research to pinpoint the exact location of these alien maps to our
own maps In 1997, we found that one of the alien star charts/maps were of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It showed the outer reaches of our galaxy.
We eventually found our Sun and our Solar System in one of these alien charts. It appears the Dinosaur-era alien craft had a large camera—or at least that is what we called it—that took photographs which come out similar to an X-Ray. We eventually figured out that the Dinosaur-era "Alien Craft" originated from a Star System approximately 22 light-years from Earth when it visited Earth ~150 MYA. Whether that alien civilization is still in existence, I have no information on.
Now, this is the ONLY additional and ALL of the information I have on the recovered ALIEN CRAFT from the Dinosaur era which was masterfully presented by you in SERPO RELEASE #30. Our group was very pleased with your highly detailed release and supporting extensions.
• FOR SUPPORTING INLINE PHOTO ATTACHMENTS for "Project SERPO" Release #32, go to: –
The POSSIBLE HOME WORLD LOCATIONS OF THE ALIEN SPECIES WHO CRASH LANDED ON EARTH DURING THE DINOSAUR ERA ~150 MYA! [Release #30]
FLASHBACK TO "Project SERPO" Release #1, November 2005:
QUESTION: As a result of the U.S. government's official investigation, what was the SPECIFIC CAUSE determined to be of the crash landing of the two (2) Eben craft in July 1947 over The State of New Mexico?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: An electrical storm brought down the two (2) Eben ships in July of 1947.
QUESTION: In the days immediately following the Roswell crash, Roswell folklore tells of a USN JAG coming to the base where the lone surviving Eben was being held in some kind of holding/jail cell and it was only by accident that the JAG employee saw him. Did this actually happen? WHERE and WHEN [date] did the Eben die? Is he buried HERE on EARTH—and if so WHERE? — or was he taken back to SERPO for burial?
Furthermore, a caller to the popular "Coast 2 Coast AM Show" posed the question that he was surprised that the Ebens did not stage some kind of "rescue mission" just as we might have, and authors Carey and Schmitt commented that in the immediate aftermath, residents of Roswell reporting see "strange lights" for a while after the crash.
WAS a "rescue mission" ever staged by the Ebens, yes or no? OR did they approach our government and simply ask for their fallen (dead) comrades back and allow the lone survivor to remain?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: No, it didn't happen like that. The ONLY surviving Eben was taken to the Roswell base and placed in the custody of the lead intelligence officer. He was then moved to Los Alamos the next day by a military convoy. The Eben was isolated from almost everyone and eventually died at Los Alamos in 1952; President Truman saw him. NO Navy JAG was ever involved. That is another one of those totally wrong, misleading, falsely-planted stories.
These people write these books and make up stories. Only a few know the ACTUAL TRUTH about the Roswell crash.
There was NOT a rescue mission ever staged by the Ebens. The only two (2) Eben craft that were near Earth crashed that night in 1947. Ebe #1 did state that they sent a distress signal to their home planet SERPO, but it would take at least nine (9) months for the nearest rescue craft to reach them. Ebe #1 died in 1952; his body, along with his crewmates, were returned to the Ebens in 1964 during the meeting in NM. The Eben craft was stored in Ohio and then moved to the Nevada Test Site [NTS]. I believe it is still in NV.
QUESTION: There have been rumors for years that there have been other Human-ET exchange program(s) besides "Project SERPO." Can you comment on this?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: There were TWO (2) other Human-ET exchange missions, but I was never involved with them and I don't have the details since all such "black" programs are highly compartmented. Ask some of the other active and retired USG officials on your huge list … they might know.
QUESTION: Is there an ALIEN RACE of beings called the "Orange Group" visiting Earth from the star system of ANTARES?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: I've never heard of the "Orange Group" … I don't think that is a real alien group. We did have some information on an ALIEN SPECIES traveling to our Solar System from ANTARES, ~550 light-years away. I don't know much more than I remember from reading briefing manuals back in the '80s. I believe we knew about them from Ebe #2.
QUESTION: In a previous "Project SERPO" release
you stated that the EBENS were returning to the NTS [Nevada Test Site] in November 2009 ¹ for a visit to Earth. Did that visit occur and, if it did, what was the outcome?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: Last month, on Thursday, November 12, 2009, a visit WAS made by the EBENS to a remote location on Earth, but it was NOT to the NTS, but instead to the little-known North Pacific Ocean desert island of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND ². The EBENS paid us a kindly visit for 12 hours between 0600 – 1800 on this U.S. territory [U.S. military time, local].
The meeting specifically occurred on AKAU ISLAND, which is the North Island of the sprawling JOHNSTON ATOLL system. The EBENS landed on a flat portion of the northwest sector of this island. There were 18 (eighteen) officials from around the world who met the EBENS. They included the following [number of] representatives from our planet, Sol III:
1 = The VATICAN
2 = The UNITED NATIONS
9 = The UNITED STATES of AMERICA
• Broken down into –
1 = WHITE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE From The OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
• Other Countries / Misc –
1 = The PEOPLE's REPUBLIC of CHINA
1 = The RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Additionally, a very special set of gifts were exchanged. The EBENS provided us with six (6) gifts that would assist us in future technological developments. In return, the Vatican gave the EBENS two (2) 12th Century religious-themed paintings [see "End Notes"].
Furthermore, a future meeting date was set for November 2012 in addition to a previously scheduled official visit on Thursday, November 11, 2010 at the NTS.
CRITICAL NOTE: The defense of JOHNSTON ATOLL is managed by the U.S. military; NONE of the islands are open to the public.
QUESTION: Do we possess tele-transporter or "flash drive" technology that we have appropriated/back-engineered from the Visitors, yes or no?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: With respect to your question regarding "tele-transporter" technology, the Ebens do NOT have this technology. They have mastered space travel and can venture through space defying the time barrier.
As for our own technology, I very much doubt we have it today. We don't have the Star Trek "Beam-me-up-Scotty" technology.
QUESTION: In a private communication I had with your legal counsel, I am given to understand that a member of the DIA-6 has a PhD in [theoretical?] physics … can you ask this individual to expand on HOW SPECIFICALLY the Ebens traverse the vast, great distances of space and overcome the problem of TIME as they seem to freely travel from "Point A to Point B" in our Milky Way Galaxy?
ANONYMOUS: The Ebens use a "Universal Grid" system in traveling from one point of space to another. Their craft are able to travel NEAR the speed of light. This enables their craft to go into an altered space-time chamber. That allows the point of DEPARTURE and the point of DESTINATION to become closer in real time. It is similar to folding space by making the two (2) points—departure and destination— become much closer.
Remember, the Ebens have been working to perfect this type of space travel—overcoming the time barrier—for well over a period of 50,000 [of our] years. By now, they have in fact perfected this mode of space travel.
Although we have been given the basic BLUEPRINT for their craft, propulsion mechanism and overall operating system, we still don't understand it. They utilize minerals that we simply don't have here on Earth [Element 115 per Bob Lazar?]. One particular mineral, similar to Uranium ³—but not as radioactive—provides the extra power for their propulsion system. They also utilize a form of a SPACE DISPLACEMENT system, which basically causes a VACUUM in front of the propulsion that allows NOTHING to interfere with the created THRUST.
At the present time, we canNOT understand how they accomplish this. They use a vacuum chamber, which consists of a mini-nuclear reactor that forces some type of matter into space that deletes the molecules and causes that very small portion of space to become a vacuum. They also utilize anti-matter in such a way as to force their propulsion system into "streams" [waves] of energy in front of their craft that enables the craft to move and flow much easier through space withOUT any FRICTION from the ATMOSPHERE.
That is all from our physicist member.
FINAL QUESTION: To the best of your insider knowledge, has our 44th President of The United States Barack H Obama received the standard presidential UFO-ET briefing, yes or no?
ANONYMOUS ANSWERS: I do NOT know whether President Obama has been briefed on the subject matter of ongoing UFO visitation and continuing ET contacts with various visiting [alien] races.
I personally find it difficult to read stories and lies being spread by the UFO community about our friends [the Ebens]. That is the primary reason we cannot support the UFO community in general nor its many of its contributors.
We very much enjoy your e-mails. We all read them with vigor and interest. Thank you for your continuing support.
More to come….
• FOR SUPPORTING INLINE PHOTO ATTACHMENTS for "Project SERPO" Release #32, go to: –
The ANTARES STAR SYSTEM: HOME WORLD FOR ONE OF THE ALIEN SPECIES PRESENTLY VISITING SOL III, EARTH!
WORLD BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE: The EBEN ALIEN CIVILIZATION FROM ZETA RETICULI LANDS on AKAU ISLAND on THE REMOTE U.S. TERRITORY of JOHNSTON ATOLL FOR THEIR NOVEMBER 2009 DIPLOMATIC RENDEZVOUS!
END NOTES and BIBLIOGRAPHY:
¹ = The EBEN visits from ZETA RETICULI I and II occurred/will occur on the following days and dates:
• Friday, August 18, 1978;
• Thursday, April 28, 1983;
• Sunday, April 7, 1991;
• Tuesday, October 22, 1996;
• Sunday, November 28, 1999;
• Wednesday, November 14, 2001;
• Thursday, November 12, 2009 at the U.S. unincorporated territory of JOHNSTON ATOLL on AKAU Island;
• The Ebens are due back to Earth for an OFFICIAL visit on Thursday, November 11, 2010;
• A November 2012 date was set and confirmed during the EBENs' recent November 12, 2009 visit at JOHNSTON ATOLL on AKAU Island [a 2012 specific date was not provided]. As in the past, this visit will occur at the Nevada Test Site.
² = JOHNSTON ATOLL is a 50-square-mile atoll and is one of the MOST ISOLATED ATOLLS IN THE WORLD, located in the North Central Pacific Ocean, some 750 miles south west of Honolulu; the nearest lands to JOHNSTON ATOLL are the tiny islets of the French Frigate Shoals, around 800 km to the north east, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is about one-third of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands.
Located at 16° 45' North LATITUDE and 169° 30' West LONGITUDE, there are four (4) islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands—JOHNSTON ISLAND and SAND ISLAND—which have been greatly expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island (AKAU) and East Island (HIKINA), both of which are artificial islands formed solely by coral dredging.
JOHNSTON ISLAND is an unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior as part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument managed by the National Wildlife Refuge System. The defense of JOHNSTON ATOLL is managed by the U.S. military; NONE of the islands are open to the public.
It is a former ATOMIC TEST FACILITY and site for five (5) high-altitude nuclear tests during the 1960s called "STARFISH PRIME" grouped together as "Operation FISHBOWL" under the larger former classified project of "Operation DOMINIC."
³ = URANIUM: Atomic Number: 92 / Symbol: U / Name: Uranium / Atomic
Weight: 238.0
Source: "CHEMISTRY: The PERIODIC TABLE of ELEMENTS," Bar Charts, Inc,
1999 ©, Boca Rotan, FL
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The VATICAN MUSEUMS (Musei Vaticani) contain one of the world's greatest art collections. Housed in the richly decorated galleries and apartments of the VATICAN PALACE, the VATICAN MUSEUMS boast the largest collection of classical sculpture in the world, plus extensive artworks from the Etruscan, Egyptian, Early Christian, Renaissance and modern periods and the magnificent Sistine Chapel.
ANTARES (Alpha Scorpii) – A brilliant jewel set within the Milky Way, ANTARES guides us to one of the great constellations of the sky, the Zodiac's Scorpius (or Scorpio), the celestial scorpion, one of the few constellations that actually looks like what it represents. ANTARES, a class M (M1.5) red supergiant has a color similar to Mars. This magnificent first magnitude (typically 0.96) star, shining opposite Betelgeuse, its counterpart in Orion, is ranked the 15th brightest in the sky.
Its great distance of 550 light-years (second Hipparcos reduction) reveals that it is truly luminous, to the eye almost 10,000 times brighter than the Sun. Because it is cool, only about 3,600 degrees Kelvin at its surface, it radiates a considerable amount of its light in the invisible infrared. When that is taken into account, the star becomes some 60,000 times brighter than the Sun.
A low temperature coupled with high luminosity tells us that the star must be huge, luminosity and temperature giving a radius of about 3 Astronomical Units. It is so big that astronomers can easily detect and measure the size of its apparent disk, which gives an even bigger radius of 3.4 AU, 65% the size of the orbit of Jupiter.
If as high as half a magnitude, ANTARES could be as bright as 90,000 Suns, pretty much taking care of the radius discrepancy. Buried within the wind is a fifth magnitude (5.5) hot class B (B2.5) companion star (only 3 seconds of arc away) that hides within ANTARES' bright glare. The two are separated by roughly 550 AU and take perhaps 2,500 years to orbit each other.
The companion hollows out a small ionized region within the wind, and although blue-white, has the reputation of appearing green as a result of a contrast effect with its brilliant reddish mate. ANTARES, with an uncertain mass of 15 to 18 solar masses, probably does not have much time left to it. It is massive enough someday to develop an iron core and eventually to explode as a brilliant supernova. This event may be a million years off … an astronomical blink of an eye.
"ROSWELL INVESTIGATOR," TOM CAREY and DON SCHMITT's:
"WITNESS TO ROSWELL: UNMASKING THE GOVERNMENT's BIGGEST COVERUP" – By
Thomas J Carey and Donald R Schmitt, Revised and Expanded edition,
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, ISBN# 13-978-1-60163-066-7, $16.99
To join in an active, lively and challenging discussion on the latest "Project SERPO" Release #32, go to:
OPEN MINDS FORUM, BRENDAN BURTON's, THE PROGRESSIVE SCEPTICS & PARA-POLITICS:
• Written, Researched and Compiled by VICTOR MARTINEZ –
Release 32ª – The EBEN ALIEN CIVILIZATION From ZETA RETICULI
Lands on AKAU ISLAND on The Remote U.S. Territory of JOHNSTON ATOLL For Their November 2009 Diplomatic Rendezvous!
NOTE: Scroll DOWN to view all 13 (thirteen) IMAGES!
• The 3 Must-See VIDEOS on JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND! –
IMAGE #1 = Map of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLANDS [The EBENS From The ZETA RETICULI Double Star System Landed on AKAU Island]
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #2 = Full View of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #3 = Airstrip at JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #4 = Top Side View of HIKINA ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #5 = Top Side View of AKAU ISLAND [The EBENS Traveled 38.42 Light-Years and Landed on AKAU Island on Wednesday, November 12, 2009]
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #6 = Top Side View of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #7 = Supply Depot at JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #8 = Top Side View of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #9 = Top Side View of SAND ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #10 = Top Side View of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #11 = Top Side View of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #12 = Map of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND (close-up)
Johnston Atoll
IMAGE #13 = Map of JOHNSTON ATOLL/ISLAND (wide view)
Johnston Atoll
NOTE: The 2009 EBEN Landing at AKAU ISLAND Appears at The Very TOP CENTER of this last image.


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Kids love crafts, and these three crafts can make the perfect gift for a teacher or grandparent.
Reindeer Thumbprint Ornament is a perfect gift for a teacher or grandparent. There are just a few supplies needed and four simple steps to make this personalized ornament.
Reindeer Ornament Supplies
Glass/plastic ornaments
Brown & white paint
Paint brush (fine tip)
Black & brown marker
Miniature red pom-poms
- Have your child place their thumb in the brown paint and place it onto the ornament. Allow to dry. Add antlers to the top of the thumbprint with a brown marker.
- Use the white paint to add the eyes. Once dried, add a black dot to each eye.
- Glue the miniature pom-pom to the center and tie a ribbon through the top of the ornament.
- Have your child add his/her name and date on the back of the ornament.
Courtesy of Jen Jeffries
Follow to the next page for our next craft: Salt Dough Ornaments...
Salt dough ornaments are a great holiday craft for kids. They can be simple or decorative—whatever you prefer. Make them for your own tree or give them to loved ones as a gift.
Here's how to make them.
- 1 cup flour
- ½ cup salt
- ½ cup water (or more as needed)
- paint
- string or ribbon
- glitter and other decorative items
- varnish
Preheat oven to 250F. Mix flour and salt in a bowl and slowly add the water. Mix thoroughly. Add more flour if mixture is extra sticky.
Knead dough on floured parchment paper until soft and pliable. Roll out dough with a lightly floured rolling pin. Use cookie cutters for the shapes (a great set of plastic holiday cookie cutters can be found at the Dollar Store).
Place shapes on an ungreased cookie sheet. Using a straw or chopstick, poke a hole for the ribbon that will hang the ornament. Bake in the oven for 2 or 3 hours, flipping once or twice, until fully dry. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
Decorate as desired and string with ribbon to complete the look. Don't forget to write the name and date on the back – makes a great memory for years to come!
Optional: You can use several coats of non-toxic acrylic varnish to seal the ornaments so that they last several years (it prevents moisture from getting in).
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Who doesn't love a bowl of hot soup on a cold winter day? This is an easy and thoughtful gift that the kids can help make for family friends or teachers for the holidays.
Ingredients for soup in a jar
4 quart-size Mason Jars
1 pound black beans
1 pound kidney beans
1 pound great northern beans
1 pound green split peas
1 pound pinto beans
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon dry mustard
2 tablespoon dehydrated onions
2 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
8 bay leaves
4 bouillon cubes (chicken, beef, or vegetable)
To prepare the jar
Layer the beans evenly in the Mason jar as desired.
In a small bowl, combine the spices except for the bay leaf and bouillon cube. Using a small piece of parchment or wax paper, spoon 3 Tbsp of spice mixture in the middle of the paper, 2 bay leaves and 1 bouillon cube. Tape it closed around the edges and place it on top of the beans.
Decorate the jar with fabric or ribbon to make it festive and include a recipe tag.
Soup directions for recipe tag:
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Object Atelier is a project with artist Synnøve Fredericks. Together we make work influenced by anthropology, design and performance. At the root of this project is an interest in exploring the potential of objects to facilitate powerful interactions between the self and the world.
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Russian wheat exports have picked up speed again
after logistical issues hampered the export pace over the past fortnight, data
from the ministry of agriculture showed Monday. A total of 790,000 mt of wheat
was loaded in the week to February 7, almost double the volume exported in the
previous week.
It takes total wheat exports for the 2017/18
marketing year to 24.51 million mt, a 37% increase on the same stage last year.
Barley exports came in at 91,000 mt for the week, with total sales a 91%
increase on the same stage last year at 3.9 million mt.
Corn exports were 84,000 mt, with total exports 6%
down year-on-year at 2.82 million mt. Exports had slowed in recent weeks as
weather hampered the pace of loading and showed the first real signs of strain
on a logistical network which has been stretched to full capacity to get this
year's record-breaking crop to the export market.
Nonetheless, total grain exports now stand at 31.42
million mt – a 36% increase on the same stage last year – leaving Russian exporters
on track to reach the ministry of agriculture's forecast of up to 47 million


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Gareth Davies: Winner of the 2016 FEM Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mobility in the EMEA region
Gareth Davies, in common with many global mobility professionals says that he "fell into" the industry rather than setting out to join it and at the 2016 FEM EMEA Summit in London, this was an often-repeated phrase that was picked up by our closing keynote speaker Damian McAlonan.
Damian, who as an award-winning communications professional advises blue-chip companies on their marketing strategy argued that this phrase perhaps devalued the specific skills and abilities that are necessary to thrive in such a diverse and challenging sector, but it could be looked at another way: In my short profile of Gareth Davies, the recipient of FEM's EMMA for Outstanding Contribution to Global Mobility in EMEA, I said that like many of the best mobility professionals, Gareth set out on a different path, but it may be that it is this very experience of 'other' spheres of business, industry and life that gives the leading global mobility people the edge.
If we look at this in the context of public life, in the UK we now seem to have a generation of politicians who have largely spent most of their careers in the Westminster bubble, working first as researchers then advisors before standing as MPs – and the recent surprises at the polls can perhaps be partly explained as a reaction to their rather narrow experience of the hardships and difficulties of life. Contrast for instance, the generation that includes David Cameron, George Osborne and Ed Miliband, with those of the post-war generation of prominent politicians such as Aneurin Bevan, Dennis Healey and Lord Carrington who had worked in the coal mines or served in the military and lived through really tumultuous times and then used those leadership skills to push through radical change and far-reaching policies such as the creation of the NHS.
Gareth Davies would undoubtedly be embarrassed to be likened to such political titans – my personal experience of talking to and meeting him is of a quietly modest man – and his touching acceptance speech at the EMMAs bore out that impression. The cheers that greeted the announcement of his name though, also spoke of the industry's great respect for what he has achieved.
Gareth Davies displays his EMMAs trophy presented by Carla Foden (right) Business Development Director at category sponsors, Sterling Relocation.
(also on stage is FEM's Head of Content, Claire Tennant-Scull and the evening's host, Shappi Khorsandi)
The building blocks of a solid career
As I mentioned that night, Gareth originally intended to study geography at university, so he displayed an early interest in the wider world, but equally, he also demonstrated the capacity to listen and to use his 'commercial brain', when he took advice from his mother and followed his father into Construction Management. Studying at Manchester University. "I was sponsored during my course and worked three six-month placements in the first three years of my four-year course," he says, "so I had a guaranteed job with my sponsor post-graduation. I worked with them for a year but the lure of working for Arthur Andersen (seeing a job advert in the Sunday Times) was too great to resist."
Gaining vital skills in the financial world
So after three years with Arthur Andersen as a senior international tax consultant, Gareth moved to PwC, where he worked in their expatriate tax consulting and international social security solutions businesses as well as supporting their international and domestic training courses to further develop his skills. There then followed a two-year stint at financial services company State Street, and it was here that Gareth really showed his capacity for tackling a challenge. The company had an immature mobility programme at this time, he says, and there were great market opportunities emerging in Europe and Africa, so it became clear that expansion was an imperative, so with characteristic can-do aplomb, Gareth drew on all his previous experience, acquired new skills and set about building a comprehensive programme.
In 2006 Gareth moved to Accenture and became the UKI Lead for Individual Taxes & Global Mobility where he headed the expatriate tax team and client service teams for UKI business. There he had two global lead roles including leading the Assignee Experience Centre of Excellence and lead roles for Human Capital Compliance and Integration connect with Accenture's M&A activity.
The irresistible appeal of an iconic brand
Five years later, the role of Head of Global Mobility at Rolls-Royce, one of the UK's most iconic brands beckoned and since then he has moved thousands of highly skilled people across the globe, often to repair a stricken ship or plane – and so averted many a disaster – or at the very least a late flight. He says he is most often asked whether he drives to work in one of his company's classic motors, but he says it's "unfortunately" something far more modest. "It's important to mention that the Rolls-Royce I work for is not the car manufacturer" says Gareth. "I work for the Civil & Defence Aerospace, Marine & Nuclear business that is R-R. The car business was sold some decades ago and is an independent business now owned by BMW."
Facing global challenges on a daily basis
Asked what he thinks have been his greatest challenges so far, Gareth says "We GM professionals learn new issues and skills almost on a daily basis – especially given the broad range of technical, procedural and practical issues we come up against. To manage difficult issues in mobility, there are two pieces of advice I would give based on my learned experience. Firstly, often it can be powerful to elicit a rational answer from a challenging customer, to turn the matter round and ask them the question – what would they do in this situation? It can instantly change the tone and prove to be a game changer.
"Secondly (and the gravity of the matter must be wholly appropriate) but sometimes with complex mobility matters progress can be made by just doing and asking for forgiveness later. If the plan is well thought out, nearly always the outcome is seen in a positive way and so forgiveness is wholly unnecessary.
"I think the greatest challenge I have faced has been to introduce a new lower cost mobility policy here at RR. This very much challenged the paternal culture of the company. It took a long, and challenging 18 months, with a significant level of challenge from the business leads and assignees – but as a team we have fought through. It's now our most widely used long-term policy and it is operating well with only the occasional grumble. The falling value of Sterling recently posed a problem but we intervened proactively and introduced protected split currency delivery to eradicate the impact. The team have faced up brilliantly to the many bumps and bruises and responded very professionally. I am so delighted to win the FEM Team Award for Large Programme of the Year as that is just what they deserve for every effort and commitment they have shown."
Gareth at the EMMAs with representatives from the award-winning Rolls-Royce Global Mobility Team
Why Brexit is 'horribly fascinating'
So what does Gareth think will be the impact of the vote for Brexit on the policies and programmes that he has instituted at Rolls-Royce? "Mmm, I like to call Brexit 'horribly fascinating'" he says ruefully. "'Fascinating', because it will affect so many aspects of our lives, and 'horribly' so because people like me will have to deal with it!
"The outcome of the vote for Brexit will potentially have quite significant consequences for Rolls-Royce. So far we have captured 60 different business issues and prioritised these. To give you an idea of the complexities, a Rolls-Royce engine would typically be made up of around 30,000 parts – sourced globally with many from our European supply chain. The assembly process involves modular assembly with many cross-border transfers with value being added at each and every stage. For example, elements are assembled in Germany, then the partly-built engine will be shipped to the UK, for more parts to be added, then it could go back to Germany, then on to Spain, and back to the UK and so on… So you can see from this that the customs union and tariff implications alone are quite mind-boggling.
"Immigration policy also makes the top five most pressing issues, especially considering we have around 900 employees whom may be impacted if Right to Work restrictions are imposed. Our wish is that Freedom of Movement is retained, but as most resources we deploy across borders are degree, if not Masters, PhD educated, we expect that our employees would qualify under a visa / sponsorship regime. We are looking at the Global Immigration policy that Global Mobility own and considering whether we support permanent residence support to employees who qualify to remove any uncertainties. We are speaking regularly with the government's Brexit Department in relation to our top five issues.
A talent for dealing with the unexpected
"Every challenge is an opportunity though! Brexit is not something that I would personally wanted – but it is providing great exposure for GM professionals." In fact, this is an important point – if any one group of professionals had the skills and breadth of experience to deal with the unexpected – and the myriad implications of such a change, then global mobility people are surely it. So what kind of qualities do they need to do the job? "Creativity and innovation are key attributes. So are diplomacy and patience. We need to be good at saying No and Yes in the right measure. Finally, I'd also say that empathy and strong communication skills are essential.
"I have worn many hats during my 21 years of working with assignees. During my time at the professional services firms I found that for the first 10 years I had to act as a consultant and advisor to my customers. After moving in-house, I have needed to function as a leader and innovator to drive change and offer new support solutions. Many mobility professionals say that financial services assignees are challenging, but let me tell you, engineers give them a run for their money. They are extremely analytical and challenge every single detail of the policy or package – often trying to dissect allowances like Cola to the miniature, or putting back alternative interpretations of immigration or tax legislation.
"We also operate in some very challenging destinations, the most difficult of which are generally those where security risks exist. We have 1,500 globally mobile field service engineers that we can deploy and often, we have to send people at the drop of a hat – to repair a stricken ship off the coast of Africa, or a grounded plane somewhere in the Far East. Emerging markets offer great opportunities but it's the high security risk locations that are the most challenging by restricting movement and many basic fundamentals in life that we take for granted. We monitor and assess risks for 10,00 or more employees who operate across international borders. We might not have to take action in the vast majority of cases, but we still need to be aware and ready to act if necessary."
The changing nature of assignments and assignees
"The nature of assignments has changed significantly though, and the numbers at R-R have halved over the last three years. The Gen X that we hear so much about have high aspirations and expectations for their careers, but the consensus amongst my peers is that their desire is not so much for long-term deployments – more short-term international opportunities, commonly up to only one year. think that's partly because younger people tend to be more concerned about their social lives, which at that point are generally built around their home or friends from university – who are usually at the same stage in their careers and personal lives. I think one of the biggest challenges for people like me is dealing with an ageing workforce – I think this is going to be a really significant issue down the line – especially in the UK where we already have a shortage of STEM skills. So a huge part of our job is gaining a better understanding of the key skills that we need, not just now, but in the future.
One of the greatest changes that I've seen in my career is the fact that in my role I am now influencing a change in culture and the expectations of assignees at R-R – moving away from a very paternal and what can seem an expectant culture to one where results and outcomes are driven by performance. Managing our assignees through this shift has been very tough, though very rewarding in equal measure. Especially as we feel we are now operating in the right 'mobility space'."
Getting stuck-in at the business
Within Rolls-Royce I represent HR in our Company's Steering Committee Group – led by the Group President. It has given the function great exposure and in return, I have learned more about the business and internal workings in the last six months than during the prior five years. As mobility professionals, we need to change our language away from 'International Assignments' to cross-border mobility and take ownership for all cross-border populations. We have done this at R-R providing mobility solutions for Assignees, Business Travellers, Commuters, and Field Service Engineers and local hire immigration CoE. We have gained tremendous exposure as a consequence.
So does he have first-hand experience of life as an expat? "No, but I have undertaken a number of short-term projects in the US and Sweden and I have travelled extensively," he says. "I work to live – and in particular to travel – having visited over 65 countries in all corners of the world. My favourite cities include Seville, La Paz, Rio and San Francisco.
Practical skills and running towards a challenge
"In my private life I just love to spend time with my family. I am very practical so enjoy DIY and taking on big DIY-Construction projects. Though, 'Big' may be a slightly exaggerated term. They perhaps are by some standards. So I will happily build walls, new patios, landscaping, block driveway, tiling floors etc. I have a garage full of power tools and its hugely satisfying to get stuck in.
"I've long been a keen runner and I love to do it – it gives me time and space to think clearly. I have changed many things in my life as a result of my clear thinking time. I've done three marathons in London and New York as well as some half-marathons and the Hell Run in Delamere Forest, where you're 'running' through mud and across all kinds of terrain. It's messy but I love it!"
"It's messy but I love it" could perhaps be a kind of catchphrase for any ambitious GM professional. Being a Global Mobility practitioner is the kind of job where at times you have to be willing to get your hands dirty, to deal with unfamiliar and difficult terrain, and to just keep on going through sticky situations to complete the race – Gareth Davies is one who certainly will keep on running…


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The requests by opposition parties for an urgent debate on a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma will be given the "appropriate consideration" which would start immediately, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete said on Sunday.
The motion of no confidence follows sustained criticism from all sides of the political spectrum of Zuma's cabinet reshuffle at midnight on Thursday and in the early hours of Friday morning. Highly regarded finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were among several ministers and deputies fired.
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TOUGH CALL: Speaker of Parliament, Baleka Mbete, is considering requests for a debate on a motion of no-confidence against President Zuma.
Speaking to journalists at OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg after she cut short her trip to the assembly of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Bangladesh, Mbete said her office had received a request from Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane on Thursday March 30 for a motion of no confidence in Zuma to be scheduled.
The letter indicated that the motion be scheduled when Parliament reconvened in May. Later on the same day a similar request was received from Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema. This letter also asked for the Assembly to be convened for a special sitting next week to debate and vote on a similar motion, she said.
"On Friday 31 March my office received a further letter, again from the official opposition [DA], requesting that the National Assembly resume its business earlier to process the motion."
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Once such a request was submitted to the speaker the rules outlined the process. Firstly, the request had to be assessed to ascertain whether it was compliant with the appropriate rules.
Then followed consultation with the chief whip of the majority party, currently Jackson Mthembu, and the leader of government business, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. Finally, came the scheduling of the motion within a reasonable time given the programme of the Assembly.
MPs were currently undertaking their "constituency responsibilities" across the country and were scheduled to return to Parliament from the beginning of May. The consultation process prescribed by the rules was meant to deal with these issues, Mbete said.
"Given the seriousness inherent in the motions of [no] confidence and their implications on the nation, I have, therefore, decided to cut my working trip to Bangladesh to ensure that these requests are given the appropriate consideration.
"In terms of the Constitution and in terms of the clarification provided by the Constitutional Court in the Mazibuko vs Sisulu matter, as and when a motion of this magnitude is called and is in line with the rules it must be scheduled and must receive priority.
"I will therefore as of today [Sunday] begin a process of consultation contemplated in the rules in the consideration of the requests submitted. I envisage that the consultation should be concluded as soon as possible. Once the consultation process is concluded my office will duly write to all the parties involved to advise them of the outcome," Mbete said www.iol.co.za


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Some of our other problems can be traced back to staff size. When the project started, we had about four programmers, four game designers, three modelers, one texture artist, one producer, and one creative director. NGL was only in our imaginations at this point. Treyarch was eagerly looking for more staff, but staff doesn't just come out of thin air. Most important, we didn't have a concept artist, we didn't have a writer, and we had so many people working on the proof-of-concept that we didn't really have someone to come up with a full design.
Later, when we rolled into full production of our inadequate design, things got even worse, because some of our veterans were taken away to work on other projects, without adequate replacement. Eventually we were fully staffed and then some; we had more than 40 people at points during the project, and more than 50 worked on it at one point or another. We had to make up in the end for what we lacked in the beginning.
I think designing is overrated; coming up with a 200-page design document only to scrap most of it seems like a waste of resources. Still, you need some design — a bad plan is better than no plan — and you need more than we had.
By the time we finished our proof-of-concept, the design consisted basically of a list of bosses, a list of levels, and some ideas on how our new AI system might work. Each item had about a paragraph devoted to describing it. Our story was a page long. By the end of the project, we had a wealth of design: we had the output of each level implementation meeting; we had the script; we had a couple of pages on each boss, describing the moves he would be capable of; we had concept art and storyboards; we had concept art for the front end. If we had come up with that material earlier in the project, we would have been rudderless for less time and could have made more game before shipping.
Because we didn't hire a scriptwriter until fairly late in the project, we didn't get the script approved by Activision and Sony/Columbia until even later. By the time the people who make these decisions had decided to accept the script and get Willem Dafoe and Tobey Maguire to do the voice-over, we were long past the drop-dead date we had given to Activision. It was already alpha, and we had very few of the cutscenes done, because it's a waste of resources to do the cutscenes until you have final voice-over. But we soldiered on. We got the final voice-over recorded and transplanted animators into the Spider-Man animation sweatshop to get all of the cutscenes finished as soon as possible. The end result is that a lot of our cutscenes don't look as good as we would like.
Audio also suffered from massive disorganization. We didn't have anyone on our team dedicated to managing audio resources. What we needed was a good directory structure, file-naming conventions, and the like to make dropping in final sound effects easy. Too many times we put in a placeholder sound effect without changing the name, resulting in massive confusion about which sound file went with what. After those issues were all resolved, we discovered that the console versions didn't sound the same as the PC version, due to discrepancies created by the different tool chains on the different consoles. We were working out these problems right up until we shipped.
One of the most valuable things about our game engine is CHUCK, the script language named after its creator, Chuck Tolman. It's a C++-like script language that emulates multithreading, allowing you to have multiple game entities processing their individual scripts at the same time. It's used to script game events, trigger audio, change AI states, speed up or slow down the whole game or individual entities, and even place front-end widgets and text on the screen. One can prototype whole new kinds of gameplay in CHUCK with very little programmer help; this is where the stealth mode of Spider-Man came from, for example. The game designers on Spider-Man are really programmers in their own right. They are empowered.
Because CHUCK is such a powerful script language, however, game designers would often take on tasks that could have been handled in code better. CHUCK doesn't really have arrays, and it doesn't have a debugger, so for anything complicated, C++ is the way to go. Unfortunately, it wasn't always the way we went.
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Here is the thing about fruit dehydrators, you need to keep in mind that fruits dry at varying temperatures and for varying times. So, you should choose a dehydrator with a timer as well as a thermostat so that you can dehydrate food according to the recipe you want to follow. Also, if you're drying fruits, you should also check if there are compatible accessories available for making fruit leather and fruit rollups.


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