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VT Nuclear Education: CIA Torture Report Ties Cheney and Victor Bout to 9/11 Nukes
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
VT editor Dmitri Khalezov rear, Victor Bout right
… by Gordon Duff, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
– First published … January 4, 2015 –
Information received this week from the highest levels of US counter-terrorism sources have confirmed that the reputed "Queen of Al Qaeda," Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a CIA torture victim now serving 87 years in an American "super-max" prison, was a CIA agent when captured and was imprisoned to prevent releasing information that could eventually lead to the arrest and conviction of then-Vice President Dick Cheney.
Cheney and his henchmen were silencing critics, eliminating "loose ends" tied to Able Danger and 9/11, and completing the process of dismantling the last vestiges of representative government in the US and Western Europe. The story today ties the Valerie Plame scandal, a CIA agent exposed as retaliation at Cheney's orders.
Our coup was when we learned that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, termed a veritable "female bin Laden" was not only CIA but an asset for Valerie Plame in an investigation originally aimed at Saddam but that had turned around and was pointing directly at the White House.
The Plame investigation aided by Siddiqui's proof no "yellowcake/Al Qaeda" plot had ever existed went much further than initially intended. Cheney was revealed to be the "handler" for now-imprisoned Victor Bout, revealed by the FBI in a 2007 Bangkok briefing to be greatly responsible for supplying the nuclear weapons nukes used on the WTC and, according to FBI sources, a cruise missile as well that the FBI asserts was used on the Pentagon on 9/11.
Thus, when Libby/Liebowitz was convicted, it was openly accepted that he was protecting Cheney from the fallout of simply "running his mouth." In truth, as we will establish, even Cheney's proven role in pushing America into an illegal war is only the tip of the iceberg.
The Cheney/Bout partnership was integral to the wholesale looting of America's inventory of surplus and decommissioned nuclear weapons and placing dozens of nuclear warheads in the hands of rogue nations and terrorist groups.
Bout and his fleet of transport planes carried the arms for "Charlie Wilson's War" in Afghanistan, hauled first opium and later heroin by the ton for American school children, and was the "go-to" supplier for all covert weapons for both "freedom fighters" and terrorist groups as well, at least those working for the CIA, Mossad along with British and French intelligence.
PLAME
Valerie Plame takes the oath before testifying
Siddiqui worked directly for Valerie Plame, a CIA agent purposefully "outed" when her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, disproved White House claims of "yellowcake uranium" smuggling by Iraq.
White House Security Chief, Scooter "Libby" Leibowitz was convicted of the Plame leak, although sources now confirm that the "outing" of Plame was done at the orders of Cheney and was passed on to the media by retired General Paul Vallely, a Fox News employee who has recently been filmed meeting with leaders of the ISIS/Al Qaeda terror group in Turkey and reputedly Syria as well.
When Plame was "burned," her assistant, Dr. Aafia, was then listed as part of the now-debunked yellowcake "network" and fled to Pakistan, where she was kidnapped and taken to Bagram Air Force Base, as outlined in CIA torture records.
Sources close to Plame tell us that the film, "Fair Game," a highly fictionalized account of her story starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, but never promoted and barely released, was produced in order to "settle accounts." The producers of the film are Israeli nationals and sources confirm the film project was undertaken at the request of Israeli intelligence sources as a way of laundering "hush money."
UK TELEGRAPH GETS IT VERY WRONG
This week, the UK Telegraph, using sources from the Daily Mail, published a lengthy article describing "convicted terrorist" Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's process of radicalization and, quite frankly, defending her rendition kidnapping, her 5 years of rape and torture, and the murder of her children by CIA paid contractors.
If only this were the whole story, a cover-up of torture as part of a war on terror. It is not. The Telegraph has a long reputation of being a cover story "dropbox" for MI-6, so the story was passed around quickly among those who take a special interest in such things.
This week a source within the Able Danger investigation, working directly with the Department of Defense and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and part of the original team that brought down rogue FBI agent Robert Hansen as well, tells of a different story regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
Aafia was a CIA agent targeted by the Bush administration because her operational unit, headed by Valerie Plame, one involved in NNP (nuclear non-proliferation) was ready to order the arrest of Vice President Dick Cheney and top officials of the US Department of Energy, the organization that, with the Department of Defense, maintains America's nuclear weapons inventories.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the Reagan era, was arrested at his home one morning by a similar operational unit for crimes committed in the Iran-Contra Affair and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Public and secret pardons by Bush (41) cover not only Weinberger but up to 138 Reagan officials.
After the 2000 US presidential election where George Bush (43) was "appointed" compliments of a Supreme Court ruling that stopped the Florida vote count, loyal elements in defense and security became convinced the election began a coup. In December 2008, voting machine hacker Michael Connell died in a plane crash within days of asking for protection, claiming Karl Rove had threatened him if he came forward regarding charges of rigging both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
Mike literally had a falling out – of the sky
For those in Defense and Intelligence, the "convenience" of 9/11, however, represented something more than a power grab. Nuclear investigators were immediately dispatched, gathering samples and radiation readings, including one VT editor, a nuclear physicist, and IAEA investigator, who is photographed at "ground zero" dressed as a utility worker. This team is responsible for the DOE 9/11 Report received by the White House, Pentagon, and Congressional leaders in 2003.
When the report was never made public, the team released the highly classified photographs depicting the huge nuclear crater with swirls of melted granite. Later, after the Snowden leak and Veterans Today publishing of key report components, the investigative team came forward, not only confirming their findings of nuclear weapons use on 9/11 but continued their work using highly classified documents published by Russian nuclear investigator Dimitri Khalezov.
When Israeli teams, then living in safe houses in New Jersey and under surveillance by FBI agent Mike Dick's teams moved the nuclear weapons into the World Trade Center parking lots in white moving vans as told of in the DOE report, it was not known that the parking places chosen had a strategic purpose.
The DOE teams were, at that time, unaware that the huge freon tanks, technology no longer in use, that cooled the towers, were located under the parking places chosen for the devices, described in the report as "two-stage nuclear thermobaric weapons." In subsequent revisions, after the nuclear design teams at Los Alamos National Laboratories read the Khalezov report, the energy weapon effect noted by many including Dr. Judy Wood could finally be explained.
In a report edited by members of the original Department of Energy 9/11 investigative team, the 26,000-gallon freon tanks provided a massive deuterium boost that traveled up the elevator shafts, destroying the structural integrity of the twin towers. From Veterans Today August 28, 2014:
The third really big one was placed over the air conditioning Freon storage tanks in the utility room, or just under it in the utility pipe gallery, as stated by Dmitry. This one made the giant crater formations left under the buildings foundations and was the cause of the melted steel and thermal effects seen on 9-11.
When the 1.5kt nuke went off next to the storage tanks containing 26 tons of liquid Freon, it turned it into Hydrogen Floride (H2F), or in the nuclear weapons industry, it is called Deuterium Fluoride (DF), the stuff that hydrogen bombs are made of. This produced the desired thermal effects needed to vaporize the central core and over half of the twin towers in less than 10 seconds. No other explosive device could do that.
Dmitry was off only on the size of the weapons used, but all other data checks out correctly. He was too correct, so his source was an inside player. This is why D.O.J wants him!!
If his story were untrue, then they would not go to this much trouble to keep him locked up in a Thailand jail awaiting extradition to the USA. That fact alone tells you something BIG!! Blast Effects. When the 1.5KT nuke went off under buildings 1 and 2, it sucked most of the 26 tons of liquid Freon from the cooling system into the fireball. Due to thermal heat of 4 million degrees in the center of the fireball and neutron absorption, the Freon was split and then fused into Deuterium Fluoride…
As in the IVY Mike nuclear Pacific test in 1952 of the first Hydrogen Bomb — producing the massive over yield due to the extra Freon being converted into extra Deuterium. On 9-11, this acted as extra external "Deuterium Boost Gas", boosting the Thermal Yield of the 1.5 KT weapon at least 10 to a maximum of 100 times. 15 to 150 KT thermal output not in blast energy.
That would put the overall "thermal energy" released between 15KT and up to 150KT at 100% efficiency. Most likely closer to 10% efficiency would be more practical. This is a crude Teller "Lair Cake or Alarm Clock" boosted nuclear fission design only used back in the 1950's test shots. Dmitry's claim of 150 KT thermal was a bit too big. However, if the weapon had been twice this size — 3KT vs 1.5 KT — it would have taken out the lower half of Manhattan, including the entire Wall Street financial district, and the fallout would have taken out half of NYC and not by accident!!!! It was designed that way.
Over 90% of this energy is released as fast neutrons and Infrared energy, with accompanying Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation. Less than 10% was in mechanical blast energy or overpressure. Most of this was absorbed in the ground as shock waves and created the massive cavities left below the buildings. The off-centered large cavity was located just below the Freon cooling plant storage tank location, which is a big forensic clue as to the energy source used on that day.
The mostly unburnt and highly-ionized Deuterium Fluoride gas (Formally known as Freon-12) produced by the blast, (over 20 tons of it) was trapped in the building debris piles and accounted for all of the post 9-11 thermal effects of molten steel, hot spots, and out-gassing of very caustic gasses, ETC. This stuff, due to neutron excitation and very high ionization levels, will stay very hot until the appropriate neutron-absorbing chemicals are added to the ground in order to stop the ongoing low-level neutron chain reactions from occurring, similar to what is happening in Japan with their nuclear 911 disaster.
After 9/11, the US set out to create what appeared to be a worldwide terror organization, in order to justify both a political crackdown within the US and, as had been made public on many occasions by former NATO head General Wesley Clark… the long-planned military takeover of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Part of this plot involved creating a cover story involving 500 tons of "yellowcake uranium", supposedly bought by Al Qaeda and transported to Iraq to supply a nuclear program later found to never have existed. The Bush White House, at the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, went to a terrorist group within the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, part of the group responsible for the Gladio terror bombings and the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
They created documents outlining imaginary transactions and sent them to CIA headquarters in Rome. SISMI chief Nicolo Pollari took the reports directly to the White House, where Cheney asked friends within the CIA and Department of Energy — part of a covert working team that included arms smuggler Victor Bout — to prepare reports citing the severity of the threat posed by these known forged reports.
DEEP BACKGROUND
Molten plutonium
A US Army intelligence group working within Israel, headed by Colonel James Hanke, had discovered that the nuclear weapons facility at Dimona had suffered a catastrophic accident between 1988 and 1990. Israel's nuclear weapons inventory could no longer be maintained and expanded from domestically-produced weapons-grade nuclear material.
Israel's complicity was proven when, according to sources within the IAEA and Able Danger team, a combined operation between the US Department of Defense and Department of Justice, initially headed by FBI Agent John O'Neill, had discovered discrepancies in the US nuclear weapons inventory.
It was not just 350 missing nuclear pits, but fully one-third of America's post SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) inventory. The records of our nuclear weapons inventory had been systematically sabotaged to hide this attack on America's weapons inventory, or so they thought.
Able Danger established the presence of an espionage organization in the United States that was answerable personally to Benjamin Netanyahu. The organization included the then head of the Dept. of Energy, the AIPAC Lobby, the Anti-Defamation League, key commanders of America's nuclear forces, the Joint Special Operations command under VP Dick Cheney, and members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN organization.
Their investigation had tied corrupt officials at the highest levels of the US Department of Energy to the leak of classified nuclear "pit" configuration data and altering records of decommissioned nuclear weapons. Three hundred fifty W54 nuclear warheads were missing from inventories at the Pantex nuclear facility in Amarillo, Texas.
An investigation team led by Roland Carnaby, the CIA agent killed in a mysterious shooting in 2008, discovered that the missing "pits" had been stolen and taken to a nearby meatpacking facility, where they were sorted using leaked DOE data in order to allow them to be safely melted down and reconfigured to replace the depleted Israeli stockpile.
Investigators from the DOE and IAEA confirm that weapons from this stolen stockpile were used in the demolition of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 — nuclear "pits" originally produced at the Hanford DOE facility in Washington.
This information was part of the highly classified 2003 9/11 report given to congressional and White House leaders only and later leaked by Russian Naval Intelligence, believed to have been among a trove of documents received from Edward Snowden.
In March 2013, a group of business executives meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a briefing on the 2003 "Nuclear 9/11" report as part of a "Threat Assessment Conference" where Veterans Today staff were among the presenters. The briefing also included a version of the now-famous "Shrimpton nuclear scare" story, confirming the recovery of a missing nuclear weapon somewhere in the EU in 2012.
This was the biggest collection of private jets ever to grace Oklahoma.
9/11 AND AFTERMATH
Leaked documents on the Able Danger investigation, received in September 2014 revealed that most investigation functions had ended in 1998 at the request of President Clinton, then under impeachment threat tied to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, in a reputed Mossad "honey trap."
It was Clinton's gutting of Able Danger that may well have made 9/11 possible, leaving in place Israeli and Saudi teams, the Cheney/Bout organization and the AIPAC intel coordinators.
Investigative chief and FBI Special Agent John O'Neill left government service and pursued leads until his untimely death during the 9/11 "event". According to a 2005 report, thirty-five of the Able Danger investigators were also killed on 9/11, when the Pentagon office they were called to for an emergency briefing by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myer, (who did not show up for the meeting and did not die, a lucky day for him) was demolished by an airliner, though little or no physical evidence of such a happenstance exists. (Myer took over the JCOS before 9/11 but was confirmed afterward. Prior to 9/11, it was Myer that facilitated the destruction of nuclear weapon records while heading the Pentagon's nuclear accounting group.
After 1998, the FBI investigation team was divided into two units under the supervision of Special Agent Mike Dick; one team was tracking arms dealer Victor Bout, and was coordinated with IAEA investigators. The second unit investigated the theft of the "pit matching" documents and centered on the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, eventually leading to the arrest of leaders of that group.
Charges were later dropped when the White House refused to turn over required evidence, and Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the key planners of the CIA torture program, ordered an end to the investigation. Witness statements included testimony indicating White House officials had passed key nuclear secrets to Israeli embassy representatives at a Washington cocktail party in the presence of both Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice.
The second unit, assisted by CIA agent Roland Carnaby, followed the theft of nuclear weapons from the sorting facility near Amarillo to a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas. In April 2014, as Snowden reputedly handed Able Danger documents to Russian intelligence, the plant where the nuclear weapons were stored, the West Fertilizer Plant, was destroyed in a massive explosion, killing 15.
The entire operation was run by Victor Bout, working directly for the office of the Vice President of the United States, according to private sources with access to the Plame/Siddiqui investigation.
The nuclear pits had been moved by truck to the Port of Houston, where they had been placed on ships and transferred to the Canary Islands and later to Mauritania. The weapons were, according to Able Danger documents, stored at a mine controlled by former South African Prime Minister De Klerk inside a region controlled by the rebel Polisario Front. From there, weapons were sold to Taiwan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and other nations, along with restocking Israel.
Other weapons were set aside for use by intelligence agencies. IAEA sources report weapons from Hanford/Pantex were used for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, and the Bali bombing in 2005. The IAEA confirms up to 50 nuclear weapons have been used surreptitiously since 1945, often in configurations that minimize blast and radiation.
THE CIA'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
There are strange parallels in the story of two accused "Al Qaeda" operatives. While the general public thinks of Al Qaeda as a terror group, in truth, according to Able Danger documents, Al Qaeda is a joint operational sector of Saudi, Israeli and US intelligence. This dirty little secret has compromised American security greatly, due to the blackmailing position both of these countries have had over the US.
Two of the major "terror figures" of Al Qaeda, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Osama bin Laden, have been confirmed, at the highest levels, to be CIA operatives. After 9/11 both fled… Dr. Aafia to Karachi and bin Laden, who had recently received kidney treatments at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where members of congress and top VIPs receive their care, to Tora Bora.
Bin Laden died of complications from advanced kidney disease on December 13, 2001, after denying any involvement in 9/11 and advising those concerned to "look closer to home" (CIA FOIA Press Release dated 24 September, 2001.)
The curious story of Bin Laden and his second "death" in Pakistan is similar to that of Aafia Siddiqui with her reputed murderous attack on her CIA captors during a waterboarding session at Bagram Air Force Base.
Prior to the release of the recent and highly controversial CIA torture report, the reputed actual "re-killer" of bin Laden came forward. The story, as we are told, has an aging bin Laden in the upper floor of a home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden is said to have leaped to his feet, grasping an AK47 in one hand while holding a hostage in another. While standing on a bed, bin Laden is brought down in a hail of gunfire, like something out of a cowboy film.
The Aafia story is if anything worse.
We are told Dr. Aafia, confined to a wheelchair, in this case "literally" held down by handcuff "tie raps", was brought in for a waterboarding session. The US Air Force facility had been hosting summary execution and torture sessions for Aafia and other prisoners for years. Aafia had been raped repeatedly. She was down to 80 pounds and unable to walk.
There the story, an analog of the bin Laden tale, gets more bizarre. Dr. Aafia is said to have broken her tie wraps, listed as "ISO 527-1:2012 standard," in a fit of rage. There were five men in the room, most over 200 pounds, four of whom were "special operations trained", including one US Navy Seal, one CIA agent and two FBI agents. The fifth member was a "translator," please pay attention as this will be an important point.
The crippled 80-pound torture and rape victim is reputed to have knocked all four men to the ground, seizing an M4 carbine from one of them. According to transcripts, in order to save the lives of the four "terror war-fighters", the "translator", using his weapon shot Dr. Aafia in the abdomen.
This is the crime Dr. Aafia was convicted of, not terrorism but resisting torture. Now here comes the most curious part of all. Dr. Aafia lived in the United States for 11 years, the wife of a Boston anesthesiologist. Aafia taught at MIT, where she received her doctorate in microbiology before joining the CIA.
Aafia had spoken English all her life, published in English and taught in English at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Why did she need a translator? You just can't make this stuff up… or can you?
Background articles:
1) veteranstoday.com/2014/05/20/too-classified-to-publish-bush-nuclear-piracy-exposed/
2) veteranstoday.com/2014/05/20/nuke-cancer-from-911-revealed/
3) veteranstoday.com/2014/05/21/doc-submitted-by-russian-intel/
4) veteranstoday.com/2014/05/22/constructing-the-nuclear-child/
5) www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/31/vt-nuclear-education-series/
6) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/01/nuclear-education-series-dimona-classified/
7) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/01/vt-nuclear-terrorism-education-series/
8) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/02/vt-nuclear-education-undeniable-proof-of-911-as-a-nuclear-event/
9) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/18/vt-nuclear-education-as-the-hammer-drops/
10) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/24/vt-nuclear-education-mossadn-korea-links-mox/
11) veteranstoday.com/2014/06/24/nuclear-roundtable-americas-nuclear-arsenal/
12) veteranstoday.com/2014/07/07/officials-site-thermo-nuke-in-911-demo/
13) veteranstoday.com/2014/07/08/vt-nuclear-education-fission-based-thermobaric-weapons/
Additional supporting material on 9/11, nuclear physics and disclosure issues:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/13/vt-nuclear-education-anti-gravity/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/14/neo-mini-nukes-and-m16-the-economy-of-war/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/15/vt-nuclear-education-nukes-in-iraq-confirmation/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/24/vt-flexing-its-nuclear-muscle/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/28/nuclear-911-revealed-theories-and-disinformation-the-misguided-and-the-inhuman/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/30/vt-nuclear-education-tactical-nuclear-warfare/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/30/vt-nuclear-education-early-reactors/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/01/iaea-investigators-audit-reveals-us-not-iran-the-problem/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/03/vt-nuclear-education-history-of-mini-nukes/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/08/vt-nuclear-education-answering-the-hype/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/14/vt-nuclear-education-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-atom-smasher/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/15/vt-nuclear-education-lenr-neutron-distribution/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/17/einsteins-theory-on-magnetic-buoyancy-and-its-application-to-the-space-time-continuum-or-gravity/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/21/vt-science-fuel-cell-technology/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/05/vt-science-haarp/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/16/fusion-junk-science-for-rubes/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/17/neo-nuclear-threats-enter-the-mainstream/ (must read)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/18/vt-science-nasas-low-energy-fusion-voodoodoodoo/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/10/the-connection-between-aurora-and-black-triangles/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/31/jeff-smith-on-the-upcoming-able-danger-leak/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/09/vt-nuclear-education-japan/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/03/vt-nuclear-education-detonations-and-deceit/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/28/deconstructing-christopher-bollyn-and-steve-jones/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/11/330695/ Why Are Commanding Generals Being Sacked?______
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chas peking November 7, 2020 at 7:54 pm
The U.S. Patent number(uncertified and tested by SERCO's testing and certification team) is # 10,130,701 and is held by England's queen Elizabeth, developed at the London Pirbright Institute, with the mirror image lab at Nanchang near Wuhan in China with some credit given to North Carolina State University's secret biowarfare lab. It was observed just before the international Wuhan military sport competition being taken to China by Harvard's Charles M. Lieber, who holds a U.S. Patent on the clever 5G release system and frequency necessary to jar corona-SARS loose from its nanotube matrix after its dissemination from vessels from cracked open small cracked open glass tubes to the thousands of gallons of chemtrail material released into the exhaust trails of certain equipped tanker planes. Lieber was arrested and released on $1 million bail on his return to the U.S. last February when he was caught lying about all of this. Evergreen Airways used to be involved with this stuff. Now I will not guess this is all President Trump's fault.
The Rockefellers cut the deal to have the WTC tower prototype fit with the Kellogg nuclear demolition system during negotiations to have the experimental stages of WTC tower research done at the high security Idaho state ARCO nuclear Testing Reservation beginning in 1965. This released the Rockefeller development effort from clean-up duties after the engineering problems had been solved. The crashing of a fully fueled Boeing 707 into one of two structures WAS PRECEDED by a Nelson Rockefeller personal order for 2,500 exploding bolts for this tower, allegedly for future "jet pack commuter hangar doors" and not escape panels. At that time, when asked, I suggested that since NASA had equipped the Mercury and Gemini space capsules with exploding bolt emergency escape hatches, NASA would be where I would look first.
And that is where the 2,500 exploding bolts were purchased from. NASA's supplier. 2.000 more exploding bolts were ordered by NRockefeller for the Manhattan structures. You can see where they were used and view the installed oxyacetylene rigs severing the corner columns to initiate the nuclear take down. The imbalance resulting from any tip over was the triggering mechanism, as described to me several times by project drunks at our house 1966-1969 in Idaho Falls. Yes. I was in the room for ALL of this, and at the meeting of where the Port Authority, insurance Underwriters, engineers, and other top people MANDATED the installation in Manhattan less than 5 minutes after the second to last attendee left the premises. You don't suppose the lizard queen is planning to blow something else up?
Blowing up Fukushima was a sabotage and the most stupid insane act ever committed by any human or lower primate. Even a poop flinging nasty biting monkey would refuse to blow up a nuclear plant with 40 years of spent fuel if it knew what would happen. But not a superstitious old senile fool. They would do anything for personal entertainment knowing that the devil would soon have them.
So ya see? No torture necessary to get the truth out of me. That's Cheney. C-H-E-N-E-Y while Bush41 served as oversight for the United Nations as the American ambassador to the U.N. from 1969 on. The center of world finance was not to leave The City of London for The Big Apple or Wuhan.
Mr.Ed November 7, 2020 at 7:21 pm
Another Epic Publication, Mr. Duff!
I was tempted to write-in both your and Mr. Dean's names on my Floriduhh mail-in ballot but resisted the impulse.
It would be fun to go fishing with you.
I learned to fish for speckled trout on PEI with a 5-inch Dragonfly ("Darning Needle") perched (occasionally) upon my shoulder. Was I not the bait for that noble insect's mosquito-snacks?
Please continue your pursuit of Truth.


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'Farewell to the Night' ('L'Adieu a la nuit'): Film Review | Berlin 2019
Catherine Deneuve plays a woman distraught to learn that her grandson has become a jihadist in Andre Techine's latest, 'Farewell to the Night,' set once again in the director's native southwest France.
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A drama about a warmly maternal Frenchwoman wrestling with the discovery that her beloved grandson is a convert to the Islamic State would seem ripe with potential for raw personal conflict. But the charged emotional spontaneity and nonjudgmental curiosity for complex human relations that have invigorated Andre Techine's best work remain disappointingly muffled in Farewell to the Night, as the generic title might suggest. The director returns to his frequent muse Catherine Deneuve, but she seems stiff and miscast as a salt-of-the-earth horse ranch owner, stuck in a baggy script that struggles to build momentum into its fraught situations.
It's interesting that while the key relationship in the screenplay by Techine and Lea Mysius is between Muriel (Deneuve) and her radicalized grandson Alex (Kacey Mottet Klein), the scenes in which Deneuve is at her best and the drama at its most sensitive are her encounters with a generous stranger.
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The Bottom Line Oddly ineffectual considering the explosive subject matter.
In the film's standout performance, Kamel Labroudi plays Fouad, a soulful young father who fought with terrorist forces in Syria for a brief period before regretting his youthful impulsiveness and returning to France, serving time and now attempting to reintegrate into society. Fouad's story, and his willingness to help desperate Muriel even at the cost of reopening a painful chapter from his past, finds shadings missing elsewhere in the drama, picking up the recurring theme in Techine's films of French-Arab cultural cross-pollination.
Farewell to the Night opens with the blunt metaphor of a solar eclipse and abounds with representations of nature that provide a counterpoint backdrop to the dehumanizing choices made by Alex and his childhood sweetheart Lila (Oulaya Amamra) as they transition into adulthood. It's set during the first five days of spring 2015 on and around an estate in the rural southwest run by Muriel with her North African business partner Youssef (Mohamed Djouhri), a ranch that includes an equestrian school, a cherry tree orchard in glorious blossom and earth rich in truffles and porcini mushrooms that attract wild boars.
Alex, like Lila, considers himself an orphan. His mother died in a diving accident for which he blames his father, who has resettled in Guadeloupe and started a new family. He obstinately rejects his grandmother's suggestions that he should reach out and get to know his half-siblings.
There are hints of a troubled recent period in Alex's life that caused him to drop out of med school in Toulouse, but when he comes to visit his grandmother before taking off on a working trip abroad, supposedly to Canada, he evinces a fierce sense of purposeful identity. He attributes this to his Muslim conversion eight months earlier, a development Muriel is startled to learn about when she spies him praying in the garden. He's brittle and closed-off in response to her questions, displaying a coldness she perhaps puts down to growing pains and to lingering anger over the loss of his mother.
The script makes no effort to conceal the true nature of Alex and Lila's plan, revealing early on that they have been coordinating travel arrangements with ISIS recruiter Bilal (Stephane Bak), and that they need to raise a substantial amount of cash to finance Alex's combat training and weapons purchase. He's anxious to get to the front, and when he asks Lila how she would feel if he died, she responds without hesitation: "I would be proud." While Alex shows no qualms about stealing from Muriel, it's Lila who justifies forging checks to lift 6,000 euros from her company bank account, pointing out that Alex's grandmother is an infidel, which means it's not a sin.
When Youssef alerts Muriel to the missing money, pegging the theft to her grandson, she searches Alex's bags and finds his travel itinerary, not to Canada as he said, but from Barcelona to Istanbul, the standard gateway to the Syrian border for radical Islam converts out of France. Putting two and two together, she takes a series of steps — some drastic, bordering on preposterous, others more considered — to stop him from leaving.
There's a nagging lack of fluidity in the scene-to-scene progression. In one particularly clunky juxtaposition, editor Albertine Lastera cuts between a lunch during which Youssef's family celebrates an equestrian win and one of the young women at the table bursts into a raunchy dance to Western pop, and a clandestine jihad gathering, with Alex in white robes receiving instruction from an Islamic preacher (Amer Alwan, who developed the story idea with Techine), while Lila, seen wearing a hijab for the first time, chats excitedly with another young woman just back from Syria.
Klein takes the watchful intensity he displayed in Techine's Being 17 to almost feral extremes here in a performance that reveals only the tiniest glimpses of the insecure kid beneath the rigid facade, notably when he's writing a farewell note to his grandmother. The urgency with which Alex has immersed himself in his new persona is signaled in sequences where Julien Hirsch's camera goes hurtling along beside him through the cherry groves or on mountain roads. But Alex's radicalization is already complete when the film begins, so there's no pathos in his ideological transformation. And despite the script sketching in all kinds of reasons his rootlessness would make him vulnerable, there's scant insight into what attracts Western youths to jihadism.
In an attempt to be even-handed, Amamra plays up the contrast between her tough arrogance and the softness she brings to her work as a care-giver at a retirement home. (Techine veteran Jacques Nolot appears briefly as one of her employers.) Even Bilal shows fissures in his aloof authority, sneaking cigarettes in a habit he dismisses as a vestige of the corrupt Western ways he's leaving behind.
But despite the melancholy beauty of Alexis Rault's score, all this generates surprisingly little feeling, even in what should be the suspenseful start of the radicals' journey as the extent of Muriel's final intervention remains in doubt. The emotional cost to her is spelled out in clinical terms inadequately foreshadowed in Deneuve's performance. Only in her scenes with Fouad is there a moving sense, beneath the semi-formality of strangers, of two people touched in different ways by the same sociopolitical phenomenon, forging a meaningful connection based on empathy and compassion. That's the part that feels like a Techine movie.
Production companies: Curiosa Films, Bellini Films, Arte France Cinema, ZDF/Arte, Legato Films, Films Boutique
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Kacey Mottet Klein, Oulaya Amamra, Stephane Bak, Kamel Labroudi, Mohamed Djouhri, Amer Alwan, Jacques Nolot
Director: Andre Techine
Screenwriters: Andre Techine, Lea Mysius, based on an original idea by Techine and Amer Alwan
Producer: Olivier Delbosc
Executive producer: Christine de Jekel
Director of photography: Julien Hirsch
Production designer: Carlos Conti
Costume designer: Jurgen Doering
Music: Alexis Rault
Editor: Albertine Lastera
Casting: Michel Nasri
Venue: Berlin International Film Festival (Out of Competition)
Sales: France TV Distribution
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Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2338
By Senators Wilson and Dawson
33-42A-04
1                    Senate Resolution No. ____
2         A resolution recognizing Alpha Kappa Alpha
3         Sorority, Inc.
5         WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was founded
6  at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1908, and
7         WHEREAS, this Greek letter organization is the first
8  sorority established by African-American college women, and
9         WHEREAS, this sorority is an international organization
10  with approximately 250,000 members in over 900 chapters
11  extending across the United States, the Bahamas, Bermuda,
12  Great Britain, Germany, Korea, and the Virgin Islands, and
13         WHEREAS, many of these chapters are located in
14  communities and on college and university campuses in the
15  State of Florida, and
16         WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., is committed
17  to community service and has made numerous contributions to
18  the educational, civic, and social lives of Florida's
19  citizens, and
20         WHEREAS, Linda White of Chicago, Illinois, is the
21  National President of this great sisterhood and leads the
22  250,000 women of this organization in the current
23  international program, "The SPIRIT of AKA," the acronym and
24  concept for Sisterhood, Service, Partnership, Innovation,
25  Respect, Involvement, and Technology, and
26         WHEREAS, Irene McCollom is the South Atlantic Regional
27  Director of this great sisterhood and leads members of the
28  sorority in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, and
29         WHEREAS, Geraline Gilyard-Ingraham, an outstanding
30  Floridian, is the president of the largest chapter in Florida,
31  Gamma Zeta Omega, located in Miami, and
1         WHEREAS, Senator Frederica S. Wilson, a past South
2  Atlantic Regional Director, and Senator Mandy Dawson are
3  members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and
4         WHEREAS, members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in
5  the State of Florida contribute thousands of volunteer hours
6  implementing service programs in their respective communities,
7  NOW, THEREFORE,
9  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
11         That the members of the Florida Senate recognize the
12  commitment of members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., to
13  community service and express special appreciation for their
14  service in the State of Florida.


SuzeeBehindTheScenes: Movie Review: John Krasinski's A Quiet Place is Full of Hitchcockian Suspense and Sustained Palpable Tension - Will Horror Fans Flock to It?
Movie Review: John Krasinski's A Quiet Place is Full of Hitchcockian Suspense and Sustained Palpable Tension - Will Horror Fans Flock to It?
Two men sit down at a fairly upscale restaurant and begin to discuss baseball. After about two minutes of conversation (Kaboom!) a bomb under the table explodes. The audience is left completely surprised, but the surprise is quick and their exhilaration fades after only a few minutes.
In telling this anecdote, Alfred Hitchcock subsequently suggests, that the filmmaker show the bomb under the table before the scene even begins. Taking this approach, fills every word of every sentence with dread and anxiety. Every second that the two men spend ignorant of the explosive beneath them, feels like hours of torture to the audience.
John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, blazes through its 90 minute run time, utilizing at every possible moment, the patented and proven Hitchcockian brand of suspense.
Krasinski's first foray into horror doesn't contain much of a plot or concern itself with fleshing out its lead characters. Instead, every scene carries with it, a sustained, palpable tension. Just as Hitchcock suggests showing the audience the bomb prior to the scene's opening, Krasinski shows it to us, before the titles appear. Except in the place of a bomb, we have seemingly invincible monsters, with hypersensitive hearing.
This is where the film truly shines as every scene, every cut, and every step a character takes is nearly drowned in the expectation that everything can and will go wrong. The final thirty or so minutes of this film, bask in this anxiety laden emotion.
Laundry, the whole thing that sets off the catastrophic ending, is initiated with a batch of laundry. Emily Blunt's character, who's baby is due any day now, pulls up a nail with her laundry bag. Later on, her water breaks. In an attempt to find out if her husband and son are close by, she hustles down to the basement where all of their surveillance equipment is. Except, you guessed it, she steps on the nail. From here, we are treated to non-stop action that manages to escalate, take a short break, and then ramp right back to its peak in no time at all, keeping its pace until the film ends.
At times, A Quiet Place bears a striking resemblance to Trey Edward Shults' 2017 film It Comes at Night. Both take place in a post-apocalyptic landscape and follow a family's fight for survival. However, It Comes at Night is far more concerned with developing a malicious atmosphere of uncertainty and paranoia as well as its characters. At the time of its release though, many viewers lamented its methodical pace and lack of any real 'scares' or 'action.' In many ways, these criticisms are valid, but keep in mind that the marketing for It Comes at Night billed it as something more akin to…well, A Quiet Place.
A Quiet Place, at times, feels like a response to It Comes at Night. Where Shults wants the audience to question the paranoia affecting his characters, Krasinski shows in the first five minutes that his characters have every reason to be as afraid as they are. Similarly, Krasinski's monsters are shown outright in broad daylight, whereas the 'It' in It Comes at Night is completely ambiguous and left solely to the interpretation of the viewer.
Both tactics result in lukewarm projects though. With so many films saturating the post-apocalyptic genre, it's difficult to stand out. So, while A Quiet Place isn't really attempting to be anything more than it is, the fact that it is lacking in characterization and atmosphere, hurts it more than it helps.
Krasinski's characters are interchangeable and lack any sort of depth. They are afflicted with fear, tragedy, and loss, but given the world they inhabit, this isn't anything groundbreaking. As a result, the characters' expendable nature dilutes the tension in some scenes. While those scenes are still fraught with anxiety, they also suffer from being extremely predictable. Any viewer who's even remotely versed in the horror/thriller genre, will be able to see nearly every twist and turn the plot throws at them.
The film also relies somewhat on jump scares – some of which are egregiously false. They do peter out towards the film's conclusion, but their inclusion in some of the earlier scenes doesn't set a good precedent. To boot, the blatantly CGI monsters are a bit generic. One look at Stranger Things' Demogorgon, the monster from 2017's The Monster, or even the Mutos from 2014's Godzilla, will reveal an altogether puzzling trend as none of the monsters in these films are particularly scary or disturbing either.
Ultimately, what we end up with is a film that succeeds admirably in what it sets out to accomplish. Casual horror/thriller fans will be shocked by the film's twists and feel their knuckles pop from their hands towards the film's end. Conversely, the same can't be said for all veteran genre fans, as they may be left wanting a little more out of the world and characters.
John Krasinski is definitely a director to watch and it's great to see his career shift pay off for him so well. If he continues to employ the skills he puts on display here, fans can look forward to what is sure to be an exciting body of work.


The principal headwinds seem to be the publication of ISINs in to the Financial Instrument Reference Data System (FIRDS) in a timely manner. ESMA collects ISIN's from the NCAs and then publishes them in FIRDS. Some are pointing the finger at the venues and their failure to report ISINS meaning that FIRDS has an incomplete dataset.
The problem this then sets is that firms use third parties to obtain ISINs and send reports direct or via ARMs to NCAs having used the ISIN to determine if the transaction is reportable. The ISIN is included in the transaction report. This will pass, for example, the checks made by an ARM but then because it is not consistent with FIRDs the report, it is rejected or made to be pending. As a result, what we are seeing is firms building tighter controls around the integrity of their transaction reporting.
This has all led to a build-up at the FCA. If the transaction report is rejected but is a reportable transaction, it has to be re-reported. This is leading to a backlog of pending reports. For other firms that took the decision to use FIRDs as their source, it raises, in my opinion, a trickier problem. Due to using the ISIN to determine if a transaction is reportable they could well be not reporting genuine reportable transactions! Hopefully ESMA will provide a safe anchorage from this storm given anecdotal reports that NCAs are beginning to stiffen their attitude to potentially incorrect or missing reports. Regulatory forbearance is finite and patience will soon wear thin when it comes to transaction reporting.
What intrigues me is whether this is a level playing field across Europe. The European Commission (EC) recently requested that 12 Member States fully implement MiFID II into national legislation for which the deadline was July 2017 (extended by a year from July 2016). It appears these Member States have not fully, or not at all, implemented the new rules. It will be interesting to see what the EC response to these flagrant breaches is. In addition, what will ESMA will do regarding regulation in those countries?
The other area that seems to be generating problems is record keeping. With the new obligation to record and maintain telephone calls and electronic communications, by way of example, many firms are finding that manual workarounds are very painful. Those that have not employed a holistic solution are finding that appropriate record keeping that fulfils the requirement for monitoring is causing a multitude of issues that will just get worse.
In conclusion, the MiFID II ship is afloat and sailing but with a lot of tugs and corrections to the lines and braces. Given the ocean of data swirling around with technical difficulties at both NCAs and firms, Steven Majoor's, (ESMA Chair), comment on the day MiFID II came into force hinting that we might hit some crosswinds "in the coming days or months" was spot on. My forecast is for these squalls and storms to be still with us as we sail into the second half of the year and set our sights on MiFID III.


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Thunder Hockey Dominate Portage
This weekend the Thunder had a pivotal match up against the Portage College Voyageurs. Going into the weekend the two teams were tied for the last playoff spot which set up an exciting series. On Friday night the Thunder were in Lac La Biche. The Thunder struggled to find their legs in the first 2 periods and despite goals from Romano Morrison and Adam Wheeldon they trailed 3 to 2 going into the third. However, they came out flying in the third period with 2 power play goals from Jordan Busch and Brady Bakke. Jacob McNutt would record the eventual game winner later in the period and the Thunder added two empty net goals to win 7 – 4. Tanner McCorriston made 34 saves in the win.
Saturday night on home ice and with a chance to sweep the weekend set, the Thunder came out fast. Brady Bakke scored twice in the 1st to take a 2 to 0 lead. In the second period the Thunder got two shorthanded goals on the same penalty from Ian McLellan and Jordan Busch. The rest of the way Adam Moghrabi added 2 goals, Romano Morrison scored on the power play and Chase Fallis added another goal late to help the Thunder to a dominating 8 to 0 win. Rookie Tanner McCorriston continued to shine in the net picking up his second shutout of the year. "The boys played hard all weekend and it was nice to see them get rewarded with a big performance tonight," said Associate coach Matt Parks. "We have a long way to go but this team is maturing and learning how to put together a 60 minute game," he added.
The Thunder look forward to continuing their playoff push as they face the Augustana Vikings this coming weekend. The home game goes Saturday night at Clareview with the puck dropping at 8:15 PM


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Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States
By author: Anne Newport Royall
Series: Travel in America
"Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite a stir, as did most of her publications. Considering herself to be the guardian of democracy (she later became a friend of John Quincy Adams), Royall used her works to expose corruption and bad dealings wherever she went, with a boldness that was remarkable for an era obsessed with gentility and "womanly virtue". "Sketches" catalogs Royall's travels from Louisiana to Maine, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Springfield, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, and New Haven, noting each city's population, industry, physical description and modes of available transportation, as well as regional dialects, modes of dress and the character of the city's residents. "


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Q&A with MC YOGI Who Blends his Love & Knowledge of Yoga Culture with Hip Hop, Reggae, and Electronic music.
By : Nicole DeRosa
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From headlining international music festivals to teaching some of the largest yoga classes in America, MC YOGI (aka Nicholas Giacomini) is widely becoming known as yoga's modern day ambassador to the West. Blending his love & knowledge of yoga culture with hip hop, reggae, and electronic music, MC YOGI is recognized as a leading voice in the emerging genre of conscious global music.
His influences range from Major Lazer to M.I.A., Santigold to Matisyahu and The Beatles to the Beastie Boys.
With three #1 World albums and hundreds of appearances each year, MC YOGI's music is moving yoga to large, mainstream audiences. From headlining international music festivals to teaching some of the largest yoga classes in America, MC YOGI is widely becoming known as yoga's modern day ambassador to the West.
A tranquil early childhood was cut short by a surprise family implosion that led Yogi to all kinds of messy rebellion: dropping out of school, graffiti punkdom, pre-teen drug abuse, stealing cars, lashing out at everyone and everything and not quite knowing why. It all led to the honor of being kicked out of no less than four schools by the time he was 17 before finally, by way of an unexpected introduction to yoga and classical Hindu philosophy, a complete rediscovery of self, of the yogic path, of the true meaning of music and love.
Between launching his Kickstarter campaign and heading to Miami to attend Art Basel, the very gracious MC YOGI took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for All Access Music writer, Nicole DeRosa.
You just launched your Kickstarter campaign in support of your new album, ONLY LOVE IS REAL. How did this idea come about to use Kickstarter? Why did you decide to go along this path?
Kickstarter allows an artist to go direct. As an independent musician without a label it's awesome to think that now I can create music and get it directly to my fans without all the trappings of a major label. ONLY LOVE IS REAL is the name I chose after meditating on what would be a poignant message that sums up my 15 years of experience as a yogi so far.
Where does this interview find you? What's on the agenda today besides our interview?
I'm down in Miami right now at an event called Art Basel, it's the one of the largest Art exhibits in the world. My wife Amanda and I are in the process of painting a huge mural here next door to the Wynwood Walls, which is a famous graffiti and street art exhibit.
While we're down here I'm also teaching yoga with an organization called YOGART, which helps to connect yoga and street art. Growing up as a graffiti writer, and then becoming a yogi, it's awesome to experience those two world coming together in such an inspiring atmosphere.
For those of our readers that are not as familiar with you, how did your musical journey begin?
I started writing rhymes as a young kid. I grew up reading comic books and listening to hip-hop. When high school came around I started free styling and performing at house parties and local hip hop events. Around that time I was painting a lot of illegal murals. As kids we used to steal paint, hit the freeway or the train yards and create huge pieces.
I used to mainly paint characters, while my friends painted letters. I got arrested a bunch of times, got kicked out of three schools, and my parents shipped me off to a group home. After high school around eighteen, I discovered yoga and meditation and it completely changed my life. That's when I started experimenting with yoga based hip-hop music, and the rest is history.
Your music style characteristically contains themes with Hindu philosophy and many of your songs are bhajans (Hindu devotional songs). Who or what was the catalyst for your teachings and becoming immersed in Hinduism?
Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, it all interests me really. I just love anything that draws me deeper into the present moment, into a feeling of peace, relaxation, and inspiration. I remember the first journey I made to India. It blew my mind into another dimension, since then I feel like I've been on a spiritual pilgrimage, working to create more inspiring content, more yoga based music and art.
I had the pleasure of seeing you live for the first time at this years Bhakti Fest. Your performance was absolutely incredible! You took the crowd on a magic carpet journey of beautiful rhymes and sounds that literally transport you to the happiest of places. Which festival has been your most memorable so far?
Bhakti Fest is like a modern Woodstock for people into yoga and spirituality. I've been really lucky and have performed at some incredible festivals like Bonnaroo, Wanderlust etc. but the best crowd I ever played for so far was in Utah, at the Spanish Fork Color Festival. There were over 20k kids there, and DJ Drez and I set it off. The whole place went into ecstasy and there were no drugs involved, just pure joy, pure love.
Speaking of yoga, You have taught some of the largest yoga classes in America, and you are widely becoming known as yoga's modern day ambassador to the West. Blending your love & knowledge of yoga culture with hip-hop, reggae, and electronic music. How long have you been practicing yoga and what kind of yoga do you teach?
I've been practicing yoga for about 15 years now. I initially learned from my dad. Once he brought me as far as he could, he took me to his teacher in San Francisco, the late great Larry Schultz. Larry is a legendary teacher. He taught yoga to the Grateful Dead, touring with them on the road. Larry took me under his wing, let me live in the studio downtown South of Market in San Francisco.
How did you come up with the idea that yogis would love a yogi who does hip-hop?
I used to practice yoga during the day, and go out and paint murals at night. It was awesome. Later my wife Amanda and I traveled to India to study with Pattabhi Jois who was also Larry's teacher. And to answer the last question it just happened, I love yoga and hip-hop so much, they came together very naturally and people seem to enjoy it.
What is your all time favorite yoga pose?
Just sitting in Meditation is where it's at for me. Space is the place, breathing dropping the mind deep into the center of my Self, and allowing everything to open up so the Truth can be revealed. It's pure magic.
I grew up listening to The Beatles, Bob Marley, and the Beastie Boys.
Who is in your current playlist?
I love Major Lazer, MIA, Santigold, Matisyahu, too many to name. I listen to a wide spectrum of great music.
Is there anyone in there that we would be surprised to find? Any "guilty pleasures"?
As far as guilty pleasures there's a gang of rap songs that I still really enjoy, The Humpty Dance, Can't Touch This, Jump Around, I love old school rap music. I think it's cheesy and awesome.
Describe your perfect day.
Well today I taught yoga, painted a huge mural with my wife Amanda, enjoyed some amazing fresh local vegetarian food and organic juice. Listened to some awesome music, performed with a world class beat boxer, met Shepard Fairey aka OBEY and Cope 2 legendary graffiti king from New York, wrote some new lyrics and had the opportunity to connect with fans. In the words of Ice Cube I have to say today was a good day!
Photo by: Ali Kaukas
What are you most excited about for this year? What's on tap next for you?
INDIA! I'm going in December to perform at a big electronic festival called VH1 Go Super Sonic! I can't wait. I love India like the moon loves the Sun, so stoked to go back and do my thing. I feel so grateful and blessed
Any last thoughts words or ideas for our readers?
Thanks for taking to time to connect. I'm really inspired by the growing interest in yoga and the work that so many of us are doing to empower people and make the world a better place.
Hit me up on Instagram @MCYOGI, or Facebook ( MCYOGI108) and if you get a chance check out the MC YOGI KICKSTARTER video, it tells more about my story and gives a sneak preview of the new music that we're dropping soon. Much Love to All Access, Peace.
To learn more about MC YOGI, also visit his website here .
Nicole DeRosa joined the All Access Music Group family in February 2012. She loves the infectious energy and enthusiasm of the music industry and she feels right at home having music compliment her every day. Nicole blends her experience and skills which she has culled from her time working in New York as a photo researcher and editor at Entertainment Weekly and Harpers Bazaar Magazine. After New York, Nicole moved to London for school and there she stood in line for hours on Oxford Street to hear Paul McCartney play an impromptu concert on a rooftop. Another notable experience while living in London was her first time ever calling into a radio station, she won an invite to a record release party with the Beastie Boys for their album 'Ill Communication'. "I love London as it has such a vibrant and diverse music scene and I couldn't help but go out every night to check out gig after gig. It was a wonderful time." Living near the notable Sherpards Bush Empire music venue one of her most favorite concerts to date was seeing Bjork. Nicole has also worked for Walt Disney World in Product Development and later went on to work at Disney's Feature Animation Archives in Florida. Nicole has a passion for travel and adventure and has always wanted to live in California so she packed up and moved four years ago to the "left coast" and has been loving it ever since.
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'I Couldn't Be More Proud Of You' – Maps Mponyane gushes over Boity
Boity Thulo recently launched her first celebrity fragrance Boity Pink Sapphire and people are ordering left, right and centre. She's already managed to mover 1000 bottles of her new fragrance, pre-sale.
Following a successful launch, her bestie Maps, whom some think is her boyfriend recently took to his Instagram to congratulate her on her recent success. At the beginning of his post, Maps wrote 'Family Tings' perhaps implying that there is absolutely no romance happening between him and Boity.
"After a dope launch and selling out on her preorders, I couldn't be more proud of you on creating this world-class fragrance Boity." He wrote to Miss Thulo. "You've put your heart and soul into it, and it's beautiful to see how #BoityPinkSapphire is now a reality."
The television personality then revealed that he will be giving away a few bottles of Boity's new fragrance. Boity, who recently debuted her new summer body revealed to us in an exclusive interview that she aims to inspire women from all over the continent.
What I hope to achieve is that I hope to inspire more black African women to realise that there is so much potential to tap into within themselves and there are such incredible opportunities that they can create or are there. But also, to show the possibilities of what can be done. I hope to inspire the next great thing that will be done by another African woman." Said the Bakae hitmaker.
Boity and Maps go a long way as friends in the industry and have been rumoured to ve dating in recent weeks. On one morning, we woke up to the hashtag #BoityEngagesMaps which had us convinced that they were an official. The two have, however, rubbished the claims. And with the way these two are private, even if they were a thing we wouldn't know.
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III. Haakon Sverresson (1182 – 1204. január 1.) norvég király 1202-től haláláig.

Sverre király törvénytelen fiaként született és édesapját halála után követte a trónon. Rövid uralkodása alatt megpróbálta megszüntetni a korona és az egyház közti szakadást, és a száműzött püspökök visszatérhettek egyházmegyéjükbe. Hirtelen halálát állítólag méreg okozta, amelyet svéd mostohaanyja, Margit felbújtására kevertek az italába. A méreg olyan erős volt, hogy a király holtteste felduzzadt, elkékült és alaktalan tömeggé vált. Haakon párthívei ezért meg akarták ölni a kegyetlen mostohát, de annak sikerült Svédországba menekülnie. Halála után unokaöccsét, Guttormot tették meg királynak.

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Several months ago my friend Mike Gaines approached me and asked me to pray about speaking at his denominations Summer Camps this summer. Both of the camps had slight conflicts with dates in that I thought I'd have to leave one night early. Therefore, I asked Mike if he wanted me to invite a guy whom I'm helping get his speaking-career going.
It's going to be a blast to co-teach with Mike Penberthy at these two camps. Mike, a former NBA player with the Lakers is really developing into a great communicator! He's got passion for the Word and sharing it with others!
Here's the link to the promo for the camps! Take a second and pray for us!


Honeywell's Captuvo SL22 series enterprise sled for the Apple iPod touch is perfect for retailers looking to improve the customer experience. The Captuvo SL22 is a scanner attachment that empowers sales associates by providing them with the tools needed to engage more closely with customers and increase sales floor conversions. The enterprise sled is a durable iPod touch attachment that turns your device into a linear and 2D barcode scanner that is able to parse barcode data on government-issued IDs.


Is it Possible to Write a Blog That is Newsworthy?
We are dedicated to the blogger who is responsible for creating blogs that are going to bring results. There is plenty of information on the web about this topic, but we felt that it needed a different approach. As dedicated bloggers who are relying on many years of experience we believe that it is important to encourage those with less experience to build their confidence as bloggers and remember that even though they are taking part in a huge industry they can become unique and successful in their blogging efforts.
No matter how much experience one has at blogging they can never forget about the blog basics which provides the foundation for good blogging.
Keeping the main purpose of the blog in mind will help the blogger to remain focused. A blog is content that is based on the provision of information. Blogs have been popular for a while now and have continued to grow in their popularity since then. Some believe that the web has become saturated with them, but blogs are a main source of information and this is one of the primary purposes of the internet.
The blog has the responsibility for providing information and this can be expanded upon, where the blog can become a tool for brand advertising and a great source for being able to create call to actions. Businesses can use their blogs to educate their target market about their products and services.
Our focus is to rekindle the interest in creating blogs and to encourage bloggers to view this task as a positive one that should be taken on with interest and entusiasm. If it is viewed as a unwelcome chore, then this is going to reflect in the writing of the blog and take away from the success of the blog.
It is our intention to provide some new approaches to blog writing here that each blogger no matter what their experience or level of expertise will find useful and helpful to them to expand on their writing. It is meant to encourage blog writers to become unique.


These are some of the lovely objects (not the photocopier!) my friend Ignaziella has made this year. They are on display in her shop. Isn't she clever?
How to choose which chocolate to buy? In the end I bought a slab of white chocolate topped with forest fruits because it is just.... well, you'll have to taste it to find out! No trip to Modica Bassa is complete without calling in at the Latteria and Modican chocolate ice cream goes down a treat in the middle of winter. Only next time, turn the heating on, guys - please!


We live in a world in which people feel less and less secure. The problem is that robberies and all sorts of break-ins are constantly on the rise and it really is difficult to feel safe and protected while at home or at the office. This is the explanation to the fact that there is an increased attention directed towards security and surveillance systems. In fact, this industry has experienced a huge growth in the last few years and as a result of this, there is a wider and wider selection of video cameras now available on the market.
You'll feel safer and more protected during the night.
In case there is a break-in or a violent event happening around your house or business, the police can use the videos to easier identify the people involved.
The gadget can also be used for fun, such as night hunting or fishing or simply wildlife watching.
I think that you are now convinced that you should invest your money in a night vision camcorder but you probably feel a bit overwhelmed after checking out the offer available. Well, to make the choice a bit easier, please go here:https://whatcamcorders.com/5-top-camcorders-with-night-vision-mode-2017/. The professionals at What Camcorders are highly experienced and always willing to share their knowledge with you. They put together a list of top picks, a list that basically contains detailed reviews for some of the best options now available on the market. These are video cameras that they tested, so they share more info on features, as well as pros and cons. By reading these reviews, you will have a clear picture about which of the options on the market best suits your needs and preferences, as well as your budget. You will basically get the opportunity to make an informed decision, so you can be sure that you will be pleased with the investment.
Ancter Full Spectrum Infrared Camcorder- With enhanced power battery and using a new technology which has been extensively tested.
Bestguarder WG50- A great choice thanks to its sturdy design and its night vision of a superior quality.
Hausbell 5052- Easy to operate, lightweight and very portable, plus a high quality video and high quality audio.
Panasonic HC- VX981K- Another great investment thanks to the extra features which allow you to customize the video and thanks to the fact that it will allow you to edit the video in any type of editing software.


On May 2, 2017, Sasakawa USA brought together key security experts and officials from government, business, think tanks, and academia for its Fourth Annual Security Forum. Building upon the success of previous security forums, this event focused on topics including key issues in the U.S.-Japan alliance, Asia policy under both administrations, the regional role of the alliance, defense capabilities and cooperation, and Japan's role in global security.
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Confused about which oils are heart-healthy and which aren't? We asked for advice from James D. Perko, CEC, AAC, Executive Chef, for Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute and Center for Lifestyle Medicine, and dietitians Katherine Patton, MEd, RD, CSSD, LD, and Julia Zumpano, RD, from the Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute's Preventive Cardiology Program.
The beauty of nuts and seeds is that you're spoiled for choice. Walnuts are a great high-fat option with 5 grams of fat per serving, and almonds are packed with vitamin E, but there are so many nuts to choose from that you really can't go wrong. In fact, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts and macadamia nuts all have their own delicious nutritional profiles and are rich in healthy fats like oleic acid. You can also opt for nut butters, which make a great snack when paired with apple slices or carrot sticks. Look for nut butters with just one or two ingredients and skip those with added sugars and fillers. You can also try toasting nuts and sprinkling them over salads for an instant boost of healthy fats.
Meanwhile, the Indian version of butter is quickly becoming a favorite across the globe. Ghee, or clarified butter, is simmered to bring out butter's naturally nutty flavor, leaving it with a high smoke point that makes it ideal for cooking at high temperatures. Ghee benefits include being loaded in fat-soluble vitamins A and E. These types of vitamins are best absorbed by your body when they're in a high-fat substance and then stored in your gastrointestinal tract, keeping your metabolism and digestion on track. It's also lactose- and casein-free, which makes it a fantastic alternative to butter if you suffer from lactose sensitivity or intolerance.


Facebook, the world's largest social-network, saw its share price drop 8.6% after a report from Capstone Investments said the number of users had fallen over the past six months.
Capstone analyst Rory Maher found that the number of Facebook users declined both in the US and Europe. In 14 of 23 countries where Facebook had at least 50% market penetration, growth was next to nothing or even down over the past three months. For example, US users of Facebook decreased 1.1% over the past six months, according to the report.
Investors are also concerned that Facebook's ads sales could fall if the company fails to adapt its advertisement services to mobile devices. "Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where our ability to monetize is unproven, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results," Facebook said in an SEC filing before its IPO.
Meanwhile shares of Zynga Inc., which gets most of its revenue from games played on Facebook, fell 5.2% to $4.58.
Currently Facebook, which was launched in 2004, has more than 900 million users around the world. In May the company went public, raising more than $100 billion. However, Facebook shares declined 26% since the IPO.


On Our Own by Bobby Brown was released on June 22, 1989, with On Our Own (Without Rap) as the B side. It was a single from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack.
The song held the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B Chart. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
The music video for On Our Own was filmed in New York City and features several celebrity guest appearances, including Christopher Reeve, Doug E. Fresh, Joey and Marky Ramone, Iman, and Donald Trump.


2017/18 was a year of giving to Men's Mental Health.
This year we worked closely with our charity, The Fly Program, to raise money to support people in our community. The ACT Government commended us for our diversity and inclusion program, and we saved a tree by being more mindful with our environmental footprint.


Dunluce Castle captured at night under moonlight.
Pitch markings on astro turf hockey pitc.
starry sky in a spectacular rock in the sea on the Northern coast of Iceland. Legends say it is a petrified troll.
Houston Astro pitcher throwing baseball. Houston, Texas, USA.
Carving cricket bats by hand at Astro Bat Factory, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir State; India.
Anker Astro USB portable charger.
Astro from UB40 performing at the Brentwood Festival.
Aster alpinus L. Astro alpino. Alps.
45 degree angled view of green astro turf grass, abstract lawn.
Used to be The Seventh Wonder of the World, now aged and abandoned NFL stadium Astro Dome, Houston, Texas, USA.
Young boys playing old video games.
Fantastic starry sky over landscapes and waterfalls. Kirkjufell mountain,Iceland Courtesy of NASA.


Would reccommend. Clean had hot breakfast.
We booked on the site, but then told they didn't have rooms available.
Came for a wedding. I didn't spend a whole lot of time in the hotel because I was helping set up, but it was clean, I was greeted with fresh cookies, and had a delicious breakfast. It was all I could ask for!
The motel was just as comfortable as it was when we stayed there 22 years ago. I was able to sleep on the mattress that was in our room, but think it needs to be replaced. Definite dip in the middle.


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Q: How do you embed images into Acumatica Report hyperlinks? We are trying to incorporate an image within a link on an Acumatica report.
We are very close to getting the result we need with the 2018R2 version and have a strategy for a workaround in the 2018R1 version.
The TextBox control Is the only way we have found so far that will allow for setting a hyperlink within an invoice report definition. We are able to set a background image in the Appearance/Style/BackImage property. The only way we can get the whole image to be clickable is to have text span the whole control which is fine if we can set the text font to use a transparent color. Setting the Appearance/Style/Color seems to be the property to do this however when the report is previewed the font gets overridden and displayed as the standard Hyperlink color. The behavior when the report is rendered as a PDF via Acumatica's email delivery system the font appears white. See Images for a visual.
Transparent Text in Report Preview

Transparent Text in Rendered PDF

There looks to be an Appearance/StyleName property for the TextBox control is there an underlying CSS file that can be further manipulated to also control the LinkText properties to display the LinkText in a transparent font? If yes is there any documentation that would help with doing this.
The 2018R1 versions and prior do not render a clickable link within a PDF if the above strategy is used. Per the ticket, I opened last week on the topic the only way to get this link is to have the whole URL on a single line.
PDFs rendered from a invoice definition hosting a hyperlink will not create a clickable link
This makes it a challenge to control the placement of the image to be centered as well as having only the space within the first line as being clickable. We have solved this in a different ERP system by having multiple links overlapping a background image also using transparent font. This required us to set the Z order so that the link controls are rendered on top of the back-ground image. The Acumatica Report Designer however appears to not have the ability to control Z order. Any attempt to place a link overtop of an image does not achieve the result we are looking for. If we can get this strategy to work we will likely also use it for the 2018R2+ versions to keep things consistent.
This screenshot depicts the strategy attempted.

Are there any other strategies to meet this requirement?
Thanks in advance.

A: For Version 2018 R2:
You can use the TextBox->Style->BackImage property to show the image and the NavigateUrl property to set the URL link. Html mode doesn't display back image but PDF mode will display it fine and the image link works:

For Version 2018 R1:
Unfortunately I didn't find a way to achieve this because I can't get the text to render transparent when it is located over an image.
There is z-order control (bring to front/send to back) in the report designer toolbar and right click context-menu. The problem here is that while the report designer supports overlapping control the report renderer doesn't. If controls are overlapping, when printing the report the overlapping controls won't get rendered on top of another like they are in the designer.
Having overlapping controls isn't really required here because we can display the image with the Textbox Style->BackImage property or with the Report->Style->BackImage.
It's also possible to make text font size bigger so you don't need multiple text box or set multiline=true with textwrap=false and repeat link on each line.
But the main issue remains rendering transparent text over an image. I couldn't find a way to do that. When there's an image under the text, the text is no longer transparent. That behavior happens for the textbox background image as well as the global report background image. This suggests to me that it might not be possible to put transparent text on top:

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It always amazes me how much variety you can find in match-3 games. Naturally, Bejeweled 2 is the gold standard, one of the truly dominant alpha apps out there. But there's a whole range of other match-3 games out there of wildly varying quality, and Puzzlings is one the rare match-3 games that stands out from the pack a bit. It's not notable for any particular game play reasons, but it's one of the better offerings to also be completely free, which, sadly, isn't to say that Puzzlings is without its flaws.
You are a Puzzling, a cartoony little creature that lives in the country of Wardrobia, and it's your job to restore color to the world by playing through a bunch of match-3 levels. No, the game doesn't win major points for story. Successfully matching up 3 blocks helps fill a meter that eventually unlocks shattered tokens, which you have to reassemble on the game board to complete the level. Some of the odd quirks of the system is that you can rotate sections, move blocks multiple spaces along straight lines, and you're not required to make a match with a move, which can make things a little too easy sometimes. Additionally, later levels have an added complication of including long blocks that take up multiple spaces.
I found the added features too complicated, especially when combined with a somewhat fussy interface. It was frustrating trying to use the rotate feature, and the long blocks made the game awkward to play. It's definitely an added twist to a frequently tired genre, so if you're looking for an added challenge in your match-3 games, it might come as a welcome change, but I didn't care for it.
There is also a prize feature for those of you who like collecting. You win different clothes or accessories to decorate your little Puzzling by completing levels, but there are also special levels and time bonuses for extra prizes. I likely would have found this more charming if the various prizes fit together better, but the designs frequently left my Puzzling looking like a mismatched freak. This was especially unfortunate given that the regular Puzzling design is so cute. Indeed, all of the graphics for the game are very bright and clean, so it was disappointing to have such a dissatisfying customization option.
It's not a Bejeweled-killer by any means, but maybe you'd prefer a match-3 game that's easier to put down, when all is said and done. If that's so, then Puzzlings is a reasonable, and extremely affordable, alternative.
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Mining Industry Can't Ignore Startup's Solution to Decades-Old Copper Problem: 'The Potential Is Huge'
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The warnings are sounding louder and louder: the world is heading towards a desperate shortage of copper. Humans are more dependent than ever on a metal we've been using for 10,000 years; new deposits are drying up and the kind of breakthrough technologies that have transformed other commodities have not materialized for copper.
So far.
In what could be a game-changer for global sourcing, an American startup claims to have solved a puzzle that has frustrated the mining world for decades. If successful, the discovery by Jetti Resources could unlock millions of tons of new copper to power power grids, construction sites and car fleets around the world, reducing and possibly even closing the gap.
In its simplest form, Jetti's technology focuses on a common type of ore that traps copper behind a thin film, making it too expensive and difficult to extract. The result is that vast quantities of metal have washed up over the decades in piles of mining waste on the surface, as well as in untapped deposits. To crack the code, Jetti developed a specialized catalyst to disrupt the layer, allowing rock-eating microbes to get to work releasing the trapped copper.
The technology has yet to prove itself on a large scale. But the riches at stake attract some of the most powerful players in the industry.
BHP Group, the biggest mining company, is already an investor and has now spent months negotiating a test plant at its crown jewel Escondida copper mine in Chile, according to people familiar with the matter. US miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc. began implementing Jetti's technology at an Arizona mine this year, while rival Rio Tinto Group plans to deploy a competing but similar process.
Miners are responding to an increasingly pressing problem. Copper is ubiquitous in the modern world, used in everything from telephones and computers to water pipes and cables. And while the global decarbonization campaign is based on phasing out polluting natural resources like oil and coal, an electrified future will need more copper than ever.
Despite its importance, the world faces a growing threat of scarcity in the coming decades. The best mines are aging and the few new discoveries are either in hard-to-mine places or face years of opposition to development.
The history of commodity markets shows that impending deficits tend to spur new discoveries and technologies. The US shale boom in the 2010s shook up the oil market, while breakthroughs in nickel processing upended supply forecasts.
But new discoveries of copper are increasingly unlikely, given the long history of mining – evidence of copper use dates back to at least 8,000 BC in what is now Turkey. and Iraq. This means that most of the world's major deposits have already been discovered and exploited; more than half of the world's 20 largest copper mines were discovered more than a century ago.
Yet the long history of copper mining also means that there are huge amounts of metal on the surface of landfills.
The reason for this is a principle as old as mining itself: ore is mined from the earth, the easiest metal is mined, and anything too difficult or expensive to process is thrown away as waste. In the past decade alone, an estimated 43 million tons of copper have been mined but never processed, worth over $2 trillion at today's prices, creating huge opportunities for anyone who can successfully salvage these riches.
Admittedly, it is not a new concept to reprocess mining waste when technology improves or prices rise. But that just wasn't possible for some types of ore. And the breakthrough has opportunities far beyond waste landfills – there are millions more tonnes still underground that have not been viable to exploit.
Everything depends on the will of the mining companies to install the Jetti factories. But if the technology is fully adopted by industry, the company estimates that up to 8 million additional tonnes of copper could be produced each year by the 2040s, more than a third of total global mining production. from last year.
"The industry has accumulated this garbage forever," said Jetti founder and CEO Mike Outwin. "They tried to find an answer on their own for a few decades and couldn't."
So far, Jetti's process has only worked at one mine, in Pinto Valley, Arizona. But the results were so promising that three of the world's largest copper miners – including BHP – bought stakes in the company. Its last fundraising was valued at $2.5 billion.
Copper giant Freeport has also "initiated a commercial implementation this year at our Baghdad mine in Arizona to test the technology, will evaluate the results and continue the dialogue with Jetti on further collaborative opportunities."
copper ores
So what is the problem that Jetti is trying to solve?
There are two main types of copper rocks. The most common type, sulphide ores, are usually crushed, concentrated, and then turned into pure copper in a fire refining process. But this method is not suitable for oxide ores, and the industry's last big innovation came in the mid-1980s when it adapted an electrochemical process to extract copper from oxide ores, which greatly boosted the 'supply.
Now Jetti aims to apply its technology to recover copper from a common type of sulphide ore that could not be processed economically by either route – the copper content is too low to justify the cost of refining, while the hard, non-reactive coating prevented the copper from being extracted in the electrochemical or "leaching" process cheaply.
Jetti worked with the University of British Columbia to develop a chemical catalyst that cuts through the layer, so copper can be leached out without the need for high temperatures.
Although Jetti's process is the most advanced, Rio Tinto says it has also risen to the challenge in lab trials. Rio offers its Nuton technology as a sweetener to the junior mining companies in which it invests: if the junior companies successfully develop their mining projects, then Rio will deploy the Nuton process to increase profitability. He has already signed three such agreements this year.
"When you look at the size of the prize, the potential is huge," said Adam Burley, who leads the Rio project. "It's too big to leave on the table."
Rio wants Nuton to have produced a total of around 500,000 tonnes of copper by the end of this decade, in hopes that the company can one day produce the annual equivalent of one of the top five mines in copper in the world.
Other major miners, including Freeport, Codelco and Antofagasta Plc, have all worked on in-house solutions at their own mines, although so far little information has been disclosed about the success of these projects.
And there are limits to what can be achieved. The focus is on North and South America, and progress will depend on whether the technology can be deployed at major mines.
Yet for BHP, the fact that he is even discussing the future of Escondida, the world's largest source of copper, with a small upstart is telling.
Negotiations have been ongoing for months, although one sticking point in the talks has been Jetti's insistence that he set up and operate his own plant at the host mine, according to people familiar with the matter. There are also negotiations on how to share the profits.
Meanwhile, Rio, who is BHP's junior partner at Escondida, argues that he wants Nuton technology to be considered as well, according to people familiar with the matter.
Jetti and BHP declined to comment on specific negotiations or agreements.
"Jetti is very real. These are not laboratory tests or pilot plants. Jetti has been deployed commercially,' Outwin said. "Our partners will reap tremendous benefits from being able to use our process, and Jetti will do well."
—With help from James Attwood and Mark Burton
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Welcome to Latex-Tubing.Com. We have been selling latex rubber tubing on the web for two years now. One thing we have learned is that people refer to the latex rubber tubing they need in different ways. Some will say "I need surgical tubing with an inside diameter of 1/8 inch". Others will say "I need a thin wall latex tubing". Still others will say they need a rubber tubing with an outside diameter of 1/2 inch. One of the pitfalls of the internet is that it is very difficult to have an interactive conversation with someone. So, we have to anticipate the needs of everyone and present a website where anyone can find what they're looking for. That was the thinking behind our design: to answer everyone's questions about the latex rubber tubing they need. We present our latex tubing (surgical tubing, rubber tubing ...) by each of the 3 sizes that define a piece of tubing: Inside Diameter, Wall Thickness and Outside Diameter.
In addition, we present our tubing ordered by the way we offer our products. Below is a brief overview of the major navigation tabs and the types of web pages you will find in each section.
It is under this heading where you can learn about Latex-Tubing.Com and the people behind it. In addition to our Home Page, there is a page dedicated to our story (About Us) as well as a Contact Us page. One page that should definitely be viewed is Our Policies. It is here where you will garner important information about how we ship, our refund policy and other ways we service our customers.
Under our Product Offering Tab, you will see Tubing By The Foot, By 10 Foot Rolls, By 25 Foot Rolls as well as by the Reel and by the Box. We have just added two new product categories under our Product Offering tab: Bulk Tubing and Non Stocked Boxes and Reels.
As with Inside Diameter, we offer tubing in many different Outside Diameters and like I.D., there are many different sized tubings that share the same Outside Diameter. As an example, we have 3 different sizes of tubing all which have an O.D. of 5/8". How we distinguish one size tubing from another within O.D. is by displaying the I.D. x Wall just as we did with I.D.
Under our Product Information tab, we attempt to provide more information about the tubing we sell. We show you how to measure a piece of tubing by Inside Diameter, Wall Thickeness and Outside Diameter. There is also a page dedicated to the technical specifications of our latex tubing. We also have a Sizing Chart which shows each size we offer versus the size of a dime. Additionally, we have a page dedicated to the Uses of Latex Tubing as well as a page dedicated to how to distinguish exercise tubing.


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The Story of The Official Jackie Chan Fan Club for Kids
**NOTE: The Official Jackie Chan Fan Club for Kids was disbanded in 2003 along with all of Jackie's fan clubs (except the Japan Fan Club)**
Once upon a time in a little school district on the East End of Long Island, New York, there was a sixth grade teacher who was a big big fan of Jackie Chan. She was such a big fan that she wanted to share her love for Jackie with all the students in her class. She talked to them about Jackie and they in turn talked to her about their heroes and role models. Well this teacher was a little concerned about some of the people that her students looked up to. She felt that they weren't really very good role models at all. So she talked more about Jackie and the good work he did and the clean life he led. They listened. They became more and more interested in Jackie and wanted to know more about him. So the teacher showed them some of Jackie's movies and told them about Jackie's life...about how he was very poor when he was young and about how he worked so very hard. She told them about the charity work he did and about his pride in his Chinese heritage.
That is how the Jackie Chan Classroom was started. The teacher started including Jackie in her lessons. She made up worksheets that were both educational and funny. When she was teaching her class about China, she included lessons on the Chinese New Year. And when Jackie's birthday rolled around, they celebrated with Chinese food, birthday cake, and a Jackie Chan movie. They sent handmade birthday cards to Jackie in Hong Kong. Jackie was very pleased.
Now this teacher got to thinking that it would be fun to have a fan club for Jackie that was especially for kids. So she got together some ideas and sent them to Hong Kong. Jackie and Willie loved the idea! Soon, The Official Jackie Chan Fan Club for Kids was born.
And that's the story of how The Official Jackie Chan Fan Club for Kids started. How do I know? Well, I'm that sixth grade teacher, Katharine Schroeder. And I'm the one who started the club!
[Read the club's Mission Statement. A Mission Statement states the purpose of a club or organization.]
Click here to see photos
from Jackie's birthday party!
Click here to read about the logo!
The club's first newsletter,
The club's last newsletter, February, 2005 (click on it to read in PDF format)
Jackie and Kath holding the Kids Club logo (Toronto, 2001)