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Sovran Self Storage Reports Third Quarter Results, Adjusted FFO per Share Increases 15.8%, Acquires Eight Properties for $87 Million
Download as PDF October 29, 2014
BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sovran Self Storage, Inc. (NYSE:SSS), a self storage real estate investment trust (REIT), reported operating results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014.
Uncle Bob's Self Storage recently opened this converted facility at 1625 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60608 (Photo: Business Wire)
Net income available to common shareholders for the third quarter of 2014 was $25.6 million or $0.77 per fully diluted common share. Included in the 2014 net income is a $1.8 million gain related to the sale of a Texas storage facility. For the same period in 2013, net income available to common shareholders was $19.7 million or $0.62 per fully diluted common share.
Funds from operations (FFO) for the quarter were $1.12 per fully diluted common share compared to $0.98 for the same period last year. In the third quarter of 2014, the Company incurred net acquisition costs of $1.2 million in connection with its property purchases and had a straight line rent adjustment of $0.5 million relating to the lease expense of the former Westy properties. In the third quarter of 2013, the Company incurred $0.8 million of acquisition costs but no straight-line rent adjustment. Absent these charges, adjusted FFO per share was $1.17 and $1.01 for the third quarter of 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Improved occupancies and rising rental rates resulted in strong FFO growth.
Total revenues increased 21.0% over last year's third quarter, while operating costs increased 16.4%, resulting in an NOI (3) increase of 23.1%. Overall occupancy averaged 90.9% for the period, and rental rates averaged $12.19 per sq. ft.
Revenues for the 385 stores wholly owned by the Company since January 1, 2013 increased 7.0% from those of the third quarter of 2013, the result of a 140 basis point increase in average occupancy, a 4.4% increase in rental rates and strong growth in insurance commissions.
Same store operating expenses increased 2.4% for the third quarter of 2014 compared to the prior year period, primarily the result of increased repair and maintenance costs caused by the Pacific storms that affected Arizona early in the quarter.
Consequently, same store net operating income increased 9.2% this period over the third quarter of 2013.
"We are pleased with another quarter of solid earnings," said Andrew Gregoire, CFO. "Our Revenue Management System has been driving exceptional top line growth. The system made pricing adjustments during the third quarter in anticipation of the off-peak season, and we are well positioned for strong year-end performance."
General and administrative expenses increased by approximately $1.1 million over the same period in 2013, primarily due to increases in costs associated with operating more stores during the quarter than at this time last year.
During the third quarter of 2014, the Company experienced same store revenue and NOI growth in every state in which it operates. The stores with the strongest revenue impact include those in Texas, Florida, Illinois, and Georgia.
The Company acquired five self storage facilities for a total cost of approximately $46 million in the third quarter.
The properties total approximately 345,000 square feet and are all located in markets where the Company already has a presence: San Antonio, TX; St. Petersburg, FL; Chesapeake, VA; Chattanooga, TN and Northern NJ.
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company acquired three facilities totaling 292,000 sq. ft. for approximately $41 million. One of the facilities is in New Orleans, LA; one is near Orlando, FL, and the other is in Austin, TX.
In August, the Company also sold one of its Houston, TX stores for net proceeds of $4.9 million resulting in a gain of $1.8 million.
CAPITAL TRANSACTIONS:
Illustrated below are key financial ratios at September 30, 2014:
Debt to Enterprise Value (at $74.36/share) 23.0%
Debt to Book Cost of Storage Facilities 35.6%
Debt to EBITDA Ratio 4.0x
Debt Service Coverage 5.2x
At September 30, 2014, the Company had approximately $7 million of cash on hand, and $174 million available on its line of credit (without considering the additional $75 million available under the expansion feature).
The Company issued 424,403 shares of its common stock via its previously announced ATM program during the quarter at an average price of $78.46 per share, resulting in net proceeds of $32.9 million after issuance costs. The Company used the proceeds to fund the purchase of the aforementioned properties and to pay down its line of credit. In July, the Company issued 39,162 shares at an average price of $75.81 through its Dividend Reinvestment Plan.
COMMON STOCK DIVIDEND:
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company announced a quarterly dividend of $0.68 per share or $2.72 annualized.
YEAR 2014 EARNINGS GUIDANCE:
Management is encouraged by its occupancy gains and its ability to attain significant rental rate growth in most markets. The following assumptions covering operations have been utilized in formulating guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2014:
Same Store
Projected Increases Over 2013
Full Year 2014
Revenue 6.0 – 7.0% 7.0 – 8.0%
Operating Costs (excluding property taxes) 2.0 – 3.0% 3.0 – 4.0%
5.0 – 6.0%
Total Operating Expenses 3.0 – 4.0% 4.5 – 5.5%
Net Operating Income 7.5 – 8.5% 8.0 – 9.0%
The Company intends to complete up to $20 million on its expansion and enhancement program. It has also budgeted $16 million to provide for recurring capitalized expenditures including roofing, paving, and office renovations.
In addition to the $278 million of properties acquired by the Company through October 28, 2014, it has assumed $10 million of additional acquisitions in 2014, exclusive of investments in joint ventures. Per share FFO guidance is projected after adding back third party acquisition costs. Purchases of additional properties are expected to be funded via proceeds from the Company's ATM program and draws on its line of credit which carries an interest rate of LIBOR plus 1.5%.
Annual general and administrative expenses are expected to be approximately $40 million. The increase over the prior year is primarily due to the need for additional personnel required for recent acquisitions, income taxes on its taxable REIT subsidiaries, and the Company's plans to continue expanding its internet marketing presence, Corporate Alliance and third party management programs.
At September 30, 2014, the Company had 33.7 million shares of common stock outstanding and 0.2 million Operating Partnership Units outstanding.
As a result of the above assumptions, management expects funds from operations for the full year 2014 to be approximately $4.33 to $4.37 per share, and between $1.10 and $1.14 per share for the fourth quarter of 2014.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS:
When used within this news release, the words "intends," "believes," "expects," "anticipates," and similar expressions are intended to identify "forward looking statements" within the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the effect of competition from new self storage facilities, which could cause rents and occupancy rates to decline; the Company's ability to evaluate, finance and integrate acquired businesses into the Company's existing business and operations; the Company's existing indebtedness may mature in an unfavorable credit environment, preventing refinancing or forcing refinancing of the indebtedness on terms that are not as favorable as the existing terms; interest rates may fluctuate, impacting costs associated with the Company's outstanding floating rate debt; the Company's ability to comply with debt covenants; the future ratings on the Company's debt instruments; the regional concentration of the Company's business may subject it to economic downturns in the states of Florida and Texas; the Company's ability to effectively compete in the industries in which it does business; the Company's reliance on its call center; the Company's cash flow may be insufficient to meet required payments of principal, interest and dividends; and tax law changes which may change the taxability of future income.
CONFERENCE CALL:
Sovran Self Storage will hold its Third Quarter Earnings Release Conference Call at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, October 30, 2014. To access the conference call, dial 877.407.8033 (domestic), or 201.689.8033 (international). Management will accept questions from registered financial analysts after prepared remarks; all others are encouraged to listen to the call via webcast by accessing "news and events" under the investor relations tab at www.unclebobs.com/company/.
The webcast will be archived for a period of 90 days; a telephone replay will also be available for 72 hours by calling 877.660.6853 and entering conference ID 13592918.
ABOUT SOVRAN SELF STORAGE, INC:
Sovran Self Storage, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equity REIT that is in the business of acquiring and managing self storage facilities. The Company operates 506 self storage facilities in 25 states under the name "Uncle Bob's Self Storage"®. For more information, visit www.unclebobs.com, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.
SOVRAN SELF STORAGE, INC.
September 30, December 31,
(dollars in thousands) 2014 2013
Investment in storage facilities:
Land $ 381,794 $ 312,053
Building, equipment and construction in progress 1,731,340 1,552,584
Less: accumulated depreciation (400,306) (366,472)
Investment in storage facilities, net 1,712,828 1,498,165
Cash and cash equivalents 7,476 9,524
Accounts receivable 5,663 5,119
Receivable from joint venture 714 883
Investment in joint venture 38,911 30,391
Prepaid expenses 7,302 5,978
Intangible asset - in-place customer leases (net of accumulated
amortization of $16,274 in 2014 and $13,551 in 2013) 2,646 1,092
Fair value of interest rate swap agreements 547 794
Other assets 5,197 9,929
Total Assets $ 1,781,284 $ 1,561,875
Line of credit $ - $ 49,000
Term notes 750,000 575,000
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 43,807 37,741
Deferred revenue 7,269 6,708
Fair value of interest rate swap agreements 10,458 7,523
Mortgages payable 2,160 2,254
Noncontrolling redeemable Operating Partnership Units at redemption value 14,817 12,940
Common stock 349 337
Additional paid-in capital 1,157,820 1,066,399
Accumulated deficit (168,628) (162,450)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (9,593) (6,402)
Treasury stock at cost (27,175) (27,175)
Total Shareholders' Equity 952,773 870,709
Total Liabilities and Equity $ 1,781,284 $ 1,561,875
(dollars in thousands, except share data) September 30, 2014 September 30, 2013
Rental income $ 79,092 $ 65,309
Other operating income 4,958 4,040
Management fee income 1,199 1,106
Total operating revenues 85,249 70,455
Property operations and maintenance 17,913 15,568
Real estate taxes 8,312 6,953
General and administrative 10,041 8,965
Acquisition related costs 1,210 776
Operating leases of storage facilities 1,997 -
Depreciation and amortization 12,113 10,496
Amortization of in-place customer leases 1,244 797
Income from operations 32,419 26,900
Interest expense (A) (9,116 ) (7,923 )
Interest income 1 1
Gain on sale of real estate 1,777 -
Equity in income of joint ventures 662 575
Income from continuing operations 25,743 19,553
Income from discontinued operations - 246
Net income 25,743 19,799
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests (154 ) (124 )
Net income attributable to common shareholders $ 25,589 $ 19,675
Earnings per common share attributable to common shareholders - basic
Continuing operations $ 0.77 $ 0.62
Discontinued operations $ - $ 0.01
Earnings per share - basic $ 0.77 $ 0.63
Earnings per common share attributable to common shareholders - diluted
Earnings per share - diluted $ 0.77 $ 0.62
Common shares used in basic
earnings per share calculation 33,234,660 31,469,026
Common shares used in diluted
Dividends declared per common share $ 0.68 $ 0.53
(A) Interest expense for the three months ending September 30 consists of the following
Interest expense $ 8,903 $ 7,706
Amortization of deferred financing fees 213 217
Total interest expense $ 9,116 $ 7,923
(dollars in thousands, except share data)
Rental income $ 223,438 $ 186,997
Other operating income 14,123 11,303
Acquisition fee income 136 -
Total operating revenues 241,150 201,442
Real estate taxes 24,433 19,735
General and administrative 30,400 26,745
Acquisition related costs 5,926 1,263
Amortization of in-place customer leases 2,723 2,682
Total operating expenses 155,961 126,883
Interest expense (A) (25,331 ) (24,827 )
Interest income 31 2
Gain on sale of real estate 1,777 421
Equity in income of joint ventures 1,553 1,417
(A) Interest expense for the nine months ending September 30 consists of the following
Interest expense $ 24,712 $ 24,187
Total interest expense $ 25,331 $ 24,827
COMPUTATION OF FUNDS FROM OPERATIONS (FFO) (1) - (unaudited)
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests 154 124
Depreciation of real estate and amortization of intangible
assets exclusive of deferred financing fees 13,127 11,071
Depreciation of real estate included in discontinued operations - 89
Depreciation and amortization from unconsolidated joint ventures 430 373
Gain on sale of real estate (1,777) -
Funds from operations allocable to noncontrolling
interest in Operating Partnership (224) (196)
Funds from operations available to common shareholders 37,299 31,136
FFO per share - diluted $ 1.12 $ 0.98
Adjustments to FFO
Acquisition costs expensed 1,210 776
Operating leases straight line rent adjustment 497 -
Funds from operations resulting from non-recurring items allocable to noncontrolling
interest in Operating Partnership (10) (5)
Adjusted funds from operations available to common shareholders 38,996 31,907
Adjusted FFO per share - diluted $ 1.17 $ 1.01
Common shares - diluted 33,398,648 31,625,635
Depreciation of real estate included in discontinued operations - 266
Depreciation and amortization from unconsolidated joint ventures 1,166 1,119
Gain on sale of real estate (1,777) (421)
Acquisition costs expensed 5,926 1,263
Company's share of acquisition costs expensed by Sovran HHF Storage Holdings 185 -
Acquisition fee income from Sovran HHF Storage Holdings (136) -
Operating leases straight line rent adjustment 1,491 -
Adjusted funds from operations available to common shareholders 106,525 87,106
(1) We believe that Funds from Operations ("FFO") provides relevant and meaningful information about our operating performance that is necessary, along with net earnings and cash flows, for an understanding of our operating results. FFO adds back historical cost depreciation, which assumes the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably in the future. In fact, real estate asset values increase or decrease with market conditions. Consequently, we believe FFO is a useful supplemental measure in evaluating our operating performance by disregarding (or adding back) historical cost depreciation.
Funds from operations is defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. ("NAREIT") as net income available to common shareholders computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), excluding gains or losses on sales of properties, plus impairment of real estate assets, plus depreciation and amortization and after adjustments to record unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures on the same basis. We believe that to further understand our performance, FFO should be compared with our reported net income and cash flows in accordance with GAAP, as presented in our consolidated financial statements.
Our computation of FFO may not be comparable to FFO reported by other REITs or real estate companies that do not define the term in accordance with the current NAREIT definition or that interpret the current NAREIT definition differently. FFO does not represent cash generated from operating activities determined in accordance with GAAP, and should not be considered as an alternative to net income (determined in accordance with GAAP) as an indication of our performance, as an alternative to net cash flows from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP) as a measure of our liquidity, or as an indicator of our ability to make cash distributions.
QUARTERLY SAME STORE DATA (2) * 385 stores owned since 12/31/12 (unaudited) July 1, 2014 July 1, 2013
to to Percentage
(dollars in thousands) September 30, 2014 September 30, 2013 Change Change
Rental income $ 68,829 $ 64,460 $ 4,369 6.8 %
Tenant insurance commissions 2,421 1,979 442 22.3 %
Other operating income 1,290 1,369 (79 ) -5.8 %
Total operating revenues 72,540 67,808 4,732 7.0 %
Payroll and benefits 6,316 6,170 146 2.4 %
Real estate taxes 7,030 6,836 194 2.8 %
Utilities 2,939 2,943 (4 ) -0.1 %
Repairs and maintenance 2,498 2,193 305 13.9 %
Office and other operating expense 2,500 2,460 40 1.6 %
Insurance 980 1,102 (122 ) -11.1 %
Advertising & yellow pages 353 381 (28 ) -7.3 %
Total operating expenses 22,616 22,085 531 2.4 %
Net operating income (3) $ 49,924 $ 45,723 $ 4,201 9.2 %
QTD Same store move ins 40,458 43,002 (2,544 )
QTD Same store move outs 45,082 46,853 (1,771 )
OTHER COMPARABLE QUARTERLY SAME STORE DATA * (unaudited) July 1, 2014 July 1, 2013
September 30, 2014 September 30, 2013 Change Change
Stores owned since 12/31/11 (357 stores) (2)
Revenues $ 65,906 $ 62,132 $ 3,774 6.1 %
Expenses 20,447 19,605 842 4.3 %
(2) Includes the stores owned and/or managed by the Company for the entire periods presented that are consolidated in our financial statements. Does not include unconsolidated joint ventures or other stores managed by the Company.
(3) Net operating income or "NOI" is a non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) financial measure that we define as total continuing revenues less continuing property operating expenses. NOI also can be calculated by adding back to net income: interest expense, impairment and casualty losses, depreciation and amortization expense, acquisition related costs, general and administrative expense, and deducting from net income: income from discontinued operations, interest income, gain on sale of real estate, and equity in income of joint ventures. We believe that NOI is a meaningful measure of operating performance, because we utilize NOI in making decisions with respect to capital allocations, in determining current property values, and comparing period-to-period and market-to-market property operating results. NOI should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, other measures of financial performance reported in accordance with GAAP, such as total revenues, operating income and net income.
* See exhibit A for supplemental quarterly same store data.
YEAR TO DATE SAME STORE DATA (2) * 385 stores owned since 12/31/12 (unaudited) January 1, 2014 January 1, 2013
Rental income $ 199,154 $ 185,164 $ 13,990 7.6 %
Tenant insurance commissions 7,046 5,502 1,544 28.1 %
Total operating revenues 210,118 194,653 15,465 7.9 %
Payroll and benefits 18,826 18,471 355 1.9 %
Real estate taxes 21,083 19,479 1,604 8.2 %
Utilities 8,211 7,791 420 5.4 %
Office and other operating expense 7,330 7,137 193 2.7 %
Insurance 3,023 3,219 (196 ) -6.1 %
Advertising & yellow pages 1,063 1,159 (96 ) -8.3 %
Total operating expenses 67,045 63,960 3,085 4.8 %
Net operating income (3) $ 143,073 $ 130,693 $ 12,380 9.5 %
YTD Same store move ins 124,646 128,650 (4,004 )
YTD Same store move outs 120,050 122,083 (2,033 )
OTHER DATA Same Store (2) All Stores (4)
Weighted average quarterly occupancy 91.3 % 89.9 % 90.9 % 89.9 %
Occupancy at September 30 90.5 % 89.3 % 90.0 % 89.2 %
Rent per occupied square foot $ 11.71 $ 11.22 $ 12.19 $ 11.21
(4) Does not include unconsolidated joint venture stores or other stores managed by the Company
Investment in Storage Facilities: (unaudited)
The following summarizes activity in storage facilities during the months ended September 30, 2014:
Beginning balance $ 1,864,637
Property acquisitions 232,763
Improvements and equipment additions:
Expansions 11,099
Roofing, paving, and equipment:
Stabilized stores 9,320
Recently acquired stores 813
Change in construction in progress (Total CIP $8.8 million) (975 )
Dispositions and Impairments (4,523 )
Storage facilities at cost at period end $ 2,113,134
Comparison of Selected G&A Costs (unaudited)
Management and administrative salaries and benefits 5,450 4,976
Internet advertising & marketing 1,330 1,214
Training 208 214
Call center 404 381
Uncle Bob's Management costs 162 80
Income taxes 352 332
Other administrative expenses (5) 2,135 1,768
(5) Other administrative expenses include professional fees, office rent, travel expense, investor relations and miscellaneous other expenses.
Common shares outstanding 33,708,457 31,977,890
Operating Partnership Units outstanding 198,913 199,163
Same Store Performance Summary
Three Months Ended September 30, 2014
Avg Qtrly
Rent per
Avg Quarterly Occupancy
for the Three Months
Ended September 30,
State Stores 2014 2013 2014 2013 % Change 2014 2013 % Change 2014 2013 % Change
Alabama 22 1,617 $ 8.70 89.0% 88.1% $ 3,396 $ 3,187 6.6% $ 996 $ 955 4.3% $ 2,400 $ 2,232 7.5%
Arizona 10 669 10.00 86.8% 81.0% 1,557 1,473 5.7% 588 504 16.7% 969 969 0.0%
Connecticut 5 328 18.45 87.8% 93.4% 1,374 1,287 6.8% 385 366 5.2% 989 921 7.4%
Florida 60 3,975 11.55 89.9% 88.7% 10,941 10,122 8.1% 3,415 3,342 2.2% 7,526 6,780 11.0%
Georgia 28 1,949 10.59 92.7% 86.0% 5,107 4,516 13.1% 1,525 1,499 1.7% 3,582 3,017 18.7%
Illinois 9 699 13.54 87.2% 83.5% 2,160 1,947 10.9% 775 996 -22.2% 1,385 951 45.6%
Louisiana 14 823 11.40 90.6% 91.7% 2,232 2,149 3.9% 593 605 -2.0% 1,639 1,544 6.2%
Maine 2 114 13.76 93.8% 89.9% 384 364 5.5% 92 93 -1.1% 292 271 7.7%
Maryland 3 139 16.41 92.1% 89.5% 544 527 3.2% 187 200 -6.5% 357 327 9.2%
Massachusetts 12 656 14.67 91.8% 93.2% 2,333 2,271 2.7% 682 652 4.6% 1,651 1,619 2.0%
Mississippi 12 916 9.71 91.7% 90.6% 2,153 2,067 4.2% 638 604 5.6% 1,515 1,463 3.6%
Missouri 8 515 12.25 90.5% 88.5% 1,493 1,389 7.5% 462 476 -2.9% 1,031 913 12.9%
New Hampshire 4 260 12.01 93.2% 91.5% 762 720 5.8% 224 212 5.7% 538 508 5.9%
New Jersey 2 121 17.87 93.0% 87.5% 525 484 8.5% 199 197 1.0% 326 287 13.6%
New York 28 1,702 14.66 92.3% 92.4% 6,016 5,696 5.6% 1,751 1,676 4.5% 4,265 4,020 6.1%
North Carolina 19 1,155 10.49 93.9% 93.3% 3,003 2,808 6.9% 790 815 -3.1% 2,213 1,993 11.0%
Ohio 16 1,089 10.26 91.7% 90.4% 2,700 2,552 5.8% 784 735 6.7% 1,916 1,817 5.4%
Pennsylvania 4 220 10.31 92.3% 89.2% 543 514 5.6% 176 170 3.5% 367 344 6.7%
Rhode Island 4 206 12.83 91.8% 90.0% 664 639 3.9% 208 225 -7.6% 456 414 10.1%
South Carolina 8 450 10.85 92.2% 90.7% 1,192 1,106 7.8% 395 398 -0.8% 797 708 12.6%
Tennessee 4 291 10.62 91.4% 90.5% 738 702 5.1% 258 244 5.7% 480 458 4.8%
Texas 93 6,620 12.11 93.1% 92.5% 19,515 18,181 7.3% 6,538 6,152 6.3% 12,977 12,029 7.9%
Virginia 18 1,236 11.37 87.1% 86.5% 3,208 3,107 3.3% 955 969 -1.4% 2,253 2,138 5.4%
Portfolio Total 385 25,750 $ 11.71 91.3% 89.9% $ 72,540 $ 67,808 7.0% $ 22,616 $ 22,085 2.4% $ 49,924 $ 45,723 9.2%
Properties owned since 12/31/12 (detail shown above) 385 25,750 11.71 91.3% 89.9% 72,540 67,808 7.0% 22,616 22,085 2.4% 49,924 45,723 9.2%
Properties owned since 12/31/11 357 23,551 11.62 91.4% 91.0% 65,906 62,132 6.1% 20,447 19,605 4.3% 45,459 42,527 6.9%
Dollars in thousands except for average quarterly rent per occupied square foot. Square feet in thousands.
Debt Maturity Schedule
Maturity Basis of Interest
(dollars in thousands) Date Rate Rate (1) 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Thereafter Total
Line of credit Jun-2018 Variable 1.65% $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ -
Term note Apr-2016 Fixed 6.38% - - 150,000 - - - 150,000
Term note Jun-2020 Swapped to fixed 4.02% - - - - - 125,000 125,000
Term note Aug-2021 Fixed 5.54% - - - - - 100,000 100,000
Term note Apr-2024 Fixed 4.53% - - - - - 175,000 175,000
Mortgage note May-2026 Fixed 5.99% 33 134 142 151 160 1,540 2,160
$ 33 $ 134 $ 150,142 $ 151 $ 160 $ 601,540 $ 752,160
(1) Rate as of September 30, 2014 based on existing debt rating. Interest rates shown do not include amortization of financing fees and facility fees which are expected to be $1.2 million in 2014.
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Diane Piegza
Investor Relations and Community Affairs
Source: Sovran Self Storage, Inc.


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Сергей Павлович Бржестовский (р. 10 октября 1941, Нальчик) — украинский художник, актёр, заслуженный деятель искусств Украины (2006), член Национального союза художников Украины (1978), член наблюдательного совета Киевской киностудии имени А.Довженко (1996—2004, 2010).

Биография
Окончил Киевское училище прикладного искусства (1964), художественный факультет ВГИКа (1973, педагог по специальности — И. Шпинель). С 1973 года работал ассистентом художника, художником-постановщиком на Киевской киностудии имени А.Довженко. Был художником-постановщиком нескольких известных современных сериалов, таких как «Ранетки» (в соавторстве). Снимался как  в нескольких фильмах.

«Каждый художник должен построить свой город», — считает Сергей Павлович. Для съёмок телесериала «Тяжёлый песок» он построил «город» Сновск на окраине современного Сновска: четыре улицы, 20 дворов, хозяйственные постройки.

Фильмография

Художник
  — Бондарь (короткометражный)
  — Весенняя сказка
  — Мечтать и жить
  — Там вдали, за рекой
 1975 — Волны Чёрного моря (Фильм 1 «Белеет парус одинокий»)
  — Праздник печёной картошки
  — Сапоги всмятку ()
 1977 — Перед экзаменом
  — Полоска нескошенных диких цветов
  — Алые погоны
  — Рассказы о любви
  — Женщины шутят всерьёз (Фантазия соль мажор)
 1981 — Яблоко на ладони
  — Семейное дело
  — Возвращение с орбиты
  — Меланхолический вальс
  — Изгой
  — Сердца трёх
  — Сердца трёх 2
  — Бери шинель…
  — Как закалялась сталь
  — Московская сага
  — Бедные родственники
  — Так не бывает (Украина)
 2007 — Колье для снежной бабы (Украина)
 2007 — Агония страха
 2007— — Тяжёлый песок
 2008 — Я лечу
 2008 — Преданный друг (Украина)
 2008— — Ранетки
  — Осенние цветы
  — Ржевский против Наполеона
 2012 — И Бог сделал шаг в пустоту (Украина)
 2015 — Урсус, Кавказский бурый медведь (Украина, Грузия, Болгария, Германия)

Художник комбинированных съёмок

  — Трудно быть богом

Роли в кино
  — Там вдали, за рекой
  — Бирюк
 1977 — Ералашный рейс
 1977 — Перед экзаменом
  — Полоска нескошенных диких цветов
  — Алые погоны
  — Колье для снежной бабы (Украина)

Награды и признание
 Специальный диплом художнику Сергею Бржестовскому (за фильм «Там вдали, за рекой») - на Республиканском кинофестивале детских и юношеских фильмов в Киеве, 1976 г.
 орден «Знак Почёта» (22.08.1986).
 Номинация «Лучший художник-постановщик» — «Золотой орел» 2000.
 Фильму «Изгой» — главный приз фестиваля в Сан-Ремо с формулировкой «За поиски изобразительной формы».
 Заслуженный деятель искусств Украины (2006).

Примечания

Ссылки

Выпускники ВГИКа
Художники кино СССР
Художники-постановщики XX века
Художники-постановщики СССР
Художники кино Украины
Художники-постановщики Украины
Художники-постановщики России
Художники XXI века
Художники XX века
Персоналии:Киностудия имени А. Довженко

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1973: Lim Seng, under Philippines martial law
4 comments January 15th, 2014 Headsman
On this date in 1973,* under the then-new martial law regime of Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos, a 52-year-old Chinese businessman was shot at Fort Bonifacio.**
Lim Seng was a struggling restauranteur in the 1960s when he dove into the heroin business.
He wasn't struggling much longer.
He quickly became the Walter White of Manila heroin production, exploiting ties to criminal syndicates in the Golden Triangle to churn out (by the early 1970s) 1.2 tons of smack. Ninety percent of it was exported to the United States. (.pdf source on Lim Seng's criminal career)
The other 10% helped feed a burgeoning heroin addiction among Manila students, leading to a seminal 1972 anti-drug law under which Lim Seng was arrested days after martial law came down that September. He faced a military, rather than a civilian trial.
Naturally quite wealthy from his enterprise, he evidently believed up until the last moments that he could buy his way out of execution. Little did he understand that he had been ticketed to demonstrate the incipient dictatorship's iron fist: thousands of civilian spectators crowded the ropeline of the rifle range to glimpse the garishly publicized ceremony, while others took in the radio broadcast or news footage.
Lim Seng was the first person executed by the Marcos regime for drug trafficking.
* Lim Seng was tried in December 1972, and some sources report this as his execution date. Contemporary newspaper accounts unambiguously confirm that the execution took place on January 15, 1973.
** Fort Andres Bonifacio, formerly a base of the U.S. occupation called Fort McKinley, was christened for an executed Filipino patriot.
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Tags: 1970s, 1973, drug war, ferdinand marcos, january 15, lim seng
1977: Benigno Aquino condemned
2 comments November 25th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1977, former Philippines Senator Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. was sentenced to death by firing squad under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Aquino, a lifetime politician from one of the archipelago's powerbroking families, was one of the principal opposition figures against the increasingly autocratic Marcos. His 1968 denunciation of the "garrison state" — Marcos would quadruple the size of the military and infiltrate it widely into civil society — was one of the definitive and lasting brands upon that regime.
So nobody, not least Aquino himself,* was surprised when the outspoken senator was arrested hours after Marcos imposed martial law in September 1972.
Unlike most such political prisoners, Aquino stubbornly refused to cut any deal for amnesty that would confer any hint of submission to Marcos. Their conflict reads, on both sides, as an intensely personal one.
Placed on trial for allegedly arming a guerrilla organization, murdering a political follower, and trying to place the Philippines under (unspecified) foreign domination, Aquino staged a headline-grabbing 40-day hunger strike in 1975 and received extreme unction. The Archbishop of Manila finally talked the wasting Aquino out of letting himself starve to death, but perhaps not out of a certain thirst for martyrdom. (New York Times, Feb. 22, 1977)
"If Marcos believes I'm guilty, I want to be shot tomorrow," he's supposed to have exclaimed as he was led away from the tribunal that pronounced his death. (New York Times, Nov. 26, 1977)
That didn't happen.
While Aquino's death sentence on this date was expected, it was also generally thought that Marcos — who had allowed only one (non-political) execution during five years of martial law to that point — would spare his foe, as indeed he did. Marcos even released Aquino to travel to the U.S. for treatment after suffering two heart attacks in 1980.
Aquino had those few years to raise his profile and that of the Philippines opposition around the states. Returning to his native country on August 21, 1983, a moment when a then-ailing Marcos seemed weakened enough for a political opening, Aquino was infamously assassinated right on the tarmac as he stepped off the plane.
This event, and the two million-strong funeral march of Aquino's bullet-riddled body to Manila's Rizal Park, helped galvanize the country's opposition. By 1986, popular demonstrations sent Marcos fleeing to exile … and elevated to the presidency Ninoy Aquino's widow, Corazon.
Today, the couple adorns the Philippines' 500-peso banknote, and their only son, Benigno Aquino III, is the country's president. To pay him a call, just catch the next flight to Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Marchers with a banner alluding to Ninoy Aquino's assassination date pass the monument to the slain ex-senator in Makati. (cc) image from littleislanddimp
* According to In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, Aquino was disappointed at the muted public reaction to his arrest. "I judged Marcos correctly," he told a friend, "but I misjudged the people."
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Tags: 1970s, 1977, benigno aquino, benigno aquino iii, ferdinand marcos, manila, ninoy aquino, november 25, people power revolution

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Amardeep Singh
I teach at Lehigh University in eastern Pennsylvania. I work on British colonialism, modernism, postcolonial/global literature, and the digital humanities.
Nose-Piercing, Utah, and a Big Oops (Not Mine) [Updated]
On Thursday, I spoke to an AP reporter about a story in Utah last week, expressing some views about a girl in middle school in Utah who got suspended from her school for violating dress code, after getting her nose pierced. She and her family said she did it to get in touch with her Indian cultural identity -- she had the piercing done on Diwali just a couple of weeks ago. The school, however, had a strict "ear pierces only" policy, and was only willing to allow her to have a "transparent" stud in her nose, not the more obviously Indian nose ring she wore to school initially.
Here is the AP story that resulted. It's been printed in a fair number of newspapers around the country. The reporter quotes Abhi (from Sepia Mutiny), Sandhya (also from Sepia Mutiny), and myself. But something goes wrong here:
"I wanted to feel more closer to my family in India because I really love my family," said Suzannah, who was born in Bountiful. Her father was born in India as a member of the Sikh religion.
"I just thought it would be OK to let her embrace her heritage and her culture," said Suzannah's mother, Shirley Pabla, a Mormon born in nearby Salt Lake City. "I didn't know it would be such a big deal."
It shouldn't have been, said Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh, a Sikh who was raised in the United States and works as an English professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. "It's true that the nose ring is mainly a cultural thing for most Indians," Singh said. "Even if it is just culture, culture matters. And her right to express or explore it seems to me at least as important as her right to express her religious identity." (link)
Um, wait a minute. Did I read that right? Take a look at it again: "...said Suzannah's father, Amardeep Singh, a Sikh who was raised in the United States..."
[UPDATED: The error has been corrected in the online version of this article.]
This is a really bizarre and unfortunate error. Just to be clear, I have one kid, and he's three years old. I am annoyed on my own behalf, but I also feel bad for the Pablas. (Suzannah has a dad, who is a practicing Sikh. It just so happens that most of the coverage of this story in the local Utah newspapers doesn't mention his name: see the Salt Lake Tribune, for example)
When I spoke to the reporter who authored this story, he was 100% clear that I was in no way related to the Pablas. Somewhere between that conversation and the story that has now run in 200+ newspapers around the country, that important fact fell out. I don't know who's responsible for the error -- it appears it's an editor who might have come up with this.
In the end, it's not really that big a deal; the only people who will really think anything is amiss are people who know the Pablas and people who know me. Still, maybe the moral here is to JUST SAY NO when reporters call you for a quote for a story that doesn't really involve you directly.
If there is a bright side of this, it's that I got to be photographed by a professional photographer: here.
Posted by electrostani at 8:34 PM
Labels: Me, Sikhs
I caught the typo. I'm sorry your annoyed but please continue to take the time to help educate us all. I ask many silly questions but most people will take the time to explain their religions or beliefs to me. I consider every question a step closer to eradicating my ignorance. I have found in the answers that we are more the same than not.
I do understand the situation you were put into but some stupid reporter and his boss and of course the whole news media piced up on it, however you still failed to say whether or not she was right to go against the school's regulations.
You see unfortunately, if come to America it's to be away from where you came from and being a Natural Born Citizen, it's not my position to ask why you came here, but I do take offense to the fact that someone needs to still practice their former home rituals or needs. If I were to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen I would not ask nor expect anyone in Canada to abide by American Culture just for me. When you come to a country especially to be free, there is no your free to live here but practice living in a different country. We have gotten so tied up into I need to respect you, but you don't have to respect me and I was here first and didn't have to come in a plane or boat to get here. Yesterday I started getting advertisements on Myspace in Arabic and I refuse to learn Spanish let alone Arabic. When are people going to learn that when you come to America you have to respect the laws and rules here that keep us free. You don't come here to change the rules for you to keep your heritage alive. We are supposed to respect and believe in each other in America but everyone who comes here now wants all of us to change just for them. I ask, why did you leave the country that taught you how to live?? Your still not free if you still follow the rules and living ways from which you came.
Zack S. said...
With all due respect, I think you're overreacting a little. Granted you do say, toward the end, that it really isn't that big a deal, but I think your moral of the story is a tad much. The commenter above me calls the reporter stupid and arguably insinuates the same about his boss; perhaps it was stupidity on someone's end, but it looks more like a typo. The error could have technically been avoided had there been a period instead of a comma after "father." People might still think that Amardeep Singh is the father because of the (presumed) same gender and therefore the symmetry between father and the male name that follows upon what would look like second/next reference. It's most unfortunate that for whatever reason the father's name is not mentioned. On the other hand, it could have the silver lining of not making him a sort of target.
Because of one probably honest mistake, you shouldn't stop giving interviews on stories unrelated to yourself.
To quote Charlie Kaufman:
"I think that might have been my biggest revelation about starting to do press. Journalists are people, and why should I be surprised by that? When I come into this situation with nervous people, sweaty people, people who are playing me, people who aren't present and clearly have an agenda, or people who lie to me and will ingratiate themselves so they can get something and present it completely differently… And they aren't always like that. I've had some really lovely experiences with people, where I felt that the resulting article is really honest, and I appreciate that."
http://www.avclub.com/articles/charlie-kaufman,14322/
That IS a big oops! Glad they corrected it. It's an interesting story, though-- this trend of 'zero tolerance' policies for just about everything (piercings, aspirin, Pepsi shirts on 'Coke Day', etc.) is out of control. Who exactly is being hurt by her nose ring?
Hope the rest of your commenters are less ignorant than the one above...
Sarah, shall I presume you're referring to the second Anonymous comment? 'Cause I don't think I said anything particularly ignorant
GamerzHill said...
It's most unfortunate that for whatever reason the father's name is not mentioned. On the other hand, it could have the silver lining of not making him a sort of target.
Kamalakar said...
The correction in the online version seems to be missing in the link provided by you!! The case of a careless editor or culture jar?
FLC said...
Hi, I'm the owner of a blog would like to share my opinion about this issue.
It's true that wherever we go, we must abide to the rules of the area that you visit, whether it's in real world, or in the online world.
However rules are made by human being, there can always be flexibility. It's really no big deal. However because of not knowing, one should be given at least a warning or a notice asking not to do certain things
I really don't agree on penalizing at the first chance..
well it's my 2 cents worth of opinion
Spencer said...
As a fellow Mormon, I'm grateful that you have portrayed the members of our faith with accuracy and tact.
Manu said...
Glad to see that they corrected it.
Seerat said...
Rules are made keeping the safety of the students in mind. And I don't believe a nose ring can be a danger to someone's safety. No doubt rules are to be followed however, it should be kept in mind that such rules and regulations are formulated by humans and can be wrong at times. A truly progressive institution bears in mind to be open to changes. A suspension on this issue does seem to be a bit too much.
Maybe this comparison runs too far but such a system in an organization seems like a dictatorship with no tolerance for changes, logic or reason.
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Amardeep Singh, Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University
My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is now available on Amazon.
I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. All are in progress as of January 2019. One is digital archive I am calling "The Kiplings and India." Working with a team of graduate research assistants, we have been building the site in Scalar here. Feedback welcome; it's a work in progress.
I have also been working on a Digital Collection called "Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)" This project began as a collaborative class project called "Harlem Echoes," a digital edition of Claude McKay's "Harlem Shadows." The new version of the project is much-expanded, including McKay's early Jamaican poetry as well as his uncollected political poetry from magazines like The Liberator and Workers Dreadnought.
I also put together a digital edition of Jean Toomer's Cane, taking advantage of the fact that that work is now in the public domain. That project can be found here.
Finally, I have begun a new project, "Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance (1900-1922)", featuring writing by largely overlooked African-American women writers like Georgia Douglas Johnson and Carrie Williams Clifford.
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De zwartstaart  (Oenanthe melanura synoniem: Cercomela melanura) is een kleine zangvogel uit de familie van de vliegenvangers (muscicapidae). Op de IOC World Bird List staat de vogel in hetzelfde geslacht als de tapuiten. Het is een algemeen voorkomende broedvogel in woestijngebieden van het noorden van Afrika en het Nabije Oosten.

Kenmerken
De zwartstaart is een gedrongen vogel met een korte staart met een lengte van 14 tot 16 cm. De bovendelen en de kop van de volwassen vogel zijn grijs. Van onder is de vogel vuilwit. De bovenkant van staartveren zijn zwart. De zwartstaart heeft een korte zwarte snavel en zwarte poten. Vrouwtje en mannetje lijken op elkaar. De vogel heeft de gewoonte om de staart voortdurende te spreiden. Het is een vrij makke vogel die gemakkelijk te benaderen is.

Verspreiding en leefgebied
De zwartstaart komt voor in diverse gebieden in de gordel van woestijngebieden in Noord-Afrika en het Arabisch Schiereiland zoals Tsjaad, Djibouti, Egypte, Eritrea, Ethiopië, Jemen, Jordanië, Mali, Niger, Oman, Palestina, Saoedi-Arabië, Somalië, Soedan en Syrië. Het is een algemeen tot talrijk voorkomende vogel (bijvoorbeeld in de Negev in Israël) van rotsige woestijngebieden. De vogel nestelt onder overhangende rotsen en in rotsspleten.

De soort telt zes ondersoorten:
 O. m. melanura: van noordoostelijk Egypte tot Israël, Jordanië en centraal Saoedi-Arabië.
 O. m. neumanni: zuidwestelijk Saoedi-Arabië, Jemen en Oman.
 O. m. lypura: van het noordelijke deel van Centraal-Soedan tot Eritrea.
 O. m. aussae: noordoostelijk Ethiopië, Djibouti en noordelijk Somalië.
 O. m. airensis: van noordelijk Niger tot centraal Soedan.
 O. m. ultima: oostelijk Mali en westelijk Niger.

Status
De zwartstaart heeft een groot verspreidingsgebied en daardoor alleen al is de kans op uitsterven gering. De grootte van de populatie is niet gekwantificeerd en er is geen aanleiding te veronderstellen dat de soort in aantal achteruit gaat. Om deze redenen staat de zwartstaart als niet bedreigd op de Rode Lijst van de IUCN.

Saxicola
Dier uit het Palearctisch gebied
Dier uit het Afrotropisch gebied
IUCN-status niet bedreigd


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Stay in tropical paradise at Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge in Costa Rica
When booking a place to stay on vacation, most people want to know what the accommodations are like. Besides the fact that it affects the price, knowing what kind of rooms are available helps you plan and choose your experience.
Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge in Costa Rica is a sustainable tourism lodge tucked into the rainforest back from a private beach on the southern Pacific gulf of Golfo Dulce. All construction is from beautiful tropical hardwoods taken from naturally fallen or farmed trees, and recycled materials.
For accommodations at the extraordinary Costa Rica eco-lodge, there are three one-bedroom cabins, one cabin suite, one two-bedroom cabin, four rooms in the two-story Mango Guesthouse, and the two-story three-bedroom Jaguar House. All beds are either queen or twin-sized.
The one-bedroom cabins are very private, surrounded by forest to give you the intimate feeling of nature all around you. The cabins are built up from the ground on stilts, and feature a wall of louvered doors that you can open completely for panoramic views, or close for more privacy and at night. Cabins have one queen bed with mosquito netting; there is a ceiling fan, lights, safe, closet, large plastic box to keep things dry, flashlight, and an oversize umbrella (handy in the rainforest!). The incredible bathrooms have an open-air garden shower surrounded by high walls. Fabulous, natural, biodegradable bath products are from Costa Rican company Raw Botanicals. Two of the cabins are near the main lodge building and one is closer to the beach.
The Cabin Suite is near the main lodge building, and offers accessible features like a paved path and ramp to get there. The Cabin Suite has all of the features of the one-bedroom cabins, but is much larger with a sitting area, and a folding partition wall that can create two separate bedrooms if needed.
The two-bedroom cabin also is similar to the single cabins, but larger with two completely separate bedrooms connected by a sitting area that can be converted to a third bedroom. There is one shared bathroom with the signature open-air shower. The two-bedroom cabin can accommodate up to five persons and is ideal for families with young children.
Located near the main lodge building, the two-story Mango Guesthouse contains two private rooms upstairs and two private rooms downstairs, each with their own private bathroom and open-air shower. Upstairs rooms have a small balcony sitting area, and downstairs rooms each have a private terrace deck. For groups of six to 10 persons, reserving the entire Mango Guesthouse is ideal.
The Jaguar House is a good fit for larger families. The two-story house near the beach has three bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms, and a very large upper deck looking out to the forest. Listening to the waves will lull you to sleep at night.
Playa Nicuesa Rainforest Lodge is located on a 165-acre private preserve by the Osa Peninsula on Golfo Dulce in southern Costa Rica. The Enchanting Hotel of Costa Rica borders the Piedras Blancas National Park. To get there, drive or fly (NatureAir or Sansa Airlines) to either Puerto Jimenez or Golfito. Nicuesa Lodge will pick you up by boat and transfer you to the lodge (about 30 minutes one-way). Included in lodge rates are all meals, boat transfers, all taxes, all meals and snacks, unlimited self-guided hikes on preserve, use of kayaks, snorkeling and fishing equipment.
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Description: A re-examination of the current middle school and high school mathematics curriculum. A review of the techniques and discussion of the ideas from a more advanced point of view, including topics in algebra, geometry, elementary functions, and probability and statistics. Competence in basic secondary school mathematical ideas and techniques is tested.


So I thought this Craigslist post requesting a Nemesis was pretty interesting, so I contacted the guy and we agreed to be each other's nemeses (sp?). Things were going along swimmingly. I let the air out of his tires yesterday and when I came home last night, I found the lock on my front door glued shut. Bravo sir, Bravo.
However, things are getting a bit out of hand already. He sent me this video last night, and let's just say, I'm a little nervous. I feel like I'm in that Michael Douglas movie, the Game, or something.
Where's Sean Penn when you need him?


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May 20, 2010 in Great Lakes, New York harbor, photos, ships | Tags: Bayshore Recycling, Brooklyn Navy Yard, GLT, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Towing, Grouper, J. W. Shelley, LaFarge, laker, laker Manistee, Massachusetts, Paul H. Townsend, Raritan River, St. Marys Challenger | 10 comments
Allen Baker has worked on four of the five Great Lakes in recent weeks and shares the next four fotos. Massachusetts has that low, upswept "laker look" that reminds me of Grouper, which I've not received updates on. Any guesses on location of the shot and launch date of Massachusetts?
For launch date, you were right if you said . . . 1928! She's 79′ x 20′ x 12′ and operates with Great Lakes Towing. And then there's Manistee, delivered in May 1943 to Reiss Steamship Company. Since then, her original triple expansion
steam power plant was replaced by a slightly-more powerful 2950 hp diesel engine and equipped with a 250′ self-unloader. By the way, Reiss once owned Grouper, also.
Like most lakers, Manistee is long and narrow (621′ x 60′ x 35′), with a bluff bow, maximizing cargo space, and a wheel house forward with a stern "island" over the power plant. The oldest laker operating on the "big lakes" is St. Marys Challenger, still hauling bulker cargo since its launch in February 1906!! It still uses a Skinner Uniflow 3500 hp steam engine.
I took the next two fotos in Muskegon, MI, in June 2008, where Paul H. Townsend has been idled since 2005. A fascinating detail about Townsend is its conversion: built in Wilmington, CA in 1945, it was lengthened from 339′ x 50′ to 447′ x 50′ in 1952 . . . in Hoboken, NJ. The wheelhouse was moved forward in a separate modification in 1958 on Lake Erie. If you click on the link above, you'll find before/after fotos.
When last sailing, she hauled gypsum or cement, now more frequently carried on barges pushed by the likes of Samuel de Champlain. Notice the same fleet colors. In this 2008 post, notice the second vessel (in a Lake Ontario port) down in the same colors as Townsend.
A "laker" moved into the sixth boro in the summer of 2005. Ocean and Coastal Consultants and Bayshore Recycling use Valgocen (ex-Algocen) in the dredged materials decontamination process (See p. 2 in this newsletter.). Valgocen currently lives along the Raritan River,
startling me every time I notice it. A laker . . . in an estuary. But there it is was, repurposed. The foto below–as the one above– shows it in the St. Lawrence on its way to the sixth boro towed by tugs from Atlantic Towing Limited. See important update at the end of this post.
Thanks to Allen Baker for the first four fotos, and to Kent Malo for the last two.
And if you hadn't felt totally confident, Allen's fotos were taken in the Calumet River, Chicago, an ocean port.
Unrelated . .. I've been reading DieselDuck's archives, not homing in on any particular post, just enjoying the sweep of their focus. Check them out here.
UPDATE: Jeff's comment got me looking and –sure enough–Valgocen is no more, having reborn as J W Shelley, back at work on the Great Lakes, as of this writing between Montreal and Lake Erie. Thanks, Jeff.
Virtual Erie Canal 7W: Seneca River to Syracuse


▪ Tollefsen, E., Stockmann, G., Skelton, A., Lundqvist, L., Sturkell, E. (2019): Secondary alteration of the Grønnedal-Ika igneous complex and the genesis of ikaite, CaCO3·6H2O, SW Greenland. Chemical Geology, 510, 18-30.
The mineral ikaite (CaCO3·6H2O) precipitates from a mixture of spring water and seawater as tufa columns which grow at a rate of up to 50 cm per year reaching heights of up to 18 m in Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland. In the fjord, column formation occurs only at the base of a nepheline syenite‑carbonatite complex that flanks the fjord and an association has therefore been proposed. The spring water that seeps up at the bottom of the fjord is oversaturated in Na+ and HCO3−. In this study, we show that these ions were acquired by alteration reactions in the syenite‑carbonatite complex: Na+ is released during replacement of nepheline by illite and analcime in nepheline-syenite rocks and HCO3– is released by oxidation of siderite to goethite in carbonatite rocks. The chemically charged groundwater mixes with seawater and gives rise to the formation of the tufa columns. We performed a mass balance to show that the mass of the carbonatite in the complex is more than sufficient to provide the CO2 needed to produce the observed mass of tufa columns. We estimated a time frame of ~600 years to produce the necessary CO2 to form the 700 ikaite columns in the fjord.


A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (1936; 2nd edn. 1946) was a highly influential statement of logical positivism in the English-speaking world, published in 1936 and written after Ayer's time in Vienna learning from the original logical positivists such as Moritz Schlick (1882–1936), Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), and Otto Neurath (1882–1945) (though Ayer had met Rudolf Carnap on a trip to Prague, since Carnap had moved there in 1931).
In Chapter IV, Ayer deals with a priori knowledge, and his views are still of some interest, not only for their own sake, but also because there is confusion about what logical positivists thought about a priori knowledge and analytic statements.
For Ayer, propositions with "factual content" are essentially synthetic propositions, and synthetic propositions never have necessary and universal truth, but only probable truth (Ayer 1971 : 64–65, 80).
So how, then, does the logical positivist account for the truths of mathematics and logic?
Ayer made it clear that he regarded Mill's belief that the truths of mathematics and logic were merely very well confirmed inductive generalisations to be unconvincing (Ayer 1971 : 67).
Ayer's answer is of course that the truths of mathematics and logic are analytic propositions (Ayer 1971 : 71).
Kant had famously defined analytic propositions as those where the sense of the predicate is already contained in the sense of the subject.
"a proposition is analytic when its validity depends solely on the definitions of the symbols it contains, and synthetic when its validity is determined by the facts of experience." (Ayer 1971 : 73).
An analytic proposition is thus "entirely devoid of factual content" (Ayer 1971 : 73) in the sense that it says nothing necessarily true about empirical reality, and so no experience is able to refute it.
In sense (3), Ayer was clear that a priori reasoning from analytic statements can yield new knowledge: what Ayer was denying here was that analytic a priori reasoning gives us necessarily true knowledge of the real, external world.
For Ayer, all necessity is therefore logical de dicto necessity. This view was very influential in modern analytic philosophy until the revolution in analytic metaphysics from the 1970s onwards in the work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Hilary Putnam, and Keith Donnellan.


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Porpetto é uma comuna italiana da região do Friuli-Venezia Giulia, província de Udine, com cerca de 2.683 habitantes. Estende-se por uma área de 19 km², tendo uma densidade populacional de 141 hab/km². Faz fronteira com Castions di Strada, Gonars, San Giorgio di Nogaro, Torviscosa.

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The various exhibits linked here have not been classified. It is interesting to look through and see just how varied are the subjects of the exhibits. You never know, you may just find something interesting you didn't expect.
The Digital Design Lab is participating in "Amiens Cathedral -- A Multimedia Project for the Core Curriculum" a NEH-supported project with Prof. Stephen Murray of Art History. It includes Computer generated images, Cathedral Drawings and Construction Sequence..., Explore Amiens Cathedral, The Geometrical Matrix of Amiens, Amiens Cathedral. Slide Gallery, Scenes from Computer-Generated Videos, Amiens Cathedral - The Text, Amiens Video and Music, and the AcIS Imaging Project - Notre Dame Cathedral of Amiens, an Orderly Vision, by Professor Stephen Murray.
An invitational online exhibition of artists who are exploring the possibilities of the Web as an art tool. Artists include: Annette Weintraub, David Schafer, Adrianne Wortzel, Kevin Clarke, Douglas Davis and others.
Painting, sculpture and design in two cultures - old classic calligraphy in synthesis with contemporary art.
Artists living and working in Chennai, India.
On exhibit at the Library of Congress that includes sections on Monarchs and Monasteries: (late 8th--late 15th centuries), The Path to Royal Absolutism: (end of the 15th -- first half of the 17th centuries), e Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy: (second half of the 17th -- end of the 18th centuries), From Empire to Democracy: (1799 to present), and many images.
An experiment in Hypermedia that has gained a great deal of attention within the circles of adepts. Also has great pictures and texts for those who hang out in other circles.
An exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC that describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. In addition, the exhibition encourages a better understanding of the challenges and complexities connected with scroll research. he exhibition is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction -- The World of the Scrolls; 2. The Qumran Library; 3.The Qumran Community; 4.Today -- 2,000 Years Later; 5.Conclusion. The original exhibtion included nearly 100 objects: scroll fragments, artifacts from the Qumran site, and books and illustrations from the Library of Congress' collections. The online exhibit includes images of 12 scroll fragments and 29 other objects loaned by the Israel Antiquities Authority for this exhibition.
An annual international juried exhibition of photographs presented by The Peoria Art Guild and by Bradley University.
A very slow site with images from ancient Egypt.
An exhibition of WWW sites pertaining to ancient world cultures including the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic World, and Medieval Europe.
This page points to a series of experiments to determine optimal parameters for the network distribution of rare text page images, with navigation aids so that the user might simply read a book online. Each book has a table of contents which outlines the scanning parameters allows the user to open the volume at any page. I have selected a series of hard to find pamphlets published during the French Revolution as the basis for these experiments, but of course, one could digitize almost any kind of document.
Isfahan is one of ten cities designated by UNESCO as a universal heritage. It contains a wide range of Islamic Architectural styles ranging from the 11th century (C.E.) to the 19th. This archive contains photographs and descriptions of some of the most interesting and unusual ones. The photographs have been for the most part taken by the author and his wife between 1992 and 1994 and may be freely used for academic purposes, provided an acknowledgement of the source is given. A fun and informative site that includes a helpful section on Fundamental Concepts of Islamic and Iranian architecture, a tourist shop where you can get a map of the city and information on Iran from the CIA (always found in real tourist shops).
A web based project which was developed by computer graphics students at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx with their partners in Sweden, as part of a ThinkQuest project to explore the mystery of the Mona Lisa.
A resource for teachers and students developed by the Museum of Science, Boston for the Science Learning Network.
Video art and computer prints.
Shortly after defeating the attempted coup of August 1991, a group from the victorious democratic resistance led by the chief archivist of Russia, Rudolph Pikhoia, took over the previously top secret archives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and began the process of both consolidating democratic control over all archives in Russia and attempting to make them available for the first time for public study. This exhibit, which will later be shown in Moscow, is a milestone in this process the first public display of the hitherto highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule.
Bienvenue au Musee des arts et metiers is a virtual museum of technology, depicted in Umberto Eco's famous novel, "The Foucault's pendulum", hosts 80,000 objects and documents related with every great technical innovation.
Online catalogue of the printed graphic work.
From surrealist collage to classical portrait or pop'art, from oriental and figurative art to photographic assemblies, Marina Obo, a contemporary Frenchwoman painter, juggles with techniques, styles and subjects. She also invites you to glance at her works through plays (memorizing, jig saw puzzle...). Its collage "La Carpe" inspired the great Portuguese poet Alexandre O'Neill for his poem "A carpa".
This Library of Congress exhibit presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance.
I am a Santero, a wood carver of bultos (statues), a wood craftsman, and a painter in the simple and humble traditions of Hispanic New Mexico.
Created by Marc Chagall and his assistant, Charles Marq. The Windows represents the 12 sons of the Patriarch Jacob, from whom came the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Chagall's Windows are populated by floating figures of animals, fish, flowers, and numerous Jewish symbols.
Virtual Gallery of Japanese contemporary art, photography and illustrations.
A virtual exhibition of Japanese contemporary art, photography and illustrations. From here you can also get to the ATOM homepage which includes the Japanese Independent Music Archives or the home of Japan Indies.
organization centered in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The central location from which you can go to any of the many exhibits either designed by the LOC, or others of interest housed at EXPO at the University of North Carolina.


Forty-seven years ago today, Clipper Race chairman and founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first man to have sailed solo, nonstop round the globe having been victorious in the Sunday Times Golden Globe race.
The sole finisher out of nine entrants, Sir Robin crossed the finish line off Falmouth, UK on 22 April 1969 aged 30 after 312 days at sea. With none of the modern technological aids available to sailors nowadays, Sir Robin was asked where he had come from on his 32-foot yacht Suhaili, to which he replied 'Falmouth'.
"To be able to say you were the first to do something on a planet of seven billion is nice. It changed my life. I left as a young ambitious bloke and came back a completely different person," reflects Sir Robin, now 76.
Following his first circumnavigation, Sir Robin skippered Condor to Line Honours in two legs of the 1977/8 Whitbread Race; co-skippered Enza New Zealand with the late Peter Blake to take the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for the fastest circumnavigation of the world; and completed the Velux5Oceans solo round the world race in fourth position in 2006/7 at the age of 68.
In 2014, he finished third in the Rhum class of solo Transatlantic the Route du Rhum, and in 2015 also took part in The Transatlantic Race with friends and finished third in class.
Sir Robin was knighted in 1995 and has been the UK's Yachtsman of the Year four times.
He was ISAF sailor of the Year with Peter Blake in 1994 and in 2007 was one of the first six inductees into the ISAF Hall of Fame. In 1996 he created the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race to offer people from all walks of life and ages the experience of ocean racing together with the opportunity of completing a circumnavigation. More than 4,000 people have since been introduced to sailing through the unique event which is the longest in the world at 40,000 miles.
To see a gallery of images of Sir Robin, click here.
To read Huffington Post feature on Sir Robin, click here.


A Deluxe treatment of the Savage Worlds Core rules brings a few new elements without alienating the throngs of Savages that hold their SW Explorer's Editions as the best RPG they've ever bough t. Or, at least the best value and definitively lives up to it's Fast, Furious, and Fun pulpy play goodness.
This review is really about a first glance. A first blush of what the SWD (as I'm sure it's going to be referred to) will really have to prove itself over time as game adventures accommodate the new elements. After listening to several podcasts with some good hints dropped, it seems to be a 'take it or leave it' addition that works with the SWEX audience instead of trying to replace it. I've heard they will have a downloadable pdf for the SW:EX folks that has the additional rules that will function as a SWEX addendum of sorts. Obviously they'll leave all the additional non-rule material as an incentive to get the SWD, but lets confirm that.
Those that have the original Savage Worlds Hardbound will notice that we're seeing the evolution of a game system that has gone from the 146 page hardbound that was a fun alternative to d20 (d20 conversion guide included), to the 160 page (and famously $10) Explorers Edition and now back to a hardbound Deluxe Edition. I believe everyone can admit that the SW:EX form factor took SW from established indie/fringe to something every gamer and podcast has talked about for the past few years. I grinned and chuckled to myself as I made my weekly game store visit many months ago and saw the DnD 4e "Essentials" format books. I thought "Oh, how the mighty have fallen!" In a way, it's one of the nicest compliments Pinnacle could have received. WOTC's 4e Gamma World rules were also in SWEX sized format but proved that the right size with crap rules is still a poor combination. That's another rant for another time. Recently, I've seen Troll Lord's 3 book, smaller than SWEX, Castles and Cr usades "Digest" set that has gone a bit too far. But, you get the point, the market has changed and Pinnacle was a driver to a new and better way.
The covers of the 3 SW editions tell an evolving story. We see it visually. Originally SW is carved in stone and with the Deluxe Edition's SW logo – it's embossed gold. But for those of us who loved DnD in it's primitive days have learned, really great art doesn't a great system make, but it helps.
– Great Art. Cover: newish logo with multiple genres telling the story. Full page ads for Pinnacle settings between the Intro and Chapt 1: Character Creation that capture the different genres nicely. The Ripper's ad with it's hunter sporting wolverine-like claws confronting a Promethean monstrosity rocks! Lots of full page great looking art sprinkled throughout.
– Design Notes – as you could guess, it's a paragraph that focuses on an aspect of the game that the designers want to emphasize. Good insight from the creators!
– GUTS are gone! – out of the core rules and into setting rules that need it. Makes sense.
– Dramatic Tasks – adds a mechanic for when a hero is in a dramatic situation and needs to perform a task to save the day under a tight time restriction. This mechanic or element adds to the feel of the pressure.
– New Setting Rules – ie "Blood & Guts: Characters can spend Bennies on damage rolls! Use this rule when you really want to up the carnage." Also, Born A Hero, Critical Failures, Fanatics, and Gritty Damage…. are some other examples. Gritty Damage sounds ALOT like the styles found in Reality Blurs: Realms of Cthulhu. Interesting! There are quite a few new ideas here that can really add a new feel to the very same adventures you've played.
– Interludes – essentially using character down-time to add to character development. A simple mechanic that involves the GM picking a character and that player picks a card (Clubs-tragedy, Spades-Victory, Hearts-Love, and Diamonds-Desire). The player then tells the tale of the type chosen (tragedy, love, etc..). Assuming a moving or entertaining tale is told, a reward is given of a Benny or Adventure Card chosen by the player.
– GM section – The Countdown – (a Design Note) put a limit or sense of urgency to limit those that are taking too long to make decision of what to do next. Not to be overused.
While not exhaustive, I think you'll agree there's quite a bit of good new stuff to add to our Savage Worlds adventures. I didn't get the feeling that the system suddenly changed but just had some additional mechanics that can add to the fun…and some stress! I think I'll go start prepping some stories for an interlude.
– Healing can now only be attempted on each individual's fresh wounds once in the "Golden Hour." (Plus an attempt to revive if the target is Incapacitated.) They can't cause an additional wound through rolling a 1 or less however.


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Officials concerned about growing inmate population
DES MOINES (AP) — Officials of a jail in central Iowa want to open three empty housing units amid an increase in inmates, but county supervisors hope for other efforts to reduce the jail population.
Polk County Jail has seen a daily average of more than 1,000 inmates this year. The jail neared its maximum capacity of just over 1,110 inmates at one point this year.
Jail director Frank Marasco asked the county Board of Supervisors in May to open the three housing units and add an additional 15 detention officers to staff them. The three units have space for nearly 100 additional inmates.
County supervisors hope to use deterrence efforts to prevent low-level offenders from ending up behind bars instead of granting the $1.1 million request.
The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is creating a tool to assess an offender's risk to the community. The tool would help officers determine which offenders can be released early.
The safety of those in the jail is at risk until something is done to address the high number of inmates, Marasco said.
"In a lot of cases, when we're that full, the inmates know there's a lack of or no consequences to their actions," he said. "That affects how we operate and creates more safety risks."
Violent incidents in the jail have increased slightly with the increased inmate population, jail officials said. Between Jan. 11 and July 27, there was an average of 1.5 assaults at the jail a day, up from 1.4 incidents a day during that same time period in 2016, according to data from the state Department of Corrections.
Marasco said he's considering scaling down the request and asking the supervisors to open just one additional housing unit and hire five detention officers.


Below is a sketch and an excerpt from a book that author Howard Temperley and I are working on. It's a rhyming exposé of the presidents… Enjoy!
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Report on Popocatepetl (Mexico) — 25 March-31 March 2015
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 25 March-31 March 2015
Global Volcanism Program, 2015. Report on Popocatepetl (Mexico). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 25 March-31 March 2015. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (25 March-31 March 2015)
At 2113 on 24 March activity at Popocatépetl increased and a four-hour series of explosions produced steam, gas, and ash emissions that rose 3 km. Incandescent tephra was ejected 800 m onto the NE and SE flanks. The last explosion in the series was detected at 0118 on 25 March. Additional explosion on 25 March ejected tephra and generated steam, gas, and ash plumes; the plumes rose 2 km and drifted NE and SE causing ashfall in Atlixco, Puebla. During 26-31 March the seismic network recorded between 21 and 86 emissions per day that sometimes contained ash. Cloud cover often prevented observations of the crater, although ash plumes and nighttime crater incandescence were noted. Continuous steam, gas, and ash emissions on 26 March rose 600 m and drifted ENE. On 29 March at 0944 an ash plume rose 2 km. On 31 March one of three explosions, which occurred at 0740, generated an ash plume that rose less than 1 km and drifted SW. The Alert Level remained at Yellow, Phase Two.


An amalgamation of such two signs has a positive effect on the Virgo man Aries woman compatibility from the emotional side of the relationship that they share.
The male Virgo is ruled by the planet of Mercury, which is called the Messenger of the Gods, and represents the aspects related to communication and expression of one's self. He is analytical, warm-hearted, diligent and thinks about his problems a lot, which makes him worry about things most of the times.
On the other hand, the female Aries is compassionate, courageous, full of positive energy and enthusiastic in nature. Aries astrological sign is ruled by the planet of Mars which signifies passion, aggressiveness and aspiration. Shes never gives up easily, and only settles down once the challenge is completed as she is also very determined.
A male Virgo when in a relationship with a female Aries, is quite satisfied and does not get to see most of the shortcomings that a female Aries usually presents to people when she is around, which tells us that there is a significant change that we see in the female Aries when she is with a male Virgo.
In the Virgo man and Aries woman compatibilty, she is inclined towards showing her more tender and gentle side when she is with a Virgo man. She instantly connects with him, as he usually tends to appreciate the lighter and the brighter side of hers, often sees her as someone who is very compassionate, respectful and trustworthy.
The male Virgo appreciates the bravery that she exhibits, and showers a lot of sympathy towards her which makes her feel all the more special. She realises that both of them are on the same page and there is a flow of natural empathy which makes them draw closer to one another.
The Aries woman admires the quality of love, affection and trust that the Virgo man infuses in the relation, that makes her more humble. He often accepts and lets her rectify her mistakes, and becomes a kind tutor who helps her grow and evolve as time passes by.
What more could an Aries woman ask for from her man? She is a self-reliant person who loves being given all the freedom she wants, and in this case, she does gets it in a meek manner.
Both the Virgo and Aries are quite opposite to each other. While one is placid, self-effacing and submissive, the other is bold, aggressive and outspoken. This combination of the opposites works wonders for this couple.
For the her, growing in this relationship makes her realise that she is getting rid of all her fears and emotional insecurities with this man, which makes her all the more sweet-tempered and benign. She acknowledges the fact that her partner is quite considerate of her passionate and aggressive qualities.
If the Virgo man and Aries woman love compatibility clicks, they will surely experience a wonderful benevolent connection with one another.
There seems to be a great level of mutual understanding between this love match not just emotionally but also physically.
The Virgo male-Aries female have a great time in bed together, where the female Aries is full of fire ignited passion with the impetuous characteristics of Aries woman and the male Virgo, who is shy at first, opens up to all the posibilities to make his lover satisfied. He will put in the extra efforts to make their sexual life exciting.
The Virgo man Aries woman share a great bonding together where he gives her all the freedom to explore and she finds a certain level of comfort, calmness and patience in his arms.
Even though they are a bit opposite in nature, there is a sense of acceptance towards each other which makes this love match a best compatible sun signs. But there are always some challenges that are to be faced before it gets unrectifiable, to work things out in the Virgo man compatibility with Aries woman.
One thing that the female Aries has to take care of is being patient, for this relationship can only run on love, patience and acceptance.
It is a bit important for her to deal with the problems and issues in the relationship, with a cool and a sensible mindset, which will solve most of her troubles.
It is easy for the Virgo man to sacrifice and compromise on things but a lot of work has to be done by the Aries woman to continue to enjoy and cherish the relationship. She has to stop looking at her man with faults and try to deal with it with a lot of calm and composure.
If this love couple, are relaxed and accept each other the way they are along with working on their shorcomings, the Virgo male and Aries female compatibility will reach its heights.


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Q: 301 Redirect forum and all posts to homepage I'm trying to redirect my /forum/ page and all subsequent forum posts (e.g. /forum/topic/3335/) to myhomepage.com.
I've tried all the possible ways I've seen on SO but none of them will do it and completely strip the query string.
What is the best way to 301 all of these posts to my home page, and completely strip the query string (including the trailing ? that I don't want).
Thanks!
Edit:
redirectMatch 301 ^/forum/ http://www.newsite.com/?

This redirected them all to my homepage, but kept the ?, which I don't want.
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/forum/(.*) http://www.newsite.com/? [L,R=301]

This just didn't work at all.  It didn't redirect anything.

A: A quick way would be RedirectMatch:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/forum/.*$ http://myhomepage.com

Note: If forum is under myhomepage.com you don't need to use the full domain, you could just use /.
UPDATE
To remove the query string, you'll need to use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/forum/.*$ http://myhomepage.com [L,R=301]

A: Using .htaccess possibly, If we are thinking the same thing!

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Home World Asian News Hongkong Protesters occupy Victoria Peak on 11th week
Hongkongers are now shouting and describing their protests as part of the "Hongkong Revolution"
Hongkong police made a legal headway yesterday when they secured a court order prohibiting protesters from massing up in the country's international airports. In recent days, there has been delays in international flights to and fro the city as thousands of protesters made the busy international terminal a protest area. Police had just cleared the airports of protesters.
Right now, thousands are massing up in Victoria Peak, in open defiance against Beijing. The Communist Party leadership of China had already warned of severe consequences. In recent past, tolerance is one term which the Beijing leadership had been known to scoff and in its stead, use brutal state forces.
courtesy of Channel 4
What's different now is that these Hong Kong protests morphed from just a protest against a highly questionable extradition bill to calls for independence, which both the existing leadership in the island and of Beijing find extremely unacceptable. Banners calling for an independent Hongkong will definitely not sit well with the Communist Party whose leaders would consider those as direct threats against China.
The question everyone is asking now– what will China do? Will it send its military forces to deal with these recalcitrant elements in Hongkong? Such scenarios are being floated about weeks before, with authorities hoping to cut the numbers of Hongkongers taking part in street protests.
An attack against the island by People's Liberation Army liberation forces would send a very strong negative signal against China to the international community. That will drive the expatriate and international business community away from the island and drive the island city into its worse economic recession in decades.
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