and his theory concerning the 1965 Exeter, New Hampshire, USA sightings.
NB: My answers are next to my initials in bold print.
In the early morning of September 3, 1965, a teenage hitchhiker named Norman Muscarello encountered a UFO with brilliant red lights. It was barely a hundred feet up, and at one point he jumped into a ditch to keep from being hit. He caught a ride to the Exeter police station and reported the encounter to Patrolman Eugene F. Bertrand. Together they returned to the scene of the encounter, and Bertrand was soon witnessing the same object. It came so close he started to draw his gun but then decided that might not be wise. He radioed Patrolman David Hunt, who arrived a few minutes later in time to see the object a half mile away and moving off to the southeast, still at an altitude of about one hundred feet.
The case is a classic. John Fuller wrote a book centered on the case titled Incident at Exeter. It was a best-seller and continues to be reprinted. Ron Story ranked it among the top ten UFO cases of all time based in part on a survey of ufologists. Raymond Fowler prides himself on remarking as soon as it happened, "This one will go down in UFO history." That is most assuredly did. It was featured in the April 5, 1966, Congressional hearing that led to the Condon investigation. The involvement of two police officers gave it an official character that made it a bit harder than usual to dismiss. Attempts to explain it by invoking twinkling stars and planets, ad planes, or military operations were difficult to jive with descriptions given. Fuller insisted this constituted "convincing evidence" that UFOs were real and extraterrestrial. Other ufologists would agree, including Hilary Evans in an early work.
1.	Why Exeter? Can anybody think of a good reason for aliens to visit such an out of the way spot as New Hampshire? There is no obvious strategic interest, economic resource, geological or geographic attractions, or biogenetic import to the place.
jc: Yes, I've driven up there. From the cases I read, in the mid-sixties the UFOs reported appeared to be interested in taking a fairly close look at people. It is quite mountainous in certain areas of New Hampshire and easy to fly a short distance to drop out of sight while still remaining in the area, especially if perchance while observing someone, another party happens to notice you.
Incidentally, if an out-of-the-way place wasn't selected, there would be an increased risk of being attacked by the military, if someone noticed what was occurring and reported it.
2.	Muscarello, in his statement, observed, "The lights then moved out over a large field and acted at times like a floating leaf." Fuller's book expanded the description. A brilliant red roundish object rose slowly from behind two pines. It moved toward Muscarello and Bertrand "like a leaf fluttering from a tree, wobbling and yawing as it moved." The entire area was bathed in a brilliant red light. It was 100 feet above them and a football field's distance away. It was rocking back and forth on its axis, "still absolutely silent." It hovered for several minutes then slowly moved away. Its movement was erratic, defying all aerodynamic patterns. "It darted…it could turn on a dime, then it would slow down." Hunt added, "I could see that fluttering movement. It was going left to right between the tops of the two trees." It had a "creepy type of look. Airplanes don't do this."
Indeed no, but nobody stops to ask if extraterrestrial craft ought to be doing this either. If it possesses any sort of mass at all, inertia alone would damp out any sort of fluttering behavior.
jc: . . . and what if the device you are using to fly happens to negate the majority of your mass?
If it is a result of mechanical vibration, why is the object so silent? Note other UFO reports exist from which noises like hums are heard. If UFOs are some sort of reconnaissance vehicle as Fuller and many others used to argue, such fluttering would surely impede the usefulness of the craft. What does it say for the erstwhile technological superiority of these interstellar visitors that they cannot stabilize their crafts?
jc: It depends upon how one interprets the word "fluttering." From my own experience, when the craft I saw came to a stop and hovered, it also did so with a sort of "falling leaf" motion, i.e. it didn't stay perfectly still but moved around in what some people have described as a "fluttering" motion (i.e. like a butterfly). Perhaps bobbing would be a better word to describe it. Example of usage: Dictionary.com's #1 definition of fluttering - "to wave, flap, or toss about: Banners fluttered in the breeze."
It could be that if you are using some sort of computer device to balance on gravity waves or the like, that is just the nature of how it works. With this type drive, it may be impossible for them to further stabilize that specifically engineered craft _on the outside_ (with its unique propulsion system) while hovering. However, the interior of the craft may possibly be stabilized by computer, countering the necessary exterior movement.
Can anyone think of a practical use for such a pattern of flashing lights and having them shine with extreme brilliance? My initial assumption would be that it is meant to attract attention. Yet aliens purportedly want to do things furtively and in secret.
How does Martin know they don't want to attract attention? Is it possible they may want to slowly let us know they are here? Remember, when people see them and report them, other people don't believe them anyhow. (or we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.) This factor prevents the majority from realizing they are here. Some researchers have been considering the fact that some of their actions could be part of a long-term plan to _slowly_ let us know for certain they are here, so we are not jarred into panic.
If they do want to attract attention, why are they doing this in a rural area in the early morning hours? It's a paradox.
jc: For one, our own police cars have brightly rotating/flashing lights to make people aware they are there so we don't crash into them inadvertently when it is dark. The lights also warn people away from the area so they don't become involved with the action going on.
Another possibility: The flashing lights on a craft might also be, in some cases, an indicator of the craft's various stages of propulsion, moving slowly at low speeds, increasing speed as the craft speeds up. This has been noted in a number of cases.
4. "The lights were in a line at about a sixty degree angle… They always moved in the same sixty degree angle," said Muscarello in his report to the Air Force (The Hynek UFO Report, Dell, 1977, p. 158). Bertrand said the same in his report to the Air Force: "The lights were always in line at about a sixty-degree angle. When the object moved, the lower lights were always forward of the others." For those UFO buffs who are wondering if their memories are on the fritz, you probably aren't suffering from amnesia. Fuller omitted this detail in his book and, as all later accounts based themselves on Fuller, you won't find it anywhere else in the literature but the Blue Book file copied by Hynek. Why are the lights as a group canted at this high angle?
jc: Could the angle of the lights have something to do with the balance of the specific craft? . . . and could the tilting of the craft be involved with (or somehow give it) the momentum to move forward?
The real question however; "Is Kottmeyer's point concerning the angle of the lights, actually that significant to the case as a whole?"
11/4/2012: For a close look at this specific aspect of the Exeter Case, one is invited to read the final result of the 2011 Nickell/McGaha hypothesis concerning same. The two esteemed gentlemen focused on this point from a slightly different angle. Unfortunately, other competent researchers found their loudly trumpeted supposed solution to be a less-than-scientific, untested thesis which when tested, totally failed to fit with the actual facts of the case.
This is a definite violation of standard behavior. UFOs are usually drawn with the lights running horizontal and parallel to the horizon.
jc: Standard behavior of UFOs? I guess Martin has performed a study on this he can show us. It certainly would be interesting to see. However, I would hope it includes a section which examines craft which have been reported operating extremely close to the ground for various periods of time. For all we know, the 60 degrees he is focusing on may have something to do with the craft moving without smacking itself into the ground accidentally, due to the tremendous power at the craft flyer's disposal and inherent problems of balancing.
Additionally, what if the craft are not all made by the same manufacturer?
They may tilt temporarily; they way wobble a bit off-plumb. If there are any other cases where a UFO or its lights move continually canted like this for periods of minutes, I haven't found it. Does this mean it isn't a real UFO? Presumably the only way to interpret this in terms of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) is, "Hey, aliens are weird and will do whatever they darn well want to do." It doesn't really make sense.
jc: The only way? Who says you have to be weird to design one craft with lights and/or functioning different from another? By Martin's definition I guess all our car and plane manufacturers are "weird" because they don't design their vehicles exactly the same. Couldn't a more logical explanation be, as we said before, it might have something to do with the balance of the vehicle at lower speeds and being close to the ground where stabilization becomes a critical issue? We have planes that are designed to take-off with a running start. We have others that are verticle take-off vehicles that adjust themselves to normal flying once they are in the air, and we have helicopters that do tilt a little when they move forward from a fairly still hovering position. It has to do with balancing, inertia, and the amount of push when moving from spot to spot.
5.	At no point in the case does the object travel very far from the ground. When it moves away, it simply disappears into the distance. It doesn't thrust itself skyward.
jc: From the above statement, it would appear Martin does not have a complete overview of the entire Exeter case; click HERE to see why. (Located in my rebuttal to another author.) There were upwards of _60_ people who reported various sightings, many in separate incidents, not just the Muscarello case. The examination of them individually, and as a whole, gives us a more complete picture.
It doesn't show any great speed even in the horizontal direction. True, it darts and turns on a dime, but hummingbirds and dragonflies manage to do this without being extraterrestrial.
jc: How about simple curiosity? Wouldn't you want to do this if you were examining things without actually landing? One might also note that Dragonflies and hummingbirds don't have lights flashing on them in a symmetrical pattern either. However, as should be obvious to all reading this and to eliminate any possible confusion, the Exeter sightings certainly don't sound like Dragonflies and hummingbirds.
6. "When it seemed as if it was going to hit him, he dove down on the shallow shoulder of the road. Then the object appeared to back off slowly… Finally it backed off far enough for Muscarello to make a run for the house. He pounded on the door, screaming." Officer Bertrand apparently also got the impression the object was behaving aggressively. He wrote in his police report, "I got out of the cruiser and went out into the field and all of a sudden this thing came at me at about 100 feet off the ground with red lights going back and forth. He drew his gun, but reholstered it after a moment's thought.
Aliens travel the vast distance to Earth and have nothing better to do than hang about and toy around with humans? This gives the appearance of nothing more profound than mischief-making.
jc: . . . or curiosity in examining _them_ at that moment. When it backed off, perhaps the occupants of the craft didn't want to scare him to death, or wanted to take a picture of or scan him from a slightly greater distance. Do Martin's thoughts on this definitively prove something is _very_ wrong with this case? . . . not to this researcher.
These six points ought to be sufficient to make proponents of the ETH worry that something is very wrong with this case.
jc: Actually, readers can decide for themselves whether or not Martin's logic is written in stone and whether or not the items he has pointed out definitively prove that something is wrong with this case. This researcher believes his points fail to accomplish this because there are other totally logical, legitimate scenarios possible which can also answer the various points he mentions.
As it happens, they are also clues to an alternate solution. Anybody care to guess what the answer to this puzzler is? Look for my guess in part two.
jc: As to Martin's part 2 alternate solution, please click HERE to see his kite proposal and why it doesn't truly fit a number of the specific Exeter case situations.
The Editorial Board encourages readers to try to figure out the answer to this puzzler. Please send your solutions to us at the REALL P.O. Box (they may be printed). Anybody who figures out where Martin is going with this, or who comes up with at least as good a solution, will have a free newsletter issue added to his/her subscription.


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Is mass-produced uniqueness possible? IKEA has teamed up with Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek, known for skilled craftmanship and unique scrap wood furniture, to explore the idea, bringing together industrialisation and personalisation in INDUSTRIELL.
The idea behind INDUSTRIELL is to create a collection that celebrates imperfections by producing more tactile and human. So who else to reach out to than Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek, the uncrowned king of scrap wood furniture?
Creative Leader Karin Gustavsson says IKEA was curious about what Piet's approach could mean for brand new, mass-produced items. "INDUSTRIELL is all about bringing a sense of imperfect uniqueness to what's serial produced – while being super-efficient in the process," she says.
The collaboration between Piet and IKEA is centered around finding ways to build uniqueness into each product, for example, by allowing variations in designs, patterns, colours and natural materials.
Piet says the idea of using what material is there and discovering its qualities is what he loves about working with salvage furniture. Paired with the IKEA philosophy of working directly on the factory floor to make the most of materials and techniques, efficiency is a key aspect of the collection.
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Der Begriff chemische Gasphaseninfiltration (, CVI) bezeichnet ein Verfahren, bei dem in Anlehnung an die CVD-Verfahren (CVD = , dt.: chemische Gasphasenabscheidung) ein Bauteil nicht nur oberflächlich beschichtet wird, sondern ein poröses Bauteil, zum Beispiel eine fixierte Faserstruktur oder ein poröser Kohlenstoff, auch auf den inneren Oberflächen beschichtet beziehungsweise infiltriert wird. Eine der ersten Verwendungen der CVI war die Infiltration von Aluminiumoxidfasern mit Chromcarbid.

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So before anyone starts thinking that I am going to rant for or against any type of meat eater, vegetarian or other preference of humans, this is about wildlife . Wildlife eats what they have been taught to eat by their parents and their parents before them. Even better, they have developed physical abilities for their specific, preferred type of food.
Look at the beak of this juvenile Bald Eagle. It caught itself a fish and landed in this tree. The fish was gone within 3 minutes. Us humans can't do that: eat a raw fish without utensils within three minutes. This young one had no trouble with that. And was hungry for more, too.
When another eagle approached the area it had just gotten a fish in, he or she was screaming loudly to scare the intruder away. At first I though it might have been to advertise the fact that there was food to be had, but no, this one was clearly not happy about someone else taking its food.
Do all eagles catch fish in the water? Nope, they also steal it from others. This mid-air skirmish ended in the fish dropping into the water to feed a waiting gull swimming close by. The fight lasted for less than three seconds.
So where are the eagles to be seen the most? Where there is fish of course. They are not afraid to take fish freshly fished by professionals. They let the gulls get closest to the fishermen, let them get away with the fish and then steal it. Works like a charm.
Not every bird is as keen on fish as the Bald Eagles, though. Some birds prefer insects. They are just as hard to get to, but easier on the muscles. This Woodpecker was hard at work to extract its bacon from the tree. I could hear it from hundreds of meters away. When I finally found it, it was too busy feeding to care about me.
And then you have the seed eaters. They scavenge anywhere where they can find seeds on the ground. Or in some cases on feeders put there by a gentle person. This Purple Finch was kind enough to sit still for a few seconds for me to photograph it.
In other places, feeders are hung by volunteers, like here in Birds Hill Park, on a remote trail. This Red Breasted Nuthatch is one of my favourite birds. Not very easy to photograph straight up, as its favourite posture is walking down a tree trunk and feed off everything it finds along the way. Pictures with Nuthatches head down are all too common in my collection.
Bringing home the bacon is essential for all life, wild or domesticated. Come to think of it, I will need to go to Costco now, bring home some bacon for my own family.


12 Feb 2019 - The ILO 100th anniversary reaffirms a shared commitment to achieving social justice, notably through universal social protection.
Over the past 100 years many countries have developed more comprehensive social security systems embedded in law. Despite significant progress, the large majority of the global population, notably workers in the informal economy, enjoys only limited protection, if any at all.
The ILO estimates that today more than half of the world's population live without any form of social protection. This massive gap is not acceptable from a human rights perspective. It is also a missed opportunity from a developmental point of view. This event will provide an opportunity to share best practices in countries on achieving social protection for all.


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Man, 25, fighting for life in hospital after being hit by HGV on A194(M) in Gateshead
A 25-year-old man is in a critical condition following the incident which closed a section of the A194(M) for around seven hours
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The man received medical attention from paramedics on the carriageway before being taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
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Personally, I have been doing more and more with Teams. I will admit, making the change from Email to Teams definitely requires some re-orientation and change in how I communicate and share information. I have to say even I am turning the corner, and the vision is so clear to me now.
With that said, there were some new Admin capabilities released into Teams.
There are four new admin roles that have been created that will provide finer granularity around how Teams are managed: Teams Service Administrator, Teams Communication Administrator, Teams Communications Support Engineering and Teams Communications Support Specialists.
From my perspective, organizations will have specialists that may be more focused on the group chat features of Teams versus the Phone / PBX features. This level of administrator definition will allow you to break roles and responsibilities out.
There is a new all up view that allows you to see every Team in your tenant.
Within this new view, you have the ability to take actions across multiple Teams from a single view.
This one I was the most interested in learning about. There are new management APIs that have been released that allows you to automation around Team and Channel generation. You can control the entire life-cycle of that Teams generation. This just super interesting because there is opportunity to some really creative things. For instance, lets every time new sales lead is created, you initiate a new Team or Channel, and then drive all the users who need to participate in the sales lead to have all their conversation and collaboration directly to that Team or Channel. Your CRM can generate the Teams or Channel automatically.


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Reviewed by GREG KING
Director: Irwin Winkler
Stars: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jamey Sheridan, Mary Steenburgen, Jena Malone
While the title may not exactly sound riveting, Life As A House is a moving and beautifully written drama that explores a number of serious and important themes with surprising honesty and intelligence – themes like family, death, alienation, teenage angst, the inability to change or escape the past, and the healing power of love.
George (Kevin Kline) is an architect who is sacked from his job after 26 years, mainly because he is a dinosaur who refuses to use computer programs to design houses for clients, preferring to build hand crafted and detailed models. On that day he also discovers that he is suffering from a terminal cancer and only has four months to live. George determines to use the remaining time to atone for his past mistakes, primarily by healing the rift with his estranged teenage son Sam (Hayden Christensen, who also plays the teenage Anakin Skywalker in the new Star Wars instalment Attack Of The Clones). Sam is deeply troubled 16 year old, resentful of the world around him, surly, rebellious, and experimenting with drugs, auto-asphyxiation, and casual sex for money.
George hopes to spend the summer months with Sam, tearing down his old cottage and building a new house as a legacy for his son. The act of building the house eventually brings the two closer together, but it also affects a number of other relationships within the local community, especially his neighbour (Mary Steenburgen) and her daughter Alyssa (Jena Malone). George's ex-wife Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas) comes to rediscover her feelings for him as well as questioning her current marriage to the seemingly cold, workaholic Peter (Jamey Sheridan, from the current Law & Order spin off Criminal Intent).
Beautifully observed and directed by Oscar winning producer turned director Irwin Winkler (The Net, etc), Life As A House slowly draws the audience into George's quest and explores how his determined efforts slowly changes the world around him. The title itself is something of a metaphor for contemporary American life, as the house that George builds comes to reflect solid values, and the strength and endurance of family, the destruction of the past and a new beginning.
The sharp and witty script from Mark Addus (As Good As It Gets, etc) balances some weighty themes and positive messages with humour and sentiment and easily wins audiences over. Life As A House is a sentimental and touching melodrama that pushes a number of emotional buttons without being overtly manipulative or contrived. Even composer Mark Isham displays some uncharacteristic restraint as his often saccharine score has been reined in.
This low-key but richly satisfying film boasts some fine performances from its wonderful ensemble cast. In one of his best roles for quite some time Kline delivers a restrained, sympathetic, rounded, subtly nuanced and sustained performance as the stubborn George. But the biggest revelation is the wonderfully complex and affecting performance from young Christensen, who displays a surprising maturity despite his relative inexperience before the cameras.
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Duke Nukem Does Not Make Empty Threats
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There's not a second of gameplay footage in this new Duke Nukem Forever promo, but honestly I still think it's the best one yet. I can't believe the game (supposedly) comes out in less than a month. Frankly, I don't know why the Christian evangelicals aren't talking more about Duke Nukem Forever's impending release date more — it's their strongest evidence that the world is ending tomorrow.
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Q: Encountering Error when trying to INSERT INTO an excel file I'm trying to figure out how to insert a row of data into an existing Excel file.   The file is simple with ONLY 3 headers,  CITY STATE and ZIP.   I've selected the 3 cells in Excel and named the range Browns.  When I run the program I get an error code.    Number of Query Values and Destination fields are not the same.
This is what I pass into the method
Excel_IO.inSertRowTEST(filePath1.Text, "Browns");

Methods I've created.
public static void inSertRowTEST(string FP1, string TableName)
    {
        string sql = null;
        Excel_IO.openSheet(FP1);
        sql = "INSERT INTO  " + TableName + " VALUES ('Jack','Smith')";
        myCommand.CommandText = sql;
        myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
        Excel_IO.closeMyConnection();

    }

public static void openSheet(string filePathMain)
    {
        // MyConnection Equals A New OleDbConnection, The Connection Defines Which Versions Of Excel Files Can Be Used, The file path, And Some Basic Excel Properties
        MyConnection = new System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ace.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + filePathMain + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0; HDR=Yes;\";");

        // Opening The Connection With The Excel File
        MyConnection.Open();

        // The Connection Gets MyConnection
        myCommand.Connection = MyConnection;

    }

public static void closeMyConnection()
    {
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    }

Anyone have any suggestions?
Exact Error Code

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException (0x80004005): Number of query values and destination fields are not the same.
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextErrorHandling(OleDbHResult hr)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextForSingleResult(tagDBPARAMS dbParams, Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText(Object& executeResult)
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at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderInternal(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at MyExcel_IO.Excel_IO.inSertRowTEST(String FP1, String TableName) in c:\Users\t1008ts\Desktop\Projects\MasterP2\May19Template\Excel_IO.cs:line 220
   at MyExcel_IO.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Users\t1008ts\Desktop\Projects\MasterP2\May19Template\Form1.cs:line 121
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I've selected the 3 cells in Excel and named the range Browns

I think when you insert into the excel spreadsheet you specify the table (or worksheet) rather than creating a range.
Try renaming a worksheet to "Browns"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/rename-a-sheet-HP005202108.aspx


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British pub food finds a permanent home in Birmingham, Alabama's Little London
The Duchess, Birmingham's most whimsical and charmingly over-the-top food truck, was a vehicle (literally) for bigger things. The perfect ambassador for lots of tasty British dishes, the popularity of The Duchess and Little London Kitchen led directly to the creation of a neighborhood pub — unlike any other in town — that aims to be a catalyst for meaningful community change. "The Duchess" is what Bea and Matthew Morrissette named their red, 1968 Leyland double-decker bus where customers could sit and enjoy Little London Kitchen's British comfort foods.
The concept was wildly popular from the moment they first parked her at a local brewery in June 2019. The Duchess is actually a dining room on wheels with banquettes cheerfully upholstered with the Union Jack; the couple served out of a food truck trailer, and Birmingham learned quickly that traditional fish 'n' chips, Yorkshire pudding and cottage pies pair nicely with local beers. Bea and Matthew even collaborated with Cahaba Brewing Co. on a Little London IPA.
Today, the Little London Kitchen food truck still makes the rounds at breweries, tap rooms and neighborhoods around town (see the schedule on Facebook), but The Duchess mostly stays parked at The Little London — Birmingham's first authentic British pub. It opened in west Homewood in summer 2021. "The Little London is a bit of my home that I'm trying to bring here to Birmingham, Alabama," Bea says. "It should remind you, as soon as you walk in, of the essence of what a British pub is, which is like a living room away from home and, in certain cases, with some really good comfort food."
There's a traditional, homey UK pub vibe here. Ornate wallpaper, eclectic curios and lots of happy plants surround re-loved, overstuffed chairs and sofas. Some of these comfortable chairs are snugged up to pub tables of different sizes throughout the dining room.
There are seats at the busy bar just inside the front door; there's porch seating outside under festive lights, and you can eat in The Duchess. It's the kind of space where you can have a family dinner or linger over a beer with friends; enjoy a cornhole tournament or an intimate game of darts; and attend a Harry Potter Christmas party, which happened just recently. (Hanging the floating candles and winged keys took some time; they probably will stay up for a while.) There's Bingo with Bea; live music and poetry readings; and Manchester United games on the telly (Bea's a big fan, but she'll show other teams, too, when Man U is not playing).
The Little London brings the British pub experience to Birmingham from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo. The food at The Little London includes favorites from the food truck, but the pub kitchen allows Bea to expand the menu to include international dishes that reflect the diverse culinary offerings in London. "When you walk through the streets of London, you'll find all kinds of food," she says. "I'm completely biased, having grown up there, but my love of food — absolutely cultivated by London — encouraged me to travel the world.
And so, when I traveled, I took cooking classes everywhere that I traveled. I'm bringing that to Little London." Executive chef Teresa Cottrell is the one who interprets those global recipes — scaling them up — for the customers here. "We try and really cultivate authentic food and flavors and experiences, for sure," Bea says. (She learned to make the pub's spaghetti Bolognese, "actually a very popular dish in London," from a woman from Treviso, Italy.) "Even in the simplest form of a beef pie," she says, "at least, it should be done properly."
As might be expected, fish 'n' chips is the No.
1 dish at The Little London. (Brittany Faush / Alabama NewsCenter)
That means you'll find traditional hand pies (beef, chicken and vegetable or a vegan massaman version), bangers and mash (made with delicious, peppery Cumberland sausage from Smiley Brothers in Pelham), authentic Yorkshire pudding and classic slow-cooked beef stew. There's malt vinegar for your chips (fries), or you can dip them into curry sauce, homemade gravy, a cheesy bechamel or slightly spicy boom-boom sauce. You'll also find global dishes like vegetable massaman pakoras (fritters), ratatouille with grit cakes, Indian curries and that spaghetti Bolognese with Bea's braised beef ragu.
The Filipino BBQ ribs (sweet and sticky and brined for days) are a customer favorite and are meaningful for Bea. "I'm half Filipino," she says. "That's how I learned to cook … with my aunts and my mother. … And so, I always wanted to have a little signature on the menu from Filipino cuisine." That these ribs are a hit should not be a surprise. "I mean, the South loves the ribs," Bea says. "I don't know why I didn't try that one sooner." Salads include a lemony carrot and thyme combination; shredded cabbage lightly pickled in a balsamic-agave dressing; or quinoa with sweet potato, cranberries and pumpkin seeds.
There's a thoughtful kids' menu, too. Fish 'n' chips, with scratch-made tartar sauce, remains the most popular dish. Period.
To date, they've served more than 18,000 portions (that's 30,000 pounds of potatoes a year alongside sustainable cod) on newspaper-lined baskets. There are a variety of imported beers in bottles and on tap. They offer blended beers, too — combinations of beer and cider like a Black and Gold (Guinness and Magners); look for the occasional keg of something special like Tennent's Scottish lager.
Specialty cocktails include a Pimm's Cup, an Earl Gray-tini, a mint tea mojito. (A friend ordered a dirty martini, and they served it in a teacup — "from Bea's own wedding china," the server told her.) The Little London is also the kind of place that captures hearts and instills an interesting sort of loyalty. Regular customers (Bea calls them "Little Londoners") often pitch in, telling newcomers how to order at the bar, get a numbered bottle with a flag and find their own seat anywhere.
Some of these regulars have even adopted the habits you'll see with customers in pubs across the pond: Bus your own table, and if you want another beer, bring your glass to the bar to get it. Only a few weeks after they signed the lease for the pub, the country shut down because of COVID-19. But even as Bea and Matthew were creating the place, friends they've made through The Duchess and their food truck stepped in to help out.
Some helped paint the pub; Caitlin Hastings, of Botanica, brought in the lush plants that thrive in this space. Customers stopped by during the early days of the pandemic to "fill the freezer" with take-and-bake items like shepherd's pie and bread pudding. (You still can get these in the freezer near the front.) People picked up afternoon tea to go; they bought family meals like beef Wellington and Cornish hens. Bea and Matthew sold baked goods online and took the food truck to neighborhoods to "bring food to the people." Sometimes, Bea says, people just came by to leave money in the tip jar.
During the second wave of infection last winter, they had to shut down, so Bea asked for help. "I just did one post with a GoFundMe link on it. Just on Facebook. … You feel like, as a business, you shouldn't ask, but coming from a nonprofit background and knowing what I was trying to bring here, I was like, 'Let's see if they want it.' Because we have so many customers that have so much affection for us.
And in a day, we made £10,000. From one post." It was about more than the money, though. "It was like, 'OK, people want us here," she says she told Matthew. "We have to just keep on at this.'"
The Duchess, a double-decker bus, is outfitted for dining. (Brittany Faush / Alabama NewsCenter)
Bea and Matthew, in turn, are paying it forward. They've opened their kitchen for other food trucks to use as a commissary during the pandemic.
Trucks like Ono Ice (handmade Hawaiian shaved ice), Tap'a Top (Jamaican foods) and Sahani (Kenyan dishes). They park there and just help pay for water. There are collaborations and kitchen takeovers and strategy sessions.
This idea of neighbor helping neighbor is playing out in a larger way through Bea's nonprofit, The Murmuration Foundation. The pub, she says, is more than just a way to make a living — it's a way to fund the nonprofit and help the community. Bea's background is in nonprofits, not food. "What I wanted to do was have my own foundation one day, and I wanted to have a commercial entity that could feed that nonprofit … sustainably.
Because in that field that I was working in, I've seen all echelons of challenges when it comes to funding. I also don't have a network here because I'm new, you know, and I thought, 'Food is a connector.'" (She's from London; Matthew is from the Magic City; the two met in Manhattan.) "I spent two years researching kind of where my passions are and what in my passions would most connect me to people. … Little London was born from that."
The foundation, Bea says, "aims to look at all areas of what makes a person well and a community well," things like health, good education, solid occupations, financial well-being. "It's happening a little quicker than I imagined," she says. "I wasn't supposed to start for another year, but we are very much involved in Titusville regeneration now …" focusing on nutrition, health, apprenticeships, education and art. "Some of our events are really targeted," Bea says. "We have an organization The Flourish Alabama, for example, that is a young, black art organization. … They go in and they educate, and they try to give new artists platforms. … We do private events here once a month for them, so their artists can practice." Ticket prices go toward filming the artists, "so they have content and can get a foot up."
The name of Bea's foundation comes from the synchronized flight of starlings. "The idea with the Murmuration is that all together we create something much larger and more beautiful, but we are all singular in our flight around each other." It's all about effective collaboration, she adds.
Bangers and mash is a London pub favorite. The version at The Little London is made with Cumberland sausage from Smiley Brothers in Pelham. (Brittany Faush / Alabama NewsCenter) Outdoor seating is among the options at The Little London. (Brittany Faush / Alabama NewsCenter) Fish 'n' chips is the No.
Aside from making friends in Birmingham, The Little London is gathering a wider following. The place was featured recently on Netflix's "Fresh, Fried and Crispy." We can look for The Little London on a Discovery International/Cooking Channel special in the new year. "Those people who, because of the Netflix series, come from Atlanta and Chattanooga and Huntsville … we've seen a rise of that, and that's been very incredible!
I'm like, 'Wow! Have some bread pudding! It's a long trip.'"
And locals are quickly loyal. "It's been lovely, you know; people have the curiosity," Bea says. "I think open-minded people are Little Londoners for sure. You can tell when they walk in, and they love it.
We see them every other week after that." Bea says she hopes people who come to Little London feel "like they've experienced … something that transported them through food, through ambiance … that they really feel, when they've left here, 'Well, that was something very different. That was something unique.' I want to encourage the unique in Birmingham," she says, "not to be afraid of it, but to be bold and daring and do something that isn't the norm."
Another important thing: "For your customers to feel that affection for you when they leave," she says. "I think affection for us, you know, it's more than the food. I want you to love the food, of course. I want you to find your favorite dish, and I want you to find your favorite drink, but I want you to leave feeling that you had an experience altogether.
That's kind of the essence of Little London."
The Little London
162 Oxmoor Road, Homewood
205-249-1937 Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.
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If you consider yourself the Goldilocks of skiers, always on the lookout for the resort that's just right, you might be able to stop your search at Sunday River in Newry, Maine. It offers up enough variety of terrain to keep everyone from enthusiastic beginners to fearless straightliners happy. And thanks to its northerly location, it gets (and keeps) plenty of snow and makes even more. The base area and nearby town of Bethel have no shortage of options for family fun, and the aprés-ski scene will keep foodies full and partiers dancing. Best of all, Sunday River is close enough to be reachable for a long weekend but far enough away that it never gets too crowded.
With 135 trails spread over 870 acres and 15 lifts to get you to the top of its eight peaks, even the most gung-ho skier or boarder will have a tough time hitting everything on offer at Sunday River in one weekend. Novices especially are in for a treat, as over 75 percent of the River's trails are rated beginner or intermediate, but many of those runs are wide enough to allow for huge carving turns and steep enough to offer advanced downhillers a thrill. Even better, Sunday River's prodigious snowmaking means you'll rarely deal with trail closures due to inadequate cover.
A nice feature of Sunday River's topography is that you'll always find a challenge and yet rarely end up in terrain that's over your head—you'll find a green circle, a blue square, and a black diamond on most of the River's peaks. The biggest complaint among those who don't know their way around Sunday River is that they end their ski day feeling like they spent most of their time traversing from one area to another. It's true that Sunday River's eight separate peaks can make navigation a challenge, so it's best to study a trail map (or rely on a handy online guide) and make a plan before setting out for the day.
Three factors should guide your organization: making early morning tracks on Sunday River's signature corduroy, getting to a good lunch spot, and taking a ride on the mountain's new Chondola lift. Those in the know arrive early enough to snag a good parking spot at the Barker Lodge area in the middle of the mountain, then catch first chair to warm up on the heavenly rolling groomers found in the here. For lunch, plan a stop for BBQ at North Peak Lodge, pub grub at the Shipyard Brewery at the White Cap Lodge, or a noodle bowl at the Cho Sun Sushi and Noodle Bar at the South Ridge Lodge. In the afternoon, it's worth the effort to take the Chondola—a chairlift/gondola hybrid that climbs 1,110 feet of vertical in less than seven minutes. This fun feature is the highlight of the $20 million investment in the mountain made by Boyne Resorts, which purchased Sunday River in 2007.
Unless you're a complete newbie (in that case, stick to North Peak), start your day by steering towards the mountain's right (or west) side. Beginning from the South Ridge Lodge, take the Chondola up and choose between a series of green circles and blue groomers like Northern Lights and Firestar as warm-ups on your way to Jordan Bowl Express. Once you arrive at the top of the Jordan Bowl climb the observation deck, if it's a clear day, and feast your eyes on a breathtaking, panoramic view that stretches from Canada to the mountains of New Hampshire and as far away as as the Atlantic Ocean.
For beginners, Lollapalooza, on the mountain's far right side, is one of the best green cruisers to be found in the East. Long and fun, this route offers magnificent vistas of the surrounding northern Appalachian mountains. Once you tire of that run, take the epic Kansas back towards the resort's middle. Do a few laps on Borealis and Aludra, both green circles off Aurora Peak, until you get hungry. At that point, stop at the conveniently located mid-mountain Peak Lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, check out Three Mile Trail off the Barker Mountain Express, Green Cheese and Moonstruck off the Little Whitecap Quad, and Over Easy and Roadrunner off the White Cap Quad. Or you can challenge yourself with blue squares like Wildfire, Monday Mourning, or Sunday Punch. End your day with laps off the Chondola until you're ready to call it quits.
For intermediates, Sunday River is paradise, as blue squares with nice pitch and plenty of space to navigate are the resort's bread and butter. Once you arrive at Jordan Bowl, hit up Rogue Angel and Excalibur. On your way back east to lunch, do a couple of laps on Northern Lights off the Aurora Peak Quad, then make your way to Spruce Peak and check out American Express and Risky Business. Up the Locke Mountain Triple, dare yourself to connect Goat Path with Lazy River and Tourist Trap—it'll be the highlight of your day. Cascades, Jibe, and Tempest are good day-enders.
Advanced skiers aim themselves directly at Oz, a magical land with classic New England all-natural skiing and advanced to expert terrain. Ruby Palace, Tin Woodsman, Eureka, and Emerald City are the signature challenges of Oz. Before lunch, hit up the bumpy iCaramba in the Jordan Bowl area, then the serious steeps on Vortex, Supernova, and Black Hole off the Aurora Peak Quad. After eating, continue to work your way east, sampling Northern Exposure, Gnarnia, and Top Gun. White Heat off White Cap Peak, is burly enough to host an Olympic moguls competition and the River's biggest challenge. End the day alternating between rolling screamers like Right Stuff, Bim's Whim, Obsession, and Shock Wave.


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There are storage projects underway across the city. One is easy to see: a huge tank farm under construction along Beltway 8 near the Houston Ship Channel.
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L'Eurotheum è un grattacielo di 31 piani alto 110 metri situato nel centro della città di Francoforte, in Germania. L'edificio fu costruito nel 1999 in concomitanza con l'adiacente Main Tower. Ogni piano della torre ha 17.000 m2 di spazi per uffici, che sono stati occupati per lo più dalla Banca centrale europea come estensione del loro quartier generale a Willy-Brandt-Platz fino al 2015.

Il 22º piano ospita un bar pubblico. Dal 22 al 29 piani, ci sono 74 appartamenti residenziali, che possono essere affittati. Inoltre,vi sono le "Innside Premium Suites", che offrono un servizio alberghiero on demand.

L'edificio è stato progettato da Novotny Mähner Assoziierte. L'edificio nel 2018 ha cambiato proprietà ed è stato venduto per 250 milioni di euro.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Grattacieli di Francoforte sul Meno


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Many mothers have advised their children, "Don't burn your bridges." And when it comes to leaving your job, mom's advice couldn't ring truer.
In the moments of excitement after having receiving that long-awaited call that you finally got the job you've worked so hard to get, you may be tempted to throw caution to the wind, shout it from the rooftops, and "stick it" to your current boss or coworkers who made your life miserable on the job.
But…come back down to earth…breathe…and make a plan. Below are some tips to avoid burning bridges as you're planning your exit.
Your current job may ask for additional time if you're an executive or senior manager, but your new job may want you to start as soon as possible. If your new job cannot be flexible on a start date past two weeks from acceptance of the offer, consider being available on a limited basis after you've left the company to answer any questions your former boss may have.
Now that you've gotten a new job, now is not the time to simply physically be at the job and mentally zone out. Why? Because your boss and your co-workers will be watching to see how you comport yourself during your final days. In fact, how you leave, and how you wrap up your responsibilities will make a lasting impression on those you leave behind.
In the final weeks leading up to your final day, train your replacement on how you do your job, including all of the tips and tricks that you wrote down on sticky notes that made your job that much easier. Document your actual duties, as they may be different from the job description you received when you first started the job.
If you're a manager or executive with a significant level of responsibility, your departure creates a larger impact on the business. It's important that even before you leave a job that you've at least charted out in your mind a business continuity plan so that your company and boss won't be left in the lurch when you leave. What does this mean exactly? This means identifying one or two direct reports or employees in other parts of the organization whom you'd recommend as a successor for your role. Before you've even received a new offer for a new job, engage these potential successors at appropriate times if possible (such as at mid-year or year-end review times) to determine their career goals and level of interest in taking on more responsibility. Depending upon what you learn, act on this information by developing these employees as appropriate. This will give you factual information you can share with your boss and will make a positive impression once you leave.
We've all seen an email pop up on our computer with the subject line, "Thank you," or "Good bye," only to find out that that's the first time your co-worker in the cubicle – right next to yours – informed you about their departure.
Although you may not have time to say goodbye to everyone you've worked with in those busy last two weeks or so, take the time to tell those with whom you had the best working relationships and stakeholders of projects on which you may be working. This cements a perception of your professionalism and allows stakeholders to ask you any questions they may need to before you leave. And don't forget to tell your co-workers in the cubicles next to you! After you've done that, then send the email.
Gratitude goes a long way. And saying "thank you" to your co-workers and your boss leaves a positive impression in the minds of those you leave behind. These individuals can be crucial to your future success. Always remember – you never know who you may need in the future.


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Litmus Tests: Fail One and You Fail Them All
Above all else, this is a learning blog. More specifically, this is a blog about spiritual learning, which I believe is the core purpose of our mortal lives in this world. In the following, I would like to briefly outline a bit of spiritual learning I have experienced concerning politics over the course of the past two or three years.
Conservatives, the alt-right, neo-reactionaries, and Christians the world are once again showering the prime minister of Hungary with approval and applause for apparently opposing the System - this time, for passing a law that makes the dissemination of alphabet-people material to children illegal in Hungary.
I get where they're coming from. I have lived in Hungary for a little over six years, and before the birdemic I often entertained notions that the Hungarian prime minister may indeed be on the right side of the spiritual war. I even wrote a few blog posts exploring this possibility - see here, here, and here.
After all, the prime minister vehemently opposes mass migration (and actually built a fence to stop it), expelled a George Soros-founded university from Budapest, funded schemes to bolster families, spoke of the importance of Christian values, and so on.
Having spent the bulk of my adult life marinating in the self-despising, value-inverted political sauce of the Anglo world, I began to view the Hungarian prime minister and his government as a potential beacon of political hope.
But then the birdemic happened - and the birdemic brought things to a point. The line separating Good from evil became clear and undeniable. The gray area/middle ground dissolved. Things became undeniably obvious.
The catalyst for things having come to a point was the largely unnoticed and unacknowledged Satanic global totalitarian coup of 2020, which the Establishment succeeded in pulling off via the birdemic hysteria it fomented early in the year.
The Satanic global totalitarian coup is exactly that. It is Satanic, that is anti-God, anti-Christianity, anti-Good; it is global, that is it is in place everywhere around the world; and it is totalitarian, that is it is dictatorial, enslaving, and anti-freedom.
Shortly after the coup, Bruce Charlton came up with his Litmus Tests of Serious Christianity, an efficient and effective means through which to discern which side of the spiritual war a self-identified Christian individual or organization has chosen to be on following the coup.
Dr. Charlton's Litmus Tests are primarily about attitudes towards the following Satanic secular/materialist agenda items:
The birdemic
Climate change/global warming
And of course the ongoing theme of the sexual revolution, with special emphasis on the trans agenda.
Dr. Charlton surmises that any self-professed Christian who endorses and supports one or more of the items above has chosen - be it actively or passively - to be on the side against God and Creation.
I agree wholeheartedly and have found the tests to be a useful and accurate framework for discernment.
For example, let's apply the Litmus Tests to the Hungarian prime minister.
The birdemic - massive fail. The prime minister broadcast his belief in the birdemic as a deadly plague and subsequently implemented one of the most draconian sets of birdemic measures in the world - measures that continue to this day. Moreover, he willingly and actively dove headlong into the peck program and succeeded in pecking nearly two-thirds of the adult population. Unpecked people - like me - are currently locked out of most pleasures and amusements such as cinemas, pools, theaters, concerts, sporting events, etc.
Climate change/global warming - another massive fail. The prime minister and his government have fully embraced the Big Lie backing the Establishment's drive to fully enslave the world. The president of Hungary recently announced the country's total commitment to the UN's 2030 sustainability goals. He also added that "the lifestyles we have grown accustomed to following the Second World War have become unsustainable and must be drastically changed."
Anti-racism - pass! The prime minister and his government have resisted all anti-racism pressures (for now).
Sexual revolution - pass, sort of. The prime minister has opposed QWERTY propaganda. The constitution only recognizes marriage between a man and woman. The government has officially rejected the trans agenda. Of course, some of the government's ministers have been caught in various scandals, the most notable of which involved a Fidesz EU representative shimmying down a drain pipe while attempting to escape a 25-man gay orgy the police in Brussels busted for defying birdemic social distancing measures.
Two tests passed; two failed. Unfortunately, the Litmus Tests don't follow the logic of a line from a Meatloaf song where two-out-of-three ain't bad; when it comes to the Litmus Tests of Serious Christianity, two-out-four is bad. Even one-out-of-four is bad. Put another way, the Litmus Tests require a 100% to pass.
Anything less requires repentance. Major repentance. And the prime minister hasn't uttered a word of regret or repentance about his support of the climate change agenda. Even worse, he presents himself as a veritable hero for the action he took during the birdemic.
That alone reveals which side the prime minister is on - and it isn't the side of Good.
Interestingly, the anti-QWERTY law the prime minister and his government recently legislated also contained an anti-pedophilia clause. In a nutshell, the law is all about protecting children.
This, in and of itself, is a Good thing. Ironically, the same concern for protecting children's welfare is utterly absent when it comes the birdemic and its peck. For example, the prime minister vocally supports the pecking of all children and has already encouraged hundreds of thousands of youngsters between the ages of 16-18 to receive the experimental gene therapy. The prime minister has publicly expressed that he would like to have children as young as twelve pecked in the future to ensure Hungary abides by the global diktat of none are safe until all are safe.
Thus, I have a simply message for all the conservatives, alt-righters, neo-reactionaries, and Christians who believe the prime minister of Hungary is "based" and on the side of Good:
He isn't.
And Christians must be especially vigilant when discerning. Remember, the anti-Christ will not come in the form of a demon, but in the form a someone who appears to be a friend of Christ.
Note added: The most prominent of Orbán's cheerleaders at the moment is the American, Orthodox Christian writer Rod "Please Don't Let The Birdemic Kill Me and Leave My Children Orphaned" Dreher.
Further note added: Poor discernment and judgement happens. I have discerned poorly many times in the past (I thought Orbán might be a force for good; I admired Jordan Peterson's stance against the trans agenda; etc.) and will likely do so many more times in the future. The key is repentance. Acknowledge your error in judgement, forgive yourself, and ask Christ to forgive you. That is a big part of how spiritual learning happens.
And one more note: The following comment left by Bruce Charlton on WmJas's From the Narrow Desert does an excellent job detailing the mechanisms of what I have covered in the post above. Worth reading!
I am not attempting to answer your primary query, nor am I competent to do so - but I'd like to draw attention to this instance of the way that convergence works.
Like most/ all the Mormon leadership, DHO is leftist on 3/4 of my Litmus Test issues (birdemic, antiracism, climate emergency) but conservative and traditionalist on the Big Issue for progressive/ apostatizing Mormons - i.e. the sexual revolution.
Therefore he is both objectively pro-leftist/ converged (and by implication anti-Christian in tendency); and yet also able to serve (for reasons of his rhetorical style I would guess, more than substance) as a 'hardline reactionary' bugbear for the QERTY ex-Mormons.
In microcosm, this is an instance of how convergence works/ why conservatives Always lose. To the mainstream leftist, anyone who holds-out against even a Single aspect of Leftism is excoriated without restraint as a 'fascist'. Nearly all victims of the most vicious Politically Correct witch hunts have been leftists. Donald Trump was/is, of course, objectively leftist.
But the Christians/ conservatives adopt an attitude that if a person supports any single one of their agenda items (eg is pro-life) then they are OK and welcome 'on the team'.
Thus Jordan Peterson was wildly popular with conservative Christians, even though he is not a Christian and objectively and strongly leftist; simply because he favoured a couple of Conservative Christian talking points (albeit for the wrong reasons!). But at the same time he also served as a bugaboo for progressives, because he held back from endorsing the *full* leftist programme.
Christian conservatives tend to be insistent on traditionalism with respect to the sexual revolution; but are very accommodating of leftism when it is economic (socialistic), political (e.g. pro world government/ UN/ WHO, 'free trade', open borders etc), or takes the form of antiracism, environmentalism etc.
The main problem is not so much that Christian conservative lose in the sense of losing control of Western Civilization - maybe this was inevitable in an increasingly evil world. The serious problem is that they lose discernment.
This is what we have seen with the birdemic; as with the other Litmus Test issues.
By failing to discern evil; they become complicit with systemic lying. By endorsing lies their views become incoherent hence ineffectual.
In sum; by failing to discern leftism where is explicitly exists (i.e. in church leadership) and that leftism is against God; they pick the wrong side in the spiritual war, and start down the path to self-chosen damnation.
jorgen b
Ultimately these 4 planks of the litmus test must all be passed together because they are only symptoms of one plank, whether one supports the notion that hat wearers are special and chosen by God or not. Those who do will fail one of the tests because someone in a hat tells them they must.
@ jorgen b - Yes. The Litmus Tests are all macro-demonic strategies specifically designed to work against God and Creation. The Litmus Tests aren't about sin or morality, but about alignment.
Anyone who un-repentantly endorses or supports any of the Tests or regards them as mechanisms for "good" has failed in terms of spiritual discernment. It matters little how "good" an individual is beyond that.
Hari Seldon
I find the continued admiration for Orban and other "based" leaders (such as Putin) quite frustrating in light of those leaders' embrace of birdemic lockdowns and mass genetic jabbing, as if those things never happened or are an irrelevant footnote. It is perhaps unsurprising to see atheists of the "dissident right" praise nationalist strongmen even when they prove to be aligned with a totalitarian, anti-Christian agenda, much as they praise China's atheist, Communist government.
But I would expect people who call themselves Christian, like Dreher, to be instinctively repulsed by the totalitarian, inhuman and anti-Christian measures that those strongmen imposed and apparently still champion. (Just last weekend, Moscow's mayor – presumably with Putin's tacit support – announced a fresh round of birdemic restrictions, including the closure of shopping centers and children's play areas. Because cases!)
As far as I know, only one prominent political figure in the *world* has expressed regret for lockdowns – and none on the national level. That figure is Governor Ron DeSantis, who said in an interview a couple of months ago that locking down Florida in April of last year was a "huge mistake." Introspection and self-criticism in our rulers is so rare that that admission almost comes as a revelation.
@ Hari - My discernment failures occurred prior to the birdemic. Before the birdemic, my mind was more open to the possibility that individuals could, perhaps, get one or two major issues wrong and still be a force for good. That all changed after the birdemic, during which things effectively came to a point.
It's important to differentiate between the Litmus Tests and behavior/sin. A person can be quite sinful and behave quite poorly but still be on the side of God and Creation. The same applies in reverse.
The worst are those who double down, even triple down on Litmus Test failures. Many so-called Christian bloggers/writers have done this (and are still doing it now). To see the birdemic measures as "good" is to regard the System and its demonic overlords as "good." It really is as simple as that.
My mother lives in Florida and has spoken quite often about DeSantis. I don't know much about him beyond that, but to have a political figure admit he was wrong about a the birdemic and reverse his course of action is encouraging. Now, if he is a Christian and has passed the other three Tests, he may represent a potential force for good in politics.
@ Hari - I just want to add that we shouldn't harbor too much hope when it comes to politics. Yes, God arranges things in a way to provide opportunities for good and spiritual learning, but I would be hard pressed to put too much money on any politician as a force for good in this time and place. That's a very pessimistic and cynical view on my part, but I can't go beyond it at the moment.
Take Orbán for example. The birdemic has revealed his conservatism and support of Christian values to be a sham. He adopted these stances a decade ago because he recognized the political utility of appealing to a nation disillusioned with Western liberalism a decade after the collapse of communism.
And it has worked like a charm for him. In the meantime, Hungarians have become just as enslaved and unfree as they were during communism (perhaps more so because during communism most Hungarians recognized communism as evil whereas most Hungarians today regard Orbán as "good").
It is disappointing. Many of those who recognize Luciferic evils, such as the sexual revolution, are blind to Ahrimanic evils, like the birdemic, and likewise those who recognize Ahrimanic evils are often blind to Luciferic evils.
But as you point out, we have to recognize both types as evil and as contrary to the purposes of God and Creation.
@ NLR - Thanks for drawing attention to Luciferic/Ahrimanic evil and the problem of discerning one but not the other. I neglected to mention these in the post, but I think it is very important.
William Wildblood
I wonder if what you are calling your failures in discernment with regard to Orban and Peterson come from the hope to find someone (anyone!) in the public arena who is holding out against the madness.So you initially give them the benefit of the doubt. I recognise that in myself but I think we have to accept that there can be no one now who manages to get public notice who is not compromised in some way. That just won't be allowed so we need to focus on the truth and whatever companions in spirit we might encounter here and there and not look to any external saviours. There won't be any.
@ William - Yes, much of that rings true. As I mentioned in the post, my inclination to grant individuals the benefit of the doubt occurred before the birdemic.
Post-birdemic is a different story altogether. That is why I believe system distancing to be a spiritual imperative.
I like what you said about external saviors. If the events of the past year-and-a-half have taught me anything, it is this - God wants us to concentrate on the internal rather than the external in this time and place. Any external "hope" must remain outwith the System - through family, close friends, etc.
A healthy dose of skepticism should be reserved for any person whose main employment is in sales. Ron Paul may be an exception.
Deception is a strange concept. You must actively believe a lie while simultaneously denying you're being misled while continuing to deny you believed the lie once the truth is pointed out to you. Worse, deception utilizes a great deal of fact to spin the web.
I often teach the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth (per the Bible) and not the Spirit of Fact. Facts can be manipulated to deliberately deceive. Truth is judging things the way God views them which is impossible without the Spirit to guide us to the proper understanding.
Great essay. I was attacked pretty hard a few years ago for being too extreme for coming to the same conclusion. There were no red/blue, left/right, democrat/republican, conservative/liberal factions There was only good vs. evil. Maybe truth vs deception is the equivalent.
@ Doc - The events of 2020 have negated conventional politics. Anyone who still believe in red/blue, liberal/conservative, etc. is beyond deluded. Politics was always corrupt and dishonest, but it has now been rendered moot. As you state, there is only good and evil now, and all politics in the here and now is on the side of evil.
I have come to the conclusion that harboring hope in anything connected to the System is sinful (how or why can we place our faith and hope in something that is actively and willingly opposed to God)? That's where system distancing comes in.
I like what you said about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is one of the only forces that can guide us to proper understanding at this time, primarily because the operation of the Holy Spirit is independent of and beyond the System.
Berdyaev went as far as to refer to the fulfillment of Christianity as "The Religion of the Holy Spirit."
Magnus Stout
I, too, struggle with the spiritual implications of the Litmus Tests. To that list I would add "antifa," which seems to serve two important functions: (1) it attacks and undermines any secular political right (any non-religious right will become fascist to survive such attacks), and (2) it explicitly repudiates Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, an essential core of Christianity.
Taken together, the effect of the Big Five Lies replaces the essential truth of Christianity. It also elevates materialist concerns above the spiritual to the extent that Christians are now being fined, arrested and imprisoned in the West. There is only one coherent opposition: Christianity.
Finally, it is important to recognize that only God can see into the hearts of Men. We are not personally called to separate the sheep from the goats. Many (most?) employers are already beginning to enforce the Big Five Lies, so the sheep and goat distinction is problematic without knowing more from a particular person. What can be said, however, is that we serve a "jealous God" who demands that we elevate Him above everything else (Ex. 20:3). Apostasy is the result when a person takes the Big Five Lies as True to the extent that God is displaced in his value system. "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." Matt. 6:24.
David Llewellyn Dodds
I have seen Katalin Novák, Hungary's Minister for Family Affairs, quoted as referring to "the Hungarian IVF regulation that provides free treatment". What are the terms of this "regulation"? Does Hungary practice IVF in the strictest possible least abusive way, where current embryonic human beings are concerned (for the moment not addressing its abusive history, or the questions whether it can be licitly practiced at all)?
@ David - I apologize for the delayed posting of your comment - I didn't notice it until today.
Concerning your question, as far as I have been able to discover, Hungary's IVF policy is benevolent in both practice and motivation. Many couples wait too long to have children. The government addresses this by offering free IVF treatments. This lines up with the government's "good" policies of supporting families and addressing demographic decline.


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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant for Health, Dr. Faisal Sultan, while expressing concern over the deaths due to corona, said that the heads of institutions and departments should ensure implementation of SOPs.
According to details, while giving a media briefing in Islamabad, Dr. Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant for Health, said that the second wave of Corona epidemic is intensifying.
Dr. Faisal Sultan said that every aspect of life of Karuna is being affected, every person can take easy measures for the prevention of the disease, once again the citizens are appealed to play their full part in the implementation of SOPs.
The Special Assistant for Health added that the heads of institutions and departments should ensure implementation of SOPs. It is important to wash hands, use masks and keep a distance to prevent corona. Will also be able to bring down.
On the other hand, according to the data released by the National Command and Operations Center, in a single day, nine people have died due to the Corona epidemic, followed by eight thousand deaths in Pakistan as a result of the global epidemic. Four hundred and forty-seven.
According to the NCOC data, 33,610 corona tests were performed in the last 24 hours, 2,885 new cases were reported and the corona virus test positive rate was 8.58% in the last 24 hours.
According to the NCOC, the number of active cases of corona in the country has reached 44,218 out of which 2,486 patients are in critical condition.
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University of Zurich UZH News All articles 2017 Digital Change in the Financial Sector
Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab of UZH
Research Economics and Informatics Mathematics and Natural Sciences
5 Oct 2017 Fintech
Digital Change in the Financial Sector
With algorithms providing investment advice and private individuals giving loans, digital transformation is sweeping the financial sector. The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich is looking into the potential of new technologies for financial services and insurance.
Adrian Ritter
Fintech: What kind of investment advice are clients looking for in future and how can algorithms be helpful in providing this advice? (Image: Wikimedia/Alla Ajifo)
The provocation got a response: When Jamie Dimon, head of major US bank JPMorgan Chase, recently described bitcoin as a fraud at an investors' conference, for a short time the cryptocurrency dipped sharply. Given that bitcoin has gained several hundred percent so far this year, this was no tragedy. Dimon warned investors of heavy losses, predicting that bitcoin would end with a crash. The response from advocates of the currency was immediate: They criticized Dimon for spreading fears merely because the financial system was under threat, and claimed that citizens were much better served by bitcoin than by conventional banking.
"If there's one thing this conflict shows quite clearly, it's that changes are afoot in the financial system," Thomas Puschmann, a business IT expert who heads the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich. The main remit of the lab, which was established in 2016 by the university's Department of Informatics and Department of Banking and Finance, is to look into how fintech – modern financial technologies – can be harnessed to equip Switzerland's banking and insurance industry for a digital future.
Competition from start-ups
The industry faces serious challenges. "The Swiss financial services industry is under heavy pressure from abroad, with competition from Singapore and Hong Kong a particular threat," explains Puschmann. He also describes the way the industry has been hit by the financial crisis and digital transformation – two phenomena that are closely connected. "People's trust was shattered following the financial crisis, and alternatives to established banks started looking attractive. At the same time bankers laid off in the wake of the crisis launched their own start-ups in fintech."
This created a diverse new field of competitors for the banks, from apps enabling mobile financial transactions to fully automated investment via algorithms (robo advisors) and crowdfunding or crowd financing, where private individuals lend each other money. The trend has also reached the insurance industry under the guise of insurtech, which includes mobile applications for making claims and apps that help people find cheaper insurance policies.
Will we even need banks in the future? "Yes and no," says Thomas Puschmann. "The fact is that the number of banks is shrinking, both in Switzerland and the rest of the world, and those that remain are operating fewer branches." This raises a number of fundamental questions: What type of advice will clients want in the future? To what extent will algorithms be able to provide it? It's estimated that up to 50 percent of banking jobs could be wiped out by digitalization, says Puschmann. This raises another question that it's not yet possible to answer: How many new jobs will digital transformation create, and where? "There will probably continue to be banks, but in the future some of their services will be provided by new players such as start-ups," predicts Puschmann.
Thomas Puschmann
"Fintech will lead to more radical changes than we can imagine": Thomas Puschmann, Director at Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab of UZH. (Photo: Adrian Ritter)
High hopes for blockchain
Banks will obviously also have to rely on new technologies. Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan Chase might have criticized bitcoin at the recent conference, but at the same time he had praise for blockchain technology, which uses a decentralized network of computers to enable secure transactions. Blockchain makes it possible to shift assets across the planet in seconds – not just cash and bitcoins, but intangible assets such as contracts and entries in the land register as well.
Banks are now investing millions in this new technology in the hope of achieving cost-savings. Thomas Puschmann also sees great potential for the financial industry in blockchain.
The fintech wave started in Silicon Valley and then swept over to Europe. Now China is trying to take a leading role. In a mammoth project to create a new Silk Road, the Chinese government isn't just investing billions in infrastructure such as new roads, railroads, and ports, but is also planning an unprecedented digital infrastructure: a blockchain spanning more than 60 nations and facilitating trade between them. Switzerland is also involved in the discussions. Puschmann is enthusiastic: "As a neutral nation with a strong financial industry, excellent universities, and a wealth of technological know-how, Switzerland would be the ideal candidate to help develop this kind of blockchain."
Digital global currency?
But Puschmann believes innovation will require a boost if Switzerland wants to take a leading role in these endeavors: "So far Switzerland has rarely figured in the fintech rankings." Necessary measures would include more research and better networking between the scientific community and practice.
This is precisely what the University of Zurich's Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab aims to achieve. The lab in Zurich Oerlikon does research and provides teaching in fintech and insurtech. This includes fundamental research in informatics, banking, and finance, and closely related areas such as law and business administration. These are some of the questions being investigated: To what extent can digital client advisory replace person-to-person discussions? What form could international legislation on blockchain take?
"Ultimately our main aim is for the work of the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab to lead to new start-ups," says Puschmann. There are already successes to report. UZH start-ups include Contovista, a young company specializing in the graphical representation of financial data. These days many of the banking clients who look at graphics showing how they have spent their money and how this compares with other account holders are using an application from Contovista.
Thomas Puschmann believes this is only the start: "Fintech will lead to more radical changes than we can imagine. Who knows, maybe one day we'll be making payments in a single, global digital currency." What will Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase think about that?
Fintech in phases
Finally you could take out cash whenever you needed it! There was great enthusiasm when in 1967 Union Bank of Switzerland installed Switzerland's first ATM on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse. This also marked the birth of fintech: the use of technology in financial services.
The second phase of fintech, which mainly affected the back office, began in the 1990s with the automation – and often the outsourcing abroad – of processes such as payment traffic. The second phase also included the advent of online banking.
The third phase of fintech, which followed the 2008 financial crisis, saw the emergence of new competition in the form of start-ups offering new technologies at the interface between banks and their clients, for example mobile payment apps or automated investment advisory apps.
Since around 2015 the fourth phase of fintech – under the banner of blockchain – has brought the possibility of a completely new infrastructure for financial services. This would make it possible to transfer any type of asset via the internet.
Adrian Ritter is an editor of UZH News.
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It was really nice to spend a bit of time with you and your great children!
What beautiful photos of your happy family! A week in a remote area by the water sounds wonderful – so peaceful. Enjoy the rest of your summer!