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The Best Online Journalism and Storytelling of 2015
40 Amazing Reporting Projects You Might Have Missed
by Josh Stearns and Luis Gomez
Every year storytelling and journalism on the web gets better. For the past three years I have rounded up the most compelling examples of reporting online (here is 2014, 2013, and 2012). This year I had the good fortune to collaborate with Luis Gomez on this project.
This is a labor of love. Our hope is that by shining a spotlight on this important work, we can help you discover things you might have missed and that you'll share them and support the journalists who made them possible.
There is no formal criteria for what makes the list. We tried to focus on stories that leverage the unique potential of the web, stories that come to life on the web in ways they never could have otherwise. But we also look for stories that — while not technically groundbreaking — still hit us in the gut and stick with us.
Sometimes it is about using the right tools for the story, not every tool in the toolbox.
We know we've likely missed amazing pieces that deserve to be recognized — which is why we ask you to add yours to the comments here. And if you like these stories, sign up for the weekly Local Fix newsletter for more case studies on innovation and community engagement in journalism.
#BlackLivesMatter has helped fuel renewed attention to issues of race and justice in media. The following projects reflect that but it is worth also recognizing the way #BlackLivesMatter has used creative storytelling and social media to report on these issues when others wouldn't. That is also online journalism and should be included here.
Screenshot from Tampa Bay Times
"Failure Factories" — Tampa Bay Times
Failure Factories tells the story of the end of integration at the Pinellas County School District in Florida. To tell this investigative multi-story series, the Tampa Bay Times visualizes data to illustrate the impact of desegregation in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the district. The opening prologue is simple, but powerful and effective.
The 45 Minute Mystery of Freddie Gray's Death — Baltimore Sun
One of the biggest stories that set the tone for race and justice conversations in the media was the death of Freddie Gray while in the custody of Baltimore's police. The challenge of telling the story, which started out as a local story and later evolved into a national story, is sorting out much of what happened in the minutes and hours before and after Gray's death. The Baltimore Sun zeroes in on those moments with compelling video and details often not visible from a bird's eye view.
#InTheirWords — USA Today
In writing about USA Today's #InTheirWords project the American Journalism Review wrote that "one way to tell the stories about race [is] to remove the journalists." Of course USA Today did not remove journalism from this piece but they did change the relationship between journalist, reader and subject. The audience can create a self-driven documentary drawing on a set of interviews with young leaders in the civil rights organizing. The project is similar to the Washington Post's 2014 N-Word project.
Screenshot from Science News
The Martian Diaries — Science News
If the Mars Rover kept a diary, what would it look like? That is the question designers and journalists at Science News set out to answer in this great piece which draws on two and half years of photos and data from the exploration of Mars.
After the Storm — Washington Post, Independent Lens and other partners
Blurring the line between journalism and documentary film, this partnership between the Washington Post and PBS's Independent Lens is described in the opening seconds as a "letter to future disaster survivors." With narration, looping music and an aesthetic like a scrapbook with maps, photos and snippets of text the piece is like sitting down across from someone and listening to them tell you their story.
Primer Stories — Joe Alterio and Tim Lillis
Primer Stories is a collection of unique stories, many though not all focus on science. Alterio and Lillis invite authors to contribute short pieces and then use GIFs, illustrations, videos, and photos to bring them to life. The results feel like a kind of bespoke journalism, each one creatively and lovingly designed in ways that add richness and meaning. See for example Dragons of the Alps, You Are Here, On Ice and How to Build a Brain. (Hat tip @MollydeAguiar for this one)
Every Active Satellite Orbiting Earth — Quartz
When the Union of Concerned Scientists released a database of the 1,300 satellites currently in orbit over earth, Quartz took the data and created a visualization. Organized by size of the satellite and the country it belongs to, this interactive graphic give us a glimpse of each satellite's launch date, users, and owners.
Greenland is Melting Away — New York Times
The New York Times used a drone to bring readers high above the melting glaciers of Greenland in this beautiful piece that was published the month before the UN climate talks in Paris. The drone footage is accompanied by scroll-to-zoom aerial imagery and data that maps of all the glacial rivers including flow rates. (See also After Years of Drought, Wildfires Rage in California from New York Times)
Japan's New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes — The New York Times
The graphic presents a view of the globe, in the Times words, "as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement." It is hypnotic.
Screenshot from the New York Times
It is impossible to talk about online storytelling in 2015 without talking about the rise of virtual reality. While not a technology that was invented or pioneered in 2015, last year did mark a tipping point in the adoption of virtual reality inside newsrooms. This was perhaps most evident in the Google Cardboard/New York Times partnership in which every New York Times subscriber recieved a virtual reality viewer with their Sunday paper.
Those who are experimenting with journalism and virtual reality have set up good pages that collect all their reporting in one place. Check out the stories and apps from journalists at ABC, Vice and the New York Times, media organizations like Discovery and KCRW, and local news companies like Gannett and Digital First. On the university side, see projects by Robert Hernandez, Nonny de la Peña, the University of Arizona, and Dan Pacheco. (See more stories at the VRSE website)
GIF via Medium
Ghost Boat — Medium
Ghost Boat, published on Medium, is nicely designed but it is worth including here not only because of how it looks but also because of how it was written. Medium set out to crowdsource the investigation into a missing ship carrying 243 migrants. The effort included many individual contributors as well as group hackathons, where teams tried to surface new evidence.
Exodus — Washington Post
Giant photos and maps welcome the reader through a multipage slideshow before this long piece begins. It traces the journey of one Syrian family's trip to Europe. Other parts of the series used data to extrapolate out from this one family and give a larger picture of people's movements and migrations.
Rape on the Night Shift — Reveal / Center for Investigative Reporting
Read. Watch. Listen. Those are the invitations at the beginning of this investigation from CIR's Reveal and PBS's Frontline. The story unfolds via an online article, a TV series and a podcast, each giving the audience a different look at the sexual violence perpetrated against immigrant workers. Original artwork, short videos and text are woven together in each part of the story.
Where Would 10.8 Million Displaced Syrians Fit? — Al Jazeera America
First created in 2013 but updated in 2015 during the refugee crisis in Europe and the ensuing debates here in the US, Al Jazeera tries to put the scale of the Syrian migration using population data from US cities. The project then allowed people to submit snapshots of their own area with comments reflecting on the crisis.
Screenshot from the Guardian
Homan Square: A Portrait of Chicago's Detainees — The Guardian
Spencer Ackerman and Zach Stafford's groundbreaking report on a secret interrogation facility in Chicago where at least 3,500 Americans have been detained is harrowing enough on its own. But the Guardian also created an interactive feature that provides individual details of many of the detainees and a number of video interviews where former detainees talk about abuse inside the building.
The Drone Papers — The Intercept
One of the most detailed looks at the US Drone program we've ever seen came from a cache of documents leaked to the Intercept. Weaving together source documents, photographs and animations that spill off the edges of the screen this series gives the you the feel of flipping through the files yourself.
The Demolition of Worker's Comp — ProPublica
The poignant original illustrations that ProPublica commissioned for this piece are powerful enough, but then, when paired with interactive data visualization and photography, the piece drives home the struggle and the injustice people who are injured on the job often face.
The Making of a Narco-Terrorist — ProPublica
Using original illustrations and an interactive site that feels like a card game, ProPublica raises questions about sting operations carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the agency's claims that drug smugglers are funding terror. This project stood out for us because it is encouraging to see the use of hand-made illustrations in journalism as a way to guide a reader into the story similar to the way comics have done so for ages.
Missed Signs. Fatal Consequences — Austin American Statesman
In a massive three-part series, journalists at the Austin American Statesman create a damning narrative about the state of child protective services in Texas. Weaving together original source documents, data, photos and video the heartbreaking series covers the story from many different angles. What makes this project especially compelling is the Stateman's use of sidebars that include comments and photos from its Facebook community.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND POLICE
Screenshot from The Marshall Project
The Next to Die — The Marshall Project
If you want to know who is on death row and next to be executed, this Marshall Project presentation keeps a visual timeline of each death and the statistics in each state currently practicing the death penalty. It's grim, it's up-to-the-date, and takes data journalism to a new dimension. The project uses data and reporting from local partners around the country.
More than 900 people have been fatally shot by police officers in 2015 — Washington Post
There was no one source of data on police shootings so the Washington Post built their own database from "news reports, public records, Internet databases and original reporting." The result is an unprecedented shooting database where the body count links to tiny profiles of each person who was killed.
The Counted — The Guardian
The Guardian launched their police shooting database about the same time as the Washington Post, but took a very different approach. Building off a few existing datasets, the Guardian turned to the community to help submit tips about police shootings. The project combines reporting with verified crowdsourced information (and you can see their methodology here).
The Empty Chair — New York Magazine
The story of Bill Cosby's sexual assault allegations was one of the biggest stories of the year, and New York Magazine tackled the issue in a dramatic way: By putting each of his 35 accusers on the cover of the magazine with the exception of one empty chair. While the magazine's print cover caught everyone's attention upon release, the publication was even more impressive on the web where it told each of the women's stories.
Unsolved — Journal Sentinel
Capitalizing on the crowdsourcing sleuthing fever that Serial started in 2014, the Journal Sentinel published this multimedia mystery series — paired with podcasts and videos — about a 14-year-old high school freshman who went missing in the suburbs of Milwaukee 40 years ago.
An Unbelievable Story of Rape — ProPublica / The Marshall Project
The story is about a young woman who was punished by police for reporting a rape they didn't believe happen, one that was eventually proven true once the serial rapist was caught. But the story is also about two nonprofit news organizations coming together by mere happenstance as two investigative reporters sort of stumbled upon each other as they quietly looked into the same story.
(There is a lot of notable criminal justice reporting that happens at the local level and doesn't get the attention it deserves. It may not be as flashy as others, but see these two pieces by the Daytona News Journal and Atlanta Journal Constitution)
THE ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA
Screenshot from The Lens/The Nation
Missing Home: What We Demolished in New Orleans After Katrina — The Lens
They say you don't know what you've got until it is gone. Through data, maps and photos the New Orleans-based nonprofit The Lens created this amazing database of all the homes that were demolished after Hurricane Katrina. And through the lens of these properties they told the stories of people who lost their homes.
The Re-Education of New Orleans — Education Week
On the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Education Week focused in on how schools have changed in the city since the storm. Building on personal stories, strong photos and revealing data the piece tells the story in the voice of the people most affected.
10 Years After Katrina — New York Times
The New York Times took a neighborhood approach to telling the story of Katrina's anniversary by going back to some of the areas hardest hit by the flooding. With full screen videos and maps that compare flooded areas and demographic changes in the city, the Times tries to put a face on a city that is still in transition.
The Next Big One — Washington Post
This piece weaves together a lot of the elements we've come to expect from big online stories including video, maps and stunning photos. However, Washington Post's coverage also included drone footage and a touching series of profiles of Katrina survivors ten years after the storm.
Screenshot from Do Not Track web documentary
Do Not Track — Upian, AJ+, ONF, ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Tribeca and others
In many ways, Do Not Track epitomizes the kind of creative, interactive storytelling that could only be executed on the web. The makes of Do Not Track call it "a personalized documentary series" which adapts to the person watching it. People are invited to share their data with the project, and in return it will show you "what the web knows about you." (See also this great report on journalism and online documentaries from MIT)
A New Whitney — New York Times
This piece on the new Whitney museum is a rollercoaster of visuals that zooms the reader high above the city and through the glass walls of the new building. (See also A Gift to New York, In Time for the Pope for another interesting architecture piece.)
A Clash in the Name of Care — Boston Globe
The Boston Globe Spotlight team, subjects of one of the 2015's best movies, delivers a powerful piece of watchdog reporting on surgeons who conduct two procedures at once. The investigation includes a clever feature where names turn into buttons that pop-up background info about the person. The piece pulls together source documents, graphics and video into a powerful package.
The Presidential Election in Emoji — The Atlantic
In a year in which Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji for it's "word of the year" it seems only fitting that a news organization should mine the pulse of the American public through the emojis they use to discuss political candidates. The Atlantic's tracking of emojis in tweets about the candidates is a fascinating look at both social media and shifts in political discourse.
The Life and Times of Strider Wolf — Boston Globe
It is just text and photos with a companion documentary, but it is still one the most heart wrenching and memorable stories from the past year.
Tapered Throne — Brandon Tauszik
Tauszik brings photojournalism to life through subtle and carefully crafted GIFs of Oakland's black barbershops. The technique extends the emotion of the moment just enough to reveal little details in the motion that you might not get in a still image.
A Walk Through the Gallery: "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs" — New York Times
As you scroll down the Museum of Modern Art's recent Matisse exhibit unfolds across the screen, as if you are walking down the hall staring at the artwork yourself.
Is the Nasdaq in Another Bubble? — Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal turns the ups and downs of the stock market throughout history into a rollercoaster which readers can scroll through on the screen. As you watch you begin to feel the climbs and falls in a way that puts today's stock market unrest into perspective.
World Bank Projects Leave a Trail of Misery Around the Globe — Huffington Post and ICIJ
In this multi-part investigation by the Huffington Post and ICIJ different episodes employ different tactics from data visualizations to videos. The reporting spans five countries, each with photos and data about the impact of World Bank Projects in those countries.
Social Reporting if Charlie Hebdo — Reported.ly
Reported.ly had just gotten staffed up and running when news broke of the massacre at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. In their coverage of those events they began to show the power and potential of their distributed social reporting approach. Be sure to read their debrief on the coverage.
What did we miss? Help us continue to shine a spotlight on great reporting by adding links and your thoughts in the comments. (We know this list is very US-centric, so we'd love to see more examples of non-US journalism and multilingual reporting.)
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The Best Online Storytelling and Journalism of 2014
January 5, 2015 January 5, 2015 4 Comments
Each year I post a round-up of the best online journalism of the year. Below you will find links to more than 30 amazing, immersive journalism projects that caught my attention in 2014. But each year, my readers augment the list with their own favorites.
In 2012, the list included a lot of stunning visuals and designs that wove together text, audio, images and videos. That year, many of the innovations focused on how stories could be displayed online (think Snow Fall). In 2013, the projects tended to be more data driven and participatory.
This year new digital tools and networks seemed to influence every aspect of the storytelling process. From sensors to structured journalism, crowdsourcing to podcasting, new modes of journalism that have been emerging over the last decade took huge strides forward this year. Communities of practice grew up around new models of storytelling to formalize norms, grapple with ethical and technical questions and tackle issues of sustainability.
Unlike past lists, this year I'm grouping stories around key themes. I've also included new organizations and storytelling strategies in addition to great individual stories. Please add your own favorites in the comments or make the case for other trends you think defined online storytelling in 2014.
1) The Year Audio Went Viral
There was one story that didn't fit well in my categories, but was also impossible to not include in my round-up this year: Serial. If you only listened to Serial then you missed a lot of great aspects of the story which were only available on the podcast's website in blog posts, source documents, maps and more. Serial got so popular, so quick, Slate even created a meta podcast about the podcast.
But Serial is only part of a larger story about the resurgence of podcasts as digital audio gets woven deeply into the web, mobile phones and car radios. 2014 was also the year that Alex Blumberg created an addictive podcast about launching his new start-up (which produces podcasts). It was also the year that the podcast network Radiotopia raised $620,000 on Kickstarter, promising to reinvent public radio. There were so many good stories from the podcasts that make up Radiotopia this year that I couldn't pick just one — go, listen, subscribe and support them.
Ira Glass on Storytelling and Surprise
A few weeks ago I saw Ira Glass speak about This American Life and how he and his team think about storytelling. Looking back through my notes today, I discovered this little sextet of quotes that all seemed to flow together nicely. This is a bit like playing refrigerator poetry with Glass's words since each of these lines had a lot of other context around them, but nonetheless, here they are:
Surprise is a remarkable weapon when telling a story.
Surprise brings hope.
Journalists need to be cunning.
Storytelling is highly inefficient.
We harness luck as an industrial tactic.
It is like wandering in the rain hoping lighting will strike.
December 30, 2013 January 1, 2014 20 Comments
In 2012 I posted a round-up of the best online journalism of the year, which grew as others added their favorites. My list focused on journalism that could only be done online, the kind of storytelling that take advantage of the unique opportunities the Internet provides. This tended to be deeply visual reporting that wove together text, audio, images and videos.
As I created my 2013 list however, I saw much more data journalism and an increasing use of tools that engaged readers or rethought the basic flow of storytelling for a more participatory audience.
The ghosts of the New York Time's "Snow Fall" article from 2012 haunted debates about online journalism in 2013 – it even became a verb. Joe Pompeo, the media reporter at Capital New York, defined "snowfalling" this way: "To execute the type of expensive, time-consuming, longform narrative multimedia storytelling that earned the Times' ambitious 'Snow Fall' feature a Pulitzer last month."
But 2013 also saw innovative journalists and newsroom developers taking interactive, multimedia storytelling in new directions too. And while I don't cover them in-depth below, there were
Great efforts covering breaking news (See the Boston Globe, New York Times, MPR, )
Terrific uses of maps (See NPR, WNYC and ProPublica), and
Amazing data driven projects (See WAMU, Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald)
Be sure to also check out the Online Journalism Award winners, which includes a number of amazing projects not listed here. And, in terms of a meta look at the field, I think Eric Newton's "Searchlights and Sunglasses" is both a critical tool for rethinking journalism education and a model of online storytelling itself.
As in 2012, consider this list a provocation, a challenge to you to fill in the blanks and tell me what I missed. This list is by its nature biased around topics and people I followed this year, I don't suggest it is comprehensive, so please take advantage of the comments section to add your favorites (or send me a note on Twitter). Continue reading →
Rewriting the Story of Journalism
May 8, 2013 May 8, 2013 6 Comments
[Adapted from my remarks at "Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism and Grassroots Media" sponsored by Cambridge Community TV.]
In moments of profound change and transition we tend to reach back to old clichés and familiar metaphors to help make sense of the tumultuous world around us. Debates about the future of journalism are no different.
I've heard this moment described as trying to leap between two moving trains, as one slows down and the other one speeds away. This is journalism as a leap of faith.
I've heard this moment described as trying to move out of one house and into another, as the old house falls apart and the new one still isn't finished being built. This is journalism as a fix-it upper.
And I've heard it described as the dying of an industry and the rebirth of a network. This is journalism as a Phoenix, rising from the ashes.
Each of these metaphors capture a piece of the incredible change we are witnessing in our media, but none quite does it for me. All of these descriptions portray the changes in journalism as something happening to us, a force outside our control – moving trains, collapsing houses, engulfing fire. We are left with no agency and no responsibility to create the future of media in these scenarios. Continue reading →
The Best Online Storytelling of 2012
This post is more of a provocation than an actual end of year "best-of" list. So I'm relying on you to help me fill in the gaps.
Inspired by the New York Times' recent Snow Fall project, I asked my followers on Twitter to send me examples of the best multimedia journalism of 2012. I was looking for the kind of stories that could really only be told online because they brought together a diverse range of elements including some mix of text, video, audio, data and interactivity all in one package.
Here are the stories I've collected so far (in no particular order), but I know there are others. Add your favorite examples to the comments section.
New York Times – Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
Stunning for both its design and how the elements worked together – text amplifying images and video, and video bringing life and depth to the narrative. Here is a great post about how they made Snow Fall.
http://projects.nytimes.com/2012/snow-fall-preview
Symbolia – A Newly Launched iPad Magazine of Graphics Journalism
Symbolia combines illustrated works of journalism with interactivity, audio and more. CJR described it as combining "the rugged hand-drawn texture of a 90's zine with the investigative vigor and left-leaning politics of Mother Jones."
http://www.symboliamag.com/
Frontline – A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal
Made possible using new video editing and interactive technology from Mozilla, called Popcorn, Frontline took the documentary to the next level.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/labs/i/perfect-terrorist/
California Watch – In Jennifer's Room
Poynter described this multimedia, living graphic novel as a powerful way to address tell a challenging and emotional story of abuse.
http://californiawatch.org/node/18695
(CIR's Cole Goins also recommended their mapped report on wait-times at veterans offices: http://cironline.org/reports/map-where-veterans-backlog-worst-3792)
NPR StateImpact – Boomtown
Boomtown is like an audio slideshow on steroids. The StateImpact team creating an engaging report that didn't end at one website but branched out across a range of platforms and partners.
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/boomtown/
BBC – Superstorm USA: Caught on Camera
Made almost entirely of crowdsourced cell phone footage, this stunning documentary was a huge undertaking in combining critical journalism with massively distributed user generated video.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p122s
Cartoon Movement / Susie Cagle – Down in Smoke
Cagle's cartoons are layers of journalism stacked and juxtaposed, creating powerful accounts of moments in time. Cagle uses Thinglink to layer audio over her images.
http://www.cartoonmovement.com/icomic/44


This Flemish pottery was made by the famous Laigneil pottery in Kortrijk in Belgium around 1900. It is very large and rare and beautiful. That is why the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam will use it for decoration in their exhibition Prints in Paris 1900, which will be from March till June this year. So when you want to buy this you have to wait till it comes back to the gallery, but is is worthwhile waiting for!


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SpaceX launches the world's most powerful rocket into space
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By Matthew Griffin Space 6th February 2018
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF
Not only is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy the world's most powerful rocket, but it's also destined to be the one that takes colonists to Mars and help Musk realise his ambitions to ferry people around the world in under thirty minutes or less.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket which assumed launch position early in January, and that will be the vehicle that helps SpaceX take space tourists around the Moon, colonists to Mars from 2024 and take people around the world in under 30 minutes, took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this afternoon and soared to space, carrying its payload, CEO Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster, into an orbit that stretches far into Earth's closest asteroid belt. After more than a year of prepping the Falcon Heavy's first flight is finally over, and despite the center core's fudged landing in the ocean, the rocket has shown its prowess and is likely ready to begin missions for customers later this year.
Scientists think they've found evidence of a parallel universe
Adding to the launch's success, two of the Falcon Heavy's rocket cores successfully touched down back on Earth after take off. The two outer boosters broke away mid-flight and returned to the Cape, touching down around 1,000 feet from one another on SpaceX's concrete landing pads — Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. The center core then broke away from the vehicle's upper stage, but didn't land as intended on one of SpaceX's autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. That means SpaceX has now landed a staggering total of 23 rockets upright.
Watch The Maiden Flight, Start: 22:00
The Falcon Heavy also now holds the title for the world's most powerful rocket, and its launch marks the first time a vehicle this massive has ever been sent up by a commercial company. It boasts 27 engines, more than any other working rocket has ever used, which together create a combined 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. That means the Falcon Heavy can put around 140,000 pounds of cargo into lower Earth orbit, more than twice as much weight as any other operational rocket, and this powerful vehicle could open up entirely new types of business for SpaceX including launching heavy national security satellites or even sending large modules or people into deep space and Mars, a place that holds a special fascination for Musk.
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Today's launch was a solid performance of what has been one of the most anticipated rockets to launch in the last decade. SpaceX first announced plans to develop the Falcon Heavy back in 2011, with the goal of launching it as early as 2013 or 2014. However, the inaugural mission has suffered numerous delays including two failures of SpaceX's Falcon 9 which pushed the launch even further out than planned. Musk also noted that engineering the rocket turned out to be unexpectedly difficult.
"It actually ended up being way harder to do Falcon Heavy than we thought," he said at a press conference in July, "at first it sounds easy – just stick two first stages on as strap-on boosters. How hard can it be? But then all the loads change, the aerodynamics change."
The SpaceX Live Feed From StarMan
This first mission was simply meant to see if the Falcon Heavy could do what it's designed to do, that is, put objects into orbit and that's why its first payload was Musk's car. Last year, Musk said the first thing to ride on the Falcon Heavy would be the "silliest thing" he could imagine — and his Tesla certainly fit that bill.
JJ Abrams Moon Shot shorts show off the scientists behind Google's Lunar XPRIZE
The rocket's upper stage, the top portion of the rocket that is carrying the car, ignited two more times after separating from the Falcon Heavy's boosters. After the first burn, SpaceX put the upper stage in an experimental six-hour "coast," where the rocket didn't fire. The long wait was meant to show the Falcon Heavy's ability to do a special kind of orbit manoeuvre for the Air Force.
During the coast, the car passed through the infamous Van Allen belts — regions of intense radiation that surround Earth. The high-energy particles in the belts bombarded the car and rocket, which Musk warned could be a problem for the rest of the mission.
"The fuel could freeze, and the oxygen could be vaporised, all of which could inhibit the third burn which is necessary for trans-Mars injection," Musk said at a press conference on Monday.
Shortly after launch, Musk tweeted that everything was normal with the upper stage, and hours later, he tweeted that the final burn was executed successfully. The goal with the final burn was to place the car on a trajectory around the Sun that would take the car near Mars' orbit. But Musk tweeted later in the evening that, while the burn was successful, the car is now actually headed far beyond Mars. It will instead reach as far as the asteroid belt before being pulled back toward the Sun.
This is the first ever photo of a black hole
The Falcon Heavy took off from a historic launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, called LC-39A. It's the same pad that was used to launch the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, as well as numerous Space Shuttle flights. SpaceX is currently leasing the site from NASA, and will continue to launch Falcon Heavy flights from the pad for the foreseeable future.
And now that the Falcon Heavy has launched, the rocket has a couple more missions to do this year. The rocket is scheduled to launch a large Saudi Arabian communications satellite called Arabsat 6A sometime in the first half of 2018. Then, it'll send up a test payload for the US Air Force no earlier than June, as a way to certify the rocket for national security missions. After that, the Falcon Heavy is contracted to launch two additional communications satellites for Inmarsat and Viasat, but that's it for now.
More customers could flock to the powerful rocket soon, and its cheap price tag may make it attractive to NASA, which could use the Falcon Heavy to send robotic missions to other worlds or humans back to the Moon. The future of the rocket has yet to be fully defined, but after today's flight, the Falcon Heavy may soon have some ambitious work to do.
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Matthew Griffin, described as "The Adviser behind the Advisers" and a "Young Kurzweil," is a world class futurist and strategic advisor helping build Centennial companies. He is the founder of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures consultancy working across the next 50 years, and the World Futures Forum and XPotential University, two philanthropic organisations whose mission it is to reduce global inequality and ensure the benefits of the future are accessible to everyone, irrespective of their abilities or background. He is also the author of the Codex of the Future series and "How to Build Exponential Enterprises."
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Whither Scott
It's been 6 days since the last White House press briefing with Scott McClellan. I need my fix! Briefings from the national security advisor simply don't cut it.
Last week, the general trend of more and more angry yelling continued. Here's a representative sample from the last briefing on November 9th:
Q: This has nothing to do with the special counsel. This has everything to do with the Ethics of Government Act. And for the record, I would just like to read --
Mr. McClellan: I think, for the record, people can go and look at this on our website. And for the record, this is being asked in the context of an ongoing investigation and legal proceeding, and I've already indicated to you that we're not going to have further comment on it while it is continuing. If you want to --
Q: I would just like to read, for the record --
Mr. McClellan: -- go and read that, you're welcome to do that. But I think other people in this room would like to proceed forward with other questions that they have.
Q: If I can take permission from the other people in this room, may I please read this one section? Does anyone have any objection?
Q: Yes, I don't think we're getting anywhere.
Q: Well, that's not the point.
Mr. McClellan: Okay, there. Thank you.
Q: That's not the point.
Mr. McClellan: Carl, do you have a question?
Q: Wait a minute, let the majority -- let this nice lady speak.
Mr. McClellan: That's all publicly available information.
Q: I know. She just has one more --
Mr. McClellan: Do you have a question? She has to give a question.
Q: She has just one more.
Q: I asked if it was -- I asked --
Mr. McClellan: Let's go to the question. I mean, we can all go and look at that on the website.
Q: Well, fine, but I'll save some time. "Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the government of the United States, knowingly and willfully, (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device, a material fact, (2), makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation, or (3), makes or uses any false writing or document, knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry."
Mr. McClellan: It's been put into public record.
Chester said...
I'm almost getting to the point of feeling sorry for him.
goldman said...
I believe the man's losing his cool. Pre-Libby-indictment, he was only getting hit with questions about "the ongoing investigation."
Now, it's a daily barrage. Helen Thomas has had a couple of remarkable exchanges with him on the torture amendment. The ethics briefings have been turned into a source of woe.
It's a tough job making this administration look competent. I think that's why he's taking a break.
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Personal Fundraiser: A New Feature on Instagram
Instagram is not resting on its laurels these days. Not long ago, it revamped and re-launched its "Shop" service, then it announced that it would be competing against Tik Tok through an app called "Reels" and now it is looking to move into the business of personal fundraisers. Their executives leave no doubt as to their desire for continuous expansion.
Testing Phase
Instagram announced in July that it had already launched a test phase for its new personal fundraisers feature. It is currently taking place in the U.S., the UK and Ireland. Once in place, people will be able to launch one directly from their profile page on the app. These fundraisers will have to be associated to an existing cause or a new one. However, they will be vetted before being allowed to start in order to make sure that they exist and that they respect all guidelines necessary to be accepted by Instagram. They are the same rules that Facebook apply on its page.
This social network is the most important in the world and it is continuing to innovate in order to make sure it keeps its place as it moves towards the future. Instagram Stories have become quite a success as well throughout the last year, as more and more people use them to communicate with their followers. The quality of these posts has reached a new height, thanks to mobile app such as mojo-app.com, a story editor enabling individuals to create stories like professionals.
You will be able to start a fundraiser on Instagram by following three simple steps. First you need to tap on "Edit Profile." Once there, you will choose "Add Fundraiser" before clicking on "Raise Money" to start the process. After that, you can handle the details such as the choice of a picture, selection of a category for your cause and enter more pertinent information which will help convince people to give to your cause. Afterwards, you will need to wait for confirmation of approval by Instagram. If that is the case, you will benefit from a 30-day period during which you can raise funds. If you wish to continue after the time is up, you will be granted an additional 30 days, which will not be renewable anymore.
This is perfect for time-sensitive causes, when you need to gather funds quickly, but it cannot replace a fundraiser which is open throughout the year. People will be able to make their donations through Facebook Pay.
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With all the Romaine lettuce contamination scares in the United States, I decided to use Brussels sprouts as an alternative salad base. The maple-balsamic dressing and the pears make this salad so sweet and delicious that we literally fought over the bowl. I never thought I could learn to love those little 'heads' so much….


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Dan O'Connell
Dan O'Connell brings proven leadership and the experience we need in Burlington County. Dan was raised in Burlington County, graduated from Holy Cross High School, attended Marquette University and later returned to live in Delran. Dan started his career as a locomotive fireman for the Penn Central Railroad and completed training to become a locomotive engineer for Conrail and New Jersey Transit, running passenger trains into and out of New York City.
While still working as a locomotive engineer, Dan worked part-time as an officer for the United Transportation Union. He addressed the needs and concerns of hard-working, middle-class families as he helped his fellow workers with payroll problems, health care, and retirement concerns. In 1996, Dan earned the position of State Director of United Transportation Union where he addresses the issues of its members in ten locals throughout New Jersey. At the United Transportation Union, he worked collaboratively with 45 other State Directors at the state and federal level for legislation and regulations that protected our hard working members. From contract negotiations to constituent issues, Dan uses his experience to pool resources and resolve issues.
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So, what's the difference between these? Well, suppose B has a subtype C, and a supertype A. So the inheritance hierarchy goes A -> B -> C. You can call foo with a List<B>, but not a List<C>. But you can call bar with a List<C>; as well as List<B>. You can call tor with a List<A> and List<B>. Keep in mind that the contents of the list are not what I am talking about, just the compile-time type of the list.
Generics are a bit more complicated than most people assume. Almost anyone who has spent time with Generics has gotten into several puzzling situations that they can't explain, and where the solution isn't obvious.
The question I wonder about is whether it has done more harm than good. This is not a matter of opinion, I think. If we could count up all the hours of lost productivity in wrestling with generics, and count the hours saved by catching bugs and improving the clarity of the code, would the time saved exceed the time lost? My anecdotal evidence is that it is a net benefit. It has rescued the Java world from the perils of type-casting, and I do remember getting many ClassCastExceptions in the past. Nowadays they are rare, and I don't spend excessive time on the complexities.


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This is pretty self explanatory. I really like that he has teeth XD.
I believe this pin may be official. She's in pretty hard shape. You can see from the lighting that she's fairly scratched up.


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import math
import os

import numpy as np

import wradlib.vis as vis
import wradlib.clutter as cl
import wradlib.georef as georef
import wradlib.ipol as ipol
import wradlib.io as io
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.interactive(True)

def ex_clutter_cloud():
    # read the radar volume scan
    path = os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/'
    pvol = io.read_OPERA_hdf5(path + 'data/20130429043000.rad.bewid.pvol.dbzh.scan1.hdf')

    # Count the number of dataset

    ntilt = 1
    for i in range(100):
        try:
            pvol["dataset%d/what" % ntilt]
            ntilt += 1
        except Exception:
            ntilt -= 1
            break

    # Construct radar values

    nrays = int(pvol["dataset1/where"]["nrays"])
    nbins = int(pvol["dataset1/where"]["nbins"])
    val = np.empty((ntilt, nrays, nbins))
    for t in range(ntilt):
        val[t, ...] = pvol["dataset%d/data1/data" % (t + 1)]
    gain = float(pvol["dataset1/data1/what"]["gain"])
    offset = float(pvol["dataset1/data1/what"]["offset"])
    val = val * gain + offset

    # Construct radar coordinates

    rscale = int(pvol["dataset1/where"]["rscale"])
    coord = np.empty((ntilt, nrays, nbins, 3))
    for t in range(ntilt):
        elangle = pvol["dataset%d/where" % (t + 1)]["elangle"]
        coord[t, ...] = georef.sweep_centroids(nrays, rscale, nbins, elangle)
    ascale = math.pi / nrays
    sitecoords = (pvol["where"]["lon"], pvol["where"]["lat"], pvol["where"]["height"])
    proj_radar = georef.create_osr("aeqd", lat_0=pvol["where"]["lat"], lon_0=pvol["where"]["lon"])
    coord[..., 0], coord[..., 1], coord[..., 2] = georef.polar2lonlatalt_n(coord[..., 0], np.degrees(coord[..., 1]),
                                                                           coord[..., 2], sitecoords, re=6370040.,
                                                                           ke=4. / 3.)
    coord = georef.reproject(coord, projection_target=proj_radar)

    # Construct collocated satellite data

    sat_gdal = io.read_safnwc(path + 'data/SAFNWC_MSG3_CT___201304290415_BEL_________.h5')
    val_sat = georef.read_gdal_values(sat_gdal)
    coord_sat = georef.read_gdal_coordinates(sat_gdal)
    proj_sat = georef.read_gdal_projection(sat_gdal)
    coord_sat = georef.reproject(coord_sat, projection_source=proj_sat, projection_target=proj_radar)
    coord_radar = coord
    interp = ipol.Nearest(coord_sat[..., 0:2].reshape(-1, 2), coord_radar[..., 0:2].reshape(-1, 2))
    val_sat = interp(val_sat.ravel()).reshape(val.shape)

    # Estimate localisation errors

    timelag = 9 * 60
    wind = 10
    error = np.absolute(timelag) * wind

    # Identify clutter based on collocated cloudtype
    clutter = cl.filter_cloudtype(val[0, ...], val_sat[0, ...], scale=rscale, smoothing=error)
    # visualize the result
    plt.figure()
    vis.plot_ppi(clutter)
    plt.suptitle('clutter')
    plt.savefig('clutter_cloud_example_1.png')
    plt.figure()
    vis.plot_ppi(val_sat[0, ...])
    plt.suptitle('satellite')
    plt.savefig('clutter_cloud_example_2.png')
    plt.show()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ex_clutter_cloud()

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Specifications for every model. The differences can be quite obscure.
As comprehensive but not complete collection of parts lists.
Manuals, tips and fix-its to get your Lonesome™ out of the shed and onto the road.


Gotten stuck in mud or snow before? If you have and realized that (usually) if you let out some of your tires' air, you can get out due to the increased surface. This is what 4x4's will most of the time do if there's no one around to winch them out and there's nothing to attach their winch to.
If you have done this (let air out), then you'd realize how long it usually takes to get down to the psi you want. This is especially no fun in the winter time. Sitting outside in the freezing cold, while cars pass without stopping to ask if you need help, letting the air (slowly) out of your tires to better your chances at getting free.
Well no more shall you have to do this. Now if you follow these instructions, you can easily switch caps and sit in your warm car while your tires deflate (time it around 2 or so minutes, depends on the size you make these and your tires).
These can also be used for "pranks", but I'm not here to say you should use these for such things (although the pictures kind of gives away what I made them for, but never got around to using them).
Sorry, no actual pictures cause I made these a long time ago and never took any.
But I did make these instructable guideline photos when I made them and just found them recently.
We'll start out with the fast (both to make and to deflate) way.
4. Switch caps on desired vehicle when needed.
Now onto the Custom deflating caps.
1. Dremel (saw) about a half an inch (I know the picture says different) or whatever the desired size is that you want. Larger equals faster deflate, smaller equals slower deflate which gives off less noise.
2. Glue the cut off piece of bolt to the bottom of the cap using the paper clip to force it down. Try to keep it centered.
4. Switch the caps on the vehicle.
Another (temporary) way to deflate your tires is to get a small pebble and put it on the inside of your tire cap and screw the cap back on.
I did something similar to this recently, except I intended to use it as a prank, and it works much better in my opinion: I took the cap and drilled a small hole in the top and threaded a small screw(the type you would find on a plastic toy, I have a hole bag full) and then drilled another hole next to it (on the corner of the cap) so it has a place for the air to escape from.
Or you can just go to an automotive store and get a schrader valve core repair tool. You can get a nifty 4 way one that has a retapping tool for the inner and outer threads as well as a internal bore reamer.
Tires deflate much faster with the core removed.
Also I recommend replacing the core every once in a while.
There are actually a couple beaches where there are places to inflate your tires at the exit, so you deflate them to drive on the beach, then re-inflate them later.
traditionally you just take the tire cap off put a bb in it then put the cap back on.
Or a small pebble like I explained in the last step, but then you wouldn't have any actually type of timing for how long it takes to deflate. In these other steps, you could try it out on one of your tires after making it and time it to figure out how long it takes to deflate to different psi's. Then write it down on a piece of paper and put it with the caps, inflate your tires after you're done and then you'll know how long to wait.
I think we're getting off track here. If you read the description, you'll understand that these are used to let the air out of all 4 (or 2, depending upon your situation) of your tires while you sit back and relax. All you'd have to do is time how long and then switch the caps back. If you want to quickly deflate the tires, make the bolt long (about half the cap's length) and screw it on. Also, as mentioned above, you can also make holes in the end to help the air to escape. There is also another way to do this, but didn't think of it 'til now to mention it. So here it is: Take the cap and drill a hole through the center of the top with a 9/64" bit. Drill 2 or three holes in the sides (near the top). Now take the 5/32" bolt (don't cut the bolt) and thread it down through the hole. Now you have a cap that you can change when ever you feel like. Thread more into the cap for faster deflate or take some out for a slower deflate.
Car tires have the same style (schrader) valve, I had to remove the valve stem when i was using tire slime. you can also remove the central valve when you're re-mounting tires, the higher airflow makes it easier to mount the tire (I've done this with my spare a few times). and if you pull the valve, a tire will deflate QUICKLY. also they have to replace the valve stem to fill the tire, resulting in a longer delay... hypothetically speaking of course.
http://offroadrecovery.com/c=fcsOAUGA7wHplzPAI3tBtvyBu/product/QD000, I first saw them when I was watching a prank show about how a bunch of kids tried to get the day off from school, so they went to the school bus depot and put them on the bus tires.
Actually I didn't know, but thanks for the link. They look neat, but since I like to save myself a couple of bucks, I'll probably stick to my way (I already made 4. I put them in a film canister in my Explorer to keep them together). Thanks anyhow. (Also I'm sure it shouldn't cost $8.69 to ship UPS to 02830 for such a small package. I've sold on ebay before and have shipped larger packages for less, so right there they try to rip you off. So it'd cost me $21.68 all together, for something I can make for less then $5). But other then that, good idea.
Do it the bolt way or the temporary pebble way.
"This is what 4x4's will most of the time do if there's no one around to winch them out and there's nothing to attach their winch to"
I've gone 4 wheeling before in my Explorer and didn't deflate the tires before. The route I took was filled with large rocks that stuck out at different angles, then there were the muddy ruts that went on for a several feet (about 10-15 feet), but not enough to bother to deflate and then have to inflate again. If you got stuck, then you would deflate the tires, otherwise it would take forever to drive down the path. If you deflate your tires before, you'll be more likely to blow out one of your tires on those rocks.
Yes and also pressure gauges usually have deflaters, but that way is extremely slow and includes crouching next to your car in rain, snow and even hail. You can let air out of only one tire at a time that way, but with these caps all you have to do is switch the caps and time the proccess (depending upon your tire pressure and what size you made the caps) while sitting in your car and then switch the caps back around.
lol. what an odd idea. it's interesting!


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The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development unveiled its official 2021 Tennessee Vacation Guide with a mouthwatering cover showcasing the state's diverse cuisine. Tennessee's world-class hospitality and culinary creations have long been a draw for visitors and residents alike, and this year's guide highlights top chefs and their signature dishes inspired by regional traditions. The guide comes at a time when many restaurants experienced significant revenue loss since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and, in some cases, were forced to close their doors.
Penned by Tennessee-based food critic Chris Chamberlain, the cover story emphasizes such notable and road-trip-worthy chefs and eateries as Dancing Bear Lodge & Appalachian Bistro in Townsend, Chef Tam's Underground Café in Memphis and City Farm Co. in Nashville, among others. To spark travel planning, the guide highlights Tennessee stops on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, breathtaking scenic beauty, Tennessee Music Pathways, kid-friendly destinations and more. The guide offers over 140 pages of travel inspiration and is available free as a printed guide or instant download at TNvacation.com, or at any of Tennessee's 16 Welcome Centers.
"We're optimistic about our future and eager to see restaurants bustling with full tables once again, so it's fitting that this year's guide spotlights our wonderful restaurants and chefs," said Commissioner Mark Ezell, Tennessee Department of Tourist Development. "Our restaurants have worked hard to keep their doors open, implement safety measures and provide much-needed jobs. It's up to all of us to lift this industry and help them restore their businesses, whether it's dining in, ordering takeout or purchasing gift cards."
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Six Ridiculous Questions With David S. Atkinson
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The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality and attain the higher consciousness we all crave. (Eh, not really, but it sounded good there for a minute.) It's just. Who knows? The ridiculousness and question bits, I guess. Why six? Assonance, baby, assonance.
1. Who is your favorite supervillain? Why?
Millard Fillmore, because no one suspected.
More details, please. This is a national security issue, albeit one from nearly two centuries ago. What was his lair like? Did he have a signature vehicle, etc.? Details. We need details.
You know, that reminds me of the time I went downtown to buy chunky peanut butter. I tried the smooth varieties, but there's no traction for the gears with those and it'll just cause the transmission to slide in most Chevrolets. Anyway, I was downtown buying some and the clerk rang me up but didn't hand over the peanut butter. I asked for it, and the clerk said I'd already taken it. That's when I saw him running off with my peanut butter. That's right, it was Danny DeVito.
2.If you had to go through life as a cartoon dog, who would you choose? Why?
Dynomutt, because that seems about right for my competency level.
I'm not familiar with Dynomutt. Was he also a fictioneering patent attorney?
Not on the show, kind of like Danny DeVito and my peanut butter. I gave chase, but Danny is a wily one. You also can't forget that he had my peanut butter. There's a certain advantage in that. I lost him somewhere around the pyramids.
3.Is there a difference between Manifest Destiny and Survival of the Fittest? What is it?
Survival of the Fittest isn't just some fancy justification to steal.
You know, Manifest Destiny was the reason Danny DeVito gave for stealing my peanut butter. He insisted that he and his institutions had special virtues, that he had a mission to redeem and remake my peanut butter in his agrarian image, and that he had an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty. That's why he was hiding out in the Red Pyramid with my peanut butter.
4.If you were forced to spend ten years as Sting's indentured servant what would you do? Discuss.
Get out of it after the seven-hundredth time I asked him what it was like to work with Bilbo.
[Baumeister imagines Atkinson doing this and Sting not responding. Ever.]
You can't just say nothing and expect a response. Danny DeVito tried to do that while he was hiding with my peanut butter inside one of the giant acoustic chambers of the Red Pyramid and I managed to get an injunction that the sing-along was invalid. Flushed him right out into the open. It was all over after that, given that I'd dug spike pits around the entirety of the Sahara Desert.
5.Say you were trapped in a remake of Dances with Wolves with no way out, what would you do?
Make sure the buffalo win this time.
I have peanut butter now since I managed to get it back from Danny DeVito. Peanut butter would have changed everything in that movie. Of course, again, that's only chunky variety. Smooth and things would have gone the same way. After all, it's common knowledge that buffalo all drive Chevys.
By the way, who are you playing and will it turn out to be a good career move?
Usually the princess because you can control her extended jumps better than Luigi. She can do most things Mario can so there's no point to him, though Toad isn't bad when quick lifting is needed. Still, I don't see what any of that would have to do with a career. Anyway, I'm seriously thinking about changing to professionally making sure Danny DeVito doesn't steal any more peanut butter. I think it's a growth industry.
6.What if god was one of us?
Blue cheese.
[Baumeister walks away, leaving Atkinson to continue talking about blue cheese, peanut butter, and Danny DeVito. Party Secretary-General Krushchev continues recording the minutes. He looks a lot like Steve Buscemi as he does so. Eventually, Buscemi/Krushchev takes off his shoe and bangs it on the table as he begs Atkinson, "Stoy!"]
Wut? Blue cheese goes great with peanut butter. Not eaten, by any means, but I wouldn't advise eating blue cheese under any circumstances. That's exactly what got Danny DeVito into trouble in the first place. He eats blue cheese one day and the next finds himself stealing peanut butter.
David S. Atkinson is the author of books such as Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep, Apocalypse All the Time, and the Nebraska Book Award-winning Not Quite So Stories. He is a Prose Assistant Editor for Digging Through the Fat and his writing appears in Spelk, Jellyfish Review, Thrice Fiction, Literary Orphans, and more. His writing website is http://davidsatkinsonwriting.com/.
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Typically Tropical
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Imagine, if you will, flying into an airport in the middle of the Peak District, perhaps in one of the tighter valleys, say the upper reaches of the river Dove? That is the sensation you get flying into Cairns, an airport that is surrounded by green fields embraced closely by the hills and rainforests of the Kuranda and Barron Gorge National Parks. It must be one of the prettiest airports capable of handling large jet aircraft. What a great welcome to tropical Australia! [Of course you knew the tropics lay 23˚ either side of the equator and that Cairns is at least 7˚ inside that zone, didn't you?]
As we collected our hire car we were relieved to hear that, due to major work by the local council the aftermath of the floods earlier in the week and been repaired or removed. Indeed it was hard to believe that it had only stopped raining two days ago and in the space of two or three days they had had over 1000mm of rain. This had cause major upheaval; we had seen it on the TV when we were in Sydney. Vehicles had been swept away, a family had been recued from their motorhome only by the fire brigade smashing through a window and pulling them out.
Soon we were on our way up the Cook Highway, heading for Kuranda, a rainforest village. By the way don't you like the way that Australia have given their major roads names rather than impersonal letters and numbers? It epitomises the typical Australian familiarity and lack of unnecessary formality. You can forge a friendship with a road called Cook or Stuart in a way that is difficult with the M1 or A52, let alone the B5023.
One for the grandmothers!
Kuranda was a very picturesque village with a bohemian feel, indeed it had been a major hippy destination in the 70s and some of them had stayed on and opened small enterprises in the 'world famous' Kuranda Markets selling high-end tat. We needed breakfast and Katy's 'phone told us the place to head for was a café called 'Frogs'. It was misnamed. The warm welcome from a dreadlocked and pierced waiter almost went unnoticed as all our attention was focussed on the floor by the side of him. Squatting imperiously in the middle of a pool of sunlight was the biggest lizard we had seen this side of Singapore Zoo and what's more it had an impressive frill around its neck. This was the first of many water dragons that were to join us for breakfast. Completely wild (not as in livid) they emerge from the forest, attracted by the smell from the kitchens and then hang around all day cleaning up after the messy customers. They were completely unphased by our presence, just shuffling away if a chair leg or a foot moved too close.
A group of Americans who arrived just after us were similarly bemused by them. When one pondered aloud;
'I wonder how they got here?'
Her friend replied;
'They must have flown in!'
The Barron Falls
We took another cable car, this time called the Skyrail over the majestic Barron Falls and right into the heart of the rainforest. Here a ranger called Cameron, who had styled is look on Paul Hogan circa the early eighties, gave us a very informative tour explaining that this rainforest was also a cloud forest in that the plants were able to extract water from the vapour in the air. [To qualify as a rainforest it must receive at least 1300mm of rain a year – they had almost had that in a week]. He also explained the fragile interdependency between the Great Barrier Reef and the rainforest.
It was back on to the Cook Highway (or the Cookie as I like to think of it) bound for Port Douglas. On the way we had to stop occasionally where workers were still clearing up the remains of the roadside landslides caused by cyclone Nora.
Now Cookie came into its own as it skirted the ocean, past beach after pristine beach with rainforests coming right down to the sand and not a soul on them. What a beautiful road and what a beautiful part of the world.
On the outskirts of Port Douglas, just before 'Dougie's Backpackers' Resort' where James Foskett once worked, there was a tree full of slumbering flying foxes hanging from the branches like large overripe fruit. I am going to have to go back there at dusk to see them fly later in the week.
A Flying Fox Roost
Katy has booked us a pretty classy Airbnb, a two-bedroom townhouse that is part of a complex run by a very friendly couple called Bruno and Toni. It has everything we could want especially as it is only two minutes slow dawdle to the beach.
We just had enough energy left for a dash to the supermarket and bottleshop (off-licence) for provisions for the weekend as North Queensland is pretty primitive and everything shuts for Easter weekend.
Travelling is tiring!
I hope that things calm down for us too so that I can catch up with the blog!
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Ikea Inspire app in PC – Download for Windows 7/8/10/11 and Mac
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IKEA Inspire is a website that showcases the latest products and ideas from IKEA. It is designed to inspire people to create their own unique spaces using IKEA products. The site features room designs, tips and advice from experts, and a gallery of user-submitted photos.
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Ikea Inspire Is An App That Helps You Design Your Own Home
IKEA Inspire is an app that helps you design your own home. IKEA Inspire is an app that helps you design your own home. With IKEA Inspire, you can get ideas and inspiration for your home, and then create your own design using the app's simple tools. You can also share your designs with friends and family, and get feedback from the IKEA community.
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Donald Trump announced Friday that his budget director Mick Mulvaney will step in as acting chief of staff to replace John Kelly -- amid indications the president is struggling to fill the key post.
"Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration," Trump announced on Twitter. "I look forward to working with him in this new capacity as we continue to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
"John will be staying until the end of the year. He is a GREAT PATRIOT and I want to personally thank him for his service!"
Trump, whose presidency is increasingly embroiled in legal troubles, announced earlier this month that Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, was leaving.
Kelly, who reportedly fell out with other close Trump aides, is only the latest in a long string of high-ranking officials to quit the embattled White House.
He agreed to stay on until at least January 2 to avoid leaving the president in the lurch.
However, even with several weeks' notice, Trump appears to be having difficulty in finding the right replacement.
His widely reported first choice, Nick Ayres, announced last weekend that he did not want the post.
Ayres, a 36-year-old Republican consultant currently serving as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, was seen as a good fit for Trump's plan to start focusing on his 2020 re-election.
With Democrats taking over the House of Representatives in January and special prosecutor Robert Mueller near the end of an explosive probe into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election, the president is believed to be seeking a sharp political operator.
A major Republican figure, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, announced Friday that he too was pulling out from consideration.
It was not immediately clear where Mulvaney fits into those longer-term plans.
Mulvaney, a conservative Republican former congressman, is currently head of the White House budget management office, which oversees federal spending and administers the federal budget.
He was also previously acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects consumers when they take loans and use credit cards.
While in the job, Mulvaney provoked anger in the Democratic Party with his campaign to downgrade the agency.
His new appointment appears to give Trump some breathing space ahead of the holidays, which the president will spend mostly at his Florida resort.
But a question still hangs on who can do the difficult job in the long term. Kelly was often described as "the adult in the room" during the turbulent period since his appointment in July 2017.
In an interview with Fox News this week, Trump said that his ideal candidate was "somebody that's strong, but I want somebody that thinks like I do."
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Hillary Clinton Formally Resigns As Secretary Of State
Published February 1, 2013 at 1:27 PM CST
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to her intoduction before speaking on "American leadership" on Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.
Hillary Clinton formally resigned as the 67th secretary of state, just moments ago.
In a letter to President Obama, she said it was an "honor to serve."
"I am more convinced than ever in the strength and staying power of America's global leadership and our capacity to be a force for good in the world," she said.
She concluded, "On a personal note, it has been a pleasure to work with you and your team. Thank you, Mr. President, for your friendship, and for the opportunity to serve in your Cabinet."
According to the AP, her resignation is effective as soon as former Sen. John Kerry is sworn in as the 68th secretary of state. That's expected to happen in a private ceremony later today.
Update at 2:41 p.m. ET. A Farewell:
Just minutes ago, Secretary Clinton said farewell to State Department employees.
"I'm proud to have been a part of you," she said during an address at the State Department.
Clinton acknowledged that the world today is dangerous. She pointed to today's attack on the American embassy in Turkey, but Clinton said she was proud "of the work we've done" and that she was more "optimistic" now than she was when her term began.


Nothing can separate the top two sailors at the Finn World Masters in Torbole. Rafa Trujillo (ESP) and Vladimir Krukskikh (RUS) continue to collect race wins and now have six apiece with two races to go. Mike Maier (CZE) stays in third after a third and first.
Otherwise it was an interesting day on Lake Garda with several new race winners. Dimitri Petrov (RUS) and Christoph Burger (SUIR) won a race each, as did Marc Allain des Beauvais (FRA), who followed that with a second place to move up to fifth overall and has all but clinched the Grand Grand Masters title.
Tonight the sailors enjoyed a wonderful championship dinner at a pizzeria in Arco, near where many of the boats have been based. Feeding five hundred people is no easy task. When more than three hundred are Finn sailors, it becomes an Olympic challenge.
Inclement weather and light winds were forecast for Thursday so a change to the programme was made to run two races on Wednesday.
Coming ashore after 18.00, it was a long day in the water, with for the first time postponements afloat and even some general recalls. The wind was the shiftiest it has been all week, with several sailors making big gains and losses. There were also numerous start line infringements with the black flag flying for the first time.
Keeping consistent is proving hard for the majority. With four huge fleets choosing the correct side is crucial. For example on alpha course, closest to Torbole, the fleet has favoured the left all week, while a few have made gains on the right. By the second race today at least half the fleets were heading right into the cliff to pick up the favourable shift.
Even though the sailors were tired after two tough days the competition was no less fierce. Lighter winds were forecast but it still picked up to 20 knots, though by the end of the day it was down to 4-5 knots which proved challenging for the fleet that still had the Oscar flag displayed for free pumping.
The day began with the Annual Masters Meeting where sailors heard about the ongoing growth of the class, the work being done with media and event management and a presentation about next year's Masters in Barbados. The meeting also voted on the 2018 venue. The class was in a very fortunate position to have excellent bids from two experienced and attractive venues. As expected the vote was close, but the meeting chose to hold the 2018 World Masters in Balis, near Barcelona in Spain.
Norway is fielding two sailors this week. Petter Fjeld (NOR) is in 53rd and Ola M. Johannessen (NOR) is in 281st. Norway is just one of 32 countries represented this week from Argentina to Ukraine, from Norway, Russia and Canada in the north to Chile, South Africa and New Zealand in the south.
Over the course of this week, Finn sailors from almost every corner of the globe are racing together in friendship and love of a great boat that has influenced all aspects of sailboat racing worldwide. The sailors here are past the Olympics but enjoy sailing an Olympic class that has brought them so much enjoyment over so many years. There is even one sailor here over 80 – Pedro Jiminez- Meifren (ESP), a Super Legend – who completed both races on Tuesday when sailors half his age did not. You have to respect that.
Finn sailors worldwide aspire to race against the best, but they also aspire to race the Finn World Masters. Even now, more and more are promising to sail next year when the event heads to Barbados. The pinnacle event for these sailors just moves to a different standpoint, but the challenge is the same.
On the Finn Class social media you can find photo galleries and videos from each day. Check out the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages for lots more content.
On Lake Garda, battle resumes on Thursday at 12.00 with one race scheduled. The forecast is for light winds and rain.
Dinner in Arco tonight was arguably the largest Finn dinner of all time. After three tough days, the sailors deserved it.


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