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Watch the 'Crypto Castle Chronicles' on YouTube
You may have heard of Jeremy Gardner, He's the 27-year-old co-founder of Augur and the Blockchain Education Network. Now he is planning to become a reality TV star. He is perhaps best known by a wide audience as the main tenant of the "Crypto Castles," an apartment in San Francisco and a mansion in Miami where blockchain industry heavyweights often sublet and party.
He is launching a self-funded YouTube series called the "Crypto Castle Chronicles." It is produced by Adrian Basch, who used to be at Vice and is now a contributing producer on the CNBC Africa "Crypto Trader" show. According to Coindesk, Gardner is shopping around the TV networks in the hope one of them will host his show.
Gardner told Coindesk, "It offers real insight into entrepreneurship, startups, and fundraising, from a perspective that isn't like Shark Tank."
The New York Times as the "king" of the Crypto Castle apartment in San Francisco in a 2018 article about early bitcoin adopters getting "hilariously rich."
Currentyl Gardenr is promoting his new lifestyle brand MadeMan, which has started by launching a skincare range. A film crew followed him around for two weeks as he pursued a Series A round, resulting in twelve 10-minute episodes that begin airing on YouTube next week.
"There's never been educational reality TV," Gardner told CoinDesk. In the series on YouTube you can watch Gardner talk to Anthony Pompliano, one of the big bitcoin bulls, and token guru Ian Balina.
Gardner told Coindesk that his goal for the show is to educate the masses about cryptocurrency through following his personal journey.
Gardner also mentioned that both Trump and the Kardashians had boosted their brands by being on reality TV, and he emphasised that he had no intention of trying to emulate them. His motivation is to use it as "a real mechanism for providing thoughtful entertainment for the masses in a way they feel most comfortable digesting."


It seems like a lot of you like scramblers.
So pretty. If the guy cafe'ing his cl decides to get different pipes I think you should be first in line to get his!
My pipes aren't going anywhere! Beautiful bike OP!!
Sweet ride. My first bike was a CL350; they're pretty easy to work on. I'd recommend getting a Clymer manual if you're doing anything substantial.
Yeah I got a Clymer manual when I bought the bike. Its been a lifesaver so far.
But anyhow, this is my 1971 Honda CL350. Unfortunately, the pipes are not in good shape. The top one was falling apart where the larger muffler part meets the rest of the pipe and is held together with "muffler bandage". Both pipes are painted with aluminum colored heat resistant paint to cover the rust that was unremovable. I think I'm going to put shorty mufflers on it this winter, which is kind of a bummer but they just can't run much longer as is. Its embarrassing to have your pipes popping and backfiring on a college campus.
Anyways, I hope you all like it! I know I do. Noticed the comments on the previous scrambler so I thought I'd put mine. Longtime lurker right here.
Its embarrassing to have your pipes popping and backfiring on a college campus.
That's half the fun! Not to mention the exhaust flames, though your mufflers probably block them.
Look, will you bastards who own CL350s please stop posting bloody pictures of them.
Because they make me very envious, and they're next to impossible to find where I live, and they just make me want to go any buy another motorcycle, and then I know I'll have explaining to do when I get it home.
If you don't cafe it, you won't get the hive's upvotes.
The hive is sick of cafes by now, especially when ruining a good scrambler to make one.
You do realize that this model is called a CL350 Scrambler right? Whether it is or isn't a "true scrambler," it's still a Scrambler. And what? Doesn't do dirt? Quick! Someone post a video clip from that movie where those three guys ride these things around the southwest. Can't remember the name of it.
you mean... the honda cl350 that WON the 1968 baja 1000?
Just come to this. As The_Second_Dwarf is grunge_ryder's latest nym, I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
PS: I had no idea a CL350 won the Baja 1000 either, actually!
And, a REAL scrambler was a woods / trials rider in mid-century Britain.


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Teacher Feature: An Award-Winning Educator
This month, Humanities Texas is pleased to feature 2016 Outstanding Teaching of the Humanities Award winner Emily Greer of Jackson Elementary School in Tyler.
On Thursday, January 26, 2017, Melissa J. Huber, director of exhibitions and public programs at Humanities Texas, presented Greer with her $5,000 award.
A well-loved and respected teacher on campus, Greer follows an interdisciplinary approach to teaching music and fine arts to kindergarteners through fifth graders. With innovative lessons and classroom activities that incorporate history, geography, and literature, Greer encourages her students to make connections across disciplines, thus experiencing a deeper engagement with the music and art they study. Her students research and write about famous composers, dive deeper into classical music with a program through Carnegie Hall called "Link Up," and learn American folk songs that they then share with a Hungarian music classroom via Skype.
"I believe that if students are able to make connections with the song, game, music, theater, or art about which we are learning, they will have a more meaningful interaction and gain a greater understanding of the world around us," said Greer.
"Ms. Greer is a visionary educator who integrates the arts into all aspects of our campus," said Jennifer Bailey, principal of Jackson Elementary School. "She works closely with the classroom teachers to provide cross-curricular connections in music class and during our enrichment time to provide well-rounded and robust learning for our students. We are so very honored and pleased for this recognition of Ms. Greer's dedication to teaching excellence and student success."
Click here for more information about the Outstanding Teaching Awards, including past winners.
From l to r: Chapel Hill ISD Board Members Tammy Humes, Martin Ibarra, and Gregory Ford; Jackson Elementary School Principal Jennifer Bailey; Outstanding Teaching Award winner Emily Greer; Humanities Texas Director of Exhibitions Public Programs Melissa J. Huber; and Superintendent of Schools for Chapel Hill ISD Donni Cook.
Emily Greer (center) surrounded by Jackson Elementary School students at her award ceremony in January 2017.

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We are expecting 130 musicians and group leaders from all over Ghana.
60 brass band players and conductors, 45 choir members and 20 worship leaders.
Although many of these musicians lead or help leading a musical section or group, not all of them are capable of reading music or scores.


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Essay Sample on Impact of Religion in the Haitian and American Revolution
History Religion Slavery
Haitian Revolution encompassed a series of conflicts between the Haitian slaves, colonists, British armies and French colonizers, and other parties between the years 1791 and 1804. While there a significant struggle among these parties, the Haitian people finally manages to win independence from France making them the first country to be founded by slaves. Up to date, the Haitians remains the first people in history who had been ensiled but managed to overthrow the slavery and further established an independent country under the control of their masters. The Haitian revolution also marked as a significant influence on the United States both economically and politically, especially during the American Revolution. While various aspects had a major contribution to the Haitian revolution, the papers aim at discussing the various ways on how religion has a significant impact on the Haitian and the American Revolution.
History of the Haitian American Revolution
It dates back in the late 15th century when the Spanish began to enslave the native from the Taino and Ciboney people. The slaves were forced to mine for gold by the Spanish where they faced brutal working conditions. Additionally, they were devastated by the effect of the European diseases that saw most of the slaves vanish by the end of the 16th century. Nevertheless, the Spanish imported more slaves from other Caribbean islands who also met a similar experience.
Once the primary gold mines were exhausted, the French succeeded the Spanish. The French began to establish permanent settlements marked by the major institutions such as Port-de-Paix that were built in the 17 century in the northwest and the French West Indies as well. The French had named their colony as Saint-Domingue. Therefore, by the end of the 17th century, the landowners in the west had imported up to 5000 African slaves. As at 1789, Saint-Domingue was densely populated with slaves with an estimated population of over 500,000 people which encompassed approximately 500, 000 African slaves, 30,000 European colonialists, and over 20, 000 affranchis, free mulattoes. By 1790, Saint-Domingue had developed rapidly where it stood as the rich French colony in the world since it made huge profits form the coffee, sugar, and the indigo productions.
The Haitian society was differentiated by various people fragmented by gender, skin color and class. The affranchis were majorly made up of the mulattoes who were often the slave owners. They desired the economic and social development similar to that of the Europeans. However, the often feared the salve majority where they faced discrimination by the white European colonialists. These European colonists were mostly the merchants and the landowners. It is the desire to attain the European social and economic class that made the affranchis to strive to achieve independence. A significant proportion of the slave comprised of people born in Africa particularly the West Africans. The slaves worked in the fields, others were household servants, and others worked at the sugar mills, while pother acted as the slaves' drivers. They endured a lot of struggles by working long and backbreaking hours where most of them died from severe injuries sustained in the working areas or while other succumbed to tropical infections and diseases. Some of the slaves managed to escape where they hid in the mountains. The escapees were known as the Maroons who later participated in the guerrilla battles which were against the colonial militia.
It is the presence of his background that facilitated the rise of the revolution hic began as a series of conflicts in the early 1790s. The major causes of these conflicts were the fact that the affranchise were devastated and frustrated by the racist's society in the French colonies, the turmoil developed by the French Revolution, and the continued brutality exhibited by the slave owners and more importantly the emerging war between the European powers. The conflicts were marked by the participation of Vincent Oge, who was a mulatto that lobbied for a rebellion in 1790 but was captured, tortured and later executed.
Following the deep conflicts that arose, the French revolutionary government thus granted the wealthier affranchise citizenship in May 1971. Nonetheless, Haiti's in the European population ignore this law, and within two months a fight emerged between the Europeans and the affranchise. By August 1971, a significant proportion of the salves rose in support to the rebellion. As a way to suppress the slave rebellion and appease the mulattoes as well, the Europeans granted citizenship to all the affranchise in early 1972. To this effect, the country was torn into rival groups where some were supported by the by Spanish colonists in Santo Domingo while others by the British troops from Jamaica. In 1973, Leger-Felicite Sonthonax, a commissioner, was sent by the French government to create order amidst the heated conflicts in Saint-Domingue. Leger-Felicite Sonthonax managed to abolish slavery where he granted freedom to all the slaves that agreed to join his army.
In the late 1970s, a leader of the military and a former slave Toussaint L'Ouverture took control over most of the areas where he also earned some support from the French agents. While pursuing his political and military design, L'Ouverture gave loyalty to the France agents. His political designs included participation that saw L'Ouverture negotiate with the British in 1801. Through these negotiation arrangements, L'Ouverture was then named as the "governor-general for life." Later, Napoleon Bonaparte saw the need to restore the glory of the old regime of the European rule, and as a way to acquire and maintain control of the island, he sent General Charles Leclerc, his brother-in-law together with other experienced forces from Saint-Domingue. Although L'Ouverture managed to struggle against Leclerc for a few months, he agreed for a resolution in the mid-1802. Nevertheless, despite the resolution, the French armies broke the agreements where they capture and imprisoned L'Ouverture in France. He later died in 7th April 1803.
Following the intention that Napoleon had to restore slavery in Saint-Domingue, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe led an army comprising of blacks against the French in late 1802. The black army defeated the French, and by November 1803, Viscount de Rochambeau who was the commander of the French armies admitted the defeat, and to this effect, the French withdrew from Haiti.
1st January 1804 marked the Independence Day for the Haiti's where the entire island was declared as an independent. Nevertheless, most of the Europeans and the Caribbean armies detested Haiti while the United States had mixed reactions. While the states that owed the slaves did all it was possible to suppress this news, the merchants and other free states had the desire to trade with Haiti instead of the European powers. The Haiti revolution thus formed a legacy in the entire Haitian history.
The Contribution of Religion on the Haitian Revolution
While other aspects influenced the Haitian revolution, it is worth noting that religion had a significant impact on this revolution. It is evident by the accounts provided by the various Haitians. For example, Notre Dame provides an account of one if the Haitians named Wilbur who states that "Faith makes us live, but misery divides us." Wilbur states that this statement was common among the Haitians. The evidence of religion as a significant element in the Haitian revolution is provided in three key examples of the immigrant profiles as seen in Notre Dame. These examples clearly show that although the Haitian practiced different religious piety in various areas, their faith was fundamental in confronting the miserable conditions that they faced in France, Canada, and the United States.
As a religious institution, Notre Dame played a significant role in enhancing the religious piety among the Haitians in Miami. For example, the leaders in Notre Dame provided a public vice t the immigrants in Miami where they also developed a social service point that helped the immigrants to adapt to the religious practices. Notre Dame also provided the immigrants with a moral community where they could nourish their faith and strengthen their dignity. Moreover, the three accounts show that although the immigrants put the effort in facing their struggles, the religious leaders, especially from Notre Dame, contributed significantly by acting as a mediator between the immigrants in Miami and the host countries.
One of the examples includes the profile of Donald, a Haitian Christina in Notre Dame. Donald recounts the struggles encountered while adapting to the new society in the United States. In this case, he adopts religious beliefs to construct a life of hope. It is through the faith and religious beliefs that saw Donald keep his goals burning and more importantly the success of his children in the United States. According to Donald, migrating to the United States was an avenue towards escaping the extremely difficult situation experienced in Haiti. The narrative by Donald was clear evidence that seeking spiritual nourishment was one of the strategies that they utilized in escaping the challenged they were facing in Haiti.
The Haitians faced a hard life including extreme poverty and political instability, and to this effect, they relied on their faith which was the only option that helped them to stay alive. A significant proportion of the Haitians are relatively poor with low levels of education. The data from the United States Census in 2000 shows that over 50% of the household in Haiti live below the poverty lines while approximately 46% of households have less than a high school degree. Out of this 46%, half of them have less than nine years of schooling. Following the extreme condition, Donald recounts how the support from the religious organizations has helped Haiti's is settling in the new societies. More importantly, Notre Dame plays a key role in providing crucial assistance to the new immigrants who settled in Miami. Besides, Donald claims that through this help, he and his family are on their way to achieving the American dream of living a middle-class status, a strong ethnic community, and an opportunity to acquire education and secure a job opportunity.
Therefore, the narrative by Donald not only gives an insight into the cultural adaptation of the Haitians in Miami but also tells a story of the Haitian Revolution in the 1980s. For example, it is through this narrative that helps in identifying the Notre Dame had earned a reputation for social activism for both within and without the Haitian community in the 1980s. It was necessitated by Father Thomas G. Wenski who was a vocal pastor that actively defended the thousands of Haitians who were arriving by boat in Miami. Most of these Haitians were escaping from the extreme conditions that the facing in Haiti following the colonialism by the French armies. Father Thomas also helped in establishing the religious community at Notre Dame, the social service point, and the Pierre Toussaint Center which became the largest service provider that offered religious nourishment to the Haitians in Miami.
Another narrative was given by Robert, who was a Haitian immigrant in Montreal. Although the story was similar to Donald's, Robert provides an insight into the challenges faced by Haiti's while adapting in Canada. Robert recounts how the religious institutions helped in adapting to the new immigration settlements as they escaped from the extreme conditions in Haiti. It was necessitated through the participation in the Haitian Catholic mission which goes by the same name as it is in M...
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We all had those childhood days when we chose future professions that sounded fancy to our understanding without even realizing what we were aiming for. Probably one of the reasons, why it kept changing when every time something new was introduced to us. Given that being the common scenario, it's rare to see people who are crystal clear about what they want to become when they grow up, from a very young age itself.
Here at ICCA Dubai, we have someone like that who is so determined that by the age 15 itself she knew what she was aiming for and had already started working towards it. We are talking about Annika Panikker, ICCA Dubai's Online Education Specialist who strongly believed that she belongs to nothing but the culinary industry from a very young age. And today, she being an ICCA alumna and also a part of Team ICCA, along with a whole lot of culinary collaborations going on for her, we can definitely say, she's not that far from achieving her goals. So, let's find out more about her journey so far in the culinary world.
Q. Where does your passion for food stem from?
It goes way back to my childhood. My mom's dad was a Chef and he was working in Qatar as a personal chef for a Qatari family. He used to come down to India for vacation in December every year, and I remember during that time everyone in the family got together in Goa, where my grandpa's house is, to celebrate Christmas with him. And for me, the best part about this get together was the Christmas dinner that my grandpa used to cook single-handedly.
Watching him cooking with so much passion somehow connected me with food. I could say the visuals and the experience of him working in the kitchen stuck with me and it continued to grow.
Q. What's your earliest memory of cooking?
When the cooking spree got into me before I even knew anything about it, I started asking mom to make dishes that my grandpa used to make. But to my disappointment, she always discouraged that idea by saying "we are not chefs and we don't know how to make it". Later on one day, she got so fed up with me pestering her all the time to make this or that; she agreed to bake a cake with a box of ready-to-mix chocolate cake just to calm me down. We baked that cake together and I think that's the earliest memory of cooking or baking I have.
Q. I heard that you were a little entrepreneur during your school days. How did that happen?
Lol, well it all started with a fundraiser program in my school where I put up a stall for home baked brownies along with the others. My stall was unique because I was the only one selling food while others had stalls for arts & crafts. It was my mom's idea as she knew how enthusiastic I was about baking. Although I was a little nervous in the beginning, as the sale picked up, I became very confident and towards the end of the sale, my brownies were all sold out.
After this event, I started participating in this fete every year and kept introducing new things. So that created an interest among the people for my baked goodies and they started placing orders with me. My home business grew very fast and went on steady for a very long time till I left India.
Q. How did your education go along with such a busy schedule?
When I finished school, I didn't even want to continue my studies. I was so sure that baking is all that I want to do for a living. I even told my parents that one day I would become world's best baker which obviously made them crack up but like any other parents, they talked me out of the idea of dropping studies and made me consider education first.
Since I was anyway planning to continue my studies, I thought I might as well study Hotel Management, but when I checked the syllabus for the course, it had management, housekeeping, accounts, finance and subjects which I was not interested in learning. So I chose literature and philosophy thinking it's easy to do and that I could continue taking orders on the side. Again, I was wrong as it wasn't as easy as I thought, but I managed.
Q. When did you decide to do Culinary School?
As my university studies were coming to an end, I was again in two minds, between getting a professional training in baking or to look for and invest in a professional space & kitchen for my growing business. I found a place too, but I think I was worried more about not having any professional training or qualification to take such a huge step. So I started looking up for short term culinary courses but everywhere the professional diploma programs were for 1-2 years and I didn't want to invest that much of time into it and stay away from my business. It's during that time; I came across ICCA Dubai when I was visiting my parents in Dubai as they were working here. Their professional program time duration was perfect for me and I loved the kitchen atmosphere at the school. That visit to the school also gave me an insight about culinary industry and I understood that the culinary world is not just about baking, so I decided to do both cookery and patisserie with ICCA Dubai.
Q. Your business was everything for you then how come you joined Team ICCA?
After studying in a professional kitchen and gaining exposure through so many events and seeing the culinary world at a different level, it opened my eyes to the fact that there are so many facades to the culinary industry today. Studying here at ICCA has definitely given me that foresight. It made me see the possibilities in this industry and made me realize that cooking or baking is not the only way to stay connected to food. Today, you could be a food writer, photographer, stylist, F&B Manager or food consultant I mean the options are endless. So when I was offered to be a part of Team ICCA, I took it as "it was time for a new adventure".
Q. While you are working at ICCA how do you manage to fulfill your passion for cooking/baking?
I cook for my friends and family for sure which is by default but to satisfy the other side of handling food per se, I help one of my friends in Mumbai with menu development and things similar for her café. That requires a lot of recipe testing and I find it quite interesting also.
Q. You are currently collaborating with a couple of international food web networks; could you please tell us something about it?
One of my good friends, Keshia Hannam, was working as the Digital Marketing Head for a leading culinary magazine in Hong Kong called 'A Foodie World' and they also have an e-magazine which is more like a community where they source content from contributors. Upon Keshia's suggestion I started out with Foodie World e-magazine as a contributor and now I am a part of their team who writes about the Middle Eastern food culture and trends.
Another collaboration I have is with an Indian blog dedicated for Indian women called Indian Women's blog, for which again I contribute recipes on a regular basis.
Q. In 2016, Indian Women's Blog listed you as one of the top 11 chefs of India. What are your comments on that?
It was such an overwhelming moment for me. I don't even think that I completely came to terms with it that they put me in nation's top 11 because I was sharing that list with prominent figures of Indian culinary industry such as Sanjeev Kapoor and Vikas Khanna. I think it happened because of the number of people who started following me for my contribution to the Indian Women's Blog which was only 24 recipes a year but the impact it created was insane. I was so humbled by it and it has inspired me to work harder for more.
Q. What are your future plans with ICCA Dubai?
Education is the future and with the growth of ICCA and the way we are moving forward I am very excited to see how we are going to take culinary education to places such as Saudi Arabia and other parts of the world; educating people about food and how it could be more than just a hobby or a routine at home.
Q. Coming back to your childhood ambition to become 'world's best baker', do you still have that in your mind?
I think in all these years my passion has evolved. Earlier it was about being world's best baker and bringing happiness to people's homes through my cakes. Yes, that still holds a lot of value and importance to me, but now it's much more than that. Today the way food industry has evolved and changed, I think it's very important that we need to understand a lot about sustainability and where do we see our food system going. I would like to be a part of something bigger in the sense of working with environmental conditions and understanding how we can consume produces that are not bad for us as well as for our environment.


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Q: Pure CSS Smooth Scrolling to Same-Page Anchor Hyperlinks Without Javascript On this hospital website there is a nice transition animation effect when clicking on a letter link, the jump to the selected anchor text has an easy smooth animation effect that brings the visitor down the page.
Using Chrome Devtools I'm unable to see what CSS transition effect they are using. I would like to learn this technique, and be able to do a CSS only transition effect, if possible, only for the vertical movement of the same-page anchors, preferably not animating anything else on the page, just the vertical movement to anchor scrolls.
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Scroll Down to letter E

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article a{/* ?? */}

Thanks!

Update

Strange! When I override the "Smooth Scrolling" setting in Chrome v103's chrome://flags/ from [Default] to [Enabled], then smooth scrolling works and looks beautiful on both my website and the suggested example link in the comments! But when I return that setting value back to "Default" then it does not work, neither on my website nor on the suggested link! But it does work on the Hospital link above in this question!

A: There's an css property called scroll-behavior.
You can put it on html and all anchor will be called whit the defined animation.
In that case: html {scroll-behavior: smooth;}
The available values was:

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*auto (instant jump in a blink of an eye)

*smooth (smooth '-')

*initial (browser's default)

*inherit (copy value from parent);

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First phase of the Bihar Assembly polls ends
With tight security, an estimated 54.31 percent of the 1.07 crore voters on Thursday exercised their franchise in the first phase of the Bihar Assembly polls in 47 of the 243 seats.DIG and Commissioner of Purnia division along with Special Task Force commandos carried out aerial patrol in two helicopters during polling.
While 85 percent of booths were manned by central paramilitary forces and armed police from other states, the rest were guarded by the Bihar Military Police.
The state's borders with Nepal and West Bengal were sealed.


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Maidstone Crown Court
Man admits to killing managing director outside his own home in violent assault in Maidstone
Lance Colston pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter after fatally wounding Jason Orwin, 55.
Jason Orwin (Image: Facebook)
A 37-year-old man has admitted killing a businessman in a violent assault outside his home.
Lance Colston pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Jason Orwin during a hearing at Maidstone Crown Court today (April 21).
Mr Orwin, a managing diector of a financial recruiting firm, died after suffering a head injury and cardiac arrest in the attack in Bower Place, Maidstone, in July last year.
In a cruel twist of fate, the 55-year-old had been robbed just a few weeks earlier in an unrelated incident in which he suffered a fractured hip and had his custom-made, 18-carat, diamond-encrusted gold watch worth £10,000 stolen.
Colston, of Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, will now be sentenced for Mr Orwin's manslaughter on May 28.
He was originally accused of murder but Judge David Griffith-Jones QC was told the prosecution no longer wished to proceed with that charge.
Mr Orwin, who ran Rochester-based Peritum Associates, sustained his fatal injuries shortly after 6.30pm on July 31.
He was airlifted to King's College Hospital in London where he sadly died.
'Dangerous' Snodland sex offender who planned to meet and abuse 'girl, 12' jailed for four years
Network Rail hit with huge fine after Ashford substation fire left employee with serious burns
Colston, who appeared via prison video link, also admitted assaulting Richard McConnaghie on the same occasion.
He was remanded in custody until his sentencing hearing for both offences.
In separate proceedings in January, the same court heard Mr Orwin had been mugged during a post-work evening walk in Maidstone on June 2.
His two attackers were subsequently sentenced to a prison term of three years and seven months, and a two-year community order.


Memphis. This Weekend. Me. You, Maybe?
This weekend, I'm heading up to Memphis to read in the Impossible Language Reading Series. Here's the thing about reading series: sometimes, being a poet is a sad and isolated thing, but readings give us the rare opportunity to gather and listen and love what others do with their work. Readings become the place where we meet each other, fall in love with each other, remind each other of what we do with language and why it's so damn important. Readings become the place where we carry our love of language to meet our love of others who love language like we do. And if any reading series has brought this experience to me, it's the Impossible Language Reading Series.
I'm grateful-beyond-grateful to my friend, soul sister, collaborator, and poetry compatriot Ashley Roach-Freiman for inviting me to read this weekend, in the last ever edition of the Series. And I'm also unbelievably grateful (NOTE: I just accidentally typed "great-ful," which is appropriate for the information I'm about to drop) to be sharing the stage with Christian Anton Gerard and Heather Dobbins, two phenomenal poets who are also phenomenal and positive pillars in the poetry community. So often, the literary community can feel snarky and competitive and generally just kind of dark. Ashley, Christian, Heather, and all of the other beautiful people I've met through this beautiful series have shown me what this community can be at its absolute best: a group of people supporting each other and carrying each other as we do this difficult work in this difficult world. It's such an honor to know them.
By 7 pm on Saturday, December 15th, I will not have had time to go see a Star War, so PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL THE NEW STAR WAR FOR ME. If you'd like to discuss a Star War once I see it, I will totally give you my e-mail address because I am going to be SO READY TO DISCUSS. I am, however, already ready to talk about porgs.
*Just as a reminder, that does not include The Last Jedi. Yet. But it does include porgs.
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Tony's Kansas City
Opinion, Jokes and Stories from KC
ONCE AGAIN SUPER DAVE DEBUNKS KANSAS CITY VISITOR COUNTS!!!
In an era of social media gamesmanship and a dearth of fact checking, our pal Super Dave shares his real world perspective . . .
Super Dave Seys:
"Huge weekend concert taking place in Rockingham NC. Sort of like Rockfest here but then nooooooooo where close either. This has all the looks of a very professional 3 day festival.
"Here's my point. Look at the picture taken last night of the crowd. The maximum number of tickets to be sold was 90k. Rod Zombie on his site claims there is 27k in the audience watching them play.
"At this venue they had control of the entrances and a good idea of the head count. Compare this crowd to the so-called "visitor" numbers that many local civic groups tout with little or no proof."
"We need to yell back, "You Liars." 800k Royal fans??? I really doubt it. Arrowhead will hold 76k of folks jammed packed in there like sardines now imagine how much space that would take up if on flat ground . . . I hate cities that openly lie to you."
You decide . . .
Posted by Tony at 5/11/2019 09:45:00 PM
Tony says tons of things without any proof Stupor Dave, why not jump up his ass?
Oh, yeah, I know why. You're already up it.
This may give you a little more clarity.
"I hate cities that openly lie to you."
So move.
Or die.
Either one would be fine.
Byron Funkhouser said...
Well, actually, SillyDave is right, this time.
I disagree with you super dumb fuck. The picture does not show the whole picture. That crowd is packed in at union station and the street are packed with people all the way towards the sprint center. I don't know the number but it dwarfs any crowd I have ever seen.
Dave makes a good point, you haters, well you just hate.
Who is super dave?
Rod Zombie? I think you meant ROB Zombie - Super Douche!
Dave is dead on the money.
I'd guess that there was some method to arriving at 25 million visitors per year, but most likely it's so embarrassingly ridiculous that nobody dares to explain it. It probably counts every automobile that drives through KC on the way to somewhere else. Multiply that number by 2 on the assumption that each auto contains at least two riders. Every airplane that lands at MCI contains around 100 visitors. It could also include people who live in JoCo or Blue Springs but work in KC - they visit KC every work day each year. Times two of course.
Whatever. The city's obvious goal was to fool all of the people some of the time.
Super Dave said...
@2:15 you are correct it is Rob. I was just sending a note to Tony and didn't think he would put it on here and I used voice to text and didn't proofread it. My bad. So with that said I am sure you're very ok with me calling you a douchebag troll who simply couldn't point out an error but had to retort to name calling along with it. Are you one of those douchebag trolls who thinks they are such a perfect person you never ever do anything wrong and was placed upon this planet to write retarded responses because you do nothing wrong ever?
Stupor Dave was looking at his crotch when he wrote that as that's what his wife calls his penis: Rod Zombie.
^^^^^^^^^Hey ass clown you don't know Dave or you would know his wife died in a horrible car accident. But the world is full of mental midgets like you who shit out the mouth all day long. Get a life creep!
Sorry, but did the poseur have a point here? Or are you just throwing douchebag around like you just learned the word?
Super Dave, what the fuck kind of background do you have that would give me confidence in anything you say. You pretty much claim to be an expert on, well, every subject. My guess is you basically peruse weirdo tin foil hat websites and that's where you get "learned".
Hard pass on Super Dave thoughts.
"If you torture statistics long enough they'll tell you whatever you want to hear".
I'm sure if one really wanted to they could come up with some kind of "facts" that support the 25 million visitor number. Kansas City lies on the border of Kansas and Missouri. More importantly, it's surrounded by Gladstone, Raytown, Independence, Lee's Summit, Roeland Park, Overland Park, Prairie Village, etc....Many of the residents of the the surrounding suburbs do have need to travel to and thru KCMO proper. So one could take those numbers of people and come to a conclusion that 25 million non-KCMO persons did "visit" KCMO proper. Although not "visit" in the traditional sense.
I find it hard to believe that 25 million people from outside the KC metropolitan area are coming to KCMO proper and spending significant amounts of time and money in KCMO. Approximately 40 million people visited Las Vegas in 2018. Are we to believe that KCMO is even in the same stratosphere as Sin City in terms of visitors?
Political agendas dictate truth in this country. If your goal is to sell the people that all this subsidizing of private development is fueling the uptick in "visitors" then of course you're going to drub up a stat (no matter how unrealistic) to support that claim.
I'm a lifelong Kansas Citian. But KC is what it is. We don't have mountains, we don't have lakes, we don't have tons of massive casinos (although we have a few), we don't have things that draw nationally and internationally like Chicago, Orlando, LA, Vegas, etc. So how are we supposed to believe that KCMO, despite all the tax payer funded development the last 10+ years, has all of a sudden become this hot tourist/visitor, destination? Short answer: it hasn't. I'm sure there has been some level of uptick. But to the tune of 25 million? Not likely....unless you're counting ANYONE from anywhere (including the outlying suburbs) as "visitors".
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Tales Frozen in Time
Located right at the ends of the world, Antarctica has a very young human history. It is the only continent on which the first buildings remain standing, and much of the early exploration of the place is documented using photography and film footage. These days the cameras we take down south are digital, but the icy landscapes remain the same. There is no better place to explore the layers of our interaction with Antarctica, from the days of black and white through to today's high definition technology, than Whaler's Bay, on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Whalers Bay is located inside an active caldera known as Deception Island. Whenever we visit Deception Island, my job is not hard – I get very excited about both history and volcanoes. The area remains volcanically active, with steam often visible at low tide. That geological activity forms part of the human story as well, because it was the series of eruptions in the late 1960s that eventually made the British base on the site uninhabitable. We head ashore, often amidst horizontal snow, to get a glimpse of the past.
Whaler's Bay is named for the whaling ships that used to dock in the shelter of the harbour. A shore based station was also in use from 1911-1931, and the remnants of the boilers that were used to render down blubber are still in place. Today, wind beaten timbers pierce the thickening skies and rusting machinery slowly flakes away to red. Behind the boilers stand several more recent buildings, erected during the wartime 'Operation Tabarin' to establish a British presence in the Antarctic, and to prevent any of the Allies' enemies from gaining a foothold in the area. The erection of the buildings was also in response to repeated assertions of sovereignty from Chile and Argentina, two nations that lay claim to the same slice of the Antarctic Peninsula as Britain. The wooden huts were used for scientific research following the war, and it was only when a lahar came through to destroy the base that the site was abandoned. For those who think history is boring, think again – at Whaler's Bay you are essentially looking at a secret wartime military base that was destroyed by an erupting volcano – all that's missing is James Bond himself.
These days it is people like us who come to visit Whaler's Bay – tourists. It's a great spot for bringing the past to life, but we're part of the story too. As we snap photos of the rusting boilers and decaying British base, we are adding our own layer to this palimpsest of a place where whaling, politics, science and tourism come together at the bottom of the earth.
Originally published in The Ashburton Guardian


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As a native of Siler City, Nichol Price is especially invested in the future of her hometown. Like everyone else who calls Chatham County home she wants to see her community grow and prosper. During her training in the culinary arts program at Central Carolina Community College she began to notice the abundance of small farms producing high quality vegetables and grass fed meats in her area. When she saw an opportunity to open a restaurant in the old Sidewalk Café location in historic downtown Siler City she realized it was not only as a chance for herself but for the community on a whole to increase their support of their local food system. Price's goal at Succotashed, her new café, is to bring the products grown nearby directly to restaurant go-ers right there in Chatham County.
Succotashed will be the first "Farm-to-Fork" cafe in Siler City. This environmentally-friendly model has worked extremely well in the nearby Triad and Triangle areas, but has yet to be introduced in this small Chatham County town. As a chef, Price is thrilled at the opportunity to showcase what she learned in CCCC's Green & Sustainable Foods program and hopes that Succotashed will have a positive impact on Siler City's local economy.
In order to raise the capital she needs to purchase equipment and get Succotashed off the ground, Price started a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo. She hopes to raise $9,500, which will be used to purchase equipment to outfit her kitchen – such as a convection oven and energy-efficient commercial refrigerator. With 12 days left, her Indiegogo campaign is currently one-fifth of the way to reaching her goal, but Price hopes to get as close as possible before time runs out.
Price also reached out to Carol Peppe Hewitt, director of Slow Money NC, for help. Slow Money NC specializes in helping local farmers and food entrepreneurs around the state to connect with potential investors in their communities. Hewitt and Price are teaming up to present a Sneak Preview of Succotashed on Thursday, March 14 from 5:30-7:00 pm at 113 Raleigh Street in Siler City. This event is free and open to the public and will allow interested community members and potential investors to see the café, meet the owner, and talk about the importance of supporting Siler City's local foodshed.
Carol on her LinkedIn profile, Smile!
But for months/years? I have been getting invitations from random people, many who I respect and think are quite intelligent, inviting me to Link In somehow. But why? As best I could tell this was a site for folks who are looking for work, or for professional connections – and those who are looking for potential employees.
So I pressed 'delete.' As an independent, small business owner for the past several decades, and a raging social activist prone to frequent and uncontrollable ranting and raving, I can only assume I am completely unemployable.
But the requests kept coming, and many were from folks I would love to do more than just 'accept' but who I would be delighted to spend the evening with – commiserating about the challenges we face as we try to save and nurture our lovely planet and all her species, and to also pat one another on the back for the pitiful, but real progress we make along the way. So we can keep on keepin' on.
And I updated my profile. Here's what I wrote, keeping it under the 2000 character limit.
"Since learning about "Slow Money" in May of 2010, I have been meeting sustainable farmers in North Carolina who need capital (in the form of a direct peer-to-peer affordable loan) and connecting them to the generous people in their communities who understand the importance of protecting fertile topsoil, and who care about supporting local farmers/local food.
It has been a wild and busy couple of years – creating, and now riding, the Slow Money NC seesaw. First we found potential lenders who cared about soil fertility, local food, and building resilience in their foodshed. Many were also fed up with sending money off to Wall Street where it had no positive impact on their community.
Then we found hard-working, deserving farmers and innovative local food entrepreneurs (often in the same person) who just needed a few thousand dollars to start, run or expand their business – but had few, or no, places to turn to for help.
And we introduced them to one another. If they chose – a low-interest loan was the result, over a plate of gluten-free cookies, or standing in a field looking at a potential greenhouse site.
You can read about our antics at http://www.slowmoneync.org. If you got this far, I also hope you are chafing at the bit to make a Slow Money loan. There's a place to tell us that at the website as well.
Not a lender today? No worries. Any donation helps 'pay it forward' and you can help make next week's loan happen.
Either way, it's a wonderful prospect that we just might get a trillion dollars or more out of Wall Street and into local farms. It would transform our grocery stores, our collective health, our planet's ability to sustain us as a species, and it would be so much fun.
There you have it. Now it is time to get back to reading Borrower Information Forms, and potential Lender Pledge Forms and seeing who might want to meet and talk to whom. And making those powerful connections.
Here at Slow Money NC we have our own little private link-in to the small farm/local food movement. And we have work to do getting them the community capital they need to start-up, to survive, and to thrive.
That's the real work on this seesaw. Thanks to all of you.


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You see an ominous grandfather clock, forever striking thirteen, as the shadow of a threatening hand slowly descends. The stuff of nightmares, no? This is another brilliant Haunted Mansion tableau only briefly glimpsed and yet easily grasped. It works because the imagery is familiar enough for you to need only a glance in order to read it.
The first thing to say is that there has always been something vaguely unsettling about grandfather clocks. They're about the same height and girth as a human being, they have a face, and for centuries the clock was by far the most complex piece of machinery most people knew, the closest thing to artificial intelligence. Long before radio and robots, it was the clock that seemed eerily human. It's never taken very much to anthropomorphize grandfather clocks in odd or whimsical or sinister directions.
making scary movies. They're right up there with suits of armor when it comes to creepy things standing around in dark old houses.
over at the Passport to Dreams blog, has posted an industry ad for a spookhouse clock. "You'll jump ten feet!"
And if it's a creepy grandfather clock costume you want, check out this.
It's a small step from this general eeriness to the notion of haunted clocks, and sure enough, in popular culture haunted clocks are a widely-known phenomenon. A good musical example is "My Grandfather's Clock," a lively little ditty written in 1876. I guess it's sort of a folk classic. We used to sing it in school when I was a little kid. It's been recorded by the Everly Brothers, Burl Ives, and Johnny Cash, among others.
"On our first wedding anniversary, my parents gave us an anniversary clock. Not expensive, but I loved it. It kept perfect time for years. Mom passed in 1990. After a few years, it stopped. Changing batteries didn't help. Because I loved it and it meant something to me, I kept it on the mantel. When we moved, the clock went with us and had its place of honor on a new mantel. But it was quiet, and the pendulum didn't move.
(On) Jan. 6, 2012, my dad passed away. Dad was a major do-it-yourself handyman. There was nothing he couldn't fix. ... The clock still randomly chimed, until then. About a week after we buried Dad, we sat in the kitchen talking about him over a glass of wine, and damn, the clock chimed at 10:59 p.m. The next day, while dusting the mantel, I freaked out. The pendulum was spinning and the hands were keeping time!
While it doesn't chime every hour, when it does, it is usually at night and always at one minute to the hour. Guess Dad is still working on it. Between the random chimes I have a connection to my parents, who I miss tremendously. The clock stays, as is."
"My cousin, Gerri, passed away two years ago in September. Her brother cared for her and was very good to her until she died. Well, just a few months later, our families all got together for Thanksgiving at the brother's house. Dinner was out on the table, and Gerri's brother gave a toast to Gerri, and we all raised our glasses to her. He said some really sweet things to his sister, and we were all missing her and wishing she was with us.
Suddenly, a clock on the buffet started chiming. The brother stood up with a really funny look on his face, and then he told us this: The clock had not worked in over a year. It was sent to a repair shop, but could not be fixed. It just started working right after our little toast. It works to this day. So it must be that our loved ones can somehow communicate to us through clocks. I truly believe this."
"Many years ago, on our first anniversary, my husband bought an anniversary clock with a chime. It stopped working (they always seem to stop working, no matter who owns them), and we took it to clock repairmen. But ... it wouldn't work. I left it in our house, always in a place of honor, so everyone could see it. It's really a beautiful thing.
(My husband) died five years ago. A few months after he died, I was still missing him, and then the clock began chiming. It was on what would have been our 54th wedding anniversary. The clock now works and keeps good time. I can't explain it, but I know what I want to believe."
did the "My Grandfather's Clock" thing is 1786. It died when he died.
And guess what? Sometimes these haunted clocks strike thirteen.
"I am the fourth owner of a grandfather clock that was first purchased by my grandmother's brother approximately 100 years ago. Great Uncle Telemac was a man of wealth who could neither read nor write but went on to start one of the largest insurance companies to date. When he passed away, the great clock stopped, and no amount of coaxing would get it to start again. It sat in the dining room of his house in Montreal, Quebec, and when the family was gathered around the dining room table to hear the reading of the will, the clock started again with no outside influence.
The clock is a seven foot tall unit that has a series of three weights that have to be pulled up by chains to wind it. When my grandmother Blanche died, it again stopped working and would not start. My mother was given the clock by her sister and had the clock shipped a thousand miles to her house. For weeks the clock would not run. When she received a copy of her mothers will in the mail, the clock again started.
I was living with my mother at this time, and we had gone to town. We found the copy of the will in the mailbox, and when we went into the house we found the clock running. When my mother passed on, the clock struck thirteen and would stop and run in spurts. The clock thus far has been behaving itself, with no other episodes."
The Sherman House in Plover, Wisconsin is reputed to be haunted. It's a renovated 19th century building, and it has been plagued with poltergeist activity since opening as a restaurant in the 1980's. Among other things, they've got glasses flying off the shelves, a massive front door that opens and closes by itself, and a mantel clock that strikes thirteen at midnight.
appears in pop fiction and cinema as well. This is from 1954.
strikes thirteen just before someone dies, we also get a creepy raven and long dark hallways with suits of armor standing around.
Like so many other ideas, the Mansion version of the haunted grandfather clock originated with the Father of the Haunted Mansion, Ken Anderson, as we can see from a sketch he produced during his pioneering labors on the attraction in 1957-58. I wish I had a bigger, clearer copy, but what we can see is plain enough: a normal-looking clock with a ghost inside the cabinet.
Later on, another Imagineer came up with his own idea for a spooky clock, one that had nothing in common with Anderson's version. In 1964, Rolly Crump sketched a "Grandfather Coffin Clock" for his Museum of the Weird project (which, as you know, was never incorporated into the ride). He also had a maquette made up. The little model is interesting in its own right, as it is far from identical to the sketch.
on its face and a skull pendulum reminiscent of Rolly's skull clock weights.
secretary/lover. They say the Countess never recovered from his death. Well, yeah, I'd say not.
Since none of these looks much like the clock we finally ended up with, there must be missing pages to our history. There are probably more sketches out there, by Claude Coats or (more likely) Marc Davis, sleeping soundly in some forgotten file. Anyway, once it had been decided that (1) no ghost would be visible until Madame Leota worked her wonders, and that (2) the clock would come before the Séance room, the ghost inside the cabinet had to disappear, as ghosts are wont to do anyway. Nevertheless, the fixture itself sprouted a few spectral countenances. The demon face framing the clock face is the obvious one. I'm sure that many (if not most) of you have long been aware of it.
Atencio's ghost would have been. Behold, a remnant. It is all that survives from what we now know was a much bigger idea.
Have you ever noticed that the Ghost Host tells you, "The real chills come later" immediately after the biggest scare of the ride? Well, if he isn't lying, the only thing he could realistically be referring to (in my opinion) is this scene in the Clock Hall. It's the climax of Act One in the three act play that provides a broad and basic narrative for the attraction. As we've mentioned before, the shadow of the hand coming down on you (someone behind you?) is the closest thing to an actual attack in the entire ride, the only undeniably hostile act directed against you personally. Up until then, you may have suspected that the Ghost Host and the rest of the ghosts are hostile, but there have only been hints and suggestions in that direction, not real evidence. Until you enter the Clock Hall. Yep, here's a real chill that came later.
a previous post. As you may recall, I suggested that this effect was inspired by Nosferatu (1922).
The show details are critically important. If the minute hand had spun forward, no doubt we would all be sitting here postulating about time speeding up in the Mansion, with the hands agreeing with the number 13 in pushing us forward in time unnaturally, blah blah blah. On the other hand, if a normal clock face were presented (e.g., with a "12" at the top), but the hands were spinning backward, we would all be chattering about a possible trip back in time. But we haven't got that either. The "13" points forward unnaturally and the minute hand sweeps backwards, equally unnaturally, leaving the viewer confused. It's Tulgy Wood signposting, pointing two different ways at once. You cannot make sense of it, so your only recourse is to throw up your hands and recognize that you are lost. You have entered a netherworld, a surreality that follows its own uncanny logic. Think Alice in Wonderland . . .
if the hands are going backward, perhaps I am going backward too, and in that case it will soon be breakfast again. Oh dear, this is all very confusing."
Yeah, think Alice in Wonderland, except this time the dream is a nightmare.
(1) The haunted grandfather clock appears in all of the Mansions (Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris), but each one is slightly different, especially with regard to the hands.
has hands reflecting the artistic stylings of its Japanese setting, and Phantom Manor has snakes.
(2) Only the WDW clock face actually has thirteen marks on it; the others simply put a 13 where the 12 would be.
Normally, I don't take you Forgottenistas on backstage tours, because frankly, there isn't anything particularly wonderful to look at most of the time, unless you thrill to the sight of unpainted plywood and swoon whenever you see 2x4 framing. In this case, however, I'm making an exception, because that door really does lead to some interesting things. Step all the way in, please, and make room for everyone.
Originally, the door was for access to the projector for Madame Leota's face. You will recall that she was going to face the other direction, looking toward you rather than away from you as you entered the room. The Imagineers turned her around sometime in mid-1969, probably because they realized that there would be no way to avoid people seeing the projector as they swung by. On the blueprint below, you can see the little room (yellow) with the projector (blue) behind the clock (red). The projection would have come out of the wooden "spirit cabinet" which is still sitting right there behind Mdm L.
But after the projector was relocated, the room continued to be useful for providing access to the audio-animatronic ghost sitting on the mantelpiece in the ballroom, the one with his arm around the bust of "Aunt Lucretia." As we have argued elsewhere, the Mantelpiece Guy was a very late addition to the HM. You can see him (blue) on this WDW blueprint, drawn up a few years after the one above.
Okay, that's enough. Let's get back before somebody sees us here.


I felt impressed to develop a series of articles looking at the issues of ethnic generational curses and demonic torment common to different groups. There are many open doors for demonic oppression in a person's life.
However, over the course of ministering deliverance to thousands of people, we have seen recurring themes based upon their heritage and this is what I want to address. The primary focus is on these curses as it relates to women.
I have been repeatedly asked by clients to share my findings about ethnic backgrounds from a deliverance perspective and have not felt a release to do so until now. I have an important disclaimer: I am not an expert on the full history of specific ethnic groups. These articles focus primarily on what I have observed and learned in deliverance ministry sessions. The specific causes and sources of these common themes may be open to debate and, as with all assessments of this type, are not universally applicable to each client.
It is my hope through these blog articles that, if they connect with your specific background and family history, you will engage with me so we can gain a broader and deeper understanding. We want to be more effective in deliverance ministry and specific knowledge can help with that. All believers are in a spiritual battle and the more we understand the tactics and schemes of the enemy the better we will do.
We must also recognize, as a church and as a society, that the demonic kingdom has manipulated us with prejudice issues that causes division and strife! As children of God, we all belong to the same family and in order for us to bring in the harvest that is now ripe we have to be able to stand together on the front line in unity. I hope you will see this series in that light because that is my heart and desire.
While the scope of the series has not been finalized, I will be looking at Latinas, African-American, English, Irish and Native Americans at the outset. I cherish your feedback and comments as this series unfolds; the first one will be about those of Hispanic descent.


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Don't be offended by the title.
An 'F' word here or there never hurt anyone.
So get stuck into the facts (that's an 'F' word too!)
In 2011 approximately one third
of divorce filings in the US
contained the 'F' word,
yes, that's the one
(See, it wasn't nearly
as bad as you thought.)
HOT fact:
The temperature of the Earth's core is
5500 degrees celsius (9900 degrees fahrenheit).
That is the same temperature as the surface of the sun.
Getting a silver medal in the Olympics
will make you feel worse than getting a bronze
(because you just missed the gold)
There is actually a beer brewed
from bananas in some countries
Out of 44 Presidents of the United States,
32 have served in the military.
15 Presidents served in the Army/Army Reserve,
9 served in state militias,
6 served in the Navy/Naval Reserve
and 2 served in the Continental Army.
Croatian Josip Belušic invented the speedometer.
(How about that for a fast fact?)
Answering the call of nature is something
Europeans usually associate with the utmost privacy,
which is why American toilets,
with huge bottom and side gaps,
seem so weird to some foreigners.
The first webcam was actually created
to monitor a coffee pot at
the University of Cambridge.
Russian spies used to use hollow coins
to pass messages to each other in the US
and one of these coins made it into circulation.
One day a paperboy dropped the coin
and it split open revealing its coded contents.
The code baffled the FBI and CIA
until a Russian spy defected to the US
and interpreted the note.
It was a welcome message from Moscow
…and it was intended for him.
In Australia there is a river
called the 'Never Never River'.
The toaster in your kitchen
contains a more powerful computer
than the one used by NASA
to send astronauts to the moon.
It only had 64Kbyte of memory
and operated at 0.043MHz.
After the release of the Top Gun movie in 1986,
the US Navy stated that the number of
young men who wanted to become Naval Aviators
went up by 500 percent.
A Mish Mash Quiz Today.
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Welcome to today's quiz on the fasab blog.
Another challenging selection of questions for you.
And if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the letters M A S H stand for?
Q. 2. Wind transports approximately how many millions of tonnes of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year?
a) 4 million tonnes b) 40 million tonnes c) 400 million tonnes
Q. 3. What city is known as 'The City Of Tigers' ? (HINT: it is not in Asia.)
Q. 4. 'Ring of Bright Water' is a book about which creatures?
Q. 5. This one is the name of a rich fruit cake decorated with almonds, a town in Scotland, and the last name of a comic Australian movie character. What is it?
Q. 6. In which country is the legendary city of Timbuktu? (If you have been following the TV series American Odyssey you'll know this one.)
Q. 7. A multi-point question. What currencies are used in the following countries?
a) USA b) Britain c) Japan d) Europe e) China
Q. 8. What percentage of internet users quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds?
a) 10% b) 20% c) 30% d) 40% e) 50% f) 60%
Q. 9. What were the first names of the four main characters of the long running and highly successful TV series 'The Golden Girls' ? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the actresses who played them.)
Q. 10. In 1929, US Army Air Corps Lieutenant General John MacCready asked Bausch & Lomb, a New York-based medical equipment manufacturer, to create aviation sunglasses that would ban the sun rays and reduce the headaches and nausea experienced by his pilots. What name were they given?
Q. 11. "The devil on two sticks" is a former name for which juggling-like game?
Q. 12. What are the four largest countries on Earth by area? (A point for each you name correctly and a bonus point if you get them in the correct order, starting with the largest.)
Q. 13. What is the painting, 'La Gioconda', more usually known as?
Q. 14. What is the name of the traditional Irish potato and cabbage dish?
Q. 15. What is the name of John Lennon's widow?
Q. 16. With whom is the fictional character 'Alfred Pennyworth' associated?
Q. 17. Who is the largest American retailer of lingerie?
Q. 18. In the Bible what are the names of the first and last books of the New Testament?
Q. 19. What was the name of the flamboyant and controversial Australian actor who starred in many movies during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and played characters like 'Robin Hood' and 'George Custer'?
Q. 20. What was the name of the group that Paul McCartney went on to form in 1970 after The Beatles split up?
Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the latters M A S H stand for?
A. 1. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
A. 2. The correct answer is b) 40 million tonnes.
A. 3. It's Oslo, Norway. (Apparently because the city was referred to as 'Tigerstaden' (the City of Tigers) by the author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson around 1870, due to his perception of the city as a cold and dangerous place.
A. 4. Otters.
A. 5. It is 'Dundee'.
A. 6. Mali, Africa.
A. 7. a) Dollar b) Pound c) Yen d) Euro e) Yuan Renminbi
A. 8. The correct answer is e) 50%.
A. 9. They were Dorothy Zbornak (played by Bea Arthur); Rose Nylund (played by Betty White); Blanche Devereaux (played by Rue McClanahan); and Sophia Petrillo (played by Estelle Getty).
A. 10. They were called Ray Ban.
A. 11. Diabolo.
A. 12. 1) Russia 2) Canada 3) United States 4) PR China
A. 13. The Mona Lisa.
A. 14. Colcannon.
A. 15. Yoko Ono.
A. 16. He is butler to Bruce Wayne, aka Batman.
A. 17. Victoria's Secret.
A. 18. They are the book of Matthew and the book of Revelation.
A. 19. He was Errol Flynn.
A. 20. It was called 'Wings', have a taste….
Lif Is Too Short.
June 11, 2015 June 7, 2015 fasab comedy, Humour, Language, Puns	Amazon, amusing, Atilla the Hun got, bad for your joints, bad jokes, blind people, cannabis, circumcision, cod liver oil, Comedy, deaf people, dinner bell, Entertainment, feet, funeral, funny, Greek alphabet, hair stylist, handmade shoes, hate, health warning, hear you, Humor, Humour, hypochondriac, inventor, jokes, Lif is too short, link, movie, never gelled, noise, obesity, Optrex, passion has gone out of our relationship, previous day delivery, Psi Phi film, pun, puns, relationship, rip off, same middle name, scientists, sick of it, stupid, time machine, wasn't a dry eye in the house, wife, Winnie the Pooh, word play, word plays
Lif may be too short but thankfully there's no shortage of puns.
Here's the latest selection for you to…
I've just ended a relationship with a hair stylist.
We just never gelled.
Say what you like about deaf people.
But not blind people,
they can still hear you.
I went to the inventor of Optrex's funeral today.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
My wife says the passion has gone out of our relationship.
She really doesn't know how much I hate her.
I used to be a hypochondriac until
I eventually became sick of it.
What have Winnie the Pooh and
Atilla the Hun got in common ?…….
the same middle name
Wouldn't it be better if handmade shoes
were for your feet?
I'll be making a movie
about the Greek alphabets.
It's a Psi Phi film.
a quick circumcision.
A rip off.
According to scientists there is a
link between noise and obesity.
Probably the dinner bell.
Just bought a time machine from Amazon.
Well you have to when they offer
previous day delivery.
Finally for today a health warning:
Mixing cannabis with cod liver oil
is bad for your joints.
First Of June, First Quiz Of June.
June 1, 2015 June 1, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests	16th and 17th centuries, 16th century, art, artists, authors, Baker Street, ball game, Birmingham, black and white bird, board game, books, Buildings, canal, Canary Current, Christopher Cockerell, city, City of Oaks, close fitting bodice, color, company, counties, country, cue ball, detective, east, education, empire, english, English city, Entertainment, equipment, famous, female bear, Finnish, first person, followers, Gävleborg, general knowledge, Geography, Golden Fleece, Gotland, Greek Mythology, Gulf Stream, herb, history, House of Representatives, idiots, India, institution, invent, Italian painter, land, language, Large Hill, largest landowner in the world, leader, leaves, line the streets, links, literature, London, Manchester, mode of transport, monopoly, movie, Name, nationality, nature, Normal Hill, North, North America, North Atlantic, North Atlantic Current, North Equatorial Current, north pole, Norwegian, oak trees, Olympic sport, on foot, original tokens, Pakistan, Pelota, People, Pica pica, places, pocket, questions, quiz, quizzes, red ball, region, ruled, science, scientific name, Shamrock, ship, shot in snooker, sit down, small vegetable growth, south, sport, star, Swedish, Taken, test, tests, United States of America, Uppsala, US Senate, voting seats, west, Western Europe, word, writer, writers
Summer is beckoning but not before you try another fasab quiz.
Twenty more random questions to test your knowledge.
As usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: How many leaves are there on a shamrock?
Q. 2: It is the name of a region in Western Europe, a unique language, a close fitting bodice and a common form of the ball game Pelota. What is it?
Q. 3: What nationality was the first person to reach the North Pole alone and on foot?
a) Finnish b) English c) Norwegian d) Swedish
Q. 4: Which mode of transport did Christopher Cockerell invent in the 1950's?
Q. 5: What word links a herb or other small vegetable growth, the buildings, equipment, etc., of a company or an institution, or a shot in snooker where the cue ball hits a red ball which hits another red ball to make it go into a pocket?
Q. 6: What city in the United States of America is known as the "City of Oaks" because of the many oak trees that line the streets in the heart of the city.
Q. 7: What is a female bear called?
Q. 8: Gävleborg, Gotland and Uppsala are among the counties of which country?
Q. 9: In which Olympic sport are there 'Normal Hill' and 'Large Hill' events?
Q. 10: In Greek mythology who went in search of the 'Golden Fleece' ? (You get a point for the name of the leader, the name given to his followers and two bonus points for the name of their ship.)
Q. 11: What color originates from a famous 16th Century Italian painter and what color is it? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 12: Which English city has more than 100 miles of canal?
a) London b) Birmingham c) Manchester
Q. 13: Which empire ruled most of India and Pakistan in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Q. 14: What writer created the famous Baker Street detective?
Q. 15: Which black and white bird has the scientific name 'Pica pica' ?
Q. 16: What is the name given to that part of the North Atlantic bounded by the Gulf Stream on the west, the North Atlantic Current on the north, the Canary Current on the east, and the North Equatorial Current on the south.
Q. 17: If you added together all the voting seats in the US Senate and House of Representatives, how many idiots could sit down?
Q. 18: Name the star of the movie 'Taken'.
Q. 19: What company, still in existence, was at one time the largest landowner in the world, having 15% of the land in North America?
Q. 20: Finally a chance to beef up that points score. What were the eight original tokens used in the board game 'Monopoly' ? (A point for each correct answer and two bonus points if you get all eight correct.)
A. 1: Three (3).
A. 2: Basque.
A. 3: The correct answer is c) Norwegian. He was Børge Ousland and he walked there by himself in 1994.
A. 4: The Hovercraft.
A. 5: A 'plant'.
A. 6: Raleigh, North Carolina, is known as the "City of Oaks".
A. 7: A 'sow'.
A. 8: Sweden.
A. 9: Ski jumping.
A. 10: His name was 'Jason', his followers were the 'Argonauts', and the name of their ship (after which the followers were named) was the Argo.
A. 11: Titian, a brownish-orange color.
A. 12: The correct answer is b) Birmingham.
A. 13: The Mughal Empire.
A. 14: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his creation was Sherlock Holmes.
A. 15: The (Common) Magpie.
A. 16: It is called the Sargasso Sea.
A. 17: 535 (100 + 435).
A. 18: Liam Neeson.
A. 19: Hudson's Bay Company.
A. 20: Wheelbarrow, Battleship, Racecar, Thimble, Old-style shoe (or boot), Scottie dog, Top hat, Iron.
Titanic, Tic Tacs And Trailers. It's Fact Day.
May 26, 2015 May 25, 2015 fasab Factoids, Unusual	0 sugar, abandoned, animal species, animals, archaeologists, beard, beard tax, bionic limbs, birds, birth, Bulgaria, carrying the child, children, climate change, combine harvester, corkscrew, days, declined, descendant of Genghis Khan, drought, education, emotionally attached, emotionally bonded, Entertainment, fact, Fact day, facts, famine, FDA, food, furnaces, Germany, great cities, humans, hypothesized, infant, information, inscription, interact, invaded, invader, Japan, JRR Tolkien's estate, labeled, lawsuit, lay in ruins, light pollution, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, marketers, Mayan Empire, men, migration patterns, Mongol, mothers, movie, movie trailers, nights, oldest country in Europe, Oscar the cat, overpopulation, pay, Peter the Great, prior to birth, problems, reign, respond, Russia, scholars, scientists, serving, shovel coal, smile, Soviet, Soviet Union, spanish, studies, sugar, sugar free, Swiss Army Knife, Switzerland, Tic Tac, Tic Tacs, Titanic, tomb, tomb of Tamerlane, trailers, wombs
Welcome to another fact day at the fasab blob.
Last one for May 2015. Time flying as always.
This selection includes facts about the Titanic Tic Tacs and trailers, and lots more.
Light pollution usually doesn't have a
significant impact on humans but it
causes major problems to many animals.
Birds often confuse days and nights and
scientists found out that light pollution can
change migration patterns in some animal species.
The Titanic was so big that 176 men were needed
just to shovel coal into its furnaces
Although Tic Tac's claim to have 0 sugar,
they consist of nearly 98% sugar!
This is because the size per serving is
.49 grams and according to the FDA a food
cannot be labeled "sugar free" unless it
contains less than .5 grams of sugar per serving!
Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe and
it hasn't changed its name since 681 AD
When Soviet archaeologists opened the tomb
of Tamerlane, a Mongol descendant of Genghis Khan,
they found an inscription that read,
"Whoever opens my tomb will unleash
an invader more terrible than I."
It was June 20 1941.
Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22.
The only part of a Swiss Army Knife not
made in Switzerland is the corkscrew.
It is made in Japan.
Mothers become emotionally attached to their
children prior to birth by the virtue of
carrying the child in their wombs.
According to some studies men won't become
emotionally bonded to the child for several months
after birth when the infant begins to smile, respond,
and interact with him.
During Peter the Great's reign in Russia
there was a beard tax which
anyone with a beard had to pay.
Nobody knows how the Mayan Empire declined.
Long before the Spanish came many of the great
cities had already been long abandoned and lay in ruins.
Scholars have hypothesized reasons ranging from
drought and famine to overpopulation and climate change.
JRR Tolkien's estate only received $62,500
for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy
until a lawsuit was filed.
In June 2010 Oscar the cat received bionic limbs
to replace his original ones lost in an
accident with a combine harvester.
Movie trailers were so named because they
were originally designed to play AFTER the movie,
but when marketers realized that people don't tend
to stick around when a movie has finished they
started to play them at the beginning of the main movie!
From Alien Invasion To Vitamins – Another Quiz Day Is Here.
May 11, 2015 May 1, 2015 fasab Questions, Tests	acronym, actress, album, alien invasion, alternative name, American cowboy, and the clocks were striking thirteen, Australia, automobile, B Group, bears, big cat, book, British Crown Dependencies, cedar tree, cereal packet, Channel Islands, character, City of a Hundred Spires, coast of France, Cointreau, color, crust, diameter of Earth, earth, Eastern European city, education, English Channel, Entertainment, FBI trainee, flag, flavor, Geography, Girlie Chorus, Hawaii, Himalayan poppy, history, It was a bright cold day in April, milk, Moribund Chorus, movie, movies, music, Nasal Choir, New York City, nucleus of an atom, outer core, People, places, POD, police commissioner, private investigator, publishing industry, questions, quiz, quizzes, Riboflavin, science, Silence of the Lambs, South America, subatomic particles, sugar, test, tests, UK, vitamin, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Woking, world's smallest flightless bird, world's tallest mammal
Welcome to another Quiz Day at the fasab blog.
Another challenging selection of questions.
But as usual, if you get stuck, you can the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: Who has been a private investigator in Hawaii, an American cowboy in Australia and the police commissioner in New York city?
Q. 2: What do you call a group of bears?
Q. 3: Which Eastern European city is known as the 'City of a Hundred Spires' ?
Q. 4: Which country's flag includes a cedar tree?
Q. 5: In which book does an alien invasion commence in Woking?
Q. 6: Which subatomic particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?
Q. 7: Which sugar is found in milk?
Q. 8: This one is the name of the largest species of big cat to be found in South America and a make of automobile?
Q. 9: What is the name given to the part of the Earth that lies between the outer core and the crust?
Q. 10: You see it on your cereal packet all the time, but Riboflavin is an alternative name for which vitamin of the B Group?
a) Vitamin B1 b) Vitamin B2 c) Vitamin B3 d) Vitamin B12
Q. 11: Not part of the UK, but still known as British Crown Dependencies, the Channel Islands are situated in the English Channel just off the coast of France. You get a point for each of the four main islands in this group you can name correctly.
Q. 12: Which is the world's tallest mammal?
Q. 13: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,' is the first line from which book?
Q. 14: What is the approximate diameter of Earth?
a) 4,000 miles b) 6,000 miles c) 8,000 miles d) 10,000 miles
Q. 15: What gifted actress played the part of an FBI trainee in the movie 'Silence Of The Lambs' and what was the name of the character she played? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 16: What is the world's smallest flightless bird?
Q. 17: In the publishing industry what does the acronym 'POD' mean?
Q. 18: What color is a Himalayan poppy?
a) Red b) Yellow c) Green d) Blue
Q. 19: What flavor is Cointreau?
Q. 20: On which multi-million selling album would you find the Nasal Choir, Moribund Chorus and Girlie Chorus?
A. 1: Tom Selleck. He played Magnum PI set in Hawaii, Quigley in the movie Quigley Down Under and currently Frank Reagan the NYC Police Commissioner in the TV series Blue Bloods.
A. 2: A 'Sloth'.
A. 3: Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
A. 4: Lebanon.
A. 5: The War of the Worlds by H G Wells.
A. 6: Protons and Neutrons.
A. 7: Lactose.
A. 8: Jaguar.
A. 9: It is known as the 'Mantle'.
A. 10: The correct answer is b) Vitamin B2.
A. 11: The four main islands in the Channel Islands group are: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.
A. 12: The Giraffe. (By a neck!)
A. 13: 1984 by George Orwell.
A. 14: The correct answer is c) 8,000 miles.
A. 15: She is Jodie Foster and in The Silence Of The Lambs she played the part of Clarice Starling.
A. 16: The Kiwi.
A. 17: It means 'Print on demand'.
A. 18: The correct answer is d) Blue.
Q. 19: What flavour is Cointreau?
A. 19: Orange.
A. 20: Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.


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VAALCO Energy, Inc. announces 10-year extension of Etame exclusive exploitation areas through 2018
Published by Aimee Knight, Editorial Assistant
Oilfield Technology, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:00
The Amendment provides for a 10-year extension of the three Exclusive Exploitation Areas under the PSC ('the Extension'). VAALCO is the Operator with a 33.575% Participating Interest under the terms of the applicable Joint Operating Agreement. The remaining owners of Participating Interests under the Joint Operating Agreement are Addax Petroleum Etame, Inc. (33.900%), Sasol Gabon S.A. (30.000%), and PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (2.525%). VAALCO and the other Participating Interest Owners are referred to as the 'Contractor Parties'.
Key Highlights of the Extension:
Extends each of the existing three Exclusive Exploitation Authorisations under the Etame PSC for 10 years from the date of the signing of the Amendment, with two additional five-year option periods.
Provides the opportunity to make future investments that will yield benefit to both the Contractor Parties and the government of Gabon through further development of the resource potential within the Exploitation Areas.
Commits the Contractor Parties to complete, within two years of the Amendment coming into force, a drilling program to drill two development wells and two appraisal wells, as well as undertake technical studies.
In addition, VAALCO has agreed individually to provide an increased commitment to corporate social responsibility projects in Gabon.
Cary Bounds, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "VAALCO, together with the other Contractor Parties, are very excited to announce this extension of our Exclusive Exploitation Authorizations in the Etame Marin Permit. The Extension will further strengthen our strategic partnership with the Government of Gabon and ensures the long-term viability of our premier Etame asset, which has produced more than 100 million bbls of oil since inception. This extension stabilises VAALCO's outlook for the future, removes uncertainty, and allows us to focus on generating further value and extracting additional reserves from the Etame block. We are now ready to move forward with our 2019 development and appraisal drilling program. We will provide additional details once the locations and timing are finalised. As we look to the future, we remain focused on creating substantial value for our shareholders by operating safely and efficiently, and continuing to execute on our growth strategy. The remaining opportunities in Etame are significant and we are well positioned to strengthen our financial and operational positions. We are also very pleased to continue our long-term relationship with the Government of Gabon and look forward to many more years of successful operations in the country."
Representatives of Sasol Gabon, Addax and PetroEnergy have also executed the Amendment. The Contractor Parties have also agreed to their respective Participating Interest share of the work commitment and other obligations, including the drilling commitments, under the terms of the Extension. The Contractor Parties are optimistic that these wells will be part of a broader, long-term programme to develop the economically recoverable portion of the hydrocarbon resources remaining in the field which will jointly benefit VAALCO, the other Contractor Parties and the Republic of Gabon.
Read the article online at: https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/drilling-and-production/26092018/vaalco-energy-inc-announces-10-year-extension-of-etame-exclusive-exploitation-areas-through-2018/
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How special is your Advent Calendar?
I hadn't ever thought much beyond the chocolate advent calendars you buy at the supermarket … until last year when my eyes were opened to the glory & wonder of all that Advent Calendars can be! Let's just say I was very quickly hooked!!
Like anything so many options, and knowing me and my personality I wanted to start something with a bit of "flex" in the idea so that I could change, adapt and develop my family's advent calendar every year – but an element of it would always feel the same. So, I fell in love with a "blank canvas" sort of approach.
With this as my starter every year I can do something slightly different that will work into my evolving style and taste. This style of blank canvas style is a perfect size for a family to share and adaptable enough so that not every day is a chocolate or present. I want my family's Christmas to be about giving and caring for others as well as about us. So plenty of room for a bit of everything!
My colour scheme this year is "scandi" inspired (I'm so on trend!) and simplistic with the colours of red, white and gold being the focus. I think the "opening" time for 2016 will be at 6pm … hopefully when Daddy is home and we can have a family moment together.
*Craft activity – each person is to write/make a Christmas card to someone special who lives far way – I'm a big believer in the magic of the written word and the hand delivered post. One big family night of colouring, pasting and writing!
*Gingerbread men – I brought some sweet little cookies from a local deli and wrapped them in 3 little bags and tied them with red bows. One in each bag for all of us including the dog!
PHEW!! That is 24 done and dusted. I had a lot of fun deciding on all of these!!
Christmas is a special time of year and I hope our advent calendar will create family moments of "together-ness" each night that often get lost in the normal day to day routine and rhythm of life. And that these will be memories we all treasure.
I wonder where and what I will do next year?!
Where do you buy a blank canvas from?
*Perhaps a large puzzle might be fun … a Christmas scene with the pieces carefully curated so that as the girls pull them out the image really forms. Perhaps I could even make one, or get one made? And a sprinkling of chocolates I think!
Do you have a dog in your family … or perhaps you know someone with a fur baby. I think these dog advent calendars are pretty amazing. I've sent one to my brother for his fur baby!
*And if all this really does tickle your fancy, have a look through my pinterest inspiration boards for loads more ideas!