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Myths of the Veritas: Battle Plans
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
Posted by petersironwood in America, psychology, Veritas
cruelty, dialogue, empathy, greed, myths, politics, psychology, truth
As POND MUD and ALT-R quickly discovered, hanging upside down soon produces a mind-numbing headache. Even the clever mind of ALT-R found it extremely difficult to concentrate. He needed a plan to convince this new leader of the Cupiditas not to kill him but instead to keep him alive until they conquered the Veritas. Of course, he also wanted to convince NUT-PI that he, being a Veritas native, should be made the under-King, the slave-driver, of the remaining Veritas. Keeping a line of thought from falling apart under the pain proved difficult. The required concentration at least kept him from focusing on the many small and large indignities he was forced to endure at the hands of the Cupiditas. Since their society was coordinated through anger and cruelty and power rather than cooperation and deliberation and common purpose, the chance to wreak indignities on others is something in which most of them found great glee. Luckily for ALT-R, POND MUD soon became their favorite target. Initially, this was mainly because he looked (and was) much better built and stronger than ALT-R. In addition, POND MUD was much more reactive and impulsive than ALT-R. Every time POND MUD strived with all his might to break free of his bonds, it encouraged the Cupiditas to even greater cruelty.
On the morrow, NUT-PI ordered the two cut down. They were brought, with hands tied behind them, still naked, to his cabin and again forced to kneel on the cruel gravel for their audience.
"I have decided not to kill you. At least not yet. Indeed, we will use your knowledge to conquer and enslave the Veritas. If we prove successful and you two prove sufficiently useful in this endeavor, we will indeed set you atop the Veritas to have absolute power to do as you will excepting only that I, naturally, will rule over you two. Which of the two of you is of higher rank I leave for you to sort for yourselves. It seems that for now, we will have to trust each other. Now, go forth and discover these guard locations for yourselves. Come back here as soon as you know so you can guide us in our battle of conquest. Go and clean yourselves and then your clothes will be returned. You may break your fast with us and then make haste with your reconnaissance. I need hardly remind you that if this is a trick of the Veritas and you double cross me, you will killed in ways that are so painful that you will look back fondly on last night."
After getting cleaned, dressed, and fed, and listening to NUT-PI's speech, the pair was sent off. NUT-PI made it clear that they were not to be further mistreated but were going to help the Cupiditas conquer the Veritas once and for all. According to the narrative that NUT-PI spun, he had convinced these two that they had better cooperate in defeating the Veritas or face dire and painful consequences. This irked ALT-R because he was given no credit for volunteering to do this. It was his idea, not NUT-PI's. But, he reckoned, this was a small price to pay for becoming overlord of the tribe and avenging his banishment. POND MUD, for his part, only cared that he was no longer suffering pain and humiliation. He wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.
When ALT-R and POND MUD were well out of earshot of the Cupiditas (or so they believed), and well before approaching the lands of the Veritas, POND MUD began complaining to ALT-R about the disastrous and humiliating treatment they had received at the hands of NUT-PI.
"You say you're so smart! You said we'd be welcomed! You didn't even know anything about NUT-PI! That was horrible! You…"
"Stop, POND MUD. Stop. Yeah, things were a bit different that we expected, but we still got what we came for! You are going to get all the women of the Veritas that you want. Keep that in mind!"
"Well, okay, but still. I still have a headache! But it's a good torture to remember. And, I don't trust NUT-PI. Not at all!" complained POND MUD.
"Nor I! I don't trust him either, POND MUD. But think about it. We will be the overlords and slave drivers of the Veritas. Even if half the Veritas are killed in battle, they will still be much more numerous than the Cupiditas. When the time, is right, we will kill NUT-PI and you and I will rule both tribes. The remaining Veritas will be happy to avenge the Cupiditas under our leadership. We'll just lead a strike force. We'll pretend we're bringing some slaves to work for the Cupiditas and they will secretly be there to assassinate NUT-PI."
"Really?" asked POND MUD. "Oh, that might be better. I don't like NUT-PI much at all. Not after what he put us through."
ALT-R had doubts that the plan he had just invented and outlined would actually work. But he did plan to depose NUT-PI. ALT-R also hated him. He would have plenty of time to work out a foolproof assassination plan later; for now, his goal was simply to keep POND MUD in line.
They walked on in silence for a time. Then, POND MUD began to complain again. "And, why didn't KAVA NUT come and get us! He was supposed to be on the lookout!"
ALT-R shook his head. "No doubt, he was POND MUD. He did the right thing. What would you have had him do? Come into their camp with everyone watching and take on the whole of the Cupiditas to free us? That would have ruined the whole deal and all three of us would be dead by now."
"Well, okay, but he still owes us. We vouched for him. It's not our fault no-one believed us when he tried to rape Eagle Eyes. I don't know why…anyway, he still owes us."
ALT-R again wondered why he had not somehow found a smarter companion. Ideal would be someone he could still outsmart but not quite so dense as POND MUD. Anyway, I am on the path I am on, he thought.
"Yes, he does," continued ALT-R. "And, he'll owe us still more after we take over. Because this time, we will make sure he has Eyes-of-Eagle just as you shall have She-of-Many-Paths and anyone else you desire."
Soon, they met up with KAVA-NUT. "Remember, we need to find out the guard post positions and not be seen ourselves. That is of the highest importance. Stay away from the Veritas. We'll meet back here in two day's time. While we wait for dark, KAVA-NUT, let me recount to you what I learned about the Cupiditas. Then, the three of us must pool our knowledge to understand likely paths and positions that will allow us to find the guard positions. We must walk as quietly as a butterfly finds its way among the flowers."
All afternoon they planned their reconnaissance missions. POND MUD was to discover guard positions deep in the forest itself for here, ALT-R considered POND MUD to have the least chance of being found out. KAVA-NUT was to determine guard positions in the field of broken rocks that abutted the forest to the north. ALT-R would do the same for that part of the forest nearest the Lake of Reeds.
Just before the sun began to set, they set out in three different directions. They planned to meet again and combine their knowledge at dawn and then plan out another night's mission before heading back to the Cupiditas with their knowledge.
During this time, several of the initiates among the Veritas who had begun vying for the Rings of Empathy came to She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives to say that they felt something was wrong, but they could not say exactly what. After the last such, She Who Saves Many Lives called all of them all together for she too had felt that things were somehow "off" as though a great storm was coming, though the sky was clear, or as though the earth might be about to rearrange itself, though she felt no tremors.
Under the gentle leadership of She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives, they engaged in Dialogue. At one point they began to contemplate the pros and cons of habits and decided to change the way that lookouts are arranged as well as the locations. Instead of getting the very best vantage points, they decided they would suggest posting extra guards at vantage points for seeing those vantage points. They reckoned that POND MUD, ALT-R, and KAVA-NUT might want to wreak revenge. It was well-known among the Veritas, that those falsely accused never exhibit quite so much rage as those rightly accused. Among the Veritas, such false displays of outrageous anger were called something best translated as "emotional diarrhea." Such had been exhibited in the lengthy council that eventually banished the three of them. Only ALT-R remained calm while both POND MUD and KAVA-NUT screamed and yelled that they were innocent.
During the dialog, other observations were made about diversity of life, the value of habits, but also as to the vulnerability of habits. People such as POND MUD, KAVA-NUT and ALT-R, it was pointed out, are generally impatient. Also, they tend to look only at the surface of things rather than beyond to the substance. They discussed butterflies that look to have big eyes so that birds fear a poisonous snake. They concluded to invite the counsel of the one who is so good at surface, Fleet-of-Foot, to help them camouflage. At one point, knowing well the hearts of those three who were banished, they concluded that POND MUD and ALT-R and KAVA-NUT may attack soon.
Yet, several spoke that such an attack would be sure to fail since they were three and the Veritas were many. Being so few, they begin to wonder how they could possibly attack. They reckoned that they must have allies of some kind, whether bird, beast, plant, or a natural disaster like a fire or storm. They recalled the myth of the Orange Man who destroyed a whole people, as well as his own life, by making careless use of fire in a windstorm.
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They considered the nearby tribes. Could the three be in league with the fierce hunters to the north? But, they reminded each other that such hunters as these have always managed their own affairs. The desert travelers could pose another risk. But it was reasoned that they were too nomadic. She-of-Many-Paths suggested the nearby Cupiditas. But it was pointed out that they were too few. She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives agreed that they were too few for a pitched battle, but she pointed out that the Banished Three have inside information on how the Veritas operate. Knowing such, The Banished Three could think to prevail.
"ALT-R," the shaman continued, "is our deepest enemy for he is very smart yet even he, like all, working alone, has blind spots. He failed to find the acorns so well as the possum," explained She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives, "because unlike his cousin, the possum, ALT-R came looking for rules that would allow him every single acorn and as a result obtained fewer. He promised me that he would learn from this, but I remain skeptical. He might have learned, but he may still assume that everything is far more orderly and predictable than it truly is. This is because underneath it all, he has overwhelming greed which makes him believe utterly that he deserves everything for himself. His bonds of friendship only last so long as he sees it as worthwhile. POND MUD and KAVA-NUT are the same. They could use inside knowledge to find how to attack us, but not if we keep changing our tactics and strategy. This will require the utmost of trust and empathy and good communication. Yet, such communication must remain hidden from The Banished Three."
Dialogue continued, "If only we could fly like bird," said Eyes-of-Eagle. "Or, swing from vines? Though this is too risky and too overt."
Trunk-of-Tree suggested, "We may scare birds with stones to thus reveal false positions. Would our cousins the birds object to using them thus for such a purpose?"
Shadow-Walker added, "But vines could be wound around the upper branches of many trees looking thus much like ordinary trees. Many such could be tugged this way and that to show the movement and direction of incoming enemies. Enemies may not always be human. As we said, in the Myth of the Orange Man, he started fires so that the people would flee leaving him free to loot all their possessions. Instead, his own greed caused his death and so many innocents as well. Surely, even ALT-R would not set a fire to kill everything. We do not know what kind of enemy we are facing so we must prepare for many such enemies."
"There may be another way," said She-Of-Many-Paths. "If any of the three are spotted, let me talk to them and see into their hearts."
"That is very dangerous," cautioned Shadow-Walker.
"Yes it is," admitted She-of-Many-Paths. "Yet, we may gain much information. Let us decide how to arrange it so that you and Trunk of Tree and Eagle Eyes are nearby."
"Why not just capture one of them alone and apply pain until their plans are revealed."
She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives said, "That may work, but such torturing may change us as well and turn us into something we do not wish to become. Often, people with plans that they think clever plans may reveal them if we listen patiently."
She-of-Man-Paths added, "But do not try to protect me unless absolutely necessary. It will be greatly preferred if they do not know you are there."
At the end of the dialog, She-of-Many-Paths declares that she sees a time when they may dialog with each other even when they are not in each other's presence. This will enable them to anticipate each other's actions and, in this way, coordinate with each other as the birds in a flock anticipate each other's actions and flow as a whole without collision.
The initiates prepared over the next several days. They played several games that She-of-Many-Paths devised. In these games, they could only win when they guessed the actions of the others. At first, they guessed badly, but over the course of days, they became very accurate at such things as guessing the symbol or picture that each other wrote on a skin with charcoal and the number of pebbles each other held so that the total was some predetermined number.
Those among the Veritas who were expert at making arrowheads and spearheads made many such in preparation for a possible trouble. Those among the Veritas who were expert at finding vines did so. And, each of the Veritas, in their own way, made reluctant preparations for war.
She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives helped preparations in another way. She sent the initiates off in different directions into nearby woods and fields and had them meet up. Where this meeting would be was to be determined by an internal dialog with the others. They had to meet up at different places each time. At first, everyone met up in a different place. Then, pairs began to show up together. Eventually, they all met up at the same place, though each place was different.
During one such exercise, when they had nearly converged, She-of-Many-Paths heard someone tramping through the bushes in a noisy way that she recognized as the careless tromping of POND MUD. She stood still enough to become nearly invisible to many of the creatures in the forest. She alerted Shadow-Walker, Trunk-of-Tree, and Eagle Eyes through whistles. When She-of-Many-Paths was quite sure that her allies were in place, she moved to a likely spot near a path so that she might confront POND MUD. He walked right by her though his eyes were scanning back and forth in the dimming light for possible places for guard stations.
She stepped out onto the path behind him and spoke. "POND MUD. You have broken the rules of banishment."
He whirled quickly, "Where did you come from? What are you doing here?"
"I am of the Veritas as you well know POND MUD as once were you as well. But no longer. To be found here now could be your death. You must leave."
POND MUD folded his arms defiantly and spread his legs. "Then kill me if you must. I have a much right to be here as anyone!"
She-of-Many-Paths slowly walked toward POND MUD looking into his eyes and seeing into his heart. "I know that ALT-R humiliated you. Why do you still work with him?"
At first, POND MUD denied it and said it was She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives who humiliated him by showing him a cabin that he wasn't strong enough to destroy but ants were strong enough! "You listen to her tales and try to win her rings if you like. But you will see! You will see soon enough!"
She-of-Many-Paths spoke gently, "That was not done to humiliate you but to teach you the important lesson that though you are very strong for a person, you could accomplish so much more working with others rather than trying to overpower them with your strength. Now, you are alone and all your strength gains you nothing, for you failed to learn the lesson."
POND MUD snorted. "That shows how much you know! I have plenty of helpers! ALT-R, KAVA-NUT…No, never mind. You will see."
She-of-Many-Paths shook her head sadly. "Still working with ALT-R? POND MUD, he will betray you just when you need him the most. He uses the strength of his brain to overpower you." Here, she paused and looked hard into POND MUD's eyes and soul. "And humiliate you."
POND MUD's face grew red. "He wasn't humiliating me! He was saving my life! I could only get out of the quicksand by blowing bubbles. That's why I had to put my face in the mud. He saved my life!"
"How does blowing bubbles in the mud save your life?"
"Well, it did, because here I am!"
She-of-Man-Paths thought of various examples that might show the error of this logic, but realized that POND MUD was not now in a very receptive mood for lessons. She-of-Many-Paths recalled the lesson of training trees which She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives had taught her long before she had begun her quest for the Rings of Empathy.
She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives had once led her to a very small cave in a forest not far from the Lake of Reeds. "Now, suppose," she had said in her ever gentle voice, "that you wished to keep this cave secret only unto the two of us. How might you hide it for a very long time?"
She-of-Many-Paths had said, "Well, I could fill the entrance with rocks. Though that would be much work now and presage further work whenever I wanted to use it. I could cover the entrance with sticks, or broken trees. That would be too obvious to an eye that looked at it with more than a glance. These nearby saplings would look more natural. She took one such sapling whose slender trunk plunged skyward and tried to push it over the entrance. The sapling, though young, was surprisingly strong so she put her hands around it and began climbing with her body below it thus bending the tiny trunk toward the cave entrance. As she climbed she pulled her whole weight down. Just as she felt she was making good progress, the sapling cracked and spilled her onto the ground. Now the sapling was nearly torn through. Oh, so sorry, tree. Well, that looks pretty obvious and could draw more attention toward the cave than before."
"Yes, She-of-Many-Paths. Indeed, you are correct. Your idea of using saplings to hide the entrance is a good one, but suppose you need not be in such a hurry."
"I could use vines to loop around it and move it just a little. Then, perhaps, I could come back in a week and bend it a little more. I could come back every week for a long time. Eventually, the tree would grow bent over the entrance but not be broken as my hurry has done. I could do that as well to another tree on the other side. I could, in this way, encourage both trees to bend farther and farther toward covering the entrance. Then, as they grew, in this healthy way, and grew more leaves and branches, the trees would cover the entrance in a natural way. Though this would be a good cover except when the cold of winter encouraged the trees to drop their leaves. Above though, are more vines which I could likewise and somewhat more easily encourage to grow down over the top. This would take some time, but after a few years, the cave would indeed be well-hidden from all but the cleverest of eyes."
She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives had smiled her warm smile at She-of-Many-Paths and had suggested, "Perhaps we can test your idea. You continue with your plan for two dozen moons and then I will return with you and we will see how well-hidden this cave entrance has become."
She-of-Many-Paths had continued the slow bending of the trees and the slow encouragement of the vines from above. At first, there seemed little progress, but by the end of the 24 moons, the cave entrance was indeed quite well hidden, even in the dead of winter.
She-of-Many-Paths recalled this entire incident in a flash and knew that she had tried to bend the mind of POND MUD far too quickly. He was already convinced that ALT-R was his true friend and had saved his life. Her words had been true of course, but they only firmed the thoughts of POND MUD on his current deadly path. Yet, She-of-Many-Paths did not have 24 moons, and probably not even one to gently incline the perception of POND MUD toward a path of actual truth.
"Indeed you are here, POND MUD, and I suspect that is more because of your own strength than because of ALT-R, but I have no wish to argue with you. You are indeed here, not far from the very people who have exiled you. Yet, you know the penalty for being here is death. You risk that. For what?"
"Not your business."
"I don't see ALT-R risking his life to find out this vital information you seek."
"He's doing the same elsewhere. And if you kill us, you will have to answer to him and to NUT-PI."
"I have no desire to kill you POND MUD, and you are far too strong for me to overpower you." At these words, She-of-Many-Paths felt a slight twinge of conscience. While it was strictly true that she had insufficient strength to overpower POND MUD, she had no doubt whatever that she could have dispatched him with one or both of the sharp daggers she had hidden on her person, even before her waiting and watching friends intervened. It was also true that she had no desire to kill POND MUD though she would have done so gladly if it could have saved the Veritas. And, it appeared from the stumbling words of POND MUD, and more so from those words he did not say but from darkness within him that he was trying to hide, that he and ALT-R and NUT-PI, whoever that was, were up to no good. She was aware that, although she spoke literal truth, POND MUD might take those words in a way that planted seeds of untruth in his mind. Nonetheless, she persisted, "I certainly have no desire to kill your new friend NUT-PI whom I do not even know of." This too was strictly true. She-of-Many-Paths ventured a guess, "Is he perhaps a friend of CHOFM?"
"Friend?!" POND MUD snorted. "That shows how much you know! You think you're so smart with all your rings of empathy! NUT-PI is a far stronger and younger king than CHOFM!"
"Stronger than CHOFM? That is strong indeed, POND MUD, for CHOFM is known to be quite strong, possibly even stronger than you. What of this NUT-PI? Is he stronger than you?"
POND MUD frowned, "I'm stronger. But NUT-PI…You'll see."
She-of-Many-Paths, like the rest of the Veritas, felt great anger toward POND MUD for lying about KAVA-NUT. Yet, she could see that beneath his blustery anger and boasts was a boy quit unsure of himself. It reminded her of what She-Who-Saves-Many-Lives called a "Killing Circle." The more he felt alone and incapable, the more he tried to rely on his strength and the strength of those who played to his ego, the more cut off he had felt — and still felt — from the tribe of the Veritas. And the more he had acted this way, and still acted so, the more the Veritas despised him. And, the more they despised him, the more alone and incapable he felt.
{Translator's Note}: We would typically call this a "positive feedback loop" in today's cybernetic parlance, though a "positive feedback loop" can be a "virtuous cycle" as well as a "vicious cycle." The Veritas had no special term, at least that I have discovered, for a "virtuous cycle." I believe this is because they viewed the normal course of life to be a giant web of "virtuous cycles."
She-of-Many-Paths, true to her name, considered many ways to try to draw more information from POND MUD. Presently, she said quietly, "Do you think you were wronged by the Veritas when they banished you and KAVA-NUT and ALT-R?"
"NO! I don't care!" POND MUD answered loudly and quickly. Too quickly, and too loudly, it seemed to She-of-Many-Paths as though he had prepared himself for such a question; as though he could not acknowledge the hurt behind his anger and treachery. "Just wait! You'll see what happens to those who defy us! You think you are so smart! All this empathy will do you no good! Rings indeed! They will be no match for spears and arrows!"
"You may be right, POND MUD, but you had good insights yourself in the first trials. Speaking of which, where are your Rings of Empathy? Surely, you didn't throw out such well made jewelry."
"I – it's not for you to know. It doesn't matter! I've wasted enough breath on you and the Veritas. The Cupiditas do not gab all day. We train and … you and I have a date. A date of reckoning! Till then, go seek you rings! I do not need mine!"
In a flash of insight, She-of-Many-Paths said quietly, "Was it your idea to give NUT-PI your rings? Or, was it ALT-R's?"
Having She-of-Many-Paths look thus into his heart plucked at small remnants of his longings to return to the Veritas, but precisely because of this, it flared his anger. Fundamentally, he was angry with himself, or, more accurately that part of himself that still felt a connection to truth and love and life. The truth he wanted to avoid above all others and the truth he desperately wished to avoid at all costs was that he longed for the past, his past, a past which would never — and could never — come again. He had chosen a different path and he hated any hint that he had chosen the wrong path, particularly when it stirred such feelings of longing within himself. He felt such rage at himself, displaced onto She-of-Many-Paths that he could barely contain himself from killing or maiming or raping She-of-Many-Paths then and there. Instead, he bellowed like an animal and ran off through the forest.
She-of-Many-Paths looked at his retreating figured and wondered whether banishment had been the correct punishment. Before following this line of thought very far however, her companions came onto the path where she stood. Shadow Walker was the first to arrive and the first to speak, "I could not hear all that you said. I could hear almost all of what POND MUD said though. Indeed, every beast in the forest could probably hear him. How did you make him so angry?" At these last words, Eyes-of-Eagle and Trunk-of-Tree arrived as well. She-of-Many-Paths spoke again, "I said nothing to make him angry, though at each point, he chose to make himself angry over what I said. I honestly think he feels sorry for his choices and sorry for pitching his tent with KAVA-NUT and possibly with ALT-R though he believes, or at least part of him believes, that ALT-R saved his life.
Trunk-of-Tree laughed. "I heard that! By making him blow bubbles in the mud?! What a fool!"
Eyes-of-Eagle shook her head. "I knew that POND MUD was not so bright as some but I never thought he would fall for such a blatant lie as that!"
"Indeed," said She-of-Many-Paths, "but don't forget ALT-R is smart and had plenty of time to bend his mind. Anyway, we should focus on what we learned. Unless, POND MUD is a far better artist of camouflage than even the bullfrog and walking stick, he and ALT-R, and KAVA-NUT are indeed in league with the Cupiditas. They are going to try, not to kill us all, but to enslave us or at least some of us. Apparently, CHOFM has been vanquished by a new king, NUT-PI and POND MUD has given away his Rings of Empathy as a gift to solidify their fealty. Probably, ALT-R gave his up as well."
Eyes-of-Eagle shook her head, "I find it hard to believe that ALT-R would honestly pledge his fealty to anyone. It is not the shape of his ambition. That shape always leads to himself at the top of any hill such as the people may occupy."
She-of-Many-Paths nodded gravely. "Yes, I also think it so. I believe that each of these are playing a game of make-believe. Each strives to make the others believe that they are faithful to a common cause when in reality, each has a different interest and the only thing they share is that they will use each other only so long as it suits their purpose. After such a time as the Cupiditas were to enslave us, they would betray each other. It may be that there is a way to reveal this. Meanwhile, we must prepare and redouble our efforts for I feel from POND MUD that this attack will come soon. We must redouble our preparations and share all that we have learned."
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George Tolhurst (5 June 182718 January 1877) was an English composer, resident from 1852 to 1866 in Australia.

Born in Maidstone, Kent, George emigrated to Melbourne with his father, where he practised as a teacher of music. He returned to England in 1866, and died in Barnstaple in 1877. His one large-scale composition, the oratorio Ruth, was first performed in Prahran in Melbourne in 1864, and repeated in London in 1868. Tolhurst is therefore notable as the composer of the first oratorio composed in the colony of Victoria. Though well received by early audiences, Ruth was generally derided for bathos and technical ineptitude in the musical press, and by the early 20th century was generally regarded as the worst oratorio ever composed. It was revived in a re-orchestrated and abridged version at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in 1973, conducted by Antony Hopkins and revived in another format in 2007.

Works
 1858 "O, Call It By Some Better Name"
 1864 "The Post Galop"
 1864 "Christmas in Australia"
 1864 Ruth

Recordings
2007 Ruth, Stephen Cleobury, conductor; Cambridge, Pure Sound P2007; 2 CDs

References

Further reading
Royston Gustavson, "Tolhurst, George"; "Ruth", in Warren Bebbington, ed., The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997)

 "Tolhurst family", Graeme Skinner, University of Sydney

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English composers
1827 births
1877 deaths
People from Maidstone
English emigrants to Australia
Musicians from Kent
19th-century British composers
19th-century English musicians

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My love for hydrangeas is a love story for the ages. There is just something about Hydrangeas that are just so perfectly flowericious. See? A love so strong I start inventing new words! And don't get me started on their amazing color variety. Oh, hydrangeas, how I love thee!
It is no family secret that I like expensive things, and that without knowing prices, I can pick out the most expensive thing anywhere just by picking out the thing I'd like to have. It is very convenient that I have always been a saver too and my love for numbers and budgets has saved me/us from many money-disasters. I believe in saving where I can so that I can spend where I want. Personally, I would skip weeks of cheap fast food for a good steak dinner. Makes sense, right?
But it can be very tempting when you are in the mode of spending, to just keep spending … just a little more won't hurt right? My on/off switch for spending keeps us safe. I really wanted to refresh my planters for my front porch, but I didn't want to spend any money. All of my outdoor budget is going to the new garden right now.
I showed you my front porch hydrangeas a few years ago – they were my flower-babies and I loved them! But I didn't move them into the garage in time for winter, so they just died.
The fungus and disease from last year made me nervous to just re-use the same pots, except I love the size and shape of these planters. I decided that the best course of action would be to power-wash them and give them a coat of spray paint. Surely the fungus and disease would not transfer after all of that! Here's my pots after I power-washed them. I also made sure to dry them really well before I spray-painted. You can tell that one of these spent a while not under the porch!
I love the color yellow. Though I refuse to name a favorite color, because I just love COLOR … yellow is one I return to again and again. It is just so fresh and happy. I happened to have 3 partially used spray paint cans of the color yellow. This tied in perfectly with my plans not to spend any money on this project.
The first coat of yellow wasn't enough for that dark green.
There we go … 2-3 coats later and it is yellow!
Now here is where I took a slight detour that I regret in hindsight. I wanted to see if I could get the yellow to sparkle a bit and I had some of this metallic pearl on hand.
I thought I could just kind of mist the spray paint over the yellow, but nooooo … that didn't look right at all, so then eventually it was all pearl. And I never wanted a white planter. I know some people would love the white planter, but I want a pop of color on my front porch.
Luckily I had plenty of the yellow spray paint (though I used every last drop!), and the planter returned to it's happy yellow. Woohoo!! The planters are totally refreshed. And looking at these pictures now I see how I want to antique the yellow a little … maybe next year, too much to do in the garden this year!
As I carried the planters from my backyard to my front porch, I stopped by the side of my house where we have rocks and I scraped some into the bottoms of the buckets. I always put rocks at the bottom of my planters to give them additional stability, but most importantly, to help with drainage.
The soil in the planter is garden dirt. I hadn't planted my garden yet, so the soil was just there for the taking. I also used up a bag of planting soil I found in my gardening stuff that I had forgotten about. Good healthy soil is important. Our garden dirt is a mix of 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 compost, and 1/3 vermiculite. With hydrangeas, I usually add a little acid to the mix as well for blue-er flowers, but I haven't added it to the planters yet. You can add that on the top of the soil at anytime and watering will carry it to the roots.
Hydrangea plants can cost a pretty penny each – I'd say at least $20 for a good one! I had been keeping an eye on my hydrangeas in my backyard (that are planted in the ground) this spring and noticing how they were growing little "baby hydrangeas" as I called them.
Guess what? You can divide a healthy hydrangea plant! I just got my garden trowel and dug down from one of these healthy shoots that looked further away from the rest. You need to get as much root as possible and try to get what will feel like a little clump of roots. I read online that it is getting part of the bulb, but I can tell you that it didn't feel anything like what a "bulb" would look like. I just say get as much root as possible!
I pulled two hydrangea divisions up and planted them in my new yellow planters.
It was still early enough in Spring that I hadn't pulled my cushions out for the chairs.
The hydrangeas have done really well for the last month! They appear to have rooted and I can tell that flowers will be coming soon.
I can already see that my new hydrangea is having babies! Part of the original part I planted died off, I'm guessing not enough roots for it, but the main part has done really well.
From past experience, I know that healthy hydrangeas, if they are cared for really well can bloom into porch beauties! I can't wait. I will definitely be updating you (at least on Instagram if I forget to update here)!!!
There we go … TWO new feeling planters with thriving hydrangeas and not a penny needed to be spent. Perfect!
Have you ever divided hydrangeas? Dealt with garden/landscape fungus – any tips?
I've just potted up a hydrangea for the front of the house. Am hoping to turn it blue but with hard water here, i suspect that might be difficult.
My grandad had a big blue hydrangea in the front garden so they always remind me.of him. Fingers crossed this one survives. I'm not much of a gardener!
What do you add to make it acidic? I did hear of adding aluminium sulphage but not sure about that.
I buy the acidifier meant for hydrangeas at the store, but I've heard of people adding vinegar too.
I'll check at the garden centre next time I'm there and see what they have.
Well done!! A very satisfying project. I also have to say, the first 3 paragraphs are equally true for me!
I'm in Micigan—- think I can overwinter in garage too??
Not positive – It's worth a try!
Darn! Do you think something could've gone wrong or do you think it is just not going to work in Michigan?
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Hydrangeas! I just moved to a new house and will be adding some to my new landscape. At my last house I had a Unique H, Peppermint H, Endless Summer, and Lace Cap H. My mom has a climbing H that she takes babies off and plants other places. It works like a charm.
Good luck with the fungus. I have no clue….
Love them too and you have inspired me! I have one plant in the backyard against the house that I rarely even get to see! Didn't know I could do the pot thing and overwinter them! Think that will work in the midwest with our cold winters? Or should I put them in the basement? (can I just not water them all winter?) Worst case I can just get new shoots from my existing plant each year. Can't wait to try this!! Thank you!
Oh I'm so glad I inspired you! Yay! Good luck with all of your Hydrangea adventures!
I love your yellow planters! I love to spray paint just about anything 🙂 I have three healthy hydrangeas in the backyard. I'm a fellow hydrangea lover. I hadn't thought of putting them in my urns on my front porch. I've always just done ferns. That's definitely going in the garden notes for next year. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love hydrangeas but being in Texas it's hard to have them here due to the heat. Last year I put a couple in pots and put them on my shaded patio. They looked pretty through the summer then of course died back i the fall. I didn't do anything with them at all over the winter, just left them out there. No water or anything. They came back this spring and now are just as pretty as ever with tons of blooms on them. I couldn't be happier.
That is fantastic! That means the roots didn't freeze and die, so they must've stayed warm enough in the pots. That is fantastic!
Friends – I live in southwest suburb of Chicago and you cannot leave a hydragnea in a pot for the winter. I know this because I did and it died. However, you can attempt to move the pot to the garage and still cover or basement (if you have one). Or still remove the plant from the pot and place in the ground. Just last weekend I was at a yard sale and this woman had a HUGE hydragnea in a pot and she said she puts the plant in the ground come fall and takes it back out and puts in a pot. This plant was huge and so beautiful in its pot. In reading this article, I know I have some 'babies' and will check this out further and put in pots, and yet either replant or bring pots in the fall. I have limelight in the front and pinks in the back. You can buy a product at Home Depot to get the colors to change based on the acidity in your soil. ENJOY!
Hmm … love the idea of planting them and then pulling them back out in the spring. Of course, I'd be tempted to just leave them be in the ground and just pull out some babies. 🙂 I use that same acidifier from HD – good stuff. Thanks for your comment – love this story!
So happy to hear there are so many hydrangea lovers out there! My favorite color is blue (although I appreciate all colors, Mary!) so what could be more wonderful than blue flowers?!?! They just give me so much pleasure! I have two bushes in my backyard that grow prolifically and produce gorgeous flowers, I am so excited to know I can retrieve some new plants from my original bushes and plant them into pots. How exciting!! And all without spending money. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
It is amazing what a coat of spray paint can do!


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Market research for petroleum products in the automotive field
Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1956: Advertising Research
Author: D. Leerentveld
Market research for petroleum products obviously concerns the marketing sector of the petroleum industry. The function of the marketing company is, however, largely determined by its place at the end of the chain: exploration - production - refining - transportation - distribution. A few words should, therefore, be said about some of the economic characteristics of the petroleum industry as a whole in so far as they directly affect the marketing company.
Energy / Utilities
D. Leerentveld
The importance of market research in the analysis of the energy situation in the Federal Republic of Germany after the energy crisis 1973/74
Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times
Author: Karl-Friedrich Holm
Holm, K. (1982a, June 15). The importance of market research in the analysis of the energy situation in the Federal Republic of Germany after the energy crisis 1973/74. ANA - ESOMAR. Retrieved February 02, 2023, from
https://ana.esomar.org/documents/the-importance-of-market-research-in-the-analysis-of-the-energy-situation-in-the-federal-republic-of-germany-after-the-energy-crisis-1973-74
From customer satisfaction to customer segmentation
Catalogue: ESOMAR/JMA/ARF Conference 1995: Triad 2000
Authors: Stephen Bairfelt, Trevor Richards
Company: Shell Global
Bairfelt and Richards (1995a, June 15). From customer satisfaction to customer segmentation. ANA - ESOMAR. Retrieved February 02, 2023, from
https://ana.esomar.org/documents/from-customer-satisfaction-to-customer-segmentation
Comparison of behaviour patterns of passengercar drivers in various countries
Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning
Company: ESSO
Holm, K. (1973a, June 15). Comparison of behaviour patterns of passengercar drivers in various countries. ANA - ESOMAR. Retrieved February 02, 2023, from
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Iranian-Kurdish refugees end their hunger strike
Maria Font de Matas/IRIN
Women and children are the most vulnerable among the refugees at Karama border.
Eight of the 198 Iranian-Kurdish refugees who have been stranded at the Jordan-Iraq border since January 2005 ended their near one-month hunger strike on 21 July. This came a day after a joint team from UNICEF and the Jordanian Ministry of Health (MoH) provided them with medical assistance and promised to visit them again within a month, said the group's spokesperson. "We finally decided to stop our hunger strike after UNICEF came to assist us medically," says Khabat Mohammadi, a spokesperson for the refugees. "Also, more foreign journalists called us and promised to help us by reporting about our desperate situation." The group of hunger strikers consisted of six men, aged between 20 and 45, and two women, aged 18 and 19. "As the team arrived, one of the men was in very poor condition," says Maha Homsi, UNICEF Protection Officer. "Because his blood pressure was dropping by the hour, he fainted several times." According to a statement released Thursday by UNICEF, the mission's medical team also examined and vaccinated 193 refugees, including women and children. However, because some children could not be vaccinated during this visit, the UNICEF-MoH team says they will return to the camp within a month. The Iranian-Kurdish refugees arrived at the border between Iraq and Jordan after fleeing al-Tash refugee camp in Iraq's western Anbar governorate, following clashes there between insurgents and US forces in January 2005. Having been denied permission to enter Jordan, however, the refugees have remained on the Iraqi side of the border, an area prone to harsh weather conditions. The group has systematically refused an offer by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to relocate and join another group of Iranian-Kurdish refugees in Kawa refugee camp, a safer location in northern Iraq's Arbil governorate. The refugees have demanded to be resettled in a third country but the UNCHR has repeatedly said that this was not a "right". According to the agency, refugees can only be resettled in a third country if there is a clear need, if there is no alternative solution in the country of asylum and if the third country is willing to resettle the refugees. MF/AR/AD


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When I first started writing HTML in 1995, there weren't any code editors that I knew about or had access to. So, I wrote my code in a plain text editor like Notepad. Since I was creating small websites with only a few pages, and there were not external resources like CSS or JavaScript, everything that appeared on a page was contained in a single file – anyone else remember designing layouts with tables? (R.I.P. Geocities)
In school, I learned (to hate) Dreamweaver. It amazes me that it continues to be used to teach web design & development, even though it's never used to build real websites or applications. I guess it's not the worst way to learn now, because you can instantly preview the code you are typing.
But, to me, that feature alone doesn't make it worth the space it takes up on my hard drive, especially when I can just use my code editor and keep a browser open in a split screen view (then use Node.js to automatically update the browser when I save my work).
What About Now
Over the years I have tinkered with various code editors, like Sublime Text and Atom. But finally, like many others, I have settled on Visual Studio Code. It's free, open-source, and runs on all platforms. It also has some really cool extensions that makes it really convenient for what I'm doing.
I have a few customizations, but I try to keep things relatively simple and as minimalist as possible. I can't really handle full dark mode (I've heard having an astigmatism could be part of the problem for me), so I am using a modified version by Wes Bos called Cobalt2 Theme Official. It's still a type of dark mode, but a little easier on my eyes.
I'm also using ESLint and Prettier to debug JavaScript.
Lastly, I recently saw this tip on Twitter to move the sidebar from the left to the right side, which feels more ergonomic to me. Also, when you hide/unhide the sidebar, it's doesn't shift your code, which is a small detail but can when I'm trying to adjust my eyes as little as possible, every little bit helps.
VSCode tip: You can move the sidebar/file explorer to the right-hand side of your editor via View > Appearance > Move Side Bar Right.
Try it out, and give yourself enough time to get used to it. If you're anything like me, you might find it makes a lot more sense there. pic.twitter.com/KGHJG0mM0s
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Aaron Schneider (born July 26, 1965) is an American filmmaker and cinematographer.

His short film Two Soldiers (2003) won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He won an Independent Spirit Award for his feature film debut, Get Low (2009).

Early life
Schneider was born in 1965 in Springfield, Illinois, and raised in Dunlap, Illinois. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He is of Jewish background, and his father Delwin Schneider was a Korean War veteran.

Career
His cinematography work includes the TV series Murder One (for which he was nominated for a 1996 Emmy Award) and the pilot episode of the series Supernatural, as well as the films Kiss the Girls and Simon Birch. He was also the second unit director of photography for Titanic.

In 2004, he won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the live action short film Two Soldiers (shared with producer Andrew J. Sacks). The 40-minute short was based on a short story written by William Faulkner.

Schneider's first feature film, Get Low, drew positive reviews when it premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, and was subsequently purchased for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. The film was released in the US on July 30, 2010. It stars Robert Duvall in a much-lauded performance, in addition to Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, and Lucas Black. It earned Schneider the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

In 2020, after a decade hiatus from features, Schneider directed Greyhound, a World War II drama centered on the Battle of the Atlantic and starring Tom Hanks.

Filmography

Film
Feature films

Short film
 (2003) Two Soldiers

Cinematographer
 (1990) Dead Girls
 (1997) Kiss the Girls
 (1998) Simon Birch

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The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has demanded that Minister of Justice Given Lubinda gives a clear roadmap and time frame in which the governance reforms will be tabled.
Speaking at a media briefing in Lusaka on Thursday, YALI president Andrew Ntewewe said his organisation was happy with the response from the Minister on their call to have the drafts bills before parliament but that time was ticking towards 2021.
Ntewewe said the reforms that the country needs should take place before the 2021 elections and that with the confusion that has engulfed the dialogue process government should show leadership and continue with the reforms in parliament.
"We are satisfied with Government position that it has no intention to relegate the governance function to either NGOs likes ours or our friends, the church or the ZCID. We also find it right that government will, in due course, issue its position on the reform program which is expected to give direction to the disputed matters which have been subject of a national political dialogue.
"We however want to remind President Lungu, his Minister of Justice and the entire administration that time does not wait for anyone and it has continued to tick towards 2021," he said.
He explained that if the bills are taken to parliament and the opposition decides to shoot them down then they would be accepting to hold the 2021 under the same legal framework they are fighting to improve.
He said the Church leaders are not knowledgeable to make reforms.
"We must underscore the point that making of laws is the sacred function that we, the people of Zambia, have entrusted into the hands of our members of parliament. We thus base our calls for government to act now and send the bills to parliament than wait for the church – most of whom are not knowledgeable on law reforms – to hold meetings that will not bind any of the three arms of Government, that is, our national assembly, the executive and the judiciary. Little wonder that the three arms of government stayed away from the launch of the dialogue process as they truly understand nothing that comes from it can legally bind them," he said.
Further Ntewewe said his organisation agrees with ZANASU on the call to realign the dialogue with the 7NDP.
And Ntewewe has reiterated his call for the Church leaders to be open about their funding something he said has been a source of conflict between them and the ZCID.
"As we conclude, we want to comment on the stalemate between the church and ZCID. Over the last few days, our friends from among the clergy have told us how they are still debating over the wording of the MoU which should be signed between these two groups. It appear the mistrust between the church and ZCID still remains especially that the church has been elusive in having a joint bank account for management of funds meant for the national dialogue.
"Our questions still remain, why is the church averse to having a joint bank account with ZCID? Who has funded the church that they do not want their friends to know how much money will be spent on the national dialogue? It is common knowledge that the UPND and its Alliance partners have come out strongly warning against those who ask these questions to the church but even this kind of defence raises a lot of suspicion on who must speak on behalf of the church," he said.
I don't like donors who waste money on these empty noise makers.
The sillies just get high salaries to build tu own houses.
I equalify hate them. Iam so annoyed to see them waste money one this Ntewewe thing. He is PF like educated Antonio Mwanza with no principles.
Because ZCID, same as YALI under your "leadership" (LOL) has huge moral integrity and political independence deficiency!!! Same like your Endemically Corrupt Leader!
I don't trust this Ntewewe whatever he calls himself. He pretends to speak for the people but he is PF cadre not different from the likes of Antonio Mwanza educated fellows with no principles due to contineous HIPC in their homes.
Ntewewe writing is rubbish, nonsense. Iam very annoyed!
These are the orgs. Not NGOs affiliated to political parties. Bena Ntewewe only say the truth…it does not matter who does not like the messages, for them its just good governance……Sorry UPND, these are not for sale!!


Review: Curtis is a young father. He starts having these apocalyptic visions about a storm coming. He decides to build a storm shelter.
Very dark and very grim. Jessica Chastain was excellent in it. One film critic wrote 'Michael Shannon is at his best as a man plagued by apocalyptic dreams that start to bleed into his everyday life'. It is an intriguing and painful film.


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Q: Why does grep and grepl return different results in a data frame? Forgive me if this is very obvious, I tried searching but couldn't find something specific to data frames on grep.
I was trying to search on two different columns, geo and text. I thought that grep, which returns row numbers, and grepl, which returns a logical vector, would return the same value for the test term "frank
> length(unique(temp[grepl("frank",temp[which(temp$geo=="New York"),"text"]),"text"]))
[1] 195
> length(unique(temp[grep("frank",temp[which(temp$geo=="New York"),"text"]),"text"]))
[1] 13

I tried filtering by unique thinking that I was getting duplicate rows, but it looks like this is not the case. I'm inclined to think that grepl is the correct function to use since grepl and !grepl return the complete search space, but I'm not sure. Interestingly returning the entire row gives me a different value for both.
Which one should I be using in order to get the correct results?

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Join us for a journey to see a land of fire and ice. Iceland's location close to the Arctic Circle and on the mid-Atlantic Ridge has given the country unique natural and geological features. Circumnavigating the island, we will experience the beauty of fjords, waterfalls, bird cliffs, wetlands, arid highlands, geothermal power, lakes, lagoons and glaciers. Encounter the fascinating local culture against the backdrop of some of the world's most breathtaking landscapes. Throughout the voyage, learn about the geology, wildlife and botany of this spectacular area from lecture presentations offered by your knowledgeable on board expedition team.
Day 1 Reykjavik, Iceland
Day 2 Vestmannaeyjar | Cruise Surtsey
Day 3 Djupivogur
Day 4 Langanes Peninsula
Day 5 Husavik
Day 6 Akureyri
Day 7 Cruise along Hornbjard Cliffs | Vigur Island
Day 8 Dyjandi | Latrabjarg Cliffs
Day 9 Klakkeyjar Islands | Stykkisholmur
Day 10 Reykjavik, Iceland
Day 1 — Reykjavik, Iceland
Sprawling Reykjavík, the nation's nerve center and government seat, is home to half the island's population. On a bay overlooked by proud Mt. Esja (pronounced eh-shyuh), with its ever-changing hues, Reykjavík presents a colorful sight, its concrete houses painted in light colors and topped by vibrant red, blue, and green roofs. In contrast to the almost treeless countryside, Reykjavík has many tall, native birches, rowans, and willows, as well as imported aspen, pines, and spruces.Reykjavík's name comes from the Icelandic words for smoke, reykur, and bay, vík. In AD 874, Norseman Ingólfur…
Day 2 — Vestmannaeyjar | Cruise Surtsey
The name Vestmannaeyjar refers to both a town and an archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The largest Vestmannaeyjar island is called Heimaey. It is the only inhabited island in the group and is home to over 4000 people. The eruption of the Eldfell Volcano put Vestmannaeyjar into the international lime light in 1973. The volcano's eruption destroyed many buildings and forced an evacuation of the residents to mainland Iceland. The lava flow was stopped in its tracks by the application of billions of liters of cold sea water. Since the eruption, life on the small island outpost has…
On 14 November 1963, a trawler passing the southernmost point of Iceland spotted a column of smoke rising from the sea. Expecting to find a burning boat they were surprised to find instead, explosive volcanic eruptions. They were witnessing the birth of a new island. Columns of ash reached heights of almost 30,000 feet in the sky and could be seen on clear days as far away as Reykjavík. The eruptions continued for three and a half years, ending in June 1967. Once formed, Surtsey was 492 feet above sea level and covered an area of almost 2 square miles. The island was named after the Norse…
Day 3 — Djupivogur
Situated in the southeastern part of Iceland, the little town of Djupivogur is one of the easiest spots in Iceland to reach from northern Europe. Evidence of this is apparent in the presence of a trading post built here as early as the 16th century. In the modern era, fishing is still important, but tourism is increasing more and more. Nearby Bulandsnes has a renowned bird sanctuary, and Papey Island just slightly to the east, is home to large colonies of Atlantic Puffins. Djupivogur is also not too far from Vatnajökull National Park. Covering 13% of Iceland, it is Europe's largest national…
Day 4 — Langanes Peninsula
Located in northeast Iceland, Langanes Peninsula, whose name translates as, "long peak" and extends 25 miles out to sea, ending in a thin strip of land called Fontur. The mostly flat peninsula is verdant green in summer, covered by mossy meadows studded with crumbling remains of long-ago settlements. The coastline is fringed by seemingly endless beaches that are peppered with driftwood. In spring, the sea cliffs are full of guillemots, kittiwakes, gannets and puffins.
Day 5 — Husavik
The town of Húsavík sits below Húsavíkurfjall mountain on the eastern shore of Skjálfandi bay. Just above the town is lake Botnsvatn, a popular place for outings. The lake is just the right size for a nice hike around it. The lakes surroundings are rich in vegetation and bird life and trout is said to be abundant, though small. Húsavík harbor lies below the bank right in the heart of town. The harbor once boasted a large fishing fleet, bustling with the activity of fishermen. It still serves as a fishing harbor but today's activity revolves more around the successful whale watching…
Day 6 — Akureyri
Akureyri, called the Capital of the North, is the second largest urban area in Iceland, and a lively one at that. Hemmed by the 37 mi. (60 km) long Eyjafjörður, Akureyri is sheltered from the ocean winds and embraced by mountains on three sides. Late 19th-century wooden houses impart a sense of history, and the twin spires of a modern Lutheran church rising on a green hill near the waterfront, provide a focal point. To the south of Akureyri is the pyramid-shape rhyolite mountain Súlur. Beyond it is Kerling, the highest peak in Eyjafjörður District.
Day 7 — Cruise along Hornbjard Cliffs | Vigur Island
Vigur Island is a little more than a mile (1.6 km) in length and about 1,350 ft. (412 m) wide. This green oasis punctuates the waters of the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord east of the town of Isafjordur. The island is home to a single farming family and has some meticulously preserved historical landmarks including Iceland's only windmill, built in 1840 and used until 1917 for grinding imported wheat from Denmark, and a 200-year-old rowing boat, which is still in use to ferry sheep to the mainland. Summer is the best time to see large numbers of Atlantic Puffins, Arctic Terns and Black Guillemots. One…
Day 8 — Dyjandi | Latrabjarg Cliffs
Iceland is well-known for its spectacular waterfalls. The iconic Dynjandi waterfall, located in the Westfjords region, is regarded as one of Iceland's most impressive and majestic waterfalls. At the top, the cascading water is roughly 100 feet wide and tumbles down about 330 feet into the fjord. Its name Dynjandi means "the thundering one" and its vast size, enormous sound, and sheer force is overwhelming. It has also been nicknamed "The Bridal Veil" because of the way the water sprays and spreads over the rocks.
On Iceland's north coast and close to the westernmost tip of the country are the impressive cliffs of Latrabjarg; Europe's largest bird cliff. Millions of individual seabirds make their home along the promontory safe from the range of scavenging foxes on the steep ledges. Atlantic Puffins, Northern Gannets, Razorbills and guillemots have each selected their preferred areas in and above the cliff in which to roost and nest. The Latrabjarg cliffs reach heights of up to 1,400 ft. (440 m) along a staggering 9 mi. (14 km) stretch of the coast.
Day 9 — Klakkeyjar Islands | Stykkisholmur
The Klakkeyar Islands are a group of small low-lying remote islands in Breidha Fjord, in the western region of Iceland (Vesturland). The West part of the country has a magnetic charm discovered while navigating the ins and outs of the various fjords, peninsulas and island groups, like the Klakkeyar group in the chilly North Atlantic.
Stykkishólmur, located in western Iceland at the northern end of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, is the commerce center for the area. Its natural harbor allowed this town to become an important trading center early in Iceland's history. The first trading post was established in the 1550s, and still today fishing is the major industry. The town center boasts beautiful and well-preserved old houses from earlier times. Stykkisholmur is very environmentally conscious – it was the first community in Europe to get the EarthCheck environmental certification, was the first municipality in Iceland to start…
Day 10 — Reykjavik, Iceland
Note: Expedition highlights and wildlife listed here are possible experiences only and cannot be guaranteed. Your expedition leader and captain will work together to ensure opportunities for adventure and exploration are the best possible, taking into account the prevailing weather, wildlife activity and ice conditions.
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Rates Arctic 2020
Iceland and Svalbard — Reykjavik to Longyearbyen
Jun 10 - Jun 21, 2020 (12 days)
Save $500 (Prices in Red) Expires Feb 28th 2020
Single Supplement reduced to 25% for Deluxe and below.
$10,700$10,200 $12,900$12,400 $14,900$14,400 $19,000$18,500Full $22,100$21,600Full $25,900$25,400Full $31,600$31,100Full $35,600$35,100Full
Expedition Svalbard 10-day — Longyearbyen to Tromsø
$11,600Full $13,500Full $15,500 $21,000Full $23,300 $29,300 $31,900 $39,800Full
Expedition Svalbard 10-day — Tromsø to Longyearbyen
Jun 30 - Jul 09, 2020 (10 days)
Save $250 (Prices in Red) Expires Feb28th 2020
$10,300Full $12,000 $13,700 $18,400 $20,400 $25,600 $27,800Full $34,600Full
Iceland and Svalbard — Longyearbyen to Reykjavik
Jul 09 - Jul 20, 2020 (12 days)
$12,500$11,250Full $14,600$13,140 $16,900$15,210 $21,700$19,530 $25,400$22,860 $29,800$26,820Full $36,500$32,850 $41,300$37,170
Exploring Greenland and Nunavut — Reykjavik to Churchill
Jul 20 - Aug 05, 2020 (17 days)
$23,200$20,880Full $26,000$23,400 $29,900$26,910Full $42,400$38,160 $43,100$38,790 $50,700$45,630 $62,600$56,340Full $71,000$63,900Full
Exploring Nunavut and Greenland — Churchill to Kangerlussuaq
Aug 05 - Aug 21, 2020 (17 days)
$23,200$20,880 $24,200$21,780 $28,000$25,200Full $42,400$38,160Full $43,100$38,790Full $50,700$45,630Full $62,600$56,340Full $71,000$63,900Full
Northwest Passage — Kangerlussuaq to Nome
Aug 21 - Sep 14, 2020 (25 days)
$39,300$31,055 $46,500$36,725 $54,400$48,960 $77,300$69,570 $89,700$80,730 $103,200$92,880 $127,400$114,660 $145,100$130,590Full
Across the Bering Sea — Provideniya to Seward
Sep 14 - Sep 26, 2020 (13 days)
Single supplement reduced to 10% for Vista & Classic Veranda (capacity controlled) and 25% for Deluxe Veranda. Call to confirm.
$9,300$7,430 $11,600$9,241 $12,000$10,800 $17,900$16,110 $19,800$17,820 $23,100$20,790 $26,900$24,210 $31,800$28,620
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Fares are cruise only. There is NO Twinshare rate available on this ship and single supplement is 2x the Twin Price listed above.
Single Occupancy and Third Guest Rates are available upon request.
Complimentary kayaking depending on weather and ice conditions. Available on a first-come basis prior to each kayaking departure.
Iceland and Svalbard — Reykjavik to Tromso
$14,900$13,410Full $17,500$15,750 $20,500$18,450 $27,000$24,300 $32,000$28,800 $37,900$34,110 $44,500$40,050 $53,400$48,060
Fjords of Norway to Iceland
$14,400$12,960 $16,600$14,940 $19,200$17,280 $24,900$22,410 $29,300$26,370 $34,500$31,050 $40,400$36,360 $48,100$43,290
Expedition Greenland — Reykjavik To Kangerlussuaq
Greenland and Canadian Arctic
Northwest Passage 2021 — Kangerlussuaq to Nome
$43,300$38,970 $48,800$43,920 $57,000$51,300 $74,700$67,230Full $88,300$79,470 $104,500$94,050 $122,700$110,430Full $146,600$131,940Full
Available as a one-bedroom configuration or as two bedrooms (as illustrated) by adjoining with a Vista Suite
1 Bedroom: 587 Sq Ft / 55 m² [Including Veranda (89 Sq Ft / 8 m²)]
Large teak veranda with patio furniture and floor-to-ceiling glass doors; bedroom two has additional large picture window • Living room with sitting area; bedroom two has additional sitting area • Separate dining area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed; bedroom two has additional twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with full-sized bath and separate shower, plus a powder room; bedroom two has additional marbled bathroom with shower (no tub as indicated in diagram) • Walk-in wardrobe(s) with personal safe • Vanity table(s) with hair dryer • Writing desk(s) • Bose Sound Touch 30 with Bluetooth connectivity • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 2 simultaneous devices • Illy® Espresso machine
Available as a one-bedroom configuration or as two bedrooms (as illustrated) by adjoining with a Veranda Suite
1 Bedroom: 1,019 Sq Ft / 95 m² [Including Veranda (145 Sq Ft / 14 m²)]
2 Bedroom: 1,314 Sq Ft / 122 m² [Including Veranda (194 Sq Ft/18.5 m²)]
Two teak verandas with patio furniture and floor-to-ceiling glass doors; bedroom two has additional veranda • Living room with sitting area; bedroom two has additional sitting area • Separate dining area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed; bedroom two has additional twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with full-sized bath and separate shower; bedroom two has additional marbled bathroom with shower (no tub as indicated in diagram) • Walk-in wardrobe(s) with personal safe • Vanity table(s) with hair dryer • Writing desk(s) • Bose Sound Touch 30 with Bluetooth connectivity • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 2 simultaneous devices • Illy® Espresso machine
1 Bedroom: 736 Sq Ft / 69 m² [Including Veranda (126 Sq Ft / 12 m²)]
2 Bedroom: 1,031 Sq Ft / 96 m² [Including Veranda (175 Sq Ft/16.5 m²)]
Large teak veranda with patio furniture and floor-to-ceiling glass doors; bedroom two has additional veranda • Living room with sitting area; bedroom two has additional sitting area • Separate dining area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed; bedroom two has additional twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with full-sized bath and separate shower; bedroom two has additional marbled bathroom with shower (no tub as indicated in diagram) • Walk-in wardrobe(s) with personal safe • Vanity table(s) with hair dryer • Writing desk(s) • Bose Sound Touch 30 with Bluetooth connectivity • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 2 simultaneous devices • Illy® Espresso machine
541 Sq Ft / 46 m² [Including Veranda (92 Sq Ft / 8 m²)]
note: Silver Suites accommodate three guests
Teak veranda with patio furniture and floor-to-ceiling glass doors • Living room with convertible sofa to accommodate an additional guest • Sitting area • Separate dining area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with shower; Silver Suite has two bathrooms with shower • Walk-in wardrobe with personal safe • Vanity table with hair dryer • Writing desk • Bose Sound Touch 30 with Bluetooth connectivity • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 2 simultaneous devices
437 Sq Ft / 40.6 m² [Including Veranda (81 Sq Ft / 7.6 m²)]
Offers preferred central location
295 Sq Ft / 27 m² [Including Veranda (49 Sq Ft / 4.5 m²)]
Some Deluxe Suites accommodate three guests. The Deluxe Suite offers preferred central location with identical accommodation to a Veranda Suite.
Teak veranda with patio furniture and floor-to-ceiling glass doors • Sitting area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with shower (some with tub/shower combination) • Walk-in wardrobe with personal safe • Writing desk • Hair dryer • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 1 simultaneous device
Some Veranda Suites accommodate three guests
240 Sq Ft / 22 m²
note: Some Vista Suites accommodate three guests
Large picture window providing panoramic ocean views • Sitting area • Twin beds or queen-sized bed • Marbled bathroom with shower (some with tub/shower combination) • Walk-in wardrobe with personal safe • Writing desk • Hair dryer • Unlimited WiFi Internet access for 1 simultaneous device
• Personalized stationary
• iHome Radio / Alarm charging station (with USB cable or Qi wireless charging), NFC Bluetooth connectivity
• Dual voltage 110/220 outlets
It was indeed a very memorable trip and was perfect in many ways. Except crossing the Drake passage!
Antarctic Peninsula and crossing the circle were like being transported to another world! The place was magical.
The expedition staff were extremely knowledge and very professional. We enjoyed the educational aspect of it as well.


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Batchelder, Batcheller genealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler of England...who settled the town of New Hampton, N. H., and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John...
...Jonathan Longfellow, and his wife Mary Clark, who was son of Nathan Longfellow and his wife Mary Greene, who was... (Salem, Massachusetts, United States - 1657)
The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass
...(son of Sparrow Smith and Eunice Clark), a mechanic at Chatham, Ct., and town clerk for 25 years. She d.... (Chatham, Ct., Connecticut, United States - 1797)
Genealogy of the Bostwick family in America : The descendants of Arthur Bostwick, of Stratford, Conn
...Tracy Stevens % son of Oliver and Huldah (Clark) Stevens, was born in Edmonston, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1818, and... (Edmonston, N. Y., New York, United States - 1818)
...488. George Clark*, son of Jonathan and Eunice (Bostwick) Clark, was born in New Milford, Ct., Sept. 7, 1761, and... (New Milford, Ct., Connecticut, United States - 1761)
Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888
...married Amanda B., daughter of George and Bertha B. (Baxter) Clark, in 185 1, who bore him three sons and... (West, Unknown country - 1839)
Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana : Containing portraits of all the Presidents of the United States from Washington to...
...21, 1834, a daughter of Benjamin A. and Sarah (Swally) Clark, natives of Pennsylvania, the father born in Schuylkill County,... (Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States - 1834)
History of the More family, and an account of their reunion in 1890
...Joseph Taylor Rice, son of James Clark and Hannah Bush. He was b. April 30, 1827, in Hobart, N. Y.... (Hobart, N. Y., New York, United States - 1827)
History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections
...1836, a son of John and Rebecca (Clark) Richards, of Welsh and Scotch-Irish stock, and natives of Pennsylvania. They... (Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States - 1836)
The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, an extensive and minute sketch of its cities,...
...Esther, daughter of Thomas and Mary Clark, of Vermont, by whom he has four children-Alfred, Orra, Mary and Rose. Mr.... (Vermont, Vermont, United States - 1832)
Baltimore : its history and its people (Volume 3)
...(II) James Clark, son of John Qark, was born in Southampton county, Virginia, September 3, 1765,... (Southampton county, Virginia, United States - 1765)
One of a thousand [microform] : a series of biographical sketches of one thousand representative men resident in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-89...
...CLARK, WILLIAM ROBERT, son of Robert and Phila (Griswold) Clark, was born in Greenfield, Franklin county, September 26, 1822.... (Greenfield, Franklin county, Massachusetts, United States - 1822)
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford county
...married Elizabeth Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Saybrook, and afterward of Milford, and formerly of Great Alundon, Hertfordshire, England.... (Saybrook, Unknown country - 1633)
...1829, a son of Theodosius and Chloe (Clark) Clark. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry back to... (New, Unknown country - 1829)
A portrait and biographical record of Delaware and Randolph counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies...
...married, in 1874, to Miss Laura A. Clark, daughter of John R. and Keziah Clark, of Johnson county, Ind. ,... (Johnson county, Ind, Indiana, United States - 1874)
Parsons family : descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Springfield, 1636--Northampton, 1655 (Volume 2)
...11, 1821 , daughter of Joseph M. and Mary W. (Burrows) Clark of New York. She d. June 4, 1862,... (Elk, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom - 1821)
Biographical review : this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Madison County, New York
...1830, the third son of Jeremiah and Susan (Clark) Blair, natives of Massachusetts. His grandfather, Enoch Blair, moved with his... (Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States - 1830)
Pioneers and prominent men of Utah : comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies ... the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...Married Sarah Jane Clark Jan. 24, 1870, at Salt Lake City (daughter of Joseph Clark and Sarah... (Salt, Utah, United States - 1870)
Commemorative biographical record of New Haven County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled...
...30, 1895, he married Miss Charlotte M. Clark, of Orange, Conn., daughter of Henry M. Clark, of that town, and... (Orange, Conn., Connecticut, United States - 1895)
Biographical record of the alumni of Amherst College ... 1821-[1896
...Elijah Bailey Smith, son of Sylvanus S. and Elizabeth (Clark) Smith, was born in Lyme, Ct., Dec. 13, 1825 ,... (Lyme, Ct., Connecticut, United States - 1825)
The National cyclopaedia of American biography
...to the only daughter of Horace F. Clark of New York, and of the two daughters born of this union,... (New, United States - 1820)
Collections of the Maine Historical Society
... Isaac Clark, son of Pease and Alice Clark, was born in Attleborough, Massachusetts, August 16,... (Attleborough, Massachusetts, United States - 1741)
The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans .. (Volume 2)
...Jan. 26, 1847, son of John H. and Charlotte (Huntington) Clark, and a grand-son of Gen. Jedediah Huntington of New... (Providence, United States - 1847)
Portrait and Biographical Album of Barry and Eaton Counties, Mich
...and is a daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Cramer) Clark, also natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Beardsley are people... (Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States - 1867)
Portrait and biographical record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of ... citizens ... governors of the state, and...
...to Miss Sarah, daughter of Cornelius and Lucy (Clark) Van Camp, natives of New York, where they passed their last... (New York, New York, United States - 1846)
History of Washtenaw County, Michigan : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships...and biographies of representative citizens : history of Michigan
...Clark, daughter of Asahel and Mary Clark, natives of Connecticut, where Mary J. was born in 1842. Mr. Mallion is... (Connecticut, Connecticut, United States - 1842)
...son of Albert and Martha Clark, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Seneca county,... (New Jersey, New Jersey, United States - 1843)
History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan:
...and was the son of John and Sarah (Person) Clark. His parents, in 1812, moved to Black Rock, near Buffalo,... (Buffalo, Michigan, United States - 1812)
Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, (Volume 2)
...June 28, 1759, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Clark) Pixley, granddaughter of William Pixley, of Westfield, and John Clark, of... (Westfield, Massachusetts, United States - 1759)
History of the counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, including their early settlement and development, a description of the...
...Miss Louisa, a daughter of William M. and Minerva (Clark) Shattuck, of Oswayo township, who were among the first settlers... (Oswayo township, Pennsylvania, United States - 1836)
...Ooudersport, is a son of Henry and Speedy (Clark) Nelson, and was born in Allegheny township, Potter Co., Penn. ,... (Allegheny township, Potter Co., Pennsylvania, United States - 1837)
The Johnstons of Salisbury. With a brief supplement, concerning the Hancock, Strother and Preston families
...d. Meriwether Lewis Clark, born near Louisville, Ky., June 27, 1846 , married Mary Anderson, daughter of... (Louisville, Lancashire, United Kingdom - 1846)
Biographical review, this volume contains biographical sketches of the leading citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts
...united in marriage with Miss Katherine Lord Clark, of Willimantic, Conn., daughter of David H. and Annie L. (Turner) Clark.... (Willimantic, Conn., Connecticut, United States - 1892)
...and fiftyeight. Eliakim, son of John Clark, Jr., was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He removed from... (Northfield, Massachusetts, United States - 1679)
Biographical review. This volume contains biogaphical sketches of the leading citizens of Litchfield County, Connecticut
...wife was a daughter of David Clark, a prosperous farmer of New Milford. She became the mother of ten children,... (Roxbury, Connecticut, United States - 1885)
New York university, its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni,
...24, 1829, the son of Edward Lanibe Parsons and Matilda (Clark) Parsons. He entered New York University in 1844,... (New York City, New York, United States - 1829)
America's successful men of affairs. An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography (Volume 1)
...He was a son of John Clark and descendant of Peter Clark< who, in 1812, made the first cotton thread... (Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom - 1812)
The New England historical and genealogical register (Volume 15)
...was the youngest son of Jonas and Mary (Twitchell) Clark, antl brother of Rev. George Faber Clark, of Norton, (see... (Norton, United States - 1818)
Alberta, past and present : historical and biographical (Volume 2)
...in 1884, a son of David and Ellen (Clark) Dick, likewise natives of Ontario. On the paternal side Dr. Dick... (Ontario, Ontario, Canada - 1884)
Biographical review
... Jennie , daughter of Hiram Clark, of Berwick, Me. They have one child, John W. C. Young. While practising... (Berwick, New Hampshire, United States - 1595)
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York
...Ellicott, was a son of William and Anna (Martin) Clark, and was. born in Chautauqua county. New York, November 24,... (Chautauqua county, New York, United States - 1825)
Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and...
...October, 1653. Sarah, daughter of Joseph Clark, of Windsor, Connecticut. She died 172 1, aged eighty-eight. He died at Norwich.... (Windsor, Connecticut, United States - 1653)
Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-[1909] (Volume 3)
...1864, John ¥., son of Franklin and Lydia (Clark) Austin, b. in Andover, Vt., Apr. 14, 1842. He is a... (Andover, Vermont, United States - 1864)
Genealogy of the Greenlee families : in America, Scotland, Ireland and England : with ancestors of Elizabeth Brooks Greenlee and Emily Brooks Greenlee, also...
...daughter of Lorene Stebbins and Silas Clark, was born November 21, 1549, at Mosiertown, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania , married January... (Denver, Kentucky, United States - 1549)
...1756 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark, of Boston. He advocated limited allegiance to the crown as early as 1750,... (Boston, Massachusetts, United States - 1750)
A portrait and biographical record of Delaware and Randolph counties, Ind., containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and...
...Miss Anna Bell, daughter of Hiram and Mary (Clark) Bell, both of whom were natives of Kentucky, of Irish descent.... (Kentucky, Kentucky, United States - 1882)
Sketches of successful New Hampshire men
... Sabrina Clark, daughter of Isaac Clark, Esq., of Rarnstead, N. H., and for six months tried independent farming, but,... (Rarnstead, N. H., New Hampshire, United States - 1878)
Portrait and biographical album of Gratiot county, Mich
...Miss Dena Clark, daughter of Charles and Harriet (Davis) Clark, natives of New York and Connecticut respectively, and of Scotc... (Ontario, Ontario, Canada - 1575)
The Cabells and their kin
...His wife, a daughter of Christopher Clark, Sr. (one of the first overseers of Sugar Loaf Meeting), joined the Society... (South, New York, United States - 1754)
...M., M. D., son of Aaron and Submit (Clark) Walker, was born in Belchertown, Aug. 20, 1815 , fitted for... (Belchertown, Aug, Massachusetts, United States - 1815)
...Elijah Bailet Smith, son of Sylvanus S. and Elizabeth (Clark) Smith, was born in Lyme, Ct., Dec. 13, 1825 ,... (Lyme, Ct., Connecticut, United States - 1825)
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U.S. Navy Scrambles After 'Attack' on Oil Tankers in the Gulf of Oman
The reported explosions follow attacks on four tankers last month that led Trump to send an aircraft carrier, thousands of U.S. troops—and a warning to Tehran.
Jamie Ross
Two oil tankers have been rocked by explosions in the Gulf of Oman, according to reports, just one month after the U.S. blamed Iran for allegedly sabotaging four other tankers in the region.
The two tankers were allegedly hit Thursday off the coast of the United Arab Emirates—the same area where the other four tankers were supposedly targeted last month. The U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet confirmed it was assisting the two vessels after what it called a "reported attack," without elaborating on the extent of the damage or the cause of the explosions.
The National—an English-language newspaper based in the UAE—identified one of the ships as the MT Front Altair. The tanker is reportedly "on fire and adrift," but all 23 crew members are believed to have been rescued. A spokesperson for Taiwan's state oil refiner CPC, which chartered the tanker, said it was "suspected of being hit by a torpedo."
The second vessel has been identified as the Kokuka Courageous, which reportedly departed from the Saudi port of Al Jubail on June 10 and was on course for Singapore. The Associated Press reported that 21 sailors had been evacuated from that ship, with one suffering minor injuries.
Iranian state TV reported that the 44 survivors had been evacuated to an Iranian port, and an Iranian news agency tweeted an image of what it said was the Front Altair on fire with smoke billowing out of it.
Japan's Trade Ministry confirmed the two vessels had "Japan-related cargo," raising questions on whether the alleged attacks were meant to send a message to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently in Tehran seeking to ease tensions between Iran and the United States.
Tehran has insisted it hasn't instructed any form of attack on Gulf shipping or Saudi oil installations, but on Thursday afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday blamed Iran for the attacks. "It is the assessment of the United States government that the Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks in the Gulf of Oman."
Benchmark Brent crude spiked by as much 4 percent in trading following the reported attack to over $62 a barrel.


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class ActivationClient;
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class Shadow;

// ShadowController observes changes to windows and creates and updates drop
// shadows as needed. ShadowController itself is light weight and per
// ActivationClient. ShadowController delegates to its implementation class,
// which observes all window creation.
class WM_EXPORT ShadowController :
    public aura::client::ActivationChangeObserver {
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    ~TestApi() {}

    Shadow* GetShadowForWindow(aura::Window* window);

   private:
    ShadowController* controller_;  // not owned

    DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(TestApi);
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  explicit ShadowController(aura::client::ActivationClient* activation_client);
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  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ShadowController);
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Asylum seekers appeal for safe housing after Covid-19 outbreak at Co Kerry centre
Residents at a direct provision facility in Cahersiveen seek help from Government
Wed, May 6, 2020, 21:50
Colin Gleeson
The Skellig Star Hotel in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry is being used as a direct provision centre for asylum seekers.
Asylum seekers living in a direct provision centre in Co Kerry have appealed to the Government to transfer them to safe accommodation following an outbreak of Covid-19 at the facility.
In a statement on Wednesday, residents at the former Skellig Star Hotel in Cahersiveen called on the Government to "immediately transfer" them to "suitable and safe housing, and moving towards own door, turnkey accommodation".
There have been 23 confirmed cases of Covid-19 at the facility. The residents said these include staff and children, one of whom is seven years old. "These residents have since been moved from Kerry to Cork and some back to Dublin," said the group.
"Action needs to be taken immediately by the Irish Government if Ireland is to ensure that human rights are upheld. Irish taxpayers who are funding this system must also canvass their Government to end direct provision and stop private operators profiting from our suffering."
The group said pre-existing trauma has led to many residents "re-experiencing their traumatic experiences daily including suicidal ideation".
"We have been working with members of the local community who support us and who are volunteering to carry our message and experiences to the Irish public so we can be heard and they can understand what we are dealing with," it said.
"Despite Ireland's chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan saying it is not possible to observe social distancing when sharing a bedroom with people who aren't part of your family, 120 of us were moved to the 56-roomed Cahersiveen hotel with shared rooms, common eating and living areas.
"This created a Covid-19 cluster in an institutional setting where the ability to practice social distancing or quarantine is impossible."
In a statement, a spokesman for the Department of Justice and Equality did not directly address the demands of the residents but said they have been asked to self-isolate.
"The HSE has asked all other residents in the hotel in Caherciveen to isolate, as would be the case for any other person in the country, under the HSE guidelines," he said.
"We understand that an isolation situation is difficult. Indeed nothing about life in a pandemic is easy for any person in Ireland.
"A dedicated outdoor area for exercise for residents within the hotel grounds has been put in place by centre management during this time. They have also put in place arrangements to ensure that any items residents require can be ordered from local shops and delivered to the centre.
"While residents have been asked by medical experts to self-quarantine, like everyone else, they are asked to adhere to the guidance and the door to the centre remains open at all times."
The spokesman added that residents at the centre are there are on a voluntary basis while asylum applications are processed.
"We would point out that the system of direct provision, which provides accommodation, all meals, medical care, education, transportation for medical appointments and a host of other services, is optional," he said.
"Applicants for international protection are offered these services by the State and can choose to avail of them, or can choose to reside elsewhere while their protection claim is being assessed.
"There are currently 75 residents in the centre which has a capacity for 150 residents. A HSE Community Care Worker is at the Centre five days per week."
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