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victoodles · 5 years ago

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Exhibitionist (Low Honor Arthur x Female Reader)

Back again and nastier than ever. Hope y’all enjoy! Find it here on AO3

Warnings: Rated N for Nasty (smut smut smut!)

Kieran Duffy had finally started acclimating into the Van der Linde’s dynamic. More comfortably than he expected thanks to you. Your hospitality paired alongside your boundless compassion had been nothing short of a saving grace to him since he became a “honorary guest” within the confines of the camp.

The gang held nothing but contempt for him, seeming to take pleasure in taunting him relentlessly as a former O’Driscoll. And for the more aggressive members, roughing him up without any fear of repercussions.

Not you. No, despite your secure place within this self-proclaimed family you had shown him nothing but kindness.

While bound to a post at the gang’s camp in Horseshoe Overlook, not even trusted enough to relieve himself in the woods, you would sneak out to him. Just before daybreak while the rest of the camp slept, bringing him cups of water and small pieces of stale bread. You'd apologize profusely that you couldn’t acquire something more substantial to help him regain his strength.

Kieran could never muster up the courage (nor the energy) to tell you that your goodwill alone was more than enough to reinvigorate him. Speaking to women was never his strong suit. More often than not he found himself red in the face, unable to meet your tender gaze.

After each of these encounters he could’ve sworn he saw Arthur Morgan pulling you away to his tent. He always looked rather cross with you, whispering what Kieran assumed were reprimands in your ear.

Arthur was Dutch’s primary enforcer - a brute of a man to say the least. If he knew what you were up to in the wee hours of the morning, he didn’t voice his displeasure. To his leader or any other gang member for that matter. Kieran had hoped you weren’t finding yourself at the opposing end of Arthur’s rage because of him.

If you were, Kieran truly was a pity of a man because he could do nothing to defend your honor.

Now the gang was residing comfortably by the lake side of Clemen’s Point, and Kieran had been granted the simple liberties of unrestricted movement around camp. While the mistreatment from the others didn’t subside, being able to sit next to you on his own accord was enough to make up for the incessant ridicule.

On his luckiest days, he would see you sitting by the shoreline with your toes teasing the edge of the gentle waves. Your hair always in a loose braid and gentle gusts of wind would blow stray tendrils in a way that framed your face so perfectly. A faint smile adorned your lips as you idly thumbed through an unknown book, seemingly without a care in the world. Your life was surrounded by bloodshed, yet your exterior gave no hint to the world you truly resided in.

Kieran had never seen a sight more brilliant. He didn't dare to interrupt you though; he would just soil the tranquility of the moment being the bumbling fool that he was. He was more than content just to be a silent onlooker.

Much to his credit he had tried to express his feelings, albeit it not with words. Kieran could never find the courage to verbally affirm how he felt towards you.

When he was finally allowed to leave camp without supervision, Kieran had gone directly to the general store in Rhodes. He bought a fine, silk ribbon for you, already imaging the fabric dancing in the breeze, complimenting your beautiful locks.

He could barely keep his composure as he gifted it to you, pathetically stuttering through an explanation of how he thought the color would suit your complexion.

You had laughed so sweetly in response; Kieran could only compare it to the tinkling of bells. And in return you had earnestly thanked him for thinking of you. His mouth hung open in response, looking like the human embodiment of a fish out of water.

Sentences, words, language. It had all eluded him.

It was all so simple in theory-just tell you that he was sweet on you and take it from there. As enchanting as you were, something else caught his attention however.

Only a few feet away, he could make out Arthur’s form as he intently watched the two of you. Every muscle in Kieran’s body went rigid as he saw the ferocity in Arthur’s eyes. One wrong move and the wolf would pounce, tearing his throat clean out.

Kieran was well aware that Arthur trusted him as far as he could toss him, but did he really expect any harm to befall you by simply talking to him?

It not only amplified his apprehension towards the man, it also struck him as rather peculiar. Arthur did seem to keep a closer eye on you in contrast to any of the other women. But it never seemed driven by any sense of affection. Maybe he was just imagining things but it almost seemed carnal in nature.

Kieran decided to stop humoring the thought and diverted his attention back to caring for your horse. The fondness you had for your spotted Appaloosa, Moonstone, was unparalleled. He remembered fondly when he first properly groomed her and the only way you found you could express your gratitude was with a heartfelt embrace.

His heart nearly ceased beating. And what a way to die, in the arms of an angel.

With deft fingers, he braided the mare’s mane just the way you liked it. As an added surprise he wove some wildflowers into it. White daisies aptly looking like stars against her stark black hair.

He vividly pictured the smile you would give him in return. Your happiness palpable, sweet as honey. Maybe, just maybe, you would reward him with a kiss on the cheek.

Wishful thinking, but a man could dream.

Speaking of, he was wondering where you had run off to. He hadn’t seen you since breakfast which struck him as odd. Your bow was still in your tent so you hadn’t gone hunting with Charles, and he couldn’t find you at your usual spot by the lake.

Strange, perhaps you had gone into town with one of the other girls?

His thoughts were interrupted as he heard soft, almost muffled, gasps coming from the woods just beyond the outskirts of the camp. Stranger and stranger. Had Jack wandered too far from his mother’s side, tripping as he chased squirrels in the forest? It wasn't an uncommon occurrence.

Or worse, had someone discovered their little hideaway and was attempting to kidnap one of the notorious Van der Linde’s? Bounty hunters had become a persistent problem since the gang’s shootout fiasco back in Valentine with Leviticus Cornwall.

Mustering up what little bravery he had, Kieran decided to investigate in an attempt to discover the origin of these sounds. He was a Van der Linde now, and even though that meant very little to most of the gang, he would still do what he could to protect all of them.

Trepidatiously, Kieran advanced towards the tree line, careful to avoid any stray branches that would alert this potential intruder. As he continued on, the noises had escalated into airy moans and staccatoed breaths. Dread surged through him, blood running cold at the sheer implication that a bounty hunter could be having his way with one of the girls.

He prayed to God above that wasn’t the case, that his fear was misplaced. But doubt weighed heavy on him that a pair of lovers would find themselves all the way out here for a lascivious romp.

Kieran took shelter behind a tree as he mentally prepared himself for what was waiting just beyond. It had slipped his mind to bring a gun along with him - not that any of the men would even lend him one to begin with. He had only his fists to rely on (and that wasn’t very reassuring to say the least).

But once he heard another whimper resonate from the clearing, there was no time to turn and run. With one final deep breath, he turned to peer from his cover to see what he was actually up against. He soon found his heart lurching up into his throat.

No one was being taken advantage of, that was explicitly clear.

There you were on your back - hair wild and loose splayed out behind you in the grass. Your skirt had been hiked up, fabric pooling around your waist with your drawers discarded and leaving you bare. A deep crimson flush warmed your cheeks as a painfully familiar name fell from your lips.

“Arthur,” you mewled, your legs resting on Arthur’s broad shoulders. Your rear was slightly elevated and supported by his free arm, with his tongue deep in your cunt. He smirked against you, giving you a few more languid licks before pulling away from you with your slick glistening on his lips.

“Sweet as a peach, and all for me,” his voice was rough with unadulterated lust as he looked down at you in your pleasure-filled haze. It gave Arthur immense gratification to know he was the only one who could do this to you. And he was going to be the only one who ever would.

Kieran knew he shouldn’t be watching, it was countless forms of wrong. But he was too riddled with shock to even move an inch.

The woman he had been pining over all this time was Arthur Morgan’s.

The intensity of Arthur’s lingering gazes. Foreboding glares he would send Kieran’s way when he dared to speak to you a moment too long - it all clicked into place. He originally believed that the outlaw was just doing his job to protect you from the “big, bad O’Driscoll”. When in actuality, it had run much deeper than just that.

Arthur didn’t want him encroaching on his territory - on his woman.

As Arthur began to resume his place between your legs once more, Kieran caught his attention. Unbeknownst to you however, remaining in ignorant bliss beneath Arthur.

Fear wracked through Kieran, now having been discovered. But if he was furious, Arthur’s eyes gave no indication. Kieran waited for him to rush over and beat him within an inch of his life. You would likely never speak to him again for peeping during their heated moment of congress.

Unexpectedly, Arthur just devilishly smirked at him before delving his tongue back inside of you earning him another rapturous moan. Arthur would teach this lovesick idiot who you belonged to - show him what he could never attain.

Arthur wasted no time teasing you with his ministrations, quickly dragging the flat of his tongue up and down your slit. You found yourself getting wetter and wetter as he continued his relentless, rapid cadence (much to his delight).

His tongue plunged deeply inside of you, reveling in the way your muscles lightly clenched around him. He thrust the tip of it in and out of your soft warmth and you keened. Your fingers found their way to his hair once he started feverishly sucking on your clit, occasionally flicking it with his tongue.

Kieran was in disbelief-he couldn’t believe such wanton cries were coming from you of all people. He had heard men with working women occasionally in hotels, but never had he heard such raw, undiluted desire like this before in his life.

Again Arthur broke away from you, replacing his tongue with two of his fingers, tracing feather-light circles around your entrance while his thumb hovered just tortuously above your clit.

“Look at you darlin’, such a pretty girl,” he whispered huskily, letting his fingertips slip into you ever so slightly. He looked back to Kieran before adding, “My girl.” A sentiment that was more so a statement of fact, laced with a silent threat that he should never dare forget.

“Y-yours,” you panted, breasts heaving as he began applying pressure with the pad of his thumb to your clit. He hummed in response, clearly pleased with your answer. And he rewarded you accordingly, sinking his fingers into you up to the knuckle.

“Yeah, that’s right,” he pulled out of you for a moment before slamming back in, “mine.” He continued this unabated rhythm, his arm around you keeping your wriggling hips still in his firm grasp.

“Whose,” thrust, “are," thrust, “you?”

You desperately tried to suppress your cries being so close to the camp, but to no avail.

“Yours!”

The pressure in the pit of your stomach, sending waves of heat throughout your body, was becoming unbearable. You wanted to beg Arthur for your release, but in your current state you knew your wishes would just come out as an incoherent mess. Besides, he always gave you what you wanted. One way or another.

Arthur hummed in satisfaction, withdrawing his fingers from you once more despite your discordant protests. “Good girl,” he praised lowly, a shiver making its way up your spine at his approval. A man of little patience, Arthur was ravenous and could only be satiated by your delectable essence.

He didn’t think himself an accomplished man, but the way he could make a delicate woman like you sing with his touch alone, he considered himself up there with those great composers that Dutch fancied listening to.

With haste, Arthur sank three digits back into you and began a once again unabated pace with his tongue finding a familiar place on the tender nub at the apex of your womanhood. He lapped at it greedily, moving his head left and right in perfect tandem with the movement of his fingers.

The sensations were like pure Hellfire surging through your veins. And if Arthur was the devil incarnate, you would gladly let him envelop you in his flames time and time again.

Arthur could sense you were on that beautiful precipice, so close to spectacularly breaking. Your toes curled on his shoulders and hands clutched the ground below with white knuckles. He glanced up once more, and fueled by a twisted sense of pride, was delighted to see Kieran had not left with his tail between his legs.

Shamelessly, Arthur shot him a wink. Assuring when you came, the name that fell from your lips would remind that fool that you would never utter anything so fine in his direction. Arthur was not left disappointed.

You finished with a silent scream, hoarsely chanting his name repeatedly like a passionate mantra as he eagerly drank up your climax.

Kieran had seen nothing Arthur didn’t want him to, and with shame heavily apparent on his face and a throbbing problem within his jeans, he scurried away like the coward he always knew he was.

A handful of days had come and gone since Kieran had stumbled upon you and Arthur during your moment of...intimacy.

Kieran had become dramatically more skittish since then - especially around you. The rest of the gang paid him little mind despite this. He couldn’t look you in the eye without recalling you in such an indecent state: smooth legs exposed, your sensual cries during your throws of passion, the way you looked when you ca-

“Kieran?” Your melodic voice had broken him out of his exceedingly inappropriate trance - about you no less!

His ears turned beet red, threatening to bloom into a deplorable flush on his cheeks. You cocked your head to the side, seemingly puzzled, as you waited for him to compose himself.

“M-Miss?” He blubbered, attempting to cover his embarrassment with his hand.

“I was just checking to see if you were alright. You’ve been a little...off recently.” Bless your heart and endless supply of empathy for those around you. “Are you sick,” you asked in earnest, reaching out to determine if he perhaps had a fever.

Kieran stumbled away from your touch leaving you shocked, oblivious to what prompted such a dramatic reaction.

“I’m f-fine Miss, don’t you w-worry none about me,” he floundered through his excuse. He became even more short of breath as Arthur came up behind you, placing a firm hand on your shoulder.

As if expecting him, you looked back and gifted him a small smile, expression softening in his presence. He nodded his greeting to you in kind.

“Mr. Morgan! Are we still on for our hunting trip? I’ve been hearing rumors of a pure-white fox just shy of Rhodes and they sound promising,” you explained enthusiastically and Arthur gave a low chuckle in response.

“Course’. Why don’t you go get your things, I’ll be right with ya.” With that, you headed back towards your tent. Not before giving Kieran a farewell wave, leaving the two men alone with one another.

Arthur stared him down, his expression passive as Kieran all but trembled in his boots unsure of what was to come. A wolfish grin played on his lips and a laugh rumbled in his chest like thunder, further unnerving Kieran.

Arthur broke the tense silence first.

“Hope you enjoyed the show, O’Driscoll,” he stated bluntly, reveling in Kieran’s extreme anxiety. Flabbergasted with a nervous sweat forming at his brow, Kieran was completely at a loss for words.

Arthur sneered and began making his way past him, stopping at his side only to discreetly whisper something in his ear.

“If I so much as suspect you thinking ‘impure’ thoughts about my woman, I’ll personally see you gelded.”

#vic's fics!#red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #arthur morgan #kieran duffy #arthur morgan x reader #arthur morgan x female reader #sorry kieran lol #sorry that artie is such a jerk #low honor arthur morgan #nsft

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thesociologicalcinema · 5 years ago

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1. Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal The soldiers came and took us from our home. They first surrounded our house and they took the mare while we were at work in the fields and they drove us out of doors and did not permit us to take anything with us, not even a second change of clothes. ~ Ooloo-Cha, widow of Sweet Water

2. Removal Act In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States and set about pushing a bill through Congress calling for the removal of the southeastern Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830 and quickly sent to President Jackson, who signed the act into law, effectively forcing all southeastern tribes to give up their traditional tribal homelands. Cherokee Nation, led by Principal Chief John Ross, resisted the Indian Removal Act, even in the face of assaults on its sovereign rights by the state of Georgia and violence against Cherokee people. Worcester vs. Georgia In March 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall rendered the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester vs. Georgia, in which missionary Samuel Austin Worcester sued the state of Georgia for unlawful imprisonment. Marshall stated that "The Cherokee Nation is a distinct community occupying its territory...in which the state of Georgia can have no right to enter but with the assent of Cherokees. The court's decision established Cherokee and other southeastern tribes as sovereign nations within the United States.

3. Treaty of New Echota

After the Indian Removal Act was passed, a small group of Cherokee citizens began to believe they had no choice but to give up their land and remove to the west. Though they had no legal right to represent Cherokee Nation, these men signed the Treaty of New Echota with the U.S. government in December of 1835, ceding all Cherokee lands in the east for lands west of the Mississippi River. The signers of the treaty became known as the Treaty Party. The party's leaders included Stand Watie, Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot, all prominent tribal members. Principal Chief John Ross and the majority of Cherokee people protested the treaty as fraudulently signed.They became known as the National Party and created a protest petition. to send to the U.S. government. Even though Principal John Ross and most Cherokee fought against the Treaty of New Echota, it was ratified in the U.S. Senate by just one vote.

4. Forced Removal

As the May 23rd deadline for voluntary removal approached, President Martin Van Buren assigned General Winfield Scott to head the forcible removal of Cherokee citizens. General Scott arrived in Athens, TN, on May 8 1838, and issued his first orders from there on May 10 to an army of about 2,200 federal soldiers. They began forcing Cherokees from their homes at bayonet point. Roundups occurred day and night as people were herded like animals into stockade camps, where they were held in the heat of the summer to wait for their removal west. Some Cherokees remained in these camps up to five months before departure. Many became sick from disease and died. By June 1838, nearly 3,000 Cherokees began the journey west in three detachments led by the U.S. Military. The summer weather caused many delays, and sickness continued to spread in the camps. By the end of June, Scott made a decision to suspend removal until September.

5. Protest Petition, 1836

As a rebuttal to the illegal signing of the Treaty of New Echota, Cherokee Nation created an official Protest Petition in 1836. It was signed by Principal Chief John Ross, council members, and 2,174 citizens of Cherokee Nation. The protest petition pleaded with the U.S. government to reject the Treaty of New Echota and to work with the true officials of Cherokee Nation. "By the stipulations of this instrument, we are despoiled of our private possessions, the indefeasible property of individuals. We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self-defense. Our property may be plundered before our eyes; violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised. We are deprived of membership in the human family!"

6. Tribal Self Removal After seeing the conditions of the stockades and learning of hardships faced by Cherokees who had already been forcibly removed, Principal Chief John Ross requested that General Winfield Scott allow him to oversee the remainder of the removal process. Ross argued that, as leader of Cherokee Nation, he could better provide for the needs of his people. General Scott agreed, and Ross oversaw the organization and direction of thirteen remaining detachments. Of the nearly 16,000 Cherokee people removed to the west, historians estimate about 4,000 perished. The chaos surrounding the military roundups and splitting of people into detachments separated families before the journey even began. Cherokee people were forced to leave their homes, farms, and businesses behind. "If it be painful to you sir to contemplate this work, what must be the feelings of the Cherokees who are to be the subject of the disaster and ruin which must ensue!" ~ petition to General Scott by Cherokee Nation, June 11, 1838.

7. Removal Cherokee Nation continued to fight for its sovereign right to remain in its homelands. Principal Chief John Ross and other statesmen exhausted all options to protest removal. Intruders continued to encroach on Cherokee lands and became more forceful in their taking of Cherokee property. Emotions ran high and the outlook for Cherokee people turned from hopeful to bleak. Cherokee Nation was unsuccessful in its protests to stop removal. Although several Cherokees had already moved west by the late 1830s, the pain of leaving their ancestral homeland weighed heavily on those Cherokees remaining in the east. Their eventual removal became inevitable as the U.S. Government made preparations to forcibly remove these those that were unwilling to relocate.

"Trail of Tears" Origin The phrase "Trail of Tears" originated in 1832 when a Choctaw Chief was interviewed by the Arkansas Gazette newspaper about his tribe's removal journey. He described it as "a trail of tears and death." The expression became the description for all removals of southeastern native tribes and began to be most popularly used in regards to the 1838 Cherokee removal. Source: Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian

#smithsonian #National Museum of the American Indian #trail of tears #imperialism #westward expansion #genocide #Cherokee #Native Peoples #American Indians

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rickytwister · 5 years ago

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Pylon Network is the Moonshot of 2020

Pylon Network (PYLNT) has max supply of 633858 only and sitting at a ridiculously low marketcap of 390k approx. They recently got listed on idex and have recently released updated tokenomics. What we are about to witness is outcome of hardwork of 4-5 years.

First lets understand what the project is all about. PYLNT is a blockchain for energy sector and helps world save energy and consumers their energy bills. Apart from this they are also working on P2P energy trading marketplace, where companies can trade their energy credits (research about Copenhagen summit for this usecase). So they have built a tech, which when implemented , automatically helps companies and people save on energy. In simple language, The tech automatically handles the diversion of surplus energy, provides realtime data and improves efficiency.

As per their new token model, every company from now on will have to market buy tokens and stake in order to be able to run federated Nodes and implement pylon. So a lot of buy pressure is coming up.

They are already being used at 4 muncipalities and few private companies and they recently got contract to implement spain's first renewable energy project.

I feel so proud to see, Pylon team is working on an inclusive approach where token holders share in the business success.

500k only in circulation and low marketcap. Lot's of marketing coming before month end.

Let's also understand more about the project and it's History

It's a highly technical project that boast of several accolades from Individuals and governments. For example, Their Chairman won Engineer of the year award in 2017 , apart from that some of the other positives include but not limited to

Working partnership with Basque Country’s energy cooperative, GoiEner Partnership with Denmark based GreenHydrogen Received the prize from Spain Tech Center, being selected unanimously as the most innovative from all finalist startups, to represent Spain in Silicon Valley Launched decentralized renewable energy exchange pilot in partnership with Ecooo. Partnership with the community of Freetown Christiania, Denmark. The Merchants Association of the San Fernando Market, partner-consumer of the energy cooperative La corriente, joins the Pylon Network pilot test and successfully completes the installation of what is now, the first “Metron” in Madrid, Spain. Partnered with eGEO for the development of a certified energy meter Spanish company Mirubee integrates Blockchain technology and Pylon Network open source software in its energy meters. The only Spanish company invited by the Danish Government to improve public services. Last October, Pylon Network was selected as winners of World Summit Awards (WSA) in the Green Energy & Environment category. Working partnership with Energisme Awarded by WAS (A UN Subsidary) and much more

The list above is very small, and a lot more has been done.

Pylon Network was awarded by UN and featured and hugely refrenced in research articles published by scientists/professors from Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, Heriot-Watt University, dinburgh, UK, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK, Siemens Energy Management, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, UK, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Highest Award winning team in Crypto.

Project widely in use and being appreciated by reputed science Orgs.

Why you should invest in Pylon ?

Firstly they have started getting regular work contracts in EU region, hence it has now become a revenue generating project and Token holders earn a percentage of revenue share.

[u][i]Low supply, low marketcap and team has confirmed a lots of marketing coming once the tokenomics and mainnet details are out next week.[/i][/u]

The best part is, Pylon isn't in speculation or upcoming phase like other projects, that "this will happen"/"this will come" etc etc , it is already live at various municipalities in and around Spain, so the risk factor has gone. Team will be expanding to other regions of EU and USA pretty soon.

To make it easier for you to understand, what all has been achieved, I went through various artices from past and collated the following for you. These are some of the achievements, team has procured till date. This is not an exhaustive list and there is much much more to the project. But still it will provide you better picture on the hardwork that has gone into the project.

August 2017

Chosen as one of the finalist startups in South Summit 2017

Working partnership with Basque Country’s energy cooperative, GoiEner Interviewed by a spanish media company, El Referente Guto Owen, a highly experienced energy & environment consultant for governments and private sector clients in UK & internationally, joins as Advisor.

September 2017

Cristina Carrascosa, highly experienced blockchain lawyer, education from London School of Economics, Author of various Blockchain Books, Joins the team. Started discussions with Greenpeace for probable collaboration. Code audit by Entropy Factory. Partnership with Denmark based GreenHydrogen

October 2017

Received the prize from Spain Tech Center, being selected unanimously as the most innovative from all finalist startups, to represent Spain in Silicon Valley Presented at Bitcoin meetup The Cube, La Ingobernable, Madrid. Article published in Energias Renovables, most prestigious magazine of Spain on renewable energies. Partnership with the community of Freetown Christiania, Denmark.

Presented at series of meet-ups around Spain and Europe in Copenhagen, Madrid, San Sebastian, Bilbao and others. Finalized details of pilot project in order to improve the energy distribution and management, within Christiania’s micro-grid.

November 2017

Published Press releases in various online magazines. Organized few meetups in Basque country.

Launched decentralized renewable energy exchange pilot in partnership with Ecooo. Trip to Silicon Valley and participation in a 2-week accelerator program in San Francisco. Presented at Embarcadero center in downtown San Francisco.

December 2017

Meetings with Marine Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power of Califronia. Visited Blockchain EXPO North America, and met with various crypto players. Visited Plug&Play Tech Center. Visited offices of Silicon Valley Power and Palo Alto Public Utility. Introductory talks with E-On Accelerator (DK), Accelerace (DK) and GridVC (FIN)

Jaunuary 2018

Panel member at European Energy Transition Conference 2018 – Geneva, Switzerland! Presented together with GoiEner at Ateneo de Madrid – Energy & blockchain forum – ICADE, Madrid.

Released screenshots of the platform’s alpha version. Participation in Ateneo (ESP) and European Smart Cities (CH) conferences. Code release for first fully functional blockchain algorithm, designed specifically for the needs of the energy sector.

February 2018

Demo version released for Public. Presented at University of Oxford. Presented at TechHub Swansea, Wales.

March 2018

Installed the first Pylon based “Metron” energy meters at users of the GoiEner energy cooperative, in a real environment.

April 2018

Presented at

EventHorizon (Berlin, GERMANY). EventHorizon is the ONE exclusive annual event centered on energy blockchain solutions for a future based solely on renewable resources. EnergyCities (Rennes, FRANCE). The role of blockchain in the energy transition of cities NIRIG (Belfast, IRELAND).

May 2018

Installed first “Metron” energy meter in Madrid :- The Merchants Association of the San Fernando Market, partner-consumer of the energy cooperative La corriente, joins the Pylon Network pilot test and successfully completes the installation of what is now, the first “Metron” in Madrid, Spain.

Partnered with eGEO for the development of a certified energy meter called – METRON- which will integrate blockchain and the Pyloncoin payment method. First version of METRON dApp launched.

June 2018

Presented at

ENTSO-E, Brussels, Belgium.

ENGIE Global Team Representatives, Madrid, Spain Social Enterprise Leaders Forum (SELF), Seoul, S. Korea. Transactive Energy & Blockchain, Vienna, Austria. RESCoop.eu General Assembly, Milan, Italy.

July 2018

Prosumers and Pyloncoin dynamic payment system integration.

Presented at

Smart Energy Wales, Organised by Renewable UK (Cymru). MARESTON, organised by MARES Madrid. Spanish Foundation for Renewable Energy, Malaga, Spain.

October 2018

Spanish company Mirubee integrates Blockchain technology and Pylon Network open source software in its energy meters.

November 2018

Published the most up-to-date version of its Blockchain Open Source Code and invited energy market players to use it. Pyloncoin Blockchain Explorer released.

January 2019

Presented at Energy Revolution Congress – Valencia, Spain

February 2019

Updated Whitepaper and Tokenomics Released. Interviewed by Sustainable Energy magazine, The Energy Bit.

March 2019

Presented at

GENERA Energia – Madrid, Spain. CTEC – Barcelona, Spain.

May 2019

The only Spanish company invited by the Danish Government to improve public services.

Presented at

Intersolar (Munich, Germany) ,the largest Solar Energy Conference in the industry. UNEF (Organised by the Spanish Union of PV technology) – Madrid, Spain

June 2019

Launched community reward program. Webinar :- the impact of new regulations on the self-consumption landscape in Spain. Belén Gallego, serial Entreprenuer, Public Speaker, Energy Consultant, Founder ATA Insights, Joins Pylon team.

July 2019

Participated in round table conference, Vinalab – Ruta Hackathon

August 2019

Participated in EPRI event :- Presented Pylon Network to investors and US utilities, who were interested to explore the blockchain/ energy landscape.

September 2019

Presented at The Madrid Energy Conference along with representatives of companies such as IBM, Shell etc

October 2019

Presented at International Conference of Energy Communities – Lisbon Presentation in Plug & Play Europe Event – Berlin Foro Solar Conference – Madrid WeekINN Conference – San Sebastian IoT World Congress – Barcelona

Formed Partnership with Energisme

November 2019

Presented at ACOCEX Conference The Unconference Valencia Startup Week – Barrio La Pinada event

December 2019

Proudly mentioned in various Spanish media, for delivering energy efficiency impact for local communities: the Valencian Municipality of Canet achieved a 12% reduction on their annual electricity costs, with the support of simple, consumer-centered and consumer-friendly energy services of Pylon Network!

[u][i]National Winner AT WSA Awards by United Nations[/i][/u]

January 2020

Started releasing Educational Video Series Presented at Presentation at CMES, Barcelona Interview published by The online media outlet “The Daily Chain”

February 2020

Presented at GENERA International Trade Paco Negre Assigned as New CFO of Pylon Network Javier Cervera appointed as chairman of Pylon Network! Javier has been recognized as the engineer of the year for 2017 and as the vice-president of AEE – the Association of Energy Engineers.

March 2020 Listing confirmed on Idex (Trading went live in April) Presented at Effie solar virtual conference

#crypto #ethereum #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #cryptocurrency trading

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tarditardi · 2 years ago

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Il 17 giugno Vincenzo Spadafora presenta il suo libro Senza Riserve" assieme a Giovanni Ciacci, Carolyn Smith e Laura Sgrò al Domina Zagarella Sicily (Santa Flavia - Palermo)

Domina Zagarella Sicily, a Santa Flavia (Palermo) non è solo uno splendido resort sul mare in cui rilassarsi e oziare dal mattino a notte fonda, facendosi magari viziare dalla proposte degli chef.

Dall'estate 2022 è possibile regalarsi i nuovi dinner show di The Beach Luxury Club, spettacoli che mettono sul palco una decina di artisti internazionali (https://www.thebeachluxury.com) e pure, perché no, godersi la presentazione di un libro.

E' quel che capita venerdì 17 giugno 2022 alle 21:30 quando Vincenzo Spadafora, politico di riferimento, già ministro per le politiche giovanili e lo sport nel 2021, presenta il suo "Senza Riserve, in politica e nella vita" (Solferino). Spadafora dialogherà con Giovanni Ciacci, da sempre amico di Domina. Sarà un momento interessante, perché Ciacci, oltre che un notissimo stylist, è anche un affermato scrittore (il suo più recente libro è "La Contessa. La scandalosa vita di Giò Stajano", Soferino). Con loro sul palco, a interagire con gli ospiti di Domina. anche Carolyn Smith, coreografa e presidente della giuria di Ballando con le stelle e il celebre avvocato Laura Sgrò.

Ecco come l'editore Solferino presenta "Senza Riserve"

«La politica è una cosa bella, anche se oggi è difficile spiegarlo, soprattutto ai più giovani.» Vincenzo Spadafora ci crede e lo ha sperimentato in prima persona: dall'impegno giovanile nella terra dei fuochi all'incarico come presidente dell'Unicef, da Garante per l'infanzia a ministro della Repubblica, passando per una rivoluzione politica chiamata «Cinque Stelle» che ora ricostruisce in queste pagine dove si racconta senza riserve. E dove porta alla luce i retroscena degli anni che hanno visto il Movimento crescere, cambiare e arrivare al governo: un passaggio ricco di sfide e promesse ma non privo di contraddizioni.

Vicino al leader Luigi Di Maio, e con un ruolo determinante nella costituzione dei Governi Conte prima con la Lega poi con il Pd, l'autore ha vissuto in prima linea la trasformazione del partito di Beppe Grillo. Da sottosegretario si è battuto sul fronte dei diritti e delle pari opportunità, da ministro durante i difficili mesi della pandemia si è scontrato con una parte del mondo dello sport contraria al cambiamento. Esperienze che emergono in una testimonianza autentica e inedita di successi e scenari drammatici, di protagonisti della scena pubblica e di lotte politiche, di scelte difficili e di equilibri da costruire. Ma anche di storie piene di umanità e di confessioni a cuore aperto.

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Dears,Our Prime Minister varied in parliament the other day Nomis face didn't go into contortions of grief and the today did not shake with sobbing .His was a dignified crying that could be managed with a quick flashing of the thumb under the eye glass and ship of water.The sight of a democratically elected leader succumbing to emotions of the ordinary kind must have attracted widespread sympathy from those who watched the sense on TV. What made him cry?people must have thought that he was grieving over death of more than 200 farmers who died in the course of there Long March protest.Or they thought he was upset that responsible citizens like Suda Bharadwaj and Stan Swamp were still in prison got no offense other than expressing opinions different from the Government's But we learned in due course that our Prime Minister turned teary ' eyed not for reasons lay citizens thought possible. He carried because Ghulam Nabi Azad was retiring from parliament. This mare no sense.Retiring from parliament is a routine.And Azad is not even a BJP man.Why should the country's most important BJP leader cry when a Congressman level the Raya Sasha obviously, it is theatrics .But who is it meant to fool?. Modi is known for his love of theatrics. Punjab CM Amarinder Singh called him a self-obssed man interested only in publocity;all his bitterness actions are aimed at that " but even his bitterest critic must agree that he is a master of the art of publicity. He knows how to seize the moment and leave his imprint on it. The absence of an effective opposition in India is no doubt the main reason for the BJ'S success. The congress is in no position to challenge the zBJP because the Congress has become a mere extension of Rahul Gandhi,who turns into a national leader only when he is in the right mood.where is BJP with its Cadre base and where is Congress with its time servers?.....continue (at Mumbai City, Maharastra) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcJIhCB5ma/?igshid=dz7dzihu16on

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The murder and eviction of whites in Zimbabwe has been commented on in the news but in Zimbabwe's southern neighbor, south Africa, whites are being slaughtered at an even higher rate. South Africa has three times the population of Zimbabwe, and 13 times the White population: almost 6 million Whites live there. As with Zimbabwe, the media silence about the murder of Whites there is almost total; and in South Africa's case, even human rights groups are largely silent, perhaps because the Black takeover there was so recent and so many "liberals" have an emotional investment in the ANC/Communist regime they helped to power. In 1994, after decades of propaganda in the media and sentimental whimpering from the churches, South African Whites were finally persuaded to hand power over to Black Communists, who installed an ANC ("African National Congress")/Communist government that, for some strange reason, failed to follow Marxist ideology when it came to expropriating the business interests of the Oppenheimer family, who dominate South Africa's economy. They did succeed, however, in making South Africa into a multiracial sewer with one of the highest violent crime, murder, rape, and AIDS infection rates in the world. The media made a saint of Nelson Mandela, a convicted terrorist who had been imprisoned by the White government there, and when the Whites capitulated he was made President. After the media's announcement that their long campaign of sanctions, boycotts, and intimidation had finally succeeded in bringing "equality" and "democracy" to what had previously been one of the few outposts of White civilization on the African continent, the media coverage of that country almost ceased, and one seldom hears about South Africa today in the mass media. The reason is that South Africa is rapidly descending into crime, disease, filth, and savagery. Since the Black takeover in 1994, 1,368 White farmers have been murdered in farm invasions and attacks that number in the multiple thousands. More than half of the White farmers have given up and left their farms permanently, contributing to the region's looming famine. And yet this is not an issue in the Jewish media. South African farmers now suffer the highest murder rate in the world -- 274 per 100,000. In a study commissioned by a leading South African bank, Nedbank, it was revealed that the Black attackers are "'deliberately targeting specific homesteads to kill the [White] Afrikaner victims': robbery was not the prime motivation, in fact in 85% of last year's farm attacks, nothing had been 'robbed.'" In other words, killing the White man, raping and killing the White woman, raping and killing the White child are the real motivations. And yet this is not an issue in the American media. Let me give you a few examples: On June 15th of this year, sugar farmer Robert Dent and his wife Allison, both 59, were killed in front of their twelve-year-old son Nicholas Dent. A Black invader entered the Dent home between two and three AM that Saturday morning, armed with a military-style rifle. He bludgeoned the unarmed couple, who were surprised in their sleep, and then, in the presence of their son, shot them to death at point-blank range in the farmhouse bathroom. The terrified Nicholas was then forced to drive the killer in his parents' car about three miles away, where both killer and child escaped. I have the figures in front of me for just this month, September 2002, and though the month isn't over, nine farmers have been killed, including four children and an elderly farm couple, George and Albertina Lewis, whose dog was also killed. The police report on the Lewis's murder says "no motive." In August, a farmer's wife was attacked in a firebombing, and Johan Viljoen, a Zevenfontein cheese farmer, was torched to death along with one of his workers. Christo Olivier and Jan Kempdorp of Vryburg were tortured to death and then buried in a shallow grave. The two Blacks who were arrested for this crime were granted bail. On the 7th, the headless torso of what police reports call an "ethnic-European male" was found on Mpumalanga farm. And Johannes Maree, 62, of Randfontein, was found bludgeoned to death on August 1st. In June and July, Johan Steyn, 65, was shot dead in the Cullinan area; smallholder Roy Murley was tortured to death; Johannes Lake and Johnny Scheepers were shot to death; dairy farmer George Siemens, 62, was killed; and Cheryl van Houten, 51, was hacked to death. In April and May, Ben Vorster, 67, was murdered by an armed Black gang; Andre Pienaar, 56, was shot dead; Mona Sawyer, 78, served food to a Black caller at her home in Magaliesberg and was then stabbed to death; Rita Mans, a 31-year-old farmer's wife was shot to death in Ottosdal; 70-year-old Iris du Preez was murdered on her small farm; Dickson Pillay, 36, and his brother Sandy Pillay of Glendale Farm homestead were burned to death when Blacks torched their farm. In the first three months of this year, more than 30 farm murders occurred, including the killing of classical musician Felicity Gale, 58, of Port Jackson -- her husband, Rodney, 67, survived the attack; Marius and Lillian Delport, 50 and 54, of a smallholding near De Deur were shot and nothing was stolen; Rudi Schmidt, 51, of a farm near Pontdrift was stabbed to death; 21-year-old Catherine Watkins of Potchefstroom was found with her windpipe torn out; Estelle Burger, 27, a farmers wife, was kidnapped and then shot; John de Lange, 66, a smallholder in Mount Pleasant was shot to death, his wife, Evelin de Lange, 60, was raped and garroted; and Arthur Smith, 63, and his wife Isobel, were found with their throats slit and their bodies severely beaten on their farm in Sundra. I'm just giving you the highlights here, by the way, and just from the last few months. The grisly details and the horrifying numbers can be found in the reports of Crimebusters South Africa and the excellent data assembled by Adriana Stuijt and her "Journalism During Apartheid" site. These farm massacres are occurring at a reported rate of about one every other day. The horror on these White farms has been steadily climbing since 1994. And yet this is not an issue in the Jewish media. Unlike Zimbabwe, the government in South Africa does not have an officially-announced policy of supporting these farm invasions and massacres. But they do have a policy of looking the other way and doing next to nothing about it, a policy which encourages Black violence against Whites. Their attitude is perhaps best expressed by Peter Mokaba, until recently South Africa's Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, who whined recently that "The high crime rate is seriously affecting tourism and an alternative image of South Africa needed to be promoted. We want to encourage people to come here and see that crime does not dominate." Really? What Mr. Mokaba did not tell you was that he himself is famous for the slogans he invented and uttered again and again when he was a leader in the ANC/Communist war against the White government of South Africa: "Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!" and "One settler, one bullet." Kill the Boer, kill the farmer. And it is to such a government that White farmers must appeal for protection. Even that government admits that, under Black rule, crime and murder are out of control. The South African Police Service report entitled Attacks on Farms and Smallholdings 1/99 stated: "Violence seems to have become an endemic feature of South African life. According to the comparative crime statistics for 1996 released by Interpol, the country tops the list internationally as far as the incidence of murder and rape is concerned. the fact that attacks on the residents of farms and smallholdings are escalating at a rate out of proportion to the general increase in crime figures observed in South Africa is indeed cause for serious concern." Such, I suppose, are the wonderful benefits of "multiracial democracy." The murders I've been describing here are just the farm murders. The murder rate in the cities is even higher, for Johannesburg alone it is 500 per month. Many of the victims are White, and the attackers Black and racially motivated, a fact that is never mentioned in the US media. And South Africa is also the rape capital of the world. A woman is reported raped every 23 seconds in South Africa. A small child is reported raped every thirty minutes. And remember, these are the reported and admitted rapes. This dismal record is partly due to the Congoids' innate savagery when released from the control of civilized men, and partly due to the Black folk belief that raping a virgin will cure AIDS, which is rampant in that country. [Jackie Loffell, Johannesburg Child Welfare Society, 13th International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Durban.] On May 24, 2000, the beaten, battered and nearly frozen body of a young Polish woman was found, clad only in a soaked t-shirt, along the road to South Africa's Sterkfontein Dam. Her body was so cold it was actually blue. Her hair was wet and she was covered with bruises, open wounds, deep scratches, and mud. She was curled in a fetal position. She was still alive. To students of rape in South Africa she was another digit in the statistics. To Americans and Europeans who get their news from the major media, she didn't even exist. She was a 27-year-old newlywed on her honeymoon, a honeymoon that ended when three Blacks murdered her husband in front of her eyes and then brutally raped her, beat her, attempted to kill her and left her for dead. The bruise marks around her neck indicated that her rapists had tried to strangle her. At the treatment center she was immediately given AZT by Polish Consulate authorities (treatment refused her by the South African government) in the hope that it would prevent the transfer of HIV, since two of her three attackers tested positive for the virus. She testified that after her attackers murdered her husband, they forced her in the trunk of their car, and went to a secluded spot where each of the Blacks raped her in turn. They then attempted to drown her by stamping their feet on her head in an attempt to keep her head underwater. The woman has returned to her native Poland and refuses to set foot in South Africa again, even to testify. As reported by investigator Jack Galt, on November 17th of the same year, a 14-year-old White girl was cruelly raped by a gang of five blacks in her home in Pretoria. According to her counselors, she has been traumatized for the rest of her life. Spokesmen for the White Afrikaner community, who you will not hear on CBS, NBC, or Fox News, state that this attack was a deliberate attempt to terrorize Whites. Five heavily-armed Blacks invaded the home, and proceeded to tie up the girl's mother, father, six-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother with barbed wire in the living room. They then grabbed the 14-year-old girl and took her to the bathroom, where they brutally gang-raped her, each of the five Blacks in turn, with the family listening nearby, helpless. Then the Blacks returned to the living room where they beat and kicked the White father in the face while he was still tied up, ransacked the home, and fled in the family's car. South African mother Ame Brown of Elliot in the Eastern Cape recently stated: "On the 8th of October, 1998 my two children and I were overpowered by four Black men. We were robbed of everything, and before leaving the men took turns raping me in front of my two boys aged 8 and 12. They forced my boys to watch. I have since then been tested for HIV of which my tests at five months showed positive. It has not been easy coping with being raped and having HIV. But I have a fantastic husband who has stood by me through all my depression and down days and all my sleepless nights. He has been my backbone and tower of strength." The rape situation is so bad in South Africa -- the worst in the world -- that British and American doctors are now advising female travelers to carry anti-AIDS drugs in their bags because of the high risk of infection from HIV-carrying rapists there. The British security magazine Intersec reports "The high number of reported rapes in the country is already a deterrent for prospective visitors -- and the South African government's decision not to provide AZT to victims of rape means they are unlikely to get the drugs at local clinics." Dr. Andrew Jamieson, medical director of the British Airways Travel Clinic, said "the academic travel medicine community had discussed the issue for a number of years." "About six months ago, it was decided that this would be a reasonable thing to do ... it's all about risk management. There is a real risk for travelers to this country and other countries in Africa. We do have a high HIV rate and a high incidence of rape so we cannot pretend it is not there," he said. Predictably, the South African government, which fails to protect White women from rapists, is furious at the doctors, fearing a further loss of tourism dollars. White ingenuity and inventiveness have come up with an experimental deterrent to the Black rapist problem, however. Seventy-two-year-old Jaap Haumann, a retired anesthetist in the Free State, South Africa, has invented what he calls a "mutilator tampon" designed to lop off the end of a rapist's penis. Haumann says he designed the device after talking to rape victims, and he thinks that at least a million South African women will flock to buy it. "It became clear to me that rape has a devastating impact on the lives of women, physically and especially mentally. We all know that South Africa has the highest rape statistics in the world. With this device I believe would-be rapists would think twice before attacking any woman in this country." Unfortunately, Dr. Haumann's invention would not solve the problem of HIV transmission. Cape Town, South Africa has become the world capital of what is called the "sex tourism" trade. Press reports have described it as the "sleaze capital of the world," and these days that's really saying something. Perverts from all over the world go there (bringing "needed tourist dollars" to be sure) to have sex with children, many of them White sex slaves, but others imported from brothels as far away as Thailand. "Sex with children," of course, is just a euphemism for rape of the innocent. "Child Sex Tours" are even sponsored by some "entrepreneurs" while the government looks the other way. In the bad old days of White rule and apartheid, such things weren't tolerated. But in the new "rainbow" South Africa, where can the innocent victims look for protection? The mayor of Cape Town, a Black named William Bantom, was recently discovered to be enjoying his huge personal collection of child pornography in his office while on the job. And he wasn't ousted as mayor. Perhaps the Church will help them? Bantom is also a noted clergyman, known for his liberal views on "human rights," "democracy," and "equality." A listener in New York has written this week to ask what he and others can do to help the embattled Whites of Southern Africa. He rightly points out that even though our first priority is to build the National Alliance into a powerhouse to secure the future of our people, these White farmers need help now in their local communities, in their own countries. I can't tell you how you should help, but I can put you in touch with those who are on the front lines in those countries, and they can tell you more. Two of the best sources of news about Zimbabwe and South Africa on the Internet are Southern Cross Africa News, http://www.scafrica.com; and also the South African Exiles Site, http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~springbk. If you weren't able to copy the URL's as you listened to the radio, don't worry; they'll be present in the text version of this broadcast at our natvan.com and natall.com Web sites, and all subscribers to our monthly Free Speech newsletter will get them, too. There's also a publication from South Africa entitled The Boer, which is charting a path for eventual self-determination and national freedom for Whites in a White state. The publishers also operate a White history museum in South Africa, the Balmoral Genocide Museum, to preserve for future generations the true history of that land which the present Black government is trying to erase from our memories. They may be reached via the Southern Cross Africa site just mentioned, or you may write to them at their postal address of: Balmoral Museum. PO Box 30 Balmoral 1037 South Africa Email This Article MainPage http://www.rense.com

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diaspora9ja · 4 years ago

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Political forecast? Gridlock and polarization, Yale experts predict

The voters have spoken. However don’t count on a spirit of bipartisan unity to blossom, Yale political scientists stated throughout a discussion board dialogue on the current nationwide election.

If something, the outcomes from this month’s vote seemingly will solely perpetuate gridlock and polarization in Washington, D.C., Yale specialists stated throughout the on-line occasion, which was hosted by the Establishment for Social and Coverage Research (ISPS) on Nov. 17.

With the Republican Celebration poised to take care of management of the U.S. Senate — pending two January runoff elections in Georgia — the Democratic Celebration might be unable to enact its legislative agenda on policing reform, healthcare, local weather change, and different points, stated David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus and one of many nation’s foremost specialists on the U.S. Congress.

“Biden’s acquired a tricky presidency,” Mayhew stated. “It’s going to be an inbox administration presidency like Harry Truman’s, not a legislative program presidency. It’s a really robust 4 years arising.”

Voters rendered a break up verdict on the way forward for American democracy, delivering a transparent rebuke to President Donald Trump whereas seemingly denying the Democratic Celebration full management of Congress, stated Jacob Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science.

“[Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell as soon as once more might be within the place of deciding what is feasible for an incoming Democratic administration and can nearly actually say, as he did again beneath President Obama, that his high precedence is to make the Democratic incumbent a one-term president,” stated Hacker, whose newest e-book, “Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality,” analyzes the Republican Celebration’s use of populist appeals to rally voters behind what he describes as insurance policies that favor the wealthy and highly effective.

Hacker argued that the Republican Celebration has insulated itself from electoral accountability by burrowing into the nation’s anti-majoritarian political establishments, such because the Senate. Republican elected officers’ silence as Trump makes baseless claims of widespread voter fraud is deeply troubling, he added.

“The bottom of the Republican Celebration is totally Trumpian,” he stated. “The buildings of organized outrage which have supported him stay in place.”

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Trump’s enduring reputation inside the Republican Celebration affords a bleak image of the state of American democracy, stated Isabela Mares, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science. The president’s potential to draw greater than 70 million votes throughout the newest election regardless of the federal authorities’s ineffective response to the COVID-19 pandemic was puzzling, she stated. His populist messages downplaying the virus and blaming China for its unfold proved efficient in sustaining his electoral coalition, Mares added.

“This means to me that now we have not absolutely appreciated the ability and energy of populist appeals,” she stated.

Mares referenced “Odd Individuals in Extraordinary Occasions: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy,” a 2003 e-book by Princeton scholar Nancy Bermeo, which analyzed democratic erosion in 18 European and Latin American international locations throughout the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. The e-book emphasised the significance of elite conduct in figuring out whether or not democracies survived or collapsed; particularly essential was the power of members of the dominant political events to sanction their co-partisans for undemocratic or lawless conduct, Mares defined.

The willingness of Republican elected officers to countenance Trump’s violation of democratic norms is proof of an eroding democracy, she urged.

Mayhew was extra optimistic in regards to the well being of democracy within the U.S.

“I feel the election is a substantial victory for moderation and doubtless for coalition authorities of the American kind,” he stated, noting that voters rejected each Trump and the leftwing of the Democratic Celebration. “The fever is down.”

The election, Mayhew added, was easily performed regardless of the problem of executing it amid the pandemic. And, he stated, Trump’s denial of the consequence will fail.

I feel the ‘democracy is dying’ script ought to be put again within the file cupboard.

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“I feel the ‘democracy is dying’ script ought to be put again within the file cupboard,” he stated.

Nevertheless, a few of the ways utilized by Trump may stick, stated Christina Kinane, an assistant professor of political science and an skilled on political appointments. His follow of putting in performing administrators to government businesses to keep away from the conventional vetting course of will present a “playbook” for Biden ought to a Republican-controlled Senate block his appointees, she stated.

Saad Omer, professor of drugs and director of the Yale Institute for World Well being, supplied a public-health perspective on the election’s consequence, arguing that the Biden administration ought to launch an intensive public-education marketing campaign regarding the COVID-19 vaccines in improvement.

“And a communications marketing campaign just isn’t run via press conferences or tweets completely,” Omer stated. “Social media is clearly part of all of these items, nevertheless it needs to be coherent and it needs to be moderately evidence-based.”

The panel dialogue was moderated by ISPS Director Alan Gerber, the dean of social science within the School of Arts and Sciences and the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science.

Those with a Yale CAS login can watch the full event online. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m., ISPS will host a digital dialogue with political scientists on voting patterns within the 2020 election.

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The (New) Race To The Moon

A non-funded mandate to go to the moon undertaken with a flourish of a worthless pen notwithstanding, the actual science and governmental programs already underway around the world are likely to see moon landings within the year. What? You didn’t know? Of course not, because the news you get is filtered down to marketing platforms meant not to fill your head, leaving room for medical remedies you must desperately want to pester your doctor about.

Next week (yes, Dec. 28) the Indian Research Organization will launch the TeamIndus Satellite Launch Vehicle atop their PSLV rocket from Sriharikota (check your geography knowledge). After the first, second, and third stage separation (a technological feat previously only the USA had), the rocket will speed on to the moon where the fourth stage will separate and a lander will make a Moon de-orbit and hopefully land unscathed on Mare Imbrium near the polar top of the Moon. There, the IndianTeam Indus lander will conduct soil and other spectra-analysis experiments, giving improved scientific ability a chance to claim new knowledge from the moon to Indian scientists.

Oh, and piggy-backing on the TeamIndus lander is Team Hakuto (ISpace, Inc.) a Tokyo mining business that has a lunar rover vehicle with will, in all likelihood, claim the Google $30,000,000 X-Prize for roving around the Moon.

Next, in early 2018 (yes, only months away) a Cape Canaveral company, Moon Express, will launch their Lunar Scout on top of a privately funded and built Rocket Lab Electron booster. They plan to orbit the moon as a proving grounds for their core business: ferrying payloads for a whole string of customers already lined up: several governments, universities and private companies.

And let’s not forget China which has its own secret lunar program. Who knows when they will go?

Then there are two programs well underway without specific launch dates. Synergy Moon International, based in Mojave, CA, which has built Neptune 8, a rocket and space system to put a lander on the moon. Their flight testing is well advanced and it seems likely that in 2019 they may take a shot. The other contender is Team SpaceIL, a non-profit company in Israel which has built and tested a lander, well actually a lunar hopper-robot. Once on the Moon’s surface, the hopper can use the low gravity to hop across the surface, covering many miles, as it collects scientific analysis and images to send back home. This lander is packed full of electronics and is supported by more than twenty of the top technology companies worldwide. It’ll go to the moon and, in all likelihood if that proves successful, Mars is next. All that is in the planning… meanwhile…

We’re signing bits of paper, not introducing any bill to Congress to fund a darned thing. When Kennedy said we should go to the moon, he had already talked to Congressional leaders and negotiated the financial package necessary. It is what gave us printed circuit boards, the microchip, the plastics, metal alloys, computer programming and perhaps 50% of the modern world technology we all now enjoy. Vision for leaders does not come easily. Harder still is to negotiate the compromise and funding necessary to make such great scientific and life-enhancing programs take place. Bragging that you have made an edict without bothering to negotiate the needs beforehand is meaningless or worst, feckless. As a nation, we’re being left behind or, disturbingly, allowing corporations to leapfrog the public trust and benefit proven by the Apollo and Shuttle programs.

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Tell us about the Romanov dynasty.

Sorry this took so long, I had to go to work and dig out all my texts on the subject. This is a three page Word doc, by the way, and I could have kept going.

Fair warning: Most of my knowledge aboutthe dynasty comes in about the time of Elizabeth Petrovna’s coup, overthrowingIvan VI. My early knowledge is a little sparse.

First, it’s important to understandwhy the Romanovs where so important. Besides being the last royal family ofRussia, they are what made Russia a superpower, and then kept it there.

The Romanov family shares a commonancestor with about twelve other noble Russian families, this ancestor beingAndrei Kobyla. He was kind of assigned a pedigree by later generations, becauseno one knew much about him. Common consensus was that he is the son of aPrussian prince names Glande, who came to Russia when fleeing the Germans.

HOWEVER, this guy’s last name means“mare”, and all his relatives bear names of animals, so it’s more likely hisfamily was employed in animal-rearing by a royal family in Prussia. Soon thesurname evolved into Koshkin (comes from a word for “cat”). This would becomeZakharin, and then would split into two branches: Zakharin-Yakovlev andZakharin-Yuriev.

When Ivan the Terrible was inpower, the Zakahrin-Yakovlev shortened their name to simply Yakovlev, and thegrandchildren of Roman Zakharin-Yuriev changed the family name to Romanov.

So. Thefirst Romanov monarch was Mikhail I. He was elected into the position of tsarby the Zemsky Sobor (Assembly of the Land, kind of like a parliament orcongress). Fun fact: his mother didn’t want him to accept the position, but theboyars more or less said “but then God will punish your son for destroyingRussia”, so she gave her blessing.

I don’tknow much about Mikhail’s reign, except that he did much to reform industry inRussia, including inviting in foreign manufacturers, such as Dutch gun-makersin Tula, which, even today, is noted for its gun manufacturing.

Mikhailwas succeeded by his only son, Alexei, who, although ascending to the throne atthe same age his father was, was much more experienced and ready to take thethrone.

His sonwas one of the most prominent Romanov leaders: Peter The Great. Peter the Greattruly modernized Russia, catching it up with its Western European counterparts.Under his rule, scientific research and rationalism prevailed, and he did awaywith many medieval and traditionalist policies.

Here’swhere things get interesting. Peter altered the tradition of succession so hecould name his own heir. This put the power in this hands of his second wife,Catherine. By 1730, with the death of Peter II, the male Romanov line had diedout.

Whatdoes this mean? Dynastic crisis!

PeterII was succeeded by Anna I, the daughter of Ivan V, Peter I’s half-brother. Shedeclared her grandnephew, Ivan VI, to be heir upon her death, which wouldsecure her father’s line and exclude descendants of Peter I.

At thetime of his ascension, Ivan VI was only a year old. His parents were put in asregent rulers, and everyone hated them, mainly because they had Germanconnections and counsel.

His “rule”was short. Elizabeth Petrovna, a legitimized daughter of Peter I, became popularamong the Russian populace, and dethroned Ivan VI in a coup d'état, supported by ambassadors from Franceand Sweden, and the Preobrazhensky Regiment. Ivan VI died in a prison riot.

This led to what is known as thehouse of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, which held stake through matrilineal descentby relation to Peter the Great, via Anna Petrovna, his eldest daughter from hissecond marriage. Elizabeth brought Anna’s son, Peter of Holstein-Gottorp, toSt. Petersburg to declare him heir.

To ensure the future of theline, Elizabeth concocted a plot to bring Peter an heir. She set up a matchbetween him and a minor German princess, Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst. She took thename Catherine after converting to Orthodoxy and endured an unhappy marriage toPeter. Soon after the death of Elizabeth, she overthrew Peter with the help ofher lover, Grigory Orlov.

AfterCatherine came Paul I, who held great pride in being a relation to Peter I,although his true father was almost certainly Sergei Saltykov, Catherine’ssecond lover.

Paul createdsome rather strict rules regarding succession of heirs for the house, includingthat all consorts must be of equal birth status and of the Orthodox faith.

Paul wasmurdered in 1801 and succeeded by Alexander I, who died before he could leavean heir. His younger brother, Nicholas I took the throne, but many Russiantroops swore allegiance to his older brother, Constantine Pavlovich, who hadprivately renounced his right to the throne years before. (This is what causedthe Decembrist revolt). The sons of Nicholas I would provide the last branchesof the family.

WhenAlexander II took over in 1855, the country was in the middle of the CrimeanWar. By developing the army, freeing the serfs, he gained a lot of support inthis time.

However, hisoldest son, Nicholas, died in 1864, and soon after, his wife died. After,Alexander decided to marry his mistress. This caused a problem with hislegitimate children, who worried he would crown her empress, and the childrenthey had would be legitimate heirs to the throne.

Lucky forthem, the Pan-Slavist movement was sweeping the nation, and Alexander II waskilled in a bomb attack. This movement had some interesting effects on Russiansociety in general, actually, but that’s another story. Let’s just say theRomanovs actually married Russians for a while, and not Germans (who also hadtheir own Pan-Germanic movement!)

Alexander IIIcomes into the picture now. He hadn’t expected to become tsar, so his diplomacyskills were subpar. And for such a tall guy, he was absolutely terrified ofbeing assassinated like his father, so he favored more autocratic reforms, andundid a lot of his liberal father’s work.

He wouldmarry a Danish princess who took on the name Maria Fyodorovna, who was relatedto ton of other European monarchs. They had a fairly happy marriage, and it’sbelieved Alexander III is the first tsar to not take a mistress (great Russianlove stories, the royal family had).

And now we’vereached the end of the line with his son, Nicholas II. Much like his father,Nicholas was not ready to become tsar. He even literally said “I’m not ready tobecome tsar”. Even so, a week after his father’s funeral, he married AlexandraFyodorovna, and was crowned.

People didn’tlove Alexandra. She was more than willing to convert to Orthodoxy, but sheshied away from most empress duties that involved public engagement. Alexandracame off as, frankly, a bitch to the Russian people, and pushed for an evenmore authoritarian rule than that of Alexander III. People also didn’t like herGerman background, and her relationship with Rasputin was iffy. No one knewwhat the deal was there.

Nicholas wasactually pretty devoted to Alexandra, and in being so, kind of hurt his ownimage. It’s easy to speculate that led to what happens next.

In 1917 Nicholaswas forced to abdicate, and his brother Mikhail was offered the throne, but herefused it. And there’s a pretty clear idea that Mikhail taking over would havebeen illegal, since the TsesarevichAlexei should have been next in line, as the tsar’s only son.

The familywas exiled to Siberia, then to the Ipatiev House, where they were shot in thebasement, which is a fabulously bloody story that I don’t have the stamina for.The bodies were burned and then soaked in acid, buried in an unmarked grave,and left undiscovered until 1979, but they were left until Communism had fallenin Russia.

Besides thetsar’s family, other extended members of the Romanov’s were executed in variousways. Others, like the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna, were exiled, butallowed to live.

There were,of course, stories of children surviving (i.e. the famous Anna Anderson), butnone were ever confirmed.

As far as Iknow, the last remaining Romanov heir died in 2010, at 90-something

#Romanovs #Russian history #Russia #history

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2018: What is the annual New York City pageant and how did it start? - The Independent

Macy's Day Parade is a fixture of America's annual Thanksgiving celebrations, watched by thousands on the streets of New York City and millions more on TV at home.

The pageant is known for its floats, costumed revellers, brass bands and enormous balloons of popular cartoon characters like Snoopy, Paddington Bear and SpongeBob SquarePants, always a surreal sight sailing between the buildings.

The world's largest parade has taken place every year since 1924 when it was first introduced by the famous department chain, whose flagship store sits on 34th Street.

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About to take place for the 92nd time, the event no longer features wild animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo as it did in its inaugural year, when the idea was first imported from Newark, New Jersey, where it had first been conceived as a publicity vehicle for the Louis Bamberger store.

Macy's version, concluding with the welcoming of Santa Claus into Herald Square, quickly eclipsed the preceding Ragamuffin Day, which had seen children go from door-to-door dressed as beggars to collect sweets, a similar practice to Halloween trick-or-treating. The advent of the Great Depression, which left many in real destitution, saw Ragamuffin Day gradually phased out altogether.

The introduction of balloons to the Macy's parade was the brainchild of Anthony Frederick Sarg, a marionette performer tasked with designing a seasonal window display. He did so using giant balloon animals custom-built by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, which proved so popular with shoppers they were taken out on tour with the marchers in 1927, replacing the zoo animals.

The first character from popular culture to be featured is thought to have been Felix the Cat in 1931, Mickey Mouse making his debut in 1934.

Following the US entry into the Second World War, the parade was suspended between 1942 and 1944 but was revived for the jubilant Thanksgiving of November 1945 and two years later played a prominent role in the film Miracle on 34th Street about a child's encounter with the real Santa Claus working at the department store.

A Pikachu balloon floats down 6th Avenue during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York (Reuters)

It has run smoothly ever since, barring the occasional burst balloon here and there, as when a gust of wind snagged one on a lamppost in Times Square in 2005 and injured two bystanders.

Global events have meant security concerns have been to the fore in recent years, with the NYPD out in force and police sharpshooters stationed on Manhattan rooftops to keep a watchful eye over proceedings that could provide a target for acts of terror.

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A Salvadorean migrant with a girl walks next to Guatemalan policemen as they approach the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Tecun Uman. Accoring to the Salvadorean General Migration Directorate, over 1,700 Salvadoreans left the country in two caravans and entered Guatemala Wednesday, in an attempt to reach the US

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Rescue team members collecting the remains of the crashed plane at Tanjung Priok Harbour, Indonesia. A Lion Air flight JT-610 lost contact with air traffic controllers soon after takeoff then crashed into the sea. The flight was en route to Pangkal Pinang, and reportedly had 189 people onboard

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A supporter of Workers' Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad embraces a fellow weeping supporter, after learning that rival Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner in the Brazil presidential runoff election. Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Haddad did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name. Instead, his speech was a promise to resist

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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a national apology to child sex abuse victims in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018. - Morrison on October 22 issued an emotive apology to children who suffered sexual abuse, saying the state had failed to protect them from "evil dark" crimes committed over decades

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Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City. US President Donald Trump threatened to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the "onslaught" of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed Democrats ahead of the midterm elections

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Ecuador has issued a list of rules to Julian Assange, the famous resident of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The list included cleaning the bathroom, not commenting on foreign political affairs online and taking better care of his cat (pictured). The document states that failure to comply with these rules “could lead to the termination of the diplomatic asylum granted by the Ecuadorian state”

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Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning his men's final singles match against Croatia's Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters. Djokovic, who has now won four titles this season, will move up one ranking spot to No. 2, pushing Roger Federer back to No. 3

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Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad announced as the winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. The pair were awarded the honour “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.”

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Organisers will be hoping for a more relaxed atmosphere this year, with Diana Ross, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Bad Bunny, Ella Mai and Rita Ora among those performing live along with the casts of Broadway musicals Mean Girls, My Fair Lady and Summer.

Among the new additions to the roster of balloons will be Goku from Dragon Ball Z and the elves Fleck, Bjorn, Jojo and Hugg from the new Netflix film The Christmas Chronicles.

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Charlie Brown, The Grinch and Olaf from Frozen are among the popular returnees.

The parade takes place between 9am and noon on Thanksgiving morning and its route runs, as ever, south from West 77th Street & Central Park West on the Upper West Side to Macy's Herald Square in the Garment District.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-2018-what-is-time-history-start-new-york-city-tv-a8642481.html

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Mo Amer: Arab-American stand-up on doing comedy in Donald Trump's America

For a Muslim American stand-up, than can be few better comedic breaks than being upgraded on an international flight and finding yourself sitting next to Donald Trump’s second son. Especially, if it happens while the president-elect is rumoured to be planning to introduce a so-called Muslim travel ban.

Mohammed “Mo” Amer immediately recognised both the unlikeliness, and comic potential of the moment. After asking Eric Trump to pose with him for a selfie, Amer quickly posted the image on social media, with the words: “Good news guys Muslims will not have to check in and get IDs. That’s what I was told. I will be asking him a lot of questions on this trip to Glasgow, Scotland. Sometimes God just sends you the material.” The post very quickly went viral.

Two years on, and with a travel ban against several Muslim-majority nations in place after a bitter legal fight over Executive Order 13780, Amer still scratches his head over his encounter with Trump on that flight from Newark to Glasgow, and the upgrade he jokes must have been arranged by a “Hillary Clinton supporter”.

It was “a surreal experience”, he tells The Independent, saying that Trump’s son told him not too believe “everything you read”, but who did not flinch as he was quizzed about the threats his father had made on the White House campaign trail to ban Muslims from entering the US.

In many respects, the description of the encounter en route to Scotland to begin a UK tour – painfully awkward, honest and brutally funny – sums up a large part of much of Amer’s approach to comedy, as he reveals the travails and challenges of migrants to America, especially Muslims.

As a stand-up who has spent several years opening for Dave Chappelle, he says he tries not to derive too much of his material from Donald Trump – “he does not deserve that much attention” – who is a constant and rich source for many comedians. Yet, he cannot ignore the greater insecurity felt by by friends and relatives, and the poor international perception of the US, since the president’s election win. “We’re supposed to be the global example.”

The 37-year-old recently recorded a live show at Austin’s Paramount Theatre for a Netflix special, The Vagabond. In it, hopping around the stage and constantly dabbing at his brow, Amer recalls the years spent travelling the world as a comedian with only a “travel document” rather than a passport, entertaining US and coalition troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and trying to explain to Japanese immigration officials his profession. (The only US comedian they had heard of was the disgraced Bill Cosby.)

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After his family of Palestinian origin fled Kuwait after the first Gulf War, and moved to Houston, it took him almost 20 years to get citizenship. That struggle, provides a rich vein of material that is both funny and sad.

One of Amer’s talents is a gift for mimicry and accents – a British customs official, a US soldier from Alabama, the Chinese-American woman who is thrilled when he finally wins citizenship, the Latino Houston gang member who cannot decide whether he is one of them or not. All are voices and personas he deploys, apparently without offending anyone, and which people of different ethnic backgrounds are able to laugh out loud at.

Speaking Arabic and Spanish, as well as English, helps. So does his conversational, almost confessional style. Somehow, an entire theatre can laugh, as he mimics himself threatening to blow up a plane as he recalls heaving with frustration being forced to go through the same ritual of his travel document not being recognised every time he flew.

“It was just something I did. It was not something I ever practiced,” Amer says of ability to switch from (mock) British, to (mock) German to real Houstonian. “I just did it. And I started doing different ones, and they worked.”

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Palestinians gather in front of damaged buildings in Gaza City following Israeli air strikes targeting the area overnight. Israel’s aircraft struck Gaza on November 12, killing three Palestinians and wounding nine after a barrage of rocket fire into its territory from the enclave. The flare-up came after a deadly Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza Strip, at the weekend, that left Hamas vowing revenge

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A Fly Jamaica plane en route to Toronto crash lands at an airport in Guyana following a technical problem. At least six passengers were injured

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An FBI agent talks to a potential witness as they stand near the scene Thursday in Thousand Oaks, California. where a gunman opened fire Wednesday inside a country dance bar crowded with hundreds of people on “college night,” wounding 11 people including a deputy who rushed to the scene. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar.

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Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar is celebrates with her husband’s mother after she won a congress place during the US midterm elections. In doing do she became the first-joint Muslim woman to be elected into congress alongside Rashida Tlaib

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Voters cast their ballots at the Tuttle Park Recreation Center polling location in Columbus, Ohio. Across the US, voters headed to the polls in one of the most high-profile midterm elections in years

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Police officers and rescuers work at the site of where a truck ploughed into cars at a toll booth in Lanzhou in China’s northwestern Gansu province. The out-of-control truck crashed into a 31-car lineup and killed 15 people, with 44 injured

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Simone Biles on the podium with her gold medal from the floor exercise at the gymnastics world championships. She became the most decorated female gymnast in world’s history, as well as, becoming the first American to win a medal in every event at the competition

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Google employees hold signs outside 14th street park after walking out as part of a global protest over claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality and systemic racism at the tech giant

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The “Statue of Unity” portraying Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, during its inauguration in Kevadia, in the western state of Gujarat, India

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A supporter of Workers’ Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad embraces a fellow weeping supporter, after learning that rival Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner in the Brazil presidential runoff election. Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Haddad did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name. Instead, his speech was a promise to resist

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First responders surround the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a shooter opened fire, wounding three police officers and killing eleven

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Broward County Sheriff’s office have released a photo of Cesar Sayoc, the suspect who was arrested in connection with the pipe bombs that have been sent to several high profile Democrats and critics of President Trump over the course of this week

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East Island in Hawaii has been swallowed by the sea following Hurricane Walaka

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Police officers stand outside the home of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a “functional explosive device” was attemptedly delivered to the couple

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Turkey’s President Erdogan today accused Saudi Arabia of plotting the ‘savage’ murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

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Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a national apology to child sex abuse victims in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018. – Morrison on October 22 issued an emotive apology to children who suffered sexual abuse, saying the state had failed to protect them from “evil dark” crimes committed over decades

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US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One after a “Make America Great” rally in Mesa, Arizona on October 19, 2018. – US President Donald Trump said Friday, October 19, 2018, that he found credible Saudi Arabia’s assertion that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fight

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Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City. US President Donald Trump threatened to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the “onslaught” of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed Democrats ahead of the midterm elections

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning his men’s final singles match against Croatia’s Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters. Djokovic, who has now won four titles this season, will move up one ranking spot to No. 2, pushing Roger Federer back to No. 3

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Demonstrators raising red painted hands and a placard reading “we must change the system not the climate” referring to the need to stop climate change during a march in Bordeaux, southwestern France

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Spanish Unionist demonstrators carry Spanish flags during a demonstration on Spain’s National Day in Barcelona

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Russia has halted all crewed space flights following the failed launch of the Soyuz MS-10 rocket (pictured). Investigations in to the rocket’s malfunction are ongoing

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People take part in a candle-light vigil in memory of Bulgarian TV journalist Viktoria Marinova in Ruse

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Demonstrators hold a banner that reads “freedom of the press, not allowed to be trampled” and “shame on the governments vindictive move” past a symbolic ‘political red line’ during a protest after Hong Kong immigration authorities declined a visa renewal for senior Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet, outside the immigration department building in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s decision to effectively blacklist a senior Financial Times journalist required an “urgent explanation”, the UK said

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Dutch security services expel Russian spies over plot targeting chemical weapons watchdog. This picture shows the four GRU officers who entered the Netherlands at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on April 10, travelling on official Russian passports. On April 13 they parked a car carrying specialist hacking equipment outside the headquarters of the OPCW in The Hague. At that point the Dutch counter-terrorism officers intervened to disrupt the operation and the four GRU officers were ordered to leave the country

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Quake survivors make their way past a washed out passenger ferry in Wani, Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. Nearly 1,400 people are now known to have died as UN officials warned the “needs remain vast” for both desperate survivors and rescue teams still searching for victims

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People wearing yellow vests, a symbol of a French drivers’ nationwide protest against higher fuel prices, block the Paris-Brussels motorway in Haulchin, France

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People hold banners of Jamal Khashoggi during a symbolic funeral prayer for the Saudi journalist, killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Turkey has more evidence contradicting the Saudi version of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi including a second audio recording, revealing that the murder had been premeditated, a Turkish newspaper reported on November 16, a contradiction to the statement of the Saudi prosecutor who said that five Saudi officials faced the death penalty on charges of killing Khashoggi but exonerated the country’s powerful Crown Prince of involvement in the murder

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Alexei Navalny leaves the European Court of Human Rights today. The court has ruled that Russia’s repeated arrests of Navalny were politically motivated

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An FBI agent talks to a potential witness as they stand near the scene Thursday in Thousand Oaks, California. where a gunman opened fire Wednesday inside a country dance bar crowded with hundreds of people on “college night,” wounding 11 people including a deputy who rushed to the scene. Ventura County sheriff’s spokesman says gunman is dead inside the bar.

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Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City. US President Donald Trump threatened to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the “onslaught” of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed Democrats ahead of the midterm elections

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Amer says the shows require rigorous preparation, something he learned from his friend, Chappelle. This was especially true for the hour-long, curse-filled live show, filmed in Houston, with his mother seated in the front row and for which The Roots provided original music.

“It’s hard work. But as long as you have them engaged….I know I’m funny,” he says. The worst fear for a comedian, the one thing every one dreads, he says, is a silent audience.

For all the cultural differences between the many audiences he has performed for around the world, Amer says he believes comedians can be – or even should be – global even in their appeal.

“I’ve never had any issues with this,” he says. “My mentor in Houston said to me to be universal. At that point, it was in the US. And you had to be a funny in west Texas as you are in New York City.

“That rang true globally for me. The only thing is that in some [places] Jo-Burg was one, they don’t get the set-up.”

Amer, who is set to begin work with comedian Ramy Youssef on a series that explores the life of a first-generation American Muslim in New Jersey, believes stand-up comedy is enjoying “a golden age”.

He likens improv comedy to jazz, or even hip hop, an art form that has only been around 25 years so. And like self-starting musicians, he says comedians are also seizing the opportunities presented to them by the surging interest in platform such as YouTube.

“YouTube has helped people become very funny,” he says. “And there are no commercials.”

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Brazil elects far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro to presidency

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SAO PAULO — Jair Bolsonaro, a brash far-right congressman who has waxed nostalgic for Brazil’s old military dictatorship, won the presidency of Latin America’s largest nation Sunday as voters looked past warnings that he would erode democracy and embraced a chance for radical change after years of turmoil.

The former army captain, who cast himself as a political outsider despite a 27-year career in Congress, became the latest world leader to rise to power by mixing tough, often violent talk with hard-right positions. His victory reflected widespread anger at the political class after years of corruption, an economy that has struggled to recover after a punishing recession and a surge in violence.

“I feel in my heart that things will change,” Sandra Coccato, a 68-year-old small business owner, said after she voted for Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo. “Lots of bad people are leaving, and lots of new, good people are entering. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”

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In Rio de Janeiro, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters gathered on iconic Copacabana Beach, where fireworks went off. In Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, car horns could be heard honking and crowds celebrated as the results came in. There were also reports of clashes between his backers and opponents in Sao Paulo.

Speaking to supporters from his home in Rio, Bolsonaro recounted how he was stabbed while campaigning last month and almost died.

“I was never alone. I always felt the presence of God and the force of the Brazilian people,” he said.

Bolsonaro, who ran on promises to clean up Brazil and bring back “traditional values,” said he would respect the constitution and personal liberty.

“That is a promise, not of a party, not the vain word of a man. It’s a promise to God,” he said, standing next to his wife and many cheering supporters.

Later, he said in a Facebook Live transmission that he had received a call from some world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump who wished him good luck.

Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, his rival, Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party, did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name. Instead, his speech was a promise to resist.

“We have the responsibility to mount an opposition, putting national interests, the interests of the entire Brazilian people, above everything,” Haddad said. “Brazil has never needed the exercise of citizenship more than right now.”

He later added: “Don’t be afraid. We are here. We are together!”

Brazil’s top electoral court said Bolsonaro won with just over 55% of the vote, compared with just under 45% for Haddad.

Bolsonaro went into Sunday the clear front-runner after getting 46% of the vote to Haddad’s 29% in the first round of voting on Oct. 7, when 13 contenders were on the ballot. Opinion polls in recent weeks had him leading by as much as 18 percentage points, but the race tightened in the last few days. Several Brazilian heavyweights came out against him, arguing that he was a direct risk to the world’s fourth-largest democracy.

His rise was powered by disgust with the political system. In particular, many Brazilians were furious with the Workers’ Party for its role in the mammoth graft scheme uncovered by the “Operation Car Wash” investigation. Haddad struggled to build momentum with his promises of a return to the boom times by investing in health and education and reducing poverty.

Along the way, Bolsonaro’s candidacy also raised serious concerns that he would roll back civil rights and weaken institutions in what remains a young democracy. He frequently disparaged women, gays and blacks, and said he would name military men to his Cabinet.

Minutes after he was elected, several international human rights groups put out statements demanding that Bolsonaro respect Brazil’s democracy.

In a highly unusual moment earlier Sunday, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Jose Dias Toffoli, read out part of the Constitution to reporters after he voted.

“The future president must respect institutions, must respect democracy, the rule of law, the judiciary branch, the national Congress and the legislative branch,” Toffoli said in remarks many took to be a rebuke of Bolsonaro and his more extreme positions.

As late as Sunday morning, Haddad was still holding out hope that he could win after receiving several key endorsements late Saturday.

Among them was a popular former Supreme Court justice, Joaquim Barbosa, who tweeted support for Haddad, saying Bolsonaro’s candidacy scared him. Likewise, former Attorney General Rodrigo Janot, one of the biggest crusaders against corruption in the Workers’ Party in recent years, also endorsed Haddad.

One of the most important endorsements, particularly for young people, came from YouTube personality Felipe Neto, whose channel has nearly 27 million followers.

Neto said he was troubled by Bolsonaro’s comments a week ago that “red” leftists would be run out of Brazil.

“In 16 years of the (Workers’ Party), I have been robbed, but never threatened,” Neto said on Twitter.

The past few years in Brazil have been exceptionally turbulent. In 2016, then-President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party was impeached and removed from office on charges that many on the left felt were politically motivated. The economy suffered a two-year recession and is only beginning to emerge, with growth stagnant and unemployment high.

Scores of politicians and executives have been jailed in the Car Wash corruption investigation, which uncovered a multibillion-dollar scheme to trade public contracts and official favours for bribes and kickbacks.

That instability unleashed sharp anger against the political class but also revealed deep divisions in Brazilian society, and the campaign was the most polarized in decades. There were numerous reports of politically motivated violence, especially directed at gay people.

Many observers predicted that a newcomer would emerge to harness the anti-establishment anger. Instead, support coalesced around Bolsonaro, who at the margins in Congress painted himself as just the strong man Brazil needed to dismantle a failing system.

Bolsonaro’s campaign first gained traction with his promises to go after violent crime in a country that leads the world in homicides and where many Brazilians live in daily fear of muggings or burglaries. But his vows to loosen gun laws and give police a freer hand to use force have also raised concerns that his presidency could lead to a bloody crackdown and an erosion of civil rights.

The campaign gained momentum by winning over much of the business community with promises of enacting market-friendly reforms that would reduce the size of the Brazilian state, including cutting ministries and privatizing state companies.

“I hope that with these elections we’re not signing a blank check again, and that we don’t close our eyes to everything that has happened,” said Jose Nobrega, a 53-year-old waiter in Mare, one of Rio’s most violent neighbourhoods.

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In the recent times we have seen those from outside political establishment shake up history for example in the United States Trump and is make America great chant enabled him systematically kill off seasoned politicians in his rise to the presidency of the great U.S.A. In France Emmanuel Macron an economic technocrat stormed his way to power without a political party backing him and even made headlines of being the youngest leader in Europe till that Austria’s Sebastian Kurz came up.

Is Uganda a candidate of having a political outsider ? The pearl of Africa is designed in a special way compared to other places that have had outsiders come from no where and take over. (Not really from nowhere because these people don’t just wake up and decide to lead countries). However Uganda has had its share of experiencing a populist change in the political theater that brings us to where we are today. In the late 1980s in Africa we had our share of populism when a few African leaders made their way to power. Bill Clinton described them as the new promising generation of leaders meaning to their own people they had acquired a godlike status since they promised change and enjoyed support from the widest part of the societies they led. The support was so much that it overflowed to Washington D.C. These African leaders used populism to attain power and Yoweri Museveni of this Uganda was part of that group and they all went on to have the 30years in power sickness and constitutions have been amended from time to time through the shadow of populism.

The special designs of Uganda’s political theater take us back to 1962 when Buganda an ethnic grouping failed to take a firm hold on the leadership of Uganda. That failure has always seemed like a point of no return. For a while since then there has been a writing on the wall that Buganda can’t produce a leader for Uganda. But what happened back then if we are to time travel. The colonial masters organized an election of which the winner was to take up the leadership of Uganda but it did not produce the results that were wished for. The KY part (Kabaka Yeka) won the vote but did not secure the majority in parliament. So the Kabaka then Mutesa II the head of that party had the right to negotiate with other parties to form a government and move the beautiful country forward.

Kabaka Mutesa II as the head of KY part invited the democratic party head Benedick Kiwanuka to his palace for talks but nothing come out of the talks. According to Professor Taban Lo Liyong, a legend of East African literature Mr Kiwanuka refused to kneel before the Kabaka at the end the talks because he was a catholic and he could not kneel before another human and the church was happy. The next day the Kabaka being a statesman invited Dr Milton Obote the head of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and according to the Professor Obote agreed to kneel and he was gifted the leadership of Uganda.

How would history have been if Buganda had taken up the leadership of Uganda ? Professor Taban Lo Liyong Says the whole of Uganda was disappointed, that much as the rest of Uganda hates Buganda but they fear and respect. Maybe because Buganda appeared to be more of a civilization in the region.

For the writing on the wall that Buganda can’t produce a leader for Uganda to be undone the catholic church has to play its role and the rise of Bobi Wine or Robert Kyagulanyi with his people power ideology offers them the best opportunity at the best of time since 1962. He belongs to Buganda and he is also a catholic, and political outsider too who seems to offer political communication that set’s up the common people who may link him to populism only that he seems honest and has carefully distanced himself from the establishment.

There is also luck on Bobi Wine’s side, the by-election that brought him to parliament was lucky only that he was ready to take up the moment. He managed to decisively beat up the ruling party and the seasoned opposition party that had the incubate for the parliamentary sit. After that election there come time for him taking the oath of office and it signaled a new down, which many down played as mare excitement from the Ugandans. Slowly Bobi Wine started to build a more conspicuous political mark around a very catchy slogan “people power, our power”, unmistakably dressing in red attire plus berets, emulating Julius Malema’s militant Economic Freedom Fighters party in South Africa

The evening after Bobi Wine taking his oath of office he went back to his constituency to address his supporters and during that address he promised his wife to make first lady of Uganda one day. For now it seems it was just baby love since he has toned back from that ambition going with his interviews with talk to al jazeera, straight talk Africa and also the Stream were he made it clear that the president was not his goal but a free Uganda for every body no matter who is at the top but he made it clear that freedom can only come after change of regime.

Is Bobi Wine the Joshua in the political Odyssey of Uganda, so there is talk that Kizza Besigye is the Moses and his long and well fought fight is over. But others say its Bobi Wine who is the Moses and the Joshua is son to come. Is it delusional or its a game of time and waiting to see i Uganda can follow through. Those calling Bobi Wine the Moses surely undermine him and his camp, people power looks like an orphan in their eyes which can’t be entirely true. Bobi Wine and his camp are well-funded going by the 80 million shillings that they lost in Arua as they were being arrested in that by-election that gave him political mileage that is causing power-outages across the country. They claimed the money was to facilitate their polling agents and it had come in from well-wishers. Who are the well-wishers ? Are they from Uganda ? Are they from outside Uganda ? Are they Ugandans from the diaspora ? If they are not Uganda’s what is their agenda ? There are many questions to ask about Bobi Wine. Many are focusing on Bobi Wine’s in terms of his moral, academic, and other experiential credentials in the bid to figure him out but these all fail to place him contextually within Uganda’s political landscape.

After the west Nile events he rewrote his script in the eyes of all those who thought he was just a Moses. It could be seen, it could be heard, it could be sensed in various expressions on social media, on the streets, in places of worship and on radio, TV, buses, taxis and in homes. It’s was clear that the state was becoming aware of the potential for a violent public reaction to the brutality and poorly staged justification for blatant political persecution. In anticipation, there was a heavy deployment of police and soldiers bringing back the memory of the days at the pick and prime of FDC’s Besigye

At the moment apart from red attire plus berets that Bobi Wine is associated with, there is no connection to him with Economic Freedom Fighters party in the South of the continent, since it Ugandan branch is headed by Muyagwa also a member of parliament and also from the FDC party.

Figuring out Bobi Wine as Robert Kyagulanyi is not as easy as those who are paid to down play him make it. He has the timing on his side, he has history written before him if he is to work withe right power brokers. His mission and motivation are not as clear as they seem now that the national money reserves are being emptied because of him. He is relatively young and many have jokingly likened him to the 27 for those who were there personally i don’t believe in that part of history fully.

As Bobi Wine returns to the country after traveling for medical attention to Washington, where he even had a meeting at the State department who are also into the business of regime change, Ugandans have to wait and see his next move as he faces and battles charges of treason.

Are the winds of Change blowing over Uganda or just populism In the recent times we have seen those from outside political establishment shake up history for example in the United States Trump and is make America great chant enabled him systematically kill off seasoned politicians in his rise to the presidency of the great U.S.A.

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5 Beautifully Designed Restaurant and Cafes Interior.

Grotta Palazzese

ℹ︎ The grotta — Italian for ‘cave’ — is part of the Grotta Palazzese hotel, which is located above and built from local stone. Dub as the “Most Romantic Restaurant in Italy”. The restaurant is only open from May to October.

Brief History:

The setting also provided a feast for the eyes for local nobility during grand banquets at the restaurant as far back as the 1700s.

Design attribute: The Best: The lamps are movable by design, most scenic food places use candles as light source. It’s romantic but not functional, the dim lamp here provides the romantic vibe with light source.

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La Parada del Mar

ℹ︎ The newest member of the Harbour House Group, La Parada occupies a prime spot on Camp’s Bay Beach, overlooking its powder-white sands and the glistening Atlantic Ocean. The two-storey restaurant features a small outdoor terrace to watch the world go by whilst enjoying the sun on your face and a healthy breakfast, and a mosaic-clad bar inside; offering a comprehensive wine and gin menu.

Design attribute: The Best: Consistent and different usage of patterns throughout the whole interior.

💰 RM64/head

📍35 Victoria Rd. Camps Bay, 8005

Blue Bottle Coffee

ℹ︎ Opening a roastery in Kiyosumi, one of Tokyo’s starker and more industrial corners, felt like a perfect fit for us. Not only were we taken with the passion and dedication of Japanese kissaten culture in general, we’ve also developed a fondness for unknown and exciting urban nooks.

Our 7,000-square-foot roastery comprises an elegant and angular two stories and houses a cupping room, production space, Loring SmartRoaster, pastry kitchen, administrative offices, and (of course) a coffee bar.

We’re thrilled to serve a brand new audience of Japanese guests a menu that’s both familiar and updated: espresso drinks, single origin and blends as drip coffee, iced coffee, and pastries. We’ve got a crew of native Japanese baristas — along with a handful of California expats — that we’re confident are the best in the business.

Brief History:

Blue Bottle Coffee (from Oakland, California) opened their first roastery/café in Japan, to operate as the production base of Blue Bottle Coffee Japan. Schemata Architects was commissioned to renovate the former storage building at Kiyosumi-Shirakawa in Tokyo to accommodate roastery, cafe, office, barista training room and pastry factory. Blue Bottle Coffee is a leader of the third-wave coffee companies; they strive to achieve the best flavor and aroma, while promoting fair-trade and improving the labor environment of coffee farms, to construct a balanced production circle and to develop a positive relationship in which baristas and consumers raise awareness and grow up together.

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The Best: Wide windows that allows natural light using plants indoors to balance out heavy usage of industrial material like steel.

💰 RM17/head

📍1 Chome-4-8 Hirano, Kōtō-ku, Tōkyō-to 135-0023, Japan

Someplace Beautiful

ℹ︎ Someplace Beautiful depicts an imaginary picture of a beautiful holiday with soft white beach, clear blue sky, serene sea breeze, ocean waves kissing the shore line, and wooden house stands afar. While you can’t get this in a KL city full of skyscrapers, you can at least, enjoy the tranquility in this new place called — Someplace Beautiful.

Design attribute: The Best: An installation within the interior, installation of the hexagon tiles with equal proportion of width and length.

💰 RM10/head

📍G17 D7, Jalan Sentul, Sentul, 51000 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

Arabica

ℹ︎ I was raised by parents who were enthusiasts of a universal language called ‘’Esperanto,’’ and every summer, we attended a World Esperanto Congress held somewhere different in the world. My father owned a trading company, and he often took me on his business trips, so I have been a traveller since I was young.

While seeing so many countries, different cultures, rich and poor people, happy and unhappy people, I often wondered who I was and asked myself what kind of life I wanted to live.

I grew up in Tokyo and after high school, I moved to California. I found a cozy apartment in Venice Beach, where I watched beautiful sunsets every evening, and I indulged myself in the beach and hippie culture.

After college, I started working for a trading company, so I continued travelling overseas on business. A lot was learned while working closely with business owners around the world; seeing their mindset towards work and life. Most of them were very wealthy, but I found that some were happy and others were not, which caused me to keep asking the same two questions:

Who am I? What kind of life do I want to live?

I reflected on these two questions over and over and eventually I found my answers.

・I want to live a simple and down-to-earth life. ・I only need the basics to be satisfied: food, clothing and a house. ・Like my parents did for me, I want to travel with my children and build a higher standard for them.

And my last answer was coffee.

I really need an amazing cup of coffee everyday, and this is why I founded % Arabica.

In order to provide the best coffee possible, I bought a coffee farm in Hawaii, started a green bean trading company, became the sole-exporter of a Japanese roasting machine and the distributor of one of the best espresso machines in the world. Then, together with a world latte art champion, Junichi Yamaguchi, and a talented architect, Masaki Kato, we opened % Arabica in the beautiful historic city of Kyoto.

Our dream is to expand % Arabica to all over the world, so that young baristas can ‘’See the World Through Coffee.’’

We only live once, so let’s explore the world we live in, set goals, and enjoy our time together over an amazing cup of coffee.

Design attribute: The Best: Arabica Coffee fits it’s architecture design along with other building at every location while maintaining the modern sleek interior that sets them apart and obviously the %.

💰 RM13/head

📍3-47, Sagatenryuji Susukinobabacho, Ukyo-ku Kyoto 616-8385 Japan

📍Fujii Daimaru Department Store Shijoteramachi Shimogyo-ku

📍87-5 Hoshino-cho, Higashiyama-ku Kyoto, 605-0853 Japan

and more in

Hong Kong, Kuwait, UAE and Oman

Bonus

Elephant Grounds

ℹ︎ Elephant grounds has grown and become the forefront of the coffee consumer movement, where consumers are migrating to quality, attention to detail and presentation followed by, distinction in taste and a unique experience when selecting their daily coffee. We consider ourselves as locally grown as we embody the spirit of ‘Made In Hong Kong’ throughout our brand.

We hold this concept dear and this is translated into our quality of coffee, Attention to detail in our ice cream and ice cream sandwiches, distinction in taste with our handcrafted bread and a unique experience with the unique and modern design of each shop. In our pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee, our simple purpose and message are to give everyone the best cup of coffee with a smile. Our total operational footprint is approximately 20,000 square feet with outlets located in Sheung Wan, Wong Chuk Hang, Causeway, Wan Chai and our newest location, Central!

Design attribute: The Best: Open spacing! Hong Kong is known for their limited amount of space. By removing windows around, you get extra spacing which worked for them.

💰 RM20/head

📍8 Wing Fung St, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

📍Shop C, G/F, 42-28 Fashion Walk, Paterson St, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

📍11 Gough Street, Central

📍61 Caine Road, Central

📍Shop 609, New Town Plaza, Phase 1 , 18 Sha Tin Centre St, Sha Tin, Hong Kong

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