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Que vem a ser aquela armação metálica no topo Que substancia confere esse tom amarelado Tem o mesmo tom do predominante e.g. em Paris, aparentemente 🤔
E quanto à substancia do vídeo ¿qual é a Orientação de Liderança?Devemos votar pela existência duma/várias civilização(ões) anteriores tecnologicamente mui + avançadas do que as canonicamente conhecidas depuis Sumérios &c. ~ -8000yr.) Se sim não seria uma fonte pros ditos acerca de Atlantes
Conjuring Up a Lost Civilization:An Analysis of the Claims Made by Graham Hancock in Magicians of the GodsBY MARC J. DEFANTGraham Hancock's 2015 book Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization1 is something of a sequel and update to his 1995 international bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization,2 which was translated into 27 languages and sold more than three million copies.3 In Fingerprints, Hancock uses creation myths in ancient texts and wild geological scenarios to suggest that 12,450 years ago major crustal shifts moved Antarctica to its present location. Portions of a supposedly highly advanced unknown lost civilization (none other than Atlantis) living on Antarctica at the time were able to survive the destructive cataclysms and go on to convey their knowledge to the builders of the megalithic structures of Egypt, Maya, Babylon, and other known great civilizations. He also claims that the Mayan calendar portended world cataclysms in 2012. In Magicians, Hancock now says he got it all wrong—there was no crustal shift; instead he thinks this advanced civilization was destroyed by a comet.Magicians appears to be on its way to becoming another bestseller for the British writer. Although Hancock has few scientific credentials (an undergraduate degree in sociology from Durham University),4 his early career as a journalist helped him navigate through a wide range of scientific research, but without benefit of specialized training in astronomy, geology, history, archaeology, or comparative religion and mythology. Hancock is obviously bright, articulate, and a good writer and storyteller who comes across as eminently reasonable, which makes it all the more difficult to tease apart fact from fiction in the many claims made in his books, documentary films, and lectures.Göbekli TepeCitarFigure 1: Excavators uncover one of many circular enclosures at Göbekli Tepe. Two large T-shaped pillars over 5m (16 feet) high typically stand in the middle of the ring with smaller pillars facing them. Some of these stones are decorated with reliefs of animals that once lived in the area. This area known as Enclosure D features birds, while others emphasize animals such as snakes, foxes, boars, or wildcats.The centerpiece of Hancock's Magicians is a remarkable archaeological site called Göbekli Tepe in Turkey dated to 11,600 years ago. He contends Göbekli Tepe is too advanced to have been built by hunter-gatherers alone, and must therefore have been constructed with the help of people from a more advanced civilization. Unfortunately for Hancock these people left behind no hard evidence for their existence, so he is forced to allude to what he thinks is sophisticated architecture, along with a few carved figures that he asserts represent astronomical constellations. From these speculations Hancock concludes: "At the very least it [Göbekli Tepe] would mean that some as yet unknown and unidentified people somewhere in the world had already mastered all the arts and attributes of a high civilization more than twelve thousand years ago in the depths of the last Ice Age and sent out emissaries around the world to spread the benefits of their knowledge."It's a romantic notion, but not the conclusion that the late great German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt came to after excavating Göbekli Tepe for more than two decades beginning in 1994. The site, he says, was used from 11,600 to about 10,000 years before the present. Lower sections were backfilled giving way to new structures on top. The fill is refuse containing sediment, hundreds of thousands of broken animal bones, flint tools for carving the structures within the site and for hunting game, and the remains of cereals and other plant material, and even a few human bones. There is no evidence that the site was ever used as a residence, and the megaliths found there (Schmidt called them "monumental religious architecture") along with carvings and totems, imply ritual and feasting.CitarFigure 2: A T-shaped megalith with animal carvings at Göbekli Tepe.The main features of Göbekli Tepe are the T-shaped 7– to 10-ton monolithic pillars cut and hauled from crystalline limestone quarries on the tepe (hill) and erected within 10– to 20-meter ring structures made of rocks annealed by clay mortar that encircle the pillars. The stone statues are clearly anthropomorphic— arms and hands can be seen on the sides of the pillars reaching around to the front. A variety of animals, mostly representing the wild animals found within the refuse, have been carved on the pillars.6, 7, 8, 9, 10Göbekli Tepe and other archaeological sites being studied nearby have forced archaeologists to rethink the way the prehistoric lifestyle of hunting, gathering, and foraging gave way to a more domesticated lifestyle in northern Mesopotamia. Oliver Dietrich, a colleague of Klaus Schmidt at the German Archaeological Institute, poignantly expressed the impact of these discoveries: "These people must have had a highly complicated mythology, including a capacity for abstraction. Following these ideas, we now have more evidence that…social systems changed before, not as a result of, the shift to farming."11 It also shows that hunter-gatherers were capable of more than we previously thought, and that the origins of religion may have to be pushed back by millennia.But this is a far cry from Hancock's proposal that the site is a link to his lost civilization. In fact, archaeologists consider Göbekli Tepe to be a pre-pottery Neolithic site. Not only is clay pottery absent, the site contans no evidence of any metal or metal workings. The obvious reason for this is that clay pottery and metals are typical of more advanced cultures. Although Hancock writes that "our ancestors are being initiated into the secrets of metals, and how to make swords and knives," no such thing is found at any of the archaeological sites he touts as being influenced by his highly advanced lost civilization, not at Göbekli Tepe, nor in the non-Roman areas of Baalbek, Easter Island, nor at any of the ancient Mayan sites he discusses.During an exchange with Michael Shermer on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Hancock suggested that "perhaps," "maybe," and "possibly" this lost civilization did not have metal tools, writing, and other features of societies traditionally labeled as "advanced," and that we need to reconfigure the mainstream scientific timeline of what it means to be an advanced culture. Perhaps, he hinted, they communicated entirely through the oral tradition, skipping writing. When Shermer pressed him to explain what he means by "advanced" Hancock replied: "I am saying that a group of people settled amongst the hunter-gatherers and transferred some skills for them." When I came into the debate later and pushed him on this same issue of how an allegedly advanced civilization could lack all the features of other such societies, such as metallurgy, he demurred: "I do not make that claim. I am reporting that this claim is made in the Book of Enoch." It is true that in his book Hancock discusses the secrets of metals in the context of discussing the Book of Enoch, but the entire chapter is in support of evidence that a lost civilization had superior knowledge that included the secrets of metal working. Such details are important because it gives us a glimpse into how Hancock infers one thing when it is convenient in making his point, but then shifts to claiming he is only reporting what other people say when the implications stretch our credulity. For example, Hancock calls these ancient peoples the "Watchers" (aka the "Magicians") in a section titled "Mystery of the Nephilim":CitarThe Watchers begin their development project in quite small ways, teaching "charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots" to humans, and making them "acquainted with plants." This sounds fairly harmless; apart from a bit of "enchantment," it's not really above and beyond the basic hunter-gatherer level of skills. But pretty soon, as we saw earlier, our ancestors are being initiated into the secrets of metals and how to make swords and knives, and how to study the heavens.Hancock may call this reporting, but Shermer was not satisfied by such chicanery when he questioned Hancock on why the hunter-gatherers at Göbekli Tepe were not taught the "secrets of metal workings." Hancock had no explanation as to why the hunter-gatherers at Göbekli Tepe knew nothing about metals, or even pottery, nor did he reply to Shermer's numerous requests for a definition of an "advanced civilization" that lacked writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.Schmidt and his colleagues have arduously documented the use of flint tools for the construction of Göbekli Tepe, and none of the hundreds of thousands of animal bones and cereals found in the backfill from the lowest levels show any signs of domestication— they are all wild species. In fact, the large abundance of bones from wild animals found at the site allows Schmidt to underscore the ability of the hunter-gatherers in the region to support the hundreds of workers and stone cutters presumed necessary to create the megaliths and other structures. Schmidt makes a salient point almost as if he anticipated Hancock's book: "Fabulous or mythical creatures, such as centaurs or the sphinx, winged bulls or horses, do not yet occur in the iconography and therefore in the mythology of the prehistoric times. They must be recognized as creations of the high cultures which arose later."12 I would only add that unlike the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations where inscriptions made by literate societies have been well documented, not a single inscription has been found at Göbekli Tepe.Patterns in the StarsNext consider Hancock's assertion that the stone carvings on the sides of the T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe represent constellations. Figure 49 on page 319 of his book (Figure 3 below) emphasizes how virtually any figure could be matched to star asterisms (clusters). In fact, Schmidt concluded that the figures on the pillars mostly represent the wild animals whose bones were found in the backfill from the site.CitarFigure 3: Hancock claims that the teapot asterism of the constellation Sagittarius fits the vulture from Gobekli Tepe better than the archer (Page 319).CitarFigure 4: Two interpretations of the "teapot" asterism by the author: Uncle Sam and a commando insignia. It is easy to find matching patterns if you are motivated to do so.Recently Hancock's thesis seemed to find support from two professors at the University of Edinburgh, Martin Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis, whose paper reported that the "vulture stone," a pillar at Göbekli Tepe, is "a date stamp for 10950 BCE ± 250 yrs."13 I wrote Sweatman about the article prior to our debate with Hancock on the Rogan show, and he directed me to his website where he states:CitarGraham Hancock attempted to decode GT in his book Magicians of the Gods using the ideas of Paul Burley and the YD [Younger Dryas] context provided by [Andrew] Collins, but in our view his logic takes a wrong turn early on, leading him to make some erroneous conclusions. Especially we oppose Graham's contention that the Vulture Stone predicts an impact 12,000 years into their future—around 2030 AD—this is, ocurse [sic] impossible.That Sweatman distances himself from Hancock's theory is telling, but in my decades of reading scientific papers I have never come across an article more speculative than this one. The entire paper rests on the supposition that the authors can match "low relief carvings" on a pillar of Göbekli Tepe to star asterisms in 10,950 BCE in the western sky at 4 seconds after 1:01 PM on September 11 (Figure 5, below). Specifically, Sweatman and Tsikritsis use the carvings on pillar 43. But why that one? There are many pillars both unearthed (44) and still buried at Göbekli Tepe, so it is not clear why pillar 43 has the significance they attribute to it—drawings of animals decorate most of the pillars. In any case, they start by assuming that the scorpion at the bottom of pillar 43 is the same as the modern-day constellation Scorpius. The assumption that we can attribute 12,950 year-old patterns on rocks to star asterisms is highly suspect. Here in the U.S., for example, we call a set of stars in the constellation Ursa Major the Big Dipper because to our eyes it looks like a dipper. In the UK, however, they call the same asterism the Plough. In Mayan culture it is described as a parrot. In ancient Egypt it is the leg of a bull. No doubt naming asterisms helped ancient peoples remember star patterns, but the names were not always chosen on the basis of a matching appearance with the asterism. Such naming could be and often was symbolic. There are many carved images of animals at Göbekli Tepe, and attributing even one to a star pattern is more like astrology than science.CitarFigure 5: The star pattern is from the day sky in 10,950 BCE (using the astronomical computer program Stellarium) with the images from pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe matched with the constellation as proposed by Sweatman and Tsikritsis. I argue that the correlations are purely speculative.Here is the rub. Sweatman and Tsikritsis casually assume that because in the past a star asterism was attributed to a scorpion (in this case Scorpius), it makes perfect sense that ancient hunter-gatherers living 13,000 years ago saw the same pattern as a scorpion. Look carefully at Figure 6 (below) and compare the scorpions to the star pattern we call Scorpius. I think most would contend that almost any elongated figure could be associated with the star asterism and that matching of a scorpion to the pattern takes a fertile imagination. Finally, the scorpion on pillar 43 looks nothing like the star pattern.CitarFigure 6: The Scorpius star asterism (far left) associated with the scorpion is compared to the carving of the scorpion found at Gobekli Tepe (left). We know constellations are symbols not necessarily based on matching patterns, as can be seen from the lack of correlation between either scorpion and the asterism. This shows the tenuous foundation of the Sweatman and Tsikritsis argument. (Image on the far left from the Stellarium astronomical computer program.)The pattern correlation problem does not keep Sweatman and Tsikritsis from matching figures on pillar 43 in a roughly clockwise fashion to the asterisms surrounding Scorpius in the day sky of 10,950 BCE. I show the day sky with the location of the sun and images of the various animals below with arrows pointing to the constellations they supposedly match (Figure 5).Besides the obvious fact that the images have no good correlation to the star patterns in the known constellations displayed (e.g., look at the bird figure that has been matched with Libra), there are many constellations that have been ignored, such as Norma, Ara, Telescopium, Corona Australis, Scutum, and Serpens. In addition, there is one bird-like feature that does not match to any star asterism and in another case, for an unexplained reason, a crane-like image is combined with a fish-like image to match with Ophiuchus. Not only do Sweatman and Tsikritsist claim their mapping of the images in the sky documents a date of 10950 BCE ± 250 years, but they go on to conclude that the hunter-gatherers of Göbekli Tepe must have been certifying the date of "the" comet strike. (Even though that strike supposedly occurred in North America). They try to bring their point home by suggesting that a "belt buckle" with a "nested U" has "an excellent likeness of the very specific bow shock wave of a hypersonic spherical object." Seriously? Without high speed photography how does one see the bow shock wave of an object traveling faster than the speed of sound?If you wanted to convey the existence of a comet strike to future generations, would it not be prudent and obvious to carve the actual positions of the stars along with the comet on a rock? Sweatman and Tsikritsis, along with Hancock, attribute evolved astronomical knowledge to these huntergatherers. So why don't these ancients show off their knowledge with star maps rather than with figures that may or may not represent constellations? I think the answer is obvious—the carvings likely have nothing to do with asterisms.Hancock has attempted to make the case that the megalithic structures at Göbekli Tepe are so complex that they had to involve assistance from his lost advanced civilization when the hunter-gatherers built them. But Schmidt found that the backfill that covered these structures had no signs of any advanced technologies including domesticated animals or crops. Shermer's point about lack of technology becomes even more salient when you carefully examine Hancock's proposal—the Magicians supposedly taught hunter-gatherers the secrets of asterisms (and even how to predict the destruction of our planet some 12,000 years in the future) but did not pass on simpler technologies like domestication of plants and crops or the use of metals and pottery? Not likely.
Figure 1: Excavators uncover one of many circular enclosures at Göbekli Tepe. Two large T-shaped pillars over 5m (16 feet) high typically stand in the middle of the ring with smaller pillars facing them. Some of these stones are decorated with reliefs of animals that once lived in the area. This area known as Enclosure D features birds, while others emphasize animals such as snakes, foxes, boars, or wildcats.
Figure 2: A T-shaped megalith with animal carvings at Göbekli Tepe.
The Watchers begin their development project in quite small ways, teaching "charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots" to humans, and making them "acquainted with plants." This sounds fairly harmless; apart from a bit of "enchantment," it's not really above and beyond the basic hunter-gatherer level of skills. But pretty soon, as we saw earlier, our ancestors are being initiated into the secrets of metals and how to make swords and knives, and how to study the heavens.
Figure 3: Hancock claims that the teapot asterism of the constellation Sagittarius fits the vulture from Gobekli Tepe better than the archer (Page 319).
Figure 4: Two interpretations of the "teapot" asterism by the author: Uncle Sam and a commando insignia. It is easy to find matching patterns if you are motivated to do so.
Graham Hancock attempted to decode GT in his book Magicians of the Gods using the ideas of Paul Burley and the YD [Younger Dryas] context provided by [Andrew] Collins, but in our view his logic takes a wrong turn early on, leading him to make some erroneous conclusions. Especially we oppose Graham's contention that the Vulture Stone predicts an impact 12,000 years into their future—around 2030 AD—this is, ocurse [sic] impossible.
Figure 5: The star pattern is from the day sky in 10,950 BCE (using the astronomical computer program Stellarium) with the images from pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe matched with the constellation as proposed by Sweatman and Tsikritsis. I argue that the correlations are purely speculative.
Figure 6: The Scorpius star asterism (far left) associated with the scorpion is compared to the carving of the scorpion found at Gobekli Tepe (left). We know constellations are symbols not necessarily based on matching patterns, as can be seen from the lack of correlation between either scorpion and the asterism. This shows the tenuous foundation of the Sweatman and Tsikritsis argument. (Image on the far left from the Stellarium astronomical computer program.)
The Great Sphinx of GizaHancock's formula used at Göbekli Tepe for inferring a lost advanced civilization—speculation absent of supporting data—is extended to other archaeological sites. Arguably, the most egregious example of "fitting" ancient structures into a lost civilization fantasy occurs at the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Sphinx and Valley temples.The major evidence Hancock brings to the table comes by way of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis proposed by Boston University professor Robert Schoch. The hypothesis has never been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, but that has not stopped Schoch from becoming the darling of subscribers to the ancient lost civilization myth. The argument posits that there is erosion on the Great Sphinx that must have been caused by "thousands of years of heavy rain" as Hancock puts it. He continues: "this means it [the Great Sphinx] has to be much older than 2500 BCE (the orthodox date, when Egypt received no more rain than it does today) and must originally have been carved around the end of the Ice Age when the Nile valley was subjected to a long period of intense precipitation."Recent dating that contradicts Hancock's assertion was published in 2015. University of the Aegean physicist Ioannis Liritzis and his collaborator Asimina Vafiadou published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Heritage surface luminescence dates of the Valley and Sphinx temples that match perfectly with the time period that archaeologists have long accepted based on other dating techniques—the Great Sphinx of Giza and associated temples were built during the reign of Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BCE).14 Nevertheless, with a stiff upper lip Hancock spends several pages in Magicians attempting to argue that the dates come from what we are told "Schoch already regarded as restoration work." I wrote Dr. Liritzis and asked him to comment on the assertions made by Hancock and Schoch. He told me he was aware of Hancock's "ideolipseis" and assured me that the samples Hancock claims were from a coating placed over the blocks to shield them from weathering "were not shielded coatings…but derived from the whole block in between a firm contact!" In other words, the Sphinx and Temple Complex are evidence of an ancient civilization that existed in the third millennium BCE, not thousands of years earlier.During our debate, Hancock was keen to emphasize that the dates are from the temples and not the Sphinx. But a careful reading of both Fingerprints and Magicians shows that he argues that the Sphinx and associated temples were built in the same period, which explains why he spends several pages in Magicians attempting to undermine or explain away the dates from the temples as noted above. And with good reason, as the work of renowned Egyptologist Mark Lehner shows. Lehner received his Ph.D. from Yale and is currently the director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates. He wrote his dissertation on the Sphinx and has spent the last 30 years working on the approximately two-square miles of the Giza plateau, making some remarkable discoveries. First, the Sphinx is carved directly from an in situ limestone mass. Lehner, together with geologist Tom Aigner, demonstrated that the limestone used to construct the temples has precisely the same fossil assemblage as the limestone in the Great Sphinx, and therefore must have come from the same source. Moreover, they found that the walls of the Sphinx temple were excavated from a trench surrounding the Sphinx. Lehner and Aigner emphasized that the most likely scenario was that the Sphinx temple was built while they were carving the Great Sphinx.15Hancock makes no mention of these aspects of Lehner's work, but he does tell us that "By virtue of the distinctive weathering patterns on that monument's [the Sphinx] flanks and on sections of the trench that surrounds it—highlighted in the analysis of geology professor Robert Schoch of Boston University— a proto Sphinx does appear to have existed when heavy rains fell across Egypt at the end of the Ice Age." Attentive readers will notice that Hancock links the weathering on the Sphinx with the weathering in the trench from which the walls of the Sphinx and Valley temples were extracted. In other words, the weathering must have occurred after the walls were excavated from the trench and placed in the Sphinx temple—the very walls that have been dated to approximately 2500 BCE by Liritzis and Vafiadou.Further, in 1853 French Archaeologist Auguste Mariette discovered a life-size statue made of "black volcanic rock" of the Pharoah Khafre within the Valley temple. He also unearthed a paved processional causeway between the Valley temple and a mortuary temple adjacent to Khafre's pyramid. Is it any surprise that professional archaeologists have concluded that Khafre constructed the Sphinx, the Valley and Sphinx temples, as well as his great pyramid? Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, wrote in 2006: "Most scholars believe, as I do, that the Sphinx represents Khafre and forms an integral part of the pyramid complex."16Indeed, Lehner located the site where as many as 2,000 laborers lived while constructing the Giza complex near the Old Kingdom cemetery that Hawass had uncovered nine years earlier. The cemetery was the burial site of some of the directors of the construction of Giza based on tomb inscriptions. Lehner showed that the laborers were not slaves, but the kingdoms hired hands—bone artifacts indicate that their diet was mainly young cattle (prime beef!). The makeup of the laborer community is important because it appears they walked off the job before the Giza complex was finished. As far back as 1978, Hawass and Lehner discovered that stone blocks were left abandoned as the Sphinx temple was being built.17 Why?That's where German climatologists Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin come into the picture. They published a study of climate changes in the eastern Sahara in Science in 2006, based on copious amounts of archaeological dating (more than 500 dates from over 150 excavations). Their conclusions are telling: (1) A vast region including Egypt and Sudan and parts of Libya and Chad were bone dry from the last glacial maximum at 20,000 years ago until about 8,500 years ago—not the advantageous environment Hancock envisions for hunter-gatherers when they supposedly met up with his "magicians" in 10,000 BCE to build the Great Sphinx. (2) Monsoon rains beginning in 8,500 BCE transformed the desert into a habitable environment for huntergatherers who began settling in the region about 7000 BCE—no evidence of hunter-gatherers in the lower Nile exists prior to this time, contrary to Hancock's assertions. (3) By 1,500 BCE desiccation was complete, leading Kuper and Kröpelin to conclude: "The final desiccation of the Egyptian Sahara also had an essential impact on the contemporaneous origin of the pharaonic civilization in the Nile valley."18Lehner attributes the evidence of erosion on the Sphinx and along the trenches from which the Valley and Sphinx temple walls were excavated to the monsoon rains that periodically fell in the region as it became desiccated. Not only are there erosional remnants on the Sphinx from rains during this period, but Lehner found evidence of erosion within the laborers' camp. He postulates that by the later years of the Old Kingdom, laborers refused to work in the suffocating dry conditions and stopped the construction of the Giza complex when food became in short supply.19It is also worth noting that Lehner has tied the Giza complex together—including the Sphinx and pyramids—through his careful mapping and research of the structures. As Hancock has pointed out, the Sphinx runs east-west, but not because the Egyptians had help from magicians in aligning it with asterisms. Swiss archaeologist Herbert Ricke noted in the 1960s that the Sphinx temple walls encompass a courtyard with 24 pillars—each pillar representing an hour of the day as the sun crosses the sky from east to west. Lehner recognized that at the equinoxes "the shadow of the Sphinx and the shadow of the pyramid, both symbols of the king, become merged silhouettes. The Sphinx itself, it seems, symbolized the pharaoh presenting offerings to the sun god in the court of the temple." Hawass agrees, reminding us that Khafre as the royal falcon god "is giving offerings with his two paws to his father, Khufu, incarnated as the sun god, Ra, who rises and sets in that temple."20
The Younger Dryas and the Comet StrikeNext we will consider Hancock's explanation for why there is no direct evidence for his lost civilization— it was completely wiped out by a comet impact. Here's the back story which involves a mainstream scientific controversy that Hancock has stepped into for his own unique reasons.CitarFigure 7: Temperature variations from Greenland ice cores over the last 23,000 years (Source: climateshifts.org)About 23,000 years ago Earth began to come out of the last glacial deep freeze, marked by receding glaciers at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (see Figure 7, above). But rather dramatically, about 12,900 years ago temperatures plummeted and then did an about face, warming again about 11,500 years ago—a period of 1,400 years geologists call the Younger Dryas (YD). The cause of the event has been a matter of considerable scientific debate for decades, but consensus in the early 1990s centered on a paper by Wally Broecker and his colleagues that proposed the disruption of a large-scale ocean phenomenon called the Thermohaline Circulation in the north Atlantic, driven in part by the interaction of surface heat and freshwater fluxes.21 Melt water from the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet covering large swaths of northern North America drained into ancient Lake Agassiz, itself formed by the retreat of the more than mile thick glacier. Water then flowed south through the Mississippi embayment to the ocean. Oxygen isotope analyses along with 14C dating of planktonic shells from the Gulf of Mexico reveals a decrease in the flux of fresh water from about 11,100 until 10,000 years ago. The Broecker group postulated that the compositional change in seawater related to a change in the drainage through flooding from Lake Agassiz toward the North Atlantic. The idea was that an influx of freshwater into the North Atlantic diminished density-driven circulation of oceanic currents— the conveyor belt that brings warmth to the northern climes—initiating worldwide cooling.However, neither geomorphic evidence of flooding from Lake Agassiz into either the Arctic or Atlantic oceans, nor a drop in the water level in Lake Agassiz could ever be found, causing even Broecker to abandon the Lake Agassiz flooding hypothesis.22 That left the door open for another scenario, a comet strike termed the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH). The proponents of YDIH claim that the impact not only caused the dramatic climate change, but also triggered the demise of the Pleistocene megafauna (the extinction of dozens of large North American mammals more commonly attributed to either overhunting by humans, gradual climate change, or both) and the collapse of the Clovis culture in North America. The debate over what happened during the YD can only be described as a scientific "dogfight" that may go on for decades. But the reason the YDIH extraordinary claim has yet to find consensus is that extraordinary evidence has yet to emerge to support it. To be clear, the debate is not over lost civilizations.The firestorm began in 2007 when Richard Firestone and numerous colleagues proposed that it was a comet strike of "multiple ET [extraterrestrial] airbursts along with surface impacts" that occurred at 12,900 years ago that initiated the YD."23 The paper was full of impressive evidence gathered from 10 sites where a carbon-rich layer (referred to as the "black mat") marked what they claimed was the end of the Clovis culture in North America: "The in situ bones of extinct Pleistocene megafaunas, along with Clovis tool assemblages, occur below this black layer but not within or above it." They reported that sediments directly below the black mat were enriched in magnetic grains, iridium, magnetic microspherules, charcoal, soot, carbon spherules, glass-like carbon containing nanodiamonds and fullerenes containing extraterrestrial helium. They explained that the soot, charcoal, spherules, etc. were the result of extensive and intense forest fires initiated by the airbursts. Melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet would have dumped copious quantities of melt water into the Atlantic, thereby disrupting the density currents and bringing on the cooling.Over the years, however, support for the YDIH has been undermined. Nearly every aspect of the original evidence has been challenged by a host of scientists in various fields. Only one of the indicators, iridium, has been commonly used as an impact marker, and the iridium data have not always been reproducible. The iridium concentrations can also be explained by terrestrial origins.24, 25 Nor do nanodiamonds require extraterrestrial events. The absence of any impact craters at the beginning of the YD worldwide is the most disconcerting evidence against YDIH, as is the lack of control for the age of sediments/black mat at or near the YD boundary. Figure 8 (below) shows the range of 14C dates from the YD boundary at various Clovis sites. The gray region represents the YD, and the dates emphasize the difficulties in precisely defining the YD boundary at 12,900 years ago.CitarFigure 8: Carbon 14 ranges from samples taken from "the Younger Dryas boundary" at various Clovis sites (one standard deviation above and below the mean is shown as a vertical line). The gray region marks the YD. From Holliday et al.26 (Click image to enlarge)In addition to these arguments against the YDIH, it is difficult to imagine how an airburst/impact could annihilate the North American mammal megafauna and Clovis culture and initiate huge wild fires, without leaving any evidence in the way of massive flooding or impact features. Vance Holliday and his colleagues argue that "no physical mechanism is known to produce an airburst that would affect the entire continent."27 They also point out that any comet strike large enough to affect an entire continent would leave a detectable crater even if it struck the ice sheet. To get around this glaring problem, the Firestone group proposed that the comet broke up upon entry into earth's atmosphere. But according to physicist Mark Boslough and his colleagues,28 that would produce "more than a million Meteor craters" (the size of the crater in central Arizona) based on the comet size postulated by Firestone and his cohorts.29, 30While the Firestone group claims that the comet strike was responsible for the disappearance of the 37 mammal megafauna genera specifically in North America, extinctions occurred on other continents, most notably South America, where at least 52 mammal genera disappeared. And not all those genera disappeared synchronously at the YD boundary! Instead, megafauna extinctions on continents and islands seem to correlate with the arrival of humans. The thinking goes that these huge megafauna would have had no reason to fear humans, and were probably easy pickings for the newly arriving hunter-gatherers. Scientists have also been a bit incredulous that a comet strike could wipe out all the megafauna as far south as Patagonia, while leaving mammoths alive and well on St. Paul Island, Alaska until 3,700 years ago.31CitarFigure 9: A typical Clovis projectile point. (Image courtesy of the Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources, via Wikimedia CommonsThere is, in fact, no need to hypothesize a catastrophic event to explain the disappearance of the megafauna and associated Clovis culture. The Clovis culture in North America is known foremost for the large fluted lanceolate projectile points found primarily around 13,500 years ago. There are spectacular mammoth kill sites associated with Clovis artifacts with butchery marks on the mammoth bones. At the Manis site in Washington, Dr. Carl Gustafson and his team excavated a mastodon skeleton in the 1970s with a long projectile point embedded in one of the bones. Under the "overkill" scenario, the disappearance of Clovis projectile points and other artifacts does not require a catastrophic event. It probably means that the human toolkit, originally developed to kill the megafauna, was gradually replaced as the megafauna were killed off.32 There is no evidence that humans disappeared in North and South America after the YD. How would a comet kill the megafauna but leave humans virtually untouched?In addition, contrary to what Hancock would have us believe, there is no evidence of catastrophic flooding. Recall that Broecker had to back off his Lake Agassiz hypothesis because no evidence for catastrophic flooding could be found. The glacial moraines formed by the Laurentide Ice Sheet have been precisely mapped and they show a consistent retreat until about 9,800 years ago.33 They would most assuredly have been disrupted by the postulated massive floods.Hancock claims that the "comet and asteroid impacts not only cause floods but can also impose huge stresses on the crust of the earth resulting in increased earthquake and volcanic activity." As a volcanologist, I would strongly argue that a strike would not lead to volcanic activity, and beyond the initial impact, it may not lead to earthquakes. Regardless, Hancock can't have it both ways—huge stresses cannot happen to the earth's crust without leaving identifiable scars on the land. Notably, Broecker and his colleagues have most recently concluded that "there is no need to call upon a one-time catastrophic event to explain the YD. More likely, the YD was a necessary part of the last termination…cold reversals equivalent to the YD seem to be integral parts of global switches from glacial to interglacial climate."34I want to emphasize that although the YDIH has lost acceptance within the scientific community over the last decade, the debate proceeds in the proper scientific manner (i.e., by publishing results in peer-reviewed scientific journals). As Malcolm LeCompte, one of the comet researchers, pointed out in our debate on Joe Rogan's show (he was Hancock's expert guest; I was Shermer's), there are four indicators at the YD boundary that may be due to an extraterrestrial origin: nanodiamonds, magnetic sphericals, melt glass, and the platinum group metals (reduced from the 10 or more originally proposed by the Firestone group). But all of these can be explained through terrestrial processes also, which he acknowledged on the show.A recently published paper has some intriguing data. Moore et al.35 found platinum concentrations above background levels within what they believe is representative of the YD boundary. The problem, of course, is that Pt concentrations are traditionally low in ice-rich comets. LeCompte suggested that the Pt concentrations could be indicative of an asteroid. The story continues to evolve, and I am loathe to comment further until the comet/asteroid group can decide what the correct scenario is. While Pt concentrations do increase within the YD boundary, dating the event is difficult (see Figure 8). The debate may take many years to be resolved. While I would not rule out an extraterrestrial event at this point there is virtually no evidence that an asteroid/comet devastated the megafauna, caused massive flooding, and destroyed the Clovis culture.In any case, Hancock's reliance on the YDIH is problematic for a number of reasons. First, Hancock's white whale is what geologists call uniformitarianism— the idea that the earth has been affected by continuous, gradual, uniform processes. He claims that scientists are so blindly wedded to this dogma to the point that they cannot see the catastrophism before their eyes. This is disingenuous. As a practicing geologist, I can assert in the strongest terms that although uniformitarianism is a tool in geological research, the importance of catastrophes has been recognized since the early to middle 20th century, thanks to work by Daniel Barringer and later Gene Shoemaker on Meteor crater, J Harlen Bretz and J. T. Pardee on the Scabland floods, and the documentation of massive volcanic eruptions, past tsunami events, glaciation, plate tectonics, and many more examples. Far from being dogmatically closed minded, our openness toward catastrophic events is precisely what allowed Walter and Luis Alvarez to overcome an initially doubting geologic community to accept the idea that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by a meteor impact. Hancock implies conspiracy whenever he runs into normal scientific skepticism (he actually has sections of his book entitled "Conspiracy Corner" and "Taking on the dogmatic uniformitarians"). This allows him to deflect scientific criticism from his unlikely ideas by painting himself as just one of many that have run up against the supposed scientific juggernaut of uniformitarianism.Hancock portrays himself as the modern-day J Harlen Bretz, continually comparing the difficulties Bretz had getting a skeptical scientific community to accept the Scabland flooding hypothesis with his own helter-skelter conjecturing. Hancock insists that Bretz's first claim that there was one major flood through the Scablands is correct. Bretz later changed his mind in favor of multiple periodic floods. Science has moved on, not only eventually accepting Bretz's original evidence for flooding (Bretz would receive the coveted Penrose Medal for his work on the Scablands), but carefully documenting the dates of specific floods through the Scablands. We now know with some confidence that ice dams that formed ancient Lake Missoula broke periodically, pouring erosive water through a massive area of eastern Washington and northern Oregon (see Figures 10 and 11 below).36CitarFigure 10: The distribution of Lake Missoula and the flooded areas. (from Waitt)CitarFigure 11: The range in dates of the timing of the periodic flooding from Lake Missoula. (From Waitt)At least 17 floods in the Scablands have been documented by careful dating. But the most important thing required to support Hancock's theories is missing—no larger flood occurred in the Scablands at the YD boundary. All the floods were clearly limited in area and are consistent with the breaking of ice dams formed by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which released water from ancient Lake Missoula. Hancock admits that the periodic flooding occurred, but insists that geologists have missed the evidence for an apocalyptic flood at the YD boundary brought on by a comet strike. This, in turn, is used as evidence for a worldwide flood that wiped out his lost advanced civilization. A flood of this scope is quite a contrast to the limited area covered by the Scabland floods. So what is his evidence for worldwide flooding? Once again, he relies on flood mythologies, including the Noachian flood, stating: "So although the floods at the end of the Ice Age could never have carried Noah and his Ark thousands of feet above present sea level to the slopes of Mount Ararat, they were indeed global in their extent and would have had devastating consequences for humans living at the time."I asked Isaac Larsen at the University of Massachusetts, one of the world's experts on the Scabland flooding, if there was any chance that the deluges could be related to the YDIH, and if he had any thoughts on the claims made by Hancock about a conspiracy to hide evidence. (Larsen along with his colleague Michael Lamb have just published a paper in Nature on "outburst flooding in the Scablands."37) He did not mince words in his response: "The scientific consensus is that there was not one single catastrophic flood, but multiple floods, and the occurrence of multiple floods is hence not consistent with the comet impact proposal…. Regarding conspiracies, I would say that the scientific community is very open to new ideas, and those ideas supported by data gain credence, whereas ideas that lack compelling empirical or theoretical basis fail to gain traction. Scientists are quite individualistic, and getting thousands of them to subscribe to a conspiracy isn't something I can imagine happening." Neither can I.The Lost Civilization Sends a MessageMagicians is admittedly a compelling read, and its thesis a titillating one, invoking an advanced lost civilization that reinforces the myth of a "Golden Age" of humanity, but it is convoluted and twisted in its substance. Hancock is often vague, which makes it difficult to ferret out what he is trying to say. His book is full of excerpts from mythology that he insists bear hidden truths. Not once are we told why the magicians had to send their messages using obtuse metaphors. But Hancock's message is clear: a technologically advanced civilization—no less than the most famous lost civilization in all fiction, Atlantis—was destroyed by the YD comet strike, and it could happen to us!Hancock informs us that emissaries from Atlantis survived the destruction and carried their advanced science and technology to Göbekli Tepe, the Maya, Egypt, Baalbek—even Easter Island. Further, these Magicians, these Seven Sages who Hancock says were imbued "with mysterious 'powers'" (so mysterious that we are never told what these powers are)—set about "wandering." They also had a message for us—a powerful message as deduced by Hancock. From the inferred astrological signs and proposed alignments of the megaliths, Hancock makes the following wild leap: "The last time this grand celestial line-up of earth, December-solstice sun and the galactic center occurred was a full precessional cycle of 25,920 years ago and the next time it will happen is a full precessional cycle of 25,920 years in the future. We live, in other words, in a very special, indeed rather unique, moment in terms of cosmic astronomical symbolism." Spoiler alert! Hancock avers:However improbable it may seem, therefore, we are obliged to consider the possibility that in 9600 BC the builders of Göbekli Tepe were already so advanced in their knowledge of the recondite phenomenon of precession that they were able to calculate its effects for thousands of years backward and forward in time in order to produce an accurate symbolic picture of the Sagittarius/winter solstice conjunction… Bearing in mind that half a precessional cycle is 12,960 years… if I understand the message correctly, we're in the danger zone now and will be until 2040.In other words, Hancock is seriously proposing that we are being told by the Magicians that the comet clusters that supposedly struck earth some 12,900 years ago and led to the destruction of Atlantis, the North American megafauna, the Clovis people, etc., will rain death and destruction upon us sometime over the next few decades. The extreme mental gymnastics Hancock goes through to warn us of eminent doom fails in the light of logic. (1) Hancock insists that the Mayans could predict the future from celestial mechanics; (2) He claims the Mayan calendar is based on a precession that began with the "conjunction of the winter solstice Sun and the center of the Milky Way galaxy" some 26,000 years ago. (3) The hunter-gatherers with their magician watchers at Göbekli Tepe recognized, according to Hancock, that the destruction of the lost civilization was precisely at a midway point between the precession 12,900 years ago when a supposed comet struck; and (4) The Göbekli Tepe inhabitants generated symbols indicating that this 26,000 year precession cycle spells doom for our planet in the coming decades. Remember, a 26,000 year precession cycle can be started at any time—there is nothing physically unique about conjecturing that a cycle started when we were aligned "with the dark rift and nuclear bulge of the Milky Way" as Hancock suggests. Nor is the alignment itself unusual. It happens every December.CitarFigure 12: The wobble of the earth's axis during a 26,000 year precession cycle is shown by the circle above the Earth. (By NASA, Mysid [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)Ignoring such mental gymnastics, the obvious flaw in Hancock's scenario is the association of a precessional cycle with comet strikes. Precession relates to the "wobble" of the earth on its axis over 26,000 year cycles (see Figure 12). Hancock has surmised that the source of the comet that struck the earth 12,900 years ago came from the Taurid meteor shower. The belt or ring does indeed look like it was formed from the breakup of a large comet (which does not imply that a comet struck the earth 12,900 years ago). The earth passes through the Taurid belt in late October or early November and in June and July of each year, which creates meteor showers. But what does this have to do with the earth's precession?The earth wobbling on its axis over 26,000 years does not affect the earth's orbit, so why would we expect large comet strikes every 12,900 years from the precession of the earth? I asked Hancock this question during our debate and he seemed dumbfounded by its implications. He never answered my question, probably because there is no answer. All I am left with is that Hancock has a wild imagination and romantic longing for a past best described by myth, not science. ENDCitarAbout the AuthorDr. Marc J. Defant is a Professor of Geology at the University of South Florida. He specializes in the study of volcanoes—more specifically, the geochemistry of volcanic rocks, the associated processes within the mantle, and the origin of the continental crust. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the American Chemical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and has published in many internationally renowned scientific journals including Nature. He has written a book entitled Voyage of Discovery: From the Big Bang to the Ice Age and published several articles for general readership magazines such as Popular Science. He has presented a Tedx talk on "Why We are Alone in the Galaxy" and has written many essays on his blog at www.marcdefant.com
Figure 7: Temperature variations from Greenland ice cores over the last 23,000 years (Source: climateshifts.org)
Figure 8: Carbon 14 ranges from samples taken from "the Younger Dryas boundary" at various Clovis sites (one standard deviation above and below the mean is shown as a vertical line). The gray region marks the YD. From Holliday et al.26 (Click image to enlarge)
Figure 9: A typical Clovis projectile point. (Image courtesy of the Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources, via Wikimedia Commons
Figure 10: The distribution of Lake Missoula and the flooded areas. (from Waitt)
Figure 11: The range in dates of the timing of the periodic flooding from Lake Missoula. (From Waitt)
Figure 12: The wobble of the earth's axis during a 26,000 year precession cycle is shown by the circle above the Earth. (By NASA, Mysid [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
About the AuthorDr. Marc J. Defant is a Professor of Geology at the University of South Florida. He specializes in the study of volcanoes—more specifically, the geochemistry of volcanic rocks, the associated processes within the mantle, and the origin of the continental crust. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the American Chemical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and has published in many internationally renowned scientific journals including Nature. He has written a book entitled Voyage of Discovery: From the Big Bang to the Ice Age and published several articles for general readership magazines such as Popular Science. He has presented a Tedx talk on "Why We are Alone in the Galaxy" and has written many essays on his blog at www.marcdefant.com
Japoneses (Yamagata University e IBM Research) descobrem 143 novos geoglifos em Nazca com a ajuda de inteligência artificial.
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Ancient organo-mineral geopolymer in South-American Monuments: Organic matter in andesite stone. SEM and petrographic evidenceAbstractA recent study has shown the presence of artificial construction materials in pre-Columbian monuments at Pumapunku-Tiwanaku, Bolivia. In addition to ancient geopolymer sandstone-concrete megalithic slabs, the Pumapunku site contains puzzling "H" structures made of andesitic volcanic stone. The SEM study of this gray andesite shows the presence of organic matter: carbon, nitrogen, and minerals: Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca. Organic matter is very unusual, if not impossible in a solid volcanic stone and suggests ceramic-like man-made stone. Our research demonstrates that these architectural components manufactured 1400 years ago (ca. CE 600) were fashioned with a type of organo-mineral precursor.
Ancient geopolymer in south-American monument. SEM and petrographic evidenceAbstractThe make-up of the sandstone megalithic blocks, weighing between 130 and 180 tonnes each, from Pumapunku -Tiwanaku, Bolivia, was compared with three geological sandstone sites from the area. The SEM/EDS, XRD and thin section results suggest that the sandstone megalithic blocks consist of sandstone grains from the Kallamarka geological site, cemented with an amorphous ferro-sialate geopolymer matrix formed by human intervention, by the addition of extra alkaline salt (natron) from the Laguna Cachi in the Altiplano, Bolivia.
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The Cape of the Blue Sand!
Ses Salines
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This tour departs from Club Nautic Sa Rapita. We head east towards Ses Salines. Our soft and moderate navigation along unspoiled beaches. Meanwhile we pass the places Ses Covetes, Cala Tugores, Es Caragol where we also make a stopover. The captain himself explains the fascinating history of the region and Mallorca in general. We anchor past the lighthouse of Ses Salines on the wonderful and quiet place Olla De Bastons. Here there is time for a bite to eat from our deliciously typical pa amb oli and a free cold drink. At this place it is recommended for a refreshing dive and / or snorkeling. We have thought of everything like snorkel equipment, life jackets for the children among us or our not so children.
Route Excursion: A nature experience to Ses Salines for maximum 12 people
This excursion contains:
- Excursion to Ses Salines
- Anchor stop in a beautiful bay for swimming or snorkeling
- Snorkeling gear is on board
- Free appetizer and a cool drink!
- Fully insured
- The trip includes several stops where history, fauna and flora of the coast are explained.
Route description excursion Ses Salines
From Sa Rapitá we take course in southeastern direction. First we see Ses Covetes and Es Trenc, a large open bay and its magnificent three kilometers long natural sandy beach. Then we pass Punta Gabina and the island of the same name. The waters in this region are relatively shallow so we can see the ground very well through the crystal clear waters. We certainly have time to explain the flora and fauna on the spot, and we will also give you some information about the history during the trip.
A little further we sail between Illot Gros and Na Llarga to the island of Illot de Cabots and get to the bay Cala Galiota. From here we can see the lighthouse Sa Punta Alta of Colonia Sant Jordi. This place offers many possibilities and facilities like hotels, beaches, supermarkets, aquarium, marina etc. From there we pass the islands of Na Guardis and Na Moltana. In this area we can see the fantastic beaches of Es Carbó and Ses Roquetes. With the island of Na Pelada on the right we set course to Cala Tugores. Here we drop anchor and you can enjoy the break to relax, swim or snorkel in the clear water. After the short break, we head towards Illot Dén Curt. Then we reach the beautiful beach Es Caragol which connects the lighthouse of Ses Salines with a zone of peace and nature.
Technical specifications (Boat)
Type: Arimar Scuba (12 Pers.max.)
Length: 7,60m
Width: 3,00m
Draft: 0,70m
Motor: Mercury 200XL Verado. 200hp / max. speed 35 knots
Shower: fresh water
Outboard ladder
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What is equipped lifting?
In Powerlifting today there are several ways of competing; classic/raw, fully equipped and some variations in-between. The following article deals with equipped lifting and discusses the equipment used and the benefits of each.
Different federations have different rules on equipment, however under the IPF the suits are made of single-ply material and are highly restricted in terms of model and design.
In equipped lifting, athletes lift much more weight than their classic lifting counter parts however the stress on the body is much greater and the average training session typically takes much longer due to the equipment being used.
What is a squat suit?
The suit's function can be compared to an elastic/compression harness. The further down the lifter goes, the more rebound effect and force is created in the upward movement that follows. To master an equipped squat often takes years of practice and is, in many ways, a completely different challenge than regular squats. The loads get higher, but it still feels as heavy on the back. The margin for technical error is severely slimmer than an unequipped squat, which is why the equipped squatting is such a fascinating experience.
What are knee wraps?
The knee wraps are of a 2-meter standard length. They can be longer in federations other than IPF. A knee wrap is wrapped very tight around the knee joint. This allows the rebound effect over the knee joint to be a lot greater than with only the use of knee sleeves.
What is a bench press shirt?
Perhaps the most controversial piece of equipment is the bench press shirt. Why? That is anyone's guess, but it is also by far the trickiest one to master. However, the reward can be great if successful. The same way the squat suit harvests kinetic energy on the way down, the bench press shirt does the same by compressing the chest, as well as stretching (just a bit) in the fabric. In order to succeed as an equipped bench presser, you´ll need exactly the same strengths as a classic lifter but you need to be even more solid, especially in upper back and posterior shoulder region. If momentum is lost due to lack of shoulder stability, the lift is going to be a failed one. Since the shirt gives most rebound in the bottom part of the lift, strong triceps are a feature of every good equipped bench presser.
What is a deadlift suit?
Looks a lot like a squat suit, and a lot of lifters use squat suits for a sumo pull, but the challenge here is the lack of energy to harvest on the downward movement. Its called dead lift for a reason. The bar is dead on the floor. To compensate for this a conventional deadlift suit is VERY tight, but often a bit thinner fabric, and the lifter can struggle a bit to get into a good start position. The deadlift is the lift where there is least difference between classic and equipped lifting, both due to the nature of the lift and the fact that the grip strength can become a limiting factor and no straps are allowed to be used in conventional powerlifting.
It is fair to say that classic lifting and equipped lifting are almost two different sports, however, there are significant transfer between the both. Especially the CNS, central nervous system, stimulus you get from equipped lifting can be beneficial for classic lifting.
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Bubbl.Us is a very easy to use mind mapping tool, it's so straightforward that you don't need to register an account to create a map.
Below is a useful video tutorial showing you everything you need to know to get up and running with Bubbl.
After just a few minutes myself and my colleague Ruth had created a very complex mind map, which we were able to print. Obviously the real bonus of Bubbl is that you can create them anywhere and allow colleagues to add their own content in addition to be able to email them. In a nutshell it is so effective but simple, what more could you want?
As for what you can do...
- Create colorful mind maps online
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Back in May, we were planning on heading this way after Yellowstone National Park… but as you remembered from our previous blog, we had to turn back to Austin TX and ended up spending the summer back in Austin. But the desire to come up to Oregon has always been there for many reason, but in particular for two BIG reasons!… McKenzie River MTB Trail and Crater Lake 🙂
The RV park we stayed at was about 15 miles south of Bend Oregon. It was a nice park with the usual amenities that you find at thousand trail parks. It was pretty close to a great hike, the Deschutes River Trail, which we enjoyed doing both on our bikes and walking. The river itself is beautiful and pretty wild. We have pictures and a YouTube video of the time we hiked it. Check out the video here Deschutes River Trail Hike
We also got to spend a few days exploring Bend. We particularly enjoyed the Riverbend Park area but there are several parks along the Deschutes River inside the city where anyone can enjoy a day outside or a day in the water kayaking and/or paddle boarding 🙂
Also, not too far from the RV park we were staying at, there is a breath-taking place that everyone who visits Oregon, needs to check it out, Crater Lake National Park! We headed there for 3 nights, tent camping in one of their nice campgrounds. The park itself is not as big as other national parks, but there are many hiking trails that will keep you enjoying a few days outside. And of course there is the majestic Crater Lake.
We enjoy living in our small travel trailer… We can easily say that we enjoy it more than living in a real house 🙂 But we still desire and look for the next tent camping trip every chance we get. We took off to Crater Lake, looking forward to exploring the park for a few days… but as soon as we were on the road, it started raining and got really cold hehe. We got to the park entrance and the attendant even told us that he didn't feel we were going to enjoy our stay due to how the weather looked haha. We decided to take our chances. We started getting a bit more worried when we started driving south to the campground from the North entrance, because the roads were full of snow 😦 Luckily, as we kept going south inside the Park's road, the snow started dispersing. By the time we got the campground, there wasn't any snow, but we still had the rain. We put up the tent and a canopy and figured we were going to enjoy the rest of the day by the fire with some coffee and music and we would see how the weather was the next morning.
We woke up to a frozen tent haha… so we figured that was it, we were going to have to go back to Bend if the weather wasn't going to clear up for us. But God is amazing and by the time we were done eating breakfast, the sky was blue and the weather became perfect for the remaining days we were there, sunny cool. We got to enjoy several of the hikes around the Park. Now we are just wondering how cool it will be to visit Crater Lake again, but in the winter!
And of course, our visit to this part of Oregon wouldn't have been complete without doing the number one thing we had been wanting to do for several year now! For a while we had seen videos and pictures of the gorgeous McKenzie River trail and had been wishing to ride it, and this time, thanks to the new life adventure we started, living in our travel trailer and traveling the Country, we got to do just that!… and it was AMAZING!!!!
The trail is a beautiful, magical place to go and enjoy it on a mountain bike if you want to experience the whole 27 miles of scenery. But if you are looking to hike it, there are several key stops along the way, where you can park and hike a mile or so to get to specific scenic places such as waterfalls or the blue hole. The beauty of doing the whole train on your bike, is that the trails goes thru all those beautiful places. It took us the whole day to complete the 27 miles, not because it was hard, because it wasn't, but because we kept stopping to take in the scenery 🙂
We spent almost 3 weeks in this area of Oregon and visited some cool places, but now, we have to move on to our next destination… Portland OR! We took many pictures while in this area and have uploaded them on three different albums to our Flickr account. Here are the albums for you to enjoy. If you want to see the photos in full resolution, just click inside any picture, and it will take you to our Flickr page.
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OK OK, I know this is cheating. These are technically two restaurants which sit side by side, not one! But both restaurants at the Marsa Malaz Kempinski have opened in quick succession and ever since my visits I've had a real battle trying to choose between them. In the end, I gave up and decided that both were deserving of the accolade of number four in my fine dining in Doha series.
Allow me to explain why.
First of all, stunning food deserves a stunning setting, and you don't get much better than the Marsa Malaz in Doha. You may remember it from my pre-opening review when Rich and I enjoyed a behind the scenes tour (a.k.a a really good snoop) of the hotel on the day before it opened – but for those of you that don't, here she is in all her glory at night.
Both restaurants are housed in a pretty little courtyard to the left of the main hotel, where contemporary Arabic architecture and a serene ambience create a sense of anticipation before you enter either of the restaurant's front doors.
The other reason why both of these restaurants deserve your attention is that they both have a really interesting history behind them.
Let's start with Antica Pesa shall we?
Antica Pesa, meaning "The Old Scales" in Italian dates back to the late 19th Century, when the food and wine that was offered as a customs function at the tollhouse in the Vatican was replaced by a real restaurant. Ever since, four generations of the same family have run the restaurant from its home in the Italian capital, a rare feat in today's restaurant world.
Following the opening of a second restaurant in New York, it now comes to Doha where it has been welcomed with open arms by the media and general public alike.
This might have something to do with its homely and relaxing atmosphere, which reminds me of a rather upmarket Roman Trattoria.
It might be because of the strong family influence and culture of impeccable service laced with true Italian passion. And it is most definitely because the menu is everything that Italian food should be, using simple, wholesome ingredients coupled with big flavour.
We started our meal with a herby crouton amuse bouche which was delicate and elegant…
As well as a big bowl of hearty and soft freshly baked bread, including some beautiful herby pizza bread which may be my nemesis.
With a Montepulciano in hand, I was una ragazza felice.
Rich had opted for the Fiorentina steak with butter, which he found to be juicy and tender, but a little lacking in the side dish department.
Luckily, we had had the foresight to order a few tasty accompaniments, which were seasoned to perfection.
I was a little more adventurous, and went for the Tonnarelli Alla Carbonara D'Anatra (duck carbonara). It was absolutely divine.
The home made Tonnarelli was nicely al dente…
And beautifully complemented by the grated Parmagiano which was brought to the table by our friendly waiter (who promptly told me off for taking too many photographs as my food was sure to get cold – thank you for saving my Tonnarelli!).
We were sadly unable to stay for dessert on this occasion, but I did return a couple of weeks later to interview Executive Chef, and COO of Antica Pesa, Marco Calcaterra. He has a really interesting story to tell, and revealed some exciting 'hot off the press' news about the restaurant. I also discovered that he is probably going to kill me for including Antica Pesa in my 'fine dining' series as he views it as a relaxed and family-friendly space without frills or exclusivity. Keep an eye out for this post later in the week!
For now, let's hop across the courtyard, where large double doors are fiercely guarded by two angry-looking bulls.
For my second visit to the pretty Kempinski courtyard, I had been invited to the media launch of Toro Toro, the internationally renowned pan-Latin American restaurant, and I was extra excited. Mr Sunshine-to-be and I had visited the Miami branch of the restaurant last Summer during our tour of the US. I remembered the fusion of flavours and siesta-like atmosphere, and couldn't wait to see if it had translated over here.
The brainchild of celebrity chef, Richard Sandoval, Toro Toro burst onto the restaurant scene in 2011, with the opening of its first outlet in Grosvenor House, Dubai. With numerous accolades and awards under its belt, it started a rapid expansion across the globe. The opening in Doha marks its second in the Middle East.
The upstairs bar was abuzz when I arrived, with waiters busily handing out the restaurant's signature Tequila-laced cocktail.
With drink in hand, I quickly sought out some familiar friendly faces, and got chatting.
Later, when seated at our table in the restaurant downstairs, the alcohol continued to flow, courtesy of our very own cocktail sommelier who camped out our table with a trolley of goodies. It was Cachaça this time, which took me back to lazy days on the beach in Brazil.
We were also invited to sample a spot of Argentinian Malbec, which was fruity and delicious.
A few glasses were consumed as we waited patiently for the main event.
A selection of cold dishes came first, including Salmon Tiradito, Tuna Tataki and Ceviche, all of which were fresh, light and moreish.
Then came the hot dishes: Crispy Prawns, Beef Filet Antichuco, Grilled Octopus and Choclo Empanada.
Next, we were treated to the restaurant's acclaimed 'Rodizio Experience', as waiters brought round skewers of tender meats, which had been cooked slowly over a charcoal grill. Brazilian Wagyu Picanha, Australian Lamb and Achiote Marinated Chicken came to the table in quick succession, and we were invited to use our handy traffic light cards to indicate whether we were hungry for more, or required a little break…
Finally, just when I was thinking I wasn't able to eat another morsel, out came a selection of South American desserts, and as always, somehow I made room.
I was a guest of Toro Toro for this event.
All in all, these Marsa Malaz restaurants could not be more different, but both are equally deserving of a visit. Where Toro Toro wins points for its vibrant atmosphere, party spirit and variety of dynamic and interesting dishes, Antica Pesa scores high on rustic charm, incredible service and authenticity.
Have you visited these restaurants or any of the other new eating establishments in this new hotel on The Pearl, Qatar? Which would you recommend?
The details:
Marsa Malaz Kempinski,
Costa Malaz,
Phone: +974 4035 5555


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Students set up an online analysis advanced of the Year 10 formal, which is not organised by the school, in which acceptance were asked to appoint their aeon for awards in categories like 'best ass', 'best rack' and 'best Asian', News Corp reported.
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Maybe it's because the United States is a continental-size country. Whatever the reason, Americans are famously insular in our outlook, lacking interest and, often, knowledge about the rest of the world. Surveys regularly show our school children being woefully ignorant about foreign affairs and world geography.
Europe is ablaze in demonstrations and riots. Further down the road of socialism than America, the countries of west Europe are struggling with debt and insolvency (like America). Governments are undertaking much-needed austerity measures to cut spending and entitlements. In reaction, enraged Europeans are taking to the streets and clashing with police armed to the teeth in riot gear.
It's one thing to read about the riots, it's another to see them in action. Here are some examples. I can't help but wonder if and when they'll break out in the streets of urban America….
In Athens, Greece, on December 15, 2010, rioters clash with police and attack a former government minister and now an opposition MP, Kostis Hatzidakis, bloodying his nose and head:
In France, riots against austerity measures and raising retirement age from 60 to 62, in October 2010:
In Dublin, Ireland, students rioters clash with police, November 2010:
In London, UK, tens of thousands of students demonstrate and riot against tuition increase, November 10, 2010:
In London, rioters attack the car carrying Prince Charles and his
wife skank, Camilla, December 9, 2010:
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some of karen's favorite things!
Karen is bringing back so many goodies for the store!
Amani Angels, Giraffes, Zebras, Elephants, Wooden Beads, Earrings, and so much more!
This is your shop for unique and colorful Christmas gifts!
And don't forget to get a few things for yourself...you've been good, right?
colorful fabric on the way!
clean water month!
It's Clean Water Month at the Store!
Karen is shopping in Kenya while delivering LifeStraw Water Filters.
Can't wait to see what she brings back for the shop!
MASAI BLANKETS. Did you know ... you can get one in PURPLE ? PLAID? WINDOWPANE? STRIPES? And, of course. The TRADITIONAL CHECKERBOARD!
Each water filter costs $375 and money is needed to transport each filter to remote locations in Kenya.
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You won't believe all of the wonderful items we have at the store. Stop by today and start your Christmas shopping early!
book signing success!
Author and illustrator Amy Miller signed copies of her book "God's Words" on Saturday, Sept. 15.
Proceeds from the sales contributed to the purchase of LifeStraw Water Filters for schools in Kenya, including Esther's and Joan's village.
Thanks to Amy and all who came by the shop!
DONATE TODAY to help bring water to remote villages in Kenya.
Karen Smith
Karen and her helpers are always busy at the store.
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Tuesday - Saturday:
Sunday, Monday: Closed
November 2018
Proceeds from the store are used to continue caring for the orphans and women of Kenya touched by GTWO. Along with the generous donations of sponsors and customers, GTWO supports women's businesses, art camps, an orphanage, and distributes Bibles across the remote areas of northwestern Kenya.


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This time is hard on me, I know we gained an extra hours sleep but this morning I woke up at 3:30am! That would have been 4:30am last week right?
Well this is me at 6:30am
I don't know why but this time change hits me harder that the one in the spring when we lose and hours sleep. I really throws my body clock off.
This past summer I experience some sleep problems and after a few months of little sleep it was starting to really get to me. I would take naps in the afternoon but that did not replace that deep sleep we all need. Finally we found a solution to the problem and now I get a better sleep and I am starting to really feel more rested and alert.
So excuse me while I go and take a nap!
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New Delhi, June 19: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday turned 49. Greetings poured in from political leaders for the Gandhi scion.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal greeted Gandhi on his birthday.
He was also greeted by his sister and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the occasion. The Congress president celebrated his birthday with party workers at the party headquarters at 24 Akbar Road on Wednesday morning .
Gandhi reached the party headquarters in the morning and exchanged sweets with party workers. He also thanked them for their felicitations to him on his birthday.
'Thank you all for your best wishes & greetings on my birthday. I'm overwhelmed & grateful for your love & affection,' he tweeted.


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Dairy Free, Sugar Free Ice Cream
Recently I have been experimenting with a dairy and cane sugar-free lifestyle. Dairy and sugar are actually two of my favorite food groups, but they tend to really upset my stomach. So, I am on the hunt for recipes that fulfill my cravings without hurting my tummy. Ice cream was at the top of my list.
This recipe is very versatile, as you can make it vanilla, chocolate, or peanut butter flavored! It's also super easy.
- 2 cans full-fat coconut milk, 13.6 oz cans
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup all-natural crunchy peanut butter (for peanut butter flavor)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (for chocolate flavor)
- In a pot over medium heat, add coconut milk, sugar, vanilla and cocoa powder (if desired). Stir.
- Allow to simmer until thickened slightly, about 8 minutes.
- Place in a container and refrigerate until cold, about 4 hours.
- Add to an ice cream maker and churn until set, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Transfer to a storage container. If using peanut butter, layer ice cream and peanut butter in four layers.
- Freeze until desired consistency is reached.
*Cheaters note: You can skip step 3 if your ice cream maker can get cold enough to freeze the warm mixture. I let my mixture cool on the counter for a bit and my Kitchen Aid Ice Cream Maker takes about 30 minutes to freeze it.
Coconut milk gives this ice cream a very rich and delicious texture. Coconut sugar adds a carmel flavor and coloring. You'll notice that even your vanilla ice cream won't be bright white. My favorite flavor so far has been chocolate, but they are all an amazing treat!
Serve with toasted coconut, crushed peanuts or cocoa powder on top. Enjoy!
If you know of any other sugar-free, dairy-free, and (while I'm at it) yeast-free recipes, please send them my way! I would love help in the idea department.
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- 35 Years experience in Quality Management and Quality Engineering.
- Global Business Experience in the Automotive, Aerospace, Medical, Military and Aerospace Industries.
- Successfully led 3 Organizations to ISO9001 Certification and Re-Certification and 2 Organizations to TS16949 Certification, Most Recent – Lawrence Automotive – UK February 2015.
- Directed Lean Six Sigma Projects to comply with the US Army LSS Program. These projects have resulted in 1.4 Billion U.S.Dollars in Cost Avoidance for the US Government.
- Instructed and Certified 20 Six Sigma Green Belts and 100 Lean Manufacturing Advocates. Also mentored 3 personnel to Black Belt and Master Black Belt Status.
- Successfully managed and motivated cross-cultural teams in the Asia Pacific Region, Middle East and Western Europe.
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Kawthar's initiative holds workshops on communication skills, creative thinking, self-confidence, time management, and breast cancer awareness.
These workshops have already reached students at the Al-Farthakh High School for Girls and other young girls through her sub-project, Ezra' Basmeh.
In addition to workshops, the organization has also led successful food and clothing drives, in which the collected items were donated to Oheida Elementary School.
In the future, Kawthar seeks to create a team of trained volunteers, coordinate her efforts with the media to raise awareness, and create a local game show to encourage business competition.


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Colleen, how long did it take to pass the stone?
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My husband has been diagnosed with 2 kidney stones. The one on top is a 4 in size and the one on the bottom a 6. He had an appointment with a urologist a few days ago. He thought my husband should have a ureterscopy surgery with a stint inserted to get rid of the stones. He also mentioned lithotripsy. He said the second procedure had a 50-75% chance of getting rid of them and was less invasive than the ureteroscophy which has a 100% chance to remove them. Has anyone had either procedure and what was your recuperation like?
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My husband had 2 stones. His Doctor recommended either surgery which has a 100% chance of getting rid of them or a less invasive procedure that breaks them up so you can pass them. It has 50-75% chance. He is trying to decide what to do. Has anyone else had either of these procedures?
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Hello, my sister had Gamma Knife radiation last year at Mayo Rochester. She goes back this month for another MRI to see if the tumors responded, hopefully shrunk. I will be back in touch with her results.
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Was your surgery at Mayo? So sorry for all you have had to go thru. Wishing you quality of life and better times.
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Thinking of you and praying for best possible outcome!!
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Colleen, can you send my reply to Pranas to alpinier?
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By AYESHA SHEIKH, Staff Writer
Serving great tasting burgers since 1970, Famous Hamburger is one of the best places to get a huge helping of burger at a decent price. Over the years, Famous Hamburger has become a staple burger joint in the Dearborn community. With Lebanese roots, it's no wonder they settled in well and made a name in Dearborn.
Famous Hamburger isn't that different from your typical burger joint except for the great quality. They were built on the ideal of the American Dream and that rings true in their restaurants' appearances as well. Each Famous Hamburger has large, wide red booths that can fit parties of five to six people and are comfortable enough that you won't want to leave your seat. Around the restaurants they have old memorabilia of american diners from past decades that give the places a '50s vibe almost.
Each location serves delectable halal appetizers, burgers, salads and wraps. Burgers range from $8.49-$9.99, the most expensive being the $16.99 Wall of Fame burger. The Wall of Fame burger earns your picture on the social media wall of fame if you can finish the one pound burger by yourself. Each burger, including the one pounder, comes with a side of fries and coleslaw. However, you can pick other options if fries or slaw aren't your side of choice. Waffle fries, onion rings, or any choice of four salads can come as a side. You can even pick a different bun type (croissant, pretzel or gluten free) or add chili or cheese to your fries if you want to upgrade your meal. For the full menu, check out famoushamburger.com/menu.
My option of choice whenever I go is the chicken habanero burger, which is a juicy grilled chicken burger with habanero pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, garlic sauce, hot sauce and sliced jalapeños — a must have for chicken burger lovers that want to try a spicer option.
Whatever kind of burger you like, Famous Hamburger is a restaurant where you have to eat. It's something you won't regret! Like their motto says: "No Fuss, No Muss, Leave the Cooking to Us!!!" The closest restaurant is not but five minutes from campus at 22207 Michigan Ave. in Dearborn. The other locations are 5808 Schaefer Rd. in Dearborn and and 4171 S. Canton Center Rd. in Canton.


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I've got a thing for small towns. Growing up, it was Gaylord, Minnesota. That's where my dad grew up, and I'd regularly visit my grandparents there. The siren went off at noon every day. On Saturday, my grandpa mowed the church lawn, and my grandma put cut flowers on the altar.
These days, I frequent other small towns: Deerwood and Crosby, Minnesota; Platte and Huron, South Dakota; and Gackle, North Dakota.
The lattermost is where I spent last weekend, with my dear friends, Harry and Brenda Krause. (Here's a story I wrote about Gackle last year.) Also Pastor Rick Steele, and all the other folks at Gackle UCC and Emmanuel Lutheran (ELCA) — I preached to the combined congregations on Sunday.
I love Gackle. It's small, and it's struggling. But there's such great community among those who are left. People walk into each other's kitchens to find missing ingredients. When we walked into Dani's Place — the only food and drink in town — during an NDSU game, the place was packed with people and conversation.
Oh, yes, Harry and I hunted, too. In two mornings of set-ups, we only had one group of ducks approach our decoys, and we knocked down two of them. But we had a lot more luck jumping sloughs, and I came home with a cooler full of ducks as a result. Albert, of course, was thrilled.
It was another great trip to Gackle, and I can only hope that they ask me back.


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Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
Candidate should have working knowledge on web services
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Strong Core Java and spring.
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Stuff – Lasith Malinga cheering for the wicket of Jos Buttler, one of his four as Sri Lanka shocked England.
- As well as Sri Lanka's stunning upset of England, there was the enthralling climax in Manchester where centurion Carlos Brathwaite was denied a match-winning six on the boundary in New Zealand's dramatic five-run victory over West Indies, Afghanistan were just 11 runs shy of beating India for the greatest shock in World Cup history, while the unpredictable Pakistan breathed life into their tournament while ending South Africa's miserable campaign.
- With their 4-2 record after six games, lurking beneath England (fourth on eight points) are Bangladesh (fifth on seven), Sri Lanka (sixth on six) and Pakistan (seventh on five), who all kept their semi-final hopes alive by winning their last games against Afghanistan, England and South Africa respectively.
- Defeat would leave England on eight points with two games to play and their place in the semi-finals would become more vulnerable if just one of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Pakistan were to keep winning, though their fate would still be in their hands for their final games against New Zealand (first on 11 points after six games) and India (third on nine after five).
- The Black Caps have three left (against Pakistan, Australia and England) and India four (against West Indies, England, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).
- However, if England were to then lose against India and New Zealand, to qualify from there, Bangladesh would have to win their remaining two games against India and Pakistan; Sri Lanka would need at least two wins from three and a significantly improved run rate from playing South Africa, West Indies and India; and Pakistan, assuming the whole equation is not affected by any abandoned games, would have to win their final three against New Zealand, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and hope the teams above them slip up.


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Los Angeles native cryptid, cosplayer, and queer Asian man. I've been cosplaying longer than I care to admit, and I have a lot of words and feelings about things like creativity, gender, and self image. Somehow, I hope, putting them here will be helpful to someone.
I really like Type-Moon and mobile games. Please tell Fate/Grand Order to return my wallet at its leisure. No rush. There wasn't much in there anyway.