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State Department Inspector General Investigating Keystone XL Contractor ERM's Conflicts of Interest
The Checks and Balances Project has announced that the U.S. State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has launched a conflicts-of-interest investigation into dirty dealings pertaining to the contractor tasked to perform the environmental review for the northern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on behalf of State.
Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group) declared the northern portion of Keystone XL as environmentally safe and sound on behalf of State in March, in defiance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's assessment, among others.
The northern half of Keystone XL will connect to the over 75-percent complete southern half and - if built - will carry Alberta's tar sands bitumen south to Texas refineries, with most of the final product shipped to the highest bidder on the global market. State and eventually President Barack Obama have the final say over the proposal because the northern section of pipeline crosses the international border.
The overarching problem with that ERM assessment, as first revealed on Grist by Brad Johnson: ERM Group was chosen not by the State Dept., but by TransCanada itself. Furthermore, as first revealed on Mother Jones by Andy Kroll, the State Dept. redacted biographical portions of the EIS that pointed to ERM's ongoing close consulting relationship with ERM Group and TransCanada.
"The American public was supposed to get an honest look at the impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline," writes Checks and Balances' Gabe Elsner. "Instead...a fossil fuel contractor, hid its ties from the State Department so they could green light the project on behalf of its oil company clients."
Instead of an honest look, the public got deception, perhaps not surprisingly given ERM's historical contracting relationship with Big Tobacco, as first revealed here on DeSmogBlog. ERM seems to have blatantly lied to the State Dept. - which apparently did no homework of its own, or turned a blind eye at least - and answered "no" to the question shown in the screenshot below.
ERM also told State it was not an energy interest, when the facts say otherwise.
"The State Department question defines an energy interest in part as any company or person engaged in research related to energy development," wrote Eslner. "Yet, ERM has worked for all of the top five oil companies and dozens of other fossil fuel companies. In other words, ERM is clearly an energy interest."
For these reasons, a dozen groups (including DeSmogBlog), ranging from environmental NGOs, faith-based groups and government accountability watchdogs called for the Inspector General to investigate why State allowed TransCanada to choose ERM Group.
OIG Special Agent Pedro Colon, Checks and Balances reported, confirmed OIG is "reviewing the matter" in a voicemail left with Elsner. Not satisfied with Colon's oblique answer, Elsner followed up with OIG via email to ask for more details.
In a May 14 email, Elsner was told the following by Erich Hart, General Counsel to the Inspector General:
It is this email that led Checks and Balances to believe that OIG is engaged in a serious, methodical probe into ERM Group's activities related to the Keystone XL SEIS environmental review. The group questions why the State Department didn't recognize a serious conflict-of-interest in choosing ERM.
The question still remains: will it be a serious investigation or a public relations window dressing act? Time will tell.
ERM Group's Sordid History
ERM Group has a sordid history of green-lighting ecologically perilous projects. Perhaps not surprising given that it is a dues-paying member of Big Oil's lobbying powerhouse, the American Petroleum Institute (API), which spent $7.3 million on lobbying in 2012 and another $8.6 million on lobbying in 2011.
As covered here on DeSmogBlog, ERM declared the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that traverses from Azerbaijan, to Georgia and eventually to Turkey as environmentally and ecologically sound - even though it has proven neither. As also covered here, ERM said the Peru LNG and accompanying pipeline project was also environmentally and ecologically sound - again, even though it has proven neither.
So, unless OIG acts on the investigation it says it has opened and tells State to abide by federal contracting conflicts-of-interest law, it appears Keystone XL will be déjà vu all over again for ERM Group and the Obama Administration.


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The suspects, Olasende Akinsiku, 40, Abiodun Akiniyi, 35, and Tajudeen Lasisi, 40, (pictured above) were arrested following a complaint by a retired Major General to Abba Kyari, the officer in charge of SARS, that he was swindled by the arrested suspects.
Akinsiku, who hails from Ondo state, said their victims that they stole the dollars from their place of work and wanted to convert it into naira at a cheap rate so that the victims will not suspect that the dollar notes were fake.
The graphic artist explained further that he was introduced into the crime by his friend, Abiodun alias Tokunbo Babatunde, the owner of the machine they use to print the fake dollars.
On how they were arrested, Akinsiku said it was when he went to meet the General at Women Development Centre, Agege, to collect another N40,000 with Abiodun that they were arrested by officers from SARS.
The Ewe, Oyo state-born Akiniyi in his confession said Ajibola Ajimson whom he referred to as his mentor introduced him to the General in 2010 and he met the General in Abuja at that time where the general concluded arrangement to come back to Lagos to transport the consignment with bullion van to Abuja.
In order to make the dollars which were neatly packed in a small steel box look real, the group forged a CBN certificate which has the inscription 'Vol: $2.5 million', 'domination' — mixed, Grade A. One, and 'consignee' the name of the retired general.
Abiodun also forged a CBN identity card bearing the name Tunde Bakare (Mr.) with No.011
While confirming the story, the Lagos state Police image maker, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendend of Police, said the suspect, will be arraigned as soon as investigation is concluded and warns youths to shun criminal acts.
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May 13, 2013 at 11:54 am #1302880
Lightest Adjustable Aluminum Trekking poles–what are some of the lightest adjsustable trekking with preferably cork handles?
May 14, 2013 at 9:59 am #1986012No comments?
May 14, 2013 at 10:19 am #1986015Helinox TL
159 for one pole with a length of 125cmMay 14, 2013 at 12:06 pm #1986043Helinox TL is not adjustable…
The GL is but at 204g/pole isn't astoundingly light. Similar weight poles are the Exped 125 or the REI traverse Jr. These two poles are shorter though (125cm vs 145cm max height). If you wrap the traverse jr handle with some bike grip or other cushioning material (the stock plastic is pretty hard) they're a great lightweight aluminum pole.
Beyond those, I don't know of any speciality adjustable pole less than the 12-14oz range. There are collapsable poles like the xenons from CAMP USA and the Z-poles from BD and the aforementioned helinox that are fixed length but shorten for transport that are noticeably lighter, but may not suit your criteria. Even still, those poles are around 4.5-5oz/pole or more depending on length.
May 14, 2013 at 1:31 pm #1986059Fizan Compact or Compact 4
May 14, 2013 at 2:28 pm #1986071I've used women's poles for years to save weight and Leki has some great ones that are adjustable with cork handles. By the way, I'm 6' and 245 lbs and at 49 years old, stumble more than I should and they've never broke, bent, or let me down.
May 14, 2013 at 2:42 pm #1986078MSR UL-3 at 14.4 oz. a pair?
Any comments on these?
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May 14, 2013 at 2:48 pm #1986079Some Helinox ARE adjustable. Look again. Helinox are the lightest aluminum poles on the market. They're pretty cheap also, at $120, for the ones most here would be interested in.
I own the Passport Twist Lock 120cm. They are exactly 10oz (on my scale) and three-piece adjustable, packing down to only 21". If you need longer, the 130cm Ridgeway Twist Locks are 12oz, or 13oz for 135cm.
Since they're distributed by Big Agnes, you can also special order them through REI and get their 100% guaranteed return policy – if they don't work for you, just return them.
They have pretty long foam grips too, so you can probably shave another 0.25oz to 0.5oz off each pole. I didn't bother.
May 14, 2013 at 4:21 pm #1986108From the specs on line :
MSR 204g each
Helinox FL135, 188g each
Fizan Compact 132cm ,158g eachMay 14, 2013 at 6:32 pm #1986137Correct, some helinox are and some aren't adjustable. In the context of the TL model as suggested by someone else and refuted by me, they are not adjustable. The GL is an adjustable model, albeit heavier (as I mentioned and I guess there's an FL model that's slightly lighter that I didn't mention).
Maybe you should read my post again before getting pedantic over a brand you own and telling people they are misinformed. Reading comprehension is your friend.
May 14, 2013 at 6:42 pm #1986138Oh and the tensionlocks are not adjustable. They are collapsible. When extended it is limited to a fixed length. So if used for a tarptent support it can't be adjusted to an appropriate height depending on weather conditions. Some tarps this is easy to work around, others not so much (like the MLD trailstar).
The OP asked for adjustable so try to stick with their requirements and not your own. It's like going to car dealer looking for a sports sedan and the salesmen keeps showing you SUVs. Yeah they both have the same primary purpose, but the secondary features are just as important and wildly different.
May 14, 2013 at 8:36 pm #1986169Several times a year I am in very steep off trail terrain with 100+ lb. pack–so nearly 300 lbs total weight. I need a pole that can take that kind of use, especially when fully extended for very steep x-country downhill with 100+ lb. load. Some moves require a fully extended pole (poles are sometime adjusted to the terrain type or steepness for just a couple of moves) when coming downhill where upwards of 100 lbs. or more force is pushing down on that pole for a moment–a pole failure at that point when the move is so committing and dependent on the pole could cause serious injury.
Add: If the Helinox FL 135 is strong enough, it would appear to be the pole to go with. The Helinox GL 145 seems like the tough pole to go with, but it weighs as much as the MSR UL-3 and I wonder if the push button locking mechanism of the MSR UL-3 might be more robust, faster and easier that the twist lock (which I have had slip many times in wet conditions) to adjust…just thinking out loud here. The MSR UL-3 min length of 43 in. (110cm) is way too long for me in the steep stuff, however…
May 14, 2013 at 9:19 pm #1986182That's a lot of weight! I'd suggest ordering through REI and trying them out and see if they work for you in those situations. If not – send em back. If you don't trust Twist Lock, there's a few Lever Lock models, but they do weigh more. Honestly, if you're dealing with 300 lbs, I probably wouldn't be looking for the lightest weight aluminum poles.
> Maybe you should read my post again before getting pedantic over
> a brand you own and telling people they are misinformed. Reading
> comprehension is your friend.Maybe you should loose the attitude – you're acting pretty rude and coming off pretty abrasive.
Yes, you are misinformed. Looks like a communication/websearch problem – these things happen. There's no such thing as 'TL' on the Big Agnes website (Big Agnes is the US distributor for Helinox poles). Going off available products in the US, I had to assume it meant either Twist Lock or Tension Lock.
The new Helinox models are Passport, Ridgeway, and Causeway. There's no such thing as TL/GL/FL anymore (there might be a few on closeout):
http://www.bigagnes.com/Products/ProductFinder/Helinox/filters/167> Oh and the tensionlocks are not adjustable.
There's one Tension Lock that is adjustable:
http://www.bigagnes.com/Products/Detail/Helinox/PassportTensionLockAdjustableI'd appreciate an apology.
May 14, 2013 at 9:51 pm #1986192I've used my Leki's titanium poles for downhill running, more or less pole vaulting butterfly style. Tweaked the hell out of them when the tips have gotten stuck in rock crevices, more than once. No bends, no breaks. Damn good poles. The new ones are advertised at 19 ounces.
Carbon are 15.8 ounces.May 15, 2013 at 7:44 am #1986301…has a 250 lb. 'weight limit' on the Helinox Australia website. I'm hoping that the 'more robust' FL 135 (Ridgeline FL, in the US, I believe) would be find to 300 lbs or so as it is advertised as more robust than the FL 120 (Passport FL 120 on helinox.com). It's very confusing as the Helinox.com and helinox.com.au sites and then the Big Agnes site don't seem to all be using the same terminology, but
May 15, 2013 at 8:40 am #1986318They used to use the same terminology. The TL/FL/GL are the outgoing models – models that are no longer being produced. Last winter, Big Agnes and Helinox.com used to have those models on their website. I'd be surprised if Helinox.com.au doesn't update their website to reflect the new models after spring. My guess is that it's a seasonal issue. Being on the other side of the world, you guys are a half-season behind, so to speak.
I bought my poles 2 years ago, so I actually own the Featherlite 120 (FL 120).
May 15, 2013 at 7:58 pm #1986594Went with these due to the fact that they are only 14 oz./pair and the strongest pole Helinox offers (and I get a pro-deal). Are there lighter poles? Yes, but I need some compromise of lightweight with a great deal of strength and I think these are most likely to fit what I do. 95% of the time a much lighter pole would probably work. These have the groove lock mechanism, so are very unlikely to slip after making an length adjustment as well as being very strong overall. Also, they will adjust shorter than the 110cm advertised per a Big Agnes rep that had them in hand while on the phone with me today–something I need on super steep stuff on regular occasions. On the flipside-they extend out to a quite long 145 cm for steep downhill or other situations. All in all, probably the best pole for me.
Thanks for all the help and advice folks!
May 26, 2013 at 10:52 am #1989886The BA passport 120 poles are only the lightest because they are a very short 120cm length.
If this works for you, you are fortunate. It is probably too short for anyone over 5'8", which excludes the average height male and up . And will be lilkely too short for most anyone when going steeply downhill where they need to extend for extra length.
After 400+ miles of decent usage, one of my Fizan compact poles now has some cracks. Not just the outer tube that is subject to expansion forces from the expander (2 cracks at this point) , but the top of lower inner tubing where the aluminum bushing insert is that holds the expander is as well. To me this indicates the problem likely came from a stumble that put a high bending load on the pole lower joint. The outer could possibly be attributed to work hardening and fatigue, but there is no reason for a crack on the inner without a bending force where the bushing goes in to it.
Light weight, and durability, are tradeoffs. Other that this, Ive been completly satisfied with Fizan poles. No slippage problems ever,and we have 2 prs.
May 26, 2013 at 12:25 pm #1989914120cm works just fine for me at 5'10, including when scree skiing down steep slopes. If you need longer, they also have 130cm at 12oz (~same length and weight as the Fizan Compacts when the same features are included – straps and basket). If you can make 130cm work, most people would be able to make 120cm work – it's more about technique than length.
May 26, 2013 at 12:50 pm #1989920Its about comfort, and ability to pitch shelters, for me. 120 just isnt long enough.
I could get by with a mop handle, but why when I can purchase what I want?
The 130 they have now are just the tension ones with one adjustable section. A hybrid sort of thing. They dont list the minimum height, but its probably too tall to support some shelters that take a short ~90 cm pole somewhere, like the Hexamid twin.
I thought they used to make a longer twist lock, if they did they dont anymore.
Its unfortunate that ruta locura and gossamer gear cant keep UL poles in stock. Shows there is a real need for a player in that market that has their act together. These guys dont. Neither does Locus gear yet unfortunately, but time will tell.
May 26, 2013 at 1:03 pm #1989922I'm 5'11" and use fixed length 120mm poles. As with all things, it comes down to fit and personal preference. YMMV.
May 26, 2013 at 3:48 pm #1989948I can understand shelter needs. 120cm is a little short for a few specific shelters on the market (i.e. MLD mids).
They still have 3-section 130cm 12oz poles:
https://www.bigagnes.com/Products/Detail/Helinox/RidgelineTwistLockTheir product line is extremely confusing. They've broken it into 3 categories, with no obvious categorization. You have to look at each product category to find what you're looking for.
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Meroitic alphabet
Meroitic |
Type |
Alphabet with inherent vowel /a/
Languages | Meroitic and possibly Old Nubian |
Time period
300 BC to 600 AD |
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
ISO 15924 | Mero, 100 : Meroitic HieroglyphsMerc, 101 : Meroitic Cursive |
Egyptian hieroglyphs 32 c. BCE
The Meroitic script is an alphabetic script, used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Meroë in Sudan. It was developed in the Napatan Period (about 700–300 BCE), and first appears in the 2nd century BCE. For a time, it was also possibly used to write the Nubian language of the successor Nubian kingdoms. Its use was described by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (about 50 BCE).[citation needed]
Although the Meroitic alphabet continued to be used by the Nubian kingdoms that succeeded the Kingdom of Meroë, it was replaced by the Greek alphabet with the Christianization of Nubia, in the sixth century. The Nubian form of the Greek alphabet retained three Meroitic letters.
The script was deciphered in 1909 by Francis Llewellyn Griffith, a British Egyptologist, based on the Meroitic spellings of Egyptian names. However, the Meroitic language itself has yet to be translated. In late 2008, the first complete royal dedication was found,[1] which may help confirm or refute some of the current hypotheses.
The longest inscription found is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Form and values[edit]
There were two graphic forms of the Meroitic alphabet: monumental hieroglyphs, and a cursive.[2] The majority of texts are cursive. Unlike Egyptian writing, there was a simple one-to-one correspondence between the two forms of Meroitic, except that in the cursive form, consonants are joined in ligatures to a following vowel i.
The direction of cursive writing was from right to left, top to bottom, while the monumental form was written top to bottom in columns going right to left. Monumental letters were oriented to face the beginning of the text, a feature inherited from their hieroglyphic origin.
Being primarily alphabetic, the Meroitic script worked differently than Egyptian hieroglyphs. Some scholars, such as Harald Haarmann, believe that the vowel letters of Meroitic are evidence for an influence of the Greek alphabet in its development.
There were 23 letters in the Meroitic alphabet, including four vowels. In the transcription established by Griffith and later Hintze, they are:
- a appears only at the beginning of a word
- e was used principally in foreign names
- i and o were used like vowels in the Latin or Greek alphabets.
The fourteen or so consonants are conventionally transcribed:
- ya, wa, ba, pa, ma, na, ra, la, cha, kha, ka, qa, sa, da.
These values were established from evidence such as Egyptian names borrowed into Meroitic. That is, the Meroitic letter which looks like an owl in monumental inscriptions, or like a numeral three in cursive Meroitic, we transcribe as m, and it is believed to have been pronounced as [m]. However, this is a historical reconstruction, and while m is not in much doubt, the pronunciations of some of the other letters are much less certain.
The three vowels i a o were presumably pronounced /i a u/. Kh is thought to have been a velar fricative, as the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach. Ch was a similar sound, perhaps uvular as g in Dutch dag or palatal as in German ich. Q was perhaps a uvular stop, as in Arabic Qatar. S may have been like s in sun. An /n/ was omitted in writing when it occurred before any of several other consonants within a word. D is uncertain. Griffith first transcribed it as r, and Rowan believes that was closer to its actual value. It corresponds to Egyptian and Greek /d/ when initial or after an /n/ (unwritten in Meroitic), but to /r/ between vowels, and does not seem to have affected the vowel a the way the other alveolar obstruents t n s did.
Comparing late documents with early ones, it is apparent that the sequences sel- and nel-, which Rowan takes to be /sl/ and /nl/ and which commonly occurred with the determiner -l-, assimilated over time to t and l (perhaps /t/ and /ll/).
The only punctuation mark was a word and phrase divider of two to three dots.
Meroitic was a type of alphabet called an abugida: The vowel /a/ was not normally written; rather it was assumed whenever a consonant was written alone. That is, the single letter m was read /ma/. All other vowels were overtly written: the letters mi, for example, stood for the syllable /mi/, just as in the Latin alphabet. This system is broadly similar to the Indian abugidas that arose around the same time as Meroitic.
Griffith and Hintze[edit]
Griffith identified the essential abugida nature of Meroitic when he deciphered the script in 1911. He noted in 1916 that certain consonant letters were never followed by a vowel letter, and varied with other consonant letters. He interpreted them as syllabic, with the values ne, se, te, and to. Ne, for example, varied with na. Na could be followed by the vowels i and o to write the syllables ni and no, but was never followed by the vowel e.
He also noted that the vowel e was often omitted. It often occurred at the ends of Egyptian loanwords that had no final vowel in Coptic. He believed that e functioned both as a schwa [ə] and a "killer" mark that marked the absence of a vowel. That is, the letter m by itself was read [ma], while the sequence me was read [mə] or [m]. This is how Ethiopic works today. Later scholars such as Hitze and Rilly accepted this argument, or modified it so that e could represent either [e] or schwa–zero.
It has long been puzzling to epigraphers why the syllabic principles that underlie the script, where every consonant is assumed to be followed by a vowel a, should have special letters for consonants followed by e. Such a mixed abugida–syllabary is not found among the abugidas of India, nor in Ethiopic. Old Persian cuneiform script is somewhat similar, with more than one inherent vowel, but is not an abugida because the non-inherent vowels are written with full letters, and are often redundantly written after an inherent vowel other than /a/.
Millet and Rowan[edit]
Millet (1970) proposed that Meroitic e was in fact an epenthetic vowel used to break up Egyptian consonant clusters that could not be pronounced in the Meroitic language, or appeared after final Egyptian consonants such as m and k which could not occur finally in Meroitic. Rowan (2006) takes this further and proposes that the glyphs se, ne, and te were not syllabic at all, but stood for consonants /s/, /n/, and /t/ at the end of a word or morpheme (as when followed by the determiner -l; she proposes Meroitic finals were restricted to alveolar consonants such as these. An example is the Coptic word ⲡⲣⲏⲧ prit "the agent", which in Meroitic was transliterated perite (pa-e-ra-i-te). If Rowan is right and this was pronounced /pᵊrit/, then Meroitic would have been a fairly typical abugida. She proposes that Meroitic had three vowels, /a i u/, and that /a/ was raised to something like [e] or [ə] after the alveolar consonants /t s n/, explaining the lack of orthographic t, s, n followed by the vowel letter e.
Very rarely does one find the sequence CVC, where the C's are both labials or both velars. This is similar to consonant restrictions found throughout the Afro-Asiatic language family, suggesting to Rowan that there is a good chance Meroitic was an Afro-Asiatic language like Egyptian.
Rowan is not convinced that the system was completely alphabetic, and suggests that the glyph te also may have functioned as a determinative for place names, as it frequently occurs at the end of place names that are known not to have a /t/ in them. Similarly, ne may have marked royal or divine names.
Meroitic scripts, both Hieroglyphic and Cursive, were added to the Unicode Standard in January, 2012 with the release of version 6.1.
The Unicode block for Meroitic Hieroglyphs is U+10980–U+1099F. The Unicode block for Meroitic Cursive is U+109A0–U+109FF.
Meroitic Hieroglyphs[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) |
U+1098x | 𐦀 | 𐦁 | 𐦂 | 𐦃 | 𐦄 | 𐦅 | 𐦆 | 𐦇 | 𐦈 | 𐦉 | 𐦊 | 𐦋 | 𐦌 | 𐦍 | 𐦎 | 𐦏 |
U+1099x | 𐦐 | 𐦑 | 𐦒 | 𐦓 | 𐦔 | 𐦕 | 𐦖 | 𐦗 | 𐦘 | 𐦙 | 𐦚 | 𐦛 | 𐦜 | 𐦝 | 𐦞 | 𐦟 |
Meroitic Cursive[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) |
U+109Ax | 𐦠 | 𐦡 | 𐦢 | 𐦣 | 𐦤 | 𐦥 | 𐦦 | 𐦧 | 𐦨 | 𐦩 | 𐦪 | 𐦫 | 𐦬 | 𐦭 | 𐦮 | 𐦯 |
U+109Bx | 𐦰 | 𐦱 | 𐦲 | 𐦳 | 𐦴 | 𐦵 | 𐦶 | 𐦷 | 𐦼 | 𐦽 | 𐦾 | 𐦿 | ||||
U+109Cx | 𐧀 | 𐧁 | 𐧂 | 𐧃 | 𐧄 | 𐧅 | 𐧆 | 𐧇 | 𐧈 | 𐧉 | 𐧊 | 𐧋 | 𐧌 | 𐧍 | 𐧎 | 𐧏 |
U+109Dx | 𐧒 | 𐧓 | 𐧔 | 𐧕 | 𐧖 | 𐧗 | 𐧘 | 𐧙 | 𐧚 | 𐧛 | 𐧜 | 𐧝 | 𐧞 | 𐧟 | ||
U+109Ex | 𐧠 | 𐧡 | 𐧢 | 𐧣 | 𐧤 | 𐧥 | 𐧦 | 𐧧 | 𐧨 | 𐧩 | 𐧪 | 𐧫 | 𐧬 | 𐧭 | 𐧮 | 𐧯 |
U+109Fx | 𐧰 | 𐧱 | 𐧲 | 𐧳 | 𐧴 | 𐧵 | 𐧶 | 𐧷 | 𐧸 | 𐧹 | 𐧺 | 𐧻 | 𐧼 | 𐧽 | 𐧾 | 𐧿 |
Notes |
As a Meroitic Unicode font you may use Aegyptus which can be downloaded from Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts.
See also[edit]
- The constructed language Nuwaubic, sometimes called Meroitic.
- ^ "Sudan statues show ancient script" (BBC 16 December 2008)
- ^ Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
General references[edit]
- Rowan, Kirsty (2006). "A phonological investigation into the Meroitic 'syllable' signs ne and se and their implications on the e sign". SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 14. pp. 131–167. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
Additional reading[edit]
Török, László (1998). The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meróitic Civilization (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik). New York: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-10448-8.


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Cake happier than ever at Troubadour stand
Friday night I learned a valuable lesson about Cake: when the band advertises "An Evening With Cake" beginning at 8 p.m., that doesn't mean "An Evening With Cake ... with an opener." It means Cake only, for two hours, so don't be late.
Not that I had anticipated an opener for the band's first of four nights at the Troubadour; I know how Cake rolls, and what "evening with" billing implies. But I had hoped against hope that there might be one anyway to buy me some time while I sat in some terrible Orange County-to-L.A. traffic, made excruciatingly worse by relentless rain.
Around 8 p.m., I'd barely reached the exit for Santa Monica Boulevard, so by the time I was able to park and jostle myself into a decent spot inside the packed West Hollywood venue, the band was already leading the voracious crowd through the final catchy chorus of "Wheels" -- which sadly (for me) marked the end of the evening's first set.
Based on the beaming smiles and excited chatter of fans during intermission -- not to mention the unbridled energy of the group during the next 50 minutes of tongue-in-cheek tunes -- I'd bet the show's first half was also a smash, a triumphant return to top form after seven years of downtime leading up to the release of the quintet's sixth studio album, Showroom of Compassion.
I'd caught Cake several times during that extended break at various West Coast festivals and more recently at the Fox Theater in Pomona. But none of these gigs saw frontman John McCrea so jovial and charismatic as he was during Friday's second-set openers, "Opera Singer" and " Love You Madly," two funk-steeped mega-jams from 2001's Comfort Eagle.
Perhaps the facetiously-tempered singer was driven purely by the outpouring from the clearly elated crowd, as he gyrated and sashayed flamboyantly through a hat-trick of new cuts: "Mustache Man (Wasted)," laden with trademark Vibra-Slap rattle and mariachi horn; the honky-tonk-gaited "Bound Away"; and the culturally critical chant "Sick of You." Scattered comments, however, indicated that McCrea and the gang have undergone a sort of rebirth and vivification with this latest album and imminent tour.
"We released this album on our own independent label and we thought we'd be squashed like a bug, but we weren't," McCrea said with his hand on his heart, "and we think that's because of you." That drew rousing, supportive cheers before he led fans through a cheerful, split-audience singalong during the latter song.
"(This) next song (also) was released on our very own small label ... you may not know that," the singer added before strumming the quirky first notes of "Haze of Love," from the band's 1994 debut Motorcade of Generosity. It was a pointed remark that seemed to confirm the band's rejuvenated happiness as a liberated, fan-fueled force, rather than the major label hit-maker it tried to be for the bulk of the past two decades.
That said, the group's indelible chemistry -- McCrea's croon-to-rap vocals flowing smoothly over Vince DiFiore's rapturous trumpet (right) and keyboard lines, Xan McCurdy's perfectly robust guitar licks and the classic-rock/funk fusion of bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi -- reached a fever pitch during the evening's more popular show-closing hits, "Never There" and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."
Without the longstanding success of such essential tunes -- not forgetting still-riveting encore choices: "War Pigs" (a brass-heavy cover of the coveted Black Sabbath staple), "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" and "The Distance" -- the Sacramento outfit might never have been able to pull off a sold-out, four-night stint at the Troubadour after seven years of near-silence. In a way, these gigs (continuing through Monday) are Cake's undercutting homage to The Man. Thanks for the boost -- but, with smirks on our faces, we'll take it from here.
Cake at the Troubadour, West Hollywood, Feb. 18, 2011
First set: ... Wheels (anyone able to fill in the blanks?)
Second set: Opera Singer / Love You Madly / Mustache Man (Wasted) / Bound Away / Sick of You / Haze Of Love / Never There / Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Encore: War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover) / Stickshifts and Safetybelts / The Distance
Photos also by David Hall, for The Orange County Register.
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These include Cubans, Iranians, Sudanese, and Syrians, whose governments are federally designated "state sponsors of terrorism." As Customs and Border Protection's "2011 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics" reports, 198 Sudanese were nabbed while penetrating the USA. Between fiscal years 2002 and 2011, such arrests totaled 1,207. (These figures cover all U.S. borders, although 96.3 percent of detainees crossed from Mexico.)
Conversely, it was also reported that the Obama-funded Syrian "rebels" tested chemical weapons.
Among Iranians, 276 were caught in FY 2011, while 2,310 were captured over the previous 10 years. Iran also backs Hezbollah, hates "The Great Satan" — its name for the United States — and craves atomic weapons.
The other 10 "countries of interest" are Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen and:
- Afghanistan, the Taliban's stronghold and current theater of America's longest war. (Afghans halted in FY 2011: 106; prior 10 years: 681.)
- Nigeria. The land of underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab suffers under Shariah law in its northern provinces. (Respective data: 591 and 4,525.)
- Pakistan, hideaway of the Pakistani Taliban and the late Osama bin Laden (525 and 10,682).
- Saudi Arabia, generous benefactor of radical imams and militant mosques worldwide; birthplace of 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers (123 and 986).
- Somalia. Home of Indian Ocean pirates and al-Qaida's al-Shabaab franchise. In October 1993, Islamic terrorists there shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. soldiers and dragged several of their bodies through Mogadishu's streets (323 and 1,524).
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight last November published "A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence, and Terror at the Southwest Border." This study offers chilling portraits of some who consider the southern border America's welcome mat.
- On Jan. 11, 2011, U.S. agents discovered Said Jaziri in a car trunk trying to enter near San Diego. Jaziri traveled from his native Tunisia to Tijuana, he said, and paid smugglers $5,000 to sneak him across the border. France previously convicted and deported him for assaulting a Muslim whom he considered insufficiently devout. In 2006, Jaziri advocated killing Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for creating what Jaziri called sacrilegious drawings of the Prophet Muhammed.
- Somalia's Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane told authorities in 2011 that he earned up to $75,000 per day smuggling East Africans into America. His clients included three al-Shabaab terrorists. As the House paper states: "Dhakane cautioned that each of these individuals is ready to die for their cause . . ."
- On June 4, 2010, Anthony Joseph Tracy was convicted of conspiring to slip aliens into America. Tracy told federal investigators that Cuban diplomats used his travel agency in Kenya to transfer 272 Somalis to Havana. They proceeded to Belize, through Mexico, and then trespassed into the USA.
Tracy claims he refused to assist al-Shabaab. But officials discovered an email in which he casually wrote: "…i helped a lot of Somalis and most are good but there are some who are bad and i leave them to ALLAH…"
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Suggestions for 5 gall fresh??? Hello, I was hoping someone would be able to help me out on fixing up my new tank by giving me some suggestions. I just got an eclipse 5 gall. tank for my office, and I'm not really sure what to put in it. I would really like variety and action in the tank so I was thinking about 4 long finned blue danios and 2 kuhli loaches, but is that too much for that small tank? I also like dwarf gouramis, but one on those and a couple of algae eaters just sounds a little boring. A dwarf puffer would be great, but very messy, and I can't see having a 5 gall tank for one 2 inch fish. I've looked and looked online and just can't figure out anything for this small of a tank, but there's no way I can get a larger one (as it is I told my boss it was a 2.5 gall and she bought it! :D ) Any ideas or suggestions? (By the way the base water will be RO water which I can then treat depending on what the fish will need) Thanks a lot! Drag |
Welcome.:wave: You can't have danios in a 5 gallons. They need swimming space to roam around and a 5 gallons does not provide sufficient room area for that. You might want a trio of male guppies or a betta.:) Both options can fit but this does not mean you can fit both. |
do it vivarium stile and put in some firebellied newts |
:oops: ooooohhhhh... And here I was thinking that the two loaches would be the problem. Loaches and bettas are OK together? I just lost my betta Lilly after two years, that might be an option. :? |
go with a big school of khuli loaches ... like 9 |
Thank you. You've both given me some ideas to play around with. I had thought about the vivarium, but while my boss is OK with fish I don't know if she'd agree to the salamanders. Would adding a couple of inverts be pushing it? Maybe a snail, some ghost shrmp, or an african dwarf frog? My last betta LOVED my mystery snail (no joke, he would hover next to the snail staring at it until the snail rubbed under his chin with a feeler. I was beginning to wondering if I would end up with some sort of 'snish' or 'finail') |
Ooohhh, 9 loaches, can that be done in that small tank? that sounds great too! |
go for it ... u could do a small crab like a mosaic crab ... i hav 1 with a betta in my locker at school. dwarf frogs are fine 2. just give the crab his own little cave |
9 kuhli loaches in a 5 gallon tank is like packing sardines. They get up to 4 inches long and 2 of them would be too much for a 5 gallon tank. Anything with a crab is asking for the crab to make lunch out of your fish. The best I can suggest for a 5 gallon would be 2-3 fancy guppies and maybe 3-5 shrimp. Maybe a betta with some shrimp but the betta will likely nip at them or even eat them. A betta with 1 loach could work but Kuhli need at least 3 to be happy and be less aggressive. Maybe a skunk botia but they have a reputation of being aggressive and fin nippers. I would stick with small ornamental fish and some shrimp and maybe a snail or two and that is pushing it. I don't remember if the system you are talking about has a built in filter but if it does it will allow for a little more room for shrimp and/or snails. A small amount of Java moss would also give some hiding spots for the shrimp to be happy and possibly breed some. |
Man do some awesome guppies! You can get amazing colors and if you put a few females in there you will have LOTS of guppies in no time! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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In this compelling biography, Mosier reveals the man behind the military legend, showing how Grant's creativity and genius off the battlefield shaped him into one of our nation's greatest military leaders.
©2006 John Mosier; (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.
"Mosier has written the best appraisal of Grant's generalship ever to appear....Mosier has gone farther than anyone in proclaiming Grant to have been a military genius, one who in a number of ways surpassed both Napoleon and Wellington." (Charles Bracelen Flood, author of Grant and Sherman and Lee: The Last Years)
"A solid description of the most effective Union general. Grant has been consistently underestimated and Mosier helps correct that." (Newt Gingrich)
"Worthy biograhpy"
One for the historians. It certainly helps to have read Grant's Memoirs before coming to this. The narration is fine and the author wastes no time in setting the tone for the book; praise for Grant, at times almost gushingly so. The author makes continued use of comparing Grant to Wellington and Napolean in order for us to appreciate his acheivements. Its a technique that works well but does begin to grate after the fifth or sixth use.
John Mosier has written an acurrate and enjoyable assessment of Grant the General. The major downfall of the book is the author's strange ommission to skip over alot of the action after Grant took charge of all the Union armies.
The writing style of the author is a delight to hear with the spoken word which is not always the case, even with well written works. In addition, I found the research and scholarship compelling. I understand that the scope of the book was limited to Grant's "generalship", however it would have been interesting to follow through with the author's more thorough analysis of his presidency. As the author admits, our present day perception of Grant is one of a very good general and a "poor" president. We are left with a very brief, yet decidedly more positive assessment of his presidency based upon a few facts which on the suface appear plausible. This has left me with the desire to find other biographies of Grant that cover his presidency more in depth but perhaps with the same slant as the author's. In sum, I found the work both scholarly and captivating. It may be a bit thin for the advanced enthusiast, however I strongly recommend this to beginning or average level scholars of history and/or military matters.
"Grant Reevaluated"
Mosier takes a fresh look at one of America's most enigmatic and influential military leaders. Most historians tend to view Grant as a competent but singularly unremarkable military strategist, who won the war using persistent blunt-force application of superior numbers and resources. Mosier turns these oft-repeated bromides about Grant on their ear, arguing that he was a brilliant strategic thinker who used combined force of arms in coordinated thrusts to topple the Confederacy. That he didn't succeed in doing so much sooner is attributable directly to the political military establishment, and in particular, the Machiavellian machinations of Henry Hallick.
A fascinating "high-level" read about Grant the general. If you're looking for excruciating details on all of the major battles he fought, this isn't the work for you. But if you want to understand Grant's strategy and how it shaped the outcome of the war and the organization of the American military, this is a must read.
"Of substance and factual"
Well done bio of Grant which covers the war years well and provides introspective to the man before military life and as a US President. Especially recommended for Civil War enthusiasts regardless of the side your rootin for! SOme interesting links to R.E.Lee prior to the CW.
"Amazing person"
This was an excellent book detailing the life of General Grant and the less successful President Grant. As a general, we was uniquely qualified to lead an army at that time in history. The author does an excellent job helping you to understand who Grant was and how he thought. While his presidency was less than stellar, he still had some successes and had a great challenge in trying to reconcile the country. This book is well worth the time.
"Grant deserves better"
Despite its excellent reviews, I found this book to be so dull that I fell asleep every time I put the ear buds in. Most of the info was old hat. I did learn he was only 5 ft 5 in. tall. Story: disappointing. Narrator: a sleeping pill