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The Daily Dog: A Crime in Progress

On Sunday, USA Today reported that Donald Trump is close to announcing the repeal of another Obama-era policy. This time, Trump is expected to roll back restrictions on the sale of military-grade weaponry and equipment to domestic police forces. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may make the reversal official as early as today while he addresses a national meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police.

The move comes as no surprise under the current regime, as Trump has attempted to consolidate power and routinely ignores the recommendations of expert panels. The existing policy, implemented by President Obama in the wake of the Ferguson Riots, demonstrated the sound and rational reform-oriented policymaking that America benefitted from prior to Trump. Following Ferguson, The Task Force on Twenty-first Century Policing suggested that state and local officials “minimize the appearance of a military operation” when policing the nation’s cities and towns.

President Obama issued an executive order in 2015 banning the sale of armored vehicles, large caliber weaponry, and other military style gear to the country’s police forces. In executing the ban, Obama reasoned that domestic police could build better policies in their communities by not appearing as an “occupying force.” A growing number of Americans perceive local law enforcement agencies as overbearing militarized units that take over their towns and neighborhoods — instead of securing them.

Trump flashes the White Power symbol to his supporters.

In his finite infantile wisdom, Trump has decided that the nation needs an occupying force. On Sunday, while American families were struggling to survive Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Trump was tweeting about law enforcement books, his Mexican Wall, and yet another campaign rally in Missouri. While he stokes his dwindling Middle America base with racially motivated claims against immigrants and the dangers represented by Mexico, the statistics do not support his need for the wall and America does not need a domestic militia to prevent an influx of Mexican crime on the nation’s streets.

According to Clements Worldwide, an international risk management and insurance leader, the United States does hold the highest overall crime rate among all nations. If Trump wants to build a wall, perhaps Mexicans will rest easier at night knowing it will prevent the American crime wave from flowing south.

Additionally, United Nations’ crime data do not support Trump’s claims about Mexico’s alleged dangers. The United States ranks 16th among all nations for the rate of assaults, while Mexico comes in 30 places down the list. The rape rate is also higher, with the U.S. ranked in the top five nations worldwide and Mexico coming in at 24. Robbery rates in the two countries are similar, but again, the United States edges its neighbor by a few points.

In fact, the only crime rate that is higher in Mexico than in the United States is homicide. The U.S. ranks 31st in the world, but Mexico is just outside the top ten at 12. However, according to some sources, the Mexican homicide rate is fueled by intergang murders that typically would not spill across the border to affect innocent Americans.

The crimes that plague America are not large group crimes. Robberies, rapes, and assaults are individual crimes that only occasionally have multiple perpetrators. They are crimes that can be most effectively prevented with consistent community policing policies — not tanks and military tactics. America does not need police forces that march the streets in riot gear to catch a petty criminal who stole a car GPS unit and other individual and personal crimes are solved by small units of investigators — not armies.

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“All units, respond to Little Susie’s Lemonade Stand. Billy is shoplifting paper cups again.”

Trump’s militarization of police and opening the doors for tactical gear sales has one objective: to stop, control, and silence large scale opposition. His goals have treacherous overtones of policing group protests and criminalizing First Amendment protected gatherings. Tiananmen Square demonstrated to the world in 1989 the evil of silencing protest with force. Trump’s policy reversal will tighten his already suffocating noose on the First Amendment.

America is facing a treacherous path in the coming years. Donald Trump is undoing 240 years of democracy building in a single term and he is preparing for an even greater assault on America and rape of its freedoms and values. The next election cycle in 2020 will arrive more quickly that most voters think and Trump has not stopped campaigning since 2015.

Once Trump has the police armed with crowd suppression tools, capable of murdering, maiming, or otherwise disabling masses of protesters, an election in three years is at risk. He has already surrounded himself and installed family and friends in the White House. Even the destructive force of a natural disaster cannot suppress Trump’s egotistical desire for power, attention, and title.

With Trump, America faces the looming risk of a national and socio-political disaster of epic proportions: the first coup in the country’s history. Trump is just the type of tantrum-throwing child-king who, facing a loss in 2020 would refuse to step down. When that happens, if Trump’s wall has been built, Mexicans will be the only ones who feel safe, because on the other side, Donald Trump will have murdered the democratic ideals, dreams, and souls of 300 million freedom-loving Americans.

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The Daily Dog: Late Night Crusader

Everyone has a voice and everyone with a voice needs a platform in which to express that voice. For the Idea Dogs, that platform is our daily observations and opinions of the decline of America expressed through our words, phrases, rudimentary graphics, and sometimes expletives here and on Twitter. We reach out in hopes that someone listens, shares, discusses, or even rejects our point of view because we are concerned about the future.

Some platforms are more powerful and provide a wider audience for a voice. Traditional news commentators may have an Op/Ed page. Radio hosts commandeer airwaves. Talking heads and pundits have the cable news outlets.

Jimmy Kimmel is a writer and comedian with his own show on late night television — “Jimmy Kimmel Live” — that is approaching a 15th season. He reaches an audience of 2.5 million viewers and has another 1.5 million followers on Twitter. Kimmel has been around the Hollywood block a time or two, but he is something more than a jaded west coast celebrity. He is a human and a father, with a voice, and he has an incredible platform to use how he pleases.

In May, Kimmel revealed his own family’s personal healthcare crisis. Almost immediately after the birth of their son William, Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearny learned that the boy had been born with a congenital heart defect. The condition, known as tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, involves a malfunctioning heart valve and a hole in the heart wall. Without rapid treatment, surgical care, and long term monitoring and additional procedures, it is a fatal diagnosis.

Following his son’s first surgery to correct the deadly heart defect, Kimmel took his emotions and his voice to his platform. Three months ago, the comedian gave a long 13-minute monologue to his live and television audiences and expressed how grateful he and his family were that doctors had been able to save his infant son.

Then Kimmel did something incredible. He made his personal struggle a universal appeal. He took on the Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the entire Republican establishment out to dissect and destroy Obamacare, not because he had to, but because it was the right thing to do for America.

Kimmel reached across the airwaves and explained that prior to elimination of pre-existing conditions regulations, a baby born with a congenital defect like his son’s would not live long enough even to have treatment rejected. An emotional Kimmel brought the message home that a faultless child should not be denied life because of an insurer’s administrative policy against pre-existing conditions.

Since then, Kimmel has maintained his rallying cry against GOP efforts to eliminate or gut Obamacare. This week, as Trump and Congress try yet again — after several failed attempts — to kill a law that polls suggest most Americans want, Kimmel has taken on the senator responsible for the latest repeal push.

Tuesday night, Kimmel opened his show with a scathing rant against the GOP and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who is leading the current “amendment” to dismantle Obamacare. Kimmel said that Cassidy had lied directly to his face about efforts to revamp the health care law and that he and GOP leaders were intentionally misleading about its impacts.

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Who would you believe: The father on the left or the creepy guy on the right?

Cassidy countered Wednesday morning with another lie about his legislation’s coverage and the future of healthcare. He claimed that more people would be covered under his proposal and that pre-existing conditions would continue to be covered. Neither of those two statements is completely accurate.

Also Wednesday, a report by Avalere Health was made public and revealed some of the funding problems with Cassidy’s bill and the senator’s claims. According to both Avalere and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, federal health care funding would decline drastically if the Cassidy bill passes — up to $4 trillion over the next fifteen years. Additionally, the vote is being pushed through Congress so quickly that the Congressional Budget Office will not even have time to conduct a study or make estimates of the law’s effects.

Throughout the day Wednesday, GOP Obamacare opponents railed against Kimmel for his lack of understanding and inaccurate representations of the current repeal efforts. However, independent analysts support Kimmel’s assessment, adding to the credibility problem facing the Republican Party.

Whether the Cassidy amendments are helpful or not is only one question in a string of indefensible actions by the GOP. If the proposed bill is legitimate and beneficial, why is the GOP trying to force it through Congress like meat through a sausage grinder? Why is it that no Republican can answer for the desperate urgency to make repeal bills law without the usual time and consideration given to other Washington projects?

During the last repeal attempts, bill signatories and Congressional members at large did not even have time to read the proposed legislation before it went to a vote. America’s leaders must show more concern for the nation’s people than to vote blindly — and ignorantly — on bills with life or death consequences.

Jimmy Kimmel and his wife do not deserve the blow that fate has dealt them, and the same is true for their newborn son who faces a life of obstacles. No parent, child, or family should face the heartache, hardship, or uncertainty of whether a young life will blossom because of any congenital disease or defect. Ultimately, no American should ever wonder if his life will be cut short because the government decided to funnel tax cuts to the wealthy in trade for the basic human right of health care.

Kimmel is fortunate in that he has a voice, but he is even more fortunate that he has a powerful platform in which to apply that voice for good. It is a reminder to each of us, to not be silent, to not be afraid, and to not accept a government that refuses to care for its people. It is an inspiration to raise our voices and find our own platforms, no matter whom or how many ears they reach.

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Ken Richards, the Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2016, talks to Il Bioeconomista

mcpartners-160602-51-copy1“It is great recognition of where Leaf has got to in the bioeconomy in a very short space of time. It is also recognition of our compelling technology.” Ken Richards, CEO of Leaf Resources, who has been voted by our readers as the most innovative bioeconomy CEO 2016, talks to Il Bioeconomista.

In this interview Richards talks about the achievements of its company, its team and the Australian bioeconomy.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

First of all, congratulations for the recognition as The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2016. What is innovation in the bioeconomy, from your point of view?

Thank you. I look at the list compiled and see 9 other fabulous companies progressing the bio-economy in wonderful ways led by gutsy, innovative, CEOs and am proud that Leaf Resources is included in such quality company.

Around the world, significant steps are being taken to move from today’s fossil-based ‘black’ economy to a more sustainable ‘green’ economy. The bioeconomy is all about replacing fossil-based chemicals.

In our section of the bioeconomy, the biorefinery process consists of two main parts: pretreatment; the breaking down of the biomass to cellulosic sugars, and fermentation;  the conversion of those sugars to valuable renewable chemicals. I find it interesting that some of man’s newest science, DNA and synthetic biology, combines with man’s oldest industrial activity fermentation to provide the new wave of solutions that exist today.

Developments in the bioeconomy are of huge importance to society. The USA academy of Sciences has stated that: “The industrialisation of biology will be as important in the next 50 years to economic growth as semiconductors have been over the last 50 yrs.”

And what is the innovation of Leaf Resources?

Leaf Resources innovation is it proprietary Glycell process which effectively and efficiently breaks down plant biomass into cheap, clean cellulosic sugars and lignin, the engine room of the bioeconomy.

The key to our process is glycerol, a waste product from biodiesel manufacturing. The glycerol delivers outstanding physical results, higher cellulose recovery and much quicker conversion to sugars, but the absolute break through is the ability to recover the glycerol at a higher purity and resell it at a profit.

When the bi-products are added back, Glycell can produce cellulosic sugars at around US$50/tonne compared to other sugar sources over US$200/tonne. Cellulosic sugars are a major feedstock for green, renewable biobased chemicals, bio-plastics and biofuels, products whose markets are multi-billion dollars in value and fast growing. By dramatically reducing the cost of the main feedstock for biobased chemicals, plastics and biofuels, the Glycell process has the potential to change the face of global renewable production.

2016 has been an important year for your company. What achievements do you consider as the most relevant?

When we look back on 2016 there have been three major achievements.

· 5 project agreement with Claeris LLC

· Collaboration agreement with Novozymes

· MOU with the Malaysian government to progress a commercial plant in Malaysia

All three are interlinked. Claeris is a world-class project developer with a proven track record of developing large-scale, financially successful projects. Their introduction to Novozymes led to the collaboration agreement with that company (announced on 7th December).

Claeris’s connections in Malaysia has also led to the acceleration of plans to build a commercial facility in Malaysia. 2016 is very much the year Leaf moved from technology development to commercial development.

One other achievement is also worth mentioning. We lodged a patent on the extraction of silica from rice husk. Initial results show the silica is extracted in a valuable amorphous form and after extraction the biomass is ready for the Glycell process. This is a longer term option but potentially provides a very cheap source of biomass.

What are your plans for 2017?

Very simply, 2017 will be our year of commercialisation. We are looking at a very specific site in Malaysia and more generally in the USA. It is full steam ahead.

Australia’s bioeconomy seems to be underestimated in the global context. What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of the bioeconomy in your country?

There are some very interesting things happening in Australia although generally we are behind the USA and Europe. The state of Queensland is very proactive with its bio-futures programme, but other states are yet to really pick up on the tremendous opportunity presented by the bio-economy.

Australia’s strengths are great agriculture and very good logistics from rural areas, on the back of the wheat industry. There is a lot of biomass, a government report estimated that 15 one million tonne biorefineries could be built in temperate Australia.

The weakness generally, apart from Queensland, is a lack of appreciation on the massive benefits to rural areas that the bioeconomy can bring through the location of biorefineries.

What are the main Government Measures to support the bioeconomy in Australia?

Leaf Resources has been greatly assisted by the R&D tax programme, where 42% of approved research gets refunded through the tax system, even for companies that are pre-revenue. In broad terms you get to spend your R&D dollars twice, which is a huge help.

Generally government incentives have been more aligned to biofuels and bio-power and only now are government agencies starting to understand the carbon savings and other benefits of renewable chemicals.

And what is the bioeconomy perception by Australian public?

The public, unfortunately have very little understanding of the bioeconomy. As a publically listed company on the ASX, I am constantly educating potential investors to the opportunity presented by the bio-economy. We are getting there but it is a long road.

What does it mean for you to be voted as the most innovative CEO?

It is great recognition of where Leaf has got to in the bioeconomy in a very short space of time. It is also recognition of our compelling technology.

I also think about the wonderful team at Leaf Resources and know that it is easy to be a CEO when there is so much great talent in the company. I would like to pay particular tribute to Alex Baker, the inventor of the process, who is also very commercial in his outlook. He is an integral part of the team leadership and his name deserves to be alongside mine in receiving accolades for everything Leaf does.

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What Should Conservatives Learn from Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Written by Laurie Higgins

Several days ago, I left a comment on the Illinois Review website following a story about a full-page open letter/ad in the Chicago Tribune promoting Bruce Rauner’s “pro-choice” position, which was signed by Mark Kirk and paid for in part by Diana Rauner. I used a metaphor to describe Rauner’s increasingly aggressive rejection of conservatives:

Rauner and his accomplices are going to double-down on conservatives, kicking them in the teeth and then grinding muddy boots into the ivory rubble left swimming in a pool of our blood. We need some mouth guards, boxing gloves, and spines.

In thinking about the criticism, I modified my words, leaving this comment:

Maybe the language I used is not appropriate to describe the actions perpetrated by the Rauners, Tom Cross, and Mark Kirk—who campaigned on his fealty to Planned Parenthood and who signed this open letter/ad—against conservatives. Maybe the ivory rubble swimming in a pool of blood is not from the teeth of conservatives but the bones of babies.

My critic viewed this comment as “over the top” and feared that “progressives” will view me and by extension all conservatives as kooky, fringy, crazy loons.

And what do conservatives do when faced with epithets, ridicule, and calumny from the Left? We obsequiously and freely relinquish one of the most powerful political tools we have: fiery rhetoric.

We must use language commensurate in intensity with the nature of the issue under debate. We must use language that inspires both passion and action. Emasculated, dispassionate discourse—though necessary—is not sufficient for effecting radical cultural change, which is what is required right now.

Killing babies in the womb is an unequivocal and sickening evil. Dismantling marriage by legally recognizing non-marital unions as marriages is destructive and pernicious.  We need to talk about these issues truthfully and passionately.

Perhaps conservatives can learn something about unequivocal fiery political rhetoric from Frederick Douglass whose speech on July 5, 1852 illuminates how embarrassingly pallid, jejune, and neutered the rhetoric of so many conservatives is today. Think about abortion as you read this excerpt from his speech, and pay attention too to the unabashed religious sentiments Douglass expresses:

I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of America! “I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;” I will use the severest language I can command.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer…. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

The flesh-mongers gather up their victims by dozens….Fellow-citizens, this murderous traffic is, to-day, in active operation in this boasted republic….My soul sickens at the sight.

But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented. By an act of the American Congress [substitute Roe v. Wade]… slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form.

By that most foul and fiendish of all human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are put in peril. Your broad republican domain is hunting ground for men. Not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society, merely, but for men guilty of no crime.

I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it.

At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness.

These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throng of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form.

The American church is guilty, when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery; but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its ability to abolish slavery. The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission.

The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a bye-word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union. It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions crush and destroy it forever!

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It was like a zoo around the spot where the nude cyclists were meeting up. Spectators from all walks of life came to observe the human species in its most natural form. Can you find Waldo in this picture?

The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) was held in San Francisco this past Saturday. In case you aren’t familiar with WNBR, the annual event is a group bicycle ride taken in the nude, that occurs in 74 cities across 17 different countries. It started in Canada in 2004 as a way of protesting against “indecent exposure to vehicle emissions”. Every year, during the 2nd weekend of March, the San Francisco chapter meets at Justin Herman Plaza. There were about 30-40 naked cyclists and a handful in partial clothing. This is the first year that they held this event after the city’s recent enactment of the public nudity ban (nudity is still allowed at special events and SF’s very own nude beach, Baker Beach), but the ride was still held in full swing (no pun intended).

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Maximum eclipse will occur at 06:34 (all times given in Cambridge time).

The simulation to the right shows Moon's path relative to the Earth's shadow. The outer grey circle is the Earth's penumbra, within which the Earth blocks part of the Sun's light, making the Moon appear less bright than usual, but not completely dark. The inner black circle is the umbra, within which the Earth entirely blocks the Sun's light, and where the Moon's disk would appear entirely unilluminated.

By default the eclipse is drawn with the local vertical in Cambridge uppermost (Zenith up), so that it is orientated as you would see it looking up at the Moon. The compass shows the direction of celestial north relative to the local vertical. Alternatively, you can orientate the sky with celestial north orientated uppermost, by selecting the option North up.

Begin typing the name of a town near to you, and then select the town from the list of options which appear below.

Selecting the option Diagram of Moon's path produces a static display of the Moon's path over the duration of the eclipse.

The lower panel shows the Moon's position in the sky relative to the horizon, as seen from Cambridge.

A penumbral eclipse

Like other lunar eclipses, penumbral eclipses occur whenever the Earth passes between the Moon and Sun, such that it obscures the Sun's light and casts a shadow onto the Moon's surface. But unlike other kinds of eclipses, they are extremely subtle events to observe.

In a penumbral eclipse the Moon passes through an outer region of the Earth's shadow called the penumbra. This is the outer part of the Earth's shadow, in which the Earth appears to cover part of the Sun's disk, but not all of it (see diagram below). As a result, the Moon's brightness will be reduced, as it is less strongly illuminated by the Sun, but the whole of the Moon's disk will remain illuminated to some degree.

The effect is only perceptible to those with very astute vision, or in carefully controlled photographs.

On this occasion 60% of the Moon's face will pass within the Earth's penumbra at the moment of greatest eclipse, and so a modest reduction in the Moon's brightness may be perceptible.

The geometry of a lunar eclipse
The geometry of the Earth's shadow. Within the Earth's penumbral shadow, the planet covers some fraction the Sun's disk. Only within the smaller umbra does the Earth cover the entirety of the Sun's disk. Any areas of the Moon's surface that pass through the penumbra appear darker than usual as the Earth is obstructing some of the sunlight that usually illuminates them. Areas within the umbra, meanwhile, receive no illumination from the Sun at all.

The eclipse geometry

Lunar eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned in a straight line, so that the Earth passes between the Sun and Moon and casts a shadow onto the latter's surface.

Each time the Moon orbits the Earth, it passes almost opposite to the Sun in the sky as it reaches Full Moon. If the Moon orbited the Earth in exactly the same plane that the Earth orbits the Sun, the Earth would pass between the Sun and Moon and create a lunar eclipse at Full Moon every month.

In fact, the Moon's orbit is tipped up at an angle of 5° relative to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. This means that the alignment of the Sun—Earth—Moon line at Full Moon usually isn't exact. As a result, an observer on the Moon would see the Earth pass a few degrees to the side of the Sun.

The Moon's orbit is tipped up by 5° relative to the Earth's orbit around the Sun, represented by the grid above. Lunar eclipses only occur at full moon if they occur when the Moon is close to the Earth–Sun plane, at points called the Moon's nodes.

In the diagram to the right, the grid represents the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. As it circles the Earth, the Moon passes through this Earth–Sun plane twice each month, at the points on the left and right labelled as nodes. A lunar eclipse happens only when one of these node crossings happens to coincide with Full Moon. This happens roughly once every six months, usually two weeks before or after a solar eclipse.

Visibility of the eclipse

Eclipses of the Moon are visible anywhere where the Moon is above the horizon at the time. Since the geometry of lunar eclipses requires that the Moon is directly opposite the Sun in the sky, the Moon can be seen above the horizon anywhere where the Sun is beneath the horizon.

The map below shows where the eclipse of February 5 will be visible.

Map of where the eclipse of February 2194 will be visible.
Map of where the eclipse of February 2194 will be visible. Click here to expand.

The table below lists the times when each part of the eclipse will begin and end.

04:5009:50Moon begins to enter the Earth's penumbra
06:3411:34Greatest eclipse
08:1813:18Moon leaves the Earth's penumbra

This eclipse is a member of Saros series 117. The exact position of the Moon at the moment of greatest eclipse is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Angular Size
The Moon 09h08m 17°42'N Cancer 31'53"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 06 May 2021
Twilight ends
Twilight begins

24-day old moon
Waning Crescent

24 days old

Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:19 13:54 21:29
Venus 06:06 13:24 20:42
Moon 03:41 09:10 14:52
Mars 08:37 16:20 00:03
Jupiter 02:38 07:54 13:10
Saturn 01:53 06:49 11:46
All times shown in EDT.

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The lunar eclipse predictions presented on this website were computed using EphemerisCompute.

This is an open-source tool which traces the positions of the Sun, Earth and Moon over the course of each eclipse and traces the path of the Moon through the Earth's shadow. It was written by the author and freely available for download from GitHub.

It takes the positions of each body from the JPL DE430 planetary ephemeris.

[2] –

Espanak, F., & Meeus, J., Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000, NASA Technical Publication TP-2006-214141 (2006)

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The list of countries from which the eclipse is visible was computed on the basis of shape files available from DIVA-GIS.

You may embed the map above in your own website. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, which allows you to copy and/or modify it, so long as you credit

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Row over UK lobbying rules amid ex-PM David Cameron probe

Aditi Khanna
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London, Apr 14 (PTI) Britain's Opposition Labour Party on Wednesday accused the ruling Conservative Party of “sleaze” as it demanded a full parliamentary inquiry into the extent of lobbying involving former prime minister David Cameron on behalf of collapsed bank Greensill Capital.

The row escalated this week after it emerged earlier that Cameron, who was employed at Greensill, had intervened on behalf of the embattled financial institution with text messages to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. While Sunak released the two messages he had sent Cameron in reply in an attempt at transparency, further revelations emerged of interactions with other ministers and a former civil servant being associated with Greensill as a part-time adviser while still in the civil service ranks.

The row led to Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing an independent investigation into the entire affair, but the Opposition wants the probe to go much further.

'I know the Prime minister is launching an inquiry. That inquiry isn't even looking at the lobbying rules,” Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer told MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

'I'm not sure it's looking at very much at all, because every day there's further evidence of the sleaze that's now at the heart of this Conservative government,' he said.

Cameron has insisted he did not break any codes of conduct or rules on lobbying, although he has acknowledged that he should have communicated with the government 'through only the most formal of channels'.

Johnson, who has tried to keep a distance from ex-PM Cameron over the matter, insisted that the inquiry headed by lawyer Nigel Boardman will be a review of the lobbying process in the UK.

'I indeed share the widespread concern about some of the stuff that we're reading at the moment and I know that the Cabinet Secretary shares my concern as well,” said Johnson.

'I do think it is a good idea in principle that top civil servants should be able to engage with business and should have experience of the private sector. When I look at the accounts I'm reading to date, it's not clear that those boundaries had been properly understood and I've asked for a proper independent review of the arrangements that we have to be conducted by Nigel Boardman and he will be reporting in June,' he said.

The collapse of Greensill Capital last month triggered a series of controversies, including leaving British Indian businessman Sanjeev Gupta led Liberty Steel on the brink with thousands of jobs in the balance due to its reliance on the commercial lender.

While Gupta admitted that the insolvency of Greensill Capital was a “shock to the system”, he has insisted his GFG (Gupta Family Group) Alliance business empire had already been in the process of switching away from Greensill as a source of financing and is in the process of securing finance for its steel business.

This has continued to play out as calls to examine lobbying and the relationship between civil servants, politicians and private firms intensified in the past week, including the latest revelation that Bill Crothers, a former government chief procurement officer, was employed as a part-time adviser to Greensill in 2015 whilst still working as a civil servant. Crothers later went on to become a director at the firm.

While the part-time position is said to have been agreed to by the Cabinet Office and the former civil servant said he had been taken on in a 'transparent' way, Johnson admitted it was not clear if the 'boundaries' had been 'clearly understood'.

The founder of the bank at the heart of the controversy, Australian financier Lex Greensill, who worked as an unpaid government adviser during Cameron's early years in Downing Street as PM, has not commented on the row. PTI AK PMS PMS


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Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading

Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading
Tale of Four Indian Cities

First Edition
  • Vijay K Seth - Former Professor, International Management Institute and Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi

December 2018 | 316 pages | SAGE India

Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities, which in turn altered the locations of poverty and prosperity.

To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian  subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities— Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast, and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and  experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations—the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history.

Economic Environment During Mughal Empire
Tale of Four Cities During Mughal Empire
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Tale of Four Cities and the East India Company
Economic Environment During British Raj
Tale of Four Cities and British Raj

Vijay K Seth

Vijay K Seth, PhD (Delhi School of Economics), is former Professor at International Management Institute, New Delhi and Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi. He is author of seven books, including The Story of Indian Manufacturing: Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947), published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. He has also published around one hundred research papers, chapters in edited books, review articles and book reviews which have appeared in Indian and foreign journals.  He has presented several research papers in India and abroad.  He is the founding editor of Emerging Economy Studies, a journal... More About Author

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Love Slave Part 1 (18+ only)

I said in a previous post that I was going to blog an erotic book. Well, this is the beginning of my adventure in writing a long piece of erotica and posting as I go along. This truly is the first draft – I am doing exactly as I said I would and writing it week on week, although I’ve altered my plans a little, in that I’m going to post the book every Wednesday. When it’s finished, I will revise (and revise and revise!) and edit it, and it will be available as an ebook and, if there is a demand, also in print.

I would love this book to be as good as I can possibly make it. With this in mind, I invite comments and suggestions to help improve it in the redraft process. Feel free to post a comment if you’d like to help, or ‘like’ it if you think it’s working, or contact me directly by email with your thoughts.

I hope you have a good time reading – and if you enjoy the story, too, then that’s even better!

It all starts so simply; all just a bit of a game. Isn’t it amazing how deceptive some things are? I’m frantically trying to get some work done, writing at the kitchen table with a very late breakfast plate of half-eaten toast balanced precariously on the corner of my laptop. I’m doing what I always do, trying to do too much, taking on too many projects, and now panicking make a deadline that’s just never going to happen. The topic is complex, depressing; I’m doing it only for the money, and it shows. I switch on the kettle to make another coffee, and click at the email icon in the toolbar on the screen, because mindless spam—even real Spam, which I haven’t been able to put in my mouth for decades since I was sick eating a Spam sandwich as a kid—has to be better than chasing this contract.

And there it is; the beginning:

“Email me.” And an email address I’ve not seen before—except that I know exactly who it is. My chest feels like it’s set on ‘vibrate’ and someone’s cranked it up ten notches. I recognise the style—calling himself ‘chessmaster’ in his email address. We always played chess when everyone else at university had been milling around. He’d played well, I played better. And when we’d been on our own, he’d played a very different game. And he’d never quite won that, either.

I sit there, staring at it, burning my hands on my new cup of coffee. How did he get my email address? It’s all a bit creepy. But, of course, the website has my contact details on it—anyone can find me if they really want to. I should be working. Getting this godawful project out of the way. But here I am, finger hovering over the ‘reply’ button. Unsure what to say, after all this time. What the hell does he expect me to say? My nerve endings throw up conflicting messages: the heavy throb of pure shock that hits me in the stomach, coupled with the cold pins and needles that run down my spine to my backside and wrap underneath me. I ache between my legs. Two words. That’s all it will take to get rid of him. But that ache—.

Reply: “I’m here.”

Almost immediately, there’s a return message: “I knew you would be. And that you would answer.”

After almost ten years he can still raise my blood pressure. I ought to just ignore him. How can he still be as arrogant as that with me, assuming that I would still care, even a tiny bit? Maybe I’m just curious. It’s true, I am. But I’m irritated in equal part now.

“What do you want?”

I flick back to my document, add a few words, then a few more. All of them awful. There it is: the bing of the email on my phone:

“You. Be my love slave.”

The laptop screen is close to wearing my coffee. I drink it, eventually, but it does no good; my mouth is completely dry. What the hell am I supposed to do? If I’d just ignored it… My chest is banging, and there’s a feeling that’s travelling repeatedly from my navel and down between my thighs, gathering there. It’s beginning to hurt, to throb. I slide my hand into the waistband of my jeans, put my hand on it, tease it gently with my finger through my panties, just to ease the feeling a bit. It feels nice, a bit like having an ally against this message, and I type with one hand as I open my legs a bit wider and slip my finger under the lace edge to touch my skin. It’s wet, and my clit is hardening against my fingertip. It takes me all my willpower to get my hand back on the keyboard. I’m about to reply, not really knowing what to type, when another one comes through.

“I mean it. I haven’t mastered you yet. And I want to.”

I send one back, an instinctive response: “Cheeky! Don’t be bloody ridiculous.”

Return: “I’m deadly serious.”

And, for some crazy reason, he has me aroused. Every nerve I have is burning, waiting, wondering what he wants from me. I must be mad; I know what he used to be like, and any sensible part of me should be talking me round, cajoling me, poking me in the brain and telling me not to contemplate being stupid. But there’s something else I know, too. I’ve had lovers, of course I have. There’s been some great sex, and some shit sex, and the odd bit of kinky stuff. And so many times, when I’ve been fucking any one of them, his image has invaded my head and I’ve come to the thought that it’s him inside me instead. We were so nearly—whatever we were—before.

I shut my eyes and breathe hard. Then I reply: “So am I.”

It takes less than one minute for another message to appear in my inbox, but it seems like time has entered slow motion. “That doesn’t answer me satisfactorily. Yes, or no? One gets a quick answer, the other, ah, well…”

What the hell is that meant to mean? He contacts me, then wants to ignore me if I say the wrong thing within five minutes, is that it? Who the hell does he think he is? And which answer is which? If I say ‘yes’, does that mean he’ll reply quickly; or does ‘no’ mean he’ll say goodbye and that will be that? Would that be it? I feel sick. My heart is banging until the blood throbs in my ears. He’s not getting his own way like that: I’m not scared of him, or his game play.

“My answer is yes.”

Then I just sit there. Nothing. My entrails have been grabbed and twisted. I can’t work. My concentration is shot to hell. There’s a good chance I’ll have nothing to eat next week, if I carry on for long like this.

It must be nearly an hour. My eyelids are stinging from staring at the inbox, and I’m busting for a wee but I don’t want to leave the screen. But then there’s a ‘bing’, and the bile catches in my throat: “I’m very pleased, my little honeybuns. I’ll be commanding you again very soon. Very soon. Until then, I want you to do something for me. Take off your panties and leave them off until I contact you and tell you otherwise, I don’t want you to wear any. Do as you’re told.”

I want to laugh. It sounds so ridiculous. I’ve got to go to a meeting with a client early tomorrow, and I’ll be wearing a suit, holding a briefcase, all that sort of thing. I can’t do that. But there’s a knot inside me, somewhere between my ribs. It presses on everything, unfurls like a heavy rope, and thumps down, spreading a strange ache up and down my body.

“And I want to know something, and I expect you to tell me. Do you check your emails on your phone?”

My fingers hover over the keys, and I watch the tips of my fingernails as they develop a little quiver. “Yes, I check them on my phone.” I nearly send it as it is, but then I add a playful, “What if I don’t do as I’m told?” At least, I tell myself it’s playful. Almost immediately he sends his response. Confident. Demanding. I feel my chest rising and falling, hear my breath over my lips.

“I’ll know. I’ll be checking—and if you follow my orders, you’ve got nothing to worry about. You won’t be punished.”

“And just how exactly are you going to know?” I type this, and I bite my lip. And, for some stupid reason, I find myself lifting my skirt and sliding my little white cotton panties down my thighs, all the way to the floor, and kicking them under the table. I sit back down, gasping as the chair clamps cold against my pussy. It shocks me to realise that I’ve just become wet, and I feel it in my entrance as his email comes in:

“Oh, I’ll know, believe me. Because I’ll make sure of it.”

This is stupid. What am I doing? He can’t just turn up in my inbox and start controlling me, moving me around like a pawn on a chessboard until he gets what he wants. So I do the sensible thing: “Forget what I said. I can’t be your love slave, whatever the fuck that is. I can’t do that.” Click send. Go back to my work.

Nothing I’m writing makes any sense. I try for over half an hour, an hour, longer. There’s no ‘bing’ on my phone. Sometimes it doesn’t make a noise—it’s a bit erratic, so I check on the laptop. Nothing. I keep working; get myself a glass of wine from the fridge and find a packet of chocolate biscuits in the back of the cupboard to keep me going. And, as the light eventually starts to fade and the only thing I feel like eating is a tin of spaghetti, I move myself from the kitchen to sit at my bedroom desk in the lamplight. My pussy rubs against the padding on the chair as I sit looking over at my bed, and find myself wondering what it would be like having him in there, sliding his body over me, kissing his way down my neck and taking my tits in his mouth as his cock eases its way inside me and he fucks me for the first time.

The evening becomes night. I cobble up something that will make the deadline but it’s so substandard by the usual high bar I set myself that it’s possible I might not get paid; check my emails after another hour; and I write total crap for another half hour and check again. Nothing but a special offer on a vibrator, and it makes me angry, and wet, there without my panties on. I can’t work. I lean back in my chair; the tip of my finger touches my clit, presses on and circles it, and all of the nonsense of the evening reverberates from me in a long, high-pitched moan. My phone bings. I snatch my hand back quickly, and collect the message on my laptop.

“Have you had enough punishment for one day?”

I shut my eyes; I’ve got pins and needles all over me, and I feel really quite nauseous. I reply, and I know I do it too quickly: “Arsehole.”

Immediately there’s one back: “HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

I can feel the anger welling up inside me. But I don’t know what to do with it. I want to tell him to stick his head up his own arse, but I don’t. I want to tell him to fuck off. I type it—“Fuck off”, and then I delete it. Another message come in: “When I command you, you’ll do as I ask—without question—so I know you’re being a good little love slave, won’t you?”

I sit there, staring at the screen. Everything tells me I should leave the past where it belongs. Just ignore the email. Start work again in the morning with my knickers on. “Yes. I will.” And I sit there with my head in my hands and my pussy throbbing hard against the chair.

“Good girl. Now go to bed. Naked. And push a finger or two in. Just for me.”

And I remove my clothes and get into bed. Just like that. What’s wrong with me? The sheets feel cool, exciting, against my skin, and I slide against them, brushing the front of my pussy against the cotton, and hooking the fabric in between my legs, rubbing my wetness onto the sheet. My nipples brush the underside of the duvet and I massage my tits, cupping them, pushing them together up towards my mouth. I lick the flesh at the top, force my tongue towards my nipples, tease them in my finger and thumb, mortified that my tongue doesn’t quite reach. My fingers slide over my stomach, down, play with the little patch of hair and slip underneath. My folds are wet, welcoming, and it’s easy to push two fingers inside myself. And I wish that he was here to take them in his mouth. They slide in and out, make me arch up on the bed, my breathing heavy from deep in my throat. ‘Bing’. I moan as I read the screen.

“Two more things before you go to sleep. The first one: I want you to call me Master. Are you prepared to do that? Text your answer to the number in this email. Only this number. If you disobey, your training is ended.”

Training is ended? What exactly does he think I am? I think back to all those matches; how it was always even. If one of us edged in front, the other would counteract it. On the board, on the floor, almost in bed… I get my phone and text one-handed: “I’ll call you Sir.”

I wait. One minute; two. My mouth goes dry. Five minutes. Is that it? Have I done wrong? Maybe I should write another one, quick—change my mind. Oh fuck, I don’t know what I should do. How can he just come in and demand that? How can I be having this conversation, wanting this conversation? But my chest is banging, which is more than the rest of me has been doing for a long while, wrapped up as I have been with my new job. I start to type: “Y—”. Stop again.

Text message: “We’ll have to work on that, because I intend to master you, and there will be nothing you can do to stop me.”

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20 thoughts on “Love Slave Part 1 (18+ only)

    • Ina Morata says:

      Thank you so much, Dorothy! I know you know what you’re talking about, so that means a lot to me. I feel that the female protagonist still needs some depth, though, even at this stage, and I also wondered whether it would seem strange to some readers that she just becomes compliant so quickly. But, speaking personally, I know how easily it happens…!

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