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Will the year 2000 be filled with flying cars or polluted air? Push-button lunches or the start of World War III? These were just some of the predictions made by fourth grade kids in 1976, who had trouble deciding if the future was going to be filled with high-tech gadgets or nuclear war. Or maybe both.
The July 4, 1976 edition of the Grand Prairie Daily News in Texas published letters written by fourth grade kids that were addressed to the year 2000. Getting American kids to write letters to the future in the mid-1970s was an incredibly popular exercise. These examples give us a peek at not only the tech-filled dreams of tomorrow, but a country struggling with unemployment, pollution, and political corruption.
Below are eighteen letters written by those fourth graders in Texas. All spelling errors have been retained due to adorableness.
Coming Soon: World War III
I am in th forth grade at Lamar Elementary.
Our homes have electricity now. Airplanes are coming by the weeks.
Our communication is getting better every day. Satilites are working fine. Pictures in color or black and white look fine with these things in space.
Our space and areo-space divisions are ready for World War III coming soon.
Sincerely,
Billy McPherson
Shortages, Pollution, and Trash Everywhere
I don't know how it will be in twenty-four years, so I'll just guess.
There will probably be a shortage of everything, pollution in the air, trash on the streets and in yards by curbs everywhere. I hope not. I hope we all get together and clean up the world.
Sincerely,
Darla Moore
Meal Pills and "Lazor" Guns
In the year 2000 I think thay kids will be taught at home on their T.V. The army will be using lazor guns. Cars will be like spaceships and the strreetlights will be on long tall poles. Another means of transportation will be push buttons. Select where you want to go, push a button, step through a door, and you'll be where you wanted to be.
Food will be in tablet form, put on water on the tablet and your food will be on your plate.
Sincerely yours,
R.C. Brown
Push-Button Meals and Snap-Finger Transportation
In the year 2000, when you go on a vacation, people will be going to all the planets. You can push a button and you've had your lunch. Same with breakfast and supper. Instead of walking people will be flying. You can also snap your fingers and be somewhere. Instead of children going to school, at home in your room, there is a large speaker to tell you your lessons. It's fun.
Sincereluy,
Lisa Angell
"Even 6 Year Olds Can Drive"
The year 2000 is going to be like this maybe— Instead of having cars, everybody will drive platforms called a aero-disc with with push button controls. Even 6 year olds can drive. When you want to eat push a button labeling what you want to eat. There will be no teachers, but we will still have to come to class. We will have TV's for teachers. A human teacher will be in a another room saying the words. And when we are bad out teacher psushes a little button and tells us to bend over and a arm with a board paddles us.
Sincerely,
Judy Touts
New Things, Different Things
It is the year 1976. In the past four years we have invented new things. We have ways of getting communicatio by what we call radios. Our radios send us news from other ciities. We also have a television that also gives us news.
We have many other things like newspapers, airplanes, watches, drills, hammers, saws, wrenches and other things.
In your years, you'll probably make inventions and have different things than we have.
Your friend,
Dennis Norrod
Living on Pluto
Its a good year for everybody in 1976. I wonder if its a good year in 2000. 1976 is America's 200th birthday.
Here in Texas there is crazy weather so if you want to go crazy live in Texas. I'd like to know where you live because I'll never know now. Our schools are O.K. I guess. I wish I new how yours is. Oh and about where where you live you may even live on Pluto for all I know. Well have to be saying so long now. Goodbye.
Your friend,
Bret Mullins
Spaceships Instead of Cars
I think 1976 was a good year. I wish you could live in that time. I wish I could live in your time right now. I wonder what it is like to live in the year 2000? I wonder if there is spaceships instead of cars? I wonder if you can be able to live in space?
Your friend,
Brian McRay
Bionic Limbs and No Gas
May I guess at what your life is like? In the year 2000, your doctors might discover a way to make bionic arms and legs so that if you have an accident and you lose an arm, or a leg the doctors can replace it with a new one.
There might not be any gas left in the world the way people are using it now. The only way to go somewhere would be to walk or ride a bike.
People will look different than we do now, and they will find a way to live on the moon. There won't be any pollution. The world will be a beautiful place to live, then everyone will be happy and go to churches and no one will be bad.
Sincerely yours,
Cindy Wade
Travel to School by Rocketship
I hope you are enjoying your new house on Satrun. I am wondering what is it is like in the year 2000. But I've given it a lot of thought. I think they will go to school and everywhere in a rcocket ship. They won't eat food like we do. You will drink your food. You will live on the moon. There will be no violence, smoke and cars.
Well goodbye.
Sincerely,
Stan Tallent
Football on Rocket Sleds
I would like to live in the year 2000 with you. I bet you play football on rocket sleds with bumpers. I bet cars can go at higher speeds and are controlled remotely so people can relax and travel at the same time. Cars will not run on gas but on air. You can probably live on Mercury, Pluto, Mars and Jupiter I bet efore you go to sleep you hook up to a machine and learn while you sleep. Well. I wish I could live with you in the year 2000.
Sincerely,
Brian Lewis
School's Out Forever
I think that in the year 2000 children won't have to go to school. I think that they will have computers with a platform for someone to stand on so when you step in it and step out you know everything your supposed to learn in school. If this is so you must be lucky. I think instead of bicycles that they will have machines so that when you push a button you go somewhere and all you have to do is steer. I think that we will probably live on the moon, venus, mars, etc. You must have a lot of fun, but I like driving the way I do now with the people I love.
Sincerely,
Darla Duncan
Nuclear Power Instead of Gas
I think in the year 2000 lots of problems we've had in the past will have been solved. I think that in the year 2000 instead of gas being used we'll probly be using nueclear power.
I hope that it will be just will be a better world.
Your friend,
Elvira Guerra
Hydro-Cars
I think in the year 2000 cars will be able to run into water and float like a boat. Boats, planes, cars and trains will run on air and we will heat homes with lignite coal. Machines will run on nuclear fuel. You will be able to push a button and you door will open and your work will be done for you.
Sincerely,
Dennis Greening
Moving Sidewalks and Houses in the Sky
In the year 2000 1 think thai cars can fly in the air as fast as they want to without using gas. You can get whatever you want, including candy. Houses will be way up in the sky. You can have robots to do the housework for the mothers. Instead of walking, the the sidewalks will move for you.
Your friend,
Laurie Smith
Guaranteed Income From the Government
I think in the year 2000 the earth will be much more polluted than it is. I also think that we will have no more school, and cars can go as fast as they want without getting a ticket.
The government will pay every person as much as they want without them having to work. I also think that we will be out of energy for stores or anything that uses fuel in the year 2000.
Sincerely,
Yolanda Tejeda
Living Under the Ocean
How are you? Fine? 2000 might be living under the ocean. What might be happening in the year of 2000.Maybe they have horses instead of cars, trucks and airplanes.
They might ride horses to the groceries and by me food for them. They might have spaceships over there. What else might be happening in the year 2000. There is something else happening there than that. They might ride horses to work and go to restaurants over there when they are at. They might even have carts to go with horses.
Sincerely yours,
Elida Buenrosta
"I Just Checked You Out On My New Computer"
How are you? Well that's a silly question because I just checked you out on my new computer. It says you are feeling O.K. It works almost as dads, and we have a convertible computer.
I push one button and my bath is ready. You should see our robot. He works on the computer and makes sure everything is going smooth have my own space coupe that goes at the speed of light. My dad has an electric paddle. All he has to do is push a button and I've had it. To make a long story short, living here is far out!
Sincerely yours,
Ronny McCoy
Being an American fourth grader in 1976 must've been weird. President Nixon had resigned just two years earlier, the horrors of the Vietnam War were still fresh in everyone's mind, and the environment was in really terrible shape.
All the while, people were trying to get excited for the American Bicentennial—a celebration done through gritted teeth by many people who were disillusioned with the direction of the country.
American kids historically have tended to be pretty optimistic. But when everything around you is turning to shit, it's hard not to feel like America's best days are behind us. Many of these kids were clearly trying to look on the bright side, but it's easy to see why their letters featured as much pessimism about the future of the country as they did rockets and lazors.
Illustration: by fourth grade student Lisa Gilvar in 1976 and scanned from the Tricentennial Report
This article originally appeared at Gizmodo.
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Глава общественного движения «Новороссия» Игорь Стрелков выставил на продажу медаль, полученную в память о воссоединении Крыма с Россией в 2014 году. Стартовая цена медали — 1 млн рублей.
Медаль ему выдал другой патриот — православный рейдер Малофеев, у которого Стрелков работал подручным. Считается, что именно Малофеев спонсировал вторжение незаконных вооруженных формирований под командованием Стрелкова и Бородая в Донецкую и Луганскую области Украины.
По словам Стрелкова, медаль для него ценности не имеет, поскольку не является государственной наградой. Кроме того, на аверсе выбит профиль человека, которого он не уважает. Причиной продажи названы материальные проблемы патриота.
Пост раcпубликован на подсайте "Патриоты России" по решению @c2h5
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The 6th Faroese Music Awards ceremony, honoring the best Faroese musicians of 2018/19, was held on Saturday night in the Nordic House (Norðurlandahúsið), Tórshavn.
The night’s biggest winners were Eivør Pálsdóttir, Jón Aldará og Teitur Lassen.
17 awards were given out, all in all. See pictures from the awards ceremony here.
Awards:
Best New Artist (Ársins nýggja navn)
Eli Tausen á Lava
Best Music Video (Ársins videolag)
VSJ – God’s Work, director Pætur Høj
Best Producer (Ársins framleiðari)
Theodor Kapnas – Támsins likam
Best Album Cover (Ársins húsi)
Svartmálm, Uni Árting
Best Lyrics (Ársins tekstur)
Jón Aldará, Hamferð
Best Initiative (Ársins átak)
The concert recordings at Café Maggies (Nólsoy), Terji Rasmussen
People’s Choice Awards (Áhoyraravirðislønin)
VSJ
Musicial Honor of The Year (Ársins tónleikaheiður)
Tey av kamarinum
Best Female Singer (Ársins kvinnuligi sangari)
Jasmin Mote
Best Male Singer (Ársins mannligi sangari)
Jón Aldará
Best Album (Ársins útgáva)
Marius – Portur
Best Song (Ársins sangur)
Sara – Teitur
Best Group/Solo Artist (Ársins bólkur/einstaklingur)
Teitur
Best Singer/Solo Artist (Ársins sangari ella einleikari)
Eivør Pálsdóttir
Best Group or Choir (Ársins bólkur ella kór)
Føroya Symfoniorkestur
Best Album or Concert (Ársins útgáva ella konsert)
The Last Kingdom – Eivør & John Lunn
Best Composition (Ársins kompositión)
The Last Kingdom – Eivør & John Lunn
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Союзники США, на территории которых размещены американские войска, могут начать платить за это в пять раз больше. О такой инициативе главы Белого дома Дональда Трампа стало известно газете The Washington Post.
Трамп в беседе со своими помощниками предложил обязать страны, на территориях которых базируются американские военные, оплачивать полную стоимость их пребывания плюс еще половину от нее. Это приведет к пятикратному увеличению расходов этих стран на содержание американских войск.
Отмечается, что информация об этой формуле неприятно удивила Германию, Японию и Южную Корею, в которых размещены тысячи американских военнослужащих.
В июне 2018 года Трамп заявил, что в 2017 году страны альянса вложили в НАТО более $40 млрд, но этого по-прежнему недостаточно. По его мнению, Европа извлекает больше выгоды, чем Соединенные Штаты, из существования НАТО и при этом платит за свою безопасность меньше, чем США.
Трамп настаивает на увеличении бюджета НАТО до 2% от ВВП стран-участниц. В 2017 году такой уровень расходов соблюдали лишь пять из 28 государств- членов блока: США, Великобритания, Греция, Польша и Эстония.
https://www.rbc.ru/politics/10/03/2019/5c8474709a7947e20115e5b2?from=from_main
Новая формула расчета оброка для стран временно оккупированных США.
Вообще, если разобраться, недорого. Страны же не самые бедные (для бедных наверняка будут скидки), потянут.
П.С. Я недавно обнаружил, что некоторые из наших товарищей из ближнего зарубежья думают, что пресловутые "солдаты НАТО" это бесплатно, типа, они за идею и из ненависти к рашке на своих базах сидят. Нет, не бесплатно. Учите новую формулу.
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The Faroe Islands welcome around 110,000 visitors each year, attracted by the country’s dramatic scenery, including rugged cliffs, sea caves, spectacular waterfalls and an abundance of birdlife, not forgetting a population of just 50,000 Faroese people and their 80,000 sheep.
But, for one weekend in April 2019, the Faroe Islands will be ‘closed to tourists’ – in other words, many of the most popular sites and attractions will be closed. Why? The Faroese people are keen to keep their green islands unspoiled.
Notably – and happily – the Faroe Islands currently have no over-tourism problems. However, the fragile natural environment in a few popular tourist locations has felt the effects of an increase in visitors. These areas need a helping hand to ensure they remain pristine; sustainability is the goal.
The idea is, quite simply, to close for maintenance and open for voluntourism over the weekend of Friday 26 to Sunday 28 April, 2019 – and to repeat and expand on this idea each year if it works well.
The Faroese have announced that only those prepared to work with locals over the maintenance weekend will be able to visit certain sites and attractions. There will be a raft of projects led by local people, aimed at delivering a touch of tender loving care to the Faroese countryside and to ready it for visitors in 2019.
The campaign, which was created by the country’s tourist board, Visit Faroe Islands, started on the morning of 20 February. Within eight hours of launch, all 100 spots on the Faroese Maintenance Crew were full. Within 72 hours, over three thousand volunteers of all ages from countries all over the world had signed up.
“We’re overwhelmed by the interest from people in helping us maintain and preserve the Faroe Islands,” says Guðrið Højgaard, director at Visit Faroe Islands. “This goes to show that people share our concern for the environment and are willing to use their precious time to help.”
In return for their services to the country, volunteers will be gifted both accommodation and food over the three-night maintenance period by Visit Faroe Islands. Maintenance projects will take place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. On the Saturday night, there will be a celebratory meal for all those who have joined forces to help – Faroese and overseas visitors alike.
Projects will include creating walking paths in well-trodden areas, constructing viewpoints that help preserve nature and protect birdlife sanctuaries and erecting signs that help with wayfinding.
“We are delighted that more and more people are discovering how special our islands are – our scenery, our unique way of life, our food and our people,” says Guðrið. “For us, tourism is not all about numbers. We welcome visitors to the islands each year, but we also have a responsibility to our community and to our beautiful environment, and our aim is to preserve and protect the islands, ensuring sustainable and responsible growth.”
The Faroe Islands’ Prime Minister, Aksel V. Johannesen, joined the campaign by inviting volunteers to lend a helping hand.
The campaign works with local villagers and farmers to identify several areas where a little tender loving care will help to preserve the infrastructure and will pave the way for a sustainable future for the islands.
Visit Faroe Islands hopes that their new project may inspire other countries to follow suit, and to set up their own Maintenance Crews, thereby encouraging tourists to help in whatever way is needed to deal with the particular problem/s affecting that destination.
The Faroe Islands has seen a growth of approximately 10 percent in tourists in recent years and, while the country welcomes visitors with open arms, it also wishes to ensure that over-tourism never becomes an issue.
For more information, please visit www.preservefaroeislands.com.
Words: Levi Hanssen
This article was originally published on Faroeislands.fo
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Citrix is best-known for software that runs behind the scenes, but a massive data breach is putting the company front and center. The FBI has warned Citrix that it believes reports of foreign hackers compromising the company's internal network, swiping business documents in an apparent "password spraying" attack where the intruders guessed weak passwords and then used that early foothold to launch more extensive attacks. While Citrix didn't shed more light on the incident, researchers at Resecurity provided more detail of what likely happened in a conversation with NBC News.
Resecurity understood that hackers from Iridium, an Iran-linked group, stole data in December 2018 and again on March 4th. They made off with at least 6TB of documents and as much as 10TB, and they seemed to be focused on project data for the aerospace industry, the FBI, NASA and Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company. The intruders may have been lurking for a long time, too. Resecurity's Charles Yoo said that Iridium broke into Citrix's network roughly 10 years ago and had been hiding since then.
The researchers said they'd told Citrix about the first attack on December 28th. It's not clear if Citrix addressed the issue then, although it took a number of steps after the FBI got in touch on March 6th. The company said it launched a "forensic investigation" with the help of an unnamed security firm and took "actions" to lock down its network.
Citrix stressed there was "no indication" that the intruders compromised its products or services. However, that's not the major concern here. As a government contractor that focuses on networking and the cloud, Citrix could hold sensitive data on other companies. It may be aware of their network layouts and security measures, for instance. Like the OPM hack, the consequences could reach well beyond the initial target.
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