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Matters stopped and suspended. Waiting with no idea when restart will happen.
Eyebrows were raised as art works loaned to Dumfries House and Prince Charles' foundation turned out to be forged.
It was in 2015, Tetro tells me, that he met James Stunt at the mock château in Los Angeles that Stunt’s wife Petra Ecclestone bought for $88 million in 2011. Stunt, the son of a self-made businessman from South London, had that year married Ecclestone, daughter of billionaire former Formula 1 owner Bernie Ecclestone. Stunt became a fixture of the UK tabloids—a playboy who boasted of owning 200 supercars and having a £5 million credit line at every casino in London, Monaco, and Las Vegas.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: CanadianMason
That's dumb. They should be eating eeyore. He has the most meat on him.
Impartial result of a matter. Might not be to querent's liking, but is for the best.
Homeowners who have lost income or their jobs because of the coronavirus outbreak are getting some relief. Depending on their situation, they should be eligible to have their mortgage payments reduced or suspended for up to 12 months.
Federal regulators, through the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are ordering lenders to offer homeowners flexibility. The move covers about half of all home loans in the U.S. — those guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie. But regulators expect that the entire mortgage industry will quickly adopt a similar policy.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
Wife says the Hanged Man pops up in The Ninth Gate, as part of a collection of relics needed to summon the devil.
A movie by Roman Polanski, a notable pedophile.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: Creep Thumper
Probably told to keep quiet.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: Creep Thumper
I'm right there with ya. World needs more Robin Hood's so to speak.
That The Ninth Gate film had a lasting impression on me when I first seen it. Great film but still not giving a free pass to the pedo. He'll see Dante's Gate soon enough.
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
I have a feeling that if this CV thing ends badly the idiots will be gunning for Q, et al.
Think about how some of his messages sound in the context of this pandemic.
The comet's moniker is an acronym for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic astronomical survey system based in Hawaii and optimized for detecting smaller near-Earth objects a few weeks to a few days before their closest approach. But on occasion, the survey will also find a comet.
When astronomers first spotted Comet ATLAS in December, it was in Ursa Major and was an exceedingly faint object, close to 20th magnitude. That's about 398,000 times dimmer than stars that are on the threshold of naked-eye visibility. At the time, it was 273 million miles (439 million kilometers) from the sun.
But comets typically brighten as they approach the sun, and at its closest, on May 31, Comet ATLAS will be just 23.5 million miles (37.8 million km) from the sun. Such a prodigious change in solar distance would typically cause a comet to increase in luminosity by almost 11 magnitudes, enough to make ATLAS easily visible in a small telescope or a pair of good binoculars, although quite frankly nothing really to write home about.
Except, since its discovery, the comet has been brightening at an almost unprecedented speed. As of March 17, ATLAS was already magnitude +8.5, over 600 times brighter than forecast. As a result, great expectations are buzzing for this icy lump of cosmic detritus, with hopes it could become a stupendously bright object by the end of May.
Now, here is the conundrum regarding Comet ATLAS: Until a couple of weeks ago, it was brightening at an astounding rate. That brightening has slowed somewhat, but it is still an impossible rate of brightening to maintain. Were ATLAS to continue to brighten at this rate all the way to its closest approach to the sun at the end of May, it would end up rivaling the planet Venus in brightness!
The only thing left to do is to track Comet ATLAS in the days and weeks ahead. Fortunately, its path in March and April will be very favorable for Northern Hemisphere observers, as it will be circumpolar and always remain above the horizon. As darkness falls, it will be positioned more than halfway up in the north-northwest sky. Right now, the comet is in western Ursa Major, and it will shift into the boundaries of Camelopardalis the Giraffe — a rather dim, shapeless star pattern — by March 29. There it will stay, right on through the month of April.