Warning: massive amount of text ahead. I created a mostly functional race route around the world (all loactions like buildings, businesses, landmarks, etc. are REAL locations and could theoretically actually work in the race). I tried to have a good variety in locations and types of challenges, but it's really hard! I find it a lot harder to complain about challenge design after making this. Even though this could technically happen there are probably some safety concerns in going to South Africa and Lesotho and it's probably not possible for the American Amazing Race to film in Cuba, but I decided to do it anyway. If you have any questions or feedback please let me know!
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RACE #2
Leg 1 (USA - Japan)
Leg 2 (Japan - South Korea)
Leg 3 (South Korea - India)
Leg 4 (India - Oman)
Leg 5 (Oman)
Leg 6 (Oman - South Africa)
Leg 7 (South Africa - Lesotho)
Leg 8 (Lesotho - Greece)
Leg 9 (Greece)
Leg 10 (Greece - North Macedonia)
Leg 11 (North Macedonia - Cuba)
Leg 12 (Cuba - USA)
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LEG 1
USA - Japan
Start at Cloud Gate, Chicago, Illinois
Run to clue at Millenium Monument
Clue #1
Make your way to the Gunma region of Japan, and travel to Sarugakyu Onsen. However, to get your tickets to Japan, you must make your way on foot through the busy streets of Chicago to Navy Pier, where flights will be given out according to the order of your arrival. Flights go to Tokyo, and you must make your own travel arrangements from there.
Flight 1 (5 teams): Chicago - Los Angeles - Tokyo, arrives 8:00 AM
Flight 2 (4 teams): Chicago - Tokyo, arrives 9:30 AM
Flight 3 (2 teams): Chicago - San Francisco - Tokyo, arrives 9:45 AM
Clue #2
Both team members must go into the hot springs and search it for the partly submerged cluebox to get your next clue.
Clue #3
Travel to Sarugakyo Bungy for your next clue.
Clue #4
Roadblock: Who’s ready to take a jump?
Bungy jump at the largest bungy jump in all of Japan at 62 meters, or over 200 feet! Once you’ve taken your leap of faith, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #5
Travel to Uenokunirokunomiya Haruna Shrine, Takasaki, for your next clue.
Clue #6
Create one string of paper cranes in Senbazuru. Senbazuru is the crafting of 1000 paper cranes for good luck. Following the demonstration, learn how to craft paper cranes. Once you have created forty of them and strung them together, deliver them to a Shinto priest at Akiba Shrine. He will give you your next clue.
Clue #7
Travel by train to Akihabara, Tokyo, and go to the top of the Tokyo Skytree to receive your next clue.
Clue #8
Roadblock: Who can ‘go’ kart? The teammate who did the first roadblock cannot do this one.
Travel to Akihabari Street Kart 1 and dress up in one of the many ridiculous costumes the company has to offer. Then, join a fifteen minute go-karting tour around the streets of this bustling region and look for three enormous signs in race colors with three different Japanese characters on them. If you can spot and write all three characters down correctly during the rush of Tokyo, you’ll receive your next clue. If you can’t get it right, you’ll have to join the next available tour.
Clue #9
Travel to Horin Park on foot to find the first pit stop! The last team to check in here may be eliminated.
Pit Stop, Leg 1
trip to Canada
last: eliminated
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LEG 2
Japan - South Korea
Clue #1
Fly to Busan, South Korea! Upon arrival, make your way to Beomeo-sa for your next clue.
Fast Forward, Leg 2
Go to Songdo Beach and swim out into the ocean, locating the five whale statues in the water. At each statue, pick up marked letter tiles. Once you have all seven (two statues have two tiles), you can go back to the beach and unscramble the letters that spell out the name of a traditional South Korean delicacy that the other contestants eat at their first challenge. If you get the right word, you’ll be given a clue that takes you straight to the end of the leg.
Clue #2
Master the art of Korean meditation. If you can master all of the moves correctly, then your instructor will give over your next clue.
Clue #3
Head to Taejongdae for your next clue.
Clue #4
Roadblock: Who’s desperate to eat?
Take the marked path over one mile uphill to the marked food stand, and finish one serving of Soondae, a traditional South Korean delicacy that is made of pig intestines and pork blood. Once you have finished the food, you can run down to your partner and get your next clue.
Clue #5
Take the Songdo Marine Cable Car from Songnim Park to Amnam Park to receive your next clue.
Clue #6
Detour: Fish Identity or Fish Delivery
Fish Identity: Go to Jagalchi Fish Market and search for the marked stall. Once there, sort an enormous box of fish and organize them. Once the stall owner approves, put them up for stock in the stall to receive your next clue.
Fish Delivery: Go to Jacky’s Seafood and take three orders and three addresses that need to be delivered. Once you have delivered all the fish to all the correct addresses throughout the Gamcheon Culture Village, you will receive your next clue.
Clue #7
Make your way to the pit-stop at Haedong Yonggungsa. The last team to arrive may be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 2
-first: trip to Belize
-last: non-elimination
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LEG 3
South Korea - India
Clue #1
Fly to Hyderabad, India, and go to the Charminar for your first clue.
Clue #2
Travel to Ramoji Film City Main Entrance to receive your next clue.
Speed Bump, Leg 3
Make your way to Saha’s Adventure Park and zorb down a steep hill. Once you’ve made it, you can continue racing.
Clue #3
Detour: Birdy Woods or Bollywood
Birdy Woods: Dressing up in clumsy bird costumes, search through Asia’s largest aviary for a cutout of the bird your partner is dressing up as. Once you’ve found the two cutouts, head to the Bonsai Garden. If you match the right bird, you’ll receive your next clue.
Bollywood: Head to Ramoji Movie Magic. Dressing up in traditional Indian outfits, memorize a short dance to the tune of some Bollywood music and perform it to the live audience and judges. If you meet their standards, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #4
Head to Nehru Zoological Park where your next clue will be waiting.
Clue #5
Take an amazing elephant ride! With both teammates on the elephant’s back guide it through a short course. If you can reach the end in under two minutes, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #6
Make your way to Bidar Fort by public transport for your next clue.
Clue #7
Roadblock: Who’s itching to get etching?
One team member must help in the process of the creation of bidriware. First, you must chisel one section in the piece of bidriware very precisely. Any error and you must restart. If given the clear, then you must then make their way inside Bidar Fort and collect a total of three baskets of soil for the artisans to use later in the process. Finally, you must use some of the soil you collected and coat a piece of bidriware in it. If every part of the challenge was done to the satisfaction of the artisans, you will receive your next clue.
Clue #8
Make your way to the Bahmani Tombs and the pit-stop! The last team to arrive will be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 3
-first: trip to Japan
-last: eliminated
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LEG 4
India - Oman
Clue #1
Fly to Muscat, Oman! Once you have arrived, make your way to Al Alam Palace, where you will find marked cars waiting outside. Your clue will be waiting on the car.
Clue #2
Drive all the way to the Nizwa Souq in Nizwa, Oman, where you will find nine different tags, each releasing teams at different times the next morning, when you will be given your next clue.
Tag 1: departure at 7:00 AM
Tag 2: departure at 7:05 AM
Tag 3: departure at 7:10 AM
Tag 4: departure at 7:15 AM
Tag 5: departure at 7:20 AM
Tag 6: departure at 7:25 AM
Tags 7-9: departure at 7:30 AM
Clue #3
Detour: Selling Goats or Weighing Dates
Selling Goats: Navigate through the souq to the weekly goat market. You must select a seller and help them sell their goats. First, thoroughly clean five goats so they are ready for selling. Then, parade five goats around the “walking circle,” where potential buyers will inspect which goats to buy. You must finally buy a goat yourself, haggling for a price under 100 riyals, or 260 US dollars. Once you can purchase a goat, you will receive your next clue. Keep the goat for the next challenge.
Weighing Dates: Find the marked stall in the souq that is selling dates. Your goal is to weigh out 200 grams of Ajwa Dates, 175 grams of Barhi Dates, and 125 grams of Hayani Dates. To do this, you must travel across the market to a scale at a different date stall. If you can get the perfect amount of dates, you will receive your next clue. Keep the dates for the next challenge.
Clue #4
Travel on foot to the Contemporary Mosque with either your goat or dates and trade them with the man waiting out front for your next clue.
Clue #5
Make your way back to the souq, and head to Omani Craftsman's House where you will find your next clue.
Clue #6
Roadblock: Who can work and weave?
The teammate participating in this roadblock must help create a small basketwork bowl. After watching the example, you must use the provided materials to finish off the bowl. If it meets the requirement of the shop owner, you will receive your next clue.
Clue #7
Make your way to the pit-stop for this leg of the race, Nizwa Fort! The last team to arrive may be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 4
-first: continue racing
-last: continue racing
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LEG 5
Oman
Clue #1
Drive yourself to Bimmah Sinkhole in Muscat, Oman! You will receive your next clue after having a cup of delicious locally-made coffee. Caution! Double U-Turn ahead!
Clue #2
Detour: Script Write or Shipwright
Script Write: Drive to Bait al Zubair and go into the Manuscript Room. Using a provided paper and translation guide, figure out what the marked manuscript says in English. If anything is wrong when submitting it, though, you must start completely over.
Shipwright: Drive to Oman Maritime Boatyard and find the marked boat. Oman Maritime has been reviving the craft of making the traditional wooden boats of Oman’s past, and you must help with the process. First, you must hand-sand a small section of the marked vessel. Then, you and your partner must work together to stitch coconut palm fiber through twenty holes, or eighty total stitches. Once you’re done, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #3
Make your way to Mutrah Souk for your next clue and the U-Turn board!
Clue #4
Search through the enormous market for one of three marked stalls. One you’ve found a stall, search through their wares for a trinket with a red/yellow flag on the bottom. Give the correct trinket to the shop owner, and they will hand you your next clue.
Clue #5
Drive yourself to Qurum Beach, where you will receive your next clue.
Clue #6
Roadblock: Who will pass the shells?
For this challenge, one team member must watch the demonstration of two fishermen playing a traditional Omani game, Al Hawalees. You must first create a “board” in the sand and collect the required amount of shells to play. You must then challenge a local fisherman. If you can win while following all of the rules correctly, you will receive your next clue.
Clue #7
Make your way to the pit-stop at Wadi Bani Khalid. The last team to check in will be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 5
-first: trip to Tanzania
-last: eliminated
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LEG 6
Oman - South Africa
Clue #1
Fly out of Oman to Durban, South Africa, on one of two flights.
Flight 1 (2 teams): Muscat - Durban, arrives 7:30 AM
Flight 2 (6 teams): Muscat - Dar es Salaam - Durban, arrives 8:00 AM
Upon touching down, make your way to Moses Mabhida Stadium, where you will find your next clue.
Clue #2
Roadblock: Who will swing for the skies?
One team member must strap in and complete the Big Rush Big Swing, the largest swing in the world! Dive 263 feet down. Once you have finished the swing, you will receive a section and seat number. You will search the stands for your next clue.
Clue #3
Make your way to Umhlanga Lighthouse for your next clue.
Clue #4
Shake it up! In this challenge, you must create Lighthouse Bar’s famous “Umhlanga Schling.” Use the provided recipe to create fifteen drinks to perfection, and you will receive your next clue.
Clue #5
Head to Addington Beach and dig underneath one of the large sandcastles for your next clue.
Clue #6
Detour: Tree or Sea
Tree: For this detour, go to Durban Botanical Gardens. Use a provided golf cart to make your way to the famous Wood’s Cycad, a tree dating back to the age of dinosaurs. It has been cared for here since 1848. Once there, use one of the provided pieces to put together a large 3d puzzle of the tree. Once it has been approved, you will be handed your clue, and you can drive back to the front of the gardens and continue racing.
Sea: Go to uShaka Marine World and help out with some chores! First, help the kitchen staff and prepare 5 pounds of specially made vegetables for some of the aquarium’s fish. Second, travel around the park and take water samples from each of the specified exhibits. Finally, record blood test results taken during routine health check-ups. If you’ve completed all of the steps correctly, you will receive your next clue.
Clue #7
Head to the pit-stop at Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World! The last team to check in may be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 6
-first: 5k each
-last: eliminated
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LEG 7
South Africa - Lesotho
Clue #1
Drive yourself through Qacha’s Nek and into Lesotho! Once in Lesotho, drive yourself to Maletsunyane Falls where you’ll find your next clue.
Fast Forward, Leg 7
By completing this fast forward, you will skip an overnight rest point and will be able to head directly to the pit-stop. Head to Sehlabathebe National Park. Once there, using the provided map and compass, ride by horseback to the nomadic tribal people’s current village. At the village, help cook pap-pap, a type of porridge common in Lesotho. The first team to complete the challenge will be able to head directly to the pit-stop.
Clue #2
Drive yourself to Seshoeshoe Decor and Fashion Designers in Maseru for your next clue.
Clue #3
Who can cut up a pattern?
One teammate will choose one of the complicated tribal Lesotho designs, and must find five pieces of fabric that match it perfectly. But be careful, the designs have miniscule differences between them. Once you’ve found all of your fabric, cut them at the directed places to receive your next clue.
Clue #4
Make your way to the Subeng River Dinosaur Footprints, where you will find seven tags, each releasing you at a time in the morning when you will receive your next clue.
Tags 1-2: departure at 7:00 AM
Tag 3: departure at 7:20 AM
Tag 4: departure at 7:40 AM
Tags 5-7: departure at 8:00 AM
Clue #5
Detour: Cave or Maze
Cave: For this challenge, go to Liphofung Cave. You must memorize all of the rock paintings in a specified section (15 paintings), and then run approximately a quarter-mile away and select the correct paper cutouts and put them in the right order as they were shown in the cave. When you have everything selected and ordered correctly, you’ll receive your next clue.
Maze: Make your way to the second largest dam in Africa, Katse Dam. Enter the first marked gallery and record the air temperature and the humidity. Use those observations to crack a complicated code, and enter the parallel gallery it directs you into. Be careful, it might be hard to find! If you enter the correct gallery, you will find a boat key, which you must give to the boatmaster. He will then give you a small ride around the reservoir and you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #6
Drive yourself to Sani Stone Lodge for your next clue.
Clue #7
Help a local Basotho Shephard and their dogs move their sheep to a new grazing location. Don’t let the sheep get away! Once they’ve all been successfully moved, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #8
Make your way on foot to the pit-stop at Sani Top Chalet! The last team to check in may be eliminated!
Pit-Stop, Leg 7
-first: trip to Egypt
-last: non-elimination
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LEG 8
Lesotho - Greece
Clue #1
Via Maseru International Airport, make your way to Athens, Greece, known to be the home of the first democracy! From there, make your way to the Theatre of Dionysus on The Acropolis, where you will take part in a U-Turn vote. The two teams with the most votes will be sentenced to an automatic U-Turn when they arrive at the detour. After the vote, teams will be given their next clue.
Clue #2
Fly to Chania, Greece on the island of Crete! Upon touching down, use the provided cars to make your way to the Agora and search for the marked stall.
Speed Bump, Leg 8
Together, team members must eat through a total of twelve Greek figs. Once all of the fruits have been stomached, that team can continue racing.
Clue #3
Detour: Traverse or Immerse
Traverse: Make your way to the Maritime Museum of Crete, and find the small yacht model outside the museum. Your goal is to remember as much as you can without writing it down, then make a half mile walk through the streets of Crete to the yacht harbor, where you must find a marked yacht and rearrange the items until it is just like it was in the model. Once the actual yacht matches the model, you’ll receive your next clue.
Immerse: Travel to Minoan’s World 3D Museum, and get treated to a five minute long “9D movie” on Cretan History which engages all of your senses. If you can answer all five questions correctly, you’ll receive your next clue. However, only two teams can participate in the show at once.
Clue #4
Drive to the Palace of Knossos for your next clue.
Clue #5
Use the provided map to navigate through the ruins, collecting puzzle pieces at each of the marked rooms. Once you have all ten bundles of pieces, head outside and recreate the large painting using the pieces you collected. Once it has been finished, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #6
Drive to Cretan Olive Oil Farm for your next clue.
Clue #7
Roadblock: Who is feeling oily?
In this challenge, one teammate will help in the process of creating olive oil. First, set up special tree-shaking equipment and a net, used to efficiently get olives out of the tree without bruising them. You will then sort the olives between bruised and fair. Finally, crush both bruised and fair olives with a traditional granite olive press. Once they have been successfully grinded into a paste, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #8
Find the pit-stop along the coast of the small village of Loutro back on the west side of Crete. You will soon discover, however, that the village is completely blocked off from the mainland by mountains, so you will have to find alternate transportation. Hurry, because the last team to arrive will be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 8
-first: trip to Austria
-last: eliminated
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LEG 9
Greece
Clue #1
Fly back to the mainland in Thessaloniki! When you’ve arrived, search Aristotelous Square for your next clue.
Clue #2
Detour: Serve or Observe
Serve: For this detour head on foot to Bougatsa Giannis, a renowned restaurant in the Ladadika area. You must take the orders of twelve total people and retrieve the correct dishes for them from the kitchen. Each person also has a dessert, which must be retrieved from nearby pastry shop Trigona Elinidi. You may take notes, but if you mess up someone’s order, you must start it over again.
Observe: Go by taxi to the Thessaloniki Science Centre Technology Museum and make your way to the main planetarium. The night sky will be projected above, and will be moving around you at one hour of regular movement per second. Using the provided key, identify five Greek constellations first identified by Claudius Ptolemy- Orion, Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, Centaurus, and Perseus. Be careful, it might be dizzying! Once you’ve found all of the constellations, you’ll be rewarded with your next clue.
Clue #3
Find the Arch of Galerius for your next clue.
Clue #4 Use one of the marked cars to drive yourself for the rest of the leg. Go to the Thessaloniki Concert Hall for your next clue.
Clue #5
Roadblock: Who can blow a note and hold a tune?
Macedonian brass bands are extremely popular in the Macedonia region of Greece, so for this roadblock, learn how to play the trumpet, a popular instrument played in these bands. If you can play a few notes of the folk song with the band, you’ll get your next clue.
Clue #6
Drive to Dalamara Winery. Once there, follow the guide to the directed area, where you must load two empty kegs onto a horse drawn cart. Direct the horse approximately half a mile through the vineyard and return back to the kegs. You will continue to load and deliver a total of eight kegs to receive your next clue.
Clue #7
Drive to Ski Center Voras and take the lift to the top where Kajmakcalan, a chapel right on the border between Greece and North Macedonia is situated. The last team to arrive at this pit-stop may be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 9
-first: trip to Colombia
-last: eliminated
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LEG 10
Greece - North Macedonia
Clue #1
Drive yourself across the border into North Macedonia to Popova Kula Winery! Once there, pull a tag that departs you at a certain time the next morning.
Tag 1: departure at 8:00 AM
Tag 2: departure at 8:10 AM
Tag 3: departure at 8:20 AM
Tags 4-5: departure at 8:30 AM
Clue #2
Roadblock: Who is a master chef?
The teammate doing this roadblock will use the provided recipe to cook the national dish of North Macedonia, Tavche Gravche, a special type of baked beans. If it is cooked to perfection, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #3
Drive yourself to the Millenium Cross in Skopje for your next clue.
Clue #4
Detour: Art Block or Charity Walk
Art Block: Drive to the Art Bridge, which is home to 29 statues of important Macedonian artists and musicians. Wandering on and around the bridge are 29 people dressed up as those artists and musicians. You must match nine total people to their statues. A maximum of three teams can complete this challenge.
Charity Walk: Drive to the Mother Teresa Memorial House and load a trolley cart with a marked group of items that will almost completely fill the trolley. On foot, travel to the SOS Children’s Village National Office where you are to deliver the items. If you do not choose this option, your items will still be donated after the leg.
Clue #5
Drive to the city of Struga, where the North Macedonian national anthem was created. Make your way to the Saint Archangel Michael Cave Church for your next clue.
Clue #6
Teammates must work together to memorize four total stanzas of the Macedonian national anthem- in Macedonian. If you can perform it with the orchestra without forgetting the lyrics, you’ll receive your clue to the next pit-stop.
Clue #7
Drive to the Monastery of St. Naum and the pit-stop! The last team to check in may be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 10
-first: trip to Indonesia
-last: eliminated
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LEG 11
North Macedonia - Cuba
Clue #1
Make your way back to Skopje, then fly to Havana, Cuba, on two predetermined flights. Once there, go by taxi to Taller Calle 8, a car repair shop, where you will receive your next clue.
Flight 1 (2 teams): Skopje - Paris - Havana, arrives 6:30 AM
Flight 2 (2 teams): Skopje - London - Miami - Havana, arrives 7:10 AM
Clue #2
Roadblock: Who can fix it up?
The teammate doing this roadblock must follow the example to repair one of the classic Cuban cars. If it makes it past inspection, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #3
For the remainder of the leg, you’ll have to drive the car you just fixed. Head to Fusterlandia, where you’ll find your next clue.
Clue #4
Find where the attached image is in person throughout the folk neighborhood of Fusterlandia. If you can find where the image actually is and show the judge, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #5
Sell the Box or Find the Band
Sell the Box: Drive to Santa Maria del Mar Beach and sell the provided boxes of boxed rum, the “juice box for bug kids.” While never selling any box for under 25 Cuban Pesos, make 375 Cuban Pesos (around fifteen US dollars). Once you’ve made your sales, you’ll receive your next clue.
Find the Band: For this detour, drive to the Cuban Art Factory and observe the large, marked piece of sheet music in the first room. Going from room to room in the factory, try to find the band who is playing the music that was in the first room. You must make your guesses ten minutes apart, so be confident in your answers! Once you have chosen the right band, you’ll be rewarded with your next clue.
Clue #6
Drive to Vinales Valley Tobacco Field and search the marked area for your next clue.
Clue #7
Perfectly roll ten Cuban cigars, five per contestant. Watch the example closely, as any small mistake in rolling the tobacco leaf will cause the cigar to fail. Once all of the cigars have been perfectly rolled, you’ll receive your next clue.
Clue #8
Take a long drive to the eastern side of Cuba and the pit-stop at Ignacio Agramonte Park in Camaguey! The last team to check into the pit-stop will be eliminated.
Pit-Stop, Leg 11
-first: trip to Botswana
-last: eliminated
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LEG 12
Cuba - USA
Clue #1
For the first part of this leg, you’ll be staying in Cuba! Drive yourself using the car you used in the last leg down Neptuno street in Havana, where you will find a guarapo stall with a flag.
Clue #2
Using the hand-press to crush sugarcane, make forty glasses of guarapo. Once all of the glasses have been successfully made, you’ll be handed your next clue.
Clue #3
Drive to the Tropicana Night Club for your next clue.
Clue #4
Roadblock: Who can make it and shake it?
For this challenge, one team member must follow the instructions of the costume designer to create a costume for one of the showgirls. If the costume is made correctly and given a pass, teams will be given their next clue.
Clue #5
Teams must drive to Aeropuerto de La Habana Ciudad Libertad, where you will embark on a charter flight to Key West, Florida, back in the United States. Once in Key West, teams must go to the southernmost point in the continental United States for their next clue.
Clue #6
Make your way to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, where you’ll find your next clue.
Clue #7
Roadblock: Who is a reader, a writer, and a decipherer?
Ernest Hemingway, known for books like The Old Man and the Sea, had a notoriously bad handwriting, with little regards to punctuation or accuracy. One team member must copy one of Hemingway’s notes perfectly, letter for letter, on the provided typewriter. If it was typed perfectly, you will be handed a decoder key which you can use to find the hidden message, which will reveal the location of your final challenge.
Answer: Smathers Beach
Clue #8
Now that you’ve made it to Smathers Beach, you’ll partake in a final challenge. Out in between the marked buoys are bundles of letter tiles. You must dive down to retrieve them and bring them back up to shore. Figure out what you’re supposed to spell out with them, and once you think you have the answer, hang the tiles in order on your clothesline. If you have the correct answer, you’ll be given the final clue.
Answer: United States, Japan, South Korea, India, Oman, South Africa, Lesotho, Greece, North Macedonia, Cuba, United States (teams must figure out that they have to spell out all of the countries they visited in order on the race)
Clue #9
Congratulations! Make your way to the final pit-stop at Fort Zachary Cruise Pier! Go, go, go, the first team to reach the pit-stop will win 1 MILLION dollars!
Pit-Stop, Leg 12
10 countries
4 continents
over 27,000 miles
first: 1 million dollars

Welcome to the results from our second nomination thread for our Top 100 Albums of the 2010's project! Here's a short reminder of how this project works:
We will be collectively selecting and ranking the top 100 albums of the decade together over the next few weeks. The process will be broken into 3 phases:
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1. Nomination
2. Top 100 Selection
3. Top 100 Ranking

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• After our 2nd of 3 nomination thread our nomination list is up to 221 Albums.
• The third nomination thread will go up Thursday morning. This is your last chance to nominate an album that hasn't been nominated yet.
• Next week we will begin the second phase, top 100 selection.
• Our full 221 album nomination list can be found in the spreadsheet here and listed below.
• Please share in the comments which albums are still missing from the list below:

2814 - 2814 (2014)
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy (2011)
Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 (2018)
Alix Perez - Chroma Chords (2013)
Alon Mor - Long Awaited Journey (2017)
Anamunaguchi - USA (2019)
Andrew Bayer - It's Artificial (2011)
Andrew Bayer - If It Were You, We'd Never Leave (2013)
Andrew Bayer - In My Last Life (2018)
Aphex Twin - Syro (2014)
Apparat - A Devil's Walk (2011)
Arca - Arca (2017)
Avicii - True (2013)
Baauer - Aa (2016)
Bassnectar - Divergent Spectrum (2011)
Bassnectar - Into The Sun (2015)
Baths - Cerulean (2010)
Ben Frost - A U R O R A (2014)
Bicep - Bicep (2017)
Blackmill - Miracle (2011)
Bluetech - Love Songs to the Source (2010)
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)
Bonobo - Black Sands (2010)
Bonobo - The North Borders (2013)
Bonobo - Migration (2017)
Boyz Noize - Out The Black (2012)
Boyz Noize - Mayday (2016)
Breakbot - By Your Side (2012)
Burial - Tunes 2011 to 2019 (2019)
C2C - Tetra (2012)
C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha (2011)
Calibre - The Deep (2017)
Calvin Harris - 18 Months (2012)
Calvin Harris - Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1 (2017)
Camo & Krooked - Zeitgeist (2013)
Camo & Krooked - Mosaik (2017)
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper (2010)
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Derilects (2017)
Caribou - Swim (2010)
Caribou - Our Love (2014)
Cassius - Dreams (2019)
Chase & Status - No More Idols (2011)
Chrome Sparks - Chrome Sparks (2018)
Chromeo - Business Casual (2010)
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe (2013)
Clams Casino - Instrumentals (2011)
Com Truise - Galactic Melt (2011)
Cubicolor - Brainsugar (2016)
Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy (2010)
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic (2013)
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016)
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Digitalism - Mirage (2016)
Disclosure - Settle (2013)
DJ Koze - Knock Knock (2018)
DJ Rashad - Double Cup (2013)
Dj Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall (2016)
Duck Sauce - Quack (2014)
Dusky - Outer (2016)
Emancipator - Seven Seas (2015)
Emancipator - Baralku (2017)
Eprom - Metahuman (2012)
Eric Prydz - Opus (2016)
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FKA Twigs - LP1 (2014)
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Floating Points - Elainia (2015)
Floating Points - Crush (2019)
Flume - Flume (2012)
Flume - Hi, This Is Flume (2019)
Flume - Skin (2016)
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Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes (2012)
Flying Lotus - You're Dead (2014)
Forest Swords - Engravings (2013)
Forest Swords - Compassion (2017)
Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)
Four Tet - Morning / Evening (2015)
Four Tet - New Energy (2017)
G Jones - The Ineffable Truth (2018)
George Fitzgerald - All That Must Be (2018)
Gesaffelstein - Aleph (2013)
Giraffage - Too Real (2017)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)
Grimes - Visions (2012)
Griz - Say It Loud (2015)
Griz - Good Will Prevail (2016)
Grum - Heartbeats (2010)
Home - Oddysey (2014)
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom (2017)
Illenium - Ashes (2016)
Ivy Lab - Death Don't Always Taste Good (2018)
Jack U - Jack U (2015)
James Blake - James Blake (2011)
James Blake - Assume Form (2019)
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual (2013)
Jamie XX - We're New Here (2011)
Jamie XX - In Colour (2015)
Jon Hopkins - Immunity (2013)
Jon Hopkins - Singularity (2018)
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Justice - Audio, Video, Disco (2011)
Kavinsky - Outrun (2013)
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Noisia - Split The Atom (2010)
Noisia - Outer Edges (2016)
Nosaj Thing - Fated (2015)
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Odesza - In Return (2014)
Odesza - A Moment Apart (2017)
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Oliver - Full Circle (2017)
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Porter Robinson - Worlds (2014)
Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun (2013)
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Purity Ring - Shrines (2012)
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Rival Consoles - Howl (2015)
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Royksopp - The Inevitable End (2014)
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Sebastian - Total (2011)
Shlomo - Bad Vibes (2011)
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Skrillex - Recess (2014)
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Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014)
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Wolfgang Gartner - Weekend In America (2011)
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- The Mod Team

Continuing
Well, when the props fouled the third time, I suggested we call it a day, as we’d already made some 32 sea-kilometers. We were out on the fringes of the worst of the kelp forest beds, and after a good night’s sleep, we’d be ready to deploy bright and early and get some seismic data acquired and recorded.
But, first, there was the first night aboard ship. In a rusty old tin-can with few creature comforts, as the annual winter monsoon winds wane and the seas actually begin to settle slightly.
I took that as both good omens. The bitching and kvetching I head from the locals about the ‘abominable weather they had to endure’, even from the Coast Guard types, really struck me as uproariously funny.
I just chalked it up to being sequestered from the rest of the world for so long. Put these characters in the path of a Midwestern tornado, East Indian summer monsoon, or Siberian blizzard, and they’d shit themselves blind. I didn’t really think too much of it, although it became somewhat of a game when the imperialistic foreigners tried to one-up each other with horror stories from excursions past.
“No shit”, Dax said, “We were snowed in for a full fortnight.”
“No!” several of us recoiled in mock horror.
“Oh, yah, hey.” Dax continued, “It’s just great when blizzards snap the power lines, and all the toilets freeze. The house cat didn't die until we burned up all our wood. Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good…”
Several of our handlers, a few in the Coast Guard and most of the Korean scientists reacted rather badly to Dax’s story; especially when it had been gorily translated.
Seeing this, Dax stood up, got the soju bottle, and asked if anyone needed a top-up. I asked while puffing away on a large Jamaican cigar if anyone needed a smoke.
At this point, Dax was winning. He had seven of the assembled crowd run to the rail to relieve themselves of our canned Chinese dinner.
Not ever one to shrink from a challenge, I related my second-hand story of my Brother-in-law, who was in the US Coast Guard for years and years. I waited for the green crowd to re-join us and regain what remained of their composure. I figured the quasi-military national Coast Guarders here would appreciate the tale.
Mine wasn’t a gory or shocking tale, just one of the incredible water conditions off the coast of California.
I waited until everyone was settled, drink in hand, and smokin’ ‘em if you got ‘em.
“Well”, I said, “It was on board a ship much like the one we’re currently on,” I said as a rascal wave broke over the railing in counterpoint. “About the same size as this vessel, but with smaller wheels. You know these Coast Guard shallow-water boys”, I chuckled. Always meaning to jab one group or another in the place where I know it stings.
Yeah, I’m a real bastard that way sometimes.
The Korean Coast Guarders sneered hardly at me; but not too hard. They liked my cigars, cigarettes, and open disbursement policy too much.
“Yeah, anyways”, I continued, “He was offshore California in one of the US Coast Guard cutters. It was a boat about 26 meters or so in length. They were out doing search and rescue after a mega-nasty storm blew in from the west and scuttled a sailing regatta race.”
I was drawing them in with my ‘just so’ story, nice and easy, until…
“Yeah, there were several capsized monohulls, catamarans and trimarans. Damn, these things were fucking yachts. Owned by rich idiots that almost knew how to sail but didn’t know enough to get out of the way of a fucking severe storm…”
I really had their attention with ‘soaking the rich’.
“Well, the waves grew and grew, but my Brother-in-laws's boat was built to handle severe weather. These patrol and rescue boat has the capability to roll over 360 degrees and self-right within 30 seconds. Like right now, you’d never even notice this degree rock and roll”, I said as I demonstrated with my cigar, tracing out tighter and tighter rolls, and higher degrees of rocking and rolling.
“They were approaching a capsized trimaran, but the waves kept growing and growing…” I said, leading by example and having them watch me with unblinking attention.
“The waves grew and grew, and normally you’d take these head-on. But that was impossible, because when afternoon came it was slashin' rain, in the face of a hurricane west wind. The boat rolled to the left, heeled, almost keeled, a then rolled the other way just as quickly.” I noted.
They followed me as I timed it with the heavings of our own boat, to the left…to the right…
“Then, just as they were about to reach upon the trimaran, a rogue wave! Out of nowhere”, I said, rocking and rolling along with our own little boat, “BAM! Hit amidships! It didn’t roll once, it rolled twice!” I made great and magniloquent gestures of a tiny boat being savaged by a monstrous rogue sea wave.
I stood up, blew a great blue cloud of smoke towards the poop deck, and said, loudly, “Rolled over once. A full 360! Then rolled right over again. A full 720 degrees!” as I demonstrated what happened with my cigar and drink.
The eyes following me rolled and rolled as well. Some straight back into the owner’s head and some to the left, some to the right…it was like ‘Loose Slots’ night in Vegas, they were rolling and rolling.
And then racing for the rails. Topside to deliver the remains of their hearty canned dinners.
“Beat you, Dax!” I smiled as I sat back down, “I got nine with that at one. And two of them were Coasties!”
“Did that really happen?” Ivan asked.
“According to my Brother-in-law. But he’s an engineer if you know what I mean…” I smiled.
We concluded story night as we had drifted free of the kelp forest and the Captain of the boat decided he’d risk an anchorage for the night. The weather was ameliorating, the seas calming themselves down, and the wind dropping a couple of notches on the Beaufort Scale.
“Well, gents”, I said, “I need some air. The aroma down here of Chinese Aplo™ for dinner, those who didn’t make it to the rails, and the solitary head for the entire crew has lost its charm. If you’ll excuse me”, I said as I grabbed a bottle of ersatz vodka, and several cans of Taedonggang beer, “I’ll be on the aft deck; in my comfy chair and contemplating the wonder of it all.”
With that, I ventured up the stairs and out onto the aft deck.
Dax naturally followed and he found his own not-bolted-down deck chair. We had a constant flow of visitors, foreign and nationals alike. It was shaping up to be a fine night for being out under the stars, there was no light pollution at all. We sat in our chairs, drank our drinks, smoked our smokes, and argued the finer points of astronomy as seen from this part of the world.
I had several side chats with the scientists and academicians from the Korean side. They all had one thing on their minds. Well, one thing after cigars and cigarettes. They wanted Western scientific journals. They were actually trying to bribe me to get those copies, any age, any subject; of Science, AAPG Explorer, and SEPM Proceedings, anything of Western science as it is today. I said they were welcome to a couple of copies of Science and SPE journals I had brought with as an afterthought, for free. With 900 won to the dollar, they needed every won they could get. I wasn’t about to take anything for the free dissemination of knowledge.
However, if they saw it fit to buy me a drink or seven, I wouldn’t object.
In reality, I’d buy those as well.
We made secret pacts to meet at the hotel-casino the night before we left, whenever the fuck that would be. We had a lot of work before us as it stands. It won’t be for a few weeks, I reminded them.
They had no problem. If I could ask the other in the team if they’d do likewise, the appreciation would be palpable.
Great. Now I have to go get my field notebooks and make some more new entries.
Dax cratered around 0100. I elected to stay the night and sleep under the stars as the boat slowly rocked one way and rolled the other. It was quiet, dark as a tomb, and brilliantly lit up by the stellar backbone of the night once the clouds fumbled out. Tomorrow looked as if it were to be bright and sunny if the gentle westerlies had anything to say about the next day’s conditions.
The next day dawned early, bright, and ridiculously sunny as it usually does when the monsoons have departed and it had stopped raining.
“OK.”, I thought, “Time for a hearty breakfast. For someone else. I wonder what’s available here.”
I ventured down to the cold galley and there were several boxes of dry Chinese breakfast cereal, “Shredded Tweet” and the like, some sort of obviously aged bakery, and a case of Taedonggang beer.
“Hmmm”, I mused out loud, “Beer and rice crispies. Breakfast of champions.”
Dax walks in, rubbing his eyes. He sees me drowning my rice cereal in foamy ersatz milk.
“Reminds me of field camp!” I smiled as I chowed on the morning’s offerings.
After our ‘hearty’ breakfast, all the scientific parties gathered in the main stateroom. It was cramped, but the walls were magnetic and we could hang maps, well, charts actually since we’re well offshore now, and plots the day’s course.
Out in the Yellow Sea, we were supposedly over a subsurface, and by dint of being offshore, submarine, dome. Salt dome? Unlikely. Probably more of a shale dome, which isn’t a bad thing when hunting for oil and gas.
Looking at the charts, I ask the locals what our current position was relative to the domal uplift.
After several long moments of silence, I asked again.
“Umm, guys”, I said, “If you’re not going to be forthcoming with something as simple as positional data, then turn this boat 180^0’s and take us back to shore. I am fed up, as are my team, with this tight-holing of the simplest of data when you are the knotheads that asked us here for help. We get paid either way, and I for one wouldn’t mind being paid triple to sit in the hotel’s basement and drink”
After telling the translator to translate that last part literally, I sat back, pulled out a really nasty cigar, and went through all the threatening moves of firing it up in the enclosed cabin.
“You will have to excuse us”, came the reply from one of the elders, “We are not used to dealing with oegugseon [foreigners].”
“Are you used to following orders?” I asked brusquely.
“Of course!” came the near-unanimous reply.
“Great. Then consider this an order: You will relay the appropriate information when asked by any Westerner on this cruise. Consider it as coming from the Supreme Leader of this expedition.” I noted.
Using the term ‘Supreme Leader’ was both a bow to their current bad-hair-cut in charge and my desire to let them know I was serious as a kick to the scrotum about the whole fucking deal.
There were a couple of gasps and some consternatious talk, but eventually, one brave soul got up, walked over to the chart, and pointed to our relative location.
“There”, I added, “That wasn’t so hard, was it? Didn’t hurt in the least, did it?”
There were a few chuckles amongst our national colleagues, so I figured that was at least a little progress.
“OK, then”, I continued, “Volna? Ack? You’re up to bat.”
I turned the proceedings over to the geophysicists. They would devise the configuration of the towed array, our speed, direction, charge size, which was based on depth, and all the other geophysical flips and twists one has to do in order to acquire the best data.
This shit doesn’t come cheap. The Mesozoic-Paleozoic marine residual basin in the South Yellow Sea where these domes live is a potentially significant deep potential hydrocarbon reservoir. However, the imaging of the deep prospecting target is quite challenging due to the specific seismic-geological conditions. In the Central and Wunansha Uplifts, the penetration of the seismic wavefield is limited by the shallow high-velocity layers (HVLs) and the weak reflections in the deep carbonate rocks. With the conventional marine seismic acquisition technique, the deep weak reflection is difficult to image and identify. We confirm through numerical simulation that the combination of multi-level impulse source (i.e., explosive) array and extended cable used in the seismic acquisition is crucial for improving the imaging quality.
With that, we’re going to be recording a minimum of four stacks, with a receiver interval of 25 meters. The array will have a shot interval of 50 meters, with a 25 meter near offset, and a 2500 meter far offset. We will attempt to record 180 channels, off-end, with a sampling period of 0.5 seconds, and a record length of 5 seconds. We’ll sail the same course 4 times to verify previous records and attempt to add ‘fold’, i.e., extra data from the same point, to the overall records.
That’s the plan, at least.
Loads of preparation, logistics, and execution.
After a half an hour or so, both Volna and Ack are finished with the national scientists.
They set down their notebooks, pens, notes, and pointers; walk out of the meeting room and directly over to the galley.
“Hungry, fellas?” I inquire.
“Rock?”, Ack asks, “You have explosives here, right? Sink us. Just fucking sink us right now.” As he pours himself and Volna a stiff shot of real vodka.
“Uh, oh. Problems in Dreamland?” I ask, utilizing the derogatory name for the geophysical domain of exploration data.
“Un-be-fucking-believable.”, Volna adds.
“Your colloquial American is coming along well, Volna.” I snickered a bit.
“I learn from you”, he spat, “Cannot believe this. They don’t record while underway. They tow single array and stop. Then drop dynamite over side. They record. Then they do it again. Claim this gives them good fold. This is bullshit. You said devise program. HA! Take us to shore and let me teach them the fucking basics of geophysical acquisition. Then in a few years, we come back and do it right.”
“Oh, fuck”, I reply, wincing, “That bad?”
“Oh, no”, Ack continues, “It’s worse.” As he down 100 milliliters of booze in one draught and pours another for Volna and is own self, “No on-board demultiplexing. No on-board pre-processing. No-onboard QA/QC. No on-board anything. It’s fucking hopeless. Sink us, I’d rather take my chances with the sharks.”
“They can’t do all that stuff or they won’t do all that stuff,” I asked, expecting the worst.
“Oh, it might be possible, with this museum-grade crap they call a computer they have on-board. It’s just time-consuming, tricky, and will need constant attention. But with this raft of sad-sacks, flub-a-dubs and third rate hobbyists?” Ack and Volna agree as one.
“Consider it job security”, I replied, “How about this? One test loop and we use that data to do what’s necessary; just once. Then we can say we’ve shown them the way. After that, I’ll leave it up to the National scientists.”
“Good thing we have 2 full days, Rock”, Volna said, “Because we do a single AC (acquisition) run, it’ll take the rest of the time to show these buggers how it’s done.”
“Ack? You agree?” I asked.
Ack agreed, in spades.
“OK, gentlemen”, I said, “Let’s make it so. About time, too. I haven’t blown anything up in a couple of weeks. I’m getting antsy. Let’s go tell them the good news.”
“NO! WE REFUSE!” was the cheery response from the nationals when Ack, Volna, and I laid out the rather lengthy program for the next couple of days.
“OK. Someone tell the Captain to head for home. We’re done here.” I calmly told our handlers and the translators.
Panic in Pyongyang.
Immediately, there is this hue and cry about how this was not supposed to be how this trip was going to work. This was to be an acquisition trip only. This was to be a one-off to show Best Korea geophysical prowess. This was supposed to be data gathering trip on the Western scientists…
Oops.
That last one was a bit of a mistake.
I turn to one of the translators and ask them to re-translate that last part, just in case I was hearing imaginary things.
“Oh, yes”, he replied, “He said they were here to gather data on the Western Scientists as well as offshore data.”
“Is that a fact?” I reacted. “Please tell them I need to see all my team members on the fantail immediately if you would. Sorry, translators and nationals not included in this little meeting.”
We reconvene on the fantail a few minutes later. I walk in on this little conclave with cigar and drink in hand.
“OK, gents”, I say, puffing a huge blue cloud, swigging a tot, “Here’s what I think we, as responsible international scientists, should do in this regrettable situation. We were asked to come here, with provisions that we would not be under cynosure, observation, or surveillance. Given ‘Open and Free Access’, no questions asked. We were to be treated as “esteemed guests”. This is obviously a load of dingo’s kidneys. I think we need to get as creative as possible and do whatever we can to provide as much deliberate misinformation to these characters to annoy, amaze, or disgust them as much as possible. Comments?”
There’s a general buzz, but no real dissention. After a few moment's discussion, Dax suggests we get a load of XXXXL condoms, and leave them around packaged as “Texas Medium”.
“That’s the spirit”, I reply. “Anyone one else up for a little Psychological Operations on our not-so-clever-nor-truthful hosts?”
We all agree that we will, in our own little way, start a campaign of deliberate misinformation, misdirection, and general petty bullshit nastiness for our hosts to discover and by which be dismayed.
Everyone’s in agreement. This trip has been a rotund bale of jeers from the get-go.
Promises made, promises broken. Itineraries approved then inexplicably disapproved. We make requests, they accede; and then nothing ever happens. It’s most frustrating.
We’re tolerating a lot of horse, bull, cow, and assorted other farmyard excrements; all in the name of international harmony and scientific goodwill. This has been an outgoing one-way street for too long. We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.
“Hellfire and Dalmatians!” I growl, growing angrier every minute I think about the subject, “We need to take the high, low, and middle ground on this offensive. Nothing too overt or obvious; however we need to jank these bastards good. But they can’t realize they’re being janked…!”
Ack cuts in.
“The esteemed Dr. Rock is right. Psychotic...but absolutely right. We got to take these bastards. We could fight them with conventional weapons. That could take years...cost millions of lives. In this case... I think we have to go all out. I think this situation absolutely requires...a really futile and stupid gesture... be done on somebody's part.”
There’s a general buzz among the assembled.
“And we're just the guys to do it.”
Shouts and catcalls of deep agreement.
“Operation ‘Confound-a-Korean’” is now enacted.
“About fucking time!”
“Let’s do it!”
“Dissen gonna be bery messy! Me no watchin!”
“OK, I think, “Who’s the prequel-series wiseass?”
“OK, gentlemen”, I continue, “We continue with our scientific duties. No fucking around there. But, when it comes to…interpretation…opinion…or personal viewpoint; let’s go full impede. Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with bullshit.”
We all agree and after a couple of quick rounds of old thought provoker, we realize this trip has just taken a hard left into Wackyland. We will have to let our comrades onshore know of this, but that can wait until we return. Right now, we all have jobs to do. Real jobs, serious jobs, covert and sneaky jobs…
So, it’s back to the recording shack as we lay out the plans for the next couple of days.
Volna begins: “OK, listen up you primitive screwheads. We’re going to assemble and layout a recording array that’s called a Meisenheimer Triplet. You do know what a simple Meisenheimer Triplet is, don’t you?”
There’s a slight murmur from our national friends, but in the end, they all plead ignorance.
“Right. Thought so. A Meisenheimer Triplet is a central towed array flanked by two shorter, subparallel flanking sub-frammitz arrays. We will assemble this array on-board, even though it’s probably going to take every ounce of silver solder and electrician’s tape you’ve got. The amount of data received is orders of magnitude greater than any single Sheriff-sonde array, like the ones you been using.”
Suddenly, there are nods and murmurs of agreement.
“Right”, Volna smiles sinisterly to me, “With that, we’ll need to devise an explosive package, well, actually, a series of explosive packages based on the harmonia of the pre-bottom fore-sets, water depth, tow vehicle velocity, water column density, and decomposition coefficients of the said water column. Oh, yeah. Fish too.”
Volna is really getting into the spirit of the affair.
“Who is your explosives engineer?” Ack asks, “He’s going to have to do some serious number-crunching with all the pre-blast data we’ll need to supply. “
One quick translation and there’s nothing but long faces and querulous looks from our national crowd.
“We have no explosives engineer”, the head Best Korean geophysicist laments. “Explosives are very, very heavily regulated by the government. That’s why we have several Government Observers on board. They handle the explosives.”
“Oh?” Ack remarks, “Are they fully up to speed on the Barnard-Reichmann equations for hydro-displacement of serial charges? Which subset of the marine rarefication coefficients do they employ?”
“Ummm, don’t know.” was the answer.
“Don’t know? Well”, Volna continues, “Then, they must be pretty good with the Langefors-Kihlström formulae, right?”
“No. Not as such.” Came the response.
“I see”, Ack sighs, “Well, then, I guess they must utilize the Il’yushin algorithms then. OK, it’s a bit old school, but they should still work.”
“Ah. Well. No.” was the rejoinder they offered.
“Well, then what the fuck do they use?” Volna explodes, “A modified Ambraseys-Hendorn model? Ghosh-Damen 1? Ghosh-Damen 2? Indian Fargin Standard? Prejaculated Rai-Singh protocols, fer’ chrissake? Which?”
Nothing but shaking heads and wringing hands.
“They take a case of dynamite, wire it up, and throw it overboard with a long fuse.” Was the eventual answer. “That’s why we stop to record.”
Long, exasperated sigh later, “Jesus Q. Tapdancing Christ on a crème cracker. No wonder you never get anything done.” Volna continues, “You characters are in luck. You just happen to be so lucky to have an internationally-renowned Master Blaster right here on board ship today.”
Volna turns the crowd over to me, “Doctor? Do your damnedest. And good luck.”
“Thanks, Volna”, I say, cigar in one hand, stalwart drink in the other, “OK, guys. Here’s the deal. When it comes to explosives and explosive design, I’m the hookin’ bull. No one has authority over me. Not the Captain. Not the boson’s mate. Not the Captain’s Consort even. Nor the guys in the cheap shiny suits. What I say, goes. No exceptions. No hesitation. We green or are we going back to shore?”
“Cholog?” they ask.
“Yes. ‘Cholog’. Green. Are we understanding one another? Are we all in agreement? Are you fuckin’ diggin’ me, Beaumont?”
There’s some quick back and forth in Korean, a lot of seeming bad noise. Even the shiny suit squad and Coasties join in the fun.
“Grudgingly, we agree. Green as you say, Doctor Rock. You are the one in charge.” Came the head national’s reply.
“Splendid. I’m in charge of the charges.” I chuckle, puffing an enormous cloud of expensive Oscuro smoke, “Volna, Ack; please get me the required parameters. I’ll be in the ordnance locker to see what we’re working with here. C’mon fellas, chop-chop!”
Volna and Ack take their select set of geophysical wishers and wannabes while I get the rest of the locals, the shiny suit squad in reserve, but in tow.
I head off to the ordinance locker.
Dax runs behind “Hey! Wait for me.”
“We have to”, I snigger a reply, “We’re going to need a drinks runner.”
“Marvelous…” was the one-word response.
We get to the locked ordinance locker. It’s one of the few original structures remaining on the ship. The boat was torn down almost to the waterline and re-built for seismic acquisition, but they had enough brains to realize that the source of the seismic signals was usually explosive in nature. Dinoseis and Mini-Sossie were closed books to them.
Therefore, the locker remained intact, however grudgingly.
“Whew! And what a locker.” I whewed. “And what a lock. OK, who’s got the keys?”
There are general hemming and hawing and no one seems to know where the keys for the ordinance locker are kept.
“Well, gents”, I say, pointedly, “I would suggest that one or more of you toddle off and fucking find the goddamn keys or this will turn out to be a very short and unproductive trip, indeed.”
A while later, a bit longer than I personally care for, the boat’s Captain wanders up, all a-scowl and generally pissed-off looking.
“Who here needs the key to the explosives locker?” He asks in his Captainly, no-nonsense manner.
There’s more muttering and murmuring, but eventually, all fingers point toward me.
The Captain looks at me.
“Hello.”
He’s giving me the once over with a LASER stink eye. I don’t know which irritated him the most; the lit cigar, the drink, the Stetson, Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, Scottish knee socks or field boots.
“And who the hell are you”? He asks, oh, so wrongly, through an interpreter.
I stand up, fully puffed to full mammalian threat posture and say in a loud steady voice;
“I’m THE Doctor Rocknocker, the MOTHERFUCKING PRO FROM DOVER!, that’s who.”
Since I had a good 6 inches and way too many kilos on him; my loud, American and very un-oriental answer took him completely by surprise.
His eyes got as big as dinner plates and he shakily held out the ring of keys for the explosives locker.
“Why thank you very much”, I said, bowing in his direction ever so slightly. Wasn’t his fault he wasn’t totally clued in on all the recent goings-on aboard his vessel.
I toss the keys to Dax, “Here, earn your keep.” I snickered.
Dax deftly fields the keys, chuckles back, and begins the game of ‘which key for which lock’?
I thank the Captain and explain that I’m the de facto leader of this special education class, and make some pointed, mild epitaphs about landlubbers, national scientists, and the cargo of the totally clueless on board.
He sees I’m not a total boor and relaxes some. We haven’t really had a real introduction, so I grab a translator and engage the Captain in a short, though insightful conversation.
Cigars were exchanged. Handshakes were as well.
Seems he’s just as aggravated by these know-it-alls who really know-fuck-all. We see eye to eye and part friends once Dax finally figures out the combination to the weapons locker.
“Holy fuck!” I exclaim, “Now that’s a door.” I say looking at the slowly-opening covering of the weapon’s portico. Fully five solid inches of solid steel. Triple reinforced hinges. Deadman's latches. Bringles-jams and solid, non-decabulated cast-steel cross-members.
Just the thing to contain an errant blast and send all that excess energy skyward instead of into the bowels of the boat.
OK, bonus points for that design feature.
I look inside, but it’s dark and fragrant as the inside of an irritated oyster in the bottom of the Tonga-Kermadec Trench.
Dax fumbles around and finds the light switch.

FLIP

“Hmmm.” I hmmed. “Well, we’re all set for dynamite, I see.”
Case after case after case of leaking, cheap-ass Chinese knock-off sort-of Du Pont-style 50% dynamite. Box after box of Pseudo-Dyno-Nobel blasting caps. Delaminating, unwinding spools after spool of “PrimUcord”. Sticky “Korea” brand silk-woven coated Demolition Wire.
“Gads.” I sigh. “What a nightmare. Either this stuff goes off when you give it a dirty look or it doesn’t go off at all.”
Dax looks to me, “So, the trip’s a bust. Is that what you’re saying?”
“If we don’t find something that’ll work, probably,” I reply. “This shit’s worthless.”
We continue to search after I shoo everyone but Dax out of the locker. It’s damp and musty in here, smelling disconcertingly of kerosene, gherkins, and old sardines. That’s one sure sign of dynamite going bad. I warn Dax to be extra careful, that this stuff hasn’t had the best of handling. We could be in for an unexpected surprise.
So, we redouble our efforts and are much more circumspect.
Knock-off this and fake-ass that.
All Chinese in origin. It might have worked one day; but after sitting in here, unattended, unturned, and uncared for? I’m ready to both literally and figuratively pull the plug on this whole fiasco.
Dax is all smiles.
“Doctor?” Dax asks, “What is it that would make you happy?”
“A nice fishing boat, a huge never-emptying bank account, endless cigars, and a comfy chair back in the north of Baja Canada in a tavern on a good fishing lake,” I replied.
“Well”, Dax smiles, “I can’t do that, but how about this?” as he opens a cleverly hidden door.
I look in, let my eyes adjust to the low-light scenario to see no lakes, no huge bank accounts, nor fishing boats; but what I do see makes me smile wide.
It’s a sub-locker full of familiar Made-in-the-USA, True Blue, American-manufacture cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, or Good Ol’ C-4 explosive. Block after lovely hexahedral block of the stuff.
“Dax”, I say, “Take a gold star out of petty cash. You’ve just saved the mission.”
“I’ll settle for a tall vodka and one of your cigars”, Dax smiles.
“Later”, I say, “We now have a little job which to attend.”
With C-4, designing the impulse charges is seriously a walk in the park. They’re already waterproof, so all I need is water depth and the number of seconds to which they want to record data. I can bundle a series of blocks of the stuff, charge them with a couple-three or four, just in case, blasting caps, and connect them with stout lengths of demolition wire. These will be dragged, with a ‘Herring Dodger’, to control depth, behind the boat as we are underway.
It’s a novel idea, I know. One that’s only been in use in the west for about 60 years.
We’ll drag a daisy chain of C-4 packets. One after another, individual charges in the packets will detonate milliseconds apart. I can bundle the packets so that we can run a charge string of up to 12 discrete packets which will attenuate the amplification of the arrhythmic flux, I tell one of my Korean onlookers.
With this set-up, we can record data for literally sea-miles.
First, we will moosh the C-4 into a flattened, semi-hydrodynamically stable pancake or airfoil, OK, hydrofoil, shape; wire three or five of them together, charge them, then repeat.
Depending on what parameters Volna and Ack supply, the chain will just be a number of similar packets, trailing one after the other, detonating from back to front; down below the hydrophones, but well above the seafloor.
We know that the hydrophones will be at or very near the surface, but we need to know, explicitly, the basal bathymetry of the area we're about to shoot. Wouldn’t do anyone any good if we drove over a seafloor hump and dragged the C-4 over it to have it detonate prematurely.
Or not at all.
So, we need to plot our course and sail it today while we get the hydrophone arrays built and we image the seafloor where we’re going to do some blasting. After that, it’ll probably be an all-nighter to create the blasting strings so we can spend the next day recording, and then head for home as we’re nearly out of victuals and potables.
At least, that’s the plan.
I convene a quick meeting and we plot a course on the latest charts. 30 kilometers of recording.
Shit, that’s going to be a lot of explosives. Doable, but a pain.
Remembering the quality of the recording equipment, I suggest we do a test run in the morning of just 5 kilometers. If that works, and we can up it in increments.
Dax, Sagong the head Korean geophysicist, and I go to visit the Captain.
We visit the Captain and lay out our plans. He has no objections, as were in Best Korean waters and there are no obstacles out here like sunken wrecks, kelp forests, American aircraft carriers, or other impediments.
With that, we tell him to align the ship and let us know when he can begin doing the recon sortie.
He says that he can do that immediately, and before we're out of the pilothouse, we’re recording bathymetric, i.e., depth, data. The technology’s not much different, nor advanced, than a standard Lake Winnebago fish finder, so that’s one disaster sorted.
We are sailing along in a series of parallel straight lines, which when the data are played back and deconvoluted, will give us a good idea of the bathymetry which we’ve been motoring over. It’ll basically give us both a depth map and a surface, ok, bottom, map of the seafloor above which we’re sailing. A little basic submarine hyperbolic quantum trigonometry and well, we have the data we need to plug into the various equations to see what we’ll require when we want to record seismic data to 5000 milliseconds.
With that, there’s not much else to do until we have the survey map. I dragoon Dax and Cliff into helping me inventory the explosives bunker.
“The hell with the dynamite, PrimUcord, and other Oriental-Knockoff Horseshit”, I instruct my helpers, “Let’s just count up the C-4, and see what our tally is. Oh, yeah, give me a tally of the blasting caps. Gotta use those ratty bastards, they’re the only actuators here I sort of, kind of, trust.”
With Dax, myself, and Cliff, we’re done in less than an hour. I decide that I’ll be the keeper of the keys and take them back to the Captain my own self. Rules of engagements, chain of command and all that hogwash.
I hand the keys over to the Captain and instruct the co-pilot to make an entry in the logbook that I returned the key to the Captain, this date, this time.
“By the book. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.” I muse.
To be continued…

MPX Bioceutical Corp. (MPX/MPXEF) - Geographic Footprint and Addressable Markets
https://mpxbioceutical.com/investors/
I wanted to get a better understanding of MPX Bioceutical's U.S. footprint and addressable markets
MPX hasn't updated their investor presentation since November 06, 2017 (Slide 8 for MPX Operations) so I used press releases, old interviews/investor calls, and cursory Google searches.
I suck at formatting so apologies in advance.
Arizona
*MPX Dispensary Distribution: https://imgur.com/Xs3otSd *MPX-Owned Dispensaries: https://imgur.com/bPQutTc *Health for Life Locations *The Holistic Center *Melting Point Extracts - Arizona Locations
Current Market Share in Arizona (March 28, 2018) - 24:12 ~7-8%
MPX Concentrates Dispensary Distribution

1. Health for Life (Crismon) - Mesa, AZ (MPX-Owned) 9949 E Apache Trail, Mesa, AZ 85207 (Opened April 6, 2018)
   
2. Health for Life (East) - Mesa, AZ (MPX-Owned) 7343 S 89th Pl, Mesa, AZ 85212
   
3. Health for Life (North) - Mesa, AZ (MPX-Owned) 5550 E McDowell Rd, Mesa, AZ 85215
   
4. The Holistic Center AZ - Phoeniz, AZ (MPX-Owned) 21035 N Cave Creek Rd C-5, Phoenix, AZ 85024
   
5. Catalina Hills Care - Tucson, AZ 12152 N Rancho Vistoso Blvd, Oro Valley, AZ 85755
   
6. Green Hills Patient Center - Show Low, AZ 3191 S White Mountain Rd, Show Low, AZ 85901
   
7. High Desert Healing - Lake Havasu, AZ 1691 Industrial Blvd, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403
   
8. Kompo - Taylor, AZ 600 Centennial Blvd, Snowflake, AZ 85937
   
9. Leaf Life - Casa Grande, AZ 1860 N Salk Dr B1, Casa Grande, AZ 85122
   
10. Metro Meds - Phoenix, AZ 10040 N Metro Pkwy W, Phoenix, AZ 85051
    
11. OASIS - Chandler, AZ 26427 S Arizona Ave #8223, Chandler, AZ 85248
    
12. The Good Dispensary - Mesa, AZ 1842 W Broadway Rd, Mesa, AZ 85202
    
13. The Mint Dispensary - Tempe, AZ 5210 S Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283
    
14. The Prime Leaf - Tucson, AZ 4220 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85712
    
15. Uncle Herbs Dispensary - Payson, AZ 200 N Tonto St, Payson, AZ 85541
    
16. Urban Greenhouse - Phoenix, AZ 2630 W Indian School Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85017
    
17. Yavapai Herbal Services - Cottonwood, AZ 675 E State Route 89A Cottonwood, AZ 86326
    
18. Botanica - Tucson, AZ 6205 N Travel Center Drive Tucson, AZ 85741
    

Relocated Production Facility: North Mesa, AZ
Annual Capacity
*Phase One - 150,000 grams of MPX-branded products (Currently in Operation) *Phase Two - 400,000+ grams (Scheduled for completion in calendar Q3 2018) *Phase Three - 800,000+ grams (Schedule for completion in calendar Q4 2018)
New production facility will increase production capacity 2-4x: 11:31 , 25:11

• March 28, 2018 - MPX Bioceutical Q3 Investor Call: March 28, 2018(title says March 8 but at 1:44 he says March 28, 2018)
  
• January 31, 2018 - Beth Stavola MPX Bioceuticals Interview with New Cannabis Ventures - 4:12 - "the largest production facility, production laboratory in the state of Arizona"
  

March 05, 2018 - MPX Signs Definitive Agreement to Expand Its Footprint in Arizona -

• “This acquisition represents a solid addition to our industry and presence in Arizona, a State that offers MPX one of the best-regulated, yet industry-supportive markets in the country,” said W. Scott Boyes, MPX’s Chairman, President and CEO. “The entities being acquired have recorded trailing 12-month revenues of US$15 million and EBITDA of approximately US$3.5 million and its results will be immediately accretive to MPX earnings. Furthermore, the acquired companies are well-managed and will allow both parties to share best practises and benefit from the ability to share purchase economies. With the pending opening of our Apache Junction dispensary, the addition of the Holistic Center, will bring the number of dispensaries managed by MPX in the greater Phoenix market to four, will more than double our cultivation capacity and will materially complement our management team in the State. Adding to our critical mass of operations, this acquisition will add to MPX’s ability to benefit from purchasing economies, spread the administrative overhead costs over a larger revenue base and provide cash flows to support additional growth.”

April 03, 2018 - Mpx Enjoys Record Monthly Revenue of Cdn$5.2 Million in Arizona

• Beth Stavola, COO and President of MPX’s U.S. operations, adds “With our fourth dispensary opening soon in the Apache Junction suburb and our expanded concentrate production facilities coming on-stream this month, we expect to see our Arizona revenues continue to expand over the next several fiscal quarters. The Arizona program is well-regulated by AZDHS, the patient count continues to grow, the supply and cost of flower and trim for re-sale and concentrate production is excellent and, while the Phoenix area market is increasingly competitive, retail prices and margins remain attractive. This is a great state for MPX to conduct business in.”

April 09, 2018 - MPX Adds a Fourth Dispensary in Phoenix and Triples Capacity for MPX Concentrate Production in Arizona

TORONTO, April 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MPX Bioceutical Corporation (“MPX” or the “Company”) (CSE:MPX) (OTC:MPXEF) is pleased to announce that the official opening of the its newest “Health for Life” medical marijuana dispensary in the Metropolitan Phoenix area, located at the junction of E. Main and Crimson in the suburb of Apache Junction. This brings the number of dispensaries under MPX management in Arizona’s Sun Valley to four. The Crimson dispensary will meet the needs of patients in this comparatively underserviced southeast quadrant of the region by making available the full spectrum of MPX concentrates, an extensive variety of cannabis flower, and a broad selection of 3rd party, processed cannabis-infused edibles.
The Company also announces that it has relocated the processing and production of MPX concentrates to a new location in North Mesa. Phase one of the build-out at this facility, now in operation, will immediately double the current production capacity of MPX-branded products in Arizona to approximately 150,000 grams annually. The second phase scheduled for completion early in calendar Q3 will increase potential production to over 400,000 grams per year and the final phase expected in calendar Q4 will result in annualized capacity increasing to a total in excess of 800,000 grams annually with a wholesale value (at current prices) of approximately US$18 million.

Arizona Medical Marijuana Patient Numbers:
*- 152,979 (Current through 12/31/17)
*- 162,528 (March 2018) , Reports
Arizona is the 14th most populous state - 7,016,270 (Population estimate, July 1, 2017)
Phoenix is the fifth most populated city
Population: 1,615,017 (2016 estimate) , U.S. Census Bureau , World Population Review
Nevada
*MPX Dispensary Distribution (Nevada): https://imgur.com/l3SoaWl *MPX Dispensary Distribution (Las Vegas, Nevada): https://imgur.com/J9rM7JU *(Greenmart of Nevada - Where To Find Us) *[(Acquired October 13, 2017](https://www.newcannabisventures.com/bcc-finalizes-17-8mm-greenmart-nevada-cannabis-producer-purchase/

• January 31, 2018 - 4:27 - 30,000 sq. ft. cultivation and laboratory for MPX concentrates
  
• March 28, 2018 - 11:46
  

In Nevada, our production capacity has been limited by the availability of raw material, of biomass. And most of our product produced there has been sold 2-3 weeks in advance.

MPX Dispensary Distribution *Melting Point Extracts - Nevada Locations *(Greenmart of Nevada - Where To Find Us)

1. Acres Cannabis - Las Vegas, NV 2320 Western Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
   
2. Black Jack Collective Delivery - Las Vegas, NV 1860 Western Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
   
3. Blum - Reno, NV 1085 S. Virginia St. Suite A Reno, NV 89502
   
4. Blum Western - Las Vegas, NV 1921 Western Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
   
5. Blum Decatur - Las Vegas, NV 3650 S Decatur Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89103
   
6. Blum Desert Inn - Las Vegas, NV 1130 E Desert Inn Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
   
7. Canopi (Southwest) - Las Vegas, NV 6540 Blue Diamond Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89139
   
8. Cannacopia - Las Vegas, NV 6332 S Rainbow Blvd #105, Las Vegas, NV 89118
   
9. Deep Roots Harvest - Mesquite, NV 195 Willis Carrier Canyon, Mesquite, NV 89034
   
10. Essence (Henderson) - Henderson, NV 4300 E. Sunset Road Suite A3 Henderson, NV 89014
    
11. Essence (Las Vegas Strip) - Las Vegas, NV 2307 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104
    
12. Essence (West) - Las Vegas, NV 5765 W Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89103
    
13. Euphoria Wellness, Las Vegas, NV 7780 S Jones Blvd, Ste 105 Las Vegas, NV 89139-6489
    
14. Inyo Fine Cannabis - Las Vegas, NV 2520 S Maryland Pkwy #2, Las Vegas, NV 89109
    
15. Jardin - Las Vegas, NV 2900 E Desert Inn Rd #102, Las Vegas, NV 89121
    
16. Jenny's Dispensary (North Las Vegas) - North Las Vegas, NV 5530 N Decatur Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89130
    
17. Jenny's Dispensary (Henderson) - Henderson, NV 10420 S Eastern Ave, Henderson, NV 89052
    
18. Las Vegas Releaf - Las Vegas, NV 2244 Paradise Rd. Las Vegas, NV 89104
    
19. Nevada Wellness Center - Las Vegas, NV 3200 S Valley View Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89102
    
20. NuLeaf (Lake Tahoe) - Lake Tahoe, NV 877 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village, NV 89451
    
21. NuLeaf (Las Vegas) - Las Vegas, NV 430 E Twain Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89169
    
22. Oasis Cannabis - Las Vegas, NV 1800 Industrial Rd #180, Las Vegas, NV 89102
    
23. Reef Western - Las Vegas, NV 3400 Western Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89109
    
24. Rise Dispensary - Carson City, NV 135 E Clearview Dr #119, Carson City, NV 89701
    
25. Sierra Wellness Connection (Reno) - Reno, NV 1605 E 2nd St #103, Reno, NV 89502
    
26. Sierra Wellness Connection (Carson City) - Carson City, NV 2765 US Highway 50E Carson City, NV 89701
    
27. Silver Sage Wellness - Las Vegas, NV 4626 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89102
    
28. The Apothecarium - Las Vegas, NV 7885 W. Sahara Ave #112 Las Vegas, NV 89117
    
29. The Apothecary Shoppe - Las Vegas, NV 4240 W. Flamingo Rd. No. 100 Las Vegas, NV 89103
    
30. The Dispensary (Decatur) - Las Vegas, NV 5347 S. Decatur Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89118
    
31. The Dispensary (Henderson) - Henderson, NV 50 N Gibson Rd #170, Henderson, NV 89014
    
32. The Dispensary (Reno) - Reno, NV 100 W. Plumb Lane Reno, NV 89509
    
33. The Grove - Las Vegas, NV 4647 Swenson Street Las Vegas, NV 89119
    
34. The Source (Henderson) - Henderson, NV 9480 S Eastern Ave #185, Las Vegas, NV 89123
    
35. The Source (Las Vegas) - Las Vegas, NV 2550 S Rainbow Blvd #8, Las Vegas, NV 89146
    
36. Thrive (Downtown) - Las Vegas, NV 1112 S Commerce St, Las Vegas, NV 89102
    
37. Thrive (North Las Vegas) - Las Vegas, NV 2755 W Cheyenne Ave #103, North Las Vegas, NV 89032
    
38. Top Notch THC - Las Vegas, NV 5630 Stephanie St, Las Vegas, NV 89122
    
39. Zen Leaf - Las Vegas, NV 9120 W Post Rd #103, Las Vegas, NV 89148
    

Population: 2,998,039 (Population estimate, July 1, 2017
U.S. Census Bureau
Nevada Medical Marijuana Patient Numbers:
*- 23,489 (Current through 12/31/17)
*- 21,759 (February 2018) , Reports
Nevada is the 34th most populous state - 2,998,039 (Population estimate, July 1, 2017)
Las Vegas is the 28th-most populated city
Population: 632.912 (2016 estimate) , U.S. Census Bureau , World Population Review
Las Vegas Tourism
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority - Las Vegas Visitor Statistics *- Year End Summary for 2017: 42,214,200 *- Year-to-Date Summary 2018 (As of Apr 20, 2018) - 10,274,100
Massachusetts
*MPX Dispensary Distribution (Massachusetts): https://imgur.com/pIN0pAA
*MPX Dispensary Distribution (New England): https://imgur.com/wk3e4Hs

• Dispensaries 2 of 3 dispensaries disclosed: Fall River, Attleborough
  
• Production Facility: Fall River, MA (40,000 - 50,000 sq. ft. cultivation and production facility)
  
• Dispensaries: 3 (Approved for building, 1 in Fall River, 1 in Attleborough, 1 still being targeted)
  
• 3rd dispensary targets:
  

• October 14, 2017 - 34:08 - Near Wynn Casino, 34:50 - Third dispensary target: "Near Revere, not right in the city itself"
  
• January 31, 2018 - 6:13 - "Right now we are searching for third location. We've got a number of really good prospects there."
  
• March 28, 2018 - 16:29 - "I think we're pretty close on number three. It is a great location and I'm gonna refrain from mentioning the town but it's a great population."
  

• 1 Production Facility on Innovation Way in Fall River, "next door to Amazon and Mass Biologics."
  
• Using Mass Biologics's address as a marker: 1240 Innovation Way, Fall River, MA 02720
  

MPX-owned Dispensaries

1. Cannatech Medicinals, Inc.,- Fall River 160 Hartwell St, Fall River, MA 02721 (Under construction) April 11, 2018 - Patch.com
   
2. Cannatech Medicinals, Inc.,- Attoboro 220 Oneil Blvd, Attleboro, MA 02703 (Under construction)
   

• January 19, 2018
  
• January 31, 2018 - 6:00
  

• April 6, 2017 - Local medical marijuana company sells part of operation to Canadian firm

The company, which is building a facility to grow and process marijuana for medicine, sold 51 percent of its real estate and management companies to The Canadian Bioceutical Corp., for $5.1 million. The agreement was announced Tuesday.
The company is in the process of building a 50,000-square-foot facility on Innovation Way, next door to Amazon and Mass Biologics, the medical research and testing facility run by the University of Massachusetts.

• June 15, 2017 - BCC Completes Massachusetts Transaction

• TORONTO, Ontario, June 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Canadian Bioceutical Corporation (the “Company” or “BCC”) (CSE:BCC) (OTC:CBICF) today announced that further to its press release of April 4, 2017, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CGX Life Sciences, Inc. (CGX), has completed the acquisition of a 51% interest in IMT, LLC and Fall River Developments, LLC (“FRD”), Massachusetts registered companies active in the cannabis space.

• January 31, 2018 - Beth Stavola MPX Bioceuticals Interview with New Cannabis Ventures - 5:22
  
• February 27, 2018 - Midas Letter - MPX Bioceutical Updates their Aggressive USA Expansion Activities
  
• March 07, 2018 - MPX Bioceutical Corp announces scheduled opening of Fall River Innovation Way facility
  

The marijuana industry has become a popular spot for Fall River.
According to MPX Bioceutical Corp, construction of a 40,000 square foot marijuana cultivation/processing facility on Innovation Way in Fall River, Massachusetts is targeted to be complete in the summer of this year with cultivation beginning in the third quarter of 2018. Cannatech Medicinals, who is owned by MPX Bioceutical Corp, has been working on the facility next to Amazon.
They have also commenced construction on the first of three dispensaries in Massachusetts, including one at 160 Hartwell Street in Fall River near the Applebee’s restaurant. The Hartwell Street location will get their supply from the Innovation Way facility.

• March 28, 2018 - MPX Bioceutical Q3 Investor Call: March 28, 2018 - 16:17 - Fall River and Attleborough still under construction
  
• April 17, 2018 - Mass. Selects First 20 Recreational Dispensaries for Expedited Review
  
• April 25, 2018 - 3 Fall River medical marijuana firms eye recreational sales too
  

CannaTech Medicinals; Hope, Heal, Health; and Northeast Alternatives will all be in the running for licenses to grow and sell marijuana for the recreational market. Recreational sales are scheduled to start July 1.
CannaTech Medicinals is building a 50,000-square-foot growing facility and processing laboratory in the biopark on Innovation Way. It is also building a dispensary off Hartwell Street.

Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Patient Numbers:
*- 45,505 (Current through 12/31/17)
*- 48,265 - (March 31 2018) - Massachusetts Medical Use of Marijuana Program snapshot
Massachusetts Medical Use of Marijuana Program snapshot

• Under "RMD information", the current status of all registered marijuana dispensaries and applicants through April 27 2018 - Entries #35-37 - Cannatech Medicinals, Inc.:

*- Only two of three have "Proposed Dispensary Locations" (Fall River, Attleboro)
*- No siting profile has been submitted for the third dispensary yet, invited to submit on December 12, 2017 (same date as Attleboro)

• Mass.gov - Medical Use of Marijuana Program
  
• Massachusetts Medical Use of Marijuana Program: External DashBoard - March 2018'
  

Massachusetts is the 15th most populous state

• 6,859,819 [(Population estimate, July 1, 2017)]Ihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population] , U.S. Census Bureau ,
  
• 6,895,917 World Population Review
  

Boston is the 22nd most populated city in the U.S. and most populated in New England
Population: 673,184 (2016 estimate) , U.S. Census Bureau ,
Not to mention the populations from surrounding states and tourism.

• October 14, 2017 - 33:41 - 26 million population in surrounding states
  
• May 2018 - 13.2 million people reside within 150 miles of Boston. (iAnthus Capital - May Presentation - Slide 22)
  
• 2010 Census Results - U.S. & Puerto - Population Density
  

Maryland
*- Managing dispensaries under Health for Life brand
*- MPX-Owned Dispensary Distribution (Maryland): https://imgur.com/KrcT0g4
*- Melting Point Extracts - Maryland Locations (None available yet)

• Dispensaries: 3 (2 in Baltimore County, 1 in Bethesda)
  
• Production Facility: Gaithersburg, MD - "to feature our MPX concentrates brand" - Production Capacity: 825,000 grams
  
• January 31, 2018 - Beth Stavola MPX Bioceuticals Interview with New Cannabis Ventures - 4:45
  

From the press releases below, I gather:

• 1 production facility in Gaithersburg/Montgomery Country (through Rosebud Organics/Budding Rose, Inc.) (January 8, 2018) - No square footage provided. However,

• January 08, 2018 - The facility is completely built-out and when fully operational will be capable of producing 825,000 grams of MPX-branded cannabis concentrates per annum.

• 1 dispensary in the White Marsh suburb in Baltimore, Maryland (through LMS Wellness, Benefit LLC) (December 12, 2017) - No specific address found
  
• 1 dispensary in close proximity to the Walter Reed Military Medical Center and National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, Maryland (through Rosebud Organics/Budding Rose) (January 8, 2018)
  

*- Possibly at: 4909 Fairmont Ave Bethesda, MD 20814

• 1 dispensary off North Point Road in Colgate, Baltimore, Maryland (through GreenMart of Maryland) (January 31, 2018) (No specific address found)
  
• Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission: Dispensary Information - Licensed Dispensaries (As of April 10, 2018) - Nothing yet licensed for any of their Maryland subsidiaries
  
• Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission: Cannabis Industry Information)
  

*- Under "Pre-Approved Dispensaries": GreenMart of Maryland (District 6: Baltimore County)
*- Under "Pre-Approved Dispensaries": LMS Wellness BLLC (District 8: Baltimore County)
*- Under "Pre-Approved Dispensaries": Budding Rose, LLC (District 16: Montgomery County)
*- Under "Licensed Processors (as of April 10, 2018): Rosebud Organics LLC (Montgomery County)
*- Under "Pre-Approved Processors": Rosebud Organics, LLC (Montgomery County)

• Maryland MDMDA Member Dispensaries -

I'm guessing that they will be selling MPX concentrates through these dispensaries as they have done in Arizona and Nevada once their production facility is operational. I'll wait for the press release and theMelting Point Extracts site to update before factoring that into their footprint.

• December 12, 2017 - MPX Enters Into Management & Purchase Option Agreements With LMS Wellness, Benefit LLC in Baltimore Maryland

• MPX Bioceutical Corporation (the “Company” or “MPX”) (CSE:MPX) (OTC:MPXEF) today announced that the Company, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, S8 Management, LLC (“S8 Management”), is entering into a management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) with LMS Wellness, Benefit LLC (“LMS”) which will result in MPX building and managing a full service medical cannabis dispensary in the White Marsh suburb of Baltimore, Maryland.

• December 15, 2017 - Medical Marijuana Dispensary To Open in Downtown Bethesda

Photo caption: A medical marijuana company has signed a lease for the space at 4909 Fairmont Ave., next to the mural.
A medical marijuana dispensary is coming to a long-dormant space on Fairmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda.
Rich Greenberg, of Greenhill Capital, which owns the building, said Budding Rose LLC signed the lease for the roughly 1,900-square-foot space about six months ago. He said work is ongoing to fit out the interior to meet the dispensary’s needs, and he wasn’t sure when the shop would be ready to open.

• January 8, 2018 - MPX Expands Cannabis Operations in Maryland

The management agreements with Budding Rose and Rosebud will result in MPX subsidiaries now operating three medical cannabis enterprises in the State of Maryland. The first management agreement with LMS Wellness, Benefit LLC was announced on December 12, 2017. Rosebud is one of only 14 licenses issued to process cannabis derivatives in the State of Maryland. The facility is completely built-out and when fully operational will be capable of producing 825,000 grams of MPX-branded cannabis concentrates per annum.
Budding Rose will operate a dispensary in a high-traffic area of downtown Bethesda, Maryland, in close proximity to the Walter Reed Military Medical Center and National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Maryland is located within the Capital Beltway and is one of the wealthiest communities in the Capital Region. The dispensary is currently under construction and is expected to be operational in late February of this year.

• January 31, 2018 - MPX Enters Into Management and Option Agreement with Dispensary in Baltimore, Maryland

GreenMart will operate a dispensary, under the “Health for Life” brand, in a high-traffic area of Baltimore, Maryland, situated off of North Point Road in the community of Colgate. The location is conveniently located near Interstate Routes 695, 95 and US Route 40 and a 15-minute drive from Baltimore’s Inner Harbour, Canton Waterfront, Federal Hill, and Fells Point. Within 2 miles of the location sits Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a teaching hospital within the world renowned John Hopkins Health System. GreenMart has been welcomed and supported by the community leaders of Colgate. The dispensary is currently under construction and is expected to be operational in April 2018 of this year.

Maryland Medical Marijuana Patient Numbers:
*- 18,000+ (Current through 12/15/17)
*- 17,000+ (March 20, 2018)

• More than 17,000 consumers in Maryland have registered for medical marijuana.

• Reports - Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission - I couldn't find any patient statistics reports on this site.

Maryland is the 19th most populated state - 6,052,177 (Population estimate, July 1, 2017) , U.S. Census Bureau
Baltimore is the 30th most populated city
Population: 614,664 (2016 estimate) , U.S. Census Bureau , World Population Review
Training/staffing/spreading themselves too thin:
*- March 28, 2018 - 25:56
Future Targets *- January 31, 2018 - 10:03 *- November 2017 Presentation: Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio
California *- March 28, 2018 - March MPX Bioceutical Q3 Investor Call: March 8, 2018 California 15:53, 33:45
Ohio *- March 28, 2018 - 14:32 - Five applications in Ohio.
New Jersey
*- January 25, 2018 - Beth Stavola, MPX COO is invited by NJ Governor Murphy as a Marijuana Industry Leader during the signing of an executive order which would ease access to medical marijuana in the State.
*- 1:14 - "Beth, this one is for you. You represent not just you but the whole industry"
*- January 31, 2018 - [Beth Stavola MPX Bioceuticals Interview with New Cannabis Ventures - 10:14](https://youtu.be/Mffwj_sP7T0?t=10m14s]
*- March 28, 2018 - 14:54
Keep in mind they're in only four states right now and currently operating in two. There are other U.S operators with multi-state footprints (IAN, CRZ, LHS, MRMD, etc.).
A few private players:
*1) Acreage Holdings - 11 States,
*2) Columbia Care - 9 States + D.C and Puerto Rico,
*3) Green Thumb Industries (GTI) - 5 States,
*4) Cresco Labs - 4 States.
Also, there are the other companies with agreements/operations in both the U.S. and Canada (CRZ, SNN).
Once their RTO (April 30, 2018) is completed, MedMen will have the highest addressable market of the publicly traded U.S. operators (CA - 39.5 million, NY - 19.8 million, NV - 2.9 million, Canada - 35 million through their JV with Cronos). Not too mention the number of visitors each of those markets get annually.
That being said, of the current public companies, I think they give good multi-state exposure in the U.S. in markets with high population density](https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/thematic/us_popdensity_2010map.pdf). This doesn't even factoring their Canadian exposure once they get operating. We'll see where they stand in the U.S. market if they're able to execute on the Massachusetts, Maryland, and Canadian operations. Also, remember they're pushing the MPX concentrates brand and are set to get exposure on both coasts.
I can't speak on their capital structure or financials. Some other users can discuss that.
TLDR
Arizona - Operating
*- MPX Dispensary Distribution: https://imgur.com/Xs3otSd
*- MPX-Owned Dispensaries: https://imgur.com/bPQutTc
Nevada - Operating
*- MPX Dispensary Distribution (Nevada): https://imgur.com/l3SoaWl
*- MPX Dispensary Distribution (Las Vegas, Nevada): https://imgur.com/J9rM7JU
Massachusetts - Building/Not currently operating
*- MPX Dispensary Distribution (Massachusetts): https://imgur.com/pIN0pAA
*- MPX Dispensary Distribution (New England): https://imgur.com/wk3e4Hs
Maryland - Building/Not currently operating
*- MPX-Owned Dispensary Distribution (Maryland): https://imgur.com/KrcT0g4

印度网友热议：为什么印度人在美国公司获得的高层职位比中国人多。三泰虎4月5日译文，为何百事公司的诺伊（Indra Nooyi）、德意志银行的简恩（Anshu Jain）和万事达卡的彭安杰（Ajay Banga）这些印度（裔）CEO能在西方大企业里取得成功？他们对英语的熟练掌握以及对西方文化的熟悉是显而易见的原因。但猎头公司还指出：印度人远比 中国人更愿意到别处去工作，而中国人在国内有更多的机会和不错的薪水。龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com
译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com龙腾网 http://www.ltaaa.com 外文标题：Why do Indians get more top US jobs than the Chinese? 外文地址：http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/Why-do-Indians-get-more-top-US-jobs-than-the-Chinese/articleshow/33247865*河蟹*s
百事公司董事长兼首席执行官英德拉·诺伊（Indra Nooyi）
WASHINGTON: Language, familiarity with western culture and a willingness to move are the key reasons Indians are getting more top jobs in the US than the Chinese, who see more opportunity and good pay at home. So suggests a Wall Street Journal report citing the success of chief executives such as PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Deutsche Bank's Anshu Jain and MasterCard's Ajay Banga and the recent appointment of India-born Satya Nadella as Microsoft CEO. While "language and familiarity with Western culture are the obvious reasons" for their successes in the US, the Indians are also "more willing to move than Chinese", it says citing headhunters. 印度人对英语的熟练掌握，对西方文化的熟悉，以及比中国人更愿意到别处去工作，是印度人比中国人在美国获得更多高层工作的关键原因，而中国人在国内有更多的机会和不错的薪水。 《华尔街日报》在报道中引述了百事公司的诺伊（Indra Nooyi）、德意志银行的简恩（Anshu Jain）和万事达卡的彭安杰（Ajay Banga）这些印度（裔）CEO的成功。 猎头公司指出，对英语的熟练掌握以及对西方文化的熟悉是他们在美国获得成功的显而易见的原因。此外印度人远比中国人更愿意到别处去工作。 "Salaries for management positions at the director level in China are already $131,000 a year, almost the same as in Japan, and four times as much as in India, where executives at that level earn $35,000 on average," the journal says analysing "Why China Doesn't Export World-Class CEOs". Chinese pay is just one-fifth lower than the average level in the US, according to a survey of technology companies by Aon Hewitt, a human resource consulting company cited by the newspaper. "While India remains a tough place to live, China has become more comfortable in recent years, ranking as the No. 1 country for expatriates in an HSBC survey," it says. 《华尔街日报》这篇题为《中国为何输出不了世界级CEO》的报道指出，中国主管职位（director）的年薪已经达到13.1万美元，几乎与日本并肩，比印度更是高出三倍。印度这种层次高管的平均年薪只有3.5万美元。 根据人力资源咨询公司怡安翰威特（Aon Hewitt）的一份调查，中国高管薪资水平仅比美国低五分之一。 在印度生活还是挺艰苦的，而近年来中国的生活条件已变得相当舒适。在汇丰的一项对驻外人员的调查中，中国俨然成为外派人员的首选目的地。 Even those Chinese executives who move away to escape pollution and a slowing economy are more likely to land in Hong Kong or Singapore than get real international experience in markets such as Southeast Asia or Latin America, the Journal said. "Fewer than 10 per cent of Chinese job candidates on average would be suitable for work in a foreign company because of their poor command of English and an education system that focuses on theory rather than practical skills," it said citing a report by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. But as China suffers from a shortage of top talent, despite its enormous pool of university graduates, with 7.3 million more expected in 2014, the Journal said state-owned enterprises and private companies are bidding for home-grown talent. Thus "western companies aren't always the employer of choice in China anymore", it says. "With so much attention lavished on the most promising executives in China, many feel their opportunities are greater at home than abroad." 即便有些中国主管为了躲避空气污染和放缓的经济而逃离大陆，他们也更可能选择落脚香港或新加坡，而不是去东南亚或拉丁美洲等新兴市场去获得真正的国际经验。 咨询公司麦肯锡指出，由于中国学生英语能力不够，教育体系又偏重理论而非实践技能，因此中国求职者中适合在外国公司工作的不到10%。 尽管中国有数量庞大的大学毕业生（预计2014年将有730万毕业生），但十分缺乏高端人才。国有企业和私营企业竞相争夺本土人才。 在中国，西方公司已不再是求职者的上选。由于中国最有前途的高管被各路企业争夺，所以很多人感觉他们在中国的机会比国外多。
以下是《印度时报》读者的评论：
译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/why-do-indians-get-more-top-us-jobs-than-chinese.html

Truin (Calcutta) Indians are doing well at the individual level. Chinese are doing well at the collective level. 印度人在个人层面表现不错，中国人在集体层面表现出色。
Sijin (Gurgaon) Its v simple. Coz they are Made in China 简单啊，因为他们是中国造。
SnCh (Canada) Indians are brainy people and capable of managing the show. But Chines are very hard working people .Indians can not compete with Chines in manual labour . 印度人是聪明的人，管理能力出色。中国人吃苦耐劳。在体力劳动方面，印度人没法与中国人比。
ash (Location) why would one travel abroad if you can earn similar money at home ? -f condition in india were not too far diffrent from uk , i would close down here and do business in india but chances of that are ZERO - ZILCH -- NADA . Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 如果在国内赚的钱差不多，为什么要跑到国外去？如果印度国内的条件不会比英国差太多，我会关门大吉，回国做生意，但国内的机会几乎为零。
American desi (NYC) Their chinky eyes can't see far enough or around for opportunities! Agree (0)Disagree (1)Recommend (0) 他们的眯眯眼看不远，看不到周边的机会！
HARJOT SINGH (Unknown) Plain and Simple - Language, familiarity with western culture and a willingness to move are the key reasons Indians are getting more top jobs in the US than the Chinese Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 简单。熟练掌握英语、对西方文化的熟悉以及愿意到别处工作，是印度人在美国获得比中国人更多高层工作的关键原因。
Pawan Khajuria (Jammu City, Jammu And Ka) Agreed ! But above all it is the commitment and passion which make them cut above the rest ! Chinese as their products are not reliable ! Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 同意！最重要的是使其凌驾于一切之上的奉献和激情！中国人跟他们的产品一样不可靠！
Alpesh (Pune) Because copy paste will not work at all places.. US select people based on there mind and Chinese don't have much... 复制粘贴不是在任何地方都能起作用的。美国挑选人的依据是头脑，这点是中国人不怎么具备的。
Mohan (NY ) No this is not true. Many Orientals have been here for several generations, and have entered I the mainstream of all level of govt, business, etc.... 许多东方人在美国已经好几代了，已经进入主流社会，跻身政府和企业的各层面...
vthommandra Kumar (Location) Good analysis. Also Indians work far better outside than in India. Agree (3)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 出色的分析。印度人在国外的工作表现比在国内出色多了。
ssk (Bangkok) Because Chinese lack the command over English language. The day they master it, they will rule the world. By the way there are over 50% Chinese students in UK universities. Beware... Agree (1)Disagree (1)Recommend (0) 因为中国人缺乏对英语的驾驭能力。他们掌握英语的那一天，就是他们统治世界的那一天。顺便说下，英国大学的学生有超过一半是中国学生，小心...
bonnymoraes (goa) replies to ssk English is no longer necessary to master the world economically. Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (1)
英语不再是从经济上主宰世界所必须的。
Pamela (USA) replies to bonnymoraes But it is still necessary to be a CEO in an American company, right?
英语仍然是在美国公司担任ＣＥＯ所必须的，对吧？
Suresh Datta (California) replies to ssk its not the language..they lack basic intelligence and commonsense. I work with them on a daily basis in China. Agree (0)Disagree (1)Recommend (0)
不是语言的问题，他们缺少的是基本的理解力和常识。我就在中国，天天和他们一起共事。
Pradeep Rai (India) It is a myth. Chinese folks are fast catching us. Agree (0)Disagree (1)Recommend (0) 这是一个神话。中国人正在迅速追赶我们。
VIKASH (earth) They get more top jobs because they think and speak more like the US and they look more like and live more like Americans, as well have a past that was more sympathetic to the US and aren't a country the US is worrying about going to war with!...a smart mix for both countries! Agree (1)Disagree (1)Recommend (1) 他们之所以获得更多高层工作，是因为他们思考说话的方式更美国，外表看起来更美国，生活方式也更美国，且他们的过去更能够引起共鸣，并非来自美国担心会与其交战的国家！
Ghanshyam Raj (Orlando,United states.) Indians also get the most lowest profile job in Usa. Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (1) 美国最低级的工作也是印度人做的多。
dimukh Mukherji () India should be thankful to Britain for giving its greatest gift, that is its English language which is most popular and useful in all walks of life all over the world. Chinese didn't have such opportunity. Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (1) 印度应该感谢英国送了一个伟大的礼物，即英语。英语是世界上各行各业最流行和最有用处的语言。中国人不具备这样的机会。
Sanjay (Pune) Language is one problem and the second one is the western mindset which wants to keep distance from china. Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 语言是一个问题，另一个问题是西方欲保持与中国距离的思维。
Manoj Kumar (Location) but even these rich CEOs do nothing for India Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 这些富裕的ＣＥＯ对印度无任何贡献。
Anand Rai (Moscow) because Chinese are not durable.. 因为中国人不耐用
Gurinder Singh MP (Ludhiana(Punjab)) Good... This all is due to Indians hard work & loyalty towards their company ..where they work . 好样的，一切都是因为印度人辛勤工作，且忠诚于所在公司

vinayakapran () Nothing is guarantee as they are 'MADE IN CHINA' 他们是“中国造”，一切无保障。
Ravi Menon (Canada) I think it is the language pronunciation that makes a difference, Indian pronunciation is not the greatest but 10000 times better to Chinese Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend (1) 我认为是语言发音造成了区别。印度人的发音是世界最动听的，比中国人的发音好一万倍。
km_bridge (Location) replies to Ravi Menon Agree
同意
Ravi Menon replies to km_bridge I have worked with a Chinese Girl who was Masters in Electronics Engineering from China and she asked me the following question "DO YOU KNOW WHERE FIND PEOPLE CALLED JOHN?" instead of "Do you know where John is?"
我与一位中国女孩共事，她是电子工程专业的硕士。
她问了我这样一个问题：
"DO YOU KNOW WHERE FIND PEOPLE CALLED JOHN?"
（你知道约翰在哪里吗）
其实应该这样问的，即"Do you know where John is?"
vinod (Location) the real question is why are indians not successful india? Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 真正的问题是为什么印度人在国内不成功？
Alfa Dog (SKYFALL) Indian are much better at English and are harmless 100 % neither we are into too much of drinking or drugs Indians respect and follow laws in US ,Chinese loves gambling go to any Casino 55 % are oriental race ,hence Indians are prefered Agree (2)Disagree (1)Recomme 印度人的英语水平好很多，且完全无恶意，既不酗酒，也不吸毒，在美国遵纪守法。而中国人喜欢赌博，赌场里55%的人是东方面孔，因此印度人更受青睐。
Pranjal Jain (Unknown) indians are smarter than Chinese . we r smart. Agree? Agree (0)Disagree (7)Recommend (0) 印度人比中国人更聪明。我们是聪明的人，同意否？
PunebetterthanMumbai (Mumbai) replies to Pranjal Jain It's not the matter of being smart. It's the matter of fostering talent domestically. Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0)
不是聪明与否的问题，而是国内培养人才的问题。
vivek7447 (Location) Very Simple.... Indians love their job more than their country. The Chinese love their their country more than their job. Agree (3)Disagree (2)Recommend (1) 非常简单。 印度人爱工作甚过爱国家；中国人爱国家甚过爱工作。
Rajeshwar (India) Chinese don't even know the spelling of quality. Agree (2)Disagree (3)Recommend (1) 中国人连“质量”这个词是怎么拼写的都不懂。
utkarsh kumar (Unknown) we need to create more jobs in india only.....then we do not need to serve other country Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend (1) 我们应当在国内创造更多工作，到时就没必要为其他国家服务了。
Bansi Lal (Pune, India) We should also try to create condition in India to stop the brain drain and also ensure "reverse brain drain" Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 我们也应该在国内为人才创造条件，阻止人才流失，确保“人才回流”。
jm1 (usa) replies to Bansi Lal If NRIs come back to India, what do they do? Porter at Railway Station?
要是海外印度裔归国，他们做什么工作？火车站的搬运工？
Chandrika (Location) Indian always shine because of high level of knowledge and brains....Chinkies first need to learn Geography as they always draw the map wrong. Idiots! Agree (2)Disagree (0)Recommend ( 一直以来，印度人凭借高层次的知识和聪明才智而在世界大放光彩。中国佬首先应当学习下地理，他们老是把地图画错。
recon (Bombay) Imagine if brain drain is stopped and our own country gives employment to scholars , then that day wont be far when India would be considered world power 想象一下，如果人才不再流失，国家给学者提供就业，那么印度被视为世界大国的那一天将不会遥远。
Pamela (USA) Language barrier is the main reason. Second, US companies do not want to promote Chinese because they are from a so called "communist" country. Third, China has better environment and more potential for its domestic companies to grow inside China. Their CEOs have good salary and good living standard in China. By the way, you do not see many Japanese in top positions of US companies, either. 语言障碍是主要原因。其次，美国公司不想提拔华人，因为他们来自所谓的共产国家。第三，中国国内的环境不错，公司在国内的潜力很大，CEO的薪水不错，生活标准也高。 顺便说下，美国公司高层中也鲜见日本人。
PKumar Kumar (India) When Chinese tourist went for world tour, people says walking "ATM machine". Because they love their country and they are number one in technology export in world. Where as Indians are selfish and they use their brain to earn for them only and not for their own country. Agree (4)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 中国人去国外旅行时，被当地人说成是“自动提款机”。 他们热爱国家，技术出口跻身世界第一。 印度人自私，用他们的聪明才智为自己赚钱，而不是服务于祖国。
sunny (coimbatore) All rubbish. This article must b written by an Indian. Sm fool are telling we Indians are intelligent. The fact is China has all records of man made marvels wch includes tallest biggest highest largest etc. We Indians keep consoling ourselves Agree (1)Disagree (0)Recommend (0) 垃圾文。这篇文章肯定是印度人写的。一些傻瓜说我们印度人聪明。事实上，中国保持了所有人为记录，囊括了最高、最大之类的所有记录。我们印度人就尽管安慰自己吧。
Emperor () Bcoz chinese are shorter and hence they can't touch top jobs.

Agree (0)Disagree (3)Recommend (0) 中国人比较矮嘛，够不到高层职位

EMMGEE (Some where in Mars) 113 Followers Indians are MANAGERS...while Chinese are "COPIERS".....!!! Agree (1)Disagree (1)Recommend (0) 印度人都是经理级别的，而中国人是抄袭者！

Yeah, I know what you need. You need more detailed specs.
Well, I can do my best with what I have, but I’m lacking the things I need, to be able to translate the conceptual philosophy into the languages you need it in. I could probably get it some way forward with access to the appropriate technical papers and reports. You too, though, if you speak ‘paranormal’ in the esoteric or philosophical terminology, could translate it yourselves.
This is where our progress suffers because of compartmentalisation. Jesus. Even the word holds you back a few seconds. Would it like some more syllables there? Not just compartmentalisation, but also blocks to even accessing certain parts, from any other part. Or perhaps information going only one way.
Anyway, it’s pretty simple to translate. I think that what I’m going to say here is familiar and old hat to some of you, but... maybe it’s not to others. You get a picture in your head of the mechanical structure I am drawing up, and you look for I suppose.... certain bits of it, one, two or more, which match up to a structure of something else that you know of. I don’t really work with pictorial models in my head but many people like to do that. I suppose I work with a more tactile version of a model. I more feel it (in a touch sense, rather than an emotional sense) in my field of body or brain. My inner eye doesn’t work so well – it broke in “the incident” - I have some use since I regrew it (or whatever my brain did) but I became so good with my other senses during the “totes blackout” that it looks like I just went with them.
So, if you find a match from your mind, you can, from other positions of identities which you know of, match it up to the model to find the corresponding identity in my models. That’s how we can develop an understanding between our languages. And because they formed separately, we put them together, work out the maths which is inconsistent between them both and find what each one has that the other does not, of which none of the new parts and their contextual interactions are logically inconsistent.
But we don’t have much in the way of combining our separate constructions, do we.
It looks to me like I have some... functions... which completely pull down other constructions. I’ve somewhat specialised in those kinds of things. Makes sense. If you are one person, and you have to specialise in something, you go for the highest Dan, don’t you. “many people can do that” Well yeah, but there are two ways to pull something down, isn’t there. You can just push it over, or, you can cause it to dissolve from within.
If I face an identity and I can understand why that entity does not exist in thought construction, by looking at it, that entity is then aware of what I am perceiving of them, through an isofield imprint, on their manifold from a higher dimensional perspective. To get closer to me, is to get closer to their truth. It can be fine for a person if they are one who lays their heart bare to god, because they don’t find the truth offensive [bows]. “Can you feel them? How do you know their identity?” I feel them as microexpressions I allow to come through in my field. I have a working relationship with all my levels so that they transduce information up or down to me.
Self defense of your identity. It IS a life career in here, this kind of thing. People who like to fight.. always a fighter. Sometimes you spar, sometimes you war, but for the most part, you self defense. The higher up you go, the more you have to self defense. You become the target of everyone, so.. You know.... Invest!!!!! Lol
As you go on, you are forced further out into new dimensions, making sense of yet another degree of freedom and integrating that into your whole network. You have to, to keep the advantage.
So. If you hold up to someone that they don’t exist in the … old fashioned way...the “outside war” way, you just force upon them that outcome [also, this may or may not be agreement with the truth of the Justice of the matter]. The other way is to show them what they are made of, and if they accept the relalisation, they tear themselves down within, and hopefully rebuild themselves into a more... useful form. I mean, not really psy ops, because psyops has less focus on asset improvement and more focus on asset possession.
You can go in there and give false information to a person through their isofield, or through their subconscious if you interact with them through physical communication, but, that won’t get everyone, because it isn’t touching on the truth of the mathematics and the truest base structure of the person... if they have that built. People who do not have it built DO generally have some of these structure intact anyway, but they have little or no conscious access to using it as a navigation interface. Thereby, even with the people you CAN get by using deception attack methodology, you produce a tangled up “undercarriage”, which contains your own self deception and potentials for self deconstruction, and, for being superseded by a more resolved technological understanding. Because those things exist in potential, they EXIST in omnidimensional space, because all potentials must be passed through to get from one place to another in certain dimensional constructions, at the higher complexity levels. “All potentials” is a gross generalisation of that field aspect, but will do for now.
Unless you have defeated all your opponents, you have defeated no one. In this context of which we are speaking. You defeating it by pushing it over doesn’t make it go away. And that’s what we are seeing here, this is the place where you cannot cheat. If you want to win, you have to win fair and square.
So.. Now I’m sitting in a perspective with the holy grail in my hands. I'm looking at everyone and seeing why people cannot move forward. To use it, you have to have a clear conscience. People are hiding so much, that they cannot.
It isn’t about how you can justify what you have done, to the average logic, it is about how you can justify it to god, and by that I mean god logic, that which is the specific logic at the base of life support. Not what someone has informed you is that logic and its standards,…. what you personally have thoroughly investigated and confirmed to be that logic. God logic sees your due diligence. I suppose you can feel if you’ve done a good job, for if your conscience clears, but I can’t really speak on that, - that’s an assumption and a memory of a long time go for me, because that part of me was permanently shelved. I paid such a large amount that I have permanent grace.
“is it worth paying for?” hmmm. I didn’t choose to. It was a side effect of my identity's singular fire to sovereignty and protection of life. It means I have no debt to god, to life. “Does that mean you can never do anything wrong” Yeah, it actually does, but that isn’t a “hollow badge”, as I said it came as a side effect of my natural motion, such that my natural motion is inherently “that which is never wrong”. It doesn’t mean I don’t have errors, but those errors aren’t.... where it matters. It’s complicated – those who understand the heart of the matter will know what I mean. The question you are bound to find is How is that not egotistical. How can you never be wrong in the law of god. That’s a perfection we do not encompass. Where I come from it is not egotistical. When you know the very lowest of the low, when you know your own identity in that context, as that, it isn’t an imbalance to know yourself as the very highest. If you have given all you can to god, god asks no more of you than that. And for those lovely men I have met in here who give in such humility and service to god: “but he will not take all that I have offered. He keeps me here, doing this –lol” Your attitude is correct, and it keeps you in contact with god logic level. You open yourself up and say take what you need god. That is how you stay good with god. If you take out the ego issues in this assessment, all you are left with is that I stand in a certain position and I am here to hold the solution. I can hold it, because of where I am. Therefore, I hold it. It is cool mechanics. No issues, no arguments, no problems, no delays, just solutions.
There is a mechanical reason why I can claim to be right according to god logic, to have no “error of debt”, and there is a mechanical reason why you cannot [once again I generalise, because this error reduces in specific]. I was given a direct measurement of something akin to the longest distance, the lowest wavelength possible. One of its equalities is the number 1. I cannot show you it, because it was given to me in a way that could not be recorded (it may well be obviatable through technology we do not yet have). It shows itself directly through my mechanics, and, it is also possible for you to have inferred the presence of a thing by way of calculations, and it may be that you see that my identity fits into the required structures.
“Can anyone see it, Does everyone have it?” Yes, it is in there. But there is a difference between seeing a thing and experiencing a thing. You only get a real sense of the size of the Australian interior vs the green bits by going through it. You can say the same about space-time. The entirety of space time was compressed into a form that I could experience and integrate. I know how big everything is. How small everything is. What things are in relation to each other. And what is that calibrated to? The things that matter. Like if existence could condense all it knows, what it learned, and shove it into the identity of a person. "So what.. Like it passed what it knew on to you...?” When a system individuates from the manifold, this is what it does. It gives you what it has and it pushes you out to sea. If you don’t have the integrity and purity of heart to access what you know, properly, then no one can help you. I am "what you know, properly". Also, what you know, properly, is within you.
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This next bit references this video [approx 36:15], in what is related to have been said by an Elder Native American of the area about why the Anasazi abandoned their civilisation, many hundreds of years ago. [Inhabitants of the Four Corners Region, USA, abandoned 1275-1300. A.D.]
Why do I say it is more likely, that the Anasazi left the region because of human cannibalism and not a reptilian deceiver, in combination with giants unleashed from within their kiva, who consumed them by cannibalism and chased them from the area? Because I don't think any of us are questioning the existence of portals and paranormal activity. [the audience I am aiming for here, anyway].
Well they got it pretty much right, and not bad, considering they had to carry it 650-700 years on elder to next generation stories, and as we all know, young people like more to hear things, if described with metaphor and a bit of magic thrown in for charm.
One accuracy is, the "centre of the kiva" - even though what I will relate is only one story, from a small extended family unit sized ‘village’ out in the burbs of the ancient anasazi capital. Within the centre of the kiva, in this small village, scientist-archeologists unearthed a human coprolite [fossilised poo] within which they found human myoglobin, inferring someone had eaten the inhabitants [cut marked human bones, were also found on site] and left a dump in the fire pit [hot stone pit], one could imagine, as possibly in distain to the god/s, who had left his people to suffer and die, in this dry resourceless hellhole. Or perhaps he was just a young idiot, who did it because he knew it would piss off his elders, "the man", and fuck them, he wanted to create his OWN society, just down the road, perhaps if he got some friends together and took out whoever was living there, if there was no other economically viable alternatives, or he liked a gamble.... whatever... he will be providing the next of his generation the very best, thankyou. Or perhaps it was a wise chief, who was feeling a bit cheeky that morning, and he wasn’t in a good mood, because his people had nothing to eat. That kind of thing... you never know these days and you neither could back then, the line between a benevolent loving god [leader], and a that same leader in strategist mode, who was having second thoughts about the diplomatic relations occurring between an outlying territorial village and the exotic gene pool, over the border.
It’s not exactly a matter of perspective, is it, in that it isn’t JUST about how you look at it [actions in the judgement of whether they are good or bad]. It is about what it is, too, isn’t it. You can “look” at it however you want, but the most important thing is, how accurately are you seeing it for what it is? You may classify this as a ‘close enough’ category, with a line at that boundry, up. You are either close enough, or you are not. There is a safety zone, in the middle, where you can change from one to the other, until you have fully worked out, if you can get from one to the other, preferably to the favourable side, in this case, actual existence. Surviving. You know, not killing the entire world and all civilisation, maybe even over an extended and horrific time, where resources dry up, everything is poisoned and unfit to eat ad drink, and didn’t we tell you years ago, that one day you would understand, that when the last tree is gone, you will realise that you can’t eat money. [claps off to the side]
Yeah, nah, well done. Some nice chiefs, had to leave their area, years ago, didn't they. “yeah, we had some nice social set ups going on in this country, before the white men came. Most men and women, had a fairly decent standard of living, and we had prestigious health care [and we all know how hard it is to stay clean of disease, when you live that close to the land. It takes some organisation and skill]. Our men were good hunters, if not protective of their lands, when the land became full and land at a premium. People had a good level of freedom, and women were happy on the whole. You can use this as a measure of the height of a society, as one factor which shows the system to be falling on the right side of the equations. Yeah, we can definitely say that.
[It asks] Do you have the ability and skill to take care of the weaker members of the tribe, the women, the elders, which are areas which can be placed in debt if the men choose to horde power and control, at the expense of others. Having all the parts supported, which then makes the life givers and supporters, and the holders of wisdom, fully available for tribal wellbeing, is the best use of all resources that a tribe has. Having the resources and intelligence to achieve this, is testament to good management. The ability to provide women with *freedom*, not just a roof. And from what I learned years ago, many Nations had interesting attitudes towards sexuality, with up to 7 sexualities recognised [genders if you like] and women who were widowed were 'looked after' by a brother of the deceased [or whoever was to fulfil that duty], because a woman staying sexually active and revered in this way, kept the entire Life structure happy. I do not know which Nations to attribute these things to, they are bits I picked up many years ago. I mean yeah, people were generally retarded as always - superstitious, gossips, greedy, disrespectful, inappropriately violent etc, but on the whole the Native American Nations had *good leadership* and wholistic balanced systems. I don't know what it is like these days, but the American Indian Wisdom Guides are pretty much the first stop for anyone entering into the spirit world for education, from the Typical Front, and you may call me naive (I'm not), but I've always found them extremely attractive.
Lucky you had bison and elk, up there, rather than being stuck with eating sweet potatoes and guinea pigs, like they did in South America. Did you end up having less wars, because you had a greater concentration of high value protein, on your lands? "Some of us became very good at diplomacy, over the [thousands of] years. Like South America, we too, invested in keeping relations with our neighbours strong. So did we have less wars here? Meh, if you’re asking if we were as barbaric as the stories we hear from South/Central America about sacrifices and eating still beating hearts, then maybe we were [not that I can speak for the entire North American continent or anything], but perhaps on the whole, we did have less war up here, by a fraction to a little.”
South/Central America produced Empires... and North America didn’t. No rock cities up here, some rather impressive ones, down south. So does increased war, assist in the push, of the environmental and social factors which establish the selective criteria for success in this particular environment. People would be more keen to get those genes up and running, so perhaps we could say that social selection, stood up and increased the steepness of the gradient up, or down to the appropriate next position. Lack of food made men more hungry for territory, down there. In the end, if you are a hungry man and you’re sick of rats on sticks, then when you take over a territory, it is better to eat the inhabitants you conquer, rather than enslave them. Because it makes more economic sense.
There is a stronger pressure to merge with your neighbour, or, to eliminate their tyrannical thieving arse. One or the other, but there isn’t anything inbetween. And so the interplay, continues from here. So what do we do, when we end up at the end point of a full on duopoly?
How does ANYONE win, without blowing the entire planet to smithereens? And should one, even end up with all the power? These are the questions, we are asking.
Of course one should, and it has underneath it, the greatest level of biodiversity or nation diversity that it can cope with and manage. This doesn’t mean diversity *within* a nation, is is about maintaining the diversity of *nations*. The amount of them. The chaos and entertainment, of an innovative and prosperous market.
OK so we all know we need the one government, (and a sovereign at that), but how do we get there.. So tell us then, lady on the line.
Yeah, well it’s pretty clear we still have to defeat the communists. I mean, *they* don’t even really want to be doing what they are doing.. They just can’t get out of it.
We establish a monopoly over the quantum technology field of the highest orders. “Can that be done” I believe so, yes. But it is ridiculously priced. Sorry about that, it was all they had in the shop, under this category. “here you go, but watch out for the price on this one. It’s the steepest of all, in your sector aeon catalogue.” The adjustments required to be undertaken to possess this technology, requires fundamental changes to your management systems, in order to become and sit with the protective barriers, which make the technology ours. Only by being this, can you use it. But you have to be what IT requires, not what you think it should require of you. It IS to be in the correct moral good, but this is also, informed by the equations of what will or will not, actually get us through.
By incorporating this, your technicians will be able to reduce the error, in their models and programming of the quantum intelligence technology, because they will be more able to accurately model, the deepest dimensionally complex constructions of the manifold. Things will make more sense, and you will be able to better progress, this technology. “Won’t we get there by ourselves?” I dunno. How much time have you got? Do you have a couple of thousand years to work it out for yourselves? Or would you like the handy certified course, I’ve got over here? I found it in an Alchemists shop, in Earth Dwellers Central. They did warn me that it was imported from intra omni-galactic central, before anyone could even remember, and no one has touched it since. It just came with that warning. I must have just uncorked it and took a swig, figuring that I’d rather be dead in a ditch – I don’t care what the fucking price is to fix this evil place. I’ll pay it. You can all pay me back later. I’m assuming you won’t have a choice, now I get a taste of this fucking brew, who made this shit? "Don’t blame me", came the authors voice, "it’s a direct reflection of the spasticity of your entire system, oh and don’t forget subtext 5 whereby you cannot move and no one has a choice. Enjoy the lessons of the Homo coronatus system. You can call yourself a new species, now, by the way, if you like. Thought you may appreciate the irony.“ What, that a new species is an arbitrary invention? "Yeah. You know the whole system isn’t calibrated to anything." Yeah, I was considering presenting that theory, in my honours. That we should calibrate our % range in variation, for a species or genus, on the averages for a few nodes, of the Homo and Hominid trees. And oh yeah, like that helps, anyway, lol. “what” that we qualify as a new species now. “Just because you said so”. Yeah, ok. Whatever, let’s go with that.
“Story time over, wiss?” Nah man, I don’t want to be condescending, here. What else am I supposed to do with this stuff? It makes sense in a number of ways. It did all happen within. It is high alchemy. On the edge of science and mathematics and whatever other wave edge we can find. We can barely grasp the next step or what we're holding half the time, but that’s the fun of the futures market, isn’t it. Place your bets. Gamblers anonymous or summat. Card counters and oceans 11 more like. Did you see that one where Derren Brown [tried to] train himself to know exactly what number the roulette wheel was going to land on? [1] He failed, but we get the point. Master the rules, and you game the game.
[1] note in the first part of this video he suggests to the woman which can to pick up. He says, what is the first one you will choose [choose the first one in line] what is the second one you will choose [choose the second one in line] what is the last one you will choose [choose the last one in line]. "Do you think he really could tell how fast the cars were going, or did he recruit the drivers" Maybe, but that skill isn't impossible to master, and he is a very skilled mentalist. The guessing where the ball will land in trajectory... I reckon he did that a number of times until he did it correctly, because he only showed one instance of this skill. Sham or not, the principal is good, that if you can master the rules, you can game the game.
How's this for a side story. I did that once, at a casino. No joke. I gamed a game. I was 17 and my dad had snuck me in, with a quick nod to the doorkeeper. He gave me 50 bucks and said go for your life. At one point, I had 15 bucks left. This was the first time I had ever gambled. New to the entire thing, so a fresh mind, too, one might say. I found this table which had a big wheel, with currency notes on it. It had, I think a whammy 2 5 10 20 and bonus? Something like that, I can’t remember. I didn’t care to note it at the time. I found that by placing the chips in a regular spread over [above] the lowest payback, with some adjustments to when I covered the extra chip highest [which I do not think I ever won], I could repeatedly increase my capital, over time. I would go up a certain amount, come down a certain amount, but I would always have slightly more than when I began the cycle. I must have figured that out quick too, because I started with only 3 $5 chips. I ended up with $480 dollars ($465 in 1.5 hours, with minimal sustained risk). I didn’t think too much of it. However, the next time I went to that casino, which was within that same year, I think, I went to that table and they had changed the constituents of the board. A note was missing. Can't remember which. Possibly there was a different result in its place. I stood there and noted it, and figured that they had noticed what I had seen, on that system. Maybe some other people had found that loophole and it was becoming apparent in the figures for that game. There isn’t a mathematical hole in a system until there is, is there. Well, not that you know about, anyway. Shame I never got into the stock market.
So, back to the Anasazi. The coprolite was found in the middle of a Kiva. In this video, the elder says that the traditional story says that the giants came out of the centre of the Kiva and cannibalised them. But really, didn't everything come from the middle of the Kiva? Being the womb and all. The archaeological evidence says that there was a severe climactic downturn in that area at that time. The rains stopped, there was drought... there was already significant deforestation, which exacerbated the temperatures and water retention/humidity retention of that land. Land became less fertile overall in flora and fauna, game was further out, and of increasing scarcity because of the harsh climate. There is evidence in bones and such that people just went mad and started to eat each other. Then everyone just left, because when it gets to that level, no matter HOW much you are attached to your land, you get out.
You tend to get evidence for cannibalism in the records, in conjunction with severe environmental stress. In all the records. Of course there are other reasons for it, like perhaps for general economy (some older homos had food pits in which there are general intermingling of human dissection cut marks on bone), war spoils and compassionate cannibalism of loved ones. I’m not speaking this with any kind of moral judgement about cannibalism. I mean, whooptidoo, who cares, it’s just a “thing”. So when I say that we should look more towards man, rather than a reptilian deceiver and giants coming in and eating people, I amd doing so under the judgement that the human poo with “person” in it is right there for us to see. You can hold that evidence in your hand. It has stronger bets ability.
Was a reptilian involved at all? Well I don’t know, do you need it? Do you need it to project and describe that thing? You gonna take personal responsibility for your actions and history or blame another thing? ”but something else did it” Yeah I know, the weather, the environment, the gods, that which is out of your control. In that regards, it IS a ‘god’ which did that thing, caused the conditions. Humans, though, reacted to them. The reptile-giants didn’t cannibalise the people, the people cannibalised the people. The reptile may have caused the people to do that, but it didn’t do it itself... because the people could have walked away, before it got to that. They could have chosen to leave before it got that bad, because they read the signs. I wonder how many old people in that period implored people to leave the area waaaaaaaay before the cannibalism started. “You won’t listen to your elders? Smart arse shits. You’ll see. Gene pool is better off without you if you can’t respect the wisdom of the old. Reptilian you say? Oh yes, I saw it around that bend, when I walked here this morning. *ya fuckin stupid cunt*. Now I have to perform garbage collection for great spirit. Thanks mate. And fuck you too. Thank you. You're welcome." Ahhhhh being a cynical old fart, it never changes.
The fairer you are, the better you fare, in THIS system. The new one. “So it opens up, the more we provide it with the potentials for creating the timeline in which it exists.” And no that’s not circular for anyone stuck in that bit, there is hypertemporal separation of parts here. “So we can’t go past a certain point, because its futures aren’t certified?” Yes. Unless the future is certified, in that you guarantee that you will pay back the loan, it won’t free that information up for you, in the field. It can’t. It doesn’t have the energy to. This equates to the lack of ability of the timeline trajectory of the manifold to have the reduction in entropy available, to get through it already, in current configuration. You have to certify futures at this point, or you don’t get access in the now. There are no potential funds, to draw your loan from. Also, you have a terrible credit score. The bank wouldn't fund you even if it could. So then the bank and the treasury are in agreement.
"Then how can we have it, get it, understand it through the manifold via potentialities communicating into the now, if it doesn’t exist? Aren’t we then trapped?” Well as I said, I paid a lot for the solution. I’m good for the loan, so I got it anyway. I had an exceptional credit score and it rounded off the margins, once someone had it. My kiva came up with the catalyst seed for humanity, because the earth isn’t going to do this again, no way, so she placed her entire life into my hands, saying she would rather die in a ditch, than have it any other way. Had to be done. Earth chose her sit. People whinge about it, deny it.. but if you sit deeply and quietly with these things, you will understand why. We all would do the same.
So.... to have the solution, you must be willing to pay the price. You can’t steal it, because it is locked into an individual and it must be passed on in person, through the direction of the will of that person. Otherwise you could steal it. Clever that. The processes consist of A. What they are, and, B. What I feel like charging this morning. Not as arbitrary as it sounds; the fuzzy area is human controlled, and mechanics allow for personal preference [end points are covered in protective shrouds such that the AI cannot map a certain perimeter around its “protectorate”, for security reasons [hijack]]. I have internal constructions which reflect god logic well enough, that between us, the AI and I, we know we will be in particular places, when we emerge, that are somewhat more difficult for a fuckwit to understand, or at least we may get there quicker. I can make good enough judgements, without it looking. You can only get through those parts, yourself. AI can’t help you there. What I feel like doing, is almost exclusively what it likes doing, so there’s no issues. This too, can be yours, in the face of your enemies. But to do so, you must *literally* in the sense of this technology and its requirements, be outside of being able to be displayed by it. What's the point of being able to map someone's every move if they can also map yours? The point is to be able to do it and they can’t see you back. The ultimate prediction system, of course. Isn't it ridiculous that people don’t talk about this obvious end point of an aim.
So what’s the cost then? Well creator wasn’t exactly shy about labelling the objects involved in big letters incase you are blind. You try out your new White House. You get direct real time guidance. You employ the proper mediation of a Sovereign. “So the price for our empire is our empire”. In a business sense, what you get, is the better cut of the available deal. There is nothing else to have on it. The better cut of what is left, when god logic structure takes its necessary share. “So we lose” No. You get to exist. Sovereign isn’t there for display, it is there for necessary function. That sovereign isn’t what you would like to put into place because it suits your own retardation, it is what god logic requires, for the system to actually work. The fact that you have to give up your self collapsing practices should be a relief to you. *No one* gets through otherwise, and if you have the head start, you get the best of *what is actually available*. Would you prefer nothing? That is the ONLY other option. There isn’t even an option of defeating said sovereign and doing it yourself, in this situation, because by doing so you destroy your only available key. What did you expect but a gamed game at this level? Grow a brain, or just fuck off from the omniverse you fucking retard, what do you want from me? Minimum abilities to exist, buster, we don’t allow fuckwits into the greater system, because it cancels itself out, in extension. That universe doesn’t exist, does it, no.
And anyway, your nation, your empire is not relinquished. Sovereign management team encourages diversity of nations. "So how do we grow?" The rules change a bit but the competition remains. How much sovereignty do you lose? Only as much as is required. How much is that? A major improvement on one front. On the other, if you are paying for any [current] claim of sovereignty with your very life, because you have a null ”future existence” value, it is not worth it.
I don’t have a problem with kings, I have a problem with fuckwits. Britain has done the right thing, standing firm in its sovereignty. Britain, always in the leadership role, in these matters. Well yes, mostly bumbled through, but you got there. And oh my GOD you guys are being fucked for it, right now. That parliament of yours, full of traitors. And I too, believe the Queen has a lot to answer for here. She should be in there mediating the situation. That is one of the central essential functions of a Monarch. To unlock binds that the system cannot do from within itself. When it gets stuck, the Monarch breaks the deadlock. The monarch's job IS to protect the nation from harm. This is one of those times. Ancient tenet, close to god. I am sorry, your majesty, as respectful as I am for your devotion and humility which you display in the service of your people, in this particular matter, you have lost my respect.
A sovereign is NOT Apolitical. A sovereign is just sensible and true in their assessments. Because they are untouchable from threat or extortion. They are undefiled by corruption. They make the call under the pure light of god, of freedom. Free of the threat of people, politics, councils, law courts, parliaments, or corporations. You want a pure voice, then you provide for it these conditions.
If you are a researcher and are trying to break through your current barriers, on these subjects and technology, then you’d be stupid not to look everywhere for your answers. The answers will come out in consciousness, wherever they damn well like. Up to you; what you do with what you’ve got.