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Trump executive order could restrict USDA food access for undocumented immigrants in Nebraska https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/4258/ #Bank #cuts #Department #DHHS #donate #donated #executive #federal #food #FoodBankForTheHeartland #foods #funding #Health #Human #illegal #immigrants #Nebraska #NebraskaDining #NebraskaFood #NebraskaGroceryStores #NebraskaRestaurants #Order #President #restrictions #services #state #TEFAP #TheEmergencyFoodAssistanceProgram #TogetherFoodPantry #Trump #undocumented #USDA

Trump executive order could restrict USDA food access for undocumented immigrants in Nebraska https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/4258/ #Bank #cuts #Department #DHHS #donate #donated #executive #federal #food #FoodBankForTheHeartland #foods #funding #Health #Human #illegal #immigrants #Nebraska #NebraskaDining #NebraskaFood #NebraskaGroceryStores #NebraskaRestaurants #Order #President #restrictions #services #state #TEFAP #TheEmergencyFoodAssistanceProgram #TogetherFoodPantry #Trump #undocumented #USDA

Trump executive order could restrict USDA food access for undocumented immigrants in Nebraska https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/4258/ #Bank #cuts #Department #DHHS #donate #donated #executive #federal #food #FoodBankForTheHeartland #foods #funding #Health #Human #illegal #immigrants #Nebraska #NebraskaDining #NebraskaFood #NebraskaGroceryStores #NebraskaRestaurants #Order #President #restrictions #services #state #TEFAP #TheEmergencyFoodAssistanceProgram #TogetherFoodPantry #Trump #undocumented #USDA

Trump executive order could restrict USDA food access for undocumented immigrants in Nebraska https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/4258/ #Bank #cuts #Department #DHHS #donate #donated #executive #federal #food #FoodBankForTheHeartland #foods #funding #Health #Human #illegal #immigrants #Nebraska #NebraskaDining #NebraskaFood #NebraskaGroceryStores #NebraskaRestaurants #Order #President #restrictions #services #state #TEFAP #TheEmergencyFoodAssistanceProgram #TogetherFoodPantry #Trump #undocumented #USDA

NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities

The US National Science Foundation might cut back on its core research grants in favour of those driven…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #funding #Government #Headlines #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #Quantuminformation #Science #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/728645/

Farage hits the jackpot - again

This latest funder was pardoned for a money laundering crime by #Trump, his other donor did time in an American jail for money laundering crime. The further donor is involved in off shore gambling scams, and another has a different name in Thailand and deals in crypto currency. There is also #Russian money to the party (one jailed for the offence)

This Party is a sinking pile of #corruption and #criminality and needs to be wound up.

#UkPol #Funding #Failure

Farage hits the jackpot - again

This latest funder was pardoned for a money laundering crime by #Trump, his other donor did time in an American jail for money laundering crime. The further donor is involved in off shore gambling scams, and another has a different name in Thailand and deals in crypto currency. There is also #Russian money to the party (one jailed for the offence)

This Party is a sinking pile of #corruption and #criminality and needs to be wound up.

#UkPol #Funding #Failure

Farage hits the jackpot - again

This latest funder was pardoned for a money laundering crime by #Trump, his other donor did time in an American jail for money laundering crime. The further donor is involved in off shore gambling scams, and another has a different name in Thailand and deals in crypto currency. There is also #Russian money to the party (one jailed for the offence)

This Party is a sinking pile of #corruption and #criminality and needs to be wound up.

#UkPol #Funding #Failure

Farage hits the jackpot - again

This latest funder was pardoned for a money laundering crime by #Trump, his other donor did time in an American jail for money laundering crime. The further donor is involved in off shore gambling scams, and another has a different name in Thailand and deals in crypto currency. There is also #Russian money to the party (one jailed for the offence)

This Party is a sinking pile of #corruption and #criminality and needs to be wound up.

#UkPol #Funding #Failure

Farage hits the jackpot - again

This latest funder was pardoned for a money laundering crime by #Trump, his other donor did time in an American jail for money laundering crime. The further donor is involved in off shore gambling scams, and another has a different name in Thailand and deals in crypto currency. There is also #Russian money to the party (one jailed for the offence)

This Party is a sinking pile of #corruption and #criminality and needs to be wound up.

#UkPol #Funding #Failure

SSEN Transmission Announce Largest Community Funding Package

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/09/12/ssen-transmission-announce-largest-community-funding-package/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/684742/ London’s unicorn boom is masking an early-stage funding crisis #Business #Éire #Entrepreneurship #Founders #funding #IE #Ireland #Opinion #unicorn #VC #VentureCapital

Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.

https://pulseofnations.lol/nvidia-weighs-10b-bet-on/

#AI #Anthropic #Funding #Ipo #Nvidia #OpenAI

Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.

https://pulseofnations.lol/nvidia-weighs-10b-bet-on/

#AI #Anthropic #Funding #Ipo #Nvidia #OpenAI

Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.

https://pulseofnations.lol/nvidia-weighs-10b-bet-on/

#AI #Anthropic #Funding #Ipo #Nvidia #OpenAI

Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.

https://pulseofnations.lol/nvidia-weighs-10b-bet-on/

#AI #Anthropic #Funding #Ipo #Nvidia #OpenAI

Nvidia Weighs $10B Bet on Anthropic’s Mega IPO

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as anchor investor for an IPO of up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.

https://pulseofnations.lol/nvidia-weighs-10b-bet-on/

#AI #Anthropic #Funding #Ipo #Nvidia #OpenAI

Pritzker announces $26M in grants to support independent grocery stores, combat food deserts | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/2022/ #food #FoodDeserts #funding #GrantFunding #GroceryRescueProgram #GroceryStore #Illinois #IllinoisDepartmentOfCommerceAndEconomicOpportunity #IllinoisDining #IllinoisFood #IllinoisGroceryInitiative #IllinoisGroceryStores #IllinoisRestaurants #JbPritzker #NewStoresInFoodDeserts #StateFunding

Tracking the Canadian capital commitments surrounding Carney’s investment summit

BetaKit’s running list of the major investors committing billions of dollars to Canadian projects.
Prime Minister Mark…
#Canada #MarkCarney #bmo #CanadaInvestmentSummit #CIBC #funding #govt #otpp #PowerSustainable #PSP #RBC #SunLife
https://www.europesays.com/canada/205839/

UK government’s proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say – The Art Newspaper

The UK government’s decision to grant regional mayors in England the power to introduce a “tourist tax” (Overnight Visitor Levy, OVL) has…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Artsfunding #BritishTourism #Funding #Museums #Museums&Heritage #Politics #Tourism #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/britain/122195/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/122195/ UK government’s proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say – The Art Newspaper #ArtsFunding #BritishTourism #Funding #Museums #Museums&Heritage #Politics #Tourism #UK #UKPolitics #UnitedKingdom

UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/uk-governments-proposed-tourist-tax-should-be-ring-fenced-for-the-arts-cultural-leaders-say?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Funding

UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/uk-governments-proposed-tourist-tax-should-be-ring-fenced-for-the-arts-cultural-leaders-say?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Funding

UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/uk-governments-proposed-tourist-tax-should-be-ring-fenced-for-the-arts-cultural-leaders-say?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Funding

UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/uk-governments-proposed-tourist-tax-should-be-ring-fenced-for-the-arts-cultural-leaders-say?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Funding

London’s unicorn boom is masking an early-stage funding crisis

Friday 11 September 2026 10:43 am  |  Updated:  Friday 11 September 2026 10:49 am European tech is experiencing two…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #Business #founders #Funding #opinion #unicorn #vc #VentureCapital
https://www.europesays.com/britain/122122/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/122122/ London’s unicorn boom is masking an early-stage funding crisis #Business #founders #Funding #London #opinion #unicorn #vc #VentureCapital

https://www.europesays.com/be/37418/ Belgium spin-out IVEX raises €5M to cut car safety testing time, eyes US and Asia — TFN #AI #Belgium #europe #Funding #News #Startups

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1197649/ AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’ #Careers #ComputerScience #Funding #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #Industry #multidisciplinary #Science #Society #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’

Artificial-intelligence researchers say that the idea of leaving academia is tempting, but some nevertheless resist the move.Credit: Jay…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/766596/

Japan’s Algomatic Dynamics Laucnhes with $32.5M in Funding to Develop Physical AI, Robotic Hand

Insider Brief Algomatic Dynamics has raised $32.5 million from DMM.com in its first funding round as it prepares…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #AI #AlgomaticDynamics #DMMGroup #funding #Nihon #robotichand #Startup
https://www.europesays.com/japan/89589/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/10/global-humanitarian-aid-crisis-64m-fewer-people-received-help-report; https://alnap.org/help-library/resources/sohs-2026/. "The #humanitarian #aid #system is crumbling as #funding shrinks, pressures increase & #governments not only fail to protect #civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new #report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer #people received aid last year."

Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend

Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.

The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.

Details: https://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

#stipends #funding #computerscience

Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend

Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.

The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.

Details: https://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

#stipends #funding #computerscience

Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend

Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.

The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.

Details: https://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

#stipends #funding #computerscience

Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend

Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.

The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.

Details: https://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

#stipends #funding #computerscience

Call for Applications: Helmut Veith Stipend

Deadline: November 30, 2026

The Helmut Veith stipend, dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith (1971-2016), targets motivated and outstanding *female* master's students who (want to) study Computer Science at TU Wien, Austria.

The stipend provides EUR 7000/year for up to two years and a tuition waiver. International applications as well as applications from students who are already at #tuwien are welcome.

Details: https://www.vcla.at/helmut-veith-stipend/

#stipends #funding #computerscience

EU unveils European Innovation Act to unlock billions for innovators

Europe could be on the verge of a major overhaul in how promising technologies move from the laboratory…
#Europe #EU #digitalinfrastructure #DisruptiveTechnology #electricvehicles #EuropeanUnion #Funding #HealthTechnology #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability
https://www.europesays.com/europe/134781/

Pentagon Drone Program Warns of Funding Lapse Setback

The Pentagon's drone program is at a critical juncture, with Lt. Gen. Steven Marks warning that a funding lapse could stall momentum gained since the program's inception over a year ago. Without crucial funds, including a potential $54 billion from the FY27 budget, the program's progress may start to wane.

https://osintsights.com/pentagon-drone-program-warns-of-funding-lapse-setback?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#DefenseAutonomousWorkingGroup #Dawg #Pentagon #EmergingTechnologies #Funding

https://www.europesays.com/people/?p=222145 EU announces $232 million deal with Greenland #EU #EuropeanUnion #funding #GREENLAND #News #Politics #UrsulaVonDerLeyen

https://www.laviezine.com/1636483/uni-seoul-raises-rs-35-crore-series-a-funding-to-expand-korean-inspired-lifestyle-retail-brand-in-india/ Uni Seoul raises Rs 35 crore Series A funding to expand Korean-inspired lifestyle retail brand in India #funding #Gifting #investors #lifestyle #QuickCommerce #retail #seoul

https://www.europesays.com/africa/418912/ Theta draws down over $51 million for South Africa project #capital #Debt #DefinitiveFeasibilityStudy #Development #drawdown #Finance #Funding #gold #Goldfields #SouthAfrica #ThetaGoldMines

Saturday, August 29, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/saturday-august-29-2026/

Edit: raised $50 so far. Please help us get that other $700 covered ASAP? If you can't cover it all, any part of it you can cover is less still to raise.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if we can't raise Atha and Inara the $750 to cover immigration bureaucracy within the next week, a cascade of problems will unfold that jeopardizes the future of not only Atha and Inara, but also the entire project of the Vulpibus. Problems including a $500 fine imposed in court, points on the license, more expensive insurance, inability to get paid work in the USA and probably inability to leave the USA for any chosen reason too. Problems also potentially including deportation of Atha back to the UK.

USCIS made a mistake and they are leaving it to us to pick up the pieces, and fast.

Can you help?

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Wise also available on request.

Other payment options than these may need specific arrangements.

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https://www.fogolf.com/1346639/liv-golf-ceo-says-funding-secured-to-play-beyond-2026/ LIV Golf CEO says funding secured to play beyond 2026 #2026 #Beyond #CEO #CHIEF #Deal #executive #Funding #Golf #GolfNews #investor #Keep #Lead #Liv #officer #Oneil #play #Playing #reached #said #says #Scott #Season #SECURED #SERIES #to #TODAY #with

“When you mix science and politics, you get politics:*…

Tina Hesman Saey on a looming threat to the U.S…

Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political reprisals against those who opposed the views of dictator Joseph Stalin and his followers — and the dubious science they endorsed — led to the starvation of millions, as well as to decades of lost progress in fields from agriculture to molecular biology.

Now, scientists are warning that history could repeat itself — but in the United States.

A new proposal from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would put political appointees in charge of funding decisions traditionally overseen by scientists. In recent years, the federal government has funded about 40 percent of basic science research in the United States.

The OMB’s more than 400-page proposed rule change would let political appointees decide how to hand out federal research funds and who can get them. It would cut funding for collaboration with scientists in other countries and restrict scientists’ ability to communicate their findings. What’s more, it could prevent research on matters that President Donald Trump’s administration has deemed “not in the national interest” — such as studies on health disparities, mRNA-based vaccines and research that doesn’t recognize biological sex as a strict binary.

The new rules would also give OMB the power to rescind previously approved research funds. The proposal “poses a sweeping threat to federal grantmaking and the responsible stewardship of American taxpayer dollars,” the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science Foundation said in a report. In addition, it would impact nonscientific grants supporting services for mental health, housing, education, veterans and Tribal nations, affecting the health and well-being of millions.

So far, OMB has received more than 98,000 comments on the proposal. The public comment period closes July 13. It then will be up to OMB to decide whether to keep the rule as is, revise it or scrap it.

These far-reaching measures are already drawing parallels to dark moments in scientific history. Some researchers say the recent mass firings, policy changes and grant cancellations at federal research institutions, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, closely mirror what happened in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin. “A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science,” the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine wrote in June.

Its editorial invoked the example of Trofim Lysenko [see here], an agronomist and astute political operator who rose to power in the 1930s Soviet Union under Stalin.

Until the 1930s, “the Soviet Union was a real powerhouse in the field of genetics,” says Lee Dugatkin, an evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Then, Lysenko came along. “This guy was your sort of classic charlatan,” Dugatkin says. “He had the equivalent of a mail order degree in agriculture, but he was quite good with the press, and he started to basically spread this idea out there that he was capable of dramatically increasing crop yield, particularly wheat.”

Lysenko’s supposed innovation was a process called vernalization and amounted to soaking seeds in freezing water. The resulting plants — and all their offspring — should be resistant to the U.S.S.R.’s famously cold winters, Lysenko reasoned.

His reasoning was based on a disproven idea in evolutionary biology called Lamarckian inheritance. French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his followers thought that things an organism experiences in its lifetime can be handed down to the next generation. The classic example is a giraffe that has to stretch to reach leaves producing offspring with long necks.

This idea ran counter to Mendelian genetics, which holds that genes — not environmental influences — control traits and are passed to offspring. Mendelian geneticists thought it would take five years to breed more cold-tolerant crops. Lysenko said he could do it in two to three years.

Stalin didn’t have time to wait. He was trying to get collective farms going and needed to increase crop yields to feed more than 150 million people. Large parts of the country had already suffered from famine in 1932 and 1933 and about 6 million people died. Some resorted to cannibalism.

Stalin embraced Lysenko’s quick-fix approach. That decision, says Michael Gordin, a historian of science at Princeton University, was “something that the majority of people at the time, and everyone since, considers the wrong side of the dispute.”

Lysenko was put in charge of a prestigious genetics institute and forced his scientifically unsound farming practices on the collective farms. His methods were disastrous.

Soaking seeds in freezing water hampered germination, leading to crop losses. Millions starved. Meanwhile, Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs. Many were jailed, and almost a dozen were executed or died in prison.

The Soviet Union lost its scientific leadership role and sat on the sidelines for important scientific discoveries of the 1950s and beyond. One, Gordin says, was the development of “massively” productive hybrid corn. The country also missed out on the discovery of DNA and the advent of molecular biology, putting Soviet genetics decades behind the rest of the world.

Soviet genetics did not recover from Lysenko’s influence until after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gordin says. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who thinks that … Russia is today, or Ukraine, or any post-Soviet successor state, is a leading molecular biology country.”…

The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: “Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science,” from @thsaey.bsky.social in @sciencenews.bsky.social.

See also: Idiocracy

* John M. Barry

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As we remember the past so as not to repeat it, we might recall that it was on this date in 1834 that the Spanish Inquisition (finally) ended. Authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, the Inqusition was initially led by inquisitors (Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín) who were appointed by the future Catholic monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It was originally (ostensibly) intended primarily to identify heretics; its aim, to maintain Christian orthodoxy. But it became an effective instrument of state power by replacing the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.

Over its course, the Inquisition prosecuted an estimated 150,000 people for various offences. An estimated 3,000–5,000 were turned over to the state for execution, particularly in the initial 50 years, mostly by burning at the stake. Other punishments included penance and public flogging, exile, enslavement on galleys, and prison terms ranging from several years to life. In many of these punishments an important motive was the confiscation of all the victims’ property.

As Monty Python observed, “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” And nobody expected it to last 356 years.