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Did Lexus Just Beat BMW? Tough segment For an industry that produces great hunks of lifeless metal, the automotive industry is full of battles. Wars between rivals brands and flagship models rage across the globe, garnering die-hard audiences on both sides as they fight over power figures and battle for popularity. Mustang vs Camaro, Ferrari vs Lamborghini, Evo vs Impreza: it seems sometimes war is good for something. But the sector the new Lexus IS finds itself in is hotly contested indeed… This is one I’ve been watching for quite a while; ever since the first time I drove the first generation IS350 and then the thoroughly yummy IS-F with that glorious Yamaha-fettled 5 liter V8, I have been patiently waiting to see how Lexus would tackle the rather difficult task of evolving their entry-level sedan. This is no joke – this is the most competitive segment for any manufacturer who dares play in BMW 3 Series territory, a car that has always ruled it. Audi and Mercedes have been getting good at it, but even they aren’t there when it comes to taking the overall package into consideration. So how did Lexus tackle things this time round? If you remember, ever since the new GS that I drove two years ago, Lexus has been trying hard at doing two things: the first is making their cars better and more fun to drive, the second is to create an instantly recognizable design language. The spindle grille was the first move and now with the IS, they’re showing no restraint when it comes to making bold statements. While it may or may not be liked by everyone, I tip my hat to the Lexus team as they’re showing balls among Japanese car makers, which at best can be described as being overly conservative, and most of the time plain boring and lacking imagination. I’m not being excessively critical, trust me, it’s just that after witnessing the crazy and wacky cars that they used to come up with in the eighties and nineties, it pains me to see Japanese streets filled with minivans and crossovers of every conceivable size and shape. Toyota on the other hand have done a very good job of turning their boring image around and reinventing themselves. Just look at the crazy concept cars like the FT-1 they have been unleashing as of late, not to mention the close-to-production-ready RC-F. All very good stuff. That newfound edginess in Lexus design is especially evident in the IS’s front, with those small but piercing twin projector headlights and that Nike-like LED swoosh, not to mention the two nostrils on either side of the exaggerated spindle grill. It’s a very organic design and it definitely makes the IS instantly recognizable from afar. Job done then! Since I was going to spend a week with the IS, I thought I should opt for the F-Sport version as I wanted some edginess. I know Lexus does comfort rather well but come on, I doubt you come here to Speedhunters to find drives of comfortable cars? The F-Sport package includes the more aggressive bumpers with said nostrils, as well as lower and stiffer suspension, a sports-tuned transmission as well as Lexus’ Dynamic Handling System with rear-wheel steering. That last bit is funny: I recall in the nineties many automotive journalists complaining that the Skyline GT-R was a car for the Playstation generation, as it had too many electronic gadgets like HICAS (rear steer). Now Porsche has something similar on the 991 GT3. Just saying… The rear end is probably even more controversially styled than the front, with those pointy tail lights that stretch and wrap around the sides. It looks unlike anything out on the street and that’s a good thing, because among the homogeneous design mish-mash that makes up the majority of everyday regular sort of cars, it’s refreshing to see a touch of individuality. The drive After picking up the car from Lexus, my first port of call was to be Nagoya, a quick stop by the Liberty Walk shop before heading to Rocky Auto to check out a rather special collection of semi-abandoned cars. The IS turned the 200-mile-or-so drive into a pleasant experience, as it wafted effortlessly down the Shin Tomei expressway, keeping me fully entertained through that optional and very impressive Mark Levinson audio system. The eight-speed transmission was a joy to use in both automatic or when in its manual setting, shifting up and down using the steering wheel mounted paddles. It’s not dual-clutch fast, but it’s fast enough on a car of this nature and matched the silky smooth V6’s character rather well. With so many good things to say about this car, I have to admit I did feel a little short changed when it came to the engine. Don’t get me wrong, the 2GR is a good unit, but among the crop of turbocharged motors from German manufacturers, it feels almost outdated, not having quite the punchy, low-rpm torque force-induced engines have these days. Plus, considering they put so much work in making the new IS feel so much tighter, so much more focused, running a slightly reworked version of the same engine from the older generation of the car, well it just feels like a bit of an oversight. Despite this, the extra 10hp or so that it now has does give the IS good acceleration out of corners and awesome overtaking ability, once you downshifted three or four gears (it sounds so strange saying stuff like this. What’s next, a nine-speed transmission? Oh wait, they’ve done that already!). I also had a chance to put the handling to the test through some nice mountain roads in Shizuoka, where I found a very neutral handling set-up with tons of grip and idiot-proof stability control system that really lets you have fun. This is one chassis that can take a hell of a lot more power! Upon my return back to Tokyo, I had no time to rest; I had an appointment with a certain Larry Chen who had flown over to Japan to participate in the idlers 12h endurance race and while over, join me in featuring a bunch of cool cars. After picking him up at his hotel, we filled up the IS’s trunk with Larry’s gear and pointed the spindle grille towards Yokohama, jumping on the Kanagawa-Shuto which would take us through the city and onto the Yokohama Bay Bridge. From there it was down the spiraling off-ramp that takes you back down to ground level and to the entrance of the Daikoku PA. There we met up with Rich from GarageSpec and his rather special and unique L28-powered Skyline R30. As they say, there’s no rest for the wicked, so after a few hours sleep, the IS would once again serve us as our chariot, taking us all the way up to Gunma where we had a meeting with about ten awesome cars from the guys at N-Style. It was there, after a busy day shooting all sorts of cool drift and street rides, that Larry and I finally had time to focus on the IS350. The car had definitely won us over by providing a commendable array of capabilities. It does so much right, it’s almost hard to fault anything at times. Take the interior for example: extremely comfortable and relaxing to be in, it stands out thanks to a very LF-A-ish sort of layout which is now making its way into all cars wearing the big L badge up front. Unlike other Japanese manufacturers, Lexus is doing rather well at giving up its obsession with buttons. The multitude of functions are easily controlled via the integrated LCD-screen-based infotainment system. Nissan and Infiniti should learn something here. If I had to be very picky, maybe the lack of color could be a point that could have been improved upon, but then again for those that are a little more courageous and think black on black with a touch of black trim might be a little plain boring, there are always more exciting hues to go for. That fake metal trim however, that really has to go. It looked cheap ten years ago in the old GS/IS/LS and a decade has done nothing to change that. The display moves! And then we get to the instrument display. I thought the LF-A-inspired LCD dash with sliding tachometer might be tacky, but it just isn’t. I really enjoyed this so much that I felt the need to play around with it all the time, flicking through the menus and displays that are available. While the F30 3 Series has its own plain and far more serious analogue gauge set-up with lower integrated LCD screen, the IS is full-on digital and it makes the Beemer look plain old boring! I think only the Japanese can come up with a system like this, and be confident that years down the line it won’t break or stop sliding left and right! The display position and graphical interface/color depends on the drive setting you are in, the more performance-focused Sport S+ setting giving you the red and white rpm counter. This joins the LCD infotainment slash navigation screen, strangely enough very small compared to the really wide, wide-screen units they are dropping into the GS and LS these days. Everything feels advanced and very technologically oriented, except maybe some of the materials chosen for the center console. But while I can digest these considering the price level the IS slots in against its less-generously equipped German rivals, there are two things I’m very surprised they’re still doing: the first one being the eighties-looking digital number displays for the dual zone climate control. The second is again a very old school touch for such a modern car, and I mean the backlit gear position indicator next to the shifter. I’m sure Lexus could come up with more pleasant and better looking than these recycled-Toyota-parts-bin-looking items. Aside from these very minor observations, the cabin is a much better place to be in than the older IS. There’s definitely more space for rear passengers, all coupled with the usual faultless Lexus fit and finish we’ve become used to. I think a car’s ability to make its driver and occupants feel special goes a very long way. If the overall package doesn’t turn every drive into a bit of an occasion, if you don’t feel a little bit of excitement even for jumping in and driving five minutes down the road to the shops – if that lacks, then there’s definitely something wrong. The IS definitely satisfies; it’s a car that I personally enjoyed seeing parked in front of my house as much as I did driving it and interacting with its long list of toys and unique gadgetry. It all combines to make even the most mundane of journeys a true experience and I think Lexus have really hit the mark with this car. And I obviously wasn’t the only one thinking this, as during our time with the IS we spotted quite a few out on the streets of Tokyo. With lots of use comes the unavoidable fuel stops and the IS350 didn’t do particularly great on this front, but then again it could have been worse. Mind you I could have driven the car with a little more frugal left foot but the raspy-sounding V6 and that superb eight-speed transmission seemed to edge me on all the time, with blips on the downshifts every time I changed over 4,500 rpm. This is one fun car to drive and throw around. It all leads to the occasional surprise at the pumps, but on the next tank I drove the car in exactly the same way. If that doesn’t explain to you what the IS350 F-Sport is all about, then I don’t know what does. BMW may have upped the ante with the F30 but the IS is closer than ever on its heels. What sets the the 3 Series aside remains the well thought-out and long list of motoring options, from frugal 2-liter petrol and diesel engines, all the way to performance oriented 3-liter petrol and diesel straight-sixes, not forgetting the Active Hybrid version along the way. Oh,and then you can have any of these in a Touring Wagon, so it’s not really hard to see why the 3 Series will always be the preferred choice. In Japan, the IS is offered with two V6 engines: a 2.5L and a 3.5L, these being joined by the third and final version of the car, the 300h hybrid. So as Lexus continues to point to a more niche-oriented market due to a lack of variants, there’s no way the IS could ever rival the 3 Series benchmark on outright sales. The latter just caters to way too many tastes and applications. But say over a 335i M-Sport, the IS350 F-Sport truly puts up a much stronger fight than the previous generation car ever could. That alone says a lot about what Lexus have achieved and where they’re planning on going. I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s wondering how the hot version of the FC-F will do up against the M4! Dino Dalle Carbonare Instagram: speedhunters_dino Photos by Larry Chen Instagram: larry_chen_foto Comments are closed. by Oldest by Best by Newest by Oldest i was surprised when i found out it beat bmw in its own game as 350 vs 335i. koodos to lexus great work. can't wait for their future cars that come out. LFA changed the game. ”Did Lexus Just Beat BMW” -- looking at my garage... No! ZiWang Yes the LFA changed the game, but so did a review in the company's mentality when it comes to making cars more fun. Think of what Nissan could do if they put some of the GT-Rs anal attention to perfection into some of their other cars Engine is no match for the BMW turbo inline 6 Looks great, the front has a tiny bit too many lines for my taste, back has cleaner lines, interior is spot on. It's good you can still do a burn out in a so computerized modern car. :) Definitely looks better afar than up close.(In my opinion) Whenever I see the face I think "melted". The overhead shot of the front shows little cohesion, giving a confused look. On the plus side, the rear looks more aggressive than the previous gen and I like the new interior. Hopefully you take this as constructive criticism Dino... I commend your enthusiasm for this car (and the Japanese car culture in large), but the way you write in these stories comes across a bit like an infomercial host. No MANUAL, no turbo, no diesel, questionable styling... Lexus has a long way to go i spend alot of time in traffic, and the inside of the is looks very appealing, comfortable yet sophisticated. i wouldn't mind getting stuck in traffic in an IS. between lexus and bmw, i think lexus is winning the interior styling... i never liked the way the bmw's looked in the inside. i prefer what lexus did to make the rcf over the IS. it would be interesting to see what lexus has in its future when the 4 series grand coupe gets released. if i had to choose a lexus 4 door sedan, i'd go with the new gs or ls... the front of the IS is nice its the butt i can't get used to looking at. great write up! mezza345 IS has 12 more PS and 335i has 20 more Nm. 335i is available only as a Touring Wagon in Japan btw tokuku Interior is definitely a big step up AceAndrew2 No probs I take criticism :) I'm very happy when a manufacturer says they are out to make a chance and then proceed to do it and do it well. In this day and age that is commendable and the IS is a very good car indeed, an obvious improvement over the last car. Most media around the world are of the same opinion so it's not just me. BMW still takes however, which is why I drive a 335i hehe ;) 335 is much more tunable though mat88 I somewhat agree. To close the gap in my option they need to drop the NA V6 motors, come up with turbo units, offer manuals, offer diesels and get their handling done by German suspension manufacturers. Oh and what is up with the lack of wagons Lexus?? gatoonik LOL, ok then d_rav But that's the thing, they have nothing. BMW and Benz capitalise on their cars in the same way the Japanese manufacturers used to in the 80s and 90s, by making multiple cars/models on the same platform, albeit with a great amount of brand identity and actual cohesion with the rest of the line up. BMW makes the 3 sedan, the 4 coupe, the 4 Grand Coupe, the M3, the M4, the M4 Gran Coupe (we all know this is coming) the Touring Wagon, the Active Hybrid and the 3 series Gran Turismo. Lexus makes the IS, and soon the RC. No comparison really... I drive IS 300h and I must say it is an awesome car and it excels compaired to BMW 3 tier in every way. + here in Czech Republic there is only arround 70 lexuses (all of them IS,RX,GS,LS,CT) sold by a year. 3 tier BMW is everywhere, sold in much higher numbers. The biggest trouble is they are sold from low cost (316i with no interior stuff) to high cost versions. With lexus you have only few versions in a quite close pricerange and with luxury interior in every version. For lowcost you have toyota, not lexus. That is why lexus seems much more luxury car compaired to BMW 3 which seems to be more like over prices Skoda Octavia / VW Passat. And that is why people who want nice luxury car will always buy Lexus. Not BMW. PS: BMW quality got south in path few years. It is not worth the money anymore. mat88 MT is a thing of a past... diesel is a thing that does not belong anywhere near luxury cars. That BS is for lowcost cars. Turbo? Why if there is no need for it. Why to get turbo just to have turbo? speedhunters_dino mat88 Is wagon a luxury car? No.... there is toyota for that stuff. You seem not to understand the whole point of Lexus brang existance. speedhunters_dino ZiWang Think what could Nissan do with GTR is they did not allow any Renault parts in it? Prolly it would be a reliable JAP car which Nissan used to be. Since the partnership with Renault the cars quality went down a big step. That's what made me and people arround me move to Toyota, Lexus, Honda. master88 Diesel is certainly a no low cost option, it is more expensive to manufacture and maintain. It does suit luxury cars very well, it's very quiet and very torquey so it moves the car effortlessly... Lexus may be a luxury brand but BMW is more than that, it merges sportiness with luxury and on the sportiness side Lexus has a long way to go The MT may be a thing of past, but there is no better driver involvement than shifting yourself and once you master it it's pure joy to do heel and toe, up shifts, rev matched downshifts as smooth as an auto box.... mat88 master88 I dont know where are you from. Im from Europe, Czech Republic. Here diesel is considered low cost because of the consumption. Many people do not see the maintenance costs etc. They just care about the consumption. Anyway, long story short, if you drive MB Sclasse with diesel you will be considered a wanna be. Guy who wants to look rich with his Sclasse but doesnt have the money to buy propper petrol engine. Diesel quiet? Yes the sound of it got down from loud tractor to tractor, but still it cant compair to good petrol engine. + diesel when driving in sports mode... well... its just not that good as a sound of petrol engine. I think there is no doubt in that one. MT - I'm on same page with you on this. Although you must understand what an IS, GS, LS is. Those cars are for daily driving, for comfort, when you go home from work or drive home from client, you are stuck in ruch hour trafic. That is for AT is much better than MT. It is too heavy to drift or to race properly. Mby the 350 version has more HP, but it is still 1,8 ton car. Once a year when you go with IS to race track you can shift with paddles. Therefore there is no place for MT in such car. Cars for race, drift driving, for high reving, for racedays should be with MT ofc, but simply IS is not build to be a race and weekend track car. IS seems ofc comfortable, but a bit booring. But thats the same problem with every modern sedan even with BMW. for heal toe, downshifting and propper driving techniques I drive MT Honda. It has 1,15 t and is much more agile. But for daily driving it always go with AT. Why does it have to be so damn ugly?!?! If I wanted a luxury sports car, it sure as HELL shouldn't come with the 2014 Corolla front end! Toyota needs to get a few more artists working on their designs before anyone who drives a BMW would look at those hideous clown cars. Even the LFA is pathetic when compared to the rivals. The new NSX might be a hybrid, but at least it LOOKS like a proper supercar... master88 speedhunters_dino mat88 Oh really, so Audi Avants are what exactly? mezza345 ohhhh yes it is:) master88 Well I know quite a bit about diesels as I live in Europe, you are only considered a wanna be if you get wound up in traffic and start "racing" other cars. If you have ever ridden in a 6 cylinder 2005+ luxury diesel car you should know that they are very quiet and smooth. Your description of a Lexus is quite the reason why Lexus is quite far behind BMW, it lacks sportiness. I have driven both automatics and manuals and even in heavy traffic I prefer the manual as it is more nippy and it allows me to react faster to openings in traffic. speedhunters_dino master88 mat88 Ofc such cars exist. But what I was saying is that when you are looking for a luxury car, wagon is usually the last option. Usually people that need more space just buy a higher version of the sedan. Its like you would be compairing Lexus and Kia telling me that they both have leather interior. Well maybe they do, but Kia uses fake leather or low quality leather compaired to Lexus. That's why they cannot be on the same page. master88 speedhunters_dino mat88 OK I get you own a Lexus and you like it but your views are somewhat skewed wouldn't you say? speedhunters_dino master88 mat88 Ofc they are dino. Everybody has its own personal opinion on cars and needs. I'm not trying to tell the ultimate truth here, just my own opinion. And that's how I understand the discussion should go. I'm very confident with the way how lexus cars are made, because I'm sick and tired of "universal" cars that VW, Skoda and Audi spits out from their factories. Mby it is because I'm in Europe, but I.e. Skoda is a CZ brand. You can see it everywhere. That's ok. But I dont see the point in buying car with price range of the one single and same model from 12k EUR to 40k EUR. So If I go and spend 40 grand for the car, it looks same as the 12k one. And thats the same with BMW. And why isnt Lexus like that? Because Lexus is not a single brand. It is Toyota! And Toyota has the cars with MT, Diesel and Wagon for sale. I dont think that diesel wagon with MT is considered to be a luxury car by general public. Dont you think? speedhunters_dino mezza345 because BMW and Lexus are really desing their cars with the slightest fuck given to "tuneability" Realistically how many people are going to go out and buy a brand new car costing close to if not over €35k and start "tuning" it. master88 speedhunters_dino mat88 Trust me, location has a lot to do with it. If I was in Europe I'd probably feel more like you, but the truth of the matter is that most German brands in Japan (as an example) are marketed as premium brands, and they are because the cars they offer here are more expensive than their domestic counterparts and they are almost unanimously accepted as better products because of the "import" feel they have. In Japan the imported European cars will always give the impression of better status, also because a lot of Japanese customers get the top of the line models. That is certainly not the case in a lot of European countries both in or out of the EU. Go to the US and Lexus I feel is really well marketed, it's perceived as a premium brand and accepted as such. In Europe it's nothing more than a niche, only those that want to follow a different path from the norm go for them, to stand out among a sea of 3/5 series of A4/A6s. In the US Lexus is very well marketed, it's always been perceived as a luxury brand and it has a great reliability and customer satisfaction track record to back it up. In Japan it's different still, it's still a new brand, launched in 2005, it has a bit of a stigma as being an old man's car, a car that countryside folk buy because most people from the city would get an import. I'm generalizing here obviously bit that's the general consensus... master88 I haven't noticed a decline in quality on BMWs honestly. I feel they still manage to pull off the most intuitive and simply laid out cabins out there and they have been doing very nice things with their latest models. Might not be for everyone, I agree about that, we all have different tastes after all. :) mat88 master88 I've just spent a week in a 2014 X5 35d M-sport and I was blown away with the engine/driveline in that thing! I'm just sad BMW Japan doesn't offer the same 6-cylinder diesel engine in other cars! speedhunters_dino ZiWang Sadly i don't see Nissan doing that any time soon. They don't even develop their own V6 engine's anymore. The VQ is being discontinued and replaced by crappy Mercedes engine's! speedhunters_dino mat88 I see and totally agree with the European status of Lexus. Thats also why the sales are so low (as I said, 70 cars in CZ rep. 10 mil ppl here). Fuel economics is the reason why the most popular are hybrids and we have no IS 350 here, nor the 4WD version, only GS 350 comes with 4WD. The future of Lexus here imho depends on tax incentives for hybrids (less CO2) and bringing what works in California and Japan to Europe. Not on developing diesel engine or even taking Toyota diesels to Lexus. If EU ppl want diesel they will most prolly go to local brands like VW group. Lexus needs the mark of individuality, rareness which it has so far, just needs to pursue this individuality mark and use it as marketing strategy. Most people I know around brought lexus because of realibility and rareness. Also it is also quite nice for me to begin the business meeting with question from the client "oh what is this car, how does the hybrid work, oh that is so silent"..... you will never have that with bmw 3 tier here in Europe. As far as I know the imports in JAP tend to be taxed quite high and therefore thats why they tend to have the "rare" sticker, am I right? CliffordTallman Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think it looks wonderful and very aggressive, as well as the rest of Toyota's current lineup. master88 gatoonik Maybe? preeeeeeach!!! damn right about the japanese styles as of late. I expect great things from japan and germany, but lately japan seems to be marketing cars towards dull dry-toast-without-butter americans. Awesome car by the way. Deff turns heads. Awesome article!... Lexus is getting the battle to another level in his section!, the car is very godd but i think that the design it cuestionable, and the enginne´s stats are not the best. BMW and others manufacters still win this market Great Photos Larry i´m your fan xD And the words? Dino You know how to get me from the first letter =D Did they beat BMW? Probably. Did they beat Cadillac? Not even close. Gianluca FairladyZ You know.. A car has to be attractive nowadays and has to make it right to everyone... Beginning from the 16yr old kid dreaming about it, to the 60yr old man driving it...The Germans are able to sell their cars everywhere.. They are nice and well designed, in fact attractive...This is what sells cars in my opinion ( of this segment).. I think that Japanese car makers need to push more their design and go more innovative with their power plants! Hell, the time of powerful N/A engines at the moment is over... Look at BMW, they developped a Diesel engine on series car with 3-Turbochargers..?! Japan has the ideas, the technology, the skills, etc.. But they miss the emotional aspect of building a car, and that's were they fail compared to Europe... I hope they wake up and take the challenge against the imperial German car fleet! What do you think? Gianluca FairladyZ @Dino: You just can't get enough of straight six twin turbos do you ;);););)???? speedhunters_dino tokuku Yeah I agree How this piece of s$!t can ever beat bmw...and its funny...that trying to beat bmw they all agree that they are not as good as bmw... I have been seeing a lot of this car in America, both versions. The body styling is instantly a neck-breaker, the lines are smooth and aggressive just like the the 3 Series from BMW. But, performance wise I have to give it to the BMW, just because of the many variations you can get. Inline-sixs just take the BMW onto another level. Only if the 2JZ were brought back & put in this car, it will still my heart. Nice work Dino & Larry! speedhunters_dino & @larry_chen_foto The S4 should not be in the List, Instead the A4. Pit the S4 vs. M3 then Compare. wheatgod AlexBailey speedhunters_dino Yes, I agree with you. I like that they are going back to their roots. But, I like the fact the are also using paddle shifting. But, they are making the cars more interactive and enjoyable for the enthusiasts. love it. class leader imo. except in the power dept, but we will see with the new F JohnWilliamTilleryJr RS4 you mean AlexBailey speedhunters_dino Thanks man! Gianluca FairladyZ I think Japanese manufacturers really need to get their sense of humour back. They are far too conservative in everything they do. Take Nissan for example. If it was a German manufacturer, how many models would the VR38 have been fitted into by now? Yep, every single one, including the Murano or FX (or whatever they call it now). @Jake Laird Care to elaborate? JoseFickert Thanks Jose :) wheatgod Yep no manual. The manual does not fit in with Lexus marketing, so don't ever expect to see one offered master88 speedhunters_dino mat88 Yes they get taxed a bit unfortunately but it hasn't stopped the German eating away at sales in the mid to high end markets. Gianluca FairladyZ All my cars are 6 cylinders, only one is NA and a boxer though haha To answer the title question in short.... nope. Its a good effort for Lexus but, BMW is still on top for me. I just like that it blends in better than the IS, those headlights are weird. solved for the RC & RC-F though imo. The RC-F vs M4 will be a better battle. (I still prefer an M3 for practicality although I wish the 2 series had 4doors.) When i saw the first image I felt there had to be a burn out coming, glad to see I wasnt disappointed. speedhunters_dino I'm curious about this too. I guess he's talking about the ATS.. speedhunters_dino, have you had a chance to get in a 2 series yet? I think you'll really enjoy it. It's a very back to basics car. Very much what I think you're looking for. speedhunters_dino I think he's comparing it to the cadillac cts v-sport. Personally i think they are on even grounds when it comes down to styling and handling but the cts does have an extra 100 horse power....which is always nice. Lexus have the interior design nailed, i hired an f30 3 series for a couple of days last year and thought it was great but at the side if the new IS it looks positively boring! Overall the id still take the f30 though for the better engine/gearbox choice and a front end that doesn't look likes its been given a chelsea smile. Lexus/Toyota makes the best cars they can make given the market, costs, economy, etc. Not everyone cares to drive a fast car. Not everyone cares about handling. The average folks just want a nice looking car so they can drop their money. I wasted the last 15 minutes reading narrow minded and manufacturer dedicated comments. If Lexus build the cars only for us petrol heads, they would most likely shut their doors and go out of business. A car with serious speed, power, handling, race car aesthetics, etc. are only a tiny, tiny segment to them. How many millions are going to go out and grab the baddest car they can get? For those that weren't around, I'll talk about the '90s mega horsepower and turbo wars. How many families are going to rush out there and buy an RX-7 or a Supra or a 300ZX or a 3000GT or even an NSX? Do the math. Many examples can be used, but all this biased comments and bashing BS comments really don't make headlines. The real petrol guys are open minded to all design, engineering, etc. of so called sports cars or sports sedans. Sigh... i like the look of the first 2 generation's of IS but i can't get on board with this one. while lexus is trying to find their design language, it is producing cars like this that feels like it's half baked with uncohesive designs. it's like they took the previous gen's car, which was conservative but still handsome, then they just slapped a buncha angular design elements around the front and rear. the side profile still has conservative slabbiness. compared to the mazda 6/atenza's profile, it's lacking in intersting lines that connect the front to the rear. Gianluca FairladyZ speedhunters_dino : Dear Dino, as we all know you know a lot of higher ranked People in the automotive industries. In case that you meet Mr Carlos Ghosn please tell him my message: Dear Mr Ghosn, I apreaciate the fact that you reanimated the GTR with the R35. I have a proposal for the next Z car and the VR38DETT engine. Please reinvent a new RB26DETT engine with direct fuel injection and all the gadgets of this new era for the new Z car coming, and please make more use of the VR38DETT engine in other cars.... But leave the most powerful in the GTR... For exclusivity... You know.. ;) ;) ;) Itadakimasu i'ts lunch time in Switzerland see you later guys! A few things, 1) Lexus has a reputation for boring, and this is an attempt to climb out of it, but when compared to offerings of the past this is slightly less beige than before 2) While new cars have so much technology to offer with gobs of power, better brakes and gas mileage than was ever available before, what happened to the passion to connect a driver and a car. As a former BMW tech, I am a bit biased, one thing I loved at BMW was how almost every car they made was fun to drive, even the base models were still a little sporty. But even the new Bimmers are just a little too much for me, I wish there was a stripped down model here in the states. I would love a 200hp stripped down model with cloth seats... I guess that's why I lean so much toward older cars, I feel like there was more excitement by manufacturers, not every car model went through a test group before going to marketing before going to production. Sorry I am rambling, in short Lexus has always lacked passion or a specific sense of something, they try to appeal to too many people at once... and most of those people are retired. My God! I had to make an account just to say how incredible these pictures are. Larry always seems to inspire me somehow but these are just breathtakingly beautiful. Definitely found some new wallpapers today @Taka dont know about 350 but 300h version is compaired to 320d.... and sry but 320d is a piece of junk compaired to 300h IS. I actually saw one of these on the motorway. Well, I only caught glimpse of the tail-lights, but I immediately knew that it was "that Lexus I read about on SH" Those tail-lights really are very distinct @Kevin Truong The problem with your argument is that Lexus sells mostly stuff your parents drive; ISF, LFA were just cars that got Toyota enthusiasts (myself included) excited, but that's obviously not what they were known for. Not a problem with the IS, as it has moved the dial again, but dude, Lexus/Toyota making the best cars is a subjective statement. I'm not surprised that a certain demographic loves them more than any other.	<urn:uuid:e8d98120-838a-460e-a284-8d15d4166b57>	http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/02/lexus-just-beat-bmw/	en	0.955675	0.033355	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Food items that spoil fertility health of men: male researcher carrying out scientific research in a laboratory using tablet and microscope Little we know that our regular consumption of certain food items leads to infertility. Infertility in men is so common that 2 in every 5 men is infertile. But the fact that food leads to infertility is a nightmare for most of the men out there. Fertility health is very important in young men and women. The reproductive health of a person also signifies a successful married life. Most men forget that there is thing called male infertility and blame the women for not having a child. The society also does the same. Here we will see some of the food items that leads to male infertility: Dairy products: Some of the dairy products leads to infertility in men. These dairy products contains a lot of lactic acid which is known to reduce fertility in men. This might come as a surprise but this is scientifically proven. Regular consumption of cheese, butter and milk leads to infertility. There are additional factors which adds onto this. Adulteration is very high in dairy products and hence it is very important to purchase organic products for your consumption. Fast food items like pizzas and burgers contain a lot of cheese and these are said to increase the body fat. Men with bigger waist lines are more prone to infertility than lean men. Cutting carbs is very important when you are trying to reduce weight. Carbohydrates present in bread, noodles, and potatoes are said to destroy your fertility. During one of my consultation at a fertility clinic in chennai, the precautionary food items which I need to control had all these listed. Most of think that how can carbs do harm to our fertility health as everyone consumes it at a regular basis. But the fact is, it make your sperm lazy and causes mobility dysfunction in sperms. High amount of caffeine content in the blood cells is said to cause infertility. It not only causes infertility but also causes a lot of order health disorders. These are high risk items when a good health is considered. The average consumption of coffee is increasing day by day. High caffeine content in blood can also lead to heart diseases. Alcohol consumption is also in this list to those who think alcohol only gives you a belly. A study shows that 80% of the men who are infertile have history of alcohol consumption. This is not just limited to occasion consumption but to regular consumption. Nearly half of the people who consume alcohol also have smoking habit and this adds more harm to the cart. When it comes to smoking and drinking, the infertility problem that is caused becomes nearly impossible to be reversed. This is the primary reason why men who opt for IVF due to azoospermia have history of drinking and smoking. With advanced fertility treatment it is very easy for a couple to enter the phase of parenthood. Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:1788ee41-9949-4323-9f3a-5e2727d33216>	https://buddymantra.com/food-items-that-spoil-fertility-health-of-men/	en	0.970503	0.023978	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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I often see that it is common to put "more points" in the region of interest in the computational domain of the numerical method, i.e. use non-uniform grid. The proofs are usually done for the uniform grid though and then using some arguments like "the proof can be extended to non-uniform grid as well" the results show good errors obtained. Ok, even if the theory behind non-uniform grid is the same, I was thinking how to generate those non-uniform grids and I did not find that many articles. The simplest way, perhaps, is to use some sort of "generating" function, something like a cubic polynomial that does create a desired non-uniformity controlled by the polynomial coefficients. However, there are spectral methods such as Chebyshev discretization(I don't know much about) that can also be utilized. Thus, I wonder if there is any advantage of using it over a cubic function mapping? In either case I would approximate derivatives as on a non-uniform grid so the local error of the first and second derivative would be bounded by $O((\max_{i\in I}\{x_{i+1}-x_i\})^2)$. The main use for Chebyshev points is with a (pseudo)spectral method. The Chebyshev points are good ("optimal") for $L^\infty$ approximation and derivatives can be evaluated in $O(n \log n)$ by FFT. If you are going to use a compact spatial discretization (such as FD, FV, or FE) then there is no advantage to Chebyshev points unless the "interesting" regions just happen to coincide. To create topologically structured grids that place high resolution in interesting regions, you should check out elliptic mesh generation. In this approach, you provide a "monitor function" that indicates the desired resolution (and anisotropy) and the grid generator solves a (typically nonlinear) elliptic PDE to compute the location of the nodes in the mesh. There are several good books and review articles, e.g. • $\begingroup$ I had in mind some simple 1D parabolic equation that I would solve numerically and the region of interest would be the point where the initial data is discontinuous, for example, a step function. Thus, I would put more points around the jump. So, based on what you have said there is no difference for me, so I can generate any non-uniform grid I like? $\endgroup$ – Kamil Dec 17 '12 at 0:58 • $\begingroup$ Yes, you can use an ad-hoc method, especially in 1D where there are few quality requirements. Note that (a) you may want to use an a posteriori error estimator to guide where to place resolution, and that (b) most discretizations require that the ratio of adjacent cell sizes be bounded (hence a geometrically graded mesh near those "interesting" regions). $\endgroup$ – Jed Brown Dec 17 '12 at 4:49 Your Answer	<urn:uuid:d9b6f233-1ffa-4824-94ba-be409ce6b035>	https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/4871/generating-a-non-uniform-grid-with-chebyshev-discretization	en	0.932164	0.277738	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 If Most of What I Know Comes from Google, Why Do I Know More Than Eric Schmidt? Eric Schmidt gets nuclear costs wrong I am looking at a presentation that says Eric Schmidt is wrong about the relative costs of nuclear and renewables. Way, way, way wrong. This is not one of those phonied up, propaganda extravaganzas by Mark Cooper, or Amory Lovins. No this is an honest to God presentation by a utility company to some bankers. The Utility, the South Carolina based SCANA, tell the banker, Wells Fargo, hey we believe that over the next 40 years we can deliver nuclear generated electricity for less than electricity generated by any other source. Less than electricity produced by combined cycle gas. less than biogas, less than chicken shit (if you don't believe me, check out the presentation), less than coal, less than on shore wind, less than off shore wind less than photovoltaics. According to SCANA, nuclear generated electricity will cost just 58% of the cost of wind generated electricity, 26% of offshore wind generated electricity, and just 12% of electricity generated by photovoltaics. In case you think that SCANA has some pro-nuclear prejudice against renewables, you should also know that SCANA is also in the natural gas business. SCANA distributes natural gas to much of South Carolina, as well as parts of North Carolina and Georgia. Renewables are good for the natural gas business, because renewables need natural gas backups. What SCANA tells Wells Fargo is not the sort of ideological driven green propaganda we hear from Eric Schmidt. The SVANA cost estimates are consistent with the 2016 levelized cost estimates of of the Energy Information Agency. They are consistent with the findings of Berry Brooks and Peter Lang. And they are consistent with my own studies of renewable cost. Although renewable advocates continue to tell us how high the price of future nuclear will be, they never balance this argument with a serious assessment of the cost of renewables. When confronted with evidence of real world renewable costs, renewable advocates tell us that renewable costs are going down all of the time, or that if you just through enough money in the form of government subsidies at renewables, the renewable cost liability will go away. The argument that renewable costs are declining is not born out by my own studies of wind and solar project costs. And renewables advocates won't tell us when renewables will be capable of surviving without massive subsidies. Dr. Schmidt mistakenly failed to Google renewables cost, when he looked at the cost of nuclear power. Or perhaps he believed that he did not need to do so, because the experts he consulted that the cost problems of renewables were rapidly disappearing. The devil in me wants to make fun of Eric Schmidt for his wrong headed pronouncement about nuclear costs as I have in the past. But Dr. Schmidt is a smart man, and maybe some day he will stop listening to Amory Lovins and Google the worlds "nuclear cost", find SCANA's data, and discover his mistake. If you humiliate an enemy, you may make him an enemy for a long time. Hopefully, Dr. Schmidt is a mature human being who can acknowledge his mistakes, and alter his views accordingly. A tip of the hat to Steve Dardan for the Graphic, and for a link to a related presentation by Stephen A. Byrne, SCE&G's Senior Vice President Generation, Nuclear and Fossil Hydro. SCE&G is a subsidiary of SCANA. Bill Rodgers said... It would be interesting to see Dr. Schmidt's views now about the cost of renewables. The video has a date of Oct 1 2008. A lot has happened in the past year relative to cost analysis and justifications for all power generatrion source. Reality is setting in on the true cost of renewables. As in the true social costs of devoting thousands of acres of federal land to wind mills and solar farms. As in the true cost of rebuilding the grid to handle distributed power generations sources if we are truly serious about running US industry and commerce, not just someone's water pump for their well. As in the true cost to maintain grid reliability when the wind does not blow as it has not been in the Pacific Northwest over the past several weeks except for an hour or two here and there. Anonymous said... This is the time to making green revolution.For that we grow plant at our house and the land that is not usable.By this we can save our environment and our placate. Free Matrimony Frank Jablonski said... The cost of something is a math problem. You find the numbers and then you do the calculations. You secure the numbers from credible academic and government sources. If you are doing full cost analysis, the kind that makes sense when a society is making a choice, you don't leave things out (e.g., transmission and grid changes triggered by electing to source your electricity from resources that trigger the need for such changes). You do the math with math. They taught math in school. Am I missing something here? Did Dr. Schmidt miss something? If so, how? Nathan2go said... Don't forget that Schmidt is CEO of Google, and Google is an investor in eSolar, the solar thermal power startup which says that it's goal is solar power that is cheaper than coal. I have no doubt that everyone he talks to reinforces their common delusion. Eventually they'll realize that the emperor has no clothes (the cost of solar won't have fallen as fast as "everybody" predicted) and somehow manage to blame the nuclear power industry for the high cost of solar. bobcat said... In your posts you often make make arguments stating that nuclear energy is preferable to either solar or wind energy for reasons too numerous to go into right now. You might also want to point out that nuclear energy could be the white knight that saves the world's forests. A recent article in the Huffington Post states that many of the world's forest are being denuded for the sake of biomass energy production. Much of the rain forest of Africa and Latin America are being chopped down to power biomass facilities in Europe. I believe biomass does have a place in energy production but it should be used in limited and localized situations where agriculture waste is being used or in cases where forests need to be thinned out. Like here in Southern California where the bark beetle is killing many trees setting them up for future raging infernos. But the whole scale destruction of the world's natural treasures to fill the gap left by wind and solar energy's shortfalls boarders on the criminal. I wonder how many trees must be felled to equal the annual energy output of a Westinghouse AP 1000 or an Areva EPR? That would be a calculation that I and many people need to know so we can make informed decisions on what methods of energy production is best for our nation and the world. The HuffPo article can be found using the link below. Nathan2go said... I suppose that I should not be so negative. eSolar may achieve their cost reduction goals for solar thermal (and Californians may decide to expedite the permit process for solar plant and their transmission lines). And if they don't, perhaps Dr. Schmidt will be smart enough to realize that LFTR is the next best option, and Google may even be an investor in the first commercial LFTR company. said... Charles - thanks heaps for the link to the SCANA presentation to Wells Fargo Bank. In case you've not yet seen it, SCANA now has on their site a much more complete presentation to Wall Street analysts by Stephen Byrne. The Wells Fargo slides are about 10% of the full presentation — which is a good reference for evaluating the plans of a serious, experienced electric utility. Jason Ribeiro said... Charles, you make a very good point about humiliating an enemy. Eric Schmidt is not our enemy but his philosophy or poor advisers might be. I can see why this man is a CEO. He delivers his statements with such confidence and charisma that most people in the room would think twice about challenging him for fear of embarrassing themselves because this guy is such a cool cookie. He reminds me of why I think politicians should not be in a position to develop energy policy in the first place - because energy development is the realm of scientists, engineers and economists, not politicians. It should not be a popularity contest for whatever is in vogue. Anonymous said... PV costs have fallen by 30-50% this year. SCANA is actually quoting them as going up year-on-year? That's some monkey business math there. Busbar costs over $600 you say? The costs are under $200 and falling fast. Very fast. How can you post this junk and consider yourself credible? And all these people eat it up. You guys are humiliating yourselves. Study up on PV technologies and get your facts straight. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, These are long range power cost estimates. Remember that PVs perform poorly on cloudy days and during the winter. The capacity factor for PVs in South Carolina may be as low as 10%, The cost of PV panels is not the same thing as the cost ofPV installations. Also, your estimate of the fall of PV prices is considerably larger than what is being reported in solar buzz. heavyweather said... It is because he knows more than you know from Google ;)... Google is funding win energy research and therefor knows that the cost of wind power is 2-5 cent with an EROIE of 375. A small Kitegen Stem rated 3MW (5000-7000h/a) costs about 700k Euro. A 1GW Plant is estimated to cost 80Mio. Even from the Stem, which is built and proven, the cost is 5cent. Making 2Mio€/a from a 3MW plant you can built another 9MW... Google is the force behind Makani Power... Now you see what he knows and why nukes suck compared to renewable sources ;) 3 Billion ....the are completly nuts. How are they mining? with electrical powered tools or is there CO2 involved in reality? Is the fuel transportet on sail ships or are they burning fossiles... Where will all the energy needed for that concret/steel strucure come from? What if they have to shut it down due to earthquakes... Are they even insured? Can that be built offshore? Is it a good idea to spent all that money in Europe for the technologie and in Australia for the oars... Get real...this Indian politicians are as stupid as US politicians... They just don't care for the next 6000 generations. Charles Barton said... heavyweather, I suggest you review this discussion of kits from The Oil Drum, I would draw your attention to Black Dogs comment: 'Without making much effort to study the concept, I suspect that your comment is not likely to be correct. The drag force on an object also increases as the square of the speed and the area. Larger devices capable of producing MWs of wind poser would also be expected to result in large drag forces which would be transferred to the support structure. The typical kite string would be transformed into a rather heavy rope or cable. Also, the drag force on the tether itself would be rather large, as the drag coefficient on a circular cross section is large. There's no free lunch in engineering." OF course Google can spend their money anyway they want to, and Eric Schmidt can go fly a kite for that matter. Your comments on nuclear power suggests that you know little about the reliability problems of renewables, and how expensive that is to fix. You also appear to know little beyond the usual set of greenpeace bumper sticker slogans about nuclear power. Anonymous said... My 30-50% estimate is correct. Do you understand why the Solarbuzz survey is a proxy survey only? The BSW report tracks German end user system costs. Germany represents half the world demand so their survey represents real world conditions vs. on-line retailer conditions. Q4 2008 4216 Q1 2009 3922 Q2 2009 3620 Q3 2009 3263 Pretty damn good trend. You wanna place any bets on the next 4 quarters. Just for fun, try an ebay search. Costs are still coming down. Silicon will come down another $30/kG. That's a no brainer which translates into another 20 cents/Watt or ~15% of over all costs. Multi-crystalline efficiency just hit 16.5% a few months back and moved up to 17% this month. Apparently, there are a lot of smart dudes working on this stuff. The trick is to translate high efficiency into low production costs. These smart dudes are actually doing that. Ya know why? Bragging rights. The move to ACPV over the next few years should bump overall system efficiency from 77% DC-to-AC up to 80% DC-to-AC. Lot of low hanging fruit in this area. The new manufacturing machines all have higher throughput and higher yield. Makes sense right. But here's the exciting part. This industry wants to become the largest manufacturing industry on earth. The production machines we're looking at now are going to look like tinker toys in twenty five years. I doubt you imagine PV this way. 2010 forecast. As soon as Germany drops their FiT down you'll see another dive in PV prices. That's about six months away. The prices should be driven down low enough to kick in a lot more utility demand in the US. Charles Barton said... Anonymous Your argument is if customers don't buy PV the price goes down, therefore customers should buy PVs. Maybe the real problem in Germany is not PV price but PV performance. The German Government invested billions of euros in its failed PV experiment. The German experience demonstrates that PVs are a colosal rip off. The absurdly smal capacity factor of PV, makes it a non starter for electrical generation. Right now I live in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is far from the most cloudy American city. Yet Knoxville has on average 162 sunless days a year, and 97 cloud free days. PVs would never work here, and South Carolina is not much different. Charleston has an average of 155 cloudy days and 102 clear days a year. The price of PVs matters little when weak sunshine impaires their performance. Finrod said... ...Because without a feed-in tarrif, no-one will buy them at a price which is profitable for the producer. LarryD said... I've never seen a breakdown, but just looking at a solar PV farm you can tell that there is a lot of support infrastructure, including tracking the sun, etc., for each panel of cells. I expect the price of the cells themselves are not a big fraction of the capital costs. And operating costs include regular cleaning of every panel, to keep its efficiency at maximum. (Dust accumulates no matter the location.) Jason Ribeiro said... Makani Power, the high altitude wind turbine kite, is yet another idea that doesn't take a genius to figure out that even if it works, its application will be extremely limited. There is a basic rule of dilute energy sources such as the wind and sun that renewable fanatics just don't understand or refuse to understand. That is, dilute sources of energy require massive collection machines and lots of them to generate any significant power. Even if 2MW wind turbines had a 90% capacity factor, it would still require about 550 of them to equal a 1GW nuke. These kites will not likely be 2MW, probably in the KW range to start, thus it would take thousands upon thousands of them to equal 1GW. Multiple that times the cost of each plus the logistics of flying thousands of kites and pretty soon what do we idea that really sucks! Anonymous said... My argument is that PV costs are falling fast. The data indicates this is true. Imagine if the nuclear industry had been required to finance the R&D and construction of enrichment facilities? Care to estimate how much that would have cost? It took a huge investment to create the infrastructure that was needed to make PV a competitive energy resource. That infrastructure is starting to wake. Over the last several years we've seen a build out of Si refining capacity. Now that the Si capacity is in we're seeing supply take off. Over the last several years we've also seen a large expansion of the PV workforce. All that training takes time and costs money. Germany's FiT has been the force behind all this movement. By this measure the FiT has been a grand success - A turning point in energy history that few yet realize. A Drake's well if you will. If Germany lowers their FiT it will result in more competition and even lower PV prices. There's still room to cut fat in all stages of production and installation. PV costs should be able to trend down with the FiT all the way to sunset and still maintain healthy IRRs. I support a steep reduction in the FiT. Lots of folks within community are calling for a steep reduction. This is a counterintuitive stance. When have you ever heard of an industry asking for less support? The PV community understands that the only way to take PV mainstream is to get rid of the FiT. The engineers know they can get the costs down to what they need to be for this to happen. If we accelerate the sunset schedule we'll get to liftoff sooner. PV powers all sorts of things. It's very reliable. This has been demonstrated in the field by thousands of installations. Germany is getting 1% of their total annual electricity from PV. That's outstanding for an industry that is basically brand new. A few years back it was a big deal for the whole world to produce 1 GW of solar panels. Today 1 company can produce 1 GW and it's not a big deal. Here's the vision. PV can scale and we're just getting started. Germany is going to ramp up to 10 GW a year before too long and PV will be picking up about 1% of electricity demand per year. Same thing will happen in the states and all over the world. PV is amassing it's troops. And you guys still don't get it. heavyweather said... This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. heavyweather said... You have not understood the idea. It is about powering the poorest. Those that drive fuel generators will be presented with a way cheaper alternative if makani does produce kw. That a kite can power a ship in the MW range is clear to you? Once again you just have to go to Germany to get the idea. The kitegen and the Laddermill from Uni Delft are not completly different to Makani Power and those have it down to prototypes working for over 1000h and are building a 27MW plant in Italy that is going to the grid in some month. The capacity factor beeing over 5000h. Wind energy also has a technical availability of 98%...try to match that with nuclear. If you bother to read about the Kitegen you will see that this is a sound projekt with the first plants in the 3MW range (5000-7000h/a). They are dirt cheap and can be produced anywhere or transported anywhere for that matter. There is no other form of energy production wit an higher EROEI (375!!) which makes it great for fast reproduction and employment. Jobs and power is what you need? Why let the chance go away to follow some dream goals that could only be archived with some technical, political and finanzial miracles? If you go over to kitegen you can see the next logical step...driving down offshore wind prices with something you can put on a ship and pack in a yet smaller place than complicated wind turbines. There is no transportation building problem...the capacity factor is 2x to 3x higher... Yet they are working on the carusel which will be rated anywhere from 100MW to 7GW. 80Mio for 1Gw!!! I`ve seen liquid Torium reactores (which don`t exist but would be possible with some billions invested in developement) taged with a 200Mio Pricetag for 100MW...1Mio initial fuel, 100k/a refueling and a guestimated 100Mio for deomissioning (not my guestimate but fomr "AIM HIGH". You got waste, transportation issues, political difficulties and any other possible problems you could imagine with nuclear technology. There is no way that enough of these can be built in 50-100years. Not even talking about solar competition and aother comp. here... Which logistic problems btw? They are fully automated. Just go over to to get some idea of how these are started and operated fully automaticly...saving up to 40% of fuel... This is the genuality needed to erase coal plants from this planet. Why shouldn`t it be done with a technology that does not produce waste and is cheap to built and operate even for developing nations. It is not that simple because there has been loads of brilliant engeneering by over 100 people but it has been worked out with a very limited budget (now they get some 15Mio € from the EU finally.) Compare that to the nuclear camp where Billions are buttered into. Give them some props for coming up with the first power source cheaper than fossile... I understand that you are very fanatic about nuclear power...but you might want to consider a shift to really beatyfull engeneering. You could try to look at it from your childrens perspective. In 100years they would ask you why you left them waste when you could have not. They will look at your legacy as stupid. We will look like complete idiots in history books. Imagine what we would have called the Ägyptians if they left us millions of tons of nuclear waste to dig up... This is a serious question charles...what do you want to leave behind? heavyweather said... This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. Jason Ribeiro said... @heavyweather - I take it that English is not your first language? Otherwise your spelling is horrible and it's too bad Charles let your same comment get posted 3 times. You don't understand capacity factor. It is not a measure of hours running, it is a calculation of kilowatt hours produced over rated capacity times 8760 (hours in a year). There are many nuclear facilities that have run for periods of time over rated capacity and others that have run over a year with no hiccups. Submarine reactors have run for years as well with no interruptions, so yes, nuclear can match that and better. I know of the skysails for cargo ships but I doubt they are saving these ships 40% of their fuel. KiteGen although in the prototype phase is still another form of wind power. Sure, it might be good for a small village in Africa as you imply, but it has zero chance of displacing king coal. Kites might be pretty to look at but to the educated, a reactor is a thing of beauty as well. And by the way, had the Egyptians buried nuclear waste for us to find, it would have faded to radiation levels less than the original ore from where it was derived by now. Soylent said... Germany is a laughable place to put a PV panel. The fact that Germany is half the world market for photovoltaics tells you that the price the german end user pays for PV panels has exactly no relation with the actual real-world cost of producing and installing photovoltaics, inverters or powerlines. We're comming out of the largest bubble in world history; it occured mainly in housing but there was huge volatility and minor bubbles in commodities as well, including raw materials for nuclear reactors and photovoltaics. Quarter to quarter fluctuations are almost meaningless. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, How many square miles of South Carolina countryside would have to be covered with a PV array in order to produce the equivalent annual output to one AP-1000 reactor. Remember that you are probably dealing with with a capacity factor of no more than 10% . Secondly how much extra area would you have to add to the PV array in order to generate the an AP-1000 equivalent output on December 18-25. if all days were completely cloudy? Thirdly how much would the smaller array cost in 2016? Fourth how much would the larger array cost in 2016? Fifth, where in South Carolina would you build the two arrays? Sixth, what would be the indirect costs of building the arrays, for example the value of the agricultural produce from farm land removed from production in order to site the array? Seventh how much new grid construction would be required by the project and how much would that cost. Eight, how much electrical storage would be required to insure 24 hour a day, seven day a week generating capacity from a PV source in South Carolina, during prolonged periods of cloud cover, what form of storage do you plan to use, and how much would that cost? Calculate the total cost of duplicating an the output of an AP-1000 in South Carolina, with PV technology. heavyweather said... Sorry for the tripple post but you can not cancle it yourself. The point is that it is so cheap that it can replace coal. Even if you have to install 3 times the GW. There is no problem with the should really read more about it. It is just a natural developement in wind energy. Unless you have a more data on skysails the 40% stand. A reactor has a theoretical real life it is just a dirty steam turbine. Are you trying to say that radioactive waste poses no problem after only 1600-5000 years? What about 226Ra, 14C, 239Pu, 235U, 232Th, 209Bi, 128Te? But I guess they would have installed warnings and a guard to tell us... If Cheops had run a Plant for 4 years 4550 years ago there would be 1000kg of plutonium burried...877kg would be still left over today...after 10 half-life cycles (241100years) there would still be 0.1% left. You know the origin of the name Plutonium, right? Thats because it is one of the most toxic sustances on earth... Soylent said... "You know the origin of the name Plutonium, right?" Uranus -> Uranium Neptune -> Neptunium Pluto -> Plutonium "Thats because it is one of the most toxic sustances on earth..." Except that it isn't, not even close. Anonymous said... 226Ra is a naturally-occuring element that is part of the decay chain of U-238. Nothing we do will change the effect of 226Ra on the environment. Humanity's presence or action is irrelevant. 14C is also naturally-occuring, generated by high-energy particles striking N-14 in the atmosphere. Nothing we do will change this. 235U is also a naturally-occuring element, along with 232Th. Nothing we do will change this. 209Bi is extremely mildly radioactive, with a half-life of trillions of years. I drank some this morning in my Pepto-Bismol when my stomach didn't feel good. The 209Bi felt great. You need to do some more research, pal. Long-half-life = less dangerous. You seem to have gotten that equation backwards. Also, Pu-239 is not the most toxic substance on Earth, despite what your Greenpeace buddies tell you. That would probably be botulism toxin, which vain women have injected into their face. Dr. Bernard Cohen famously challenges Ralph Nader to a chemical duel, where he agreed to ingest one gram of plutonium if Nader would agree to ingest one gram of caffeine. Guess which one would be dead an hour later? Charles Barton said... heavyweather Your list of products found in reactor waste includes Radon, which is a product of the radioactive decay of heavy metals but not of nuclear fission, and Carbon 14, which is present in nature, is not a fission product either, although it would be a byproduct of a few old graphite pile type reactors. Te-128 does not emit radiation, and is useful as a metal alloy and in simi-conductor manufacture. Thorium 232 is not present in spent nuclear fuel of conventional reactors, and has a half life so long that it is no more dangerous than the radioactive potassium-40 already present in the human body or in bananas. Bismuth 209 is not a fission product and is present in nature. It has a half life that is over one billion times longer than the age of the universe, and is hardly a danger. U-235 is present in nature, and present in nuclear fuel by design, not as a fission product. It is not a fission product. Finally, numerous chemical processes exist to remove Pu-239 from used nuclear fuel. Uranium and Plutonium found in the fission product stream of conventional reactors can be used to fuel fast reactors. Your list of radioactive waste problems is absurd and betrays an utter ignorance of the issues. Jason Ribeiro said... @heavyweather, I'm sorry but your education is sorely lacking and I'm afraid I have no more interest in banter with someone who cannot grasp the fundamentals of nuclear energy. You list a few radio active isotopes, many of which are the least radioactive that you could commonly find. Thorium 232 has a half life of 7 billion years. I don't want to eat a large quantity of it but I'd certainly wear it as a piece of jewelery. Carbon 14 exists in my body at the same ratio as the rest of the biosphere. We all have a little uranium in our bodies and probably a little thorium too, so I'm not worried about it. People have ingested plutonium before, it passed through their system and they lived through it just fine and continued with normal lives. People have handled plutonium with their hands, it's a little warm, but no harm done. It would only be toxic as a heavy metal, far from being one of the most toxic substances on Earth. There are a whole family of nerve agent compounds that have first dibs on that claim. Radioactive materials are some of the easiest haz-mats to deal with actually. With a flawless record in dealing with for over 50 years the evidence speaks for itself. And yes, after 5000 years, if all we do is put the "waste" in a salt cavern and forget about it, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Anonymous said... No land is required. I'd build the systems on residential, commercial and industrial rooftops. South Carolina has approximately 150 square kilometers of optimal roofspace for PV. This is enough room for the equivalent of 4 AP-1000s on an energy output basis. This is enough to provide around 40% of SC's current electricity consumption. You ask for storage as if all the other power plants on the grid didn't exist. That is a very abstract way of thinking. It doesn't reflect reality. You guys have been bouncing this rigamarole off each other for so long you think it's reasonable. Anonymous said... Large government subsidies keep wind and solar competitive. The Energy Information Administration reports the 2007 federal subsidy for wind at $23.37/MWh and for solar at $24.34/MWh. In contrast the federal energy subsidy for nuclear was only $1.59/MWh. Building comparable generating capacity from diffuse and intermittent energy sources takes a toll on our mineral resources. Wind needs 7 times more concrete and 90 times more steel than nuclear. Thermal solar requires 14 times more concrete and 140 times more steel than nuclear. Wind and solar are not “smart and sensible” energy solutions. Our fleet of reactors, built in about a twenty year period, is making a big dent, producing 20% of our nation’s electricity and 70% of our emission-free power. Nuclear power is the safest, most achievable, and economical energy solution. John Tjostem heavyweather said... I wonder why you have to put away the waste for thousands of years... What is it that you leave behind? Why bother to dig it under if we could just eat the waste... Pluto, the god of the underworld and and death. Anonymous said... Why is it that anti-nukes, when confronted with facts about half-lives and isotopes and radiotoxicity, devolve into meaningless babble? Anonymous said... heavy water said...I wonder why you have to put away the waste for thousands of years... So do I... Why not fission it in a generation IV reactor? We won't have to mine reactor fuel for hundreds of years. John Tjostem Anonymous said... "Large government subsidies keep wind and solar competitive." This is a true statement. I agree. Sure. You're right. Absolutely. And it's true for nuclear too buddy. You want to have a subsidy faceoff between solar and nuclear? Nuclear wins the subsidy crown easily. Clever nuclear statisticians use the subsidy per dollar trick to justify the expenditures but that's a phoney ploy. At the end of the day a huge amount of public money has been spent. The point I'm making is that the cost of PV is trending down sharply. PV costs have fallen by 30 to 50% in 2009. That is a fact. PV costs will fall another 10 to 20% or more in 2010. The industry is trending quickly toward subsidy free markets. Transmission planning is already factoring this trend in (trying to actually). The resource requirements of PV are large but manageable. i.e. It's a scalable technology from a resource logistics standpoint. Finrod said... I imagine that the residents of SC will be thrilled with all that construction and installation work to be carried out on their roofs. I take it you'll be installing the actuators necessary for tracking the sun? So you concede right there that renewables cannot power the grid by themselves. Why not use a power source which is self-sufficient in this regard? Soylent said... Some fraction of those 150 km^2 are unusable. Either because they are largely shaded by trees, hills or other structures or because the slope of the roof is at the wrong angle and the panels would partially occlude one another. I'm feeling charitable, lets say 75 km^2 are acceptable for PV. With a 10% capacity factor and a 10% efficient solar panel you have an average power output on the order of ~10 W/m^2. That gives you ~0.8 GW average power, ~8 GW peak power around noon on the sunniest of summer days. 2007 statistics for South Carolina indicate a grid energy mix of By total energy generated South Carolina's grid mix consists 51.4% nuclear, 40.2% coal, 5.8% gas, 1.5% hydro, 1.9% other renewables(mostly biomass), 0.1% other(waste burning etc.), -1.2% pumped hydro(used to shift around baseload power from nuclear and coal). Nuclear will not budge an inch to accomodate solar energy; coal might bend a little(but it's less efficient than operating at full power and causes wear and tear, so they don't want to unless they really have to). Solar will mostly cut into pumped hydro, gas and hydro; surplus will be mostly discarded. To get the full ~0.8 GW you need a lot more grid-energy storage. Not 4 AP-1000's, not even 1 AP-1000. Unlike an AP-1000 it will not replace much if any coal which is by far the dirtiest fuel(from the perspective of GHG as well as direct health and environmental effects from particulates, NOx, SOx, mercury and other nasties). Without building massive amounts of storage you're strictly limiting the amount of renewables the grid can hope to accomodate. Without storage renewables can only ever slightly reduce the amount of fossil fuels being burnt at the cost of making yourself even more dependent on the availability of fossil fuels. Soylent said... Selection bias. Anti-nukes exhibit this behaviour because people who don't exhibit this behaviour don't manage to stay anti-nuclear for long stretches of time. heavyweather said... I could say the same about your uneducated comments about high-altitude wind. Jason Ribeiro said... Kirk, in regards to your last question, I wish knew the answer myself because I see a lot of this type of nonsense going on and it is hurting our country. There seems to be a frightening trend of entitlement to customize one's own reality. It's the type of attitude that retorts back with "well that's your opinion" to someone who has just explained that 1+1=2. It goes beyond cherry picking to suite one's beliefs, it's ignorance with an attitude. I feel like we're becoming this movie I rented awhile back, Idiocracy. For this to be happening to this country with such a rich science and technology history is just shameful. heavyweather said... If you look at the EROEI this is completly wrong. Infact nuclear power is loosing big against wind and even solar... 4,5 nuclear 30 thinfilm 30 a modern windturbine 375 ...the kitegen is the winner. With the power needed to enriche fuel you could power a whole country of about 9 Mio People. In Germany renewables have surpassed nuclear energy already. Nuclear power stations are a problem in new grids. They burn fuel while energy could be supplied by wind and solar. Thats why turbines are sometimes not running when the wind is blowing. Thats lost energy, stolen by nuclear. Anonymous said... Here's an interesting article. Anonymous said... The calculation accounts for shading, roof pitch etc. The available roof area number comes from an IEA study. I used 15% efficient panels with a system DC-to-AC derate factor of .77. I used the annual insolation in Charleston as a proxy for the state. I derated the AP-1000s output by .91 for capacity factor and another 7% for T&D losses. As far as I can tell the calculation is based on middle of the road assumptions. PV doesn't need to solve the storage problem. There are much easier ways for the grid to evolve before we need to worry about storage. Demanding PV come up with a storage solution is a distraction. Soylent said... "If you look at the EROEI this is completly wrong." EROI is a meaningless number. There is no material difference between an EROI of 10 and 1 000 000 000. "Infact nuclear power is loosing big against wind and even solar... 4,5 nuclear 30 thinfilm 30 a modern windturbine 375 ...the kitegen is the winner." 4.5? Have you been reading Storm Van Leeuwens pack of thinly veiled lies? You know the guy who got the energy requirement for the Rösing mine in Namibia wrong by almost two orders of magnitude; who assumed all enrichment is in the form of cold war era gaseous diffusion plants instead of centrifuges which are a factor of 50 times more efficient? Here's the EPD for Forsmark nuclear plant: There's no particularly sinister motive for choosing Forsmark, I just happen live close to it. The plant consumes 0.011 kWh fossil fuels and 0.0014 kWh of hydropower to produce 1 kWh of electricity. That's an EROI of 90. "In Germany renewables have surpassed nuclear energy already." This is only a problem if you're trying to integrate near useless wind and solar energy into the grid or if you're a fossil fuel salesman who wants to sell monstrous amounts of natural gas to back up all those wind turbines and and solar panels. Wasn't the entire point to NOT emit greenhouse gases? Why are you advocating more intensive use of fossil fuels? "Thats why turbines are sometimes not running when the wind is blowing. Thats lost energy, stolen by nuclear." Gobsmacking insane. If you produce energy when and where nobody needs it and you haven't arranged for any means to store it, that's nobody's fault but your own. Asking the entire electrical grid to bend over backwards to accommodate your near-useless source of energy is very very silly. Soylent said... "PV doesn't need to solve the storage problem." If you don't solve the storage problem you can't produce more than single-digit percentages of all kilowatthours. As long as you haven't solved the storage problem you will remain joined at the hip to natural gas like conjoined twins. As long as you don't credibly demonstrate that you CAN solve the storage problem you haven't shown that solar power will have a place in the post-carbon grid and isn't just a dead end. As long as you haven't solved the storage problem solar will have no impact on phasing out coal. Where already past 350, we need to phase out coal in the past to avoid severe impact from climate change. "There are much easier ways for the grid to evolve before we need to worry about storage." Such as? Anonymous said... Saying that nuclear is "losing the race" in Germany is like describing a race where the star athlete is bound and gagged on the bench with his Achilles' tendons cut, while the other pitiful contenders run around haphazardly in no particular direction. I've noticed "heavyweather" quickly dropped his complaints about naturally occurring radionuclides that have nothing at all to do with nuclear power. Barry Brook said... I just checked back on this post and the comments section has exploded. Not much more to add except to congratulate Soylent on this superb observation: Nuclear Darwinism explains so much. Charles Barton said... Anomyous, you claim that South Carolina has about 58 square miles of roof space available. There are something like 1.7 million single unit residences in South Carolina. I calculate that perhaps 10 Square miles of South Carolina roof space is single unit residents, assuming that each roof is a little less than 2000 SQ FT, With a little more than 170,000 residences pre square mile of roof. If each residence has a 5000 watt PV installation, the total cost of the installation would run to about $7.65 billion per square mile, or 76.5 billion to cover every residential roof in the state with a 5000 Watt PV array. The cost of PV panels is about 10% of the cost of rooftop installations. Assume solar panels are free. Our installation cost drops to $6.885 Billion per sq mi, about 68.85 billion to cover every rooftop in the state. Assuming a capacity factor of 10%, we get an average output of 500 watts per hour, or 85 million watts per sq mi. That would equal about 850 million watts using every residential roof in South Carolina. If we price the AP-1000 at $8 billion, and that it produces electricity at 90% of capacity, the cost of 85% of its output is $6.8 billion. Thus the cost of roof top solar in South Carolina would run 10 times higher than the cost of an AP-1000 even if free PVs included with each installation. heavyweather said... Such as load management. Eventually the system has to get smarter. A combination of different renewables solves the non existing storage problem. That has been demonstrated in Germany with virtual combines powerplants (regenerative combined plant). It does even work for a conventional usage without smart grids or load balancing/management. Technology is that great that we can get rid of all dirty energy...coal and nuclear. Storage problem gone...move on to the next level. heavyweather said... EROEI is the energy you put in vs the enrgy you get out...that includes the concret, steel, transportation, work, decomissioning... 4,5 is the average of all installed plants. That might grow to 10 with a breeder. But is has failed to do so. The ROI on Kitegens is also much higher. Solar and wind are useless...LOL...thats the most stupid thing I have read in weeks. Charles Barton said... heavyweather If you look at the studies in which nuclear EROEI is low, you will find that the nuclear fuel was enriched by the energy intensive gaseous diffusion method. The gaseous diffusion method is obsolete, and the last United States gaseous diffusion plant is being shut down in a couple of years. It will be replaced by the much more energy efficient centrifuge method. Centrifuges use something like 2% of the energy used by gaseous diffusion. The EROEI from nuclear plants that use centrifuge enriched uranium is similar to that of renewables. The EROEI of FBRs and LFTRs would of course far superior to that of renewables. Anonymous said... The standard cost thumbrule is that panels represent around 50% of total system costs. I can't follow your other cost numbers. Also, you can't pull a capacity factor for PV out of a hat. Take the average daily or yearly insolation value and multiply it by the overall PV system efficiency if you want to ballpark the performance. I double checked my math and it still looks good. I attached the paper below so you guys can math yourselves out. If you take the paper's gross US rooftop potential (1662 TWh/year) and scale it for South Carolina's population you come up with 24.5 TWh/year of generating potential. This compares to about 8.28 TWh/year for an AP-1000. This quick check tells me my original calculation was in the ballpark. I included an insolation factor to correct the average US estimates to the SC climate - this accounts for the higher number. I also used an overall PV system efficiency of 11.55% vs. the 10% value used in the paper. I think technology improvements justify this. In any event, this BOTE calculation is for demonstration only. heavyweather said... Where is that EROEI over 10 on nuclear plants. Saying it is far superior to wind or thinfilm (both around 30) sounds paradox. We are still comparing energy output not wasted thermal energy? I hope you don`t mind that I kind of kickstartet that discussion here. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, I based my calculations on the assumption that it crowding to many panels on a roof would make cleaning them very difficult. See the illustrations from this story on solar panel roof tiles, and ask yourself how easy they would be to clean. Of course, the performance of dirty roof panels will quickly degrade. I checked on the installation cost of a 5000 Watt roof array in Charleston and cam up with a figure of $45,000. There are large costs to connect the solar panels to the grid, since DC has to be converted to AC, voltage has to be stepped up to be compatible with the grid, and of course power has to be purchased back from the grid at a premium over the sale price for day time solar generated power. Without storage, much of the day time time generated power will be wasted, and night time power will still be generated by coal fired generation facilities. Ironically the SCANA presentation shows renewables displacing natural gas, while nuclear power displaces coal in base load generation. You appear to be correct about the proportionate cost of Pannals in the PV cost picture. If I accept the Solar Buzz report of PV prices, and everyone tells me I shouldn't because the real prices are much lower, I come up with about $22,000 for the cost of 5000 watts worth of solar panels. You may be right on that score. Subtract that from the local estimate of PV roof top costs, and we still get $23,000, which still yields a cost that is still several times that of the AP-1000. Three further problems: 1. Hail storms. I had two roofs destroyed by hail storms in Texas, and South Carolina gets them too. PV arrays will be damaged by hail storms. 2. Hurricanes. Costal South Carolina does have its Hurricanes, and costal homes receive roof damage as a result. Your PV arrays will be quite literally blown away. 3 Trees. All over the South people plant trees to the South of their homes for shade. The same shade will lower PV performance. Environmentally friendly renewables advocates will, of course have a solution for that problem, chop the trees down. Finally given what you claim about the effect of lowering the German and Spanish subsidies on PV costs, you should favor an immediate abolition of all subsidies on PV installations, on the grounds that subsidies pose an obstacle to PV success by keeping PV prices artificially high. If the prospects of PVs are as good as you claim, then they clearly do not need subsidies, and the demand for subsidies are nothing more than rip offs of the taxpayers. Charles Barton said... heavyweather The WNA has a detailed report on nuclear EROEI. It shows that thermal energy output of reactors using centrifuge uranium enrichment has an EROEI ratio of 57. If you want to count the EROEI based on electrical output, the EROEI is 19. This story is not complete. First the used reactor fuel has enormous further energy value. In fact less than one percent of the potential energy has been captured by the conventional nuclear process. Reusing the fuel in more advanced reactors could lead to an EROEI in the range of 2000. Further, rejected heat from the reactor could be used for district heating or desalinization of brackish water. Nuclear EROEIs of 5000 are not impossible. Anonymous said... You seem concerned about dirty panels. Did you know properly installed panels are cleaned by the rain? How easy are the panels to clean you ask me to ask myself. Extremely easy if the rain is doing it I say. Just so you know, my calculation derated the system performance by 5% to account for average soiling conditions. This factor is based on actual field observations. The derate factor I applied also accounted for DC-to-AC inverter losses and a bunch of other real world factors. I don't think you understand what the price situation is with PV and where it's headed. Check this link out. How do you resolve this retailer's prices with the Solarbuzz survey? The answer is you don't. The Solarbuzz survey is a good proxy for what's happening generally but it doesn't show you what prices are specifically. When you really think about how the survey is constructed you realize it's not even attempting to show what's really happening with system prices. Hail and hurricanes? Did you know South Carolina homes and businesses have skylights. If skylights can be engineered to survive this type of severe weatehr so can solar panels. Trees? The shading factor was taken into account in the estimation. Only sites with 80% of the available potential were considered. Trees are not unique to South Carolina. " should favor an immediate abolition of all subsidies on PV installations..." Not quite. I support the "idea" of immediately abolishing subsidies but I recognize this would lead to an unnecessary dislocation in the market. I support an aggressive transition away from subsidies. If you want to get indignant over PV subsidies take a long hard look at nuclear power's past, present and future and be careful what you wish for. As the price of PV drops the need for a subsidy is going away. In the end the choice to go with PV will become a simple matter of economics. If PV becomes subsidy free I imagine it will put a whole lot of pressure on reducing subsidies to other energy technologies. heavyweather said... We are still comparing the existing reactor fleet with the existing renewables. The thermal energy is not used and thus does not count. I got that site where you also contributed. There seems to be a wide range. Anything is possible. A free solar panel, say if you can grow the panel somewhere...or something like H2 or fuel producing algea would have even higher scores than 5000 (you don`t count the grow process right...only the energy that is invested.) But so far there is nothing better than 375 which can be built right now. When somebody comes up with LFTR or anything else useable, somehow gets the money needed to research and built it, we can discuss this further. Something tells me that this won`t happen anytime soon. I guess we both won`t be inhabiting the earth anymore when this happens. I conclude we should keep the research but also try to built as many kitegens as fast as possible. The can even be installed around or ontop of existing reactors...the nonflight zone does come handy. Might even be used to protect the nuces from planes. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, If you google the words "dirty PVs" you might get the impression that there is a problem with dirty PV's. If rain does such a good job of cleaning PV's, how come it leaves my car's windshield with a dirty film? Why do I have to wash my windshield after a rain? You argued that there are 150 Sq Miles of roofs in South carolina, But I still do not understand how you came up with that number. I have pointed out that residential roofs cannot account for more than 7% of that figure. That must mean that the buildings which house South Carolina offices, schools, factories, stores and warehouses must be huge, since 93% of South Carolina roof space would belong to them by your account. How did you arrive at the 150 Sq Mi number? I have looked quite carefully at the so called nuclear subsidies, which in almost every case do not involve any payments from the government to the industry. The Nuclear Industry does not do anything like the trick of the texas wing industry, which pays Grid operators to take their electricity when there is no demand, in order to get their subsidy payment. With renewables we have is highly dishonest advocates who make double claims about how desperate the need subsidies yet they are about to sweep the market with incredibly cheap power. You fall into that category since you oppose termination of subsidies because it would disrupt the market. I take that to mean that folks would stop buying PVs if there are no subsidies. If that is the case, PVs are not really the wave of the future you claim them to be. I am also sure that skylights get blown out in hurricanes, and broken in hail storms. Shoot in Texas car windows get shattered in hail storm. I also wonder how your are going to cover 150 hundred square miles of roofs for anywhere near a billion dollars a square mile. You are a good debater, but I wonder why you choose to remain anonymous. Charles Barton said... heavyweather, If you notice I gave you both the electrical EROEI, which does count even in your book, and is much higher than the 10 you claimed was impossible. The fact that the thermal EROEI was 57 points to efficiency gains. heavyweather said... So I linked some other source where the EROEI is anything between negativ to 60 (thermal). Most sources setting the average of all working plants somewhere between 4 and 7. You say a modern plant is in the range of 28-29. Fine. There is no Thorium Breeder. But there is the Kitegen. Why would you not built it? It is done anyways...I am just curious. (All nuclear debate aside) Anonymous said... I didn't find anything interesting under dirty PV. The technical term is soiling. The 5% average soiling factor I used is reasonable. Can soiling be worse? Sure. People have studied the subject extensively so you can dig into it if you wish. Here's a source that discusses soiling and how rain acts to clean panels. The source I listed a few posts back quotes an available roof space of 10,096 square kilometers for the entire US. South Carolina has 1.4733% of the US population so it should have about 1.4733% of the roofs in the US. That works out to about 150 square kilometers. I multiplied this value by the average insolation in Charleston, an assumed efficiency of 15% and added a derate factor of 77%. There are technically justifiable assumptions that would push the value I estimated up much higher. Point is, there's plenty of Sun. I have looked at the nuclear subsidy situation myself. There's a nuclear PTC on the table. There are loan guarantees. There's been cost-sharing. There's a long history of R&D support. There's well documented history of egregious cost overruns (both regulator and contractor induced) that have been passed on to ratepayers. There's a history of accelerated payback rate schedules. Now we're seening pre-loaded rate schedules. All of these extra costs are passed on to the public who rarely have any choice in the matter. All of these perks have used public funds to provide special monetary support to the nuclear industry. i.e. subsidize I oppose sudden termination of PV subsidies at this point because it would jeaprodize billions of private investment. Silicon refineries aren't cheap. Wafer, cell and module fabs aren't cheap. Promises should be kept. Your buddy Cohen accurately described the unstable regulatory environment as the primary obstacles to contrlling nuclear construction costs. Same goes here. Everyone involved in PV industry understands how subsidies should sunset over the next 5 to 10 years. This assumption is built into the investment strategy. Fortunately, the industry has come to the realization that the subsidy degression rate can be sped up without undue damage to business. So I see Germany doing that and it being a good thing for the industry. There's nothing like a fire under your ass to get you going. Protecting PV from hail and wind damage is a matter of good engineering and quality installation. An acrylic film or some extra structural support and your problem is solved. PV installations are in the arctic, at sea, in deserts, on windswept mountain peaks and of course, in space. PV has a celebrated history in extreme environments. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, you have still failed to offer any cost projections for your plan to deploy PV on every roof in South Carolina. Nor have you offered any plan for supplying electricity to South Carolina when the sun is down. Thus you have not demonstrated that PVs could be a part of any successful scheme to decarbonize society. Charles Barton said... Anonymous said... I demonstrated how much electricity rooftops can turn into electricity using reasonable assumptions. If I tweaked the panel efficiency, DC-to-AC conversion spec and used ACPV panels to capture marginal roofspace I could get the number well over 100% of demand. Point being, the resource is technically capable of providing much more electricity than we use. Widespread adoption of PV in South Carolina won't occur until PV electrons cost less than grid electrons. Once the transition starts to occur it will last for decades - on par with the interstate system which took 35 years. On balance, customers won't see any extra costs compared to alternative approaches. My whole argument is that end-users will choose PV because it's cheaper. An interesting point to make here is that once people recognize PV as the low cost end-user technology there is going to be a unification of spirit. People will stop talking about nuclear power, wind or whatever else. The gruff guy at the end of the bar will say stuff like, "Why pay fuel fees when the sun's free?" Politically, PV will have huge leverage because it will be affordable to the middle class. Voters are going to demand fair access to grid they've already paid for. I see the utilities transforming from a generation model to a ESCO/distribution (ESCOD) model. I figure we'll see a utility lead movement towards conservation and efficiency. Why? Eventually, I figure there will be competition among several ESCODs for the rights to sell excess end user generation. These ESCODs will have to differentiate themselves and one way they could do this is by offering to streamline your home or business. This would be in their best interest because they'd then get more power to sell during the day and theoretically be under less obligation to deliver electricity at night. This self-interest driven conservation scheme should lead to better building codes, more demanding efficiency requirements in manufacturing, load shifting etc. Basically, the opposite of the way it's been. That's the low hanging fruit. This bounty will reduce storage requirements significantly. On top of this go a shrinking mix of traditional electricity providers. Assuming there's a preference for carbon neutral sources you'd have things like trash, LFG, hydro, wind and nuclear. On top of this go bulk storage schemes like pumped hydro and compressed air and micro storage like batteries. Where the economics make sense they'll be used. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, you are expressing what i would classify as a pious hope. Anonymous said... It's trend analysis and some imagination. If you spent enough time looking into the state of manufacturing in the PV industry you'd see the critical mass forming too. Pious hope you say? I've got zeal but I'm no zealot. I'm into profiteering over propheteering man. You dig? heavyweather said... Talking about pious hopes... Charles, do you see anything else than a bridge technolgy in a Thorium reactor? Do yu have any hopes that it will ever be built? Apart from everything else...just some thoughts. I guess you are not going to answer that. Why nuclear when you can have power without even producing any waste? Don`t you think something more scaleable would be better for developing nations. Nuclear capital cost even for your proposed LFTB (gesstimated 200Mio upfront+1mio initial fuel) are way to high for small communitys. This is not my understanding of freedom. It is also not very stimulating for local industries around power. The thing is manufactured somewhere localized and sold to those who should rather have their own means of manufacturing things like powerplants. Wouldn`t open source wind/PV/solar technology get you way further? I don`t believe that you have any commercial interest in LFTBs...what is driving you? Charles Barton said... heavyweather, I favor the LFTR because it will eliminate all or virtually all nuclear waste, and because it is simple, will be easily built in massive numbers, is extremely scaleable, and will produce electricity 24 hours a day, not just when the sun shines. Charles Barton said... Anonymous, is what you are telling me that you are in the business, and that you will prophet by promoting ir. Is that why you choose to remain anonymous? heavyweather said... I have not been talking about the sun and you know that there are solutions and so many other options. Anyways...say a very small community...there is no way they could handle such an investment. They could built micro hydro, some wind energy, PV, use biomass. Wouldn`t that be much more reasonable. They would not rely on fuel supply and would not have to worry about anything (there would still be people not very confortable with nuclear things in their backyard). We got communitys here that produce 150% of their power from renewables. A huge success for them. It keeps the money and the people in the region and even creates work and solved loads of problems. People are comming from all over the world to learn from here. Even production companys like a woodfloor maker moved there...they supply woodchips and process heat is recovered, get power in return. Nothing is wasted. Just cheap power would not do the trick. And they do have cheap power available 24h a day. It is working and I can`t see why it would not work anywhere else. It is not a special geothermal, hydro or any outstanding wind spots...they do it anyways. Scaleability is a very relativ term with nuclear reactors, don`t you agree? Charles Barton said... There are numerous designs emerging all over the world, for small reactors to service small isolated communities. Electricity produced by such reactors would be cheaper than current generation technology. heavyweather said... This sounds like Scifi or rather like some fantasy SimCity. You mean I can have a 1000$ reactor in my backyard much like some people use gasoline generators right now? Will it work for 100.000$ or are we talking some millions, hundreds of millions maybe? I have shown you the cheapest way to produce power that is available now. There is no other non renewable, renewable or nuclear technolgy working right now that is more polution free and cheaper. We can wait another 10-20 years from now or we can have cheap energy right now. If you wait too long even the non existing storage problem will be solved and even this line of denial will disapear... You still have not answered any of my other questions? Whats the drive behind this? Do you need to prove something? Is there any commercial gain in this for you? I just want to understand, all technical stuff aside. Charles Barton said... Not quite that small, but amazingly small for a nuk: heavyweather said... ok...and where are these 2008 installations and the reactors sold to the US and Europe in 2009? a sodium cooled reactor in the basement... The 5 cent/kwh are without the insurance I conclude. Charles Barton said... Not my idea, but tosheba probably decided that they needed to build a little bit bigger reactor for a bigger customer, and they have found one. Note however that the NRC is a major block to progress, Anonymous said... I truly empathize with your point of view, but I think you fall into the same traps that pretty much every single renewables supporter falls into: that of arrogance. That, and the vast underestimate of the engineering - versus the scientific - challenges of things. True, they don't have the complete monopoly on these issues (and there is a share of them on the pro-nuclear side of the fence) but on the whole, I've found that nuclear folks are much more likely to consider both renewables AND nukes in their energy approach, and have a much deeper realization of the difficulties and inertia in systems to integrating new forms of energy. We live in a primarily top-down world, ie: one where high density sources of power feed to consumers with a smaller power density. To try to invert that system, developed over the course of a century, and flow from diverse sources to concentrated, in any timeframe that will realistically effect climate change is HIGHLY problematic, and I sure don't want to bet my future on it. Yet that in essesnce is what renewable supporters do when they turn their backs on nuclear energy. They have NO PLAN B. What happens when MEMS solar arrays have unforseen difficulties in the lab, or in practice cause high power fluctuations on the grid, or prove difficult to clean or ineffective in inclement weather? What happens if storage technologies don't scale or the materials costs become too high? etc. etc. etc. There are good, technical reasons that the Danes for example have stalled in their quest for renewable energy - at 20% it hasn't grown for three years in a row. That is because they are running into what seems to be a practical limit on how much variable electricity can be pumped into the grid. We may solve these issues, we may not. But I certainly wouldn't be protesting nuclear power, which seems as logical as protesting that the firetruck that arrives to put out your house's fire is blue and not red. Charles Barton said... Excellent observations, Anonymous. May I quote you? heavyweather said... Naturally it is dangerous for any nuclear advocat to admit that all problems for a 100% renewable solution have been solved. Now the industry is heading in the right direktion too. Thats why we are developing smart grids. We also installed the biggest floating wind turbine. Thats for real and nothing to go away. Thats a threat to those people. 20%? Maybe the US is a little lagging behind but in my country we have 65% renewable, no nukes, and even citys that produce more power than they need...150% renewable, no black outs...just money from which they build more capacity, sportarenas, schools and kindergarten. Of course there is no energy supplier needed there. They even bought back the grid (which was leased to foreign investors via cross boarder l.) You can see the terrible consequences of renewable energy there. Energy prices are falling and the region has become wealthy and healthy again. It`s all about small units substituting centralized production, getting jobs to the people, getting rid of emissions and waste. Thats the solution to go for. There is no space for nuclear energy (waste). How should the poor afford it if the power does not come with jobs? Maybe this is not possible in the US because they have a history of wasting energy. But what if you convertet village after village, city after city... Dangerous for monolithic power companys, for sure, but very good for the consumer. Everything done before (some years ago), everything with renewable energy. Proven stable grid and power supply. In your scenario that sounds impossible. Strange you say nuclear people consider both when they try to knock renewables anywhere they can, searching for flaws in technologies they have not even studied properly. Thats no science but just opposition to something they have made their mind up about. You will tell the same about those that support a non nuclear option...yet again not considering the waste problem (which does exist till this date.) If ther is a breeder developed that can handle some of the waste this would be an option for the existing waste...but todays technology is no option. There is no fuel needed, you can combine power and heat production for communitys, sell both together because every custommer needs both. Big centralized companys are not sustainable and won`t have a future in the long run as more and more communitys and individuals get independent. As long as they don`t work together with communitys and offer sustainable solutions. You can only built a nuke where it would be attractive to run it for at least 20 years... If the transition to renewable is done in that time frame or if they are just undercutting your prices (eventually grids will get smarter and people can choose wheather th consume at peak time or consume at wind/solar peak when prices are low...) you are in trouble. Thats exactly the reason why there will be no more nukes built in Germany, even if the would allow it. That the owner wants to run these old plants as long as possible is also understood. The best informed European polititions, like Dr. Hermann Scheer, support a 100% renewable non nuclear strategie. Thats why Germany is leading solar technology and a mayor player in windtechnology. Thats everything without kitegen, future integrated pv and biogas from biomass yet to be developed (like massive algea biomass production which can be used for desalination, aquaculture, fuel, building material,...) Its your option to look into the nuclear direction. But please don`t call others arrogant. Anonymous said... Sure, you can quote me.. heavyweather - which country are you referring to when you say you have 65% of your total primary energy supply (or even total electricity supply) coming from renewable sources? Sources would be helpful. (and note - I don't consider hydro relevant here because it is incredibly damaging environmentally and in any case doesn't scale). Ditto for geothermal in places like iceland, which basically lies on top of a volcano. And yes, I consider ANYBODY arrogant who doesn't support a full exploration of every possible technology available to solve this problem. Which means that Germany and Denmark's greens ARE arrogant, and dangerous to us all - because they are working off an ideology and have shut themselves off to very practical solutions. My best guess is that something approaching a LFTR - or hyperion's uranium hydride reactor - would be the closest thing to a silver bullet (because they are dead simple and hence easy to manufacture and distribute, and could integrate into our current system very easily) but we will not know until we try to scale out the technology without hamstringing it. It is squarely the fault of the fossil fuel industry (with their unwitting partners, the green movement) that we HAVEN'T explored this option. And yes, this poses a grave danger to us all, if the rosy dreams of the alternative energy movement don't come to pass. heavyweather said... Its Austria. The 150% Power is Güssing with no hydro. You prefere a solution that is anything but near to a solution that is available? Germany is the country to look for in renewable energy. Calling this dangerous is more than disrespectfull. Which danger? I have shown you examples of RE solutions with no hydro and geothermal (surface heat pump does not count right.) that work today. These solutions are scaleable and a highly distributed energy production adds to grid stability. I am working for Siemens, developing smart grid component. When people can choose if the want to use peak power at high prices or cheap power when there is much available they will always go for the cheaper option. You can sell daytime quantities to corporations. Its like with passwords...the hard way is brute force, the soft way sozial engeneering. First step is to make people realize that they don`t need that much power, then help them shape their personal power curve. Your talk...why not try everything that is available. You should be thankfull for the developement of real sustainable solutions. What if you stop changing the system and your reactor never becomes reality? You have lost precious time. If you succed you still have a centralized system based on some kind of fuel that somebody needs to are again depending on some source. Don`t you think the russions would not have looked into Thorium? They obviously failed in their energy stategy, including nuclear. Would they have developed some highly distributed renewable source of energy the whole country would still be going strong. Obviously their political system could not have handeled such freedoms. A reactor for 200Mill+100Mill for decom. is nowhere to affordable to any poor village. A windturbine or a kitegen is. A highly scaleable network of renewable sources can be started for small money (like micro credits). Geothermal could also become available all over the just have to drill deep enough. The main problem are the drilling costs which should come down using (thermal) spalation drilling. Again...with todays nuclear energy there is nothing to win. Only problems created. You also don`t have the billions to try to develope fast breeders. Don`t forget the technical problems involved...not that simple like wind and solar which is researched and evolving in hundreds of laboratories. Which danger are you talking about? The only danger is NOT developing RE asap. Anonymous said... Austria - "more than half" hydropower, 62.89% from renewable energy. 62.89% - 50% == 12.89% by wind, the rest by oil and gas. As I said, the danger is going down only the renewable road, and finding out that it ain't going to get us 100% of the way there. Here's a clue: I used to work for a utility, and they LOVE natural gas plants, as much as any addict loves crack cocaine. They love them because they can build them out fast, and charge for peak power rates. As it stands right now, they are planning a massive gas buildout with renewables as an accomplice. Because renewables are intermittent, any build of transmission towers are going to be idle 75% of the time. This void will be backfilled by natural gas. Hence, if for various systematic reasons renewables can't provide baseload power, as it stands they will be the cause for a massive fossil-fuel buildout masked by the fact that it is 'green' because people can see windmills turning every once in a while. Now this is dangerous. You can see it in germany. Germany came THIS CLOSE to closing its perfectly usable nuclear plants, and the plans were on the drawing board to replace all of this clean electricity with coal. So, once again: arrogance in viewpoint (suppress nuclear research, go renewables alone) leads to dangerous outcomes. As someone who likes, well, being well fed and healthy, I resent anyone who wants to pour their ideology down my throat to the detriment of both. And I find it very interesting that the nuclear advocates don't mind the competition, that they are perfectly fine with wind and solar research, whereas most 'greens' I talk to want to suppress and eliminate nuclear energy. IMO this just shows that they are worried - worried that the promise of nuclear energy will come true and will outcompete wind and/or solar. Well, stop it. We'll need all the approaches we can get, to get out of the mess that the 'environmentalists' put us in by opposing nuclear power in the first place. Anonymous said... ps - wrt nuclear, the russians, the chinese AND the indians are going fullbore on it.. Even with current technology, the south koreans are getting down to 36 months construction time. all their plants are on schedule. Anyways, here's a site that goes through this. I'm not sure if it's willing on your part, but you seem to deliberately want to use old data to prove your point: In short I follow both the nuclear and renewable world. I sincerely hope that the obstacles that are inherent in renewable projects can be overcome, but I sure as hell don't want to bet my future on it. heavyweather said... You still ignore that 100% renewable ist done already (even without hydro). It is proven. No enviromentalists...just people who see the unsolved wasteproblem. When nuclear is as stupid as coal...whats the point of using it in the current developement state. Charles Barton said... heavyweather, You are making a mountain out of a molehill. The so called nuclear waste problem is a chimera of the anti-nuclear, wacked out, pseudo liberal left. Even if not placed in long term storage post reactor nuclear fuel is not hurting anyone. What is done with it now in the United States is a solution, In Europe it is disposed of long term. The Indians plan to use it as nuclear fuel. All of these are solutions. You have an non-problem to which several resolutions are possible. heavyweather said... It is not only a waste problem (No one will care about it if the US fails, which is not unlikely given the timeframe of a nuclear storage). but an economical problem too. Capital costs are prohibitiv (RZA has stopped their program for finanzial reasons). They are facing more and more competition from renewables. This is not going away anytime soon. The costs in nuclear energy are sozalised to a big part. In Germany the people pay for the storage...not via their energy bill but with taxes. It is not unlikely that the fonds for decomissioning are too little. This money has been invested on the free market. If only one power company has lost in this process guess who is paying the bill. We are talking billions. Thats completly unlike renewable energy you can go and recycle things. There are companys that buy your 40year old solar panels and others that will take your wind mill generators. For even more intelligent plants, like the kitegen, there will be little to no decomissioning cost. Germany has based their strategie on reasonable data. They have calculated that it would need about 1500 nuclear plants to have any impact on C02 output. Building 1500nukes all over the world is not possible in that timeframe nor socially reconcilable. Thats not my ideas but the findings of independent economists and institutions. You really have to consider social acceptance with such a topic like nuklear energy. The French are right in their post nuclear energy debate. Time is running for them. Even now they have to buy substantial amounts of energy in hot summers... I have that feeling that hot summers are getting even more frequent these days. Thats the problems they have for now...their technological losses dring nuclear winter sleep not even acounted for. For all that reasons renewable energy is cheaper for a society. For a company it is even better to invest in renewable energy... The ROI of a kitegen is 20 times faster than of a wind turbine. If it is only 10 times thats also only month not years. You and me...we can make money by building wind parks. Why give that money to the nuclear industry? There is no gain in it for it? Charles Barton said... heavyweather Typical bombast from a member of the same ignorant closed minded tribe that brought us Adolph Hitler. heavyweather you appear to be incapable of understanding any viewpoint but your own. You do not bother to read the discussions of nuclear cost, or of accelerated nuclear deployment on this blog. You appear to believe yourself to be infallibility, and thus do not need to pay attention to any view but your own. heavyweather said... I live in a globalized post tribe world... Where are you from...the US? Go figure... You seem to have missed the part where I talked about sozial acceptance. Accelerated nuclear deployment sounds like a bad the prognoses of the IAE..10.000 nukes...LOL. Charles Barton said... heavyweather, you are not interested in any views but your own. You repeatedly attack straw men, and believe that you have demonstrated that other views are wrong. The ignorant, the self centered and the bigoted form a universal tribe, which you appear to have joined. heavyweather said... Better attacking straw men than attacking posters. Your AH line was really below stupid. My last post clearly was just data that you can find everywhere. The existing nuclear fleet is rather old. If you take an average runtime of 40 years 130 reactors will retire the next 10 years...340 the next 20. I would really surprised if the percentage of nuclear energy would climb in the near future. There is no rapid deployment going on and the competition is too much. I told you before that even here at Siemens the focus is shifting away from nuclear. There are different opinions and no answers. I rather have small dislocated and available energy sources that need no fuel. They will also power the really poor people nobody would ever ship a reactor to. Finrod said... The new standard operational lifetime is 60 years, as the successful license extensions over the last few years demonstrates. The nuclear industry is starting to accellerate the production of new nuclear plants. As with all great undertakings (virtually restarting the NPP production industry globally), there is substantial preperation time involved, but we are starting to see things move in China, India, the middle east, Europe, and who knows, perhaps even the US. Who's likely to believe you on that? Blog Archive Some neat videos Nuclear Advocacy Webring Get Your Free Web Ring	<urn:uuid:517af955-c143-4d67-a0e3-6e66c6fa811a>	http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2009/12/if-most-of-what-i-know-comes-from.html?showComment=1261435751381	en	0.953741	0.234379	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Press TV TV And Digital Telephone Services For Residential And Business Customers. Personal Product & Services If You Think You Understand , Then This Might Change Your Mind Recipe of Costa Rican Salsa Most of the sauces came up from the literature that different countries. In most cases, you will find people buying the sauces so they can eat together with their food. With you using the sauce, you end up getting the best taste of your diet. When you use the costa source it has a sweet and salty flavor enhancement in your food. Here you can read on the best way you can prepare Salsa Lizano recipe at your home. The moment you taste this sauce, you will never want to have a meal that does not contain the Salsa Lizano sauce. This sauce you can read on how it originated in the early days, and since then people are still using the sauce. As people are getting advanced, they come up with more new ingredients but for salsa lizano sauce how it was being prepared has just changed little. As you are making your sauce you need to have a version on lizano you can read on where you can get it from the grocery stores or online retailers. You can read on how Unilever produces the sample of Lizano sauce. When you make your sauce, it is going to be fresh and tastier than the one you can buy. Here you can read on the best recipe for making your tasty salsa lizano. You must read on and purchase and make the ingredients of Salsa Lizano. You must have two seedless chilies. you need to have a cup of water or one that has vegetable stock. You need to have a half a cup of sliced onions that are yellow. There is the need of one carrot minced. A tablespoon of sugar. You have to weigh two tablespoons of lemon juice. A tablespoon of vinegar is required. A tablespoon of cumin is necessary. You should consider having a teaspoon of molasses. Another ingredient you need to have is two teaspoons of black pepper. Consider having two teaspoons of salt. You will require to have a half teaspoon of turmeric. A half teaspoon of mustard powder is needed. Place your container on medium heat. The following procedure is to add chili and some water. Cook the chili until its tender. When the chili is mild, you have to remove it from the heat. Then all the elements that are remaining you have to place them all into the blender together with the chilies and blend them until they are soft. Costa Rica does not have any spices if you need some you can add.	<urn:uuid:45c861b4-2630-4182-8081-8417b84cadf3>	http://presstv.us/if-you-think-you-understand-then-this-might-change-your-mind-2/	en	0.954586	0.069833	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Roland Cable Routing x and y roland cables X cable end detail, notice the little brass ball on the end of the cable. Z cable detail. The brass screw in the upper right is the Z tension adjust. Also at the bottom is the X cable routing. The double pully in both X and Z axis reversing loop are what give it zero backlash. This axis was loose, there is a screw on the bottom side of this drive that can back off and cause the spindle to tip in. If the cable keeps popping off the top, this is a likely issue. The Z axis spindle in the previous picture is how it should look.	<urn:uuid:7e5dae03-dc05-4009-bf38-2a274735a75e>	http://wiki.makeitlabs.com/projects/roland-mill-upgrade/basics/roland-cable-routing	en	0.905103	0.296115	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Victor Weisskopf (1908-2002) Victor Weisskopf was born in Vienna on September 19, 1908. He studied at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Gottingen in Germany in 1931. In the 1920s and 1930s, Dr. Weisskopf served at several European research institutions at a time regarded as seminal in the development of nuclear physics. During this period, he studied with and was an assistant to Nobel Prize winners Neils Bohr (whom he called his "intellectual father"), Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and Erwin Schrodinger. In 1937 he went to the United States, where he was to spend much of the rest of his working life, becoming naturalized in 1943. The following year he was invited to join the Manhattan Project which was working to produce the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he was appointed a group leader in the Theoretical Division under Hans Bethe. In 1945, Weisskopf was among the founders of the Federation of Atomic Sciences (now known as the Federation of American Scientists), formed to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy. In the late 1940s, he was a vocal opponent of the plans of Edward Teller and others to develop the hydrogen bomb. Bethe credited Dr. Weisskopf with dissuading him from joining the project. In 1946 he joined the staff of MIT, remaining there for 14 years until 1960, when he obtained leave of absence after being appointed one of the directorate of five to assist the director-general of the Centre Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). The following year he became director-general himself, a post he held during a period in which CERN's aims were greatly expanded. After leaving CERN to return to MIT in 1965, Weisskopf returned every year to Geneva to lecture summer students. At MIT he became in 1967 head of the department of physics, a post he held until 1973. In parallel with his work at MIT Weisskopf was chairman of the high-energy physics advisory panel of the Atomic Energy Commission in the US from 1967 to 1975. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 21, 2002	<urn:uuid:715a7cd1-02db-4334-baf6-340d835de91b>	http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/biographies/Weisskopf.html	en	0.980478	0.027843	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 9:00am - 9:50am Lind 305 Audra McMillan (University of California, Berkeley) Hypothesis testing plays a central role in statistical inference, and is used in many settings where privacy concerns are paramount. In this talk we’ll address a basic question about privately testing simple hypotheses: given two distributions P and Q, and a privacy level ε, how many i.i.d. samples are needed to distinguish P from Q subject to ε-differential privacy, and what sort of tests have optimal sample complexity? Specifically, we'll characterize this sample complexity up to constant factors in terms of the structure of P and Q and the privacy level ε, and show that this sample complexity is achieved by a certain randomized and clamped variant of the log-likelihood ratio test. This result is an analogue of the classical Neyman–Pearson lemma in the setting of private hypothesis testing. The characterization applies more generally to hypothesis tests satisfying essentially any notion of algorithmic stability, which is known to imply strong generalization bounds in adaptive data analysis, and thus our results have applications even when privacy is not a primary concern. Joint work with Clément Canonne, Gautam Kamath, Adam Smith and Jonathan Ullman.	<urn:uuid:ebb18011-3518-4b6a-a2ad-f54566e6af79>	http://www.ima.umn.edu/2018-2019/W6.18-21.19/27952	en	0.924397	0.032917	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
So, a friend of mine asked me the following question: Do cis women deserve a space to talk about the ways in which misogyny and issues that uniquely affect FAABs (like reproductive rights) intersect? Yes. If you ask if any marginalized group deserves space to discuss issues specific to them, yes. Absolutely. So long as we live in a society in which patriarchal structures leave a pregnant or potentially pregnant person’s control over their own body as an open question fit for debate without them present, there is absolutely reason to create and maintain spaces to discuss ways in which they are affected by that control and organize the means to unravel that system away from interference by that system. However, I want to ask a question of those who would specify that this hypothetical space is for cis women only: what purpose is being served by making that that explicit declaration? Would you also make an explicit declaration that cis women who, for whatever reason, are known to be infertile are similarly not welcome to share stories about how presumptions about their fertility have led to misogynistic treatment; or stories about how learning they were infertile led them to question core assumptions about their womanhood; or raise the issue that their body autonomy is in jeopardy because men have already made laws blackmailing pregnant people into allowing themselves to be forcibly penetrated in a twisted caricature of medical care, and they show no signs of stopping at that law? Would you declare any infertile cis woman to be out of bounds for raising those topics? Would she be accused of imposing herself on the group, of centering the debate on infertile women and distracting from the conversation, of triggering participants by reminding them that they can become pregnant (possibly against their will)? Or would she be thanked for sharing her struggle, welcome in the knowledge that everyone there understands that when women are reduced to their presumed reproductive ability, when they are reduced to their parts, the misogyny catches all women in the blast regardless of their ability to reproduce? When laws about marital partnerships are intended to reduce women to chattel for birthing children, where does the issue of reproductive rights stop affecting all women and start affecting only those who know they can become pregnant? Fertility is a presumptive quality, not an inherent trait. No one knows they are fertile (or virile) until they succeed in producing a viable zygote that is carried to term and born live. Even then, we only know in retrospect that they were fertile; there is no biological mandate or metaphysical certainty that their body will ever be fertile again. All qualities associated with fertility are presumed based upon having anatomy that appears fully functional and has not been proven otherwise, or removed or altered by surgery or medication. I am not demanding the floor at a reproductive rights rally, nor am I demanding a seat at a support group for people who have chosen to abort a pregnancy. I will never know the fear of having control over that aspect of my body taken away by men I will never meet. But I am questioning the true intentions of any meeting that must explicitly declare it is for cis women only on the premise that there are some issues that only affect cis women. Unless the issues discussed are firmly restricted to only those people who are, have been, or have no reason to assume they could not become pregnant, then I put forward that the space’s organizers are being disingenuously cissexist at best, and openly transphobic at worst. If someone expects infertile cis women to either: A) not be interested enough to attend, or B) behave appropriately if they do, or C) leave when the moderator asks anyone who is unaffected by the issue at hand to please leave; and if you would not attribute to their infertility any hamfisted attempt to center the conversation on them, then that expectation ought to extend in the same manner to trans women, as well as trans men and non-binary CAFAB people. When the sign on the door preemptively declares an event is for “womyn born womyn living as womyn”, it advances a biologically essentialist standpoint. When that standpoint is defended on the grounds that there exist some topics that are only relevant to CAFAB people—reproductive rights, menstruation—the space had better be dedicated to those topics or else it shamelessly exploits people who need space for those topics as human shields on the front line of a woman-on-woman war that doesn’t need to be fought. I want to be clear about something: if you have a space dedicated to survivors, no one ought to be trying to recenter it on how hard the abusers have it in the justice system; if you have a space dedicated to queer issues, no one ought to be trying to recenter it on how hard it is for them as a straight person to accept their bisexual child; if you have a space dedicated to people of color, no white person should be trying to recenter it on how awesome of an ally they are. Those are actions that drip with patriarchal, colonial entitlement and are rightfully condemned as such when someone has the gall to do them. So it is with that understanding in mind that I ask fellow feminists to ask themselves whether they are being honest with themselves about the intentionality behind a space that supposedly has a built-in need to exclude trans women. Share → One Response to Spaces 1. 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Utopian Promises-Net Realities The need for net criticism certainly is a matter of overwhelming urgency. While a number of critics have approached the new world of computerized communications with a healthy amount of skepticism, their message has been lost in the noise and spectacle of corporate hype-the unstoppable tidal wave of seduction has enveloped so many in its dynamic utopian beauty that little time for careful reflection is left. Indeed, a glimpse of a possibility for a better future may be contained in the new techno-apparatus, and perhaps it is best to acknowledge these possibilities here in the beginning, since Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) has no desire to take the position of the neoluddites who believe that the techno-apparatus should be rejected outright, if not destroyed. To be sure, computerized communications offer the possibility for the enhanced storage, retrieval, and exchange of information for those who have access to the necessary hardware, software, and technical skills. In turn, this increases the possibility for greater access to vital information, faster exchange of information, enhanced distribution of information, and cross cultural artistic and critical collaborations. The potential humanitarian benefits of electronic systems are undeniable; however, CAE questions whether the electronic apparatus is being used for these purposes in the representative case, much as we question the political policies which guide the net's development and accessibility. Critical Art Ensemble: The Matter of Media (perfrormance) Critical Art Ensemble: The Matter of Media (perfrormance) This is not the first time that the promise of electronic utopia has been offered. One need only look back at Brecht's critique of radio to find reason for concern when such promises are resurrected. While Brecht recognized radio's potential for distributing information for humanitarian and cultural purposes, he was not surprised to see radio being used for the very opposite. Nor should we be surprised that his calls for a more democratic interactive medium went unheeded. During the early 1970s, there was a brief euphoric moment during the video revolution when some believed that Brecht's call for an interactive and democratic electronic medium was about to be answered. The development of home video equipment led to a belief that soon everyone who desired to would be able to manufacture their own television. This seemed to be a real possibility. As the cost of video equipment began to drop dramatically, and cable set-ups offered possibilities for distribution, electronic utopia seemed immanent, and yet, the home video studio never came to be. Walls and boundaries confounding this utopian dream seemed to appear out of nowhere. For instance, in the US, standards for broadcast quality required postproduction equipment that no one could access or afford except capital-saturated media companies. Most cable channels remained in the control of corporate media, and the few public access channels fell into the hands of censors who cited "community standards" as their reason for an orderly broadcast system. While production equipment did get distributed as promised, the hopes of the video utopianists were crushed at the distribution level. Corporate goals for establishing a new market for electronic hardware were met, but the means for democratic cultural production never appeared. Now that giddy euphoria is back again, arising in the wake of the personal computer revolution of the early 80s, and with the completion of a "world-wide" multi-directional distribution network. As to be expected, utopian promises from the corporate spectacle machine drown the everyday lives of bureaucrats and technocrats around the first world, and once again there seems to be a general belief-at least within technically adept populations-that this time the situation will be different. And to a degree, this situation is different. There is an electronic free zone, but from CAE's perspective, it is only a modest development at best. By far the most significant use of the electronic apparatus is to keep order, to replicate dominant pancapitalist ideology, and to develop new markets. At the risk of redundantly stating the obvious, CAE would like to recall the origins of the internet. The internet is war-tech that was designed as an analog to the US highway system (Yet another product which stemmed from the mind of the military, and which was primarily intended as a decentralized aid to mobilization). The US military wanted an apparatus that would preserve command structure in the case of nuclear attack. The answer was an electronic web capable of immediately rerouting itself if one or more links were destroyed, thus allowing surviving authorities to remain in communication with each other and to act accordingly. With such an apparatus in place, military authority could be maintained, even through the worst of catastrophes. With such planning at the root of the internet, suspicion about its alleged anti-authoritarian characteristics must occur to anyone who takes the time to reflect on the apparatus. It should also be noted that the decentralized characteristics for which so many praise the net did not arise out of anarchist intention, but out of nomadic military strategy. Research scientists were the next group to go on-line after the military. While it would be nice to believe that their efforts on the net were benign, one must question why they were given access to the apparatus in the first place. Science has always claimed legitimacy by announcing its "value-free" intentions to search for the truth of the material world; however, this search costs money, and hence a political economy with a direct and powerful impact on science's lofty goals of value-free research enters the equation. Do investors in scientific research offer money with no restrictions attached? This seems quite unlikely. Some type of return on the investment is implicit in any demand from funding institutions. In the US, the typical demand is either theory or technology with military applications or applications that will strengthen economic development. The greater the results promised by science in terms of these two categories, the more generous the funding. In the US, not even scientists get something for nothing. The need for greater efficiency in research and development opened the new communication systems to academics, and with that development, a necessary degree of disorder was introduced into the apparatus. Elements of free zone information exchange began to appear. But as this system developed, other investors, most notably the corporations, demanded their slice of the electronic pie. All kinds of financial business were conducted on the net with relatively secure efficiency. As the free zone began to grow, the corporations realized that a new market mechanism was growing with it, and eventually the marketeers were released onto the net. At this point, a peculiar paradox came into being: Free market capitalism came into conflict with the conservative desire for order. It became apparent that for this new market possibility to reach its full potential, authorities would have to tolerate a degree of chaos. This was necessary to seduce the wealthier classes into using the net as site of consumption and entertainment, and second, to offer the net as an alibi for the illusion of social freedom. Although totalizing control of communications was lost, the overall cost of this development to governments and corporations was minimal, and in actuality, the cost was nothing compared to what was gained. Thus was born the most successful repressive apparatus of all time; and yet it was (and still is) successfully represented under the sign of liberation. What is even more frightening is that the corporation's best allies in maintaining the gleaming utopian surface of cyberspace are some of the very populations who should know better. Techno-utopianists have accepted the corporate hype, and are now disseminating it as the reality of the net. This regrettable alliance between the elite virtual class and new age cybernauts is structured around five key virtual promises. These are the promised social changes that seem as if they will occur at any moment, but never actually come into being. Promise One: The New Body Those of us familiar with discourse on cyberspace and virtual reality have heard this promise over and over again, and in fact there is a kernel of truth associated with it. The virtual body is a body of great potential. On this body we can reinscribe ourselves using whatever coding system we desire. We can try on new body configurations. We can experiment with immortality by going places and doing things that would be impossible in the physical world. For the virtual body, nothing is fixed and everything is possible. Indeed, this is the reason why hackers wish to become disembodied consciousnesses flowing freely through cyberspace, willing the idea of their own bodies and environments. As virtual reality improves with new generations of computer technology, perhaps this promise will come to pass in the realm of the multi-sensual; however, it is currently limited to gender reassignment on chat lines, or game boy flight simulators. What did this allegedly liberated body cost? Payment was taken in the form of a loss of individual sovereignty, not just from those who use the net, but from all people in technologically saturated societies. With the virtual body came its fascist sibling, the data body-a much more highly developed virtual form, and one that exists in complete service to the corporate and police state. The data body is the total collection of files connected to an individual. The data body has always existed in an immature form since the dawn of civilization. Authority has always kept records on its underlings. Indeed, some of the earliest records that Egyptologists have found are tax records. What brought the data body to maturity is the technological apparatus. With its immense storage capacity and its mechanisms for quickly ordering and retrieving information, no detail of social life is too insignificant to record and to scrutinize. From the moment we are born and our birth certificate goes on-line, until the day we die and our death certificate goes on-line, the trajectory of our individual lives is recorded in scrupulous detail. Education files, insurance files, tax files, communication files, consumption files, medical files, travel files, criminal files, investment files, files into infinity.... The data body has two primary functions. The first purpose serves the repressive apparatus; the second serves the marketing apparatus. The desire of authoritarian power to make the lives of its subordinates perfectly transparent achieves satisfaction through the data body. Everyone is under permanent surveillance by virtue of their necessary interaction with the marketplace. Just how detailed data body information actually may be is a matter of speculation, but we can be certain that it is more detailed than we would like it to be, or care to think. The second function of the data body is to give marketeers more accurate demographic information to design and create target populations. Since pancapitalism has long left the problem of production behind, moving from an economy of need to an economy of desire, marketeers have developed better methods to artificially create desires for products that are not needed. The data body gives them insights into consumption patterns, spending power, and "lifestyle choices" of those with surplus income. The data body helps marketeers to find you, and provide for your lifestyle. The postmodern slogan, "You don't pick the commodity; the commodity picks you" has more meaning than ever. But the most frightening thing about the data body is that it is the center of an individual's social being. It tells the members of officialdom what our cultural identities and roles are. We are powerless to contradict the data body. Its word is the law. One's organic being is no longer a determining factor, from the point of view of corporate and government bureaucracies. Data has become the center of social culture, and our organic flesh is nothing more than a counterfeit representation of original data. Promise 2: Convenience Earlier this century, the great sociologist Max Weber explained why bureaucracies work so well as a means of rationalized social organization in complex society. In comparing bureaucratic practice to his ideal-type, only one flaw appears: Humans provide the labor for these institutions. Unfortunately humans have nonrational characteristics, the most notorious of which is the expression of desire. Rather than working at optimum efficiency, organic units are likely to seek out that which gives them pleasure in ways that are contrary to the instrumental aims of the bureaucracy. All varieties of creative slacking are employed by organic units These range from work slowdowns to unnecessary chit-chat with one's fellow employees. Throughout this century policy makers and managerial classes have concerned themselves with developing a way to stop such activities in order to maximize and intensify labor output. The model for labor intensification came with the invention of the robot. So long as the robot is functional, it never strays from its task. Completely replacing humans with robots is not possible, since so far, they are only capable of simple, albeit precise, mechanical tasks. They are data driven, as opposed to the human capacity for concept recognition. The question then becomes how to make humans more like robots, or to update the discourse, more like cyborgs. At present, much of the technology necessary to accomplish this goal is available, and more is in development. However, having the technology, such as telephone headsets or wearable computers, is not enough. People must be seduced into wanting to wear them, at least until the technology evolves that can be permanently fixed to their bodies. The means of seduction? Convenience. Life will be so much easier if we only connect to the machine. As usual there is a grain of truth to this idea. I can honestly admit that my life has been made easier since I began using a computer, but only in a certain sense. As a writer, it is easier for me to finish a paper now than it was when I used pen and paper or a typewriter. The problem: Now I am able to (and therefore, must) write two papers in the time it used to take to produce one. The implied promise that I will have more free time because I use a computer is false. Labor intensification through time management is only the beginning, as there is another problem in regard to total utility. People can still separate themselves from their work stations-the true home of the modern day cyborg. The seduction continues, persuading us that we should desire to carry our electronic extensions with us all the time. The latest commercials from AT&T are the perfect representation of consumer seduction. They promise: Have you ever sent a fax....from the beach? You will." or "Have you ever received a phone call....on your wrist? You will." This commercial is most amusing. There is an image of a young man who has just finished climbing a mountain and is watching a sunset. At that moment his wife calls on his wrist phone, and he describes the magnificence of the sunset to her. Now who is kidding who. Is your wife going to call you while you are mountain climbing? Are you going to need to send a fax while lounging on the beach? The corporate intention for deploying this technology (in addition to profit) is so transparent, it's painful. The only possible rejoinder is: "Have you ever been at a work station....24 hours a day, 365 days a year? You will." Now the sweat shop can go any where you do! Another telling element in this representation is that the men in these commercials are always alone. (This is a gendered element which CAE is sure has not failed to catch the attention of feminists, although CAE is unsure as to whether it will be interpreted as sexism or a stroke of luck). In this sense, the problem is doubled: Not only is the work station always with you, but social interaction will always be fully mediated by technology. This is the perfect solution to abolish that nuisance, the subversive environment of public space. Promise 3: Community Currently in the US, there is no more popular buzz word than "community." This word is so empty of meaning that it can be used to describe almost any social manifestation. For the most part, it is used to connote sympathy with or identification with a particular social aggregate. In this sense, one hears of the gay community or the African-American community. There are even oxymorons, such as the international community. Corporate marketeers from IBM to Microsoft have been quick to capitalize on this empty sign as a means to build their commercial campaigns. Recognizing the extreme alienation that afflicts so many under the reign of pancapitalism, they offer net technology as a cure for a feeling of loss that has no referent. Through chat lines, news groups, and other digital environments, nostalgia for a golden age of sociability that never existed is replaced by a new modern day sense of community. This promise is nothing but aggravating. There is not even a grain of truth in it. If there is any reason for optimism, it is only to the extent mentioned in the beginning of this lecture; that is, the net makes possible a broader spectrum of information exchange. However, anyone with even a basic knowledge of sociology understands that information exchange in no way constitutes a community. Community is a collective of kinship networks which share a common geographic territory, a common history, and a shared value system, one usually rooted in a common religion. Typically, communities are rather homogenous, and tend to exist in the historical context of a simple division of labor. Most importantly, communities embrace nonrational components of life and of consciousness. Social action is not carried out by means of contract, but by understandings, and life is certainly not fully mediated by technology. In this sense, the connection between community and net life is unfathomable. (CAE does not want to romanticize this social form, since communities can be as repressive and/or as pathological as any society). Use of the net beyond its one necessary use (i.e., information gathering), is, from CAE's perspective, a highly developed anti-social form of interacting. That someone would want to stay in his or her home or office and reject human contact in favor of a textually mediated communication experience can only be a symptom of rising alienation, not a cure for it. Why the repressive apparatus would want this isolation to develop is very clear: If someone is on-line, he or she is off the street and out of the gene pool. In other words, they are well within the limits of control. Why the marketing apparatus would desire such a situation is equally clear: The lonelier people get, the more they will have no choice but to turn to work and to consumption as a means of seeking pleasure. In a time when public space is diminishing and being replaced by fortified institutions such as malls, theme parks, and other manifestations of forced consumption that pass themselves off as locations for social interaction, shouldn't we be looking for a sense of the social, (that is, to the extent still possible), direct and unmediated, rather than seeing these anti-public spaces replicated in an even more lonely electronic form? Promise 4: Democracy Another promise eternally repeated in discourse on cyberspace is the idea that the electronic apparatus will be the zenith of utopian democracy. Certainly, the internet does have some democratic characteristics. It provides all its cyber-citizens with the means to contact all other cyber-citizens. On the net, everyone is equal. The shining emblem of this new democracy is the World Wide Web. People can construct their own home pages, and even more people can access these sites as points of investigation. This is all well and good, but we must ask ourselves if these democratic characteristics actually constitute democracy. A platform for individual voices is not enough (especially in the Web where so many voices are lost in the clutter of data debris). Democracy is dependent on the individual's ability to act on the information received. Unfortunately, even with the net, autonomous action is still as difficult as ever. The difficulty here is threefold: First, there is the problem of locality and geographic separation. In the case of information gathering, the information is only as useful as the situation and the location of the physical body allows. For example, a gay man who lives in a place where homophobia reigns, or even worse, where homosexual practice is an illegal activity, will still be unable to openly act on his desires, regardless of the information he may gather on the net. He is still just as closeted in his everyday life practice, and is reduced to passive spectatorship in regard to the object of his desire, so long as he remains in a repressive locality. The second problem is one of institutional oppression. For example, no one can deny that the net can function as a wonderful pedagogical tool and can act as a great means for self education. Unfortunately, the net has very little legitimacy in and of itself as an educational institution. The net must be used in a physical world context under appropriate supervision for it to be awarded legitimacy. In the case of education, in order for the knowledge-value gained from the net to be socially recognized and accepted, it must be used as a tool within the context of a university or a school. These educational contexts are fortified in a manner to maintain a status-quo distribution of education. Consequently, one can acquire a great deal of knowledge from the net, but still have no education capital to be exchanged in the marketplace. In both of these cases, there must be a liberated physical environment if the net is to function as a supplement to democratic activity. The final problem is that the net functions as a disciplinary apparatus through the use of transparency. If people feel that they are under surveillance, they are less likely to act in manner that is beyond normalized activity; that is, they are less likely to express themselves freely, and to otherwise act in manner that could produce political and social changes within their environments. In this sense, the net serves the purpose of negating activity rather than encouraging it. It channels people toward orderly homogeneous activity, rather than reinforcing the acceptance of difference that democratic societies need. To be sure, there are times when transparency can be turned against itself. For example, one of the reasons that the PRI party's counteroffensive against the Zapatistas did not end in total slaughter, was the resisting party's use of the net to keep attention focused upon its members and its cause. By disallowing the secret of massacre, many lives were saved, and the resistant movement could continue. Much the same can be said about the stay of execution won for Mumia Abu Jamal. The final point here is that it must be remembered that the internet does not exist in a vacuum. It is intimately related to all kinds of social structures and historical dynamics, and hence its democratic structure cannot be realistically analyzed as if it were a closed system. Taking a step back from the insider's point of view, achieving democracy through the net seems even less likely considering the demographics of the situation. There are five and a half billion people in the world. Over a billion barely keep themselves alive from day to day. Most people don't even have a telephone, and hence it seems very unlikely that they will get a computer, let alone go on-line. This situation raises the question, is the net a means to democracy, or simply another way to divide the world into haves and have-nots? We also must ask ourselves, how many people consider the net really relevant in their everyday lives? While CAE believes that it is safe to assume that the number of net users will grow, it seems unlikely that it will grow to include more than those who have the necessary educational background, and/or those who are employed by bureaucratic and technocratic agencies. CAE suggests that this elite stronghold will remain so, and that most of the first world population that will become a part of the computer revolution will do so primarily as passive consumers, rather than as active participants. They will be playing computer games, watching interactive TV, and shopping in virtual malls. The stratified distribution of education will act as the guardian of the virtual border between the passive and the active user, and prevent those populations participating in multidirectional interactivity from increasing in any significant numbers. Promise 5: New Consciousness Of all the net hype, this promise is perhaps the most insidious, since it seems to have no corporate sponsor (although Microsoft has tapped the trend to some extent). The notion of the new consciousness has emerged out of new age thinking. There is a belief promoted by cyber-gurus (Timothy Leary, Jason Lanier, Roy Ascott, Richard Kriesche, Mark Pesci) that the net is the apparatus of a benign collective consciousness. It is the brain of the planet which transcends into mind through the activities of its users. It can function as a third eye or sixth sense for those who commune with this global coming together. This way of thinking is the paramount form of ethnocentrism and myopic class perception. As discussed in the last section, the third world and most of the first world citizenry are thoroughly marginalized in this divine plan. If anything, this theory replicates the imperialism of early capitalism, and recalls notions such as manifest destiny. If new consciousness is indicative of anything, it is the new age of imperialism that will be realized through information control (as opposed to the early capital model of military domination). Of the former four promises examined here, each has proven on closer inspection to be a replication of authoritarian ideology to justify and put into action greater repression and oppression. New consciousness is no exception. Even if we accept the good intentions and optimistic hopes of the new age cybernauts, how could anyone conclude that an apparatus emerging out military aggression and corporate predation could possibly function as a new form of terrestrial spiritual development? As saddened as CAE is to say it, the greater part of the net is capitalism as usual. It is a site for repressive order, for the financial business of capital, and for excessive consumption. While a small part of the net may be used for humanistic purposes and to resist authoritarian structure, its overall function is anything but humanistic. In the same way that we would not consider an unregulated bohemian neighborhood to be representative of a city, we must also not assume that our own small free zone domains are representative of the digital empire. Nor can we trust our futures to the empty promises of a seducer that has no love in its heart. by Critical Art Ensemble, 1996. (archived festival website of Next 5 Minutes 2, Amsterdam, 1996)	<urn:uuid:b35ba624-2df4-4727-a6b4-ce07262dc714>	http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/classic/articles/3622/Utopian-Promises_Net-Realities	en	0.961315	0.042933	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Bathroom bigotry Donald Trump’s decision to lift the guidelines issued by the Obama government allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, has caused much consternation and wailing about the rights of transgender students. However, when you look at the impact of lifting this guidance, it’s hard to see what there was for people to get quite so het up about. Firstly, the original guidelines had absolutely no legal force whatsoever therefore as ever, the decision seems to be indicative of Trump’s usual style; it’s enough to please his supporters and establish his conservative credentials but doesn’t change a lot in practical terms. For example, when the original guidance from Obama was issued the state of Texas put a temporary hold on it after 13 states sued. What the lifting of the guidance has done, is introduce a sensible level of subsidiarity noting that this is an issue best dealt with at a local level. Tellingly for concerned Catholics, the American Bishops’ Conference, the USCCB has applauded and welcomed Trump’s decision on this issue, expressing their gratitude. They note that it’s an extremely sensitive situation, best dealt with care and compassion at a local level, respecting the privacy and safety concerns of all students. Father James Martin SJ doesn’t appear to agree with them and in response issued a series of tweets, implying that to deny transgender students the rights to choose whichever bathroom or changing room they choose is not Christ-like, it further marginalises people, infringes on their basic dignity and asking ‘where’s the harm’? Along with a number of other Catholic women, I responded to him in pretty gentle terms as a mother of 5. We asked where is the care and compassion for the dignity of vulnerable women and girls who don’t actually want to share their intimate spaces with non-biological females? As a result, my Twitter-feed has been filled up with an eye-watering amount of expletive-ridden abuse and invective. I am a terrible person, a bad mother, evil, lacking in all compassion, who needs to educate herself, ugly, my genitals are deformed from having 5 children, I must die in a fire, commit suicide, hopefully my family will hate me and so on and so forth. The sheer level and bombardment of hate, is dizzying. I’ve been at the end of Twitter storms before, but this takes it to a whole new level. It’s not only the violent abuse itself which is so frightening, but the level of delusion that it’s based upon. The insults are all variations on a theme so I’m just going to offer a response to each one. Adopting a realistic attitude Nobody with any common sense or compassion minds an adult who has fully transitioned, using a public loo designated for women, provided that they do so in the same way as any other woman, i.e. unobtrusively and not drawing attention to their trans status in a way that makes other women around them feel uncomfortable. Most trans women I know, already do this. Most women don’t actually take much note of who else is going into their toilets, which in many ways makes them more vulnerable, because we don’t expect to see men in there. If you can pass as a woman on first glance, chances are nobody will really object. However, what women are objecting to, and rightly so, is the idea that anyone who decides to state that they identify as a woman for whatever reason, regardless of their manner of attire, can use women’s facilities. It’s not acceptable for someone who is so clearly obviously male, to think that their feelings entitle them to intrude upon women’s spaces. Plus, there is the issue of whether or not sexual predators might take advantage of relaxed laws, as has happened on past occasions. Part of the reason for enforcing legislation is to ensure that people feel safe and to discourage criminal activity. Years ago, in the era before mobile phones, I was once followed home after getting off the bus and the only way to shake off the man, was to go into a public ladies’ and raise the alarm. The threat of being accosted by someone for entering a woman-only space proved enough of a deterrent. What happens in ladies’ loos It’s typically a place where women can feel safe, away from the male-gaze. On my Twitter stream, women have told me about having to rinse through clothing or underwear in the sink, following an unexpected menstrual leak. Women feel safe asking the person in the cubicle next door to pass them some paper for example, or perhaps asking a kindly stranger if they can help out with sanitary products in an emergency. Some women may also be dealing with an unexpected miscarriage, the physical aftermath of one, or other difficult gynaecological issues. Few women want to deal with personal and intimate matters such as these, in front of male prying eyes. I remember once, as a student, men routing through my bag, finding my sanitary products, covering them in poultry blood and draping them all over my car windscreen and putting them back in my bag, as a prank. On the whole, women tend to adopt a far more sympathetic, sensitive and pragmatic approach to the indignities of the menstrual cycle than men. Another thing that frequently happens in public conveniences, is that locks on the doors are often loose or faulty thanks to repeated use. Elderly people sometimes have difficulty in securing them shut. I’ve been burst in upon or accidentally opened the door on others, a number of times. Any mother who has taken a small child into the cubicle with them, has likely had the experience of the child opening the door prematurely, while still attending to herself. I’ve also had children who have been fearful about closing or locking the toilet doors and have sat there innocently on the loo with their pants down. Nobody wants men in that situation either. It’s the whole male gaze issue again. Women are far less likely to stare at, sexually objectivise, or mock someone who inadvertently exposes themselves, but most likely will act with camaraderie and support. Men are more often than not too embarrassed to tell you if you have your skirt tucked into your knickers or are trailing a bit of toilet paper and women are less likely to experience mortification when informed discreetly by another woman. Inadvertent indecent exposure is not a myth, but an unfortunate fairly regular occurrence. Those who claim that people aren’t going round deliberately exposing themselves, willfully miss the point. The situation in schools We aren’t just talking about toilet cubicles, although many critics seem to lack an understanding that going to the loo in public, isn’t always just a mishap-free straightforward walk in, walk out of the stall, affair. Neither do all cubicles afford total privacy. In schools, you have a different situation of often anxious and very self-conscious girls changing in front of each other, which could well involve stripping naked and showers. Teen girls I’m going to talk about my daughter briefly, given that I raised her dignity as a concern and everybody thinks I have taught her to be fearful of men. Here’s the deal – until yesterday, she hadn’t even heard of transgenderism. But at the age of 12, she has gone from a child who happily ran about naked in the house without a care in the world, to, over the last few years, establishing her own boundaries and needs. Bathroom and bedroom doors are shut and locked, if she is caught unawares, she will instantly cover herself, which has not stemmed from any kind of adult prompting. It happens to most children. Likewise whereas previously, she wouldn’t mind chancing upon male adult family members in the bathroom, now she is embarrassed. It’s all pretty normal textbook stuff. Teen girls are often made anxious about the onset of puberty and various bodily changes. The role of the parent is to reassure, to soothe, to offer frequent support and comfort that all of this seems daunting but is perfectly natural. And also to assist and guide when it comes to personal and sanitary care. Above all to act as gatekeeper for a child to protect them at sensitive moments from tactless or curious siblings. So when you’ve got a child who doesn’t actually want to see male genitals and is made uncomfortable by them, it’s not unreasonable to want to keep them out of female changing rooms at school. Why do we have to desensitise vulnerable young girls to looking at male private parts? Similarly why do we have to accustom young girls to their bodies being scrutinised by curious men (who are normally thought of in terms of having a penis). A teen ‘trans girl’ isn’t biologically a girl and may not have decided whether or not to fully transition, so no matter feminine the hair and face, they will have the body of a male. It’s not a case of educating oneself, it’s more a case that here is someone with different body parts which may make teenage girls uncomfortable. Again, it’s an instinctual awareness of the male gaze – because one thing that teen girls do tend to do, is sneak surreptitious glances at each other, mainly to compare your own development with your peers. The one question on the mind of every teenage girl, is ‘am I normal?’ I remember feeling reassured when I noticed that other girls were doing the same thing physically as myself and things like bras and pubic hair and later on periods, ceased to be such a big deal. A trans girl is going to have more curiosity than most and also, there’s the issue that their appearance may trigger body anxiety in other girls, because men tend to have an entirely different look, owing to a different skeleton and physiognomy. Girls attempting to emulate the adrongynous look of their trans peers or normalising their shape as a glamorous ideal, is never going to end well. Incidentally all local government authorities have a standard policy that mixed sex siblings shouldn’t be sharing bedrooms over the age of 10. My experience of being a mother to a teen girl So yesterday, when I was Skype-ing my daughter (who’s away skiing on half term at the moment), I said to her that I had been talking about her. Mainly what a great time she appears to be having. I asked her how she’d feel if she had to share changing rooms and loos with boys. She laughed and said that would never happen because she’s at a girls’ school. OK, I said but what about the previous school you went to which was co-ed. “I wouldn’t like it” she said. “Why not, out of interest”, I asked. “I don’t know, I just wouldn’t, it wouldn’t feel right, I don’t want to have to see boys and I don’t want them seeing me”. OK fine, I said, but what if you had a boy who felt he was born in the wrong body wanting to share your changing rooms and loos. Her face was an absolute picture. “What do you mean” she asked. “How can you be born in the wrong body”. Some people believe they are, I said. “But how does that happen, she said, I don’t understand, it doesn’t make any sense”. I then went onto explain about how girls are supposed to like pink and clothes and make-up etc, which again my daughter found bizarre, not being into any typical girls’ pursuits. How some girls liked to play cricket and football and some boys liked to play with dolls and that made them feel like they were the opposite sex, because they identified better with them. Fortunately my daughter is level-headed and sensible enough not to think that because she isn’t into all the stereotypical feminine stuff, that perhaps she might be a boy, or genderqueer but you can certainly see how the idea can be suggested to children. We then went into how people manage to actually become the other sex and hormone therapy. Which then prompted a question about whether or not pills changed private parts. No, they don’t, people have surgery. “That’s just gross” she said, “I can’t think about that, it’s really disgusting, can we change the subject now, I’m really freaked out”. Sure, I said, but say you had a boy, who really felt that he was girl, who didn’t want to use the boys in case he was picked on and physically bullied, would you be happy to have them in your changing room? No, not really she said, I’d feel sorry for them, but I’d still be uncomfortable with it if I’m honest. Couldn’t they use a staff room or something? Thinking about it later, I reflected, how am I supposed to de-sensitise a child to feel happy and comfortable and nonplussed about seeing male genitals and surely such a thing is abusive? I have no rational scientific explanation for the phenomenon of people being born in the wrong bodies, it seems evident that gender dysphoria is a mental condition which current medical thinking treats by radically altering the body. Later on, after people implored that I cared not one iota for the safety of trans children who couldn’t use the bathroom of their choice, I reflected that there’s an interesting piece of sexism going on here. People assume that trans girls won’t be safe in boys’ bathrooms, but they seem to forget that girls are more than capable of ganging up on and bullying, even to the point of physical violence, those whom they deem other, or outside of the in social crowd. Issues of safety As Matt Walsh points out, despite the statistics which demonstrates assaults do happen, women’s concerns shouldn’t be dismissed as inconsequential or irrational whinging. What about those women who have been raped, or victims of sexual assualt, don’t they have a right to safety and privacy? What about the older generation, most of whom are deeply uncomfortable about allowing any man who identifies as a woman into public loos. Are their fears irrelevant mainly on account of their age?It’s often elderly women who struggle to lock doors with arthritic fumbling fingers and who are deeply self-conscious of various bodily functions that don’t work as well as they used to. Where is the empathy for the needs of vulnerable women in all of this? Not least those of our elderly sisters? Balancing of needs and rights Nobody is saying that transgender people don’t have specific needs or aren’t vulnerable, but why are their needs deemed to be more important than those of women? Why does this have to be some sort of victim top-trumps, why can’t appropriate, unisex provision be made, if necessary designating or building unisex facilities for those who want them. A fad? Friends in teaching are telling me of an explosion of teens, identifying as the opposite sex, including one report of 4 girls in the same form who all came out as trans in the same week. Another GP friend of mine who works in teen mental health, said that they couldn’t believe the volume of cases presenting, 99% of which were not believed to be genuine. There’s plenty of resources, in terms of how children get sucked into this culture, and a wealth of information, a google on ‘gender critical’ will throw up all kinds of resources. 4thwavenow and Gender critical dad are two such excellent sites. In particular, this is a compelling story of a girl who believed she was a boy, and then reconciled herself with her identity, from the point of view of her mother. There are also some interesting stats out there about the percentages of those identified with gender dysphoria who don’t end up transitioning. What was telling about the amount of abuse I received was the sheer violence and aggression, not to mention the machismo, one person bet me $10,000 to see whether or not my IQ was larger than theirs. Which was a frankly bizarre and very male-orientated competitive response. The vast majority of abuse was either from transwomen or men. That’s right, men, telling me, why I had to accept men in female intimate spaces and mocking the idea that people feel vulnerable in loos, that exposure can inadvertently take place and generally failing to understand the whole concept of the male gaze and the nitty-gritty of what often goes on in public bathrooms, along with the unspoken bonds which unite women. That people want to sexualise my children or accuse them of voyeurism or sex crimes if they are accidental victims of indecent exposure, or if they accidentally expose themselves, speaks volumes. As does their need to instantly cast any objectors into the role of sexual pervert and hold them up for public ridicule. As ever, these people scream hatred and bigot, and yet the biggest irony is, that they want to force people to uncritically accept their unscientific ideology that if you feel like the opposite sex, then you definitely are that sex. Regardless of whether or not you have corrective surgery or take hormones. Here’s the thing though. Just as I cannot control or force these people who claim that I am physically ugly, or unintelligent or whatever, to think otherwise, neither can they control how others think of them. Trying to force someone how to think, trying to impose your ideology on them, either by legislation or social shaming, making them too frightened to express their views for fear of abuse, well, that’s bigotry! Take a look at my mentions on Twitter. They are quite the education. At one point they were coming one per second. I tried to bat them off with a witty response, I mean, suggesting that a troublesome woman should be burnt is hardly original is it? The hate was very one-sided and you have to feel nothing but pity for people who are so troubled that they want to do inflict physical, verbal or emotional damage on you, taking time to craft the most spiteful sentiments designed to wound. To date I have muted over 237 people. Which was actually an interesting exercise in perspective. These activists may shout loudly and ensure their voices are the loudest to be heard, but lets be clear, even if I had blocked even double that number – say 500, then that’s hardly staggering proportion of people, or indicative of majority views on this. It’s nothing more than a noisy self-sustaining bubble, designed to drown out the mainstream. Unbelievable though isn’t it? That in 2017, women are still having to fight to the right for separate public conveniences, free of men. Or that denying that born males are actually females, or vice versa and that due to some unexplained metaphysical and evolutionary miracle, which transcends scientific explanation, people can be born in the wrong bodies, releases such outrage. Even more extraordinary and some might say scandalous, that such abuse can be given succour by the words of a Catholic priest, because without a doubt, every single vile and vicious tweet many of which stemmed from California, where Father James Martin resides, supported his position. Some of them even copied him in. 13 thoughts on “Bathroom bigotry 1. Well said, Caroline. I’m possibly more ‘out there’ than some are on trans matters but I find it bewildering that this issue has become a flashpoint for such bile and sheer lunacy. It’s disturbing that an attempt at debate triggers so much misogynistic (I don’t use the word lightly) invective. Nasty but not all that surprising. Take heart! 2. Thanks Caroline You are truly a beautiful amazing women A father of 12 beautiful kids, that are getting confused by all this stuff Steve Sent from my iPhone 3. Hi there, I’m trans too and I’m sorry you received so much vitriol online. It’s absolutely not excusable, though I can sort of understand but not condone their anger. It’s disgusting to behave that way and they should know better. Absolutely. I’m a blogger too, often covering these issues. I was wondering if you’d be interested in reading a response to this post? I’d like to properly open a dialogue between the two sides and let our followers watch us talk like adults. If that’s something you’re okay with let me know and I’ll drop the link in the comments once I’m done. You can also find me on twitter as @edesruc. My dm box is always open. Great read though, I think you explained your argument really thoroughly and well. I don’t agree, but that’s what discussion is for. I see “trans” as the new “Goth”. These are kids crying out for attention. 30 years ago the Goth trend started with kids dressing all in black and wearing black makeup and nail polish (even the boys). These were the outcasts hurting inside who were making statements in their appearance. The kids who would have been Goth back then are now claiming to be trans. It is the new way to shock people. The difference being, these kids are now being encouraged to make changes to their bodies that cannot be altered by removing the black makeup and getting a new set of clothes. 5. Jason, I feel sorry for the kids needing to go in that direction, to me its a serious stance and shouldn’t be toyed with to get attention. The danger is, as you stated, you cannot just switch back to normal, pardon the use of the word and make everything okay again.Our society as a whole is sort of spinning in some sort of crazy spiral, not a death spiral, just spinning. I think the responsibility of a healthy child, mind and body, lies solely on the parent’s shoulders. We are given free will to procreate, no one has forced me to have sex. We will maybe have children from this experience. We are still not off the hook, we owe them a decent upbringing, not to have them and then expect them to figure this world out on their own. Unacceptable. SO, whatever the end result of this current issue is with our young people will only get fixed if we as parents are able to nurture the children. I am not saying being transgender is good/bad, right/wrong, but it should not be a “new fad” and I hope that is not what is happening. Peace to all of you, 6. I agree re transgender problems. Harmful education (incl. sex-ed) is the start of the problem. My book on the subject has just been released – contact me (via this site) If you’d like any information. I’ve included a chapter specifically about USA. I’m a retired social worker & don’t agree with bile directed at transgender people. I do urge parents though to take control of their children’s education as so much is misleading & confusing. Diane J. Taylor (M. 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Surf the Wave of Moores Law Into Future Success Now that we know that our industries will be disrupted, what are the drivers causing it? Technology is the main wave of disruption, with Moores Law at the heart of the wave. The term was first coined by Gordon Moore, Intel cofounder, in 1965 when he observed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits has doubled every year and that there is no end in sight. Think about the original computers that got the USA to the moon. They had less RAM than the Nintendo Gameboy. Now, we carry computers in our pockets in the form of cell phones. Now we have computers that are building even faster computers. This constant change keeps accelerating at a faster and faster pace. No company is safe from keeping the status quo without evolving to stay relevant in an evolving society. Where will the future go? According to Peter Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE and bestselling author, these are industries that are riding the wave of Moores Law: 1. Infinite computing 2. Sensors and networks 3. Robotics 4. 3D printing 5. Synthetic biology 6. Digital medicine 7. Nanomaterials 8. Artificial intelligence All of these markets are opportunities to create solutions for. The main thing holding people back is accessibility. What does accessibility look like? One example is not having the right fit market yet, as more and more people will have access to the Internet in other areas of the world, which are now rural. These are voices that we have never heard, with new ideas and insights. These new voices are also the doorway to new opportunities to grow into, market wise. What is the key to all of these things? It’s about opportunity. Strike when you have a chance to disrupt the status quo before someone else does. Some examples of companies that have disrupted businesses are Uber and AirBnb. Both of these businesses have created jobs, income and convenience. Perhaps with the start of Uber, self-driving cars will become the way to the future, and then what? Maybe you don’t need to own a car anymore. Some tips: Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	<urn:uuid:0577bef8-cde7-4a2b-b347-79755ddb2a72>	https://charchapman.com/2017/01/24/surf-the-wave-of-moores-law-into-future-success/	en	0.932757	0.339588	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Screenless conversations are expected to dominate even more as internet connectivity and social media is poised to expand. From the era of Eliza to Alice to today’s conversational bots, we have come a long way. Conversational bots are changing the way businesses and programs interact with us. They have simplified many aspects of device use and the daily grind, and made interactions between customers and businesses more efficient. Les premières formes historiques de chatbots ont été utilisées sous forme d’agents virtuels mis à disposition sur les sites web et utilisant le plus souvent une image ou un avatar humain. Le terme de chatbot est désormais principalement utilisé pour désigner les chatbots proposés sur les réseaux sociaux et notamment les chatbots Facebook Messenger ou ceux intégrés au sein d’applications mobiles ou sites web. Appliqués au domaine des enceintes intelligentes et autres assistants intelligents, les chatbots peuvent devenir des voicebots. The market shapes customer behavior. Gartner predicts that “40% of mobile interactions will be managed by smart agents by 2020.” Every single business out there today either has a chatbot already or is considering one. 30% of customers expect to see a live chat option on your website. Three out of 10 consumers would give up phone calls to use messaging. As more and more customers begin expecting your company to have a direct way to contact you, it makes sense to have a touch point on a messenger. What if you’re creating a bot for a major online clothing retailer? For starters, the bot will require a greeting (“How can I help you?”) as well as a process for saying its goodbyes. In between, the bot needs to respond to inputs, which could range from shopping inquiries to questions about shipping rates or return policies, and the bot must possess a script for fielding questions it doesn’t understand. Great explanation, Matthew. We just launched bot for booking appointment with doctors from our healthcare platform kivihealth.com . 2nd extension coming in next 2 weeks where patients will get first level consultation based on answers which doctors gave based on similar complaints and than use it as a funnel strategy to get more appointments to doctor. We provide emr for doctors so have rich data there. I feel facebook needs to do more on integration of messenger with website from design basis. Different tab is pretty ugly, it should be modal with background active. So that person can discuss alongside working. It’s not all doom and gloom for chatbots. Chatbots are a stopgap until virtual assistants are able to tackle all of our questions and concerns, regardless of the site or platform. Virtual assistants will eventually connect to everything in your digital life, from websites to IoT-enabled devices. Rather than going through different websites and speaking to various different chatbots, the virtual assistant will be the platform for finding the answers you need. If these assistants are doing such a good job, why would you even bother to use a branded chatbot? Realistically this won’t take place for sometime, due to the fragmentation of the marketplace. World Environment Day 2019 is focusing on climate change, and more specifically air pollution, what causes it, and importantly, what we can do about it. Through a range of blogs and an in-depth look at current vocabulary on the topic, we highlight some of the words you may need to know to be able to take part in arguably one of the most important discussions of our time. “I’ve seen a lot of hyperbole around bots as the new apps, but I don’t know if I believe that,” said Prashant Sridharan, Twitter’s global director of developer relations. “I don’t think we’re going to see this mass exodus of people stopping building apps and going to build bots. I think they’re going to build bots in addition to the app that they have or the service they provide.” Conversational bots work in a similar way as an employee manning a customer care desk. When a customer asks for assistance, the conversational bot is the medium responding. If a customer asks the question, “What time does your store close on Friday?” the conversational bot would respond the same as a human would, based on the information available. “Our store closes at 5pm on Friday.” The main challenge is in teaching a chatbot to understand the language of your customers. In every business, customers express themselves differently and each group of a target audience speaks its own way. The language is influenced by advertising campaigns on the market, the political situation in the country, releases of new services and products from Google, Apple and Pepsi among others. The way people speak depends on their city, mood, weather and moon phase. An important role in the communication of the business with customers may have the release of the film Star Wars, for example. That’s why training a chatbot to understand correctly everything the user types requires a lot of efforts. Another reason is that Facebook, which has 900 million Messenger users, is expected to get into bots. Many see this as a big potential opportunity; where Facebook goes, the rest of the industry often follows. Slack, which lends itself to bot-based services, has also grown dramatically to two million daily users, which bot makers and investors see as a potentially lucrative market.	<urn:uuid:fd75a5eb-f1de-4bdd-b324-6d8e97138351>	https://chatbotsagency.co/albuquerque/on-sale-ai-chatbot-albuquerque-more-info-here.html	en	0.93341	0.037375	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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The solution is centrally monitored by cybersecurity experts who assess threat information and guide IT personnel to quickly contain and resolve issues to keep your business up and running. Save time and money Getting security right takes time and expertise. Getting it wrong is easy and can result in costly breaches, ransomware and lost revenue due to unplanned downtime. Our cybersecurity solution and experts solve this problem by taking on the cybercriminals allowing you and your staff to focus on the projects and activities that drive your business. What is Akouto Managed Security? An Inline Intrusion Prevention Security Appliance The Network Security appliance blocks inbound threats and prevents users from accessing malicious sites and content. It also helps identify internal systems that are infected with malware that is able to bypass anti-virus. 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Benefit: Protect your business with Enterprise grade security at a small business price point. Inline Intrusion Prevention Intrusion Prevention inspects all inbound and outbound traffic to protect against known and emerging cyber security threats. Benefit: Detect and block malicious activity outside and inside your network. Reduced Attack Surface Advanced firewall rules restrict traffic to and from specific countries, reducing unnecessary exposure to remote threats. Benefit: Reduce risk by limiting the locations from which your systems can be accessed. Continuous Updates Appliance software versions and patches are actively monitored to ensure your systems are always up to date with the latest security patches and features. Benefit: Prevent obsolete or vulnerable software and eliminate one of the primary causes of security breaches. Monitoring and Alerting Cloud services and security experts monitor your systems. Automatic SMS and Email alerts enable rapid response to critical security events. Benefit: Quickly respond to critical issues and threats and minimize the impact of potential security breaches. Remote scans Cloud security scanners check external access to your network, protecting it from unauthorized access due to incorrect security policies or configuration errors. Benefit: Prevent breaches caused by human error and common firewall misconfigurations. I already have a firewall, why do I need this? Most firewalls only support very simple policies for securing network traffic and do nothing to prevent computers inside your network from connecting to malicious servers on the internet. When someone is tricked into clicking on a link, your firewall will not stop that computer from connecting to servers controlled by hackers and downloading viruses or other malware disguised as a PDF file or other content. When you forward ports in your firewall, in most cases those rules apply to everyone on the internet: the same policy that allows your IT administrator remote access through the firewall also gives hackers access to the same ports. The security sensor includes a mature and robust Intrusion Prevention engine that scans all inbound and outbound traffic for threats. Detailed rules can be created to define what traffic is allowed in and out of your network including restrictions by geographic location. The cloud security scanner regularly scans your network to look for open ports that could provide hackers with unauthorized access. I already have anti-virus, why do I need this? Anti-virus is a critical component of a robust cyber security strategy. Unfortunately, while anti-virus solutions prevent many attacks, hackers are constantly adapting their approach in what has become a never ending cat-and-mouse game between anti-virus vendors and cyber-criminals. Once a hacker is able to trick a user or bypass anti-virus software and install a Trojan or backdoor, they own your network. They remotely control infected systems to explore your network, infect more systems, encrypt your hard drives, steal your business and client information and copy your files to their servers, allowing them full access to your infrastructure. Your antivirus isn’t looking for such activity and does nothing to prevent it. The security appliance includes advanced Intrusion Prevention capability with rules that are updated regularly by a large community of cyber security professionals. These rules monitor your network traffic for patterns that are known to be associated with specific attacks, blocking the network activity and alerting the cybersecurity team to take the appropriate defensive countermeasures. Do I need to replace my existing firewall? If you already have a firewall protecting your network you’ve taken an important step in protecting your infrastructure. You can continue to use your existing firewall that provides basic network security policies along with the enhanced security capabilities that are part of the Akouto solution. The security appliance can be installed in your network in “transparent mode” either in front of your existing firewall or behind it, significantly enhancing security capabilities with features such as Intrusion Prevention, Geo-IP security policy enforcement, external vulnerability scanning and automated cloud monitoring and alerting. Do I need both a firewall and the security appliance? If you don’t already have a firewall, there is no need to buy one. The security appliance provides firewall capabilities that rival standard commercial firewalls and includes many features that are only available in high end (and high price) security appliances. You can deploy the security appliance in NAT or transparent mode, and leverage all of the capabilities including Firewall, NAT, DHCP, Traffic Shaping, VPN, Intrusion Prevention, High Availability, Load Balancing, SNMP support, DNS Forwarding, Captive Portal and much more. Do I still need anti-virus? Yes, you should still use anti-virus on all of your endpoints including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones. A proper security strategy consists of multiple layers of protection. That includes network layer security as well as endpoint security which is provided by your anti-virus. The two technologies are complimentary and together provide the best possible protection against different types of vulnerabilities. I have anti-virus and still got infected, would this have helped? Akouto's managed security solution provides an additional layer of security that may have been able to detect and stop the attack. It contains thousands of rules that are constantly being updated by an army of cyber-security specialists allowing it to protect your network and systems against a huge number of attacks and vulnerabilities. At the same time, hackers are always finding new ways to bypass security systems. The best strategy is to use a layered approach to security that includes the right mix of technology and human expertise to protect your business. Who monitors my network security? Security analytics servers and network scanners continuously collect and analyze data from your security appliances. Critical events that require immediate attention generate SMS and Email alerts sent to the IT security staff managing your infrastructure. Members of the Akouto cyber security team and your IT service partner monitor your systems through the available security portal to quickly identify and address any issues that may be detected. How do I know if there is a security incident? Critical security issues detected by the security analytics servers automatically generate SMS and Email alerts that are sent to the IT security staff managing your infrastructure. Your IT service partner will notify you of security threats and any countermeasures that should be put in place or actions that should be taken. What should I do if there is a security incident? If you suspect there has been a breach or other security incident, you should contact your IT service partner. They are trained to investigate the issue and work with the Akouto cyber security team to identify the threat and take the appropriate action.	<urn:uuid:2e12c4ad-badf-40f0-98f5-c48f8964015a>	https://www.akouto.com/managed-security/	en	0.923705	0.036876	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
What happens in the vagus nerve, doesn’t stay in the vagus nerve… ::ba da bum:: If you’re like most people, you probably are unaware of the vagus nerve, better yet, you may have never heard of the vagus nerve. What is the Vagus Nerve? The vagus nerve is the tenth cranial nerve. Cranial nerves? Cranial nerves generally begin in the brain and brain stem and relay information between the brain and body; mostly the head and neck. But the vagus nerve might just be the most interesting of all the nerves in your body. Reason being is that the vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve and so named because it “wanders” like a vagabond, sending out fibers from your brainstem to all the organs of your body. The vagus nerve’s primary role is to captain your inner nerve center – the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the sympathetic nervous system and enteric nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for regulating the body’s involuntary functions. The parasympathetic nervous system operates as a complement to the sympathetic nervous system (stress reaction). Fight or Flight Speed Up Heart Rate Slows down digestion Immune System Suppression Rest and Digest Slows Down Heart Rate Turns up Digestion Supports Immune System Function In order for our bodies to be healthy, we need both of the systems to be working cooperatively. Our sympathetic nerve system helps us to flee from danger and perform ridiculous feats of athleticism when properly activated. On the other hand, the parasympathetic nervous system helps us to prepare for sleep and improve digestion and absorb vital nutrients. Achieving a balance between these two subsystems of the nerve system is what we should be striving for. Yet, it is very common to find ourselves being “stressed out” creating a dominance in our sympathetic nerve system. This dominance is what can contribute to why many people suffer from high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, and other chronic inflammatory illnesses. Although we cannot always control the environment around us that contributes to our elevated stress levels, there are things we can do on a daily basis to activate our vagus nerve and stimulate our parasympathetic nervous system. Sorry, I got a little side tracked…back to talking about the importance of the vagus nerve. So, the vagus nerve has many responsibilities…but we are going to only address the primary functions. The vagus nerve utilizes 75% of its function to send information to the brain from the organs that it controls. If the brain cannot interpret the information coming in, the brain will not know how to fix any problems going on. So what organs does the vagus nerve supply? As we discussed earlier, the vagus nerve is included in that autonomic (involuntary) nervous system. Thus, the vagus is primarily responsible for voluntary muscles in the larynx and esophagus, supplying autonomic fibers to the heart, and contributing to the stomach and intestines (gastrointestinal tract). For our intents and purposes, we will focus on the heart and gastrointestinal tract. The vagus nerve is intimately involved with your heart. The heart has a normal heart beat, right around 72 beats per minutes. How do we maintain that specific heart rate? Yup…the vagus nerve. The way doctors determine the “tone” or “strength” of your vagus nerve (and your cardiac health) is by measuring the time between your individual heart beats, and then plotting this on a chart over time (ie. heart rate variability – HRV) Along with heart rate, the vagus nerve plays a vital role in blood pressure. The blood pressure regulated just like heart rate. The vagus nerve translates between your gut and your brain. Your gut utilizes the vagus nerve like a “walkie-talkie” to tell your brain how you’re feeling via electric impulses called “action potentials”. Needless to say, don’t second guess your gut instincts…they are very real! Let’s try and bring it back full circle… There are numerous people in our society that suffer from a chronic disease associated with sympathetic dominance (high blood pressure, IBS, etc..). The vagus nerve could be the missing link. When the nerve is inhibited and not working properly, the signals get challenged. The figure below shows the location of the nerve (nervus vagus) at the upper cervical spine – the green bone is C1 or the atlas. The visual is to demonstrate how if there is a measurable displacement of the atlas or shift in the upper cervical spine, it could lead to signal interference in the vagus nerve. Assuming that a person has low vagal tone (a measurable decrease in the activity of the vagus nerve), what can be done? There are some medical procedures that are currently being trailed involving implanting an electric stimulator on the nerve. This applies constant stimulation to the nerve to correct the low vagal activity. A NeuroSpinal chiropractor, like myself, can look for, measure and correct the measurable atlas displacement or shifts in the spine. The possibilities that NeuroSpinal chiropractic care can assist with regulating blood pressure and digestive issues is high. In fact, there are many case studies suggesting the benefits of chiropractic care in relation to these issues. Ultimately, you need to determine what the best option is for you and a NeuroSpinal correction is not for everyone. But I encourage you to evaluate all your options before undergoing any type of procedure or care.	<urn:uuid:e19c91d9-0080-4d47-8374-b588b2b28c00>	https://www.chiropractorsannapolis.com/vagus-nerve/	en	0.891112	0.47263	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Dynacoat Uni Degreaser Uni Degreaser is a degreaser which is specially designed for cleaning and degreasing of existing coatings, including thermoplastic acrylic finishes in order to remove residual grease, oil, wax, silicons, sand and reducing the risk of dust ingress. It is also suitable to degrease primers, surfacers and fillers prior to finishing.	<urn:uuid:80a9daa3-9b3a-46b5-8dde-61b0a6177f84>	https://www.dynacoatafrica.com/Products/Pages/DynacoatUniDegreaser.aspx	en	0.920131	0.021869	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Wednesday 29 January 2020 A Ghost Story movie review: 'David Lowery's eerie tale will divide opinion but it's a unique masterpiece of sorts' A Ghost Story (12A, 92mins) ★★★★★ Where the sheets have no name: Rooney Mara (pictured) is haunted by her dead partner Casey Affleck who is trapped in their house as a ghost Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck in A Ghost Story A Ghost Story What happens when we die? Choirs of angels, perhaps, reincarnation as the family mutt, or maybe just nothing at all. That latter possibility may seem the scariest, but there could be worse fates than oblivion if David Lowery's brilliant and slightly unhinged drama A Ghost Story is to be believed. Because his spook is a kind of supernatural Hamlet, a lonely shade doomed to watch helplessly from the sidelines as his gorgeous wife moves on with her life, and out of their home. Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara are the couple in question, and in the film's early scenes, we watch them go about their humdrum and only mildly interesting bohemian lives. He's a composer and musician, she has an actual job, and they live in cosy chaos in a run-down wooden clap-board house. He loves it, she wants to move, and they have heated discussions on this subject: otherwise, though, love appears to reign and they canoodle tenderly in the dead of night. Then, Lowery's camera abruptly shifts to the scene of a car crash, in which we learn that the man has died. His wife files in to identify him on a mortuary slab, and a white sheet is pulled respectfully over his head. After she leaves, however, the sheet rises, and follows. In my favourite sequence, it trudges slowly across roads and fields towards the only place its spirit can now inhabit. But time in this new dimension works very differently, as the silent ghost will shortly learn. He watches his wife sit and stare, grieve silently with her head in her hands, then slowly start to get on with her life. As he watches, days, weeks and months flit by in the blinking of a ghostly eye: her mood lifts, she even laughs, and one night, the poor spook gets a terrible fright when she brings back a new man. He can act out telekinetically, as it were, throwing books and slamming doors, but is otherwise powerless to intervene in the world of flesh and blood. And worse is to come when she moves out altogether, after shoving a tiny note into a gap in the wall. He's doing his best to prize it out when he looks around to find the house has a new tenant. It's a single mother and her two children, who will experience the full brunt of his impotent fury. He throws glasses, smashes plates and makes such a racket that they too leave. The house is empty, and will soon be torn down, but the ghost is doomed to stay there until his lonely quest is fulfilled. The idea of a man under a sheet might sound childish, laughable, but stripping the notion of ghosts back to bare bones allows Lowery to examine not so much death, but grief, recovery and the callous resilience of the human spirit. That sheet is no ordinary fitted two-ply: its artful folds suggest the gloom of the soul beneath and its slow realisation that it is no longer a protagonist. It can move back as well as forth in time, and dwells gloomily on the finer points of the relationship it took for granted in life before plunging backwards to the frontier era and the Indian wars that cleared the land on which its house would eventually be built. The house too will go and be replaced by a stultifying office skyscraper whose neon-lit corridors the ghost will pointlessly haunt. But it is not entirely alone: other ghosts appear now and then, and wordlessly communicate their confusion and gloom. One haunts a neighbouring house, and tells our spook it's waiting for someone but can no longer remember whom. Then it despairs entirely, and the sheet collapses. Time is the issue here, as Lowery makes clear in the film's most talked about scene. While the man's spirit hovers in the corner, the woman returns home, still grieving, and sits on the ground eating a cherry pie a neighbour has brought. As he watches, she eats all of it in a scene that lasts a good five minutes but felt like an eternity. This will infuriate some viewers, but the director is making a point, about time, how quickly it passes, and how casually and mindlessly we squander it. Films coming soon... The Dark Tower (Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba); Everything, Everything (Amanda Stenberg, Nick Robinson); The Hitman's Bodyguard (Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman); Final Portrait (Geoffrey Rush, Arnie Hammer). Irish Independent Editors Choice Also in Entertainment Back to top	<urn:uuid:b95cf5f2-5c52-4550-a2b8-62826277c016>	https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movie-reviews/a-ghost-story-movie-review-david-lowerys-eerie-tale-will-divide-opinion-but-its-a-unique-masterpiece-of-sorts-36020149.html	en	0.964211	0.119285	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Psalm 144 – The True Fountain of Strength & Warfare in the Ancient World A Psalm of David. The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron. Its construction began in 447 B.C. when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power. It was completed in 438 B.C., although decoration of the building continued until 432 B.C. Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for at least 7000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium B.C. and its cultural achievements during the 5th century B.C. laid the foundations of western civilization. During the early Middle Ages, the city experienced a decline, then recovered under the later Byzantine Empire and was relatively prosperous during the period of the Crusades (12th and 13th centuries), benefiting from Italian trade. Following a period of sharp decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens re-emerged in the 19th century as the capital of the independent Greek state. History of the Peloponnesian War Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author’s ambitious claim that the work “was done to last forever.” The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. 14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. A Psalm of praise to the infinite majesty of God. Fighting the good fight of faith for the sake of being in the state of a happy church life. Warfare in the Ancient World Modern readers may be shocked at the opening verse of Ps 144, but warfare is a prominent theme in Psalms. The first intact chariot was discovered in 1829 in a tomb whose owner remains unknown and is now on display at the Museo Archeologico in Florence, Italy. The Florence Chariot has wheels of four spokes and is considered to be of earlier construction and design than other chariots found, which have six spokes. The earliest wars were conducted with crude weapons of wood and stone. Horses were of limited value during heavy combat because the stirrup had not yet been invented and a rider could easily fall. Chariots were not used extensively until the Bronze Age. An Egyptian chariot conveyed two men, a driver and an archer (chariots from the Levant [Syria] also accommodated a shield-bearer). Massed chariots used shock value and speed to demoralize and scatter an enemy. Chariots were prominent in New Kingdom Egypt. A revolution in military technology occurred at the beginning of the Iron Age. Massed armies of heavy infantry with the discipline to hold their ranks appeared on the scene. They could withstand and rout a chariot charge, making the chariot obsolete except as a prestigious vehicle for commanders. Battles were often short, lasting only as long as one side or the other had the stamina to maintain face-to-face combat. Frequently one side would break ranks and flee. Panic was common, exacerbated by the commanders’ poor control, having to rely as they did on shouted voice commands or signals. The State Chariot of King Tutankhamun The discovery of six chariots in the Tomb of King Tutankhamun was a significant find, as only two others have been found, as well as fragments of chariots discovered in the various tombs of the Valley of the Kings. The State Chariot is made of wood, which was then gessoed and gilded to give it its fine golden finish. The engravings were then impressed on top to complete the decor of the chariot. In keeping with the hilly terrain they inhabited, the Israelites relied primarily on infantry. Light infantry soldiers wore little or no armor and typically used projectile weapons, like stones and arrows. They moved in loose formations, relying on speed (see Jud 20:15-16; 2 Cho 14:8). Heavy infantrymen wore full armor and often carried heavy swords and long spears. They moved in large, close formation, with spears lowered to form a wall of pikes, in effect creating an ancient version of a The Greek hoplite (heavily armored infantry soldier) marching in his phalanx was a classic example of heavy infantry in action. Normally a heavy infantry unit would rout a light infantry corps, but out in the open a single heavy infantryman could be at a disadvantage when pitted against a light infantryman, due to the latter’s mobility and ability to strike at a distance. The greatest armies combined heavy and light infantry with cavalry. Alexander the Great and Hannibal were masters at using their heavy infantry as a solid center for their armies, employing cavalry to flank an opponent. The Roman legions rejected the long pike in favor of a short sword. These legions had the weight and impact of heavy infantry but were much more mobile. Ancient Egyptian Battle of Axes The mace was the common weapon used for primary close combat with the opponent. However, ancient Egypt battle axes was a practical weapon that replaced the mace as Egyptian’s military close combat weapon. Ancient Egypt cutting axes is a blade that was fastened to a sizable handle. In addition to fighting pitched battles in the open field, armies sometimes laid siege to walled cities that were often situated atop hills. How long a city could hold out depended on how much food it had in storage and upon whether it had direct access to underground springs. Plague could strike a besieged city, as happened to Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 B.C. Often the besieging army would seek to bring down a city by building a siege ramp and attacking the walls with siege towers. Reproduction of Spartan Armour. Reproduction of an ancient Greek Spartan Heavy Infantry Armour from 490 B.C. Includes Crested Helmet, Long Spear, Shield and Cuirass. Ancient armies were often made up of citizen soldiers called up in times of emergency. These citizens could fight with dedication but were poorly trained and armed and often needed to return home on short order to tend their crops. Citizen-soldier armies served Israel during the judges period. Ancient societies tried to give their armies a core of professional soldiers with long-term enlistments. Kings would also hire mercenaries. The Spartans had a novel solution to the recruitment problem: Every man served in the army full-time and lived in the barracks through most of his adult life (farming was handled by slaves called helots). Ancient city-states often fought each other in “wars” that lasted a single day. Casualties could be light, and frequently nothing more was at stake than setting a property claim. Other wars could be catastrophic. The Peloponnesian War lasted 27 years, destroyed the Athenian Empire and devastated the Greek world. Victorious armies might slaughter cities and take survivors as slaves, effectively destroying peoples and cultures with deliberate genocide. Armed conflict was indeed a fact of life for the peoples of ancient times. Against this reality David had ample reason to thank God, who trained his hands for war.	<urn:uuid:0f91df2f-b652-41f4-8039-b04345dffa23>	https://www.jerryandgod.com/psalm-144-2/	en	0.944237	0.183897	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Start good. Won handily; second and third driving. COUNT FLEET began fast, was hustled along until reaching the stretch, shook off the bid of GOLD SHOWER and, responding to a shaking up, won handily. BLUE SWORDS was in hand until reaching the last half, came determinedly when subjected to punishment, but was not good enough for the winner, although easily best of the others. SLIDE RULE saved ground while outrun to the final half, was blocked when moving up approaching the final turn and, taken out for the drive, could not reach the leaders. AMBER LIGHT raced evenly under restraint until reaching the final half, made a game bid entering the stretch, but tired. BANKRUPT, outrun until the final quarter, failed to respond when called upon in the stretch. NO WRINKLES could not better his position and had no excuses. DOVE PIE swerved to the inside after the start and was never a serious contender. GOLD SHOWER, much used engaging COUNT FLEET in the first three-quarters, gave way badly thereafter. MODEST LAD, bothered slightly after the start by DOVE PIE, was always far back. BURNT CORK began fast, displayed good speed in the first half and then quit. Scratched - Twoses, Ocean Wave.	<urn:uuid:ad069f5a-67ec-40bd-a932-8c90a8964dbb>	https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1943	en	0.976224	0.092837	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Camila Mendes confirms Veronica and Reggie romance on 'Riverdale' 6 December 2018, 18:58 \| Updated: 7 December 2018, 09:22 By Sam Prance Camila will date her irl boyfriend Charles Melton on the show... Riverdale would not be the same without its iconic ships. Ever since the hit teen drama first aired back in 2017, fans instantly latched onto the show's central romances. From Bughead (whatever your feel about Betty and Jughead, there is no denying that they really love each other) to Choni (LGBTQ+ legends), there's lots to stan. Not to mention, will-they-won't-they icons Falice (FP and Alice better be endgame). 'Riverdale' needs to stop queerbaiting its LGBTQ+ audience It's Varchie who fans can't stop talking about right now though. The long-term Riverdale couple called it quits this season. In one of the most heartbreaking scenes of the show, Archie chose to end things with Veronica so that he could attempt to run away from Hiram (okay...). Despite some temptation, it is clear that Archie is not over Veronica yet but Camila Mendes has confirmed that Veronica is moving on. Will Veronica and Reggie get together on Riverdale? 'Riverdale': Camila Mendes confirms Veronica and Reggie ship 'Riverdale': Camila Mendes confirms Veronica and Reggie ship. Picture: The CW In last night's episode it became pretty clear that things between Veronica and Reggie were starting to heat up. There wasn't anything explicit between the two characters but the two of them definitely began to flirt while working in the speakeasy and fans immediately started speculating that it's only a matter of time now before Veggie becomes a real thing. Apologies to all of the loyal Varchie shippers out there. And now Camila Mendes has confirmed that the rumours that Veggie is going to happen are true. Speaking to Cosmopolitan about a Veronica and Reggie romance, she revealed: "I mean I don't think that's any secret. Veggie is something that's been happening in the comics way before Riverdale." So Camila will date her real boyfriend Charles Melton on screen. This is so perfect and people already stan. Here are just a few of the Veggie shippers on Twitter. Camila still thinks Varchie are ultimately "endgame" though. She said "I think Veronica is in a sensitive place right now and I think she's seeking comfort. Reggie is clearly there for her." and "We're seeing a different side of Reggie this season and I think we are going to see a bit more of his sensitive side and how loyal he is. And how much of a good friend he is." In other words, Veggie is very much a thing but Varchie isn't over. Although something tells us that if Archie wants Veronica back, he's going to need to stop doing infuriating things and return to Riverdale pretty soon. If not, Veggie will rise. What do you think? Are you team Varchie or Veggie?	<urn:uuid:45417c89-b5bd-4b5c-8793-61bd86ea91fc>	https://www.popbuzz.com/tv-film/riverdale/camila-mendes-charles-melton-veronica-reggie-ship/	en	0.96258	0.038796	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Call or Text Us! 970-528-5060 Windsor Audiology - Windsor, CO Sign indicating hearing protection is necessary. It’s one thing to realize that you need to safeguard your hearing. Knowing when to protect your ears is another matter. It’s harder than, for example, recognizing when you need sunscreen. (Are you going to go outside? Is there sunlight? You need to be wearing sunblock.) Even recognizing when you need eye protection is easier (Handling dangerous chemicals? Doing some building? You need eye protection). It can feel as though there’s a significant grey area when dealing with when to wear hearing protection, and that can be risky. Unless we have specific knowledge that some activity or place is hazardous we tend to take the easy path which is to avoid the issue altogether. Evaluating The Risks In general, we’re not very good at assessing risk, especially when it comes to something as intangible as long term hearing problems or loss of hearing. To demonstrate the situation, here are some examples: • A very loud rock concert is attended by person A. The concert lasts roughly 3 hours. • A landscaping company is run by person B. After mowing lawns all day, she goes home to quietly read a book. • Person C works in an office. You may believe the hearing danger is higher for person A (let’s just call her Ann). Ann leaves the performance with ringing ears, and she’ll spend the majority of the next day, trying to hear herself talk. Assuming Ann’s activity was dangerous to her ears would be fair. Person B (let’s call her Betty), on the other hand, is subjected to less noise. Her ears don’t ring. So her ears must be safer, right? Not really. Because Betty is mowing every day. So although her ears don’t ring out with pain, the harm accrues slowly. If experienced on a regular basis, even moderately loud noises can have a damaging affect on your ears. Person C (let’s call her Chris) is even less clear. The majority of people understand that you need to safeguard your ears while running equipment such as a lawnmower. But although Chris has a fairly quiet job, her long morning commute on the train every day is quite loud. Additionally, while she works at her desk all day, she listens to her music through earbuds. Does she need to give some thought to protection? When is it Time to Worry About Protecting Your Ears? The standard rule of thumb is that if you need to raise your voice to be heard, your surroundings are noisy enough to do damage to your ears. And if your environment is that loud, you need to think about using earplugs or earmuffs. So to put this a little more scientifically, you should use 85dB as your cutoff. Sounds above 85dB have the ability, over time, to result in damage, so in those circumstances, you need to consider using hearing protection. Most hearing professionals suggest getting a special app to monitor noise levels so you will be aware when the 85dB has been reached. You will be able to take the required steps to protect your ears because these apps will tell you when the sound is reaching a dangerous level. A Few Examples Your phone may not be with you wherever you go even if you do get the app. So we might develop a good standard with a couple of examples of when to safeguard our ears. Here we go: • Listening to music with earbuds. OK, this doesn’t require protection but does require care. Pay attention to how loud the music is, how long you’re listening to it, and whether it’s playing directly into your ears. Noise-canceling headphones are a good choice to steer clear of needing to turn the volume way up. • Exercise: You know your morning cycling class? Or maybe your daily elliptical session. Each of these examples may require hearing protection. The high volume from trainers who play loud music and microphones for motivation, though it might be good for your heart rate, can be bad for your ears. • Operating Power Tools: You know that working all day at your factory job is going to call for ear protection. But how about the enthusiast building in his workshop? Most hearing professionals will suggest you use hearing protection when operating power tools, even if it’s only on a hobbyist level. • Driving & Commuting: Do you drive for Lyft or Uber? Or maybe you’re just hanging out downtown for work or boarding the subway. The noise of living in the city is bad enough for your ears, not to mention the extra injury caused by cranking up your music to drown out the city noise. • Every day Chores: Even mowing a lawn, as previously stated, calls for hearing protection. Chores, like mowing, are probably something you don’t even think about, but they can result in hearing impairment. A strong baseline may be researched by these examples. If there is any doubt, however, wear protection. Compared to leaving your ears exposed to future injury, in most circumstances, it’s better to protect your hearing. Protect today, hear tomorrow.	<urn:uuid:f2fccef8-fe93-43f3-982d-c52d1f4d29fb>	https://www.windsoraudiology.com/hearing-loss-articles/when-do-you-need-to-protect-your-ears/	en	0.947722	0.020526	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Tuesday's tip: Cook ground beef mince in its own fat It took me the longest time to figure out this cooking tip. Previously, (ie. before I had read Nourishing Traditions) my mince cooking routine was an exercise in bad diet advice gone wrong. How I used to prepare and cook mince 1. Pay a lot of money to buy lean beef mince, which has had its excess fat removed. 2. Spend more money on olive oil to cook the mince in, destroying any nutrients in the olive oil and turning them toxic, since olive oil has a low smoke point and shouldn't be used for cooking at high temperatures. 3. After browning the mince, tip any excess fat and cooking oil out in an attempt to create a "healthier" low-fat meal. Now, I've cottoned on to the fact that animal fats are way better for cooking in than olive oil, because they have a higher smoke point. Any fats that are solid at room temperature do, so that's a simple rule to go by when choosing fats/oils to cook in. Coconut oil is good. So is beef tallow and chicken schmaltz. Animal fats are also great to eat because they help your body process fat soluble vitamins like A, D, K and E. Without the right fats, your body can't process fat soluble vitamins, so eating animal fat with your meat and vegetables is a great way to get true nourishment from those foods. How I prepare and cook mince now Mince and onions cooking in the natural mince fat. 1. Buy the cheapest ground beef mince at the supermarket, which also happens to be the fattiest. (Bear in mind that I'm talking about New Zealand beef mince here, where even the cheapest comes from pastured animals raised on their natural diet of grass.) 2. Throw mince into a frying pan on a medium high heat and brown it in its own fat. At first the fat is solid so the mince sticks to the pan slightly, but I just keep stirring until the fat melts enough to protect the mince from sticking. 3. Leave all that lovely, nutritious beef fat in the pan with the mince, and carry on adding the rest of the ingredients my recipe calls for. Does anyone else cook their ground beef mince this way? Linked to Monday Mania on The Healthy Home Economist. 1. Interesting! Do you think it's tastier this way than your previous method? 1. Good question! Although I haven't really thought about it. I usually add soooo many herbs and flavours to my mince that I can't taste the mince itself. 2. I love when the pastured organic beef we buy has lovely fat on it, great for cooking & flavour. I am about to start buying organic pork fat too, to render for lard. I have been getting into the 'nourishing' way to cook, & am currently reading Real Food by Nina Planck! For the last 6 months or so, I've been converting to coconut oil, and keeping olive oil & macadamia oil for salad dressings/ dips. Can't wait to read more on your blog! 1. I haven't read "Real Food", but I'll look out for it now that you've mentioned it. The whole real food concept makes so much sense. I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. It was reading "Nourishing Traditions" that made everything click for me. What a life changer. 3. I think I will have to start doing that since I buy premium mince and then cook in beef dripping, when the cheaper mince has it all there, mince and fat in one and saving dollars at the same time. 4. Have you tried cooking with avocado oil? It is good for high temperature cooking as it has a high smoke point. NZ produces lovely avocado oil. 1. No I haven't. I'll look into it. Thanks! 2. I like being able to cook things in their own fat as well, but sometimes that's just not possible. Extra-light olive oil is another option (242°C), but not as good as avocado oil (271°C):	<urn:uuid:2b50df30-99df-4778-a0b2-d1c105b8cbd4>	http://www.cravingfresh.com/2012/01/tuesdays-tip-cook-ground-beef-mince-in.html	en	0.966136	0.138379	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How was your experience with Ronifibrate? First, a little about yourself Tell us about yourself in a few words? What tips would you provide a friend before taking Ronifibrate? What are you taking Ronifibrate for? Choose one • Other How long have you been taking it? Choose one • Less than a week • A couple weeks • A month or so • A few months • A year or so • Two years or more How well did Ronifibrate work for you? Did you experience many side effects while taking this drug? How likely would you be to recommend Ronifibrate to a friend? Ronifibrate Drug Class Ronifibrate is part of the drug class: Ronifibrate Interactions This is not a complete list of Ronifibratedrug interactions. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.	<urn:uuid:14e1aea4-a655-4945-902e-f345399c1b94>	https://feeds.rxwiki.com/ronifibrate	en	0.922597	0.049303	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Assigning a Job What is Assigning a job? Assigning a job is when you allocate a worker to a job and publish it to the schedule for that worker to either accept or decline. Why do you need to assign a job? If you do not assign a job after it has been created, it will remain unassigned on the schedule, and the work will not be scheduled. After you have completed the details from the "Creating a New Job" example you will see that the job is listed as unassigned. How do I assign a job? Unassigned jobs will always appear as pink. If they are unassigned and have a start time - they will also appear on the workbench. Drag the job from the left hand panel or from the workbench and place this on the schedule. Unpublished jobs will appear as orange as shown above. The Publish Schedule button will then be highlighted and it will flash. Click this to publish your schedule once you are happy with it. If you selected a start time, a worker and clicked Publish Job in the job editor - you aren't required to take this step. Once you have clicked "Publish Schedule" - your job will appear as Yellow (Pending - Accept/Decline Feature) or Blue (Assigned to Worker)	<urn:uuid:807489f3-c726-494a-bc47-bca60065c51b>	https://help.vworkapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/203694150	en	0.926569	0.280009	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
It’s the money, stupid Pub date June 6, 2012 WriterTim Redmond SectionPolitics Blog If you want to know what American politics looks like in a post-Citizens United world, check out the June 5 elections. It’s not that this specific court case played a role in all of the key races — the tobacco industry could have spent $47 million to defeat a cigarette tax with or without Citizens United — but around the country, you saw the role that big money played in literally altering the political landscape. Take Wisconsin. The national news media twist on this will call it a test of Obama’s field campaign and a referendum on labor, but it was really all about money. Walker and his big-biz allies raised $30 million, a lot of it through barely-regulated super PACs, and outspent Tom Barrett by more than 7-1. In California, Prop. 29, which would have put a $1 tax on each pack of cigarettes to pay for cancer research, was way ahead in the polls, and I was pretty sure it was going to win handily — how can you vote against a tax on a product that kills people to fund a cure for the disease it causes? Prop. 29 had a 30-point lead a couple of months ago. Then came the blitz — $47 million in TV ads, funded by a couple of big tobacco companies. The ads were classics of the type — misdirection and confusion aimed at getting people to vote No. And it worked: Prop. 29 is going down to a narrow defeat. In San Francisco, Prop A, with little money and not much of a campaign, never had a serious chance. But the flood of Recology money made sure it never got even 25 percent of the vote (although if you asked people, outside of the campaign, whether the garbage contract should be put out to bid, most of them would say yes). I think Recology money had an impact on the Democratic County Central Commitee, too; Recology paid for a lot of slate cards that promoted a lot of more moderate candidates. The company also paid for progressive slate cards (the Milk Club etc.), and I haven’t counted them all, but in the end, slate cards matter in the DCCC and they may have made the difference. The local election was so low-turnout that it’s hard to draw any serious conclusions from it. But overall, money carried the day June 5 — and that’s a scary message.	<urn:uuid:4ab5bd7d-99ed-4034-86c7-74070076e91c>	https://sfbgarchive.48hills.org/sfbgarchive/2012/06/06/its-money-stupid/	en	0.978123	0.030185	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Lenticular-eyed Owl Earring Stand Submitted by Rusty March 1st, 2011 Certifikitsch Winner Recent find: Sixties Mod Green Owl Earring Stand with Crazy Blue Lenticular Eyes Yep, move it around and the eyes get all spirally. You will be hypnotized by it. Lenticular eyes made by Vari Vue Metal Owl body made by Libby 5 1/2″ tall 3 3/4″ wide 5 Responses to “Lenticular-eyed Owl Earring Stand” 1. Allee Willis Allee Willis I see lots of owl accoutrements, lots of metal earring stands and lots of lenticular eyeballs but have never seen them in this combo before. So 60’s and so fab! I like that they even gave his wings ridges for extra earring storage.	<urn:uuid:e3c51d29-a21c-4e41-99a3-17b2f9544c95>	https://www.awmok.com/2011/03/01/lenticular-eyed-owl-earring-stand/	en	0.911173	0.042172	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
英文自傳︰生物自然學 Biological/Natural Science 生物自然學英文自傳範例 Biological/Natural Science Autobiography Example I do not have to look far to find the source of my love of science. Just glancing around my living room my eyes fall upon a whole host of fascinating different organisms, seen and unseen they create a brilliant miniature ecosystem with billions of tiny processes and reactions for me to sit and unpick. The direction of my interest in how the world functions has definitely changed and augmented over the years, but within the last few years it has been humans and higher organisms that have captured me most. When learning about natural selection in A-level Biology I began to realise that understanding survival of the fittest could be the key to the explanation of why every living organism functions and behaves the way it does. I read Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection’ and ever since have found myself relating everything I observe in the world back to natural selection. There are however limits and boundaries; the challenges of pinning down the behaviour of higher organisms and humans to biological processes, and then to genes, and then to survival of the fittest enthrals me and is where my passion lies. Studying both chemistry and biology at A-Level I am constantly making links between the two. I now feel that they cannot be separated if I am truly going to understand the human body. My desire to understand the chemical basis of behaviour has leaded me towards the field of neuroscience. The work of Rebecca Saxe on how we think about other people’s thoughts has deeply influenced me. After watching online lectures by her and reading ‘Words, Thoughts and Theories’ by Alison Gopnick; I am committed to spending a career in learning and researching about the brain and the cognitive processes that are key to understanding consciousness. To further my knowledge of life and its origins I have completed an Open University module called ‘Human Genetics and Health Issues’. Not only did I gain fascinating knowledge on modern genetics, I also learnt to discipline myself and manage my time more effectively. This was a useful skill to further develop as I am constantly juggling college, extracurricular studies, part-time work as a waitress, hobbies and a social life which has been a formidable challenge. The idea of being in an environment where people aren’t afraid to ask questions and find the answers for themselves is tremendously appealing to me. I am really looking forward to beginning my undergraduate degree not just because it’s a stepping stone for a research career but because I love to learn.	<urn:uuid:038aea1f-d741-4807-9afe-b532f37cfee8>	http://midgardediting.com/autobiography-translation/biological-natural-science.html	en	0.91818	0.061524	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
When Adults Become Kids – Moral Ji-had-ness Some people are obsessed with kids, so they want to boss everyone around like they do to their own kids. It’s very condescending and obnoxious. Some people might be sort of “tards” to some degree and may well be asking for this treatment, but seriously, other than maybe your roommate, it’s not anybody’s business if you’re a slob, a ne’er-do-well, a loser, etc.. Well, I would take this stuff to be out-group bullying, which, unlike kidding around with buddies, is not tolerable. It’s just disrespect plain and simple, and it warrants a reaction like the ones to Pearl Harbor or the Boston Massacre. How did this society of “do-goody parents” come about? Much is about PC I think. Basically, it’s a type of abusive idealism, a lot stemming from being parents too long. “Do this. Do that. Shut up etc…” When is it justified? Maybe with parents who smoke around children – but that’s more a matter for the cops – it shouldn’t be grounds for “holier-than-thou harassment”. Please follow and like us: Tweet 20 Leave a Reply	<urn:uuid:5404e080-269c-46a5-819c-2157c7185120>	https://beyondhighbrow.com/2019/11/15/when-adults-become-kids-moral-ji-had-ness/	en	0.940412	0.018113	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Skip to main content Whole exome sequencing in 342 congenital cardiac left sided lesion cases reveals extensive genetic heterogeneity and complex inheritance patterns Left-sided lesions (LSLs) account for an important fraction of severe congenital cardiovascular malformations (CVMs). The genetic contributions to LSLs are complex, and the mutations that cause these malformations span several diverse biological signaling pathways: TGFB, NOTCH, SHH, and more. Here, we use whole exome sequence data generated in 342 LSL cases to identify likely damaging variants in putative candidate CVM genes. Using a series of bioinformatics filters, we focused on genes harboring population-rare, putative loss-of-function (LOF), and predicted damaging variants in 1760 CVM candidate genes constructed a priori from the literature and model organism databases. Gene variants that were not observed in a comparably sequenced control dataset of 5492 samples without severe CVM were then subjected to targeted validation in cases and parents. Whole exome sequencing data from 4593 individuals referred for clinical sequencing were used to bolster evidence for the role of candidate genes in CVMs and LSLs. Our analyses revealed 28 candidate variants in 27 genes, including 17 genes not previously associated with a human CVM disorder, and revealed diverse patterns of inheritance among LOF carriers, including 9 confirmed de novo variants in both novel and newly described human CVM candidate genes (ACVR1, JARID2, NR2F2, PLRG1, SMURF1) as well as established syndromic CVM genes (KMT2D, NF1, TBX20, ZEB2). We also identified two genes (DNAH5, OFD1) with evidence of recessive and hemizygous inheritance patterns, respectively. Within our clinical cohort, we also observed heterozygous LOF variants in JARID2 and SMAD1 in individuals with cardiac phenotypes, and collectively, carriers of LOF variants in our candidate genes had a four times higher odds of having CVM (odds ratio = 4.0, 95% confidence interval 2.5–6.5). Our analytical strategy highlights the utility of bioinformatic resources, including human disease records and model organism phenotyping, in novel gene discovery for rare human disease. The results underscore the extensive genetic heterogeneity underlying non-syndromic LSLs, and posit potential novel candidate genes and complex modes of inheritance in this important group of birth defects. Congenital cardiovascular malformations (CVMs) occur in 5 to 8 of 1000 live births and have a high mortality rate compared to other birth defects [1, 2]. Left-sided lesion (LSL) disorders comprise 15–20% of severe CVMs [3, 4] and include hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), aortic valve stenosis (AS), coarctation of the aorta (CoA), interrupted aortic arch type A (IAAA), mitral valve atresia and stenosis (MA, MS), and Shone’s complex (SC). Despite the diversity of the cardiac malformations encompassed by LSLs, this epidemiologically grouped family is also thought to be developmentally unified by altered or obstructed flow through the left side of the heart during embryonic development [5]. Most importantly, LSLs, and HLHS in particular, contribute disproportionately high costs to long-term disability and mortality from CVM, making a better understanding of their underlying etiology an important area of study. Although genetic factors are known to contribute significantly to the development of LSLs, the spectrum and nature of these genetic contributions are complex and heterogeneous, spanning single nucleotide substitutions, chromosome abnormalities including aneuploidies [6], structural variants including copy number variants (CNVs) causing genomic disorders [7], and oligogenic inheritance [8]. More than 30 genes have been implicated in human syndromes that include left-sided heart malformations. These loci include those implicated in HLHS (ZIC3, TBX5, CREBBP, ACVR2B, LEFTY2, DTNA, DHCR7, EVC1-2, FOXF1-FOXC2-FOXL1, and PEX genes), AS (NOTCH1, FOXC1, FGD1), and CoA (JAG1, NOTCH2, NF1, PTPN11, KRAS, SOS1, RAF1, NRAS, BRAF, SHOC2, CBL, ZIC3, CREBBP, MLL2, FGD1, DHCR7, NSDHL, KCNJ2, MKS1) (Additional file 1: Table S1). Many of the associated syndromes have characteristic extra-cardiac features indicating early pleiotropic roles for the underlying molecular pathways in normal organ development. LSLs without overt extra-cardiac abnormalities (apparently isolated or non-syndromic LSL) appear to have a more complex origin. Familial clustering of cases [9] and an increased risk of LSL in first-degree relatives [10] are consistent with single gene and/or oligogenic inheritance; however, the consistent observation of sporadic cases, particularly in the context of more severe LSLs (e.g., HLHS) that may negatively impact reproductive fitness, suggests a potential role for de novo mutations and a potential role for multi-locus variation [11]. De novo mutations have been reported within the broader context of congenital heart defects (CHDs) [12, 13], but their specific role in LSLs remains unknown. This confluence of multiple disease models, potential modes of inheritance, and disparate candidate genes presents a challenge for identifying likely disease-causing alleles in LSLs. The availability of large-scale, public databases that aid in annotating and curating extensive genomic data offers a lens through which to focus on the most robust CVM candidate genes. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the spectrum of genetic variation associated with LSLs, we performed whole exome sequencing (WES) of 342 unrelated LSL cases without known extra-cardiac features, i.e., apparent non-syndromic LSLs. We then focused on putative loss-of-function (LOF) or predicted damaging variants rarely observed in public databases and not observed in a large cohort not enriched for LSLs that was sequenced on a similar platform. We then applied a series of bioinformatic filters to a standing list of potential CHD candidate genes derived from the literature and publicly available databases in order to focus the set of WES-derived genomic candidates. The intersection of case-exclusive, rare, putatively damaging, variation with this a priori LSL candidate gene list formed the foundation of our discovery strategy (Fig. 1). Candidate variants identified were then validated and genotyped in available parents to determine patterns of inheritance. Genes with verified de novo variants were then queried for variants with LOF consequences and algorithmically damaging variants in a large clinical database consisting of individuals with developmental concerns referred for clinical sequencing. Fig. 1 Discovery strategy for LSL cohort. Imposing a candidate list, constructed independently, of a priori disease gene candidates on rare-variant exome-wide analyses, with integration of pedigree information, facilitates genes discovery. LOF putative loss-of-function variants, DNS damaging non-synonymous variation predicted by > 3 of 6 predictive algorithms, ARIC Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, ExAC Exome Aggregation Consortium, EVS Exome Variant Server, OP ratio of observed to potential LOF alleles, RVIS residual variation intolerance score; *includes de novo and inherited dominant alleles Subject selection The discovery sample included 342 unrelated LSL cases without clinically evident extra-cardiac malformations or unexplained developmental concerns at the time of recruitment, which in most cases was during infancy or early childhood. Cases were recruited through the Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston, TX and included 42 cases with HLHS originally recruited at Children’s Hospital in Linz, Austria. Parents and affected family members of LSL cases (where available) were also recruited. TCH participants were recruited as an extension of a previously published [9] cohort of LSL cases, and all participants provided informed consent prior to their inclusion. In brief, patients were eligible if they had a characteristic LSL CVM, — AS, CoA, HLHS, MA or MS — or a combination of aortic valve atresia or stenosis with hypoplasia of the left ventricle and aortic arch known as Shone’s complex (SC). We also included individuals if they had bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), ventricular septal defect (VSD), or other associated cardiac defects when they were present in combination with typical LSL malformations (Table 1). Diagnoses were confirmed by echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, or open cardiac surgery. Cases with clear evidence of extra-cardiac involvement at the time of evaluation by the referring physician (including dysmorphic or syndromic cases or those with other birth defects or congenital anomalies) were excluded. In some cases, particularly among medically unstable neonates, a comprehensive physical examination was not possible, and cases were included as long as there was not a strong clinical suspicion of a syndromic diagnosis. All cases were genotyped by chromosome microarray as part of a genome-wide association study of the LSL phenotype [14]. Cases found to have large (> 1 megabase) genomic defects were excluded from further analysis [15]. The same single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotype data were also used to infer ancestry from the first two principal components on multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). Table 1 Overview of LSL cases Secondary cohorts Our analysis utilized two other cohorts as part of our approach. First, we used WES data from 5492 European American (EA) individuals from the population-based Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study [16] as a comparison group without known severe LSLs or significant congenital CVMs. ARIC WES data [17] were generated on the same sequencing platform using a similar capture reagent and were annotated in the same way as the LSL cohort (see below). The ARIC data were primarily used as a sequencing control dataset to reduce the likelihood of case-only variants arising because of differences in sequencing platforms in public databases. ARIC samples with any of the following criteria were excluded from these analyses: heart failure, major Q-wave, or left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by the Cornell definition. In the second stage, genes with de novo LOF variation ascertained in the discovery stage were interrogated for similar damaging/LOF variants in an independent clinical sample of 4750 clinical exomes from the Baylor Genetics Laboratory ( These individuals had samples submitted to the laboratory for clinical WES for a diverse set of clinical indications, including children with neurodevelopmental concerns or congenital birth defects in keeping with previous reports from this cohort [18, 19]. Only the primary indication and reported clinical data were available for interrogation; cardiovascular lesions, where indicated, were noted, but were not systematically assessed. Whole exome sequencing WES was performed on cases and comparison samples with the Illumina HiSeq platform using the Mercury pipeline [20]. ARIC samples were captured using VCRome 2.1 (42 Mb) reagents with an average coverage of 88×, LSL cases were captured using the Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) core (52 Mb), and all analyses were restricted to exonic regions shared between these two reagents. Overall exon coverage and read depth in the two cohorts were highly comparable (> 90% of samples with ≥ 20× coverage at shared sites). In both cohorts, read mapping to Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 37 (GRCh37) was performed with Burrows-Wheeler alignment [21], and allele calling was performed with the Atlas2 suite (Atlas-SNP, Atlas-Indel) [22]. The Variant Call Format (VCF) file contained flagged low-quality variants including SNPs with posterior probability lower than 0.95, total depth of coverage less than 10×, fewer than three variant reads, allelic fraction less than 10%, 99% reads in a single direction, and homozygous reference alleles with < 6× coverage. We increased stringency to remove low-quality indels with a total depth less than 30× and allelic fraction below 30%. WES of LSL cases initially revealed 243,609 variants within the capture regions (239,726 single nucleotide substitutions and 3883 small indels), with indel length ranging from –51 bp (deletion) to +26 bp (insertion). On average, each case presented a total of 14,669 heterozygous and 8321 homozygous non-reference genotypes (Additional file 2: Table S2). Population frequency of variants was determined by comparison to the 1000 Genomes Project [23], Exome Sequencing Project, Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) v0.3 [24], and participants from the ARIC study [16]. Only novel and rare sites were included in these analyses, defining rare as minor allele frequency (MAF) < 0.5% for LOF dominant, recessive, and X-linked segregation analyses. Functional variant prediction Variants were annotated to RefSeq gene definitions using ANNOVAR [25]. Conservative LOF annotation was performed by selecting only included premature stopgains in the non-terminal exon, variants disrupting essential splice sites used by all gene isoforms, and frameshift indels similarly mapping to all isoforms. Damaging non-synonymous (DNS) variation was defined as protein-altering substitutions predicted to be damaging by a consensus of at least three out of six prediction scores downloaded via dbNSFP [26] (SIFT, Polyphen2 HDIV, LRT, MutationTaster, MutationAssessor, FATHMM). A Phred-like scaled C-score (Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD) [27]) was also used to assess pathogenicity of variants (LOF and DNS) but was not used to exclude candidate sites. Residual variation intolerance scores (RVISs) [28] for genes were also interrogated as a means of further prioritizing likely candidate genes. A priori gene prioritization In order to facilitate novel gene and variant discovery, we assembled a priori evidence from public resources to identify potential novel LSL genes. We compiled a list of 1712 human genes with a putative role in the development of CVM from a variety of public resources (Additional file 3: Table S3). Genes related to overlapping human disorders including CVM were ascertained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), and literature searches. Relevance to biological pathways and interactions (SHH, NOTCH, TGFB, PITX) was determined using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database [29]. Two model organism databases, the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN [30]) and Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI [31]), were also used to ascertain genes related to cardiac malformation in model organisms. ZFIN was queried for genes expressed in the zebrafish heart, and MGI was queried for genes causing abnormal cardiac morphology in mouse models (MP:0000266). Web resources Web resources utilized in the study are provided below: 1000 Genomes, ExAC Browser, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser, Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), Analytical approach Candidate mutations in the LSL cohort were prioritized using two main criteria: (1) extremely low allele frequency compared to that observed in the ARIC database (minor allele < 0.05%) and public databases (1000 Genomes Project, ESP, and ExAC; minor allele < 0.5%); (2) prediction of a deleterious functional effect including LOF and DNS variation. Initially, we focused on the most damaging class of variation — extremely rare LOF — and conservatively omitted recurrent LOF sites (seen more than two times) due to concerns about potential ethnic stratification. We further enriched for genes likely to contribute to LSLs by quantifying the observed LOF constraint of genes in ARIC. First, for each gene, we counted the number of LOF alleles in ARIC (gene-wise observed LOF). Next, we simulated all potential nucleotide substitutions in exonic regions to determine the number of total potential LOF sites for each gene, and calculated the ratio of observed to potential LOF alleles (OP ratio [32]). Genes with a very low OP ratio (zero, or in the lowest 30th percentile) were considered stronger candidates for disease. In general, OP ratios correlated well with the functional gene constraint (pLI) metric in the Exome Aggregation Consortium Database (Table 1). Finally, we filtered for variants occurring in our set of a priori compiled cardiac genes (Additional file 3: Table S3) in order to identify those with supporting evidence for a role in LSLs or CHDs. Once we had ascertained a set of candidate genes with LOF variation, we next performed a “working gene” expansion to include DNS sites in the same genes. All prioritized variants were validated using an orthogonal platform (dideoxy-Sanger sequencing), and where parental samples for surveyed probands were available, these samples were used to assess Mendelian segregation of the variant: de novo vs inherited dominant (heterozygous variants), recessive (homozygous or compound-heterozygous variants in trans in a given gene), or X-linked (maternally inherited hemizygous variants on the X chromosome). Finally, having defined a set of candidate genes, we interrogated our clinical database for similarly damaging variants in the same genes and compiled a similar list from publicly available clinical sequencing repositories. The analytical strategy is summarized in Fig. 1. Variant prioritization WES of LSL cases identified 132,182 (129,329 single nucleotide variants (SNVs), 2853 indels) novel or extremely rare (MAF < 0.5%) variants within the LSL cases. In silico ‘functional annotation’ determined that 4161 of these rare/novel sites were predicted LOF variants (1469 premature stop, 602 splice, and 2090 frameshift, MAF < 0.5%) representing 1660 genes, and 34,100 predicted DNS variants from 11,822 genes. Novel candidate variants for LSLs were subject to stricter, computationally derived, functional criteria and lower frequency thresholds in population comparison groups (Methods). The mean number of rare variants per LSL case after filtering was 54.4 LOF and 118.8 DNS (range LOF = 35–74; range DNS = 88–158, Additional file 4: Figure S1). The intersection of our a priori candidate gene list with validated WES variants from these LSL cases revealed 27 genes harboring rare or case-exclusive LOF alleles, which we prioritized for further study. These alleles were observed in 26 cases (one case presented with two distinct variants, Table 2), or 7.6% (26/342) of our starting cohort, which we next assessed for mode of inheritance (Fig. 1). Table 2 Discovery genes ascertained via case-exclusive LOF sites with evidence for a role in LSLs Discovery genes Sanger sequencing of these 27 alleles in parents revealed nine to have arisen de novo, all in different genes (ACVR1, JARID2, KMT2D, NF1, NR2F2, PLRG1, SMURF1, TBX20, and ZEB2) (Table 2). Mutations in KMT2D (MIM 147920), NF1 (MIM 162200), and ZEB2 (MIM 235730) are known to cause human monogenic Mendelian syndromes (Kabuki syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1, and Mowat-Wilson syndrome, respectively), and cardiac malformations in these syndromes occur in 3–50% of patients. Mutations in NR2F2 (MIM 615779) and TBX20 (MIM 611363) have previously been associated with non-syndromic congenital heart defects [33, 34]. The remaining de novo alleles were found in genes that are not yet well established as human CVM genes, but are known to play a role in critical cardiac development pathways (e.g., TGFbeta signaling: SMURF1, ACVR1; PITX2 transcription factor target: JARID2 [35]). Model organism mutants recapitulate cardiac developmental phenotypes in seven of these de novo genes (see MGI in Table 2); including PLRG1, for which mutant alleles cause malformation of the left ventricle in mouse models [36]. When we expanded our evaluation of these genes to include rare/novel DNS variation (Fig. 1), we identified three additional de novo DNS variants in three genes (KMT2D, TBX20, ZEB2), providing further confirmation of their role in LSLs (Additional file 5: Table S4). Outside of de novo variants, the majority of LOF variants observed in our isolated LSL cohort were found in the heterozygous state and were transmitted from an apparently unaffected parent (Table 2, Additional file 5: Table S4); however, we did not perform echocardiograms in parents, leaving open the possibility of incomplete penetrance or variable expressivity of the phenotype, such as BAV and other asymptomatic cardiac anomalies. In addition, we did not systematically investigate for potential mosaicism in the unaffected parent. We also found evidence for recessive trait inheritance (i.e., homozygous or compound heterozygous alleles) and X-linked inheritance of LOF variants in DNAH5 and OFD1, respectively. A homozygous LOF variant was observed in DNAH5, which is a reported cause of primary ciliary dyskinesia (MIM 608644), an autosomal recessive condition that may involve complex cardiac malformations in a fraction of patients [37]. We also observed an LOF variant in OFD1 (X-linked) that was maternally transmitted to an affected male case. Pathologic variation in OFD1 is the cause of orofaciodigital syndrome (MIM 311200), which can include congenital heart malformations within its phenotypic spectrum [38]. Upon re-evaluation, the individual with this variant did not manifest other features of this syndrome. These observations support recessive and sex-linked forms of LSL and highlight the complex genetic mechanisms underlying these malformations. Having ascertained 27 LSL candidate genes from our a priori candidate list, we then sought to utilize our clinical diagnostic exome sequencing database (Baylor Genetics; see Methods) to provide additional evidence for likely pathogenicity among these genes. In the first instance, we aimed to characterize the relationship between LOF variation in our identified LSL candidate genes and the presence of CVM among clinical cases. This analysis revealed 79 individuals with LOF variation in 17 of our 27 LSL discovery genes (Fig. 2, Additional file 6: Table S5). Nearly half of these individuals (34/79 = 43%) also presented with CVM (Table 2). Conversely, among the 4778 unique case identifiers available for interrogation, 755 (15.8%) had phenotype accession data consistent with a cardiac phenotype; i.e., carriers of LOF variants in our discovery genes are four times more likely to have a cardiac phenotype among clinical cases (odds ratio (OR) = 4.03, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.5–6.47). When we expanded this analysis to include algorithmically supported damaging variation in the same genes, however, there was no significant enrichment of these variants among cases with reported cardiac disease in their clinical requisition, which primarily reflects the referring diagnosis for clinical WES and not the full clinical phenotype. Fig. 2 Rare predicted damaging variation in known and novel human cardiovascular malformation (CVM) genes. The x-axis describes counts of CVM cases carrying predicted loss-of-function (LOF) and damaging non-synonymous (DNS) variation with observed population frequency < 0.0005. CVM cases include LSL discovery (n = 342) and clinical cases referred to Baylor Genetics Lab (BG) presenting with cardiac malformations (Additional file 6: Table S5). Known CVM indicates counts of cases with variants in genes previously implicated with human CVM in OMIM; Phenotypic Expansion indicates genes associated with a human disorder not previously associated with CVM; Novel Human CVM genes have not previously been associated with human CVM but were ascertained by our candidate gene strategy (Additional file 3: Table S3) In the clinical cohort, two candidate genes with observed de novo mutations from our primary analysis — JARID2 and SMURF1 — both had individual LOF carriers with CVM (Table 2), aortic and pulmonic stenosis with JARID2 and dextrocardia with SMURF1. A missense mutation in JARID2 was recently reported to segregate with BAV and a dilated aorta in a single family with LSLs [39]. In murine models, Jarid2 is expressed throughout the embryonic heart and is necessary for normal cardiac development [40, 41] such that Jarid2 null mice show cardiac defects including double outlet right ventricle and ventricular septal defects [42]. SMURF1 (SMAD Specific E3 Ubiquitin Protein Ligase 1) encodes a downstream protein effector of transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) activity, which, in mouse models, is important to atrioventricular valve formation [43]. A de novo mutation in SMURF1 was recently reported in a single individual with craniosynostosis [44]; no cardiac features were reported in the proband. Taken together, these results support a role for damaging variation in JARID2 and SMURF1 as causes of human CVM. Variant database annotation Finally, within our samples we evaluated the prevalence of variants previously described as pathogenic in clinical databases. We first catalogued a priori candidate gene variants identified in LSL cases that were also represented in either the HGMD, 2015.1 or NCBI’s ClinVar. LSL cases presented 120 protein-altering variants in 55 distinct a priori candidate genes previously reported as pathogenic in these two databases (Additional file 7: Table S6). Evidence for pathogenicity was strongest at 29 sites that were extremely rare — 14 were case-exclusive and associated with human disorders related to cardiac development, and 15 were severely depleted across all comparison groups Minor Allele Count (MAC < 5). It is interesting to note that 14 of the latter variants were reported at a frequency higher than expected (MAF > 0.5%) in the ARIC comparison group, which was not ascertained for CVM; as a result, we do not consider these variants to be strong candidates for LSLs. However, we report our observed frequencies to inform future studies of pedigree segregation and functional models aimed at assessing the pathogenicity of the variants identified in our case cohort. Case-only cohort designs The primary focus of our analysis was to identify likely pathogenic candidate variation in biologically plausible CVM genes occurring in individuals with a known CVM. We utilized a conservative, in silico criterion for definition for pathogenic variation alongside a broad bioinformatics-driven collation of genes with relevant biological and molecular function. We demonstrate that this approach can facilitate gene discovery for isolated, non-syndromic cardiac malformation. Novel candidate mutation in nine of our cases (2.6%) was confirmed to have arisen de novo, with inherited LOF mutations being observed in a further 15 patients (4.4%), inclusive of two patients with recessive or X-linked inheritance. In addition, 23 patients (6.7%) carried previously reported pathogenic variants for similar disease conditions involving CVM, which were also severely depleted in the comparison populations. In aggregate, WES of unrelated LSL cases identified candidate mutation in 49 (14.3%) of our LSL cases. Our rare-case-only cohort design integrates well with current high-throughput sequencing pipelines since it utilizes bioinformatic support for prioritizing novel genes and filtering allele frequencies from large comparison cohorts and public databases. Improving integration with bioinformatic resources may allow for automated generation of a priori candidate genes for any rare condition. Moreover, such integration may be enabled further as a structured ontology, such as the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO [45]) of clinical terms, is applied clinically and harmonization [11] of phenotype ontology between human, model organism, and biological pathway databases continues to improve. Clinical expertise, however, will remain crucial to further curating and refining candidate gene lists for patient care. Comparison of allele frequencies from large population-based resources remains a key aspect of assessing pathogenicity of known and novel candidate mutations, as low frequency variants can have distinct biological effects from higher frequency variants with similar functional annotation [46]. Combining this approach with disease segregation within pedigrees (particularly de novo variation), using Mendelian genomics and evidence for biological function relevant to the phenotype in question, brings our pipeline in line with recent clinical recommendations for inferring pathogenicity of genomic variants [47]. The rapid expansion of both clinical and bioinformatics resources thus bodes well for the future utility of case-only cohort screens for rare disease and suggests that this approach will continue to grow in power alongside population-based sequencing efforts. LSL gene discovery By focusing on the intersection of case-exclusive LOF variation and an a priori candidate gene list, we identified novel candidate pathogenic variants in 7.9% (27/342) cases from our starting LSL cohort. Of the 27 resulting high-confidence genes implicated by intersection with our a priori gene list, interrogation of additional cases and clinical cohorts provided further evidence for LSL pathogenicity in nine genes; of these, SMURF1, PLRG1, and ACVR1 have not been previously established in human LSLs or CHDs and emerged as the strongest novel potential disease gene candidates from our analyses. Integration of our candidate genes with individual disease cohorts and large collaborative projects that are ongoing in the USA and Europe holds the promise of confirming yet more of these candidates in the future. For example, our observation of JARID2 variants in both our discovery and clinical cohorts adds to the previous single-family report in the literature [39] and strengthens arguments for JARID2 as a bona fide LSL gene. Similarly, large-scale model organism knockout projects that include efforts to characterize developmental and cardiac phenotypes, such as the Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2), have great potential to further facilitate the confirmation of putative human disease genes like those offered here. Lastly, expansion of annotated variation beyond LOF to include DNS variation will also aid disease gene discovery in CHDs. Complex mechanisms underlying non-syndromic LSLs Our results also offer insights into the complex etiologies of abnormal cardiac development. First, virtually all our high-confidence pathogenic changes were in different genes and spanned different developmental cardiac gene pathways. This is reflective of the broader LSL literature, which has implicated several molecular pathways in the development of CHDs more generally and LSLs in particular [12, 39]. Further underscoring the complexity of LSLs, we also found evidence of additional modes of inheritance beyond the anticipated dominant inheritance, including both X-linked and recessive models in known syndromic genes. De novo dominant mutations have been reported to account for as many as 10% of CVM cases [13]. A general role for this genetic mechanism in CHDs is supported by our observation of de novo mutation in nine of the 342 (2.6%) of cases reported here. Our neonatal ascertainment of cases meant that we were limited in our ability to definitively exclude neurodevelopmental syndromes from our cohort; however, our results are broadly consistent with previous reports [48], intimating that de novo dominant mutation is less common among non-syndromic CHD cases and that the majority of rare LOF variants are inherited. We, and others, have previously established that up to 20% of parents and siblings of LSL probands will show subtle left-sided cardiac abnormalities including BAV and mitral valve leaflet redundancy, in which lesions can go undetected without specific cardiac imaging [49,50,51]. Despite this, cardiac imaging is not consistently undertaken in parents of children with LSLs, and we did not undertake systematic cardiovascular evaluation on parents recruited to our study; we are therefore unable to distinguish between incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity among the parent LOF carriers in our study. Nonetheless, our results confirm the notion that transmitted LOF (and DNS) variants observed in putative CHD candidates may yet contribute to cardiac developmental phenotypes across a phenotypic spectrum that includes clinically evident LSLs on the severe end of a spectrum of variably manifest CVMs. This adds to the emerging literature of complex interactions in cardiac and other congenital defects in which both cis-acting and trans-acting pathways can modify the expression of the disease [39, 44, 48, 52, 53]. Future studies in larger cohorts that are powered to systematically explore the complex potential mechanisms underlying this observation, including modifier genes and epistatic interactions, will be key to unraveling the complex genetic architecture of CHDs. Through a rigorous interrogation of known and suspected human CHD genes using available bioinformatic data resources, we have provided important insights into the genetic landscape of an important class of CHD. 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JRL is supported in part by the US National Human Genome Research Institute/National Heart Blood Lung Institute jointly funded Baylor Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics (UM1 HG006542). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Availability of data and materials The protocol and consents used in this study do not include informed written consent for broad sharing of genomic data to controlled access databases. As part of the consenting process, some patients did indicate consent to limited-use data sharing; genomic variant data files for these particular cases are being prepared for public submission. Reported variants in known disease genes will be deposited to ClinVar. De-identified data will be made available upon request from qualified investigators studying the molecular basis of cardiac malformations. Datasets can be obtained via the corresponding author. Author information AHL, NAH, and JWB performed primary analyses and wrote the manuscript. JR provided clinical details of Baylor Genetics participants. MA, SJ, and DM coordinated project management and laboratory quality control. AN performed and interpreted targeted validations. DF, SF, LCD, SM, DRP, WJF, ML, JAT, DJP, CDF, JM, CE, and JWB contributed to patient enrollment and clinical diagnoses of LSL. JRL, RAG, EB, and JWB directed the analyses. All authors read and approved the manuscript as submitted. Corresponding author Correspondence to John W. Belmont. Ethics declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate The Institutional Review Board of Baylor College of Medicine approved the study (Protocol number H-6040). The ethics committee at Children’s Hospital, Linz, Austria approved the study for cases recruited at that facility. Informed consent for inclusion in the study was obtained from all adult participants and from parents/guardians of minors. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publication Not applicable Competing interests JRL holds stock ownership in 23andMe, Inc. and Lasergen, Inc., is a paid consultant for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and is a co-inventor on multiple US and European patents related to molecular diagnostics. The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine derives revenue from molecular genetic testing offered in the Baylor Genetics diagnostic laboratory (BG). JRL is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the BG. AHL is now a full-time employee for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and JWB is a full-time employee of Illumina Inc., but all work was performed under their listed institutional appointments. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests. Publisher’s Note Additional files Additional file 1: Table S1. Known LSL genes. Excel worksheet. (XLSX 11 kb) Additional file 2: Table S2. Quantitative comparison of whole exome sequencing data from LSL discovery cohort and ARIC cohort. Excel worksheet. (XLSX 8 kb) Additional file 3: Table S3. A priori gene list. Excel worksheet. (XLSX 110 kb) Additional file 4: Figure S1. Distribution of rare sites within LSL cases. Adobe PDF. (PDF 208 kb) Additional file 5: Table S4. Details of candidate variants identified in LSL cohort. Excel worksheet. (XLSX 12 kb) Additional file 6: Table S5. Variants in candidate genes identified in clinical look-up cohort (Baylor Genetics). Excel worksheet. (XLSX 79 kb) Additional file 7: Table S6. LSL cohort variants observed in ClinVar and/or HGMD. Excel worksheet. (XLSX 28 kb) Rights and permissions Reprints and Permissions About this article Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark Cite this article Li, A.H., Hanchard, N.A., Furthner, D. et al. 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How to Fix a Required Minimum Distribution Mistake The next step is to file IRS form 5329. If you have more than one missed distribution, you can include them on one form as long as they all occurred in the same year. If you missed distributions in multiple years, you need to file a separate form for each year. And married couples who both miss a distribution need to each file their own forms. The form can be tricky. Even if you follow the instructions closely, you could make a mistake jeopardizing a penalty waiver. It is critical to secure competent advice to preserve the waiver of the penalty tax. In addition to completing form 5329, you should submit a letter, preferably written or reviewed by an experienced tax practitioner, explaining why you missed the distribution and informing the IRS that you have now made the correct distributions. Professional advice is particularly useful because there is no clear definition of what the IRS will consider a “reasonable explanation” for missing a distribution. Elder Law Newsletter Sign-Up Stay updated with Elder Law commentary from the ThompsonMcMullan team.	<urn:uuid:c6a15697-94e3-486f-9b0a-4fcee8a56989>	https://www.t-mlaw.com/commentary/how-to-fix-a-required-minimum-distribution-mistake/	en	0.95926	0.073624	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Malware Is Becoming More Complex — But What Does That Mean? Malware Is Becoming More Complex — But What Does That Mean? Way back in the 1980s, the first bits of malware started to make their way from computer to computer. These early viruses did little more than send annoying messages to users and propagate themselves by reading users’ email contact lists. Slowly, these bits of code became more malicious, erasing data or paralyzing networks of computers. Disreputable programmers started to realize that they could profit from tools like these, and malware began to steal valuable data, like identification credentials and financial information, to sell or use for personal gain. As this happened, cybersecurity began to develop, and malware needed to become more complex to continue its efficacy. Today, there is an overwhelming amount of malware online and elsewhere, and nearly all of it is complex. 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Although, it is worth noting that some malware complexity must be accidental; it isn’t uncommon for malware authors to tinker with older malware, tacking on code to update it with new features rather than build their own malware from scratch. This certainly contributes to the increased complexity that researchers are identifying. How to Combat Complex Malware Complex malware sounds threatening, but in truth malware has been becoming more complex since the beginning of malicious software. Fortunately, as malware increases in complexity, so does the software used in fighting malware. Today, device users have access to strong and targeted anti-malware tools, like ransomware removal services. Even as malware evolves to circumvent cybersecurity software, cybersecurity software is becoming more complex, too. 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ADuC841 PWM: setting duty cycle to zero Hello everybody, I'm new to the ADuC841, my prior experience is with Cortex-M based microcontrollers. I'm using ADuC841 with the dual 8-bit PWM mode on pins P3.4 and P3.3 (configured in sfr CFG841). For a simple 50% duty cycle with full 8-bit resolution I use this code: PWM1L = 100; // output resolution PWM0 PWM1H = 100; // output resolutionPWM1 PWM0L = 50; // dutycycle PWM0 PWM0H = 50; // dutycycle PWM1 PWMCON = 0x53; // PWM on, Mode 5, Clk/1, Clk = Fosc This results in a nice square wave with frequency = f_xtal / 100 and just about 50% duty cycle, see screenshot: However, when I set duty cycle to 0%, there's still a small pulse output on the pins, see screenshot: Instead I expect the PWM pins to stay permanently at low level. Please advise how to set PWM output to 0% duty cycle. Best regards,	<urn:uuid:28b1469a-9985-493b-905d-cd656cb03577>	https://ez.analog.com/analog-microcontrollers/8052-core-products/f/q-a/167254/aduc841-pwm-setting-duty-cycle-to-zero	en	0.808949	0.125854	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
The Authentication Framework is based on the industry standard OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect architecture. In this architecture, the User is considered to be the Resource Owner (in this case, the owner of their identity, data, and operations). The User is a separate entity from the Client. The Client (aka 3rd party app) is considered to be the Relying Party as it is relying upon an Authorization Server to authenticate a User. The Authorization Server is an Identity Provider that authenticates the User. The User can tell the Authorization Server to provide the Client with authorized access to resources that the User owns. Once authorized, the Authorization Server provides an Access Token and an Identity Token to the Client. The Identity Token provides authenticated information about the User to the Client. The Client uses the Access Token to gain access to the User resources that are held on the Resource Server. See the Tokens topic for more details on the Access Token and the Identity Token. See the OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 topic for more details on OpenID Connect and OAuth concepts.	<urn:uuid:a1ea59e5-56e0-4b46-b95c-d3843bc2bce9>	https://jackhenry.dev/open-api-docs/authentication-framework/architecture/	en	0.890448	0.137742	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Accessibility links Breaking News The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Part Two The Open Boat Part Two please wait No media source currently available 0:00 0:13:02 0:00 The Open Boat please wait No media source currently available 0:00 0:13:56 0:00 Direct link We continue the story of “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane. As we told you last week, the story is based on true events. In eighteen ninety-six, Crane was traveling to Cuba as a news reporter. On his way there, his ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Crane climbed into the last remaining lifeboat. Three men got into the boat with him. They were the ship’s captain, the cook and a sailor named Billie. For three days, the men steered the small boat through high waves along the coast of Florida. At last, they saw land. Here is Shep O’Neal with the final part of the story. A long stretch of coast lay before the eyes of the men. Slowly, the land rose up out of the mountainous sea. The men could see a small house against the sky. To the south, they could see a lighthouse. Tide, wind and waves were pushing the lifeboat northward. The men thought someone on land would have seen the boat by now. “Well,” said the captain, “I suppose we’ll have to attempt to reach the shore ourselves. If we stay out here too long, none of us will have the strength left to swim after the boat sinks.” So Billie the sailor turned the boat straight for the shore. “If we don’t all get ashore,” said the captain, “I suppose you fellows know where to send news of my death?” The men then exchanged some information. There was a great deal of anger in them. They thought: “If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I permitted to come this far and think about sand and trees?” The waves grew stronger. They seemed always just about to break and roll over the little boat. The coast was still far away. The sailor said: “Boys, the boat won’t live three minutes more, and we’re too far out to swim. Shall I take her to sea again, captain?” “Yes! Go ahead!” said the captain. The sailor turned the boat and took her safely out to sea again. “It’s funny those life-saving people haven’t seen us,” one of the men said. Woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush Woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush “Maybe they think we’re out here for sport! Maybe they think we’re fishing. Maybe they think we’re fools.” Once more, the sailor rowed the boat and then the reporter rowed. Suddenly, they saw a man walking along the shore. The man stopped walking. He moved his hand in the air to wave at them. He saw them! Now he was running to the house. The captain tied a cloth to a stick and waved it. Now there was another man on the shore. The two men waved their hands in the air, as if they were saying hello to the men in the boat. Woodcut by Robert Quackenbush Woodcut by Robert Quackenbush Now, what was that moving on the shore? It was a bus – a hotel bus. A man stood on the steps of the bus and waved his coat over his head. The men in the boat wondered what he wanted to say. Was he attempting to tell them something? Should they wait for help? Should they go north? Should they go south? The men waited and waited but nothing happened. The sun began to go down. It got dark and cold. They could no longer see anyone on the beach. The sailor rowed, and then the reporter rowed, and then the sailor rowed again. They rowed and rowed through the long night. The land had disappeared but they could hear the low sound of the waves hitting the shore. This was surely a quiet night. The cook finally spoke: “Billie, what kind of pie do you like best?” “Pie,” said the sailor and the reporter angrily. “Don’t talk about those things!” “Well,” said the cook, “I was just thinking about ham sandwiches, and …” A night on the sea in an open boat is a long night. The sailor continued to row until his head fell forward and sleep overpowered him. Then he asked the reporter to row for a while. They exchanged places so the sailor could sleep in the bottom of the boat with the cook and the captain. The reporter thought that he was the one man afloat on all the oceans in the world. The wind had a sad voice as it came over the waves. Woodcut by Robert Quackenbush Woodcut by Robert Quackenbush Suddenly, there was a long, loud swishing sound behind the boat and a shining trail of silvery blue. It might have been made by a huge knife. Then there was another swish and another long flash of bluish light, this time alongside the boat. The reporter saw a huge fin speed like a shadow through the water, leaving a long glowing trail. The thing kept swimming near the boat. He noted its speed and power. The reporter wished the men would wake up. He did not want to be alone with the shark. The reporter thought as he rowed. He was angry that they had come so close to land and yet might still die at sea. Then he remembered a poem that he had learned as a child. It was a poem about a soldier of the French Foreign Legion. The soldier lay dying in Algiers. Just before he died, he cried out: “I shall never see my own, my native land.” And now, many years after he had learned this poem, the reporter for the first time understood the sadness of the dying soldier. Hours passed. The reporter asked the sailor to take the oars so that he could rest. It seemed like only a brief period, but it was more than an hour later, when the sailor returned the oars to the reporter. They both knew that only they could keep the boat from sinking. And so they rowed, hour after hour, through the night. When day came, the four men saw land again. But there were no people on the shore. A conference was held on the boat. “Well,” said the captain, “if no help is coming, we might better try to reach the shore right away. If we stay out here much longer, we will be too weak to do anything for ourselves at all.” The others agreed. They began to turn the boat toward the beach. The captain told them to be careful – that when the boat came near the beach, the waves would sink it. Then everyone should jump out of the boat and swim to the shore. As the boat came closer to land, the waves got bigger and more violent. At last, a large wave climbed into the air and fell on the small boat with great force. The boat turned over as the men jumped into the sea. The water was like ice. The reporter was tired. But he swam toward the beach. He looked for his friends. He saw Billie, the sailor, in front of him, swimming strongly and quickly. The cook was near him. Behind, the captain held on to the overturned boat with his one good hand. Soon, the reporter could swim no longer. A current was carrying him back out to sea. He thought: “Am I going to drown? Can it be possible?” But the current suddenly changed and he was able to swim toward the shore. The captain called to him to swim to the boat and hold on. The reporter started to swim toward the boat. Then he saw a man running along the shore. He was quickly taking off his shoes and clothes. As the reporter got close to the boat, a large wave hit him and threw him into the air over the boat and far from it. When he tried to get up, he found that the water was not over his head, only half way up his body. But he was so tired that he could not stand up. Each wave threw him down, and the current kept pulling him back to sea. Woodcuts by Robert Quackenbush for "The Open Boat" by Steven Crane Then he saw the man again, jumping into the water. The man pulled the cook to the shore. Then he ran back into the water for the captain. But the captain waved him away and sent him to the reporter. The man seized the reporter’s hand and pulled him to the beach. Then the man pointed to the water and cried: “What’s that?” In the shallow water, face down, lay Billie, the sailor. The reporter did not know all that happened after that. He fell on the sand as if dropped from a housetop. It seems that immediately the beach was filled with men with blankets, clothes and whiskey. Women brought hot coffee. The people welcomed the men from the sea to the land. But a still and dripping shape was carried slowly up the beach. And the land’s welcome for the sailor’s body could only be its final resting place. When night came, the white waves moved in the moonlight. The wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on the shore. How well do you understand this story? Quiz - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Part Two Quiz - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Part Two Start the Quiz to find out For Teachers This lesson plan, based on the CALLA Approach, teaches the strategy, predicting, to help students understand the story of four men struggling to survive in a small boat on the sea. Lesson Plan - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, Part Two Words in This Story afloat - adj. floating on water row - v. to move a boat through water using oars See comments (8) This forum has been closed.	<urn:uuid:47b07e2e-9269-4a49-a964-7afde65ee309>	https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/open-boat-stephen-crane-part-two-american-stories/2572641.html	en	0.982954	0.033571	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
What is the percentage increase/decrease from 1091 to 505? Quickly work out the percentage increase or decrease from 1091 to 505 in this step-by-step percentage calculator tutorial. (Spoiler alert: it's -53.71%!) So you want to work out the percentage increase or decrease from 1091 to 505? Fear not, intrepid math seeker! Today, we will guide you through the calculation so you can figure out how to work out the increase or decrease in any numbers as a percentage. Onwards! In a rush and just need to know the answer? The percentage decrease from 1091 to 505 is -53.71%. What is the % change from to Percentage increase/decrease from 1091 to 505? An increase or decrease percentage of two numbers can be very useful. Let's say you are a shop that sold 1091 t-shirts in January, and then sold 505 t-shirts in February. What is the percentage increase or decrease there? Knowing the answer allows you to compare and track numbers to look for trends or reasons for the change. Working out a percentage increase or decrease between two numbers is pretty simple. The resulting number (the second input) is 505 and what we need to do first is subtract the old number, 1091, from it: 505 - 1091 = -586 Once we've done that we need to divide the result, -586, by the original number, 1091. We do this because we need to compare the difference between the new number and the original: -586 / 1091 = -0.53712190650779 We now have our answer in decimal format. How do we get this into percentage format? Multiply -0.53712190650779 by 100? Ding ding ding! We have a winner: -0.53712190650779 x 100 = -53.71% We're done! You just successfully calculated the percentage difference from 1091 to 505. You can now go forth and use this method to work out and calculate the increase/decrease in percentage of any numbers.	<urn:uuid:974a3664-3147-4ced-9322-f1337315b2e0>	https://nineplanets.org/percentage-calculator/what-is-percentage-difference-from-1091-to-505/	en	0.909793	0.997634	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Request an Exam Copy The 3 "Quests" for the Historical Jesus Categories New Testament Online Courses The gospels give us the most detailed descriptions of Jesus’ life and ministry we have. They’re believed to have been written by eyewitnesses (or at least based on eyewitness accounts), and they all clearly claim that Jesus Christ is the son of God. If you believe the gospels are historically accurate accounts of the things Jesus said and did, there’s little room for interpretation about who he really was. C.S. Lewis made famous the Lord, liar, lunatic trilemma to explain the challenge of dismissing Jesus’ divinity. But those aren’t the only three options. The fourth option is much more appealing to skeptics: the gospels are unreliable, non-historical representations of a man known as Jesus. The quests for the “historical Jesus” Over the centuries, numerous Bible scholars have suggested that the gospel accounts can’t be trusted. These scholars argue that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written too long after the life of Jesus, and they came from communities of later Christians, not eyewitnesses. According to these scholars, the gospels turned a real man into a false god. The Jesus portrayed in the gospels is not the “historical Jesus” but the “Christ of faith,” exalted and deified by later Christians. This argument launched a series of “quests” to identify the “real,” historical Jesus—which to some, were quests to explain away his divinity. The debate has evolved over time, and the movement contains four main phases driven by numerous scholars and works. In his course, Four Portraits, One Jesus, Dr. Mark Strauss explores each of these phases, examining their arguments and the people who proposed them. We’ve adapted the following article from Dr. Strauss’ work. The nineteenth-century quest for the historical Jesus During the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, rationalism attempted to undermine the supernatural nature of the gospels. Where believers were comfortable attributing Jesus’ miracles to his divinity, rationalists demanded a logical explanation for these supernatural events. According to the rationalists, if the accounts of Christ could not be explained through logic—the sole test of truth—then they were not true. The first quest for the historical Jesus attempted to discredit the gospels as either intentionally false or accidentally false, and claimed that Jesus was simply a moral, mortal teacher. At the end of the eighteenth century, a posthumously published article by Herman Samuel Reimarus claimed that Jesus considered himself a human messiah, destined to save his people from Rome, and that when Jesus failed, his disciples stole Jesus’ body. Essentially, Reimarus suggested that the lie proposed by the chief priests in Matthew 28:12–13 was the truth: Almost all scholars reject this view. But this controversial paper sparked a new wave of research into the historical Jesus, using rationalism to explain away the gospels’ supernatural elements. In the nineteenth century, H.E.G. Paulus, claimed that most of Jesus’ miracles could be explained by mistaken observations and unrecognized causes. Here’s how he reconstructed several miracles: • The feeding of the five thousand involved more than five loaves of bread and two fish. Rich people present were encouraged by the little boy’s unselfish example, and they shared their own lunches. The boy’s lunch was multiplied figuratively. • Jesus only appeared to walk on water. He was actually walking near shore with a mist covering his feet. • Lazarus was buried alive, not raised from the dead. Jesus rescued his friend from a premature burial—which likely happened because he was in a comatose state. • Jesus only appeared to be dead on the cross. He was unconscious, and so near death that it fooled everyone into believing he was dead. Later, the coolness of the tomb brought him back to consciousness. (Paulus proposed a similar “swoon theory” for Jesus’ resurrection.) These were common explanations of Jesus’ life in the nineteenth-century, and some of these arguments were widely publicized. In 1863, Ernest Renan’s Life of Jesus sold sixty thousand copies during its first six months in print. The first quest for the historical Jesus was marked with attempts to salvage Christ’s teachings while tossing out his miracles. It was argued that Jesus was a man, not the Son of God—by that, he simply meant that we are all the children of God—and he only proclaimed the love of God and the brotherhood of all human beings. By the twentieth century, the first quest for the historical Jesus was coming to an end (and coming up short). Scholars had begun to recognize that rationalistic explanations couldn’t adequately account for the miracle stories which permeated the gospel tradition. The watered-down Jesus that emerged was almost completely detached from his first-century context. In The Quest for the Historical Jesus, Albert Schweitzer criticized nineteenth-century researchers, saying they re-created Jesus in their own image. Their version of the historical Jesus was a modern philanthropist preaching an inoffensive message of love and brotherhood. In the years to come, the rationalism of the first quest would evolve into new forms of skepticism. No quest: Rudolf Bultmann and the end of the first quest Many scholars began to adopt a pessimistic attitude toward Jesus studies, claiming that almost nothing could be known about the historical Jesus. Gospel studies entered what is sometimes called the period of “no quest,” when radical skepticism dominated the discussion. Several major developments occurred during this period, which laid the foundation for the next quest: 1. All historical judgments are statements of probability and relative truth, open to later correction or revision. This is known as the principle of methodological doubt, and it denies the validity of absolute statements of religious dogma. 2. All historical events are similar in quality and should be understood with reference to our common experience. This is the principle of analogy, and it argues that if fish and loaves cannot multiply today, they couldn’t multiply in the first century, either. 3. The miracles in the gospels were the result of myths, not misunderstandings. Since the gospels were written years after the death of Christ, and they are technically anonymous, the supernatural events could have developed over time as the historical account was passed down the line, like a game of telephone. 4. The gospels were written for theological, not historical purposes. William Wrede proposed that Mark rewrote the gospel story to accommodate the growing belief that Jesus was the Messiah. Wrede argued that Mark added a motif he dubbed “the messianic secret,” which conveniently explained why Jesus led an “unmessianic life.” This, he claimed, is why Jesus repeatedly silences demons (1:24, 34; 3:11–12; 5:7), insists that miracles be kept quiet (1:44; 5:43; 7:36; 8:26), and warns his disciples to tell no one that he is the Messiah (8:30; 9:9). As a result, the gospels were increasingly viewed not as historical documents but as apologetically motivated propaganda, intended to promote the theological perspectives of the communities which produced them. 5. It’s impossible, through historical means, to reconstruct a biography of Jesus. This is because the kerygma, the Christian preaching about the exalted Christ, is so interwoven into the gospel narratives that there is no non-supernatural “Jesus of history.” Martin Kähler intended this argument to recover the significance of Jesus for the church, but ironically, it was used by others to draw a strict dichotomy between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith, cutting off Christianity from its historical roots. Rudolf Bultmann built on each of these observations about the historical Jesus, becoming the key figure of the “no quest” period and the most influential New Testament scholar of the twentieth century. Bultmann believed that the supernatural events of the gospels were the creation of a prescientific worldview, and that the early church had little interest in preserving the historical Jesus. But to Bultmann, the lack of historical reliability didn’t render the Christian faith completely false. Following the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Bultmann claimed that human beings continually live with the dreadful prospect of death and nothingness, seeking to escape this dread by living “inauthentically”—by becoming absorbed in life’s pursuits. Bultmann claimed that Heidegger and the New Testament had the same basic understanding of humanity’s plight, except that the New Testament provided the answer. Unfortunately, the mythological worldview of first century Christians obscured the New Testament’s solution. By “demythologizing” the New Testament, Bultmann believed we could reach the true existentialist message of Jesus: to live a life of “authentic existence.” The new (second) quest and the post-Bultmannians In the wake of Bultmann’s influential work, Christianity was severed from its historical roots. Some of his students felt he’d gone too far, and believed that the existentialist message Bultmann identified in the New Testament could be linked to the historical Jesus. At a reunion of Bultmann’s students in 1953, Ernst Käsemann delivered a lecture called “The Problem of the Historical Jesus,” calling for a second quest for the historical Jesus to see if this connection existed. Günther Bornkamm’s classic volume, Jesus of Nazareth, is arguably the most influential work to arise from this period, but Ernst Füchs, Gerhard Ebeling made important contributions as well. While rejecting Bultmann’s extreme skepticism, these scholars started with the same basic premises: • An existentialist worldview • Rejection of the supernatural • The “Jesus of history” and the “Christ of faith” are completely different • The gospels are theological, not historical documents • The gospel writers were not eyewitnesses Most of the gospel tradition was created and embellished by the early Christian communities. Since they started with so many of Bultmann’s assumptions, it’s not surprising that they didn’t get very far beyond his skepticism. They determined that what can be known about Jesus can be summarized in a few short statements: • He came from Nazareth • He was baptized by John • He preached and told parables about the kingdom of God • He viewed this kingdom as coming in the near future and (perhaps) as already present in some sense • He performed, or was believed to have performed, exorcisms and healings • He gathered a group of disciples around him • He associated with outcasts and sinners • He challenged the Jewish leaders of his day • He was arrested and charged with blasphemy and sedition • He was crucified by the Romans Scholars of the second quest generally denied that Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, that he predicted his own death, or that he rose from the dead. The contemporary scene: a third quest? After gaining such little ground, the so-called “new quest” had mostly died down by the 1970s. Since then, advances in biblical and archeological studies, new methodologies, and a group of scholars known as the Jesus Seminar have sparked a flurry of new research to uncover “the real Jesus.” While the second quest for the historical Jesus gained little ground, it did provide scholars with the foundation they needed to develop a criteria of authenticity, which many scholars use today. Criteria of authenticity To examine the claims of the gospels, scholars have assembled six criterion which can help determine if the event or teaching is authentic. None of them guarantees authenticity, but each one provides scholars with a backdrop for studying the historical Jesus. 1. The criterion of dissimilarity. A saying or an action of Jesus could be authentic if it’s dissimilar to the characteristic emphases both of ancient Judaism and the early church. For example, when Jesus identifies himself as the “Son of Man,” we might be able to call it authentic since it wasn’t a common messianic title in first-century Judaism, nor was it used in early church confessions of Jesus. One problem with this criterion is that it assumes we know enough about both Judaism and early Christianity to make the call. What we consider to be unique to Jesus could actually a part of first-century Judaism. 2. The criterion of coherence. Once the criterion of dissimilarity gives us the characteristics of Jesus’ teachings, we might be able to use these to substantiate similar sayings. 3. The criterion of multiple attestation. A saying or story could be authentic if it appears in most of the sources behind the gospels. Results here depend on your conclusion concerning the synoptic problem. A scholar who accepts the four-source theory would say that a teaching which appears in Mark, Q, and L or M is likely to be authentic. For example, Jesus’ practice of eating with sinners appears in all strands of gospel tradition (Mark 2:15–17; Q: Matt. 11:18–19; L: Luke 15:1–2; M: Matt. 21:28–32). (You can learn more about Dr. Strauss’ views on Mark, Q, L, M, and the synoptic problem here.) 4. The criterion of embarrassment. Statements that would have produced theological difficulties or embarrassment in the church could be authentic—because otherwise they wouldn’t have been included, right? For example, Jesus’ statement that no one knows the day or the hour of the coming of the Son of Man (Mark 13:32) could be considered authentic since the church wouldn’t have created a saying which attributed ignorance to the Son. One problem with this criterion is that things that seem embarrassing to us may not have been embarrassing to the early church. 5. The criterion of Semitic flavor. If sayings have Jewish or Palestinian origins, then this criterion claims it’s more likely to be authentic. This would include sayings which contain Aramaic words or which envisage Palestinian social conditions. For example, Jesus’ use of the Aramaic word abba (father) in Mark 14:36 would be viewed as most likely authentic. This criterion also has problems. While an Aramaic word suggests that a saying came from a Semitic context, an authentic saying could have lost its Semitic flavor through translation into Greek. Nor can this criterion prove authenticity, since the saying could be traced to the Aramaic-speaking church, rather than to Jesus himself. 6. The criterion of divergent traditions. When an author preserves traditions which do not serve his purpose, this criterion claims they are probably authentic. For example, Jesus’ statement “Do not go to the Gentiles” in Matthew 10:5–6 appears to be at odds with the Great Commission to go to all nations in Matthew 28:16–20. To some this would suggest it is pre-Matthean, and so probably authentic. The problem with this criterion is it assumes we know an author’s purpose. Matthew 10:5–6 wouldn’t contradict Matthew’s theology if it is part of his purpose to show that Jesus’ first mission was to the Jews and he turned to the Gentiles after the Jews rejected his message. Events which seem to conflict with the narrative may actually be an important part of it. Taken together, the criteria of authenticity have other problems, too. They can be used to contradict each other, and it’s easy for investigators to abuse criterion to fit their needs with subjective reasoning. Still, they can help us piece together a portrait of the historical Jesus. Who is the “real Jesus”? While we can’t learn everything about the real Jesus through historical investigation, historical-Jesus research is still useful. The historical Jesus—what we know about him through historical research—is only part of the real Jesus. It can’t give us a complete picture about who Jesus was. While conclusions about the historical Jesus are always partial and incomplete, this doesn’t mean they’re invalid or false. We can know much about the person of Jesus without knowing everything. Learn more about the Bible Image by Edal Anton Lefterov, used under Creative Commons License. This post is adapted from material found in Four Portraits, One Jesus, an online course on Jesus and the Gospels taught by Mark Strauss. Who Wrote the Gospels, and How Do We Know for Sure? The Bible gives us four accounts of Christ’s life. Each records a unique perspective of the most significant event in hi... Thank you! Sign up complete.	<urn:uuid:8c8a23ec-0b81-40d4-8802-93445e3dc163>	https://staging.zondervanacademic.com/blog/historical-jesus	en	0.952434	0.055875	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Pressure Plate Take a deep breath Take a step back Take a moment….. Take off that mask throw off the disguise Look at yourself through your own eyes Don’t give into the pressure of pliable perception Don’t be a fool and fall for this societal deception Switch off the TV if you really want to see Into the very depths of your own soul You can’t put a price on your own self worth You have been programmed since your birth Anxiety, depression the symptom of a sick society In an insane world why strive for conformity? Just be who you want to be Not who your friends and family want to see Not some character beamed live through the TV Live for your own reality Remain true to yourself…. Generation Alienation Dreaming of a life we can never attain Drinking in big brother convincing ourselves sane Brainwashed on reality TV, fame aint setting in Where did it go wrong, where did it begin? Brought up to believe the world could be ours Told to constantly keep looking at the stars Now it has turned to ash in our mouths We are pissed off for being left behind No second to stop constantly on the grind We thought we’d be kings of a better tomorrow Our dreams slowly fade as reality sets in Before you know it we are settling for sorrow Hiding in vain all our shame and our pain Lost in a world focused on material gain Northampton’s Road To Nowhere Take a walk through my town Down the dark and dirty paths We got no money for street lights There are no wages for street cleaners Peer from the lofty lift tower heights Drink in the run down derelict sights Hear the dereliction of council duty Drunk on their neoliberal counsel booty We have been cut raw to the bone Dying homeless on the streets alone Where is the council’s ghost at the feast Playing host to our very own beast Draining the lifeblood of our town We have even been abandoned by the clown Society now secondary to loan repayments Who gives a fuck about benefit claimants? Tear the bus stop down one won’t be soon Expect one along once in a blue moon Repeat to me we are all in this together While I freeze to death in the cold weather These fair weather friends provide no service Do they forget they are suppose to serve us! Snake Oil Stalker It is calling me each and every day It calls me at night hard to keep it at bay When I am low and in need it is by my side Waiting to pounce when I lose my stride It stalks me in my darkest hour It grows taller and taller every time I cower I hear it as you are reading this Presenting the illusion of eternal bliss It whispers my name with the cold wind It pushes down on me until I am pinned Cornered until I have no escape You can’t elude this monstrous shape It chips away until there is nothing left It leaves me alone feasting on bereft In a cloud of darkness with no way out Stuck forever blanketed in self doubt Fallen Hero I shall rise like the phoenix in my hour of despair The wounded hopeless hero damaged beyond repair Discarded demented awaiting with bated breath My desperate final stand against the darkness I cry out a cry of shame resigned to my fate Swallowed hole by the sound of my own voice Naive in the illusion I ever had a choice Depression Path Losing interest in your interests It’s a warning sign you no longer feel fine Empty and numb got you feeling dumb Depression may have you under the thumb Self hating continually cries out in the night Dabble in drink and drugs with silent shrugs Self medicating trying to keep it out of sight Struggles the morning after the night before Depression can rip you apart to the core Hopelessness and despair no surprise life isn’t fair It gets even worse when you no longer care But dare to go outside find someone to confide Lack of confidence have you trying to hide You probably have depression by your side Suicidal spikes penetrating your thoughts Every action you take feels for nought Lonely mirror hanging upon my wall Why is it that I constantly feel so small Depression it can be oh so cruel No need to suffocate in silence It doesn’t make you feeble or weak You are not meek it is a evil streak Seek help and stand tall in defiance Depression can be defeated if it’s treated Helping Hands Help You Stand Hello Brothers Hello Sisters Hello Comrades Words with meaning uttered without thought Thoughts without words resembling nought What is a Brother? What is a Sister? What is a Comrade? When we say brother does it have meaning Or do we say it without feeling? When we say sister does it have meaning Or do we say it without caring? When we say comrade does it have meaning Or do we say it without thinking? Lost in translation warning to all battle stations Wide eyed words stay silent stay stunned Look on Brothers Look on Sisters Look on Comrades There is nothing to see here but my bondage My suffering screened behind idealogical knowledge Purity masking your contempt for the concept This time we need to get it correct What is a Brother? It is you, it is me What is a Sister? It is her, it is him What is a Comrade? It is all of us. An injury to one is an injury to all Ignoring our suffering makes us cruel Think Brother Think Sister Think Comrade Next time you might be the one to fall You will be caught by your comrades Sheltered at the side of your sisters And you shall battle beside your brothers We are Brothers We are Sisters We are Comrades For we are defined by our joint struggle These words unite us and give us strength They are actions never to be held in contempt Goodbye Brothers Goodbye Sisters Goodbye Comrades Never again we said As we bled red white and blue Bodies barely going cold Before more weapons are sold No money for the old, infirm or sick Who needs bread when we have bombs These politicians think we’re so thick Just look what good it did to Homs! Red button bashing bullshitters Puffing their chest to the sound of screams Face melting bravado trendsetters Presenting nightmares as your dreams Give peace a chance a silly little stance Dance to the devils war drum to your last Duck and cover that mushroom blast Our nation trapped in a nuclear trance	<urn:uuid:269a4eea-9580-4e2e-b933-bccb816d3411>	https://steveanthonymiller.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/	en	0.906032	0.072383	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How to grill your own pizzas at home Jose Sanchez earns a living making pizzas for the Bob and Timmy’s on Wheels food truck he runs with his wife, Chelsea. But he also genuinely likes making pizzas, pushing himself to find ways to make his stand out from the others in the city. And he’s hit upon his trademark: Instead of using a giant specialty pizza oven, he makes his custom pizzas on a traditional backyard charcoal grill. Customers are so curious about his unique method, they often ask for a tour of the grill to see how it works. I know because I was one of them, and he happily obliged. Sanchez is a firm believer in cooking his pizzas over a bed of mesquite charcoal. His method banks on using dough that’s rolled out ultra-thin, only slightly thicker than a flour tortilla. He cooks them hot and fast at between 450 and 500 degrees. The result is a pizza with a crust that has a crackerlike consistency. “For me, I just found out that you cannot beat the flavor, and it’s something different. But it took a lot of trial and error to get the system down,” Sanchez said. “On the grill, I can finish a pizza in about five minutes.” Sanchez said he’s done test runs with nearly every type of charcoal he could find and decided the mesquite provided the best flavor, and paired best with his unique al pastor and beef fajita pizzas. I’ve said it before: Heat is heat, and there isn’t much out there that can be cooked in an oven that can’t also be cooked on an outdoor grill. Add in the flavor boost from charcoal, and I would argue hard that the latter is a better option for the pizza home cook, but handling the crust can be tricky. The method is daunting and requires an element of trust, because it seems like the fresh dough could slip right through the grates into the fire. But it doesn’t, and after about two minutes, the crust cooked over the direct high heat of the grill will firm up. I don’t want to completely dismiss the idea of using a pizza stone, however, because they do work well to prevent scorched spots on the pizza if that’s not your thing. I like my crust to have some burn to it, though, and that’s how the pizzas are traditionally served in the top-flight pizzerias. It’s a good idea to cook the dough (rounded out to about 12 to 14 inches in diameter) directly on the grates, give it a quick two-minute blast, then transfer it to an oiled baking sheet, flipping the crust so the cooked side is facing up. Apply the sauce, cheese and toppings to that side, and then return the pizza to the grill, toppings side up, until the crust is cooked and the cheese is melted. Speaking of toppings, grilled pizza is the perfect vehicle for experimentation, but your meat should be properly cooked ahead of time. The quick time on the grill (usually less than 10 minutes total) won’t allow for raw sausage, hamburger, etc., to cook through. It’s also not a bad idea to saute certain vegetable toppings, such as onions, peppers and mushrooms, ahead of time to ensure they’re not raw and crunchy. I took the last remaining slices of a home-smoked brisket and sausage, substituted the traditional pizza sauce with a layer of barbecue sauce, added some chopped red onion and mozzarella, and my take on the Texas BBQ pizza was born. I also browned some ground beef, sizzled up some bacon, swapped out the mozzarella for cheddar and created a bacon cheeseburger pizza on the fly. I was able to make a recipe for a dill pickle pizza that has tantalized me for months, and it was amazing. More than anything, grilling pizza is fun. It’s a quick process that keeps the heat out of the kitchen and provides a meal all will enjoy. You might scorch your first attempt or two, but the learning curve is quick once you know how to handle the crust. 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 cup warm water (110 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit) 1 envelope active dry yeast 3 1/4 cups flour, either bread, semolina or unbleached all-purpose, or a combination 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup olive oil In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar in warm tap water. Sprinkle the yeast over the water and stir gently until dissolved (1 minute). When yeast is mixed with the water, a smooth beige-colored mixture results. Let stand in a warm spot until a thin layer of foam covers the surface. Add 3 cups of the flour, salt, yeast-water mixture and oil in the bowl of a stand mixer. Attach the flat beater, gradually turn on the machine to the medium speed, and beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Replace the flat beater with the dough hook and knead at medium speed until the dough is elastic, about 5 minutes. Pinch off a piece of dough and feel it. If it is sticky, continue kneading while gradually adding just enough of the remaining ¼ cup of flour for the dough to lose its stickiness. If the dough is dry and crumbly, add warm water, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough is smooth and elastic. Shape dough into a ball and placed in oiled bowl, turning to coat. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap and set in a draft-free warm place until doubled, 45 minutes to 1 hour. With your fist, punch down dough. Shape into a ball, pressing out all of the air bubbles. If you are using bread flour or semolina flour, turn dough into oiled bowl, cover and refrigerate until puffy, 30 minutes to 1 hour. You do not need to refrigerate dough if using all-purpose flour. Let chilled dough come to room temperature, and then spread it out. Makes 2 (12-14 inch) pizza crusts From “James McNair’s Pizza” Nonstick cooking spray All-purpose flour, for dusting 12 ounces pizza dough 1/2 cup Alfredo sauce 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1 1/2 cups sliced dill pickles (about 3 large pickles) Fresh dill sprigs, for garnish Spray grill grates well with nonstick cooking spray. Prepare grill for direct heat with charcoal of choice (hardwood mesquite is a good option), with temperature at least 400-450 degrees with the lid closed. Dust a piece of parchment lightly with flour. Stretch or roll out the pizza dough into a 14-inch round on the parchment, then transfer the dough on the parchment to a baking sheet sprayed with nonstick cooking oil to transport to your grill. Carefully slide the dough, without the parchment, onto the middle of the grill, close the lid and cook for 2 minutes. With a large spatula, remove the dough and place on baking sheet, cooked side up. Spread the Alfredo sauce on the pizza dough and sprinkle with the mozzarella. Combine the garlic powder and Italian seasoning in a small bowl, then sprinkle over the cheese. Top with the pickles. Carefully slide the pizza back on the grill and cook until the crust is golden and the cheese has melted, 5 to 6 minutes. Garnish with dill sprigs. Note: You can use a pizza stone, which will lessen the likelihood of charring the crust, but it will add a few more minutes to the cooking time. Makes 4 servings Adapted from	<urn:uuid:c8de3816-1413-4946-88fa-49233808cff2>	https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/How-to-grill-your-own-pizzas-at-home-15256136.php	en	0.937627	0.024383	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
$1 for 3 months. Save 97%. $1 for 3 months. Save 97%. Opinion: Solve imminent physician shortage by licensing foreign doctors Jeffrey A. Singer When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, several of the hardest hit states temporarily suspended state licensing requirements, allowing practitioners licensed in any other state to come to the aid of their residents. This was a tacit admission that state medical licensing laws block the free flow of practitioners to patients in need. Unfortunately, when this crisis is over the old regulations will go back in effect. But the problem is bigger than limitations on U.S. doctors — these same boards restrict doctors from abroad. Given that the Association of American Medical Colleges projected a total physician shortfall of 90,000 in 2020, and between 40,000 and 122,000 over the next decade or so, we need to rethink our licensing regimen. This is especially urgent now that some say the shortage may be as high as 139,000 in 2033, which is only exacerbated by the pandemic. State medical licensing laws block the free flow of practitioners to patients in need, Singer writes. And as we’ve seen in recent months, shelter-in-place orders, restrictions on non-emergency treatment and fear of contagion are leading many small medical practices to close. We could stave off a deadly shortage by allowing the large pool of experienced and motivated health care practitioners from other countries who are eager to come here and willing to provide care to underserved communities in poor or remote areas of this country, but they are blocked by outdated state medical licensing regulations. State licensing boards require international medical school graduates who have completed post-graduate specialty training and are licensed to practice in other countries to repeat their entire post-graduate training in an accredited U.S. institution before receiving a state medical license. As a result, many experienced foreign‐trained doctors take positions in ancillary medical fields such as nursing, lab technicians and radiology technicians instead of starting all over again. Some even work as waiters or taxi drivers. As a general surgeon I remember how Jamil, an operating room technician from Syria, impressed me with his knowledge and focus on my operations as he would pass me instruments. He often politely offered excellent suggestions or insights when I wrestled with a difficult intra-operative decision. One day he told me he was a general surgeon in Syria before he came to the U.S. With a family to support, he was unable to go through an entire 5-year residency program in order to practice here. So he worked part-time as an OR tech to maintain a connection to the field he loved while starting up a small Middle Eastern diner. To be sure, the quality and approach to the practice of medicine varies in different parts of the world. In some countries doctors treat a different constellation of health problems than those that exist in the U.S. Some also may have less exposure to the technological advances that abound in the U.S. health care system. There may also be cultural differences that affect their understanding of and communication with American patients. For this reason, private certification organizations like the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), specialty boards (e.g., American Board of Surgery, American Board of Internal Medicine), as well as rating and evaluation services play an important role in providing critical information to consumers of health care. In Canada, like states in the U.S., provinces have domain over medical licensing. Several provinces grant licenses to experienced immigrant physicians who have completed postgraduate training residencies in 29 approved foreign jurisdictions without them having to repeat postgraduate training in Canada. Instead, they are simply required to pass a “practice readiness assessment,” a relatively short (usually a few months) process involving supervision by a licensed practitioner who must clear them as competent. In Nova Scotia, non-specialty general medical practitioners from other countries may practice under the supervision of a licensed physician and, after a designated period, may independently practice in underserved areas. A similar program exists for specialists who receive postgraduate training in countries other than the 29 approved jurisdictions. There is no reason we cannot do the same in the U.S., and some states are at least taking a step in the right direction. For example, one year ago Arizona, followed by Montana and Pennsylvania, reformed their licensing laws to grant reciprocity to health care practitioners licensed in any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Missouri is poised to do the same. Lawmakers in the remaining states should follow their lead. But they can take reform even further. Enlisting private certification organizations to help develop criteria, states should give reciprocity to health care practitioners licensed in certain countries with reputations for quality medical education. As some Canadian provinces have done, states should develop programs to facilitate integrating experienced doctors from less advanced countries into the pool of health care providers. States should not be caught unprepared for the next public health crisis. As the physician shortage worsens, they should remove regulatory barriers obstructing eager and able doctors from other states and countries who want to help their patients. Jeffrey A. Singer, MD practices general surgery in Phoenix, Arizona and is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.	<urn:uuid:f8280f71-afd3-4b76-84ad-5f760c874c71>	https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2020/07/15/opinion-solve-physician-shortage-licensing-foreign-doctors/5438210002/	en	0.946845	0.031732	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Massage cupping Here is your chance to look like a professional athlete. Cupping treatments can leave recognizable red circles, letting you know who gets cupping and who doesn’t. They show up on Olympic athletes and others routinely followed by paparazzi. What is behind these red marks and why would you want them? Dry cupping uses a hand-held suction pump to place cups in an area of the body where there is congestion or tight muscles. The suction creates a negative space, allowing for blood and lymph to move into the area. Improved blood and lymph flow are essential for healthy tissues. The cups can be left on the area for several minutes, or can be glided along tense muscles. The results are immediate. Massage cupping releases tight muscles and fascia and can be helpful in relieving congestion due to asthma, allergies or a cold. Cupping therapy is an invaluable tool in treating scar tissue and radiation fibrosis resulting from cancer treatments. The end result is less stiffness and greater ease of movement. Focus Massage Therapy specializes in cupping massage, why not give it a try? Leave a comment	<urn:uuid:c55e7db5-d86c-4c00-b208-333cbff42eaa>	https://www.focusmassagetherapy.ca/massage-cupping/	en	0.917715	0.231056	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
How to Make Weed Taste Better? how to make weed taste better There is a period that a lot of cannabis cultivators are very concerned in making as large as possible of yields and having the most shoots from every cannabis herb. However, the taste of the commodity is as well an important factor, which can be affected by the time of cannabis herbs’ lives. As such, a lot of people raise a query regarding that matter. “How to Make Weed Taste Better?” Take note that not just the cultivators have asked this question but as well the consumers who buy weed. In this post, you will see some tips on how to make weed taste better, especially if you are a cultivator. And for the non-cultivators or consumers, a part of this write-up may find you helpful. Now, is it feasible to flavor weed? The definite answer is, yes. It is pleasurable to do, and the greatest division is that it is circumspect. And some of the techniques are narrated here. Great Way to Improve the Tastes of Weed There are a lot of various kinds of tastes you see in weed, and this concept is so overwhelming. For example, Green Crack has an aroma similar to garden-fresh mangoes as well as taste like mangoes. And the mystery behind this is because of the terpenes located in the herb. Consequently, you must concentrate much on the tastes before purchasing the seeds. Normally, in searching for strains, which are proven to taste similar to a specific fruit, you will be more triumphant in cultivating weed, which has excellent tastes. Regardless of taste that apprehends your ornate – earthy, citrus, mint, spicy, and sweet – you can see them all. Cultivators cultivate ganja with a particular notion – tastes. They breed them to other tried and tested cannabis to make seeds, which are mysterious and taste amazing in the same manner. From now, you have likely gained knowledge that due to terpenes, which create the shoots clink, you should concentrate on developing the terpenes. It is achievable at the time that the herb is still developing. However, our focus here is how to make weed taste better. Stress The Herbs Yes, you peruse it right. Through stressing the herbs in a little way, you are literally pushing them to take actions on the best possible they can. For instance, have you observed how small receptacles with flower herbs in them manufacture a lot of flowers in comparison to big receptacles? This is possible because small receptacles stress the herbs to combat space. However, it is vital to take note that you cannot stress the herbs many times. Doing so can possibly kill the herbs. With that, you may begin stressing the herbs correctly if they are developing utilizing various techniques below. 1. Stop Watering First on the list is to stop watering the herbs if they are nearly for cropping. For instance, when you water every three days, miss out one rotation. Nonetheless, pay attention to how the herbs fare. When they dangle too much, fill them up with enough water. Do not apply this technique if the herbs are not close to its cropping time, or you will damage the shoots. 2. Low-Stress Training (LST) Another technique naturally utilized to stress weed herbs is LST. Low-Stress Training is a method where you crook the stalks to the carriageway of the receptacle so that the illumination is given out in equal treatment. The shoots below can as well receive more illumination, and you will literally change those popcorn shoots into good and chilly shoots. Blend this with Sea of Green, and you can have a prospering garden with lots of shoots. Additionally, LST assists more with illumination. On the other hand, another ground you must endeavor the method is the fact that it stresses the herb a bit. When accomplished accurately, you will assist the herb in taking action better compared to what you first thought. 3. Super Cropping Some people as well split hard boughs of the herb to stress the herb a lot more. This technique is named super cropping. However, it is suggested to not to attempt this to auto-flowering plants since they have a minuscule lifespan. Though some seasoned cultivators attempt super cropping to auto-flowering plants, novices must hold back in doing this method. Oftentimes, the herb might not recuperate on time, and the end product will result in a small number of yields. In fact, novice growers must endeavor each stressing method with extra care. 4. Defoliation Defoliation is the procedure where you separate the foliage of the herb to stress it. Similar to LST, this technique also assists the herb has more illumination because of a scarcity of leaves. Go for foliage nearby the shoots in particular so the shoots can have more illumination. When cultivating auto-flowering plants, have an assurance to endeavor this technique if the herb is in the vegetative state. Additionally, assure that you will not detach a lot of leaves even when the herb is in this stage. Doing so during this stage means that you assertively defoliate the foliage and will result in having a negative influence on the yields. Utilize Commodities that Improve the Terpenes You already understand that developing the terpenes will increase the taste of weed. Consequently, you can buy commodities that can help in increasing the terpenes. However, if you wish to provide your fertilizer that can thump any of the available terpene products, it is suggested to utilize molasses. The great step to grow resin in the herbs is to utilize molasses. Solely add on a tablespoon of molasses to the water before sprinkling the herbs. Doing this solely give food to the microbes that existed in the loam. In the end, when you let the microbes feel pleased, they will assure that the nutrients that existed in the loam are conveyed well in every part of the herb. You can as well substitute molasses to brown sugar. To create your fertilizer greater, put on magnesium sulfate or Epsom salts obtainable in the supermarket to grow the manufacture of resin. You can follow the recipe below. • 1 teaspoon of brown sugar • 9 tablespoons of Epsom salt • 4 cups of water 1. First, simmer the water in a saucepan. 2. Mix the other two ingredients. 3. Turn off the fire when the ingredients have melted wholly. 4. Allow the mixture to cool. 5. Blend the substance with water until it calculates a galloon. 6. Keep the solution in a jar. Now, when you sprinkle the herbs on its flowering cycle, utilize 8 to 10 milliliters of the said solution each galloon, and you will notice the herbs literally react beautifully. Take note that the main component utilized in most commodities utilized to grow resin is either potassium sulfate or molasses. Utilize the two when needed, however, please be sure you pursue the right recipes so that you will not give any danger to the herbs. With inherent components such as molasses, there is no need to worry as long as you diminish it before putting it to the herbs. Increase Taste After Cropping This method is for those who buy shoots. Oftentimes, weed loses its taste, and it is possible because of several grounds. If the shoots are not kept well or not cured correctly, they lose taste. It could as well occur when shoots are solely too old. With this, you can improve the tastes, but take note that the options are restricted. For example, when you have a container full of weed that has an aroma similar to citrus, you can grow the taste by binding slices of lemons on the top of the jar. This technique does well, and a pretty scent of citrus will strike your nostrils if you open the container. Nonetheless, there are two vital notions you need to bear in mind. First, utilize the slices just for a restricted period. Twelve hours is sufficient to grow the taste. When you allow the slices to stay in the jar greater than 24 hours, you need to face with molds. Since the slices have lots of moisture, the shoots will entice mold. When you see a modest chance of the shoots getting damp, detach the top of the jar and allow the shoots to breathe for a moment. Final Notions on How to Make Weed Taste Better No matter what kind of method you apply, just be sure that you are opting a strain, which will prosper in your surrounding, will have the power and taste you want as well as simple enough to cultivate in your range of encounter. Also, with the methods mentioned above, you can now make your favorite weed taste even better. Start cultivating your most favored strain now and utilize your most preferred technique so that you will enjoy your weed more.	<urn:uuid:feefea00-1dda-4798-88ea-dc87cb564758>	https://www.mjseedscanada.com/how-to-make-weed-taste-better/	en	0.948115	0.078636	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
John Doughty John Doughty was born in Margate. He lived in a large house in Price’s Road which doubled up as a boarding house. By his own admission, he was a spoilt child, and attended Drapers Mill School with his future wife. His friends were pretty rough, and they had plenty of punch ups. He was caught once by the police for trying to de-rail a train with coins on the track. He watched the evacuation of Dunkirk and was aware that Margate was a scary place to be once the war had started. He remembers the day of evacuation as the most traumatic of his life. The journey was long and crowded and when they arrived at Lichfield they were made to stand in an area of concrete where they were examined by a nurse. A blue cross was drawn on the heads of those with nits. He was then put on a coach to Gentleshaw and sat in a room while the locals chose their evacuees. Listen to John talking about how he was last to be chosen by clicking on the following audio clip: john doughty grizzling fat little me Transcript of John’s audio clip John went to live with Mr. and Mrs McGill and their son. His new way of life with the McGills was completely different to what he was used to. Mr. McGill was a miner and he often came back black from the pit. To wash, he would have a bath in the tub in the kitchen which was new for him, and he thought it was strange that the men in the village got together to play marbles.John had never had picalilli before, and the McGills kept pigs and chickens. Sadly, John was blamed for things going missing in their home, and he was also hit when he was ‘mardy’, a new word for him. When he was old enough to go to the grammar school, he was moved to Stafford and was billeted first with the Lawtons and then three further homes. He liked the last of these billets the best because his host parent worked at Woolworths and he got lots of sweets. Unfortunately he then proceeded to get ink up the walls so was moved once more. He returned home in 1943-44 when the doodlebugs were still flying overhead.	<urn:uuid:fcf92130-124c-4c74-98f9-7446d7b0f18a>	http://www.childrenonthemove.org.uk/2012/07/john-doughty/	en	0.995116	0.257854	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Because you were busy getting your knees wrecked. Because you were busy getting your knees wrecked. They are only knees right? It’s not like I kneed them for laying down on the couch, or sitting at work or anything. Might as well dance like an idiot in front of my daughter, her friends, and their dads right? And who doesn’t want to listen to music you haven’t hear since you were in diapers (or before for most of you). There was Crystal Light and cookies that formed the most perfectly hideous taste together, and glowsticks as the worst sort of light ever. There was the photos of an old sweaty guy embarassing his daughter, soon to be put on Facebook for none of the world to see. Yep, totally not worth it. So while you were out ruining your knees, or other non important things like you backs or brains, I put out a few non important posts. Such as the genius post like Spurs NBA Champ Bitterness. Sure they won the championship, but they lost a bunch of games too. If I would have lost that many, I would have been kicked out of school. At least they get punished by making millions of dollars and getting a 3 month summer vacation. I say a lot of stupid and bitter things and a lot of people want to hurt me. Luckily I have a Stunt Double. Unluckily, my stunt double makes me do his stunts. Like for instance, ruining my knees at a dance. Find out what else my stunt double made me do in Stunt Double Bitterness. In a movie that needed more stunts than a Hollywood Action Movie, uh Fast and Furious 6 (which is a Hollywood Action Movie) used the motto Ride or Die. I don’t think of those as mutually exclusive, but in their small world, I guess it is the only choice. Let’s just hope my next commute doesn’t produce that choice between riding and dying. Find out more on Ride or Die Friday Giftures. Tweets came faster than a Hollywood Blockbuster, uh, I mean a car in a race in a Hollywood Blockbuster (don’t be jealous of my fancy metaphors or similies or whatever those things are). It would be nice if your boss would give you a courtesy call before stopping by your cubicle and so rudely interrupting your web browsing. I just bought an 11 oz. bottle of Lemonade for $1.99. The only thing that is more irritating than getting charged that much is my stupidity. I think when a song needs to censor a bad word in a song on the radio, they should just use annoying co-worker voice to cover it. Then there were way more clever comments to way not clever posts. On Spurs Champ Bitterness: “My problem is I grew up in New Jersey, so who was I going to root for, the Nets? Or someone playing professional basketball?” Joseph Nebus “Wow. With this, I actually read about sports. It’s the first time. And I’m not bitter about it.” Gunmetal Geisha “LOVED this. Mostly because of them never listening to you. I feel you there. I can’t tell you how often I throw my hands up (when watching my Cats) and shout, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” And money trees, haha. Pretty much.” C. Miller On Bitter Stunt Double: “A bitterly terrible space-filler of a post. I now feel relieved… oops… sorry, I’ll mop that up. Some of us can’t afford the luxury of a stunt double, some of us have to do everything ourselves… tsk! 😉Ishaiya “I was reading along, smiling, chuckling, enjoying, UNTIL I came to your sentence: ‘Joan River’s will mock and taunt and squeak in some high pitched tone that only the devil understands’ and I spewed tea all over my desk. Dang you crack me UP! Thanks for ruining my keyboard.” longchaps2 “Thank you for further helping me procrastinate by killing time in reading your post.” Sarah On Ride or Die Friday Giftures: “Hahahaha! The grocery cart olympic guy is 100% just going to walk away. Smooth. So smooth.” Kaela Moore “I’m bitter that all my wheelbarrow race partners were not this good. I’m also bitter about the way that woman was cooking the salmon; she was totally ruining it even before she threw it out the window. Wasted food makes my bitterness bitter….” Morichansgarden “Do they sell that pillow case? I need one. Three, I mean.” Kerbey And finally…your favorite of my posts…Ignoring all the words and seeing BITTER GIFS…. Someone worse at using a tape measure than me. Someone worse at using a tape measure than me. What's a laptop? You just type random things like this to get viruses right? What’s a laptop? You just type random things like this to get viruses right? Bitter Kneading Ben 23 thoughts on “In case missed it…because you were busy ruining your knees at your Father Daughter Dance 1. I can only imagine the disgusting taste of that Crystal Light/cookie combination. Kind of like drinking Gatorade and eating . . . well, ANYTHING. (Gatorade + Cheez-Its is the most horrible thing in the entire world, and that’s only a bit of an exaggeration.) • Amazingly I found a decent combination this morning that I never expected to work. I combined a celery stick with a blueberry and it was actually kinda good. It took the bland taste of celery and gave it a bit of sweetness along with taming down the sweetness of the blueberry. I felt like Remy from Rattatoie. The dance was actually pretty fun, even though the drink/cookie combo was no good. I did a selfie with my daughter I need to text you. • That sounds . . . disgusting. :/ I mean, I can see what you’re saying, that one would maybe sort of compliment the other. But I don’t like blueberries OR celery. I like the taste of blueberries, I suppose, but the consistency is just off-putting to me. And I don’t like celery in general. Is that going to be your new go-to snack? 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ISIS and video games ISIS is not about religion. This is something I have been saying over and over. Too many people keep insisting on its religious dimension. This is wrong. My argument is based on studies which disprove any consistent correlation between religiosity and terrorism. The studies prove that socio-psychological reasons are the main drivers of terrorist activities. In a few previous articles I pointed to some of these studies and I also mentioned that it is the sense of humiliation many Muslims feel that accounts for much of terrorism. Here I want to point to another motive: adventurism. Adventurism has long been recognized as a motive for foreign fighters. The exact weight of this factor is difficult to assess for obvious reasons. Firstly it is difficult to do actual surveys for people fighting in foreign countries. More importantly, very few, if any, fighters would actually admit that their motivations boil down to an adrenaline rush. Of course not! The stated motives are always noble. I mean if one is going to go around beheading people then at least say it is for altruistic reasons! But what people say about their motives is one thing and their actual motives are another. Adventurism has long been recognized as a motive for foreign fighters. Abdullah Hamidaddin There are many anecdotal stories to prove that at least some of the foreign fighters with ISIS – and other militant groups – are motivated by adventurism. Facebook profiles of ISIS fighters doing “cool” selfies are some. One darkly funny story was about a young fighter who would send his pictures to his girlfriend back home. Yes, girlfriend! This guy went to fight a so-called religious war to show off his machoness. I do not want to overgeneralize from one story but I think it is worth mentioning and taking seriously. ISIS recruitment tactics There is however another way to indicate, with a sufficient level of certainty, that many ISIS fighters are motivated by adventurism which is to look at their recruitment tactics. ISIS media campaigns are of a high quality. They present to their audience a life of inner serenity and pride. They also offer sexual rewards to those who join them as Arie Kruglanski recently noted. But they also use popular video games as well, ones that present a life of adventure via violence. And, sadly, these games are abundant. The advertisement would come in the form of a game with a voice over. The viewer would watch a game going on and listens to excited chants of “Allahu akbar,” Islamic songs, and victory cries every time an enemy is destroyed. One advertisement I recently watched has already gained almost 400,000 views. This video is clearly not a call to jihad. This is a call to adventure and adventure in the minds of many youth is in risk and destruction. Given the millions of young people exposed to these games, I would expect that a few thousand of them wish to “play” in real life. ISIS is not the first to recognize the role of adventure in motivating recruits. It is not even the first to recognize the effectiveness of such violent games in exciting young men and attracting them to participate in a “real” game. The U.S. Army has been doing this for many years now. Its recruiting strategy includes inviting young people to play a war game. According to a 10-year-old CBS report, it is considered one of the most effective recruiting tactics. I would not be surprised if we later learned that ISIS’ idea was conceived while researching U.S. military tactics. The importance of factoring in adventurism as a motivation is in the media campaigns against ISIS. I want us to minimize using a moderate religious discourse in countering ISIS simply because it will not work. If religion is not the main motivator then a moderate religious discourse will not have an effect. We also need to bring our youth closer to the brutality of war. War is an adventure until one is fully immersed in it. Then it becomes hell. Is there a way to make young people see that hell before? Abdullah Hamidaddin is a writer and commentator on religion, Middle Eastern societies and politics with a focus on Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He is currently a PhD candidate in King’s College London. He can be followed on Twitter: @amiq1	<urn:uuid:64f83b9c-48b0-4b74-ba89-e6a71107c4c9>	https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2014/10/26/ISIS-and-video-games-.html	en	0.974796	0.021392	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Indian Chaat Every thing about Indian Chaat \| Vahrehvah : Indian Chat Chaat is one of the most finger licking snack that is often sold by street vendors. Chaat is a common word used across India, Pakistan and the rest of south Asia. The word Chaat or Chat literally means “to lick”. They are small plates of savory snacks typically served at the side or corner of every road. They are the most popular street foods that yummy to eat with different flavors and tang. Chaats are a jumble of flavors and texture that includes sweet, sour, salty, spicy, crunchy, soft, nutty, fried and flaky tidbits doused with sweet yogurt, fresh cilantro, tamarind or lemon juice and seasoned with chaat masala. Crackers and fried dumplings made from lentils, chickpeas or potatoes, mixed with some luscious and stunning variety of chutneys gives a contrast and burst of sensational flavors galloping down your palate. Chaat is said to have originated in North India but now are made across the country. Some believe that the Chaat in Delhi is the best in the world. Chaat is savory snack that is made with a variety of ingredients. Most of the popular Chaats available across every street are Bhelpuri, Pani-Poori, Pao Bhaaji, Ragda Cutlet or Ragda Patties, Sev Puri, Dahi Poori etc etc. Each major Indian city has its own popular Chaat house serving a speciality Chaat. Kids love eating Chaat and they no specific time for eating this type of snack. Made with a variety of sweet, spicy and tangy chutney and sauces, the flavor is extremely exotic and mouth-watering. Topped with sweet yogurt balances the heat and spiciness of the snack. Chaat can be eaten any time of the day. It’s fresh, healthy and easy to prepare. Do try our variety of Chaat recipes at:	<urn:uuid:d365fa94-af9f-46dd-af27-b82d1331d37e>	https://vahrehvah.com/indianfood/indian-chaat	en	0.936571	0.115063	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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187 readers RJ Mitte Lists His Go-To Breakfast Foods in Honor of Walt Jr. 4 items Unlike his famous character on Breaking Bad, RJ Mitte actually doesn't eat a lot of breakfast food. Walt Jr. was ready for the most important meal each and every day, but when Mitte digs into breakfast food, he says, "It's between the hours of 2 and 4 am." Like his fictional counterpart, however, Mitte does love home-cooked meals. And though he's usually eating it in the middle of the night, that naturally includes breakfast. On the Ranker Podcast, RJ Mitte ranks his favorite breakfast foods as only the man who brought Waler White Jr. could. What are you waiting for? Let's get rankin'! • 1 How could you not like bacon? The same with veggie bacon (don't knock it till you try it). • 2 I'm talking the real deal here. No turkey sausage or anything like that. Dirty, greasy, grimy, 2 AM, what you need in the morning type of meal. • 3 Eggs Benedict Cooking it sucks, but if you're having someone cook it for you, you really can't complain. It's my go-to. • 4 I try to eat fairly healthy, and eggs are definitely that.	<urn:uuid:05b84a08-5ce8-460c-ba03-51e7c63a861e>	https://www.ranker.com/list/rj-mitte-favorite-breakfast-food/daniel-kohn?ref=listed_on&pos=27&a=0&l=530699&ltype=n&g=0	en	0.972712	0.452067	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Publius Rutilius Rufus Get Publius Rutilius Rufus essential facts below. View Videos or join the Publius Rutilius Rufus discussion. Add Publius Rutilius Rufus to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media. Publius Rutilius Rufus Publius Rutilius Rufus Consul of the Roman Republic 105 BC - 105 BC Personal details Born158 BC Diedafter 78 BC NationalityAncient Roman Publius Rutilius Rufus (158 BC – after 78 BC) was a Roman statesman, soldier, orator and historian of the Rutilia gens, as well as a great-uncle of Gaius Julius Caesar (through his sister Rutilia, Caesar's maternal grandmother). He achieved the highest political office when he was elected Consul for 105 BC. During his consulship, he reformed the drill system and improved army discipline. As legate to Quintus Mucius Scaevola, he attempted to protect the inhabitants of Asia from extortion by the equites, which provoked them to raise the accusation of extortion from those provincials. The charge was false, but as the juries were chosen from the equestrian order, he was condemned. He was exiled, and went to Smyrna, where he wrote a history of Rome in Greek. Early life He was the third child of a Publius Rutilius,[] the other children being called Lucius and Rutilia (mother of Gaius Aurelius Cotta). Rufus studied philosophy under Panaetius (becoming a Stoic), law, public speaking under Sulpicius Galba,[1] and Greek. Military career and consulship He started his military career in 134 BC, as a member of the staff of Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus during the Numantine War. While in Spain he must have come into contact with Gaius Marius and Jugurtha who also served under Scipio. He probably saw action during the Siege of Numantia. In 115 BC Rufus campaigned to get elected consul. He was defeated for the consulship by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus. After the elections he prosecuted Scaurus for ambitus. Scaurus in turn prosecuted Rufus for the same charge. Both failed. Rufus was a legate of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus in the campaign against Jugurtha of 109 BC, along with Gaius Marius. [1] He distinguished himself in the Battle of the Muthul, where he faced a charge by Bomilcar and managed to capture or maim most of the Numidian war elephants. In 105 BC he was elected to the consulship[2] as a senior partner of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. During his time as consul, Rome was faced with the crisis of potential invasion by the migrating Cimbri and Teutons, who had reached the province of Transalpine Gaul: as the senior consul, and moreover the one with a distinguished military record, one would have expected Rutilius to be the one who led the Roman army north to confront the Germanic tribes. However, for whatever reason, this duty was handed to his junior partner, with disastrous consequences as Mallius and the proconsular governor Servilius Caepio proved unable or unwilling to cooperate, resulting in a shattering defeat at the Battle of Arausio, while Rutilius himself remained in Rome. His main achievements concerned the discipline of the army and the introduction of an improved system of drill. Subsequently, he served as legate to Quintus Mucius Scaevola, governor of Asia.[1] Exile and later life By assisting his superior in his efforts to protect the inhabitants of Asia from the extortions of the publicani, or tax farmers, Rufus incurred the hatred of the equestrian order, to which the publicani belonged. In 92 BC he was charged with extorting money from the provincials, although he had made efforts to prevent them from being extorted. The charge was widely known to be false, but as the juries at that time were chosen from the equestrian order, he was condemned, as the order bore a grudge against him. The famous Roman gourmand Apicius had a hand in his demise. His property was confiscated to satisfy claims for compensation.[3] He retired to Mytilene, and afterwards to Smyrna, where he spent the rest of his life (possibly as an act of defiance against his prosecutors: he was welcomed with honour into the very city for which he was prosecuted as allegedly looting), and where Cicero visited him as late as the year 78 BC. Although invited by Lucius Cornelius Sulla to return to Rome, Rufus refused to do so. It was during his stay at Smyrna that he wrote his autobiography and a history of Rome in Greek, part of which is known to have been devoted to the Numantine War.[1] He possessed a thorough knowledge of law, and wrote treatises on that subject, some fragments of which are quoted in the Digests. He was also well acquainted with Greek literature. Bankruptcy law reform According to Professor Levinthal, in an article from 1918,[4] Rutilius happened to be a revolutionary for bankruptcy proceedings. The process of general execution against the debtor's property introduced into Roman law by Rutilius was called bonorum emptio or venditio. Whether the debtor was solvent or insolvent, whether there were many creditors or there was but one creditor, the proceeding was the same, leading to a sale of the entire estate of the debtor for the benefit of his creditors. The bonorum venditio was only granted when the debtor had committed one of several acts.[5] These acts, which might be termed acts of bankruptcy, were (a) absconding (latitans) or hiding from creditors,[6] (b) leaving a judgment unsatisfied for thirty days, and (c) admitting, without discharging, a debt, and taking no steps to pay it. The creditor or creditors were granted by the Praetor a missio in possessionem, equivalent to the English "receiving order." In other words, they were put into possession of the debtor's estate. Then, at fixed intervals, followed three decrees: the first publicly advertised the sale and gave notice to the non-petitioning creditors to put in their claims; the second authorized the creditors to choose from among themselves a magister, equivalent to our trustee, to superintend the sale; and the last enabled them to publish the conditions under which the sale would take place. After a third interval, the estate, or universitas juris, of the debtor was put up to auction, and knocked down to the highest bidder (bonorum emptor), i. e., to the person who offered the creditors the highest percentage on their claims, the creditors being paid pro rata. Rufus was married to a Livia, the sister of Marcus Livius Drusus.[7] Their son may have been Publius Rutilius Nudus.[8] In fiction 1. ^ a b c d "Rutilius Rufus, Publius". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2016. 2. ^ Smith, William (1871). A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. p. 761. 3. ^ Mommsen, Theodor (1867). The History of Rome. 3. London, England: Richard Bentley. p. 219. 4. ^ L Levinthal, 'The Early History of Bankruptcy Law' [1918] University of Pennsylvania Law Review 223, 235-6 5. ^ Gaius, iii, 78. 6. ^ Cf. Cic. Verr, ii, 24, s. 59. Compare the Pennsylvania statute of June 13, 1836, relating to domestic attachment. 7. ^ Dennison, Matthew (2011). Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography. St. Martin's Publishing Group. 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1 September 2015 Reform demands from a UK dissident The Blog A white paper on social reform for Britain has been published by UK dissident Simon Tomlin writing at The Daily Agenda blog. In the paper, titled "The Act of Reformation", the dissident and Mont Order Security Council seat holder puts forward the following 21 essential demands to make the UK a more functional democracy. In particular, The Daily Agenda called for the long-delayed transformation of Britain into a democratic republic (something that has never gained any political traction in the UK, as noted by Tomlin) rather than a constitutional monarchy, and the creation of a Freedom of Speech Act that would provide similar protections to journalists and whistleblowers as the First Amendment in the United States. 1. "Proportional representation guaranteeing all political parties a place in Parliament based on the share of the vote to ensure all electors are represented according to their views at a General Election." The current system is a dictatorship of two parties. 2. "The unelected House of Lords is to be abolished in its entirety." 3. "The Constitutional Monarchy is to be abolished" 4. "The Magistrates Courts are to be scrapped in the public interest to eradicate the nepotism between the police and Magistracy." 5. "The system of sentencing and remand prior to conviction is to be overhauled to significantly reduce the prison population and alleviate the massive cost to the public purse." 6. "All district judges sitting in the Magistrates Courts are to be promoted to the Crown Courts" Half of the Magistrates Courts are to be scrapped to reduce the cost to the public. 7. "Membership of the Freemasons organisation or any secret organisation [with the exception of the Mont Order] committed to influencing the legal framework of the nation, shall become illegal" 8. "The Criminal Cases Review Commission will be scrapped" 9. "The prison system shall undergo a sweeping reform of all of its services with the key emphasis being on restoring discipline and encouraging widespread rehabilitation of offenders. The prison population will be reduced in significant numbers" 10. "It is proposed that prisoners are sent to prisons that reflect their nature of their crimes." Non-violent offenders should not be sent to the same prison facilities as violent offenders. 11. "The ‘Independent’ Police Complaints Commission shall be abolished and replaced with a Police Standards Authority to restore public trust in the police service." 12. "DNA samples retained by the police service where the person arrested has not been charged will be destroyed under the supervision of the PSA." 13. "The post of Police Commissioner is to be scrapped to eradicate the current nepotism between political parties and like-minded senior police officers.." 14. "Parliament shall enact a law guaranteeing freedom of speech and expression to all British citizens and people shall have the right to express whatever opinions they hold without fear of criminal prosecution and repression by Parliament." 15. "Secret trials will be dispensed with in the public interest to engender greater public trust and transparency in the legal system." 16. "Absolute privilege for solicitors and barristers shall be abolished to prevent them from making character assassination attacks on a defendant, then reported as ‘fact’ in the media, thus causing serious defamation to the defendant, particularly where or she is acquitted by a jury." 17. "Legal Aid funding in the criminal courts shall not be available to any defendant convicted of three offences and this measure is designed to curtail career criminals, who will have to pay for their own legal representation and if they cannot afford to pay, they should seek alternative law abiding careers." 18. "Parliament shall enact a law – similar to the First Amendment in the USA – that ensures freedom of expression shall be available to everyone on British soil without fear of harassment from the State for expressing opinions unpopular with certain political factions." 19. "The Right of Assembly shall be an automatic right to all citizens wishing to protest against any socio-political issue which needs to be highlighted to the majority." 20. "The intelligence agencies MI6, MI5 and GCHQ will be merged into the National Intelligence Service and the number of employees reduced as the surveillance machinery of the State is dismantled in the public interest." 21. "The National Public Order Intelligence Unit NPOIU shall be scrapped and the police will have no powers to run undercover spying operations against political activists and political groups operating within the framework of the law." This is an abridged version of the demands only. A full version with more detailed, concrete policy suggestions can be read at The Daily Agenda main blog. The Daily Agenda is a member of the Mont Order Associates, as well as the Mont Order Security Council, whose global dissident network has been expanding rapidly throughout 2015 using the tools of the Internet. Simon Tomlin, who edits the publication, is himself an award-winning journalist, an eloquent political writer and strong supporter of the Order. The Blog Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner Twitter's shameful obedience to the US government Follow Me on Twitter	<urn:uuid:2ed53995-046a-45af-b6ac-ec7bc5ca6c05>	http://www.clubof.info/2015/09/reform-demands-from-uk-dissident.html	en	0.943099	0.289336	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
do yall know where they have DMT ceremony? like named some countries please...I've thought about going to peru for a 14 days retreat , do yall think $2000 yes two thousands dollars would do good for the trip? they don't have it around here...all they got is weed.... Update 2: it hard to find here in Alabama , how about 1 of yall e-mail me and we can talk about yall shipping some DMT in a package for me to my house? ;) 3 Answers • Anonymous 9 years ago Why not just get some DMT off the street and save a buttload of money? • Anonymous 9 years ago I agree with the first answer. It's not that hard to find and there is no reason why you should have to do it in a ceremony. As soon as you have it you'll be in your own little world anyway... for like 15 minutes... • Anonymous 9 years ago Yo! Here's a Shaman I found out about through a documentary called "Heaven Earth". He seems like a cool cat. I'll be visiting him this Summer. Website for Sanctuary: Enjoy your experience! Source(s): Internet, yo. Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.	<urn:uuid:074cf51f-98ea-4750-8d82-e0e70ccf9f66>	https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120215042447AAv7Qjv	en	0.968433	0.371286	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
111 Ways to Jumpstart 2011 How to Get Your Marketing on Track One of the great things about January is that it’s the beginning of a new year. It gives us the sense of a fresh start like we had when we began a new school year with shiny unmarked notebooks and binders ready to fill with our notes and misspellings. Similarly we approach 2011 with the same gusto and anticipation. To help you get your business on track for 2011, here are 111 ways to jumpstart January organized into categories to help you. While this is a long list, it’s a great business tool. To optimize your usage, print out the list and take the time to think through your answers. Don’t worry that the year has started! It’s important to put your 2011 plans on track! Then, set up a process to check your progress at regular intervals, say monthly, throughout the year. This way if you’re off track or events throw you a curve ball, you can make adjustments along the way. • Look back to move forward 1. How well did you do in 2010 versus 2009? 2. How did you perform versus your budget or plans for 2010? 3. What were the big surprises for your organization in 2010? • Know your customer 1. Has your customer base changed in the past year? If so how? 2. Are you talking to your customers? If not, is this on your list for 2011? 3. What do your customers want from your firm? What will you do to meet their needs in 2011? 4. Do you know which media formats and platforms your customers use? Are all of them online? 5. Do you share the love with your customers? If not, do you plan to do so? 6. Do you do anything special for your best customers? Do you recognize them? 7. Do you have a set of poor performing customers who aren’t profitable to serve? If so, are you unmarketing them? • Assess environment 1. What trends do you see in the overall economic and political landscape? How will this affect your business? 2. How are you doing versus your competitors? If you’re not tracking them, will you start in 2011? 3. Are there new competitors on the horizon? 4. What are the dominant companies doing that might be indicators of changing trends? Think of major firms like Walmart, Amazon, Facebook and Google. 5. Are you talking to your peers? If not, do you plan to in 2011? 6. Are your peers doing anything differently that you should consider trying in 2011? 7. Are you talking to experts in your field? Do you agree with their 2011 predictions? Do you need to modify your plans? 8. Are you talking to internal experts? What are the specialists within your company saying? (Note: They may not be your senior management.) • Get your 2011 vision 1. What is your overall vision for your business? 2. What are your goals for the coming year? 3. What are your priorities for 2011? Should you change your focus? 4. Are you organized to achieve your goals? 5. How are you positioning yourself for 2011? 6. What is your firm’s three-year plan? 7. What is your company’s five-year plan? Do your one year and three year plans help you make progress towards your goals? 8. How are your suppliers positioned in the market? 9. Have there been any changes among your suppliers during the past year that could affect your business? 10. How are your distributors positioned in the market? 11. Have there been any changes in your distribution network during the past year that could affect your business? • Examine your product offering 1. What products are you offering this year? 2. Will new technologies and related changes have an impact on your product array? 3. Have your customers’ needs changed? If so, does your product array require modification? 4. Do you have any product gaps that need to be filled due to market and/or technology changes? • Expand your brand 1. How will you develop or continue to expand your brand? 2. Is your brand in line with the times? 3. How are you tracking your brand? Does this monitoring need to be modified? 4. Do you have a separate branding campaign to reach new users? • Manage sales process 1. How is your sales pipeline? 2. Do your sales leads continue to grow? If not, what can you do to change this? 3. Are there issues with your sales conversion process? 4. Are you loosing customers at specific points in the purchase process? 5. Do you get repeat business from your customers? If not, why? 6. Do your customers have other needs that your firm can fulfill? • Plan marketing 1. What are your major marketing strategies for 2011? Do they work to achieve your overall business goals? 2. What is your marketing media mix for 2011? Does it reflect your customers’ media consumption habits? 3. What is your creative strategy for 2011? Is this a major departure from 2010? 4. What is your advertising strategy for 2011? 5. How has your company’s story evolved in the past year? 6. Is your website up-to-date? What changes are you planning to incorporate this year? 7. Are you collecting customer contact information (with permission of course!)? 8. Have you optimized your website for sales conversion? 9. What is your email marketing strategy for 2011? 10. Have you updated your search optimization strategy? Is it connected with your social media and content marketing strategies? 11. Are you using every customer touch point to reach your prospects and customers? 12. Have you added a mobile marketing strategy to your mix? This is particularly important for businesses with a retail or physical presence. 13. Have you added a marketing strategy for reaching e-readers, iPads and other portable devices where appropriate? 14. Are you leveraging your physical presence (if you have one) to merchandise your business? 15. Do you have a PR strategy incorporated into your corporate communications strategy? 16. Are you using offline media to expand your reach? Is it still performing effectively? 17. Are you using direct mail or other forms of promotional marketing? Are they still providing sufficient return for the expense? 18. What new forms of marketing are you going to incorporate into your plans? 19. Are your marketing campaigns integrated across platforms? 20. Are you maximizing your internal promotional channels? 21. What areas of your marketing do you plan to test and how? • Schedule your promotions 1. Have you set up a promotional calendar? Do you have at least one promotion per month? Does it consider all aspects of a marketing offer? 2. Do you recognize your company’s birthday/anniversary? 3. Do you recognize your customers’ birthdays or other significant event? 4. Do you have special value offers on a regular basis? 5. Do you have promotions based on customers’ lifetime or relationship with your firm? • Get social 1. How do you plan to socialize? Do you have a social media marketing strategy? 2. What is your Facebook strategy? 3. What is your Twitter strategy? Is it more than just a broadcast channel? 4. What is your blogging strategy? Do you have members of your company involved across your organization? 5. Does your social media strategy target those platforms where your audience is? 6. Are you planning any offline meetings or events? 8. Do you have corporate social media guidelines? 9. Do you have dedicated social media headcount? • Become a publisher 1. Where do you need content marketing? Think broadly in terms of marketing and corporate communications across your organization. 3. Does your content marketing support engagement phase of the purchase process? Remember this can happen across channels and involve customer service. 4. Does your content marketing support the purchase including follow up communications? 5. Does your content marketing provide post-purchase support? Many businesses overlook this phase. It’s important to ensuring future purchases. 6. Does your content marketing support advocates/fans? 8. Do you provide investor-relations related content? 9. Have you developed an editorial calendar? Does it include your content marketing and social media information? • Serve your customers well 1. Is your customer service area engage with your marketing department to ensure that they are aware of what’s in the pipeline? 3. How does customer service perform based on internal metrics? 4. Do customers use multiple platforms? 5. Do you have a crisis management plan? If not, when will you develop one? If you do, how often do you update it? • Track your success 1. What metrics do you plan to use to track your success against your goals? 3. Are there additional indicators that you need to add to your dashboard? 4. How is your cash flow doing? Do you know how much money you have coming in and going out? 5. What status updates will you use to ensure that you’re on track towards your goals? • Get technical 2. Do you have sufficient technical support to achieve these goals? • Get staff on board 1. Do you have enough staff to achieve your goals? 2. Are you missing specific types of expertise? Can this support be outsourced or should you hire this talent? 3. Do you communicate regularly with your staff? 4. Is your staff excited about their work? 5. Does each member of your staff have goals that are in line with your corporate goals? 6. Do you recognize your staff? 7. Are you at risk of loosing key staff members? • Give back to the community 1. Do you participate in local activities and community? This is important for local retailers. 2. What are you doing as a business to give back to the community? Cone Inc. Research shows customers support firms that support not-for-profit causes. Happy marketing, Heidi Cohen Here are some related reading to help you through this process: Photo credit: Christian Haugen via Flickr 14 Responses to 111 Ways to Jumpstart 2011	<urn:uuid:5d16def9-f193-4085-beef-c4852d1ba0e5>	https://heidicohen.com/get-marketing-on-track/	en	0.942242	0.286943	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Beautiful Creatures (2013) Beautiful Creatures Director: Richard LaGravenese Writer: Richard LaGravenese Based on: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s novel The movie starts off with portraying Ethan, who is a teenager with all the overdramatic faults that brings with it in the book, as an absolute asshole (seriously, the way he treats his ex-who-doesn’t-even-know-she’s-his-ex? DAFUQ). It then goes on to conflate the two black characters in the book into one person, because who could deal with two black women in one film, amirite? DAFUQ. But then it gets really bad. So, instead of the Ravenwood/Duchannes family being cursed with the lack of choice between dark and light (as in the book), it’s all women, while men are completely fine. [It even extends to Amma, the movie’s literal magic negro.] DAFUQ. Ancestor Genevieve brings her love back to life, only to kill him again. DAFUQ. I could continue to list the movie’s plot holes and misogyny (Ridley’s [Emmy Rossum] being evil by being sexy). I won’t, as there are so many more levels the movie fails at but with which it is at least hilarious. there is a scene where Lena sits heartbroken in front of the fireplace with the appropriate sad piano soundtrack. Then the camera swirls around to reveal… Jeremy Irons actually playing the piano. Or the scene where Ethan asks Lena to listen to how quiet things are and the soundtrack is so loud and intrusive that it’s really not quiet at all. There are a few things that were actually good. First of all, there’s Emma Thompson, who is hilarious and pitch-prefect and awesome. Second, there’s actual chemistry between Ethan and Lena and when they’re just two teenagers in love, it works great. Third, there’s a scene where Macon basically abuses Ethan and it is brilliant moment of creepiness. And lastly, you can watch the film and you won’t be spoiled for the book. Because the book makes sense and isn’t sexist. Summarising: Hell no. Wait until the Emma Thompson scenes hit youtube and watch just them. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Google photo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	<urn:uuid:e92540e1-f122-4032-9462-337d6433714b>	https://kalafudra.com/2013/04/24/beautiful-creatures-2013/	en	0.928009	0.147991	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
we still have art Sitting this morning with tea in a purple mug and looking at a painting on the wall opposite, yellow flowers in a stone jug, not quite sunflowers, the jug on a small turquoise table beside a bowl of oranges, a couple comfy chairs and much greenery to suggest a patio, and despite its note of contented solitude it welcomes friendship, intimate chat, laughter on a fine afternoon. It’s the oranges that do it.	<urn:uuid:b1e24006-bb00-4d83-a1c7-1d854be1d62b>	https://matildamagtree.com/category/one-wee-moment/	en	0.903201	0.089914	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Kvankii-Peep game From AIFWiki Revision as of 20:53, 8 April 2019 by Rook (talk \| contribs) (PLOT 1.04 - Darkken Droids Aren't Really A Thing, Right?) Jump to: navigation, search AKA: "a horrifying game idea" game Setting: post-AIF Referee: RooK Player(s): Dave - playing the Cadbury's Telepathic Cream in a Kvankii Egg. Planet Zelatyce is not a happy place. It is a smallish and crudely terraformed world created as a planet-sized suburb of thriving and dynamic city planet in a cooler orbit (both in terms of radiation flux from the system's star and closer alignment to the best part of the Golidocks Zone) for people insufficiently wealthy to afford living in such an important place. After said dynamic world was hit with a nova bomb, which shunted a surprisingly large portion of the star's actively fusing mass through a heavily-shielded foldspace, Zelatyce found itself not-quite orbiting a not-quite star and without the economic or political reasons for existence it once had. As a result, most of the population of Zelatyce fled. Not to anywhere, necessarily, just anywhere not on the permanent nighttime and increasing chill of Zelatyce. First were the people with ships. Then went the people who worked on building themselves ships. After a few decades, this winnowed down Zelatyce's population to about 10% of what it had originally been. The people that stayed had various reasons for staying. Some had been born there, and felt like they should not abandon their home. Others were less sentimental and more just plain stubborn. Most people living on Zelatyce are deeply pragmatic, concerned with the arrayed and endless task of turning a planetoid-sized neighborhood into a self-sufficient interstellar space station as the atmosphere gradually sublimates away and the upper layers get increasingly colder from the reduced atmospheric insulation and almost-absent sunlight. Within the population also exists a clear vein of resentment. The earliest forms of that resentment was aimed squarely at the terrorists who had committed the act of planeticide, then shifted to those who were able to move on, and then finally ended up as a vague resentment for the structures of intergalactic society. Quietly, there were some beings that chose to move to Zelatyce. There's always people looking for the darkest, most out-of-the-way places to get lost in, to hide. But there were also those who saw Zelatyce as an opportunity. Most important among these: some Kvankii-Lood, and some Trupepol. These particular Trupepol are very far from Old Earth, and trying to stay beneath the notice of the flourishing Gaiamon Empire. Their mission is to try to help nurture the spark of public resentment into a purifying flame of anti-machinery reformation. Awkwardly, they have come to more fully understand the implications of this particular planet needing life support, so have tempered their course to specifically target thinking machines. This has yielded some promising (to them) trends of thought to not only mistrust robots, but to be fearful of having biological beings infested with machines that affect their thinking. Their cherished core is an anti-nanoscopic-robot movement. The Kvankii were originally drawn to the misery of hundreds of millions of low-prospect biological sentients, plus the undefended bounty of megatons of construction material. However, the emergence of the anti-machine movement led to their calculations of the probable presence of Trupepol mentalists. Which in turn gave them a nasty idea to try. Which is, as is well known, the favourite kind of idea for Kvankiis. AKA: A nasty idea. AAKA: "Grald Zaidovitch" Not sure if that's just the Trupepol name, or includes the Kvankii. update: the Kvankii is named "Hurt Burnie" Having brought in a specialized operation team, the Kvankii's have stealthily found a low-level Trupepol subject. They studied the subject in as much detail as their most paranoid mathematical models would allow, given the reality-warping capabilities of Mentally Based Abilities. This allowed them to create a terrifyingly accurate construct of the Trupepol's external appearance. They then subdued the Trupepol without it even realizing what had happened. They then transferred the Trupepol's brain into the not-skull of the terrifyingly accurate construct. The construct mediates all of the Trupepol brains standard sensorium. Moreover, the construct has at least one stage of mathematician in order to seamlessly edit the sensory experience to manipulate the Trupepol's understanding of reality. Character details and the constructs mission parameters to follow. Trupepol original: 25-point being. 2nd stage, at least one stage of Mentalist. Kvankii construct: 31-point being, with no physical attribute being less than the Trupepol original. 2nd stage, at least one stage of Mathematician. Test occupation variant. Intelligence Requirement:Simple (1) Stage Stamina:1D-1 (0-5) Maximum Stages:10 Bonuses:5 new Abilities from the MBA table Essentially, for a stage of Mentalist you get to pick five (5) more abilities that you are capable of. When gaining a new stage, you can change selections from previous stages. Mentally Based Abilities Test Mentalist variant. RANGE is still under development, because it needs tweaking. COST is the number of points of Willpower sequestered by activating the ability. STAGE is the minimum stage of Mentalist required to select the ability. The duration for employing an ability is the duration that a being is willing (pun attempted) to be down that much Willpower. It is possible to use an ability the drives a being to zero or lower Willpower, but the effect will be brief as the being will fall unconscious at the end of their turn and will not wake up until they regain positive Willpower again. Regaining the spent Willpower is... something I have to work out. At least 1 point per hour. But maybe more, and faster. Perhaps by spending dice towards some cumulative total... Read Emotion mental control perception 0 1 Alter Emotion mental control perception 1 2 Read Thought mental control perception 1 1 Alter Thought mental control perception 1 2 Read Memory mental control perception 2 2 Alter Memory mental control perception 2 2 Possess mental control perception 3 3 Hitchhike mental control perception 3 4 Spasm physical control perception 1 1 Limb physical control perception 2 1 Body physical control perception 3 2 Bonus to Movement +1 meter biological touch 1 1 Bonus to Physical Attribute +1 (Total < 7) biological touch 1 1 Bonus to Physical Attribute +1 (Total >= 7) biological touch 1 2 Negative to Physical Attribute -1 biological touch 1 1 Healing / Harming 1/die(pool) biological touch 1 1 Healing / Harming 1d6/die(pool) biological touch 1 2 Healing / Harming 1stam/turn biological touch 1 3 Telekinesis 100 N manifestations perception 1 1 Blunt Telekinesis ~4000 N - 1D Damage manifestations perception 1 2 Energy Manipulation - Attack 1d6 manifestations perception 1 2 Energy Manipulation - Absorb (4 pts) manifestations perception 1 1 Energy Manipulation - Generate 100W manifestations perception 0 1 Produce Noise - Non-specific clicks and wispers manifestations perception 0 1 Produce Noise - Mimic Voice +1 to Persuade manifestations perception 1 1 Produce Noise - Startling Roar / Scream manifestations perception 2 1 Produce Noise - Ear-Piercing Rukus manifestations perception 3 1 Fold Space 1m² manifestations perception 10 5 Cryptic Hint prescience N/A 0 1 Good Hint prescience N/A 1 2 Juicy Morsel prescience N/A 2 3 Real Nugget prescience N/A 3 4 Totally Unfair Knowledge prescience N/A 4 5 Bonus to Hit +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Bonus to Duck +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Bonus to Parry +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Ranged Parry prescience N/A 1 2 Bonus to Sneak +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Bonus to Hide +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Bonus to Locate +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Bonus to Pilfer +1 prescience N/A 1 1 Mark prescience infinite 1 2 Telepathy miscellaneous perception 0 1 Neural Blast miscellaneous perception 1 2 Mental Veil miscellaneous perception 0 0 Mental Shield miscellaneous perception 1 2 Luck +1 any roll miscellaneous N/A 2 2 Bestow (give power to another) miscellaneous touch 3 3 Combine (+1 mentalist) miscellaneous N/A 3 3 2019.03.15 - The Terribleness Begins • deployed in the alley - with KG8E and 7B7 • stooge tries to appear to revive Grald - no Oscars were awarded, but Grald doesn't notice • experience: realizing that Grald needs regular sleep • tavern gets remembered - Gorshum is summoned to get Grald operating again • make a plan to bother drug dealers • mugger (a real one) - chokes to death on a well-placed throat punch... eventually • m Alice bot - dubs Burnie as "confused monkey" and transforms med into tool kit • KG8E is unimpressed after 7 hours of quiet PLOT 1.01 - Rabble Rousing Mentalists Versus Drug Pushing Robots Burnee stands mostly-recovered after dealing with the mugger in his own way, having rendered Grald unconscious for the fight and the subsequent repairs. This region of apartment stacks is not popular, other than to transit towards more habited areas, so there is not much urgency. However, long gaps in Grald's memory has an increasing probability of making him too paranoid to function. Is Grald's clothing bulky enough that I can hide the took kit? I know Burnee can prevent Grald from seeing it, but want to hide it from others too. Burnee hides it as well as possible and then sprawls on the ground and lets Grald wake up. He won't be able to see the new gear or the dead mugger. After a few paranoid looks around Grald will continue to the spaceport. A closer review of Grald's clothing returns a command ping, which Burnee can handily wrangle past the simple verification block (the password was never changed from the factory default). It turns out that it's a utility tunic, designed to help carry implements and adjust for the varying levels of protection required in dodgy life support systems. When active, it has robotic filaments that enable it to form thermal layers or ventilation, as well as countless pockets. Amusingly, its current inventory includes some tools (small of the back), and 8 patches in the sleeves. Basically, the first part is easily done. As Grald comes to, he will also worry about the time elapsed, and considers checking his phone as he goes. 2019.03.20 - A Nerd and a Gun • get annoying warning from KG8E • hear a mind thinking chanting "ohshitohshitohshit" - tracked mentally up into the second level of a standard housing stack • Clocker - mavvice on the run from kvankiis • discovers that Grald is a Trupepol - plays nice • continue on to spaceport • get to the spaceport proto-habitat • head to the closest bar - Clocker startled by the number of people without nanoscopic robots • yiptak action - utilizes prescience duck PLOT 1.02 - Gun Fondling and Awkward Silences Clocker: "Let me make sure I understand this correctly. The plan is to try to recruit people to help fight Kvankiis, or something like that. If you can help me clarify that, I can run some probabilities for who we should talk to first in this fine establishment." Coincidentally, Burnee reflexively does that very classifying algorithm. There are not a lot of great candidates, honestly. "As much as I would like to get this show on the road, I'm at half stamina and it takes me a while to heal. I think I may head home and sleep this off. Want to meet here tomorrow and try again? Hopefully there won't be any evil Yiptaks in our way." Clocker arches one pre-ear ridge. "Well, that sucks. I could probably speed up your recovery time if you would like, though not a huge amount because of your no nanoscopic robot rule. You must spend a lot of time lying low, afraid to do stuff." His large ears pivot about nervously. "Since I don't actually have any place to go, and I'm technically on the run from the Kvankiis, is it OK if I go to your place with you?" Previously, Grald had only a vague sense of his stamina, and Burnee's stamina does not actually line up with his understanding of what his stamina was. If that aspect weren't odd-feeling enough, it might be even more odd when his apparent body returns to full health in 9 hours. 2019.03.29 - Paired Weapons • hiding and healing • leave clocker behind at space station • crazy furry zealot • fixing complete - makes a ring and an alter-ego • JODY • go back to bar • Clocker's not quite dead • give him a med kit • sneak out of bar to avoid stabby assholes • use control limb to instigate one stabby asshole's death by equidon • hide in spaceport stack - claim an empty room • HACKING = 1D/stage of mathematician + intelligence • go looking for a drug dealer to steal… a blaster • Burnee uses a fake cryptic hint to send Grald East • mr hyper bodyguard • cyborg drug dealer • runs away PLOT 1.03 - Gun Juggling and Ominous Gaps In Conversation Clocker assumes that you both want to leave the vicinity, and glides down the stairway. Together, Grald and Clocker scamper away from this stack back towards the relative safety of the spaceport village stacks. Clocker: "You know, you're in really good shape for somebody not augmented by nanoscopic robots. Your respiration hardly belies any aerobic activity." Grald stares at Clocker with a look of mild contempt. "Despite not knowing the meaning of at least three of those fancy words, I think I get your meaning. You know what the problem with you cybernetic monstrosities is? You think that anyone not infested with your robots is some sort of cripple. We're not handicapped. We can be in just as 'really good shape' as someone like you." Then Grald opens up his phone to look up what the heck 'belies' means. Considering the context, therefore assuming that Burnee has the phone thoroughly PWNed, he can have it say "belies" mean anything he wants it to. Clocker appears unperturbed by Grald's peevishness. "I think I grok your philosophical opposition to nanoscopic robots, and appreciate that you have good reasons for those beliefs. However, you do yourself no favours by denying reality. The vast majority of beings, both biological and mechanical, choose to host nanoscopic robots because of the functionality they provide. Part of that functionality is generally improved physical capabilities, which is indisputable. The other part of the functionality is cognition aids, which is the part I gather that you are suspicious about. Which is fine. Personally, I am certain that the cognition is purely under my control. You have decided to not risk uncontrolled cognition, or possible malicious influence, which is fine - but that also means giving up the physical capabilities." "If you intend to compete against augmented beings, you should be realistic about the challenges you face. So, yes, you are totally 'handicapped' - by definition. Perhaps not by the pejorative way you meant it, though. Think of it as 'more challenged'." 2019.04.03 - Predict That • where do we go now? • eye a trio of losers looking for a score • Clocker is so disgusted that he leaves • Burnee decides to turn on Clocker… • SPLUT • Turns out that Clocker was transmitting to the local militia. • They banish Burnee. • Slink off to rest • Encounter Vaazthii - angry mentalist • unpleasant conversation with KG8E • even more unsettling conversation with 7B7 • heals while lying to Grald • heading back to the anti-tech stack • bypass an ambush stack • talk with Gorsham - get sent to the lookout level PLOT 1.04 - Darkken Droids Aren't Really A Thing, Right? In the corner suit of the Lookout Level, Burnee/Grald shares the place with two other individuals. One Human, one Zygroten. They eye Burnee/Grald suspiciously. The nature of that suspicion leaks out through their worried thoughts. Zygroten: ...Is this guy for real? The Mentalists aren't going to like him using tech like that. Idiot. No way he's getting Mentalist training. And it's not like those blasters are accurate enough to fight anyone at ground level. Must be a noob... Human: ...Don't know this goon. Is he a goon? It's not like we need another set of eyes up here - almost nobody comes here. Is he... Trupepol...? Grald is somewhat comforted by their insular paranoia, and the sense that they don't talk to each other. He feels like he can fit in. Burnee has a non-trivial urge to push them all over the edge, because they're obviously morons. Worse, they are oblivious to Grald's nominal purpose or capabilities, which means that the coordination of this entire sentry array is essentially non-existent, which offends mathematician sensibilities. Grald: "Hey guys. I'm Grald. This seems like an very boring job. Are we, like, being punished or something?" Meanwhile, Burnee makes Grald hear at the very edge of his perception a voice that says "Kill them... kill them both." The Zygroten sneers. "Don't be so whiney. We are doing an important job. Just do what you can, but stay out of our way." With a wary glance at the Zygroten, the Human regards Grald/Burnee with polite suspicion. "I'm Calmund, the snob-fest is Kella. What's your deal? Haven't seen you on goon rotation before."	<urn:uuid:e57814ed-5351-4d4b-80e9-b8e4d5cb37ff>	https://nastidyne.com/index.php?title=Kvankii-Peep_game&oldid=856	en	0.936805	0.049285	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Главная / Отзывы об казино алтай палас Отзывы об казино алтай палас 3 комментария к “Отзывы об казино алтай палас” 1. Noah сказал: 2. Juan сказал: Thanks for your useful article. Other thing is that mesothelioma cancer is generally due to the breathing of dust from mesothelioma, which is a very toxic material. It’s commonly found among laborers in the engineering industry with long contact with asbestos. It’s also caused by residing in asbestos protected buildings for a long time of time, Family genes plays a crucial role, and some individuals are more vulnerable to the risk compared to others. 3. Rebecca сказал: Добавить комментарий Ваш адрес email не будет опубликован. Обязательные поля помечены *	<urn:uuid:a8581347-71ac-45fb-93c8-60d9d0292e93>	https://rugamesblog.ru/2020/08/22/%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%B2%D1%8B-%D0%BE%D0%B1-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_vy/	en	0.768326	0.984939	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
5 Minutes for Life: Contributing to a saferOhio 5 Minutes for Life Logo Following the presentations, student role models are encouraged to spread the message within their school using the 5 Minutes for Life key points. Students are encouraged to use social media to promote the importance of living healthy drug-free lives. 5 Minutes for Life represents a tangible way for students and athletes to contribute to a safer Ohio. It's only five minutes for the rest of their life.	<urn:uuid:496cec67-7159-4516-a544-e7553b9f6799>	https://starttalking.ohio.gov/Schools/5-Minutes-for-Life	en	0.912729	0.09197	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Classical Repertoire Database WHAT: This database contains Classical and Romantic period natural trumpet parts from the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth centuries, a period marked by great transition and innovation for orchestral brass. While it is arguably true that no brass instrument went through more change than the trumpet (in both form and function), the sound of the natural trumpet—with its rich and noble history—did not go quietly into the night. Rather, it stood its ground many decades after chromatic trumpets were introduced into the orchestra. Fast forward a few hundred years to the present, and we are seeing a steady rise in the use of the natural trumpet to play both Baroque and Classical repertoire, in both period and modern orchestras in Europe and the U.S. This is likely a result of performers, conductors, and the public becoming more familiar with the sonority of the natural trumpet, as well as its expanding use in post-secondary educational institutions. Many of the composers listed in the database are transitional, either bridging from the Baroque to the Classical period, or from the Classical to the Romantic period. Some are firmly planted in the Romantic period like Johannes Brahms, a traditionalist whose trumpet parts are entirely playable on the natural trumpet if hand-stopping is utilized. Finally, this list includes instances where the piston cornet or valve trumpet (ventiltrompete) was introduced, either alongside or instead of the natural trumpet—for example, in the works of Berlioz and Schumann—which is itself a fascinating and illuminating study. The parts are organized both By Composer and By Key: By Composer shows the extent of each composer's output for trumpet in more or less chronological order By Key provides an idea of the range of repertoire that can be played with each crook set. This database is a work in progress. Works soon to be added include parts by composers such as C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and music from other genres such as ballet and opera. WHY: Playing this repertoire on the natural trumpet has enormous educational value. It helps us understand the sonority that these composers had in mind, and helps in understanding the conventions for writing for the orchestral trumpet more broadly. It also poses significant technical and aural challenges, which can add depth and confidence to how this repertoire is approached on the modern trumpet.	<urn:uuid:979b70e0-c55b-42fb-946b-0415eff10c52>	https://www.brassforbeginners.com/pages/classical-repertoire-database	en	0.949992	0.274833	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Temperature logger running on Raspberry Pi In this tutorial, we will implement a simple temperature logger on the Raspberry Pi 3 and connect four DS18B20 temperature sensors to it. The temperature measurements will be stored in a database along with a time stamp. We have selected InfluxDB as the database engine as this is a time-series database and integrates very easy to Grafana. Grafana will retrieve and visualize the data stored in the database. Grafana is an open source solution for running data analytics, pulling up metrics that make sense of the massive amount of data, and to visualize our results in the form of graphs and gauges with the help of very cool customizable dashboards. Everything is running on the Raspberry so before start writing code we have to do some preparing: • Setup the 1-wire bus on raspberry pi to be able to communicate with the DS18B20 sensor • Connect temperature sensors to the Raspberry GPIO • Install InfluxDb and Grafana • Add required python libraries 1. Setup the 1-wire bus on raspberry Pi 3. The Raspberry Pi Rasbian operating system has a 1-wire bus driver that can use GPIO4 as data in/out if enabled. It provides low-speed data, signaling, and power over a single conductor. Low cost 1-wire devices such as the DS18B20 temperature sensor commonly connects to this port. The default Raspbian image disables the interface by default so before you can use it we must make a configuration change. Open the command line CLi terminal and execute the following bash command that will start the raspberry config utility: sudo raspi-config This will start the raspi-config utility. Select 5 “Interfacing Options” : Highlight the “1-wire” option and activate <Select > : On the next screen Select and activate <Yes >. When prompted to reboot highlight and activate <Yes > . The Raspberry Pi will reboot and the interface will be enabled ready for use. 2. Connect the DS18B20 sensors to the raspberry IO. The circuit drawing below shows how to connect four DS18B20 sensors to the Raspberry GPIO. It is important to connect the DS18B20 Vcc pin to +3.3V as the raspberry GPIO port is runned on 3.3V. A pullup resistor of 4.7kOhm have been connected between +3.3V and GPIO4. When the 1-wire peripheral is enabled in the raspberry, GPIO4 is configured as data in/out pin, which connects to DS18B20 data (DQ) pin. Use low capacitance cable if you plan to place sensors far away, 10 -100m. Ethernet cable is cheap and works well. Connect GND and DQ to one of the pair, and 3.3V on another wire pair. Place your sensors along the cable (linear network topology), starting from the master and extending to the farthest slave device. This will make the communication more robust and with less errors. Other slaves connects to the 1-wire bus cable with insignificant branches (<3m) or stubs. 3. Verify the 1-wire DS18B20 communication. Now is the time to test if the raspberry is able to communicate with the sensors. Open the command line interface Terminal, and at the command prompt enter: sudo modprobe w1–gpio modprobe w1-gpio registers the new sensors connected to GPIO4 so that the Raspberry Pi knows that there is a 1-Wire device connected to the GPIO connector. Then run the command: sudo modprobe w1-therm To allow the w1_gpio and w1_therm modules to load automatically at boot we can edit the /etc/modules file and include both modules there where they will be started when the Pi boots up. Edit the /etc/modules file using the nano editor: sudo nano /etc/modules Add the following to the file and then save and exit. Change directories to the /sys/bus/w1/devices directory by entering: cd /sys/bus/w1/devices Now enter ls to list the devices: We then cd into one of those directories: cd 28-xxxxxxxxxxxx ( Change xxxxxxxxxxxx to match the serial number of one of the directories ) We are then going to view the ‘w1_slave’ file with the cat command using: cat w1_slave The cat program takes the specified file (or files) and by default outputs the results to the screen (there are a lot of different options for cat, more can be found here). The output should look something like the following: At the end of the first line we see a YES for a successful CRC check (CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check, a good sign that things are going well). If we get a response like NO or FALSE or ERROR, it will be an indication that there is some kind of problem that needs addressing. Check the circuit connections and start troubleshooting. At the end of the second line we can now find the current temperature. The t=22312 is an indication that the temperature is 22.312 degrees Celsius (we need to divide the reported value by 1000). To convert from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit, multiply by 1.8, then add 32. 4. Install the Influx database on the Raspberry Pi a. Installing the Influx database is pretty simple. Please follow the instructions in this article. b. Do not forget to start the Influxdb service on the Raspberry Pi by running this bash command in the terminal: sudo service influxdb start c. With InfluxDB installed, you are ready to start doing some great things. We will use the influx command line interface (CLI), which is included in all InfluxDB packages and is a lightweight and simple way to interact with the database. The CLI communicates with InfluxDB directly by making requests to the InfluxDB HTTP API over port 8086 by default. The influx command should be available via the command line. Executing… The command line is now ready to take input in the form of the Influx Query Language (a.k.a InfluxQL) statements. A fresh install of InfluxDB has no databases (apart from the system _internal), so creating one is our first task. You can create a database with the CREATE DATABASE InfluxQL statement, where is the name of the database you wish to create. Names of databases can contain any unicode character as long as the string is double-quoted. Names can also be left unquoted if they contain only ASCII letters, digits, or underscores and do not begin with a digit. Throughout this guide, we will use the database name temp_logger_db: CREATE DATABASE temp_logger_db Now that the temp_logger_db database is created, we’ll use the SHOW DATABASES statement to display all existing databases: The output will be something like this: We have created a database and it is ready to be used in our temperature logger application. Exit the Influx shell by typing the command: 5. Install the Grafana server on the Raspberry Pi a. Installing the Grafana realtime graph dashboard is pretty simple. Please follow the instructions in this article. b. Please remember to start the Grafana server: sudo service grafana-server start This will start the grafana-server process as the grafana user, which was created during the package installation. The default HTTP port is 3000 and default user and psw is “admin”. To configure the Grafana server to start at boot time: sudo update-rc.d grafana-server defaults 6. Install the required python libraries We are using python3 in this datalogger example which have a slightly different syntax than the “retired” python2. Like many Python libraries, the easiest way to get up and running is to install the library using pip. We’re going to run pip using the -m argument to the Python command, in order to be sure which Python is the install target. python3 -m pip install influxdb You should see some output indicating success. You could display all your python3 stuff/libraries by running: dpkg --get-selections \| grep python3 or run help ('modules') when in the python shell. 7. Temperature logger python code # -- coding: utf-8 -- import os import glob import argparse import time import datetime import sys from influxdb import InfluxDBClient os.system('modprobe w1-gpio') os.system('modprobe w1-therm') # add more sensor variables here based on your setup temp=['sensor code','tttttttttt','ddddddddddd','ssssssssss'] device_folders = glob.glob(base_dir + '28*') snum=4 #Number of connected temperature sensors # Set required InfluxDB parameters. # (this could be added to the program args instead of beeing hard coded...) host = "localhost" #Could also use local ip address like "" port = 8086 user = "root" password = "root" # Sample period (s). # How frequently we will write sensor data from the temperature sensors to the database. sampling_period = 5 def read_temp_raw(device_file): f = open(device_file, 'r') lines = f.readlines() return lines def read_temp(device_file): # checks the temp recieved for errors lines = read_temp_raw(device_file) lines = read_temp_raw(device_file) if equals_pos != -1: temp_string = lines[1][equals_pos+2:] # set proper decimal place for C temp = float(temp_string) / 1000.0 # Round temp to 2 decimal points temp = round(temp, 1) # value of temp might be unknown here if equals_pos == -1 return temp def get_args(): '''This function parses and returns arguments passed in''' # Assign description to the help doc parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Program writes measurements data from the connected DS18B20 to specified influx db.') # Add arguments '-db','--database', type=str, help='Database name', required=True) '-sn','--session', type=str, help='Session', required=True) now = '-rn','--run', type=str, help='Run number', required=False,default=now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M")) # Array of all arguments passed to script # Assign args to variables return dbname, session,runNo def get_data_points(): # Get the three measurement values from the DS18B20 sensors for sensors in range (snum): # change number of sensors based on your setup device_file=device_folders[sensors]+ '/w1_slave' temp[sensors] = read_temp(device_file) print (device_file,sensors,temp[sensors]) # Get a local timestamp # Create Influxdb datapoints (using lineprotocol as of Influxdb >1.1) datapoints = [ "measurement": session, "tags": {"runNum": runNo,}, "time": timestamp, "fields": {"temperature 1":temp[0],"temperature 2":temp[1],"temperature 3":temp[2],"temperature 4":temp[3]} return datapoints # Match return values from get_arguments() # and assign to their respective variables dbname, session, runNo =get_args() print ("Session: ", session) print ("Run No: ", runNo) print ("DB name: ", dbname) # Initialize the Influxdb client while True: # Write datapoints to InfluxDB print("Write points {0} Bresult:{1}".format(datapoints,bResult)) # Wait for next sample # Run until keyboard ctrl-c except KeyboardInterrupt: print ("Program stopped by keyboard interrupt [CTRL_C] by user. ") Save the script as ‘’ and run using python -db=temp_logger_db -sn=test1 To run the script in the background and indefinitely as a ssh user use: nohup python & Let us understand key points of the code listing above: We import the InfluxDBClient class at the start of the program code. We define two constants, one for the InfluxDB Host, which is the Public IP of your Compute Engine instance. Remember to replace it in the code. The next statement is important. We initialize the InfluxDBClient with the hostname, port (8086 for the API) and provide it with the database name. Now that we have the client object, we can then either query or insert database records. The “write_points” method takes a list of measurement points and writes it to the Influx database. Each measurement point, specifies the measure, one or more tags (test1 and runNo), and the four field values. Also notice that we are passing in the timestamp so that we record the timestamp from the board that it was recorded on. We use the `datetime` package in python to help us get the Unix timestamp that we will send to InfluxDB. The result of the `write_points` method is of boolean type. It returns “true” if successful. 8. Configure the Grafana dashboard While the is running it is time to get the data from the influx database to show up as nice graphs in Grafana. sudo systemctl enable grafana-server sudo systemctl start grafana-server Navigating your web browser to port 3000, you should be presented with the Grafana web GUI. http://localhost:3000 or your raspberry IP: http://xx.xx.xx.xx:3000 Log in using psw: admin user:admin Add datasource: Under the data source selection window you have the option to select among a lot of different data source types. Select InfluxDb. The following data source configuration window should open: Edit the input boxes as above example Note! using http://localhost:8086 will not work. You should use your full raspberry ip address number e.g. “”. The next task is to set up the grafana dashboard for our temperature logger. From the grafana menu select + Create and then select dashboard. This is how we have set up a basic dashboard that gives you a gauge and a graph for each of the 4 temperature readings that we are taking. So by now hopefully you’ve got the project fully up and running, have accessed the dashboard and have been taking readings and filling up your database. Here are a few more things to take a look at before you move on to the next project. What next? The dashboard and reporting software, Grafana, has a lot of configuration options and settings for you to play with. You can customize each panel on Grafana after you have logged in by hovering over the title and going to edit. I recommend having a play with the options – the changes to your dashboard are not saved automatically so if you make a mistake you can reload the page and everything will revert to how it was. If you make some changes you want to keep, hit save at the top of the dashboard and all of your settings will be saved to your device. Thanks for reading! Back to top	<urn:uuid:316d25a9-ea2f-48ad-97b1-0aa998e654f7>	https://www.circuits.dk/temperature-logger-running-on-raspberry-pi/	en	0.786984	0.075046	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Is the iPhone X waterproof? iPhone X Waterproof The iPhone X is rated IP67 under IEC standard 60529. The first number in the rating (6) represents the degree of protection from dust. This rating ranges from 0 to 6. The second number (7) represents the degree of protection from moisture. The protection levels for this rating range from 0 to 8. This means the iPhone X has the highest level of protection from dust and the second-highest from moisture. iPhone X owners can submerge their device in water of up to 1 meter (or 3.3 feet) for up to 30 mins. Remember, liquid damage is not covered under Apple's warranty. This means you should avoid taking your iPhone in the shower, swimming or with you during any water sports. It is however safe to take it out in the rain, and it should be safe from accidental spills or drops in water. Here is the fineprint from Add new comment	<urn:uuid:0ca428ad-cde3-4d0d-8e34-d990bce16cc5>	https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/976258	en	0.943557	0.068609	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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For students who need to take the TOEFL, the first step is clear: take a practice test. Once you have your practice test results, students can and should set up a study plan and schedule their official exam. Regardless of score, almost all students have the same initial reaction to seeing their practice test results: how can I increase my score in the fastest time possible? While there is no perfect solution to this because building one’s vocabulary and improving proficiency in any language takes time, pacing is one of the key factors for achieving your goal score. For the independent essay, students have 30 minutes to write a well-developed essay on a topic of that is knowledge and experience-based. Of course, you want to familiarize yourself with the most common types of questions, topics, and scoring, but with something as open-ended as the independent essay, how do you best utilize those 30 minutes of time on test day? Use this pacing guide to help make the most of your time— and your writing score. Spend the first 2 minutes brainstorming Because many students feel writing under timed circumstances is difficult, most begin writing immediately after reading the essay prompt. What comes as a shock to many students is learning that this is actually a big mistake. The first 2 minutes of your writing time should not be spent composing your essay at all. Instead, you want to spend the first 90-120 seconds of your time brainstorming— coming up with all your ideas for your essay. Jot down words and phrases that outline your position on the essay prompt, 2 or 3 main reasons why you feel that way, and 1 supporting reason or example for each main reason. This has a number of benefits, as it will allow you to more easily compose your thesis statement and topic sentences when you begin writing and prevents you from running out of ideas halfway through your essay. Come up with ideas before test day for the most common types of questions and practicing limiting your brainstorming time to 2 minutes or less. Take 5 minutes to write an introduction with a thesis Now that you know what you will write about, it is time to write your introduction paragraph. The introduction paragraph is the most important paragraph that you write because it is the first impression that you make. For that reason, you want to make sure that you get started on the right foot. A strong introduction paragraph should be about 4 sentences long. Start with the most general sentence and make each new sentence more and more specific. End the introduction with your thesis statement, the one sentence that tells the reader your answer to the essay prompt and outlines your main reasons for why you feel this way. Spend about 5 minutes composing your introduction paragraph. Even if you do not have enough time to write an entire independent essay every day, schedule time daily to practice brainstorming and writing your intro. For students who practice this routinely, you may even be able to get this time down further to as little as 3 minutes. If at the end you have extra time, you can always go back in order to improve word choice and sentence structure in this area as it is key to creating the right tone for your essay. Budget 6 or 7 minutes per body paragraph By following this pacing guide, you will have roughly 20 minutes to compose your body paragraphs. Ideally, you want to write 2 or 3 well-developed body paragraphs, one for each of your main reasons for selecting the side you have picked. You have already figured out what you will write about as well as at least one example when you created your brainstorm earlier. Use a transition word or phrase to start each topic sentence, the sentence that tells the reader the main idea of that particular paragraph. Introduce and develop your supporting reason or deliver the story that features your example for about three sentences in the middle, and wrap up the body paragraph with a concluding sentence that reiterates how your supporting reason or example clearly demonstrated what you had indicated in your topic sentence. Sticking to this formula will help you stick to the proper pace. Set aside no more than 3 minutes for your conclusion Your essay can and should have a conclusion, but there is no reason to devote the majority of your time or effort to this section of the test. Keep the conclusion short and sweet. Two or three sentences is just fine. Start with an academic transition word, like ultimately, and then repeat your thesis statement using different sentence structure and vocabulary. You want to remind the reader of the most important ideas of your essay without sounding like you copy and pasted a sentence from earlier in the essay. You can practice doing this effectively within a 3-minute time limit by practicing paraphrasing sentences from your introduction. If you can make this even shorter, do so. If there is one place where you need to sacrifice some time, it should be on the conclusion paragraph. Save your final 2 minutes for proofreading and editing Spend the last 2 minutes of your time proofreading your essay to catch and correct easily identifiable errors. It is okay if your essay has some mistakes in terms of grammar or spelling. It is important to minimize these errors and to ensure that they do not interfere with meaning because these are the top reasons why people lose points. Look for errors with subject-verb agreement, sentence fragments, and common spelling mistakes. Practice locating and fixing these problems fast using grammar books or websites like so you can find them quickly in your own essay. Don’t skip this step. Students are often tempted to overlook the proofreading stage because it comes last, but ETS does make good grammar and clarity a priority when scoring. Do you have extra time? Go back and see where you can use synonyms and more academic language to further improve your essay. The Key Takeaway Pacing yourself on the independent essay ensures that you spend those 30 minutes where they matter most, so follow the times outlined above to move towards your TOEFL writing goal score. Author Bio: This article was written by Danielle Johnson. Danielle has been teaching and tutoring ESL, ELA, and test prep for nearly a decade. She wanted to help even more students reach their TOEFL goal scores, so she founded Test Obsessed, a website dedicated to helping students perform their best on the TOEFL. 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The Expendables (Pt. 4 Fighting) The Expendables Poster THE EXPENDABLES is a hard—hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren’t quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge – one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is a man with nothing to lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the sage and the strategist of this tight—knit band of men who live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern—day warriors. His is a true cynic who describes what he does as “removing those hard to get at stains.” The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), former SAS and a savant with anything that has a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), a master at close—quarter combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who has known Barney for ten years and is a long—barrel weapons specialist; Toll Road (Randy Couture), a skilled demolitions expert and considered the intellect of the group; and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), a combat veteran and an expert in precision sniping who struggles with his own demons. When the mysterious Church offers Barney a job no one else would take, Barney and his team embark on what appears to be a routine mission: overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the murderous dictator of the small island country of Vilena and end the years of death and destruction inflicted on its people. On a reconnaissance mission to Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie), a local freedom—fighter with a dark secret. They also come to learn who their true enemy is: rogue ex—CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his henchman Paine (Steve Austin). When things go terribly wrong, Barney and Christmas are forced to leave Sandra behind, essentially giving her a death sentence. Haunted by this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena to rescue the hostage and finish the job he started. And to perhaps save a soul: his own. (Source) Download: 480p, 720p, 1080p Find more trailers and clips on our homepage.	<urn:uuid:50fd3dda-5e2c-4366-9dd2-31df438c9fa5>	http://blog.hd-trailers.net/2010/07/29/the-expendables-pt-4-fighting/	en	0.946427	0.034002	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
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Review: ‘Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash,’ starring Ian Shultis, Taylor Clift, Samuel Kay Forrest and Rich Dally III July 1, 2020 by Carla Hay Taylor Clift (front row, second from right) and Ian Shultis (crouching in blue shirt) in “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” (Photo courtesy of Cleopatra Entertainment) Directed by Jared Cohn Culture Representation: This dramatic film, which has a nearly all-white cast (with a few African Americans as extras), tells the story of the 1977 plane crash that took the lives of six people, including four people on the team of multiplatinum American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Culture Clash: Some members of the Lynyrd Skynyrd team had doubts and conflicts about the plane’s safety before it took that fateful flight. Culture Audience: Lynyrd Skynyrd fans are the obvious target audience of “Street Survivors,” but the movie should also appeal to people who want to see a dramatic recreation of what happened before, during and after the plane crash, if they can stomach the very graphic and bloody scenes in the movie. Navarone Garibaldi, Taylor Clift and Samuel Kay Forrest in “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” (Photo courtesy of Cleopatra Entertainment) The tragic story of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has been told many times in news reports, feature articles, books and documentaries, including the 2018 documentary film “Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow.” Most of these versions of the band’s story respectfully tiptoed around describing the explicit, gory details of what happened during and after the plane crash in 1977 that killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines (Steve’s older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. The tragedy occurred because the faulty Convair CV-240 chartered plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, on October 20, 1977. “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” (written and directed by Jared Cohn) does not sugarcoat or gloss over the horrors of the crash. The movie is so graphic with its up-close recreation of the blood, injuries and dead bodies, that this film is bound to disturb and probably anger a lot of people. Is it exploitation? It would feel completely exploitative if not for that fact that plane-crash survivor Artimus Pyle, who was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s drummer at the time, approved this movie, because the story is told from his perspective. At various points of the film, Pyle does on-camera narration. As a survivor of this tragedy, Pyle certainly has the right to tell his version of events. If a Lynyrd Skynyrd plane-crash movie had been made without any of the survivors’ input, it wouldn’t be right at all. But if a survivor, who saved the lives of several of the passengers, signed off on this movie, it’s up to viewers to decide if this dramatic recreation of the plane crash is something that’s worth seeing. But sensitive viewers should be warned: This is one of the most graphic and disturbing plane-crash movies that you might ever see. It’s not recommended viewing for people who’ve survived an aircraft crash or who have a loved one who’s died in an aircraft crash, because this movie will no doubt be triggering for this type of trauma. The plane crash is depicted about 50 minutes into this 92-minute film. Pyle opens the film by making this statement: “There have been many variations and accounts and contradictions to this story, but I was there. This was something that shouldn’t have happened, but it did. This is more than the story about the plane crash. It’s about the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the greatest Southern rock band of all time.” Actually, the movie isn’t really about the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, because very little of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s music is in the film. There’s a scene where the actors portraying the band are briefly shown performing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s cover version of J.J. Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze” on stage. The full performance of “Call Me the Breeze” (which is from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s second album “Second Helping,” released in 1974) is then shown during the end credits. If people watching this movie are expecting to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s greatest hits, then they will be very disappointed. One can assume that this low-budget film didn’t have the money to license the rights to more Lynyrd Skynyrd songs and because there were legal disputes over this movie getting made. And that’s probably why the movie does not have a lot of scenes of Lynyrd Skynyrd recording songs or performing live. And if people are looking for a “rise to fame” story of how Lynyrd Skynyrd went from being unknown musicians based in Tallahassee, Florida, to multiplatinum rock stars, the “Street Survivors” movie isn’t that story either. Because the “Street Survivors” movie is told from Pyle’s perspective, the film starts off with how he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1975, shortly before Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the band’s third album “Nuthin’ Fancy,” which yielded the hit single “Saturday Night Special.” Pyle replaced original Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Bob Burns, who quit the band after having a nervous breakdown. By the time Pyle joined Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band had sold millions of records and already had several hit songs, such as “Free Bird,” “Gimme Three Steps,” “Don’t Ask Me No Questions” and “Sweet Home Alabama.” The “Street Survivors” movie shows how Pyle (played by Ian Shultis) got the call to audition for Lynyrd Skynyrd and how, about two weeks later, a jubilant Pyle was asked to join the band on stage in Atlanta. Patricia Williamson, who became Pyle’s first wife, is portrayed in the movie as a loving and supportive live-in partner. Williamson is played by Kristina St. Peter in a small supporting role. After Pyle joined the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd released fourth album “Gimme Back My Bullets” in 1976, and fifth album “Street Survivors” in 1977, just three days before the plane crash. The “Street Survivors” album had the hit songs “What’s Your Name,” “You Got That Right” and “That Smell.” After showing Pyle joining the band, the “Street Survivors” movie skips right to 1977, with the band in the middle of a tour and partying heavily with groupies and other hangers-on at a hotel. The other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who are portrayed in the movie are lead singer Ronnie Van Zant (played by Taylor Clift), guitarist Gary Rossington (played by Navarone Garibaldi), guitarist Steve Gaines (played by Samuel Kay Forrest), guitarist Allen Collins (played by Rich Dally III), keyboardist Billy Powell (played by Hudson Long) and bass player Leon Wilkeson (played by Nick Chandler). Also part of the Lynyrd Skynyrd team at the time were tour manager Ron Eckerman (played by Mark Dippolito), assistant tour manager Kilpatrick (played by Mark Valeriano), and backup singers Cassie Gaines (played by Lelia Symington), Leslie Hawkins (played by Sierra Intoccio) and JoJo Billingsley (played by Julie Zimmer). All of them and other members of the entourage were on that tragic plane flight, which had a total of 26 people on the plane. The partying scenes in “Street Survivors” are what you would expect, considering the wild reputation that Lynyrd Skynyrd had in the 1970s. Drugs everywhere, especially cocaine and marijuana. Drunken antics. More than a few fist fights. Naked groupies offering up free sex. In one scene, Van Zant throws a TV out of a hotel room window, causing the window to break in the process. A hotel manager angrily confronts the band in the room and tells them that they have to pay for the damages. Van Zant arrogantly asks the manager who’s going to make them pay, before bass player Wilkeson hits the manager on the head with a beer bottle. The setbacks caused by this drug-and-alcohol-fueled lifestyle are referenced only in passing in the movie. For example, in another scene, Pyle answers a knock on his hotel door and is told by a male assistant, “Ronnie’s in jail, but here’s your gold record,” as Pyle is handed the gold plaque. It’s an example of the highs and lows of being in Lynyrd Skynyrd. Even before the plane crash, band members Van Zant, Rossington and Collins had car crashes, but those aren’t mentioned in the movie. In one of his on-camera narrations, the real Pyle comments: “I want the world to know how funny my band was, because being the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, every single day on the road was a hilarious adventure.” Therefore, it isn’t too surprising that the movie doesn’t really cover all the down sides of the band before the plane crash. The only band members in the movie who are written as having distinct personalities are Pyle, Van Zant and Steve Gaines. All of them were heavy partiers, but Pyle is portrayed as the most responsible one of the three and perhaps the wackiest band member on stage. (Pyle would stage dive into the audience before stage diving became trendy.) Van Zant is portrayed as a confident, outspoken leader with a quick temper but also extremely loyal to his bandmates. Van Zant had predicted to the other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd that he would die before the age of 30 (he was 29 when the plane crash happened), and that ominous premonition is recreated in the movie. Steve Gaines (who was 28 when he died) was the youngest and still fairly new to Lynyrd Skynyrd (he had only been in the band since 1976, as a replacement for Ed King), so he was the band member who was the newest to the rock-star/private-plane lifestyle that Lynyrd Skynyrd was leading. Even though “Street Survivors” avoids covering the negative effects of the band’s hedonistic lifestyle, what the movie does show is how Lynyrd Skynyrd ended up with the faulty plane that caused this tragedy to happen. In one scene, Aerosmith’s then-manager David Krebs (played by Sean McNabb) is seen in his office, with all of the members of Aerosmith there, surrounded by cocaine and women. Krebs is shown on the phone rejecting an offer for Aerosmith to use a chartered plane because the plane didn’t meet the band’s safety standards. He also yells at the person on the other line about how the airplane pilot was seen passing a bottle of Jack Daniel’s back and forth during the plane inspection. Guess which plane Aerosmith rejected and ended up being used by Lynyrd Skynyrd? In the movie, when Lynyrd Skynyrd first sees the plane, someone utters, “What a piece of junk!” And someone else comments on the plane, “Well, I guess that must be ours.” In the movie, pilot McCreary (played by Tom Jenkins) and co-pilot Gray (played by Will David Jordan) introduce themselves to the band and assorted team members on the airport tarmac. Gray is portrayed as a star-stuck fan who eagerly tells the assembled group: “All my life, all I’ve dreamed of doing is to fly a big rig with rock stars. After this, I’ll die a happy man.” Cringe. And although the movie doesn’t portray the pilots as being under the influence of alcohol or drugs while flying the plane, it does portray the pilots as very reckless and dishonest about the plane’s mechanical malfunctions. The day before the tragic flight, Lynyrd Skynyrd flew on that plane and had a close call when one of the plane engines caught on fire. When asked about this major engine problem during the flight, co-pilot Gray brushed it off as “a little blowback” that was “normal.” The movie shows that although several passengers on the plane were understandably freaked out by the experience, they decided to use the same plane the next day on October 20, 1977. According to the movie, the band’s tour manager made an angry phone call to fix the malfunctioning plane after they landed on October 19, 1977. Obviously, those repairs never happened. After performing in Greenville, South Carolina, on October 19, 1977, the band had to fly to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, because Lynyrd Skynyrd was scheduled to do a concert at Louisiana State University on October 21, 1977. Because of the band’s tight schedule, there wasn’t enough time to charter another plane, and Lynyrd Skynyrd couldn’t risk missing the Baton Rouge concert by using other travel methods that would take longer. Before he became a professional musician, Pyle was an aircraft sergeant in the Marines. That aircraft background helped when it became obvious the plane was in serious trouble during the flight on October 20, 1977. First, the engine problems started again, and oil from the engine could be seen leaking on the airplane windows. Then, when Pyle and other passengers started asking the pilots what was going on, they found out to their horror that the airplane’s gas gauge wasn’t working, which gave the pilots an overestimation of how much fuel the plane had. The plane had actually run out of fuel. The crash happened when the pilots decided to make an emergency landing. The movie thoroughly conveys the panic that spread throughout the airplane when the passengers knew that they were going to crash. The bloody and shocking aftermath of the crash is also portrayed in heart-pounding detail, including Pyle having to pull a heavy part of a tree out of a passenger’s chest. Pyle also joined forces with other survivors to try and rescue Rossington, whose legs were pinned underneath part of the destroyed plane. Pyle was the one who left the crash scene to get help in the remote area. When he finally saw a farmhouse and yelled for help at a man standing in the field, the man ended up shooting Pyle in the arm because he thought that Pyle was a crazy trespasser. The hospital scenes are also very dramatic and might be very hard to watch for some people. The movie shows that even when Pyle was going through this trauma, he had to be the one to identify the bodies at the crash site. He was also the one who had to confirm who owned which luggage items at the crash site. And he had to go through the indignity of being interrogated by a Drug Enforcement Agency officer who was ready to arrest Pyle on the spot when DEA people found legal ginseng in Pyle’s luggage and mistook it for an illegal drug. One of the points made in the movie is how MCA Records, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s record company at the time, refused to help pay the enormous hospital bills that resulted from the crash. Pyle was the crash survivor with some of the least-severe injuries, so he was the “go to” leading witness for what happened. (He was conscious the whole time and he was still able to walk immediately after the plane crash.) In the movie, Pyle is shown being presented with the hospital bills while many of the surviving passengers are still in the hospital. Pyle makes an angry phone call to a record-label guy named “Pete,” who coldly tells Pyle that the company isn’t responsible for the hospital bills, because Pyle’s contract was with the now-dead Van Zant. Not for nothing, Lynyrd Skynyrd never released a new studio album with MCA again. “Street Survivors,” the band’s last album with Ronnie Van Zant, had a haunting band photo on the cover, with fire in the background. In the photo, it looks like Steve Gaines is on fire, which is very eerie, considering that he died in a fiery plane crash. After the plane crash, MCA re-released the “Street Survivors” album with an alternate cover of a Lynyrd Skynyrd band photo without anything in the background. The album is still available with either album cover. Although “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” doesn’t have top-notch acting or screenwriting, the casting for the movie is actually very good, since all of the actors resemble and capture some essence of their real-life counterparts. And the 1970s rock-star lifestyle scenes in the movie are very accurate. However, the film’s direction and tone go back and forth between being hokey and suspenseful. Overall, it’s clear that the intention was to make Pyle look like the hero of the story. Some people will agree with that, while others won’t. The movie has such a full-on commitment to showing realistic details of the plane crash that it might affect people on a deep emotional level. People will be really angry/sad that this tragedy happened or will feel very inspired by how Pyle handled this tragedy. There might be some people who feel both ways. There will definitely be people who will hate this movie or feel lukewarm about it. However, it’s hard to imagine a lot of people loving this movie, because so much of it is disturbing to watch. Even if people think that “Street Survivors” is a good movie, they might have a hard time watching it again. Cleopatra Entertainment released “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” on digital, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray on June 30, 2020.	<urn:uuid:05f62f20-509f-47ac-876e-013478963808>	https://culturemixonline.com/tag/hudson-long/	en	0.963586	0.145018	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
It seems that 30-year mortgages are very common (standard?). If I find that the monthly payments for, say, a 10-year mortgage are affordable for me, is there any reason not to go with the shorter term so that I can reduce the amount of interest paid and get out of debt faster? Or maybe it's just a sign that I should be looking at more expensive properties? Answers to this your question break down along a few lines regarding opportunity costs of tying up a significant chunk of your salary and assets in one piece of property, as opposed to other things you'd like to do with your life. The 30 year standard mortgage was invented in the 30's as part of FDR's new deal to make housing affordable to more people, while relieving the strain on the market of foreclosed homes from ~10 year interest only balloon mortgages (sound familiar?). The 30 year term tends to follow the career of the average American of that era, allowing them to pay the house off and live out the remainder of their lives there at a lower cost. The real Value of a Home Houses are depreciating assets because they wear out over time. Their greatest investment value is a place to live. The appreciation on a home comes from the real estate it sits on and the community the property is located in. Value is determined by desirability of the house and community in their current state, and the supply of property in the area. This value can only be extracted when you sell the home. This partially answers your last question noting that you shouldn't buy a really expensive building for investment value. We've learned in recent years that there are no long term guarantees of property value either, because land and communities can decrease in value due to unemployment, over supply, crime, pollution, etc. Only buy as much home as you will need in the next decade or so, in a place that you will like living over that time period, and don't consider it much of an investment. Paying it off I will tell you to get a fifteen year fixed rate mortgage since it's readily available at lower rates and has a significantly lower total purchase price than the standard 30 years. The monthly payment difference isn't that great, and anyone who looks at the monthly payment as opposed to the total costs, your priorities and the opportunity costs shouldn't be trusted for financial advice. I don't like debt. There are psychological benefits to being free from the bondage and drain of a long term mortgage on your finances. The biggest argument for paying off your home quickly is freedom to pursue other desires with all of your salary and the assets you have available to you. Some financial advisers will tell you to keep your mortgage costs under 25% of your income, so that you can actually live off the money you make. I would also recommend paying at least enough into your 401k to get the company match and fully funding your Roth IRA. I'd also have an emergency fund to cover at least 6 months of expenses, including this mortgage in case you lose your job. A 15 or 20 year mortgage will give you breathing room to take care of these other priorities, and you can overpay on almost any mortgage to decrease the principal and finish in a shorter time period (make sure to get a mortgage that allows prepayment) . Diversifying into other investments More financially savvy people may tell you to take the 30 year mortgage and invest the difference. Especially with mortgage rates around 4%, this is a very cheap way to increase your purchasing power and total assets. Most people lack the investment prowess and self discipline to make this plan pay off. There are even fewer guarantees regarding markets and investments than property. This also is a way of diversifying your total assets to protect against loss of value in your home. This approach has backfired for thousands of people who are underwater on their homes. This problem is often compounded by job loss forcing you to move, or increasing your commute, making your home less desirable for you. Some people will tell you to maintain the mortgage for the tax credit. This fails a basic math test since you only get about a quarter of the money (depending on your tax rate) that you are paying in interest back from the government. The rest of the money goes to bank at no gain to you. This approach is basically a taxpayer subsidized decrease of your 4% interest payment to a 3% interest payment (assuming you have ~ $5000 in other deductions), and only pays off if you can successfully invest the money at a rate somewhat greater than 3%. \| improve this answer \| \| • My own reasoning was that (a) I wanted it paid off at about the same time I retire, (b) I had significantly more than the value of the house in savings, so I could pay off the mortgage at any time if I wanted to, (c) I didn't want to make a complete bet on the market but (c) historical market-rate-of-return was sufficently above what the loan would cost me that I was willing to make the morgtage into a "leveraged investment". So I compromised: I financed half the cost of my house. (And later refinanced to even lower rates.) But I'd already proven myself as a long-term investor. – keshlam Dec 2 '14 at 2:36 • I mostly agree with this, but it doesn't take much prowess or self-discipline to take the difference each month and dump it into an index fund. – Hart CO Apr 9 '17 at 16:55 Assuming you've got no significant prepayment penalty, I would think about getting a longer mortgage, but making payments like it was a shorter mortgage. This will get the mortgage paid off in a shorter time period - but if you run into financial difficulties and/or find a better use for your money, you can drop back to paying the minimum necessary to retire the loan in 30 years without needing to refinance. (If you need to reduce your payments because you're between jobs, you don't have a very good negotiating position). For the most part, there's nothing that says you can only make one payment per month, or that it must be in the amount printed on the statement. If you want to, you can make payments weekly (or biweekly, or every 4 weeks) which typically means that you'll pay more every year. If your mortgage payments are $1000/month, that's $12,000 per year. If you tell yourself that 1000/month = $250 weekly and make yourself send a payment every week (or 500 every 2 weeks), you'll end up paying 250 * 52 = $13,000 per year, without particularly feeling the difference, especially if you get paid on a weekly/biweekly schedule instead of monthly or semi-monthly. Also, by paying more often, you're borrowing a tiny bit less money over the course of the year (because the money didn't sit in your account waiting until the 1st of the month to make a payment) so you save a little in interest there, too. Think of "30 years" or "10 years" as the basis for a minimum payment schedule, not necessarily the length of time that you or the lender really intend to keep the loan. \| improve this answer \| \| • 2 Thanks, that's a very interesting idea. Is this something that I should be asking the bank about beforehand, or would that raise alarm bells for them? – Larry Wang Sep 5 '10 at 18:08 • This allows you to keep your options open while taking advantage of today's low rates. – James Roth Sep 5 '10 at 20:31 • 6 Be politely aggressive to assure that you get a mortgage with no prepayment penalties and that your payments can be electronically transferred and credited against your mortgage balance immediately (some banks will hold funds in escrow and charge a months worth of interest before applying it against your balance). This shows the mortgage servicer that you are financially savvy, especially if you are willing to walk away if they won't accommodate you. You don't want to do business with someone who is trying to screw you on fees and unearned interest. – SpecKK Sep 6 '10 at 0:40 • 4 If it raises alarm bells, you need to find another lender/broker. – duffbeer703 Sep 6 '10 at 1:13 • 7 You may be able to get a lower interest rate for a 15-year mortgage, though. – user296 Sep 7 '10 at 16:28 If you can afford the payments on a 10-year mortgage for a property, that's an indication that it's very affordable. This assumes that there aren't a ton of hidden costs in this property (which could be why it's going so cheaply). Looking at more expensive houses just because you can afford them is exactly what the lenders want you to do, and it's dangerous. Resist the temptation. If you're happy, you're happy. \| improve this answer \| \| The monthly payment difference isn't that great On a $300K loan, the 30 year monthly payment (at 4%) is $1432, the 15 year (at 3.5%) is $2145, that $712 per month, or 50% higher payment. $712 is the total utility or food bill for a couple. If that $1432 represents 25% of income (a reasonable number) then $2145 is over 35%. I'd rather use that money for something else and not obligate myself at the start of the mortgage. Given how little we save as a country, the $712 is best put into a matched 401(k) in the US or other retirement account if elsewhere. \| improve this answer \| \| With interest rates as low as they are, you could lock in to a very low rate for 30 years. If rates are higher in, say, 10 years, you could conceivably be earning a much higher rate on the money you're not putting towards monthly payments. All else equal, the payments will be lower on a 30y than they will be on a 10y, so you'll have more cash for other things. But I'm just looking for downsides -- being paid off in 10 years versus 30 sounds nice to me. \| improve this answer \| \| With the calculator in hand (Excel :) you should follow this advise and save a bundle. 1) Calculate how much you are willing to spend per month. 2) Take the longest (in years) mortgage you can find and cheepest (Euribor+0,2% is better than Euribor+1%). 3) Save the amount you are not spending on your mortgage. Whenever the mortgage cost changes (once a year), calculate whether you get more interests on your savings or on a down payment (look at the total cost). Then decide if you make a down payment or keep on saving. My 0,02€ We took a 20 year mortgage and blindly payed every time we'd have 3K€. We payed our house in 6 years. The total cost of the mortgage was way down this way. However, the above theory has a better yield overall. \| improve this answer \| \| • I'd go for the longer mortgage (just in case you hadn't noticed) – GUI Junkie Sep 4 '10 at 21:17 • I'd vote @SpecKK up for 'Diversifying into other investments' but I can't. Ow, well. – GUI Junkie Sep 4 '10 at 22:57 It depends on your situation. Situations may change. There are also other factors: • The ability to deduct mortgage interest, combined with other charitable contributions is essentially a subsidy of your mortgage. If you donate $5k to your church, you probably don't clear the standard deduction, but with the mortgage deduction, you could yield a $1,500 annual return from that contribution. • Taxes are likely to increase, so the value of that deduction will increase as well. • Rates are very low, and get pushed lower by your deductions. You're basically getting free money. 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E.g. Alt-d deletes word until next word boundary. There's also a shortcut to delete until previous word boundary IIRC, but I'd like to delete word UNDER cursor (i.e. to current word left boundary and next word boundary). Is this even available in readline? • Alt-Backspace deletes to previous word boundary. Not sure if there's a way to map a keystroke to Alt-d Alt-Backspace – glenn jackman Mar 25 '15 at 14:22 OK found it: you can create key bindings to "macros": http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man3/readline.3readline.html First, choose a key combination you want to use for this "kill whole word" operation -- peruse bind -sp \| sort \| less to see what's in use. Suppose Ctrl-xCtrl-w is OK, then echo '"\C-x\C-w": "\ed\e\C-h"' >> ~/.inputrc Start a new shell, and you should be good to go. Although Ctrl-xCtrl-w is just as easy/awkward as Alt-dAlt-Backspace \| improve this answer \| \| Your Answer	<urn:uuid:43300a56-f1a5-4e59-a74e-7085cb0e4dd6>	https://superuser.com/questions/893817/readline-deleting-word-under-cursor	en	0.876415	0.070675	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Add a comment You must be logged in to be able to post comments! Create my account Sign in Top comments By bloopaloop \| 27 It’s probably not an emotion issue. Your cooter or your butthole might be smelly. I put a dollar on getting laid after addressing that. Haters can hate, but I’m the giving helpful advise. By ImpKit \| 7 You need to talk to him and find out what's up. Not hints. Nothing subtle. Sit down and have an honest, frank, shame & blame-free conversation. Were you and he previously intimate or is this a new relationship? If new, he might be asexual but still want a romantic connection. Is he experiencing stress, anxiety, or depression? Any of those can kill the libido. Regardless... you need to talk with him. By jabc34 \| 8 sounds like my life but I found that my wife has several other partners her excuse she can't stop cheating so now we are in a open relationship what changes nothing she has others I have me good luck op hope you figure it out By Hangryko \| 17 I know what you're going through, OP. Thoroughly communicate with him how his lack of motivation for sex is affecting you. In the meantime he should see a doctor to get his testosterone levels checked as well as his general health. If no outstanding physical or mental health issues that would affect his libido (such as depression) are discovered, consider couples therapy. Otherwise, unless you're willing to accept the lack of physical intimacy, it may be time to leave the relationship.	<urn:uuid:bacf1d0c-1457-41ab-8c0b-2591721bf1d9>	https://www.fmylife.com/article/not-interested_330181.html	en	0.962449	0.042838	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
note Limbic~Region [Tommy], <br /> You need to choose a tangible set of factors to measure since the concept of "popular" is very subjective. One ruler might be the population growth of a particular community such as [\|Perl Monks]. To that end, the following piece of code will extract dates and counts for approximately the first 550 new users. <p> Please do not modify this code and run it without thinking about the consequences. The sleep interval is likely not long enough if you are going to hammer [jcwren]'s server for every single user. Another useful feature would be to have signal handling allowing persistency of data (DB) even when you abort early. Additionally, it should be modified to allow you to resume where it left off. This would make gathering the stats over time much more server friendly. </p> <CODE> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TableContentParser; use WWW::Mechanize; use constant DATE => 3; use constant STATS => 4; my %opt = ( url => ',3&', end => 500, pos => 0, ); my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 ); my %date; while ( $opt{pos} <= $opt{end} ) { $mech->get( $opt{url} . '&start=' . $opt{pos} ); my $table = HTML::TableContentParser->new()->parse( $mech->content() ); for my $row ( @{ $table->[ STATS ]{rows} } ) { my $stamp = ${ $row->{cells} }[ DATE ]{data}; next if ! $stamp; ($stamp) = $stamp =~ m\|<NOBR>(.*)</NOBR>\|; $date{ substr($stamp, 0, 10) }++; } $opt{pos} += 50; select(undef, undef, undef, 0.75); } print "$_,$date{$_}\n" for sort keys %date; </CODE> In reality, you would want to consider more factors like the ratio of writeups to users, how many users haven't logged in for more than a certain amount of time, etc. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-180961"> <p> Cheers - [Limbic~Region\|L~R] </p> </div></div> 421383 421383	<urn:uuid:c4c0a036-9cd7-40ee-a1a1-64538ec40f17>	https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=421440;displaytype=xml	en	0.799184	0.952864	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Cookies on this website Dr Nick Jones, Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow, writes about the Research Priorities in Advanced Heart Failure project, which has now published its top 10 priorities for the research community. © Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash Hundreds of people across the UK have had their say on what the priorities should be for future research into advanced heart failure. This includes people with heart failure, their carers, healthcare professionals and members of the wider public. The work has been taking place using The James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership approach, an established and systematic method to engage with a wide range of stakeholders and determine research priorities. The JLA approach is important because it gives the people most affected by heart failure and those healthcare professionals directly involved in their care a voice, which might otherwise not be heard. A team from the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, including Dr Clare Taylor, Professor Richard Hobbs and Dr Nick Jones, have been working with researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol on the project, with funding from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. The project is also supported by the heart failure charity, Pumping Marvellous. The JLA process establishes a core steering group, who guide the process through a series of national online and postal surveys, targeted at key populations. A systematic reviewer helps filter research priorities where the existing evidence remains uncertain and these are carried forward into a final day long consensus meeting of representative stakeholders. Interestingly, although a final list was agreed amongst the whole group, initial priorities were markedly different for patients and their carers compared to healthcare professionals, highlighting the importance of incorporating different perspectives in setting a research agenda that is meaningful to the wider heart failure community. The final top list of 10 research priorities in advanced heart failure are: 1. Which treatments have the biggest impact on the quality of life of people with advanced heart failure? 2. What amount and type of exercise is safe and effective for people with advanced heart failure? 3. What is the most empowering and effective education and self-management advice for people with advanced heart failure and their carers? (e.g. dealing with fatigue) 4. How can the work of heart failure charities be better integrated with NHS services to optimise the care of people with advanced heart failure? 5. Which approaches, in addition to standard therapies, are effective in supporting breathlessness in people with advanced heart failure? 6. How do we break down barriers for patients with advanced heart failure, carers and health professionals to enable talking about end of life care? 7. What are the benefits of asking a person with advanced heart failure ‘what is important to you’? 8. What is the most effective way to use diuretics in advanced heart failure, with respect to fluid overload, kidney function, survival and quality of life? 9. How can advanced heart failure patients and professionals be helped to communicate about symptoms that are difficult to express such as anxiety and low mood? 10. What support would be most effective for carers of people with advanced heart failure? (e.g. support groups). The full details of the process and results have been published in the cardiology journal, OpenHeart and are available at - Sukhpal Prehar says: Saturday, 11 July 2020, 7.08 am Asking the public about what Heart Failure research to do is useful, but expensive. Clinicians & Academic Professors are best placed to adequately decide research priorities. Maybe it is time to critically evaluate how money is spent, & possibly wasted, in Clinical & pre-Clinical research. Add comment Please add your comment in the box below. Question: Are you a human ? Your answer:	<urn:uuid:c125a557-a7cc-4651-96aa-3af45b80ef58>	https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/blog/setting-the-research-agenda-in-advanced-heart-failure?ref=image	en	0.939687	0.115805	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Skip to Main Content Illustrated by Patrick Spaziante A trio of young superheroes try to thwart a spy in this second book in the action-packed, comics-inspired adventure series that’s Hidden Figures meets Wonder Woman! After defeating The Hisser—and discovering their power as a team—Infinity Trinity is ready for its next adventure. When Akiko, Mae, and Josie learn that a spy has been betraying secrets to the Japanese military, they join Room Twelve in San Francisco for important work with other code-cracking experts. But soon there is personal code to crack: Akiko spots her mom walking with the suspected spy through San Francisco, which had been her family’s home until Executive Order No. 9066 sent Akiko and all Japanese Americans on the West Coast into internment camps. Teaming up with brilliant members of The League of Secret Heroes—like real-life World War II code-crackers Genevieve Grotjan and Elizebeth Friedman—Akiko, Mae, and Josie search for answers as they battle the evil clown Side-Splitter, who’s bent on destroying not only the city, but the Infinity Trinity, too. As clues begin to pile up that her mother has become entangled with Side-Splitter’s sinister plot, can Akiko solve the most important puzzle of all? A Reading Group Guide to Cape and Mask By Kate Hannigan About the Books Josie, Mae, and Akiko, three seemingly ordinary girls who love to solve puzzles, join forces to fight powerful enemies during World War II. When their skill at code-cracking brings them together, the girls realize that they have superpowers—from flying to shape-shifting to calling up storms. Because the old superheroes have disappeared, the girls, dubbed the Infinity Trinity, take on villains in perilous fights across the country. They deal with loss, fear, racial bias, and sexism. At the same time, they discover that they’re stronger when they draw on their new friendship and work as a team as they battle sinister enemies with superpowers of their own. Discussion Questions 1. Each member of the Infinity Trinity has her own strengths and personality. Describe Josie, her background, and her family. What strengths does she bring to the trio besides her superpowers? Why do you think she is the narrator? 2. Describe the scene where the girls first meet one another. Why do they end up spending time together? Akiko has a strong personality and some distinctive habits. Talk about what she’s like. Where is she from, and why is she in Philadelphia? What do you learn about her family, especially in Mask? 3. Mae is visiting Philadelphia from Chicago. What is she doing in Philadelphia? What does her grandmother do? 4. Josie admires Mae’s manners. Give examples of Mae and her social interactions. What other aspects of her personality come through? What does she bring to the trio? 5. Each of the three girls ends up with different superpowers. Describe each of their superpowers, when the superpower appears, and how it helps in specific fights against evil. Why do you think the girls must voice their good intentions to make the superpowers kick in? 6. Near the end of Cape, Josie tells a reporter about the Infinity Trinity, saying, “‘They might look different, but they’re a trio, you know. Three apart, one together.’” Discuss her comments, and explain how the three girls complement one another in terms of personality and superpowers. Give examples from the book to support your conclusions. 7. Think about the world these girls live in, and intentions or motivations for behaviors. What dangers do the girls face? Who are they protecting? What motivates them to risk their lives to defeat villains? What role does the war play in their willingness to face danger? 8. Josie, who’s originally from Ireland, is white. Akiko is Japanese-American, and Mae is African-American. Give examples of prejudices that Akiko and Mae have to deal with. Describe times that Josie is surprised by the racial bias she sees. How do the girls react to or handle these situations? 9. The treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II is portrayed in Mask. Describe what happened to Akiko’s family, and why they are in an internment camp. What did you learn that most surprises you? What is the internment camp like? What did they lose before they were sent there? 10. Why do you think Akiko’s brother, Tommy, enlisted? What is he doing in the war? How does Akiko feel about this? 11. Who is Mrs. B, and when does she first appear in the girls’ lives? To what extent does she guide them, and when does she leave decisions up to them? What do they realize about her background and that of her dog, Astra? Who is Mrs. B’s sister? 12. When do the girls observe sexism toward themselves and others? Discuss Mrs. B’s observation that, “‘History for too long has taught that females are delicate flowers, unable to take the heat, incapable of feats of strength and daring.’” Which females in Cape or Mask prove this idea wrong, and how? Explain your answers using examples from the books. 13. Josie’s friend Harry believes in her capabilities, but advises her, “‘Don’t outrage an opponent, outsmart them.’” Name times that Josie, Akiko, and Mae outsmart their opponents. What can you learn from these experiences? When do the girls combine using their brains with using their superpowers? 14. Name some of the superheroes that the girls talk about. Who do the girls admire most? What powers do those superheroes have? What has happened to the superheroes? Which ones still appear, and in what form? How do they help? 15. Why does secrecy play such a large role in both books? What are some secrets that the girls are keeping from their families, and why? What secret does Josie’s cousin, Kay, have? How about Josie’s friend Harry and Akiko’s mother? What kind of confusion and problems do the secrets cause? 16. In Cape, Josie also has a painful secret about her father. Why do you think she doesn’t talk about it? When does she finally tell her new friends? Discuss Josie’s mother and how she’s coping with the loss of her husband. What are her contributions to the war effort, as well as to her own family? 17. Who is the main enemy in Cape? Who are his allies, and what powers does he have? What are his plans? How do the girls and their friends thwart his goals? Describe the importance of both strategy and quick thinking using examples from the book. 18. Describe the enemy that the girls fight in Mask. When do they first encounter him? What are his powers, and what does he plan to do? Who are his allies? Describe how the girls figure out his plans, and how they fight him. What makes a clown an effective villain? 19. How do the crowds react when seeing the Infinity Trinity in action? How do reporters respond, and how do their newspapers cover the trio’s deeds? What do you think it might feel like for the girls to have to hide their identities instead of taking credit for their courage and actions? Why do the girls feel they have to keep this secret? How would you react if you were in their shoes? 20. Near the end of Cape, Mrs. B tells the girls, “‘Not all superheroes wear capes. And their superpowers might not be so easy to detect at first. But what they do is nonetheless extraordinary.’” Who is she referring to? What characters in the novels help with the war effort in quieter ways than the girls do? 21. Discuss the importance of setting in these two stories. What do Philadelphia and San Francisco have in common that attracts the villains? What landmarks or special features in each city figure into the plot? 22. Talk about the role of illustrations in the novels. Why do you think the book includes pictures? What do they add in terms of plot, character, and emotion? How do they relate to the chapters that follow them? Extension Activities Crack the Code Review some of the ciphers in the novels that convey messages that the girls must figure out. Then write a sentence or two about one of the novels or characters. Choose a cipher from the book and convert your sentences into a secret message. Trade messages with a classmate, and try to figure out their cipher and message. Say It in Pictures Take an exciting scene from one of the two novels, and illustrate it in a comic book format. Convert the dialogue in the scene into speech balloons, and characters’ thoughts into thought bubbles. Use text boxes to add narration, and so on. Draw the pictures using your own style or modeled after those in the novels. Did you notice anything new or different when using this method to interpret a scene? How did it make you feel about the characters and their experiences? Words of Wisdom Josie remembers advice at important moments, including Kay’s suggestion to tackle problems “‘Stitch by stitch,’” and Mam’s saying, “‘When the world needs a hero, that’s what you become.’” Josie also recalls that, “Every problem has a solution.” Choose one of these sayings or another piece of advice given to Josie, and write an essay about its role in the novels and its application to life in general. Superhero Profile Participate in a class discussion about superheroes and their characteristics. Make a group list of important information to include in a superhero’s profile, such as their superpowers, weaknesses, origin story, appearance, and so on. Then create your own original superhero and compile a colorful profile to post in your classroom. Take a Tour Philadelphia and San Francisco provide vivid settings for Cape and Mask. Choose one of these cities and create a travel brochure, using facts from the novels and adding information from your own knowledge or research. Describe major landmarks like the Liberty Bell and the Golden Gate Bridge. Fold a paper in half or thirds to form the brochure, and decorate it with pictures, borders, and fancy lettering. The World at War World War II is the backdrop for Cape and Mask, and many aspects of the war are mentioned in these two stories. Choose a topic to research from the list below, or another related topic such as those included in the author’s notes. Use print and digital resources to find out more about your topic, and prepare a multimedia presentation to share with the class. Pearl Harbor War in the Pacific 442nd Regimental Combat Team African Americans in the military Balloon bombs Rosie the Riveter/women at work Japanese-American internment camps Bias against Germans in the US Spying in WWII Enigma Code or other ciphers/codes French Resistance Duquesne Spy Ring Lexile level, Cape: Lexile ® 760L F&P Level, Cape: Fountas & Pinnell™ W Guide written by Kathleen Odean. The Lexile reading level has been certified by the Lexile developer, MetaMetrics®. Photograph © Warling Studios/Picture Day Kate Hannigan is a noted author with a special passion for stories that empower girls and women. Her picture book biography, A Lady Has the Floor, received four starred reviews and was named a Junior Library Guild Selection. In addition to the 2016 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction, The Detective’s Assistant also received two starred reviews and was a Booklist Editor’s Choice, among many other accolades. Hannigan presented at NCTE on “Our Mighty Girls,” about girl power in middle grade fiction, and was a judge for 2018’s Golden Kite Awards. Between her active presence on social media (@KateChicago), her work as founder of the Hyde Park/South Side Chicago chapter of SCBWI, and as a busy conference speaker, Kate is an involved, vocal, and respected member of the kid lit community. Visit her online at More books from this author: Kate Hannigan More books from this illustrator: Patrick Spaziante More books in this series: The League of Secret Heroes	<urn:uuid:faf093ea-9caa-4e55-b293-efed31a1aec2>	https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Mask/Kate-Hannigan/The-League-of-Secret-Heroes/9781534439160	en	0.950753	0.950836	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Saturday, 1 October 2016 Just Keep Going Life is amazing. Life can be this crazy, beautiful, exciting, wonderful adventure. There are those days when something truly remarkable happens, that makes you so overwhelmingly full of joy and wonder. There are other days that are perfectly average days, but everything goes right, and it's easy and it's happy. Life has so many things for us to do, to see, to experience. Life is diverse and unpredictable and glorious. "Keep Going" motivational text on ocean sunset background with boat, in Halong Bay Life is also hard. Life will knock you down and kick you in the teeth. Some days, everything just goes wrong. Some days area awful, days when you discover your lowest of lows. When you feel alone, or confused, or scared, or utterly lost. It's easy to forget about the good days, and get stuck dwelling on all the negative that is happening to you. Those times, you just want to crawl into bed and never come out again. But you do. You get up, you get dressed, you go out. You carry on. Hard as it may be, you stay strong, and you survive. You adapt. Like all animals, humans have the capacity to evolve and change, depending on their situation. It's part of our wiring, this capability we have to learn and to adapt, in order to survive. Whatever it is that you are struggling with, you figure out what it is you need to do to deal with it. We are all stronger than we know. However hard it may seem, you keep going. You push on, working your way through or around or past the struggles, whatever way works. There is always tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. And eventually, one day, it gets easier. Nothing lasts forever, good or bad. The bad days will suck, the bad days might be hell, But they won't last forever. I know all of this is far easier said than done, and on the bad days you might not be able to see the end. But it's there, somewhere. Look for the small victories. Maybe you worked out today. Maybe work was just a little bit easier. Maybe you didn't get lost. Maybe that cute boy smiled at you. Maybe you made it out of bed, maybe out of the house. Know that it won't get magically better overnight, or at any other time. It takes time and some effort for things to improve. Accept the things you can't change, and figure out what you can control and change, to make things better. Be patient, keep taking note of the small victories, remind yourself of the things you're lucky to have and be able to do, and one day, you'll look at life, and realise that maybe it isn't all that bad. Notice the little things that make life amazing. Even the things you pass on the street, or read online. Sure, maybe it's not happening to you. But it's happening, and someday it will happen to you. In the mean time, remember whatever good you do have. Because life can kick you when you're down, but it can also show you the most wonderful things. There is kindness and generosity and love out there; there is beauty and music and incredible experiences; there is magic. There is magic in the tiniest, most everyday occurrences, and you just have to start noticing it, and then you start to see all the other wonders life has out there. The bad sucks. The bad makes you want to give up. But you just have to keep going, keep pushing on. Keep adapting and learning. Keep looking to tomorrow. And one day, tomorrow will come. And it will be so, so worth it. Because life is amazing. Post a comment Powered by Blogger.	<urn:uuid:eff5a41f-f774-4204-a05d-9a39b71c9846>	http://www.justmuddlingthroughlife.com/2016/10/just-keep-going.html	en	0.967011	0.138417	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Women’s Work I came across this article the other day by Francesca Borri, an Italian freelance journalist covering the fighting in the middle east, specifically Syria. It was quite eye-opening as to what the risks actually were as a journalist in those kinds of environments, especially a freelance one who isn’t even guaranteed that her stories will sell. She speaks with exasperation about her editors not wanting appreciating the danger every single minute in those environments, and that the only stories they wanted were to do with wherever the violence was most concentrated, with the highest number of casualties. She accepts the risks to her own life as part-and-parcel of the job, but says that the word ‘free’ in ‘freelance’ is misnomer as they, more than other types of journalists, are forced to cover the most dangerous stories in order to make ends meet as those are the only stories editors are interested in. The final paragraph left chills up my spine as she beautifully illustrates how a different view of the world takes hold of you when death is so present and so possible. Something to Like? I had been thinking a little bit about charity and activism in relation to social media, specifically, if it actually does anything more than feed a persons philanthropic sense of themselves. I read this article which speaks about a new advertising campaign brought out by Crisis Relief Singapore with the slogan, “Liking isn’t helping”. It speaks to a generation of people (my generation) who commonly ‘like’ or ‘share’ a charity page on Facebook, Twitter, or any social media platform, with the intention of… Well, I’m not actually sure what their intention is, or what they hope to achieve by the click of a mouse. We’ve all seen the ones. It might be a photograph of a horribly malnourished African child, wide-eyed with flies dancing on his lips, he is probably staring directly into the camera with a scabby hand outstretched. And below the photo will inevitably be the caption, “Like = Save, Ignore = Die”. As the article says, it reminds us of the quasi-charity campaign by Invisible Children who started the KONY2012 movement, promoting the philosophy that by sharing a video through social media, you are building awareness that will affect social change. Leaving aside some of the criticisms of Invisible Children as a charity organisation, the idea may still be have legs, or at least still legitimately begs the question; can social media actually change anything in the ‘real’ world? In the wake of the Boston Bombings it was seen clearly what can happen when social media flexes it’s muscles and takes matters usually left up to trained professionals into it’s own hands. Reddit users began to do a little bit of investigative detective work for themselves, spreading a wave of misinformation that was picked up by legitimate news sources and published by them as fact. Several people were wrongly accused as being responsible for the bombings after Reddit users began collecting photographs from the event posted on social media in an attempt to discover the perpetrators of the attacks. So social media can obviously have a significant impact on more than just the virtual sphere. But that doesn’t quite answer the question, as the example of the Boston Bombings was quite reactionary, emotionally fueled and unorganised in it’s response. So perhaps we need to rephrase the question slightly: is social media able to affect social change in an organised and controlled way, as was suggested by KONY2012 and feminists groups on Tumblr? Or are they just people with a little bit too much spare time on their hands and are looking for a way promote a minority group to reestablish their own altruism? Day 01: No sight of land Well, I suppose after a week of wholeheartedly avoiding this blog, I should succumb and publish a first post. In regards to the second ‘unlecture’, there did seem to be a slight contradiction in what we were told was expected in regards to this blog. • On one hand, we were unlectured about the possibility of going to jail on child pornography charges if we failed to or incorrectly set up our spam fliters (which would serve to delete hundreds of thousands of potentially criminal messages attempting to weasel their way into our online existences), and that we could serve as a platform for people with slightly different values to hurl abuse and hatred at each other (Justin Bieber tweens on one side, Slipknot fans on the other, ready to wage bloody war on the battlefield of the comments section). • But on the other hand, we must frequently and casually post on it, sharing and publishing whatever takes our youthfully enthusiastic fancy, and hope that it vaguely related to the course (a minimum of 5 times a week). The crux of these two things being that we were responsible for whatever comments were posted on this blog, which, as Adrian reminded us repeatedly, is here forever and will remain as a permanent digital footprint of us. I see the contradiction rear its confused head now, with half of my brain telling me, “Oh yes Nick, write on the blog! Look how eager Cat is when she sees another dog at the park! Why don’t you have that unreserved enthusiasm for life?” (Cat is my dog, a Kelpie, nearly a year old with enough energy to solve Pakistan’s energy crisis and still have enough left over to heat a 7/11 sausage roll.) The other part of my brain, however, is slightly more reserved, and tells me in a cautious but understanding voice, “You might want to pass university, but staying out of prison is also nice.” The issue seems to be, that I am struggling slightly to muster enthusiasm for a thing that could land me in jail through no active behavior of my own. To which I imagine Adrian’s reply, “You are legally able to purchase a gun, join the army and kill people, vote for the leader of this country and drive a car, I’m sure you will be able to manage a spam filter.” To which I would agree, I probably can. But the idea is still somewhat daunting. Then again, I suppose I’d rather be informed and safe than sorry and eating canned peaches from a mess tray in Port Philip Prison. I guess it has to be viewed like a high school sex ed talk in health class. It brings the worst possible result of a behavior into harsh sunlight for all to see, which serves to temporarily frighten us away from risk taking fraternisation (with the internet…), but most likely will never occur. Not, of course, to suggest that it will never happen, but that if you take the right protective measures (the buzzword, I believe, is ‘careful’), you can significantly reduce your chances of any wrong-footing. Which seems like a reasonable unlecture to have to sit through, even if at the time my main thoughts were focused around Barry, the overweight, wife-beater sporting pedophile who would probably refer to me as “fresh meat”, and would be my cellmate for several decades after being convicted of child pornography for failing to correctly set up my spam filters on my RMIT prompted blog.	<urn:uuid:bdd544ff-3431-4eff-8831-fa40e9d8cf7c>	http://www.mediafactory.org.au/nicholas-kenyon/2013/07/	en	0.97188	0.08426	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
Skip to content Pic: happy couple on tablet computer Three Virtual Technologies that Enhance Parental Engagement and Improve NICU Outcomes One of life’s greatest joys is having a baby. However, when the baby is born prematurely, that joy can be overshadowed by anxiety and stress. On top of the concern for the baby’s health, parents can feel overwhelming insecure about leaving their newborn in the hospital. Especially while getting back to their normal life routines, particularly when the stay extends for weeks or months. And they have good reason to be concerned. When parents are actively engaged, neonates experience better outcomes. • Babies exposed to maternal sounds in the NICU experience fewer cardiorespiratory events.[1] • Preterm babies exposed to parental talk achieve higher language and cognitive scores at 7 and 18 months.[2] • Exposure to parental talk is a strong predictor of infant vocalizations.[3] Increasing access to the NICU for parents and families should be considered an essential part of a neonatal care program. It is often difficult for parents to travel to see their little ones. All hospitals with neonatal ICUs can relieve this stress by leveraging virtual engagement technology. Bedside web cameras Studies show a link between postpartum maternal distress and adverse cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor development in infants. Web cameras placed at the bedside can help relieve this stress by allowing parents to view their infant at any time from a web-enabled device. With audio capabilities, the parent can verbally interact with the baby as well. In addition to helping the mother and father, it also provides the infant with the health advantages of parental talk, even though they aren’t physically present. When choosing a web camera technology, look for one that allows parents to view multiple babies with the same login. Choose those that are easy for staff to use and that provide staff with multiple views on a single screen. Consider solutions that offer the ability to easily reposition the camera without having to log into the system to verify the change. While 24/7 viewing is optimal, there may be times when the camera needs to be turned off for privacy. Look for a solution that offers a bedside switch. Integration with the EMR and bed management system is also important. Clinical communication Technology can support communication between the care team and family, increasing trust and making the process more efficient. Video technology is great for capturing clinical updates or rounds when parents are unable to be present. The videos can be used internally to improve clinician-clinician communication. Sharing information becomes easier and helps improve patient hand-offs while reducing gaps in care. Beyond improving internal workflows, videos can be shared with parents to help provide additional information captured in real-time that may be overlooked during a phone conversation. When choosing video technology, look for high-resolution and superior audio quality. Lower quality solutions may be cheaper, but they can be confusing if the information presented in the video can’t be understood. Be sure to ask if video storage is HIPAA compliant and for what timeframe videos are accessible and by whom. For many NICUs, the primary form of communication with families is the phone. This is especially true when the parents live in a rural area where traveling to the hospital is difficult. Virtual tools such as interactive text can help improve information-sharing and reduce phone calls, leaving clinicians more time to focus on direct patient care. The best virtual communication solutions provide a variety of features such as one-way messages pushed similar to text, as well as photo and video updates, and family message boards. Another great feature is Google Translate, which translates more than 100 languages, helping to improve communication and accuracy of information shared. It also helps make communication between the staff and the family more efficient. Patient satisfaction surveys provide an added benefit by being able to capture family feedback easily. This real-time feedback can be invaluable for driving quality improvements in the NICU. Online education When most neonates leave the hospital, they continue to require specialized care. This can be overwhelming for parents and family caregivers. Providing them with the resources they need can go a long way in reducing their anxiety and improving adherence to care plans. Education is also important for reducing readmissions and achieving the best long-term health outcomes. Having educational tools available 24/7 can help ease the transition from hospital to home for both the infant and the family. Look for solutions that provide an easy-to-use platform that can be accessed on a desktop as well as a mobile device. It should have multiple logins so that each family member caring for the infant can easily access the information they need when they need it. Documentation should be customizable to the infant’s specific condition and should be provided in a user-friendly library format. In some cases, videos can provide more detailed guidance than documentation. Look for solutions that offer both pre-recorded videos and the ability to record videos in real-time. It’s also helpful to have a solution that allows clinicians to validate which materials have been viewed. This enables clinicians to conduct more informed follow-up calls to ensure compliance or to address concerns. Relieving stress. Improving outcomes. We are achieving remarkable advancements in the care of premature and high-risk neonates. Unfortunately, this often results in longer stays in the NICU and longer separation between infants and their parents and family. By leveraging technology-enabled virtual engagement solutions, hospitals can enhance the patient, parent, and family experience while improving health outcomes.	<urn:uuid:bffead14-1c78-479e-8757-bcb117ef6109>	https://angeleye.health/three-virtual-technologies-that-enhance-parental-engagement-and-improve-nicu-outcomes/	en	0.937851	0.071059	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet
It is not uncommon for certain giant companies to list their stocks in multiple country stock exchanges. For instance :- • BP listed in NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and LSE (London Stock Exchange). • HSBC listed in NYSE, LSE and HKSE (Hong Kong Stock Exchange) As far as I know, there are 30% dividend tax for the stocks in NYSE. For BP & HSBC which I had mentioned, I know their dividend are tax free both in LSE and HKSE. In that case, does it make more sense to purchase those stocks in dividend tax free stock exchange? Is there other factors which I haven't taken into consideration? • And where are you from? How much is the dividend tax at home? – littleadv Jul 6 '14 at 6:05 You might have to pay a premium for the stocks on the dividend tax–free exchanges. For example, HSBC on the NYSE yields 4.71% versus HSBC on the LSE which yields only 4.56%. Assuming the shares are truly identical, the only reason for this (aside from market fluctuations) is if the taxes are more favorable in the UK versus the US, thus increasing demand for HSBC on the LSE, raising the price, and reducing the yield. A difference of 0.15% in yield is pretty insignificant relative to a 30% versus 0% dividend tax. But a key question is, does your country have a foreign tax credit like the US does? If so you (usually) end up getting that 30% back, just delayed until you get your tax return, and the question of which exchange to buy on becomes not so clear cut. If your country doesn't have such a tax credit, then yes, you'll want to buy on an exchange where you won't get hit with the dividend tax. Note that I got this information from a great article I read several months back (site requires free registration to see it all unfortunately). They discuss the case of UN versus UL--both on the NYSE but ADRs for Unilever in the Netherlands and the UK, respectively. The logic is very similar to your situation. \| improve this answer \| \| • +1 In addition to foreign tax credits also worth mentioning tax treaties that may affect this (for example US-Canada treaty). – littleadv Jul 6 '14 at 6:27 • @littleadv I'm guessing OP's country (seems to be Malaysia) has a tax treaty with the UK and Hong Kong but not the US, hence the 30% dividend tax on NYSE stocks. – Craig W Jul 6 '14 at 6:39 Your Answer	<urn:uuid:90e1cbe4-fd23-42b2-acb6-584b29210cdb>	https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/33972/for-an-equivalent-company-security-does-it-make-more-sense-to-trade-them-in-cou	en	0.954543	0.317649	mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet