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From Under A Rock: Rashomon
May 12, 2018 | Posted by Michael Ornelas
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This week’s pick is a film that put Japanese cinema on the worldwide map. Often imitated but never surpassed, it’s a genuine classic.
You only get one first time, and for some people, it comes later than it does for others. This particular column is about documenting the first viewing of a “classic” movie or TV show determined at the discretion of Aaron Hubbard and Michael Ornelas in alternation.
Last week Michael chose High Plains Drifter. This week Aaron takes Michael out from under the proverbial rock to show him Rashomon.
Released: August 25th, 1950
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Written by: Akira Kurosawa & Shinobu Hashimoto
Toshiro Mifune as Tajōmaru
Takashi Shimura as Kokiri
Machiko Kyō as the Samurai’s wife
Minoru Chiaki as Tabi Hōshi
Masayuki Mori as the Samurai
Aaron Hubbard: I’ve been making it my duty to introduce Michael to the works of Akira Kurosawa. With Seven Samurai off the bucket list, this was an easy pick for the second Kurosawa work to cover here.
Michael Ornelas: I understand the hype around the guy now. I liked Seven Samurai a bit more, but this was still a fantastic movie.
The Rashomon Effect
Aaron: Rashomon is basically a crime drama set in feudal Japan, based on the story In a Grove. One man is murdered, though the circumstances behind his murder is obfuscated by wildly different and contradictory accounts. The bandit accused of the murder, the wife of the dead samurai, and a passing farmer who witnessed the events, and the samurai is even able to give his account from beyond the grave. Each retelling seems more disturbing than the last.
Michael: The fact that the term “Rashomon Effect” has even been coined speaks to the innovative nature of this movie. It has been preserved by the Academy’s archives, it has been repackaged countless times, and its influence has spread far. Its presentation, while not “common” nowadays, wouldn’t throw anyone off if we saw it in an episode of TV or another movie. It has become a gimmick in and of itself which speaks to what this film set in motion. That’s the sign of a work that will stand the test of time.
Aaron: Almost seventy years later the film is still compelling. That’s Kurosawa’s trademark though, really. He excelled at filming classic stories that captured the imagination of people outside of Japan, and has been influential on everything from Spaghetti Westerns to Star Wars to Pixar and superhero movies. That legacy really begins with Rashomon, a film which put Kurosawa and Japanese cinema on the world map. As a fan of everything from Godzilla to Miyazaki, I owe it a huge debt of gratitude for that alone.
The Sides of the Truth
Michael: This film was the first to play with varying perspectives of the truth, which makes it a landmark cinematic achievement in and of itself. By presenting four different stories as to how the incidents played out, we get to decide for ourselves what the truth actually was after considering biases. My favorite presentation of this was when the medium summoned the spirit of the deceased himself and it spoke through her. I loved the way Kurosawa shot it with low angles and unsettling sound cues. But even the dead would be biased.
Aaron: This is obviously what Rashomon is most known for, and has been used as a formula for other films and television episodes. (Batman: The Animated Series has my favorite twist on it with the episode P.O.V.) I’ve always been impressed by how effectively Kurosawa tells this story, which could have been confusing but stays clear thanks to masterful editing and clear acting changes by the three characters in question. It’s a remarkable achievement in cinematic storytelling.
Michael: The acting performances were the glue that held this together, I completely agree. I love the way they view themselves and those they disliked in their versions of the events. Tajomaru was probably my favorite with how arrogant his portrayal of himself is.
“What if good is make-believe?”
Aaron: In between the various accounts, the farmer and priest discuss the events with a passing stranger seeking shelter from a storm. The priest is deeply unsettled by the murder and feels as if he’s lost his faith in the goodness of people. The stranger expresses his opinion that there are no good people, and that selfishness is how we survive in a cruel, indifferent world. It’s not a worldview that I ascribe to, but it cannot be dismissed out of hand either. What’s your take on this philosophical discussion at the core of Rashomon?
Michael: It’s tragic to see a Priest lose his faith, first and foremost, as it can almost be seen as an existential crisis of the entire nation of Japan in the fallout of World War II. I think it’s an interesting framework between the four accounts of the “truth” that we see throughout the film, and really asks the interesting questions about the nature of truth, self-preservation, and goodness. I personally think there’s plenty of goodness, but it’s on a spectrum. We will always try to survive in desperate situations, and that will cause us to abandon what is “good” much of the time. But when not threatened, I believe the human spirit is good.
Aaron: Kurosawa seems to affirm that belief in the final moments, when the farmer unselfishly decides to take care of the baby. This part of the film is not part of the original story, and is how Kurosawa uses this 1922 story about evil and selfishness to comment on post World War II Japan. And while the darkness can seem overwhelming, the good people of Japan can endure and make things better for future generations.
Michael: I’m not normally the kind of guy who places a heavy emphasis on “what movie did it first?” in terms of how I choose to rate things. I usually care more about a film that takes an idea and does it better. That said, this holds up as a classic worth discussing even 68 years later. Kurosawa was a master and he’s now 2-for-2 with me.
Aaron: Rashomon is about as good as film gets. It has a tight running time, great acting, Kurosawa’s masterful directing and editing, gorgeous cinematography, philosophical themes, and a timeless narrative. It’s a must-see, bucket list movie.
Michael: So…Hidden Fortress next time you pick Kurosawa for me?
Aaron: Possibly, as I need to get around to that one. Yojimbo and Ran are also nearly flawless.
What is Akira Kurosawa’s finest work?
Next week:
Michael: This next pick is actually a martial arts film I checked out because it was referenced in a rap song I liked. It has a unique weapon in it that makes for some fun combat sequences.
Aaron: So is he fighting French Royalty in the 1800s?
Michael: ….that’d be amazing. But no.
What’s your favorite movie weapon ever created?
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The final score: review Virtually Perfect
Akira Kurosawa gets his second perfect score from us, and for good reason. The story of shifting point of views between unreliable, selfish witnesses to a murder is as timeless as it is compelling. But Kurosawa's directing and editing, the cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, and the outstanding acting elevate the story to a masterful work of art. Take 90 minutes out of your time and set it aside to watch Rashomon. It's worth it.
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Running for laughter with each mile
It seems like magic - but it's actually a group of dedicated volunteers, working hard to brighten the day for sick children. Started in Chicago in 2004, Open Heart Magic (OHM) is an innovative charity that brings hope and laughter to kids in children's hospitals. Because of OHM and its hospital volunteer magicians, kids who are feeling scared during treatment smile for the first time since they were admitted. Volunteers are certified in using close-up magic in the clinical environment, and visit pediatrics, intensive care, isolation rooms, the emergency room and pediatric cancer departments.
OHM's volunteer magicians even teach each children how to do a magic tricks of their very own, transforming the hospital into a place of positive memories and offering kids a new outlook with something magical to look forward to.
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon not only allows us to impact so many vulnerable pediatric patients and their families, but also creates a really unique volunteer opportunity for adults.
Emily Clouse
Manager of Operations at Open Heart Magic
Since 2010, OHM has been an official Bank of America Chicago Marathon charity partner. Since becoming a partner, the organization has had almost 500 runners go the distance. In 2017, the team consisted of 68 runners and was the biggest marathon team OHM had ever had.
"Having our charity program as part of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon is one of the main reasons we have been able to expand our network to Michigan and Ohio," said Emily Clouse, manager of operations at OHM. "The money raised by each and every one of our runners goes such a long way, and we've seen the great impact these funds have on our program."
In fact, OHM was on track to raise $100,000 through the 2017 marathon due to the efforts of the charity team. These funds will support training programs for more volunteer magicians, ultimately helping to reach more Chicago-area hospitalized children.
Maureen Lesak, managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Open Heart Magic member who ran the 2017 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on behalf of the charity commented, "Thanks to the marathon, the hard work of our charity team and generosity of the community, Open Heart Magic has been able to take its efforts to the next level. When race participants and spectators approach me during the race to thank Open Heart Magic for helping their children, it is a true signal of our growing impact. We made a difference for these families during an incredibly challenging time."
"The Bank of America Chicago Marathon not only allows us to impact so many vulnerable pediatric patients and their families, but also creates a really unique volunteer opportunity for adults," Clouse said. "People can give back to their community, which helps make a big city, like Chicago, feel like a smaller place."
Katie Garrity running the 2016 marathon with team OHM.
Ray Punzalan, receives high fives as he runs the streets of Chicago.
David Schmidt of team OHM.
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Dogfooding CI/CD
Release Candidates
Hot Patches
Fail-Safe Mechanisms
Fundamental Questions
The First Fundamental Question
The Second Fundamental Question
CI/CD and Self-Managed
Issue: infra/5231
GitLab.com is the largest installation of GitLab on the planet, and it has traditionally served as an at-scale test environment for new releases. The current development and release cycle operates on a monthly schedule and is centered around the release of a new version of GitLab on the 22 of the month (a deadline GitLab has never missed in its history). After initial testing and following a deployment to staging, Release Candidates (RCs) are deployed to GitLab.com to validate them at scale.
This approach presents challenges whenever a Release Candidate introduces instability into the environment, as they contain large numbers of changes, which can have significantly adverse effects on GitLab.com’s uptime. Furthermore, mission-critical workloads do not tolerate such a scheme: a pre-production code base cannot properly support said workloads consistently.
GitLab.com is a production site with an availability OKR of 99.95% uptime, so a different approach to drive change into the environment is necessary, one which allows us to:
dial in an optimal change speed to increase product velocity safety,
maintain predictable levels of stability to support mission-critical workloads, and
contain the risk surface area so we can quickly address issues introduced by changes.
The overall strategy to meet this challenge is through CI/CD, which is in fact an important feature of our product. While there is little or no disagreement on this approach, we have found it difficult, as an organization, to get started. This blueprint is intended to produce a first step on the iterations towards CI/CD.
The end goal of this effort is to allow GitLab Auto DevOps to deploy to GitLab.com.
Deployments to GitLab.com consist of Release Candidates (RCs) and Hot Patches (HPs).
Release Candidates are, by definition, not fully production-ready code, and contain large numbers of changes. Hot Patches address issues on GitLab.com that cannot wait for the next release.
Whenever a RC is deployed to GitLab.com and causes instability, tracking and finding the source of the problem in such large changesets can be difficult; once the source of a problem has been identified, a determination is made whether to fix the issue in-place (through a hotpatch) or to wait for the next release candidate addressing the issue. In either case, there is a waiting period to actually implement the fix, which happens under the pressure of an ongoing incident.
Deploying RCs is the equivalent of hitting the production environment with a sledgehammer: the environment can usually widthstand a hit or two, but it will eventually crumble. And probability theory is not working in our favor. Increasing the rate of RC deployments exacerbates the negative effects of this methodology on GitLab.com.
Hot patches are lifesavers in that they allow us to address critical issues on the spot. Yet their very existence is a sign that our development process is in need of change: they exist because rolling back a RC is rarely possible and very labor intensive. They are deployed through an entirely different process and come with their own set of dangers. Most notably, we have experienced issues in which hotpatches applied to GitLab.com at a given point in time may:
be missed on new deployments until they are integrated into a future RC
be incompatible with incoming RCs and require refactoring
Furthermore, after a RC is deployed, any active hotpacthes must be reapplied, which requires a window of time in which the fix is not available. Automated hotpatch application has also proven challenging and problematic.
As mentioned in the Overview, our stated strategy to drive change into GitLab.com is through CI/CD. Martin Heller provides a concise summary of the challenges involved in adopting CI/CD:
What it really takes for most companies to implement CI and CD is to completely change their software development culture, adapt their organization, change their workflow, automate the bulk of their testing, and either install significant infrastructure or learn to love the cloud. None of that is impossible, but none of that is easy.
GitLab builds technology to implement CI/CD, and we believe in dogfooding our own product, so we already have most of the technical answer and cultural driver to adopt CI/CD. We must contend with the remaining challenges as outlined above. The first step is to translate those generic challenges into GitLab specifics.
We also face some special but not entirely unique challenges.
GitLab provides support for both GitLab.com and self-managed. The Distribution team builds and ships the tooling to have customers perform their own installations, updates, and upgrades, which GitLab.com is supposed to (and mostly does) use. GitLab.com, however, deviates from this process slightly: it uses the same package install as customers would, but they’re wrapped up in takeoff, which issues HUPs and restarts the environment a bit differently. This methodology does not inherently support hotpatches: self-managed customers do not require it as it is primarily used to address significant issues on GitLab.com. Customers get security releases. The challenge of adopting CI/CD is that it will likely entail breaking up this notion entirely in one of two ways:
GitLab.com and self-managed use completely different deployment methods
Self-managed's delivery method changes to mimic that of GitLab.com
Both approaches present challenges.
GitLab.com and self-managed customer operate at different speeds. GitLab.com exists in the now; self-managed customers exist in the realm of the current development cycle methodology, which culminates with a release on the 22nd of every month. By necessity, the solution to this challenge must support both speeds of delivery.
Dogfooding is important to us but we must make a clear distinction between dogfooding the product and dogfooding the actual instance of the product. Managing GitLab.com through GitLab.com requires fail-safe mechanisms to allow us to recover GitLab.com in case of a failure that would prevent us from operating GitLab.com itself. We have already made some progress on this front, where our automation framework no longer depends on GitLab.com itself to operate but on a separate GitLab instance.
The first fundamental question we must answer and commit to with regards to GitLab.com is whether GitLab.com is always on the leading –not bleeding– edge of our development cycle: as soon as production-ready code (for a new feature or a fix) is available, it is deployed to GitLab.com. The answer is significant because it is directly related to speed differences between GitLab.com and self-managed, and will have an impact on our approach.
From an Infrastructure perspective, the answer is a resounding yes. This is particularly true for fixes that address broken functionality on GitLab.com, especially those related to security or critical features (e.g., pushes), which would remove the need for hotpatches as a duct-tape type of release.
Furthermore, our confidence on the product we ship to self-managed is directly related to the amount of time the code has been in production at GitLab.com. The earlier the code is running on GitLab.com, the more confidence we gain on its trustworthiness.
The second fundamental question is to determine if there is indeed a single solution that can operate at both speeds. The Cloud Native initiative, based on Kubernetes, is headed in that direction but it has not yet provided a final answer, and its implementation is not trivial. We may have to build a bridge solution to manage our current operating scale until Kubernetes is introduced in the environment and GitLab can fully operate under said environment.
Quoting ourselves:
Continuous Integration is a software development practice in which you build and test software every time a developer pushes code to the application, and it happens several times a day.
Continuous Deployment is a software development practice in which every code change goes through the entire pipeline and is put into production automatically, resulting in many production deployments every day. It does everything that Continuous Delivery does, but the process is fully automated, there's no human intervention at all.
There is ample literature on the benefits of adopting CI/CD. One particularly relevant quote for Infrastructure is from Martin Fowler:
Continuous Integration doesn’t get rid of bugs, but it does make them dramatically easier to find and remove.
This is, of course, aligned with our most important OKR for GitLab.com: its availability.
At its core, CI/CD involves the frequent release of small batches of new functionality into the production environment, which is perhaps the most fundamental change the Engineering organization must adopt as a whole, as no single department can do so on its own.
The effects resulting from deploying small batches of changes are easier to measure and understand than that of large changesets (like RCs), yielding faster resolution of problems and allowing for higher change velocity at higher levels of confidence and safety.
We must adopt development practices such as:
service versioning,
rearchitecture through abstraction,
feature flags, and
evolutionary database design techniques.
From a cultural standpoint, we must move towards the mindset that master is production, which entails understanding that all code in master must be production quality, and as such, is code that should be able to be shipped to the production environment at any time.
To ensure all code in master is production-ready, we have to implement gated commits to reach master, which requires an automated deployment and testing process. This provides shorter feedback cycles for developers, helping them improve their code in a time horizon close to when the code is initially written: context switching is expensive, and having developers refocus on code written days ago is a significant context switch.
CI/CD is squarely geared towards GitLab.com, but it does not exclude self-managed. While we will no longer be testing the normal distribution process that self-managed uses, it will ensure the code has been extensively validated on GitLab.com, which is significant plus. We can and will continue to support self-managed installation, upgrade and updates tools, and we can and will continue to test them extensively, just not on GitLab.com.
Marin Jankovski has given significant amounts of thought to this transition, perhaps with an even wider perspective than the one outlined in this blueprint (which, as noted at the beginning, is very Infrastructure centric). See framework/issues/1 for details.
Rather than putting together a grand plan to dogfood CI/CD, let's deploy our values to help us navigate through this transition:
Collaboration: Dogfooding Let's dogfood GitLab's top-of-class CI/CD features.
Results: Write Promises Down Let's commit OKRs on best-practice items we know we must start thinking about: service versioning, feature flags and evolutionary database design techniques, to name a few.
Results: Tenacity Let's commit to this transition.
Results: Ambitious This is a significant change to our development culture, a worthy challenge to pursue as we scale GitLab and GitLab.com.
Results: Bias for Action
Efficiency: Boring Solutions Using GitLab CI/CD is a boring solution.
Efficiency: Minimum Viable Change Let's identify and deliver on MVCs.
Iteration: Make a Proposal Recursive.
Transparency: Public by Default Also recursive.
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Waging War on Poverty: Historical Trends in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Fox, Liana; Garfinkel, Irv; Kaushal, Neeraj; Waldfogel, Jane; Wimer, Christopher T.
Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the March Current Population Survey, we calculate historical poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near-cash transfers on the financial resources available to families, an important omission since such transfers have become an increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that historical trends in poverty have been more favorable than the OPM suggests and that government policies have played an important and growing role in reducing poverty --- a role that is not evident when the OPM is used to assess poverty. We also find that government programs have played a particularly important role in alleviating child poverty and deep poverty, especially during economic downturns.
Poverty--Historiography
Poverty--Government policy
Poverty--Measurement
Public policy (Law)
Fox_Waging_War_on_Poverty_dec13.pdf application/pdf 1.54 MB Download File
Columbia Population Research Center
Columbia Population Research Center Working Papers, 13-02
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H41RQZ
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Movie Review: Mastizaade (2016)
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Writer-director Milap Zaveri doesn’t seem to understand the difference between being funny and making fun of someone. His latest film, Mastizaade, is hateful.
Take for example the film’s lone gay character, Das, played by Suresh Menon. (There’s also a trans character who is depicted as frightening and repulsive.) Das is portrayed as a lustful sexual predator who sneaks into people’s hotel rooms. He is shown being sexually aroused by what he mistakenly thinks is an act of bestiality. His own father calls him “disgusting.”
Does Zaveri not have the empathy to realize that writing such characters reinforces harmful stereotypes about gay men? Apparently not, otherwise he’d be more circumspect about writing East Asians, people with speech impediments and physical disabilities, and women as well. Unless you are a cool, thirtysomething Indian dude, Zaveri considers you a target.
The cool dudes at the heart of Mastizaade are Aditya (Vir Das) and Sunny (Tusshar Kapoor), a pair of ad men who make juvenile commercials laden with sex references. They frequent sex addiction support groups, hoping to get beautiful recovering addicts to fall of the wagon and into their beds. If they don’t succeed there, they bring booze to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Hope for redemption for two such despicable characters arrives in the form of Lily and Laila Lele (both played by Sunny Leone), a pair of voluptuous twins who run a sex addiction clinic. The twins are the first women the guys have been able to see as something more than potential conquests.
Lily and Laila mistake Aditya and Sunny for sex addicts, a fact of no narrative consequence despite how many times it’s restated in the film. Somehow everyone winds up in Thailand, and the twins fall in love with the idiots for no good reason. Plot is not Zaveri’s foremost concern.
It’s also unclear why Lily speaks with a stutter. It’s not a challenge for her character to overcome during the course of the story, nor does it have any noticeable effect on the dialogue she delivers (as far as I can tell). Her stutter exists because Zaveri thinks people who stutter are funny.
He also gets a kick out of people with physical disabilities, having a crowd of bystanders point and laugh at a man left behind in his motorized wheelchair as everyone else takes off on a car chase.
If a child exhibited the kind of bullying behavior Zaveri writes into Mastizaade, he’d be sent to his room without supper and grounded for a month. Why Zaveri thinks he can get away with it as an adult boggles the mind.
Let’s not forget the way Zaveri looks down on women. Even though Sunny Leone is by far the biggest star in the picture, her characters lack agency, playing second fiddle to the two male leads. Laila is entirely defined by her sexual appetite, though she is only able to land Sunny when she dresses as a traditional Indian housewife and prays for her beloved’s well-being.
Naive Lily is engaged to wheelchair-bound Deshpremi (Shaad Randhawa), who seems like a decent guy. However, Zaveri’s narrative calls Deshpremi’s manliness into question based on his disability. This somehow gives license to Aditya to torpedo Lily’s relationship with Deshpremi through trickery. Why exactly are we supposed to be happy when Lily chooses Aditya over Deshpremi?
Time after time, Milap Zaveri is involved in projects that are mean-spirited and bigoted, whether it’s as the dialogue writer for Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3, the screenwriter for Grand Masti, or the writer-director of Mastizaade. Maybe its time to stop patronizing a filmmaker who insists on churning out such poison.
Mastizaade at Wikipedia
Mastizaade at IMDb
My review of Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3
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This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged 2016, Bollywood, Hindi, Indian, Maastizaade, Milap Zaveri, Movie Review, Shaad Randhawa, Sunny Leone, Suresh Menon, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das, Zero Stars on February 23, 2016 by Kathy.
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12 thoughts on “Movie Review: Mastizaade (2016)”
JustMeMike February 23, 2016 at 2:21 pm
Thanks Kathy.
Looks like you took one for the team – watching this one so we won’t have to.
The question is will this ridiculous movie make any money in North America? I’ll venture that the box office won’t be the equivalent of a dried out forest creek – some one will surely deem this as worthwhile. But the theaters owners and the film’s producers won’t be whistling on their way to bank.
Kathy Post author February 23, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Thanks, Mike. I was a little late in posting my review of this one, and as you suspected, it did terribly in North America. Here’s what I wrote about its opening weekend:
https://accessbollywood.net/2016/02/02/bollywood-box-office-january-29-31/
changetoday February 24, 2016 at 1:43 am
Your review is like a professional review! Love it 🙂
Kathy Post author February 24, 2016 at 11:20 am
Thanks, changetoday. I sure hope I sound professional, since I make money doing this! 🙂
changetoday February 24, 2016 at 12:18 pm
I did’nt know that!!! Sorry! 😀
You’re surely good at it!
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Tag Archives: Marathi Movies on Netflix
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix today with the addition of the 2018 Marathi film Bogda.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with fifteen Indian titles added in the last three days, including the following 2019 releases:
Chousar Firangi (Hindi)
Evadu Thakkuva Kadu (Telugu)
Lukan Michi (Punjabi)
Mera Bharath Mahan (Telugu)
Mogra Phulaalaa (Marathi)
For everything else new on Netflix or Prime — Bollywood or not — check Instant Watcher.
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Streaming Video News: June 21, 2019
Vacation’s over! I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with a bunch of new additions in the last two weeks. Besides lots of cartoons for kids, a trio of 2019 releases were just added: the Marathi film Luckee and the Hindi movies Rakkhosh and Luka Chuppi. Also new are the Netflix original series Leila and last year’s delighfully clever horror comedy Stree.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with more than 50 Indian titles added in the last two weeks. 2019 releases added include the Amazon original series Mind the Malhotras, Anu Menon’s standup comedy special Wonder Menon, and the following films:
Ayogya (Tamil)
Ganesha Meendum Santhipom (Tamil)
Kosarakollikal (Malayalam)
Milan Talkies (Hindi)
Monster (Tamil)
Nenu Aadhi Madyalo Maa Nanna (Telugu)
Thanks to everyone who wished me well during my time off. It was great to spend time with my nieces and nephew. Have a great weekend! — Kathy
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Streaming Video News: June 3, 2019
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with a couple of new additions to start the month of June. The 2019 Marathi film Krutant is now available for streaming, as is the 2017 multilingual anthology movie III Smoking Barrels.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with eleven Indian films added in the last three days, including the 2019 releases Nuvvu Thopu Raa (Telugu) and Vellai Pookal (Tamil).
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Streaming Video News: May 24, 2019
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with the addition of the 2019 biographical drama Thackeray, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Thackeray is available in both Hindi and Marathi, but there is only one catalog entry for the film, so the language version must be selected under the “Episodes” tag. It’s weird.
Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai and Koi… Mil Gaya expire from Netflix on May 30.
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Streaming Video News: May 1, 2019
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with a couple of new additions to start the month of May. The 2019 Marathi film Sur Sapata and the 2018 Bengali movie Kia and Cosmos are now available for streaming. Other recent additions include the Malayalam film Njan Prakashan and the Hindi indies CRD and Teen Aur Aadha.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with two new additions today: the 2019 Tamil film Pettakadai and the Hindi-dubbed version of 2016’s Kaashmora. Other 2019 releases recently added to Prime include:
Akkadokaduntadu (Telugu)
Chikati Gadilo Chithakotudu (Telugu)
Dulla Vaily (Punjabi)
The Heir (Tamil)
RX 100 (Telugu, Hindi-dubbed)
Where is the Venkatalakshmi (Telugu)
For everything else new on Netflix and Amazon Prime — Bollywood or not — check Instant Watcher.
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Streaming Video News: February 22, 2019
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with two new additions to the catalog. The 2018 Bengali film Shonar Pahar is now available for streaming, as is the Netflix original Marathi courtroom drama Firebrand, produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Purple Pebble Pictures.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with four dozen new additions in the last three days. Two 2019 releases were just added — the Punjabi film Kaka Ji: Son of Royal Sardar and the Telugu movie Kothaga Maa Prayanam — along with these titles from 2018:
Gamer (Malayalam)
Gujjubhai Most Wanted (Gujarati)
NOTA (Tamil)
The Redrum: A Love Story (Hindi)
Vada Chennai (Tamil)
For everything else new on Amazon Prime and Netflix — Bollywood or not — check Instant Watcher.
This entry was posted in Streaming Video and tagged Bengali Movies on Netflix, Bollywood Movies on Amazon Prime, Bollywood Movies on Netflix, Desi Movies on Amazon Prime, Desi Movies on Netflix, Gujarati Movies on Amazon Prime, Hindi Movies on Amazon Prime, Hindi Movies on Netflix, Indian Movies on Amazon Prime, Indian Movies on Netflix, Malayalam Movies on Amazon Prime, Marathi Movies on Netflix, Movie, Punjabi Movies on Amazon Prime, Streaming Video, Tamil Movies on Amazon Prime, Telugu Movies on Amazon Prime, The Redrum: A Love Story on February 22, 2019 by Kathy.
Streaming Video News: February 8, 2019
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime with more than 60 Indian films added in the last week. Today’s big new addition is the Telugu film NTR: Kathanayakudu, which released in theaters just last month! K.G.F: Chapter 1 was recently added to Prime in four languages (but not Hindi):
K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018/Kannada)
K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018/Malayalam)
K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018/Tamil)
K.G.F: Chapter 1 (2018/Telugu)
If you haven’t caught up with the Amazon original series Four More Shots Please! yet, Shah Shahid highly recommends it.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix at the beginning of the month with three “new” Indian titles: Manusangada (2017/Tamil), Truckbar Swapna (2018/Marathi), and Talvar, which is back after a two-month vacation. Note that Netflix lists Talvar by its international title, Guilty.
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Streaming Video News: November 19, 2018
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime over the weekend with some notable new additions, chief of which is the Amazon Original series Mirzapur, starring Pankaj Tripathi and Ali Fazal. Jackky Bhagnani’s 2018 theatrical release Mitron is now available for streaming, as are several other films from this year, including the Marathi flick Boyz 2 and the Tamil movies Ammu Kolai Vazhakku, Pariyerum Perumal, and Variyavan.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with some 2018 releases: Aalorukkam (Malayalam), Halkaa (2018), Odu Raja Odu (Tamil), and Savita Damodar Paranjpe (Marathi).
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Streaming Video News: November 5, 2018
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with the addition of the 2018 Marathi movie Bucket List, starring Madhuri Dixit as a heart transplant recipient who tries to complete her young donor’s bucket list. For everything else new on Netflix, check Instant Watcher.
I also updated my list of Bollywood movies on Amazon Prime over the weekend with two new additions from 2018: the Tamil film Imaikkaa Nodigal and the Telugu version of NOTA (Amazon’s own page incorrectly lists the audio as Tamil). Some older Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali movies were added as well. Amazon Prime Video India announced that Jackky Bhagnani’s September Hindi release Mitron is coming to the service on November 10, so please be excited.
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Dev Watch
Doubts About Cross-Platform Mobile Development
It's like a week doesn't go by without multiple PR pings to my inbox announcing the latest cross-platform mobile app development tool release.
Everybody is getting in on the act, even companies you wouldn't expect, like Facebook, Oracle, IBM, Amazon, Intel, Cisco -- even Microsoft. I alone have recently reported on tools like Xamarin, RhoMobile, Appcelerator, Appmethod, AppGyver, PhoneGap, RAD Studio, Icenium and many more.
So cross-platform is the way to go, right? The benefits are well-known: Save time and expense by mostly using one code base to target iOS, Android, Windows Phone and so on. Even traditional concerns about lower performance and less native device functionality were seemingly being addressed by the emergent class of tools for building hybrid apps. Unlike Web-based apps just using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, the hybrid tools use different types of wrappers -- or containers -- to access native resources such as cameras and accelerometers, usually through JavaScript API calls. The vendors claim this method provides native performance -- or nearly so. It also gets you into the app stores -- unlike Web apps -- and reportedly provides other benefits.
[Click on image for larger view.] Developer awareness of cross-platform tools is growing.
(source: research2guidance)
The message is that only under special circumstances would you want to spend your time and effort on multiple projects for platform-specific native development.
Maybe not so much.
'Struggling With Limitations'
"Developers are still struggling with the limitations of cross-platform development," I was surprised to learn in a recent report from Research and Markets, a "market research store." The firm's main premise is that growth of the cross-platform mobile development tools market is slowing dramatically because of a variety of factors. One of those factors is "the increased popularity of native apps" because of the aforementioned struggles with cross-platform tool limitations.
"The performance of Web technologies and access to device-level functionality are cited by developers as significant challenges, pushing them toward native app development," the report stated.
Another factor is "diminishing productivity returns." That's because "developers are reporting less efficiency gains when using cross-platform mobile development tools compared to previous years," the report stated. "The drop is eroding the perceived value of tools."
Well, you know as well as I do to add a grain of salt to any ingestion of hype from research vendors hawking their for-sale reports. The report even contains contradictory statements like, "A shortage of native developers within the enterprise is continuing to help drive growth for cross-platform mobile development tools." Huh?
But that report isn't all that caught my attention.
Devs Target 1.75 Platforms
Another recent report -- this one from VisionMobile Ltd. -- indicates that non-game developers target an average of 1.75 platforms. It seems this number would be higher if cross-platform development was really the craze I thought it was. The research also found that cross-platform tools was listed as the fourth-most popular category of third-party tools, behind ad networks, cloud computing and push notifications.
Furthermore, VisionMobile said, "It might seem counter-intuitive, but there are 26 percent of CPT [cross-platform tools] users who only target a single platform. They are most likely using the CPT to avoid learning the native platform rather than for greater reach or cost efficiency; a decision to help the developer rather than the customer."
The company's "Developer Economics Q3 2014: State of the Developer Nation" report quoted Conny Svensson, an exec at CGI Sweden, as providing one possible explanation for these findings.
"The gap between HTML and native is widening," Svensson said. "The native SDKs introduce new APIs at a faster rate than HTML5 can keep up with. To harness the power of these new APIs, native is the only viable option."
In a section titled, "To Go Native Or Not To Go Native, That Is The Question," the report indicated that among primary platforms, Android is outpacing iOS globally, garnering loyalty by 42 percent of developer respondents as opposed to 32 percent going with iOS. VisionMobile noted that Apple introduced the Swift programming language to make native iOS development more accessible (it also subsequently signed on with IBM).
"Google's strategy, on the other hand, would really like everyone using Web technology so they can more effectively track users for ad targeting purposes," VisionMobile added. "Their latest design and technology moves blur the lines between native apps and the Web."
More FUD
Further adding to my FUD about cross-platform development is yet another brand-new report, this one by the appFigures "reporting platform for mobile app developers."
"Most App Developers Stick With One Store," an appFigures blog post recently reported. It announced that there were about 272,000 developers targeting the iOS App Store and some 293,000 developers targeting the Android-centric Google Play store. The overlap among those audiences amounted to about 58,000 developers, or roughly 11 percent of the total group. That provided "a strong indication that developers prefer to stick with one store," the report said.
So what's the real story? Is cross-platform mobile app development taking the world by storm or not?
I found it curious that the first two reports I quoted noted the advantages of native development over Web-based technologies, but didn't take into account the burgeoning market of tools to build hybrid apps, which are supposed to close the performance and native functionality gaps.
Yes, It Can Be Done
Brandon Satrom, for one, claims this is possible in an article the Telerik exec penned for VentureBeat titled, "How To Build A Hybrid App That Performs Like Native -- Yes, It Can Be Done."
I'm intrigued by the hybrid approach and the different means that vendors use to supposedly match native performance and functionality, and I've been researching the issue. But I've found little in the way of hard facts, metrics or benchmarks. There are a lot of performance claims by vendors but little supporting evidence.
For example, yet another new report, this one by research2guidance, stated that, "For the vast majority of app developers, the use of CP [cross-platform] tools does not come at the cost of app quality." It went on to say, "81 percent claim that the quality of the apps developed with CP tools is as good as or even better than apps developed with a native IDE."
So please clue me in. If you've read this far, you must be a mobile app developer (or yet another PR person right now typing my e-mail address into your database). What's your experience? Are you going cross-platform or not? Do hybrid apps really match native apps? Comment here or drop me a line. Let's get to the bottom of this.
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GLX Digital Platform to Transform LNG Sales
SINGAPORE - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The global liquefied natural gas industry takes a major step forward today with the launch of a new online trading platform for the sector.
The GLX global LNG exchange will facilitate auctions of LNG cargoes on behalf of buyers and sellers anywhere in the world. It will also support the development of transparent regional price benchmarks for the commodity.
The platform will be open to all buyers and sellers of LNG to trade single cargoes, also known as spot cargoes.
GLX founder and CEO Damien Criddle said the LNG market had grown substantially in recent years, with about 75 sellers and 75 buyers engaged in the worldwide trade. Mr Criddle observed that there is currently no efficient way to bring buyers and sellers together, with most cargoes traded on a bilateral basis between parties which had existing relationships.
“A global exchange for LNG means sellers can be s ... Read more »
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Guidewire Announces 2016.2 Release of InsurancePlatform
Data and Digital product enhancements help insurers meet needs of an increasingly fast-paced, data-centric, and digitally-driven world
SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CONNECTIONS 2016–Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), a provider of software products to Property/Casualty (P/C) insurers, today announced the 2016.2 release of Guidewire InsurancePlatform™. Built specifically for the P/C insurance industry, InsurancePlatform combines three elements – core operations, data and analytics, and digital engagement – that work together to enhance insurers’ ability to respond to industry changes and better engage and empower their customers, agents, and employees. The release features enhancements to Guidewire’s Data and Digital product families and improves capabilities that support policyholders, agents, actuaries, and IT professionals.
“The pace of change facing Property/Casualty ... Read more »
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INsight TV Joins SES Ultra HD Platform in North America
TV Entertainment Reality Network (TERN) expands the global reach of its Ultra HD channel INsight TV with North American launch on the SES-1 satellite
LUXEMBOURG - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) today announced a strategic capacity and playout agreement with TERN to deliver the interactive Ultra HD (UHD) channel, INsight TV, to television platforms and audiences across North America. INsight TV is the latest in a series of channels to join SES’s 4K Ultra HD distribution neighbourhood aboard a trio of advanced satellites (SES-1, SES-3 and AMC-18) located at the centre of the orbital arc over the region.
TERN launched its INsight TV Ultra HD and HD channels a year ago across Europe on SES satellites. The North American programming feed will originate from SES’s MX1 playout centre in Munich, Germany, where it will be fibered to SES’s teleport in Woodbine, Maryland. From there ... Read more »
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APEX Analytix® Continues Expansion with Opening of Hong Kong Office
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- APEX Analytix®, the industry leader in AP auditing, profit recovery, and working capital optimization of global financial supply chains, continues to expand its global presence with the opening of a new location in the heart of Kowloon eastern district, Hong Kong. The new office is the latest example of purposeful growth for the Greensboro, North Carolina-based company.
“The world’s largest organizations turn to us for innovations to safeguard their disbursements but also gain operating efficiencies and optimize working capital in their global financial supply chain,” says Steve Yurko, CEO of APEX Analytix. “We’ve been remotely operating in the APAC region for a long time, but as demand for our AP recovery audit services and our software solutions continue to grow, we have committed ourselves to be with our clients in this region, serving them where they ar ... Read more »
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CMA Credential Achieves Record Global Growth
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, October 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants), the association of accountants and financial professionals in business announced a record-breaking growth of its flagship certification, the CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) credential in fiscal year (FY) 2016, ending June 30.
The premier global management accounting certification reached a milestone of 50,000 holders since the program was created in 1972. In FY 2016, 3,838 CMAs earned the credential; a record number for any fiscal year. In addition, 18,761 new candidates enrolled in the program – a 20% jump from 2015 – which brings the number of candidates who chose to join the program in the past five years to 70,000.
"This rise in numbers – as well as respect and influence – confirms that the CMA continues to be the leading global management accounting credential in the world," said Jeff Thomson, ... Read more »
With Two New Competitions, XPRIZE Tackles Water Scarcity and Women’s Safety
The Water Abundance XPRIZE and Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE Launch in India
NEW DELHI - Monday, October 24th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At a United Nations Day reception today in New Delhi, Marcus Shingles, CEO of XPRIZE, and Zenia Tata, executive director of Global Expansion at XPRIZE, announced the launch of two new competitions: the Water Abundance XPRIZE and the Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE.
Aimed at sparking breakthrough solutions to two urgent grand challenges, the US$1.75M Water Abundance XPRIZE sponsored by Tata Group and Australian Aid aims to alleviate the global water crisis with energy-efficient technologies that will harvest fresh water from thin air. The Water Abundance XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to revolutionize access to fresh water by creating a device that extracts a minimum of 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere using 100% renewable energy, at a cost of no ... Read more »
RigNet and MODEC Sign Agreement to Deliver Fiber-equivalent O3b Satellite Connectivity to Offshore Brazilian FPSO Fleet
Leading global provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry chooses O3b to help lower costs and improve operational efficiency, gaining significant competitive advantage
ST. HELIER, Jersey - Monday, October 24th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- O3b Networks, technology solutions company RigNet and floating production service provider MODEC, are pleased to announce an agreement to provide high-throughput, low latency connectivity for MODEC’s Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels off the coast of Brazil.
FPSOs today have become the primary production method for many offshore oil and gas producing regions around the world. An FPSO is a floating production system that receives fluids from a subsea reservoir through risers, which then separate fluids into crude oil, natural gas, water and impurities within the topsides production facilities onboard. Crude oil stored in the storage tanks of the FPSO is offloaded ... Read more »
Schlumberger Announces Third-Quarter 2016 Results
HOUSTON - Monday, October 24th 2016 [ME NewsWire]
Revenue of $7.0 billion decreased 2% sequentially
Pretax operating income of $815 million increased 9% sequentially
GAAP EPS was $0.13. Excluding Cameron merger and integration charges, EPS was $0.25
Cash flow from operations was $1.4 billion. Free cash flow was $699 million
Quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share approved
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) today reported results for the third quarter of 2016.
To view the full report and tables please click here.
View this news release online at:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161020006492/en
Simon Farrant – Schlumberger Limited, Vice President of Investor Relations
Joy V. Domingo – Schlumberger Limited, M ... Read more »
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Yes, Mueller organized 9/11, and then investigated himself!
Mueller placed his patsy Joseph E. Sullivan at Cloudflare to fix the 2018 midterm elections
Sullivan is a shill for the Senior Executive Service (SES) shadow government controlled by Mueller
Sullivan tried to cover up the loss of 57 million Uber customer and driver personal data records, was fired, then rehired by Cloudflare that controls FL, OH election encryption keys
Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION | Nov. 16, 2018, Updated Nov. 19, 2018 | PDF | https://tinyurl.com/y8cz4s8d
Fig. 1—Joseph Edwin Sullivan, currently Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Cloudflare.
Photo: The Outline.
Notice: This post is a work in process. Please return by mid week because we will be adding more evidence links from the Timeline inside the article.
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Fig. 2—Douglas Gabriel, Michael McKibben. (Nov. 19, 2018). Time to break out of Hillary's Prison Planet. American Intelligence Media, Americans for Innovation. https://youtu.be/JRCYm2X9zlw | (Raw *.mp4 raw video).
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(Nov. 16, 2018)—New facts suggest that special counsel Robert S. Mueller, III who is running the Trump witch hunt, is also muscling in on the Clinton encryption key tax and surveillance empire.
Their war cry appears to be: "Tax and Surveil!" Ask yourself, if controlling these encryption keys is so central to the mission of the Deep State shadow government and their theft of our Constitutional Republic birthright, shouldn't you be resisting them with all your strength? We posit that if you are not—if you are silent, or worse, if you scoff at those who are fighting, while mindlessly repeating the "conspiracy theory!" epithet*—then that is your first clue that you have been successfully brainwashed and neutralized by incessant mainstream media propaganda—which these miscreants control.
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*"Conspiracy Theory" may be the rogue C.I.A.'s most successful mass mind control meme ever
The "conspiracy theory" epithet, and its variant "far right wing conspiracy theory," is a propaganda mind-control creation of the John F. Dulles-led C.I.A. MKUltra program as a way to divert public attention from the now proven suspicions that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated by the C.I.A. President Kennedy had said in 1961 (1963 timeline entry): "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds" due to their corruption and insubordination. That same C.I.A. protected its power mongering and murdered our duly-elected President. They have never stepped away from their criminality since.
Now, that same rogue C.I.A. is working to remove another duly-elected President Donald J. Trump—unless we stop them. If we do not protect and defend President Trump, then we do not deserve our Constitutional Republic, and our hard fought sacrifices of time, treasure and life will all be lost. Get off your duffs, folks. Take the red pill and protect your American heritage! She's not perfect, but at least we can strive. Close your ears to the mind-control propaganda, President Trump supports America's ideals, unlike his fascist globalist opponents. See previous post Dismantle the rogue C.I.A. (PDF).
Traditional mobsters control big city garbage, prostitution, loans, drugs, haulage and so on. They either actually run the business or shake down enterprises for monthly “protection” payments.
According to Larry Nichols (Jul. 28, 1994 timeline entry), Bill Clinton’s former political advisor in Arkansas and for President, Hillary’s father Hugh Rodham and Dan Rostenkowski took over the Chicago mob after Al Capone. Later, Rosentkowski became the Democrat representative to Congress from the Illinois 5th district (1959 to 1995). In short, these men learned how to turn corruption into political power—without going to jail.
Hugh Rodham encouraged his daughter to become a patent attorney. He told her to corner the market on emerging technologies, which she has done.
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Meet Robert Mueller's perennial SES shadow government silicon valley errand boy—Joseph E. Sullivan
We strongly recommend that you download and store this Sullivan biography. It includes about fifty (50) links to source documents. Thank you to the AFI and AIM Conclave miners!
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Fig. 3—Joseph Edwin Sullivan. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). Biography and Timeline. Anonymous Patriots.
In Feb. 1977, Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, and eventually seized control of a client's promising invention, a quarter-sized quartz device called the QRS-11 that could be used to track planes, cars, trucks, trains, buses, and more generally anything in which it was embedded.
James P. Chandler, III
Hillary’s legal mentor was a clever black Harvard and George Washington University law professor named James P. Chandler, III. While he coached Bill and Hillary, Chandler was scheming to corner the legal market on protection of software inventions, trade secrets and "the intellectual property of the United States." So he boasted at every opportunity.
When the Clintons came to power in 1993, Chandler became their top outside advisor for intellectual property, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, economic espionage, counterfeiting and counter intelligence. He immediately wrote and Congress approved (unanimously), The Economic Espionage and Federal Trade Secrets Acts of 1996, and The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996 (officially sanctioned lying to Congress and the courts. That's right, you did not misread).
One of Chandler’s strategies was to use his influence over the Clintons to take over the Internet as a way to stay perpetually ahead of Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Israeli, Irish, Indian and French intelligence. So he also boasted.
At the same time, Chandler was outside counsel to IBM. He worked closely with IBM inside intellectual property counsel, David J. Kappos (Obama's Patent Office director - 2009-2013), to muscle IBM's competitors with "junk patents" to extort license fees. This activity was the real "patent troll" which Chandler and Kappos have flipped 180 degrees into unfounded media attacks on small inventors as the trolls.
The weaponization of social networking
IBM was all the while standing behind Chandler's plan to weaponize the Internet. See our previous post: The Weaponization of Social Media Should Concern Us All (PDF).
Within months of Clinton coming to power, Chandler arranged for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, and a raft of DOJ insiders, including Robert Mueller, James Comey, Duval Patrick and Louis Freeh to hold a Who’s Who conference to promote giving the FBI backdoor encryption access to the emerging commercial Internet, which was in its infancy then. The proposed “Clipper Chip” died in Congress over privacy concerns and inadequate safeguards.
The encryption key set up
Fig. 4—1993 Clinton encryption conference to give the FBI backdoor keys to the Internet.
James P. Chandler, III, John D. Podesta. (Jun. 07, 1993). Third CPSR Cryptography and Privacy Conference, included Stephen D. Crocker, John D. Podesta, James P. Chandler, III, Ann Harkins, Ken Mendelson (Stroz Friedberg), Juan Osuna, Cathy Russell, Steven Wolff, IBM, HP, AT&T. FOIA No. 9403963. U.S. Dept. of State. Note: This PDF file contains a spreadsheet of the attendees (click on the paper clip inside the PDF).
Graphic: Judicial Watch.
Said another way to hopefully clear up the confusion, the Clipper Chip and the QRS-11 chip are different devices. The Clipper Chip was a device proposed in the early Clinton Administration (1993) to be embedded in hardware to encrypt digital signals, but was never approved by Congress or implemented—rogue intelligence did an end-around Congress with the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm discussed in the next paragraph. By contrast, the QRS-11 was and is a navigation device installed widely in ships, vehicles and airplanes to transmit 3-D coordinates and receive instructions to control autopilots remotely.
Undeterred, Chandler and his FBI/DOJ/DoD/Senior Executive Service (SES) co-conspirators turned to the Departments of Commerce and Justice to concoct an export license requirement to embed the backdoor key as a prerequisite for sale of their hardware, software and firmware offshore. The list of vendors who embed the NSA Dual_EC_DRBG encryption algorithm to this day is even published.
American-style fascism was perfected under Clinton rule
The Clinton-Chandler-Podesta-Mueller scheme to bypass Congress on encryption backdoors as well as all other technology and Internet policy was hatched.
The Clintons began focusing on: (1) Chandler-drafted executive orders, (2) some changes to laws triggered by totally staged “terror” threats, (3) patsy Senior Executive Service (SES) appointments in the Executive agencies (their 10,000+ leave-behind senior management saboteurs a.k.a. the "shadow government" or "Deep State." and (4) cooperation from the private sector as "public-private partners" in exchange for no-bid contracts. In short, American-style fascism.
High Tech Mobsterism
In keeping with the age-old maxim of “follow the money,“ the real money being made in "Big Data" is through secret taxes on the encryption keys and the sale of information.
Prior to social networking however, these Clinton mobsters experimented with various forms of control and revenue, but their systems suffered from data “silos.” Large volumes of data were system specific and not easily transportable across systems. Any ability to tax these transactions was fraught with too many technology and policy hurdles to implement it globally.
Leader's invention solved the SES "data silo" problem
Fig. 5—On Dec. 18, 2001, Leader submitted a BAA Command and Control proposal at James P. Chandler, III's recommendation, their trade secrets and patent attorney, as well as national security advisor to the U.S. military. One month earlier, Chandler, IBM and David J. Kappos formed the IBM Eclipse Foundation as the SES distribution vehicle to give away Leader's invention to their crony private Silicon Valley cardboard cut-out corporations.
Michael T. McKibben. (Dec. 18, 2001). BAA Command and Control Proposal. WPAFB/Leader Technologies.
Graphic: Leader Technologies, Inc..
These mobsters yearned for a way to collect a private, non-governmental tax on each Internet transaction. They also wanted a universal way to spy on people at will.
The answer to their evil prayers came one day in January 2000 when James P. Chandler, III was introduced to Columbus entrepreneur, engineer and inventor Michael T. McKibben. McKibben and his team, in total secrecy, had invented a way to overcome the silo problem and make the Internet scalable.
McKibben knew what he was doing engineering-wise and organizationally. He was an accomplished organizational development consultant and a leadership and management author. In the early 1990’s he had rebuilt AT&T’s main email system AT&T AccessPlus 3.0 in time for release with Windows 95 as well as designed a number of personal information managers.
Social networking scalablilty opened the door to one encryption key per person, thus the ability to track and tax everything
Hindsight being 20-20, we now see that Chandler, Clinton, Mueller, etc. decided to steal McKibben’s invention (illegal) for infinite Internet scalability, inserted IBM copyrights (illegal), declared it "open source" (illegal), then distributed it free almost overnight to Silicon Valley (illegal) to build the “IBM Internet of Things (IoT),” and thus control universal back end access (illegal) to all the code they had given away. That's right, the entire IoT industry is one mammoth fraud, built on theft, lies, and more lies.
With McKibben’s social networking invention in mind, they also reconfigured their approach to “Public Key Infrastructure” (PKI), government documents (p. 6) describe (ref. "late 90's" [when Chandler met McKibben and Leader Technologies] and "Prior to 2004" [when IBM launched EclipseCon 2004, Feb. 02-05, 2004, and they launched Facebook, Feb. 04, 2002]).
They also devised a convoluted licensing system that only an unscrupulous lawyer could love whereby “trusted” private companies would maintain not only the public keys used by websites, but also a copy of people’s private keys, ostensibly for disaster recovery convenience. See Fig. 8.
Trust (not)
These selected PKI Certificate Authorities plaster their cheeky ad words on all their PR. These words include: trust, high standards, security, integrity, verified, trustworthy, assurance, certified, protect, reliable, secure, quality and veritas (Latin: truth). They have proven through focus groups that 99.5% of the public believes their excrement about "trust" and lets them get away with their criminality.
Moral: Whenever “public-private” fascist capitalists use words like "trust, you can almost be sure that you cannot trust because this is classic Saul Alinsky misdirection.
Several types of encryption keys that use PKI
In lay terms, the basic idea behind PKI is that you need to marry up a public key for your recipient’s website with your private key. Those married keys are then used to encrypt your transmission. It's like you need two keys, not one, to open your front door.
Then, instead of sending your message through the Internet for anyone to read, your transmission is scrambled while it is on the move. See Fig. 3 below. This type of encryption occurs automatically, presuming each side has purchased their essentially government-mandated Certificate Authority (Hint: Herein is the universal tax on all Internet transactions—run by private corporations controlled by Hillary et al. Want in on this action? No! Deplorables need not apply.)
This purchase is Hillary’s dirty little secret for how she taxes the Internet and makes money from each and every transaction all around the planet.
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Fig. 6—Illustration of unencrypted (plain text) and encrypted data
Another use of public and private keys is encrypting files and messages. Both sender and recipient share their public key and each creates a private key. The public key is generally kept on a PKI server. The secret here is that these servers also use various ways to sniff and store your private key without your knowledge. In addition, many if not most of the applications that encrypt and decrypt using this method contain the NSA Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm that enables snoopers to decrypt anything without any keys, public or private.
Mueller is muscling Hillary for encryption key turf
Over the last thirty years, the encryption key turf was controlled by Hillary and her mentor Chandler. They let the DOJ and FBI play through corruptocrats like Robert S. Mueller, III and James B. Comey, among others.
However, it now appears that Mueller and Chandler quietly recruited Joseph Edmund Sullivan, son of a C.I.A. agent, as the mole to do their dirty work.
Sullivan’s mother, Winona Cecile Sullivan (born Winona Yahn), was a C.I.A. agent focused on Russian spying (1965-67). She studied Russian at the University of Leningrad, then applied to the C.I.A. to be a spy. Her good looks may have helped her professionally. The trade craft of deception was well-honed among the Sullivans. Joseph claims he had no knowledge of his mother’s spying, but given his career as a spy himself, this assertion is not credible. And, as we now see, these SES spies like to pass on their insider knowledge to their offspring.
From 1992 to 2002, Sullivan worked for the DOJ and specifically for Chandler and Mueller as Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco. He only prosecuted 41 cases in total during his work as AUSA. He bragged at his House Judiciary hearing on Jul. 28, 2010 that he was a founding member of the DOJ Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit (see link above), despite scant few cases on that subject. Ironically, that was the very same day that Leader proved in Leader v. Facebook that Facebook was infringing Leader Technologies' social networking patent on 11 of 11 claims. Sullivan failed to disclose this to Congress. He also failed to disclose Hillary's secret contract for Facebook to build an election winning template. He also failed to disclose his relationship with Leader's patent attorney Chandler, thus being engaged in tampering with a witness.
This Mueller Cyber Crime Unit appears to have been a ruse to cover up Mueller’s work to horn in on the Clinton’s money-making from taking fees for digital encryption Certificate Authority keys. It appears that the real cyber criminals are Mueller, Chandler and Sullivan.
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Here’s proof that Sullivan and Mueller collaborated closely.
Fig. 7—US v. Avalar, et al, 5:01-cr-20069-JW-1 filed jointly between Robert S. Mueller, III, US Attorney and Joseph E. Sullivan, Assistant US Attorney (CAND filed Apr. 26, 2001).
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Here’s further proof that Mueller was Sullivan’ mentor:
Fig. 8—Joseph E. Sullivan. (Jul. 28, 2010). Chief Security Officer for Facebook testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, hearing on Online Privacy, Social Networking, and Crime Victimization. U.S. House of Representatives.
Here is proof that Chandler and Sullivan worked together. This case could only have been prosecuted with Chandler’s approval since it is notoriously known in Washington, D.C. that the U.S. Department of Justice was required to permit Chandler to oversee the prosecutions of his newly minted Federal Trade Secrets Act of 1986 19 USC 1832 for ten (10) years.
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Fig. 9—US v. Wang, et al, 5:01-cr-20065-JF-1, Joseph E. Sullivan, AUSA with James P. Chandler, III (CAND filed Aug. 24, 2000).
Sullivan’s move from DOJ/FBI to Silicon Valley has been truly magical
Sullivan was then placed as the top legal and security officer and advisor at Ebay, PayPal, Skype, Facebook, RiskIQ, U.S. Cyber Alliance, Bluecava (Mark Cuban), Airbnb, GURUCUL, Obama’s Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (read: get Hillary elected), Uber and now Cloudflare.
After eBay, Sullivan bought two homes in Silicon Valley in 2006 worth $5 million—a remarkable achievement for a guy who had made $130,000 per year as an assistant U.S. attorney.
Remarkably, Sullivan was hired as chief security officer at Cloudflare despite his epic loss of 57 million user and driver records at Uber and his attempt to cover it up six months earlier. That got him fired at Uber. Of course, normally that might have been a career-ending faux pas, but not for Mueller’s and Chandler’s flunky.
Cloudflare hired tainted goods—evidently because Mueller directed it
Evidently, Mueller placed his errand boy Sullivan at Cloudflare, but for what purpose?
A quick review of Cloudflare’s owners is one clue to Mueller's thinking. It is the same list of shadow government crony corporate beneficiaries like Pelion Ventures, Venrock, NEA (New Enterprise Associates), Union Square Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Fidelity Investments, Google Capital, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu (China).
The specter of foreign interference in U.S. elections is evident given Baidu (China)'s substantial ownership stake in Cloudflare. Also, given Google’s now hostile activity in supporting totalitarian regimes in China and Venezuela, and their support of Project Dragonfly and the heinous “social credit score” in China, the risk to free and fair US elections is doubly evident.
When one adds the fact that Mueller's Russia probe is a witch hunt that is debilitating our government, has he exposed American election to Chinese influence using Cloudflare, has Mueller not now become an enemy of the state?
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Fig. 10—Anonymous Patriots. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). OHIO - State Election Encryption Authorities, by State, p. 71-72. MX Toolbox.
Fig. 11—Anonymous Patriots. (Prepared Nov. 09, 2018). FLORIDA - State Election Encryption Authorities, by State, p. 24-25. MX Toolbox..
Mueller infiltrated Cloudflare via Sullivan to get access to swing state election encryption keys
Given how quickly Cloudflare and Mueller muscled in on Hillary’s Certificate Authority turf, we are observing an evident mob turf war for control of all Certificate Authority taxing and encryption keys.
When one considers that Hillary and her 19-year law partner Jerry C. Jones sold ENTRUST to placate Michael Chertoff on December 17, 2013, the specter of a full-on mob turf war seems likely. With the ENTRUST purchase, Chertoff bought Certificate Authority in at least Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The difference between Chertoff and Mueller is that Chertoff appears to be a soy boy who is satisfied with his little piece of the pie.
Robert Mueller: 'Ole Mule Face Dreams he is King of the world! (He thinks Queen Hillary screwed up her encryption keys in 2016)
Mueller, on the other hand, wants to be king maker, evidently.
In the process of giving Michael Chertoff some of the encryption action, Hillary and Jerry C. Jones shifted their Certificate Authority business by purchasing DigiCert, which controls the encryption keys in the following state election systems: Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio (Cloudflare-DigitCert), Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
By grabbing encryption keys in Ohio and Florida, Mueller is challenging Hillary’s turf.
Are Mueller’s Wheels Falling off? We hope so.
As an illegitimate special counsel, Mueller is attempting to unseat a duly elected President Donald J. Trump.
Mueller has overstepped his special counsel authority by conducting a political witch hunt against his effective enemies including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Julian Assange, among others.
Mueller and Chertoff evidently organized the events of 9/11 to remove the Constitutional blocks to their SES shadow government takeover of our Constitutional Republic.
Mueller has persecuted dozens of FBI and CIA whistle blowers.
It is strongly believed that Mueller had his former FBI agent Whitey Bulger assassinated recently just before he was preparing to testify about Mueller.
Mueller clearly wants a piece of the Certificate Authority taxing and mass surveillance encryption system that the Clintons currently control.
Maybe he wants more.
Maybe he wants to be the King Mob Boss.
The Clintons are now in his way.
President Trump can immediately direct his Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA) to revoke any and all Certificate Authorities that are engaged in supporting treasonous or seditious activity against the United States. This is a matter of grave national security that falls under the rubric of recent State of Emergency Executive Orders.
Specifically, any certificate authorities associated directly or through surrogates with Robert S. Mueller, III, James P. Chandler, III, James B. Comey, Michael Chertoff, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Jerry C. Jones, Joseph E. Sullivan, Orlando Bravo should be revoked immediately.
Regarding foreign election meddling, any Certificate Authority currently providing services to the state boards of elections that maintain encryption keys offshore should be immediately revoked.
As a part of this review, the President should evaluate the qualifications and loyalties of the members of the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA) which is comprised of members "appointed by each federal agency’s CIO, and the group operates under the authority of the Federal CIO Council" stay-behind corruptocrat Senior Executive Service (SES) members who are not loyal to our duly elected President Donald J. Trump. If he cannot fire them due to the convoluted and self-serving SES policies, then he should invoke the Holman Rule and reduce their salaries and benefits to $1.
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Fig. 12—Certificate Authorities ILLUSTRATION. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal Public Key Infrastructure Guides. CIO.gov, Idmanagement.gov, GSA. See also GSA.https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/ca/ and https://www.idmanagement.gov/fpkipa/ (PDF)
Click image to view this interactive federal graph.
Fig. 13—Federal PKI Graph. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal PKI Graph. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal PKI Graph, Federal Public Key Infrastructure Guides. CIO.gov. Idmanagement.gov. GSA. https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/tools/fpkigraph/ | PDF version.
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American sovereignty is now Swiss Cheese—Come On In !— our encryption keys are for sale to the highest bidder !
Fig. 14—Certificate Authorities ILLUSTRATION#2, p.5. (Accessed Nov. 17, 2018). Federal Public Key Infrastructure Guides. CIO.gov, Idmanagement.gov, GSA. See also GSA.https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/ca/ and https://www.idmanagement.gov/fpkipa/; see also https://fpki.idmanagement.gov/tools/fpkigraph/
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Posted by K. Craine at 2:23 PM
Djtch November 16, 2018 at 11:00 PM
WTF??
Insanity is rampant.
Must be something in the water.
Fluoride?
krazykazy November 17, 2018 at 5:03 AM
Is their anyone telling the President any of this !!
Is anyone telling the President any of this, if not, he need's to clean up his house quick, and get rid of any Bush or OBUMA hold over's !! Thank's Rence Prebius !!POS
Elemaza November 17, 2018 at 6:42 AM
Thank you for a most informative article. The ties that bind all these crooks at the top are almost unbelievable, your article explains very well how they have operated to control the narrative, and how they intended to exert absolute control over We the people. Thank heaven Crooked Hillary wasn't able to cheat her way into the presidency despite all their effort! I hope that President Trump will take action and send all these crooks where they belong.
Speaking of encryption keys, don't overlook Microsoft being complicit in all this. When I was a DOD IT contractor in the late 90s, early 2000s, we used to joke about Microsoft's "Undocumented Features" (read software glitches) that we had to overcome in order to produce the desired "zero defects" product.
K. Craine November 17, 2018 at 10:13 AM
Dear Readers. We are still updating the contents of this post, and have received an enormous number of comments already since last night. Please stay tuned. We'll get to them. Spread the truth in the meantime!
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Please get this to President Trump. There was a "Sullivan" that he was thinking about to appoint to take Sessions place, after the temporary Whitaker. Cause I think it was said, that supposedly the law says that he can't name the Temporary to the Permanent spot. Even though Whitaker seems like a good fit.
Michael Nelson November 19, 2018 at 2:05 AM
I will do my part. This is exactly as stated. Way deeper than I ever thought. Great work!
GiGiReg November 17, 2018 at 3:16 PM
Suddenly, all the bits and pieces start to make sense. With stakes so high, in this cryptic turf war, it is a wonder there has not been another catastrophic event like 911.I pray daily for our President to be surrounded by the right people who tell him the truth!
Peggy Gilmour November 17, 2018 at 3:42 PM
Thanks for this information on the encryption keys and the link to the deep state. It must come to light.
Tere201 November 17, 2018 at 5:07 PM
This is a tiny part of Disclosure! A Tsunami of Truths is Coming!
AIM4Truth November 17, 2018 at 6:01 PM
Please send some extra cheesecake to all those AFI researchers. They are an amazing group of patriots!
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Order the Marine Corps to arrest all these Traitors the Clinton's,Chandler,Mueller etc.Put them in Gitmo and convict them by Military Tribunal and execute them immediately for sedition,espionage and Treason.
Please, can you write a 2nd, briefly edited version without the more conservative-leaning words/bits so we can share/wake-up/'red-pill' more 'normies'/rest of the country to help unify people who would be more able to 'hear'/read such a great piece of information...?
Maybe add some 'neutral source' research links to verification/sourcing***
Many would love to share and could share more if certain receipients, who need it the most, could access this important information in a more neutral presentation.
I am on board with your presentation-style, myself, no problem, yet I do know so many who might be able to get there with a bit different presentation that they wouldn't immediately shut down with - just a few words...phrases edited... would help 'red-pill' more who really need this and might 'hear'...
Thank you so much for your great work and for considering this request for a bit more 'neutral' version!!
K. Craine November 18, 2018 at 5:32 AM
Dear Anonymous,
Feel free to recast this research in a way that Red Pills your constituents! Not sure what you mean about "neutral" research. We strive for "judicially recognizable" sources. Our core research comes from court records, Congressional records, Securities and Exchange Commission documents, State Department document, General Services Administration contract records, DoD records, CIA records, NASDAQ records, doctoral theses, published records, the subjects themselves, etc.`Sometimes we use the writings of third parties when their research is especially useful and on point. We'd love to read your "bit different presentation!" Go for it!
When we started this research, we had no preconceived conclusions. These conclusions have been drawn with the facts as they emerged from the mines. Consider that labels such as "conservative" and "neutral" are themselves pejorative, and it is better to just let the facts organize themselves. We strive to share them just as they speak to us, without skewing them toward any group. We do observe that the facts expose corruptocrats within each political label. If readers are more comfortable attempting to pigeonhole these facts as coming from one camp or another, that is, of course, their perogative, but such pigionholing may actually color the facts unnecessarily and slow down the Red Pilling. The facts are what they are! That said, we are very open to reading your version to learn more about your perspective and style approach! "Different strokes for different folks."
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Email comment by TG:
Staff, Douglas Gabriel. (Nov. 19). CHEMTRAILS, EUGENICS/GENOCIDE, EXOTIC WEAPONS EYEWITNESS BARELY MAKES IT OUT ALIVE IN CALIFORNIA FIRE STORM. ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net.
Scenes of vaporized homes surrounded by unscathed trees are the hallmark of the devastating California fires we’ve seen, especially starting last year. Last October and last August, when there were massive wildfires in California, I reported on the pervasive pattern of dustified homes and cars, while nearby trees remained relatively unharmed and how some people were coming to the shocking conclusion that these eerie events were the result of Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs). As of last week’s California fires, the number of people thinking this has grown.
Scientific papers exist on the use of electrical fields for combustion synthesis in metals and there’s no doubt that focused microwaves or masers are used in DEWs. When you apply microwaves to metals, the oxygen released functions as an accelerant to feed a fire in what’s called “microwave-assisted combustion synthesis”. Significantly, you can’t do this with trees because there’s no metal in trees to create the oxidizing agent to fuel a self-sustaining fire.
Full story [VIDEO]:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/eyewitness-barely-makes-it-out-alive-in-california-fire-storm/
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Email comment by Sharyl Attkisson:
Sharyl Attkisson. (Nov. 17, 2018). THE COMPUTER INTRUSIONS: DISAPPEARING ACT. Full Measure.
The following is the third in a series of excerpts from my New York Times bestseller “Stonewalled,” which recounts the government intrusions of my computers. More excerpts to follow.
| DISAPPEARING ACT
In late December 2012, I take up my friend’s offer to have my computer examined by an inside professional. Arrangements are made for a meeting.
In the meantime, Jeff wants to check out the exterior of my home. To examine the outside connections for the Verizon FiOS line and see if anything looks out of order.
“If you’re being tapped, it’s probably not originating at your house, but I’d like to take a look anyway,” he says.
Read excerpt #1 here: The Computer Intrusions: Up at Night
Read excerpt #2 here: Big Brother: First Warnings
“Sure, why not.” I don’t think he’ll find anything but there’s no harm in having him look. Maybe I should be more concerned. What if the government is watching me? What if they’re trying to find out who my sources are and what I may be about to report next?
https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/11/17/the-computer-intrusions-disappearing-act/
https://tinyurl.com/yayv6pf3
Email comment by GH:
Glenn Greenwald. (Nov. 16 2018). As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom. The Intercept.
THE TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT inadvertently revealed in a court filing that it has charged Julian Assange in a sealed indictment. The disclosure occurred through a remarkably amateurish cutting-and-pasting error in which prosecutors unintentionally used secret language from Assange’s sealed charges in a document filed in an unrelated case. Although the document does not specify which charges have been filed against Assange, the Wall Street Journal reported that “they may involve the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the disclosure of national defense-related information.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/16/as-the-obama-doj-concluded-prosecution-of-julian-assange-for-publishing-documents-poses-grave-threats-to-press-freedom/
https://tinyurl.com/y87ufmbu
K. Craine November 19, 2018 at 1:19 PM
Special Note: JAMES P. CHANDLER, III wrote the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 at the same time he revised The False Statements Accountability of 1996 where Congress approved lying to Congress and the courts by lawyers and litigants.
http://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cyberhijack/cyber-hijack-findings.html#economic-espionage-act
Tyler Duren. (Dec. 12, 2017). Ex-Spy Chief Admits Role In 'Deep State' Intelligence War On Trump. ZeroHedge.
An ex-spy chief who spoke out publicly against Trump while inspiring other career intelligence figures to follow suit has admitted his leading role in the intelligence community waging political war against the president, describing his actions as something he didn't "fully think through". In a surprisingly frank interview, the CIA's Michael Morell - who was longtime Deputy Director and former Acting Director of the nation's most powerful intelligence agency - said that it wasn't a great idea to leak against and bash a new president.
Morell had the dubious distinction of being George W. Bush's personal daily briefer for the agency before and after 9/11, and also served under Obama until his retirement. In the summer of 2016 he took the unusual step (for a former intelligence chief) of openly endorsing Hillary Clinton in a New York Times op-ed entitled, I Ran the C.I.A. Now I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton, after which he continued to be both an outspoken critic of Trump and an early CIA voice promoting the Russian collusion and election meddling narrative.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-11/ex-spy-chief-admits-role-deep-state-intelligence-war-trump
https://tinyurl.com/y8srhgo3
Pardon me, I was just daydreaming and imagined what would happen on Earth if “at Hillary” was substituted for “as hell” a la Howard Beale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4aiA17YsM&feature=youtu.be&t=230
ps.st! What would the future hold if precisely at midnight (the s-witching hour) on New Year’s Eve a flash catharsis transpired?
K. Craine December 2, 2018 at 1:10 PM
GITMO PRACTICE!!!
Press Release. (Nov. 29, 2018). Three Senior Executives at Defense Contracting Firms Charged with Scheme to Defraud the U.S. Military in Connection with $8 Billion Troop Supply Contract and with Violating the Iran Sanctions Regime. U.S. Department of Justice.
• https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2018-11-29-Three-Senior-Executives-at-Defense-Contracting-Firms-Charged-with-Scheme-to-Defraud-the-US-Military-Press-Release-Department-of-Justice-Nov-29-2018.pdf
• https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-senior-executives-defense-contracting-firms-charged-scheme-defraud-us-military
• https://tinyurl.com/yc45h4xh
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Kip Simpson. (Nov. 30, 2018). Justice Department Charges Clinton, Obama, Feinstein Donor for $8 Billion Contract Fraud. YouTube.
• https://youtu.be/drNdbNrJ1a8
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• U.S. v. Faouki et al, INDICTMENT, 1:18-cr-00346-TNM (DCDC 2018), indictment filed Nov. 27, 2018
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Cartoonist Vishavjit Singh poses as Captain America in New York’s Central Park. (Photo Credit: Fiona Aboud. Source: Sikhtoons)
Vishavjit Singh, the artist behind Sikhtoons, has often opined about adding diversity to America’s pop culture superheros. In October 2012, he wrote an opinion piece for The Seattle Times in which he envisioned a super hero to fight hate crimes, and in a radio interview with National Public Radio in November, he talked about the backlash he received about this vision and of his rendering of Captain America as a Sikh man.
On a recent photo shoot in New York, Vishavjit Singh and photographer Fiona Aboud explored a Sikh version Captain America. See photos and commentary about this project by Vishavjit Singh on Sikhtoons.
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Categories: Hate Crimes, Picture of the Day • Tags: Captain America, Central Park, Fiona Aboud, hate crimes, National Public Radio, New York, NPR, Seattle Times, Sikhtoons, Vishavjit Singh
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Captain America was a Cold War character. IIRC, in the 1960’s ear animated series, one of his foes was the Red Skull which was a thinly veiled reference to all matters Soviet. I take it that even with the recent movie release, the character still sufferes time-boundedness to an era where if “it were not white, it was not right.” Great job veer-ji in applying the needed Harvinder Smack® to the comics industry. I have become vexed and weary of seeing superheros the epitome of Goracity and all the villains looking so coincidentally “diverse”.
Ellid
Totally wrong. Captain America was created in 1940, a good decade before the Cold War, as a plea for intervention against the Nazis. He fought in World War II, sometimes alongside the Soviets (who were our Allies against Hitler), and with very few exceptions (like the Cold War version you’re probably thinking of – which lasted less than a year and was so out of character that he’s since been retconned into being a racist nut wannabe who basically blackmailed the government into appointing him as Captain America) he’s always been portrayed as an unreconstructed New Deal liberal. His best friend in modern America (Sam Wilson) is a social worker in Harlem, his best friend growing up in the 20s was gay, and he has absolutely no problems working with women or minorities.
And oh – the Red Skull was a NAZI, not a Soviet. It was true in the comics, it was true in the movies, and it was true in the 1960s TV show…which was taken directly from the comic books and depicted both the Skull, and Captain America, as being very firmly based in the 1940s, not the Cold War.
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@Ellid – In using the words “EPIC FAIL”, you have negated whatever moral standing (i.e. duty to be regarded) you possessed previous to the use of the words.
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I Give Up: Football
I grew up with football.
As a boy I chose to support my local team, which just happened to be Manchester United. In this I went against my Dad who, though born and raised in Rotherham, had fallen hard for Bill Shankley’s Liverpool. I spent my pocket money on Shoot! magazine, started and started-then-forgot their League Table ladder each season. I collected and swapped Panini stickers and pestered my parents to buy me replica shirts, which decorated my bedroom walls once i’d grown out of them.
I played football too. For my junior school, which essentially involved joining one of two opposing Ant Hill Mobs scuttling about the pitch, a tiny, rock hard Mitre ball concealed somewhere beneath that riotous millipede. I still remember my first ever proper goal, a scuffed affair from the edge of the area which somehow crept through a forest of legs and past a diving goal-keeper who, in my memory, was wearing his grey wool school jumper. I can’t honestly remember loving playing football for its own sake, perhaps I did, but I sure loved the competition. I can clearly recall the thrill, the tightening in my stomach as our Cub Scout team waited to take the pitch in one of seemingly countless five-a-side competitions. The nerves were almost overwhelming, the disorientating rush of the ten minutes’ pitch time addictive. Most of all, the winning, or the tantalising prospect of it. Family photo albums are well stocked with pictures of our team, often having just lost a tournament final. All the other boys will be smiling and proudly showing their silver medals. Inevitably, I will be crying.
I stopped playing, other than in the street or the park, when I got to high school. I guess I must have failed to make the school team. I carried on following United and, as these things seem to go, as boys develop to use talking about football as a proxy for other more difficult conversations, their success, week by week if not at that stage year by year (by the time I was 18 I had seen them win just two trophies), became increasingly important to me. Following football results on TV became part of life.
Football wasn’t actually on TV all that much in the late 70s, early 80s, but the vidiprinter was there as the results rolled in every Saturday at 4.45, the weird names of unimaginable teams intoxicating to an 8 year-old boy, and once a year there was a whole day’s worth of TV coverage on FA Cup Final day. The World Cup, when it came around, was mind-blowing, a genuinely exotic jamboree.
By the time I was in high school football was part of my life. I was distraught when Maradona cheated us out of a World Cup final, distraught when Waddle and Pearce missed their penalties. By the time I got to college I was spending much more time listening to music and actually hanging out with friends. Eventually, around age 17, I started to develop a different sense of who I was, or could be, and instead of waiting for football results to come in, I was listening to John Peel and learning reference points from the NME and Sounds.
It went away, and then it came back. I came off the educational conveyor belt at 21 and had to get a job, which involved spending time with other people. People who weren’t interested in The Fall or Pavement, but who seemed to be interested in football. I can clearly remember deliberately rekindling an interest in the professional game in my early 20s as a tactical measure to enable me to get into and hold conversations at work and also when meeting people for the first time. And once those acquaintances had been made, then a shared interest in football, with the ready-made wrapping of needling and rivalry in which it comes delivered, was part of their foundation. So I had to keep it up and, eventually, it got its hooks into me once more.
I accidentally punched my girlfriend, now wife, on the chin when Sheringham and Solskjaer won the European Cup for Manchester United. The commentary still gives me shivers. When Sol Campbell’s headed goal against Argentina was disqualified I was half way through an emphatic knee-slide. I sulked for about three days afterwards, just as I had after Paul Gascoigne slid past the ball in extra time against Germany two years earlier and England went on to lose a penalty shoot-out once more.
By now BBC 5 Live was running almost constant commentary, as the fixture schedule fragmented to take advantage of a product that could be sold into a multi-platform media. You could listen to football most days of the week, and sometimes it seemed like I did. I’d have it on in the kitchen, in the car, and then i’d find myself hanging out in the kitchen doing the washing up for 90 minutes instead of 15, just so I would know whether West Brom or Sunderland had won, even though that had next to no bearing on my team.
Football detail changes constantly, but football is knowable. If you want a steady stream of facts and viewpoints with which to build conversations and opinions of your own, with next to no thought necessary or philosophical risk entailed, then football provides, forever and ever, Amen.
Marx described religion as “the opium of the people” and we seem in part to have taken notice of him and begun to shake off that particular oppressive habit. But if you’re looking for an activity which consumes enormous amounts of human energy, commitment, thought and passion (and money), to no great end, then look no further than professional football. Sure, I know, some of you think it’s ‘the beautiful game’, but anything with patterns and human endeavour and inherent triumph can and will appear beautiful if you invest in it sufficiently. If you tell yourself that it is, it can be. And sometimes that can be wonderful. And sometimes it can drain your time and your passion and leave you with nothing.
To be clear, I have no problem if you or anyone chooses to make this particular investment. We all need to pass the time, and one of the secrets to passing it happily is finding activities which can fully absorb you. Following football can, and clearly does, offer that possibility. I do, however, have a problem with the pervasive notion that it is somehow intrinsically important. And yes, I know that culture is a large part of what makes us who we are, and football is part of our culture, but lots of aspects of our culture could magically disappear and we wouldn’t feel compelled to reinvent them.
Ultimately, professional football is a theatre, a shadowplay watched by willing millions, which provides endless fodder for pointless thought. How many dystopian fictions feature sport as public spectacle, designed to take up the time and energy of the people to stop them worrying about what is really going on? The future is now and professional football does that job pretty effectively.
I knew all this even as I carried on following, even as a growing sense that I was willingly surrendering my time to something ultimately meaningless. Then in 2010 two things happened. Firstly, a genuinely dismal showing by England in the World Cup. This time we didn’t even exit with a sense that we could have done well. As fans we all inflated our dreams, as we are required to, and the team gave us nothing in return. Previous World Cups had let us down from a great height. This one never even lifted us off the ground. England were never going to win the World Cup, and to tell myself they might was no longer taking a whirl on a fairground ride. It felt like a huge waste of emotional capital.
Secondly, some months later, Wayne Rooney started talking about leaving Manchester United because thet weren’t successful enough. I wrote about how that made me feel, and realised that football was taking my time, my energy, my thoughts and giving me nothing back other than the occasional poke in the eye or punch in the guts.
I stopped watching, listening, following there and then.
I have to tell you, it seems like it’s been easy enough. Once you set your mind against something, there’s a sharp, acidic pleasure to be found in denying it, in realising that you could easily go towards it, but you’re deliberately turning away. Finding that, in part, is the secret to quitting.
Since then I’ve watched perhaps two games, just to see whether I cared. I think one of these was a Manchester derby. I can’t remember what the result was. I still hear match reports on the radio, but every time I do, the skin which has grown over that part of my heart which used to beat for football adds another layer. I surprised myself just how quickly and completely I was able to cut it out of my life.
It turns out there are other things to talk about, and that most people don’t bring up football unbidden. Perhaps they too are just using it as conversational material. Perhaps they too know it’s a hollow charade.
2 footnotes:
1. This, from Mitchell and Webb.
2. Ironically, I started playing football again a couple of years ago, joining regular five-a-side games at work. And I absolutely love it. It’s not my sport, but I can run around with no expectation or pressure and just enjoy the competition, the physical expression, the comedy and trying to get better. I leave each game with a huge smile on my face. Football can be a beautiful game.
Date January 5, 2014
Tags football, i give up, manchester united, opium, quitting, stopping
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Dave Brown
Hi Rob
Like you, I grew up being football daft, my earliest memory being of playing football in the primary school playground, kicking about a small bit of wood, not unlike a puck – although never having actually seen one, I can’t say for sure. I do recall my mum getting a bit ratty with me as I soon developed holes in the front of my shoes – like little mouths on the toe of the each shoe.
Growing up on the outskirts of Glasgow, unlike some, I didn’t support either Rangers or Celtic; if someone asked who you supported, you had a 50/50 chance of saying the wrong team and getting a bit of a slap for it. So I supported my local team – Kirkintilloch Rob Roy. This was ‘Junior’ football, I guess a bit like the Conference league but without the opportunity to for promotion to the Third Division.
Anyway, on to Cubs, then the Boys Brigade, sometimes playing two games on a weekend.. Then a brief spell playing for an amateur team and, having joined the Civil Service, playing for my employers in a local civil service league. The usual venue was Glasgow Green, where the pitches were not green, but orange, like the stuff tennis courts are sometimes made of. You learnt quickly how to fall over and sliding tackles were oddly uncommon. And no sliding on your knees after scoring a goal. Our other frequent venue was a City Council pitch, one of about 20, at the bottom of a slope. Rain being what it is, tends to drain down, so even then on a grassy pitch there wasn’t much grass.
Moving to Devon was interesting, playing in the South Devon League – around Totnes, when I wasn’t lentil chewing, of course. And so it continued for many years until I gave up the Saturday games when I was approaching 50.
After that, on to 5 a side in a Plymouth Business League at the Mayflower Centre, which had a custom built 5 a side pitch, with goals sunk into the walls. A brilliant venue, which I think was demolished to make way for something bigger and better.
After years of abuse, my knees finally succumbed to arthritis, and presently there is no ability to run, let alone twist, swerve or do anything vaguely balletic. (Admittedly, even with good knees the word balletic didn’t often come into it!)
If you’ve got this far, thanks for reading. It’s been interesting casting my mind back to times gone, even if I can’t express myself with the same eloquence that you employ.
monstershark
Thanks Dave. That’s a lovely comment packed with evocative detail, and plenty eloquent. From this day forth I shall declare myself a Kirkintilloch Rob Roy supporter. I now feel as if my years following United were an even bigger waste!
Thanks for that, but just to waste a few more moments of our collective time, I shall add a couple more bits of trivia:
1) Kirkintilloch, from about 1900 until around 1970 was a town without a pub, or a hotel – population circa 25,000. Every four years, they had a ‘veto’ poll (aka referendum) and until ’70 all the drinkers were, shall we say, somewhat apathetic.
2) I’m assuming you might not even have heard of Junior football? But it was well supported. My team made the Scottish Junior Cup Final one year: attendance 60,000! I think the team still exists…
I’ll leave it now.
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The judge's wife, Marilyn Galt, the local superintendent of schools, adds, "I don't re member a racially motivated fight at school last year." Not bad for an ethnic mix with 45 percent Navajo and the rest split between Hispanics and Anglos. Of course, they often have other kinds of fights. People in Magdalena take football seriously. And, indeed, a state policeman was protecting the peace when I accompanied Magdalena's maroon-and-white Steers westward to play the Golden Eagles of Que mado, population about 400. With such a shortage of people, some schools play foot ball with six-man teams. BUT IF the Plains of San Agustin some times seem lonely, solitude there is also a natural resource. Thanks to an absence of electrical interfer ence-and to the high, wide, and handsome topography-the largest employer is known by the initials VLA. The letters stand for Very Large Array, and large it is. The National Radio Astrono my Observatory has mounted 27 antennas here, some of them within sight of Grand pa's Montosa pastures. Each antenna weighs 235 tons and measures 82 feet across. (Marvin Ake calls them daisies-and then he spits.) Arranged in a Y shape along a 23-mile stretch of real estate, the antennas work as a 610 unit, like a single telescopic lens 23 miles across. This system reaches farther into space than any other telescope on earth. Soon special adapters will make VLA a hearing aid for NASA, so that in August 1989 the weak signal of Voyager II can be heard when it passes the planet Neptune nearly three billion miles away. But astronomers remain greedy for more and more information. The next telescope generation, funded by the National Science Foundation, is called the VLBA-the Very Long Baseline Array. Radio antennas will be located at points from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands-making a telescope 5,000 miles across. "It will be just like read ing a newspaper in San Francisco-from Washing ton, D. C." So says Peter Napier, project manager. What news that imagi nary paper will publish! The VLBA will directly deter mine the rate of continental ^ drift, the speed of the earth's rotation and the wobble of its axis, even the effect of at mospheric wind on the ro tating earth. Astronomers will be better able to probe the gaseous clouds where stars are being born, to mea sure distances to our neigh boring galaxies, and even to help determine the size and age of the universe. The whole project will be coordinated by a digi tal computer system centered in Socorro, New Mexico, population 8,100. The boom in science, however, hides hard times for the livestock business. The presi dent of the New Mexico Cattle Growers' As sociation, Peter T. Mocho, says: "We've got rich ranchers, but it's taken them 60 years to get that way. For others, it's a struggle. We lost 400 members in recent years, mostly small ranchers who went out of business. Once we had 5,000 cattle ranches in the state. Now it's more like 3,000." Why? Rising costs, an uncertain labor supply, market fluctuations. ("If cattle prices were as high as the grass this year, we'd be OK. ") But a special problem here is NationalGeographic,November 1987
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Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default [Updated]
Encrypted storage will only be required in "future versions of Android."
Andrew Cunningham - Mar 2, 2015 5:00 pm UTC
Enlarge / Android 5.0 Lollipop doesn't require full-disk encryption by default after all.
Android L will have device encryption on by default
Last year, Google made headlines when it revealed that its next version of Android would require full-disk encryption on all new phones. Older versions of Android had supported optional disk encryption, but Android 5.0 Lollipop would make it a standard feature.
But we're starting to see new Lollipop phones from Google's partners, and they aren't encrypted by default, contradicting Google's previous statements. At some point between the original announcement in September of 2014 and the publication of the Android 5.0 hardware requirements in January of 2015, Google apparently decided to relax the requirement, pushing it off to some future version of Android. Here's the timeline of events.
Loud announcement, quiet backtracking
Google's decision to encrypt new Lollipop devices by default was reported widely, in both tech-focused and mainstream publications.
“For over three years Android has offered encryption, and keys are not stored off of the device, so they cannot be shared with law enforcement,” Google spokeswoman Niki Christoff told The Washington Post in September. “As part of our next Android release, encryption will be enabled by default out of the box, so you won't even have to think about turning it on.”
Google reaffirmed the statement in an October blog post about Lollipop's security features. Encryption of the userdata partition would occur "at first boot," and it would be "on by default from the moment you power on a new device running Lollipop."
For a while, the only new devices we had that ran Lollipop were Google's own Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, both of which were indeed encrypted by default. Older devices that were upgraded to Lollipop—a number of older Nexus devices, the 2014 Moto G, and a handful of others—didn't enable encryption by default, even when you performed a full reset of the phone. This made some amount of sense; suddenly encrypting devices that weren't designed with encryption in mind could impact performance and cause complaints.
A little over three months after Lollipop's release, we're finally beginning to see new devices from third parties. One is the second-generation Moto E. Its userdata partition is not encrypted by default. Ars Reviews Editor Ron Amadeo tells me that new Galaxy S6 demo units at Mobile World Congress aren't encrypted by default either.
We asked both Motorola and Google about this, and we eventually discovered what was going on. The latest version of the Android Compatibility Definition document (PDF), the guidelines OEMs must follow to create Google-approved Lollipop devices, includes a subtle change in policy. Here's the relevant passage, emphasis Google's:
9.9 Full-Disk Encryption
If the device implementation has a lock screen, the device MUST support full-disk encryption of the application private data (/data patition) as well as the SD card partition if it is a permanent, non-removable part of the device. For devices supporting full-disk encryption, the full-disk encryption SHOULD be enabled all the time after the user has completed the out-of-box experience. While this requirement is stated as SHOULD for this version of the Android platform, it is very strongly RECOMMENDED as we expect this to change to MUST in the future versions of Android.
In short, devices are required to support encryption, but it's still up to OEMs to actually enable it; this is exactly what Google was doing in KitKat and older versions (PDF, see section 9.9). Full-disk encryption is expected to become a requirement in some future Android version, but it remains optional in Lollipop despite Google's earlier statements.
Enlarge / Complaints about the Nexus 6's performance may have pressured Google to drop the requirement.
Ron Amadeo
We've asked Google why it relaxed that requirement after publicizing it so prominently, but the company hasn't responded to our inquiry as of this writing. We'll publish an update if it does.
Here's what we think is most likely. Lollipop's encryption requirement made headlines again in November, this time because it had a huge impact on the new Nexus 6's performance. Our review of the Nexus 6 showed that the new phone could be slower than the old Nexus 5 in certain tasks, and AnandTech supplied additional numbers that showed just how severe the performance impact was.
Those reports were circulated pretty widely—Google "Lollipop encryption" and stories about the slowdown dominate the first page. By the time the compatibility definition document was updated in January, full-disk encryption was no longer a required feature.
Our best guess at this point is that the encrypted-by-default requirement was relaxed to give OEMs more time to prepare their hardware for the transition. The performance problems can be offset by using faster flash memory, faster file systems like F2FS, and chips that are better at encrypting and decrypting data quickly, but phones and tablets take long enough to design that OEMs will need time to make these changes. Whether the change in policy was prompted by external pressure or an internal decision isn't clear, but the performance explanation makes the most logical sense.
If you want encryption on your Android phone now, you'll still have to enable it yourself. Unfortunately, even though this compatibility document was published over a month ago, most publications and Android users still believe that Lollipop will encrypt their devices by default. Google needs to make it clear that it has changed its policy.
Update: In a statement to Engadget, Google confirmed that "performance issues on some partner devices" is to blame for the backtracking. The company said it would continue encrypting Nexus devices by default, and that Google remains "firmly committed to encryption because it helps keep users safe and secure on the web."
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oj88 wrote:
Silellak wrote:
Honest question that I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can answer: Why does Android suffer such performance hits when encryption is enabled, but iOS does not? Is it primarily a hardware failing or a software failing?
Didn't the Nexus 6 come out with encryption enabled but WITHOUT a dedicated hardware component for it? Then there's your answer. Devices need good hardware support as statet in the article. Apple has it.
Yup, looks like I found my answer:
"Apparently, Google has not merged the various drivers that optimize Qualcomm's QCE module for encryption and decryption into AOSP. The generally-assumed reason is that this code is proprietary. Without these optimizations, the Nexus 6's hardware decryption module on the Snapdragon 805 is essentially hamstrung."
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THavoc wrote:
If I were to guess, I'd say it's the custom processor Apple uses. They are able to coordinate the software & hardware better.
It's not so much the software/hardware integration as the single target architecture. Linux support for the the standard ARM encryption extensions was published way back in September of 2013, but those extensions are only part of the ARMv8-A architecture. The Nexus 6 and most other Android phones still use ARMv7-A CPUs, and ARM has stated they have no plans to back-port the extensions to newer versions of those chips. Given this it makes sense for Google to leave this decision up to OEMs. Once ARMv8 is more ubiquitous, though, I would expect them to revisit the issue.
BTW, the terms SHOULD and MUST have very specific meanings, defined in RFC 2119.
Andrew Cunningham Andrew wrote and edited tech news and reviews at Ars Technica from 2012 to 2017, where he still occasionally freelances; he is currently a lead editor at Wirecutter. He also records a weekly book podcast called Overdue.
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An interactive new exhibition by second year Architecture students from The Arts University Bournemouth that combines structural engineering, acoustics and materials which emphasise the haptic experience of architecture.
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Sediment yield, spatial characteristics, and the long-term evolution of active earthflows determined from airborne LiDAR and historical aerial photographs, Eel River, California
Mackey, Benjamin H. and Roering, Joshua J. (2011) Sediment yield, spatial characteristics, and the long-term evolution of active earthflows determined from airborne LiDAR and historical aerial photographs, Eel River, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123 (7-8). pp. 1560-1576. ISSN 0016-7606. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110620-135047046
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In mountainous landscapes with weak, fine-grained rocks, earthflows can dominate erosion and landscape evolution by supplying sediment to channels and controlling hillslope morphology. To estimate the contribution of earthflows to regional sediment budgets and identify patterns of landslide activity, earthflow movement needs to be quantified over significant spatial and temporal scales. Presently, there is a paucity of data that can be used to predict earthflow behavior beyond the seasonal scale or over spatially extensive study areas. Across 226 km^2 of rapidly eroding Franciscan Complex rocks of the Eel River catchment, northern California, we used a combination of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and orthorectified historical aerial photographs to objectively map earthflow movement between 1944 and 2006. By tracking the displacement of trees growing on earthflow surfaces, we find that 7.3% of the study area experienced movement over this 62 yr interval, preferentially in sheared argillaceous lithology. This movement is distributed across 122 earthflow features that have intricate, elongate planform shapes, a preferred south-southwesterly aspect, and a mean longitudinal slope of 31%. The distribution of mapped earthflow areas is well-approximated by a lognormal distribution with a median size of 36,500 m^2. Approximately 6% of the study area is composed of earthflows that connect to major channels; these flows generated an average sediment yield of 19,000 t km^(−2) yr^(−1) (rock erosion rate of ∼7.6 mm/yr) over the 62 yr study period, equating to a regional yield of 1100 t km^(−2) yr^(−1) (∼0.45 mm/yr) if distributed across the study area. As such, a small fraction of the landscape can account for half of the regional denudation rate estimated from suspended sediment records (2200 t km^(−2) yr^(−1) or ∼0.9 mm/yr). We propose a conceptual model for long-term earthflow evolution wherein earthflows experience intermittent activity and long periods of dormancy when limited by the availability of readily mobilized sediment on upper slopes. Ultimately, high-order river channels and ephemeral gully networks may serve to destabilize hillslopes, controlling the evolution of earthflow-prone terrain.
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© 2011 Geological Society of America. Received 26 March 2010; Revision received 10 October 2010; Accepted 12 October 2010. This research was funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant (Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics, EAR-0447190) to J. Roering. B. Mackey was partially supported by the “Fulbright EQC Award in Natural Disaster Research” from New Zealand. The LiDAR data were acquired by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in 2006. We thank Calvin and Wendy Stewart for field access and generous hospitality, and the Lone Pine and Island Mountain ranches for fi eld access. We benefited from fruitful discussions with Harvey Kelsey and Jim McKean over the course of this research. We thank Harvey Kelsey, Bill Haneberg, Grant Meyer, and Associate Editor Jon Major for insightful reviews that greatly improved this manuscript.
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US maple syrup production up despite shorter season
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In this March 9, 2016, file photo, a bottle of maple syrup are displayed at the Merrifield Farm and Sugar Shack in Gorham, Maine.
Lisa Rathke, The Associated Press • June 16, 2019 12:33 pm
MONTPELIER, Vt. — U.S. maple syrup production increased slightly this year, even though the sap-collecting season was shorter than last year’s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The country produced 4.2 million gallons of the pancake topper, up 1 percent from 2018.
Vermont, the country’s leading producer, made more than 2 million gallons.
New York, which yielded 820,000 gallons, followed, according to the data released this week. Then came Maine with 580,000 gallons and Wisconsin with 270,000 gallons. Michigan ended up with 195,000 gallons and Pennsylvania produced 157,000 gallons. New Hampshire, the only state in the available data to see a decline in production, yielded 148,000 gallons. Total production numbers were not available for some other maple-producing states.
The maple season requires warm days and nights below freezing for the sap to flow in maple trees. The sap is then boiled into syrup. This year’s season lasted an average of 30 days in the syrup-producing states, compared with 42 days in 2018, the USDA said.
In Vermont, the season started later than in recent years, worrying some producers that it would be too short. But the state ended up producing more syrup than in 2018. It also had 330,000 more taps in trees this year for a total of 6 million taps that helped to draw more sap.
Amanda Voyer, executive director of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association, said she was even shocked by the amount produced. A number of sugar makers reported one or two record-breaking days of sap flow, she said.
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FLORIDA High School teacher doesn’t think students need to learn about the Holocaust because he isn’t sure whether or not it really happened
July 7, 2019 by BareNakedIslam 27 Comments
The mother of a student at the Spanish River High School, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the state never expected the response she got when she wrote to the principal asking about the teaching of the Holocaust. In an email reply, Principal William Latson explained that the lessons are “not forced upon students as we all have the same rights but not all the same beliefs.”
Palm Beach Post Was the principal of one of Palm Beach County’s largest public schools, a 2,500-student campus west of Boca Raton that has one of the county’s largest Jewish student populations, suggesting that the Holocaust was a belief rather than an actual event? Thinking Latson simply had expressed himself poorly, she wrote back, asking him to clarify his comments. “The Holocaust is a factual, historical event,” she wrote. “It is not a right or a belief.”
She expected a chastened response. Instead, the veteran principal doubled down.
“Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened,” he wrote, according to email records obtained by The Palm Beach Post through a public records request. “And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.” (Does anyone know how many Muslims are in this school?)
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” Latson wrote.
The mother didn’t doubt that Latson knew the Holocaust was real, she said in an interview, but she feared his reluctance to say so stemmed from a desire to avoid confronting (Muslim?) parents who deny the Holocaust’s reality.
Denying or minimizing the Holocaust is described even by the far left Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that monitors hate groups, as “an essential manifestation of anti-Semitism.” Why, the mother wondered, would a lifelong educator cast a historical fact as a “belief” to appease anyone? (Muslim pressure?)
This caused a small furor in the school district’s upper ranks, which had to grapple with whether and how to admonish a longtime principal of a high-performing school for his troubling statements. But it ultimately left the mother frustrated, alleging that the school balked at putting in place some educational reforms she suggested and did too little to hold Latson, the school’s principal since 2011, accountable for his words.
In a statement to The Post, Latson apologized for the way he expressed himself in his emails, saying it was not indicative of his actual beliefs or regard for historical fact. He pointed out that Spanish River High’s educational offerings on the Holocaust exceed the state’s requirements.
The Holocaust is taught, he said, in ninth- and 10th-grade English classes, as a component of U.S. history and world history courses, as a separate elective course.
But the mother wasn’t satisfied. She told Latson her child had informed her that not all of the supposed educational efforts were carried out in the classroom. She asked that teachers be required to document their Holocaust lessons and readings. The suggestion was initially embraced, she said, but ultimately ignored.
While the mother said district administrators agreed to implement the teachings in required courses at the school , during the past school year, they failed to do so. Read More
I guess we can thank the two new radical Congressmuslims for making Jew-hatred acceptable in America now.
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Fear the Legion says
Former President and FIVE star General Dwight David Eisenhower (IKE) told his staff to allow filming of the thousands of bodies in the concentration camps at the end of the second world war. It is claimed he said “film all of it in a hundred years some son of a bitch will claim it never happened.” It seems Ike was totally correct.
BareNakedIslam says
And it didn’t take anywhere near 100 years.
Susan Geary says
This is sad that a high school teacher would say this. I don’t have a degree and I KNOW it happened.
Leslie Fish says
You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. Any educator who denies proven facts to ingratiate himself with certain political groups should be booted out of the school system.
Andrew says
Did slavery happen, did the Roman Empire happen, did muhamad meet an Angel in a cave or was all of that just a thought, a belief, and may or may not have really happened.
American Schools are sure turning out some ignorant students and thats just exactly how CAIR wants it to be.
DebB says
Mohamed’s report that he met an angel in a cave isn’t exactly on the same plane as the archeological and documentary evidence for the Roman Empire, or for slavery. The first is definitely “belief”. The other two can be objectively demonstrated.
Interesting that this has happened in a bastion of the Democrat Party. The same two counties with questionable election behavior during Bush/Gore and just recently Trump/Clinton. Appears the problem is much bigger than this principal.
tommy mc donnell says
that principal is symptomatic of the teaching profession, people that believe their own personal opinions are the only thing that should be taught in the classroom. kind of like judges.
Tommy, he keeps talking about the “policy.” He is following orders whether he agrees with them or not.
Then find out where this “policy” came from, and fire whoever imposed it.
LF, the entire public education system in America is run by the Left. This policy no doubt came from the top down. And it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if some of those people are Jewish.
Az gal says
That principal even looks like he could be a Muzzwart. Good for this Mom to try to correct this situation. I can’t imagine what the future holds. Maybe the Holocaust will become legend only.
LJW says
He is either a Muslim by birth or a convert.
LJW, neither. He is following orders as he keeps repeating it is the “policy.”
thorkill says
Perfect now we don’t have to pay blacks for having been slaves. Has anyone ever seen an American slave? No, photos don’t count. Jesse Jackson or Farrakan or some other misfit may have altered them over the years. Thus, using this educators logic slavery in America never happened. For added proof my Uncle doesn’t believe it either and he’s real smart(SARC OFF).
Cleavis Nowell (@CleavisNowell) says
No human dignity in islam ideology only the arrogance of rabid hyenas and also no “golden period” at anytime in their 4th world ummah caliphates. The grand mufti feasted on blood and George Soros on loot and plunder in WWII.
Linda Rivera says
Sahih Bukhari (52:177) – Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
Muslim rabid JEW HATERS are VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED to teaching the Holocaust. We must never allow imported Muslims to ERASE TRUTH. To Erase HISTORY. NO other people group seek to do this. Only Muslims.
Thousands of years before the Military-Political Conquest Cult of Islam was invented, the HOLY ONE of Israel, our Majestic, Glorious Creator gave Israel to Jews as an Everlasting Possession.
The Enemies of Jews and Israel are the ENEMIES of ALMIGHTY GOD:
BIBLE, Psalm 83
1 O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant….
Arnold Jackson says
Public schools have become imitators of reeducation camps.
T.A. Parnell says
AND YOU WONDER WHY KIDS ARE SO DUMB
Not dumb, ignorant.
smooth lee says
“(Does anyone know how many Muslims are in this school?)”
One would be too many.
And that teacher is one-too-many pandering idiots -more likely a Holocaust denier himself- in a public educational environment. I wonder if he takes prayer breaks a certain few times a day?
That’s the principal.
I realized that after posting. A teacher, a principle, and who knows how many more of their colleagues in positions of “authority” are of the same attitude. It appears an infestation.
ian swanson says
someone should ask the illustrious principal if slavery ever happened,or maybe it was a myth.
Sarthurk says
This is a sure indicator that Muslim terrorism is working. But then again this is pretty obvious in most of Europe and the UK
Grace Joy says
If conservatives don’t take back the schools, USA is done for. Trump is merely giving us time to make our peace with the world before the Leftist Elite & their Muslim (BLM, Antfia, Trans, NOI, black Hebrew Israelites, etc.) are triggered to “rise up” & slaughter as many of us as they can in a week, month, or year.
Quran 8:67 “It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land…”
Aprilyn says
The Miami/Dade as well as the Broward school system (& Palm Beach), are controlled by Democrat school board.
The same policies that caused the Stoneman-Douglas school schooling deaths, is still alive & well in these school districts.
Because the Democrat Party kills!
So it should come as NO surprise that the school board promotes a Holocaust Denial message!
Oh, these ppl “CHOOSE “ their insanity & their STUPIDY. All anyone needs do is go to Miami Beach & see the “Holocaust Museum “ to get educated.
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The Island Scenario: The Ethics of Property & Wealth
Bassam Salem / September 8, 2013
We live in a very complex world. We spend a great deal of our childhood trying to better understand that world. We try to wrap our heads around the notions of a modern legal system with all of its intricacies, today’s unbelievably complex financial systems, and complex rules around the rights of people to the earth’s resources from land to water to minerals. It’s nearly overwhelming for a layperson to understand it all.
One possible solution to mitigating that complexity: consider a simpler scenario that can shed some light on what I believe to be a bit of an ethical conundrum. So, please bear with me.
Imagine a scenario where a few thousand humans are stranded indefinitely on an island (yes, I, too, immediately thought of a bigger version of the TV series ‘Lost‘ :-)). These humans would arrive to the island as equals with no belongings whatsoever. Further imagine that these now ‘islanders’ come from a variety of backgrounds and belief systems, and are of different ages.
Let’s use this scenario to understand a bit about the world in which we live, how we might have gotten here, and, most importantly, the ethical implications of the situation.
Laws & Governance
A colonial prison in the Bahamas.
How would a form of governance be born? Would the strong dominate the weak referring to themselves as kings with the right of their children to continue that dominance or would a more uniformly-distributed form of government take hold? How would initial laws be developed given potential disagreements between the population of the island? Would some islanders refuse to comply with that governance choosing to instead form their own set of rules? What would they be labeled and how would they be treated?
Would the form of government be on a part-time, volunteer basis or would taxes begin to be collected to pay for a professional class of governors whose lives are spent within the newly-formed system? Would there be many who would disagree with that notion?
Real estate in the forest: a shed in Sweden (not an island :-)).
Would private land ownership exist or would it all be “public property”? If it is private, how would one gain rights to land, especially the most desirable land which everybody might desire? Would those closer to the new form of government be perceived as receiving privileges not available to those who are ‘outsiders’? In short, how would initial land rights materialize in a world where no one can legitimately claim to have such initial right?
Coconuts in Fiji.
How would all of the island’s natural resources be distributed? Some resources, like fruits and fish, are, if managed effectively, renewable on an on-going basis; others, such as lumber from large trees and minerals from the ground, are not-so-renewable.
There are only a few areas of the island where rain water collects; how would access to the water be regulated with everyone desiring access to water for drinking, bathing, and growing crops?
Who gets the rights to these resources and to what degree can they consume them or “sell them” to the rest of the islanders?
Private Banking System
Old coins from a Roman monetary system.
After some time spent trading resources, would the islanders eventually create a currency? Would a private banking system then grow where a bank can borrow money from the ‘government’ and loan it out to them at a higher rate so as it can both pay for its employees and make a profit?
The Island Scenario Conundrum
Humans are born into the world having had no opportunity to frame it. They essentially join an island whose laws, financial system, and property rights have already been established for them; they must now be held accountable to those laws and must be satisfied with whatever existing status quo exists in terms of a political system, “wealth”, and property that humans before them have established. Certainly, they are encouraged to strive to work within that status quo to carve out a part of the island for themselves; however, one thing they can’t escape is that they’re inheriting thousands of years circumstances and decisions beyond their control.
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Kerber, Bencic power into Indian Wells semis
A slew of errors came at the worst possible time for Venus Williams as she blew a first set tiebreak before losing 7-6(3) 6-3 to Angelique Kerber in the Indian Wells quarter-finals.
Momentum swung firmly in Kerber's favour during the tie-break when Williams committed six unforced errors, including a backhand into the net that handed the German the set.
The match, which featured two former world number ones, ended when Williams sent a backhand long on match point.
Three-times Grand Slam champion Kerber, who is looking for a maiden title in Indian Wells, will next play Belinda Bencic after the Swiss beat world number five Karolina Pliskova 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the quarter-final earlier in the day.
Kerber said she struggled to impose her game on the American.
"I was really trying, in the first set especially, to find my rhythm and play my tennis but it was not so easy," she told reporters.
"To play against Venus, it's always tough. I'm happy I won the first set and then could move in and play a little bit better in the second set."
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Bencic, who defeated world number one and defending champion Naomi Osaka on Tuesday, secured the win when Pliskova could not return a serve on match point.
The 22-year-old Swiss could have had an even easier time against the Czech but converted just four of her 16 break-point opportunities.
Last month's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships winner matched Pliskova's seven aces with seven of her own on the way to logging her 12th straight victory.
"She knows she has the big serve and big groundstrokes," she said of her friend and practice partner Pliskova.
"Obviously, my plan was to try to make her rally and try to be good in the defensive and also try to be dominant when I can."
Since the beginning of the year world number 23 Bencic has defeated six top-10 opponents and looks to have put behind her the injury woes that plagued her last year.
"It's been a dream. I wouldn't believe I win today," she told reporters.
"I'm not going to the court with any expectations I'm just trying to play."
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Greyhounds going to the big game
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By: Connor Allen - Updated: 2 months ago
Hounds top Eagles 4-3 in D3 semifinals
ATASCADERO — Before the umpire could even turn his shoulder and point out his finger signaling a called strike, the celebration had already begun for the Greyhounds who are headed to the Division 3 CIF Central Section Championship baseball game after defeating Templeton 4-3 in Kidwell Stadium. From what the Atascadero News could gather, this was the first time the Hounds appeared in a CIF semifinal since 1995 and the first time they will get a chance to play for a CIF Championship in baseball in school history.
It was standing-room only at Atascadero on Wednesday afternoon as the North County of San Luis Obispo came together to cheer one of its teams to a CIF title game. There were kids with face paint, pom poms, coordinated cheers and a vibrant mix of oranges and greens as current and former Hounds and Eagles filled the stadium like the electronics sections of a Best Buy on Black Friday.
The Templeton Eagles had their ace on the mound for the big game — senior Justice Gibbons — to face-off against Atascadero’s No. 1 guy — Cade Van Allen. It was a power on power match-up as each pitcher relied heavily on their fastball and their velocity while mixing in the occasional curveball and change-up.
It didn’t take long for this one to get interesting as Van Allen struggled to find his command in the first inning, walking the first two batters for the Eagles and then plunking the third to load the bases with no outs recorded. A passed ball to the backstop brought in a run and suddenly Templeton was in the driver's seat with two on, no outs and a run already home. It looked as though the Hounds might have to go early to their bullpen but Van Allen quickly put that notion to bed as he struck out the next three batters to get out of the inning only trailing 1-0.
“I was so proud of myself to battle back like that,” Van Allen said following the game. “I was struggling with my command in the beginning but I dialed it in, dialed in my mechanics and got out of it with three strikeouts. That gave me so much confidence throughout the game to throw my pitches and be good with what coach was calling and hitting my spots.”
Atascadero responded in the bottom half of the first with back-to-back hits, the second of which was a double by Blake Simonin, giving the Hounds two runners in scoring position with no outs. After a quick pop-out, senior Evyn Lade stepped into the box and hit a slow grounder to the shortstop who came home in an attempt to get the runner but was not in time and Atascadero tied the game at one. Next in the box was Van Allen who contributed to his own cause with a sacrifice fly to right field to take the lead 2-1.
Following a scoreless second inning, the Eagles retook the lead in the third doing all of their damage with two outs. A Gibbons single and a walk put two runners on and Macer Lardner crushed a single to centerfield scoring both runs and sending the third baseline visitor’s bleachers into a frenzy.
Gibbons pitched a scoreless third and scoreless fourth but the Hounds never put their heads down.
“This group has never faltered, they don’t panic,” AHS baseball coach Joe Davis said after the game. “And they know that there are plenty innings left and they grind to the last pitch and that is what makes them special.”
With the top of the order at bat in the fifth, Atascadero got a rally going. A Simonin walk and a Justin Vose single gave the Hounds some baserunners with their hottest hitter, Lade, up next. However, the senior accidentily bunted the ball into play on a check swing advancing the runners but surrendering an important out. Van Allen stepped into the box next looking for his pitch.
“I thought he was going to throw me a curveball and I guessed right,” Van Allen said. “He was slowing down in his velo so I figured we were going to get some more offspeed and I just changed my approach and shortened my swing.”
It was the biggest swing of the game, maybe the season, as the seeing-eye single found its way into left field. The throw to home was late and scooped up by Gibbons, who fired it to second base trying to get Ladel. Gibbons’ throw sailed high and skipped past the center fielder all the way to wall giving Atascadero a 4-3 lead with only six outs to go and the bottom of the lineup due up in the sixth.
Van Allen was pulled after the fifth with 10 strikeouts.
“Cade has the best stuff,” Davis said. “The question is if Cade can come out and deliver that stuff when it counts. We were willing to have a short hook if he was not there and bring Evyn in who has been on fire closing for us and can go deep in extra innings.”
Lade entered the game and pounded the strike zone. The Eagles hit a couple of rockets off Atascadero’s closer but hit them right at players wearing orange caps. Only needing one more strike, Lade threw a fastball outside that caught the corner and the celebration was on.
“It is a dream come true,” Lade said through a smile. “I have always wanted to do this and I am just really glad that for my last year I can go really far with my team.”
To even be in this game was impressive for these two teams that simply refused to quit all year even when the odds seemed stacked against them. Neither team entered the day with a winning record and neither will finish the season with one but it does not matter because they played their best when it mattered most.
“Well as the season has gone on we have talked about being mentally tough,” Davis said after the game. “These guys have really bought in, I give all the credit to them. They have worked really hard but the part that we were missing was the mental part and I think as the beginning of the season came on we were missing that piece. I think a lot of that might have just been them jelling with me and my coaching staff and since that point these guys have been awesome, they are grinders. They work hard and it is nice to see all the work that they are putting in is starting to pay dividends in CIF.”
Both teams began the year struggling, Templeton opened the season 2-8 in their first 10 while the Hounds started 1-9, but finished the year playing in the CIF Central Section semifinals.
“I am super proud of these guys, they came a long way,” Templeton head coach Rob Tompkins said. “We started almost a month and a half behind just on training and agility and for them to respond and have the last three weeks of the season that we had is very promising for next year.”
On Saturday, the Hounds, who are the No. 12 seed, will play for a CIF Championship against third-seeded Bakersfield-Highland at 12:30 p.m. at Fresno State. With Van Allen pitching today, that means that more than likely it will be the junior lefty in Vose on the bump for a chance to win a ring.
Council continues zoning talk
Summer music sessions at the Lake
Car enthusiasts enjoy Atascadero Lake Show
Bar plans to open in old Club Soda location
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LA VIE EN ROSE DONATES $2,500 TO THE ATLANTIC CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH
Dr. Gilles A. Robichaud, Researcher at the ACRI, and La Vie en Rose Champlain Place store employees.
Montreal, October 6th, 2014 – Today, La Vie en Rose, through its Roses of Hope Foundation, donated $2,500 to the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute for breast cancer research. The donation took place at the La Vie en Rose Champlain Place store in Dieppe, in the presence of the retailer's store employees and the beneficiary organization's representatives.
"It is important to us to involve the boutique's employees in the donation, as they are responsible for most of the funds we raise for our Roses of Hope Foundation," says Mr. François Roberge, President and CEO of La Vie en Rose and Board Member of the Roses of Hope Foundation. "We are proud of our employees who each year participate in our various fundraising activities, promote the Foundation products sold in stores to our customers and inform them about the Foundation."
"Metastasis, a cellular process allowing cancer cells to colonize other organs in the body, is responsible for almost 90% of deaths associated with breast cancer. Our research team is studying genetic and signaling networks which dictate breast cancer metastasis and disease progression. The support from La Vie en Rose will advance our research and understanding of metastatic molecular mechanisms which may provide insight for future therapeutic and diagnostic strategies in breast cancer patients," explains Dr. Gilles A. Robichaud, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dep. Of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Université de Moncton and research scientist at the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute.
The Roses of Hope Foundation raises its funds mainly through items sold in La Vie en Rose stores and online: a Roses of Hope PJ set, available throughout the fall, and Roses of Hope stuffed animals sold year-round. All are identified as a source of financing for the Foundation.
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La Vie en Rose is the leading Canadian specialty lingerie retailer catering to women aged 25-45. Known as bra specialists, La Vie en Rose also offers a range of lingerie, sleepwear, loungewear, and swimwear. Acquired in 1996 by President and CEO François Roberge, the chain now counts over 170 boutiques nationwide, divided into three store concepts: La Vie en Rose, La Vie en Rose Aqua, and La Vie en Rose Outlet. Since the beginning of its international expansion in 2004, La Vie en Rose has opened more than 75 boutiques outside Canada, in over 14 countries including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Algeria, and Kazakhstan. La Vie en Rose, headquartered in Montreal, is a true Canadian success story and continues its international growth.
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Atomic Insights
Atomic energy technology, politics, and perceptions from a nuclear energy insider who served as a US nuclear submarine engineer officer
Plutonium power for the people
September 11, 2012 By Rod Adams
One of the biggest threats to the continued wealth and power held by the global fossil fuel industry is a “plutonium economy” fueled by abundant resources of uranium that can be converted into fissile plutonium in a breeder reactor. (Yes, I know that a thorium economy is just as big of a threat to the dominant position of fossil fuels, but the understanding of the potential impact of that technology is less widespread than the understanding of fast breeder reactors.)
Of course, the fossil fuel industry has always employed plenty of experts in the field of communications. They also have a huge following of friends in the media, in finance and in government who have profited immensely by the hydrocarbon economy and would love to see those profitable relationships continue. Hydrocarbon communications experts and their friends recognized many decades ago that there would not be too many tears shed if they accurately explained why they were threatened by the idea of carbon based fuels being replaced in the energy market by concentrated fissile fuels, so they developed a much more effective sales pitch.
By helping to reinforce scary images of nuclear war and tying the fears inspired by those images to the materials used in building bombs, the antiplutonium propaganda machine has convinced many decision makers and voters that innovative machinery that turns relatively worthless uranium into useful fuel are secretly designed by mad scientists intent on creating bomb material. As one result of the effective campaign against plutonium, President Carter outlawed nuclear fuel recycling and turned multibillion dollar investments at Barnwell, South Carolina and at Clinch River, Tennessee from potentially profitable production facilities into expensive, non-functional eyesores.
Today, the propaganda machine is still actively working to stoke fears of plutonium because the material is still a strong threat to the prosperity of the fossil fuel industry.
After all, plutonium, like uranium and thorium, contains 2 million times as much energy per unit mass as oil. It releases that energy in the form of heat that can be converted into useful power in machines that are essentially identical to the heat engines used to convert coal heat into useful energy. It can be used in machines that are almost identical to those used to convert natural gas or diesel fuel heat into useful power, but that method is not yet in common use. Not only is heat from plutonium abundant and concentrated (which vastly reduces the transportation infrastructure required to supply power plants) fission heat also comes without any emissions of CO2, CO, SOX, NOX, fly ash, mercury or any of the other atmospheric pollution produced by burning stuff dug out of the ground.
This evening, at the Convention Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, there will be a public hearing about one way of using plutonium that is sure to be both informative and entertaining. The hearing is being held to obtain public comments on the Department of Energy’s Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The agency’s preferred alternative for disposing of 34 tons of plutonium made surplus by an arms agreement with Russia is to mix that fissile material with uranium to create a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel that is compatible with our current generation of light water reactors.
Aside: From a nuclear standpoint, plutonium is an almost exact replacement for uranium-235, which is the fissile part of low enriched nuclear fuel. By mixing Pu-239 from decomissioned nuclear weapons with either natural or depleted uranium in concentrations of about 5% Pu to 95% U, a MOX fuel rod will work just like an LEU fuel rod and last just as long in the reactor. The difference is that the process gets rid of unwanted material and does not require the effort or energy investment required to enrich natural uranium. End Aside.
People opposed to the use of plutonium would prefer for the valuable, energy-dense material to be encapsulated into glass logs and buried deep into the earth’s crust where even smarter future generations will have trouble getting to it. They want to ensure that it is never used for productive purposes that compete with other forms of energy. Word has it that some antiplutonium demonstrators are planning to dress up as zombies to protest the conversion of weapons material into fuel for electricity generating stations. The zombies will be the entertaining part of the evening.
Though I spent my first career as a part of the military industrial complex, I share concerns about nuclear weapons with some of the people who are going to be in costume. However, I prefer using a process that permanently eliminates the material while providing a useful product. Once fissioned, the plutonium can never fission again.
The informative part of the evening will be the comments provided by members of the American Nuclear Society who are going to attend the meeting and take the opportunity to express their facts and figures about the value of the material and the moral imperative of turning weapons into useful electrical power that can be used for an incredible array of useful applications. I hope that some of the ANS members also take advantage of the opportunity to express their pride and emotional connection with the technology that has so much potential for making life better for the vast majority of the world’s population that is not engaged in the business of selling fossil fuel.
PS My personal feeling about using MOX technology to purposely get rid of plutonium is akin to the way I would feel about using ethanol technology to get rid of seed corn. However, it is not terribly difficult for us to make more plutonium once we have overcome the irrational fear of the material that has been instilled by the sustained propaganda campaign supported by the energy establishment.
One more related note – the Russians have decided to use fast reactor technology instead of MOX to dispose of their agreed 34 tons of surplus weapons material. A recent article in Spiegel Online, which was marred by significant quantities of misinformation about the basics of fast reactors, gives me some concern about the BN-800. I like fast reactor technology, but I am worried because Russia is almost as dependent on hydrocarbon sales for its wealth and power as Saudi Arabia is.
The statements in Spiegel’s Russia To Produce Electricity with Former Nukes made by an anonymous worker on the construction project lead me to believe that there is at least some possibility that the energy decision makers in Russia are setting up conditions that will result in their new fast reactor having enough problems to discourage everyone else from trying the technology. Though just one man was the source of the interview information it seems apparent that there might be significant safety culture and quality control issues on the project.
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So what is the point of using Pu for MOX in LWR ? We should do as France does and await the next generation of reactors.
I just can’t get any sense out of the ‘arithmetic’ like Bill Clinton says.
So you have a LWR that produces X amount of Plutonium. You blend the LWR fuel with 5% Pu and 95% U. It will still produce more Pu at the end of the cycle than the 5% you burnt, no ?
Am I missing something or this is just to calm the ‘spirits’ ?
Brian Mays says
Uh … what? France currently manufactures MOX fuel and burns it in their reactors.
This is why the company that I work for, AREVA, was chosen to build the MOX fuel fabrication plant in Aiken. We built the MELOX plant; we run the MELOX plant. Google it.
Am I missing something or this is just to calm the spirits ?
Yes. You’re missing the energy that can be had by burning plutonium that you’ve already produced, instead of enriching an energy-equivalent amount of uranium to do the job instead.
Don’t forget that the goal is to produce usable energy. If you want to burn actinides, then build a fast reactor that is tailored for that purpose. But if all you want to do is generate electricity, then MOX fuel works just fine.
In the case of weapons-grade plutonium, once it has been fabricated into MOX fuel — and especially after it has been burned in a reactor — the plutonium is no longer suitable for being used in a weapon. So the idea of turning swords into plowshares is very real.
This project really is about the closest that one can get to having a free lunch, because the majority of the meal has already been paid for by defense budgets during the Cold War.
Jeff S says
I have a question about MOX fuel. You mentioned fast reactors vs thermal reactors with MOX fuel, which got me to thinking about some questions I have. If we burn all this MOX fuel, can the “waste” still potentially be used in an IFR-style fast reactor? I think I read a discussion once which mentioned that as MOX fuel fissions, it tends to accumulate isotopes which are “neutron poisons” – that is, they tend to absorb neutrons without fissioning, so that the fuel doesn’t burn as well.
But, what I’m not clear about is: A) are those “neutron poisons” still a detriment when you are talking about fast-neutron fission reactions, or are they only “poisons” in a thermal spectrum? B) If any of them are also poisons in a fast spectrum, would the IFR’s electrorefining plant be able to remove those poisons, so that you could still fabricate the MOX waste into useable fuel in the fast breeder reactor? C) Can the MOX fuel be recycled somehow (and any “poisons” removed) for re-use in thermal reactors (that is, as someone mentioned, more PU should breed in-situ in the MOX fuel as it is fissioning in the reactor, yes?). To what extent can you breed more fuel in your MOX fuel, in thermal reactors and just keep re-using MOX in them?
Jagdish says
A) Neutron poisons are still a detriment in fast reactors but less harmful due to lower “cross-section” for absorption for neutrons at higher energy.
B) IFR’s electro-refining can separate these fission products (or most of them) from transuranics including plutonium.
C) MOX fuel used in thermal reactors has less fissile isotopes and more of other, problematic ones. In fast reactors you can keep on using U-Pu MOX or even convert to Th-Pu MOX.
Joffan says
Daniel: you’re missing something.
In my simple understanding, in the standard uranium-only fuel rod, the fissile and fertile materials are 4-5% U-235 and remainder U-238 respectively. In a Mox rod, the U-235 is replaced by Pu-239.
In both cases, the fissile material is largely consumed to below 1% of the final rod, and some of the fertile U-238 is transformed to Pu-239; also ending up at less than 1% of the final mix. So in the case of Mox, the total inventory of Pu-239 has indeed signficantly reduced. Perhaps you had an exaggerated idea of how much Pu-239 a power reactor produces – not all that much, is the answer.
DV82XL says
Nuclear supporters must get out of the Bolshevik/Menshevik mindset we are constantly struggling with. Polls continue to show that nuclear energy has the support of a majority of the public (http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/publications/perspectiveonpublicopinion/perspective-on-public-opinion-may-2012/) yet we sill behave as if we were a minority. Yes this majority is razor thin but nevertheless does represent a very large number of people. We need to stop fencing with the demagogues on the other side and reach out to our own constituency. They need to be organized and mobilized if we are to effect the political changes that need to be made to push forward new builds. As it stands we constantly engage with the opposition and leave our own natural supporters to twist in the wind. If I could accomplish one thing as a commenter on nuclear issues it would be to change this.
The other problem is that those of us active in our support for nuclear are visionaries, we had to be to take this on, but unfortunately that manifests itself as a desire to reach too far, too soon. Things like fast reactors, thorium, molten salt and other advanced designs on the horizon blind us to the need to walk the path we have in front of us. Looking to the future, we cannot see what needs to be done in the present. We have proven, approved and marketable designs available right now, no they are not ideal but they are what we have right now that could be built and it is these that we need to push. The time will come when new Gen IV designs can be considered, but not now, and we are expending far too much effort on these birds in the bush and not enough on the ones we have in our hand.
We must work to consolidate the support we have now and leverage it to see new power plants started. We have to ignore the noises from the other side of the fence and keep our imaginations in check and focus on what we can do in the here and now to get the ball rolling.
Joel Riddle says
Will Davis posted a nice primer on the Korean nuclear plans. They seem to be going about their progression in a proper manner.
http://atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com/2012/09/south-koreas-nuclear-energy-program.html
John Tucker says
“Nuclear supporters must get out of the Bolshevik/Menshevik mindset we are constantly struggling with.”
I dont understand that. Is it a negative connotation? Early Communist moments technically were probably closer to American concepts of fairness and individual liberty than some American cultural moments of that time.
Of course without a basis in reason (logic and empathy), and no protections from corruption, authoritarianism was able to quickly take over.
What the situation probably shared the anti nuclear movement is that it was a populist movement based in the perception of a real injustice (horrific conditions/nuclear war) that morphed into a unreasonable, and self advancing phenomena.
In more current terms Liberalism technically in itself is pro science, pro nuclear and pro new technology that reasonably improve the quality of all life in line with newer concepts of conservatism(they are not opposites). New conservationism now mostly pushes financial responsibility within a traditional balance sheet approach.
All markets and economics depend on mutual agreements; regulation, exchanges and community standards so I dont even think using vague economic terms gets anywhere except perhaps if you are trying to convince someone of something in a quick and more convenient way.
Bolshevik/Menshevik mindset was references to Lenin asserting that his faction was more powerful than Martov’s at the Second Congress by naming it ‘the majority’ when in fact things were more evenly split. Opponents of nuclear energy do the same by asserting the bulk of the public rejects nuclear and we have a tendency to accept this as fact when it is not. It is this attitude I want to see go.
lol good lord. ok I see – I cant say you were being vague there!
David Walters says
Uh…they actually did have a majority and this increased at every subsequent congress (at least in the major working class centers), most notably the 1912 Prague Conference when few Mensheviks showed up. [BTW…that RDLP 2nd Congress transcription is up on the Internet transcribed your truly].
But where I disagree more relevantly to DV82XL is that regardless of us being the real “Bolsheviks” (Majority) on the question of nuclear energy, the debate is controlled almost totally by the antis. Support for nuclear energy however, while a “majority” is very, very passive. There is almost no *active* support for nuclear energy among that great silent majority and the activism is almost totally by the other side!
When Lenin started calling his faction ‘Bolshevik’ things were not that clear cut and if indeed he had a majority it was razor thin and only for one key vote. The point was that he created the illusion his was the stronger position by calling it such, just as the antis do to us now.
MY point is we have to stop debating with the antis, and start reaching out to those passive supporters with a view to mobilizing them, because the debating strategy isn’t yielding results.
Political arguments don’t have to be factual. The historical narrative can even be viewed from differing perspectives. My initial irritation was more at a perceived clouding the issue with some connection to communism by the “enemies of a nuclear revolution.” That was incorrect and still dont really see the benefit of arguing early soviet party historical political perspectives here. (although moving into that time in Russia also is arguably one of the most artistically innovative periods in history. Not to mention a period of rapid technological upgrade and innovation).
After that is the political failure. The French Revolution and Haussmannization of Paris especially would better discuss mass motivations here.
But in the end this is a unique situation that is unlike any other and adding equivalencies, even when done to further popular sympathy, also adds analogies and translations, and so another level of complexity to the entire horrifically complex issue.
I think like so many other things now in public forums its probably better to move more towards demanding reason and hard verified science specifically as a sole foundation for validity. We will probably collectively never get anywhere if we do not. Both literally and figuratively.
Being a artist by training its not how I want it to be. Its just how it is.
“I think like so many other things now in public forums its probably better to move more towards demanding reason and hard verified science specifically as a sole foundation for validity. We will probably collectively never get anywhere if we do not”
Ya I can see that’s the way politics is practiced in the real world – I wish.
Politics is a messy business and it is my observation that the validity of any idea in that broad forum is rarely based on verifiable fact and good reasoning. In fact it has been those political movements that have tried the route of pure logic that have been failures while the demagogic ones thrive.
Thats probably going to be changing radically in the next few years. Look at all the posts and interest lately. Even with (and probably because of) the negative stuff. Issues of climate change and acidification, issues and approaches to energy, economics and science and space exploration even caused me to show up here. Give it time to collect momentum.
Thats the good thing about taking effort to get it right in argument. Even if you have to change your mind to do so. All kinds of energy can be applied to push things in other directions but once that push subverted, wavers or is gone everything will start moving towards truth again.
I missed this referenced article – we are not alone in this line of thinking:
New Nukes
Why We Need Radical Innovation to Make New Nuclear Energy Cheap ( http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/new-nukes/ )
“Arguably, the biggest impact of Fukushima on the nuclear debate, ironically, has been to force a growing number of pro-nuclear environmentalists out of the closet, including us. The reaction to the accident by anti-nuclear campaigners and many Western publics put a fine point on the gross misperception of risk that informs so much anti-nuclear fear. Nuclear remains the only proven technology capable of reliably generating zero-carbon energy at a scale that can have any impact on global warming. Climate change..”
Michael R. Himes says
In the US reactors are at the end of their designed life. In short, the only thing driving new builds is Gen IV. I do agree that is seems a waste to move on when we just have gotten the science and operation of the “OLD” reactors perfected. After all, fourty years of working with the “OLD” reactors has keep the lights on in many a US City.
@ Michael,
US reactors are at their end of their financing or amortization period of the nitial construction costs.
When maintained properly, these little suckers can last one hundred years.
Joris van Dorp says
DV82XL. I think we should build about 500 to 1.000 GWe of new nuclear power plants per year on average until the middle of the century. To do that, existing LWR thermal is inadequate. A fast reactor build out is needed right away.
My reasons for supporting nuclear power:
– reduce polution and global warming
– reduce dependance on (imported) fossil fuels and biomass
– reduce energy costs
If we can solve those problems without fast reactors I’m all for it, but if I understand it correctly, we must have fast reactors to do this right?
I have never contended that research on Gen IV should stop, only that we need to kick-start the next round of builds with what we have on hand. Once the ball is rolling and the public is behind the idea of a nuclear economy new type of designs can be introduced if they are found viable.
My beef is with those that think that new designs should be pushed too soon claiming that they have reached the stage where they can be considered commercial products when clearly they are not. It is too much to ask those who would have to invest money and the regulators to back radical new ideas at this time even if public were on-side. As well antinuclear forces of all stripes would be quick to leverage uncertainties around any novel design to generate a new wave of FUD that could not be dismissed by simply pointing at the record as we can do now.
I see. Fair enough. It’s just that the anti-nuke argument “There is not enough uranium to make nuclear power of much use” seems to be popular. To counter that argument, it would be nice if commercial fast reactors could also be pointed to on the record.
The very last thing we should do is dance to any tune played by antinukes on any subject, this one included. Pronuclear supporters have to get it through their heads that the best way of dealing with the antinuclear crowd is to ignore them and address the public directly. You don’t see and of the fossil fuels debating directly with their critics nor do they feel the need to answer them every time they squeak – we shouldn’t ether.
Rod Adams says
@Joris van Dorp
Having successful fast reactors in operation would make it easier to disarm the opposition of several arguments, including the notion of limited fuel resources. The major argument that would be harder for the opposition to make is the rhetorical question “but what do you do with the waste?” I like to answer with “reduce, reuse and recycle” but that is a slightly harder argument to make without having operating reactors that prove the point.
I remain convinced that the effective opposition to nuclear energy is well aware of the implications of allowing fast reactors to achieve demonstrated success. That is why they have worked so hard to ensure as many obstacles as possible are placed in the way of their development.
http://atomicinsights.com/2012/02/pursuing-the-unlimited-energy-dream-some-history-of-the-integral-fast-reactor.html
SteveK9 says
Read the der Spiegel article. That was a bit unsettling. On the other hand the Russians have operated the BN600 for over 30 years. They are planning to sell (there is already an agreement I believe) two BN800’s to China. So, I don’t think they ‘want’ to fail. Hopefully they aren’t rushing the work, the way the article indicated.
A bit off-topic but there is a fair amount of reporting right now on the fact that the extent of Arctic sea ice has set a new record low this year. There is also quite a bit of discussion on the release of methane that can result, and its potency as a greenhouse gas. A small negative for the PR campaign of the ‘cleanliness’ of natural gas.
@SteveK9
I realize that it seems counterintuitive to believe that the Russians want to fail at fast reactors because they have a few potential orders at stake.
However, if you understand that their fossil fuel export market brings in revenues of almost one billion dollars per day ($322 billion for 2011) you might understand why it is in the country’s short term financial interest to discourage anything that might reduce the price of oil and gas by adding a substantial amount of new energy supplies to the market.
I suspect that the people on the project want to do their jobs, but if they are being starved of resources it is difficult to do the job correctly.
I too read the Spiegel article and had a few quick beefs/critiques.
1. Do Russian reactor welds not get QC and radiographic inspections to ensure they were of proper quality/craftsmanship?
2. Saying that Plutonium is “completely useless for civilian purposes” is quite untrue. Plutonium bred during normal operation in conventional nuclear reactors provides something greater than 30% of the total fission energy. Also, MOX is already used in some commercial reactors around the world and has been for 20-30 years, if I’m not mistaken.
3. Really, the “Plutonium dust = automatic fatality” thing again?
4. The part “need to be strong enough to withstand the fission energy of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium” seems to be trying to give the impression that all 34 tons will be loaded into the reactor at one time, and won’t have been diluted at all. This is surely not correct.
@Joel Riddle
Quality control measures after the fact may catch poorly executed welds, but those measures are not perfect and cannot substitute for doing the job properly the first time.
It is also very expensive to rip out welds that fail QC. Even if the testing is perfect and all bad welds are detected, that would not negate my concern that starving the project of resources in the construction phase is designed to ensure that the project looks difficult enough (expensive enough) to discourage anyone else from trying to pursue fast reactor technology as a means of producing abundant energy that has the real potential of displacing oil and gas from the market.
Russian welding is a major issue for Russia right now. The LADA class sub was canceled due to poor (cold) welding joints. In general Russian industry is suffering from lack of a trained new work force and the exodus of skilled craftsmen to western Europe. In fact, the problem is so severe that Russia is opting to purchase war machines outside Russia.
I am certain that the ambitious attempt by Vladimir Putin to revitalize Russian manufacturing, excluding aircraft production, will fail for the lack of skilled workers. This will take a decade to rebuild and by that time climate change will be driving what happens in the industrialized world.
Reactor vessels of thermal reactors using water are a real heavy engineering and Russians are one of the big players, behind only Japan. The number of failures will increase with number of actual production.
One way out is the Canadian, also followed by Indians, practice of having many lighter tubes in place of one big vessel.
The other one is using of less volatile materials for heat transport of heat, used in fast reactors.
Russians try everything.
Bill Hannahan says
Fast neutron reactors operate on the same physics as the Hiroshima bomb. I have yet to find proof that fast reactors are absolutely incapable of producing a high energy criticality accident, a nuclear explosion, based on fundamental principles of physics. That is my standard, claims of low probability, unlikely, probably, not possible or its never happened before, are not sufficient.
Even a medium energy criticality, a few hundred tons TNT equivalent, would produce an accident several orders of magnitude worse than Chernobyl. We have discussed this before; I do not have time to do it again.
http://atomicinsights.com/2011/12/kirk-sorensen-why-didnt-molten-salt-thorium-reactors-succeed-the-first-time.html
The Russian fast neutron reactor does not have a containment building nor do the bigger follow on designs. Such an accident would kill nuclear power for a generation and condemn billions of people to needless suffering and early death, not from radiation, from lack of affordable reliable clean energy. The benefits of fission can be had without taking this risk.
I would make two exceptions. 1… Solid fuel fast reactors buried underground deep enough to contain the worst case energy yield. 2… Molten salt fast reactors. A well designed fast neutron MSR has minimal excess reactivity; they operate at or near the most reactive possible configuration. That combined with intimate contact of fuel atoms with coolant and fission products, eliminating any delay in negative temperature feedback, makes a large, fast, burst of energy impossible.
Existing solid fuel fast neutron reactors should be immediately defueled until proven absolutely incapable of exploding, by fundamental principles of physics.
Plutonium can be slowly burned entirely to fission products in a simple thermal MSR fueled by enriched uranium without reprocessing. Heavy atoms are kept in the salt until they fission. There may be a small neutron penalty requiring an increase in uranium mined per kWh, but probably still less than for a conventional PWR. Uranium cost per kWh will be cheap for a long time given continuing improvements in mining and sea water extraction.
John Englert says
You would still need to get a lot of neutron generations to get to 100 tons. Even in a fast reactor, geometry and time are on your side.
Cal Abel says
Fast Reactors do not operate on the same physics as weapons. What you are saying is a load of crap.
Weapons operate on prompt neutrons alone. Power reactors operate on prompt and delayed neutrons. The physics are very different.
Thorium reactors fast/thermal have a similar fraction of delayed neutrons as fast uranium reactors. From a reactor operator perspective there would be very little difference for solid-solid fuels or liquid to liquid fuels.
Stop spreading stuff that is not true. You rely on theories that cores can do physically impossible things, such as instantaneously and uniformly melting. Maybe back when you used slide rules that was a passable assumption and was understood for its conservative nature as being a non physical process. We now have computer codes designed and validated with experiment that model how cores melt and these codes show if you would be willing to read the reports that you have unwarranted concerns.
Get a clue, put away the slide rule and start learning Fortran as a start, we may graduate to C++ or heaven forbid some more advanced object oriented code that came out within the last 20-years. BTW we no longer use card decks either and my phone has more computational power than what we designed most of our nuclear weapons with.
put away the slide rule and start learning Fortran as a start, we may graduate to C++ …
Ugh!! Why the hell would you want to do that?!
If you really want to screw something up, “graduate” to C++. Between a slide rule and C++, I’ll take the slide rule, thank you. (And yes, I do know how to use one, and yes, I am forced occasionally to have to deal with the quagmire of C++.)
The next thing I know, you’ll be telling me that I should start doing serious calculations in Java, in which case I’d just have to slap you for being silly.
By the way, almost all of the nuclear engineers that I know and work with still fondly refer to their input files as “decks,” even though this term has long been an anachronism.
Who knows what language future nuclear engineers will program in, but it will be called FORTRAN.
John and Brian,
You are both quite right about the codes being in FORTRAN for perpetuity. The front ends and script manipulations are done in many different codes.
Brian, yes the anachronism of input decks still exist. I was referring here to the physical stacks of punch hole cards that had to be fed in order into a card reader to load the program into the RAM. These went away about a decade before I went to school. We still had 8086’s running around in the office… Slide rules went away about the time scientific calculators came out. We still use slide rules all the time in the Navy, called them wiz wheels. They are much faster and reasonably accurate for rapid solutions.
Well, we all have our own biases. Personally, I like to avoid C++ and the newer versions of FORTRAN (post 77) like the plague. They are, in my opinion, attempts to fix something that wasn’t broken in the first place, and they have been very clumsily designed and implemented. Every project that I have been involved in that uses either of these languages has been a huge pain in the back.
Of course, these are my own opinions. You are welcome to yours.
Dr. John Miller says
You are incorrect. Do you think God made two kinds of physics, one that allows a prompt nuclear excursion in bombs and another that prevents it in reactors?
You clearly know from the Navy that its reactors can go prompt critical. When I was in, we were limited in the rate of reactivity insertion to 5 decades a minute. 9 was prompt critical. That’s an explosion.
Dr. John Miller
@NuclearReporter
You are going to need those codes in order to have something of a weak hope of being able to adjust the transport equation to deal with the thermal hydraulic transport of the delayed neutron precursors. I’d love to see how you would adapt MCNP to be able to handle that. The steady state problem is hard enough. Going through and having to add a temporal fluctuations in the single most important neutron source will break most computers and make a collisional plasma code look like chump change.
For the time being at least until you can start validating the theories that you will have to create in order to make the necessary computational approximations so one code run won’t take the better part of a decade, why don’t you drop the holier than thou MSR will rule the world, and try to understand what it will actually take to build and design.
You hope it will all work just fine. Hope is not a plan. A plan is a plan. Right now you don’t even have the theory to even begin creating the plan.
George Carlin says
Cal, I agree with your comments. I, however, find it fascinating that they built an MSR and ran it for 4 years using slide rules. They may not have known exactly what was going on kinetically, but they did show that the MSR works and works quite well actually.
I think the success with the MSRE was due to the small size. Slide rules and analytic approximations to the diffusion equation do some very amazing things. It was more of an art than skill back then.
The MSRE had a high neutron leakage wich makes the shape of the flux in the core more stable against fluctuations. When the reactor is scaled up leakage will go down and the flux will flatten out. This loss of a spatial shape will lead to flux instabilities. This may not necessarily be bad, but without understanding the kinetics it makes it difficult to justify. If you take the neutrons as a thermodynamic system the flux instabilities are like boiling of water. It is a phase transition. It is an entirely new phenomena that we don’t fully understand yet. Maybe a boiling flux core is an ok thing to have. I don’t know. Typically with solid fueled cores flux instability can lead to breaking the fuel. Molten fuel, not so much, but molten fuel flows in graphite channels so there will be in-core pressure oscillations that could affect those.
Also there is a negative flow coefficient of reactivity, the slower the coolant the more neutrons in the core. Loss of flow causes a positive reactivity insertion. Taking a below the power range pump trip with no scram, it would be entirely possible to have a non trivial reactivity insertion.
I think the MSR has a lot of promise, its just not ready yet and will take a significant amount of work to bring online. Much more than what most advocates are thinking of as a worse case scenario.
Fast neutron reactors operate on the same physics as the Hiroshima bomb.
So what? So do thermal neutron reactors. That is, the key set of physics is that a heavy atom fissions, neutrons are released, and more atoms absorb those neutrons and fission. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The key difference between a bomb and a reactor is where do the neutrons come from?
In the case of a bomb, the neutrons that keep the reaction going are prompt neutrons — i.e., neutrons that are released directly by the fission event.
In both thermal and fast reactors, the neutrons that are necessary to keep the chain reaction going are delayed neutrons. That is, the atom fissions and a few prompt neutrons are produced, but these neutrons are not sufficient to keep the reaction going. Also produced by the fission event are unstable fission products that then decay (over a time period ranging from a fraction of a second to few minutes) releasing the additional neutrons that make up the balance to keep the system critical.
The mean time period for a prompt neutron to cause a new fission event varies greatly between thermal and fast reactors (the difference being the time required for the neutron to slow down before being absorbed). Fortunately, this difference is not significant when it comes to the ability to control a reactor. The time scale that is the most important — the time for the delayed neutrons to appear — is roughly the same for both types of reactors.
And that’s how reactor physics works.
@Bill Hannahan
Without delving into the graduate level nuclear physics described by Cal and Brian, I can still call your initial statement false based on what should be rudimentary knowledge of bomb making. The Hiroshima bomb was a gun type device that required an explosive charge to fire a sub critical mass at high velocity into another sub critical mass. That was the only way to add reactivity fast enough to cause the device to achieve prompt criticality – where neutron lifetime is short enough to cause an explosive fission reaction.
There are no conventional explosives in fast reactors and no way to move the masses of fuel or the neutron absorbing rods around fast enough to achieve the same kind of effect. The speed of reactivity addition can be readily limited by a number of different design choices.
The Integral Fast Reactor was put through a substantial amount of physical testing that proved its passive safety. There are physics explanations associated with metal fuels and the large pool of sodium.
Here is a short post I wrote on the topic several years ago
http://atomicinsights.com/2008/08/recalling-the-integral-fast-reactor-ifr-passive-safety-experiments.html
That post includes a link to a detailed paper on the history and technology development of the Integral Fast Reactor.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2532990
If you read the “bible” of fast-breeder design, Fast Breeder Reactors, by Waltar and Reynolds, 1981 (revised in 2012 by Waltar and a different co-author), they say that an explosion is a conservative estimate, which I take to mean more severe than what could happen. Or maybe conservative means the worst that could happen. Anyway, they say that meltdowns are much more likely than explosions.
But given the positive void coefficient of reactivity, any accident that begins with a rapid power rise could lead to faster and faster power rises before the fuel heated up enough to bring in the two main negative coefficients of reactivity. In other words, it could explode.
I agree with you that all sodium-cooled fast breeders should be shut down and defueled.
You need to apply that information with understanding of the model that they used. They approximated the core slump using Bethe Tait approximation for a Core Disruptive Accident. It assumes that the core instantly melts and coalesces into the bottom of the reactor vessel without being disrupted by flow or heat addition as a super critical geometry is selected.
While it is “conservative”, it is not physically possible. It neglects most importantly the latent heat of fusion (energy needed to melt the core) and the time needed to add that energy.
To apply such real world constraints requires more computation than what is contained in a slide rule. Fortunately for us we have computers that can model such complexities.
Here is a more relevant report on this topic.
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2011/114145.pdf
Please read the report. After reading the report, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. I am more than willing to explain the context of the results.
Now as I understand your situation you have a few choices. First the scientific approach, you take head of the information that I gave you and we join in a discourse about the merits of the assumptions and results for each approach. This requires that both of us be willing to be incorrect. As an honest investigator that is the only approach that I can take. Based on researching this topic for a number of years, I am confident that I stand on firmer intellectual and empirical ground.
Your second choice is to ignore what I told you. Here you can persist safely in your current state of ignorance. However, you are not really ignorant any more because I challenged your ideas with a very simple and sound argument. Therefor you are choosing to ignore information that is relevant to understanding this topic. I can only describe such an action as scientism and represents a specific belief structure. It is not science, although it pretends to be.
Science seeks to identify and incorporate all relevant information to build a conceptual understanding of the world around us. Science cannot choose to ignore information because it is convenient. Science has to demonstrate that that information does not impact our understanding of the topic. To claim science as a moral philosophy, willful ignorance is not permitted.
Pick your lot. The choice is yours.
Engineer-Poet says
Hans Bethe analyzed the explosive potential of a fast reactor meltdown and came up with a worst-case figure of 160 kg TNT equivalent. This is about 670 MJ, or about 200 msec of full-power output of a 3.3 GW(t) reactor.
It would be a real mess inside the containment, but that’s where it would stay.
One trend I’ve noticed over the years, and seems to be more and more the case, when it comes to reporting about nuclear power is that the media seems to have an obsession with reporting people’s fears, instead of reporting facts (well, I suppose that someone’s fear is technically a fact of itself, but not a very *useful* fact).
Take as an example, Public Radio’s “Burn: An Energy Journal” project. They did a one hour “special report” on nuclear power. While there were a few moments of almost good journalism, I was STRUCK by how the whole first 20 minutes or so of the show was just an emotional retelling of one of the plant worker’s impressions of what was going on around him – now, in theory that could be useful; except, in this case, it was just talking about things which were not important – like how the steam turbine started shrieking “like a demon from hell” during the earthquake – well, yeah, that’s going to happen when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits any large, high-kinetic-energy turbine – it had NOTHING to do with nuclear power. . . a gas or coal plant with a large turbine would have had the exact same shrieking in the same conditions.
It seems like Journalism is really reaching new depths of mediocrity at this point in history.
Makes you wonder what the standards of excellence are in journalism schools.
Journalism today is about catching the attention of the *average* reader and catering to his/her needs in terms of gossip and sensation. That’s where the money is. So that’s what a journalist who likes to keep his/her job will do.
Fukushima led to an 18 month media frenzy condemning the ‘danger’ of nuclear technology in my country (the netherlands). But when reasoned scientific reports about the accident started finally coming out pointing to an almost complete lack of any actual dangerous consequences from the Fukushima nuclear accident, there was *almost nothing* reported about this. To this day, whenever I say in discussion with people that Fukushima was more like a dud than anything else and should be seen as a demonstration of the *safety* of nuclear power rather than of its danger, those people react with honest incredulity. In their minds, Fukushima has *clearly shown* that nuclear energy is ‘extremely dangerous and causes massive, lasting damage’. And these are well-educated intelligent people, MSc’s and PhD’s working in engineering jobs. If already these kind of people have evidently not been able to penetrate the FUD produced by journalists after Fukushima, what to think about the general population?
Joris,
The problem is mainly a lack of accurate information. It is also a willingness on the part of some to tell a very big lie and repeat it constantly.
On the other hand, I am seeing (and participating in) more and more replies to this kind of mis-information.
“Fast Reactors do not operate on the same physics as weapons. What you are saying is a load of crap. Weapons operate on prompt neutrons alone. Power reactors operate on prompt and delayed neutrons. The physics are very different.”
True during normal operation, however, when a large rapid reactivity insertion puts it in the super prompt critical range, delayed neutrons are irrelevant; the energy burst is over before any delayed neutrons are released. The physics are the same.
“Thorium reactors fast/thermal have a similar fraction of delayed neutrons as fast uranium reactors.”
Why the misdirection Cal? We are talking about plutonium fast reactors vs. uranium thermal reactors. For every 10,000 neutrons in a uranium reactor, 9,935 will be prompt and 65 will be delayed. In a plutonium reactor 9,980 will be prompt and 20 will be delayed. In addition, the average time delay is less for plutonium delayed neutrons. This makes plutonium reactors more sensitive to reactivity changes.
“Stop spreading stuff that is not true. You rely on theories that cores can do physically impossible things, such as instantaneously and uniformly melting.”
Not true. In the models I have seen the maximum velocities considered typically involve an overheated core slumping into the bottom of the reactor vessel under the force of gravity working through a short distance, or an object falling a short distance, not much velocity. I have no doubt that a low velocity criticality will produce a low energy burst. If designers can prove that there is no sequence of events that can result in a high velocity reconfiguration of the core to a superprompt critical condition, the requirement is achieved. They have not done that, and I do not think they can, because they cannot prove they thought of and modeled every possibility.
For example, a large leak drains most of the sodium from the reactor, the core overheats and a large part of it falls into the bottom of the reactor producing a low energy explosion. The blast from that crushes the remaining part of the core against the vessel wall at near supersonic velocity, resulting in a huge fast reactivity insertion. What happens next?
Terrorists load a jumbo jet with a large cylinder of tungsten and fly it into the reactor building at 600 mph. they get lucky and crush the reactor vessel or spent fuel pool at high velocity squeezing the sodium out of the core in a fraction of a second, resulting in a huge rapid reactivity insertion. What happens next?
“We now have computer codes designed and validated with experiment that model how cores melt and these codes show if you would be willing to read the reports that you have unwarranted concerns.”
I read your reports last time and pointed out the weakness in them. I marvel at your confidence that the computer codes have modeled the absolute worst case scenario. I do not share your confidence.
“Maybe back when you used slide rules that was a passable assumption and was understood for its conservative nature as being a non physical process. Get a clue, put away the slide rule and start learning Fortran … BTW we no longer use card decks either and my phone has more computational power than what we designed most of our nuclear weapons with.”
Keep it up Cal Insults are the last refuge of a looser who lacks a solid answer.
When I was a grad student I asked my professors why a full meltdown accident was not a design basis accident. They answered that the probability of a full meltdown was so small we did not have to consider it. And here we are locked in the pre Model T era of nuclear power, having melted several reactors.
If a meltdown was a design basis accident from the beginning, the Fukushima reactors would have had a core catcher, battery backed hydrogen igniters and accident rated containment vent filters. They would have melted down with a negligible release of fission products. A lot more reactors would be under construction now.
And now you assure me that a high energy criticality in a sodium cooled plutonium fast neutron reactor is too improbable to worry about. I’m not buying it.
The only source of the size of reactivity insertion you are talking about is through a Core Disruptive Accident, CDA. In order to achieve that the density of the fuel has to come together. To do this the fuel needs to melt. This requires an addition of latent heat to conduct the phase transition from solid to liquid. My confidence is in the physics behind how cores operate and how they fail.
Each core has a finite about of heat thus the evolution of a core melt is done over a period of time. As John Englert said, “Even in a fast reactor, geometry and time are on your side.” Phase transitions do not happen instantaneously and because of this, melted material is removed from the core inserting negative reactivity. The codes that I referenced in our previous communications take this into account. They model the process based on intentional fuel melting done in EBR-II and have validated the physical approximations.
The existence or even thought of a CDA can only occur if you make one simplifying assumption. That the core instantaneously melts allowing it to rapidly slump giving you the reactivity insertion you need. This is physically impossible.
As for the comparisons between fast and thermal reactors. The fraction of delayed neutrons matters based on the driver fuel and the spectrum here is a summary so you can understand the kinetic effects.
U-233 fast/epithermal 0.0030
U-235 fast/thermal 0.0065
Pu-239 fast/thermal 0.0020
U-238 fast 0.0170
Solid fueled fast reactors have betas that are on the order of 0.0030 due to U-238 and Pu-239 fissions (direct fission of U-238 is on par with that of Pu-239 at fast energies). This is on par with solid fueled thorium reactors. Molten fueled reactors fast uranium and thermal thorium have betas that are lower because the longer lived DNP decay outside of the core. They are on the order of 0.0027 or so.
From a kinetic perspective solid fueled breeder reactors thermal thorium or fast uranium will behave identically. They will have the same limitations and concerns. Similarly molten fueled breeders will behave identically wether fast uranium or thermal thorium. Again these reactors will have the similar advantages and limitations.
You were the one who brought up MSR. I am pointing out the limitations in your pet design as you are sure and have done to point out in anything else LWR or LMFBR. Denigrating one particular design or groups of designs, of which you have a demonstrated propensity shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how a power reactor works as the reason why you demonize one is equally transferable to the other designs when comparing apples to apples.
As for the argument of liquid vs solid fuel, there you have to understand the assumptions used in deriving the transport equation and then remove those assumptions and take those into account physically. Here the quadrature of the DNP distribution is very complex and impossible to do with existing codes, as they all assume a fixed distribution of DNP. CASL is the first major attempt to integrate T-H and neutronics, however it is for solid fueled thermal reactors and has a large set of empirical data to validate the code.
The one thing that allows us to control the reactors are the DNP if they are not properly handled in spatial representations then the control of the reactor is in doubt. Additionally, use of the point kinetic model is invalidated by choosing molten fuels. The time dependent solution to the transport equation is very difficult to begin with, removing the assumptions of the PKE will make life very difficult.
Good luck getting a license in any country without understanding the kinetics of the reactor, much less finding some poor sap to purchase a reactor that they cannot reasonably predict kinetic behavior.
I suppose the sodium will drain out of the pool that is in the ground because a fault line opens up directly underneath providing an escape path for the sodium…
Have you ever tried to land an airplane at 60 kts imagine flying down the runway at 600 kts. Now, imagine flying through a small hole about as big around as the airliner’s cabin while pointing the ground at an 80° angle.
I will worry about those things when I start worrying about the asteroid that is going to hit the planet. You are clueless.
@Brian Mays
“In both thermal and fast reactors, the neutrons that are necessary to keep the chain reaction going are delayed neutrons. That is, the atom fissions and a few prompt neutrons are produced,”
As I mentioned to cal, for every 10,000 neutrons in a uranium reactor, 9,935 will be prompt and 65 will be delayed. In a plutonium reactor 9,980 will be prompt and 20 will be delayed.
“The mean time period for a prompt neutron to cause a new fission event varies greatly between thermal and fast reactors (the difference being the time required for the neutron to slow down before being absorbed).”
Right, neutrons live about a thousand times longer in thermal reactors.
“Fortunately, this difference is not significant when it comes to the ability to control a reactor.”
True during normal operation, but with a huge reactivity insertion the delayed neutrons are insignificant. The long slowing down time makes a big difference in the rate of power increase, the difference between Chernobyl and Hiroshima.
Bill – This stuff has been studied to death, staring with the Bethe-Tait approach and continuing on to more sophisticated analysis that includes effects such as Doppler and better representation of the fuel.
Your hyperbole about “Hiroshima” is simply unwarranted.
(And by the way, if your beef is with plutonium reactors, shouldn’t you be comparing it to Nagasaki instead of Hiroshima? Geez … you can’t even get your bombs straight!)
What I find ironically amusing, however, is that you take the time to lecture Cal about the value of a “core catcher” at Fukushima, when it was a core catcher that caused the meltdown at the Fermi-1 fast reactor. I guess they hadn’t “thought of and modeled every possibility.”
Sorry, Bill, but I’m not buying your BS. Please take it somewhere else.
What happened at Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the bombs landed ?
How long were people kept away ? When did they start reconstructing ?
When I look at pics of modern Hiroshima and Nagasaki, looks like people were allowed back a long time ago.
Why was no one afraid of radiations then? Obviously, there are no mutants in those 2 cities !!
gmax137 says
Daniel, the fission product inventory in a power reactor is vastly greater than that produced in a bomb explosion. The hiroshima weapon yield (about 15,000 ton TNT) is equivalent to around 18,000 MW-hr. A 1000 MWe power plant core generates that in about 6 hours. Considering the plant might run for 12-18 months between refuelings the fission products available for release are then about 1500 times greater than those in the bomb.
A bomb, by its very nature, is designed for maximum dispersal. A nuclear power plant is designed to contain as much as possible in the event of an accident. This is why one worries primarily about the volatile fission products, which are a small fraction of the core’s inventory. The noble gases are not much of a health concern. Almost all of the other stuff either stays where it is or plates out before leaving the containment.
John Chatelle says
@gmax137;
A bomb lifts and irradiates a huge amount of ground material instantly, lifts it to thousands of feet, and spreads it around to cloud tops and all lower layers of the atmosphere. That’s most of the fallout, which is the danger after the infrared and gamma flash, and the shockwave. It’s the stuff that gets lifted in the stem of the mushroom, not the fission product that is the culprit of the latter radiation/fallout.
@ Gmax & Brian,
This is not quite the answer I am looking for. You can see here pics from Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
http://collecitonpix.blogspot.ca/2009/04/night-in-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html
Beautiful cities and quite a contrast compared to Chernobyl.
My question is as follows:
Why did people stay in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and started rebuilding ? Is it because in the aftermath of a nuclear bomb there are only alpha and beta emitters around ? (ie no gamma emissions?)
Was it because of lack of fear and people just ignored radiations that were obviously harmless and forged ahead ?
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki situations contain valuable information for the pro nuclear cause once I look at the vitality of those towns. So does a bomb create a less toxic environment once everything has been torn down ? No gamma emissions …
Daniel – Kiev is still a thriving metropolis. The location of the Chernoybl nuclear plant really was the sticks. The only nearby town existed simply to house workers for the plant. It’s not surprising that the area was allowed to remain abandoned. There was no great incentive to reclaim it.
On the other hand, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just two of many cities devastated during World War II. So they were rebuilt just like the other cities, which were severely damaged by (non-atomic) bombing campaigns. Have you ever been to Dresden and seen the old buildings that the people had to reconstruct after the war?
@ Brian,
Then Japan has all the empirical evidence to resist evacuations of the surrounding areas near Fukushima, to pursue civil nuclear applications and move on with their lives.
This is what gets to me. Nagasaki and Hiroshima have not been evacuated but Fukushima must.
There are just too many people not getting this that it makes me wonder why journalists, scholars, the UN and citizens lack the basic and elementary skepticism in face of all this nonsense.
Littleboy and Fatman were both detonated high enough so the fireball didn’t contact the surface. Therefor the was very little local fallout; with most of the bomb debris being carried away by upper winds. The dose to people was from prompt gamma and neutron radiation. Persistent radioactivity on the ground was from neutron activation. One might still be able to measure some Eu-152 in the concrete at ground zero.
@Rod
“I can still call your initial statement false based on what should be rudimentary knowledge of bomb making. The Hiroshima bomb was a gun type device that required an explosive charge to fire a sub critical mass at high velocity into another sub critical mass. That was the only way to add reactivity fast enough to cause the device to achieve prompt criticality – where neutron lifetime is short enough to cause an explosive fission reaction.”
Rod, you can call my statement wrong, but you would be wrong in doing so. Numerous fast burst reactors have been built and operated fairly reliability in the superprompt critical region without the use of explosives. In another discussion I described how the first Sandia Fast Burst Reactor sometimes sat for many seconds in the superprompt condition, resulting in the addition of a neutron source.
The Hiroshima bomb would probably have worked using springs or compressed air, but the probability of a full yield explosion would be slightly less. For a power reactor it must be zero.
“There are no conventional explosives in fast reactors and no way to move the masses of fuel or the neutron absorbing rods around fast enough to achieve the same kind of effect.”
That is what needs to be proven; you’re saying it does not prove it is true.
Yes, the IFR can survive some failures like the loss of pumping power with all plumbing intact. That does not prove is will fail gracefully for every set of circumstances.
Consider this EBR I experiment.
the system was placed on a period of 60
seconds at a power of 50 watts. About 3 seconds later the
power was 1 megawatt, the period had decreased to 0.9
seconds, and core temperatures were rising significantly.
The signal to scram the system was given, but by error
the slow moving motor driven control rods were actuated
instead of the fast acting scram—dropping part of the
natural uranium blanket under gravity… This change in
reactivity caused a momentary drop in power, but was
inadequate to overcome the natural processes (very
slight bowing inward of the fuel elements) adding
reactivity to the system. After a delay of not more than 2
seconds, the fast scram was actuated, both manually and
by instruments, and the experiment completed….
Later examination disclosed that nearly
one-half the core had melted and vaporized NaK had
forced some of the molten alloy into the reflector.
Theoretical analysis showed that the excursion was
stopped by the falling reflector, after the power reached
a maximum of 9 to 10 megawatt.
Rod, we can have clean cheap safe kWh’s for hundreds of years without messing with solid fuel fast neutron reactors. At best their kWh’s will cost more than those from the simplest thermal uranium reactor, conventional or MSR. At worst they will end the nuclear power age for a generation.
The perception that Russians depend on slide rules is crap! Building an article based on western perceptions of what Russian Engineering is about is poor editorial policy. The real issue is a labor force that can no longer produce quality machines. In fact Russian Engineering may far exceed our own in quality. This fact is only made more clear by both Russians and Americans contracting engineering with India because the volume of work exceeds their capacity. Further, the Russian nuclear industry has more vitality than our own NRC dominated and politically driven energy management. That is not to say Vladimir Putin has a closed eye to how much the oil and gas industry provides to Russian income.
A Few Questions/Points:
1. My understanding is that MOX burned in a LWR leaves a LOT of mess; that its waste is a lot “worse” than from a standard non-MOX LWR. What truth is there in this?
2. The BN-800, as I understand it, is NOT a IFR. It’s a FR without the I. They are also building a set in China.
3. Russia is not so much a “fossil fuel provider” (It is that) but an exporter of natural gas. But this is limited for them and they want to also export as much a possible. To do this they need a viable alternative to nat gas and they openly state it’s nuclear. Their VVER reactors appear viable and few overseas complain as the Russians *expand* this market, a market that is for sure more a possibility of a growth industry than natural gas is. Thus, it’s my one area of disagreement in terms of motives the Russian have for perhaps doing a bad job on the BN-800. Also, they are building a BN-1000 and BN-1200 and lots more of these.
“The only source of the size of reactivity insertion you are talking about is through a Core Disruptive Accident, CDA. In order to achieve that the density of the fuel has to come together. To do this the fuel needs to melt… The existence or even thought of a CDA can only occur if you make one simplifying assumption. That the core instantaneously melts allowing it to rapidly slump giving you the reactivity insertion you need.”
This is a very dangerous and false assumption. Crushing the core rapidly, increases the average density of plutonium adding reactivity far faster than a meltdown accident.
Good point. That helps during normal operation, but delayed neutrons play no role in the superprompt region.
“From a kinetic perspective solid fueled breeder reactors thermal thorium or fast uranium will behave identically”
Another false and very dangerous assumption in the superprompt region where neutron lifetime makes such a big difference.
“Similarly molten fueled breeders will behave identically wether fast uranium or thermal thorium”
Again false in the superprompt region, but not so dangerous, because fissile and coolant atoms are mixed on the atomic level, it is impossible to rapidly eject the coolant atoms and increase the density of fissile atoms.
“Denigrating one particular design or groups of designs, of which you have a demonstrated propensity shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how a power reactor works as the reason why you demonize one is equally transferable to the other designs when comparing apples to apples.”
The implication that all reactor types, fast and thermal, behave similarly in the superprompt region is stunning. If you were a terrorist and had unlimited access to a simple thermal neutron uranium MSR, how would you get it into the superprompt critical region? There would not be enough fuel on site to do that, and even if there was, the reactor vessel would not be large enough to hold it all, and even if it was, you could not load it fast enough to get a significant yield.
To prove fast neutron solid fuel reactors are safe, model an accident that envelopes all possible accidents. Start with a core early in startup, very low power, K slightly above 1.0 now crush the core into a pancake in 0.1 seconds, squeezing out all the sodium. If the resulting energy burst is reliably contained I’m satisfied. Feel free to do this with a water moderated reactor or MSR.
“And by the way, if your beef is with plutonium reactors, shouldn’t you be comparing it to Nagasaki instead of Hiroshima? Geez … you can’t even get your bombs straight!”
Brian, my beef is with solid fuel fast neutron reactors. I compared a uranium fueled thermal system with a uranium fueled fast system.
“What I find ironically amusing, however, is that you take the time to lecture Cal about the value of a “core catcher” at Fukushima, when it was a core catcher that caused the meltdown at the Fermi-1 fast reactor”
Do you have a reference for that? A core catcher goes under the reactor vessel and is not normally in contact with coolant.
The story I received from a knowledgeable expert is that someone decided to be helpful and installed a flow baffle that did not appear on the drawings. It fluttered, broke off and blocked a coolant channel.
A core catcher goes under the reactor vessel and is not normally in contact with coolant.
Yes. That’s the way it works in a design like the EPR. Fermi-1, however, had a core catcher inside the reactor vessel.
The “flow baffle” that you refer to was the zirconium core catcher inside the vessel. It wasn’t there to direct flow. If I recall correctly (and I could be wrong on this), its purpose was to divide and separate any corium resulting from a meltdown so that it would not pool together in one big mass and present a criticality problem.
As you describe, part of the core catcher broke off and caused a blockage leading to core melt accident. In other words, it caused the accident that it was designed to mitigate.
“Have you ever tried to land an airplane at 60 kts imagine flying down the runway at 600 kts.”
It is not very hard if you know the trick. When you are on a collision course with another plane or stationary object, it does not move on the windscreen, it just gets bigger. Countless times I have flown through tiny translucent wisps of cloud not more than 20 feet in diameter. I can go through the center, left edge, right edge etc., you call it.
One 9/11 pilot hit the ground floor of the Pentagon in nearly level flight without rolling it up on the ground before impact, unfortunately.
“Now, imagine flying through a small hole about as big around as the airliner’s cabin while pointing the ground at an 80° angle.
I will worry about those things when I start worrying about the asteroid that is going to hit the planet.”
The trick works at 80 deg, but the actual angle and direction would depend on the detailed design of the plant.
“You are clueless”
Yet another mature and impressive argument.
No offense to your flying ability. The problem is relative speed. The ability and the exactness that is needed for that control is much more like what the Blue Angles do. I’ve flown most of my life. I do not even consider myself anywhere near the capability or ability of those pilots. Or even a Naval aviator for that matter. They land at 3-4 kts above stall speed on a pitching deck at 130-160 kts. Most pilots never get that precise ability. It is possible, just not likely.
As for the pentagon. Great example. Thank you for bringing that up. The top of a reactor vessel is very thick on the order of feet as it provides the entire structural support to suspend the vessel, on to of that is a containment. The airliner when it hit the Pentagon, left a hole through the outer ring and punctured the next ring. This is a sturdier building than the WTC’s and a hardened reactor containment is that much stronger. I seem to recall the NRC also has an aircraft impact rule.
What do you give as the possibility of a terrorist or lets say some hostile country dropping a 2,000# guided munition. I think that would have a much more probable occurance than what you describe. Why don’t we design our reactors to withstand direct hostile attack with modern conventional munitions. Or should we make our reactors to withstand a nuclear device. It makes little sense for a terrorist to attack a reactor (actual harm done is miniscule) It makes a great deal of sense for a hostile country to attack our energy infrastructure with either ballistic or conventional munitions.
By your logic nothing is safe enough. You are thinking like a scientist not an engineer. There is some cutoff, some level where one has to say, “If we ever get to this point the reactor is the last thing we need to be worried about.” Right now that is ~10^-6/yr. If you want to go lower than that take up the work of Arnie Gunderson.
Another who uses similar logic wrote a book about the Covair being unsafe at any speed. Except your title would be “The IFR unsafe at any power.” Have at it. Please. A regulatory or policy guideline you can use that is widely accepted is called the precautionary principle. Your logic is consistent with that principle. If you are interested do some work on this, these should give you a good place to start and your background in nuclear engineering would serve to give a good bit of hype and you would make a reasonable amount of sales, especially if you lumped every kind of reactor that exists in there, as they seem to fail to meet your impossible standard. You would have no problem finding a publisher. Also don’t forget to use the idea of collective dose to give really big and scary numbers to the estimated death toll. You could even have Jazcko provide a review on the cover, especially if you justified the 50-mile evacuation zone, hell you could even get Barbra Boxer to write an endorsement at that point. Go off and chase your dreams, you’ll be famous.
The precautionary principle is an argument that relies on the idea the complete knowledge can be obtained. This is akin to the use of ergodic theory in statistics which also happens to lead to a great deal of theoretical inconsistencies and such aberrations as the Copenhagen Interpretation and probability as a physical property. You may abide by all those approaches. Fair enough. The problem where they fail is that they presume complet knowledge of the system, whatever that system is. Hayek called that the Fatal Conceit.
What we are arguing here comes down to the simple presupposition of what is knowledge and what is knowable. This is a much larger argument than us, and is being waged at a societal level. Your assumption works to a point, but then fails. It fails to acknowledge the other side of the coin and that is the gain that is realized. Here there is a simple way of enforcing the standard. That the implementer of the technology bears the full responsibility for the consequences of its existence, good or bad. You presume that you know what is the risk threshold for that individual. We do far more harm to our society burning coal each year than blowing up a nuclear reactor once every decade ever will.
Nothing in life is perfect, especially not our knowledge, which is why the comparrison of the alternatives is needed. MSR great idea, much work needs to be done. The alternative to a fast reactor is a coal plant or a natural gas plant. Coal is a problem when burned directly, natural gas is a problem in that wells leak and leak badly at a very real level causing harm to the society.
I have very little appreciation and tolerance for those who presume that complete knowledge is knowable. My “mature remarks” are a sign of that contempt of your ideas and logic. It is why I think you are a fool.
“The airliner when it hit the Pentagon, left a hole through the outer ring and punctured the next ring.”
It penetrated 3 rings and did not contain a massive tungsten penetrator.
“By your logic nothing is safe enough”
Now you are just making stuff up.
“Right now that is ~10^-6/yr”
Your faith in PRA might have been appropriate in the 60’s. How many PRA’s assumed operators would fail to diagnose a small loss of coolant condition until after the core was severely damaged and a shift change brought in some new people who recognized the situation, before TMI?
How many PRA’s assumed operators would bypass safety system after safety system and run a reactor way outside its envelope until it explodes, before Chernobyl.
How many PRA’s assumed reactors would be allowed to continue operating after identifying tsunami protection at half the historic record, before Japan.
“Except your title would be “The IFR unsafe at any power.””
My position is that it is not proven safe. Some computer modeling indicates that it can survive some events, that does not prove safety. Recall what I found when I reviewed the document you provided as proof the IFR is safe, NUREG-1368.
“Regarding accommodation of HCDAs, there is not sufficient data to confidently predict the size of an HCDA in a metal fuel ALMR.”… “The major contributors to core melt all lead to energetic core disassembly accidents and Release Category R4A.”…
“For the R4A no-evacuation case, prompt fatalities were shown to increase from 7 to
124, and latent fatalities increased from 1,520 to 3,320.
“The PRISM design has been described as passively safe. On this basis, the designers contend that core melt and sodium boiling do not have to be considered in the design””
That sounds very similar to “We don’t have to worry about core melt accidents because the PRA proves it will probably never happen.
“A regulatory or policy guideline you can use that is widely accepted is called the precautionary principle. Your logic is consistent with that principle. If you are interested do some work on this, these should give you a good place to start”
Heal thyself Cal. If you understood the precautionary principle you would understand that such a person would oppose all new reactor designs. I support the simplified BWR and PWR with passive safety features, the design Rod is working on, and MSR’s, thermal and fast.
I oppose the IFR until it is proven safe, and I told you how to do that in a previous comment. Why do proponents spend so much time and money modeling a slow meltdown into the bottom of the reactor vessel if it can be shown to contain a high velocity, high reactivity rate criticality that can envelope any real world accident?
“The alternative to a fast reactor is a coal plant or a natural gas plant.”
How many IFRs in operation now? How many under construction? A small modular factory mass produced reactor would be a better option.
“My “mature remarks” are a sign of that contempt of your ideas and logic. It is why I think you are a fool”
Cal, you reveal more about yourself than about me, and it is not attractive. Good luck with that.
I am on travel for a few day, you all have fun!
@Bill Hannahan,
Would you agree that a PACER power plant would be an option that can be proven safe? I’m mean, if the working principle of a nuclear reactor is that you *want* to have nuclear explosions happening, then I guess that means at least you don’t have to worry about *unwanted* nuclear explosions, right? (unless you put in a bomb with a yield that is accidentally too high, but how likely is that going to be)
For my information: do the experts here believe that PACER is a real option, or is it not worthwhile to consider it before other options?
Robert Steinhaus says
@Joris –
There is no energy system that is completely safe, but as a very tiny voice for a technology that today receives little or no practical consideration by virtually anyone, I would like to suggest that there are some good reasons for believing that a PACER power plant would be as safe or safer than any nuclear power plant currently operating.
What are the reasons for my belief?
1) PACER is tested fusion technology that has a longer track record than any form of commercial fission nuclear power generation. D-D fusion was demonstrated in the Ivy Mike nuclear test in 1952 (four+ years before the Shippingport Atomic Power Station went online). Since the successful Ivy Mike nuclear test, LANL and LLNL Field Test Divisions have been able to demonstrate practical thermonuclear fusion on demand in over 900 shots at the Nevada Test Site and on the Pacific Test Range. The critical and high tech component of a PACER fusion power plant is the small ultra-clean peaceful nuclear explosive, the rest of the PACER power plant is pretty low or basic tech (a large steel lined cavity with a molten salt breeding blanket and a conventional steam turbine-generator). Fission ignited D-D and D-T fusion works, first time – every time – at the command of the President and has for many decades.
2) A PACER NPP is buried 100 meters underground. This makes PACER a tougher target than any existing NPP to terrorists or even to actual war time nuclear strikes.
3) A PNE (peaceful nuclear explosive) is a an example of controlled release of fission initiated fusion energy. At the end of the US Field Test program, the proficiency demonstrated in producing exactly the yield desired from a device under test became so routine that people higher up in government decided that it was no longer important to continue to test the devices in the US arsenal and negotiated a comprehensive test ban treaty. Some fuels are just best exploited by using the fuel to make small controlled explosions. I suggest that D-D and D-T fusion (and gasoline) are such fuels.
One of the most important benefits of PACER fusion energy is the fact that its fuel is almost inexhaustible, cheap and accessible to everyone. In addition to this, only a tiny amount of fuel is required: operating a PACER fusion power station of 1000 MW for a year requires 250 kg of deuterium-tritium mixture.
Deuterium is the non-radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Around 0.015% of all the hydrogen on earth is deuterium; a liter of water contains 33 milligrams. This makes deuterium available in copious amounts: the quantity of deuterium in the world’s oceans is estimated at 4.6 x 1013 tonnes. Deuterium can be recovered via electrolysis of water (heavy water is more difficult to electrolyze and remains behind during the electrolysis of water), via the distillation of liquid hydrogen, or using various chemical adsorption techniques.
The complete conversion of deuterium releases an energy content of 250 x 10^15 joules per metric ton of deuterium. The deuterium present in seawater will therefore yield around 5 x 10^11 TW-year of energy. In the year 2011 the entire world consumed around 16 TW-year of energy, which means that the energy content of the deuterium in seawater would be enough for 31 billion years of energy supply, longer than the sun will burn. In view of the enormous amount of deuterium available, it is important that we learn to use the D-D (and D-T) fusion reaction in the long term.
Why keep up the fiction that fusion is something that we will not be able to do for at least another 50 years. In fact, PACER style fusion has been demonstrated successfully over 50 years ago, and it remains the practical style of fusion, using fission to ignite the D-D or D-T fusion plasma, that remains the style of fusion that can actually be built and produce real energy today (more power out than the power it takes to run the fusion experiment).
@Robert Steinhaus
I still don’t get how your technology results in sustained power production. Pointing to successful bursts indicates that you can control a single event, but that is about equivalent to proving that you can carefully control a single burst in a volume of vaporized gasoline. The question I have is how do you make the rest of the required system work? What is the analog of the fuel injectors, the crankshaft, the alternators, the gasoline station, the supply lines to the gas station, the refined fuel, etc.
It is kind of ridiculous to point to the amount of deuterium in the oceans to calculate the quantity of energy you can produce. One might just as logically point to the carbon contained in the Earth’s atmosphere as a measure of the amount of energy we could provide through combustion.
If you could make the explosions very small, then direct conversion to electricity could be done via a magnetohydrodynamic system. This has been investigated for space nuclear power with a burst mode, ultrahigh temperature UF4 vapor core reactor .
@John Englert
Sorry. I think you have mistaken me for a dreamer. Systems that have “been investigated for space” have a long way to go before they are solving real problems here on earth.
@Rod –
Here Is a quick synopsis of how a Thorium ignited PACER fusion power plant works.
The PACER cavity, which is 27 meters in diameter and 127 meters length and of cylindrical shape vertically oriented and buried at 100 meters depth in the ground, is first pumped down to a soft vacuum, this reduces that pressure peak experienced inside the cavity while firing the PNE (peaceful nuclear explosive).
The PNE is lowered on a cable/steel sheathed optical fiber until the device is in a position about 60 meters from the top of the cavity.
High velocity pumps flood a spray of hot molten salt from nozzles in the roof of the PACER Cavity. This hot salt falls from the roof of the cavity and then collects in a pool at the bottom of the cavity.
While the molten salt is falling through the PACER cavity from the roof, a large but still commercial fast pulse laser housed on the surface above the PACER cavity fires an intense, short, femtosecond pulse of laser light. This intense burst of laser light compresses and ignites a micro fission pellet of U-233 surrounded by a cryogenic bath of deuterium-tritium forming the fission primary. Laser compression and initiation of the advanced fission primary causes approximately 50% of the atoms of the fissile fuel in the primary to fission. This fission produces high energy gammas and X-rays that pump the fusion secondary while confining the fusion primary using a form of inertial confinement – thereby reliably creating the conditions for D-D or D-T plasma ignition. In excess of 97% of the energy released by the PNE then comes from nuclear fusion (with 99% or greater believed possible for a PACER optimized device). The controlled small PNE explosion produces intense heat which is transferred to the flowing molten salt falling through the partially evacuated PACER cavity. This heat collects in a molten salt pool at the bottom of the cavity. The hot salt stores the heat which is transferred through a heat exchanger and additional engineered heat matching heat reducing apparatus to ultimately be transferred to a conventional steam turbine generator that produces electricity. The stored heat in the molten salt pool permits that PACER power plant to continuously produce power until the next PACER shot occurs (the pacing of PACER shots is a function of device size and the power generation level desired – a small 3kt PNE device must be ignited every half hour to produce a continuous power level of 1GWe from the PACER power plant. LANL implementations of PACER tended to be larger with PACER PNE devices up to 50 kilotons in size. These larger devices might have to be fired only every 8 hours or so to maintain the same 1GWe output from a PACER NPP.
I would like to suggest that the best way to get a complete and comprehensive idea of how PACER Fusion works is to read Dr. Ralph Moir’s paper “PACER Revisited”
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/purl.cover.jsp?purl=/6718615-nhbbsq/
Ralph was the senior nuclear designer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the three decades it was my privilege to work at that great Lab. Ralph originated LLNL’s concept of PACER fusion (there was also a large body of additional PACER fusion work performed at LANL independent of LLNL’s efforts)
I was a member of LLNL Engineering assigned to Field Test Division who was tasked with conducting nuclear tests of both experimental devices and qualified weapons in the arsenal to ensure safety and reliability.
Dr. Ralph Moir was the designer and very able technology leader of LLNL PACER fusion efforts – I was a tester and technology fixer.
That description does not sound at all like a low capital cost way to provide reliable power. How far did LLNL get in concept development?
Just to make sure I am clear on the dimensions – are you telling me that the top of the 127 meter tall cylinder is buried 100 meters underground, making the total excavation 227 meters deep and 27 meters in diameter? Is all of the rest of the equipment on the surface or did you plan on putting all of the salt piping and pumps, along with the steam power plant and the control room underground? Did you plan to use a Plowshares type device to get that done?
Did you plan to use a Plowshares type device to get that done?
Well, if all you have is a hammer …
@Rod – The question of the economics of PACER fusion is a bit challenging to answer. The actual size of PACER optimized PNEs is tiny compared to conventional nuclear devices. The amount of nuclear fuel, both U-233 fissile and Deuterium fusion fuel is very small. Only about 20 grams of Deuterium is required to produce 99% of the energy generated by the D-D fusion PACER device. A D-T fusion based PNE, which might be the first style available, would require about 11 grams of Deuterium and 16 grams of Tritium for a 3 kiloton PNE. Modern designs should allow shrinking the size of the fission primary dramatically, to require only what would normally be considered “subcritical” amounts of fissile through incorporation of an advanced high efficiency fission primary requiring laser initiation. Remote Robotic manufacture of the PACER devices combined with “just in time” addition of the fission and fusion fuel right before the device is used in the PACER power plant greatly reduces the risk of a PACER PNE being stolen and used for some illicit purpose. No PACER device would ever be shipped in a condition where the nuclear fuels were loaded. If a terrorist stole a PACER PNE that had been produced at a robotic factory, all he would get for his effort is a couple of small castings and some sheet metal that he could hold in his hand, nothing that would be explosive or interesting.
Back in the early 1970s, AEC offered a 50 kiloton device to US industry as part of the Plowshare program for $50,000 dollars per device. Much smaller, robotically assembled PACER devices consisting of a couple of small castings and sheet metal that yield only 3 kt that you literally can hold in the palm of your hand should bring the price down dramatically, hopefully to something on the order of $2000 per device or less. A large commercial fast pulse laser may need to sit on the surface to direct an intense powerful 60 femtosecond pulse of light into the PNE to ignite it, but this laser is not destroyed in the successive PACER explosions and is used over and over again on successive PACER shots.
Aside from the PACER PNE device itself, the rest of PACER is pretty low tech. The PACER cavity must sustain a pressure wave of about 30 MegaPascals of pressure and a 0.2 meter (8 inch) thick wall of SS316 stainless steel should be able to take the pressure and heat and provide a lifetime in excess of 200,000 PACER shots. A PACER cavity, such as LLNL’s Dr. Ralph Moir designed was 27 meters in radius and 127 meters in length. The total volume of stainless steel required to fabricate this artificial cavity is 4283.36 m^3 of SS316 steel. The density of SS316 steel is about 8000 kilograms per m^3, so the total mass of stainless steel required to make the PACER cavity is 34291 metric tonnes. Steel vendors in China are willing to supply stainless SS316 for as little as $750 per tonne but $1000 per ton may be a better cost estimate from US suppliers.
The cost in SS316 stainless steel to build a PACER cavity 27 meters radius x 127 meters long x 0.2 meters thick is about $34.3 million dollars.
The world needs at least another 10 TWe of power [1] by 2050. This corresponds to starting 10,000 new 1GWe LFTRs. To start this number of LFTRs requires a very large supply of fissile U-233 to form the initial LFTR startup charges (about 8000 metric tonnes of U-233). This fissile could be quickly provided by a relatively small number of Thorium PACER fusion reactors. A small number of Thorium PACERs could contribute to LFTR’s rapid success by manufacturing new LFTR startup fissile core charges faster than any other competing fuel manufacturing technology.
[1] – http://bit.ly/aglriT
Thorium PACER is in my view complementary nuclear technology to Thorium LFTR. PACER permits rapid production of rare U-233 to produce the startup charges for new LFTR reactors. A calculation by Dr. Walter Seifritz of PACER U-233 breeding potential when operating using D-D fusion indicates that a 1 GWe PACER could be expected to produce about 20.3 metric tons (20,300 kilograms) of U-233 per year in a PACER fission suppressed Thorium breeding blanket. This is enough U-233 to start about twenty-five conventional 1 GWe Thorium LFTRs per year or about fifty 1GWe LFTRs that use quick change-out replaceable high flux density reactor cores.
As a contrast, the 1 GWe ORNL MSBR (ORNL-3996) was expected to breed about 37 kilograms of U-233 per year (the U-233 fuel doubling time for the MSBR was about 11 years).
A 1GWe D-D fusion Thorium PACER reactor with a fission suppressed Thorium breeding blanket should produce 548x times or (54800%) the U-233 produced by a 1GWe ORNL MSBR in a year.
If you want to start a large number of LFTRs in a hurry and operate them in the Thorium Fuel Cycle where they produce the minimum amount of nuclear waste, it is beneficial to have one or more Thorium PACER fusion reactors operating alongside to make U-233 startup fuel charges for the new LFTR reactors.
The waste produced from D-T nuclear fusion is only non-radioactive helium (although the very high fluence of fusion neutrons can neutron activates the SS316L metal walls of the PACER cavity). LLNL’s PACER cavity was designed for a lifetime in excess of 200,000 PACER shots which is over 30 years of commercial operation. The highest cost portion of a PACER power plant is the conventional Rankin cycle steam turbine-generator which has a cost of $300 million dollars or less. The total cost of a 1GWe PACER plant is estimated at about $450 million including the PACER cavity and fast pulse laser. Compared to the costs of other forms of nuclear, the upfront capital costs of PACER fusion power plants are low. To compete on operational costs with conventional LWRs, the cost of PACER PNEs would have to be about $2000 each (or less). LLNL and LANL designers believed that they could provide PNEs that would satisfy all the requirements needed for practical PACER power plants. Buried 100 meters underground, it is suggested that rather than digging up a PACER power plant to decommission it, you instead cement over the surface entries to the plant and abandon it. This produces a lower PACER decommissioning cost than most forms of nuclear power generation.
I can’t help but notice the commentary trend toward rehashing old times in nuclear engineering. Granted it comes from years of experience and training and that is good but it narrows the scope of the discussion to theory that is 30 years old. The issue is when one retires a void is left in the work force. No one is being trained for an industry that is hobbled by government control and a biased banking industry. After all, what is the incentive to do so when planning a 35-40 year career path? I believe there are a few options available for a graduate engineer in nuclear science. One of the options is joining an R & D team to produce modular and new technology reactors. The other is to train a new generation of technical staff to operate existing nuclear plants and to decommission plants long past their designed life. One other is to learn to produce energy via new technology now being considered by our national laboratories like ORNL, Sandia Labs and Livermore Lab. If one considers nuclear power dangerous then correct the problem and build better with new talent and new technology…it is just that simple!
Michael R. Himes briefly explored what options are available for a graduate engineer in nuclear science. I would like to add one additional choice to the list he provided.
A graduate engineer in nuclear science has the option to take the skills in nuclear engineering or physics that he has acquired and put them at the service of those who oppose progress in the field of his training (nuclear technology). This approach has worked well as a career path for Dr. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who went directly from academia to active opposition to nuclear technology without spending any time in the industry he regularly fights to limit. Another example in this same vein is Dr. Gregory Jaczko, who upon graduating with a PhD in Physics, went directly into the service of Representative Edward Markey as a staff member, and employed his skills acquired through formal training in Physics to craft regulation that hinders and impedes the wider expansion of commercial nuclear energy.
As a young man I tended to admire engineers because I thought that they usually try to build things that are of value to society. It is saddening that a significant fraction of the engineers and physicists graduating today use their technical skills immediately to invent blocks and hindrances, generally in the way of crafting of new laws and regulations, that are designed to slow technical progress and advancement in their chosen field of nuclear technology.
Your two examples of Lyman and Jaczko – and several others I can think of – were physics majors whose studies had little or nothing to do with the production of useful energy by nuclear fission. Because the American media and general public tends to think of “scientists and engineers” as being essentially the same category, those two gentlemen were able to convince people that they had valid credentials for being critics of nuclear energy production. Even within the technical community there is little understanding that some physics majors do not study anything that is practical – instead they spend their time thinking of ways to describe & model the low energy behavior of baryons and mesons or other such theoretical minutia.
Im am thankful for the detailed discussion and appreciate the links. “Nuclear Power” was never one technology and letting the anti nukes set the tone by discussing it incorrectly in that framework has been a huge mistake.
Japan kinda sortof announced plans to abandon nuclear technology in electricity production today. Again little reason/science and pure politics. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/world/asia/japan-will-try-to-halt-nuclear-power-by-the-end-of-the-2030s.html?pagewanted=2&hp )
On the topic of Russians sabotaging fast reactor progress – I dont know about that considering the amount of spent fuel they have and the supply problems they recently experienced with their gas empire. Also wouldn’t the IAEA step in and publicize the matter if they were behaving foolishly?
@John Tucker
It is difficult to do large projects correctly. Even when everyone is trying hard to do the right things with good leaders making good choices there are going to be challenges along the way. If the top leadership is not really interested in a standout success story that can be followed with a massive buildout of repeated projects, there are many ways to slow things down that would not attract any attention as being unusual.
For example – have you heard anything recently about the floating nuclear power reactors that Russia has been talking about building for at least 15 years.
http://atomicinsights.com/1996/07/news-july-96.html
Here is a more recent article from 2011 indicting that the Russians are still making progress and plan to start operating the first of 8 floating nuclear power stations in 2012.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2011/06/201161475512754605.html
I kinda remember the stories about a “reactoron a barge” in the press. Certainly it seems they put a lot more thought into it than that. If they can get the concept working properly I dont think there will be a problem finding good uses to put it to. I wish we would have worked on that.
Gunnar Littmarck says
Good post Rod Adams:
I guess that when the Indian step two goes critical next year and has as one purpose to produce new Pu239 from a blanket of U238 for use as fuel in coming reactors, the debate will changes in our countries.
Sellafield think they have a problem with 100tons of plutonium and India will breed U238 just to get Plutonium…
Another good thing with the Indian way, is that it also can produce U233 from Th232,
I’m a fan of MSR so I want plenty U233.
My best //gunnar
@Rod – (From earlier Fusion thread)
You are correct on the dimensions of the LLNL molten salt version of PACER. The PACER cavity is formed from SS316L stainless steel and is 27 meters in diameter and 127 meters long and is about 0.2 meters (or 8 inches) thick. This device is about the size of a US football field with end zones turned vertical buried 100 meters in the ground (the top of the PACER cavity is 100 meters below the ground surface).
The question of the economics of PACER fusion is a bit challenging to answer. The actual size of PACER optimized PNEs is tiny compared to conventional nuclear devices. The amount of nuclear fuel, both U-233 fissile and Deuterium fusion fuel is very small. Only about 20 grams of Deuterium is required to produce 99% of the energy generated by the D-D fusion PACER device. A D-T fusion based PNE, which might be the first style available, would require about 11 grams of Deuterium and 16 grams of Tritium for a 3 kiloton PNE.
Modern designs should allow shrinking the size of the fission primary dramatically, to require only what would normally be considered “subcritical” amounts of fissile through incorporation of an advanced high efficiency fission primary with laser initiation. Remote Robotic manufacture of the PACER devices combined with “just in time” addition of the fission and fusion fuel right before the device is used in the PACER power plant greatly reduces the risk of a PACER PNE being stolen and used for some illicit purpose. No PACER device would ever be shipped in a condition where the nuclear fuels were loaded. If a terrorist stole a PACER PNE that had been produced at a robotic factory, all he would get for his effort is a couple of small castings and some sheet metal that he could hold in his hand, nothing that would be explosive or interesting.
Back in the early 1970s, AEC offered a 50 kiloton device to US industry as part of the Plowshare program for $50,000 dollars per device. Much smaller, robotically assembled PACER devices consisting of a couple of small castings and sheet metal that yield only 3 kt that you literally can hold in your arms should bring the price down dramatically, hopefully to something on the order of $2000 per device or less. A large commercial fast pulse laser may need to sit on the surface to direct an intense powerful 60 femtosecond pulse of light into the PNE to ignite it, but this laser is not destroyed in the successive PACER explosions and is used over and over again on successive PACER shots.
Fissile Requirements required to start production of energy at this 1 GWe level for PACER, LFTR, LWR, IFR and the cost to provide the fissile startup material-
IFR – 18000 kilograms (costs $1.8 billion)
LWR – 5000 kilograms (cost $600 million)
LFTR – 800 kilograms (costs $24 million)
PACER – 2.5 kilograms (cost $75 thousand)
The cost of fissile can be a significant part of the cost of starting up a nuclear reactor. The Russians are the current low cost suppliers of fissile materials at about $30,000 per kilogram HEU. The cost of providing the startup fuel for a 1 Gwe IFR may be understated, as an IFR would probably use Pu-239 as its fuel rather than mined and enriched U-235. It is hard to establish a price on Pu-239 which does not trade commercially.
The highest cost portion of a PACER power plant is the conventional Rankin cycle steam turbine-generator which has a cost of $300 million dollars or less.
The total cost of a 1GWe PACER plant is estimated at about $550 million including the PACER cavity, the PACER chemical recycling plant ($34 million) that separates bred U-233 from a fission suppressed Thorium blanket, and a commercial fast pulse laser.
Compared to the costs of other forms of nuclear, the upfront capital costs of PACER fusion power plants are low. To compete on operational costs with conventional LWRs, the cost of PACER PNEs would have to be about $2000 each (or less). LLNL and LANL designers believed that they could provide PNEs that would satisfy all the requirements needed for practical PACER power plants. Buried 100 meters underground, it is suggested that rather than digging up a PACER power plant to decommission it, you instead cement over the surface entries to the plant and abandon it. This produces a lower PACER decommissioning cost than most forms of nuclear power generation.
The world needs at least another 10 TWe of power [1] by 2050. This corresponds to starting 10,000 new 1GWe LFTRs. To start this number of LFTRs requires a very large supply of fissile U-233 to form the initial LFTR startup charges (about 8000 metric tonnes of U-233). This fissile could be more quickly provided by use of a relatively small number of Thorium PACER fusion reactors. A small number of Thorium PACERs could contribute to LFTR’s rapid success by manufacturing new LFTR startup fissile core charges faster than any other competing fuel manufacturing technology.
The waste produced from D-T nuclear fusion is only non-radioactive helium (although the very high fluence of fusion neutrons can neutron activate the SS316L metal walls of the PACER cavity and this can take decades to decay back to the level of the natural background). LLNL’s PACER cavity was designed for a lifetime in excess of 200,000 PACER shots which is over 30 years of commercial operation.
Aside from the PACER PNE device itself, the rest of PACER is pretty low tech. The PACER cavity must sustain a pressure wave of about 30 MegaPascals of pressure and a 0.2 meter (8 inch) thick wall of SS316 stainless steel should be able to take the pressure and heat and provide a lifetime in excess of 200,000 PACER shots. The total volume of stainless steel required to fabricate this artificial cavity is 4283.36 m^3 of SS316 steel. The density of SS316 steel is about 8000 kilograms per m^3, so the total mass of stainless steel required to make the PACER cavity is 34291 metric tonnes. Steel vendors in China are willing to supply stainless SS316 for as little as $750 per tonne, but $1000 per ton may be a better cost estimate from US suppliers.
The total cost of a 1GWe PACER plant is estimated at about $550 million including the PACER cavity, the PACER chemical recycling and fuel manufacturing plant ($34 million) that separates bred U-233 fissile from a fission suppressed Thorium blanket, and a commercial fast pulse laser.
Do you realize how small a portion of the cost of a nuclear power plant is in the material? The amount of cost in the material of the reactor pressure vessel is far smaller than that.
Much larger contributors to cost are financing, labor, welding, NDE, quality assurance paperwork, regulations, construction, inspections, site preparation, excavation, transportation, etc.
Your cost estimating skills must have been developed in a national laboratory.
Thorium Ignited PACER Fusion – Practical fusion to fully power the planet longer than the earth has existed or our sun will burn
My cost estimating skills were developed at a National Laboratory (and a great one).
I will freely admit that my estimation of cost is sketchy, but it is a first pass, I have tried to identify the major costs and cost drivers of a PACER power plant and to put those elements clearly before you. Cement and steel tend to dominate the cost of construction of new nuclear plants. While large in physical size, a PACER cavity is only moderate in its use of steel, and downright conserving in its use of reinforced concrete, relative to other forms of nuclear generating the same 1 GWe power output. Things like regulatory costs, quality assurance paperwork, inspections, etc. are difficult to evaluate for a first of a kind technology and would have to be added for a better and more comprehensive cost estimate.
I would like to emphasize that virtually all elements of PACER fusion have already been proven to work by LLNL and LANL Field Test Divisions. There are no areas of significant technical risk left to disincline decision makers and energy planners from actively considering building nuclear technology producing huge qualities of energy from nuclear fusion. America should revaluate Thorium PACER and Thorium LFTR and use these technologies to help lift the American economy and solve climate problems while reducing the likelihood of future wars over resources that will otherwise have to be fought to secure access to diminishing sources of fossil fuels. There is no justification for the widespread, but quite incorrect belief that fusion is always and will always be only 50 years away, and as a result fusion is of no practical interest or concern. America should not fail to secure the benefit that could be had by using its two currently unused but abundantly available nuclear fuels, Thorium and Deuterium. Thorium Molten Salt Reactors and practical PACER fusion power plants should not be kept on the technical sidelines and effectively suppressed by widely held but incorrect beliefs that these technologies are somehow not ready, or not economical, or not safe, as they are none of those things.
PACER fusion is the cheapest form of nuclear power generation when the full lifecycle from construction of the power plant to its final decommissioning is considered. PACER fusion is also a practical form of energy generation that does not depend on technical breakthroughs to make practical, but could practically produce Gigawatts of power from fusion in a successful prototype with very high certainty in less than 3 years.
Over 80 tunnel shots were conducted at NTS that entailed drilling large carefully shaped caverns up to 1/4 mile in length and large enough to drive several large tanks and military vehicles into and those shots were performed at a total project cost of on average about $10 million dollars each (1974 dollars). In Amchitka Alaska LANL and LLNL field test division dug shot holes of over 1 mile in depth
(6,104 ft or 1,800 meters, considerably deeper than PACER’s 227 meters) and successfully performed the Cannikin nuclear test in 1971 with a yield of 5 megatons (21 Peta-Joules) underneath a frozen Aleutian Island. Cannikin was a very deep shot in a very hostile and remote location and cost Field Test Division closer to $200 million to perform.
Why not use a practical form of nuclear fusion that is ignited reliably by nuclear fission that produces less waste (non-radioactive helium) to improve the conditions of people around the world and sustainably produce all the power the planet needs at a 30 Terawatt level from Deuterium for 31 billion years (practical power longer than the earth has existed or our sun will burn).
Cement and steel tend to dominate the cost of construction of new nuclear plants.
That may be true in text books. It is an incorrect statement in real life.
I’ve been a member of a large and growing team of people assigned the task of preparing an application for a license to build a new light water reactor power plant for just over 2 years. Without releasing any competitive information, I can tell you that our team includes several hundred professionals. We have been holding numerous meetings with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the pre-application phase. The very first one was “free”; all others are billed to my employer at the current rate of $279 per hour per regulator. As is the case when you work with attorney’s, that clock runs every time there is an interaction and all the time that is spent between meetings reviewing the detailed documents that are turned in during the meeting.
We might be ready to submit the application we have been working on since before my arrival sometime within the next 6 months. After that application is submitted, there is a minimum of 42 months worth of review by the NRC. They will be reviewing a carefully prepared document that I expect might be as long as 20,000 pages – the INSTRUCTIONS for preparing that document are about 4,600 pages long.
However, the DCA (design certification application) is just a summary document; the statements of fact that are included in that document require detailed supporting technical information that includes computer codes, calculations, and drawings. Every document has to have a traceable pedigree prescribed by detailed procedures and independently verified by individuals or groups not involved in the initial design work. All of the work is subject to regulatory review at the bargain price of $279 (which will escalate with inflation & cost of operating NRC). Getting to the point of a design certification rule will probably cost in excess of $100 million in NRC fees alone.
Also during the review process, our team will have to expand significantly in order to allow completion of the detailed design work. A certified design is not detailed enough for actual manufacturing or construction.
We have not spent ANY money on cement and steel.
@Rod – I would just like to say I am grateful to have the insights provided by your comment regarding realistic evaluation of the cost of nuclear. Clearly, those that have fought the battle and have labored to push a real reactor through NRC regulatory review know the difficulty of that task.
A (few) final words –
The very first US thermonuclear test (Ivy Mike) conducted in 1952 was in fact an example of controlled D-D fusion. Ivy Mike produced far more energy out than was required to initiate the ignition of the fusion plasma. Diffuse energy ignited fusion experiments that use tokomaks and laser fusion to ignite fusion plasma do not produce any energy gain and all produce a Q factor of less than one (less energy out than it requires to run the fusion experiment). In 1952, the Ivy Mike test demonstrated that LLL Field Test Division could produce practical D-D fusion on demand at huge levels of power generation (10.4–12 Megatons) with a Q> 100,000 (you got 100,000 times the energy out of the Ivy Mike test device as the energy it took in chemical explosives to initiate the fission primary that drove the thermonuclear D-D fusion secondary.
Today, we can make practical energy generation systems that produce huge practical amounts of energy on a controlled continuously basis from D-D fusion. This energy system is called PACER.
http://www.yottawatts.net
Note (warning based on a historical event): When a physicist of the excellence of Edward Teller sends you a telegram stating only “It’s a boy”, it might not mean what you think.
At least that was the experience of the small team of weapons developers at Los Alamos X-Division when they received word in the form of an unclassified telegram from Teller that the Ivy Mike test had worked.
“When the (MSR) reactor is scaled up leakage will go down and the flux will flatten out. This loss of a spatial shape will lead to flux instabilities.”
Sometimes true for large solid fuel reactors due to the delayed generation of xenon which is a neutron poison. How does this happen when the xenon fission product precursors are continuously mixed in the cooling loop and the xenon gas comes out of the molten salt as it is created. Explain the actual physics, no computer jargon.
“If you take the neutrons as a thermodynamic system the flux instabilities are like boiling of water. It is a phase transition. It is an entirely new phenomena that we don’t fully understand yet.”
I have never seen anyone else make this claim for a MSR. Are you proposing salt boiling during normal operation? Explain the actual physics or provide a reference, no computer jargon.
Obviously a team designing a large MSR (or IFR) will have to demonstrate safety, first with computer models and then with a full scale prototype. I expect this to be much easier for the MSR due to the low excess reactivity and impossibility of very fast, very large, reactivity additions.
Cal, still waiting for your response to this question of January 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM.
I will ask for the third and last time. Define instability. What is the exact mechanism of the instability? Assume that mathematics and computers have not been invented, just explain what actually happens based on fundamental principles of nature.
“My critique of your claims to build a large LFTR is on the basis of the flux instability due to low leakage.”
Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine the MSRE running at a steady 5 MW. Now increase the diameter of the reactor to infinity and reduce the concentration of the fissile atoms to maintain k=1. Now increase the height of the reactor to 50 feet and reduce the concentration of the fissile atoms to maintain k=1. We have no radial leakage and negligible leakage from the ends.
Imagine we are riding on an incremental volume of fuel salt approaching the core. We see a rapid increase in neutron flux and in fission rate. As we enter the core, flux, fission rate and temperature are increasing. As the fuel heats up its reactivity is decreasing. Soon the power peaks, but the fuel continues to heat up at a decreasing rate. In this long core, the fission rate and neutron flux drop very low at the discharge end, so very low leakage.
Now imagine we perturb the core by injecting neutrons into a region of the core near the entrance. We double the flux in a zone about 10 feet in diameter for 30 seconds. The fuel passing through that region heats up much faster than before. The graphite also heats up, but slowly.
When the extra neutrons are cut off, fuel in that region and downstream is warmer than it was in equilibrium, suppressing the fission rate a bit until the excess heat is carried away, and the equilibrium profile is restored.
Most importantly, fuel flowing into that zone has no memory of the neutron pulse. It may see slightly warmer graphite for a while, and that will suppress fission slightly until equilibrium graphite temperature is restored.
Perform the same experiment in a solid fuel reactor and the fuel will have memory of the neutron pulse, in the form of additional xenon precursor fission products in that region of the core. The xenon will show up and suppress the flux in that region, perhaps starting an unstable oscillation.
So Cal, how do you get power oscillations in a molten core if the core has no spatial memory of the power history of the core?
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Fake German Number Plates
Tuesday 6th May 2008 OtherRyan Cullen
Some of my regular readers might realise that I have a thing about number plates. Something that caught my eye was the top image. At the time I was looking for a 725, however foreign plates can’t be counted. However it looked very much like a British plate, just styled as a German one. So once I got home I used wikipedia to double check.
Wiki says that plates are in the format of 1-3 letters for the place, then stickers to show the emission test and vehicle safety test, then 1-2 random letters, and then 1-4 random numbers (maximum number of characters is 8). So clearly the plate on the left is actually a GB plate just designed to look like a German one (example at the bottom).
I’ve now seen two in this format, so I’m guessing someone is producing them for homesick Germans. But as with other styled number plates unless they are in the offical typeface with the correct spacing they are illegal to drive with and will fail an MOT.
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7 thoughts on “Fake German Number Plates”
glen turnbull says:
Monday 21st July 2008 at 4:50 pm
German plates look nothing like our british ones
A123 ABC
ABC 123A
AA 55 ABC
carl taylor says:
Wednesday 18th February 2009 at 8:57 am
The reason people have the german style plates in england is a big thing on the vw scene to make your car look like a german car after all this is where the car comes from.
Sell Number Plate says:
Monday 17th May 2010 at 6:20 pm
I used to have some of these, very big on the dub and euro scene and I think they look awesome. It’s shame they’re illegal though, which seems silly as its perfectly OK for someone to bring their own car over here from abroad and drive it with their foreign plates. Oh well, I guess them’s the rules lol.
kelly parsons says:
Tuesday 7th September 2010 at 12:43 pm
i have these number plates on my golf gti n have recently been told by the police to replace them, legal plates just dont look as good on the car!
Ami says:
Sunday 26th September 2010 at 10:28 pm
by any chance did you ask the owners of the cars if you could use the images of the plates?
especially the G725 WFG mk1 golf cabrio ?
as this is my car and i was never asked if you could use this image !
Ryan Cullen says:
Monday 27th September 2010 at 8:29 am
Ami the only person I’m required to ask permission from is the photographer, and that’s me.
The car was parked on the road, and it was breaking the law.
Tuesday 5th June 2012 at 8:35 pm
This plate breaks the law on several counts (wrong font, no postcode of maker’s address, incorrect country code – i.e. ‘D’ when it should be ‘GB’) They are also difficult to read by ANPR systems and therefor could be used to commit other crimes and evade capture.
I had to chuckle about needing permission to post a picture of a car parked in the road. How would BBC or ITV ever do an outside broadcast? Hopefully Ami has replaced it with a road-legal one by now.
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Topic: Loans | January 21, 2019
Author: Neil Cubley
Tags: Cars
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Do you remember your first car?
Loud, liberating, expensive, exciting, unreliable, fun.
Everyone remembers their first car.
We give them affectionate pet names then call them all the names under the sun when they break down.
They bring us freedom. They bring us strange noises whose source is never quite discovered. And they are part of some of the happiest memories of our lives.
Here are just some stories of first cars shared by their owners.
Ella’s Citroen Dyane
My first car was called Weed because it had a soft top and there were weeds growing on the roof.
I bought it from my brother’s ex-girlfriend for £250 in 1994.
When I took it out for the first time the exhaust fell off and I discovered that it was only held on with a shoelace which had burned through it. That was really just the beginning.
At one stage it lost first and second gear and would only go into third.
Then it wouldn’t go into reverse which meant I was only able to park in places where no cars could park in front of me so I could get out again. Corners were the best place to park.
I was working in an area where cars were always being broken into. For some reason Weed was targeted. Maybe it was because it looked so bad that people went for it.
The wipers were snapped off by gougers numerous times.
They kept breaking the windows to get into the car so I stopped locking the doors but they kept breaking the windows anyway.
Once someone tried and failed to steal it – God knows why – and pulled all the wires out from under the dash.
When the roadside rescue man came and saw the damage I told him I couldn’t afford to spend any more money on the car.
He said to me, ‘you must never tell anyone what I’m about to tell you’ and then he showed me how to hotwire my own car!
But I was too scared to do it because I’m frightened of electricity so instead my friend Richie installed a three-pin socket in the car where the ignition had been. An actual socket you’d find in your house!
For months afterwards, in order to start Weed, I had to put in a plug that I carried everywhere in my pocket and flick a switch. And it worked!
Jon’s Ford Fiesta 1.1L
My first car was a red Ford Fiesta 1.1L.
I was the first of my friends to pass my test in 1994 so I’d have 3 of my mates in the car most Friday nights going back and forth.
The reason I bought the car was not only because it was only £500 but because it had a cassette tape deck in it and two speakers installed in the rear parcel shelf.
I remember that Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ was the second song on side 1 of the cassette tape I had of their album ‘Pablo Honey’.
Every time we went out in the car the guys would be singing ‘Creep’ as we drove along the roads in Suffolk.
When we were rewinding the tape, we knew exactly to the split second, when to stop rewinding to play ‘Creep’ again from the beginning.
It would just be on continuous loop when we were going off to Norwich or wherever we were going out that evening.
Those were great times.
Shabbir’s Vauxhall Corsa
The first car I got was in 2004.
I got it from a friend and it cost me about €1,000.
I banged it a few times against trees and poles, stuff like that, but that’s how you learn. I remember that I reversed into a pole at a gas station once.
A few months after I bought the car, my son was born and sometimes he didn’t sleep at night. So when he woke up we would put him in the back of the car in his car seat and drive to Blessington and back.
By the time we got home, he would be asleep and we would put him into bed trying not to wake him.
The car was already 12 years old when I bought it and one day the timing belt broke.
I tried to sell it but nobody wanted to buy a 14-year-old Vauxhall Corsa with a broken timing belt. So I put it up on a website where you can advertise stuff you are giving away for free.
After a week, a Polish guy and his father showed up on a cold winter evening and opened the bonnet. After an hour working in the freezing cold he had changed the belt and he drove away in the car.
That was the last I saw of it. It was a good car.
Sarah’s Hyundai Getz
I’m taking my test soon in my first car. I’m still learning.
It drives fine but the ‘Check Engine’ light keeps coming back on even after getting it fixed in the garage four times now.
The first time I brought my Mum out in it she was a nervous wreck.
She was holding onto the passenger door handle all the way.
I stalled at a junction and she was like ‘quick, there’s someone behind us we can’t keep them waiting, Sarah’ .
Of course, that just made me stall it again and again.
She didn’t want to come with me in the car after that. She said she was too nervous.
Anna’s Peugeot 106s
I had two Peugeot 106s. A K-Reg and an N-reg in the early 2000s.
They were as light as a feather and went like a rocket and I loved them.
My second one got me through university.
I remember driving home from college with all my worldly goods in the back after getting the results of my finals and (while clearly overloaded) I drove very gently into the back of a car about 100m from home.
No damage on the other car but it meant a new bonnet for me.
I remember getting home, opening the door and yelling, “Mum I got a first and I crashed the car!”
Meghan’s Honda Accord
I named my first car – a 1997 White Honda Accord – Stanley.
Coincidentally, my first accident occurred on Stanley Street.
Stanley was about 10 years old when I received him as a gift from my parents. He was a bit worn, but I loved the colour, the leather seats, and the CD player.
It felt exciting to have my own freedom to go to the beach, the store, work, school, and so forth.
I had quite a few laughs in that car and rode him to his eventual death in 2015.
RIP Stanley.
He was a reliable car that often fitted more than his 5 allotted passengers in. You are missed!
Joe’s Ford Fiesta
I called it ‘The Yellow Submarine’. Bought for roughly £1,000, the insurance cost roughly £2,000!
The brakes failed a week after I bought it. I managed to drive into Wilton Shopping Centre using only the gears and stopped it up against a mound of earth.
I travelled the highways and byways of Ireland with my trad music friends in that car.
I remember being woken up after sleeping on the edge of a field of barley one year, three of us in the car had the bejaysus scared out of us when a big artic truck roared by.
Tom’s Nissan Micra
For a first car it wasn’t bad.
It was a 1.1 litre engine not a 1.0 litre engine. That 0.1 litre difference was a big thing at the time!
I bought the car because I was sick and tired of getting the bus to work. At the time, I had to get two buses to get from Drimnagh to Cabinteely each day.
I remember getting the car and driving it to work the first day. I was coming down the dual carriage and got to this open stretch of ground either side of the road and cross-winds hit me.
The car started to shake violently left and right.
I don’t know why but it happened on this particular stretch of road every time, always the same spot.
Never got it fixed. I got used to it eventually but it was really unnerving.
Vanessa’s Peugeot 205
My boyfriend at the time was a car mechanic so I got the 205 as a birthday present!
I’m not sure where he found it. It was great to have but the main problem was to start it.
I used to have to have my foot pressed way down on the accelerator pedal when I turned the key in the ignition and even then it didn’t always work.
It was losing a lot of oil as well. When the engine did start it made a lot of noise and there was a lot of smoke!
Once, the gearbox stopped working when I was on a national road in France so I just kind of drifted to the side of the road and called my boyfriend!
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The GENI Project Office (GPO) was formed at BBN Technologies in 2007 and has been charged with
identifying the infrastructure suite that could best support NetSE experiments. The GPO has begun a
series of community-based planning and prototyping activities, notably Design and Prototyping
Solicitations #1 and #2. The first set of selected prototypes will complete ìSpiral 1î at the end of one year, and
will attempt a first integration of a majority of necessary ingredients for a ìreal GENIî.
Note that there is no pre-ordained outcome for these activities: the resultant GENI infrastructure suite could be the existing
Internet, existing testbeds, federations of testbeds, something brand new (from small to large),
federation of all of the above, and perhaps a federation with related international efforts.
In this talk, we will present an overview of the GENI development effort, an introduction to the GENI
architecture, and a discussion of how interested researchers can get involved in shaping the facility.
Harry Mussman is a Senior Systems Engineer, one in a group of GENI Project Office systems engineers at BBN Technologies, responsible for supporting the GENI community through documentation and coordination. Harry brought a strong background in network architecture and systems engineering to the GPO in early 2008. Before joining BBN, he was Chief Voice-over-IP Architect at a startup, BridgePort Networks. During the period from 1999 through 2002, he was responsible for Voice-over-IP network architecture at GTE Internetworking/Genuity. Harry received his BSEE degree from the University of Michigan, his MSEE from Northwestern University and a PhD from Stanford University.
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A famous Italian sculptor and architect of the 17th century . Gian Lorenzo Bernini attributed the Baroque style to sculpture . A scholar described him as "the first pan-European sculptor whose name can be immediately identified with a particular manner and vision and whose influence was exceedingly strong." The Bernini sculpture is actually celebrated for its notable execution and its dramatic and eloquent vocabulary.
Bernini's career, which began as a prodigy at age eight, began under his father Pietro Bernini a Florentine sculptor of a talent to which he later transferred to Rome. His art flourished under the patronage of his Cardinals and Popes and dominated the Roman art world of that time.
Bernini's Sculptures challenged contemporary artistic traditions revealing an innovative interpretation of themes, the use of forms, and the combination of media. He was praised for his remarkable ability to portray dramatic narratives with characters that display intense psychological states, as well as large-scale sculptural works that radiate a grandeur. His engineering skills in marble carving were also exquisite, making him a worthy successor to Michelangelo. He is also known for having used Light as an important theatrical and metaphorical device in his religious settings, relying on concealed light sources that could enhance the dramatic moment of a sculptural narrative.
By the end of Bernini's life, began a determined reaction against his brand of extravagant Baroque . The decline of its popularity towered over only after his death and persisted well into the 20th century. However, Bernini's works were restored with enthusiasm in the 21
st century and only regained after the jubilee year of 1998.
Let's take a look at some of the most famous works of this 17th century master.
Selected Image: Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Apollo and Daphne (detail), 1622-25. All images Wikimedia Commons.
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Will Aliens Look Like Us?
For all the discussion about UFOs and alien races, there frequently seems to be an understood agreement that aliens have to somehow look or be like us. That is, if Darwin’s theory of evolution is good enough for our evolutionary line, it’s also good enough for alien life as regards to their evolution.
Aliens Evolved to Be Humanlike
In a recent finding, scholars at the University of Oxford determined that aliens may be more like us than we think, arguing that Hollywood often has it wrong.
Sam Levin, a researcher in Oxford’s Department of Zoology notes, “By predicting that aliens have undergone major transitions—which is how complexity has arisen in species on Earth, we can say that there is a level of predictability to evolution that would cause them to look like us.”
Referred to as convergent evolution, this theory is based on the observation that similar traits in unrelated organisms evolved as a result of adapting to comparable environmental challenges and thus the outcome of evolution is predictably inevitable.
Aliens That Are Really Alien
However, just as it can be argued that evolution is convergent, the opposite can be equally argued.
In an NPR article by Jonathan Losos, the opposite theory was shown to be plausible. “We don’t need to find life on other planets to test the convergence hypothesis. All we have to do is go to New Zealand, an island on which life has diversified in the absence of terrestrial mammals. If the outcome of natural selection is deterministic, then a world dominated by birds would look pretty much like life elsewhere on the planet. But of course, it doesn’t. The kiwi may live a lifestyle similar to a badger, but it doesn’t look at all like one. The dominant herbivore is, or was, a 10-foot tall bird (the moa), quite different from deer or bison. Throw in flightless parrots, carnivorous parrots, bats that forage by walking around in the leaf-litter and many more, and we can throw the convergence hypothesis out the window. New Zealand is a distinct evolutionary world, the evolutionary outcome unique.”
If Aliens Exist, They May Come to Get Us, Stephen Hawking Says
Stephen Hawking has repeatedly warned of broadcasting our existence into space. An advanced spacefaring extraterrestrial civilization could end up wandering the universe in enormous spaceships on the prowl for vital materials after consuming the natural resources of their own world as Hawking explained in an episode of the show Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, which aired on the Discovery Channel.
We have no reason to assume alien civilizations would be benevolent or that they wouldn’t be interested in Earth. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach,” Hawking said. “If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?”
In L. Ron Hubbard’s novel Battlefield Earth, the majority of the human race is wiped out by alien invaders. The Psychlo invaders discover Earth’s coordinates from the golden disc carried by Voyager I, and as the aliens tell it:
“Man apparently sent out some kind of probe that gave full directions to the place, had pictures of man on it and everything. It got picked up by a Psychlo recon. And you know what? The probe and the pictures were on a metal that was rare-rare-rare everywhere and worth a clanking fortune. And Intergalactic paid the Psychlo governors sixty trillion Galactic credits for the directions and the concession. One gas barrage and we were in business.” —excerpt from Battlefield Earth
We interviewed public at a Comic Con for their opinion on the existence of aliens and here were some of their responses:
The recent discovery of a myriad of potentially habitable exoplanets (planets that orbit a star outside the solar system) around our galaxy has raised an overall interest in the search for alien life forms and validated that we are not alone in the universe. But again, this is an assumption that aliens, in order to exist, must be humanlike and from an Earthlike planet—a baseless assumption.
As of this writing, NASA with its Kepler space telescope has listed 3,705 confirmed exoplanets with another 4,496 candidates from 2,760 star systems with only 929 being Earthlike.
One such system is Trappist-1 with potentially seven Earthlike planets. NASA has created an artist rendering of what this may look like which you can see on the following link:
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BPM Quotes of the Week - November 2, 2016
"Today, customers are achieving success and ROI with BPM and ODM – processes and decisions. The stories are compelling. Real business impact. On the other hand, the future is taking shape, and it looks like a future with a bit of science fiction made real – an emphasis on software that learns and improves its ability to augment our knowledge work by making suggestions or automating rote decisions."
- Scott Francis
"Automation often gets touted as a way to reduce the number of staff members organizations need to maintain in order to support everyday operations. While there are certainly some settings where this may be true, business process automation in the modern enterprise is focused more on supporting knowledge workers than finding ways to replace them."
- Megan Potrzeba
“I'd say end-to-end processes constitute about 80% of all business functions. But if they are bones of the business, we need cartilage to make it all flexible. That's where the failure to articulate business rules can really hurt.”
- Max Habibi
“End-to-end business processes depicted by consultants as a big flow-chart existed only as illustrations (chimeras?). In the reality, any enterprise is a system of processes [ref1]. Thus any end-to-end solution of Emiel’s problems comprises several separate flow-charts which are coordinated by many different techniques.”
- Dr. Alexander Samarin
“I still see value in the use of E2E, and don't believe it to be dead. However, it may turn out that somethig like CMMN is more appropriate in those cases (rather than BPMN) where dependency on events trumps the ordered sequencing of activties as the more important part of conveying E2E understanding.”
- Lloyd Dugan
“I believe end-to-end gets a bad name because it 'takes too long' and 'is outside of my department'. Comments such as these give quick insights into process maturity and that's where I think the root cause is.”
- Sandeep Johal
"I think Facebook will have a significant impact on the collaborative work of small companies. Pricing is okay, interface is familiar and let's not forget, small companies would more likely have a Facebook page than a website, so they'd just simply jump on Facebook's infrastructure on this one as well."
- Bogdan Nafornita
"We have socialcast, and i hardly see improvements of managing business better by this. So i dont think this will have impact. However I do endorse these tools for knowledge sharing, and can probably replace a big part of all the mails."
- Michel van den Hoven
"As companies still have their knowledge spread in dozens, hundredths, thousands of people, collaborative tools will always help to formalize that knowledge, share it and take advantage of it. Slack does, and Workplace will do."
- Juan J. Moreno
"In an environment of trust and common focus, social can be particularly good at 'surfacing the tacit' -- and that tacit can make the difference between success and failure."
- John Morris
"I was (in my green days :-)) once almost dismissed from a process mapping exercise, since processes - watch it - became too transparent! Now, if that happens, you know you're touching the right pain points..."
- Walter Bril
"Most of us have moved on from end-to-end processes, with objectives conveniently parked at process end nodes, to process fragments where BPM templates\instances do not need to be transparent for most end users."
- Karl Walter Keirstead
"It will be interesting to see how developments like AI and big data intersect with transparency. By their nature, it's an extremely complex proposition to determine in retrospect how a certain decision was reached."
- E. Scott Menter
"Visibility leads to accountability. Visibility enables greater control. Visiblity is the core pillar of BPM."
- Garth Knudson
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Oral presentation
Long-term survival of interval breast cancers in breast cancer screening in Wales
YF Fong1,
J Evans2,
D Brookes2 and
K Gower Thomas1, 2
Breast Cancer Research201214 (Suppl 1) :O5
© Fong et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
False Negative
Interval Cancer
Breast Test Wales is part of the NHS Breast Cancer Screening Programme, and oversees the screening programme in Wales. It is successful in identifying asymptomatic cancers; however, interval cancers (IC) still occur between screenings. We aim to evaluate the overall long-term survival of IC and compare that with screen-detected cancers (SDC).
Within BTW, SDC between 1998 and 2001 and IC occurring between 1998 and 2004 but screened between 1998 and 2001 were identified. IC were classified into true interval (TI), false negative (FN), occult (OCC) and unclassified (UCC). BTW receives notification of death of all women that underwent screening. The long-term survival rate was calculated from the date of initial screening and the date of death.
In the 3-year screening period, 199,082 women were screened. A total of 1,020 women had SDC and 692 further developed IC following screening. Of the 692 IC, 57.8% (391) were TI, 17.7% (120) were FN, 10% (68) were OCC and 14.5% were UCC. After at least 10 years of follow-up, the long-term survival rate (all-cause) for SDC was 81.6%, overall for IC was 72.4% (OR 1.67, P < 0.001), TI was 77.5% (OR 1.00, P = 0.99), FN was 55% (OR 2.36, P < 0.001), OCC was 54.4% (OR 3.17, P < 0.001) and UCC was 87.8% (OR 0.61, P = 0.19).
Overall survival of IC is significantly different to SDC. However, SDC and TI were not statistically significantly different. FN and OCC had significantly worse long-term survival. Further research is required to identify the underlying cause of poor survival of FN and OCC.
Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, UK
Breast Test Wales, Cardiff, UK
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Campus Clips – June 2018
Cody Sullivan, second from left, leads College of Education graduates to commencement April 28 at Concordia University Portland. (Eric Drapeau)
Making History in Oregon
Cody Sullivan, 22, became Oregon’s first student with Down syndrome to complete four years of college when he received his certificate of achievement in Elementary Education April 28 at Concordia University Portland.
Sullivan — who was the first of Concordia’s 840-plus graduates to cross the stage — received a standing ovation. In addition to his studies, he coached baseball and took part in the handbell ensemble.
Driessner
Perhaps best of all, he already has a job — serving as a teacher’s aide at a Portland charter school.
In other Concordia Portland news, President Dr. Charles E. Schlimpert has announced his retirement, effective July 1, after serving 35 years in the post. Dr. Johnnie R. Driessner, the school’s chief vision officer, will serve as interim president during a search process.
Trailblazing in Texas
A new public trail at Concordia University Texas, Austin, will serve as a multi-use trail featuring recreational opportunities, environmental interpretation, wildlife habitat and outdoor art exhibits. Tornado Trail, named for the school’s mascot, gives the university opportunities to host events such as cross-country meets and 5K runs.
The new trail offers a self-guided, more accessible alternative to two existing trails, which can be accessed only as part of a guided tour. Part of the 30,000-acre Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, this natural space behind the campus has allowed Concordia to develop one-of-a-kind student opportunities such as the state’s first collegiate Texas Master Naturalist chapter, a Student Ranger program and experience-based curricula that offers a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Conservation.
Concordia faculty across many disciplines have access to the preserve lands as a living laboratory that reinforces the university’s mission to develop Christian leaders with a conscience for and commitment toward environmental stewardship.
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Artisan Hash: Frenchy Cannoli’s Fight for Place
Photo by Gracie Malley
We reconvened with Frenchy for an interview at the Green Door, a San Francisco dispensary featuring an open lounge that allows smoking, including dabs and, in our case, Frenchy Cannoli’s hashish.
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Against the backdrop of the often-forgotten industrial area of West Oakland, the Gathering of Pied Pipers is taking place. As the party is hosted in a larger artists’ enclave, dabbing is limited to a shipping container within the massive space that also plays host to live glassblowing demonstrations. Inside the crowded container, I spot master hashishin Frenchy Cannoli amidst a gathering of e-nails and heady selections. At an event featuring choice products from the most innovative extract artists in the Bay Area, meeting the man who uses traditional techniques to elevate hash into artisanal realms is an absolute treat.
“Frenchy, I’ve been looking for you,” I say.
“Of course, you find me at this hash party,” he responds with his French accent in a way that speaks of destiny.
Once I find myself chatting with the man who has traveled the world learning the techniques of hash, he invites his protégé, The Dank Duchess, to take me through a wide selection of his pressed offerings – Blackberry Kush, a Pure Kush, Royal Kush cross and one called Cuvee. All are full-bodied, incredible choices and I’m tasting each out of a hash pipe in a sea of dab rigs.
“When you look at Frenchy’s hash, it looks creamy and buttery and you can imagine it tasting like that,” Duchess says with an excitement that belies a true passion. “And when you smoke it, one of the things I like about it is, there’s a full coating of your mouth before it goes down and comes back up.”
The Blackberry Kush, she says, tastes of sweet blueberries in the beginning, finishing with a Diesel and “just a bit of pine.” Mendocino genetics have a tendency to taste of pine, she says.
Frenchy is the official hashishin of Aficionado, a boutique seed company based in Mendocino County, California. To find Aficionado, Frenchy first traveled through the hash-making regions of the world – never staying in one place for too long, always seeking the best of what the region could provide. He found that at the House of Aficionado.
“The way we work together is a little bit like a winemaker works with a vineyard,” he says.
Frenchy explains that to get the highest quality of material to work with, one must seek out the regions with ideal growing conditions. Like those in the wine industry, he’s looking for a unique terrior – the geography, geology and climate of a certain place interacting with the genetics of the plant grown there.
To craft his signature cannolis, Frenchy uses an ice-water technique to sieve and collect the trichomes from the dankest offerings out of Aficionado’s gene pool. While others within the select club of California artisanal hash makers stop there, ending with mouth-watering selections of ice-water hash, Frenchy continues in his process and presses the resin heads.
Videos of his technique on YouTube, show him meticulously rubbing a jar warmed with hot water over the resin he has collected. Frenchy also cures his hash, for the purpose of eliminating humidity and increasing its longevity.
“In the beginning when I started to show my hash here I had a hard time getting it out, because people wanted the resin, but they wanted it not pressed and I wouldn’t do not pressed,” he says of the technique that he describes as similar to a winemaker pressing grapes. “And then with age, it’s changed. It gets a body and it gets smooth. Normally when you smoke a piece of hash the taste builds up slowly in your mouth. When you drink an aged wine, it takes [over] your mouth. It’s like ‘Wow!’ But you don’t see it come because it’s super smooth.”
As a hashishin, he follows the traditional methods of hash making. He teaches seminars, takes on consulting work and has written about the origins of concentrates for “Weed World” magazine. He is also working on a book called “The Lost Art of the Hashishin.” The Dank Duchess has become his protégé in all things and writes articles about the experience of smoking Frenchy’s selections. Both have risen from relative obscurity within the cannabis community to virtual superstars in a short time through incredible products combined with social media and marketing savvy.
We’ve reconvened with Frenchy for an interview at the Green Door, a San Francisco dispensary featuring an open lounge that allows smoking, including dabs and, in our case, Frenchy Cannoli’s hashish. The lounge has just opened and is relatively empty so when Frenchy snaps one of his cannolis to show off its center it makes an astounding crack.
The selection of LA Affie OG tastes incredible. As it has been pressed and aged, like a fine wine, the flavor coats the mouth.
“I believe that pressing brings something to the game,” he says of the technique used by traditional hash makers. “You have to think that sieving is one of the oldest ways for humanity to separate the grain and chaff, which was one of the basic food sources two million years ago when we moved from Africa. There is hardcore archaeological evidence that shows that in Africa, we were sieving 100,000 years ago. It’s something that has been done for many types of products.”
Frenchy’s hash is limited and available in select locations throughout California. This works with the marketing aim of the product, to highlight Aficiando’s genetics and cultivate a premium, localized brand. Aficinado, organizers of the Northern California-based Emerald Cup say, “is possibly the first seed company positioning its marketing strategy and the quality control of its breeding program on hashish.”
“When you go to a dispensary and you show the flower and you show the resin that is growing on that flower, the guy is not going to look at your flower the same way,” Frenchy says of the arrangement. “If you sell a package that brings credit to the person that gave you that resin, the game changes.”
Looking forward to legalization in the Golden State within the next year, the hashishin understands the power of establishing standards in terms of quality control. He’s working with the Emerald Growers Association to create a hash makers association. This organization could, in turn, embark on the harder task of defining what premium artisanal California hash means. Then, he says, standards of quality could be set across the board. Frenchy compares the impact that cannabis cultivated in Northern California could have to Champagne from the region Champagne, France versus sparkling wine made elsewhere.
“Yeah, you’re making Champagne, but your effect on the market, your image, it’s not going to be the same and your product is not going to be the same either,” he says.
With quality standards in place, all premium hash would then be able to be sold to a dispensary for a fair price. A dispensary offering anything less is insulting to not only the hash maker, but also the grower, Frenchy says.
“That’s why for us the first fight is to protect the land,” he says. “When you have a little piece of land in the place that is the origin of the best product on the planet you don’t sell that piece of land. Because you are a brand name, you become a domaine.”
Duchess, who moved to California with her husband Nick roughly a year ago to pursue careers in the cannabis industry, had never really seen hash beyond a few grains before she met Frenchy.
“Being in Florida, I’d never seen anything big and he had huge logs of shiny cannabis,” she says of their first encounter with her future teacher.
When she asked Frenchy out for coffee a few days later, he saw her spark.
“A couple of days later he asked if I wanted to write about cannabis and write about hash and establish a vocabulary about hash,” she says. “And then he said, well, if I’m going to do that then I have to teach you how to make hash.”
New to cannabis as an industry, Duchess drew from her background in social media marketing, cultivated in Miami Beach.
“Instagram is where it’s all happening,” she explains. “That’s how you see the ups and downs and the trends and one thing that you will notice on Instagram is that every school of thought has its own way about speaking about hash. So, Nikka T and the Colorado school talks about solventless, Matt Rize talks about ice wax, Norcal does not want to talk about ice wax, still calls it bubble. Everyone wants to say, well this is greasy, this is oily, this is terpy, this is live. Now rosin has come into it. So, right now we’re all speaking a slightly different language.”
For Frenchy, the hash makers association, will help establish a standardized vocabulary and a quality control standard for the industry. In this way the region of Mendocino County will rise, crafting a boutique product in one of the world’s most renown cannabis growing regions.
“The wine industry is 10,000 years old, but the real history of good wine, it’s not even 200. Everything else has been an incredible marketing campaign,” says Frenchy. “But from this, you can understand the importance of the soil, connected with the climate, the water source, the genetics and the role of of the people.”
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Rod is on the Gas
This is the right direction, Nice work Ellen.
We in CA need some help with the newly proposed MMJ State regulations. Gov Brown wants a BMMR (bureau of medical marijuana regulations). Sounds progressive and helpful. However, we have lived with CA government and it’s inability to respond to our Cannabis Culture in a fair and realistic manner. The BMMR will be composed of Government appointees and only 4 people from The Culture. Probably we’ll get more of the same interference from prohibitionists with zero compassion nor knowledge of cannabis.
I hereby nominate Frenchy to lead the CA HASH BUREAU. His passion and commitment to perfection would ensure that CA cannabis will continue to hold it’s earned position of being in the lead.
btw, handpressed resin is my personal preference too.
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Joyces Sublime Depravity
by Geoffrey Young
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
(The Penguin Press, 2014)
James Joyce’s Ulysses perches atop any number of Greatest Novel lists, but sit today’s average reader down with the tome and the first few pages will ratify its current reputation as “difficult,” “weird,” or even “impenetrable.” Subverting literary formality, Joyce wove so complex a verbal tapestry that even his most capable and dedicated early supporters often struggled to make sense of it. Virginia Woolf complained of its lack of coherence and, weighing result against ambition, lamented “the comparative poverty of the writer’s mind.” Ezra Pound deemed a section “magnificent in spots, and mostly incomprehensible,” and on consoling Joyce over poor sales of the far tamer A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, exclaimed, “If you will write for the intelligent, how THE HELL do you expect your books to sell by the 100,000??????”
And yet, it wasn’t the opaqueness of Ulysses that stood as its primary impediment. In The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kevin Birmingham asks us to dwell less on the book’s literary greatness and more on why the book is socially revolutionary. After all, there are myriad guidebooks on how to navigate its formidable terrain, and even without them the ambitious reader may wade through to an overall aesthetic appreciation. But what would perhaps be most confusing, even more than 750 pages of experimental prose, is the insert at the front of every edition: “The Monumental Decision of the United States District Court Rendered December 6, 1933, by Hon. John M. Woolsey Lifting the Ban on ‘Ulysses,’” a motion brought by the U.S. government “on the ground that the book is obscene.” Our reader, struggling through the text, might reasonably wonder what all the fuss was about. Ulysses is hardly Fifty Shades of Grey. And while it may seem like the issue was nothing more than naughty Joyce’s ability to raise a blush in his buttoned-up post-Victorian readership, the novel’s legalization was in fact a watershed in the long labor of a culture redefining itself.
Birmingham weaves a tortuous tale, from Ulysses’s inception to its legalization, of how a novel shook the cultural foundations of its time. Writing in the early part of the 20th century, when the specter of world war engendered massive social upheaval and inflamed conservatism, Joyce decided at a young age that “being an artist meant storming the barricade of an entire society built on lies.” But the scrawny, fragile writer, afflicted with syphilis and rapidly going blind, was never to be the one rallying disaffected students to the town squares. His was to be a literary anarchy, tested first in Dubliners, honed in A Portrait, and unleashed in Ulysses.
The war had given Joyce what it gave the Dadaists and the anarchists, what it gave Lenin and Freud: the sense that everything was about to change, that the crackup of Europe and the fall of empires portended something truly revolutionary, and if a novel were skillful enough, it could advance all of civilization.
Birmingham carefully develops the interplay between the cultural milieu in which Ulysses had its slow birth and the content of the novel as it progressed. In 1918, Ulysses began its serialization in The Little Review, an American journal embattled because of its editors’ ties to anarchists. At the time, obscenity laws in Europe and the U.S. were well established. The Comstock Law, banning public material that might be loosely construed as lewd or lascivious, was 45 years old. But World War I compelled the U.S. government to intensify its deterrence of political dissent, and 1917’s Espionage Act, banning any brand of anti-American activity, codified its fervor and subsumed the longstanding morality crusades. By the time Ulysses’s first chapters appeared, parading both sexual candor and institutional contempt, foreign editor Ezra Pound and his colleagues at The Little Review couldn’t be sure whether the journal would be found in violation of the Comstock Law, the Espionage Act, or both. And as if taunting the ever-increasingly zealous moral authorities, Joyce escalated his novel’s luridness with each chapter. The all-powerful Post Office, primary arbiter of all things censorial, banned the January 1919 issue of The Little Review for protagonist Leopold Bloom’s recollections of an amorous picnic with his wife, Molly, her “woman’s breasts full in her blouse of nun’s veiling, fat nipples upright. Hot I tongued her.” The May issue was even more handily proscribed, citing among other offenses Buck Mulligan’s proposed play about masturbation, “Everyman His own Wife (a national immorality in three orgasms).” The eye of the law was concentrated upon Ulysses, and when Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, published it in full in 1922, she risked imprisonment, as did anyone who attempted to transport a copy into the U.S.
Joyce was simultaneously rebelling against the strictures of his time and transubstantiating them into his art. To those who supported Ulysses, it was a work borne of pure genius and, by virtue of not only its daring design but also its unflinching capaciousness, it was an undeniable public treasure. However, to Joyce’s rigidly upright critic-oppressors, for whom it was only just that someone so egregiously licentious should be afflicted with syphilis, Ulysses turned the author himself, a man untrammeled by scruple, into a public affront. Yet, in some way, it was through his illness that he bore his richest literary fruit. Wracked constantly by agonizing fits of iritis, Joyce’s life of pain turned his consciousness inward. Birmingham plumbs the intersection of the artist’s life and work:
His thoughts were the only life raft in the rising tide of pain, and the pressure pushing out from inside Joyce’s eyes expanded the seconds. To read Ulysses is to feel time’s dilation. We go so slowly through the characters’ thoughts because even the most painstaking mental contours were something to hold on to. Joyce wrote an epic of the human body partly because it was so challenging for him to get beyond his own body.
If Ulysses, then, was the effluence of a diseased mind, to distribute it was to risk contagion. “Print was the way an idea entered a culture’s bloodstream,” Birmingham explains, and Joyce’s epic of the body was seen as liable to infect a populace. John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, summed up the threat: “Just as we have the parlor Anarchist and the parlor Bolshevist in political life, so we have the parlor Bolshevist in literary and art circles, and they are just as great a menace.” Joyce did more than encourage, he demanded that his readers think beyond the literary formality that reflected the formality they uncritically accepted in their lives. Institutional authority ensured its position by suppressing any threat to the narrow-mindedness of its populace. “To legalize what was once patently unspeakable” Birmingham writes, “is to replace silence with both debate and debatability. It is to invite deep—even systemic—uncertainty.”
Years after WWI, obscenity was still anarchy. But the question became: If lewdness is present in an unquestionable work of genius that is not about lewdness, does it qualify as obscene? The 1933 case contesting the ban on Ulysses hinged on the meaning of the word “obscene.” Though defined by the courts as “tending to stir the sexual impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts,” the nuances of the term had been bandied about in courts for years. Birmingham puts each side’s semantic gymnastics on impressive, and often comical, display. The defense contested dictionary definitions and attempted a disarming etymological lesson concerning the word “fuck.” The prosecution openly acknowledged Ulysses’s status as a masterpiece while maintaining the need to protect the masses from its corrupting influence.
Birmingham conveys Woolsey’s deliberations as if he had been there in the courtroom. The judge’s deepening cogitations over each counselor’s arguments, and over the novel itself (which he devoted three months to reading), only revealed the complete subjectivity of the case. Because our standards come from our living communities, they are living standards, liable to evolution and revision. If a tendency to “stir the sexual impulses” could not fairly be judged absolutely, should the mere presence of dirty words anathemize an otherwise monumental work of art? It is in the ultimate uncertainty of Woolsey, a lover of literature and critic of censorship, that Birmingham locates Ulysses’s danger. “There are passages of moving literary beauty, passages of worth and power,” Woolsey told the court. “Reading parts of that book almost drove me frantic. That last part, [Molly Bloom’s] soliloquy, it may represent the moods of a woman of that sort. That is what disturbs me. I seem to understand it.” Systemic reform began when one man, Judge Woolsey, confronted and accepted the side of himself that society would have him deny.
Birmingham’s achievement in The Most Dangerous Book is in anatomizing the revolution of individual thought that had to occur to advance a revolution of expression. Words enter the bloodstream and the organism flails, sickly at first, but then recovering. Soon the words are seen to belong to the song of the body, the song of life in all its forms. Judge Woolsey’s decision at the beginning of the Ulysses editions is a reminder that the artistic freedom we enjoy today was hard won, and might have looked quite different had Joyce’s book not been the apotheosis of its form.
Geoffrey Young
GEOFFREY YOUNG is a writer living in Brooklyn. His debut novel, Fall, was published in 2010. More of his work can be found at geoffrey-young.com.
Copyright 2005-2019 The Brooklyn Rail
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HS and MS wrestling teams compete at CAJ Invitational
The high school wrestling team competed in the CAJ Wrestling Invite on Saturday, placing sixth out of six teams with 10 points. Two middle school wrestlers also competed in exhibition matches in the mini gym.
CAJ got its 10 points from a second-place finish by Jordan in the 108-pound weight class and a third-place finish by Peter in the 115-pound weight class.
Coach Morris Yaegashi commented on the performances of the two wrestlers who placed. He said that Jordan was a little bit too eager to rush for the win in his final matchup against a Yokota rival and ended up being taken to his back twice by a counter move from his opponent. Yaegashi said that Peter was quite tired in his second match and started to lose some ground in points before coming back for a strong pin.
Yaegashi noted that another highlight from the invitational was Theodore's win in his second match. He added that Theodore (129) showed nice technique with a front headlock and was moving very well.
Unfortunately, SungWon (158), the fourth Knights wrestler to win a match on Saturday, suffered a broken clavicle in his second match and won't be able to wrestle for the rest of the season.
A significant amount of injuries and sickness have been affecting the Knights in the past few weeks. Even many of the team members who did wrestle on Saturday were recovering from an injury or illness.
"We need prayer for these wrestlers to be healed and for them to be smart with how they use their time to rest, hydrate and eat well," Yaegashi added. "I'm still hopeful for this team. They work hard."
Full Results:
108- Jordan wins two matches by fall, then loses by fall (Finishes 2nd place)
115- Peter loses by fall, then wins by fall (Finishes 3rd place)
115- Joe loses by fall, then loses by technical fall
122- Natasha loses two matches by fall
129- Theodore loses by fall, then wins by decision
135- Tai loses two matches by fall
141- Leo loses two matches by fall
148- Kyong loses two matches by fall
158- SungWon wins by fall, then loses by fall
Middle school- Xavier and Jones each lose two matches by fall
The next event for the wrestling team is a dual at St. Mary's on Tuesday night.
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Cassiopaean Sandbox
Recommended Books: List and Guide
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This list is also available on the Cassiopaea Wiki on the Recommended books page.
Below is the current list of books recommended by the QFG, followed by a guide for delving into the material and related resources. The list and/or the guide were last updated on August 2, 2014. They are discussed in "Recommended Books: Discussion".
The list is divided into a number of sections; priority is not implied by their ordering. However, there are some recommendations. If you are new to the recommended books, the 'Health and Diet' as well as 'Narcissism "Big Five"' sections are highly recommended places to start; these subjects are important because physical and psychological functioning is the basis of all we do. The 'Fourth Way' section also contains material integral this forum, and which is necessary to understand much of the discussion and work that takes place here.
Additional information regarding the sections, subjects and books is found in the guide. Apart from general information, it contains footnotes for many of the books. It can point you to discussions, excerpts, and additional resources such as videos, articles and interviews related to books or subjects. For books that are legitimately available for free, it will also point you to where to find them online.
Take your time with the list, guide and recommended material; there's no use rushing through the material faster than it is understood. It also pays to consider one's individual situation, and accordingly what to prioritize at the moment. No one can tackle all of it at once, and no one is expected to.
In order to best understand whichever subjects you choose to focus on at the time, it may pay to look up the section(s) in the guide: it sometimes contains recommendations on the order in which to read books. When nothing in particular is said regarding the reading order of books in a section, the order in which the section lists them is a rough suggestion - since your individual needs may however be different, take your time to make your choices. As for the sections themselves, some sections contain books that may be useful background for exploring other sections, though largely, there's no problem exploring sections in parallel, if that's your inclination.
Finally, "Tips and experiences ordering recommended books" may be a helpful thread to read. For people who wish to save money, this post on ordering used books may be of particular interest.
P.S. Some books are listed in several sections. In these cases, simply to keep things tidy, there is a "main" section for the book - and if the book has a footnote, it will belong to the "main" section. Also, other sections that include the book will list it in italics.
List of Recommended Books
1. Health and Diet
Diet research of the sott.net forum: A summary of the science background1.1 - Gabriela Segura
Keto-Adapted: Your Guide to Accelerated Weight Loss and Healthy Healing1.2 - Maria Emmerich
Primal Body, Primal Mind1.3 - Nora T. Gedgaudas
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable1.3 - Stephen D. Phinney and Jeff S. Volek
Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life1.3 - Christian B. Allan & Wolfgang Lutz
When the Body Says No1.4 - Gabor Mate
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability1.5 - Lierre Keith
Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food - Catherine Shanahan & Luke Shanahan
The Iron Elephant: What You Should Know about the Danger of Excess Body Iron1.6 - Roberta Crawford
Fiber Menace1.7 - Konstantin Monastyrsky
The UltraMind Solution1.8 - Mark Hyman
Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health - Sidney MacDonald Baker
Detoxify or Die - Sherry Rogers
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders - Stephen B. Edelson and Deborah Mitchell
Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome1.9 - Rodger Murphree
Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival1.10 - T. S. Wiley & Bent Formby
Sex, Lies, and Menopause: The Shocking Truth About Synthetic Hormones and the Benefits of Natural Alternatives1.11 - T. S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi & Bent Formby
2. Narcissism "Big Five"
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness2.1 - Martha Stout
The Narcissistic Family - Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert M. Pressman
Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self2.2 - Elan Golomb
Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves & Others - Barbara E. Hort
Character Disturbance: The Phenomenon of Our Age2.3 - George K. Simon
3. Cognitive and Social Science
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious3.1 - Timothy D. Wilson
Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change3.2 - Timothy D. Wilson
Thinking, Fast and Slow3.3 - Daniel Kahneman
You Are Not So Smart3.4 - David McRaney
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite3.5 - David DiSalvo
4. Neuroscience
Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain's Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life - David DiSalvo4.1
In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness4.2 - Peter A. Levine
The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions4.3 - Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships4.4 - Daniel Goleman
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation4.5 - Stephen W. Porges
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy4.6 - Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton and Clare Pain
5. Psychopathy
Defense Against the Psychopath: A Brief Introduction to Human Predators5.1 - Stefan H. Verstappen
The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm5.2 - Sandra Brown
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work - Robert Hare and Paul Babiak
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us - Robert Hare
The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About The So-Called Psychopathic Personality5.3 - Hervey Cleckley
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes5.4 - Andrzej Lobaczewski
The Authoritarians5.5 - Bob Altemeyer
The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage5.6 - Martha Stout
6. Social Interaction and External Considering
The Fire from Within9.3 - Carlos Castaneda
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High6.1 - Kerry Pattersson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
How to Win Friends and Influence People6.2 - Dale Carnegie
Miss Manners (articles, books)6.3 - Judith Martin
7. Other Psychology
Fear of the Abyss: Healing the Wounds of Shame & Perfectionism7.1 - Aleta Edwards
The Caricature of Love7.2 - Hervey Cleckley
Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality7.3 - Samuel Barondes
Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration7.4 - Sal Mendaglio
Books on Positive Disintegration7.5 - Kazimierz Dabrowski
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking7.6 - Malcolm Gladwell
How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved7.7 - Sandra Brown
Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders7.8 - Anna Salter
Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic7.9 - Barbara O'Brien
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self7.10 - Alice Miller
In Broad Daylight7.11 - Harry N. MacLean
Molecules of Emotion - Candace Pert
Mean Genes - Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind7.12 - Gustave Le Bon
The Denial of Death7.13 - Ernest Becker
Escape from Evil7.13 - Ernest Becker
8. Fourth Way
The Wave Series (all volumes)8.1 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching8.2 - P.D. Ouspensky
Life Is Religion: 12 Daily Exercises for Mind, Body, and Soul8.3 - Quantum Future Group
Gnosis (all volumes)8.4 - Boris Mouravieff
Meetings with Remarkable Men - G.I. Gurdjieff
Life is Real Only Then, when "I am" - G.I. Gurdjieff
Tertium Organum8.5 - P.D. Ouspensky
Struggle of the Magicians8.6 - William Patterson
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope: Notes of Meetings in Paris and New York 1935-1939 and 1948-1949
9. Other Esoterica
The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination9.1 - William Chittick
The Active Side of Infinity9.2 - Carlos Castaneda
Fulcanelli: His True Identity Revealed9.4 - Patrick Riviere
The Mystery of the Cathedrals - Fulcanelli
The Dwellings of the Philosophers - Fulcanelli
10. Information Theory, Metaphysics and Evolution
Origin of Life: The 5th Option10.1 - Bryant M. Shiller
The Living Stream: Evolution and Man - Sir Alister Hardy
The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins - Elaine Morgan
Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics10.2 - Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False10.3 - Thomas Nagel
11. Politics and Pathocracy
911: The Ultimate Truth11.1 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn
JFK: The Assassination of America11.2 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False Flag Terror Attacks11.3 - Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley
The Controversy of Zion11.4 - Douglas Reed
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters11.5 - James Douglass
The Secret Team: The CIA And Its Allies In Control Of The World11.6 - Fletcher Prouty
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy11.7 - Fletcher Prouty
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism11.8 - Naomi Klein
Defying Hitler: A Memoir11.9 - Sebastian Haffner
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall11.10 - Anna Funder
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion11.11
The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 - David Ray Griffin
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions - David Ray Griffin
Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-energy Technology on 9/1111.12 - Judy Wood
None Dare Call it Conspiracy - Gary Allen
In the Name of Sanity - Lewis Mumford
12. Hidden History
Secret History of the World (all volumes)12.1 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk (vol. 1-3) and Pierre Lescaudron (main author of vol. 3)
The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes12.2 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Cosmic Winter - Victor Clube and Bill Napier
Cosmic Serpent - Victor Clube and Bill Napier
From Exodus to Arthur - Michael Baillie
New Light on the Black Death - Michael Baillie
Where Troy Once Stood - Iman Wilkens
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes - Richard Firestone, Allen West, Simon Warwick-Smith
13. General History and Historical Method
The Historian's Craft13.1 - Marc Bloch
The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome13.2 - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography - Arnaldo Momigliano
On Pagans, Jews and Christians - Arnaldo Momigliano
14. Caesar
Gallic War and Civil War - Julius Caesar
The Civil Wars - Appian
Caesar: Politician and Statesman - Mattias Gelzer
The Assassination of Julius Caesar - Michael Parenti
Julius Caesar - Philip Freeman
Et tu Judas! Then Fall Jesus - Gary Courtney
Jesus Was Caesar - Francesco Carotta
15. Bible History
The Origins of Biblical Israel - Philip Davies
History and Ideology in Ancient Israel - Giovanni Garbini
The Mythic Past - Thomas L. Thompson
The Messiah Myth - Thomas L. Thompson
The Bible Unearthed - Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finkelstein
David and Solomon - Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
The Lost Gospel - Burton Mack
A Myth of Innocence - Burton Mack
16. UFOs and Aliens
High Strangeness16.1 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
UFOs and the National Security State16.2- Richard Dolan
Operation Trojan Horse16.3 - John Keel
The Eighth Tower - John Keel
The Stargate Conspiracy - Picknet and Prince
Gods of Eden - William Bramley
17. Esotericism and Parapsychology
Shamanism - Mircea Eliade
Cosmos and History - Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane - Mircea Eliade
Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher - Jane Roberts
Magic: The Principles of Higher Knowledge - Karl Von Eckarthausen
Darkness over Tibet17.1 - T. Illion
The Darkened Room - Alex Owen
The History of Spiritualism - Arthur Conan Doyle
Book on Mediums - Allen Kardec
Many Voices: The Autobiography of a Medium - Eileen J. Garrett
Deviance and Moral Boundaries - Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance - Brian Vickers (editor)
The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor - Joscelyn Godwin
The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly Hall
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides17.2 - Joe Fisher
Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual17.3 - William J. Baldwin
Thirty Years Among the Dead17.4- Carl A. Wickland
The Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession - Edith Fiore
Life Between Life - Joel L. Whitton
Prophecy in Our Time - Martin Ebon
Evidence Of Survival After Death - Sir William F. Barrett and James H. Hyslop
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation - Ian Stevenson
Power of the Pendulum - T.C. Lethbridge
Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science - Nandor Fodor
Haunted People: The Story Of The Poltergeist Down The Centuries - Hereward Carrington and Nandor Fodor
The Haunted Mind - Nandor Fodor
Hostage to the Devil17.5 - Malachi Martin
Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch - by William Roll and Valerie Storey
18. Optional
The Noah Syndrome18.1 - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Bringers of the Dawn - Barbara Marciniack
The Ra Material - Carla Rueckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCarty
The C's Transcripts - Laura Knight-Jadczyk, et al
The Teachings of Don Juan (the other books)18.2 - Carlos Castaneda
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - Gurdjieff
The Field - Lynne McTaggert
When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone
Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times - Donald Redford
The Case for the UFO18.3 - Morris K. Jessup
The Books of Charles Fort
Worlds in Collision - Immanuel Velikovsky
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise18.4 - John R. Pierce
Signature in the Cell18.4 - Stephen C. Meyer
Darwin's Doubt18.4 - Stephen C. Meyer
The Science Delusion/Science Set Free18.5 - Rupert Sheldrake
The Neandertal Enigma - James Shreeve
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism - Richard Milton
The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
The Hidden History of the Human Race (condensed edition of Forbidden Archeology) - by Michael Cremo
Invisible Residents - Ivan T. Sanderson
Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder - Dave McGowan
Understanding the F-Word - Dave McGowan
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg - Joseph Chilton Pearce
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis - Richards J. Heuer, Jr.
The Quest to Feel Good18.6 - Paul R. Rasmussen
The Angry Book18.7 - Theodore Isaac Rubin
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ18.8 - Daniel Goleman
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Guide to the Recommended Books and related material and resources
The guide has been growing over time, and more and more additional resources have been linked. Since no one can be expected to read, watch, or listen to all the things that are linked, here (before the first section) follows any general notes that may help you prioritize.
You'll find both "SOTT Podcasts" and "SOTT Talk Radio Shows" listed and linked. The podcasts are older - nowadays, the Sott.net editors instead use the call-in show format, allowing listeners to participate in the discussions. If you need to prioritize, you may want to skip more of the podcasts in favor of the newer shows, at any rate when they cover the same subject, since the shows will then have the most up-to-date information.
Reading transcripts of the podcasts and/or shows may also be quicker, and/or may give you an idea of which ones you'll find most important at the moment. Transcripts are always linked when available (at the time of the latest update) for the sections and books below. Conversely, you may find other podcasts and/or shows of interest; not all that are relevant to a subject are necessarily linked. All podcasts can be found here, and their transcripts here. For the newer shows, all are available here, and a list of transcribed ones here.
Health is an important matter, since the state of our body not only affects our physical capabilities, but also our emotional health and intellectual ability. But the connection also goes the other way around - emotional health affects physical health; e.g., chronic stress and repressed emotion can cause disease. So this is a complex topic, and its physiological and psychological aspects both need equal attention. This means that diet and metabolism, sleep, stress management, emotional processing, and healthy interpersonal dynamics all matter.
Among the books of this section, many are concerned with diet, which is a key question - the footnotes for these books link to more information. It should be noted that by "diet", we don't mean something you do temporarily, or to lose weight (though that is one common effect); we mean something that is permanently adopted in order for one's body and brain to function at its best - a lifestyle, in other words.
The most optimal diet we know of at this time is the ketogenic diet. In a nutshell, the diet involves the following: the removal of the most detrimental things from one's diet - e.g. gluten, dairy, soy, and sugar; and replacing carbohydrates with fat, while keeping protein restricted to moderate amounts. This is a large change from a "standard" diet, and therefore, before proceeding with these changes, it is important to understand what one is doing and why. We strongly recommend reading the most important resources on diet beforehand; see #1.1 and #1.2 below.
Our consensus on the best way to approach a transition to the ketogenic diet has changed over time. The old recommendation was to first transition to our old paleo diet, and only then proceed to the ketogenic diet. With new information, that has changed: we now recommend people to proceed straight to the ketogenic diet. We now know more about the issues that can arise and how to solve them, and a fast transition done right is both simpler and better for the body.
When it comes to the psychological aspects of maintaining good health, the book When the Body Says No (see #1.4) covers the role of chronic stress and unhealthy ways of handling emotion in disease: we are often conditioned by upbringing and culture to neglect stress, and to either repress or hyperexpress our emotions - and ultimately it takes its toll on the body.
Health issues can also be caused by trauma; In An Unspoken Voice (see #4.2) describes the physiological basis of trauma and how it can be worked through by working with the body. The 'Neuroscience' (#4) section also contains further reading relevant to this and related subjects, among other things.
For additional psychological material, section #2 - the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' - is a good place to start; the information for it will direct you not only to its books, but also to all of the other psychological sections.
Apart from all these books and the corresponding dietary and other approaches, there is the Eiriu-Eolas Breathing Program (main thread, FAQ/guide), which we recommend and which you can use for free. It reduces stress and facilitates emotional processing through the controlled stimulation of the vagus nerve (for more on the vagus nerve, see section #4, 'Neuroscience'). In gradually clearing up emotional baggage, many have found it to help with mental clarity and emotional and interpersonal functioning. In addition, a number of people have reported improvements in physical health. A gentle way to heal, the program is practiced by many on this forum, along with a ketogenic diet.
After all these years, the Diet and Health board now contains discussions on more things than could be listed here (so search to your heart's content!); but also a great deal of outdated information from years past - so in reading, pay attention to when things were posted, and check whether they are consistent with the latest information.
Likewise, the older books having to do with detox - while useful - are outdated with respect to diet; the newer recommended reading on health and diet has taken their place as the most important.
1.1. The dietary research of the Sott.net forum
Over the years, the Sott.net editors and Cassiopaea Forum members have done a great deal of dietary research. Much of the most important information is summarized in a document called Diet research of the sott.net forum: A summary of the science background. Written by Gabriela Segura, M.D., as well as a number of contibuting editors, it is a must-read for getting up to speed on the research. It has been made freely available here.
A second document is also being prepared, and is meant to provide a practical guide to dietary transition. Such information is very important, because there are a number of common stumbling blocks and individual issues that may be encountered, which almost always have known and simple solutions.
In the meantime, there's another book which also provides a great practical guide, and which is a must-read for everyone interested in dietary transition. That book is Keto-Adapted (#1.2) - see the next footnote for details. Being an excellent read, it will continue to be recommended even after our own document is done.
In addition to the above document and book, there are some other recommended books that provide some more in-depth information on various aspects. Several related to low-carb, high-fat approaches are listed under #1.3. Also, The Vegetarian Myth (see #1.5) provides a very broad perspective of dietary issues - nutritionally, ethically, and politically. If you're curious about vegetarianism, it's a must-read.
Below, several forum threads, Sott.net articles, and other resources are also listed. The threads are very lengthy, but provide a first-hand account of how our dietary knowledge and experimentation has evolved over the years. The articles, interviews and videos can be quite practical in providing some easily accessible additional information.
The forum threads
The "Life Without Bread" thread chronicled our older paleo diet as it evolved over time, beginning in 2011, with all of the collective input and experiences. While the paleo diet is obsolete, the thread still contains a lot of good information. However, it should be read keeping in mind what has been learned since. The following posts may be particularly useful; in addition, you may want to search the thread for particular topics of interest:
Life Without Bread Chapter 5, "Energy: Less is More"
A way to deal with cravings - 'The List'
The forum thread "Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation?" chronicles our ketogenic diet as it evolved; it contains a lot of valuable material and experiences for those now changing their diet. However, the book Keto-Adapted (see above) contains much of the same knowledge (and as of this time, also things that we haven't covered in the thread), and reading it can save you the time it takes to go through the entire thread.
Also, if you're looking for ketogenic diet recipes, check out the "Keto recipes" thread.
For information on the new consensus that the paleo diet is obsolete, and that going straight to the ketogenic diet is optimal, see the thread "Ketoadaptation - Consensus".
Here are some articles on SOTT and elsewhere relevant to transitioning to a ketogenic diet:
Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You
Tips & Tricks for Starting (or Restarting) Low Carb Pt 1 (and Part 2)
Everything About Fat
The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview
Ketosis 101: Part 1
In addition, some recommended online videos:
Gluten Sensitivity - What is it?
Nora Gedgaudas - The 'Holy Grail' of Primal Health: Benefits of a Fat-Based Caloric Intake for Body and Brain
The forum thread "Jeff Volek - The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation Video" contains several videos regarding the ketogenic diet, keto-adaptation and nutritional ketosis.
The author of Primal Body, Primal Mind (#1.3), Nora Gedgaudas, was also interviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #40 (transcript and recording). (The forum thread for the show is here.)
For more information on any subject related to the ketogenic diet, there's a lot to be found by searching the Diet and Health board and SOTT.net.
1.2. Keto-Adapted
Keto-Adapted is a great practical guide to the ketogenic diet. In addition to the document linked to above (#1.1), it provides the introduction needed to transition. The above-mentioned document is still important to get a deeper understanding of the "why" of everything, because this book covers a lot of things briefly, though in an easily read way.
The most important thing about this book - apart from it generally providing a brief summary of the practice - is that it covers a great many common issues that people have in transitioning to a ketogenic diet. In allowing people to understand the problems they may experience in their attempts to adopt the diet, and their solutions, it is a top-priority read. Besides this, it also contains recipes.
One caveat is that Emmerich's dietary approach allows nightshades (which many are sensitive to) and dairy products (which are unhealthy due to the casein). But if you have read the document summarizing our dietary research, and/or Primal Body, Primal Mind (#1.3), you'll already know these things and can keep them in mind as you read Keto-Adapted.
1.3. Primal Body, Primal Mind; The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living; and Life Without Bread
These are three books on low-carb and ketogenic dietary approaches. They were very useful sources as our diet evolved, and while no longer critical to read, they still contain good, additional information. (See #1.1 above for the top-priority reads.)
Primal Body, Primal Mind is very comprehensive, covering all manner of subjects: the need to eliminate gluten, dairy, soy and sugar; food sensitivities; the low-carb, high-fat approach; and supplementation according to individual needs. It gives information important for all aspects of dietary transition, and makes a good supplementary read for everyone.
The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living provides further information on the low-carb approach, and gets pretty close to the ketogenic approach we have arrived at. However, it does not cover the problems with gluten, dairy, etc.; Phinney and Volek's recommendation regarding the amount of protein to eat is also more liberal than what we have come to understand is best through other sources. But taken in addition to the books mentioned above on the ketogenic diet, this one is a good suplementary read.
Life Without Bread is easy to read, and contains information based on the clinical use of a low-carb approach to treating diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, and other illnesses. Both the overweight and the underweight will find an explanation for their issues, in how excess insulin (resulting from excess carbohydrate consumption) can lead to two kinds of hormonal imbalances. The book does however not cover gluten, dairy, and the problems with ingesting these and other damaging foods and substances; nor does its low-carb approach reach the level of what we consider to be a ketogenic diet.
In addition to the above books, The Vegetarian Myth (see #1.5) provides a very broad perspective of dietary issues - nutritionally, ethically, and politically. If you're curious about vegetarianism, it's a must-read.
1.4. When the Body Says No
When the Body Says No (forum thread) covers the role of chronic stress and unhealthy ways of handling emotions in disease. (Emotional repression, as well as emotional hyperexpression, are among several causes of damaging stress.) In ignoring or otherwise neglecting stress - in failing to "say no" - eventually our bodies do it for us.
Through childhood experiences as well as cultural programming, we can easily form habits that are likely to lead to illness and/or premature death. In this, we are supported by a culture which idealizes things like overexertion and "niceness" rooted in repression of anger. Many of us learn to use all manner of justifications (lying to ourselves) to refrain from "saying no", and this book can be quite an eye-opener.
The one really important thing that this book misses in relation to stress and illness is the dietary information, so with regard to health, the diet information also remains top priority. Sorting out one's diet (see #1.1 and #1.2) can help reduce stress, increase ability to handle stress, help with a variety of health problems, and can have psychological benefits as well. But neither is a substitute for the other; the two approaches go hand in hand, and if you're unfamiliar with one or both of them, looking into them is strongly recommended.
The forum thread for When the Body Says No not only discusses the book, but contains videos where Gabor Mate speaks on this and other subjects he has written about.
1.5. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability
The book The Vegetarian Myth discusses, with scientific backing, the problems (both in terms of health and ethics) inherent in a vegetarian diet, including how agriculture as practiced around the world ultimately destroys the very conditions required for life. The subject has been broadly discussed in this thread, both before and after we encountered Lierre Keith's work. The forum thread also links to and discusses a number of resources.
Lierre Keith was interviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #36 (transcript and recording), where she gives an overview of the main ideas. (The forum thread for the show is here.) She's also given a talk on the subject which is available here.
Keith's book is also available in other languages, including French.
SOTT also has a number of articles covering the subject of vegetarianism, among which are:
The Naive Vegetarian
The Truth About Vegetarianism
Why you should think twice about vegetarian and vegan diets
How to Eat Meat: Transitioning Away from Vegetarianism
How does a vegetarian transition to paleo?
1.6. The Iron Elephant: What You Should Know about the Danger of Excess Body Iron
The Iron Elephant, hemochromatosis, and the general issue of iron overload are discussed in the thread "Hemochromatosis and Autoimmune Conditions". Iron overload can appear as an issue for a number of people after some time on a paleo or ketogenic diet, and is a serious issue best dealt with as soon as possible. The book gives the overall picture; it can now be hard to find, but ways of getting it are discussed in the thread. (See additionally the DMSA thread from here and on.) Another thread discussing the issue in a broader context is the thread "Bloodline Trails".
1.7. Fiber Menace
Fiber Menace is available online at the author's site. It elaborates a very important piece of the dietary puzzle: The detrimental role of fiber in people's diets. See the Life Without Bread thread (note #1.1) for context, more information and general discussion.
1.8. The UltraMind Solution
The UltraMind Solution (summary/review, quizzes) is about how to restore and improve one's brain function by restoring and improving one's health. According to Hyman, brain function is affected by diet, nutritional deficiencies, allergens, infections, toxins and stress; simply put: diet, environment and stress. So correcting these problems can in many cases improve or even cure "mental disorders" that they caused. However, the details of Hyman's advice regarding diet are outdated given what we have learned since - a ketogenic diet (#1.1 and #1.2) does better and also reduces the need for supplementation.
1.9. Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the accompanying manual, are excerpted and discussed here.
1.10. Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival
Lights Out (forum thread) is about the problem of "light poisoning", disrupted sleep quality and unnatural sleep patterns - and the impact on health this gives rise to. The book also inspired this thread which further discusses the question.
1.11. Sex, Lies and Menopause
Sex, Lies and Menopause (forum thread) is, among other things, "about about the necessity of natural hormone replacement with bio identical hormones taken in rythmic cylical doses".
You'll find frequent references on the forum to the "Big Five" psychology books, which are extremely helpful tools towards acquiring a basic understanding of your own "machine". (See section #8, 'Fourth Way', for information on Gurdjieff's ideas which explain the "machine" reference. His psychological ideas can be understood more concretely by connecting them with modern psychological knowledge such as that of the books in this section.) Laura suggests that these books be read in the order in which this section lists them. A few books in 'Other Psychology' (#7) also cover closely related subjects and can be of great help for some. (Material on other psychological subjects can also be found there.)
Two threads that deal with almost universal problems and may help in piecing together psychological concepts are:
Buffers, Programs and "the Predator's Mind"
Splitting as a Symptom of Internal Considering
For further reading on psychological matters, there are also the following sections:
'Cognitive and Social Science' (#3) is also very important for general understanding, including the (sometimes detrimental) workings and tendencies of our brains, and how we really can't know ourselves all by ourselves.
'Neuroscience' (#4) gives information on how we can change ourselves, deeper understanding of how we function, and also includes information on body-oriented therapies.
'Psychopathy' (#5) concerns a subject the knowledge of which can be vital in protecting oneself and others from predation of all kinds.
'Social Interaction and External Considering' (#6) covers the practical question of self-improvement in how one interacts with and relates to others.
2.1. The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
The Myth of Sanity (forum thread) is about trauma and dissociation. Trauma forms triggers in us - and when triggered, we dissociate. The severity and kind of dissociation can vary greatly. Knowing of this almost universal issue, how it affects us, and how to heal is essential to being able to know and work on oneself and to understand others.
2.2. Trapped In The Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self
There's a thread with excerpts and discussion regarding the concept of the negative introject from Trapped In The Mirror. (The book covers much more.) The discussion explores this along with other ideas and material, including such that relates to self-perception, The Work and more.
2.3. Character Disturbance: The Phenomenon of Our Age
Previously, George Simon's earlier book In Sheep's Clothing was listed among the Narcissism "Big Five". His later book Character Disturbance (forum thread with excerpts and discussion) essentially contains the same material and more, being wider in scope, and so obsoletes the previous book. Those who haven't read the newer book are recommended to do so. The previous book remains an optional read for those who would like a partial summary and some additional illustrative examples of covert-aggressive personalities. (For French readers, there is a French translation of the excerpts in the thread here.)
Another important subject for understanding ourselves and others is the modern findings of cognitive science and social science. These describe how we really don't know ourselves - the extent to which our thought, attitudes and behavior are influenced by nonconscious processing, attitudes and beliefs. These findings have, in addition, verified several of Gurdjieff's ideas (see #8, 'Fourth Way') relating to psychology.
Along with the books of this section, Brain Changer (#4.1) from the 'Neuroscience' (#4) section is recommended - it is about how we can change our behavior and our brains, with the help of mental and other tools. In knowing ourselves better (including knowing the limitations of our self-knowledge), this knowledge can then be used for self-improvement. (This is another book which presents ideas with strong parallels to Gurdjieff's ideas.)
Several important threads on discoveries of cognitive and social science are listed in the footnotes for the books of this section; here are a few additional ones:
The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How Our Minds Work
Much more material can be found on the Psychology & Cognitive Science board.
Along with this section, or as a follow-up, the 'Neuroscience' (#4) section is a good place to explore for a look at other aspects of our functioning. (Beyond the highly recommended book Brain Changer, there's more, such as books that give further insight into our neurology, the physiology of trauma, and how working with our bodies fits into self-work.)
A few of the books in 'Other Psychology' (#7) are also about subjects similar to those of the books in this section.
3.1. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
The forum thread "The Adaptive Unconscious", on the book Strangers to Ourselves and its concepts, is very highly recommended, along with the book itself. Understanding the concepts of the adaptive unconscious, the narrative (conscious) self, and their functioning and relation to one another is essential to understanding oneself as well as others.
3.2. Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
The forum thread on Redirect contains the background to and basic ideas of the writing exercises described in the book. Expressive writing can be used as a route to healing, as also described in the article "Writing to Heal". Such exercises can also more generally address problems relating to psychological narratives (see #3.1). The rest of the book deals mainly with social change (i.e. addressing societal issues using these principles), rather than with individual psychological changes.
3.3. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow (forum thread) covers the same basic subject as Strangers to Ourselves (see note #3.1), but in a complementary way. It helps drive home the implications - individual and collective - of how people actually function.
3.4. You Are Not So Smart
There are several threads excerpting and discussing parts of You Are Not So Smart; each deals with how people actually function, as opposed to how people think they function, and with some of the implications - and each is well-worth reading, as is the book itself:
Rational? Logical? Objective? Maybe not...
Do you know when you are lying to yourself?
Are other people REALLY looking at you?
The Third Person Effect
Why Nobody is Doing Anything About the State of the Planet
3.5. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite (forum thread) is another cognitive science book describing a variety of the ways in which our brains can flop in possibly life-impacting ways. The general theme is that of the human brain's blind striving to be in a "pleasant" state, and what this can lead to; in addition, it gives some general strategies for counteracting these tendencies. Covering a bit of everything (though generally in somewhat less depth), it also ties it to everyday life with examples and anecdotes.
The author, David DiSalvo, was inteviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #61: What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite. The interview, though brief, covers things related both to this book and to DiSalvo's other recommended book, Brain Changer (#4.1).
The books of this section cover a large variety of things, but the first - Brain Changer (#4.1) - gives information relevant to all self-work: how we can affect the feedback loops that drive us, and change our brains, and various mental and other tools that can be used for this.
Second in this section, In An Unspoken Voice (#4.2) is another important book, describing the physiology of trauma and how it can be treated using a body-oriented approach called Somatic Experiencing. It is a gentle introduction to how our fight, flight, and freeze reactions work neurologically and in relation to trauma.
Affective neuroscience is explored in The Archaeology of Mind (#4.3): the neural circuits behind our basic emotions (which we share with all mammals) and how these circuits - and we - function.
Social neuroscience, explored more broadly and accessibly in Social Intelligence (#4.4), examines how we function in interaction, both outwardly and neurologically.
The Polyvagal Theory (#4.5) elaborates on an aspect of our neurology that is relevant to both our emotional and social lives. In reading of the vagus nerve and its role, you'll also come to see the scientific basis of the Eiriu-Eolas Breathing Program (main thread, FAQ/guide), which is mentioned in more detail under 'Health and Diet' (#1).
In whichever order you read these books (it is recommended to read the first two first), the last one, Trauma and the Body (#4.6), takes a deeper look at trauma and the body which also incorporates understandings from cognitive and behavioral therapy and more.
Beyond the threads and other resources linked in the footnotes for the books of this section, here are some further links on the (very) general subject:
A talk at Google (YouTube link) by Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence, where he describes the importance of emotional intelligence and some of its basic neural factors; see also this general discussion on emotional intelligence; and if you want to read more on the subject, you can also see #18.8 on Goleman's earlier book Emotional Intellience.
The forum thread "Schizotype" discusses proposed genetic and neural mechanisms behind the schizophrenia-related spectrum of disorders, including subtler personality variations.
More can be found on the Psychology & Cognitive Science board.
4.1. Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain's Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life
Brain Changer (forum thread) is about how we can reshape our brains and change ourselves and our lives for the better. At the root is metacognition and neuroplasticity: metacognition is thinking about thinking, which can be done deliberately, rather than (as is usually the case) simply being pulled along by a flood of mental energy; and neuroplasticity is the ability of our brains to change over time - and they change according to what they do. So in influencing our own internal and external behavior to be more constructive, in the longer term we accumulate the resulting changes to our brains, and to our selves.
The book is easily read, and brings together a great many things in one place, though all of them are covered quite briefly. It has three parts, one theoretical, one practical, and one recommending further material (both books and movies). The main difficulty in reading the book is gaining a deeper understanding of what is written, and so becoming able to put it into effective practice; it all makes sense on the surface, but requires reflection and further knowledge to really make it click.
There are strong parallels between certain discoveries of modern psychological and brain sciences and Fourth Way ideas. (See #8, 'Fourth Way'.) This book not only makes for a great example, but taken together with The Wave (#8.1), In Search of the Miraculous (#8.2), and other books such as the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' (#2), it can serve as an introduction to The Work. These other books place the information in Brain Changer within a wider context, and also give an understanding of the underlying issues one may have and have to face.
Brain Changer also goes very well with the books of the 'Cognitive and Social Science' (#3) section, e.g. Strangers to Ourselves (#3.1) and DiSalvo's other recommended book What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite (#3.5). These make clearer our mechanical nature, how we don't know ourselves, and some of the things we can do about it.
A thread about the movies recommended in Brain Changer can be found here.
The author, David DiSalvo, was inteviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #61. The interview, though brief, covers things related both to this book and to DiSalvo's other recommended book, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite (#3.5).
4.2. In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
In An Unspoken Voice (forum thread) covers the physiological basis of trauma and a body-centered method of recovery. The theory is based on neuroscience and behavioral studies, and the practice (called Somatic Experiencing) on clinical experience. It ties into and complements the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' (#2) books in providing an understanding of trauma and how it affects the nervous system - and through it, the entire body.
While dealing with trauma through intellectual and emotional exploration can make a difference, involving the body is a powerful approach often overlooked. This is an important book, both because of its relevance to healing trauma, and also because it gives the knowledge of prevention: how to avoid becoming traumatized by overwhelming experiences of the future.
Peter Levine also presents his work in the following videos:
Levine describes the effects of trauma (YouTube link) on the nervous system using his "Slinky" metaphor; he also conveys his approach to treating trauma, which involves very gradually releasing (or 'titrating') the compressed fight-or-flight energy, giving the individual the ability to reintegrate it back into the nervous system.
In this video (YouTube link), Levine discusses his online course "Healing Trauma", which offers students tools to rebound from the effects of trauma and to come back into life through a reconnection with our body and our sensations and feelings. He also shares the inspirational story of one of his first patients.
4.3. The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
The Archaeology of Mind is Panksepp's latest exposition on affective neuroscience. It describes the role of seven basic emotional circuits that we share with other mammals, that are the foundation of all our basic emotions, and which in very large part drive us - as they do other mammals. The forum thread quotes Panksepp's earlier work, named Affective Neuroscience; the later book is both an update and a popularization.
4.4. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
A thread on Social Intelligence can be found here. This book gives an overview of the neural underpinnings of interpersonal functioning, including empathy. It more describes the "big picture" than the technical details.
4.5. The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation
The Polyvagal Theory (forum thread) presents a highly important collection of scientific papers on the behavioral and regulatory role of the autonomic nervous system, especially in an emotional and social context. It gives a valuable in-depth view, but is also the "heaviest" read in this section; the books listed before it might ease the reading in introducing some relevant concepts and terminology.
4.6. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Trauma and the Body (forum thread) further describes trauma, its effects, and in effect how we are programmed by it, and describing an approach to therapy focusing both on cognitive and somatic aspects. The neuroscience and behavioral knowledge conveyed complements that conveyed by the other books in this section.
Psychopaths (at Esoteric Glossary) are born without conscience - without the ability to empathize. Often charming and convincing, they act as intraspecies predators - preying on others in the interest of their own greed for power, status, money and pleasure. They may also take pleasure in duping as well as hurting others; they may hurt others not only physically (only some commit violent offences for which they go to jail), but also e.g. emotionally, socially, and financially.
With their ruthlessness and talent for manipulation, the more 'successful' of psychopaths easily climb the societal ladders of business, politics, religion, etc. - generally at great cost to others throughout their sphere of influence. In our present world, psychopaths have formed a pathocracy - rule by the pathological (see #5.4, Political Ponerology, and #11, the 'Politics and Pathocracy' section) - and have led our civilization down a path of self-destruction.
You can find a lot of information in the "Psychopathy Studies" on Cassiopaea.org, as well as by searching the forum for threads - and SOTT for articles - on psychopathy, ponerology and/or pathocracy.
Here are also threads for some videos relevant to the subject:
Defense against the psychopath
New documentary: fishead
Just Astonishing Videos
The following SOTT Podcasts and SOTT Talk Radio Shows discuss psychopathy and related issues. More are listed for the books of this section when more strongly related to those books and/or their authors.
SOTT Podcast #26: The Psychopath Next Door (transcript).
SOTT Podcast #40: Organic Portals And Psychopathy (transcript).
SOTT Talk Radio Show #3: Are Psychopaths Cool? Uncovering the predators among us (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
SOTT Talk Radio Show #18: Empathy Trap - Breaking Free From Psychopaths and Sociopaths (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
Some additional books on psychopaths and other predators are also found in 'Other Psychology' (#9).
5.1. Defense Against the Psychopath: A Brief Introduction to Human Predators
This short book (less than 50 pages) is available as a free PDF download, and is an excellent quick primer on the subject of psychopathy.
The author, Stefan Verstappen, also made a video based on it, which is linked anbd discussed in this forum thread.
Verstappen was also interviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #48: Surviving the Psy-pocalypse (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
5.2. Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm
Women Who Love Psychopaths (forum thread - very broad discussion) discusses psychopaths in relationships and their victims, and the dynamics involved. It seems the most empathic and good-hearted are often the ones chosen by psychopaths for victimization; such people, as a result of their compassionate nature, tend to be the most vulnerable to emotional manipulation. The book focuses on female victims and male psychopaths, though it can also be helpful for understanding male victims and female psychopaths as well. The author, Sandra L. Brown, was interviewed in SOTT Talk Radio Show #8: Women Who Love Psychopaths (transcript and recording). (The forum thread for the show is here.)
5.3. The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About The So-Called Psychopathic Personality
The Mask of Sanity (article) is Hervey Cleckley's seminal study of psychopathy. It can be downloaded here.
5.4. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
Political Ponerology (official site) describes how societies become pathological through the influence and leadership of pathological people. It examines the psychological, societal and historical processes involved. It is, in short, a scientific study of the causes of large-scale oppression and inhumanity.
In explaining what has gone wrong with our world, it helps one understand what can be seen all around and to navigate it. The way our civilization is heading, it can literally be a lifesaver. And if (see #12, 'Hidden History') our civilization collapses, knowledge of ponerology may be the only hope for a future civilization to not repeat the deadly mistake of ours: placing psychopaths in positions of power.
A dedicated discussion thread for Political Ponerology which ties a lot of material together can be found here. In addition, various excerpts have been posted all over the forum during many discussions over the years.
SOTT Podcast #25: The 6% Solution (transcript) also discusses Political Ponerology. Additionally, In 2006, Sott.net interviewed Andrzej Lobaczewski.
Finally, there's several books that make excellent reads in addition to Political Ponerology; here are some of them:
The Authoritarians (#5.5) describes the study of the kind of people who are willing to follow pathological leaders; authoritarian followers excuse the lies of their chosen authorities, are willing to commit atrocities on their behalf, attack those who differ, and snitch on fellow citizens in authoritarian regimes.
The Controversy of Zion (#11.4), read through the lense of ponerology, makes a great case study.
The Crowd (#7.12) studies the susceptibility of crowds to manipulation, control, and misdirection towards destructive ends.
The Paranoia Switch (#5.6) studies how pathological leaders can induce and use terror throughout a society to change collective ideas, values, and behavior.
5.5. The Authoritarians
The Authoritarians describes a kind of personality, known as the "authoritarian follower" or "right-wing authoritarian" (RWA). RWAs tend to adopt and aggressively enforce the rules and norms of their chosen authorities, and in tending to choose "authoritarian leaders," easily become the tools of psychopaths in positions of power.
Understanding such "authoritarian followers," and that they constitute a large percentage of the population, makes it clearer how psychopaths in positions of power can find so many people ready to do their bidding, even when it involves commiting atrocities.
The book can be downloaded as a PDF from Bob Altemeyer's page at the University of Manitoba.
The following SOTT articles cover the subject of authoritarian followers:
Moral Endo-skeletons and Exo-skeletons: A Perspective on America's Cultural Divide and Current Crisis
Martial Law and the Authoritarian Follower
Conservatives, evil and psychopathy: Is there a link?
5.6. The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage
The Paranoia Switch (forum thread) discusses how trauma (individual and collective) reprograms our brains, and how the unscrupulous can exploit it to change the ideas, values and behavior of a society. This understanding has been exploited by pathocrats (#5.4) in events such as 9/11. Apart from Political Poneroloy (#5.4), this book also goes especially well with The Shock Doctrine (#11.8), which documents how this understanding has been applied in the service of greed.
This section is about external considering: putting aside our self-importance and adapting ourselves to the needs of others - to behaving in whatever ways are constructive without self-oriented concerns getting in the way. This idea is an essential part of the 'Fourth Way' (#8) teachings, which more generally cover the subject of working on oneself.
This striving - to basically become a better person in our interaction and relations with others - also requires working on our basic psychological issues. In this, the other psychological sections, starting with the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' (#2), are also important. They are also important when it comes to understanding what issues other people may have, in order to adapt oneself to the circumstances. (And in the case of 'Psychopathy' (#5), awareness can be critical for the safety and well-being of oneself and others in one's life.)
This section and can be read in parallel with the others mentioned. The issue of self-importance is covered in the first book of this section (taken from 'Other Esoterica', #9; see #9.3, The Fire from Within), in which Carlos Castaneda describes it through his storytelling. The big picture given, thereafter come several books of a more conventional character dealing with various aspects of social interaction and relations - even manners. (Since, in most situations, being mindful of manners is an essential part of being externally considerate.)
6.1. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Crucial Conversations (forum thread) describes how to interact with others in a constructive way even when "stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong". It covers basic and essential skills and can be seen as a primer on External Considering. Compared to The Fire from Within (#9.3), its treatment of the central problem of self-importance is fairly lightweight. Nevertheless, it can very helpful in learning how to conduct oneself well in challenging in-person conversations.
6.2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Another practical book on basic interaction skills is the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People. While Crucial Conversations (#6.1) aims more at the mastering of difficult in-person conversations, this book is about one's general approach to people. It is an easy read which presents simple and general principles, using many concrete examples and a conversational style. This post includes a link to a free PDF download of the book.
6.3. Miss Manners (articles, books)
The Miss Manners articles and books describe, in a humorous way, how to be "excruciatingly correct". In the discussion on External Considering and Good Manners, Miss Manners has been recommended as a "must read". While written for an American audience, readers in many other countries may still benefit; a fair portion of the advice may still apply (you'll have to use your own basic cultural knowledge, and supplement the information as needed), and through her examples, she demonstrates basic principles and a general thoughtfulness.
This post provides links to the website (from which you can find articles), to examples of articles, and to information about a selection of the books. Among the books, Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior (Freshly Updated) will probably have the greatest relevance to the greatest number of readers.
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The books in this section are a diverse collection that didn't fit into the other psychological sections, and/or which, while not critical enough for most readers to put in those sections, are still too generally important to list in 'Optional' (#18). These books do not really have much of a recommended reading order. They are generally supplementary to the books in the other psychological sections, so beginning with those (and then perhaps reading in parallel, if that suits you) may generally be best. However, there may be personal exceptions, as some may find books among those in this section to be of greater personal importance.
Along with exploring these books, you may also want to further explore the Psychology & Cognitive Science board and its sub-boards more in-depth for additional discussions and material.
7.1. Fear of the Abyss: Healing the Wounds of Shame & Perfectionism
Fear of the Abyss (forum thread) is a book about a kind of personality type, the problems people of this type may have, and how they may resolve their issues and heal the underlying wounding. "PCS people" have among their typical traits perfectionism, control issues, and shame - as well as black and white thinking, trouble with making decisions, fear of disappointment or of dissapointing others, and some other characteristics. Underlying all this is a fear, unconsciously hidden from, of the self - of who and what one is. For those to whom this apply, this book can turn out one of the most important ever read.
For more information, you can also listen to the interview with the author, Aleta Edwards, in SOTT Talk Radio Show #38 (transcript and recording). (The forum thread for the show is here.)
If you begin to recognize yourself in the description of the PCS personality, then given the impact this book can have, why not go for it? For that matter, if you have other PCS persons in your life, it can also help you understand them better.
7.2. The Caricature of Love
The Caricature of Love (forum thread) discusses distortions or "caricatures" of love and sexuality. Though written without the knowledge of ponerology (#5.4), it shows the mindset and influence of pathological characters. The forum thread provides some much-needed context and describes the significance of this book. This post links to a free PDF download.
7.3. Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality
Making Sense of People was mentioned, excerpted and the material discussed in the "The Adaptive Unconscious" thread (see note #3.1). It describes the categorization of personality in a practically useful way, as well as the joint environmental and genetic basis of personality formation, and the question of character and character development.
7.4. Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration is a collection of essays on the theory. It can optionally serve as an introductory read before delving into Dabrowski's books; see #7.5, Books on Positive Disintegration, for more on the theory and for reading recommendations.
7.5. Books on Positive Disintegration
Dabrowski's theory of Positive Disintegration is a psychological theory which deals with the kind of deeper personal development usually only described in more esoteric material (see #8, 'Fourth Way'). To really grow, something has to give way - the primitive psychological structure which one starts out with has to disintegrate. Thereafter, one may gradually, through struggle, develop a new orientation towards life and eventually reintegrate; this requiring developmental potential.
A quoted summary, and discussion, of Dabrowsi's concepts can be found here. Reading recommendations can be found in this post in the thread. A summary of Dabrowski's book Multilevelness of Emotional and Instinctive Functions can be found here.
7.6. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Blink deals with nonconscious cognitive processing - a major subject of the 'Cognitive and Social Science' (#3) section - but focuses more on its positive aspects. The more problematic aspects are covered in Strangers to Ourselves (#3.1) and Thinking, Fast and Slow (#3.3). Blink can serve as an interesting supplement.
7.7. How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved
How to Spot a Dangerous Man (forum thread) is another of Sandra Brown's books on the issue of relationships with pathological people - in this case on how women can learn to spot various kinds of pathological men and avoid becoming entangled in dangerous relationships. See #5.2 for information on Women Who Love Psychopaths, her book focusing on women in relationships with psychopaths.
7.8. Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
Predators is a book about sexual predators; it both is informative and can be shocking through its descriptions. It was excerpted in the article "The Cult of the Plausible Lie". To see the issue of sexual predation in a wider context - that of pathocracy (see #5, 'Psychopathy' and #11, 'Politics and Pathocracy') - you can visit the thread "Dutroux Cover-up Protected Pedophile Networks" and follow the links in the initial post, and/or watch the documentary Conspiracy of Silence.
7.9. Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
Operators and Things (forum thread) is the account, written by a recovered schizophrenic, of her experiences. She describes the 'Operators' who controlled her, one of the many ordinary 'Things'. The forum thread discusses 'Operators' as a possible metaphor both for psychopaths (#5, 'Psychopathy') and for beings at other levels of the STS hierarchy in control of our world.
7.10. Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Drama of the Gifted Child is another book on narcissistic wounding; for some it may be a useful addition to the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' (#2).
7.11. In Broad Dayligt
In Broad Dayligt (forum thread) documents the case of a psychopath who had been the terror of his community for many years; while before he had gotten away with it, there came a point when the community took a stand, and he was murdered in broad daylight with the approval of the community.
This documentary (YouTube link), as mentioned in the thread, is well-worth watching after either getting through the book, or reading the alternative online book linked in the initial post.
7.12. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
This book, written in 1895, describes the susceptibility of crowds to manipulation - how they can be, and are, hystericized and controlled towards destructive ends. It is important reading for any individual who works with people. And in these times, you never know when you will find yourself in a "crowd out of control" situation and may need to have your wits about you not just for your own sake, but for the sake of innocents around you.
Being so old, the book is freely available; the forum thread discussing the book contains links to downloads in several formats and languages.
This book goes great with Political Ponerology (#5.4), and may have been among the many things drawn upon by the researchers whose work Andrzej Lobaczewski synthesized.
7.13. Denial of Death and Escape from Evil
A thread on Ernest Becker and one of his associates, with some brief discussion of his books, can be found here. Some excerpts from the books are posted in various threads and can be found by searching the forum.
Denial of Death was written first, but the books can be read separately or in any order.
The ideas of Gurdjieff are integral to this forum. If you're not familiar with Gurdjieff, you can read some basic information about his 4th Way teaching, generally referred to here as "the Work", by clicking on the links in these paragraphs. It is a method of self-examination recommended to and practiced by most members of this forum, as a way of seeing ourselves, others, and the world around us from the perspective of OBJECTIVITY, rather than through the distorting prism of our own SUBJECTIVITY -- i.e., our emotional issues, programs, mechanical behaviour, buffers, sacred cows, and wishful thinking. The Work benefits from active participation in a group/network like this, where others also involved in the Work can provide feedback and act as a mirror in which we can see ourselves more clearly. The text The First Initiation written by Mme Jeanne de Salzmann is a must read.
In modern cognitive, behavioral and brain science, there have also been discoveries that strongly parallel several key concepts described by Gurdjieff. As such, both theoretical and practical understanding benefits from reading the material in the psychological and neuroscience sections. Some of the parallels are mentioned in the threads linked to in the information for these sections.
In particular, one of the books from 'Neuroscience' (#4) is also recommended in this section: Brain Changer (#4.1) covers ideas essential to The Work, but as (re)discovered through modern science. Taken together with The Wave, In Search of the Miraculous, and other books such as the 'Narcissism "Big Five" (#2), it can serve as an introduction to The Work.
Since to Work on one's "machine" both involves improving its health and funtioning, and also depends on its health and functioning, the information on 'Health and Diet' (#1) is also crucial. After all, the state of our minds depends on our brains, and the state of our brains on the health of our bodies. But the connection also goes the other way, and so we need to work on both ends: psychological health (including healthy interpersonal dynamics), and bodily health.
Two concepts that are important to this forum are strategic enclosure and external considering. This section is about the Fourth Way and related ideas in general; section #6 takes a simple and practical approach to external considering in particular.
For additional psychological books and information, section #2, the 'Narcissism "Big Five"' is a good place to start; the information for it mentions and contains directions to the rest of the psychological sections and their material.
Two videos that cover important concepts, made by Bernhard Guenther and Humberto Braga, can be found on YouTube:
Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition
There are also relevant articles on SOTT; among these, the following are highly recommended:
Being the change you want to see in the world
The Evolution of Humanity
The Necessity of Disillusionment
Additionally, some quotes from specific posts that are useful to read are:
Gurdjieff's "Last Hour of Life" exercise
Gurdjieff on the 'obyvatel' from ISOTM (#8.2)
Gurdjieff on 'crystallization' from ISOTM
More information can be found in exploring the board for The Work.
8.1. The Wave Series (all volumes)
The Wave is a book in 8 volumes that covers concepts and material integral to this forum. Laura wrote it in the process of answering readers' questions about the Cassiopaean Experiment (the subject of Cassiopaea.org), and the project snowballed into something that covers an incredible range of material. Many of the books of the recommended books list - except additions made in later years - are mentioned and excerpted, along with others. The volumes cover esoteric concepts, history, the state of our world, matters of conspiracy and high strangeness, psychology and neurology, and much more. Many parts of it also describe personal experiences, and through this, illustrate the concepts discussed.
In short, The Wave has something relating to almost every area of knowledge explored by the network - the exceptions are mostly in the latest discoveries - and as such, it is essential background material. It is also worth re-reading once in a while as new knowledge is gained, as broader and deeper understanding is then made possible. It is available both in print and for free on Cassiopaea.org (linked in the left sidebar).
8.2. In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
In Search of the Miraculous (generally referred to as ISOTM) is Ouspensky's account of his time with Gurdjieff and the teachings during this period. Both information-packed and an easy read, it is a good general introduction to Gurdjieff's ideas, and also gives a good glimpse of how Gurdjieff did things. Part of this approach, as well as several other Gurdjieffian ideas, are an integral part of this forum: they are even referred to in the Forum Guidelines, which quote ISOTM along with Gnosis (#8.4).
In reading The Wave (#8.1), you'll be introduced to a number of the ideas of ISOTM. The definitions of the Esoteric Glossary, linked to in the general information for this section, also briefly explains and relates several basic ideas to other concepts central to this forum. Nevertheless, the book itself remains an essential read for understanding a number of the topics discussed on this forum - as well as for anyone seriously interested in The Work, i.e. the Fourth Way.
One thread discussing ISOTM can be found here. SOTT Podcast 64: In Search of the Miraculous (part 1; transcript) and 65 (part 2; transcript) also discuss ISOTM and Gurdjieff.
Another important thread in relation to the Fourth Way and the teaching as transmitted by Ouspensky and other Gurdjieff pupils is "Imitation Fourth Way Groups Started by Gurdjieff Rejects".
8.3. Life Is Religion: 12 Daily Exercises for Mind, Body, and Soul
Assembled by this forum community, this little book grew out of the discussion following the 23 March 2013 C's session. It brings together key points on The Work, or Fourth Way, and is a handy summary to refer to. Here's the thread announcing its availability.
The name of the book was inspired by the following quote:
C's said:
Life is religion. Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the worlds will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely a dream in the 'past.' People who pay strict attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality of the 'Future.'
8.4. Gnosis (all volumes)
The Gnosis books go deeper into the theory of the Fourth Way, complementing the material transmitted by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. Best kept in mind is that Mouravieff had his Christian as well as ideological biases which have colored his work. (Influenced by the Synarchy - article - of Schwaller de Lubicz, he naively believed in the formation of a benign "elite" which would rule the world and lead it to a better future.) These biases are easy to filter out, and there is much of value to be found in Gnosis. Laura wrote of the work of Mouravieff that:
http://cassiopaea.org/2012/02/21/2611/ said:
[It] provides that ineluctable bridge between the works of Gurdjieff, the Sufi Shaykh, Ibn al-'Arabi, the esoteric Christianity that I have conjectured to have existed during megalithic times and of which we only have ancient Siberian Shamanism as a shadow of a relic, hermeticism/alchemy, and the Cassiopaean Transmissions - my own "channeling." ["Channeling" of "you in the future" - see also The Wave (#8.1).]
The books have been excerpted and discussed in many places, and searching for Mouravieff and/or for Gnosis will give many results, both on the forum (threads) and on Cassiopaea.org (articles). There are also these two threads where general discussion on Gnosis has taken place.
8.5. Tertium Organum
Tertium Organum is Ouspensky's philosophical and metaphysical synthesis, written before his time with Gurdjieff. It contains a great deal of interesting material, some of it referred to in The Wave (#8.1), and is well-worth a read. The copyright has expired, and you can read it online here or download it here.
8.6. Struggle of The Magicians
Struggle of The Magicians (forum thread) examines the lives of Ouspensky, Gurdjieff and some other people around them, and the story of their relation and involvement with one another.
This section deals with other esoteric material which can be seen as related and complementary to Gurdjieff's 4th Way teachings (section #8): the Sufism of Ibn al Arabi, a selection of the writings of Carlos Castaneda, and the works of the alchemist who wrote under the name of Fulcanelli.
As background for understanding these books, the first two in 'Fourth Way' (#8) are very helpful. In addition, Gnosis (#8.4) makes it easier to relate The Sufi Path of Knowledge to Gurdjieff and to The Cassiopaean Experiment. Alchemical writings such as those authored by Fulcanelli (as opposed to the book about him) are, however, not easy to understand - here, being generally well-read, including diving into 'Hidden History' (#12), may be of help.
A caveat regarding Castaneda's books: his narratives, though presented as factual, are fiction - and he mystifies the ideas he conveys. His books are best approached as collections of ideas expressed through involving fictional stories. Taken in this way, they may stimulate thinking, and you may see parallels with ideas you've read about in other material. Discussion of the relation between Castaneda and Gurdjieff's ideas can be found in this thread - the biography mentioned, The Life & Teachings of Carlos Castaneda, is further discussed here.
A useful quote from Castaneda's first book, and discussion thereof, is further found in the thread "Don Juan & "The Enemies of a Man of Knowledge"". For some further optional reading, a compilation of quotes from Castaneda's "don Juan" can be found on this site (unaffiliated); the site provides them for each of Castaneda's books. While two of Castaneda's books are recommended in full, this offers a condensed reading of the rest which are 'Optional' (#18).
You can also have a look at the 'Esotericism and Parapsychology' (#17) section for other material on esoteric and/or 'paranormal' matters.
9.1. Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination
The Sufi Path of Knowledge is mentioned and quoted in Laura's works, including The Wave. There is also some discussion on its author and his works in this thread.
9.2. The Active Side of Infinity
The Active Side of Infinity covers the very important theme of the Predator's Mind, among other things. This idea is further connected to the ideas of the Fall, and of humanity being food for higher-density STS beings, or "Food for the Moon" in Gurdjieff's terms. In terms of psychology, is also related to the basic issues of negative imprinting, psychological traumatization and defenses, and the formation in us of a false self which takes the place of who we would be by our real nature. See the information and books for #8, 'Fourth Way', and for #2, 'Narcissism "Big Five"', for more on these topics.
For some important information to have in mind in approaching this book (as well as Castaneda's other books), see the caveat in the general information for this section.
You can find a compilation of "don Juan"'s teachings in this book on this external page, which may be useful for reference. The full book is however still recommended.
9.3. The Fire from Within
The Fire from Within is Castaneda's narrative about the struggle against self-importance in order to be able to face the 'petty tyrants' of our lives. For, in esoteric strivings, becoming able to deal with ordinary life things is first priority, a basic necessity. The book can be seen as a manual for External Considering and Impeccability (see section #6, 'Social Interaction and External Considering', for more on this subject).
9.4. Fulcanelli: His True Identity Revealed
The book Fulcanelli (forum thread reveals the identity of this alchemist. In the thread you'll find further links to discussions on Fulcanelli, alchemy and their relation to Gurdjieff and his teaching.
This section contains books which together discuss a very broad subject: The role of information in our cosmos. While the idea of a personal 'God' is bogus, Nature is also far more complex than materialism can ever account for. (Materialism, for that matter, cannot even account for the fact of conscious experience.) Information seems to be at the basis of the laws of our Universe, and of existence itself - and it seems to drive the process of evolution. That is, evolution is neither directed by some 'God', nor is it a 'mindless' process; it is directed and has 'purpose', though of a more impersonal kind.
In general, processes in Nature seem to be directed from goals, or effects, that attract the causes of their fulfillment. However, the Universe is also open, as discussed e.g. in The Wave (#8.1). That is, which goal becomes the winning attractor may be something decided by consciousness. (See #8, 'Fourth Way', for more information. The subject of information and its role is closely connected to metaphysics, and in turn to more esoteric matters.)
This thread discusses information and information theory in general, including some of the books in this section. The footnotes for the threads also link to further discussion.
Some alternative or additional books (if/as relevant to you) are listed in the 'Optional' (#18) section - see e.g. #18.4 and #18.5.
For a related discussion, you can also listen to SOTT Talk Radio Show #58: Information theory, or why your brain is not your mind (transcript and recording). (The forum thread for the show is here.)
10.1. Origin of Life: The 5th Option
The 5th Option (forum thread) examines life and its origins from an engineering perspective, proposing a Rational Design Hypothesis (not to be confused with Intelligent Design). It describes life as an evolving, Living System with a purpose to be discovered.
10.2. Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics
Information and the Nature of Reality was suggested in the thread of the 28 May 2013 C's session, during a discussion of books on information theory. Further books were suggested, and some are listed further below (#10.3, #18.4).
10.3. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Mind and Cosmos has been discussed and extensively summarized in this thread. The book is a relatively difficult read, but the summary attempts to convey its essence in a simpler way for a wider readership.
Psychopaths (section #5) rule our world; this section lists books that describe the world they have been - and are - creating, and how they have been and are creating it. If you have been following the news at SOTT, you've probably got the general idea long ago, but a more in-depth study is valuable.
The following threads give some information on what might be expected in terms of societal and social conditions when our current civilization ultimately collapses - when whatever remains of 'the rule of law' (however twisted that is) as we know it disappears:
The post-apocalyptic psychopath - "The bad man"
Ponerology through the eyes of Ouspensky in "Letters from Russia 1919"
11.1. 911: The Ultimate Truth
This book is divided into two parts, which address, respectively, the events of 9/11, and their broader context.
The events are examined along with the "players" involved in their planning and execution: the U.S. government and intelligence agencies on the one hand, and Israeli intelligence on the other. The latter appear to have most likely performed the attacks on the behalf of the U.S., but in the process, to have "changed" the plan and pulled a double-cross for their own purposes.
As for the context of the events, it is historical, religious (the monotheistic religions that serve as systems of social control are examined), and ponerological. Summarized information on ponerology, with excerpts from Political Ponerology (#5.4) is included; see Political Ponerology for further in-depth information (highly recommended!).
Some conclusions are also drawn from the events of 9/11 and this broader context as to where things may be leading up to. This is an important part of the picture, though more has also been learned since; see the newer Secret History of the World (#12.1) volumes for additional information.
Some essays are used in the text which can be found on this forum. These include:
Psychopath Humanoids - Beyond Insanity by Amos M. Gunsberg.
An edited version of By, for, and of psychopaths, by an anonymous writer, appeared in in the book. The original version can be read in this forum thread.
SOTT Podcast 22 was dedicated to this book, and was transcribed here. In addition, you might want to listen to and/or read the following related SOTT Podcasts and SOTT Talk Radio Shows:
SOTT Podcast #3: 911 Interview With Darren Williams (transcript). (Darren Williams created the Pentagon Strike video, which addresses the main issues with the official narrative about this event in 5 minutes.)
SOTT Podcast #12: 9/11 Special (transcript).
SOTT Podcast #46: 911 and the Future (transcript).
SOTT Podcasts 53, 54, 55, and 56: Counter-Intelligence and the 9/11 Movement (here are transcripts for parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively).
SOTT Talk Radio Show #32: 911 Revisited - 12th Anniversary (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
A few more podcasts are also relevant to 9/11. Names and transcripts for these can be found in the forum thread "Podcast Transcript in Chronological Order".
11.2. JFK: The Assassination of America
JFK: The Assassination of America (forum thread) is a Kindle release of Laura's JFK Series on SOTT. (You can read it on SOTT or support the network by buying the Kindle version.)
Additionally, a highly recommended documentary to go along with any reading on the JFK assassination is Evidence of Revision: The Assassination of America (forum thread).
For related discussions, you can also listed to the following SOTT Podcasts and SOTT Talk Radio Shows:
SOTT Podcast #71: Assassination Of JFK (transcript).
SOTT Talk Radio Show #42: The JFK Assassination: 50 Years Later (transcript and recording). (The forum thread for the show is here.)
11.3. Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False Flag Terror Attacks
Manufactured Terror (forum thread) is a based on a collection of articles by Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley, with updated information, and makes a compelling case that the official story of how these "terror attacks" happened is largely fiction.
However, the authors take a far more critical approach than many. A lot of confusion has swept through the alternative media regarding these "terror attacks", such as the idea that no people actually came to harm - that it was all "staged" and that "actors" carried out fake attacks with no real victims. Sticking to the facts, Joe and Niall look beyond both the "official" stories and these false alternatives, the latter of which only serve to make reasonable people shy away from any "alternative" explanations.
The authors were interviewed about the book in SOTT Talk Radio Show #71: Manufactured Terror: BUSTED WIDE OPEN! (forum thread). (The subtitle of the show pokes fun at the less critical among conspiracy theorists and a phrase often used by them, e.g. when presenting 'evidence' for their 'actors' theories.)
The following additional SOTT Podcasts and SOTT Talk Radio shows discuss some of the "terror attacks" examined in the book, and related subjects:
SOTT Podcast #76: The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism (transcript).
SOTT Talk Radio Show #1: The Sandy Hook Massacre - What Really Happened (transcript and recording, forum thread).
SOTT Talk Radio Show #17: 'It's all a hoax!' The madness of conspiracy theorists (transcript and recording, forum thread).
11.4. The Controversy of Zion
The Controversy of Zion (forum thread) examines the history of Zionism, its ideological leaders, development and establishment. Providing a stark view of historical developments, it goes well with Political Ponerology (#5.4).
11.5. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
A thread on JFK and the Unspeakable can be found here. See also Joe Quinn's article JFK and the 'F***ing Crazies'.
11.6. The Secret Team: The CIA And Its Allies In Control Of The World
A thread on The Secret Team can be found here; it includes a link to the book, available to read online.
11.7. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
A thread on JFK can be found here.
11.8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine (forum thread) reveals the systematic practice of how populations, first rendered vulnerable by means of traumatic shock, are then exploited for the sake of pathological greed. Also recommended is a documentary giving an abridged coverage, available online and discussed and linked here. Complementary to this book and documentary, The Paranoia Switch (#5.6) examines the neurology and psychology of this "limbic warfare" used by psychopaths to shock and bring populations under their control.
11.9. Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Defying Hitler gives a view from the inside of the collapse and pathocratic take-over of a society. A thread can be found here. An extensive article quoting from the book can be found here.
11.10. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Another book describing pathocracy from the inside is Stasiland, on which a thread is found here. In addition, those who wish to get somewhat of a feel for life under the Stasi can see the fictional movie "The Lives of Others", which is discussed here.
11.11. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Some discussion of the protocols, quoting Reed's work (see #11.4) can be found here. The Protocols themselves can be found e.g. by a search on archive.org.
11.12. Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-energy Technology on 9/11
Judy Wood appeared as a guest on SOTT Talk Radio Show #15: No Ordinary Inside Job: The 9/11 Psy-Ops (transcript and recording), and she and her work is discussed in the forum thread for the show. (For more on Wood, also see this thread.) Later in the thread, some of the material in the book is discussed.
Wood appears on the whole to be a disinformation distraction: for many, her presentation has the effect of discrediting the basic ideas by association. In addition, her ideas regarding free energy are a red herring and don't stand up to scrutiny. Nevertheless, the question of where the towers went is a valid one; they were observed to turn to dust, and the conclusion that some kind of unknown (to the public) technology was utilized is a valid one. The book contains a collection of some valuable data for those who sift it out.
There is much that is ignored in mainstream history, e.g. evidence of highly advanced, ancient civilizations. There is also evidence of the repeated destruction of civilizations, be they advanced or not, by cyclical cometary bombardment - and the research suggests that time is running out for our civilization. Apart from this matter of life and death - one of the most important to learn about - there is also a great deal more to learn from these books. History, after all (and when properly conducted), is the great dot-connector.
Other reading may generally be best to begin with in order to develop a broad knowledge base - though Comets and The Horns of Moses (#12.1) is a good one for anyone curious about the fate of civilizations past, and of ours in the present.
There are also several other sections concerning history to look at. 'Politics and Pathocracy' (#11) covers the modern history of pathocracy; its development, and its grip on our world. 'General History and Historical Method' (#13) covers broader or more general historical subjects, including some basics regarding how to conduct historical research. In 'Caesar' (#14) as in this section, history that was hidden is revealed, though there the question concerns the origins of "Jesus" and Christianity. And in 'Bible History' (#15), the idea of the Bible as a valid historical source is impeccably ripped to shreds, as its origins and surrounding questions are examined.
12.1. Secret History of the World (all volumes)
A thread on the first volume of Secret History can be found here. The first volume (often referred to as SHotW) is followed by others more or less independent of it; the first of these is Comets and The Horns of Moses (forum thread).
The second volume, Comets and the Horns of Moses (CatHoM for short), is essential reading for understanding the current situation of our world. History is repeating, and now as before, the civilization of the day - ours - is about to face destruction by cometary bombardment, plague, and more besides.
The third volume, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection (forum thread), more extensively explores questions concerning catastrophes and their connection to the conditions of human life. Using the Electric Universe model, a lot of subjects are tied together: the Sun's companion star, periodic cometary swarms that collide with the Earth, and various terrestrial signs (or 'Earth changes') that signal impending disaster. There is also the question: why do these things happen? Throughout history, civilizations that became corrupt and inhuman fell as a result of these events. What seems to be the case is that groups of people collectively attract their destinies. Those groups who align with truth and creativity can survive and thrive; while those who align with lies and entropy are decimated. This book explains a lot regarding both the historical patterns explored in the previous Secret History volume, and what we are observing (and living through) today.
12.2. The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes
The Apocalypse (forum thread) describes and references the evidence for a long history of catastrophes, our present situation in relation to these and what is likely to come. It is based upon the Comets and Catastrophe SOTT article series. Comets and The Horns of Moses (#12.1) covers the same theme along with much wider subject ground.
This section contains books of a more general historical nature. The Historian's Craft gives basic insight into the process of historical reasearch. The other books are concerned with subjects too general to be confined to any of the other historical sections.
13.1. The Historian's Craft
A thread discussing and summarizing some of the points of Marc Bloch's book can be found here.
13.2. The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
A thread with excerpts from and discussion of The Ancient City is found here.
The books listed in this section were recommended in the thread "Was Julius Caesar the real Jesus Christ?". The research discussed in that thread, and the books listed in this section, answer the question of that topic heading: Yes, he was. A documentary mentioned in the thread which introduces this research is The Gospel of Caesar, which can be viewed on YouTube here.
Needless to say, the research of this section, through its conclusions, demolish the basis of Christianity as we know it. Further demolishing of the validity of the Bible is accomplished in section #15, 'Bible History'.
The subject of Caesar has also been discussed in the following SOTT Talk Radio Shows:
SOTT Talk Radio Show #24: Who was Jesus? Examining the evidence that Christ may in fact have been Caesar! (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
SOTT Talk Radio Show #25: Julius Caesar - Deceitful Demagogue or the People's Champion? (transcript and recording). The forum thread for this show is here.
The question of the Bible and its validity, historical or otherwise, is important because of its role in shaping the modern world. It has shaped, among other things, our culture - even down to very fundamental assumptions about, and attitudes towards, life and the world. The books of this section thoroughly rip apart the idea that the Bible is what it claims to be, or even a valid historical source, in examining the history of its creation.
The section on Caesar (#14) is also relevant, in its exploration of how the life of Julius Caesar was used to create the Jesus myth and the Christian religion. There is also an article series by Laura on (among other questions) the question of "Who Wrote The Bible". Questions regarding the origins and true purposes of the monotheistic religions are also treated in several of Laura's books, including The Wave Series (#8.1) and the Secret History (#12.1) books, drawing upon the research in this section and much more.
The Controversy of Zion (#11.4) also explores the history of the Jewish people, and with it, the history of the old testament. Though less of an in-depth examination of when and how the old testament was created, it offers a critical look at the ideology which was developed and of the religious 'elite' which created and enforced it. In examining these questions and how history has unfolded, it adds considerably to the study of pathological people in power. Along with Political Ponerology (#5.4), it helps understand their doctrines, actions and influence. This, in turn, is very important for generally understanding history.
This section lists books about the UFO phenomenon and the question of "aliens" and abduction. A recommended introductory documentary is UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact (forum thread) by Bernhard Guenther and Humberto Braga, the latest version of which can be viewed here on YouTube.
On Cassiopaea.org, you'll also find a number of articles dealing with the subject, including:
Michael Topper's Stalking or Precis on The Good and The Evil
Laura's articles on The UFO Phenomenon
As you may notice in the course of reading up on this general subject, this is very much an esoteric and 'paranormal' issue - and often vice-versa. The subjects being strongly connected, the sections on the 'Fourth Way' (#8), 'Other Esoterica' (#9) and 'Esotericism and Parapsycholoy' (#17) are also recommended along with exploring this subject.
16.1. High Strangeness
High Strangeness conveys the "big picture" regarding UFOs and the nature and role of "aliens". They are not here to help or "save" us - rather, these 4th Density STS Beings manipulate and use humanity for their own ends - as a kind of (most of the time) energetic "food". Castaneda's ideas of 'the Predator' and Gurdjieff's tale of the 'Evil Magician' are good metaphors, along with the movie The Matrix (forum thread.
16.2. UFOs and the National Security State
UFOs and the National Security State is briefly described here. Richard Dolan was also interviewed in SOTT Podcast 74, transcribed here.
16.3. Operation Trojan Horse
John Keel and Operation Trojan Horse are discussed here.
This section lists books from the "Spirit Board" thread as well as additions. If you plan to work with a 'spirit board' at some point for essentially psychological purposes (Knowledge and Being video series), you'll want to read all of these books - and everything else recommended in the "Spirit Board" thread. (Another list of books, also incorporated in this section, can be found here, along with links to further resources.)
More generally, this section can be seen both as an extension of the 'Other Esoterica' section, and as a section of esoteric and 'paranormal' history. The general subject is also connected with the question of 'UFOs and Aliens' (#16), which it is recommended to also read up on, either first or in parallel. ('UFOs and Aliens' is not only essentially an esoteric and 'paranormal' subject, but also an important part of the big picture.)
If you choose to approach this section simply as a supplement (i.e. no 'spirit board' plans, nor otherwise aiming to read it all at present), you can simply pick and choose among these books. (Footnotes for some of the books may, however, give other recommendations, which take priority. They may also give you clues as to which books may suit you best to begin with.)
17.1. Darkness over Tibet
Darkness over Tibet (forum thread) covers the question of what "spirituality" is; one major point is that there is no "one" spirituality as such, but rather two (STO and STS) - and the choice between the two is crucial, and requires discernment. See this article for a brief overview of Illion's concepts. The book is more extensively discussed (and quoted) in this series of articles.
17.2. The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts is an account of the author's personal experiences with channeled "spirits" or "guides". It has been discussed and excerpted here. This book conveys the high risks involved in channeling, and the subtle ways that these "entities" or "spirits" can feed on the channeler(s) and those who become involved. The author himself was ultimately driven to suicide.
17.3. Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual
Baldwin's Spirit Releasement Therapy is a good primer on a very complex subject, but does not cover all of the essential aspects, nor is it wholly accurate. While a good start for background, further reading to fill in the gaps was recommended in this post - the books mentioned can be found on this list, though you are also invited to check out the additional links to resources found within that post.
17.4. Thirty Years Among the Dead
Thirty Years Among the Dead was originally published in 1924, and free versions can be found online. One such PDF is the following: _http://new-birth.net/booklet/30_years_among_the_dead.PDF (deactivated link - copy-paste to your browser's address field to visit).
17.5. Hostage to the Devil
Hostage to the Devil, discussed here, is not light reading. It is very strongly recommended to read through the entire thread, taking the input seriously, before proceeding. This means reading a lot of other, relevant material first along with working on one's psychological hygiene.
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Approaching Infinity
Since time and money for books are not infinite resources, there has to be some prioritization. The books in this section are still fine reads - but currently not considered to be of enough general importance for the other sections. (Even in this section, though, there has to be some criteria of 'importance' - otherwise, the listing could easily be made ridiculously long.) As a general recommendation, you can think of these books as supplementary to those of the other sections - they may be useful depending on your individual needs and interests (in some cases, perhaps very useful). So, have a look, pick and choose.
18.1. The Noah Syndrome
A thread on The Noah Syndrome can be found here. This is Laura's first and long-unpublished book; some passages may be recognized from their appearance in The Wave Series (#8.1) and in the first volume of Secret History of The World (#12.1).
18.2. The Teachings of Don Juan (the other books)
Two of Castaneda's books are recommended: The Active Side of Infinity (#9.2) and The Fire from Within (#9.3). The rest of his books are optional. See the general information for 'Other Esoterica' (#9) for more on Castaneda and his works, as well as related resources.
18.3. The Case for the UFO
The Case for the UFO (article, article) can be downloaded free (in the annotated Varo edition) as a PDF here.
18.4. Optional information theory books
Some additional books which were suggested (#10, 'Information Theory, Metaphysics and Evolution') on the topic of information theory. Signature in the Cell and Darwin's Doubt (forum thread) by Stephen C. Meyer cover concepts similar to those of The 5th Option (#10.1). An Introduction to Information Theory is a classic (and cheap) textbook which covers the formal theory in a relatively easy way.
18.5. The Science Delusion or Science Set Free
A thread discussing this book of Rupert Sheldrake (variously published as either The Science Delusion or Science Set Free) is here. The book is concerned with the problem of materialist doctrines in mainstream science and the need to take consciousness into account.
18.6. The Quest to Feel Good
The Quest to Feel Good has been quoted and discussed (here and here) as another approach for helping those struggling with psychological issues.
18.7. The Angry Book
The Angry Book (forum thread) describes the negative consequences of suppressing anger; how various issues result from the building of a "slush fund" (an accumulation of stale anger). It also describes how to approach anger with a healthy mindset and express it in a constructive way, thereby avoiding the issues caused by a build-up of "slush" - and healing those already caused.
18.8. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Emotional Intelligence is the precursor to Goleman's later book Social Intelligence and conveys the "big picture" of the importance of emotional intelligence. It has no dedicated discussion thread, but has been mentioned in this general discussion on emotional intelligence. You can also see this video (YouTube link) of Goleman speaking on emotional intelligence at Google.
► New books have been added recently(up to March 2018), so here's a list of these new books
-1. Collingwood - Idea of History (here)
-2. Collingwood - Speculum Mentis (here)
-3. Raine - Anatomy of Violence (here)
-4. Samenow - Inside the Criminal Mind (here)
-5. Samenow - The Myth of the Out of Character Crime (here)
Extended List:
-6. Glenn & Raine - Psychopathy (here)
-7. Tamdgidi - Gurdjieff and Hypnosis (here)
-8. Fallon - The Psychopath Inside (here)
-9. Ressler - Whoever Fights Monsters (here)
-10. Waite - The Psychopathic God (here)
Other related books:
-11. Carr - What is History? (here)
-12. Cohn - Cosmos, Chaos & The World to Come (here)
-13. Kahn - The Education of Julius Cesar (here)
-14. Carcopino - Cicero: The Secrets of His Correspondence (here)
-15. Enberg-Pederson - Paul and the Stoics (here)
► New books added April 26th 2018:
-16. The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive―And Why It Matters for Everyone (here)
-17. Making Sense of Genes by Kostas Kampourakis (here)
-18. Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Wolpoff (here)
-19. The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History by Fred H. Previc (here)
-20. The Origin of Our Species" by Chris Stringer (here, here and here)
-21. The monkey puzzle: Reshaping the evolutionary tree" by John Gribbin (here, here and here)
► New books added May 1st 2018 (22,23 and 24):
-22. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich. (here and here)
-23. Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich. (here)
-24. Apes, Giants and Man by Franz Weidenreich. (here and here)
► New books added May 14th 2018:
-25. Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design by Perry Marshall (here and here)
► New books added June 5th 2018:
-26. The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung by Richard Noll (corresponding thread)
-27. Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth by David Detmer (corresponding thread)
► New books added June 19th 2018:
-28. Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg (corresponding thread)
-29. "C.G.Jung: Lord of the Underworld" by Colin Wilson. (corresponding thread)
-30. "The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures" by Antonio Damasio (here)
► New books added July 11th 2018:
-31. "Darwin's Blind Spot" by Frank Ryan (here)
-32. "Virolution" by Frank Ryan (here)
► New books added October 9th 2018:
-33. "Genetic Entropy" by John Sanford (here)
► New books added December 28th 2018:
-34. "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution" by Michael J. Behe (here)
-35. "The Mecca Mystery: Probing the Black Hole at the Heart of Muslim History" by Peter Townsend (here)
-36. "The Edge of Evolution" by Michael J. Behe (here)
► New books added January 5th 2019:
-37. "Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins" by Robert Spencer (here)
► New books added January 16th 2019:
-38. "UFOs Today - 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation, Cover-up" by Irena McCammon Scott (here)
-39. "Heretic: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design" by Matti Leisola & Jonathan Witt (here)
► New books added February 9th 2019:
-40. "Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish genes, errors of heridity and other fables of evolution" by David Stove and Roger Kimball (here)
► New book added February 14th 2019
-41. "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years" by Israel Shahak (here)
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Laura said:
NEARLY finished with "Darwinian Fairtytales" and I agree with Luc that it is definitely a MUST read for everybody. He covers so many things from so many angles. It's not just a breath of fresh air, it's a darned hurricane!!!
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Olly Murs Releases ‘Do It Like Dan Hardy’ Video
Nicola Craig November 25, 2018, 7:00 pm
Olly Murs might have just released his sixth studio album You Know, I Know but he’s still found time to record another episode of his Do It Like series. This time he’s teamed up with MMA’s Dan Hardy aka The Outlaw.
So far we’ve seen Olly learning some gymnastics with five-time Olympic medalist Max Whitlock and rugby player Chris Robshaw. But now he’s getting even more hands-on as this former MMA Fighter puts him through his paces. During this episode, we’re shown Dan’s party trick with his shins of steel and Olly getting given his own superhero fighting name (we won’t spoil it so check out the video to find out just what it is). Explaining how yoga has become a big part of the training they try out the upward salute and standing head to knee in order to get them ready for striking practice. As expected left hooks make an appearance as we see Olly Murs focus completely on his power punch reminding us just what a dangerous sport this actually can be. Every episode isn’t just a great excuse to see Olly trying something new but also gives us a valuable insight into the sport and what happens behind the scenes. In the final challenge, it gets a whole lot harder as the Shark Tank sees him floored trying (and struggling) to get back on his feet. Next week’s episode will see him teaming up with golfer Justin Rose, we can’t wait!
Olly recently released You Know, I Know which features new tracks alongside some of his greatest hits. One of those new tracks is his incredibly catchy latest track Moves which features Snoop Dogg. If like us you want to experience the Olly Murs magic in person then be sure to pick up tickets to his 2019 UK and Ireland tour.
Who would you love to see feature on Do It Like? Tweet us @CelebMix to let us know!
Written by Nicola Craig
A keen lover of boybands, nearly all genres of music and travelling. I'm always looking for new artists to check out, so send them my way and you might be able to be smug knowing you helped me find a new favourite band. You'll probably say I have long hair, most people do.
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SA v IND 2018: Kuldeep Yadav opens up about his rapport with fellow spinner Yuzvendra Chahal
The duo of Kuldeep and Chahal scalped 5 wickets together in Durban ODI.
By Salman Anjum - 03 Feb, 2018
India’s wrist spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have become the architects of India’s awe-inspiring show in ODI cricket of late. The Men in Blue have lost just 4 ODIs in their last 21 one-day internationals since last year's Champions Trophy and both the spinners have played an instrumental role in it.
After India’s 6-wicket victory in the ODI series opener against South Africa in Durban, Kuldeep has said that he and his fellow spinner Chahal compliments each other brilliantly while bowling in tandem. Kuldeep dented the Proteas with the bowling figures of 3 for 34 in Durban while Chahal scalped 2 for 45.
"Obviously there is a lot of understanding between us. We now have been bowling for 5 years together. We were together at Mumbai Indians as well. So there is a mutual understanding between us," Kuldeep was quoted by PTI as saying.
"Even when he (Chahal) bowls first in the match, we talk how the wicket is behaving and whether it is turning or not, whether it is drifting and how the wind is playing out. So communication is very important and it is very good between us," he added.
When asked about the challenges of making adjustments in overseas conditions, the 23-year-old said, "It doesn't matter where you are playing. Since childhood I have bowled on cement wickets. So that was tough wicket for me. Here the ball was turning, so it helped me.
"Whether you are playing in India or South Africa, it doesn't matter to me. In my head the only thing is taking wickets for the team and this is Chahal's plan as well when we are bowling as a pair," he elaborated.
The wrist-spinner got rid of JP Duminy, David Miller and Chris Morris at the crucial juncture of the game to put the Men in Blue on top. It was India’s first victory in Durban against the Proteas in 4 attempts.
Talking about his strengths and weaknesses, the Kanpur born spinner said, "Some times you are under pressure, like at the start or your first over. For me, I was nervous too because it was my first game in South Africa but slowly I got into the rhythm and then you start playing with the batsmen.
"My quality is that if I go to stop runs, if I bowl fast, I will go for more runs. I try to bowl it slow, and then change the pace, then it makes life difficult for the batsmen. It is easier to bowl to someone who likes to play his shots than someone who keeps rotating the strike," he explained.
Kuldeep also highlighted the importance of picking Proteas wickets in the middle overs of Durban ODI.
"We bowled very well in the middle overs and we put them under pressure. If you bowl well on any wicket, it is very difficult to score runs. There was a partnership in the middle between Faf du Plessis and Chris Morris. If Morris had batted for a few more overs, they could have reached 290 or 300," he said.
"I felt I could get him (Morris) out and I took my chance. I always think if I try to bowl to contain, I will concede more runs,” concluded Kuldeep Yadav.
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Visual Scripting in Bolt - Quick Start Guide
by Jonathan Gonzalez in Product
Visual Scripting is popular among artists and programmers alike. The choice between traditional programming and visual scripting often comes down to personal preference, as well as how complex you intend your game projects to be.
While Unity is currently working on a native visual scripting system similar to their Shader Graph and VFX Graph systems, we can still use visual scripting within Unity and we have quite a few packages to choose from. I've used Playmaker and a few others but eventually, I've made Bolt my go-to. This quick start guide will focus on Bolt, though a lot of the terminology and rules are similar in other packages.
Why Visual Scripting?
Visual scripting gets a bad rep from programmers for "not being as customizable" as traditional programming in the sense that you're limited to what is available to use right out of the box. And truth be told, those who learned to programme "the right way" let their ego get into the debate and insist that there is no other way.
But let's be real: traditional programming is difficult to learn and not everybody is ready to put in the effort and time.
The good news is: you don't need to know programming to build a game, you just need to understand the game logic.
Regardless of what path you choose, you'll still need to understand the underlying mechanics.
The best part is that visual scripting makes this process much easier as you can see connections between nodes. These can help you visualize what happens when a player animation starts, or when an enemy character has detected something odd running around in the distance.
When writing out code, over time, you will see these connections in your head, but for beginners, this may take some time. Visual scripting creates connections are created for you.
As a bonus, you don't have to worry about proper syntax and typos, you just need to know which nodes to use and how to connect them to others.
Visual Scripting in Bolt 101
Let's take a look at some common concepts of visual scripting, terminology and a general overview using Bolt. Other visual scripting systems may share similar features, but this is specific to using Bolt.
When you first install Bolt it is recommended to stick with Human Naming. If you're a programmer and you're used to writing things out, you can go with the Programmer Naming. For beginners, Human Naming will make it much easier to understand and to find nodes (units).
Instead of adding a script to an object we start off by adding a Flow Machine. This is a component, so you'll need to look for it with the Add Component button. Flow Machines take in a Macro, which is essentially what will control everything. Think of the Macro as the script that requires a Flow Machine to work properly.
For the sake of keeping things simple, utilize a traditional Macro and not the Embed type. You can reuse this Macro for other objects as well which is incredibly useful if you create generic mechanics that can be used with multiple objects.
When you create the Flow Machine you'll also see a Variables component that gets added. These are for Object Variables. These variables will be shared across the entire object, which means if you have multiple Macros attached to this object, they can all utilize the same object variables.
This also works similar to public variables in traditional programming. You would typically use these if you want to assign something to them from the inspector.
After you create the flow graph and macro you can click to edit the graph. Jumping into full screen will give you more options to see all the various variable types you can use. We'll just focus on three of them in this article: Graph, Object and Scene variables.
Graph variables are essentially private and can only be accessed by this graph. These would include any variables that you would not modify manually but instead use the graph to change the value. An example of this would be "hard coding" a time value or setting the default max health of a character.
Object variables as we've discussed can be accessed through any macro on the object and can also be assigned to in the inspector. These would be things like accessing the animator attached to another object or adding variables to assign specific audio clips from your project panel. Note that in order to see these in the full-screen mode you need to have the object selected in the Hierarchy. If you don't, these will be grayed out.
Scene variables are essentially global variables that any object in that specific scene can access. You would use this for things like a game manager or event system that can all reference a single scene variable. Think of the in game time that everything must listen to, I could reference the scene variable for the time in game.
Game Logic 101
When you first open a graph you'll see two nodes (aka Units in Bolt), the Start and Update Unit. These are typically known as methods in C# programming for Unity. It's important to note how these operate as these are "built-in" Units that Unity calls automatically at different times.
Start gets called once the game starts and only gets called once. You would use this to set starting values for health, get a reference to a specific position or rotation upon starting the game or reference other objects that were created in game at run time.
Update gets called multiple times per second. This can be abused and used in an ineffective manner, so you must be wary of using this often. Typically you would use this to check for a change in input such as a player pressing a key or button. You could also use this for updating a value in game over time like a health bar depleting or even a game timer, although there are better ways of doing so.
Let's start with a simple of example of how these would work together to display a message to the console. The console is your best friend for determining if you made a mistake in your game logic, whether that be a typo or in the case of visual scripting, you forgot to connect value to a node. This will also notify you if you connected nodes improperly.
We can use this to display a message which is something I'd often use in traditional programming to quickly test if something is working as intended.
We'll do this from the Start unit, right click next to start in the open graph area and you'll get the option to Add Unit, from there you'll get a menu displaying all sorts of units we can use. Type in Debug Log. This will create a new Unit that allows us to connect this to Start.
The green arrows should be connected together. By connecting the green arrow of Start to the green arrow of the Debug Unit, we are saying that Start should then perform the action of what the Debug unit should do. In this case, it just displays a message in the console. Since this is the Start unit, it will display a message once and then no longer do anything afterward.
Currently, we don't have a way to modify the message of the Debug unit, but below that, we can provide a String value. A string is essentially a collection of letters which help us form words and sentences in a programming sense. We can create a unit for the message by left-clicking next to the orange dot (string type) and releasing in the graph area.
You'll see the same menu appear for units to select, but now it's specific to the type of input the Debug unit can use for that specific part of the unit. Locate String and hit enter. Now, this unit is connected. From here you'll need to type in a sentence into the empty box. I'll say "Hello World". not very creative but it'll work.
Once you've typed that out, hit play in Unity and you'll see a message appear in the bottom left of the Unity editor. It'll be displayed in white and if you click on the message you'll open up the console to see that this message has only appeared once. Since this was attached to the Start event only one message will be displayed when we hit play. If we attach that to the Update event this will update multiple times per second resulting in hundreds of repeat messages appearing in the console.
Detecting Objects
In order to detect objects, we need a couple of things, a rigidbody and a collider. If two objects hit each other this is known as a collision and we can detect collisions by using an OnCollisionEnter unit. Both of these objects must have a collider component of some kind in order to detect each other and at least one of these must have a rigidbody.
We'll demonstrate this by using a ball bouncing onto the floor. The sphere game object has a rigidbody, collider and a bouncy physic material to make it easy to bounce. Upon hitting the ground I also want to play a cartoon smoke ring to mimic dust from the impact.
We need the ball to detect the collision with the ground and the smoke ring will be a particle system that will just reside on the ground at the exact point where the ball would hit the ground. Ideally, you'd have the smoke ring move with the sphere and play at the point of impact, but to keep things simple we're keeping it where it's at.
Since the particle effect is not attached directly to the sphere we'll need a variable specifically to play the smoke particle system. In order to play a particle system, we'll use a Particle System Play unit, which will be attached to the OnCollisionEnter.
Since OnCollisionEnter gets called automatically on impact with an object, we will then have the output of that unit play the smoke ring particle system. Here is the end result:
That works great for general collisions but what happens if I wanted to detect a specific object? Let's say we have a spike ball hovering above a sheep character and that spike ball happens to land on him.
Should the spike ball bounce? or should the sheep turn into a smoke puff and disappear from view? I think the latter makes more sense, unless the sheep character suddenly grew Kevlar.
In order to detect a specific object on collision, we first check a collision, then start to narrow things down.
Think of it as a funnel. First we check if we hit something, then check to see if what we hit also has a tag we specify. Since we're using a Sheep character the tag will also be named Sheep and that will be applied in the inspector panel of the Sheep character.
Also note that this character also has a collider which we'll need in order to detect the sheep. With both of these added on, we now have the ability to specifically detect this object based off a tag called Sheep. Once we detect this object then we want to do a couple of things.
This may be a bit more complex but lets walk through each of these steps. First we need a way to detect the sheep character based off a tag, for that we'll use a Compare Tag unit. Making sure that we update the tag we are looking for by typing in the string value Sheep, this is case sensitive.
We connect this directly after the OnCollisionEnter unit. Since we're checking for a tag, we need to use a Branch unit, which acts as a if statement which will be directly connected to both outputs of the Compare Tag unit. The second output of this unit is a pink circle, which denotes a bool type value either being true or false.
If we detected the tag specified then we want to Instantiate a particle effect at the point of impact using the position and rotation of the sheep character. This will allow me to create a smoke puff effect at the exact position and rotation of the sheep, then afterward we will destroy the sheep character game object. To do all of these we'll need quite a few more units.
We need the Instantiate unit, and with that we need a Get Position and Get Rotation unit to determine where this particle system will be created along with the actual smoke puff we'll be creating based off a prefab which will be a GameObject variable.
We get the position and rotation from the collider output of the OnCollisionEnter since we're basing it off the position and rotation of the sheep.
After we instantiate this object, we then add in a GameObject Destroy unit. Since we're destroying the sheep, we need to ensure that we also get the game object from the OnCollisionEnter by using a Get GameObject unit from the collider output. Here is the end result of all those connections.
Take a look below to see how all of these work together. Take a look at the values changing in the connections in real time.
Note that we only instantiate and destroy this object if the Branch output of True is used. If the output is false, we do nothing. You'll see how this works when we destroy the sheep then subsequently hit the plane (floor) object. It does not destroy this object as it does not have a tag of Sheep.
We only covered using OnCollisionEnter here, but the same concepts can be applied to Trigger zones as well. For that you would use OnTriggerEnter for the unit, and perform similar checks. This requires the use of a collider with Is Trigger enabled on the collider component to work. Give it a shot!
Playing Animations
There are a few different ways of playing animations through visual scripting. Animations in general tend to be fairly simple to play through traditional written scripts or visual scripting. Shown below are two common examples of playing animations.
At the top you'll see a On Button Input unit which directly connects into a Animator Set Trigger unit. The first unit is an event based unit which means that upon pressing the specified Input, in this case Jump, and more specifically I'm looking for a press Down on the button.
We use a Set Trigger unit since the parameter to play an animation is a Trigger type. A trigger is essentially a bool that can reset itself. A jumping animation is a great example of when you'd want to use this.
Note that the Animator symbol says Self next to the Animator symbol in the unit. The Animator is directly attached to the game object that has this flow machine so we can tell the Animator unit that the Animator component is located on self, otherwise we need to specify where this Animator component is located and attach it to this unit.
The second node setup is somewhat similar, but is more commonly used when you'd move a player around using a Vertical or Horizontal axis input. We're using this axis input because this will allow us to get a float value from it. When I press the Up arrow or the W key on my keyboard this value increases from a default of 0 to a value of 1.
Whenever this value is set to above 0.1, the running animation will play. When it goes below this value we return back to an idle state. When I am not actively pressing a button, the axis value returns to 0.
By connecting the Vertical Input Get Axis value to the Animator Set Float it will update in real time, so you can see it go from 0 to 1 and vice versa. With these two simple unit connections we can play animations based off a simple button press, or move a character based off a button input being held down or released.
Here is a close up look at the connections between the units:
Top section will allow the player to jump when pressing the Jump input, and the bottom section updates the value of Running (which is an Animator parameter) to the current value of the Vertical axis input. This allows us to dynamically change this value whenever we press the up arrow or the W key.
UI Images and Text
UI is a common thing within games and knowing how to properly update UI elements is important. The two main things you'd update with the UI are images and text.
Images will come in the form of a dynamic fill for things like a health bar or experience level meter. Text is usually a compliment to those images but can also display relevant information such as time in game or points accumulated so far.
Lets take a look at an example of a health bar shown in the Game Programming Bootcamp Exercise. This utilizes a white border with a dynamic red fill.
For the example we'll have the health bar deplete over time smoothly until it reaches zero. In the original exercise we used a Coroutine which allows us to wait a specific amount of time and loop through using a while loop. This can be done using an Update unit as well, but for this we'll use the Start unit and set it to be used as a Coroutine by clicking the checkbox in full screen mode as such.
You'll see two straight green arrows appear on this unit once you enable this. If you forget to enable this as a coroutine you will see an error appear when you play the game. We will use the Start unit to automatically go into a While Loop unit. This While loop requires a condition in order to work.
We can say "while the health is above 0 we can perform an action". So we need a health variable, and we'll utilize it as a float. While we're adding variables, lets add in a few more that we'll need. We need the red fill image as an Image type called HealthFill, the text to display the actual health called HealthText and two floats, one for the current health called Health and one for the total amount of health called Total Health.
These will be added as object variables which should reside right above your flow machine component.
We use two float values as we'll be using this with the fill amount of the image which has a range between 0 and 1. By using Health divided by TotalHealth we can then turn our health value into a fraction allow us to utilize that directly with the fill amount. An example of this would be if Health (50) over Total Health (100) resulting in 50/100, giving us a value of 0.5 which is the halfway point for the fill amount of the image, representing half our health depleted.
That said, lets take a look at how we would use all these variables to create a health "bar" that depletes over time. First lets check to see if the Health value is greater than 0 with a Greater (than) unit, which means we can start deducting health using the While loop.
If we are in the while loop we deduct our health over time, using the Get Time Delta Time unit. This unit will count up based off the in game time and since it's a float value as well we can use this to deduct from our Health value and get incremental changes. We will subtract the time from the Health variable using a Subtract unit. Since we are going to use this Health value later, we also need to ensure we set the new value for the same Health variable. Take the output of the Subtract unit and connect it back to the Set Health unit.
We need to also update the Health fill image to display the changes in the health value in a visual format, otherwise all of this will happen in the background without us noticing. So lets plug in the value of Health divided by the TotalHealth and assign that to the fill amount value of the image.
Use the Set Fill Amount unit which will take in a float input and an image input. The image input will connect to the HealthFill variable while the float will be based off the output of a Divide unit that is connected to Health (top input) over TotalHealth (bottom input).
Currently if we played this, the value of Health would drop down to zero almost instantly resulting in the fill amount looking like it pops away and that's because we're not telling the While loop to wait between each subsequent loop. We only need to wait for the end of the frame in order to loop back through, so lets add that in last.
It's because of this Wait For End of Frame unit, that we need to utilize a Coroutine with the Start unit. This will wait a very brief moment, then loop through again, assuming that Health is still above 0.
Here is what this looks like when you add that in. You'll notice the value of health going down slowly when we subtract the time from it.
Lastly lets implement the text that says 100 so that it's always updated. Since the Health value is a float, we cannot directly use it with the text. Instead we need to convert it to a string then we can use it directly.
There are a few caveats we need to be aware of though, since we're changing the value of Health incrementally using a float value, we just want to display the health as a whole number, or an Integer.
So first lets use a Get Health unit, this will be a float value so we'll need to convert it to a string. Since we only want to utilize the float as a whole number, we essentially need to discard everything past the decimal point. That said we'll use the Float to String unit that has the Format option available.
The format "code" well use is F0 which means we won't utilize anything other than a whole number.
F1 for example would be one number after the decimal, F2 two numbers and so on. F0 will allow us to use the float as an integer which is useful for our health. We can connect these before the End of Frame unit and after the Set Fill Amount unit.
We also need to ensure that this new string value gets passed on to the text element, and for that we'll use the Set Text unit of which we'll assign the HealthText variable as the text element to use. The connection below it will be connected to the output of the Float to String unit. Play once again and you should have both the image fill and the text elements updating in real time.
When the health reaches 0, the while loop condition is no longer true and will stop looping.
Note that the health is essentially reduced by 1 every second because we're subtracting it from the in game time. If you multiplied the output of the Time Delta Time unit by say 2 you would deplete the health bar twice as fast. So there you have it, a health bar that can deplete over time dynamically using an image and text.
These are just simple examples to get you started with visual scripting. There's quite a bit more to learn, but now you have some references to use for a big part of any game which is UI, Animations and Detecting Objects. Interested in learning more about visual scripting with Bolt? Let us know!
Yes!! Thank you for this super helpful and clear article, bookmarked it for future reference :)
May 9, 2019 10:12pm
smurfmier1985 Great! If you have any questions let me know.
rafaelriva
Thank you for the Tutorial, I was specting more thought, so yeah I'm interested in learning more what you can do with Unity + Bolt :)
rrafaelriva Anything in particular you're looking to learn?
Carey Butler
Wow! I'm so glad you posted this. You have no idea how much effort this will save me on my project. Thank you!!!
krislee
What happens to Bolt once Unity's built-in visual scripting is released? Why learn Bolt when Unity will ship its own system for this in a version or two from now? After all, you have to buy Bolt. You don't have to buy Unity's own VS system.
kkrislee Bolt is well established at this point and typically Unity tends to purchase assets like that an include them as their own, and/or heavily reference a system like Bolt for their own. Shader Graph is currently out which is a built in system by Unity, but other shader editors like Amplify are still vastly superior due to the amount of features and training available for them. That said, the Unity visual scripting system is still a bit of a ways out from what I've seen. If you're looking to jump into visual scripting now this is what we can use and I'd say most of what you'd learn with any of these systems will transfer over to a built in tool.
r2nielpha
Hi! One question.
Is this guide just a "readme" thing or is it expected to be followed actually doing it in Unity?
I ask this because of the assets used in this guide. I mean, I not sure if I'm expected to reproduce them or what.
rr2nielpha You can follow along with it if you have Bolt in Unity. It's meant more as a quick overview to get started with visual scripting and to also gauge whether or not this is a topic worth pursuing more in depth.
midnightstories
This really work, I'm going to have a look at Bolt. Thanks for sharing !
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Connected Data unveils smaller Transporter private business cloud devices
by Mark Cox • February 25, 2015
The company rolls out smaller and less expensive appliance alternatives to Dropbox, and emphasizes that it relies on partners to show SMBs that their upfront cost is cheaper over time.
Jim Sherhart, VP of Marketing at Connected Data
In December, Connected Data, which had been shipping private cloud file sync and share appliances to consumers for a year and a half, made its move into the commercial market with a turnkey appliance, called Transporter Genesis, which offered Dropbox-like services with greater security, and by using a private cloud, avoids the cloud service costs that have made Dropbox and Box unprofitable. Now the company is introducing two new appliances, which have been rebranded, and are significantly smaller and less expensive to response to market demands.
The Transporter Genesis name is now gone, replaced by numerical branding which indicates the number of supported users. Two models which shipped last December are now the Transporter 75, which has a usable storage capacity of 10 TB, an MSRP of $USD 9,999 and support for 75 organization users, and the Transporter 150, which has 20 usable TB, supports 150 organization users, and has an MSRP of $18,999. Both also support an unlimited number of guest users, and significantly, both are rack-mounted appliances.
The two new models, The Transporter 15 and the Transporter 30, not only support fewer users, but are significantly less expensive and both are desktop models rather than rackmounted. The Transporter 15 has 6 TB of usable storage and an MSRP of $2,499, while the Transporter 30 has 9 TB of usable storage and an MSRP of $4,999. Both have drive and network connection redundancy and, like their bigger cousins, support an unlimited number of guest users.
“This brings a more palatable form factor for small businesses,” said Jim Sherhart, VP of Marketing at Connected Data. “Most smaller companies have these in someone’s office, so the rackmount ones were overkill for most. There is a need for Transporter device that fits between the small systems we shipped for a year and a half and the rackmounts we announced last fall.”
The idea behind Transporter is that while end users love services like DropBox, they aren’t very secure, particularly since IT can’t control them and often doesn’t even know when they are on the network. DropBox also has no real way for the channel to monetize it. Transporter, in contrast, is an-on prem appliance which isn’t hosted in the cloud, but has a direct connection to Transporter’s private cloud.
“It is a turnkey appliance the channel partner sells that gives the user the experience they want” Sherhart said. “There isn’t even a monthly per user charge, just the cost of the appliance.”
The appliances work like DropBox. Each user has a native folder, and anything in it will automatically sync, the same as DropBox. Data stored on a Transporter can also be accessed from anywhere. Because the data is stored onsite, it meets the needs of legal, financial and medical companies and also new anti- public-cloud legislation in some countries.
Transporter sold its consumer appliances direct and did not have a channel play, but Transporter also owns storage vendor Drobo, which IS channel-friendly, so for its commercial market products, had the ability to leverage Drobo partners who were interested in selling the sync and share appliances
“We launched a partner program for this in October, and close to 300 people signed up to be partners,” said Samina Subedar, Connected Data’s Channel Marketing Manager. “We offer 20 plus points of protected margin, and have two tiers, Authorized and Gold, with Gold having a deal registration program.”
“It’s super important to protect partners working those deals,” Sherhart said. “Even if Amazon drops prices, a partner can still make 20 points. We do this because we know product at this price point will take effort from a channel partner.”
Sherhart acknowledged that even though the total cost of the Connected Data appliances is entirely the appliance costs, with no fees for the private cloud access beyond that, some customers see the lower monthly cost for a service as a better deal, even though over the long haul, they pay much more.
“Pricing can be a problem because of objections to the upfront cost,” he said. “Some customers would rather spend $3000 a year over 12 months than pay money up front. We worked hard on one deal to get financing in place to make this work. That was a one-off program, but we are working on others which will come through distribution. We will work with partners to put financing in place to make that happen.” That’s something that as a formal program will come later, when sales levels get considerably higher.
Sherhart emphasized the channel is indispensable for them to reach SMBs.
“We see the channel as absolutely strategic to this going forward,” he said. “We need them and they need a product like this. We are starting to see some true progress on the partner side. The first 100 per cent partner deal where we had nothing at all to do with it just closed.”
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Veritas Canadian leadership team for post-Symantec divorce now in place
by Mark Cox • June 25, 2015
Symantec’s Canadian GM, Sean Forkan, moves over to run Veritas in Canada – as well as the central U.S. Two other Symantec Canada execs join him in the move. All three are currently in their new roles, even though the two companies are still one. The new post-split leadership for Symantec in Canada has also been announced.
Sean Forkan, now Vice President Central United States and Canada for Veritas
The actual split of Symantec into separate security and storage arms still lies ahead, with no date of separation yet determined. However, the leadership team that will guide Veritas Technologies Corporation after the split is in place. The big news here is that Sean Forkan, who was previously Symantec’s Canadian vice president and general manager, has moved over to the storage side. The new Symantec leadership team in Canada has also been identified.
Forkan, who joined Symantec in 2012 after previously having held senior sales roles at Oracle and Cisco, will also have some U.S. responsibilities in his new role. He becomes Vice President Central United States and Canada for Veritas. While he isn’t a long term storage guy, Symantec has indicated that he was picked for what is essentially a promotion, because of the added U.S. responsibilities, as a result of his performance in leading Symantec’s sales and operations through a series of complex business transformations during Symantec’s unsettled period since Forkan joined.
Steve Scharien, Veritas Canada’s Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales
Two other Veritas senior executives have also been named, both of whom, like Forkan, were previously Symantec employees. Steve Scharien, Veritas’s Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales, will lead the account sales team in Canada. He had previously been Symantec’s western Canada sales manager. Brian Mead, will be Senior Manager, Solution SE, responsible for the solution system engineers that support the sales team. Mead had most recently been Symantec Canada’s National Manager, Enterprise Security, Technical Sales and Services.
The new leadership team of Symantec in Canada has now been made public as well. Ron Ross is now the country manager for Symantec in Canada, Stefano Tiranardi is the TSS (Technical Sales and Services) leader and Richard Ruggiero is responsible for the eastern US and Canada.
Brian Mead, Senior Manager, Solution SE at Veritas Canada
Symantec had earlier indicated that the plan was for the split to be official, with the two companies trading separately, by January 4, 2016. No updates have been provided as to whether that is still the tentative date. However, it has been indicated that the new Veritas leadership team in Canada has transitioned to their new roles already.
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Defending the CMC Model
According to Nico Brancolini in his recent piece for the Forum, our government and economics departments are holding us back. As a devotee of those hindering disciplines, I felt the need to engage with the notions put forth in his article. Needless to say, I disagree— and perhaps more importantly hope to convince you, dear reader, to side with me.
For those of you who have not read the piece, the argument is as follows: Claremont McKenna's focus on government and economics is a detriment to other departments, and it prevents our beloved school from rising into the top ten liberal arts colleges as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Nico goes on to equate our focus on government and economics with the lack of general name recognition. He offers three main arguments for his position. First, the best applicants interested in government and economics go to more big-name schools. Second, name recognition is a factor for attracting prospective freshmen and transfer students. Third, CMC loses strong faculty in other departments because of our focus.
Let us begin with the supposed link between our name recognition and our focus on government and economics. I believe that other factors better explain CMC’s lack of name recognition. We are the only top twenty liberal arts college that is under 100 years old –rather considerably under, given that our 63rd graduating class will receive its diplomas in a few weeks. This relative youth, coupled with the small size of our graduating classes, means that CMC has relatively few alumni. Indeed, all CMC alumni would not fill the Rose Bowl —we wouldn’t even fill one-fifth of the seats! Youth and the size of our alumni network are far more likely explanations of the lack of name recognition than diversity of academic offerings. Compare our alumni base —likely less than 15,000 —to Harvard, Amherst, or Williams.
Now let us consider Nico's three points. Applicants that are the best candidates for government and economics majors will go elsewhere. Fine. There really is no way to either prove or disprove this point. So, for the sake of argument, let us assume it is true. Dean Vos has stated that CMC’s goal is to enroll 300 freshmen (110 early decision admits + 190 through regular decision). Relative to the pool of applicants applying to top schools in the United States, this is a tiny number. We could not hope to attract the top students in any field, even if we put every resource the college had behind that effort. Students pick schools based on a whole host of factors: size, weather, proximity to home, social atmosphere, city size, and family ties, among others. CMC cannot be all things to all prospective students. The campus we offer is, I believe, different from a vast variety of other schools. As such, it will tend to attract particular students.
Is CMC trapped in a cycle of government and economics majors, as Nico alleges? Well, the majority of CMCers graduate with a dual or double major. Often, those second majors are something other than government or economics. Furthermore, those other departments are not as small as Nico portrays them. CMC actually offers more math courses than government courses (55 math compared to 50 government), and has about as many psychology classes (48) as government. The relative parity of those departments is never mentioned in his article.
As an anonymous do-gooder mentions in the comments section of Nico's post, graduate schools and employers often know exactly what CMC is and why it is such a fantastic institution. This comment, though I agree with it, misses Nico's point. His friends in Indiana had not heard of CMC, although they have heard of George Washington and USC. Nico was talking about the name identification among peers. I agree with his analysis of the symptoms, but I disagree with his diagnosis. Age and alumni network are likely to"‘blame." Indeed, the school most often garners attention when our professors are quoted in newspapers (see Professor Jack Pitney), donors give major gifts to the school (Robert A. Day and Henry Kravis), or when other elements of those two departments which are “holding us back” shine in the public sphere.
Finally, let us address this issue of talent recruitment and retention. I am not going to speculate as to why Professor Khazeni was denied tenure. Nico is obviously upset by this fact, and I cannot imagine that the decision thrilled the professor either. Tenure decisions are made by the Advancement, Promotions, and Tenure committee (APT). This committee is made up of all tenured professors of the college. There are a variety of reasons why a professor might be denied tenure, and Nico's assertion without basis that the professor in question was snubbed is both premature and uninformed. Since he admittedly does not know the standards by which tenure is granted, creating his own standards which show that the professor deserved tenure is not sufficient grounds upon which to claim that the APT committee failed in its duty.
Nico’s vision of a brighter CMC future calls for expanded academic offerings by hiring the best talent to other departments. This plan sounds remarkably like what CMC is already doing. Professor Bassam Frangieh did not appear out of midair. He was recruited by CMC from Yale to create an Arabic program. Associate Professor of Philosophy Suzanne Obdrzalek also was previously featured at Yale. Professor Minxin Pei, one of the world's leading experts in Asian affairs, is now the head of the Keck Center and an instructor in international relations. One can also look to the two new professors being hired by the history department. These are just a few of many examples of how CMC invests in other departments and why Nico is simply misinformed.
Claremont McKenna cannot be all things to all students; we follow the consortium model. Nowhere does Nico mention that some students come here for that very reason. The schools divvy up responsibility to cover more ground in depth, instead of wasting resources duplicating efforts. That such a young school can excel in two major areas of study— economics and government— should be celebrated, not chastised. Anyone who does the latter did not do their research as a prospective student, and has ignored the most important characteristic of the college process: fit.
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Lisa Lampanelli: I Was Fired From ‘Despicable Me,’ Replaced by Jenny Slate | Coast Country
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Lisa Lampanelli: I Was Fired From ‘Despicable Me,’ Replaced by Jenny Slate
Lisa Lampanelli and Jenny Slate. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images
Jenny Slate brought Valerie Da Vinci to life in Despicable Me 3, but another famous actress-comedian almost voiced the character.
Stars Who Were Fired From Jobs
“I got fired off Despicable Me 3 as the voice of Valerie, and Jenny Slate got the job,” Lisa Lampanelli revealed to Us Weekly exclusively during the 2019 Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, May 13. “Joke’s on her — I got paid anyway! She had to do the work. I love you, Jenny! Thank you for earning me some money! Isn’t that amazing?”
Luckily, the retired stand-up comic, 57, has no hard feelings toward the Parks and Recreation alum, 37, who was also in attendance at Monday’s awards ceremony.
“I’m definitely excited to see Jenny Slate,” Lampanelli’s niece told Us on the red carpet. “We just got a glimpse of her.”
Stars Who Almost Played Major Movie and TV Roles
Lisa Lampanelli attends the 23rd annual Webby Awards in New York City on May 13, 2019. Noam Galai/Getty Images
The Celebrity Apprentice alum announced on The Howard Stern Show in October 2018 that she was retiring from stand-up comedy, but she still has plenty of other projects lined up.
“I’m fully done with comedy, but I’m doing life coaching and workshops,” she told Us before teasing that she has a new broadcasting gig in the works. “Let’s just put it out there just to Us Weekly and no one else: I may be announcing something in a similar vein to what’s being honored here in the next couple of weeks. Hint f’n hint. I’m sure that’s very, very vague for me.”
Stars as Cartoon Characters
Lampanelli announced that she starts “recording next week” and is “really, really excited” about the mysterious venture.
“The only reason I want to do any broadcasting at all is because I love coaching people and helping them kind of change their lives and careers like I did,” she explained. “I was like, ‘Oh, this will be cute and will kind of go to the masses.’ So, cross your fingers and hopefully it’ll work out.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Universal Pictures for comment.
With reporting by Lexi Ciccone
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Joshua Reviews Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss Of the Damned [SXSW 2013 Review]
It’s truly great to know the erotic thriller is still not only alive, but if Kiss Of The Damned is any inclination, still as vital as ever.
The newest film from Z Channel director and daughter of the legendary John Cassavetes, director Xan Cassavetes is back in full force with the erotically thrilling vampire tale that brings the world of blood suckers back to its lively and lusty roots.
Kiss Of The Damned tells the tale of Djuna, a beautiful vampire who tries to keep at bay a screenwriter who falls head over heels for her. When the two decide to give up the games, they become lovers, and things go smoothly until her sister, Mimi, shows up. When her entire world comes under attack, we become privy to a film full of atmosphere, sound and enough sex to have Jean Rollin applauding in his grave.
Speaking of Jean Rollin, Xan Cassavetes is in full on Rollin mode with this picture. Seemingly a blend of the couple-centric narrative found in The Iron Rose and the pure eroticism of a film like The Nude Vampire, Cassavetes’ frame oozes the same type of thrilling aesthetics than many of that cult icon’s films had in spades. With lush photography from Tobias Datum, the costumes are lavish, the hues are contrast heavy and the photography has a crispness to it, making this as beautiful a thriller as we’ve seen in quite some time. Inherently a film that is more aesthetics than frights or intellect, Kiss Of The Damned is truly exciting as both an erotic tone poem and a genuinely thrilling proto-horror drama. Toss in a breathtaking score from Steven Hufsteter (and great source music), and you have a film that is as much a body blow to the senses as it is a true blue horror film.
Performance wise, the film is solid. The three leads are great, with Josephine de La Baume being the biggest and brightest star. Her performance as Djuna is tonally on point, and her chemistry with the equally great Milo Ventimiglia is icy cold, but believable. Ventimiglia proves once again that he’s becoming as daring a character actor as anyone in his age bracket, and the ever stunning Roxane Mesquida gives such a great sense of punk rock danger to her performance as Mimi, making for a collection of tonally perfect turns from three really interesting actors.
That said, this will not be everyone’s cup of tea. Entirely devoid of true frights, there are moments of what appears to be Cassavetes’ attempt to add terror to the picture, but instead, it ends up only adding to the beauty of the film’s sensual aesthetic. With vampire attacks shot as lovingly lyrical as the copious number of sex scenes, the film doesn’t posit itself as a horror film. A tad overlong, this never overstays its welcome, thankfully, but for those unwilling to go along for the ride, this may not work as well.
However, for fans of films from the likes of Jean Rollin or Jess Franco, this will be a welcome breath of fresh air. Blending eroticism with Hammer Horror-style aesthetics, Cassavetes proves herself as a truly interesting visual filmmaker, with influences that are as fresh to the horror world as any around. In the body of a sexy and thrilling vampire tale, Cassavetes crafts as beautiful a genre picture as we’ve seen in quite some time.
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EU Blockchain Group Launches With SWIFT- Onboards Ripple
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A number of reputable firms and organizations some of which are SWIFT, Ripple and IBM have joined forces with a new blockchain association to promote adoption of the technology across the EU.
The International Association of Trusted Blockchain Application (INATBA) is the new group and which is an initiative of the European Commission launched yesterday Wednesday 3 April 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.
INATBA will operate as a “global, multi-stakeholder forum” particularly tasked at bringing together both developers and users of blockchain technology to promote mainstream adoption across multiple sectors.
Among its goals are to set up a framework to encourage public and private sector collaborations, dialogue with regulators and policymakers and “Legal predictability” as well as ensure “integrity and transparency” in blockchain infrastructures. the group is also tasked with developing guidelines and specifications for blockchain and distributed ledger-based applications.
Members of the groups include banks such as Barclays and BBVA, consultancy firm Accenture and French beauty product giant L’Oreal. Some number of Blockchain startups such as Ethereum development studio ConsenSys AG, crypto mining firm Bitfury, Enterprise blockchain firm R3, cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Ledger and cryptocurrency protocol developer IOTA.
According to Carlos Kuchkovsky, the formation of the group had been long overdue. He also added that the association could have an important role to play in terms of developing blockchain best practices and standards and also avoiding fragmentation on a European level.
The launch of INATBA saw several European commission officials speak- including the Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society- Mariya Gabriel who was the keynote speaker. Also, the occasion featured panel sessions with discussions of topics like; “Blockchain Potentials”. Among other great news reaching us is the joint declaration of support from members from different blockchains.
It is only laudable to note that the European Commission had launched several initiatives to promote the adoption of blockchain technology. Just recently, it had constituted the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) with the support and backing of 22 other member countries to support the delivery of cross-border digital public services based around the Technology.
The Commission also set up the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, with ConsenSys as its member, in February.
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After months of speculation and a nonofficial statement from the Facebook team after the news break by Bloomberg reports on the rumoured cryptocurrency project secretly being worked, Facebook’s Libra Project White Paper is officially out.
Facebook clearly outlines its mission and vision for the Switzerland registered project.
It’s mission according to the whitepaper reads
“Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.”
Facebook is clearly ready for another phase of its reign as a social media giant housing more than a quarter of the world’s population. It is home to more than 2 billion users with its aggregated user base for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
With the Libra’s project cryptocurrency dubbed the Globalcoin, Facebook is going to have an impact in the cryptosphere coupled with the influence of the founding members such as Coinbase, Visa, Spotify, Mastercard, Uber, Paypal, and others who have invested about $10million each into the project.
Facebook wants to make Libra the evolution of Paypal with the wish that it will be simpler to establish, easier to use as a payment means with fewer transaction fees, more accessible to the unbanked, more flexible and durable through decentralisation.
In its Libra document, Facebook writes:
“Success will mean that a person working abroad has a fast and simple way to send money to family back home, and a college student can pay their rent as easily as they can buy a coffee.”
Alongside Libra network, Facebook is also launching Calibra, a subsidiary company that will handle the transactions and protect users privacy. The goal of Calibra is “to provide financial services that will let people access and participate in the Libra network,” and it will be readily available in Messenger and WhatsApp and also as a standalone app.
The control of the Libra network will not be solely Facebook’s duty since it is decentralized to include all the 28 founding members. It is the association’s duty commonly referred to as “Libra Association” to promote the open-sourced Libra blockchain and also sign up businesses to accept Libra for payment. It rests upon them to recruit more founding members as Facebook says it wants to reach 100 members before the official launch of Libra.
The unit of the Libra cryptocurrency is Libra just like the unit of a dollar is cent. Libra is represented by a three wavy horizontal line Unicode character ≋ like the dollar is represented by $ or the naira by #. The value of a Libra is meant to stay largely stable since it is a stable coin. Its stability will make it be a good medium of exchange, as merchants can be confident as they will be assured they won’t be paid a Libra today that will be lesser than the amount tomorrow.
Block.one Launches a Social Media App, “Voice”
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Block.one, the firm behind EOS, on 1st June 2019 announced that it is introducing a blockchain-based social media, Voice, that will bring alignment and transparency to social media users. This was made open at the company’s June 1 event at the DC Armory in Washington, DC. which drew about 300 attendees who included industry influencers, developers, investors, media and members of the community.
Block.one claimed that “Social media is fundamentally broken and is in need of a complete overhaul.” Noting that Voice will be launched on EOS public blockchain and therefore is a more transparent social media platform for the world. And hence, the value of good content gets circulated right back into sustaining the community, not corporate bottom lines as it will return to users. Voice is then meant to cultivate creation, sharing, discovery, and promotion of contents by real users, not bots and fake accounts just like on Facebook or Twitter and users will directly benefit from their ideas and engagement on the platform.
Voice will be on the public blockchain of EOS and it will allow for alignment and transparency – no hidden algorithms nor invisible interests.
Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one, who opened the company’s June 1 event at the DC Armory in Washington, D.C. with the announcement of Voice said that “the truth is, current social media platforms are designed to use their users.” However, pertaining to Voice, he said, “just look at the business model. Our content. Our data. Our attention. These are all incredibly valuable things. But right now, it’s the platform, not the user, that reaps the reward. By design, they run by auctioning our information to advertisers, pocketing the profit, and flooding our feeds with hidden agendas dictated by the highest bidder. Voice changes that.”
Is Block.one Capable of this Social Media Revolution?
Block.one is well positioned to lead this social media revolution because its first product, EOSIO, was a global initiative to build a more scalable, secure and flexible blockchain framework that enable people to reimagine, rebuild and restore trust in the systems enterprises. Its success with EOS has led to it offering early backers a huge returns for their investment. And notably, the numerous networks built on the EOSIO software are consistently the most used public blockchain platforms in the world, accounting for upwards of 70% of all blockchain activity. For example, Everipedia and Galaxy Digital LP are such networks that utilized EOSIO network. Security, privacy and ease-of-use will always be critical in Block.one’s projects.
Bitcoin Pizza Day, We’ve Come a Long Way
Pizza is well known all over the world the juicy cheesy meal has won many a heart. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is also breaking boundaries. The story of Bitcoin Pizza Day begins on May 22, 2010. It isn’t just a story of how one man bought a pizza for 10000 Bitcoin, it is a story of Bitcoin adoption.
Nine years ago, Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC for Pizza and has since been known as the Bitcoin Pizza guy. At that time one BTC was less than a dollar, but today, it is worth over a $7,000. Laszlo Hanyecz had announced on the bitcointalk forum that he was willing to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for the delivery of two Papa John’s pizzas. He wrote on the platform,
“I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day.”
At that time, all Hanyecz, a software engineer from Florida wanted was to get Pizza in exchange of BTC. Pretty soon, a British man took up Hanyecz’s offer. He offered to get the two pizzas for him at the price of $25 a piece. It was quite a bargain because at that time 10,000 Bitcoins were worth around $41. Nine months after exchanging his BTC for Pizza, Bitcoin became equal with the U.S. dollar, which means the two pizzas were now worth $10,000. Today, the price of one BTC is worth $7918.69 as at the time of writing.
While it is easy to make speculations as to why Hanyecz was willing to part with his digital currencies for Pizza, we cannot deny that he has made a contribution to adoption. It is important to note that the Bitcoin Pizza story is the first known real-world bitcoin transaction. Hanyecz claims that buying the pizza helped legitimize BTC. And although he doesn’t think about how wealthy he could have been if he had held onto his coins he doesn’t regret it. He claims that he is proud to have been a backer of Bitcoin and a proponent of its use in the real world.
Today, Bitcoin use has exceed pizza purchase. Bitcoin and other altcoins can be used for varied purposes. A lot of businesses have adopted digital currencies as a means of transacting since the Bitcoin boom of 2017. You can now purchase a house with bitcoin and even receive your salary in Bitcoin. Today, May 22 has been named Bitcoin Pizza Day. In celebration of the day, crypto companies such as Huobi are celebrating Bitcoin pizza day with special offerings for their users.
Can you spend 10,000 BTC on Pizza? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
Do Crypto Movies Really Educate?
Cryptocurrencies have come to stay and have found a way into the entertainment industry. Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, getting cryptocurrencies to go mainstream has been the aim of crypto and blockchain enthusiasts. A huge breakthrough has been made over the years with Bitcoin finding its way into the Merriam Webster Scrabble dictionary. Asides this, a couple of businesses now accept bitcoin. The importance of the media in creating awareness cannot be overemphasized. Now, the question revolves around whether crypto related movies have any positive impact on adoption or awareness.
A lot of documentaries have been made on cryptocurrencies since the inception of Bitcoin. The movie ‘Banking on Bitcoin’ is a documentary released in 2014 which explains the disruption bitcoin can bring into the financial system. The great thing about these movies is that they spend time educating people on different aspects of cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin in Uganda – Empowering people” is a 5 minutes crypto documentary created in 2018. This documentary shows the real power of cryptocurrency in remittances and cross-border transactions.
While most of these crypto movies are not mainstream, they do a lot in explaining the power of digital currencies. These documentaries chose different aspects of digital currency and focus on revealing more details about them. In fact, Bitcoin Big Bang, a 104-minute screen piece gives details on the Mt.Gox hack. The story focuses on the arrest of Mark Karpales, the CEO of Mt. Gox in Tokyo after the exchange was hacked and about 850,000 Bitcoins was reportedly stolen. The importance of documentaries such as this cannot be overemphasized
Going Mainstream Media With Crypto
Although there are a lot of low budget documentaries on cryptocurrency, high budget movies are beginning to spring up. ‘Deep Web’, a documentary about Ross Ulbricht trial on Silk Road had a budget of about $80,000 which was raised through Kickstarter. TV Shows such as Billions have episodes dedicated to cryptocurrency.
In fact, Dope is one of the first movies to accept Bitcoin. The movie which had a budget of $7,000,000 was the first movie to accept Bitcoin, this was due to a partnership between GoCoin, Lionsgate and Movie Tickets. Partnerships such as these go a long way to push crypto education mainstream. Also Hollywood blockbuster, ‘Crypto’ was released in April 2019, however, it was a movie about money laundering which involves crypto.
Is Crypto the Big Bad Wolf
As more movies begin to talk about cryptocurrency, the question remains if these movies are for crypto education or just on the move to portray crypto in a bad light. Crypto, the movie which features Beau Knapp and Kurt Russel promises to be a movie about digital currencies or is it? While many have praised the movie for the talent of the actors, a lot of persons are not so pleased with the script with many accusing it of scaring people away from Bitcoin.
Typical of every money laundering or compliance movie, the Russians are always the bad guys. However, does this movie portray crypto as a means of payment which is secure and fast or is it just an easy way for laundering money? While Hollywood still has a long way to go in crypto education and awareness, they must be praised for paying attention to details. From the representation of Ledger’s Nano in Billions to Crypto featuring images of a cryptocurrency exchange called Cryptocurrency market, progress is being made. However, anyone looking for cryptocurrency education will do well not to rely totally on these Hollywood movies.
This is why we have decided at Cryptotvplus to take it a step further at educating the populace on Crypto, its impact and what the future holds. Cryptotvplus will be reeling out interesting short movies bothering on crypto where anyone whether you understand the intricacies of cryptocurrencies or not will not only be educated but also become more than a spectator by participating in this revolutionary shift in the evolution of money and global finance. More on this in my next piece.
What topics or areas in Crypto would you like to see a short film done? Do you have any title in mind? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
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Film February 13, 2015
This Bond parody is goofy carnage done right
by Alex Rose
Kingsman: The Secret Service, adapted from a comic by Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass), stars Michael Caine, Colin Firth and Samuel L. Jackson.
The movies have been good to comic artist Mark Millar. Three of his works (Wanted, Kick-Ass and now this) have been adapted into major potential franchises (though only Kick-Ass warranted a sequel) despite the fact that they essentially play as minute variations on each other: young man (possibly poor and/or emasculated) finds heretofore unknown powers (sometimes supernatural) within himself, becomes an ass-kicker thanks to a father figure played by an A-list star of some sort, saves the world from certain doom, gets laid, peels off into the sunset.
Millar can be puerile and immature, but he’s found at least one fan in director Matthew Vaughn. Kingsman: The Secret Service is Millar’s riff on the preposterousness of the Bond franchise, given a bit of 2014 spit and polish thanks to Vaughn’s hyper-kinetic style. It’s more than a little stupid, but it also sands down the most prickly and unlikeable aspects of Millar’s work (the misogyny, the manufactured edginess) into an undeniably entertaining film.
Taron Egerton, Firth & Samuel L. Jackson
Behind the facade of a fancy bespoke tailor on Savile Row in London operates an extremely secretive spy agency. Led by Arthur (Michael Caine), the Kingsmen operate independently of any government, speak proper Queen’s English and wear rad suits in their travels fighting bad guys across the globe.
When one of their men is killed in an operation to save a kidnapped professor (Mark Hamill) who specializes in global warming, the Kingsmen are tasked with finding a new recruit. Harry Hart (Colin Firth) brings Eggsy (Taron Egerton), a late Kingsman’s son turned petty thief and delinquent, into the mix. The training to become a Kingsman is rigorous, but Eggsy stands above the pack, which comes in mighty handy when the tech billionaire (Samuel L. Jackson) behind the kidnapping unveils his nefarious plans to counter global-warming (hint: it’s not exactly green).
Kingsman pastiches the Bond series (and more precisely the more outlandish, Moore-led Bonds of the ’70s) with glee, packing on the absurd tropes with juvenile delight. Jackson is a particularly ridiculous villain, a megalomaniacal nutbag who can’t stand the sight of blood and affects a lisp and a wardrobe somewhere between vintage-era Nelly and a colourblind octogenarian. His henchman is a beautiful young woman with swords for feet (!) and his plan to take over the world is so patently ridiculous that it could well come verbatim from a nine-year-old playing with GI Joes.
Likewise, the Kingsmen have a plethora of gadgets that include oxfords with retractable blades, pinky rings that electrocute and bullet-proof double-breasted suits. (Part of the fun is watching the always-dignified Frith being decidedly Firthian while also backflipping off balconies and cracking thugs over the head with beer bottles.) It’s the stuff of adolescent fantasy given exactly the appropriate amount of gravitas: almost none.
Vaughn’s style tends to verge on the bombastic — his aesthetic could charitably be described as “ultra-violent Honda commercial.” This gives Kingsman its most memorable moments, notably a scene in which Firth graphically lays waste to an entire church congregation to the strains of Skynyrd’s “Freebird” (it’s kind of a long story). Vaughn understands the inherent limitations of the material and milks them for all they’re worth, but his general style is gimmicky and coldly impersonal. Kingsman lacks literal grit — it feels overly polished, where even its outbursts of violence and gore feel like they colour within the lines. As entertaining as Kingsman is, it boggles the mind to imagine a version that wasn’t so determined to look and feel like it would also offer you 0 per cent financing and three screens’ worth of small print.
There’s enough weird, off-the-wall shit in Kingsman to make it worthwhile, even with its slick car commercial style and bloated running time — there is no reason that a goofy spy action comedy should clock in at 130 minutes. So much of its appeal lies in daring to take the most obviously bonkers turn every step of the way. Besides a few cringeworthy moments of meta reflexiveness (it’s the kind of movie where characters actually say “This ain’t that kind of movie”), it has very little to say about the spy genre, international espionage, global warming, international relations or gender roles, but it has a lot to show us. Colin Firth impaling an old lady gone berserk with an umbrella is one of those things. I’ll take it — not too often, but I’ll take it. ■
Kingsman: The Secret Service opens in theatres today, Friday, Feb. 13. Watch the trailer here:
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Alex Rose has been the screen editor at Cult Montreal since 2014. Francophones think that he is Anglo; Anglos think that he is a Francophone. He is both, but he is not the frontman of Guns 'n Roses.
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Olive Garden Announces Its Latest All-You-Can-Eat Deal
Posted 5:15 pm, January 23, 2017, by Tribune Media Wire, Updated at 01:33PM, January 26, 2017
NEW YORK – Olive Garden has unveiled its latest all-you-can-eat offering.
The restaurant chain known for its “never ending” portions announced a new promotion Monday where customers can pay as little as $11.99 to consume endless piles of pasta — in one sitting.
This differs from past “never ending” deals, like the Unlimited Pasta Pass offered the last two years where customers paid $100 for unlimited pasta bowls, soft drinks, salad and bread sticks for a seven-week period. Olive Garden sold 21,000 of those passes last year.
With the new deal, which started Monday, customers can consume infinite amounts of pasta, selecting from five entrees: spaghetti with meat sauce, fettuccine alfredo, lasagna classic, chicken alfredo and chicken parmigiana.
Depending on the dish they choose, Olive Garden diners can pay from $11.99 to $17.99 to eat until they can’t eat any more.
The deal, which lasts until March 6, also provides unlimited soup, bread sticks and drinks. Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that drinks are included in the current all-you-can eat deal. They are not.
The all-you-can-eat strategy seems to have worked for the Darden-owned restaurant chain, which reported improved sales late last year after being chastised by investors. Among investors’ complaints were the quality of the food, including the unlimited bread sticks.
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Company Founded by Nancy Pelosi’s Son Charged With Securities Fraud, His Involvement Unclear
TOPICS:bluechargedfraudjrjuniornancynaturalpaulpelosiresourcesSECsecurities
Paul Pelosi Jr. is the son of Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul. As prominent Democrats, they have been able to use their considerable influence to acquire wealth and to pave the way for their son to become wealthy.
That way got a little muddled on Wednesday when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a company which was co-founded by Pelosi Jr with fraud. It seems that they had two previously convicted securities criminals at the helm.
Pelosi Jr. founded and was the president and Chief Operating Officer of Natural Blue Resources Inc., an investment company specializing in “environmentally-friendly†ventures.
It’s no surprise that the Pelosi family is involved in making money off of the environment, given the fact that Nancy was the one who first introduced the UN Agenda 21 mandates into the House back in 1992. They’ve been pushing the green energy conversion since before then.
Mandated “environmentalism†makes great financial sense for them personally, although it carries a heavy price tag for the nation.
Four individuals were charged with fraud, including former New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya.
The SEC alleges that the company was “secretly controlled by James E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi. Both men have previous convictions for fraud, with Cohen having been incarcerated.
The two claimed to be “outside consultants,†but are alleged to have actually been the persons managing the operation, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.
The SEC also announced that the company has failed to file any periodic reports with the SEC in the last four years, which they are required by law to do.
A fourth individual, Erick Perry is also accused, as is Anaya, of misleading investors by failing to disclose the involvement of Cohen and Corazzi in the company.
Paul Pelosi’s current connection to the company is a point of contention which is still being established. He is still listed as the president with the New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State, Business Service Division.
He founded the company in 2009, with a stated mission to “create, acquire, or otherwise invest in environmentally-friendly companies, including an initiative to locate, purify, and sell water recovered from underground aquifers in New Mexico and other areas with depleting water resources.â€
With the EPA’s new interest in regulating all of the private land in the United States by regulating all of our water, one has to wonder just how Ms. Pelosi’s son might have been planning on profiting from the business opportunities her green agenda were creating, at our expense.
Rick Wells is a conservative author who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like†him on Facebook, “Follow†him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us
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Earth System Research Laboratory Halocarbons and Other Atmospheric Trace Gases Old Flask Gas Chromatograph (GC) Measurements
ESRL GMD HATS Old Flask GC; Pre-Otto
Old Flask Gas Chromatograph Instrument
The Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS) group aims to quantify the atmospheric burden, and the distributions and magnitudes of sources and sinks for nitrous oxide and other halogen containing compounds. They utilize numerous types of platforms, including ground-based stations, towers, ships, aircraft, and balloons to accomplish their mission. HATS measures chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at measurement sites spanning the globe. CFCs are non-toxic, non-flammable chemicals that contain carbon, chlorine, and fluorine atoms. CFCs were used as solvents, refrigerants, and aerosol sprays. While inert in the troposphere, they decompose in the stratosphere to release chlorine for destructive reactions with ozone. This process eventually led to the creation of the "Ozone Hole" over the Antarctic. Monitoring the amounts of CFCs and other trace gases is important, both for tracking the growth and recovery of the Ozone Hole, and because many upward trending trace gases are potent and durable greenhouse gases.
Original flask sampling electron capture gas chromatograph ("Pre-Otto") : Air samples collected in flasks at five remote sites, including Barrow, AK (BRW), Mauna Loa, HI (MLO), American Samoa (SMO), South Pole (SPO), Antarctica, and Niwot Ridge, CO (NWR), were analyzed using the HATS group's original electron capture gas chromatograph (GC-ECD) system beginning in 1977. Two additional sites at Alert, Nunavut, Canada (ALT), and Cape Grim, Tasmania (CGO) were added prior to the original Pre-Otto system's retirement in 1995, when it was replaced by a newer, automated system called "Otto". This program was originally set up under the Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change (GMCC) division of NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory. Air was collected weekly at these sites in stainless-steel flasks and analyzed for nitrous oxide (N2O), and the chlorofluorocarbons CFC-11 (CCl3F) and CFC-12 (CCl2F2) in the Boulder labs in Colorado.
Cite as: Elkins, James W.; Dutton, Geoff; Nance, David; Bradley Hall; and NOAA ESRL (2017): Earth System Research Laboratory Halocarbons and Other Atmospheric Trace Gases Old Flask Gas Chromatograph (GC) Measurements, Version 1. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5959FT5 [access date].
Please refer to Credit tab for full citation information.
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Dataset collaborator David Nance
CIRES Associate Scientist
david.nance@noaa.gov
Time Period 1977-01-15 to 1995-12-15 (time interval: 1-month)
Earth System Research Laboratory Halocarbons and Other Atmospheric Trace Gases Old Flask Gas Chromatograph (GC) Measurements Landing Page
Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change No. 14 Summary Report 1985
Trace Gases Group Continuing Programs
Data Update Frequency Not planned
The information contained herein is provided as a public service, with the understanding that the NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Divison makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information. If you use this data in a publication or report, we would appreciate that you contact the principal investigators (PIs) first and discuss your interests. The PIs can discuss the quality of the data and any potential problems with its analysis. The data should be cited in presentations or publications along the following lines: %s data from the NOAA/ESRL/GMD halocarbons flask program.
Nance, David
Continent > North America > Canada > Nunavut
Continent > Australia/New Zealand > Australia
Lineage Statement Air samples were collected in flasks at field sites and transported to NOAA/ESRL/GMD in Boulder, Colorado for analysis by electron capture gas chromatograph (GC-ECD). Data reduction was conducted on a desktop computer.
Each sample injection was performed manually, and the resulting chromatograms were analyzed by a combination of a commercial electronic integrator and manual techniques. Groupings of air sample injections were interspersed with groupings of reference gas injections, and sample mixing ratios were determined by comparing these responses within the framework of an assumed linear response function through a single reference point and zero. Normalized responses with ancillary information were then manually entered into electronic data files for further processing by FORTRAN coded computer algorithms. Corrections for sample humidity, co-eluting peak response biases (e.g. CO2), and reassessments of the reference gas value were applied downstream in this manner. Quality control measures were used along the entire chain.
Processing Environment The GC equipment used to analyze air samples dated to the mid-1970s. A combination of a commercial electronic integrator and manual assessments from hard copy chart traces was used to evaluate chromatographic peak responses. Peak response measures were manually entered into electronic data files for a further reduction in atmospheric mixing ratios. From this point, a series of mostly 1980s and 1990s vintage workstation/desktop scale computers were used to process and reprocess the peak response measures into mixing ratios using a collection of custom developed FORTRAN routines.
Description of Source: ESRL GMD HATS Old Flask Gas Chromatograph Measurements
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IRS Imposter Scam Scares You Into Paying Up
By Consider The Consumer on June 27, 2017
Tax filing season is still a long way off, but scammers seem to use the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in their schemes all year round. Here’s the latest on the rebooted IRS Imposter Scam.
The IRS says it’s received reports from across the country of a new scam using old weapons – threats and intimidation. Specifically, a caller claims to be from the tax agency and says the IRS has already sent you two certified letters, demanding payment of an unpaid tax bill.
If you don’t pay immediately using a prepaid debit card, you are told, you will be arrested. Luckily for you, the caller can take the money electronically, sparing you the embarrassment of going to the slammer.
The IRS Imposter Scam: A New twist to an old scam!
“This is a new twist to an old scam,” said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. “Just because tax season is over, scams and schemes do not take the summer off. People should stay vigilant against IRS impersonation scams. People should remember that the first contact they receive from IRS will not be through a random, threatening phone call.”
The scam makes use of the IRS’ Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS). EFTPS is an automated system allowing you to pay taxes online or by phone using the EFTPS Voice Response System. It’s a free service and does not require the purchase of a prepaid debit card.
EFTPS is an automated system so taxpayers would not get a call from the IRS. Also, as a taxpayer you have a number of options to pay a legitimate tax bill and are not required to use a specific one.
Here are the giveaways
There are several things that the scammers do that the IRS never does. For example, the agency will never call and demand immediate payment using a prepaid debit card, gift card or wire transfer. What do all these methods of payment have in common? Once you make the payment, there’s no way to trace the money or get it back.
All real tax payments should be made to the U.S. Treasury, never to a third party. The IRS also does not threaten people with immediate arrest.
Finally – and this is a key point – the IRS never demands an immediate payment. In legitimate cases, it may inform you that it has determined you owe additional tax. However, in these cases you always have the right to appeal.
So anyone who claims to be from the IRS and demands immediate payment or else is just trying to scam you.
The above was reported by Consumer Affairs.
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Former MoneyGram Executive To Pay Record Personal Fine To Settle Money Laundering Accusations
By Ashlee Kieler 5.5.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
The former compliance officer for money transfer company MoneyGram must pay $250,000 — the largest such fine imposed — to settle allegations that he personally failed to stop consumers from becoming victims of fraud. [More]
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Home›News›Crush cruise through Spartans 8-1
Crush cruise through Spartans 8-1
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(Scott Thomas/Cortland Crush).
The Cortland Crush entered Tuesday's game with the Syracuse Spartans, after having won nine of their last 12 games.
The Crush picked up right where they left against the Spartans, dominating at the plate and on the mound to win 8-1.
"Out of the three summer ball teams that I've been on in the past three years, this team especially, we come together as a team, we're just a well bonding team and I think that's what contributes to a lot of our success," said starting pitcher Brandon Shirley.
Shirley, making his third start of the season, had another solid performance on the mound. He went six full innings, allowing only one run on four hits while striking out five and walking only two.
"Today I was feeling lose and ready to go, I was anxious for this start with all-star nominations coming up," Shirley said.
The Crush (13-9-1) offense provided plenty of run support.
Drew Boli gave Cortland a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second, hitting a single to center field that scored Garrett Callaghan. It was Boli's fourth RBI in two games.
Nick Pastore made it 2-0 an inning later, driving in Andrew Gough with a single. Callaghan then hit a sacrifice fly to left field that allowed Stephen Bennett to score and make it 3-0.
"Hitting is contagious," Gough said. "When you see a guy rip one, you just want to keep it going."
Gough made his first start of the season for the Crush at shortstop, going 1-2 with a walk and two runs scored.
Alex Flock further extended the Crush lead in the fifth, crushing his third home run of the season over the right field wall to make it 4-0.
"The dude was changeup dominant, and I knew I was going to see it at some point in the at bat," Flock said. "I finally got to two strikes, which is a good changeup count, and he threw it right where it needed to be."
Flock had the best day at the plate for the Crush, going 2-4 with his homerun, a two-run double and three RBI's.
"This group is really talented, all it takes is one guy to get us going," Flock said.
The Salt Cats (12-12) scratched a run in the top of the sixth, but the Crush answered quickly.
After Bennett was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and Alex Babcock scored on a wild pick off attempt to make it 6-1, Flock belted hisdouble to right field to score Gough and Bennett, making it 8-1.
The combination of Ben Mack and Ridge Walker pitched a scoreless seventh, eighth and ninth inning to clinch the win for the Crush.
The win brought the Crush within four points of the Salt Cats for first place in the East division, as the Salt Cats lost to Rome on Tuesday night.
Cortland has a meeting the Salt Cats on Wednesday at Syracuse. The Crush expect the game to have a lot of intensity.
"Were hungry against the Salt Cats, from the past game, it got a little bit out of hand, a little unprofessional, but we're ready for it," Shirley said.
First pitch is at 7 pm.
Cortland returns home on Thursday for an Independence day clash with the Sherrill Silversmiths.
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Out Today: Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield’s ‘Reckless Saints’ Is Southern Folk, Blues & Country
November 2, 2018 by dreamspider
Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield Release Reckless Saints
Available Now On All Outlets → https://schneidermayfield.hearnow.com
What Folks Are Saying:
“This husband and wife team runs the gamut from engaging acoustic folk to driving bluesy tunes, with hints of twang sprinkled in… The ringing impression from this offering is the seamless blending of so many forms of roots music, combined with meaningful and often insightful lyrics. It works beautifully.”
—Making A Scene, Jim Hynes
“Enlisting Blaze Foley’s old musical partner Gurf Morlix for help, Schneider and Mayfield cover Foley’s classic ‘Election Day’ with rough passion, but the beautifully rendered ‘If I Die Tomorrow’ and ‘Poison Arrow’ swoon in their arms. All who cry out for salvation from Reckless Saints might experience the same effect.”
—Elmore Magazine, Peter Lindblad
“a bluesy-folk vibe and smooth harmonies”
—The Daily Country Song Premiere: Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield “Election Day
“This duo is invariably fun and heartwarming and all their music reflects a musically celebratory cheer. ‘Jump In’ is infectious with contagious fun-loving vibes, and nimble, expert, fast-paced instrumentation. We guarantee a listen to this is just exactly what the doctor ordered, today and every day.”
—Americana Highways Video Premiere of “Jump In”
“a harmonic convergence of fine songcraft” —Tallahassee Democrat, Kati Schardl
FORT MYERS, FL — Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Roy Schneider has been touring and performing full-time with musical partner Kim Mayfield since 2008. The duo is slowly working toward a new band name, with a collection of original songs on what will become an eponymous title, Reckless Saints. Released November 2, the 11-track album features songs by both Schneider and Mayfield.
The sole cover on the album was written by the late folk-singer, Blaze Foley entitled “Election Day” and with midterm elections just four days after this album’s release, the title seemed appropriate. Their gritty version features Blaze’s close friend and co-conspirator, Gurf Morlix, on lead guitar and contributing vocals.
Morlix says of them, “Their ‘Blue Twangled Folk ‘n’ Roll’ sound rides like a V8, firing on all cylinders.”
Along with Morlix, Reckless Saints features other specials guests including some stellar harmonica by GRAMMY-winner and Country Music Hall-of-Famer, Charlie McCoy, and great bass lines from Freebo [Bonnie Raitt] on the song “Walkin’ on a Wire.” Freebo also plays bass on the energetic kickoff for the record, “Jump In,” a fast-paced “day-in-the-life” of the duo as full-time traveling musicians.
This truly is a wonderful record. It is one of the finest singer/songwriter records to come across my mastering desk in a long time!” says esteemed producer, songwriter, and engineer, Mark Hallman [Carole King, Ani DiFranco and Eliza Gilkyson]. Self-produced, Reckless Saints was mostly recorded at Schneider’s studio, Shiny Gnu Records, in Fort Myers, FL.
Roy began playing and writing songs as a seventeen year old while recovering from a horrific, year-long incarceration in 1985 at the now defunct Straight, Inc. “No freedom, no dignity and no way to contact anyone, nobody even knows where you are,” says Schneider, “I didn’t talk about my experience at Straight for 30 years, I’m ready now.” “Angels Along the Road” tells the true story of his hard-knock survival.
Elmore Magazine’s Peter Lindblad calls the song, “a dramatic tale of survival with a brisk gait and a rolling topography of twirling mandolin and acoustic guitar strum that only serves to enhance Schneider’s gripping storytelling. Steve Earle couldn’t have done it better, and like the rest of Reckless Saints, the song’s well-oiled gears of traditional instrumentation turn with the precision of a fine clock.”
The experience has influenced his songwriting in surprising ways, resulting in a generally positive outlook in his lyrics, and gratitude for those who gave him shelter or other support after his escape from the facility. He’s been honing his craft ever since, and was making his living playing music when he met Kim Mayfield in 2003. Kim brought harmony vocals, and accompaniment on rhythm guitar, mandolin, and keyboard, as well as the idea to take the music on the road.
On Reckless Saints, Mayfield takes the lead on vocals on the haunting and contemplative “If I Die Tomorrow” and her harmonies with Schneider on “Poison Arrow” tug on the listeners heartstrings. Mayfield also sings lead on the two songs that she penned: the pensive ballad “Ring Around The Moon” and “Buddha Baby,” the story of her adopted baby boy.
Other tracks on the album include the Dylan-inspired, “Subjugated Love,” which is a fun little ditty about love gone wrong, “Runaway Train,” a song that addresses the frustrations and lack of peace of mind resulting from living in a society that – were it a train – might appear to be running rapidly off the rails without a knowledgeable engineer, and “After The Storm,” written in the aftermath of hurricane Irma in September 2017, touching on the coming-together of neighbors and friends in challenging times.
Schneider and Mayfield are excited to bring Reckless Saints into the world… Jump In and hang on!
Reckless Saints Track Listing:
1. Jump In (3:00)
2. Walkin’ On A Wire (3:21)
3. If I Die Tomorrow (4:05)
4. Subjugated Love (3:27)
5. Poison Arrow (4:00)
6. Ring Around The Moon (3:27)
7. Angels Along the Road (4:47)
8. Buddha Baby (3:40)
9. Runaway Train (3:37)
10. After the Storm (3:56)
11. Election Day (3:41)
Roy Schneider – Vocals, resonator, acoustic, and electric guitars, harmonica, percussion, drums, banjo, bass
Kim Mayfield – Vocals, harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone ukulele, mandolin
Freebo – Bass (1,2)
Charlie McCoy – Harmonica (2)
Keven Aland – Violin (2,3,7,10)
Dan Fidanze – Piano (4)
J. Robert Houghtaling – Violin (6,9)
Thomas Callahan – Bass (7)
Rob Pastore – Pedal steel guitar (8)
Tim Coletti – Bass (10,11)
Gurf Morlix – Vocals, electric lead guitar (11)
For more information and tour dates, please visit:
www.RecklessSaints.com, www.facebook.com/RecklessSaintsMusic, and www.twitter.com/2RecklessSaints
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Home » News » Beer and cider news
Luandina launches as first Angolan beer
Luandina has launched as the first 100% Angolan beer, a pilsner-style beer named after a feminisation of the capital city Luanda, which references the respect for female power.
The beer has been created in collaboration with brand identity and design company Webb deVlam over a two-year period.
Luandina is produced by master brewers on the banks for the River Kwanza, a few kilometres outside the capital.
One of the biggest challenges that Webb deVlam faced was from Cuca, the leading national beer brand, which was launched during Portuguese colonisation and had become a byword for beer itself.
Webb deVlam creative director, JP Hunter, said: “It’s such a new market, so we had to carry out extensive research to understand the target consumer.
“It was crucial that Luandina represented everyday Angolans and the country’s spontaneous, optimistic and confident spirit. At times, it felt like we were branding the nation.”
Luandina is sold in cans, bottles and multipacks from wholesalers and premium liquor stores and will be available on draft in bars soon. There are also plans to expand to other African countries and beyond in the future.
Keywords: angola, Luandina, Webb deVlam
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Purity Brewing earns organic status
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Hiring a new principal? 5 steps to getting it right
By: Tim Goral | Issue: January, 2019
Principals have a tough job. According to a recent study, 50 percent of new K12 principals are not retained beyond their third year, so finding the right candidate is crucial. Barbara Sargent, superintendent of schools at Parsippany-Troy Hills School District in New Jersey has these recommendations:
1. The paper screen
Review and rate all submitted resumes, using a simple three-point scoring system: 1=high, 2= maybe 3 =low. Compare notes with relevant staff, including the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction and the assistant superintendent for human resources.
2. The screening interview
Lasting about 20 minutes, screening interviews allow the superintendent and other appropriate school leaders to meet candidates to gain a sense of their instructional leadership and ability to communicate a shared vision.
3. The interview panel
After selecting candidates worthy of a deeper look, form an interview panel comprising several teachers, two parents, a curriculum or special education supervisor, a fellow principal, and a school board member.
Prior to the interviews, share a list of questions with the panel members and invite their input. The questions may focus on the candidate’s understanding of the school community and goals, academic leadership experience, ability to build relationships, and potential to be a change agent. Frame the question to be as open-ended as possible so the candidate’s decision-making process is on display.
4. The debrief
At the conclusion of the interviews, everyone has a chance to share their thoughts on the candidates during a debriefing session. Ask each panel member to provide the name of one candidate they would eliminate from consideration if given the chance. This inevitably narrows the field to the strongest two or three candidates. After background checks and salary negotiations, the candidate’s information is forwarded to the board of education’s personnel committee for review, and then to the full board for approval at the next public meeting.
5. Welcome to the community
Finally, invite the new hire to a school event so teachers, students and parents can meet the new principal. Introduce the new principal to administrative colleagues and encourage them to reach out for assistance. By taking a direct leadership role in the exploration and selection of a school principal, the superintendent has an opportunity to interact with constituents in a positive, collective endeavor—and the superintendent will learn a great deal about the school’s leadership needs.
Topics: Admin & Management | Leadership | Personnel, HR, unions
What makes a great transition for students in special ed?
Here are the top research-based predicators from the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition that link what happens in schools to better post-K12 outcomes.
Court to rule on whether Wisconsin governor controls school policy
The state Supreme Court is poised to release a ruling on whether the governor or the state schools superintendent controls Wisconsin school policy. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit with the high court last year arguing then-Superintendent Tony Evers was writing regulations without then-Gov. Scott Walker's approval.
American Indian educators help drive graduation gains
American Indian students consistently trail all other minority groups on standardized tests. But this population had the largest reported graduation rate gain of any demographic between 2010-11 and 2012-13, rising […]
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# 902 - Revolting - In Grisly Rapture
Death Metal ze Szwecji, full lenght z 2011 roku.
REVOLTING is the new band from Rogga Johansson(Paganizer, Ribspreader) which is dedicated to the HORROR/GORE films from the 1980's! With today's modern horror sucking beyond redemption and death metal being plagued by rap, emo, and fake boring "brutality", Rogga felt it was time to do a truly PURE and ugly, rotting, putrid Death Metal band for the love of it and to get back to the basics of what all of this madness is about anyway!
Teaming up with Razorback Records, the label known for their obsession with oldschool metal and horror, the name REVOLTING was chosen by Billy "Grossera" Nocera to reflect the gross, nasty, gory, and insane horror films from the 80's such as STREET TRASH, THE BLOB, REDNECK ZOMBIES, and other mutant gross-out fests that make life worth living!
The spirit of real Death Metal is alive and well, and REVOLTING is keeping the gory tradition going with the release of their debut album, "DREADFUL PLEASURES" and now their 2nd album, "THE TERROR THRESHOLD"!
Beware...the Revolter has awakened from its decades long slumber beneath the crypt....and it's NOT happy at all with what death metal and horror has become! It's hungry, and ready to begin its grotesque assault on your senses and show the underground what REAL Death Metal is SUPPOSED to be about!
Revolting - In Grisly Rapture
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/revoltingdeath
Etykiety: death metal, goregrind, Sweden
Destroy - Burn this racist system down
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UK Exchange: Stockholm School of Economics (Business & Economics) (Exchange Program) (Outgoing Program) Featured:
Locations: Riga, Latvia
Program Terms: Fall, Spring
Partner Website: Click to visit
Restrictions: UK applicants only
Program Cost and Budget: Fall, Spring
This UK Education Abroad program is not currently accepting applications. Please contact your EA Advisor or UK Education Abroad to determine if it is still possible to apply to this program.
There are currently no active application cycles for this program.
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Scholarships of up to $2000 are available for UK students participating on this program in fall 2019 or spring 2020
Contact Thomas Teague - thomas.teague@uky.edu - for details on terms and conditions
Riga, the capital city of Latvia, is considered to be the metropolitan center of the entire Baltic region. Riga has always been an international city serving as a gateway between the East and the West. Today, it's a dynamic and vibrant city of more than 700 thousand people in one what has been one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. Students are encouraged to experience "the new Europe."
Stockholm School of Economics Riga (SSE Riga) was founded to prepare entrepreneurs for success in international markets. The campus is located in a beautifully renovated Art Nouveau building in the city center, just a 10 minute walk from Old Town. Students enjoy a dynamic international learning environment and all classes are taught in English. Courses are offered in economics, finance, accounting, management, organizational behavior, and strategy.
The program is also available for the academic year upon request to the UKEA Exchanges Coordinator.
SSE Riga is a good academic fit for ....
an economics major or minor but students in all majors can benefit from these courses.
Students should have finished about 60 hours with a 3.0 GPA and be ready for upper division coursework.
Which UK requirements can I fulfill by taking courses at SSE Riga?
In the last five years, UK students participating on this exchange program have taken courses that have fulfilled UK requirements in ECO, MGT and MKT.
Explore the SSE Riga course catalog 2018-19 for more information on their course offerings.
All courses taught in English
Earn credit at one of Europe's most renowned business schools
Real-life experience incorporated in the study process and programme content. Expand your understanding of business relations, meet start-up experts, and visit enterprises.
This program is open to undergraduate students whose primary major or minor is housed in the Gatton College of Business & Economics.
Students must possess a valid passport at the time of application to this program.
Required Applications
2 | UK Education Abroad & Exchange University
Students will be notified by the UK Exchanges Coordinator on how to access the Exchange University application AFTER their UK application has been approved.
For More Info, Contact:
Mr. Laurence Tuccori, EA Exchanges Coordinator, laurence.tuccori@uky.edu
Students will earn transfer credit from the Exchange University. For all successfully completed courses, the credit hours, course title and course equivalency will be indicated on the UK transcript. Students must complete the coursework during this program according to the established guidelines by the Exchange University. The grades earned will be important to progression in future academic endeavors, including graduate or professional school; however the grades earned will NOT be indicated on the UK transcript. For more information visit the UK Education Abroad Academic Credit website.
PRIOR to participating on this program, students must complete an Academic Approval Form (AAF). The AAF indicates how the course will be used, or course equivalency, once they are transferred back to UK. Instructions on how to complete the AAF are included in application materials.
Upon completion of the term abroad, the transcript should be sent to the UK Education Abroad office. Once received, Education Abroad staff will facilitate the transfer of credits to UK.
All students will be enrolled in EAP 599: Study Abroad (1 credit hour) at UK during their term abroad.
Like many institutions in Europe SSE does not own student accommodation but works with a real estate agency called GlobalHome.
The agency is run by graduates of SSE Riga and will help you to find the best place to live in Riga during your exchange semester.
More information is available here - globalhome.lv
Students are responsible for all meals during the duration of the term abroad.
Learn more about student life at SSE.
Costs and cancellation policies vary by program. Please see the Program Cost and Budget information page. Be sure to consider the associated UK costs, program specifications, and related travel expenses.
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by: Geeta Sharma
Patna: Health department planning to raise MBBS seats in Bhagalpur hospital
Colleges, Latest News, Medical Education, News
Bhagalpur: The Health Department’s attempt to raise the number of seats for admission in the first year MBBS course from 100 to 250 at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College (JLNMC), has led to it endeavoring to make it a centre of excellence for education and health services in the state.
The increase in the number of seats at the college would automatically improve the doctor patient ratio, a plan being worked upon by the Health Department. Another effort in line to increase the number of seats is establishment of a 1500 bed modern hospital at Barari, with requisite infra structure, committed paramedical staff and 24/7 medical services.
Sources say that the health department is visualizing ways in which health services and medical education can be improved, in the state. It held a meeting with the JLNMC administration to discuss measures to increase the number of seats, in first year MBBS.
The city based medical college and hospital is to be developed as a model centre, for both education and health services.
Sources said the project plan incorporated developing neurology, nephrology and cardiology departments into state of the art units, besides others like medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, ENT and orthopaedics.
They said modernization of these units would decrease the footfall at, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Patna Medical College Hospital and various other Patna based government health facilities.
“We require a well-equipped 2,000 bed hospital and 250 seats in first year MBBS course. We have already selected the vacant land of JLNMC at Barari and a proposal for 1,500 bed modern hospital with super-specialty units has already been sent to the state headquarter.” said Dr RC Mandal, JLNMC Superintendent told TOI.
Presently, the hospital can house 600 patients and 100 medical students.
Source: with inputs
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A Pivot Point for Space Accessibility
Column, Industry Insights
Space often is viewed as a high-tech futuristic dream available only to the world’s top-notch scientists. Online satellite maps, TV and GPS have snuck into common usage, but with the controlling powers being large companies or institutions. But we’re now at a tipping point for making recent and tasked satellite imagery accessible to everyone, and when that happens, imagery applications will expand into an unknown variety of domains.
For recent and tasked satellite imagery to reach mainstream audiences, access needs to be timely, affordable and easy. People outside the space industry don’t want to have to know satellite physics and understand space jargon such as off-nadir angle, azimuth and GSD. They know simple concepts such as location, time and money.
Modern Consumers
The most-important timeframe for modern consumers is “now.” People want satellite imagery that’s as recent (close to now) as possible. If such imagery doesn’t exist, they don’t want to wait long (past now) to capture new satellite images. People are used to buying songs, apps and other electronic media, and receiving purchases in seconds (essentially now)—these same expectations apply to purchasing satellite imagery. People also want specific knowledge of the time of imagery events to synchronize events on the ground—being told that an image will be taken “soon” is insufficient.
Found on iTunes or Google Play, the SpyMeSat mobile app, which allows users to download or even task new satellite imagery from their smartphones, leads a “new wave” of how data can be acquired and purchased by “common users.”
With regard to cost, people will compare the value of satellite imagery to other items they purchase and assess the price accordingly. Comparing satellite imagery to other forms of photography puts it in the tens to hundreds of dollars or maybe low thousands when considering pictures ranging from family photos with Santa, school pictures, wedding photographers or modern drone imagers.
Regular modern people want to use regular modern constructs such as Web and mobile apps. People no longer are patient enough to call someone to discuss a purchase and then wait while customer-service personnel record the consumer’s options, negotiate with operations personnel, and attempt to reconnect with customers. These days, consumers want a marketplace where they can see their options laid out in front of them with regard to capabilities, price and timeframe—and they want to select from these options based on the factors important to them.
Modern Tools
To meet the demands of modern consumers now familiar with simplified transactions, the geospatial industry, like many others, is moving toward more-affordable, timely and simple browsing and purchasing.
Several new commercial satellites constellations are planned for launch during the next few years, and each has unique features or capabilities. Meanwhile, the industry is developing applications to improve access to that imagery.
For example, the SpyMeSat mobile app from Orbit Logic provides a “digital vending machine” for satellite imagery, where consumers can browse the most-recent high-resolution imagery available on their mobile phone and choose which images they want. If the existing imagery is inadequate, users can task a satellite to take a new image by providing nothing more than a location and timeframe. Currently, the cost ranges from $10-$80 for archive imagery and $500-$1,600 for tasking new imagery, but as more satellites come online, the cost and time to acquire imagery will decrease.
With new tools and more satellites, the imaging market is at a pivot point. Soon there will be a growing number of applications providing “regular people” with “instant” imagery for uses never dreamed of in the space industry.
Ella Herz is chief operating officer, Orbit Logic; e-mail: ella.herz@orbitlogic.com.
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Agenda, decisions and minutes
Agenda, decisions and minutes.
Tuesday, 8th January, 2019 6.30 pm
Agenda reports pack
Supplementary Agenda - Addendum reports PDF 219 KB
Printed decisions PDF 46 KB
Venue: Rooms 4 & 5, Town Hall, Wellington Street, Woolwich SE18 6PW
Contact: Jean Riddler Email: jean.riddler@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or tel: 020 8921 5857
To receive apologies for absence from Members of the Board.
Apologies for absence were received for Councillor Babatola and Perks.
Apologies for leaving early were received from Councillor Bird.
Urgent Business
The Chair to announce any items of urgent business circulated separately from the main agenda.
The Planning Board noted and accepted the Planning Officers addendum reports, circulated in advance of the meeting, in relation to;
Item 4 - Building 10, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Ref: 18/3114/F &
18/3115/F.
Item 5 - St Thomas More School, Footscray Road, Eltham. Ref: 18/3324/F
Item 6 - Land at Felixstowe Road, Abbey Wood. Ref: 18/3873/I106
Further, a submission had been circulated to Members, on behalf of Councillor Cousins, in advance of the meeting, in relation to Item 6.
Declarations of Interest PDF 46 KB
Members to declare any personal and financial interests in items on the agenda. Attention is drawn to the Council’s Constitution; the Council’s Code of Conduct and associated advice.
03 - Members Outside Body Membership , item 3. PDF 42 KB
Resolved –
That the list of Councillors’ memberships as Council appointed representatives on outside bodies, joint committees and school governing bodies be noted.
Building 10, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, SE18 6GD - Ref: 18/3114/F & 18.3115/L PDF 274 KB
Planning Board is requested to grant Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent changes to the ground floor commercial units within Building 10 to provide an increase in flexible commercial floorspaces as set out in the report.
04.1 - 18.3114.F - Building 10, Royal Arsenal - appendices , item 4. PDF 258 KB
04.2 - 18.3114.F Building 10 Royal Arsenal - Appended original report & appendices , item 4. PDF 3 MB
04.3 - 18.3114.F - Building 10 - addendum , item 4. PDF 77 KB
Decision:
Resolved to grant Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for changes to the ground floor commercial units within Building 10 to provide an increase in flexible commercial floorspaces (A1/A2/A3/A4/B1/D1/D2) providing a total of 3,215sqm including the installation of a mezzanine and first floor level and alterations to external features of listed building. (As amendment to planning consent approved under 16/2807/F, dated 24/03/2017).
Subject to:
1. The satisfactory completion of a Section 106 Agreement (obligations set out in the report and its addendum, both dated 5th December 2018); and
2. Conditions set out in Appendix 2 and Appendix 3 of the report dated 8th January 2019 and its addendum.
The Planning Board accepted an addendum report, presented on a supplementary Agenda in advance of the meeting and an illustrative presentation from the Principal Planning Officer who advised that, further to Members previous consideration of the applicant and request that the applicant considered retention of the internal gantry crane. The applicant proposed that a single main gantry crane would be retained, which would be conditioned.
Members considered that, as there were no requests from the public to speak on this item and they had enough information to move directly to the vote.
The Chair put the Officers recommendation to grant Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent, as set out in the main report and Officers addendum report to the vote, with 10 Members in favour, 0 against, 0 abstentions.
To grant Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for changes to the ground floor commercial units within Building 10 to provide an increase in flexible commercial floorspaces (A1/A2/A3/A4/B1/D1/D2) providing a total of 3,215sqm including the installation of a mezzanine and first floor level and alterations to external features of listed building. (As amendment to planning consent approved under 16/2807/F, dated 24/03/2017).
St. Thomas More School, Footscray Road, Eltham, London. SE9 2SU - Ref:18/3324/F PDF 480 KB
The Board is requested to grant planning permission for the construction of a part 1/part 2-storey building providing additional classrooms and a Multi-Function Hall for use by the local community for evening and weekend events, as set out in the report.
05.1 - 18.3324.F St Thomas More School - Appendices , item 5. PDF 215 KB
05.2 - 18-3324-F Addendum report , item 5. PDF 56 KB
Resolved to grant planning permission for the construction of a part 1/part 2-storey building providing additional classrooms and a Multi-Function Hall for use by the local community for evening and weekend events. The extension would facilitate the school growing from a 4-Form to 5-Form entry school (an increase in 150 pupils).
Subject to;
(1) The Conditions set out in Appendix 2 of the report and its addendum.
(2) The Travel Plan, when submitted for approval under condition 9 of planning permission ref; 18/3324/F, be reported to Planning Board for its own determination.
The Planning Board accepted an addendum report, presented on a supplementary Agenda in advance of the meeting, and an illustrative presentation from the Planning Officer who advised that the school did not fall within the Conservation Area. The trees requiring removal would be replaced with appropriate species. The current level of parking spaces would be retained and submission of an acceptable travel plan would be secured under Condition.
In response to Members’ questions the Planning Officer confirmed that;
· The amount of outdoor space provision exceeded the guidance, even with the increase pupil uptake.
· The use of additional facilities, such as the sports and schools hall, would be conditioned.
· That 4 to 5 trees would be planted along the frontage to Footscray Road, as replacement for those being removed on the main body of the site.
The Development Control Manager - Major Projects responded to questions from Members that;
· TfL had not been contacted as the development area was not on a TfL Road.
· It was estimated that a third of children would be dropped off by car and a suitable transport plan would be submitted. The transport plan would address the measures to accommodate the 7 additional staff but it was not possible to prescribe a drop off / pick up location for parents.
· The school car park would be used in association with out of hour’s community activities.
Councillor Pat Greenwell addressed the Planning Board as a Ward Councillor stating that there was a need for 5th form places, but not at the cost of the local residents’ quality of life. The entrance to the School was on Footscray Road which was a very busy road, particularly during rush hour and was used by HGVs and ambulances. The road was not wide enough to accommodate the current use as well as additional drop off and collection of pupils, which were inevitable even though there were double yellow lines along the Road.
She continued that a petition, signed by over 200 people, had been presented to Full Council a few years back regarding concerns as to the dangers to children, damage to residents’ cars, safety of road users and pedestrians, particularly crossing the road. The increase by 105 pupils and 7 staff will put an impossible strain on Footscray Road and residents continue to be concerned that it is not possible to protect their access to or use of their driveways. There were issues of public safety and loss of amenity to local residents that needed to be addressed before the multifunction hall is used and the Cinema opens.
In response to Members’ questions Councillor Greenwell noted that in Footscray Road, a little way down from the school was a busy roundabout where Southend Crescent and Footscray Road met, which was in continuous use from 8am to 10am and from 3pm for most of the evening. She advised that on one occasion she was driving along Footscray Road and had to take evasive action to avoid being hit ... view the full minutes text for item 5.
Land at Felixstowe Road, Felixstowe Road, Abbey Wood, SE2 9SG - Ref:18/3873/I106 PDF 267 KB
The Board is requested to approve the modification of the S106 agreement dated 27 September 2018 (in respect of planning permission reference 16/2878/F) under S106A(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by amending Schedule 2 in order to change the affordable housing provision to 100% affordable (with all units provided as Intermediate tenure), as set out in the report.
06.1 - 18.3873.I106 Land at Felixstowe Road (Abbey Place) - Appendices , item 6. PDF 52 KB
06.2 - 18.3873.I106 Land at Felixstowe Road (Abbey Place) - Addendum report , item 6. PDF 65 KB
Resolved to enter into an agreement under S106A(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to modify Schedule 2 of the S106 agreementdated 27 September 2018 (in respect of planning permission reference 16/2878/F) in order to change the affordable housing provision to 100% affordable (with all units provided as Intermediate tenure).
The Planning Board accepted an addendum report, presented on a supplementary Agenda in advance of the meeting, and an illustrative presentation from the Planning Officer. She advised that agreement to modify the s106 agreement was being sought in order to allow for 100% of the units to be offered as intermediate housing at a mix of shared ownership and London Living Rent. She advised that the applicant had secured planning permission for construction under the previous application, in relation to which the existing s106 agreement had been secured.
In response to Members’ questions the Planning Officer confirmed that the proposal before Members would see the entire building managed by one registered provider. The units would not be let to people on the Council’s waiting list because the offer was of intermediate accommodation, with a proportion available at London Living Rent.
The Planning Board accepted an address from Councillor Ann-Marie Cousins, as Ward Councillor, who commented that
· She was concerned that there was no compulsion on the applicant to consult with the Ward Councillors on an important application.
· The development was in an area with 30% workless, yet no social housing was being offered. Local people are seeing this as a development that has no positive benefit for the residents of the area.
· As there was no CIL payment there would be no financial benefit that could be used for the residents of Abbey Wood and this was being seen as a bad development for the area.
· Although London & Quadrant (L&Q) were known as a Social rented provider this was not the situation in this case and there was a concern about this being a genuine provision and it was being seen as housing for not local people.
· With rents of around £1,300 - £1,500 saying it is affordable accommodation did not make it so.
The Planning Board accepted an address from the developer for the application who stated that;
· Permission has been granted for the development, in October 2017.
· They had reached an agreement with L&Q to deliver 100% affordable units, in accordance with the London Plan.
· This scheme was being brought back because viability challenges had been identified and the new viability assessment submitted would enable the development to be delivered, in partnership with L&Q and offer 245 genuine homes.
In response to Member’s questions the developer advised that the London Living Rent for a 1 bed would be £166pw and shared units would be formed of a 25% share per apartment. It was difficult to assess value of units in the area as this time as Crossrail had not come into service. However, the average rent for a 1 bed in the area appeared to be around £250pw. All the rented units were being offered at the London Living rent and no lower rent limit was imposed. The proposed changes would result in more units being available at a lower marked rent than that originally proposed and open up the availability to ... view the full minutes text for item 6.
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News from Georgetown
Williamson County to host open houses for new voting machines
Williamson County court approves early voting locations for Nov. 5 elections
Family-run The Pit Barbeque prides itself on ‘good food, fair prices and fast service’
Discussion on potential 2019 bond begins in Williamson County Commissioners Court
City of Georgetown releases draft budget for fiscal year 2019-20
Music, movies and reptile shows: Things to-do this July and early August in Georgetown
Georgetown Parks and Recreation hosts an end-of-summer celebration for kids ages 2-8. The event will include games, swimming and raffle drawings, among other activities. 5:30-8 p.m. Free (members), daily pool rates apply. 1003 N. Austin Ave. 512-930-3596. www.parks.georgetown.org
Courtesy Georgetown Parks and Recreation
Georgetown Parks and Recreation hosts an end-of-summer celebration for kids ages 2-8. The event will include games, swimming and raffle drawings, among other activities. 5:30-8 p.m. Free (members), daily pool rates apply. 1003 N. Austin Ave. 512-930-3596. www.parks.georgetown.org (Courtesy Georgetown Parks and Recreation)
By Ali Linan | 9:39 am July 5, 2019 CDT Jul 11, 2019 | Updated 8:14 am July 11, 2019 CDT
Boomtown Escapes hosts a dice games night in its game library. Games include Bang: The Dice Game, bunco, Double Shutter, Pass the Pigs, Rollers, Risk ‘N’ Roll 2000 and Yahtzee. 7-9 p.m. Free. 215 W. Eighth St. 512-591-7816. www.boomtownescapes.com
Community Impact Staff
Dice games night at
Boomtown Escapes
Sci-fi trivia event
Georgetown Public Library hosts a teen summer challenge that puts science fiction fandom knowledge to the test. 3 p.m. Free. Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. Eighth St. 512-819-3132. www.library.georgetown.org/events-calendar
Georgetown Art Center artist reception
The “Soul of America” art exhibit features local Austin artists and begs the question “Who or what is the soul of America?” Exhibit runs through Aug. 18. 6-8 p.m. Free. Georgetown Art Center, 816 S. Main St. 512-930-2583. www.georgetownartcentertx.org
Learn about a variety of snakes, lizards and other scaly animals at the Austin Reptile Show. The event is first-come, first-served, and tickets are available one hour before the show. 6 p.m. Free. 402 W. Eighth St. 512-819-3132. www.austinreptileshows.com
Courtesy Austin Reptile Shows
Austin Reptile Show at the Georgetown Public Library
Texas Beer Co. Pint Night
Taylor brewery Texas Beer Co. hosts a pint night at 600 Degrees Pizzeria. Free souvenir pint glasses will be given to the first 20 customers at the event. 6-8 p.m. Free. 600 Degrees Pizzeria & Drafthouse, 124 E. Eighth St. 512-943-9272. www.600degreespizzeria.com
Make-and-take pasta class
Learn to make garlic shallot ravioli with mushroom filling to take home. The recipe serves four. 1:30-3:30 p.m. $50. 18 Carrot Bakery, 710 S. Austin Ave. 702-540-2430. www.18carrotbakery.com
‘Forever Plaid’ musical
The Georgetown Palace Theatre presents “Forever Plaid.” The musical performance will feature pop hits of the 1950s and classic barbershop quartet harmonies. 7:30 p.m. $29 (students, military, seniors), $32. Georgetown Palace Theatre, 810 S. Austin Ave. 512-869-7469. www.georgetownpalace.com
Sunset Movie Series
Georgetown Parks and Recreation presents “Incredibles 2.” Free popcorn is provided, and participants should bring chairs and blankets to use. Vendors and games begin at 7:30 p.m., film begins at sunset. The event is held at the soccer fields behind Creative Playscape. 7:30 p.m. Free. San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow St. 512-930-3595. www.parks.georgetown.org
The Sounds of Legends Dinner and Show
Enjoy dinner and a show as artists pay tribute to Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler and Frank Sinatra, among other singers. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $55. Berry Creek Country Club, 30500 Berry Creek Drive. 512-930-4615. www.berrycreekcc.com
Live music at the library
Julie Slim and RendezVous revive international sounds from the early 20th century with warm and precise vocals that transport listeners with the stories expressed in their songs. 2 p.m. Free. Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. Eighth St. 512-930-3551. www.library.georgetown.org
Georgetown Library photographers artists reception
Georgetown Public Library hosts an artists reception for the photographers whose work will be on display at the library from July 21-Aug. 28. The exhibit features the work of 10 experienced photographers. 2-4 p.m. Free. Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. Eighth St. 512-819-3132. www.library.georgetown.org/events-calendar
Pirate party at the Georgetown Recreation Center
Guided tour of County Courthouse
Learn about the historic courthouse, the central point of the Georgetown Square. The building underwent a $9 million restoration that was completed in 2007 and is home to the Williamson County Commissioners Court. 1:20, 2:20 and 3:20 p.m. Free. Williamson Museum, 716 S. Austin Ave. 512-943-1670. www.williamsonmuseum.org
Date to know:
Georgetown ISD first day of school
Area farmers markets:
Georgetown Farmers Market
2:30-5:30 p.m., Thursdays
500 S. Austin Ave.
Sun City Farmers Market
9 a.m.-noon, Tuesdays
2 Texas Drive
www.facebook.com/suncityfarmersmarket
Wolf Ranch Farmers Market
9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturdays
www.wolfranchfarmersmarket.com
Live music in Georgetown:
Mesquite Creek Outfitters
704 S. Austin Ave., Georgetown
www.mesquitecreekoutfitters.com
13 Dueling Pianos, 8 p.m.
20 Jacob Essary Band, 8 p.m.
27 The Jerrells, 7:30 p.m.
03 Indian and the Jones, 8 p.m.
Music on the Square
103 W. Seventh St., Georgetown
www.visit.georgetown.org/music-on-the-square-concerts
Shows begin at 6:30 p.m.
12 Mike Hamilton
19 Megatunes
26 Roland Waits & The Wayward Travelers
09 Showmen Bluegrass
Rentsch Brewery
808 Martin Luther King Jr. St., Georgetown • 512-688-5046
www.rentschbrewery.com
20 Sam Grona, 3 p.m.
09 Houston Keen, 6 p.m.
Ali Linan
Ali Linan began covering Georgetown for Community Impact Newspaper in 2018. Her reporting focuses on education and Williamson County. Ali hails from El Paso and graduated from Syracuse University in 2017.
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Street Art by Vic Lee at the Israel Plarium HQ
Everyone has heard of Banksy, but there is another highly talented street artist that isn’t as well known – Vic Lee. Recently, Plarium Headquarters in Israel made this London street artist an offer he couldn’t refuse – the opportunity to paint one of the studio walls in a style befitting our hardcore games.
For an indication of what happened next, one just has to read what the artist himself wrote on his Facebook page: “Bit of a childhood moment, drawing dragons and knights and gladiators, tanks and futuristic cities. Surely not a job to turn down!”
Those who have previously tried to define Vic Lee’s illustrations have come back with answers ranging from Contemporary Victorian to Fantasy, noting the many depictions in his art of elements from urban legends and fairy tales. Others describe Lee’s style as witty, imaginative, or complex, and it testifies to his ability that these elements more often than not find their way into a single illustration.
With his use of dynamic graphics, memorable fonts, and gritty black and white hues, Lee’s illustrations have been commissioned by everyone from Mercedes-Benz, Marks & Spencer, Brompton Bicycle, and many other major brands.
For his work at Plarium HQ in Israel, Lee sought to reflect the world and mythology of the player, as well as the energetic, fun vibe prevalent at Plarium Studios. The end result sees both Plarium and Vic Lee overwhelmingly satisfied with the work. Lee was particularly thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet many other extremely talented artists at the Studio. What started as mutual admiration just might develop into an ongoing working relationship!
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Indonesia castration law will wipe out pedophilia
Miercuri, 19 Octombrie 2016 10:06 2016-10-19 10:06:26 PUBLIKA.MD Comments
Indonesia could "wipe out" pedophilia with its new policy of chemical castration, President Joko Widodo has told the BBC.
He said Indonesia respected human rights but there would be "no compromise" when it came to punishing such sexual crimes.
Indonesia passed controversial laws earlier this month authorizing chemical castration for pedophiles.
The laws were subject to fierce debate in parliament.
The Indonesian Doctors Association says its members should not be involved as the procedure would violate medical ethics.
Chemical castration is the use of drugs to reduce sex drive and libido, without sterilization or removing organs.
President Widodo said "our constitution respects human rights, but when it comes to sexual crimes there is no compromise".
"We are strong and we will be very firm. We will hand out the maximum penalty for sexual crimes."
He added: "In my opinion… chemical castration, if we enforce it consistently, will reduce sex crimes and wipe them out over time."
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Yalda Hakim, President Widodo - also known as Jokowi - discussed topics including the South China Sea, corruption, a recent tax amnesty and the government's stance on homosexuality.
Earlier this month, an advert for a new youth ambassador position stipulated that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community need not apply.
The government advert said the post was only open to applicants not involved in "sexually deviant behavior".
President Widodo said there was no discrimination against minorities, but he added: "We are the world's largest Muslim nation and we have religious norms. You have to remember that and know that. We have social norms."
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Report: 25% of public acquisitions made by Chisinau City Hall over the past two years were not transparent
Luni, 2 Aprilie 2018 13:19 2018-04-02 13:19:48 PUBLIKA.MD Comments
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25% of public acquisitions made by Chisinau City Hall over the past two years were not transparent. According to a report, auctions were superficial and lacked competition. Moreover, experts established a conflict of interests.
Silvia Radu claims that due to this, City Hall lost over 220 million lei, while those guilty will be brought to justice.
According to the report, most illegalities were found in purchases made to 80 million lei.
One of the most grave breach established is conflict of interests. For example, chief of Housing Management Company number 22, who owns a construction company, won multiple auctions made by the subdivision he manages. After the report was published, he submitted a resignation letter.
"He gained two contracts, worth a small amount of money, to perform repair works in blocks managed by Municipal Enterprises. At the same time, said person, over 2017, gained another 11 contracts" head of Audit Department, Roman Vitiuc said.
Interim Mayor of the Capital, Silvia Radu declared that all people mentioned in the report will be questioned and brought to justice.
"It is a disaster. All possible corruption that might exist in acquisitions, both public and private" Silvia Radu said.
During the meeting, interim Mayor announced that all municipal subdivisions will be obligated to organize auctions on MTender platform, to ensure transparency.
At the moment, 18 subdivisions of the City Hall are using it. Therefore, 18 auctions, worth 2.35 million lei, are available on the platform. According to experts, MTender allows contractors save money.
"They can save to 40%, while on average, for procedures to finalize public acquisitions to 24%. 6:29 is a considerable amount" representative of Ministry of Finance, Ştefan Condrea said.
Within the report were analyze the way money were managed between 2016 and 2017, by nine subdivisions of the City Hall, among which counts the Architecture and Housing departments.
Survey: Silvia Radu, likely elected Mayor of Chisinau
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Stonehouse Salon & Spa Celebrates First Year in Wigan
Stonehouse Salon & Spa, a chic, boutique Aveda salon celebrated its first year in Wigan by welcoming guests to the salon with birthday drinks and cake.
The salon, owned by creative director Craig Stonehouse and his partner Craig Harris, has firmly positioned itself at the centre of the Wigan community over the past 12 months by not only offering the very best in hair and beauty, but also by working in collaboration with local businesses, the Council, community groups and the local college.
The salon, an official partner of Aveda, based on Library Street, Wigan, has grown to employ six members of staff and has welcomed over 500 guests through its doors.
Craig Stonehouse, creative and colour director said: “I cannot believe how quickly the first 12 months have gone. We’ve had the most amazing year and were so pleased to celebrate with all our customers and enjoy the birthday celebrations with them.”
Since opening, Stonehouse Salon & Spa has worked with local schools by participating in Q&A sessions for the children as well as providing free haircuts for children in foster care and supporting the local homelessness team, ‘The Brick’, in providing services for the homelessness population, to support them for applying for jobs or accommodation.
Stonehouse Salon & Spa was also the only hair salon in Wigan that sponsored this year’s Wigan pride, providing a pop-up stall with free glitter braiding and goody bags for anyone who visited the stall.
Details of services and costs along with company news and top tips are available from the website www.stonehousesalonandspa.com and via social media: Twitter: @StonehouseAveda Facebook: / Stonehousesalonspa or Instagram: @ Stonehousesalonspa
"Weve had the most amazing year and were so pleased to celebrate with all our customers and enjoy the birthday celebrations with them."
Craig Stonehouse
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This Actress Just Cut Off ALL of Her Hair—And the Reason Why Is Shocking the Nation in the Best Way!
Clare Bowen is best known as the actress who plays Scarlett o’Connor on “Nashville.”
She’s famous for her ridiculously impressive set of vocal chords and her even more impressive long, gorgeous, golden locks.
Clare decided to cut off her hair for a very important reason that was ignited by her childhood days in the “White Palace” as a cancer patient. She shared the above picture along with the motive behind her action in vivid detail in a Facebook post that went viral overnight.
“Wanna know why I cut it all off?
When I was four years old, I asked my mother; “Are there heaters in Heaven?”
I had just been diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma, after several visits to a GP who denied anything was wrong and dubbed my parents “paranoid.” I’d overheard the doctors telling my family that the only hope of saving me, was an experimental treatment that might kill me anyway. But without it I had maybe two weeks left. The hospital was cold. I’d never felt air conditioning before.
Life in the White Palace (Granddad’s nickname for hospital) meant I got to grow up surrounded by children just like me. We were mostly bald, all tubed, taped, bandaged up and stitched back together. We were all missing parts, some obvious like eyes or legs, others more hidden, like lungs and kidneys. Those who still could, tip-toed around like little fairies because chemotherapy had destroyed the muscles in our legs and it hurt to put our heels on the floor. But we were all together, so no one’s appearance came into question. No one got laughed at or teased. We were all we knew.
And then I got really lucky. I survived, my hair grew back and I got strong again. I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look. It has always been completely incomprehensible to me. How can people think there’s time for that?
I was really inspired when I heard a story about a little girl who said she couldn’t be a princess because she didn’t have long hair, and I wanted her, and others like her to know that’s not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero. It’s not what makes you beautiful either. It’s your insides that count… even if you happen to be missing half of them.
Every scar tells a story, every baldhead, every dark circle, every prosthetic limb, and every reflection in a mirror that you might not recognize anymore. Look deeper than skin, hair, nails, and lips. You are who you are in your bones. That is where you have the potential to shine the brightest from. It is where your true beautiful self lives.
Thank you ABC network and particularly our creator, Callie Khouri for letting me change Scarlett’s hair, and my team, family and friends for helping me make the decision. If it makes even one person think twice about judging another, then in some small way, the world is better.
Self-esteem takes a lot longer to grow back than hair.
#BeautyWithin”
In the recent episode of “Nashville,” Scarlett reveals her new style, much to the dismay of her bandmate and manager. But her real life fans and friends are more than supportive of her decision.
Clare’s bold attempt to dump society’s standards of beauty down the drain is already touching the hearts of thousands, as is evident by the emotional comments flooding in on her Facebook page in response to the post:
Countless fans have shared their own cancer stories in response, expressing the inspiration and hope that Clare has infused in them.
There’s Surelle.
And Elayna.
And Lisa.
And Gina.
And Lee-Ann’s precious princess.
In one column, their stories are beautifully aggregated in a unifying cry for culture to see them for who they are, not the length of their hair or the number of their limbs.
Let their message become our mantra. In the words of Clare, Let us “Look deeper than skin, hair, nails, and lips.”
After all, “You are who you are in your bones.”
Let’s break the mold together by sharing Clare’s bold story of #TrueBeauty
For another inspirational story on exposing true beauty, read This Model Just Added Brutally Honest Captions to Her Pictures—And It’s Turning Instagram Inside Out!
16-Yr-Old Soccer Player Dies Tragically—Then His Dad Sees What’s on the Scoreboard
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The Stash List – AAA edition
by Shelly Verougstraete
Hey y’all! Happy Michael Chavis Day! I was planning on writing up Chavis for my post on Monday but with this news, I knew it could not wait. I’ve put together some guys tearing it up in AAA who might be on the verge of a call up. If these guys are still available in your dynasty league, go and get them now. The following guys could pick you up some steals later in the year or be an upgrade at the catcher position in the second half of the season. All right…let’s go!
Michael Chavis INF (BOS) – You might be wondering, um, what position does Chavis play? Well…that is the thing. Chavis began playing second base this year after splitting his time in the minors at first and third. He was drafted as a shortstop by the Red Sox in 2014. It wasn’t until 2017 that Chavis found his power stroke. In that year, he smacked 17 and 14 home runs between A+ and AA. It should be noted that the Eastern League and especially Hadlock Field, is not known home run power. After coming back from a PED suspension in 2018, he did not miss a beat, smashing home runs wherever he went. In 2019, he has hit 4 home runs and is walking at a 14% clip, which I do not expect to continue.
On Eric and Kiley’s Red Sox list, Chavis was their #3 rated prospect, with 65 raw power and 55 game power. Chavis was called up this past Friday after Dustin Pedroia and Eduardo Nunez were placed on the Injured List. However, I believe he will struggle with strikeouts in his initial call up so temper your expectations in a redraft league. In dynasty though, you want him on your roster. Not to many second base eligible players will give you the power he can.
Sean Murphy C (OAK) – The fantasy catching landscape is a wasteland. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this…but just hear me out. Sean Murphy is going be someone you want to pick up. Murphy was number 2 on Eric and Kiley’s A’s list and for good reason. He is ELITE behind the plate with a cannon for an arm and all in all above average defensive skills. Murphy has shown plus raw power in batting practice but the over the fence power has not translated into game power. Murphy’s power, especially playing in the Coliseum, will show up in doubles into the gap.
He also has above average bat to ball skills and overall great eye at the plate, which will help all you OBP leaguers out there. Currently in AAA, he has a .381 AVG and .469 OBP Now while I don’t expect that, I would not be shocked to see Murphy hit around .250-.2500 but .320-.325 OBP. Murphy is currently blocked by Josh Phegley and Nick Hundley but more importantly he is no yet on the 40 man roster. Even with that said, I believe Murphy will make his debut for the A’s this year. You should pick him of waivers in your dynasty leagues, if he is not already on someone else’s roster.
Myles Straw UTL (HOU) – There are baseball prospects and then there are fantasy baseball prospects. Starw was #17 on Eric and Kiley’s Astros list Myles Straw is the latter and needs to be on your radar. Straw made his major league debut last year for the Astros in September. He used occasionally in the outfield but was also used as a pinch runner, where he swiped 2 bags.
Here is where the story gets interesting. Instead of having Straw in the outfield this year, the Astros moved him to SS to gain experience. It would seem the Astros are grooming him to be Marwin Gonzalez… but with speed. Last year alone, Straw stole 70 bases between AA and AAA. I’d pick him up now before your league mates swipe him from the waiver wire.
Cole Tucker SS (PIT) – The Pirates AAA squad have a bunch of interesting players, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Mitch Keller, Will Craig, and shortstop Cole Tucker. Tucker was #5 on Eric and Kiley’s Pirates list. He is an excellent defender with a cannon for an arm. Pirates fans will be in for a treat when both Tucker and Hayes are manning the left side of the infield in PNC. Surprising, he swiped 35 bases last year.
He has continued to run with five bags so far in the minor league season. He might also be finding his man strength. His 2 home runs and 5 doubles in 12 games has him sitting with a .208 ISO. The Pirates currently have Erik Gonzalez at short and I don’t think he will stop Tucker from debuting some time in the second half of the year.
We hoped you liked reading The Stash List – AAA edition by Shelly Verougstraete!
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so you’re saying he’s going to hit around .250…
Shelly Verougstraete
I’d put it around .250-.260
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Chapter Listings and Chapter Length:
00 Preface — 00:08:22
01 Bushido as an Ethical System — 00:10:43
02 Sources of Bushido — 00:13:15
03 Rectitude or Justice — 00:06:41
04 Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing — 00:09:22
05 Benevolence, the Feeling of Distress — 00:15:02
06 Politeness — 00:13:25
07 Veracity or Truthfulness — 00:12:43
08 Honor — 00:11:29
09 The Duty of Loyalty — 00:14:01
10 Education and Training of a Samurai — 00:10:18
11 Self Control — 00:09:30
12 The Institutions of Suicide and Redress — 00:24:38
13 The Sword the Soul of the Samurai — 00:08:11
14 The Training and Position of Woman — 00:21:50
15 The Influence of Bushido — 00:10:44
16 Is Bushido Still Alive? — 00:15:47
17 The Future of Bushido — 00:13:58
More about Bushido:
Bushidō (武士道?), literally “the way of the warrior”, is a Japanese word for the way of the samurai life, loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry. The etymology of the Japanese word bushido, stemming from the Zhou Dynasty (1111–256 BCE)(Zhang, and Fan, 2003) or (1818-221 BCE)(de Bary, and Bloom) Chinese text Zhou bi 周髀 (Cullen, 1996) and word wushidao (武士道), loosely meaning a soldier well-trained in martial arts. The subword “wushi,” (武士) when bifurcated into two parts, the first term “wu” (武) describes a person competent in martial arts such as King Wu, with the second term “shi,” (士) meaning army. The two characters together (武士) meaning warrior or palace guard. The last part of the word, “dao” (道) is the same as “do” in Japanese, meaning “way of” (Dao, 2003) such as the Japanese martial art Kendo (剣道) “way of the sword”.
The Japanese understanding of the word is predicated on the samurai moral code stressing frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor unto death. Born from Neo-Confucianism during times of peace in Tokugawa Japan and following Confucian texts, Bushido was also influenced by Shinto and Zen Buddhism, allowing the violent existence of the samurai to be tempered by wisdom and serenity. Bushidō developed between the 9th and 20th centuries and numerous translated documents dating from the 12th to 16th centuries demonstrate its wide influence across the whole of Japan, although some scholars have noted “the term bushidō itself is rarely attested in premodern literature.”
Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, aspects of bushidō became formalized into Japanese feudal law.
According to the Japanese dictionary Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, “Bushidō is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period.”
The word was first used in Japan during the 17th century.[10] It came into common usage in Japan and the West after the 1899 publication of Nitobe Inazō’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
In Bushido (1899), Inazō wrote: …Bushidō, then, is the code of moral principles which the samurai were required or instructed to observe…. More frequently it is a code unuttered and unwritten…. It was an organic growth of decades and centuries of military career.
Nitobe was not the first person to document Japanese chivalry in this way. In his text Feudal and Modern Japan (1896), historian Arthur May Knapp wrote: The samurai of thirty years ago had behind him a thousand years of training in the law of honor, obedience, duty, and self-sacrifice…. It was not needed to create or establish them. As a child he had but to be instructed, as indeed he was from his earliest years, in the etiquette of self-immolation.
Seven virtues of Bushidō
The Bushidō code is typified by seven virtues: Rectitude (義 gi?) Courage (勇氣 yūki?) Benevolence (仁 jin?) Respect (禮 rei?) Honesty (誠 makoto?) Honour (名誉 meiyo?) Loyalty (忠義 chūgi?)
Associated virtues: Filial piety (孝 kō?) Wisdom (智 chi?) Care for the aged (悌 tei?) (from Wikipedia)
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Manifestos – Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser | Full stop
[Verso Books; 2019]
In Argonauts Maggie Nelson describes a dialog together with her associate on the X-Males movie:
So we each hate fiction, or no less than frenetic fiction – it strives to offer concepts on complicated points, however it really is defined locations , filled with false decisions and tells you what makes you less capable of see, out.
Neoliberalism is a nasty fiction. Eleven theses and fifty-seven pages of Feminism 99%: The Manifesto of Cinzia Arruzzan, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser exhibits it as it’s and acknowledges the disaster of society not only as economic, but in addition "at the same time as the economic crisis, ecology, politics and" care. " The fundamental reason for capitalism is that the structure of neoliberalism has a financial difference from the political, and it is argued that social life should be allowed to freely interact with the "free market", as if this world and its individuals are not what permits this technique to exist and multiply. its presentation as the only means forward.
Towards this, 99% feminism: "Manifest" defends the needs and rights of many – poor and working ladies – ladies who are racial and migrant, ladies, who are encouraging to see themselves as "middle class" even for the capital, "while trying to" get the source of hope for all mankind. "[19659003Feministisenmanifestinkirjoittaminenon"dauntingtask"kutenArruzzaBhattacharyajaFraserhyvintietävät
However, they tend to present an option that turns off the Demerging history, including feminism, including, without spreading false homogeenisuusoletuksia. Arruzza, Bhattacharya and Fraser also reject racism and imperialism surrounding because of the historical feminism" Declarations of worldwide sisterhood "
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Feminism for 99 % refuses to hunt or supply a middle country that might only feed the systemic causes it needs to free itself. It avoids centralized compromises and rejects the concept two seemingly opposed views of conservatism and liberalism which are truly on the service the identical established order, are the one choices. As an alternative, it asks the questions we have to ask about what kind of world we need to build, corresponding to: “Where is the financial system that limits society, the character of society, production from copy and work from the household? How can we use the social surplus we produce collectively? And who just decides this stuff?
Though the fitting-wing actions try to restore the "traditional" ideas of femininity, sexuality and nationalism, they limit the rights of those who do not reply, the Liberal Left or "Progressists" are also making an attempt to restrict feminists, anti-racism and environmentalists by in search of reputable rhetoric and disadvantages merely to diversify hierarchies as an alternative of deleting them. 99% of feminism rejects both of those paths as a result of each have served the neoliberal capitalist system we now have found; it’s this technique itself that "will identify and face the source of the real crisis and misery."
This manifesto describes a lot of methods through which neoliberal capitalism invades everyday life: intercourse, sexuality, health care, and even the setting, scratching the surface. On the similar time, it emphasizes the demand for capitalism for regulatory divisions for the sake of the "health" of the financial system, which is all the time a precedence for the well being of the individuals involved in and producing the financial system.
forms of management are an illusion; There isn’t a division at all as a result of both work together. This turns into notably clear once we take a look at what the manifesto calls "social reproduction", the place Arruzza, Bhattacharya and Fraser level out that though capitalism could not provide you with misogynya and sexism – the story is as previous as time, it has created "new, clearly "Trendy" forms of sexism supported by new institutional structures. "The formation of these trendy types, Manifesto, is a separation" from making individuals a victory. “The duty of making and sustaining the individuals who make up society is to lower ladies and deal with retrospectively for real profit-making, although individuals are not just organic life but manufacturing exercise itself. Organizing social copy is essentially a feminist challenge, but it’s a system of racism and classicism that can solely be solved by making an allowance for the interdependence of domination.
There isn’t a have to look for evidence of this. In america, the healthcare business is damaging everybody and abusing ladies, even more colorful ladies, and particularly pregnant ladies. Maternal mortality in america, where more than two ladies die on the day of childbirth, is especially vicious for black ladies who’re 3-four occasions more more likely to die as a result of pregnancy or congenital problems. Though the official considerations of dwelling black ladies are thought-about incompetent which frequently causes life-threatening delays in healthcare. Along with the shortage of social providers in capitalism that help to take care of individuals, it diminishes the dignity that folks should endanger the lives of girls.
Manifest explains this "malignant form of capitalism we live in today" just by maintaining natural, mental and physical assets empty without replenishment, disguised as a free market that rewards particular person duty as if private duty arises in a vacuum. different individuals would get to people: this apparent wild, in the arms of feminism for 99%, shall be a fierce call for action on the rights of mothers
But this is not a surprise. can capitalism be durable with out another oppression, capitalism has proved to be over and over again, not its. Nothing outdoors the monetary interests of corporations threatens monetary sanctions, that are topic to financial sanctions, and most of the time to intervene in a coup: think of Guatemala in 1954 or Chile in 1973 for appetizers. It has never been a better time to reject the "global pyramid system".
Feminism for feminism for 99% is plain. The Manifesto states that mainstream media "equate with feminism, as such, with liberal feminism." Liberal feminism has labored alongside the motion of solidarity to spread the values of neoliberal capitalism: at the expense of girls, particularly colored ladies and immigrant ladies, whereas having feminism that provides ladies lean.
To be able to survive and see the actual modifications, feminism have to be rejected not only by the proper-wing New custom but in addition by the "progressive neo-liberal left. The fact that laws, police and courts retain sufficient independence from the capitalist power structure to combat its profound tendency to produce gender-based violence. "Equally, altering legal definitions in itself doesn’t present a viable various for these in search of surgical procedure. For instance, anti-gender-based mostly legislation does little. until there are service packages that permit individuals to go away violent relationships first.
Three international ladies strike organizers for Arruzz, Bhattachary and Fraser The first step is to determine a putting pressure. The mention of the October 2016 strikes in Poland and Argentina is obvious that these will not be hopeless or particular person corporations: for instance, lower than twenty years in the past, Leymah Gbowee and his violent peace motion introduced one other Liberian civil conflict to the top. By recognizing solidarity as a key drive and interrogating many forms of paid and unpaid labor, ladies show many various ways to strike and show solidarity to be able to achieve not only financial aspirations but in addition social ones. Efforts to a system that doesn’t trust the subjugation of others, and a system that values individuals, because doing things is what allows the system to exist.
And we’ve got new ways of reaching out to one another and creating this solidarity, outdoors conventional media sources. At present, ladies in Sudan are on the forefront of the protest demonstration, and they’re using the Facebook group to emphasize police abuse. Hashtags and different on-line stores have translated, which can have felt the native experience of worldwide computing; Assume #MeToo resonating all over the world, leading to legislative modifications in Chinese civil regulation to incorporate the definition of sexual harassment within the office. As with carcermal feminism, the implementation and upkeep of efficient mechanisms takes more than legislation and rhetoric, but the importance of bringing such rhetoric on the forefront shouldn’t be simply rejected.
Feminism for 99% acknowledges feminism's own unstable historical past of racism and xenophobia, as well as the liberal efforts of feminism to impose a universal feminism that is white and center class, and violates it. The calls for of solidarity should not be confused with the universality of dwelling expertise and existence. The one thing in the universe is that we will coexist on the planet and transfer into oppression techniques as an alternative of assuming that they are essential by-merchandise. Subsequently, a very feminist movement can’t differ from anti-racism, anti-imperialism, ecology or anti-capitalism, whose oppression methods at the moment are inextricably linked to neo-liberal capitalism
ask ourselves, and we should always always change when individuals grow and change. Due to the trail that neoliberal capitalism is taking to us, which was previously thought-about an essential political concern, resembling whether or not personal property is believed, it is of little importance now. It’s because they do not keep in mind the truth of neoliberalism on the planet. In such questions, it is assumed that the historical past of patriarchy and imperialism doesn’t have an effect on the vacuum of the meritocracy, and the return to these previous questions maintains a world based mostly on the abolition of that history.
This manifesto does not imply detailed methods of working in the direction of an idealized objective. This manifesto is about presenting questions and concepts which might be essential to attempt to work one thing else that can solely be completed by making an attempt. This Manifesto must be learn and spoken, and read again and again, because it’s just the start. We will determine to vary how we think about and take part in this world. We now have the power to take a look at this technique, the injury it causes, cause and proceed to trigger and determine to move within the new course. Solely by collaborating in this battle can we hope to study extra about one another and about ourselves. And as we stated, 99% of feminism has the required map.
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The Fifth Down | Rex Ryan, Peace Prize?
Rex Ryan, Peace Prize?
By Toni Monkovic
We received a lot of sharp reader comments in the last few days. This one might have been the best:
“I nominate Jets Coach Rex Ryan and his great talking defense for the Nobel Peace Prize for all their concessions in yardage to Miami in exchange for nothing.”
This was from the reader who goes by “akiva.” Take a bow. But no trip to Oslo.
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JRM October 14, 2009 · 9:32 am
Copenhagen? What does Copenhagen have to do with anything?
nyt editor — Thanks, JRM. Fixed. I had Copenhagen on the brain because of Obama’s trip there to help Chicago’s Olympic bid. Toni.
Walt Bennett October 14, 2009 · 9:37 am
Rex has greatly toned down his rhetoric lately, at least with the press. No more of the summer bravado, now it’s more about respecting the opponent while assuring that his team will be prepared.
UN-fortunately, for the last two weeks that has not been the case, and so Rex has shifted his rhetoric once again, now taking responsibility for his team’s poor play.
He has run the gamut in just five weeks. Accelerated learning curve.
But this does show that Rex can adapt. He’s not trying to bluff anybody. When things go completely wrong he stands up and talks about it, no excuses and zero bravado.
Let Year One be full of bumps and bruises. By the end of it, he won’t be a rookie anymore. He’ll know who can play for him and who can’t. He’ll know who can coach for him and who can’t. He’ll know what works for him and what does not.
Year Two should show enormous growth, and Year Three could be a very dominant year. I love the offensive talent, and I am quite sure we will keep upgrading the defensive talent. We aren’t yet the Jets defense of the early 80s. We don’t have those kind of dominant players – quite obviously. Our front line was pushed all over the place by the Dolphins.
But one thing we know about Rex: He can put a defense together. Just give him a little more time.
david from boston October 14, 2009 · 9:44 am
It’s a good comment if you’re really into sarcasm. But hardly worth a Fifth Down Post.
How about less snark, more analysis, appreciation, and love of the game. This ain’t politics.
steve glaser October 14, 2009 · 9:50 am
Walt:
I admire your optimism. Unfortunately 40 or so years as a fan (I saw Joe Willie play at Shea) has long destroyed mine.
easi-lee October 14, 2009 · 10:30 am
I think the Jets are in better hands with Ryan than Mangini. That is the best statement I can make at this time.
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As of the 2010 census, the population of the City and County of Denver was 600,158, making it the 24th most populous U.S. city.[72] The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated 2013 population of 2,697,476 and ranked as the 21st most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area,[16] and the larger Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area had an estimated 2013 population of 3,277,309 and ranked as the 16th most populous U.S. metropolitan area.[16] Denver is the most populous city within a radius centered in the city and of 550-mile (890 km) magnitude.[16] Denverites is a term used for residents of Denver.
In 1901, the Colorado General Assembly voted to split Arapahoe County into three parts: a new consolidated City and County of Denver, a new Adams County, and the remainder of the Arapahoe County to be renamed South Arapahoe County. A ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, subsequent legislation, and a referendum delayed the creation of the City and County of Denver until November 15, 1902.[35]
Taquillaoficial.com es una compañía de entradas a nivel nacional encargada de la venta on-line de entradas o abonos oficiales de taquilla de los mayores organizadores de eventos de este país. La empresa proporciona servicios de venta, promoción y distribución de entradas a través de taquillaoficial.com. para todo tipo de espectáculo como entradas o abonos de Toros, Fútbol, Conciertos etc.
On November 22, 1858, General William Larimer and Captain Jonathan Cox, Esquire, both land speculators from eastern Kansas Territory, placed cottonwood logs to stake a claim on the bluff overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek from the existing mining settlement of Auraria, and on the site of the existing townsite of St. Charles. Larimer named the townsite Denver City to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver.[21] Larimer hoped the town's name would help make it the county seat of Arapaho County but, unbeknownst to him, Governor Denver had already resigned from office. The location was accessible to existing trails and was across the South Platte River from the site of seasonal encampments of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. The site of these first towns is now the site of Confluence Park near downtown Denver. Larimer, along with associates in the St. Charles City Land Company, sold parcels in the town to merchants and miners, with the intention of creating a major city that would cater to new immigrants. Denver City was a frontier town, with an economy based on servicing local miners with gambling, saloons, livestock and goods trading. In the early years, land parcels were often traded for grubstakes or gambled away by miners in Auraria.[21] In May 1859, Denver City residents donated 53 lots to the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express in order to secure the region's first overland wagon route. Offering daily service for "passengers, mail, freight, and gold," the Express reached Denver on a trail that trimmed westward travel time from twelve days to six. In 1863, Western Union furthered Denver's dominance of the region by choosing the city for its regional terminus.
In 2005, Denver became the first major city in the U.S. to vote to make the private possession of less than an ounce of marijuana legal for adults 21 and older.[121] The city voted 53.5 percent in favor of the marijuana legalization measure, which, as then-mayor John Hickenlooper pointed out, was without effect, because the city cannot usurp state law, which at that time treated marijuana possession in much the same way as a speeding ticket, with fines of up to $100 and no jail time.[121] Denver passed an initiative in the fourth quarter of 2007 requiring the mayor to appoint an 11-member review panel to monitor the city's compliance with the 2005 ordinance.[122] In 2012, Colorado Amendment 64 was signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper and at the beginning of 2014 Colorado became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.[123]
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"Desde que anunciamos por primera vez que HAMILTON iría a Puerto Rico, nos comprometimos a proporcionar un número significativo de boletos de $10 para que el espectáculo sea accesible y asequible para el público local que todavía se está recuperando de la catástrofe del huracán María", dijo Miranda. "Me enorgullece alcanzar esta meta y asegurarme de que la mayor cantidad de residentes y estudiantes de Puerto Rico puedan ver la obra”.
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As of 2017, Denver International Airport has been rated by Skytrax as the 28th best airport in the world, falling to second place in the United States behind only Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Skytrax also named DIA as the second best regional airport in North America for 2017, and the fourth best regional airport in the world.
Las taquillas de la Torre Eiffel abren al mismo tiempo que el monumento y, por eso, no es posible comprar la entrada antes de su apertura. Por este motivo, le recomendamos comprar su entrada por Internet para evitar colas en la taquilla. Esto le permitirá comprar una entrada con una reserva de fecha y hora de visita; si elige la primera hora de la mañana, podrá figurar entre los primeros visitantes del día en acceder al ascensor y así evitar las colas en la taquilla.
Denver has one of the country's largest populations of Mexican Americans and hosts four large Mexican American celebrations: Cinco de Mayo (with over 500,000 attendees),[100] in May; El Grito de la Independencia, in September; the annual Lowrider show, and the Dia De Los Muertos art shows/events in North Denver's Highland neighborhood, and the Lincoln Park neighborhood in the original section of West Denver.
There is also an older downtown grid system that was designed to be parallel to the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. Most of the streets downtown and in LoDo run northeast–southwest and northwest–southeast. This system has an unplanned benefit for snow removal; if the streets were in a normal N–S/E–W grid, only the N–S streets would receive sunlight. With the grid oriented to the diagonal directions, the NW–SE streets receive sunlight to melt snow in the morning and the NE–SW streets receive it in the afternoon. This idea was from Henry Brown the founder of the Brown Palace Hotel. There is now a plaque across the street from the Brown Palace Hotel that honors this idea. The NW–SE streets are numbered, while the NE–SW streets are named. The named streets start at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway with the block-long Cheyenne Place. The numbered streets start underneath the Colfax and I-25 viaducts. There are 27 named and 44 numbered streets on this grid. There are also a few vestiges of the old grid system in the normal grid, such as Park Avenue, Morrison Road, and Speer Boulevard. Larimer Street, named after William Larimer, Jr., the founder of Denver, which is in the heart of LoDo, is the oldest street in Denver.
Tendrán libre autonomía para manejar la programación de los eventos a realizarse de forma rápida y eficiente, dándoles opciones como: traslado en el tiempo, cancelación del espectáculo, confirmación, suspensión, según requiera el caso de cualquiera de sus salas. También les permite elaborar presentaciones atrayentes y variadas del diseño impreso sobre el boleto.
They have lockers on trian station, no any problem to use it. I don't remember exact cost, but it around 200-300 RUR (3-5 EUR) for a day. Also you can use luggage room on stadium (little bit extream, but comparing with Poland, Brazil or France during the Conf.Cup it works pretty good - no one can't take your bag, and service is very qiuck, I didn't spend more than 20 minutes to take my backpack in all 4 stadiums)
The Denver MSA has a gross metropolitan product of $157.6 billion in 2010, making it the 18th largest metro economy in the United States.[82] Denver's economy is based partially on its geographic position and its connection to some of the country's major transportation systems. Because Denver is the largest city within 500 miles (800 km), it has become a natural location for storage and distribution of goods and services to the Mountain States, Southwest states, as well as all western states. Another benefit for distribution is that Denver is nearly equidistant from large cities of the Midwest, such as Chicago and St. Louis and some large cities of the West Coast, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Entonces para que compro los bolestos de anticipación, pues para escoger donde sentarme y ahora resulta que pueden duplicar las taquillas y pa colmo me cobran un recargo adicional de $2 para tener que llegar temprano y poder coger mi silla asignada por que me dijeron que se las dejan al primero que llegue. Horrible mi experincia ahora prefiero llegar al cine a comprarlas.
El que también lleva tercia, pero de derrotas, es Dorados y sin poder anotar siquiera un golecito; si fue zarandeado 3-0 por Querétaro y vemos que hasta este punto del torneo de hace un año la UdeG tenía más puntos (y tal vez mejor fUtbol), Puebla (que vino a la capirucha para llevarse los tres puntos en la cueva puma), Chivas y Morelia pueden estar tranquilos al menos en este semestre, porque el Gran Pez parece que regresará sin aspavientos a las profundidades de la categoría inferior.
Finally linked to the rest of the nation by rail, Denver prospered as a service and supply center. The young city grew during these years, attracting millionaires with their mansions, as well as the poverty and crime of a rapidly growing city. Denver citizens were proud when the rich chose Denver and were thrilled when Horace Tabor, the Leadville mining millionaire, built an impressive business block at 16th and Larimer as well as the elegant Tabor Grand Opera House. Luxurious hotels, including the much-loved Brown Palace Hotel, soon followed, as well as splendid homes for millionaires like the Croke, Patterson, Campbell Mansion at 11th and Pennsylvania and the now-demolished Moffat Mansion at 8th and Grant.[26] Intent on transforming Denver into one of the world's great cities, leaders wooed industry and enticed laborers to work in these factories. Soon, in addition to the elite and a large middle class, Denver had a growing population of German, Italian, and Chinese laborers, soon followed by African-Americans and Spanish-surnamed workers. Unprepared for this influx, the Silver Crash of 1893 unsettled political, social, and economic balances, laying the foundation for ethnic bigotry, such as the Red Scare and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as corruption and crime.[27]
On June 13-16, 2018, we joined over 9,000 attendees at the biggest multifamily event of the year: The National Apartment Association's Apartmentalize. This year's event took place in sunny San Diego, where we spent four jam-packed days attending sessions, holding one-on-one meetings, hearing incredible speakers, and meeting hundreds of fellow attendees at our two Exhibit Hall booths. Read on for a recap of the new solutions we showcased at our booths. &nbs […]
Denver lies within the semi-arid, continental climate zone (Köppen climate classification BSk).[55] It has four distinct seasons and receives a modest amount of precipitation spread throughout the year. Due to its inland location on the High Plains, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, the region at times can be subject to sudden changes in weather.[56]
Las presentes Condiciones Generales de Venta regulan las modalidades y las condiciones de venta de los productos comercializados por Suministros e Instalaciones de Mobiliario, S.L.U. Todos los contratos para la venta de productos por parte de Suministros e Instalaciones de Mobiliario, S.L.U., a sus clientes están regulados por las presentes Condiciones Generales de Venta, que forman parte integrante y sustancial de cada propuesta, pedido y confirmación de pedido del producto en sí. La aceptación de un pedido implica la aceptación sin reservas de las presentes condiciones de venta, así como la renuncia por parte del cliente al conjunto de sus condiciones de compra, salvo aceptación expresa por parte de Suministros e Instalaciones de Mobiliario, S.L.U.
Ubicado a 15 millas al sur del centro de Denver, el área de West Hampden está ubicado parcialmente en Denver, pero tu cercanía a las afueras y se superponen con como Englewood, Aurora y Lakewood le otorgan una sensación suburbana con un lugar urbana. Predominantemente nuevas construcciones se llena la zona, lo que garantiza que los compradores y los inquilinos tienen acceso a las hermosas homes y apartamentos con comodidades modernas.
El atributo más interesante de nuestro sistema es que está elaborado en un ambiente Windows procurando unas interfaces bien amigables tanto al usuario como al público que viene a comprar su entrada y puede de forma muy gráfica visualizar el plano de la sala. El ambiente de trabajo Windows proporciona grandes beneficios tales como compatibilidad de interfaces con otras herramientas de Microsoft, exportación de la información recopilada en la base de datos hacia programas del tipo Excel, Word y otros. El sistema de boletería le permite realizar diversas actividades relacionadas con la boletería tales como: programación, venta, reservación de asientos, emisión de boletos, arqueo de caja, reportes, consultas, taquilla remota y otras relacionadas con la programación de eventos. Les describiremos estos diversos módulos:
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HRH The Prince of Wales Hosts Charities to Celebrate Garfield Weston Foundation’s 60th Birthday
On the 14th May 2018, The Prince of Wales kindly hosted a Reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Garfield Weston Foundation. The evening was an opportunity to celebrate not only the Foundation’s anniversary, but also many of the amazing charities that we support.
We were delighted to be joined by over 300 people from charities all across the UK. Throughout its history the Foundation has supported a wide range of charities across the furthest reaches of the country; from small and vital community organisations to large national institutions; so it was particularly exciting to see this rich variety reflected in the wonderful surroundings of the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace. The event was buzzing with great conversations, introductions, idea sharing and the forging of new connections.
Philippa Charles, the Director, said; “The Weston Family made an incredible gift to the nation in creating the Foundation so it was especially fitting that this was celebrated at the 60 year milestone and just as it exceeds £1billion in donations. We would like to thank His Royal Highness for his kind welcome in hosting a lovely event that will be remembered by us all”.
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1983 Audi Quattro
By Carter June 27, 2018 July 19, 2018 Audi
Update 7/19/18: Bidding hit $35,000 on this Quattro in June but failed to hit reserve. It’s back up with bids currently at $25,000 with two days to go. Will it clear reserve this time?
Quattros have been a hot commodity in the marketplace over the past year, and speculation coupled with their low numbers continues to drive prices up. This is especially true of cars that arrive to market in good to excellent condition with few needs since the pool of those candidates is remarkably small.
How much speculation? Cars that traded in the teens less than five years ago are suddenly – and regularly – hitting close to $50,000. A really pristine example hit $81,400 in January. And, the last time we saw a Quattro is was a desirable ’85 with some good modifications. Bids had rocketed past $35,000 before the auction was pulled because of a private sale.
Pretty much every time a Quattro comes up for sale, it’s worth a look. This one, at least on the surface, looks pretty great – so where does it fall in the market? Welcome to the ‘new norm’:
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Engine: 2.1 liter inline-5
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1983 Audi UR quattro Coupe finished in Black with Mocha leather interior. Driven 98k miles, this well maintained three owner Coupe is one of only 664 reported to have been imported to the US. The road going version of the World Famous Group B Rally Car, the UR ( German for Original or First Version ) is the first production car that utilized a Four Wheel Drive system and a Turbo Charged engine. It all started sometime in the late seventies, when Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Dr. Porsche and the man behind the Le Mans-winning 917, challenged Audi’s best engineers to build a new car, its only design requirements that it be the embodiment of their collective dream drive. It was the creation of chassis engineer Jörg Bensinger, who proposed the basic Quattro formula after being inspired by his discovery that nothing could out-perform a VW Iltis (sort of a light Jeep used by German military) on snow, regardless of power.
Years ahead of it’s time and already a proven rally race winning formula, the UR Coupe was an instantaneous hit. The original price was more expensive than a new Porsche 911. It’s limited production and unique styling with bulbous fenders and a stout stance along with diagonally pleated leather seating have given this unusual car a cult like following. It’s pretty rare and undeniably cool.
The example presented here is a rust and accident free car that has been well maintained and recently serviced. It is fitted with lightweight alloy wheels finished Black, a Sport exhaust, uprated stereo system with sub woofer, Euro Headlamps and lighter Euro front and rear bumpers, auxiliary gauges that display boost, oil and water temperature and much more.
The air conditioning system has been removed from the car but all removed components come with the car in the sale.
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As someone who often sometimes regrets painting my GT black, it’s hard to argue that it doesn’t give the Type 85 a lot of presence. This car looks stunning even with the silly black wheels. Swap those for a set of 8″ Ronals and boy would this car be a standout. Specific detail of this car is lacking, but rumor is that it sold fairly recently for ~$21,000 with a few more modifications which have been undone. The seller states the car has Euro bumpers but they appear to be just tucked U.S. units; typically, the Euro units have integrated turn and fog lights in the front, and in the rear you see that the reflectors on U.S. models – which sit under the rear lights – have been removed. Euro bumpers have the rear reflectors integrated, but again they’re not present here. The tucked bumpers do look more streamlined and integrate well with the updated sloped H1/H4 Euros and grill. the Frankani black tails work well with the color and upgraded lights to make this look like a post-update example, probably much to the ire of the pre-update fans. Unlike the ’85 we saw, inside we have the earlier dash and stock seats. The car features an “upgraded” head unit and a gauge cluster in place of the fresh air vents – better hope the air conditioning works. The ’85s solution of moving the radio to the left cubbie was more clever and better executed in my eyes. The same goes for the ill-fitting exhaust. But the black wheels really look out of place, and though the paint is sparkling there are a few issues present which indicate there may have been paintwork along the way; the aforementioned missing reflectors, the high polish on the upper trunk lid, the matte spoiler looks as though it may have been redone, and the “quattro” sticker is complete gone, with the “Audi” one being mostly polished off while the rings have been added in. The effect mostly works, but technically speaking, it’s not correct. The rain tray under the hood is gone, as is the side cardboard for the radiator. This really only matters if you’re asking top dollar, and you guessed it.
The seller’s site indicates they’re looking for $59,900. Since this car is in the Northeast, meaningful underbody shots would be necessary to really pull strong bids. Is this car worth the asking price? Five years ago, it would have been laughable. Even as prices crept up, I looked at a similar car four years ago for less than half this asking price. But it’s not four years ago, and consequently if you want in on the Quattro market right now, this ask is high but not outrageously so. But frankly were it my money I’d be buying this pristine RR 20V example for the same money.
Tagged 1983, B2, black, boxflares, euro, legend, MC1, Mocha, Quattro, Turbo, Turbocharged, Typ85, Type 85.
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Yup non Euro bumpers. Plugs in the front with lack of lights and reflectors and no reflectors in the back are dead giveaways at 100 feet! The Euro headlights have had the corner reflectors blacked out, not to my taste. For that kind of money I’d want to see the A/C in the car, not in a box and a number of under hood items in place like the rain tray etc. Too many beauty shots, no money shots!
The wheels are just killing the mood for me. Needs silver wheels, Ronals, or even some nice period correct BBS.
markiteight
“The ’85s solution of moving the radio to the left cubbie was more clever and better executed in my eyes.” While you’re absolutely right that relocating the radio was an elegant solution to open up much needed real estate for important instrumentation that was oddly omitted by the factory, putting it in the left dash cubby was a creative solution by aftermarket radio installers, not the factory. 1985 quattros had their radio in the same place as all others:
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@markiteight, I’m aware. My point was that moving the radio on that particular ‘85 I just looked at was better executed than the ‘83’s vent gauge solution. Sorry if that was unclear!
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‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’: True thrills from aging series that knows to keep it real
There’s little new or fresh in the latest “Mission: Impossible” chapter, branded way too ominously for its own good with the term “Fallout” (“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”). Its star, Tom Cruise, isn’t the spry chicken he was in “Risky Business” back in 1982; the television series the film franchise hangs on was a droll, thinking person’s staple back in the 1960s and 1970s; and the stunt work here is mostly old school. These aren’t three strikes, but a gold strike: Blending the three makes for the most exhilarating filmgoing experience of the summer, with Cruise doing most of his own stunts for the painstaking realism – and boy, does it show – and director Christopher McQuarrie choosing to do each crash-bang chase they way they used to when Bill Friedkin was lighting up the screen, eschewing CGI where any “Fast and Furious” helmer would jump in with a dual core processor and a green screen.
The plot’s not all that much to bite into – there’s three mobile nukes on the loose in Europe and IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) feels particularly responsible because he let the weapons out of his grasp by opting to save one of his own crew (). Because of said misstep, Hunt’s team is given a watchful CIA presence, a strong-jawed slab by the name of Walker (Henry Cavill, who dons the cape as Superman in a different franchise). In Paris and London there’s a sleek assassin on a motorbike (Rebecca Ferguson) tailing Hunt & Co., as well as a racy arms dealer (Vanessa Kirby, from “The Crown”) in the middle who, without batting an eyelash, whips a stiletto from her garter belt to dispatch an onrushing hitman. Oh yeah, Lane (Sean Harris), the anarchist terrier Hunt put away in his last outing, “Rogue Nation,” factors big into the mix as well.
Needless to say, it’s a crowded affair that reaches its crescendo atop sheer precipices in Kashmir, and while that copter-crashing cliffhanger works effectively – if you hate height like me, you may experience a few churns to the gut – it’s not as raw or adrenaline-pumping as Hunt running the rooftops in London to capture quarry, or the smackdown in a Paris men’s room where Hunt and Walker get their asses handed to them by a very able foe. The scenes are so invigorating that when they’re over you need to catch your breath. The film does too, and it’s in these moments that the lines of artifice to get to the next whopper of a stunt show some. You can tell Cruise and McQuarrie, the scribe behind “The Usual Suspects” who’s worked with Cruise on nearly a half-dozen projects, are on the same page – it shows in almost every scene. McQuarrie, an obvious cinephile, layers in a slew of subtle, tongue-in-cheek film references for the enlightened, be it a nod to Rhames’ gimp scene in “Pulp Fiction” or Hunt spouting Cruise’s “crystal” line from “A Few Good Men.” And boy, can he run – and drive, fly and fall. Instead of “Fallout,” the tag for the film should have been “See Tom Run.”
Tags: Christopher McQuarrie, FallOut, Henry Cavill, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Rebecca Ferguson, Superman, thriller, Tom Cruise, Usual Suspects, Vanessa Kirby, Ving Rhames
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2 Responses to “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”
Brian Valentine September 10, 2018 at 7:51 pm #
YES! I noticed the Pulp Fiction camera angle too! It was when Pegg was pointing the gun down at the lock. I yelped.
tbmeek3 September 10, 2018 at 8:00 pm #
Haha, sharp eyes
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Jinko (incense) Source: Wikipedia
KANSAI CULTURESCAPES / Incense carries aroma of history
Christal Whelan / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
The world of incense is full of evocative power that can conjure up striking primordial imagery. The golden resin known as frankincense comes from a tree that grows in some of the most forbidding landscapes, and ambergris from the remains of squid beaks excreted by sperm whales. Jinko or aloeswood is the immune response of a tropical Southeast Asian tree to a life-threatening fungal infection.
Jinko, together with sandalwood, forms the aromatic core of traditional Japanese incense in the form of sticks, pellets, coils or powder. Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) offers the country’s first report of the fragrant wood, said to have drifted ashore on Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture in 595. The residents of the island between Honshu and Shikoku are said to have begun burning their find as firewood, but astonished by the fragrance, put out the fire, and instead presented the wood to the Imperial Court in Nara. Prince Shotoku recognized the resinous wood as precious aloeswood whose resinous core is “kyara,” the creme de la creme of incense wood.
To this day on the northwestern shore of Awajishima, the Kareki Shrine facing the Seto Inland Sea enshrines jinko as its object of veneration.
The island is also home to incense maker Kunjudo, established in the Meiji era (1868-1912), which offers workshops on making cone and pressed incense. According to Shozo Akashi of Kunjudo, the island produces about 70 percent of Japan’s incense. The hub of this production is the town of Ei, where over half the population is involved in the industry. Its flourishing is partly attributable to the scant rainfall and seasonal west wind on the island that provide ideal conditions for drying incense.
Incense and Buddhism
The culture of incense in Japan developed in tandem with Buddhism and traditional Chinese medicine. Incense was required for religious rituals in which it purified the air and marked the passing of the hours with sticks or incense trails made to measure. It also did duty as an insect repellent for the preservation of sutra texts and Buddhist vestments. Clove, sandalwood and camphor are especially effective and constitute major ingredients in the sachets produced by all of Japan’s major incense companies even today.
As healing inevitably involves both body and spirit, blurry lines existed from the start within the triad of Buddhism, medicine and incense.
Kungyokudo Co., a Kyoto incense seller opposite Nishi Hongwanji temple, which it supplies, was first established as a pharmacy of Chinese medicine in 1594.
The company’s director, Hiroki Yamaguchi, said: “At first the incense ingredients were considered medicinal. Jinko was thought to be good for blood pressure and was consumed rather than enjoyed as fragrance.”
It is hardly by chance that Shoyeido Incense Co., a distinguished incense dynasty since 1705 and creator of such hits as Horikawa, is located on Nijodori street. This is an area of Kyoto where clove merchants who imported Chinese medicines through the ports of Nagasaki and Okinawa prefectures once thrived. As incense makers, the Hata family could more easily procure the ingredients for blends that a third-generation family member had learned while working in the nearby Imperial Palace.
The Chinese monk Ganjin (688-763), also known as Jianzhen, who is usually credited with the introduction of incense to Japan, arrived in the archipelago in 754 during the early wave of Nara Buddhism. He propagated the Ritsu school of Buddhism and introduced incense recipes and materials, influencing the spherical shape in which incense would be made, its rich blends and the traditional method of indirect burning by burying a tiny charcoal briquette in a cup of ash.
As in China, the use of incense in Japan spilled over from the religious sphere into the secular. Aromatic materials that release fragrant smoke when burned involve the skill of artisans coupled with spiritual and artistic imagination. Thus, kodo or “the way of fragrance” began in the Heian period (794-1192) but became a formal art in the Muromachi period (1336-1573) as a ceremonial way of “listening to incense.”
The ritual required minute preparations of the incense cup with special tools to form an ash mountain with a tiny mica slab on the peak, on which a miniscule wood chip or incense pellet would be placed for indirect burning. This developed into various incense pastimes in which participants competed to produce the best fragrance or played guess-the-scent games.
The eighth shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436-1490), was a devotee of the incense ceremony and collected fragrant woods. In his villa in the Higashiyama hills in Kyoto, now known as Ginkakuji temple, or the Silver Pavilion, the retired shogun had an incense ceremony room–the Roseitei–the only one that still exists from antiquity today.
Yet the refined art of incense, like most of Japanese culture, remained hidden from the world and was long exoticized. It took the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 to open the floodgates. Along with Zen, Japanese incense also made its debut on the world stage at this time.
Hands-on incense blending
The continuing passion for incense in Japan is intimately connected to the spiritual sustenance that the mixing of several ingredients from nature’s treasure chest–or the showcasing of a single one–has provided for centuries. This became crystal clear to me during an incense-making workshop given by Yamada-Matsu Co. in Kyoto, a seller of natural extracts, medicine and fragrant woods located west of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. The store has hundreds of drawers along one wall, an enormous helical narwhal tusk on another and boxes of Buddhist rosaries made of various fragrant woods.
Nine of us were led to a back room to make traditional black, pellet-shaped incense soft as clay according to a recipe that included nine ingredients plus three of our own choosing, with musk being an option. With a base of jinko and sandalwood, we added clove, Borneo camphor, spikenard, pistachio, sumi to impart a uniform blackness, plum water to blend, and ground cuddy shell to bind them all together. The mood was intense, the excitement palpable, and no two people came up with the same incense.
Japan’s major incense producers are highly innovative. Along with their own traditional blends for Buddhist altars and ceremonies, they experiment with modern lines that include producing scents as novel as coffee, green tea, grapefruit and even double mint. Do not, however, jump to easy conclusions. Coffee incense is not made from any part of the coffee plant but rather is conceptual and creates the mood rather than the aroma of coffee.
Incense makers are designers no less than those in the fashion world, though they deal in the most ethereal and ephemeral of fabrics. Marilyn Monroe said it all when she famously remarked that all she wore to bed was Chanel No. 5. No comment makes a bolder suggestion that fragrance is not an accessory but something as fundamental and primary as a garment.
Today is my last column. Over the 14 months in which I wrote this column I relished my role as cultural interpreter and the privilege of introducing some of the most engaging phenomena, captivating people, and unforgettable places in the Kansai region. I am grateful to The Daily Yomiuri for inviting me on board and to all of my readers.
Whelan is a cultural anthropologist and author who resides in Kyoto.
— Kunjudo
1255-1 Taga, Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture.
Open: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cone and pressed incense-making workshop:
Offered by reservation.
(0799) 85-1301. www.kunjudo.co.jp
To go from JR Sannomiya Station in Kobe, take Shinki bus to Awajishima and get off at Gunke bus stop.
— Kungyokudo Co.
Nishi Hongwanji-mae, Horikawadori,
Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto.
Open: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
(Closed first and third Sundays of the month.)
Incense Ceremony Experience (for 90 minutes):
On April 28 and May 26 at 10 a.m. or 2 p.m. Reservations are necessary.
(075) 371-0162. www.kungyokudo.co.jp
Take city bus No. 9 or No. 28 from Kyoto Station to Nishihongwanji-mae stop
— Shoyeido Incense Co.
Nijo-agaru, Karasumadori, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto.
Open: 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
(Until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday)
Incense Ceremony Experience: On May 9. To make reservations, call (075) 212-5591 or send an e-mail to incense@shoyeido.co.jp
(075) 212-5590. http://www.shoyeido.co.jp
Near Exit 7 of Marutamachi Station on the Karasuma subway line.
— Ginkakuji temple (Silver Pavilion)
Roseitei Incense Room: Open until May 16
(Closed April 17 and 18) from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
To go, take bus No. 5, No. 17 or No.100 from Kyoto Station to Ginkakuji
— Yamada-Matsu Co.
(Shimodachiuri-agaru, Muromachidori),
164 Kageyukojicho, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto
Open: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Traditional incense-making workshop: At 2:30 p.m. on weekdays. Reservations are necessary 24 hours in advance, and at least two people are needed to hold the workshop.
(075) 441-4694. www.yamadamatsu.co.jp
(Apr. 15, 2012)
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Salford University’s Acoustics Research Centre Investigate Flare Audio’s Vortex™ Technology
07. August 2015 · Write a comment · Categories: Hifi News · Tags: hifi news, Loudspeakers
British loudspeaker manufacturer Flare Audio builds products on the principle of Waveform Integrity: the signal that goes into the loudspeaker is precisely replicated by the sound wave that comes out. Flare believes the loudspeaker should be sonically invisible, allowing the driver to deliver sound without interference. The company wanted to see if the effects of its Vortex™ technology which they believed to capture sound, could be scientifically verified, and so commissioned Salford University to put the technology through independent testing. Scientists used three samples provided by Flare Audio for the test: 50%, 75% and 100% vortex designs milled from circular aluminium disks. Once the measurements were made, processing was performed to extract the normal incidence transmission loss in dB of the samples in question and this data was then plotted with respect to frequency. A steady increase in the transmission loss was shown from each of the samples with increased frequency. Using the mathematical ‘mass law equation’ researchers also predicted how a solid plate of the same mass would behave and found that vortex silencing was just as effective. They also compared the performance of the vortex against that of a straight hole and found a significant difference in the behaviour of the vortex, which exhibited a higher transmission loss across almost all measured frequencies. This independent test data proves that vortex technology has the ability to silence sound whilst maintaining airflow which a solid material would restrict.
Davies Roberts, founder and CEO of flare Audio said: “We are really excited about the findings, which prove beyond any doubt that we are really onto something here, especially the finding that the silencing effect is as good as a solid plate of aluminium. We believe that allowing increased air movement to pass through the vortex (but not sound) removes a driver’s non-linearity of movement (spring effect of air inside a sealed loudspeaker) as well as stopping sound interference from a port (ported loudspeaker). Asymmetry distortion (also known as DC Offset) is a hidden distortion that affects every traditional loudspeaker (at every frequency). The effect of a closed or pressure restricted system (the traditional approach to all speaker designs) distorts sound waves and causes asymmetry which changes the timbre of sound.”
Audio consultant Dr. Rob Oldfield, who conducted the measurements at Salford, confirms: “It’s clear that there is a significant level decrease between what enters the vortex and what leaves it, which suggests that there is some sound attenuation going on as sound propagates within the vortex. Interestingly we don’t know what happens to the sound energy in the case of the vortex. We can only state the proportion of energy that is transmitted through the structure. Further tests could shed more light on this.”
Flare’s work with Salford University is on going and includes computational modelling which will show energy flow inside Flare’s Vortex™. Flare is also looking into software to assist with particle flow analysis inside the vortexes.
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Imperial Tobacco Group (IMBBY) Sets New 12-Month Low at $25.80
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Imperial Tobacco Group plc Sponsored (OTCMKTS:IMBBY) reached a new 52-week low on Tuesday . The company traded as low as $25.80 and last traded at $25.81, with a volume of 166444 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $26.29.
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Toshiba BDX5200 3D Blu-ray Player Reviewed
By Adrienne Maxwell | September 2, 2011
Introduced a few months back, Toshiba's BDX5200 is a 3D-capable Blu-ray player with an MSRP of $179.99. We have not performed a hands-on review of this product, but here is a more comprehensive look at its features. In addition to 3D capability, the BDX5200 sports integrated WiFi and access to Toshiba's Web platform, which includes Netflix, CinemaNow, Blockbuster On Demand, VUDU, YouTube, and Pandora. The player also supports media streaming from a network-connected server, but it does not offer 2D-to-3D conversion.
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The BDX5200 supports playback of Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, CD audio, AVCHD, MKV, WMA, MP3, and JPEG files. The connection panel includes a single HDMI output, as well as composite video, coaxial digital audio, and stereo analog audio outputs. (Beginning this year, manufacturers are no longer allowed to include HD-capable component video outputs, due to copy-protection restrictions.) The player has onboard Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD decoding, and it can pass both of these high-resolution audio formats in their native bitstream form over HDMI, for your A/V receiver to decode. You can add the player to your home network either by using the back-panel Ethernet port or via the integrated WiFi module. The player lacks internal memory to store BD-Live content; a back-panel USB port and front-panel SD card slot are provided for this purpose. These ports also support media playback. The player lacks advanced control ports, such as RS-232 or IR.
High Points
• The BDX5200 supports 3D playback.
• It has internal decoding and bitstream output of high-resolution audio.
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Tragedy yesterday occurred in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, when the body of a young man identified as Mohammed Suberu, was found floating in the swimming pool of Idrinana Hotel, located in Phase Two area of Lokongoma.
The deceased was said to have gone to the hotel to swim on Monday morning, only for his lifeless body to be found later floating in the pool.
He was later taken to the state Specialist Hospital, Lokoja, where he was confirmed dead.
The atmosphere, however, became tensed when friends and colleagues of the deceased invaded the hotel premises to protest against his death.
A similar event happened in Idrinana last year, when a middle-aged man drowned in the hotel’s swimming pool, leading to attack of its workers and destruction of property by irate youths.
When contacted, the General Manager of the hotel, Audu Alhassan, said he could not speak on the incident until he got clearance from the chairman, a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly.
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20 dead as passenger train hits freight train in Pakistan
World News | Published: Jul 11, 2019
The freight train was stationary when the speeding passenger train hit it at Walhar railway station in Rahim Yar Khan, in the eastern Punjab province.
A passenger train has rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others.
Jamil Ahmed, an official in the provincial government, said hospitals have declared an emergency.
Twenty people were killed in the train crash and 74 were wounded, with some in a critical condition.
A passenger train rammed into a freight train in southern Pakistan (Waleed Saddique/AP)
In a statement, he said he was saddened by the news.
Mr Khan ordered railways minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad to “take emergency steps to counter decades of neglect of railway infrastructure” and ensure safety standards.
Authorities said Pakistan’s army was also taking part in the rescue efforts.
Train accidents are common in Pakistan mainly because of poor railway infrastructure and negligence of railway authorities.
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Automate The Freight: Robotic Deliveries Are On The Way
Dan Maloney
Seems like all the buzz about autonomous vehicles these days centers around self-driving cars. Hands-free transportation certainly has its appeal – being able to whistle up a ride with a smartphone app and converting commute time to Netflix binge time is an alluring idea. But is autonomous personal transportation really the killer app that everyone seems to think it is? Wouldn’t we get more bang for the buck by automating something a little more mundane and a lot more important? What about automating the shipping of freight?
Look around the next time you’re not being driven to work by a robot and you’re sure to notice a heck of a lot of trucks on the road. From small panel trucks making local deliveries to long-haul tractor trailers working cross-country routes, the roads are lousy with trucks. And behind the wheel of each truck is a human driver (or two, in the case of team-driven long-haul rigs). The drivers are the weak point in this system, and the big reason I think self-driving trucks will be commonplace long before we see massive market penetration of self-driving cars.
Any business owner will tell you that his or her biggest problems come from dealing with employees. Humans are, well, human. The get sick, they get bored, they get greedy and steal from you, they get in a snit and walk out on you. Even if they are model employees, eventually they wear out and retire, needing replacement. And until that day comes, you have to pay the employee. The more employees, the more problems, the more time wasted on non-productive stuff, and the more money that flies out the door. The fact that almost every one of those truck drivers is someone’s employee, and therefore someone’s problem, makes them a ripe target for being automated out of a job.
Look Ma, no driver. Source: Otto
Think it can’t happen? It already is. Uber’s freight division recently acquired Otto, a truck automation startup founded by ex-Google, Apple, and Tesla talent. An Otto-equipped truck recently completed a 120-mile autonomous beer delivery in Colorado with the driver cooling his heels in the sleeper compartment. He was still needed to start and end the run, but the day can’t be far behind when even those tasks will be automated away and the driver can be replaced entirely.
The point is, as sexy as it might be to have a self-driving car, there’s nowhere near the economic incentive to replace you behind the wheel of your daily driver as there is to replace the driver of a long-haul or local delivery truck. You’d be paying for the privilege of easing your commute, while thousands of trucking companies stand to save billions of dollars each year by replacing carbon-based drivers with silicon. That alone makes it far more likely that the trucks will be automated long before cars.
aXatlantic’s ocean-going drone.
And it won’t just be trucks. My guess is that anything that plies a more or less fixed route with bulk goods is ripe for having the humans taken out of the loop. Shipping seems like a perfect target. Most modern container ships are already highly automated, at least in terms of controlling and navigating the ship. It once took hundreds of seamen to man a vessel; automation has already reduced that to a dozen or so, and it’s easy to imagine a completely autonomous container ship someday. A small step in that direction is the aXatlantic project, which seeks to build a drone ship capable of autonomously crossing the Atlantic.
Are there obstacles to the automation of the world’s freight ways? Of course, and as usual, they’re mostly carbon-based. The drivers, pilots, sailors and engineers that currently run the system are all likely to resist the trend, and most of them are represented by labor unions that will no doubt get into the process politically. The buggy-whip makers were once a powerful lobby too, but you don’t see many around these days. The laws of economics are hard to resist, at least in the long term, and my guess is that a driverless truck barrelling down the highway or working a local parcel delivery route will be commonplace long before self-driving cars no longer raise an eyebrow.
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162 thoughts on “Automate The Freight: Robotic Deliveries Are On The Way”
jcwren says:
Yeah, well, the not-truck drivers are just as much a problem. These idiots in their “Smart Car” that whip in front of an 18 wheeler, and then slow down. Just NO concept of physics, and that a 36,000 lb vehicle cannot stop in the same distance as you’re 1800 lb death trap.
“your”. I know this, but I don’t always type it correctly the first time. And even after thousands of requests for a 5 minute edit window for the last however many years, we still have to leave the embarrassing typos out in the wild.
motonnerd says:
Perhaps embarassing typos have a benefit — reinforcing the importance of proofreading and thinking as you write. think of it as ‘exposing how much effort was put into the post’. You could certainly give yourself a 5-minute window, but it is always easier to ask other people to do it for you.
Think of it like speaking in meatspace — or even like email! Neither of those have an edit window.
Besides, there’s substantial things to consider about editing.. There’s all kinds of trickery associated with changing the record of the past. Altering the record of the past can also be used to create a chilling effect on discussion. Look at the recent rise of the blockchain, and even the encryption used for non-repudiation.
the HaD writers do an excellent job of handling the issue – they make corrections, but strikeout the incorrect version, simultaneously articulating their previous mistakes, the corrections, and admitting human flaws. I’m down with that.
Thank you, Miss Manners. Any other words of wisdom? Perhaps you can explain to us all which side of the plate the knife and fork should be placed, and how the napkins should be folded.
Thousands of major websites have the ability to edit posts. Facebook and G+ come to mind immediately. Apparently it’s not THAT complicated, technically or socially, for edits to be handled. In “meat space”, as far as English goes, “your” and “you’re” are pronounced nearly identically, and most people (perhaps yourself excluded) don’t assume someone pronounced “you’re” as “your”.
And what did this have to do with the HaH writers, anyway? They CAN edit their posts. Users can not edit their own comments. Judging from the dozens of other comments I’ve run across, there are a LOT of people that wish to be edit their own comments, generally for simple typographical mistakes, or to correct a URL.
Gilliam says:
get over it, we are not getting an edit button. there is an EXIT button though, usually located in the top left corner of the browser window, or the mains circuit breaker in your electrical panel.
Ostracus says:
Only solution that’s under poster control is browser extensions that reduce the chances of typos and other grammatical mistakes, not to mention board features like image links. Perfect? No, but sometimes when given lemons, one opens a lemonade stand.
SlowBro says:
So I guess the resistance to the five minute edit window is like the resistance from the buggy whip cartel.
larson says:
Just get over being embarrassed over type-os. And stop being grammar nazi’s. It’s the thought that matter.
Easy Tiger says:
“Think of it like speaking in meatspace”
Probably not the example I’d go for. In actual speech you have plenty of opportunity to correct yourself after you’ve said something.
Meh. As a software dev, I appreciate the temptation to paint bugs as features. By framing software short-comings as ‘user error’ you get the opportunity to dismiss and patronise someone simultaneously.
As it is, though, there are an awful lot of people that think a small edit window would improve things. It’d allow people to rephrase things clearly and correct embarrassing mistakes. It’d improve the quality of discussion.
hubert cumberdale says:
you’re right, that would be nice ;)
The more I drive the more I’m convinced that capitalistic economic model does not work for driving. (everyone working in their own self interest) Mostly because they we don’t have a good concept of risk & cost for driving.
Have you ever been passed by some in-such-a-damn-hurry car only to pull up slowly beside them at the next light?
What did all that zipping around buy that car? Nothing, we both effectively got where we’re going at the same time.
Wolf says:
I always get a chuckle out of the [expensive sports car] passing you at 120MPH, and a few minutes later you see them pulled over getting a ticket. :)
Derderoo says:
I drive a (used, got a great deal) Porsche and have yet to get a speeding ticket. I do sometimes hit 120, but only on roads I know and can see what’s ahead. Always puts a great big smile on my face.
The difference in the minute-by-minute driving experience compared to my F-150 or work van is astounding, I also recommend grabbing a miata to anyone, so much actual fun.
Drew22 says:
I’m on a timeclock, and being first at several lights can possibly get me to work on time, if I’m over two minutes late I get a point. three points and I might get fired.
Thanks toyota non-union car plants in the US.
Tane says:
As a counterpoint to the smugness you feel when you pull up slowly beside a car who (likely thanks to being stuck behind you) just missed a green light, you should consider all the times that going 5km/h faster for a few dozen meters let them get through a light before it changed, saving them minutes per trip.
Chaz says:
Whew, dodged a bullet.
I didn’t correct my your / you’re mistake on my fist post here and man did I get reamed out. Taught me to check my typing before I post for sure.
packrat says:
Yep, the fist post is the one that always gets me :-)
RW ver 0.0.2 says:
I am continual surprised how often my fingers spit out homophones when I’m typing fast. Very weird sometimes, even know for no, and shit like that.
Like on certain image boards.
It’s actually improved a fair amount in cutting edge trucks that are equipped with this technology.
That looks amazingly unnatural and incredibly terrifying at the same time (even the on-board shot doesn’t make the physics look right)
I wonder if it has sensors to take into account the variable load weight?
Martin Bogomolni says:
Yes, it uses on-board weight sensors. This system is becoming common in new Mack, Volvo, Mercedes semi trucks. There are also MASSIVE incentives for companies and drivers to switch to trucks that have the new safety equipment in place via insurance, and lease/financing promotions.
Wow, that’s pretty amazing
three_d_dave says:
Great – an ability so truck drivers can terrify drivers of cars who won’t know the truck won’t hit them. It’s a small number, but when they are frustrated in slow traffic some truck drivers seem to want to take it out on the little cars slowing them down. Just clip the speaker wire and ride the bumper and let the truck do the job of maintaining that edge.
Also, if traction isn’t as high as the trucker expects then collide away.
oodain says:
car computers have had a better handle on traction than humans for a couple of decades now.
Nospam says:
I wonder if it compensates for overheated brakes…and unadjusted brakes because the O/O is saving money by avoiding PM’s
Trucks that meet the European braking standards have disc brakes, so no adjustment needed.
Now this is an interesting development! Seriously!
RÖB says:
Yeah, Especially coming up to red lights.
I had the same problem on motorbikes – some ass two meters behind you at 100kM/h and you think – well is not so great that I can stop 6 meters before you.
Jason Dorie says:
I was being tailgated by a pickup truck on the highway once while driving a motorcycle. I did the usual “tap the brakes”, “wave at him”, and more, but he wouldn’t back off, and wouldn’t pass. Fed up, I dropped two gears, hit the brakes, slowed down really fast, revved hard, and accelerated away before he could rear end me. He locked his brakes and went skidding all over the road. Oddly enough he maintained a proper following distance from then on. (I was 19, and not quite thinking “if this goes wrong I’m dead, and thankfully it didn’t)
rallen says:
When I was younger and rode, I’d pick up a little road gravel and put it in my jacket pocket. I’d trickle a little out and it would bounce into the windshield of cars that were following too closely. Enraged drivers? Not very often. They thought it was just rocks getting kicked up by my tires. I quit riding years ago after both my younger brothers were almost killed by some idiot woman making a left turn across multiple lanes of traffic. She got off light with a face shredded by glass.
DV82XL says:
The 800 lbs gorilla in any discussion of autonomously controlled vehicles is the vast number of jobs that are going to be made redundant. It’s not just drivers that will be gone, but the fact is, the huge potential increase in fleet utilization means there will not be the need for as many units and that means losses on the manufacturing side as well. This is going to hit global economies like a ton of bricks and there is little in the way of forward thinking over the implications of this beyond some hand wringing among macroeconomic theoreticians and the a few futurist writers. This is such a potential issue, I see the distinct possibility that this technology will be actively suppressed by legislative fiat in many polities.
Or we’ll end up with that “universal income” everyone’s talking about. Certainly not reeducation after that bubble pops.
Well that’s another can of worms altogether.
Education will probably be automated as well.
Have you signed up for Kahn Academy?
*feels back of neck* Yup, have the plug-in back here.
Half the people in the world have an IQ less than 100. Education can only do so much.
John Rockefeller says:
IQ is correlated with education, in turn correlated with income. No need to be an elitist asshole from the privileged position of living in a first-world country with a decent educational system.
Leithoa says:
>>I see the distinct possibility that this technology will be actively suppressed by legislative fiat in many polities
If it saves the companies money & benefits the economy, those people who suppress this technology will fall to the wayside like the Luddites who smashed weaving looms & factory equipment.
The Luddites failed because in the long run machine looms increased net employment even as it eliminated skilled jobs – this technology will reduce it across the board. The situations are very different.
that is an unproven assumption, most technologies follow the path of the loom on this subject, they might short term cost employment but most have big long term benefits to all involved, from farming equipment to factories.
i also find the idea that work is something everyone should do, even if that requires you to be worse at something as a society, to be the opposite of ideal.
You do understand that there is a significant difference in that weavers were highly skilled workers who were being replaced by unskilled labor in a growing market where the unit cost was falling. In this case (relatively) unskilled workers are being replaced in a situation where the market is shrinking due to increased productivity. This is not to suggest that this technology should not be developed, but unlike the case during the Industrial Revolution, there isn’t room for the vast increase in consumption drove higher employment.
This is what economists are referring to when they talk about post-scarcity. Post-scarcity is the economic condition in which most goods and services can be provided in great abundance with minimal human labor, and is defined by a severe reduction in the workforce. Historically this occurred once already in farming where technology caused a drastic reduction in the amount of labor needed to produce food. At that time surplus labor was absorbed by the Industrial Revolution, and migration to settlement colonies, however today there is no major labor sink on the horizon, nor are there any place for migrants to go.
In other words the situation is very different.
in all of those situations people were painting as bad of a picture while they stood in it, thing is we cant as people predict the future, i might very well be wrong but history has had this happen hundreds of times and all with roughly the same outcome, so for now i will say that is probably going to happen again.
hunters got supplanted by farmers, something they couldnt have imagined a few thousand of years before when they started tool use, the farmers got supplanted by industrial workers, something they couldnt have imagined just a few hundred years before, then in the span of a single century the industrial workers were replaced by services, academia, design speciality production, development, administration and well to be frank so many things that no one could have imagined half a century before, let alone a whole century.
to say that there will be nothing to do is as much of a fallacy as saying it wont have consequences, something as simple as lowering the amount worked by any single person might help, but you are absolutely right that it would require some very serious and difficult changes to society.
They also greatly reduced the cost of faberic so more people could afford it and not have to spend hours a day making their own.
Self driving trucks would not make large changes for consumers in cost or saved time.
The reduction in cost at store would be smalll maybe even unnoticable so the main people to benifit would be the owners of shipping companies.
Exactly, but they will decrease the number of jobs, and that’s the issue. Reducing the cost of textiles grew the market such that there was a net increase in the number of jobs that offset by several orders of magnitude those lost from manual looms. For the reason you mentioned, this will not be the case here.
The mechanised factories of the last industrial revolution wasn’t particularly brilliant for workers. It took a few centuries of industrial action and two world wars to get to levels of relative wealth distribution we have to today.
It looks like we’re heading back that way.
Only in hindsight. Regardless they were better than starvation which would have been the fate of many displaced by the earlier Agricultural Revolution.
evad says:
You mean like cheap solar panels from Asia? Yes we’re afraid of climate change, but only if it helps my friends get rich.
Or like Uber?
Given that trucking companies push drivers (consciously or otherwise) to drive more hours and that drivers themselves sometimes push rest limits to get jobs done, Id say there is a need for more capacity in the transport industry than is possible with human drivers. As more people get a better education worldwide, theyll want a better standard of living. We are going to manufacture more rather than less, it will just be in different ways. More small run, no or low stock held, late dispatch and less warehouses full of thousands of units and regular dispatches. If we want to survive a world full of people with the ability to buy things then we have to move away from the inefficient ways of the past.
Look i’m not saying this should not happen, but I am pointing out that it is potentially a very disruptive technology, and I’m not so sure that the problems will ‘grow out’ with economic growth through increased productivity as has occurred in similar situations. In fact this is one more step in the march towards a post-scarcity economy that will require major systemic changes that nobody seem prepared to make.
The funny thing about the “better standard of living” is when I talked to a former Teamster driver, now retired, he’s doing pretty good on his pension. It’s hard work, but eventually it pays off.
Ken N says:
Hmmm. Someone who belonged to a union, was in that career for a long period, and got to retire with a pension.
These are not words you get to hear so much these days.
back on topic: ” What about automating the shipping of freight?”
…What about more trains?
AKA the A says:
Trains, trams and subways are probably a better place for transport automation to start, as it only has to deal with controlling the speed, the direction is already taken care of :D
It is a good living and most I talked to in the business say they’d rather be on the road driving a truck then working in an office cubical or something even worse that enemy of efficiency and sanity known as the open plan office.
This old argument could and has been used on countless advancements in technology for a very very very long time. People need to grow with the tech, I think that’s a pretty damn obvious answer. Also, get realistic with how long it would actually take to fully implement this advancement. Meaning, If your industry now, the iTruck isnt going to take your job. If you’ve just graduated high school… I would consider another career path.
What your talking about is simply an excuse to keep the ones actually making there big bucks, to keep making there big bucs. Have you never herd of the term “lobbyist”. You know, multi billion dollar payoff bullshit to persuade politicians to do whats best for an individual company. Dress it up in what ever excuse you want, but the root of it all is individual greed in obscene proportions.
That’s not what he was saying.
He simply pointed out that currently the productivity gains due to technological advancements aren’t shared equally with the whole population and that if we keep going down that path the ones falling onto the way side will be pretty peed off.
> increase in fleet utilization means there will not be the need for as many units and that means losses on the manufacturing side as well
You’ve fallen for the common misconception of disruptive tech. Shipping by truck will become cheaper and faster than ever before with the most expensive components removed from the system (pee breaks, naps, food) and greater optimization (ideal speed/fuel burn, ideal routing, auto rerouting, optimal arrival scheduling, optimal drafting). Thinks that had to ship by air or train for various reason will now be going by truck. We’ll have more trucks on the road than ever before.
Neither of the last two posters in this thread seem to have looked at current concerns raised in this matter by economists who are well aware of the history of disruptive technology and who have made a point of underlining the fact that this situation is very different than in the past. This idea of autonomous vehicles is a major step toward in the march toward post-scarcity wherein, by definition, labor is in so much surplus that it cannot be absorbed by further growth. This is because of the shear number of people employed in this sector. All other instances of disruptive change in the production of goods in the past had an underserved market for consumer goods or avenues of escape for economic migrants in the form of settlement colonies to act as a sink for displaced labor. That doesn’t exist anymore, and if you want to argue otherwise, you have to show where this potential for growth exists, particularly in the developed world where birthrates are falling. Merely asserting that simply because there was a positive correction in the past from these events is not enough – state HOW this will occur to balance the loss of jobs if you want to make a meaningful argument.
A part of the solution will be the unconditional basic income.
The future will be decided how that one is being ‘financed’.
To make any sense it would need to redistribute the gains of productivity/automation advances (by machines) to the whole population.
But one can easily guess that the ones owning all the machines, plants and capital won’t agree with this POV and do everything in their power to keep their part of the cake.
So the bill will be going to the ones that still work (mostly).
If humanity survives ACG this will be the biggest test for us right thereafter, unless Singularity comes before that.
I do believe that this particular technology IS the leading edge of the technological Singularity in that it meets the criterion of pushing human society past the point where change can be dealt with by traditional approaches. In that light basic income schemes, which are founded on current economic principles, may not be the answer since there is no guarantee going forward that our concepts of value and exchange will will have the same meaning in a post-scarcity civilization.
Great! Now we’ll have greater wear on the roads, so the American taxpayer can continue subsidizing Wal-Mart’s profits! Autonomous rail would be much better, and avoid the shitty inefficiencies of 30 square feet of rubber tires on pavement.
Ralph Doncaster (Nerd Ralph) says:
Who fills the diesel on long trips? Who provides security for high-value goods?
djsmiley2k says:
Is there a reason they can’t have bigger tanks?
As for security, if the thing aint stoppin, ain’t no body gettin on!
(I know this isn’t strictly true, but in the case of immigrants trying to board trucks in france this is exactly what happens).
“if the thing aint stoppin”, well just drive in front of it and stop, the truck will stop and you have unrestricted access to the goods. And before security will be there you’re gone with the goods. Or perhaps shoot at the tires of the thing, you can’t hurt the driver so no need to worry about that.
Nope… the longer I think about it the more I doubt about the security of the goods in a fully automated system. And I’m not even a criminal, because real criminals have most likely much more ” advanced” techniques of getting the goods.
Heh, so now we have driverless vehicles, but there are private security companies hired to escort the caravans from one county line to the other.
Sounds like a protection racket is bound to spring to life, right?
Als says:
Road Pirate. My pretty, time to get out my eye patch
jadams says:
As for the fuel: if there is no need for driver amenities, there is more room for fuel.
As for the security: How much security does your current average long-haul truck driver provide, honestly? They bleed, can be bribed/intimidated in other words they can easily be removed from the vehicle, a la hijacking. The truck also has to stop for the bathroom/meal/sleep needs of the driver. No driver, no stop. A moving target is always harder to hit. In the event a criminal intentionally causes the rig to stop — IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY — that damn thing would call home faster than shit and likely alert the authorities because the idea would be there was at the very least a near-miss accident. The best option the crooks would have at that point would be to swap the trailer to another rig and high-tail it out of there, which would be exponentially more difficult without the means to move the tractor away from the trailer. Again, in the middle of a damn highway.
I have a 30-minute one-way freeway commute every day and truckers are the most dangerous and asshole-ish drivers on the roads. As the long as the programmers and system designers aren’t assholes, I’d gladly welcome this change.
This seems like an old issue from the 80’s. Those pesky automated red trucks!
Pull in front of it have an rf jammmer stop it from calling home and then reprogram it to drive to a location where you can off load the cargo at your liesure or just swap out the tractor.
Some theives willl even hijack them remotely.
Yes, a flawless plan, requiring only tens of thousands of dollars more than thwacking the human driver with a half-brick in a truck stop restroom.
@ John Smith
It wouldn’t take that much equipment may just a few grand worth including a drone to drop something on the satellite uplink antenna.
But since nobody gets hurt there’s no worry about assault charges and those pesky feelings of remorse to make you loose sleep at night.
Bigger autonomous tanks. The first step to the Ogre series.
Trucks now could have any size tanks, but the more you haul with you the more you’re simply burning away (fuel burned just carrying other fuel). Keep in mind that 100 gallons of diesel weighs 700 lbs, and current trucks already have a couple hundred gallons.
davedarko says:
Easy. Autonomous gas stations and autonomous weapon systems. ;) Or employees of gas stations and paid security. Probably still much cheaper.
Nah, lets go for in-transit refuelling!
Given the fuel tankers will also be autonomous, they could just hook-up enroute and refuel without the need to stop until they get to their destination.
If there are any spills or sparks then it’ll act as a secondary to the weapon system :-)
If they can do it for friggin’ jet planes at 500 miles an hour, a truck’s not going to present much problem.
Planes travel in straight lines, so do ships. Adjusting for slight deviations in relative position is difficult enough when the joined parties are on the same course and heading. It’s different animal when the road turns. Easier for 2 planes to match at 500mph and 2 ships that displace 60Ktons+ to be a few dozen yards apart. Its even easier for a helicopter and a ship to keep lined up than 2 vehicles on the road. There’s no drastic deviation in heading, no obstacles to avoid, no one else around, and plenty of vectors to choose that don’t involve a collision should things go wrong.
rkrishnasanka says:
Well fueling stations can be established along the way. I think that’s a logistical problem that can be solved. As for security, I think vehicle / highway safety is a part of the police’s job. Though I have to say I’m no expert in highway crimes and transport protection.
targetdrone says:
That isn’t how police work. Troopers are occasionally assigned to protect specific targets when and where they are needed, but are generally required to patrol all their state’s roads. One stretch of road may see a trooper on it about 0.1% of the time or less. Hijacking a robot truck simply has to be done at a point in time and space where the troopers aren’t present.
Therefore, a truck is exposed to attack along its entire route. In order to secure the contents of the truck from hijackers, the security has to travel with the truck for 100% of its journey. I am opposed to spending my limited tax dollars to hire enough security to protect every robot truck on the roads. That’s the responsibility of the shipper, not the taxpayer.
(Just to complete the thought, that means we’d need about 1000 times more police than we have today. In other words, I’ve solved the problem of creating jobs for all those unemployed truck drivers!)
Yah but it would drive taxes up enormously just the extra cost on for the war on drugs costs tax payers several tens of billions of dollars a year.
popo says:
That isn’t how police work either. Their primary function is, and is supposed to be, investigation. Once used as a ‘security force’, they become militarized and we have all the problems we see with innocent people being killed by police, and impoverished people’s lives ruined from constant harassment and bullshit fines and such. A criminal gang that goes around robbing trucks does so until they are stopped. Once they are stopped all of the crimes they would have commited will also be stopped. It’s not difficult to understand proper policing.
automated police drones are coming weather we like or not :P
Who’s to say that they won’t follow the same path as military drones? Armed drones would come sooner or later…
JohnU says:
Trucks can have enough diesel on board to go twice round the country. A lot of European long distance trucks you’ll see 1000L (1 ton) tanks slung under, they can fill up in whichever country is cheapest as they pass through and run from one end of the continent to the other and home again.
As an automated truck, if one drop on your route is a friendly refuelling station you’re sorted. Most likely their home depot would have a refuelling rig that tops them up before they set off.
kdev says:
Automating oceanic freight would have the beneficial side effect of making it more resilient against another carbon-based threat, namely piracy. It’s hard to commandeer a freighter when there aren’t any manual controls or crewmen to threaten.
Rogfanther says:
A paradise for hackers, then ? Like, some big ton ships commandeered by hackers and sent to crash at a port, or the entrance of a bay.
As an added bonus if they ever made it to the automated control system, they would likely be identified as a thermal anomaly by the automated fire suppression systems. Cue the halon.
Halon destroyed the ozone layer, so they haven’t used that in decades. Now, since it’s unmanned, it’d be CO2. Halon isn’t dangerous to life at fire-suppresion concentration, CO2 is!
notarealemail says:
Halon is still used in some modern server farms. Fire suppression is one of the few exceptions to what is essentially a ban.
The Montreal Protocol of 1994 banned the production of halons altogether, with no exceptions. If a new server farm has actual halon, the tanks were bought used and already full of product. But even that’s unlikely, because once halons were no longer being produced, the U.S. Navy (and probably other navies) started buying all the old halon systems they could for refilling the fire suppression systems in submarines and aircraft, where it’s the least toxic fire suppressing chemical they could use in a fully self-contained environment. Supposedly they had enough halon in reserve to last until 2030.
They have developed some alternative compounds, but they’re not drop-in replacements for halon and retrofitting ships and aircraft with different fire suppression systems is expensive.
You can get more details from this 1997 paper on “Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon for U.S. Navy Applications” https://www.nap.edu/read/5744/chapter/1
( And I seem to recall our computer operations people completely replaced our company’s halon system in the 1990s for no net cost. The entire amount was recouped by selling the old tanks of halon. )
Just cripple the ship’s propulsion by having a fishing trawler drag a cable with some floats attached to it in front of the cargo ship so it runs over it and gets tangled in the props.
Besides they probably could have automated ships before you were even born as they’re big enough you could put an old school mainframe on one and sometimes they did but they still have crews to deal with repairs and unforeseen problems cropping up.
Plus a hardware or software failure could result in a ship plowing full speed into something.
No crew there’s no way to shut down the engines.
Most modern container ships are highly automated and have surprisingly small crews. If you look at the number of containers moved per man it is huge compared to trucking thus the labor costs are far lower. In other words there is no good reason for crewless ships.
Rolls Royce (http://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/yr-2016/21-06-2016-rr-publishes-vision-of-the-future-of-remote-and-autonomous-shipping.aspx) is a leader in that space.
zerg says:
I love this argument. Some geek thinks by automating something it improves security, it doesn’t. Often you just made it easier for people to steal.
You board the robot ship with a skeleton crew of experienced men and you’ll have under the pirates control in a matter of a hour or so. .
And given how scare maritime security really is in many critical areas, you’ll see transports stolen and reflagged in record numbers. There are places in the South China seas that are already rife with piracy to the point where ships are simply stolen and reflagged. Yes cargo ships are already prize targets,
it doesn’t automatically make it more secure but neither does humans, they introduce a whole other set of attack vectors, just as unmanned systems have their own Achilles heel.
in truth a lot of ship traffic is running under what is essentially an autopilot to begin with, they even have automatic anti collision detection and avoidance under specified rulesets, maritime law provides some fairly straight forward guidelines and there are plenty of standards and support systems for automation already.
in essence we are already at the supervised automation stage, progress only means increasing the degree of automation, not adding it.
maintenance and security will without a doubt be the last to go.
How are you going to board/hijack a ship that has no crews, doors, decks, cabins, or controls?
The flip side is hackers might be able to use GPS spoofing or other vulns to commandeer an entire Panamax Ship full of cargo from a fishing dingy.
We have trains and used to use barges that gave the same result. Better to jsut ban the lorries form the road, there is absolutely no need for them.
zardoz711 says:
That’s a very short sighted statement, even for a HaD comment.
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/freight_shipments_in_america/html/entire.html
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Freight_transport_statistics
Trains and barges only get you so far. Even if they had near 100% coverage you would still need trucks to make actual deliveries.
Spoken like someone from the Old Country. Countries like the US, China, and Russia are very large with huge expanses criss-crossed by massive obstacles in terrain. Roads are -the- most efficient transport mechanisms to send freight around these countries.
By making the freight hauling trucks ( *cough* “lorries” ) more efficient, more automated you effectively create “road trains” that work quite well.
Yup, that was a give away. :) All valid points for the US, Australia, Russia and most places but the UK has such a ubiquitous rail network there really is no need for anything bigger than 15 tons.
^had
You can go up and down the country, and you can go to London,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/UK_railway_map.png
Looks good don’t it, but while you can be in London in a couple or three hours from nearly anywhere in England, the number of changes and waits for connections severely break it as a real way of getting around from places on one mainline to places on another mainline. Freight doesn’t care I guess, it can do 3 times the miles up and down to make the same miles across at twice the efficiency per mile.
I’ll let you break the news to Tesco et al… “Oh hi, yeah, know you’re busy in the run up to Christmas and all, but we’re not going to let you have those big arctics any more, so from three deliveries a day you’re going to need 10 in little cube trucks, and yeah, they won’t line up with your loading docks, and you can’t unload them with forklifts, but hey, some eco-Tsar has thought that 10 cube trucks getting 8mpg is better than 3 artics getting 7mpg… “
Sure, but if you had those automated container port transporters as fully autonomous railcars.. they’d tranverse the country in groups, no need for a locomotive, just for some central panto-graph to have long-range power, each car with it’s own battery for 50 miles or so for moving about locally..
Solonn says:
“assisted driving ” >> “self driving ”
Preserves jobs, reduce the number of crashes and is far less prone to be hacked.
It’s been proved a long time ago that modern cars can be hacked even from remote. I really don ‘t fancy the idea of an hacked lorry doing 90 mph just because someone needed a faster delivery of his new smartphone.
Odd position for a site that caters to hacking, and the shiny.
the cars that can be easily hacked and turned off are the ones with people in them….
if they were entirely autonomous there might actually be some proper security inplemented, which in turn might just make your people carrier safer as well.
ThisGuy says:
Pretty much all personel now present on a modern cargo ship is there for one single purpose. Maintenance. All they do strip paint, sandblast, paint, clean filters and maintain/replace parts. All jobs that take longer than the average container ship spends in port and can be done just as efficiently underway at sea. So at most you could make some captains and first officers redundant. The rest are needed to keep the ship sailing as much as possible and out of dry dock. On top of that container fires and spills are a regular thing. A crew on board can save and/or salvage a lot of cargo that might be lost on an autonomous ship if a fire rages out of control or a dock worker missed a twistlock on a container
Nice answer. Thanks for increasing my horizon.
dprocs says:
I like the idea of semi-autonomous convoys (platoons) before going to fully autonomous trucks.
Like the 2 convoys, with 3 trucks each, that went from Sweden to the Netherlands some 8 months ago.
The trucks were linked to the truck in front, and kept a distance of 11 meters, to save fuel and minimize how much space they used on the freeway.
This is brilliant for long-haul static routes, like between cities or manufacturing centres or ports. In fact, once you had a long enough set of trucks, you could even build dedicated roads for these vehicles. You could almost start calling it “trains”.
But it is a great idea. The trucks could even have a display of how many trucks are in the convoy so that human drivers know what to expect.
murdock says:
How well does it handle people getting between them?
They were all equipped with adaptive cruise control, and I think that they would maintain the legal safety distance (otherwise just the 11 meters) if a normal car were to go in between two of the trucks.
They are only supposed to be autonomous on the freeway, so drivers should be picked up before entering a city.
askdesigners says:
I think this article unfortunately shows how many people think about technology in the early 21st century. We get very excited by the fact that we are capable of this type of technology, and we do not stop to think about what the real goal or outcomes will be.
If we automate the entire trucking industry, it’s true that there will be fewer fatalities, goods will be cheaper, and the roads will be calmer to drive on. But consider for a moment what trucking is in the United States in 2016.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state
Here’s a map of the most common job per state. See that? That’s nearly 30 states where trucking is the most common occupation.
That’s more than 3.5 MILLION people. That’s only professional drivers too. Not counting people who do it part time, or are not registered with a union, or who work on trucks or other supporting jobs.
http://www.alltrucking.com/faq/truck-drivers-in-the-usa/
To put this in perspective, 2.6 jobs were lost in 2008 during the recession. Remember that? Remember how it was the number one topic of new coverage for more than 2 years? http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/09/news/economy/jobs_december/
Now consider the knock-on effects. Much of middle american small towns are propped up by the trucking industry. Truck stops, diners, motels, hotels, and all manner of roadside support businesses. Those go too. I’ll wager there are going to be hundreds of newly minted ghost towns dotting the US. Do you think the traffic of holiday roadtrippers is enough to support a gas station in the middle of the Mojave desert? Do you think truck stops will survive on people visiting family over Christmas?
I do agree that self-driving cars and trucks are a fantastic move away from the death and rage that driving brings to human life, but these things are not one-dimensional problems. Right now the money that goes into the economy of goods gets spread out into many different hands, from warehouse workers to truckers and shop assistants. If we wipe out human truck drivers, the vendors will still have to pay for shipping. Sure it will likely be cheaper, but where does that money go now? All the spoils will go to the 4-5 giant corporations that own shipping fleets.
We win physical safety and temporary technical wonderment, but at what cost?
I think this single technological disruption has the potential to be completely devastating to a very large portion of America, and if we have seen anything in the past 2 weeks, those angry economically displaced people can destabilize things in a huge way. Right now there’s angst about wages not rising with the rest of the economy. Now imagine how people will feel when their entire towns cease to be viable.
Do you really want to live that future?
>Do you really want to live that future?
Moreso than the one that imposes artificial restrictions to prevent it.
Keep in mind a fully automated transport system willl be much more suceptable to disruptions caused by natural and man made disasters.
A Carrington classs CME for example would shut down alll automated transport even though normally something like a truck would be immune as the wires are to short to get high currents induced.
But things like gps and the internet will be knocked out maybe for months.
What would be a bad situation becomes even worse esp if it happens after the old skill set is lost and trucks no longer have physical controls.
Thinking about this senario makes me understand what some astrophysists ment when they say we may be slowly marching towards a catastrope.
Don’t worry, this driverless thing is mostly hype, like IoT. Once people start getting killed often by autonomous vehicles, it will die a fast and litigious death. I mean we had airplane autopilots for many years, and still we need 2 pilots per passenger plane. As others pointed out, truck driver is not there to drive only, he has many other tasks.
I’m thinking the same thing the first company to do it will get sued out of existance.
Bullshit. People have already died to ‘autonomous’ (actually semi-autonomous, but joe public doesn’t actually care about that) vehicles and… we got a couple news articles and it’s forgotten already.
Ah. You should open a business insuring autonomous trucks and cars. Let me know how that panned out :)
And yet, Tesla cars don’t have (any more than usual) sky high insurance. And that’s with the shittiest autonomous mode that will ever be legal on the road. If I had a couple million/billion to set it up, I would absolutely start insuring autonomous cars. No monkeying around with age of the driver or past driving record, just nice statistical data of the entire fleet with this software? You could set premiums exactly right and adjust them to new data easily.
Exactly. In fact insurance costs for manually driven vehicles will likely go through the roof once there is a certain density of autonomous vehicles on the road and that, more than anything else, will accelerate adoption of the latter.
> I mean we had airplane autopilots for many years, and still we need 2 pilots per passenger plane.
There hasn’t been a fatal crash of a US flagged large jet since 2002. I think the automation and training are working pretty damn well.
But your argument is a fallacy. The auto-pilots in planes are NOT autonomous navigation. All they do is hold altitude and or heading. You can use VNAV to similarly hold an ascend/descent rate, but even the newest jetliners are not running on autonomous navigation. Recall the depressurization incidents where the pilots died and the planes flew on in a straight line until fuel exhaustion. The pilots are still handling take off/landing/navigation.
Some hard questions will have to be asked about work. Not so much the “what”, but the “why” both in the context of the individual, but society at large. As well as population control as it pertains to “too many people, too few jobs”.
robotuprising says:
So i suppose, you are still using candles to light your home, because of all the candlemakers who lose their jobs to that evil “electricty” ?
Are you still using horse carriges because this damn’ loud “automobiles” are destroying all the jobs assosiated with horses ?
Do you really want to live in that past ?
An implicit, “enough new jobs will be created to replace old”. Should be interesting seeing how that holds up.
> So i suppose, you are still using candles to light your home
Think of the millions of lives saved by preventing needless candle/lantern house fires.
Self-driving doesn’t have to mean sans-human. The act of checking into a distribution warehouse, overseeing the trailer loading, and making sure that weight scale and other procedures are followed could still be a human job. But not you don’t have to do the biggest mind-numbing (and arguably dangerous) part which is trying to stay 100% alert at the wheel.
Sure, this technology is a threat to trucking jobs and this risk needs to be addressed by society. But advocating against the technological advancement for that reason is something that should have happened before the industrial revolution. Our society is now built on seeking out and adopting the best technologies.
… but don’t you agree there’s a lot of hype around the whole “self-driving” thing, how great it will be etc etc, without any regard for the cost of rollout, the affordability (personal and social), and what it means to be putting more cars on the road, not less?
I’m all for the technical challenge (and so are the manufacturers; they smell money!!!) and yes let’s make driving safer, but let’s also cast an eye on the implications of widespread adoption. The case for commercial use is more obvious; but widespread adoption of self-driving personal vehicles for daily commuting and errands would be nuts.
In town, transit or bike. Otherwise, we still drive stick, enjoy twisty, scenic secondary highways, and I hope to be dead before self-driving cars are the norm.
in truth the true revolution wont come just form the fact that they can drive themselves, sure that is the key, but with autonomous cars one could conceivably cut down on the amount of cars total, it would be much easier to share a vehicle in a family since it could drive itself to the next one who needs it, some would forego owning a car entirely, with the logistics being fairly cheap (no person to pay) one can have subscription services for cars, push a button and x minutes after you have a car, even better have a little foresight and order the car for when you need it.
many of the benefits would even work in cars where no manned autonomous driving happened, a logistics + module for your car.
One thing will stop it – lawsuits. The first time one of these robot trucks kills some driver or pedestrian, The lawyers will sue the trucking company and the company that automated the truck out of existence.
If you fear a future like that you have a problem with how society currently shares the gains of technological and productivity gains through automation.
If that is so, you need to educate yourself more why this is happening and then you will see the status quo is not the solution but just the ongoing suffering of an decades old problem.
Humanity will have to face this problem, it’s not stoppable.
And if you don’t want to live in such a future I really suggest you move in with the Amish.
On the other hand: robots never break down, require no maintenance or upkeep and cost next to nothing. Right?
haha good one… but I’m sure they will last forever as long as you just don’t update the software… haha…
Though seriously I can see the benefits of self driving trucks and I never actually thought about it until this article. And I’m sure that these developments continue but will take most likely 2 decades to be accepted if they were available today. Laws about liability need to be changed or adapted, laws about vehicle approval, new trucks will horribly fail taking many lives causing discussion and this will slow the whole thing down, etc.
What I find very interesting is that there are still many many trains that are driven by a person and not by a computer. There are computer driven trains/trams or subway systems… but not all. While these systems are perfectly suited for automation, the’ve been so for the past 30 years. A train track has no sudden problems like pedestrians or bicycles or a car braking in front of you. Even steering or planning your route is many times less complicated then with a truck. So the self driving truck is more complicated then a train, so you would assume that the train will be first and with all technology that could exists today… but that still hasn’t happened. Why?
KBar says:
As someone who works for a railroad, I can tell you that trains very frequently encounter pedestrians, cyclists and cars on the tracks.
To my knowledge, most of the Class 1 freight carriers in North America have some form of automated train control available in newer locomotives. The automated control that my company uses is fairly effective at managing a train’s speed until situations that require the use of airbrakes occur. If airbrakes have to be used the automation relinquishes control to the human engineer.
Be ironic if we end up slaves to the machine economy.
Why do you think we aren’t already?
tz says:
It’s called a rail-road. Trains always have the right of way, don’t have to steer or stop except at the end.
Yes, the OTTO, after a long digitization, probably precision GPS, and a police escort.
These trucks will be more fun to hack that the IoT devices.
Oh, and when it gets cold, trucks need to add chains to get over hills and remove them on the far side. And you don’t have the controlled conditions, the Trucks will either be very expensive or have severe blind spots.
And there’s runaway truck ramps because brakes can fail on steep grades, I wonder if they will test for that.
Dan Maloney says:
Chains are already pretty much figured out:
https://youtu.be/IPd3O5_SJEs?t=20s
Reno SEO says:
Wow, is this really happening? Our parcels will now be shipped through drones? How interesting is that!
*Line on form*
“Undeliverable, due to drone sucked into jet engine.”
They probably won’t work well enough during a snowstorm/thunderstorm…
Just what we need. We have enough inattentive drivers on the road already, we sure as heck don’t need 40 ton trucks with no driver whatsoever! Anyone who has ever witnessed a computer crash should know that this sort of thing is about as stupid as it gets.
I’ve got nothing against safety systems helping to make up for human limitations, but replacing the human entirely is so asinine that I can’t believe that anyone could possibly think it was a good idea!
you do know about redundancy right?
many would cite the fact that human error is the primary reason for automotive accidents, with several computers in most modern vehicles shouldnt they be the culprit if your assertion was true? at least say, half the time?
or could it be that we really can make computers as safe as any human could ever hope to be?
RoboTrucks are the way to go, but they also need to be electric and near silent so they can operate at night when the roads are almost empty, to maximise the use of the road system. If they don’t run at night they will not be competitive in the face of growing congestion taxes etc.
At first they will only be viable for large loads between businesses and not for domestic deliveries. Domestic deliveries require every dwelling to have a secure drop-box that an automated system can interact with reliably. Without these measures, plus the resolution unsolved security problems, domestic deliveries will be subject to high levels of theft.
Garbage collection is a more likely candidate for automation, and again operating silently at night. Failure to implement silent machines will see disgruntled people sabotage them by placing pressure sensitive incendiary devices in garbage bins. The reason they are more likely to do this (or commit the above mentioned theft) is that the absence of a human operator will shift their ethical frame of reference toward self interest.
i.e. There are also a lot of “soft” issues that must be solved if this technology is to be a success.
There’s one aspect of self-driving vehicles that might discourage such behavior? They’re basically mobile surveillance platforms with an always-on connection.
Perhaps, but only if responders are seen to respond in a timely manner, otherwise people will just hide their appearance and location so that they can commit the offence without being linked to it. As for the garbage truck sabotage, that does not need to be done near your location, so long as it is on the run for that vehicle it serves the same purpose.
echodelta says:
If the train is the best case to fully automate, why still are eyeballs looking at speed limits and other old tech sending hundreds to die at a time. been in the news a lot lately!
Let’s see the rail system get fully automated first. That’s for sure. Then we’ll know better what’s up on the road.
Signs at crossings in the south of town… No train horn—locomotives are unattended may move at any time. Or something like that, anyway people wanted sleep and quiet in their homes. Once in a while some train driver blasts the whole area with his Wagnerian horn section and doesn’t know it’s a quiet zone with federal sanctioned crossings. The eyes have it, not ears.
I would be thrilled if Trump would get rid of backup beepers. You are responsable when backing up and making a loud CYA noise that is heard for blocks should be illegal instead. Oh, and that new one that electric cars have to make additional noise when moving slow.
Here’s the frightening part, a map of the most common jobs per state in the USA. Most places, it’s truck drivers.
[img]https://www.visualnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/common-jobs-featured.png[/img]
https://www.visualnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/common-jobs-featured.png
See also: forklift drivers, warehousing labour, etc.
Think you’re immune because you’re educated? Don’t be so smug – lawyers are next.
and 150years ago it would be miner, logger or farmer, things change, that they are as they are now should never be an argument in itself.
He just pointed it out, didn’t say it was bad. ;-)
And as has been written earlier, this time it’s a little different, unless you can tell the audience what all these people should do instead to earn their bread & butter?
rasz_pl says:
this is how future looks like:
I’ve always thought that autonomous cars would be a bit of a car-jacking risk as the software can’t react to that – you could block it in & rob the occupant and the car will sit there and allow it because it would be unsafe driving to try and ram its way out of trouble.
Now apply that logic to trucks, which can be carrying hundreds of thousands of monies worth of merchandise (regardless that the truck itself costs about 100k) and you’ve got a shitstorm of truck jacking going on. My uncle used to drive containerloads of cigarettes from the docks, they wouldn’t even stop for police cars as they were such a target – they had a card to hold up that basically said “If you’re a real police officer, I’m going to drive to the nearest police station and we can talk there”.
Still, at least no truck driver is going to be beaten up or killed to get to his cargo, so that’s a plus.
Good points!
Maybe the manufacturers will eventually add a theft deterrent system, preferably using high voltage.
Or fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(flamethrower)
Mr Name Required says:
I’d imagine if the autonomous truck was blocked in, it would report immediately to its base station (or call centre overseas) where the human operator would step in, and using vision from the vehicle, try and resolve the situation.
For insurance and accident reporting purposes these trucks would be covered in many cameras front to back and top to bottom.
Hmm, I could anticipate the auto drivers and cut them off or play passing lane chicken at will.Think of the opportunity to save time if everyone else will yield to me!
As a truck driver im kinda scared that im going to loss my job
Echo_Hotel (@Echo_Hotel) says:
HAHAHAA yeah don’t lose any sleep over it, with large chunks of the US still in cellular blind spots fully autonomous long haul navigation is impossible.
Imagine anything going over the Rocky Mountains, there are so many dead zones there that sending an unmanned vehicle is just ASKING to be robbed.
Also this presumes that everyone can agree on one way to identify traffic controls, clearances, road grades and weight limits to the truck-drones.
Even if you manage to set up a system for getting things from one major region to another delivery is no easy matter, or in trucker terms, there is a reason east coast miles pay better.
Throw in refueling, pre-trip inspections, trailer cleaning, load securing, load balancing, unloading, lumper selection, paperwork and straight up asking where the heck the dock is, nobody is going to be losing any jobs any time soon.
Source: Husband of a Compliance Administrator for 12+ years.
Silly question – and how exactly does a human driver not get robbed in this situation?
There will always be a need for some kind of operator, it’s just that it will probably end up like large planes – pilots mostly just push buttons and/or turn knobs and then sit back and enjoy the view, only the landing, takeoff and non-standard situations are times when the autopilot gets turned off and human hands start touching the controls.
Me thinks that this will be the way, ever more capable autopilots, so the drivers will be pushed out very slowly with enough time for the ecosystem to adapt, like it has before…
If you’re over 40 you shouldn’t worry too much.
But you might need to retire early or will be getting the job of the ‘last mile’ as surveilance/monitor/manual driver.
Any younger than that and I’d be seriously looking at doing something else.
This stuff won’t be rolled out for another 10 years.
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Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
The science behind personalized music recommendations
This Monday — just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them. It’s a custom mixtape of 30 songs they’ve never listened to before but will probably love. It’s called Discover Weekly, and it’s pretty much magic.
I’m a huge fan of Spotify, and particularly Discover Weekly. Why? It makes me feel seen. It knows my musical tastes better than any person in my life ever has, and I am consistently delighted by how it satisfies me just right every week, with tracks I myself would never have found or known I would like.
For those of you who live under a musically soundproof rock, let me introduce you to my virtual best friend:
A Spotify Discover Weekly playlist — specifically, mine.
As it turns out, I’m not alone in my obsession with Discover Weekly—the user base went crazy for it, which has driven Spotify to completely rethink its focus, investing more resources into algorithm-based playlists.
It's scary how well @Spotify Discover Weekly playlists know me. Like former-lover-who-lived-through-a-near-death experience-with-me well.
— @dave_horwitz
At this point @Spotify's discover weekly knows me so well that if it proposed I'd say yes
— @amandawhitbred
Ever since Discover Weekly debuted in 2015, I’ve been dying to know how it worked (plus I’m a fangirl of the company, so sometimes I like to pretend I work there and research their products.) After three weeks of mad googling and a great conversation on Spotify’s roof deck with data engineer Nikhil Tibrewal, I feel grateful to have finally gotten a glimpse behind the curtain.
So how does Spotify do such an amazing job of choosing those 30 songs for each person each week? Let’s zoom out for a second to look at how other music services have done music recommendations, and how Spotify’s doing it better.
A brief history of online music curation
Back in the 2000s, Songza kicked off the online music curation scene using manual curation to create playlists for users. “Manual curation” meant that some team of “music experts” or other curators would put together playlists by hand that they thought sounded good, and then listeners would just listen to their playlists. (Later, Beats Music would employ this same strategy.) Manual curation worked okay, but it was manual and simple, and therefore it couldn’t take into account the nuance of each listener’s individual music taste.
Like Songza, Pandora was also one of the original players in the music curation scene. It employed a slightly more advanced approach, instead manually tagging attributes of songs. This meant a group of people listened to music, chose a bunch of descriptive words for each track, and tagged the tracks with those words. Then, Pandora’s code could simply filter for certain tags to make playlists of similar-sounding music.
Around that same time, a music intelligence agency from the MIT Media Lab called The Echo Nest was born, which took a radically more advanced approach to personalized music. The Echo Nest used algorithms to analyze the audio and textual content of music, allowing it to perform music identification, personalized recommendation, playlist creation, and analysis.
Finally, taking yet another different approach is Last.fm, which still exists today and uses a process called collaborative filtering to identify music its users might like. More on that in a moment.
So if that’s how other music curation services have done recommendations, how does Spotify come up with their magic engine, which seem to nail individual users’ tastes so much more accurately than any of the other services?
Spotify’s 3 Types of Recommendation Models
Spotify actually doesn’t use a single revolutionary recommendation model — instead, they mix together some of the best strategies used by other services to create its own uniquely powerful Discovery engine.
In 2014, Spotify actually bought The Echo Nest to gain access to their data and algorithms surrounding audio and text analysis, and they also use collaborative filtering algorithms similar to those used at Last.fm.
Therefore, to create Discover Weekly, there are three main types of recommendation models that Spotify employs:
Collaborative Filtering models (i.e. the ones that Last.fm originally used), which work by analyzing your behavior and others’ behavior.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, which work by analyzing text.
Audio models, which work by analyzing the raw audio tracks themselves.
Image credit: Chris Johnson, Spotify
Let’s take a dive into how each of these recommendation models work!
Recommendation Model #1: Collaborative Filtering
First, some background: When many people hear the words “collaborative filtering”, they think of Netflix, as they were one of the first companies to use collaborative filtering to power a recommendation model, using users’ star-based movie ratings to inform their understanding of what movies to recommend to other “similar” users.
After Netflix used it successfully, its use spread quickly, and now it’s often considered the starting point for anyone trying to make a recommendation model.
Unlike Netflix, though, Spotify doesn’t have those stars with which users rate their music. Instead, Spotify’s data is implicit feedback — specifically, the stream counts of the tracks we listen to, as well as additional streaming data, including whether a user saved the track to his/her own playlist, or visited the Artist page after listening.
But what is collaborative filtering, and how does it work? Here’s a high-level rundown, as encapsulated in a quick conversation:
Image by Erik Bernhardsson
What’s going on here? Each of these two guys has some track preferences — the guy on the left likes tracks P, Q, R, and S; the guy on the right likes tracks Q, R, S, and T.
Collaborative filtering then uses that data to say,
“Hmmm. You both like three of the same tracks — Q, R, and S — so you are probably similar users. Therefore, you’re each likely to enjoy other tracks that the other person has listened to, that you haven’t heard yet.”
It therefore suggests that the guy on the right check out track P, and the guy on the left check out track T. Simple, right?
But how does Spotify actually use that concept in practice to calculate millions of users’ suggested tracks based on millions of other users’ preferences?
…matrix math, done with Python libraries!
In actuality, this matrix you see here is gigantic. Each row represents one of Spotify’s 140 million users (if you use Spotify, you yourself are a row in this matrix) and each column represents one of the 30 million songs in Spotify’s database.
At the matrix’s intersections, where each user meets each song, there is a 1 if the user has listened to that song, and a 0 if the user hasn’t. So, if I listened to the song “Thriller”, the place where my row meets the column representing “Thriller” is going to be a 1. (Note: Spotify has experimented with using the actual number of streams, vs. a simple 1 vs. 0.)
Of course, this makes for a very sparse matrix— there are way more songs a given user hasn’t listened to than the ones he/she has, so the majority of the entries in the matrix are just ‘0’. But the placement of those few ‘1’s holds critical information.
Then, the Python library runs this long, complicated matrix factorization formula:
Some complicated math…
When it finishes, we end up with two types of vectors, represented here by X and Y. X is a user vector, representing one single user’s taste, and Y is a song vector, representing one single song’s profile.
The User/Song matrix produces two types of vectors: User vectors and Song vectors.
Now we‘ve got 140 million user vectors — one for each user — and 30 million song vectors. The actual content of these vectors is just a bunch of numbers that are essentially meaningless on their own, but they are hugely useful for comparison.
To find which users have taste most similar to mine, collaborative filtering compares my vector with all of the other users’ vectors using a mathematical dot product. Whichever produces the lowest product is the most similar user to me. The same goes for the Y vector, songs — you can compare a song’s vector with all the other song vectors, and find which songs are most similar to the one you’re looking at.
Collaborative filtering does a pretty good job, but Spotify knew they could do even better by adding another engine. Enter NLP.
Recommendation Model #2: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The second type of recommendation model that Spotify employs are Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. These models’ source data, as the name suggests, are regular ol’ words — track metadata, news articles, blogs, and other text around the internet.
Natural Language Processing — the ability of a computer to understand human speech as it is spoken — is a whole vast field unto itself, often harnessed through sentiment analysis APIs.
The exact mechanisms behind NLP are beyond the scope of this article, but here’s what happens on a very high level: Spotify crawls the web constantly looking for blog posts and other written texts about music, and figures out what people are saying about specific artists and songs — what adjectives and language is frequently used about those songs, and which other artists and songs are also discussed alongside them.
The most-used terms bucket up into what Spotify calls “cultural vectors” or “top terms.” Each artist and song has thousands of daily-changing top terms. Each term has a weight associated, which reveals how important the description is (roughly, the probability that someone will describe music as that term.)
“Cultural vectors”, or “top terms”. Table from Brian Whitman
Then, much like in collaborative filtering, the NLP model uses these terms and weights to create a vector representation of the song that can be used to determine if two pieces of music are similar. Cool, right?
Recommendation Model #3: Raw Audio Models
First, a question. You might be thinking:
But, Sophia, we already have so much data from the first two models! Why do we need to analyze the audio itself, too?
Well, first of all, including a third model further improves the accuracy of this amazing recommendation service. But actually, this model serves a secondary purpose, too: Unlike the first two model types, raw audio models take into account new songs.
Take, for example, the song your singer-songwriter friend put up on Spotify. Maybe it only has 50 listens, so there are few other listeners to collaboratively filter it against. It also isn’t mentioned anywhere on the internet yet, so NLP models won’t pick up on it. Luckily, raw audio models don’t discriminate between new tracks and popular tracks, so with their help, your friend’s song can end up in a Discover Weekly playlist alongside popular songs!
Ok, so now for the “how” — How can we analyze raw audio data, which seems so abstract?
…with convolutional neural networks!
Convolutional neural networks are the same technology behind facial recognition. In Spotify’s case, they’ve been modified for use on audio data instead of pixels. Here’s an example of a neural network architecture:
Image credit: Sander Dieleman
This particular neural network has four convolutional layers, seen as the thick bars on the left, and three dense layers, seen as the more narrow bars on the right. The input are time-frequency representations of audio frames, which are then concatenated to form the spectrogram.
The audio frames go through these convolutional layers, and after the last convolutional layer, you can see a “global temporal pooling” layer, which pools across the entire time axis, effectively computing statistics of the learned features across the time of the song.
All of this information then arrives at the output layer, which predicts an understanding of the song’s personality: Does it have a high tempo? Is it acoustic? Does it have high danceability? All of these characteristics can be found with pretty high accuracy just from letting these neural networks loose on the audio file.
That covers the basics of the three major types of recommendation models feeding the Recommendations pipeline, and ultimately powering the Discover Weekly playlist!
Of course, these recommendation models are all connected to Spotify’s much larger ecosystem, which includes giant amounts of data storage and uses lots of Hadoop clusters to scale recommendations and make these engines work on giant matrices, endless internet music articles, and huge numbers of audio files.
I hope this was informative and tickled your curiosity like it did mine. For now, I’ll be working my way through my own Discover Weekly, finding my new favorite music, knowing and appreciating all the machine learning that’s going on behind the scenes.
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If you enjoyed this piece, I’d love it if you hit the clap button so others might stumble upon it. You can find my own code on GitHub, and more of my writing and projects at http://www.sophiaciocca.com.
Also, if you work at Spotify or know someone who does, I’d love to connect! I’m putting my dream to work at Spotify out into the world
Thanks also to ladycollective for reading this article over and suggesting edits.
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Hammersmith Reflections – Award Winning Secret Gardens Open Saturday 9 June
Hammersmith United Charities is thrilled to announce the charity has won two awards at the London Gardens Society Competition for each of its two sheltered housing schemes for older people. Sycamore House won third place for the large community gardens at the awards ceremony. However, community gardener Jackie Thompson was particularly pleased to receive first prize and the Challenge Cup for John Betts House in the small community gardens category.
You have a once in a year opportunity to visit both secret gardens as part of the Open Garden Squares Weekend on Saturday 9th June between 2pm and 5pm. Tickets at the door £4 or at www.opensquares.org for all gardens across London open at the weekend, children up to 11 go free.
Tilly and the Challenge Cup
After several years of second and third places, and facing stiff competition from rival Almshouses, the internal garden courtyard at John Betts House, achieved the accolade under the leadership of Jackie (and trusty helper, Tilly the dog!) “It feels brilliant, because it’s a lot of work. It’s judged on RHS guidelines, with points for immediate colour, points for tidiness and cleanliness, points for proper use of plants in the right place and sustainability,” Jackie said.
Jackie joined the charity in December 2003 and built the garden up with the help from volunteer garden residents. The secluded garden was used to dump rubble from building work when John Betts House was refurbished in 1998, so digging has proved to be very difficult.
Given the challenge the garden presents, Jackie explained one of the ways to improve it was to plant above soil level. This means the garden is filled with hanging baskets and raised beds, where residents can plant vegetables and fruits in the summer. The focal piece of the garden is the series of arches which are covered with plants and grasses and which Jackie changes every year.
John Betts House
Of course, the overall appearance of the garden is enhanced by the array of hanging baskets, pots and plants which are created by the residents and adorn the balconies surrounding the main courtyard garden. These balconies were recognised at the London Gardens Society awards, as residents James Geraghty (Sycamore House) and Clodagh Corcoran (John Betts House) won third place in the Balcony and Container displays category at the Almshouses Residents’ Garden Competition.
Clodagh, who has lived at John Betts House for more than four years, explained she loves looking out onto the garden and enjoying the peace it offers. “I love the garden here. I like looking at the colour, the peace in this garden, you could cut it, it’s so quiet and lovely. There are always tiny birds moving around, very early in the morning picking up insects, its lovely, there’s a whole world out there,” Clodagh said. “We wouldn’t have a garden if it wasn’t for Jackie, she built it from gravel up. Everybody loves the garden, people who come here, and it had never occurred to them to have a flower pot and she has encouraged them.”
Jackie said she is motivated by the fact she has created something beautiful for the residents to enjoy and residents who have never had an interest in gardening now relish spending time on their balcony displays, including Kate Macdonald who spends every day tending to her red geraniums. “I like that I have created in both places a very nice place to live, that makes people feel at home, that they feel secure and there’s stimulation in colour and texture and perfume,” Jackie added. “It’s all about creating a home for birds and insects as well, its wildlife. Especially in a city it’s really important…it’s like a little hidden paradise.”
John Betts House Resident Kate
John Betts House has added even more to its natural ‘wow’ factor given by the design that conceals its garden completely from garden view. The garden now contains newly painted benches, a new fountain and swing seat for residents to enjoy, bought with funds from one of the Open Garden Squares event held every year at the gardens.
The London Gardens Society awards come at a very special time for the charity as it celebrates its 400th anniversary in 2018. For this reason, the residents of Sycamore House and John Betts House would like to invite the local community to visit the secret, beautiful and award-winning gardens at the next Open Garden Squares event held on Saturday 9 June 2018 and encourage keen local gardeners to keep in touch in order to be updated on our very own gardeners question time in September.
Amani Hughes
Hammersmith Reflections – Our retiring Chairman, Mike Smith, reflects on 12 years as a trustee
It’s become a tradition at Hammersmith United Charities that retiring trustees are invited to share their reflections on their time at the charity at their final board meeting. (more…)
Hammersmith Reflections – photojournalist Cinzia D’Ambrosi and her work for the local community
I am an independent award winning photojournalist, local resident, founder of the Photojournalism Hub. My passion and drive is to expose social justice issues through photo stories for these to be of leverage and/or of a conduit for action and change. Some of the projects I have been working on, have been exposing the plight of miners in illegal coal mines in China, the hidden homelessness in the UK with a particular focus on women and their children, police violence against refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Through my career, I developed many collaborations with NGO’s and charities, including international campaigns with Amnesty International and Protection Approaches, Shelter in the UK. These have shaped the Photojournalism Hub’ aims. The value of connecting photojournalism to effective change and to promote photojournalism work is very important to me. Photojournalism exposes issues, raises awareness and importantly can bring about changes and recommendations in legislations, public opinion and indeed calls for action. The Photojournalism Hub is born out of these aspirations: it presents photo stories needed to be told and it has a programme that focuses on working together with communities and charities to find solutions, advocacy and exposure. Since its launch last November, the Photojournalism Hub has received an amazing support, interest and engagement from the wide public and local communities in our Talk Events, Photojournalism Nights, Open Forums and Workshops and from local organisations such as Imperial College, Hammersmith United Charities, White City Place, Petit Miracles, Stanhope, Elephant West, HFArts Fest, Re:Centre, Lido Foundation and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
THE OPEN FORUMS – WORKING TOGETHER FOR SOLUTION MAKING
The Open Forums are open conversations with different communities. The idea is born from wanting to change the way we engage on social justice issues. Often, we assume that ‘we’ know what is happening to a community, instead of getting to know what is really happening. Conversations are just the first steps; a valuable way to share knowledge and in future deliver what is really needed. From the Open Forums, Photojournalism Hub creates a shareable resource content and further develops a photography based programme that addresses the issues being raised. Sometimes ideas, however beautiful, can just remain as such unless tried and tested. That the Open Forums are being well received is very important to me and I am grateful to Hammersmith United Charities for supporting them and trusting in their value in our communities.
PHOTOJOURNALISM NIGHTS, TALK EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
I am sharing below some keystone moments in photographs. The opening was marked by a meaningful talk by Andy Slaughter on the power of photojournalism. Since the launch, the Photojournalism Hub has presented talks on picturing community engagement with participatory photography and collaborative practices, on photojournalism today, and on domestic violence and masculinities. We have organised and presented the first Photojournalism Nights at the Elephant west gallery and we have been invited to be a partner of this year’s HF-Arts festival in which we presented a curated photography exhibition Marginal at Re:centre gallery. We deliver photography workshops at low costs and we are about to begin free photography workshops for Somali young people in collaboration with Lido Foundation and Petit Miracles.
Rob Pinney presenting his project ‘Calais, ma ville’
Ingrid Guyon discussing participatory photography at Picturing Community Engagement talk @ White City Place
Discussing photojournalism aims at Imperial College Talk event
A moment during a Photography Workshop @ Petit Miracles
It has been a milestone to present some of today’s courageous, committed photojournalism work in White City. Photojournalism deserves ample space as a form that engages, exposes and initiates actions for change. If you wish to get to know more about the Photojournalism Hub work, I would like to encourage you to sign up to our newsletter on www.photojournalismhub.org or follow us on social media: @PJ_Hub; #photojournalism_hub; Fb: Photojournalismhub
Cinzia D’Ambrosi
Grants Awarded May 2019
We are delighted to announce our new grantees for May 2019. We give grants to local organisations supporting local people and this year we have increased the total value of grants available to £400,000 to mark 400 years of supporting the people of Hammersmith. The next deadline for grant applications is 2 October 2019. If you’ve got a great idea then we’d love to hear from you at grants@hamunitedcharities.com
Make a difference in your local community – join us as a Trustee
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Toronto East General Hospital striving to combat hospital acquired infections
The ultraviolet light in use disinfecting a patient room. Photo credit: Kevin Holm
TEGH introduces Clorox® Bleach-Based Wipes as their primary cleaning agent, and investigates UV light technology
An innovator in Ontario healthcare, Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) is dedicated to developing effective health and safety procedures. Currently TEGH is at the forefront of implementing leading practices to combat rising cases of hospital acquired Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) by introducing Clorox® Healthcare Bleach-Based Wipes to clean and disinfect the hospital environment and equipment. As part of the same initiative, TEGH is also conducting an ultraviolet (UV) light trial to determine best practices in a hospital setting.
In an effort to reduce the number of health care associated infections (HAIs), TEGH began a patient safety initiative in 2012 to bring a Sodium Hypochlorite product into the hospital. Recommended by the Public Health Agency of Canada for daily disinfection, Sodium Hypochlorite disinfectants contribute to successful management of common HAIs including Norovirus, VRE and C. difficile. Clorox® Wipes are effective against 51 pathogens and can kill C. difficile spores in three minutes.
Cleaning products typically used in hospitals have been found to have a negative effect on equipment; corroding materials over time. Clorox® products have an anticorrosive agent that helps to ensure common hospital surfaces like plastic, stainless steel, porcelain and glass are not destroyed, giving them a longer life. Reduction in replacement costs over time free hospital resources to be directed towards valuable programs and services.
“The cost to the hospital for a single patient contracting hospital acquired C. difficile is staggering; costs include medications, care provided, supplies, and room cleaning,” says Amanda Stagg, Infection Control Specialist at Toronto East General Hospital. “By shifting from a reactive to a proactive system we have created fewer opportunities for these bacteria to remain in the hospital, which helps to reduce strain on hospital resources.”
Since introducing Clorox® Wipes, TEGH has reported a drop in cases of hospital acquired C. difficile and in November of 2012, TEGH proudly reported zero cases in their facility. With increasing incidences of C. difficile in the community and other health care facilities, this marks an important moment in Canadian health care and a great success for TEGH.
Using a two-phased plan, Clorox® Wipes were introduced into the hospital over a period of sixteen months. Strategic deployment through Environmental Services, education and flexibility were key factors in the success of the first stage.
In the second stage, Clorox® Wipes were launched into care areas for equipment cleaning; using the familiarity developed during the initial phase coupled with continued education. As of summer 2013, Clorox® Wipes are used in all areas of the hospital, making TEGH one of very few hospitals to be using bleach-based products hospital-wide.
Throughout the process TEGH provided learning materials, education sessions, information pamphlets and videos to all physicians, staff and volunteers to educate all on the benefits of using this product. The hospital accommodated individual concerns, and while this process presented with some challenges, the end result was seen as positive.
To further reduce HAIs, TEGH is conducting a trial on UV light as an extra layer of disinfecting. The light, which takes approximately 15 minutes per room, kills 99.9 per cent of bacteria. Placed in the center of the room, UV light is cast onto walls, hard to reach places and surfaces that cannot be traditionally disinfected, providing a broader clean.
Looking to the future, TEGH hopes to combine Clorox® Wipes and UV light to proactively disinfect all areas of the Hospital, helping to drastically reduce health care associated infections and continuing their commitment to excellent and safe care for their patients.
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Whether you're on your way home from work on the subway or on a long road trip in the back seat of the car, there are times when You need to do this without a mobile data connection. A good mobile game would pass the time perfectly, but not every game works without an internet connection.
To keep you at rest, we've tested dozens of great user ratings games to find the best that work, even in airplane mode. Apart from that, our only criterion was that the game can be downloaded for free from Google Play, so anyone can use the following list to find the perfect time wasting.
For the times you want Free to be at your ease Also, a lot, these action games will get your blood flowing while keeping your eye open. Test hand coordination and help break the idle time at a fast pace.
Shadow Fight 2 [1
9659007] For fans of direct encounters, Shadow Fight 2 has a striking resemblance to classic genre games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. The developers of the game have managed to make the screen control convenient and easy to use, making it one of those rare fighting games that works great on mobile phones.
GT Racing 2
GT Racing 2 is a classic street racing game for mobile phones that gives you gyroscope-based controls and solid graphics. But one factor that sets this game apart from other similar games is its customizable touch control, which you can use to slow down, accelerate, or boost your Turbo Boost.
Unicorn Attack 2
My personal favorite game series is the Robot Unicorn Attack by Adult Swim. The second installation, Robot Unicorn Attack 2, improves on almost every aspect of the first installation, while preserving the lateral scrolling, double jump and radiant fun. The challenge is mainly to make leaps in timing and avoid obstacles with eye-hand coordination, so the gameplay has a strong super Mario character.
Angry Birds 2 [19659007] You can not make a list of smartphone games without putting Angry Birds in there, right? Angry Birds 2 is the latest addition to Rovio's ultra-popular franchise, and it will not disappoint, with new characters and power-ups that will scare the annoying pigs and their poorly-built structures.
If you need to give your brain some exercise, you can stay focused with these puzzles and provide an entertainment factor that entertains your funny side [19659018] Solitaire: Decked Out
As for puzzles, it does not become more classic than the famous single-player card game everyone played at any one time in their lives. Solitaire: Decked Out is a no-frills version of Solitaire for Android that keeps things simple and focuses on gameplay, so you'll lose time in any scenario.
Simon Tathams Puzzles
Simon Tathams Puzzles is actually not a single game but a game huge collection of puzzles. With options ranging from a minesweeper clone to an interesting domino game, you'll have hours of fun and mental stimulation.
Unblock Me FREE
Some of the best puzzles are those in which the Premise is simple, but finding the solution is still a challenge. Unblock Me FREE falls into this category because you just have to move the red block from one side of the screen to the other, but that's a lot easier said than done.
For the architect of us all, SimCity BuildIt brings the popular Sim desktop and console franchise with simple and intuitive controls on your mobile device. As the mayor of a virtual city, you have the opportunity to build every aspect of your city from scratch to your own image as you take care of the needs of your citizens and hope that everything goes according to plan.
If you just want to hide in a game and explore the virtual world, you should definitely try these adventure games.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
If you were a fan of Legend of Zelda in the '80s, you'll love the Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The overall aesthetics of the game are strikingly similar to the adventures of Link on the old NES console, right down to the real 8-bit graphics. Although it is based in a sewage system, Zelda's gameplay is quite similar, making it an adventure-fantasy game that trickles with nostalgia.
Tower defense games are nowadays one of the most popular genres for mobile games , And for a good reason. You create a perfect balance between strategy and action by building obstacles, then sitting back and hoping that your efforts will be enough to fend off an enemy attack. Kingdom Rush is at the top of the genre and is considered one of the most popular games on the Google Play Store.
Survive: Wilderness Survival [19659007] Did you play the Oregon Trail as a kid? If not, excuse me for missing it, but a game called Survive: Wilderness Survival has captured the essence of this classic computer game and brought it into this decade. The game simulates a situation where you are stranded with limited resources in the wild. Then you can choose an approach from there – but be careful, a misstep and you could not survive … er,
The Silent Age
For some games, aesthetics are half the fun. This is definitely the case with The Silent Age, as it artistically depicts style, fashion and modern design from the 70s, making a flat, almost two-dimensional impression. This mesmerizing backdrop provides a great backdrop for a classic adventure-genre gameplay where you explore your surroundings and try to put together clues.
If you've been able to deal with epic quests, stories, monsters, magic, and more things than just possible, a role-playing game is just what You need. This list should fuel your need for new worlds and help take your characters to the next level.
Tap Titans 2
Who does not like killing epic bosses with incredible abilities while looking cool at the same time? With Tap Titans 2 you can experience what it's like to be a legendary Swordmaster killing Titans as if they were no big deal. You need to tap the screen as fast as possible to damage the enemies in front of you to earn some coins. Save your gold to upgrade your equipment, learn new skills, hire mercenaries to help you with your quest, and even reborn as a new hero to gain new special powers.
NOTE: Make sure that the game files are present updated before you play offline.
Postknight
If you have died for something 2D side scrolling fight then the award-winning RPG as Postknight could be your answer. You play as a knight who has been given the dangerous task of delivering letters throughout the kingdom to different people. You'll have to fight your way through various monsters and bosses and use your weapons and abilities to deliver those important letters. If you defeat more enemies, you can upgrade your gear to take your character to new heights.
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Pretty, blocky-looking Pokémon that reminds us of Minecraft? If you love the Pokémon series and are looking for something other than the main games, Pokémon Quest might be worth your time, you must use ingredients to prepare unique recipes instead of catching them with PokéBalls, each Pokémon has a favorite meal, and some will attracted by certain dishes more than others, build up your dream team, cook these recipes, and fight your way against the top with a very different take on your favorite franchise.
Note: You must be online, to your character at the beginning to register, but it is possible afterwards to be played offline.
Do you fancy the good old days of the classic "Hack & Slash" games that were made popular by the amazing "Diablo" Series from Blizzard? To fill the action RPG gap, Eternium is the best choice for the time being, while keeping the old school spirit intact. Collect new equipment from different levels, defeat a lot of monsters, go through great quests, dare to go through many different types of dungeons and just enjoy the interesting offers that the game has for you. Such a unique feature is the ability to "swipe" different spells and spells that you gain during your adventure.
Note: Do not forget to make sure the game data is up-to-date and downloaded to your device before playing offline.
There is nothing like training your brain with good old puns to keep your mind sharp. Not only can they be entertaining, they can also take different forms. These puns should keep you busy whenever you feel like thinking outside the box.
Are you looking for a clean and well-presented word search puzzle game? Properly named, word search could be exactly what you were looking for to complete this crossword puzzle. You get a lot of classic puzzles that you have to solve as you get more challenging with each new challenge you solve. Better than a good, classic word search game to pass the time.
If you feel like being challenged, could Pictoword be the right thing for you. If you only provide two images, you must use your mind and find out what the word or phrase is based on these references. They start in simple mode to warm you up, but after some time, they may make you think outside the box. Maybe you have discovered that in record time you are quite natural to find out? Make a fuss and see how far you can do it.
Languinis
Fascinating Record a pun, Linguinis offers you an experience you've never had before in terms of the word genre. It combines the idea of a pattern matching game with a word structure similar to Scrabble or Boggle. There are many challenges to master and a lot of crazy characters to see in every world. You also have a set number of turns to find words per level, so you can think carefully while speaking your chosen words on Android without the Internet ” width=”532″ height=”532″ style=”max-width:532px;height:auto;”/>
A refreshing and modern version of the classic crossword puzzle, Wordscapes a new level of fun. You can expect all the usual activities from such a game, but with an excellent soundtrack, great animations and soothing scenery. You can occasionally play or go to see how many challenges you can master. It's a fun, relaxing and entertaining word game that should keep your mind busy for a while with its large number of riddles to clear.
This is definitely not an exhaustive list. So if you know of great games that do not require an internet connection, we would appreciate your suggestions in the comment section.
This article was created during the special coverage of gadget hacks about traveling with your smartphone. Take a look at the entire travel series.
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Cover photo by Dallas Thomas; Screenshots of Dallas Thomas and Stephen Perkins / Gadget Hacks
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Prep Roundup — Del Norte, Eureka girls win again in Big 5
By barstoolfanatics on January 22, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
File photo – The Eureka girls improved to 5-1 in the Big 5 on Tuesday night with two games remaining.
The Big 5 is looking more and more likely to come down to the final game of the season next week, with both Eureka and Del Norte each winning on Tuesday night to remain the frontrunners in girls basketball.
Del Norte started slow but took control in the second half on the way to a comfortable 53-25 win at home to Fortuna.
With the win, the Warriors remain perfect in the Big 5 at 5-0.
The Loggers, meanwhile, improved to 5-1 with a 59-37 win at home to Arcata.
Eureka hosts Del Norte in the Big 5 finale on Thursday of next week.
In non-conference games on Tuesday night, the McKinleyville girls defeated visiting South Fork 68-17, while the McKinleyville boys comfortably took care of business at Ferndale by a score of 64-30.
Eureka 59, Arcata 37
Makaila Napoleon scored a game-high 19 points as the Loggers kept pace with the Big 5 leaders, with a second win over the Tigers in league play.
Napoleon scored 15 in a dominating first-half performance, as the Eureka girls took control of the game early.
Sophia Chalmers added nine points in the win and Kellina Pratton eight.
Most impressive, however, was the team’s defense, which held the Tigers to just 13 first-half points, as the Loggers opened up a 25-point lead by halftime.
Eureka head coach Michael Harvey went deep to his bench in the second half with 10 different Eureka players scoring.
Raja Cohen scored a team-high 13 points for Arcata, which dropped to 0-6 in the Big 5 and 8-13 overall, while teammate Sophia Belton added eight points.
The Loggers host McKinleyville on Thursday, while Arcata hosts Del Norte.
File photo – The Del Norte girls improved to 5-0 in the Big 5 on Tuesday night.
Del Norte 53, Fortuna 25
The Warriors continued to dominate the rest of the Big 5 with another big win on Tuesday, moving them one step closer to what would be a first-ever league title in girls basketball.
With the win, Del Norte is now 6-0 in league play with three games remaining and 16-2 overall.
The Warriors play at Arcata on Thursday, before hosting a tricky McKinleyville team next Tuesday in their home finale, and then traveling to close out at Eureka.
And Del Norte head coach Justin Clifton is warning his players not to be complacent despite their recent dominating performances.
“I told the girls (Arcata) is no gimme,” he said. “We have three more league games and we have to win them all. Everybody’s out to beat us.”
Kaleya Sanchez scored 18 points to lead the Warriors, who started slow against the Huskies after a six-day layoff.
Defensively, however, the home team held the Huskies to single digits in scoring in each of the four quarters, as they stretched a 10-point halftime lead to 21 by the end of the third quarter.
Bella Stone finished with nine points for Del Norte.
South Fork 17, McKinleyville 68
The Panthers dominated at both ends of the court on the way to a lopsided win over visiting South Fork on Tuesday night.
A pair of sophomores led the way for Mack, with Victoria Claros and Cameron Heenan each scoring nine points.
With the win, the Panthers improved to 12-10, while the Cubs dropped to 8-10.
Rayn Tripp added eight points for the Panthers, who held the visitors to just six points in the opening half, while Mikayla Minton finished with seven points, and Theresia Dickey, Kylee Townsend and Kailey Armstrong six points apiece.
All 12 McKinleyville players scored.
Next up on Thursday, McKinleyville plays at Eureka in a key Big 5 showdown, while South Fork plays at St. Bernard’s.
McKinleyville 64, Ferndale 30
The Panthers got a balanced performance with 10 different players scoring on the way to a comfortable non-conference road win over the Wildcats on Tuesday.
AJ Stubbs scored a game-high 12 points, as the McKinleyville boys won their second straight, improving to 9-10 on the season.
Isaac Puzz added 10 points in the win, while Freddie Sundberg and Sage Watrous de Salinas each finished with eight points.
Jake White and Kameron Conlin each added seven points and Craig Peterson six for the Panthers, who will play at South Fork on Wednesday.
One night after playing the high-flying Huskies close, the Cats were never in this one, scoring just two points in the opening quarter and just 10 in the opening half.
The Cats dropped to 8-11 on the season.
Gio Magdaleno scored a team-high seven points in the loss while Kyler Becksted added five points.
Ferndale will try to rebound at Hoopa Valley on Friday.
Categories: Basketball, Del Norte, Eureka, Ferndale, Fortuna, McKinleyville, South Fork
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Home / News & Speeches / Conference prepares way for Jerusalem Arbitration Centre
Conference prepares way for Jerusalem Arbitration Centre
News • Paris, 22/12/2011
An intensive conference on international arbitration was held in Ramallah, Palestine last week as part of the development phase of the ICC Jerusalem Arbitration Centre (JAC), an independent, specialized arbitration institution tailored to Israeli-Palestinian commercial disputes and their unique circumstances.
The conference, one of a series, aimed to raise awareness and knowledge to build infrastructure for the JAC, a joint venture agreement between ICC Palestine and ICC Israel set to begin operations in 2012.
Scholars and experts conducted sessions on topics ranging from the benefits of international arbitration for the local economy to how to negotiate and draft an international arbitration clause.
“The conferences will develop the knowledge of Palestinian legal academics and will introduce a baseline for international and Palestinian partnerships to develop Palestinian human resource capacity,” said Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Noting the successful partnership between the Palestinian National Authority and the private sector, Mr Fayyad also said that the creation of ICC Palestine in 2011 had been a national achievement.
The JAC initiative hopes to bring long- term benefits to the legal profession, enhance bilateral business between Palestinians and Israelis, open new markets and attract local and foreign investments.
“This is an important national achievement that will impact the development of the Palestinian private sector and the Palestinian economy over the next few years,” said Munib R. Masri, Chairman of the Board of ICC Palestine. “My colleagues and I strongly believe that membership of ICC is an integral and complementary part of the process of putting the state of Palestine on the international map.”
The Jerusalem Arbitration Centre will serve as a joint credible legal framework providing a fair, speedy, and relatively cost‐efficient dispute resolution mechanism for both Palestinian and Israeli businesses alike.
“This is a kick-off event for a larger series of initiatives that will aim at capacity-building and strengthening the Palestinian legal profession, judiciary and business professionals to enable them to participate more effectively in international arbitration,” said Catherine Rogers, a professor at Penn State Law School, one of the event organizers.
Other sponsor organizations include ICC Headquarters, ICC Palestine, Queen Mary Law School Center for Commercial Studies, the Open Society Foundation’s Palestinian Rule of Law Project, the JAMS Foundation, and law firms Crowell & Moring and Wilmer, Cutler,
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June 5, 2015 by graceandgusto 3 Comments
She was nine years old. Her teacher was asking the class about their ethnicity and nationality. She remembers hearing big words like “Caucasian” and wondering if she was one of them. She grew anxious as the teacher made her way through each student, asking them “What is your Ethnicity?” This moment in time could have been her earliest memory of feeling confused about her identity and where she belonged. But instead, the teacher labelled her “the perfect child of the future”. I wonder if the teacher knew the seed of pride she had planted in a little girl’s heart? This was the story Dewi-Ann told me as she recounted her incredibly international childhood.
Before I go on, you should know how to pronounce this pretty name properly. I called her Dew-ee-Ann for a bit, then I moved on to Dev-ee-Ann before she very graciously corrected me in her perfectly posh English accent. Dave-ee-Ann is her name. Cute huh? She’s the first Dave-ee-Ann I’ve ever met, and I think she is rather interesting. So much so that I wanted to tell you her story.
Born to a Dutch botanist father and a Malaysian mother who were living in Thailand at the time, Dewi-Ann spent the first seven years of her life in Indonesia where she attended an American International school. Following this, they lived in Holland for two years before moving to Rome. Dewi-Ann lived in Rome until she was sixteen. This is where she feels she grew up. Can you imagine her language repertoire? She speaks English, Italian, Dutch and French and I wouldn’t mind betting she has a basic knowledge of Malay to add to this impressive selection.
Dewi-Ann and I met mainly because we both speak English! One of the unexpected bonuses of living in the South of France, has been the expat community we have found ourselves enjoying. My husband has taken up playing his long-forgotten love of soccer. The local village team is half English, half French and I am helping him to translate the weekly emails he receives with instructions on where and who they’re playing. I get a giggle every week when for every email he receives with details about the actual game, there are six more with details on who’s bringing what for the team meal that happens after each game. The meal starts at about 10.30pm … I still don’t know how these guys get up and go to work each Friday after such a late night! But I love the community spirit and importance placed on creating a time to eat together … very French indeed.
Together with her husband Will and their three children Amy, 10, Tom, 9 and Mary, 6 (plus her two eldest Dylan and Pia who pop over regularly), Dewi-Ann took the plunge six months ago and moved from England, which had been home for her since 1985. As an Aussie, I’m jealous of their short trip across the channel to such a land as this!
Now with an upbringing like hers, you’d think this move would have been no big deal for her – in fact I figured she’d been in Will’s ear about it for years. Not quite. It was in fact Will who suggested the move at first. After some changes in his accounting career he suggested that this adventure could be just the thing for their family. Dewi-Ann was quite happy to start looking at property to buy in France – who wouldn’t be? They’d holidayed here plenty of times before. But she admits it took quite a while longer before she had truly internalised the fact that they were moving to France to live.
As I sit under her huge platane tree, so typical of this area in the South of France, I take the time to admire the gardens, trees, vines and ancient looking pots and statues that all have more history than I do. But what I’m most drawn to are the crisp white shutters and crawling green ivy that accent this 130 year old farmhouse that soars above us. It was a twenty month process from the time Dewi-Ann first laid eyes on Domaine Codaїgues to when they actually moved in.
Domaine Codaїgues means “le Mas des eaux” … farmhouse of water. It refers to the abundance of rain water that runs down the hill from their village of Montréal into the surrounding fields. Although the original farmland surrounding Codaїgues was sold off by previous owners in the late 1970s, the house remains on eight acres of established gardens dotted with century-old farm machinery to decorate the aptly named “park” that is Dewi-Ann’s front yard. The original concrete slab of the barn declares 1885 as the year it was laid and together with a huge garage, it bookends a building that could comfortably house three families. Dewi-Ann, Will and their family are living in one end of the farmhouse with five bedrooms in use. Add to this a workshop, horse stables, two lounge rooms, a sitting room, a kitchen with the original fireplace, three bathrooms and a grand entry foyer complete with a marble and wrought iron staircase and a feature stain-glass window, and you have an impressive home indeed. I can’t help noticing there is also a hallway closed off with four more rooms that aren’t currently in use and an enormous attic that can be found through a “secret” door … I’m guessing they are on the future “to do” list.
It would be easy to get overwhelmed by the task at hand and although Dewi-Ann first thought five years would see their renovation project completed, after six months of slipping into a slow-paced French life at Codaїgues, she feels no sense of urgency, preferring to take the time to respect the history of the place and repair it accordingly. It’s almost as if Domaine Codaїgues and her new owners need time to get to know and understand one another before they walk together into the future.
Although Will has started renovating the two-storey, four bedroom residence adjacent to their living quarters, they have other projects that will be done in time including the barn, three-bedroom chalet, installing a pool and building a pool house from the existing structure that was once an orangerie. The original owner, Madame Vidal, had this built to honour her son who died in WW1. The gardener was charged with growing flowers in the orangerie all year round to ensure his grave was always decorated with fresh flowers.
There are other stories that Domaine Codaїgues has been witness to. Monsieur Laquire’s wedding took place in the park in 1971. He was the son of the owners at the time. There are remnants of the white foot bridge where he and his bride would have had their photo taken. The two 60m3 grain stores and idle farm machinery in the barn hints at the productivity that once went on at Domaine Codaїgues. Despite the charm of rusted machinery and aging stone walls, the new life in the chicken coup and fruit tree orchard brings hope for what Domaine Codaїgues will once again become.
Dewi-Ann admits that during their first, very cold winter where she wore beanies and gloves inside the house, she may have had one or two moments where she questioned her sanity. But as she sits in the Spring sunshine with her happy, soon-to-be-bilingual kids and the two beloved family dogs squabbling at her feet, she admits she feels it’s a real privilege to be on a journey such as this.
Apart from having a really cool name – one you could never forget – Dewi-Ann is someone who finds herself “at home” not so much in places and things, but in family, good friends and meeting interesting people along the journey of life. She’s happier meeting new people and swapping stories in a foreign land than she is in a shopping mall. She would rather spend a day entertaining under her platane tree overlooking the sprawling eight acre grounds of her new home than racing around the city trying to impress people. But what I think she doesn’t realise is how this love for the simple things in life, the way she makes people take a big deep breath and just relax around her, is really impressive. She doesn’t need to try very hard at all.
I ask her if she thinks she’ll have itchy feet again – or if this is it for her. As she finishes her cup of tea, she can’t hide her smile and doesn’t hesitate … “of course I’ll get itchy feet again … there’s lots to do in this lifetime.”
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Author: graceandgusto
I'm 34, an Australian mum of 3 kids under 7 (currently living in the South of France) and I love design, cooking, my family (not in that order) and learning new things ...
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Wonderful Kate! I feel like my breathe is slowing and I am walking the house and the gardens with you…….life is all about the shared experiences isnt it
tjwithersryan
Love love love all the amazing photos in this post! And what a lovely portrait of a woman’s character in how she approaches life. Well done, Kate. Cheers, TJ
graceandgusto
Thanks TJ! That means a lot coming from you 🙂
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Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)
U24 Resource-Related Research Projects – Cooperative Agreements
April 19, 2019 - Pre-Application Webinar for Population-Based Researchers on NCI's Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research Funding Opportunities. See Notice NOT-CA-19-048.
April 11, 2019 - Notice of Correction to Award Information in RFA-CA-19-041. See Notice NOT-CA-19-045.
RFA-CA-19-041
RFA-CA-19-038, R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grant
RFA-CA-19-039, U01 Research Projects - Cooperative Agreements
RFA-CA-19-040, U24 Resource-Related Research Projects - Cooperative Agreements
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for the continued development and sustainment of high value informatics research resources to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA focuses on sustaining operations and improving the user experience and availability of existing, widely-adopted informatics tools and resources. This is in contrast to early-stage and advanced development efforts to generate these tools and resources that are supported by companion ITCR FOAs. The central mission of ITCR is to promote research-driven informatics technology across the development lifecycle to address priority needs in cancer research. In order to be successful, the proposed sustainment plan must provide clear justification for why the research resource should be maintained and how it has benefitted and will continue to benefit the cancer research field. In addition, mechanisms for assessing and maximizing the value of the resource to researchers and supporting collaboration and deep engagement between the resource and the targeted research community should be described.
30 days prior to the application due date
June 11, 2019; November 20, 2019), by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.
October/November, 2019; March/April 2020
January 2020; May 2020
April 2020; July 2020
It is critical that applicants follow the Research (R) Instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
The 21st century has seen major advances in biology coupled with innovations in information technology that have led to an explosive growth of biological and biomedical information. From the genomic revolution and many of its manifestations to developments in high-throughput, high-content screening, biomedical scientists have access to research data of unprecedented size and complexity. This situation provides important opportunities for new discoveries and ultimately, for realizing the promise of precision medicine. At the same time, it confronts researchers, including bench biologists and clinicians, with significant challenges to access data, analyze data, and ultimately transform discovery into new knowledge and clinical practice. These challenges are especially prominent in the field of cancer research where complexity and heterogeneity of the disease translate to complex data generation conditions and high data management and analysis overhead, a condition that creates significant barriers to knowledge discovery and dissemination.
The field of biomedical informatics is critical to creating solutions to meet these challenges. At the intersection of biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and information technology, biomedical informatics involves the development and application of computational tools to support the organization and understanding of biomedical information, so that new insight and knowledge can be discerned. There is a growing consensus that biomedical research is an information-intensive science and biomedical informatics is no longer an option but an integral component of all biomedical research.
Remarkable progress in biomedical informatics supporting cancer research has been made in recent years. The emerging use of cloud computing to support big data analysis; innovative computational methods for variant calling and driver mutation detection; the application of machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods to image analysis; and the application of natural language processing to clinical information, for example, have all had fundamental impacts on cancer research. However, the use of informatics in everyday research remains a challenge for a number of reasons including the low availability of user-focused tools; lack of sufficient support for existing tools; the need for training materials; lack of interoperable tools; and the lack of tools to meet specific scientific needs. These critical needs are recognized by NCI and formed the basis of the NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program whose scope serves informatics needs that span the cancer research continuum. Moreover, ITCR provides support for informatics resources across the development lifecycle, including the development of innovative methods and algorithms, early stage software development (current FOA), advanced stage software development, and sustainment of high-value resources on which the community has come to depend.
Companion FOAs of the ITCR program include:
RFA-CA-19-038, “Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21)”: Development of innovative methods and algorithms addressing priority needs in cancer research
RFA-CA-19-039,"Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01)": Early-stage development of new tools or adapting existing tools for new applications in support of focused scientific inquiry or data sharing.
RFA-CA-19-040, " Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24)": Advanced development of emerging informatics technology to enable wide adoption in the cancer research community.
The NCI plans to release additional funding opportunity announcements in FY 2019 for two new components of the ITCR program:
A Training and Outreach Coordination Center that will conduct activities that engage the research and informatics communities to use and extend the ITCR technologies, including in depth courses and workshops on topics in cancer informatics; informatics challenges and hackathons, and coordinating program presence at conferences and on-line outreach opportunities.
Competitive revisions to active NCI grants to address challenges in applying informatics technology developed through the ITCR program in support of NCI-sponsored research
Specific Research Objectives
This FOA invites applications to support the sustained operations of informatics technology resources that support a wide range of cancer research, including discovery biology, population studies, as well as clinical and translational research. The emphasis will be on sustaining resources that have had a demonstrated impact on cancer research. Some examples of informatics technologies that may be appropriate for this FOA include, but are not limited to, the following:
Data acquisition software, such as for laboratory equipment, wearable devices, and questionnaires
Data management, storage, organization, and data sharing resources
Data mining, visualization, and analytics tools and platforms
Data processing methods such as data compression, data provenance, and data wrangling
Data annotation tools, including common data elements and ontologies
Data integration and workflow tools and platforms
Development of data standards, data exchange formats, data quality assurance methods, and data privacy management tools
Performance evaluation of software tools, algorithms, and data collection methods
Statistical methods, graph and network theory approaches, and machine learning methods
Natural language processing and text mining approaches
Clinical decision support and treatment planning tools
Technology to support next generation clinical trials and clinical trial matching
Behavioral intervention tools
Platforms for research collaboration and algorithm performance evaluation
Environments for interactive modeling and simulation
Examples of activities appropriate to the sustained operations of informatics technology in support of research include:
User help desk support, including mailing lists, forums, etc., as appropriate
Hosting tools in conjunction with relevant data sets and supporting collaborative/shared analysis
Establishing interoperability with other research resources
Data aggregation and integration
Implementing new resource functionality in support of evolving user needs
General maintenance, including bug fixing and technical upgrades of the underlying software and infrastructure
Improving the stability, security and/or performance (i.e., speed) of the informatics tools
Providing software installation support for locally-hosted instances
Data annotation, processing, and curation in support of improved data quality and utility
Support for open source development (i.e., accepting external contributions of source code)
Applications in support of informatics technologies that address under-represented areas in the program portfolio are of particular interest. The list of funded projects is available at https://itcr.cancer.gov/about-itcr/funded-projects.
Collaborative Activities: Awardees are required to participate in additional collaborative projects identified post award, to enhance the utility and/or interoperability of the informatics technology they support. Examples include, but are not limited to:
Extension or adaptation of a tool to support the needs of a cancer research project
Implementation of common Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support data exchange among tools
Adoption of common data standards to support semantic interoperability across resources
Use of a common software platform/interoperability infrastructure for tool integration
Non-Responsive Projects and Alternative Opportunities
Projects with a significant level of data generation and/or data analysis beyond limited validation studies will not be considered responsive to this funding opportunity.
Projects that are exploratory or that represent early stage technology development will not be considered responsive to this funding opportunity.
Projects focused on the development of wet-lab technologies for cancer research should consider the FOA(s) offered by the NCI Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program.
Potential applicants are advised to consult with the Scientific/Research contact listed in Section VII for appropriateness of submission to this FOA.
Cooperative Agreement: A support mechanism used when there will be substantial Federal scientific or programmatic involvement. Substantial involvement means that, after award, NIH scientific or program staff will assist, guide, coordinate, or participate in project activities. See Section VI.2 for additional information about the substantial involvement for this FOA.
Resubmission
Optional: Accepting applications that either propose or do not propose clinical trial(s)
NCI intends to commit $2,250,000 in FY 2020 to fund 2 awards.
Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
The maximum project period is five years.
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
System for Award Management (SAM)– Applicants must complete and maintain an active registration, which requires renewal at least annually. The renewal process may require as much time as the initial registration. SAM registration includes the assignment of a Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code for domestic organizations which have not already been assigned a CAGE Code.
eRA Commons - Applicants must have an active DUNS number to register in eRA Commons. Organizations can register with the eRA Commons as they are working through their SAM or Grants.gov registration, but all registrations must be in place by time of submission. eRA Commons requires organizations to identify at least one Signing Official (SO) and at least one Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) account in order to submit an application.
An application that has substantial overlap with another application pending appeal of initial peer review (see NOT-OD-11-101).
It is critical that applicants follow the Research (R) Instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
Juli Klemm, Ph.D.
Email: juli.klemm@.nih.gov
All page limitations described in the SF424 Application Guide and the Table of Page Limits must be followed.
Collaborative Activities: Applicants must set aside 10 percent of their annual budget (Direct Costs) in Budget Period 2 and beyond to support collaborative activities within or beyond ITCR projects, initiated post-award. The amount should be presented in the Other Expenses category under the heading "Collaborative Funds".
Travel: Applicants are required to include travel support for an investigator from their research team to attend the annual meeting. In the budget, a travel budget for one trip per year to these meetings must be included.
Research Strategy: The goal of this FOA is to support research-driven informatics technology development to serve the mission of NCI. In support of this goal, investigators should clearly describe:
The demonstrated impact of the informatics technology to cancer research and justification for why it should be sustained.
The unique value of the informatics technology and the advantage over competing technologies
Plans to evolve the informatics technology to address emerging needs of the targeted research communities and to ensure that it maintains relevance to the research it supports
The approach to soliciting feedback from end users to ensure the ongoing and future usability and utility for the research community
Plans for supporting the user community, including documentation, training, and other outreach activities.
A timeline and milestones for achieving the project goals.
Plans for participating in ITCR program activities, including annual meetings and working groups, as well as program-wide education and outreach activities.
A plan for long-term sustainment of the informatics technology
A fundamental goal of the ITCR program is to encourage activities that enhance the utility and interoperability of tools. Awardees will submit proposals post-award for collaborations supported through the set-aside funds. In support of this requirement, investigators should describe their abilities and plans for facilitating the future collaborative activities that are required for the use of these funds. These plans should include possible areas of collaboration that are appropriate to their project and that complement other program activities.
Letters of Support: Applicants must include letters of support from the cancer research community. These letters should describe how the technology has benefited their research and why the resource should be sustained. The letters (no more than 20) should provide supporting evidence for the need to sustain the resource for the targeted cancer research community.
Resource Sharing Plan: Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, with the following modification:
Software Dissemination Plan: A software dissemination plan, with appropriate timelines, is expected to be included in the application. There is no prescribed single license for software produced through grants responding to this announcement. However, NCI does have goals for software dissemination and the plan should address the following:
The software should be freely available to biomedical researchers and educators in the non-profit sector, such as institutions of education, research institutions, and government laboratories.
The terms of software availability should permit the dissemination and commercialization of enhanced or customized versions of the software, or incorporation of the software or pieces of it into other software packages.
To preserve utility to the community, the software should be transferable such that another individual or team can continue development in the event that the original investigators are unwilling or unable to do so.
The terms of software availability should include the ability of researchers to modify the source code and to share modifications with other colleagues.
To further enhance the potential impact of their software, applicants may consider proposing a plan to manage and disseminate the improvements or customizations of their tools and resources by others. In support of this goal, awardees are encouraged to manage and disseminate their source code through an open revision control and source code management system such as GitHub.
Prior to funding, program staff may negotiate modifications of software sharing plans with the applicant. Any software dissemination plans represent a commitment by the institution (and its subcontractors, as applicable), to support and abide by the plan. The final version of any accepted software sharing plans will become a condition of the award.
Note: Delayed onset does NOT apply to a study that can be described but will not start immediately (i.e., delayed start).
Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign institutions.
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates and times. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications before the due date to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission. When a submission date falls on a weekend or Federal holiday, the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process.
Applications submitted to the NIH in support of the NIH mission are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
In addition, for applications involving clinical trials:
A proposed Clinical Trial application may include study design, methods, and intervention that are not by themselves innovative but address important questions or unmet needs. Additionally, the results of the clinical trial may indicate that further clinical development of the intervention is unwarranted or lead to new avenues of scientific investigation.
Specific for this FOA: What has been the impact of the informatics technology to the collaborating projects and to the broader cancer research field in general? How will the proposed sustainment plan lead to continued advancement of cancer research?
In addition, for applications involving clinical trials
Are the scientific rationale and need for a clinical trial to test the proposed hypothesis or intervention well supported by preliminary data, clinical and/or preclinical studies, or information in the literature or knowledge of biological mechanisms? For trials focusing on clinical or public health endpoints, is this clinical trial necessary for testing the safety, efficacy or effectiveness of an intervention that could lead to a change in clinical practice, community behaviors or health care policy? For trials focusing on mechanistic, behavioral, physiological, biochemical, or other biomedical endpoints, is this trial needed to advance scientific understanding?
Specific for this FOA: What is the track record of the investigator(s) in informatics technology innovation and dissemination?
With regard to the proposed leadership for the project, do the PD/PI(s) and key personnel have the expertise, experience, and ability to organize, manage and implement the proposed clinical trial and meet milestones and timelines? Do they have appropriate expertise in study coordination, data management and statistics? For a multicenter trial, is the organizational structure appropriate and does the application identify a core of potential center investigators and staffing for a coordinating center?
Specific for this FOA: Do any similar resources currently exist? What is the advantage of sustaining this resource in comparison to competing technologies?
Does the design/research plan include innovative elements, as appropriate, that enhance its sensitivity, potential for information or potential to advance scientific knowledge or clinical practice?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project? Have the investigators included plans to address weaknesses in the rigor of prior research that serves as the key support for the proposed project? Have the investigators presented strategies to ensure a robust and unbiased approach, as appropriate for the work proposed? Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Have the investigators presented adequate plans to address relevant biological variables, such as sex, for studies in vertebrate animals or human subjects?
Specific for this FOA: Are there plans to evolve the research resource to address emerging needs of the targeted research communities and ensure that the research resource maintains relevance to the research it supports? Are the proposed timeline and milestones for technology enhancement sound and realistic? Are there sound plans for supporting the user community?
Does the application adequately address the following, if applicable
Is the study design justified and appropriate to address primary and secondary outcome variable(s)/endpoints that will be clear, informative and relevant to the hypothesis being tested? Is the scientific rationale/premise of the study based on previously well-designed preclinical and/or clinical research? Given the methods used to assign participants and deliver interventions, is the study design adequately powered to answer the research question(s), test the proposed hypothesis/hypotheses, and provide interpretable results? Is the trial appropriately designed to conduct the research efficiently? Are the study populations (size, gender, age, demographic group), proposed intervention arms/dose, and duration of the trial, appropriate and well justified?
Are potential ethical issues adequately addressed? Is the process for obtaining informed consent or assent appropriate? Is the eligible population available? Are the plans for recruitment outreach, enrollment, retention, handling dropouts, missed visits, and losses to follow-up appropriate to ensure robust data collection? Are the planned recruitment timelines feasible and is the plan to monitor accrual adequate? Has the need for randomization (or not), masking (if appropriate), controls, and inclusion/exclusion criteria been addressed? Are differences addressed, if applicable, in the intervention effect due to sex/gender and race/ethnicity?
Are the plans to standardize, assure quality of, and monitor adherence to, the trial protocol and data collection or distribution guidelines appropriate? Is there a plan to obtain required study agent(s)? Does the application propose to use existing available resources, as applicable?
Data Management and Statistical Analysis
Are planned analyses and statistical approach appropriate for the proposed study design and methods used to assign participants and deliver interventions? Are the procedures for data management and quality control of data adequate at clinical site(s) or at center laboratories, as applicable? Have the methods for standardization of procedures for data management to assess the effect of the intervention and quality control been addressed? Is there a plan to complete data analysis within the proposed period of the award?
If the project involves human subjects and/or NIH-defined clinical research, are the plans to address
1) the protection of human subjects from research risks, and
2) inclusion (or exclusion) of individuals on the basis of sex/gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as the inclusion or exclusion of individuals of all ages (including children and older adults), justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed?
If proposed, are the administrative, data coordinating, enrollment and laboratory/testing centers, appropriate for the trial proposed?
Does the application adequately address the capability and ability to conduct the trial at the proposed site(s) or centers? Are the plans to add or drop enrollment centers, as needed, appropriate?
If international site(s) is/are proposed, does the application adequately address the complexity of executing the clinical trial?
If multi-sites/centers, is there evidence of the ability of the individual site or center to: (1) enroll the proposed numbers; (2) adhere to the protocol; (3) collect and transmit data in an accurate and timely fashion; and, (4) operate within the proposed organizational structure?
Are there adequate plans for the effective interaction and coordination with the supported cancer research programs, ITCR program investigators, and the NCI?
Study Timeline
Specific to applications involving clinical trials
Is the study timeline described in detail, taking into account start-up activities, the anticipated rate of enrollment, and planned follow-up assessment? Is the projected timeline feasible and well justified? Does the project incorporate efficiencies and utilize existing resources (e.g., CTSAs, practice-based research networks, electronic medical records, administrative database, or patient registries) to increase the efficiency of participant enrollment and data collection, as appropriate?
Are potential challenges and corresponding solutions discussed (e.g., strategies that can be implemented in the event of enrollment shortfalls)?
For Resubmissions, the committee will evaluate the application as now presented, taking into consideration the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group and changes made to the project.
For Renewals, the committee will consider the progress made in the last funding period.
Sustainment Plan
Reviewers will comment on the plans for long-term sustainment of the informatics technology.
Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by NCI, in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria. Assignment to a Scientific Review Group will be shown in the eRA Commons.
Applications will be assigned to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center. Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications submitted in response to this FOA. Following initial peer review, recommended applications will receive a second level of review by the National Cancer Advisory Board. The following will be considered in making funding decisions:
Individual awards are based on the application submitted to, and as approved by, the NIH and are subject to the IC-specific terms and conditions identified in the NoA.
ClinicalTrials.gov: If an award provides for one or more clinical trials. By law (Title VIII, Section 801 of Public Law 110-85), the "responsible party" must register and submit results information for certain “applicable clinical trials” on the ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration and Results System Information Website (https://register.clinicaltrials.gov). NIH expects registration and results reporting of all trials whether required under the law or not. For more information, see https://grants.nih.gov/policy/clinical-trials/reporting/index.htm
Institutional Review Board or Independent Ethics Committee Approval: Grantee institutions must ensure that all protocols are reviewed by their IRB or IEC. To help ensure the safety of participants enrolled in NIH-funded studies, the awardee must provide NIH copies of documents related to all major changes in the status of ongoing protocols. Data and Safety
Monitoring Requirements: The NIH policy for data and safety monitoring requires oversight and monitoring of all NIH-conducted or -supported human biomedical and behavioral intervention studies (clinical trials) to ensure the safety of participants and the validity and integrity of the data. Further information concerning these requirements is found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/hs/data_safety.htm and in the application instructions (SF424 (R&R) and PHS 398).
Investigational New Drug or Investigational Device Exemption Requirements: Consistent with federal regulations, clinical research projects involving the use of investigational therapeutics, vaccines, or other medical interventions (including licensed products and devices for a purpose other than that for which they were licensed) in humans under a research protocol must be performed under a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational new drug (IND) or investigational device exemption (IDE).
For additional guidance regarding how the provisions apply to NIH grant programs, please contact the Scientific/Research Contact that is identified in Section VII under Agency Contacts of this FOA. HHS provides general guidance to recipients of FFA on meeting their legal obligation to take reasonable steps to provide meaningful access to their programs by persons with limited English proficiency. Please see https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/special-topics/limited-english-proficiency/index.html. The HHS Office for Civil Rights also provides guidance on complying with civil rights laws enforced by HHS. Please see https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/section-1557/index.html; and https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-providers/laws-regulations-guidance/index.html. Recipients of FFA also have specific legal obligations for serving qualified individuals with disabilities. Please see https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/disability/index.html. Please contact the HHS Office for Civil Rights for more information about obligations and prohibitions under federal civil rights laws at https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/about-us/contact-us/index.html or call 1-800-368-1019 or TDD 1-800-537-7697. Also note it is an HHS Departmental goal to ensure access to quality, culturally competent care, including long-term services and supports, for vulnerable populations. For further guidance on providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services, recipients should review the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care at http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=53.
The following special terms of award are in addition to, and not in lieu of, otherwise applicable U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) administrative guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) grant administration regulations at 45 CFR Part 75, and other HHS, PHS, and NIH grant administration policies.
The administrative and funding instrument used for this program will be the cooperative agreement, an "assistance" mechanism (rather than an "acquisition" mechanism), in which substantial NIH programmatic involvement with the awardees is anticipated during the performance of the activities. Under the cooperative agreement, the NIH purpose is to support and stimulate the recipients' activities by involvement in and otherwise working jointly with the award recipients in a partnership role; it is not to assume direction, prime responsibility, or a dominant role in the activities. Consistent with this concept, the dominant role and prime responsibility resides with the awardees for the project as a whole, although specific tasks and activities may be shared among the awardees and the NIH as defined below.
The PD(s)/PI(s) will have the primary responsibility for:
Ensuring that all software produced by the project are disseminated according to the approved terms consistent with the guidelines of the Software Dissemination Plan;
Implementing procedures to actively solicit input and feedback from the user community and integrate those into the software development plan;
Actively engaging in outreach activities targeting the user community, the cancer research community in particular;
Participating in all ITCR program activities including the required annual meeting, optional working groups, as well as well as workshops and other outreach activities
Seeking opportunities for collaboration with other projects of the ITCR Initiative with the aim of producing software tools that are compatible and interoperable in order to maximize their utility;
Working closely with the Project Scientist (see below) in project coordination and management as described under “NCI Staff Responsibilities”
Awardees will retain custody of and have primary rights to the data and software developed under these awards, subject to Government rights of access consistent with current DHHS, PHS, and NIH policies.
NIH staff have substantial programmatic involvement that is above and beyond the normal stewardship role in awards, as described below:
An NCI Program staff member(s) acting as a Project Scientist(s) will have substantial programmatic involvement that is above and beyond the normal stewardship role in awards, as described below.
Additional NCI staff members may be designated to have substantial involvement (as Project Scientists). This includes a Project Scientist who will provide program-wide coordination among program investigators.
Additionally, an NCI program director acting as Program Official will be responsible for the normal scientific and programmatic stewardship of the award and will be named in the award notice.
The main responsibilities of substantially involved NCI staff members include the following activities:
Coordinate and facilitate interactions and collaborations among the awardees of the ITCR Program;
Serve as the liaison between individual projects and other components of the ITCR Program;
Evaluate and approve individual project's Software Dissemination Plan;
Provide technical assistance and advice to the awardees as appropriate;
Assist in avoiding unwarranted duplication of effort with other ITCR projects;
Suggest reprogramming efforts, including options to modify projects/programs when certain objectives of this FOA are not met;
Participate in organizing ITCR annual meetings and special workshops;
Develop working groups and trans-project efforts as needed;
Make final decisions for the release of set-aside funds, based on the recommendations of NCI program staff.
Areas of Joint Responsibility include:
The NCI Project Scientist(s) and the PD/PI of the Cooperative Agreement awards funded under the ITCR Initiative will be jointly responsible for participating in initiative-wide activities and for establishing inter-project collaborations.
Dispute Resolution:
Any disagreements that may arise in scientific or programmatic matters (within the scope of the award) between award recipients and the NIH may be brought to Dispute Resolution. A Dispute Resolution Panel composed of three members will be convened. It will have three members: a designee of the Steering Committee chosen without NIH staff voting, one NIH designee, and a third designee with expertise in the relevant area who is chosen by the other two; in the case of individual disagreement, the first member may be chosen by the individual awardee. This special dispute resolution procedure does not alter the awardee's right to appeal an adverse action that is otherwise appealable in accordance with PHS regulation 42 CFR Part 50, Subpart D and DHHS regulation 45 CFR Part 16.
Email: juli.klemm@nih.gov
Referral Officer
Email: ncirefof@dea.nci.nih.gov
Sean Hine
Email: hines@mail.nih.gov
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Home»GSDRC Publications»Institutional partnerships and twinning between civil service organisations
Institutional partnerships and twinning between civil service organisations
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What findings can be drawn from a review of theory, practice and evidence in relation to developed country-developing country institutional partnerships/twinning between civil service organisations – focusing on capacity development and sectoral outcomes; institutional relationships and bilateral partnerships; and people-to-people links?
‘Twinning’ typically entails a form of formalised partnership between similar institutions in the North and South for an indefinite period (Jensen, 2007; Baud et al., 2010), with the aim of strengthening the capacity of partners in developing countries (Jones and Blunt, 1999; Ouchi, 2004). Institutional twinning inherently implies that the primary focus of the capacity development initiative is at the organisational level (above individuals), providing a possible strategic entry point for sector strengthening. This does not mean that there will be no work at the individual level, but that any such work will be part of a wider range of inputs and interventions (J.P. expert comments). Thus, donor agencies and other organisations may adopt a different mix of twinning activities, including: short- or long-term placement of experts, study tours and missions, systems development, advisory services, training events and workshops (Ouchi, 2004). More extensive cooperation also occurs, based on reciprocal relationships between entities, such as municipalities, aimed at forming broad development partnerships (Grupstra and van Eerdt, 2017).
This rapid review highlights findings on developed country-developing country (or North-South) twinnings/institutional partnerships between civil service organisations in the following three areas:
Achieving sustainable capacity development outcomes and contribution to broader sectoral objectives.
Building institutional relationships to strengthen the bilateral partnership to benefit both country’s national interest.
Enhancing people-to-people links to develop closer ties, collaboration and influence.
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Enquirer:
Australian Government (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Haider, H. (2018). Institutional partnerships and twinnings between civil service organisations. GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report 1428. Birmingham, UK: GSDRC, University of Birmingham.
Donor funded alliances promoting regional cooperation
Factors important to the establishment, renewal or rehabilitation of the civil service
Capacity building in the Ministry of Interior in fragile and post-conflict countries
Capacity building for social protection
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Are Dairy Products High in Carbohydrates?
1 What Are Some Good Snacks for a Person That Is Diabetic and Has Low Sodium?
2 How Many Grams of Carbohydrates Are in Powdered Egg Whites?
3 What Kind of Cheese Is Good for a High Protein Low Carb Diet?
4 Does Whey Protein Powder Contain Carbs?
Although some dairy products are high in carbohydrates, you can find a variety of dairy foods that contain few carbs. Since carbohydrates are your body’s main source of energy, you should aim to meet the recommended dietary allowance, or RDA, for carbs, which is 130 grams daily, according to the Institute of Medicine. However, consuming too many carbs and total calories can cause you to pack on the pounds. In general, the more sugar that is added to the dairy product, the higher its carb content.
The amount of carbs in yogurt varies depending on the brand and flavor you buy. Some types of yogurt are very high in carbohydrates. For example, the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory reports that a 6-ounce container of low-fat, fruit-flavored yogurt contains about 32 grams of carbohydrates. Kefir, a cultured milk smoothie similar to yogurt, is also rich in carbs. However, Greek yogurt is generally higher in protein and much lower in carbohydrates. A 6-ounce container of plain Greek yogurt contains only about 6 grams of carbs, reports the USDA.
Most brands of regular cow’s milk contain about 12 grams of carbohydrates in a 1-cup serving. However, since chocolate milk contains added sugar, its carb content is much higher. The USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory reports that 1 cup of low-fat chocolate milk provides about 32 grams of carbs. Choosing plain soymilk will reduce the carb content of your milk to about 8 grams per cup, according to the USDA.
Cottage cheese is fairly low in carbs but rich in protein, making cottage cheese a popular choice among high-protein, low-carb dieters. One cup of low-fat cottage cheese contains about 6 grams of carbs and 28 grams of protein, reports the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory. However, cottage cheese is also high in sodium content, with about 918 milligrams per cup.
Cheese is the dairy product lowest in carbohydrates. For example, a 1-ounce portion of cheddar cheese contains less than 1 gram of carbohydrates, according to the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory. Although cheese is rich in protein, it’s also high in saturated fat and cholesterol, which can increase your risk for heart disease when you consume them in excess. Healthier, lower-carb options include reduced-fat cheeses.
Institute of Medicine: Dietary Reference Intakes: Macronutrients
Coleman,, Erin. "Are Dairy Products High in Carbohydrates?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/dairy-products-high-carbohydrates-8666.html. 27 December 2018.
Coleman,, Erin. (2018, December 27). Are Dairy Products High in Carbohydrates? Healthy Eating | SF Gate. Retrieved from http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/dairy-products-high-carbohydrates-8666.html
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Snacks With a Lot of Carbohydrates
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Benefits Behind Cutting Carbohydrates
Figure Out Your Carbohydrate Range
Cut Carbohydrates When Breast-feeding
What Kind of Cheese Is Good for a High Protein Low Carb Diet?
How Many Carbohydrates Are in a Plain Doughnut?
The Disadvantages of Carbohydrates
The Main Source of Key Carbohydrates
Advantages & Disadvantages of Carbohydrates
How Many Carbohydrates Do Teens Need Every Day?
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Nov 24 A VERY MIGUEL THANKSGIVING (THIS IS US RECAP)
Ines Bellina
A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. – Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Happy Thanksgivings are all alike; every unhappy Thanksgiving is unhappy in its own way.
That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after spending more than a decade hearing all of you gripe about the holiday. As a naturalized citizen, I approach Thanksgiving with boundless curiosity and zero emotional attachment. Everyone wants to gather around to eat an absurd amount of food? Sounds good to me. Unfortunately, it also seems that Turkey Day is prime time for other hollowed American traditions like fighting with your racist uncle, enduring an interrogation over your eternal spinsterhood, dealing with cousins who have discovered either Ayn Rand or Bill Maher, tolerating your sister’s new weird boyfriend, flaming the feud over dead grandma’s ring, witnessing the disproportionately gendered division of domestic labor, and so much more, all to the background of a never-ending football game. Oh, and this is without even getting into the whole genocidal origins of the day.
Thanksgiving: where you clash with friend and foe alike in real life, but where you value the importance of every human being that’s ever walked this Earth on TV land. In the case of This Is Us, we’re invited to six different Thanksgiving dinners, with their own small or big tragedies, small or big joys. Make like a platter of ambrosia salad and let’s dig in!
Thanksgiving #1: Mommy and Daddy Pearson Welcome Your Recently Divorced Uncle
What do we really know about Miguel, this weird interloper who doesn’t seem to click with anyone other than Beth? It’s long been one of my critiques that the lone Latino character in this series is usually presented as some Americanized jibarito being sold in a food court in a terrible attempt to “diversify.” We’ve seen a bit more of him this season, gracias a Dios, and this may be the episode where we learn the most about his universe outside of the Pearsons.
It’s the last Thanksgiving before the kids are set to go to college and the Pearsons have decided to forego any celebration that involves Meanest Dad Ever or Bad Becky. Theirs is a self-contained dinner…with the addition of Miguel who is going through a divorce worthy of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The writers are also setting the table for some nice upcoming drama. Mommy Pearson mentions how Miguel’s ex is her best friend—SCANDAL. Miguel’s ex is turning his children against him—ESCÁNDALO. Jack reminds Miguel of his unwanted presence in their boss’s Alt-Right country club, where no Puerto Rican has ever set foot in, but that’s the kind of professional drive Miguel has, even though all those Saturdays spent with Republican voters who will heartily approve of the financial ruin of the island and care little about the thousands of lives lost during Hurricane Maria have cost them a relationship with his kids—SENSATIONALIZED AND SALACIOUS EVENT.
While Jack does his best to cheer up a weepy Miguel, Randall is busy writing his college essay. The prompt has Live Lit theme show written all over it: “Who’s impacted you the most?” His siblings, enamored with the idea of the White Savior Complex, are rooting for the firefighter who left him at the hospital. Randall, aware that no success is possible without community support, wants to write an essay about the logical fallacy of that question to begin with. This is why he’s the sibling that’s going to college.
Thanksgiving #2: Randall and Beth Reenact Becoming
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Daaaaaaaamn shirtless Randall is on par with season one’s bare butt Milo. That whole shot was a thirst trap. Ok, back to business.
As a political candidate, Randall no longer has the luxury of spending the day at Mar-de-Lago or sending official emails via his private account. Instead, he is heading to a soup kitchen in his campaign district with Beth, Deja, and his youngest daughter since the older one is feeling sick. Hot KPop, who I enjoyed last time we saw him, is already questioning Beth’s choice of not having any photo-ops in a place that is already ignored by the mainstream media, unlike the church across town. When she’s out of earshot, he unleashes a series of grievances on Randall that range from not having had any say in her hiring to wondering if she bakes enough cookies to satisfy the insatiable misogyny of the American constituency. Randall won’t here it though. Beth is his wife. NEPOTISM IS HERE TO STAY!
The day goes well. Randall gets face time with potential voters, shakes the hands of adorable children, hears the concerns of the needy. All in all a success. Hot KPop, sensing a good opportunity, manages to schedule a photographer to take at least one picture. This leads to a heated argument between him and Beth, and despite Beth’s very reasoned arguments for not wanting a photographer, you know she’s going to be dubbed difficult and emotional. Randall sides with Beth, strictly because she’s his wife and, if he knew anything about his wife, he would realize that this is deeply insulting to her. Which it is. This of course gives Beth the doubts and she ask Randall how many of her ideas where actually valued for what they were and which ones were due to her being Mrs. Randall. Beth isn’t Ivanka; she isn’t even Tiffany She is deeply troubled by the notion that she might be skating by because of her relationship to the candidate.
Thanksgiving #3: Even in Vietnam, you’ll still fight with your brother
We head now to Thanksgiving on the warfront! Jack’s big plans to set his brother straight are not going as well as he planned. Nick is basically behaving like your surly younger brother who just discovered Nietzsche and the belligerent power of Southern Comfort. Jack invites him to Thanksgiving dinner with the soldiers, but only if he behaves like a human being and not a college freshman.
At dinner, Jack is being his usual secretive self by writing letters while his brother sulks off to the side. Even the fellow soldiers can tell his brother isn’t right. As they gossip behind his back, the Mystery Vietnamese Woman drops a couple of pails of water in front of Nick. Jack rushes to help her and a fellow soldier snaps the famous picture we’ve been seeing the whole season. Randall was right. It’s not the look of love; it’s the look of gratitude when an invader is benevolent.
Jack makes a little leftover turkey care package and brings it over to Mystery Lady. Earlier he had noticed that her son looked sick. The little boy has a huge gash on his foot that is clearly infected. Jack wakes up Nick, who had trained as a medic, and asks him for help. NICK, A TRUE MAGA VISIONARY WHO IS AHEAD OF HIS TIME, REFUSES BECAUSE THE KID MAY GROW UP TO HATE AMERICANS. Jack ends up cleaning the wound and doing his best to help the little boy.
Jack later finds Nick sitting hear the dock and appeals to his compassion. Nick’s argument against common human decency is to tell a story about his commander who was betrayed by the old Vietnamese lady who used to cut his hair. I would go into detail but I can’t even bring myself to retell the justification for the further dehumanization of foreign people so I won’t.
Thanksgiving #4: Two Lonely People Get It On and It Ain’t You and Your High School Sweetheart
Randall’s Bio Dad is back! Remember how he had a dashing British lover? Well, this is the story of their romance. Dashing Brit first meets Bio Dad when he’s playing the piano in the rec center. On Thanksgiving, they run into each other and Bio Dad invites him in for some food. They tell each other about their addictions. Dashing Brit tells him the perfectly polished, somewhat respectable life story of how he became an addict. You meant there’s a respectable one? Why yes! If you’re a man, white, and rich you can totally pass off a cocaine habit as a little slip up you fell into to stay awake during your long working hours. Believe me, I’ve worked in advertising. It’s a thing. Bio Dad can see right through it and asks him for the real version.
The truth is Dashing Brit loved cocaine until he found out that smoking cracked cocaine was cheaper. He was never a bond trader but he does have a sister in Chicago. Thanksgiving depresses him despite his Britishness and wonders aloud if the whole thing is a celebration of the Revolutionary War, which is the least believable thing I’ve seen in a show where Kevin is a serious actor and Toby is endearing. The world is saturated with Hollywood’s pop culture and the UK’s education system is topnotch so yes, everyone in the whole world knows what Thanksgiving is. That should be reason enough for the US to finally wrap their head around the real meaning of Cinco de Mayo but I digress.
Dashing Brit didn’t want to expose himself to a bunch of people asking him about his recovery, which is why he’s spending Thanksgiving alone. Bio Dad invites him to a show where a bunch of sober musicians are getting together to play jazz. Love blooms.
Thanksgiving #4: Someone’s Coming Out
Kate and Toby are in charge of Thanksgiving dinner and they turn to Randall’s Thanksgiving recipe binder for guidance. Side note: Randall having a Thanksgiving recipe binder with a comfit section is my sexuality defined. Toby is already freaking out but no manic episode is as terrifying as what comes next: him running into Tess while she’s holding a Walgreens-sized number of menstrual products in her hands.
Kate is off to the rescue and does the Cool Aunt thing of telling her own period story, which involves Miguel’s kids. Their names are Andy and Amber but since I’m not about that assimilation life I will call them Andrés and Ámbar. Ámbar is intimidatingly cool, the kind of girl that teaches Kate how to wear makeup. Maybe the most insightful commentary on a Latina teen ever. I’m notorious for being the only Latina who doesn’t know her way around a Sephora. I blame my international lifestyle. Kate gets her period and sneaks out of the room with her stained sheets in her hands so Ámbar can’t tell but ends up running into Andrés instead, who is a lifeguard. Ok, Miguel’s kids are obviously hot, right? One cursory glance at all my Puerto Rican friends tell me that yes, they will be caliente.
Kate finishes her anecdote by telling Tess that this is exciting. Soon she’ll have her first kiss! First dance! First boyfriend! To which Tess replies nervously, “or first girlfriend.” Remember to be inclusive with your young ones, friends!
Back downstairs, Toby has freaked out and resorted to a Cracker Barrel Thanksgiving. Why not?
Thanksgiving #6: Time to Air Out Some Ye Olde Grudges
We’re still in the present but Rebecca and Miguel aren’t on their way to Randall’s house. After a decade of estrangement, Miguel has been invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with his kids. There’s another grandson that hasn’t been mentioned until now. Miguel is feeling unease. He’s aware that he’s only been invited because his ex is spending time with her husband’s family. Rebecca is bursting with optimism.
I can confirm that yes, Miguel’s kids are H-A-W-T. Ámbar is played by Raphael’s sister on Jane The Virgin and Andrés is all chisel, no soul. Clearly they don’t have too much of a relationship. Conversation is stilted. Andrés is keeping tabs on a football game. There’s always a white person with too many allergies ruining the meal. Rebecca tries her best but it’s hard, especially when Andrés accuses her of stealing Miguel from them.
Miguel shows some cojones, though. He sets the record straight and tells them how much he reached out to them after the divorce, only to get silence. Andrés shoots back that he has the Pearsons and Miguel wholeheartedly agrees. Here is what we know about his pairing with Rebecca. It happened a whole ten years after Jack died and he left his wife. Those are potentially ten more seasons of us seeing this play out; SEND HELP. Miguel tells them he’s ok with his kids talking smack about him but not about Rebecca. This little speech is enough for everyone to keep eating in peace. “Peace.”
There was minimal Kevin presence and for that I am thankful. Happy Turkey Day, everyone!
Ines Bellina is a writer, storyteller and podcaster. Her writing has appeared in Gapers Block, Book Riot, The Billfold, and Dose. She has performed all over Chicago in shows like You're Being Ridiculous, Story Club, Miss Spoken and many more. She is also the co-host of XX, Will Travel, a podcast geared towards independent women travelers. When she's not working on a manuscript or overscheduling herself, she sings love songs to her bulldog, Charlie.
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Escape to Cadaques
Getting to Cadaques is not easy, after leaving the Bay of Roses behind, you have to cross the mountain by a single curved path, with stunning views but quite exhausting, you have to drive very carefully and it may not be suitable for those who get dizzy easily. It never seems to end but it has its reward when we glimpse the village from the top of the road.
The history of Cadaqués comes from thousands of years ago, from the time when the Iberians were the owners and masters of this land and from when other more advanced civilizations arrived across the Mediterranean Sea such as the Sardinians, Etruscans, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, all of them great navigation experts. At that time Cadaqués was a village of fishmongers, fishermen, vineyards, ports, coves and beaches. The construction of the wall of Cadaqués, which encloses the historic center, has its origins in the attacks of Genoese, Algerian or Turkish pirates . The village of Cadaqués was very vulnerable to these attacks, as it was geographically helpless in front of the sea and isolated from behind by the Peni Mountain. When the Moors arrived there was panic and large numbers of fishermen and sailors were caught, although abductions sometimes occurred on dry land. The bravest sailors were confronting the invaders, meanwhile the women and children ran to hide in the mountain. Over time the Mediterranean Sea became safer, allowing Cadaqués to grow by giving way to industry, trade and overseas routes.
By Anthiro 57 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 es, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40360416
Cadaqués also had his visitors long before the buses of local tourists, attracted by the fame it acquired as early as the 1970s, arrived. They were people who had been going to those coves and beaches for years, from Barcelona it took about four hours until they reached Mount El Paní and at least another hour or an hour and a half to go down the mountain. But the view was so impressive and surprising that time was forgotten, while little by little the beauty of the great cove of Cadaqués, the infinite sea and the crowded houses forming alleys that go up to the church arose. These people gradually had to leave their way of life when tourists began to arrive in search of sun and sea, with their pockets full of money and different behaviour. After them the speculators arrived to buy land by the sea.
Cadaqués has always been the paradise of the painters who settled there since the early years of the century. Dalí, whose family based in Figueres, spent their holidays in Cadaqués and settled in Port Lligat cove which has traditionally been the base of many of Cadaqués’ fishermen, on the shore of Portlligat still live some of the few left in the villa.
You can feel the magic in Cadaques. It’s a charming village that embraces you from the first moment you see it, attracts you and you want to hug it and go through it all. It is imperative to visit the old town and get lost in its labyrinthine streets by stepping on the old pavement of the village, the “rastell”. This type of pavement is handmade with stones extracted from the seashore. My advice is to spend three nights minimum in Cadaques to thoroughly enjoy the village, beaches and surroundings.
At the highest point of the old town is the church of St. Mary of Cadaqués. From here there is a beautiful view of the village and the bay of Cadaqués, the ancient church was destroyed by the famous Turkish pirate Barbaroja, who stormed the village in 1543. After these events it was decided that the new temple would be rebuilt with the money of the fishermen who went out to sea on forbidden days.
Iglesia Santa Maria de Cadaques. By Gordito1869 – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16983052
You should not miss the Santa Maria’s Church of Cadaques, the Casa-Museo Salvador Dali and the the Art Galleries in town. The Natural Reserve Cap de Creus is a must, so are the beaches and coves along the bay of Cadaqués, most of them are still genuine and wild with pure transparent waters.
Hotel Llane Petit Platja Llane Petit, s/n. Three star hotel very comfortable, clean, right on the beach. It is located a few blocks from the village that can be accessed on foot without problem, has parking and is easily accessible, which is an advantage in these small villages and with such narrow streets.
Boutique Hotel Villa Gala Carrer Solitari 5. This small and nice four star boutique hotel has 14 rooms, all of them with sea view and village view. Also has private parking and an outdoor swimming pool.
Hotel Llane Petit terrace
CASA ANITA, Miquel Roset, 16
ES BALCONET Calle St Antoni, 2
CAFÉ DE LA HABANA Carrer del Doctor Bartomeus, 2 and LA FRONTERA c/ Miquel Rosset, 22 Two very typical places for a drink after dinner
LA SIRENA Carrer des Call s/n
This image of the night in Cadaques shows the charm and peace that comes from this magical town
By Ruuy lestrade 79 at English Wikipedia – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22421313
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Annals of Surgery. 231(4):552-558, APR 2000
Serum Interleukin-10 But Not Interleukin-6 Is Related to Clinical Outcome in Patients With Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Gar-Yang Chau;Chew-Wun Wu;Wing-Yiu Lui;Tai-Jay Chang;Hua-Li Kao;Li-Hwa Wu;Kuang-Liang King;Che-Chuan Loong;Chen-Yuang Hsia;Chin-Wen Chi;
From the Departments of *Surgery and †Medical Research and Education, Veterans General Hospital–Taipei, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical significance of preoperative serum levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in patients with resectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Summary Background DataIL-10 is an immunosuppressive factor and IL-6 is a multifunctional cytokine that plays a role in host defense mechanisms. Both have been reported to be related to the disease prognosis in some human solid tumors. Their role in human HCC has not been investigated.MethodsPreoperative serum samples of 67 patients with HCC who underwent potentially curative resection and 27 normal healthy donors were assayed. Levels of IL-10 and IL-6 were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The clinical significance of serum IL-10 and IL-6 was evaluated and compared with conventional clinicopathologic factors.ResultsLevels of IL-10 and IL-6 were significantly higher in patients with HCC than in healthy subjects. There was no correlation between IL-10 and IL-6 levels. Tumor resection resulted in a decrease in IL-10 and IL-6 levels. On univariate analysis, patients with high IL-10 levels had a worse disease-free survival, but IL-6 levels had no correlation with the disease-free survival. Multivariate analysis identified IL-10 levels as a predictor of postresectional outcome, in addition to the well-established clinical risk factors.ConclusionsIn patients with HCC, the preoperative serum IL-10 level is related to the clinical outcome. IL-10 may play an important role in the progression of HCC.
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SEC Bulletin Targets VA Charges, Expenses
By Linda Koco
An investor bulletin on variable annuities from the Securities and Exchange Commission includes a caution to investors to watch out for policy charges. This effectively keeps alive the festering controversy over the nature, extent and use of annuity policy fees and charges.
Published by the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA), the bulletin advises investors to “be aware that product charges may go toward your financial professional’s compensation.”
It also points out that the financial professional “may receive higher compensation for some products (and for different share classes of the same product) than for others.”
The “be aware” comment may not surprise annuity industry professionals. SEC documents have repeatedly warned investors to learn about and question “fees and expenses” in various financial products before they buy.
Stepped up messaging
An earlier version of the bulletin, published in 2014 and now retired, brought up expense considerations, such as paying extra for features such as living benefits, as well as the impact of surrender charges and the role of the mortality-and-expense risk charge.
However, the new version, published a few weeks ago, steps up the expense conversation in a new callout box. This includes not only the “be aware” comment but also commentary on share classes in variable annuities and fees.
“A variable annuity may offer different share ‘classes’ with different charges (including mortality and expense fees) and different surrender charge periods,” the bulletin states.
“For example, ‘L class’ shares may have a shorter surrender charge period, but may have higher ongoing fees, while ‘B class’ shares may have a longer surrender charge period and lower ongoing fees.”
The document also suggests that investors “consider how long you expect to own the variable annuity and your need to access funds when you think of any tradeoff between the length of the surrender charge period and the level of ongoing fees.”
Because fees are paid from the amount invested, the fees “can reduce your potential investment return,” it adds.
Why the expense focus?
This increased expense commentary comes at a time when the SEC’s complaint list for fiscal year 2015 does not include variable annuity charges and fees on the top 10 list of complaint categories. In fact, the list does not show variable annuity complaints in the top 10 list at all.
This raises a question about why the new bulletin is coming out now. It could be because a focus on charges and expenses is top of mind in Washington right now.
The SECs list of examination priorities for 2015 is an example. In 2015, the staff decided it would be targeting risks to retail investors that can arise from the many offerings now available for the retirement years. At the very top of this list of priorities was “fee selection and reverse churning” by financial professionals serving retail investors.
Costs and expenses are also a key issue in the ongoing debate in Washington over the Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary rule. The current version of the rule includes controversial provisions that would curtail commissions, purportedly to reduce conflicts of interest and to level the cost/expense playing field. This has been a sore point among many insurance agents and financial advisors, who are working hard to have the provisions removed while many fee-based advisors see no problem with it. The push-and-pull from all sides is keeping expense issues in the air.
The growing interest in, and use of, robo-advisors to deliver financial advice to consumers is having the same effect. It’s not a “Washington issue” but the contention that automated advice will be delivered at lower cost to the consumer does get referenced in various compensation discussions there.
Education needed
Whatever the reason, it is apparent that the goal of the new investor bulletin on variable annuities is to illuminate charge and expense issues along with basic variable annuity information.
The SEC positions such bulletins as educational material, and the document is set up that way. However, the bulletin also has a touch of an alert or warning about it. For instance, it includes four discussion boxes titled, in bold face, “Caution!” It also warns that “you could lose money.”
The likely purpose is to ensure that the reader does some investigation before buying. “Ask questions before you invest — in anything,” it says.
However, the language is strong enough in some places that readers may interpret the words as comparable to yellow police tape telling people to stay away from a building or area. This, in addition to the heavy emphasis on expenses and charges, could cause potential variable annuity buyers to get cold feet rather than to do research.
The bulletin encourages readers to run the information by an advisor. “Don’t be afraid to ask the financial professionals who are trying to sell you a variable annuity whether the product is right for you,” it says.
Also: “Keep asking them questions until you are satisfied with their answers. And write down their answers, so there won’t be any confusion later as to who said what.”
But for advisors, providing proactive outreach may be more effective, especially for clients who have expressed interest in variable annuities and may be researching the products online. Some advisors routinely do this by sending pertinent information to clients with a “Lets’ talk about this” message attached.
The alternative, of waiting for the customer to bring concerns forward after obtaining the SEC material elsewhere, may never come to pass.
InsuranceNewsNet Editor-at-Large Linda Koco, MBA, specializes in life insurance, annuities and income planning. Linda can be reached at [email protected].
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In their joint three-and-a-half-hour Archive interview, documentarians Alan and Susan Raymond talk about their groundbreaking "cinema verite" work. They discuss such television documentaries as An American Family and The Police Tapes. Short individual biographical interviews were also conducted. Ron Simon conducted the interviews in New York, NY on June 16, 2010.
"I maintain that if you make an interesting film, someone will see it."
On the similarities and distinctions between cinema verite and ethnographic filmmaking; on famous scenes from American Family: a walk in the park, on why they choose the Loud family; why they wanted to be filmed
On the public reaction to American Family; the aftermath and fame, and controversy that followed; their distance from the series after it came out; on video verite; the Police Tapes; their style of documentary filmmaking; On HBO first coming on the scene and being a home for documentary filmmakers
On their HBO film Doing Time; on their creative process; on changes in documentary filmmaking; on their goals as filmmakers and what makes them different from other documentarians
On the death of Lance Loud and their relationship to him; he asked them to film him again
American Family, An
On the similarities and distinctions between cinema verite (in American Family) and ethnographic filmmaking
On the silent scenei n American Family between the estranged couple; the tracking shot in Central Park
On why they felt the Loud family wanted to be filmed for American Family;
Alan and Susan Raymond on the public reaction and aftermath of American Family
Alan and Susan Raymond on the aftermath of American Family; their being ostracized; and video verite on Police Tapes; their next project
News and Documentary
Alan and Susan Raymond (producer of An American Family) on their purpose with documentary filmmaking; their view of public reaction to their films
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And So It Begins…
Hanley Ramirez celebrates his second homer of the day, this one a grand slam, as the Red Sox cruised to a 8-0 opening day victory over the Phillies.
The revamped Sox offense was out in full force on opening day. Five home runs, including a grand slam from old friend Hanley Ramirez, propelled the Sox to their first win of the 2015 season. Relive opening day with a few emails between Greg and I as we get our hopes up and try to contain our excitement after a convincing win in Philadelphia to start another season full of unknowns.
Pat Morey: It appears Farrell abandoned his work the count approach in that first inning. Hard to argue with the results.
Greg Habeeb: Agreed. The guys were being aggressive from the get go, and it paid off in the short term with a home run.
Really great to see DP go yard right away. If he’s healthy and motivated, there’s no reason for him not to return to his usual .300 hitting ways.
PM: And the team needs that Pedey, not the get hot for two weeks at a time Pedey. There’s a lot of big bats in the middle of the lineup, but they need help from the top and bottom if this offense is going to work. If Pedey is locked in with Papi, Hanley, Panda, and Napoli behind him, look out.
Also, I hate opening the season in the NL. This offense has been hyped up, and I want to see it at its full capacity on opening day. Be better, MLB.
GH: I know i thought that was bizarre. Interleague sucks in general, so I’m definitely not a huge fan of that whole situation.
Speaking of guys who need to get healthy, there goes the Flyin’ Hawaiian walking and stealing bases like it’s 2013. He could be an X-factor this year.
PM: They really missed him last season in the outfield and in the lineup. Gold glove caliber defense and a terror on the basepath. The battle for right field between him and Castillo could get really interesting, though, if he doesn’t find that 2013 form. That outfield is getting crowded awfully fast.
Speaking of the outfield, right on cue is MOOOOOOKIE!!
GH: MOOKIEEEE!!! How awesome is it that he earned his spot in the lineup by absolutely raking this spring? I’m all in on Betts. If you told me he was going to hit .350/.420/.500 this year i would believe you in a heartbeat.
PM: I’ll always hold a little grudge with Mookie since he probably gave Jackie Bradley Jr. his final push out the door, but man is it exciting to have a superstar prospect look so great. Should we just give him MVP now or…?
GH: Maybe we should wait another game or two.
Meanwhile it’s the fifth inning and we have now hit 4 home runs after Pedey and Hanley “The Incredible Hulk” Ramirez just went yard.
It’s really encouraging to see guys get good swings on a top tier pitcher so early in the season. If everyone can stay healthy, the Sox are going to rake this year, theres no doubt about that.
PM:PEDEY EATS FASTBALLS FOR BREAKFAST
Also, I love how Clay is attacking the strike zone. He was virtually unhittable a couple years back when he could throw strikes and force batters to swing at that ridiculous curve.
GH: It’s encouraging to see him not stink up the joint (at least so far), but just remember it’s against a Phillies team that might not win 60 games.
PM: It’s baby steps with Buchholz. Pitching well against a sucky team is a good start. He couldn’t have done this last year.
Regardless of whatever happens with our questionable rotation, I find it hard to think this offense won’t be a juggernaut. There’s power and on base guys everywhere you look. They should fill up some ludicrous box scores this year.
GH: It’s also encouraging that Buchholz is locating and has movement on all of his pitches. That is important no matter who you’re facing.
Hamels is done after 5 innings. Victorino is leading off against righty Garcia, and he hasn’t flipped around to bat left handed. I guess he’s ditching the switch hitting thing after all.
PM: Victorino can bat with his eyes closed for all I care as long as he keeps getting on base like this.
I would’ve liked to see a little hit and run there with Victorino on first and X up to bat with Hannigan and Buchholz on deck. Do you think they wanted X to swing away or they don’t trust him to make contact?
GH: I’m sure it had more to do with it being early in the season and winning the game than anything else. I feel like you want to let guys get their swings in early on in the season. There will be plenty of time for situational baseball in the coming months.
Buchholz finally ran into trouble here in the bottom of the seventh, but he worked his way out of it. Again, the 2015 Phillies aren’t exactly the ’98 Yankees, but it’s still good to see Clay executing pitches in tough spots.
PM: Totally agree. It was nice to see him pitch out of that jam, especially with a 3 pitch strikeout to end it. Like you said, it’s tough to get too excited given the subpar competition. But after a season and a half of seeing those same jams turn into 5 run innings faster than a coked up Ricky Henderson, it’s nice to see him put his pitches when he needs to.
GH: In other news, Mets-Nats is on ESPN right now. Watching Bartolo Colon pretend to hit is the highest of high comedy.
PM: Bartolo Colon is now and forever will be my spirit animal.Uh oh, now it’s time for the bullpen. I guess Tazawa is a more than serviceable first option, but after him and a breaking-down Uehara, yikes.
GH: Yeah, when Robbie Ross Jr. is an 8th inning option you probably have issues out there.
I still can’t believe that the Red Sox didn’t trade Uehara at last summer’s deadline. It’s a non-move that looks even worse now considering his injury status coming out of spring training.
Did the front office really expect a 40 year old reliever with a history of injuries would be a reliable option all season long?
PM: Keeping Uehara befuddled me. Not only could they have grabbed an asset, but they probably would’ve worked harder in the offseason to get a backup, also. Now close games will be in the precarious hands of Edward Mujica
If he’s healthy, I trust Uehara. But that’s a HUGE if.
GH: Hey look! Allen Craig with a single up the middle! He lives!
(By the way, I’ve said this already but Napoli’s weird mullet/flow thing he’s growing on the top of his head looks and will continue to look absolutely ridiculous)
PM:Craig lives! He’s a sneaky good fit on this team as a utility guy who can play first and outfield. At worst he’ll give you what Nava did these past few years, but with much more upside. If he disappears again or struggles, Nava is right behind him anyway.
GH: GRAND SALAMI!
PM: HULK SMASH!!!
With a broken bat, nonetheless. I guess all of his gains in the gym this offseason weren’t just for show. I think he’ll be happy to have the green monster for 81 games once again.
I certainly don’t want to overreact to one game, which everyone will be doing today, but it feels like these guys are really locked in this year.
GH: 162-0 HERE WE COME!
But in all seriousness, you can’t ask for a better start to the season than that. I know the Phillies are a crap team, but there aren”t a lot of bad things to say about 8-0 win to start the year. Hopefully this is a sign of more things to come this season and not just an above average team crushing a terrible one.
Anything else you want to add to wrap up Opening Day?
PM: I’m just happy to have baseball back. Every spring we get our hopes up and get excited over what this team could be. We’ve been lucky over the past decade, but there’s also been a lot of disappointment. I honestly think this season could go either direction. Win or lose, though, after today, it’s clear this team won’t be boring. And that’s a good start.
GH: I agree. Last thing: Thoughts on Porcello’s extension?
PM:I guess they liked what they saw in spring training. That’s a rather hefty price tag for an above average pitcher yet to really establish himself as a legitimate top of the rotation guy, especially one who hasn’t even thrown a single pitch yet in the regular season. I think he has plenty of potential, but with a contract like that, we’re gonna need a lot more than just potential from him.
Porcello’s shiny new deal also begs the question, where was this money in the Lester negotiations last spring? Seems like a deal Lester would’ve gone for back then. I have to think there were larger Lester concerns in the Sox front office than just his asking price, because they certainly didn’t shy away from throwing out big bucks on a pitcher with a far less proven track record.
GH: I agree that it was a strange move to make in the wake of the Lester debacle that took place this past winter. But at the end of the day Porcello is almost exactly five years younger than Lester. By the time his contract is up, he’ll be entering his age 31 season, which is the same season Lester is entering this year. It’s a lot of dough to be sure, but that’s the going rate for relatively young, effective pitchers these days.
If the Sox really are that averse to offering pitchers over 30 long term deals, it makes sense to lock up Porcello now. He’s only 26 years old after all, and his ERA has gone down in each of the past five seasons. If you assume that the Red Sox are better defensively than Detroit has been over the last half of a decade, you can expect Porcello to pitch more in line with his FIP (3.70 over the last 3 seasons) than he had before he had better luck in last year’s breakout campaign. In Lester’s last three full seasons with the Red Sox (2011-2013), his average FIP was 3.84.
I’m not saying that Porcello is better than Lester, I’m only saying that the extension makes sense, especially if the front office feels that Porcello still has room to grow and improve.
PM: Well put, and hard to argue now that you broke out the advanced metrics. I think this just about wraps it up. Always a pleasure, my friend. One down, 161 to go.
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Our Membership – Q & A
Whether you are a Podiatry member or are looking to join us, we want to ensure you’re aware of what The Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (IOCP) has to offer by answering some of your frequently asked questions and reminding you of the key benefits of our membership and insurance.
Q: Are members of the IOCP HCPC registered?
A: Yes. Membership of the Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists is only open to practitioners registered with the Health and care Professions Council (HCPC) who meet the HCPC conditions for registration. Members may use the protected titles of Chiropodist and/or Podiatrist. As a condition of membership it is mandatory to undertake to adhere to the Institutes strict code of ethics and professional conduct which is supplementary to the requirements of the HCPC.
Q: What makes you different to other organisations?
A: The Institute is a democratic organisation with the election of officers both local and national being decided bi-annually by members. All members therefore play an active role in their own affairs. For more than 80 years the Institute, and its precursor the Joint Council of Chiropodists, has followed an independent line at the forefront of the profession it serves, for the progress and well-being of both the profession and the public.
Q: As an individual member do my opinions count? Do I really have a voice?
A: We are a truly democratic organisation managed for members by a democratically elected executive board of members, who are themselves active clinicians , we listen and act upon your feedback. Each member has a voice, as a member with us you are able to raise concerns and or queries at Regional levels or at our National AGM where there is a designated question time for members to raise questions. In addition, you can always contact the full-time staff at Head Office who operate under the direction of the elected board.
Q: Can I be a member of the IOCP and have membership elsewhere?
A: Yes. The Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists is open to ALL HCPC registered professionals.
Q: What designatory letters can I use after my name?
A: If you are a full member of the IOCP and HCPC registered you can use MInstChP. Fellows can use FInstChP and consultant fellows of the Institute Faculty of Podiatric Medicine FPodM.
Q: How much of my membership fee does the institute spend on paying staff and directors instead of using it for the direct benefit of members?
A: We naturally have to have full – time administration staff who are paid the average wage for such jobs. Staff numbers are kept to the bare minimum necessary to look after member’s needs. All directors and other officers are voted in biannually from the membership, by the membership. They volunteer their services freely and receive no payment for such services nor payment for loss of earnings when on IOCP business, they may claim actual ‘out of pocket’ expenses for items such as travel to meetings and basic overnight accommodation in a Travelodge or similar, but that is all.
Q: Does the IOCP support Foot Health Practitioners (FHP)?
A: The IOCP acknowledges the valuable support FHP’s provide to our profession and although we do not allow FHP’s membership of the IOCP we do support their work through The College of Foot Health provided each individual can demonstrate a level of recognised training, practice and ethics that meet high standards.
Q: What do you insure?
A: Our insurance is bespoke to your needs. We currently offer 4 levels of cover which ranges from basic Podiatry skills to diagnostic ultrasound and Cryoanalgesia Treatment. Please see our Insurance page
Q: I want to use leading-edge therapies that seem to fall outside the usual podiatry indemnity insurance products, can the IOCP help me?
A: With a background stretching back some eighty years from our founding in 1938 as The Joint Council of Chiropodists of Great Britain and Ireland, we have vast experience of the changes in the level of practice in Chiropody / Podiatry and Insurers value the excellent claims record of our responsible membership. We have what many regards as the widest range of ‘standard’ indemnity insurance cover in UK podiatry and our specialist brokers can usually offer individually tailored quotations for the ‘different’ therapies via specialist underwriters.
Q: I qualified as a Chiropodist but also have qualifications in Reflexology and applying Paraffin Wax to the Hands and Feet. Is there an insurance policy to cover all 3 or do I have to keep them separate?
A: We have a comprehensive range of professional indemnity insurances that are appropriate to individual levels of practice, there are 4 standard levels of cover, all you need to do is choose which one covers your needs and pay the appropriate premium. In addition we may be able to facilitate bespoke underwriting for therapies and procedures that may lie outside the mainstream.
Q: Do I have to attend all of the education/courses at our National Training Centre, as I live over 7 hours away?
A: Not at all, although we run many specialist courses at the Nation Training Centre many are also run regionally. You can access these via our website, contacting Head Office or there will be details in your Podiatry Review.
Q: Are there any opportunities to meet up with like-minded individuals for educational, trade and social events?
A: Regional seminars or great for this purpose or you may like to attend our National AGM at the NEC in Birmingham this year.
Q: Can I get questions answered out of office hours?
A: We have an excellent support network through either regional support links or try our members only forum.
Q: Are there any opportunities as a member to expand my knowledge and broaden my horizons? As an experienced practitioner of 30+ years I would like to give something back.
A: The IOCP have a team of hard-working National Officers, who stand for a period of 2 years. We are always looking for new, energetic and hardworking members to continue to ensure the smooth running and longevity of the organisation. The criteria is a minimum of 5 years as an IOCP member and they must be H.C.P.C. Registered.
MaPP . The Medicines and Procedures Panel is led by an experienced chair and includes senior academics, consultant Podiatrists, Podiatrist Independent Prescribers and Podiatric Surgeons. It can provide measured and considered advice to members who may wish to have guidance on new or novel therapies, therapeutic agents or other treatments.
We work hard to bring you all the latest industry news and work with various trade partners to offer special rates and benefits for members, as well as with key organisations to inform you of the latest MUST attend events!
Free “find a practitioner” listing on our website
Quarterly issues of our Podiatry Review, which can contribute towards your CPD.
Business Support from our advice partners.
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